HomeMy WebLinkAbout499"Spiral bound book, 29 x 23 cm, 57 pages, collected and arranged by Duren James
Henderson Ward, Up The Divide Publishing Co.,958 Acoma Street, Denver, Colorado 1926.
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Preface
THIS LITTLE BOOK is a product of loving regard and of the desire to preserve the names
of those who cleared the wilderness and brought us into a life where we could enjoy the fruits
of their labor and have a better existence.
I began systematic work on the project in 1921. Had saved hundreds of facts during the
50 years previous. Over 500 letters have been written to obtain this information.
Cannot safely wait longer before printing.
Will print corrections and additions received later and will send them to all who request them,
if possible.
Correct and add all new data in your own copy. Do it carefully, and thus make the record
valuable to others for generations to come.
Keep this record with your deeds, wills, insurance policies and other precious documents.
We are sorry we could not have heard from all. It is a pity to have so many blank spaces.
Encourage your children to preserve full records. Fill out this book and remember that it
grows in value as the years roll on.
Any relative who may desire to make a more complete genealogical record of any of the
families mentioned herein will be welcome to use the material of this book as far as it will
assist. May it inspire some to write more complete and better accounts of those to whom they
owe their lives.
It is fifty-six years since Grandmother Nancy Martin-Varnum passed away at our home in
Dorchester, Middlesex County, Ontario. Grandfather Varnum died in 1837 in Whitby.
Grandmother Sarah Munger-Ward died in 1847 in Dorchester, and Grandfather James
Henderson Ward died in 1862 in Waterloo, la. It is fifty-five years since I left Dorchester and
during all this time I have hoped to do something to preserve their memories and those of
their ancestors and descendants. If these pages can be gotten into the hands of all living
relatives, it will be the glad fulfillment of that hope.
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Introduction
All the people who form the earlier part in all the coming narratives were pioneers.
They were all derived from the adventurous stock which formed the principal part of the early
settlers in the American British Colonies. They came to these Western shores as lovers of
liberty and hopers for progress. Their enterprise must probably have exceeded that of those
they left behind on the same social plane. In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
centuries the eyes of Europe were westward turned. All wondered, and a few ventured.
Probably the strongest and most curious, the most dissatisfied, and the most adventurous
sailed westward. How much they knew, or how much they could imagine, concerning,
the real conditions, which they were to meet, we can only vaguely surmise. To every boatload,
the Atlantic storms and the long voyages by sea must have filled every heart sometimes
with terror and despair, from which most of them rose with buoyant, grim, determined purpose.
The forbidding shores of the rockbound, inhospitable western land, surely could offer no bright
prospects to any but desperately determined people. Most of the early settlers took destiny
in their hands when they sailed from the old European ports. Whether they knew it or not,
a rough life was before them. Only such privileges as these could make out of the wild New
England woods were to be theirs for generations to come. The fact that under these
unpropitious conditions they laid a good foundation for a coming nation shows how thoroly
they were stirred to brave and persevering deeds. No descendants of theirs
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in the twentieth century can have any adequate realization of their ancestors' experiences in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Such a migration in those days meant the leaving
behind of everything that made the material basis of civilization. At best, they must have come
nearly empty-handed. Their principal asset was their meagerly informed minds, their sturdy
purposes, their anxious hearts, their stern characters. We would think these a vapory basis
on which to start a new nation—especially a nation that was to become the wonder land of
all the ages.
We must realize then, that for a century or two, all who came were ""early settlers.""
We must remember that theirs were the days before the beginnings of machinery,
and the industrial age. Trades were few. For many years all men were hunters and choppers
and at best small and primitive farmers. Only the simplest arts by simple methods were then
in vogue. The age of invention and machinery has come on since then. About their only help
was secured from a few domestic animals and an occasional water wheel and sometimes the
windmill. They floated their own logs. They rowed their own boats, and they corduroyed their
own roads. They wove their own clothes by the treadle and cut their own grains by the sicle.
Until after the year 1800 they warmed themselves beside their hand-made fireplaces and
baked and boiled their foods in the clumsiest kettles, and they thought they were doing well.
As soon as they had built their simple living cabins, they began to build their log meeting
houses. They spent much time in adoring and worshipping the Cod who brought them into
lives filled with such forbidding conditions. From such simple beginnings have come our
national grandeur and our further hopes for a wondrous civilization.
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Our Grandparents
THEIR ANCESTORS AND POSTERITY
Our Four Grandparents were: — On Father's side: James Henderson Ward-I;
Sarah Munger-I.
On Mother's side:
Daniel Porter Varnum-I; Nancy Martin-I.
These four are the starting points, backward and forward, for this account.
In the following pages, names earlier than these four, i.e., their Ancestors, will be followed by
Arabic Figures 2, 3, etc., to show their generation backwards. Names after these in time, i.e.,
their Posterity or Descendants, will be followed by Roman Numerals II, III, etc.
These four people will be considered central and will each be No. I of his or her line.
Thus, James Henderson Ward's father will be John Ward-2. This means the second
generation earlier or back. His sons and daughters will be John Ward-II,
or Elizabeth Ward-Demaray-II. This means the next or second generation later than James
Henderson Ward. And the same for our other grandparents, Sarah Munger-I, Daniel Porter
Varnum-I, and Nancy Martin-I, on later pages.
James Henderson Ward's brothers and sisters will have the same number as he.
His father's brothers and sisters will have the same number as his Father.
His children will all be II. Their children will be III, etc.
Figures before names tell the order of the children in each family.
Families of Henry Ward line, Benjamin Varnum, Erastus Corss, are added as Appendixes.
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WARD-MUNGER-GENEALOGY
THE WARD LINE
JOHN WARD-2, father of James Henderson Ward, etc., b. 1765, possibly in Western
Massachusetts, but more probably in Eastern New York State, at Fort Ann, Wash. Co., 67
miles north of Troy on Champlain Canal. Said to have lived also at Whitehall, a few miles
farther north. About 1792, he and his wife, Rachel Henderson, with four small children,
moved with his wife's brother, Rufus Henderson, into Canada and settled in a place called
Cramahe, a little east of Toronto. These first children were probably all born at Whitehall and
Fort Ann. Thereafter, they had five other children. From Cramahe they possibly moved to
Pickering, and then again west to near the mouth of the Thames River, Lake St. Clair.
Years later they moved northward to a point on the St. Clair River a few miles south of Sarnia.
Here John died in 1822; and Rachel lived till 1849 (or 51). They are buried in the same
graveyard there.
These Wards came from the Massachusetts branch. They spread westward toward the end
of the 18th century. A most excellent genealogy was published by Andrew Henshaw Ward in
1851, under the title, ""Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward who settled in Sudbury,
Mass., in 1639.""
There were settlements of Wards at Wardsboro, Poultney and Shaftesbury, Va.; at Henniker,
Marlboro and Bradford, N. H., and at Whitehall, Fort Ann and Cooperstown, N. Y.
RACHEL HENDERSON - 2, b. 1767, in Salem, Mass.; d 1849 for Nov. 20, 1851),
in Sarnia, Ont.
(Granddaughter of................................McFarlane, of Salem, Mass.
Scotch descent. Her brother, Rufus Henderson came to Cramahe, Ont., with them.
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brothers and sisters of JOHN ward-2
Hope-2 Silas-2 John-2
Israel-2 Segar-2 Samuel-2
CHILDREN 9: of John-2 and Rachel Henderson-2:
1 James Henderson-I, b. Dec. 10, 1785, near Whitehall, N. Y.; d. Jan. 2, 1862, in Waterloo,
Ia. See his family following.
2 Lydia Ward-I, b. 1787, near Whitehall, N. Y.; d. Jan. 8, 1864, at Clyde, Mich., or Sarnia,
Ont. Married Capt. McCallum of Revolutionary fame. One of their children was Mary Ann
McCallum. She married Michael Plant, May 10, 1839. Michael was born at Fort Erie, Ont.,
1818. Mary Ann was probably born at Wallaceburg, Ont., 1820.
Mary Ann McCallum and Michael Plant
CHILDREN 3:
Jane, b. 1844; d. Apr. 10, 1924, in Port Huron, Mich, where she had lived since about 1869,
a life of great usefulness and eminence. Married..........................
........................Kinney, b.........................; d...........................
Elisabeth, b.......................... Married................,.........
........................Boyce, b...........................
CHILDREN 3:
1 Charles F., b.......................... of Los Angeles.
2 Florence, b.......................... Married.........................
.........................Holt, b.........................., of Detroit.
3 Jennie, b........................... Married........................
..................Lassen, b.........................., of Port Huron.
Ella M., b.......................... Teacher in Port Huron for many
years. Lived at 2761 Military St.
To Mrs. Jane Kinney and Miss Ella M. Plant I owe an inestimable debt of gratitude for their
kind hospitality and cousinly friendship during the school year 1873-74, when I was principal
of the Lapeer Avenue Grammar grade in Port Huron, and was getting interested in church life
and planning a college course.
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3 Sampson Ward-I, b. Apr. 14, 1789, in Niagara Co. (?), New
York State; d. Dec. 9 (or 20), 1871, in Bosanquet, Ont. Unmarried.
4 Jane-I, b. 1791, d..................... Married....................
John Lawton, b.....................
5 John-I, b. 1793.................... at Cramahe below Toronto; d. at
26 years of age—about 1819.
6 Elizabeth-I, b. 1795; d. 1874 at Saginaw.
Married....................
Daniel Stewart, b.....................
CHILDREN 6:
1 Sampson-II.................... 2 Erastus-II........................
3 George-II........................ 4 Emeline-II....................
5 Elizabeth-II 6 Rachel-II........................
7 Rachel-I, b. 1797; d..................... Married....................
Robert Dairs, 1st, b.....................
Daniel Chambers, 2d, b.....................
.8 Bethany (or Bettina)-I, b. 1804; d. about 1887. Married................
James Ogden, b..................... of Saginaw.
Children 4:
1 Caroline-II.................... 2 Elizabeth-II....................
3 Wellington-II................ 4 Helen-II....................
9 Henry-I, b. Apr. 18, 1807; d. June 26, 1888, near Reese, Tuscola
Co., Mich. Married about 1830.
Angeline Beauchamp (Boshaw), b. Apr. 20, 1813; d. Mar. 5, 1899.
CHILDREN 12: See Appendix.
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"HENRY WARD-I
1807-1888
Taken about 1866 See pages 8 and 88
JAMES HENDERSON WARD-1
1785-1862
Taken about 1861 See page 9
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James Henderson Ward Family
JAMES HENDERSON WARD-I, b. Dec. 10, 1785, near Whitehall, perhaps at Fort Ann,
N. Y.; d. Jan. 2, 1862 at Waterloo ,Ia. Came to Pickering, Ont., about 1798.
Married Jan. 14, 1814. Lived in Pickering until about 1844. Moved to North Dorchester,
Middlesex, County, 18 miles S. E. of London, Ont. Pioneer in the woods of
Washington Co., N. Y., of Pickering, Durham Co., Out., and in Dorchester,
Middlesex Co., Ont. Went with his sons again to pioneer in Iowa in 1855, to break prairie
(John, Rufus, Samuel, Seneca, Hiram, Benjamin and Elbert). He was with Samuel's
family on the way to Iowa. I distinctly remember him and father getting left at Paw Paw,
Mich., where they got off the train to look and see if their horses were in a stock train
on another track. Mother and we two little children, with Aunt Jane (then 14),
had to go on to Chicago and wait. I remember him again when he made a return visit to
Dorchester, Can., about 1860 or 1861. SARAH MUNGER was born Sept. 24, 1798.
Died May 3d, 1847. James Henderson Ward and Sarah Munger were married Jan.
14, 1814.
See THE MUNGERS for Sarah Munger-Ward's ancestry.
CHILDREN 16: (Four pairs of twins.) All born in Pickering.
James Henderson Ward's Family-Bible Record.
Owned by Anderson and Sarah Ward McKenney.
1 John Ward was born Oct. 10, 1814. Died Nov. 30, 1883.
2 Rachel and 3 Elizabeth Ward were born Feb. 25, 1816. Rachel
died Sept. 30, 1842. Elizabeth died Oct. 12, 1885.
4 James Munro Ward was born May 1, 1817. Died Sept. 6, 1887.
5 Ruth R. Ward was born April 9, 1820. Died Jan. 3, 1911,
6 Rufus Ward was born Mar. 1, 1822. Died Oct. 10, 1885.
7 Almira Ward was born Dec. 29, 1824. Died Dec. 10, 1912.
8 Samuel and 9 Seneca Ward were born May 18, 1827. Samuel
died Mar. 18, 1905. Seneca died Dec. 16, 1898.
10 Hiram and 11 Mary Ward were born Aug. 23, 1829. Hiram. died Feb. 9, 1895.
Mary died July 22, 1886.
12 Benjamin Ward was born May 1, 1832. Died July 23, 1876.
13 Sarah Ward was born Sept. 5, 1834. Died Mar. 31, 1888.
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14 Elbert and 15 Almon Ward were born Jan. 20, 1837. Elbert
died Feb. 18, 1921. Almon died March 17, 1917.
16 Jane Ward was born May 3, 1840. Living at Aylmer, Ont., in
1926. JAMES HENDERSON WARD'S FAMILY LIVES
James H. Ward lived................................................................70 years
Sarah Munger Ward lived....................................................49 years
John Ward lived..................................................................69 years
Rachel Ward-DeMott lived.................................................26 1/2 years
Elizabeth Ward-Demaray lived:.........................................69 1/2 years
James Monroe Ward lived..............................................70 1/3 years
Ruth Ward-Varnum lived................................................90 3/4 years
Rufus Ward lived............................................................63 2/3 years
Almira Ward-McIlmoil lived....................................................88 years
Samuel Ward lived................................................................78 years
Seneca Ward lived........................................................71 1/2 years
Hiram Ward lived...........................................................65 1/2 years
Mary Ward-Purdy-Pyalt lived....................................................57 years
Benjamin Ward lived...........................................................44 1/3 years
Sarah Ward-McKenney lived..............................................53 1/2 years
Elbert Ward lived..................................................................84 years
Almon Ward lived...................................................................80 years
Jane Ward-McKenney-Koyle is living...............................85 years
Of these sixteen children, there were four pairs of twins. The whole sixteen resisted and
survived the usual epidemic diseases! They all lived lives of arduous toil — farming,
lumbering, machine work and home building. They all raised families of from two to ten
children. Of these, none were defective bodily nor belated mentally. They were all self
supporting and accumulated rather more than the average amount of property.
They were all pronounced good neighbors and were respected as citizens.
JOHN WARD-II, b. Oct. 10, 1814; d. Nov. 30, 1883, at Waterloo, la.
Married.........................
EUNICE DEMARAY, b........................., 1821 ; d. Nov. 4, 1873. Moved
from Pickering to Dorchester. Thence to Waterloo, Iowa, in
1855.
CHILDREN:
1 Nicholas-Ill, b. 1845; d. May 13, 1919. Married..............................
........................; b.........................; d.........................
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2 Elizabeth-III, b. June 27, 1848; d. May 8, 1919, in..................Iowa.
Married Oct. 31, 1866.
Henry C. Moore, b. Nov. 25, 1844; d...................... Lived at Cedar
Falls, Iowa.
CHILDREN 5:
1 Sarah A.-IV, b. Oct. 29, 1867; d. Aug. 5, 1896. Married
Aug. 22, 1883.
Edwin R. Tousley.
CHILDREN 4:
1 Roy-V, b....................
2 Etta-V, b.....................
3 Wayne-V, b....................
4 Baby-V, d.................
2 Delbert-IV, b. Feb. 22, 1870. Married Sept. 15, 1887. Rhoda E. Tiller, b.....................
CHILDREN 3:
1 Katheryn-V, b....................
2 Floyd-V, b.....................
3 Edna-V, b.....................
3 Augusta-IV, b. July 23, 1872. Married Dec. 11, 1887. Conrod J. Bender, b.....................
CHILDREN 5:
1 Bertha-V, b....................
2 Amelia-V, b.....................
3 Baby-V, died.
4 Cornelius-V, b.....................
5 Lohrn-V, b....................
4 Bertha-IV, b. Aug. 4, 1878. Married Dec. 12, 1895.
Frank E. Burkhardt, b.................. Live at Cedar Falls, la.
CHILDREN 2:
1 Clara-V, b. Aug. 1, 1896. Married Feb. 22, 1916.
Herman F. Wasserfort, b.....................
CHILDREN:
Baby, born Mar. 6, died. Velda Fay-VI, b. Feb. 21, 1920.
2 Harry-V, b. June 14, 1898. Married Feb. 14, 1922. Ida Boedekcr, b.....................
CHILDREN:
Ralph Robert-VI, b. Nov. 11, 1922.
5 Talbert-IV, b. Mar. 10, 1881. Married Jan. 29, 1901. Gracie Tippie, b.....................
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CHILDREN 1:
Lloyd-V, b.....................
3 John-III, b.....................; d. Jan. 11, 1894, in railroad accident at
Waterloo, Ia. Married....................
4 Sarah Jane McCaul-III (adopted), b.........................
RACHEL WARD-II, b. (twin) Feb. 25, 1816; d. Sept. 30, 1842, in
Pickering, Ont. Married....................
ELBERT DEMOTT, b. Apr. 7, 1812, in Long Island N. Y.; d............
CHILDREN:
1 William-III, b. May 31, 1838, in Pickering; d. Feb. 11, 1922, at
Almont, Mich. Married....................
Loretta Sharrard, b.....................; d....................
CHILDREN:
1 Mattie-IV, b...................; married.................., Almont, Mich.
Married...................., Almont, Mich.
....................Johnson, b....................
2 Jenna-IV, b.......................... Married........................
........................Praker, Detroit.
3 William-IV, b..........................
4 Chester-IV, b.........................; d..........................
5 Harriet-IV, b...........................; married............................Mann,
Port Union.
2 Isaac Latin-III, b. Sept. 7, 1840, in, Morristown, N. Y.; d. Jan.
1, 1855, at Bosauquet, Ont.
Elbert Demott married again, 2d, Feb. 21, 1843. Maria L. Kimmerly, b. Feb. 15, 1826;
d. Sept.,27, 1912, in Pe-trolia, Ont.
CHILDREN:
1 Jacob, b..........................; d..........................
2 Austin, b.........................; living at Sarnia, Ont.
3 Wolmart, b.........................; d..........................
4 Marion, b.........................; married....................Shook of Dry-
den, Mich.
5 Regina, b..........................; married..........................Kitchen, of
Adrian, Mich.
6 Emmila, b...........................; married........................Burgess, of
Dryden, Mich.
7 Loretta, b..........................; married........................McPherson,
Petrolia, Ont.
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ELIZABETH WARD-II, b. (twin) Feb. 25, 1816; d. Sept. 25, 1885.
Married Oct. 7, 1835,
BENJAMIN DEMARAY, b. Sept. 14, 1812; d. Oct. 2, 1882.
Son of Nicholas Demaray and Elizabeth Varnum of Sutton. Nicholas died in Whitby in 1846.
See Benjamin Varnum family (b. 1748, d. 1810). Came from Whitby to 5th concession;
thence to Barryville, Barry Co., Mich. .
CHILDREN 4:
1 Calvin Chauncy-III, b. July 4, 1863; d. Oct., 1912.
2 Elizabeth Jane-III, b. Oct. 23, 1837; d. Mar., 1913.
3 Alpheus Wesley-III, b. Nov. 25, 1840; d. June 7, 1894.
4 James Henry-Ill, b. Feb. 15, 1843; d. Nov. 20, 1899. 1 Calvin Chauncy-III, b. July 4, 1836;
d. Oct., 1912.
Married Sept. 19, 1856,
Julia Ann Frank, b. Oct. 24, 1840; d. May, 1912.
CHILDREN 13:
1 Sarah Ann-IV, b. Apr. 6, 1856; d. Apr. 19, 1861.
2 John Velie, b. Apr. 19, 1859; d. Apr. 26, 1861.
3 Edward Albert-IV, b. Sept. 19, 1860.
4 John Velie-IV, b. June 19, 1861.
5 Benjamin Franklin-IV, b. Nov. 16, 1862.
6 George E.-IV, b. Dec. 6, 1864.
7 Sarah Ann-IV,.b. June 11, 1866; d. Feb. 23, 1873.
8 Elizabeth Ann-IV, b. June 28, 1868.
9 James Henry-IV, b. July 26, 1874; d. Feb. 7, 1875.
10 Alpheus Wesley-IV, b. June 21, 1876.
11 Francis Etta-lV, b. Dec. 21, 1877; d. Oct. 1, 1885.
12 Rose May-IV, b. Jan. 3, 1880.
13 Minnie Lottie-IV, b. July 20, 1883.
3 Edward Albert-IV, b. Sept. 19, 1860. Married June 4, 1882, Ella R. Demaray, b. Apr. 13,
1863.
CHILDREN 4:
1 Herbert E.-V, b. Aug. 7, 1883.
2 Bertha B.-V, b. Dec. 15, 1885. Married Mar. 15, 1906, Herbert Oliver, b.........................
CHILDREN 3:
1 Gladah D.-VI, b. Apr. 9, 1910.
2 Bonieta E.-VI, b. June 18, 1915.
3 George Edward-VI, b. Aug. 14, 1924.
3 Letha J.-V, b. June 4, 1890. Married Sept. 15, 1910, ........................Davis, b.......................
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Jane married again, Sept. 11, 1872.
WILLIAM KOYL (2nd Husband), b. Aug. 12, 1823; d. May 14, 1901.
CHILDREN 2:
1 Lovina-III, b. Jan. 16, 1876; d. Feb. 18, 1912. Married Jan. 16,
1895, John Pearson, b.......................... Living in S. Dorchester.
2 Marvin-III, b. Nov. 30, 1877. Married Oct. 10, 1900.
Iva May Soper, b. Oct. 2, 1877. Daughter of Albert Soper.
CHILDREN 4:
1 Harold Douglas-IV, b. Dec. 9, 1901 ; d. Apr. 20, 1902.
2 Robertena Gladys-IV, b. Apr. 5, 1902. Married June 14,
1922.
Orville Carter of Detroit, b. Feb. 17, 1901. Living at 2010 Leslie Ave., Detroit.
3 Madaline Azara-IV, b. Feb. 7, 1905. Married Dec. 17, 1924. Leslie Cameron, b
.......................... Living in Blenheim, Out.
CHILDREN:
Donna Ruth-V, b. Dec. 7, 1925.
4 Hellen Josephine-IV, b. Nov. 19, 1914.
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The Munger Line
PERSISTENT TRADITIONS
WILLIAM THE SILENT, 9th Prince of Orange, b. 1533; d. 1584.
Nelson's Encyclopedia says: ""He was the son of the Count of Nassau
(and Juliana of Stolberg). He was born at Dillenberg in Nassau, and succeeded in 1544 to the
Principality of Orange. Charles V. appointed him governor of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht,
and West Friesland, and sent him on several diplomatic missions. Philip II, on his accession,
accused William of Orange of stirring up the States-General against the Royal measures.
In 1561 William definitely headed the opposition in the Netherlands to Philip, and urged the
Regent, Margaret of Parma, to carry out certain necessary reforms. In 1567 William retired to
Nassau and watched the course of events. An attempt to overthrow the Spanish Governor,
the Duke of Alva, failed, and the co-operation of the French with the rebels ceased after the
massacre of Saint Bartholomew in 1572. In 1578 William and the Archduke Matthias were
defeated by the Spanish troops at Gembloux. William then induced the Roman Catholic
provinces to make the union of Arras in January, 1579, and to leave the Protestant provinces,
which at once formed the union of Utrecht. But William was himself assassinated (1584).
He was a great man; and to his patience, perseverance, and skill, the Dutch republic,
as the seven United provinces were termed, owed its independence.
As a statesman and diplomatist he occupied a foremost place among his contemporaries.""
WOLFERT WEBBERT, b........................., was the son-in-law of
William, Prince of Orange, and bore the title, having married SARA, daughter of William.
CHILDREN:
1 Wolfert, Jr., b. Jan. 15, 1604, in Amsterdam, Holland. Married Jan. 12, 1630.
Ann Wallace, b...........................
Came to New Amsterdam 1633.
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CHILDREN 4:
Samuel, b. 1631, in Amsterdam. Married 1655. Progenitors of Webber family in America.
See Webber Genealogy for Wolfert, Jr.
2 Anneke (or Annetje) Webbert-Jans, b. 1605 in Holland
(according to Drake Genealogy). Daughter of Wolfert Webbert.
Married 1st, Roeloff Jans (or Jantz or Jansen), in 1628. They migrated to the New Netherland
Colony (now New York City), 1630, and Jans is supposed to have died about 1637.
CHILDREN:
1 Sarah, b.........................; d.......................... Married.......................
Hans Kiersted, June 24, 1636 (or Jan. 29, 1642). He was
a surgeon. They had eight (or eleven) children. Progenitors of Showers family.
Sarah married 2d, Cornelius Van Borsum, 3d Albert Elbertsen.
2 Katrina, b.........................; d.......................... Married...................
Johannes Piertersen Van Brugh, b..........................
3 Fytjie (or Tytie), b.........................; d. before her mother's
death, 1663.
4 James (or Roolof), b.........................; d..........................
5 Jan (?) (perhaps killed in the Schenectady Massacre). Annecke married again 1638.
EVERARDUS BOGARDUS, b.........................; d........................., 1647.
Bogardus was the second minister of the New Amsterdam Colony. He came from Holland in
1633. He was a man of strict manners and great uprightness, consequently had much trouble
with the brigand governors of those early days. He was married to Anneke Jans in 1638.
CHILDREN 4:
BROWER FAMILY
1 William Bogardus, b. Dec. 15, 1639. Married Aug. 20, 1659 (or May 29, 1656)
Winthie Sybrant, b..........................
Their daughter Annette, b. Oct. 5. 1663. married Jacob Brower, Jan. 20, 1682. They are the
progenitors of the Brower family.
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SCOTT FAMILY
William married a second wife, Wallburger Deselle, on May 13, 1662. Their daughter,
Cornelia (eldest) married Cornelius Derkson Hayes, Oct. 19, 1688. They had a daughter,
Sarah Derkson, b. Nov. 10, 1700. She married William Scott. They were progenitors of the
Scott family.
2 Cornelius Bogardus, b. 1640; d. in 1666 (or Oct. 13, 1707?).
Married.........................
Helena Teller of Albany, b..........................
3 Jonas Bogardus, b. 1643.
4 Pieter Bogardus, baptized Apr. 2, 1645. Married Feb. 10, 1665. Wintgie Comboach, b
..........................
CHILDREN:
Pieter, Jr., b. Mar. 19, 1691. Pieter, Jr., married Sarah Schoonmaker, Sept. 13, 1718.
They had a son Cornelius, baptized 1727. Cornelius married Deborah Schoonmaker,
Jan. 3. 1751. They had a son David, b. Oct. 15, 1751. David married Mariah Harrison,
Jan. 1, 1770. They had a son Henry, b. June 6, 1771, baptized Aug. 25, 1771. Henry married
Hannah Dayan, Mar. 4, 1794. They had a son, Harmonious, b. Apr. 1803. Harmonious has
brothers and sisters, Mariah, Hannah, David, Betsy, Henry, and Harriet. (Hannah furnished
this genealogy. Quoted in Fred J. Hill's typewritten notes.) Pieter lived in Albany
and was magistrate there in 1675.
Information is lacking to make the connection certain between the Jans or Bogardus families
and the Mungers which follow.
NICHOLAS MUNGER, b.........................; probably father of Samuel
Munger.
SAMUEL MUNGER, b.........................; d........................ Married Oct.
7, 1734, at Huntington, N. Y.
SARAH DENNIS, b..............................
Granddaughter or great-granddaughter of Anneke Jans-Begardus (?). Daughter of Dennis
Bogardus (?). Samuel Munger was killed in French and Indian War (1754-63) near New York.
His wife returned to Newburgh on the Hudson and there brought up her family.
CHILDREN 6:
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1 Benjamin, b..........................
2 JOHN, b...........................
3 James, b..........................
4 Lemuel, b..........................
5 Sarah, b...........................
6 Hannah., b.........................
JOHN MUNGER, b.......................... probably in Long Island. Probably child of Samuel &
Sarah. Married.........................
MILLICENT COX, b.......................... Reported to have lived at
Newburgh and Fishkill, N. Y.
CHILDREN 6:
1 Dennis, b..........................
2 Samuel, b. Jan. 4, 1767, probably in Long Island.
3 Benjamin, b..........................
4 James, b..........................
5 John, b..........................
6 William, b...................
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SAMUEL MUNGER, b. Jan. 4. 1767. in Long Island: d. Sept. 23, 1826. at Dullins Creek
(or Duffins). Can. W. Married 1795. RUTH RAY, b. Nov. 7. 1777 ( ): d. Feb. 14. 1813.
He may have had a second wife named Lydia Groat, mother of Preston.
CHILDREN 10:
1 Millicent, b. Sept. 25. 1796.
2 SARAH, b. Sept. 24, 1798, in New York; d. May 30, 1847, in
Dorchester, Ont. Married Jan. 14, 1814, James Henderson Ward. Mother of sixteen
children (four pairs of twins), all of whom grew up robust and reared families.
A woman of great enterprise and strong personality. She suffered the deep privations and
handicaps of early forest pioneering in Pickering and Dorchester, Upper Canada.
See James Henderson Ward Family.
3 James, b. Dec. 7, 1800. -
4 John, b. Oct. 31, 1802.
5 Silas, b. May 9, 1804.
6 SAMUEL, b. Feb. 12, 1806; at Dullin's Creek, Can. W.
7 Rhoda, b. July 22, 1807.
8 Benjamin, b. July 5, 1809.
9 Louisa, b. Sept. 25, 1810.
10 Elijah, b. Nov. 24, 1812.
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SAMUEL MUNGER, b. Feb. 12, 1806, at Dullin's Creek; d. Oct. 28, 1856, at Waterloo,
la. Buried in Waterloo Cemetery. Married Dec. 12, 1830, at Pictron, Ont.
(perhaps Pickering).
MERCY GIBBS, b..........................
CHILDREN 8:
1 Reuben, b...........................
2 Margaretta Lorenda, b..........................
3 James, b..........................
4 Mary Jane, b..........................
5 DEBORAH LORETTA, b. Oct. 15, 1839, at Townsend, Can. W.
6 Ruth Arinna, b..........................
7 Israel, b..........................
8 Eliza, b...........................
DEBORAH LORETTA MUNGER, b. Oct. 15, 1839, at Townsend, Can. W.; d. Aug. 5,
1891,at Canon City, Rice Co., Minn. Married May 12, 1866, at Northfield, Minn.
JOHN ALEXANDER GODFREY, b..........................
CHILDREN 4:
1 Carrie, b.......................... Married........................
......................Potts, b.........................
2 Harvey, b.........................; d. Jan. 17, 1904.
3 Henry S., b..........................
4 John B., b..........................
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