Cooley-Miller-Sears-Barnhouse Family Tree « Cooley-Miller-Sears-Barnhouse

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540	From History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, the name Susannah Fuchs was Americanized to Susan Fox. From Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850 her name is Susannah Fox. On her gravestone her given name is spelled "Susannah". Therefore, to be consistent I will retain the Germanic spelling of both given and surname. Gravestone Epitaph: My dearest friends, old, young & gay / Pause and my mouldering tomb survey / Prepare to die for recollect / That death, for age, hath no respect.	Fuchs, Susannah (I281)
541	Henry Chapin, son of Deacon Samuel and Cicely Penny, was a deputy to the General Court in 1689, and served for eleven years as selectman. He and his brother, Japhet Chapin (who was m. Abileneh Coole/Coley* dau of Samuel Coole/Coley* of Massachusetts Bay Colony (MBC), later Milford, Connecticut Colony), were the first settlers in Chicopee which was the "old fifth parish" of Springfield. Henry Chapin's house was near the west end of what is now (1942) Exchange street in Chicopee Center. He was living there by 1675. *"Coole" was the spelling of Samuel Coley while he resided in MBC and "Coley" when he founded and resided in Milford Connecticut Colony.	Chapin, Henry (I1662)
542	"James Ewings was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1749. Alexander Ewings, his father, was a Scotsman by birth, and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh. [Alexander] entered the British army soon after his graduation and received an adjutant's commission (an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer) in a regiment located at Cork, Ireland. There he married a Miss Sullivan and remained at that post with his regiment some years, and there a number of his children were born, including James and Alexander". "James was six years of age at the time he was embarked with his father s family on board a vessel bound for America. They landed in Boston, and after the father obtained his discharge from the army, they resided some years in Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Mass. James married Naomi, daughter of Benjamin Cooley4 of that town, in 1775. Their eldest son, Benjamin, was born in May, 1776. The following year Mr. Ewings came to Pittsford and bought of Darius Crippen fifty acres of land lying south of said Crippen's home farm". We find in the "Pay Roll of Capt. [Benjamin 5] Cooley's company in Col. Warren's Regiment of militia in the service of this, and the United States commencing Nov. 8, 1778, and ending the 13th, both days included...James Ewings, 6 [days], 2-10 [wages per month], 0-10 [total]". Early in October 1780, during the Revolutionary War, a British battalion of about 1000 men under the command of Maj. Carlton, came north beside Lake George, took Fort Ann, with its garrison of about fifty men, and then proceeded to Fort George which was also compelled to surrender. On their way to Fort George they had laid waste the country; and they now kept up indications of making further advances. This invasion created great alarm, and the militia of Vermont were called out and ordered to rendezvous at Castleton, under the command of Ethan Allen. Capt. Cooley of Pittsford received this order on the 11th, and the next day he was at Castleton with his men. The following is a copy of the "Pay Roll of that part of Capt. Benjamin Cooley's Company in Col. Ebenezer Allen's Regiment of Militia, called out on the alarm of the 12th of October 1780, and commencing the 12th, and ending the 18th inclusive, the money being due from the State of Vermont: Capt. Benjamin Cooley, Oct. 12. Oct. 18. 7 [days], 8-0-0 [wages per month], 1-17-4 [amount of wages] 0-9-4 [amount of subsistence] 2-6-8 [Total]; Lieut. James Ewings, 7[days] 5-8-0 [days], 1-5-1 [wages per month] 0-4-8 [amount of subsistence], 1-9-9 [Total]. There is an interesting story in History of Pittsford on page 61 about James' father, Adjutant Alexander Ewings, and his deployment to New England under the command of British General Braddock. A cenotaph in Fairview Cemetery, Northumberland Co, Ontario, Canada reads as follows: In memory of James & Naomi Ewing. James Ewing Esq Died Sept 4th 1828 Aged 84 years Naomi Ewing Died May 4th 1841 Aged 86 years	Ewings, James (I2091)
543	According to research completed in 2000 by Eleanor L. Cooley Rue, circumstantial evidence links the Benjamin Cooley christened in Tring, Hertfordshire, England (chr 1615) to the Benjamin Cooley of Springfield through the posited marriage of Richard Sikes and Phebe Cooley (chr 1609), Benjamin's sister. The only evidence found by Cooley-Rue was in Benjamin Cooley's will which used the phrase "cousen Sikes". She concluded that "cousen" meant brother-in-law which it did not. Cousen was primarily used to refer to neices and nephews. A major problem with Cooley-Rue's logic is that Richard and Phebe Sikes's church activities, and his becoming a freeman are well documented* while there is no record of Benjamin and Sarah Cooley's church activities prior to 1643 (to become an accepted member of Massachusetts Bay Colony church membership was mandatory). Assuming unaccompanied women seldom made the voyage from England to New England and further assuming Phebe Cooley and Benjamin Cooley traveled together, it appears to me that information about Benjamin and Sarah must be uncovered before a link can be made between Phebe Sykes and Benjamin Cooley. *Richard Sykes joins Dorchester church 4 Nov 1639; he becomes a freeman 13 May 1640 in Cambridge; Richard marries Phebe Sykes 13 May 1640 also the date she joined the Dorchester church. Their first child Rebecca born 6 Dec 1640 in Roxbury (Pynchon's hometown).	Cooley, Benjamin1 (I515)
544	I have settled on "Rosina" as her given name because baptismal records of the New Jerusalem Church, York County, Pennsylvania show this spelling in 1785 when their first child, George was born. Note that "Rosannah" is used on her gravestone. The language of origin of 'Rosina' is Germanic and Latin but Rosannah is not a variant form of the name. Rosina has not been used as a girl's given name since 1934 in the U.S. Gravestone Epitaph: "My friends, I bid you all adieu / I leave you in God's care / And since on earth we meet no more / Soon I'll meet you there"	Roller, Rosina (I577)
545	In the late 1630s Mercy's husband had become so embroiled in debt problems he disappeared from Windsor never to be heard from again. In doing so, his family bore the brunt of the towne's ill will. Mercy was shunned by Windsor's society with "much rancor and resentment toward her because of her husband's treachery". By 1649 she had fled to Springfield but all was not well even there. In a "Pynchon Court Record" for 29-30 May 1649 Mary Parsons, herself later convicted of witchcraft by the General Court and sentenced to hang, had reported that Mercy "was suspected to be a witch when she lived in Windsor and it was publikely knowen that the devill followed her house in Windsor". Mercy fought back by bringing a court action against Mary Parsons for making a false accusation. Mercy was in luck, because Mary Parsons's reputation was even worse than hers. Mary was sentenced to be whipped and to pay	[?], Mercy (Wife of Thomas Marshfield) (I2022)
546	Jeremiah Diggins was living in Hartford, Conn as early as Apr. 18, 1677 on which date he brought action vs. Thomas Cadwell for detaining land appointed to his wife Mary by executors under the will of Edward Stebbins. On Mar 11, 1678-9 he sold one-third part of seven acres of land given by Dea. Edward Stebbins and his wife Frances to the three children of Thomas Cadwell. This was apparently an exchange for land at Podunk in Windsor where he was living as early as April 1681. In the will of Robert Morris of Hartford dated Nov 9, 1684, bequests are made to Jeremy Diggins and his three children, Mary, Jeremy (Dinkins) Jr, and Elizabeth. His name appears frequently in Windsor deeds until 1730 when he conveyed land "unto my obedient grandson Jeremiah Diggons the third of Windsor.	Diggins, Jeremiah (I1366)
547	Oscar Weed, who lives in the old Sears homestead at Mill Plains Connecticut has a deed dated July 10, 1739, from Robert Hebard, Jr and Ruth, his wife, of the town and county of Windham Ct to James Sears, late of Yarmouth, county Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, of a tract of land in Windham, near the Shautucket river, containing 52 acres, the consideration being	Sears, James (I478)
548	The Phelps family came originally from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England according to Tewkesbury Abbey church records. Tewkesbury is a town in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook. It gives its name to the Borough of Tewkesbury, of which the town is the second largest settlement. Tewkesbury is named after Theocalious, a hermit who founded Threwshon, adapted to Tewkesbury over the years, in the 7th century. Evidence of a church predating the abbey suggests that a considerable settlement rose up on the site previous to the Norman Conquest and monastic buildings from the years immediately following the conquest can still be seen surrounding Tewkesbury Abbey, which was begun in 1090 and consecrated on 23 October 1121. Tewkesbury was the site of the Battle of Tewkesbury on 4 May 1471. At the "Bloody Meadow," south of the town, Edward IV's Yorkist forces defeated the House of Lancaster in a historic battle of the Wars of the Roses with a bloody aftermath. Tewkesbury was incorporated during the reign of Elizabeth I. Like many towns in the west of England, Tewkesbury played an important part in the development of religious dissent. English Dissenters in Tewkesbury contributed to the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, and Samuel Jones ran an important academy for dissenters, whose students included Samuel Chandler, future archbishop Thomas Secker and Joseph Butler, in the early 18th century.	Phelps, James (I1581)
549	Thomas Bliss, Senior and Junior, had house-lots and divisions of land in Hartford Plantation as early as 1640. The senior died in Hartford, leaving nine children, and his widow, Margaret, apparently a woman of resolute, independent character, removed with the younger part of the family to Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thomas Bliss, Junior, is afterwards found at Saybrook, Connecticut Colony where his marriage and the births of six children are recorded. The list is repeated with some variation of date and the addition of two more children, at Norwich, Connecticut Colony. The wife's family name is not given in either place. "Thomas and Elizabeth Bliss were married the latter end of October, 1644." The allotments of Thomas Bliss in Saybrook were eastward of the river in what is now Lyme, Conn. His house-lot of thirty acres lay between John Ompsted (Olmstead) on the north, and John Lay south. He sold it 23 Jul 1662 to John Comstock. His house-lot in Norwich was also near to that of John Olmstead extending originally at the north-west to the pent highway. That part where the house stands has never been alienated. Seven generations have dwelt on the same spot and the house is supposed not to have been entirely rebuilt since it was erected by the first proprietor. Thomas Bliss died 15 Apr 1688. His will, executed two days before his death, was proved at New London, before Edward Palmes, June 13, and allowed by Sir Edmund Andross at Boston ; this being the period when that delegated despot arrogated to himself supreme authority over the courts of New England. The will recognizes wife Elizabeth, son Samuel, and his daughters. His oldest son, Thomas, had died without issue 29 Jan 1681. Ehzabeth, the relict, died 28 Feb 1699/1700.	Blisse, Thomas (I2129)
550	"For some time after marrying [in 1841], Mr. Barnhouse remained in Springfield Township, but then moved to Harrison County and later to Carroll County all in Ohio. Then moving back to Jefferson County, he settled in Springfield Township, within a half mile of where he was born, and he died there 7 Apr 1869. His wife died 19 April 1866, and both were interred at East Springfield, Ohio. They were worthy members of the German Reformed Church, good, honest, virtuous people. Mr. Barnhouse was a member of the Republican Party and as a citizen was held in such high esteem in Springfield Township that he was frequently elected to office and served both as assessor and as supervisor. From 1854 until the date of his death he was a Free Mason in good standing. His estate comprised 150 acres of land situated in Jefferson County.	Barnhouse, Cristopher Columbus "C.C." (I566)

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