Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 31 Jan 1625, Hockrell, Bishop's Stortford, Hertford, ENGLAND

Family/Spouse: Prudence UNKNOWN. Prudence died on 2 Oct 1638 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertford, ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Frances UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William Burde

William married Amma KELLOGG on 5 Mar 1645. Amma (daughter of Thomas KELLOGG and Annis HARE) was born about 1613; was christened on 25 Jul 1613 in Great Leighs, ENGLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Burde Waterman

Family/Spouse: Thomas WATERMAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Hockerell, Bishop's Stortford, Hertford, ENGLAND

Notes:

Note:
Internet info shows 3 other children with no information about them. They are Jane, Kate and another Martin.

Prudence married Martin KELLOGG on 22 Oct 1621 in St. Nichols, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, ENGLAND. Martin (son of Phillipe KELLOGG) was christened on 23 Nov 1595 in Great Leighs, ENGLAND; died about May 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Susan UNKNOWN before 29 Apr 1648. Susan died before 27 Mar 1654. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1651
• Residence: 16 Oct 1659
• Residence: 1661, Hadley, Hampshire, MA
• Will: 27 Jun 1707, Hadley, Hampshire, MA
• Probate: 4 Feb 1708, Hadley, Hampshire, MA

Notes:

Note:
At Farmington, CT in 1651 and joined church there with his wife Oct 10, 1653. Moved about 1657 to Boston, MA where he purchased property Oct 16, 1659.Sold Boston property Jun 13, 1661 and moved to Hadley. Agreed to keep the ferry between Hadley and Northhampton in 1661, which he, son John and granson James operated until 1758. He was a selectman a number of times and served on various town committees. Joseph was named Sgt. of the military company (trainband) March 1663, Ensign in the Foot Co. May 9, 1678 and Lt. of same company Ovct. 7, 1678. He served as Lt. under Capt. AaronCook, Jr. until 1692. Was in charge of the Hadley troops at the Turners' Falls Fight on May 18, 1676.

Residence:
Joseph was in Farmington, Connecticut by this year where he was an early settler and served several terms as selectman. His home lot, consisting of four acres, was purchased from John Andrews, from whom he also bought a twelve-acre lot of plowing land curiously called "Nod Land." He sold this property in Feb. 1655.

Residence:
Purchased land from Peter Oliver and his wife. Their "dwelling house fronting to the street leading to Roxbury." They sold this land (now covered, in part, by the Advertiser Building on Washington Street) was sold to John Witherden on 13 Jun 1661.

Residence:
Joseph made an agreement with the town of Hadley to keep the ferry between Hadley and Northhampton. He and his son John and grandson, James Kellogg, kept this ferry until 1758, almost a century and Stephen Goodman, who married a daughter of James Kellogg,kept it still later, and from him it received its last name "Goodmans Ferry."

Lieutenant married Joanna FOOTE in 1650 in ENGLAND. Joanna was born about 1628; died on 14 Sep 1666 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lieutenant married Abigail TERRY on 9 May 1667. Abigail (daughter of Stephen TERRY and Elizabeth UNKNOWN) was born on 21 Sep 1646 in Windsor, Hartford, CT; was christened on 27 Sep 1666 in Windsor, Hartford, CT; died between 1717 and 1726 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William JACOBS. William was born about 1626. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
From the History of Connecticut: Daniel Kellogg was christened on 6 February 1629/30 in Great Leighs, Essex, England. Daniel was an original settler of Norwalk in 1651. He was Selectman in 1670; and Deputy for Norwalk 8 times 1670-1683. Daniel Kellogg was a huge man, being more than 7 feet tall, and "of proportionate dimensions otherwise." It is not known when he came to New England, but it is probably that he came with his brothers, Joseph and Samuel. He was on the list of "those to appeare in Towne meetings" 20 March 1656. At a meeting 25 December 1669, the town voted that "all the lands within the bounds of Norwalk, that are at present undivided, shall for future be divided only to such as are the present proper inhabitants of this town." On 9 February 1671, it was voted that "every one of our inhabitants that have not as yet had any estate for their children shall have five pounds for every child now in being; to be added to their father's estate, and this is to take place in the land that is now to be laid out in ye Indian field and not before." Daniel Kellogg had six children in the town list drawn February 1672. The drew his share of the common lands of the town, which made him a large landed proprietor. Jacobus in Families of Old Fairfield, Torrey in New England Marriages Prior to 1700, and Hasheider in Kellogg Family all agree that Daniel Kellogg and Bridget Bouton married in 1655. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, however, says they married in 1665, and assigned the three children born before that date to a previous wife whose name was unknown. Torrey reflects this in saying of the marriage to Bridget "2/wf?" The birth dates of the two eldest children are estimated from a mention by Winthrop in 1661 of "Daniel Kelluck and his wife of Norwalk, and their children John, aged 3, and Sarah, 1-1/2." If Daniel and Bridget did, in fact, marry in 1655 as Jacobus and Torrey say, then Bridget would be the mother of all the Kellogg children, and no previous wife need be hypothesized.58,61,62 Daniel appeared on the census of 4 October 1669 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT: "A true and perfect List of all the Freemen appertaininge unto the plantation of Norwake. Taken this 11th of October, 1669, and to be presented unto the Honored Court assembled ... Daniell Kellogge."65 He died in 1688 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT. The inventory of the estate of Daniel Kellogg is dated 5 December 1688. It mentions children: Sarah, Mary, Rachel, "married away"; Elizabeth, above 20; Daniel, 18 next May; Samuel 15; Lydia, 13 next April; Benjamin and Joseph, twins, 11. Widow Bridget made oath 5 March 1688/1689.

Daniel married Bridget BOUTON in 1655. Bridget (daughter of John BOUTON and Alice KELLOGG) was born about 1634 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT; died in 1689. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
4 children by wife Sarah Day Gunn, and 4 by wife Sarah Root.

Samuel married Sarah Day GUNN on 24 Nov 1664. Sarah died on 19 Sep 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Sarah ROOT on 22 Mar 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 20 Jan 1685
• Probate: Aug 1688

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth UNKNOWN. Elizabeth was born about 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 27 Mar 1654

Notes:

Note:
In court proceedings, John, an orphan, in committed to the care of Martin Kellogg, his grandfather.

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Notes:

Died:
Died young

John married Sarah MOODY on 23 Dec 1680 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Sarah (daughter of Samuel MOODY and Sarah DEMING) was born in 1660 in Hartford, Hartford, CT; died on 10 Sep 1689 in Farmington, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ruth UNKNOWN. Ruth died after 1732. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
From Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors: " When Deerfield was destroyed by the French and Indians, 29 Feb., 1704, he and four of his children, Martin, Joseph, Joanna and Rebecca, were taken prisoners and carried to Canada. His son, Jonathan, was killed. Mrs. Kellogg escaped. There is a tradition that at the time of the attack upon the house (which was at night), Mrs. Kellogg "escaped from her bed with her infant, a few days old, to the cellar, and after secreting her infant, turned a large tub over herself; the cries of the child attracted the attention of the Indians, who immediately siezed it and dashed it against the wall. They afterward feasted upon the stores which they found in the cellar, sitting upon the tub which concealed the wretched mother. On their departure, they set fire to the dwelling. She rushed from the house, almost naked and, with bare feet, fled through the deep snow for two miles to the house then used as a fort." The youngest child of Martin Kellogg was Jonathan, b. 17 Dec., 1698, and, as recorded in the Hampshire County Recorder's book at Hatfield, he "was slain in the fort," which seems to dispose of the tradition of the infant, a few days old, carried to the cellar and secreted by his mother. How much truth there is in the rest of the tradition is unknown.
The father and his four children were separated, as the Indians, after their depredations, divided into as many parties, each taking a prisoner. It is not know when he returned. In Oct., 1705, eleven of the Deerfield captives came home; the names of only three are known... In 1706 forty-four English captive were returned from Canada. The names of but few of them are known. It is probable that in one of these parties Martin Kellogg, Sr., came."


From Unredeemed Captive:
"Early on the morning of February 29, 1704, before the settlers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, had stirred from their beds, a French and Indian war party opened fire, weilding hatchets and torches, on the lightly fortified town. The Kelloggs...had been major sufferers in the Deerfield massacre: a boy killed, the father (Martin, Sr.) and four other children (Martin, Jr., Joseph, Joanna, and Rebecca) taken prisoner, the mother "escaped." Martin, Sr. returned to New England in one of the first prisoner exchanges. Martin, Jr. fled (apparently from Kahnawake) with three other boys in 1705 and made his way back to Deerfield - only to be recaptured, and repatriated for good, in 1708. After the peace of 1713, he returned to Canada to retrieve his brother Joseph. And Joseph would subsequently undertake the same errand - several times- on behalf of his captive sisters. The latter, however, chose to remain; Joanna, indeed, would subsequently marry a Kahnawake chief."

Martin married Anna HINSDALE on 10 Dec 1684 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. Anna (daughter of Samuel HINSDALE and Mehitable JOHNSON) was born on 22 Feb 1665/66; died on 19 Jul 1689 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martin married Sarah Foote DICKINSON on 27 Feb 1690/91. Sarah (daughter of John DICKINSON and Frances FOOTE) was born about 1655; died on 11 Feb 1731/32. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Dorothy UNKNOWN about 1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Sarah MERRILL on 22 Sep 1687 in Hartford, Hartford, CT. Sarah (daughter of Deacon Deacon John MERRILL and Sarah WATSON) died in 1719. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Joanna married Deacon John SMITH on 29 Nov 1683 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Deacon (son of Lieut. Lieut. Phillip SMITH and Rebecca FOOTE) was born on 18 Dec 1661 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died on 16 Apr 1727 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Samuel ASHLEY on 27 Apr 1686 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Samuel (son of David ASHLEY and Hannah GLOVER) was born on 26 Oct 1664 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Weaver

Ensign married Lydia BELDIN on 8 May 1694. Lydia (daughter of John BELDIN and Lydia UNKNOWN) was born in Mar 1675; died on 6 Jan 1759 in Colchester, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Sarah BOLTWOOD on 28 Jun 1692 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Sarah (daughter of Sergt. Sergt. Samuel BOLTWOOD and Sarah LEWIS) was born on 1 Oct 1672 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Jonathon SMITH on 14 Nov 1688. Jonathon (son of Lieut. Lieut. Phillip SMITH and Rebecca FOOTE) was born about 1663; died in 1737 in Hatfield, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John NASH on 27 Nov 1691. John (son of Timothy NASH and Rebecca STONE) was born on 21 Aug 1667; died on 7 Oct 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Prudence married Deacon Abraham MERRILL on 18 Oct 1699. Deacon (son of John MERRILL and Sarah WATSON) was born on 21 Dec 1670; died on 6 Nov 1747. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Mabel BUTLER on 6 Jul 1700 in Colchester, New London, CT. Mabel (daughter of Daniel BUTLER) was born in 1682; died on 3 Sep 1742. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathon married Ann NEWTON on 3 Jan 1711. Ann (daughter of James NEWTON) was born on 13 Apr 1692 in Colchester, New London, CT; died on 14 Aug 1769 in Colchester, New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Jasper Kellogg

Joseph married Elizabeth COLTON on 5 Jul 1710. Elizabeth (daughter of Captain Captain Thomas COLTON and Sarah GRISWOLD) was born on 5 Apr 1686 in Longmeadow, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Sarah married Daniel BRINSMADE in 1686 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT. Daniel was born in 1645 in Charlestown, Suffolk, MA; died before 7 Oct 1702 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married John BETTS in Oct 1702 in Guilford, New Haven, CT. John (son of Thomas BETTS and Mary RAYMOND) was born on 22 Nov 1652 in Guilford, New Haven, CT; died before 3 Jun 1730. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph PLATT on 5 May 1680 in Milford, New Haven, CT. Joseph was christened on 1 Apr 1649 in Milford, New Haven, CT; died on 21 Mar 1704 in Milford, New Haven, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
Rachel Nichols and Abraham Nichols had 8 children: Joseph, Daniel, Hester, Rachel, Abraham, Eunice, Ruth and Phebe.

Rachel married Abraham NICHOLS on 3 Dec 1684 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT. Abraham was born on 19 Jan 1662 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT; died after 1735. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
Administration was granted on her estate in 1690; the inventory was made 3 Nov., in that year. 'Unmarried'

Notes:

Note:
He was a farmer; res. in Norwalk.; He died there, before 28 July, 1709, when the inventory of his estate was taken. At this time, the ages of the children were stated, Daniel, about 10; John, about 8; Benjamin, about 5; Johannah, near 3 years old; Eliasaph, about one week old.
'On 18 Aug., 1709, Daniel Colloge and Joseph Colloge presented to the Probate Court in Fairfield, the inventory of Daniel Colloge, late of Norwalk, deceased.'
The estate was appraised at £504, 8s., 9d., and was distributed to his four sons and one daughter, 4 Apr., 1710.

Daniel married Elizabeth PRESTON in 1697. Elizabeth was born on 29 Jan 1676 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
He owned considerable land in what is now New Canaan, CT, and many descendants have lived there. He deeded to his chil dren tracts of land on Marvin Ridge and Clapboard Hill. He was collector of Norwalk in 1703, selectman in 1705 and 1 714, member of the Connecticut general assembly and serve d on the committee to seat the meeting house, June 3, 1723.; 'The Connecticut Nutmegger,' Vol. 7, No. 2, Sept. 1974, p g. 173 lists birth of Samuel in Norwalk, CT, son of Daniel, b. 19 Feb 1673.
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Samuel3 Kellogg (Bridget2Bouton, John1) was born the latte r end of Feb 1673/4 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT. He ma rried (1) Sarah Platt, daughter of Deacon John Platt and H annah Clark, on 6 September 1704 in Norwalk, Fairfield Coun ty, CT. He married Sarah Lockwood, daughter of Lieut. Gers hom Lockwood and Ann Millington, on 9 March 1755 in Wilton, Fairfield County, CT; it was Samuel's second marriage and Sarah's third. He died on 13 October 1757 in Wilton, Fair field County, CT, at age 83.

Samuel married Sarah PLATT on 6 Sep 1704. Sarah was born on 21 May 1678; died on 10 Nov 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Sarah LOCKWOOD on 9 Mar 1755. Sarah was born in 1678 in Greenwich, Fairfield, CT; died before 23 Feb 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married John CLARK before 1703. John was born in Milford, Worcester, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Thomas OVIATT on 7 Jun 1705 in Milford, New Haven, CT. Thomas was born on 30 Aug 1677 in Milford, New Haven, CT; died on 13 Jan 1741 in New Milford, Litchfield, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
Benjamin was a twin to Joseph & unmarried.; Agreement for the division of his estate 10 Nov., 1703, was signed by Daniel, Samuel and Joseph Kellogg, Abraham Nichols, John Clark, Mary Platt, widow, and Sarah Brinsmade, widow.

Another researcher notes: The inventory of the estate of Benjamin Kellogg is dated 2 November 1702. Administration was granted to brother Daniel. Agreement by the sons and sons -in-law of Daniel Kellogg for distribution of the estate of their brother Benjamin was signed by Daniel, Samuel and J oseph Kellogg, Abraham Nichols, John Clark, and Sarah Brins made. One of the sisters, Mary Platt, Widow, did not sign, but sent her consent.

Notes:

Note:
Joseph was a twin to Benjamin.; According to the dates of the births of Elizabeth, Sarah and Joseph in Timothy Hopkins, ' The Kelloggs in the New World', they all seem to be born before their parents were married. Was there possibly a wife prior to Sarah Plum who these children were born to?
Joseph Kellogg was born in March 1677/78 in Norwalk, Fa irfield County, CT. He married (1) Sarah Plumb, daughter of John Plumb, on 25 November 1702 in Norwalk, Fairfield Cou nty, CT. He married (2) Mary on 10 October 1712. Mary's maiden name is unknown; she was the widow of Andrew Lyon of Norwalk when she married Joseph Kellogg. (Hall's record, in the line following the death of his first wife, says Joseph married Mary on 17 August 1712, which must be a mistak e for 1 October). He died before 21 January 1721 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT. He was a farmer, owning considerable land in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT.

Joseph married Sarah PLUMB on 25 Nov 1702. Sarah was born on 5 Apr 1675 in Milford, New Haven, CT; died on 17 Aug 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Mary LYON on 25 Nov 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary ASHLEY on 8 Jul 1714. Mary (daughter of Samuel ASHLEY and Sarah KELLOGG) was born on 12 Mar 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Experience SMITH on 11 Aug 1727. Experience (daughter of Deacon John SMITH and Joanna KELLOGG) was born on 19 Apr 1703 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died on 25 Aug 1762. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
Joseph was captured by French and Indians and taken to Canada. He learned the Indian language and on his return from captivity was often employed as a interpreter.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
Joanna was captured by the French and Indians, through her choice she remained among the Indians, marrying an Indian chief. Once she came to visit her half brother, Martin Kellogg, Jr., bringing some of her children with her. He tried to persuade her to stay with him, but she would not and returned to her Indian home. Rebecca remained with the Indians until she was grown.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 29 Feb 1704, Deerfield, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Note:
Rebecca Kellogg was captured as a child during the French and Indian attack on Deerfield, MA in 1704 and carried off to Canada. She returned to New England about 1728, where she was hired by the General Court to act as a liason with the St. Francis or Canawaga tribe. In 1752 she was an interpreter at the Indian School in Stockbridge, where Captain Ashley was a teacher.

Rebecca married Benjamin ASHLEY on 13 Mar 1744/45 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. Benjamin was born on 9 Feb 1714. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

John married Esther COLTON on 4 Dec 1711. Esther (daughter of Ephraim COLTON and Esther MARSHFIELD) was born on 23 Oct 1687 in Longmeadow, Hampden, MA; died in 1771. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Ephraim NASH on 10 Jan 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rebecca married Samuel CROW on 11 Jan 1710. Samuel (son of Samuel CROW and Hannah LEWIS) was born on 11 Feb 1675; died on 13 Feb 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Rebecca SMITH in Feb 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Wethersfield, Hartford, CT

Martin married Sarah WEIR in 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleazor married Unmarried. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Samuel KELLOGG on 22 May 1724. Samuel (son of Nathaniel KELLOGG and Sarah BOLTWOOD) was born on 4 Apr 1699 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Prudence married Timothy NASH on 1 Mar 1722. Timothy (son of John NASH and Elizabeth KELLOGG) was born on 13 Nov 1699; died on 15 Mar 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Experience married James KELLOGG on 11 Aug 1727. James (son of John KELLOGG and Ruth UNKNOWN) was born on 10 Jul 1701. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Stephen NASH on 22 May 1728. Stephen (son of John NASH and Elizabeth KELLOGG) was born on 20 Sep 1704; died in 1764. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died young

Mary married Samuel KELLOGG on 8 Jul 1714. Samuel (son of John KELLOGG and Sarah MOODY) was born on 1 Apr 1687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Unmarried. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died in the Louisberg Expedition

Family/Spouse: Abigail LOOMIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Sarah SMITH on 22 May 1724. Sarah (daughter of Deacon John SMITH and Joanna KELLOGG) was born on 9 Nov 1698 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rebecca GRAVES. Rebecca was born on 4 May 1700; died on 6 Oct 1743 in West Hartford, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Moses married Mary COOK on 30 Oct 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Timothy married Prudence SMITH on 1 Mar 1722. Prudence (daughter of Deacon John SMITH and Joanna KELLOGG) was born on 15 Mar 1701 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died on 18 Apr 1774. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Deacon Deacon Abraham MERRILL on 1 Dec 1725. Deacon (son of Deacon Abraham MERRILL and Prudence KELLOGG) was born on 3 Dec 1702; died in 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Elizabeth SMITH on 22 May 1728. Elizabeth (daughter of Deacon John SMITH and Joanna KELLOGG) was born on 12 Oct 1705 in Hadley, Hampshire, MA; died in 1790. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Margaret MERRILL on 24 Jan 1734. Margaret (daughter of Deacon Abraham MERRILL and Prudence KELLOGG) was born on 6 Jun 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deacon married Abigail NASH on 1 Dec 1725. Abigail (daughter of John NASH and Elizabeth KELLOGG) was born on 10 Apr 1702; died on 3 Apr 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Samuel NASH on 24 Jan 1734. Samuel (son of John NASH and Elizabeth KELLOGG) was born on 29 Jul 1709. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married on 3 May 1708 in Stratford, Fairfield, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
He married Mercy, daughter of Nathaniel Mix, circa 1715. He married Hannah Mix, daughter of Nathaniel Mix of New Have n, circa 1732. He died on 27 March 1757 in Trumbull, Fairfi eld County, CT, in his 70th year (gravestone).
Daniel Brinsmade chose his uncle Abraham Nichols of Str atford guardian on 18 March 1708. Daniel's will was date d 8 March 1757 and proved 5 April 1757.

Daniel married about 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married on 23 Feb 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
Samuel Brinsmade chose his 'father-in-law' John Betts of Norwalk guardian on 18 March 1708.

Notes:

Note:
She was living in 1731, when with Stephen Betts, she conveyed her right from her father.

Notes:

Note:
DEATH: Died between 26 Apr 1758 (1785 in notes), will, and Nov 1758, probate.

Joseph married in 1711 in Hartford, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
(Savage in error gives his birth as 7 March 1691).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Note: 7 Sep 1739

Notes:

Note:
There was set off, 7 Sept., 1739, to John Kellogg, land at Ellis Neck, valued at £9, 4s., 6d., and on 27 Dec., 1739, '8 acres at ye upper end of Silver Mine Hill.' In 1731, the Parish of Canaan in Norwalk was established, and John's house was included in this parish, but in Oct., 1738, he was allowed, by act of the General Assembly, to leave the Parish of Canaan and rejoin Norwalk. His estate, appraise d at £1,800, was distributed in 1750.

Deacon married Ann COLEY on 1 Jan 1729/30 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married about 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliasaph married on 13 Jun 1734. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
Martin Kellogg was born on 23 March 1710/11 in Norwalk, Fai rfield County, CT. He married (1) Mary Lockwood, daughter of Deacon Eliphalet Lockwood and Mary Gold. Martin Kellogg m arried (2) Mercy Wood. Mercy was perhaps the daughter of Sa muel Wood of Norwalk CT who had a daughter Mercy born 30 Ma rch 1717. He died on 7 July 1756 in New Canaan, Fairfield C ounty, CT, at age 45.
Martin and his wife joined the church on 2 February 17 43 in New Canaan, Fairfield County, CT. Martin Kellogg's wi ll was dated 3 July 1756 and proved 30 July 1756. His brot her-in-law Theophilus Fitch, and his brother Epenetus wer e executors. In addition to one-quarter of his real estate, he gave his son 'Eliphalet in consideration of his being my eldest son and other considerations the following arti cles which were his own mother's... also two cows and a ca lf, the cows are those which his grandmother Lockwood gav e to me.'

Martin married in (<1737>) in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
He was a a farmer; removed to Long Island, but returned to Norwalk and resided at White Oak Shade, near Ponassus Pat h.

Epenetus married in 1740. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married on 30 Oct 1729. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Alice JONES in 1743. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Family/Spouse: Mary PRESTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth EDWARDS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phineas married Eleanor BELL in 1754. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: South Hadley, Hampshire, MA
• Residence: Whatley, Franklin, MA

Notes:

Birth:
The Colton Genealogy lists the name of this child as "Silence" with the same birth date.

DNA:
MKM

Silas married Sarah PRESTON in 1749 in South Hadley, Hampshire, MA. Sarah (daughter of John PRESTON) was born on 16 Jun 1724; died about 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rebecca ALLEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleazer married Lydia THOMAS on 25 Oct 1749. Lydia was born on 26 Mar 1731 in Marshfield, Plymouth, MA; died in 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail HALE. Abigail (daughter of Thomas HALE and Abigail BURT) was born on 9 Feb 1734/35; died on 24 Jan 1812. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Josiah is not listed as a child of John and Esther (Colton) Smith in the Colton genealogy.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Sarah McMaster

Family/Spouse: Hugh MCMASTER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John NUTTING. John (son of John NUTTING and Elizabeth PICKMAN) was born on 22 Nov 1762; died on 28 Jul 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DNA:
MKM

Lt. married Achsa CHAPIN on 7 May 1775 in Springfield, Hampden, MA. Achsa (daughter of Timothy CHAPIN and Martha WELLS) was born on 5 Jul 1756 in Springfield, Hampden, MA; died on 14 May 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deacon married Asenath CHAPIN on 18 Mar 1780. Asenath (daughter of Phineas CHAPIN and Bethia CHAPIN) was born on 2 May 1750; died on 30 Nov 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Esther married John NUTTING on 12 Dec 1785 in South Amherst, MA. John (son of John NUTTING and Elizabeth PICKMAN) was born on 22 Nov 1762; died on 28 Jul 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Methodist Preacher

Family/Spouse: Emily KNEELAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: ME minister

Family/Spouse: Mary SPENCER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Porter Nutting was married four times and had children by each wife.

Family/Spouse: Tryphosa HARTWELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret HARTWELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Susan Huntington FIELD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Caroline DAM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martha DICKINSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary FOSTER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Luthera WINTER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Emily Howe

Family/Spouse: George HOWE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Harriet NASH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown BISHOP. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anna HUBBELS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Chauncey married Phebe BUXTON on 8 Sep 1805 in Belchertown, Hampshire, MA. Phebe was born on 24 Sep 1784 in Worcester Co., MA; died on 22 Oct 1867; was buried in Willow Grove Cemetery, Armada, Macomb, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lucretia married Dormer CHAPIN on 2 Oct 1803. Dormer (son of Captain Captain Phineas CHAPIN and Sabrina WRIGHT) was born on 25 Feb 1781 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA; died on 11 May 1870 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: William BUXTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Achsah married Levi CHAPIN on 10 Jan 1810 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA. Levi (son of Levi CHAPIN and Sarah RICHARDSON) was born on 23 Apr 1787 in Chicopee, Hampden, MA; died on 29 Jan 1864 in Detroit, Wayne, MI; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 11 Feb 1789, Springfield, Hampden, MA

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Daughter, Laura by first marriage.Son, Samuel Newell, b. 1832 by 2nd marriage.

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Philip married Huldah VAN HORNChicopee, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Diadema GRISWOLD on 8 Jan 1831 in South Hadley, Hampden, MA. Diadema was born in West Springfield, Hampden, MA; died in 1881 in Agawam, Hampden, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Calvin WHITE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Sarah Mc Masters

Family/Spouse: Charles MC MASTERS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Ludlow, Hampden, MA

Family/Spouse: Henry GRAVES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eliza Cook FORBES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Captain married Judith HASTINGS on 21 Dec 1809 in South Amherst, MA. Judith was born on 10 Oct 1786; died on 2 Sep 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: Dec 1842
• Census: 5 Aug 1850, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI
• Census: 2 Jul 1860, Lyons, Ionia, MI

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From Ingham and Eaton Co., MI History
Almon M. CHAPIN, a native of Massachusetts, and for some time a resident of Livingston Co., N.Y., (had lived also in Onondaga County), left the latter State with his family in December, 1842, and came with teams through Northern Ohio to Michigan, the trip occupying eighteen days. The household goods had been sent by water to Detroit. The family arrived in Vevay on or about the 1st of January, 1843, and moved into a log house which was built by William AUSTIN and was then vacant. The snow lay very deep on the ground, and, soon after they occupied the house and built a fire therein, the melting snow broke down the roof. It was repaired, and the family lived in the house until the following October, when they moved into a frame house, which is now the rear portion of the dwelling occupied by Mr. CHAPIN's widow and family. The fine grove in front of the house at present consists of natural trees, which were left purposely when the place as first occupied. A burning log-heap in front of the house destroyed a portion of them (the trees being then but saplings), but enough were preserved to make a beautiful grove, which is now the pride of the locality. Mr. CHAPIN was a model citizen, and one of the most prominent in the township. His death occurred on the 5th of September, 1878, in his home at Chapin's Station, or "Eden."

Census:
1850 census at Vevay, Ingham, MI shows: Almance Chapin, 39, b. MA, farmer; Jane, 36, b. NY; John C. Bliss, 20, b. NY; Hannah Miller, 26, b. NY; children b. NY: Augusta J., 16; Almance, 12; Henry L.; Clarence W., 8; remaining children b. MI: Hulda, 6; Julius W., 2; Barney E., 6/12.

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1860 census at Lyons, Ionia, MI shows: Almon M. Chapin, 49, b. MA, teacher; Jane, 4X, b. NY; Augusta J., 23, teacher, b. NY; Clarence W., 18, clerk, b. NY; Belle, 16; William, 12; Merrie W., 2.

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Almon married Jane PEASE on 16 Jul 1835 in Lakeville, Livingston, NY. Jane (daughter of Henry Chapin PEASE and Huldah TILDEN) was born on 31 Mar 1814 in Livonia, Livingston, NY; died on 20 Oct 1892; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 31 Jul 1850, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
• Census: 3 Jul 1860, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
• Census: 18 Aug 1870, Brooklyn, Kings, NY
• Census: 7 Jun 1880, Brooklyn, Kings, NY

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1850 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: Lothram Chapin, 36, b. MA, merchant; Julia S., 24, b. NY; children b. NY: Albert M., 7; Margaret E., 5; Mary L., 1.

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1860 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: L. W. Chapin, 46, b. NY, broker; Julia S., 36, b. MA; children b. NY: Albert, 17, clerk; Marg., 15; Mary, 10, Chas., 9

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1870 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: Latham Chapin, 55, b. MA, artist; Julia M., 43, b. MA; children b. NY: Samuel, 19, clerk at store; Sophia, 8.

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1880 census at Brooklyn, Kings, NY shows: Nathin Chapin, 62, b. MA, parents b. MA/MA, artist in painting; Julia, 52, b. MA, parents b. MA/MA; Sophia, 17, b. NY, parents b. MA/MA.

Family/Spouse: Julia CARLS. Julia was born about 1826 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Wyman ADAMS. Wyman (son of Robert P. ADAMS and Dorothy UNKNOWN) was born about 1816 in NY; died before 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Achsah married William Harrison HORTON on 16 Apr 1846 in Ingham Co., MI. William was born on 18 Jan 1814 in NY; died on 12 Jun 1883; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charlotte married Carlos ROLFE on 30 Oct 1844. Carlos was born in 1822 in VT; died on 25 Sep 1847; was buried in Rolfe Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlotte married Henry A HAWLEY on 18 Oct 1854. Henry was born on 19 Nov 1815 in Winfield, Herkimer, NY; died on 12 Jun 1881 in Vevay Township, Ingham, MI; was buried in Hawley Cemetery, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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There is a "Levi White Chapin, 1822 - 1915" listed as buried in the Eldora Cemetery, Eldora Township, Hardin County, Iowa. Not sure whether this is the right guy or not but seems to be.

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• Occupation: School Teacher
• Religion: Member of Presbyterian Church
• Birth: 17 Jun 1825, Camillus, Onondaga, NY
• Obituary: 10 Jan 1901, Adams County Free Press, Corning, Adams, IA
• Obituary: 15 Jan 1901, Corning, Adams, IA

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Obituary of Amelia Chapin LaRue

The community was saddened Saturday by news of the death of Mrs. Franklyn LaRue, which occurered the night previous. She had been sick less than a week, having been confined to her bed only since the Sabbath before, and in the morning she had seemed to be in her usual health. Her death resulted from fever of the lungs with the complication of heart trouble. The funeral was held at the home Sabbath afternoon at 3 o'clock, the services being conducted by Rev. M.V. Higbee assisted by Revs. T.D. Ewing and J.A. Lovejoy. The remains were laid to rest in Walnut Grove cemetery. Amelia Chapin was born in New York and was seventy-five years of age. Hers had been a life of activity of mind and body and even down to the last days she was interested in all that pertained to the welfare of those about her. She was the mother of eight children, four of whom died in childhood. Those surviving her are H.H. and F.L. LaRue and Mrs. Fred Kennon of this city and Miss Myra LaRue of Omaha. Twenty-eight years of family life have been spent in and near Corning. Mrs. LaRue was a member of the Presbyterian church and had ever taken an earnest interest in its progress. She was a woman of serene and cordial temperment and in all the relations of life did more than her full duty. To her aged companian who has lost the helpmate of a life time and to the sons and daughters who have lost a loving mother the entire community tenders its sympathy.




Obituary of Amelia Chapin LaRue

The sudden and sad news passed around from person to person at an early hour on Saturday morning that Mrs. LaRue, of north Corning, had died during the night of Friday, January 4th 1901. Mother LaRue, as her friends loved to call her, was a kind neighbor, a loyal wife and a loving mother. Columns of type could not tell more in expressing her daily life. Her immediate family consisted of H.H. LaRue, the lumber merchant; Frank L. LaRue, president of the Corning Savings bank; Mrs. Fred Kennon, and Miss Myra LaRue as her children and her honored husband. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon with a large attendance. The GAZETTE tenders its heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. Her children have met with the greatest loss that can ever befall them. While it is true they have reached an age of manhood and womanhood, they will find, as others have, that no one can take the place in their hearts and homes of a mother who has gone to the other shore.

Died:
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Amelia married Franklin B. LARUE on 25 Sep 1848 in Mason, Ingham, MI. Franklin (son of Albertus LARROWE and Janette AULLS) was born on 25 Dec 1818 in Bath, Steuben, NY; died on 30 Sep 1912 in Corning, Adams, IA; was buried on 2 Oct 1912 in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Corning, Adams, IA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: 20 Sep 1895, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI

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Sketch of the Life of Louisa Wells Chapin, by Dr. Augusta J. Chapin of Omaha, Nebraska. Read before the Eden Ladies Aid Society by Carrie L. Chapin and requested to be published.
Louise Wells Chapin was a descendant in the seventh generation from Deacon Samuel Chapin of Springfield, Mass. She was the daughter of Levi Chapin and Achsah Smith, who were married in Chicopee, Massachusetts, January 10, 1810. She was born at Camillus, New York, December 6, 1827, to which place her parents had removed some years earlier. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Achsah S. Horton, in Vevay, September 20, 1895. When 17 years of age she came, with her fathers' family in 1844, to Eden, Michigan, where she spent the remainder of her life, a period of more than 50 years............Miss Chapin was for 40 years a stanch member of the M. E. church..............She was one of the noble few of whom it can truthfully be said: "She hath done what she could."

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Family/Spouse: Addie OSGOOD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Note: 1882
• Note: 12 Mar 1897
• Obituary: 5 Aug 1905

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Rev. AUGUSTA J. CHAPIN was ordained the same year with Olympia Brown, and has successfully labored in the West. During the year 1874 she was noticeably engaged in reconciling adverse societies in San Francisco, and was the means of placing that flourishing church now in California upon a solid basis. She was afterward pastor of the Universalist church in [p.427] Pittsburg, Penn., but is now in the West again. She was a member of the first congress of women held in New York, and contributed a paper on "Woman in the Ministry." She has occasionally furnished sermons to the press.

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From the Womens World section of the "Hornellsville Weekly Tribune," March 12, 1897.
"A Woman D. D. "
"The Rev. Dr. Augusta J. Chapin of Chicago has returned from a year's travels in Europe and is now visiting friends in Boston. She is an alumna of the University of Michigan, and is said to be the only woman upon whom has been conferred the degree of doctor of divinity. As a clergyman she has made a creditable record in the various pastorates she has held in Iowa City, Ia.; Lansing, Mich.; Pittsburg; Aurora, Ills.; Omaha and Chicago. She is devoted to her profession and declares that, with all her experience behind her, if it were hers to choose her vocation anew, she would still be a minister."

Died:
From "The Iowa Citizen" newspaper, July 5, 1905:
"Miss Chapin Died in N.Y.
Lady Who Was Formerly Pastor in the Unitarian Church Here is Dead
Many people here will be interested in knowing that Miss Augusta Chapin died July 1 in New York City. Death was caused by pneumonia and the deceased was sixty-nine years old. More than thirty years ago she was pastor in the Unitarian church at this place and subsequently she has held many prominent positions, filling at one time the pulpit of the Universalist church at Mount Vernon. She was a champion of woman's rights."

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• Census: 23 Jun 1870, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI

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1870 census at Vevay Township, Ingham, MI shows: || Almond Chapin, 32, farm laborer, b. NY; Rosette, 28, b. MI; Florence M., 6, b. MI; Fanny J., 5, b. MI.

Almon married Rosette M PEASE on 1 Jul 1863 in MI. Rosette was born about 1842 in MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1 Jun 1880, Mason, Ingham, MI

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1880 census at Mason, Ingham, MI shows: Henry L. Chapin, 40, farmer, b. NY, parents b. MA/NY; Kate, 30, b. ENGLAND, parents b. ENGLAND; children b. MI: Charlotte, 5; Nelly, 2; Harry L., 7/12.

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Henry married Kate THOMPSON on 30 Oct 1870 in Portland, Multnomah, OR. Kate was born in Sep 1849 in ENGLAND; died in 1926 in MI; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 4 Jun 1880, Stanton, Montcalm, MI
• Census: 14 Jun 1900, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, MI

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1880 census at Stanton, Montcalm, MI shows: Clarence W. Chapin, 37, banker, b. NY, parents b. MA/NY; Alice B., 24, b. NY, parents b. NY/NY; Morris B., 1, son, b. MI; Merrick W., 21, brother, bankers clerk, b. MI, parents b. MA/NY; Frank Brown, 20, 2nd cousin, b. MI, parents b. NY/NY, bankers clerk.

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1900 census at Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, MI shows: C. W. Chapin, b. Jul 1842, 58, married 27 years, no occupation listed. b. NY, parents b. NY/NY; Alice B., b. Dec 1854, 45, 3 children born / 3 living, b. NY, parents b. PA/ENGLAND, boarding house keeper; children b. MI: Morris B., b. Jul 1879, 22, typesetter; Wells, b. XXX(Illegible) 1885, 15; Howard, b. Jul 1890, 10.

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Clarence married Alice BENNETT on 30 Aug 1874 in Greenville, Montcalm, MI. Alice was born in 1855 in NY; died on 4 Mar 1939; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lorenzo COREY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 16 Jun 1900, Vevay Township, Ingham, MI
• Obituary: 20 Jun 1914

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From Pioneer History of Ingham County.

The Chapin farm became well known throughout the country because of the fact that J.W. Chapin, son of Almon M. Chapin, developed on it the largest sugar bush in the state of Michigan.

It is a far cry from the charmingly primitive "sugar bush" of fiction to the business-like proposition of modern farm life, but it is safe to say that not even the most advanced agriculturist elsewhere has a trolley line and telephone connection from his residence to his sugar bush, as has J.W. Chapin of Eden (1912). Eden is a little hamlet four miles south of Mason, and the Chapin estate of 360 acres, which has been in the family for many years, is the largest farm for many miles around. The Lansing-Jackson branch of the Michigan United Railway runs through the farm, passing close to the house and also the sugar bush one-half mile away. A private telephone line runs from the sugar house to the residence and a switch here gives connections with all the neighboring towns. The Jackson-Saginaw branch of the Michigan Central Railroad is only a few rods away on the opposite side of the house from the M.U.R.

Mr. Chapin now taps 2,200 trees every season, producing from 6,000 to 9,000 pounds of syrup and sugar each year. This is shipped to private parties all over the country, most of whom have standing orders for their year's supply. As proof of the quality of his products Mr. Chapin shows medals won by his exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition and a diploma received at the Pan-American. The sugar orchard comprises 80 acres of a 140 acre wood lot, and besides the service they have given the Chapin family for seventy years there is proof that they yielded their sweetness for the benefit of the Indians long before the advent of the white men. The remains of bark troughs and wooden spiles, with the added evidence of the scars to be found on the mammoth maple trees, go to show that the red man had knowledge of this valuable asset and made use of it.

It is said that the Indians made pilgrimages to this part of the county every spring, where they camped through the maple sugar season and "milked" the numerous sugar bushes in this vicinity. The crude methods they employed in manufacturing the sugar, which was said to be black and full of leaves and twigs, were of course the best they knew, and it makes one wonder what their sensations would have been could they have taken a peep into Mr. Chapin's modern and model sap house and watched the work done there. Let us see how this plant was conducted in 1913. The work began early in the winter when the men commenced to fill the huge shed at the sugar camp with wood ready to feed the furnaces. Then the first warm day that promised spring began the work of tapping the trees. Iron spouts were driven into holes previously bored in the trees about three feet from the ground. On these were hung tin sap pails, with wooden covers so adjusted as to exclude everything but the pure, limpid sap. The larger trees carry two or three pails. Two teams are kept busy gathering sap, each drawing a steel tank holding several barrels of the fluid, and three men work with each outfit. The tanks are mounted on runners, as they are more practical for use in snow and mud than wheels. Deep snow often makes the work of gathering sap very difficult.

The sugar house contains two 20 foot evaporators, with 25-foot smokestacks, and to attend to the fires and watch the boiling sap keeps one man busy.

The teams bring the sap to an elevation beside the sugar camp, where it is emptied through a hose into big 50 foot barrel tanks. From this supply a constant stream flows into the shallow pans of the evaporator. These pans are about 2 x 5 feet in size, and are connected with each other by tubing at the ends, so that the boiling sap is kept constantly circulating. After making the circuit of the first evaporator it is piped to the other.

The furnace man's chief anxiety is to boil down the sap as soon as possible after it is brought in as the making of the finest quality of syrup demands that the sap be gathered once a day or oftener, and used immediately. Openings in the roof of the sugar house allow clouds of steam from the boiling pans to escape. When the syrup reaches the proper consistency it is strained and allowed to settle. For sugar the syrup is boiled again then molded into five pound cakes.

The output depends on the length of the season, whic is never two years like. Extremely cold weather changing rapidly to warm spring weather oftentimes starts the buds on the trees and makes a very short season. Work in the sugar bush does not stop when the sap ceases to run, as then the thousands of pails must be overhauled and scalded, then packed away to await the next season's run.

Five years later sees this all changed. In 1914 Mr. Chapin was working with a hay fork in his barn when the machine fell and struck him, and death followed instantaneously. Mr. Chapin, in addition to conducting this sugar bush mentioned, worked about 200 acres of farm land in a superior manner, and was considered an authority on all matters of an agricultural nature. After his death Mrs. Chapin and the son who remained home found the farm land all they could attend to, and when the fuel shortage struck the county in 1918 the City of Lansing bought the wood lot, which included the sugar bush, to supply its municipal wood yard, and this wonderful landmark containing trees centuries old went up in smoke. This was a blow to the maple sugar industry in Ingham county, which was augmented by the sale of several other good-sized, well-known sugar orchards in this vicinity which went for the same purpose among them the one of the Fuller farm, which was also known to the Indians, and had yielded annual sugar crops for a long time as the one on the Chapin farm.

Mrs. Chapin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Asher Lyon, came to Vevay in the early days from Geneva, N.Y. Mr. Lyon died some years ago in Gratiot county, where he had lived for some years, but Mrs. Lyon and their eleven children are still living and recently held a family reunion at the Chapin home in Eden, beneath the original forest trees that surround the old homestead.

Since the death of Mr. Chapin in 1914 Mrs. Chapin has conducted the large farm very successfully, and last spring was elected justice of the peace for Vevay, on the Republican ticket, over her oldest son who ran against her. Like his father, J.W. Chapin was active in the work of the Ingham County Agricultural Society, the Farmers' Club and the County Pioneer and Historical Society; in the latter societies Mrs. Chapin has held offices several times.

Besides his widow, Mr. Chapin was survived by six children Almon M., named for his grandfather, owns a farm adjoining the old homestead; Alice, who graduated from the State Normal College at Ypsilanti and the University of Pennsylvania, later taking post graduate courses at Columbia and Harvard Universities. She has taught for a number of years, a part of the time being in charge of the physically deficient children in the Detroit schools and those of Minneapolis, Minn. She is now superintendent of an extensive Settlement House in Minneapolis which is supported by the wealthy people of that city.

Julius, a graduate of M.A.C., for some years county agricultural agent in various parts of the state, but now engaged in business for himself in Traverse City, Mich. Ethel, for many years a teacher in St. Johns, now taking a course in a Nurses Training School in Chicago University. Warren, employed in Detroit. Martha, a graduate of Ypsilanti Normal and Olivet College, now teaching.

The Chapin family was one of the first in this section to establish a state game refuge on their land, which is kept up in strict accordance with the law.

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1900 census at Vevay, Ingham, MI shows: Julius Chapin, b. Apr 1848, 52, married 18 years, b. MI, parents b. MA/MA, farmer; Carrie L., b. Dec 1861, 38, 6 children born / 6 living, b. NY, parents b. NJ/NY; children b. MI: Almon M., b. Sep 1883, 16; Alice, b. Apr 1885, 15; Ethel, b. Nov 1886, 13; Julius, b. Oct 1888, 11; Warren, b. Jan 1891, 9; Martha, b. Aug 1899, x/12 (illegible).

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Julius was killed when a hay fork fell, piercing his neck and heart.

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Julius married Carrie LYON on 6 Apr 1882 in Stanton, Montcalm, MI. Carrie (daughter of Asher LYON and Martha FENTON) was born on 21 Dec 1861 in NY; died on 11 Jan 1937 in Eden, Ingham, MI; was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, Ingham, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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