[another source gives birth year as 1801] See "Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement", p. 438.
Harry Dell offered on the Dill Ancestry.com message board 11 Feb 2008:
Here are my notes on Richard Dell/Dill. I am descended from his father William thru another son. Note that the numerals refer to the sources at the end.
1. Richard DELL 1,2,3,4 was born5 about 1794 in Willoughby Twp.?, Welland Co., ON, Canada. He died on 5 Jan 1881 in Windham Twp., Norfolk Co., ON, Canada. The cause of death was Congestion of the lungs. He was buried on 7 Jan 1881 in Bethlehem Cemetery, Norfolk Co., ON, Canada. Jamieson says b. 1794.
1805 ON Census Norfolk Co. - William Dell, Windham, 39, NJ, 1802, Farmer; Hannah 30, Richard 7, Joseph 5.
Richard Dill, a private in 1st Flank Company, 1st Regiment, Norfolk Militia, Lt. Col. J. Ryerson & Capt. John Bostwick, during 1812. Apparently served during Battle of Ft. Erie & capture of Detroit. Also served with Daniel McCall's 2nd Co. 25 Apr to 24 May 1814, Lt. William Dell 2nd in command. Joseph Dell also a pvt. (1877 Historical Atlas of Haldimand & Norfolk Cos. also indicates Richard Dell, Windham served in War of 1812).
Database: Canadian Immigrant Records, Part One - December 3, 2003 7:38 AM
Name: Richard DELL - Year of Record: 1875 - Source/Event: Statement showing Militiamen of 1812-1815 who have applied to participate in the gratuity voted by Parliament in 1875. Comments: Militiaman (1812-1815). Age: 81. -Reference: National Library of Canada: Parliamentary Sessional Papers, 1876, No. 7 page 28. Source Information: Anonymous. Records of Immigrants to Canada. [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com., 1999-.
Marriage, children-Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement, E.A. Owen, 1898 p 438. Listed in 1826 Windham Collection Rolls. Father William Dell Listed as a Lieutenant in the 1st Reg, Norfolk Militia December 1830, appointment 18 Feb 1812. Also listed, ages between 19 & 39, were Benjamin Dell, Richard & William Dill.
19 Apr 1845 Richard Dell aff.-Lots 3, 4, Con. 14, Windham (T.W. Walsh Papers, Eva Donly Museum, p. 4562-4).
1851 ON Census, Norfolk Co, Windham Twp., p. 11 - William Dill b. US, 86 Wesleyan Methodist; Hannah 78 (WM); Joseph 56 b. UC, labourer, single, WM; Richard 58 farmer, log house, b. UC, married (New Communion Methodist); Sarah 57 b. UC married (NCM); Peter Dill labourer b. UC 29 single NCM; Samantha M. Dill b. UC 24 single NCM; Jane Dill b. UC 16 NCM; Ann Dill b. UC 10 NCM; James A. Dill labourer b. UC 8 NCM.
1851 Agricultural Census, Norfolk Co., Windham Twp. p. 117 - Richard Dill Con. 13 Lot 3, 53 acres, also James H. Wilson Con. 13 Lot 3 107 acres.
1856 Tremaine Map shows R. Dell in Windham Twp, Con. 13.
1861 ON Census, Windham Twp. - Dell, Richard, farmer, NCM, 67, Sarah 60, Samantha, seamstress, 33, Ann 19, James B. 17, Melbourne 9 (son of Benjamin?).
1871 ON Census -Windham Twp, Norfolk Co., p. 28 - Richard Dell 74, English, farmer, NC Methodist, Sarah 72, James 26 md, Martha 22 md, Ann 28 sgl, Jessie f. 2.
Richard Dell of Windham rec'd $20.00 bounty in 1876/77 for service in the War of 1812. (Historical Atlas of Haldiman & Norfolk Cos. 1877-1879).
May have had 2 other children - Arabella & Elvira, per Linda Donaldson 2/7/98.
Death reported by James A. Dell.
Obit British Canadian of 5 Jan 1881-Died this morning in Windham of congestion of the lungs, Richard Dell in 87th year of his age. Funeral on Friday, from late residence, burial Bethlehem Cemetery. Steinhoff source says died 1 Mar 1881.
Dell -- Richard Dell died -- see OVSFA1881p. 43 -- Richard Dell, 86, died 5 Jan 1881 in Windham. Internment next Friday at Bethlehem Cemetery [BC18810105p3]
Richard married7 Sarah Ann STEINHOFF 6 daughter of Andrew Herman STEINHOFF and Janet "Jenny" MALCOLM on 7 Jan 1818 in ON, Canada. Sarah was born in 1801 in ON, Canada. She died on 16 Sep 1874.
Marriage, children-Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement, E.A. Owen, 1898 p. 438. Note that Richard was her 1st cousin.
Richard Dell m. Sarah Ann Steinhoff. 1851 Census, Windham Twp. p. 11 shows Richard Dill, resided log house, farmer, b. UC, age 58, New Communion Methodist, along with Sarah age 47 and children Peter a labourer age 29, Samantha M. age 24, Jane age 16, Ann age 10, & James A. Dill age 8.
1861 Census, Windham Twp: Richard, farmer, NCM, 67, Sarah 60, Samantha, seamstress, 33, Ann 19, James B. 17, Melbourne 9.
1871 Census-Windham Twp, Norfolk Co. Richard Dell 74, English, farmer, NC Methodist, Sarah 72, James 26 md, Martha 22 md, Ann 28 sgl, Jessie f. 2.
Appendix A - Sources: 1. Bruce S. Elliott, Dan Walker, Fawne Stratford-Devai, Men of Upper Canada, Militia Nominal Rolls, 1828-1829 (Toronto, OGS, 1995), p. 157-158, Family History Library (LDS), 35 N. West Temple St., Salt Lake City UT 84150. 2. Assessment of Windham Twp. 1809-1826 (Norfolk Historical Society, Simcoe, `975), pp. 12, 19, 20, Eva Brooks Donley Museum, Simcoe, ON, Canada. 3. R. Robert Mutry, Long Point Settlers (1992), Eva Brooks Donley Museum, Simcoe, ON, Canada. 4. E. A. Owen, Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement (1898), p. 438, Eva Brooks Donley Museum, Simcoe, ON, Canada. 5. Eric Jonasson, Canadian Veterans of the War of 1812 (Wheatley Press, Winnipeg, 1981), p. 30.Indicates Richard born "about 1794.". 6. E. A. Owen, Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement , p. 438. 7. Grand River Branch, UEL , Loyalist Families of the Grand River Branch (1991), p. 345.
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[27316] The Orsette Family Tree in Ancestry.com states that Christina is daughter of Johannes Earnest (b. 25 Sept 1743 in Montgomery Co., PA, d. in Nov 1828 in Cumberland, now Perry, Co., PA, son of Conrad Ernst [b. 1720] and Anna Katarina _____) and Maria Barbara Sontag (1747-1848, m. 6 Nov 1768).
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Notes... Jacob Henry's daughter, Susanna, married John Drake and is my great-great-great grandmother. I also seriously doubt that Jacob Henry and Susanna Gotshall got married in 1816. The births of their children would better place the marriage around 1810 or 1811. {N.B. There were two separate Jacob Henrys marrying two separate Susannah Gotshalls - AEM]
Written by Anna (Drake) Smith, November 1902:
On July 4th, 1759, somewhere in Pennsylvania a baby was born and received the name of John Henry. He married a woman by the name of Eve Margaret. Your historian cannot learn her maiden name. John Henry served in the Revolutionary War, was often heard to tell how his regiment was once without provision for three days, then having won a victory of the English troops and captured a lot of provision, he stood for hours mixing flour and water in a trough, some eating raw dough while others took it on their ramrods and roasted it in an open fire. Occasionally, one of his comrades would give him a mouthful while he continued mixing bread for the others. John Henry died December 19, 1841 at the home of his son, Jacob Henry, in Jackson Township, Richland County, Ohio. Eve Margaret Henry was born in Pennsylvania on April 22nd, 1759 and died at the home of her son, Jacob Henry, March 8th, 1848.
Jacob Henry, son of John and Eve Margaret Henry, was born in the year 1784 in Pennsylvania. He married Susanna Gotshall, daughter of Michael and Catherine Gotshall, who also served in the Revolutionary War, in the year 1816. Jacob Henry with his wife and four children moved to the far West when he left the mountainous Pennsylvania home. His possessions amounted to five dollars in cash, one horse, a one-horse wagon, a few dishes, bedding, and flour.
Mr. Henry secured 160 acres of land in Harrison County, he and his wife having walked all the way from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania with the children and their few goods in the wagon. They slept in the wagon at night, cooking by a campfire, baking bread in the then-used bake kettles, which was a flat kettle with long legs and a heavy iron lid. The baking was done by heaping live coals around and on top of the kettle.
In 1833, Mr. Henry, having heard glowing reports of Richland County, decided to sell his hilly Harrison County farm and with his wife and twelve children, moved to Jackson Township.
He purchased 320 acres of land partly cleared and with a log cabin on. A couple years later, he build a commodious brick house, the old farm has been divided and is owned by Benjamin Laser, Eve Henry, and George Holtz, who still lives in the old brick house. Later, Mr. Henry bought 640 acres of land in Williams County, Ohio. Their children's names were Catherine, Sarah, Lydia, Susanna, Jonas, Jacob, John, Elizabeth, Eve, Mary, Daniel, and Samuel. Susanna, wife of Jacob Henry, died December 31st, 1861, aged 74 years, 9 months, 24 days. In 1864, Mr. Henry, again desiring to visit a brother and the home of his childhood, resolved to take a trip east and was on the ill-fated train which collided near the village of Thompsontown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, September 21, 1864. After the collision, the wreck caught fire and he was supposed to have been burned to death. Jacob Henry died September 21, 1864, aged 80 years.
Susanna Henry, daughter of Jacob and Susanna Henry, was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on November 25th, 1814, moved to Harrison County with her parents in the year 1816. In 1833, she moved with her family to Jackson Township, Richland County. On March 29th, 1838, she married John Drake and moved on the farm where she has ever since resided.
On November 25th, 1890, the Drake family held a reunion which was the first in thirty-seven years. Mr. Drake died March 18th, 1887.
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John Henry, b. 4 July 1759 in PA, m. 9 March 1779 in Montgomery Co., PA Eva Margaret Zangmeister (b. 22 April 1759 in PA, d. 8 March 1848 in Richland Co., OH) - per note by Mary Altmon Sesher.
Henry's Valley in Perry County (the lower end of Sheaffer's Valley) is named for this family.
- - - Professor K. Edward Lay {kl2u@virginia.edu} writes:
Henry's Valley was named for the HENRY family who resided there just over the mountain from Cumberland Co, PA, into Perry Co, PA. It is the western end of Sheaffer's Valley, called "Pandemonium" in 1728 but was settled prior to 1776 as it furnished one Company and Officers for the Revolutionary War. In 1805, it had a school which also served as a church with a cemetery nearby. It is probably the "property in Diehl's Valley" (Toboyne, Jackson, Madison Twps of later Perry Co) listed in the 1814 Mifflin Twp, Cumberland Co, PA, Tax List. One source has the HENRYs as coming from Fahan, Northern Ireland, but they are also listed as speaking German and they certainly intermarried with Germans in that area. Residents of that area crossed south over the North Mountain via Three Square Hollow into Mifflin Twp to attend Zeigler's Lutheran Church there. Jerry Clouse has written about this area in the publication of The Perry Historians (P. O. Box 73, Newport, PA 17074-0073).
The 1790 Census of Cumberland Co, PA lists William HENRY and two John HENRYs as Heads of Households and all born before 1774. The 1800 Census and the Tax Lists for 1814-1828 in Mifflin Twp, Cumberland Co, and Toboyne Twp, Perry Co, PA, show also Nicholas, William, Peter, Jacob, John, and George HENRY names. There is a Cumberland County
Administration Bond (#133) for the estate of Peter HENRY dec'd of Mifflin Twp, dated 7 Apr 1818, listing Eve HENRY and William HENRY as administrators and with a $400 bail by sureties John HENRY and Christian HENRY (all of Cumberland County). A 10 Apr 1818 Inventory (#179) of Peter HENRY dec'd of Mifflin Twp which included a 10-plate stove, rifle & shot pouch, silver watch, 2 spinning wheels, shoemaker's tools, horses, cows, lambs, hogs. A Deed Poll (Sheriff John CAROTHERS to Samuel UTLEY - #462, p. 133) for the seizure (dated 1 Sep 1801) of 100 acres of Mifflin Twp, Cumberland Co, property (with 10-12 acreas of cleared land upon which is erected a square log house) of Nicholas and Peter HENRY at the suit of Samuel Utley (land bounded by lands of Michael DEIL, John HAY, and others).
Wm HENRY m. Sophia -- and is listed in the 1800 Census, Tyrone Twp, Cumb Co (became Perry Co in 1820). They possibly had children: Eva Margaret HENRY b. bef 1755 who m. John LAY (my 4th GGP), and Nicholas HENRY m. -- MITCHELL? and lived in Mifflin Twp, Cumberland Co, PA.
Nicholas' son allegedly was John HENRY Sr (1759 Cresam Twp, Philadelphia Co, PA-1841 OH) who was a Revolutionary War soldier (1776-1778) in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton, returned to reside in Rockville, Bucks Co PA after the war, was the first person to build a log house in Henry's Valley in Perry County PA, and then changed his name to McHENRY and moved to Marlborough Twp, Stark Co, OH, sometime after 1828. At the time of his enlishment he was living in Smithfield Twp, Bucks Co, PA (Rev War Pension Claim S.2285).
John HENRY Sr m. Eva Margaret -- and had the following known children:
1. John HENRY, Jr.
2. Christian (Christy) HENRY (1790 Bucks Co, PA-1871) m. Catharine LAY (or ROATH) 1792 Bucks Co, PA-1876). Christian HENRY and Catharine LEA are listed in the Brick Lutheran Church Records, Frankford Twp, Cumberland Co, PA. Both are buried in the Pioneer Cem in Henry's Valley where he was an Elder in the church there.
3. Anna Maria (Mary) HENRY (b. 1798, Perry Co, PA) m. Henry LAY (1801-1866).
4. Eva Margaret HENRY (b. 1803).
Children of Christian (Christy) HENRY (1790-1871) and Catharine LAY:
Susanna HENRY (1817-1893) m. Peter OILER (1820-1842)
Christian HENRY (bap 1821)
Daniel David? HENRY (1825-1902) m. Mary A. CLOUSE (1826-1885)
Mary A. HENRY (b. 1832) m. David HASEL
Rebecca HENRY (b 1835) m. -- McCOY
Jacob HENRY m. Susannah GUTSHALL
Catharine HENRY m. George KUNKLE
Rachael HENRY m. Samuel HACKMAN
Joseph HENRY
Soloma A. HENRY m. David or? Benjamin SALSBURG
Jacob HENRY m. Susannah GUTSHALL:
In 1826-28 Tax List, had 200 Warrantee acres and 118 Patent acres in Toboyne Twp, Perry Co, PA. Allegedly, he left the family and died in the West. They had the following known children: Daniel S. HENRY (b 1836)m. Mary Ann STAMBAUGH, George W. HENRY (1840-1924) m. Melinda Jane BALTOZER, Jacob HENRY (Seattle, WA), Esther HENRY m. -- BOWER, Kate HENRY m. Samuel SHEAFFER.
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Jacob Henry died while returning from visiting his brother according to Prof. K. Edward Lay.
"Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans," Carl Boyer III (Santa Clarita, CA, 2001), p. 150 states he was living in 1086 and dead in 1103. He m. Hawise (or Hadewisa) _____. He held Hartley Mauditt in Portchester in Hampshire in 1086 as a result of his service as Chamberlain of the Treasury, and also held Fyfield in Hampshire. He had a son, Robert, who apparently died in the wreck of the White Ship in 1120 without a heir.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portchester_Castle offers: "Around 1090, William Mauduit, the lord of the local manor, built a small Norman castle in the north-west corner of the fort, with a single storey stone keep and wooden palisade on two sides." This was known as Portchester Castle and today is open to visiters.
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Second wife of Gilbert de Clare - his first wife and mother of his known children is not known. Joan m. (2) in 1297 Ralph de Monthermer, summoned to parliament in right of her Clare earldoms from 1299 to 1306. After her death Earl Gilbert's son and namesake was Earl of Gloucester and Hertford at age 16. Joan and Ralph had Sir Thomas de Monthermer, b. 1301, d. 1340 at the Battle of Sluys - Sir Thomas' dau. Margaret, b. 1329, d. 1395, is paternal grandmother of Sir Thomas de Montagu, K.C., b. ca. 1388, d. 1428, Earl of Salisbury, Lt. Gen. of Normandy, m. (1) Eleanor de Holland (dau. of Thomas, Earl of Kent) and m. (2) by 11-1424 Alice, d. 1475, widow of Sir
John Philip and dau. and heir of Thomas Chaucer, Chief Butler to Richard II and Henry IV, speaker of the House of Commons, prob. son of Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet, brother-in-law of John of Gaunt. See "Ancestral Roots...," Frederick L. Weis (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992 - 7th Edition) Line 11 (p. 14). http://www.guide2womenleaders.com offers: "Princess Joan of Acre, Lady of Glamorgan and Wales (United Kingdom) - Born in Acre (Akko) in Palestine as daughter of King Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Leonor of Castilla and Leon while her parents were travelling to the Middle East on the Ninth Crusade. At least part of her childhood she spent in France with her maternal grandmother, Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu. She was betrothed as a child to Hartman, son of King Rudolph I of Germany, but he died in 1282 after drowning in the Rhine. She then married Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, and was mother of Eleanor de Clare (1292-1337), who became Lady of G. and W. in 1314. After Gilbert's death, she clandestinely married Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, a knight in her household, in 1297. Her father was enraged by this lowly second marriage, and her husband was thrown in prison but was released in 1297, and allowed to hold the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hereford during her lifetime. Princess Joan had 8 surviving children with her 2 husbands and died while giving birth to a stillborn child . . . ."
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[25182] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weld_family offers: "Captain Joseph Weld (15991646), the youngest of the three Weld immigrants, is the ancestor from whom the richest and most famous Welds descend.[2] As an award for his participation in the Pequot War of 1637 and subsequent negotiations, the colonial legislature granted Weld 278 acres (1.13 km2) in the town of Roxbury. Captain Weld's land is now much of present day Jamaica Plain. With the wealth generated from this grant, Joseph Weld became one of the first donors to Harvard and a founder of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts."