DESCENDANTS of A.BRA.HAM HAPTONSTALL and RACHEL PRICE Compiled by J. Dean Bacon, 7010 Oglesby Ave., Chicago, Illinois. THE BACON GENEALOGY PREFACE Fortunate. and justly proud is that boy or girl who can look up to his father and mother with a feeling of unqualified and well deserved admiration. If they can also look back with the same pride to their grandfathers and grandmothers, they will feel so much more the satisfaction of being -well-bred. But that boy or girl, man or woman, who knows his or her people for ten or more generations back, and knows them . to have been men and women of great strength of character, should feel a thrill of not only tremendous pride, but also one of tremendous responsibility; for connected with them is the unbroken chain of many noble lineages, and to them come the burden of keeping this chain unbroken and the record unmarred. To You DONALD DEWITT BACON and LOIS LAVONNE BACON comes this heFitage of pride and of responsibility; for since the Family of BACON, whose name you bear, landed in America in 1640, and on back thru the centuries in England, the genealogy is unbroken, until now the line rests on you. And when you can add to this the enviable records of the many allied lines as hereafter recorded, yours is indeed a record to reverence and enjoy. We therefore take great pleasure in dedicating to you this assembled record, and trust and believe that it will be referred to on down thru the years with an ever growing interest. Daniel Webster, at Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 22, 1820, said, "Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of alliance with excellence which has departed; and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and conduct, and even in its sentiments, it may be actively operating on the happiness of those who come after it." JOHN DEAN BACON. DOW PATTERSON BACON. (3) THE BACON GENEALOGY NUMBERING SYSTEM EXPLAINED. The first numbers on the left indicate the generation: Donald & Lois Bacon as 1. Examples: 111-1 Donald De Witt Bacon; 413-8 David Struthers. The next number to the right indicates the relation to direct Ancestry. Examples: 513-1 James Struthers; in direct Ancestral Line of_ the Compiler. 333-7-1 Hon. Francis Murdoch; two generations from common Ancestor. The next numbers to the right, or those to the left of the-indicate the Family number. Examples: 311-4 Dow Patterson BACON; the Family name of the Compiler. 413-8 David STRUTHERS; the third name in the Line of Families. The numbers to the right of the - indicate each childs respective position in the line of birth; also the same for each successive-. · Examples: 153-2-5-7-2 Doris Hayes McMaster; the 2 child of the 7 child of the 5 child of the 2 child of the common Ancestor. Thus 153-2-5-7-2 means that Doris Hayes McMaster is in the 1 generation, or the same as Donald & Lois Bacon; fifth in line from the common Ancestor, James Struthers; a member of the 3 or Struthers Family; Namely, second child of 243-2-5-7 Guy Allan McMaster, who is the seventh child of 333-2-5 David Struthers McMaster, who is t~e fifth child of 423-2 Anne Struthers, McMaster, who is the second child of 513-1 James Struthers the common Ancestor. • The numbers appearing on the right side of the sheet refer to so-called page number of a DIRECT Ancestor of Donald & Lois Bacon and the order of their relative standing, the paternal side having order of preference. It has not seemed feasible to compile an index, other than of common or direct Ancestors, as the Genealogy itself is mainly only an index with no elaborate data supplied for each individual as in many Genealogies. Let us state here that corrections or additions will be welcomed by the Compiler, and will be included in future editions in an Appendix. (4) THE BACON GENEALOGY INDEX DIRECT ANCESTRY OF DONALD DEWITT & LOIS LAVONNE BACON. Number Name Dates Page -211-1 JOHN DEAN BACON 1894-19 1 212-3 HELEN :MURRAY McKIE 1894-19 2 311-5 DOW PATTERSON BACON 1867-19 3 313-4 NELLE JANE STRUTHERS 1868-19 4 312-1 WILLIAM VANCE McKIE 1863-19 5 314-2 SUSAN PRUDENCE MILLER 1870-19 6 411-5 JOHN DEAN BACON 1816-1886 7 415-8 AMANDA MELVINA PATTERSON 1824-1890 8 412-6 THOMAS McKIE 1816-1883 9 416-2 AGNES FERGUSON 1824-1891 10 413-8 DAVID STRUTHERS i814-1873 11 417-9 FRANCES MARSHALL RAMBO 1834-1920 12 414-3 ALONZO JONATHAN MILLER 1841-1919 13 418-2 EMMA LOUISE GRUMAN 1843-1913 14 511-1 ABNER BACON, JR. 1781-1860 15 519-1 MARTHA BLACKMAN 1780-1853 16 512-1 *WILLIAM McKIE 17 -18 17 5110-1 *JANET McMURRAY 17 -18 18 513-1 *JAMES STRUTHERS 1769-1859 19 5111-1 *MARY WATSON 1773-1858 20 514-1 ALONZO GREEN MILLER 1810-1895 21 5112-5 PRUDENCE GOFF 1809-1865 22 515-1 *DAVID PATTERSON 17 -18 23 5113-1 *ASENETH \VARNER 17 -18 24 516-1 . *JOHN FERGUSON 17 -18 25 5114-1 *MARY DAVISON 17 -18 26 517-1 *REUBEN RAMBO 1792-1854 27 5115-6 CHARITY HAPTONSTALL 1795-1849 28 518-3 THOMAS A. GRUMAN 1812-1871 29 5116-4 SUSAN EMELINE DELAND 18 -18 30 611-9 CAPTAIN ABNER BACON 1758-1832 31 6117-11 EVE LEWIS 1759-1798 32 614-5 ISAAC MILLER 1791-1872 37 6120-1 IRENE GREEN 1791-1856 38 618-1 WILLIAM GRUMAN 1774-1852 45 6124-1 *MERCY RAYMOND 1782-1841 46 619-1 *SAMUEL BLACKMAN 1736-1820 47 6125-7 PHEBE BABCOCK 1755-1839 48 6112-1 JONATHAN GOFF 1757-1840 53 6128-8 LYDIA HARDING 1774-1834 54 6115-1 ABRAHAM HAPTONSTALL 1759-1847 59 6131-1 *RACHEL PRICE 17 -1834 60 6116-10 LEVI DELAND 1780-1839 61 6132-1 *POLLY DELAND 17 -1850 62 - *Denotes the last known Ancestor in that line. Additional data to extend these lines is earnestly solicited. (5) THE HAPTONSTALL GENEALOGY HAPTONSTALL The name has been defined: HAPT or Haupt,----Exalted chieftain; ON-of----hav­ ing to do with, or directing; STALL----a high or elevated station or office. Hence HAPTONSTALL----an Overseer, or more particularly one who gives direction to others, and at the same time personally sees that his orders are carried out. This is a word originally introduced in Scandinavia by the Goths and Vandals who over-ran all of Northern Europe about 1150 and left HAPTONSTALL, a vice regent, to look over sub­ jugated tribes. ABRAHAM HAPTONSTALL 59 Revolutionery War Record -and other data verifying subsequent lineage: ·Rev. War Records, Department of the Interior. F. W. S. F. 32, 392. Bureau of Pensions. Mr. Edward A. Claypool, 952 N. Clark St., Chicago. Washington, D. C. March 19, 1913. In reply to yours of the 7th, for a statement of the military history of Abraham Haptonstall, a soldier of The Revolutionery War, as per Pension Record. Engaged in battle of Fort Montgomery. Enlisted from Orange County, New York_.. Pension applied for April 24, 1833. Claim allowed. Residence Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio. Date of birth April 6, 1761, Orange County, New York. Under date of Jan. 12, 1843, soldier stated that he moved to Knox County, Illinois with his son-in-law (name of daughter and son-in-law not stated). Signed J. L. Davenport, Commissioner. War Service: Three months as private under Capt. Thomas Moffatt in 1775. Same under Capt. Seth Marvin in 1776. Nine months under Capt. Thomas Moffatt and Col. Nathaniel Woodhull. Six months under Capt. Francis Smith in 1777. Pension claim shows his residence during service and until 1779 as Orange Co., N. Y.; New Jersey 18 months; New York until 1783; Greenbrier County, West Virginia until 1816; Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio from 1816 and still there in 1833. Treasury Depart­ ment Records show that he lived in Gallia County, Ohio from March 4, 1831 to Sept. 4, 1842, and in Knox County, Illinois from Sept. 4, 1842 to 1847. Monument in Russell Cemetery, Haw Creek Township, Knox County, Illinois, carved by his own hand and erected by Charity Rambo, give·s date of death as Oct. 22, 1847. Tradition reports that he fought under ·"Mad Anthony Wayne". Before going into battle troops were all required to be clean shaven and powdered. ANCESTRY Three brothers John, Isaac & Abraham Haptonsta,11 came from Copenhagen, Denmark to Orange County, New York. John and Isaac in 1692 and Abraham in 1694. The record of this family is closely linked with that of the Taylor family as evidence the Will of Hancock Taylor; excerpts: Item, I give and bequeath to my friend Abraham Haptonstall and his heirs and assignees forever one thousand acres of land purchased of Alexander Waugh (reported present site of Louisvil,le, Kentucky). Item, I give and bequeath to Willis Lee (my cousin) and Abraham Haptonstall and their heirs and assigns forever two-thirds part of all my land lying on the Western Waters ( except five hundred acres pur­ chased of Alexander Waugh) also the same proportion of the different sums of money due me for surveying, chain carrying, looking out land etc. Lastly, I do nominate and appoint Willis Lee and Abraham Haptonstall executors to this my last wiH and testament. Signed Hancock Taylor July 9, 1774.