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25 Thursday Dec 2014

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For those who aren’t familiar with Ancestry.com and Family Tree Maker, they will provide you with “hints” from their vast collection of databases to assist you in finding your ancestors.  As more information is integrated into their collection, new hints are generated for everyone in your database, not just those you are currently working on.

Boston Area

This morning I was blessed with some additional information for my Sarah Ireland ancestors.  For starters, more information was uncovered for Sarah’s great-grandparents, William and Elizabeth Quincy Smith.

  • Reverend William Smith was born on January 29, 1706 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  He married Elizabeth Quincy on August 3, 1740 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.  He passed away on September 17, 1783 in Weymouth at the age of 77.
  • Elizabeth Quincy Smith was born in 1721 in Braintree, Massachusetts to Colonel John Quincy and Elizabeth Norton Quincy. She preceded her husband in death on October 1, 1775 in Weymouth at the age of 54.

Elizabeth’s line was extended several generations, going back to the Plymouth Colony.  Once I make an initial pass through my initial tree, extensively studying both the Plymouth Colony and the New Haven (CT) settlement will be near the top of my list of things to do.

  • Elizabeth’s father, Colonel John Quincy, was born July 21, 1689 in Boston to Daniel and Anna Shepard Quincy.  He married Elizabeth Norton in 1715 in Massachusetts and died at the age of 78 on July 13, 1767.  A location wasn’t provided.
  • Elizabeth Norton Quincy was born to Reverend John Norton and Mary Mason Norton on March 15, 1695 in Hingham, Massachusetts.  She died in 1769 at the age of 74.
  • Daniel Quincy was born Boston on February 7, 1650.  He married Anna Shepard on November 9, 1682 and died on August 10, 1690.
  • Anna Shepard Quincy was born in 1663 in Massachusetts.  No information has been collected on her death at this time.
  • Reverend John Norton was born in 1651 in Massachusetts.  He married Mary Mason on November 29, 1678 and died on October 3, 1716.  He was the second minister of Hingham and is reportedly buried in the Tomb of the Three Ministers in Hingham.
  • Very little is known about Mary Mason.  She was born in 1651 and died in 1740.

On the other side of Sarah Ireland’s family, additional information was discovered regarding her 2nd-great-grandparents, Nathaniel and Mary Bunnell.  Nathaniel married Mary Searing in 1690.  She was born in 1672 in New Jersey.  Also unearthed was that Nathaniel’s mother, Susanna Whitehead Bunnell, died on February 13, 1733 in Elizabeth, NJ.

Updated related Pedigree Charts:  Sarah Ireland, Captain Nathaniel Bonnell, Colonel John Quincy and Elizabeth Norton.

Joseph Reeve & Martha Richardson

08 Saturday Nov 2014

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Today’s mystery ancestors are Joseph and Martha Richardson Reeve, my 5th great grandparents.  Very little is known about this couple.  I would estimate that they were both born circa 1780.  Some sources have Joseph’s birth listed as New Jersey.  It is thought that Martha was born in Pennsylvania, possibly in the Philadelphia area.  According to a letter from Effie Reeve Sensabaugh to Vera Reeve dated October 19, 1939, Martha’s mother’s maiden name was Mary Hutchenson.  There are entries in the Quaker Meeting Records from Bucks Co, Pennsylvania documenting the marriage of a Josiah Reeve to an Elizabeth Richardson in November 1802, but it’s not 100% clear if this is our couple.

According to Effie’s letter, Joseph was a ship captain working out of the Philadelphia port.  In 1815, he took some money to cover expenses on his journey, but never showed up at his ship and wasn’t heard from again.  It was assumed he was murdered during a robbery.

Joseph and Martha supposedly had three children:

  • Joseph (1808-1887)
  • Mary (1814-1907)
  • Lucy (ca 1810-?)

It is believed that Martha remarried to a John Bower after Joseph’s death and at some point during the mid 1820s the family moved to Jackson Co, IN.  It’s not clear what happened to them after that.

Joseph, the son, married Sarah Ireland in Jackson Co in 1829. Joseph and Sarah moved to Steele Township, Daviess Co in the 1830s and to Vigo Township, Knox Co during the 1850s, according to census records.  They are my 4th great grandparents, their daughter Louisa Reeve marrying Isaac DeMoss.  Joseph was married twice as mentioned in the Carnahan post.

Mary married George Ryan in 1834 in Cincinnati, OH.  According to a letter from William S. Reeve to Vera Reeve dated September 1, 1941, the Ryans moved to Indianapolis around the time of the Civil War and finished out their lives there.  Most of their children settled there as well, working as painters, according to city directories of the time.

Little is known of Lucy.  According to William Reeve’s letter, she married a man by the name of Smith and they had three children: Howard, Ida, and Fanny.  Howard worked as a baker for a Mr. Bryce in Indianapolis in the late 1870s, and according to a letter from Howard Smith to David Reeve dated March 16, 1879, Ida was married and living in Missouri.

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Jackson County, Indiana is in SE Indiana and includes the towns of Seymour and Brownstown.  It is east of Bedford.
Steele Township is in NE Daviess County, across the White River from Vigo Township, Knox County.  Plainville is in Steele Township.