Robert Moton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1457

Robert married Margery Malory before 26 Oct 1412. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Mulsho before 1441. Elizabeth (daughter of Edmund Mulsho) died in 1468. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living 1470.

Family/Spouse: William Purefoy. William (son of William Purefoy and Margaret Chetwynd) was born about 1398; died on 29 Mar 1466. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1481

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Leicestershire. Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1471-72.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Harcourt. Margaret (daughter of Robert Harcourt and Margaret Byron) died on 30 Mar 1477. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1492

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

Family/Spouse: Isabel Brome. Isabel (daughter of John Brome and Beatrice Shirley) died about 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Philippa Willoughby. Philippa was born in of Rand, Lancashire, England; died on 6 Jan 1517. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicholas married Alice Denton before 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Harington in 1513. John (son of John Harington and Alice Southill) was born before 1499 in of Exton, Rutland, England; died on 25 Aug 1553; was buried on 4 Sep 1553 in Rutland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Fettiplace. Anne (daughter of Richard Fettiplace and Elizabeth Bessiles) was born on 16 Jul 1496 in Shelford Parva, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 3 Aug 1568. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The History of Parliament page for Nicholas Fairfax (1498/99-1571), her third husband (she was his second wife), confirms that she was a daughter of Sir John Harington of Exton, Rutland, and that her first husband Richard Flower died in 1540.

Family/Spouse: Richard Flower. Richard (son of Roger Flower and Dorothy Conyers) was born in of Whitwell, Rutland, England; died in 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Dorne alias Thorne on 28 Oct 1540 in Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England. Thomas (son of William Thorne and Alice Stotesbury) died before 9 Nov 1588 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England; was buried on 9 Nov 1588 in Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Rutland, 1563. Sheriff of Rutland 1565-66, 1569-70, 1577-78.

"The last 50 years of Flower’s life were dogged by financial hardship and, despite the 1564 bishops’ report describing him as an ‘earnest furtherer of religion’, suspicion of recusancy. About 1578 he was removed from the commission of the peace and in 1582 was summoned before the High Commission on suspicion of harbouring the priests Chambers and Campion. His wife, son and daughter-in-law were all Catholics, and by the time of Flower’s death on 30 Apr. 1620, when his son and heir John was aged over 50, litigation and, probably, recusancy fines had consumed most of the property." [History of Parliament]

Family/Spouse: Margery Colley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Susanna Thorne.

Susanna married Capt. Roger Dudley on 8 Jun 1575 in Lidlington, Bedfordshire, England. Roger died before 29 Oct 1588. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Kaye. Robert (son of John Kaye and Dorothy Mauleverer) was born in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 5 Dec 1620 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 5 Dec 1620 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

JMF's one proven "gateway ancestor" (not counting Alexander Magruder, who is very probable), and one of JTS's eleven.

From Wikipedia:

Thomas Dudley was a colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the town's first home. He provided land and funds to establish the Roxbury Latin School, and signed Harvard College's new charter during his 1650 term as governor. Dudley was a devout Puritan who was opposed to religious views not conforming with his. In this he was more rigid than other early Massachusetts leaders like John Winthrop, but less confrontational than John Endecott.

The son of a military man who died when he was young, Dudley saw military service himself during the French Wars of Religion, and then acquired some legal training before entering the service of his likely kinsman the Earl of Lincoln. Along with other Puritans in Lincoln's circle, Dudley helped organize the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, sailing with Winthrop in 1630. Although he served only four one-year terms as governor of the colony, he was regularly in other positions of authority.

Dudley's descendants include his daughter Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), the prominent early American poet, and many famous Americans. One of the gates of Harvard Yard, which existed from 1915 to 1947, was named in his honor, and Harvard's Dudley House is named for the family.

Thomas married Dorothy Yorke on 25 Apr 1603 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of Edmund Yorke and Katherine Robins) was born before 14 Jun 1583; was christened on 14 Jun 1583 in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England; died on 27 Dec 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Katherine Deighton on 4 Apr 1644 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Katherine (daughter of John Deighton and Jane Bassett) was born before 16 Jan 1615; was christened on 16 Jan 1615 in St. Nicholas, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on 20 Aug 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 8 Aug 1579, All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England´

Grace married Richard Saltonstall on 28 Nov 1609 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. Richard (son of Samuel Saltonstall and Anne Ramsden) was born before 4 Apr 1586; was christened on 4 Apr 1586 in Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 25 Oct 1661 in Crayford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Benjamin Keayne before 1639, and was divorced in 1647. Benjamin (son of Robert Keayne and Anne Mansfield) was born before 14 May 1618; was christened on 14 May 1618 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary Winthrop before 1632. Mary (daughter of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Mary Forth) was born in 1612; died on 12 Apr 1643. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Better known as Anne Bradstreet, the first published writer in English-speaking North America.

Anne married Simon Bradstreet, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony before 1630. Simon (son of Rev. Simon Bradstreet and Margaret) was born before 18 Mar 1604; was christened on 18 Mar 1604 in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England; died on 27 Mar 1697 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Patience married Daniel Denison on 18 Oct 1632 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Daniel (son of William Denison and Margaret Chandler) was born before 18 Oct 1612; was christened on 18 Oct 1612 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 20 Sep 1682 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried on 22 Sep 1682 in Highland Cemetery, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married Rev. John Woodbridge before 1640. John (son of Rev. John Woodbridge and Sarah Parker) was born about 1613; died on 17 Mar 1695 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried on 19 Mar 1695 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of JTS's eleven proven "gateway ancestors."

He went to New England with his father in 1630, the first of at least eight Atlantic crossings in his lifetime. He was a man of many interests and offices, both in New England and during England's commonwealth period. Notably, back in New England after the Restoration, Richard Saltonstall donated £50 to support the fugitive regicides William Goffe and Edward Whalley, and he was one of the few people who knew where in New England they were hiding. He was also on several occasions embroiled in political conflict with the Winthrop/Dudley government of colonial Boston.

Richard married Muriel Gurdon on 4 Jul 1633 in All Hallows, Honey Lane, London, England. Muriel (daughter of Brampton Gurdon and Muriel Sedley) was born about 1613; died on 21 Apr 1688 in Hulme, Lancashire, England; was buried on 25 Apr 1688 in St. James' Church, Didsbury, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Rev. Seaborn Cotton on 14 Jun 1654 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. Seaborn (son of Rev. John Cotton and Sarah Hawkredd) was born on 12 Aug 1633 in At sea; died on 20 Apr 1686 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dudley married Anne Wood on 12 Nov 1673 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Sarah Perkins on 11 Jun 1677 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Rev. William Perkins and Elizabeth Wooton) was born on 2 Mar 1657 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts; died in Apr 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated Harvard 1664; began preaching at Killingworth, Connecticut in 1666 and was ordained minister there 7 Apr 1669.

John married Abigail Leete on 26 Oct 1671 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of William Leete, Governor of the New Haven Colony; Governor of Connecticut and Anna Payne) was born about 1650; died on 9 Apr 1710 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1645

Notes:

"Rev. Benjamin Woodbridge [...] was invited to preach at Windsor, Ct., by a minority of the church, about the end of the year 1667; ordained over a church formed by the withdrawal of dissatisfied members from the old church, March 18, 1669-70. He remained there, in the midst of many dissensions, until May, 1681. Married, June 3, 1672, Mary, dau. of Rev. John Ward, of Haverhill. She died Oct. 11, 1685. He preached at Bristol, R. I., 1681-6; and at Kittery, Me., in 1688. In 1691 he resided at Portsmouth, N. H., and in 1694 at Newcastle. He was called, in 1698, to Medford, where he was the minister for about ten years. Married second, at Hingham, Aug. 81, 1686, Deborah, widow of Henry Tarlton, and dau. of Daniel Cushing, who survived him. She was born Nov. 18, 1651. He d. at Medford, Jan. 15, 1709-10." ["Genealogy of the Woodbridge Family," citation details below]

Benjamin married Mary Ward on 13 Jun 1672. Mary (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 24 Jun 1649; died on 11 Oct 1685 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Graduatyed Harvard 1675; became minister of the first church in Hartford, 1682; ordained pastor there 18 Nov 1685. His predecessor as pastor was his wife Mehitable Wyllys's previous husband, the Rev. Isaac Foster.

Family/Spouse: Mehitable Wyllys. Mehitable (daughter of Samuel Wyllys and Ruth Haynes) was born about 1658; died on 21 Dec 1698 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Elizabeth Ward on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. John Ward and Alice) was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1741 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Anne Lake on 17 Aug 1686. Anne (daughter of Capt. Thomas Lake and Mary Goodyear) was born on 12 Oct 1663 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 29 Mar 1737 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Job Tyler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married John Hazen about 1710. John (son of Thomas Hazen and Mary Howlet) was born on 23 Mar 1688 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Feb 1772. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated Harvard 1694; became first minister at West Springfield, Massachusetts in June 1698.

John married Jemima Eliot on 14 Nov 1699. Jemima (daughter of Rev. Joseph Eliot and Sarah Brenton) was born on 14 Nov 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated Harvard 1701. Ordained first minister at East Hartford, 30 Mar 1705.

Samuel married Mabel Russell on 9 Dec 1707. Mabel (daughter of Rev. Daniel Russell and Mehitable Wyllys) was born in 1678; died on 10 May 1730 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Rev. Rowland Cotton in Sep 1692 in z. Rowland (son of Rev. John Cotton and Joanna Rossiter) was born on 27 Dec 1667 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 18 Mar 1722 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Spofford, IV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Hazen Family in America (citation details below):

Nothing has been learned of his marriage or death.

The name of Samuel Hazen is the first of the family to have been found in New Jersey records. In an old volume at Newton appears this record: "At a court of General Sessions of the Peace held at Hardwick, County of Sussex, on the Third Tuesday in February in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and fifty five and in the Twenty eighth year of his Majesty's Reign--The King vs. Charles McConnell--Indictment for misdemeanor. The attorney general opened the cause and the following Evidences pro Rege--Mary Robins, Jane Robins, Joshua Robins, Saml. Hazen, Thomas Wolverton."

Soon after this date, the names of Thomas and Daniel Hazen appear in the same book of court records, and in 1778 the name of Nathaniel Hazen [son of John]. This corroborates the general tradition among their descendants that three or four brothers came from Connecticut to New Jersey at about the same time. The only known child of Samuel is his son Samuel.

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 10 Sep 1783, South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachuetts

Notes:

He was the minister for which the citizens of South Hadley, Massachusetts built the house called the "Second Parsonage." The story of how this came to be the case is worth recapitulating. According to In Old South Hadley by Sophie E. Eastman (Chicago: Blakely Printing Company, 1912), the first minister sent to officiate at South Hadley, a town that began to have an existence separate from Hadley in the early 1700s, was a Rev. Grindall Rawson, whose stern orthodoxy was very much at variance from the relative liberalism of the average local, because even in the early 18th century, western Massachusetts was notable for its tolerant ways. Among other things, Rawson refused to baptize infants whose parents' marriage was in any way irregular. Over many years the Rev. Rawson's parishioners expressed their dissatisfaction, passing resolutions against him, confiscating the keys to the church, withholding his pay and his firewood.

The rest of the story, from In Old South Hadley:

On February 25, 1740, at a meeting held in South Hadley, it was voted that "It is the desire of this precinct that the Rev. Mr. Rawson be dismissed from and lay down the work of the ministry among us." Mr. Rawson took no notice of this request. On January 12, of the succeeding year, they voted that they would give him neither wood nor salary. Mr. Rawson insisted that until the town should settle its past indebtedness to him he was still legally their pastor and should continue to preach.

A committee had been appointed to keep the keys of the meeting house, it was not to be opened or shut except "According to their prudence." A minister not far away had been locked out by his parishioners, for the manners of the day were rude. Upon this the parson shouldered his axe and broke down the door, then mounting the pulpit in triumph he preached a vigorous sermon. Perhaps the committee people suspected that the present incumbent might be tempted to do the same thing, as indeed he was quite likely to.

Finally, on October 30, 1741, their last shred of patience gave way. A committee of fifteen were ordered, in more explicit language, in case he again attempted to preach, "To put him forth from the meeting house." To this threat, which had been so often repeated, he paid no attention.

The committee met, thirteen of them agreeing that now they would obey instructions, only two dissenting. Some of the elders proposed to delegate their sons to perform the task that had been assigned them.

One Sabbath morning later on, Mr. Rawson appeared in church. When he had ascended the pulpit stairs, one of the deacons rose and solemnly warned him against attempting to officiate. Mr. Rawson's reply was simply to begin reading one of the Imprecatory Psalms, or, as another version of the story has it, commencing a long prayer. A number of men now advanced, and, taking him from the pulpit, either carried or dragged him from the church. Tradition tells us that he continued the prayer or psalm until a handkerchief was placed across his mouth.

This was Mr. Rawson’s last attempt to enter the pulpit. It was expected that he would cause the arrest of the young men who had forcibly removed him from the meeting house, and ten pounds were raised to be used in their defense. He refrained from taking the matter into court, but, none the less, refused to resign his pastorate.

The precinct had previously voted that they would pay him up to November 20, 1740, "but not after that." As he would not accept this overture, they extended the time until May of 1741, when the council had advised a separation. Finding him still obdurate, some peace-loving members of the community gave him their personal bonds for the payment of one hundred pounds if he would resign his pastoral office, which he did, and in 1742 the precinct repaid them.

Many of Mr. Rawson's friends had become so much embittered against the church that they removed to other towns. The discarded minister did not find it easy to secure another settlement. When pastors were engaged for life there were but few empty pulpits; he must wait until a new church was formed and a new building erected in some thinly populated district.

Three years passed and still he remained here. Then the people of Hadlyme, Conn., hired him to preach there for three months. At the expiration of the time they engaged him for three months more on probation. In May, 1745, they invited him to become their minister, taking the Cambridge Platform as the basis of belief.

There had been dissension among the people of Hadley in regard to the new church, but now they all united upon Mr. Rawson, and under his guidance they enjoyed a long season of "satisfaction and rest." At his death, in 1777, the faithful congregation erected a tombstone at their own expense.

After the resignation of their minister, the South Precinct were not long in finding a successor. About two hundred years before this, Rev. John Woodbridge, a clergyman of Wiltshire, England, had named a son after himself and educated him for the ministry. This practice had been continued from generation to generation, until now South Hadley's second minister was the ninth Rev. John Woodbridge in unbroken succession. [...] Unlike his predecessor, he was dignified in bearing, prudent in council, and full of gentleness and sympathy to all who were in sorrow.

Family/Spouse: Rev. Ephraim Little. Ephraim (son of David Little and Elizabeth Southworth) was born in 1707; died in 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Rev. John Brown in 1719 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. John (son of Ichabod Brown and Martha Woodbury) was born on 1 Nov 1696 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 2 Dec 1742 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Grout, Jr.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His wife's name is not known but is said to have been Mary.

From The Hazen Family in America (citation details below):

There is no doubt that he is the Samuel Hazen of Woodbury who sold a dwelling house standing a little west of the Eight-mile Brook, 16 Nov. 1781, but there is no evidence as to how long he had been in Woodbury. He bought six acres at Kettletown, Southbury Parish, in 1787, and sold it 31 May 1790. The census of 1790 gives in the family of Samuel Hazen of Southbury, separated from Woodbury in 1787, four boys under sixteen and three females, one doubtless his wife.

There is a tradition that he was a soldier under Washington in the Revolution, that he spelled his name with two z's, and that he was too lazy to write the two z's and only used one commonly.

He moved from Connecticut to Sussex County, New Jersey, it is said, when his son Ithamar was twelve years old or about 1794.

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

Family/Spouse: Lemuel Dickinson. Lemuel (son of Col. John Dickinson and Mary Coleman) was born in 1753 in Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died in 1835 in Denmark, Lewis, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Wingate Thornton calls her merely "a dau." of "Rev. J. Brown, of Haverhill" and his wife Joanna Cotton, but he is specific that she was the wife of "Rev. Edw. Brooks of North Yarmouth, Me."

Abigail married Rev. Edward Brooks in Sep 1764. Edward (son of Samuel Brooks and Mary Boutwell) was born on 31 Oct 1733 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was christened on 4 Nov 1733; died on 6 May 1781 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jacob Winn, III. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"They lived near Branchville, Sussex Co., N. J. Samuel Hazen, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth sold land there 5 Oct. 1812. Soon after, they moved to Owl Creek, Knox Co., Ohio, but finally settled at Gilead, Marion Co. He removed to Kosciusco Co., Ind., where his son Ziba was living. He was a gunsmith by trade and a great hunter." [The Hazen Family in America, citation details below]

Samuel married Elizabeth DeWitt on 3 Apr 1802 in Frankford, Sussex, New Jersey. Elizabeth (daughter of Isaac DeWitt and Jerusha Price) was born on 18 Mar 1775 in Frankford, Sussex, New Jersey; died on 26 Aug 1850 in Mt. Gilead, Morrow, Ohio; was buried in Rivercliff Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, Morrow, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Mary married Samuel Gray on 25 Apr 1799. Samuel (son of Abraham Gray and Lydia Calley) was born on 2 Aug 1760; was christened on 10 Aug 1760 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jan 1816 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Sherwood. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He moved from Mt. Gilead, Morrow County, Ohio to Etna Green, Kosciusko County, Indiana in 1852.

Ziba married Mary Catherine Harshner in 1833. Mary (daughter of John Harshner and Catharine Rule) was born on 10 Mar 1816 in Pennsylvania; died on 26 Jul 1868 in Etna Green, Kosciusko, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ellen married William Edwards Doubleday on 1 Oct 1850. William (son of Col. John Tilden Doubleday and Mary Elizabeth Whiting) was born on 1 May 1823; died on 4 Mar 1900 in New York, New York; was buried on 6 Mar 1900 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 17 Oct 1811, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Henrietta married Ignatius Sargent on 7 May 1835 in Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Ignatius (son of Ignatius Sargent and Sarah Sargent Ellery) was born on 20 Jan 1800 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 18 Aug 1884 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Minthorn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Feb 1937, Wayne Township, Kosciusko, Indiana

Notes:

Called "Miranda Hasemen" on her daughter Millie's death certificate. Jacobus (citation details below) spells her first name Miranda.

Maranda married Isaac Calvin Gaskill on 16 Jun 1875 in Millwood, Kosciusko, Indiana. Isaac (son of John Pinic Gaskill and Anna Shively) was born on 20 Apr 1855 in Etna Green, Kosciusko, Indiana; died on 20 Apr 1908 in Etna Green, Kosciusko, Indiana; was buried in Stony Point Cemetery, Clunette, Kosciusko, Indiana. [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]

Notes:

American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany, and he was a friend of John Muir. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.

Charles married Mary Allen Robeson on 26 Nov 1873. Mary (daughter of Andrew Robeson and Mary Arnold Allen) was born on 14 Jun 1853 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 15 Aug 1919 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theodore married Mary Wasley on 4 Jan 1842 in Yonge Street, Ontario. Mary (daughter of Henry Wasley and Ann Toole) was born in Nov 1818 in Yonge Street, Ontario; died on 11 Jun 1903 in Newberg, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jacobus (citation details below) calls her Mellie Magdalena Gaskill.

Mellie married George Daniel Harley on 22 Feb 1906 in Bourbon, Marshall, Indiana. George (son of Abraham Theodore Harley and Sophia Elva Swihart) was born on 6 Apr 1883 in Argos, Marshall, Indiana; died on 1 Apr 1952 in Milford, Kosciusko, Indiana; was buried in Stony Point Cemetery, Clunette, Kosciusko, Indiana. [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]

Notes:

The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Huldah married Jesse Clark Hoover on 12 May 1870 in Iowa. Jesse was born on 2 Sep 1849 in Stillwater, Ohio; died on 13 Dec 1880 in West Branch, Johnson, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of South Whitley, Whitley County, Indiana
• Alternate birth: Abt 1911, Indiana

Milo married Esther Delila Snider on 27 Mar 1932. Esther (daughter of Rev. George Austin Snider and Minnie Margaret Weaver) was born on 30 Mar 1912 in Lima, Allen, Ohio; died on 28 Jun 1970 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana; was buried on 1 Jul 1970 in Oaklawn Cemetery, North Manchester, Wabash, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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31st President of the United States (1929-1933).

Family/Spouse: William Darrell Ford. William (son of John William Ford and Bessie Iris "Bea" Austin) was born on 23 Dec 1931 in Whiting, Lake, Indiana; died on 17 Mar 2003 in Avon Park, Highlands, Florida; was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Beaver Dam, Ohio, Kentucky. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 24 Sep 2006, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota