Martha Lathrop Moss - 8 gg

 This week I"m focusing on my Barbara Booth Rogers family tree.

Martha Lathrop (Lothrop) Moss

1657–1719

BIRTH 06 JAN 1657 or 22 Dec 1657 • New London, New London County, Connecticut Colony

DEATH SEP 21, 1719 • Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut Colony

I mentioned Martha in an earlier post about her son John Moss III Here.  He was one of the 12 children of Martha Lathrop Moss and John Moss Jr.

Martha was the daughter of Samuel Lathrop and Elizabeth Scudder Lathrop, who had both been born in England. Her grandfather, Rev. John Lathrop had been imprisoned and fled England to start his churches in the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Considering how many church records of New England have been kept, as well as the colonial civic records, we don't know if Martha was born in January or December. But both dates were in the year 1657, so that can be established. (Remember the new year was celebrated March 15 so both December and January were in the year 1657)

She married on Dec 12, 1676 to John Moss, Jr. who had also been born in the early colonies of America. His father was a ship captain, John Moss/Morse Sr.

Martha and John Moss Jr. had 12 children, one of whom died as an infant. They are known as early settlers of Wallingford, along with his father. Apparently their home became a historic site early on. 

Martha Lathrop Moss headstone in Center St. Cemetery, Wallingford, CT

 

One of their sons, John Moss III (age 15) was among the teenagers who accused an early Wallingford settler, Mrs. Winifred King Benham, of witchcraft in Aug. 1697, the trial being held in Hartford, CT. She and her daughter were acquitted, but fled to the New York colony. And John Moss III (1682-1755) grew older and married  in 1703 or 1708 to Elizabeth Hall Moss.  

John Moss IV, (1720-1770) (his blog is Here) the son of Elizabeth Hall Moss and John Moss III, had a daughter, Elizabeth Moss Booth (1756-1841) who married Isaac Booth (1755-1841) and I've blogged about them HERE. And thus my Booth ancestors have those colonial New England roots.

This was my eight times great grandmother.

This post belongs to the Barbara Booth Rogers Family Tree. Photo shows Mataley Mozelle Rogers, and her mother Mozelle Booth Miller, and my sister Mary Beth Rogers.
 

From the Edgars to Symonds to Ayers - 9gg -

An edited repost from 2018 - focusing on the Ada Swasey Rogers family tree. These early colonial immigrants have very sketchy information about their lives, which is reflected below in my sharing different dates and relationships.

8 Feb is anniversary of the date of death of Susanna Symonds Ayers.

Death 8 FEB 1682/3 • Ipswich, Essex Co., MA

Susanna Symonds Ayers 8gg (1617 -1683) daughter of Mark Symonds 9gg (1584-1659) and Susan Edgar Symonds 9gg (1588-1617)

Here's info on her father and mother, Susan Edgar Symonds 9gg , which may be inacurate!(HERE)

Susan Edgar.  She had been born in 1588 in Birch, Essex, England to Joseph Edgar 10gg (1565-1694) and his wife (maybe named Ann).  There is also a record of a Joanna Edgar, whose father was Joseph Edgar, but I'm waiting for more information as to whether or not she was Susan's sister. Apparently Susan married Mark Symonds in either 1609 in England, or 1612 in New England.  Her first child, Susan was born and died in 1610 in France or England.  Their next daughter Mary Symonds was born in Ipswich, Essex County, MA.  And their third one, Susanna was born in 1617 in Hull Yorkshire, England.  OK, there are some probable impossibilities here.

There were ships going back and forth to New England from old England regularly.  But why would Susan Edgar Symonds go back to England in 1617 when her last daughter was born?  Are the records (as few as there are) incorrect, or refer to another person entirely?

And how long did mother Susan live after the birth of my great times 8 grandmother?  We're pretty sure she died in 1619.  Her husband married his second wife, Joanna in 1620.  That meant the little girls were Mary 5 and Susanna 2 at the most when their mother died. 

It should be noted that some Ancestry trees says Susan and Joanna were the same person, married to Mark Symonds.

King Phillips War (colonials retreat after Indians burn Brookfield (Quaboag) MA (with support from French)

My great times 8 grandparents, Susanna and Captain John Ayers had 8 or 9 children before he was killed by Indians in 1675.  In her petition to courts to receive the property which had been abandoned at Quaboag, she said she had 7 sons and 1 daughter.  But other sources said she had 6 children.

Looking on my Ancestry tree, I've got John III, Thomas, Joseph, Susanna, Edward, Samuel, Mark and Nathaniel.  They all retreated from Quabog, and grew up in Ipswich, and were parties to the petitions their mother posed to reclaim her husband's properties.

Oh geese, I just found a record of probate for Captain John Ayers, of Quaboag, listing an inventory of his possessions in 1676. Well, I can't read it, it's just listed at Ancestry.  I'm a bit surprised, and wish I could read it, because his tavern had been burned down by the Indians in 1675 when he was killed, and everyone in the town had fled. Perhaps it's related to how Susanna made her petition.

Print of Brookfield (Quaboag) MA being burned by Indians 1675

This post is part of my father's mother, 
Ada Swasey Rogers Family Tree. 
The photo shows her mother, 
my great grandmother,
Zulieka Granger Swasey as a young woman.

Lucy Pulsifer Granger - 3gg including a letter to her

 This week I'm focusing on Ada Swasey Rogers Family tree.

 Edited repost from 2014 and 2015.

Lucy Pulsifer Granger - Feb 1, 1807 born in Newburyport, Essex County, MA.

I posted some information about that town HERE.

Newbury (and Newburyport) when it was first settled.

I've briefly honored this interesting woman before, HERE. And her more famous brother, Joseph P. Pulsifer HERE, one of the founding fathers of Beaumont, Texas.

1820s woman, by Francesco Heyez, NOT Ms. Pulsifer!

She married George Tyler Granger, also from Newburyport, MA, Feb. 13, 1828.

GRANGER, George T. and Lucy E. Pulsifer, Feb. 13, 1828 * (*intentions also recorded)

 I mentioned Lucy's husband in another post HERE, following his life and probably hers along the trails that settlers to the new country in Texas followed.   The above link goes to the post which best describes the lives they led, since he was fortunately mentioned in various records that still exist.

Dwelling #338 has George (Lumber Dealer) and Lucy age 42, living with 4 children and 2 other women.

In 1850 they were on the census shown  above.

In 1854 they lived still in Newburyport, MA as shown by the City Directory:

Name:	George T Granger
Residence Year:	1854
Street address:	16 Boardman
Residence Place:	Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
Publication Title:	Newburyport, Massachusetts, City Directory, 1854

Their five children were:

Mary Hull Granger Phillips (1839-21861) my great great grandmother

George W. Granger (1830-1901)

Elizabeth Pulsifer Granger Sweet (Lizzie) (1833-1911)

Joseph Granger (1835-1850)

Lucy Ellen Granger Wakeley (1837-1888)
By the 1860 census on June 15 , the George Grangers lived in Galveston, TX

Dwelling number 412, George Granger with Lucy wife and 3 adult children.  He is a lumber mer(chant).

The 1860 census doesn't include Mary Granger Phillips, who had been part of the family back in Newburyport in 1850 at 21 years of age.  She met and married William Phillips of Georgia sometime while in Galveston, in that gap, and then went to her mother-in-law's home in Georgia all the way from Beaumont Texas to have her first child in 1858.  It is possible the reason she went to Georgia for her first child's birth was economics, since William's step-father Samuel Gainer was a judge.  And certainly frontier Texas didn't offer quite the ammenities of genteel Georgia. Why didn't she go to her own mother in Galveston? I believe later I saw in some correspondence that her mother had bad asthma. 

I've shared some of the letters that Mary wrote, both to her mother in law and her own mother, and since Lucy is our focus today, I'll search through them to find one written to Mary's own mother, Lucy Pulsifer Granger.

Here are photos of copies of the letter (transcriptions follow)

So the text is this:

Town Bluff, June 24^th, 1860

My Dear Mother

        It is a week today since I wrote Lizzie’s (her sister Elizabeth) letter and I have had no chance during the week to send it to the office.  I will have two now to send, as I note in my letter to Lizzie I would write you if I did not get down too soon.

        The weather is very warm up here I miss those beautiful sea breezes I used to enjoy last year at this time.  I feel as if it would be quite a long time before I enjoy them again.  I do so long to be over my confinement   I am dreading it more than before and I fear Zulie (her 2 year old daughter) will be so much trouble I can in a measure control her and she fears me a little and so jealous of me I must not caress 

(page 2 of letter)

anybody or anything but her – William to my surprise has the utmost patience with her has not even yet spoken sharp to her. She is smart I can tell you and it is impossible to cheat her, no indeed, she will catch you in a minute.

        I was glad to hear your health was so good this summer  I trust it will continue your cares must be diminished enough now since you are by yourselves to give you quite a quiet time.  I know you must all be happy to hear no slams and insults I think I could never borne it as well as you did.

        I suppose Father & George get along well in the business line as no one spoke to the contrary in letters.  I often think how much it took only for W. & myself while living in Galveston that everlasting rent due it seemed to me always was our greatest chain.  I like Galveston 

(page 3 of letter)

above all places to live in but it does cost a heap to live any way at all respectable there.

        Do you ever hear from Uncle Joseph (Joseph Pulsifer*) I have written him and so has William two or three times but no replies.  I wish I could hear what he is about.  I think he must almost a Hermit by this time that is if he is by himself.  I hear from the Pass** once in a while.  I suppose you heard of the dreadful murder of Bill Shaw by Pike (?) Smith.  I never was so horrified at anything how much trouble they must be in and dear Mrs. Gill has at least got Ella Edwards married to Charley (?) Colmell(?) too I suppose Laura is her next victim for business.

        We think what does Mr. Bradbury do with his house. I never heard whether he rents it or not or if he considers he has left Galveston.

(page 4 of letter)

I hardly can find anything to write which is worthy of interest so if I write a fussy letter you must excuse it.  I wish you would urge up the girls to write me oftener they surely are not very busy now. I know they have had to be in the kitchen lately but if they have been adopting Mrs. Bingit (?) hul (?) two meals a day they have some little time.  I often look for a letter from you two but often am disappointed about you think so.  I excuse you though of course.  

        Love to all I think of each one when I am writing home Father George, Lizzie & Lucy.  Zulie pulls me to the Piano and says Mama play.  I must close of course. William sends (?) love also Mother Gainer (?).  I hope next letter will be written by William with news of another member born in the family.

                Yours with much love,

                        Mary
* Uncle, bachelor brother of Lucy Pulsifer Granger

** Probably Sabine Pass on the Sabine River
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Nothing else is documented about Lucy Pulsifer Granger's life.

She continued to live in Galveston until her death when she was 69.  Two copies of a short obituary were kept by her descendents.  

GRANGER - DIED May 23, 1876

My best guess is:
 At her residence on Madison, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets, of this city, on the 23 last, Mrs. Lucy E. Granger, aged 69 years.
The friends of the family are invited to attend her funeral from the Episcopal church at 10 o'clock this morning.
New York and Newburyport (Mass.) papers please copy.


When I checked Google Maps, Madison between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets in Galveston is just a block back from the beach on a sandy spit...so many hurricanes must have blown through this area and it looks very barren now, just a few modern homes on stilts.

This post is part of my father's mother, 

Ada Swasey Rogers Family Tree. 

The photo shows her mother, 

my great grandmother,

Zulieka Granger Swasey as a young woman.

 

Martha Marston Granger - 6gg

  

Early colonial life for a wive and mother. This week I'm focusing on my Ada Swasey Rogers family tree. Martha Marston Granger was born on 23 JAN 1694 • Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Colony, She died in MAR 1753 in Andover, Essex, Mass. She was my great times six grandmother. Martha came from an early New England family, the Marstons having settled in the Massachusetts Colony when it was first developed. Her great grandfather, William Marston arrived in 1636 from England with several sons. The Marstons lived in Newbury MA, and New Hampshire, but then stayed longest in Andover MA. Martha grew up with 6 siblings, out of 10 births. Her mother, Elizabeth Poor Marston (1662-1700) had parents who had immigrated to America. Her mother died when Martha was 6, and her father died when she was 33. Martha Marston didn't marry Samuel Granger until she was 34 years old. Her mother's sister, Martha Poor Granger (1654-1723) married Capt. John Granger (1654-1725) (post about him Jan 15). Their son Samuel Granger (1701-1739) was her husband, and also her first cousin. It's interesting that the Ancestry family tree just lists them both twice, rather than tangling them up with their parents and siblings and cousins. They had 6 children, with Jacob being the fifth...who became my great x5 grandfather. Two years after their last child was born, her husband, Samuel Granger died on 27 Sept. 1739. Martha was 45 with six children. Martha lived until March 1753 and died age 59. I would imagine that Martha's children (and herself probably) moved in with some sister's family or another. Since we don't have census data this far back, we don't know who lived where. Many families were merged to care for each other. There were no homes for widows and children provided either by the church or the state. This post is part of my father's mother,  Ada Swasey Rogers Family Tree.  The photo shows her mother,  my great grandmother, Zulieka Granger Swasey as a young woman.

Sarah Farnam Granger, 5gg

Old North Parish Burying Ground North Andover Essex County Massachusetts, USA Jacob Granger on the left; Sarah Farnam Granger on the right.

This  week I'm focusing on my Ada Swasey Rogers family tree.

Sarah Farnam Granger was my five times greaat grandmother, born on 15 FEB 1732  in Andover, Essex County, Massachuetts Colony.

She was the daughter of Steven Farnam and Hannah Richardson Farnam. She had 10 brothers and sisters. She married Jacob Granger Jan 4, 1757. They had 8 children. Their son, Joseph Granger, became a blacksmith, and would become my 4 times great grandfather.

She died on 3 MAY 1806 Andover, Essex, Mass and was buried next to Jacob, who had died 4 Feb. 1795. He had served in the Massachusetts Militia as a private during the Revolutionary War.

This post is part of my father's mother,
Ada Swasey Rogers Family Tree.
The photo shows her mother,
my great grandmother,
Zulieka Granger Swasey as a young woman.

My Farnhams connection - Mary Tyler Farnham - 7gg

  (repost from Dec. 9, 2017)

This week my posts will be about the family of my father's mother, Ada Swasey Rogers.

Mary TYLER Farnham 1668–1733

Birth 31 JAN 1668 • Mendon, Worchester County, Massachusetts

Death 20 JAN 1733 • Mendon, Worcester County, Mass

Here's another of the Tyler family of Mendon MA.  Mary was the oldest child of  Hopestill Tyler Sr, and Mary Lovett Tyler. She was my 7th great grandmother on the Swasey Family Tree.  She had between 3 and 9 siblings, according to the various trees over on Ancestry.   Her father Hopestill Tyler, had been the son of Job Tyler who had been apprenticed and his father Job Tyler made a fuss about it (resulting in a court case where he had to post letters of apology to the blacksmith aprentice mentor.)
 

South-western view of the central part of Mendon. (no date, no artist's name)

Her mother and sisters were accused of witchcraft in Salem, while they lived in Andover MA.  This was in 1692-3, and Mary got married in 1693 to John Farnham II (1672-1749) in Andover.  Her parents' family moved to Preston City, CT.  Apparently Mary and John Farnham remained in MA.

John Farnham's house "Coronet" was the site of the first Uxbridge town meeting in 1727.  It is now the site for the Uxbridge MA Historical Society.

A story has been added to Ancestry, with little source data given, but sounds as if there was documentation to most of the facts: Donna Rich was the author of the following:

John and Mary Farnham

The following is my research to date.  The Tyler family, John Farnum’s in-laws, moved often but seemed to be based in Andover. Perhaps due to the witchcraft hysteria of 1692-3 in which the Tylers were involved, Hopestill Tyler, John’s father-in-law, moved permanently away from Andover. His father and brother Moses had already moved to Mendon and it is possible that Hopestill was there as well before settling in Preston, CT, by 1697. This may explain why John and Mary Farnum were not obviously settled in this period. Their marriage is recorded at Andover. Their first child was born in Boston but recorded in the Mendon vital records. Another child was recorded at Andover in 1697. Although it is likely that the family lived in Mendon, however impermanently, before 1701, John purchased from his brother-in-law Moses Tyler the house lot of his father-in-law Job Tyler in Mendon in July 1701 for 61 lbs. This appears to establish the Farnums in Mendon.

John was elected a constable for Mendon on 1 March 1703. A tax list for the town reported at a town meeting in January of 1704 lists John with the rate of 3 shillings, 8 pence. He appears in the 7th division of town lands in 1707. He bought Thomas Jewell’s house lot in 1709 and 20 more acres in 1710. 

Deacon William Warfield had been the schoolmaster for Mendon for many years. He was replaced in 1712 by Robert Husse who was given a 6 month contract and 5 lbs. for his service and "Diet." He was to "begin [presumably boarding] at John Farnum’s and there continue untill the 28th of January."  

In December of 1718 John was granted his share in Shockolog (cedar) Swamp. In the same year he bought 40 acres of land belonging to the Tyler family. John was elected a selectman for the town along with fellow-ancestor Thomas Sanford on 21 March 1721. The town of Uxbridge, MA, was formed from Mendon in 1727. The first town meeting was held at "Coronet" John Farnum’s house on 27 July of that year. His was likely one of the few residences in that part of Mendon. The house still stands as a museum and home of the Uxbridge Historical Society and is ascribed a circa date of 1715.  

In 1728 John was on a committee representing Uxbridge, MA, that met with one from Mendon to settle a controversy about the border line between the towns. In the same year he offered to the town land on which to make a pond, now Mumford Pond.

\John eventually became a Quaker. Given that his youngest child Moses married the daughter of a prominent Congregationalist of Mendon in 1726, it was likely after that, and may have been by the time a Friends meeting house was built in Mendon in 1729, indicating a well-established congregation in the area.

John is buried in the Uxbridge Friends cemetery. John’s second wife Abigail had 6 under-age children when she married him and she is buried next to him. Their gravestones were moved to their present sites when the Center School and other buildings replaced the Center Cemetery on South Main St. 

NOTE One: Mary died in 1733. I just found John's will and it gives his bed to wife Abigail Farnham.

SECOND NOTE: Mary and John Farnham's granddaughter Sarah Farnham married Jacob Granger (also on the Swasey Family tree.)  Jacob Granger's father Samuel Granger's great grandmother was Mary Farnham Poor, wife of Daniel Poor.  

They were also his great grandparents on his father's mothers tree as well...so his grandmothers were sisters, Elizabeth Poor Marston and Martha Poor Granger, children of Mary Farnham Poor and Daniel Poor, who were both immigrants to Andover, MA.  Thus he and his wife were cousins...

This post is part of my father's mother, 

Ada Swasey Rogers Family Tree. 

The photo shows her mother, 

my great grandmother,

Zulieka Granger Swasey as a young woman.

Hannah Brown Pulsifer - 6gg

This week I'm focusing on the Ada Swasey Rogers Family Tree

Mrs. Hannah Pulsifer was my great times 6 grandmother.

Birth 16 JAN 1718 • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Colony

Death BEF 1756 • Ipswich, Essex,Massachusetts Colony

wife of David Pulsifer III, (1716-1783) the grandson of Benedictus Pulsifer, the immigrant. I blogged about David Pulsifer III HERE.

Hannah herself was the daughter of Benjamin Brown and Elizabeth Fosse Brown. Benjamin was known as a miller and yoeman, or carpenter. He built a mill in Ipswich, as well as probably a home, which was incorporated into a larger building that was built after he died. That larger house still stands, called the Caleb Warner House.

The Caleb Warner House, Ipswich, MA

I've blogged about another David Pulsifer before HERE.  The question had to do with a David Pulsifer having fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, at the start of the American Revolution. It was a cousin, not in my direct line. 

Hannah grew up in a family with seven children, but her father died when she was just 15. She wasn't the oldest child though, but the second oldest. She didn't marry David until she was 21, or perhaps later. Her older sister (Mary) Elizabeth married Caleb Warner, who bought the Brown house and began the renovations leading to the huge house known by his name.

Hannah (1718-1756) and David Pulsifer (1716-1783) had three children that are listed in Ancestry. David IV (1740-1783), Ebenezer, (1744 or 1750-1780 or 1795) and Hannah Pulsifer Harris (1745-1836).  Since Ebenezer would become my 5 times great grandfather, I find it interesting that he has two possible dates of birth and death.

But it is also understandable, since so many of the Pulsifers in the Massachusetts Colony, or New Hampshire even, had the same names. Gx6 Grandfather David Pulsifer III (1716-1783) was the son of Jonathan Pulsifer (1687-1763) and he had many siblings (children of the immigrant Benedictus Pulsifer.)

I have blogged about Ebenezer Pulsifer HERE. If he died in 1780, it would have been on an English prison ship in New York harbor during the American Revolution. But there is another record saying he died in 1795.

Again, there are many people with the same name. I hope I live long enough to figure out his actual dates. But if I don't, it probably didn't make any difference to most of the people building their family trees.

This post is part of my father's mother, 

Ada Swasey Rogers Family Tree. 

The photo shows her mother, my

great grandmother,

Zulieka Granger Swasey as a young woman.