Notes
Notes for Hannah Pierson, 4 Aug 1715 - 1801
Web site states:
The will of Hannah Chatfield of Waterbury, dated 9 Jan 1800, proved 14 Dec 1801 names Joseph Loveland and his wife Lois and daughters Mary Alcox, Eunice Hinman, and Anna Hitchcock. Waterbury probate records 3: 212.
Notes for Joseph Loveland, 18 Feb 1738/39 - 16 Jul 1816
Web site states:
Joseph was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, Capt. of 4th Com., 2nd Reg. Conn. Alarm List. Commission presented to him by Commander-in-Chief Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., on the 25th day of May 1770. Conn. Roster,pp. 424, 549, shows further war service
Notes for Arnold Loveland, 25 Aug 1778 - 26 Jul 1864
Web site states:
An obituary of Arnold Loveland appeared in the Broome Republican 7 Sep 1864; Windsor Town Historian.
Notes for Clarinda Twitchell, 21 Jul 1781 - 9 Feb 1843
Web site states:
An obituary of Clarinda Loveland appeared in the Broome Republican 1 Mar 1843; Windsor Town Historian.
Notes for Clarence Birdseye, 9 Dec 1886 - 7 Oct 1956
Web site states:
Birdseye, Clarence,
1886-1956, American inventor and founder of the frozen food industry, b. Brooklyn, N. Y., studied at Amherst College. In 1912 he went to Labrador on a fur-trading expedition and when he returned to the United States in 1916 began experimenting with freezing foods, aiming at commercial application. He developed a method for freezing fish and in 1924 he was one of the founders of the General Foods Company, which began manufacturing various frozen food products. In 1929 the company was bought by the Postum Company (later the General Foods Corp.) for $22 million. By 1949, Birdseye had perfected the anhydrous freezing process, reducing the time needed for the operation from 18 hr to 11/2 hr.
Notes for Isaac Hutinac-Patchin, 7 Jun 1793 - 7 Jun 1859
Web site states:
After the war, his father assumed his mother's family name, and was thereafter known as Stephen F. Patchen. In 1799, his father, with wife and three children, then residing in Massachusetts, settled on the island of North Hero, Vermont, and here the subject of our sketch then about six years of age, grew to manhood, enduring the extreme privations and hardships of a pioneer life, and with extremely meager educational advantages, but he had within him the elements of success which overcame all obstacles and in after years placed him among the foremost physicians in the Champlain Valley.
His father having given him his time, in May 1813, he engaged board at Mr. Haynes, and became a medical student under Dr. Josiah Lane, on North Island, who required the then munificent tuition fee of 50 cents per month. In the meantime, he worked for Mr. Haynes on the farm to help defray expenses. He kept a careful diary, from which we extract the following:
'July 29, 1813, worked for Mr. Haynes 'till about 3 o'clock, when news came that the British were landing at Point Au Roche. I left the field and went to take a view of them from Haynes' Hill on the west side o the island. While I was there, orders came for the militia, to assemble forthwith for the purpose of repelling invasion, and I was called out among the rest. We reported to J.P. Ladd's where we were kept for three days under arms.'
The militia were dismissed on Sunday, August 1, and he returned to Mr.Haynes, where on Monday morning he again commenced work, but he and Mr. Haynes were soon called from the field by the news that theBritish were moving on Swanton. Haynes and he started for the north end of the island, but soon met Lieut. S. Robinson, of the 30th Regiment, U.S. Inf., who sent Haynes with a message to General Hampton at Burlington. Isaac, with others, continued on to the north end of the Island, where they saw the British land at Swanton and burn the barracks at that place.
In 1814, Patchen taught school at the then popular center, BeckwithStreet, Schulyer Falls. One of his most intimate associates was JosiahWilcox, a Methodist minister, and one of the pioneers in that section of the town of Plattsburg, now Schulyer Falls. Wilcox belonged to the order of 'fighting parsons', and was a member of a company of LightHorse Militia. On the morning of September 11, 1814, Wilcox, while on his way to Plattsburg to report to his company, fell in with the school teacher and invited him to go with him, as a battle was imminent. Young Patchen accepted the invitation, and they arrived at Salmon River at about the same time as the detachment of the British, which had forced their passage of the Saranac river at the upper ford,and had reached the edge of the clearing on the north side of the little village. At the village were quite a number of the militia from Essex County and from Vermont, who were on their way to Plattsburg. There was also one piece of light artillery which was being used to check the advance of the British, who were soon on the retreat. A call was made for volunteers to pursue the retreating force. Young Patchen and Wilcox volunteered, and with others, pursued and participated in the capture of over a score of the enemy. For this day's service in battle, Patchen was long afterward granted a land warrant of 160 acresof land.
His medical studies continued until October 1, 1817, his fellow students being Dr. Thomas Haynes, and the latter part of his studies were under Dr. Melvin Barnes. Dr. Thomas Haynes, here referred to, was the father of the well known physician, Dr. Samuel Haynes of Saranac. Drs. Haynes and Patchen were boys together, and on intimate relations all through life. On October 1st, Dr. Patchen was admitted as a member of the Grand Isle Medical Society.
Soon after 1817, he located and commenced practice at West Plattsburg,and in 1820 married Miss Abigail Hilliard, of that place.
October 20, 1824, he became a member of the Clinton County medicalSociety, and on the 29th of April 1831, he was duly commissioned by Governor Throop as Surgeon of the 15th Reg't., N.Y. Cavalry, and in1844, the medical college of Castleton, Vermont, conferred upon him the honory Degree of medicine.
Dr. Patchen was very skilled as a physician and surgeon, and the following is related among his remarkable operations: Bromley was a small child on whom an operation in tracheotomy had been unsuccessfully attempted for the removal of a bean from the windpipe by a brother physician, and which resulted in great loss of blood by the cutting of a blood vessel, and the child was apparently dead as far as external appearances indicated. The following is the doctor's account of his procedure after his brother physician had ceased his operation:
'My immediate object being to resuscitate the child not to extract the bean, I commenced my incision near the inferior of the thryoid cartilage, and carried it down to the cricod. I then slit the crico-thyroid membrane from the base of the thyroid to the superior margin of the cricoid cartilage, I introduced a large elastic gum catheter through the orfice of the wound into the larynx, and inflated thelungs. I carried on artificial respiration, accompanied by the use of volatiles and friction, until the lungs had been inflated fifteen or twenty times before there were any signs of returning life. I then observed motion, which encouraged me to persevere in the measures mentioned. Shortly a gasp, or slight catch for breath, which gradually grew stronger, until he was able to respire without assistance, which was about one hour.' That child recovered, grew to manhood, and died a few years ago near Plattsburg, where his widow and some of his children now reside.
Dr. Patchen's practice in those pioneer days was extensive, with long rides over rough roads, all along the valley of the Saranac and in Peru and Ausable. He was very sympathetic in his nature, which made him a poor collector. His ire would sometimes be aroused against someone of his non-paying patrons, whom the doctor thought could have easily paid his bill, and the doctor would remark: 'If Mr. ____ calls for my services again he will not get them, no matter how urgent the case may be,' but it was always noted that when he called, his services were as cheerfully rendered, as though he was one of his best paying customers! (A familiar characteristic of the Patchens).
His generous and sympathetic nature always responded to the appeals of the needy and distressed, and the 'Exile of Erin,' and the 'PatriotCanadian,' alike found a shelter and a home beneath his roof, and not one known to be deserving ever appealed to him in vain. He was public spirited, and always contributed liberally towards enterprises for educational and religious purposes; was active and untiring in his efforts to secure better educational facilities for the community in which he resided.
It was through his exertions, that Alexander Prescott and Bela Edgerton opened their academic school in West Plattsburg in the M.E.church on Beckwith Street. He was also one of the most zealous workers for the West Plattsburg High School, which flourished for some years under H.C. Foote, G.A. Miller, C.G. Webster and M. Buckham (now President Buckham), as teachers.
He held the following important civil offices: Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County; Commissioner of Deeds; Inspector of Common Schools; Supervisor and Postmaster at Schulyer Falls.
He died at Schuyler Falls on the 7th day of June, 1859. At a meeting of the Clinton Co. Medical Society, held the following day, suitable resolutions were adopted, signed by Dr. Benjamin Moores, T. DeForris and I.P. Foote, Com. In his annual address June 6, 1860, Dr. F.J.D'Avignon, President of the Clinton Co. Medical Society, paid a warm tribute to his memory." Sketch from the Plattsburg Sentinel, 15 APR1892.
Notes for Melvin Barnes Patchin, 1 Sep 1824 - 26 Sep 1892
Web site states:
Mr. Melvin B. Patchin received a common school and academic education in his home town; began the study of law with Gardner Stone, in Keeseville, NY; removed in AUG 1844, to Troy, NY. He studied in the offices of Stowe and Millard, and of Swetland and Nutting, of Plattsburg; was admitted to the bar at the general term of the supreme court of New York, held at Canton, St. Lawrence Co., in SEP 1852.
Practiced his profession, and did clerking, surveying, etc., at Saranac until 1857, when he came to Fremont, Waupaca Co., WI. Here he plotted Springer and Russell's addition to Fremont, settled down and began legal practice in what was then the WI wilderness. At that day Fremont seemed destined to become quite a town, which encouraged Mr.Patchin to make investments and arrangements for a permanent home there. In DEC 1858, his wife met with a fatal accident by being thrown from a sleigh, although she lived a few months. In the fall of that year, Mr. Patchin was elected by Democrats to the WI Assembly. At the outbreak of secession's thunders in 1861, M.B. Patchin and Capt. Redfield began raising volunteers. The unfairness of the military authorities kept their company from due recognition, but it was finally mustered into the service in SEP 1861, as Company A, 8th WVI. (the Eagle Regiment). He held the First Lieutenant's Commission, and with his regiment participated in the battles of Fredericton, 21 OCT1861; the expedition to Indian Ford; the sieges of Island No. 10 and New Madrid; siege of Corinth, battle of Farmington, and went into camp at New Clear Creek. Lieut. Patchin was in charge of the entire transportation of supplies, when the Union Forces left New Madrid.
His health failing, he went into the hospital at Luka, MS, 12 SEP 1862. During the winter of 1863, he was postmaster of the State Assembly. Resided in Fremont until AUG 1864, when he went to Little Rock, AR, where he was in Government service until MAR 1865, when he returned to Fremont, where he remained until 1871, when he went to New London, WI.
The firm of Patchin and Weed, formed in MAY 1872, was dissolved by mutual consent 13 APR 1881. Mr. Patchin was both Village and City Attorney in New London, WI.
Notes for John Beriah Lockhart, 25 May 1787 - 7 Aug 1871
Web site states:
Converted to Methodism in early life. Became lay preacher. Farmed at Crossroads, near Parrsboro.
Notes for James Lockhart, ---- - ----
Web site states:
Brothers James and George together with Thomas Barker and his wife Mary, and Jacob Bacon reportedly moved to the vicinity of Woodstock, NB.
Notes for Jacob Bacon, ---- - ----
states:
Joseph Bacon Sr. got 500 acres at Horton on 29 May 1761, his son Jacob Jr. got 250 the same date. We speculate Sarah married Jacob Jr.
Notes for James Selkrig, about 1793 - ----
James Kenline writes:
The family changed their name to Selkirk in the 1870's or so, Why? I don't know. I recently received a biography of Olive Stoddard Selkrig's son JAMES. In it he mentions meeting Aaron Burr.
Here it is, copied from a E-Mail to my Dad:
My Grandma's Cousin just sent me the autobiography of the Rev. James Selkrig The "Missionary Priest", the brother of my GGGG Grandfather, Loren Selkrig. He describes going to sea as a teenager (1810) on a privateer!?! They seemed to be essentially pirates preying on British merchant vessels and avoiding the British and Dutch Navies.(not always sucessfully)
Here is an excerpt on him meeting his kinsman Aaron Burr: When all were on board,we hoisted sail for home and when we arrived at the new deep some French officers came on board and took possesion of us. After about thirty days Aaron Burr and a lady of his picking came on board of us. Burr had killed Hamilton in a duel and America was too hot for him to continue. Burr was a distant connection of mine through the STODDARDS(Editors note: (Editor=Me) James Selkrig's Grandfather, Gideon Stoddard and Burr's Grandfather, Jonathon Edwards were 1st cousins. The New York Times Book Review just reviewed a biography of Jonathon Edwards one the founders of Princeton University)and he being aquainted with my father was very glad to make a friend of me. The seaman all understood who he was and thought it no good augury that he came on board of us. His cabin was near the forecastle so he heard what the men said. One day he called me into his cabin and said he neglected to pay his respects to the seaman on account of his having to do much in his berth and wished me to carry them his respects together with two large jugs of gin and a large number of papers of tobacco to use on the passage home.
The moment this was announced, they all said he was a good fellow and that no evil should befall him on the passage home. Burr saw at once the effect the gift had and was glad to purchase his peace with the men. From this time, they treated him in the best manner possible.
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Fact 1: Married by Rev. Noah Hobart [Source: Web page]
Carole Binnig states:
Married in Wilton, Connecticut by Rev. Noah Hobart
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Web site states:
The story of Theodosia is perhaps one of the strangest tales to come from the annals of the Old West. She was the beautiful daughter of Aaron Burr, one of the most colorful and controversial characters in American history. As his only legitimate child, she was lavished with all the pampered privilege his great wealth and position could provide. On Christmas Day 1813, Theodosia left her home at the Governor’s mansion in Charleston, South Carolina, and sailed into oblivion. No one really knows what happened to her, but enough circumstantial evidence exists to suggest that she was shipwrecked in Texas, dying in the arms of an English-speaking, cannibalistic Karankawa Indian warrior chief.
Theodosia was Aaron Burr’s only daughter. When young Joseph Alston of The Oaks Plantation in South Carolina visited relatives living along the Hudson River in New York, he met and fell in love with the beautiful, red-haired woman. Determined to win her hand in marriage, he escorted her everywhere. Washington Irving, the essayist and historian, observed that when Theodosia danced, other dancers went to the sidelines to watch her graceful movements.
In some ways, Theodosia and Joseph were alike. They both had brilliant minds and were eager to study and improve themselves in any way they could. But Aaron Burr was aghast. When Theodosia’s mother had died in 1794, he had devoted much of his time to her schooling and refinement. By the time she was sixteen, she spoke six languages and was well-versed in philosophy and theories of economics. He theorized that if his beautiful daughter married young Alston, she would not live the life he had envisioned for her---a life of luxury as a titled woman, a queen or a princess. He vowed to do everything he could to prevent the marriage of his cherished daughter to Joseph Alston from the Low Country of South Carolina.
After Joseph returned to South Carolina, he feared that Theodosia would be influenced by her father, and he wrote many letters in an effort to impress her with his manners, education, and wealth. "It must not be overlooked," he penned, that he "had finished the study for practicing law at the bar before he was twenty." And having inherited The Oaks Plantation from his grandfather, he was a wealthy man. He also assured Theodosia that he had attended Princeton, traveled widely, and with his resources, had little to do with the drudgery of the business of running the plantation.
Although Aaron Burr wasn’t totally convinced that Joseph Alston was the right suitor for his daughter (he believed she was marrying "beneath her station in life"), he grudgingly gave his consent for marriage. In February 1801, the lavish ceremony was held in Albany, New York.
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Carole Binnig states:
1900 census indicates he had been married 12 years that he was 34 at the time of the census that he was born in Ohio his father and mother New York.
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