Neltje Doubleday

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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]

1. John Turner Sargent, Jr. was born on 6 Aug 1957 in New York, New York.

Nelson married 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]

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After Nelson Doubleday's death in 1949, she served on the Doubleday board of directors until she moved to Hawaii in 1965.

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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]

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From the National Cyclopedia of American Biography (citation details below):

"The De Graffs and Blanchans, the latter originating in French Flanders, were among the first settlers of the Dutch-Huguenot colony at Esopus, N.Y. (1660). [Neltje Blanchan De Graff's] mother came of Scotch-Irish stock. One of her ancestors was Governor De Graff of St. Eustatius, Dutch West Indies, who was the first foreigner to salute the American flag (Nov. 16, 1776). Three years later a salute was given to the flag of Paul Jones' Ranger by the commander of a French squadron, but according to the historian Griffis, 'De Graff's was personally a nobler and bolder act, since he believed and acted on his own faith without orders.'" [The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, citation details below.]

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Attorney General of New Jersey, 1902-3. President of the Public Service Company of New Jersey.

Thomas married Madeleine G. Barker on 9 Feb 1897 in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. Madeleine (daughter of George Yearly Barker and Ellen Schaefer) was born in of Rumson, New Jersey; died on 19 Dec 1957. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
• Alternate birth: Feb 1876

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• 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]

Liverius married Alice Fair. Alice (daughter of Robert Fair and Ann Maitland) was born on 25 Sep 1840 in New York; died on 11 Dec 1932 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1841

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The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy entry for her mentions her marriage to Liverius ("Levvineus") De Graff, but doesn't include Neltje among her listed children.

Following her husband's death in Chicago in 1869, she shows in the 1870 census as still in Chicago, but according to the 1880 census, she was back in New York City by then, along with her by-then 15-year-old daughter Neltje.

The 27 Jul 1899 Brooklyn Eagle obituary for her mother indicates that Alice lived at that time at 87th Street and Third Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

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He was an electoral-college nominee for Douglass in 1860, but was a Republican from 1864 on.

Thomas married Mary Louisa Haggerty on 4 Dec 1849. Mary (daughter of Uzal C. Haggerty and Jane Armstrong) was born on 15 Jun 1828; died on 28 Jun 1896; was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, Essex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1880

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George Y. Barker appears in various Baltimore city directories from 1863 to 1876, first as a clerk and then as a commercial cotton merchant.

George married Ellen Schaefer. Ellen was born about 1846 in Maryland; died on 26 Dec 1923 in New York, New York; was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earliest known direct maternal ancestor of JTS. Given in some unsourced online trees as a daughter of Adolphus Schaefer and Martha Crawford.

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• Alternate death: Oct 1857

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"He was at first a farmer, then a druggist, and afterward a merchant in N. Y. City. He was Col. of militia. He finally became a self-appointed and self-supporting missionary in Brooklyn, N. Y." [The Ogden Family in America, citation details below.]

He was a first cousin of Samuel J. Tilden, governor of New York 1875-76 and Democratic nominee for President in 1876. But at the point of John Tilden Doubleday's death, his cousin's political career was just getting started.

John married Mary Elizabeth Whiting on 19 Sep 1819. Mary (daughter of Mason Whiting and Mary Ogden Edwards) was born on 21 Apr 1801; died on 22 Nov 1882 in Binghamton, Broome, New York; was buried on 25 Nov 1882 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Owner of the first steamboat to run the St. Lawrence rapids.

Horace married Mercy Amelia Bigelow on 12 May 1823. Mercy (daughter of Abijah Bigelow and Mercy Amelia Spring) was born on 4 Oct 1794 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died in 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Ann Maitland. Ann was born about 1813 in Ireland; died on 26 Jul 1899 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Kings, New York; was buried on 27 Jul 1899 in Friends Cemetery, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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County clerk of Morris; later Judge of the Common Pleas, and in 1828 an elector for Andrew Jackson. At his death he was judge of the Court of Errors.

Robert married Eliza Nesbitt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elected sheriff (of Sussex County?) in 1831.

Uzal married Jane Armstrong. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Harriet Ann Yearley on 22 Nov 1832 in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"[E]nlisted in the Army of the Revolution at the age of sixteen. He spent the night of March 4, 1776, on Dorchester Hill, while it was being fortified, and was also with General Washington during that dreary winter at Valley Forge and continued in service during the war, attaining to the rank of major." ["Mrs. Julia Waters Johnstone," citation details below.]

"[S]erved as a private, corporal, and sergeant in the Revolutionary War in the First Connecticut Regiment." [Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times, citation details below.]

Ammi married Lois Tilden. Lois (daughter of John Tilden and Bathsheba Janes) was born on 20 Apr 1763; died on 8 Sep 1840; was buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, New Hartford, Oneida, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to History of the Town of Goshen, Connecticut (citation details below), she was a "sister to the father of Gov. Tilden."

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Lawyer, member of the New York state legislature; later a district attorney. He was one of the first settlers of Chenango Point, New York, later called Binghamton.

Mason married Mary Ogden Edwards on 26 Apr 1800. Mary (daughter of Timothy Edwards and Rhoda Ogden) was born on 11 Oct 1780 in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jan 1873; was buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Lemuel married Molly Little. Molly (daughter of Rev. Ephraim Little and Elizabeth Woodbridge) died in 1830 in Champion, Jefferson, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"He was married, on 30 November 1780, to Mercy Amelia Spring, daughter of Converse and Mercy (Learned) Spring. She was born in Watertown 28 February 1761, and was niece of the well-known physician, Tory, and politician Marshall Spring. They lived a number of years at Waltham, then in 1796 moved to New Braintree until 1808, when he moved to Barre where his brother Samuel lived. In 1817 he moved to Leicester, MA, and after a few years to Brooklyn, CT. In 1836 he moved to Indiana, founding Bigelow's Mills, where his wife died 20 August 1846. In 1848 he moved to Michigan City, IN to live with a daughter. He died there 22 October 1848, at the ripe old age of 92 years, 6 mos, 6 days." [bigelowsociety.com]

"[P]rivate in Abraham Pierce's Co., from Waltham, in Lexington alarm and also served at Bunker Hill." [Some of the Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel Converse, citation details below.]

Abijah married Mercy Amelia Spring on 30 Nov 1780. Mercy (daughter of Converse Spring and Mercy Learned) was born on 28 Feb 1761 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 20 Aug 1846 in Bigelow's Mills, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Arrived with his wife Ann on the Jupiter from Belfast, landing at New York before 1 Jun 1811. According to the Jupiter manifest, their previous residence was "Saintclaire."

Thomas married Ann. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Came to America in 1773 or 1774; arrived at Philadelphia, described as a "single person, Protestant parents, County of Donegal, Ireland." Toward the end of his life he was clerk of Morris county, New Jersey.

According to the 1881 History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey (citation details below), he was from Londonderry, he served as "commissary of hides and leathers in Col. Wind's regiment" during the Revolution, he contributed "many articles to the newspapers in support of Mr. Jefferson" under the byline "Old Man of the Mountain," and he was at various times county clerk, surrogate, and a member of the New Jersey legislature.

John married Agnes Harris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Rhoda Stanbery. Rhoda (daughter of Recompense Stanbery and Margaret Wood) was born on 5 Apr 1752 in Scotch Plains, Union, New Jersey; died on 5 Mar 1831 in Newton, Sussex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Hannah Kuykendall. Hannah (daughter of Hendrik Kuykendall and Elizabeth Cool) was born before 21 Sep 1751; was christened on 21 Sep 1751; died on 5 May 1814; was buried in Frankford Plains Cemetery, Augusta, Sussex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was baptised Annetje Kuykendall.