new family on website

Today I put up a new family on my website. It was for Richard & Martha (Gallop) Crego. On it went their family's pictures, family group sheet, biography, and list of sources. Here's the link:
http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Crego,RichardMartha/crego,richardmartha.htm

new information posted website

added new pictures for family of Charles Howard Hammond. Here's the link:

http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hammond,Charles/hammond,charles.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of John & Harriet (Whipple) Van Frank. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/VanFrank,John/vanfrank,john.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Thomas & Judith (Hill) Swartwout. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Swartwout,Thomas/swartwout,thomas.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Andrew & Judah (Avery) Swartwout. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Swartout,Andrew/swartout,andrew.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Zetus & Harriet (Jennings) Swartout. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Swartout,Zetus/swartout,zetus.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Freeman & Minerva (Flint) Swartout. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Swartout,Freeman/swartout,freeman.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Edward & Minerva (Riggs) Sheldon. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Sheldon,Edward/sheldon,edward.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Asahel & Hepsey Ann (Johnson) Parker. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Parker,Asahel/parker,asahel.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Daniel & Anna (North) Johnson. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Johnson,Daniel/johnson,daniel.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents and more pictures to my website for the family of Charles & Aramintha (Parker) Hammond. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hammond,Charles/hammond,charles.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents and more photos to my website for the family of John A. Hagan and wives. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hagan,JohnA/hagan,johna.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Owen Deal & Angeline Nash. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Deal,Owen/deal,owen.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents and more photos to my website for the family of John Van Hagan. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hagan,JohnVan/hagan,johnvan.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents and tombstone photos to my website for the family of Seaton Flint. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Flint,Seaton/flint,seaton.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents including recipes, to my website for the family of Clarence Deal & Cora Hammond. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Deal,Clarence/deal,clarence.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Richard Sheldon Crego & Carol Swartout. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Crego,RichardS/crego,richards.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Richard J. Crego. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Crego,RichardJ/crego,richardjay.htm

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Fred B. Crego. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Crego,Fred/crego,fredb.htm

mysteries

I found the birth records of Thomas & Judith's children James (1792) and Polly (1797). I had expected to also find a birth record for another child Thomas, who I thought was born about 1795. But I found no record in with James and Polly's record in the "Baptism Record of Reformed Church of Marbletown NY.

I had thought that a son Thomas existed based on his appearance on the 1860 census in Michigan with his mother. But perhaps he was not a son, but a nephew.

new research

While I was in Fort Wayne at a genealogy conference, I found a book at the Allen County Public Library called "Probate Records of Hillsdale County, Michigan to the year 1852" by Vivian Lyon Moore. In it was a summary of Oliver McLouth's probate of his estate.

new research

While I was at a genealogy conference in Fort Wayne, I discovered new research. The book is entitled "Baptism Record of Reformed Church of Marbletown NY 1746 - 1871" compiled by Arthur C.M. Kelly 1979. The book lists the birth of 2 of their children (Polly and James).

new research

While I was at a genealogy conference in Fort Wayne, I discovered new research. The book is entitled "Baptism Record of Shokan Reformed Chuch of Shokan, Ulster County, NY 1799-1899" compiled by Arthur C.M. Kelly 1987. The book shows the baptism of their first 3 children (Isaac, Freeman and Thomas). The other items indicates that Andrew "turned Baptist" on 5.6.1820.

new research

While I was at a genealogy conference in Fort Wayne, I discovered new research. The book is entitled "Baptism Record of Shokan Reformed Chuch of Shokan, Ulster County, NY 1799-1899" compiled by Arthur C.M. Kelly 1987. The book shows the baptism of their first 3 children (Cornelius, Jude & Sally) and also indicates Jude and Thomas being on the membership list of the church.

new research

While I was at a genealogy conference in Fort Wayne, I discovered new research. The book is entitled "Baptism Record of Shokan Reformed Chuch of Shokan, Ulster County, NY 1799-1899" compiled by Arthur C.M. Kelly 1987. The book shows Andrew Hill and his wife and his son Uriah on the membership list of the church.

new research

While I was in Fort Wayne at a genealogy conference, I found a book at the Allen County Public Library called "Hillsdale County Michigan Marriage Index, 1835 - 2000". I was hoping to locate the marriage record of Seaton Flint and Emily McLouth, but it was not listed.

new research

While I was in Fort Wayne at a genealogy conference, I found a book at the Allen County Public Library called "Cemetery Records of Hillsdale County, Michigan" by Hawkes Northrup Dawley. In it was a listing of burials of McLouth, Flint and Dillon families.

new research

While I was at a genealogy conference in Fort Wayne, I discovered new research. It was in a book called "History of Ulster County, New York with illustrations and biographical sketches" by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester 1880.

There were many mentions of Thomas Swartwout:
- Mrs. Thomas Swartwout is listed as a daughter of Andrew Hill;
- mentions a "swartwout saw-mill". Don't know if that's Thomas' or not;
- Thomas is listed as a pathmaster of 1812 in the Town of Shandaken, district 14;
- Thomas is listed as a town officer of Shandaken for 1806 and 1807;
- Thomas Swartwout signed the certificate of incorporation for the Reformed Protestant Dutch church of Shokan on 02 Sept. 1800;
- Thomas is listed as an elder of the church at Shokan, as evidenced that he signed an inventory of the church's assets on 15 Sept 1804

new research

While I was at a genealogy conference in Fort Wayne, I discovered new research. It was in a book called "History of Ulster County, New York with illustrations and biographical sketches" by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester 1880.

There were many mentions of Andrew Hill:
- settled in [town of olive] area soon after the revolution;
- lists the names of all his sons and married names of his daughters
- he built a grist mill at Shokan before 1800
- he built his house in 1797
- listed on assessment roll of real and personal estate in Marbletown in 1811
- signed the certificate of 02 Sept 1800 for the incorporation of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Shokan

new research

While I was at a genealogy conference in Fort Wayne, I discovered new research. The book is entitled "Marbletown Reformed Dutch Church of Ulster County New York 1737 - 1944". The book shows Andrew Hill and his wife Juda Norton, members of the Presbyterian church received as members of this church on June 1,1799.

new family on website

Today I put up my Grandad's family on my website. Up went his family's pictures, family group sheet, biography, and list of sources. http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hagan,Hubert/hagan,hubert.htm

oliver mclouth farmhouse

Today, while I was setting up google alerts, I happened to find a blog page. They talked about purchasing the farmhouse that Oliver McLouth lived in, and how they restored it. It even had a lot of really nice pictures.

http://ftwskies.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html

I posted a response, asking for a po address (so that I can record where the house is actually located in my genealogical records) but haven't heard from them yet.

Reformed Church

While setting up my google alerts, I happened to run across the "Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America". http://images.rca.org/docs/archives/hdchurches.pdf

It was from the early days 1628-1992s. It has the town where the church is/was located, the names of the pastors and years they pastored, year of organization and year dropped. There are no lists of members of the church.

What's interesting is it listed the church in Mottville, Constantine and Portage Michigan. On page 106, it talks about the Reformed Church in Mottville, Michigan. It lists the pastor from 1863-1864 as J.W. Beardslee. This is the same pastor that performed the marriage ceremony of Cephas and Arabell Parker (according to his pension records).

cyrus parker

Spoke with Eileen K today. She said that she has the complete pension file for Cyrus Parker, too. She said that she also has the military records for Cyrus (which I don't). A couple things about Cyrus that she told me:
1) Cyrus married Nellie Ballou in 1863 in Branch County Michigan. She spoke further with the library and they found a Nellie Parker in an asslyum in Kalamazoo. Was that an insane assylum or perhaps a TB assylum?
2) Witnesses to Cyrus' pension reodcrds were John & Mary Porter. They had a daughter Sarah/Sallie Porter who married James Bradford Parker (grandson of Cyrus).
3) Cyrus was a prisoner of war
4) Cyrus was part of Sherman's march through Georgia

Richmond family ponderings

Somehow I happened today to fall into a research problem. Who are the parents of Lydia Richmond, who married Lemuel Hammond? What I know:
1) Per pioneer history, her maiden name was Richmond and she was born in Batavia, Genesee County New York in 1811. Her parents were not named;
2) She has a death certificate as "Lydia Harmond", but her parents were listed as unknown;
3) In 1860 twins Isabel & Arabel Richmond, age 12, were living with Lydia and Lemuel. No relationship is given in the 1860 census.
4) on 04 April 1861, Hiram and Adelia Richmond are witnesses to the marriage of Charles Hammond and Aramintha Parker.

Questions:
1) How are Isabel and Arabel related to Lydia?
2) Who were Lydia's parents?
3) How are Hiram & Adelia Richmond related to Lydia?

cephas parker civil war pension records

Today I received by UPS a 2 pound package with the civil war pension records of Cephas Parker. There are 150 pages in the package and they are very legible. What's really interesting is that the National Archives had written to me a month or so ago and told me that the records could not be found. I wonder if someone had gone back and was reviewing all the "could not be located" records.

cyrus parker civil war pension records

Today I received by mail a large package with the civil war pension records of Cyrus Parker. There are 49 pages in the package and they are very legible. What's really interesting is that the National Archives had written to me a month or so ago and told me that the records could not be found. I wonder if someone had gone back and was reviewing all the "could not be located" records.

civil war pension records

Received a note from the National Archives today that they could not locate the civil war pension records that I requested. This was for David Van Frank, son of my ancestor John Van Frank. He was killed during the war, so I was hoping maybe his parents requested a pension. But none could be located. I could probably still write for his military service records, although they probably don't have any inforamtion of genealogical value.

civil war pension records

Received a note from the National Archives today that they could not locate the civil war pension records that I requested. This was for Eli Riggs, Jr. He was killed during the war, so I was hoping maybe his parents requested a pension. But none could be located. I could probably still write for his military service records, although they probably don't have any inforamtion of genealogical value.

DAR revolutionary war record

Received today an e-mail from DAR with recap of Andrew Hill's service, (as was submitted on a member's application who claimed Andrew Hill as ancestor.) The bad part is that you can only ask for a copy of the application and cannot get a copy of the supporting documentation.


HILL, Andrew
Birth: NY 1732
Service: NY
Rank: Maj
Death: NY 1810
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: (1) Catherine Horton

Their records say he did not have a pension. Which explains why the National Archives could find no pension file. Maybe I need to ask for his military service records from the Archives?

DAR revolutionary war record

Received today an e-mail from DAR with recap of Isaiah Robinson's service, (as was submitted on a member's application who claimed Isaiah Robinson as ancestor.) The bad part is that you can only ask for a copy of the application and cannot get a copy of the supporting documentation.


ROBINSON, Isaiah
Birth: MA 20 May 1729
Service: NY
Rank: Pvt
Death: NY p 1790
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: (1) Amy Chappell


Their records say he did not have a pension. Which explains why the National Archives could find no pension file. Maybe I need to ask for his military service records from the Archives?

DAR revolutionary war record

Received today an e-mail from DAR with recap of Nathaniel Hammond's service, (as was submitted on a member's application who claimed William Gallop as ancestor.) The bad part is that you can only ask for a copy of the application and cannot get a copy of the supporting documentation.


HAMMOND, Nathaniel
Birth: CT 10 Sep 1733
Service: CT
Rank: PS
Death: CT 10 Dec 1817
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: Dorothy Tucker
Spouse: Mrs Eleanor Olmstead Burr

Their records say he did not have a pension. Which explains why the National Archives could find no pension file. Maybe I need to ask for his military service records from the Archives?

DAR revolutionary war record

Received today an e-mail from DAR with recap of Uriah Avery's service, (as was submitted on a member's application who claimed Uriah Avery as ancestor.) The bad part is that you can only ask for a copy of the application and cannot get a copy of the supporting documentation.


AVERY, Uriah
Birth: CT 23 Aug 1760
Service: CT
Rank: Pvt Smn
Death: NY 25 Aug 1843
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: (1) Sybil Little

This apparently is not "my" Uriah Avery ancestor. My ancestor lived only in New York and never from Connecticut (that I am aware of).

DAR revolutionary war record

Received today an e-mail from DAR with recap of William Gallop's service, (as was submitted on a member's application who claimed William Gallop as ancestor.) The bad part is that you can only ask for a copy of the application and cannot get a copy of the supporting documentation.

GALLUP, William
Birth: Circa 1739
Service: RIVT
Rank: Pvt
Death: VT p 1788
Patriot Pensioned: No Widow Pensioned: No
Children Pensioned: No Heirs Pensioned: No
Spouse: (1) Hannah X

Their records say he did not have a pension. Which explains why the National Archives could find no pension file. Maybe I need to ask for his military service records from the Archives?

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received the complete revolutionary war pension file for Uriah Hill. He was the son of my ancestor Andrew Hill and brother to my ancestor Judith Hill Swartwout.

War of 1812 Pension Records

Today I received notification from the National Archives that they could not locate the records of Daniel Johnson.

War of 1812 Pension Records

Today I received notification from the National Archives that they could not locate the records of Richard Crego.

Cemeteries

I was planning on making a trip to Streetsboro Ohio. I was going to visit the Trotter Farm cemetery, where our ancestor Daniel Johnson is buried. I looked on the Portage County Genweb website and they said that it is now called "Moran Cemetery". They also said: MORAN CEMETERY in Streetsboro was also called Trotter Farm Cemetery at Johnson's Corners at Moran; on Summit County line in northwest part of Streetsboro; 300 yards into backyard of a residence at 3221 Aurora-Hudson Road; no stones in 1994.So I'm glad I checked. But I'm bummed that all the stones seem to be gone.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received the complete pension files from the National Archives for Caleb Johnson. He was our main ancestor.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received the complete pension files from the National Archives for William Hill. He was the son to our ancestor Andrew Hill and brother to our ancestor Judith Hill Swartwout.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received the complete pension files from the National Archives for Peter Robinson. He was the son to our ancestor Isaiah Robinson and brother to our ancestor Ebenezer Robinson. This file is interesting - he indicates that he was brother to Ebenezer and son of Isaiah.

Forest Hill Cemetery

Today Kristy and I went after church up to Michigan. We visited the Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor. My hubby purchased me a GPS and I wanted to see how to use it. It was Kristy's first cemetery trip. She did really well, considering it was cold and muddy. But we found the tombstones. The only difficulty Kristy had is that she wasn't watching where she was looking at one point and she fell over a small tombstone. She was totally muddy, and upset. So we left. Took pictures of the Sheldon Family and FB Crego Family.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received the complete pension and revolutionary war record file for Ebenezer Robinson.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received notification from the National Archives that they could not locate the records of Andrew Hill.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received notification from the National Archives that they could not locate the records of Uriah Avery.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received notification from the National Archives that they could not locate the records of Isaiah Robinson.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received notification from the National Archives that they could not locate the records of Nathaniel Hammond

Mable Crego eulogy

Received today the eulogy of Mable Dimmick Crego, as written by her brother.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received the complete pension files from the National Archives for Thomas Swartwout. He was our main ancestor

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received the complete pension files from the National Archives for Nathaniel Gallop. He was our direct ancestor. His file is interesting because only "selected" files were available on microfilm at the ACPL. I knew there were a lot more pages. This file has over 100 pages in it.

Rev War Pension Records

Today I received notification from the National Archives that they could not locate the records of William Gallop. Bummer.

Genealogy of Captn John Johnson

Today I received portions of the book called "Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury, Massachusetts", published in 1948. This book traces from Captain JJ to our ancestor Daniel Harris Johnson. I received these copies from Michele L who is a descendant of Harris Johnson (son of Daniel.)

Kansas state census

Today I found on www.ancestry.com a 1875 Kansas State Census listing for John and Hannah Hagan. Previously, I had only had them on the 1880 federal census.

New researcher

Made contact today with a fellow researcher/descendant (Sandy C.) of Richard Crego and Martha Gallop. She is descended from their son Henry.