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Wheelock Whitney III and Carol Botterton, Gideon Hixon & His Hixson/Hixon Ancestors (La Crosse, Wis.: the authors, 2005), ...
Ellen J. O'Flaherty, "David Dickey of New Hampshire, Nova Scotia, and Maine," NEHGR 166 (July 2012):205-218.
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Children of David Dickey, Sr. ...
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iii. DAVID DICKEY JR. (twin), b. Truro 29 April 1763; d. Musquodoboit, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, in Nov 1852; m.(1) before 1794, when their first child was born, RUTH WEATHERBY, b. ca. 1766, daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Whitney?) Weatherby, d. Truro in 1816.[49] David m.(2) in Feb 1823 ANN (ARCHIBALD) KENNEDY, b. Truro 28 March 1772, daughter of John and Alice (Moore) Archibald, and widow of John Kennedy. She d. Pleasant Valley, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, 18 Oct. 1858.[50] It is likely that David Dickey Jr. was the David Dickey who served in the army from Vassalboro during the Revolutionary War, but by 1790 he had returned to Nova Scotia. In 1809 he petitioned for a grant of crown land.[51] and in June 1810 he was granted t00 acres of crown land in Musquodoboit,[52] where he lived until his death. He was known in Nova Scotia as "Yankee Davie."[53] One of his sons was named Eleazer Boyd Dickey.[54]
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49 Cynthia Hill, Thomas Weatherbee and His Descendants, 1682-1993 (Windsor Locks, Conn.: the author, 1993), 4-5. Samuel Weatherby was an early settler in Truro, where he appeared in the 1770 census (see note 8), 24, but was an Onlslow resident by 1774 (Eaton, "Settling of Colchester County" [note 1], 236). A July 1773 deed shows him selling land in Truro (Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Deeds, 1:177-78). He married first in Dedham, Massachusetts, 4 July 1744, Elizabeth Hawes (Don Gleason Hill, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, and Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638-1845 [Dedham, Mass.: Office of the Dedham Transcript, 1888], 71). Neither Elizabeth's death nor the date of Samuel's second marriage has been found. Hill, Thomas Weatherbee, 4, lists his second wife as Ruth -----, and she was clearly named Ruth, as shown by the relinquishment of her down right on the July 1773 deed cited above. Online Weatherby family trees uniformly call her Ruth Whitney, although without documentation. Ruth (Whitney?) Weatherby died in Onslow, Nova Scotia, 29 May 1831 (Hill, Thomas Weatherbee, 4).
50 Allan E. Marble, No Reward Without Effort: The Archibald Family of Nova Scotia (Halifax, N.S.: the author, 2008), 37, shows Ann (Archibald) Kennedy's parentage, her marriage to David Dickey, and their deaths.
51 In his 1809 petition for a crown land grant, David Dickey stated that he was "a native of the province, [and] has resided in it the last twenty years" (Nova Scotia Land Papers, RG20, Series "A," 1812, Dickey, David, and others, petitions and warrant, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management microfilm 15706). He apparently was not enumerated in Vassalboro in the 1790 census.
52 Nova Scotia Land Papers, RG20, Series "A," 1812, Dickey, David, and others, draft land grant, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management microfilm 15706.
53 The nickname "Yankee Davie" was noted by all the early authors of Nova Scotia genealogies: Miller (see note 4) and Crowell, Reid, and Donaldson (see note 5).
54 Hill, Thomas Weatherbee [note 9], 5.
"New England Articles in Genealogical Journals in 2010," NEHGR 166 (July 2010):223-240.
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Whitaker, Janice G., and Robert L. Ward. "Which Sarah Whitney Married Benjamin Wilson (1715-1774) of Billerica, Groton, and Townsend, Massachuseetts?" TAG 84 (Jan. 2010):18-25.
Frederick C. Hart, Jr., "Rediscovering Matthew Fulller (died 1752-53) of Colchester and Salisbury, Connecticut" NEHGR 166 (2012), pp. 271-288.
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Ezekiel Fuller's estate was inventoried on 4 May 1824 and consisted of 115 acres of land, a dwelling house, and a barn for a total of $1,875 in real estate, plus $492.90 in movables.[100] The heirs reached an agreement on the distribution of the real estate on 8 November 1824, and a final distribution was made on 8 February 1825.[101]
Children of Ezekiel7 and Abigail (-----) Fuller, recorded in Salisbury:[102]
i. MARY8 FULLER, b. -- Feb. 1761; d. 1 July 1761. ii. MARY/MOLLY FULLER, b. 19 April 1764; d. after 1840;[103] m. by 1783 JOEL DEAN, b. Salisbury 3 Oct. 1759, d. after 1840, son of Seth and Sarah (-----) Dean.[104] They moved to Schoharie Co., N.Y., by 1800,[105] amd were living in Broome, Schoharie Co., on 13 Sept. 1827 when they sold Mary Dean's portion of the estate of her father Ezekiel Fuller, deceased, to [their brother-in-law] Ruluff D. Whitney of Sheffield for $5.[106]
Children of Ezekiel and Hannah (Dutcher) Fuller, all born in Salisbury;[107] names of sons-in-law from the distribution of Ezekiel's estate:[108]
iii. MATTHEW FULLER, b. 27 Oct. 1771; d. 10 Jan. 1861, bur. Tully Cemetery, Tully, Onondaga Co., N.Y.;[109] m. ELIZABETH WELDON, b. Sallisbury 19 Dec. 1780, d. 14 June 1844 age 64, daughter of Elijah and Ruth (Westcott) Weldon.[110]
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101 Berkshire County Probate, 28:99, 285. The recipients were widow Hannah Fuller; Bathsheba, wife of Ruluff Whitney; Olive, wife of Philo Dutcher; Matthew fuller; Mary/Molly, wife of Joel Dean; the heirs of Ezekiel Fuller deceased; Abigail, wife of Milo Weldon; John Fuller; the heirs of Hannah Porter deceased, wife of Obadiah or Dyer Porter of New York; the heirs of Laura Whitney deceased, wife of William Whitney, and Archibald Fuller "youngest child."
102 Salisbury Vital Records, 1:118. These two Mary births and one death are recorded together in the original town volume as a small grouping, without any other related events nearby.
103 1840 U.S. Census, Conesville, Schoharie County, New York, roll 338, p. 36.
104 Salisbury Vital Records, 1:170: Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, 10 vols. to date (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.: the author, 1990- ), 4:104-05.
105 1800 U.S. Census, Bristol, Schoharie County, New York, roll 26, p. 144.
106 Berkshire County Land Records, Southern District, 64:458-59.
107 All recorded there except Ruth in Salisbury Vital Records, 2:32 (original numbering), 2:38 (as indexed). The entries were in two groups in different areas of the same page. Both groups were noted as, "Entered on 24 April 1790," except for Archibald's record, which was added later to the bottom of one group.
108 See note 101.
109 Findagrave.com. The gravestone supposedly says aged 92 years, 2 months, 18 days.
110 Salisbury Vital Records, 2:37 (birth), 47 (parents' marriage). Margaret Roberts Hodges, ed., "Genealogical Department," Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 53 (1919): 448, is the source for Elizabeth's date of death, but no evidence has been found that she was buried in Greenfield, Wisconsin, as stated there. Indeed, her husband was listed in the 1840 and 1850
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iv. EZEKIEL FULLER, b. 19 Feb. 1774; d. before 8 Feb. 1825, leaving children; m. -----. v. ABIGAIL FULLER, b. 29 July 1776; d. 6 Sept. 1831, aged 56 years, 1 month, 8 days, bur. Chapinville Cemetery, Salisbury;[111] m. MILO WELDON, b. Salisbury 17 Feb. 1783,[112] d. 3 April 1841 age 55, bur. Chapinville Cemetery,[113] son of Elijah and Ruth (Westcott) Weldon, and brother of Elizabeth Weldon who m. Abigail's brother Matthew Fuller. vi. FAITH FULLER, b. 2 May 1779, probably died young as she was not named in her father's estate. vii. HANNAH FULLER, b. 10 April 1781; d. before 8 Feb. 1825 leaving children; m. DYER/OBADIAH PORTER of New York. viii. RUTH FULLER, b. -----;[114] d. 25 March 1782.[115] ix. OLIVE FULLER, b. 9 March 1783; d. by 1840; m. PHILO DUTCHER, b. ca. 1785, d. after 1850, probably in Onondaga Co., N.Y.,[116] son of Ruluff and Mary (Nichols) Dutcher.[117]
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censuses of Onondaga County, New York; in 1840 his household included a female 50-59, in 1850 he was living in the household of Levi Webb (1840 U.S. Census, Tully, Onondaga COunty, New York, roll 317, p. 222; 1850 U.S. Census, Lafayette, Onondaga County, New York, roll 567, p. 207A).
111Historical Collections [note 86], 1:91.
112 Salisbury Vital Records, 2:37 (birth), 47 (parents' marriage).
113 Historical Collections [note 86], 1:91.
114 Ruth's birth was not recorded and her place in this birth order is uncertain except that we know she died before Olive was born. She may possibly have been a twin with one of the earlier siblings. Her identification here resolves the uncertainty in the writer's earlier article, Hart, "Ezekiel Fullers" [note 93], Register 166:102, at note 32.
115 Salisbury Vital Records, 2:4 (original numbering), 2:50 (as indexed), which call her "daughter of Ezekiel and Hannah Fuller." This record appears in the Barbour Collection as being for the child of "Ephraim" and Hannah Fuller, based on the J. N. Arnold transcription made in 1915. An earlier transcription was made by Frank. E. Randall in about 1895 and was used for the Historical Collections[note 86], 2:71, and that transcription read the name as "Ezekiel." The original record and its microfilm copy are now inconclusive as to the spelling of the father's name, since the original is very badly faded and indistinct for this record , which is at the bottom of a page. The Randall transcription still exists (part of the Malcolm D. Rudd Collection at the Connecticut State Library, call number 974.62 S234vi) and it clearly says "Ezekiel" and also includes the fact that the original entry ended with the words, "1782 in th [torn off]," so we know that Ruth's age at death was recorded at the time but that her age had been inadvertently lost sometime before 1895. Note also that there are no records for any Ephraim Fuller in either the Salisbury land or vital record indexes. The Barbour Collection is therefore in error regarding Ruth's father's name. A discussion of this original record volume and the Randall transcription, including the difference in page numbering and indexing, will be found in the Historical Collections, 2:37-38.
116 Philo Dutcher appears to have married again by 1840, when he was living in Cicero, Onondaga County, New York, with a wife much younger than Olive; They were also there in 1850 as Phil Dutcher, 65, born Connecticut, "Mrs." Dutcher, 45, born Massachusetts (1850 U.S. Census, Cicero, Onondaga County, New York roll 36, p. 76; 1850 U.S. Census, Cicero, roll 570, pp. 388A).
117 Philo is identified as their son on home.gwi.net/~pheski/gen/dut/RR-01/ RR-01_013.htm, which reports that he died in 1885 age 75. For his parents see also Griffin, "Dutcher Family" [note 90], The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 41:248.
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x. JOHN FULLER, b. 4 April 1785; d. after 8 Feb. 1825. xi. LAURA FULLER, b. 18 Aug. 1787; d. before 8 Feb. 1825, leaving children; m. WILLIAM WHITNEY.[118] xii. BATHSHEBA FULLER, b. 25 Nov. 1789; d. Ravenna, Portage Co., Ohio, 24 Jan. 1854 age 64;[119] m. 1813-14 RULUFF DUTCHER WHITNEY, b. Canaan, Conn., 3 March 1794, d. Ravenna 30 Sept. 1844, son of Cornelius and Hannah (Green) Whitney.[120] He m.(2) between 1854 and 1860, Olive K. -----.[121] xiii. ARCHIBALD FULLER, b. 29 Sept. 1796; d. Sheffield, Mass., 12 March 1867 age 71;[122] m. CHARLOTTE -----,[123] b. N.Y. ca. 1796-99;[124] d. after 12 March 1867.
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118 William Whitney (husband of Laura Fuller) is not identified in Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney Who Came From London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635 (Chicago: the author, 1895). Nevertheless, presumably he was related to Ruluff Dutcher Whitney (husband of Bathsheba Fuller), who is identified at pp. 213, 384. Ruluff did have a brother named William, who might possibly be Laura Fuller's husband and/or the William Whitney of Salisbury for whom marriage intentions with Rebecca Sparks were published in Sheffield on 17 October 1819 (Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, original Sheffield records, image online at Ancestry.com). The 1820 census of Salisbury lists a William Whitney 2nd as head of a household of one male 16-25, one female under 10, and one female 45 and over (1820 U.S. Census, Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, roll 1, p. 378). If these ages are correct, "William Whitney 2nd" could have been Laura Fuller's widower.
119 Michael Barren Clegg, Portage County, Ohio, Newspaper Obituary Abstracts, 1825-1870 (Ft. Wayne, Ind.: the author, 1982), p. 26.
120 Pierce, Descendants of John Whitney [note 118], 213, 384; see also wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Ruluff_Dutcher_(1794-a1880). Ruluff's death record says he was born in Canaan ("Ohio, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997," database online at familysearch.org).
121 1860 U.S. Census, Ravenna Portage County, Ohio, roll 1025, p. 162.
122 Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 202:54, married, age 71.
123 Supposedly she was Charlotte Annie Whitney, but no such person is found in Pierce, Descendants of John Whitney [note 118].
124 1850 U.S. Census, Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, roll 42, p. 33A: 1855 Massachusets State Census, Sheffield, Berkshire County, from familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MQ42-QFB; 1860 U.S. Census, Sheffield, roll 488, p. 461.
The Dunbar Research Team, "Sampson1 Dunbar and His Family," NEHGR 166 (Oct 2012):289-297; continued from NEHGR 166 (July 2012):204.
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v. SAMPSON DUNBAR TALBOT, b. China, Maine, 15 March 1796p d. Springfield, Mass., 24 May 1892, age 92 years, 2 months, 10 dys;[187] m.(1) -----;{188] m.(2) Braintree, Vt., 31 July 1836 REBECCA DUNBAR,<sup<[189]<M/sup> probably daughter of his mother's half-brother Zebedee, d. 23 April 1848 age 45, bur. Old Cemetery, Chelsea, Vt.;[190] m.(3) Boxborough, Mass., 9 May 1866 LUCY (WHITNEY) HAZARD of Boxborough,[191] b. there on or about 10 April 1797, d there 17 March 1874, age 76 years, 1 months, 7 days, daughter of Lucy Chester, and widow of Tower Hazard.,[192] In 1880 at Springfield, Sampson ...
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187 Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, database online at Ancestry.com, from Springfield Town Records, born China, Maine, no parents listed; Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 427:671; age 66 at his 1866 marriage.
188 The record of Sampson's marriage in 1866 says it was his third marriage.
189 Vermont State Vital Records, his name spelled "Tarbut," both of Braintree. H. Royce Bass, History of Braintree, Vt. (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle & Co., 1883), calls him "Samuel D. Tarbet."
190 Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954, database online at FamilySearch.org, as Rebecca M. Tarbet, wife of Samson B. Tarbet.
191 Massachusetts, Town Vital Records, database online at Ancestry.com, from Boxborough Vital Records, born Fairfax, Maine, his parents named as Abraham and Mary; Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 190:110.
192 Whitney Research Group, "Family:Whitney, Lucy (c1797-1874)," online at http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrt/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Lucy_(c1797-1874), with extensive documentation.
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Talbot, age 81, b. Maine, was living in the household of [his son] "Zebee" C. Talbot, black, 39, engineer, b. Vt.[193] ...
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193 1880 U.S. Census, Springfield, Hampden County, Massacusetts, roll 536, E.D. 318m o, 242B. For Zebedee Carl Talbot's first marriage, see Joseph Carvalho III, Black Families in Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1650-1865, 2nd ed. (Boston: NEHGS, 2012), 58.
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