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1830-1839

The decade beginning 1830 finds some of the known vector families living in Europe, i.e., Garrett, Lindstrom and Westurlund.

In Ireland, Canada, and USA:

Garrett: The Garretts probably lived in Ireland during all or most of this decade. Hugh and Mary (Williams) Garrett were living in Ireland when their son Hugh was born near this decade’s beginning. His future first wife Mary Elizabeth Thurlow was born a year later in North Crosby Township, Leeds County, Johnstown District, Upper Canada. His future second wife Mary Cordelia Chamberlain was born in Michigan, USA, at decade’s end. During this decade a Hugh Garrett was notated as living in County Down, Parish of Comber, town of Tullygarvan; also, same county, Parish of Saintfield, town of Ballyknockan.

In USA:

Keyes: The Keyes family was in Cambria, Niagara County, New York. Mid-decade the widow Hannah Keyes bought 80 acres of land in the east one-half of the northeast one-quarter of Section 17 in Climax Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. She moved some of her family to Climax Township, where she taught classes at her residence until a proper school was built. At the end of the decade she married George Fletcher and they settled in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, though Hannah did not sell the farm. Hannah and Lyman’s next two girls were married: Mahala, first to Hilan Joel Horton and later to Alexander S. Eaton, all in this decade; and Julia M. to Silas Carney. The families of Mahala, Julia, and their eldest sister Mary all apparently immigrated to Michigan about the same time as their mother. Also their two brothers, Charles H. and Nathaniel. Their brother Orlando remained in New York for nearly two more decades and their sister Rebecca’s disposition is unknown. Mary’s and Julia’s husbands were sons of John and Polly (Finch) Carney, though after Samuel’s death Mary would remarry to English-born Peter Crowhurst (originally spelled “Crohart”). The Carney and Keyes families were neighbors in Cambria, New York, and continued as neighbors in Climax Township, Michigan.
Shook: The Shooks were in Lockport and Cambria, Niagara County, New York. In Lockport, Phillip and Hannah had the last two of their children: Lafayette and Elias. Their house was used as a meeting place to start the area's German Lutheran and Reformed Church, of which Phillip became an elder. (The church became the Evangelical Lutheran Church.) In Cambria, Jonas and Annah “Fanny” Shook had four more of their children: Charles H., William H., Caroline Catherine and Elias.
Castner: The Castners were in Morris County, New Jersey. William Castner and Sarah Welter, daughter of Adam and Margaret (Schenkel) Welter, were married at Schooley's Mountain, Morris County, by Holloway Whitfield Hunt, Minister of the Gospel. They had the first of their children: Elizabeth. Then the family moved to Milo, Yates County, New York, and had two more children during this decade: Isaiah and John Edward.

Sarah’s younger sister Sophia married Edward Coke Potter this decade and they settled in nearby Starkey, Yates County, New York. The families of both sisters, plus that of their brother William F. “Herman” Welter and his wife, the former Louisa Phillips, would eventually move to Ovid, Clinton County, Michigan. Their brother Henry with wife, the former Sarah Finch, and their sister Mary with husband Stephen Oscar Miller, would make Himrod, Yates County, New York their permanent home.

Hood: James and Catharine were in Pulteney, Steuben County, New York. They had three more children—Jane, John M. and Mary W.—before settling at Novi, Oakland County, Michigan, mid-decade. Mary W. would be the future second wife of David Barnes, son of Thomas and Sarah (Sittser) Barnes. In Michigan they had two more children during this decade: Catharine Ann and Elizabeth Ann.
Bliss: The Bliss family was in Oneida, Madison County, New York. Calvin and Seraph had their first two children in Oneida and two more after moving to a 200-acre farm four miles northeast of Clyde, Wayne County, New York, a little less than mid-decade. These children were: Susan Elizabeth, Samuel H., John Bothwell, and Sidney E. Sidney E. would be the future husband of Helen M. Hubbard, daughter of Adam F. and Mary (McClean) Hubbard of Cayuga and Wayne counties.
Hubbart/Hubbard: Silence Hubbart ended her days in Oneida County, New York, near the close of this decade, living to the age of 72 presumably with the family of her daughter Polly and son-in-law Rodman Gardner Vincent at Rome. Her son Adam Frink Hubbart married Mary McClean, daughter of William and Susan McClean, and settled in Wayne and Cayuga counties, presumably migrating between the counties following the need for farm laborers. It is possible they had one child during this decade—Charles—though it is not confirmed. Of Thomas and Silences other children: Joseph married Laura, Belinda married James Barker, Levi Bartlett married Nancy Emily Hall, Polly’s husband is mentioned earlier, and spouses of other siblings are unknown.

Silence’s sister Abilena Bartlett had married William Tyler and lived at Throopsville, Cayuga County, New York, which might have been Adam’s draw to that area. William was an older brother of Mary “Polly” Tyler who had married Aaron Barnes’ younger brother Thomas, Jr. Many of the Barnes and Tyler relatives lived in Wayne and Cayuga counties. (See Barnes family.)

Shaw: The Shaw family was in New York, probably in Otsego County. John and Clara Ann Shaw had at least four children during this decade: James Ransler, Menzo, Sarah, and Evaline. James Ransler’s future wife Elizabeth Watts was also born this decade, daughter of Oscar and Clara Watts of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York.
Rice: Paul V. and Sophia were living in New York at the time Howard was born: . After moving to Michigan, three more children were born during this decade—at least the first of these was reported as born in Wayne County. They were: Cornelia G., Matilda, Charles, and Vanbusen. Hester A. Knight, future first wife of Benjamin R. Rice, is born in Michigan.
Sittser: David and Sarah were living in Throop Township near the Sennett town line, Cayuga County, New York. There were eight people in the household at the beginning of the decade and three people at its end.
Barnes: The Barnes family was in Wayne County, New York. Thomas and Sarah had the last four of their children: Sarah Ellen, Martha Louise, Sephronia Ellen and Sevira Ellen. The family moved a number of times, including to Butler and Rose, all in Wayne County. They may have already moved to Seneca Falls, Seneca County, New York, by the end of the decade.

Martha, widow of the late Aaron Barnes, disappeared from history after his death, though it is said in Eggleston genealogies that she married a Mr. Treat. An Isaac and Martha Treat were buried at the Stockwell Cemetery in Stockwell, Oneida County, New York. Perhaps that was her final resting place.

Tuttle: Daniel Tuttle and Julia Ann Peterson were married early this decade and living in Dexter Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan. They had two children this decade: John V. and Moses Smith. Moses, often just called “Smith,” was the future husband of Rebecca E. Millman, who was also born at Dexter.
Page: The Page family continued in the Wayne County area. Martha Page died at the start of the decade. Two years later the widower William married the widow Chloe (Thayer) Robinson, daughter of William and Chloe (Preston) Thayer and widow of James Robinson. James had left her with four boys and a girl: Clarkson, Chauncey, Luther, Chloe M. and Lewis James. Both of the children William and Chloe had together were born this decade at Macedon in Wayne County, New York, including William Henry Page, Jr. and Riley Preston Page. Riley would be the future husband of Elizabeth Hollenbeck of New York and Michigan, first husband of Sarah M. Keyes of Michigan, and third husband of Emily “Emma” Conant of New York.

Last updated: Tuesday August 12, 2014

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