John de Beauchamp

John married Margaret de Whalesborough about 1340. Margaret (daughter of John de Whalesborough) died after 24 Dec 1355. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1411

Family/Spouse: William Fortescue. William (son of William Fortescue) was born about 1345 in of Whympston in Modbury, Devon, England; died after 1406. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Chalons. Robert (son of John Chalons) was born in of Challonsleigh, Devon, England; died before 29 Sep 1410. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1435
• Alternate death: Bef 1436

Notes:

According to John Morris (citation details below), he fought at Agincourt in 1415, and in 1422 he was governor of Meaux in France. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below), he was "not a soldier, as historians of the family have claimed, but a local administrator and man of affairs, above all in the service of the Courtenay family."

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Norris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Clarice before 1408. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Maud Falwell before 1411. Maud (daughter of John Falwell) died after 8 Nov 1421. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Devon, 1420. Sheriff of Devon, 1409-10 and 1420-22.

Robert married Blanche Waterton in 1393. Blanche (daughter of Hugh Waterton and Ellen Mowbray) was born about 1380; died on 3 Sep 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP for Tavistock, May 1421; Dc 1421; 1423; 1425. MP for Tetner, 1426; for Plympton Erle, 1429; for Totnes again, 1432; for Wiltshire, 1437. Governor of Lincoln's Inn 1424-26, 1428-30. Controller of the stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, 5 May 1430-22 Jul 1432. "Chancellor" to Henry VI during the latter's exile.

From the History of Parliament (citation details below):

After the battle of Northampton in July 1460 the fortunes of Fortescue inevitably followed those those of the house of Lancaster, to which he remained constantly loyal. In October following he was consulted in Parliament as to the legality of the duke of York’s claim to the throne, a question on which he expressed his opinion more fully in The replication made agenste the title and clayme by the Duke of Yorke to the Crownes and Reaumes of England and France, composed shortly afterwards. It was early in February 1461 that, having hastily made provision for his wife, Fortescue joined forces with Queen Margaret, and probably even took part in the second battle of St. Albans. Certainly, he was present at the battle of Towton on 29 Mar. and the skirmishes at Ryton and Brancepeth (Durham) on 26 June; and accordingly he was attainted in Edward IV’s first Parliament six months later. His forfeited estates were for the most part granted to John, Lord Wenlock.

Fortescue spent the following two years in Scotland, acting as 'chancellor' and councillor to Henry VI, and it was probably there that he wrote De Natura Legis Naturae and other tracts on the question of the royal succession. In March (?) 1462 Henry gave him letters of credence to Louis XI of France, his mission being to ask support for the exiled Lancastrians. He crossed from Scotland to Sluys with Queen Margaret in July 1463, and they eventually settled at the castle of Koeur in St. Mighel, where they lived in extreme poverty. Fortescue spared no effort to procure assistance from the kings of France and Portugal in order to bring about Henry VI’s restoration and, calling himself ‘Chancellor of England’, he wrote several memoranda on the subject for Louis XI’s attention. During the years of exile he devoted himself to the education of Edward, prince of Wales, and composed De Laudibus Legurn Anglie and The Governance of England. He was a leading negotiator in the talks conducted at Angers in 1470 between King Louis and the earl of Warwick, thus promoting the momentous alliance between the earl and the queen; and on 14 Apr. 1471, after Henry VI’s readeption, he sailed for England with Queen Margaret and Prince Edward. Proclaimed a traitor by Edward IV a week later, he was captured at Tewkesbury on 4 May. Fortescue’s fidelity to the Lancastrian cause was unshaken so long as Henry VI and his son were alive, but after their deaths he sought a general pardon from Edward IV and even offered him his services as a councillor. Nevertheless, it was not until October 1473, after he had written A Declaracion upon certayn wrytinges, refuting his earlier arguments about the royal succession, that he was permitted to present a petition to Parliament for the reversal of his attainder and the restoration of his estates.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below):

With the possible exception of Sir Thomas More, Fortescue is the English common lawyer who until the days of Coke and Bratton had most to say of importance to a reading public outside his own profession. He was the author of nine literary works still extant, and at least five others are known to have been lost (one of them a book of devotion); there is one conjectural work, and in addition the possibility that Fortescue was responsible for the Dialogue between Understanding and Faith, a translation of Alain Chartier's Traite? de l'esperance. There are also four attributed items, probably spurious. Fortescue was fluent in both Latin and French and had an easy familiarity with the standard apparatus and ideas of the late medieval scholar, including the Bible, Aristotle (quoted very frequently), Vincent of Beauvais, Boethius, St Augustine, and St Thomas Aquinas. In some cases he had the texts at first hand, but more often he used one of the compendia of knowledge that were in common circulation. He also knew works by Poggio Bracciolini and Leonardo Bruni. Less surprisingly, Fortescue had a close acquaintance with Roman and canon law. His mental world was also deeply informed by his common-law background, and some of his thinking can be paralleled elsewhere in the profession.

Ten of Fortescue's pieces were Lancastrian propaganda tracts: De titulo Edwardi comitis Marchie; Of the Title of the House of York; Defensio juris domus Lancastrie; A defence of the title of the house of Lancaster, or, A replication to the claim of the duke of York; Opusculum de natura legis nature et eius censura in successione regnorum suprema; the ascribed Somnium vigilantis, or, A Defence of the Proscription of the Yorkists, and lost works on the succession in English and Latin, a genealogy of the house of Lancaster, and a related genealogy of James II of Scotland. Of the extant works, De titulo was written not earlier than the coronation of Louis XI on 15 April 1461 and the remainder before July 1463. An eleventh political item is the refutation demanded by Edward IV, Declaration upon certayn wrytinges sent oute of Scotteland ayenst the kynges title to the roialme of Englond, written between the defeat at Tewkesbury and 6 October 1473.

The Yorkist claim to the crown rested on descent from Edward III through the female line, and Fortescue based part of his propaganda case on the history of various countries, which showed that women did not inherit or transmit rights to the crown. He also pointed to the strength of the Lancastrian title by prescription. However, his principal argument (worked out in detail in Opusculum de natura legis nature) was that women were excluded from ruling by natural law, a principle that had also been specifically endorsed by scripture. When it came to recanting these views, the historical precedents presented Fortescue with few problems. He trumped the natural law difficulty by arguing that since 'ther is now noo kingdome in erthe of Cristen men of which the Kynge is not subjecte [to the pope] also welle in temporaltes as spirituelles', the Yorkist claims via the female line did not violate the principle of ultimate male supremacy (Works, 535). The unanswerable Lancastrian claim by prescription was quietly ignored.

Fortescue's propaganda skills saved his neck in 1471, but the interest of history is in his remaining three works, which deal with English government and the constitution. De laudibus legum Angliae, written in the last years of Fortescue's exile (1468–71), ostensibly to instruct the young prince of Wales, is an exposition of the advantages of English common law over the Roman law of the continent, and contains a uniquely valuable description of the inns of court and the legal profession. The Articles Sent from the Prince to the Earl of Warwick (December 1470–March 1471) is a short blueprint for a council to control the senile Henry VI. In the years immediately after Tewkesbury, elements of this were incorporated in a second and much more substantial assessment of the problems facing the country, written in English but known from the title of its first chapter as De dominio regale et politico (alternatively The Difference between an Absolute and a Limited Monarchy).

Fortescue's analysis of the problems of his day has had a significant influence on later historical interpretations of the period. He argued that poverty was the root cause of the collapse of royal authority, a poverty caused by the alienation of the royal estate. This had destroyed the king's freedom to act, and had denied him the means to maintain an image of magnificence and to exercise a proper degree of patronage. The beneficiaries had been 'ouer myghtye subgettes'—a memorable term perhaps coined by Sir John (Fortescue, Governance, 127). The landed wealth of such magnates allowed them to eclipse the power of the king and to focus loyalty on themselves. Fortescue's answer was to re-endow the king by a parliamentary resumption of land grants, together with a one-off subsidy to buy the loyalty of those who lost by it, coupled with an exploitation of the custom duties. He also advocated a significant reduction of the influence of the magnates on the council, and their replacement by salaried officials, and particular caution over the future exercise of patronage.

Beyond this analysis of the problems of his own day, Fortescue's importance lies in his writing on the nature of political authority. He distinguished three kinds: regal dominion, political dominion, and a combined form: regal and political dominion. Fortescue took the original distinction from St Thomas Aquinas, who had postulated the third form to accommodate the government of imperial Rome which exhibited both regal and political features. Sir John's originality was to realize that other states fell into that category, including England. Its king ruled by hereditary right, and had full regal authority over his subjects. His duty was that imposed by the law of nature on every king—to do justice. On the other hand he was not absolute. His power derived from the body politic, and the laws he had to administer were only such as he and the people assented to. What is more, that limitation on regality was institutionalized in parliament, and enforcement was by judges sworn to uphold those laws, not the king's will.

Fortescue's authority on constitutional law was widely recognized in his own day and increasingly thereafter. This particularly applied to the De laudibus, of which the first printed edition appeared in 1545–6, and eight further editions were published before the century was out. Interpretation, however, became increasingly anachronistic. When Sir John wrote that in England 'the regal power is restrained by political law' (Chrimes, 27), he had in mind the contrast between the absolutism of French kings and English kings who exercised royal authority within political parameters. However, by the seventeenth century the maxim was being regularly used to justify the imposition of constitutional restrictions on the crown. Fortescue was substantially cited by the lawyers representing John Hampden; Edward Coke said that the De laudibus was 'worthy to be written in letters of gold for the weight and worthiness thereof' (Coke, report no. 8, fol. xiv). After the civil war the whigs interpreted the term dominium politicum et regale as a constitutional formula for the protection of liberty, while in 1778 the philanthropist Granville Sharp claimed Fortescue's authority for colonial resistance to the absolutist pretensions of the Westminster parliament. In the next century interest in Sir John became more scholarly. A respectable edition of the judge's writings was published in 1869 by a distant descendant, Thomas Fortescue, Lord Clermont, supported by an archive-based family history, and in 1885 Charles Plummer produced a modern text of the De dominio regale et politico under a somewhat misleading title, The Governance of England. In 1942 an authoritative edition of the De laudibus legum Angliae by Stanley B. Chrimes set modern scholarship on the soundest of bases.

John married Elizabeth Brytte before 1423. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Brytte) died on 26 Apr 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Isabel James before 1436. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP for Devon, Dec 1421. Appointed chief justice of the king's bench in Dublin on 25 Jun 1426, which position he held until 1429. Sheriff of Devon 4 Nov 1446 to 9 Nov 1447 and 8 Nov 1452 to 5 Nov 1453. Sheriff of Cornwall 9 Nov 1447 to 1448.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below):

Henry trained as a lawyer, and was a member of Lincoln's Inn by 1420. In December 1421 he was returned as a knight of the shire for Devon. His career as a lawyer brought him promotion in Ireland rather than England, for on 25 June 1426 he was appointed chief justice of king's bench in Dublin. His salary was at first to be £40 per annum, but on 8 November following this was increased to a fee of 3s. 4d. a day. Payments fell into arrears, and perhaps for this reason on 4 April 1427 he was granted the custody of lands in Rathmore, Kildare, and elsewhere in Ireland. His tenure of office was not without controversy; twice a spokesman for the Irish parliament in making representations to Westminster, in November 1428 it was alleged that he and Sir Thomas Strange had been assaulted in the course of one of these missions. Fortescue received a new patent on 10 June 1428, but was replaced as chief justice by Stephen Bray on 18 February following.

The rest of Fortescue's career was spent in England, though he did not at once sever all links with Ireland--in March 1430 he acted as a feoffee for the fourth earl of Ormond. Consistently overshadowed by his brother John, he was one of the Devon notables sworn to keep the peace in 1434, but was only occasionally appointed to judicial commissions. Perhaps because he was from time to time said to be involved in acts of disorder—an alleged assault at Dodbrooke in 1421, a dispute over land in Nethercombe some ten years later, in the course of which he was said to have deployed a troop of Irishmen and Scots against his adversaries—he was not appointed to the Devon bench until November 1447, at the end of a year in which he served as sheriff of the county. He was sheriff of Cornwall in 1447–8, and of Devon again in 1452–3—all appointments that he probably owed to his brother. In 1454 Fortescue was a commissioner of array to defend the coasts of Devon, and in 1457 he was appointed to levy 284 archers in the county. Though last appointed a JP on 21 September 1458, Fortescue was among the feoffees to whom Joan Penells conveyed lands in Bowden and Georges Teign on 28 May 1460, and he was apparently believed to be still alive on 31 October following. But further references are wanting, and he probably died at about this time.

Henry married Katherine before 4 Feb 1421. Katherine was born in of Wood Barton in Woodleigh, Devon, England; died before 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Joan Bosom before 1424. Joan (daughter of Edmund Bosom) died before 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Margaret Fallapit before 20 Nov 1437. Margaret (daughter of Nicholas Fallapit) died in 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to John Morris (citation details below), he was killed at the Battle of St. Albans fighting on the Lancastrian side.

He may have been a son of his father's first wife, Eleanor Norreys; secondary sources disagree.

Family/Spouse: Alice de Windsor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Mar 1481

Notes:

"Not to be confused with his 1st cousin, Sir John Fortescue, lawyer who became Chief Justice in England." [Ancestral Roots] This confusion is present in A History of the Family of Fortescue in All its Branches, citation details below.

John married Joan Prutteston before 1451. Joan (daughter of John Prutteston) was born in of Preston in Ermington, Devon, England; died on 23 May 1501; was buried in St. George's Churchyard, Modbury, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John St. Aubyn. John died on 14 Oct 1418. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Sir John, who was an Esquire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth, was sent by him as Sheriff into Cornwall, where he had to conduct the siege of St. Michael's Mount, which was defended by the Earl of Oxford. This was in 1471; in 1481 he was Sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex, and in a year or two the King made him "Master Porter" of Calais. King Richard the Third, who had succeeded by the murder of his nephew, sent Sir John Fortescue a fresh appointment as Esquire of the Body to the King, with a salary of fifty marks, which appointment carried with it the title of 'Sir;' but Sir John Fortescue joined his old adversary the Earl of Oxford, and they offered their services to the Earl of Richmond, who soon after became Henry the Seventh. Landing at Milford Haven on August 6, 1485, on the 22nd the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought, in which Sir John, who had been knighted by Henry on his landing, took his part. The victory gave the throne without a rival to Henry the Seventh, and the King rewarded Sir John by making him, within a month of the battle, Chief Butler of England, and by many grants of forfeited manors. At the coronation he was made Knight banneret. Sir John was much at Court henceforward, among other occasions at the festivities in 1494, when Prince Henry, afterwards Henry the Eighth, then but two years old, was created Duke of York and a Knight of the Bath. At length, crossing over to Calais with the King and Queen, in May, 1500, to avoid the plague, of which thirty thousand persons died in London in that year, his own life came to a close immediately after a speedy return to England, for he died at Punsborne July 28, 1500." [John Morris, citation details below]

John married Alice Boleyn before 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[Richard Fortescue] left three sons: the eldest, another Sir Richard, with whom we are not concerned, and two others both of whom were called Sir John. In the case of the first of the two Sir Johns, there was the singular coincidence that while he had a brother of his own name, he married Alice Montgomery, who had a sister of her own name. Genealogists would learn with relief that they died without issue." [John Morris, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Alice Montgomery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabella Gibbs. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Jane.

Family/Spouse: Thomas Hext. Thomas was born in of Kingston, Staverton, Devon, England; died before 8 May 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Champernowne. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Champernoun and Elizabeth Reynell) was born about 1465 in of Inceworth in Maker, Cornwall, England; died before 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married William Denys before 17 Jan 1448. William was born in of Combe Raleigh, Devon, England; died on 27 Apr 1479. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), citation details below:

Knight of St. John, martyr, b. about 1476, executed 10 July, 1539. He belonged to the Salden branch of the great Devonshire family of Fortescue, and was a true country gentleman of the period, occasionally following the King in the wars with France (1513 and 1522), not unfrequently attending the court, and at other times acting as justice of the peace or commissioner for subsidies. He was knighted in 1503 (Clermont; but D.N.B. gives 1528), attended the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1520), and late in life (1532) became a Knight of St. John. When Anne Boleyn became queen, Sir Adrian (whose mother, Alice Boleyn, was Anne's grand-aunt) naturally profited to some extent, but, as we see from his papers, not very much. The foundations of his worldly fortunes had been laid honourably at an eartier date. He was a serious thrifty man painstaking in business, careful in accounts, and a lover of the homely wit of that day. He collected and signed several lists of proverbs and wise saws, which, though not very brilliant, are never offensive or coarse, always sane, and sometimes rise to a high moral or religious level.

All of a sudden this quiet, worthy gentleman was overwhelmed by some unexplained whim of the Tudor tyrant. On 29 August, 1534, he was put under arrest, no one knows why, but released after some months. On 3 February, 1539, he was arrested a second time and sent to the Tower. In April he was condemned untried by an act of attainder; in July he was beheaded. No specific act of treason was alleged against him, but only in general "sedition and refusing allegiance". The attainder, however, went on to decree death against Cardinal Pole and several others because they "adhered themselves to the Bishop of Rome". Catholic tradition was always held that Sir Adrian died for the same cause, and modern Protestant critics have come to the same conclusion. His cultus has always flourished among the Knights of St. John, and he was beatified by Leo XIII in 1895.

Family/Spouse: Florence Bonville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Escheator of Devon, 1528.

Thomas married Wilmot Pointz about 1510. Wilmot died on 15 Apr 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1485

Jane married John Cobley about 1501. John (son of John Cobley and Alice Cockworthy) was born about 1479 in of Brightley in Chittlehampton, Devon, England; died on 24 Oct 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married John Bonville before 1478. John (son of William Bonville and Elizabeth Kirkby) was born in of Comberleigh, Devon, England; died on 7 May 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Joan Brett after Feb 1538. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married John Collamore about 1532. John (son of Peter Collamore and Isabel Cushe) was born about 1500; died before 17 Apr 1555 in Braunton, Devon, England; was buried on 17 Apr 1555 in Braunton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1503, of Brightley in Chittlehampton, Devon, England
• Alternate death: 23 Dec 1547

Notes:

Also spelled Cobleigh, etc.

Margaret married Roger Giffard before 1526. Roger (son of Thomas Giffard and Anne Coryton) was born in of Brightley in Chittlehampton, Devon, England; died on 1 May 1547. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Fortescue. Thomas (son of John Fortescue and Isabella Gibbs) was born in 1490; died about 1554. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Margaret Blight before 5 Sep 1563. Margaret was born about 1545; died before 27 Nov 1626 in Bishop's Tawton, Devon, England; was buried on 27 Nov 1626 in Bishop's Tawton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jane Giffard.

Joan married Amias Chichester before 1545. Amias (son of John Chichester and Joan Brett) was born in of Brightley in Chittlehampton, Devon, England; died on 4 Jul 1577. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Joan Brett after Feb 1538. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Agnes Adams on 11 Jan 1608 in Northam, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Bartholomew Harris, Mayor of Barnstaple, Devon on 18 Jan 1587 in Braunton, Devon, England. Bartholomew was born about 1560; died before 10 Oct 1615 in Barnstaple, Devon, England; was buried on 10 Oct 1615 in Barnstaple, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married John Wyatt before 19 Oct 1584 in Braunton, Devon, England. John (son of Philip Wyatt and Joan Paty) was born before 27 Nov 1558 in Braunton, Devon, England; was christened on 27 Nov 1558 in Braunton, Devon, England; died before 29 Nov 1598 in Braunton, Devon, England; was buried on 29 Nov 1598 in Braunton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Nichol. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors", one of DDB's six, one of AW's three, and one of XYZ's two.

Agnes Harris (b. 1604) = William Spencer
Sarah Spencer = John Case
Mary Case = William Alderman
Sarah Alderman = Thomas Moses
Amy Moses = William Halladay
James Halladay = Rebecca Copley
James Halladay, Jr. = ?
Thompson Halladay = Rachel Halladay
Anna Maria Halladay = Jacob Robert Neahr
Henry Clay Neahr = Anna Serepta Wells
Hortense Neahr (1884-1948) = William Stephenson Bloomer (1874-1934)
Elizabeth Ann Bloomer (1918-2011), known as Betty Ford

Agnes married William Spencer before 1633. William (son of Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread) was born before 11 Oct 1601; was christened on 11 Oct 1601 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England; died after 4 May 1640 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married William Edwards on 11 Dec 1645 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. William (son of Rev. Richard Edwards and Anne) was born before 1 Nov 1618; was christened on 1 Nov 1618 in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England; died after 1680 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 18 Mar 1595, Braunton, Devon, England

Notes:

On the occasion of her marriage to Matthew Allyn, she was recorded in the Braunton parish register as "Mris" Margrett Wyot, the salutation being a mark of her gentry status.

One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors"; also one of DDB's six. Her notable descendants include Agatha Christie, Mitt Romney, Nancy Reagan, Bess Truman, Mike Huckabee, Tammy Duckworth, and Gilbert Clifford Noble, co-founder of Barnes & Noble.

Margaret married Matthew Allyn on 2 Feb 1627 in Braunton, Devon, England. Matthew (son of Richard Allyn and Margaret Wyatt) was born before 17 Apr 1605; was christened on 17 Apr 1605 in Braunton, Devon, England; died on 1 Feb 1671 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Came from England to Scituate in 1665, to make his home with his uncle Peter Collamore, to whom he was heir. Constable in Scituate, 1671. Lieutenant to Gov. Andros, 1686. On 15 Jun 1692, William Phips commissioned him captain of a Scituate foot company. This latter commission addresses him as "Anthony Cullimore Gent."

He died by shipwreck during a snowstorm, on the rocks near the Scituate shore now called Collamore Ledge. He was memorialized by the Rev. Deodat Lawson, minister of the Second Parish at Scituate, in a poem entitled "Threnodia, or A mournfull remembrance, of the much to be lamented death of the worthy & pious Capt. Anthony Collamore, who together with five persons more were cast-away in a sloop going from Scituate harbour toward Boston, on the 16. day of December 1693.", which may be read here.

His descent from, as shown here, parents John Collamore and Mary Nichol, and grandparents Thomas Collamore and Agnes Adams, appears to be regarded by Gary Boyd Roberts and Douglas Richardson as highly probable but not perfectly proven. If proved, Anthony Collamore would be a sixth "gateway ancestor" for TSW, in addition to Obadiah Bruen, Peter Bulkeley, Grace Chetwode, Alice Freeman, and Richard Palgrave.

Anthony Collamore (d. 1693) = Sarah Chittenden (1647-1703)
Elizabeth Collamore (1679-1758) = Timothy Symmes (1683-1765)
Rev. Timothy Symmes (1714-1756) = Mary Cleves (d. 1746)
U.S. Rep. John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) = Anna Tuthill (1741-1776)
Anna Tuthill Symmes (1775-1864) = William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), 9th President of the United States
John Scott Harrison (1804-1878) = Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin (1810-1850)
Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd President of the United States

Anthony married Sarah Chittenden on 14 Jun 1666 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Isaac Chittenden and Martha Vinall) was born on 25 Feb 1647 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 25 Oct 1703 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in First Parish Cemetery, Scituate Harbor, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Case. John died on 21 Feb 1704 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1638

Samuel married Sarah before 1668. Sarah died on 24 Apr 1706. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He sought and was granted a divorce from Elizabeth Tuttle on the grounds that she was pregnant before he married her, that she was frequently adulterous after their marriage, and that she frequently threatened to murder him in his sleep. It has been speculated that reports of his grandmother Elizabeth's behavior and demeanor were an influence on the severe Puritanism of her grandson the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, author of the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Richard married Elizabeth Tuttle on 19 Nov 1667 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, and was divorced in Oct 1691. Elizabeth (daughter of William Tuttle and Elizabeth) was born before 9 Nov 1645; was christened on 9 Nov 1645 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 14 Dec 1703
• Alternate death: 14 Dec 1709

Mary married Benjamin Newberry on 11 Jun 1646 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Benjamin (son of Thomas Newberry and Joane Dabinott) was born about 1623; died on 11 Sep 1689 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Robert Stetson on 12 Jan 1693 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Robert (son of Joseph Stetson and Prudence) was born on 9 Dec 1670 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in 1760 in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Tuller in 1684. John was born in 1652 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; died before 28 Jan 1742 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Simsbury Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Hepzibah Church on 16 Sep 1696 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Hepzibah (daughter of Deacon Edward Church and Mary) was born about 1679; died on 13 Sep 1745 in Bolton, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Timothy married Esther Stoddard on 6 Nov 1694 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Esther (daughter of Rev. Solomon Stoddard and Esther Warham) was born on 2 Jun 1672 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 19 Jan 1770 in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Jonathan Richardson about 1696. Jonathan (son of Stephen Richardson and Lydia Gilbert) was born before 10 Sep 1674 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 19 Jun 1681 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 7 May 1700 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 14 Jun 1650, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Sarah married Capt. Preserved Clapp on 4 Jun 1668 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Preserved (son of Roger Clapp and Joanna Ford) was born on 23 Nov 1643 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 26 Nov 1643 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 20 Sep 1720 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Samuel Marshall on 22 Jun 1675 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Samuel Marshall and Mary Wilton) was born on 27 May 1653 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Ann Ford on 12 May 1677 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Ann (daughter of Thomas Ford and Ann) was born about 1657; died on 6 Jan 1691 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a cordwainer.

Anthony married Ann Smith on 28 Mar 1717. Ann (daughter of Joseph Smith and Ann Hatch) was born about 1696 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 16 May 1792. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1686

Sarah married John Moses on 14 Jun 1705. John (son of John Moses and Deborah Thrall) was born on 26 Apr 1681 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; died after 10 Jun 1759. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Hannah Copley on 12 Jun 1734 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Matthew Copley and Hannah Huxley) was born on 8 Nov 1707 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut; died before 1767. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Preacher, philosopher, theologian, leader of the Great Awakening. Author and deliverer of the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Died of smallpox.

Maternal grandfather of Aaron Burr, making JTS and Burr first cousins six times removed.

Jonathan married Sarah Pierpont on 28 Jul 1727. Sarah (daughter of Rev. James Pierpont and Mary Hooker) was born on 9 Jan 1710 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 2 Oct 1758 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Seth Wetmore. Seth (son of Izrahia Wetmore and Rachel Stow) was born on 18 Nov 1700 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 10 Apr 1778 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Washington Street Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was one of the founders of the church of Coventry's North Parish.

Amos married Rachel Yarrington about 1724. Rachel (daughter of Peter Yarrington and Abiah) was born before 10 Aug 1707; was christened on 10 Aug 1707 in First Congregational Church, Preston, New London, Connecticut; died before 18 Sep 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Bartlett. Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Bartlett and Sarah Baldwin) was born on 27 Oct 1687 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 19 Aug 1767 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Mercy Marshall in some sources.

Mary married Mark Noble in 1698. Mark (son of Thomas Noble and Hannah Warriner) was born about 1670 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died on 16 Apr 1741 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 10 Feb 1679, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Hannah married John Wolcott on 14 Dec 1703 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. John (son of John Wolcott and Mary Chester) was born on 20 Nov 1677 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 20 Aug 1750 in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married James Woodward on 15 Feb 1750. James (son of Robert Woodward and Bethia Torrey) was born on 9 Aug 1709 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in 1758 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 26 Aug 1787

Timothy married Sarah Phelps in 1731. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Phelps and Hannah Phelps) was born on 28 Sep 1713 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 12 Sep 1751 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Old Wintonbury Cemetery, Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sybil. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rev. Aaron Burr. Aaron was born on 4 Jan 1716 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 24 Sep 1757 in Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey; was buried in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Mercer, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1759 Timothy Edwards assumed the guardianship of his orphaned neice Sarah "Sally" Burr, age 5, and her brother Aaron Burr, age 3. The following year he married Rhoda Ogden and moved, with both children, to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Burr spent the next decade. Edwards was a harsh disciplinarian, fond of corporal punishment, and the young Burr submitted to this with all the inclination toward conformity and obedience that he displayed in his later career, which is to say, he made multiple attempts to run away to sea. Eventually Edwards and the young Burr came to an understanding which included the hiring of a tutor to prepare the boy to enter the College of New Jersey (later Princeton). After an unsuccessful application in 1767, Burr was accepted in 1769, at age 13, with sophomore standing.

Timothy married Rhoda Ogden on 25 Sep 1760 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey. Rhoda (daughter of Robert Ogden and Phebe Hatfield) was born on 28 Sep 1742 in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey; died on 2 Nov 1822 in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rachel married David Richardson on 28 Oct 1747. David (son of Stephen Richardson and Abigail Pelham) was born on 4 Mar 1729 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 6 Mar 1729 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 15 Aug 1811 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in North Cemetery, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Anna Munn on 14 Sep 1737 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Anna (daughter of James Munn and Mary Moody) was born on 11 Sep 1712 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died on 1 Jul 1766 in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; was buried in Center Cemetery, Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Jan 1710, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 14 Dec 1753, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

Miriam married Ebenezer Bush on 23 Jun 1735 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Bush and Mary Miriam Taylor) was born on 2 Jun 1713 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died on 14 Dec 1753 in Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jerusha married Maj. Gen. Erastus Wolcott on 10 Feb 1746. Erastus (son of Roger Wolcott, Governor of Connecticut and Sarah Drake) was born on 21 Sep 1722 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 14 Sep 1793 in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mehitable Beal on 11 Mar 1776 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mehitable (daughter of Benjamin Beal and Martha Hudson) was born before 4 Nov 1750; was christened on 4 Nov 1750 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 24 Dec 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of North Canaan, Lichtfield, Connecticut

Capt. married Thankful Humphrey in 1751 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. Thankful (daughter of Sgt. Benajah Humphrey and Thankful Hoskins) was born on 25 Dec 1731 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 14 Aug 1790 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Old Wintonbury Cemetery, Bloomfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1863

Sybell married Roswell Stevens1798. Roswell (son of Nehemiah Stevens and Hepzibah Killam) was born on 17 Feb 1772 in Plainfield, Windham, Connecticut; died on 3 Jul 1847 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Brant, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 21 Oct 1780
• Alternate birth: 27 Oct 1780
• Alternate death: 30 Jan 1873

Mary married Mason Whiting on 26 Apr 1800. Mason (son of Dr. William Whiting and Anna Mason) was born on 8 May 1774 in of Great Barrington, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jan 1849 in Binghamton, Broome, New York; was buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1843

Notes:

"Jesse was not yet 17 when the Revolutionary War began, and he enlisted on July 7, 1775, with his brother David. Jesse served until December 16th in Captain Pease’s 3rd Company in Colonel Hunton’s Connecticut Regiment. The Pease family were prominent members of Somers. In 1776, with his brother Sanford, Jesse enlisted again with Captain Pease in Colonel Erastus Wolcott’s Connecticut Regiment and served nine months, being discharged on January 1, 1777. He enlisted again in 1778 and served one year in Captain Haws’ Company in Colonel Mason’s Connecticut Regiment. At the end of that last tour of duty, when he was 20, he married 19 year-old Anna Jones on November 12, 1778 in Somers, at the Congregational Church." [John Thomas Bullock, citation details below]

A letter from A. D. Miller of the War Department pension office to Mrs. P. Nugent, 18 Feb 1932, viewable at fold.com, substantiates nearly all of the above, and adds that "He was allowed pension on his application executed March 7,m 1833 in Monroe Township, Mukingum County, Ohio, in which state he had resided fifteen years, aged seventy-four years."

Family/Spouse: Lydia Rowley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jesse married Anna Jones on 12 Nov 1778 in Congregational Church, Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Zebulon Jones and Anna Kibbe) was born on 28 Sep 1759 in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut; died on 7 Sep 1807 in Somers, Tolland, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts

Family/Spouse: Sarah Kellogg. Sarah (daughter of Ezra Kellogg and Ruth Wells) was born in 1753; died on 20 Jul 1805; was buried in Center Cemetery, Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married John Miller on 22 Sep 1756 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. John (son of Jacob Miller) was born about 1735 in New Jersey; died on 7 Oct 1811 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jerusha married Samuel Wolcott on 29 Dec 1774 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Gideon Wolcott and Naomi Olmsted) was born on 4 Apr 1751 in North Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 7 Jun 1813 in North Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rhoda married William Dickman Whitmore on 30 Jan 1805 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine. William (son of John Whitmore and Huldah Crooker) was born on 3 Nov 1781 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine; died on 17 Feb 1819 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Benjamin Benedict on 7 Dec 1780. Benjamin (son of Benjamin Benedict and Hannah Bostwick) was born on 28 Dec 1757; died on 13 Oct 1828 in Canaan, Lichtfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Marinda Thomas. Marinda was born on 27 Jun 1809 in Mount Pleasant, Brant, Ontario; died on 27 Jun 1848 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa; was buried in Council Point Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1801, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Mary married Col. John Tilden Doubleday on 19 Sep 1819. John (son of Ammi Doubleday and Lois Tilden) was born on 17 Aug 1795 in New Lebanon, Columbia, New York; died on 25 Jun 1857 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York; was buried on 27 Jun 1857 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1784, Connecticut

Family/Spouse: Sarah. Sarah was born in 1785 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Russell married Louisa Strong in Oct 1811. Louisa (daughter of Deacon Roswell Strong and Nancy Pomeroy) was born on 14 May 1788; died on 9 Apr 1855 in Liberty, Montgomery, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1761

Maribah married Christian Burchard Kniep on 17 Nov 1778 in First Church of Christ, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Christian (son of Johann Andreas Bertram Kniep and Catherine Dorothea Ebers) was born on 9 Jan 1756 in Schoningen, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany; was christened on 15 Jan 1756 in St. Vincenez, Schoningen, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany; died after 26 May 1825 in Lawrence, Illinios; was buried in Moffett Cemetery, Lawrence, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Elihu married Rachel McClintock McClure on 27 Nov 1806. Rachel (daughter of Rev. David McClure and Hannah Pomeroy) was born on 29 Oct 1783 in North Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire; was christened on 16 Nov 1788; died on 2 Apr 1822 in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of the firm of Lombard & Whitmore, merchants.

"Charles Octavius, after the death of his father, went to the West Indies and lived in Barbadoes with his uncle, Isaiah C. Whitmore. He returned to New England and resided in Boston from 1825 to his death in 1885. In 1826 he formed a partnership with Israel Lombard, which continued until 1855. He retired from active business in 1872, remaining President of the Market Bank from 1860 to 1885, and holding different offices in the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Agricultural Club, and kindred societies. From 1852 to 1862 his summers were passed in Lexington, where he had an estate which he devoted to experiments in the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and landscape gardening. He was Vestryman and Warden of Emmanuel Church, Boston, for many years. He spent the last years of his life in the enjoyment of his large library, collection of pictures, and the society of his family and friends. He was a man of active mind, quick wit, and excellent memory, combined with honesty, integrity, and absolute fearlessness." [The Whitmore Genealogy]

Charles married Lovice Ayres on 22 Dec 1830 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Lovice (daughter of John Ayres and Rebecca Lombard) was born on 3 Aug 1805 in Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 27 Sep 1849 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 29 Aug 1791, Canaan, Lichtfield, Connecticut

Thankful married Daniel Spaulding on 28 Mar 1815. Daniel (son of Daniel Spaulding and Esther Austin) was born on 12 Aug 1788; died on 20 May 1849; was buried in Valley Brook Cemetery, Andover, Allegany, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Daniel Spaulding on 3 Apr 1811. Daniel (son of Daniel Spaulding and Esther Austin) was born on 12 Aug 1788; died on 20 May 1849; was buried in Valley Brook Cemetery, Andover, Allegany, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1830, Upper Canada
• Alternate birth: Abt 1832, Canada

Family/Spouse: Abigail Elizabeth Holman. Abigail (daughter of Joshua Sawyer Holman and Rebecca Whitcomb Greenleaf) was born on 3 Jul 1836 in Conneautville, Crawford, Pennsylvania; died on 5 Mar 1912 in Fruitland, San Juan, New Mexico; was buried in Kirtland Cemetery, San Juan County, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Mar 1900, New York, New York

William married Ellen Maria Dickinson on 1 Oct 1850. Ellen (daughter of Horace Dickinson and Mercy Amelia Bigelow) was born on 31 Dec 1830 in Montréal, Québec; died on 14 Dec 1907 in New York, New York; was buried on 16 Dec 1907 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At the 1860 census they were at Ophir township, Oroville, Butte County, California. Henry was 40, born in Ohio; Elizabeth, 38, born in England; Caroline 14, born in Illinois. With them was "Isabella Lumbley", 33, also born in England, presumably a sister or other kinperson to Elizabeth.

Evidence that Henry Sisson Richardson was a son of Jesse Richardson:

First, Henry and Elizabeth Richardson had a son named John Cuddeback Richardson, born 1842 in Hancock County, Illinois, died 1928 in Gridley, Butte, California. In the 1850 census of Hancock County, Jesse Richardson, 66, and his wife Sarah, 65, are shown living with "Peter Cudderback", age 9, born in Illinois. Peter Cuddeback (1842-1914) appears to have been a son of Henry's sister Sarah Ann Richardson (1815-1885) by her husband, thus Henry's brother-in-law, John Cuddeback (1812-1870).

Second, a letter, 29 Sep 1931, from Artie Richardson Nugent to the War Department pension bureau, Washington, D.C.: "Dear Sirs — I am writing to get a record of my great grandfather, Jesse Richardson, who was the father of my grandfather Henry Sissons Richardson." Obviously the Revolutionary War soldier Jesse Richardson cannot have been Henry Sisson Richardson's father, but Artie Richardson's inadvertant conflation of the two Jesse Richardsons is understandable. It seems clear from the evidence that Henry Sisson Richardson was the soldier's grandson, through the soldier's namesake son.

The Richardson and Cuddeback families' relationship to Mormonism:

According to George C. Mansfield's History of Butte County, California (Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1918), page 922, in 1837 Henry Sisson Richardson's abovenamed brother-in-law John Cuddeback "removed to Hancock County, Illinois, where he was a pioneer farmer and helped to drive the Mormons out of Nauvoo." Five years later, Henry Sisson Richardson and his wife Elizabeth Lumley named a son after John Cuddeback. It would be a stretch to suppose that this was specifically because they approved of his acts as a persecutor of early Mormons, but it certainly doesn't appear that they disapproved.

Henry Sisson Richardson's middle name may constitute a small historic irony. It's worth noting that the most recent common (known) ancestor of DDB and TNH is Christopher Champlin of Rhode Island (1656-1732). One of Christopher Champlin's great-great grandsons was TNH ancestor William Sisson Champlin (born 1792 in Vermont, died 1861 in Utah), whose family became Mormon in the 1830s and were as a consequence violently driven out of several parts of Missouri in which they attempted to settle in that decade. William Sisson Champlin got his middle name from his mother, a descendant of several generations of Sissons of Rhode Island. We know nothing about the origins, or even maiden name, of Henry Sisson Richardson's mother, but it would be poignant if, through her, he descended from some of the same Sissons.

Further from the History of Butte County, California (citation details above):

[…] Henry S. and Elizabeth (Lumly) Richardson. The former came from Ohio and the latter from England. [In 1844, Henry Richardson] moved the family to St. Louis, Mo.; and in the early spring of 1849, he started across the great plains in wagons drawn by ox teams, with his wife and children, arriving in Placerville in July of the same year. He soon engaged in mining in El Dorado County, then, the same year, in Butte County, on Feather River, near Bidwell's Bar, and later ran a general store at Slate Creek. In 1852 Henry Richardson returned East and in 1853 drove a band of cattle across the plains to California. He also did teaming out of Marysville, grading, and hauling lumber, and he also ran a livery stable. He erected a building in Marysville in 1854, on E Street, part of which is now standing, and also built a stable on F Street, a couple of years later.

In 1857, however, Mr. Richardson sold out and located in Oroville, and in the fall of 1860 he took up one hundred sixty acres on Dry Creek, near what is now Nelson. He bought land adjoining, both government and railroad land, until he owned seven hundred sixty acres. He farmed the same until 1872, when he sold out and moved to Oroville. In 1878, with his wife and some of his children, he drove a team across the plains to Grayson County, Texas, where he bought thirteen hundred acres. He was very successful in California, and carried with him to Texas, as the result of his long labors and investments here, a round sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. He died in Texas in 1880, honored both as a brave member of early vigilance committees and as an Odd Fellow.

Henry married Elizabeth Lumley on 17 May 1838 in Hancock County, Illinois. Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Lumley and Elizabeth Geldard) was born on 5 Jan 1820 in Farlington, Yorkshire, England; was christened on 25 Mar 1821 in Farlington, Yorkshire, England; died on 13 Jan 1887 in Collinsville, Grayson, Texas; was buried in Ethel Cemetery, Ethel, Grayson, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated from Western Reserve College in 1844; at Monroeville, Ohio 1850-55; Cheshire, Connecticut 1855-57; Rockville, Connecticut 1857-64, and from October 1864 to 1871, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

According letter from John Dyer-Bennet to his sister Miriam, 3 Dec 1975, “Grinnell” (whether this means the college’s administration or its alumni association is unclear) was able to confirm that Charles W. Clapp “was professor of rhetoric in 1870-71,” and that he was “summarily fired by the president of the college on commencement day” in 1871. “It isn’t known for certain why, but in a speech on the history of Grinnell given some years later the president said Prof. Clapp ‘hardly agreed with the college on the joint education of men and women.’”

The president of the college would have been George Frederic Magoun, who (according to Grinnell’s web site) served in that capacity from 1865 to 1884. Also according to the site, in 1865 Joanna Harris Haines was the first woman to graduate from Grinnell, so presumably what Magoun was saying was that the Rev. Charles Wells Clapp was opposed to “the joint education of men and women.”

Charles married Jane Pray Bassett on 16 Aug 1849. Jane (daughter of John Bassett and Nancy Atwater Lee) was born on 21 Nov 1822 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut; died in 1924; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Spencer Phelps. Spencer (son of Spencer Phelps and Naomi Clark) was born on 24 May 1782 in Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 11 Sep 1865 in Mentor, Lake, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated from Yale in 1839, one of the early members of Skull and Bones. Studied medicine in Boston for a year, and eventually settled in Jacksonville, Illinois, where he was a member of the board of education. He planned and oversaw the construction of the city's water-works and laid out the Diamond Grove Cemetery, where he was buried.

Elizur married Martha Lyman Dwight on 15 Jul 1846. Martha (daughter of Daniel Dwight and Mary Dickinson Mattoon) was born on 25 Dec 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The web site of the Boston Public Library includes brief biographies of many former library trustees, including William Henry Whitmore, trustee from 1885 to 1888:

"Born 1836 in Dorchester; died 1900 in Boston. Merchant, politician, genealogist, antiquarian. A descendant of Francis Whitmore who settled in Cambridge, MA, in 1648, William H. Whitmore attended both Boston Latin and English High Schools before entering his family’s firm of commission merchants. While traveling to such places as India and Madagascar during his 25 years as a merchant, he studied law and painting. Elected to the Boston Common Council in 1874, Mr. Whitmore spent much of his energy promoting the preservation and publication of local records and concurrently served on the Boston Board of Record Commissioners. He became a city registrar in 1892 and supervised the publication of local and vital records in several multiple volume sets. Throughout his activities in Boston, Mr. Whitmore frequently contributed writings to the New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, the Nation, and the Massachusetts Historical Society, as well as published genealogies and histories of New England towns and families. While he supported the need to find expanded quarters for the growing public library, Trustee Whitmore disagreed on constructing a new building and eventually resigned his trusteeship because of its cost."

From Wikipedia:

"About 1868 he was one of the patentees of a machine for making sugar cubes, and in 1882 he patented one for making hyposulphite of soda. His 'Ancestral Tablets' (Boston, 1868) was an invention for genealogists, being a set of pages cut and arranged to admit the insertion of a pedigree in a condensed form."

William married Frances Theres Walling "Fanny" Maynard on 11 Jun 1884 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Frances (daughter of Edward Flint Maynard and Francis Maria Russell Curow) was born on 23 Jul 1849 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 18 Nov 1911 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Pennsylvania

Notes:

He came west to Springfield, Illinois in 1866.

James married Mary Smith in Jan 1848. Mary was born about 1826 in Pennsylvania; died in May 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David Alma Stevens and Sariah Agnes Johnson were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of Jonathan Holman and Zilpha Sawyer.

David married Sariah Agnes Johnson in 1881. Sariah (daughter of Benjamin Franklin Johnson and Sarah Melissa Holman) was born on 23 Oct 1863 in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah; died on 28 Apr 1945 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founder of the Doubleday publishing firm. Called "Effendi" by his friend Rudyard Kipling, a pun on his initials.

Frank married Neltje Blanchan De Graff on 9 Jun 1886 in Plainfield, Somerset, New Jersey. Neltje (daughter of Liverius De Graff and Alice Fair) was born on 23 Oct 1865 in Chicago, Illinois; died on 21 Feb 1918 in Canton, China. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married George Worth on 23 Mar 1869 in Butte County, California. George was born on 3 Dec 1835 in Missouri; died on 3 Oct 1913 in Nelson, Butte, California; was buried in Nelson Cemetery, Nelson County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Berkeley, Alameda, California
• Alternate birth: Abt 1857
• Alternate death: 7 Feb 1919, Alameda, Alameda, California
• Alternate death: 9 Feb 1919

Notes:

Ph.D, Yale, 1886.

"Clapp arrived at Berkeley when it was a small school of some 400 students. By his efforts the department began the first major graduate program on the West Coast, but Greek was also widely taught throughout the state high schools as well. A genial and robust figure until ill health befell him at the age of fifty, his teaching was generally at the graduate level and centered around Pindar and Plato and his, many articles covered a range of subjects. He was a founder of the Philological Association of the Pacific States and served as president for two terms. At the time of his death he was at work on an edition of Pindar that was to be the summary of his life's work on that author." [Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars]

Edward married Mary Mattoon Wolcott on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Elizur Wolcott and Martha Lyman Dwight) was born on 14 May 1863 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; died on 22 Aug 1949 in Alameda, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Transcription of a handwritten history of his family by Morris Charles Phelps, here.

Transcriptions of some entries, from August 1851, of the journal of the Morris Phelps Emigrating Company.

Transcript of a journal of daily events kept by Morris Charles Phelps in Alpine, Utah from 1856 through 1859.

Much more about Morris Charles Phelps here.

By "SMSmith" at Find a Grave:

"Morris' line goes back to William Phelps who immigrated to America in 1630. Morris' mother was the descendant of a Hessian soldier who was captured at Trenton during the American Revolution. He then joined the colonial army and fought with Washington. Morris attended school in various frontier communities as his family moved west. They settled in Ohio and he had the opportunity to attend school briefly at Mentor, Ohio. His diaries and letters show a better than average vocabulary and he was excellent penman.

"When he was about nineteen years of age, he visited his relatives in Illinois. While there he met and fell in love with Laura Clark. Laura was born in New Fairfield, Connecticut on July 28, 1807. Morris and Laura were married March 26, 1826. They lived in Illinois for five years and their two oldest daughters, Paulina Eliza and Mary Ann were born there. They became interested in the new religion of Mormonism in 1831 and after several weeks of investigation, they were baptized in the Dupage River on August 18, 1831. They left Illinois two months later and joined the Saints in Missouri. Their daughter, Harriet Wight, was born soon after their arrival. Morris and his family were driven from their homes in Jackson County and moved north into Clay County. He was called on a mission for the church in 1834 and was sent to the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. This left Laura alone with her three daughters. She taught school and practiced obstetrics. Charles C. Rich traveled with Morris as his companion, Morris baptized Laura's parents who moved to Missouri and help her while Morris was away.

"Morris spent the winter of 1835-36 as a carpenter on the Kirtland Temple in Ohio. He was ordained a high priest and attended the dedication of the Temple on April 6, 1836. He then returned to his family in Missouri. He returned home in time to help his family move again because of persecution.

"Morris established a home on a small farm just outside of Far West and it was here that his first son, Joseph Morris was born in 1837. Although there was intense persecution and bitterness, this was a time of happiness for the family. Morris invested in a merchandising business and did quite well. The happiness did not last for long, because new mobs formed and caused a great deal of damage and sorrow. They raided the Phelps home and threatened Morris' life, but only killed his hogs, Morris said in his diary that 'I was attacked by the mob...my property was confiscated and I was made a prisoner. (October 31, 1838.) Was put in jail where I remained until July 4, 1839, from which made my escape with Parley P. Pratt, by the assistance of Orson Pratt and my wife, Laura.'

"While Morris was incarcerated, Laura and the children went with her parents to Montrose, Iowa. They found an abandoned farmhouse and made a home. Morris and Parley Pratt were chained with wrist and ankle irons in such a manner that they could only sleep on their backs. The story of Laura's plan to free her husband is amazing and illustrates the great faith courage. She and her brother, John Wesley Clark, rode horseback from Montrose to Columbia, Missouri, a distance of 160 miles. A grandson, Will R. Holmes left the following account: 'Here was her plan to free them: She would secrete three horses in some brush a short distance from the jail. As an excuse to get the jailer to unlock the prison door, she would suggest to the jailer that he open the door and pass the coffee pot in to the prisoners through the open door. Should the jailer unlock the door, it would be the signal to get busy, pull the door wide open, grab the jailer, throw him to the floor and flee for their lives.'

"Laura was warned by her brother, John not to touch the prisoners or assist them as that would be an offense. Will Holmes' history continues: 'The scheme worked but not without difficulties. The second door was unlocked and King Follett (one of the prisoners) pulled the door open and ran out, Parley P. Pratt was to follow and grandfather Phelps, being an athlete and wrestler, was to throw the jailer down and he would follow. It proved to be an exciting event...it was the fourth of Fourth of July and hundreds were nearby celebrating.'

"The escapees made it to where Orson Pratt and John Clark were waiting with the horses. They split up and made their way to Illinois. Morris was quite ill from exposure and being confined to prison for eight months. Laura was left to the mercy of the mob in Columbia. A young man sneaked her away from the angry mob and then assisted her in returning to Illinois where she found friends.

"Morris went on another mission east in 1839. He took Laura with him and also his youngest child, Joseph. Another son, Jacob Spencer, was born in Indiana. Morris' writings reveal the next tragic event, which occurred shortly after the end of the mission to the east. 'Rested a few days, got our children together and settled in Macedonia, Illinois, 25 miles east of Nauvoo. Here we lived in peace and quiet for some time. My wife, Laura, acting in the capacity of a midwife, by over exertion and by traveling day and night, took sick 1st of February and died on the 9th of February, 1842.'

"Laura's death was a great sorrow to Morris, especially with the five small children. Persecution against the Mormons was beginning in Illinois and he worried about protecting them from the mobs. Morris met Sara Thompson, the daughter of David and Leah L. Thompson. Sara was twenty-two years old and a schoolteacher. She was born March 20, 1820 in Pompey, New York and had come to Nauvoo with her widowed mother. Morris and Sara were married March 27, 1842 and they moved into Nauvoo where Morris could work on the temple. Two daughters were born to them while living in Nauvoo, but both died in infancy. Laura's youngest child, Jacob, was accidentally scalded to death. Morris' daughters Mary Ann and Paulina married Charles C. Rich and Amasa M. Lyman respectively. Hyrum Smith Phelps, Sara's third child, was born in Nauvoo on February 26, 1846. This was the bitter cold night that many saints were being driven from their homes and across the Mississippi River.

"The Phelps family reached Winter Quarters in the fall of 1846. They remained here for five years and prepared for the journey to the mountains. Morris spent five his time building and repairing wagons and travel equipment. Morris married Martha Barker Holmes on February 26, 1848. Martha was fifty years and the mother of James Holmes, who later married Morris' daughter, Harriet. They came to Utah together in 1851 and settled in Alpine. Morris and James Holmes owned interest in a sawmill and other properties in Alpine. Morris served as an Alderman and as a counselor in the bishopric while they lived in Alpine. In June, 1864, both men pulled up stakes and followed Charles C. Rich to Bear Lake.

"Morris' first home in Montpelier was a one room log hut with a dirt floor and a dirt roof. The floor was covered with straw and the roof leaked. The door was made of wooden planks with a latch that was operated by a buckskin, which was pulled in at night for a lock. The furniture was homemade and the beds were made of small poles bored into the walls and supported with crossbeams. The mattress was made of straw. The logs were obtained from 'Joe's Gap,' a narrow gorge two miles north of Montpelier, which opened into a pine-covered canyon. It was Morris's son, Joseph, who found the narrow ravine, and ever since that time it has been called 'Joe's Gap.' The food was cooked on open fireplaces or in Dutch ovens covered with coals. Clothing was all hand made. Every family had its spinning wheel and each community had good weavers. Sarah T. Phelps was one of the most prominent weavers. Most all of the clothing was made from homespun cloth. Men wore buckskin shirts and britches and beaver vests and caps to keep them warm.

"The first year, 1864, an early frost damaged the crops. Teams went to Cache Valley for flour, but before they got back it snowed so hard that they were unable to reach the settlements without additional aid. The winter was a long and severe one, the snow was deep and blizzards made travel impossible. Communication between settlements was made on snowshoes. By spring most of the people were eating frozen potatoes or sticky bread made from frozen wheat.

"Morris later built a large, two-story home with wooden floor and shingle roof, the first in Montpelier. This became a center for community gatherings. He became postmaster of Montpelier in 1869 and was ordained a patriarch by Brigham Young in 1873. Sarah was the first President of the Relief Society in Montpelier. She also served the community as a midwife and she delivered 580 women without a loss. Morris and Sarah lost one daughter, Martha, in Montpelier, who was nineteen. Their daughters, Amanda and Olive, grew to maturity. A son, Charles Wilks, died as a child. Morris and Sarah had seven children, but raised only three. Morris Phelps died at Montpelier on May 22, 1876. After his death Sarah moved to Mesa, Arizona with her son Hyrum. She died there on January 31, 1896."

Regarding the birth date and place of Morris Charles Phelps: Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve ed. Mrs. Gertrude van Rensselaer Wickham (Women's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, 1896), quoted at length here, says that Spencer Phelps came to the township of Leroy in the Western Reserve in 1803, that Mary "Keneep" arrived two years later, and that Spencer and Mary were married there in December 1807. If this is true (which is obviously not established), it calls into question whether Morris Charles Phelps was in fact born on 20 Dec 1805 in Northampton, Massachusetts as reported in many family histories and on his headstone in Montpelier, Idaho. It's worth noting that we have been unable to find any record of the birth of any Morris Phelps in western Massachusetts in the first decade of the 19th century. Is it possible that Morris Charles Phelps was actually born circa 1808 in Ohio? This would mean he began courting Laura Clark Baldwin on his trip to Illinois when he was actually sixteen, and married her in Laurenceville when he was about eighteen -- exactly the ages at which a young man might be tempted to add two years to his claimed age, particularly when far away from any close relatives who might contradict him.

Morris married Laura Clark Baldwin on 26 Mar 1826 in Lawrenceville, Lawrence, Illinois. Laura (daughter of Timothy Baldwin and Polly Keeler Clark) was born on 28 Jul 1807 in New Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 2 Feb 1842 in Macedonia, Hamilton, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Morris married Sarah Thompson on 27 Mar 1842 in Hancock, Illinois. Sarah (daughter of David John Thompson and Leah Lewis) was born on 20 Mar 1820 in Pomfret, Chautauqua, New York; died on 31 Jan 1896 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called in many sources May Matoon Wolcott. According to a letter from John Dyer-Bennet to his sister Miriam, 3 Dec 1975, her given name was actually Mary. She attended Wellesley as a member of the class of 1885, but did not graduate.

Her ashes were interred with those of her father.

Mary married Edward Bull Clapp on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Edward (son of Rev. Charles Wells Clapp and Jane Pray Bassett) was born on 14 Apr 1856 in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 6 Feb 1919 in Berkeley, Alameda, California; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 26 Sep 1887, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Notes:

Charles Edward Whitmore's contribution to the Secretary's Fourth Report, Harvard class of 1907:

SHORTLY after graduation I sailed for Europe spending a year in study at Athens; I then returned to Harvard to work for a Ph.D., receiving that degree in 1911. I was appointed instructor in English in June of that year, a position which I still hold. My earlier inclinations would have led me to teach Greek, but no opening in that field appeared, and I am now more than ever convinced that teaching Freshman composition is by no means the hopeless and thankless task it is so often considered, but a chance to render real and needed service to Harvard and to the community. I am at present completing a book on composition, which I hope to be able to publish within a year.

During the summer of 1914 I was in Italy, and was delayed there by the outbreak of the war, but succeeded in returning without mishap or special incident. Otherwise I have remained in Cambridge, dividing my time between College duties and literary work.

Publications: "The Supernatural in Tragedy," Harvard University Press, 1915; "Twenty five Sonnets," Cosmos Press, 1915; articles on early Italian poetry in Romantic Review and Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. Member, Society of Colonial Wars in Massachusetts, Modern Language Association of America, American Dialect Society.

Charles married Elizabeth Manning Gardiner on 31 May 1913 in Church of St. John the Evangelist, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Frederick Augustus Gardiner and Ella S. Smith) was born in 1879 in Massachusetts; died in 1958 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Andover, Allegany, New York
• Alternate birth: 1848, New York
• Alternate birth: 14 Aug 1849, New Hudson, Allegany, New York

Lewis married Mary Frances Johnson on 19 Feb 1868 in Sangamon County, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Willis H. Johnson and Lucinda True) was born on 10 Feb 1847 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; died on 13 Dec 1929 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Harriet Viola Jackson on 25 Aug 1912 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas. Harriet (daughter of Joseph Jackson and Mary Ann Stowell) was born on 8 Aug 1892 in Colonia Juárez, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico; died on 29 Jun 1987 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen George McCarter. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter and Madeleine G. Barker) was born on 9 May 1898; died on 2 Apr 1978 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1885
• Alternate birth: 1886, California

Notes:

Or Hester. Or Warth.

1940 census, Esther, 54, born in California.

1930 census, not listed.

1920 census, Hester, 35, born in California, father born in Massachusetts, mother born in Missouri.

The Los Angeles Times obituary for her daughter Margaret Lillian (Randall) (Briglio) Werndle indicates that Margaret had a daughter named Esther, which suggests that this was probably how Esther Worth generally spelled her name. She is recorded on several official documents as Hester, however.

Hester married George Burdett Randall on 20 Jun 1919 in Ashland, Jackson, Oregon. George (son of William M. Randall and Elnora Abbey) was born on 20 Sep 1874 in Michigan; died on 20 Dec 1959 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Amasa Mason Lyman. Amasa was born on 30 Mar 1813 in Lyme, Grafton, New Hampshire; died on 4 Feb 1877 in Fillmore, Millard, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The third of Charles Coulson Rich's six plural wives.

Mary married Charles Coulson Rich on 6 Jan 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois. Charles was born on 21 Aug 1809 in Big Bone, Campbell, Kentucky; died on 17 Nov 1883 in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[From this Phelps site.]

Autobiography of Hyrum Smith Phelps

Hyrum Smith Phelps first saw the light of day in the once beautiful city of Nauvoo, Illinois, February 26, 1846. Referring to his early life he said:

My parents, Morris Phelps and Sarah Thompson Phelps, had already been expelled from their homes twice--Kirtland, Ohio and Independence, Missouri--leaving them very little of this world's goods. Some three or four thousand Saints had crossed the Mississippi River by ferry boat and on the ice headed for the valleys in the Rocky Mountains.

By the middle of the following June, my father had a yoke of oxen and cows to pull one wagon, and in company with some others he started to follow those who had gone previously, arriving at what they called "Winter Quarters" on the Missouri River in Iowa. We remained there until June 1851. Father worked at wagon making most of the time. When he had managed to raise two teams of oxen and cows, a company of sixty wagons was organized, Father was made captain, and they started for Utah.

After many trials and hardships, they arrived in Salt Lake City September 25, 1851. The first winter Mother and two children stayed with her brother, Samuel Thompson, in Mill Creek Canyon. During the winter, Father found a location in Alpine, Utah County and a house (such as it was) built on a piece of ground he had taken up. Soon after we were located, another member was added to the family, a son, Charles Wilkes Phelps, who lived four years and died with measles. During 1853 and 1854, Father, his son-in-law, James Holmes, Isaac Huston and James Preston built a saw mill near the mouth of Dry Creek Canyon about a mile and a half from Alpine. During the summers from 1853 to 1859, I herded sheep that belonged to the settlers of Alpine. All I had for my dinner was segos [lily bulbs] that I would dig out of the ground with a digger that I carried with me. (It was a pointed stick something the shape of a beaver's tail.) It was while herding sheep that I was tempted the hardest to steal It came very near getting the best of me. James Preston was down in the penstock of the saw mill repairing something, and I brought my sheep near the mill. I spied a dinner pail and taking the lid off I saw some flour biscuits. I put my hand in the pail to take a biscuit and was reminded of that commandment, "Thou shalt not steal. " Then I remembered the teachings of my mother, "Thou shalt not steal. " Finally I got courage enough to get away and I went out in the mill yard and began to pick gum. Soon I heard a voice call my name and when I went back, James Preston gave me a biscuit and a leg of chicken. Maybe you think I wasn't thankful I had resisted the temptation. We had been without wheat flour for several months and had been eating musty corn meal bread. I can now [1922] remember those days just as vividly as though they had been within the last two years. Only those that experienced the hardships of those days can realize what they were.

I went to school three or four months in the winter until I was seventeen years old. About the fifth grade was as far as I reached. When I grew large enough to put a yoke on the oxen, I quit herding sheep and worked on the farm and in the canyon. When I was sixteen, I calculated I could do as much as a common man at most anything. In the spring of 1864 I was 18 years old. Father sold out all his lands and home and decided to go up to Bear Lake Valley, Idaho. James Holmes and my half brother, Joseph Phelps, and my father fitted out ox teams and made the start April 1864. They landed in Montpelier on May 17, 1864. All three took up a farm and started once more to make homes. They built log houses with dirt floors and roofs.

In the winter of 1865 I commenced keeping company with Miss Clarinda Bingham. In the fall of 1866 frost had killed all of the grain and Calvin Bingham decided to move back to Hyrum, Cache Valley, as he had to depend on blacksmithing for a living. That meant he would take his daughter Clarinda also. She and I talked the matter over and we decided to get married. When I laid the matter before the blacksmith, he said, "Nothing doing. You are both too young!" (Which was verily true.) I talked the matter over with a friend, and he advised me to give the old folks the dodge and get married anyway. So on the evening of September 26, 1866, we invited a high priest by the name of John Turner to come over to the neighbors' and perform the ceremony for us. For a short time it looked like something interesting was going to happen around the place. I didn't have very much to say, but a good many things ran through my mind that space will not permit me to mention. Finally, things began to get normal again, and we decided if I would go down below to the town of Benningston and help get the sheep across the Bear River, we would be forgiven. This was carried out to the satisfaction of all concerned.

Now for a description of the home I took my bride to: My mother's house had but one room 18 by 17 feet, a dirt roof and floor with a straw carpet. She had her loom in there during the winter. Her bed was in one corner and I had a bunk built in another corner. It was built into two sides of the house and one log stood out in the room. A straw bed, buffalo robe and quilts comprised our bed for the winter. In the spring, the fore part of May, I found there was going to be an increase in the family, which put me to my wits' ends to know how to meet the situation. But it happened that providence had smiled down on me again by sending the Indians into the valley somewhat earlier than usual. I happened to be the sole owner of a little brown pony which I sold to an Indian for a buffalo robe and seven elk skins. The nearest dry goods store at that time was Richmond, Cache Valley, some 65 miles across a big mountain. It happened that my brother Joseph was in the same boat that I was, and he and I started out to find a market for what we had to sell. I sold my buffalo robe and three of my elk skins, (I had four elk skins left to make me a suit of clothes) and bought a few yards of flannel and a few yards of calico, a bottle of castor oil, a box of Grafenburg pills and three hundred pounds of flour, and I went home with a smile on my face that did not come off for a long time. That summer I built a house and moved in and we called it our home. Father took a contract that summer to build a bridge over Blacksmith Fork about 60 miles southwest en route to Ogden. He let James Homes, Hyrum S. Rich and myself in with him, and we received $86 each in store pay on Williams Jennings in Salt Lake City.

Now, reader, I want to tell you that was the first time in my life I had worked for money and appropriated the proceeds for myself. Previous to that it had always been for Father's family. With my store bill I bought me a scythe to cut hay, a pitchfork, a shovel, ax and kitchen furniture. And we were just as happy as young married folks can be Then for the next ten or fifteen years, every sixteen or eighteen months, an extra member was added to the family until we had an even dozen. I forgot to say that we obtained the cattail feather bed from bulrushes on the river bottoms the first winter.

My spare time was occupied trying to improve my home and surroundings. Crops were cut short by the early frosts. Sometimes entirely. But with all the drawbacks that I endured, I accumulated means and felt I had been wonderfully blessed. In the summer of 1872, Brigham Young came to the valley on one of his annual visits and he preached discourses on plural marriage. (Up to that time, polygamy had never appealed to me very strong. I had been raised in a polygamous family, and I thought I never wanted any of it in mine.) After I heard Brigham Young's sermon, there was a feeling came over me that I had better at least make the attempt to get another wife, but to eliminate the courting; just ask the consent of the girl and her parents and if either was opposed, that was to be the end of it. When I raised courage to put it to the test, everything was in the affirmative. September 8, 1873, I was married to Mary Elizabeth Bingham, sister to my first wife, in the Endowment House. Being raised in a polygamous family, I thought I knew about as much as anybody on how to guide the ship. How well I succeeded, those that have been acquainted with me can be the judge.

During the winter and spring of 1874 and 1875, Charles Mallory and I built a sawmill in Montpelier Canyon. After that I could build and finally got comfortably situated. On May 22, 1876, Father died after spending the winter in Southern Utah. He arrived home May 17 and died five days later. The early frost and cold long winters caused me to make a change to a warmer climate. With consent of Apostle Charles C. Rich, I disposed of all my belongings and put it into teams, wagons and cattle. On October 3, 1878, in company with Charles Dana and son Roswell, John Hibbert, John and William Lesueur, Charles Warrener and Robert Williams, we set out for Salt River Valley, Arizona. We arrived at Mesa on January 17, 1879. Robert Williams stopped in Salem, Utah. He had an ox team and the rest of us had horses. We arrived in Mesa with four teams, three wagons and about 25 head of cattle, mostly cows. The first settlers had only been located since October. They were living in tents and sheds mostly. The company let us join them, giving us a chance to work out water rights to get shares in the company.

It was hard to get a home and get comfortably located again. I disposed of all my surplus stock, teams, and wagons which enabled me to buy provisions until I got houses, such as they were, to live in. Everything went well with us until September 1884 when Charles I. Robson, Oscar Stewart, Alma Spillsbury, George Wilson, James Wilson and I were indicted for polygamy and unlawful cohabitations. We never tried to evade the propositions as we believed the law unconstitutional, and we had no trouble getting bondsmen. The next spring the trial court convened in April, We all went down to Phoenix, the county seat, about a week before our trial was to come off to see if we had any friends that we could depend on. We found about all the friends we had were saloon men and that kind of people. We employed lawyers and the church sent Tom Fitch of Los Angeles to take charge of the trial. Things looked darker to us every day. Our lawyers worked with the judge and did all they could to get some assurance from him to show us some leniency, but failed. Alma Spillsbury's case was brought to the jury and in less than twenty minutes a verdict was given--Guilty. Our lawyers told us there was no use for any other to stand trial, and so they informed the judge that the others would plead guilty. We were told to appear at 10 a.m. the next day. The judge said we would have to promise to obey the law. That caused me some serious reflections. I will now relate a dream I had two or three nights before. I went to bed wondering what the outcome of it all would be. I dreamed I was out in an open country all alone, close by me stood a very small bull, a cherry red in color, the most perfect and handsome animal I had ever seen. His horns looked to be transparent and came to a very sharp point. As I looked, at a great distance I saw a large object moving towards me, and when it came close enough to tell what it was, I saw that it was a monstrous bull. I discovered that he was mad, and the closer he came the more mad he became. I saw he was making for the little bull, and he looked as large to me as an elephant. He never halted till he came up within six or eight feet of the little fellow, and all the while the little fellow stood chewing his cud not seeming to pay any attention to the monster bull. When the monster stopped, I thought he put out his tongue and his eyes were like balls of fire. He made a dive at the little bull, and at the same time the little bull caught him in the neck, completely unjointing it. The monster fell and I woke up. This dream brought joy to all of us. We felt that something was going to happen that would cause a change in our favor. On the morning of April 11 at 10 a.m., we all appeared ready to take our medicine. The first name called was Hyrum S. Phelps.

The judge asked, "Mr. Phelps, you have pleaded guilty to the charge of unlawful cohabitation. Have you anything to say why the court should not pass sentence on you?"

"I have just one request, your honor," I replied. "That is that you do not insist on me obeying the law as you interpret it. I consider the law unconstitutional and made especially to punish the Mormons. I will hold myself subject to the law at all times, but I don't want to make any promises."

"Mr. Phelps, I am not here to decide on the constitutionality of the law, but punish those that violate the law as it stands, and I shall expect something from you that will convince me you will obey it the same as all law abiding citizens," he said.

"Your honor, God gave me my wives. They were virgins when I married them. I can hold my hand up and say before God and man that I never did, outside of the marriage relations, have anything to do with any man's wife or daughter." I spoke for fully five minutes on the purity of marriages and why we practiced it. At the conclusion of my talk I said, "That is all I have to say."

The first word he spoke was to those sitting near him. He said with tears in his eyes, "Gentlemen, you may think that this is a desirable position to pass sentence on these men. This is the hardest thing I ever had to do. You are some of the best citizens we have." Turning to me he added, "Mr. Phelps, I realize your family needs you at home, and I shall give you only ninety days and no fine to pay." I thanked him for being so lenient.

The next day the warden inspected us, gave us a clean haircut, a shave and a brand new suit of clothes with the stripes running horizontally. The night before I was sentenced, Mary Elizabeth gave birth to a baby girl and a month following she lost her little two-year-old boy. The warden gave us all privileges that were possible and the most comfortable cells in the prison.

We were turned loose again on July 12, 1885. I then went to living again as I had always done. The stake authorities thought I was running desperate chances as I was living with both families, and advised me to go to Mexico. In the spring of 1887, I drove down to Juarez, Mexico to see what I thought of the country. I did not like the government in that country. On Dec. 3, 1890, I received a call to serve a mission to the Southern States and to be in Salt Lake to leave for the mission Dec. 16. I told my boys I would borrow the money and start Dec. 5 to go up to Bear Lake and see my folks there before going on my mission. The third day after I received my call, I started. I arrived at Maricopa where I was to change cars on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The train stopped, I looked out of the window and who should I see but my old friend the Federal Marshall who was after me. The Spirit told me he was wanting me and for me to get off the car on the opposite side from where the others were getting off. I was to go around, and come in behind and get on the other train on the opposite side from where the others were getting on and walk lame. When I came in full view of the officer, the Spirit seemed to operate on me just like some person giving me a command. When the train started off, I looked out the window and saw that my poor old uncle Brother Sam Thompson was returning home after a short visit with my mother. I did not have time to tell him what was taking place. I waited in Yuma until the next day and Uncle was on the train, so we went on our way without any more trouble. I visited my relatives in Bear Lake and they contributed more than enough to pay my expenses from Salt Lake and back again. I arrived at my journey's end (Spartanburg Mills) on Dec. 23, 1890. I had just one dollar in my pocket, and I gave that to the family I was to stay with to buy Christmas presents as they were very poor.

David LeBaron was my first companion. I was gone 23 months, but never slept out one night, only had to pay for one night's lodging during my entire stay in the mission field. While on my mission I baptized four persons. When I returned home, I was a better man and had a testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel During my absence, President Wilford Woodruff had issued the Manifesto and my law breaking was at an end.

On the 26th of February 1889, I fitted out two teams and went to St. George, Utah, to work in the temple. I took my mother, wife Clarinda, daughter Lucretia and son Calvin. We had our three oldest children sealed to us and mother had her two oldest sealed to her and father. I also did the work for Grandfather Spencer Phelps and his wife. We were gone from home six weeks. The work done at St. George completed all the vicarious work on my ancestors that I knew of at that time. My mother made her home with me from the time we left Bear Lake, Idaho until her death January 31, 1896.

About the year 1900, I received a letter from my nephew, William R. Holmes, who was laboring as a missionary in Massachusetts at the time that The Phelps Family of America and Their English Ancestors was being published in two volumes and there might be a chance for me to get my family included in the work. I sent a list of my family, but it was too late to be inserted in the book, However, I sent an order and received the genealogy of my ancestors back for eight generations. My wife Mary Elizabeth and I have been working in the temple at Logan, Utah most of the time since April 1919 to 1925.

After returning home from my mission, my time was occupied on my farm and surroundings until about the year 1910. My sons being married and myself along in years, I was not able to do the work required. I decided to sell the 80 acres and when the buyer came along, I sold for $19,000 and bought a city lot in the town of Mesa, and built a home on it for Clarinda and a home for Mary Elizabeth on 20 acres I had left previous to my selling. On October 13, 1906 Mary Elizabeth's house burned down. We were sleeping out of doors at the time and everything was burned except the beds and clothing we had taken off our bodies when we went to bed. It was a brick house and it burned so quickly that the walls were not damaged very much. I soon rebuilt and was comfortably situated again. During the winter of 1917-18 I sold my ranch home and we moved into another home I had built in town. My plans were to spend the balance of my days working in the temple for the redemption of my ancestors who are dead and gone.

Now in conclusion of the story I have given of my life, I must say that I have been true and faithful. On the advent of another birthday, I will be 77 years old and I have every reason to believe I will live till I am 95 years old. If I should live that long, I expect to hear of more sorrow and suffering from wars, famines, earthquakes and destruction by the destroying elements than I have ever heard of in the last fifty years. I have never sought after notoriety of civil offices. I am thankful that I was counted worthy to be called into the High Council at the organization of the Maricopa Stake, which office I held and tried to honor until the 8th of December, 1912, when I was ordained a patriarch. And I say as Nephi of Old, "I was born of goodly parents" who did all they could for their children under the circumstances by which they were surrounded.

And as my ancestors before them. I am proud to know that I am of such stock, for many of them fought, bled and died in the Revolutionary War. I thank my God that I am permitted to do their work in the temple of the Lord, and I pray that my children will join with me as soon as circumstances will permit them to do so. I know the Lord expects it of us, and if we fail to do what we can for them, we will come to our condemnation. (You have ears to hear, take warning.) As for myself, I know I have made many mistakes and fallen into many habits that were not becoming to a Latter-day Saint. I have not controlled my tongue and have said many things I should not have said. But with all my failings, I have always tried to be honest with my fellow men. I have had no dollar in my life that I would be ashamed for any person to know how I came by it, not have I ever spent a dollar that I would be ashamed to tell my children— Clarinda, 12, and Mary Elizabeth, 14. Eleven of them have passed to the great beyond. Three of them died and left infant babes. A daughter, a young woman grown and a son 19 years. The others ranged in age from three months to four years. I have also two daughters that are left widows with ten and five children to take care of.

So I feel content to know that when my time comes, I will have loved ones to mingle with over there. I thank the Lord that I was permitted to be born when the Gospel of Jesus Christ was again on the earth. I know that God lives, that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer of the world and that Joseph Smith was and is Prophet of God and that the Church known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is indeed the only church that is acceptable unto Him as a church. This is my testimony and I here subscribe to it in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

P.S. When I die, I prefer to be buried by the side of my mother without any display of flowers, the same as the rest that have gone on before me. It is a satisfaction to know I will have loved ones to mingle with when my turn comes to go. Given this day the tenth of December, 1922, at Logan, Utah.

/s/ H. S. Phelps

[Hyrum Phelps died April 23, 1926 after being gored by a bull. Kenneth and Lavel Whatcott were with him when he was gored and said that his intestines were lying on the ground in the manure. He died two days later.]

Hyrum married Sarah Clarinda Bingham on 25 Sep 1866 in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho. Sarah (daughter of Calvin Bingham and Elizabeth Lucretia Thorne) was born on 6 Sep 1850 in Big Pigeon, Pottawattamie, Iowa; died on 23 Dec 1927 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hyrum married Mary Elizabeth Bingham on 8 Sep 1873 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Mary (daughter of Calvin Bingham and Elizabeth Lucretia Thorne) was born on 25 Dec 1853 in East Weber, Weber, Utah; died on 14 Nov 1933 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 6 Jan 1917, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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His papers, described as "Journal, reports, and printed articles, relating to the development of the Polaris missile and other American naval weapons systems", are at the Hoover Institution. In connection with those papers, the Online Archive of California describes him as "American physicist; chief scientist, Special Projects Office, United States Navy, 1957-1959; chief scientist (ocean systems), Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, 1969-1983."

His page at the Mathematics Genealogy Project is here, where it can be seen that his great-grand-advisor was Felix Klein, of the bottle; one of Klein's two advisors was Rudolf Lipschitz, and one of Lipschitz's grand-advisors was Joseph Fourier.

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William Francis Whitmore and Elizabeth Sherman Arnold were 7th cousins, both being 6XG-grandchildren of Col. John Lane (1661-1715) and Susanna Whipple (1661-1713).

William married Elizabeth Sherman "Bibba" Arnold on 1 Nov 1946. Elizabeth (daughter of George Stanleigh Arnold and Elizabeth Sherman Thatcher Kent) was born on 2 Dec 1915 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California; died on 18 Sep 1992 in Los Altos, Santa Clara, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Earl Lee. George (son of Thomas Sullivan Lee and Mary Jane Eaton) was born on 13 Oct 1876 in Edinburg, Christian, Illinois; died on 2 May 1954 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In recent decades, she changed her name, by court order, to simply "Neltje." In 2016 her autobiography North of Crazy was published by St. Martin's Press. A profile of her can be found here, and her Wikipedia page is here.

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Neltje Doubleday and John Turner Sargent Sr. are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

Neltje married John Turner Sargent, Sr. on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. John (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Dagmar Wetmore) was born on 26 Jun 1924; died on 5 Feb 2012 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John Dyer-Bennet on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. John (son of Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet and Miriam Wolcott Clapp) was born on 17 Apr 1915 in England; died on 19 Mar 2002. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1924

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Note in the U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index record of her death:

Nov 1942: Name listed as MARGARET LILLIAN RANDALL
Dec 1962: Name listed as MARGARET LIL BRIGLIO
Apr 1969: Name listed as MARGARET LIL WERNDLE
12 Jan 2002: Name listed as M LILLIAN WERNDLE

Margaret married Anthony Briglio on 22 Jul 1950 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California. Anthony was born on 21 Feb 1922 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; died on 12 Jan 2015 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Barbara Phelps (later Allen) arrived in Mesa in 1879 and a 16-month-old infant. At age 12, she received an accordion for Christmas. She then earned money by playing with her father, Hyrum Phelps, for dances in Lehi, especially at Christmas. In later life, she organized the Granny Band, which performed at events around town." [Images of America: Latter-Day Saints in Mesa by D. L. Turner and Catherine H. Ellis. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.]

A memoir by Barbara Ann Phelps Allen:

My parents were Hyrum Smith Phelps and Mary Elizabeth Bingham Phelps. I was born August 26, 1877 at Montpelier, Bear Lake County, Idaho. I was just sixteen months old when the family reached Mesa. The first house Father built was on the east side of Hibbert Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues.

Among my first recollections of this place was the first Sunday School I attended, It was held in the school house, a one-room adobe. Hannah Peterson (Miller) was the teacher. We recited the alphabet from cards. We were seated on a low bench in front of the room. I attended my first Primary with my sister Lucy. We were very devoted to each other. One never went without the other. Each week we listened anxiously while the secretary read the program for the following week, but we were never on it.

When I was nine years old, the school put on a program and every child in the room was given a part but me, I felt disgraced, and I never even told my mother. I always remembered the feeling I had and in the sixteen years I presided over the Primary I always favored the backward child and never slighted anyone to my knowledge.

Father built a long room on the back of the house to accommodate the growing family. Grandma Bingham lived with us awhile before moving into a house on Broadway just east of Mesa Drive. We children were staying with her after Father was taken to Yuma to the penitentiary. The officers came there one night looking for Mother; they had a warrant, and Grandma wouldn't take it, so they threw it on the floor. I thought she wasn't very polite.

When I was twelve years old, Mother gave me an accordion for Christmas. I soon learned to play it. A few years later, she and Lucy gave me a larger one which I kept until after I was married.

One time Father went to Tempe and bought a bolt of cloth called Zephyr gingham; it was a beautiful plaid. As I remember, five of us girls had dresses alike. Lucy and I always dressed alike. Most people thought we were twins. The first M.I.A. I attended had only one class for everyone. Pres. Charles I. Robson told the story of Joseph Smith's first prayer. That was the first time I had heard it, and I have never forgotten how it impressed me.

Soon after this Lucy and I were asked to sing at one of the meetings. We sang, "Write Me a Letter from Home.' After that I think we were asked to sing at every public entertainment held in Mesa until after I was married. Lucy and Grandma Phelps bought us an organ which I learned to play by ear. Father and I played for the dances at Lehi a few times. I earned $2.50 over the Christmas holidays playing out there. I left my organ there during that time so I wouldn't have to carry it back and forth. Lucy and I joined the choir when I was sixteen, and I sang with them for twenty years. I memorized 200 hymns besides the anthems we sang.

I well remember the first dress I made; it was a real pretty blue and I wore a blue ribbon around my waist. Mother's sister, Anner LeSueur sent me the ribbon because they told her I looked so much like her. In the summer of about 1891 there was a conference held at Pinetop, and Mother and Aunt Clarinda in company with quite a large group of saints, attended. Brother William took them. It took six weeks to make the round trip. Amy was about four years old. While they were gone, I made Amy a dress. I made it a plain tight waist with a full skirt that came nearly to her ankles, and it was so tight I could hardly fasten it. She had it on when mother came and when mother saw her she began to cry, and she said Amy looked like we had starved her. One night at a dance, John S. Allen, known as Seymour, came into our lives. He rushed across the floor, came up to me and said, "Come on , Caddie, let's dance." Then he saw his mistake, and after an apology, asked me to dance. From then on he never failed to dance with Lucy and me. Later on he began making regular visits to our home, but we did not know which of us he was most interested in. We had a lot of good times together. One night he asked if he could take me home. Up to this time he had never taken us any place. He had a lady friend and we were just side issues, but after this night we knew which was his favorite.

John S. and I kept company for about nine months and were married on Oct. 2, 1895. We had a quiet wedding at our home on the corner of Hibbert and East First Avenue. Only close relatives were invited. The ceremony was performed by Bishop James Malen Home. We stood at the head of the table, and the guests were seated around it, ready to partake as soon as the ceremony ended. Mother and Lucy had cooked a very fine dinner. When we went through the kitchen to be married, Mother and Lucy were standing by the stove. Mother was crying and Lucy looked sad, but I couldn't see anything to feel sad about. One week after we were married, we started in company with Eli and Medora Openshaw for the St. George Temple. It took six weeks to make the round trip.

When we returned home we started housekeeping in a two-rooms of the house built for Warner and Fannie Allen. It was here our first child, Charles Ashael, was born July 31, 1896. At this time the monthly fast meeting was held on the first Thursday of the month, and he was blessed by Grandpa [Charles H.] Allen.

We moved into a 2-room lumber house with a lean-to on the back that Father had built on 20 acres Grandpa Allen had given Seymour at the corner of Broadway and Stapley. On Feb. 15, 1898, Blanche was born. When she was four months old, J. S. was called on a mission to the Southern States. He left in June and I milked eight to ten cows while he was gone. Esther stayed with me and cared for the babies all the time. Mother was very good to me. I used to wonder how I could get along without her. I did all the sewing for the six girls, Lucy, Hattie, Amy, Esther, Clara, and Gertrude. At this time Lucy was working in Johnson's store and did a lot to help the family.

I was blessed while J. S. was gone. We all enjoyed good health. When it was time for him to be released, I went to Utah in company with my parents, Father Allen and his wife, Annie. Uncle Perry Bingham met us at Price, Utah and took us to Vernal where I stayed until I heard from John S., then I went on to meet him in Cove, Utah. After we returned home, Seymour and Warner went into partners and bought eighty acres on Baseline. Hyrum Loren was born Oct. 7, 1901 and Barbara Oct. 5, 1903.

John R. was born Oct. 29, 1905 and was just a few months old when Seymour sold the 20 acres and bought 60 acres two miles east of Mesa on the Apache Trail from Mr. Lamb. This was where Gove Liahona was born July 26, 1907. Then John Seymour was called on another mission, this time to the Eastern States. President Ben Rich was his mission president both times. I was left this time with more work and more responsibilities. Ashael was a big help to me. One of my sisters stayed with me most of the time and helped.

J. S. came off his mission June 1909, and Mary was born Sept. 1,1910. On March 27, 1912, Eldred Phelps was born, but lived only six weeks. This was the first real sorrow to come to us. July 8, 1914 Russell Hoopes was born. In the Summer of 1915, we moved to a 320 acre ranch four miles south of Gilbert.

Seymour had gone into partners with his older brother Warner and acquired a 320-acre farm four miles south of Gilbert. This was entirely alfalfa at the time but was later planted to cotton.

December 2, 1915 Ashael left for a mission to the Southern States and June 5, 1916 Ben Rich Allen was born, and November 5, 1917, Joseph Seymour was born. Two babies were born while Ashael was away.

When Joe was about eight months old, I took a little motherless baby, Robert Southers, four months old, to raise. I kept him nine months, then his aunt, Mrs. Ellingbow, wanted him so badly that J. S. told me I shouldn't be selfish and keep him, so I let her have him.

After several years the depression came on and we decided J. S.'s brother, Benjamin, should live with us for a couple of years. J. S. sent him on a mission. Chancy, Seymour's older brother, lived with us a lot. October 11, 1920, Della, our twelfth and last child was born three days after Loren had left for a mission. He labored in Louisiana.

We struggled along for several years. The depression came on and we decided to rent. The boys wanted to finish school. As J. S. couldn't run the ranch alone, he decided to rent it out. We bought us a home in Mesa at 48 West Second Street and lived there for a year or more.

J. S. and his brother Jim took a job building a fence along the railroad. It was at this time that the next great sorrow came when Della died of mastoid infection Nov. 21, 1925.

We sent Gove on a mission to the Eastern States and in February 1935 we sent Russell to the Samoan Island to fill his mission. Before he returned home, we sent Ben in March 1938 to Argentina. All our family have very fine companions. We are very proud to have them to associate with. In all our family gatherings, they are with us one hundred percent. We are very proud of our family and their families, and always pray for their success in righteousness.

October 29, 1945, we held our Golden Wedding Anniversary, the first time all the family had been together for a long time. For the reception, Ashael came from the Spanish American Mission, Ida from Los Angeles, Russell from Kirtland, New Mexico, and Mary from Vallejo, California. We had a dinner at the ranch home. All ten of the family and twenty-seven of the grandchildren were present. We all had a lovely time. After this gathering Ida was called to labor with Ashael in the mission, taking George with them.

My mother was very strict about us attending our duties and being punctual. Because of this, the Sunday School Superintendent called me to be a substitute teacher when I was quite young. When I was seventeen I attended Conference and they reorganized the Stake Y.L.M.I.A. and I was surprised when they sustained me as secretary. I served in that capacity for twelve years underfive presidents, Ann Eliza Leavitt, Jannett Johnson, Lulu Macdonald, Fannie Dana and Mary Hibbert. Soon after I was released, I was chosen stake secretary for the Relief Society. I held that position for about six years. I was released to be president of the Mesa First Ward Relief Society. I served about a year and we moved to Gilbert. There was no Gilbert Ward then, and we were in the Chandler Ward. After this I served about sixteen years as president of the Primary for Chandler, Gilbert, and Mesa Wards. I was superintendent of Religion Class in Gilbert the same time I was President of the Primary. At this time John R. was attending high school in Gilbert and he assisted me with religion class.

We rented our ranch and bought us a home in Mesa, but stayed only a year or so. At this time I was president of the Primary in Gilbert and Bishop Haymore asked me to preside there until Barbara came home from vacation, and before she came I was made president of the Mesa First Ward Primary. I presided over both of them for about six weeks. I have been president of the Gilbert Relief Society two different times, second counselor to Grace Nielson and then president in the Mesa First Ward Relief Society, second counselor to Adelaide Peterson in the Stake Primary, and I held several other positions. Now at the age of seventy-four, I am a Relief Society district teacher and a Guide teacher of four boys in the Primary of the Mesa Ninth Ward. I am very thankful for the many opportunities I have had to serve.

March 1942 was the Centennial celebration of the Relief Society, and the General Board requested that pioneer stories be brought before the public as much as possible. I was president of the Gilbert Relief Society at that time. I read several good stories and decided to put them into a pageant. I had fine cooperation, and it turned out to be a success. We played it in six different wards. I also wrote two other pageants which were very successful, an Easter pageant and one on the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood. In doing this work I received some of the greatest joy of my life. Another thing that I enjoyed a lot was putting on entertainments with the Primary children. I found a lot of work doing these things, but when it was all over, there was unspeakable joy that came to us seeing the happiness that came to the children.

The Lord has been good to me for which I am grateful. We have been relieved of pain through prayer and being administered to many times. My first relief came when I was first married. I had an ulcerated tooth which was so severe I didn't think I could stand it any longer. John S. administered to me and relief came instantly. Another time when I was alone on the ranch with the little children, I became very sick. My head pained so badly at times I wasn't conscious. John was nine years old. He went off by himself and prayed for me. All at once a quivering feeling went through my body and with it went the pain. I couldn't account for it until he told me he had prayed for me. John had been instantly relieved twice when his father administered to him when he had gathered ears.

One time when we had been helping the Chandler Ward top maize to pay off on their piano, we came home after dark and found Loren crying with pain. As he drove the cows around the haystack, they loosened the derrick fork and it swung around before he knew it, striking him on the leg and puncturing the bone. The pain was so severe he couldn't stand to have us walk across the floor. He immediately called for his father to administer to him, which he did, and the pain left as he took his hands off, and it never returned. For these and many more blessings too numerous to mention, I am grateful.

Barbara married John Seymour Allen on 2 Oct 1895 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. John (son of Charles Hopkins Allen and Elizabeth Adelaide Hoopes) was born on 27 Nov 1870 in Richmond, Cache, Utah; died on 22 Jan 1966 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Orson married Rebecca Hannah Allen on 13 Sep 1905 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Rebecca (daughter of Charles Hopkins Allen and Elizabeth Adelaide Hoopes) was born on 6 Jul 1883 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; died on 7 Apr 1971 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 13 Dec 1897, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona

Adeline married John Woodruff Saul, Jr. on 29 May 1936 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. John (son of John Woodruff Saul, Sr.) was born on 30 Sep 1912 in Cook County, Illinois; died on 5 Apr 2004 in San Juan County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Known as Ashael "Ace" Allen, he was a Los Angeles motorcycle policeman in the 1930s through 1950s. He also worked for various movie studios.

Charles married Ida Lillywhite on 4 Feb 1919 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Ida was born on 13 Oct 1896 in Woodruff, Navajo, Arizona; died on 5 May 1984 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]