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Notes for Anne Fallwood, about 1545 - ----
Possibly not mother of Ellen.
Jacquelinne Beers in "The American Genealogist" Vol 56, p. 228 reveals the strong possibility that Ellen Gunne is not the daughter of Anne Falwood but of earlier unknown wife
web site states:
"Jacobus says Robert Fullwood & Marie Hunt not right parentage."
Notes for John Goodrich, 1587 - 19 Apr 1632
inherited all houses, lands & tenements in Hegesset from father
Notes for Eunice Mather, ---- - 29 Feb 1703/04
"...captured by the Indians, and slain on the march to Canada, when that town [Deerfield, Franklin Co., MA] was destroyed in 1704." from History of Northampton Massachusetts from its Settlement in 1654, Trumbull, Vol. 2, p.205
Notes for Aaron Burr, 4 Jan 1715/16 - 24 Sep 1757
Julie C. Hesson, kindly provided the following documentation of the Burr lineage:
"In Genealogies of CT Families, p 261, there is this:
THE BURRS OF FAIRFIELD, CONN.
[Communicated by Sylvester Judd, Esq.]
The late Aaron Burr, once Vice President of the United States, was the son of Rev. Aaron Burr, President of Princeton College, and the latter was a son of Daniel Burr, of Fairfield. Farmer, Savage, and Allen, are all in error in regard to the parentage of Rev. Aaron Burr. In Hildreth's History of the United States, the late Aaron Burr's grandfather is said to have been a German. This is also erroneous, though the statement is found in the life of the vice president, and was doubtless derived from him. He seems to have disowned his worthy puritan ancestors, whom he had dishonored by his profligacy. The ancestors of those Burrs, in this country, were as follows:---
1. Jehu Burr, who was in Massachusetts in 1630, and was admitted
freeman in 1631. This christian name in the record can hardly be distinguished from John, and is often copied John. Jehu Burr belonged to the church at Roxbury, and settled at Springfield with William Pynchon and others, in 1636. In a few years he removed to Fairfield, where he died before 1650. He had sons Jehu and John; and probably Nathaniel and Daniel Burr, of Fairfield, were his sons also.
2. Jehu Burr, son of Jehu, died in Fairfield, 1692. He left sons Daniel, Peter, Samuel, and five or six daughters. Peter graduated at Harvard College in 1690, and was a distinguished man in Connecticut.
3. Daniel Burr, son of the second Jehu, died in Fairfield in 1722, leaving ten children, viz.: Jehu, Stephen, Peter, David, Moses, Aaron, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane.
4. Aaron, the sixth son of Daniel, was born Jan. 4, 1716, according to
the inscription on his monument at Princeton, N.J. Rev. L. H. Atwater, of Fairfield, informs me, that he was baptised March 4th, 1715-16, and was recorded as "son of Mr. Daniel Burr, of Upper Meadow." He graduated
at Yale College, 1738. He was pastor of a church in Newark, N.J. and president of New Jersey College. He died Sept. 24, 1757, in his 42nd year. He married Esther Edwards, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, and
had two children, Sarah and Aaron, who was vice president.
Samuel Burr, H.C. 1697, was not a grandson of Rev. Jonathan Burr, of Dorchester, as stated by some, but a son of John Burr of Fairfield, and a grandson of the first Jehu Burr. He was master of the grammar school in Charlestown, Mass., twelve years, according to his monument in Fairfield. He died Aug. 7, 1719.
Rev. Isaac Burr, Y.C. 1717, is said in Farmer to have been son of Judge Peter Burr, and father of Rev. Aaron Burr. He was neither of these, nor did he belong to the Fairfield family. Nathaniel Goodwin, Esq., of Hartford, informs me that he was a son of Thomas Burr, of Hartford, and a grandson of Benjamin Burr, one of the early settlers of that town. He was pastor of the Church in Worcester, from 1725 to 1744. He died in Windsor, Con., in 1751. His wife, Mary, was a daughter of John Eliot, Esq., of Windsor."
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Web site states:
Ezra Stiles, then tutor and afterwards president of Yale and an intimate acquaintance of Burr's, noted in his diary that Burr was a "small man as to body, but of great and well improved mind. . . . A hard student. A good classical scholar in the 3 learned Tongues [Hebrew, Greek, Latin] . . . well studied in Logic, Rhetoric, Natural and Moral Philosophy, the belles Lettres, History, Divinity, and Politics. He was an excellent Divine and Preacher pious and agreeable, facetious and sociable; the eminent Christian and every way the worthy man."
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President Burr did not have long to enjoy the fruits of his endeavors. Soon after the removal to Princeton, the illness of one of the tutors obliged Burr to perform his duties as well as his own.
The growing needs of the College also required him to make frequent trips through the colonies in search of funds. It was on returning from one such arduous trip that he learned the news of the death of his close friend and ally, Governor Belcher. He sat down at once in spite of exhaustion and a high fever to write the funeral sermon. Two days later he rode his horse to Elizabethtown, where he delivered the sermon, although "it was seen that he was fitter for his bed than the pulpit." He returned to Princeton grievously ill and died several weeks later at the age of forty-one. He was buried in the Princeton Cemetery -- the first in the President's Lot -- after a service conducted, as he had requested in his will, "in the plainest manner consistent with decency," and the money thus saved applied to charitable uses.
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In Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette Burr's death was reported as follows:
"September 29, 1757. Last Saturday died the Rev. Aaron Burr, President of the New Jersey College, a gentleman and a Christian, as universally beloved as known; an agreeable companion, a faithful friend, a tender and affectionate husband, and a good father; remarkable for his industry, integrity, strict honesty, and pure, undissembled piety; his benevolence as disinterested as unconfined, an excellent preacher, a great scholar, and a very great man."
Notes for Aaron Burr, 6 Feb 1756 - 14 Sep 1836
A good description of the life and career of Aaron Burr can be found at the U.S. Senate web site.
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A quote from Aaron, found at web site:
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
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Web site states:
Because of a tie in the electoral vote between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the House of Representatives had to decide the election. Thirty-six ballots were required to break the deadlock, with Jefferson's election as President and Burr's as Vice President on February 17. The Twelfth Amendment was added to the Constitution to prevent the 1800 problem from recurring.
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Web site states:
Offices held:
Continental Army, 1775-1779, serving with General George Washington
New York Attorney General, 1789-1791
U.S. Senate (New York), 1791-1797
New York State Legislature, 1798-1800
Vice-President to Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1805
Other Information:
During his second try for the job as President, he felt insulted by the campaign of Alexander Hamilton and challenged him to a duel. On July 11, 1804 Burr killed Hamilton. Burr fled back to Washington D.C. to avoid being arrested for murder (the charges were later dropped).
He had already lost favor with Thomas Jefferson who had chosen New York Governor George Clinton as his Vice Presidential running mate. It was Governor Clinton who had appointed Burr as New York Attorney General in 1789.
What he is most 'famous' for is a plot to instigate a war with Spain, take personal control of the 'Louisiana Purchase' lands, and to declare that land an independent nation with himself as supreme leader. He was arrested and tried for grand treason before Chief Justice John Marshall. While he was found not guilty, he was totally disgraced, given this and the duel with Hamilton. He spent some four years in self-exile in Europe before returning to New York in 1812 where he resumed a private law practice, never again able to enter into any part of politics. He died a lonely man, with few friends.
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Web site states:
In 1807, the intrigues of Thomas Jefferson 's former Vice President , Aaron Burr, reached a climax at Natchez on the Mississippi. Here, Burr's alleged plot to create his own empire in the southern United States and Mexico was thwarted. After the American Revolution, both Spain and the United States claimed the land in present day Mississippi. Spain finally abdicated its claims by 1798. Immediately thereafter, Congress established the Mississippi Territory, making the region the nation's southwestern frontier and the town of Natchez its southernmost port on the Mississippi. Conflicting Federalist and Jeffersonian politics and continuing military threats from the Spanish sparked tension along the Lower Mississippi. Several territorial forts, under the command of General James Wilkinson, controlled travel along the Lower Mississippi River and hand-led Indian and military affairs. These included Fort Adams, at the nation's southwestern border, and Fort Dearborn, near the territorial capitol of Washington. When the United States boundaries extended to the Gulf of Mexico after the Louisiana Purchase, the forts were abandoned. Believing that Burr and several dozen followers were headed down the Mississippi with a flotilla of armed boats intending to seize New Orleans, General Wilkinson sent troops to reoccupy Fort Adams and ordered Burr's arrest. Burr went ashore north of Natchez, where he was arrested by territorial officials. Arraigned on February 2, 1807, Burr was freed after successfully arguing that his actions were directed at Spain and not at the United States. Still a fugitive from Federal charges, Burr set out overland toward Spanish Pensacola. He was arrested north of Mobile at Fort Stoddert in present-day Alabama and was escorted to Richmond, Virginia, where he was tried on charges of treason in the U.S. Circuit Court under Chief Justice John Marshall. At the end of one of the young nation's most sensational trials, Burr was acquitted.
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Web site states:
History is full of unexplained mysteries.Sometimes however a few pieces of evidence do reappear to give us (maybe) an explanation. At dawn on the 11th of July 1804 in the field of Weehawken near the Hudson river in the state of New York Aaron Burr vice president of the U.S. and General Alexander Hamilton ex-head of treasury and close friend of Washington face each other in the last act of a long running feud. At seven o'clock two shots ring out, Hamilton falls mortally wounded to the stomach.
While the hostility between Burr and Hamilton is well known,the reasons are rather obscure. It seems it all started after the creation of the Manhattan Co. (formed by Burr, Hamilton, and John B. Church, Hamilton's stepfather) . The Manhattan Co., originally a water supply entity, was turned, quite legally, by Burr into a bank! A severe blow to Hamilton who was heavily involved in banking. Church, having made some very unflattering remarks as to Burr's honesty, was called to answer on the field of honor and the pistols made their first appearance.
John Church had brought back from England a magnificent pair of Wogdon dueling pistols. Beautifully crafted, well balanced, one oddity already appears their caliber was .56" while the accepted rules of dueling at the time stipulated a maximum caliber of .50".
Burr lost a button, Church came out untouched, honor however was satisfied.
The Hamilton, Burr, Church families seemed to be a rather trigger happy lot! In 1802 Philip son of General Hamilton picked a quarrel with a Mr. Eckhardt. The duel took place strangely in the same field his father was to die in two years later. Uncle Church's pistols were again used. Philip died of his wounds after having according to witnesses fired in the air. The hatred between the pair reached a new high after the election of Thomas Jefferson who took Burr as vice president. Allegations were made, Hamilton had to put up or shut up, the pair of Wogdons made its third dramatic appearence.
The 13 of July 1804 an inquest into the death of Hamilton was opened. After two weeks Burr was sentenced for premeditated murder. The rest is History.
Or is it? The U.S. Historical Society of Richmond, Virginia, in an effort to raise money decided to have replicas made of the famous pair of pistols held by the Chase Manhattan Bank. Merril Lindsay and Walther Agnoletto when dismantling the originals made a strange discovery. The trigger mechanism had been modified to enable to fire with a few grams pressure on the trigger instead of the 5 to 6kg usual in weapons of this type. The advantages to the user are obvious, speed and accuracy!
Why didn't Hamilton use his own pistols? They had served him well over the years. He must have known of the advantage gained in using the Wogdon!
One of the witnesses mentioned that, as his son had, Hamilton fired in the air.
Maybe the anticipation of finishing his hated rival proved too much, a few grams of pressure on the trigger.........
Notes for Daniel Knowlton, 19 May 1726 - 1795
states:
An Ensign at the siege of Louisbourg in 1745. Relocated from Connecticut to Nova Scotia in 1761. His first wife died amost immediately after arriving in NS. A strong leader, he was driving force in the founding of Onslow, NS. Left so called James Fullerton lands in Cumberland Co. to son and son in law.
Notes for Ann Hackly, 1628 - 8 Aug 1683
From web site:
There may be no connection; however Marshal Hackley and Peter Hackley were each granted 500 acres at Horton in 1761.
Notes for Ephraim Keyes, 1713 - 6 Sep 1802
From web site:
In 1767/69, he and his wife joined two other men from Ashford, CT to pioneer the settlement of Acworth, New Hampshire. He served six months in the Revolutionary War in Captain Isaac Fry's Company. Gravestone records him as a lieutenant.
Notes for Esther Stoddard, 1737 - 27 May 1816
Fact 1: died unmarried at age 78 [Source: diary of Elizabeth Prudence Wakeley Patchin] p.178
Web site states that her tombstone inscription in the Old Burying Ground in Northampton, MA reads:
Sacred to the Memory of
Miss Esther Stoddard, daughter of the
Hon. John Stoddard, and Mrs. Prudence
Stoddard, who died May 27th, 1816,
in the 79th year of her age.
Passing Reader, Emulate her virtues, that your Death may be
tranquil as hers.
Notes for Solomon Stoddard, 29 May 1736 - 1929
From History of Northampton Massachusetts from its Settlement in 1654, Trumbull, Vol. 2, p. 178:
"...[he was] a man of much ability..."
From Robert Bruce Stoddard:
"He was appointed High Sheriff of Hampshire Count under the British crown. After the war, he was appointed Justice of the Peace of the county; my father has the relevant document signed by the governor, Elbridge Gerry."
Notes for Elizabeth Stoddard, 14 Jun 1769 - 21 Aug 1848
According to GenForum message:
Elizabeth's grandson was Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Notes for Amos Stoddard, 26 Oct 1762 - 1 Jun 1813
Fact 1: went to England for the entailed property, returned [Source: "History of Ancient Woodbury", Cothren] p.714
Web site states that Stoddard County, Missouri is named for Amos Stoddard:
Stoddard Co., MO - organized: Jan 2 1835 - Called for Major Amos Stoddard, U. S. A., who on March 10, 1804, in St. Louis, received on the part of the United States from France, authority to govern Louisiana as purchased the year before by Jefferson. At the siege of Fort Meigs, Ohio, in 1813, he received wounds of which he died. - County seat: Bloomfield
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Web site states:
Amos Stoddard was a soldier and author born in Woodbury, Connecticut. He served in the Continental Army from 1779 until the end of the war, and afterward became a lawyer in Maine and served a term in the Massachusetts legislature. In 1798, Stoddard accepted a commission in the army and became civil and military commandant of Upper Louisiana after the Louisiana Purchase. As acting governor of Louisiana from March until September 1804, he worked toward maintaining good relations with the French in Louisiana and to preserve the colonial archives. Stoddard was sent to Lower Louisiana and travelled the area collecting information on its cultural and physical geography. He died in 1813 from wounds received in battle at Fort Meigs during the War of 1812.
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Works by Amos Stoddard [I'm not sure, but I think these are works that are held by Lousiana State University]:
Exercise for Garrison and Field Ordinance: Together with Manoevres of Horse Artillery, as Altered from the Manual of General Kosciusko and Applied to the Service of the United States. New York: Printed by Pelsue & Gould, 1812.
A Masonic Address, Delivered in St. John's Church, Portsmouth, on Thursday, June 24th, 1802: at the Request, and in the Presence of the Most Worshipful The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, in Celebration of the Anniversary Festival of St. John, the Baptist. Printed at Portsmouth, NH: 1802.
Observations on the Native Salt, Bearded Indians, Earthquakes, and Boundaries, of Louisiana: in a Letter from Captain Amos Stoddard, of the United States Artillerists and Engineers to Dr. Mitchell, dated New London, Connecticut, June 2, 1806.
An Oratation, Delivered Before the Citizens of Portland, and the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the Fourth Day of July, 1779; Being the Anniversary of American Independence. Portland: Printed and sold by E.A. Jenks, 1799.
Papers of Captain Amos Stoddard. St. Louis: Jefferson Memorial, 1935.
Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Louisiana. Piladelphia, 1812.
War of 1812: Collection of Papers, 1792 - 1876.
Notes for Cyrenius Stoddard, 11 Aug 1757 - ----
Web site lists a Cyrenius Stoddard (don't know for sure that it's "our" Cyrenius) on their page entitled "Revolutionary War Pension Records of Ontario County, NY" on the following line:
LASTNAME FIRSTNAME TOWN BIN FOLD
STODDARD CYRENIUS MIDDLESEX AM01-207 82
Notes for Nathan Stoddard, 8 Aug 1742 - 15 Nov 1777
From Joyce Stoddard:
Gen'l Huntington to Governor Trumbull:
"We have lost some gallant officers and men. Captain Nathan Stoddard was killed by a round shot from the enemy's ships - in defense of Fort Millin, Mud Island, Penn., Nov., 15, '77."
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Illinois Society of the S.A.R. Yearbook, 1896 p. 120 states:
"NATHAN STODDARD of Woodbury, Conn., captain of light infantry in 1777, who served in all the engagements near Danbury, Horseneck and near Nw York. His troops were sent by Gen. Washington to oppose the British on Lake Champlain; taken prisoner at the battle of Ticonderoga and sent to Quebec; was concealed and fed by a French landlady in Canada for nearly a year, who aided him to escape, which he did by swimming the St. Lawrence and fleeing through the woods to Woodbury. He raised another company and was stationed on the Delaware, opposite Fort Mifflin, under Gen. Greene. In the attack made upon this fort, November 15, 1777, Gen. Greene fell and the command fell upon Stoddard, which he held but a few hours, when an eighteen pound ball instantly killed him while leading his command. [p.120]
Reference: Conn. Men in the Rev., pages 63, 100, 102, 230; Heitman's Hist. Register, page 385."
Notes for Wells Stoddard, 1 Jul 1759 - 1840
Fact 1: had no children [Source: "History of Ancient Woodbury", Cothren] p.716
Don't know if this is "our" Wells, but:
STODDARD, Wells Watertown CT 15 Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.4, p. —Serial: 6924; Volume: 14
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Database: Full Context of Connecticut Pensioners, 1835
County: Litchfield Co.
Name: Wells Stoddard
Rank: Private
Annual Allowance: 40 00
Sums Received: 120 00
Description of service: Continental
When placed on the pension roll: Septemer 12, 1833
Commencement of pension: March 4, 1831
Age: 74
Notes for Mary Wilson, 27 Sep 1799 - 22 May 1869
[Note from Shel Michaels: I'm assuming this Mary is the Polly Wilson alluded to in Cothren, since Cothren does not mention two wives, and the birth year of Mary matches that given by Cothren for Polly.]
Notes for Nancy Adsit, 20 Dec 1794 - 29 Oct 1839
[note from Shel Michaels: Wedding date given by Cothren would seem to be contradicted by the hard evidence of the tombstone which shows Nancy died in 1839.]
Notes for Jonathan Elkins, 23 Oct 1761 - ----
Illinois Society of the S.A.R. Yearbook, 1896, p. 120 states:
"Scout with Gen. Bailey's egiment; taken prisoner March 8, 1781, at his father's house, by the British from Canada; taken to Quebec, thence to Mill Prison, near Plymouth, England; arrived there February 9, 1782; exchanged for one of Cornwallis' troops, June 24, 1782, and returned to his house at Peacham that summer."
Notes for Thomas Demilt Penfield, ---- - ----
Thomas D. Penfield is shown in a Rome, Oneida Co., NY city directory at a business name of Penfield & Stone, 85 Main St., Camden, Oneida Co., NY in 1892.
Notes for Rodman Stoddard, 1797 - 1853
From Peter Stoddard:
Rodman Stoddard...left for Oxford Canada around 1819, and settled in the Detroit area 1827, with "Indians and wolves for callers". He invested in real estate and in 1850 opened the City Hotel on what is now Lafayette Ave.
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