Miller, Faber b. 1905

Jabez Dewey b. 1755

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Jabez Dewey born in 1755, probably in Connecticut, had joined the American Revolution by 1776 at age 21. He fought in the Battle of Harlem Heights, September 1776. The  battle was the first real victory of General Washington. “Upon receiving Washington’s orders to return to their lines, the troops gave a loud -huzzah- and left the field in good order.” Page 86, Johnston, Battle of Harlem Heights, 1897.

Jabez’s next battle was at Fort Washington in November 1776 and one of the worst defeats in the Revolution. Jabez along with 2,837 men were captured by the British then held on a prisoner of war ship. He died on this war ship probably in 1776. In his short life Jabez didn’t marry and didn’t see America freed from British rule. Forward to November 16, 1901 a dedication of a Fort Washington monument, Jabez’s relative Admiral George Dewey is recognized for his accomplishments in the Spanish American War. Page 21, Sons of the American Revolution, Fort Washington 1902

This Dewey family in America descended from Thomas Dewey b. 1613 and is researched well in: Dewey, Adelbert M. Life of George Dewey, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.; And Dewey Family History Westfield, Mass.: Dewey publishing company, 1898

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William Newcomb Gaines b. 1825

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William was born Nov 16, 1825 in Madison county New York, he died May 16 1907 in Lane, Oregon and is buried in Janesville, Iowa. He was the sixth child of Obed and Leydia Connable Gaines born after triplets Abigail, Lydia and Obed. William was either adopted or ‘bound out to’ his mom’s first cousin Samuel Newcomb. With Samuel, an early Mormon, William went to Salt Lake Territory in 1850. By 1854 he was married to Sarah Swain and living in Bremer County, Iowa. William was a hotel proprietor, a postmaster, a farmer, an assessor and a carpenter. He and Sarah had 6 children. William in the History of Butler and Bremer Counties.
The 1860 Agricultural census shows William producing 200 lbs. of maple sugar or syrup. William probably had no idea that his great great grandfather Samuel Connable was most likely the person who refined or engineered the way to extract maple syrup: History of Bernardston and The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, And Literature for the Year
William was a widow at age 64. At 70 he lived with his son and family in Wadena Minnesota. At 75 he was living with a daughter in Lane, Oregon.

Obed Gaines married Leydia Connable > William Newcomb Gaines married Sarah Swain > Mary Ella Gaines married James Davis Miller  > William Earl Miller married Lola Miller > Faber Miller married Gladys Cable Miller.

Abraham Bowman b. 1745

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Abraham Bowman 7th great grandfather on RootsMagic tree

Abraham Bowman was born about 1745 in Lancaster County Pennsylvania.  He married Christina around 1765. On tax lists in 1779 his property included 200 acres of land, 2 horses, 3 cattle. That same year Abraham is on the Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863. a handwritten list of Lancaster County residents. 

Abraham was in the American Revolution, a private in the Lancaster County Militia. He died in January 1786.  On January 17, 1786, “an inventory and appraisal of the goods of Abraham Bowman, lately deceased, amounted to 315 pounds, 4 shillings, including a library of thirteen books in addition to the family Bible”. He left his estate to his widow Christina and children.

Sources

  • Abraham Bowman’s estate, inventory in Notes on the Bowman, Harter and Sauer families by Kenneth Scott at FamilySearch.org
  • Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 at Ancestry
  • A roster of revolutionary ancestors of the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution at FamilySearch

Abigail Smith b. 1638

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Abigail Smith 8th great grandfather of Faber W Miller b. 1905 who married Gladys Miller b. 1913
August 26, 1657:Addams, John. Court Record, Page 104 26 August, 1657: A Coppy of a Certificate undr the names of these subscribed. These are to certify any to whom it may come, that our Children John Addams and Abigail Smith have our full Consent to be marryed together, and wee know no engagemt of either party to any other. As witness our Hands: RICH: SMITH, JER: ADDAMS. These may certify whom it may concerne, that John Addams and Abigail Smith are lawfully marryed, by Order from their parents. As Witness our Hands in the pressence of Thomas Newman, Magistrate: John Lord. Richard Smith, Secretary: Josias Gilbert.
Detail
Volume 1 Page 92, Probate Records Volume II 1650 to 1663
Abigail Smith (1638 – 1689) > Rebecca Adams (1658 – 1716) > Samuel Risley (1679 – 1756) > Richard Risley (1709 – 1792) > Prudence Risley (1735 – 1816) > Joseph Gaines (1756 – 1841) > Obed Gaines (1793 – 1877) > William Newcomb Gaines (1825 – 1907) > Mary Ella Gaines (1855 – 1917) > William Earl Miller (1879 – 1949) > Faber W Miller (1905 – 1957) m. Gladys Cable 1913 – 1991

Robert Hale b. 1607

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Robert Hale 10th great grandfather on RootsMagic tree.

Robert Hale came to America in 1630, maybe with the Winthrop Fleets. He married Joanna (maybe last name Cutter) they had children and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Joanna and Robert were founding members of the Charlestown Church of Christ, Robert was a Deacon. He was admitted to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. History of the military company, volume 1 page 137 at HathiTrust

Hale, Robert 1644 Massachusetts

He wrote his will  on June 26, 1647 and his estate was settled December 27, 1659 with an inventory. He owned books, a big thing in 1659. ”My will is that my sons be brought up in learning and then be put to such trades, my daughters Mary and Joanna the remaining parts, pastor may have next swarm of bees”. Robert’s lands included farms, orchards, meadows, livestock and bees. His son John was the minister at Beverly who first supported then condemned the Salem witch trials. Further down this branch is Nathan Hale the Am. Revolution spy executed by the British.

Robert Hale (1607 – 1659)
Mary Hale (1639 – 1696)
William Wilson (1660 – 1732)
Mary Wilson (1690 – 1759)
Samuel Connable (1717 – 1796)
Elizabeth Connable (1757 – 1821)
Samuel Newcomb (1794 – 1879)
William Newcomb Gaines (1825 – 1907)
Mary Ella Gaines (1855 – 1917)
William Miller (1879 – 1949)
Faber W Miller (1905 – 1957)

Thomas Bulkeley b. 1617

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Thomas Bulkeley 18 and his family left England in 1634 or 35: “No doubt the long drawn out enrollments and the lack of effort to standardize spelling of the name were reflections of the family’s attempt to board the ship without being apprehended” from The Great Migration Vol 1 page 464. Thomas’s father Peter, a Puritan minister  had issues with the Church of England and Archbishop Laud, one of many, who left for New England. The Bulkeleys settled in Concord, Massachusetts and were part of a solid Puritan community.

In 1637 there were breaks in the Puritan community, Anne Hutchinson was part of it. Rev. Peter Bulkeley called her the devil. The breakdown was the Antinomian Controversy.  At an Ecclesiastical Council Reverend Bulkeley,  Reverend John Jones, John Cotton and others agreed to carry on and compromise.

In 1640 Thomas married Sarah Jones, the daughter of the Reverend John Jones. Rev. Buckeley and Rev. Jones were friends, the families were happy with the marriage.

In 1644 Reverend John Jones had to leave Concord he couldn’t abide by the religious beliefs. He left for Fairfield, Connecticut, many families left with Reverend Jones. Reverend Bulkeley in Concord was left with about 30 followers. Thomas and Sarah had to choose a side, his dad’s or her dad’s they chose her dad Reverend Jones’s side and moved to Fairfield.

Antinomian Controversy was huge in early America. My very basic understanding with no offense or expertise intended, it was the Covenant of Works -do this and you are saved- VS the Covenant of Grace -Christ did this so all are saved-. The whole story is at Wikipedia with 139 source citations.

Thomas Bulkeley (1617 – 1658)
Sarah Bulkeley (1640 – 1723)
Rebecca Brown (1684 – 1768)
Mary English (1715 – 1791)
John Connable (1749 – 1813)
Obed Gaines (1793 – 1877)
William Newcomb Gaines (1825 – 1907)
Mary Ella Gaines (1855 – 1917)
William Earl Miller (1879 – 1949)
Faber W Miller (1905 – 1957)

Esther Ballard b. 1632

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Esther Ballard 10th great grandmother on RootsMagic tree

Esther/Hester sailed, on the James, with her parents and younger brother from a London port to Lynn, Massachusetts on July 13, 1635. Page 107 of this book: The original lists of persons of quality, emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others, who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 at HathiTrust.

Esther married Joseph Jenckes they had at least 7 children.  Their son Joseph Jenckes was Governor of Rhode Island from 1727-1732 his story at Wikipedia.

At about age 18 Esther was one of 4 people fined for wearing silver or silver lace. In Colonial New England, wearing silver was a crime for plain citizens, those making less than 200 pounds. The colony followed  Sumptuary law, description at Wikipedia. “If bourgeois subjects appeared to be as wealthy or wealthier than the ruling nobility, it could undermine the nobility’s presentation of themselves as powerful, legitimate rulers”.

Page 99 of this book: The history of Lynn, by Alonzo Lewis: At the Quarterly Court, on the twenty ninth of June [1652], the following presentments were made. We present Ester, the wife of Joseph Jynkes Junior for wearing silver lace.

Lynn Marshes


Margery Venebles, Randle Mainwaring b. 1363

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Margery Venebles and Randle Mainwaring my 16th great grandparents on RootsMagic tree

Find A Grave is a questionable source for research, I still agree, but sometimes the site provides some really good information, Margery and Randle’s memorials are an example. Their Find a Grave memorials contain detailed family relationships and images of the couple’s elaborate burial place including sculptures of them, effigies. They are buried at Saint Lawrence Church in Over Peover, Cheshire, England. The whole Mainwaring family has a history at this Saint Lawrence church. This site: http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/peover.html, by Craig Thornber shares several photographs and a lot of information on the church, area and Mainwaring family history.

Margery was born in 1369, Randle in 1363. They married in about 1391, a second marriage for both. They were born and lived in Cheshire, England and had 10 children. There is not much known about Margery. Randle was the 3rd son, and the oldest living son when his dad William died so Randle inherited all the Mainwaring titles and lands. A book, Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph, a family history published in 1934 states that Randle was “lord of Over-Peover and Baddiley”, a king’s servant and a royal archer, a sagittarius de corona.

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John Parrish b. 1640

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John Parrish 11th great grandpa on RootsMagic tree

John was born in 1640 probably near Braintree, Massachusetts. He first married Hannah Jewell, she died before 1685 when John married Mary Waddell. John and Mary were active in Groton, John holding many elected positions: selectman, town council, surveyor, constable.

  • 1669: Original proprietor in Groton, granted 5 acres of land
  • 1676 Mar 13: The couple lived in Groton when it was destroyed by Indian wars
  • 1677: John was on the committee to rebuild after the town evacuated then returned months later. The record from October 12, 1677, Pages 52, 53, The Early Records of Groton, Massachusetts: 1662-1707 at HathiTrust, “This is the last record of any meeting held before the destruction of the town by the Indians, March 13, 1676. The inhabitants then were compelled to forsake their homes, and did not return until the spring of 1678. …that those present would go up in the spring following, and begin to repair our habitations again… which agreement he signed”.
  • 1685 John received 10 acres of land in Groton. After rebuilding the town, John and probably Mary, both played a big part in getting a pastor and church to Groton.
  • 1691 Dec 21, “At the same day thay did apoint and by uoat daclare that sd Josiah parkar and sar John parish & Wiliam longly & sam James parkar should go down & fach up som meet parson to preach to us & the town is to bare the charg”.
  • 1692 March 21, “Groton at a genaral town meting legally warned the town did then by uoat datannan that thay would giue to master hancock the full som of sixtey pound one fourth part siluer for a yers salarey for Preaching in order to ordnation in dew time and the other three parts in pay corn or prouishon at comon pays and mr hancocock bored himself:  John Parish was chosen to dascors with mr hancock to see if he wil acs apt of the towns profr”.

groton-first-parish-meeting-house

Sources
Groton (Mass. : Town). The Early Records of Groton, Massachusetts: 1662-1707. Groton: [Town of Groton], 1880.

Parish, Roswell. New England Parish Families: Descendants of John Parish of Groton, Mass, And Preston…  Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Publishing Company, inc, 1938.

And some $ Ancestry sources, Marriages, North American Families.

Elizabeth Harter b. 1795

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Elizabeth Harter 5th great grandmother on RootsMagic tree

Elizabeth was born in 1795 in Beaver, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh. At age 9 or so Elizabeth and her family set out for Ohio, ‘Early in the spring of 1806 the family of George Harter started from Beaver in a six-horse wagon for their new home in Ohio. A daughter, then in her ninth year, later Mrs. Jehu Grubb, had in after years a very distinct recollection of the journey out; of seeing the men at work digging the race for Slusser’s mill, as they crossed Nimishillen: of her great disappointment at the size of Canton, expecting to see it as large as Pittsburg-, when it contained only three cabins, all told.” Page 43 Old Landmarks of Canton and Stark Ohio at HathiTrust.

Part of Elizabeth’s childhood in Canton was working the family farm. At 15 she’s sent to the town mill with bushels of wheat. On Elizabeth’s horse is the lighter sack, also she’s leading a second horse with the heavier 3 pound sack. It’s a long day riding to the mill, then waiting at the mill. Elizabeth starts home closer to dark than she had hoped. Following the trail through the woods is more difficult without sunlight. She rides on with her milled wheat (flour- but not like 2016 flour) and two horses. At one point she strays from the trail and a tree bough sweeps the bag of flour off the second horse.

“Here was a new difficulty, and she was about at her wits’ ends : but the girls of that time did not readily yield to trifles, and Elizabeth dismounted and used her best endeavors to put the sack back to its place; she did succeed in getting it upon her shoulder, but her strength was not great enough to throw it over the horse ; she worried herself with it, however, a long time, and was about giving up in despair, with the thought of going back to Canton until morning, as she had yet several miles home, when an old settler, Frederick Rodacker, happened to come along, and threw the sack upon the horse.”

The old Mr. Rodacker offers Elizabeth a place to stay till morning, she accepts. Back home her mom Elizabeth Bowman Bair is worried and “she blew a horn for more than half the night, so that her daughter might discern the way to the house”.

Elizabeth Harter was married to Abraham Bair and a mom at 18. After marrying Abraham she wasn’t so much a housewife. She didn’t stay in the house but was outside with her husband clearing land, rolling logs and burning brush. She may have had 10 children total with Abraham and her 2nd husband Jehu Grubb. Elizabeth’s War of 1812 pension application and her record keeping were majorly responsible for 2nd husband Jehu Grubb being recognized as a son in the Grubb Family dynasty, Curtis Grubb was Jehu’s father. Jehu’s story is worth reading, on Wikipedia.

bair-house-jacob-hFirst child Jacob built this house (at Wikipedia, photo by Sanfranman59). It is part of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Stark County, Ohio. The home was probably built in 1869 in Elizabeth’s 73rd year. Jacob inherited land from his stepfather Jehu Grubb’s estate and built this house on that land.

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