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1101 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Carman, Margaret (I1030)
 
1102 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Smith, Sarah (I1031)
 
1103 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Margaret (I1032)
 
1104 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Lane, Ann (I1033)
 
1105 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Huested, Sarah (I1034)
 
1106 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Rose (I1035)
 
1107 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Huested, David (I1036)
 
1108 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Flagler, Zachariah (I1037)
 
1109 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Palmer, Bridget (I1038)
 
1110 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. Mary (I1039)
 
1111 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. BIRT H: Vol CVII N.E.H.G.S. Pg 168.

"Roger Barton, the immigrant ancestor from whom this family descend , was probably born in England, and since on 17 July 1688 he testified un der oath (Westchester Deeds A-269) that he was then 'aged 60 or thereabou ts', his birth took place about the year 1628. Though he is often identi fied with that Barton who on 14 Aug 1642 signed a lease with the Rev. Eve rardus Bogardus for the sixty two acres of the famous farm Bogardus' wif e Anneke Jans, this identification rests upon an error in indexing the st ill extant document,the real tenent having been Rufus Barton, as is show n in 'The American Genealogist', vol 27, no. 3, July 1951, pp. 136-8, un der the title of 'Rufus Barton, not Roger, In Manhattan 1642'. "The f irst undoubted record of Roger Barton on this continent is to be found i n the town records of Brookhaven, Long Island, where on 23 Oct. 1662 Roge r Barton was one of four appointed to lay out the town. The name 'Rog Ba rton' is signed to a Brookhaven deed, as recorder, on 10 June 1664, and , again, 'Rog Bartones' signed with others a contract to build a mill o n '10 mo. 12 1664' (12 Dec 1664?). He may have been the earliest town cl erk of Brookhaven which had been settled from Connecticut in 1655 and joi ned that Colony in 1661. Whith three others, he is styled 'Mr.' in thes e records, a fact which suggests that he was a man of some importance, an d his wife, as will appear, is designated as 'Mrs. Barton', even in conju nction with another woman who is merely termed 'goodwife Bloomer'. on 2 5 April 1664 Roger was named deputy to the Gerneral Court and is Probabl y the 'Mr. Barton' made freeman of Connecticut at the General Assembly wh ich met at Hartford on 12 May 1664 (Public Records of Connecticut [Hartfo rd 1850], 1.428). On 23 Jan 1664/5 he was appointed at Brookhaven on o f six arbitrators; in the same year fined for absence, and named and appr aiser. He purchased land in Brookhaven on 25 Feb. 1664/5; sold a meado w to Henry Perring at an unknown date; and other land to Francis Munsey a nd Wm. Satierly. In April 1665 he was again appointed one of the deputie s to the General Court. Thus far, all the Brookhaven items concern Conne cticut and not New York. "At a court, however, held on 31 Oct. 1665 i n New York City, the defendant Abram Pietersen Corleyn, Accused of selli n stron beer to the Indians, gave as his excuse that 'Mr Borton' had give n his oral assent thereto (New Amsterdam Records, 5.311). This may, as m r. Voge believed, be our Roger Barton, for, with one other, Roger Barto n was elected on 1 March 1665/6 to represent Seatalcott or Brookhaven (Fe rnow, Docs. Rel. Col. Hist. of N.Y., 14.565) at a convention held at Hemp stead at the call of Governor Richard Nicolls of New York when the East , West, and North Ridings of New Yorkshire were established and the Duke' s Laws were put into effect on 11 March 1665/6. "If the reference b y Corleyn is to our man, this may be evidence of growing unpopularity, fo r in May 1666 orders were given by Governor Nicolls for the arrest and ex pulsion of Roger Barton and Robert Bloomer from Brookhaven. The arrest a ppears to have been resested, for on 22 May 1666 Governor Nicolls issue d a commission to Messrs, Mathias Nicolls (no relation to Richard), Willi am Wells, and Jonas Wood, 'to Examine into the Riotous misdemeanors of so me p[er]sonsin Seatalcott'. The commission makes clear that the constabl e had been hindered in the exercise of his duties by 'some ill affected p [er]sons' who 'did riotously Affront and assault him, and wounded other s who came to his Assistance, And withall, then and there (as also at sev erall other Times, have given out and used evill words and speeches, tend ing to the derogat[i]on of his Ma.ties Authority, and against the Peace o f this Government'. The three commissioners, who were, respectively, 'Se cretary of the Councell', 'high Sheriffe of Yorkshire upon Long Islan[d]' , and 'Justice of the Peace of East Riding', were to investigate the matt er thoroughly, and were authorized to call before them Richard Odiell (Wo odhull, not otherwise mentioned), Roger Barton, and Robert Bloomer, or an y other persons. "Accordingly, The commissioners conducted their investig ation and 'having taken upon Oath severall Depositions wherein Roger Bart on and Robert Bloomer are proved Guilty of severall Crimes tending to th e derogat[i]on of his Ma.ties Authority, and against the peace of this Go vernment", Messrs, Nicolls and wells issued a warrant to m[r]. Daniell La ne and Mr. John Tucker of Seatalcott for the arrest of Barton and Bloome r under date of 27 May 1666. An official proclamation outlawing the tw o men was issued on the 31st and on the next day Mathias Nicolls wrote t o Lane and Tucker a letter in which he informed them that on the mornin g 'Mrs Barton' had presented the Governor 'one Petic[i]on in behalfe of h er selfe and Children, and another from Bloomers wife'. The governor inf ormed her that he could do nothing for either woman until the expiratio n of the time limited in the proclamation for their husbands coming in . Nicolls told his correspondents, however, that the governor was please d to permit them to 'make use of any necessaryes, out of their Husbands E state, for their, and their Childrens Subsistence'. The women were to b e used civilly, to be allowed to care for their property, but an accoun t was to be rendered to prevent embezzlement. "The official proclamat ion outlawing the men indicates that they, 'being Concious of their guilt , and apprehensive of the Punishmt their crimes deserve', had 'withdrawn e themselves from their habitations' and 'are fled away'. Thus far, we ha ve been following the original record in the State Library at Albany. Th e two men probably escaped to Connecticut, leaving their families behin d them, for there is a record that in 1666 constable sold some of their h ousehold goods 'to pay the charge of the Commissioners'. A Court of Sess ions, held at Southold (Brookhaven Record, 1.109) on 2-4 June 1669, repea ts the same story and the Governor, Council, and Court now levied a fin e of 50 pounds through the sale of the estates, any residue to be returne d for the relief of the families. Mrs. Barton had been required to pay 1 3/4 pounds to the Commissioners,Goodwife Bloomer 13/10 pounds. Bloomer' s property was sold by the Sheriff for 20 pounds, out of which he gave 1 2 pounds to his wife Rachel, But nothing is said of what was done with B arton's land in Brookhaven. The whole controversy was doubtless a questio n of which colony should control Brookhaven. A letter of John Allyn, Sec retary of Connecticut, to Governor Nicolls of New York, dated 1 Feb. 1664 /5 (Docs. Rel. Col. Hist. Of N. Y., 3.88), refers to trouble at Seatalcot t, perhaps earlier of the Barton-Bloomer difficulties. "It may be that Co nnecticut was the place of refuge to which the men fled, but the only rec ord found which possibly connects Roger Barton with Connecticut after 166 6 is contained in an allusion in the Minutes of of the Hartford Town Meet ing for 1677 (Coll. Conn. Hist. Soc., 6.183): 'The Townsmen for thatt yea re were deptor by sum Cloath giune for the towns use by Squire Battaine06 -06-00', but this may be another man, even a different name. "It wil l have been noted above that in 1666 Roger barton and his wife, her nam e unknown, had children, number not specified. The wife who suffered s o nobly at Seatalcott was, for all we nnow to the contrary, the mary Bart on who survived Roger when he died about 1688 and was still living in wes tchester with his sons Noah and Joseph in 1698. Her surname has not bee n recovered. A descendant states (Nat. Soc. Daughters of Founders and Pa triots, 19.88), wsthout documentation, that Mary was a Lounsberry. A cor respondent has claimed that Mrs Roger Barton was daughter of Richard Loun sbury of Rye who Dated his will 2 June 1690, probated(Westchester Deeds , b-188) 24 Oct. 1694, and further, that the will refers to testator's da ughter 'Mary, the wife of Roger Barton, deceased'. The will does mentio n Mary but without reference to her being married or not, and it is know n from the will of John Haddam of Westchester (Pelletreau, Westchester wi lls, p. 391), probated in 1700, that mary Lounsbury was the wife in 170 0 of Israel Rogers. Mrs. Winifred Lovering Holman informs me that Richar d Lounsbury, father of Mary Lounsbury Rogers, married by license, 1 Aug . 1670, Elizabethy Penrye (Penoyer), who on 8 Jan. 1677/8 was recorded a s aged 24, i.e., born in 1653 or thereabouts. A worman born in 1653, mar ried at 17 in 1670, could hardly be the mother of another woman who as ea rly as 1666 was the mother of at least two children. If Mary Barton wa s really a Lounsbury, we have no evidence of it, and she must have been d aughter of some other Lounsbury than Richard of Rye. No record of the ma rriage of Roger barton to Mary ------- has been found in Connecticut or N ew York, and the probability is that they were already married when the y crossed the Atlantic. Mr. Voge has pointed out the though, except fo r an early connection with Connecticut, Roger Barton himself does not exh ibit strong Puritan characteristics, the names of several of his sons d o (Elisha, Elijah, Noah, and Enoch), and it may be that Mary Barton was o f Puritan stock. "About 1670, it is said by Charles W. Baird ("Histor y of Rye" [New York, 1871], pp. 52 f.) that Roger Barton acquired the lan d at Rye Neck, Then part of Connecticut, and gave it the name of Barton' s Neck, i.e., 'all the lands...[in 1871]...bordering on Grace Church Stre et, north of the road leading to Mamussing Island, as far as the brook an d inlet above Dr. Sands' house near to Port Chester'. No Barton deeds fo r this area have been found in Westchester records and it is probable tha t, if extant, they lie hidden in some Connecticut archive. "Whateve r the truth about the period at Rye, Roger Barton purchased on 20 Nov 167 8, from John Archer, first Lord of the Manor of Fordham, a tract of 102 a cres 'lying near Brunxes River, commonly called the Great Plain, Within t he bounds of the said manor', together with a sixteenth part of the sal t Meadow and a share of fresh meadow adjoining the 'Nursery Swamp'. Thi s land was assigned to Barton 'for various causes and more especially val uable considerations of money', but as a token payment signifying enfeoff ment, Barton and his heirs and assigns were obligated to pay Archer and h is heirs and assigns, every Shrove Tuesday at the Manor House of Fordham , a fat hen. Similarly, at the same time (see Harry C. W. Melick, 'The ma nor of Fordham and Its Founder' [New York, 1950] pp. 92-4) Archer also so ld similar tracts to Thomas Statham, John Conklin, Jeremiah Cannife, Will iam Jones, Jonathan Hudson, and Nathaniel Stevens. According to Mr. Meli ck, Barton and Statham, at least gave bonds to Archer, neither of which h ad been satisfied by 1688 (op. cit., pp 114 f.). 'Barton's deed for t his transacton, not recorded until 2 Dec. 1700, long fafter the grantee' s death (Westchester Deeds, C-68-70), contains the statement that Arche r had permission of Cornelius Steenwyck to sell the property, and Steenwy ck actually signed the various times Archer had mortgaged the Manor to St eenwyck, The currently unsatisfied mortgage being dated 24 Nov 1676 (Meli ck, op. cit., p 88). At Archer's death (before 20 Nov. 1684) this Mortga ge was still unsatisfied, and on the last-named date, Steenwyck bequeathe d his interest in the Manor, with the written consent of his wife (Margar ieta de Riemer), to the Nether Dutch Reformed Church in Manhattan, the wi ll being probated 8 May 1685. On 20 Oct 1686, however, Matters were furt her complicated by the fact that the widow Margarieta de Riemer Steenwyc k married secondly, the Rev. Henricus Selyns, minister of that church whi ch now was ultimately to gain title to the unsold part of the Manor of Fo rdham. As has been stated, Mr. Melick claims on the basis of the record s now preserved in the Archives of the Collegiate Church of the City of N ew York, that Barton's bond was still unsatisfied on 30 Oct. 1688 (op. ci t., pp. 114 f.), which is a very curious fact in the light of what we sha ll see a bit later. 'Following the purchase of the 102 acres, the Bar ton family moved at once to Fordham -- there are no Bartons listed in Ry e in 1683 (R. Bolton, "History of Westchester County", 2.139) -- and on 2 5 Dec. 1678 Roger Barton witnessed a land sale by william Davenport of Yo nkers (c3353) and on 3 July 1682, when "at Westchester, New Yorkshire", h e witnessed the sale of "jades" (horses) -- see N. Y. Gen. & Biogr. rec. , 45.131, where the name is spelled "Bartow". on 4 July 1682 the Town o f Westchester gave to Roger barton, Yeoman, "within the bounds of the afo resaid town, upon the west side of Brunxes River, one parcel of land wher e his dwelling house stands" (Westchester Town Records, 1.150). A curiou s statement, that! It is probably to be explained by thge fact that by n ow, as described by Mr. Melick, the dispute between the Lord of the Mano r of Fordham and the Town of Westchester, over ownership of the land on t he west side of Brunxes River, had begun; that the town now claimed thi s part of the Manor land; that, in order to strengthen the town's inhabit ants in their tenure of the property, the town now granted to barton th e very land which he had purchased form Archer in 1678. That this conclu sion is the correct one will be shown when we come to discuss Roger Barto n's final deed as grantor, for there the land he held of the Tjown of Wes tchester is described in such a way that it must be identical with the la nd he pruchased from Archer. 'Further refernces to Roger Barton appea r in the Westchester Town Record. In November 1684 (1.150) houses to be b uilt are mentioned, and one is located "between Roger Barton and the lin e of Col. Lewis Morris's [of Morrisania] at the side of the Brook by th e South Pond". Roger barton had witnessed a deed on 18 Oct. 1684 (A-119) , and on 6 Nov 1684 he was one of five (others Capt. Richard Ponton, Jose ph Palmer, John Hunt, and William Barnes) ordered by the Town of Westches ter to visit "Spittin Debell" for the purpose of there meeting Philip Wel ls, a surveyer, who was to make a survey of the disputed lands(Melick, op . cit., pp. 109-11). Two years later Roger Barton was appointed by the T own Council as one of a committee of three to prevent unauthorized cuttin g of timber on the town lands (then claimed by Archer, of course) west o f Brunxes River (Town Records, 1.3). "The dispute between the Town o f Westchester and Archer became, as we have seen, after Archer's death , a dispute between the Town and the Dutch Church of Manhattan, and in th e summer of 1688 grew quite heated. Some time between 25 May and 28 Jun e 1688, probably in early June, two representatives of the Town of Westch ester, Richard Ponton and Edward Waters, evicted Aert Pieterse Buys and R eyer Michelsen, both tenants of the Manor of Fordham, the former for twen ty years, from the properties they had held, and placed in possession Eli sha and Elijah Barton, the two eldest sons of Roger. According to mr. Me lick (p. 113) the persons placed in possession were Roger and Elijah Bart on. This is an error, due partly to the fact that when the Dutch learne d of the act, they found Roger Barton on the premises, acting as Locum te nens for his son Elijah, and partly to a not unnatural confusion of the t wo brothers who had very similar names. In any case, the error is not Mr . Melick's but his sources', and , as we shall see, the Westchester Cour t also made the same error, though correct testimony had been presented t o it. "This was the situation, then, when on 28 June 1688 Roger Barto n made the deed which servas as his will, acknowledged before the court o n 24 July 1688 as his own instrument and recorded on 25 July 1688 by Jose ph Lee, Register, in Westchester Deeds, Liber A, p. 271 f. Though a deed , as has been said, it has all the earmarks of a will, references to reli gion, to the 'perfitt memory' of the grantor, etc., and it provides a lif e interestfor the wife. Moreover, it conveys, by different paragraphs, s eparate parcels of the grantor's estate, respectively, to the three of th e sons outright, to the wife for life, and after her death to the other t hree sons. There can be no doubt that the grantor was contemplating deat h when he made the deed and that it actually served as a will. "Followin g the opening paragraph, allusion is made to the fact that the grantor i s disposing of 'all such Temporall Estate as it hath pleased God Almight y to bestow upon me'. Then come the specific conveyances: .... "'Fir st of all I give my Son Elisha Barton a parcell of land being twenty Pol e in Width on the west side of the Land I hould of the Towne of Westchest er the whole Length of the Tract is Cittuate and being on the East side o f the Lott the Towne of Westchester aforesaid gave to Elishah Barton & on e third part of the fresh meadow I bought of John Hadden, Senior. "'S econdly, I give unto myu Sonn Elijah Barton twenty two Pole wide to the E ast of Elishah Bartons Land Aforesaid to Runn the whole length aforesai d [preceding word cancelled] of the said Land with one third part of th e aforesaid Meadow. "'thirdly, I give unto my son Roger Barton all th at Tract or parcell of Land which was given mee ny the freeholders and In habbitants of the Yonkers Plantation. "'fourthly, I give unto my Dear e & Loveing Wife Mary Barton all the rest of the said tract of land I hol d of the towne of westchester with all and Singular my Goods, Chattles, L eaces, personall Estate Whatsoever utensils houshod stuff, Implements an d things whatsoever of what nature, kind or property soever the same be o r can be found within the Government of New Yorke or elswheare with thre e acres of meadow on Longe Neck being the northmost meadow that is layd o ut by Bronx River, with the third part of Remainder of the fresh meadow a fore Recited to my two sonns Elishah and Elijah and for and dureing her n atural Life to be at her dispose. "'And Imeadiately after her deceas e to be Eaqually shared betweene Noah Barton, Enoch barton, and Joseph Ba rton and if any of the three should depart this naturall Life before tha t tme before Exprest then to be Equally devided between the Survivers, An y of them to whom the house and Orchard due happen to be their share is t o pay yearely and Every yeare to the Treasurer of the Towne of Westcheste r one Bushell of Winter Wheat it being for Quitt Rent for the whole Trac t I hold of the Towne of Westchester aforesaid'. "There is a good deal mo re to the deed, but it says nothing not already expressed in the quotatio n above, ad the deed ends with the following: "'...I have putt the af oresaid Elishah & Elijah Roger & Mary my wife and after her decease Noa h Enock & joseph in full and Peacable Possession and seizen of all and Ev ery of the Aforesaid Premisses'. "The witnesses weere Andrew Davis [s igned by mark] and Joseph Lee, and the acknowledgement on 24 July 1688 wa s before John Palmer, Justice of the Peace & Quorum Comitt. Westchester , whom we shall meet again later. "On this deed the following comment s should be made: (a) though the property granted to Elisha, Elijah, an d Mary, would appear to be the Archer Tract other wise unmentioned, it is , however called a grant from the town of Westchester; (b) the nature o f the originalgrant was such as to require, still the annual payment o f a quit rent; (c) nothing is otherwise known of the purchase from Hadde n of the grant from Yonkers Plantation; (d) though there is presumption t hat, as Mr. Voge claimed, Noah, Enoch, and Joseph were still minors in 16 88, that is not stated; (e) the position of the wife's share is peculiar , and coming after those of the three eldest sons, may reflect the fact t hat she was a second wife, not their mother, but possibly mother of the t hree youngest sons who were to inherit her share. The making of this dee d at this time seems to suggest, first, that the unsettled conditions cre ated by the land dispute made it extremely desireable to take thought fo r the transfer of the property to the potential heirs before death itsel f came; an, secondly, that in the summer of 1688 the health of Roger Bart on was such as to make him mindful of the need for leaving his affairs i n order. "Between the time of the signing of the deed, however, and t he acknowledging of it before the justice on 24 july 1688, matters came t o a head. There is an extensive account of 16 July 1688 presented, fro m the Westchester Town point of view, in Westchester Deeds, Lib. A, pp. 2 65-70. For an account of the events from the point of view of the Dutc h Church, we may cite Mr. Melick's excellent book already Mentioned abov e (pp. 109-119), which is in turn based on a memorandum for Samuel Winde r written by Nicholas Bayard, attorney for the Dutch Church, on 18 Nov. 1 688, now in the archives of the Collegiate Church of the City of New York . Except for minor details, the Two accounts are essentially harmonious . "From depositions given on 17 July 1688 before John Palmer, the jus tice of the peace of Westchester, we may piece together what had happene d on the day preceding. The Deponents and thir ages were as follows: Rog er Barton, Sr., aged about 60; Elisha Barton, aged about 20; Andrew Davis , aged about 22; Edward Hubbard, aged about 45; Robert hudson, aged abou t 48; Thomas Statham, aged about 47; Jacobn Vallentine, aged about 25; an d Hendrick Verveale, aged about 20. As the depositions are in part repet itious, they may be summarrezed as follows: "The Dutch party who atte mpted to evict the Bartons seemed to most witnesses to be a 'great compan y', the following being named as present init: (1) Reyer Michelsen (nam e also spelled 'Reyer Meceale', 'Ryer Michaill', 'Ryer Micele', 'Richar d Michaile'), Son of Michaill Bastians, and one of those originally evict ed by Ponton and Waters; (2) Hendrick Keirson (name spelled also 'Kearse ' and 'Kerse'); (3) the unnamed wife of Keirson; (4) Nicholas Stuyvesan t (so spelled in Melick's account but in the Westchester record he is 'St evenson' or 'Stevanson' or 'Stephenson'); (5) Tunis Decay; (6) Johannes K ipp; (7) Michaill Bastians, father of Reyer Michelsen; (8) the unnamed wi fe of Michaill Bastians; (9) Bastian Michailes, another oson of Michail l Bastians; (10) Jacques Tourneur (so spelled by Melick, in Westchester r ecords he is 'Jacobb Turneare' or 'Turneire'); and (11) Hannah Odle, wif e of John Odle (Odell). Mr. Melick says there were others present, but t heir names are not recorded. Hendrick Verveale is in a peculiar position , for he is claimed my Mr. Melick as a Dutch partisan, by he also gave te stimony the next day from the Westchester point of view -- perhaps he wa s taken prisoner and testified under duress, though there is nother to su ggest this. "The Dutch approached both houses, according to the testi mony at the same hour, 'about 3 of the clock', but it would appear that t hey first attacked the house of Elijah Barton, then the house of Elisha B arton, after which the party returned to Elijah's house. ElijahBarton i s not mentioned as present at his house and he did not testify the next d ay. Instead, his father Roger was there, inside, with the door locked . Whether Hendrick Verveale and Jacob Vallentine were also with him insi de is not clerar, though their testimony supports his. Roger was in th e house 'for to keepe possession in for & behyalfe of the Towne of Westch ester' when 'there came a great company of men with Nicholas Bayard of Ne w Yorke and with fforce & Armes did Assault teh Deponant [Roger Barton, S r.] And break open the doore of the house and hailed the deponant out An d one of the Company by the name Tunis Decay punched him with his Elboe s and some of the Company Cryed kick him on the breech & others Cryed dis arme him and send him away. And what they did in the house Afterwards y e Deponant Knoweth not'. Verveale testfied that Roger looded out the wind ow and said to Nicholas Stephenson: 'Keepe of[t]', who had a great pole i n his hand which he pulled out of the fence and forced the doore therewit h intending to break it open but Could not doe it where upon Tunis Deca y Came up to the Said Stevenson and tooke the pole out of his hand & wen t to Nicholas Bayard and Asked Libertie of him if he might breake open th e dooreWhereupon the said bayard replyed Yes, I give you Liberty & the sa id Tunis with force & Armes did breake open the doore and the said Roge r with all his might shutt ye doore againe, whereuponjohannes Kipp did br eak the door open againe and did Enter the house first and Tusis Deca y & Johannes Kipp haled the said Roger out of the house and some the Comp any cryed kick him, Kick him [note Verveale's use of fastidious language ] and Also Cryed disarem him, disarme him'. Vallentine merely dposed tha t he saw Kipp enter the house and 'haled Roger out & tooke his Pitchfor d from him and bad[e him] begone'. Roger's testimony continues: 'Afterwa rds as he was going homwards there came one the Company with a sword [Dec ay?] & would not lett him pass alonge the high way bnut with force & Arme s did Turne him back againe whereby the deponant was forced to take anoth er way through the woods for feare of being waylaid againe'. Obviously, R oger Barton was not then living with his son Elijah but elsewhere. " Having successfully vanquished and old man armed only with a pitchfork, t he Dutch party then appear to have moved quickly on to Elisha barton's ho use, formerly occupied by Reyer Michelsen, where they found Elisha and An drew Davis whithin. Here Richard Michaile (the former occupant) and Tuni s Decay broke open the locked door and evicted both men. 'Further, in br eakeing open the dore ye dore flew open and hitt the deponent [Elisha] o n ye Left Eye and hurt very soore & Afterwards they Locked the doore on y e inside and Crept out of the window'. "The fracas at Elijah Barton' s house created sufficient noise to attract attention at Westchester Town , for Edward Hubbard was sent by some of the trustees of the Town 'for t o See what Tumult it was at Elijah Bartons house & for to keepe possessio n for & in behalfe of the Towne And the Deponant [Hubbard] came to the ho use and found no doore thereon & Severall Pallasades broke down from th e side of the sd house but found no body & about halfe an houre After, th ere came a great Companby of men, with Nicholas Bayard to said houses an d Nicholas bayard came to the deponant and said what doe youe here and th e deponant, replyed that he was keeping of possession for & in behalfe o f the Towne of Westchester, where upon the said bayard bid him be gone o r Else he would sett him goeing, and the Company fell upon him & held hi m by the haire of the head and the shoulders & kicked him Tunis Decay Dre w his sword at him'. "At this juncture, Thomas Statham and Robert Hud son happened along that way, en route, as they said, to Vallentine Clauso n's [Clawson's] house 'about their owne ocations' [Hudson], 'about thie r owne bussines' [Statham]. Statham suddenly heard a great noise and sai d to Hudson: 'put on Robert for yonder I heare a great Crying out [Hudso n says he said 'gapeing'] as if some body was hurt'. They then both
'putt on & when they Came to the House where Aert Peterson [Buys, one o f the two evicted originally by Ponton and Waters] formerly Lived he & th e said Robert Saw a great Company of men & Nicholas Bayard of New Yorke w ith them & some of the Company kicking and abuseing Edward Hubard & pulli ng and haleing him out of the yard over the fence into the streete & th e Deponant Asked what is here to do are the[y] killing or murdering o f a man where upon Nicholas Bayard came towards ye Deponant and said, wh o is thow Mr Statham yes Replyed ye deponant I am Thomas Statham where up on the said Bayard Enquired of ye Deponant & said what have you to do her e Gett you about your bussines & the Deponant replyed & said he was in th e King's [sic] high way about his bussines & further the said Bayard dema nded of the deponant whose land the was & the deponant replyed westcheste r for ought he knew & part of it his owne by vertyo of his purchase [fro m John Archer in 1678] where upon Byard threatoned the deponant and gav e him Scurrelous Language and said it shoud be worse for him ant yt he wa s a deceitfull fellow & hat better beene at home about his bussines'
Hudson's testimony is substantially the same, but adds the detail that wh ile Hubbard was being abused, bayard turned his back on the scene and the n denied it was Happening.
"Naturally, the Westchester partisans lost no time in seeking legan p rotection. The testimony summarized above was taken by the Justice, Joh n Palmer, on the seventeenth, and on the twentieth, the Sheriff, Benjam

"Roger Barton, the immigrant ancestor from whom this family descend , was probably born in England, and since on 17 July 1688 he testified un der oath (Westchester Deeds A-269) that he was then 'aged 60 or thereabou ts', his birth took place about the year 1628. Though he is often identi fied with that Barton who on 14 Aug 1642 signed a lease with the Rev. Eve rardus Bogardus for the sixty two acres of the famous farm Bogardus' wif e Anneke Jans, this identification rests upon an error in indexing the st ill extant document,the real tenent having been Rufus Barton, as is show n in 'The American Genealogist', vol 27, no. 3, July 1951, pp. 136-8, un der the title of 'Rufus Barton, not Roger, In Manhattan 1642'. "The f irst undoubted record of Roger Barton on this continent is to be found i n the town records of Brookhaven, Long Island, where on 23 Oct. 1662 Roge r Barton was one of four appointed to lay out the town. The name 'Rog Ba rton' is signed to a Brookhaven deed, as recorder, on 10 June 1664, and , again, 'Rog Bartones' signed with others a contract to build a mill o n '10 mo. 12 1664' (12 Dec 1664?). He may have been the earliest town cl erk of Brookhaven which had been settled from Connecticut in 1655 and joi ned that Colony in 1661. Whith three others, he is styled 'Mr.' in thes e records, a fact which suggests that he was a man of some importance, an d his wife, as will appear, is designated as 'Mrs. Barton', even in conju nction with another woman who is merely termed 'goodwife Bloomer'. on 2 5 April 1664 Roger was named deputy to the Gerneral Court and is Probabl y the 'Mr. Barton' made freeman of Connecticut at the General Assembly wh ich met at Hartford on 12 May 1664 (Public Records of Connecticut [Hartfo rd 1850], 1.428). On 23 Jan 1664/5 he was appointed at Brookhaven on o f six arbitrators; in the same year fined for absence, and named and appr aiser. He purchased land in Brookhaven on 25 Feb. 1664/5; sold a meado w to Henry Perring at an unknown date; and other land to Francis Munsey a nd Wm. Satierly. In April 1665 he was again appointed one of the deputie s to the General Court. Thus far, all the Brookhaven items concern Conne cticut and not New York. "At a court, however, held on 31 Oct. 1665 i n New York City, the defendant Abram Pietersen Corleyn, Accused of selli n stron beer to the Indians, gave as his excuse that 'Mr Borton' had give n his oral assent thereto (New Amsterdam Records, 5.311). This may, as m r. Voge believed, be our Roger Barton, for, with one other, Roger Barto n was elected on 1 March 1665/6 to represent Seatalcott or Brookhaven (Fe rnow, Docs. Rel. Col. Hist. of N.Y., 14.565) at a convention held at Hemp stead at the call of Governor Richard Nicolls of New York when the East , West, and North Ridings of New Yorkshire were established and the Duke' s Laws were put into effect on 11 March 1665/6. "If the reference b y Corleyn is to our man, this may be evidence of growing unpopularity, fo r in May 1666 orders were given by Governor Nicolls for the arrest and ex pulsion of Roger Barton and Robert Bloomer from Brookhaven. The arrest a ppears to have been resested, for on 22 May 1666 Governor Nicolls issue d a commission to Messrs, Mathias Nicolls (no relation to Richard), Willi am Wells, and Jonas Wood, 'to Examine into the Riotous misdemeanors of so me p[er]sonsin Seatalcott'. The commission makes clear that the constabl e had been hindered in the exercise of his duties by 'some ill affected p [er]sons' who 'did riotously Affront and assault him, and wounded other s who came to his Assistance, And withall, then and there (as also at sev erall other Times, have given out and used evill words and speeches, tend ing to the derogat[i]on of his Ma.ties Authority, and against the Peace o f this Government'. The three commissioners, who were, respectively, 'Se cretary of the Councell', 'high Sheriffe of Yorkshire upon Long Islan[d]' , and 'Justice of the Peace of East Riding', were to investigate the matt er thoroughly, and were authorized to call before them Richard Odiell (Wo odhull, not otherwise mentioned), Roger Barton, and Robert Bloomer, or an y other persons. "Accordingly, The commissioners conducted their investig ation and 'having taken upon Oath severall Depositions wherein Roger Bart on and Robert Bloomer are proved Guilty of severall Crimes tending to th e derogat[i]on of his Ma.ties Authority, and against the peace of this Go vernment", Messrs, Nicolls and wells issued a warrant to m[r]. Daniell La ne and Mr. John Tucker of Seatalcott for the arrest of Barton and Bloome r under date of 27 May 1666. An official proclamation outlawing the tw o men was issued on the 31st and on the next day Mathias Nicolls wrote t o Lane and Tucker a letter in which he informed them that on the mornin g 'Mrs Barton' had presented the Governor 'one Petic[i]on in behalfe of h er selfe and Children, and another from Bloomers wife'. The governor inf ormed her that he could do nothing for either woman until the expiratio n of the time limited in the proclamation for their husbands coming in . Nicolls told his correspondents, however, that the governor was please d to permit them to 'make use of any necessaryes, out of their Husbands E state, for their, and their Childrens Subsistence'. The women were to b e used civilly, to be allowed to care for their property, but an accoun t was to be rendered to prevent embezzlement. "The official proclamat ion outlawing the men indicates that they, 'being Concious of their guilt , and apprehensive of the Punishmt their crimes deserve', had 'withdrawn e themselves from their habitations' and 'are fled away'. Thus far, we ha ve been following the original record in the State Library at Albany. Th e two men probably escaped to Connecticut, leaving their families behin d them, for there is a record that in 1666 constable sold some of their h ousehold goods 'to pay the charge of the Commissioners'. A Court of Sess ions, held at Southold (Brookhaven Record, 1.109) on 2-4 June 1669, repea ts the same story and the Governor, Council, and Court now levied a fin e of 50 pounds through the sale of the estates, any residue to be returne d for the relief of the families. Mrs. Barton had been required to pay 1 3/4 pounds to the Commissioners,Goodwife Bloomer 13/10 pounds. Bloomer' s property was sold by the Sheriff for 20 pounds, out of which he gave 1 2 pounds to his wife Rachel, But nothing is said of what was done with B arton's land in Brookhaven. The whole controversy was doubtless a questio n of which colony should control Brookhaven. A letter of John Allyn, Sec retary of Connecticut, to Governor Nicolls of New York, dated 1 Feb. 1664 /5 (Docs. Rel. Col. Hist. Of N. Y., 3.88), refers to trouble at Seatalcot t, perhaps earlier of the Barton-Bloomer difficulties. "It may be that Co nnecticut was the place of refuge to which the men fled, but the only rec ord found which possibly connects Roger Barton with Connecticut after 166 6 is contained in an allusion in the Minutes of of the Hartford Town Meet ing for 1677 (Coll. Conn. Hist. Soc., 6.183): 'The Townsmen for thatt yea re were deptor by sum Cloath giune for the towns use by Squire Battaine06 -06-00', but this may be another man, even a different name. "It wil l have been noted above that in 1666 Roger barton and his wife, her nam e unknown, had children, number not specified. The wife who suffered s o nobly at Seatalcott was, for all we nnow to the contrary, the mary Bart on who survived Roger when he died about 1688 and was still living in wes tchester with his sons Noah and Joseph in 1698. Her surname has not bee n recovered. A descendant states (Nat. Soc. Daughters of Founders and Pa triots, 19.88), wsthout documentation, that Mary was a Lounsberry. A cor respondent has claimed that Mrs Roger Barton was daughter of Richard Loun sbury of Rye who Dated his will 2 June 1690, probated(Westchester Deeds , b-188) 24 Oct. 1694, and further, that the will refers to testator's da ughter 'Mary, the wife of Roger Barton, deceased'. The will does mentio n Mary but without reference to her being married or not, and it is know n from the will of John Haddam of Westchester (Pelletreau, Westchester wi lls, p. 391), probated in 1700, that mary Lounsbury was the wife in 170 0 of Israel Rogers. Mrs. Winifred Lovering Holman informs me that Richar d Lounsbury, father of Mary Lounsbury Rogers, married by license, 1 Aug . 1670, Elizabethy Penrye (Penoyer), who on 8 Jan. 1677/8 was recorded a s aged 24, i.e., born in 1653 or thereabouts. A worman born in 1653, mar ried at 17 in 1670, could hardly be the mother of another woman who as ea rly as 1666 was the mother of at least two children. If Mary Barton wa s really a Lounsbury, we have no evidence of it, and she must have been d aughter of some other Lounsbury than Richard of Rye. No record of the ma rriage of Roger barton to Mary ------- has been found in Connecticut or N ew York, and the probability is that they were already married when the y crossed the Atlantic. Mr. Voge has pointed out the though, except fo r an early connection with Connecticut, Roger Barton himself does not exh ibit strong Puritan characteristics, the names of several of his sons d o (Elisha, Elijah, Noah, and Enoch), and it may be that Mary Barton was o f Puritan stock. "About 1670, it is said by Charles W. Baird ("Histor y of Rye" [New York, 1871], pp. 52 f.) that Roger Barton acquired the lan d at Rye Neck, Then part of Connecticut, and gave it the name of Barton' s Neck, i.e., 'all the lands...[in 1871]...bordering on Grace Church Stre et, north of the road leading to Mamussing Island, as far as the brook an d inlet above Dr. Sands' house near to Port Chester'. No Barton deeds fo r this area have been found in Westchester records and it is probable tha t, if extant, they lie hidden in some Connecticut archive. "Whateve r the truth about the period at Rye, Roger Barton purchased on 20 Nov 167 8, from John Archer, first Lord of the Manor of Fordham, a tract of 102 a cres 'lying near Brunxes River, commonly called the Great Plain, Within t he bounds of the said manor', together with a sixteenth part of the sal t Meadow and a share of fresh meadow adjoining the 'Nursery Swamp'. Thi s land was assigned to Barton 'for various causes and more especially val uable considerations of money', but as a token payment signifying enfeoff ment, Barton and his heirs and assigns were obligated to pay Archer and h is heirs and assigns, every Shrove Tuesday at the Manor House of Fordham , a fat hen. Similarly, at the same time (see Harry C. W. Melick, 'The ma nor of Fordham and Its Founder' [New York, 1950] pp. 92-4) Archer also so ld similar tracts to Thomas Statham, John Conklin, Jeremiah Cannife, Will iam Jones, Jonathan Hudson, and Nathaniel Stevens. According to Mr. Meli ck, Barton and Statham, at least gave bonds to Archer, neither of which h ad been satisfied by 1688 (op. cit., pp 114 f.). 'Barton's deed for t his transacton, not recorded until 2 Dec. 1700, long fafter the grantee' s death (Westchester Deeds, C-68-70), contains the statement that Arche r had permission of Cornelius Steenwyck to sell the property, and Steenwy ck actually signed the various times Archer had mortgaged the Manor to St eenwyck, The currently unsatisfied mortgage being dated 24 Nov 1676 (Meli ck, op. cit., p 88). At Archer's death (before 20 Nov. 1684) this Mortga ge was still unsatisfied, and on the last-named date, Steenwyck bequeathe d his interest in the Manor, with the written consent of his wife (Margar ieta de Riemer), to the Nether Dutch Reformed Church in Manhattan, the wi ll being probated 8 May 1685. On 20 Oct 1686, however, Matters were furt her complicated by the fact that the widow Margarieta de Riemer Steenwyc k married secondly, the Rev. Henricus Selyns, minister of that church whi ch now was ultimately to gain title to the unsold part of the Manor of Fo rdham. As has been stated, Mr. Melick claims on the basis of the record s now preserved in the Archives of the Collegiate Church of the City of N ew York, that Barton's bond was still unsatisfied on 30 Oct. 1688 (op. ci t., pp. 114 f.), which is a very curious fact in the light of what we sha ll see a bit later. 'Following the purchase of the 102 acres, the Bar ton family moved at once to Fordham -- there are no Bartons listed in Ry e in 1683 (R. Bolton, "History of Westchester County", 2.139) -- and on 2 5 Dec. 1678 Roger Barton witnessed a land sale by william Davenport of Yo nkers (c3353) and on 3 July 1682, when "at Westchester, New Yorkshire", h e witnessed the sale of "jades" (horses) -- see N. Y. Gen. & Biogr. rec. , 45.131, where the name is spelled "Bartow". on 4 July 1682 the Town o f Westchester gave to Roger barton, Yeoman, "within the bounds of the afo resaid town, upon the west side of Brunxes River, one parcel of land wher e his dwelling house stands" (Westchester Town Records, 1.150). A curiou s statement, that! It is probably to be explained by thge fact that by n ow, as described by Mr. Melick, the dispute between the Lord of the Mano r of Fordham and the Town of Westchester, over ownership of the land on t he west side of Brunxes River, had begun; that the town now claimed thi s part of the Manor land; that, in order to strengthen the town's inhabit ants in their tenure of the property, the town now granted to barton th e very land which he had purchased form Archer in 1678. That this conclu sion is the correct one will be shown when we come to discuss Roger Barto n's final deed as grantor, for there the land he held of the Tjown of Wes tchester is described in such a way that it must be identical with the la nd he pruchased from Archer. 'Further refernces to Roger Barton appea r in the Westchester Town Record. In November 1684 (1.150) houses to be b uilt are mentioned, and one is located "between Roger Barton and the lin e of Col. Lewis Morris's [of Morrisania] at the side of the Brook by th e South Pond". Roger barton had witnessed a deed on 18 Oct. 1684 (A-119) , and on 6 Nov 1684 he was one of five (others Capt. Richard Ponton, Jose ph Palmer, John Hunt, and William Barnes) ordered by the Town of Westches ter to visit "Spittin Debell" for the purpose of there meeting Philip Wel ls, a surveyer, who was to make a survey of the disputed lands(Melick, op . cit., pp. 109-11). Two years later Roger Barton was appointed by the T own Council as one of a committee of three to prevent unauthorized cuttin g of timber on the town lands (then claimed by Archer, of course) west o f Brunxes River (Town Records, 1.3). "The dispute between the Town o f Westchester and Archer became, as we have seen, after Archer's death , a dispute between the Town and the Dutch Church of Manhattan, and in th e summer of 1688 grew quite heated. Some time between 25 May and 28 Jun e 1688, probably in early June, two representatives of the Town of Westch ester, Richard Ponton and Edward Waters, evicted Aert Pieterse Buys and R eyer Michelsen, both tenants of the Manor of Fordham, the former for twen ty years, from the properties they had held, and placed in possession Eli sha and Elijah Barton, the two eldest sons of Roger. According to mr. Me lick (p. 113) the persons placed in possession were Roger and Elijah Bart on. This is an error, due partly to the fact that when the Dutch learne d of the act, they found Roger Barton on the premises, acting as Locum te nens for his son Elijah, and partly to a not unnatural confusion of the t wo brothers who had very similar names. In any case, the error is not Mr . Melick's but his sources', and , as we shall see, the Westchester Cour t also made the same error, though correct testimony had been presented t o it. "This was the situation, then, when on 28 June 1688 Roger Barto n made the deed which servas as his will, acknowledged before the court o n 24 July 1688 as his own instrument and recorded on 25 July 1688 by Jose ph Lee, Register, in Westchester Deeds, Liber A, p. 271 f. Though a deed , as has been said, it has all the earmarks of a will, references to reli gion, to the 'perfitt memory' of the grantor, etc., and it provides a lif e interestfor the wife. Moreover, it conveys, by different paragraphs, s eparate parcels of the grantor's estate, respectively, to the three of th e sons outright, to the wife for life, and after her death to the other t hree sons. There can be no doubt that the grantor was contemplating deat h when he made the deed and that it actually served as a will. "Followin g the opening paragraph, allusion is made to the fact that the grantor i s disposing of 'all such Temporall Estate as it hath pleased God Almight y to bestow upon me'. Then come the specific conveyances: .... "'Fir st of all I give my Son Elisha Barton a parcell of land being twenty Pol e in Width on the west side of the Land I hould of the Towne of Westchest er the whole Length of the Tract is Cittuate and being on the East side o f the Lott the Towne of Westchester aforesaid gave to Elishah Barton & on e third part of the fresh meadow I bought of John Hadden, Senior. "'S econdly, I give unto myu Sonn Elijah Barton twenty two Pole wide to the E ast of Elishah Bartons Land Aforesaid to Runn the whole length aforesai d [preceding word cancelled] of the said Land with one third part of th e aforesaid Meadow. "'thirdly, I give unto my son Roger Barton all th at Tract or parcell of Land which was given mee ny the freeholders and In habbitants of the Yonkers Plantation. "'fourthly, I give unto my Dear e & Loveing Wife Mary Barton all the rest of the said tract of land I hol d of the towne of westchester with all and Singular my Goods, Chattles, L eaces, personall Estate Whatsoever utensils houshod stuff, Implements an d things whatsoever of what nature, kind or property soever the same be o r can be found within the Government of New Yorke or elswheare with thre e acres of meadow on Longe Neck being the northmost meadow that is layd o ut by Bronx River, with the third part of Remainder of the fresh meadow a fore Recited to my two sonns Elishah and Elijah and for and dureing her n atural Life to be at her dispose. "'And Imeadiately after her deceas e to be Eaqually shared betweene Noah Barton, Enoch barton, and Joseph Ba rton and if any of the three should depart this naturall Life before tha t tme before Exprest then to be Equally devided between the Survivers, An y of them to whom the house and Orchard due happen to be their share is t o pay yearely and Every yeare to the Treasurer of the Towne of Westcheste r one Bushell of Winter Wheat it being for Quitt Rent for the whole Trac t I hold of the Towne of Westchester aforesaid'. "There is a good deal mo re to the deed, but it says nothing not already expressed in the quotatio n above, ad the deed ends with the following: "'...I have putt the af oresaid Elishah & Elijah Roger & Mary my wife and after her decease Noa h Enock & joseph in full and Peacable Possession and seizen of all and Ev ery of the Aforesaid Premisses'. "The witnesses weere Andrew Davis [s igned by mark] and Joseph Lee, and the acknowledgement on 24 July 1688 wa s before John Palmer, Justice of the Peace & Quorum Comitt. Westchester , whom we shall meet again later. "On this deed the following comment s should be made: (a) though the property granted to Elisha, Elijah, an d Mary, would appear to be the Archer Tract other wise unmentioned, it is , however called a grant from the town of Westchester; (b) the nature o f the originalgrant was such as to require, still the annual payment o f a quit rent; (c) nothing is otherwise known of the purchase from Hadde n of the grant from Yonkers Plantation; (d) though there is presumption t hat, as Mr. Voge claimed, Noah, Enoch, and Joseph were still minors in 16 88, that is not stated; (e) the position of the wife's share is peculiar , and coming after those of the three eldest sons, may reflect the fact t hat she was a second wife, not their mother, but possibly mother of the t hree youngest sons who were to inherit her share. The making of this dee d at this time seems to suggest, first, that the unsettled conditions cre ated by the land dispute made it extremely desireable to take thought fo r the transfer of the property to the potential heirs before death itsel f came; an, secondly, that in the summer of 1688 the health of Roger Bart on was such as to make him mindful of the need for leaving his affairs i n order. "Between the time of the signing of the deed, however, and t he acknowledging of it before the justice on 24 july 1688, matters came t o a head. There is an extensive account of 16 July 1688 presented, fro m the Westchester Town point of view, in Westchester Deeds, Lib. A, pp. 2 65-70. For an account of the events from the point of view of the Dutc h Church, we may cite Mr. Melick's excellent book already Mentioned abov e (pp. 109-119), which is in turn based on a memorandum for Samuel Winde r written by Nicholas Bayard, attorney for the Dutch Church, on 18 Nov. 1 688, now in the archives of the Collegiate Church of the City of New York . Except for minor details, the Two accounts are essentially harmonious . "From depositions given on 17 July 1688 before John Palmer, the jus tice of the peace of Westchester, we may piece together what had happene d on the day preceding. The Deponents and thir ages were as follows: Rog er Barton, Sr., aged about 60; Elisha Barton, aged about 20; Andrew Davis , aged about 22; Edward Hubbard, aged about 45; Robert hudson, aged abou t 48; Thomas Statham, aged about 47; Jacobn Vallentine, aged about 25; an d Hendrick Verveale, aged about 20. As the depositions are in part repet itious, they may be summarrezed as follows: "The Dutch party who atte mpted to evict the Bartons seemed to most witnesses to be a 'great compan y', the following being named as present init: (1) Reyer Michelsen (nam e also spelled 'Reyer Meceale', 'Ryer Michaill', 'Ryer Micele', 'Richar d Michaile'), Son of Michaill Bastians, and one of those originally evict ed by Ponton and Waters; (2) Hendrick Keirson (name spelled also 'Kearse ' and 'Kerse'); (3) the unnamed wife of Keirson; (4) Nicholas Stuyvesan t (so spelled in Melick's account but in the Westchester record he is 'St evenson' or 'Stevanson' or 'Stephenson'); (5) Tunis Decay; (6) Johannes K ipp; (7) Michaill Bastians, father of Reyer Michelsen; (8) the unnamed wi fe of Michaill Bastians; (9) Bastian Michailes, another oson of Michail l Bastians; (10) Jacques Tourneur (so spelled by Melick, in Westchester r ecords he is 'Jacobb Turneare' or 'Turneire'); and (11) Hannah Odle, wif e of John Odle (Odell). Mr. Melick says there were others present, but t heir names are not recorded. Hendrick Verveale is in a peculiar position , for he is claimed my Mr. Melick as a Dutch partisan, by he also gave te stimony the next day from the Westchester point of view -- perhaps he wa s taken prisoner and testified under duress, though there is nother to su ggest this. "The Dutch approached both houses, according to the testi mony at the same hour, 'about 3 of the clock', but it would appear that t hey first attacked the house of Elijah Barton, then the house of Elisha B arton, after which the party returned to Elijah's house. ElijahBarton i s not mentioned as present at his house and he did not testify the next d ay. Instead, his father Roger was there, inside, with the door locked . Whether Hendrick Verveale and Jacob Vallentine were also with him insi de is not clerar, though their testimony supports his. Roger was in th e house 'for to keepe possession in for & behyalfe of the Towne of Westch ester' when 'there came a great company of men with Nicholas Bayard of Ne w Yorke and with fforce & Armes did Assault teh Deponant [Roger Barton, S r.] And break open the doore of the house and hailed the deponant out An d one of the Company by the name Tunis Decay punched him with his Elboe s and some of the Company Cryed kick him on the breech & others Cryed dis arme him and send him away. And what they did in the house Afterwards y e Deponant Knoweth not'. Verveale testfied that Roger looded out the wind ow and said to Nicholas Stephenson: 'Keepe of[t]', who had a great pole i n his hand which he pulled out of the fence and forced the doore therewit h intending to break it open but Could not doe it where upon Tunis Deca y Came up to the Said Stevenson and tooke the pole out of his hand & wen t to Nicholas Bayard and Asked Libertie of him if he might breake open th e dooreWhereupon the said bayard replyed Yes, I give you Liberty & the sa id Tunis with force & Armes did breake open the doore and the said Roge r with all his might shutt ye doore againe, whereuponjohannes Kipp did br eak the door open againe and did Enter the house first and Tusis Deca y & Johannes Kipp haled the said Roger out of the house and some the Comp any cryed kick him, Kick him [note Verveale's use of fastidious language ] and Also Cryed disarem him, disarme him'. Vallentine merely dposed tha t he saw Kipp enter the house and 'haled Roger out & tooke his Pitchfor d from him and bad[e him] begone'. Roger's testimony continues: 'Afterwa rds as he was going homwards there came one the Company with a sword [Dec ay?] & would not lett him pass alonge the high way bnut with force & Arme s did Turne him back againe whereby the deponant was forced to take anoth er way through the woods for feare of being waylaid againe'. Obviously, R oger Barton was not then living with his son Elijah but elsewhere. " Having successfully vanquished and old man armed only with a pitchfork, t he Dutch party then appear to have moved quickly on to Elisha barton's ho use, formerly occupied by Reyer Michelsen, where they found Elisha and An drew Davis whithin. Here Richard Michaile (the former occupant) and Tuni s Decay broke open the locked door and evicted both men. 'Further, in br eakeing open the dore ye dore flew open and hitt the deponent [Elisha] o n ye Left Eye and hurt very soore & Afterwards they Locked the doore on y e inside and Crept out of the window'. "The fracas at Elijah Barton' s house created sufficient noise to attract attention at Westchester Town , for Edward Hubbard was sent by some of the trustees of the Town 'for t o See what Tumult it was at Elijah Bartons house & for to keepe possessio n for & in behalfe of the Towne And the Deponant [Hubbard] came to the ho use and found no doore thereon & Severall Pallasades broke down from th e side of the sd house but found no body & about halfe an houre After, th ere came a great Companby of men, with Nicholas Bayard to said houses an d Nicholas bayard came to the deponant and said what doe youe here and th e deponant, replyed that he was keeping of possession for & in behalfe o f the Towne of Westchester, where upon the said bayard bid him be gone o r Else he would sett him goeing, and the Company fell upon him & held hi m by the haire of the head and the shoulders & kicked him Tunis Decay Dre w his sword at him'. "At this juncture, Thomas Statham and Robert Hud son happened along that way, en route, as they said, to Vallentine Clauso n's [Clawson's] house 'about their owne ocations' [Hudson], 'about thie r owne bussines' [Statham]. Statham suddenly heard a great noise and sai d to Hudson: 'put on Robert for yonder I heare a great Crying out [Hudso n says he said 'gapeing'] as if some body was hurt'. They then both
'putt on & when they Came to the House where Aert Peterson [Buys, one o f the two evicted originally by Ponton and Waters] formerly Lived he & th e said Robert Saw a great Company of men & Nicholas Bayard of New Yorke w ith them & some of the Company kicking and abuseing Edward Hubard & pulli ng and haleing him out of the yard over the fence into the streete & th e Deponant Asked what is here to do are the[y] killing or murdering o f a man where upon Nicholas Bayard came towards ye Deponant and said, wh o is thow Mr Statham yes Replyed ye deponant I am Thomas Statham where up on the said Bayard Enquired of ye Deponant & said what have you to do her e Gett you about your bussines & the Deponant replyed & said he was in th e King's [sic] high way about his bussines & further the said Bayard dema nded of the deponant whose land the was & the deponant replyed westcheste r for ought he knew & part of it his owne by vertyo of his purchase [fro m John Archer in 1678] where upon Byard threatoned the deponant and gav e him Scurrelous Language and said it shoud be worse for him ant yt he wa s a deceitfull fellow & hat better beene at home about his bussines'
Hudson's testimony is substantially the same, but adds the detail that wh ile Hubbard was being abused, bayard turned his back on the scene and the n denied it was Happening.
"Naturally, the Westchester partisans lost no time in seeking legan p rotection. The testimony summarized above was taken by the Justice, Joh n Palmer, on the seventeenth, and on the twentieth, the Sheriff, Benjam

"At this juncture, Thomas Statham and Robert Hudson happened along tha t way, en route, as they said, to Vallentine Clauson's [Clawson's] hous e 'about their owne ocations' [Hudson], 'about thier owne bussines' [Stat ham]. Statham suddenly heard a great noise and said to Hudson: 'put on R obert for yonder I heare a great Crying out [Hudson says he said 'gapeing '] as if some body was hurt'. They then both
'putt on & when they Came to the House where Aert Peterson [Buys, one o f the two evicted originally by Ponton and Waters] formerly Lived he & th e said Robert Saw a great Company of men & Nicholas Bayard of New Yorke w ith them & some of the Company kicking and abuseing Edward Hubard & pulli ng and haleing him out of the yard over the fence into the streete & th e Deponant Asked what is here to do are the[y] killing or murdering o f a man where upon Nicholas Bayard came towards ye Deponant and said, wh o is thow Mr Statham yes Replyed ye deponant I am Thomas Statham where up on the said Bayard Enquired of ye Deponant & said what have you to do her e Gett you about your bussines & the Deponant replyed & said he was in th e King's [sic] high way about his bussines & further the said Bayard dema nded of the deponant whose land the was & the deponant replyed westcheste r for ought he knew & part of it his owne by vertyo of his purchase [fro m John Archer in 1678] where upon Byard threatoned the deponant and gav e him Scurrelous Language and said it shoud be worse for him ant yt he wa s a deceitfull fellow & hat better beene at home about his bussines'
Hudson's testimony is substantially the same, but adds the detail that wh ile Hubbard was being abused, bayard turned his back on the scene and the n denied it was Happening.
"Naturally, the Westchester partisans lost no time in seeking legan p rotection. The testimony summarized above was taken by the Justice, Joh n Palmer, on the seventeenth, and on the twentieth, the Sheriff, Benjami n Collier, had been given a precept to arrest Ryer Michele 'with the res t of the said Com[plices?] aforesaid or Any of them wheresoeuer they ma y be found within your Baylywick", which responsibility he passed on, aft er the manner of superiors, to Mr. Richard Headly 'as my Deputy', but n o arrests were made, doubtless because the Dutch party were careful to ke ep out of reach for the Present.
"On the 31st there was held an 'Enquirey of a Ryott and force Entry & c Lateley made in said [Westchester] County' before 'John Palmer Esqe & W m Richardson Esqe, both justices of the Peace in corum & Benjamin Coller , Esqe, High Sherrife of Said County with his vnder Sherrife &c'. A jur y of 24 'good & Lawfull men of the Baylywick' was impannelled, as follows : Jno Drake, Richard Suite [Sweet?], Moses Hoyte sr., Ebenezer Jones, Tho mas Sherwood, Thomas Pinckney, Robert Bloomer Sr. [fellow fugitive of Rog er barton from Brookhaven], James Mott [foreman], Henry Disbrow Sr., Jn o Nellson, Stephen Sherwood Sr., hackaliah Browne, Timothy Knapp, John ff rost, Jno Miller Sr., Cornelius Seeley, Joshua Webb, Zackeriah Webb, Jose ph Jones, John Griffin, Joseph Boyles, william Gray, and Nicholas bayley.
"Being given the testimony, the Jury brought in the following verdic t:
'The Jury being 24 men finds the Cause yt was brought before them to b e a Ryott, & force Entry made in said Count the 16th Instant by Ryer Mich eaile henrick Keirse and others & vpon and at the houses of Elijah Barto n Roger Barton and Edward Hubbard within said County'.
Note that the jury had been inattentive to the testimony: nothing had bee n said about Edward Hubbard's ro Roger Barton's houses. Whereupon the tw o justices gave judgement to the same and ordered it to be recorded in th e county records, as it was duly recorded by the Register, Joseph Lee, o n 3 Aug. 1688.
"Though Westchester justice had reinstated the Bartons in the two hou ses, their claim ultimately had to be abandoned, for the trustees of th e Town of Westchester were funally induced by the Dutch Church to sig n a quitclaim deed on 23 Oct. 1693, surrendering their rights to the lan d within the Manor of Fordham. Mr. Melick, who presents the story (op. c it, p. 117), misunderstands the Roger Barton who signed this deed as wit ness -- the only witness from the Westchester side -- to be Roger-1 Barto n, but it is almost certain that it was rather Roger-2 Barton, since ther e is reasonabley good probability that Roger-1 Barton did not long survi e the events of July 1688. And attempt to examine this signature to dete rmine wheter it is that of an old man or a relatively young one, not a co nclusive point, of course, has been unsuccessful, owing to the fact tha t the original seems to have been mislaid in the archives of the Collegia te Church of the City of New York. In any case, this quitclaime deed wou ld have no bearing on the title to the plot bought by Roger barton in 167 8, providing that the bond was satisfied. The Dutch record seems to impl y that it was not yet satisfied in 1688, but Roger-2 sold a 102- acre far m in the Manor of Fordham on 9 June 1694, to, of all people, Roger Michel sen! See Westchester Deeds in Comptroller's office, New York, Liber 56 , p. 206. This does not however, quite settle the matter, for it is poss ible that this sale was only an apparent sale and that Roger-2 Barton wa s forced to sell, in order to clear himself and his family of the unsatis fied bond of 1678.
"It should be noted that Mr. Voge seems to have misunderstood the eve nts of 16 July 1688 to be an attack of partisans of the Dutch Church of M anhattan upon the Anglican Church of Westchester, but there is no questio n of involvement of a Westchester church in the record.
"When Roger-1 Barton died is not certain. He is last known to be liv ing at the acknowledgment of the deed on 24 July 1688. He does not appea r n the 1698 Cencus of Westchester when his widow Mary and sons Noah an d Joseph do appear.In the deed-will of 1688 the six sons are called child ren, not sons; so there would seem to be no question of roger's having pr eviously provided for any daughters, and, indeed, there are no deeds reco rded to show that he did care for any possible daughters.
"Mention should be made here however, of a William barton who was i n December 1693 on the Petty Jury of the Court of Sessions (Dixon Ryan Fo x, Minute 
Barton, Roger (I1022)
 
1112 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. BIRT H: Vol CVII N.E.H.G.S. Pg 168.

"Roger Barton, the immigrant ancestor from whom this family descend , was probably born in England, and since on 17 July 1688 he testified un der oath (Westchester Deeds A-269) that he was then 'aged 60 or thereabou ts', his birth took place about the year 1628. Though he is often identi fied with that Barton who on 14 Aug 1642 signed a lease with the Rev. Eve rardus Bogardus for the sixty two acres of the famous farm Bogardus' wif e Anneke Jans, this identification rests upon an error in indexing the st ill extant document,the real tenent having been Rufus Barton, as is show n in 'The American Genealogist', vol 27, no. 3, July 1951, pp. 136-8, un der the title of 'Rufus Barton, not Roger, In Manhattan 1642'. "The f irst undoubted record of Roger Barton on this continent is to be found i n the town records of Brookhaven, Long Island, where on 23 Oct. 1662 Roge r Barton was one of four appointed to lay out the town. The name 'Rog Ba rton' is signed to a Brookhaven deed, as recorder, on 10 June 1664, and , again, 'Rog Bartones' signed with others a contract to build a mill o n '10 mo. 12 1664' (12 Dec 1664?). He may have been the earliest town cl erk of Brookhaven which had been settled from Connecticut in 1655 and joi ned that Colony in 1661. Whith three others, he is styled 'Mr.' in thes e records, a fact which suggests that he was a man of some importance, an d his wife, as will appear, is designated as 'Mrs. Barton', even in conju nction with another woman who is merely termed 'goodwife Bloomer'. on 2 5 April 1664 Roger was named deputy to the Gerneral Court and is Probabl y the 'Mr. Barton' made freeman of Connecticut at the General Assembly wh ich met at Hartford on 12 May 1664 (Public Records of Connecticut [Hartfo rd 1850], 1.428). On 23 Jan 1664/5 he was appointed at Brookhaven on o f six arbitrators; in the same year fined for absence, and named and appr aiser. He purchased land in Brookhaven on 25 Feb. 1664/5; sold a meado w to Henry Perring at an unknown date; and other land to Francis Munsey a nd Wm. Satierly. In April 1665 he was again appointed one of the deputie s to the General Court. Thus far, all the Brookhaven items concern Conne cticut and not New York. "At a court, however, held on 31 Oct. 1665 i n New York City, the defendant Abram Pietersen Corleyn, Accused of selli n stron beer to the Indians, gave as his excuse that 'Mr Borton' had give n his oral assent thereto (New Amsterdam Records, 5.311). This may, as m r. Voge believed, be our Roger Barton, for, with one other, Roger Barto n was elected on 1 March 1665/6 to represent Seatalcott or Brookhaven (Fe rnow, Docs. Rel. Col. Hist. of N.Y., 14.565) at a convention held at Hemp stead at the call of Governor Richard Nicolls of New York when the East , West, and North Ridings of New Yorkshire were established and the Duke' s Laws were put into effect on 11 March 1665/6. "If the reference b y Corleyn is to our man, this may be evidence of growing unpopularity, fo r in May 1666 orders were given by Governor Nicolls for the arrest and ex pulsion of Roger Barton and Robert Bloomer from Brookhaven. The arrest a ppears to have been resested, for on 22 May 1666 Governor Nicolls issue d a commission to Messrs, Mathias Nicolls (no relation to Richard), Willi am Wells, and Jonas Wood, 'to Examine into the Riotous misdemeanors of so me p[er]sonsin Seatalcott'. The commission makes clear that the constabl e had been hindered in the exercise of his duties by 'some ill affected p [er]sons' who 'did riotously Affront and assault him, and wounded other s who came to his Assistance, And withall, then and there (as also at sev erall other Times, have given out and used evill words and speeches, tend ing to the derogat[i]on of his Ma.ties Authority, and against the Peace o f this Government'. The three commissioners, who were, respectively, 'Se cretary of the Councell', 'high Sheriffe of Yorkshire upon Long Islan[d]' , and 'Justice of the Peace of East Riding', were to investigate the matt er thoroughly, and were authorized to call before them Richard Odiell (Wo odhull, not otherwise mentioned), Roger Barton, and Robert Bloomer, or an y other persons. "Accordingly, The commissioners conducted their investig ation and 'having taken upon Oath severall Depositions wherein Roger Bart on and Robert Bloomer are proved Guilty of severall Crimes tending to th e derogat[i]on of his Ma.ties Authority, and against the peace of this Go vernment", Messrs, Nicolls and wells issued a warrant to m[r]. Daniell La ne and Mr. John Tucker of Seatalcott for the arrest of Barton and Bloome r under date of 27 May 1666. An official proclamation outlawing the tw o men was issued on the 31st and on the next day Mathias Nicolls wrote t o Lane and Tucker a letter in which he informed them that on the mornin g 'Mrs Barton' had presented the Governor 'one Petic[i]on in behalfe of h er selfe and Children, and another from Bloomers wife'. The governor inf ormed her that he could do nothing for either woman until the expiratio n of the time limited in the proclamation for their husbands coming in . Nicolls told his correspondents, however, that the governor was please d to permit them to 'make use of any necessaryes, out of their Husbands E state, for their, and their Childrens Subsistence'. The women were to b e used civilly, to be allowed to care for their property, but an accoun t was to be rendered to prevent embezzlement. "The official proclamat ion outlawing the men indicates that they, 'being Concious of their guilt , and apprehensive of the Punishmt their crimes deserve', had 'withdrawn e themselves from their habitations' and 'are fled away'. Thus far, we ha ve been following the original record in the State Library at Albany. Th e two men probably escaped to Connecticut, leaving their families behin d them, for there is a record that in 1666 constable sold some of their h ousehold goods 'to pay the charge of the Commissioners'. A Court of Sess ions, held at Southold (Brookhaven Record, 1.109) on 2-4 June 1669, repea ts the same story and the Governor, Council, and Court now levied a fin e of 50 pounds through the sale of the estates, any residue to be returne d for the relief of the families. Mrs. Barton had been required to pay 1 3/4 pounds to the Commissioners,Goodwife Bloomer 13/10 pounds. Bloomer' s property was sold by the Sheriff for 20 pounds, out of which he gave 1 2 pounds to his wife Rachel, But nothing is said of what was done with B arton's land in Brookhaven. The whole controversy was doubtless a questio n of which colony should control Brookhaven. A letter of John Allyn, Sec retary of Connecticut, to Governor Nicolls of New York, dated 1 Feb. 1664 /5 (Docs. Rel. Col. Hist. Of N. Y., 3.88), refers to trouble at Seatalcot t, perhaps earlier of the Barton-Bloomer difficulties. "It may be that Co nnecticut was the place of refuge to which the men fled, but the only rec ord found which possibly connects Roger Barton with Connecticut after 166 6 is contained in an allusion in the Minutes of of the Hartford Town Meet ing for 1677 (Coll. Conn. Hist. Soc., 6.183): 'The Townsmen for thatt yea re were deptor by sum Cloath giune for the towns use by Squire Battaine06 -06-00', but this may be another man, even a different name. "It wil l have been noted above that in 1666 Roger barton and his wife, her nam e unknown, had children, number not specified. The wife who suffered s o nobly at Seatalcott was, for all we nnow to the contrary, the mary Bart on who survived Roger when he died about 1688 and was still living in wes tchester with his sons Noah and Joseph in 1698. Her surname has not bee n recovered. A descendant states (Nat. Soc. Daughters of Founders and Pa triots, 19.88), wsthout documentation, that Mary was a Lounsberry. A cor respondent has claimed that Mrs Roger Barton was daughter of Richard Loun sbury of Rye who Dated his will 2 June 1690, probated(Westchester Deeds , b-188) 24 Oct. 1694, and further, that the will refers to testator's da ughter 'Mary, the wife of Roger Barton, deceased'. The will does mentio n Mary but without reference to her being married or not, and it is know n from the will of John Haddam of Westchester (Pelletreau, Westchester wi lls, p. 391), probated in 1700, that mary Lounsbury was the wife in 170 0 of Israel Rogers. Mrs. Winifred Lovering Holman informs me that Richar d Lounsbury, father of Mary Lounsbury Rogers, married by license, 1 Aug . 1670, Elizabethy Penrye (Penoyer), who on 8 Jan. 1677/8 was recorded a s aged 24, i.e., born in 1653 or thereabouts. A worman born in 1653, mar ried at 17 in 1670, could hardly be the mother of another woman who as ea rly as 1666 was the mother of at least two children. If Mary Barton wa s really a Lounsbury, we have no evidence of it, and she must have been d aughter of some other Lounsbury than Richard of Rye. No record of the ma rriage of Roger barton to Mary ------- has been found in Connecticut or N ew York, and the probability is that they were already married when the y crossed the Atlantic. Mr. Voge has pointed out the though, except fo r an early connection with Connecticut, Roger Barton himself does not exh ibit strong Puritan characteristics, the names of several of his sons d o (Elisha, Elijah, Noah, and Enoch), and it may be that Mary Barton was o f Puritan stock. "About 1670, it is said by Charles W. Baird ("Histor y of Rye" [New York, 1871], pp. 52 f.) that Roger Barton acquired the lan d at Rye Neck, Then part of Connecticut, and gave it the name of Barton' s Neck, i.e., 'all the lands...[in 1871]...bordering on Grace Church Stre et, north of the road leading to Mamussing Island, as far as the brook an d inlet above Dr. Sands' house near to Port Chester'. No Barton deeds fo r this area have been found in Westchester records and it is probable tha t, if extant, they lie hidden in some Connecticut archive. "Whateve r the truth about the period at Rye, Roger Barton purchased on 20 Nov 167 8, from John Archer, first Lord of the Manor of Fordham, a tract of 102 a cres 'lying near Brunxes River, commonly called the Great Plain, Within t he bounds of the said manor', together with a sixteenth part of the sal t Meadow and a share of fresh meadow adjoining the 'Nursery Swamp'. Thi s land was assigned to Barton 'for various causes and more especially val uable considerations of money', but as a token payment signifying enfeoff ment, Barton and his heirs and assigns were obligated to pay Archer and h is heirs and assigns, every Shrove Tuesday at the Manor House of Fordham , a fat hen. Similarly, at the same time (see Harry C. W. Melick, 'The ma nor of Fordham and Its Founder' [New York, 1950] pp. 92-4) Archer also so ld similar tracts to Thomas Statham, John Conklin, Jeremiah Cannife, Will iam Jones, Jonathan Hudson, and Nathaniel Stevens. According to Mr. Meli ck, Barton and Statham, at least gave bonds to Archer, neither of which h ad been satisfied by 1688 (op. cit., pp 114 f.). 'Barton's deed for t his transacton, not recorded until 2 Dec. 1700, long fafter the grantee' s death (Westchester Deeds, C-68-70), contains the statement that Arche r had permission of Cornelius Steenwyck to sell the property, and Steenwy ck actually signed the various times Archer had mortgaged the Manor to St eenwyck, The currently unsatisfied mortgage being dated 24 Nov 1676 (Meli ck, op. cit., p 88). At Archer's death (before 20 Nov. 1684) this Mortga ge was still unsatisfied, and on the last-named date, Steenwyck bequeathe d his interest in the Manor, with the written consent of his wife (Margar ieta de Riemer), to the Nether Dutch Reformed Church in Manhattan, the wi ll being probated 8 May 1685. On 20 Oct 1686, however, Matters were furt her complicated by the fact that the widow Margarieta de Riemer Steenwyc k married secondly, the Rev. Henricus Selyns, minister of that church whi ch now was ultimately to gain title to the unsold part of the Manor of Fo rdham. As has been stated, Mr. Melick claims on the basis of the record s now preserved in the Archives of the Collegiate Church of the City of N ew York, that Barton's bond was still unsatisfied on 30 Oct. 1688 (op. ci t., pp. 114 f.), which is a very curious fact in the light of what we sha ll see a bit later. 'Following the purchase of the 102 acres, the Bar ton family moved at once to Fordham -- there are no Bartons listed in Ry e in 1683 (R. Bolton, "History of Westchester County", 2.139) -- and on 2 5 Dec. 1678 Roger Barton witnessed a land sale by william Davenport of Yo nkers (c3353) and on 3 July 1682, when "at Westchester, New Yorkshire", h e witnessed the sale of "jades" (horses) -- see N. Y. Gen. & Biogr. rec. , 45.131, where the name is spelled "Bartow". on 4 July 1682 the Town o f Westchester gave to Roger barton, Yeoman, "within the bounds of the afo resaid town, upon the west side of Brunxes River, one parcel of land wher e his dwelling house stands" (Westchester Town Records, 1.150). A curiou s statement, that! It is probably to be explained by thge fact that by n ow, as described by Mr. Melick, the dispute between the Lord of the Mano r of Fordham and the Town of Westchester, over ownership of the land on t he west side of Brunxes River, had begun; that the town now claimed thi s part of the Manor land; that, in order to strengthen the town's inhabit ants in their tenure of the property, the town now granted to barton th e very land which he had purchased form Archer in 1678. That this conclu sion is the correct one will be shown when we come to discuss Roger Barto n's final deed as grantor, for there the land he held of the Tjown of Wes tchester is described in such a way that it must be identical with the la nd he pruchased from Archer. 'Further refernces to Roger Barton appea r in the Westchester Town Record. In November 1684 (1.150) houses to be b uilt are mentioned, and one is located "between Roger Barton and the lin e of Col. Lewis Morris's [of Morrisania] at the side of the Brook by th e South Pond". Roger barton had witnessed a deed on 18 Oct. 1684 (A-119) , and on 6 Nov 1684 he was one of five (others Capt. Richard Ponton, Jose ph Palmer, John Hunt, and William Barnes) ordered by the Town of Westches ter to visit "Spittin Debell" for the purpose of there meeting Philip Wel ls, a surveyer, who was to make a survey of the disputed lands(Melick, op . cit., pp. 109-11). Two years later Roger Barton was appointed by the T own Council as one of a committee of three to prevent unauthorized cuttin g of timber on the town lands (then claimed by Archer, of course) west o f Brunxes River (Town Records, 1.3). "The dispute between the Town o f Westchester and Archer became, as we have seen, after Archer's death , a dispute between the Town and the Dutch Church of Manhattan, and in th e summer of 1688 grew quite heated. Some time between 25 May and 28 Jun e 1688, probably in early June, two representatives of the Town of Westch ester, Richard Ponton and Edward Waters, evicted Aert Pieterse Buys and R eyer Michelsen, both tenants of the Manor of Fordham, the former for twen ty years, from the properties they had held, and placed in possession Eli sha and Elijah Barton, the two eldest sons of Roger. According to mr. Me lick (p. 113) the persons placed in possession were Roger and Elijah Bart on. This is an error, due partly to the fact that when the Dutch learne d of the act, they found Roger Barton on the premises, acting as Locum te nens for his son Elijah, and partly to a not unnatural confusion of the t wo brothers who had very similar names. In any case, the error is not Mr . Melick's but his sources', and , as we shall see, the Westchester Cour t also made the same error, though correct testimony had been presented t o it. "This was the situation, then, when on 28 June 1688 Roger Barto n made the deed which servas as his will, acknowledged before the court o n 24 July 1688 as his own instrument and recorded on 25 July 1688 by Jose ph Lee, Register, in Westchester Deeds, Liber A, p. 271 f. Though a deed , as has been said, it has all the earmarks of a will, references to reli gion, to the 'perfitt memory' of the grantor, etc., and it provides a lif e interestfor the wife. Moreover, it conveys, by different paragraphs, s eparate parcels of the grantor's estate, respectively, to the three of th e sons outright, to the wife for life, and after her death to the other t hree sons. There can be no doubt that the grantor was contemplating deat h when he made the deed and that it actually served as a will. "Followin g the opening paragraph, allusion is made to the fact that the grantor i s disposing of 'all such Temporall Estate as it hath pleased God Almight y to bestow upon me'. Then come the specific conveyances: .... "'Fir st of all I give my Son Elisha Barton a parcell of land being twenty Pol e in Width on the west side of the Land I hould of the Towne of Westchest er the whole Length of the Tract is Cittuate and being on the East side o f the Lott the Towne of Westchester aforesaid gave to Elishah Barton & on e third part of the fresh meadow I bought of John Hadden, Senior. "'S econdly, I give unto myu Sonn Elijah Barton twenty two Pole wide to the E ast of Elishah Bartons Land Aforesaid to Runn the whole length aforesai d [preceding word cancelled] of the said Land with one third part of th e aforesaid Meadow. "'thirdly, I give unto my son Roger Barton all th at Tract or parcell of Land which was given mee ny the freeholders and In habbitants of the Yonkers Plantation. "'fourthly, I give unto my Dear e & Loveing Wife Mary Barton all the rest of the said tract of land I hol d of the towne of westchester with all and Singular my Goods, Chattles, L eaces, personall Estate Whatsoever utensils houshod stuff, Implements an d things whatsoever of what nature, kind or property soever the same be o r can be found within the Government of New Yorke or elswheare with thre e acres of meadow on Longe Neck being the northmost meadow that is layd o ut by Bronx River, with the third part of Remainder of the fresh meadow a fore Recited to my two sonns Elishah and Elijah and for and dureing her n atural Life to be at her dispose. "'And Imeadiately after her deceas e to be Eaqually shared betweene Noah Barton, Enoch barton, and Joseph Ba rton and if any of the three should depart this naturall Life before tha t tme before Exprest then to be Equally devided between the Survivers, An y of them to whom the house and Orchard due happen to be their share is t o pay yearely and Every yeare to the Treasurer of the Towne of Westcheste r one Bushell of Winter Wheat it being for Quitt Rent for the whole Trac t I hold of the Towne of Westchester aforesaid'. "There is a good deal mo re to the deed, but it says nothing not already expressed in the quotatio n above, ad the deed ends with the following: "'...I have putt the af oresaid Elishah & Elijah Roger & Mary my wife and after her decease Noa h Enock & joseph in full and Peacable Possession and seizen of all and Ev ery of the Aforesaid Premisses'. "The witnesses weere Andrew Davis [s igned by mark] and Joseph Lee, and the acknowledgement on 24 July 1688 wa s before John Palmer, Justice of the Peace & Quorum Comitt. Westchester , whom we shall meet again later. "On this deed the following comment s should be made: (a) though the property granted to Elisha, Elijah, an d Mary, would appear to be the Archer Tract other wise unmentioned, it is , however called a grant from the town of Westchester; (b) the nature o f the originalgrant was such as to require, still the annual payment o f a quit rent; (c) nothing is otherwise known of the purchase from Hadde n of the grant from Yonkers Plantation; (d) though there is presumption t hat, as Mr. Voge claimed, Noah, Enoch, and Joseph were still minors in 16 88, that is not stated; (e) the position of the wife's share is peculiar , and coming after those of the three eldest sons, may reflect the fact t hat she was a second wife, not their mother, but possibly mother of the t hree youngest sons who were to inherit her share. The making of this dee d at this time seems to suggest, first, that the unsettled conditions cre ated by the land dispute made it extremely desireable to take thought fo r the transfer of the property to the potential heirs before death itsel f came; an, secondly, that in the summer of 1688 the health of Roger Bart on was such as to make him mindful of the need for leaving his affairs i n order. "Between the time of the signing of the deed, however, and t he acknowledging of it before the justice on 24 july 1688, matters came t o a head. There is an extensive account of 16 July 1688 presented, fro m the Westchester Town point of view, in Westchester Deeds, Lib. A, pp. 2 65-70. For an account of the events from the point of view of the Dutc h Church, we may cite Mr. Melick's excellent book already Mentioned abov e (pp. 109-119), which is in turn based on a memorandum for Samuel Winde r written by Nicholas Bayard, attorney for the Dutch Church, on 18 Nov. 1 688, now in the archives of the Collegiate Church of the City of New York . Except for minor details, the Two accounts are essentially harmonious . "From depositions given on 17 July 1688 before John Palmer, the jus tice of the peace of Westchester, we may piece together what had happene d on the day preceding. The Deponents and thir ages were as follows: Rog er Barton, Sr., aged about 60; Elisha Barton, aged about 20; Andrew Davis , aged about 22; Edward Hubbard, aged about 45; Robert hudson, aged abou t 48; Thomas Statham, aged about 47; Jacobn Vallentine, aged about 25; an d Hendrick Verveale, aged about 20. As the depositions are in part repet itious, they may be summarrezed as follows: "The Dutch party who atte mpted to evict the Bartons seemed to most witnesses to be a 'great compan y', the following being named as present init: (1) Reyer Michelsen (nam e also spelled 'Reyer Meceale', 'Ryer Michaill', 'Ryer Micele', 'Richar d Michaile'), Son of Michaill Bastians, and one of those originally evict ed by Ponton and Waters; (2) Hendrick Keirson (name spelled also 'Kearse ' and 'Kerse'); (3) the unnamed wife of Keirson; (4) Nicholas Stuyvesan t (so spelled in Melick's account but in the Westchester record he is 'St evenson' or 'Stevanson' or 'Stephenson'); (5) Tunis Decay; (6) Johannes K ipp; (7) Michaill Bastians, father of Reyer Michelsen; (8) the unnamed wi fe of Michaill Bastians; (9) Bastian Michailes, another oson of Michail l Bastians; (10) Jacques Tourneur (so spelled by Melick, in Westchester r ecords he is 'Jacobb Turneare' or 'Turneire'); and (11) Hannah Odle, wif e of John Odle (Odell). Mr. Melick says there were others present, but t heir names are not recorded. Hendrick Verveale is in a peculiar position , for he is claimed my Mr. Melick as a Dutch partisan, by he also gave te stimony the next day from the Westchester point of view -- perhaps he wa s taken prisoner and testified under duress, though there is nother to su ggest this. "The Dutch approached both houses, according to the testi mony at the same hour, 'about 3 of the clock', but it would appear that t hey first attacked the house of Elijah Barton, then the house of Elisha B arton, after which the party returned to Elijah's house. ElijahBarton i s not mentioned as present at his house and he did not testify the next d ay. Instead, his father Roger was there, inside, with the door locked . Whether Hendrick Verveale and Jacob Vallentine were also with him insi de is not clerar, though their testimony supports his. Roger was in th e house 'for to keepe possession in for & behyalfe of the Towne of Westch ester' when 'there came a great company of men with Nicholas Bayard of Ne w Yorke and with fforce & Armes did Assault teh Deponant [Roger Barton, S r.] And break open the doore of the house and hailed the deponant out An d one of the Company by the name Tunis Decay punched him with his Elboe s and some of the Company Cryed kick him on the breech & others Cryed dis arme him and send him away. And what they did in the house Afterwards y e Deponant Knoweth not'. Verveale testfied that Roger looded out the wind ow and said to Nicholas Stephenson: 'Keepe of[t]', who had a great pole i n his hand which he pulled out of the fence and forced the doore therewit h intending to break it open but Could not doe it where upon Tunis Deca y Came up to the Said Stevenson and tooke the pole out of his hand & wen t to Nicholas Bayard and Asked Libertie of him if he might breake open th e dooreWhereupon the said bayard replyed Yes, I give you Liberty & the sa id Tunis with force & Armes did breake open the doore and the said Roge r with all his might shutt ye doore againe, whereuponjohannes Kipp did br eak the door open againe and did Enter the house first and Tusis Deca y & Johannes Kipp haled the said Roger out of the house and some the Comp any cryed kick him, Kick him [note Verveale's use of fastidious language ] and Also Cryed disarem him, disarme him'. Vallentine merely dposed tha t he saw Kipp enter the house and 'haled Roger out & tooke his Pitchfor d from him and bad[e him] begone'. Roger's testimony continues: 'Afterwa rds as he was going homwards there came one the Company with a sword [Dec ay?] & would not lett him pass alonge the high way bnut with force & Arme s did Turne him back againe whereby the deponant was forced to take anoth er way through the woods for feare of being waylaid againe'. Obviously, R oger Barton was not then living with his son Elijah but elsewhere. " Having successfully vanquished and old man armed only with a pitchfork, t he Dutch party then appear to have moved quickly on to Elisha barton's ho use, formerly occupied by Reyer Michelsen, where they found Elisha and An drew Davis whithin. Here Richard Michaile (the former occupant) and Tuni s Decay broke open the locked door and evicted both men. 'Further, in br eakeing open the dore ye dore flew open and hitt the deponent [Elisha] o n ye Left Eye and hurt very soore & Afterwards they Locked the doore on y e inside and Crept out of the window'. "The fracas at Elijah Barton' s house created sufficient noise to attract attention at Westchester Town , for Edward Hubbard was sent by some of the trustees of the Town 'for t o See what Tumult it was at Elijah Bartons house & for to keepe possessio n for & in behalfe of the Towne And the Deponant [Hubbard] came to the ho use and found no doore thereon & Severall Pallasades broke down from th e side of the sd house but found no body & about halfe an houre After, th ere came a great Companby of men, with Nicholas Bayard to said houses an d Nicholas bayard came to the deponant and said what doe youe here and th e deponant, replyed that he was keeping of possession for & in behalfe o f the Towne of Westchester, where upon the said bayard bid him be gone o r Else he would sett him goeing, and the Company fell upon him & held hi m by the haire of the head and the shoulders & kicked him Tunis Decay Dre w his sword at him'. "At this juncture, Thomas Statham and Robert Hud son happened along that way, en route, as they said, to Vallentine Clauso n's [Clawson's] house 'about their owne ocations' [Hudson], 'about thie r owne bussines' [Statham]. Statham suddenly heard a great noise and sai d to Hudson: 'put on Robert for yonder I heare a great Crying out [Hudso n says he said 'gapeing'] as if some body was hurt'. They then both
'putt on & when they Came to the House where Aert Peterson [Buys, one o f the two evicted originally by Ponton and Waters] formerly Lived he & th e said Robert Saw a great Company of men & Nicholas Bayard of New Yorke w ith them & some of the Company kicking and abuseing Edward Hubard & pulli ng and haleing him out of the yard over the fence into the streete & th e Deponant Asked what is here to do are the[y] killing or murdering o f a man where upon Nicholas Bayard came towards ye Deponant and said, wh o is thow Mr Statham yes Replyed ye deponant I am Thomas Statham where up on the said Bayard Enquired of ye Deponant & said what have you to do her e Gett you about your bussines & the Deponant replyed & said he was in th e King's [sic] high way about his bussines & further the said Bayard dema nded of the deponant whose land the was & the deponant replyed westcheste r for ought he knew & part of it his owne by vertyo of his purchase [fro m John Archer in 1678] where upon Byard threatoned the deponant and gav e him Scurrelous Language and said it shoud be worse for him ant yt he wa s a deceitfull fellow & hat better beene at home about his bussines'
Hudson's testimony is substantially the same, but adds the detail that wh ile Hubbard was being abused, bayard turned his back on the scene and the n denied it was Happening.
"Naturally, the Westchester partisans lost no time in seeking legan p rotection. The testimony summarized above was taken by the Justice, Joh n Palmer, on the seventeenth, and on the twentieth, the Sheriff, Benjam 
Family F459
 
1113 !SOURCE: The Hadden Book, Copyright - J. Elwood Arnold 1980. pg B 2. BIRT H: Vol CVII N.E.H.G.S. Pg 179. Birth was probably in Brookhaven, Long Isl and, about 1664; Death was probably before 1717, without issue survivin g then.

"He is named as second son in the conveyance of 28 June 1688 which se rved as his father's will. by 16 July 1688 he had also been installed i n possession of a house, that formerly occupied by aert Petersen Buys, b y the Town of Westchester, by on that day he did not deefend it in perso n (See notes for Father, Roger Barton). This does not imp[ly, necessaril y, that he was already married. He was probably absent on military duty , his father defending the property in hes stead. In March 1686 he witne ssed a sale in Westchester (a-67 f., by mark, 'Alligah'). The Westcheste r Town Minutes, 1.12, record a vote to give him the first lot on the wes t side of Brunkes River in return for paying arrears due William Richards on (see Riker's 'History of Harlem', p. 308).
"It was long the belief of Mr. Voge that about 1700 Elijah removed t o Hemstead Bartons, but no evidence has been found to support this conjec ture, and what evidence there is for these bartons suggeststhat the earli sest Elijah Barton at Hempstead was, rather, Elijah(3) [Joseph(2)]. In a ny case there is very strong evidence to support the view that Elijah(2 ) was in 1717 already dead without surviving issue. The Province of Ne w York (Colonial Laws of New York, 1.938, 964 f.) by An Act for payin g & DischargingSeveral Debts, passed on 23 Dec. 1717, credited 'Elisa Bar ton' with military service performed at the fort at Albany under Capt. Jo chim Staats in the years 1689 and 1690, and awarded, not to the veteran h imself, but to 'Noah Barton, his Exce'rs or Assigns, to be equally divide d among the Brethern of Elisa Barton' the sum of 'Twenty-three ounces Sev en pennyw't & a halfe of Plate'. Both the text of the bill and the inde x give the first name as above, but it is probable that this is a misread ing of 'Elija' without the final letter (I have not examined the origina l but have seen other manuscript examples of the name which might easil y be misread by the unwary as 'Elisa'.). That the name should not be rea d as 'Elis[h]a' is, I think, proved by Elisha's presence at Westchester i n July 1688 an Elijah's absence, coupled with the fact that Elisha appear s to have surviving issue, as the veteran did not.
"Mr Voge was also of the opinion that Elijah(2) Barton was father o f Hannah, wife and widow of Edward Tompkins, Manor of Scarsdale, whose wi ll was dated 28 Feb. 1717/18, and probated 9 Jan. 1719/20. Tompkins had t he following children, several of the names of whom suggest Barton relati onship: Edmond, Obadiah, Mary, John, Elijah, Caaleb, Roger, Joseph, Susan na, and Jane, while Noah(2) Barton was, with Jonathan Odell and the Widow , named as Executor. But the first three children were of age in 1718/19 , and so must have been born before 1698. That puts the birth of the eld est at least as early as 1695 when Elijah Barton was only 31, too young t o be a grandfather, and the objection that Elijah had no issue survivin g the 1717 also confirms this conclusion." SOURCE: Vol CVII N.E.H.G.S. P g 168.

b. Probably in Brookhaven, Long Island about 1664; d. before 1717, withou t issue surviving then.

b. Probably in Brookhaven, Long Island about 1664; d. before 1717, withou t issue surviving then. 
Barton, Elijah (I1025)
 
1114 !SOURCE: The Mayflower Reader, A Selection of Articles from The Mayflowe r Descendant, By George Ernest Bowman, Selected By Ruth Wilder Sherman, F .A.S.G., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1978. p. 86-87

!BIRTH: "A Descent from Henry III to Judith Lewis Gibbins of Saco, Maine " by Walter Goodwin Davis, B.A., L.L.B., of Portland, Maine. Arti cle in "The American Genealogist" Number 73, July 1942, Vol. Xix , No. 1.

!MARRIAGE: As above

!DEATH: As above

!LDS MARRIAGE SEALING: Patron Notification-Genealogical Department form . Ref 6010836 17 S/N 00042-5 047 12 INFORMATION REFERENCE: TEMPLE FI LE ENTRY

>LDS Baptism note: Submission 317-9529
Scan Number: 317-917666-040

>LDS Endowment note: Scan Number: 317-917666-040 
Collier, Sarah (I491)
 
1115 !SOURCE: The Mayflower Reader, A Selection of Articles from The Mayflowe r Descendant, By George Ernest Bowman, Selected By Ruth Wilder Sherman, F .A.S.G., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1978. p. 86-87

!BIRTH: A History of The Allerton Family in The United States, 1585 to 18 85, and A Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pilg rim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620. By Walter S. Allerton, New York City, 1888 . Revised and Enlarged By Horace True Currier, Chicago. Published By Samu al Waters Allerton, Chicago. Illinois, 1900. p. 115-118

!Died unmarried. Came to New England on the "Mayflower."

!BIRTH: 1. "A Descent from Henry III to Judith Lewis Gibbins of Saco, Mai ne" by Walter Goodwin Davis, B.A., L.L.B., of Portland, Maine. Ar ticle in "The American Genealogist," Number 73, July 1942, Vol. x ix, No.1. 2. "A History of the Allerton Family in the United Stat es 1585 to 1885" by Walter S. Allerton, New York City, 1888: Publ ished by Samuel Waters Allerton, Chicago, Illinois, 1900. (Revise d and enlarged by Horace True Currier.)

!MARRIAGE: Never Married -- Source as above.

!DEATH: As above

Wrestling came to New England with his father on the "Mayflower."

!LDS ORDINANCES: Patron Notification-Genealogical Department form. Ref F6 10836 S/N: 00203-6 MFID: 04029883 INFORMATION REFERENCE: 
Brewster, Wrestling (I490)
 
1116 !SOURCE: The Mayflower Reader, A Selection of Articles from The Mayflowe r Descendant, By George Ernest Bowman, Selected By Ruth Wilder Sherman, F .A.S.G., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1978. p. 86-87

!SOURCE: A History of The Allerton Family in The United States, 1585 to 1 885, and A Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pil grim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620. By Walter S. Allerton, New York City, 1888 . Revised and Enlarged By Horace True Currier, Chicago. Published By Samu al Waters Allerton, Chicago. Illinois, 1900. p. 115-118

!BIRTH: See notes for husband, William Brewster

!MARRIAGE: As above

!DEATH: As above

!LDS ORDINANCES: Patron Notification-Genealogical Department form. Ref F6 10836 S/N: 00197-4 MFID: 04029881 INFORMATION REFERENCE: F610103



>LDS Baptism note: Submission 317-9529
Scan Number: 317-917699-040

>LDS Endowment note: Scan Number: 317-917699-040 
Wentworth, Mary (I488)
 
1117 !SOURCE: The Mayflower Reader, A Selection of Articles from The Mayflowe r Descendant, By George Ernest Bowman, Selected By Ruth Wilder Sherman, F .A.S.G., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1978. p. 86-87

!SOURCE: A History of The Allerton Family in The United States, 1585 to 1 885, and A Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pil grim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620. By Walter S. Allerton, New York City, 1888 . Revised and Enlarged By Horace True Currier, Chicago. Published By Samu al Waters Allerton, Chicago. Illinois, 1900. p. 115-118

!Love Married Sarah Collier, May 15, 1634. Came to New England on the "Ma yflower," with his father.

!BIRTH: 1. "A Descent from Henry III to Judith Lewis Gibbins of Saco, Mai ne" by Walter Goodwin Davis, B.A., L.L.B., of Portland, Maine. Ar ticle in "The American Genealogist" Number 73, July 1942, Vol xix , No.1. 2. "A History of the Allerton Family in the United State s 1585 to 1885" by Walter S. Allerton, New York City, 1888; Publi shed by Samuel Waters Allerton, Chicago, Illinois, 1900. (Revise d and enlarged by Horace True Currier.)

!MARRIAGE: As above

!DEATH: As above

Love came to New England on the "Mayflower" with his father

!LDS MARRIAGE SEALING: Patron Notification-Genealogical Department form . Ref 6010836 17 S/N 00042-5 047 12 INFORMATION REFERENCE: TEMPLE FI LE ENTRY

!LDS ORDINANCES: Patron Notification-Genealogical Department form. Ref F6 10836 S/N: 00201-2 MFID: 04029882 INFORMATION REFERENCE: 
Brewster, Love (I489)
 
1118 !SOURCE: The Mayflower Reader, A Selection of Articles from The Mayflowe r Descendant, By George Ernest Bowman, Selected By Ruth Wilder Sherman, F .A.S.G., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1978. p. 86-87 Parke, Richard (I492)
 
1119 !This person was a Widow when she married John Allerton.

!SOURCE: A History of The Allerton Family in The United States, 1585 to 1 885, and A Genealogy of the Descendants of Isaac Allerton, "Mayflower Pil grim," Plymouth, Mass., 1620. By Walter S. Allerton, New York City, 1888 . Revised and Enlarged By Horace True Currier, Chicago. Published By Samu al Waters Allerton, Chicago. Illinois, 1900. p. 37 
Cooper, Rosanna (I451)
 
1120 "Elisha-2 Barton (Roger-1), born about 1662, died probably before 1717, c ertainly the eldest surviving son in 1688, received in June of that yea r the peculiar grant from the Town Westchester of the house formerly occu pied by Reyer Michealsen (See notes for Father). On the occasion of th e riot of 16 July 1688 he defended that house in person, though unsuccess fully. On the next day his age was recorded as '20 yeares or thereabout' , but this is an error for 26 years, sinse he and two younger brothers we re already old enough to hold property, and by 1666 his father already ha d at least two children (see fathers info). If the original record ha d a poorly writtn six, the copyist (Joseph Lee or his clerk) might easil y have mistaken it for a zero." Barton, Elisha (I1024)
 
1121 Finding Smith Akerley's Surname

One of the problems we encounter in trying to find the ancestry of Smith Akerley is that we don't know his surname. On this page, we use Akerley as a matter of convenience, not as an established fact. The following is a compilation of the surname of the family as it appears in various records.

Federal Censuses:

1800:  Smith ACKLEY
in Coeymans, Albany Co., NY. We know this is our family, because, (1) the head count in age and sex groupings shown in the census matches that of our Smith Akerley's family as shown in the Akerley family Bible, and (2) the 1865 census of Napoli, Cattaraugus Co., NY, shows Samuel Akerley, age 66, Baptist clergyman, born in Albany Co., NY. That description matches our Samuel, son of Smith, and thus places the family in Albany Co., NY, two years before the 1800 census.
1810:  Smith EAKERLY in Mayfield, Montgomery (now Fulton) Co., NY. Deborah Akerley, daughter of Smith and Rachel Akerley married Abraham Allen in Mayfield in 1814. Tabitha (Dorcas) Akerley married James Barton in 1812, no doubt in Mayfield.
1820:  Rachel AKELEY in Orangeville, Genesee Co., NY. This is Rachel, wife of Smith.
1820:  Samuel AKELEY in Orangeville, Genesee Co., NY. This is Samuel, son of Smith, residence next to Rachel's.
 - Note: This part of Orangeville became Wethersfield in 1823. This part of Genesee County became Wyoming County in 1841. Therefore, as of 1841, this was Wethersfield, Wyoming Co., NY.
1820:  Samuel AKERLEY in China, Genesee Co., NY. Believe this is Samuel, brother of Smith. Age, 45 years and up. Wife, 45 years and up. Therefore, born 1775 or earlier.
1820:  John AKERLEY in China, Genesee Co., NY. Believe this is a son of Samuel, residence next to Samuel's. Age, 16 to under 26. Wife 26 to under 45. Therefore, each is about 26 years old.
 - Note: Part of China became Java in 1832. Pending further study, we don't know where in China Samuel and John lived in 1820. This part of Genesee County became Wyoming County in 1841.
Note: Samuel AKERLEY contracted with the Holland Land Company to purchase land in Gainesville in 1813 and renewed the contract in 1824. This cannot be Samuel, son of Smith and Rachel, born in 1798 and only 15 years old in 1813, too young to purchase land. Therefore, this must be Samuel, brother of Smith (close to Smith's age in the 1820 census). The name on the land transactions was written as Samuel AKERLEY in 1813 and Samuel ACKERLY in 1824. A possible scenario in which this Samuel contracted to purchase land in Gainesville in 1813, was in China in the 1820 census, and renewed the contract to purchase land in Gainesville in 1824 is as follows. Samuel made the contract to purchase land in Gainesville in 1813, but for some reason settled in China before the 1820 census. Then he moved back to his original contract to purchase land in Gainesville in 1824 (the renewal entry in the land records). In 1824, Sally (Sarah), daughter of Smith, married Joseph Barton (of Java) in Gainesville, perhaps at the home of Samuel. The Baptist Church in Wethersfield met at the home of Daniel Belden. They didn't have a church building until 1837. In 1825, Samuel ACKERLY was a deacon in the Baptist Church. The church meetings were held about one mile from Samuel ACKERLY's home in Gainesville. All of this suggests that Deacon Samuel was the brother of Smith, not Smith's son who became a Baptist minister. The land in Gainesville was 50 acres, purchased for $150, with $7.50 paid down, and no record of further payments on the $142.50 balance.
It is tempting to attribute the variation in spelling of a name to illiteracy, or to the census enumerator writing "what he hears." There is certainly some truth to that in many cases, but an equally valid reason is that it was a way to identify people. They didn't have street addresses and ZIP codes. They had a name and a town, and a county they lived in. When Smith's son Samuel started his own family, there became two families headed by Samuel in the same area. It would have made sense for the younger Samuel to drop the "r" from his name in order to distinguish himself from his uncle Samuel, and Rachel would do the same to avoid confusion.
Akerley Family Bible:
Smith died in 1820, and Rachel married Thomas Fisk in 1822. With the marriage, Rachel acquired the Fisk family Bible, and at some point Rachel or perhaps an older daughter entered the data.The Bible recorded first the Fisk family, then Smith and Rachel and their children, and Rachel's new husband, followed by the family of Smith's son, Smith (Jr.). The Bible was in the hands of a descendant of Smith (Jr.). We can assume that the earliest records were either written by Rachel, wife of Smith Akerley, or by a daughter with the assistance of Rachel. The name is spelled AKERLEY in every entry through 1861, but changes to AKERLY in an 1871 entry, and to ACKERLY in an 1879 entry. Therefore, based only on the family Bible pages, the best estimate of Smith's surname is AKERLEY. But we have to temper that with the realization that all of the Bible entries were made at least two years after Smith's death, and are not consistent with Smith's surname in the earlier censuses while he was alive.
Other Records:
The following is a compilation of documents of the family name as Ackerly - Ackley - Akeley - Akerley - Akerly - Akley
Smith Ackerly:
- Akerley Family Bible, last entry, death of Laura E. (Hewitt) Ackerly, 1879.
- "The name was spelled 'Ackerly' in an old bible belonging to Lydia Ackerly Bancroft, which is now in the possession of a distant cousin in Calif." Written in a letter dated Jan 10, 1938, from Eula J. Paris (Mrs. C. M. Paris) to Paul A. Barton of La Crosse, WI. Paul added (1939) after the date. Apparently, Mrs. Paris was still writing 1938 by habit in January 1939. Mrs. Paris is a great granddaughter of Harvey and Lydia (Akerley) Bancroft.
- Ezra Murray "m abt.1820 To Anna Ackerly b 23 Sept.1801." This is Joana, dau. of Smith and Rachel, born Sep 23, 1800. From The Descendants of Johathan Murray of East Guildford, Connecticut, by William Breed Murray, p. 64.
- Samuel Ackerly. See Samuel Akerley below.
Smith Ackley:
- 1800 Census, Smith Ackley of Coeymans, Albany Co., NY
- Walter Barton, son of Darcas (sic) Ackley Barton, biography of Walter in History of Pottawattamie County, IA, 1907, by H.H. Field and J.R. Reed, 1907, Vol. 2, p. 669/670.*
- Stella Barton, grand dau. of Dorcas Ackley Barton and dau of Joseph Barton, letter from Stella to Paul A. Barton, dated Apr 21, 1936.
Smith Akeley:
- 1820 Census, Rachel and Samuel Akeley of Orangeville, Genesee Co., NY
- Deborah Akeley, dau of Smith & Rachel, in Isaac Allen's biography in History of Wyoming County, N.Y., F.W. Beers & Co., 1880, p. 302.
Smith Akerley:
- 1820 Census, Samuel Akerley we think to be the brother of Smith.
- Samuel Akerley, Holland Land Record, Sept 13, 1813, probably the above man, but written as Samuel Ackerly in a 1924 entry for the same property.
- Akerley Family Bible, entries made starting perhaps in 1822 when Rachel married Thomas Fisk.
- Rachel Akerley, dau of Smith and Rachel, m. Charles Randall, Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family, 1666 to 1879, by P.K. Randall, ca 1879, p. 139.
Smith Akerly:
- Akerley Family Bible, two entries made starting with death of Harriet Akerly in 1861.
- Death certificate of James Samuel Barton, son of Sally (Akerly) Barton, Swift Co., MN, 1902.
- Death certificate of Betsey Barton, dau of Sally (Akerly) Barton, Fillmore Co., MN, 1906.
- Dorcas Akerly, hand copied in 1936 from a hand copy of 1912 from family Bible of Walter Charles Barton, son of Dorcas Akerly.*
- Dorcas Akerly and Sally Akerly in "Roger Barton of Westchester Co., NY," by George E. McCracken, NEHGR, Vol 107, Oct 1953, p. 303.**
Smith Akley:
- Jane Wright, grand dau of Dorcas (Akley) Barton and dau of Smith Barton, letter from Jane to Paul A. Barton, dated Mar 25, 1930.
- Funeral Director's letter to Paul A. Barton re the funeral record of Sylvester Barton, son of Dorcas (Akley) Barton, ltr. dated June 6, 1936.
- Sylvester Barton's death certificate of 1913 states his mother is Dorca (sic) Atcley (sic).
- A(dolphus) W(alter) Barton, grandson of Dorcas (Akley) Barton and son of Merrills Barton, letter to Paul A. Barton, dated Jul 7, 1930.
* The copied pages from the Bible of Walter Charles Barton indicate his mother's maiden name was Akerly. His biography in the History of Pottawattamie County, IA, says his mother's maiden name was Ackley. The biography was published in 1907, but the material in it was gathered earlier. Walter Charles Barton was alive and 73 years old in 1906, the year before the biography was published. The biography is suspect because although Walter certainly provided the material, he did not himself put it into print. The pages copied from his Bible are a hand copy of a hand copy. The Bible pages are suspect, because either of the two transcribers could have "corrected" the family name according to their own understanding of the family name.
** McCracken's article in the NEHGR used the data copied from the family Bible of Walter Charles Barton, and therefore is not an independent source.
We note above that surname spellings without an "r" dominate in the family of Dorcas Akerley. These are:
Walter Barton, son of Dorcas
Joseph Barton, son of Dorcas, through his daughter Stella Barton
Smith Barton, son of Dorcas, through his daughter Jane Wright
Sylvester Barton, son of Dorcas
Merrills Barton, son of Dorcas, through his son A.W. Barton
Dorcas (Tabitha) was the oldest child, therefore knew her father longer than the other children. She was also the first to leave the family group at Wethersfield, then the first to leave the family group on the border between Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties when her family moved to Wisconsin about 1852. Therefore, she was least likely to change her maiden surname as part of a family group decision. The names without an "r" are most like the first entry of Smith Ackley in the federal census.
The only other surname spellings without an "r" were associated with Deborah, the second oldest child of Smith and Rachel, the spelling used by Rachel and her son Samuel in the 1820 census, and Smith's entry in the 1800 census. One could make a case that Smith's original surname was Ackley. The fact that the descendants of Dorcas (Tabitha) dominate the list of persons using a spelling without an "r" does not mean that all the other descendants spelled the name with an "r." It means that we have much more data about the descendants of Dorcas (Tabitha) than we do about the descendants of Dorcas' siblings. Paul A. Barton of La Crosse, WI, a descendant of Dorcas, and an active family historian, corresponded with his relatives beginning in the early 1930's. His survivors very kindly provided his files to us.

Book Sources:
"The Descendants of Jonathan Murray of East Guilford, Conn.," by William B. Murray, 195?
    Library of Congress Call Number: CS71.M9785 1950z
"History of Pottawattamie County, IA, 1907," by H.H. Field and J.R. Reed, 1907
    Library of Congress Call Number: F627.P8 F4

"History of Wyoming County, N.Y.," F.W. Beers & Co., 1880
    Library of Congress Call Number: F127.W9 H6 1994

"Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family, 1666 to 1879," by P.K. Randall
    Library of Congress Call Number: CS71.R19 1998

"And the same year three-and-a-half hundred ships came into the mouth of the Thames, and stormed Canterbury and London, and put to flight Beorhtwulf king of Mercia with his army, and then went south over the Thames into Surrey; and King Æthelwulf and his son Æthelbald with the West Saxon army fought against them at Aclea, and there made the greatest slaughter of a heathen raiding-army that we have heard tell of up to this present day, and there took the victory."
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The Winchester Manuscript (A), the Year of Our Lord 851. The translation by Michael Swanton gives the place as "Oak Field" and references Bishop Asser for the translation from Aclea. A map on page 57 of The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings, by John Haywood, 1995, is titled Viking Raids in Western Europe, 840-860. The map shows Aclea on the southern coast of England, somewhere east of Portsmouth in what was then Wessex. For more than you ever wanted to know about ancient Aclea, enter +aclea +asser in www.bing.com 
Akerly, Joana (I1235)
 
1122 Sources Listed on WikiTree

WikiTree profile Newell-249 created through the import of Travis Family Tree.ged on Jun 22, 2011 by Roger Travis. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Roger and others.
Source: S-1938259289 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 Author: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil Note: APID: 1,7853::0
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Source: S-1938262014 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Massachusetts Town Marriage Records Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year Note: APID: 1,4079::0
Source: S-1938262097 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Note: APID: 1,4725::0
Source: S-1938357429 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Massachusetts Town Birth Records Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year Note: APID: 1,4094::0
Source: S-1938396353 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26867133&pid=223
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↑ Source: #S-1938357429 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=mabirth&h=191047&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 3, 1742Birth place: Dudley APID: 1,4094::191047
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↑ Source: #S-1938262014 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=mamarr&h=82503&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Marriage date: April 23, 1760Marriage place: Dudley APID: 1,4079::82503
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↑ Source: #S-1938259289 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=mamarriages_ga&h=511480&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Marriage date: 23 Apr 1760Marriage place: Dudley, Worchester, Massachusetts APID: 1,7853::511480 
Newell, Tabitha Rachel (I2009)
 
1123 Sources Listed on WikiTree

WikiTree profile Newell-249 created through the import of Travis Family Tree.ged on Jun 22, 2011 by Roger Travis. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Roger and others.
Source: S-1938259289 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 Author: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - With some noted exceptions all marriage records in this collection can be found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and may be available through Famil Note: APID: 1,7853::0
Repository: R-1938398764 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:
Source: S-1938262014 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Massachusetts Town Marriage Records Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year Note: APID: 1,4079::0
Source: S-1938262097 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Note: APID: 1,4725::0
Source: S-1938357429 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Massachusetts Town Birth Records Author: New England Historic Genealogical Society Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Vital Records of Bellingham Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.Vital Records of Granville Massachusetts to the Year Note: APID: 1,4094::0
Source: S-1938396353 Repository: #R-1938398764 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26867133&pid=223
↑ Source: #S-1938357429 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=mabirth&h=191047&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 3, 1742Birth place: Dudley APID: 1,4094::191047
↑ Source: #S-1938262097 Page: Birth year: 1742; Birth city: Dudley; Birth state: MA. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=2952895&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 3 October 1742Birth place: Dudley, Worcester, MA APID: 1,4725::2952895
↑ Source: #S-1938262014 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=mamarr&h=82503&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Marriage date: April 23, 1760Marriage place: Dudley APID: 1,4079::82503
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↑ Source: #S-1938262097 Page: Birth year: 1742; Birth city: Dudley; Birth state: MA. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=2952895&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 3 October 1742Birth place: Dudley, Worcester, MA APID: 1,4725::2952895
↑ Source: #S-1938262014 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=mamarr&h=82503&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Marriage date: April 23, 1760Marriage place: Dudley APID: 1,4079::82503
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↑ Source: #S-1938259289 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=mamarriages_ga&h=511480&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Marriage date: 23 Apr 1760Marriage place: Dudley, Worchester, Massachusetts APID: 1,7853::511480 
Family F676
 
1124 >LDS Baptism note: Scan Number: 317-918997-140

>LDS Endowment note: Scan Number: 317-918997-140 
Smythe, William (I610)
 
1125 >LDS Baptism note: Scan Number: 317-919382-140

>LDS Endowment note: Scan Number: 317-919382-140 
Wentworth, Thomas (I611)
 
1126 An Entry for Johann Sonnenfeld exists on this page. Sonnenfeld, Elisabetha Esther (I1618)
 
1127 Date of marriage based on birth of first child. Family F39
 
1128 died of a ruptured ulcer. Solberg, Bert (I1633)
 
1129 Died of drug overdose. King, Alyse Lynn (I1007)
 
1130 Finding Smith Akerley's Surname

One of the problems we encounter in trying to find the ancestry of Smith Akerley is that we don't know his surname. On this page, we use Akerley as a matter of convenience, not as an established fact. The following is a compilation of the surname of the family as it appears in various records.

Federal Censuses:

1800: Smith ACKLEY in Coeymans, Albany Co., NY. We know this is our family, because, (1) the head count in age and sex groupings shown in the census matches that of our Smith Akerley's family as shown in the Akerley family Bible, and (2) the 1865 census of Napoli, Cattaraugus Co., NY, shows Samuel Akerley, age 66, Baptist clergyman, born in Albany Co., NY. That description matches our Samuel, son of Smith, and thus places the family in Albany Co., NY, two years before the 1800 census.

1810: Smith EAKERLY in Mayfield, Montgomery (now Fulton) Co., NY. Deborah Akerley, daughter of Smith and Rachel Akerley married Abraham Allen in Mayfield in 1814. Tabitha (Dorcas) Akerley married James Barton in 1812, no doubt in Mayfield.

1820: Rachel AKELEY in Orangeville, Genesee Co., NY. This is Rachel, wife of Smith.
1820: Samuel AKELEY in Orangeville, Genesee Co., NY. This is Samuel, son of Smith, residence next to Rachel's.
- Note: This part of Orangeville became Wethersfield in 1823. This part of Genesee County became Wyoming County in 1841. Therefore, as of 1841, this was Wethersfield, Wyoming Co., NY.

1820: Samuel AKERLEY in China, Genesee Co., NY. Believe this is Samuel, brother of Smith. Age, 45 years and up. Wife, 45 years and up. Therefore, born 1775 or earlier.
1820: John AKERLEY in China, Genesee Co., NY. Believe this is a son of Samuel, residence next to Samuel's. Age, 16 to under 26. Wife 26 to under 45. Therefore, each is about 26 years old.
- Note: Part of China became Java in 1832. Pending further study, we don't know where in China Samuel and John lived in 1820. This part of Genesee County became Wyoming County in 1841.

Note: Samuel AKERLEY contracted with the Holland Land Company to purchase land in Gainesville in 1813 and renewed the contract in 1824. This cannot be Samuel, son of Smith and Rachel, born in 1798 and only 15 years old in 1813, too young to purchase land. Therefore, this must be Samuel, brother of Smith (close to Smith's age in the 1820 census). The name on the land transactions was written as Samuel AKERLEY in 1813 and Samuel ACKERLY in 1824. A possible scenario in which this Samuel contracted to purchase land in Gainesville in 1813, was in China in the 1820 census, and renewed the contract to purchase land in Gainesville in 1824 is as follows. Samuel made the contract to purchase land in Gainesville in 1813, but for some reason settled in China before the 1820 census. Then he moved back to his original contract to purchase land in Gainesville in 1824 (the renewal entry in the land records). In 1824, Sally (Sarah), daughter of Smith, married Joseph Barton (of Java) in Gainesville, perhaps at the home of Samuel. The Baptist Church in Wethersfield met at the home of Daniel Belden. They didn't have a church building until 1837. In 1825, Samuel ACKERLY was a deacon in the Baptist Church. The church meetings were held about one mile from Samuel ACKERLY's home in Gainesville. All of this suggests that Deacon Samuel was the brother of Smith, not Smith's son who became a Baptist minister. The land in Gainesville was 50 acres, purchased for $150, with $7.50 paid down, and no record of further payments on the $142.50 balance.

It is tempting to attribute the variation in spelling of a name to illiteracy, or to the census enumerator writing "what he hears." There is certainly some truth to that in many cases, but an equally valid reason is that it was a way to identify people. They didn't have street addresses and ZIP codes. They had a name and a town, and a county they lived in. When Smith's son Samuel started his own family, there became two families headed by Samuel in the same area. It would have made sense for the younger Samuel to drop the "r" from his name in order to distinguish himself from his uncle Samuel, and Rachel would do the same to avoid confusion.

Akerley Family Bible:

Smith died in 1820, and Rachel married Thomas Fisk in 1822. With the marriage, Rachel acquired the Fisk family Bible, and at some point Rachel or perhaps an older daughter entered the data.The Bible recorded first the Fisk family, then Smith and Rachel and their children, and Rachel's new husband, followed by the family of Smith's son, Smith (Jr.). The Bible was in the hands of a descendant of Smith (Jr.). We can assume that the earliest records were either written by Rachel, wife of Smith Akerley, or by a daughter with the assistance of Rachel. The name is spelled AKERLEY in every entry through 1861, but changes to AKERLY in an 1871 entry, and to ACKERLY in an 1879 entry. Therefore, based only on the family Bible pages, the best estimate of Smith's surname is AKERLEY. But we have to temper that with the realization that all of the Bible entries were made at least two years after Smith's death, and are not consistent with Smith's surname in the earlier censuses while he was alive.

Other Records:

The following is a compilation of documents of the family name as Ackerly - Ackley - Akeley - Akerley - Akerly - Akley

Smith Ackerly:
- Akerley Family Bible, last entry, death of Laura E. (Hewitt) Ackerly, 1879.
- "The name was spelled 'Ackerly' in an old bible belonging to Lydia Ackerly Bancroft, which is now in the possession of a distant cousin in Calif." Written in a letter dated Jan 10, 1938, from Eula J. Paris (Mrs. C. M. Paris) to Paul A. Barton of La Crosse, WI. Paul added (1939) after the date. Apparently, Mrs. Paris was still writing 1938 by habit in January 1939. Mrs. Paris is a great granddaughter of Harvey and Lydia (Akerley) Bancroft.
- Ezra Murray "m abt.1820 To Anna Ackerly b 23 Sept.1801." This is Joana, dau. of Smith and Rachel, born Sep 23, 1800. From The Descendants of Johathan Murray of East Guildford, Connecticut, by William Breed Murray, p. 64.
- Samuel Ackerly. See Samuel Akerley below.

Smith Ackley:
- 1800 Census, Smith Ackley of Coeymans, Albany Co., NY
- Walter Barton, son of Darcas (sic) Ackley Barton, biography of Walter in History of Pottawattamie County, IA, 1907, by H.H. Field and J.R. Reed, 1907, Vol. 2, p. 669/670.*
- Stella Barton, grand dau. of Dorcas Ackley Barton and dau of Joseph Barton, letter from Stella to Paul A. Barton, dated Apr 21, 1936.

Smith Akeley:
- 1820 Census, Rachel and Samuel Akeley of Orangeville, Genesee Co., NY
- Deborah Akeley, dau of Smith & Rachel, in Isaac Allen's biography in History of Wyoming County, N.Y., F.W. Beers & Co., 1880, p. 302.

Smith Akerley:
- 1820 Census, Samuel Akerley we think to be the brother of Smith.
- Samuel Akerley, Holland Land Record, Sept 13, 1813, probably the above man, but written as Samuel Ackerly in a 1924 entry for the same property.
- Akerley Family Bible, entries made starting perhaps in 1822 when Rachel married Thomas Fisk.
- Rachel Akerley, dau of Smith and Rachel, m. Charles Randall, Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family, 1666 to 1879, by P.K. Randall, ca 1879, p. 139.

Smith Akerly:
- Akerley Family Bible, two entries made starting with death of Harriet Akerly in 1861.
- Death certificate of James Samuel Barton, son of Sally (Akerly) Barton, Swift Co., MN, 1902.
- Death certificate of Betsey Barton, dau of Sally (Akerly) Barton, Fillmore Co., MN, 1906.
- Dorcas Akerly, hand copied in 1936 from a hand copy of 1912 from family Bible of Walter Charles Barton, son of Dorcas Akerly.*
- Dorcas Akerly and Sally Akerly in "Roger Barton of Westchester Co., NY," by George E. McCracken, NEHGR, Vol 107, Oct 1953, p. 303.**

Smith Akley:
- Jane Wright, grand dau of Dorcas (Akley) Barton and dau of Smith Barton, letter from Jane to Paul A. Barton, dated Mar 25, 1930.
- Funeral Director's letter to Paul A. Barton re the funeral record of Sylvester Barton, son of Dorcas (Akley) Barton, ltr. dated June 6, 1936.
- Sylvester Barton's death certificate of 1913 states his mother is Dorca (sic) Atcley (sic).
- A(dolphus) W(alter) Barton, grandson of Dorcas (Akley) Barton and son of Merrills Barton, letter to Paul A. Barton, dated Jul 7, 1930.

* The copied pages from the Bible of Walter Charles Barton indicate his mother's maiden name was Akerly. His biography in the History of Pottawattamie County, IA, says his mother's maiden name was Ackley. The biography was published in 1907, but the material in it was gathered earlier. Walter Charles Barton was alive and 73 years old in 1906, the year before the biography was published. The biography is suspect because although Walter certainly provided the material, he did not himself put it into print. The pages copied from his Bible are a hand copy of a hand copy. The Bible pages are suspect, because either of the two transcribers could have "corrected" the family name according to their own understanding of the family name.

** McCracken's article in the NEHGR used the data copied from the family Bible of Walter Charles Barton, and therefore is not an independent source.

We note above that surname spellings without an "r" dominate in the family of Dorcas Akerley. These are:
Walter Barton, son of Dorcas
Joseph Barton, son of Dorcas, through his daughter Stella Barton
Smith Barton, son of Dorcas, through his daughter Jane Wright
Sylvester Barton, son of Dorcas
Merrills Barton, son of Dorcas, through his son A.W. Barton

Dorcas (Tabitha) was the oldest child, therefore knew her father longer than the other children. She was also the first to leave the family group at Wethersfield, then the first to leave the family group on the border between Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties when her family moved to Wisconsin about 1852. Therefore, she was least likely to change her maiden surname as part of a family group decision. The names without an "r" are most like the first entry of Smith Ackley in the federal census.

The only other surname spellings without an "r" were associated with Deborah, the second oldest child of Smith and Rachel, the spelling used by Rachel and her son Samuel in the 1820 census, and Smith's entry in the 1800 census. One could make a case that Smith's original surname was Ackley. The fact that the descendants of Dorcas (Tabitha) dominate the list of persons using a spelling without an "r" does not mean that all the other descendants spelled the name with an "r." It means that we have much more data about the descendants of Dorcas (Tabitha) than we do about the descendants of Dorcas' siblings. Paul A. Barton of La Crosse, WI, a descendant of Dorcas, and an active family historian, corresponded with his relatives beginning in the early 1930's. His survivors very kindly provided his files to us.

Book Sources:
"The Descendants of Jonathan Murray of East Guilford, Conn.," by William B. Murray, 195?
Library of Congress Call Number: CS71.M9785 1950z

"History of Pottawattamie County, IA, 1907," by H.H. Field and J.R. Reed, 1907
Library of Congress Call Number: F627.P8 F4

"History of Wyoming County, N.Y.," F.W. Beers & Co., 1880
Library of Congress Call Number: F127.W9 H6 1994

"Genealogy of a Branch of the Randall Family, 1666 to 1879," by P.K. Randall
Library of Congress Call Number: CS71.R19 1998

"And the same year three-and-a-half hundred ships came into the mouth of the Thames, and stormed Canterbury and London, and put to flight Beorhtwulf king of Mercia with his army, and then went south over the Thames into Surrey; and King Æthelwulf and his son Æthelbald with the West Saxon army fought against them at Aclea, and there made the greatest slaughter of a heathen raiding-army that we have heard tell of up to this present day, and there took the victory."

"The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle," The Winchester Manuscript (A), the Year of Our Lord 851 
Ackley, Smith A. (I1230)
 
1131 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. King, Florence Mae (I1729)
 
1132 Harry King and Esther Ellis were John and Stella Boldt's attendants. Two weeks later john and Stella were in Harry and Esther's wedding. Harry worked on a ranch near Anaconda, MT. and in the copper mines.He later moved to OR and worked at the Ammunition Depot. King, Harry Edward (I1716)
 
1133 IGI



Submitter: Nellie Curtis

!Family History Library archival record

!IGI 
Lewis, Philip (I1046)
 
1134 Obituary King, Alyse Lynn (I1007)
 
1135 Obituary of Ray King From 'The GI Independent' Newspaper dated 14 January 2010

DENISON, Iowa - Ray T. King, 79, of Denison, Iowa, formerly of Grand Island, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, at Denison.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Grand Island, with Bishop John Henderson officiating. Burial will be in the Grand Island Cemetery.

Visitation will be one hour prior to service time at the church. Apfel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. King was born Jan. 6, 1931, at Atkinson to Wilbur Henry and Sylvia (Francis) King.

He was united in marriage to Coralee (Barton) King on Oct. 1954, in San Diego. She preceded him in death.

He married Sheila (Vian) Schmeichel in January 1995, in Grand Island.

Survivors of the immediate family include his wife, Sheila King of Defiance, Iowa; three daughters and son-in-law, Marsha and Randy Geist of Grand Island, Justine King of Omaha and Robin King of Grand Island; four sons, Andrew King of Fresno, Calif., Gary King of McAllen, Texas, Tim King of Fresno, Calif., and Blaine King of Philadelphia; two stepdaughters, Linda Bentzen of Harlan, Iowa, and Beverly Cramm of Springfield; grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Additional survivors include many relatives.

He received his education and grew to manhood in the Atkinson area, where he was a ranch hand until the age of 21. He entered the United States Marine Corp in 1952 and received his discharge Private First Class in 1954. Mr. King served in the Korean Conflict and Vietnam. He returned to Atkinson, where he was a ranch hand and also a truck driver.

Ray and Coralee made their home in California before moving to Nebraska in 1963. She preceded him in death in June 1994. Ray and Sheila made their home in Defiance, Iowa.

He was a member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, DAV and enjoyed spending time with family, telling stories and collecting books on antique tractors and trucks.

He was also preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Wayne.

Memorials are suggested to Alzheimer's Association.

Sign the guestbook at theindependent.com/obits. 
King, Ray Theodore (I2)
 
1136 Obituary of Ray King From 'The GI Independent' Newspaper dated 14 January 2010

DENISON, Iowa - Ray T. King, 79, of Denison, Iowa, formerly of Grand Island, died Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, at Denison.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Grand Island, with Bishop John Henderson officiating. Burial will be in the Grand Island Cemetery.

Visitation will be one hour prior to service time at the church. Apfel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. King was born Jan. 6, 1931, at Atkinson to Wilbur Henry and Sylvia (Francis) King.

He was united in marriage to Coralee (Barton) King on Oct. 1954, in San Diego. She preceded him in death.

He married Sheila (Vian) Schmeichel in January 1995, in Grand Island.

Survivors of the immediate family include his wife, Sheila King of Defiance, Iowa; three daughters and son-in-law, Marsha and Randy Geist of Grand Island, Justine King of Omaha and Robin King of Grand Island; four sons, Andrew King of Fresno, Calif., Gary King of McAllen, Texas, Tim King of Fresno, Calif., and Blaine King of Philadelphia; two stepdaughters, Linda Bentzen of Harlan, Iowa, and Beverly Cramm of Springfield; grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Additional survivors include many relatives.

He received his education and grew to manhood in the Atkinson area, where he was a ranch hand until the age of 21. He entered the United States Marine Corp in 1952 and received his discharge Private First Class in 1954. Mr. King served in the Korean Conflict and Vietnam. He returned to Atkinson, where he was a ranch hand and also a truck driver.

Ray and Coralee made their home in California before moving to Nebraska in 1963. She preceded him in death in June 1994. Ray and Sheila made their home in Defiance, Iowa.

He was a member of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, DAV and enjoyed spending time with family, telling stories and collecting books on antique tractors and trucks.

He was also preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Wayne.

Memorials are suggested to Alzheimer's Association.

Sign the guestbook at theindependent.com/obits 
King, Ray Theodore (I2)
 
1137 REFN35 Naramoare, Rachael (I1231)
 
1138 Seal to Parents: @I235@ Higley, Samuel (I1367)
 
1139 Source did not have a location of spouse listed. Akerly, Deborah (I1233)
 
1140 SOURCE INFORMATION
Family Group Record Submitted for proxy LDS temple ordinances.
Includes Submitter's name and Address (may be outdated). Some informatio n is estimated. Arranged by batch and sheet number
Batch number: F513465
Sheet: 46
Source: 1553582
Type: Film
Relationships stated in original Source
Names and relationships of direct-line family members are listed in the s ubmitted record.
Evaluated entry (altered from source)
Some information was estimated or altered. 
Family F188
 
1141 SOURCE INFORMATION
Form Submitted for proxy LDS temple ordinances. Includes Submitter's nam e and Address (may be outdated) and may include source information.
Detail varies. Arranged by batch and sheet number
Batch number: 7206969
Sheet: 70
Source: 820288 
Family F189
 
1142 SOURCE INFORMATION
Form Submitted for proxy LDS temple ordinances. Lists Submitter's name a nd Address (may be outdated) and may include source information.
Detail varies. Arranged by batch and sheet number
Batch number: 7123113
Sheet: 45
Source: 538891 
Family F190
 
1143 SOURCE: Family Group Sheet. Spouse of ancesters brother. Unable to read l ast name correctly. It was either Stobbins or Stubbins.

!LDS Ancestral File lists her as Sarah Stebbins. 
Stebbins, Sarah (I261)
 
1144 SOURCE: LDS Archive files.

>LDS Sealed to Parents note: Temple Ready - KI0815.SUB 
Albee, Rhoda (I876)
 
1145 SOURCE: LDS Archive files. Chapin, John (I877)
 
1146 SOURCE: Phone conversation with Alma King Mills. Amon, Jason (I606)
 
1147 At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. Sheets, Samantha Lyn (I601)
 
1148 Sources listed no death place. Akerly, Samuel (I1234)
 
1149 Sources listed no known spouse, or death place. Akerly, Samuel (I1234)
 
1150 Submitter: Ray Price Sychdin Llewys, Richard Of (I1307)
 

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