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| 1551 | Twin with Moses 8 children at Wrentham | Clark, Aaron (I291)
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| 1552 | Twin with Patience | Clark, Experience (I328)
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| 1553 | typhoid fever | Patchett, Randolph Mason (I1799)
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| 1554 | U.S. Edition Wall Street Journal August 14, 2018 Today's Paper Books Bookshelf ‘The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold’ and ‘Turncoat’ Review: His Own Worst Enemy Until he switched sides, Benedict Arnold was an American hero, though a prickly and prideful one. By William Anthony Hay May 24, 2018 3:50 p.m. ET Dante’s ‘Inferno’ reserves hell’s lowest circle for traitors, placing Judas Iscariot and other such fiends in a frozen lake. At its very center stands Satan himself, guilty of treachery against God. Americans have long seen Benedict Arnold in roughly the same terms—for his betrayal of George Washington and of his fellow colonists fighting for independence. “Since the fall of Lucifer,” Gen. Nathanael Greene wrote soon after the Revolutionary War, “nothing has equaled the fall of Arnold.” Joyce Lee Malcolm describes “the most infamous man in American history” as a two-dimensional caricature in the minds of most Americans. His very name, Stephen Brumwell says, “remains synonymous with ‘turncoat’ and ‘traitor.’ ” Both authors argue, in different ways, that Arnold deserves a fuller consideration, though not necessarily an exculpatory one. Casting him merely as a latter-day Judas, they show, leaves aside important matters that shed light on both the man and the American Revolution. Arnold’s treachery is usually put down to his stubborn pride and rivalries with fellow officers. Ms. Malcolm’s “The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold” does show that Arnold’s hunger for recognition and refusal to compromise embroiled him in conflicts that weakened his commitment to independence. Arnold was especially resentful, she notes, of the ill treatment he felt he had received from civilian politicians, who questioned his actions off the battlefield and his handling of his command’s financial accounts. Americans burn Benedict Arnold in effigy during the Revolutionary War. Americans burn Benedict Arnold in effigy during the Revolutionary War. Illustration: North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold By Joyce Lee Malcolm Pegasus, 410 pages, $27.95 Turncoat By Stephen Brumwell Yale, 372 pages, $30 Such second-guessing, though a personal insult to Arnold, expressed a broader political and social division, Ms. Malcolm argues. She draws on colonial history and the outlook of the 18th-century Atlantic world to describe a profound civilian distrust of professional soldiers and standing armies, a distrust that arose in England during Oliver Cromwell’s military dictatorship. Unlike a militiaman or an officer drawn from the gentry, who shared the ethos of the larger society, professionals were a breed apart whose foremost loyalty to the military caste made them a threat to liberty. Ms. Malcolm, a historian at George Mason University’s law school, describes how tensions between George Washington and the Continental Congress, whose members had adopted this wary civilian view of the military, fueled ever greater discontent within the Continental Army. With low pay and poor supplies compounding the problem, many officers resigned. Ms. Malcolm suggests that Arnold—helped along by his prickly personality and the trauma of a crippling wound—reacted by switching sides. Mr. Brumwell, a military historian and a biographer of George Washington, centers “Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty” on the 1780 conspiracy—in which Arnold played a key role—to give West Point to the British and possibly enable George Washington’s capture. Deftly weaving that story into the larger military history of the American Revolution, Mr. Brumwell vividly sketches characters and recounts pivotal episodes. He argues that Arnold thought of himself as someone working to mend relations between Britain and America, welcoming terms that removed the grounds of the original quarrel. In short, he was moved by something more rational than pique and less petty than resentment. Both authors trace Arnold’s origins and rise, finding there sources of his aspiration and defensiveness. His father, descended from a distinguished Rhode Island family, had moved to Norwich, Conn., where he sought his fortune as a cooper turned merchant. His decision to marry a socially prominent widow aided his commercial prospects, but his business faltered, and his alcoholism doomed it. Benedict, having been sent off to study in preparation for Yale, was called home to join his sister in supporting the family. His bright future had been seemingly plucked away, and he was wounded with embarrassment at the sight of his father making a spectacle of himself. Soon apprenticed as an apothecary, Arnold eventually set up his own general-goods shop in New Haven and, with an eye to the main chance, began making merchant voyages to Canada and the West Indies. Marriage and a place in local society followed. But his business ventures were not reliably prosperous, and he was often his own worst enemy. After negotiating a bankruptcy settlement with his creditors, he pressed aggressively to collect the debts owed to him. When a sailor threatened to report him as a smuggler, Arnold led a gang that inflicted a lashing in reprisal. Honor—that is, personal standing and reputation—prompted duels and lawsuits. Ms. Malcolm aptly describes him as feisty. Arnold’s election as a militia captain in 1775 gave his ambition a new focus. When news arrived of fighting at Lexington, he faced down the local militia’s reluctant commander in order to arm his troops and march them to Massachusetts. Once there, he volunteered to raise an expedition to seize Fort Ticonderoga, in upper New York state, with its British cannon and supplies. Ethan Allen provided the men who captured the fort—and took the credit—but Arnold did his part and secured Lake Champlain. Late in 1775, George Washington sought to aid the invasion of Canada—set to go through New York state—by sending another force through northern Maine to surprise Quebec, and he gave Arnold the command. In the event, Arnold’s troops faced near starvation in a hastily improvised march through the wilderness. But Arnold reached Quebec with enough men to besiege the city. Gen. Philip Schuyler, who commanded the Americans’ northern theater, thought some future historian would make Arnold’s march “the subject of admiration.” Washington himself, praising Arnold’s “enterprising and persevering spirit,” told him that “it is not in the power of any man to command success, but you have done more—you have deserved it.” When the Continental Army withdrew from Canada in June 1776, Arnold put together a fleet on Lake Champlain. Although a larger British force wiped it out in a hard-fought battle, the delay to the British southward advance gave the Americans a strategic victory. Mr. Brumwell rightly says that the significance of this effort is hard to exaggerate. Had the British reached the Hudson River while their other army had taken New York, the war might have been over before Washington struck back across the Delaware. Arnold played a crucial role again the next year, in 1777, when his leadership helped force Gen. John Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga, N.Y. Just ahead of the Saratoga fighting, at Bemis Heights, Arnold was shot in the leg while leading a charge. Asked where he was hit, he gallantly replied: “I wish it had been my heart.” Had he indeed died in that battle, Mr. Brumwell says, he would be to this day a hero of the Revolution. As it was, he faced a long and difficult recovery that left him lame and more easily provoked than usual. Quarrels with other officers, including Horatio Gates, his superior—who took credit for Saratoga—heightened his frustrations. Mr. Brumwell notes that Arnold had the misfortune of drawing “enemies who tore at him with the tenacity of mastiffs baiting a bull.” As commander in Philadelphia after the British withdrawal in 1778, he clashed with local politicians and radicals who, fired with egalitarian zeal, welcomed the chance to humble a man they thought excessively proud. Given his temperament, he was the worst possible officer to navigate contending factions. His decision, after his first wife died, to marry a woman whose family had loyalist ties made matters worse. Charges of his using military wagons for his own profit brought a court-martial in 1779 that drew a formal reprimand from George Washington. By then, however, Arnold had opened communications with the British. A British peace commission in 1778 had conceded all American demands short of independence, effectively revoking the policies that had sparked the revolution. This peace effort, Arnold believed, showed that America’s true interests lay in reconciliation with Britain on terms of near autonomy. But his countrymen spurned that course in favor of an alliance with France, and Arnold chose to turn his coat. Newly appointed commander of West Point, Arnold calculated that turning it over to the British, perhaps with George Washington himself, would end the Revolutionary War in a stroke by giving Britain control over the Hudson River. The conspiracy failed when Arnold’s British contact, Maj. John André, was seized by the colonists, with incriminating papers, on his way back to British lines. Arnold fled to a British warship, and though the Americans made an offer to trade André for him, the British refused. André was hanged, and Arnold went on to lead British troops in Virginia. He survived the war and eventually settled in London, where he angled for a post in India but was never granted one. Though the British respected Arnold, they never trusted him. Mr. Brumwell quotes the keen observation—from a director of the East India Co. pondering Arnold’s audacious turncoat gamble—that “a fortunate plot holds you up as the savior of nations, a premature discovery brings you to the scaffold, or brands your name with dark and doubtful suspicions.” Arnold’s remarkable story, admirably recounted by Ms. Malcolm and Mr. Brumwell, has the effect of making George Washington shine all the brighter by comparison. At Newburgh, N.Y., in 1783, Washington faced down a mutinous plot by disgruntled officers who had been denied pay and pensions. They shared many of Arnold’s resentments, but Washington won them over by persuasion rather than force and helped put the United States on a path of government under law rather than Cromwellian militarism. Such efforts helped to make him the wonder of his age, while his quondam protégé Arnold became a target of contempt. ************************************************************** | Arnold, General Benedict Jr. (I4381)
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| 1555 | under 14 yrs. in 1817 requests Jacob Bentz of Lancaster Co. be appointed her guardian - Granted Jacob Bentz son-in-law of 64(h) - Catherina Barbara Kapp (husband Martin Frey) daughter of Michael + Maria Margaretha Frey | Kapp, Elizabeth (I58)
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| 1556 | Union Army VETERAN of Civil War, 54th IN Inf, Co C Mustered in Oct 30, 1862 as a WAGONER Died Feb 24, 1863 at Vicksburg Louisiana | Reeve, Benjamin C. (I4449)
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| 1557 | United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. | Source (S12)
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| 1558 | United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. | Source (S10)
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| 1559 | United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. | Source (S3)
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| 1560 | United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm. | Source (S16)
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| 1561 | United States. Congress. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 2005. | Source (S162)
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| 1562 | Unmarried son of Amos E and Margaret Catharine Withington Kapp Horace was educated at East Hampton, Massachusetts, and also took a course at the Polytechnic college in Philadelphia. He managed the extensive family farm after the death of his parents. His sisters Clara and Helen lived with him for at least twenty years. During the course of this time his sisters Mary and Bertha also lived with with him for a time after they became widows. His sisters Clara and Helen were the beneficiaries and executors of his estate. | Kapp, Horace Eugene (I4721)
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| 1563 | Upper Springfield Friends Burying Ground | Newbold, Mary Elizabeth (I2818)
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| 1564 | Ursula was born 10 Jun 1781. She married Samuel Treadway. She died 4 Oct 1845 in Denison Twp, Lawrence Co., Ill. | Clark, Ursula (I3746)
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| 1565 | US Congressman. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1869, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He practiced law off and on for 5 years, and from 1871 to 1875 he was a member of the United States Geological Survey that explored Yellowstone Park. He was a member of the the 1st Philadelphia City Troop, Pennsylvania National Guard, and in December 1881 he became the Judge Advocate of the 1st Brigade, Pennsylvania National Guard. He was later named a Colonel on the Staff of Governor James Beaver. From 1883 to 1887 he served as a Senator in the Pennsylvania State Senate, where he championed the Bullitt Bill, which produced the Philadelphia City Charter in 1885. In 1884 he had graduated from the Wharton School of Economy and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, a move he took to better prepare himself for public political life. In April 1889 he was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as United States Minister to Brazil, a post he served in until July 1890, when he resigned due to the ill effects the wet climate had on his health. In December 1893 he was elected as a Republican to represent Pennsylvania's 2nd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Charles O'Neill. He would spend the next twelve and a half years representing a constituency that included residents of Rittenhouse Square and the Mayfair section of Philadelphia. His nadir in Congress would come in the hours preceding the start of the Spanish-American War. Previously named to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, he often acted as chairman in the stead of Illinois Congressman Robert R. Hitt, who was frequently absent due to bouts of ill health. When the battleship "USS Maine" blew up in Havana Harbor, Cuba in February 1898, and the United States and Spain were escalating tensions towards war, resolutions debated and confirmed in Congress that declared the recognition of Cuban independence and the authorization of use of American troops to free Cuba were drawn up and introduced by Congressman Adams, who then pushed it through the Foreign Relations committee in a single hour. Financial troubles dogged him in the later stages of his life, and made him increasingly despondent in the spring of 1906. On June 2, 1906 he committed suicide in his apartment in Washington, DC. John Edgar Reyburn, who had served three previous terms in Congress, and would become Mayor of Philadelphia the next year, was elected to serve out Robert Adams' Congressional term. | Adams, Robert Jr. (I4269)
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| 1566 | Valvular Disease of the Heart | Salmon, George R (I3515)
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| 1567 | Various school yearbooks from across the United States. | Source (S46)
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| 1568 | Venn, J. A., comp.. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954. | Source (S159)
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| 1569 | Vern was adopted. His birth parents were William Z Eddy and Lucy J Bolles. RE: Richard H Clark, Bradford County PA (From Find A Grave) Sorry that I took so long to answer your message. I have not been on the site for awhile. Stanley, Mavis and Fay would be Vern's adopted siblings Vera was his only blood sibling and she was adopted by another family. Vern and Vera were twins. Sorry to say I don't have any information about the 3 adopted siblings. Vern and Vera were born Eddys children of William Z Eddy and Lucy J Bolles. My husband William E Clark was the grandson of Vern. MSG #2: yes the clarks were neighbors of Verns parents and they stepped in to help when Verns parents were killed. Vera was taken by another neighbor family so her name was not Clark. People helped their neighbors at that time with whatever they could do. MSG #3 Vern Clark was not a blood descendant of Richard H. Clark he was born an Eddy. His father William Z. Eddy was killed by a falling tree on Jan 13, 1894. His mother Lucy J. Bolles died Jun 1, 1894 leaving Vern and Vera orphans. | Clark, Vern Eddy (I4686)
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| 1570 | Veteran's Cemetery: Section 13 Site 389a | Toner, Theresa (I2283)
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| 1571 | Vine Lake Cemetery at Medfield | Morse, Dorcas (I31)
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| 1572 | Vine Lake Cemetery at Medfield; Age: 87 | Clarke, Joseph The Immigrant (I34)
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| 1573 | Vine Lake Cemetery,unmarked. | Fenn, Alice (I35)
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| 1574 | Virginia, Births, 1864–2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia. | Source (S124)
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| 1575 | Virginia, Marriages, 1936-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia. | Source (S102)
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| 1576 | Wallabout (New Amsterdam),Age: 84/ | Trico, Catalina Jeronomus (I3853)
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| 1577 | Warren was the son of Orson and Caroline Nutting Potter. He was a Civil War veteran, in the 142nd NY Co F. Severly wounded at the battle of Chapin's Farm in Virginia on September 29, 1864 and was discharged on May 8, 1865 in Albany , NY. He and is wife, Sarah, had 4 children, Marcelia, Carrie, Hattie and Frankie. | Potter, Warren (I2492)
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| 1578 | Was a Tailor | Clarke, Ephraim (I159)
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| 1579 | Was Accidentally Killed By The Bursting Of A Gun | Smith, William (I131)
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| 1580 | Wequetequoc Cove Cemetery/ | Holley, Hopestill (I3056)
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| 1581 | Westmoreland's Independent Companies (Wyoming Independent Companies) Authorized 23 August 1776 in the Continental Army as the 1st and 2d Independent Westmoreland Companies. Organized 26 August-21 September 1776 in Westmoreland County, Connecticut, Captains Robert Durkee and Samuel Ransom commanding, and assigned to the Middle Department. Relieved 12 December 1776 from the Middle Department and assigned to the Main Army. Relieved 15 June 1778 from the Main Army and assigned to the Western Department. Consolidated 23 June 1778 and consolidated unit redesignated as the WyomingIndependent Company, Captain Simon Spaulding commanding. . Disbanded 1 January 1781 at Fort Wyoming, Connecticut. Engagements Northern New Jersey Defense of Philadelphia Philadelphia-Monmouth Iroquois 1778 Iroquois 1779 ---------------------------------------------- From https://revolutionarywar.us/continental-army/connecticut/ ------------------------------------- | Clark, Captain Benjamin (I348)
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| 1582 | Where he was born according to 1850 Census. Record of the Hart Family, p. 92, says parents were living in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey in 1786; perhaps they moved before his November birth. Some trees say Bucks County. | Hart, Thomas (I909)
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| 1583 | while on trip | Bush, Obadiah Newcomb (I2682)
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| 1584 | White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. | Source (S29)
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| 1585 | White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. | Source (S64)
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| 1586 | Widow of Henry T. Hoyt Daughter of the late Hudson S. Burr ~~~~~ Name: Ellen C Hoyt Birth Date: abt 1833 Death Date: 14 Apr 1888 Death Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Age at Death: 55 years 7 months Gender: Female FHL Film Number: 2079096 | Burr, Ellen Chatham (I998)
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| 1587 | Wife of Charles Ross Smith, Jr. (therefore dau in law to Colonel C Ross Smith). He died 1915. She remarried F Corlies Morgan, (b 16 May 1875 d. 13 Jun 1939)age 42 treasurer of Penn 4 June 1917 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA her age at second marriage - age 40 | Smith, Lilian Bartow (I2770)
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| 1588 | Wife of Edward Kane Moffly Obituary MOFFLY SALLY STRONG MOFFLY, aged 79, died on February 19, 2003 at Kendal at Longwood, Kennett Square; she was the daughter of the late George V. Strong and Ethel Newbold Strong; she is survived by her 6 well-loved children: Sara Moffly Kiley of Marietta, GA, Edward Moffly of Brazil, George Moffly of New York, NY, David Moffly of Charleston, SC, John Moffly of San Francisco, CA, and Elizabeth Moffly Ellis of Ithaca, NY; she is also survived by 2 sisters: Virginia Strong Newlin of West Chester and Meryweather Strong Ely of Merion Station, and a brother, Newbold Strong of Blue Bell. | Strong, Sally Hall (I1797)
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| 1589 | wife of Ezekiel lathrop age 85 ------------------------- "DIED.—At Franklin, Mrs. Abigail Lathrop, aged 86." —The Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, March 29, 1809, p. 3, col. 4. | Lyon, Abigail (I1167)
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| 1590 | Wife of James Wilcox The Binghamton Press, Tuesday 11/4/1924 Mrs Carrie Wilcox died suddenly at her home Oct 29 She was the widow of James Wilcox. She had been a resident of New Milford for many years. Her survivors are two nieces, Mrs Korman Jones of South New Milford and Mrs Daisy Dolman of Buffalo NY. Funeral was held in the M E church on Friday afternoon. Burial in Gibson cemetery, | Lathrop, Caroline (I4151)
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| 1591 | Wife of James Wilcox The Binghamton Press, Tuesday 11/4/1924 Mrs Carrie Wilcox died suddenly at her home Oct 29 She was the widow of James Wilcox. She had been a resident of New Milford for many years. Her survivors are two nieces, Mrs Korman Jones of South New Milford and Mrs Daisy Dolman of Buffalo NY. Funeral was held in the M E church on Friday afternoon. Burial in Gibson cemetery, | Lathrop, Caroline (I4151)
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| 1592 | Wife of Nathan Tupper, married August 23, 1778, recorded at Norwich; daughter of Eben. Harsthorn and Miriam his wife, in the 30th year of her age. Vital Records of Norwich, pg 307 "Beulah: ye Daughter of Ebenezer Hartshorn & his wife Miriam was born Septr. 28: 1754" pg 459 "Mrs. Beulah Tupper, the wife of Mr Nathan Tupper & Daughter of Ebenezer Hartshorn Esqr of Norwich Died in Norwich July 31st 1784" Children included: ~ Hiel, born 1779 at Norwich, Connecticut. ~ Eunice, born 1781 at Shaftsbury, Vermont | Hartshorn, Beulah (I1162)
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| 1593 | Wigan | Atherton, Humphrey (I2510)
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| 1594 | Wigan Anglican Parish Registers. Wigan Archives Services, Wigan, England. | Source (S147)
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| 1595 | Wigan, | Longley, Alice (I2511)
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| 1596 | Wikipedia ********************************* Margaret "Peggy" Shippen (July 11, 1760 – August 24, 1804)[2] was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold. She gained notoriety for being the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution.[3] Shippen was born into a prominent Philadelphia family with Loyalist tendencies. She met Arnold during his tenure as military commander of the city following the British withdrawal in 1778. They were married in the Shippen townhouse on Fourth Street on April 8, 1779, and Arnold began conspiring with the British to change sides soon after. Peggy played a role in the conspiracy which was exposed after British Major John André was arrested in September 1780 carrying documents concerning the planned surrender of the critical Continental Army base at West Point. Arnold escaped to New York City and Peggy followed. They traveled together to London at the end of 1781, where she established a home and Arnold rebuilt a trading business. In 1787, she joined him in Saint John, New Brunswick, where his difficulties with local businessmen forced them to return to London in December 1791. Arnold died in 1801, after which she had to settle his business affairs and pay off his debts. She died in 1804, having borne five children who survived infancy. | Shippen, Margaret (I4382)
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| 1597 | WILBUR F. LATHROP. Wilbur F. Lathrop was admitted to the bar of Luzerne county, Pa., March 18, 1875. He is the grandson of Spencer Lathrop, who was born in Connecticut in 1789, whose wife w^as Clara Tupper, who was born in New York in 1790. The father of W. F. Lathrop was Oliver Lathrop, who was born January 5, 18 16, in Springville, Susquehanna county, Pa. The wife of Oliver La- throp was Amelia L. Ladd, a native of New Albany, Bradford county, Pa., where she was born October 10, 18 19. She was the daughter of Charles W. Ladd, a native of Tolland county. Conn. He removed to Albany township, Bradford county, Pa., early in the century, and was the first postmaster of Albany, receiving his appointment in 1820. His wife was Philinda Alden, a native of Massachusetts, where she was born in 1795. W. F. Lathrop was born April 13, 1849, at Hillsdale, Michigan. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Susquehanna county, Pa., and at the state normal school at Mansfield, Pa. He read law with Lit- tles & Blakeslee, at Montrose, Pa., and was admitted to the bar of Susquehanna county November 11, 1872. Mr. Lathrop is an unmarried man and now resides at Carbondale, Pa. ********************************************************** * From Book Families of the Wyoming Valley: biographical, genealogical and historical. Sketches of the bench and bar of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (Volume 2) ********************************************************** | Lathrop, Wilbur F (I4383)
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| 1598 | Wildenholz | Kapp, Johannes Michael (I1359)
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| 1599 | Wildwood Cemetary | Ebert, Julia Wilhelmina (I4)
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| 1600 | Wildwood Cemetery, | Clark, Melvin Reamer (I3)
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