Interesting/famous/immigrant Crego ancestors
I have two different online genealogical
websites:
2) The other is hosted by rootsweb/ancestry.
I upload my genealogy database and it is put in a format that's easy to
navigate. The advantage to using this system is that ALL my data is here
- not just what I purposely wrote up and recapped.
So that being said, as a way of
presenting my information, here are several interesting Crego ancestors:
Some interesting Crego ancestors
1) Richard J Crego,
Farmer, politican. Moved with family
from New York into Jackson County, Michigan as one of the original settlers in
1831. Successful farmer, served as a township
representative for many years and eventually became a Michigan state
senator. I believe he was one of the
founders of the Republican party in Jackson County in the 1850’s. He tragically died in 1872 at age 53 (after
outliving 3 wives) from typhoid fever.
He left 5 young children, who had to be taken in by relatives.
2) Richard Crego, father of Richard J. Crego..
Before moving west to Michigan in
1831, Richard and his entire family lived in Erie County, New York. Richard was a Private in the War of 1812.
3)Nathaniel Gallop. Served
in the Revolutionary War as a Private, for various lengths of services, at
various places and under various captains.
He was never given a pension because none of his various services could
be proven by existing documentation at the time.
4)Joshua Reed, Served in
the Revolutionary War as a minuteman in the Massachusetts militia.
5)Edward Sheldon, born in
Michigan in 1836. Clerk in a store.. But
also seems to have been an entrepreneur and land speculator. We know at least he had land in Texas and
that a Sheldon, North Dakota was named after him because he was one of the
largest land purchasers of that town. At one point, he owned a creamery. In the 1900 census, his occupation was
described as “capitalist”.
6)Newton Sheldon, born in
New York in 1810. Farmer.
Politican. Was active in the Washtenaw
County Michigan Agricultural Society. He
was one of the original officers/secretary of the Washtenaw Mutual Insurance
Company.. Was also a justice of the
peace, township supervisor, county clerk, and in the state legislature at
various times.
7)Eli Riggs, born in New York in 1802. Farmer.
Was one of our many ancestors whose family was in the east coast,
gradually moved west into new York, then across lake erie and into
Michigan.
Hagan ancestors that I know about,
but haven't done a lot of original research:
* Crego Family - The origins of the Crego Family are
Dutch. After emigrating to the English
colonies across the ocean, they were in New Amsterdam. They were also members of the Reformed Dutch
Church, who kept very good genealogical records.
*Sheldon Family – The origins of the Sheldon Family are
English. Our immigrant ancestor was
Isaac Sheldon, who married 2nd Mehitable Gunn. Here’s a website that explains some of his
history: http://josfamilyhistory.com/htm/nickel/griffin/sheldon/sheldon-isaac-1.htm
(to be continued)
