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This name is sometimes spelled Bootfish in early Colonial records. Robert Bodfish was a freeman at Lynn, Massachusetts, 6 May 1635, and two years later removed to Sandwich, where, or at Barnstable he died about 1651.[1]

His wife was named Bridget, and their older children may have been born in England or at Lynn. After his death, Bridget married, as his second wife, Samuel Hinckley, father of Governor Thomas Hinckley. Samuel Hinckley was born in Kent, England, and came to America in the Hercules about 1634, settling at Scituate, but in 1639 removed to Barnstable, perhaps after a short sojourn in Sandwich. [2] His wife Sarah died 18 August 1656, and be married (2) "about y' ' 15 Decemb' 1657", "with Bridget Bodfish Vid." [3] "He was a man prominent in public affairs as shown by the town records." [4] He died and was "buried end of October 1662."

CHILDREN of Robert and Bridget, a partial list, no doubt, and order of birth uncertain:

Robert.
MARY; married John CROCKER.
Elizabeth.
Sarah; married 4 June 1662, Peter, son of Thomas and Ann Blossom. [5] He died July 1706.
Child, name not given, born 27 March 1648.
Joseph, born 3 April 1651; married June 1674, Elizabeth Bessey, and had six sons and six daughters of record in Barnstable. [6]

Mary BODFISH[edit]
Mary BODFISH married in November 1659, John, son of Deacon William Crocker, of Barnstable. [7]
? Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Savage: 1: 211.
? Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Savage, 2: 424.
? Mayflower Descendant 6: 97.
? Hudson and Mohawk Valleys Genealogy, Reynolds, 2: 595.
? Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Davis, Genealogical Section, 29; appendix, 309.
? New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2: 65.
? Ibid. 2: 389.

BODFISH, Robert (I63487)

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This name is spelled in early records in various ways - Lothrop, Lowthrop, Leothrop, Lathrop, Laythrope, etc. The family, so well known in early Massachusetts records, is definitely traced to John Lowthrop who lived in Cherry Burton, a parish about four miles from Lowthrope in the Wapentake of Dickering, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 1545 he was assessed twice as much as any other inhabitant of the parish, as shown on the subsidy rolls of that shire, under the order of Henry VIII. His grandson Thomas Lothropp was born at Cherry Burton, and there married Widow Elizabeth Clark, and died, being buried at Etton, 29 July 1574. [2] The American immigrant of this family was John Lothropp, (which was the way he spelled his name), son of the Thomas and Elizabeth just mentioned. He was baptized at Etton, Yorkshire, 20 December 1584, and was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, taking his B. A. degree there in 1605, and four years later a Master's degree. One of his first pastoral charges was at Egerton, a parish about forty-eight miles southeast of London, in County Kent. Here he worked hard and faithfully as curate, for five years, the local church building being a quaint ancient structure dedicated to Saint James, which, located on a hill, may be seen from a great distance . It has a square tower and a beacon light in its turret. John Lothrop Quoting liberally from the compiler of the Avery pedigrees just mentioned, the following brief sketch of the celebrated religionist is printed: Here Mr. Lothropp labored faithfully as long as his judgment could approve the ritual and government of the Church. When he could no longer do this, we find him conscientiously renouncing his orders, and asserting the right of still fulfilling a ministry to which his heart and conscience had called him. Accordingly, in 1623, his decision was made. He bade adieu to the church of his youth, and with no misgivings, subscribed with a firm band to the doctrines, and espoused with a courageous heart the cause, of the Place. At that date the congregation of dissenters to which Mr. Lothropp ministered had no place of public worship, their worship itself being illegal. Only such as could meet the obloquy and risk the danger of worshipping God in violation of human statutes, were likely to be found in the secret gatherings. Yet, in goodly numbers, in such places as Southwark as they could stealthily occupy, they held together, and were comforted and instructed by the ministers of their choice. For not less than eight years they so worshipped. No threats of vengeance deterred and no vigilance of officious ministers of the violated law detected them. Keen scented Church hounds traversed all nooks which could by any possibility serve as a meeting place for even a small company of the outlaws. One of the wiliest of these pursuivants of the bishop, Tomlinson by name, tracked Mr. Lothropp and his followers to their retreat. They had met for worship as had been their wont, little thinking that it would be their last gathering with their beloved minister. Their private sanctuary, a room in the house of Mr. Humphrey Barnet, a brewer's clerk in Black Friars, was suddenly invaded. Tomlinson and his ruffian band, with a show of power, above their resistance, seized forty two of their number, allowing only eighteen of them to escape, and made that 22d day of August, 1632, for ever memorable to those suffering Christians, by handing them over in fetters to the executors of a law which was made for godly men to break! In the old Clink prison, in Newgate, and in the Gatehouse, both made for the detention of felons, these men "of whom the world was not worthy" lingered for months. In the spring of 1634, all but Mr. Lothropp were released on bail. He, their leader, the chief offender, was deemed too dangerous to be set at liberty. Like the gifted Hooker, it was felt that., his words and his example had "already more impeached the peace of our Church" than the church could bear. "His genius will still haunte all the pulpits in ye country when any of his scolers may be admitted to preach." And so his prison, doors swing to, again, and seemed to leave him no hope of release or escape. During these months a fatal sickness was preying upon his wife, and bringing her fast towards her end. The New England's Memorial, by Nathaniel Morton, published in 1669, gives us these touching incidents of that. imprisonment. "His wife fell sick, of which sickness she died. He procured liberty of the bishop to visit his wife before her death, and commended her to God by prayer, who soon gave up the ghost. At his return to.prison, his children being many, repaired to the bishop at Lambeth, and made known unto him their miserable condition, by reason of their father's being continued in close durance, who commiserated their condition so far as to grant him liberty. who soon after came over into New England." A record of 19 February 1634, filed among state papers in the New Record Office of Fetter Lane, London . . . was probably the order of the court which opened the way for the escape of Mr. Lothropp to America. At any, rate the year had not ended before the following record shows him to have become a free man in a land in which he rejoiced to find "A Church without a bishop, and a State without a King." The record is found in Governor Winthrop's journal, page 71, under date of 18 September 1634: "The Griffin and another ship arrived with about two hundred passengers . . . Mr. Lathrop and Mr. Sims, two godly ministers, coming in the same ship." On reaching Boston with that portion of his London flock which had accompanied him, he found already the preparations begun to welcome him to a new home in Scituate. At least nine pioneers had built their houses in that new settlement, and to it, with such of his people as were ready to accompany him, he repaired 27 September 1634. The following record preserved for us in the handwriting of the Scituate pioneer, is perhaps the only record extant regarding his call and settlement in the ministry at Scituate: "Jann: 19 1634, att my house, uppon w'h day I was chosen Pastour and invested into office." He was then a widower, but soon married again, as the following entry shows: "My wife and Bro. Foxwell's wife joyned having their dismission from elsewhere, June 14, 1635." "Isaac Robinson & My sonn Fuller joyned having their Letters dismissive from the Church at Plimouth unto us Novemb. 7, 1636." This voluminous diary or record of Mr. Lotbrop's shows him methodical and efficient, and is deemed of sufficient importance as to have been copied not less than five times. One copy, made by Reverend Doctor Ezra Stiles of Yale College in 1769 is now among his manuscript papers in Yale Library. He removed to Barnstable with a large company, 11 October 1639, taking the crops raised in Scituate with them, and dedicating their adventure to the direction and mercy of God. Mr. Otis the historian says: "John Lothrop and his followers were held by, the people to be martyrs to the cause of Independency. No persecution, no severity that their enemies could inflict upon them caused him or one of his followers to waver. They submitted without a murmur to loss of property, to imprisonment in loathsome jails, and to be separated for two years from their families and friends, rather than to subscribe to the forms of worship that Charles and his bigoted prelates endeavored to force on their consciences. "Whatever exceptions we may take to Mr Lothrop's theological opinions all must admit that he was a good and true man, an independent thinker, and a man who held opinions in advance of his times. Mr. Lothrop fearlessly proclaimed in Old and New England the great truth that man is not responsible to his fellowmen in matters of faith and conscience. Differences of opinions he tolerated. During the fourteen years he was pastor of the Barnstable Church, such was his influence over the people that the power of the civil magistrate was not needed to restrain crime. No pastor was ever more beloved by his people. None ever had a greater influence for good. To become a member of his church no applicant was compelled to sign a creed or confession of faith. He retained his freedom. He professed his faith in God, and promised that it should be his constant endeavor to keep His commandments, to live a pure life, and to walk in love with the brethren." Again he says: "Mr. Lothrop was as distinguished for his worldly wisdom as for his piety. He was a good business man, and so were all of his sons. Wherever one of the family pitched his tent, that spot soon became a center of business, and land in its vicinity appreciated in value. It is the men that make a place, and to Mr. Lothrop's in early times, Barnstable was more indebted than to any other family." Mr. Morton who "thought meet in his Memorial to nominate some of the specialest" of the worthy ministers whom God had brought into New England, named as the fourth on the list, "Mr. John Lathrop sometimes preacher of God's word in Egerton," and elsewhere in the Memorial he testified to his former fidelity in London, in witnessing against the errors of the times. . . . He was a man of humble and broken spirit; lively in dispensation of the Word of God, studious of peace, furnished with godly contentment, willing to spend and be spent for the cause of the Church of Christ." These lengthy extracts from the writings of others have been presented here in order to allow the reader to catch a glimpse of the character and the labors of this eminent and worthy ancestor of the man who, two hundred years later, suffered also imprisonment and persecution for conscience's sake, and, true to the intrepid spirit and example of that ancestor, would not lower one iota his standards of religious principle or opinions for the assurance of physical or material safety, comfort, or emoluments. The name of Mr. Lothrop's first wife seems to have been lost in the obscurity of the past. She died early in 1634 in London, after having borne eight children. He married (2) in 1635, in Scituate, Massachusetts, Anna, said to be a widow, and the daughter of William Hammond of Watertown. John Lothrop died at Barnstable, 8 November 1653, in his will mentioning eldest son Thomas, son John in England and Benjamin here,. daughter Jane and Barbara "to the rest of the children, both mine and my wife's, each a cow. To each child one book, to be chosen according to their ages, the rest of the library to be sold to any honest man who can tell how to use it, the proceeds to be divided," etc. Mr. Lothrop's widow survived him many years, dying at Barnstable 25 February 1687. CHILDREN, by first wife, all born in England: 1.JANE baptized 29 September 1614; married SAMUEL FULLER. 2.Anne, 'baptized 12 May 1616; buried 30 April 1617. 3.John, baptized 22 February 1617; "probably died young" says our authority. If so, which was the "son John in England" mentioned in the father's will? 4.Barbara, baptized 31 October 161.9; married 119 July 1638, John Emerson, her father recording the event - "My sonn Emmersonn & my daughter Barbarah marryed at Duxberry by Captain Standige." Mr. Savage supposes this John Emerson may have been of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who had come over in the ship Abigail, in 1635, entered on the ship's list as "baker, ae 20." Thomas, born about 1621; in Barnstable 1639; freeman 1656, and held several public offices. He was married "in the Bay" (Boston), 11 December 1639, to Widow Ewer, who was Sarah, the daughter of William Larned and widow of Thomas Ewer. They were the parents of five children, and he died in 1707. 5.Samuel; married Elizabeth Scudder, of New London, Connecticut, in 1648; had five daughters and four sons. 6.Joseph, born 1624; married by Thomas Hinckley 11 December 1650, to Mary Ansell, and was the father of eight sons and four daughters. His will was proved 9 April 1702. 7.Benjamin; married in Barnstable, Martha ???? and had nine children. CHILDREN by second wife: 1.Barnabas, baptized at Scituate, 6 June 1636; married 1 December 1658, Susanna, daughter of Thomas and Susanna (Ring) Clarke, who was granddaughter of Thomas Clarke, mate of the Mayflower. He married (2) Abigail Dodson, widow, who died 21 December 1715, aged 72. He was the father of fourteen children. 2.Child born and died 30 July 1638. 3.Abigail, baptized at Barnstable 2 November 1639; married 7 October 1657, James, son of Thomas and Susanna (Ring) Clarke. They settled in Plymouth, whither the father, Thomas Clarke had come in the ship Anne in 1623. 4.Bathsha, baptized at Barnstable, 27 February 1641; married Alexander Marsh, probably as his second wife. They had five children. 5.John, born Barnstable 9 February 1644; married 3 January 1671/2, at Plymouth, Mary, daughter of James and Mary (Tilson), Cobb, of Scituate, where she was born 3 December 1653. On the marriage record his name appears as Laythrope, and she is called Mary Colsgain. After her death he married (2) 9 December 1695, Hannah, widow of Dr. John Fuller. He died 27 September 1727, aged 85, having been the father of six daughters and four sons by his first wife, and of two daughters and one son by his second. 6.A son which died at birth, buried 25 January 1649. Jane Lothrop Jane Lothrop was baptized 29 September 1614, in her father's church at Egerton, County Kent, England, and came with her father's family to America in 1634, living in Scituate and Barnstable, Massachusetts, at which former place, on 8 April 1635, "ye 4th day of the weeke," she was married to Samuel Fuller, who had come to Plymouth on the Mayflower with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fuller. This marriage ceremony was performed by Captain Myles Standish at the home of Mr. James Cudworth. See FULLER sketch for the biography and continuation of this family line. 1.? The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926) 2.? Warren Avery Park Lothrop Little etc., Family Pedigrees of Samuel Putman Avery, privately printed 1925, 51, 52, 54. John Lathrope (1584-1653) Reformer, Sufferer, Pilgrim Man of God Institute of Family Research, Inc. Salt Lake City 801-531-7911 The Institute of Family Research, Inc., does professional genealogical research for thousands of clients from coast to coast on an endless variety of problems that span the globe. Over the years and with the support of a computerized lineage-linked pedigree system, we have located several ancestors who are related to many of our clients. The research project underlying the report is primarily thousands of dollars of original research the results of original research done by Richared W. Price, A.G., and Arlene Eakle. Genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts prepared the kinship material. In addition, the success of the project has been enhanced by the cooporation of Mrs. Willis, the Librarian of the Sturgis Library, in Barnstable, Massachusetts, home of the Lathrop Bible. Editing was done under the careful eye of Becky Burdelle and George Bickerstaff. Copyright Institute of Family Research, Inc. No. 57 West South Temple - 9th Floor P.O. Box 2607 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 (801)531-7911 Called ??? and she said she would call me back to give us a right on all material, but the letter never came. 2010 A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family (GD 929.2, 491H) ----------------------- Reverend John Lathrop is ACT's 11 cousin 11 times removed. Our common ancestor is W. Cantilupe (1216 England RIN 20174 21st Great Grandfather.) ----------------- John Lathrop (1584-1653) Reformer, Sufferer, Pilgrim, Man of God Institute of Family Research, Inc. - Salt Lake City No. 57 West South Temple - 9th Floor P. O. Box 2607 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 (801-531-7911) The Institute of Family Research Inc. Over the years and with the support of a computerized lineage-linked pedigree system, we have located several ancestors who are related to many of our clients. The research project underlying this report is primarily thousands of dollars of original research the results of original research done by Richard W. Price, A. G., and Arlene Eakle. Genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts prepared the kinship material. In addition, the success of the project has been enhanced by the cooperation of Mrs. Willis, the librarian of the Sturgis Library, in Barnstable, Massachusetts, home of the Lathrop Bible. Editing was done under the careful eye of Beck Burdette and George Bickerstaff. (Pedigree from John Lathrope #47556 to the following: 1. Founder - Fuller Brush Company/Alfred Carl Fuller (1885- ) 2. Founder - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) 3. David Daniel Marriott (1939- ) Congressman R-Utah 4. Eli Whitney (1765-1825) Inventor- Cotton Gin 5. George Herbert Walker Bush (1924- ) - Diplomat; Congressman D-Tex 6. Benjamin McLane Spock (1903- ) P - Physician, Educator, Writer 7. Sir Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937) Prime Minister of Canada 8. John Pierpoint Morgan (1867-1943) Financier 9. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) - Poet 10.Lewis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) - Artist, Philanthopost 11.Sylvia Brett (1885- ) Rani of Sarawok Many famous people people in American history and leaders in the world today are distant cousins of the Prophet Joseph Smith who was born Dec. 13, 1805. This boy prophet learned with certainly the anwser to John's concern regarding authority to act in the name of God on 15 May 1829. Through John Lathrope's posterity member, the priesthood was restored by John the Baptist and subsequently Peter, James and John. Besides the Prophet Joseph Smith, a pedigree of the descendants of John Lathrope, who was born in 1584, was Joseph Smith's fifth great-grandfather and the ancestor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Ulysses S. Grant, Eli Whitney and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In addition to Joseph Smith, several prominent Mormons were also descended from Lathrope, including Orson and Parley P. Pratt, Oliver Cowdery, President Wilford Woodruff, President Frederick G. Williams, President Harold B. Lee and President Marion G. Romney of the First Presidency. In Joseph Smith's History, there is a letter written in 1853 by Orson Pratt, an early apostle of the Church where he stated, "I have published the history and genealogy of Joseph Smith as written before his death. This included six or seven generations of his ancestry. You will recollect that the Prophet Joseph had a vision and saw that our fathers and his all sprang from the same man a few generations ago. I should be pleased to trace both genealogies back to their junction, if it be possible." Elder Pratt never traced his and Joseph Smith's ancestors' back to Lathrope. The vision that he and the Pratts had a common ancestor and passed it to Orson by word of mouth without recording it. In 1930, Archibald Bennett, Director of the Utah Genealogical Society, discovered the link between Joseph Smith and the Pratts. John Lathrope was born in Etton, England, in 1584. He graduated from Queen College, Cambridge, in 1605, and received his Master of Arts Degree from there in 1609. Between Degrees, on his 23rd birthday he was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln and began service for the Church of England in Hertfordshire. However, he soon grew discontented with the doctrines of the Church, and became the leader of a dissident group that met secretly (and illegally) in Southwark, London. One day in 1632, a meeting of this group was raided by a ruffian band sent by the Archbishop of the Church of England. Most of the dissidents, including Lathrope, were thrown into the "clink," an infamous prison in London. During this time Reverend Lathrope's first wife died and left him with several children. He was granted liberty to go into foreign exile in 1634 and sailed with his children to America the next year. (Received from Alexander Fife by Neil Hyde (Patriarch Ross) 18520 8th Ave NW, Apt. 301 Seattle, WA. 98177) ------------------------------ Joseph Smith's Family: An Example of Love and Service by Susan Easton Black Was Joseph Smith's family prepared for a son to come home one spring morning in the year of 1820 from the wooded area near their home and exclaim: "I have learned for myself that Presbyterianism is not true? (JS-H 1:20). How had he acquired this information? In his own words we learn who his instructors were: "When the light rested upon me I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other -- This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him" (JS-H 1:17). Was the family prepared for this message that came to their young son via God the Father and Jesus Christ? Through our discussion today, I will endeavor to develop the hypothesis that they were prepared. The order of this development will be: 1. Were scriptural accounts available and accessible to the family to assist them in preparation? 2. Is evidence available to show actual family preparation, when scriptural accounts were not available? 3. Was the family the first to recognize that Joseph was the Joseph of the Restoration? In order to be prepared, knowledge needs to be available and accessible to the family that such a prophet is to be the born. Foreknowledge of foreordained prophets has many precedents. The family of Adam, as they began their telestial state learned from an angel after Adam commenced to offer sacrifice, "This thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth." (Moses 5:7). Father Abraham was shown by the Lord intelligences organized before the world was and among them were many noble and great ones. Here Abraham learns "Abraham, thou art one of them: thou wast chosen before thou wast born" (Abraham 3:23). To Jeremiah, the Lord stated, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations" (Jeremiah 1:5). Other examples include: Moses, John the Baptist, and also the prophet of the Restoration, Joseph Smith, Jr. Approximately 570 B.C., Father Lehi while giving a blessing to his son Joseph, who was born in the wilderness, told Joseph of three other Joseph's: Joseph of Egypt, Joseph Smith, Sr. and Joseph Smith, Jr. A choice seer will I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins,...and unto him will I give power to bring forth my word unto the seed of thy loins...And he shall be great like unto Moses... And his name shall be called after me; and it shall be after the name of his father. And he shall be like unto me; for the thing, which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by the power of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation (2 Nephi 3:7-15). Knowledge of the Joseph of the Restoration was given but not available or accessible to the family of Joseph Smith until the 1820's. Lehi's promise to his son Joseph, who was born in the wilderness, was in the Hill Cumorah. Joseph of Egypt's writings were not had among men. Tampering with the Old Testament had occurred and plain and precious parts had been deleted, including the part regarding Joseph of the Restoration. The conclusion to the foreknowledge of Joseph is that as Christ, Jeremiah, Abraham, and John the Baptist were known by the writers of scriptures for generations of time, so was the prophet Joseph Smithy--known by the prophets and recorded since the time of Joseph who was sold into Egypt but not accessible or available to the family of Joseph Smith. Is evidence available to show actual family preparation--when scriptural accounts are not available? Brigham Young stated: It was decreed in the counsels of eternity, long before the foundations of the earth were laid, that he (Joseph Smith) should be the man, in the last dispensation of this world, to bring forth the word of God to the people, and receive the fullness of the keys and power of the Priesthood of the Son of God. The Lord had his eye upon him, and upon his father, and upon his father's father, and upon their progenitors clear back to Abraham, and from Abraham to the flood, from the flood to Enoch, and from Enoch to Adam. He had watched that family and that blood as it has circulated from its fountain to the Birth of that man. He was foreordained in eternity to preside over this last dispensation...(#1) (find footnotes in original paper). Perhaps a brief overview of one family member of this protected line who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries will illustrate preparation. His name is John Lathrop. He was Joseph Smith's 6th great grandfather. John was born in 1584 in Etton, Yorkshire, England...#2) He entered Queens College in Cambridge in 1601 and graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree din 1605 and his Masters of Arts degree in 1609. In 1607, prior to receiving his Masters Degree, he was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln and became the curate of Bennington, Herefordshire, England for the Church of England. After graduation, he was placed in charge of the Egerton Church in Kent which is located approximately 50 miles southeast of London. He served in this capacity until 1623--a 14-year period. In 1623, he made a decision to leave the Church of England. A major reason for the break from the Church of England was the dispute over whether authority for leadership of the church came from God to the church--in other words, who gave authority to act in the name of God?...#3). His decision to leave the Church of England, at this time was considered a dangerous crime. The punishment for this crime was death, most often the method was burning at the stake. John's position became even more perilous when he accepted an appointment to be a minister of an illegal Independent Church. On April 22, 1632, John's Independent Church was assailed by governmental officials. Of the 42 congregated in this meeting in 1623, only 18 were able to escape, the rest thrown into the Clink Prison. By the spring of 1634, Lathrop was the only one of the 24 arrested at this meeting that was not released from prison. John was released only after he petitioned for liberty to go into foreign exile. The foreign exile he chose was America. He sailed on the ship Griffin from London to Boston. On board the ship he was the only one who had a Bible. While reading the Bible, hot tallow from a dripping candle burned holes through several pages. He obtained paper and pasted it on the partially burned pages. He then printed from memory the passages of scriptures which had been destroyed...#4). John Lathrop was the 6th great grandfather of Joseph Smith, Jr. This boy prophet learned with certainty the answer to John's concern regarding authority to act in the name of God on May 15, 1829. Through John Lathrop's posterity member, the priesthood was restored by John the Baptist and subsequently Peter, James and John. Who else is related to John Lathrop? (See individual relationship in this database.) John Lathrop is the 6th great grandfather of Hyrum, Joseph's brother. Hyrum was one of the eight witnesses of the Book of Mormon, Patriarch to the Church, and martyred in Carthage Jail. Joseph Smith wrote of his brother, "I could pray in my heart that all my brethren were like unto my beloved brother Hyrum, who possesses the mildness of a lamb, and the integrity of Job, and in short, the meekness and humility of Christ, and I love him with that love that is stronger than death." Joseph F. Smith, a descendant of Lathrop was the son of Hyrum Smith. At the age of 15 he was called to fulfill his first mission to the Hawaiian Islands. At the age of 28 he was called into the first Presidency of the Church. Six weeks prior to his death he received a manifestation called the "Vision of the Redemption of the Dead." Joseph Fielding Smith, a 7th great grandson, has been the oldest man to serve as President of the Church. He began his presidency at 93 years of age, after serving 60 years in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He spent much of his life reading and studying the scriptures--writing 25 doctrinal volumes. Oliver Cowdery was a 4th great grandson of John Lathrop. He was a teacher, staying in the Smith home in Manchester, New York. Oliver was second only to Joseph Smith in the leadership of the Church during the first eight years of the existence of the Church. He was the scribe to most of the translation of the Book of Mormon, one of the three witnesses to the Book, received the Priesthood from heavenly messengers--John the Baptist, Peter, James and John and saw Moses, Elias, Elijah and the Lord Jesus Christ in the Kirtland Temple. Wilford Woodruff was a 6th great grandson of John Lathrop. On his first mission to England, 36 days after he landed on his shores he commenced the baptism of what would ultimately be 600 people in Herefordshire, England, including two spies from the Church of England and a constable who came to arrest him. In his first 15 years of Church membership, he spent 10 years in service on missions. Wilford as President of the St. George Temple did temple work for the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Frederick G. Williams was a 5th great grandson of John Lathrop. He served as second counselor to Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith wrote of him, "Brother Frederick G. Williams is one of those men in whom I place the greatest confidence and trust, for I have found him ever full of love and brotherly kindness."...#6. Orson and Parley Pratt were 5th great grandsons of John Lathrop. Orson was an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He crossed the Atlantic more than a dozen times in behalf of the Church. He divided both the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants into verses. He was a distinguished scientist and published several works on the subjects of astronomy and mathematics. His brother Parley P. Pratt was also an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. In describing the effect of reading the Book of Mormon on him, Parley stated, "I read all day; eating was a burden, I had no desire for food; sleep was a burden when night came, I preferred reading to sleep. As I read, the spirit of the Lord was upon me, and I knew and comprehended that the book was true, as plainly and manifestly as a man comprehends and knows that he exists. My joy was now full..." #7. Harold B. Lee was a 9th great grandson of John Lathrop. Recalling his youth growing up on a small farm in Clifton, Idaho, he stated, "We had everything money could not buy."...#8. As a young stake president, he developed a welfare plan which served as a forerunner to the general church welfare program. Marion G. Romney is a 7th great grandson of John Lathrop. He served in the First Presidency of the Church from 1972 until his death in 1988. His father served as President of Ricks College. Marion G. Romney attended Ricks College and was a star on the football and basketball team. Conclusion to the question, is evidence available to show actual family preparation when scriptural accounts are not available? The answer is yes, by illustrating the life of John Lathop and the effect on his posterity of his insight and inspiration of the Lord in questioning the authority to act in the name of God in 1623. What about Joseph's grandparents? His parents? Those closest to him? How would they react to his being the Prophet of the Restoration? Joseph Smith's maternal grandfather, Solomon Mack, was born 1732. By the year of 1810-11 he began to search the Bible. He found his intense physical pain relieved through prayer. He also received manifestations. He twice saw a light as bright as fire and another time he heard a voice call him by name, Solomon. He penned a poem in which one verse reads: I waited patient on the Lord, He bowed to hear my cry He saw me resting on his word And brought salvation nigh. ...#9 Asael Smith, Joseph's paternal grandfather was born 1744. He was a strong believer in the Ten Commandments and added what he entitled the 11th, "mind your own business."...#10 In his will he wrote, "...everything that I have in this world (I give to my family) but my faults, and them I take with me to the grave...leaving my virtues, ...to revive and live in you."...#11 In referring to God he exclaimed, "Put your whole trust solely in him. He never did nor never will forsake any that trusted in him."...#12 At the age of 88, shortly before death, he nearly completed reading the Book of Mormon and he died, confident that a new religious age was upon the world. Joseph stated of him: My grandfather Asael died in East Stockhom, St. Lawrence County, New York, after having received the Book of Mormon, and read it nearly through; and he declared that I was the very Prophet that he had long known would come in his family. ...#13 Joseph Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, was ill in the year of 1802. She writes: "I then looked to the Lord and begged and pleaded with him to spare my life in order that I might bring up my children and be a comfort to my husband. During this night I made a solemn covenant with God that if He would let me live I would endeavor to serve him according to the best of my abilities. Shortly after this I heard a voice say to me, "Seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." ...#14 Besides hearing a heavenly voice speak to her, she also dreamed an inspired dream and was given the interpretation of that dream prior to the year of 1805. Joseph Smith Sr., Joseph's father, had seven visions by the year of 1811. His seventh occurred while he was living in Lebanon, New Hampshire. In his vision, he entered a path. "...when I had traveled a little way in it, I beheld a beautiful stream of water, which ran from the east to the west. Of this stream, I could see neither the source nor yet the mouth; but as far as my eyes could extend I could see a rope, running along the bank of it, about as high as a man could reach, and beyond me was a low, but very pleasant valley, in which stood a tree such as I have never seen before ... it bore a kind of fruit, in shape much like a chestnut burr, and as white as snow, or if possible, whiter. I drew near and began to eat of it, and I found it delicious beyond description." ...#15 Soon in the vision his family joins him and they commented. "The more we ate, the more we seemed to desire, until we even got down upon our knees and scooped it up, eating it by double handfuls." ...#16 I there evidence available to show actual family preparation, when scriptural accounts are not available? A sixth great- grandfather questioned the authority line and whether the church he was a part of had received the authority to act in the name of God. Both immediate grandfathers believed in God--One saw a light and heard his name, the other accepted the Book of Mormon as new religious thinking upon the world. Joseph's mother made covenants, heard a heavenly voice quoting scripture, dreamed an inspired dream and received the interpretation of that dream prior to 1805. Joseph's father had seven visions prior to his son's first. In all of this family preparation was the family the first to recognize Joseph as the Joseph of the Restoration? The answer to this query is no. Joseph Smith was born December 23, 1805. His mother records, "In the meantime we had a son whom we called Joseph after the name of his father; ..."#17 The doctor present, Joseph Denison, years later reported, "I delivered a son to Joseph Smith. If I had known how he was going to turn out I'd have smothered the little cuss." In other words, no outward manifestation that he was to be the prophet of our time was made apparent to the mother of doctor at Joseph's birth. Not until the Spring of 1820 is it apparent that Joseph is the long awaited prophet. Joseph was living with his family in the Palmyra-Manchester area in New York. By the time of the first vision this area had seven churches, with four that met weekly. (The Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and Quakers). Lucy, Joseph's mother; his sister, Sophronia; and his brothers, Samuel and Hyrum had been proselyted to the Presbyterian Church. Joseph felt himself partial to the Methodist Church. To quote: 'My mind at times was greatly excited, the cry and tumult were so great and incessant. In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right: or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know It? While I was religionists, I was one day reading the Epistle of James, first chapter and fifth verse, which reads: 'If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.' At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask God. ...I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally" (JS-H 1:9-14) The result was: ...the light rested upon me, I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me calling me by name and said, pointing to the other--This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him! (JS-H 1:17). In answer to his quest regarding which church, "I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; ... and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time." (JS-H 1:19-20). Thus, the first to recognize Joseph as the Joseph of the Restoration was God the Father and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. In conclusion: 1. Needed scriptural knowledge to look forward to and prepare for the Prophet Joseph was available but not accessible or attainable by Joseph's ancestors. 2. The Lord prepared the family through inspiration to question who gave the authority to act in the name of God, dreams, interpretation of dreams, voices, visions, and other heavenly manifestations and gifts. 3. God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ were the first to recognize Joseph of the Restoration. This is what I profess. This is what I testify. Joseph Smith saw God the Father and his Beloved Son, Jesus Christ in the Spring of 1820. Through Joseph Smith the authority to act in the name of God was restored. Joseph Smith was the prophet through whom the Church was restored on April 6, 1830. This Church is the true Church of God upon the earth. Jesus Christ stands at its head. Spencer W. Kimball is the prophet on the earth today. These thoughts and this testimony I humbly bear. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. Notes - 1. Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. Liverpool: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1858, 7:289-90. 2. Family Group Sheet, John Lathrop. Institute of Family Research. 3. John Lathrop (1584-1653): Reformer, Sufferer, Pilgrim, Man of God Salt Lake City: Institute of Family Research, Inc. 1979, 6. 4. Ibid., 7-11. 5. Pearson H. Corbetts, Hyrum Smith, Patriarch, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft Inc., 1971, XIII. 6. Joseph Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 7 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976, 1:44 (hereafter cited as HC). 7. Parley P. Pratt, Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1938, 36-37. 8. Richard Lloyd Anderson, Joseph Smith's New England Heritage. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company, 1971, 59. 9. Ibid., 104. 10. Ibid., 106. 11. Ibid. 12. HC 2:443. 13. Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by his Mother. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1958, 34. 14. Ibid., 48-49. 15. Ibid., 50. 16. Ibid., 46. 17. Larry C. Porter, "A Study of the Origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816-1831." A Dissertation presented to the Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1971. Reverend JOHN LOTHROP by Vamar Sorensen If one were to search among all the Prophet Joseph Smith's progenitors for the one who best typified his righteous zeal for true freedom and dauntless devotion to truth, perhaps no finer example could be found than his fifth great-grandfather, Reverend John Lothrop. He was a young minister of the Church of England, happily married, with beautiful children. He labored faithfully until in his conscience he could not longer prove the things he must teach. He resigned his position, left the church, and in 1623 became pastor of the first Independent Church of London. For righteousness' sake, persecution raged against him and his little band of devoted followers. They were forced to meet secretly to escape the anger of the opposing bishop. One day as they met in worship, they were discovered by agents of the bishop, who suddenly invaded their meeting place, seized forty- two of their number, and sent them in fetters to the old clink prison in Newgate. Finally, all were released but Mr. Lothrop. He was deemed too dangerous to be set at liberty. During these months of his imprisonment, a fatal sickness had seized upon his wife and she was about to die. Upon his urgent entreaty the bishop consented for him to visit his dying wife. He reached home in time to give her a blessing. She passed away and he returned to prison. His poor orphaned children wandered about in helpless misery until someone suggested they appeal to the bishop at Lambeth. One can picture the mournful procession as they came before him and made known their plight. "Please sir," they cried piteously, "release our father or we too will die." The bishop's heart softened and was touched with pity, and he granted to John Lothrop his freedom if he would promise to leave the country and never return. Gathering round him his children and thirty-two members of his congregation, he sailed to America. Settling in New England, where he was warmly welcomed, he soon became one of the great Puritan religious leaders of his day. No pastor was more loved by his people, and none had a greater influence for good. He fearlessly proclaimed views far in advance of his time. Only in the recent years has the name of his wife, Hannah House, who died in England, been discovered so that due honor can be paid to her memory. One of the children in that group, Samuel, lived to become the fourth great-grandfather of President Wilford Woodruff. Another child, Jane, who married Samuel Fuller, a boy passenger on the Mayflower, was the fourth great-grandmother of the Prophet. Among the descendants of this famous Puritan preacher were early Church leaders Joseph Smith, Willford Woodruff, Oliver Cowdery, and Frederick G. Williams. DUP Files Ref: Exiled - The Story of John Lathrop 1584-1653 Forefather of Presidents Church leaders and Statsmen: History of the Independent Church established in 1616 Southwark, England - Bennett, Archibald. "The Ancestry of Joseph Smith," The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, 1929 (Appendix B) Henry Jacob, Pastor 1616-1622 John Lathropp, Paster 1624-1632 Friendly dismissal of several, including Sam Eaton, who form another church under the leadership of John Spilsbury. 1634 John Lathropp emigrates to Scituate in Plymouth Colony. He becomes Pastor of the Congregational Church. 1637 Henry Jessey, Pastor 1638 Frequent departures to other churches 1639 John Lothropp moves to Barnstable and establishes Congregational Church. 1640 Praise-God Barbon, Pastor 1640 Church grows and divides; many follow William Kiffin, Pastor 1641 Kiffin becomes Baptist 1643 Hanserd Knolly forms Baptist Church 1645 The Church becomes Baptist 1673 Henry Forty, a strict Baptist, becomes Pastor Death of Knolly 1675 Forty's church unites with Kiffins Knolly' church and becomes a leading Calvinistic Baptist Church. 1727 The church unites with the church originally founded by Sam Eaton. It becomes a leading London Baptist Church. -------------------------------------- BYU-Idaho Family History Conference 8 November 2003 Keynote Address: Kevin Owen Story: After graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1985, my wife and I relocated to the city of Cupertino, California just south of San Francisco. We had just had our first son and I had accepted a position with the Hewlett-Packard Company. Shortly after our arrival I was extended a church calling to focus my attention on helping others with their Family History and Genealogy. Part of that assignment included working Wednesday evenings at the Santa Clara Family History Center. It was a modest sized Family History Center and included several rooms in one wing of the Stake Center. I enjoyed serving and helping others find their ancestors. One evening a middle-aged couple came in and were quietly browsing the books on the bookshelves. I approached them, introduced myself, and asked if I could help them in any way. It turned out that they were community patrons, who lived in the neighborhood, and were intrigued when they heard that there was a Family History Center that was open to the public at the local LDS church, and so had come down to take a look. I was able to get them started, teaching them how to use the IGI on microfiche (some of you may remember those days - before computers were widely available). They soon became Wednesday night regulars and began having some success in discovering their family tree. One night they called me over to the table where they were working and asked - "Why does your church do this?" "Why so much interest in discovering who ancestors are, and all at no charge?" How would your answer this question? Why do we do this? Is it just an interesting hobby or is there more to it than just that? In the few minutes that we have to spend together here this morning - I would like to explore these questions and in the process share with you some of the things that I have learned as I have studied this topic and been involved in this work. In order to better understand why we do this and why the LDS church devotes so many resources to this important activity we need to go back to the year 1823 to the small farming community of Palmyra, New York, to the home of a 17 year old boy named Joseph Smith. In his own words he describes what occurred: "on the evening of the twenty-first of September, after I had retired to my bed for the night, I betook myself to prayer and supplication to Almighty God for forgiveness of all my sins and follies, and also for a manifestation to me, that I might know of my state and standing before him; ... "While I was thus in the act of calling upon God, I discovered a light appearing in my room, which continued to increase until the room was lighter than at noonday, when immediately a personage appeared at my bedside, standing in the air, for his feet did not touch the floor. He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do;" "He first quoted part of the third chapter of Malachi , Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. He also quoted the next verse : And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming." Joseph Smith History - Chapter 1:29-30,38-39 In the closing verses of the Old Testament, the prophet Malachi prophesied that in a future day that Elijah, also a prophet who had lived some ... years previously, would return to the earth and that his coming would cause the "hearts of the children [to] turn to their fathers." We often speak of the events of that night in 1823 in connection with the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. This was the night when Joseph Smith was first told of the ancient record written upon Gold Plates that was to be found buried in the earth not far from the Smith farm. It is significant that when Moroni appeared to young Joseph Smith that also told him that this prophecy of Malachi, regarding the return of Elijah was about to be fulfilled. Thirteen years later, in the year 1836, this prophecy was fulfilled. The 110th section of the Doctrine and Covenants records this event that occurred in the Kirtland Temple [D&C 110:13-16]. The event was the occasion of a church meeting shortly after the dedication of this first latter-day temple. Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery retired to the pulpit area and knelt in prayer. A series of heavenly manifestations occurred. In Joseph's own words he records: " another great and glorious vision burst upon us; for Elijah the prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting death, stood before us, and said: Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi testifying that he [Elijah] should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord come to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse. Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands; and by this ye may know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors." This occurred on 3 Apr 1836 during the Passover celebration of that year. The Jews today still await the return of the prophet Elijah and in symbolism - leave an empty setting at the table of the Passover feast. We, of course, recognize and believe that he has already returned. He came in fulfillment of prophecy and with a specific charge to restore the keys of the sealing power that permits us to perform vicarious baptisms and marriage sealings in behalf of our deceased ancestors. The New Testament records this significant conversation, as recorded in John 3: "There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night "Jesus said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." We learn here that baptism is a requirement in order to be admitted into the Kingdom of God. Now what about all those who have lived on the earth who have not been baptized and perhaps did not even known of Christianity or the teachings of Jesus Christ? What exactly did Elijah restore? Joseph Fielding Smith said the following: " Elijah restored to this Church and, if they would receive it, to the world, the keys of the sealing power; and that sealing power puts the stamp of approval upon every ordinance that is done in this Church" (Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 3, p. 129, emphasis added) Through the teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith as confirmed by the scriptures we understand that all who have lived upon this earth are literally children of our Heavenly Father. We are his spirit offspring. He has placed us here upon this earth to gain a physical body, to learn by experience and to have opportunity to accept or reject the teachings and ordinances of his Son Jesus Christ. When we perform these Temple ordinances for our ancestors - we firmly believe that these ancestors are aware of what we are doing in their behalf and they are free to accept or reject this work that we do for them. The LDS Church now has 116 temples operating worldwide and in these temples we perform these important ordinances for our ancestors. President Joseph F. Smith taught this significant doctrine: "Jesus had not finished his work when his body was slain, neither did he finish it after his resurrection from the dead; although he had accomplished the purpose for which he then came to the earth, he had not fulfilled all his work. And when will he? Not until he has redeemed and saved every son and daughter of our father Adam that have been or ever will be born upon this earth to the end of time. . . . That is his mission. We will not finish our work until we have saved ourselves, and then not until we shall have saved all depending upon us; for we are to become saviors upon Mount Zion, as well as Christ. We are called to this mission. The dead are not perfect without us, neither are we without them." - Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed. (1939), 442 Story: I would like to tell you the story of a man who was born over 400 years ago. His name was John Lathrop and he was born 20 Dec 1584 at Etton, Yorkshire, England. He decided at an early age to follow in the footsteps of his father who was a minister in the Church of England. He began his studies at Christ Church College, Oxford University at the age of 18 years. He later transferred to Queens College at Cambridge, England where he received his Bachelor of Art at age 21 years and his Masters of Art at age 25 years. At age 23 years he began his church service as a Deacon in the Church of England at Bennington, Hertfordshire. After graduation at age 25 years he moved to Kent where he became curate or minister over the Parish church of Egerton - just 48 miles SE of London. He served 11 years as clergyman at this parish where the record shows he christened over 200 children, married the youth and presided over burials. It was here that he married Hannah Howse - the daughter of an Anglican minister of a neighboring parish. It was here that four of their children were born. Religious circumstances at this time were such that all Anglican ministers would have had to take the "Oath of Supremacy" which denounces all Papal authority and acknowledges the King of England as the head of the Church. Additionally John Lathrop would have had to teach and abide by the "Act of Uniformity" which establishes the Anglican Prayer Book as the only legal form of worship. By the year 1624, at age 39 years, John Lathrop broke with the Anglican Church and moved back to London to become Pastor of the First Independent Congregation in the Southwark part of London. In the church of England John Lathrop had security and status, but he gave this all up in an effort to follow the more simple forms of worship. He came to deplore the pomp and ceremony of his former church and questioned the authority of his own ordination. The Bishop of London was made aware of his actions and he pursued John Lathrop and the Puritans with zeal. John Lathrop and his congregation were forced to meet in secret. John was at the heart of the Puritan reform and was tried and imprisoned for his actions. He spent two years in prison, enduring terrible conditions, but would not renounce his beliefs or agree to cease his preaching. John's family bargained for his release - that he be freed on the condition that he emigrate to New England and never to return. This was agreed upon and John and his family along with at least thirty of John's original congregation took their journey in 1634 and settled in Barnstable on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Here John Lathrop became a prominent colonial minister teaching the scriptures and the simpler forms of worship. He was instrumental in bringing about Christian reform and died at age 69 in the year 1653. Notable Descendants: John Lathrop helped pave the way for the restoration of this Church. His humility, dedication and faithfulness had far reaching effects. Many of his descendants are found among the early members of the LDS church. It is estimated that some 25% of the original church membership descend from John Lathrop. Most notable is Joseph Smith. John Lathrop is Joseph Smith's 5th great-grandfather! Other prominent members include: Parley P. Pratt and his brother Orson, Wilford Woodruff, Fredrick G. Williams, Joseph F. Smith, Harold B. Lee, N. Eldon Tanner, Marion G. Romney and H. Burke Peterson. You will be interested to know that our current President of the United States, George W. Bush, is also a descendant of John Lathrop. There may be some within the sound of my voice who also are descendants of this good man. Each of us descends from a line of perhaps equally notable ancestry. Each of us has a great-great-grandfather or perhaps a 5th great-grandfather who lived an honest life but was not able to embrace the gospel in its fullness because it was not to be found upon the earth. Ours is a great responsibility to seek out these ancestors, to spend the time and effort to discover their names and their stories, and to see that they receive the blessings of the gospel through temple ordinances performed vicariously on their behalf. A New Commandment: I remember as a young teenager listening to April General Conference in 1976 when we had two new revelations added to our scriptures. It is interesting to note the subject matter of these two revelations. 1) Joseph Smith's vision of the Celestial Kingdom - Section 137 of the D&C. 2) Joseph Fielding Smith's vision of the redemption of the dead - Section 138 of D&C. Later in 1976 Elder Bruce R. McConkie, one of the 12 Apostles, made some important statements regarding these new additions to our scriptures. After expounding on the doctrine of Salvation for the Dead he made a pint that I shall not easily forget. He read John 13:34 "A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another" and then made the point that this was well into his ministry and certainly not the first time that Christ had taught this principle. Elder McConkie explained that in a similar manner the doctrine of Salvation for the Dead is not new to us but is being taught "anew" to us. He explained that in effect it is a new commandment for us - that we redeem our dead. Story: Experience of Elder Wilford Woodruff in the Saint George Temple "The spirits of the dead gathered around me, wanting to know why we did not redeem them. Said they, 'You have had the use of the Endowment House for a number of years, and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we remained true to it and were faithful to God.' These were the signers of the Declaration of Independence [of the United States of America], and they waited on me for two days and two nights. I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon Brother McAllister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Columbus, and others" (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, sel. G. Homer Durham [1946], 160-61). We learn from this event that many of our ancestors anxiously await to be discovered, documented and have their temple ordinances completed. Sometimes we wonder whether they really want to be found - but be assured that they do. Advances in Genealogy: Elder Boyd K. Packer in 1977 spoke to Regional Representatives and explained his vision of the future as it pertains to Family History work. Then: 1) Name extraction then by church employees - vision: church members worldwide assisting in this work. 2) Individual Entries & Marriage Entries, Ward Examiners - vision: simpler ways clear your own names. 3) "Airline reservation system" like access to computerized records of temple records. Today: 1) Thousands of members are involved worldwide -Family Record Extraction Program. This is the source of the names we are given when we do Temple File. 2) Temple name submission is now simpler and quicker- Temple Ready. 3) World wide access - FamilySearch.org web site- IGI updated within days. Temple Growth: In 1880 there were about 160,000 and there were four Temples in operation. Today we have 12 million members and 116 Temples in operation. If we had the same Temple to member ratio as in 1880 we would have over 250 Temples in operation. Brigham Young prophesied (Discourses of Brigham Young pg. 394) that there would one day be thousands of Temple to dot the land. If this is so then why don't we as a church select sites by the hundreds and commence building those temples now? Quote: Boyd K. Packer said the following in 1977: "Why not select sites by the hundreds and commence to build those temples now? I answer by asking some questions. Should we commence to build those temples, what good would it do? How would we keep them open? What names would we use? What work would we do?" He goes on to say that we as a church need to do more in the are of temple work if this prophecy is to be fulfilled. Each of us has a responsibility to see that each of our ancestors that we can possibly identify has the opportunity to receive temple blessings. How do I get involved? What resources are available to assist me in this work? Each ward is to have one or more Ward Family History Consultants and one or more Family Record Extraction workers. These Family History workers are to be directed by the High Priest Group Leader in each ward. Most are blessed to have a Family History Center in close proximity. Let me suggest some of the ways in which the LDS church as a whole is currently involved that support and promote this genealogical research effort: 1) Over 4000 Family History Centers worldwide 2) Internet site (FamilySearch.org - one of the most popular on the Internet) with several significant collections of names totaling nearly1 billion names 3) 275 Camera operators operating in 44 countries - microfilming records 4) Granite mountain vault - in one of the canyons near SLC - master copies kept here 5) Largest Family History Library in the world - 2.4 million rolls of microfilm, 7K microfiche and a sizable collection of books as well. Over 60,000 rolls added each year. 6) Name extraction (FREP) occurring in most of the 2000+ stakes in the church 7) Genealogical software (Personal Ancestral File) available for free Internet download. In a recent conference address Elder Russell M. Nelson said: "This restoration was accompanied by what is sometimes called the Spirit of Elijah - a manifestation of the Holy Ghost bearing witness of the divine nature of the family. Hence, people throughout the world, regardless of religious affiliation, are gathering records of deceased relatives at an ever-increasing rate." - April 1998 Conference In 1894, the same year that the Genealogical Society of Utah was formed, many Church members did not fully understand the responsibility for their own kindred. President Wilford Woodruff was so concerned that he made the issue a matter of fervent prayer. Then, at the April 1894 general conference, he presented a revelation to the membership of the Church." He said "We want the Latter-day Saints from this time to trace their genealogies as far as they can, and to be sealed to their fathers and mothers. Have children sealed to their parents, and run this chain through as far as you can get it. . . . This is the will of the Lord to his people." - James R. Clark, Messages of the 1st Presidency [Bookcraft, 1966], vol. 3, pp. 256-57 Perhaps you have felt the spirit of Elijah [intense desire to discover and know our ancestors. When this occurs we begin to "turn our hearts" as described in the book of Malachi. As a church we challenge our members to be actively involved in searching out our ancestors throughout our lives. We also invite our friends and neighbors from the community to take advantage of these resources that are provided. We are excited to share with all the excitement we feel - and this without cost and without regard to religious persuasion. Now - we are gathered here this today to be instructed in various aspects of this important Family History work. There are many details that we need to be aware of in order to accomplish this work well and to do it accurately. Many of these skills will be reviewed here today. We are grateful to those who have and will provide instruction and for each of you for being here. May each us feel of the Spirit of Elijah as we participate together today. The tools and procedures for performing research will change over the years - but the spirit of the work and the end result - to see that our ancestors receive these saving ordinances in the holy Temple will remain the same. Let us remember that there is divine help - even help from beyond the veil - that is available as we prayerfully approach this work. Conclusion - Story of Couple: I mentioned when I began the story of the couple that I was able to help get started in their Family History efforts. Shortly thereafter I was called to serve in another assignment and missed that opportunity to serve at the Family History Center. About a year later I was invited back to speak to a group of Family History Center workers and was surprised to see my friends there. I later spoke with the FHC director who told me they were now serving on the staff and had been recently baptized. I was pleased to learn that in some small way to play a part in that event. What a glorious reunion it will be when we meet our great-grandparents and other ancestors

LOTHROP, Reverend John (I30811)

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This name was anciently written Tollmache and Tollemache, and the coat-of-arms used by the family is ascribed to Thomas Talmage, of Long Island.[1] The crest may, be seen in Crests of Great Britain (vol. 2, plate 19, crest 13).

I. Thomas TALMAGE was from County Southampton, England[2], and had brothers William and John. William came in Winthrop's fleet, in 1630, and settled in Boston, where he was made freeman in 1643, later becoming an inhabitant at Lynn, same State. John was a husbandman living in Newton Stacey, County Southampton, England, who died, apparently without issue, leaving his estate to his nephews. Thomas Talmage came to New England, according to some authorities, in 1631 in the ship Plough, which carried ten passengers.[3] Another has it that he, too, came with Governor Winthrop in 1630.

He landed first at Charlestown, settling later at Lynn, where he is mentioned as farmer as early at 1630.[4] Was admitted freeman 14 May 1634--at Boston, apparently.[5] In 1638, he was possessed of two hundred acres, of land at Lynn, his son Thomas owning twenty.[6] In the Proprietors' Book for that year, his name is recorded. Many of the original settlers of Lynn went to Southampton, Long Island[7], which was founded in 1640. There we find that Thomas Talmage acquired land in October 1642[8], and was listed among its inhabitants as late as 10 March 1649[9], being made freeman there two days previously. His house-lot was granted him in 1642, and in 1651 land at Runney Marsh became his.[10] We do not find him on record there later.

It is thought that he left about 1650, for East Hampton, of which place his son Thomas had become a founder. For absence from town meeting at East Hampton, he was fined 24 May 1651.[11] He probably died in 1653, for on 9 December 1653, the town records show that it was ordered that the share of whale in controversary between Widowe Talmage shall be divided even as the lott is, and in February next, Thomas Talmage, no Sen. or Jr. signed to the name, was given five acres of land.

Also there is a record of a Thomas Talmage, sr., deceased, and a Thomas mentioned on the same page As living, though no junior is attached to the name.[12] We have found record of the name of his wife. In the early records the family name was variously spelled, and among the many descendants scattered throughout the United States today, it appears as Talmage, Tallmage, Talmadge, Tallmadge, etc. Numbered among the descendants of Thomas Talmage are many illustrious soldiers and statesmen of our country, as well as a host of respectable, law biding, and prosperous citizens whose names have not been enrolled on the scrolls of fame.

CHILDREN,[13]

Simon, who died without issue.
William; was of Boston 1630, in that part known as Muddy River. He was a carpenter.
Thomas; lived at Boston, Lynn, and Southampton. Married Elizabeth Bancroft. He was a captain. His will was proved in 1691.
Robert; married Sarah NASH.
Jane; married Richard Walker.
Christian; married (1) William Wornam. Admitted to Boston First Church, 1646. Married (2), about 1650, Edward Belcher, of Boston. She had two daughters by her first marriage. Edward Belcher was an original member of the First Church at Boston.
David, born 1630.

Robert TALMAGE

II. Robert TALMAGE, came from England, when a young man.-- His uncle, John Talmage, of Newton Stacey, Hants, England, left legacies to him and his brothers and brothers-in-law, and on 3 September 1640, at Boston, Massachusetts, they all signed a letter granting power of attorney to Ralph King, of Watford, authorizing him to get their portions from the overseers. It is claimed Robert Talmage was one of the original purchasers of the New Haven settlement in 1639, and was made freeman there, 1 July 1644. However, he is recorded also as being in Southampton, Long Island, 7 March 1644.

He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Margery (Baker) NASH, original settlers at New Haven. She was born in England, and was living on 30 June 1687 when her brother, Major John Nash, made his -will and left her a legacy as the "Widow Talmage."[14]

Robert Talmage died in 1662, the invoice of his estate being taken on 3 October that year.[15] It was estimated at £131, 14s. In the list of proprietors of New Haven in 1685, appears: "Robert Talmage's heirs."[16]

Robert and Sarah Talmage were the ancestors of many prominent men of the name. Third in descent was Captain James Talmadge, of the Connecticut family, and in the fourth generation was Reverend Benjamin Talmage, of Brookhaven, Long Island.[17] Descended from them, also, was Colonel Benjamin Talmadge, officer on the staff of General Washington during the greater part of the Revolutionary War. He was considered to be one of the handsomest men in the Revolutionary Army; was born in Brooklyn, 1754; graduated 1773, receiving the degree of A. M. from Yale College in 1778. He was in charge of separate detachments for special service in the War, receiving his orders directly from the great Commander-in-Chief, himself.

Major Andre, the British spy, was delivered to Major Tallmadge, and remained in his custody until the day of his execution, 2 October 1780. He accompanied the unfortunate prisoner to the gallows, and witnessed the execution. Years afterwards he wrote: I became so deeply attached to Major Andre that I can remember no instance when my affections were so fully absorbed in any man. When I saw him swinging under the gallows, it seemed for a time as if I could not support it. Major Talmage was an original member of the Cincinnati Society. His son, Frederick Augustus Talmage, was Congressman in 1847, 1849.[18]

CHILDREN of Robert and Sarah, born in New Haven:[19]

Abigail, born 3, baptized 13, May 1649.
Thomas, born 17, baptized 20, October 1650. He was a lieutenant. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Alsop, jr., who was born 22 June 1650.[20]
Sarah, born 19 September 1652, baptized same day; married Samuel HOTCHKISS.
John, born 11 September 1654; died April 1690. He married -18 November 1686, Abigail, daughter of James and Mary (Lamberton) Bishop, born 30 October 1658.
Enos (Enoch), born 4 October 1656; married 9 May 1682, Hannah Yale.[21]
Mary, born 2 September 1659; died 6 December 1678.

Sarah TALMAGE

III. Sarah TALMAGE, born 19 September 1652 in New Haven, was married there, 18 March 1678, by her uncle, Mr. John Nash, to Samuel HOTCHKISS.[22]

For continuation of this family line please click her for the HOTCHKISS biography.
SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)

TALMADGE, Thomas (I30081)

16454

This Osgood History is compiled by Franklin's wife Alice Ann Bawden Barney. Information used from A Genealogy of Descendants of John, Christopher, and William Osgood, by Eben Putnam, Salem Press: 1894.

The name Osgood is of Saxon or Norse origin and in derivation may perhaps be compared with Osbert, Osmund, etc. The syllable Os in Angle Saxon means, "God"—eg. Osbert, as Handsome as a God. The first syllable I am not sure of, unless it may mean what it does now, and the whole name signify as good as a god; it may be Ostgod—a good host.

The Osgoods for a century or more before the emigration of John Osgood belonged to the yeomanry (farmers) a class which...did not make much noise in the world...not often recorded in the annals of time. There is no warrant for assuming that there was any near consanguinity* of blood between these three early Osgood emigrants to New England. John Osgood was from Herwell, Hampshire, England; Christopher Osgood of Ipswich, Massachusetts, from Malborough, Wiltshire, England. While in regard to the English home of William Osgood of Salisbury, nothing definite is known.

Mr. Harrison of the College of Arms transmitted a copy of a pedigree in a private collection there to author Putnam. Harrison say s in transmitting it, "I believe Christopher was the name of the father of Christopher, William and Mary and as the name is an uncommon one, I would suggest that Christopher of Salisbury was father of Christopher of Marlborough and grandfather of Christopher of Ipswich. It would appear from the pedigree that this branch of the family is extinct in England, in the male line. •Consanguinity means relationship by descent from

On referring to the parish register of St. Mary's in Marlborough, Wilts, England, which begins in 1602, I find the following entries: Baptized, 17 March 1632\3, Mary, daughter of Christopher Osgood; married, 21 April 1632 Christopher Osgood and Mary Everatt; Married 28 July 1633, Christopher Osgood and Margery Fowler; Buried 21 April 1633. Mary Osgood" (Putnam 5).

Christopher's and Margery's daughter, Deborah, married John Russ.

From his will:
I Christopher Osgood of Ipswich being the same ancestor, blood relationship. weake in body but of perfect understanding and memory do committ my soule into the hands of my redeemer, an concerning that little estate the Lord hath lent me this is my last will and testament. First, I do give unto my eldest daughter, Mary Osgood, ten pounds to be paid her or her husband on her day of marriage and to my other three daughters, Abigail, Elizabeth and Deborah five pounds to each of them to be paid to them and every one of them at or upon their respective days of marriage...memorandum which was forgotten, my will is that my oldest daughter marry not without the desire of my wife and the consent of my overseers and that my younger daughters marry not without the consent of their mother and the advice of the overseers if it may be had, and that their several portions be paid unto them when they shall attain the age of twenty years if they be not married before that age.

OSGOOD, Deborah (I21830)

16455

This person appears to be the victim of bad merges. Who is she? Clearly she is not the daughter of Alan b. 1185 (if she was born in 1141). Previously confused with Constance, Duchess of Brittany, she (as such) could not b the daughter of Alan b. 1116 (he was her grandfather). The parent links are "Read Only", so fixing this could take a little work. Any v olunteers? Please keep her separate from the Duchess, p. L176-Z3B.

BRETAGNE, Countess Constance (I27840)

16456

This person is referenced as Elizabeth Letitia HIGGENBOTHAM by Mrs. Lesler. Mrs. Peery references her as Letitia Louise HIGGINBOTHAM. Using Mrs. Peery's references, as she was married to Joseph Stras PEERY.

HIGGINBOTHAM, Elizabeth Letitia Louise (I47242)

16457

This Philip Scudamore is noted by Warren Skidmore to have married a first unknown wife before his marriage to Agnes Huntercombe about 1390. Philip is said to have served in the wars against France. He is the first Scudamore to live at Holme Lacy. He died in 1919 holding a third part of Burnham in Bucks; the avowson of Eton Church and certain lands there; rents from Windsor Castle, and the advowson of Beaconsfield Church, as well as his holding at Holme Lacy in Herefordshire. The Scudamores of the Holme Lacy line continued until 1820.

SCUDMORE, Philip (I56123)

16458

SCUDMORE, Philip (I70599)

16459

This pioneer cabin was the summer home of William Sears and Sarah Reeves Riggs, my Great-grandparents. Roselia Riggs, my Grandmother, lived here as a child with her parents. It was located in Garfield County, Utah in a valley north of Bryce Canyon near the East Fork of the Sevier River, and was known as "Flake Bottom". The beautiful Escalante Mountain (Aquarius Plateau) lies behind it to the east.

Sometime in the 1870's-1880's the Riggs family owned and operated a dairy farm on the flats at this location, where they lived and sold milk and cheese during the summer months. During the winter they lived in Panguitch.

My Grandmother, Rose Riggs Ahlstrom, told the story that when she was a very little girl, a group of about a hundred Indians once stopped at the ranch and camped near this cabin. To keep the peace with them, her Father William Riggs gave them a young beef, which they butchered and roasted. While they were feasting, they danced and yelled all night, frightening little Rose and her sister nearly to death. But when morning came, the Indians had quietly disappeared, leaving nothing but a few cleanly-picked bones and the grass from the cow's stomach.

This is a copy of the original painting which I made from a picture I took of the cabin in 1979, around a hundred years later.
Sherrie Ahlstrom Hundley

(The cabin is no longer there)

William Sears Riggs, my Grandfather, was born 19 March 1830 to John Riggs and Mary Gilman. His brothers and sisters were: Henry, America, Samuel, John Lyle, Amanda, Malinda, Andrew Jackson, Mary and Joseph. The first four children were born in Kentucky and the rest in Indiana and Illinois.

When William was about 20 years of age, he and his brother, John Lyle, left their home to go to California during the gold rush. John Lyle became ill and returned home, but William joined up with a group of Mormon immigrants and crossed the plains with them, arriving in Salt Lake City in the year 1850.
(Film No. 298441)

Being in need of funds to continue his journey, he obtained work in Salt Lake City. A man by the name of David Savage hired him and another man, George Hager, to assist him in leading a group of immigrants who had just crossed the plains to a plot of ground near where Lehi, Utah is now located, to help them build cabins and settle there for the winter.
(Lehi Centennial History, 977, 244l, L1H2L)

Thirteen cabins were built as well as most of their furniture. My Grandfather William, occupied a cabin with David Savage, his wife and a daughter Amanda. Mr. Hager was and miner and left during the winter for California.

During the winter, on 15 February 1851, there arrived in the community a man whose name was David Evans, who was destined to play a part in the growth of the community for many years. He had previously been ordained a Bishop in Nauvoo by Joseph Smith and had now been sent by Brigham Young to preside over this group of Saints of Dry Creek, as they had named this community. While living in this Mormon community, William was converted to the gospel of Mormonism and was baptized in June 1852 by David Evans and confirmed by Israel Evans.

The first winter was quite severe. The cabins were mostly one or two rooms, with walls 7 feet high, and a leaky roof made of dirt and willows. A sod fireplace in one room served for heat and cooking. Quilts were tacked over windows and doors to let in light and keep out the cold, which function they performed imperfectly. Furniture was made from materials on hand.

William, after having joined the Church, gave up the idea of going to California and remained in Utah, and finally traveled to Southern Utah, where he was instrumental in helping to build up the towns there. He lived in Toquerville, Panguitch, Kanarraville, Henrieville, Cedar City and St. George.

On 1 February 1855, he was married to Sarah Reeves at Cedar City, Utah. Their marriage was later solemnized in the St. George Temple on 3 November 1857. Sarah Reeves was the daughter of William Reeves and Frances Long.

William and Sarah were the parents of ten children, namely Sarah Frances, Mary Elizabeth, Melissa Ann, Carolyn Jane (who died in infancy), Emma Lovina, William Reeves, Andrew Jackson, Amanda Ellen, Melinda Isabella, and Roselia. These children, with the exception of one, all lived to a good ripe age. They raised large families and were good honest people.

My Grandparents, William and Sarah spent the early part of their married life in Cedar City and nearby towns. William operated a grist mill at Kanarra for several years. In 1871, he moved his family to Panguitch, Utah and helped to build up that town. He was one of the main carpenters and helped erect the Stake Tabernacle and many other buildings and homes. He was a fine carpenter and most of my Mother's furniture in her early married life was made by him. Many of these pieces of furniture I remember as a child at home.

During the time he lived in Panguitch, he held many Church positions, in
1879-1881 he was a member of the High Council.

The children were all married now except Melinda and my Mother, Roselia. Taking his wife and two daughters, he moved to a small town Henrieville, Utah, and in 1892 was called to the Bishopric.

On 16 April 1893, Sarah died at the early age of 56 years. Roselia and her Father were left alone now and they went to Escalante, Utah and stayed with two of his married daughters, Amanda and Emma for a while.

On 30 September 1896, my Mother Roselia was married and Grandfather William sold his property and made his home with his children. Most of the time with Mother. He was a great help to her as my Father Frank's work kept him away from home a good deal of the time. Grandpa helped with the chores, feeding the animals, etc. He especially helped with the small children. I remember how he used to hold us on his lap and rock us in his favorite rocking chair, untying our shoe laces (which were usually tied in hard knots) at night, and carrying us upstairs to bed.

He loved music and played the violin. Everyday, when the morning chores were done and breakfast over, he would bring out his violin and play for us and for his own enjoyment. He knew countless songs. His voice was a deep, resonant bass and he would sing many songs for us, folk songs, humorous songs, ballads, etc. One we loved was about an old black crow. We loved to hear it. He and Mother would blend their voices together, and it was very nice. Later, as I learned to play the organ and piano, he would have me accompany his playing.

Grandfather William was a very distinguished looking man. His once black hair was now white, he had a small white beard and gray eyes. He was of average height and walked with a cane. I never heard him speak a cross word to anyone, and never saw him angry. He always had a good word to say of everyone he knew and everyone who knew him loved and respected him.

He made his home with my Mother and Dad, except for short periods, for at least 27 years, and they were so good to him. In his declining years, Mother cared for his every need. She was patient and kind to him. There was never an unkind word spoken between them.

He died 15 May 1923 at Panguitch, Utah. He had lived 30 years after his wife died. At the time of his death, he had 8 living children, 83 grandchildren, 152 great-grandchildren, 22 great-great-grandchilden. As of today, that number has greatly multiplied.

My Mother Roselia will be blessed for the wonderful, loving care she gave to her aged Father.
Mary Reva Ahlstrom Davenport

We don't have a history of my Grandmother, Sarah Reeves. Her family came from England for the Gospel. Mother said she was a small woman, with dark hair and eyes and spoke with a British accent. She raised eight black haired daughters and two sons. She died 16 April 1893 at age 56. She and William are buried at Henrieville, Utah.

REEVES, Sarah (I54230)

16460

This record is preserved in Stillwell's Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol 3, page 600:
"1667, July 11. Edward Burrus, Richd Fletcher and others were present at the purchase of lands, from the Indians, in New Jersey (Monmouth Co.) , by O. Bruen, Samuel Kitchell and Robert Denison , from New London, and Michael Tompkins and John Brown , Sr., of Milford, the deed for which was signed this date, and which lands were bounded Eastward by the Bay; Northward by the River Pesayak and Westward to the foot of the great mountain, Watchung."

Historical and Genealogical Miscellany,: New York and New Jersey, Vol. 3

In 1683, Edward Burroughs , of Jamaica, Long Island , was assessed for five acres of land and one cow, in that village.

Daughter, Mary , wife of Edward Burroughs , received 5 shillings.

1705, Sept. 21. Thomas Okely , of Jamaica , Gentleman, bound to Thomas Burroughs , of Jamaica , of this date, for £1400. A marriage is intended shortly to be consummated between Thomas Okely and Mary , widow of the late Edward Burroughs , of Jamaica

1705-6, Mch. 2. The inventory of the personal estate of Edward Burroughs was sworn to on this date, and exhibited by Mary Okely , widow of Edward Burrows , deceased, and Thomas Burroughs , the executors of the will, and amounted to £700-14-10 1/2.

Will Date
1 Mar 1705
Location
Jamaica Long Island, New York
Description
Mentions Wife Mary, sons John, Edward, Eden, Thomas, Steven, daus Rachel, Hannah, Unis; signs it Edward Burrus

Transcription of text
Page 236 EDWARD BURRUS. In the name of God, Amen. this lst day of March 1704/5, I, Edward Burrus of Jamaica, in Queens County, being very sick in body, do make this my last will. I leave to my son John Burrus all the tract of land which lyeth near Pilgrim's Harbor in the County of Hartford in Connecticutt. I leave to my sons Edward and Eden all that tract of land lying at a place called Maidenhead near Jacobus creek to be equally divided. I leave to my son Thomas all that tract of land that lyeth over against his house in Jamaica, and he is to pay to his three sisters Hannah Newman Rachel Hengins and Unis Linus, £8 each. I leave to my wife Mary, for her life, my now dwelling house and lot and the meadow belonging to it, and after her death, to my son Steven. All the land that I have made a purchase of that is not yet fully completed I give to all my children. I make my wife and my son Thomas executors. Witnesses Joseph Smith Jr, ____ Ruscoe, Robert Read. Proved before Lord Cornbury, March 27, 1704.

Detail
1665-1707, page 403

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Abstracts of wills on file in the Surrogate's office, city of New York

HIGBEE, Mary (I40000)

16461

BURROWS, Edward (I42984)

16462

This story has a lot of grammatical errors and misspellings. This was written in his own words.

First I will give the names of my progenitors and so show my descent as far as I can. Isaac Emery, who was born on or near the 10th of October, 1763, in Loversall, new Doncaster, County of York, was the 7th son of Frances and Mary Emery. He was married when about 21 years old to a woman by the name of Love Archer, born March 21, 1757 in London, (being put in the London foundling hospital) whose parents she never knew. To them (Isaac and Love Emery) were born the following children: Sarrah (in Balby) on or near the 22nd of March 1784, Mary in 1786, George, August 4, 1792, Thomas January 29, 1795, David near 1800 and died when 2 years old in Balby, near Doncaster, also George, Mary and Thomas were born in the same place. There was also William born between Sarrah and Mary and died as soon as he was born and named.
The following are the names of the children of the above names Frances and Mary Emery. Thomas who went from England to America; Francis who was married and had some children who were living in Crowle in 1847; David who also lived and had children born unto him; George who was for a time in the army during the reign of George the 3rd, King of Great Britain and Ireland. He was married and had 2 children called Alexander, who died about his 34 year; and George Emery - he died about 1836 in Loversall near Doncaster, County of York, England, where he left his daughter married to one George Hepworth, who was gardener for Esquire Cook of the place. Valentine and Orson who were twins died in their infancy and the 7th was called Isaac, whom I have named in the preceding page. He died on the 3rd of October 1840, also his wife, Love Emery, died on the 5th of February 1837, about the 78th year of her age. Sarrah Emery, the firstborn of Isaac and Love was married to George Buckley and bore him a daughter and called her name Ann. Ann was married to Robert Marsh and bore several children to him. Mary, the second born of Isaac and Love was married to one Hirst of Wakefield and born to him several children amongst whom were George, Benjamin and Rebecca. Benjamin died when about 20 years old, and his mother, Mary, died about the year 1820. Thomas, the 4th born, never was married, but died in London about the year 1839 or 40; and George Emery, the 3rd born, was my father.

I will now introduce my mother's progenitors. My mother's fathers name was David Rhodes and his father and mother's names were Isaac and Rebecca Rhodes. This David Rhodes married a woman whose name was Fanny Seaton, and she was a descendant of William Seaton as follows: To William Seaton was born Robert Seaton and to him (Robert) were born the above named Fanny, Edith, William, Robert, John and Sarrah. Now to Edith were born Danice and Henry. To John were born Robert, Henry, Charles and Emma. Robert, son of John was married and went to live in Nottingham and died there. Henry was married and went to live in Sheffield, but Charles hanged himself through courtship when about 23 or 24 years old. Emma was married to Richard Crowcroft and bore several children to him. Now Fanny Seaton, daughter to Robert Seaton and granddaughter to William Seaton, was married to the forenamed David Rhodes and to them were born Isaac, Betsey, Frances (my mother), George and Mary. (My mother was born July 7, 1795). After this David died and Fanny was married to William Tyas and bore him Matilda, Maria and Thomas. After this she died. Isaac Rhodes was married and to him were born George, Mary Ann, Elisa and Martha, and David (oldest). Betsey was married to John Brunton and bore to him George, John (who died when about 9 years old), Harriet, Dodson, and Isaac (who was born January 28, 1828 and died August 18, 1847 and Elisabeth.

When George Rhodes, son of Fanny and David Rhodes , enlisted in the army, being in about 22 years. He died being about 48 years old. Mary Rhodes was married to one Thomas in Liverpool, England, and bore him a daughter. Thomas Tyas was married and had several children. Matilda Tyas was married to James Herring and bore him a daughter; also, Maria Tyas had several children among whom were Frederic and Sarrah Ann.

Now George Emery, son of Isaac and Love Emery, as before said, was married to the forenamed Frances Rhodes, daughter of David and Fanny Rhodes on the 1st of April 1816. To them were born the following children: Fanny (born April 3, 1818 and died April 4 1820), Isaac (born July 10, 1820. He was put prentice to William Thompson when about 16 years old to learn shoe making, and in July 1841 he enlisted into the 53rd regiment of foot and was sent to Edinburgh Barracks. He stayed there awhile and then volunteered into the 10th regiment of foot and was sent to Fort William, Calcutta, Bengal, East Indies, where he died on December 15, 1844), George (born December 6, 1822 and died November 9, 1837), Henry (born August 5, 1825), Ann (born July 9, 1827 and died September 24, 1828. And second Fanny (born August 27, 1831 and died on September 11, 1831. The pre-named Frances Emery, wife to George Emery was born July 7, 1795 and died September 13, 1831.

After this George Emery was married to Elisa Hampson, who was born February 17, 1813. They were married December 10, 1834. They were both baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the year 1841. He was ordained a deacon the same year and she was ordained to be a midwife in the year 1845 under the hands of Patriarch John Albiston. They both continued in the church, and on January 17, 1848, sold up their good and removed to the land of Zion.
I, Henry Emery, son of George and Frances Emery, as before stated was born on August 5, on the fifth hour of the day in the year 1825. At the age of 6 years and 1 month I was deprived of mother by death, and when 6 years and about ½ I was put to the business of chimney sweeping and was at it until I was about 12 years old, at which time I was put to the National School where I was about 2 years. I then left and soon after went to the business of gardener to William Ellison in the town of Doncaster, County of York, England.

Doncaster, where I was when I heard the fullness of the everlasting gospel preached, on this wise: A man who was by trade a bottle hawker came to the town, and he, by some means or other got into our house, and had a good deal of talk with my second mother. He told her much about the gifts of the spirit. My mother was much delighted with it, and when I came home to dinner, she began to preach to me. I heard all she said, but said little. After dinner I went back to the garden, and I remembered a sermon which I had heard a few Sundays previous treating on false prophets coming in the last days, and if possible should deceive the very elect. Well, I thought these must be they and have come professing to work miracles. I remembered I thanked God a many times that afternoon and spoke to my fellow laborers showing them that it was so, but it was different with my mother. She seemed to rejoice in it and I, having been forbidden to speak at home without being spoken to, did not open my mind; so in a few weeks after a gentleman whose name is Stephen Nixon and who was an elder in the church, came to Doncaster, my mother received him into our house. At night he preached in a room which was occupied by the society called "aitkinites". I went to hear him preach, and he showed that the ordinance of water baptism was to be administered to adults and not to children and that it was to be immersion in the name of Jesus Christ. Whosoever would obey from the heart these things should receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The next day my mother and several others were baptized and had great joy. I think it would be about the month of August in the year 1841. I could not say anything against the doctrines, but continued reading my Bible. In about a month after this Mr. Nixon came again and brought with him one Mr. Alfred Cordon, during whose stay at our house I was baptized for the remission of sins and in obedience to the commandment of God. I was baptized by Stephen Nixon on August 22, year of our Lord 1841.

I continued in the church, and on May 7, 1844, I was ordained a Priest in the church even the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints under the hands of the High Priest James Sloan and Elder Edwin Senior. Having now received this authority, I felt more and more my own weakness; nevertheless, according to my day the Lord helped me and I did as well as I could, but yet I know that if I had been faithful, the Lord would have been able to have made me a more useful man; soon or about 15 months after this I received a patriarchal blessing from John Albiston which is as follows:
Patriarchal blessing given by Patriarch John Albiston on the 19th of July 1845, at Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, upon the head of Brother Henry Emery. My beloved brother, I lay my hands upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ and by authority of the Holy Priesthood pronounce upon thy head the blessing of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Inasmuch as thou hast joined the true church and given thyself unto the Lord and honored him in the blessed ordinance of baptism thou art a new creature in Christ Jesus in the everlasting covenant with faithful Abraham and his servant in the holy priesthood is witness to thine adoption into the family of kingdom of God. Thou hast a title unto all the blessings of heaven and earth as a joined heir with Jesus Christ who is become thine Elder Brother. Thou has received light and life of the truth given unto thee by the Spirit of God which shall grow up to perfection in the Lord. Thou shalt be blessed with a righteous crown as a due reward unto thee for thy faithful labors wherewith Almighty God, the Father, shall bless thee with laboring for thou shalt become mighty in the truth in pulling down of the strongholds of sin and Satan and be a builder up of the little flock in truth and righteousness out of the treasury of the Lord. Thou shalt be furnished with things new and old. Knowledge shall be given thee and wisdom guide thy steps and in the Lord's own due time thou shalt receive the greater priesthood and be sent out by authority of the Holy Priesthood as an ambassador even in the gathering of scattered Judah and Israel and behold the power of God magnified in the gathering. Thou shalt have many seals to thy ministry and return unto Zion bringing thy sheaves with thee which shall be the crown of thy rejoicing in the day of the Lord: and with the meek of the earth thou shalt share in a blessed inheritance in lands that shall yield their abundant increase flocks and continued herds shall be added unto thee and thou shall have thy vine and olive yards to eat the fruit of them. Thou shalt also be a true worshiper in the Temple of the Lord and behold His glory and be greatly delighted with the assembly of ancient worthy patriarchs and prophets of old and see the ancient of days and sit and behold the glorious coming of thy blessed Redeemer and His Holy angels with him. Thou shalt join the church of the firstborn and live in the great millennium with thy blesses Redeemer. Thou art of the faithful seed of Abraham and I seal these blessings upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ even so Amen and Amen.

During the summer I went a good few times to a small village about 3 ½ miles from Doncaster called Levy Tagg to preach the gospel; also, I visited Mattersae several times, a place where Elder Gland Rodger was laboring; also, according to Elder H. Cuerdon's request, to a village about 16 miles from Doncaster called Crowle and preached to which place I went a good few times after to fill up the vacancy of Brother and Elder George Robins when he could not attend. Also, I went once a week for a good few weeks with Elder Gland Rodger to a village 4 miles from Doncaster called Armthorpe where he preached and received opposition, but baptized none, yet there was a brother there named George Smith. (The man who opposed Elder Rodger in Armthourpe was called Field, by trade a tailor and lived in Doncaster). Also, I went with him to West Woodside in Lincolnshire and from there we went to Mattersea and from there to Finningly and from Finningly I went home to Doncaster. On the 23rd day of October the same year I baptized Henry Butterfield who was 22 years old, by trade a chimney sweeper and lived in Doncaster. The next day, 24th I baptized Cordelia Hobson, aged about 50 years, had just come or was coming to live in Doncaster. She had lived in Levy Tagg where her husband worked as a quarry man, but had now got drowned. Therefore, she was leaving. Amy Senior, aged about 9 years, was daughter to Edwin Senior, president of the branch of saints in Doncaster; and Ann Watson, aged about 41 years, was wife of Frederic Watson, plasterer in Doncaster.

On the 25th of the same month, I baptized Mary Ann Butterfield, aged about 20 years, wife of the above named Henry Butterfield, Amelia Stevenson, aged 25 years, wife of James Stevenson Cooper aged 61 years; and Sarrah, wife of John Stevenson, aged 58 years; and on the 6th of same month I baptized Elisabeth Collinson, a washer woman aged 55 years.

On the 10th I baptized Susannah Mason, or often called Susannah Sinkins, wife of Mr. Mason, tailor, aged about 26 years. On the 24th I baptized John McDonald, chimney sweeper, aged near 20 years. On December 2nd I baptized Mary Stones, a servant girl from Armthorpe, aged about 21 years. On the 11th I baptized James Stevenson Cooper, aged near 24 years. On the 25 of January 1846, I baptized George Ardron, a young man aged 19 years, who was prentice to one Mr. Tuke to learn the plumbing and glaziering business. February 1, I baptized Henry Stephenson A. Cooper, aged 17, on April 12th, Sister Elisabeth Smith, wife of Brother George Smith, who at that time were living at Armthorpe. On May 7th, I baptized Hannah Holmes, wife of Matthew Holmes. One June 2nd, I baptized Ann Cottom, aged 14 years.
On or near the 21st of June I left Doncaster to accompany Patriarch John Albiston and be scribe for him through Clitheroe Conference. I overtook him at Bury in Namchester Conference where he gave a number of blessings. We then proceeded to Clitheroe. I walked the distance - about 21 miles.
From there we went to Waddington; from there to Chatburn; from there to Barley; from there to Burnley; from there to Accrington; from there to Blackburn. Then went back again to Bury and gave some more blessings there. We then went to Ashton Under Lyne where Father Albiston's home was and he determined to stop there awhile. So, I left him. On or near the 15th of August, same year, he gave a goodly number of blessings which I wrote as he pronounced them, and I furnished each man and woman with a copy of his or her blessing and most of the blessings that were given through the conference I registered in a register book which book we left in the conference when we left.
I reached Sheffield on August 15, 1840, where I stopped a few days and received a blessing under the hands of Elder Semion Carter from Nauvoo, which caused me greatly to rejoice. I then went to Chesterfield; to see Brother Rodger and went with him the same day to Daly Cross where I preached; then returned to Chesterfield; stopped there a day, then returned to Sheffield and from there to Doncaster where I arrived on the 22nd. On the 6th of September I baptized James Ashton from Royston near Pontefract; by trade he was a pot hawker and was near 64 years old. On January 12, 1847, I baptized Elisa Davison, wife of Thomas Davison, tailor.

I was also rebaptized about the 3rd of this month by Elder Lucius Nelson Scovil by whom I was confirmed and greatly blessed. On the 29th of March, I was ordained to officiate in the office of an elder under the hands of Elders L.N. Scovil and Gland Rodger. Soon after this I went over to Mattersea where I met with Elders Gland Rodger and William Brewerton. We all went to mission and at that time I was requested to preach in the open air and as I had never opened my mouth to speak of the gospel in the open air before, I felt that I was weak, but I knew to a certain extent the great responsibility which rested upon me in having to warn the sons of men with the sound of the everlasting gospel. So I was determined to do the best I could, but, not withstanding my frame, did tremble when I set my foot upon the chair and lifted up my head amongst more than a hundred spectators. I felt that if the earth would open and swallow me up it would be a source of deliverance, but I opened my mouth and spoke of the first principles of the gospel and bore testimony of the great work of God and I felt blessed.
On the 4th of May, I baptized Thomas Holland, a chimney sweeper, aged 23, and on June 1st I baptized George Yeardley, a fish monger who was before baptized, but had been cut off. Also on the same day I baptized Henry Butterfield, chimney sweeper, aged 24 years whom I had baptized before, but who had been cut off; also same day those request of L.N. Scovil, I rebaptized several of the saints in Doncaster among whom were Edward Howard, George Myers, John Bradley, George Ardron, Mary Taylor and Amelia Stevenson, and on the ________day of _________ I baptized Mary Ann Davison, daughter of Thomas Davison, tailor; also soon after this I and Edwin Senior (through the direction of conference) ordained Thomas Davison to act as priest in the Church of Jesus Christ and I and Elder Senior and William Brewerton ordained George Yeardley a priest who used to go with me to preach at Marmsworth.
About this time William Brewerton was sent by Crandall Dunn to labor in and round about Doncaster, so I accompanied him as much as possible and we went once a week to Skellow which is about 6 miles off; also we went to Bentley once a week and held a meeting at home on Wednesday nights but when we had done this awhile we appointed that we and other officers should preach more extensively on Sunday; we divided ourselves into 3 companies. I and one of the priests on Sunday went to Wadsworth, from there to Edlington; from there to Warmsworth, preaching at each place and then returned home. Then next Sunday we went to Hampole; from there to Skellow; from there to Adwic-le-Street and then returned home. Then next Sunday we stopped at home and preached there and the other companies followed us and did as we did. Thus we did while it began to be too cold to preach out of doors and there were only 2 baptized, and they lived in Skellow.
On November 21, I baptized Thomas Lindley, a chimney sweeper, aged 17 years. Soon after this, I began more particularly to prepare for going to the land of Zion. I went over to Mattersea to bid the saints there adieu until I had seen the land of Zion and preached to them and felt a great portion of God's spirit while I spoke. Then I went over to Sheffield Conference which was held December 20, 1847. I saw Elder Crandall Dunn. He told me we might go to America, but he would like me to stay a short time in England, but he said as my father was advanced in years, I was to see how his mind was about it. I came home and told my parents, and they were much grieved at what I told them. I wrote E.C. Dunn, and he told me to go with them, so we settled all our affairs in righteousness, and on the 17th of January, 1848, sold off our household furniture, beds, etc., and gave up our house. On Wednesday the 19th of the same month and year, we left the town of my nativity, not knowing that any of us would ever see it again while time should last.

We arrived in Sheffield same day and were welcomely received by my Uncle William Straw. On the 26th, I went out to Chesterfield with Elder Crandall Dunn where we met Elder Gland Rodger who was presiding there. Brother Dunn preached at night and then told me to stop a short while there until nearer the time of sailing to America. On the night of the 30th, I preached there. On February 1, 1848, I walked with Brother Rodger 2 or 3 miles on his journeys, and then bade him farewell. I then went back and took dinner with Brother John Maiden. Then I walked 3 or 4 miles with Brother William Brewerton on his journey, and then bade him farewell and then returned. On the 2nd I preached, and on the 3rd returned to Sheffield.
During my stay in Chestrfield, I was well entertained by the saints among whom were, Father Dutton Marsden, Sisters Crooks, Ruth Longsdale and many whose names I don't know. I stopped in Sheffield at my uncle's along with my father and mother, and we lived at his expense, but he would take nothing of us.
On Monday the 14th, I left Sheffield, and my uncle accompanied me to Liverpool where we arrived about 1 o'clock p.m. When we got out of the railway carriages, there were a many cabs by any of which we might be conveyed to any part of town, so one of the cab men came to us and asked us if we wanted to ride. We told him we did, but before we got in his cab we agreed that he should take us and our 2 small boxes to Mr. Elliot's No 114 opposite the Dock (a distance of 2 miles) for 1/6. He took us and at this house we stopped. Next day my father and mother came, and we all lodged here. We paid 6d each for each night's lodgings. We stayed here and bought such victuals as we thought fit. On the 19th we went on board the "Carnatic", a merchants sailing vessel commanded by Captain McKenzie, and my uncle returned to Sheffield. On the 20th, we were towed out of Canning Dock into River Mersey where we were until 22nd when the steam tug came and towed us about 10 miles.
The wind was pretty strong, and the greater part of our company was sick, among whom were my father, mother and myself, but still I felt to rejoice in the great work of God. On the 23rd, 24th and 25th the wind continued strong, and at our head during the day of 26th it was a little more favorable, but in the night very strong head wind arose, so when I arose on the 27th and went on deck (where I could not stand, but had to hold myself up by the bulwarks) I saw we were surrounded by mountains of water. I could not see apparently more than 30 or 40 yards from the ship; also our yard arms were nearly tipping, and thus we seemed as if we were going to be buried in the depths of the sea, yet all seemed to be far from fear, because our confidence was in God. The wind continued to blow without intermission (except 1 hour on the 29th) on 27, 28, 29. On this evening we had a prayer meeting and unanimously agreed to ask God to bless us with favorable winds. So, according to His mercy, on March 1 (on this days night I dreamed a dream which I'll insert on the opposite page) the wind was better, and we were traveling about 7 ½ miles an hour. On this day we entered the Bay of Biscay. While passing through this bay, I thought of my brother, Isaac, who while passing through this bay on his way to Calcutta to join the English arm, wished himself back to the town wherein he was born that he might join his old comrades. But my feelings were different. I was glad that the Lord had led me out of the land of my nativity and was leading me on to a land which has been and is blessed by Him as a choice land above all other lands for the gathering together of His people.

Also this day my mother was very ill. She was almost helpless. The 3rd the air was cold and strong, but favorable. The sun shone warm upon us and made it very pleasant. My mother was much better. In the afternoon the wind ceased and we were in an Irish hurricane (calm) and truly it was beautiful sitting on the bulwarks and viewing the mighty and restless Atlantic whose waters are blue and indigo and also looking at the sun setting in the far west to which place we were bounding.
A Dream
On the night of the first of March, I dreamed the following dream. I thought I was calling through Church Lane in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, for a boy named Frederic Tyas, and when I had got through the Lane into the churchyard, I thought there was going to be buried one of the policeman. As I went on I saw a hearse where the mourners were in. It was not drawn by horses as is customary there, but it was carried by hand, and while I looked at the scene, I enquired which of the policemen was dead. Someone told me it was William Green, and after I had looked on awhile, it came to my mind that I once had dreamed of such a funeral. I then told one whom I knew that stood by that the funeral was just as I had dreamed. I also remembered that in the dream which I thought I had, I had to encounter with enemy before I got out. As I expected, so it was, for a formidable enemy beset me just as I thought I had dreamed, but how I overcame this enemy I don't remember. However, I awoke and much troubled about the dream. Soon after I fell asleep again and dreamed I was in the same town, Doncaster, and appeared to Sister Fanny Yeardley and told her the dream I had had, and when I had told her, I said that it was not my body, but my spirit that had told her. I also told her or someone else to write the dream and I would also. I then thought I looked very stern at Sister Carnatic. There I immediately awoke and behold,it was a dream.

On this, the 3rd, the wind entirely died away, but before the close of the day a pretty strong head wind arose and we were tossed about all night. The morning of the 4th put in and we lifted our hearts again to heaven that the adverse winds might cease, but it appeared to no purpose. We continued being rolled about until afternoon when our eyes were attracted by an object sailing on the water. Our captain looked and pronounced her to be a ship in distress. We found her to be a Dutch manned vessel, King William 2nd, freighted with coffee and sugar. Their distress happened on the 27th at which time they said they saw several other ships wrecked. It appeared that she had lost her main mast, foremast, mission mast and her bulwarks. They had thrown overboard between 300 and 400 barrels of coffee. We let them have sail and then left them. She was from Batavia and was bound for Amsterdam.
The 4th through the 29th all passed away with calms, storms head winds and favorable winds. We had preaching two or three times a week, and we were much edified by Elders F.D. Richards,, C.H. Whellock, A. Cahoon and S.W. Richards. My mother had a deal of sickness. The captain was very kind to us. He did everything he could to make us happy and comfortable.

In the night of the 30th at quarter past 9 o'clock an old gentleman from Scotland named James Young died, and about quarter before 7 next morning we buried him in the great Atlantic, Longitude 61,24; Latitude 18,54. The morning of the 31st, my mother was very sick. Her head was filled with sores. We cut off all her hair and applied poultices of oatmeal. She suffered much. The 1st of April put in toward 12 at night. Lighthouses were seen, and on the 2nd at 8 o'clock we were sailing between Antigua and Guadelope, both of which were in sight. The appearance of land made our hearts glad and return thanks to God for His fatherly care and protection. In the afternoon we saw Mount Serrat. On the 6th we saw the west point to St. Domingo. One the 7th we saw Jamaica whose mountains seemed to reach the sky. We were sailing between it and Cuba. The 8th was very hot and calm with a heavy shower about half past three in the afternoon. The 9th was very still, hot and calm. About 6 o'clock p.m. a small boat came and brought us shells, turtles and pumpkins. The 13th we entered the Gulf of Mexico, and on the 17th we saw the land of America. The pilot came and took command of our ship. The steamer towed us to the mouth of the Mississippi and then left us. The next morning it came and we began to pull up the river. The sceneries on each side of the river were very beautiful. We arrived in New Orleans on the 19th at half past 6 o'clock p.m. The captain told us we might let our goods stop on board the ship and we might sleep in our berths until we could get a steamer to come and take us to St. Louis.
On the 21st we went on board the steamer Mameluke and took a farewell of our kind and worthy friend, Captain William McKenzie. On the 22nd we started for St. Louis where we arrived with all safety. On the 30th we met with Brothers Thomas Brown and wife and family, William Clemence and family, and Thomas Wrigley and family who all came from Doncaster. They were living in St. Louis and were well. They received us gladly and we stayed there until the 9th of May when we started on board the Mustang for Winter Quarters where we arrived after striking several snags and sand bars with safety on the 20th of May 1848.
We found the brethren in great business; some preparing to go to the Great Salt Lake City and some to cross the river and work in Pottawatamie County for means to go west. We stayed a week in Winter Quarters and then crossed the Missouri River to Ferryville where I commenced farming. We stayed in Ferryville during summer. I and Scovil raised a crop and shared it in the fall. I then bought a claim of Brother John Wood, built a house on it and then we left Scovil and moved into it. (about a tenth of the corn I raised I gave to Bishop or the acting Bishop Blanchard on tithing.) There was some bad feelings between Brother Scovil and Elisa, my mother. She had been falling out with him and using very abusive language to him.
During the fall of 1848 and spring of 1849 I taught school for which I was to have $10 per month and my board. Each man who assigned his name to the agreement was to pay according to the number of scholars he assigned, but some of them never sent any to school. Consequently, when the 5 months of teaching were ended, those who did not send did not want to pay; however, some of them made some acknowledgment and some did not, among whom was Joshua Holding. In the whole, for 5 months I received about $30. During this winter Elisa acted very ugly with my father endeavoring to either have him give her a bill of divorce or turn her out of the house. My father at last consented to let her have a divorce. It was granted by the Bishop. She soon married Stephen Nixon with whom she had become good friends.
About the month of March, I and my father thought it would be best to leave Ferryville and come down to Kanesville. During this summer I and my father raised as good a crop as we could. We did not raise much for I was sickly most of the time, and we had a considerable drought; however, in the fall we paid 7 bushels of corn and 2 bushels of potatoes and I went down to work in Missouri. I got home in December and paid $2 in cash to the bishop. The 7 bushels of corn and 2 bushels of potatoes, $2, and about 6 or 7 pounds of pork was what we paid to Bishop Bigley in 1850.

About December 11th I began to teach school in Union Branch Schoolhouse of Kanesville Northern District. About January 11 or 12, 1851, I paid to Bishop D.M. Burbanks $1.04. On or near the 13th of March, I paid to same bishop $300; on 25th of same month went with same Bishop to 50 miles grove and returned on 12th of April having worked 16 days, tithing at one dollar per day would make $16. I and my father now moved to John Nichols' place in Kanesville. We commenced to plow with all earnestness the 10 acres we had rented of him. We had most finished when on the 24th of April 1851, our house caught fire by some accident which we could not account for and burnt everything with a very small exception. Our bed, bedding, clothing except few pants, coat, knives, forks, spoons, flour, corn, bacon, potatoes, tools, etc., all got consumed in the awful flames.
I now gathered in what was owing me, and on the 18th day of May I got married to Miss Elizabeth Brewerton, daughter of George and Ann Brewerton of Harwell, Nottinghamshire, England. She was born on March 13, 1828, at Harworth, Nottingshamshire, England. She resided with her parents, received her education in Doncaster, was baptized by Elder Gland Rodger into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on November 17, 1844, and received a patriarchal blessing by Patriarch John Albiston at Harwell on July 2, 1845, which is as follows:

My beloved sister, I lay my hands upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ and by authority of the Holy Priesthood pronounce upon thy head the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Inasmuch as thou hast given thy heart unto God and honored Him and His son by having been buried with him in baptism, thou art a child of God and in the everlasting covenant with faithful Abraham, and by adoption, has joined the family and kingdom of God and art entitled unto all the blessings of that kingdom as a joint heiress with Jesus Christ who is become thy Elder Brother. The promises are all on thy side. They are peace and assurance unto thee forever. A principle of new life is given unto thee which shall grow up in thy soul as a well of water springing up to eternal life. Thou shalt inherit all the promises and also receive a diadem of glory, a crown of eternal life, and wear it as thy due. Thou art given thyself to be more than ever the servant of the Lord. Thou shalt become a plant of renown, walking in righteousness before the Lord: also, art renewing thy love unto the truth and the beauties of truth shall delight thy soul. Thy heart's desire shall be granted unto thee in righteousness. Thy way shall be opened unto the land of Zion; thou shalt behold as a witness for the Lord signs and wonders performed in His name; be blessed with heavenly visions and the ministry of angels attend thee and shalt have thy blessed inheritance among the faithful saints in lands of corn and wine and oil and flocks and herds be added unto thee the fruit of thy vine and olive yards become a true worshiper in the Temple of the Lord and witness the 2nd advent of Messiah. Thou shalt join the church of the first born and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God and live in the reign of righteousness with thy blessed Redeemer and in the great millennium. Thou art of the faithful seed of Abraham and I seal these blessings upon thy head in the name of Jesus Christ, even so Amen and Amen.

After this she continued in the church, and on the 8th day of January 1851, she left England and all her relations and started on board the ship "Ellen" for the land of Zion. She arrived in Kanesville on May 4. I saw her the same day, and the 18th of the same month we were married by Elder James W. Cummings.

On the 10th I moved into D.M. Burbanks' house in McOlneys Branch, 2 miles north of Kanesville and rented his house and field. On the 27th of June we had a fast day. On the 28th I took 15 1/2 pounds of flour to Bishop Nichols, a free will offering. On the 28th of July the brethren chose me to act as teacher to which I consented. On 8th of August I paid 2 bushels of corn on tithing to Bishop Nichols. On the 11th of September I went with the bishop and hauled hay on tithing. On the 20th received a letter from Mother Brewerton - also a newspaper on the 27th. On the 28th laid hands on several sick folk and blessed them. On the 17th of October, Elizabeth had a miscarriage. One 22nd paid one load pumpkins to Bishop Nichols on tithing. On the 30th paid 50 cents cash to Bishop Nichols on tithing.
About this time the word of the Lord came unto us, the saints who dwelt in Pottawatamie, Iowa, saying "Come home. Yea come home if you can by any possible righteous means." I had not much property, but I was determined to do my best to gather with the saints of God in the valleys of the mountains, even to the State of Deseret or Utah. I went to Brother Turpin Wheelwright and agreed to work for him forty days for wood work or running gears of a wagon.
On January 11, 1852 we received a letter from Mother Brewerton, and on February 2 received one from Brother William Brewerton. On February 4, I paid 12 bushels of corn to Bishop Nichols on tithing. On March 15 I went down to Holt County, Missouri and got work at Mr. Hogin's. We did him some ditching. I then returned home. I had been away 5 weeks and earned something over $30. On April 22 paid $3 tithing. After this I continued to prepare for emigrating to Deseret. I had one yoke of oxen and one cow. Brother George B. Hicks promised me the use of a cow trough. I got my wagon finished, then obtained what necessaries I possibly could. The brethren thought as we were a small family, we might take Sister Mary Moore and her little boy, William. My family consisted of myself, my wife and my father, so with Mary Moore and boy, we were 5 to the wagon. We got all ready, and on Thursday, June 10, we left and started for Great Salt Lake City.
We moved but 1 or 2 miles and camped till the 12th when we moved to the big spring about 10 miles from Kanesville. We crossed the Missouri River on the 26th. The remainder of our company crossed on the 27th . After we were all across and camped, Ezra T. Benson came among us and said he wanted five men of our company to stay at Missouri with others who had been chosen from other companies to act as a guard to protect in case they needed protection, and also to help to ferry the rest of the saints across the river until all were over that intended to cross the plains this season. I was one of the 5 chosen. We were then told to see our families across the Elk Horn, and then return to the guard. The next day we moved about 11 miles. We had plenty of grass for our cattle and good water, but no timber. On the 29th we moved to Elk Horn and camped on its banks; plenty of wood, water and grass. In the evening we washed ourselves in the river. Likely Samuel Robinson would have been drowned, but through the help of providence I swam with my clothes on and got him out safe. On the 30th we crossed this river at the ferry, and on the 1st of July our families moved west and we (the 5) returned to the Missouri River where we stayed and did our best until the brethren were all over.
On the 12th of July we left Missouri River and traveled about 10 miles. Next morning, the cholera made its appearance among us. Henry Oakes was taken on the morning and buried in the evening. We crossed the Horn. Thomas Ashley was buried and also several of the last company. We stayed at our camp. I threw a cast in the river and caught a cat fish about 40 pounds weight. On the 16th, after seeing the brethren over this river, we started for our families who were still pushing on to the Great Salt Lake City. We passed considerable graves. The most of our company was afflicted with diarrhea. On Friday, the 23rd, I overtook my family about 300 miles from Winter Quarters. I found them all well and had been since I left them.

After traveling a few miles, we killed a buffalo. We rested on Sunday and on Monday recommenced our journey. On the 28th I baptized Sister Barbara Heep for restoration of her health. She was much better. 29th we traveled over several sandy bluffs and camped by Piccaninia Creek. 30th at noon we baited at Rattle Snake Creek and camped at night 6 Feet Creek. 31st we moved between Watch Creek and Lone Tree. 1st of August we moved a few miles to Ash Hollow and camped. 2nd we crossed Castle Creek and camped about 2 miles west of it. 3rd we traveled past Castle Bluffs which have the appearance of large ruinous buildings. At night we camped at Sandy Bluffs, 121 3/4 miles from Fort Laramie. 4th we crossed Crab Creek, cobbles hills and camped at Ancient Bluffs ruins which have the appearance of ruinous castles, forts, etc. 6th we had some very heavy sand to draw through. We traveled about 12 miles and camped. 7th we had pretty good road and camped at Chimney Rock. 8th we saw an Indian wigwam past Scott's Bluff and camped at Spring Creek. We stayed here to recruit our stock and repair our wagons until the 12th. This day we traveled about 15 miles, saw many Indians and gave them bread. 13th moved to Dry Creek. 14th traveled to Fort Laramie. 15th crossed the Platte and camped about 4 miles from the fort. 16th descended a very steep hill and crossed a very rough, rocky bluff, dangerous on wagons. At night camped at Bitter Cottonwood Creek. 17th, feed now being very scarce for our stock, we thought it advisable to divide into tens and travel so till we came to Deer Creek, then stay, do our repairs, recruit our stock, and then move on our journey as it might seem best. Captain John Myers, being captain of the ten I was in, moved on the journey. We followed and left Captain Walker at Bitter Cottonwood Creek. We passed over some rough, hilly roads.
We came to a beautiful spring. The grass was green all about it, so here we camped all night. 18th we left the spring. About 3 miles from it we crossed a creek, pretty good place to camp about 10 miles further. We came to the Platte. We stayed until noon, then traveled 4 or 5 miles near the river. At this point, we left the river again, ascended a very steep bluff and also descended some. We traveled 5 or 6 miles and camped by a small stream of water. 19th traveled 14 or 16 miles and met a moderate chance to camp. 20th we crossed some steep bluffs; also some 4 or 5 miles of red rock. The first water we came to was about 17 miles. We crossed this and went to LaPrele where we found a good place to camp. 21st killed three buffalo, took what meat we could, crossed a small creek; also Box Elder Creek and came to Farce Boise, a good place to camp here. We gathered the wood, made fires and jerked our meat. 22nd good road, moved to Deer Creek. 23rd moved 1 ½ miles on Platte, good place to camp. We stayed here till the whole of our company came up. We did our repairs. I caught several fish while we stayed here. We agreed that it was best to travel by tens the remainder of our journey.
We stayed here until 27th . This day our ten moved about 13 miles. 28th we killed 3 antelope, caught more fish. 29th moved within 4 miles of Upper Platte Fort. 30th we crossed the fort, traveled about 12 miles over a very rough, bad, bluffy road and camped at the last camping ground on the River Platte. 31st no water fit to drink, being poisonous, for 15 miles. We passed Willow Spring and camped about 4 from it. 1st of September we passed the saleratus springs and lakes. It is wonderful to see the lakes covered with saleratus. It is firm, capable to bear any weight and looks exactly like ice, but it is deadly poison.

We came to Sweet Water and camped. Several of our company's cattle, having got to the saleratus water, died almost instantaneously. 2nd forded Sweet Water, came to Devil's Gate. This Gate is a narrow pass for the river Sweet Water to pass through. The rock on each side stands perpendicularly about 400 feet high. We went about 2 miles beyond it and camped. 3rd traveled 11 or 12 miles through some 1 or 2 miles of very heavy sand. We camped, and as at Devil's Gate, found good feed in the ravines of the mountains. 4th burned pine, made tar, let the cattle rest and killed a buffalo. 5th moved about 9 miles, were drenched with a heavy shower of rain, camped at foot of gravel bluff. 6th crossed the crossings of Sweet Water and went to the fourth ford of Sweet Water. Very poor chance for cattle, grass being mostly eaten out. 7th moved 17 miles to fifth ford; cattle most worn out, poor chance for them here. 8th went about 10 miles, drove our cattle up the creek. They fared moderate. 9th we traveled about 13 ½ miles over some rough, rocky ridges and camped on a branch of Sweet Water; feed bad. 10th we drove to the upper ford of Sweet Water, found good feed about 2 miles northwest of the fold. 11th we remained at our camp. 12th good road, passed south pass of Pacific Springs and camped at Pacific Creek. 14th left Pacific Creek, had a good road, traveled about 25 miles and camped on the banks of Little Sandy; moderate feed considering we were on a sandy desert.
15th traveled 7 miles and camped on Big Sandy, about 7 miles. 16th very cold and rainy, traveled about 17 miles to Big Sandy; again 17th traveled to Green River, 10 miles and camped on Big Sandy, 2 miles from Green River Ford. It was very cold with showers of rain and hail. 18th remained at our camp. Cold with rain and hail, caught several fish. Brother Mitchell from valley came with team and took Sister Mary Moore and boy forward to the valley.
19th forded Green River, traveled about 19 ½ miles; good feed on bunch grass, but very cold during night. 20th traveled about 21 miles to Black's Fork, third time we had moderate feed. 21st moved 8 ½ miles to stream. 22nd passed Fort Bridger and camped about 1 ½ miles east of Muddy Fork. 23rd very cold, rain. We camped at Copperas or Soda Springs. In the night the snow fell some 1 or 2 inches thick. 24th we traveled to Sulphur Creek and camped. We found moderate feed. 25th we moved to Yellow Creek, crossed the creek at the foot of Rocky Bluff, bad to cross. This bluff has a singular appearance forming a number of pyramids. 26th this morning Samuel Sherman was found dead in bed. We buried him on the east side of Yellow Creek. We then moved to a deep ravine 16 miles from Red Fork of Weber River. 27th we traveled down Echo Creek and camped in Echo Canyon, a few miles from Weber. It was very bad road. 28th moved down to Red Fork of Weber and camped. 29th we traveled over long hill and camped near Kanyon Creek. 30th we went up Kanyon Creek, crossed it a number of times, bad to cross and camped about 1 mile up the mountain. We found good feed. 31st crossed the big mountain. It was very cold and rainy. We camped by Brown's Creek. Some snow fell during night. October 1st it continued to snow. We drove on to little mountain, had to put from 7 to 9 yoke of cattle to each wagon before we could cross. We got over and camped about 1 mile from the foot. Saturday, October 2nd 1852, we entered Great Salt Lake City.
We found the saints busy, great improvements had been made and a many more being made. It was some time before I could meet with an empty room to rent. I moved our wagon to Brother Thomas Wrigley's house and commenced ditching.
On Wednesday the 27th of October 1852 at about quarter before 12 at night my wife was delivered, in the wagon, of a boy whom we named Henry Brewerton Emery. The moon's age was 14 days, 3 hours 7 41 minutes, being 6 hours and 27 minutes past full.
I then went and rented a house of Mr. Isaac Hunter, in which we lived till spring of 1853. During this winter a great quantity of snow fell which caused labor to be very scarce, and not having much property to dispose of, we did not enjoy all the luxuries of life. However, we never sat down to eat without potatoes and salt or else something else, and we were content, knowing we were gathered with the people of God for the purpose of serving Him, which we hope to do with all our heart from this time hence forth and forever.
In the spring I bought a house and ½ lot of Dennis Winn for $108, situated in the 16th Ward, Great Salt Lake City.

On the 19th of June, 1853 I was ordained a Seventy and confirmed a member of the 36th Quorum under the hands of President Thomas Wrigley. At the October Conference I was nominated to go on a mission among the Lamanites; during winter I did my best to learn the Utah language, and in spring following we who had been nominated to go on this mission were called together by Parley P. Pratt. He told us what was necessary for us to take with us, and if any of us thought that our circumstances were of such a nature as to justify us in not going, we had better see President Brigham Young. Accordingly, I went to the President and told him how I was circumstanced. He told me I had better go home and take care of my family. On the 30th of October 1853 I was rebaptised by Elder Joseph Fielding and confirmed a member of the church at the edge of the water.
On March 1, 1854 Elisabeth delivered a girl named Elisabeth Ann at 6 o'clock in the morning. Moon's age 2 days, 8 hours and 37 minutes.
On the 29th of March I rebaptised my wife and Brother Wilson Lund and myself confirmed her a member of the church. On March 31, 1854 Elisabeth and I received an endowment in the Council House under the hands of Brothers J.W. Cummings, Dr. Sprigg, P.P. Pratt, Jed M. Grant and others which caused our hearts to rejoice and glorify God, our Eternal Father, for the abundance of His tender mercies and never ending compassion to the children of men. On the 30th of July I and Elisabeth were sealed together for time and all eternity by President Brigham Young. O, may God enable us to keep ourselves in righteousness and purity forever and ever, Amen.
Thursday, June 21, 1855 8 o'clock in the morning, Elisabeth delivered a boy whom we called George Rhodes Emery. Moon's age 6 days 23 hours. July went to North Willow Creek harvesting and adobe making; returned in September; was taken sick in October and did not do but little till after Christmas. Elisabeth's mother came in from England this fall.
1856, about April conference our provisions began to give out and we subsisted on roots, pig weed, fish and what we could get. Went to Ogden Hole and Willow Creek harvesting again, returned in September. Brother Brigham Young began to show the necessity of the saints reforming and not pretend, but in reality live our religion. A number of missionaries were appointed through the territory to preach repentance to the saints, or in other words to arouse them to a sense of their duty in regard to their own interests and the interest of the Kingdom of God, for we are fast asleep having the drowsiness of Hell upon us. But, thanks be to God for such men as Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Jedediah M. Grant, for I know them to be faithful and holy men of God, and others who were faithful in bringing us to see our situation and leading us in the way of everlasting life.
Brother Grand labored more than his body was able to bear which brought on sickness of which he died, being beloved both by God and all his brethren. I humbled myself before God and confessed my sins and made retribution as far as in me lay. I obtained forgiveness, and on the 7th day of March 1857, my wife and I and my father were rebaptised by J.T.D. McAllister. On June 27 I was appointed sargent to Captain John Cottam of the 5th 10 of Captain E.B. Tripp's 50, Nauvoo Legion. Half past 6 o'clock Sunday morning, July 12, 1857, Elisabeth had a boy whom we called John Alma Emery. He was blessed at the 16th Ward schoolhouse August 6, 1857 by Elders E.B. Tripp, Riser, and Alexander Gilespie.
September 16 while getting wood in Coon's Canyon, my axe caught a bough over my head which threw the axe severely in my foot making an awful gash, separating the main girder of the big toe and entering largely in the bone. I was 4 weeks before I could set my foot down to the floor and it remained feeble most all winter.

During this fall the army which James Buchanan President of U.S. sent on a crusade against the Mormons came into the borders of our territory. The brethren rose up in mass to oppose them or rather to defend themselves, their wives and children, their homes and the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences. They were successful in keeping the army at bay during winter. In spring, the army began to make preparation for coming into our settlements. I, having now got my foot tolerably well, started with my brethren on March 31, 1852 for Echo Canyon to help to defend ourselves against our common enemy. We marched to Sharp's Station. April 1st we marched over the big mountain. The snow was 3 or 4 feet deep on the east side of the mountain. We camped at Cottonwood Grove in Canyon Creek. During the night the wind rose to a strong gale, and the heavens gathered blackness. Some little rain fell. In the morning, April 2nd, it commenced snowing freely, but kept warm. We arrived at Echo Station about 5 p.m., all well. Captain Elnathen Eldredge, a king and first rate officer, led us out and delivered us into the hands of Colonel Colister. We stayed here, attended to our camp duties and enjoyed good health and spirits. I stood guard on the 6th of April from 3 to 6 o'clock a.m. and from 6 to 9 a.m. on the 13th. On Monday, 19th we got orders to march to Great Salt Lake City. We started about 1 o'clock p.m. under command of Major Burgess. We arrived in Cottonwood Grove, east Canyon about 8 p.m. and supped on bacon and beef. 20th we arose and breakfasted on beef and bacon, drinking bacon grease for coffee. We arrived at Killion's at the west foot of little mountain about 1 p.m. where Major Burgess handed us each 2 crackers. Brother Killion gave us some potatoes which we boiled, fried some beef and bacon, made a good meal and started. We arrived in Great Salt Lake City a little before sundown, very tired and sore, having carried our guns ammunition, bedding cooking utensils, etc.
When I got home I found the saints had unanimously agreed to move south in order to oppose their enemies. My family had all gone to American Fork. I was given leave of absence, so I started for American Fork. I found my family all well. I cleared a small piece of ground and put in a small garden. On the 29th I returned to Great Salt Lake City about 2 p.m.
I was appointed to stay in Great Salt Lake City and assist as one of the guard. We mustered morning and evening to roll call and guard the city at night in our turns. May 12th I was selected to go to the mouth of Emigration Canyon to guard the next day. We were called home again the 15th; called out to train and inspection of arms. Friday, June 15th at dusk of night, I with some others were taken up City Creek Canyon to guard. Next day, 26th we stayed here and the U.S. troops passed through the city peaceable and camped on the west side of the Jordan. On the 12th I had attended a conference held in this city between the U.S. commissioners sent by James Buchanan and the people, to make treaties of peace. James Buchanan offered free pardon to all who would now turn and be loyal citizens. We could not turn by be loyal citizens, for we had always been loyal, but we agreed to continue loyal if they would cease their hellish persecution. James Buchanan had done all he thought himself able in order to destroy the Kingdom of God from the earth, but fearing he could not make anything at it, he concluded to let us alone and so peace was proclaimed. I remained in the city and did according to orders; had several furloughs.
July 21st got leave to fetch my family home. Tuesday, 6th at 2 p.m. started with my family; hired Joseph and Samuel Robinson to bring us. On the 7th at 1 o'clock arrived at home in Great Salt Lake City all safe and sound -- thank God.

Soon after this, our peaceful city was greatly changed. Instead of peace, industry and honesty unanimously prevailing, the officers and army followers were continually brawling, quarreling, fighting, drinking, ******* (where they could, but the women generally were virtuous), gambling, thieving, murdering, and profaning the name of deity. These things were done by the very men that James Buchanan sent to teach the Mormons morals. These disturbances called for extra police and ward guards. I stood guard in the 16th Ward a good few nights in the winter of 1858 and 1859.
December 4, 1858 and about half past two in the morning (Saturday) my wife gave birth to a boy whom we called Isaac Archer Emery. He was blessed by Bothers Kesley, Riser and Derr on December 6, 1860.
January 29, 1859 Ann Brewerton, my wife's mother died at our house in the 64th year of her age. She commenced being worse than common on Friday. She ate very little and kept getting weaker and weaker. I wrote to her son, William on the 23rd. He did not receive the letter. I wrote again on Thursday, 27th. Mother Brewerton now ate nothing worth naming. She drank freely of Tartaric acid and carbonate of soda. This drink she seemed to like very much. About 2 o'clock a.m. on the 29th she appeared to be struck with death. During the morning, Elisabeth asked her if she thought she would get better. She said she thought she should, but still she was failing fast. Sister Hamer was with us this day. About 4 o'clock p.m., as Sister Hamer was standing at the foot of the bed with Isaac Archer in her arms, Mother Brewerton opened her eyes and she saw little Isaac A. and she blessed him with all the eagerness of her soul saying, "Bless Isaac Arch, O bless him, bless him, bless him and bless all the rest." Soon after this Sister Ure came in. Mother knew her and said she could like to eat something, but did not know what she could eat. We were going to sit down to supper. She said it seemed hard to see others eat and could not eat some herself. She desired to be turned over and made easy saying, "Make me easy, for I soon shall be easy." She seemed restless for some time. About 6 o'clock she wanted raising. We raised her to a sitting position and propped her with pillows. In this position she sat till about half past 6 when she breathed her last without a groan or struggle. Sisters Hamer and Lund washed her body and dressed her in her funeral clothes. David Eames made her coffin into which we put her remains. On tuesday, February 1 Brother James Attwicks and myself went and dug her grave in Brother James Ure's burying lot. We dug about 3 ½ feet and then a vault 1 ½ feet. I got Brother James Ure's team, and I and James Attwicks, Wilson Lund and James Ure took up her remains on and buried her in the grave we had dug. Thus ended the earthly career of Sister Ann Brewerton who had obeyed the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and kept the commandments of God according to the best of her knowledge.
Saturday, February 6 I was taken sick and remained very feeble for 2 weeks. After this the weather was very unsettled except for frost and snow of which we had a plenty. March 10, ground still covered with some 10 or 12 inches with snow. 12th went to John Hague's on West Jordan; very severe frost during the night. The weather very cold and stormy so that at April conference the ground was still covered with snow and no gardening done in the upper lots of the city.
About the 8th of April 1859, my little boy, George Rhodes, had his fingers severely trapped by his brother, Henry Brewerton, rocking on them with a little rocking chair. One nail of his finger was completely torn up by the roots; another was cut in two and the piece torn clean off. 27th of April, Fanny calved and little John Alma went into the pen. She hooked him and tore off his pinafore; he escaped unhurt; about same time he fell backwards into the fire, but escaped with slight burns on his neck and arm.

On the 27th I was ordered by Captain E.B. Tripp to be ready with 5 days provisions to stand for the rights of Israel; at night we mustered, but were sent home with orders to come next evening, April 28. Evening arrived. We met and were led by E. Hanks into City Creek Canyon. Saturday the 30th it commenced to rain. It rained all night. Next day, May 1,Sunday, I was released from further duty and I went home. It continued to rain. Our lots had been so wet all spring that we could not plant anything, not even that which I had dug previous fall.
During the summer I worked for W.C. Stains and B. Young and tended my own lots. Our house was very much shattered and in the fall I pulled it down and built one 30 feet by 14 feet outside which made two comfortable rooms.
Monday March 12, 1860 about 10 a.m. my wife had a girl whom we called Fanny Jane Emery. She was blessed by Alex Gillespie and others. She was weakly from her birth and died March 27, 1860 about half past 2 o'clock in the morning being her 15th day on earth. We dug her grave and buried her on her Grandmother Ann Brewerton's grave and laid her on her grandmothers vault.
On November 18, 1860 Henry Brewerton Emery was baptized in the River Jordan by Brother Peter Reid and was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the same day by Elders G.C. Riser and F. Kesler.
January 17, 1859 Henry B. Emery was 45 inches high; November 12, 1861 he was 4 feet 4 inches high; Elizabeth Ann Emery was 4 feet 2 ½ inches high; George R. Emery was 47 ½ inches high.
Thursday, February 21, 1861 at 11 o'clock p.m., my wife delivered a boy whom we called David Seaton Emery. Monday, May 5, 1862 she had a girl at 8 o'clock in the morning. We called her Mary. On the 10th of this month, my little boy Isaac Archer was lost. We hunted much for him, and he was found by a Danish brother in the sloughs in the 19th Ward pasture, most perished with cold.
In the fall of 1861 I commenced to work for Walker Brothers merchants which I have worked for ever since, or at least up to this day February 15, 1866.
My boy, Charles Frank Emery, was born January 5, 1864, and my daughter, Sarah Louise, was born Sunday October 1, 1865 about 10 p.m. I baptized my son, John Alma. Charles Frank Emery was blessed January 5, 1865.
On the 10th of August 18675 my boy, Isaac Archer, broke his arm. Dr. Anderson set it for which I paid him $15.00. Soon after this, my oldest boy, Henry Brewerton, was taken sick with chills and fever. Just as he recovered, Isaac Archer took the same disease and was brought very low. The disease went through my children, 6 of them being very sick, but recovered. My son, John Alma, took the same disease about the 16th or 17th of December. He did not appear to be so bad as the other had been, but on Thursday, he complained of bellyache, and he continued to get worse. At night he was very bad, and I was convinced that unless the Almighty interfered, he would not live long. I sent a request to the Endowment House for him to be prayed for, hoping God would spare his life. I also went for the assistance of Dr. William H. Tate. On Friday night he seemed a little more easy, but on Saturday morning he was worse again. On Saturday night, he was very restless. He did not seem to have much pain, but was up and down or changed in position every little while. Toward morning he seemed more restless and somewhat delirious. He seemed to suffer the agonies of death more. My wife's heart was melted to see his struggles. She asked me to pray to God for him so that if he was appointed to die at this time, the Lord might take him or else be entreated to spare him with us. But if it was for the best that he should return to his Heavenly Father, the will of God be done. After this I laid my hands upon him with a similar prayer. He then laid in my arms a little while. I then laid his head down on the pillow, and in a few minutes his spirit departed in purity to God, his Maker.
John Alma Emery was born on Sunday morning, July 12, 1857 at about 6 o'clock. On Tuesday, February 16, 1858, he had a kind of a fit. I and my father laid hands on him, and the fit left him. On the 27th of April, 1859, he went in the coral and the cow ran at him and tore his pinafore off him, but did him no harm. About the same time, he fell backwards in the fire and escaped with some slight burns. He commenced going to school when young and continued to go pretty regular. He could read McGuffies 3rd reader very distinctly. He knew the multiplication table, could cipher some; in short he was a good scholar. He seemed much pleased to hear me talk about his Heavenly Father and Jesus, his Savior, and he cultivated a disposition to serve him. I never knew him to tell me a lie nor to profane the name of God. He was about ____ and a healthy child generally. He was baptized for remission of sins by his father on September 7, 1865, and was confirmed a member of the church. He was taken sick about the 16th or 17th of December 1865, and died of Typhoid Congestive Fever December 31, 1865. We buried his remains in Brother John Hamer's lot in the city burying ground January 1, 1866. We know that his spirit has gone to the paradise of God to rest in peace and happiness until the morning of the first resurrection when he will come forth from the dead. He is a partaker of eternal life. O may God preserve us, his parents and brothers and sisters, that we may meet him with joy at the pleasing bar of God for Jesus sake, Amen.
Sarah Louisa, our daughter, was blessed by G. C. Riser, September 6, 1866. Isaac Archer was baptized by G. C. Riser, October 4, 1866 and confirmed by Bishop F. Kesler and G. C. Riser same day.
This year the River Jordan rose so high we were drowned out. We were obliged to leave our home. We rented a house of Brother E. B. Tripp's for which we paid him $20 per month. We were here two months; while here, my wife give birth on Thursday, the 13th of June, 1867 about 7 o'clock p.m. to a girl whom we called Frances Annie. S

EMERY, Henry (I52225)

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This very unusual surname is today accepted as Scottish, but its origins clearly lie on the continent. Many attempts have been made to find the original source, none wholly successful, and therefore it has to be assumed that the arrival of the name in Scotland was probably under forced circumstances, such as shipwreck. In this sort of situation, it is unlikely that any surviving members of the crew could read or write, assuming that the period was, judging by the first recording, early 17th century. Our opinion is that the derivation is probably from the popular Germanic-Dutch name "Spautz" originally a nickname for a small, cheeky, person - a sparrow. However other opinion is that the derivation is from "spauar" a word which described a maker of horse tack, particularly bridles and spurrs. Today in the 20th century the surname is relatively popular in the Fife region of Scotland, this situation giving some further credence to the "shipwreck" theory. Examples of the name recording include William Pourit, a witness at Torryburn on september 23rd 1716, and Agnes Spoward also of Torryburn on May 28th 1752. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Spowart, which was dated June 14th 1614, a witness at Kirkclady Church, Fife, during the reign of King James V1 of Scotland and 1st of England, 1587 - 1625. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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SPOWART, William (I21507)

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Thomas (Tommaso I; 1178 – 1 March 1233) was Count of Savoy from 1189 to 1233. He is sometimes numbered "Thomas I" to distinguish him from his son of the same name, who governed Savoy but was not count.

Thomas was born in Aiguebelle, the son of Humbert III of Savoy and Beatrice of Viennois. His birth was seen as miraculous; his monkish father had despaired of having a male heir after three wives. Count Humbert sought counsel from St. Anthelm, who blessed Humbert three times, and it was seen as a prophecy come true when Thomas was born shortly before Anthelm himself died on 26 June 1178. He was named in honour of Saint Thomas Becket.

Coat of arms of Savoy
Thomas was still a minor when his father died on 4 March 1189, and a council of regency was established, composed of his mother Beatrice, his father's cousin Boniface I of Montferrat, and the Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. He had reached his majority by August 1191. Thomas possessed the martial abilities, energy, and brilliance that his father lacked, and Savoy enjoyed a golden age under his leadership. Despite his youth he began the push northwest into new territories. In the same year he granted Aosta Valley the "Charte des Franchises", recognising the right to administrative and political autonomy. This right was maintained until the eve of the French Revolution. Later he conquered Vaud, Bugey, and Carignano. He supported the Hohenstaufens, and was known as "Thomas the Ghibelline" because of his career as Imperial Vicar of Lombardy.

Career Edit

Thomas worked throughout his career to expand the control and influence of the County of Savoy. One of the key tools that he used was his large number of children, who he worked to get into positions of influence in neighboring regions. In part, this was done by getting many of his sons into episcopal offices in surrounding territories, in a time when bishops had temporal as well as spiritual authority.[1] In addition to Guglielmo and Bonifacio, who made their careers in the clergy, their brother Thomas started out as a canon at Lausanne and became prévôt of Valence by 1226.[2] Pietro was also a canon at Lausanne and served as acting bishop there until he was replaced in 1231.[3] In 1219 he worked to get his daughter Beatrice married to the fourteen-year-old Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence. This established a close relationship between the two adjoining counties which would help cement Savoy control over trade between Italy and France.[4]

Thomas also fought many battles to expand his control. In 1215, his troops fought in an alliance with Milan against Monferrato, destroying the town of Casale.[5] In 1222, he captured Cavour.[6]

Thomas also worked through diplomatic and economic means to expand his control. The county of Savoy long enjoyed control over critical passes through the Alps. In his quest to gain more control over Turin, Thomas made an agreement with their rival Asti to reroute their French trade around Turin through Savoyard lands in a treaty on 15 September 1224. In 1226, Emperor Frederick II came to northern Italy and named Thomas Imperial Vicar of Lombardy. In this role, he mediated in a Genoese rebellion and a dispute between the town of Marseille and their bishop.[7] Thomas also made a policy of granting franchises and charters to towns on key trade routes which enabled the merchant class to develop more wealth and built support for his rule.[8]

Thomas died at Moncalieri, Savoy.

Family and children Edit

In 1195 he ambushed the party of Count William I of Geneva, which was escorting the count's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France for her intended wedding to King Philip II of France. Thomas carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some eight sons and six daughters.

Amedeo, his immediate successor
Umberto, d. between March and November 1223
Tommaso, lord and then count in Piedmont and founder of a line that became the Savoy-Achaea
Aimone, d. 30 August 1237, Lord of Chablais
Guglielmo (William of Savoy), Bishop of Valence and Dean of Vienne
Amadeo of Savoy, Bishop of Maurienne
Pietro, who resided much in England, became Earl of Richmond, and ultimately in 1263 became the disputed count of Savoy
Filippo, archbishop of Lyon, who resigned, through marriage became Count Palatine of Burgundy and ultimately in 1268 became the disputed count of Savoy
Bonifacio who became archbishop of Canterbury
Beatrice of Savoy, d. 1265 or 1266, married in December 1219 to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1209-1245) and was mother of four Queens-consort
Alasia of Savoy, abbess of the monastery of St Pierre in Lyon (d.1250)
Ágatha of Savoy, abbess of the monastery of St Pierre in Lyon (d.1245)
Margherita of Savoy, d. 1273, married in 1218 to Hartmann IV of Kyburg
Avita of Savoy (1215-92) who married Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon and Robert Aguillon (d.1286).
He had illegitimate children too:

Aymon (+ 1243), who was Count of Larches, with Beatrice of Grisel married
Thomas "the big", who was count of Lioches
Giulio

SAVOY, Count Thomas (I46129)

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THOMAS ARUNDEL 3rd son, born in 1352-3 (aged 18 in 1371, aged 21 in 1373). He was King's clerk by 1370. He was appointed Canon of Chichester, Hereford and Canon of York, 1372, Archdeacon of Taunton, 1370, Bishop of Ely, 1373, Archbishop of York, 1388, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1396. He served as hord Chancellor of England, 1386-1389, 1391-1396, 1407-1410, 1412-1413. He was a leader of the opposition to King Richard II from 1386. He was impeached in Parliament 20 Sept. 1397, for having acted in derogation of the king's authority during the ascendancy of the Lords Appellant, 1386-8. He joined Henry, Earl of Derby, in exile at Paris, and crossed with him to Ravenspur 4 July 1399. After the abdication of King Richard, he crowned Henry as King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey 13 Oct. 1399. On his resumption of the archbishopric, he was concerned largely with ecclesiastical affairs. He propounded measures for the extirpation of Lollardry by invoking secular legislation. He presided at the trials for heresy for John Purvey and William Sawtry, 1401,John Badby, 1410, and Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, 1413. He crowned King Henry V in Westminster Abbey in 1413. He died testate 19 Feb. 1413/4, and was buried in the chantry chapel in the new nave of Canterbury Cathedral, the building of which he contributed 1,000 marks in 1400-1. J. Weever Ancient Funerall Monuments (1631): 225-227. T. Rymer F(Edera 7 (1728): 480, 553 (instances of Thomas styled "kinsman" by King Richard II of England); 8 (1727): 399, 542, 584, 592 (instances of Thomas styled "kinsman" by King Henry IV of England); 9 (1729): 9-11 (Thomas styled "cousin" by King Henry V of England). J. Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 2 Pt. 1 (1832): 137-138 (" ... he possessed superior talents, and, as a politician, took a very active share in the turbulent times in which he lived ... [he displayed] singular magnificence in the public structures belonging to the Bishoprics over which he presided. His contributions to his churches were frequent and splendid. His love of architecture appears to have constantly engaged him in some sumptuous edifice"). E. Foss Judges of England 4 (1851): 144-150 (biog. of Thomas de Arundel: " ... a man of great vigour and capacity for business; and he left a high reputation as well as for learning and intelligence as for personal courage) (styled "well-beloved uncle by Henry of Lancaster, Earl of Derby [afterwards King Henry IV). Papal Regs.: Letters 4 (1902): 161, 187. C.P.R 1399-1401 (1903): 37, 80 (instances of Thomas styled "king's kinsman"). D.N.B. 1 (1908): 609-613 (biog. of Thomas Arundel: " ... Arundel's conduct throughout his life was governed by a standard of duty which ... was in accordance with the general feeling and principles of his own day ... He was a man of princely tastes, built fine edifices for himself at Ely and Canterbury, and was a munificent benefactor of the churches in which he had any interest."). A. Hussey Kent Chantries (IZent Arch. Soc. Recs. 12) (1936): 32-34. MD. Legge Anglo-Norman Letters & Petitions (Anglo-Norman Text Soc. 3) (1941): 79-80 (Thomas styled "uncle" by Edmund of Langley, Duke of York), 81, 423 (instances of Thomas styled "uncle" by Joan Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny), 86-87 (Thomas styled "uncle" by Edmund Holand), 87-88 (Thomas styled "uncle" by John Cherleton), 324 (Thomas styled "cousin" by Roger Mortimer, Earl of March), 342-346, 350-351, 409, 426-427, 433-437, 442-443,465-466 (instances of Thomas styled "cousin" by King Henry IV of England), 347-348 (Thomas styled "cousin" by Philippe of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal), 348-349 (Thomas styled "cousin" by Ralph [Neville], Earl of Westmnorland), 354-355 (Thomas styled "cousin" by Edward, Duke of York), 355-358 (instances of Thomas styled "uncle" by Henry, Prince of Wales later King Henry V), 408 (Thomas styled "cousin" by Henry, Earl of Derby later King Henry IV). A.B. Emden Biog. Reg. of the Univ. of Oxford 1 (1957): 51-53 (biog. of Thomas Arundel). M. Aston Thomas Arundel (1967). Jour. of Ecclesiastical Hist. 24 (1973). P. McNiven Heresy and Politics in the Reign of Henry IV (1987). M.A. Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England (1991): 203-205 (biog. of of Thomas Arundel: " ... independent and courageous, thoughtful and sagacious, principled but never impratical. .. was a munificent benefactor, a loyal friend and ally, a lover of music, and deeply pious ... he banned herectic preaching and heretical books, purged Oxford of heresy.").

ARUNDEL, Archbishop Thomas (I45468)

16467

THOMAS ARUNDEL, K.B., K.G., Chief Butler of England, Deputy Constable of England, Captain of Oswestry and Warden of Marches of North Wales, Warden of Shrewsbury and Marches in Shropshire, Privy Councillor, Treasurer of England, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of Cinque Ports, Lieutenant for North and South Wales, 2nd and only surviving son and heir, born 13 Oct. 1381. Following his father's execution, he joined his uncle, Archbishop Arundel, at Utrecht, and was with Henry IV when he landed at Ravenspur about 4 July 1399. He was restored as Earl of Arundel and Surrey in Oct. 1400. He fought with moderate success against the Welsh in 1401-5, and was victorious against the rebels under Archbishop Scrope in 1405. He married at Lambeth 26 Nov. 1405 BEATRICE (or BEATRIZ) OF PORTUGAL, legitimated daughter of Joao I, King of Portugal and the Algarve, by his mistress, Inez Pires, daughter of Pedro Esteves. They had no issue. He commanded the English forces against the Armagnacs in 1411. He was appointed chief ambassador to treat with Burgundy in 1411. He served in the French campaign of 1415, with 100 men-at-arms and 300 archers, and was present at the taking of Harfleur. THOMAS ARUNDEL, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, died testate 13 (or 14) Oct. 1415, and was buried at the collegiate church at Arundel. He left a will dated 1 Oct. 1415, proved 11 Dec. 1415. In 1426 his widow, Beatrice, had letters of protection granted her, she being about to go abroad. She married (2nd) by license dated 20 Jan. 1432/3 (as his 2nd wife) John Holand, Knt., K.G., Earl of Huntingdon and Ivry, afterwards Duke of Exeter, Admiral of England, Ireland and Aquitaine, Lieutenant of Aquitaine (died 5 August 1447). She died at Bordeaux 23 Oct. 1439 and was buried with her 1st husband at Arundel. T. Rymer Fredera 8 (1727): 284--285, 611 (Thomas styled "kinsman" by King Henry IV of England). N.H Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 186. E. Blore Monumental Remains of Noble & Eminent Persons (1826). M.A. Tierney Hist. & Antiq. of the Castle and Town of Arundel 1 (1834): chart following 192; 277-287. Col!. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 80-90. c.P. 1 (1910): 245-246 (sub Arundel); 4 (1916): Appendix H, 670 (chart); 5 (1926): 205-211 (sub Exeter); 6 (1926): 654 (sub Huntingdon); 12 Pt. 1 (1953): 512 (sub Surrey). C.P.R 1401-1405 (1905): 138,242 (instances of Thomas styled "king's kinsman"). D.N.B. 7 (1908): 100-103 (biog. of Thomas Fitzalan). C.P.R 1413-1416 (1910): 105,155,278 (instances of Thomas styled "king's kinsman"). L.F. Salzman Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes 2 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 40) (1934): 19-21. H. Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele Archbishop of Canterbury 1414-14432 (Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 71-78, 652 (biog. of Thomas Fitzalan). MD. Legge Anglo-Norman Letters & Petitions (Anglo-Norman Text Soc. 3) (1941): 286-287 ([Thomas], Earl of Arundel, styled "cousin" by King Henry IV of England). VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 252. Cal. IPMs 20 (1995): 207-211. d.s.p. - Died without issue. Upon his death, his title and Castle passed to his cousin, John Fitzalan, 13th Earl of Arundel, the rest of his inheritance was divided among his three surviving sisters, Elizabeth, Joan, and Margaret. Picture of the Monument of Thomas Earl of Arundel and his Countess Beatrice, in Arundel Church. Source: Plantagenet Ancestry.

FITZALAN, Earl Thomas (I45804)

16468

Thomas BARNES, born in New Haven, 26 August 1653, removed when a child with is father to North Haven, where he lived throughout his life. He married first at New Haven, Mr. John Moss performing the ceremony, 26 June 1675, to Mary HUBBARD.[14] Some writers assert she died the following spring, and he re-married about 1677.[15], Abigail, daughter of John and Mercy FROST. Since the New Haven records carry clear entries of the marriage of John Frost and Mercy Paine on 9 June 1664[16] and of the births of their children succeeding, including that of Abigail on 8 October 1670, it is beyond reason she became the wife of Thomas Barnes in 1677 (at the age of seven), and bore children from 1679 to 1711, a period of thirty-two years, as must be inferred from the statements mentioned.

The more probable assumption is the entry: "Mary, wife unto Thomas Barnes died April 1676," found on the old records[17] refers to Mary, the first wife of Thomas Barnes, Sr., as claimed by the writer of Coe-Ward Memorial and others. Mary Hubbard Barnes doubtless lived for some years, and became the mother of a number of the thirteen children accredited to Thomas Barnes, Jr.

Thomas Barnes died in North Haven in 1712, aged fifty-nine.[18] His widow Abigail remarried Samuel TUTTLE, born 9 January 1659/60. She died about 1746.

BARNES, Thomas V (I30876)

16469

Thomas Benjamin Darling

Birth: May 7, 1730
Mendon
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
Death: Oct. 22, 1776
Mendon
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA

Note regarding Thomas' death date, offered by Herman Weiland: The probable explanation for the year of death inscribed on the headstone is that after the settlement in 1778, the family bought the stone but neglected to tell the engraver the correct date and he assumed it was 1778. Susan Salisbury's 2003 book, "The Darlings of Mendon Massachusetts", p. 28 lists the date as 1776.

Thomas was the eleventh of eleven children born to Benjamin and Mehitable (White) Darling. Benjamin and Mehitable's children, all born in Mendon, were:
1) Mehitable, b. Mar. 10, 1709/10, d. before 1770, the date of Benjamin's will.
2) Deborah, b. Apr. 22, 1711, marr. Daniel Wheelock
3) Benjamin, b. Mar. 15, 1714/15, marr. Elizabeth Force on Jul. 28, 1773 in Smithfield, R.I.
4) Joseph, b. Apt. 21, 1716, marr. Mary Fish
5) Ebenezer, b. Aug. 25, 1718
6) Peter, b. Jun. 12, 1720.
7) Hannah, b. Mar 25, 1722, marr. Jeremiah Battles
8) Abigail, b. Mar. 15, 1723/24, marr. Elisha Inman
9) Samuel,b. Aug. 1, 1726, marr. Sarah White
10) Elizabeth, b. Apr. 11, 1729, marr. Benjamin Medbury
11) Thomas, b. May 7, 1730, marr. Rachel White

He married Rachel White on Dec 17,1749 at Mendon,MA. She was the daughter of Joseph White III and Prudence Smith White.

Children of Thomas and Rachel (White Darling, all born in Mendon were:
1) Rhoda Darling, b. May 8, 1750, marr. Jeptha Clark
2) Joanna Darling, b. Feb. 1, 1752, marr. first, Stephen Hilliard/Hilyard and second, Enoch Thayer.
3) Rachel Darling, b. May 1, 1755, marr. Reuben Holbrook.
4) Prudence Darling, b. Sept. 28, 1757, marr. Nahor Staples.
5) Simeon Darling, b. Mar. 21, 1760, marr. Anna (Hannah) Phelps.
6) Seth Darling, b. Mar. 21, 1764, marr. Chloe Marsh.
7) Benjamin Darling, b. Feb. 28, 1766, d. bef. Apr. 14, 1778(not included in guardianship in father's will, so perhaps he died).
8) John Darling, b. Jun. 9, 1768, marr. Polly Warfield.
9) Nathan Darling, b. Dec. 17, 1770, marr. Polly Young.
10) Alpheus Darling, b. Nov. 7, 1773, marr. Lois Kellogg.

On Apr. 14, 1778, Rachel became the guardian of her five sons who were not yet adults. These were: Simeon, Seth, John, Nathan and Alpheus. Since Benjamin is not included, he is presumed to have died. The property of Thomas Darling was partitioned by a committee that presented its report on Dec. 14, 1778. In the partition, Rachel received a third of the property as her dower. The oldest son, Simeon, was given two shares as provided by law. Each of the other sons received one share. The daughters had previously been given something, which was considered in determining their respective shares.

For the next ten years, Rachel remained a widow and took care of her family. But some of her children married and moved away. Then, on Feb. 1, 1787, she married James Albee of Uxbridge in Mendon. He had been married to Rachel's sister, Prudence White, who had died earlier. That James Albee was the husband of Prudence White, Rachel's sister, is shown by a deed from James and Prudence Albee to Joseph White Jr., selling their interest in the dower of her mother, Prudence White.

On Jan. 26, 1793, the property Rachel received as her dower was sold to Ebenezer Taft. That transaction was covered in a series of deeds wherein her children relinquished their rights. Rachel's death has not been found, but she was alive on Sept. 25, 1795, when she assented to the probate of her husband, James Albee.

Family links:
Parents:
Benjamin Darling (1688 - 1772)
Mehitable White Darling (1689 - 1730)

Spouse:
Rachel Darling White Albee (1732 - ____)*

Children:
Rachel Darling Holbrook (1755 - 1789)*
Seth Darling (1764 - 1825)*
Alpheus Darling (1773 - 1838)*

Siblings:
Joseph Darling (1716 - 1787)*
Ebenezer Darling (1718 - 1806)*
Samuel Darling (1726 - ____)*
Thomas Benjamin Darling (1730 - 1776)

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
(The death date of 1778 is on the gravestone, but the stonecarver may have erred since Thomas' probate was brought on Jan 23,1777 -- Worcester probate #15472. His death was more likely Oct 22,1776.)

Burial:
Chestnut Hill Cemetery
Millville
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA

Birth
22 Jan 1688/89 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1688
(AGE)
Birth of Brother Thomas White(1691–1732)
15 Apr 1691 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1691
3
Birth of Sister Thankful White(1693–)
2 Aug 1693 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1693
5
Birth of Brother Joseph White(1695–)
28 Aug 1695 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1695
7
Birth of Brother Samuel White(1700–)
21 Sep 1700 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1700
12
Death of Mother Mehitable Thornton(1665–1704)
27 Sep 1704 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1704
16
Marriage
11 Jun 1708 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
Benjamin Darling (1686–1772)
3 Sources
1708
20
Birth of Daughter Mehitable Darling(1709–1770)
10 Nov 1709 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1709
21
Birth of Daughter Deborah Darling(1711–1793)
22 Apr 1711 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1711
23
Birth of Son Joseph Darling(1715–)
Abt 1715 • Prob Mendon, Worcester, MA
1715
26
Birth of Son Joseph Darling(1716–)
14 Apr 1716 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1716
28
Birth of Son Ebenezer Darling(1718–1806)
25 Aug 1718 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1718
30
Birth of Son Peter Darling(1720–)
12 Jun 1720 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1720
32
Birth of Daughter Hannah Darling(1722–1799)
25 Mar 1722 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1722
34
Birth of Son Samuel Darling(1726–1770)
1 Aug 1726 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1726
38
Birth of Daughter Elizabeth Darling(1729–)
11 Apr 1729 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1729
41
Birth of Son Thomas Darling(1730–1776)
7 May 1730 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1730
42
Death
Abt 1730 • Mendon, Worcester, MA
1730
42
Burial
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Millville, Worcester, MA
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WHITE, Mehitable (I21614)

16470

DARLING, Thomas Benjamin (I21625)

16471

Thomas Blackmore was born to Robert Blackmore and Ann Rooney/Hingley? in Stanley Reg.No d.1275 Thomas Blackmores parents annie and Robert were farmers and is registered in the Rate Books as owning a house and 23 acres on Blackmores Rd ( Blackmores Rd is on the Old Stanley Rd just past Silver Creek.

BLACKMORE, Thomas (I14939)

16472

Thomas Blossom was one of seven children of Peter and Annabel Blossom from Great Shelford, Cambs. After his birth the family moved to Stapleford in around 1582, where Peter is described as a "husbandman", or small farmer, in records.

In 1605, at the age of 25 he married Ann Elsdon on 10 Nov 1605 in St Clements, Cambridge Cambridgeshire England, daughter of Cuthbert Helsdon and Margaret Elsdon. The couple fled to the Dutch city of Leiden to escape religious persecution in England along with other exiles known as the Pilgrims. During their time there the couple buried three children who died at a young age.

They first attempted to sail to the New World in 1620 on board the Speedwell, a sister ship of the Mayflower. But while the Mayflower carried America's founding fathers across the Atlantic, the Speedwell developed a leak and had to turn back.

The original Mayflower was dismantled for scrap in 1623, but a second ship of the same name eventually took Thomas Blossom and his family to America at their second attempt in 1629.

Thomas Blossom became an important member of the Pilgrim community as the first Deacon of the Church of Plymouth, but died in 1633 from an infectious fever, probably influenza. After his death, he left behind a daughter Elizabeth, who was nine when the family set sail, and two sons, Thomas and Peter.
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THOMAS BLOSSOM
ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland
MIGRATION: 1629
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: (See discussion below under COMMENTS.)
EDUCATION: His correspondence with William Bradford indicates substantial education This may have taken place at Cambridge, although there is no evidence of him on the university records there.
ESTATE: In the 25 March 1633 Plymouth tax list, "Widdow Blossome" was assessed 9s By the date of the 1634 list she had remarried.
BIRTH: By about 1580 based on date of marriage; he was probably son of Peter and Annabel (_____) Blossom of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire
DEATH: Plymouth before 25 March 1633
MARRIAGE: St. Clement's, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 10 November 1605 Anne Elsdon ; she married (2) Plymouth 17 October 1633 HENRY ROWLEY

CHILDREN:
i Child, bur. Pieterskerke, Leiden, 12 April 1617 [NS] [
ii Son, b. by 1620; accompanied his father on the Speedwell in 1620, returned to Leiden, and died there by 15 December 1625 [MD 5:166-67 (see discussion below)].
iii ELIZABETH, b. ca. 1620; m. (1) Scituate 10 May 1637 Edward FitzRandolph [NEHGR 9:286]; m. (2) Piscataway, New Jersey, Capt. John Pike
iv THOMAS, b. about 1623; m. Barnstable 18 June 1645 Sarah Ewer
v PETER, b. after 1627 (not in 1643 list of men able to bear arms); m. Barnstable 21 June 1663 Sarah Bodfish ].

COMMENTS: In his letter to Bradford from Leiden, dated 15 December 1625 [NS], Blossom closes by stating that "God hath taken away my son, that was with me in the ship, when I went back again; I have only two children which were born since I left you" [MD 5:166-67]. This statement assists greatly in arranging the list of Blossom's children. It also seems to be the only source for the claim that Blossom was one of the passengers on the Speedwell in 1620, and that he and his son had to be left behind; while this is not the only possible conclusion to be drawn from this passage, it is reasonable, and is followed here.
The claim that Thomas Blossom was deacon at Plymouth derives from Savage, but this appears to be a misreading of Prince, who was supposedly quoting Morton, but was in fact misquoting Bradford. In his history of Plymouth Bradford included an account of the infectious epidemic of 1633, and mentioned specifically Thomas Blossom, Richard Masterson and Samuel Fuller as dying in that year. He refers to Samuel Fuller's services as deacon, and this was apparently transferred by Savage to Blossom [Bradford 260]. Prince quoted most of this same section, but altered the sequence, although not enough to confuse the attribution of the office of deacon, and claimed Morton as his source; he mentioned Blossom and Fuller, but not Masterson [Prince 437]. Morton also paraphrased this same passage, but noted by name only Fuller, so he cannot have been the sole source for Prince [Morton 108]. To this confusing mix we must add Morton's account of the early history of the Plymouth church, in which he explicitly states that Richard Masterson and Thomas Blossom were named deacons after the death of Samuel Fuller [PChR 1:83]. But Bradford's language (on which Morton must have been relying here as well) carries the clear implication that Fuller died after Masterson and Blossom, and Samuel Fuller was still alive on 1 July 1633 to receive an allocation of mowing ground [PCR 1:14] whereas Thomas Blossom was already dead by that date. In this instance Morton seems to have misinterpreted Bradford in a different way, and his claim that Masterson and Blossom were briefly deacons at Plymouth should not be accepted.
This passage also bears on the date of death for Thomas Blossom. Most of the deaths in 1633 occurred in the months of June, July and August, and it appears from Prince's version that Blossom falls within this period. But in Bradford the reference to these summer months comes several lines after the mention of Blossom, and Blossom's death is not so closely tied to Fuller's in Bradford as it is in Prince. Blossom had certainly died before 1 July 1633, as a letter of that date from Rev. Ralph Smith in Plymouth to Rev. Hugh Goodyear in Leiden refers to "Tho: Bloso[m] our brother who now sleepeth" [TAG 63:77]. The tax list of 25 March 1633 includes an entry for Widow Blossom, so the death apparently took place before that date, although this list could have been altered at a later date [PCR 1:11].
Thomas Blossom:Baptism: 1568, All Saints, Cambridge, England.
Date born 2: 1568, England.
Died 3: 1684, Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ.102

Thomas Blossom and Ann Elsdon:Marriage: 10 Nov 1605, St Clements, Cambridge Cambridgeshire England.
Children of Thomas Blossom and Ann Elsdon are:
+Frances Blossom, b. 1591, England, d. 1635, Duxbury, Plymouth, Mass..

BLOSSOM, Deacon Thomas (I14186)

16473

Thomas Chipman was born, probably in Whitechurch, near Dorchester, England about 1567; died about 1623. He owned property in Whitechurch which yielded him an income of £50 per annum. In 1775, Thomas Chipman of Salisbury, Conn., caused inquiries to be made by Silas Dean or Benj. Franklin, colonial agents in England, in regard to the estate, and ascertained that it lay as above described and that the rental was £500. He was prevented from prosecuting his claim by the breaking out of the Revolution and its consequences.

CHIPMAN, Thomas (I53897)

16474

Thomas Crowther, my great-great-grandfather, was born at Estope in Shropshire, England, in the year 1823.
The first or second time that he attended a Latter-day Saint meeting one Elder spoke in tongues and another one interpreted the tongues. The substance of it was that that branch of the Church should grow and prosper and many should be added to the Church.
He saw that prediction fulfilled. In the next three months there were forty-four added to that branch--he and his wife among them.
Three years after joining the Church, having a desire to join with the saints in America, they save out of his wages each week, and sold their furniture, and in six months they had enough money for their passage.
At St. Louis his wife died, leaving him with a little girl--Mary Ann.
They crossed the plains, twelve hundred miles, with an ox team company. He drove four yoke of steers, all wild Texas cattle, for which he got passage for himself, Mary Ann, and their baggage.
In 1855, he met Jane Jewkes, a widow, whom he had known in England, and married her. She was my great-great-grandmother.
--Constance Jane Harmsen, San Luis Stake, (Colorado).
The Children's Friend, July 1941, pages 326-327

Thomas CROWTHER
Standardized: Thomas Crowther
Born: 1824
Origin: Bloomfield
Occupation: Blast Furnace Man
Voyage:Liverpool to New Orleans
27 Nov 1854 – 12 Jan 1855
Voyage Accounts: Accounts for this voyage
Ship: Clara Wheeler
Family Members:
Sarah CROWTHER — age 31 (b. 1824), from Bloomfield
Mary A. CROWTHER — age 3 (b. 1852), from Bloomfield
Liverpool to New Orleans
Ship: Clara Wheeler
Departure: 27 Nov 1854
Arrival: 12 Jan 1855
Church Leader: Henry E. Phelps
# LDS Passengers: 440
A Compilation of General Voyage Notes
"DEPARTURE OF THE CLARA WHEELER. -- The Clara Wheeler, with 421 Saints on board, including infants, cleared for New Orleans on the 24th ultimo. Elder Henry E. Phelps took the presidency of the company, with Elders John Parson and James Crossly as his counsellors. We commend these brethren and their company to the watchful care and protection of our Heavenly Father, and trust that his blessings will constantly attend them in their journey to the land and cities of Zion." "THE CLARA WHEELER put into the Mersey on the 30th November, having been driven back by stress of weather. We understand that she received no material damage and the Saints on board were generally well, with the exception of seasickness. After receiving further supplies of water and provisions, she again put to sea on the 7th instant with a favorable wind." "SEVENTY-EIGHTH COMPANY -- Clara Wheeler, 422 souls. The ship Clara Wheeler, with four hundred and twenty-two Saints on board cleared the port at Liverpool November 24 , 1854, bound for New Orleans. Elder Henry E. Phelps was appointed president of the company, with Elders John Parson and James Crossly as counselors. After a rough experience in the Irish Channel, being unable to proceed against the incessant head winds and rough weather, the Clara Wheeler was obliged to return to port on the thirtieth of November. During this extraordinary experience the Saints suffered considerable with seasickness. After receiving further supplies of water and provisions, the ship again put to sea on the seventh of December with a favorable wind, and on the tenth she cleared the Irish Channel after which she had a very quick trip to New Orleans, where she arrived on the eleventh of January, 1855. Soon after leaving Liverpool the measles broke out in the company, resulting in the death of twenty children and two grown persons. One child also died after the arrival at New Orleans which made twenty three deaths in all. On the twelfth of January, James McGaw, the church emigration agent at New Orleans, contracted with the captain of the steamboat Ocena, to take the passengers to St. Louis at the rate of three dollars and a half for each adult, and half of that for children between three and twelve years old; and twenty-four hours after their arrival in New Orleans, the emigrants were on their way up the river. Nearly one half of the company had not the means wherewith to pay their passage to St. Louis; but the more well-to-do Saints who had more money that they needed themselves, were influenced to lend to those who had none, and thus all who desired to continue the journey were enabled to do so. At St. Louis where the company arrived in safety, the emigrants were met by Apostle Erastus Snow and others, who gave the new arrivals a hearty welcome, and conducted them to comfortable quarters, which had been secured for their accommodation. This company, although leaving England in the latter part of 1854, really belonged to the emigration of 1855, in connection with which the Saints who crossed the Atlantic in the Clara Wheeler continued the journey to the Valley. (Millennial Star, Vol. XVI: pp.778, 815; Vol XVII: pp.10, 142, 184)." "Monday. 27. [Nov. 1854] -- The ship Clara Wheeler sailed from Liverpool, England, with 422 Saints, under the direction of Henry E. Phelps. The company arrived at New Orleans Jan. 11, 1855, and at St Louis Jan. 22nd."

"When I was nine years old my parents sent me to school for about twelve months. After that my father having a large family, put me to work as soon as I was able. By this time I was able to read in the Testament without much difficulty. But I never made a letter or figure at school. What I know about writing or the value of figures I have picked up myself and that after a hard days work. At eleven years of age I hired out to an old gentleman by the name of John Bradley at a place called Ditton Friers. I stayed with him for two years and four months, and worked on his farm. He was a good man as far as he had light and knowledge: he was a strict Methodist and taught me good moral principles that had a lasting impression on my mind in after years. When I left him I hired to a man by the name of Edward Hughes, at a place called Kinsely, near Bridge North. I stayed with him two years, but did not get that religious training as I did of my former master. For he was a worldly man. I continued to hire out until I was twenty-two years of age, and notwithstanding the religious training that I has received in my youth it did not seem to have that impression on my mind as it does on some people; that is I could not reconcile myself in regard to what God required me to do to be saved.
I went from one sect to another but I still felt an aken void. I seemed to be hunting something that none of the religious sect had got. About this time I was 22 years of age when I quit farmer's service and went into Staffordshire and worked at blast furnaces, that is manufacturing of iron. I continued to work at this business the remainder of the time I stayed in England. When I was about 26 years of age I married a young woman by the name of Sarah Thompson. About the time that we got married I went and paid a visit to my mother-in-law. When for the first time my eyes beheld the Book of Mormon. This was about 1849. There happened to be a Mormon Elder at her home, by the name of Thomas Shelly, he presented me with a copy of the Book of Mormon which I took home with me and read it through, and truly I thought I had found the pearl of great price. My father and mother-in-law had already been baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints, and had two of their children healed in a miraculous manner. They were both healed by the power of God, which cased quite a stir in the neighborhood. Several joined the church there about this time, and as I stated I read the Book of Mormon through and was very much interested in the little light that I had gained through reading that precious record. It caused me to long for more. I was not long in hunting up the place where the Latter-day Saints held their meetings, and the first or second time I went to see them, one elder spoke in Tongues and another interpreted the Tongue. The substance of it was, that branch should grow and prosper and many should be added to the church. I shall never forget the sensation that came over me at that time, for I was satisfied that these men spoke by the power of God. I saw that prophecy fulfilled to the very letter.
In the next three months there were 44 added to that branch, myself and wife included among them. We were baptized Oct. 13th, 1850, into the Tipton Branch of the Birmingham Conference, By Elder George Hill, President of that branch. I was ordained to the office of Priest, December 26, 1851 by Elder John Weston. Later ordained an Elder by William George, 13 May, 1953.
About this time I met with a bad accident. I hurt one of my shoulders so bad I could not lift my arm up. I had faith in the power of God and his ordinances. I went to meeting at night and took with me some oil and requested the elders to anoint my shoulder with the oil and pray to the Lord in the name of Jesus Christ to heal me, which they did and I was healed from that very moment, and went to my work the next morning to the astonishment of all my fellow workmen. Although my should was back and blue and discolored for weeks afterward; but not to hurt me in the least. This was the first time I has the power of God manifest upon my own body. Previous to my hearing the Gospel I had one of my legs broken which caused me to he helpless for three months. This was about two months after I was married. During this time I read and reflected a great deal. I prayed earnestly for the Lord to guide me in the right path. I realize that it was through this circumstance that led me to investigate and embrace the Gospel. Quite a number of years have passed since then. I am writing from memory at this late date, thinking it would be of interest to my children after I am gone. What I write is the Truth.

Part of this story is included in the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868
Seth M. Blair/Edward Stevenson Company (1855) - Crowther, Thomas, Autobiographical sketch, 62-63, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah, vol. 1.

CROWTHER, Thomas IV (I21226)

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Thomas Cushman was born 16 Sep 1637 in Plymouth, Mass. His parents were Thomas CUSHMAN Sr. and Mary ALLERTON. He first married Ruth Howland on 17 Nov 1664. After Ruth died, he married Abigail TITUS Fuller on 16 Oct 1679 in Rehoboth, Mass. Thomas died 23 AUG 1726 in Scituate, Mass.
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Thomas Cushman, the first son of Plymouth’s Ruling Elder Thomas Cushman and Mary (Allerton) Cushman, a Mayflower passenger. Little is known of his growing years. Some time in the early 1660’s, Thomas Jr. began courting Ruth Howland. Ruth was the youngest daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland & Elizabeth Tilley and very near neighbors to the Cushman Family. On 7 Mar 1665 Thomas Jr. was fined five pounds by the Court for committing “‘carnal copulation with his now wife before marriage, but after contract.”

The common practice in vogue then of “courting ” by young men and maidens, and the uniform fashion ” of keeping company till the small hours of the night,” was one that did not tend to promote a high degree of virtuous intercourse.

Thomas did not suffer much materially in his reputation by an error which he soon remedied by marriage and was, during a long life, a worthy member of the Congregational Church at Plympton, of which his brother Isaac was the Pastor. However, Thomas Cushman, Jr. squandered the opportunity to be considered to succeed his father as Ruling Elder. In 1694, Thomas’ younger brother Isaac was chosen to succeed his father as Ruling Elder. In 1664 Thomas Jr. and Ruth were married and remained in Plymouth. “. … they lived on the west side of the highway that leads from Plympton meeting house to the north part of the town, and ‘Colehester Brook’ ran through his farm, which contained a large quantity of land.” Ruth died as a young woman sometime after 1672, and Thomas Jr. married Abigail Fuller in 1679.

Thomas’s second wife [and our ancestor] was Abigail Fuller of Rehoboth, and they were members of the Congregational Church at Plympton. They had 4 children: Job, Bartholomew, Samuel & Benjamin. Plympton was divided from Plymouth in 1707 and Thomas’s farm was then in the limits of the new town. His farm was large, with many buildings and with Colchester Brook running through it. It lay west of the highway going north from the Plympton meeting house. For many years Thomas had been a surveyor of highways for the town of Plymouth.

“On 21 May 1721 Thomas Cushman of Plimpton, yeoman, deeded to his son Benjamin the house and land where Benjamin was living. On the same day he deeded to son Samuel the land where Samuel was living. On 25 Dec. 1721 he deeded the land where he, Thomas, was living to sons Benjamin and Samuel.”
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CUSHMAN, Thomas Jr (I27841)

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Thomas Day', b. in 1675. Was drowned on a fishing voyage to
the Isle of Sables in 1716.

NEVILLE, William de (I49424)

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Thomas de Cantilupe (c. 1218 – 25 August 1282) (alias Cantelow, Cantelou, Canteloupe, etc., Latinised to de Cantilupo)[1] was Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Hereford and was canonised in 1320 by Pope John XXII.

Origins
Cantilupe was born at Hambleden in Buckinghamshire, a son of William de Cantilupe (d. 1251), an Anglo-Norman magnate and a minister of King John, and nephew of Walter de Cantilupe (d. 1266), Bishop of Worcester.

Career
Cantilupe was educated at Oxford, Paris and Orléans, and was a teacher of canon law at the University of Oxford, where he became Chancellor in 1261.[2]

During the Second Barons' War, Cantilupe favoured Simon de Montfort and the baronial party. He represented the barons before King Louis IX of France at Amiens in 1264.

On 25 February 1264, when he was Archdeacon of Stafford, Cantilupe was made Lord Chancellor of England,[3] but was deprived of the office after de Montfort's death at the Battle of Evesham, and lived abroad for a while. Following his return to England, he was again appointed Chancellor of Oxford University, where he lectured on theology and held several ecclesiastical appointments.[2]

Bishop of Hereford
In 1274 Cantilupe attended the Second Council of Lyons[4] and on 14 June 1275 he was appointed Bishop of Hereford, being consecrated on 8 September 1275.[5]

Cantilupe was now a trusted adviser of King Edward I and when attending royal councils at Windsor Castle or at Westminster he lived at Earley in Berkshire. Even when differing from the king's opinions, he did not forfeit his favour.

Cantilupe had a "great conflict" in 1290 with the "Red Earl", Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 6th Earl of Hertford, concerning hunting rights in Malvern, Worcestershire, and a ditch dug by de Clare. The issue was settled by costly litigation.[6]

After the death in 1279 of Robert Kilwardby, Archbishop of Canterbury, a friend of Cantilupe's, and formerly his confessor, a series of disputes arose between him and John Peckham, the new archbishop.[2] The disagreements culminated in Peckham excommunicating Cantilupe, who proceeded to Rome to pursue the matter with the pope.[7]

Death, burial, and canonisation
Cantilupe died at Ferento, near Orvieto, in Italy, on 25 August 1282[2][5] He is buried in Hereford Cathedral.[2] Part of the evidence used in his cause of canonisation was the supposed raising from the dead of William Cragh, a Welsh rebel who was hanged in 1290, eight years after Cantilupe's death. A papal inquiry was convened in London on 20 April 1307 to determine whether or not Cantilupe had died excommunicate, since this would have precluded his being canonised. Forty-four witnesses were called and various letters produced, before the commissioners of the inquiry concluded that Cantilupe had been absolved in Rome before his death.[7] It was difficult for his cause of death to be determined as much of his body had disintegrated.

After a papal investigation lasting almost 13 years, Cantilupe was canonised by Pope John XXII on 17 April 1320.[8] His feast day was fixed on 2 October.[9] His shrine became a popular place of pilgrimage, but only its base survived the Reformation until a new upper section (a feretory) was recently recreated under the guidance of architect Robert Chitham. The new section is in vivid colours with a painted scene of the Virgin & Child holding the Mappa Mundi. A reliquary containing his skull has been held at Downside Abbey in Somerset since 1881.

In the current Latin edition of the Roman Martyrology (2004 edition), Cantilupe is listed under 25 August as follows: "At Montefiascone in Tuscia, the passing of Saint Thomas Cantelupe, Bishop of Hereford in England, who, resplendent with learning, severe toward himself, to the poor however showed himself a generous benefactor".[10]

Legacy
Cantilupe appears to have been an exemplary bishop in both spiritual and secular affairs. His charities were large and his private life blameless. He was constantly visiting his diocese, correcting offenders and discharging other episcopal duties, and he compelled neighbouring landholders to restore estates which rightly belonged to the see of Hereford. Cantilupe has been lauded as the "Father of Modern Charity," and is cited as an inspiration by Mother Teresa and Melinda Gates.[11]

The Cantilupe Society was founded in 1905 to publish the episcopal registers of the See of Hereford, of which Cantilupe's is the first in existence.

[Source: Wikipedia, "Thomveas de Cantilupe", retrieved 27 November 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]

CANTELUPE, Bishop Thomas (I49205)

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Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk1
M, #1958, b. 22 March 1365/66, d. 22 September 1400
Last Edited=11 Mar 2015
Consanguinity Index=0.61%
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk was born on 22 March 1365/66.1 He was the son of John de Mowbray, 4th Lord Mowbray and Elizabeth de Segrave, Baroness Segrave.1 He married, firstly, Elizabeth Lestrange, Baroness Strange (of Blackmere), daughter of John Lestrange, 2nd Lord Strange (of Blackmere) and Isabel de Beauchamp, on 15 March 1382/83.2 He married, secondly, Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 4th/11th Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth de Bohun, in July 1384.2 He died on 22 September 1400 at age 34 at Venice, ItalyG, from the plague.2
He was appointed Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.) circa 1383.1 He was created 1st Earl of Nottingham [England] on 12 January 1382/83.1 He succeeded as the 7th Lord Segrave [E., 1295] on 12 February 1382/83.1 He succeeded as the 6th Lord Mowbray [E., 1295] on 12 February 1382/83.1 He held the office of Marshal of England in 1385.1 He held the office of Earl Marshal on 12 January 1385/86.1 He held the office of Lord Appellant in February 1387/88.2 He held the office of Keeper of Berwick and Roxburgh in 1389.2 He held the office of Captain of Calais from February 1390/91 to 1395/96.2 He was King's Lieutenant of Artois, Calais, Flanders and Picardy in 1392.2 He held the office of Ambassdor to France in February 1396/97.2 He held the office of Ambassdor to the Rhine Palatinate in June 1397.2 He was created 1st Duke of Norfolk [England] on 29 September 1397.1 In 1398 he quarelled with the Duke of Hereford (later King Herey IV) each accusing the other of treawon, and both were banished.2 He held the office of Warden of the East March in 1399.2 He succeeded as the 3rd Earl of Norfolk [E., 1312] on 24 March 1398/99.1 On 6 October 1399 his Dukedom of Norfolk was annulled by Parliament (after King Henry IV usurped teh throne).2
Children of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Fitzalan
Lady Margaret de Mowbray+3 d. a 1437
Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk3 b. 17 Sep 1385, d. 8 Jun 1405
John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk+2 b. 1392, d. 19 Oct 1432
Lady Isabel de Mowbray+3 b. a 1400, d. 27 Sep 1452
Citations
[S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2820. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 253. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

The Families of Stewart, Baskerville, and Fitzalan Sir Robert WINGFIELD & Elizabeth GOUSELL "Wynkefeld The Saxon held honor and fee, ere William The Norman came over the sea" ....Ancient Suffolk, England Rhyme Wingfield Family Society Robert was Knight of Letheringham, a Member of Parliament for Suffolk, England and a steward to Sir John de Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk, 1447. Through his wife's line are ties to the royal houses of England. Robert WINGFIELD Sir was born about 1403 in Letheringham, Suffolk, England. Letheringham Moated Letheringham Hall came to the Wingfields when his grandfather Sir Thomas Wingfield married Margaret Bovile. Sir Thomas was the brother of Sir John Wingfield of Wingfield. The noble Old Hall was pulled down in 1770 and an attractive farmhouse now sits on the site. The Church of Letheringham This ancient and historically interesting church reflects the Wingfield's 3-centuries presence and contains several Wingfield brasses including one of Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk, 1389. It is one of the largest brasses in England. He was Knight of Letheringham in 1426. He were politically involved as Member of Parliament in 1428 in Suffolk, England. He signed a will on 6 October 1454 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He died before 21 November 1454 in Letheringham, Suffolk, England. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London about 1440 and had been in the service of Queen Margaret of Anjou, 1445-1447. He was Steward to John de Mowbray, the Duke of Norfolk, 1447. WINGFIELD, a parish in the hundred of HOXNE, county of SUFFOLK, 5 from Eye. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, was made collegiate in 1362: it is built of flints and stones of various colours, exhibiting a fine and rather uncommon appearance. In the chancel, of which the architecture is highly enriched, are some superb monuments and ancient brasses of the Wingfields and De la Poles: among those of the latter family is one to the memory of Michael, first Earl of Suffolk, who, in the reign of Richard II., built the castle, of which the south front still remains, and the west side has been converted into a farm-house: these ruins, which are surrounded by a moat, are situated about a quarter of a mile north-west of the church, on a thickly-wooded plain. Of the college, founded on the south side of the church by Sir John Wingfield, in 1362, for a provost and nine priests, all that remains is the west side of the quadrangle, now used as a farm-house; it was valued, at the dissolution, at £50 per annum. He was married to Elizabeth GOUSELL (daughter of Robert GOUSELL Sir and Elizabeth FITZ-ALAN) about 1427 in Derbyshire, England. Their marriage is entered in the Visitation of Suffolk taken in 1561 as 'Sir Robert Wingfield . . . maryed Elizabeth Daughtr and heyr of Robert Gowsell & of Elizabeth his wyfe Daughtr and one of theyres of Rychard erll of arondell . . .' A brass effigy formerly in Letheringham church confirms this identification. It shows the arms of Wingfield impaling Goushill and bears the inscription 'Her lieth S'r Thomas Wingfield, knyght, Richard Wyngfeld and William Wyngfeld, Squyres, sonns of S'r Rob't Wyngfeld, knyght, and of lady Elizabeth his wif, syster to the duke of Norff' Elizabeth Goushill's half brother, by her mother's second husband, was John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. The brass would date to a period not long after 1510 when the last two of the three brothers died. Elizabeth GOUSELL was born about 1402 in Derbyshire, England. She died after 1453 in England. Dorothy WINGFIELD was born about 1566 in Upton, Castre, Cambridgeshire, England. She died on 7 November 1619 in Northborough, Cambridgeshire, England. She was buried on 7 November 1619 in Northborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Dorothea, called the second daughter of Robert Wingfield and his wife Elizabeth Cecil, and as wife of Adam Claypole of Lolham, Northamptonshire, by Robert Wingfield, her brother's son, at the 1618 Visitation of co. Northampton (College of Arms, ms., Coll of Augustine Viscent [died 1626], later Windson Herald, under whose supervision the 1618-19 Visitation of co. Northampton was conducted.] For an unknown reason, the pedigree was not entered in the official record of that visitation. P.L. Dickinson suggests that one possibility is that the Wingfields did not pay the requisite fee. She was married to Adam CLAYPOOLE Esq. (son of James CLAYPOOLE Esq. and Joan HENSEN) on 30 September 1586 in St. George's Church, Stamford, Northamptonshire, England. Adam 'Cleapole' married 'Dorithye Wyngfelde', 1586/87 Adam CLAYPOOLE Esq. was born in June 1565 in Northborough, Cambridgeshire, England. He was baptised on 20 June 1565 in St. Andrews Church, Northborough, Cambridgeshire, England. He died on 2 March 1631 in Northborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Some sources say 1634. 'of Latham'. Heir to his brother, John's, estate. He held various lands including the manors of Northborough and Lolham (also called Lolsham, or Leham) Maxey and Deepingate, which were located about seven miles northwest of Peterborough. NORTHBOROUGH, a Parish in the liberty of PETERBOROUGH, County of NORTHAMPTON (now Cambridgeshire), 1¾ mile from Market-Deeping. The living is a rectory, in the Archdeaconry of Northampton, and Diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £10. 19. 7., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, has a fine admixture of the Norman and the various later styles of English architecture, and contains a monument, with other memorials, to the family of Claypole, of whom John married Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who created him a Baronet in 1657, and made him Master of the Horse, and a Lord of the Bedchamber. Their ancient mansion, a beautiful specimen of the decorated style, has been converted into a farm-house. ---------------------- Source: 1. National Library of Indonesia "Tapel Adam" Bat Cedotschap Jar. Udos. B.G.v.K.e.W. 393. Kanjeng Nabi Adam to Kingdoms of Indonesia. 2. A Family Tree From Adam to Jesus by C. Hemmelman, Jerusalem Distributor The Three Arches Co Ltd. P. O. Box 214, Bethlehem, Israel. 3. Old Testament, Books of Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, The New Testament. In addition, partial genealogies of Josephus Flavius (Joseph ben Matthias) and of Herod the Great have been added for their inherent interest. 4. Bible: Genesis 10:24 and 11:14-17; 1 Chronicles 1:18; Luke 3:35. Jewish tradition suggests that the name Hebrew is derived from the name Eber. (Also from Early Families of the Earth) 5. The Davidson Genealogy - EBER of Heber ("fellowship") the father of the Hebrew so called spoke his language, born A.M. 1723 (B.C. 2287) died A.M. 2187 (B.C. 1817) aged 464. Thoroton's Nottinghamshire (18th Century) Thurgarton Hundred-Hoveringham. Also spelled Gaushill, Goushull. Knt., Lord of Hault Hucknall Manor, County Derby, who had been an Esquire to the first Duke of Norfolk. "Swayne, before the conquest, had a manor in Hoveringham, which answered the publick tax or for two car.two bov.(a). The land was four car. There afterwards Walter de Aincurt (whose fee it became) had one demesne, two car. and six sochm. on three bovats, and one third of a bovat of his land, nine villains, three bordars, having four car. There was a priest and a church, and two mills 40s. two piscaries, 8s. and fourty acres of meadow. In the Confessours time it was valued at 4l. and when the Book of Doomsday was made, at 10s. more, having soc in Fiscartune, Mortune, and Farnesfeld.(b). Hugo de Hoveringham paid four marks for two knights fees, in the time of H. 3. he was a benefactor to Thurgarton, as was also Robert his father, and Hugh his grandfather, and Emme his grandmother, named in that place, to which this church was given, by Robert his said father. They had interest in Flintham, and Radcliffe on Trent, as in those towns may be perceived; as had also the family of Gousell, who continued here long after them, (c). whereof Raph de Gousle, son of Robert, had a son called Sir Walter de Goushill, who married Matilda, one of the two Co-heirs of Matthew de Hatersege, the other sister Cecilia was the wife of ___ Langford, and mother of Nigellus, father of Oliver, father of John, father of Nicholas de Langford, who lived 4 E. 3. (d). (e). Matilda who had been wife of Sir Walter de Goushill, purchased of William, son of Hugh de Hoveringham, a certain place in the west part of the meadow of Hoveringham, called Yirne, or Thirne, (f). upon which the meadow of the prior of Thurgarton, and John de Gousill abutted on the west part, and common meadow of Hoveringham on the east, for which she gave him 40s. and a quarter of barley, he reserving only a penny rent yearly, to be paid at Christmas to him and his heirs, which said rent Hugh Sharpe, and Matilda his wife released to the prior and covent of Thurgarton, to whom Simon de Gousil, son of Matilda first named, together with some other meadow, which his said mother gave him, conveyed it, (g). and Walter de Goushull, knight, grandson of the said Matilda, (by her eldest son Walter (or John) confirmed the gift of the said Sir Simon, his uncle. (Thereafter is recorded the descendancy of the Goushill Family as recorded in notes of this file under the name of Robertus de Gousle.) The jury, 20 E/ 2. (h). found that Walter de Goushull, and Matilda his wife, who 30 E. 1. (i). levyed a fine at York, to Lambert de Trickingham, then held in Hoverham, Flintham, Kneveton, and Radcliff on Trent, in this county; and the manor of Barlegurgh, with its members, viz. in Cressewell, Whitewell, and Columbes, and Kinwalmerst, Barleburgh, Woodheus, and Rouley, & c. in Darbyshire; and that Thomas de Goushill, son and heir of the said Walter, was then above thirty years of age. The father of this Walter was certainly John de Gousehull (though in some pleading or other I have seen it Walter also) for Adam de Gousehull, 4 E. 3. (k) claiming son of John, son of Matilda, daughter of Matthew de Hetersege, to be one of the heirs of the said Matthew, to whom it was granted, Oct 25. 33 H. 3. as Nicholas de Langford, before named, was the other. And I find that 53 H. 3. (l). John de Gousell offered himself in a plea at Darby, against Peter de Monteford (Lord of Gunthorp) and others, demanding by what right they exacted common in his land of Hoveringham, seeing he had none in theirs, and they did no service to him for it. The jury, 15 E. 2 (m). found that Stainwath was in Hoveringham, and not in Gunthorp; and that William Baron, and others had forceably pastured the separate grass of Walter de Goushull, with their cattle, to his damage 100s. The jury, 48 E. 3. (n). found that Thomas de Goushill, knight, with Agnes his wife, joyntly held when he died, the manor of Kynwaldmersh, and two parts of Barleburgh &c. and that Nicholas de Goushill Chr. his son and heir was then above sixty years old. In 7 H. 4. o. it was found that Nicholas Gouxhill Chr. held when he died, the moycty of the manor of Kynwaldmersh, &c. and left Nicholas Gouxhill, his son and heir. The seal of Sir Nicolas Goushill, of Hoveringham, to his deed concerning lands in Flintham, dated 16 R. 2. (p). is Barry of six, with a Canton Ermine. (q). Sir Robert Goushill, knight, by his wife Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk (who was daughter and heir of Richard, Earl of Arundell, and widow of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, had two daughters and heirs, Elizabeth wife of Sir Robert Wingfield, and Joan wife of Thomas Baron Standley. Anthony Wingfeld, Esquire, 5 H. 8. r. suffered a recovery of the manor of Barleburgh, with the appurtenances in Darbyshire: And at the same time Humfrey Wyngfeld, Esquire, Francis Hall, and others claimed against him the moyeties of the manors of Hoveringham, and Flintham, as in that place is said; (s). which Arthur Hall is supposed long after to fell to Trinity College in Cambridge, to which it now belongs. There was a fine levied at York, 10 and 11 E. 3. (t). between Thomas de Hotot (mentioned in Radcliff) quer. and William de Hotot, deforcient, of the manor of Hoveringham, with the appurtenances, two mess. two tosts, six bovats, and one acre of land with the appurtenances in Radcliff, on Trent, and Kneveton, whereby the premises were settled on Thomas de Hotot for life, remainder on Walter, son of the said William de Hotot, and on Alianor his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to the right heirs of William. (u). In the 27 E. 3. William Buxhum, of Hekelinge, and Robert Cok, of Thorgarton, chaplains, and Roger of the Halle, of the fame, seossees of Tho. de Hotot, gave the manor of Hovingham, with the homages, rents, and services of the free-holders, named in his deed, to Robert, the prior, and the covent of Thurgarton, and their successors. This lordship, Thurgarton tenements, and those in Flintham, which belonged to this fame priory now belong to Trinty College, in Cambridge, and Mr. Cecil Cooper continueth grand tenant to that society, as his family hath been formerly. In Hoveringham Church North Ile, Paly of six Arg. and Gules on a chief Azure a feffe double dance, Or, Hatherfege. Or 3. Chevrons Gules A Chief varry. (St. Quintin perhaps.) In the South Ile, and Chancel, Azure a feffe double dancy and Billitte, Or, Deincourt. Ona Plain Stone in the South Ile, Nicholas de Gozill miles, filius Thomas de Goufell militis, qui obitt mortem die S. Prifce Anno dom. 1393. Upon the wall is painted, "Here lyeth the boy of Sir Nicholas Goufhill son of Sir Thomas Gozill, which Sir Nicholas died in the year 1393." (St. Prifca the Virgin is 18. January. By stone is a fair tomb for Sir Robert Gousell, and the Dutchess of Norfolk his lady, upon which are their statues, as by the coronet on the head of hers is supposed.--Under his head lyeth the figure of a blackamores head crowned, and part of the body, with a wreath about his neck. About the tomb were the arms of Leek, Langford, Babington, Chaworth impaling Caltofts, (Caythorpe), Rempstons, and divers others which were worn out in Mr. St. Lo Knivetons (u). time, who notes that Sir Robert Gousell and the Dutchess were married 2 H. 4. Footnotes Sources as follows: (a)Lib. Dooms. (b)Test. de Nev. (c)Regist. de Russord. penes Geor. vic. Halifax p. 47. (d)Quo, War. 4 E 3. rot. 2. Derb. (e)Regist. de Thurg. p. 56. (f)lb. (g)lb (h)Esc. 20 E. 2. n. 47. (i)Hill,30 E.1. Fin. Ebor. (k)Quo War. 4 E. 3. rot. 2. Derb. (l)Pl. de Jur. & Assis. apud Derb. 53 H. 3-ro. 18. (m)Pl. de banc. Trin. 15 E. 2. ro.42. (n)Esc. 48 E.3.n.31. (o)Esc. 7H.4.n.7 (p)Autogr. penes Tho. Shipman, gen. (q)Ex Geneal. dom. Byron per Sam. Roper. (r)Trin. 5 H. 8. rot. 321. Derb. (s)rot. 325. (t) Fin. apud Ebor. Mich. 10 E. 3. & postea Hill, 11 E. 3. (u) Regist. de Thurg.p. 168 b. Added note: Many of the "f"s are "s or ss." Ref: The English Ancestry of Peter Bulkeley, Grace Chetwood and Sarah Chauncy A compilation of Ancestral Tables by Frank Wayne Ayers found in the British Section of the Family History Library/SLC P 423-424. "Sir Robert Goushill of Hoveringham, attorney for the Duke of Norfolk when banished by Richard II in 1398. In 1403 Robert was wounded fighting for Henry IV at the Battle of Shrewsbury. For his conduct on the field, Robert was knighted, before being treacherously stabbed to death by his servant for his ring and money. 1403; sumptuous tomb in the Church of Hoveringham." (Visited twice by David and Alice Clarkson Turley) HOVERINGHAM CHURCH: Lordship was purchased lately by Sir Richard Sutton, bart. of John Gilbert Cooper, Esquire; enclosed. The village and lordship are both small. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, has a spire which was lately only a tower, altered, at the expense of Sir Richard. It is but a small church, which contains nothing material besides the old sumptuous tomb, was noticed by Thoroton. It has a Saxon porch with a curious base relief of St. Michael, the patron of the chapel, and the dragon, now nearly hidden by a modern buttress built to support that side of the church. THE ALABASTER TOMB AT HOVERINGHAM: The sumptuous tomb with recumbent effigies are those of Sir Robert Goushill and his wife Elizabeth FitzAlan, great-great granddaughter of Edward I and sister of Thomas, 15th Duke of Arundel. Elizabeth married Robert Goushill of Hoveringham in 1401 after the death of her second husband Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, in the previous year. The Knight wears a camail and hawberk of mail with plate armour upon arms and legs. The collar, which shows his Lancastrian allegiance, and the elaborate sword-belt, are both well-preserved. His head, surmounted by a bascinet with its wreath, rests upon his haulm with its devices of a Saracen head. The Duchess is clothed as a Peeress, with a Coronet denoting her rank. The original Church is of Norman perios, c. 1120. Alice, David, Florence, and Jennifer Turley, and Christine Stewart visited this tomb in Hoveringham in 1991. Pictures and map are in Family Archives - A magnificent experience! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOREWORD: The early 15th century alabaster tomb and effigies of Sir Robert Goushill and his wife Elizabeth Fitz-Alan Duchess of Norfolk are found at the parish church of the village of Hoveringham in Nottinghamshire, England. The tomb is located just to the right as you enter the church. The original medieval St. Michael church at Hoveringham was razed in 1865, and the present plain, small brick church (above left) was erected in it's place. The above copyright photographs were taken during a visit to Hoveringham in 1991 by Bruce Morrison of Lexington, Kentucky, a descendant of Robert Goushill and Elizabeth Fitz-Alan. THE TOMB & EFFIGIES: The effigies show effects of earlier vandalism and mutilation incurred during earlier centuries. The right arms of both effigies are broken and missing--they originally were holding hands. Some damage also occured when the monumemt was relocated when the present church was erected. The figures are of alabaster with Sir Robert Goushill shown wearing a camail and hawberk and plate armor on his arms and legs. His feet rest upon the figure of a dog, and his collar shows the badge of his Lancastrian loyalty. He wears a Bacinet on his head with a wreath which rests on a crowned Saracen's head. The Saracen's head was derived from the Goushill family crest. The Goushill of Hoveringham coat of arms was a barry of six or and gules with a canton ermine. The figure of Elizabeth Fitz-Alan is shown wearing a peeress gown with a coronet on her head emblematic of her rank as a duchess. The tomb was created after Sir Robert Goushill's tragic death in 1403, probably by the design of his widow Elizabeth Fitz-Alan who lived to 1425. It is likely that she was also buried in the tomb, but no definitive proof or evidence exists. Robert Thoroton's description of the tomb in the 17th century states that about the fair tomb were the arms of Leek, Longford, Babington, Chaworth impaling Caltofts, Remptons, and divers others. These are long lost as well as the tomb of Sir Nicholas Goushill, the son of Sir Thomas Goushill, who died in 1393. This stone was in the south isle of the original St. Michael Church. The lower base portion of the Goushill Fitz-Alan tomb is decorated by a series of shields on all sides which were probably the location of the large number of now lost coats of arms described in Thoroton's History. ROBERT GOUSHILL: Sir Robet Goushill was knighted by King Henry IV at the battle of Shrewsbury on July 21,1403. At the Battle of Shrewsbury the loyalist forces of Henry IV were opposed by the rebel army of Henry Percy (Hotspur). The army of King Henry IV won the day with the killing of Hotspur during the conflict. Casulties on both sides were high with estimates of 3000 killed or wounded on each side. Sir Robert Goushill was knighted the day of the battle for his gallantry, but was badly wounded in the side. Found lying wounded by his servant on the eve of the battle, Goushill asked that his armor be removed and a note sent to his wife Elizabeth in case of his death. The servant then stabbed and murdered Sir Robert Goushill and made off with his purse and ring. Another wounded man lying nearby recognized the servant, and he was later caught and hanged for the crime. The arms of Sir Robert Goushill would be placed in the Shrewsbury Battlefield Church by King Henry IV. Robert Goushill was the son and heir of Sir Nicholas Goushill of Hoveringham. The date of his birth is unknown, but can be estimated to be circa 1360-1365. Likewise, the name of his mother also remains unknown. The Goushill family had held extensive lands in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire since the 13th century. Walter Goushill, an early ancestor in the direct line, gained a number of these considerable holdings for the Goushills through his marriage to Maud (Matilda) Hathersage, the co-heiress of Mathew Hathersage in Derbyshire. (The early pedigree of the Goushill family of Hoveringham can be found in the History of Nottinghamshire by Dr. Robert Thoroton). In the calendar of patent rolls of Richard II on March 12, 1386, the King orders the arrest of Sir Nicholas Goushill the elder and his son Robert Goushill to answer the suit brought by William Birkes accusing the Goushills of threatning him with the loss of life and limb that he dare go about his business. On July 16, 1385, Sir Nicholas Goushill received the King's pardon. During 1387, Nicholas Goushill knight of Hoveringham and his son Robert Goushill are found in the chancery records to owe a debt of 22 pounds to Robert Wells of London. The next mention of Robert Goushill occurs in 1390 when he receives the King's pardon for alleged outlawry and other felonies through the supplication of Thomas Mowbray. Thomas Mowbray was at that time Earl of Nottingham and later would become the Duke of Norfolk. This evidences that Robert Goushill was already a supporter of Thomas Mowbray of whom he would be an employee of for the next decade. Elizabeth Fitz-Alan, the future wife of Robert Goushill, had been the wife of Mowbray since 1384. During the 1390's, Robert Goushill would be in the retinue of Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham, Marshal of England, and Duke of Norfolk, serving as Mowbray's esquire and attorney. When Thomas Mowbray received his ducal elevation in 1397, he gave to his esquire Robert Goushill a 20 pound annuity for life from his manor at Willington. This grant was confirmed by Henry IV in November of 1399. In 1398, after the Duke of Norfolk was banished by Richard II, Robert Goushill was appointed one of the attorneys for Mowbray. At the coronation of King Edward IV on October 13, 1399, Robert Goushill would make a plea for the return of the banished Duke of Norfolk as Earl Marshall, not knowing Mowbray had already died of the plague in Venice, Italy on September 22, 1399. In the mid 1390's, Robert Goushill had married as a first wife Joan Bracebrugge, who was the widow of Sir Ralph Bracebrugge of Kingsbury, Warwickshire. Joan (maiden name unknown) had married Ralph Bracebrugge in 1380 and his death occured in August, 1395. The marriage of Robert Goushill and Joan Bracebrugge likely was in 1396, and Joan would die early in the year 1400. (IPM Henry IV, 1-6). In 1397 Richard II appointed Sir William Bagot and Robert Goushill to seize into his hands the goods and chattels of Thomas the late Earl of Warwick. (Goushill served as Warwickshire sheriff in 1396/97). After Richard II was deposed, the new King Henry IV made a grant on Feb. 23, 1400 to his kinswoman Elizabeth, the wife of the late Duke of Norfolk, of the remaining goods of the late Duke as well as clearing the debts that the Duke had owed to the deposed Richard II. Others to share in the remaining goods of the deceased Duke of Norfolk included Robert Goushill. Robert Goushill would marry the widowed Elizabeth Fitz-Alan, Duchess of Norfolk, in the latter part of 1400 or early 1401 without license. On August 19, 1401, King Henry IV seized the lands of Elizabeth, late widow of Thomas Mowbray, for marrying Robert Goushill without license. On September 28, 1401, Henry IV would pardon Robert Goushill esquire and Elizabeth, late wife of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, for their trespass for inter-marrying without license and that they shall have restitution of all lands assigned to her in dower with the issues from the time of their marriage. Joan Goushill, the 1st daughter of Robert and Elizabeth, would be born in 1401, and a 2nd daughter Elizabeth Goushill would be born in 1402. Many present day descendants of these two daughters trace their ancestry to the Plantagenet Kings of England through Joan Goushill who married Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, and Elizabeth Goushill who married Sir Robert Wingfield of Letheringham, Suffolk. (My own descent is through the Goushill-Wingfield marriage). A 3rd daughter named Joyce is now credited to Robert and Elizabeth. She was found in a 1407 lawsuit being named after older daughters Joan and Elizabeth. As she is not named in Robert Goushill's Inq. Post Mortum of 1403, she would certainly seem to have been born after Robert Goushill's death. No further trace of Joyce Goushill has been found. After the tragic death of Sir Robert Goushill at the battle of Shrewsbury on July 21, 1403, his Inquisition Post Mortum was held August 6, 1403. His heirs are given as his daughters Joan and Elizabeth, aged two years and one year respectively. A final thought regarding the pedigree of the Goushill family of Hoveringham as given by Thoroton: the pedigree lists the Sir Nicholas Goushill dying in 1393 as the grandfather of Robert Goushill and Robert's father as another Nicholas Goushill. This 2nd Nicholas Goushill listed in the pedigree was very likely confused with the Sir Nicholas Goushill of Barlborough, Derbyshire who was also at the battle of Shrewsbury. He was certainly a relative and contemporary of Robert Goushill and either brother or first cousin, but not his father. The first 1380's records that mention Robert Goushill appear with Sir Nicholas Goushill the ELDER given as the father of Robert Goushill. I believe the evidence stongly suggests that the father of Robert Goushill was the Sir Nicholas Goushill who died in 1393 and was buried at St. Michael's Church Hoveringham. (Also in his wife file.) ELIZABETH FITZ-ALAN: Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan the 11th Earl of Arundel and his wife Elizabeth de Bohun. Both the Fitz-Alan and Bohun family lines were among the highest in the peerage of medieval England. Elizabeth Fitz-Alan had a double line of direct descent from the Plantagenet Kings of England. Through her mother's Bohun line she was a direct descendant of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, and through her Fitz-Alan ancestry a direct descendant of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. She was also related by cousinship to both King Henry IV and to his first wife Mary Bohun. Elizabeth was born before 1372, (in 1415 she was given as aged 40 or more), and a best estimate would be closer to 1367. By December of 1378 she would be married to her first husband William de Montagu, son of the Earl of Salisbury. This marriage for Elizabeth would certainly have been in her childhood. William de Montagu was killed in a tilting match at Windsor in 1382. Elizabeth Fitz-Alan would marry as her 2nd husband Thomas Mowbray, the Earl of Nottingham and later the Duke of Norfolk, in July of 1384. This marriage would last for 15 years until Thomas Mowbray's death in Venice on September 22, 1399. Elizabeth would have 2 sons and 2 daughters during her marriage with Thomas Mowbray. The sons were Thomas Mowbray 1385-1405 and John Mowbray 1390-1432, (both of these sons would assume the title Earl of Nottingham), the 2 daughters were Margaret who married Sir Robert Howard, and Isabel who married Henry Ferrers. In 1397 Thomas Mowbray was among those who accused and condemed Elizabeth's father Richard Fitz-Alan, the Earl of Arundel. Richard Fitz-Alan was found guilty of treason and be-headed at Cheapside on September 21, 1397. One apocryphal rumor even had Thomas Mowbray as the actual executioner of his father-in-law Richard Fitz-Alan. The now twice widowed Duchess of Norfolk would next marry Sir Robert Goushill as previously discussed in length. After the death of Sir Robert Goushill at Shrewsbury in 1403, she would marry Sir Gerald Usflete of Yorkshire as her fourth husband before April 18, 1411. Sir Gerald Usflete was the steward of the Duchy of Lancaster in Lincolnshire. Elizabeth Fitz-Alan would become a co-heiress of her brother Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, in 1415. (Thomas had died sans progeny on October 13, 1415, and his sisters had become his heirs). Sir Gerald Usflete died by Feb. 1420/21, having written his will on September 13, 1420. No children were born to Elizabeth Fitz-Alan and Gerald Usflete. Elizabeth Fitz-Alan would live on after the death of her fourth husband Gerald Usflete until her own death on July 8, 1425. It is believed that she returned to Hoveringham in her final years. Born in the reign of King Edward III, she would live through the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and into the reign of Henry VI. Through blood and marriage, Elizabeth Fitz-Alan would be closely touched by nearly all of the events in this period of turbulence, violence, and political turmoil in English history. Bruce Morrison is a professor emeritus of the University of Kentucky and lives in Lexington, Ky. He and his wife Barbara have been engaged in genealogical research since 1985, and have published a number of genealogy and biographical web sites in recent years. The photographs of the Hoveringham tomb were taken in May of 1991 during one of several genealogy related trips to Europe between 1985 and 2008. Bruce & Barbara Morrison 3488 Elmendorf Way Lexington, Ky. USA 40517 859-272-4192 © 2008

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GOSHILL, Sir Robert (I32914)

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Thomas Dutton was a man celebrated as a church builder and carver. He built churches at Waterbury, CT and in other places, being well known over a large section of Connecticut. He was living in Wallingford in 1757, and was a deacon of the church at Westbury. He was distinguished for his personal piety and reared his large family with such care that all of his sons who lived to manhood were church members and four of them held official positions. After the death of his wife, he went to the home of his grandson, also Thomas Dutton in Waterford, expecting there to soon die. But he so far regained his strength that he journeyed to Vermont to visit children and there died in 1799.

DUTTON, Thomas (I27599)

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Thomas Fitzthomas Firzgeralf of Shanid - Thomas Fitzgerald, granted land at Shanid (near Glin, or near Shanagolden), W. Co. Limerick, 1197. He is buried in the Franciscan Convent there, which his Father founded and he had finished at his own charge. He founded the Abby of Tralee in Kerry for Friers Preachers; but his aspiring greatness being much feared by the Clan Carthies, and the Irish of those parts. He was killed at Callan in Desmond by MacCarthy More, against whom the Fitz-Geralds had raised a considerable Army in the Year 1261 and was buried in the said Friery, with his son, Maurice, slain at the same time.

FITZ- GERALD, Thomas (I50363)

16481

Thomas George MacArthur traveled from Iowa to Oregon with his parents to Oregon in a covered wagon. There was three children all together including Thomas. Thomas lived in Oregon and went to college and to help earn money in the summer he would take his college books and herd sheep, study, and run for exercise everyday. He worked as a school teacher for 37 years and then later as state superintendant of Oregon schools. After the death of his first wife he moved to Richfield, Idaho. His wife had visited Idaho and loved it so much so he went there to live. He bought a farm and grubbed out a home stead. He said he could grub out with a double edged pick axe. He would take out sagebrush swinging forward and take out another when the swing was coming back the other way. He could walk to his farm from the homestead. He had crops and milk cows. He had a bull that he paid $800 for and his son Rae MacArthur and a neighbor went over and roped and killed this bill which broke Thomas financially. THis was during the depression and he was not able to pay the taxes so he lost the farm, homestead, and the hardwood forest in Oregon that he had. He was going to use the bull to take around to the farmers to earn money by greeding with their cattle. That was a lot of money in that day and age. Agatha had gone to Richfield to see a man that she was engaged to and when she found him to turn out to be worthless and lazy so she went back home. She went back to Mrs. Stanley who helped raise her in Twin Falls. She then went back to Richfield to see Thomas, whom she had met at a dance, and she told him 'Mr. MacArthur I have come to get away with you.' He went to see her where she was raised and they went to a dance and these two other guys got in an argument over her and Thomas grabbed them by the nap of the neck and took them outside. He was so strong that he butted both of their heads together and told them if they wanted to fight to do so outside. Gordon met with some of the family in Idaho in 1999 and he was told that Agatha was the prettiest woman in the valley. Gordon was also told the above story about the fight, by the family. Agatha lived with her family in Naf Idaho which is near a mine that her father and two uncles worked in. This was up in the mountains. Her sister Stella married Milas Robison and they came up in the middle of the night and took Agatha secretly out of the mountains when she was about 13 years old. They had stashed her trunk the day before so they could take it during the night. They took her to Twin Falls Idaho to Mrs. Stanley who raised her and sent her to school and cooking school. Mrs. Stanley was a relative of Milas Robison and Agatha always loved her. Stanley had been talked to ahead of time and had agreed to take Agatha. Agatha graduated from high school and then went to cooking school just for home cooking, not to become a cook. She was an excellent cook. Agatha's parents felt that they should receive a great big payment for someone marrying their daughters and Agatha was worried that her parents would offer her as a wife to the man with the best deal and she didn't want to marry some old man who made such a promise. They had tried to do that to Stella and Stella knew that Agatha was getting old enough for such a plan, so they helped Agatha to leave. Helen lived mostly in Richfield, Idaho (notes typed by Darcy Kennedy during visit from Aunt Della MacArthur Oct 2001

KEMPTON, Agatha Helen (I20260)

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Thomas Lamplugh of Ruston Parva has a pedigree in Robert Glover's "Visitation of Yorkshire 1584 and 1612" (Joseph Foster ed. 1875 p. 155) that states Thomas had three daughters alive in 1584, and three sons: Christopher, Thomas and John alive in 1612. Christoper, the father of Archbishop Thomas Lamplugh, died at Octon in 1622; Thomas moved to Beverley and later Ribton, Cumberland, where he died in 1670. There are not a lot of records of John, but he witnesssed land documents at Octon in 1621 and Helperthorpe in 1624.

LAMPLUGH, John (I65284)

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Thomas le Despenser, 5th Lord le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester, K.G.; went with Richard II to Scotland 1385, and to Ireland 1399; was sent to the Tower on a charge of complicity in the murder of Duke of Gloucester; joined in the plot to seize Henry IV, and was beheaded at Bristol, 13 January 1399-1400, aged 26.

THE COMPLETE PEERAGE VOL 1 P.27, 28; OFFICIAL BARONETAGE OF ENGLAND VOL 1 P.3; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;

He was Knight of the Garter. He was beheaded.

During the Second Barons' War of 1264–67, William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick, was a supporter of King Henry III. The castle was taken in a surprise attack by the forces of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, from Kenilworth Castle in 1264. The walls along the northeastern side of the castle were slighted so that it would be useless to the king. Maudit and his countess were taken to Kenilworth Castle and held until a ransom was paid. After the death of William Mauduit in 1267, the title and castle passed to William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick. Following William's death, Warwick Castle passed through seven generations of the Beauchamp family, who over the next 180 years were responsible for most of the additions made to the castle. In 1312, Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, was captured by Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, and imprisoned in Warwick Castle until his execution on 9 June 1312. A group of magnates led by the Earl of Warwick and Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, accused Gaveston of stealing the royal treasure. Under Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl, the castle defences were significantly enhanced in 1330–60 on the north eastern side by the addition of a gatehouse, a barbican (a form of fortified gateway), and a tower on either side of the reconstructed wall, named Caesar's Tower and Guy's Tower. The Watergate Tower also dates from this period. The gatehouse features murder holes, two drawbridges, a gate, and portcullises – gates made from wood or metal. The facade overlooking the river was designed as a symbol of the power and wealth of the Beauchamp earls and would have been "of minimal defensive value"; this followed a trend of 14th-century castles being more statements of power than designed exclusively for military use. The line of Beauchamp earls ended in 1449 when Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick, died. Richard Neville became the next Earl of Warwick through his wife's inheritance of the title. During the summer of 1469, Neville rebelled against King Edward IV and imprisoned him in Warwick Castle. Neville attempted to rule in the king's name; however, constant protests by the king's supporters forced the Earl to release the king. Neville was subsequently killed in the Battle of Barnet, fighting against King Edward IV in 1471 during the Wars of the Roses. Warwick Castle then passed from Neville to his son-in-law, George Plantagenet.
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SPENCER, Earl Thomas de (I45976)

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Thomas Percy was a medieval Bishop of Norwich. He was the son of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy and Idonia, daughter of Robert de Clifford, First Baron de Clifford.

PERCY, Thomas de (I45799)

16485

Thomas Powell Sr was a son of a rum dealer who made frequent trips between Barbados, West Indies and New York. Young Thomas would travel with his father on his trips. On one of these ventures, his father stopped in Huntington Harbor, NY to visit a friend, Captain Thomas Matthews, a merchant and cordwainer (a shoemaker who makes new shoes from new leather). He decided to leave Thomas there to become an apprentice with him. Thomas was 12 years old.

Thomas grew up and became a successful businessman who bought land and became a respected member in his community. Thomas served as the town recorder for almost twenty years from 1663 - 1683. He also served as a constable/justice of the peace from 1667-1678. He married Abigail Woods in 1664 and they had 8 children. She died in 1681 and Thomas married Elizabeth Townsend in 1690 and they had 7 more children.

Thomas Powell, originally owned land in Huntington, NY. He was also the constable there. But around the 1685 he became a devout Quaker, who did not believe in paying taxes to England. He therefore could not continue to swear allegiance to England, and so resigned his positions in the community.

In 1687 he bought about 15 square miles (about 10,000 acres) of land from the Massapequa, Secatog and Matinecock people. He paid 140 sterling pounds.

Powell called his land Bethpage (which means "house of figs") because it was in between Jericho and Jerusalem, just like in Israel. Jerusalem is now called Wantagh and Island Trees. Because most pioneers were not very good spellers, Bethphage was spelled Bethpage, leaving out the second "H" and established the spelling we use today.

Powell originally built himself a house on a street now known as Hempstead Turnpike. After his fifteen children grew up, Thomas built himself a new house on Merritt Road and gave his original house to his son and his new wife. Unfortunately, that house was destroyed in 1931.

Thomas Powell, Sr. explored more and more of his land. In time he found the area called "Rim of the Woods" . This land is where most of modern day Bethpage is today. Powell divided up this land between his children.

He also gave one third of all his Bethpage lands to an apprentice he once had, named Whitson. This started the break-up of the family ownership of Bethpage, especially after Powell died on December 28, 1721.

POWELL, Thomas III (I30048)

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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Living (I15768)

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Thomas SCHOFIELD Self M Male W 60 ENG Medicine Pedler ENG ENG Tamar SCHOFIELD Wife M Female W 64 PA Keeping House VT VT Source Information: Census Place Montezuma, Pike, Illinois - 1880 Family History Library Film 1254243

SCHOFIELD, Thomas (I41321)

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Thomas Talmage & Elizabeth Bancroft
Contributed By: Kelly Nichols Ellis · 8 September 2013 ·
Thomas Talmage was born Abt. 1617 in Barton Stacey, Hampshire, England, and died 1691 in Easthampton, CT. He married ELIZABETH BANCROFT. She died May 20, 1704 in Easthampton, CT.

Notes for THOMAS (CAPTAIN) TALMAGE:
Thomas came to America as a young boy with his father. He was granted 20 acres of land in Lynn, MA in 1638. He moved to Southampton in 1640 and was granted land there in 1642. In 1649 he and seven other men left Southampton and founded the town of Easthampton. On April 7th, 1665, he was elected Lieutenant and then later Captain of the Train Band. (A high office socially in New England) They were an organized force of fighting men that were used in times of emergency.
He was a man of considerable means. At the time of his death, in 1691, he was the richest man in East Hampton. Thomas was known for his intelligence and education.
Captain Thomas was elected the first recorder of Easthampton in 1649. He held the position of Town Recorder for many years, alternating with Benjamin Price, until his death in 1691.
Thomas acted for the town on most occasions and the New Netherlands Register notes that Thomas Talmage and others, in the name of the town of Easthampton, petitioned the King to allow them to remain under the government of Connecticut, and in 1682 a unanimous vote agreed that the Constable, the Overseers, the clergyman and Thomas Talmage, should sign a petition and transmit it to the Governor. In 1686 Governor Thomas Dongan granted a patent for the town of Easthampton to Captain Thomas Talmage and others.

Children of THOMAS TALMAGE and ELIZABETH BANCROFT are:
44.i. NATHANIEL T.18 TALMAGE, b. 1644, Southhampton, Long Island, NY; d. August 03, 1716, Easthampton, Long Island, NY.
ii. JOHN TALMAGE, b. Abt. 1646; d. 1670.
More About JOHN TALMAGE:
Note: Drowned in a river.

iii. NAOMI TALMAGE, d. Unknown.
iv. MARY TALMAGE, d. Unknown; m. THOMAS HAND; d. Unknown.
Notes for MARY TALMAGE:
They moved to Cape May, New Jersey, where many of their descendants still resided in the late 1800's.

v. HANNA TALMAGE, d. Unknown.
vi. SARAH TALMAGE, d. Unknown; m. THOMAS BEE; d. Unknown.
vii. SHUBEALL TALMAGE, b. 1656; d. October 01, 1742, Easthampton, NJ.
More About SHUBEALL TALMAGE:
Note: He remained single all of his life.

45.viii. ONESSIMUS TALMAGE, b. 1662; d. 1723.

Descendants of Hugh (Hugo) deTalmash

Generation No. 17

Ancestors from Thomas back to Hugh (Hugo) deTalmash
39. THOMAS (CAPTAIN)17, TALMAGE (THOMAS16, JOHN "GOODMAN"15, WILLIAM14 TALLMACH, WILLIAM13 TALMASH, ROBERT12, WILLIAM11, JOHN10, SIR JOHN9 TALMACH, SIR WILLIAM8, SIR WILLIAM7, SIR WILLIAM6, SIR WILLIAM5, SIR PETER4 TALMASH, RICHARD3, PETRUS (PETER)2 DE TALMASH, HUGH (HUGO)1 DETALMASH)

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TALMADGE, Thomas (I30089)

16489

Thomas took the oath of allegiance and fidelity, Dec 1677. The inventory of his estate taken 31 Mar 1691, estate divided Nov 1697.

COLBY, Thomas (I53815)

16490

THOMAS UPSON (1617-1655)
ELIZABETH FULLER (1626-1690) (Note: She is not connected to John Fuller and Elisabeth Emersen.)

THOMAS UPSON was born in Stonham, Aspal, Suffolk, England in about 1617 to Richard Upson (1588-1635; born in England and died in Plymouth, Massachusetts) and unknown mother. He was the founder of the Upson family in American. He sailed from London, England, in the good ship “Increase” landing in Boston in 1635 or 1638, and who afterward removed to Hartford, Connecticut.

The name of his first wife and his children’s birth records have never been discovered. Savage’s Genealogical Dictionary states that some of his children were certainly born in England. He left his wife and daughter, Mary, in England, when he sailed to America in 1635 or 1638 with his son, Thomas Upson, Jr. They landed at Saybrook, Connecticut. Thomas was one of 163 listed in the Book of Distribution of Land in Hartford, having settled in Hartford before February 1640.

Thomas’s name appears in “ye Towne Book of Hartford” on the 3rd of January 1639, as one of those “who received land by courtesy of the town with liberty to fetch wood and keep swine and cows by proportion on the Common.” In February of 1639 he owned “several parcells of land in Hartford upon ye river of Connecticut.” His home stood on the Main Highway on the property later owned by the Porter School.

In Particular Court Records of Connecticut (vol. 22), it reads: “Hartford, August 1, 1639, Fined for unseasonable and immoderate drinking at the ‘Pinnace’ [a boat then anchored in the river or at the town wharf in Hartford,] Thomas Upson, 20 shillings.” In these early days intemperance was a prevailing vice, social drinking was universal and even countenanced by the ministry.

In 1640 the Tunxis Indians conveyed land to the English which included Farmington. Immediately Thomas sold his Hartford lands and removed from his property to Tunxis, and he became an original proprietor of the town, later called Farmington. For some time the new settlers continued to attend the First Church of Christ in Hartford.

We know that Thomas Upson married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Fuller, early in 1647 by the following record: “Thomas Upsunn was maryed to Elisibeth Fuller Jenneuary the twenty and three, one thousand six hundred forty and six.” The marriage date was actually in 1647, due to the earlier form of calendar dating.

In a list of members of the First Church at Hartford, the date of the death of Thomas Upson is entered as 1665 instead of 1655. But he did die in Farmington on 19 July 1655, his age not given. The fever and smallpox epidemic that swept through New England in 1655 took so many. (He was age 55.) His daughter Elizabeth died the day after he did. Because of the young age of the Upson children, it was many years before the estate was settled.

His wife Elizabeth, remarried (Edmund Scott, the children called him “Father Scott.”) The Court ordered a distribution of the estate on 7 September 1671, in the amount of 7 pounds to the eldest son, Thomas; 5 pounds to Stephen; 4 pounds to the eldest daughter, Mary; and 4 pounds to Hannah Upson Hickox. On 20 September 1680, Hannah’s brother Stephen discharged “Father Scott” of both his portion and that of their deceased brother, Thomas, who had died in December 1672. In June and April of 1681, the husbands of both Mary (John Welton) and Hannah (Samuel Hickox) discharged the “Father Scott” (the girls’ step-father) “on account of Father Upson’s Estate.” So, in effect the Upson children forewent their inheritances.

Thomas Upson died 19 July 1655, in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, from a fever or small pox. His daughter Elizabeth died the next day of the same illness.

A memorial to the founds of Hartford, Connecticut reads as follows: “Thomas Upson founder of the Upson Family in America who settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1638, a proprietor of Farmington, Connecticut in 1640 where he died.”

ELIZABETH FULLER was born 4 April 1626 in Fairstead, Essex, England, to unknown parents. (She is not the “Elizabeth Fuller” who is a descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower.) She arrived in Hartford in 1646. She married (1) Thomas Upson 23 January 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. She married (2) Edmund Scott.

In a court dated 21 August 1646, Elizabeth Fuller was sentenced to be severely corrected for an offense against morality. This was probably due to her first child, Hannah, being born illegitimately. This is not mentioned by the Upson Genealogy.

Elizabeth died 20 July 1690 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 64. (Sometimes the death date is listed the same as her daughter Elizabeth Upson’s death date—20 July 1655, which is wrong. Elizabeth Fuller Upson married Edmund Scott after her husband, Thomas Upon, died.)

Children of Thomas Upson and his first wife:
1.Mary, eldest daughter, was married in 1667 to John Welton of Wales while crossing the Atlantic. Upon reaching this country, they were in Saybrook, and in 1672 removed to Farmington where John was one of the proprietors of that town. They had 12 children. Mary died at Waterbury on 18 October 1716; and John on 18 June 1726.
2.Thomas Upson, eldest son, removed to Saybrook. The town records show what he died unmarried at Saybrook, when, on 9 December 1672, he was “killed by an ox-cart going over his head.”

Children of Thomas Upson and Elizabeth Fuller:
1.Hannah Upson was born about 1647 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut. She married Sergeant Samuel Hickox 25 October 1644. She died 20 July 1707 at Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, at about age 60.
2.Elizabeth Upson, b. 1650; d. 20 July 1655 as a child, the day after her father died with the same fever.
3.Stephen Upson, b. about 1650 in Farmington. He married 29 Dec 1682 Mary Lee. Stephen was 5 when his father died. His older brother died in 1672 when he was 22, and he inherited his estate. Stephen became the only lineal descendant to carry on the Upson name. He died 5 November 1735 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut.

FULLER, Elizabeth (I28091)

16491

Thomas Walter was 3 1/2 months when he died of Bronchitis. He is buried with his brother and sister in the Church of England section in the Beechworth cemetery.

KENNEDY, Thomas Walter (I23179)

16492

Thomas was born 21 January 1663/4 in Haddam, CT, married Hannah Brainerd, born in Haddam, 20 November 1667, daughter of Deacon Daniel Brainerd and his wife, Hannah Spencer. She was admitted to full communion in the First Church of East Haddam, November 12, 1704. He was one of the first deacons of the First Church, having been chosen with his brother-in-law, Daniel Cone, husband of his sister Mary, when the church was formed in 1704. They were ordained to their office as indicated by the following extracts from the records of the church:

March 7, 1704, Capt. Thomas Gates and Daniel Cone were ordained or established in yr. office of Deacons. June 16, 1707, at a meeting of the proprietors of Haddam on the East Side they did by their vote appoint and ordain Deacon Thomas Gates, by virtue of his clerk's oath, to take charge of the proprietor's book, to enter all grants and acts and determinations that the proprietors shall order to be recorded, and to give true copies under his office oath for the time being.

The sentence next following the one above is in the handwriting of Deacon Thomas Gates, and from that time until March 6, 1734, he kept all of the records of the proprietors and the town except for a very few pages. In the list of captains, as given by Dr. Field, the name of Thomas Gates is third in order. He was Justice of the Peace from 1711 until his death. He was a prominent man in the town, and for thirty years of his life was very much engaged in public service.

He died in East Haddam, 20 April 1734, in his 70th year. His estate was distributed, by an agreement dated September 7, 1734, among his widow Hannah, his surviving children, Thomas, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joshua, and Mary and Mary's husband, Bezaleel Brainerd. The abstract of the agreement does not mention son George Gates but that may be in error.

Mrs. Hannah Gates died in East Haddam, 7 September 1750, in her 83rd year. They were interred in the Cove Burial Ground.

Children of Thomas and Hannah (Brainerd) Gates,
1. Capt Thomas born October 3, 1693.
2. Daniel born May 26, 1695.
3. Jeremiah born March 17, 1697.
4. Hannah born July 1, 1699, died there in October 1713.
5. Esther born February 24, 1701, died there, December 1, 1720, unmarried.
6. Mary born August 29, 1703, baptized in May 1704, married, November 30, 1727, as his first wife, Capt Bezaleel Brainerd. Mary died 1 Mar 1742 in East Haddam.
7.George born 17 November 1705
8. Joshua born 26 April 1708

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GATES, Thomas (I30896)

16493

Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, EARL OF LEICESTER, EARL OF DERBY (b. c. 1278--d. March 22, 1322, Pontefract, Yorkshire, Eng.), a grandson of King Henry III of England and the main figure in the baronial opposition to King Edward II.

PLANTAGENET, Earl Thomas (I43356)

16494

Through his first son, Fulk, descended the now titled branch of the Woodhull family, Lord Crew of Steene. The American Branch is descended from his son Fulk,by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Parr, cousin of Queen Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII. Elizabeth Parr was a descendent of William the Conquerer, throughhis youngest daughter, Gundred. She was also a descendent of Edward I and of William the Lion of Scotland. She brought to the family Coat of Arms the 8-18th Qs, by the inheritance from her father, her grandfather and her mothe

PAYNE, Anthony (I31126)

16495

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Living (I6966)

16496

Tilley Joan Hurst Rogers *
Wife, died soon after she came on shore. 8a pg xxvi
Buried on Cole's Hill, her name appears on the Pilgrim Tomb

Birth: Mar. 13, 1568
Bedford
Bedford Borough
Bedfordshire, England
Death: 1621
Plymouth
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA

wife of John Tiley and Thomas Rogers.

Joan Hurst was born in 1567/8 in Henlow, Bedford, England, the daughter of William and Rose (Marshe) Hurst. She was married first to Thomas Rogers in 1593 (not related to the Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers). With her husband Thomas, she had a daughter Joan, baptized on 26 May 1594 in Henlow. When Thomas died, around 1594, she remarried John Tilly in 1596.

John and Joan (Hurst)(Rogers) Tilley came on the Mayflower in 1620, bringing with them their daughter Elizabeth. Joan, along with her husband, died the first winter at Plymouth, orphaning their 13-year old daughter Elizabeth in the New World. Elizabeth would marry Mayflower passenger John Howland 3 years later.

Joan Tilley (Hurst), "Mayflower" Passenger
Also Known As: "Joan (Hurst) Rogers Tilley", "Mayflower passenger"
Birth March 13, 1567Henlow, Central Bedfordshire, England Died January 11, 1621 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Place of Burial:Coles Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA Immediate Family:Daughter of William Hurst and Rose Hurst Wife of Thomas Rogers and John Tilley, "Mayflower" Passenger
Mother of Joan Hawkins; Rose Tilley; Robert Tilley; John Tilley, Jr. and Elizabeth Howland, "Mayflower" Passenger Sister of John Hurst; Henry Hurst; Agnes Hurst and James Hurst

Mayflower passengers who died in the winter of 1620–1621
During the first winter in the New World, the Mayflower colonists suffered greatly from diseases like Scurvy ( a disease resulting from a deficiency of vitamin C, lack of shelter and general conditions onboard ship. 45 of the 102 emigrants died the first winter and were buried on Cole's Hill. Additional deaths during the first year meant that only 53 people were alive in November 1621 to celebrate the first Thanksgiving. Of the 18 adult women, 13 died the first winter while another died in May. Only four adult women were left alive for the Thanksgiving.
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Men
John Allerton?
Richard Britteridge, December 21
Robert Carter, after February 21
James Chilton, December 8
Richard Clarke
John Crackstone Sr.?
Thomas English?
Moses Fletcher?
Edward Fuller
John Goodman -
William Holbeck?
John Langmore
Edmund Margesson?
Christopher Martin, January 8
William Mullins, February 21
Degory Priest, January 1
John Rigsdale
Thomas Rogers
Elias Story
Edward Thompson, December 4
Edward Tilley
John Tilley
Thomas Tinker
John Turner
William White, February 21
Roger Wilder
Thomas Williams
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Women
Mary (Norris) Allerton, February 25, wife of Isaac Allerton, reportedly in childbirth, baby was stillborn.
Dorothy (May) Bradford, December 7
Mrs. James Chilton
Sarah Eaton
Mrs. Edward Fuller
Mary (Prower) Martin
Alice Mullins April?
Alice Rigsdale
Ann (Cooper) Tilley
Joan (Hurst) Tilley
Mrs. Thomas Tinker
Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, March 24
Alice Closford, October 24
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Children
William Butten, November 6 (died at sea, the only passenger to die during the journey)
John Hooke (age 14)
Ellen More (age 8)
Jasper More (age 7), December 6
Mary More (age 6)
Joseph Mullins April?
Solomon Prower, December 24
son of Thomas Tinker
son of John Turner
another son of John Turner
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Statist ics by monthWinter
According to Bradford's Register, a contemporary source
November, 1 death
December, 6
January, 8
February, 17
March, 13

Spring
April uncertain, between 1 and 5 (including Governor John Carver, not in above list)
May or June, at least 1 (Mrs. Katherine (White) Carver, not in above list)
Four deaths occurred in months unknown before the first Thanksgiving bringing the total deaths to 51.

wife of John Tiley and Thomas Rogers.

Joan Hurst was born in 1567/8 in Henlow, Bedford, England, the daughter of William and Rose (Marshe) Hurst. She was married first to Thomas Rogers in 1593 (not related to the Mayflower passenger Thomas Rogers). With her husband Thomas, she had a daughter Joan, baptized on 26 May 1594 in Henlow. When Thomas died, around 1594, she remarried John Tilly in 1596.

John and Joan (Hurst)(Rogers) Tilley came on the Mayflower in 1620, bringing with them their daughter Elizabeth. Joan, along with her husband, died the first winter at Plymouth, orphaning their 13-year old daughter Elizabeth in the New World. Elizabeth would marry Mayflower passenger John Howland 3 years later.

HURST, Joan Rogers (I27904)

16497

Time line of the life of ———-Thomas Sasson Smith

1818 - 3 April born in Junius, Seneca, New York
1837 - 13 Feb. - married Polly Clark at Connaugh Astabulq, Ohio Thomas was 19
1838 - 18 June son born - William F.
1840 - 15 may son born - Jeremiah
1843 - 7 Sept. daughter born - Alma Jennet at Bertrand, Borrin Mich.
1844 - 15 June - Thomas S. [26yrs] baptized into Mormon Church
1845 - move to Nauvoo, Handcock, Illinois
1846 - 16 Dec. daughter born - Alvira
1848 - came to Utah
1849 - settled in Farmington, Davis, Utah
1850 - 26 June son Born - Thomas Edwin
Thomas sent to Iron Co. Utah to help colonized
1853 - 24 caught born - Polly Estella
1855 - 7 April called to head mission of paints to Salmon River Idaho
5 June daughter born - Florence Adelia at Farmington Utah
8 June settled party on Salmon River
1857 - Brigham Young visited the Salmon River Mission
39 yrs - married Amanda Hollingshead in the Endowment House SLC
25 February - Indian uprising, settlement disbanded - Thomas was wounded, so he returned to Utah.1859
3 Jan. Son born - Jesse Lucius at Farmington Ut. first child of Amanda Ellen
1860 - 8 Oct. son born - Richard Demont at Farmington
1863 - 10 May - daughter born - Cynthia Ellen at Farmington
1865 - 8 Jan Thomas led a party to settle on the Muddy River in Nevada
1866 - Thomas sustained as bishop of settlement
1868 - Thomas returned to Utah because of ill health
1871 - Thomas filled a mission to south Western
1873 - 21 Feb. son born - Jacob Henry at Farmington
1874 - 16 - son born George S. in Farmington
1876 - 14 May - son born Johnathan in Farmington
1860 - 30 Nov. - son born - Albert in Farmington
Married Evaline Hinman Porter
1883 - moved to Wilford Fremont Idaho
1884 - 6 Sept sustained as Bishop of Wilford Idaho Ward
1888 - Patriarch of Bannock Stake
1890 - 1 July Died at Wilford Idaho
5 July buried at Farmington, Davis, Utah

- by granddaughter Effie Secrist Miller
Thomas Sasson Smith was born 3 April 1818 in Junius, Seneca, New York, the oldest child of Abigail DeMont and Jeremiah Smith. Abigail was the daughter of Mary Sasson and Richard DeMont. We do not as yet, have the names of Jeremiah's parents or birth dates. On 13 February 1837, in Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, Thomas Sasson Smith married Folly Clark, who was born 29 September 1817, in Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut, a daughter of Alma Downs and William Fowler Clark.
Sometime after their marriage Thomas and Polly moved to Bertrand, Berrien, Michigan where three of their seven children were born. The Jeremiah Smith family also moved from Ohio to Michigan - their last child was born there in 1840 - two years later Thomas' father died in Bertrand 23 August 1842. It was here that the Smith family met the missionaries and were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - we read in the Church History Journal that there was a branch of the Church in Bertrand - Thomas Sasson Smith was baptized 15 June 1844.
The spirit of gathering with other members of the Church touched the hearts of the Smiths so they left their Michigan home and moved to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois in 1845. Their Prophet and President of the Church had been murdered and it would not be long before they would be driven from their beautiful city. In the dead of winter February 1846 these law-abiding citizens were fleeing from civilization's boundaries at the demands of a state governor to face hostile Indian's, sub-zero weather, privations and suffering beyond description. 'Your cause is just but I can do nothing for you,'wordsspoken by a President of the United States must have rung in the ears of those outcasts for along time.
Along with hundreds of other members Thomas and Polly left their comfortable Nauvoo home and many of their belongings, crossed the Mississippi River, rode across the width of Iowa to Kanesville, (now Council Bluffs) where their fourth child was born. The main body of the Church was at Winter Quarters just across the Missouri River in Nebraska - preparing for the move west as soon as the weather permitted - it was a veritable beehive of activities that winter of 1846-47. There was much suffering among them due to exposure, lack of food and the countless hardships they had endured - over 600 died and were buried in that area.
In the spring of 1847 the Smiths first-born, nine year old William died - earlier death had claimed their second child 12 days after his birth in 1840. The heavy-hearted parents commenced their tortuous thousand-mile journey across the plains with ox teams drawing the covered wagon loaded with all that remained of their earthly possessions. Of their four precious children two remained to cheer their hearts during that endless trek - they arrived in Salt Lake Valley in the fall of 1848. They settled in Farmington, north of Salt Lake -- Thomas built a home for his family and three more children were bom to them. A short distance from his house was the home of Abigail DeMont Smith, Thomas' widowed mother.
Grandfather was active in civic affairs - councilmen to represent Davis County, leader of the choir, member of the Militia and many other activities. At the General Conference of the Church in April 1855 Brigham Young called twenty-seven men to establish a Mormon settlement in Indian country near the Salmon River in Idaho - and Thomas Sasson Smith was appointed to be president of the mission. Their assignment was to learn the language of the Shoshone - teach them how to farm - build a stockade (Fort Lemhi) - and share the Gospel with the Indians. In less than three years they abandoned the mission for various reasons - crop failure year after year - shortage of food - hostile Indians - the tragic death of three missionaries - cattle stolen and Johnston's army coming to Utah.
Back in Farmington he resumed his peaceful life with his family. After six years he was again called to preside over a group of colonizers - this time his destination was the Southlands, where he would be facing intense heat, sand storms, flash-floods, and malaria breeding swamps This mission was called the Muddy Mission because they settled along the Muddy River in Nevada their first settlement named St. Thomas for Thomas Sasson (now under Lake Mead) was one of. several that followed. Though small in number the colony accomplished a great deal - they dug irrigation canals, cleared land and planted grain — as soon as it was harvested the ground was planted to cotton, thus two crops could be raised each season. With the coming of more settled there were about 50 families at St. Thomas - with President Smith presiding over the branch.
Here as in the Salmon River Mission there was trouble with Indians - they would pull up the wheat, steal horses, mules and cattle, even steal food from Dutch Ovens before it was done.
Due to ill health T. Smith was released from his office as President of the Muddy Mission - also released as Bishop of St. Thomas Ward - by 1868 he was able to return to Farmington, but he never fully recovered from the ravages of Malaria. Farmington was a welcome sight to these weary wonderers after the hardships and disappointments of the Muddy. Thomas received a warm welcome from his wife Polly, their children and grandchildren. As soon as his health permitted, he was again doing his part in Church as well as civic affairs.
March 24, 1872 Thomas' lovely wife, Polly, died of pneumonia. This stout-hearted little pioneer had given her all in the service of her Church and family. She was buried in the Farmington City Cemetery March 25, 1872. Due to her husband's many church and civic duties which took him away from home so much, a great deal of the care and training of their children became Polly's responsibility. Her children reflected many of her sterling qualities, courage, faith, charity high moral standards and loyal devotion to church, family and neighbors. A few years before he death Polly had the privilege of visiting her father and other relatives in the 'East'. Her mother, Alma Downs Clark had died in 1850, but her father, William Fowler Clark, outlived his wife 26 years. He died July 9, 1876 in Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio. Polly's fifty-five brief years were filled with heartaches, sacrifice and toil, but she also knew the happiness and joy of an honorable family and the blessings of the restored gospel.
Retirement was unknown in those pioneering days. Thomas was in, his 66th year when he was called on his last colonizing mission. This time in the Upper Snake River Valley, then called Wilford Flats, a plateau rising above the Snake River in Southern Idaho - the call came in 1883. His second wife Amanda chose to leave a comfortable home and garden to go with her husband. On the 6th of September 1884, Thomas Sasson, now in his sixty-seventh year, was ordained Bishop of the Wilford Ward by Thomas E. Ricks. He served in this capacity until he became Patriarch of the Bannock Stake August 21, 1887 - he officiated in this calling until his death, July 1, 1890 in Wilford. He was buried in Farmington City Cemetery next to his wife, Polly, July 5, 1890.

"Aunt Ellen and Uncle Jont did the copying."

Thomas Sassin Smith

Thomas S. Smith was born in the state of New York, April 3, 1818, and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in June 15, 1844. He moved to Nauvoo in 1845 and shared in the exodus of the Saints from that place tin 1846. He came to Utah in 1848, an located in Farmington, Davis County, in 1849. In 1850, he was sent to Iron County to help found settlements in Southern Utah. On April 76, 1855, hew was tent to Salmon River , Idaho, to take charge of the Indian Mission. The company left Farmington May 15, 1855 with Thomas S. Smith as captain of the colony. They built a for and raised wheat, then on Feb. 25, 1858, the Indians attacked them while they were working. They killed 2 men, Bros. James Miller and James McBride and they rook Andrew Quigley and scalped him. Thomas S. Smith was shot through the arm. Brother Thomas E. Ricks was sent to help them. He went to the Salmon River and rescued the company from the Indians. With difficulties and hardships they reached home in Farmington. In 1865, he was called to go to the south-east part of Nevada to locate settlements o the Muddy.

He returned from there in 1868 on account of ill health. (Uncle Fred was born there.) In 1871, he was sent to the South-western States on a Mission. in 1884 he went to Snake River, Idaho and founded the settlement of Wilford; 40 miles northeast of Eagle Rock (Idaho Falls) and was appointed Bishop of the Ward there in 1886. He was ordained a Patriarch in Bannock Stake of Zion in 1888.

Thomas Sassin Smith died at his residence in Wilford on July 1 1890. His body arrived in Farmington July 3, 1890 and the funeral services were held in the ward meeting house on July 6, 1890. The first speaker was President Shortliff of Weber Stake who spoke feelingly of the faithfulness and integrity of the deceased. President W. R. Smith and J. W. Hess and Elder Jacob Miller Spoke of the many noble and good qualities possessed by the deceased. A long procession followed the remains to the cemetery where they were laid to rest after a long and active and busy life.

Marriage of Thomas Sasson Smith and Polly Clark
On February 1837, in Conneaut, Ashtable, Ohio, Thomas Sasson Smith married Polly Clark, who was born 29 September, 1817, in Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut, a daughter of William Fowler Clark and Alma Downs. Polly was the only member of her father’s family to join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It must have required a great deal of faith and courage to leave her loved ones and comfortable home, where every advantage of that time was available to her, if she would give up the unpopular religion she had espoused.

Polly never wavered in her testimony and devotion, but remained faithful to her Church to the end of her days.

Some time after their marriage in Conneaut, Thomas and Polly moved to Bertrand, Berrien, Michigan, where their third child was born. Whether their first two children were born in Conneaut, Ohio or in Bertrand, Michigan has not been established. One source states the first three children were born in Bertrand.

We know that Thomas’ father and mother, Jeremiah and Abigail Smith, were living in Asthabula Co. Ohio between 1833 and 1836 for two of their children were born there. It would be interesting to know how Thomas and Polly met, but we know they were brought together by a Devine Providence.

The Jeremiah Smith family was living in Bertrand, Berrien, Michigan where their last child was born in 1840. Two years later Thomas’ father died in 23 August 1842.

It is very probable that the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints taught them the newly established Gospel there in Michigan for in the Journal History we read of a Conference being held in Florence, St. Joseph, Michigan (not far from Berrien Co.) Jun 7 and 8, 1845 at which Thomas Sasson Smith, a priest was present. He had been baptized 15 Jun, 1844 by Elder R. D. Sprague. He was ordained a Priest at Agusta, Berrien, Michigan. The Journal History states there was a branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bertrand, Berrien, Michigan with 18 members.

We do not have the date when Polly was baptized but we find a rebaptism date February 1849.

Thomas’ widow mother, Abigail DeMont Smith, also accepted the Gospel. She was baptized in Nauvoo, Illinois in 1845.

The spirit of gathering touched the Smiths for they left their home in Michigan to move to Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois in 1845, to cast their lot with the persecuted, driven Saints. Their prophet and Patriarch had been murdered and it would not be long before they would be driven from their beautiful city.

While in Nauvoo, Thomas and Polly realized their heart’s desire by going to the Nauvoo Temple and receiving their endowments.

The Exodus
Death had claimed their second child, Jeremiah, 12 days after his birth in 1840. But Thomas and Polly with their eight year-old son, William Fowler and three year old Alma Janette were among those persecuted Saints who were driven from their homes in Nauvoo and the surrounding Branches of the Church in the dead of winter February 1846. These law abiding citizens were fleeing from civilian’s boundaries at the demands of a state governor to face hostile Indians, sub-zero weather, privations and suffering beyond description. “Your cause is just but I can do nothing for you.” Words spoken by a President of the United States must have rung in the ears of those outcasts for a long time.

They crossed the Mississippi River over to an almost trackless area and camped a few miles from its banks. Snow had to be shoveled before tents, if they had them, could be set up. Many had no tents and tried to find shelter in wagon boxes, or even on the snow-packed ground under their wagons. These suffering exiles knew that their comfortable homes in Nauvoo, if they had not been burned, were sheltering lawless people while they shivered in the bitter cold.

Yet despite hardships and suffering they could dance at night on the trodden snow and sing praises to their Creator. They had faith that their leader, Brigham Young, would be inspired to lead them to a land where they could worship God and establish His Church.

We next find Thomas, Polly and their family at Kanesville, (now Council Bluffs) Iowa, where their fourth child was born, December 16, 1846. They named her Alvira Evette. What kind of shelter did brave, little mother have in that lonely wilderness? Whose kind hands ministered to her in her hours of travail and then place the tiny daughter in her arms to shelter her from that cold December day? This we know – those noble Pioneers had learned to share each others burdens and sorrows as well as their joy. No people ever lived who heeded the commandment to “love thy neighbor as thy self” more consistently than those outcasts.

The main body of the Church was now at Winter Quarters, preparing for the move west as soon as the weather permitted. Some of the men and boys were working away from their “homes” trying to earn money or foodstuffs to build up their scanty supplies. Wagons and teams must be had. Blacksmiths were busy preparing wagons. Women were making clothes, knitting stockings, making or repairing tents and wagon covers. Quilts had to be made from scraps of cast off clothing. Winter Quarters was a veritable beehive of activities that winter of 1846-47.

There was much suffering among them due to exposure, lack of food, and the countless hardships they had to endure. Over six-hundred died and were buried at Winter Quarters.

Thomas Sasson Smith
Thomas Sasson Smith was born in the state of New York, April 3, 1818 and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1844. He moved to Nauvoo in 1845 and shared in the exodus of the Saints from that place in 1846. He came to Utah in 1848, and located in Farmington, Davis County, Utah in 1849. In 1850 he was sent to Iron County to help found settlements in southern Utah. On April 7, 1855 he was called to the Salmon River, Idaho to take charge of the Indian Mission. The company left Farmington May 15, 1855 with Thomas S. Smith captain of the colony. They built a fort and raised wheat, then on February 25, 1858 the Indians attacked them while they were working. They killed two men, Bro. James Miller and James McBride, and they took Andrew Quigley and scalped him. Thomas S. Smith was shot through the arm. Bro. Thomas E. Ricks was sent to help them. He went to the Salmon River and rescued Thomas S. Smith and company from the Indians. With difficulties and hardships they reached home in Farmington, Utah.

In 1865 he was called to go to the Southeast part of Nevada to locate settlements on the Muddy River. He returned from that place in 1868 on account of ill health. In 1871 he was sent to the Northwestern States on a mission.

In 1884 he went to the Snake River in Idaho and the settlement of Wilford. This was forty miles north east of Eagle Rock (Idaho Falls), and was appointed bishop of that place in 1886. He was ordained a Patriarch in the Bannock Stake of Zion in 1888. He died at his residence in Wilford on July 1, 1890. His body arrived in Farmington July 3 and the funeral services were held in the Ward meeting house on July 6th. The first speaker was President L.W. Shurtliff of Weber Stake who spoke feeling of the faithfulness and integrity of the deceased. Presidents W.R. Smith and L.W. Hess and Elder Jacob Miller spoke of many good and noble qualities possessed by the deceased. A long procession followed the remains to the cemetery where they laid to rest after a long, active and busy life.
(Taken from a book of Rosa’s [Aunt Rose])

Elders George Albert Smith, Wilford Woodruff, Charles C. Rich, Samuel Bent and David Fullmer from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints were holding a conference in Kalamazoo, Michigan in the St of Juine and he believed their words. There were already 126 members of the Church in the Kalamazoo area. He knew what these men spoke was of God. He was baptized the 15 June 1844. It was only a couple of weeks later that those apostles who converted him left Michigan. They had received word that the Prophet Joseph Smith had been martyred in Carthage, Illinois. There was a lot of persecution going on and all the Saints in Michigan that could were counseled to move to Nauvoo you gain strength and support from each other, and to help finish the temple. (History of the Church, and Michigan Mormons)

His wife and he had been praying that his family would join the Church. He and Polly were probably already in Nauvoo when his mother and brother and sisters joined them. (Except for his married sister Sarah and her family who were still in Michigan). (Nauvoo land records) Thomas heard Brigham Young say, "I do not think there had ever been a body of people since the days of Enoch, placed under the same unpleasant circumstances that this people have been, where there was so little grumbling, and I was satisfied that the Lord was pleased with the majority of the Camp of Israel." (Church History in the Fulness of Times pg. 310)

The trail to the first encampment, called Sugar Creek had mud so deep it took a double team of oxen to pull the wagons thru in places. I suspect we will see deplorable trail conditions with the spring thaw. Our provisions and supplies are insufficient for a trek to the Rocky Mountains. Jonathan, Richard and I (Thomas) will probably have to leave the family at some point to look for needed supplies.
Our Spirits are high, despite the circumstances. It's sure a delight to dance with Polly as the fiddle plays the new something: "The Upper California" (Ibid pg 310)

Despite the grim conditions of Winter Quarters Polly and Thomas were filled with gratitude when Polly gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Alvira Evalette Smith was born on the 16th of December 1847. The moral of the settlement had been rising as we conducted church meetings twice a week, and held family meetings. They had labored hard building wagons, and making all the necessary preparations for the family to begin their trek west in the spring.

On the 16th of December 1850, Brigham Young called me to join the "Forty - Niners to head south to Parowan, Iron County. The Saint's iron supplies were rapidly diminishing. George Albert Smith was the leader of the mission consisting of 150 men and women. This experience proved to be filled with overwhelming obstacles due o their lack of capital for proper equipment and trained men. The elements took their toll with the sever winter and the flood down Coal Creek in September 1851 wiped out this project.

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SALMON RIVER MISSION, IDAHO

It was at the annual conference of the church, held in Salt Lake City, April 7, 1855, that a number of brethren were called to go and locate a settlement among the buffalo-hunting Bannock and Shoshone Indians in the far north, in what was then Oregon Territory, and Elder Thomas Sasson Smith, of Farmington, Davis County, Utah, a man of considerable experience, was appointed to take charge of the colony.

Most of the brethren who were called on this mission, made preparations at once to fill it, and on the 15th of May, 1855, President Smith, together with other brethren, left their homes in Farmington, and other places, and on the 19th they arrived on Bear River, north of Brigham City. On the following day (the 20th) the camp, consisting of the following named brethren, was organized for traveling: Thomas S. Smith, President of the Mission, Francillo Durfee,
Captian; Wm. Burgess, Jr. Lieutenant; B.F. Cummings, Seargeant; D. Moore, Historian of camp; Seras J. (Blurred so as not to read well) Barnard, Thomas Butterfield, Wm.L. Brundage, Nathaniel Leavitt, Pleasant Green Taylor, Israel S. Clark, Charles Dalton, George R. Grant, Isaac Shepherd, George W. Hill, Gilbert Benlap, Wm. Birch, John Gilligher, J. W. Browning, David H. Stephens, Baldwin H. Watts, Joseph Perry, Ira Amen(Anon or something), Jr., Abraham Zundel, Charles McGary, Wm. H. Batchlor and Everet Lish.

From the encampment on Bear River the expedition continued the journey through Malad Valley, over the Malad divide and down Bannock Creek to the Portneuf, which stream they crossed on Mr. McArthur's bridge, paying $11.00 for the privilege. On the 29th they arrived at the ferry on the Snake River, immediately below where the Blackfoot River empties into the Snake. It took them three days to cross the river with their wagons and stock, the ferry-boat needing repairs before it could be used. On the 2nd of June the journey was resumed, and a northeasterly course for about sixty miles on almost trackless waste of barren sagebrush plain, and along the right bank of the river, until Market Lake was reached. Then the camp turned to the left and traveled in a northeasterly direction, over rocks, sagebrush, and sand, by way of Mud Lake and up Spring Creek (now Birch Creek), until they reached the Salmon River Pass. Through this part of the country they made an entirely new road, not having as much as an Indian trail to guide them. Continuing through the Pass over the upper valley of the Salmon River, the head-waters of the east branch of that river, now known as Lemhi River, was soon reached, and here President Smith called a halt. Selecting five brethren of the camp, he proceeded, on the 14th of June, about thirty miles further down the river to explore for a suitable place to locate a settlement. On the 15th day they selected a site for a fort and a tract for farming land, after which President Smith returned to the main camp, which moved upon the site chosen on the 18th.

With that energy and determination characteristic of Mormon Pioneers, the Brethren immediately commenced to make improvements, and they soon had a blacksmith shop in working order and also had coal to burn, a plow made and a corral built for their stock. By the 19th of August they had built a fort wall and gates, seven houses and the blacksmith shop, besides breaking and planting several acres of land and doing a great deal of fencing. They called their location Fort Lemhi, after Lemhi, a Nephite King mentioned in the Book of Mormon.

The distance from Salt Lake City to Fort Lemhi, the road the missionaries generally traveled in 1855-58, was about 379 miles. The valley in which Fort Lemhi was located is small, but the soil on the river is rich, and the table land afforded, at the time, good pasture for stock. Timber was also abundant on the river and on the adjacent mountains. There is a very good pass through the Rocky Mountains east of Fort Lemhi through which the distance to Horse Prairie,
on the head-waters of the Missouri River, is only fifteen miles. August 13 and 14, twelve of the company were sent to Utah after supplies in charge of Captain Durfee, B.C. Cunningham, and John Galligher were dispatched to Salt Lake City with the mail, being ordered to return as soon as possible.

September 29, 1855, B.F. Cunningham accompanied by J.R. Clawson and Lott Smith, arrived at the Fort, bringing the mail from Salt Lake City. They had left Ogden on the 18th. On the 17th of November, Captain Durfee and company returned to the fort with twelve wagons laden with supplies of wheat, corn and other seeds and several other seeds (sic) and Hundreds of pounds of flour.

Five families also accompanied the brethren. By the beginning of December, 1854, a large amount of hay had been cut, the field enlarged, much more ground broken, about fifteen acres of sown with wheat, besides which several more houses had been built in the fort. The weather had been pleasant during the fall, but there was two or three inches of snow on the ground. On the 5th of December, Thomas Butterfield, S. W. Hill and several others, left the fort with two ox-wagons to return to the settlement in Utah, where they expected to spend the winter.

In March 1856, President Smith, accompanied by others, traveled to Utah, with back pack animals, and on arriving in Salt Lake City, reported the conditions of the Salmon River Mission to President Brigham Young, who was much pleased with what the missionaries had done, and concluded to strengthen the settlement by calling more brethren to go locate there. This was done at the general conference which was held in April, 1856, and among those who responded to the call made on that occasion were Thomas Corlass, James Walker, Thomas Day, Richard Margetta, and John Preece, of Salt Lake City, George McBride, James Miller and Fountain Welch, of Farmington, Oliver Robinson and many others, these brethren started on their mission soon after conference, some of them taking their families with them. When this new company of missionaries arrived at Fort Lemhi, the brethren there were already busily engaged in putting in crops, and an addition was now made to the field on the north side, in order to give the newcomers an equal share for farming with the first settlers.

President Smith returned to Fort Lemhi, July 8, and found the missionaries in good health and spirits, "notwithstanding they had witnessed almost entire destruction of their crops by grasshoppers, whose unrelenting ravages had blasted all anticipations of an abundant harvest, the prospects of which could not have been more flattering to inroads of the devourers. The grasshoppers left without depositing their eggs." The loss of the crops put the brethren to serious inconvenience, as they thereby were compelled to again (like the previous year) haul their flour and seed grain from the settlement in Utah. A company of brethren started for supplies on the 28th of July and arrived in Salt Lake City about the middle of August. Most of them returned in due course of time with provisions, seed grain and other articles of food and clothing needed by the settlers.

Considerable winter wheat was sown in the fall of 1856, when another small company of settlers arrived to strengthen the colony, having been called on missions to do this like the other brethren who had gone before them. Peace and good health prevailed among the brethren at Fort Lemhi during the winter of 1856-57.

In the spring of 1857, President Smith again visited Utah, but returned to Fort Lemhi on the 8th of May, 1857, in company with President Brigham Young and a strong escort who came to pay a visit to the Saints in Oregon. The following interesting account of this visit to Fort Lemhi was written by a member of the party in the Deseret News of June 10, 1857.

The company reached Fort Lemhi at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 8th, 1857. This fort is a neat stockade inclosing a space sixteen rods square, and has a large and securely fenced yard for animals and a small gristmill sufficiently finished to be used. There are two good-sized fields mostly plowed and sown, in which the crops look promising, considering the coolness and consequent lateness of the season. The big and red-sided salmon are said to be very plentiful here in their season, for which we were about a month too soon; but a few red-sided salmon were purchased from the Indians. They were a fine flavored fish, and averaged about two and a half feet in length. A few Bannock Indians had pitched their lodges adjacent to the fort, among them Governor Young distributed many presents of blankets, etc., on the 11th of May, which were very gladly received.

"Sunday, May 10, meeting was held in the fort, and President Brigham Young, Elder Orson Hyde, Franklin D. Richards and Lorenzo Snow, President Heber C. Kimball and Daniel H. Wells, Patriarch and President John Young and President Thomas S. Smith severally addressed the congregation, and gave some excellent instructions. In the afternoon, Snack, the head chief of this tribe of the Bannocks, and several other Indians, came into the fort and had a smoke and a long and very friendly talk, in which Arrapeon, head chief of the Utah's, who accompanied the expedition, participated.

"Sandstone of an excellent quality for grindstones and a very superior chalk are found a few miles below the fort, and coal is reported about twenty-five miles below but beds have not been examined.

"We left Fort Lemhi at noon of Wednesday, May 13 (or 15), and arrived in Salt Lake City at 6:00 p.m. of May 26th, having had a very pleasant trip out and back, and been absent 33 days."

Soon after President Young's party returned to Utah, more farming land was surveyed at Fort Lemhi, and an addition made to the fort; and at a meeting held May 27, 1857, it was decided to build another fort; on the first creek to the north. This second fort (where a few houses subsequently were built, and several of the brethren spent the following winter) was laid off by President Smith and others two days later (May 29th).

June 14, 1857, President Smith again left for his home in Utah, leaving Thomas Bingham in charge at Fort Lemhi during his absence. He returned October 22nd following, and then remained with the colony until it was broken up the following spring. A good crop of wheat and other grains were raised in the fall of 1857, which, in fact, was the only crop of any consequence raised by the brethren by the brethren while on the mission. On the 25th of February, 1858, while several of the brethren were busily engaged in mowing hay, hauling timber, etc., a large party of Bannock and Shoshone Indians (many of whom lived around the fort, and had previously been very friendly) made a sudden break upon the herd and drove off most of the stock belonging to the fort, and at the same time killing George Mc Bride and James Miller, and wounding President Thomas S. Smith, Fountain Welch, L.W. Shurtliff, Oliver Robinsen, and Andrew Quigley. A man named J. H. Powell, who came into the Flathead country with George Stevens' surveying party, and was afterwards in the employ of persons under Mr. Burr, late U.S. surveyor in Utah, was with the Indians and assisted them in plundering and killing the brethren.

Elder Thomas Corless, one of the Salmon River Missionaries, in describing this Indian outrage, says that he and a number of other brethren were at the fort when the alarm was given that the Indians were in the act of stealing the herd, comprising the cows and oxen belonging to the settlers, which were grazing on the low hills a short distance east of the fort. Immediately a party of ten men (nine on foot and one on horse-back) started out to assist the herders (Brother Andrew Quigley and C. Rose), and were endeavoring to head off the stock, when Indians to the number of one hundred and fifty or more surrounded them and commenced shooting with guns and bow and arrows. The brethren, seeing the overwhelming number of the enemy, soon began to retreat toward the fort, but the Indians tried to cut them off, and the brethren were compelled to fight their way through the ranks of the savages, while the bullets and arrows were flying thick and fast all around them. George McBride, who was the only white man on horseback, ventured out some distance ahead of his companions, and was killed at the commencement; and Brother Quigley, one of the herders, and Fountain Welch, were wounded at the same time. One ball passed through Brother Corless' hat, another cut off the knot of his necktie and a third grazed his left ear. Elder Corless has always ascribed it to miraculous interposition of the Almighty that the brethren were not all killed.

"There were five of the brethren down where the other fort stood, after hay, and the Indians, meeting them, immediately opened fire, upon them, and drove them from their teams, killing James Miller and wounding L. W. Shurtliff and Oliver Robinson. One ball passed through Brother Shurtliff's right arm below the elbow and through Oliver Robinson's right hand. James Miller was shot through in the same manner as George McBride; he ran a few steps and fell dead; the Indians stripped him of everything. All the brethren came in that night except James Miller, whose dead body was found the next morning by ten men I had dispatched for that purpose. The following day (February 26, 1858) the remains of George McBride and James Miller were buried by their companions. The other brethren who were wounded subsequently recovered.

On Saturday, February 27th, some of the brethren made preparation to cache their wheat, as they were desirous of returning to Utah, but at a meeting held on the Sunday (the 28th) President Smith asked the missionaries if they were satisfied that they had filled their mission, and would they return without a word from President Young? The reply being in the negative, a vote to send an express to Salt Lake prevailed, and that same evening, after dark Ezra Barnard and Baldwin Watts started on this dangerous expedition.

On the last of March the brethren went to work repairing the fort and building bastions with timber which had been hauled from the lower fort. This labor was continued for several days and the brethren also threshed their oats, worked on the mill-race, started to make a cannon, etc.

On the 8th some Indians brought back twenty-eight head of stolen stock and pretended to be very friendly. The following day they brought back seven sows and a yearling.

On the 20th the mail and several brethren arrived from Salt Lake City, bringing the news that 150 men were coming to help the missionaries away. On the 22nd this company, in command of Colonel Andrew Cummingham, arrived, and the 24th the colonel and President Smith, with sixty other men, visited the camp of the Indians, who delivered to President Smith three cows and calves and six ponies in payment for the cattle they had killed.

On the 26th men started from the fort for Salt Lake City with the mail and messages for President Young, stating the condition of the camp, as it was feared by the headquarters of the Church in Salt Lake City that all the brethren of the mission had been murdered by the Indians.

On the 27th the ox teams, with a portion of the missionaries and such effects as they could take with them, started for Utah, and on the 28th, Fort Lemhi was entirely vacated by the departure of the remaining brethren, who left with horse teams, together with their friends who had come to help them away.

President Smith gave the friendly Indians about six hundred bushels of wheat and left about a thousand bushels with them to trade for horses. The two companies arrived in Utah safe and well. But the ten men who had left the mail on the 28th in charge of Elder B. F. Cummings, were suddenly and furiously fired upon by a party of Indians in ambush, while traveling up Bannock Creek on the 31st of March, 1858. On this occasion Bailey Lake, one of the party was killed by the Indians, who also robbed the company of eleven horses. The rest of the brethren reached the settlement in Utah a few days later.

Thus ended the famous Salmon River Mission, which proved to be one of the most dangerous missions ever performed among the Indians in the North and no attempt has since been made to establish any settlement of the Saints on Salmon River. Most of the lands cultivated by the missionaries are now included in the Lemhi Indian Reservation.

This history was taken from Heart Throb of the West, written by Kate B. Garter, Vol 3.

SOURCE: A copy of this was in possession of Mrs. Sarah Ann Smith Collet, Lewiston, Utah (As of this date, now living in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada). I do not know who wrote it in the first place. The copy was a typed carbon, and therefore blurred in places and some of the names may be recorded incorrectly

St Thomas Nevada Ward Records

On the 8th day of January 1865 Thomas S Smith with eleven brethren and 3 sisters arrived on the Muddy River. Thomas S. Smith was appointed by President Brigham Young to build up a settlement in the south. The little colony soon numbered about 45 families and the town of St. Thomas was laid out.

Pres. Erastus Snow counseled the brethren soon after to locate their town to the south and east about a mile and a half where another plot of land was surveyed into city lots the last of February 1866 where the people removed about the first of April following.

In the fall of the same year Thomas S. Smith returned north and James Leithead was appointed to take charge of the settlement during his absence. Thomas S. Smith was released from the mission on account of sickness and Pres. Young appointed James Leithead president in the winter of 1866-7.

The town consisted of 85 city lots of one acre each and about the same number of vineyard lots containing 21/2 acres and farm lots about the same number of 5 acres each. 10lots formed a block with streets 6 rods wide including sidewalks 12 feet wide. St Thomas is situated on the S.W.side of the Muddy River and one and a half miles from the junction with the Rio-Virgin Rivers. St. Thomas, St. Joseph, Overton, West Point, Junction City situated at the junction of the Rio- Virgin with Colorado.
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St Joseph was surveyed in 1865. Located and organized by Thomas S. Smith with Warren Foot presiding Elder and consisting of 40 families. During the summer and fall of the same year the settlement was reduced to about 25 families and much sickness prevailed-mostly fever and aguie and “Fluse” The settlement was abandoned in 1866.
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Thomas S. Smith returned from Muddy June 1867
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First settlers of St. Thomas
Thomas S. Smith
Andrew S. Gibbon (Interpreter)
Willam J. Johnstun
Joseph Koesler
George Noble
Henry Fonley
George Jackson Robert H????
William Harriss
Enoch Harris
Heber Hubburd
John Bankhead and son

Thomas Sasson Smith
from Members of the Church microfiche #6031596

References:Family Group Sheet - self
L.D.S. Encyclopedia Vol. 4
Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies Bitton Davis
His Journal
Nauvoo Temple End. Reg. 1845 - 46
Mormons and Their Neighbors by Marvin Wiggins
Nauvoo Social History Project by James Smith
TIB
Family Group Sheet - Father
One Hundred Years on Muddy River p. 29 - 30.
Half Breed Tract Federal Census Year 1840
Farmington Ward Records
Deseret News (SLC) March 1872
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#1Thomas Sasson Smith mentions
#2Thomas acted as President of the Salmon River Mission, and was a pioneer in many places. He was called to the October Conference in 1864 to take a company and settle the Muddy River Valley, this mission would connect St. George and Call’s Landing on the Colorado River. On January 8 1865, with 8 brethren and 3 sisters he arrived on the Muddy River and the settlement of St. Thomas Nevada (named after Bro. Smith) was laid out as a town site. He resided for many years in Farmington, Davis County, and Utah and moved to Wilford Idaho in 1884 as one of the first settlers.
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Biographical Encyclopedia
Latter Day Saint page 675
SMITH, Thomas Sasson, Bishop of the Wilford Ward, Bannock (now Yellowstone) Stake, Idaho, from 1884 to 1887, was born April 3, 1818, in the state of New York, a son of Jeremiah Smith and Abigail Demont, He was baptized June 15, 1844, acted as President of the Salmon River Mission, and was a pioneer in many places. He was called at the October Conference in 1864 to take a company and settle the Muddy Valley; this mission would connect St. George and Call’s Landing on the Colorado River. On January 8, 1865, with eight brethren and three sisters he arrived on the Muddy and the settlement of St. Thomas (named after Brother Smith) was laid out as a town site. He resided for many years in Farmington, Davis Co., Utah, and moved to Wilford, Idaho, in 1884, as one of the first settlers. He died in Wilford, Bingham Co., Idaho, July 1, 1890.

Thomas S. Smith Fourth Colonizing Mission

Retirement was unknown in those pioneering days. Thomas was in his 65th year when he was called on his Last Colonizing mission. This time in the Upper Snake River Valley, then called Wilford Flats, a plateau rising above the Snake River in Southern Idaho. This call came in 1883.

Again faithful Amanda chose to go with her husband. Their oldest son, Jesse Lucius, and only daughter Cynthia Ellen, were married. As there was no account given in the brief sketch, the writer does not know if all four of the rest of their children accompanied them. Richard DeMont was 23 years of age, Frederick Thomas 18, Jacob Henry 11, and Jonathan 7 when the Smiths moved to Idaho. We do know that Thomas and Amanda established a home where Thomas lived the rest of his life.

On September 6, 1884, Thomas Sasson Smith, now in his sixty-seventh year, was ordained of Wilford Ward by Thomas E. Ricks when the Wilford Branch was organized a ward. He served in this capacity until he was ordained Patriarch of the Bannock Stake August 21, 1887. In this sacred calling this humble Patriarch officiated until hi death, July 1, 1890 in Wilford, Brigham (now Fremont) Idaho, age 72 years and 3 months.

He was buried in Farmington City Cemetery by the side of his first wife Polly, July 5, 1890.

After the heroic attempts to establish colonies at Fort Lemhi and the “Muddy”, as well as the Iron County had ended so tragically, it is gratifying to know Thomas’ last mission was a success.

Although he never fully recovered from malaria contracted in the swamps in the Muddy Valley, he was able to serve faithfully to the end of his days in helping to build the Kingdom of God here in the Valley of the Mountains.

We who are descendents of these stalwart pioneers should look upon their struggle and achievements with pride. Let us never forget that the blessings of our priceless heritage must be earned by each of us, individually, if we are to be counted worthy of them.

A note written by Sarah Ann Smith Collet states:
He (Thomas Sasson Smith) died at his residence in Wilford on July 1, 1890. His body arrived in Farmington July 3, and the funeral services were held in the ward meeting house on July 6th.

The first speaker was President Shortliff of Weber Stake, who spoke of the faithfulness and integrity of the deceased. President W.R. Smith and J.W. Hess and Elder Jacob Miller spoke of the many good and noble qualities possessed by the deceased, A long procession followed the remains to the cemetery where they were they were laid to rest after along, active and busy life.
Comments of Sheila Jessop
Sheila Jessop (the above Sarah Ann Collet’s daughter) called her mother to clarify if all four of the children above mentioned went to Wilford with Thomas and Amanda. She thought they did. She was sure that at least Richard DeMont went to Wilford as he was Our “aunt” (as we knew her) Vera’s father. They went to Canada with other of his family. However Fred Smith and Sarah Ann Smith Higbee didn’t follow them until 1910 one year before my mother was born. Mom said that she was sure that he was the son that took Amanda (his mother) with him and they lived in Magrath, Alberta, Canada.

I later found the following information and will include it mostly because I remember some of the family. Vera and her husband Harry Orcutt were special to me. My dad bought their farm and we lived there until 1958 when we moved to Utah. Another reason they were important to me was “Uncle” Harry baptized me! (Aunt Vera and her mother mostly) I remember visiting with Aunt Evelina and Vera in there home in Cardston. When I went to Cardston in 2001 I saw the house where they lived and it still looks about the same as I remembered it. I also remember when Morgan died. I am not too sure of any of the others.
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Richard DeMont Smith (son of Thomas Sasson) and Evelina Moose (Mousseau) Smith lived in Wilford for almost two years and then moved out to Sand Creek (a settlement northwest of St. Anthony). After living there for about twelve years, they moved to Canada in 1902 with the other members of Thomas S. Smith family who moved there. He took his mother, Amanda Hollingshead Smith with him. He secured a large farm and spent the rest of his life there. He died in Champion, Alberta, Canada February 1, 1910 and was buried in Magrath, Alberta, Canada. Eveline Smith died May 4, 1956 at Cardston, Alberta, Canada and was buried at Magrath, Alberta, Canada.

Children of Richard DeMont and Eveline Smith:
Name Birth datePlace of BirthSpouse Death Date
Richard D.Aug 18, 1885 Wilford, Idaho Alice H. Hansen Jan.1,1953
(he was killed by a car near Clareshome. Alberta, Canada)
Evalina M. Apr 11, 1887 Wilford, Idaho Daniel D. Pierson
Edna E. Apr 11, 1889 Sand Creek, Idaho Parley P Peterson Mar 12,1930
Orvil B. May 30, 1891 Sand Creek, Idaho Clara L. Anderson May 20,1949
(he was killed in a farm accident)
Henry T. July 31, 1893 Sand Creek, Idaho Rhoda M. Pitcher Mar 10, 1958
Jeanette Nov 25, 1895 Sand Creek, Idaho Ralph C. Hardisty
Mary Ann Jun 17, 1898 Egin, Idaho Mar 1, 1899
Frederick M. Jul 22, 1903 Magrath, Alta. Canada Tina Jacob
Vera M. Mar 10. 1900 Egin, Idaho Harry J. Orcutt
Morgan W. Oct 16,1905 Magrath, Alta. Canada Elva D. Nielson July 14, 1951
(he was killed in a tractor accident)

Thomas Sasson Smith
Great grandfather of Sheila Jessop
By Sheila Jessop
(for a Sacrament Bulletin insert )

Thomas was born April 3, 1818, in Junius, Seneca, New York, and the oldest child of Jeremiah Smith and Abigail DeMont. He was almost seven when he moved along with his family across the state to Perry. His great grandfather for whom he was named died in the town of Perry on the 29 July 1829 at the age of 77 years old. (He was Thomas Sasson his maternal great grandfather.)

When Thomas was 19 years old he married first Polly Clark, 13 July 1837 in Connaugh, Astabula, Ohio. She was the daughter of William Fowler Clark and Alma Downs who was born in Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut. They took out their endowments in the Nauvoo Temple 28 January 1846.

He was baptized, June 15, 1844, just before the martyrdom of the prophet.

Thomas moved his family to Nauvoo in 1845. They lived in Nauvoo on lot number 28. Polly was baptized in 1846. Thomas and Polly were among the saints that were persecuted and driven from their homes in Nauvoo in the dead of winter, February 1846. They had lost two sons in infancy but had one daughter three years old.

We next find that Thomas and Polly were in Council Bluffs, Iowa, then on to Winter Quarters where their fourth child was born.. They were among those who were able to leave Winter Quarters in the spring of 1847 arriving in Salt Lake Valley 21 September 1847 in the A. O. Smoot Company. They settled in Farmington, Davis, Utah. Building a home for his family on what is now Main Street, not far from the Farmington Cemetery on the west side of the street. Thomas was active in the church and civic life . He served several terms in the Upper House of the Utah legislature.

Brigham Young called Thomas to join the “Forty-Niners” to head south to Parowan, Iron County. Apostle George A. Smith was leader of this mission. This experience proved to be filled with overwhelming obstacles due to our lack of capital for proper equipment and trained men. The elements took their toll with the severe winter and the flood down Coal Creek in September 1851 wiped out the project.

On 16 July 1857 he was sealed in the Endowment House to Amanda Ellen Hollingshead daughter of Isaac Hollingshead and Mercy Wilcox.

At the annual conference of the church, held in Salt Lake City, April 7, 1855 Thomas along with a number of brethren were called to go and locate a settlement among the buffalo-hunting Bannock and Shoshone Indians in the far north, in what was then the Oregon Territory. His wife Polly was with child so it made it hard to leave her home again but the Kingdom of God must be carried on regardless of the sacrifices and hardships. Thomas, a man of considerable experience was appointed to take charge of the colony as president of the mission. They left 15 May 1855. On the 15th day of June they selected a site for a fort and a tract of land for farming. With the energy and determination characteristic of Mormon Pioneers, the brethren immediately commenced to make improvements. They soon had a blacksmith shop in working order and also had coal to burn, a plow made and a corral built for their stock. By the 19th of August they had built a fort wall and gates, seven houses and the blacksmith shop, besides breaking and planting several acres of land and doing a great deal of fencing. They called their Fort Lemhi. This fort was about 379 miles from Salt Lake City as they had traveled. In March 1856 President Smith along with others traveled to Salt Lake City and reported to Brigham Young their mission. (Salmon River Mission) He was pleased with what they had accomplished and decided to strengthen the settlement, which was done in April General Conference 1856. President Smith returned to Fort Lemhi July 8 1856, finding the missionaries in good health and spirits despite the fact that their entire crop had been destroyed by grasshoppers. The 28th July a company of brethren went to S.L.C. for provisions. Winter wheat was sewn in the fall of 1856. President Smith went again to S.L.C. in the spring of 1857 and returned to Fort Lemhi along with Brigham Young . For a time things went well with the Indians several being baptized. On 25 February 1858, while the brethren were busily engaged in mowing hay, hauling timber, etc...a large party of Bannock and Shoshone Indian (many of whom lived around the fort) made a sudden break upon the herd and drove off most of the livestock and killing 2 men and wounding several others, one of which was Pres. Smith. A relief company of men was sent by Brigham Young to aid the missionaries gather what they had left and thus ended the Salmon River Mission.

During General Conference in October 1864, Thomas was called to preside over a group of colonizers sent to settle the southlands along the Muddy River. My grandfather was born here in St. Thomas and lived there until he was four. (Where lake Mead now is). On January 8, 1865, with eight brethren and three sisters he arrived on the Muddy and the settlement of St. Thomas. Life had been relatively peaceful since he returned from Fort Lemhi six years previous. He took south with him his second wife Amanda (my great grandmother) and their three small children. The new community was named St. Thomas after Thomas Sasson Smith. Living conditions were trying - intense heat caused crop failures, and flash floods we frequent. Concerns of malaria were serious for the Smith family as Thomas contacted it and was released as President of Mission and Bishop of the people there. Amanda returned to Farmington with the children in October of 1866. Thomas’ first wife Polly died 24 March 1872 in Farmington.

Some of Thomas’ son and neighbors from Farmington joined Thomas and Amanda in their move to the Upper Snake River Valley (Wilford, Idaho), in 1884, as one of the first settlers. It was a very busy year – again clearing land, planting crops, and building a home there on “The Island” . Thomas was called as the first Bishop of the Wilford Ward, Bannock (now Yellowstone) Stake, Idaho, from 1884 to 1887. He was set apart at Rexburg by Apostle John W. Taylor. He was later made a patriarch in the Bannock Stake in 1888. It was here in Wilford that my grandfather and grandmother met. Thomas died in Wilford, Bingham Co., Idaho, July 1, 1890 after meeting with a serious accident, falling from a load of hay. At the time of his death my grandfather blew the conch shell (a shell with a legend which ties us to the Joseph Smith family, but has not yet been proven) and called in all the Smith family with the alarm. Thomas was buried in Farmington, Utah. Listed in an article “S ketches of a Pioneer Community Wilford Idaho” are my grandparents Frederick Thomas (son of Thomas Sasson) and his wife Sarah Ann Higbee Smith along with both of their parents -- Thomas Sasson and Amanda Smith and Silas and Melissa Higbee

Amanda and her family continued to live in Wilford until her sons moved to Cardston, Alberta, Canada. She lived in Cardston until 1901 and moved to Magrath, Alberta where she died and was buried 21 September 1903.

I am very grateful for this pioneer ancestor who is my mothers paternal grandfather.

By Sheila Jessop

SMITH, Thomas Sasson (I49602)

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Timothy Baldwin is mentioned in his father's will as the oldest son and was the executor of his father Richard Baldwin's will. A transcription of Richard's will can be found in the supplement to the Baldwin Genealogy, which can be found online here: https://archive.org/stream/baldwingenealogy1889bald#page/990/mode/2up (see page 990). This is a supplement to a genealogy written by C.C. Baldwin published in 1889. The full text of the original book can be found online (see Sources below). Richard's will is also transcribed in the full original book, see page 23.

We know several things about Timothy's father: he had a wife named Isabel and 7 children living at the time he wrote his will in 1630. Those children are Timothy (the oldest son), Joseph, Nathaniel, Mary, Hanna, Christian (a daughter), and Sara. According to the above sources, several of this Richard's children - all of his sons mentioned in his will - emigrated to America and settled in Milford, Connecticut in 1639. His youngest sister Sarah also came. I don't believe that oldest sister Mary came with her husband John Pratt; I don't know about Hannah or Christian, but I haven't seen any proof of such.

This family is also mentioned in some detail in Susan Woodruff Abbott's book, "Families of Early Milford, Connecticut" that can be found on ancestry.com. This book doesn't discuss Joseph, Timothy, or Nathaniel's parentage other than to say they were sons "of Richard and Isabell" (see page 27, 43, and 60). In general, settlers of Milford with the last name of Baldwin are discussed between pages 14 and 60 and span many generations. Timothy is mentioned on page 60.

I haven't yet been able to make anything other than a guess as to his birth year, although he was over 21 when his father wrote his will in 1630, putting a possible birth year at or before 1609 - probably closer to 1600 (his parents may have been married in 1598) as he was the oldest son, and it looks like at least one other son was already 21 at the time the will was written. In his will, Richard mentions the boys first - Timothy the oldest, then Nathaniel who is already 21, and then Joseph who is under 21, and then mentions his girls - Mary appears to be the only married child, and she is already old enough to have 3 of her own children. I would suspect that perhaps she might be the oldest child. And then I don't know if it would be Hannah or Nathaniel next, followed by an uncertain order of the 3 children who weren't yet 21 in 1630. So there is some information on birth order of Timothy and his siblings, and the rest has to be speculation (except that we do have a baptism record for sister Christian).

Sometime between 1633 when he proved his father's will in court and about 1637, Timothy and several of his family members moved to Connecticut/Massachusetts. His little sister Sarah married John Searle, Sr. in 1638 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Timothy first had a plot in the New Haven colony which he sold before going to Milford; he may or may not have ever lived in New Haven. See source below, "History of the Colony of New Haven."

According to page 403 of The Baldwin Genealogy, Timothy was one of "the first settlers [of Milford, Conn.] in 1639 and joined the church in 1643, with Mary his wife, who died July 31, 1647 ...That he was a brother of Nathaniel, appears from an entry from the long, narrow book of Milford records...Timothy lived for awhile in Guilford, Conn., about 1650, having married, March 5, 1645 (?), Mary Mepham, widow of John, of Guilford...[this is a typo. it should say March 5, 1649.] About 1651 or 1652 they sold the Mepham property and moved back to Milford." His known children include Mary, Hannah, Sarah, Abigail, Anne, and Timothy. Sources for these children are attached below. C.C. Baldwin here seems hopelessly confused about Timothy's two wives. This source should only be used with caution.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TIMOTHY'S WIVES?
We know that Timothy's first wife was named Mary. His second wife was also named Mary. There has been quite a bit of confusion about his two wives, and some secondary sources have perpetuated bad information. There is, on ancestry.com, a collection of indexed records from primary sources known as the Barbour Collection. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records is an index to and transcription of most of Connecticut towns' vital (birth, marriage, death) records from the inception of the town to about the year 1850. There are two parts to the collection; a statewide surname index and a bound volume for each town. In this collection on ancestry.com there is a transcription of the original marriage record between Timothy and Mary Mopham, widow, of Guilford, Mar. 5, 1649. There is no original marriage record between Timothy and his first wife Mary, and consequently, we have had to look to other sources to find her maiden name. However, there are two pieces of information about Mary, the first wife, in the Barbour Collection. The first is that Mary, wife of Timothy, was admitted to the church March 5, 1643. The second was that she died July 21, 1647. There are many sources which identify her as Mary Welles, including this well-sourced book: Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, which can be found online (see Source below). This identification is made primarily through Governor Welles' will. There is a long discussion of the proof of the first Mary's maiden name in the book written by Donald Jacobus, "An American family : Botsford--Marble ancestral lines," source attached below. See page 30.

So, any children born before 1647 belong to his first wife Mary, and after 1649 belong to his second wife Mary. Mary (bapt. 2 April 1643), Hannah (bapt. Aug. 1644) and Sarah (bapt. Aug. 1645) belonged to Timothy's first wife Mary (Welles), and Abigail (bapt. Dec. 29, 1650), Anne (born July 1, 1655, died age 3 weeks) and Timothy (born June 12, 1658) belonged to second wife Mary (widow of John Mepham of Guilford, whose maiden name is unknown).

Timothy and his brothers are also mentioned In a book called the History of Milford, Connecticut, which can be found online (see Source below). Starting on page 7, there are 5 men with the last name of Baldwin who are mentioned in the first town meeting, held on November 20, 1639: Richard, Nathaniel, Timothy, Joseph, and John.

Timothy's widow Mary remarried after his death.

An indexed, typewritten copy of Timothy's will can be found in the book, "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records," which can be found online (see Sources below). The will was dated 31 January 1664/5. The text of his will is generally as follows: Timothy Baldwin of Milford do make this my last Will and Testament: I give to my eldest daughter Mary Smith, the wife of Benjamin Smith, Lands adjoyning Samuel Buckingham and John Lane. Item. I give to my daughter Hannah Baldwin œ50. Item. I give to my daughter Sarah Buckingham œ50. Item. I give to my son Timothy Baldwin all my houses, Lands and Meadows Lying in Milford that is undisposed of, to enter upon, but two thirds thereof until after the decease of my wife. I give to my three grand children, to each of them, a ewe sheep. Item. I give unto John Mappam, my wive's son, œ4 upon this condition, if he be obediant to his mother and carry dutifully towards her...." In 1664 he counted 3 grandchildren, likely Mary Smith, Sarah Buckingham, and who? I don't know - maybe unborn Hannah Smith? Or else we are missing a grandchild somewhere. His wife was sole executor. The inventory taken 6 Feb 1664/[5?] amounted to 529 pounds 18 shillings and 6 pence. (We know from this will that his second wife Mary had at least 1 son before her first husband died). I think it likely that Timothy helped to raise this stepson from his wife's first marriage. In all, it looks like he had 4 children and one step-son who lived to adulthood. Of these, only son Timothy could have passed on the family name, and it doesn't look like he had any sons who lived to adulthood.

There are a variety of sources for a death date for Timothy, which is complicated by the "double dating" method used in those days for the months of January, February, and March. Here is a rundown of the variety of opinions:
1. According to The Baldwin Genealogy, p. 403, Timothy died "the night following January 17, 1664/65."
2. According to An American family : Botsford--Marble ancestral lines, page 29, he died January 17, 1664/65, see page 29, even though in the very next paragraph he says his will was signed 31 January, 1664/5. I am pretty sure that isn't possible.
3. According to Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, page 60, Timothy died 17 January 1664/5.
4. A digest of the early Connecticut probate records, page 177, doesn't give a death date, but says his will was dated 31 January 1664-5, and was proven in court 2 March, 1664-5.
5. The Barbour Collection, which contains is a typewritten indexed copy of the Milford church record which mentions Timothy's baptism and death (see source below, Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920) indicates he died 17 January 1664 (no double dating).
6. The book, "Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Volume 1, 2nd Edition" on page 203 sums this date problem up nicely: "This 17 January 1664 death date is listed as part of the church membership list where it is appended to the note that Timothy joined the church, so it is not found in any list of deaths by date order. The 31 January 1664 date on which his will was written was taken from the probate court register book and not from the original will. Thus, there is no simple way of evaluating which date might have been incorrectly understood."

BALDWIN, Timothy Sr. (I44480)