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Ancestors of Darien Scott Lambert (907)

Generation One

1. DARIEN SCOTT1 LAMBERT (907) (James, #2) was born on Jun 22, 1994 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Generation Two

2. JAMES DEE2 LAMBERT (906) was born on Jan 14, 1960. He married Margie LeAnn Trammel (209) (see #3), daughter of Buster Wallace Trammel (207) and Sondra Jo Teets (58), on Jun 21, 1991 at Bakersfield, California. Children of James Dee2 Lambert (906) and Margie LeAnn Trammel (209) (see #3) are: 1. i. DARIEN SCOTT1 (907).

3. MARGIE LEANN2 TRAMMEL (209) (Buster, #6) was born on Jan 7, 1963 at Pool Memorial Hospital, Lyndsey, Garvin, Oklahoma. She married James Dee Lambert (906) (see #2) on Jun 21, 1991 at Bakersfield, California.

Generation Three

6. BUSTER WALLACE3 TRAMMEL (207) was born on Nov 9, 1927 at Oklahoma. He married Sondra Jo Teets (58) (see #7), daughter of Dennis Billy "Bill" Teets (47) and Virginia May "Jenny" Danforth (57), on Jan 10, 1960. He died on Jun 2, 2010 at Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, at age 82. He began military service on Nov 13, 1945 at Sacramento, California. He began military service on Nov 13, 1945 at San Francisco, San Francisco, California. He and Dennis Wallace Trammel (208) were adopted on Feb 7, 1969. Children of Buster Wallace3 Trammel (207) and Sondra Jo Teets (58) (see #7) both born at Pool Memorial Hospital, Lyndsey, Garvin, Oklahoma, are as follows: i. ROBERT WILLIAM2 (210) was born on Nov 14, 1961. 3. ii. MARGIE LEANN (209).

7. SONDRA JO3 TEETS (58) (Dennis, #14) was born on Feb 19, 1937 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. She married Maynard Earl Osborne (206) on Jan 7, 1956 at Las Vegas, Nevada. She married Buster Wallace Trammel (207) (see #6) on Jan 10, 1960. She died on May 9, 2009 at Oklahoma at age 72.

Generation Four

14. DENNIS BILLY "BILL"4 TEETS (47) (Granville, #28) was born on May 13, 1915 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. He married Virginia May "Jenny" Danforth (57) (see #15), daughter of Robert William Danforth (1590) and Jessie Lee Cutlip (2861), on Nov 19, 1935. He married Mabel N. Scott (1430), daughter of William H. Scott (2549) and Cora A. Potts (2550), on Jan 15, 1965 at Elkins, Randolph, West Virginia. He died on Oct 28, 1976 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 61. He was buried after Oct 28, 1976 at Rock Cave Cemetery, Banks District, Upshur, West Virginia. He was Bill joined the Central Methodist church in Buckhannon on Feb 13, 1925, and was received by L. E. Oldaker and Ralph T. McCord, Pastor. Barbara Jean Melton Teets: It was Bill's wish that an American Flag be flown over his grave. Gene Conner, as executor for Bill, saw that the pole was placed there to hold the flag. The flag is quite tall and can be seen quite a ways from the cemetery.

Mabel Scott provided the funds and instructed someone to care for the flag, replace it when needed, and perform necessary maintenance. Bill was retired from the U.S. Navy, a veteran of World War II, and a member of Buckhannon Post 3363 of Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion Post No. 251 of El Campo, Texas, French Creek Chapter No. 36 of Disabled American Veterans, National Order of Trench Rats No. 387 of Clarksburg, Fleet Reserve Naval Lodge No. 4, F.A.A.M. of Washington, D.C., Yusef Khan Groto of Akron, Ohio, Buckhannon Lodge No. 598 Loyal Order of Moose, International Association of Laryngectomees, Metro Maryland Laryngectomees Club and the Upshur Sportsmen Club.

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He was a former employee of the Buckhannon Post Office, a former commander of French Creek Chapter 36 of D.A.V., former state commander of D.A.V. in 1972-73 and past judge advocate of the D.A.V. Mr. and Mrs. Teets were hosts for the state convention held at Jackson's Mill in 1975.

His activities associated with the Metro Maryland Laryngectomees Club of Silver Spring, Maryland included service as a delegate at each international convention during the past five years, participation in the club visitation program, and many social and theraputic programs of the club.

He helped provide professional speech therapists with information concerning learning esophageal speech, speaking at West Virginia Wesleyan College, the National Naval Medical Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and the National Institute for Health's Cancer Research Center. He lived in 1970 at 144 Wood Street, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. Children of Dennis Billy "Bill"4 Teets (47) and Virginia May "Jenny" Danforth (57) (see #15) were as follows: 7. i. SONDRA JO3 (58). ii. ROBERTA LEE (60) was born on Mar 25, 1939 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. She was born on Mar 29, 1939. She was born on Mar 30, 1939. She died on Jan 4, 1941 at Burnt followed by intestinal ulceration in accident 12/31/1940 at S. D. Ward's residence in Buckhannon. Pulled hot tomato sauce off of stove or table and spilled onto face, chest and arm, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 1. She was buried at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon District, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. She was buried on Jun 6, 1941 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. iii. IDA LOU (59) was born on Jun 20, 1940 at West Virginia. She married Anthony "Tony" Baron Sr. (215) before 1960. She married John R. Jones (20940) circa 1972. She died on Mar 25, 1976 at Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, at age 35. She was buried on Mar 27, 1976 at by Nowell Coward, Hillcrest Memorial Park, Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas. iv. WILLIAM HENRY "BILLY" (61) was born on Jul 17, 1942 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Jackie Lynn Hartin (218), daughter of James Jasper Hartin (10612) and Mable O. Middleton (10613), circa 1960 at Oklahoma. He married Connie D. (--?--) (221) on Oct 4, 1968 at Harris, Texas. He and Connie D. (--?--) (221) were divorced on Apr 13, 1976 at Harris, Texas. He married Sally Love (10559) on Oct 24, 1978 at Liberty, Texas. He and Sally Love (10559) were divorced on Jan 15, 1980 at Harris, Texas. He died on Nov 18, 1981 at Houston, Harris, Texas, at age 39. He was buried after Nov 18, 1981 at Cedar Crest Cemetery, Baytown, Texas. Billy was named in the "Who's Who in the South and Southwest", 1978-1979 edition.

15. VIRGINIA MAY "JENNY"4 DANFORTH (57) (Robert, #30) was born on Mar 3, 1918 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She married Dennis Billy "Bill" Teets (47) (see #14), son of Granville Leslie Teets Sr (52) and Delphia Blanche Stansberry (46), on Nov 19, 1935. She died on Mar 12, 1998 at Yukon, Oklahoma, at age 80. She was also known as Jennie Danforth (57).

Generation Five

28. GRANVILLE LESLIE5 TEETS SR (52) (Anthony, #56) was born on Oct 27, 1889 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Delphia Blanche Stansberry (46) (see #29), daughter of Henry Orr Stansberry (317) and Cordelia Westfall (201), on Aug 8, 1914 at Webster Springs, Webster, West Virginia. He died on Jun 15, 1965 at Baxa Hotel, age 75, Cerebrovascular accident, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 75. He was buried on Jul 3, 1965 at Buckhannon Memorial Park at Heavner, City District, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. (to see where the cemetery is located, see map.). According to Bobby Teets-Welcher, Leslie Teets, Sr. was actually named Granville Leslie Teets. He used it for a few years after he became an adult. He had trouble with his mail and someone else's mail in Buckhannon getting mixed up . He dropped the Granville from then on. He was a painter. He registered for the WWI Draft on on Jun 5, 1917 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, He was a mechanic. He was Leslie Teets Sr and Delphia joined the Central Methodist church in May 1924. They were received by L. E. Oldaker, and Ralph T. McCord, Pastor. He registered for the WWII Draft on on Apr 27, 1942 at Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia. Children of Granville Leslie5 Teets Sr (52) and Delphia Blanche Stansberry (46) (see #29) were as follows: 14. i. DENNIS BILLY "BILL"4 (47). ii. JOHN JAY (2) was born on Mar 3, 1917 at West Virginia. He married Dortha Irene Wilfong (27), daughter of James Abram Garfield "Uncle Gart" Wilfong Sr (182) and Martha Ellen Miles (108), on Apr 22, 1940 at Monterey, Highland, Virginia. He died on Nov 18, 1961 at leukemia, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 44. He was buried after Nov 18, 1961 at Memorial Park Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. (to see where the cemetery is located, see map.).

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Dad was an honorable man, and I was always very proud of his accomplishments. He died too young, of lukemia, at age 44. When he was a young man, he was a painter with his father Leslie Teets Sr. He also was a good carpenter, and he and his dad built our houses on Pocahontas Street, side by side. I remember the pride he had when he was elected City Councilman. He worked typically 7AM-9PM every day at the Esso gas station that he owned/operated, unless someone could help him out (like me, usually). He also had a lot of pride in making a success of that gas station when several others before him had failed financially at that same location. Back then, when you pulled into a gas station, the attendant would wash your windshield and back window, check the air in your tires, check the oil, all before charging you 25 cents/gallon of gas! iii. ANNA "ANN" LEE (49) was born on Jun 16, 1919 at West Virginia. She married Eugene Westfall "Gene" Conner (86), son of Noble Floyd Conner (3205) and Lena Louise Edwards (3206), on Mar 7, 1941 at Beckley, Fayette, West Virginia. She died on May 6, 1998 at Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, at age 78. She was buried on May 9, 1998 at Wilson Funeral Home, Jonathan Nettles Officiating, Conner Cemetery, Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia. She lived at New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She was educated. She was a member of the Central United Methodist Church in Charleston, West Virginia. iv. LESLIE "LES" (48) was born on Nov 3, 1929 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Barbara Jean "Bobby" Melton (62), daughter of Mont Clarence Melton Jr. (601) and Ruth Ragina Marsh Cutright (602), on Oct 20, 1956 at Oakland, Garrett, Maryland. He died on Aug 16, 2004 at San Marcos, Hays, Texas, at age 74. He was buried on Aug 20, 2004 at Evergreen Cemetery, Gustine, Comanche, Texas. Leslie Teets, Jr. was born November 03, 1929, the youngest of four children - to Leslie Teets and Delphia Stansberry Teets. His place of birth was Buckhannon, West Virginia, which is located in the north central part of West Virginia. His older brother’s names were Dennis Billy and John Jay; his sister was Anna Lee who later adopted the name of Ann.

Leslie attended the East Main Street elementary school and graduated in 1947 from Buckhannon Upshur High School. While a student in high school he played football. He always strived to improve himself in education. At one point in his life, he selected a word from the dictionary each day, and in that way improved his vocabulary which he maintained in later years.

After high school he served in the National Guard of West Virginia and received an honorable discharge in September 1950. He attended West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fairmont State College of West Virginia in August of 1951.

His reenlistment in the West Virginia National Guard resulted in a second honorable discharge January 1952. Following this service, he joined the United States Air Force at the height of the Korean War, also January 1952. He described his duties as varied, generally as clerical and administrative. During the course of three years, nine months he was stationed at Sampson AFB, Geneva, New York; James Connally AFB, Waco, Texas; Harlingen AFB, Harlingen, Texas; Johnston Island AFB: Pacific Theater; and West Palm Beach AFB, Florida, where he was honorably discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant in October 1955.

Immediately upon being discharged, he was employed by Curry Chevrolet Company in Buckhannon, West Virginia, as a dealer management trainee. He was enrolled at General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan, for two months; then discontinued this schooling to accept a full time position as a Chevrolet salesman for the company named above. His wife- to- be was employed by this firm as a bookkeeper. After being with this company one year, Leslie and Barbara (Bobby) Jean Melton were married and moved to Oscoda, Michigan, where for a short time, Leslie was sales manager for an Oldsmobile Dealer.

After touring parts of the Southwest, West and West Coast of the United States, Leslie and Bobby decided to settle in Arlington, Texas in March of 1957. Here he was employed by Vandergriff Chevrolet Company as a new car salesman until September 1958. He then made the decision to enter North Texas State College in Denton, Texas, and the teaching profession. In 1959, he and Bobby moved to Denton where later their first son, Ricky was born. Upon completing certification requirements in the field of business education in January, 1960, he was a substitute teacher in Lewisville and Dallas, Texas during the winter and spring of 1960. The following fall he was employed by the Stephenville, Texas Public Schools as Distributive Education Coordinator-Teacher for Stephenville High School. In 1961 his and Bobby’s second son, Todd was born. Leslie did a lot of extra-curricular activities with his students, often including the family on excursions. Something of note, he wrote an autobiography of his life up to that point. He wrote that his greatest inspiration was his mother. Through tough economic times, she was a wonderful wife, mother, housekeeper, cook, nurse, a good neighbor and more. He was especially impressed that over a period of ten

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years, when she could find the spare time, she crocheted an elaborate bedspread. He felt that her perseverance for her goals, inspired him to pursue his own goals of self-improvement through higher education.

In the summer of 1964, Leslie received an opportunity to become a manager of Sears Catalogue Stores. He trained for a few months at various stores in south Texas while he and the family awaited the birth of Meri in September. Prior to Meri’s being born in Seguin, Texas, Leslie had received an assignment as manager of a store there. While living and working in Seguin, he supervised the building of a new store, and was also manager of stores in nearby towns. In July of 1967, he was transferred to Alice, Texas, where he again was instrumental in having a new store built.

In the summer of 1970, Leslie went to work for Houston Natural Gas Distribution as a sales representative for the Gulf Coast Division. He and the family lived in West Columbia, Texas for two years until a promotion to corporate headquarters in Houston, resulted in a move to northwest Houston. One year later, Leslie accepted the position of manager of a gas company office in El Campo, Texas. He also oversaw neighboring small towns as manager. Later, he was employed as a district manager. During the years he managed stores and offices, he was a member of the Jr. Chamber of Commerce in Stephenville, the Lions Club in Seguin and Chamber of Commerce in El Campo. His and Bobby’s children did most of their growing up in El Campo; then eventually left for college and other pursuits. In the early 80’s, Leslie commuted to a district office in Richmond, Texas, where he was a natural gas consultant for Entex, Inc. He arranged to have natural gas installed into new subdivisions as they were being built. In 1983, he and Bobby moved to Richmond where they lived until 1993. In 1987, Leslie took early retirement at the age of fifty eight years. February 1993, he and Bobby moved to Marble Falls where they both enjoyed a year and a half of retirement. They then decided to go back to their home town of Buckhannon, West Virginia, to help care for family members. They returned to Texas in April of 2001 where they lived in Seguin, thirty four years after they had lived there in the 1960’s. Leslie’s health was declining and he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in October, 2001. March 2002, they moved to San Marcos to a retirement community, in order to be near their son, Todd. Because of Leslie’s illness, he entered Hays Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and later to Care Inn of San Marcos, in November of 2003.

Thus far, I have stated the statistics of Leslie’s life. In addition to his growing up days, education, military service and jobs, he led a most interesting life. In his boyhood days, he loved the outdoors. He liked to fish, hunt and swim. He loved to visit his grandparents who gave him the experience of seeing grain ground at a mill. To get to the mill, he rode a farm horse. They transported the grain with a wagon. He inherited a pie cupboard made of walnut that his grandfather built. The grandfather also built a youth size bed that still has the original bolts to hold the frame. Leslie had fond memories of both sets of grandparents. While he and Bobby were in West Virginia during the 1990’s, they visited the old home place of his great grandfather. The summer of 1998, they helped organize a family reunion of the descendants of his great grandfather Stansberry. Leslie helped relatives make up photo and family history packets to be given to each family who attended the reunion. More than a hundred people enjoyed the weekend reunion, many of them having traveled great distances from various parts of the United States. There was much reminiscing of being in Buckhannon as children visiting their relatives.

Over the years of being in college and the military, Leslie made many friends with whom he stayed in touch. In traveling the different states and having the many jobs, he and Bobby met people from all walks of life. While on Johnston Island in the Air Force, Leslie taught himself photography and learned developing of photos. He snorkel dived for sea shells which have graced their homes ever since. When the children came along, he taught his love of fishing, hunting, camping and hiking to the boys. Meri and Bobby went along on several of the camping trips and went to deer camp a few times. One of Leslie’s hobbies was tying flies for fishing. He also was a stamp collector for a few years. He loved to travel and did a great deal of it. He made trips to Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, California, Big Bend, Texas; Florida, West Virginia and points in between. People who made these trips with him were his and Bobby’s eldest son, Ricky, a great nephew, Robert, a close friend, Jack, and Bobby’s Uncle Charley. at different times. He and Bobby also traveled to Big Bend National Park in Texas with Leslie’s sister, Ann, her husband, Gene and Uncle Charley. They all had lots of fun traveling in an S-10 Blazer for a week. They did some hiking and sightseeing in general. In June of 1989, he and Bobby had a memorable camping trip in Colorado; they toured the Royal Gorge in Colorado Springs, old mines, ghost towns, fished the many streams and visited some good friends in Grand Junction. In later years, his greatest joy was driving the back roads in Texas and West Virginia in his S-10 Blazer. While in West Virginia, he got re-acquainted with a cousin, Eugene, who helped him repair a small family cemetery. He liked to be with older people and was very interested in genealogy. He acquired a

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journal that one great grandfather had written while building a church. He spent time with relatives who could remember much of what happened in the family during their lifetimes. From the time he could use a camera, he was the family photographer. He photographed wild life and the flora and fauna of wherever he happened to be. The years he and Bobby were in West Virginia he spent two winters filling photo albums from more than fifty years of saving the photos. Leslie and Bobby have three children, Ricky, Todd and Meri; eleven grandchildren, Kira, Jeremiah, Josh, Justin, Jared, Kelsea, Jacob, Danen, Joey, Kayti and Nikki and one great- grandson, Colt. They were also blessed to have a godchild named Hope. For a period of time, they had the care of her as a six month old baby who grew into a toddler. Leslie, Bobby and the family enjoyed many happy hours of teaching her to eat, walk, and play. Hope traveled with them to the beach or to visit friends. Sometimes Hope’s siblings, Ann, Dawn and Neal stayed with Leslie and Bobby, as long as a week. Leslie also had many nieces and nephews who loved to spend time with him.

Leslie was a very active person. He and Bobby started walking in El Campo before it was "cool" They continued to walk in West Virginia, often in the snow. He liked the snow and the autumns when the leaves on the trees changed color. He liked to garden and raised tomatoes that supplied the neighborhood. He liked to have their homes neat with lawns mowed and garages that would actually hold cars instead of junk. He was proud of the fact that he and Bobby had owned and maintained six homes in Texas. He always took good care of the cars; spent many hours cleaning and polishing them. He was good to help older people who lived alone and needed things done for them. While in West Virginia, he and Bobby liked to have friends and family members come to visit so that they could take them sightseeing. One summer they had four of their eleven grandchildren and son, Todd to stay for a week. They took them to many scenic places in the state.

Leslie had a special friend who owns a working ranch in Gustine, Texas. He very much enjoyed being with David and helping with chores on the ranch. He learned things about raising cattle, repairing and building fences, irrigation, the crops that are grown in Comanche county. He and David and family, often with Bobby, and their family, enjoyed many hours together, whether visiting, ranching or even camping in their younger days.

Leslie led a full, productive life, had many friends and relatives who will keep good memories of him. He was proud of his education, serving in the military and of always moving forward in his endeavors. When his children were young, he loved taking them on trips, whether hunting, camping or traveling. He always had interesting things for them to do. The grandchildren will remember riding in the Blazer, going swimming with him, sightseeing, fishing, touring caverns, a coal mine and many other activities. In the seventy four years of his life he was known as Leslie, Junior. Les, Daddy, Dad, Teets or Pa-Pa. He will most certainly be missed by all of his loved ones. He also went by the name of (48) "Les." He lived on May 8, 1998 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. Found a plaque that Les received in Seguin at American Legion; has his dates of service in Korean War- he never saw war duty; was a staff sergeant for US Air Force in Waco, Harlingen and Johnston Island in the South Pacific. Think he did clerical duty mostly in the states; on Johnston that was ,I think, a mile long and 1/4 mile wide, he was billeting officer. Johnston was a fuel stop for military planes; often servicemen's families were with them; Les was responsible for providing them a place to stay, usually overnite. he did a lot of snorkel diving for fish and shells and photography to keep himself occupied when off duty. In Waco, there was a terrible tornado; he had been lifequarding at the pool; had to call everyone out due to weather. Later he helped clean up after the storm. I have pictures of his diving activities and color slides of his photography of the island. One time for R & R, he went to Hawaii for 2 weeks; I have wonderful slides of that trip. He had a great time touring the islands those 2 weeks. DATES OF SERVICE: Jan 1952 to Oct 1955 I met him Christmas Eve 1955 at Curry Chevrolet in Buckhannon. He was sponsored by Mr. Curry for a 2-year course at General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich. He was to go to school in Flint for 2 months, then go to the dealership and do hands on training for 2 months. These were to be alternated 2 months in Flint, 2 months at Curry's. During his training, he decided to become a saleman at Curry's . Long story, if you have interest, I can tell you more Bought his first car in Waco, new. Pontiac convertible.

29. DELPHIA BLANCHE5 STANSBERRY (46) (Henry, #58) was born on Dec 8, 1889 at West Virginia. She married Granville Leslie Teets Sr (52) (see #28), son of Anthony Lee "Tony" Teets (50) and Laura (Louisa) Alice Cutright (51), on Aug 8, 1914 at Webster Springs, Webster, West Virginia. She died in May, 1960 at age 70. She was buried after May, 1960 at Memorial Park at Heavner, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. (to see where the cemetery is located, see map.). Delphia's mother Cordelia died October 10, 1910 and Delphia was 21 years old. She then assumed the care of her little brother Jay and the running of the household. She was also known as Delphia Blanche Stansbury (46).

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30. ROBERT WILLIAM5 DANFORTH (1590) (Robert, #60) was born on Jan 21, 1901 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. He married Jessie Lee Cutlip (2861) (see #31), daughter of Reuben R. Cutlip (2872) and Rosella "Ella" Bracey (2874), on Jun 11, 1917 at Married by William T. Robinson, Wood, West Virginia. He died on May 20, 1988 at age 87. Children of Robert William5 Danforth (1590) and Jessie Lee Cutlip (2861) (see #31) were as follows: i. PAUL4 (2869). 15. ii. VIRGINIA MAY "JENNY" (57).

31. JESSIE LEE5 CUTLIP (2861) (Reuben, #62) was born on Jul 31, 1904 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She married (--?--) Fackler (2871). She married Jerry Rupert (2870). She married Robert William Danforth (1590) (see #30), son of Robert Ambrose Danforth (2953) and Louisa N. "Louise" McClead (2954), on Jun 11, 1917 at Married by William T. Robinson, Wood, West Virginia. She died in 1946 at Toledo, Lucus, Ohio.

Generation Six

56. ANTHONY LEE "TONY"6 TEETS (50) (Martin, #112) was born on Dec 11, 1858 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Laura (Louisa) Alice Cutright (51) (see #57), daughter of Asby Poole Cutright (280) and Minerva Cutright (279), on Sep 11, 1884 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Jan 8, 1940 at Uremia, age 81y 28d, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 81. He was buried at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon District, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. He was Farmer in 1880 at Washington District, Upshur, West Virginia. Children of Anthony Lee "Tony"6 Teets (50) and Laura (Louisa) Alice Cutright (51) (see #57) were as follows: i. TURNER WADE5 (53) was born on Jun 30, 1885 at Ivanhoe, Upshur, West Virginia. He married Lena Virginia Childress (689), daughter of Porter Loving Childress (691) and Eurenia Sanders Williams (690), on Dec 26, 1908 at Hinkleville, Upshur, West Virginia. He died on May 21, 1922 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 36. He was buried on May 22, 1922 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. The Buckhannon Record & Knight Errant, Thursday, 1/7/1909: "Ivanhoe community: Turner Teets who has been working on the C and I Railroad (aka Chesapeake and Ohio), came home during the holiday season, and to our great surprise brought his new wife, Miss Lena Childress." He registered for the WWI Draft on on Sep 12, 1918 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. The widow of Turner W. Teets, of Sago, was awarded $35 per month by the state compensation commission. Teets was killed when he sustained a fractured spine in a slate fall, while employed by the Adrian-Hampton Coal Company of Hedricks. ii. DICE (54) was born on Apr 13, 1887 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Apr 19, 1914 at murdered, North Carolina, at age 27. He was buried after Apr 19, 1914 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. Dice Teets died when he was only 28 years old. Sondra Jo Teets Trammel tells this story: "my dad (Dennis B. Teets) and my uncle Les (Leslie Teets Jr.) told me that Dice was a big time gambler. He had won a great deal of money, and someone killed him for the money. When they found his body, he had no money. If I remember right, that's what his parents (Anthony "Tony" Teets and Laura Cutright Teets) were told." Richard Terrence "Ricky" Teets says that his Dad, Leslie Teets Jr., told him the story that Dice as a young man got on a riverboat somewhere in Ohio, traveled down the Mississippi on the riverboat, probably working his way all the way to New Orleans. He made quite a bit of money working at whatever, then in New Orleans, got into a big poker game. He liked to gamble. Les said that is why he was called "Dice". Possibly no one knew what his given name was. He won a lot of money in the poker game; left and the men from whom he had won the money, jumped him outside; shot him with a 12-guage shotgun (blew him away). They then put him in a box and sent him back to WV on the train. Ricky said his Dad (Les Jr.) had taken him to the Hampton cemetery and Ricky asked about him; saying that sure was a funny name for a man to have. 28. iii. GRANVILLE LESLIE (52). iv. GRACE V. (55) was born on Feb 12, 1892. She was born in Oct, 1892 at West Virginia. She married William Thomas Smith (7925), son of Eldridge Smith (7926) and Mary E. (--?--) (7927). She died in Nov, 1978 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 86. v. MAUDE "MAUDIE" (2125) was born in 1892. She was born on May 29, 1894 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married Claude Edmonds (1876). She married Walter Stringer (7912), son of (--?--) Stringer (847) and L. A. (--?--) (7913), on Jul 3, 1915. She died on May 29, 1894. She was also known as (2125) Maud Teets.

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57. LAURA (LOUISA) ALICE6 CUTRIGHT (51) (Asby, #114) was born on Jan 10, 1862 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married Anthony Lee "Tony" Teets (50) (see #56), son of Martin Teets (224) and Mary Ann "Polly" Lantz (261), on Sep 11, 1884 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Sep 5, 1938 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 76. She was buried at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon District, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia.

58. HENRY ORR6 STANSBERRY (317) (Elijah, #116) was born on Sep 29, 1865 at Monongalia, West Virginia. He married Cordelia Westfall (201) (see #59), daughter of Lorenzo Dow Westfall (8863) and Elsie "Elcy/Elca" Cutright (1885), on May 25, 1889. He married Philena "Lena" Rollins (766), daughter of Albert Gilbert "Allen" Rollins (7922) and Isabella "Isabel" Smallwood (8003), on Jan 7, 1917 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Jun 30, 1944 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 78. He was buried on Jul 3, 1944 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. He was also known as Henry Otis Stansberry (317). Children of Henry Orr6 Stansberry (317) and Cordelia Westfall (201) (see #59) were as follows: 29. i. DELPHIA BLANCHE5 (46). ii. CHARLES JAY (765) was born on Feb 8, 1900 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Winifred Hope "Winnie" Bines (767) circa 1927. He died in 1957. He registered for the WWI Draft on on Sep 6, 1918 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia.

59. CORDELIA6 WESTFALL (201) (Lorenzo, #118) was born on Jul 20, 1869 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married Henry Orr Stansberry (317) (see #58), son of Elijah Stansberry (761) and Cecelia "Celia" Boggess (760), on May 25, 1889. She died on Oct 29, 1910 at age 41. She was buried after Oct 29, 1910 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia.

60. ROBERT AMBROSE6 DANFORTH (2953) (Walter, #120) was born in 1869 at Warren, Lebanon, Ohio. He was born on Oct 24, 1870 at Meigs, Ohio. He married Louisa N. "Louise" McClead (2954) (see #61) on Nov 25, 1893 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. He died on Jul 17, 1940 at age 69. Children of Robert Ambrose6 Danforth (2953) and Louisa N. "Louise" McClead (2954) (see #61) were as follows: i. ANNA ETHEL "ANN"5 (2955) was born on Jun 6, 1895 at West Virginia. She married John Henry Burke (2956) on Sep 13, 1923 at Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia. She died in May, 1979 at Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, at age 83. She was also known as ETHEL ANNE DANFORTH (2955). ii. UNNAMED (33493) was born on May 2, 1897 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. He died before 1910. iii. TIMOTHY (33488) was born in Nov, 1898 at West Virginia. He died before 1910. 30. iv. ROBERT WILLIAM (1590). v. CHARLES ANDREW "CHARLIE" (33489) was born on Jan 28, 1903 at Washington, Ohio. He married Jennie Virginia Wells (33494) on Apr 10, 1922 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. He married Virgie Taylor (33495) on Jul 25, 1936. He died in Jul, 1968 at Belpre, Washington, Ohio, at age 65. vi. ALBERT LEE (33490) was born circa 1905 at Wood, West Virginia. He married Anna Evelyn Krauss (33498) on Dec 20, 1929 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. vii. BENJAMIN H. (33491) was born on Sep 26, 1907 at West Virginia. He died in Jul, 1972 at Denver, Denver, Colorado, at age 64. He began military service on Sep 24, 1942 at Huntington, West Virginia. viii. EVELYN VIRGINIA (33492) was born on Jul 4, 1913 at West Virginia. She married Leonard Henna Merritt (33496) on Jul 27, 1929 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She died in Oct, 1985 at Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, at age 72.

61. LOUISA N. "LOUISE"6 MCCLEAD (2954) was born on Apr 20, 1874 at Ohio. She married Robert Ambrose Danforth (2953) (see #60), son of Walter Raleigh Danforth (2957) and Anna "Ann" Whitehead (2958), on Nov 25, 1893 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She died on Aug 26, 1940 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, at age 66. She was buried on Aug 28, 1940 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia.

62. REUBEN R.6 CUTLIP (2872) (Henry, #124) was born on Mar 27, 1864 at Washington, Ohio. He married Rosella "Ella" Bracey (2874) (see #63), daughter of Nathan T. Bracey (2875) and Sarah Amelia Jobes (2876), at Ohio. He married Annie M. Randolph (2873) on Dec 25, 1884 at Washington, Ohio. He died before Feb 13, 1946 at Toledo, Lucas, Ohio. Children of Reuben R.6 Cutlip (2872) and Rosella "Ella" Bracey (2874) (see #63) were as follows: i. LUCY A.5 (2877) was born circa 1890 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She died after 1946 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. ii. MARTHA LEONA (2878) was born in 1897 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She married John Allen Andrews (2879) on Aug 12, 1915 at Married by A. T. O'Rear, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She died after 1946 at Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.

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iii. CORA MAY "CODE" (2880) was born on Apr 24, 1898 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She married Luther C. Hawkins (2882). She married Fred Hawkins (2881) on Oct 18, 1911 at Married by Robert Brice Smith, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She died after 1946 at Toledo, Lucas, Ohio. iv. RALPH WALTER (2883) was born on Sep 28, 1901 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. He died on May 18, 1918 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, at age 16. 31. v. JESSIE LEE (2861). vi. AGNES (2884) was born on Sep 26, 1907 at Dr. Blair, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. She died after 1946 at Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.

63. ROSELLA "ELLA"6 BRACEY (2874) (Nathan, #126) was born circa 1872 at Meigs, Ohio. She married Reuben R. Cutlip (2872) (see #62), son of Henry T. Cutlip (2885) and Martha Ann Noland (2887), at Ohio. She died on Jul 25, 1945 at Toledo, Washington, Ohio. She was buried after Jul 25, 1945 at Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery, Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.

Generation Seven

112. MARTIN7 TEETS (224) (Jacob, #224) was born on Jun 9, 1830 at Virginia. He married Mary Ann "Polly" Lantz (261) (see #113), daughter of William Lantz (505) and Nancy Lanham (506), circa 1850 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Feb 12, 1892 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 61. He was buried after Feb 12, 1892 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. From notes taken by Anna Lee Conner Teets, and also recorded in "The History of the Teets Family" recorded at West Virginia Wesleyan College, by Boone and Greta Teets Proudfoot:

Martin Teets came to Upshur County and bought a farm and built a home on Turkey Run after his marriage to Mary "Polly" Lantz, daughter of a Mr. Lantz who lived on Big Run in Barbour County. Later on they moved to the Talbott community in Barbour County. They again moved back to Upshur County to French Creek between Hinkleville and Hampton near the old covered bridge. Martin Teets died there. He is buried in the Hampton Cemetery. Mary "Polly" Teets is buried at the Lanham Cemetery at Queens West Virginia.

Their children were 8 in number. 4 boys and 4 girls. All four boys lived to be past 80 years of age." He was also known as Martin Teats (224). He left a will on Mar 31, 1894 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. Children of Martin7 Teets (224) and Mary Ann "Polly" Lantz (261) (see #113) were as follows: i. JOHN COLUMBUS "LUM"6 (247) was born on Sep 1, 1851 at Barbour, West Virginia. He married Ethalinda Cutright (248), daughter of Lot Cutright (812) and Isabel (Isabella) Cutright (811), on Jun 1, 1871 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Elizabeth Ann "Malissy" "Lizzie" Starks (252), daughter of Adam Oliver Starks (3088) and Susan E. Jones (3089), on Nov 15, 1880. He died on Aug 28, 1939 at "No doctor", Hinkleville, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 87. He was buried on Aug 29, 1939 at (originally Philadelphia Cemetery), Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. He had black hair and blue eyes. He was a tall, slender and very erect even at 88 years of age. A good lumberman and carpenter. Loved acapella singing of church hymns. His favorite was “Roll, Jordan, Roll”.

Notes taken by Anna Lee Conner Teets:

"John Columbus Teets was married twice. His first wife was Ethelinda Cutright. They had 3 daughters. Mrs. Teets died at age 23 -- the children were very young at the time of her death. The girls were Maggie, Lavina, and Naomi (who died as a teenager).

John Columbus then married Elizabeth Starks, from Barbour County, for his second wife. They raised a large family of children." John Columbus and Elizabeth Starks Teets had 8 children that lived to be adults. Cemetery readings indicate that they had 12 children, including 2 sets of twins (only one twin child, Lloyd, survived to adulthood). The cemetery readings identify four children who did not survive. He was also known as (247) John C. Teats. He was Farmer in 1880 at Meade District, Upshur, West Virginia. ii. ARRENA V (495) was born on Jan 24, 1853 at Barbour, West Virginia. She married Andrew Jackson Cutright (496), son of Nathan Cutright (828) and Susanna Hinkle (827), on Dec 31, 1873. She died on Feb 7, 1932 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 79. She was buried after Feb 7, 1932 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. She was also known as (495) Rene, Arrena, Irena, Inna, Irene. iii. GRANVILLE (502) was born on Sep 19, 1854 at (West) Virginia. He married Ida C. Dean (836), daughter of George W. Dean (837) and Lucinda Hinkle (4529), on Oct 10, 1903 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died

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on Mar 19, 1939 at Cerebral apoplexy, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 84. He was buried on Mar 22, 1939 at Whitescarver Funeral Home, Old Heavner Cemetery, City District, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. He was Railroad laborer on Jun 6, 1900 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. iv. ALBRO (503) was born on Feb 18, 1856 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Philistina (Philista) Cutright (673), daughter of D. W. Cutright (825) and Julia Ann (--?--) (824), on Jul 3, 1877 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Mary Elizabeth Liggett (676), daughter of Shields Liggett (826) and Elizabeth Simon (677), on Mar 29, 1891 at Holly Grove, Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Jan 10, 1937 at Prostolestany, age 80y 10m 22d, Turkey Run, West Virginia, at age 80. He was buried on Jan 12, 1937 at Kington per death certificate, Oakington Cemetery, Warren District, Buckhannon (Turkey Run), Upshur, West Virginia. He was also known as ALBERON TEATS (503). He was also known as ALBROW/ALBARON/ALBRON (503). He was Farm laborer

in 1880 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. He was Farmer on Jun 4, 1900 at Warren District, Upshur, West Virginia. v. UNNAMED (28965) was born on Dec 15, 1857 at Barbour, West Virginia. 56. vi. ANTHONY LEE "TONY" (50). vii. OLIVE EMILY (504) was born on Jan 1, 1860. She was born on Jan 21, 1860. She was born on Jan 21, 1861. She died on Jan 25, 1865 at age 5. viii. MARY CATHERINE (570) was born on May 6, 1862. She married Charles Grant "Charlie" Post (832), son of Abraham Post (834) and Barbara "Barbery" Lance (833), on Jun 13, 1884. She died on Mar 25, 1937 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 74. She was buried after Mar 25, 1937 at Macedonia Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. She was also known as MARY ELLEN POST (570). ix. SENA ELLEN (572) was born on Sep 28, 1867 at West Virginia. She married Ulysses Grant Beer (835), son of John Beer (6289) and Barbara A. "Barbary" Casto (6290), on Oct 27, 1889 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died in Mar, 1937 at age 69. She died on Dec 14, 1938 at Washington District, Hampton, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 71. She was buried on Dec 16, 1938 at Elbon Cemetery, Washington District, Upshur, West Virginia. She was also known as (572) Cena.

113. MARY ANN "POLLY"7 LANTZ (261) (William, #226) was born in 1821. She was born on Feb 22, 1823. She was born on Feb 3, 1825. She married Martin Teets (224) (see #112), son of Jacob Teets (300) and Mary Barbara Miller (301), circa 1850 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Jul 22, 1900 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 77. She died on Jul 23, 1900 at Queens, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 77. She was buried after Jul 25, 1900 at Lanham Cemetery, Queens, West Virginia. She was also known as (261) Lance. She was (an unknown value) in 1880 at Washington District, Upshur, West Virginia.

114. ASBY POOLE7 CUTRIGHT (280) (Enoch, #228) was born on Nov 24, 1834 at West Virginia. He married Minerva Cutright (279) (see #115), daughter of Abram Cutright (29037) and Mary Ann Weatherholt (29038), on Jan 10, 1861. He married Naomi A. Teter (2351), daughter of Enoch Teter (4840) and Mahala Calhoun (4841), on May 3, 1871. He died on Dec 23, 1917 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 83. Ashby Cutright helped build a church at Hampton, Upshur County, West Virginia, and while building the church, kept a detailed journal (kept by Bobby Teets) of expenses and wages for work done. He often took payment in trade of goods and services. As of 2001, the church was still being used. He was also known as Asberry Cutright (280). He was also known as Asby Cutright (280). Children of Asby Poole7 Cutright (280) and Minerva Cutright (279) (see #115) were as follows: 57. i. LAURA (LOUISA) ALICE6 (51). ii. DENNIS MONROE (4819) was born on Oct 14, 1866 at Hinkleville, Upshur, West Virginia. He married Harriette Eva "Hattie" Brooks (4820), daughter of Adolphus Brooks (4825) and Josephine (--?--) (4826), on Sep 20, 1892 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Laura T. Casto (4824), daughter of Samuel G. Casto (33327) and Cornelia Frances Hefner (33328), on Mar 19, 1917 at Adrian, Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Mar 29, 1921 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 54.

115. MINERVA7 CUTRIGHT (279) (Abram, #230) was born circa 1838 at Lewis (or Upshur), Virginia. She married Asby Poole Cutright (280) (see #114), son of Enoch Cutright (4827) and Catherine Warner (4842), on Jan 10, 1861. She died on May 17, 1870 at Upshur, West Virginia. She was buried after May 17, 1870 at Cutright Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. She was also known as Manurva Cutright (279). She was also known as Marianna Cutright (279). She was also known as Manerva Cutright (279).

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116. ELIJAH7 STANSBERRY (761) (Stephen, #232) was born on Jul 16, 1838 at Fairmont, Monongalia, West Virginia. He married Cecelia "Celia" Boggess (760) (see #117), daughter of John Lindsay Boggess (764) and Delilah (Delila or Eliza) Boyles (763), on Dec 2, 1862 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Jan 2, 1930 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 91. He was buried at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. It is believed that Elijah Stansberry and wife Cecilia Boggess Stansberry came to Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia in 1862. Elijah Stansberry as a young man could swim the great Monongahela River holding his shoes and clothes in one hand and swim with the other. To tell you the truth, boys will be boys, but we have been told he did this once a week in order to get to the other side to call on Celia Boggess and did not want to spend half a day waiting for his clothes to dry. Children of Elijah7 Stansberry (761) and Cecelia "Celia" Boggess (760) (see #117) were as follows: i. CARRIE MAE6 (762) was born in Oct, 1864 at West Virginia. She married Reverend John C. Reese (199), son of David Reese (7918) and Cassielars (--?--) (7919), on Oct 29, 1884 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died in 1937 at Upshur, West Virginia. She was buried on Apr 27, 1923 at Mount Washington Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. She was also known as (762) Cara M. Stansberry. 58. ii. HENRY ORR (317). iii. WILLIAM G. "WILL" (770) was born on Apr 30, 1868 at Upshur, West Virginia. He was born on Apr 30, 1870 at West Virginia. He married Ida Jane Reed (2484), daughter of William Reed (7920) and Elizabeth (- -?--) (7921), on Dec 26, 1894 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Jul 16, 1915 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 45. He was buried after Jul 16, 1913 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. iv. SARAH DELILAH "SALLY" (783) was born on Jun 22, 1873 at Upshur, West Virginia. She was born in Jun, 1874 at West Virginia. She married Alonzo Rollins (784), son of Austin Rollins (7916) and Hester Louisa Tenney (7917), on Oct 31, 1894. She died on Feb 11, 1945 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 71. v. ULVIRA (26188) was born circa Aug 1, 1875 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Oct 1, 1876 at Upshur, West Virginia. vi. UNNAMED (20894) was born on Aug 4, 1875 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died before 1880. vii. BERTHA BLANCHE (778) was born on Apr 11, 1878 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married David Hall Hollen (779), son of William Franklin "Frank" Hollen (27154) and Hannah Ward Criss (7924), on Apr 11, 1900 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married Ransom Mathew Clark (7181), son of William Riley Clark (7157) and Jemima Almyra Rohrbough (7158), on Jan 5, 1935 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Nov 21, 1945 at Clarksburg Hospital, Harrison, West Virginia, at age 67. She was buried on Nov 24, 1945 at Whitescarver-Rundio Funeral Home, Heavner Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia.

117. CECELIA "CELIA"7 BOGGESS (760) (John, #234) was born on Apr 29, 1841 at Marion, Virginia. She married Elijah Stansberry (761) (see #116), son of Stephen Stansberry (188) and Sarah Sapp (189), on Dec 2, 1862 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Sep 10, 1924 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 83. She was buried at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia.

118. LORENZO DOW7 WESTFALL (8863) (Martin, #236) was born on Jan 9, 1841 at Lewis, West Virginia. He married Elsie "Elcy/Elca" Cutright (1885) (see #119), daughter of Ashel Nathaniel Cutright (1422) and Naoma C. "Naomi" Cutright (1421), on May 7, 1864 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Jul 20, 1889 at Randolph, West Virginia, at age 48. He was buried after Jul 20, 1889 at Blue Rock Cemetery, West Virginia. Children of Lorenzo Dow7 Westfall (8863) and Elsie "Elcy/Elca" Cutright (1885) (see #119) were as follows: i. EVA JANE "EVVIE"6 (2207) was born on Jun 9, 1865 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married Abraham "Abe/Abrow" L. Wilfong (671), son of Henry Wilfong (524) and Catherine "Kate" Mowry (574), on Dec 3, 1885. She died on Nov 26, 1917 at Ivanhoe, Upshur, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 52. She died on Nov 28, 1918 at age 53. She was buried after Nov 28, 1918 at Hampton Cemetery, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. 59. ii. CORDELIA (201). iii. KINDILY (12897) was born in 1870 at Lewis, West Virginia. He was also known as KINDLY WESTFALL (12897). iv. MINNIE (12898) was born on Mar 4, 1875 at Upshur, West Virginia. v. CLARA (3318) was born on Mar 17, 1882 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married Arthur Lee Wilfong (2214), son of Columbus Wilfong (581) and Sarah A. Black (13393), on Jun 12, 1901. She died on Mar 21, 1942 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 60. She was buried on Mar 23, 1942 at Heavner New Addition, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia.

119. ELSIE "ELCY/ELCA"7 CUTRIGHT (1885) (Ashel, #238) was born in Feb, 1843 at Lewis, West Virginia. She married Lorenzo Dow Westfall (8863) (see #118), son of Martin Westfall (12895) and Rebecca Warner (12896), on May 7, 1864 at

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Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Sep 21, 1901 at Hampton, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 58. She was buried on Sep 22, 1901 at Hickory Flat Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. She was also known as Alzey Cutright (1885).

120. WALTER RALEIGH7 DANFORTH (2957) (Charles, #240) was born on Apr 7, 1839. He married Anna "Ann" Whitehead (2958) (see #121) in Sep, 1860. He died on Jul 1, 1896 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, at age 57. He was buried on Jul 3, 1896 at Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia. Children of Walter Raleigh7 Danforth (2957) and Anna "Ann" Whitehead (2958) (see #121) were as follows: i. CLARE6 (2965). ii. CLANDELINE MCCLENNAN (2961). iii. CHARLES NATHAN (2962). iv. WALTER RALEIGH (2963). v. TIMOTHY NELSON (2964). vi. CRAWFORD CARTER (2966). vii. SALLY (2967). 60. viii. ROBERT AMBROSE (2953).

121. ANNA "ANN"7 WHITEHEAD (2958) was born at Lebanon, Ohio. She married Walter Raleigh Danforth (2957) (see #120), son of Charles Danforth (2959) and Julia Fairbanks Ward (2960), in Sep, 1860.

124. HENRY T.7 CUTLIP (2885) (Rachel, #249) was born in 1832 at Nicholas, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Borough (2886) on Jan 25, 1855 at Upshur, Virginia. He married Martha Ann Noland (2887) (see #125) on Jun 3, 1860 at Washington, Ohio. He died on Jun 12, 1865 at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was buried after Jun 12, 1865 at Grave 10446, Section H, Chattanooga National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Children of Henry T.7 Cutlip (2885) and Martha Ann Noland (2887) (see #125) both born at Washington, Ohio, were as follows: i. HANNA C.6 (2888) was born on Jul 24, 1862. She died before Feb 13, 1946 at Toledo, Lucas, Ohio. 62. ii. REUBEN R. (2872).

125. MARTHA ANN7 NOLAND (2887) was born after 1832. She married Henry T. Cutlip (2885) (see #124), son of Rachel Cutlip (2889), on Jun 3, 1860 at Washington, Ohio.

126. NATHAN T.7 BRACEY (2875) married Sarah Amelia Jobes (2876) (see #127). Children of Nathan T.7 Bracey (2875) and Sarah Amelia Jobes (2876) (see #127) were: 63. i. ROSELLA "ELLA"6 (2874).

127. SARAH AMELIA7 JOBES (2876) married Nathan T. Bracey (2875) (see #126).

Generation Eight

224. JACOB8 TEETS (300) (Henry, #448) was born circa 1787 at Brandonville, Preston, Virginia. He married Mary Barbara Miller (301) (see #225), daughter of George Miller (6919), on Aug 11, 1806 at Shenandoah, Virginia. He died between 1860 and 1870 at Preston, West Virginia.

From "Teets Family History" notes given to West Virginia Wesleyan College (WVWC) Library by Boone and Greta Teets Proudfoot, and also notes taken by Anna Lee Teets Conner (probably from the Proudfoot notes):

"The Teets family is of German origin. In Germany they spelled their name Tietz.

Jacob Teets is the first Teets of which we have definite information (1st generation). His father came to the United States from Germany and settled near Washington D.C. and from this point the family scattered. The father seems to have moved to Brandonsville West Virginia not far from Aurora West Virginia in Preston County.

Jacob Teets married Barbara (Barbary) Miller in Shenandoah County Virginia. The Millers lived near Woodstock Virginia. Jacob and Barbara Miller Teets lived on Branch Mountain about 25-30 miles from Moorefield in Hardy County. They had a large family of 13 children." He was also known as Jacob Dietz (300). "I believe this Jacob Teets along with Michael and Christian Teets fought in the War of 1812 in the 2nd regiment with Captain Evans in the Virginia Militia. Jacob married Barbara Miller and Michael married Margaret Miller. They were probably cousins who married sisters or cousins.

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There is always the possibility that Jacob, Michael and Christian were brothers, but I don't know. More likely cousins. Michael and Jacob always deserted together when they wanted leave from the military." He was also known as Jacob Tetes (300). He was also known as Jacob Deets (300). He lived in 1860 at Hardy, Virginia. Children of Jacob8 Teets (300) and Mary Barbara Miller (301) (see #225) were as follows: i. JOSEPH "JOE"7 (1033) was born circa 1808 at Virginia. He married Anna "Ann" (--?--) (7902). He died in 1859. He lived at Barbour, West Virginia. ii. ANNA "ANN/ANNIE" (1037) was born circa 1810 at Virginia. She married Jacob Whetzel (1038), son of John Whetzel (23297), on Jun 15, 1831. She died after 1880. She also went by the name of (1037) Ann. She was also known as MARY ANN WHETZEL (1037). iii. GEORGE (12889) was born between 1812 and 1815 at Virginia. He married Mary Ann Fravel (24641). He married Sophia Sheets (24639), daughter of J. Sheets (25127) and M. (--?--) (25128), on Oct 16, 1832 at Shenandoah, Virginia. He died after 1880. He was also known as GEORGE TETES (12889). iv. HENRY (1042) was born on Dec 8, 1813 at Virginia. He married Rebecca Elizabeth Campbell (7799), daughter of (--?--) Campbell (12264), at Ohio. He died on Oct 23, 1873 at Grandview, Louisa, Iowa, at age 59. He died on Oct 28, 1876 at Grandview, Louisa, Iowa, at age 62. He was buried after Oct 23, 1873 at Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, Louisa, Iowa. According to the Proudfoot "History of the Teets Family", recorded at West Virginia Wesleyan College, Henry Teets went West. He was also known as HENRY TEATS (1042). He lived in 1856 at Port Louisa, Louisa, Iowan. v. JACOB (3366) was born on Jul 18, 1815 at Virginia. He married Barbara "Barbary" Wilson (3367), daughter of Joseph Wilson (3368). He died on Feb 9, 1892 at age 76. He was buried at Lost River, Hardy, West Virginia. Jacob lived in Preston County during part of his life, then settled in Hardy County, near Wardensville, West Virginia. During the 1880 census, their granddaughter Eliza Teets lived with them; she was 15. He was also known as (3366) Jacob Teats. vi. ANTHONY (1028) was born on Nov 21, 1820 at Lost River, Hardy, West Virginia. He married Emma "Emmie" Dix (1029), daughter of Isaac Dix (1475) and Elizabeth Reger (1476), on Oct 13, 1842 at Barbour, West Virginia. He died on Mar 30, 1906 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 85. He was buried after Mar 30, 1906 at Old Heavner Cemetery, City District, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia. vii. LEVI (1031) was born on May 21, 1825 at Brandonville, Preston, West Virginia. He married Scottie Virginia Wilson (1099) in 1845 at Lost River, Hardy, Virginia. He died on Dec 22, 1893 at age 68. He was buried after Dec 22, 1893 at Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Preston, West Virginia. viii. CATHERINE (1032) was born on Feb 25, 1827 at Barbour, (West) Virginia. She was born between 1831 and 1832. She married Noah Lantz (1111), son of Henry Lantz (9162) and Elizabeth Radabaugh (9163), on Nov 19, 1846 at Barbour, West Virginia. She died on Jan 2, 1899 at age 71. She died in 1908 at Barbour, West Virginia. She was buried in Jan, 1899 at Reger Cemetery. She was also known as KATHERINE TEETS (1032). 112. ix. MARTIN (224). x. SOPHIA (1039) was born circa 1834 at Virginia. She married David Foy (4512). She died before 1880.

225. MARY BARBARA8 MILLER (301) (George, #450) was born on Mar 9, 1788 at Little Stony Creek, Shenandoah, Virginia. She married Jacob Teets (300) (see #224), son of Henry Teets (11823) and Margaret Mitchell (34172), on Aug 11, 1806 at Shenandoah, Virginia. She died between 1860 and 1870. She was also known as (301) Barbara Lydia "Barbary" Miller.

226. WILLIAM8 LANTZ (505) (George, #452) was born circa 1798 at Pendleton, Virginia. He married Nancy Lanham (506) (see #227), daughter of Jeremiah Lanham (9160) and Barbara Bense (9161), on Dec 23, 1819 at Lewis, Virginia. He died on Sep 7, 1855 at Barbour, Virginia. Children of William8 Lantz (505) and Nancy Lanham (506) (see #227) were as follows: i. WILLIAM7 (9230) married Patsy Wood (9231). 113. ii. MARY ANN "POLLY" (261). iii. JONAS (9232) was born on Dec 28, 1828 at Lewis, Virginia. He married Mary "Polly" Proudfoot (9233) on Dec 13, 1856. He died on Jul 31, 1891 at Barbour, West Virginia, at age 62. iv. JOHN (9234) was born in 1829. v. HENRY (9235) was born in 1835. He died in 1863 at killed in the Civil War. vi. JEFFERSON (9236) was born in 1838. vii. ABRAHAM (9237) was born in 1838. He married Susan Dee Dunnington (9238) on Jan 2, 1866 at Upshur, West Virginia.

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viii. RUTH (9239) was born in Mar, 1839 at Virginia. She married Richard "Rich" Booth (9240), son of David Booth (6986) and Anna "Ann" Bolton (6984), on Mar 28, 1863 at Barbour, Virginia. ix. JERRY (9241) was born in 1841. x. GEORGE WASHINGTON (9242) was born in Oct, 1844 at Barbour, Virginia. He married Margaret E. Yeager (9243), daughter of Absolom Yeager (9244) and Mary Ann Coberly (9245), on Aug 9, 1871 at Barbour, West Virginia. He died in 1907 at Barbour, West Virginia.

227. NANCY8 LANHAM (506) (Jeremiah, #454) was born in 1803 at Frederick, Virginia. She married William Lantz (505) (see #226), son of George Eurid Lantz (3332) and Mary Frances Woodford (3333), on Dec 23, 1819 at Lewis, Virginia. She died after 1850.

228. ENOCH8 CUTRIGHT (4827) (Abraham, #456) was born in 1808 at Virginia. He married Catherine Warner (4842) (see #229) on Feb 28, 1828 at Lewis, Virginia. He died on Apr 2, 1889 at Upshur, West Virginia. He was buried on Apr 2, 1889 at Cutright Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. Children of Enoch8 Cutright (4827) and Catherine Warner (4842) (see #229) were as follows: i. LOUISA7 (4910) was born in 1830. ii. LORENZO D. (4911) was born in 1833. He married Malissa (--?--) (4916). He died on Jan 29, 1866 at Upshur, West Virginia. 114. iii. ASBY POOLE (280). iv. CHAPMAN C. (4912) was born in 1836. He died on Dec 14, 1862 at Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia. He died on Dec 14, 1863 at Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia. v. JULIA ANN (4914) was born in 1839. She married Simon Rohrbough (4920) on Sep 15, 1864. vi. SEYMOUR H. (4913) was born in 1842. vii. AURILLA (4915) was born in 1845. viii. MALINDA (4854) was born on Jul 22, 1852 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Dec 31, 1866 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 14. She was buried after Dec 31, 1866 at Cutright Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia.

229. CATHERINE8 WARNER (4842) was born in 1819. She married Enoch Cutright (4827) (see #228), son of Abraham Cutright (7265) and Sarah Susannah Bush (4843), on Feb 28, 1828 at Lewis, Virginia. She died in Oct, 1898 at Upshur, West Virginia. She was buried in Oct, 1898 at Cutright Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia.

230. ABRAM8 CUTRIGHT (29037) (Isaac, #460) was born circa 1799 at Virginia. He married Mary Ann Weatherholt (29038) (see #231). He died on Feb 2, 1862 at Upshur, Virginia. Children of Abram8 Cutright (29037) and Mary Ann Weatherholt (29038) (see #231) were as follows: i. LAURA7 (29042) was born circa 1829 at Virginia. ii. SARAH (29039) was born circa 1830 at Virginia. iii. CALVIN LASHLEY (29041) was born on Apr 7, 1835 at Lewis, Virginia. 115. iv. MINERVA (279). v. GRANVILLE H. (29040) was born in Oct, 1841 at Virginia. He was born circa 1843 at Virginia. He was born circa Oct 4, 1846. He married Jane Elizabeth Beer (30997), daughter of John Beer (6289) and Anna Mary "Ann" Hetrick (9747), on Sep 28, 1866 at Upshur, West Virginia. He died on Nov 21, 1907 at Sago, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 66.

231. MARY ANN8 WEATHERHOLT (29038) was born circa 1800 at Virginia. She married Abram Cutright (29037) (see #230), son of Isaac Cutright (2498) and Catharine Richard Stump (7244). She died after 1880 at Upshur, West Virginia.

232. STEPHEN8 STANSBERRY (188) (Francis, #464) was born on Aug 2, 1803 at Monongalia, Virginia. He married Sarah Sapp (189) (see #233), daughter of Joseph Sapp (4945) and Sarah "Polly" Pride (4946), on Dec 17, 1826 at Monongalia, (West) Virginia. He died on Aug 8, 1854 at Monongalia, Virginia, at age 51. He was buried after Aug 8, 1854 at the cemetery is located 1.7 miles from Rt. 73, on the left, behind a farm gate, on Opekiska Ridge Road, Stansberry Cemetery, Stansbury Farm, Smithfield, Monongalia, Virginia. Francis Stansbury came from New York about 100 years ago. His son Stephen settled in Clinton District about 57 years ago, and married Sarah Sapp; children - Joseph, Mary, Francis, Sarah, Henry, Jonathan, Stephen, William, Elijah, Samuel, Ellen, Nathan, Jona, Delia and Maria L. Joseph, Francis and Maria L. now reside in the district. According to "The History of Monongalia County", Stephen Stansberry was born in 1803, married Sarah Sapp in 1826, and raised a family of fifteen children, eleven of whom are still living. Mrs. Stansberry and two of her sisters - Mary Pride and Elizabeth Trippett - had families which aggregated fourty-five children. According to a letter written by his grandson John Luther Stansberry on February 8, 1939, "Stephen and Mary Stansberry were our Great Grandparents." [editor's note: it is this statement that led to the idea that Francis Stansberry was also known as Stepen

Page 13 John Jay Teets II, ([email protected]), (http://johnteets.com), Dec 21, 2011 or Stephen]. "They settled on what is called the Smith Farm near the Stansberry Cemetery, probably about 1790 or shortly after. They owned twelve to fifteen hundred acres of land. They died about 1835, and started the cemetery. Sandstones mark their graves. Your grandmother (Hannah), your brother, Willie Mead, your father Wesley, and your cousin Moses Kincaid all have marble slabs to their graves. There is not over 25 or 30 graves there. My grandmother Sarah was the last one buried there in 1878. The cemetery has a wire fence around it and Elery keeps it cleaned. I have paid him some on it a time or two. It's on his farm." Children of Stephen8 Stansberry (188) and Sarah Sapp (189) (see #233) were as follows: i. JOSEPH7 (4963) was born on Dec 7, 1827 at Monongalia, Virginia. He married Mary Holland (4983), daughter of Allen Holland (26047), on Dec 13, 1854 at Monongalia, Virginia. He died on Jul 31, 1912 at Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 84. He was buried at Mt. Pisgah Church Cemetery. He was buried after Jul 31, 1912 at Pisgah Church Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia. ii. MARY (4964) was born on Aug 9, 1829 at Virginia. She married John Phillips (4965) after 1843. She died circa 1854. iii. FRANCIS (4966) was born on Nov 16, 1830 at Monongalia, Virginia. He married Susan Goodnight (4986), daughter of Christian Goodnight (25817), on Nov 10, 1853 at Monongalia, Virginia. He died on Mar 25, 1920 at Grant District, Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 89. He was buried on Mar 28, 1920 at Pisgah Church Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia. iv. SARAH (4967) was born on Jan 18, 1832 at Virginia. She married Hezekiah Summers (4968), son of Reverend Alexander Summers (27640) and Mary Ann Vinagar (27641), on Mar 1, 1849. She died on Feb 19, 1900 at age 68. v. HENRY (4969) was born on Jan 24, 1833 at Virginia. He married Lucy Long (4970), daughter of Elial Long (26493) and Elizabeth (--?--) (26494), after 1847. He married Susan (--?--) (25862) circa 1905. He died on Dec 2, 1917 at age 84. vi. JONATHAN E. (4971) was born on Jan 25, 1834 at White Day, Monongalia, Virginia. He married Mary Ellen Bell (26210), daughter of John Bell (25781) and Mary Grubb (5004), on Aug 15, 1857. He died on May 12, 1909 at Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 75. He was buried after May 12, 1909 at Pisgah Church Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia. He was also known as JOHNATHAN STANSBERRY (4971). vii. STEPHEN (4972) was born on Mar 16, 1835 at Virginia. He married Dorothy Melissa Squires (4973) on May 5, 1870 at Preston, West Virginia. He died on Oct 16, 1895 at age 60. viii. WILLIAM (4977) was born on Apr 20, 1837 at Morgantown, Monongalia, Virginia. He married Jane Drusilla Cochran (9672) on Apr 10, 1856. He died after 1905 at Minnesota. He was also known as FRANCIS STANSBERRY (4977). 116. ix. ELIJAH (761). x. ELEANOR (4974) was born on Jun 27, 1840 at Virginia. xi. JONAH (4975) was born on Oct 16, 1841 at Monongalia, Virginia. He married Sarah Ann Bell (5002), daughter of John Bell (25781) and Mary Grubb (5004), on Oct 1, 1858. He married Cinda M. Berry (25822) on May 22, 1893 at at the bride's residence, Monongalia, West Virginia. He died on May 15, 1909 at Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 67. He died on May 16, 1909 at Smithtown, Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 67. He was buried after May 16, 1909 at Pisgah Church Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia. He was also known as JONA STANSBERRY (4975). xii. SAMUEL (4976) was born on Jan 25, 1843 at Virginia. He died on Jan 6, 1853 at Monongalia, Virginia, at age 9. xiii. ELMER (4978) was born circa 1844 at Virginia. He died on Jan 2, 1856 at Monongalia, Virginia. xiv. NATHAN (4979) was born on Mar 30, 1844. He died on Mar 30, 1844 at born dead. xv. MARIAH LOUISE "SIS" (4980) was born on Aug 11, 1845 at Virginia. She married Leroy C. Beals (4981) after 1859. She died on Feb 4, 1898 at age 52. She was also known as LOUISA STANSBERRY (4980). She was also known as MARIA S. STANSBERRY (4980). xvi. DELIA ELIZABETH (4982) was born on Nov 17, 1847 at Virginia. She married Waitman Melanethan Fast (5010), son of Allen Fast (5011) and Rebecca Wroe (5012), on Oct 24, 1867. She died on Feb 18, 1930 at Clay, West Virginia, at age 82.

233. SARAH8 SAPP (189) (Joseph, #466) was born on Sep 4, 1803 at Monongalia, (West) Virginia. She married Stephen Stansberry (188) (see #232), son of Francis "Fran" Stansberry (11210) and Mary Brown (11211), on Dec 17, 1826 at Monongalia, (West) Virginia. She died on Dec 17, 1878 at Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 75. She died on Dec 18, 1878 at Monongalia, West Virginia, at age 75. She was buried in Dec, 1878 at Stansberry Cemetery, Stansbury Farm, Smithfield.

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234. JOHN LINDSAY8 BOGGESS (764) (Henry, #468) was born on Apr 14, 1815 at Fairfax, Virginia. He married Delilah (Delila or Eliza) Boyles (763) (see #235), daughter of Charles Boyles (19363), on Jun 8, 1840 at Monongahela, West Virginia. He died on Mar 27, 1879 at age 63. Children of John Lindsay8 Boggess (764) and Delilah (Delila or Eliza) Boyles (763) (see #235) were as follows: 117. i. CECELIA "CELIA"7 (760). ii. HENRY (3082) was born circa 1842 at Virginia. iii. NANCY (3083) was born circa 1845 at Virginia. iv. THOMAS C. (3084) was born circa 1847 at Virginia. v. MARY ELIZABETH (3085) was born circa 1849 at Virginia. vi. HAYMOND (3086) was born circa 1854 at Virginia.

235. DELILAH (DELILA OR ELIZA)8 BOYLES (763) (Charles, #470) was born circa 1816 at Virginia. She married John Lindsay Boggess (764) (see #234), son of Henry Fletcher Boggess (3077) and Nancy Dragoo (3079), on Jun 8, 1840 at Monongahela, West Virginia. She died in 1890.

236. MARTIN8 WESTFALL (12895) (George, #472) was born on Aug 9, 1819 at Lewis, Virginia. He married Rebecca Warner (12896) (see #237) on May 31, 1840 at Lewis, Virginia. He died before 1900. Children of Martin8 Westfall (12895) and Rebecca Warner (12896) (see #237) were as follows: 118. i. LORENZO DOW7 (8863). ii. ELI W. (26525) was born circa 1842 at Virginia. iii. WILLIAM M. (26526) was born circa 1844 at Virginia. iv. ISAAC D. (26527) was born circa May 4, 1845 at Virginia. He died on Oct 8, 1878 at Upshur, West Virginia. v. LAFAYETTE (26528) was born on Dec 27, 1846 at Lewis, West Virginia. He married Anna Elizabeth "Ann" Rollins (535), daughter of E. D. Rollins (27038) and Sarah (--?--) (27039), on Dec 24, 1868 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Priscilla Elizabeth "Lizzy" Miles (9644) on Jun 13, 1889. He died on Mar 8, 1928 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 81. He was buried on Mar 10, 1928 at Buckhannon R.F.D., Upshur, West Virginia. vi. CECILLIA L. (26529) was born circa 1851 at Virginia. vii. LEWIS A. (26530) was born on Jan 28, 1853 at Upshur, Virginia. He married Mary Catherine Strader (26539), daughter of Benjamin Strader (27090) and Susan (--?--) (27091), on Dec 23, 1875 at Upshur, West Virginia. viii. FLOURINEY (26531) was born on May 3, 1855 at Upshur, Virginia. He was also known as FLOURNOY WESTFALL (26531). ix. SARAH C. (26532) was born circa 1857 at Virginia. x. VILLONA (13400) was born on May 30, 1859 at Upshur, West Virginia. She was born on Jun 30, 1859 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married James P. Ratliff (28062) on Dec 28, 1893 at Ivy, Upshur, West Virginia. She married John Lewis Wilfong (6883), son of Daniel Wilfong (539) and Elizabeth R. Willoughby (540), on Jul 10, 1937 at Ivy, Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Sep 30, 1944 at Buckhannon Hospital, Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 85. She was buried on Oct 2, 1944 at Mt. Washington Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. She was also known as VALLOMIA WESTFALL (13400). She was also known as VELONA WESTFALL (13400). She was also known as VALINA WESTFALL (13400). She was also known as BALONA WESTFALL (13400). xi. UNNAMED (26541) was born on Jul 22, 1862 at Upshur, West Virginia. xii. DAVID M. (26533) was born circa 1863 at Virginia. xiii. NAOMA (26534) was born circa 1865 at West Virginia. xiv. ANDERSON M. (26535) was born circa 1868 at West Virginia. He married Ladona "Dona" McCartney (26537) in 1903 at Upshur, West Virginia.

237. REBECCA8 WARNER (12896) was born on Dec 3, 1823 at Upshur, Virginia. She married Martin Westfall (12895) (see #236), son of George Westfall (2199) and Lydia Ruhama Cutright (4478), on May 31, 1840 at Lewis, Virginia.

238. ASHEL NATHANIEL8 CUTRIGHT (1422) (Isaac, #460) was born on Apr 20, 1801 at Harrison, Virginia. He married Naoma C. "Naomi" Cutright (1421) (see #239) on Jan 26, 1832 at Lewis, (West) Virginia. He died on Aug 29, 1881 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 80. Children of Ashel Nathaniel8 Cutright (1422) and Naoma C. "Naomi" Cutright (1421) (see #239) were as follows: i. ELIZA BECCA7 (29050) was born circa 1829 at Virginia.

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ii. CECELIA (29045) was born in Mar, 1834 at Lewis, Virginia. She married Enoch W. Westfall (4484), son of George Westfall (2199) and Lydia Ruhama Cutright (4478), on Nov 21, 1850 at Upshur, West Virginia. She died on Sep 6, 1854 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 20. iii. LAFAYETTE (29046) was born in Nov, 1835 at Virginia. iv. AMANDA (29047) was born in 1840 at Virginia. She died on Jul 16, 1879 at Upshur, West Virginia. 119. v. ELSIE "ELCY/ELCA" (1885). vi. LAVERNA (29049) was born circa 1848 at Virginia. vii. JEMIMA (838) was born on Jun 15, 1851 at Upshur, West Virginia. She married Jasper Newton "Gaff" Cutright (839), son of Christopher Truby Cutright (28871) and Lucina Sinai "Sina" Pringle (28872), on Dec 29, 1870 at Upshur, West Virginia. viii. STEWART P. (29044) was born on Jun 25, 1854 at Upshur, (West) Virginia. He was also known as STUART CUTRIGHT (29044). ix. MARY ELLA (29043) was born on Jun 3, 1860 at Upshur, (West) Virginia.

239. NAOMA C. "NAOMI"8 CUTRIGHT (1421) was born circa 1813 at Virginia. She married Ashel Nathaniel Cutright (1422) (see #238), son of Isaac Cutright (2498) and Catharine Richard Stump (7244), on Jan 26, 1832 at Lewis, (West) Virginia. She died in 1880 at Upshur, West Virginia.

240. CHARLES8 DANFORTH (2959) (Walter, #480) was born on Aug 1, 1815 at Providence, Rhode Island. He married Julia Fairbanks Ward (2960) (see #241) on Mar 9, 1820 at Hopkinton, Massachusetts. He died on Jul 5, 1901 at Chronic Myelitis, Providence, Rhode Island, at age 85. He was buried after Jul 5, 1901 at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island. Children of Charles8 Danforth (2959) and Julia Fairbanks Ward (2960) (see #241) were as follows: 120. i. WALTER RALEIGH7 (2957). ii. SARAH ELIZABETH (2968) was born on Mar 21, 1841. iii. CHARLES JAMES (2969) was born on Nov 28, 1843 at Providence, Rhode Island. iv. ANDALEEN MARCINEL (2970) was born on Dec 21, 1848. v. ELFRED JOSEFA (2971) was born on Oct 9, 1851.

241. JULIA FAIRBANKS8 WARD (2960) was born on Mar 9, 1820 at Hopkinton, Massachusetts. She married Charles Danforth (2959) (see #240), son of Walter Raleigh Danforth (2972) and Elizabeth Ann Carter (2973), on Mar 9, 1820 at Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

249. RACHEL8 CUTLIP (2889) (David, #498) was born circa 1798. She married John Mollohan (2890), son of George Martin Mollohan Sr. (2891) and Nancy Hanks Jones (2892), on Sep 28, 1838 at Braxton, Virginia. She died before 1850 at Braxton, West Virginia. Children of Rachel8 Cutlip (2889) include: i. ELIZABETH7 (2893) was born in 1818. She died on Dec 12, 1873. ii. ANDERSON "ANISON" (2894) was born on May 15, 1822 at Nicholas, Virginia. He died on May 2, 1900 at Webster, West Virginia, at age 77. iii. MARY (2895) was born circa 1824 at Nicholas, Virginia. She died after 1850. iv. JACKSON C. (2896) was born circa 1826 at Nicholas, Virginia. He died on Mar 4, 1865 at Camp Chase, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. v. NANCY JANE (2897) was born on Sep 15, 1828 at Braxton, Virginia. She died on Nov 28, 1926 at Flatwoods, Braxton, West Virginia, at age 98. vi. JOHN W. (2898) was born in 1829 at Nicholas, Virginia. 124. vii. HENRY T. (2885). viii. HANNA (2899) was born between 1835 and 1836 at Braxton, Virginia. ix. GEORGE W. (2900) was born on Mar 11, 1838 at Pocahontas, Virginia. He died on Apr 13, 1906 at County Infirmary, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, at age 68.

Generation Nine

448. HENRY9 TEETS (11823) was born before 1765. He married Margaret Mitchell (34172) (see #449) on May 12, 1785. He died after 1810. He was also known as Henry Teats (11823). Children of Henry9 Teets (11823) and Margaret Mitchell (34172) (see #449) were: 224. i. JACOB8 (300).

449. MARGARET9 MITCHELL (34172) was born circa 1765. She married Henry Teets (11823) (see #448) on May 12, 1785.

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450. GEORGE9 MILLER (6919). Children of George9 Miller (6919) include: 225. i. MARY BARBARA8 (301).

452. GEORGE EURID9 LANTZ (3332) (Hans, #904) was born in 1776 at Shenandoah, Virginia. He married Mary Frances Woodford (3333) (see #453), daughter of William Woodford (9156) and Frances "Fanny" Howe (9157), on May 27, 1795 at Rockingham, Virginia. He died in 1850 at Barbour, (West) Virginia. He was buried in 1850 at Lantz Cemetery, Big Run, West Virginia. Children of George Eurid9 Lantz (3332) and Mary Frances Woodford (3333) (see #453) were as follows: i. HANNAH8 (9169). ii. ELAM (9170). iii. HARMON (9171). iv. BETTY (9172). v. HATTIE (9168). 226. vi. WILLIAM (505). vii. PHILIP (9165) was born in 1799 at Rockingham, Virginia. He married Catherine (--?--) (9166). viii. HENRY (9162) was born on Jan 13, 1799 at Rockingham, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Radabaugh (9163), daughter of Adam Radabaugh (9164), on Nov 23, 1820 at Lewis, Virginia. He died on Aug 2, 1884 at Lewis, West Virginia, at age 85. ix. MARION (9167) was born circa 1800. x. GEORGE EURID (9173) was born in 1810 at Rockingham, Virginia. He married Charlotte (--?--) (9174). xi. JOSEPH (9175) was born in 1817. He married Mary Crites (9176).

453. MARY FRANCES9 WOODFORD (3333) (William, #906) was born in 1776 at Shenandoah, Virginia. She married George Eurid Lantz (3332) (see #452), son of Hans George Lantz (3334) and Maria Margaretha Benderin (3335), on May 27, 1795 at Rockingham, Virginia. She died on Jul 11, 1854 at Lewis, Virginia.

454. JEREMIAH9 LANHAM (9160) married Barbara Bense (9161) (see #455). Children of Jeremiah9 Lanham (9160) and Barbara Bense (9161) (see #455) were as follows: i. JEREMIAH8 (29579) married Hannah (--?--) (29580). 227. ii. NANCY (506).

455. BARBARA9 BENSE (9161) married Jeremiah Lanham (9160) (see #454).

456. ABRAHAM9 CUTRIGHT (7265) (John, #912) was born in 1771. He married Sarah Susannah Bush (4843) (see #457) on Jul 24, 1793 at Ft. Bush, Upshur, Virginia. He died in 1850 at Lewis, West Virginia. Children of Abraham9 Cutright (7265) and Sarah Susannah Bush (4843) (see #457) were as follows: i. ELIZABETH8 (2353) was born circa Jun 10, 1796 at Virginia. She married William Cutright (2352) on Jan 6, 1820 at Lewis, West Virginia. She died on Mar 22, 1853 at Upshur, (West) Virginia. 473. ii. LYDIA RUHAMA (4478). 228. iii. ENOCH (4827). iv. LOT (812) was born on May 19, 1812 at Virginia. He married Isabel (Isabella) Cutright (811), daughter of Jacob E. Cutright (2334) and Elizabeth Westfall (2335), in 1839. He died on Jun 2, 1881 at age 69. He was buried after Jun 2, 1881 at Hampton Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. v. ASHEL (7264) was born in 1814 at (West) Virginia. He married Mahala Clark (7242), daughter of William Clark (7231) and Eve Powers (7240), on Oct 5, 1838 at Lewis, (West) Virginia. He died before 1870 at West Virginia.

457. SARAH SUSANNAH9 BUSH (4843) was born in 1774 at Virginia. She married Abraham Cutright (7265) (see #456), son of John Cutright (4830) and Deborah Osborne (4831), on Jul 24, 1793 at Ft. Bush, Upshur, Virginia. She was also known as Susanna Cutright (4843).

460. ISAAC9 CUTRIGHT (2498) (John, #920) was born in 1774 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Catharine Richard Stump (7244) (see #461). He died in 1864 at Upshur, West Virginia. Children of Isaac9 Cutright (2498) and Catharine Richard Stump (7244) (see #461) were as follows: 230. i. ABRAM8 (29037). 238. ii. ASHEL NATHANIEL (1422). iii. CHARLOTTE TEMPLE "TEMPEY" (7168) was born between 1814 and 1816. She married Abel Clark (7167), son of William Clark (7231) and Eve Powers (7240), on Feb 7, 1832 at Lewis, (West) Virginia.

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461. CATHARINE RICHARD9 STUMP (7244) was born circa 1774 at Delaware. She married Isaac Cutright (2498) (see #460), son of John C. "The Indian Scout" Cutright (2336) and Rebecca Rachel Truby (2337). She died on Dec 28, 1858 at Upshur, West Virginia.

464. FRANCIS "FRAN"9 STANSBERRY (11210) (Nathan Stansbury, #928) was born circa 1760 at Ireland. He married Mary Brown (11211) (see #465). He died between 1830 and 1840. According to a letter written by his grandson John Luther Stansberry on February 8, 1939, "Stephen and Mary Stansberry were our Great Grandparents." [editor's note: it is this statement that led to the idea that Francis Stansberry was also known as Stepen or Stephen]. "They settled on what is called the Smith Farm near the Stansberry Cemetery, probably about 1790 or shortly after. They owned twelve to fifteen hundred acres of land. They died about 1835, and started the cemetery. Sandstones mark their graves. Your grandmother (Hannah), your brother, Willie Mead, your father Wesley, and your cousin Moses Kincaid all have marble slabs to their graves. There is not over 25 or 30 graves there. My grandmother Sarah was the last one buried there in 1878. The cemetery has a wire fence around it and Elery keeps it cleaned. I have paid him some on it a time or two. It's on his farm." He was also known as Stepen Stansberry Sr. (11210). Children of Francis "Fran"9 Stansberry (11210) and Mary Brown (11211) (see #465) were as follows: i. LYDIA8 (25977) was born circa 1788. She married Anthony Harris (25981) on Feb 23, 1810 at Monongalia, Virginia. ii. AMOS (11214) was born circa 1789. iii. MOSES (11212) was born circa 1791. He married Hannah Ferrell (25816), daughter of Robert Ferrell Jr. (25982) and Rachel Griggs (25983), on Jan 12, 1815 at Monongalia, Virginia. He died circa 1868 at West Virginia. iv. NATHAN (25978) was born circa 1795. v. ELIZABETH (25979) was born circa 1796. She married John Strate (33890) on Jun 11, 1818 at Monongalia, Virginia. vi. JONATHAN (11213) was born on Mar 13, 1800 at Virginia. He married Hannah (--?--) (11219). He died on Oct 15, 1862 at age 62. (an unknown value). 232. vii. STEPHEN (188). viii. DAVID (11218) was born circa 1804 at West Virginia. He married Mary Price (20863) on Mar 19, 1846 at Monongalia, Virginia. He was also known as DANIEL STANSBERRY (11218). ix. MARY (11215) was born circa 1808. She married Jake Powell (11216). x. JONAH (11217) was born circa 1811 at Virginia. He married Sarah "Sally" Pride (25985), daughter of (--?- -) Pride (26107) and Mary (--?--) (26106).

465. MARY9 BROWN (11211) was born circa 1760. She married Francis "Fran" Stansberry (11210) (see #464), son of Nathan Stansbury (25980).

466. JOSEPH9 SAPP (4945) was born circa 1760 at England. He married Sarah "Polly" Pride (4946) (see #467), daughter of John Pride (4960) and Ann (--?--) (4961). He died circa 1858 at Monongalia, Virginia. Children of Joseph9 Sapp (4945) and Sarah "Polly" Pride (4946) (see #467) were as follows: i. POLLY8 (4962). ii. MARY (4947) was born circa 1780 at Delaware. She married Henry Pride (4948). iii. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (4949) was born circa 1797 at (West) Virginia. He married Sarah Guthrie (4950). iv. SAMUEL (4951) was born circa 1799 at (West) Virginia. He married Sarah Beard (4952). v. HENRY ULYSSES (4953) was born circa 1800 at (West) Virginia. He married Joanna Chipps (4954). 233. vi. SARAH (189). vii. ELIZABETH (4955) was born circa 1806 at (West) Virginia. She married Edmund Guthrie (4956). She married Caleb Trippett (4957).

467. SARAH "POLLY"9 PRIDE (4946) (John, #934) was born circa 1762. She married Joseph Sapp (4945) (see #466).

468. HENRY FLETCHER9 BOGGESS (3077) was born on Nov 24, 1793 at Fairfax, Fairfax, Virginia. He married Catherine Pitzer (3078). He married Nancy Dragoo (3079) (see #469), daughter of John Dragoo (3080) and Ann Prickett (3081), on Aug 22, 1814 at Monongalia, Virginia. He died on Aug 20, 1891 at Lincoln District, Marion, West Virginia, at age 97. He was buried after Aug 20, 1891 at Giboa Church Cemetery, Marion, West Virginia. Henry Fletcher and Nancy Dragoo had 13 children. Not all are listed here. Children of Henry Fletcher9 Boggess (3077) and Nancy Dragoo (3079) (see #469) were: 234. i. JOHN LINDSAY8 (764).

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469. NANCY9 DRAGOO (3079) (John, #938) was born on Jan 18, 1794 at Monongalia, Virginia. She was born in 1821 at Cramer Cemetery, Marion, West Virginia. She married Henry Fletcher Boggess (3077) (see #468) on Aug 22, 1814 at Monongalia, Virginia. She died in 1821 at Dunkard Mill Run, Marion, West Virginia.

470. CHARLES9 BOYLES (19363). Children of Charles9 Boyles (19363) include: 235. i. DELILAH (DELILA OR ELIZA)8 (763).

472. GEORGE9 WESTFALL (2199) (Zackariah, #944) was born in 1796 at Harrison, Virginia. He married Lydia Ruhama Cutright (4478) (see #473), daughter of Abraham Cutright (7265) and Sarah Susannah Bush (4843), on Oct 27, 1816 at Harrison, Virginia. Children of George9 Westfall (2199) and Lydia Ruhama Cutright (4478) (see #473) were as follows: i. WATSON8 (4479) was born in 1818. 236. ii. MARTIN (12895). iii. FANNA (4481) was born in 1821. iv. ELI FRANKLIN (4482) was born in 1823. v. REBECCA (32683) was born on Nov 27, 1824 at Lewis, West Virginia. She married William Casto (32682). She died on Dec 18, 1895 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 71. She was also known as REBECCA WESTFALL (32683). vi. ENOCH W. (4484) was born in Aug, 1826 at Lewis. He married Cecelia Cutright (29045), daughter of Ashel Nathaniel Cutright (1422) and Naoma C. "Naomi" Cutright (1421), on Nov 21, 1850 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Emma Virginia Conley (29051), daughter of Benjamin Conley (29052) and Sarah A. (--?--) (29053), on Apr 13, 1859 at Upshur. He died on Apr 28, 1904 at Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, at age 77. vii. OLIVER (4485) was born in 1828. viii. GEORGE W. (4486) was born in 1830. ix. LYDIA (2196) was born in 1833. She married Benjamin Conley (1482) on Jul 29, 1858. x. CECELIA (4487) was born in 1840. She married Isaac D. Warner (8990), son of William Warner (8991) and Bedia (--?--) (8992), on Nov 20, 1862 at Upshur, West Virginia. xi. PERRY (29056) was born circa 1848.

473. LYDIA RUHAMA9 CUTRIGHT (4478) (Abraham, #456) was born circa 1800. She married George Westfall (2199) (see #472), son of Zackariah Westfall (2340) and Hannah Woolf (2341), on Oct 27, 1816 at Harrison, Virginia. She died in 1840.

476. ISAAC9 CUTRIGHT (2498) (John, #920) was born in 1774 at Upshur, West Virginia. He married Catharine Richard Stump (7244) (see #461). He died in 1864 at Upshur, West Virginia. Children of Isaac9 Cutright (2498) and Catharine Richard Stump (7244) (see #461) were as follows: 230. i. ABRAM8 (29037). 238. ii. ASHEL NATHANIEL (1422). iii. CHARLOTTE TEMPLE "TEMPEY" (7168) was born between 1814 and 1816. She married Abel Clark (7167), son of William Clark (7231) and Eve Powers (7240), on Feb 7, 1832 at Lewis, (West) Virginia.

477. CATHARINE RICHARD9 STUMP (7244) was born circa 1774 at Delaware. She married Isaac Cutright (2498) (see #460), son of John C. "The Indian Scout" Cutright (2336) and Rebecca Rachel Truby (2337). She died on Dec 28, 1858 at Upshur, West Virginia.

480. WALTER RALEIGH9 DANFORTH (2972) (Job, #960) was born on Apr 1, 1787 at Providence, Rhode Island. He married Elizabeth Ann Carter (2973) (see #481) on Jul 12, 1811 at St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island. More About WALTER RALEIGH DANFORTH:

Title: Jun 1853, Elected 4th Mayor of Providence, R. I.

Fact 2: 1805, Brown University

Fact 3: 1807, Clerk of Supreme Judicial Court

Fact 4: 1811, Clerk of Court of Common Pleas

Fact 5: 1818, Began 10 year term on Town Council

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Fact 6: Published Paper

Fact 7: 1842, Editor of "The Express"

Fact 8: 1855, Representative to General Assembly

Occupation: Attorney

Cause of Death: DEBILITY. Children of Walter Raleigh9 Danforth (2972) and Elizabeth Ann Carter (2973) (see #481) were as follows: i. FRANCIS LIPPIT8 (2974) was born on Mar 18, 1812. ii. WALTER RALEIGH (2975) was born on Jun 17, 1813. 240. iii. CHARLES (2959). iv. JAMES (2976) was born on May 1, 1818. v. GEORGE (2977) was born on Jun 1, 1820. vi. MARIA ELIZABETH (2978) was born on Sep 9, 1821. vii. WILLIAM CARTER (2979) was born on Feb 23, 1824 at Providence, Rhode Island. viii. SOPHIA BARNES (2980) was born on Aug 16, 1826. ix. ANDREW JACKSON (2981) was born on Dec 30, 1828 at Rhode Island. x. SARAH (2982) was born on Apr 16, 1831.

481. ELIZABETH ANN9 CARTER (2973) was born on Mar 11, 1790. She married Walter Raleigh Danforth (2972) (see #480), son of Job Danforth (2983) and Sarah Coy (2984), on Jul 12, 1811 at St. John's Church, Providence, Rhode Island.

498. DAVID9 CUTLIP (2902) (John, #996) was born in 1793 at Greenbrier, Virginia. He married Susan (--?--) (2903) circa 1820 at Pocahontas, Virginia. He died circa Jan, 1845 at Virginia. Children of David9 Cutlip (2902) include: 249. i. RACHEL8 (2889).

Generation Ten

904. HANS GEORGE10 LANTZ (3334) (Hans, #1808) was born circa 1725 at Speyer, Bavaria, Germany. He married Maria Margaretha Benderin (3335) (see #905). Per Veronica Smith, While I was in the library here, I discovered a newspaper article about the Lantz Mill. Now I've driven by the road that goes there a number of times and never once thought it connected to us, but it does. I'll type the part that relates to the Lantzes in our family tree. "Historic Lantz Mill Goes On The Market" by Elizabeth Libby, Northern Virginia Daily newspaper, Friday May 24, 1996, page 6 "...The original portion of the mill is estimated to be about 150 years old, but the community goes back much further. The first record of settlement is dated 1740. Jacob Wolfe built a fort there to protect settlers, primarily Germans, from Indians. According to Margaret R. Crabill and Nancy E. Simmons in their book, "A History of Lantz Mills," there are written records indicating the presence of Indian graves just above the mill. In 1747, Hans George Lantz left Germany and eventually made his way to Virginia, where he purchased 470 acres from Lord Fairfax. At the time, the area was called Swan Pond Hollow. The estate was handed down in the family. In 1896, Jacob Lantz inherited the family farm and mill used to grind flour and grain. There was also a sawmill there and shops. Jacob also served as a justice of the peace during the Civil War. He hid in bushes to escape capture by the Union army. The family homeplace, however, was burned and Jacob's wife died soon after. After the war, Jacob returned to the area, rebuilt the house and remarried. The home still stands, looking protectively down upon the mill. The community came into its prime in the late 1800s and early 1900s, according to Ms. Crabill and Ms. Simmons. The mill and shops encouraged other businessmen to locate in the area. A general store to the north of the mill, provided the residents with many necessities. The building burned down in 1942, but its owner also operated the mill. According to the authors, "fire, death and industrialization took its toll on the Lantz Mill community." The mill remained in operation until the early 1950s, when owners stopped using the water wheel to grind flour and just sold feed and other supplies. The mill closed for good in the early 1980s, under the ownership of four Sine brothers. "

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So, it talks about Hans George Lantz and his son Jacob. I'm going back to the library tomorrow and have quite a number of books I can look at, they just aren't open long enough for me to do too much at once. I did find a nice book on the other side of my family, quite detailed. I also found Jacob Teets and Barbara Miller's marriage bond listed in Shenandoah County Virginia Marriage Bonds 1772--1850, it says: "Teats, Jacob --- Miller, Barbara. Dau. of Geo. Aug. 11, 1806." Hans George Lantz was born about 1725 and died in Shenandoah County VA in 1793. His will is dated December 7, 1792 and was probated in Shenandoah County March 12, 1793. The records of St. Michael's Evangelical church states that "Hans George Lantz, being a single young man, in good standing, living in the house of Wilhelm Wagner, married this day, December 12, 1752, Maria Margaretha Benderin, a young woman, single and of the reformed religion, having worked her indenture to Richard Wahl of Whitemarsh, was free to marry." Maria had come to this country with her mother, Maria Johanna Benderin, a widow and two sisters. They arrived the same year as the Lantz family. Hans George and Maria moved from Pennsylvania to Shenandoah County, VA about 1754 with one son John (Johannes) Lantz. Children of Hans George10 Lantz (3334) and Maria Margaretha Benderin (3335) (see #905) were as follows: i. MARGARETHA9 (9130) died before 1793. ii. JOHANNES "JOHN" (9124) was born on Jun 5, 1749. He married Clara Fuschain (9125), daughter of Adam Fuschain (9131), on Jun 23, 1772. He married Barbara Waggoner (9126), daughter of Wilhelm Waggoner (9132) and Agnessa (--?--) (9133), circa 1780. He died on Mar 27, 1817 at Greene, Pennsylvania, at age 67. John served the colonies in the American Revolution. When he died, he owned over 1,000 acres of adjoining land in Monongalia County VA and Green County PA. iii. GERMINIA (9127) was born circa 1754. iv. ANDREW (9128) was born on Nov 15, 1755. He married Barbara Lemley (9129). He died on Sep 25, 1824 at age 68. v. JACOB (9121) was born on Jan 4, 1759 at Shenandoah, Virginia. He married Maria Miller (9152) on Aug 5, 1783 at Shenandoah, Virginia. He died on Jan 13, 1837 at age 78. 452. vi. GEORGE EURID (3332).

905. MARIA MARGARETHA10 BENDERIN (3335) married Hans George Lantz (3334) (see #904), son of Hans George Lantz (9122) and Catherine (--?--) (9123).

906. WILLIAM10 WOODFORD (9156) married Frances "Fanny" Howe (9157) (see #907). Children of William10 Woodford (9156) and Frances "Fanny" Howe (9157) (see #907) were: 453. i. MARY FRANCES9 (3333).

907. FRANCES "FANNY"10 HOWE (9157) married William Woodford (9156) (see #906).

912. JOHN10 CUTRIGHT (4830) was born circa 1770 at Harrison, West Virginia. He married Deborah Osborne (4831) (see #913), daughter of George Osborne (4833) and Annatje Hannah Westfall (4834), on May 2, 1799 at Randolph, Virginia. Children of John10 Cutright (4830) and Deborah Osborne (4831) (see #913) were as follows: 456. i. ABRAHAM9 (7265). ii. PETER (4837) was born in 1799 at Randolph, Virginia. iii. PRUDENCE (4838) was born in 1801 at Randolph, Virginia. She married John Curtis (4839) on May 15, 1817 at Lewis, Virginia. iv. CASANDRA ANN "CASSIE" (4836) was born in 1803. v. ISAAC (4835) was born circa 1815.

913. DEBORAH10 OSBORNE (4831) (George, #1826) was born in 1770. She was born in 1775 at Lost River, Hardy, West Virginia. She married John Cutright (4830) (see #912) on May 2, 1799 at Randolph, Virginia.

920. JOHN C. "THE INDIAN SCOUT"10 CUTRIGHT (2336) (Hendrick Kortregt, #1840) was born on Aug 8, 1749. He married Rebecca Rachel Truby (2337) (see #921), daughter of John Truby (2339) and Esther Westfall (2338), on Jan 2, 1788 at Randolph, Virginia. He died on Mar 8, 1852 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 102. He was buried after Mar 8, 1852 at Hampton Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. John Cutright joined the Pringle brothers in 1770 at the tree, and later served in the Revolutionary War in 1778-1779, and drew a pension from the War Department from 1831-1852. Children of John C. "The Indian Scout"10 Cutright (2336) and Rebecca Rachel Truby (2337) (see #921) were as follows: i. WILLIAM9 (2499). 460. ii. ISAAC (2498).

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iii. JACOB E. (2334) was born on Mar 1, 1788. He married Elizabeth Westfall (2335), daughter of Zackariah Westfall (2340) and Hannah Woolf (2341). He died on Oct 13, 1874 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 86. He was buried after Oct 13, 1874 at Hampton Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. iv. JOHN (3475) was born in 1796 at Virginia. He married Christina Weatherholt (3476), daughter of Peter Weatherholt (4855). He died in 1895. v. CHRISTOPHER TRUBY (28871) was born in 1810 at Buckhannon, Upshur, Virginia. He married Lucina Sinai "Sina" Pringle (28872), daughter of William Pringle (5972) and Elinor Nellie Rollins (5973).

921. REBECCA RACHEL10 TRUBY (2337) (John, #1842) was born in 1764 at Pennsylvania. She married John C. "The Indian Scout" Cutright (2336) (see #920), son of Hendrick Henry Kortregt (2533) and Elizabeth "Liddie" Hornbeck (2534), on Jan 2, 1788 at Randolph, Virginia. She died either Jan 1, 1858 or May, 1858.

928. NATHAN10 STANSBURY (25980) died after 1840 at Monongalia, Virginia. Children of Nathan10 Stansbury (25980) include: 464. i. FRANCIS "FRAN"9 (11210).

934. JOHN10 PRIDE (4960) married Ann (--?--) (4961) (see #935). Children of John10 Pride (4960) and Ann (--?--) (4961) (see #935) were: 467. i. SARAH "POLLY"9 (4946).

935. ANN10 (--?--) (4961) married John Pride (4960) (see #934).

938. JOHN10 DRAGOO (3080) married Ann Prickett (3081) (see #939). Children of John10 Dragoo (3080) and Ann Prickett (3081) (see #939) were: 469. i. NANCY9 (3079).

939. ANN10 PRICKETT (3081) married John Dragoo (3080) (see #938).

944. ZACKARIAH10 WESTFALL (2340) (Cornelius, #1888) married Hannah Woolf (2341) (see #945), daughter of Nicholas Woolf II (2348) and Christena (--?--) (2349). Children of Zackariah10 Westfall (2340) and Hannah Woolf (2341) (see #945) were as follows: i. ANDREW9 (4489) was born in 1789. ii. SUSANNA (4490) was born in 1790. iii. ELIZABETH (2335) was born in 1791. She married Jacob E. Cutright (2334), son of John C. "The Indian Scout" Cutright (2336) and Rebecca Rachel Truby (2337). She died on Oct 14, 1879. 472. iv. GEORGE (2199). v. NANCY (4492) was born in 1799. vi. HANNAH (4493) was born in 1800. vii. CLARK (4494) was born in 1801. viii. RUTH (4495) was born in 1805. ix. JOHN S. (4496) was born in 1808. x. OWEN (4497) was born in 1815 at Virginia. He married Arrena Forinash (30869) in 1839 at Lewis, Virginia. xi. SARAH (4488) was born in 1816.

945. HANNAH10 WOOLF (2341) (Nicholas, #1890) was born in 1770. She married Zackariah Westfall (2340) (see #944), son of Cornelius Westfall (2342) and Elizabeth Westfall (2343). She was also known as (2341) Hannah Wolfe.

946. ABRAHAM10 CUTRIGHT (7265) (John, #912) (see #456).

947. SARAH SUSANNAH10 BUSH (4843) (see #457).

952. JOHN C. "THE INDIAN SCOUT"10 CUTRIGHT (2336) (Hendrick Kortregt, #1840) was born on Aug 8, 1749. He married Rebecca Rachel Truby (2337) (see #921), daughter of John Truby (2339) and Esther Westfall (2338), on Jan 2, 1788 at Randolph, Virginia. He died on Mar 8, 1852 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 102. He was buried after Mar 8, 1852 at Hampton Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. John Cutright joined the Pringle brothers in 1770 at the tree, and later served in the Revolutionary War in 1778-1779, and drew a pension from the War Department from 1831-1852. Children of John C. "The Indian Scout"10 Cutright (2336) and Rebecca Rachel Truby (2337) (see #921) were as follows:

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i. WILLIAM9 (2499). 460. ii. ISAAC (2498). iii. JACOB E. (2334) was born on Mar 1, 1788. He married Elizabeth Westfall (2335), daughter of Zackariah Westfall (2340) and Hannah Woolf (2341). He died on Oct 13, 1874 at Upshur, West Virginia, at age 86. He was buried after Oct 13, 1874 at Hampton Cemetery, Upshur, West Virginia. iv. JOHN (3475) was born in 1796 at Virginia. He married Christina Weatherholt (3476), daughter of Peter Weatherholt (4855). He died in 1895. v. CHRISTOPHER TRUBY (28871) was born in 1810 at Buckhannon, Upshur, Virginia. He married Lucina Sinai "Sina" Pringle (28872), daughter of William Pringle (5972) and Elinor Nellie Rollins (5973).

953. REBECCA RACHEL10 TRUBY (2337) (John, #1842) was born in 1764 at Pennsylvania. She married John C. "The Indian Scout" Cutright (2336) (see #920), son of Hendrick Henry Kortregt (2533) and Elizabeth "Liddie" Hornbeck (2534), on Jan 2, 1788 at Randolph, Virginia. She died either Jan 1, 1858 or May, 1858.

960. JOB10 DANFORTH (2983) (Samuel, #1920) was born on Apr 10, 1745 at Taunton, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Coy (2984) (see #961) on Nov 5, 1769 at Providence, Rhode Island. Children of Job10 Danforth (2983) and Sarah Coy (2984) (see #961) were as follows: i. SAMUEL9 (2987) was born on Sep 7, 1770. ii. OZIAS (2988) was born on Oct 20, 1772. iii. JOB (2989) was born on Sep 9, 1774 at Providence, Rhode Island. iv. OLIVER C. (2990) was born on Sep 14, 1776. v. WILLIAM (2991) was born on Aug 26, 1777 at Providence, Rhode Island. vi. HORATIO (2992) was born on Apr 28, 1780. vii. SEVENTH SON (2993) was born on Jun 15, 1782. viii. CATHERINE (2994) was born on Apr 20, 1785. 480. ix. WALTER RALEIGH (2972).

961. SARAH10 COY (2984) was born on Aug 28, 1752 at Bristol, Rhode Island. She married Job Danforth (2983) (see #960), son of Samuel Danforth (2985) and Bethiah Crossman (2986), on Nov 5, 1769 at Providence, Rhode Island.

996. JOHN10 CUTLIP (2918) (George Cutlip (Ohio Pioneer), #1992) was born before 1765 at Augusta, Virginia. He married Sally James (2919) (see #997), daughter of David James (2920) and Jane (--?--) (2921), on Nov 8, 1791 at Married by Minister Salatha Weeks, Greenbrier, Virginia. He died between 1840 and 1845. Children of John10 Cutlip (2918) and Sally James (2919) (see #997) were as follows: 498. i. DAVID9 (2902). ii. ELIZABETH "BETSY" (2922) was born in 1795. She died after 1850 at Liberty Township, Jackson, Ohio. iii. JOHN (2923) was born in 1797 at Pocahontas, Virginia. He died on Oct 12, 1872 at Logan, Illinois. iv. MARTHA (2924) was born between 1800 and 1806 at Greenbrier, Virginia. She died after 1850 at Greenbrier, Virginia. v. ABRAHAM ALEXANDER (2925) was born in 1803 at Greenbrier, Virginia. He died between 1872 and 1880. vi. GEORGE W. (2926) was born in 1804 at Greenbrier, Virginia. He died after 1880 at Greenbrier, West Virginia.

997. SALLY10 JAMES (2919) (David, #1994) was born before 1775 at Greenbrier, Virginia. She married John Cutlip (2918) (see #996), son of George Cutlip (Ohio Pioneer) (2927), on Nov 8, 1791 at Married by Minister Salatha Weeks, Greenbrier, Virginia. She died after 1845.

Generation Eleven

1808. HANS GEORGE11 LANTZ (9122) was born circa 1700 at Speyer, Bavaria, Germany. He married Catherine (--?--) (9123) (see #1809). Hans George Lantz was born in the Palantine area of present day Germany about 1700. On October 29, 1739, the ship "Two Brothers" arrived in Philadelphia. This ship which had sailed from Rotterdam, Holland, to Leith, Scotland and then to America . The passengers were listed as being "Palatinates" indicating they came from the area known as the Palatinate, located in what is now the southwestern part of Germany. Hans George Lantz and his family came from about 15 miles south of Heidelberg near the city of Speyer which is now part of Bavaria. Hans George brought his wife Cathrine, and son Hans George ship. It was the custom of Germans to use the name "Hans" several times in naming sons. It was a term of endearment when used as a prefix to given names and follows the old German custom of then using the middle name as a call name. This is true in our family, for in

Page 23 John Jay Teets II, ([email protected]), (http://johnteets.com), Dec 21, 2011 documents the "Hans" is dropped and our immigrant ancestor became known as "George Lantz." The Lantz family settled in Germantown Pennsylvania where Hans George the second met Maria Margaretha Benderin. Children of Hans George11 Lantz (9122) and Catherine (--?--) (9123) (see #1809) were: 904. i. HANS GEORGE10 (3334).

1809. CATHERINE11 (--?--) (9123) married Hans George Lantz (9122) (see #1808).

1826. GEORGE11 OSBORNE (4833) was born in 1728 at Hanover Neck, Morris, New Jersey. He married Annatje Hannah Westfall (4834) (see #1827). Children of George11 Osborne (4833) and Annatje Hannah Westfall (4834) (see #1827) were: 913. i. DEBORAH10 (4831).

1827. ANNATJE HANNAH11 WESTFALL (4834) was born on Feb 2, 1729 at Kingston, Ulster, New York. She married George Osborne (4833) (see #1826).

1840. HENDRICK HENRY11 KORTREGT (2533) (Peiter, #3680) was born in Aug, 1717 at Harlem, New York, New York. He was christened on Sep 22, 1717 at Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, Ulster, New York. He married Elizabeth "Liddie" Hornbeck (2534) (see #1841), daughter of Johannes Hornbeck (29214) and Ordsrltjen Urseltje Westbroek (29215), on Dec 28, 1739 at Kingston, Ulster, New York. He died after 1757 at Moorefield, Hardy, Virginia. According to a statement by their son John on a military pension application, Henry and Liddie arrived in VA in 1760/61. Apparently the family used the name Cutright after arriving in VA. Children of Hendrick Henry11 Kortregt (2533) and Elizabeth "Liddie" Hornbeck (2534) (see #1841) were as follows: i. CHARITY10 (2497) was born circa 1741. She married Samuel Pringle (2494). She died in 1830. ii. HENRY H. (2538) was born circa 1745. iii. PETER (29216). iv. ABRAHAM (29217). 920. v. JOHN C. "THE INDIAN SCOUT" (2336). vi. BENJAMIN (2531) was born circa 1750 at Fairfax, Virginia. He married Mary Catherine Wolf (2600). He died in 1790.

1841. ELIZABETH "LIDDIE"11 HORNBECK (2534) (Johannes, #3682) was born on Dec 28, 1739. She married Hendrick Henry Kortregt (2533) (see #1840), son of Peiter Hendricksen Kortregt (29218) and Maritje Van Garden (29219), on Dec 28, 1739 at Kingston, Ulster, New York.

1842. JOHN11 TRUBY (2339) was born in Oct, 1742. He married Esther Westfall (2338) (see #1843). He died on Dec 2, 1800 at Randolph, Virginia, at age 58. Children of John11 Truby (2339) and Esther Westfall (2338) (see #1843) were: 921. i. REBECCA RACHEL10 (2337).

1843. ESTHER11 WESTFALL (2338) married John Truby (2339) (see #1842).

1888. CORNELIUS11 WESTFALL (2342) (Abel, #3776) was born on Oct 15, 1721 at New York. He married Elizabeth Westfall (2343) (see #1889), daughter of Jacob Westfall (2346) and Margrietje De Duyster (2347). He died in 1782 at Virginia. Children of Cornelius11 Westfall (2342) and Elizabeth Westfall (2343) (see #1889) were: 944. i. ZACKARIAH10 (2340).

1889. ELIZABETH11 WESTFALL (2343) (Jacob, #3778) was born on Jan 16, 1726 at New York. She married Cornelius Westfall (2342) (see #1888), son of Abel Westfall (2344) and Annetje "Anna" Bogart (2345).

1890. NICHOLAS11 WOOLF II (2348) (Nicholas, #3780) married Christena (--?--) (2349) (see #1891). He died in 1777 at Beverly, Virginia. Children of Nicholas11 Woolf II (2348) and Christena (--?--) (2349) (see #1891) were: 945. i. HANNAH10 (2341).

1891. CHRISTENA11 (--?--) (2349) married Nicholas Woolf II (2348) (see #1890), son of Nicholas Woolf I (2350).

1892. JOHN11 CUTRIGHT (4830) (see #912).

1893. DEBORAH11 OSBORNE (4831) (George, #1826) (see #913).

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1904. HENDRICK HENRY11 KORTREGT (2533) (Peiter, #3680) was born in Aug, 1717 at Harlem, New York, New York. He was christened on Sep 22, 1717 at Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, Ulster, New York. He married Elizabeth "Liddie" Hornbeck (2534) (see #1841), daughter of Johannes Hornbeck (29214) and Ordsrltjen Urseltje Westbroek (29215), on Dec 28, 1739 at Kingston, Ulster, New York. He died after 1757 at Moorefield, Hardy, Virginia. According to a statement by their son John on a military pension application, Henry and Liddie arrived in VA in 1760/61. Apparently the family used the name Cutright after arriving in VA. Children of Hendrick Henry11 Kortregt (2533) and Elizabeth "Liddie" Hornbeck (2534) (see #1841) were as follows: i. CHARITY10 (2497) was born circa 1741. She married Samuel Pringle (2494). She died in 1830. ii. HENRY H. (2538) was born circa 1745. iii. PETER (29216). iv. ABRAHAM (29217). 920. v. JOHN C. "THE INDIAN SCOUT" (2336). vi. BENJAMIN (2531) was born circa 1750 at Fairfax, Virginia. He married Mary Catherine Wolf (2600). He died in 1790.

1905. ELIZABETH "LIDDIE"11 HORNBECK (2534) (Johannes, #3682) was born on Dec 28, 1739. She married Hendrick Henry Kortregt (2533) (see #1840), son of Peiter Hendricksen Kortregt (29218) and Maritje Van Garden (29219), on Dec 28, 1739 at Kingston, Ulster, New York.

1906. JOHN11 TRUBY (2339) was born in Oct, 1742. He married Esther Westfall (2338) (see #1843). He died on Dec 2, 1800 at Randolph, Virginia, at age 58. Children of John11 Truby (2339) and Esther Westfall (2338) (see #1843) were: 921. i. REBECCA RACHEL10 (2337).

1907. ESTHER11 WESTFALL (2338) married John Truby (2339) (see #1842).

1920. SAMUEL11 DANFORTH (2985) (Samuel Danford, #3840) was born on Jan 4, 1696/97 at Taunton, Massachusetts. He was born on Jan 4, 1696/97 at Taunton, Massachusetts. He was baptized on Jan 10, 1696/97. He married Bethiah Crossman (2986) (see #1921) on Nov 24, 1730 at Taunton, Massachusetts. He died on Feb 18, 1755 at Taunton, Massachusetts, at age 58. More About SAMUEL DANFORTH:

Fact 2: Some time Town Treasurer

Occupation: Farmer and Clothier. Children of Samuel11 Danforth (2985) and Bethiah Crossman (2986) (see #1921) were as follows: i. SAMUEL10 (3004) was born on Sep 29, 1731 at Taunton, Massachusetts. ii. ABIGAIL (3005) was born on Feb 14, 1731/32 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. iii. (--?--) (3006) was born on Feb 14, 1731/32. iv. NATHANIEL (3007) was born on Sep 26, 1734. v. JOHN (3008) was born on Feb 11, 1735/36. vi. BETHIAH (3002) was born on Apr 29, 1740. vii. MOLLY (3003) was born on Dec 3, 1741. viii. OLIVER (3011) was born on Jul 6, 1743. 960. ix. JOB (2983). x. HANNAH (3012) was born on Mar 14, 1745/46. xi. ELKANAH (3013) was born on Aug 5, 1750.

1921. BETHIAH11 CROSSMAN (2986) was born circa 1709 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. She married Samuel Danforth (2985) (see #1920), son of Rev. Samuel Danford (2995) and Hannah Allen (2996), on Nov 24, 1730 at Taunton, Massachusetts. She died on Jul 11, 1787 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts.

1992. GEORGE11 CUTLIP (OHIO PIONEER) (2927) (George Cutlip, #3984) was born in 1739 at Germany. He married Susannah (--?--) (2928) between 1758 and 1764. He married Mary Mullenix (2929) on Nov 4, 1785 at Married byi John McCue, Greenbrier, Virginia. He died in Oct, 1812 at Pee Pee Township, Ross (Pike), Ohio. Children of George11 Cutlip (Ohio Pioneer) (2927) include: 996. i. JOHN10 (2918).

1994. DAVID11 JAMES (2920) married Jane (--?--) (2921) (see #1995). Children of David11 James (2920) and Jane (--?--) (2921) (see #1995) were: 997. i. SALLY10 (2919).

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1995. JANE11 (--?--) (2921) married David James (2920) (see #1994).

Generation Twelve

3680. PEITER HENDRICKSEN12 KORTREGT (29218) (Hendrick, #7360) was born on Nov 1, 1696 at Kingston, Ulster, New York. He married Maritje Van Garden (29219) (see #3681), daughter of Gysbert Albertsen Van Garden (29220) and Rachel Rosenkraus (29221), on Jan 9, 1716/17 at New York. He died in 1744 at Rochester, New York. Children of Peiter Hendricksen12 Kortregt (29218) and Maritje Van Garden (29219) (see #3681) were as follows: i. TJAETJEN11 (29224). ii. CATRINA (29222). iii. ABRAM PIETER (29223). iv. PETRUS (29225). v. ANNETJA (29226). 1840. vi. HENDRICK HENRY (2533).

3681. MARITJE12 VAN GARDEN (29219) (Gysbert, #7362) was born in 1695. She married Peiter Hendricksen Kortregt (29218) (see #3680), son of Hendrick Janson Kortregt (29227) and Catherine Hanson Weber (29228), on Jan 9, 1716/17 at New York. She died in 1734.

3682. JOHANNES12 HORNBECK (29214) married Ordsrltjen Urseltje Westbroek (29215) (see #3683). Children of Johannes12 Hornbeck (29214) and Ordsrltjen Urseltje Westbroek (29215) (see #3683) were: 1841. i. ELIZABETH "LIDDIE"11 (2534).

3683. ORDSRLTJEN URSELTJE12 WESTBROEK (29215) was born in 1722 at Kingston, Ulster, New York. She was christened on May 13, 1722 at Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, Ulster, New York. She married Johannes Hornbeck (29214) (see #3682). She died after 1757 at Moorefield, Hardy, West Virginia.

3776. ABEL12 WESTFALL (2344) was born on Apr 9, 1696. He married Annetje "Anna" Bogart (2345) (see #3777). Children of Abel12 Westfall (2344) and Annetje "Anna" Bogart (2345) (see #3777) were: 1888. i. CORNELIUS11 (2342).

3777. ANNETJE "ANNA"12 BOGART (2345) was born after May 9, 1697 at New York. She married Abel Westfall (2344) (see #3776).

3778. JACOB12 WESTFALL (2346) was born in 1693. He married Margrietje De Duyster (2347) (see #3779) in 1717. He died at New York. Children of Jacob12 Westfall (2346) and Margrietje De Duyster (2347) (see #3779) were: 1889. i. ELIZABETH11 (2343).

3779. MARGRIETJE12 DE DUYSTER (2347) married Jacob Westfall (2346) (see #3778) in 1717.

3780. NICHOLAS12 WOOLF I (2350) died in 1800. Children of Nicholas12 Woolf I (2350) include: 1890. i. NICHOLAS11 (2348).

3786. GEORGE12 OSBORNE (4833) (see #1826).

3787. ANNATJE HANNAH12 WESTFALL (4834) (see #1827).

3808. PEITER HENDRICKSEN12 KORTREGT (29218) (Hendrick, #7360) was born on Nov 1, 1696 at Kingston, Ulster, New York. He married Maritje Van Garden (29219) (see #3681), daughter of Gysbert Albertsen Van Garden (29220) and Rachel Rosenkraus (29221), on Jan 9, 1716/17 at New York. He died in 1744 at Rochester, New York. Children of Peiter Hendricksen12 Kortregt (29218) and Maritje Van Garden (29219) (see #3681) were as follows: i. TJAETJEN11 (29224). ii. CATRINA (29222). iii. ABRAM PIETER (29223). iv. PETRUS (29225). v. ANNETJA (29226).

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1840. vi. HENDRICK HENRY (2533).

3809. MARITJE12 VAN GARDEN (29219) (Gysbert, #7362) was born in 1695. She married Peiter Hendricksen Kortregt (29218) (see #3680), son of Hendrick Janson Kortregt (29227) and Catherine Hanson Weber (29228), on Jan 9, 1716/17 at New York. She died in 1734.

3810. JOHANNES12 HORNBECK (29214) married Ordsrltjen Urseltje Westbroek (29215) (see #3683). Children of Johannes12 Hornbeck (29214) and Ordsrltjen Urseltje Westbroek (29215) (see #3683) were: 1841. i. ELIZABETH "LIDDIE"11 (2534).

3811. ORDSRLTJEN URSELTJE12 WESTBROEK (29215) was born in 1722 at Kingston, Ulster, New York. She was christened on May 13, 1722 at Dutch Reformed Church, Kingston, Ulster, New York. She married Johannes Hornbeck (29214) (see #3682). She died after 1757 at Moorefield, Hardy, West Virginia.

3840. REV. SAMUEL12 DANFORD (2995) (Samuel Danforth, #7680) was born on Dec 10, 1666 at Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He was baptized on Dec 16, 1666. He married Hannah Allen (2996) (see #3841) on Oct 4, 1688 at Boston, Massachusetts. He died on Nov 14, 1727 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, at age 60. More About SAMUEL DANFORTH:

Title: Harvard College 1683

Fact 2: ordained 1687[Brøderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of Import: Apr 15, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.17.1.7976.11]

Individual: Danforth, Samuel (Rev) Birth date: Dec 10, 1666 Birth place: MA CD# 100.

Children of Rev. Samuel12 Danford (2995) and Hannah Allen (2996) (see #3841) were as follows: i. ELIZABETH11 (3014) was born on Jul 29, 1689. ii. SAMUEL (3016) was born on Jun 1, 1691. iii. MARY (3015) was born on Jun 1, 1691. iv. JAMES (3017) was born on Nov 11, 1692 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. v. SARAH (3018) was born on Nov 18, 1694. 1920. vi. SAMUEL (2985). vii. MARY (3020) was born on Dec 5, 1698 at Taunton, Massachusetts. viii. HANNAH (3021) was born on Dec 2, 1700. ix. THOMAS (3022) was born on May 22, 1703. x. JOHN (3023) was born on Feb 21, 1704/5. xi. MARTHA (3024) was born on Sep 2, 1707. xii. BETHIA (3025) was born on Aug 16, 1709 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. xiii. RACHEL (3026) was born on Aug 7, 1711. xiv. KATHERINE (3027) was born on May 31, 1714. xv. NATHANIEL (3028) was born on May 31, 1714 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. xvi. SAMUEL (2997) was born on Aug 29, 1731 at Taunton, Massachusetts. xvii. ABIGAIL (2998) was born on Feb 14, 1731/32 at Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. xviii. (--?--) (2999) was born on Feb 14, 1731/32. xix. NATHANIEL (3000) was born on Sep 26, 1734. xx. JOHN (3001) was born on Feb 11, 1735/36.

3841. HANNAH12 ALLEN (2996) was born on Jul 22, 1669 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married Rev. Samuel Danford (2995) (see #3840), son of Rev. Samuel Danforth (3029) and Mary Wilson (3030), on Oct 4, 1688 at Boston, Massachusetts.

3984. GEORGE (GOTLIEB-GOTLIP)12 CUTLIP (2940) was born in 1711 at Saxe-Gotha?, Germany or Switzerland. He married Christina (--?--) (2941) (see #3985) before 1738 at in the old country. He married American Wife (--?--) (2942) circa 1755 at Pennsylvania. He died before 1780 at Augusta, Virginia. Children of George (Gotlieb-Gotlip)12 Cutlip (2940) and Christina (--?--) (2941) (see #3985) were: 1992. i. GEORGE11 (2927).

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3985. CHRISTINA12 (--?--) (2941) was born after 1711 at Germany or Switzerland. She married George (Gotlieb-Gotlip) Cutlip (2940) (see #3984) before 1738 at in the old country. She died circa 1755 at Pennsylvania.

Generation Thirteen

7360. HENDRICK JANSON13 KORTREGT (29227) (Jan Kortryk, #14720) was born in 1648 at Kortryk, Belgium. He married Catherine Hanson Weber (29228) (see #7361). He died in 1741 at Minisink Settlement, New York. Children of Hendrick Janson13 Kortregt (29227) and Catherine Hanson Weber (29228) (see #7361) were as follows: i. GEERTIE HENDRICKS12 (29233). ii. JAN HENRICKSEN (29229). iii. ANNATJE HENDRICKS (29230). iv. HENDRICK HENDRICKS (29231). v. CORNELIUS HENDRICKSEN (29232). vi. CATHRYN HENDRICKS (29238). vii. ARIE HENDRICKSEN (29234). viii. LAURENS HENDRICKSEN (29235). ix. JACOB HENDRICKSEN (29236). x. JANNETJE HENDRICKS (29237). 3680. xi. PEITER HENDRICKSEN (29218).

7361. CATHERINE HANSON13 WEBER (29228) was born in 1650 at Harlem, New York, New York. She married Hendrick Janson Kortregt (29227) (see #7360), son of Jan Basiensen Kortryk (29239) and Annetje Cornellis (29240). She died in 1740 at Minisink Settlement, New York.

7362. GYSBERT ALBERTSEN13 VAN GARDEN (29220) married Rachel Rosenkraus (29221) (see #7363). Children of Gysbert Albertsen13 Van Garden (29220) and Rachel Rosenkraus (29221) (see #7363) were: 3681. i. MARITJE12 (29219).

7363. RACHEL13 ROSENKRAUS (29221) married Gysbert Albertsen Van Garden (29220) (see #7362).

7616. HENDRICK JANSON13 KORTREGT (29227) (Jan Kortryk, #14720) was born in 1648 at Kortryk, Belgium. He married Catherine Hanson Weber (29228) (see #7361). He died in 1741 at Minisink Settlement, New York. Children of Hendrick Janson13 Kortregt (29227) and Catherine Hanson Weber (29228) (see #7361) were as follows: i. GEERTIE HENDRICKS12 (29233). ii. JAN HENRICKSEN (29229). iii. ANNATJE HENDRICKS (29230). iv. HENDRICK HENDRICKS (29231). v. CORNELIUS HENDRICKSEN (29232). vi. CATHRYN HENDRICKS (29238). vii. ARIE HENDRICKSEN (29234). viii. LAURENS HENDRICKSEN (29235). ix. JACOB HENDRICKSEN (29236). x. JANNETJE HENDRICKS (29237). 3680. xi. PEITER HENDRICKSEN (29218).

7617. CATHERINE HANSON13 WEBER (29228) was born in 1650 at Harlem, New York, New York. She married Hendrick Janson Kortregt (29227) (see #7360), son of Jan Basiensen Kortryk (29239) and Annetje Cornellis (29240). She died in 1740 at Minisink Settlement, New York.

7618. GYSBERT ALBERTSEN13 VAN GARDEN (29220) married Rachel Rosenkraus (29221) (see #7363). Children of Gysbert Albertsen13 Van Garden (29220) and Rachel Rosenkraus (29221) (see #7363) were: 3681. i. MARITJE12 (29219).

7619. RACHEL13 ROSENKRAUS (29221) married Gysbert Albertsen Van Garden (29220) (see #7362).

7680. REV. SAMUEL13 DANFORTH (3029) (Nicholas, #15360) was born on Sep 17, 1626 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He was baptized on Oct 16, 1626 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He married Mary Wilson (3030) (see #7681) on Nov 5,

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1651 at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He died on Nov 19, 1674 at Billerica, Middlesex (Roxbury), Massachusetts, at age 48. He was buried after Nov 19, 1674 at Governor Dudley's Tomb, Roxbury, Massachusetts. American Biographical Library - (9). Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1996.

Danforth, Samuel, clergyman, was born in Framlingham, Suffolk, England, in September, 1626; son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Danforth. He was brought to America in 1634, was graduated from Harvard in 1643 and remained there as tutor until 1649, and as fellow of the college until 1654. On Sept. 24, 1650, he was ordained colleague of John Eliot, "The Apostle to the Indians," at the First church in Roxbury and remained there until his death. He was married Nov. 5, 1651, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Wilson of Boston. Many of his sermons were published, several almanacs, and An Astronomical Description of the Late Comet or Blazing Star, as it appeared in New England in the 9th, 10th, 11th and in the beginning of the 12th month, 1664, together with a brief Theological Application thereof (1665). He died in Roxbury, Mass., Nov. 19, 1674.

American Biographical Library The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Volume 3 D

Title: Harvard College 1643 1647, Freeman Sep 24, 1650, Ordained as colleague with Rev. John Elliot of Roxbury Burial: Governor Dudley's Tomb, Roxbury, Massachusetts Samuel, Rev., bapt. October 17, 1626, came with his father in 1634 to Cambridge and graduated with the second class from Harvard in 1643; on the first Board of Fellows in 1650. He married Mary Wilson, November 5, 1651, daughter of Rev. John Wilson, Boston's first pastor, and was the progenitor of illustrious descendants. From 1650 to 1674, Rev. Danforth was the ordained pastor of Roxbury Church where the Rev. John Eliot was the teacher. In 1651, the town record states, the inhabitants of Roxbury raised œ50 for a house for their pastor. The homes of the apostle Eliot and the venerable Danforth were situated on either side of the Greyhound Tavern. Mr. Danforth's sermons were usually "enriched with 40 to 50 passages of scriptures and his emotional sermons are said to have brought frequent tears to the eyes of listeners." In addition to his fame as a preacher, he was a noted scholar, poet, astronomer, and skilled mathematician and theologian. He purchased the estate of Samuel Hagborne and in 1657 purchased Captain Joseph Weld's house where he lived until his death in Roxbury, November 19, 1674. His widow married Joseph Roche of Boston and died September 13, 1713, at 80.

* A Letter Out of Grief by Samuel Danforth [In 1659 an unknown disease, perhaps pertussis, swept through several towns in New England. Samuel Danforth, minister at Roxbury, lost all three of his children to the epidemic. Some time later he was asked by friends to put on paper some of the words he spoke at their funeral. This is the letter he wrote in reply.] My Friends: If any that see my grief should say to me, as the Danites to Micah, 'What is wrong with you?' I thank God I cannot answer as he did, 'They have taken away my gods.' My heart was indeed somewhat set upon my children, especially the eldest; but they were not my gods and not my portion; my portion is whole and untouched to this day. It has been my design and work to understand for myself, and to communicate to my hearers the spiritual meaning, extent and nature of gospel obedience. I have employed much reading and study to expound what faith, hope, love, patience, etc., the glorious wisdom, power and mercy of God oblige us to render to him. What I have endeavoured to set forth before you, God will now test. Both God and you will see whether they were mere notions and speculations, or whether I believed as I spoke, and whether there is any divine spark in my heart. I remember him that said to Abraham, 'By this I know that you fear me, that you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.' It is the pleasure of God that (besides all that may be gained by reading, and studying, and preaching) I should learn and teach obedience by the things that I suffer. The holy fire is not to be fetched for you, out of such a flint as I am, without smiting. Not long before these strokes descended upon us, it pleased God marvellously to quicken our hearts (both mine and my wife's) and to stir up in us most earnest desires after himself. Now that he has taken our children, we pray that he will he draw us into freer and fuller communion with himself, blessed be his holy name! I trust the Lord has done what he has done in wisdom, and faithfulness, and dear love. I trust that in taking these pleasant things from me, he exercises and expresses the same tender affection to me, as I now express towards my children in mourning for the loss of them. I desire, with Ephraim,'to bemoan myself,' etc. Jer. 31:18, 19. O that I might hear the Lord answering me as he did ver. 20! ['I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.'] It is right to say to God, 'We have endured chastisement, we will not offend; what we see not, teach us; and if we have done iniquity, we will do so no more.' Though we cannot reproach ourselves with any known way of disobedience, we

Page 29 John Jay Teets II, ([email protected]), (http://johnteets.com), Dec 21, 2011 know there is enough in us to justify his repeated strokes. God knows much more. My desire is that no one may be overly dismayed at what has happened to us; and let no man by any means be offended. Who may say to the Lord, 'What are you doing?' I can say from my heart, though what is come upon us is very dreadful and amazing, nevertheless I consent unto the will of God that it is good. Does not the goldsmith cast his metal into the furnace? And you husbandmen, do you not cause the flail to pass over your grain, not that you hate your wheat, but because you desire pure bread? Had our children been insolent when we corrected them, we could not have borne it; but, poor hearts, they honoured us; how much rather should we be subject to the Father of spirits, and live! You know that, nine years ago, I was in a desolate condition -without father, without mother, without wife, without children: but what a father, and mother, and wife have been bestowed upon me, and are still continued, though my children are taken away. And, above all, although I cannot deny but that it pierces my very heart to call to remembrance the voice of my dear children, calling 'father, father!' a voice now not heard: yet I bless God it does far more abundantly refresh me and cause me to rejoice to hear the Lord continually calling to me, 'My son, my son! My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest His correction; for whom the Lord loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights.' And blessed be God that does not ignore the anguish of the afflicted, nor hide his face from him. It was the consideration that God had sanctified and glorified himself, by striking an holy awe and dread of his majesty into the hearts of his people, that made Aaron hold his peace: and if the Lord will glorify himself by my family, by these awful strokes upon me, quickening parents unto their duty, and awakening their children to seek after the Lord, I shall desire to be content, though my name be cut off. I beseech you be earnest with the Lord for us, that he would keep us from sinning against him; and that he would teach us to sanctify his name. Although our dear branches have left us, yet that he that has promised to be with his children in six troubles and in seven will not forsake us. My heart truly would be consumed, and would even die within me, except that the good will of him that dwelt in the burning bush, and his good word of promise, are my trust and stay.

Samuel is listed in the Roxbury town records: ** page 35: "Nov in the yeare 1663 in a publike Town meeting it being voted it was unanimously agreed by all Inhabitants that they would allow to Mr. John Eliot and Mr.Samuel Danforth for thare labour in the miniesty for the halfe yeare last past the sume of sixty pwnds" [quoted as is ] ----- ** January 19,1662: " the same day it was voted that twenty accers of the comon land should be given for euer for the use of the minestry that is to say the use of wood and timber for thare one priuat use not for the ministers to sell or give any The landto remaine to the townes use this twenty accres tenn of it to be meshured for Mr. John Eliots during his life time also the other tennaccres to be meshured for Mr. Samuell Danforth his use after eaither of thare deseasethe land wood timber that the party deseased did inioy is now left for the futer that may succed his place" [quoted as is] ----- ** Page 47 : The Highways : 17 March 1663 --"18th A highway from Mr. Adams and so downe to the mill & from thence to the meadow that was John Johnsons, as allso out of the way to Thomas Bakers with a highway leading betwenne the land of the heires of Samuel Hagborne and Mr Samuell Danfoorth to the Grauity poynt & all those marshes there abouts be at least twenty foote wide through out.".. [note: "grauity poynt"could be Gravelly Point] ------**209: 4 March 1694/5 Highway "the same day it was by a vote signified to be the mindes of the inhabitants that the lane which goeth out of the highway to the tide mill and leadth down towards Gravelly Poynt between the land of the heires of Mr. Samuel Danforth and the heires and assignes of Mr. Hacburn commonly called Mr. Hacburn's neck should be layedopen from the s-d high way to the tide mill to the further or northermost end of the land belonging to the heires of s-d Samuel Danforth; as also from Mr.Adamshis corner to the s-d lane as it is enered in the town booke."

He was ordained on Sep 24, 1650. Children of Rev. Samuel13 Danforth (3029) and Mary Wilson (3030) (see #7681) were as follows: i. WILLIAM12 (3031) was born in 1651 at Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. ii. SAMUEL (3032) was born on Jan 14, 1652/53 at 9PM, Boston, Massachusetts. iii. MARY (3033) was born on May 24, 1654. iv. ELIZABETH (3034) was born in Jul, 1656. v. SARAH (3035) was born on Oct 30, 1658. vi. JOHN (3036) was born on Nov 8, 1660 at Roxbury, Massachusetts. vii. MARY (3037) was born on Mar 13, 1662/63 at Roxbury, Massachusetts. viii. ELIZABETH (3038) was born on Feb 9, 1664/65. 3840. ix. SAMUEL (2995). x. SARAH (3039) was born on Feb 21, 1669/70. xi. THOMAS (3040) was born on Apr 3, 1672. xii. ELIZABETH (3041) was born on Oct 16, 1673. xiii. ABIEL (3042) was born on Jan 31, 1674/75 at Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

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7681. MARY13 WILSON (3030) was born on Sep 12, 1633 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married Rev. Samuel Danforth (3029) (see #7680), son of Rev. Nicholas Danforth (3056) and Elizabeth Symmes (3044), on Nov 5, 1651 at Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Generation Fourteen

14720. JAN BASIENSEN14 KORTRYK (29239) (Sabastian Van Kortryk, #29440) was born in 1618 at Leerdam, Holland. He married Annetje Cornellis (29240) (see #14721). Children of Jan Basiensen14 Kortryk (29239) and Annetje Cornellis (29240) (see #14721) were as follows: i. MARIA13 (29243). ii. LAURENS JANSEN (29241). iii. CORNELIUS JANSEN (29242). 7360. iv. HENDRICK JANSON (29227).

14721. ANNETJE14 CORNELLIS (29240) married Jan Basiensen Kortryk (29239) (see #14720), son of Sabastian Van Kortryk (29244).

15232. JAN BASIENSEN14 KORTRYK (29239) (Sabastian Van Kortryk, #29440) was born in 1618 at Leerdam, Holland. He married Annetje Cornellis (29240) (see #14721). Children of Jan Basiensen14 Kortryk (29239) and Annetje Cornellis (29240) (see #14721) were as follows: i. MARIA13 (29243). ii. LAURENS JANSEN (29241). iii. CORNELIUS JANSEN (29242). 7360. iv. HENDRICK JANSON (29227).

15233. ANNETJE14 CORNELLIS (29240) married Jan Basiensen Kortryk (29239) (see #14720), son of Sabastian Van Kortryk (29244).

15360. REV. NICHOLAS14 DANFORTH (3056) (Thomas, #30720) was born in 1586. He was born on Mar 1, 1588/89 at New Street Farm, Framllingham, England. He was baptized on Mar 1, 1588/89. He married Elizabeth Symmes (3044) (see #15361) on Feb 11, 1617/18 at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He died on Apr 8, 1638 at Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. RES. GROTON MA 1634-DEATH Nicholas Danforth was the son of Thomas Danforth (? - April 20, 1620), grandson of Nicholas Danforth (? - November 12, 1585), and the fifth generation of William Danforth, all of whom were born, died, and were buried in Framlingham, Suffolk, England. He also was born in Framlingham in 1589, was baptized there on March 1, 1589 and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in April 1638. He married Elizabeth (Symmes?), who died February 22, 1628, and was buried in Framlingham. Cotton Mather in his Memorablia,II 59, describes him as "a gentleman of such estate and repute in the world that it cost him a considerable sum to escape the knight-hood which King Charles I imposed on all of so much per annum; and of such a figure and esteem in the church that he procured that famous lecture at Framlingham, where he had a fine manour; which lecture was kept by Mr. Burroughs and other noted ministers in their turn; to whom especially he proved a Gaius, and especially when the Laudian fury scotched them." In Framlingham the parish register and records indicate that Nicholas was one of its leading citizens and that he became a church warden in 1622. This was a most important position as these wardens made the assessments on all properties of the townspeople, collected the taxes, and performed many other secular duties now carried out by local governmental bodies. He also was a member of the "Court Baron of Burrough Lect Jury," according to the records for the year 1629. In 1937, Dr. Edward P. Danforth, of White Plains, New York, while doing postgraduate work in England spent a weekend at the old Danforth home-site, being received by the townspeople with great interest and a warm reception. He reports: "The old Danforth manor house, with a now dry moat around it, still stands, and was, at that time, being occupied by a retired brewer and his family. He was a bit of a country gentleman farmer with several tenant farm houses on the estate..." In the summer of 1969, Mr. Charles Danforth Saggus, of Augusta, Georgia, made a two day visit to Framlingham, conferred with the present Rector of Saint Michael's Church and called on Miss Hilda Fulcher, who owns the old sixteenth century New Street Farm, which he was told had been the former property of Nicholas Danforth. Apparently this farm was one of the "tenements" of "closes," of which Nicholas owned several. In 1634, when 45 years of age, Nicholas Danforth left Framlingham, England, and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts on the good ship Griffin, accompanied by his three sons, Thomas, Samuel, and Jonathan and his three daughters, Anna, Lydia, and Elizabeth, all of whom had been born and baptized in Framlingham. His reasons for leaving England are not known but it is surmised that he was influenced by the death of his wife five years before; the desire to escape the knighthood offered by King

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Charles !; and because, he being a Puritan, the heat was on him and those other non-conformists, who could not stomach the manner in which the church was being administered by the powerful bishops, supported by the Popish kings. Nicholas Danforth left Boston soon after his arrival and took up residence at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where at once he became prominent in the affairs of the community. He is mentioned in the town records of 1635 as a proprietor and freeman (meaning eligible for Colonial office and to vote on matters of general government). The same and the following year he purchased several parcels of land. He made his house on what is now Bow Street, near Mount Auburn Street. "He was chosen a deputy or representative of the General Court in 1635." On March 3, 1635-36 he was with others deputed to set out the bounds of the newe plantacon above Charles Ryver (Concord). The Committe made its report April 13, 1636. In September following he was appointed to a similar duty to measure and sett the boundaries of Roxbury and to sett those between Dedham and Dorchester. When the important committee to take order for a college at Newtown, November 20, 1637, Mr. Danforth was one of those selected. Another land boundary was submitted to him with associates, 6 (1) 1637-38. He was also one of eleven men (one to a town_ whom the Court, by its vote of March 12, 1637-38, allowed to sell wine and strong water----. No one else to sell by retail without liscence from the council, so great was pressure to provide places where these articles could be bought and so many the abuses of the retail traffic, that they sought to place the traffic in the hands of their first citizens." The Society of Colonial Wars in its publication (New York 1898) lists Nicholas Danforth (1585-1638) as a captain in the Pequot War of 1637. The disposition of Nicholas Danforth's property is not clearly revealed by the records but minutes of the proprietors and the recorded wills of his sons indicate that his children were the principal heirs. Nicholas was the first Danforth to come to America. He emmigrated in February 1635/36 (or 1631) on the "Griffin" Deputy to the General Court, 1636 - 1637.. NICHOLAS DANFORTH of Framlingham, Suffolk, England, was a man of position, with influence in civil and church affairs. Though a Puritan with religious convictions, there is nothing on record to indicate that he was persecuted because of them. He was a church warden and a generous tither. Cotton Mather said of him, "He was a gentleman of such estate and repute in the world, that it cost him a considerable sum to escape the knighthood which King Charles I imposed on all of so much per annum". He was the founder of the Framlingham Lecture in Suffolk "where he had a fine mannour". The wife of Nicholas is believed to have been Elizabeth, daughter of William Symmes, a minister of Canterbury, and sister of Rev. Zachariah Symmes, the long-time minister of Charlestown, Ma. Together on the Griffin in 1634 coming to New England were Rev. Symmes, his wife and six children; Rev. John Lothrop and family, later minister at Scituate; and William and Anne Hutchinson and their family. Nicholas, now nearly fifty years of age, may have been influenced by them to leave his comfortable home in East Anglia where his wife Elizabeth had recently died, in 1629, and join them on the Griffin, bringing with him his six young children. The Griffin was a ship of some 300 tons carrying "about 100 passengers and cattle for the plantations", arriving in Boston September 18, 1634. Although not sworn a freeman until March 3, 1636, Mr. Danforth was chosen a "townsman" (selectman) of New- Towne and re-elected in 1636 and 1637, serving until his death in April, 1638. In December, 1635, he and two others were appointed to build a bridge or causeway at the southerly end of present Dunster street "down to the low water mark" to accommodate the patrons of the ferry, and to set up a broad ladder on the farther side of the river for convenience in landing. He often served as surveyor for the town and colony, helping to "sett out the bounds" of Concord, of Roxbury in 1636, and in 1637 to establish the boundary between Dedham and Dorchester. He resided on what is now Bow street near Mount Auburn street, New Towne, and served as a deputy to the General Court, attending five sessions in 1636 and 1637. These sessions gave the town its present name of Cambridge and made the first recorded appropriation for public education in New England, œ400 for the establishment of Harvard College. He was selected as one of eleven men given the responsibility of selling at retail "strong water", an early effort to place the sale of liquor in the hands of leading citizens. Historians have been generous in their praise of Nicholas Danforth and his noted sons. One wrote, "He was the progenitor of a family in New England ...... more than ordinarily distinguished in their day and generation, and whose name, honorable alike in Church and State (has been) the ornament and the oracle of each of the learned Professions in turn." Another called him the "founder of a veritable dynasty."

After sailing to America in 1635/36 aboard thE Griffin, he settled in Framlingham Massachusetts. Before his death he served as representative to the General Assembly from 1636-7.

Nicholas Danforth was a beneficiary by the will of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Sudbury, in 1606. He was the executor of his father's will, church warden of St. Michael's at Framlingham in 1622 and on a "Borough Leet Jury" in 1629. His position as church warden proves that in 1622 he was a member in good standing in the Established English Church. It is said that King CHarles I wanted to impose knighthood on Nicholas because his annual income was so high. No information is available about the date of his emigration nor of the ship he sailed on. Because he paid an English tax late in 1634 and his earliest recorded appearance in New England was October 1635, it is probably more accurate that he emigrated in 1635. On 6 March 1637/8 he was ordered to survey land and on 12 March he was appointed to supply the demand for strong drink in Cambridge. However, at their meeting on 2 May, less than two months, later, reference was made to his death, and the court appointed a successor to complete the survey earlier required of him. The Boston records say he died in April 1638 and the Cambridge records agree, so he may even have died in Boston while attending a session of the court. No will has been found for him nor has a distribution of his estate been found.

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[Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines compiled by Mary Walton Ferris] More About NICHOLAS DANFORTH: Title: Representative to General Assembly 1636-37 Fact 2: Emmigrated February, 1635/36 on the "Griffin"

The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to be made free.

I, A B, etc., being, by the Almighty's most wise disposition, become a member of this body, consisting of the Governor, Deputy Governor, Assistants and a commonalty of the Mattachusets in New England, do freely and sincerely acknowledge that I am justly and lawfully subject to the government of the same, and do accordingly submit my person and estate to be protected, ordered, and governed by the laws and constitutions thereof, and do faithfully promise to be from time to time obedient and conformable thereunto, and to the authority of the said Governor and Assistants and their successors, and to all such laws, orders, sentences, and decrees as shall be lawfully made and published by them or their successors; and I will always endeavor (as in duty I am bound) to advance the peace and welfare of this body or commonwealth to my utmost skill and ability; and I will, to my best power and means, seek to divert and prevent whatsoever may tend to the ruin or damage thereof, or of any the said Governor, Deputy Governor, or Assistants, or any of them or their successors, and will give speedy notice to them, or some of them, of any sedition, violence, treachery, or other hurt or evil which I shall know, hear, or vehemently suspect to be plotted or intended against the said commonwealth, or the said government established; and I will not at any time suffer or give consent to any counsel or attempt that shall be done, given, or attempted for the impeachment of the said government, or making any change alteration of the same, contrary to the laws and ordinances thereof, but shall do my utmost endeavor to discover, oppose, and hinder all and every such counsel and attempt. So help me God.

Freemen made at the General Court, March 3, 1635/1636 Mr. Nicholas Danforth.

Children of Rev. Nicholas14 Danforth (3056) and Elizabeth Symmes (3044) (see #15361) were as follows: i. MARTHA13 (3047). ii. ELIZABETH (3048) was born on Aug 3, 1619 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. iii. MARY "MARIE" (3049) was born on May 3, 1621 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. iv. ANNA (3050) was born on Sep 3, 1622 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. v. THOMAS (3051) was born on Nov 20, 1623 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. vi. LYDIA (3052) was born on May 24, 1625 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. 7680. vii. SAMUEL (3029). viii. JONATHAN (3053) was born on Feb 29, 1627/28 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England.

15361. ELIZABETH14 SYMMES (3044) was born in May, 1603 at Cambridge, Middlesex, England. She married Rev. Nicholas Danforth (3056) (see #15360), son of Thomas Danforth (3045) and Jane Sudbury (3046), on Feb 11, 1617/18 at Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Generation Fifteen

29440. SABASTIAN15 VAN KORTRYK (29244). The family is from Kortryk, Belgium (near Waterloo). Children of Sabastian15 Van Kortryk (29244) include: 14720. i. JAN BASIENSEN14 (29239).

30464. SABASTIAN15 VAN KORTRYK (29244). The family is from Kortryk, Belgium (near Waterloo). Children of Sabastian15 Van Kortryk (29244) include: 14720. i. JAN BASIENSEN14 (29239).

30720. THOMAS15 DANFORTH (3045) (Nicholas, #61440) was born circa 1560 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He married Jane Sudbury (3046) (see #30721) on Jan 24, 1584/85 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He died on Apr 20, 1621 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He was buried after Apr 20, 1621 at St. Michaels, Framllingham, Suffolk, England. Notes Re- Suffolk- Original Wills #67 "Thomas Danforth of Framlingham at Castrum, Yeoman, Apr 20 1621. Proved Sept. 7, 1621. To my son Robert, my best bible and the desk that it lyeth on. Daughter Mary, Daughter Jane, Land and two little houses called Bugles I bought of Uncle Robert Danforth, Deceased. Son Nicholas to be executor. John Powesse of Framlingham and Roger Smaleet of Ike to be supervisors."

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[Brøderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of Import: Jun 12, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.17.1.7976.23]

Individual: Danforth, Thomas Birth date: Abt. 1560 Birth place: ENG CD# 100.

Children of Thomas15 Danforth (3045) and Jane Sudbury (3046) (see #30721) were as follows: 15360. i. NICHOLAS14 (3056). ii. ROBERT (3057) was born on Nov 16, 1592 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He was born on Nov 11, 1593 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. iii. MARY JANE (3058) was born in 1595 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. iv. ANNA (3059) was born in 1599 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. v. JANE (3060) was born on Feb 22, 1600/1 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England.

30721. JANE15 SUDBURY (3046) was born circa 1563 at Kellashall, Herts, England. She married Thomas Danforth (3045) (see #30720), son of Nicholas Danforth (3054) and Alice Jordan (3055), on Jan 24, 1584/85 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England.

Generation Sixteen

61440. NICHOLAS16 DANFORTH (3054) (Paul, #122880) was born in 1530 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He married Alice Jordan (3055) (see #61441). He died in 1583 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. Ipswich Wills, Archives, Suffolk Book 30, Folio 606 "I Nicholas Derneford of Framlingham. To Alice, my wife, the half profits of my houses and grounds at Castell, except Baldings Close and the house there. Also one piece of free ground in Ufford. Son, Thomas, to have the lease of Baldings Close. Daughters, Anne,Margaret,Elizabeth, Olive Smalledge. Son in law William Smallage. To Anne Derneford daughter of my brother Robert 6s.8d. To Anne daughter of my brother Richard, 5s. Son Thomas to be executor. Brother Robert and Brother in law William Jordan, Supervisors. Witness- Thomas Riches and Anne Williams Proved 17 Feb 1585/1586

Nov. 1530 Death of Cardinal Wolsey Nov 4, 1530 Thomas Wolsey is arrested for high treason. Nov 29, 1530 Thomas Wolsey dies at Leicester while enroute to London to be executed. Feb. 11, 1531 Parliament makes Henry VIII Supreme Head of the Church in England Jul. 14, 1531 Henry separates from Katherine and banishes her from court May 16, 1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor. Sep. 1, 1532 Anne Boleyn created Marquis of Pembroke Nov 15, 1532 Pope Clement VII threatens Henry VIII with excommunication if he does not leave Anne Boleyn

Queen Anne Boleyn

Jan 25, 1533 S ecret marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Mar 30, 1533 Thomas Cranmer is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. May 23, 1533 Archbishop Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon to be invalid Jun 1, 1533 Coronation of Anne Boleyn Jun 24, 1533 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, born. Jun 25, 1533 Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII, dies at Westhorpe, Suffolk. Jul 11, 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII. Sep. 7, 1533 Birth of Princess Elizabeth Mar 8, 1534 Henry Brandon, Earl of Lincoln, son of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, dies. Mar 23, 1534 Parliament passes Act of Succession. Only children of King's marriage to Anne Boleyn are his lawful heirs Mar 23, 1534 Pope pronounces Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon valid Apr 20, 1534 Elizabeth Barton, known as the "Nun of Kent" is executed for high treason at Tyburn. May 11, 1534 Henry VIII makes peace with James V of Scotland. Jul. 1534 Birth of Stillborn child to Anne Boleyn Sep 25, 1534 Pope Clement VII dies.

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Jan 15, 1535 Henry VIII assumes the title "Supreme Head of the Church." Jun 22, 1535 Execution of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester Jun 1535 Birth of stillborn child Jul. 6, 1535 Execution of Sir Thomas More Sep 10, 1535 Henry VIII visits Sir John Seymour at Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wiltshire. He meets his daughter, Jane Seymour for the first time. Nov. 1535 Henry VIII begins courting Jane Seymour Jan 7, 1536 Death of Katherine of Aragon Jan 29, 1536 Anne Boleyn gave birth to a stillborn son Jan 29, 1536 Katherine of Aragon buried at Petersborough Abbey Apr 30, 1536 Mark Smeaton, musician to Anne Boleyn, is arrested for suspicious criminal intercourse with Anne Boleyn.. May 1, 1536 Anne Boleyn arrested and taken to the Tower of London May 1, 1536 Sir Henry Norris arrested for alleged affair with Anne Boleyn. May 2, 1536 George Boleyn arrested for high treason. May 4, 1536 Sir Francis Weston and Sir William Brereton arrested for high treason. May 5, 1536 English poet Sir Thomas Wyatt and SirRichard Page arrested for high treason. May 15, 1536 Trial of Anne Boleyn May 17, 1536 Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris, Francis Weston, William Brereton and George Boleyn executed May 19, 1536 Execution of Anne Boleyn May 20, 1536 Henry VIII betrothed to Jane Seymour Queen Jane Seymour May 30, 1536 Henry VIII and Jane Seymour married Jun 4, 1536 Jane Seymour officially proclaimed Queen of England by Parliament. Jun 1536 Parliament passes Act of Succession. Only children of King's marriage to Jane Seymour are his lawful heirs Jul 6, 1536 Henry VIII meets with his daughter Mary at Hackney for the first time since his divorce from Catherine of Aragon at the instigation of Jane Seymour. Jul 8, 1536 Lady Margaret Douglas, niece of Henry VIII, is arrested and sent to the Tower after her betrothal to Thomas Howard without permission. Jul 22, 1536 Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of Henry VIII, dies of tuberculosis. Oct 9, 1536 The Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular rising in the north country against the dissolution of monasteries and religious innovations, begins under Robert Aske at Doncaster. Dec 21, 1536 Sir John Seymour, father of Jane, died at Wolf Hall. Jul 12, 1537 English rebel Robert Aske is executed. Oct 15, 1537 Prince Edward christened at Hampton Court. Oct. 12, 1537 Birth of Prince Edward OCt. 24, 1537 Death of Jane Seymour MAY 12, 1537 Jane Seymour buried at Garter Chapel at Windsor. Apr 3, 1538 Lady Elizabeth Howard Boleyn, mother of Anne Boleyn, dies at Reading’s Place besides Baynard’s Castle in London. Feb 6, 1539 Duke John III of Cleves, father of Anne, dies. Mar 13, 1539 Sir Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne, dies. Sep. 4, 1539 Henry VIII betrothed to Anne of Cleves Oct 6, 1539 Marriage treaty between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves signed.

_Queen Anne of Cleves_

Jan 6, 1540 Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves married Apr. 1540 Henry VIII begins courting Katherine Howard Apr 17, 1540 Thomas Cromwell is created Earl of Essex. Jun 18, 1540 Thomas Cromwell is arrested for high treason. Jul. 9, 1540 Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled Jul. 28, 1540 Execution of Thomas Cromwell

_Queen Katherine Howard_

Jul. 28, 1540 Henry VIII and Katherine Howard married May 28, 1541 Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, is executed for treason. She is the last of the Plantagenets. Aug 27, 1541Catherine Howard appoints her ex-lover Francis Dereham as her private secretary Oct 18, 1541Margaret Tudor, older sister of Henry VIII, died at Methven Castle.

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Nov. 1, 1541 Henry VIII informed of Catherine's adultery Dec 18, 1541Thomas Culpepper and Francis Dereham are executed at Tyburn for high treason. Feb. 7, 1542 Parliament passes Act of Attainder condemning Katherine Howard to death Feb 13, 1542 Catherine Howard executed for treason Feb 13, 1542 Lady Jane Rochford executed for treason for aiding in Catherine Howard's adultry May 5, 1542 Agnes Howard, dowager Duchess of Norfolk, is released from the Tower after being cleared of the Catherine Howard scandal. Mar 2, 1543 John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latimer, second husband of Catherine Parr, died in London.

_Queen Catherine Parr_

Jul. 12, 1543Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr Jul 19, 1543 Lady Mary Boleyn Carey, sister of Anne Boleyn, dies. Jul 7, 1544 Catherine Parr is appointed Regent of England while Henry VIII is off to War in France. Jul 13, 1545 Catherine Parr makes amends with King Henry before the warrant for her arrest was carried out for charges of heresy. Apr 24, 1546 Henry VIII charters the English Navy. Jul 16, 1546 Anne Askew is burned at the stake at Smithfield for heresy. Jan 24, 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is executed for high treason. Jan 28, 1547 Death of Henry VIII - accession of Edward VI, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford becomes protector of England Feb 16, 1547 Henry VIII buried at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor next to Jane Seymour. Jan 31, 1547 Edward Seymour named Lord Protector of England. Feb 20, 1547Edward VI crowned King at Westminster. Apr. 1547 Marriage of Katherine Parr to Thomas Seymour May 04, 1547 Catherine Parr secretly married Thomas Seymour. Aug 15, 1548 Mary, Queen of Scots, lands in France to marry the future Francis II Aug. 30, 1548 Birth of Mary, daughter of Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour Sep. 7, 1548 Catherine Parr buried at Sudeley Castle Jan 15, 1549 The Act of Uniformity was passed by the House of Lords, making the Catholic Mass illegal and introducing the Book of Common Prayer. Jan 16, 1549 Thomas Seymour arrested and sent to Tower of London for having schemed to marry Edward VI to Lady Jane Grey (age 12) and himself to Princess Elizabeth(age 16) Jan 21, 1549 Katherine Ashley and Thomas Parry, members of the household of Princess Elizabeth, were arrested and taken to the Tower on suspicion of conspiring to marry the Princess Elizabeth to Thomas Seymour. Mar 20 1549 Thomas Seymour, baron Seymour of Sudeley is executed ? 1549 Book of Common Prayer by Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer published May 20, 1549 Parliament passes an Act of Uniformity which forbids other prayer books Oct 10, 1549 Edward Seymour, Lord Protector, is arrested by John Dudley on suspicion of treason. Jun 4, 1550 Robert Dudley, son of John Dudley Earl of Warwick marries Amy Robsart. ? 1551 42 articles of religion published by archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer Mar 18, 1551 Mary Tudor meets with her brother Edward in hopes of reconciling their religious differences. Mar 29, 1551 Henry Sidney, son of Sir William, married Mary Dudley, daughter of John Dudley. Jul 14, 1551 Henry Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, dies. Oct 11, 1551 John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, is created Duke of Northumberland. Jan 22, 1552 Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, former lord protector of England executed after trial on rumped-up charges Jun 27, 1552 King Edward sets out on an extended progress through the southern and western regions of England. Apr 14, 1552Parliament passes a more radical Book of Common Prayer in the Second Act of Uniformity May 21, 1553 Lady Jane Grey unwillingly marries Guildford Dudley, youngest of John in a double ceremony with her sister Catherine who married Lord William Herbert. Jun 21, 1553 King Edward VI signs a statement naming Lady Jane Grey as his successor. Jul. 6, 1553 Edward VI dies - accession of Mary I 1553 Treaty of marriage arranged between Mary I and Prince Philip of Spain 1553 Insurrection against Mary I is led by Henry Grey, duke of Suffolk whose daughter, Jane is married to Lord Guildford Dudley as part of a plot to alter the succession Jul 10, 1553Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England. Jul. 19, 1553 Forces loyal to Mary I disperse Suffolk's troops and Jane Grey is imprisoned in the Tower of London. Mary proclaimed Queen Aug. 3, 1553 Mary enters London Aug 8, 1553 Edward VI is buried at Westminster.

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Aug 18, 1553 John Dudley is tried and convicted of treason. Aug. 22, 1553 Duke of Northumberland, John Dudley executed at the Tower of London. Aug 23, 1553 Catholic Bishop Stephen Gardiner is appointed Lord Chancellor of England upon his release from the Tower. He was imprisoned there during Edward’s reign. Oct 1, 1553 Mary crowned Queen. Oct 5, 1553 Mary holds first Parliament to legitimize the marriage of her father Henry VIII and her mother Catherine of Aragon. Nov 13, 1553 Lady Jane Grey is tried to for treason. Nov 14, 1553 Queen Mary pardons Lady Jane Grey. 1554 Duke of Suffolk released from prison as show of clemency. Suffolk again proclaims his daughter Jane, Queen and tries to rally support Jan 12, 1554 The marriage treaty is signed between Mary and Philip II of Spain. Jan 22, 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt raises a new insurgent army and occupies Rochester Feb. 7, 1554 Some of Wyatt's men are cut off by the Queen's forces and others desert. Wyatt surrenders. Feb. 12, 1554 Lady Jane Grey and her husband are executed Feb 23, 1554 Henry Grey, father of Lady Jane Grey is executed. Mar 9, 1554 Frances Brandon, mother of Lady Jane Grey, marries Adrian Stokes. Mar 15, 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt is tried for treason Mar 18, 1554 Princess Elizabeth is sent to the Tower for suspicion of complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s rebellion. Apr. 11, 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt is executed May 19, 1554 Princess Elizabeth transfers from the Tower of London to Woodstock. Jul 25, 1554 Queen Mary marries Philip II of Spain. Nov 30, 1554 Sir Philip Sidney born at Penshurst, Kent. 1555 Mary I returns England to the Catholic faith persecuting Protestants. Feb 9, 1555 John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, is burned at the stake for heresy. Apr 11, 1555 Juana of Castile, sister of Catherine of Aragon and mother of Emperor Charles V, dies at Tordesillas. Oct. 16, 1555 Hugh Latimer, bishop of Worcester, and Nicholas Ridley, bishop of London burned at the stake Nov 12, 1555 Stephen Gardiner, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at Whitehall, London. Jan 1, 1556 Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York, appointed Lord Chancellor of England. Feb. 14, 1556 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is degraded from his office Mar 8, 1556 Queen Mary grants charter of the founding of Holy Trinity College at Oxford. March 21, 1556 Thomas Cranmer renounces Rome and is burned at the stake Apr. 1556 Reginald Pole is named Archbishop of Canterbury Feb 27, 1557 Queen Mary receives Osep Nepea, the first Russian ambassador ever to set foot on English soil. Jun 7, 1557 England declares war on France. Jul. 16, 1557 Death of Anne of Cleves Jan 7, 1558 The French capture Calais from the English, which belonged to England for more than 200 years. Apr 24, 1558 Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the future Francis II of France. Sep 21, 1558 Emperor Charles V dies at the monastery of Yuste in Estremadura. Nov. 17, 1558 Death of Mary I accession of Elizabeth I ? 1558 Robert Dudley, Elizabeth's court favorite is named to the privy council Jan 13, 1559 Elizabeth crowned Queen of England Apr 2, 1559 Peace treaty signed at Cambrasis between England and France. Calais is to remain in French hands for eight years and then be restored to England under a penalty of 500,000 crowns Jun 24, 1559 The Elizabethan Prayer Book is first used. Jul 10, 1559 King Henry II of France dies. He is succeeded by his son, Francis II and his wife, Mary, Queen of Scots. Queen Mary of Scotland and France assumes the title Queen of England also Nov 11, 1559 Frances Brandon, mother of Lady Jane Grey, dies in London. 1560 French troops in Scotland try to assert Queen Mary's claim to the English throne, considered Illegitimate by Catholics 1560 English troops besiege the French at Leith Scotland Jun 1560 Mary's mother Marie of Lorraine, who has acted as regent in Scotland for her daughter , dies Jun 11, 1560 Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland, dies. Jul. 6, 1560 Treaty of Edinburgh ends French interference in Scotland Sep 8, 1560 Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, is found dead at the foot of the stairs in her home, Cumnor Place outside Oxford. She appeared to have fallen down the stairs and broken her neck but rumors fly that Robert conspired to have her murdered in order to marry Elizabeth. Dec. 5, 1560 Francois II King of France dies. His brother is crowned Charles IX Dec 15, 1560 Sir Thomas Parry, cofferer to Queen Elizabeth, dies. Aug 10, 1561 Lady Catherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane and next in line to the English throne, is arrested for marrying Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford without Elizabeth’s permission, and taken to the Tower.

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Aug. 19, 1561 Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland and becomes embroiled in arguments with Calvinist John Knox who's Confession of Faith denied Papal authority in Scotland Sep. 20, 1561 Treaty signed at Hampton Court pledging Elizabeth's support of the persecuted French Huguenots. Sep 24, 1561 Lady Catherine Grey gives birth to a son, Edward, in the Tower of London. 1561 English navigator John Hawkins hijacks Portuguese slave ship, trading the slaves in Brazil for ginger, pearls and sugar beginning England's participation in the slave trade Jul 15, 1562 Elizabeth cancels a scheduled meeting with Mary, Queen of Scots because of Mary’s continued attacks on French Protestants. 1563 Mary Queen of Scots sends her secretary to Elizabeth claiming the right of succession Anglican Church (Church of England) established by adoption of Thomas Cranmer's 39 articles Sir John Hawkins brings the potato to England ( it could have been a sweet potato) 1564 Elizabeth takes a share of John Hawkins' 2nd slave run and loans him one of her ships 1565 London Royal Exchange founded Royal College of Physicians given authority to dissect human cadavers John Hawkins introduces tobacco to England Mar 9, 1566 Italian secretary to Mary Queen of Scots is murdered in front of her by Scottish nobles acting on order from her husband Henry Lord Darnley Jun 19, 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots gives birth to James (later James I of England). Feb. 10, 1567 Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots is murdered. Mary is suspected of complicity Apr. 24, 1567 Queen Mary of Scotland is kidnapped by James Hepburn, earl of Bothwell May 15, 1567 Mary marries the earl of Bothwell in a Protestant service provoking a rebellion Jul. 24, 1567 Mary is forced to put aside Bothwell and sign an abdication in favor of her 13 month old son May 13, 1568 Mary of Scotland escapes from captivity, is defeated at Langside, flees to England and is placed in captivity by Elizabeth 1568 Sir John Hawkins is ambushed at sea by the Spanish around the West Indies. He looses 2 ships which precipitates an undeclared state of war English explorer David Ingram travels from the Gulf of Mexico north to Canada Jan 27, 1568 Lady Catherine Grey dies. 1569 English earls near the Scottish border rebel against Elizabeth but are easily suppressed Oct 1, 1569 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk is imprisoned in the Tower for attempting to marry Mary, Queen of Scots. Jan 2, 1571 Marriage negotiations are open between Elizabeth and Henry, Duke of Anjou. Feb 25, 1571 Sir William Cecil is created Lord Burghley. Sir Francis Drake puts to sea to attempt to capture Spanish galleons carrying silver Apr 23, 1572 Queen Elizabeth knights Walter Devereux, Earl of Hereford, for his defeat of the Catholic earls of the north who rose in revolT in 1571. Aug 22, 1572 Thomas Percy, seventh Earl of Northumberland, is executed at York for treason. 1573 Sir Francis Drake captures largest haul in history - a shipment of silver from Potosi mines destined for Spain Dec 21, 1573 Sir Francis Walsingham appointed Principal Secretary of State May 30, 1574 King Charles IX of France dies. He is succeeded by Henry III. Jun 2, 1574 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is executed at the Tower of London for treason. Dec 12, 1574 Anne of Denmark, daughter of Frederick II and Queen Consort of James I, born May 17, 1575 Mathew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies. Jul 22, 1575 Two Dutch Anabaptists are burned at the stake at Smithfield by order of Queen Elizabeth. Nov 14, 1575 Queen Elizabeth refuses to accept the sovereignty of the Netherlands, which William the Silent of Orange, in desperation at the course of war, had agreed to have offered to her. May 9, 1576 The Earl of Essex is reappointed "Earl Marshal of Ireland". Sep 22, 1576 The Earl of Essex dies. 1577 Sir Francis Drake leaves with a fleet of ships to sail down the coast of Africa to South America 1578 Francis Drake sails through the Strait of Magellan loosing 4 of his ships. He ravages the coasts of Chile and Peru Elizabeth grants a patent to Sir Humphrey Gilbert to inhabit and possess all remote and heathen lands. He begins to search for the Northwest Passage Mar 10, 1578 Queen Elizabeth pays a subsidy of 20,000 pounds to John Casimir of the Palatinate to aid the Dutch. Apr 14, 1578 James Hepburn, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, dies in confinement in the castle of Dragsholm, Zeeland. Apr 20, 1578 Lady Mary Grey, sister of Lady Jane, dies. Jun 11, 1578 Queen Elizabeth grants a patent to Sir Humphrey Gilbert to explore and colonize the New World. Sep 21, 1578 Robert Dudley secretly marries Lady Lettice Knollys, widow of the Earl of Essex and cousin to Queen Elizabeth, at Wanstead.

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Sep 26, 1578 Sir Humphrey Gilbert sets sails from Dartmouth to the New World. The attempt soon fails due to lack of equipment and lack of discipline among his crew. Jun 17, 1579 Sir Francis Drake puts in for repairs north of present day San Francisco and proclaims England’s sovereignty over New Albion (California). Aug 17, 1579 Francis, Duke of Anjou, visits Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich with the intent to marry her. Oct 7, 1579 The Privy Council fails to give Queen Elizabeth the support she expects in the proceedings of a marriage treaty with the Duke of Anjou. Jan 9, 1580 John Smith, early settler of the Jamestown colony in Virginia, is baptized at Willoughby-By-Alford, Lincolnshire. Sep 19, 1580 Katherine Brandon Bertie, Dowager Duchess of Suffolk and cousin to Queen Elizabeth, dies. Sep 26, 1580 Sir Francis Drake returns to England after being the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world 1581 Sir Francis Drake takes the richest prize ever captured on the high seas - gold, silver, gems worth as much as the crown's total revenue for one year. Spain protests and wants restitution. Elizabeth keeps the booty Mar 18, 1581 Parliament passes a severe legislation against Roman Catholics, to retain their obedience to the Queen, with fines of 100 marks for hearing Mass and 20 pounds per month for recusancy. May 4, 1581 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth. Nov 7, 1581 The marriage treaty between Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou is signed. Dec 24, 1582 The London Bridge Waterworks begins piping water into private homes for the first time. Jun 11, 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert departs England with five ships for the New World. Jun 18, 1583 The first known life insurance policy is made in England on the life of William Gibbons for one year at eight percent premium. Jul 6, 1583 Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies. Aug 3, 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert arrives at Newfoundlands and claims it in the name of the Crown. Sep 9, 1583 Sir Humphrey Gilbert drowns at sea enroute back to England. 1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland in the name of Elizabeth England and Turkey establish trade. Children of Nicholas16 Danforth (3054) and Alice Jordan (3055) (see #61441) were as follows: 30720. i. THOMAS15 (3045). ii. ANNE (3063) was born in 1561 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. iii. JOHANE (3064) was born between Mar 19, 1562 and 1563. iv. MARGARET (3065) was born in 1565 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. v. OLIVE "ALICE" (3066) was born in 1567 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. vi. ELIZABETH (3067) was born between Jan 29, 1569 and 1570.

61441. ALICE16 JORDAN (3055) was born circa 1540 at Kellashall, Suffolk, England. She married Nicholas Danforth (3054) (see #61440), son of Paul Danforth (3061) and Katheryne ? (--?--) (3062).

Generation Seventeen

122880. PAUL17 DANFORTH (3061) (William Danford, #245760) was born circa 1482 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He married Katheryne ? (--?--) (3062) (see #122881). He died in 1538 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. Will: mentions wife Katherine, sons (<21) Nicholas and Thomas, sons Robert and Richard, daughters Isabel, Margaret, Agnes, and Olive, and brother James.

Ipswich Wills, Archives, Suffolk Book 13, Folio 259 I, Paul Derneford, of Framlingham to be buried in church of Framlingham. Katheryne my wife to have tenement called Lyncolness in Framlingham until which my son be 21 and then he shall pay her 40s a year and hold it to him accordingly to the will of William Derneford, my father; if he die Thomas my son to have the said tenement. My close, called Beetis, to be in occupancy of my said wife until said Thomas be 21, if he die the same go to my son Robert and his heirs. If he die to Richard my son and his heirs. Mention land called Battoftes, meadow called Brodewater and Metpetmedowe. Daughter Isabell, Margaret, Agnes and Olive. Executors- Wife Katheryne and brother James Derneford. Witness- John Lewoode, William Nuttell and John Hoberd. Will dated Nov 13/1538 Proved Nov 18/1538

? 1500 Birth of Anne Boleyn Feb 24, 1500 Emperor Charles V is born. Jun 19, 1500 Death of Edmund Tudor, aged 16, months, at Hatfield

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May 19, 1501 Katherine and Arthur married for the second time by proxy Sep 27, 1501 Catherine of Aragon departs from Laredo on the Basque coast to England. Oct 2, 1501 Catherine of Aragon arrives at Plymouth, England. Nov. 14, 1501 Katherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales marry Dec 21, 1501 Arthur, Prince of Wales and Catherine of Aragon depart for Wales. Apr. 2, 1502 Death of Prince Arthur Feb 10, 1503 Elizabeth of York dies, giving birth to her youngest daughter, which she names Catherine. Feb 23, 1503 Elizabeth of York buried at Westminster Abbey. Jun 25, 1503 Katherine betrothed to Prince Henry Aug 8, 1503 Margaret Tudor marries King James IV of Scotland. Dec 26, 1503 Pope Julius grants a papal dispensation to allow the marriage of Prince Henry to Catherine of Aragon. Feb. 18, 1504 Henry created Prince of Wales Nov 24, 1504 Queen Isabella of Castile, mother of CatherinE of Aragon, dies. She is succeeded by her daughter Juana. Jun 27, 1505 Prince Henry repudiates betrothal to Katherine Jan 31, 1506 King Henry VII receives Philip I and Juana of Castile at Windsor. Their ship, enroute from Zeeland to Spain, was blown off course and accidentally landed at Melcombe, near Waymouth. Sep 25, 1506 King Philip I of Castile dies at Burgos. His wife Queen Juana becomes insane. ? 1507 Birth of Jane Seymour Dec 21, 1507 Henry VII signs marriage treaty between his daughter Mary and the Archduke Charles, son of Philip I of Spain. Apr. 22, 1509 Death of Henry VII - accession of Henry VIII May 10, 1509 Henry VII buried at Westminster Abbey next to his wife, Elizabeth of York. Queen Katherine of Aragon Jun 11, 1509 Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon married Jun 24, 1509 Coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon Jun 29, 1509 Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and mother of Henry VII, dies at Westminster. Jun 31, 1510 Catherine of Aragon gives birth to stillborn daughter. Aug 17, 1510 Edmund Dudley, Earl of Suffolk, beheaded at the Tower of London for treason. Jan 1, 1511 Birth of Prince Henry Feb. 22, 1511 Death of Prince Henry Nov 13, 1511 Henry VIII joins the Holy League. ? 1512 Birth of Katherine Parr Apr 10, 1512 Margaret Tudor gives birth to James (later James V of Scotland) in Linlithgow. Sep 24, 1513 Tournai surrenders to the English. Oct. 1513Birth of son - died soon after birth Aug 6, 1514 Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, marries Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. Oct 9, 1514 Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII marries King Louis XII of France Nov 5, 1514 Mary Tudor crowned Queen of France. Nov. 1514 Birth of son - died soon after birth M ay 13, 1515 Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, marries the already pregnant Mary Tudor at Greenwich. He had secretly married her several months earlier in France without the King's permission. Sep. 22, 1515 Birth of Anne of Cleves Dec 24, 1515 Thomas Wolsey appointed Lord Chancellor of England. Jan 1516 Jan 23, 1516 King Ferdinand, father of Catherine of Aragon, dies at Madrigalejo. Feb. 18, 1516 Birth of Princess Mary Mar 11, 1516 Henry Brandon, son of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor (younger sister of Henry VIII) born Jan 17, 1517 Henry Grey, father of Lady Jane Grey, born. Jul 16, 1517 Frances Brandon, daughter of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor and mother of Lady Jane Grey, born at Hatfield. Nov 11, 1517 Thomas Parr, father of Catherine Parr, dies in London. Nov 10, 1518 Catherine of Aragon gives birth to another stillborn daughter. Feb. 1519 Death of Maximilian, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles of Castile, Katherine's nephew, elected as his replacement Jun 1519 Birth of Henry FitzRoy, Bastard son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount Feb 04, 1520 Mary Boleyn, former mistress of Henry VIII, marries William Carey. Jun 8-26, 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold held between Henry VIII and Francis I of France. Jul 10, 1520 Henry VIII meets Emperor Charles V at Gravelines. May 17, 1521 Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, executed for high treason. Oct 11, 1521 Henry VIII named Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X. 1524 Katherine past childbearing, Henry VIII NO longer sleeps with her ? 1525 Birth of Katherine Howard Feb. 1526 Henry VIII begins courting Anne Boleyn

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May 17, 1527 Ecclesiastical court established at Westminster to hear Henry VIII's arguments requesting an annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon Jun 18, 1525 Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of Henry VIII is created Duke of Richmond. Thomas Boleyn is createdViscount Rochford. At this ceremony is where Henry first spots his daughter, Anne Boleyn. Jun 22, 1527 Henry tells Katherine he doubts the validity of their marriage Sep. 1527 Henry VIII asks Pope for an annulment Apr 2, 1528 Margaret Tudor marries her third husband, Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven Sep. 29, 1528 Cardinal Campeggio sent by Pope to hear Henry VIII's case May 20, 1529 Lady Maud Green Parr, mother of Catherine Parr, dies. May 31, 1529 Legatine court opens at Black Friars Oct 26, 1529 Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England to replace Thomas Wolsey Dec 8, 1529 Thomas Boleyn created Earl of Wiltshire. Nov. 1530 Death of Cardinal Wolsey Nov 4, 1530 Thomas Wolsey is arrested for high treason. Nov 29, 1530 Thomas Wolsey dies at Leicester while enroute to London to be executed. Feb. 11, 1531 Parliament makes Henry VIII Supreme Head of the Church in England Jul. 14, 1531 Henry separates from Katherine and banishes her from court May 16, 1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor. Sep. 1, 1532 Anne Boleyn created Marquis of Pembroke Nov 15, 1532 Pope Clement VII threatens Henry VIII with excommunication if he does not leave Anne Boleyn

Queen Anne Boleyn

Jan 25, 1533 S ecret marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Mar 30, 1533 Thomas Cranmer is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. May 23, 1533 Archbishop Cranmer declares the marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon to be invalid Jun 1, 1533 Coronation of Anne Boleyn Jun 24, 1533 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, born. Jun 25, 1533 Mary Tudor, younger sister of Henry VIII, dies at Westhorpe, Suffolk. Jul 11, 1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII. Sep. 7, 1533 Birth of Princess Elizabeth Mar 8, 1534 Henry Brandon, Earl of Lincoln, son of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, dies. Mar 23, 1534 Parliament passes Act of Succession. Only children of King's marriage to Anne Boleyn are his lawful heirs Mar 23, 1534 Pope pronounces Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon valid Apr 20, 1534 Elizabeth Barton, known as the "Nun of Kent" is executed for high treason at Tyburn. May 11, 1534 Henry VIII makes peace with James V of Scotland. Jul. 1534 Birth of Stillborn child to Anne Boleyn Sep 25, 1534 Pope Clement VII dies. Jan 15, 1535 Henry VIII assumes the title "Supreme Head of the Church." Jun 22, 1535 Execution of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester Jun 1535 Birth of stillborn child Jul. 6, 1535 Execution of Sir Thomas More Sep 10, 1535 Henry VIII visits Sir John Seymour at Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wiltshire. He meets his daughter, Jane Seymour for the first time. Nov. 1535 Henry VIII begins courting Jane Seymour Jan 7, 1536 Death of Katherine of Aragon Jan 29, 1536 Anne Boleyn gave birth to a stillborn son Jan 29, 1536 Katherine of Aragon buried at Petersborough Abbey Apr 30, 1536 Mark Smeaton, musician to Anne Boleyn, is arrested for suspicious criminal intercourse with Anne Boleyn.. May 1, 1536 Anne Boleyn arrested and taken to the Tower of London May 1, 1536 Sir Henry Norris arrested for alleged affair with Anne Boleyn. May 2, 1536 George Boleyn arrested for high treason. May 4, 1536 Sir Francis Weston and Sir William Brereton arrested for high treason. May 5, 1536 English poet Sir Thomas Wyatt and SirRichard Page arrested for high treason. May 15, 1536 Trial of Anne Boleyn May 17, 1536 Mark Smeaton, Henry Norris, Francis Weston, William Brereton and George Boleyn executed May 19, 1536 Execution of Anne Boleyn May 20, 1536 Henry VIII betrothed to Jane Seymour Queen Jane Seymour May 30, 1536 Henry VIII and Jane Seymour married

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Jun 4, 1536 Jane Seymour officially proclaimed Queen of England by Parliament. Jun 1536 Parliament passes Act of Succession. Only children of King's marriage to Jane Seymour are his lawful heirs Jul 6, 1536 Henry VIII meets with his daughter Mary at Hackney for the first time since his divorce from Catherine of Aragon at the instigation of Jane Seymour. Jul 8, 1536 Lady Margaret Douglas, niece of Henry VIII, is arrested and sent to the Tower after her betrothal to Thomas Howard without permission. Jul 22, 1536 Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of Henry VIII, dies of tuberculosis. Oct 9, 1536 The Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular rising in the north country against the dissolution of monasteries and religious innovations, begins under Robert Aske at Doncaster. Dec 21, 1536 Sir John Seymour, father of Jane, died at Wolf Hall. Jul 12, 1537 English rebel Robert Aske is executed. Oct 15, 1537 Prince Edward christened at Hampton Court. Oct. 12, 1537 Birth of Prince Edward OCt. 24, 1537 Death of Jane Seymour MAY 12, 1537 Jane Seymour buried at Garter Chapel at Windsor. Apr 3, 1538 Lady Elizabeth Howard Boleyn, mother of Anne Boleyn, dies at Reading’s Place besides Baynard’s Castle in London.[Brøderbund Family Archive #17, Ed. 1, Birth Records: United States/Europe, Birth Records AAI Birth Records Extraction, Date of Import: Jun 12, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.17.1.7976.4]

Individual: Danforth, Paul Birth date: Abt. 1482 Birth place: ENG CD# 100.

Children of Paul17 Danforth (3061) and Katheryne ? (--?--) (3062) (see #122881) were as follows: i. OLIVE "ALICE"16 (3072). ii. MARGARET (3070). iii. AGNES (3071). 61440. iv. NICHOLAS (3054). v. THOMAS (3073) was born in 1532 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. vi. ROBERT (3074) was born in 1534. vii. RICHARD (3075) was born in 1536. viii. ISABELL (3076) was born in 1538.

122881. KATHERYNE ?17 (--?--) (3062) married Paul Danforth (3061) (see #122880), son of William Danford (3068) and Isabel ? (--?--) (3069).

Generation Eighteen

245760. WILLIAM18 DANFORD (3068) was born in 1475 at Framllingham, Suffolk, England. He married Isabel ? (--?--) (3069) (see #245761). WILL: 15 AUG 1512

Ipswich Wills, Archives, Suffolk Book 5, Folio 280 "On the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, 1512, I William Dernford of Framingham at the Castle make will etc. To be buried in Churchyard of St. Michaels, Framlingham. Legacies for repairs of Churches of Babyngham (Ravyngham) and Cranesford. Isabell, my wife, to have my tenement called Gerveys, for life and 40s yearly out of my close or tenement called Lyncolness. Powle (Paul) my son at age of 24 to have my said tenement called Lyncolness.. James my son at age of 24 to take profits in Badyngham (Radyngham) called Senglers; to him and his heirs. Reynold my son after death of my wife to have tenement called Gerveys; to him and heirs of his body; for default same go to my daughters, Isabell and Elizabeth. Legacies to Johan Smyth, Margaret Walle and Isabell Ederych. Wife and John Ederych to be executors and Sir Thomas Greveson, Supervisor. Witness Sir Thomas Greveson Proved 23 Oct 1512 * Thirteenth great grandfather of Paul Plante

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Note: was Feast of Assumption Framlingham, Suffolk, ENG 1 Death: 1512 in Framlingham, Suffolk, ENG Burial: St Michaels, Framlingham, Suffolk, ENG 1 PROB: 23 OCT 1512 Archd Court Suffolk, ENG 1 2 Note: 1 Will: mentions wife Isabel, sons (<24) Paul and James, son Reynold, daughters Isabel and Elizabeth.

FRAMLINGHAM, ten miles north of Woodbridge, has been centred on its magnificent Castle since the twelfth century. The original seat of the Dukes of Norfolk, it boasts a superb set of curtain-wall fortifications and a series of towers topped by ornamental Tudor chimney stacks. Footpaths Crisscross the surrounding moat, while from the internal wall walkways, there are sweeping views across town to the imposing redbrick mass of Framlingham College. Of the rest of the castle, where Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen of England in 1553, very little else survives; you'll get just as much sense of its dimensions from the outdoor tables of the Castle Inn, by the main entrance. One other point of interest, however, lies in the local parish church of St Michael, just behind the pub, which contains a lovely hammer-beam roof, fan coving and a fantastic collection of Classical sixteenth-century tombs belonging to the Howard family who owned the castle at the time.

The town below the castle makes for an enjoyable hour or two's amble, especially since the elongated Market Hill Is equipped Crown Hotel, a traditional sixteenth-century inn with roaring fires.

Genealogy of the Danford family Letter written by Thomas W. Emerson to his sister, Maria Emerson Wright – dated 20 Oct 1920 - found at the Barnesville, Belmont Co., OH Genealogical Society.

I am enclosing a copy of minutes of researches of D. L. Thornberry, Attorney….into the Genealogy of the Danford family. You will note that Mr. Thornberry has traced the Genealogy of the family back through the male line for about 450 years, without a break. Starting on the data you gave him, and a hint from me, several years ago, tracing the family back to New Jersey, he managed to bridge the record across the Atlantic to Framingham, England, from which the difficulties probably melted nicely as they have a way of doing under the influence of American grit and dollars.

Anyway, you will notice that our family record goes back clean to the definite date 1512, when William Danford died at Framingham, this makes interesting reading for one who reads between the lines, as my kiddie and I have been trying to do. In a family of long-lived people it’s considerably safe to guess that William was not younger than 50 at his death – probably considerably more. That figure would bring his birth back to 1462.

As social conditions were in England in those days, I can’t figure out a happy lot for William and Isabel and their five nestlings. There were 3 classes of people, the Churchmen, the Nobility and the Commonalty. The nobles owned the land, and the common people were tenants with only such rights as their superiors chose to allow. The commoner was loaded down with the burden of supporting the Huge Ecclesiastical machine, and the noble with all their military ambitions; and by the time the commoner paid his church tithes and duties and put up for the keep of a luxurious aristocracy, with a royal establishment at the head, he hadn’t a bounteous leaving for himself and family

Anyway, William and Isabel lacked many things we deem everyday necessities of life. They never heard of coffee or tea, for it was only 150 years later, after his death, that the Arabian bean found its way only to England, and tea was a few years later still. Their great-great-grandson Nicholas, died in America 126 years later without a first cup of tea; but it is more probably that some of the said Nicholas’s seven children had some hundreds of great-great-grandchildren in and around Boston 136 years still later, when a Famous tea-party was pulled off: and you know it is a family trait to participate in everything that is going on.

Neither did William and Isabel have any corn, potatoes, tomatoes, tobacco, turkeys, or a host of other luxuries which the old world was to get from the new, since the new world was not discovered until William was some 30 years old, and little or nothing was ever known of it until long after his death. It was still India when he died. Neither he nor his good wife Isabel ever hear of Columbus or his discovery, for neither he nor she would read nor write, nor anyone else in Framingham, perhaps, excepting the parish priest. Why should they, since there was nothing to read and even less to write. True, printing had been invented: A German named Gutenberg, over on the Rhine, when William was a boy of about 12, had rigged up some wooden types and a press, and had worked off a book called the “Catholicon” and when he was about 24 an Englishman named Caxton had set up a press and run off the “History of Troy.”

(Illigible-DE)…hundreds of thousands of descendants many of whom we have probably met without either ourselves or themselves knowing who they were. We have only Nicholas rescued from the common oblivion.

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Of Nicholas we need only observe that he lived through the short reign of Edward VI, and the bloody catholic re-action when poor deluded Mary undertook to turn back the tide, and died in the 25th year of “The Good Queen Bee” when the Faith of generations of his ancestors had been supplanted permanently by the new religion from Germany.

Nicholas saw common people develop from mere lieges to real men and women owning land in their own right, many of the men and possibly a few of the women able to read and write, and about all of them able and willing to take a hand in political affairs – which generally meant religious affairs – and all of them entitled to have opinions of their own on almost any subject, and quite ready and willing to express them. I imagine this Nicholas accumulated a patch of land in his own right, for we find that his eldest son, Thomas, a “Yeoman” – a free and lawful man” who owned “free land” of 40 shillings annual value, which made him a “free holder” competent to vote, to sit on juries, and do numerous things William and Paul could not do. In short, the Danford family is becoming interesting – especially the eldest sons.

Thomas Danford, Yeoman, is a real somebody, worthy to have the exact date of his marriage recorded, two years after the death of his father. We recognize him as a somebody of importance by the fact of his marriage to Jane, daughter of Thomas Sudbury of Kenshall – note the “of Kenshall.” It was a big thing to own land of your very own, in those days, quite an important matter if it was worth 40 shillings a year, we don’t think it any great matter in this country; but this is not England in Tudor times….

Nicholas Danford, son of Thomas and Jane, cut a considerable figure in the old world and in the new. Born in the brilliant period of English History, a contemporary of Burleigh, Raleigh, Shakespeare and that great age of giants which makes “The Elizabethan Era” memorable for all time, he lived through reign of the first thick – headed Stewarts, James, and into that of his stubborn, short-sighted son, Charles. Nicholas was doubtless an educated man, as I gather from his record on this side of the Atlantic, a Cambridge man. He was clear-visioned. He saw the gradual development of the contest between brave Englishmen went on preserving their rights and liberties and the royal chump who sought to set back the hands of the clock by restoring the despotism of the early tudors; and he noted that the back bone of that political resistance was the religious fanaticism called puritianism. So Nicholas was Puritan. He foresaw the coming storm, and 8 years before it broke, on the death of his wife, he gathered his flock of seven children, and emigrated to the Puritan Colony in the new world known as Massachusetts Bay Colony, wherein were the towns of Salem and Boston, and where there were growing Puritan settlements spreading back in land some miles and older one south called Plymouth Colony, only 14 years old…..

You will observe that I do not look upon this genealogy as being merely the history of a family…but I regard it as a history of American in skeleton, covering 316 years when American History was made in Europe, down to that fateful day in July 144 years ago, when our ancestors of that day ceased to be English and decreed that they and their posterity should henceforth be Americans – and still are, thank heaven, even if some of American birth but English minds, would tie us back again to the old world and its stogy ideals. In preserving our independence results in “breaking the heart of the world.” I am about heartless enough to let her break; altho I am very skeptical about all this theoretical Tom Follery. As far as I am able to observe, the supposed “heart of the world” beats very much as it had done for 5 centuries, and I am unable to perceive by what authority an American official sworn to support, maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, thereby, becomes the guardian of this alleged world heart treasure. Indeed, there is quite a lot of rhetorical slush we have been fed upon for the past seven years which I am wholly unable to translate into Missourian – and it is a safe test that any language which will not translate into the showdown dialect of Missouri is short on common sense, and belongs in the class one Paul of Tarsus characterized as “sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.” I am weary unto Nausea of “watchful waiting” “punitive expeditions” “self-determination” ”freedom of the seas” “open covenants” “Liberty” “Motors that fail to note, a world safe for Democracy” which is plainly headed for despotism, and all that long line of rhetorical flim-flam which commenced when one “Doctor” William Bayard Hale, later “My personal representative” and later German spy, published that :Batch” of beautiful slush under the heading “The New Freedom.” Do you remember it all? I am unable to foresee how historians will characterize this last 8 year period, but it would be hard to find a better name for it the “Era of tommy-rot”.

We are having real winter, nearly a foot of snowfall. This is the second one in October. The first occurrence of this time in my 30 years. Snow is said to be 4 ft deep at redmt. 12 south of here.

Children of William18 Danford (3068) and Isabel ? (--?--) (3069) (see #245761) were: 122880. i. PAUL17 (3061).

245761. ISABEL ?18 (--?--) (3069) married William Danford (3068) (see #245760).

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