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| English: My 2009 photo of Wilbor House in Little Compton, Rhode Island, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Ancestry & Genealogy of Alfred Leslie Worland, Rosella Johnston and Allied Colonial Families.
Showing posts with label Cornwall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cornwall. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
On This Day, January 13th
Thursday, February 27, 2014
March 1743, Connecticut
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| Union Street, Middletown, Conn, by Bundy, J.K. (Joseph K.) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
March 25, 1743- A son, Seth, is born to Joseph Blake & Esther Bacon in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
(Abigail Doolittle is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Samuel Doolittle & Mary Cornwall.
Seth Blake is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Nathan Bacon & Ann Miller and Deacon Thomas Whitmore.)
Sunday, February 16, 2014
1743 Connecticut
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| Official seal of Middletown, Connecticut |
A son, Phineas, is born to Samuel Key & Anne Cornwall in Middletown, Connecticut.
(Caleb Abernathy is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.
Phineas Key is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck. )
Thursday, November 28, 2013
November 1742, Connecticut
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| Map of Connecticut highlighting New Haven County (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
November 16, 1742- My eighth great grandmother, Mary Cornwall, dies at the age of 75 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
Mary was born in November 20, 1666, the daughter of John Cornwall & Martha Peck.
In 1688, on her 22nd birthday, she married Samuel Doolittle, son of Sergeant Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss. Solomon received land in Wallingford in 1689, and there they first settled.
After their second child was born they moved from Wallingford to Middletown.
Samuel suffered from poor health by 1714, and in 1717 he died at the age of 52. Mary survived him by nearly thirty years.
They had eleven children, all of whom lived to adulthood.
November 29, 1742- A son, Isaiah, is born to Isaiah Tuttle & Susanna Doolittle in North New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. The child would not reach adulthood, and dies young.
November 30, 1742- Solomon Moss, son of Solomon Moss & Ruth Peck, marries Elizabeth Fenn, daughter of Theophilus Fenn & Martha Doolittle in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.
(Submit Dowd is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck. Elizabeth Fenn is her second cousin.
Isaiah Tuttle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Sergeant Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss. Elizabeth Fenn is his second cousin. Solomon Moss is his second cousin once removed.
Elizabeth Fenn is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Sergeant Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss and John Cornwall & Martha Peck. Solomon Moss is her second cousin once removed.
Solomon Moss is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles.)
Friday, November 22, 2013
September 1742- Connecticut
September 14, 1742- Mindwell Cornwall, daughter of Benjamin Cornwall & Mary Ward, dies in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. She is four years old.September 18, 1742- Noah Dowd, son of Janna Dowd & Desire Cornwall, dies in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. He is four years old.
September 30, 1742- A son, David, is born to David Moss & Mindwell Doolittle in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.
(Mindwell Cornwall is my first cousin 9 times removed. Samuel Cornwall and Noah Dowd are her first cousins once removed. Samuel and Noah are first cousins. Samuel Cornwall is my second cousin 8 times removed. Noah Dowd is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck.
David Moss is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles and Abraham Doolittle, and Paul Peck and Martha Hale.)
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| Ebenezer Evans House |
According to the sign on the Ebenezer Evans House at 17 Long Bottom Road in Southington, the house was built “before 1767.” According to Heman R. Timlow’s Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches of Southington, Conn. (1875), Ebenezer Evans was the
son of Ebenezer and Mary Gridley, his wife, b. Sept. 19, 1742, in Farmington (Southington parish); m. Jan. 19, 1769, Sarah, daughter of Reuben Munson, of Southington. He resided in Southington, where Josiah H. Merriman now lives. He removed to Conway, Mass., where he was living in 1782; but returned to Southington, where he died of influenza, March 24, 1816, aged 75 years.Anson Merriman (1786-1853) moved to the house in 1832. His father, Chauncey Merriman, had already started a farm on land purchased from Ebenezer Evans in 1809. Anson started the apple orchard on the farm that was continued by his son, Josiah H. Merriman (1834-1912), and then by Josiah’s daughter Sarah (1867-1957) and her husband (m. 1888) Elijah Rogers (1861-1949), who was one of the first farmers in Connecticut to grow peaches commercially. The Rogers Orchard continues today.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
July 1742, Connecticut
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| This an image of The Middletown Alms House in Middletown CT USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The son of William Cornwall & Mary Bull, he was lame, and in 1724 was excused from the poll tax on that account.
(Jacob Cornwall is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Cornwall & Mary Bailey.)
In the early years, the American colonies would not admit people with disabilities because they believed such individuals would require financial support. Colonists enacted settlement laws whose restrictions included people with disabilities. People with disabilities who did not have the physical stamina to withstand the conditions of the day and were dependent on others were oftentimes forced to return to England. People who were part of the community received local aid; strangers were encouraged to move on.
As colonial towns increased in size, almshouses for the poor, elderly and people with disabilities were built. Parish officials were given the authority to raise taxes as needed and use the funds to build and manage almshouses; or to supply food and sustenance in their own homes for the aged and the handicapped. Almhouses became a refuge for the sick, the severely disabled, frail elderly and homeless children who were unable to work and had no one to care for them. Complicating the use of a poorhouse for the care of all destitute persons was the necessary mixing of the worthy and the unworthy poor. Often living in the same congregate setting were able-bodied adults as well as dependent persons such as children, the aged, the sick and the disabled. Eventually, separate facilities were established to care for the different populations, with the able-bodied being placed in a “workhouse” or “poor farm.”
Another popular means for caring for the handicapped and poor in early American communities using public funds was the contract system, auction of the poor, or “outdoor relief.” The contract system placed dependent persons under the care of a homeowner or farmer who offered to care for them for a lump sum. The process of “auctioning” the destitute resulted in an individual or family being placed with a local couple or family bidding the lowest amount of public funding needed to care for them.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
February 1742, Connecticut
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| Flag of City of New Haven |
February 5, 1742- A son, Theophilus, is born to Theophilus Doolittle & Sarah Dorchester in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.
(Theophilus Doolittle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss.)
Saturday, October 26, 2013
January 1742- Connecticut
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| Map of Connecticut highlighting New Haven County (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
January 7, 1742- Daniel Maltby is born to Daniel Maltby & Mary Harrison in Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut.
January 8, 1742- Captain Wait Cornwall, husband of Mercy Todd, dies at the age of 49 in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut. He is the son of Jacob Cornwall & Mary White.
His brother-in-law, Ebenezer Wetmore, will die three days later.
January 11, 1742- Ebenezer Savage Wetmore, husband of Elizabeth Cornwall, dies at the age of 45 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. He is the son of John Whitmore & Mary Savage.
January 22, 1742- Thomas Doolittle is born to Thomas Doolittle & Hannah Fenn in Wallingford Township, New Haven, Connecticut.
(Ebenezer Savage Wetmore is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Deacon Thomas Wetmore & Sarah Hall.
Captain Wait Cornwall is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Cornwall & Mary Bailey. Abel Parker is his first cousin 3 times removed.
Thomas Doolittle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle and John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles and Deacon Paul Peck & Martha Hale. Abel Parker is his second cousin once removed.
Abel Parker is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle & Abigail Moss and John Cornwall & Martha Peck. Daniel Maltby is his third cousin once removed.
Daniel Maltby is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles. )
Sunday, October 20, 2013
1742, Connecticut
Born in 1656 to Thomas Wetmore & Sarah Hall, he wed Rachel Stow, daughter of Reverend Samuel Stow and Hope Fletcher, of Middletown, in 1692, and left many descendants. His father-in-law made him his executor and speaks of him in his will in terms of the highest praise.
He was Magistrate of the town and had been deputy to the General Court of 1721-1728 inclusive.
"a man of fine abilities, says tradition, and enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the colonists".
His son, Judge Seth Wetmore, served as Magistrate and Deputy of the Court of Connecticut at the time of Izrahiah's death.
Esther Moss, daughter of John Moss & Martha Lothrop, marries Samuel Frary in New Haven, Connecticut.
Annah Key is born to Samuel Key & Anne Cornwall in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.
Ebenezer Blakeslee, young child of Ebenezer Blakeslee & Jemima Tuttle, dies in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.
Patience Barnes is born to Thomas Barnes & Abigail Brockett in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.
(Esther Moss is my first cousin 10 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Moss & Abigail "Goody" Charles.
Annah Key is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck.
Patience Barnes and Ebenezer Blakeslee are my third cousins 7 times removed. They are third cousins. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.)
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
December 1741- Connecticut
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| Official seal of Middletown, Connecticut (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Demetrius Collins is born to Daniel Collins & Lois Cornwall in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.
(Hannah Stow is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Deacon Thomas Wetmore & Sarah Hall.
Demetrius Collins is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Cornwall & Mary Bailey.)
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