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Gc M. Li. 929.11 Am33 v.ll 1778934 REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTK)N ^9. ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 833 01147 8325 > v5r^ GIVING THE • NAME AND DESCENT, IN THE MALE LINE. OF AMERICANS WHOSE ANCESTORS SETTLED IN THE UNITED STATES PREVIOUS TO THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. A. D, 1776. Embracing Lineages FROM THE Whole of the UNITED STATES. 1898. ''''°^^"-^°''°"°'t^=Sri-;:---^--:'-^^ r--' I3i Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/americanancestry11hugh 1778934 ji AMERICAN ANCESTRY. ' 'HE purpose of this work is, principally, to register in a convenient and simple form I -L the pedigree of any one person, and thus record for all time many important facts in the history of families which would otherwise be lost. Another primary object is to publish here the ancestry of a person as complete as it is known, as a means of obtaining additional information regarding it. It is also designed to be a convenient work of reference, to show the origin of the various American families. However indifferent some may affect to be regarding this question of ancestry, those who have a good pedigree will usually have a natural pride in it. Many lineages must of necessity contain nothing but simple records of uneventful generations, but they will preserve facts of great interest to descendants which would otherwise in many cases be lost in the history of a family. The plan of the work is somewhat similar in idea to the well-known iCnglish works, but altered to suit the conditions of American society, and in detail is as follows; The surname or family name is given tirst, with the given name, residence, birthplace, and date of birth. This is followed by remarks of a brief biographical ch.iracter, giving the principal events in the individual's life, such as occupation, college degrees if any, author- ship, public service, experiences, and if married, date, wife's name and parentage, with remarks relating to her anccstr}'. If the individual whose lineage is given had brothers the same facts may be stated respecting each of them, m order of their birth, commencing with the eldest. This completes the first generation in tracing back the line.-ige. Next is given the father's name, followed by same class of facts, and so continued back in male line as far as can be traced. The name of son, father, grandfather, etc.. in direct male line are printed in black type. As the abbreviations are all of the most ordinary kind, it is unnecessary to mention them here. Copyrighted by JOEL MUNSELL'S SONS. t^^r/v :**: ^ -::> AMERICAN ANCESTRY. riLOWES, THOMAS HENRY of vin, Millicent, Mary and Catharine) : son ^ Hempstead N, Y., b. Jan. 31, 1819, of Gerardus of Hempstead L. I., b. Apr. some time merchant, justice of peace, 2y, 1699, d. Oct. 12, 1752 (m. Oct. 19, 1719 deputy slieriff, oounty treasurer 1853-6 Sarah Jones, b. 1703, dau. of Major (m. Nov. 14, 1838 Margaret Ann Coles, b. Thomas and Freelove [Townsend] Jones Jan. 23, 1817, d. Apr. 27, 1894, dau. of of Oysterbay, gr.-dau. of Capt. Thonius Daniel Cock and Helena [Kashow] Coles, Townsend of Oysterbay and R. I., and gt.- and gr.-dau. of Jacob and Sarah [Cock] gr.-dau. John and Elizabeth [Coles] Town- Coles, and of Jacob and Helena [Stock- send of Oysterbay, and had children other holm] Cassou, and had children : Frederick than Samuel: Catharine, Timothy Bagley, H.. Anna C, John H., Elizabeth E., b. Aug. 21, 1724, and John); son of Sam- Thomas H., William E., Margaret A. and uel, b. in Derbyshire Eng. Mar. 16, 1674. Lydia); son of Jolin Gilbert Clowes, b. d. Aug. 27, 1760, and buried in Grace Dec. 12, 1788, d. Oct. 24, 1825, farmer (ni. churchyard, Jamaica I-. I., was the first Apr. 4, iSio Hannah Burtis, b. at Foster's lawyer settled upon L. I., instructed in Meadow May 13, 1794, d. June 18, 1868, matheniaitics by Flamstead, for whiose use dau. oi Hendrick and Elizabeth [Foster] Greenwich observatory was erected, came Burtis, descendant of Pieter Cesar Al- to New York in 1697, accompanied Lord bertus, native of Venice, came to America Cornbury to Jamaica in 1702, and was abt. 1642, and of William Foster, early set- forthwith appointed clerk of Queens co.. tler at Jamaica and Hempstead); son of which he held until 1710, was an able and Thomas Clowes, b. Mar. 7, 1743. d. Dec. acute lawyer, and was concerned in many 27, 1824, farmer (m. ist 1762 Mantha, dau. very important causes (m. July iS, 1698 of Benjamin Wigg>ins, ni. 2d Nov. 28, 1776 Catharine Douw, who d. Aug. 7, 1740). Catharine, dau. of Jeremiah and Mary [Baldwin] Bedell, and had children other CRAFT, HENRY STORRS of New than John: Sarah, Benjamin, Gerardu.s, York City, b. at Glen Cove N. Y. Mary Anne, Catharine); son of Samuel Dec. 17. 1858 (m. Dec. 4, 1889 Caroline K. Clowes, b. July 31, 1722, d. May 10, 1800. Fussell, dau. of Jacob and Caroline farmer, county judge and surrogate durini; [Kraft] Fussell, and gr.-dau. of Jacob and rev. war, and mem. assembly 1790 (ni. Re- Clarissa [Whitaker] Fussell of Chester becca Dorlon, who d. Mar. 31, 1787. and Pa); son of Milton Oliver Craft of Glen had children other than Thomas: Isaac, b. Cove L. I., b. ithere Sep. 5. 1829, d. at Oct. 14. 1755, d. Sep. 8, 1825 without issue, Titusville Pa. Jan. 25. 1866. farmer, mer- Samuel, b. Mar. 7, 1757, d. Apr. 5, 1824. chant and insurance agt. (ni. June 30. 1857 Aletta, m. Mouris Simonson, Arabella, b. Electa Storrs, b. at Oyster Bay L. I., dau. Feb. 1763, d. Mar. 17, 1814, m. John Mar- of Joseph and Ann [Alsop] Storrs, and I AMERICAN ANCESTRY. gr.-dau. of Dr. Justus and Sarah [Wright] man], Mary [? m. Benjamin Coles], Jo- Storrs and of Richard and Judith [Parish] seph and John); son of William Alsop, and had children other than Henry Thorneycraft, first of the name at Musketa Herbert (dec'd) and Rev. Mihon Arthur Cove (m. a dau. of Joseph and Ann Craft, rector of Grace church, Trenton N. [Weekes] Carpenter, and gr.-dau. of Wil- J.); son of Simon of Glen Cove L. I., b. liam and Elizabeth [Arnold] Carpenter Mar. 24, 1791, d. Oct. 28, 1865, farmer (ni. and of Francis and Elizabeth [Luther] May 21, 1828 Temperance Craft, b. Feb. Weekes, and had another child than Wil- 19, 1803, d. Sep. 22, 1869, dau. of Derick liam: Thomas, m. Willomptje Albertson, and Sarah [Cock] Thorneycraft, and gr.- dau. of Derick and Dinah [Coles] Albert- Thomas Thorneycraft, dau. of Peter and Helena [Downing] son) ; son of who Thorneycra)ft and of Zoar and Ruth was on list of inhabitants of Warwick R. [? Travis] Cock, and had children other I. 1648, d. before 1690 at Maspeth Kills than Milton: Emma, m. Harvey C. Coles. L. I., leaving John Townsend of Oyster- Benjamin W., m. Martha Bull, and Sarah bay as executor of est. Wife's name not it Cornelia, spinster) ; son of Wright Thor- mentioned, nor is positively known neycraft, b. Jan. 1st, 1754, d. Mar. 7, 1S21, whether there were other children than ensign in Capt. Daniel Cock's co. in the William, but Dr. Peter Townsend asserts district of Muskoba Cove, Queens co. N. that there was a dau., who having incurred Y. June 13, 1776 (m. Judith White, b. at the displeasure of the Dutch government, Oyster Bay June 23, 1761, d. Sep. 4, 1856, probably account of favoring Quakers, was dau. of Simon and Phebe [Wright] White, imprisoned and subsequently released at and gr.-dau. of Edward and Mary the intervention of John Townsend. The [Cooper] White, and had one child other daughter's name may have been Ann, and than Simon: Oliver, m. Esther Titus); son she became wife of Joseph Carpenter Jr. of of Thomas of Lattingtown and Musketa Musketa Cove. Cove L. I., will dated 1803 (m. 1764 Mary Frost, dau. of Wright and Freelove "PLEET, SAMUEL VAN WYCK of [Coles] Frost, and gr.-dau. of Wright and -L Oyster Bay N. Y., b. Aug. 31. 1851 Mary [Underbill] Frost, and of Benjamin (m. Anna Youngs McCoun, b. May 1853, and P.hebe [Simkins] Coles, and had chil- dau. of William Sidney and Hannah Maria dren other than Wright: James, m. ITan- [Youngs] McCoun, and gr.-dau. of Vice- nah Doty, Freelove, m. Abraham Chancellor William Townsend and Emma Probasco, Darius and Anne); son of [Jackson] McCoun, and of Daniel and Thomas of Musketa Cove, b. Jan. 28, Catharine [Tobias] Youngs, and had chil- 1708-9 (m. June 2, 1731 Elizabeth Wood of dren: Cecile, Henry Youngs, Samuel Van Musketa Cove, prob. dau. of James and Wyck, David Jones, Gilbert Sidney ISIc- son of John, b. Apr. 12, 1818, d. Ruth [ ] Wood, and gr.-dau. of John Coun); Wood of Littleworth L. I., and had chil- Sep. 29, 1852 (m. Nov. 20, 1839 Margairetta dren other than Thomas: perhaps Solo- Silleck, b. July 15, 1817. d. Oct. 16. 187.), mon, ni. I9t Frances Alsop and 2d dau. of John and Mary [Reynolds] Silleck. and Sarah Hannah Weekcs) ; son of William Thor- and gr.-dau. of Ebenezer neycraft of Musketa Cove (m. 170S Mary [Slawson] Silleck and of James and Eliza- Coles, dau. of Robert and Mercy [Weight] beth [Weeks] Reynolds, and had children Coles, and gr.-dau. of Robert and Mary other 'blian Samuel: Mary Kate, Henry, [Hawxhurst] Coles, and of Nicholas and Lydia Maverick); son of Henry, b.
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