GUIDE TO THE JAMES FULLERTON TROTT PAPERS AT THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Abstract: James Fullerton Trott (1815-1898) ran a hotel from 1846 to 1886 and served on the Board of Education in Niagara Falls, New York. He was also an amateur genealogist and historian. The James Fullerton Trott papers contain notebooks and other documents on his ancestry, with genealogies and notes on the Winslow, Trott, Whitney, Gardner, and other families. The collection also includes notes and a scrapbook on ancient history, ancient languages, and related topics. Collection dates: 1844-2004 Volume: 0.83 linear ft. (2 boxes) Repository: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Call Number: Mss 1047 Copyright ©2013 by New England Historic Genealogical Society. All rights reserved. Reproductions are not to be used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research. James Fullerton Trott Papers Mss 1047 FAMILY HISTORY NOTE A copy of the genealogy with citations is available in NEHGS Special Collections. Names in bold represent creators of documents in this collection. 3 2 1 1. JAMES FULLERTON TROTT, the son of Benjamin Trott (Benjamin ) and Mehitable Sewall, was born 20 September 1778, and died 24 November 1822. He married in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 22 September 1808, ELIZABETH JANE WINSLOW, the daughter of John Winslow and Ann Gardner. She was born in Boston, on 11 April 1792, and died in Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., on 21 September 1875. James F. Trott and his family lived on Purchase Street, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was a ship captain, and he owned several vessels. One of his ships was captured by the British during the War of 1812. By 1828, his widow, Elizabeth J. (Winslow) Trott, ran a boarding house on Pearl Street in Boston. Children: 4 i. MARY ANN WINSLOW TROTT, b. Boston, 25 June 1809, bp. at Old South Church in Boston, 6 August 1809, d. Woburn, Mass., 2 April 1883. ii. ELIZABETH JANE TROTT, b. 18 March 1811, bp. Old South Church in Boston, 22 March 1812, d. Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York, 17 October 1891, bur. Woburn, Mass. iii. CAROLINE SEWELL TROTT, b. 10 May 1813, bp. Old South Church in Boston, 11 July 1813, d. Boston, 1 June 1844. (2) iv. JAMES FULLERTON TROTT, b. 25 March 1815; m. CELINDA ELIZA WHITNEY. v. JOHN WINSLOW TROTT, b. 6 April 1817, bp. by Rev. Joshua Huntington, probably at the Old South Church, 9 November 1817, d. Boston, 13 October 1826. vi. ANDREW GARDNER TROTT, b. 18 April 1819, bp. Old South Church in Boston, 13 June 1819, d. 8 July 1820. vii. ROSANNA WHITMAN GARDNER TROTT, b. 23 May 1821, bp. by Benjamin B. Wisner at the Trott home on Purchase Street in Boston, 20 January 1823, d. Yorkville, York County, South Carolina, 7 August 1898; m. Yorkville, S.C., 18 November 1845, JOHN FRANKLIN LINDSAY. They lived in Yorkville. 4 3 2-1 2. JAMES FULLERTON TROTT (James Fullerton , Benjamin ) was born on 25 March 1815, and he was baptized by Rev. Joshua Huntington of the Old South Church in Boston on 28 May 1815. He died in Niagara Falls, N.Y. on 26 October 1898. He married, at the Cataract House in Niagara Falls, N.Y., on 9 September 1844, CELINDA ELIZA WHITNEY, the daughter of Parkhurst Whitney and Eliza Cowing. She was born on 12 July 1817, and died at her home, 259 Ontario Street in Niagara Falls, N.Y., on 4 January 1892. 2 James Fullerton Trott Papers Mss 1047 FAMILY HISTORY NOTE (continued) 4 2. JAMES FULLERTON TROTT (continued) After his education in Boston, James Fullerton4 Trott spent several years in New York City. He then moved to Niagara Falls, where he married his wife, Celinda Eliza Whitney. They lived in Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, and Bellevue, Jackson County, Iowa, before returning to Niagara Falls, N.Y. In 1846, Trott joined the firm of Whitney, Jerauld & Co., which ran the Cataract House hotel. This hotel had been previously owned by Celinda (Whitney) Trott’s father, Parkhurst Whitney. James F. Trott retired from Whitney, Jerauld & Co. in 1886. Trott was also a member of the Niagara Falls Board of Education for forty-eight years, beginning in 1848, and he was involved in improving the local schools. He was also the supervisor of the town of Niagara Falls for six years. Children: 5 i. JOHN WINSLOW TROTT, b. 21 February 1847, d. Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital, Niagara Falls, N.Y., 15 October 1920; m. 7 November 1870, CAROLINE ALICE BABCOCK of Homer, New York. ii. JAMES PARKHURST TROTT, b. 4 April 1849, d. at the Trott home on Main Street in Niagara Falls, N.Y., 15 June 1916. iii. ELIZABETH CELINDA TROTT, b. 8 February 1851, d. Niagara Falls, N.Y., 26 August 1912. She was a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. She published an article on her ancestry in the American Monthly Magazine in 1894. iv. SOLON WHITNEY TROTT, b. 10 April 1854; d. 17 January 1856. v. MARY CHILTON TROTT, b. 28 September 1859; d. 20 January 1865. 3 James Fullerton Trott Papers Mss 1047 SCOPE AND CONTENT This collection contains research notebooks, scrapbooks, and other documents created or collected by James Fullerton Trott (1815-1898). Most of the collection focuses on his genealogical research, but the collection also contains several notebooks and a scrapbook on various historical subjects. Most of the notebooks include an index to subjects, as well as cross- references to other notebooks and scrapbooks. These cross-references indicate that some of Trott’s notebooks and scrapbooks are missing from our collection. The collection is arranged in three series. The first series, Genealogy, includes several notebooks on the ancestry of James Fullerton Trott or his wife, Celinda Eliza (Whitney) Trott. The notebooks contain compiled genealogies, notes, newspaper clippings, and some pictures, as well as transcriptions of probate records, letters, and other original documents. The genealogical notebooks focus on the Winslow, Trott, Whitney, and Gardner families; they also contain information on the Bigelow, Cowing, Green, Parkhurst, Penhallow, and Pierce families. The genealogy series also includes some loose documents on these families. This series contains extensive information on the Winslow family, focusing on the descendants of John Winslow (1597-1674) and Mary Chilton of the Mayflower. In addition to genealogies of this Winslow family, the notebooks and papers in the Genealogy series include transcriptions of a letter from Sarah (Winslow) Deming to Joshua Winslow (originally written in 1775), transcriptions of letters between Anna (Green) Winslow and Sarah Coverly (originally written between 1788 and 1808), a transcription of the 1773 diary of Anna (Green) Winslow (Mrs. Joshua Winslow), as well as transcriptions of several probate records for the Winslow family. The Genealogy series also includes several documents that were collected by or written by James Fullerton Trott’s daughter, Elizabeth C. Trott. These items include the transcription of the 1773 diary of Mrs. Joshua Winslow, a document on the Mayflower ancestors of Eliza Celinda (Whitney) Trott, and a photograph. The second series of this collection, Notes on ancient history, languages, and other subjects, contains five notebooks and a scrapbook by James Fullerton Trott. These books contain notes and newspaper clippings on wide variety of topics, including the Ancient Romans, Etruscans, Phoenicians, ancient languages, ancient religions and myths, Native Americans, and the early history of North and Central America. The notebooks and scrapbook also contain some information on the colonial history of Boston and Massachusetts, as well as the history of the Niagara Falls area. Most of the notebooks contain an index to subjects, and cross-references to notes on similar topics. The third series, Graphics, contains a painting and three photographs, all related to family history. The painting, now damaged, depicts the Trott family coat of arms, and was probably by Elizabeth Jane Trott, the sister of James Fullerton Trott. The photographs are related to the Whitney and Winslow families. 4 James Fullerton Trott Papers Mss 1047 ORGANIZATION Series I. Genealogy Series II. Notes on ancient history, languages, and other subjects Series III. Graphics RELATED COLLECTION(S) Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts: Anna Green Winslow diary, 1773. Ms. S-819. Sarah Winslow Deming journal, 1775. Ms. S-843 (photocopy and transcription), Special Colls. Loose mss. Deming (original). William H. B. Thomas Collection of Winslow and Thomas family papers, 1697-1853. Ms. N-2275 (oversize). ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Restrictions: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections material is non- circulating, requires staff retrieval, and is available to NEHGS members (Research level and above) during normal library hours. Provenance: Gift; 2004 September 9; Accession #2004-100 Processing Information: 2013 March; Sally Benny Preferred Citation: James Fullerton Trott Papers, Mss 1047, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society. 5 James Fullerton Trott Papers Mss 1047 FOLDER LIST Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note the collection name and call number along with the box and folder numbers shown below on a manuscript request form. Folder Description Document Physdesc Folder Box Date(s) # # Series I. Genealogy Autobiography of James F. Trott, written in 1861 March [14] p. 1 1 March 1861, with a transcription of journal entries for 1832 July-December. “Copy of Trott genealogy,” handwritten, from Undated [3] p. 2 1 M.A.W. Trott. Written in or after 1863 August. Page from an unknown scrapbook and notes. 1876-1879 [4] p. 3 1 Includes notes on a school library, a transcription of a 1775 letter from Mrs. Sarah Deming to Joshua Winslow, articles on the early history of North America, and a death notice for George N. Davis. Notebook: Winslow, Gardner, Trott, Whitney 1881-1891 1 vol.