Deliverance Hawkins

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• Alternate birth: 28 Oct 1744

Deliverance married James Mapes on 14 May 1764. James (son of Joseph Mapes and Keziah Parshall) was born on 6 Apr 1746 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York; died between 5 Feb 1783 and 17 Mar 1783 in Southold, Suffolk, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said in some sources to have been James Hawkins Mapes.

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

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• Alternate death: 6 May 1865, New York, New York

Notes:

She is claimed in several places online as a daughter of James Mapes and Deliverance Hawkins, but it would appear from here that the James Mapes who married Deliverance Hawkins made his will on 5 Feb 1783 and his estate was probated on March 17 of the same year. According to the evidence of her gravestone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, Deliverance (Mapes) Waldo was born in 1797, and according to her burial record she died on 4 May 1865 aged 67 years, 4 months, and 29 days.

We believe, instead, she was a daughter of James Mapes, born 1766, called in some sources James Hawkins Mapes, eldest son of James Mapes and Deliverance Hawkins.

First, Gertrude A. Barber's abstracts of marriage announcements in the New York Evening Post, covering the years 1801-1837, include the following:

Tuesday May 9 1826

Last eve Rev Dr Bangs, S L Waldo to Miss D Mapes dau James all of City

And ancestry.com's separate archive "U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930" contains this, probably abstracted from the same New York Evening Post report:

Last evening by Rev. Dr. Bangs, S. L. Waldo to Miss D. Mapes, daughter of James, all of this city.

(The marriage took place at John Street Methodist church, as confirmed by contemporary handwritten records found on ancestry.com.)

So her father was named James Mapes.

Second, among the paintings attributed to her husband Samuel Lovett Waldo are a pair of portraits of James Mapes's and Deliverance Hawkins's second son, Jonas Mapes (1768-1827) and his wife Elizabeth Tylee (1766-1868). Jonas Mapes commanded the defense of New York City during the War of 1812. Later, he was instrumental in the establishment of the New York Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, which incorporated in 1817. He was also senior partner of the New York City import and tailoring firm Mapes & Son. He and Elizabeth Tylee married in New York City on 12 Oct 1796.

Third, the installment of the multi-part article "The Mapes Family" that appears in The Family Record number 3, March 1897, contains a seven-paragraph biographical sketch of Gen. Jonas Mapes which concludes with the following: "Excellent portraits of General Mapes and his wife have been painted by his gifted nephew, Samuel Waldron." Gen. Jonas Mapes's daughter Catherine Adeline Mapes (b. 1800) married a Victor Bicker Waldron, and Gen. Mapes's firm Mapes & Son later became called Mapes, Son & Waldron, suggesting that Gen. Mapes's son-in-law joined the firm. But we've been unable to find any American portrait painter in or anywhere near New York City in the first half of the 19th century named "Samuel Waldron." Whereas if our hypothesis is correct, Samuel Lovett Waldo, who does appear to have painted portraits of Gen. Mapes and his wife, would have indeed been their "gifted nephew", which is to say, their nephew by his marriage to their neice, Deliverance Mapes.

[There is a user-generated entry for James Hawkins Mapes on familysearch.org which gives his birth and death dates as 1766-1836 and states that he married a Mary Ann Janes, born 1769, in 1790 in North Bend, Miami Township, Hamilton County, Ohio in 1790. North Bend was established in 1789. There are exactly zero sources given on familysearch.org for either this James Hawkins Mapes or his alleged wife.]

Deliverance married Samuel Lovett Waldo on 8 May 1826 in John Street Methodist Church, New York, New York. Samuel (son of Zacheus Waldo and Esther Stevens) was born on 6 Apr 1783 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; died on 16 Feb 1861 in New York, New York; was buried on 20 Feb 1861 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clara married Charles Sullivan on 9 Sep 1851 in New York, New York. Charles (son of Charles Sullivan and Isabella Wells) was born on 22 Sep 1823 in New York, New York; died on 10 Feb 1902 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York; was buried on 13 Feb 1902 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"His name appears in the New York directories from 1860 to '87; as a merchant in Maiden Lane until 1879, and after that at 141 Grand St. He was a manufacturer and dealer in military goods." [Genealogy of the Waldo Family, citation details below]

Howard married Isabel Hoe on 8 Jun 1859 in New York, New York. Isabel (daughter of James Clark Hoe and Temperance Mulford Miller) was born on 4 Apr 1838 in New York, New York; died on 3 Jan 1894 in New York, New York; was buried on 7 Jan 1894 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Clara Waldo Sullivan and her husband Howard Lovett Waldo were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Samuel Lovett Waldo and Deliverance Mapes.

Family/Spouse: Howard Lovett Waldo. Howard (son of Howard Waldo and Isabel Hoe) was born on 19 Feb 1860 in New York, New York; died on 19 Apr 1914 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 20 Apr 1914, New York, New York

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He was vice-president of the Badische Company, color and chemical importers.

Howard Lovett Waldo and his wife Clara Waldo Sullivan were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Samuel Lovett Waldo and Deliverance Mapes.

Family/Spouse: Clara Waldo Sullivan. Clara (daughter of Charles Sullivan and Clara Waldo) died on 16 Aug 1920 in Castleton Park, New Brighton, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was president and editor of the McClure Newspaper Syndicate from 1928 to his death in 1943. In this capacity, in the late 1930s he published some of the earliest work by his nephew, Theodore Sturgeon.

From Continuation of Waldo Genealogy 1900-1943 (citation details below):

He was a crusader for truth in advertising. As advertising and business manager of Good Housekeeping magazine from 1905 to 1914, he established and developed the Good Housekeeping Institute which approved and licensed manufacturers whose advertisements the magazine published.

He became secretary and associate general manager of the New York Tribune in 1914.

He procured contracts for a series of syndicated articles by Calvin Coolidge after he left the White House, for which the ex-president received over $200,000.

He was born in New York City and attended Friends Academy at Locust Valley, N.Y., and Hawkins Collegiate Institute at New Brighton, S.I.

During World War I he served as captain of infantry with the American Expeditionary Forces.

He was at one time advertising counsel for John Wanamaker's department store.

Family/Spouse: Adelaide Price. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a dealer in pigments and dry colors.

Edward married Christine Hamilton Dicker on 18 Jul 1915 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Christine (daughter of Rev. Assheton George Hamilton Dicker and Helen Alice Hunter Dunn) was born on 30 Mar 1897 in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; died on 9 Jul 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was born in New York City, as stated in both Continuation of Waldo Genealogy and the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (citation details below), but neither source mentions specifically that he was born on Staten Island. That borough appears occasionally in his fiction, notably the story "Shottle Bop."

Continuation of Waldo Genealogy (citation details below) calls him "Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon", but he was born Edward Hamilton Waldo. His name was legally changed to Edward Hamilton Sturgeon at age 11, after his mother's divorce and 1929 remarriage to William Dicky "Argyll" Sturgeon, an event unmentioned in Continuation of Waldo Genealogy. [Source: Adoption record of Edward H. Waldo, now renamed Edward H. Sturgeon, reproduced in the 2013 Open Road Integrated Media e-book edition of Sturgeon's More Than Human.]

Sturgeon wrote years later about how his first name subsequently changed from Edward to Theodore: "I was confirmed a year [after the adoption proceedings] as Theodore rather than Edward because my mother told me I didn't like to chance being called Eddy. Hindsight again: I was my father's namesake (he was always Ned, never Ted) and she wanted the crumbs swept out. (Years later when I was having therapy with Milton Kline he asked me with shocking abruptness, 'What ever happened to Edward Waldo?' It was weird. My guts contracted.) Anyway, as far as self-indentification is concerned, I was always Ted or Teddy or, to my mother, Thuddy, no matter what the legal handles were." This is from the posthumously-published chapbook Argyll: A Memoir (Pullman, Washington: The Sturgeon Project, 1993), which consists of a pair of essays in which Sturgeon grapples with his fraught relationship with his stepfather, who by modern standards was obviously a classic abuser.

Seventh cousin twice removed to Robert A. Heinlein, via John Hutchins (1604-1685) and his wife Frances (d. 1694).

Eighth cousin once removed to Fritz Leiber, via William Allen (1615-1686) and Ann Goodale (1618-1678).

Ninth cousin once removed to Damon Knight, through Thomas French (1584-1639) and Susan Riddlesdale (1584-1658); also, the same degree, through Henry Adams (1583-1646) and Edith Squire (1587-1673).

Also through Thomas French and Susan Riddlesdale, ninth cousin three times removed to John M. Ford.

Also through Henry Adams and Edith Squire, third cousin six times removed to President John Adams; fourth cousin five times removed to President John Quincy Adams; and sixth cousin four times removed to historian Henry Adams.

Through shared ancestors William Hunter (1807-1878) and Jane Curling, Theodore Sturgeon was also a second cousin once removed to Elizabeth "Lisba" Curling Hunter (1915-1971), who married Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand (1908-1963), grandson of King Rama V (1853-1910) of Siam. And a third cousin to their daughter Narisa Chakrabongse (1956- ), writer, publisher, and environmental activist. And a third cousin once removed to Narisa Chakranbongse's son Hugo Chakrabongse Levy (1981- ), Thai-American actor, singer, rapper, and songwriter, who performs under the stage names "Hugo" and "Chulachak Chakranbongse."

Finally, through their common ancestors Andrew Hunter Dunn, 5th Anglican Bishop of Quebec, and his wife Alice Hunter, Theodore Sturgeon was a first cousin once removed to Joan Hunter Dunn, the inspiration for John Betjeman's much-anthologized 1941 poem "A Subaltern's Love-song."