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Powell, Sarah Jane (b. 15 Jun 1828, d. 26 Dec 1912)

Note: CENSUS:
1860 census with husband and children.

1870 census with husband and children.

1880 census in Moccasin, Effingham, IL, 9 Jun 1880, page 11 (on left); page 303 on rt: Sup Dist 7, ED 131, line 91/92:
Tipsword, Sarah 51 TN Keeping House cannot write.
Duglas 19 IL IL TN Farming
Belle 17 IL IL TN At home
Benton 15 IL IL TN

Mike Welch <mgjga@acnet.net; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com~mgjga/Jackson/index.htm; as of 6 Oct 2001.
Father: Seymour R. Powell <./igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0273> Mother: Angeline <./igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0274>
!SOURCE-BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr.

Event: Type: Census 1870
Date: 13 Jul 1870
Place: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois

Death: 26 Dec 1912

Burial: West Moccasin Cem., Effingham, Illinois

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Tipsword, Isaac (b. 4 Jun 1805, d. 11 Dec 1862)

Note: MARRIAGE: Marriage Index: IL, IN 1790-1850 CD#228, Sec.II, CH>23, Fayette Co., IL from 1821 to 1850. Tipsword, Isaac Harris,Lucinda Mar.1, 1826.

BIOGRAPHY: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr, or 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95, under REASON HOMER HARRISON,
"She [Mary Jane] was the daughter of Ashby and Sarah Jane (Powell) Tipsword. Her great-grandfather Griffin Soward Tipsword..."

NOTE: Name Isaac also came from gltn80@webtv.net (Gayle T. Norris) as of 26 Jul 2000.

Mike Welch <mgjga@acnet.net>; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0162; as of 2 Oct 2001;
Both Isaac and Lucinda died of Typhoid Fever.
Taken from the book Effingham County - Illinois - Past & Present p. 145
"TIPSWORD CEMETERY "
The Tipsword Cemetery, although not large, is unique in that it overlaps two townships, Liberty and Moccasin. According to the signboard over the gate, this cemetery was established in 1840. Griffin Tipsword, the almost legendary first settler in Effingham County who died in 1845, is said to be buried here although no regular marker indicates his grave. Someone, a few years ago, had a stone made for Griffin's son and wife and placed over their graves, containing this information: "Isaac and Lucinda Tipsword. Died same day in 1862. Age 50 years."
Sources:
Marriage Index: IL, IN 1790-1850 CD#228, Sec.II, CH>23, Fayette Co., IL from 1821 to 1850. Tipsword, Isaac Harris,Lucinda Mar.1, 1826.

Death: 11 Dec 1862 Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois

Burial: Tipsword Cemetery

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Tipsword, Griffin Soward (b. 10 Oct 1755, d. 17 Nov 1840)

Note: BIOGRAPHY: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr, or 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95, under REASON HOMER HARRISON,
"She [Mary Jane] was the daughter of Ashby and Sarah Jane (Powell) Tipsword. Her great-grandfather Griffin Soward Tipsword was the first white man to come into that part of Illinois, settling among the Kickapoo Indians." (Effingham Co., IL).
(see notes on Reason Homer HARRISON - from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska.)

Mike Welch <mgjga@acnet.net>; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0158; as of 2 Oct 2001;
Fact 1: First settler recorded in Effingham Co.,IL.
Military Service: Revolutionary War
Note: History of Coles County [Illinois]486 ff. "Griffin Tipsoward was an early settler in this township, but after a residence of a few years, moved to the neighborhood of Kaskaskia. He was an old soldier of the Revolutinary war, and made application for a pension under a law of Congress passed in 1832.
On the early records of the County Court we find the following declaration: State of Illinois, Coles County, ss., A.D. 1832. On the 15th day of October, personally appeared in open court before Isaac Lewis and James S. Martin, County Commissioners for the county of Coles , in the state of Illinois, now sitting and constituting said County Commissioner's Court , Griffin Tipsoward, a citizen of the United States of America, in the County of Coles and the State of Illinois, aged 77 years , who, being first duly sworn according to law,doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832: That he entered the service of the United States as a Revolutionary soldier under the following-named officers, and served as herein stated,viz : In General Rutherford's Brigade, Colonel McKatty's Regiment, Major Horn's Batallion,and Captain Grimes' Company ,that he entered the service about the 18th of July , 1775, and was discharged by General Washington at the close of the war, which discharge was sunk in the Ohio River.
That he was in the engagement at the battle of Eutaw Springs , under General Greene, Col. McKatty, Major Horn and Captain Grimes; that he was in the battle of King's Mountain, under Col. Shelby; that he was in the battle of Charleston, under Col. McKatty and Capt. McGwire; that he was in the battle of Cross Creek ,under General Gates, Col. McKatty and Capt. McGwire; that he was in the battle of Hawe River, commanded by Gen'l Greene, Col. Chamberlain, Major Peat,and Capt. John Gallway. He states that he was here wounded by a musket-shot from the enemy's gun.
That he marched first after leaving North Carolina into the state of Virginia; that he was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, under General Washington, Col. McKatty and Capt. McGwire.That he lived in the county of Roan and state of North Carolina, when he entered the service; that he was first drafted for three months; he then , at the end of three months, volunteered, and was enlisted during the war. That he was born in the state of Pennsylvania, near the Susquehanna River, in the year of our Lord 1755; that he has no record of his age that he knows of. That he moved to Kentucky the second year after the expiration of the war...that he settled in the neighborhood of Boonesborough, where he resided until he moved to the Territory of Illinois, in which Territory and State he has resided about twenty years.That he now resides in Coles County and State of Illinois;that he supposes his name will be easily found on the Continental Rolls.He hereby relinquishes all claims whatever to a pension or annuity; except the present , and declares that his name is not on the pension-roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid .
Griffin / his mark/ Tipsoward
The truth of this declaration is attested to by John Parker and Joseph Painter, Revolutionary soldiers themselves, and who file similar declarations on their own behalf. The honesty and respectibility of the petitioner is also attested by another certificate from John Parker, "a minister of the Gospel" and James Nees , after which is a certificate from the County Commissioners, stating that they believe the "foregoing declaration to be true, and that the said Griffin Tipsoward was a revolutionary soldier and seved as therein stated ,"and recommended that the pension applied for be paid him." After all that , he was denied.

The following is from "History of Effingham County, Illinois," O.L Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1883: p.12
In the year 1814 or 1815, GRIFFIN TIPSWORD came to this part of Illinois and took up his abode with the Kickapoo Indians. These Indians then occupied what is now parts of Fayette, Shelby and Effingham Counties. South of the Kickapoos were the Winnebagoes and Delawares. At that time these Indians were peaceably disposed, and, it seems, were indifferent as to the coming of the lone, straggling white man.
We make no doubt that Tipsword was the first white man that was ever here. He was a strange compound of white man by birth and Indian by adoption. He was a self-exile from civilization in his native Virginia, and by choice a roving nomad, who sought the solitudes of pathless woods, the dreariness of the desert waste, in exchange for the trammels of civilized society. Of the latter, he could not endure its restraints, and he despised its comforts and pleasures. His soul yearned for freedom - freedom in its fullest sense, applied to all property, life and everything, here and hereafter. He hunted in the Indian chase, talked in their dialect, danced their dances, and to show how fully he was for them, with them and of them, he gave them his oldest son, who remained with them wholly for years, in order that he might be fully educated in their ways.
MOSES DOTY was a nephew of Tipsword, and from him and the grandsons of the old pioneer we learn that he left Virginia in the year 1812 and came to Southern Illinois, where he remained for two or three years, and then came, with his wife and two children, to this part of the state; that he first lived in the northwest corner of this county, and in Shelby, and lived and hunted and migrated as far northwest as Quincy, and then would return to this place. The Indians did much the same in following the game and searching for new and better hunting ground.
For years after he came here he saw no human face except the Indian. His people in Virginia had no word of him for sixteen years after he left them.
In many respects he was a remarkable man. He had gone West, cut loose from kith and kin; and he didn't burn the bridges behind him, because there were none to burn. He was a pioneer, adoctor, a missionary preacher, his own bishop, as well as his own committee on ways and means. He hunted, fished, cut bee-trees, and talked with the Indians in their way and fashion. He was as illiterate as they, and hetold them in Indian the story of Mount Calvary and the lake of fire and brimstone, and those who had no fears of an angry God had a healthy dread of his unerring rifle. Beneath God's first temples he pointed the way to heaven to these simple savages. In the trackless woods he met the bad Indian and slew him. He was not onlky a physician for the poor soul, but he was a "medicine man," who could exorcise witches, conjureghosts, remove "spells", make "silver tea" for cattle sick of the murrain or otherwise bewitched. He regulated the storms, stayed the angry lightning flashes, and could appease the deep-mouthed thunders as they rolled across the darkened heavens in terrifying peals. He had much to do in his Protean capacity of a hunter, a half savage, a doctor, a preacher, and a pioneer, with no visible means of support except his rifle, and that he lived out a long life (it is supposed oveer a hundred years) is evidence that he was singularly well adapted to surrounding circumstances.
His family name was SOUARDS. He only called himself TIPSWORD after he came here. It was only in the latter years of his life that he told anyone that he had changed his name. When asked why he had done so, he would nod his head toward the south, where he had first lived mong the Indians, and reply that he did not want to run his "head into the halter". From this and other hints he gave out in his last years the inference may be drawn that, in his mind, it was much the same whether you saved a savage by preaching or by the rifle. He believed it was the Divine economy to save, and in one way or another he did a lively business.
It is not known what particular church he belonged to-perhaps he did not himself know, but the records leave no doubt it was that broad, liberal Catholic faith and practice that gathered up with as much alacrity the Indian with a bullet hole through as head as the saint with fingernails two or three feet long. He was a well-armed drummer in the golden slipper trade, a "rustler " for the golden stairs.
He could doctor the body quite as well as the souls. The prevalent diseases of his day, it seems, were witches, spooks, spells and charms. He was as superstitious as his neighbors and quite as illiterate, and yet he must have played many tricks upon his savage followers to retain his power over them, and impress and awe them with a dread of his occult power. His trade was not destroyed by the coming of the first whites and the migration from here of the Indians. He continued to practice medicine, preach and hunt. He kept sacred his witchballs to the day of his death. These were made of deer's and cow's hair, were large, and held together by a long string. They constituted his materia medica. Most people then believed implicitly in witches and charms; some do now. All diseases were the work of witches, and so it was with their cattle. Ghosts could be seen any dark night passing a grave or a graveyard....
Tipsword carried with him to the day of his death many of the customs and characteristics of the Indian. He was always reticent of speech, and a ringing hearty laugh - he had forgotten all about it. In approaching a neighbor's house, he would never be seen until standing in the door.
He lived a long time after the sparse settlements of whites had come and the Indian had gone. When the Indians first went away, it was not fleeing from the pale faces, but following the game. They would, for some years, annually return, and often TIPSWORD would go with them and not return for a year or more.
On one occasion, after the whites had settled in Shelby and Fayette counties, the Indians warned them to leave in three days or they would massacre all the country between Shelbyville, by way of Vandalia, to St. Louis. The warning came like a death knell to the poor defenseless whites --they were terror stricken. Three days was too short a time in which to get away, yet it was too long a time to wait in dread horror the cruel torture and death that they well knew that the red devils had in store for them. In the calmness that comes of despair, they talked over the situation. A few, but very few, gathered their little families and fled, but the majority could only make a feeble attempt to put themselves upon the best defense of their household gods that they could. They had hoped at first that TIPSWORD could intercede for them, but when appealed to he could give them no hope as he too, was in the list of warned. On the afternoon of the third and last day the Indians held a general pow-wow in the woods, and TIPSWORD attended it as a spectator. He had friends among the chiefs and braves, and he had no doubt talked as much as he dared to them, and told them the certain consequences that would follow a general massacre of the whites. The first speakers urged that they adjourn the meeting, paint themselves, and at early dark commence the bloody work, and allow no pale face to escape. These sentiments met the approving grunts of the braves. But late in the evening, better informed Indians talked. They told their people that, while it was true they had it in their power to murder the whites, but suppose they did, would not the word go to the people of the States, and would not an army, numbering as the leaves of the forest, come here and kill every Indian in the Territory. Such representations soon turned the attention of the Indians to questions of their own safety, and they determined to postpone the massacre. The settlers had been spared. How much they owed of this good fortune to TIPSWORD will never be known.
GRIFFIN TIPSWORD died in the year 1845, and lies buried on the banks of Wolf Creek. He left surviving children - John, Isaac, and Thomas. No stone marks the spot where the old patriarch of this numerous family sleeps.
Sources:
1."History of Effingham County, Illinois," O.L Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1883: p. 12
2.THE GRIFFIN TIPSWORD STORY: The First white settler in Effingham County, Illinois 1975 published by Effingham County, Bicentennial Commission .

Death: 17 Nov 1840

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Dana, Sylvester (b. 4 Jul 1769, d. 9 Jun 1849)

Note: !BIRTH: 4 Jul 1769, Extract from Ashford Twp, Windham, CT (Marianne).

DEATH: from ANF?.

A Congregational minister in Oxford, NH 31 years.
Said to have been present in 1843 at the dedication of Bunker HillMonument as an old Revolutionary soldier. (prob a drummer boy due todate of birth).

DANA Sylvester 1769 Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, YaleColl, minister A recd. Of the achievements of her people in the making ofa commonwealth and the founding of a nation. Ed. By Ezra S. Stearns. NewYork, 1908. (4v.): 453, 455-6

DANA Sylvester 1769 Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, NewHampshire, minister A catalog of the names of the early Puritan settlersof the Colony of Ct. By Royal R. Hinman, Hartford. 1852. (884p.):795

1810 census for Oxford, Grafton, NH, page 355:
200100101000
A John Dana is also listed on this sheet: 110103210100

1830 census for Oxford, Grafton, NH, page 175:
001000001000001110001 Head of household is 60-70; oldest female is50-60.
There is also a John Dana on the same list, but I have not had time todecipher it:
D [Dr??] John Dana: 001100001000000004001 Head of household is 60-70;oldest female is 50-60.

1837 census for Concord, Merrimack, NH page 0 has a Sylvester Dana

1840 census for Concord, Merrimack, NH page 184:
Dana, Sylvester 0000100001000000010001

Source: (Birth)
Title: Extract from Ashford Twp, Windham, CT

Source: (Death)
Title: History of the Kimball Family in America...
Page: 299

Graduation: Date: 1797
Place: Yale

Event: Type: Census 1820
Date: 1820
Place: Oxford, Grafton, New Hampshire

Event: Type: Census 1830
Date: 1830
Place: Oxford, Grafton, New Hampshire

Event: Type: Census 1840
Date: 1840
Place: Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire

Residence: Date: 1801
Place: honorary D.D. Dartmouth

Death: 9 Jun 1849 Concord, New Hampshire

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Dana, Eleazer (b. 12 Aug 1772, d. 1 May 1845)

Note: !BIRTH: 12 Aug 1772, Extract from Ashford Twp, Windham, CT (Marianne).

Studied law in New Town (now Elmira), NY. Admitted to the bar in 1800.
Settled in Owego, NY where he was the first lawyer; postmaster, 1802-16;surrogate of Broome County, 1806; state representative, 1808-09; districtattorney, Tioga County, 1823-26; trustee of Owego Academy and ofPresbyterian Church.

Marriage was announced (no date of marriage given) in the Wilkes BarreGazette and; Luzerne Advertiser, published by Josiah Wright in it's 28Nov 1801 edition. "Eleazer DANA to Miss Polly STEVENS, of this Town,married at Braintrim"

1820 census: in Owego, Broome, NY for Eleazar Dana: 0211013311 On thesame sheet (not in alphabetical order) are the following:
Alvin Dana: 012400010010004
Amara Dana: 000010001

1830 census: in Owego Village, Tioga, NY for Eleazr Dana:
00010001000000021101

1840 census: in Owego, Tioga, NY for Eleazar Dana:
0001000010000000030001

Source: (Birth)
Title: Extract from Ashford Twp, Windham, CT

Baptism: 18 Oct 1772 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut

Death: 1 May 1845 Owego, Tioga, New York

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Huntington, Elizabeth (b. 24 Apr 1688/1689, d. 27 Dec 1761)

Death: 27 Dec 1761 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

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Huntington, Samuel (b. 28 Aug 1691, d. ABT 1785)

Death: ABT 1785 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

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Huntington, Mary (b. 1 Oct 1696, d. 30 Jul 1712)

Death: 30 Jul 1712 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut

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Huntington, Sarah (b. 22 Oct 1701, d. Bet 1721 - 1800)

Death: Bet 1721 - 1800

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Huntington, Sarah (b. Aug 1654, d. 23 Nov 1676)

Note: A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in America, page 72 listsher death as 1683.

Source: (Birth)
Title: A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in This Country...
Page: 72

Death: 23 Nov 1676 Norwich, New London, Connecticut

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Huntington, Mary (b. Aug 1657)

Source: (Birth)
Title: A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in This Country...
Page: 73

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Forbes, Caleb (b. ABT 1653)

Note: Forbes of Praxton

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Huntington, Simon (b. 6 Feb 1658/1659, d. 2 Nov 1736)

Source: (Birth)
Title: A Genealogical Memoir of the Huntington Family in This Country...
Page: 73
Data:
Text: born in Saybrook, Feb. 6, 1659