Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Barbara Kingsley Notes: Stephen through Daniel and George


 
[note: I am very happy about being able to share these documents with everyone (Thank you Jessica) but be forewarned that we have found many clerical errors and inconsistancies while also suffering from the fact that there are no citations. Parallel investigation shows that a good deal of the data comes from the Vital Records of places like Bridgewater and Eaton MA. Please treat with caution.]

The blog will only let me keep a 200 character string for my labels (family names) so I had to delete quite a few names from the list. Here is a more complete list:




Barbara Kingsley Notes: Charles Francis Kingsley Line

[note: I am very happy about being able to share these documents with everyone (Thank you Jessica) but be forewarned that we have found many clerical errors and inconsistancies while also suffering from the fact that there are no citations. Parallel investigation shows that a good deal of the data comes from the Vital Records of places like Bridgewater and Eaton MA. Please treat with caution.]

Friday, January 16, 2009

Seth Kingsley Family



Seth Kingsley (1787-1833)
Birth: 29 Apr 1787
Marriage: Polly Mary Converse
Death: 19 Feb 1833 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Buried at "Old Meeting House Cemetery" Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Father: Kingsley, Calvin Sr.
Mother: Lathrop, Susanna


Polly Mary Converse (1788-1843)
Birth: 31 Jan 1788 in Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut, USA
Marriage1: Seth Kingsley
Marriage2: John Stayman
Death: 23 Mar 1843 in Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA
Buried at "Old Meeting House Cemetery" Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Father: James Converse
Mother: Ruth Whitman


John Stayman (nothing known)


Seth was the asst. marshall on the 1830 Federal Census for Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA. He had at least 9 children. He died with children still in the home (the older children had moved out) they were young and his son Daniel had to be the man of the house. He is buried in the "Old Meeting House Cemetery" in Pittsford, also known as the "Pioneer Burying Ground". His wife remarried after his death to John Stayman. She is buried in the same cemetery as Seth but we have not found her second husband.


Children:

1 Name: Unknown Kingsley
Gender: Female
Birth: Abt. 1812 [4]
Spouses: Jerry Moore


2 Name: Lorin J. Kingsley [4, 5]
Gender: Male
Birth: 20 May 1814 [4, 5]
Marriage: 1845 [4]
Death: 19 Dec 1879 in Lagrange, Indiana, USA [4]
Spouses: Hannah Elizabeth Cronkite (b: 1826) Mary J. Lilly (b: 1815)


3 Name: Seth Lucian Kingsley [2, 4]
Gender: Male
Birth: 30 Jun 1815 [4]
Death: 31 Mar 1857 [4]
Spouses: Euphonia (b: 1820)


4 Name: Calvin Kingsley [4]
Gender: Male
Birth: 30 Jun 1815 [4]
Spouses:


5 Name: James Kingsley [4]
Gender: Male
Birth: 10 Aug 1817 [4]
Death: 21 Feb 1864 [4]
Spouses: Deborah Dake


6 Name: Mary Kingsley [4]
Gender: Female
Birth: 1822 [4]
Spouses: Unknown Briggs (b: 1810)


7 Name: Susan Kingsley [4, 6]
Gender: Female
Birth: Abt. 1825 in New York, USA [6, 7]
Marriage: Abt. 1839 [4]
Spouses: Christopher Supner (b: 1814)


8 Name: Daniel Kingsley [1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]
Gender: Male
Birth: 13 Aug 1826 in Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA [1, 9, 10, 11, 12]
Marriage: 01 Apr 1846 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA [1]
Death: 15 Sep 1886 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA [15, 16, 17]
Spouses: Anna Maria Brown (b: 04 Dec 1827) Mary Unknown (b: Abt. 1843)


9 Name: George Kingsley [4, 5, 15, 18, 19, 20]
Gender: Male [18]
Birth: May 1828 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA [5]
Marriage: 1864 [18]
Death: 24 Feb 1911 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA [15, 18, 20, 21]
Spouses: Eliza Wiggins (b: 1830) Susan T. Kenney (b: 1844)

Sources:

1 Congdon, Peck and Speed, Family Record - Congdon - Kingsley 1912 (unpublished, 1912), Page 3
by Frances Anna Kingsley Congdon (notes by Ivan Clyde Speed).
2 Richard T. Halsey, Pioneer Burying Ground Grave Markers
(http://mcnygenealogy.com/cem/oldpitt.htm, Aug. 2000), Headstone transcription from the Pioneer
Burying Ground, Pittsford/Northfield, Monroe, NY, aka \u201cOld Meeting House Cemetery\u201d,
by Richard T. Halsey, 2000, accessed 11/2008.
3 Kingsley, Barbara, Kingsley Family Notes (unpublished, 16 Apr 1992), Page 05 (Generation 06) Calvin Kingsley.
4 Kingsley, Barbara, Kingsley Family Notes (unpublished, 16 Apr 1992), Page 06 (Generation 07) Seth Kingsley.
5 1850 United States Federal Census, Carlton, Orleans, New York.
6 1850 United States Federal Census, Mendon, Monroe, New York;.
7 1870 United States Federal Census, Pittsford, Monroe, new York, USA.
8 Municipal manual of Rochester and register of Monroe county. Residence date: 1752-1887 Residence place: Monroe, New York, USA.
9 1860 United States Federal Census (Name: Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of theCensus. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.:National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1;), Pittsford, Monroe, New York; Roll: M653_786;Page: 190; Image: 193.Birth date: abt 1826Birth place: New YorkResidence date:1860Residence place: Pittsford, Monroe, New York.
10 1870 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com, Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2003.Original data - 1870. United States. Ninth Census of theUnited States, 1870. Washington, D.C. National Archives and RecordsAdministration. M593, RG29, 1,761 rolls. Minnesota. Minnes;), Year: 1870; Census Place: Pittsford, Monroe, New York ; Roll: M593. Name: Daniel KingsleyBirth date: abt 1826Birth place: New YorkResidence date:1870Residence place: Pittsford, Monroe, New York.

11 1850 United States Federal Census (Name: Ancestry.com, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of theCensus. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.:National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432,;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Carlton, Orleans, New York; Roll: M432_575;Page: 3; Image: 6.Birth date: abt 1827Birth place: New YorkResidence
date:1850Residence place: Carlton, Orleans, New York.
12 1880 United States Federal Census, Year: 1880; Census Place: Pittsford, Monroe, New York; Roll: T9_862;Family History Film: 1254862; Page: 419.3000; Enumeration District:62; Image: 0099.Birth date: abt 1827Birth place: New YorkResidence date:1880Residence place: Pittsford, Monroe, New York, United States.
13 History of Rochester and Monroe County, New York : from the earliesthistoric times to the beginning of 1907 (Name: Ancestry.com, Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc.,2005.Original data - Peck, William F.. History of Rochester and MonroeCounty, New York : from the earliest historic times to the beginningof 1907. New YorkChicago: The Pioneer Pub. Co., 19;). Residence date: 1600-1907Residence place: Monroe, New York, USA.
14 Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Trees.
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7610900&pid=-1062095726.
15 Kingsley, Barbara, Kingsley Family Notes (unpublished, 16 Apr 1992), Page 07 (Generation 08) Daniel & George Kingsley.
16 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Mar 17 1905), 1886 09 20 - Monday. Funeral for Daniel Kingsley in Monroe.
17 Ryan, Sean, Pittsford Cemetery Headstones (unpublished, Aug 2008), Daniel Kingsley. 1826-1886.
18 Jessica Kerr, Jessica Kerr Family Tree (ancestry.com),
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=8585184&pid=-926385662. j.e.k. family tree (Owner: evetenebra) - 1934 susan t kenny 1841 - 1903 charles f kingsley 1865 - 1939 walter j kingsley 1876 - 1929 Records 1880 United States Federal Census Source citations (1).
19 1880 United States Federal Census, Sweden, Monroe, NY.
20 New York Times, 1911. KINGSLEY - Feb. 24, 1911. George Kingsley, aged 82 years. He is survived by threo sons, 1 . Charles F. and ""alter J. of Xew York Cit)' • . IUld George K!ngsleY or Xlagara Fall •. I Funeral private from homEl of his son, I Charles F. , Klngslc.,'. 1.il:; Annue H. I
Frooklyn. Saturday, Feb. !!5. Interment at Plttstorcl. N. Y .. Sunda)', Feb. 26- Published: February 25, 1911 Copyright © The New York Times.
21 Unknown Source, Some Newspaper, 1911. George Kingsley Obit.


Data:

1820 US Federal Census for Mendon Monroe NY


1830 US Federal Census for Mendon Monroe NY

(Note: Seth Kingsley is asst. marshall administering the census)




Pioneer Burying Ground, Pittsford Monroe NY

From Congdon Families
From Congdon Families


KINGSLEY
Desire, wife of Nathan; d July 7, 1850 aged 61y
Nathan; d Aug. 15, 1859 aged 73y 3m 5d
Seth; d Feb. 19, 1833 aged 45y 9m 21d
Polly;; see → Polly STAYMAN
Seth Jr.; d March 31, 1857 aged 41y

BROWN
Lydia, wife of Elder Daniel; d May 29, 1814 aged 53y [not found in 2000]

GILLETT
Adelia Acer; d in Michigan, Aug. 1845 aged 33y

RAY
Dr. John; d June 1, 1821 in the 48th yr. of his age
Betsey, first wife of Dr. John; d Oct. 2, 1803 in the 27th yr. of her age
Sabrah, 2nd wife of Dr. John; d Feb. 28, 1821 aged 39y
John, son of John & Sabrah; d 1803 [not found in 2000]
Eunice P., wife of Chauncey; d Aug. 21, 1824 in the 26th yr. of her age
Eliza M., wife of Hiram and dau. of Wm & Mary AGATE; d May 18, 1832 aged 30y
William A.; d Dec. 29, 1875 aged 48y
Miranda Lake, wife of William A.; b March 16, 1829, Rose, NY; [no death date]
Bertha M., dau. of William A. & Miranda; d Feb. 9, 1879 aged 14y 7m 10d
Florence E.; b July 14, 1858, Pittsford, NY; d Jan. 15, 1883
Wellington L.; Feb. 15, 1867, Pittsford, NY; d July 5, 1891

SPELLMAN
Asenath, wife of John; mother; d March 14, 1856 aged 53y
Aaron W., son of John & Asenath; d March 14, 1837 aged 2y 9m 20d
Julia K., dau. of John & Asenath; d March 7, 1837 aged 6m 12d
Mary E., dau. of John & Asenath; d Feb. 27, 1853

SPRAGUE
Charlotte, wife of Abram; d Apr. 4, 1819 aged 48y
Mary, dau. of A. & C.; d Oct. 29, 1818 aged 20y
Angeline, dau. of A. & C.; d Nov. 10, 1820 aged 19y
Sobrina, dau. of A. & C.; d Apr. 20, 1820 aged 16y
Nedediah, child of A. & C.; d May 6, 1822 aged 20y

STAYMAN
Polly, wife of John and former wife of Seth KINGSLEY; d March 23, 1843 aged 52y 1m 23d

WELCH
George; d Sept. 19, 1846 aged 67y 5m 11d
Susan, wife of George; d Oct. 6, 1849 aged 66y
Richard, son of George & Susan; d Nov. 7, 1831 aged 21y
Sarah Jane, dau. of George & Susan; d Sept. 7, 1842 aged 18y 1m 29d




Individual Summary: Kingsley, Seth [1,2,3,4]
Sex: Male
Father: Kingsley, Calvin Sr.
Mother: Lathrop, Susanna

Birth: 29 Apr 1787 in Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA [1, 4]
Birth: 1788 [1] Birth: 29 Apr 1789 in Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA; or Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA, (or 26 May 1787) [2]

Census: 1820 in Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA; 6m (4x0-10, 16-26, 26-45) 2f (0-10, 26-45) (was Ontario County, also called Pittsford) [5]
Census: 1830 in Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA; 7m (2x0-5, 3x10-15, 15-20, 40-50) 4f (2x5-10, 15-20, 40-50) -Last name on census, assumed census taker [6] Death: 19 Feb 1833 [1,2,4]

Burial: Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA; "Old Meeting House Cemetery" [1]
Burial: Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA; Pioneer Burying Ground [2, 4]

Death: Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA [1]

Shared Facts: Converse, Polly Mary
Marriage: Bef. 1816 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Marriage: Abt. 1811 [4]
Children: Unknown Kingsley, Lorin J. Kingsley, Seth Lucian Kingsley, Calvin Kingsley, James Kingsley, Mary Kingsley, Susan Kingsley, Daniel Kingsley, George Kingsley.

Sources:

1 Congdon, Peck and Speed, Family Record -Congdon -Kingsley 1912 (unpublished, 1912 ), Page 3 by Frances Anna Kingsley Congdon (notes by Ivan Clyde Speed).
2 Richard T. Halsey, Pioneer Burying Ground Grave Markers (http://mcnygenealogy.com/cem/oldpitt.htm, Aug. 2000), Headstone transcription from the Pioneer Burying Ground, Pittsford/Northfield, Monroe, NY, aka \u201cOld Meeting House Cemetery\u201d, by Richard T. Halsey, 2000, accessed 11/2008.
3 Kingsley, Barbara, Kingsley Family Notes (unpublished, 16 Apr 1992), Page 05 (Generation 06) Calvin Kingsley.
4 Kingsley, Barbara, Kingsley Family Notes (unpublished, 16 Apr 1992), Page 06 (Generation 07) Seth Kingsley.
5 1820 United States Federal Census (Ancestry.com Online publication -Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data -United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fourth Census of the United States, 1820. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1820. M33, 14;), Mendon, Ontario, New York; Roll: M33_62; Page: 355; Image: 182.Residence date: 1820Residence place: Mendon, Ontario, New York, United States
This census is labeled:
Mendon Ontario NY Mendon Monroe NY Pittsford Ontario NY.
6 1830 United States Federal Census (Name: Ancestry.com, Online publication -Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2004.Original data -United States of America, Bureau of theCensus. Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. Washington, D.C.:National Archives and Records Administration, 1830. M19, 201;), Year: 1830; Census Place: Mendon, Monroe, New York; Roll: XXX;Page: XXX.Residence date: 1830Residence place: Mendon, Monroe, New York.


“Family Record – Congdon – Kingsley 1912”

Originally Prepared by Frances Kingsley Congdon (FKC) and Edna Emily Congdon Peck (ECP) 1912
Notes by Ivan Clyde Speed (ICS) 1960s
Transcription and Edits by Sean Rockwell Ryan (SRR) 2008



[Page 1 and 2 missing] (anyone have these?)

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In the Hartford, Conn. State Library is a history of Thompson County where James Converse was born. Mention is made of Asa Converse and two sons, showing that James probably went to Stafford, Conn. (where he was twice married) early in life, consequently was not identified with the history of Thompson County.

[Thompson is a township in Windham County, not a county itself - SRR]

Asa Converse and two of his sons are mentioned in "History of Thompson, Conn. His son, James, went to Stafford, Conn. and probably lived there until he came to Pittsford, N.Y.

James' daughter, Polly (Mary) ,was born in 1791 and married Seth Kingsley of Pittsford, N.Y. She died March 23,1843 at Pittsford and was buried in the "Old Meeting House Cemetery"


Kingsley Family

______ Kingsley moved from Northampton, Mass. to Pittsford, N. Y. His children, Seth, Susan K. Welch, Betse K. Ray, Subnah K. Ray (wives of Dr. John Ray) are buried at Pittsford.

Seth Kingsley born 1788, died at Pittsford, buried in "Old Meeting House Cemetery". Married Polly (Mary) Converse.

Daniel Kingsley born Aug.13,1826 in Mendon, N.Y. Died Sept.18, 1886 at Pittsford, N.Y. Married Anna Maria Brown. April 1, 1846 at Pittsford, N.Y.

Frances Anna Kingsley born Feb. 27, 1849 at Pittsford, N.Y.


Congdon Family

Thomas Congdon born in Hartford, Washington Co., N.Y. Nov.11,1792. Died Aug. 9,1874 at Marion, N.Y. Served in War of 1812. Married Cynthia Spring born Apr. 6, 1793 in Washington Co., died Jan.11, 1851 at Marion, N.Y. [headstone indicates her death year as 1841, same day-SRR]

Phineas Spring Congdon born June 1816 at Hartford, N.Y. Died April 16,1876 at Lima, N.Y. Married Julia Ette Thatcher in Oct.1839.

LaFayette Congdon born Oct.21 ,1845 at Ellington, N.Y. Married Frances Anna Kingsley at Pittsford, N.Y. on Sept. 20,1871.


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The Children of LaFayette and Frances Anna Kingsley Congdon

FAYETTE KINGSLEY CONGDON · born at Walworth, N.Y on Sept.9, 1872. Died at Northampton, Mass. Married Mildred Ingrahm at Corfu, N.Y. on July 5,1899.

DANIEL EDGAR CONGDON born at Geneseo, N.Y. on Jan.23,1874. Died at Pittsford, N.Y. on Jan.24,1875.

EDNA EMILY CONGDON, born at Lima, N.Y. on Nov.17,1875. Died at Batavia, N.Y. on Oct.8, 1948. Married Charles Bickford Peck at Batavia, N.Y. on June 28,1902.

RANDOLPH THATCHER CONGDON born at Pittsford, N. Y. on Aug. 30, 1877. Died at Winter Park, Fla. On Sept. 7, 1967 , age 90 years. Married Marion Diefendorf at Canajoharie, N.Y. on June 30,1908.

EDGAR DAVIDSON CONGDON born at Newark, N.Y. on April 25,1879. Died at Babylon, N.Y. on May 2,1965. Married Edith Dana Jones in Vienna, Austria on July 19, 1911.

WESLEY BENTON CONGDON born at Newark, N.Y .on Nov. 9,1880. Died at Newark, N.Y. on August 1881.

CLARICE CONGDON born at Syracuse, N.Y. on Sept. 27,1886. Died at Thousand Island Park on Aug. 11,1888.

WRAY HOLLOWELL CONGDON born at Bradford, Pa. on July 29, 1892. Died at Bethlehem, Pa. Married Anna May Stuart at Kuling, China on July 29, 1918.

Note- LaFayette Congdon was a Methodist minister and he and his family had to move very frequently; at about two year intervals. Most of the churches which he served were in the western half of New York state. His last church was at Batavia N.Y. where he began the pastorate about the year 1900. After Batavia he served several years as superintendent of Genessee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N.Y. He and his wife retired to Batavia where they bought a home overlooking the State Park and celebrated their 50th anniversary. Their last years were in the home of their daughter, Edna Peck, in· Batavia. I.C.S. (Ivan Congdon Speed)


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GENEALOGY OF RELATED FAMILIES

Thatcher Family

Eliakim Thatcher born March 30, 1763 in New Lebanon, Mass. He served in the Revolution. Married Dorothy Tupper.

Charles Thatcher born in 1793 in Ellington, Tolland Co., Conn. Died in 1862 in Marion, N.Y. Married Lydia Smith in Wayne Co., N.Y. She was born in 1797 in Mulberry, Mass. and died at Marion, N.Y. in 1849.

The father of Lydia Smith was Samuel Smith born Dec. 4, 1768 and died Nov.14,1828. He married Lydia Wickes who was born on July 14, 1775 and died in June of 1842.

Julia Ette Thatcher, daughter of Charles Thatcher ,married Phineas Spring Congdon. She was born at Ontario, N.Y. on June 7,1820 and died in Feb, of 1893 at Bradford, Pa.

Brown Family

Francis Brown was born at Otselic or Eaton, Madison Co., N.Y. on Dec. 12,1791. Married Anna Gillett who was born at Eaton, N.Y. on Apr. 1798 and died 1882 Or 1883 on Ridge Road, Niagara Co., N.Y. After the marriage the couple left Madison Co. Francis lived in Henrietta, N.Y. for a few years. Then went to Somerset, N.Y. where he died on July 12,1842.

Anna Gillett was the daughter of Simeon Gillett Jr. who was born on Sept.16,1769. He married Hannah Ruse who was born in 1792. This was the first marriage of Simeon who died at Harrison, Ind. in June 1818.

Simeon Gillett Sr. was born in 1744 and died in 1796. In 1762 he married Rebecca Andrews who was born in 1746 and died in 1826.

Anna Maria Brown, the daughter of Francis Brown, Married Daniel Kingsley. She was born at Henrietta, N.Y. on Dec.4, 1827 and died at Pittsford, N.Y. on Sept.18, 1886. [this date is in error, it is (almost) Daniel's death date, she died in 1877 - SRR]

Gillett Family

A Gillett genealogical chart was made by Rev. Samuel Trumbell Gillett of Indianapolis, Ind. He was half brother of my mother's mother, Anna Gillett Brown.
F.K.C.

Jonathan Gillett and his brother, Nathan, came to America from England in 1630 in the ship "Mary and John" and settled in Dorchester, Mass. (not the present Dorchester but territory now included in the city of Boston) In 1635 he removed to Windsor, Conn. One of his sons Jonathon Gillett Jr. married Mary Kelsey. One of their sons was Thomas Gillett born 1678, Married Hannah Clark in 1704. One of their sons was Jonah Gillett 1708 in Windsor, Conn. He married _________ Haskins. Died 1782. Buried in Wintonburg now Bloomfield,Conn.

Simeon Gillett was born in Bloomfield, Conn.1744. He married Rebecca Andrews in 1762. Died in Eaton, N.Y. 1796. Their son, Simeon Gillett Jr. was born Sept.15, 1769. He married Hannah Ruse who was born 1772. He died at Fort Harrison, Ind. 1818. (one of their children was Anna Gillett Brown, my mother's mother. F.K.C.)


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Simeon Gillett Jr., father of Anna Gillett Brown, and Rev. Samuel Trumbell Gillett, was married a second time to Salome Smith Palmer. Rev. S.I. Gillett was their son and thus half brother to Anna Gillett Brown.

The Rev. S.I. Gillett in a letter to the Gillett-Ruse reunion held at or near Earlville, Madison Co., N.Y., each year since 1872, gives some personal history of his father.

“Simeon Gillett Jr. left Eaton, Madison Co., N.Y. in 1817. Before leaving I heard a man ask him, "Where are you going, Esquire Gillett?" He replied, ”I am going to find my grave."

The family spent the winter in Western N.Y., took water at Olean Point in a float boat and passing into the Ohio floated down to the mouth of the Wabash River during the spring of 1818 and by hand power propelled the boat against the current of that stream up to Fort Harrison, twenty three miles above the city of Terra Haute, Ind., then a small log village.

On landing my father sprang to the shore to greet the Indians that lined the bank. Standing too long with them in the wind, he contracted a severe cold and in ten days was lying a corpse in the "dead house" of the fort. He was buried in the old cemetery of Terra Haute on the east bank of the Wabash. He died June 1818.

In another letter read at the reunion of 1889, he gives some more recollections of his father: "My father, Simeon Gillett Jr. was a member of the Baptist church and active in all church interests. He had a saw mill and a powder mill on the banks of a small stream which ran between his house and Eaton. Across this a dam was thrown making quite a mill pond. In this pond I saw my sisters, Anna and Salome, baptized. The congregation moved in a procession with vocal music from the place of worship in Eaton to the water's edge. My father also had an interest in a fulling mill located on the road between his residence and the town ______________.

As to my father's politics I have no data, only one circumstance is remembered as indicating his views. On a visit to N. B. Palmer living in Potter Co., Penna. he spent a fourth of July at a village on the Susquehanna and at a dinner at the principal hotel at which toasts were given in the old style, he stood me on the table and gave me a toast which I
Announced, “Democrats the salt of the earth”. The sentiment was responded to by the firing of cannon aswere others. What it meant in the year 1817 I have no means of knowing.

He was always something of a musician. When the court house in Hamilton N.Y. was finished he stood on top of the cupola and sang a piece. He taught singing school using patent or buckwheat notes as they were sometimes called. The round note system not being common then in Central N.Y.

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NOTE

Nearly all of these first six pages of this manuscript have been copied from the small booklet titled "Family Record--Congdon--Kingsley 1912". It was prepared by Frances Anna Kingsley Congdon and is written in ink and in her own hand. She was the grandmother of Frances Peck Speed. I have taken the liberty of changing the arrangement and sequence of some parts, of adding some dates and places of deaths, of adding more data concerning the Huguenots to clear up a possible mistaken idea that Roger de Coigners may have been a Huguenot. Also the coats of arms of the Coigner’s and Gillett families have been omitted.


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The descriptions of the coats of arms can-be - found in the following publications;
Baronets of England - London -- 1729
Dictionaire de la Navarre Nobliase France et Navarre
Burkes General Armory
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LaFayette Congdon kept a diary for the year he spent as a soldier during the last year of the Civil War. Julia Congdon Spring, the great-grand daughter of LaFayette, has made copies and she has his letters of the same period. It is not being copied here.

Edna Emily Congdon Peck wrote a few recollections of her family. They are reproduced below. Ivan C. Speed

Father enlisted in the Union Army, Aug. 31,1864, becoming a member of Co K-21st N.Y. Cavalry. He then lacked two months of being nineteen. His parents objected because he was their only child and also under age. He was large and strong and no questions were asked about his age- at that time recruits were much needed. His mother wrote to ----- Draper to use influence to have him kept in Elmira as a company clerk. In a letter he expresses chagrin at being kept back.

He was never in a battle, but he suffered from exposure, poor food, filth especially at camp at Elmira.

There is considerable difference in the contents of his diary and the letters he wrote home. He was anxious about the welfare of his father and mother. Many times in his diary (about) the Elmira camp he speaks of not being able to eat the food, and of feeling unwell. Food was hard to get the last months and he suffered the rest of his life from almost unbroken diet of hard tack and black coffee. He had an aversion to coffee therafter.

[some illegible notes]

Anna [Gillett] Brown's family were staunch Baptists and there were some Bap. ministers among them. She was very fond of her grand daughter, Frances Kingsley, but when Frances married Lafayette Congdon she said she "might as well marry a tin peddler.” referring to the frequent moves required of a Methodist minister- at that time every two years.

She visited the young people in their home. When attending church during communion service, she remained seated stiffly, in her pew and would not commune.

One of my vague early recollections is being taken to visit her when mother was on one of her frequent visits to Pittsford. I remember a large old woman wearing a cap.

Frances Anna Kingsley was born in Pittsford, N.Y. She was named for her maternal grandparents ,Francis and Anna Brown. I remember visiting a brick house on Ridge Road near Somerset, where they lived, and Maria Brown was married. A few years ago an old house was standing, back in the grove at Olcott Beach, where mother was taken, when a child, with her grand parents, to visit friends.


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She was the eldest of four children, the others, Willis, Edmund and George. A sister, Alice died at two years. Edmund never married and died at middle age. At the time he owned and ran a meat market in Pittsford. George was very sick with scarlet fever when a child and became deaf. His health was never robust. His father sent him west to work on a ranch when he was twenty. His health improved somewhat.

Frances was a beautiful girl as all her pictures show. When about sixteen she became enrolled at Mrs. Nicholl's school for girls in Rochester. She went to the home of Mrs. Emily T. Randolph to board during school days. There she met the young college student from Springwater who was to become her husband. After finishing Mrs. Nicholl’s school, she taught a district school, which until recently stood near the farm of Uncle George Kingsley.

Aunt Louise Kingsley (wife of Willis) told me that she was the belle of that section. Added to her natural attractions was the fact that her father was prosperous, owning three farms on the Clover road not far from Rochester, and buildings in Pittsford. She always had beautiful clothes and everything she wanted. She was devoted to her parents She used to make frequent trips home after her mother's death to see her father. I was often taken along and have vague recollections of meeting one of my uncles at the Whitcomb House in Rochester, having dinner there and a long often cold tiresome buggy ride to grandfather's. He then lived in the house later owned by Uncle Will.

Daniel Kingsley's grandfather came from Northampton, Mass. Daniel's father died when he was a young boy and he was the eldest of several children. He must have been a very industrious hard working boy.

He was a prosperous farmer and was active in Republican politics in Monroe County. He held county offices at different times and was well known. He was a very charitable person and helped poor families as long, as he lived. The attendance at his funeral was largest and procession of carriages the longest.

He had a sister, Susan Welch, who lived in the neighborhood. There was an estrangement between the families. He rarely mentioned them. At the time of mother's marriage they needed a desk and grandfather suggested they see "Seth Kingsley's old desk stored in the corn crib." That desk was the --- of years of study and hard work and was moved from parish to parish. Now Randolph has it, beautifully restored.

Note. When Randolph retired to live in Florida, he gave the desk to Wray in Bethlehem, Pa. After Wray's death, it probably went to June. I.C.S.

I remember grandmother, Julia Ette Thatcher, mostly sitting in· a high back rocker in her room reading. Having lived through the Civil War she read many books on that. I remember "Memoirs of U.S. Grant”, "Nurse and Spy" rather lurid. History of U.S. by Bancroft.


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Julia Ette Thatcher came from a large family, Ramanzo, Charlotte, Julia Ette, Belinda, Elvira, Samuel, Sophia and Salem. and Emily. Aunt Emily was a frequent visitor at our house and I remember Samuel, Sophia and Salem visiting us in Syracuse, also Romain and Edith Saxton, children of Charlotte Thatcher who lived in Wisconsin. Sophia was Mrs. James Partridge of Jamestown, N.Y. They had no children.

When Aunt Sophia visited us in Syracuse, there was excitement among the children of the parsonage. Faye, of course. We smelled a very unusual odor of tobacco and it was traced to Sophia who was in an outhouse connected with the shed, smoking a pipe. When young she was taught on the sly by her brothers and continued to smoke a pipe as long as she lived.

In 1894 I visited at her home in Jamestown and at Samuel’s , at Mrs. Iddo Sykes, daughter of Belinda, and ·at Daniel Wilcox, son of Elvira, all living at Kennedy, near Jamestown - Mrs. Walter Jones - "Cousin Emma” of Buffalo was a daughter of Elvira. After her mother's death she lived with Aunt Emily for many years. Aunt Emily had two daughters, Anna and Etta, who both died at middle age. Anna was a school teacher and later married a M-minister by the name of Watson.

Alice Sykes' daughter, Edith , Mrs. Frank Vining is living in Castile, N.Y. Salem and Viola Thatcher lived in Erie, Pa. They had no children.

Grandmother told me that the great event in her childhood occurred in the summer, when her grandfather, Eliakim Thatcher and wife, Dorothy Tupper Thatcher, started on their annual trip to Albany, to collect his pension for service in the Revolution. He had been shot through the abdomen and a fistula formed. He lived to an old age. All the family
gathered to see them start . They sat in chairs, placed in an ox-cart. They had baskets of food and great-great grandmother took quantities of yarn to knit into socks for the next winter.

Grandfather Phineas Spring Congdon was a modest, gentle person and loveable. I think father probably inherited many of his traits. He married his wife in Marion, N.Y. and he owned a farm there when he and grandmother gave up their home to live with their son I think father kept the farm for a time. I remember sorghum and other food being sent to us while we lived in Syracuse. Mother loved grandfather Congdon and sincerely mourned his death.

There was a cousin of father's, Lyman Congdon, who was a pharmacist in Tarrytown, N.Y. Also another by the name of Farnsworth, who had an improved method of evaporating apples and shipped all his output to England, Mr. F. visited us in Syracuse. His home was in Marion N.Y. They are the only Congdon relatives I have known.



[end of document: transcribed by Sean Ryan 9/10/2008]

Daniel Kingsley Family


Daniel, Frances Anna, Anna Maria - c. 1853

Daniel Kingsley (1826-1886)
Birth: 13 Aug 1826 in Mendon, Monroe, New York, USA
Marriage1: 01 Apr 1846 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA (Anna Maria Brown)
Marriage2: Aft. 1877 (Mary Unknown - widowed Gaskill)
Death: 15 Sep 1886 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Buried at Pittsford Cemetery in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA 1
Father: Seth Kingsley
Mother: Polly Mary Converse

Anna Maria Brown (1827-1877)
Birth: 04 Dec 1827 in Henrietta, Monroe, New York, USA
Death: 1877 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Buried at Pittsford Cemetery in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA 2
Father: Francis Brown
Mother: Anna Gillett

Mary _______ (1843- )
Birth: Abt. 1843 in New York, USA

Daniel Kingsley was a well respected farmer in Pittsford New York, a region just south of Rochester in Monroe County. Daniel was married to Anna Maria Brown for 31 years until her death. He then married Mary _____, who was previously married to a Gaskill with two children. Daniel died 9 years after Anna Maria and we do not know when Mary died or if she remarried.

Children of Marriage1:

1 Frances Anna Kingsley
Birth: 27 Feb 1849 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Marriage: 20 Sep 1871 in Wayne, New York, USA
Death: Apr 1931 in Batavia, Genesee, New York, USA
Buried at Pittsford Cemetery in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA 3
Spouses: Lafayette Congdon (b: 21 Oct 1845)

2 Alice May Kingsley
Birth: 1851 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Death: 1853 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Buried at Pittsford Cemetery in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA 4

3 Edmund D Kingsley
Birth: 1852 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Death: 1888 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Buried at Pittsford Cemetery in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA 5

4 George Elbert Kingsley
Birth: 03 Sep 1854 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Marriage: 21 Jan 1885 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Death: 30 Mar 1923 in Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
Spouses: Mary Emily Spellman (b: 23 Apr 1861)

5 Willis B Kingsley
Birth: Abt. 1861 in New York, USA
Death: 1923
Spouses: Louise M Spiegel (b: 23 Dec 1865)

Daniel's second wife, Mary, had the following children from her previous marriage (to possibly George Gaskill):

1 Ona Gaskill
Birth: Abt. 1867 in New York, USA

2 George Gaskill
Birth: Abt. 1874 in New York, USA


Notes:

Notes based largely on Frances Anna Kingsley's Family Record:
Daniel Kingsley was born on Aug 13 1826 in Mendon NY , married Anna Maria Brown on Apr 1 1846 at Pittsford NY and died on Sep 15 1886at Pittsford NY . Daniel was born to Seth and Polly Mary (Converse) Kingsley. Daniel's father died when he was a young boy and he was the eldest of several children. He must have been a very industrious hard working boy. He was a prosperous farmer and was active in Republican politics in Monroe County. He held county offices at different times and was well known. He was elected Pittsford supervisor in 1859 and again in 1863 as well as functioning as the asst. Marshall for the 1870 US Federal census of Pittsford. He was a very charitable person and helped poor families as long, as he lived. The attendance at his funeral was largest and procession of carriages the longest. He had a sister, Susan Welch, who lived in the neighborhood. There was an estrangement between the families. He rarely mentioned them. Daniel Kingsley's grandfather came from Northampton, Mass.
Anna Maria Brown was born on Dec 4 1827 in Henrietta NY and died in 1877 at Pittsford NY. Anna Maria was born to Francis and Anna (Gillette) Brown. Not much is known beyond these facts although the Gillette family is traced back very far.
(Note: Mendon, Henrietta and Pittsford are all neighboring towns within 10 miles square)
Largely paraphrasing Edna Emily Congdon Peck's portion of Family Record:
Frances Anna Kingsley was born on Feb 27 1849 in Pittsford NY, married Rev. LaFayette Congdon on Sep 20 1871 in Wayne NY and died in 1931 at Batavia NY. Frances and LaFayette had 8 children, 5 of which lived to adulthood.: Fayette Kingsley Congdon, Edna Emily Congdon, Randolph Thatcher Congdon, Edgar Davidson Congdon, and Wray Hollowell Congdon. Frances Anna Kingsley was named for her maternal grandparents, Francis and Anna Brown. She was the eldest of four living children. Frances was a beautiful girl as all her pictures show. When about sixteen she became enrolled at Mrs. Nicholl's school for girls in Rochester. She went to the home of Mrs. Emily T. Randolph to board during school days. There she met the young college student from Springwater who was to become her husband. After finishing Mrs. Nicholl’s school, she taught a district school, which until recently stood near the farm of Uncle George Kingsley, Daniel's younger brother. Aunt Louise Kingsley, the wife of Willis, told me that she was the belle of that section. Added to her natural attractions was the fact that her father was prosperous, owning three farms on the Clover road not far from Rochester, and buildings in Pittsford. She always had beautiful clothes and everything she wanted. She was devoted to her parents She used to make frequent trips home after her mother's death to see her father. I was often taken along and have vague recollections of meeting one of my uncles at the Whitcomb House in Rochester, having dinner there and a long often cold tiresome buggy ride to grandfather's. He then lived in the house later owned by Uncle Will.
Alice May Kingsley was born in 1851 in Pittsford NY and died at two years of age.
Edmund Daniel Kingsley was born in 1852 at Pittsford NY, never married and died at middle age, in 1888 at Pittsford NY. At the time he owned and ran a meat market in Pittsford.
George Elbert Kingsley was born Sep 3 1854 in Pittsford NY, married Mary Emily Spellman on Jan 21 1885 in Pittsford and died on Mar 30 1923 in Pittsford NY. George and Emily had 3 children: Ernest Daniel Kingsley, George William Kingsley, and Frances Kingsley. George Elbert Kingsley was very sick with scarlet fever when a child and became deaf. His health was never robust. His father, Daniel, sent him west to work on a ranch when he was twenty. His health improved somewhat.
Willis B Kingsley was born about 1861 in NY, married Louise M. Spiegel and died in 1923. No issue is known for this line.



Data:

1850 US Federal Census for Carlton, Orleans, New York USA


1860 US Federal Census for Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA


1870 US Federal Census for Pittsford, Monroe, New York, USA
(note that Daniel Kingsley is the Asst. Marshall taking the census)


Daniel Kingsley's Obituary

Rochester Democrat - Thursday, Sept 16, 1886 p.3


Daniel Kingsley's Funeral

Rochester Democrat - Monday, Sept 20, 1886 p.3


Anna Maria Brown, Young and Old - c. 1833 and 1863



"District #4 was located on Clover Street about where Hastings Circle cul-de-sac runs off Clover near Lock 32. This land was deeded by Daniel Kingsley and his wife for use specifically as a schoolhouse. Kingsley owned property on each side of Clover Street from about French Road south to the canal.
This building was frame and had a basement that housed the coal furnace. The basement had a door to the outside. There was one front entrance that was used by both boys and girls and opened into a wide hallway that held coats, lunch pails, and boots in the wintertime. A former student reported that the playground had swings and the very best slide in the town.
Classes from 1st grade to sixth were taught in this District, as were most of the others in town. There was an area for a library near the wide hallway and in close proximity to the entrance to the basement. Older students were asked to tend the coal furnace - either by adding fuel or by "shaking" it. A Mr. Dehmler, who lived nearby, was the custodian during the years of late 1930's until the closing of the District.
Of course students walked to school and some came from as far away as Long Meadow, French Road, and all the way to the Brighton line on Clover Street and up to Stone Road. A 4-H program was offered one day a week after school, taught by a volunteer mother of one of the students.

Daniel Kingsley probate
Column One: Name of Testator
Column Two: Place of Residence of Testator
Column Three: County #, Volume #, Page #
KINGSLEY, DANIEL PITTSFORD 37-484


Web-post on Daniel Kingsley
Kingsley, Daniel
Date of Birth: August, 1826 Place of Birth: Mendon Date of Death: 1886 Parents' Names: Seth Kingsley and Polly Converse Spouse: Anna Maria Brown Occupation: Supervisor of Pittsford

Daniel was an important man in Pittsford, holding both great wealth and power. In 1848, he married Anna. She was born in 1828 and died in 1877. She was also from Mendon. In 1860, and again in 1863, Daniel was elected the Supervisor of Pittsford. In 1862, a fire destroyed two of his barns. In 1879, he sold land to a relative by the name of George E. Kingsley. He sold him property in Pittsford for the sum of $3400.

Union and Advertiser, March 7, 1860: 2-4; Union and Advertiser, Feb. 14, 1862:2-4; Union and Advertiser, May 8, 1879: 2-8.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Hard Nut to Crack: John Jones of Enfield NH

Here is what I have on John Jones (not much).

1) We know that J. Wyman Jones' father was John Jones from Enfield NH (born and died) who was married to Ruth Arven/Arvin. 1

2) A John Jones, Esq., of Enfield had a daughter, Maria Cordelia Jones, who married Jonathan Everett Sargent Nov 29 1843, 2 issue. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

3) A John Jones of East Enfield was elected the first captain of an artillery company that was organized in 1820. 6

4) John Jones of Enfield married Ruth Arvin (b. Mar 27 1795) of Canaan and had the following issue: Mary C., m. Hon. J. Everett Sargent; one son, John, d. young; Emily, m. ____ Foster 6
I recall seeing somewhere that John Jones supposedly spent some time as a community elected official on the state level. I need to vet this information.

Kingsleys

Ancestery currently has two members listed following our common Kinglsey Ancestors:
Kingsley family of "kingdog53". (discrepency with Daniel's wives, Marie Meade vs. Anna Maria Brown)
Kingsley family of "USAF_Kingsleys".

Here is a blog from a Kinglsey family (probably one of the ancestry members above). The relation being: Daniel Kingsley - George Elbert - Ernest Daniel - Lester Smith.

We also have contact with a Kingsley descendent from George Kingsley, Daniel Kingsley's younger brother.

After Anna Maria Brown's death, Daniel Kingsley married Mary Gaskill (nee Unknown) with two children. We still need to flesh out who Mary was and where she came from.


First Post

The intention of this blog is to chronicle my genealogy research. Of my four grandparents, only one has lent themselves to this study, Edgar Dana Congdon. I will note research behind all four grandparents, plus my wife's family, and my cousin's as well.

My Primary Families are: Congdon, LaWall (nee Dietz), Ryan and Dennerlien
My Wife's Families are: Parkin and Cook
My Cousin's Families are: Treuel, Caminiti, Adcox, etc.

I have been conducting this study, on and off, since 2001. Therefore, I have alot of background information that I hope leeks through into this blog over time.