_____________________
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_Samuel BASS _____________|_____________________
| (1600 - 1694)
_John BASS __________|
| (.... - 1716) m 1657|
| | _____________________
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| |__________________________|_____________________
|
_Samuel BASS ________|
| (1660 - 1751) m 1694|
| | _____________________
| | |
| | _John ALDEN ______________|_____________________
| | | (.... - 1687) m 1622
| |_Ruth ALDEN _________|
| (1637 - 1674) m 1657|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Priscilla MULLINS _______|_____________________
| m 1622
_Samuel BASS ________|
| (1700 - 1768) m 1722|
| | _John ADAMS _________+
| | | (1555 - 1604) m 1575
| | _Henry ADAMS _____________|_Agnes STONE ________
| | | (1583 - 1646) m 1609 (1556 - 1616)
| | _Joseph ADAMS _______|
| | | (1626 - 1694) m 1650|
| | | | _Henry SQUIRE _______
| | | | | (1563 - 1649) m 1586
| | | |_Edith Roseamund SQUIRE __|_Charlotte MACKREL __
| | | (1587 - 1672) m 1609 (1565 - 1660)
| |_Mary ADAMS _________|
| (1667 - 1706) m 1694|
| | _____________________
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| | __________________________|_____________________
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| |_Abigail BAXTER _____|
| (1634 - 1692) m 1650|
| | _____________________
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| |__________________________|_____________________
|
|
|--Abigail BASS
| (1728 - 1804)
| _Alexander WHITE ____+
| | (1550 - 1596) m 1570
| _Thomas WHITE ____________|_Eleanor SMITH ______
| | (1599 - 1679) m 1635 (1546 - 1599)
| _Thomas WHITE _______|
| | (1644 - 1706) |
| | | _____________________
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| | |_Ann WORKMAN _____________|_____________________
| | (1603 - 1679) m 1635
| _Samuel WHITE _______|
| | (1676 - 1756) m 1701|
| | | _Henry PRATT ________+
| | | |
| | | _Macuth PRATT ____________|_____________________
| | | | (.... - 1672) m 1619
| | |_Mary PRATT _________|
| | (1633 - 1723) |
| | | _William KINGHAM ____+
| | | | (1571 - 1654) m 1592
| | |_Elizabeth Bates KINGHAM _|_Catherine BATES ____
| | (1672 - 1667) m 1619 (1575 - 1620)
|_Hannah WHITE _______|
(1704 - 1743) m 1722|
| _William PENNIMAN ___+
| | (1574 - 1624)
| _James PENNIMAN __________|_____________________
| | (1600 - 1664) m 1631
| _Joseph PENNIMAN ____|
| | (1639 - 1705) |
| | | _____________________
| | | |
| | |_Lydia ELIOT _____________|_____________________
| | (1610 - 1676) m 1631
|_Deborah PENNIMAN ___|
(1689 - 1724) m 1701|
| _____________________
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|_____________________|
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| _____________________
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|__________________________|_____________________
[32901] This line is not verified, but is reported in One World Tree in Ancestry.com.
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|
_John BRYANT ________|__________________________
| (.... - 1684) m 1643
_John BRYANT ________|
| (1644 - 1708) m 1676|
| | _George (Lewes or) LEWIS _+
| | | (1600 - 1663) m 1626
| |_Mary LEWIS _________|_Sarah JENKINS ___________
| (.... - 1655) m 1643 (.... - 1636)
_David BRYANT _______|
| (1684 - 1731) m 1705|
| | __________________________
| | |
| | _____________________|__________________________
| | |
| |_Mary BATTELLE ______|
| (1650 - 1732) m 1676|
| | __________________________
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| |_____________________|__________________________
|
_Jacob BRYANT _______|
| (1714 - ....) m 1744|
| | __________________________
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| | _____________________|__________________________
| | |
| | _Sylvester STOVER ___|
| | | m 1652 |
| | | | __________________________
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| | | |_____________________|__________________________
| | |
| |_Hannah STOVER ______|
| (.... - 1736) m 1705|
| | _Henry NORTON ____________+
| | | (1571 - 1631) m 1613
| | _Henry NORTON _______|_Sarah LAWSON ____________
| | | (1618 - ....)
| |_Elizabeth NORTON ___|
| m 1652 |
| | __________________________
| | |
| |_____________________|__________________________
|
|
|--Elizabeth BRYANT
| (1755 - ....)
| __________________________
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| _____________________|__________________________
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| _____________________|
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| | |_____________________|__________________________
| |
|_Abigail NEWTON _____|
(1726 - 1818) m 1744|
| __________________________
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| _____________________|__________________________
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_William Henry (Jr.) CONNER _+
| (1809 - 1884) m 1829
_Ezra S. CONNER _______|_Emaline SNOWMAN ____________
| (1841 - 1912) m 1867 (1811 - 1880)
_Robert Arno CONNER _|
| (1878 - 1942) |
| | _James S. ORDWAY ____________+
| | | (1817 - 1892) m 1837
| |_Ada ORDWAY ___________|_Eliza J. STOVER ____________
| (1853 - 1935) m 1867 (1819 - 1915)
_Robert Kenneth CONNOR _|
| (1900 - 1980) m 1920 |
| | _Charles Thomas COLSON ______+
| | | (1805 - 1882)
| | _William Henry COLSON _|_Margaret M. COLSON _________
| | | (1847 - 1911) m 1865 (1813 - 1903)
| |_Nora E. COLSON _____|
| (1879 - 1940) |
| | _George W. HOWARD ___________+
| | | (1812 - 1896)
| |_Lucinda P. HOWARD ____|_Sultana CLOUGH _____________
| (1845 - 1912) m 1865 (1840 - 1916)
_Kenneth Arnold CONNOR __|
| (1929 - 2004) m 1950 |
| | _____________________________
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| | _______________________|_____________________________
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| | | |_______________________|_____________________________
| | |
| |_Abbie May SMITH _______|
| (1904 - 1980) m 1920 |
| | _____________________________
| | |
| | _______________________|_____________________________
| | |
| |_____________________|
| |
| | _____________________________
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| |_______________________|_____________________________
|
|
|--Arnold Kenneth CONNOR
|
| _____________________________
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| _______________________|_____________________________
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| | |_______________________|_____________________________
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| | |_______________________|_____________________________
| |
|_Elizabeth Estella WARD _|
(1933 - 2012) m 1950 |
| _____________________________
| |
| _______________________|_____________________________
| |
| _____________________|
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| | |_______________________|_____________________________
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[6591] living - details excluded
[2321] Source: "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England ...," Frederick Lewis Weis, sixth edition; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1988; line 45-26; "The Plantagenet Ancestry," Lt.-Col. W.H. Turton (Balt.: Gen. Pub. Co., 1984), p. 43. The IGI file reports that she is daughter of Theodorus Castamonita (b. ca 1111).
[2320]
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| | __________________________
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| |_____________________________________|__________________________
|
_Charles Hartwell DODGE ___|
| (1882 - 1960) m 1912 |
| | __________________________
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| | _____________________________________|__________________________
| | |
| |___________________________|
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| | __________________________
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| |_____________________________________|__________________________
|
_Lawrence Harvard DODGE _|
| (1914 - 2004) m 1937 |
| | __________________________
| | |
| | _____________________________________|__________________________
| | |
| | _Charles E. MOON __________|
| | | (1863 - 1895) m 1890 |
| | | | __________________________
| | | | |
| | | |_____________________________________|__________________________
| | |
| |_Margaret ("Maggie") MOON _|
| (1891 - 1974) m 1912 |
| | __________________________
| | |
| | _James Leach SAUNDERS _______________|_Susan LEACH _____________
| | | (1826 - 1911) m 1853 (1797 - 1893)
| |_Emma SAUNDERS ____________|
| (1861 - ....) m 1890 |
| | _Joshua GRINDLE __________+
| | | (1800 - 1887) m 1823
| |_Harriet Augusta GRINDLE ____________|_Prudence Lear EATON _____
| (1833 - 1911) m 1853 (1805 - 1867)
|
|--Peter S. DODGE
| (1939 - 2023)
| __________________________
| |
| _____________________________________|__________________________
| |
| _William Paul (Jr) BISSET _|
| | (1869 - 1953) m 1893 |
| | | __________________________
| | | |
| | |_____________________________________|__________________________
| |
| _Walter Ross BISSET _______|
| | (1895 - 1976) m 1915 |
| | | _Nathaniel BOWDEN ________+
| | | | (1811 - 1879) m 1831
| | | _Bailey Walker BOWDEN _______________|_Tryphena SAUNDERS _______
| | | | (1838 - 1907) m 1865 (1811 - 1903)
| | |_Hattie Grindle BOWDEN ____|
| | (1875 - 1960) m 1893 |
| | | __________________________
| | | |
| | |_Mary Elizabeth ("Lizzie") HARRIMAN _|__________________________
| | (1843 - 1929) m 1865
|_Eva Hattie BISSET ______|
(1917 - 1987) m 1937 |
| _Rufus LEACH _____________+
| | (1807 - 1882) m 1833
| _Calvin LEACH _______________________|_Ruth BRIDGES ____________
| | (1835 - 1920) m 1862 (1814 - 1889)
| _Calvin Eugene LEACH ______|
| | (1862 - 1930) m 1890 |
| | | _Melzar DUNBAR ___________+
| | | | (1817 - 1890) m 1842
| | |_Euzilla Minerva DUNBAR _____________|_Minerva HOPKINS _________
| | (1844 - 1925) m 1862 (1822 - 1916)
|_Dora Adelpha LEACH _______|
(1895 - 1985) m 1915 |
| _John Atkins BUKER _______+
| | (1821 - ....) m 1845
| _John Atkins BUKER __________________|_Abigail Winafred COLSON _
| | (1848 - ....) (1823 - ....)
|_Eva H. BUKER _____________|
(1869 - 1941) m 1890 |
| _Daniel LEACH ____________+
| | (1801 - 1876) m 1828
|_Edna Flora LEACH ___________________|_Eliza DUNBAR ____________
(1848 - 1919) (1812 - 1889)
[60026] "The Bangor Daily News [Bangor, Maine]," 20 December 2023: "Blue Hill, Maine - Peter, 84, left us unexpectedly and too soon. Peter was born in Blue Hill, Maine, son of Lawrence and Eva (Bissett) Dodge. He was our best friend, our rock and our whole world. We will forever miss his smile and his dry sense of humor. He was a lifetime member of I.O.O.F in Blue Hill, as well as Halcyon Grange in Blue Hill. He loved working in his yard and puttering in his shop, as well as his daily trips 'down the street' and to the South Blue Hill wharf. He was loved by many. Peter was predeceased by his parents; his wife of 51 years, Irene (Astbury) Dodge; and great-granddaughter, Indaca Dodge. He is survived by his brother, Eric Dodge; daughter, Julie Carter and husband, Wayne, of Sedgwick; son, Charles Dodge and wife, Susanne, of Cape Rosier; and son, Errol Dodge and wife, Lori, of Blue Hill; grandchildren, Denyse, Theodore "Ted" and wife, Nikki, Hannah and husband, Matt, Alisa, Daniel and wife, Veronica, and Madison "Maddie"; and great-grandchildren, Ian, Gavin, Avia, Deliah, Ava, Piper, Silas and Adaline."
_John FICKETT _______+
| (1730 - 1823) m 1749
_Benjamin FICKETT ___|_Isabel DYER ________
| (1737 - 1825) m 1760 (1729 - 1828)
_Zebulon FICKETT ____|
| (1759 - 1854) m 1780|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Sarah SAWYER _______|_____________________
| (1734 - 1807) m 1760
_Otis Smith FICKETT __|
| (1796 - 1883) m 1822 |
| | _Thomas FICKETT _____+
| | | (1697 - ....)
| | _John FICKETT _______|_____________________
| | | (1730 - 1823) m 1749
| |_Sarah FICKETT ______|
| (1759 - ....) m 1780|
| | _William J. DYER ____+
| | | (1690 - ....) m 1709
| |_Isabel DYER ________|_Hannah STROUT ______
| (1729 - 1828) m 1749
_John William FICKETT _|
| (1826 - 1902) |
| | _____________________
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| | |
| |_Sarah Downs GUPTILL _|
| (1803 - 1866) m 1822 |
| | _____________________
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| | _____________________|_____________________
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| |_____________________|_____________________
|
|
|--Orrianna FICKETT
| (1850 - 1926)
| _____________________
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| _____________________|_____________________
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| | |_____________________|_____________________
| |
|_Jerusha Susan DAVIS __|
(1830 - 1904) |
| _____________________
| |
| _____________________|_____________________
| |
| _____________________|
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| | |_____________________|_____________________
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|
_______________________|________________________
|
_Joseph Brookins JOHNSON _|
| (1790 - 1838) m 1811 |
| | ________________________
| | |
| |_______________________|________________________
|
_Andrew Gould JOHNSON ___________|
| (1826 - 1904) m 1853 |
| | _Josiah WESCOTT ________+
| | | (1734 - 1822) m 1760
| | _Richard WESCOTT ______|_Mary Ann HOYT _________
| | | (1761 - ....) m 1785 (1740 - 1826)
| |_Nancy WESTCOTT __________|
| (.... - 1884) m 1811 |
| | ________________________
| | |
| |_Lydia Ann BRYANT _____|________________________
| (.... - 1841) m 1785
_William Andrew JOHNSON _|
| (1858 - 1930) m 1878 |
| | ________________________
| | |
| | _______________________|________________________
| | |
| | __________________________|
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| | | | |
| | | |_______________________|________________________
| | |
| |_Charity Elizabeth COLBETH ______|
| (1832 - 1916) m 1853 |
| | ________________________
| | |
| | _______________________|________________________
| | |
| |__________________________|
| |
| | ________________________
| | |
| |_______________________|________________________
|
|
|--Willard Alden JOHNSON
| (1879 - 1953)
| _Simeon WOODWARD _______+
| | (1744 - 1815) m 1778
| _James Finch WOODWARD _|_Mary ("Dolly") DRAKET _
| | (1783 - 1836) (.... - 1824)
| _James Finch WOODWARD ____|
| | (1806 - 1880) m 1824 |
| | | ________________________
| | | |
| | |_Hannah BEAL __________|________________________
| | (.... - 1836)
| _John Alfred WOODWARD ___________|
| | (1834 - 1929) |
| | | ________________________
| | | |
| | | _______________________|________________________
| | | |
| | |_Elizabeth R. JOHNSON ____|
| | (1807 - 1880) m 1824 |
| | | ________________________
| | | |
| | |_______________________|________________________
| |
|_Alice Octavia WOODWARD _|
(1855 - 1932) m 1878 |
| ________________________
| |
| _______________________|________________________
| |
| __________________________|
| | |
| | | ________________________
| | | |
| | |_______________________|________________________
| |
|_Adelia Helen ("Delia") JOHNSON _|
(1838 - 1911) |
| ________________________
| |
| _______________________|________________________
| |
|__________________________|
|
| ________________________
| |
|_______________________|________________________
_James (Sr.) LEACH ________+
| (1738 - 1822) m 1761
_James (Jr.) LEACH __|_Alice FREEMAN ____________
| (1768 - 1853) m 1796 (1739 - 1824)
_Peter Mograge LEACH _____|
| (1802 - 1882) m 1845 |
| | _Peter MORGRAGE ___________
| | | (1752 - 1817)
| |_Sally MORGRAGE _____|_Peggy MOORE ______________
| (1779 - 1856) m 1796 (1757 - 1849)
_Edgar P. LEACH ______|
| (1848 - 1914) |
| | _Charles SELLERS __________+
| | | (1750 - 1833) m 1767
| | _Robert SELLERS _____|_Jerusha MOREY ____________
| | | (1793 - 1843) m 1818 (1761 - 1832)
| |_Deborah SELLARS _________|
| (1824 - 1892) m 1845 |
| | _John LEACH _______________+
| | | (.... - 1845) m 1786
| |_Nancy LEACH ________|_Mary SIMPSON _____________
| (1789 - 1866) m 1818 (1771 - 1845)
_William Albert LEACH ___|
| (1875 - 1961) m 1898 |
| | _Joseph GROSS _____________
| | | (1739 - 1807) m 1761
| | _John Ames GROSS ____|_Tabitha GOODALE __________
| | | (1779 - 1856) m 1804 (1736 - 1780)
| | _Sawyer GROSS ____________|
| | | (1805 - 1882) m 1827 |
| | | | ___________________________
| | | | |
| | | |_Rachel LAWRENCE ____|___________________________
| | | (1784 - 1815) m 1804
| |_Abigail S. GROSS ____|
| (1839 - 1924) |
| | ___________________________
| | |
| | _____________________|___________________________
| | |
| |_Abigail S. VILES ________|
| (1805 - 1896) m 1827 |
| | ___________________________
| | |
| |_____________________|___________________________
|
|
|--Lena May LEACH
| (1901 - 1994)
| ___________________________
| |
| _____________________|___________________________
| |
| _Zelotes YORK ____________|
| | (1824 - 1882) m 1850 |
| | | ___________________________
| | | |
| | |_____________________|___________________________
| |
| _Ora Z. YORK _________|
| | (1858 - 1923) m 1877 |
| | | _Caleb BOWDEN _____________+
| | | | (1751 - 1810) m 1774
| | | _Levi BOWDEN ________|_Hannah BASTEEN ___________
| | | | (1787 - ....) m 1812 (1755 - ....)
| | |_Catherine R. BOWDEN _____|
| | (1821 - 1875) m 1850 |
| | | _Paul (Jr) BOWDEN _________
| | | | (1767 - ....) m 1788
| | |_Jane BOWDEN ________|_Rebecca MARKS ____________
| | (1791 - ....) m 1812 (1768 - ....)
|_Katherine Bernice YORK _|
(1882 - 1935) m 1898 |
| _Eliphalet Lowell GRINDLE _+
| | (1769 - 1843) m 1789
| _John West GRINDLE __|_Nancy Anne GRAY __________
| | (1804 - ....) m 1824 (1773 - 1823)
| _Stephen Elerson GRINDLE _|
| | (1836 - 1913) m 1859 |
| | | _Alexander MCCASLIN _______+
| | | | (1763 - 1853) m 1788
| | |_Sarah C. MCCASLIN __|_Abigail GRAY _____________
| | (1805 - ....) m 1824 (1768 - ....)
|_Florence A. GRINDLE _|
(1860 - 1897) m 1877 |
| _James E. CUNNINGHAM ______
| | (1786 - 1868) m 1807
| _Johnson CUNNINGHAM _|_Sarah KNOWLES ____________
| | (1808 - 1855) m 1825 (1789 - 1838)
|_Sarah Hanna CUNNINGHAM __|
(1839 - 1911) m 1859 |
| _Shedrack Watson BLACK ____+
| | (1777 - 1855) m 1800
|_Mary BLACK _________|_Phoebe GRAY ______________
(1803 - 1878) m 1825 (1776 - 1838)
[24252] Lea's Social Security death record states she last r. in Silt, Garfield Co., CO.
[24251]
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_Thomas PIERCE ______+
| (1618 - 1683) m 1635
_Stephen PIERCE ______|_Elizabeth COLE _____
| (1651 - 1732) m 1676 (1607 - 1688)
_Stephen J. PIERCE __|
| (.... - 1749) m 1707|
| | _Jacob PARKER _______
| | |
| |_Tabitha PARKER ______|_____________________
| (1659 - 1742) m 1676
_Benjamin PIERCE ____|
| (1726 - 1764) m 1746|
| | _____________________
| | |
| | ______________________|_____________________
| | |
| |_Esther FLETCHER ____|
| (.... - 1767) m 1707|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |______________________|_____________________
|
_Benjamin (Jr.) PIERCE _|
| (1757 - 1839) m 1790 |
| | _Nathaniel MERRILL __+
| | | (1634 - 1682)
| | _John MERRILL ________|_____________________
| | | (1663 - 1705) m 1685
| | _Abel MERRILL _______|
| | | (1690 - 1753) m 1714|
| | | | _Sgt. John WEBSTER __+
| | | | | (1632 - 1716) m 1653
| | | |_Lucy WEBSTER ________|_Anne Newburg BATT __
| | | (1664 - 1718) m 1685 (1630 - 1716)
| |_Elizabeth MERRILL __|
| (1728 - ....) m 1746|
| | _____________________
| | |
| | _Henry BODWELL _______|_____________________
| | | (1653 - 1745) m 1681
| |_Sarah BODWELL ______|
| (1694 - 1737) m 1714|
| | _____________________
| | |
| |_Bethia EMERY ________|_____________________
| (1658 - 1743) m 1681
|
|--Franklin PIERCE
| (1804 - 1869)
| _John KENDRICK ______+
| | (.... - 1686)
| _John (Jr.) KENDRICK _|_Anna SMITH _________
| | (1641 - 1721) m 1673 (1609 - 1656)
| _Caleb KENDRICK _____|
| | (1694 - 1771) m 1721|
| | | _____________________
| | | |
| | |_Esther GREEN ________|_____________________
| | (.... - 1723) m 1673
| _Benjamin KENDRICK __|
| | (1724 - 1812) m 1750|
| | | _Henry BOWEN ________+
| | | | (1633 - 1724) m 1658
| | | _John BOWEN __________|_Elizabeth JOHNSON __
| | | | (1662 - 1718) (1637 - 1683)
| | |_Abigail BOWEN ______|
| | (1700 - 1775) m 1721|
| | | _____________________
| | | |
| | |_Hannah BREWER _______|_____________________
| | (1665 - ....)
|_Anna KENDRICK _________|
(1768 - 1838) m 1790 |
| _____________________
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| ______________________|_____________________
| |
| _Stephen HARRIS _____|
| | (1700 - 1775) |
| | | _____________________
| | | |
| | |______________________|_____________________
| |
|_Sarah HARRIS _______|
(1730 - 1818) m 1750|
| _____________________
| |
| ______________________|_____________________
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|_____________________|
|
| _____________________
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He was the son of an American Revolution general who was later governor of the state. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1824, he was admitted to the bar in 1827 and practiced first at Hillsborough and then at Concord. He married a member of a distinguished New England family.
In politics Pierce was an active Democrat. He was elected to the state legislature in 1829 and was chosen Speaker in 1831; he went to Congress in 1833 and became a U.S. senator in 1837. An opponent of the abolitionists, he was one of the sponsors of the gag rule against antislavery petitions in Congress. After resigning from the Senate in 1842, he returned to Concord, where he became one of the leading members of the Concord Regency, a group of Democratic political leaders who dominated the party in New Hampshire.
His participation as a general in the Mexican War under Winfield Scott, and his firm support of the North-South components of the Compromise of 1850, which made him acceptable to the South, enabled him to become the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1852. Nominated on the 49th ballot after a deadlock between his principal rivals, he decisively defeated General Scott, his Whig opponent in the presidential election.
Pierce as President
Shortly before Pierce's inauguration, he lost his 11-year-old son in a railway accident. The grief caused by this tragedy, and the subsequent withdrawal of his distraught wife from society, may have contributed to his lack of success as president. His failure to distribute patronage to his friends, and the resulting lack of strength in Congress, forced him to support the Kansas-Nebraska bill in order to please its sponsor, Senator Stephen A. Douglas. This ill-considered measure, which for the first time allowed slavery in territories north of 36'30", split both major parties and greatly aggravated the conflict between the free and the slave states.
Pierce's seeming partiality to the South made him unpopular elsewhere. He vainly sought to bring peace to Kansas by frequently appointing new governors and by opposing the local free state movement. His vetoes of measures for internal improvements further contributed to his troubles in the North, as did his support for southern efforts to obtain Cuba and territories in Central America. He was no more successful in foreign affairs. With the exception of the Gadsden Purchase (1853), by which the United States gained a strip of land from Mexico, his expansionary projects miscarried. Publication of the Ostend Manifesto, a declaration by
three American ministers in Europe favoring the annexation of Cuba, further undermined the administration in the free states.
After failing to obtain renomination in 1856, Pierce withdrew from active politics. During the American Civil War he was widely denounced for his outspoken criticism of the Lincoln administration.
Evaluation
Although personally gracious and politically experienced, Pierce did not measure up to the responsibilities of his high office. Whether because of his personal misfortunes or his inability to understand the moral issues inherent in the antislavery struggle, he was unable to assert himself and provide the leadership needed. This resulted in the destruction of his hopes for sectional peace.
[45894] "Battle Creek Enquirer [Battle Creek, Michigan], 27 August 2003," p. 4: "Georgia Day, 101, of Coldwater, died Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at the Maple Lawn Medical Care Facility in Coldwater. Memorial Services will be held Friday, August 29, 2003, 11:00 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 52 Marshall Street, Coldwater, for Georgia Day, with Dr. James Troust officiating. Mrs. Day was born August 23, 1901, in Sanilac County, Michigan, to Rev. George and Myra Grant Georgia. She was graduated from Croswell High School, then attended Michigan State Normal (Eastern Michigan University) and Cleary Business College at the same time, earning simultaneous degrees in business and education. She taught at Union City High School for five years, spending one exciting summer vacation in New York City working as a Kelly Girl, enjoying plays and sight seeing. She married Ralph Day, June 27, 1926, and they moved to Battle Creek in 1927. The daughter of two ministers, Mrs. Day was a woman who lived a life of great faith. She was active in the Lakeview Baptist Church, having taught Church School classes for forty-five years. She also substituted in the Lakeview School System and taught night school classes in the Battle Creek School System. Georgia was a creative soul - a pastel and watercolor artist and talented seamstress. She loved to garden and was an avid bird watcher. Her grandchildren remember with delight the long-stemmed, deep purple violets that grew in masses in her garden in Battle Creek. She shared her love of art and nature with her family. She was a loving parent, grandparent and a devoted spouse. She had a knack for making each of her grandchildren feel special. Georgia and her husband Ralph spent many winters in Arizona and Florida enjoying sunshine and no snow. While in Florida they attended Detroit Tigers spring training games. She remained an enthusiastic Tiger fan. In 1977, she and her husband moved to Coldwater. They both became members of the First Presbyterian Church and she continued teaching church school for a time. She was a Deacon from 1985 to 1988, and was also active in the church women's circles. Georgia was preceded in death by her beloved sister, Anna Leah Schlappi, her husband, Ralph and her son-in-law, Donald Reppert. She will be remembered by her daughter, Georgann Reppert, grandchildren, Ralph and Jane Reppert, Katherine Reppert, Muriel and Gerry Hice, Joy and Darwin Maurer, six great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren and many friends."
Cousin Sandra McDonald offers:
Children:
i. William A. Swartzbaugh, b. 1860 in Illinois.
ii. Jesse Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1862 in Illinois.
iii. Addy Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1864 in Illinois.
iv. Daniel Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1866 in Illinois.
v. Abbie Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1868 in Illinois.
vi. Harry Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1870 in Illinois.
vii. Carrie Belle Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1873 in Summum, Fulton Co., Illinois. She married Clarence Irving Knapp.
viii. Oatie Swartzbaugh, b. Unknown.
ix. Charles Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1775 in Iowa.
x. Leoda Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1877 in Iowa.
xi. John Swartzbaugh, b. ABT 1879 in Iowa.
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