Phillip Bartlett son of Phillip Bartlett

By Teresa Martin Klaiber 2002

“It takes a village” was a phrase often heard in the mid 1990’s.  It takes many research cousins from many villages to recreate the lives of our ancestors in documented detail.  When I put my name on an article it is not because that ancestor belongs to me; it is because I want to share my findings with future researchers to continue to remember, honor, and, yes, research more about that person. P.S. remember to use a citation.  It takes long hours to compile the evidence.

I had been given bare bones information on my third great grandfather, Philip/Phillip Bartlett when I began researching him in the late 1960’s.  By now everyone, knows the drill. Order microfilm, wait. Crank microfilm machine and hope you find the target.  Hope you find your target.  Pinpoint person’s location and  travel the distance to said courthouse.  A far cry from doing research in 2020 where, thanks to places like FamilySearch you can sit at home in pj’s and download digital microfilm from federal and court records in minutes.  But I digress.

Phillip Bartlett, [Phillip¹] was born 05 November 1789 in Waterbury, Chittenden County, Vermont, the son of Phillip and Lydia Everest Bartlett.   

When I first began researching Phillip and his wife Tapher[i], they were in Saranac, Clinton County, New York, where Phillip’s father, Phillip, had died in 1816. Saranac, on the river of the same name, is about 17 miles west of Plattsburg which lays on the lake. Clinton County is the northernmost County bordering on Lake Champlain with Vermont on the other side of the lake.

Mother, Lydia Everest Marsh Bartlett had filed for a Revolutionary widow’s pension 18 August 1836 listing son Phillip along with brothers John and William.  Lydia stated she had married Phillip Bartlett at Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, 11 June 1784 as the widow of James Marsh.[ii]

Phillip appears as an adult in Plattsburg, Clinton County, New York on an assessment roll listing him as “ Barlett, Philip Jr.” with a house and farm assessed for 100 acres in 1811.[iii]   According to the author of the quoted history it is taken from an “assessment roll of the real and personal estates in the town of Plattsburgh between 1 May and June 1811 by John Baker, Charles Marsh, Martin Winchell, Daniel Hillyard and MF. Durand”.  To date I have not located any further entry for this 100 acres.

The following year, 1812, he is in Saranac. Phillip (Jr. b. 1789) was allowed $50.00 on the Claims of Soldiers of 1812.[iv]  He is listed as a Private in the 36^th New York Militia[v] and is  mentioned in his brothers application for bounty land with the following letter dated 1850 “In the two cases (John Bartlett and Phillip Bartlett) the papers were made out before I had known of any presidents for making them out. I hope there is enough to make the applications successful with a reference to muster rolls, etc. The papers have been executed before the county clerk...Geo A. Standish.”  Brother John Bartlett migrated to Arena, Iowa County, Wisconsin.  Brother William eventually migrated to Iowa County, Wisconsin where he died in 1874.

Phillip is listed as Philip Bartlett, Jr., a volunteer, Corporal, in Capt. Lyman Manley's Company September 9-13 1814.[vi]  My sleuthing shows that Phillip remained in Saranac and in October 1853 he purchased [vii] a town lot in Saranac known as lot #7 of the old military tract from Major Philip Kearny. Kearny had made the military his career seeing service in Algiers and France. One flowery article states French comrades called him Kearny Le Magnifique.  Phillip paid $77.66 for the lot and sold it for a nice profit in May 1866[viii] to Martin Kelly of Saranac.  Phillip’s wife Tapher, as his spouse signed the sale.

Phillip and Tapher had eight known Children. The eldest Almira (1820-1885) married Edmund Geer (compiler’s 2^nd grandparents) and crossed the border to Canada later migrating to Minnesota. 

Phillip and Tapher named their first son William (1822-1892), possibly after Phillip’s brother.  William stayed in Saranac with his wife Emaline/Emily.

Next came Esther (1823-1904) who married Godfrey Phillip Hoyt.  Godfrey Hoyt was in the military and was one of Lincoln’s Avengers known as the Secret Service.  He was in the 16^th Cavalry as was Martin Kelly who later purchased the lot from Phillip Bartlett.  On April 24, 1865 Hoyt was on the patrol headed by Edward Doherty that tracked down John Wilkes Booth to the Richard Henry Garrett farm in Caroline County, Virginia and stood guard there.

Emeline Bartlett (1827-1918) married Benjamin Vaughan in 1852 Clinton County, New York.   Vaughan was involved in a sheriff’s sale in the Supreme Court for lands adjoining the Military lands.  It appears that Emeline’s uncle William Bartlett (brother of Philip) had purchased the land May 1837 from Elizabeth Bean and there was a dispute concerning the property from various sales[ix].

A son Phillip may have been born according to notes left by my grandmother but never substantiated by this compiler to date.  The next child Oliver was born about 1832/3 married Mary Benson and migrated to Chilton, Calumet County, Wisconsin.  Daughter Lydia born (1839 -1915) married first Andrew Otis and 2^nd Joel Brewster. She died in Wisconsin. 

The youngest child of the family was Almeda (1841-1891), who married Edwin P. Lee. Almeda died in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.

At the time I began researching Phillip and Tapher, I was residing in New Jersey, raising three sons and managing a research business.  I had established son and father in military service which I tucked away to share with my sons when they were older.  I had searched for a death record for Philip, who was 76, when he sold the property.  He was not with Almira and no record or tombstone was published for him the Saranac area.  I had established the children had moved on and with limited resources at my fingertips did not see an elderly family with them. For many years the story of both Phillips laid dormant in my collection. As the old saying goes about the cobbler and his shoes I was busy and my own family history was patiently waiting for this compiler’s retirement.

Time ticked on. Those sons grew up; we moved several times ending with a migration back from whence we came; the internet erupted; Find-a-grave took on a pulse of its own; and retirement allowed concentration on personal research.  Genealogists all know the moment of discovery. A very special someone had placed a photograph, on Find-a-grave of Phillip Bartlett’s tombstone in Portland Cemetery, Brant, Calumet County, Wisconsin.  What a beautiful sight to behold. 

Phillip between the age of 76 and 79 had migrated west to Wisconsin and died there 13 June 1869, where son Oliver, and daughter Lydia Bartlett Brewster were living at the time. Oliver is buried in Portland Cemetery along with Phillip. Lydia would move to another county with her family.

I had found my village of cousins thanks to the person who generously decided to share her photograph.  The photograph was taken by Brenda Sosnovske, descendent of Almeda.  Brenda travels, on the road, trucking, a spirited gal. This also linked me to Diana Franco and others researching the history of the Bartlett/Lee branch.  Brenda and I have talked several times over the past few years and she even made a trip to Clinton County but that is her story.  As time marches forward more “cousins” have surfaced via online technology and DNA.

Phillip (as stated in paragraph #3) was born 5 November 1789 in Waterbury, Chittenden County, Vermont son of Phillip and Lydia Everest[x] Marsh Bartlett.  After Revolutionary military service the elder Phillip married 11 June 1784 Lydia Everest Marsh in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont[xi]. Phillip Bartlett (Jr) is accounted for with Sr. on the Waterbury, Chittenden census for 1790.

After the 1800 census was taken, the family moved to Saranac.  Phillip was 50 years old. The Vergennes Gazette 31 July lists him on letters remaining in the post office in Chittenden, Vermont.  Lydia states in her widow’s pension that Phillip died 12 May 1816 in Saranac. 

Phillip (Sr.) served in the Revolution in several units.  He was six feet two/three inches tall and his first duty was October 1775 in Brewers Company from Belchertown, Hampshire, Massachusetts.  Belchertown is close to Ware, British America where Philip was baptized 24 May 1745.[xii] [xiii]This compiler believes that Phillip (Sr.) is the son of Benjamin and Thanks Reed Bartlett who married 1 January 1728[xiv] at Brookfield, Worchester, Massachusetts and grandson of Joseph Bartlett and wife Hannah[xv].

Besides Phillip (Jr.), John and William this compiler knows of one daughter of Lydia and Phillip also named Lydia. She was born in Vermont in 1792 and Married Talmadge Benedict.  Judy Burritt told this compiler in 2004 that she had seen the tombstone of Talmadge who is buried in Hinesburg Village Cemetery along with first wife Hannah. Talmadge died 23 November 1854.  Lydia remained in Chittenden and sometime between 1860-1870 she removed to Irena, Iowa County, Wisconsin where she is living with her niece in the Sanford Hatch family in 1870.  Sanford B. Hatch had married (2x m) Minerva Bartlett (born 31 Aug. 1834, Jericho, Chittenden, VT d/o Wm., Lydia’s brother) 16 October 1856 in Iowa County, Wisconsin. Lydia died 12 March 1879 and is buried in Arena Cemetery, Iowa County, Wisconsin.

As with most biographies that are recreated by research, there are some raveled strings that need further investigation.  The Descendants of Andrew Everest of York, Maine list five children for James and Lydia Everest Marsh prior to her marriage to Bartlett.  Continued research should include their half siblings by Lydia.

William clearly states “his brother” in John Bartlett’s pension.  But as DNA emerges this compiler’s results only list William (b. 1797) as a half brother to Phillip (b. 1789) via the Hatch line.  William’s age at the time of his death state he is 77 years old in 1874.  Low dna can have false positives but implied evidence urges confirmations.

I take great pride in my American heritage and those that stood up for what they believed. Phillip Bartlett (Sr.), as I have stated in this article, was on the rolls of Brewer’s Company from Belchertown, Massachusetts under Jno. Bardwell in 1775. He was at the Battle of Lexington.  He re-enlisted several times and according to the pension, once taken prisoner and carried to Montreal, again taken to the Tories at Fort Niagara where he escaped and yet again (3^rd) taken near Lake Superior and released at the end of the war. That is quite a tale.

I hope that a village of researchers continue to honor and research, and remember our Bartlett ancestors.

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[i] Daughter Almeda death  gives Thomas as surname.

[ii] American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions, (Washington, D. C.:), R584 and Lydia Bartlett 7988, Phillip Bartlett application by widow Lydia.

J. W. Lewis, History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York: with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers (N.p.: n.p., 1880), page 196.[iii]

[iv] New York Index of Award on Claims of the Soldiers of 1812 (N.p.: New York Adj. General Office, 1860

[v] : Phillip Bartlett, compiled military record (Pvt 36th Miller NY Militia), Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812, M602 (National Archives & Record Commission:), Record Group 94

[vi] New York, War 1812, Payroll Abstracts NY State Militia. Roll 1956

[vii] New York, Clinton County, Volume 24 page 454, Courthouse, Saranac, New York.

[viii] New York, Clinton County, Volume 54 page 76, Courthouse, Saranac, New York.

[ix] "Sheriffs Sale," Feb 1848, Plattsburg Republican, 26.

[x] Lydia/Daniel and Lydia Moss Everest/ Benj.  Everest and Hannah Jones/Isaac Everest/Joanna/Andrew Everest)

[xi] Abby Maria Hemenway, Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Local History of All the Towns in the State; vol IV the Towns of Washington County (Montpelier, VT: Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press, 1882), Page 821

[xii] Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Hardwick, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, Hardwick Births page 17

[xiii] Philip Bartlett (Sr) age is estimated in the pension records and off by several years to the actual baptism.

[xiv] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850.

[xv] Aldis Everard HIbner, A genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Bartlett of Newton, Mass (Rutland VT: Tuttle Company, 1934), pp 15, 16.

Ethel = Etel = Oertel Language Barrier In Handed Down Family Stories

By Teresa Martin Klaiber 2020

I remember my great grandmother, Nellie Clara Kautz Martin as short and plump with an apron on working in the kitchen in their house in Ironton, Ohio to make the perfect dinner just for me.  How I wish I had asked her to tell me about our family.   I also had no idea I was getting an appendicitis attack that would, at the age of 9, end up in surgery two days later.  My great grandfather got a bit gruff, but humored me by cranking the Victrola with its huge horn. He thought I was a bit spoiled when I could not eat her lovely meal.  My memory of her will always be in that kitchen, on that day, lovingly fixing that meal for just the three of us. Other family members say she spent the majority of her time in the kitchen. 

Nellie Clara Kautz Martin wearing an apron & holding compiler’s father John Geer Martin.  Taken in 1924

Nellie’s own grandmother, known to us as Mary Ann Kautz had come over from Germany in 1848 after marriage to Johann “George” Kautz.  Mary Ann’s maiden name according to the “little black book” where my grandfather wrote down the family history was written as “Ethel.”  A great granddaughter, Lillian Rose Kautz Holley said the family pronounced it more like “Etel.”. Mixed dialect and migrations along with handed down oral history quickly skewed her maiden name. 

George and Mary Ann Kautz first settled in Sullivan County, New York where there was plenty of lumber and stone.  They sold property in Sullivan County in 1876[i] and migrated to Cameron County, Pennsylvania, another area with a large lumber supply.  In their 70’s they moved to Scott Township, Marion County, Ohio.  George died in 1888 and is said to be buried in Miller Cemetery at Kirkpatrick in that county.  Mary Ann Kautz in her late years resided with daughter Mary Elizabeth Kautz Lyon.  Mary Ann, as the family called her, died 20 February 1908.  The Marion county death register lists her as Mary Ann Kautz born in Germany, cause of death “old age.”   Her parents are listed as “Ethal George” and “Johna.”  While I don’t like assumptions, at this point, I would say daughter Mary Elizabeth was the informant.

Mary Elizabeth, was the youngest of eight children, born  7 April 1858 in New York and we can assume heard German in the household growing up.  I was so hopeful that I would glean further information on Mary Ann’s life when I found her obituary in the Marion Weekly Star and also the Daily Mirror.  “An Aged Resident Dies at Kirkpatrick. Mrs. Mary Ann Kautz Succumbs to old age. Funeral service will be conducted from the home Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Ann Kautz, aged 90 years died at her home near Kirkpatrick at 10 o'clock Thursday evening. Her demise was due to old age. She had scarcely ever known a sick day in her long life and her death was apparently without suffering. She simply slept away. The deceased was born near Hamburg Germany. She had been a resident of Marion County for about 18 years. There are six children living. They are Mrs. Elizabeth Lyons near Tobias, Mrs. Rose Bessmer of Kansas, Mrs. Margaret Bliss of Los Angeles CA, Mssrs Richard, John and Fred of Florence, WV. Funeral services will be conducted from the home at 1 o'clock Rev Mr. Cole of Kirkpatrick to officiate. The remains will be interred in Miller Cemetery near Kirkpatrick”.

I stumbled (yes not every research step is scientific) upon others saying their family spelled their surname Etel, Ertel and Ehrtel,  in Low German dialect. In High German Dialect Ertel becomes Ortel or Oertel.   Pronounced in German the “r” is basically undetectable.

Like a flower bud beginning to blossom, slowly, with the generosity of many volunteers, German Lutheran records are being transcribed and available at online genealogy sites.

Tintype Mary Ann Etel Kautz aka Anna Maria Oertel Kautz

It was an “ah hah,” “do a jig” discovery to find the marriage (heirat) of Georg Kautz 11 May 1841 in the Kirchenbucher for Baden in the city of Kork, Muchenschopf stating her parents as Johann Oertel and Margaretha.  Her birth (24 April 1813) and baptism have also been transcribed in Muchenschopf.  Further research shows that it was her grandfather who was a Georg Oertel.

It is the story and the journey, not just the dates that make up my ancestor’s lives.  Lillian Rose said “Great Grandmother Mary Ann Ethel settled in New York state and was pregnant with my grandfather and was not sure he would not be born on the boat but waited and was born in Freemont..."  Lillian’s grandfather is this compiler’s 2^nd great grandfather (Johann) John Kautz.  He was born 14 October 1848 in or very near Freemont, Sullivan County. He appears on the census in Sullivan County, New York in 1850 along with his two older brothers George Johann (George) and Frederick George (Fred) who both were born in Muchenschopf.  Both of the elder brothers baptism (taufe) is recorded in the Lutherische Kirchenbucher for Muchenschopf.

John Kautz (son of Mary Ann and Georg Kautz) worked both in lumber and in stone, building his own home after migrating to Salt Lick, Bath County, Kentucky.  My husband, another couple, and myself took a wonderful drive to Fremont Centre and Callicoon in Sullivan County, New York where John was born and lumber still appears to be a mainstay.  I felt at home in Sullivan County, still full of timber and a bit of pioneer adventure.  John followed his parents to Cameron County, Pennsylvania then migrated to Boyd County, Kentucky where he worked at the Normal Planning Mill and eventually settled in Salt Lick, Bath County.

Johann (John) George Kautz s/o George and Anna Maria/Mary Ann Oertel Kautz

  Lillian Rose[ii] was proud of the beautiful furniture our ancestor also made. The dresser is made of tiger maple and totally pinioned.  Lillian was born six years after the death of Mary Ann.  She was a warehouse of knowledge remembering John and Elizabeth Grosholz[iii] Kautz and full of memories of Salt Lick, Kentucky.

Kork is now a suburb of Kehl in Baden-Wurttemberg. Mary Ann’s obituary states she never had a sick day.  Knowing that she made the trip from Baden to America pregnant and then migrated from New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio and having eight children says a lot about her strength.  Her picture portrays her as a tiny, slim lady. I am glad I could visit all the places she lived in the United States. I am sad that any tombstones marking her and her husband have disappeared from Miller Cemetery.  When I visited Miller Cemetery in the 1990’s many stones had been pushed over a hill and were buried in dirt and weeds.   It was a sad moment but I was there to honor their memory. I doubt, at 71 I will ever visit their fatherland.  From Etel to Oertel, my genealogy journey has shown she was a strong woman.

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[i] NY, Sullivan, Dbk 75-552

[ii] Lillian Rose Kautz m Thurman Hobert Holley. She was b. 26 Dec 1914 in Bath Co., kY d 4 Mar 2012 Roane Co., Tn. When I visited with her along with another cousin Barbara Martin Strosnider she was living in Huntington, WVA.

[iii] Elizabeth Groszholz was born 2 September 1848 Memprechtshofen, Kork, Baden, Germany

John Bagley accused Chicken Thief

compiled by Teresa Martin Klaiber 2020

First, I will apologize to my fellow Bagley cousins for the title.  While it is a true statement it was only a small part of the life of John Bagley.   My father always joked about my research, warning me that I might catch a horse thief.  He cracked up when I told him I found the court case involving  40 chickens and 40 dozen eggs.

Researching John Bagley’s heritage has been a bit of a bumpy ride. A statement made by my grandmother, (great great granddaughter, of John Bagley), simply never fit properly into the puzzle.  She wrote: “"The Bagley family came from England...  He received his education in England married. ...came to US on their wedding trip in 1796...”   It has taken a lot of research hours reviewing documents to come to the conclusion that she probably misunderstood what had been told and that John Bagley’s family was from New England.  Stir the pot with several branches of Bagley residing in the same areas and you find yourself tediously chipping away at available documentation.

Her manuscript gave inaccurate dates.   If Clara Page Geer Martin’s manuscript were correct Rhoda married at the age of 11.  Time after time I see where novice genies do not do the math and then – well, then the mistake is repeated like a stutter.

This researcher is eternally grateful to Jeff Imes for suppling a photostat copy of the Iams family bible that lists John Bagley’s birth and death dates. John Bagley, was born 05 Nov 1771.   Records consistently show that John was born in New York, not England.

John and Rhoda’s first nine children were born in New York: Sally 1796[i]; John Ira 1800[ii]; Monima 1805[iii]; Julia 13 Aug 1806[iv]; Huldah 1 October 1809[v]; Rhoda about 1810[vi]; Mary Ann “Mercy” Bagley about 1811[vii]; Allen 1813[viii] and Lois 1815[ix]. 

 John and Rhoda Bagley appear in Freehold, Greene County, New York in 1800 .  He again appears in the 1810 this time in Durham, Greene County, New York.  Thus Greene County would appear to be the birth place of at least John Ira, Monima, Julia, Huldah and Rhoda.

The family may have been in Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, at least in 1815, when daughter Lois was born according to a written narrative. [x]  Ongoing research places the family in Columbia and Greene County, New York.  Columbia County borders Dutchess County (see further this article). After the birth of their ninth child, the family migrated to Lawrence County, Ohio. The County was described as “very wild.”   The county was formed in December 1815 from Scioto and Gallia County.

 Early tax records for the Bagley’s were paid in Fayette township beginning in 1818. Rhoda gave birth to a son Ranselear [xi](as spelled) 2 February 1820.  Whoever gave the information at the time of Ranselear’s death in 1892 said he was born in Gyandotte, West Virginia which is just across the Ohio River.  It was easy to ferry back and forth but research shows the family is paying tax in Fayette Township, Lawrence County, Ohio the same year.

In April 1822, while still in Fayette township, with ten children in the household, John Bagley became irate when he heard that John and Margaret Randall accused him of stealing chickens.   The Randall’s also resided in Fayette Township.  John Randall was 85 years old, had served in the Revolution “and personally killed several men of the enemy.”[xii]  When he filed a pension he stated that he had no income “except the charity of his children.”

Bagley sued John and Margaret Randall for slander.  The Randall’s stated that the plaintiff [John Bagley] was a thief who stole chickens and eggs.  Bagley, in return, complained that Randall had trespassed and that Mr. Randall’s wife, Margaret, had said slanderous things in the presence of others concerning John that were “false and scandalous English words.”  Margaret in a certain discussion between herself and Sally Hallock stated “your dadda...has stolen my chickens.”  Margaret stated that she was not guilty and could prove that John Bagley stole 20 hens, 20 chickens and 40 dozen eggs in Lawrence County, Ohio on September 1st, 1821.  The defendant was found not guilty of slander and John took nothing by his bill while the defendants recovered their costs.  There is no criminal record for John and no record of him ever being charged with a theft of any sort in Lawrence County, Ohio.

Sally, who was confronted by Margaret Randall, was the first child born to John and Rhoda Rensselaer Bagley in New York. She married Hoadley Hallock.  Their first three children were born between 1811 and 1816 in New York before migrating to Lawrence County, Ohio where six more children were born.  Hoadley was the son of Nathan Hallock[xiii]  and wife Lucretia Hoadley who resided in Durham, Greene County, New York in 1810.  John Bagley  and family appear just a few entries further on the same page in Durham in the 1810 census.

John and Rhoda Bagley would have three additional sons: Peter[xiv], Jeremiah [xv]and Henry C. Bagley[xvi] between 1822 and 1824. This made a total of thirteen children in the family. John began paying tax in Union township about 1828. The farm was remembered by Clara Geer Martin as the old Eaton homestead located on Symmes Creek in Union township[xvii]. 

On the 4th of July 1846 John and Rhoda along with son Jeremiah and daughter-in-law Sarah Jane Riley Bagley[xviii] sold two tracts of land, for $600.00, containing a total of 95 acres on Symmes Creek, Union Township, Lawrence County, Ohio,  to Harrison and John Frost.  The two tracts. A: School Section 16, Lot 6 section16 township 1 range 16 south side of Symmes Creek,55 acres.  B: Section 21 township 1 range 16 NE NE  containing 40+ acres which appear under Jeremiah’s name in Ohio Lands as an Entryman in 1844.  The said premises are incumbered with a mortgage made to O? Martin for the sum of $270. Due out Jany 6 1846 and Jany 6 1847 which the said grantees agree to pay as a part of the consideration money.  The deed was witnessed by H. R. Davis and William Hall. This researcher cannot locate a deed for section 16 School lands specifically in John Bagley’s name on the south side of Symmes Creek.  There is property on the north side of Symmes Creek involving the family and containing 57 acres that transferred  through the Hallock estate when Hoadley, husband of Sally died.  That deed[xix] describes the close family connections, dated October 15, 1845: Peter & Francis Bagley to Martin Frampton for $100.00 described as  lot 6 School Lands  s16 t1  r 16 that laid on the north side of Symmes Creek  bounded on w by Ransler[xx] (as spelled) Bagley, Being same lot transferred by James Wilks to Simeon Sumpter and from Simeon to Richard Sumpter[xxi] and by to Henry Dick and by him to Peter James and by him to Hodley Hallek (as spelled) and by John Bagley and Sarah Halleck administrators of H. Hallek to  ALLEN Bagley and  by him to Peter Bagley[xxii] containing “about” 57 acres.  The deed was witnessed by Richard Adams and Jacob Lindsey.     

 Rhoda Rensselaer Bagley died 7 October 1846[xxiii] in Lawrence County, Ohio.  No grave marker has been located.

John, in his mid 70’s, migrated to Stark County, Illinois with Jeremiah.[xxiv] Monima[xxv], widowed twice also migrated to Stark County, Illinois, as did Allen[xxvi].    Allen received a patent for two tracts of land  68.18 acres as a cash sale  1 June 1852 in Section 4, Township 13-N (Toulon Township), Range 6-E.[xxvii] John Bagley lived five more years dying 12 December 1855.  His death was duly recorded in the Imes family bible.  No burial location has been discovered.

As stated, John Bagley and Nathan Hallock are listed in the 1810 census of Durham, Greene county, New York. 

John M Bagly
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10 1 (John Ira Bagley)
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 1 (John Bagley)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10 3 (Julia, Mona, Hulda)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15 1 (Sarah Sally)
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44 1 (Rhoda)
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over 1 (???? Prudence)

The elder female is most likely Prudence, widow of John Bagley (born 1736 died 2 July 1797, Columbia County, New York).  Prudence and husband John Bagley appear on the 1790 census of Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York.  John Bagley, the subject of this article) is 19 years old and would account for one of the sons in the elder John and Prudence household.   The other son is Daniel born circa 1774 when Prudence was 34 years old. John Bagley (our subject) and Rhoda marry about 1795.[xxviii] 

John Bagley, husband of Prudence, died 2 July 1797 and was buried in the Collins Cemetery, Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York. The Collins cemetery is sometimes referred to as the “old First Baptist Church Cemetery. A granddaughter named for Prudence[xxix] died 11 October 1796 and was also buried in Collins Cemetery.

Prudence, widowed, appears on the 1800 Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York Census. The tax for that year is on a farm, house and mills. She pays tax in Hillsdale through at least 1802.  Son John, as stated is now residing in Freehold, Greene, County, New York.  Greene county was newly formed in March 1800.

After son John migrates to Ohio, Prudence, widowed, eventually invests in a small piece of property on the south side of the Coxsackie Turnpike in Greenville, 1824[xxx].  She is 84 years old and presumed to be helping daughter Mercy.  The following year Prudence sells the property to Mercy Bixby[xxxi] and lives with her at least until after the 1830 census was taken and probably was living there at her death 21 December 1831.   Letters of Administration were granted Benjamin Bagley and Seth Bixby.[xxxii] Prudence was  buried in Locust Cemetery, Greene County, New York.

This author’s DNA now is linked to at least three of Prudence’s  children:  Edward, Mercy, and Daniel.

I have identified the possibility of eight children for John and Prudence Bagley including the subject of this article.   

Rhoda and Benjamin are both baptized in Nobletown the 27^th August 1770.[xxxiii] Nobletown apparently fell within in the bounds of modern Hillsdale.[xxxiv] With a huge boundary dispute between New York and Massachusetts including Nobletown, Hillsdale would not be established within the bounds of New York until 1788. Tenants paid taxes on lands granted to the Van Rensselaers and others.  They did not own the land. Benjamin is taxed 1800 – 1802 in Freehold, Greene County, New York.  Benjamin, John and Daniel (all brothers) are paying tax 1801 on property owned by William Cockburn (See Danl further this article). Benjamin was one of the administrators for his mother. He later states he has a sister Mercy[xxxv].  Nothing further has been located on Rhoda.

Josiah Bagley is on the 1790 Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York Census and continues to show on tax and census in Hillsdale until his death 27 October 1848.  There seems to be some confusion about Josiah[xxxvi] that is cleared up with his death notice 29 Oct 1846 “At Hillsdale on the 27^th Josiah Bagley in the 89^th year of his age – a Revolutionary soldier.[xxxvii]”  Josiah is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts[xxxviii]. Josiah and wife Hulda had a daughter who died 11 Oct 1796 and is buried in Collins Cemetery, Hillsdale, Columbia County, New York.

Edward Bagley appears on the 1790 Hillsdale, Columbia census.  He was involved in a description of land 1808 citing a piece of road in the town of “Hillsdale in …Columbia…near the house of Edward Bagley…running to west line of town of Great Barrington” (now in Berkshire County, Massachusetts) in the commonwealth of Massachusetts.[xxxix] Edward died 21 April 1837 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts.  As is brother Josiah.

Hannah Bagley born 24 March 1763 married 23 February John Shutts at the age of 16.  She married 2^nd 25 December 1803 William Hallock.  Hannah died 11 April 1839[xl] in Greenville, Greene County, New York.  When brother Benjamin testified in Schoharie County, New York concerning the pension of John Shutts, Benjamin is of the town of Middleburgh Schoharie County, NY he was born Nov 5?(written over 7 possibly) 1766 and is now in 80th year of age and was born in Hillsdale Columbia County...acquainted with one John Shutts who married Hannah Bagley a sister to the deponent and thinks he was present at the marriage AT HIS FATHERS HOUSE in Hillsdale Columbia County...had children 4 boys …3 girls...they were married before the Revolution…while in his life time  he was in the Revolutionary War and that John Shutts is now deceased...after his death Hannah Shutts the wife removed to Greenville, Greene County in the state and she died while living with her son John Shutts[xli]. Hannah is buried in Locust Grove Cemetery along with her mother.

Mercy Bagley was born 26 March 1766.  She married Aaron Hull Bixby. He usually went by the name “Hull.” Mercy purchases the property from Prudence in 1826. Mercy is living under her own name with a female 90 to 99 in 1830.  She died 12 April 1838 in Castile, Genesse (later Wyoming Co.) New York.[xlii]

Daniel Bagley is the youngest child of John and Prudence Bagley.  In a letter that was sold on Ebay he is cited along with Bixby (misspelled In description): LETTERS FROM WILLIAM COCKBURN of KINGSTON IN THE COUNTY OF ULSTER IN NEW YORK, FROM 1781 & 1799 . - It is dated June 17th, 1799. A letter/document from Cockburn concerning Hull Dixby & Daniel Bagley, where he lets them a farm to improve, talks about terms for living , first rent is due on May 1, 1801. It is signed & dated by Cockburn, Bagley & Dixby. Back side has an interesting note from 1802 on produce & goods from Bixby.[xliii]  Daniel did purchase land on his own terms as well.  An ad dated 21 Oct 1805[xliv] describes a farm containing 78 acres and 40 acres in the town of Durham with a new English constructed barn, framed house and orchard on the Batavia (Windham) Turnpike Road. Daniel sold his property[xlv] in Greene County in 1819 and migrated to Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

Some researchers have taken a huge leap assuming John Bagley 1736-1797 was the son of another John Bagley (wife Judith Sargent) from Essex County, Massachusetts.  This compiler is not ready to make such a leap. Columbia County, New York borders Berkshire, Massachusetts to the east. As stated before Great Barrington is in Berkshire, as is Egremont.  There were boundary disputes until 1788.  There are several deeds involving the Bagley’s of Rhode Island in the Berkshire records that need scrutiny. “Berkshire County has always been at the crossroads of settlers on the move. As the western side of the Berkshire Mountains, those moving west from all other Massachusetts counties, Rhode Island, and much of Connecticut, and occasionally from very southern New Hampshire and Vermont would converge here. Many would continue west into New York state or up the western side of Vermont following the first roads that allowed easy travel through this region[xlvi]” But that is for another article.  

Some researchers have provided Prudence with a maiden name.  To date I walk with caution, as should every researcher, until I find the needed documentation.  In the mean while I think of John and Rhoda residing in the “wilds” of Lawrence County, Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River.  I easily cross the bridge in Kentucky, fly along a four-lane highway and cross another bridge into West Virginia, looping back to my own home in Kentucky, in just a matter of minutes.   So many mouths to feed and clothe while farming.  Life had to be more than strenuous.  No wonder John Bagley was insulted when accused of stealing 40 chickens and 40 dozen eggs by an elderly woman.  Would it even be plausible?  I wonder if the Randall woman might have been showing signs of unrecognized dementia.  

  

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[i] Sally Bagley m. Hoadley Hallock probably NY

[ii] John Ira Bagley m 2x 2^nd m 11 Jan 1837 Mary Polly Ward, Law. Co. OH

[iii] Monima Bagley m 3x. 1. Peter Imes 1 Jan 1822 Law. Co. OH; 2. Michael Saxton 25 Mar 1845 Law. Co. OH; 3. Nicholas Sturm 14 Apr 1853 Stark Co., Ill.

[iv] Julia Bagley m. Asa Kimball 28 Mar 1830, Law. Co. OH

[v] Hulda Bagley m. Thomas Imes 9 Jan. 1831 Law. Co. OH

[vi] Rhoda Bagley m. Solomon Adams 14 Feb. 1828, Law. Co. OH

[vii] Mercy Bagley m. 2x 1. Valentine Riddle 21 Feb. 1841 Law. Co. OH and 2. 6 Mar 1845 Corydon Gillett

[viii] Allen Bagley m. Phebe Smith 30 Mar 1835 Gallia Co., OH

[ix] Lois Bagley m. James Webb 6 May 1832, Law. Co. OH

[x] Lincoln County Genealogical Society, Lincoln County, West Virginia And Its People (Charleston, WV: Appalachian Literary League, 1989),

[xi] Renselear Bagley name m. 2x. Lucinda Riddle 7 June 1840 Law. Co. OH  Mary Eaton 4 Dec 1842 Law. Co. OH.

[xii] Revolutionary Pension R21892

[xiii] The Hoadley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Hoadley of ... Francis Bacon Trowbridge page 26

[xiv] Peter m. 2x. Francis Pemberton 20 May 1842 Law. Co. OH & Elizabeth Ann Bergin 17 Mar 1853, Hamilton, IL

[xv] Jeremiah m. 2x 1. Sarah Jane Riley 12 Sep 1844 Law. Co. OH & 2. Nancy

[xvi] Henry C. Bagley m. Mary Spears 26 Mar 1845 Law. Co. OH

[xvii] Renselear had married Mary Eaton had several properties along with the Eaton’s near Rockwood, Union Twp.

[xviii] Ohio, Lawrence , deed book 10 page 317

[xix] Ohio, Lawrence deed book 10 page 269

[xx] Ohio River Survey 1-N 16-W 21 Nov 1846  Chillicothe Land Office OH1330_.254

[xxi] Richard Sumpter was still living in Union twp. 1850 age 84.

[xxii] Peter went to Marshall Co., IL and so did sister Mercy Bagley Riddle Gillett

[xxiii] D. cited in Imes Family bible

[xxiv] Jeremiah Bagley died 21 May 1863 in Greene, Missouri

[xxv] Researchers have assumed it was a typo and often times you will find Monima listed as Jemima which is incorrect.

[xxvi] Allen Bagley moved on to KS and ARK

[xxvii] Bureau of Land Management, BLM Seaial #: IN NO S/N, www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch

[xxviii] Marriage calculation based on birth of Sally Bagley circa 1796

[xxix] d/o Josiah and Hulda Bagley

[xxx] New York, Green, deed book H page 149

[xxxi] New York, Green, deed book I page 53

[xxxii] New York, Greene, , Letters of Administration A-F: page 20, 23 Jan 1832

[xxxiii] Hasbrouck Von Sahler, St. James' Church Records Great Barrington, Mass. (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), page 53.

[xxxiv] The Historians of Hillsdale, NY. In Search of Nobletown. Jan 31, 2018. https://hillsdalehistorians.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/in-search-of-nobletown/

Pension W17042[xxxv]

[xxxvi] Another Josiah birth unknown is also buried at Egremont in Riverside. This Josiah died Mar 22, 1831.  This compiler believes this is a younger Josiah.  Further documentation is needed.

[xxxvii] The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, Volumes 23-25. Vol XXIII No. 2

[xxxviii] Find a Grave, Riverside cemetery, Egremont, Berkshire, Massachusetts

[xxxix] Private Laws of the State of New York Passed at the Thirty First Session (N.p.: n.p., 1808), page 14

[xl] "Find A Grave," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/: accessed ), Locust Cemetery, Greenville, Greene, New York.

[xli] Pension W17042

[xlii] Willard Goldthwaite Bixby, A genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Bixby, 1621-1701 of Ipswich and Boxford, Massachusetts, who spell the name Bixby, Bigsby, Byxbie, Bixbee, or Byxbe and of the Bixby family in England, descendants of Walter Bekesby, 1427, of Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk

[xliii] https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1799-1781-letters-from-william-cockburn-kingston Sale of letter from Wm Cockburn concerning Bixby, Bagley land accessed Jul 2020. , sold Ebay.

[xliv] "For Sale," Margaretville Catskill Recorder, 21 October 1805

[xlv] New York, Greene, Deeds, Book K p 286, rec 30 May 1827 writ 19 Jan 1819; , .

[xlvi]  Abolished County Governments - Secretary of State, Acts of 1998, Ch. 300, Sect. 11.