Direct Lineage of KLD (5 gens)

KLD direct lineage 5 gen

The initials KLD works for myself, Kenneth Lee, as well as my sisters Kristine Lynn and Kim Lynette

Individuals Research

  • The knighthood of Sir Hugh Platt, son of a London brewer, born 1552
  • The elopement of John Babcock & founding of Westerly, RI
  • The Giddings who was first teacher of the college which would later become Yale
  • The guy who was murdered in Boston
  • Ido Cass, who left the civil war early because his wife had died
  • Paul Girard, who seems to have had a great, drunken time in New Orleans during the civil war
  • The indian fighter
  • The witchfinder
  • The ships captain who went broke & resorted to transporting slaves before retreating back to Scotland
  • The 80 year old suicide of the guy in WI living on his daughter’s property
  • The bootlegging Parker who died living in a shack with a dozen dogs
  • The buggery trial of Moses Winters in Ontario

Immigrants to America

Arrival dates are actual ships’ arrival dates, if known, else the date and place of the earliest documentary evidence of the person being in America

Andrews

Badcock, James; arr. Portsmouth, RI by 1641

KLD’s 9th great-grandfather via the Babcock line

Believed to be b. Essex, England in 1612; d. Stonington, CT, 12 Jun 1679.

Unknown arrival date, Babcock Genealogy has him first showing up at Portsmouth, RI in 1642. An ancestry.com collection U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 lists James & Sarah Brown (below) as being married there in 1641. Multiple sources have their firstborn (also called James) being born there in 1641.

TODO: There is a persistent rumor that he arrived aboard the Anne, but… I have to wait until I come across this argument again to finish this paragraph

Bassett, John; arr. New Haven, CT 1635

KLD’s 10th great-grandfather via the Parker line

From FaG, unverified:

John (b. 17 May 1589, Claybrooke Magna, Harborough district, Leicestershire, d. 15 Feb 1652). Crossed with son, William (b. 1624 Surrey) KLD’s 9th great-grandfather

William Bassat was born in Dorking, Surrey and baptized 24 May 1624 to Roger and Ann (Holland) Bassett. He came in 1635 from London in the company of Rev. Peter Hobart. He removed to the colony of New Haven

William Bassatt (1624-1684) m. Hannah Dickerman (1622-1657), and their daughter Hannah Bassett (b. 1650 New Haven) m. John Parker (1648-1711)

Beach, Thomas; arr. New Haven, CT 1638

KLD’s 9th great-grandfather via the Parker line

Virkus has him as arriving at New Haven, CT in 1638

Thomas was born at St. Albans, Devon, England in 1613, and died 1662 at Milford, CT. his parents were Thomas & Joan Hill. He married Sarah Platt (b. Tring, England 1636; d. Milford, CT 1698), who also arrived at New Haven in 1638 with her parents (see Platt, below). Their son John Beach (b. Milford, CT, 19 Oct 1655) married Mary Royce (b. Wallingford, CT, 1657), and they in turn had a daughter, Hannah Beach (b. Wallingford, CT, 17 Mar 1683) who married Eliphalet Parker Sr.

Brown, Sarah; arr. Portsmouth, RI by 1641

KLD’s 9th great-grandmother via the Babcock line

Sarah Brown (b. Essex Co., England, 23 Jan 1613; d. Westerly, 22 Sep 1665) married immigrant James Badcock (above) in Portsmouth, RI.

It is unclear whether James & Sarah made the crossing together, met on board, or only met after arriving in the colonies.

Burdick, Robert; arr. Newport, RI 1651

KLD’s 9th great-grandfather via the Babcock line

Colket lists Robert Burdick as the Primary Immigrant arriving at Newport, 1651

Robert married Ruth Hubbard at Westerly, 2 Nov 1655, daughter of Samuel Hubbard (below), among their 4 daughters was Deborah Burdick (b. Westerly, 1 Jan 1662; d. Westerly, 12 Dec 1697), who married Joseph Crandall. Joseph & Deborah gave birth to Lydia Crandall in 1683, who marr. Robert Babcock (b. Westerly 1678; d. Westerly 1719) in 1701. Robert Babcock being the grandson of immigrant James Badcock (b. 1612), listed above.

Cass

Not yet traced to original immigrant in direct lineage of KLD

Crandall, John; arr. Newport, RI 1651

KLD’s 9th great-grandfather via the Babcock line

born in Monmouthshire, England, on the line between England and Wales in 1612

He came to Boston within a very few years after the landing of the
Pilgrims, in 1634.  Several writers have ascertained that he was
associated with the Congregational Church at Salem as 1635 and that “he
was certainly living in Providence as early as 1637” and while there are
many reasons for believing these statements correct and that John Crandall
was a close associate of Roger Williams was one of the founders of
Providence, unfortunately it seems impossible certainly to confirm them.
Many of the original Providence records were early destroyed.

The first valid documentary account of John Crandall in New England shows
him to have been actively identified with the Baptist Church in Newport,
July 21, 1651.  His name next is found, with that of Matthew West in the
Freemen’s list of Newport, 1655.

– from CrandallGenealogy.com

Dickerman, Thomas & Eleanor

KLD’s 10th great-grandparents via the Parker line

From FaG; unverified:

Born 1597 @ Surrey, England; died 3 Jan 1657 Dorchester, MA. Immigrated with wife, Eleanor Bullard. Daughter Hannah (b. 1622 Eng, d. 1657 New Haven) m. William Bassett 7 Nov. 1648. Their daughter Hannah Bassett m. John Parker (b. 1648, d. 1711)

Dombrowski, John & brothers; arr. PA 1893

KLD’s great-grandfather

The 1910 census has John Dombrowski (b. Poland 10 May 1872), and wife Mary Pewowar (b. Poland 10 Oct 1877) both arriving in the US in 1893 (17 years prior), but only having been married for 13 years. In the 13 years, they had had 10 children, of which 5 were alive, the oldest of them being Stanley (6 yrs)

Folin, Mary; emig. Ireland; arr. Philadelphia 1850

KLD’s 3rd great-grandmother via the Parker line

Patrick Price and Mary Folin were married in Sept 1837 in County Galway, Ire., they had three children: Christopher (b. 1839; m. Catherine McDonald), Mary (b. 1842; m. John Nash), and Michael (b. 1846; m. Ann Maria King). They came to America in 1850, landing in Philadelphia April 18th, and he became a nurseryman in Bucks county. In 1852 they went to Trenton, NJ, where they remained 10 years, until Patrick enlisted in the 11th NJ Infantry.

– from Patrick Price obituary found on ancestry.com, unknown newspaper

Gaskill

Gérard, Nicolas; arr. 1829

KLD’s 3rd great-grandparents via the Babcock line

Nicolas Gérard (b. Lure, Haute-Saône, France, 14 Feb 1800; d. Salt Creek, OH 27 May 1879), married Frances Lignon (b. Nancy, Alsace-Lorraine, France, 30 Aug 1807; d. Kansas City, 1888) at Nancy in 1827. They emigrated in 1829 with Nicholas’ father Jean Georges Gérard (b. Recloville, Moselle, France, 1759; d. Chilton, WI, 1863), their children already born, and probably his two brothers, who both also died in the US

– from Biography of Charles L. Gerard, copied from Stark County Atlas by Charles’ daughter Edi Imes and rewritten by Lester Briggs

Giddings, George; arr. Ipswitch, MA, 1635

KLD’s 9th great-grandfather via the Parker line

George Giddings (b. 24 Sep 1609; d. 1 Jun 1676) was the son of John Giddings of Clapham in Bedfordshire and Joan Purrier. He and Jane Lawrence (b. 1614) made the crossing together aboard the Planter, both registered with the surname Giddings, but there is evidence they married upon arrival, in Ipswitch, MA 1635, their marriage license dated 20 Feb 1634, suggesting they may not have been able to be married by their preferred church in England.

Their son & second born, John (b. Ipswitch 1639; d. Ipswitch 3 Mar 1691) married Sarah Alcock (8th GGP). John & Sarah gave birth to Thomas Giddings (b. Ipswitch 1683; d. 3 Sep 1734), who married Sarah Andrews (7th GGP).

He came from London to Ipswich, MA in 1635 in the ship “Planter”. Had previously lived at St. Alban’s, Hertfordshire, England

Joshua’s daughter Ruth Giddings (b. Hartland, CT, 1750) marr. Eliphalet Parker III

Harkness, Adam; emig. Ire; arr. Boston, MA, 1730

KLD’s 7th great-grandfather

Arnold has Adam Harkness (b. near Belfast, Ire., 1710; d. 25 Oct 1793) being in Boston by 1730 and settling at Smithfield, RI by about 1740.

Adam’s father John seems to have been born in Belfast, 1675, and dies at Dumfries, Scotland either on 7 Aug 1734, or sometime in the early 1730s. Dobson mentions a John Harkness arriving in America in 1684, though there is no reason to assume it is the same John.

Adam marr. Mary Gaskill (b. Salem, MA 1719; d. Smithfield, RI, 29 Sep 1808), and their dau. Rachael Harkness (b. Providence, RI, 2 Feb 1749; d. Otsego, NY, 1817), KLD’s 6th-great grandmother,

Hazard, Thomas; arr. Boston, MA, 1635

KLD’s 10th great-grandfather via the Babcock line

Thomas’ daughter Elizabeth Hazard (b. Portsmouth, 1626) married George Lawton (b. 1607; d. 1693) (below), and their daughter Mary Lawton (b. 1648; d. 1711) eloped with John Babcock (b. 1644; d. 1683) to Misquamicut (later Westerly, RI)

Hitchcock

Hubbard, Samuel; arr. Salem, MA, 1633

KLD’s 10th great-grandfather via the Babcock line

Samuel Hubbard (b. Mendlesham, Eng; d. Newport 10 May 1689) and his wife Tacy Cooper were both in the party that marched through the wilderness from Watertown, Massachusetts, during the terrible winter of 1635 to become the founders of the state of Connecticut, having been persecuted in Massachusetts for expressing their Baptist views.

Lawrence

Lawton

Lewis

Parker

Merriman

Peck

Platt, Richard; arr. New Haven, CT 1638

KLD’s 10th great-grandfather via the Parker line

Virkus has Richard, wife Mary and 4 kids arriving at New Haven, CT in 1638 (Sarah among them)

Sarah married Thomas Beach, who also arrived in New Haven in 1638 (see above), and their granddaughter Hannah Beach m. Eliphalet Parker Sr.

Richard is thought to be the grandson of Sir Hugh Plat, who was baptised 3 May 1552 at St. James’ Garlich Hythe, and knighted in consideration of his services as an inventor by James I at Greenwich on 22 May 1605. Sir Hugh authored many books, scientific and literary.

Richard was enrolled among the first settlers of Milford, CT, 20 Nov 1639.

Price, Patrick; emig. Ireland; arr. Philadelphia 1850

KLD’s 3rd great-grandfather via the Parker line

Patrick Price and Mary Folin were married in Sept 1837 in County Galway, Ire., they had three children: Christopher (b. 1839; m. Catherine McDonald), Mary (b. 1842; m. John Nash), and Michael (b. 1846; m. Ann Maria King). They came to America in 1850, landing in Philadelphia April 18th, and he became a nurseryman in Bucks county. In 1852 they went to Trenton, NJ, where they remained 10 years, until Patrick enlisted in the 11th NJ Infantry.

– from obituary found on ancestry.com, unknown newspaper

Royce

Thurber

Wells

Wheeler

Winter, Heinrich & family, of the 1710 Palatine influx

KLD’s 7th great-grandfather via the Winters line

Notable Military Veterans

Colonial Indian Wars

Beaver Wars

faught between the Iroquois and the French, who allied with the Algonquins, 1609 – 1701

King Philip’s War

1675 – 1678; New England colonists vs. the Narraganett people

Babcock, Cptn. John (b. Westerly, RI 1669; d. Westerly, RI 28 Mar 1746)

Babcock, Job (b. 1671)

indian interpreter

King William’s War

1688 – 1697; a.k.a. The Second Indian War, was the North American theater of the Nine Years War between England and France, their colonies, and native alliances

French and Indian War

1754 – 1763; American theater of the broader Seven Years War; British colonists vs. New France, each side with native alliances

American Revolutionary War

1775 – 1783

Revolutionaries

Babcock, Elihu (b. Rhode Island, 19 Jul 1746; d. Coventry, CT, 24 Jan 1823)

KLD’s 5th great-grandfather

4th Company in 3rd CT Regiment

Giddings, Joshua (b. Gloucester, MA, 23 Jan 1719; d. Hartland, CT, 4 Feb 1807)

KLD’s 6th great-grandfather via the Parker line

Parker, Benjamin (b. Wallingford, CT, 12 Feb 1729; d. Wallingford, CT, 9 Feb 1807)

KLD’s 7th great-uncle (brother of 6th great-grandfather Eliphalet Parker, Jr.)

Parker, Eliphalet III (b. Wallingford, CT 1754; d. Warsaw, NY 1812)

KLD’s 5th great-grandfather

Parker, Michael (b. Wallingford, CT, 15 Oct 1758; d. Aurelius, NY, 15 Sep 1813)

KLD’s 6th great-uncle (brother of 5th great-grandfather Eliphalet Parker III)

Loyalists

Winter, Hendrick (b. NY 1741)

Winter, Jacob (b. NY 1764) Enlisted 1780 @ age 16

Winter, Peter (b. NY 1767) Enlisted 1780 @ age 13 into drummer corps

Shays’ Rebellion

Massachusetts, 1786 – 1787

War of 1812

1812 – 1815

Parker, Giles Andrew (b. Farmington, CT, 1781; d. Spring City, PA, aft. 1850)

KLD’s 5th great-uncle

American Civil War

1861 – 1865

Union Army

Cass, Iddo Caleb (b. Candor, NY, 22 Dec. 1831; d. New London, WI 17 May 1877)

KLD’s 3rd great-grandfather via the Babcock line

1st WI Cavalry

Enlisted 14 Nov 1861 @ Ellington for 3 years of service. 30 years/age, 5’10”, brown hair & eyes, born Tioga, NY, occ. Lumberman.

Mustered into Capt. Harnden’s Company, 1st Regiment, Wis. Cavalry on 1 Jan 1862 at Kenosha, WI

He appears on the Hospital Muster Roll 30 Apr 1862 @ Good Samaritan USA Hospital, St. Louis, MO, and again on 19 Aug 1862, having been attached to the hospital as a nurse on 7 Jun 1862. On 29 Aug 1862 he was released from hospital and returned to duty. As of 1 Nov 1862 he is marked absent from his company since 30 Jun, with note: “Left in Hospital St. Louis No information since”, and again on 31 Dec: “Left in Hospital at Benton Barracks 30 Apr 1862 – nothing heard from since”.

Note that Iddo’s wife, Samantha Susan Newell, died on 17 Aug 1862.

TODO I believe he did get an honorable discharge, …

Cass, Thomas

Parker, George Edward (b. Warsaw, NY, Dec. 1842; d. Menasha, WI bef. 1910)

KLD’s 2nd great-grandfather

4th WI Cavalry

U.S. Civil War Pension Index lists two applications submitted by widow Alberteen C. Parker for her husband’s service with the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.

Parker, Ledyard (b. Warsaw, NY, 1820; d. Petersburg, VA, 14 Dec, 1864)

KLD’s 1st cousin, 5 x removed

2nd PA Cavalry, 59th Regiment

Enlisted into the Pennsylvania Volunteers 2nd Cavalry, Company I (aka 59th Regiment) on 20 Aug 1864 in Meadville, PA for one year of service, rank of Private. In August or September of 1864 he was transferred to Company E, where he remained on muster rolls until December 1864, at which time he was sent to City Point Hospital due to becoming ill & partially deranged. He died in service: 14 or 16 December 1864 at City Point Hospital, VA, and was buried in City Point National Cemetery, Hopewell, VA. Pension No. 131798 – Filed on 18 February 1865 by widow.

The exact cause of his death is unclear. One account has him sick in the hospital, becoming deranged, leaving the hospital, & was shortly after found dead in a box, having been shot in a fit of rage. Another account has him becoming deranged & sent to the hospital, where he escaped & returned to his unit. The illness worsened & he was placed in the guardhouse with deserters & rebel prisoners, where he was reported dead on 16 December 1864. The Adjutant General statement has him dying at City Point Hospital of Bronchitis on 14 December 1864. Yet another statement has him shot in the line of duty & dying of wounds. Witnesses describe him as being nervous & easily excited during his illness. His regiment was reportedly out on duty in the cold rain for several days, after which he & several others fell ill. I believe him to have fallen ill to Typhoid Fever, an illness which causes delirium & hyperactivity, thus giving it the nickname “Nervous Fever”. This would explain his derangement & being easily excited during his illness. More than 80,000 Union soldiers died of Typhoid & Dysentery during the Civil War. All accounts of Ledyard agree on the fact that he was a good & faithful soldier & that the illness he suffered caused his derangement & excitability.

– research & note by cmhecker72, who shared it on ancestry.com

Parker, Trumbull (b. 1824; d.1864)

died in civil war of dysentry

Parker, Wicks (b. Warsaw, NY, 1815; d. 1865)

died in Civil War [see Young’s History of Warsaw

Price, Patrick (b. Roundstone, Ire, 17 Mar 1817; d. Calumet Co., WI, 13 Jul 1889)

11th NJ Infantry

Enlisted in Company C, 11th New Jersey Infantry on 18 Aug 1862. The command was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and Patrick was in the first battle at Fredericksburg, fought at Chancellorsville, Mine Run, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Auna, Cold Harbor, and was in the actions in the vicinity of Petersburg, which resulted in the fall of that city, and was in the fight at Sailor’s Creek. At Chancellorsville he received a bullet in his left hand, and was sent from the field hospital to Washington, and thence to Wilmington, Delaware, where he remained until 29 Aug 1863. Through the campaign of the Army of the Potomac of 1864-65, he was in every battle in which his regiment was involved. He left the trenches at Petersburg to drive an ambulance. He was discharged 7 Jun 1865. In Mar 1867 he moved to Wisconsin and bought a farm in Stockbridge.

– from obituary found on ancestry.com

WWI

1914 – 1918

Dombrowski, Stanley Harry (b. Menasha, WI, 15 Nov 1903; d. Neenah, WI, 29 Jan 1994)

Shipped out on USS Princess Matoika 22 Aug 1918 from Norfolk, VA as a private. Emergency contact listed as (mother) Mary Dombroski [sic], address 551 Back St., Scranton, PA

Of the USS Princess Matoika:

Seized by the U.S. in 1917, the newly renamed USS Princess Matoika carried over 50,000 U.S. troops to and from France in U.S. Navy service from 1918 to 1919.

according to wikipedia, the convoy departing Newport News on 22 Aug

WWII

1939 – 1945

TODOs: Further Research by Place

Canada

Toronto

England

France

Germany

Ireland

Poland

Scotland

United States

Connecticut

New Haven & Wallingford area

  • Milford Research
  • Milford People
    • Platt, Richard (one of the founders of the town)
  • New Haven Research
    • Crypt on the Green
    • Grove St. Cemetary
    • New Haven Museum
  • New Haven People
    • Beach
    • Parker, Edward
    • Peck, Deacon William (10th great-grandfather) headstone is leaning against the north wall @ Grove St. (among those moved from the Green)
    • Platt
  • Middletown Research
    • Riverside Cemetary
  • Middletown People
    • Mary Platt Wetmore (10th great-aunt)
  • Wallingford Research
    • Center St. Cemetary
  • Wallingford People
    • Parker, William (10th ggp) b. 1580 eng. d. 1662 wallingford
Yale

  • Jeremiah Peck (b. England 1623; d. Waterbury, CT 7 Jun 1669) was the first teacher of the Colony Collegiate School in New Haven, 1660-61, which became Yale in 1701

  • Dr. Joshua Babcock, son of Capt. James Babcock, was the first Rhode Islander to graduate from Yale in 1724 at the age of 17

Massachusetts

Boston area

Michigan

Winters, MI

A logging camp run by the Winters family with a post office run out of the general store

Missouri

St. Louis

  • Did Frances Lignon Gerard move here after her husband Nicolas died?

New York

Finger Lakes & Upstate New York

  • Croghan, NY town records: Gerard
  • Warsaw, NY town records: Parker

Kingston & Hudson Valley

  • Kingston library & town records:
    • History of Palatines at Livingston Manor
    • Winters

Ohio

  • Jacob John Winters (MI 1903 - OH 1989) died in Ohio having started a second family after abandoning Betty & Georgia sometime in the 50s
  • Georgia Carol Winters (OH 1946) was born @ Piqua
  • Nicolas Gérard died @ Salt Creek Twshp

Oregon

It seems the Winters logging camp migrated from Michigan to Oregon in the first decade of the 20th century

Rhode Island

Providence, RI

  • North Burial Ground
    • Samuel Thurber (b. 1700; d. 1785) KLD’s 7th great-grandfather & family

Westerly, RI & Stonington, CT

  • Rhode Island Historical Cemetary Westerly 15
    • Crandall Family Ancestral Burial Site
The founding of Westerly

Tradition reports that John Babcock (KLD’s 8th great-grandfather) came from Plymouth, Mass to Aquidneck and engaged to labor for Thomas Lawton in Newport. John eloped with Mr. Lawton’s daughter Mary to Misquamicut, where they became the first white settlers.

Murder of Robert Babcock by John Ross
  • What happened to the letter
  • Who is Christopher Champlins on whose boat John Ross fled to Newport?
Babcock-Smith House

The Babcock-Smith House was built in 1734 by Dr. Joshua Babcock, who used it to practice medicine, run a retail business, engage in colonial politics, and after 1772, perform the duties of his new post as Postmaster. Joshua died in 1783 and his grandson eventually sold the house to recoup losses from the war of 1812. The house is at 124 Granite St., Westerly, RI

Wisconsin

Fox Valley Area

  • Chilton, WI; Oct. 1863: death of Jean Georges Gérard (b. 1759, Recloville, Moselle, Lorraine, France)
  • Neenah, WI: Oak Hills Cemetary
    • Dombrowski, Stanley H. (15 Nov 1903 – 29 Jan 1994) & wife Delia Schanke (20 Jan 1907 – 31 Oct 1991)

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