Interesting Crego Ancestors, Part 2

Interesting/famous/immigrant Crego ancestors – Part 2

I have two different online genealogical websites:

1 1)  One is my toast.net website that I have to program and upload myself.  I haven't updated it in years;

2  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 more interesting Crego ancestors:

Some more interesting Crego ancestors

8)Thomas Swartwout, Revolutionary War soldier.  Born in 1756 in New York.  Most notable about his military service is that he was with the Company of Rangers who guarded the Continental Congress starting in April 1776 for a period of 6 months.  It is possible he may have guarded the Congress while they were working on the Declaration of Independence.

http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Swartwout,Thomas/swartwout,thomas.htm

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I696

9) Major Andrew Hill, Revolutionary War soldier. Born in 1732 in New York.  Major in the Dutchess County New York Militia.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I1928

10) Lemuel Backus Jennings, westward traveler, farmer.  Born in 1767 in Connecticut.  About 1788, he travelled west and was the first settler in Geneseo New York.    Eventually moved farther west into Michigan with one of his children and died there in 1851.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I2632

11)  Joseph White Jennings, son of Lemuel Backus Jennings.  Born in 1811 in Geneseo New York.  Moved west into Michigan.  Wife died young, probably in childbirth.  According to his obituary, he drank a lot.  He was shot and killed on July 4, 1869 by his son-in-law.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I541

http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Jennings,Joseph/jennings,joseph.htm

12) Seaton Flint, born in 1826 in Clapton, England.  Immigrated to the US in 1851 and landed in New York.  Somehow moved west into Hillsdale County, Michigan. Married Emily McLouth.  Farmer.  Died in 1908.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I517

http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Flint,Seaton/flint,seaton.htm

13)  John McLouth, born in 1758 in Massachusetts.  Served for 23 months in the American Revolution as a private.  One time he was a sergeant.  Twice he enlisted as a fifer.  Died in 1820 in New York.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I4491

Hagan ancestors that I know about, but haven't done a lot of original research:

*Swartout Family – The origins of the Swartwout Family are Dutch.  Our immigrant ancestor was Roeloff Swartwout who was born in 1634 in Amsterdam, Holland. 

*Hill Family – The origins of the Hill Family are Dutch.  Our immigrant ancestor was Anthony Hill who came to New York from Holland about 1720.

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

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 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 (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. 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

Rev War Pension Records

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