Cissi and Lynn: Do either of you have information about the parents and the relationship of Peter Race Markham to the RACE/REES family? Peter m. Hannah Maria BURGHARDT [B. 1813, Egremont, Berkshire Co., MA] and they had the following children: John H. [b. 1833] Henry C. [b. 1838--a twin] Mary [b. 1838--a twin] Hannah Maria was a dau. of John H. BURGHARDT and Jerusha HURLBURT. Otto Burgett mottob@att.net > Subject: Tyringham > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:26:42 -0700 > From: "Cissi" <MissCissi@prodigy.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Tyringham MA is one of the main areas where my ancestors would be found. Do > you have any info for Markham, Heath, Race and/or Johns? > Thanks > Cissi > Subject: Re: Nobletown > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:01:02 -0700 > From: "Cissi" <MissCissi@prodigy.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Dear Jim: > I'm also very interested in this info. Please forward, if you can. > Thanks > Cissi > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James W. Crippen" <crippen3@alaska.com> > To: <MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:45 AM > Subject: Nobletown > > > Can anyone advise on archaic Hampshire County records ? Hampshire was > > re-formed (when???) as Berkshire? Interested in learning whereabouts of > > any remaining records from the period when Berkshire contained Nobletown > > and Austerlitz in the Oblong of Massachusetts Colony lands contested by > > New York. > > The Joseph Crippen farm in Alford was dissected by the "New" MS-NY State > > boundary re-set in 1787. More Crippen land became trapped in the "Gore" > > east of Stockbridge. Looking for any clues to archaic Berkshire County, > > Colony Land Records; Birth, marriage and death records, 1740-1790. All > > ideas will be greatly appreciated. > > > > The Mass archives contain ca 1766 letters from William Kellogg of > > Nobletown, testifying that his settlers were routed, burned and > > murdered, by people from New York. Many of these same people were > > chased to Egremont with their livestock and later re-settled north in > > Austerlitz where Elisha Hatch was an original town proprietor. Details > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Jim Crippen > Subject: Re: Tyringham > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:12:37 -0400 > From: "Yustin Wallrapp" <llwallrapp@mediaone.net> > To: MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Cissi: > These are peripheral marriages into my main family lines so I do not have a > lot of information on these Heaths and Markhams. There is a published and > available Dowd/Doude/Doud genealogy from which I got this sketchy info. I do > have lots of Race/Rees informaion - just let me know which specific > Race/Reeses you are interested in. Also I am looking for an Andrew Race b. > 1770 so if you happen to have anything on this old Andrew, I would be > greatly interested. > > Sylvester Dowd b. 1803 in Tyringham m. Thetesa Heath b. Tyringham. (Thetesa > also m. Hyland Dowd.) > Sylvester and Thetesa had: > Harriet L. b. Tyringham 1834 m. Loomis Jones in 1851 > Wilbur S. Dowd b. Tyringham 1838 m. Sarah J. Heath > > Wilbur S. Dowd b. 1838 in Tyringham, son of Sylvester Dowd and Thetesa Heath > m. in 1860 - Sarah J. Heath > > George Washington Race b. Hampton, NY 1812 (these Races had very strong MT > Washington, Egremont and Great Barrington connections) m. Clarissa Barron > before 1844 and had Lydia Jane, and Caroline Race. Caroline Race m. James > Norton Heath and Albert Cook. With Albert Cook, Caroline had: Hattie Cook > (no birth date d. 1922 in Granville, NY) who m. George Heath who died about > 1900 in Cabot, VT. > Hattie and George Heath had: > Halsey M. Heath b. July 5, 1891 > Lena A. Heath b. March 1, 1892 m. Dwight E. Perry > > Hattie Race (no dates, no locations) m. ? Heath > > Noah Dowd b. 1766 in Monterey, MA (formerly part of Tyringham) m. in 1786 in > Monterey, Mehitable Markham (no dates) and had: > Noah, Jr. 1788 > Mehitabel 1790 > Selah 1792 > Cornelius 1795 > Adoniram 1798 > Anna b.1800 m. Elisha Markham in 1836 in Tyringham > Amos no date > Rachel Lavinia Dowd b. 1811 Tyringham m. Ira Markham > Hope this helps. > Lynn Rogers Wallrapp