The Ancestors of Phyllis Marie Smith
| 54. Jacob5 Gayman | |
History of Delaware County - Union Township (Excerpts from pages 73 and 79 through 87): Section 10 was all taken up in 1836, Jacob Shideler entered the southeast quarter May 23, 1836, Jacob Gayman the north half September 20, 1836 and William Adsit the southwest quarter November 21, 1836.
Section 11 was also entirely purchased of the government in the year of 1836 by John Lambert, John Gayman, Abraham Gray, Abraham Shideler, Archibald Ray and Daniel Haynes.
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| 108. Daniel6 Gayman | |
Message board: from Tom Gayman 16 Jul 2000: Daniel owned several hundred acres in Pickaway Co. OH and prior to his death, deeded acreage to Jacob and [his sister] Elizabeth (they had been living on it).
Oct 2003 emails from Tom Gayman:
Until recently everything from genealogists over the past 100 yrs. indicated his [Daniel's] mother was widow, Mary Longenecker Clemmer/Clymer. This is probably not correct as a present day genealogist, researcher of another Gayman line, has uncovered that Mary's first husband, Valentine Clemmer, did not die until 1759, so Christian must have been married before, as indicated by Daniel's birth year.
When I was in my youth (now 71), I remember the Gayman Family cemetery on the Gayman farm which adjoined the 4 acres on which we lived. The 4 acres had been given to my grandparents by the 2nd Isaac Gayman, father of my grandfather.
Daniel's grave and those of other deceased members of the family were in this graveyard. I left PA in 1952, returning here in 1990.
Shortly after I left PA, some boys from Marianna found the cemetery and began
carrying off the grave markers. They were caught one day and a couple markers
were retrieved, Daniel's being one of them. The photo of Daniel's headstone was
taken in the barn of the old Gayman homeplace, where it is now stored. The
Gayman farm is still in the family today, with a bicentennial sign on it. Sorry
I did not take a photo of the bicentennial sign, but only of the one that is erected near it.
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| 110. Peter6 VanBuskirk | |
Biographical sketch - History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio, pages 306-309: "Peter Van Buskirk who married Ruth Rhodes in Aleghey County, MD, before 1795, was a Maryland farmer in early days. In the year 1799 he removed to Ohio, coming over the mountains with pack horses.
They stopped a year, in Chillicothe (Ross County) Ohio, then but a few stragging log cabins occupied the site of that, now populous city and the red man held almost undisputed possession of the soil.
After one year in Ross County, Mr. Van Buskirk penetrated into the wilderness to what is now Pickaway co. Ohio, locating on the bank of Deer Creek, near Williamsport in this county where he located on a tract of 900 acres of land that he bought of the goverment. By some he is regarded as the pioneer settler in Monroe Twp. He erected a log cabin and with his family bgan the primitive life necessitated by their wild surroundings"
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| 126. John6 Lightfoot | |
Genealogical data in the Lightfoot Family Association (LFA) Newsletters however, clearly establish that William and Leanna were NOT his biological parents. The LFA Newsletters do record a "John Lightfoot" born to Phillip and Susannah (Smith) Lightfoot in 1809, a date that agrees with John Lafayette's birth date as recorded in his obituary. He is listed in the 1850 census (at age 41) with his own family in Tipton County, Indiana and in the 1860 census in Madison County, Indiana. (Both counties located just NE of Indianapolis). The family moved to the area around Fairchild and Humbird, Wisconsin in Eau Claire and Clark Counties around 1865 and then migrated west into Western Minnesota (Cloquet) probably some time in the 1870's. His obituary which appeared in the Fergus falls, Minnesota newspaper reads as follows: "The death of Mr. Lightfoot, father of James Lightfoot of Scrambler and Ben Lightfoot of Fergus Falls, occurred on Sunday the 13th and he will be buried on Tuesday the 15th. Mr. Lightfoot has passed his allotted time and has during the last few years been a great sufferer."
And in the Scrambler Newspaper dated 15 Nov.1892 as follows: "Old Mr. Lightfoot was buried here today. He had been poorly for several years and died from old age and debility. His age was about 85. He has a number of children and other relatives about. Benjamin Lightfoot of Fergus Falls is his son and his wife survives him." NOTE: Another reference indicates that he died and/or was buried in Pelican Rapids.
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| 202. Michael7 Hensell | |
Will dated 23 Aug 1781 Berkeley Co. VA; Will Was Probated 18 Sep 1781 Berkeley Co. VA
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| 224. James7 Henthorn | |
| 360. Jone8 Jonson | |
| 446. Ebenezer8 Mott | |
Kent Family Tree - Ancestry.com: From the Kent Genealogy by Arthur Scott Kent (1933): "Ebenezer Mott, father of Martha (Mott) Fennimore, married Sarah Collins probably in Burlington Co., NJ. He had formerly lived in Kingston, RI and later in Tuckerton, RI. His first wife, Elizabeth died about 1745. Ebenezer was descended from Adam Mott, who was born in Cambridge Co., England in 1596.
Joe's Genes - Ancestry.com: Evidently a strong Quaker, his origins are unknown, although there is much speculation. He was probably born about 1700, perhaps in Rhode Island, but the first reference to him is in 1744 in Kingstown. Evidently married earlier than that to perhaps Elizabeth Southwick, he remarried when she died ca 1742.
Moving with his wife, daughter and baby son John to Egg Harbor, New Jersey he moved on within the year to Mt. Holly near Burlington, New Jersey, where the rest of his family was born. There he evidently became a Quaker elder and no doubt was a friend of John Woolman, the great Quaker preacher of the 18th century, who witnessed his
will in 1770, several years before Woolman himself died in England.
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| 447. Sarah8 Collins | |
Certificates issued by Quaker monthly meetings to move appear over the next several years locating her from South Kingston to Little Egg Harbor, NJ to the Burlington Monthly meeting when she and her husband took up their final residence in Mount Holly, NJ. She appears on her husband's will of 1770, but there is little else known about her. There was a family tradition that she was a great Quaker preacher who was memorialized by the Westerly, RI Monthly Meeting in their published (1814) memorial to the saints. Examination of that document concludes that this was a different Sarah Mott.
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| 448. James8 Henthorn | |
| 484. George8 Odell | |
| 504. John Barrow8 Lightfoot | |
There is no record of him purchasing property until 1786 when he bought 167 acres in Brumfield Parish from Charles Halloway. The land being situated in the fork of the Rhappahanock River on the branches of the Butler's Swamp. However, he sold this land in 1794 to John Mason - possibly in anticipation of the coming move to Kentucky.
As the oldest son, at the age of about 44 when the migration to Kentucky took place, it is likely that he played a major role in organizing the family expedition. The move has been attributed to the family's involvement in the "Methodist Revival Movement" and their efforts to establish a community that was supportive of their religious beliefs. The party consisting of almost the entire William Lightfoot family including wives, children and grandchildren would have numbered about 60 persons at least (plus other families that accompanied them), moving into largely unchartered and hostile country. Their family bible undoubtedly accompanied them and has never been recovered or registered with the Lightfoot Family Association or any recognized genealogical agency.
The only subsequent records relating to John B. Lightfoot are based on correspondence between his sister Frances (in Kentucky) writing to her brother Phillip who remained in Virginia. It is recorded therein that John B. Lightfoot started and taught the first school in Pendleton, Kentucky.
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| 894. John William9 Collins | |
From the book, Descendants of John Collins of Charlestown, RI,,etc..page 9.
William, after the death of his father in 1679, was renamed by his mother, John, by which name he ws ever afterwards known. John Collins Sr., was one of six persons who May 22, 1710, purchased 3,000 acres of wild land in what is now the northeastern part of the town of Hopkinton, RI. He was a Quaker.
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| 895. Susannah9 Daggett | |
The same story is recorded in the Kingstown, RI 1753 minutes:
Susannah Daggett's death is recorded in the Kingstown, RI 1753 minutes of the monthly meeting, but a, perhaps, aprocraphal legend survives of her as a small girl in Richmond, Rhode Island. This is recorded in a history of Richmond and the story goes that when she was a small girl she was found lost in the woods by an Indian woman who took her home, fed her and put her to sleep. Later that night the woman's husband returned and began telling his wife about a plan to exterminate the whites in the area. Being cautioned about the sleeping girl, the Indian, who wanted to kill her, passed a firebrand in front of her face to see if she was indeed asleep. Susannah, however, feigned sleep successfully, was taken home in the morning, whereupon she warned her parents about the impending Indian attack.
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| 960. Nathan9 Randall | |
| 968. Joseph9 Odell | |
| 1606. Oliver10 Cope | |
| 1788. John10 Collins | |
Estate of John Collins of Lynn
John's estate was appraised at 368, 7s and 6d as recorded in the Probate records of Essex County, MA
Administation upon the estate of John Collens, intestate, was granted 29:4m:1680, unto Abigaile Collens, the widow, and there being an inventory brought in and allowed, as also an agreement drawn up by the widow with consent of children and relations of the father and mother forsettling the estate, it was allowed. "Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 6, leaf 9."
Inventory of the estate of John Collins of Lynn, who departed this life about Dec. 22, 1679, as being cast away at sea, and dyed intestate, taken March 27, 1680, by Andrew Mansfield and Ralph King and presented by Abigaile the widow of the deceased: wearein apparrill yt was not lost at sea, 3 li, 8s; Beding, Bedsteads, sheets, curtaines, vallenc, 17li. 1s.; cubord, cuboard cloath & a chest, 3 li. 5s.; Tables & joyned stools, 1li. 12s.; an ould cuboard, cradle, cheers and wheels, 1 li. 5s.; 5 cows, 2 oxen, 2steers, 33 li. 10s.; 19 sheep, 9 i 10s., puter & a Lattin pann, 1 li. 15s., 11 Ii, 5s.; Brass, 2 li., Iron pott & kettles, frying pan & a morter, 1 li. 14s., 3 li. 14s.; dog Irons, pot hooks, a pot hanger, 1 li. 5s.; Armes,4 li., stiliard, 10s., m syths 7 sickles, 10s., 5 li.; smoothing Iron, 3s., wooden ware, 10s., tooles & ould Iron, 1 li. 15s., 2 li. 8s.; a hatt, cuboard & a Box, 12s.; plows, carts,yoaks,chaine, 2 li, 2s., 2 li. 14s.; woolen & linnen yarne, 1 li. 6s., cardes, 3s., Bibles, 8s., 1 li. 17s.; pare of tongs & a fire shovell, 3s.,Porcke, 1 li. 10s., Barrills, 12s., 2 li, 5s.; Graine, 3 li., a Fann, sadle, ould Boots & Flax, 1 li. 4 li.; Loome, Harnice & sleas, 2 li., an houre glass & a sive, 2s., 2 li. 2s.; the land the houses stand uppon with the houses & orchard, 80 li.; thirtye acres of Land & medow, 160 li.; 4 Acres & an halfe of medow in Wigwam medow, 13 li. 10s.; pare of scales, weight & ades, 5s.; Monyes, 5 li.; a sixt parte of the saw mill, 5 li.; woolen cloath, 2 li., more Lynnen Cloath, 10s.,2 li. 10s.; and ould chest & a box & an inkhorne, 3s. 6d.; two mares 1 li. 10s.; one grindlestone, 10s., a warming pan, 2s., 12s.; total, 365 li. 1s. 6d.
Attested in Salem court 30 ;4 ;1680, by Abigall Collens, who was appointed administratrix of her husband's estate and an agreement being presented to the court, of the widow and all persons concerned, as also with the approval of the eldest son, it was allowed and confirmed.
John Collins, of Lynn, a ship owner, who died, intestste, having been cast away at sea, and leaving a wife and twelve children, the widow with her relations, judging it most desired Abigail Collins, samuel Collins, Joseph Collins, Andrew Mansfield, Henry Collins, sr., and Henri Collins, jr., to divide his estste, which they have done as follows: to the widdow all moveable estate, both stocke & store within dores and without as her free estate, 111 li, 11s. 6d., which being taken out of the sum of the inventorye, the houses, Lands & medow remain to be disposed, which amount to 253 li. 10s., of which, on third part of the widow during her life, and the other two thirds to the eldest sons, Samuell and Joseph, equally, as they come to age. Samuell having a good trade as a gunsmith, maketh up to him his double portion; and this to be understood the widow to have the use of the whole estate until thee two said sons come of age, and then to have only her thirds, and at her death the whole estate to the two sons, they to pay to each of their brothers and sisters, namely Benjamine, Daniell, Nathaniell, and John, Elizabeth, Marye, Hannah, Loes, and Alice Collins, 10 pounds in current pay, as they come to age, their sister Abigaile Townsend having already received her portion. If any of the children should die before they come of age, then their portion equally to the surviving children, also that Samuell and Joseph Collins are not to leave their mother, but to live with her and carry on her business for her upon consideration of their having the housing and lands as abovesaid, thehouse and lands to stand bound for the payment of the children's portions.
The eldest son giving his consent to the above agreement n the Salemcourt 30:4:1680, it was allowed and confirmed. "Essex County Quarterly Court Files , vol 33, leaves 100, 101."
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| 3568. Adam11 Mott | |
| 3576. Henry11 Collins | |
From the book, Descendants of John Collins, of Charlestown, RI etc; pg 7:
Henry Collins, from London England was a Starchmaker who sailed to the new world on the ship Abigail with his wife and three (3) children. It is said that a fourth child was born on ship. He also had five (5) servants, and settled in Lynn, MA on Essex St.
In Hutton's Orginal List, &c., page 97, and in Drake's reserches, &c., page 35, appears the following;'Vitio Junij, 1635. Aboard the abigail, Robert Hackwell Mr p cert from the Minister of Stepney pish of their conformitie: 1 that they are no subsedy men.
STARCHMAKER HENRY COLLINS 29 yeres
VXOR ANN COLLINS 30 yeres
Children Henry Collins 5 yeres
Jo. Collins 3 yeres
Margery Collins 2 yeres
Servants Josua Griffith 25 yeres
Hugh Alley 27 yeres
Mary Roots 15 yeres
Jo. Coke 27 yeres
Geo. Hurdin 24 years
From Newhalls' History of Lynn, MA:
Page 151-"Henry Collins was a starchmaker and lived in Essex St. He embarked in the Abigail, of London, 30 June, 1635. In 1639 he was a member of the Salem Court. He was born in 1606, and was buried 20 February 1687, at the age of 81. His wife, ANN, was born in 1605. His children were Henry, born 1680, John, born 1682; Margery, born 1633; and Joseph, born 1635, and his descendents remain."
Page 171-"1687-A town meeting was held this year in which Daniel Howe, Richard Walker, and Henry Collins were chosen a Committee to divid the lands, or as it was expressed in the records: 'To lay out ffarmes.' The land was laid out in those parts of town best adapted for cultivation, and the wood lands were reserved as common property, called the ""own Common"" and was not diveded until sixty --nine years afterwards."
In a list of names, about one hundred in number, recorded in the town records in the year 1688, which follows the above extract, appears the following: "Henry Collins up-land and meadow 80 acres and ten." The ten acres was a separate allotment, and undoubtedly his village or town lot where he resided.
Other references to the name of Henry Collins in the public records of Lynn show that he was a man of importance in that community, was frequentlly called upon to perform duties of public trust and confidence, and was sometimes acted as advocate in court trials.
A. Chalkley Collins of Great Barrington, Mass., in a letter dated Aug. 16, 1900, says: "Henry Collins belonged to the Parish of Stepney in the eastern part of the present city of London and worshiped in the old Parish Church at that place. This Parish Church of Stepney, dedicated to Saint Dunstan, is the oldest in East London, and one of the oldest of all London. Before Dunstan rebuilt the church in the tenth century there was a Saxon church there dedicated to all saints. The present church was built in the time of Edward IV, 1471-1483, a few relics of the previous church being preserved. According to the church records several of the children of Henry Collins were baptized in this church, among whom was his son John, ... at the age of eight days on January 22, 1631. Henry's place of abode is recorded in the record as Tatclff Highway, and his business that of starchmaker. His wife, Ann, died at Lynn, Mass., probably in 1690, as her will dated in 1690 was probated in that Year."
From Henry Collins of Lynn by Anna L. P. Collins pp 4-5
When Lynn became a city in 1850, the mayor in his inaugural address mentioned Henry Collins as one of thirteen early settlers whose descendants were represented in the first city council. Later, in 1876, a list of the names of twelve of the early settlers of Lynn was prepared, and also the number of voters of each name at the time the list was made. There were twenty-three voters by the name of Collins, which was the ninth name on the list, and it was stated that that had been the relative position for fifty years.
Parish records of Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London, England, which was obtained from film 1,037,026, Index of Baptisms, St. Dunsten, Stepney 1568-1620. This record reveals several Collins baptisms from 1576 to 1619, however only one is by the name of Henry Collins, christened 19 Dec 1599, son of Thomas Collins. This record does not match the information provided that Henry was born in 1606, and so this particular record is inconclusive and dependent upon further research.
Film 595,417, Baptisms, St. Dunstan, Stepney Parish, London reads as follows;
1629, November 4 Henry, son of Henry Collins of Ratcliffe Highway, starchmaker, and Anne, on the 4th day at 5.
This infomation puts doubt on two factors. Was the birth of Henry in 1606, and Henry Collins and Maud Whittacker, as his father and mother , not substanuated,
correct, or was the age of Henry false on the original manafest for the "Abigail"?
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| 3578. Richard11 Johnson | |
sources: "Johnson", booklet reprinted from the Essex Genealogist, Vol 3 #2- Vol. 7 #4; Vol 1 #2 & #3 30 pp.; History of Lynn by Newhall; Descendants of John Collins, of Charlestown, RI and Susannah Daggett, his wife by Capt. George Knapp Collins, c:1901 LDS FHS microfilm # 0000513,
In Newhall's History of Lynn appears the following :
Page 154--"Richard Johnson came over in 1630 and lived with Sir Richard Saltonstall at Watertown. He was admitted Freeman in 1637. He came to Lynn the same year and settled as a farmer on the eastern end of the Commons. He died in 1666, age 54; his children were: Daniel, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Abigail. Abigail married a Collins and Elizabeth a Tolman. His descendants remain. His estate was appraised at pound 368, 7d, 6d."
Occupation: Farmer; Resided w/ Sir Richard Saltonstall; Resided 1630 Watertown, east edge of Commons; Resided 1637 Lynn, Essex, MA, 40 acres; Freeman 1637; Immigrated 1630 Charlestown; Served 1661 Surveyor; Father-son connection not proved
Sources: EARLY SETTLERS OF ESSEX CO., MA; NEHGR; Lynn Vital Records; Pope's PIONEERS OF MA
Will, 20 May 1666
John, Richard: Charlestown, Propr. 1630 had an acct. with Mr. Saltonstall in Gen. Court 22 March 1630-31. Salem 1637 from 17 May 1637. Removed to Lynn, had grant of land in 1638, Constable 8 July 1645 [Es.Court] He deposed in 1663 at about 51 years. Will dated 20 August, prob 27 Nov 1666, wife: children: Daniel, Samuel, Abigail Collins & Elizabeth Tolman. Widow Alice deeded land to her son Samuel & son-in-law John Collins 24 Dec 1666.
Banks, Daniel Abbott, The Winthrop Fleet Of 1630:
Eleven vessels brought 'the great emigration'of this year viz: Arabella-the flagship, Ambrose, Talbot, Jewel, Charles, Mayflower, William & Francis, Hopewell, Whale, Success, and Trial. The first five ships sailed April 8 from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and arrived at Salem June 13 and following days. The other half of the fleet sailed in May and arrived in July at various dates. They brought about 700 passengers of whom the following are presumed to have been on these ships: Richard Johnson, Charlestown; Mrs. Alice Johnson
Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers
RICHARD, Charlestown, or Watertown, came in the employm. of Sir Richard Saltonstall, 1630, and rem. to Salem, had gr. of ld. 1637, but prob. liv. at Lynn that yr. freem. 17 May, had ch. Daniel, Samuel, Eliz. and Abigail, and d. 26 Aug. 1666.
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| 3582. Arthur11 Wormstall | |
| 3810. Edmund11 Faulkner | |
John B. Threlfall, "Joseph Robinson of Andover MA", Register 124:310: Edmund Faulkner, one of the purchasers of the tract (which became Andover) from the Indians, was one of the early settlers; he was a prominent man in the affairs of the town during its early years. He made his will 9 Sept. 1684 and died 18 Jan. 1686/7. In his will he wrote: I have excepted one pillow & pillowbere out of my household stuff, which I give to my son in law Joseph Robinson, being willing, would my estate have reacht it, to have manifest my love towards him in a larger manner."
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| 3811. Dorothy11 [--?--] | |
| 3872. Austin11 Odell | |
Interestingly, the 1720 Deed just shows a mark (between 'his' and 'mark'), so he no longer used (or owned) a seal. Sadly, Sarah's name is gone, too. To ease your study of the Deed, here's a 'translation' by Rachel's husband Richard, who located the two documents in Rhode Island:
Westerly [RI] Land Evidences Book 1, page 101
“Know all men by these presents whom it may concern that I Austin Odle of the
town of Westerly in the Colonie of [Rhode Island___] ____, bargained and sould
unto David Le[wis] of the town and colonie aforesaid a certain tract or parcel of land
which I the said Austin Odle bought of Lieut Peter Crandall _________
and said land being in my possession which being by estimation thirty acres of land more or less___ and bounded as followeth: Beginning at the [great] River at a stake marked on three sides and running east for thirty seven rods to a white oak tree marked on four sides and from said tree northeast around twenty six rods to a stake marked on four sides and from said stake running northwesterly four ____ rods to a stake and from said stake westerly to the River; and bounded by the River to the first mentioned bounds:
for a valuable consideration to me in hand paid by the above said David Lewi[s] to my full satisfaction and consent; and I the above said Austin Odle do by these presents for me my heirs executors and _____ and assigns ___ ___bargain sell and con[vey] the above
said thirty acres of land unto the said David Lew[is] his heirs and assigns; with all and
singular the liberties and priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or any wise
appertaining to have and to hold to possess and ___forever, and in consideration of the
above bargained premises I have set to my hand and seal this fourteen day of July
one thousand seven hundred and four.
Signed Sealed and delivered
Austin* Odle (his seal)
(* Note he seems to have been identified as Augustine, here...)
Sarah Odle (her mark)
In the presents of us witnesses
Mary Crandall (her mark)
James Bliven (his mark)
the above said Austin Odle properly appeared before me the day and year above said and acknowledged the above written instrument to be his act and deed
The above written deed
With the acknowledgment is a true copie
Compared with the original and ____by me
Westerly July the
27 day 1704
Peter Crandall Justice of the peace
Joseph Clark Junr
Town clerk
[The second deed was found in Westerly [RI] Land Evidences Book 3, page 39 but has not been transcribed.]
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| 6412. Isaac12 Perkins | |
If Isaac Perkins of Ipswich was a man of middle age, which we have no means of knowing, he and Alice may have been the parents of Abraham and Isaac Perkins who turned up in Hampton, not far down the coast, where Abraham took the Freeman's Oath in 1640 and Isaac in 1642. These men are presumed to have been brothers. Abraham named a son Luke, not a common name, and John Perkins of Hillmorton and Ipswich had an uncle Luke, a brother Luke, and a grandson Luke. [Davis does not list a brother Abraham for the Isaac bap 26 Jan 1611/2.]
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| 7634. Jacob12 Farrar | |
| 7702. James12 Avery | |
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| 7703. Joanna12 Greenslade | |
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| 8082. Richard12 Haldane | |
The individuals of whom I most often get questions from my web page are Susan (or Sarah) Haldane and William Duncan.
I have searched the Old Parish Records of Scotland, "The Haldanes of Gleneagles" book, and my other records on the Haldane name compiled over 23 years and I have never found them, but I do offer the following information to those interested.
Since there are so few Haldanes with the given name, Richard, there is a possibility that this is an unrecorded line in the following family:
Richard Haldane of Gleneagles, son of James Haldane and Margaret Erskine, was born about 1525 and died November 1606. His wife's name is unknown, but he had 3 children recorded in the Gleneagles book: Ninian, Humphrey, and Agnes.
My notes on this Richard (from the Gleneagles book) are as follows:
"Mr. Richard, matriculated on 21st November 1589 in the College of St. Salvator, University of St. Andrews, graduated in 1541, and was licentiate, termed 'dives,' in the following year. The question of Richard's age is of some importance as giving a clue to the year of the marriage of his father, Sir James Haldane; the contract of which is dated December 1518. According to the canon law, incorporation in a university involved the taking of an oath, and this was forbidden to any one under the age of fourteen years. This would fix his parents' marriage as having taken place not later than 1523, at which time Sir James could have been little more than fifteen years old. It is possible, however, that the marriage of Sir James's father and mother, Sir John and Marjorie, may have taken place earlier than 1508-9.
Richard was a witness on 11th December 1545 to the contract between James Haldane and Stirling of Keir. He was a witness also to the contract of marriage of his nephew, George Haldane, and together with his own brother Robert was concerned in the matrimonial arrangements of another nephew, George's younger brother John. In these arrangements he is referred to, by a reliable and contemporary authority, as 'uncle' of John Haldane.
Richard, as Sub-Dean of Dunkeld Cathedral, witnessed numerous documents between 1575 and 1584. While still holding that office he was granted on 1st March 1589 by David Erskine, Commendator of Inchmahome, who had married his niece, a lease of the teinds of various lands in the barony of Cardross. Before this date, on 29th November 1583, he had been given remission for the Raid of Ruthven.
On 26th August 1592 he appears in a more militant guise than that of Sub-Dean, being by that date Constable of Stirling Castle, of which stronghold his cousin, John, Earl of Mar, was Keeper. During his tenure of that office the eldest son of James VI and Anne, second daughter of Frederick II of Denmark, was born in the castle, and on 30th August 1594 the christening service, which was attended by numerous foreign representatives, was held there.
Richard was also Constable when James was in residence there shortly before he departed from Scotland to take possession of the English crown. He continued to retain that post until his death.
In 1597 a contract was signed between him and Mar, to whom he assigned a tack of the teinds of the town and lands of Cowie. In return the earl engaged to pay him £160 Scots, and to 'hald, enterteny and sustein' the said Richard during his lifetime according to his 'accustomet manner and forme of entertenyment that he had had of onie tyme befoir of the said erle.' The contract further sets forth that the earl was to pay 600 merks at the first term after Richard's death in full satisfaction of the assignment made. This sum was eventually paid to Richard's natural daughter.
In his will mention is made of the fact that there was due to him the silver duty of a portion of the lands of the sub-deanery of Dunkeld. His death occurred in November 1606, when he would be over eighty years old. It is not known whom he married, but he left lawful issue two sons."
His son, Ninian, is noted only with one son, James. But if he had more sons, it would be possible he named one Richard, after his father. My notes on Ninian:
"Ninian, who was master-porter of Stirling Castle in 1608, and held that post until his death, which occurred before 1662. On 2nd February 1608 he was admitted, gratis, a burgess of the burgh of Stirling at the request of Mr. Patrick Simson, minister, and the rest of the ministers 'quha were laitlie wairdit in the Castell, and the said Niniane maid faith as use is, and actit himself not to exerce the said libertie within the said Castell, under the pane of fourtie pounds toties quoties.
These Presbyterian ministers, with others who were warded in Blackness, had attended the Assembly at Aberdeen in 1605, although the Privy Council, at James's instigation, had forbidden all persons to appear at such a meeting. For about one year the disobedient clergymen were detained in the castle by the King.
On 23rd August 1618, John Spottswood, Archbishop of Glasgow, wrote from there to the Lord Chancellor (Alexander Seton, first Earl of Dunfermline) to inform him that he had been at Stirling on the previous Sunday, and understood from Mr. Patrick Simson (the same divine who had recommended Ninian to be made a burgess), that sum trouble is su[re] to arryse between the Erle of Mar his servantis and sum of my Lord Lynlithgow his friendis be occasion of ane insolence committet, as they say, be o[ne] Haddon, that is porter of the castil, quho has beatit a sonne of Mr Hary Levingston, minister of St. Ninians ... '
The Archbishop suggested that the parties should be warned to appear before the Chancellor and 'efter tryal, the offender be punischeit, for,' he added, 'I heir the young man thinkis not to complain esteming his remeid wilbe smal that way.' On 1st December 1618 Ninian got sasine of the lands of Mossyde. Before that date he had married Agnes Allen, by whom he had a son."
Of Richard's son, Humphrey, only this is recorded: "Humphrey is mentioned as a witness to a charter dated 1st March 1610, at which time he was a servant of John Anderson, tailor burgess of Stirling. He is named as executor of his father Richard's will."
There are no other Richards in the Haldane tree until 1856, when Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane was born to Robert Haldane and Mary Elizabeth Burdon-Sanderson. This Richard was the brother of John Scott Haldane, the famous physiologist, who in turn was the father of John Burdon Sanderson (JBS) Haldane.
In the OPR marriage records, I find no Richard Hadden. There is one Richard Haddin who married Helene Sinclair 30 April 1663 in North Berwick, East Lothian. Also a Ritcherd Haddon who married Agnes Hoggone 12 Dec 1654 in Perth. The only Richard Haldane mentioned married Mary Maxwell 13 Feb 1853 in Barony, Lanark. A Richart Halden married Issobel Rudderfourd (probably Rutherford) 21 Dec 1705 in Peebles. And that is all I can find in the Marriage OPR.
In the OPR list I have compiled of children born to Haldane, Halden, Hadden, etc. names, there are 22 children listed with a father named Richard H. None of those children is named Susan or Sarah. But 19 of the births were in the 17th century (the other 3 being early 18th century). Ten of the children born to a Richard H. were born in Perth, four in Peebles, four in North Berwick.
One couple, Richard Haddin (also spelled Haddine) and Eupham Harlaw (Harlay, Harley) had Janett 1671 in Perth, John in 1673 Perth, Margaret 1675 Perth, John in 1678 Linlithgow, Christian in 1682 Stirling, and Patrick in 1686 Perth.
Another couple, perhaps the parents of this Richard and Eupham, were Richard Haddine and Agnes Hoggine (Hogvie) who had 5 children, all in Perth: Ritchard 1656, Agnes 1659, Elspeth 1662, Robert 1664, and James 1666.
None of these people is connected to Gleneagles that I can find.
In the OPR marriage data that I have compiled (no guarantee my data is complete, but it has been compiled from the LDS computer records), there is no one named Susan or Sarah H. married to anyone named Duncan. I also find only one William Duncan married to a Haldane/Hadden, etc., that being Margaret Hadden in 1738, St. Nicholas, Aberdeen.
That is all I can find on this Susan/Sarah Haldane, for whom I receive half a dozen queries a year.
An interesting side point is that the Duncans and Haldanes of Gleneagles did have a relationship in the 18th century. Alexander Duncan of Lundie married Helen Haldane (d, May 1777) and their son, Adam, succeeded to Gleneagles on the death of his cousin, George Augustus Haldane, in about 1799. He was forced to sell a great portion of the estate to pay debts and so the Gleneagles estate, once very large and prominent, fell to the small size remaining today. It eventually passed back to the Haldane descendants where it remains today.
This is the extent of the Haldane/Duncan connection as far as I can tell.
I hope this has been helpful and not too wordy for a note that really provides you with no definitive answers on the Susan or Sarah Haldane and William Duncan so many people seek.
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