Cknti^erkinMsmatrnXeia Seriesjr 1^. Your President asks your patience while 3/4 To what C family belong Thomas, recovering rroru a snapped tendon in nqr 21, living with Thomas Kolbert, writing hand; it has slowed down every- i'-iarion Co., bastern I;ist.,fr2l, VA (VI Va) tning 1 undertake, eBpeciaiiy correspond (1850 census); and James, 19, living ence, with Samuel uooper, same county and district (ibid). V^hat was the relation A.C.O, ship between the C, Hoibert and Cooper families between 1820 and 1850? Piy gr- grandfather, Raymond C, in 1850 was living with John B. Hoibert in Taylor ^Ui:;Rli>S Co.,Va (Vv' Va). In 1870 and 1880 Iowa census, Scr.uyier Co.,1.0., Thomas C, ca This section is primarily intended to be 40, was living there; buried in Coates- a service to the members of the CAA; vilie, Schuyler Go. Cemetery,close to non-members may have queries published Gr-grandfather Raymond, Is he a at a cost of $?• for a maxiBium of six brother of Raymond or member of another lines; additional lines, $1. each. family? Thomas and his parents were bom in VA (1880 census). Queries will be accepted for publication and responses forwarded after members' ' 3/5 Seek data on Griffin C. C, born CAA fomis have been completed and t hen in VAj mar. Elizabeth Brooks 1 Jan. compared with CAA records; this has 1810 in VA (Richmond?). He was oldest become necessary as some misinformation child of JaiJies C. C^riffm C.; removed to would otherwise be passas along, did CAA •. Kentucl^y around 1818 and later settled not catch it first. ; in Illinois. Also want data on James. Was JajTies an immigrant as late as 1775? In replying to tnese inquiries, please Griffin C. was in Cumberland Co,,KY. address your letters to the Edgartown • P.O.Box; be sure to include the number 3/6 Where and when were John M. Rusk of the query to which you are responding; and wife :>ajiiantha C Rusk buried? the information will be checked against They were in DeWitt Co., 11, in i860; CAA records, then sent along to the some of their children moved west to inquirers, ana wiii oe carded as well, Kansas and Oregon; did parents follow? "C" is always to be read "Chamberlain" in its various spellings, : 3/7 Need proof that Emily Warren Alien, D. 18J2 in Smithfield, Bradford Co., 3/1 Seek parents of Augustus C, who m. t PA, was dau. of Jonathan Allen Anna C. Sarah Wyman lA Feb. 1813 in Franklin,' Anna was dau. of Calvin C and .nnna War VT (per Vitj ren, r.Ar. 12 Jan. 17V4 m Dudley, V/orc. Co.jKA. Other known children of Jonathan Is anyone working on the Cs in No, • and Anna were'lrianosa, b. ca 1830; Meansin, Carolina and southeastern Virginia o. c« J.833; Edwin A,, b, Nov. 1837, mar. at the time of the Revolution? J Sabrina(—), moved to keagher bo.,KT; Calvin , b. ca 1838, moved to MT; Jane, 3/3 Woiild a descendant of Colby C, in f b. ca 1840; Emerson, b. ca 1844, mar. Clean, Cattaraugus Co,,NY, like a \ Mary (-—), lived in hissoula, KT in icture of him? 1 have one, ■ 1900; and Helen, b. ca 1847# 2. SECOND GENERATION children and co-heirs of Benjamin Chamber lain, late of Colchester, deceased, sold to 'our brother' Daniel Chamberlain, of Children of Richard^ Chamberlain Colchester, all the rights which we have See the Newsletter for May 1981 in any land in the Province of ^iassachu- 2 setts Bay that did belong to our honoured BEN JAl'llN C HA^:£ERIAIN father Benjamin Chamberlain, late of Col bapt 4 4itt 166$ (Rev, bliot •s Roxoury, chester, or that might accrue to the heirs Mass. Ctuccn Record) of our said father.,,in consideration of married Sarah Baul (ball) 5 June 16?? in service done m the former Indian war at Sudbury, Mass. (Sudbury VR) a place called the Falls above Deerfield.,,. died before 29 March 1V;^V, the date of a Daniel sold this 'right' to James Scovell, need which also helps to prove some of Colchester. The service referred to was of his children, and their marriages; rendered first in Captain Poole's Company see below. in the Connecticut Valley in 167$ - King Philip's 'war; he received for it ^-13-8, "Benjamin resided some years after his 20 December 167$; he also served in Captain father's death at SudDury, having real Turner's company in the "Falls fight," 19 estate there; 33 l/2 acres of this he Fiay 1676, and m the garrison at Hadley in sold 2$ May 168$, and 80 acres more 20 another engagement, for which he received June 1696, He removed to Oxford (Mass.) 6 6-12, ^d was one of its leading founders when its formal settlement came to pass about "The date of his death is not known,,,." 1713; was one of the conaiiittee to sell lots to settlers; 'one of the most (This account is based on material in the honored of the proprietors,' says the OAA files, ana quotec from a biography historian of the town. After some years he put togther years ago by at least three removed to Colchester, Conn,, where some researchers, among whom was Charles Pope, ofJthe _descendant s _ oiLHenry C hamberlin, Your Editor has not checked all these data, of Hingham, were already established. beyond vital records, as this would re Before going he sold considerable of his quire research into deeds which are not Oxford property, 3 March I720/I he made a available in NYC. iiiyone compiling a history deed of gift to his grandson Abraham Skin of this family would be well advised to ner, of a sixty-acre lot in Oxford Village, double check; Liber and page numbers should lying upon a hiil called Prospect Hill, really be cited in any published work, being the 20th lot in the second division, George K. Bodge's "Soldiers in King Philip's etc, 31 May 1723he and his wil*e Sarah 1 War,." 1896 , is generally considered a conveyed to Samuel Davis of Roxbury, for i good authority for service In the Indian i»2$0, 'all our housing and lands in Oxford,.! Wars. my Homestead containing one hundred and 1 Editor) fifty acres,'on the highway to Brookfield, j etc.; also other tracts of upland and meadowl Children: He had also joined with his son John in f 3 sale of a sixty-acre lot on Prospect Hill |Benjami^n born 29 June i679 at Sudbury, to Ebenezer Learned, 26 December 1720. I Registered a "s Benjamin & Sarah" (SVR) "He was a soldier in Colonial service and | no further record is known had a right in a township of land set apart ] for the soldiers, as the following deed of i Sarah' born 14 Dec, I68I (Ibid) his children shows; made after his death at Colchester, Conn., 29 March I737, John J Abigail com lO April 1683 (Ibid) Chamberlain, Jonathan Tillotson and Rebecca married Abraham Skinner; his wife, and Abraham Skinner and Abigail removed to Colchester, Conn, his wife, all of Colchester, Conn,, said 3 John, Abigail and Rebecca being some of the John' born 30 tiarch I686 (Ibid) married (I) Ruth Home married (2) Patience Fuller 3. Daniel? born ca I690~i6y5? Not acquired considerable property. He was registered in Sudbury one of the first board of selectmen of married JiLizabeth Brown of Oxford, hendon, Kass.,"in Hendon," 11 April 171B (Oxford VR) "His will, dated 24 March 1720/1, was 3 proved at Boston U April 1722. He gave Rebecca born ca 169'? Not registered his son Joseph 25 acres of land at the in Sudbury south end of his home-iot and farm, and married Jonathan 'iillotson; another tract of i2 acres; bo son Wath- removed to Colchester, Conn, anial, a lot of 12 acres; the rest of The marriage was registered his lands and buildings, cows, oxen, in Lyme, Conn. (LVR) 19 implements, etc., he gave to his sons August I'/Oy Benjamin ana Simon, whom he made execu tors, they to pay all legacies, debts and (The marriages of John Chamberlain funeral expenses. To his granddaughter were not fojmd in the published VR of Sibbil Rocket, a cow; to granddaughter relevant towns; the name of his first Elizabeth, Nathaniel*s daughter, a cow; wife IS usually found in print; the to Nathaniel's son Richard tlO when he second marriage appears in Charuberlam is 16 years old; to his grandson Nathan data; here again, deeds as well as Rannie, son to Nathan Kannie, sometime ptbaie may hold answers. That this one of Oxford, h lO when 15 years old; to deed can prove so much clearly esta daughter Rebecca a cow; to son iitoenezer blishes the value of such records and or his heirs B5 when he or they shall how they can fill a void when vital stand in need of it; to granddaughter statistics per se are missing. Patience, son Joseph's daughter, a cow; iJXiitor ) to son Joseph the biackish grey mare; to daughter Hannah Rocket the grey mare, she to give the first colt to Nathaniel; to son Benjamin the young, black horse JOSJJiRH CHAl-lBbRLAlN |colt; to 'my youngest son Simon," the bay bapt U June 1665 at Roxbury (Rev. f mare, her first colt tobe for Benjamin. lUliot^s Koxbury Church Record) | The entire property was appraised at roamed Hannah Gilbert 28 October 16»2 I ^ 3C6-13-6, of which £220 was for the at Sudbury (SVK) « homestead , outlands ana buildings, died 8 August 1721 at Oxford, hass.