John Wilcoxson 9 times great grandfather

Birth 19 MARCH 1633 St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Death 19 MAR 1690 • Stratford, Fairfield, CT

I found this information as to where he was born in a genealogy for the Meigs family, which included some Wilcox and Wilcoxsons. It is listed as North America Family Histories, 1500-2000 (below)

The first record that I have is the list of Wilcoxsons marriages in Connecticut records, where John married March 19, 1663 to Elizabeth Bourne Welles.  Notice that somehow that's also his birthdate, 

in 1633.  

Elizabeth had married first to John Welles, son of the governor of Connecticut, Thomas Welles. Their son was John Welles (1648-1713), according to Colonial Families of the United States of America Vol II, pg 344

Another source gives the history of John Wilcoxson and his father William.  I hadn't seen anything about his earlier marriage to Johannah Titterton, daughter of Daniel.  This genealogy gives her 2 sons names. Then the marriage to Elizabeth on March 9, 1662.  I'm including the first page out of 10 which were available attached to Elizabeth (rather than John...sometimes I get so frustrated that source materials are hiding under the wrong people's information!)  I don't know the author of this source, nor how accurate it is. But he does give some of his source materials.

This says that widow Elizabeth Wells had 6 children before she married John Wilcoxson, and then had another 6 with John.  (My ancestry tree shows 7 while she was married to John Wells.

But as you may notice, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Wilcoxson, Hannah born 2/14/1665 married  Joseph Booth.  Their 7th child was Zachariah Booth. 

9G Grand - John and Elizabeth Bourne Wells Wilcoxson were parents of

8G Grand - Hannah Wilcoxson Booth (1665-1701) mother of

7G Grand -Zachariah Booth (1693-1762) was father of

6 G Grand -Zachariah Booth (1721-1775) who was father of

5 G Grand -Isaac Booth (1755-1841) father of

4 G Grand- Isaac Booth (1795-1836 father of

3G Grand -William Lewis Booth (1818-1804) father of

2G Grand- Richard R. Booth (1846-1879) father of

G Grand -Eugenia A. Booth Miller (1873-1936) mother of

Grand - Mozelle Booth Miller Webb Munhall (1897-1960) mother of

Mother -Mataley Mozelle Webb Rogers (1917-2003) mother of

ME - Barbara Booth Rogers

 

Another child of the Wilcoxsons was 

8G Grand -Elizabeth Wilcoxson Beers (1666-1694) her son

7G Grand -Josiah Beers (1693-1763) was father of

6G Grand -Elizabeth Beers Booth (1721-1780) who married 

6G Grand -Zachariah Booth (1721-1775) see above!

 

 

Joseph Swasey - 7 times great grandparents

My seven times great grandfather - going back on my father's mother's side of the ancestry I find:

Joseph Swasey Jr.

Birth 12 Sept, (or 13 Oct or Nov?) 1653 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Death 1710 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  

The birthdate is listed on Salem birth registry as "13: 8m: 1653"   (He is the Joseph Swase, s of Joseph and Mary in the center of the page below.)  I don't know what CT. and R. mean.

But I do know he lived in Salem in 1692 when the infamous witch trials were taking place.  Salem Village was the site of the witch trials, while Salem Town was not.  Salem Village is now Danvers, MA, and Salem Town is our present day Salem, MA.  There is no distinction in the records I've been looking at...so I don't know upon which side of a disputed border the Swaseys lived.

He married Elizabeth Lambert in 1678 when he was 25, and she was around 21 years old. She had also been born in Salem, Massachusetts Colony.   

Their son:

Samuel Swasey

Birth 14 July 1682 in Salem, Essex,Massachusetts 

Death 1739 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts,

his son:

Joseph Swasey

Birth before 12 August 1714 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, 

Death 1801 in Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts,                                                                                                           

his son:

Jerathmel Bowers Swasey 

Birth 10 May 1752 in Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts 

Death 4 Feb 1826 in Somerset, Bristol, Massachusetts

his son:

Alexander G Swasey

Birth 10 Sept 1784 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts 

Death 28 Oct 1861 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

his son:

Captain Alexander G. Swasey Jr.

Birth April 14, 1812 in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts 

Death March 26, 1866 in Charleston County, South Carolina

his son: 

Alexander John Swasey

Birth May 20, 1853 in South Carolina 

Death OCT 4, 1913 in Galveston, Tex

His daughter:

Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers 

1886 – 1964

Her Son:

George Elmore Rogers Jr

Birth 9 NOV 1914 in Texas 

Death 5 JAN 1985 in Texas

His Daughter:

Barbara Rogers (me) 

John Cannon, veteran of "the Late War"

Grant of 100 acres for military service under John Ellis in the North Carolina line in "the late War" dated 1796

John CANNON, 1744–1806

Birth 18 MAR 1744 • Goochland Co, VA

Death OCT 1806 • maybe Knox County, TN

He is listed on the rolls of Edgecomb County NC militia.

I wrote about his wife, Nancy Ann Whitlow Cannon, on a blog last year (HERE).
One descendant says that he married 3 times.  That might explain a marriage listed to Ann Whitlow and one to Nancy Ann Whitlow, on different dates and places.  But that also might be the name of one woman.

Nancy Whitlow Cannon's grave marker in Steekee Cemetery, Loudon County, Tennessee. Her son, Robert Cannon, was also buried in Steekee Cem, 1854

We do know John Cannon is listed on the Edgecomb County NC census index for 1786.

There are some interesting stories about him, including publications by the Daughters of the American Revolution, which are generally accurate (with some exceptions.)

Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Vol. 1 (The daughter Cynthia Cannon Rogers is mistakenly listed, as she was actually his grand-daughter)

Cannon, John:The History of Sweetwater Valley

The above story mistakenly gives his grand-daughter Cynthia Cannon as his daughter, who married M. C. Rogers.  She was actually the daughter of his son William Henry Cannon and his wife Catharine Henderson Cannon.  Cyntha O. Cannon did marry Micajah Clack Rogers and move to Huntsville Texas, as they are also my ancestors.  Their wedding is one of the first entries in the Rogers Family Bible, (a primary source document.)

"Cyntha Cannon, Daughter of William and Catharine Cannon, (and Micajah Clack Rogers) were married at the residence of William Cannon, in Sevier County, Tennesse, February 4th, 1819."

John's son, William Henry Cannon has his grave marker in Sevier County TN in Trundle Family  Cemetery and his wife Catharine Henderson Cannon was probably buried there as well. I've blogged about them before...Here.

William Henry Cannon's marker

Trundle Family Cemetery, Sevier County, TN

The children I've recently seen on Ancestry of John and Nancy Ann Whitlow Cannon include:

William Henry 1771-1868
Jane Cannon 1771-1860
Elizabeth (Betsey) M. Cannon 1778-1849
John Cannon 1779-1864
Robert C. Cannon 1781-1854
Martha Elizabeth (Patsey) Cannon Nelson 17841-1862

There are many "hints" about these siblings, so I'll spend the next hour checking to see what is newly been added to this tree.

I've also seen some trees over on Ancestry that give another son, Henry Cannon (1780-1850) who died in Cannon's Bluff, McIntosh County, GA.  Since the tree also had Cynthia listed as John and Nancy's daughter rather than grand-daughter, I tend to take this information as just maybe possible...I wish somehow they knew what I know about my grandmother times 3 greats.

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For the Irish in us...

Francis Beattie (born 1715 in Ireland, died 1791 in Washington County, VA)
I wrote about this ancestor, my 5 times great grandfather, who was born in Ireland a few years ago...HERE.

Though both his parents had been also born in Ireland, maybe their families came from Scotland.

I've got many other Scottish names who were in Ireland for a couple of generations, then came to America. The McCords, the MacDougals, the MacIntyres.  So though we did have our roots in Ireland for a bit, they were sent there by the Brittish in trying to have rule over Ireland, rather than being true Irish peoples.  We are at least somewhat Scotts-Irish.

Happy St. Patricks Day to our neighbors in ancestry!

And here's my Irish post from 2014...

Irish roots

George Beatty (or maybe Arthur Beatty) was born in Caven, County Caven, Ireland.  

When checking Wikipedia about Caven, this is what I found.

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Clogh Oughter Castle

Clogh Oughter Castle is situated on an island on Lough Oughter. The Anglo Normans built this round tower in the 12th or 13th century when they tried to conquer the East Breifne area. It was once the stronghold of the O'Reilly Clan, rulers of East Breifne and used as a prison for the rest of the middle ages.

Lough Oughter played a pivotal role in the 1641 Rebellion. The castle was one of the last confederate strongholds to surrender in Ireland to the Cromwellian forces in 1653.

As you can see by the modern map, County Caven is a border county, south of Ulster. It is still predominantly Catholic.

The River Shannon begins in County Caven

 George Beattie was born in Caven (the town) and married there, as well as died there.  (I don't yet know which cemetery he was buried in, but someone on Ancestry has the dates and places...so I'll eventually find out.)  He died May 9, 1741.

Derver Graveyard, County Caven, Ireland

He married in...
Martha Cairnes, who was born in 1669 in Claremore, Tyrone, Ireland.

County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland

There are 2 Claremores in this largest county of Northern Ireland, so I don't know which one she came from.  But the marriage took place in George's home town of Caven, probably in 1683. I only know of the one son who came to America, Francis who was born in 1715.  But Ancestry has lots of interesting possibilities.  It suggests she married Arthur Beatty, and had parents (with 2 different mothers named) and a lot of other children.

Caven is where the Beatty family lived, and Martha Cairnes Beatty died in April of 1743. 

I'm sticking with one simple story at this time.  I'm always willing to admit mistakes, and change my story later.

The last sibling of Bethia and Joseph Booth

Author's Introduction: I'm spending a lot of time looking at the Booth Family of early Connecticut colony. Sometimes I may interrupt this series to look at other ancestors, but I am very interested in getting some more information about my mother's family roots.

Johannah Booth Sherwood - BIRTH 21 MAR 1660 • Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, DEATH 6 DEC 1728 • Stratford, Fairfield, CT

I just discovered this aunt (great times eight) was on my family tree.  She's the youngest daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Hawley Booth.  She's also sister to a couple of my great grandparents (times eight or nine greats).  She does not appear on the Booth memorial marker in the Old Congregational Cemetery of Stratford CT.  But I'm beginning to think that it confuses more than helps my ancestry.

At first I thought she was an addition so someone could claim kinship to this family.  But apparently she didn't have children. So that means that even though she lived long enough to marry, she didn't procreate.

She was 36 when her husband died, but she lived to be 68 herself.  I would imagine she helped with other relative's children, and probably lived with her sibing's family.

Since she is not engraved on the great monument to the Booth family in Stratford CT, I still wonder if she hadn't been a cousin, rather than a sibling of Joseph and Bethia.  For now she's on my tree.

She isn't listed on the memorial listing of Richard and Eizabeth Booth's children. But there were a couple of records about her.

Monument with supposed siblings of Johanna Booth.

Happy birthday Sarah Porter Judson - nine greats grandmother

Author's Introduction: I'm spending a lot of time looking at the Booth Family of early Connecticut colony. Sometimes I may interrupt this series to look at other ancestors, but I am very interested in getting some more information about my mother's family roots.

Sarah Porter Judson; Birth 15 MAR 1624 • Felsted, Essex, England  - Death 16 MAR 1696-1697 • New London County, Conn

Her Mother: Anna Rosanna White Porter was my 10 times great grandmother (1600–1647) Birth 13 JULY 1600 • Shalford, Essex, England.  Death 11 MAY 1647, she was the daughter of Robert & Bridget (Allgar) White.(See Bridget Allgar White here.) Anna was sister of three other New England emigrants: John White, Elizabeth (White) Goodwin. & Mary (White) Loomis.

Anna and John Porter had eleven known children. (The Parish records of Shalford & Messing, Essex, England)

Sarah Porter Judson was the third child in the 11 siblings...and was among those who came with her parents to the New England Colony in 1638. They settled in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut. She married in 1640 or 1644 to Lt. Joseph Judson, The Judson family came first to Massachusetts colony, then settled in Stratford CT.

Lt. Joseph Judson's mother was Grace Ann Porter Judson, sister to John Porter. His wife was his cousin.  Among their 11 children was a set of twins, both of whom lived to adulthood, though their dates of death are identical, while the twins were a boy and girl (not at all identical!)

My great times 8 grandmother was the Judson's youngest child Abigail Judson Curtis (married Josiah Curtis) I spoke about her HERE and Here. 
Their daughter Anna Curtis Booth married Zachariah Booth (blogged about earlier this week here.)

Judson house and Stratford Historical Society museum. This is the house (foundation at least, then rebuilt a few times) where my great grandparents lived. It gives me goosebumps to think of their children's feet running in and out that door.

Joseph Judson Lt. 9g
1619–1690
BIRTH 1619 • Kirby Mooreside, Yorkshire, England
DEATH 09 OCT 1690 • Stratford, Fairfield, CT

Sarah and Joseph Judson's graves are in the Old Burying Ground in Stratford, CT.

Joseph Booth's son Zachariah Booth Sr.

Author's Introduction: I'm spending a lot of time looking at the Booth Family of early Connecticut colony. Sometimes I may interrupt this series to look at other ancestors, but I am very interested in getting some more information about my mother's family roots.

Zachariah Booth Sr. (1693-1762) was my 7 times great grandfather. I offered some information about him HERE.

Zachariah's son -
Zachariah Jr, (6 greats) was the father of
Isaac Booth Sr. (5 greats) who was father of
Isaac Booth, Jr,(4 greats) father of
William Lewis Booth (3 greats) father of
Richard R. Booth (2 Greats) father of
Eugenia Almeta Booth Miller, my great grandmother on my mother's side, (for whom I carry the middle name of Booth.)

My ancestry tree also looks at Zachariah's mother (Joseph Booth's wife) who was Hannah Wilcoxson Booth..HERE.  Her sister married Barnabus Beers, and their grandchild married the child of Zachariah and Anna Curtiss Booth, Zachariah Jr.

No matter how I  chart this, it still is confusing. And yet those people were all alive at the same time, and they kept it straight.  They knew who was an aunt and who was a cousin, and who was grandparent to which children.

I am so happy when I find craftsmen in my tree...Zachariah built a home for his family. Many of my other grandfathers also built homes. Some were blacksmiths. Some were tanners, and one at least was a shoemaker.  I'm sure many a grandmother had a loom and wove cloth out of the spun wool thread she also made.  Later there may have been some grandmothers who wove with cotton threads.  It makes each piece of precious cloth that became their clothes so much more special, thinking of all the hours it took to make things.  And many times if the family had limited resources, each adult only had one or two sets of clothing to wear.

OK, that's my thoughts on this foggy day just a bit over a week before the equinox says spring is supposed to be here (or at least starting!)

Spinning wheel and loom from Swannanoa History Museum in Black Mountain, NC. Photos by Barbara Booth Rogers