Thursday, September 25, 2014

52 Ancestors: # 38 Content Nye (1693-1775)



Content Nye, my seventh great grandmother, was born on this date in 1693, in Sandwich, Massachusetts (the oldest town on Cape Cod), the fourth of ten children born to Nathan Nye and Mary Mercy, and their fourth daughter.


This is my direct line to Content:



Her grandfather, and my ninth great grandfather, Benjamin Nye, was one of the first settlers of Sandwich, and there is a memorial to Benjamin and his wife, Katherine Tupper, in Sandwich today.


Content married John Landers on June 4, 1719, in Sandwich. Beyond that, I know very little about Content's life.  However, I have found some very good resources which I plan to delve into in the near future. Of particular note is the website of The Nye Family of America Association, Inc.

My research will begin with a trip to Cape Cod next month, with a brief off-season stop in Sandwich.

Photo credits:

 Map of Barnstable County, Massachusetts
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Deyo-map.jpg)

Memorial to Benjamin Nye and Katherine Tupper
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich,_Massachusetts)

Sources:

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Genealogies of Mayflower families, Vol. III, p. 41.

Nye, George Hyatt, et al. A genealogy of the Nye family (Cleveland: The Nye family of America Association, 1907).

Vital records of the towns of Barnstable and Sandwich: Sandwich, Vol. XXX (1932), p.151.

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Saturday, September 20, 2014

52 Ancestors: #37 Jonathan Turner (1646-1724)



Jonathan Turner, my eighth great grandfather, was born on this date in 1646, in the Scituate Settlement of Plymouth Colony, the oldest of thirteen children born to John Turner and Mary Brewster, and their first son.

Jonathan's grandfather, Humphrey Turner, had been a tanner, and was one of the early Scituate settlers, one of only 17 organizers of the church at Scituate in 1634/5. This occupation carried through three generations to Jonathan.




Jonathan's mother, Mary Brewster was the granddaughter of William Brewster of Mayflower fame.

"Mayflower at Plymouth Harbor"


Jonathan married first Martha Bisbee of Scituate in 1677. The couple had five children:

Deborah, b. 1678
Jemima, b. 1680
Isaac, b. 1682
Keziah, b. 1685
and
Jonathan, b. 1687

He married a second time to Mercy Hatch, also of Scituate, around 1690. Together, they had six children:

Mercy, b. 1690
Ruth, b. 1693/4
Ignatius, b. 1697/8
Martha, b. 1700 (my 7th great grandmother)
Jesse, b. 1704
and
Mary, b. 1706

His third marriage was to Lydia Hayden of Braintree, a widow who was raising four daughters on her own. They had no children together.

Jonathan died on April 18, 1724, in Cohasset, Massachusetts.

Photo credit:

 "Shoemaker," Colonial Williamsburg Journal, Summer 2007, Goods, by J. Hunter Barbour. (http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Summer07/trades.cfm)

"Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor," By William Halsall (http://www.artcom.com/Museums/vs/mr/02360-38.htm) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Sources:
Ancestry.com. Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Ancestry.com. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012, pp. 458-459.

Ancestry.com. Vital records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

Deane, Samuel. History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from its first settlement to 1831 (Boston: J. Loring), 1831, pp. 360-363.

Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.


Early Scituate Families, http://scituatehistoricalsociety.org/early-scituate-families/

Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 20 Sep 2014), memorial page for Humphrey Turner (1593-1672), Find A Grave Memorial no. 21760860, citing Men of Kent Cemetery, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

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Monday, September 8, 2014

52 Ancestors: #36 Bartholomew Clayton (1801-1882)



Bartholomew Clayton, my fourth great grand uncle, was born on this date in 1801, in Farmington, Maine, the seventh of ten children born to John Clayton and Sarah Austin, and their third son.

Bartholomew appears as early as the 1830 Freeman, Maine, census, having married Mary P. Tarr in Salem, Maine, on March 25, 1829. She hailed from nearby Strong, the daughter of John Tarr and Mary Pettingill.

The couple farmed and raised a family in Freeman for over thirty years, and it is in his offspring that Bartholomew left a lasting legacy.

First-born Charles married Vermonter Ellen Towne, and lived to be 75.

Matilda Abigail married Granville Whitney, and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Second son Edmund B. was a wounded, and then captured, Union cavalry soldier, dying of scurvy at Andersonville Prison, at age 31.

Third son, William Zoran, also fought for the Union, under the Minnesota Light Artillery flag, achieving the rank of Major, and is notable for having had his personal Bible stolen from him at Shiloh, yet returned to him years later, through an inscription in its pages.

Second daughter, Harriet A., married Russell Topliffe Chamberlin, who served with the U.S. Signal Corps during the Civil War.

Next came Rufus Marcellus, who served in the 1st Maine Cavalry during the Civil War. He traveled West after the War, and died in Minnesota.

Third daughter, Marrietta, married Alonzo Davis, and settled in southern California. She is buried in Forest Lawn.

Son number five, Collamore Purrington, also served with the 1st Maine Cavalry, and joined his older brother Rufus in Minnesota.

Archibald Talbot, A.T., came next. He died in Boston in 1866, at the age of 21. Cause of death was "Marasmus," a form of malnutrition.

The youngest, a daughter named Ariana, lived only to the age of six, and is buried in Starbird Corner Cemetery, in Freeman.

Ten children, four of whom fought for the Union, three in the 1st Maine Cavalry.

Bartholomew passed away exactly one month after his wife, Mary, on February 4, 1882, and they are buried together in Lakeview Cemetery, in Hampden, Maine.


Photo credit : Carolyn Clark Corey
in response to my photo request on
Find A Grave


Sources:

1830 US Census; Census Place: Freeman, Somerset, Maine; Series: M19; Roll: 51; Page: 172; Family History Library Film: 0497947, Bartholomew Clayton.

1840 US Census; Census Place: Freeman, Franklin, Maine; Roll: 140; Page: 64; Image: 133; Family History Library Film: 0009703, Barth Clayton.

1850 US Census; Census Place: Freeman, Franklin, Maine; Roll: M432_253; Page: 229A; Image: 443, Bartholomew Clayton.

1860 US Census; Census Place: Freeman, Franklin, Maine; Roll: M653_435; Page: 852; Image: 267; Family History Library Film: 803435, Bartholomew Clayton.

1870 US Census; Census Place: Hampden, Penobscot, Maine; Roll: M593_554; Page: 60B; Image: 125; Family History Library Film: 552053, Bartholomew Clayton.

1880 US Census; Census Place: Hampden, Penobscot, Maine; Roll: 486; Family History Film: 1254486; Page: 323C; Enumeration District: 035; Image: 0247, Bartholomew Clayton.

Ancestry.com. Andersonville Prisoners of War [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 7 Sep 2014), memorial page for
Ariana Clayton (unknown-1855), Find A Grave Memorial no.107453155, citing Starbird Corner Cemetery, Franklin County, Maine.

Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 7 Sep 2014), memorial page for Barthol Clayton (1875-1945), Find A Grave Memorial  no.24360526, citing Lakeview Cemetery, Hampden, Maine.

A History of Farmington, Franklin County, Maine : from the earliest explorations to the present time, 1776-1885. (Ancestry.com).

"Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4FT-855 : accessed 07 Sep 2014), Bartholomew Clayton and Mary Tarr, 25 Mar 1829; citing Salem,Franklin,Maine, reference ; FHL microfilm 253240.


U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.

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Monday, September 1, 2014

52 Ancestors: #35 Stephen Leighton (1804-1820?)



Stephen Leighton, my third great grand uncle, was born on this date in 1804 in North Yarmouth, Maine, the eleventh of twelve children born to Andrew Leighton and Mary Weymouth, and their ninth son.

His father, known as Captain Andrew, had laid out the county road from Falmouth to Portland, and was a prosperous lumber trader, dealing in ship's timber.  In 1800, he built and operated Leighton's Tavern on the Gray Road in West Cumberland. It was a popular stop on the stage route to Lewiston.

Stephen's two oldest brothers, Joseph, born in 1789, and Andrew, born in 1790. were both lost at sea off the Georges Bank in 1815, while aboard the privateer Dash. Stephen would have been 10 or 11 years old at the time, old enough to share in the family's loss.


Illustration : The Story of DASH 
Freeport (Me.) Historical Society 


Nonetheless, young Stephen did not retreat from a life aboard ship, and it is noted that he, too, was lost at sea. Assuming youth of his generation frequently put to sea in their early teens, one imagines him perishing around age 16, in 1820. No written recollection has been found.

Sources:

Leighton, Perley M. A Leighton genealogy: descendants of Thomas Leighton of Dover, New Hampshire. Compiled by Perley M. Leighton based in part on data collected by Julia Leighton Cornman. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical  Society, 1989.) p. 282.


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