Helen Degrange McLellan

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., Times-Picayune, 23 May 1999: Helen McLellan Pitard, a homemaker, died Tuesday in Gladwyne, Pa. She was 92. Mrs. Pitard was born in New Orleans and lived in Baltimore and Gibson Island, Md., for many years and in Gladwyne for the past year. She graduated from Newcomb College. Survivors include two sons, Alden Pitard of Punta Gorda, Fla., and David Pitard of Newtown Square, Pa.; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. No services will be held.
• Social Security Number: 216-46-4183
• Graduation: 1926, Newcomb College, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1940, 147 Devon Way, Memphis, Shelby Co., Tennessee

Notes:

She kept much fuller records of her life and family than her husband. These are notes gathered from the scrapbooks and photo albums kept by Helen Degrange (Weenie) and her daughter Helen McLellan about young Helen's life.

A photo album was started by her mother, Weenie, and continued by her; she picked it up during her teenage years and continued with it until about 1929; the last pages include pictures of Beep.

The first pages are at 3426 Coliseum St. where she was born (August 19, 1906). The have dogs as pets, and two servants, Vira and Rebecca. In May 1908 they visit Bogalusa, at #602, Avenue B; this is in Washington Parish, Louisiana. This city was founded in 1906. There are pics of people removing stumps from 6th street with mules. They were visiting a Miss Noemie Duralde, of no apparent relation.

In June 1908 they visited Crichton, Alabama, (#2 Chidester Ave.) where her mother's brother Henry Snodgrass DeGrange and his wife Cecile and their children lived. Helen's nickname at this point was Ti-ti. There was a creek nearby. The family had chickens. There is also a picture here of "Josephine" with Alden; might this be Joseph Tormey Degrange's daughter? No other members of Joseph's family are in pictures here, but the age is about right. For Easter, 1908 they were at Grandpa DeGrange's. But there also seems to be a picture here of McLellan cousins: "three cousins" has Woodward, Joel, and Helen. Woodward might be Joseph Woodward McLellan, who died at age 2; Joel seems to be Joel McGinnis.

There are photos of her father Asahel in cars he owned in 1907 and 1909. He apparently loved engines, in boats and cars. The "Alden," a cruising lauch with a cabin which is about 30 feet long, first appears in a photo in 1909.

They visited New York in January 1910. There is a picture of the Rex float in February 1910. A car, the "R.S." is in pictures in Feb. 1910. This is a cute little compact thing. A second version, or at least a second picture of it, appears later in the volume. They visit Eagle River, Wisconsin in August 1910.

Then, they move in to 22 Audubon Place on April 19, 1911.

In 1916, there is a picture of Alden McLellan Sr. and Joel [McGinnis] Jr. at Mackinac Island (Michigan) in 1916.

In 1918, she begins to attend Camp Thorwald in Sewanee, Tennessee during the summers, apparently run by a couple named Mr. & Mrs. McDowell. In the first year, there are pictures of her cousins, two sisters Estelle and Anna McLellan. She seems to be taking these pictures now; there are lots of girlfriends. She attended for 5 years (until Summer 1922). There were hikes, plays, and all sorts of fun.

She begins a "stunt book" in the summer of 1918; she calls herself a "junior" at the time, in high school. "Stunts" seem to refer to events, or parties, or games, or other fun happenings of some kind. She has lists, here, with addresses, of her friends from Camp Thorvald between 1918 and 1924. I don't see relations listed here.

On Easter 1919 (and 1920) she was in Waveland, Miss, "auto show, most part," with Blanche Gelpi (=?), Alden III (her brother), and other family or friends.

Back in the photo album, In May 1919, Helen & mother visit a "Miss Noemie" in Savannah, staying at #303 Estill Ave. A new pet (looks like a Bichon) appears in Spring, 1919: Mr. Dooley. Also in 1919, pictures of Alden appear in a track uniform; he was apparently a track athlete at Georgia Tech. He is also in a soldier's uniform in 1919.

Most pictures from this point on are at Camp Thorvald or on the Alden (later the Spikes). She also takes school trips on the Spikes with her sorority.

The stunt book preserves much of her schedules before Newcomb:

In 1920 she spent Christmas in NYC with Family and "Lyda" (=?). She was here for three weeks, going to the theatre a lot. Over the new Year 1920-21 she was in New York, with mother and "Alden III"; the years before and after she was at a friend's, "Virginia Ross's."

Easter 1921 was also in Waveland; "auto show, most part." Christmas Eve 1921 was at "Joel Jr's party"; Christmas, 1921, was spent "here, a lazy day," with family; "fight between Alden and Lyda."

In 1922, there was a dinner party at Antoine's on New Year's Day. In 1922 on Valentine's day she has "Dance at Virginia Ross'"; with who is "???" In Easter 1922 she is on the Alden for a 4-day trip. In 1922, in the Stunt Book, she keeps records of her graduation from "INMTS," the Isidore Newman Manual Training School. She wrote the class prophecy; she seems to have been quite the center of social circles there. Witty and fun; she was elected "wittiest person."

In summer of 1922 she traveled west, going to El Paso and Juarez; the grand Canyon; up the coast to Yosemite and San Francisco; to Portland, Seattle, Victoria; then east to Glacier, and back via Banff and Chicago. "Mother, Aunt Bess, Mr. Robinson, Peter, and I." In 1922, July 4th, she is in Chicago, Ill, with "Mother, Aunt Bess, and Peter," at the end of this trip. She records her visit:

Uncle Alden, celebrated by arriving in his checkered suit, to see us! "Business is all for my pleasure-I don't allow it to interfere." Breakfast in the automat for the fisr time since N.Y. I adore them! We went for a park drive with Peter and Aunt Bess-and there they left us (or, rather, we left them) and brother and I went to the theatre to see "Lilies of the field." It was a scream, only-well, rather racy-but I tough I'd die laughing especially what with the chocolates and the newspapers and the weather and the arrangement of the chairs.

After this, in college, she began a larger scrapbook (maroon binding, brown cover), which described her social life there. She graduated from Newcomb College in 1926 with a B.A. in French. She wrote there for Jambalaya, a student literary magazine. She played the harp; this harp was later owned by friends from Gibson Island. She was a member of Chi Omega, the debating team, the French club, the Mandolin and Guitar club (she also played the harp), and Alpha Sigma Sigma, a junior-senior honorary fraternity.

In the "Author Index" to the Newcomb Arcade, the following articles are listed by her, under a couple of different version of her name. A couple were sent to me by the Newcomb alumni office:

McLellan, Helen de Grange
"Loan Fund Committee" [OAI] 7 (4) June 1915 pp. 57-58.
"Report of the Loan Fund Committee" [OAI] 8 (2) January 1916 p. 34.
"The Tulane-Newcomb Advisory Committee" [OAI] 12 (2) January 1920 pp. 114- 117.
"Advise to Young Authors" [Essay] 18 (1) December 1925 pp. 5-8.
"The Birthday of the Infanta [OCI] 18 (4) June 1926 p. 217.
"Loan Fund Committee" [OAI] 23 (1) December 1930 p. 42.

McLellan, Helen '26
"Some Women Who Write Our Best Sellers" [Essay] 17 (2) February 1925 pp. 76-80.
"Loan Fund Report From Mrs. McLellan" [OAI] 23 (4) June 1931 p. 238.

McLellan, Helen de Lange
"Loan Fund Report" [Alumnae] 26 (4) June 1934 p. 36.

After college, her debut season was from 1926-27. She traveled and danced with the Orpheum in the fall (Sept-Nov of 1927). She was marred March 12, 1931. Much of this is recorded in her mother book of newspaper clippings of the social life of the town. She was quite the debutante. There are few to no pictures in her album of these years-only some in 1929 of Gus.

Her mother, Helen DeGrange (Weenie), kept a book full of clippings for the 1926 and 1927 debutante year, and after, which was her daughter Helen's debut year. In this book, Gustave Pitard appears once that I can find among all of the clippings (before the wedding announcement at the end), on a guest list on the first page, as attending a party by "Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Ellis" at the New Orleans Country Club in honor of Miss Helen McLellan. Presumably this is in the fall of 1926; no dates are on the clippings. Sara Fayssoux was also there. Other debutantes of her year were Sedley Hayward, "Dimple" Fayssoux (=?), Adele Cleveland, Libby Westerfield, Leda de la Vergne, Stella Walshe (daughter I guess of Frank Walsh, who went on trips on the Spikes), Alice and Elizabeth Pool, Elizabeth Broussard, Evelyn Jahncke, France Kittredge, Mary Louise Syme. Others are there also. Blanche Gelpi's name also appears in the winter 1926-1927 social season. Mr. and Mrs. W.H. McFadden, who were cousins, also threw parties this year.

Helen was Queen of Proteus in Feb. 1927. In her court were Etolia Simmons, Leda de la Vergne, Isabelle Capdevielle, Alice Pool, and Mildred Brown,

She was in the Orpheum as a dancer, billed as a "Queen of Proteus," from Sept-Nov 1927; she toured around the South. She attended the Kentucky Derby in Spring of 1928 and of 1930 with her mother. She had her portrait painted by Helen Turner in 1929; it was displayed for a while at the High Museum in Atlanta. It is now at the Historic New Orleans Collection, visible here: http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/M3/WEB_DETAIL_M3/SISN%2047390?SESSIONSEARCH

She was married in the Spring of 1931.

Times-Picayune, 14 Mar 1931:
Mr. and Mrs. Asahel Walker McLellan have sent out cards announcing the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen DeGrange McLellan, to Mr. Gustave Jean Pitard Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Pitard iwll be at home after March 31, at 331 Pine St.

Times-Picayune, 16 July 1933:
Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Pitard, Jr., with their little son, took possession their new home, 241 Audubon Boulevard, corner of Clairborn Ave.

In evenings she enjoyed a martini, in a delicately thin glass. She was very smart and witty, and did not suffer fools. She was a wonderful cook, which she learning growing up from her house cook in New Orleans.

Graduation:
B.A. in French

Census:
aged 33, born in Lousiana; 4 years of college; was living in Louisiana in 1935; no employment or income listed

Helen married Gustave Jean Baptiste Pitard on 12 Mar 1931 in 22 Audubon Place, New Orleans, Louisiana. Gustave (son of Gustave Joseph Pitard, Jr. and Lucie Caroline Gamard) was born on 25 Jan 1903 in 3827 Canal St., New Orleans, Louisiana; died on 20 Nov 1988 in Charlestown, Catonsville, Baltimore Co., Maryland; was buried in St. David's Church, Radnor Twp., Delaware Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
fol. 52, p. 1524

1. Living
2. Living

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., Times-Picayune, 27 Apr. 1943, page 2. This is an article entitled "A.W. M'Lellan Taken by Death. Cotton Manufacturer Expires at Age of 74." Obit., Times-Picayune, 27 Apr. 1943, p2: MCLELLAN - On Monday afternoon, April 26, 1943, at 12:05 o'clock , Asahel Walker McLellan, in his 75th year, husband of Helen Degrange, father of Mrs. Gus Pitard of Baltimore, Md., and Alden McLellan III of Meridian, Miss.; brother of Mrs. Theodore McGinnis of New York city; Charles and Alden McLellan Jr., son of the late Sarah Jane Cooper and Alden McLelland. Funeral will take place on Tuesday monring, April 27, 1943, at 12 o'clock noon, from the residence, 22 Audubon Place. Interment Private.
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1900, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

His name was pronounced, and sometimes mis-spelled as, "Azale." His father and Joseph H. DeGrange (his wife's father) were on the Beauregard Monument Commission together, and, no doubt, the CSA veterans connection was how he and his wife met.

He was clearly an early adopter of transportation technology. He had a car by 1907, which was also the year he learned how to fly an airplane. He had two boats, named after his children. He owned the Alden (about 25-30') from about 1909 to 1923, when, in Autumn of 1923, he bought a 78' boat, the Spikes (one of his daughter Helen's nicknames), which he owned until 1941.

He was president of Alden Mills, which created things like hosiery, in New Orleans.

About 1905, the family moved from 3426 Coliseum Street to 22 Audobon Place in New Orleans. His daughter Helen, has memories him sitting on the front porch at their new house, enclosed behind a lattice with wisteria, eating his breakfast in the mornings. He could apparently be a very outspoken or wilfull man. He was an aviator, interested in flying from the early days of flight; there's an article in the Picayune about this.

Audobon Place was the first gated community in the United States, and very wealthy. Their house there was built in the 1890s; Weenie (Asahel's wife, Helen) lived there until her death in 1962, after which it was sold.

from ancestry.com--some sources:

McLellan, Asahel Walker 1868-1943
Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 1: January, 1946-July, 1949. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1949. (BioIn 1)

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 33. New York: James T. White & Co., 1947. Use the Index to locate biographies.(NatCAB 33)

Who Was Who in America. A companion biographical reference work to Who's Who in America. Volume 2, 1943-1950. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Co., 1963. (WhAm 2)

Census:
aged 11, born in Louisiana; father born in Maine, mother in Louisiana

Census:
aged 32 (born Aug. 1867); born in Louisiana; father born in Maine, mother in Louisiana; "president ___ mills"

Asahel married Helen Pauline "Weenie" Degrange on 3 Jun 1896 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Helen (daughter of Joseph H. Degrange and Ellen McMillan) was born on 11 May 1872 in New Orleans, Louisiana; died on 19 May 1962; was buried in Lafayette Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Death note, Times-Picayune, 22 May 1962: Helen deGrange McLellan, 90, Touro [hospital]
• Census: 1880, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Graduation: 1891, Newcomb College, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1900, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

She was known as "Weenie," and was much beloved. Clearly, from her portrait and textiles she produced, including a quilt and two couch pillows that remain, her favorite color was maroon. Some of her tapestries/wall hangings are in the Louisiana State Museum in their textiles collection, as examples of Newcomb Style Art Embroidery.

She was for a time the Recording Secretary of the Orleans club. She also kept clippings of all social events in New Orleans which her family was involved with or attended--and there were many.

Note this resource, described here: http://www.nutrias.org/~nopl/spec/scrapbks.htm, in the Scrapbook collection of the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public Library:
Programs, ca. 1896-1906 [#35]; 2 v.
Clippings from programs of concerts, operas, plays and other events in New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, and possibly elsewhere. At least one of the volumes was kept by Mrs. A. W. McClellan. Both are small (6"x9") notebooks with clippings pasted in. Handwritten marginal notes indicate when, where, and with whom the various performances were viewed. Volume 2 appears to have been used as a diary or for other writings before the clippings were added. It also includes a program for the inaugural ceremonies of E. A. Alderman as president of Tulane University in 1901, a partial program for the St. John Rowing Club's races in 1900, and a partial program for the Crescent City Jockey Club dated March 17, 1900. Volume 1 includes a "programme" for New York's Cafe Boulevard.

Census:
aged 28 (born May 18720); born in Louisiana as with both parents

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., New Orleans Item, 27 Aug. 1920: Funeral of Col. McLellan Is Held at 10 a.m. Friday The funeral of Col. Alden McLellan, Confederate veteran and prominent financier of New Orleans, who died Tuesday night as the result of injuries received when struck by a truck a month ago, was held at the residence, 2403 Carondelet street, at 10 a.m. Friday. His death is honored in special orders no. 4, 1920 U.C.V., dated August 26, 1920, which says in part: "A loyal soldier, an exemplary citizen, a genial comrade, his passing leaves a void in our fast thinning ranks, while we honor his memor and express our unfeigned regret at his going. By command O.D. Broows, major general commanding: James A. Pierce, adjutant general and chief of staff."
• Census: 1850, Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1900, Carondelet St., New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

These entries apppear in the New Orleans city directory for 1890-91:
Name:   Alden McLellan; Vincent Riviere
Location 1:   Carondelet, north-west corner Eighth
Business Name:   street Charles Street R. R. Co.
Occupation:   president; secretary
Year:   1890
City:   New Orleans
State:   LA

Name:   Alden McLellan
Location 2:   579 Carondelet
Business Name:   street Charles street R. R. Co.
Occupation:   president
Year:   1891
City:   New Orleans
State:   LA

The following from the Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29, ed. Reverend J. William Jones, found at the Perseus Project (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/). This is a birthday celebration for Jefferson Davis, held on June 3rd, 1901 [this is taken by the SHS from the New Orleans, La., Picayune, June 4, 1901.] Note the presence of a relative, W.M. Fayssoux here. Alden is called "Gen. Alden McLellan":

"The Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association Listens to a masterly oration by Judge Charles E. Fenner.
The crowning event of this beautiful and memorable day was the celebration held at night at Memorial Hall by that veteran organization, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association. Within that hall hallowed by so many precious memories, with the sacred battle flags floating all around, with the portraits of the immortal leaders of the Confederacy smiling from the walls, and everywhere the holy trophies and relics of a time that can never fade, the battle-scarred veterans gathered at the call of the noble women of the Memorial Association and just as this old and honored body pinned the colors of the Confederacy on the Louisiana boys who marched forth to death and glory at the first call to arms, just as they watched and waited and wept with them through all the dark days that followed, so now after the lapse of nearly forty years the organization, with its ranks thinned of those early workers, but with their noble daughters taking their places, again stood with the veterans, this time to renew the past, and, above all, the glorious history of the immortal chieftian who stood for all that the Confederacy represented, Jefferson Davis.

The hall was packed to the very doors; from the steps on the platform to the extreme end of the hall standing-room was impossible. It was a magnificient audience, representing the talent, the chivalry, the glory of the South's best heroes, and its most loyal and patriotic women.
The hall was brilliantly illuminated. Upon the platform stood two pictures of Jefferson Davis, the one entwined with the army, the other with the navy colors. Above was suspended a wreath of ivy, [8] the symbol of undying remembrance. The banner of the Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association and the flags of the United Confederacy hung on either side, and upon the tables glowed the red, white and red—of the Confederacy—culled in flowers from the garden.

Seated upon the platform were: Mrs. Wm. J. Behan, the able and devoted President of the Association, and the following officers of the organization: Mrs. Jos. R. Davis, Mrs. Lewis Graham, Mrs. F. A. Monroe, Miss Delphine Points, Miss Kate Eastman, Mrs. Alden McLellan, President of the Daughters of the Confederacy, Mrs. E. H. Farrar, Mrs. J. R. Davis and the Misses Davis, relatives of the great leader; Judge Charles E. Fenner, orator of the evening; Dr. Brewer, of the Army of Northern Virginia; Commander J. A. Harral, of the Cavalry Camp; E. P. Cottraux, Sumpter Turner, General Adolph Chalaron, General Alden McLellan, W. M. Fayssoux, Colonel John B. Richardson, Judge Frank A. Monroe, Samuel Allston, Rev. Gordon A. Bakewell.
Mrs. Wm. J. Behan graciously presided at the services [ . . . ]"

He was a Duke of Rex in 1911. His name regularly appears in newspapers at this time, 50 years after the war, about his activities in Confederate veterans associations. His wife was also very involved with this.

A letter of his is preserved as item B363 in the Civil War Manuscripts Collection of the MIssouri Historical Society Archives to Joseph Boyce, dated March 20, 1919, requesting information about Missouri veterans for the United Confederate Veterans.

According to family history, "at some period the shipyard and towboat line [which Alden and his brothers had run] were liquidated and Alden ended up with real estate and presidence of the St. Charles Street Railroad. . . . Alden furnished the money to start up the Alden Mills, at textile mill in New Orleans, and Meridian, Mississippi" [which his son Asahel ran].

He was hit by a truck on Canal St. in New Orleans, and died a few weeks later at age 84; For more about his family, see the biography under his son William H.

He is buried in the McLellan tomb in Lafayette Cemetery; here is the inscription:

ALDEN McLELLAN
1836 - 1920
HUSBAND OF
SARAH J. COOPER
SON OF
WM. H. McLELLAN
AND
LEONORA LEVENSALER
NATIVE OF WARREN, MAINE
LIEUT. C.S.A. 1862 - 1865
[OBVERSE]
ALDEN McLELLAN

Census:
aged 24, born in Maine; pers. estate 3,000; ship chandler

Census:
aged 44, born in Maine as with both parents; RailRoad Man

Census:
aged 64 (born Jan 1836); married for 33 years; born in Maine as with both parents

Alden married Sarah Jane Cooper on 11 Apr 1867. Sarah (daughter of Asahel Walker Cooper, Sr. and Ann Sullivan) was born on 2 Oct 1844 in New Orleans, Louisiana; died on 18 Oct 1911 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried in Lafayette Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit. note., New Orleans Item, 22 Oct., 1911: McLELLAN - At midnight, October 18, 1911, Sarah Jane Cooper, wife of Alden McLellan, aged 67 years, 16 days, a native of New Orleans. A lengthy obit appeard in the Times-Picayune on 19 Oct. 1911.
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1900, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

She was descended from Friends in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, from Sadsbury Meeting. Her father had moved to New Orleans in 1830 from Phila., and in the process moved away from Quakerism.

Despite her northern and Quaker ancestry, she was very involved in the United Confederate Veterans association. Confederate Veterans July 1909: 7-8 Magazine records her election, at the South Carolina UCV Reunion, as a vice-president for the Mississippi Chapter. Also mentioned is "Mrs. W.J. Behan," of New Orleans, re-elected as the President, and Daisy M.L. Hodgson of New Orleans, re-elected as recording secretary.

One meeting in New Orleans of the local Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, on Jan. 19, 1901 (Lee's Birthday) from the Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28, ed. Reverend J. William Jones, can found at the Perseus Project (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/); it records that she was elected president of the local chapter in 1901:

"The natal day of General Robert Edward Lee, appropriately observed throughout the South, Jan. 19, 1901.
The exercises at New Orleans, La., under the auspices of the local Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, peculiarly impressive. [ . . . ]
Mrs. Alden McLellan, Chairman of Committee on Designs, said:
Your Committee on Designs begs leave to report that during the past year floral tributes were sent for [ . . . ]
The annual election of officers was then declared in order, and Mrs. Dickson was gracefully honored with a renomination. In a few pleasant remarks Mrs. Dickson thanked the Chapter for the honor conferred upon her, but declined the nomination, expressing her belief in rotation in office.
Mrs. Alden McLellan, wife of General Alden McLellan, President of the Soldiers' Home, and one of the most lovable women in the Chapter and a most devoted worker was then put in nomination for the Presidency and unanimously elected.
In a few pleasant remarks Mrs. McLellan expressed her appreciation of the high honor conferred upon her. [ . . . ]
The hearing of reports and election of officers being finished, the remainder of the session was devoted to exercises in which the most beautiful and touching tributes were paid to the memory of General Lee. [ . . . ]"

She presided later that year at Jefferson Davis's birthday celebration (see in the Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29, ed. Reverend J. William Jones, found at the Perseus Project [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/]).

She is buried in the McLellan tomb in Lafayette Cemetery, with this inscription:

SARAH. J. COOPER
WIFE OF
ALDEN McLELLAN
BORN OCT. 2, 1844
DIED OCT. 18, 1911
[OBVERSE]
SARAH J. COOPER

Census:
aged 35, born in Louisiana; father born in Pennsylvania, mother in England

Census:
aged 55 (born Oct. 1844); born in Louisiana; father born in Pennsylvania, mother in Ireland; had 6 children, 5 still living

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: An obituary article appeared in the Times-Picayune, 21 Dec. 1926, page 3 entitled "Col. DeGrange Dead after Long Utilities Work. Secretary of Public Service Ends Career at 88." Note, New Orleans Item, 21 Dec. 1926 "Members of Lodge # 30 B P O E are invited to assemble for funeral of late brother J. H. DeGrange." This is the "Benevolent Protective Order of Elks."
• Occupation: Railroad/Streetcar company manager
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1900, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1920, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

I have edited the correspondence that remains from him and his wife. According to the 1880 census, he is a native, and his father was born in France, his mother in Cuba.

On his marriage record, he is named the son of "John DeGrange and Elisabeth."

in 1860, he is living with his wife in his father's household. Early notices about him that appear in newspapers, in the later 1860s, refer to his work with the Jackson Fire Engine company and then, later, as a representative in the state legislature in the late 1860s. He also seems to have been a Mason and a member of other similar social clubs.

In the 1870 Census, Joseph H. and Ellen are living in the 2nd Ward, with "Hy," or Henry, "Ned," "Jo," "Ben," and Isabella (who is 1 and 1/2). Ellen McMillan is also living with them at this point, aged 10. This is the year that Joseph travels to New York and Boston, as recorded in their correspondence.

The letters by and to JHDegrange include many back and forth to Ellen on a trip to New York and Boston. Enclosed in one from Ellen is a newpaper clipping which mentions "Mr. Jos. H. Degrange, recently a member of the firm of Montgomery Bros., and also a Representative in the State Legislature, left yesterday evening for the North on a trip which he intends to combine business and pleasure. We trust his combination may be eminently successful." It is enclosed in a letter dated June 1869.

In 1881, he was in the procession for the funeral of James Garfield as a member of the Washington Artillery, Company B.

Note in the New Orleans Item, 10 Nov. 1891, page 2:

"MUNICIPAL MATTERS: the Board of Fire Commissioners Organized.
There was an executive session of the new Board of Fire Commissioners last evening in the Mayor's parlor. Mayor Shakepeare [sic] presided over the meeting. There were present: Messrs. Wellman, Fisher, Kuhner, Reilly, Noel, Simpson, Barker, DeGrange, and Pitard.
After the meeting had adjourned it was learned that Mr. J.H. DeGrange, member at large from the upper district, was chosen acting president of the Board. "

On August 31, 1913, appears this note in The New York Times:

"Col. Joseph de Grange of New Orleans, who has been in the American Hospital at Neuilly [France] for several weeks and undergone two operations, has arranged to leave Paris for America with his daughter, Mrs. A.W. Mclellan, by the Imperator on Sept. 11."

His funeral was at 1709 Prytania. He and his wife are buried in the DeGrange tomb in Metairie Cemetery.

Census:
aged 10, born in Lousiana; mistakenly as "R. DeGrange"

Census:
age 21, "clerk," born in Lousiana

Census:
aged 60 (b. Mar. 1840); born in Louisiana; both parents born in France; works [??0 Rl Rd Electric

Census:
HOH, aged 78

Joseph married Ellen McMillan on 10 Dec 1859 in Notre Dame de Bon Secours Church, New Orleans, Louisiana. Ellen (daughter of John McMillen and Catherina Barbara “Mary” Klipfel) was born on 22 Oct 1842; died on 5 Mar 1910 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit, New Orleans Item, 5 Mar. 1910: DE GRANGE - On Saturday, March 5, 1910, at 6:30 o'clock, A.M. Ellen McMillan, wife of Joseph H. DeGrange. Funeral from residence NO. 1708 Prytania street, Sunday morning, March 6, at 11:30 o'clock. Obit., Times-Picayune, 6 Mar. 1910: Death of Mrs. Col. DeGrange It is with great regret that this multitudes of friends hear of the demise of Mrs. Ellen McMillin DeGrange, wife of Colonel Joseph H. DeGrange, vice president of the New Orleans Railway and Light Company. The Colonel and Mrs. DeGrange were lifelong residents of New Orleans and were widely known and highly esteemed. The Picayune tenders its profound sympathy along with that which goes out from so many hearts to the bereaved relatives.
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1900, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Probate: 10 Mar 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

She was married at age 17; the Justice of the Peace signed a consent for her to marry JH DeGrange; the guardian's/notary's name is Drosain Matrijean. [This is the husband of her half-sister Julia Fields.]

On her marriage certificate, she is named the daughter of "John McMilland & Mary."

Her funeral was at St. Theresa's Church. She is buried in the DeGrange tomb in Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans.

A burial record in St. Louis #2 simply says "Degrange, infant of Mrs., died June 11, 1874."

Census:
aged 18, living with her husband in her father in law's household

Census:
aged 42; born in Louisiana; father born in New Jersey, mother in France

Census:
aged 57 (born Oct. 1842); born in Louisiana; both parents born in Germany [seems to be an error.]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obituary, Times-Picayune, Sunday 28 April 1895, p4: McLellan—On Wednesday, April 24, 1895, at 3:30 a.m., Wm. H. McLellan, aged 83 years and 8 months, a native of Warren, me., and a resident of this city for the last 50 years.
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, 128 Washington St., New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

He is listed as a militia officer in Warren, Maine: "Ensign, March 29, 1834, Lieut. Apr. 28, 1836, Rifle co."

The 1842 New Orleans City Directory has this.

M'Clellan, A. . . . wharf builder . . . Clio b. Bacchus & Apollo Sts.

WHP moved from Maine to New Orleans. His brothers James Brackett, George Merrill, and Edward Cutter also apparently travelled to New Orleans with him, and were married there. There is also a death record for Thomas McLellan, his brother (who died 1882 of "general paralysis of the insane"?!--see the image of his death certificate). They were ship chandlers, and some of their business papers are preserved at the Special Collections department at Tulane University ("McLellan Papers 1839-1884, 92 items," kept in their Manuscripts Collection on Resources for Waterways Transportation).

His death certificate implies he moved to New Orleans ca. 1845.

According to the shipping news from around 1840, he may have owned ships named the “Henrietta” and the “Ludwig.” These travel regularly from Maine to New Orleans, with “McLellan” as the owner. Maybe also the “Ligonia.”

He is apparently the "William H. McLellan" who is the holder of two Louisiana Patents for a "fare box," to hold money securely (no. 5,491, patented 1867, and no. 63, 804, patented 1867). See the the website on "Index to Early Louisiana Patents, 1810-1890."

He is buried in the McLellan tomb in Lafayette Cemetery; here is the inscription:

WM. H. McLELLAN
BORN SEPT. 30, 1811
DIED APRIL 24, 1895
[OBVERSE]
WM. H. McLELLAN

Census:
aged 47, born in Maine; realty worth 10,000, pers. estate 15,000; contractor

Census:
aged 59, born in Maine; President RailRoad; realty 50,000; pers. estate 10,000

William married Leonora Levensaler on 10 Nov 1833 in Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine. Leonora (daughter of Adam Levensaler and Mary K. "Polly" Turner) was born on 15 Sep 1806 in Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine; died on 2 Aug 1890 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried on 3 Aug 1890 in Lafayette Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obituary, Times-Picayune, Sunday 3 Aug 1890, p4: McLellan—On Saturday, Aug. 2, 1890, at 8 o'clock a.m., Leonora Levensaler, wife of Wm. H. McLellan, a native of Thomaston, Me., aged 83 years 10 months and 17 days. The funeral will take place at 5 p.m. This Day from her late residence, 128 Washington St.
• Census: 1850, Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, 128 Washington St., New Orleans, Louisiana
• Residence: 1890, 128 Washington St., New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

Also living in her household in 1860 is her sister Elsie.

A key reference for her family is The Levensalers of Waldoboro Maine, by Walter Levensaler. This is a huge help for the early immigrants, and the family bible records. The study has, however, contains a major mistake in that her husband WHP McLellan is given the 1842 death date of his father William McLellan. As a result, many of the children of WHP and Leonora are not accounted for there.

She is buried in the McLellan tomb in Lafayette Cemetery. She apparently loathed the New Orleans weather, and didn't want to be buried in its soil, so she had some good Maine earth shipped south for her tomb. Here is the inscription:

IN MEMORY OF
LEONORA LEVENSALER
WIFE OF
W.H. McLELLAN
BORN SEPT. 15, 1803
DIED AUG. 2, 1890

Census:
aged 42, born in Maine. Her husband is not in the household; he must be in New Orleans at the time.

Census:
aged 53, born in Maine

Census:
aged 64, born in Maine

Residence:
from obit. notice

Other Events and Attributes:

• Legal Documents: a note about probate, The Times-Democrat, 7 July 1883, p3: Judgment recognizing Mrs. Sarah Jane Cooper, wife of Alden McLellan, Mrs. Margaret Ann Cooper, wife of T.Y.P. Tureman, and the minor Asahel W. Cooper, as sole heirs of A.W. Cooper, and putting them in possession of his estate.
• Obituary: Mortuary notice, The Times-Democrat, Sun. 27 May 1883, p13: Cooper—On Tuesday, May 22, 1883, at 5 p.m., Asahel W. Cooper, aged 76 years, 8 months and 17 days, native of Lancaster county, Pa., and a resident of this city for 53 years.
• Religion: Born Quaker; became Presbyterian
• Census: 1840, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, 121 Race St., New Orleans, Louisiana
• Probate: 29 May 1883, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

His ancestry is thorougly Quaker, descending from families who emigrated from Ireland, Wales, and England to south-eastern Pennsylvania in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

According to his biography, below, he lived in Sadsbury until he was 17, until about 1823. In the separation of 1828 Sadsbury meeting became part of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends, so this might be part of the reason that he left. There might be a certificate of removal from Sadsbury to Philadelphia Monthly Meetings, if he were still a Friend at that point, though I can’t find one.

He arrived in New Orleans in about 1830, 7 years later, at about age 24. He and Ann were married in 1836, when he was about 30.

Did his marriage to her have to do with why he left Quakerism? I can’t find a record of Disownment in Sadsbury for him. His second wife was Catholic, however, and he became a Presbyterian.

He ran a cotton gin at the foot of Race Street in New Orleans.

From Passmore (1.184):

ASAHEL W., b. 9-5-1806, m. 6-14-1836, to Ann Sullivan. Ann b. 12-25-1815, d. 4-27-1807. Asahel W. m. 2nd time, 6-26-1872, to Eliza A. Loney. Asahel d. 5-2-1883, in New Orleans, La., where he removed when a young man. He became a prominent and influential citizen. Eliza A.’s residence, 917 Race St., New Orleans, La.

Here is a biography of his son which tells much about him; it is taken from Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 108-109. Edited by Alcée Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association:

Cooper, Asahel Walker, the lawyer, is a son of Asahel Walker Cooper, who was born in Lancaster County, Pa., Sept. 5, 1806, and died in New Orleans, May 22, 1883, and who was a son of a Quaker and educated in the common schools of his native state, where he learned the carpenter's trade, being bound out at the age of 17 to learn the trade in the city of Philadelphia, whence he came to New Orleans in 1830, coming by way of a sailing vessel. In New Orleans he applied himself to his trade, became a contracting architect and builder, and grew prosperous, accumulating prior to the war of secession much real estate property in New Orleans. Many buildings stand today in New Orleans as monuments to his excellent craftship as a builder. He retired from business in 1870. One of the noted pieces of property owned by Mr. Cooper was the Cooper Cotton Press, which he acquired before the war and which remained in the possession of the family until 1912, when it was sold to the Texas & Pacific.
Mr. Cooper was twice married. His first wife bore the maiden name of Ann Sullivan. She died in 1870, leaving 2 daughters, Sarah Jane and Margaret Ann. His second wife he married in 1872. Her maiden name was Eliza A. Loney and she was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, of French and Irish parents. She died in 1910, leaving 1 son, Asahel Walker Cooper, who was born in New Orleans, Nov. 26, 1874, educated at Jesuit College, then took a preparatory course at Andover, Mass., and graduated from Yale College with the degree of A. B. in 1897, and in 1898 obtained his degree of LL. B. from Tulane University. He read law with the late Judge A. G. Brice and was associated with him in the practice of law until the death of Judge Brice. He now holds rank among the lawyers of New Orleans. He comes of an excellent family of New Orleans. His father was a promment citizen of this city for many years, and numbered among that class of citizens who constituted what was known as the American colony in New Orleans. The elder Mr. Cooper was reared a Quaker, but in New Orleans was identified with the Presbyterian church. The present Asahel W. Cooper adheres to the church faith of his mother—the Roman Catholic.

Census:
p. 109

Census:
"builder"

Census:
"builder"

Census:
"builder," living with his son-in-law Alden McLellan

Died:
vol. 82, page 976

Asahel married Ann Sullivan on 14 Jun 1836. Ann was born on 25 Dec 1815 in Ireland; died on 27 Apr 1870; was buried in Lafayette Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Mortuary notice, Times-Picayune, 28 Apr. 1870, p4: COOPER—On Wednesday morning, April 27, 1870, at 3 1/2 o’clock, after a short illness, Ann Cooper, wife of A.W. Cooper, aged fifty-four years. The funeral will take place on Thursday afternoon, 28th inst., at 4 1/2 o’clock, from her late residence, No. 68 Erato street. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend, without further notice. Philadelphia (Pa.) paper please copy.
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

This woman's ancestry is a stumper; if anyone can help, please get in touch!

She was an immigrant from Ireland, and I'd guess a Quaker. Her death certificate says she was born in Ireland; censuses say England. A first question is: did she immigrate to Pennsylvania or New Orleans? I suspect it may have been to PA, but that's only a hunch. She does not seem to appear, however, in any of the Pennsylvania marriage records for Sadsbury, or in the Meeting’s minutes.

Another problem is birth date. On the 1850 census, she was 36 (b. 1814), and on the 1860 census she was 48 (b. 1812). Her death certificate, in 1870, says that she was 50 (so, born abt. 1820).

Birthplace on the 1850 and 1860 Censuses is "England." Also on the 1850 census is a "Mary Sullivan," aged 16, living in the household, who was born in England. There is also a Mary A Cooper, aged 9; this would be her daughter who died in 1850.

If Asahel Cooper came to NOLA in 1830, at about age 24, and he and Ann were married in 1836, it is possible that they met in New Orleans. I'd say that this is not likely. I think it is more probable that he travelled home to meet her. His second wife was from PA. And Asahel Walker, his son by Eliza Loney, was born in Lancaster Co., PA. And, third, her mortuary notice in the New Orleans paper asks Philadelphia papers to copy.

Much of the Quaker community in Sadsbury where the Coopers were from had emigrated to Pennsylvania from County Antrim, in Northern Ireland, though this migration happened well before the early 1800s. I can find no record of her family in Lancaster Co. Church Records, but she needn't have lived there long before marrying and moving south.

As outside possibilities for relations, there is a someone buried in Lafayette Cemetery, in the Sheedy Tomb: "William Sullivan and wife Ann Murphy, A native of Roscrea Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Died Dec. 25, 1873. Aged 44 years." There is also an Elizabeth A. Woolfarth Sullivan buried in the Kaiser tomb there.

Birth:
The 1870 mortality schedule gives Ireland

Census:
age 36, born in England

Census:
age 48, born in England

Census:
aged 56; died Apr. 1870 of meningitis

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11976255/ann-cooper

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit. notice, 4 Oct. 1861, Times-Picayune, page 1: "Friday morning, 4th inst., Jacque DeGrange, fifty-seven years. Friends and acquaintances, and those of his son, are respectfully invited to attend his funeral at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning, 5th inst., on Tu____ street, bteween _____ and Bacchus streets."
• Occupation: Wine Merchant
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

He was baptized as Jacques, but was also later “James” in the U.S.

The earliest record I have know of about a DeGrange in New Orleans is in Civil Suit Record no. 356 for the Territory of New Orleans, County Court, Zuleme Carriere v. Jerome DeGrange, in 1806. This well-documented suit is about a divorce; it contains an affadavit that Jerome DeGrange and Zuleme Carriere were married on Dec., 1794 in the Cathedral of St. Louis in New Orleans. See http://louisdl.louislibraries.org for the document. I do not know of a relation between this DeGrange and my family--in fact there may not be, considering the immigration records below.

The following record is also from before the LA Purchase, and I do not know who might be; I assume it is also Jerome. This is from the "Alphabetical and Chronological Digest of the Acts and Deliberations of the Cabildo, 1769-1803" from the Nutrias.org website:
"Wards and Districts, Book 4, vol. I, page 170, date 1/1/1797: Governor: Carondelet; Royal Ensign: Almonaster - Mr. De Grange - First Ward; Don Andres Fernandez - Second Ward; Don Jamie Jorda* - Third Ward; Don Pedro Jordan - Fourth Ward; Don Nicolas Gravier - San Luis Ward. (*Don Jamie Jorda and Don Pedro Jordan were excused from accepting service (page 187) and Don Juan Bautista Dezilet and Don Thomas Durnford were appointed to fill their respective places."

The family has kept records of the DeGrange family. One document is a copy of a birth certificate for Jacques DeGrange, part of which reads:

"Le trente mars mil huit cent huit es ne, et meme jour a ete baptise jacques fils de joseph Degrange et de la Marion Desusse maries; parrain a ete jacques degrange, et la marraine marion blanc."--"10 March 1808 is born, and on the same day is baptised Jacques, son of Joseph DeGrange and Marion Desusse, married; godfather is Joseph DeGrange, and Godmother is Marion Blanc." The register was "de l'eglise paroissiale de Lescheriane en Beauges sous lo vocable de St. Maurice, diocese de Chambery, province de Savoie propre."

He was born in eastern France. "Savoie" and "Haute Savoie" in France are in the Rhone Alps; they are next to each other. Haute Savoie is to the north, on the border with Switzerland; Savoie is south, on the border with Italy. His death record says that "Savoie, France" is his birthplace. His wife was born in Cuba, according to his son's entry on the 1880 census, and according to her death record.

There is family history which says that the name before immigration was "Delagrange," and that the name was shortened upon immigration. This is possible: there is an immigration record for a Jacques Delagrange who immigrated to NOLA in 1843. The dates are close, but the age doesn't match precisely; he would have been born abt. 1796.

Arrival: Mar. 9, 1843, Age 57
Departed from La Havre
From: France
Ship name: Rochester
Family no. 28849
National Archives Serial no. M259-22
Port of Arrival: New Orleans

One other possiblity is a Jacques Degrange who arrived in NYC in 1831 from Switzerland, though he would have been born in 1794:

Name: Jacques Degrange
Year: 1831
Age: 37
Place: New York
Source Publication Code: 503.11
Primary Immigrant: Degrange, Jacques
Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Extracted from National Archives Microfilm #237, rolls 13-18. Name of ship, occupation, gender of the immigrant, country of origin, and place of intended destination are also provided. The remainder of the book will be indexed as source number 503.12 in PILI 2004 Part 1.
Source Bibliography: BENTLEY, ELIZABETH P. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of New York, 1830-1832, From Customs Passenger Lists. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000. pp. 1-727.
Page: 228

For the same person, there is also this immigration record:

Name: Jacques Degrange
Arrival Date: Mar 2, 1831
Age: 37
Gender: M
Port of Arrival: New York
Place of Origin: Switzerland
Destination: United States of America
Ship: Brig Comissary
Microfilm Serial Number: M237
Microfilm Roll Number: 14
List Number: 48

In the 1830 Census there is a "J. Desgrange" in Lexington, KY, who is living alone, and who is between 60 and 70. I doubt there is a relation.

In the 1840 census for New Orleans there is a "Jacques Desgranges" living in the 2nd Ward of New Orleans. In his household there is a boy less than 5 and himself, between ages 30 and 40; there is also a woman between 26 and 30. If this is him, he was, again, born before 1800, while the wife is the correct age for Isabella. This is also the right age for Joseph.

This is from the 1846 New Orleans City Directory:

81 St Louis . . . DEGRANGE, JACQUES . . . wine merchant
91 St Louis . . . DEGRANGE, JACQUES . . . wine merchant

In the indexes to notarial volumes for Jefferson Parish, there are these records, which have not been looked up:
Purchaser Index v. 1-7, 1826-1854, Book 2, Jacques Degrange, folio 66.97, real estate. ( .97 should mean a page number)
Purchaser Index v. 1-4, 1827-1860, I found, Vol 1, Desgranges, Jacques, 62

In the 1850 and 1860 census, a "James DeGrange" is living in the 2nd Ward of Orleans, Parish. He has a wife named Isabella. In 1850, the only child is "R. Degrange," age 10. All are listed as being born in LA. This would seem to be mistaken in several ways.

In 1860, however, there are three people living with James and Isabella: Joseph H., age 21, a clerk; Ellen, age 18 (son and daughter-in-law); and Esther Philips, age 38, born in England. Joseph had married in 1859, so Ellen seems to have been living with them at this point. Esther would, I guess, be a servant.

Census:
aged 41, grocer, born in Lousiana (an error)

Census:
aged 52, born in France; real estate worth 2,000, personal estate worth 800.

Jacques married Isabella Narcisa Mouchon. Isabella (daughter of Jean Mouchon and Susanna Laurens) was born on 29 Oct 1803 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; died on 24 Aug 1861 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried in St. Louis Cemetery #2, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit, from the Daily Crescent, Aug. 26, 1861: On Sunday, 25th inst. at 1 1/2 o'clock A.M., M'Me Isabelle Mouchon, the wife of Jacques Degrange, aged 57 years. The same, in French, appears in the Bee.
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

Her son's census records are a primary source of information for her. Born in Santiago de Cuba, her family would have fled there after the slave rebellions of the 1790s.

Census:
aged 41, born in Lousiana (a mistake, I believe)

Census:
aged 56, born in Louisiana (which I assume is an error)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: a "moulder"
• Census: 1840, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

He is on the Louisiana Mysteries page. HIs ancestry is a complete mystery: please let me know if you can help!

He was buried in Girod St. Cemetery as "native of N.Y. Vault of family." Which family, exactly? There are a number of other McMillens and McMillans in Girod St. Founded in 1822, the Girod St. Cemetery was largely for Protestants. It was de-consecrated and abandoned in 1957. The remains were re-located to the Hope Mausoleum, 4841 Canal St., and the Saints’ stadium was build on the site.

Several bits of data:

—Note that his son John, given his birth day, may have been a son by a first marriage.
—There are John McMillens who immigrated or were naturalized into Baltimore and Ohio in the mid-1820s, born at about the right time.
—A John McMillen enlisted in the Army for 5 years in Dec. 1819 who was aged 16; he was from New York City. According to the record, he "deserted June 2/20. Dec. 31/20 confined"; he was confined over the next year. "June 30/21 present sick"--so he was back in. Maybe him; maybe not.
—A Margaret Ann McMillen died in New Orleans on 10 May 1842, aged 33; she was born abt. 1809. Could this be a relative?
—[There is also a John McMillan in Caddo Parish, Louisiana on the 1840 census; his household has 2 males under 5, one between 5 and 10, one aged 20 to 30, and one aged 30 to 40; and one woman aged 30 to 40. This would fit if Ellen weren't born yet at the census (she technically would have been), and the man from aged 20 to 30 is an unknown relative of some sort. There are other McMillans living in Caddo Parish as well.]
—The 1842 City Directory, for the year he died, has three McMillens, none of which is "J."
—There is a John “McMullen” who appears in records about this time. A succession was filed, for instance, under this name in the Parish of Orleans First District Court (#5770) between 1846 and 1853. I think he was a ship's captain who died in an accident.

Birth:
His burial record says he was abt. 35, so, b. abt. 1807. His daughter Ellen's 1880 census says that he was born in New Jersey.

Census:
as 1 fwm 30-40, “Jno McMillan.”

Died:
vol 12, page 214

John married Catherina Barbara “Mary” Klipfel on 31 May 1838 in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Catherina (daughter of Heinrich (Henry) Klipfel and Catherina Barbara Meyer) was born on 2 Jan 1804 in Nehweiler, Bas-Rhin, France; died on 4 May 1856 in New Orleans, Louisiana; was buried on 6 May 1856 in Girod St. Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obituary, Times-Picayune, 6 May 1856: On Monday, 6th inst., at 12 p.m., Mrs. Mary C. McMillan, in the forty-ninth year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend her funeral This Afternoon at _ o'clock from her late residence on Philip street, between Plaquemine and Coliseum.
• Census: 1840, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Census: 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana

Notes:

In 1850, she went to the Recorder's office of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in NOLA and registered the deaths of her father and siblings who had died since their immigration. There is no mention of the death of her mother. The three of her siblings who died in December of 1817 all apparently died on board a ship during the passage from Amsterdam to the US; see their death certificates. According to the certificates, the "Deponent does not recall the name of the ship."

On 1 Dec. 1828, she applied in Parish court to be separated from her husband Charles Fields because "the said Fields constantly refuses to make any provision for her or their said children and that when he is in a state of drunkenness he abuses your petitioner in the most vulgar and brutal manner"; the full petition is recorded under her husband.

She later attested that he died, aged 35, in 1834.

Wedding certificate, which is falling apart, but which I assume to be hers:

"This certifies that M. . . McMillan of the City of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana and Mrs. Mary Field of the City of New Orleans in the State of Louisiana were joined together in Holy Matrimony this 31st Day of May in the Year of Our Lord 1838. By me, Wm. M. Curtis. Minister of the Gospel, M.E. Church. In Presence of J.E. Graff (Gross?), Pame(?la) Ross, Gary W. Ross."

Census:
as fwf 30-40 in household of “Jno McMillan”

Other Events and Attributes:

• Legal Documents: Subject: HOVEY, EDWIN S. AND OTHERS Link: 61733 Description: Report on the Petition for incorporation of a Bank in Thomaston and William McLellan and others for an increase of the Capital Stock in the Thomaston Bank Year: 1834 Type: GY Access #: 87-37

Notes:

He moved to Warren, Maine in about 1811 and became a successful businessman. A merchant, ship-owner, and one of the first directors of the Thomaston Bank in 1825 and the George Insurance Co. in 1834. Was also a member of the Maine House of Representatives. He appears in the Maine Legislative Indexes for 1831-35.

The Civil War divided the allegiances of his children. His oldest child WHP had moved away to New Orleans before the war, and sons George Merrill, Stephen Clough, Thomas, and Edward Cutter also moved to Louisiana, though when isn't clear. James Brackett, a Union supporter, moved to Texas after the Civil War.

He ended his days in an asylum in 1842, Eaton says by suicide. He apparently became ill after many of his business ventures had gone awry. Mental illness, however, also seems to have run in the family; his son Thomas died in a mental asylum in New Orleans, his brother Ephraim was "afflicted with insanity," and his grandson George William—via James Brackett—was in an asylum in Arizona in the 1890s. And his father was, according to Eaton, frugal to absurd extremes.

Died:
died by suicide in an asylum

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50703464

William married Eliza Lydia St. Barbe Clough on 28 Oct 1810. Eliza (daughter of Capt. Stephen Clough and Sarah "Sally" Decker) was born on 28 Oct 1793 in Wiscasset, Lincoln Co., Maine; died on 16 Nov 1854 in Belfast, Waldo Co., Maine; was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Warren, Knox Co., Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obit., Boston Evening Transcript, 22 Nov. 1854: At Belfast, Me., 16th inst, Mrs Eliza L, widow of the late Hon. Wm. McLellan, of Warren, 62.

Notes:

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=50703439

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obituary note, 30 June 1849, Portland Maine Advertiser: In Thomaston, 16th inst., Mr. Adam Levensaler, aged 76 years.

Notes:

From Cyrus Eaton, The History of Thomaston: "Adam Levensaler, a cooper from Waldoboro', after working some years for [General] Knox, married, purchased and built where he passed the remainder of his life in the house recently occupied by his son Lincoln, toward Oyster River."

Note, Eastern Argus (Portland, ME), 24 Nov. 1835: "Accident. Mr. Adam Levensaler of Thomaston, was thrown upon a rock recently by a frightened ox, so violently as to fracture his skull. There is some prospect of his recovery."

There are two chairs in the family, from about 1840, from Maine, which are apparently Levensaler chairs.

A key reference here is The Levensalers of Waldoboro Maine, by Walter Levensaler. This is a huge help for the early immigrants, and the family bible records. The study has, however, a major error in that WHP McLellan (the husband of Adam's daughter Leonora) is given the 1842 death date of his father William McLellan, his father. As a result, many of the children of WHP and Leonora are not accounted for there.

Adam married Mary K. "Polly" Turner on 5 May 1798. Mary (daughter of Cornelius Turner and Michal Sylvester) was born about Sep 1773 in Waldoboro, Lincoln Co., Maine; died on 21 Sep 1853 in Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine; was buried in Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine

Notes:

She is a descendant by her name of Thomas Turner Sr., who immigrated a few years after the Mayflower pilgrims. Her ancestors, traceable up to 7 generations back in America, mostly lived in Scituate, Massachusetts, and some later moved to Hanover. They include some who were in the colony by 1630, including Humphrey Turner, apparently from a different Turner family than Thomas, and John Williams.

Her name is from Waldoboro, Maine town records, under the marriage date, as "Polly Turner."

To see: Jasper Stahl, History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro, 2 vols., 1956; with Index to Jasper Jacob Stahl's History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro. By Marlene Alma Hinkley Groves.

Birth:
calculated back from her death

Died:
aged 79 years 10 months

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

George married Sarah Walker on 13 Nov 1805 in Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of Asahel Walker, Sr. and Ann Moore) was born in 11 mo. 24, 1785 in Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died on 18 Mar 1858; was buried in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker
• Census: 1850, Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Notes:

Her will is available from Chester Co. website: file 13398 for Cooper, Sarah B. (Sadsbury, 1858).

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Census:
aged 64, born in Pennsylvania

Notes:

The family has kept records of the DeGrange family. One document is a copy of a birth certificate for Jacques DeGrange, son of Joseph, which indicates that Jacques was born in Lescheraines.

Before Joseph, the DeGrange family had lived in Les Noyer back for as long as records exist, through the early 1600s. His daughter Marguerite’s marriage record says that she is “Marguerite fille de Joseph Degrange et de Marie Desusse, native de la paroise du Noyer et habitant jusqu'à ce jour de celle de Lescheraine”; Marguerite daughter of Joseph Degrange and Marie Desusse, native of the parish of du Noyer and living now in Lescheraine.” Les Noyer is another town in Savoie. There are many DeGranges living in Les Noyer during the 1700s.

Joseph’s marriage, however, happened in Cruseilles, a town in Haute Savoie, the départment to the north of Savoie tucked under Switzerland (thanks to David Quénehérvé for finding this!). The next record for any DeGrange that I can find in Lescheraines is 1800, which is their first child. This couple seems be the only DeGrange family in Lescheraines. (Other local names include Voisin, Darvey, Peguet, Dufour, Cavet, and many others.)

There are few other DeGranges that appear in the Lescheraine records: Louis DeGrange and Anne DeGrange (siblings, as the maiden name would be used for a wife) appear as god parents in an 1813 baptismal record, and may be children of this couple. Sr. Antoine DeGrange appears as the witness in a wedding in 1824. And an Urbain DeGrange was buried in 1835, aged about 78.

There is family history which says that the name before immigration was "Delagrange," and that the name was shortened upon immigration; this doesn’t seem to be true, though, according to the parish records in Lescheraine and Du Noyer.

Joseph married Marion Desusse on 9 Sep 1788 in Cruseilles, Haute-Savoie, France. Marion (daughter of Pierre Desusse and Claudine Bocquet) was born in Cruseilles, Haute-Savoie, France; died before Feb 1836 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her death date comes from the marriage record for her daughter Rosine, which says that both of her parents were dead at that point.

The family has kept records of the DeGrange family. One document is a copy of a birth certificate for Jacques DeGrange, part of which reads:

"Le trente mars mil huit cent huit es ne, et meme jour a ete baptise jacques fils de joseph Degrange et de la Marion Desusse maries; parrain a ete jacques degrange, et la marraine marion blanc."--"10 March 1808 is born, and on the same day is baptised Jacques, son of Joseph DeGrange and Marion Desusse, married; godfather is Joseph DeGrange, and Godmother is Marion Blanc." The register was "de l'eglise paroissiale de Lescheriane en Beauges sous lo vocable de St. Maurice, diocese de Chambery, province de Savoie propre."

Notes:

There is this slave purchase record, placing him in New Orleans by 1810. This is probably a slave he had brought with him from Cuba:

Document Date: 3/29/1810
Document Number: 188
Notary: Broutin
Date of Sale: 3/29/1810
Depository: housed in parish courthouses.
Location: Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
Language of this record: French
Seller: Jean Mouchon
Buyer: Victor Babin
Name Explanation: IS: Probably a corruption of ""Louis d'or"". Another form found among Wolof is Libidor.
Name: Lindor dit Victor
Name Type: African
Gender: male
Race: black
Age: 25
sold or inventoried as an individual
Currency Type: piastre = 1 p
Value of Sale: 450
Sale Common Price: 450

His death certificate, dated 26 June 1835, reads: "Jacques Degrange, a native of Savoie [?], aged twenty seven years a merchant, residing in this Parish suburb [?] Annunciation and Appollo street, who by these presents doth declare that Jean Mouchon, a native of Lucerne, aged about seventy years, late a merchant died in this Parish suburb [?] Annunciation Thalie Steet, on the twenty ninth May last past at eight o'clock AM the deceased was married and has left children."

His succession was filed in the court of probates in New Orleans in 1835; succession is present, but no will or inventory are present. It can be found at the NOPL/City Archives. See http://nutrias.org/inv/probates/probias.htm.

A minister named Pierre Mouchon (1733-1797) lived in Geneva, and compiled an index to Diderot’s Encyclopedia. He had a son named Jean born abt. 1763, but I do not know if he is the same as this Jean.

Birth:
son Benjamin's baptismal record; Lucerne is on his death certicate

Died:
NOLA death record

Jean married Susanna Laurens on 5 Aug 1797 in New York State. Susanna was born in 1774 in Baradères, Saint-Domingue; died on 7 Jan 1856 in New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was from Saint-Domingue. She most likely fled the slave revolts on the islands in the 1790s. Many of those fleeing went to Cuba, esp. to Santiago, where their daughter Isabel was born. Benjamin's baptismal certificate notes the parents' origins.

The only person I can find who might be her in the 1850 census is the "widow Laurent," living in the 3rd Ward, 1st Municipality of New Orleans, but she is aged 39 (and born in Lousiana), not over 75.

Died:
vol. 17, page 312

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1817, France

Notes:

He was apparently a farmer--is called a "daylaborer" on his children's birth certifcates, and they were protestants. He and his wife emigrated to America in 1817.

His Death certificate:

Be it remembered that on this day, to-wit: the twenty fifth of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and the seventy fourth of the Independence of the United States of America, before me, F.M. Crozat, duly commissioned and sworn RECORDER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS, in and for the Parish and City of New Orleans, personally appeared,

Mrs Barbara Klipfel, widow by first marriage of Charles Fields and by second marriage of John McMillen, residing in this city who by these presents declares that her father Henry Klipfel, a native of Nehwiler (Lower Rhine) "France," aged thirty eight years, died on this city of New Orleans, in the month of September eighteen hundred and nineteen. The deceased was married to Mm Barbara Meyers . . .

Thus done at New Orleans in the presence of aforesaid Mrs Barbara Klipfel as also in that of Messrs. . . . .

According to S198, which gives his immigration record, he immigrated 3-11-1817, and was born in Nehwiller. No birth year is given. No family members' named are listed, but it says that a Wife and 5 children accompanied him. No profession is given.

Birth:
Lower Rhine Valley

Heinrich married Catherina Barbara Meyer on 19 Jun 1796 in Niederbronn, Bas-Rhin, France. Catherina (daughter of Chrétien Meyer and Margaret Solomea Lisher) was born in Nehweiler, Bas-Rhin, France; died in 1818 in New Orleans, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1817, France

Notes:

Her three children who died in December of 1817 all apparently died on board a ship, during the passage from Amsterdam to the US; see their death certificates filed by her daughter Catherina Barbara. "Deponent does not recall the name of the ship."

Birth:
Lower Rhine Valley

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Mortuary notices: Gazette (Portland, ME), Tues. 15 Dec. 1818, vol. XXI, issue 36, p2: In Warren, on the 1st inst., Mr. Thomas McLellan, of Thomaston, formerly of Cape Elizabeth, aged 70. Newburyport Herald (Newburyport, MA), Fre. 18 Dec. 1818, Vol. XXII, issue 75, p3: In Warren, Mr. Thomas McLellan, of Thomastown [sic], formerly of Cape Elizabeth, aged 70. Boston Patriot & Daily Chronicle, Friday 18 Dec. 1818, Vol. III, issue 477, p2: In Warren, Mr. Thomas McLellan, of Thomastown [sic], late of Cape Elizabeth, aged 70.
• Census: 1790, Gorham and Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine

Notes:

He was called "The Captain."

After marrying Hannah Dyer he moved (between 1778 and 1782) to South Thomaston, Maine, where he "settled on George's River on the lot above Simonton's Point; so called from his brother-in-law John Simonton [married to his older sister Rachel], who came about the same time from the same place, bought out the possessory title of Abiathar Smith, and settled on this Point and the adjoining lot."

After this they began to build a family. According to Eaton, "he was a shoemaker, farmer, and master of a coaster, by turns, as business and profit offered inducement. He was remarkable for his strong love of money and economical, not to say penurious habits, which in later years amound to little less than monomania. He is said to have compelled his boys to stop the cow-bell every night with a wisp of hay to prevent the tongue from wearing."

He and his younger brother Simon "were the ancestors of all the early McLellans in the St. George River area."

More people appear on the 1790 census for his household than can be accounted for by known family.

His gravestone is indecipherable; yet "it is reported by the 'Index to Revolutionary Veterans Buried in Maine' as 1818" (S36, 2).

Census:
2 white males over 16; 3 under 16; 4 women in all; 1 other free person; 0 slaves

Died:
according to obit notices.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91582867/_

Thomas married Hanna Dyer on 16 Jun 1774 in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland Co., Maine. Hanna was born in 1754 in Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland Co., Maine; died on 28 Aug 1816; was buried in Village Cemetery, Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There were a lot of Dyers in Cape Elizabeth, but her parents are a mystery. She in fact appears as a "lost Dyer" on the best Dyer family forum on the web (at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dyer/ and http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lostged ). There is much literature out there on the Dyers, but I've found no good leads on her parentage specifically. The list of Ephraim Clark's marriages does not say that she was a widow when married, and this is noted in other cases.

How might she be related to the family Anna Dyer, wife of Samuel McLellan? Many Hannah Dyers appear in Underhill, The Descendants of Edward Small, including the Anna Dyer who married Capt. Samuel McLellan, but not this one. Both that Anna (I1037) and this Hannah were married on Cape Elizabeth in the early 1770s.

There is a Jabez Dyer, "formerly of Cape Elizabeth," m. Lydia Dyer, with children Jordan, Hannah, Jabez, Jr.. See: "Records of births and deaths in Hartland, Maine," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society 9 (date?): 415.

Might see: Ebeneser Alden Dyer, Ancestry of William Dyer, "The Abington Pioneer" (Whitman, Mass.: Dyer Association, 1911). This has a series of Dyer family studies in it.

There is a Dyer family in Cutter, but I don't see her there. Cutter focuses on Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Little discusses a Dyer family that seems a likely possibility, since he leaves lots of loose ends, but Hannah is not included.

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91585113

Notes:

Married:
married by the Rev. Ephraim Clark

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Obituary, Weekly Eastern Argus (Portland, ME), Tues. 15 Dec. 1818, vol, XVI, Issue 794, p3: On his passage from New Orleans to Louisville, Capt. Stephen Clough, of Warren, Maine, commander of the steam boat Buffalo, aged 50.
• Occupation: mariner
• Census: 1790, Pownalborough Town, Lincoln Co., Maine

Notes:

He appears in the census at Pownalborough, Lincoln Co., in 1790, 1800, and 1810.

He apparently outfitted a ship, the "Sally," to rescue Marie Antoinette from the guilllotine. See the article by Rufus Sewall describing this attached to the New England Histories page. He apparently didn't quite make it, though he was there to see her execution. The article gives a death date for Capt. Clough of 1878, which seems far beyond a possible age to live.

Also there is this note from http://www.lincolncountymaine.me/, the Lincoln Co., ME website:

"Edgecomb, incorporated in 1774, lies between the Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers, up hill and down dale, with pine, spruce, and hemlock all the way. Visit Fort Edgecomb, now a State Park, built in 1809 on the Sheepscot to protect Wiscasset and its shipping from possible British attack. A block house with parade ground and the remains of fortifications, stands on a granite ledge looking out on a beautiful view of the Narrows, Westport Island, and in the distance on the Edgecomb shore, a glimpse of the ‘Marie Antoinette house.' Tradition says that Captain Stephen Clough of the ship "Sally" was in France in 1793, having taken a load of lumber to Havre, went on to Paris and there was involved in a plot to rescue the Queen and take her back to America to the home of his father-in-law, Joseph Decker, on Jeremy Squam Island, now Westport Island. The plot failed but the house has been linked ever since with the Queen's name. It was moved to the Edgecomb shore one winter when the ice was very thick."

There is this Bible record at the NEGHS, apparently a Bible record for this family:

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/record.php?id=228112220&contributor=6775

Census:
Stephen Clough, HOH; Males 16 & up: 1; males up to 16: 1; Females: 3; and no one else. If his wife was living, it might seem that he had 1 son and 2 daughters.

Died:
Eaton says 1817, but the obit. disagrees

Stephen married Sarah "Sally" Decker on 4 Jan 1789 in Edgecomb, Lincoln Co., Maine. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Decker and Sarah Davis) was born on 21 Mar 1773 in Wiscasset, Lincoln Co., Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is descended from Margaret (Stephenson) Scott, who was hung as a witch at Salem in 1692.

According to Speare, "Captain Clough married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Decker. He was thirty and she just under twenty. A daughter, Sarah, was two and a half years old when her father went to France and was there about three years during the French Revolution. Madam Clough was a woman of remarkable health and vitality. At forty she said that she did not know the sensation of being tired. . . . Rev. Jonathan Adams mentions three daughters: Sarah D., Elizabeth L. St. Barbs; and Hannah Antoinette, 1798-1864, who married Rev. Jonathan Adams of Woolwich, Maine."

Notes:

Johann and Christopher his brother arrived in Broad Bay, ME in 1753.

I can't locate who this obit would refer to: 23 Oct. 1847, Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette:

In Waldoboro', Mrs. Caroline Levensaler, aged 65.

Johan married Maria Eleanora Schuman. Maria (daughter of Johan Nicolaus Schuman) was born in 1732; died on 19 Dec 1798 in Waldoboro, Lincoln Co., Maine; was buried in German Protestant Cemetery, Waldoboro, Lincoln Co., Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37150165

Notes:

His birth and marriage were in Hanover, but after this he and his wife moved to Waldoboro, Maine.

There are three other Cornelius Turners buried in Maine, visible on findagrave.

One is Cornelius Turner d. 1838 in Maine, m. Abigail Cole. Here is his obit, 22 May 1838, Portland Advertiser: DIED - In Wiscasset, Capt. Cornelius Turner, 96.

The second is Cornelius Turner, d. 24 Apr. 1848.

The third is this one: obit, 10 Aug. 1863, Boston Post: In Wiscasset, Me., 28th ult., Cornelius Turner, 49 years.

Other obits name this one "Hon." Obits. in the 1830s and 1840s of young children naming him as father at the time would, I guess, be children of this younger Cornelius.

Cornelius married Michal Sylvester on 8 Dec 1768 in Hanover, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Michal (daughter of Michael Sylvester and Mary Barden) was born in 1755 in Hanover, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; was christened on 9 Nov 1755 in Hanover, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After her marriage, she and her husband moved to Waldoboro, Maine.

Notes:

Married:
Pr. Sam Baldwin, Pastor of Hanover

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

Aug 19, 1761: "George Cooper sone of Calvin Cooper and Susanna Trueman, dau. of Thos. Trueman, declared their intention to marry." He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

George married Susanna Truman on 15 Oct 1761 in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Susanna (daughter of Thomas Truman and Ann Bolton) was born in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died before 1788 in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: millwright, farmer
• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

At times the name is spelled Azael, since that's how it sounds. He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

On Jan 21, 1789, Asahel produced a certificate for himself, wife Ann, and five children (Ann, Isaac, Mary, Sarah, and Asahel) to Sadsbury from Warrington Monthly Meeting.

Frederick Klein, History of Lancaster County (1926):

Sadsbury Meeting: The Sadsbury meetinghouse of the Hicksite branch, was erected of stone in 1748, it is believed. Its solid stone walls rise to a height of two stories, and when first built supported high galleries. These galleries, and in fact almost all of the interior woodwork, were burned during the Revolutionary War; and when the repairing was taken in hand by Joseph Guest, who had charge of the original carpentry, it was decided to lay a floor on the second story, in place of galleries. This arrangement has continued to the present. It is not used now, excepting occasionally for funeral services. The building was at one time used by the Amish Mennonites. Among the Quakers who were early members of this church were Andrew and James Moore, Nail Mooney, James Clemson, James Clemson, Jr., Anthony Shaw, Jane Jones, Sarah Metcalf, Isaac Taylor, Samuel Miller, John Aaron, and Thomas Musgrave, Robert Moore, Calvin Cooper, John Truman, and Asahel Walker.

Extract from Sadsbury Monthly Meeting births and burials:
Asahel Walker b. 10 2mo 1746 O.S.
Asahel Walker d. 5 8mo 1838 age 42yr 5mo 26days buried Sadsbury residence Sadsbury

Asahel married Ann Moore on 7m 20, 1769 in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Ann (daughter of James Moore and Anne Starr) was born in 9 mo. 27, 1751 in Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died in 3 mo. 30, 1821; was buried in 1821 in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

August 23, 1769, the Sadsbury Meeting produced a certificate for her to Radnor Monthly Meeting.

This family is the source of several Asahel Walkers. She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Notes:

His name appears on his son Joseph’s birth record.

Le Noyer’s civil status at the time was “Commune de Noyer, Arrondissement de Chambéry, Départment du Mont-Blanc.”

Died:
as “Claude Louis DeGrange”

Louis married Marie Guerraz on 9 Jan 1748 in Lescheraines, Savoie, France. Marie (daughter of Joseph Guerraz and Antoinette Falconnet) was born on 15 Oct 1729 in Lescheraines, Savoie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her name appears on her son Joseph’s birth record.

Notes:

Married:
In the presense of François Guerraz and Jean Baptiste Boisson. Parents are not named.

Pierre married Claudine Bocquet. Claudine died before 1788. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her daughter’s marriage record notes that she had died by that time.

Louis married Dorothea Suss. Dorothea and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His death record gives his place of birth. This also gives his parents.

Died:
age de soixante ans

Chrétien married Margaret Solomea Lisher. Margaret (daughter of Lisher) died before 1835 in Nehweiler, Bas-Rhin, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her name is given as Catherine Salome Lischer on her husband’s death record.

George married Mary Webster about 1747. Mary (daughter of James Webster and Isabel Armstrong) was born about 1727 in Portland, Cumberland Co., Maine; was christened on 5 May 1728 in First Congregational Church, Falmouth, Cumberland Co., Maine; died on 28 Aug 1797 in Thomaston, Knox Co., Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Massachusetts Mercury (Boston), Friday 16 Mar. 1798, vol. XI, Issue 22, p3: On Wednesday evening last, after a short, but painful illness, which he bore with uncommon christian fortituted and patience, in full assurance of a blessed immortality, Mr. John Clough, in the 79th year of his age. It may truly be said of him, that he died the upright honest man and real christian. His reminas will be entombed tomorrow afternoon, at 5 o'clock, from his late dwelling house near Charles River Bridge, whihc his relations and friends are requested to attend without further invitation.

Notes:

The family is not recorded in the Clough family genealogies by Eva Spear, except in the first (pub. 1943) to record the story of his son Stephen Clough's attempt to rescue Marie Antoinette.

Ebenezer Clough, along with the genealogies of his family members, records in the bible that "John Clough had a Negro Woman called 'Grace,' who died in his family in the Town of Needham Jany 28th 1776 during the Revolutionary War. She had lived in his family Seventeen Years, and died between 70 and 80 Years of her Age."

He also records that "William Clough a Nephew of said John Clough died in Boston at the House of Ebenezer Clough March the 3rd 1824 in the Ninety-third Year of his Age." That would be, born bet. abt. Mar. 1731 and Mar. 1732. Identifying this person would help to identify John Clough's parentage as well.

A William Clough, child of Ebenezer and Ann Clough, was born 3 Nov. 1727 in Boston. Might this be him? The name Ebenezer would have been passed down through the family.

John married Abigail Edes on 13 Apr 1758 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Abigail (daughter of Peter Edes and Esther Hall) was born on 4 May 1736 in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts; died on 13 Feb 1795 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Mortuary Notice, Columbian Centinel (Boston), 14 Feb. 1795, vol. XXII, Issue 46, p3: Mrs. Abigail Clough, comfort of Mr. John Clough—Æt 59. Her remains are to be entombed from his dwelling house, near Charles River Bridge, on Monday next, at half past 4 o'clock, at which time her friends and relations are dsired to attend without further invitation.

Notes:

Died:
aged 59 years

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Mortuary Notice, Eastern Herald (Portland, ME), Monday 31 Dec. 1792, p4 Died, at Pownalborough, Capt. Joseph Decker, as honest a man as ever blood warmed.
• Occupation: mariner
• Probate: 4 Jan 1793

Notes:

Selectman in Edgecomb, Lincoln Co., ME.

According to Chase, "The name of Decker appears on Jeremy Squam [Island] in 1771, when William and Molly Decker of that island were published in Boothbay records. The following year one Joseph Decker of Freetown (Edgecomb), a descendant of the Delano family, whose trading post was on the northern end of Jeremy Squam, married Sarah Davis. This was the Decker family whose vessels were employed by Col. James Swan in his salt and spar trade with Frrance."

He was part owner of the "Sally," the ship which his son-in-law Stephen Clough apparently made his rescue attempt of Marie Antoinette in 1791. He seems to have been the original owner of the house she was going to be housed in. He lived, it seems, on Jeremy Squam island, across from Wiscasset.

His probate records were filed, calling him "late of Edgecomb" and listing his wife as administratrix, on 4 Jan. 1793.

Joseph married Sarah Davis on 4 Jan 1772 in Boothbay, Lincoln Co., Maine. Sarah (daughter of Capt. Israel Davis and Hannah Metcalf) was born on 2 Dec 1751 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts; died after Dec 1792. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the executrix of her husband's will in 1792-93.

Her Boothbay birth record says December 2, 1741, but this must be an error for Dec. 2, 1751. She is listed as Israel Davis' second child, and Hannah Davis, b. 1755, is described as her third.

Charles, the son of Israel, is baptized in Ipswich in 1750. Sarah daughter of Israel is baptized there in 1751. Only the year is given for the two children. I assume, though, that these account for this place which Israel lived before his second marriage there, ins 1754, to Sarah Dresser.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 16 Jul 1753, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Immigration: 6 Oct 1753, Waldoboro, Lincoln Co., Maine

Notes:

Immigrated to the US from Germany, sailing from Amsterdam on the "Elizabeth" on 16 July 1753, for Broad Bay (later re-named Waldoboro), Maine. They arrived Oct. 6th, though the year is not noted. The passenger list has him, his wife, and children John Adam (23), Catherina (21), Georg Wilhelm (14), Anna Maria (12), Christoff (9), and Anna Margaretha (7).

According Levensaler, the spelling "Levensaler" can be attributed to his grandson (via Johan) Adam, who started to use the spelling after about 1840. I keep use the spelling starting with Pieter's grandchildren, just for consistency.

Birth:
The source is given as "Hessen-Nassau." This province was reformed in 1944, however, mostly into the state of Hesse.

Pieter married Apollina Bauer. Apollina and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: shipwright

Caleb married Ruth Briggs on 1 May 1739 in Pembroke, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Cornelius Briggs, Jr. and Ruth Barker) was born about 1714; died on 8 Nov 1768. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

See: L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937.

Notes:

Died:
Hanover death record gives his age as 84.

Michael married Mary Barden on 12 Nov 1740 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Capt. Thomas Barden and Eunice Booth) died on 29 Oct 1755. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her sister Sage married two brothers.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

He had 8 children all by his first wife. He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

This is Cope's biography of him:

"CALVIN COOPER was a taxable in Birmingham in 1732, and in 1734 was one of the overseers of the poor for that township. About this time he purchased a tract of land on the Octarara, at or near the site of Christiana, where he erected a mill. He was a fuller, or "cloth-worker," as given in old records. He died 9, 15, 1779.
His first wife was Phebe, daughter of Samuel Hall, of Kennet, to whom he was married 4, 29, 1732; she died 6, 18, 1757, and a year later he married a widow, Elizabeth Jefferis.
His children were as follows: 1. William, b. 9, 5, 1734; d. 2, 20, 1821; m. 12, 5, 1759, Elizabeth Pyle, daughter of John and Rachel, of Kennet. They settled in West Bradford, at a fulling-mill late belonging to Daniel Temple. 2. George, b. 2, 28, 1737; d. 1, 14, 1820; m. 10, 15, 1761, Susanna, daughter of Thomas and Ann Truman, of Sadsbury; second marriage, 5, 24, 1787, to Hannah Dixson. 3. John, b. 12, 9, 1739; d. 2, 15, 1811; m. 10, 24, 1764, Rebecca Moore, daughter of James and Ann, of Sadsbury. 4. Hannah, b. 10, 3, 1742, probably died young. 5. Mary, b. 12, 17, 1744; d. 9, 18, 1806; m. 3, 24, 1773, to John Dixson, and 11, 28, 1781, to James Phillips, of Hockessin. 6. James, b. 2, 14, 1747; m. 11, 8, 1775, Rachel, daughter of Andrew and Rebecca Moore, of Sadsbury. He married a second wife, Catharine Powell, and removed to Northumberland County, Pa. 7. Phebe, b. 6, 6, 1750, probably died young. 8. Sarah, b. 12, 12, 1753; m. to Thomas Dixson.
Calvin's Cooper's residence was in Lancaster County, of which he was a commissioner, justice of the Common Pleas, and several times a representative in Assembly. His descendants are very numerous in this and adjoining counties. There were Coopers in Oxford and other townships, who are not supposed to be related to the above."

Calvin married Phebe Hall on 4m 29, 1732. Phebe (daughter of Samuel Hall and Anna Elizabeth Springer) died on 6m 18, 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran; convinced Quaker (presumably)

Notes:

She had 8 children. She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

He settled in Sadsbury Township in 1751. According to Cope (263), he was supposed to have been a half-brother to all of his siblings. According to Don Truman (S264), he had 5 children.

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Thomas married Ann Bolton in 9th mo. 29, 1733. Ann (daughter of Samuel Bolton and Jennet Dilworth) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

"Isaac Walker, the seventh of eight children of Lewis and Mary (Morris) Walker, was born in Radnor, Chester County, March 7, 1705. He died (in Tredyffrin) February 23, 1755. He married, November 11, 1730, at the house of Hannah Jones, in Tredyffrin, Sarah Jarman, born in Philadelphia, October 25, 1713, a daughter of Edward Jarman, who was a resident of Philadelphia as early as 1703, and who died ther September 10, 1714, possibly a son of John and Elizabeth Jarman before referred to. She married (second) January 25, 1759, Jacob Thomas, of Willistown, and lived to almost reach her ninetieth year, dying April 26, 1802."

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Isaac married Sarah Jarman on 9m 11, 1730 in Tredyffrin Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of Edward Jarman) was born on 8m 25, 1713; died on 26 Apr 1802. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

The name is also "Garman."

There is this about her husband: "Isaac Walker, the seventh of eight children of Lewis and Mary (Morris) Walker, was born in Radnor, Chester County, March 7, 1705. He died (in Tredyffrin) February 23, 1755. He married, November 11, 1730, at the house of Hannah Jones, in Tredyffrin, Sarah Jarman, born in Philadelphia, October 25, 1713, a daughter of Edward Jarman, who was a resident of Philadelphia as early as 1703, and who died there September 10, 1714, possibly a son of John and Elizabeth Jarman before referred to. She married (second) January 25, 1759, Jacob Thomas, of Willistown, and lived to almost reach her ninetieth year, dying April 26, 1802."

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Miller
• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

He immigrated from County Antrim, in Ireland, in 1723. Passmore includes narratives written by him about his family.

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

James married Anne Starr in 2 mo. 16, 1741 in New Garden Friends Meeting, Toughkenamon, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Anne (daughter of Jeremiah Starr and Rebecca Jackson) was born in 11 mo. 1, 1719 in Ballyhaise, County Cavan, Ireland; died in 8 mo. 12, 1761 in Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; was buried in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page. She seems to have died from complications from childbirth, four days after the birth of her son James.

How could she have been born in Ireland in 1719 if her parents emigrated from Ireland in 1717?

Notes:

Le Noyer means “The Walnut.” It was in the diocese of Geneva, according to the parish records.

Antoine married Pernette Estivin. Pernette and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Antoinette Falconnet. Antoinette and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

name on daughter Marie’s birth record

Notes:

name on son’s death record.

Jacques married Catherine Karst. Catherine and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

name on son’s death record

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: weaver; ship's carpenter
• Religion: Presbyterian; Congregationalist
• Immigration: Abt 1718, Maine

Notes:

Nothing for sure is known of these McLellans before they immigrated from Ireland. Presumably the family had migrated from Scotland to northern Ireland about a century before, with many Scots, because of incentives provided by James I to populate Ireland with protestants. This group then suffered persecution after the Restoration, after 1660, since Charles II was a closet Catholic, sympathetic to Catholics. In the 1670s the Test Act was passed that insisted on membership in the Church of England for many offices and privileges; “non-conformists” were, in this case, just as suspect as catholics.

Bryce immigrated to Maine from Ballymoney, Country Antrim, Ireland. He was a weaver and a ship's carpenter. He was part of a wave of migrants that started in 1718 with group brought over by the Rev. James McGregor of Aghadowey Presbyterian Church. This was the first wave of the Scots-irish "Great Migration," which was actually a series of five waves of migrants, culminating in the last and greatest wave during the early 1770s.

Aghadowey is just across the Bann River from Balleymoney, only 3 or 4 miles away. Most narratives, such as Bourne's, say he arrived in Wells about 1720. Bryce was for sure there in the summer of 1720 when he received a grant of land in Wells. After he arrived he joined Wells Congregational Church. He appears on a list of inhabitants in wells in Spring of 1726; a series of conflicts with native indians had taken place over the previous few years.

According to the New England Historical Society,

“Two ships, the Robert and the William, brought Scots-Irish congregations to Boston Harbor on Aug. 4, 1718. Part of that group, which was led by McGregor, soon settled in Nutfield, New Hampshire, which later became Londonderry. Some went north to Casco Bay, where they had been given a land grant. They would have starved during the winter, but the Massachusetts General Court granted them 100 bushels of cornmeal. They later reunited with the rest of the group in Nutfield.” The group that went north to Casco included Bryce.

He apparently had a hard time there. In 1729, he and his family moved to Falmouth (now Portland), and he built a house in 1731 on York/Fore St. Here the rest of his children were born, starting with Susannah. Judging by the dearth of records for several earlier children, some of the earlier ones had died young.

According to Hugh McLellan's History of Gorham,

The McLellans of Gorham are descended from Hugh and Elizabeth McLellan, whose children intermarried with those of Bryce McLellan of Portland, and James McLellan of Saco. James was a brother and Bryce a cousin to Hugh. Hugh and Elizabeth were born and married in County Antrim, in the north of Ireland. Bryce McLellan, the ancestor of the Portland branch of the family, came to this country several years before Hugh, and settled first in Wells, where he owned land July, 1720, and where several of his children were born and christened. He moved from that place to Cape Elizabeth, and about the year 1730 to Falmouth Neck.
Hugh was the son of Hugh, and Elizabeth was the daughter of Cary McLellan. Their families were remotely connected, and were descended from Sir Hugh McLellan of Argyle, Scotland, who was knighted in 1515. This branch of the McLellans migrated from Scotland (probably the southern part of Ross, where the name is still numerous) to the north of Ireland, with a colony of Scotch, some seventy or a hundred years previous to the coming to America of Hugh and Elizabeth. (658)

Bryce married Jane on 24 Nov 1715. Jane was born about 1695 in Ireland; died in 1738-41. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I've seen her last two or three children ascribed to Bryce's second wife.

Notes:

According to Little, "James Webster was admitted to citizenship in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, August 17, 1727, though it is not known from what part of New England he had previously come; he died about 1765. He married Isabel _______; children: John, born September 5, 1726; Mary, married George McLellan; James, married, September 22, Patience Webber; Thomas; William."

I don't see records of whom his parents might be. Savage lists a James Webster born 27 Aug. 1688 in Boston to James and Mary Webster, but no connection is made. There is a Webster family in Cutter, but I don't see a James there. And Little tells of another Webster family on 2.895, apparently unrelated.

James married Isabel Armstrong. Isabel and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her name appears as "Isable" appears on her son John's birth record in Falmouth.

This appears in the History and Genealogy of the Stackpole Family about the marriage of her grandson William:

Hannah Stackpole (John, James, Philip, James) was born in Harpswell, Me., 17 Oct. 1778. She married, 12 April 1796, Capt. William Webster, son of William and Jane (Little) Webster, grandson of James and Isabel (Armstrong) Webster of Cape Elizabeth, now South Portland, Me. He was born at Cape Elizabeth 30 April 1774 and died in Durham, Me., 1 Oct. 1843" (139).

This is the only place I've seen her last name.

This record appears in an article listing marriage intentions from Falmouth, Maine: "John Jordan with Isabel Armstrong, March 10, 1738." This is a different location, however, than her husband's biography describes, and conflicts with the dates of her children.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1711-1724, 21 Unity Street, Boston, Massachusetts

Notes:

Ebenezer son of John Clough and Mary his wife was born on 8 Dec. 1671 in Boston.
Ebenezer son of brother Clough born on 24 Nov. 1672 in Boston.

The old Clough house built in 1712 still stands in Boston near the Old North Church. According to its website, "It was built by master bricklayer Ebenezer Clough as a home for himself and his wife, Thankful, and their growing family." The house was built between 1711 and 1715. Clough also helped to build the Old North Church, right next door.

Residence:
The Clough House, next to the Old North Church.

Ebenezer married Thankfull White on 21 May 1702 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Thankfull and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

last name from the marriage record. Married by Cotton Mather.

Thankfull White, daughter of James White, was born in Dorchester on 18 Aug. 1666.

Thankfull White, daughter of John White and Mary Swift, was born in Dorchester on 18 Jan 1677/8; she is recorded as being a spinster in 1702 in Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Swift of Dorchester (p5). That could be before her marriage.

Notes:

Married:
Married by Mr. Cotton Mather

Other Events and Attributes:

• Obituary: Mortuary Notice, American Recorder (Boston), Friday, Jan 26, 1787, vol. II, Issue 93, p3: —At Harvard yesterday morning, in the 83rd year of his age, Mr. Peter Edes, formerly belonging to this town.
• Probate: 6 Mar 1787, Worcester Co., Massachusetts

Notes:

Also Eads, Edes. Name is from her daughter's birth record.

Fromt an article in NEHGR, vol. 16:

PETER EDES, hatter, a respectable citizen of Charlestown; son of John and Grace (Lawrence) E., born in Charlestown, Sept. 15th, 1705, and died 1787 or '88. His grandparents were John and Mary (Tufts) E., (married Oct. 15th, 1674) who were also of Charlestown, and from whom all persons of the name Edes or Eades, now living in this country, are probably descended. Whether William E., Salem, 1629, was the original ancestor of all, as no records remain to show, conjecture only can determine. Peter Edes married Esther, daughter of Stephen and Grace (Willis) Hall, Dec. 10th, 1729; and by her had seven children, among whom was Benjamin, born Oct. 14 th, 1732, printer, afterwards of the firm of Edes & Gill, publishers of the Boston Gazette and Coventry Journal, Benjamin married Martha Starr, somewhere about 1754, and by her had a family of ten children. Their descendants are living in Bangor, Me.; Georgetown, D. C; and other places. They claim to own the punch bowl out of which the "Indians" drank on the evening when the tea was destroyed in Boston Harbor.

This is one of the only sources that gives the last name of Grace his mother (Willis), and of Mary his grandmother (Tufts). Both, however, need substatiation.

Peter married Esther Hall on 18 Dec 1729 in Medford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Esther (daughter of Stephen Hall and Grace Willis) was born on 27 Dec 1700 in Medford, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

First name is from her children's birth records; full name from her marriage record.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: mariner

Notes:

According to Lash's summary of Lowell, "Joseph Decker was a small baby when baptized in Newington. . . . He married Rachel Boynton, daughter of Caleb Boynton, Jr., and his wife Christian (Parsons) Boynton. That he lived in Portsmouth before moving to Wiscasset, Maine, is evidenced by the fact that eh sold one half part of one acre of land at Long Beach, Portsmouth, with buildings thereon, to John Hodgdon (his sister Mary's husband) April 28, 1755, and Rachael his wife also signs the deed. In this deed he is styled 'shipwright' and of Wiscasset."

Joseph married Rachel Boynton about 1736-42. Rachel (daughter of Caleb Boynton, Jr. and Christian Parsons) was born in 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I am only sure of Joseph and Molly as their children; others I have seen listed are Thomas, Abraham, John, and Spencer.

Notes:

His name is from his daughter Sarah’s marriage record. He and his wife were second cousins (his mother's mother is a Metcalf).

In Rowley church records, he appears as "Isreal, s. Nathan, bp. Apr. 7, 1728."

First marriage:

"Israil" Davis and Hannah Metcalf appear in the records for Ipswich as married on March 20, 1750.

The Fowler Family, a genealogical memoir of the Descendants of Philip and Mary Fowler, of Ipswich, Mass. (118) says that his oldest son, Charles, was the son of Israel Davis and Hannah Metcalf:

171. Elizabeth (John, John, Philip, Joseph, Philip) was born in Ipswich, 10 Oct., 1750; baptized there 14 Oct.,1750; married in Topsfield, 23 June, 1773, Charles Davis, who was born in Topsfield, baptized there, 30 Dec, 1750, the son of Capt. Israel and Hannah (Metcalf) Davis. [This continues on to give a history of Israel Davis' service in the war, and then of Israel Davis' family.]

Second marriage:

These records appear for her marriage: ("int" means "intentions"):

Rowley marriage records, under Davis: "Israil, of Ipswich, and Sarah Dresser, int. Mar. 9, 1754."
Rowley marriage records, under Dresser: "Sarah, and Israil Davis of Ipswich, int. Mar. 9, 1754."
Ipswich marriage records, under Davis: "Israel, and Sarah Dresser [of Rowley int.], Apr. 16, 1754"
Ipswich marriage records, under Dresser: "Sarah [of Rowley, int.] and Israel Davis, Apr. 16, 1754"

(Why would intentions be dated before the marriage Should this be 1753?) In any event, these are church records for Linebrook Parish Church in Ipswich, so they seem to have been married in Israel Davis' parish (his mother's father James Davis had been a founder of the church). Charles, the son of Israel, is baptized in Ipswich as well in 1750. Sarah daughter of Israel is baptized there in 1751. Only the year is given for the two children.

If Charles was born in Topsfield, as the Fowler history says, above,, this contradicts the Boothbay birth record. In the event, Charles Davis does not appear in the Topsfield Vital records.

All of Israel's first seven children appear in the Boothbay vital records, and all as the children of "Sarah —." This might make sense of a father who had brought his first two children to Boothbay and incorporated them into his second wife's household. He registerd his children and all were given the current wife's name.

This marriage must be a second marriage because it would not account for Israel's first two children, born 1750 and 1751. (These two birth records as they appear in Boothbay actually say 1740 and 1741: This would seem to be an error.)

Third marriage:

Record of the marriage to Hannah Barter appears most extensively in the pension application that she made in 1739. She also lists there her four children with Israel Davis.

—

Two other marriages that have been proposed:

first: The History of Boothbay, p471, gives this for the Family History of Davis:

Israel Davis came to B. before 1750. He m. Sarah, dau. of John and Lydia McFarland. He lived near the head of Campbell's Cove, was moderator of the first town meeting in B. and captain during the Rev. War. He was a leading citizen. He sold Thomas Hodgdon, Jeremisquam, 200 acres of land, Sept. 21, 1767, situated bet. the Campbell's Ponds and Cove and the Sheepscot.
They had eight chil.: Charles, 1750; Sarah, 1751; Hannah, 1755; Israel, Jr., 1757; Betty, 1763; John Dresser, 1766; Prudence, 1768; Mary, 1772. Of the above, Hannah m. Andrew Reed, son of Henry, 1773. The mother d. Sept. 20, 1772. At the close of the Rev. War the fam. moved to Pownalboro.

second: In The Boynton family history, Sarah Boynton (not Sarah Dresser) is said to have been born on 14 Feb. 1730/1, and to have married Israel Davis in Ipswich on 9 March. 1754. She is said there to have been the daughter of Joshua Boynton and Mary who were m. 1727 in Haverhill, MA. I don't see support for this.

Died:
according to the pension file

Notes:

She and her husband were second cousins.

No Hannah Metcalf appears in Ipswich or Rowley birth records.

Hannah Metcalf does appear in various Massachusetts Town and Vital Records databases three different times, and every time as the child of Jonathan and Hannah. In each case, though, this isn't the correct person:

—in Wretham on 1 Jan 1725. In Wrentham in 1766 Hannah Metcalf married Ebenezer Messinger.
—in Medfield on 8 Oct 1734 (or maybe 28 October 1734). Hannah Metcalf, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah his wife, died in Medfield on 11 November 1734.
—in Medfield on 10 Aug 1736. Hannah Metcalf, the daughter of Jonathan and Hannah his wife, died in Medfield on 22 December 22 1736.

Birth:
This is entirely a guess.

Caleb married Rachel Dwelley on 27 Oct 1713 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Rachel (daughter of John Dwelley and Rachel Buck) was born on 27 Sep 1695 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; was christened in 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the Barker pedigree, he and his wife removed from Duxbury to Swansey, Massachusetts; he says that their first child was born at Hingham, but after that all their children were born in Duxbury. Deane notes the move as well.

See: L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937.

Cornelius married Ruth Barker on 24 Oct 1706 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Ruth (daughter of Francis Barker and Mary Lincoln) was born on 31 Jan 1681/2 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died in 1733. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to the Barker pedigree, she and her husband removed from Duxbury to Swansey, Massachusetts. Deane notes the move as well. He says that their first child was born at Hingham, but after that all their children were born in Duxbury.

Notes:

Deane gives 1676 for a birth date.

Amos married Elizabeth Henchman. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Henchman and Mary Rose) was born in 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also "Hincksman"

Notes:

This couple had just two daughters, who married two (Sylvester family) brothers.

Thomas married Eunice Booth on 9 Jun 1720 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. Eunice (daughter of John Booth, Jr. and Mary Dodson) was born on 5 Mar 1694/5 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 10 Jan 1769 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This couple had just two daughters, who married two (Sylvester family) brothers.

Notes:

"In the record book of Darby township we find a list of the early settlers, with dates of arrival, and among them ‘James Cooper from Bolton in the county Lancaster in 1675, and from Mayfield in the county of Stafford in the year 1683.' Whether he came to this country in 1675 and retured to England, or whether he removed from Bolton to Mayfield in that year is matter for conjecture. He probably married his first wife, Hannah, about 1698, but her maiden name has not been discovered. It appears they both came to this country as servants, doubtless for the purpose of obtaining the fifty acres each offered by William Penn to those who came in that capacity."

He was a constable for Darby Twp., Chester county in 1697.

This is Cope's biography of him:

"COOPER, JAMES, of Lancaster, England, removed to Mayfield, in the county of Stafford, about 1674, and in 1684 came to Pennsylvania, settling in Darby township. In the records of Darby Meeting we find the birth of Mary, 9, 4, 1699, and William, 5, 11, 1701, children of James and Hannah Cooper. Mary married James Johnson, of New Garden, in 1721, at which time her father was living at "Muscle Cripple" plantation, in New Castle County. In 1728, James Cooper was an attendant at Kennet Meeting, but nothing further is known of him."

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

James married Mary Ludwidge on 8 Nov 1705 in St. Paul's Church, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker, disowned 1707; Lutheran

Notes:

His parentage is tentative. According to Gilbert Cope, "Samuel Hall was probably son of James and Hannah Hall, settlers in Bucks Co., Pa.; where Hannah was a widow in 1684 and subsequently appears to have married Henry Giles."

The earlier entry on this chart seems to have influenced this: "Was probably the son of James and Hannah Hall, early settlers in Bucks Co. Pa, where James died soon after his arrival. The widow appears to have married Henry Giles and removed to Philadelphia." This source lists a dozen children for this couple as well.

According to Cope and Fulthey,

"HALL, SAMUEL, a weaver, was living in Kennet about 1710, and died in 1738, leaving children as follows: Mary, m. to Robert Whitacre; Sarah, m. to David Baily; Phebe, m. to Calvin Cooper; Elizabeth, m. to Robert Whiteside; Hannah, Dinah, Susanna, Margaret, George, Samuel, James, and Charles. George Hall married Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Jane Hoopes, and is said to have had twenty-four children. Samuel, the father, and George were weavers. Charles Hall married Sarah Taylor, and his descendants are living in Kennet."

Samuel married Anna Elizabeth Springer about 1706. Anna (daughter of Carl "Charles" Christophersson Springer and Maria Hendricksdotter) was born about 1687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Lutheran

Notes:

This couple had a dozen children.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

According to Cope, "Richard Truman with Martha his wife, and some children, came from England about 1715 and settled in what is now Montgomery Co., PA. By deed of Nov. 17, 1716, Stephen Jenkins, of Springhead, in the township of Abington, yeoman, nad Abigail his wife . . . conveyed to Richard Truman of Cheltenham townshop, weaver for #105, all that said messuage or tenement and plantation knows by the name of Springhead, together with one hundred and forty acres of land thereunto belonging, in toe township of Abington. This was close to Abington meeting. March 9, 1716-7, Richard Truman, of Abington, weaver, and his wife Martha, mortgaged this property . . . Inn the 5th mo. 1722, Richard Truman took a certificate from Abington to Gwyneed Mo. Mtg. for himself, wife, and mother-in-law (who is not named), and probably settled at this time in what is now Berks County, where he purchards 212 acres of land on ‘Menokejee Creek,' in the township of Olney. Here he made his will, 11, 20, 1729-30, which was proven March 14, 1729-30. Soon after his death his widow, Martha Truman, moved to Philadelphia with some or all of her children, and there died about the 22nd of 6th mo., 1758, at the age of nearly 85 years. and was buried in Friends' ground" (203).

Richard married Martha Bayley on 10 Aug 1710 in Chippenham Friends Meeting, Wiltshire, England. Martha was born about 1673; died on 22 Jun 1758. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Samuel married Jennet Dilworth on 1m 27, 1710. Jennet (daughter of James Dilworth and Ann Waln) was born on 1m 20, 1690 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page. She seems sometimes to be named Sarah. I rely here on McCracken.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

According to a history of Lancaster County, Pa., "Lewis Walker, one of the descendants, became a follower of George Fox, who was at this period establishing the Quaker or Friends Society, and thereby was disowned by his kinsmen and ancestry, and in every manner separated from them in social, secular, and religious interests, and deprived of all government honors heretofore inherited or possessed; or, in the language of a follower of George Fox, ‘he laid down these honors conferred by government.' He left his mother-country about 1684, settling at or near Valley Forge, Chester Co., purchasing from William Penn (his particular friend and companion and co-worker in establishing the doctrines of the Society of Friends or Quakers) one thousand acres of land, continuing to pursue his original occupation, that of husbandry, in a style much like his ancestors of England."

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

This is about one of his descendants: "William Thomas, the father of Sarah (Thomas) Anderson [. . .] was the second child and eldest son of Reese and Priscilla (Jarman) Thomas, and was born in the old Thomas "Mansion House" erected by his father, July 8, 1762, and lived there all his life. He married, April 5, 1768, Naomi Walker, born February 17, 1765, died May 4, 1817, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Thomas) Walker, granddaughter of Isaac and Sarah (Jarman) Walker, and great-granddaughter of Lewis Walker, who had come from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1687, [. . .] removed to Tredyffrin township, Chester county [. . .] Here Lewis Walker died in the winter of 1728-9, his will dated December 14, 1728, being proven January 24, 1728-9. He had married at Haverford Meeting, April 27, 1693, Mary Morris, a native of Wales, who is said to have crossed the ocean in the same ship with him. She died in 1747."

Birth:
I have also seen Merionethshire, but I go with Streets here.

Lewis married Mary Morris on 2m 22, 1693 in Haverford Friends Meeting, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. Mary was born in England; died in 1747. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

According to Lloyd, "Lewis Jarman from Llangurig, Montgomeryshire, probably a kinsman of John, was in Chester County, Pennsylvania, before 1715, and Edward Jarman, or Jerman, from the same neighborhood, was early in Philadelphia." The name is also "Garman."

"Edward Jarman, of Philadelphia, the father of Sarah, wife of Isaac Walker, hereafter mentioned, was probably also a son of John and Margaret. Sarah (Jarman) Thomas died July 6, 1769, and her husband, Reese Thomas, did not long survive her, dying in his forty-fifth year."

Two issues with these notes, which are very confusingly written.

1. Was "Sarah (Jarman) Thomas here, wife of Reese, Edward Jarman's wife whoe got remarried? This is not clear--though, it doesn't seem to be Edward's daughter Sarah, also a Sarah Thomas by her second husband Jacob, since she died much later.

2. Maybe Edward was John's child; I'll wait for better evidence. One would have to assume he died fairly young relative to the rest of the family--less than 20 years after the birth of the last of John Jarman's children. Edward is not mentioned in Margaret Jarman's will, but that would make sense if he died so long before his putative mother.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

He and his wife were married "at the house of Katherine Henderson in Dunclady, County Antrim." He was received 6 mo. 8, 1724, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. Myers cites Passmore as the source for this family; he notes, correctly, that Passmore got his wife's surname name wrong.

Klein, Frederick. The History of Lancaster County (1926):

The first meeting house was erected by Sadsbury Quakers in 1725, and though the Presbyterians raised their Upper Octorara Church a few years earlier, it was not until about 1727 that the Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church was erected. The other denominations did not build churches for several decades thereafter.

In 1724 Andrew Moore and Samuel Miller petitioned for the establishment of a Particular Meeting in Sadsbury township, and for the erection of a meetinghouse. This was accomplished in 1725, a log house being then raised. In 1737 the Sadsbury Monthly Meeting was established, and draw Quakers from Leacock, Lampeter, and Salisbury. Leacock cooperated with Sadsbury to secure this Monthly Meeting status, and all gathered at Sadsbury until 1749, when a larger meetinghouse was built at Bird-in-Hand, East Lampeter township. Then Leacock Monthly Meeting was established, and was continued at that point until 1854, by which time so many Quakers of the Lampeters and Leacocks had moved "toward the great West," that it was decided to take the Monthly Meeting to Sadsbury.

Sadsbury Meeting: The Sadsbury meetinghouse of the Hicksite branch, was erected of stone in 1748, it is believed. Its solid stone walls rise to a height of two stories, and when first built supported high galleries. These galleries, and in fact almost all of the interior woodwork, were burned during the Revolutionary War; and when the repairing was taken in hand by Joseph Guest, who had charge of the original carpentry, it was decided to lay a floor on the second story, in place of galleries. This arrangement has continued to the present. It is not used now, excepting occasionally for funeral services. The building was at one time used by the Amish Mennonites. Among the Quakers who were early members of this church were Andrew and James Moore, Nail Mooney, James Clemson, James Clemson, Jr., Anthony Shaw, Jane Jones, Sarah Metcalf, Isaac Taylor, Samuel Miller, John Aaron, and Thomas Musgrave, Robert Moore, Calvin Cooper, John Truman, and Asahel Walker.

The original site of the meetinghouse was part of what is known as the "Servant's Tract," or the "Christiana Tract." A later addition, bringing the church property to seventy acres, was purchased from Thomas Richard and John Penn. When the division into Hicksite and Orthodox Friends occurred, the former society retained possession of the church property.

According to Cope and Fulthey,

"Samuel Smith says that in 1724 Samuel Miller and Andrew Moore made application, on behalf of themselves and their friends settled about Sadsbury, for liberty to build a meeting-house, which being granted by the Quarterly Meeting, they built one in 1725, which goes by the name of Sadsbury.
In 1722 a committee appointed by Chester Quarterly Meeting visited Friends of Conestoga and Octorara, and reported that they inclined to meet together. In 1723 it was reported that at Octorara were some "of a contentious spirit, and not worthy to be esteemed of our society." In the latter part of 1723 "meetings" are mentioned at both places, but they were probably of an informal character. 9th month 9, 1724, things at Octorara are reported hopeful, and in the 12th month they desire a committee to help fix on a site for a meeting-house. The committee failed to settle the question, but on 9th month 8, 1725, ‘This meeting being informed that those friends of Sadsbury have agreed amongst themselves of a place to Build a meeting-house on, which this meeting approves of.' . . . This was formed by the division of New Garden Monthly Meeting, and comprised the two Preparative Meetings of Sadsbury and Leacock. The first meeting was held 12, 6, 1737–8."

His will is copied into Passmore (11 ff); it is also available from Chester Co: Document # 1492, Moore, Andrew, d. 1753 in Sadsbury; will available as well as inventory and accounts.

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Andrew married Margaret Wilson on 2m 27, 1715 in Dunclady Meeting, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Margaret was born about 1694 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; died in 1722 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

Passmore gets her last name wrong; she was not a daughter of Gayen Miller. Note, for instance, this comment and evidence by Mary McIndoe:

"In the early part of the 20th century, John Andrew Moore Passmore published a very large genealogy of the Descendants of Andrew Moore. Though there is a wealth of information in the work, it starts off on a bad foot, where he claims that Andrew Moore married Margaret, daughter of Gayen and Margaret (Henderson) Miller. The Minutes of the Ulster Province Meeting in Ireland show: Andrew Moore and Margaret Wilson, both of Dunclady Meeting, were married at the house of Katherine Henderson in Dunclady (County Antrim) the 27th day of 2nd month, 1715.
The second part of the problem with Passmore's work is that there is no record that I am aware of that documents the surname of Gayen Miller's wife Margaret, nor any record showing a daughter named Margaret."

The note about the marriage in Dunclady also appears in Myers.

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

Notes:

Married:
I cannot find where Dunclady Meeting might have been located.

Notes:

This couple "came to America in 1717, purchased and settled upon lands in London Grove township, where hew as a land owner in 1724, and also in 1753" (S 252, 57).

He was received 3 mo. 3, 1718, form Carlow Meeting, Ireland.

Probate documents are available from Chester Co.: doc. # 2899; Starr, Jeremiah; London Grove, 1775; Yeoman. Administration bond and inventory.

According to Cope and Fulthey,

"Of Jeremiah's six children, Moses married Sarah, daughter of Michael and Hannah (Maris) Harlan, 3d mo. 19, 1760, and had four children, of whom Jeremiah was born 9th mo. 16, 1762. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Whitson, of Sadsbury township. He died 3d mo. 12, 1816, and she 5th mo. 4, 1818. Of their six children, Jeremiah, born 7th mo. 5, 1798, married Mary, daughter of Eli and Sarah (Scarlett) Thompson, 10th mo. 11, 1827. She was born 5th mo. 15, 1810. He died 4th mo. 17, 1876. Of their seven children, Charles Thompson, the youngest, was born 8th mo. 23, 1846, and married Emma F., daughter of William L. Chandler, of New Garden township, 9th mo. 9, 1874. Their three children are William C., Lilian, and Chester Thompson.
Jeremiah Starr, the emigrant, settled in Londongrove township, his son Moses in New Garden, about 1760, on a tract of two hundred and eleven acres, on which his son Jeremiah lived, also Jeremiah, son of the last, and on part of which (forty-eight acres) Charles T. Starr resides. His house was built by his father in 1823. The mother of Charles T. was a granddaughter of John Scarlett, who married Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mary Dixon. John was the son of Nathaniel Scarlett, who married Hannah Dutton. Nathaniel was a son of Humphrey Scarlett. Charles Starr is the proprietor of the "Pleasantville Green-houses," in New Garden township, two miles from Avondale, on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Railroad. He is one of the most successful florists in the State, and especially noted as a tuberose-grower. He makes a specialty of carnation pinks, which, with his other innumerable varieties, he ships by mail to all parts of the country. His plants and bulbs, put up in small packages, are usually transported through the mails. From small beginnings he has extended his green-houses and establishment to large proportions, and does annually an extensive business."

Jeremiah married Rebecca Jackson on 2m, 29d, 1716 in Old Castle Friends Meeting, County Meath, Ireland. Rebecca (daughter of Isaac Jackson and Anne Evans) was born on 1m, 25d, 1697 in Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland; died in 1761 in London Grove Twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania; was buried in 1761 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Rebecca, born at Oldcastle, 1 mo., 25, 1697; married at Ballytore, 11mo., 10, 1716, Jeremiah Starr, and the next year came to Pennsylvania and settled at London Grove Township."

Certificate of removal: "Rebecca Starr, received 1 mo. 31, 1718, from Carlow Meeting, County Carlow, Ireland."

Notes:

named on son Antoine’s birth record

Nicholas married Claudia Mariollet. Claudia (daughter of Jacques Mariollet) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

named on son Antoine’s birth record