Sunday, July 29, 2012

George Kay 1688-1729 Ann Arlington

George Kay
Christened 13 Jan 1688 Doncaster, York, England
Occupation:  Roughmason
Married Ann Arlington 18 Jan 1712 Doncaster, York, England
Buried 13 May 1729 Doncaster, York, England
Sources
Book:  Yorkshire Marriage Registers West Riding Vol 3 p 111
Ann Arlington
Born abt 1691
Buried 15 Oct 1742 Doncaster, York, England
Sources
Ancestral File

CHILDREN

*Richard Kay
Christened 21 Dec 1718 Doncaster, York, England
Married Elizabeth England 13 Nov 1735 Doncaster, York, England
Children:  Martha, Mary, Thomas, Esther, Richard
Sources
Book:  Yorkshire Marriage Registers West Riding Vol 3 p 140
Ancestral File
George Kay
Christened 1715 Doncaster, York, England
Buried 23 Mar 1718 Doncaster, York, England
Sources
Ancestral File
George Kay
Christened 2 Apr 1721 Doncaster, York, England
Sources
Ancestral File
Mary Kay
Christened 26 Jun 1726 Doncaster, York, England
Sources
Ancestral File

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Samuel Wells 1656-1731 and Abigail Wheeler abt 1664

Samuel Wells
Born abt 1656 settled at Pequonnock, now Bridgeport, Connecticut (in Stratfield in 1729)
Church:  Deacon in the First Congregational Church of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Military:  Sergeant
Parents John Welles and Elizabeth Bourne
Note:  alternate father:  Daniel Welles
Married 1) Abigail Wheeler abt 1685 Stratford, Connecticut
2) Elizabeth Wheeler after 1700
Note:  widow of Daniel Comstock
3) Abigail Jones 25 Oct 1711 Bridgeport, Connecticut
Burial 28 Aug 1731 Connecticut
Note:  age 71, which would make his birth year 1660
Sources
Book: Connecticut Church Record Abstracts Vol 11 Bridgeport page 344
Burial:  Batch B037443-3 Film 3334 v 16 p 7
Online Book: Genealogical and family history of the state of ..., Volume 2, Part 2 By William Richard Cutter, Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra S Stearns page 1080
Online Book: The Bicentennial Celebration of the First Congregational Church by Charles Ray Palmer page 173
Book:  Old Fairfield Families Vol 1 Page 658-659

Abigail Wheeler
Born 1664 Connecticut
Parents:  Sergeant Ephraim Wheeler and unknown mother
Sources
Book:  Old Fairfield Families Vol 1 Page 658-659

CHILDREN (with Abigail Wheeler)

Samuel Jr, wife SARAH, daughters Sarah, Abigail, Mary
Samuel Wells (Jr.)
Born 15 Oct 1686 Stratford Township, Fairfield, Connecticut
Married (unsure of order)
1) Sarah (mentioned first in 1712 and as late as 1734)
Children:  Sarah, Abigail, Mary, Prudence, David, Samuel, Jedediah, Hester
Mary Beardsley
Mary Judson (Family Search has a Mary Watkins)
Died  16 April 1751  Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
Sources
Birth:  Connecticut Births and Christenings 1649-1906 Batch 7450376
Birth:  Book:  Connecticut Town Birth Records
Death: Book: Connecticut Church Record Abstracts Vol 11 Bridgeport page 344
Note:  this is an index giving information about which volumes you can find which information and mentions Sarah is his wife at the time and they renewed their "covenants" 21 Dec 1712 and had their daughters Sarah and Abigail baptized on the same date. Mary, their daughter, was baptized 25 April 1714. Page 343 mentions son David, Jedidiah
Online Book: Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, Volume 2, Part 2 By William Richard Cutter, Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra S Stearns page 1080
Death: Online Book: The Bicentennial Celebration of the First Congregational Church by Charles Ray Palmer page 173
Birth, Death: Book:  Old Fairfield Families Vol 1 Page 658-659
Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44377587/samuel-wells
Showing Ann and John as a couple
Ann Wells
Born abt 1688 Bridgeport, Connecticut
Married John Hubbell 6 Nov 1711 Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
Children:  Jerusha, Benjamin
Sources
Marriage:  Book: History of the Hubbell family by Walter Hubbell, 1915, page 367(appendix)
Online Book: Genealogical and family history of the state of ..., Volume 2, Part 2 By William Richard Cutter, Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra S Stearns page 1080
Online Book: The Bicentennial Celebration of the First Congregational Church by Charles Ray Palmer page 167
Marriage: Book:  Old Fairfield Families Vol 1 Page 658
*Abigail Wells
Born abt 1690 Bridgeport, Connecticut
Married Thomas Turney 24 Nov 1709 Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
Children: Abigail, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Thomas, Samuel, Sarah, Jemima, Ann
Sources
Online Book: Genealogical and family history of the state of ..., Volume 2, Part 2 By William Richard Cutter, Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra S Stearns page 1080
Online Book:  The Bicentennial Celebration of the First Congregational Church by Charles Ray Palmer page 173, 191(marriage to Thomas Turney)
Marriage: Book:  Old Fairfield Families Vol 1 Page 658
Elizabeth Wells
Christened 21 Jan 1697 Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut
Married John Chuckstone 11 Jun 1718 Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
Died 31 Aug 1730
Sources
Online Book: The Bicentennial Celebration of the First Congregational Church by Charles Ray Palmer page 173
Christening, marriage, death: Book:  Old Fairfield Families Vol 1 Page 658






Saturday, July 21, 2012

Johan Adam Colpetzer 1750 and Sarah Rote 1756

Johan Adam Colpetzer (went by Adam)
Born abt 1750 Germany
Military:  Revolutionary War, Mustered on 26 Sep 1776
1776: Private in Captain John Clark's Company 3rd Battalion Northumberland County Associators
Lived in Buffalo Township 1778-1787
Married Sarah Rote  abt 1776 Mifflinburg, Union, Pennsylvania
Sources
1790 US Census for Northumberland County, Pennsylvania page 4  (4 males under 16 -1 male over 16 -1 female)
1800 US Census for East Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania 1 male under 10 2 males 10-15y 2 males 16-25 1male 45 and older 1 female 10-15y 1 female 16-25y 1 female 45 or older
1810 US Census for East Buffalo, Northumberland, Pennsylvania 2 males under 10y 2males 10-15y 3 males 16-25 1 male over 45 2 Females 16-25y 1 female 45 or older
Pennsylvania Septennial Census 1779-1863 person #55 (his son (Adam's) name is right under his)
Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801
Online Book:  Muster Rolls, Etc., 1743-1787 edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery
Online Book: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys Vol 2 page 1417
Annals of Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1755-1855 - Page 236 By John B Linn
Pennsylvania archives - Page 17
Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution pg 342 By William Henry Egle
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961 page 165
Rinehart Descendants of  Johan Georg and Eliza Margaretha Rinehard by Glenna James Mosgrove 1954
Snyder County Annals by Clara R Whiny page 19
Sarah Rote (Rhoades, Rhode, Road)
Born abt 1756 Germany
Parents:  George Michael Rote and Sarah (unknown surname)
Sources
Family Search

CHILDREN

Adam John Colpetzer
Born  1777 Union, Pennsylvania
Married Ester Rote 8 Feb 1804 Buffalo Valley, Mifflenburg, Union, Pennsylvania
Note:  Ester was his first cousin, daughter of Sarah's sister Lydia.  Adam and Ester lived with his parents for a time on the property in Buffalo Valley.  They bought the property in 1809 with the condition his parents could live with them until they died.
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
Pennsylvania Septennial Census 1779-1863 person #56
http://www.angelfire.com/ut2/peacetest/familytree.html
William Colpetzer
Born 1779 Union, Pennsylvania
Married Elizabeth Frampton abt 1804 Pennsylvania
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
Nicolas Colpetzer
Born 1780 Union, Pennsylvania
Married Unknown
Children:  John, Nickolas, David, and seven girls
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
Peter Colpetzer
Born 1782 Union, Pennsylvania
Married Catherine (unknown surname, she was born abt 1794)
Children: David, Eli, Daniel (all showing in 1850 Census)
Died after 1860
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
1820 US Census for Chippewa, Wayne, Ohio (age 30)
1830 US Census for Chippewa, Wayne, Ohio (age 40)
1840 US Census for Chippewa, Wayne, Ohio (age 50)
1850 US Census for Chippewa, Wayne, Ohio (age 60)
1860 US Census for Chippewa, Wayne, Ohio (age 70 - wife and Eli still there)
George Colpetzer
Born 1784 Union, Pennsylvania
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
1830 US Census for Buffalo, Union, Pennsylvania
Minerva Colpetzer
Born 1786 Union, Pennsylvania
Died 1786 Union, Pennsylvania
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
Sarah Colpetzer
Born 1788 Union, Pennsylvania
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
*Annie Colpetzer
Born abt 1790 Union, Pennsylvania
Married Abraham Mitchell  abt 1811 Pennsylvania
Children William, Levi, Benjamin, Lexly, Esther, Ohio, Jesse, Julia, Jeremiah, Samuel, Thomas, James, Nancy
Died 9 Oct 1844 New Garden, Columbia, Ohio
Sources
Family Search
Henry Colpetzer
Born 1792 Union, Pennsylvania
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
James Colpetzer
Born 1794 Union, Pennsylvania
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961
John Colpetzer
Born 1796 Union, Pennsylvania
Sources
Idaho Genealogical Quarterly 1961