Posted on: Oneida Co. NY Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Oneida?read=671 Surname: SHERIDAN, TRYON, CHAPIN, MOORE ------------------------- I am researching my SHERIDAN ancestors. Many lived in Madison, Oneida and Oswego Counties of New York from before 1820 to 1855. What data I currently have is as follows: Joseph SHERIDAN b. 1754 d. 1823 Place of birth: unknown Place of death: Probably near Lenox, Madison County, New York. Joseph appears in the 1820 Federal census in that location. He also appears in the 1790 Federal census of Exeter, Washington Co., Rhode Island, and the 1800 Federal census of Sterling, Windham Co., Connecticut. The Rhode Island and Connecticut census records indicate a much younger wife (maybe a second wife) and a number of children in the household, older males and younger females. He was probably the father of my ggggrandfather Allen Sheridan. Allen SHERIDAN b. 1778/79 d. 1855 Place of birth: Rhode Island Place of death: probably near Parish, Oswego Co., New York Married: Dorcas, surname unknown, b. 1783 Connecticut d. New York after 1850. Children: James A. 1800, Roxy 1803, William E. 1806, Permillia 1808, Emiline 1810, Hannah A. 1811, Harriet 1818, Maryann 1819, Levi T. 1822, Carolyn E., 1826. The family appears in the 1800 Federal census of Sterling, Windham Co., Connecticut and the 1820, 1830 and 1840 Federal census of Vernon, Oneida Co., New York, and in the 1850 Federal census of Parish, Oswego Co., New York. The first child,James A. SHERIDAN is my gggrandfather. James A. SHERIDAN b. 1800 d. 1871 Place of birth: Connecticut. Place of death: South Manitou Island, Leelanau Co., Michigan Married: 1830 in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, Betsey FISK b. 1799 Chesterfield, New Hampshire d. 1852 New York Children: Harriet b. 1831 New Hampshire and Aaron b. 1834 New York James A. appears in the 1830 Federal census of Chesterfield, Chesterfield Co., New Hampshire, in the 1840 Federal census of Vernon, Oneida Co., New York and in the 1850 Federal census of Constantia, Oswego Co., New York. Betsey is buried near Constantia, Oswego Co., New York. James is buried on South Manitou Island, in Lake Michigan, now a part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park. James was in the Civil war (enlisting in New York) and then moved to Michigan to live near his brother William or son Aaron. Aaron A. Sheridan was lighthouse keeper on South Manitou Island. Aaron and his wife Julia MOORE drowned there in 1878, leaving my grandfather George and four brothers orphans. William E. SHERIDAN b. 1806 d. 1891 Place of birth: Hebron, Tolland Co., Connecticut Place of death: Michigan Married: Lucy TRYON b. New York 1801 d. 1897 Michigan Children: Almira 1829, Andrew 1831, Lucyann 1833, William 1835, Lyman F. 1837, Newton 1839, Harriet L. 1844. All the children were born in New York. William E. and family appear in the 1840 Federal census of Richland, Oswego Co., New York and the 1850 Federal census of Albion, Oswego Co., New York. William E. and his sons William and Lyman moved to Leelanau Co., Michigan sometime in the 1850s. Levi T. SHERIDAN b. 1822, New York d. unknown Married: Lucy Ann Chapin 1849/50. Per the 1850 Federal census, Levi and his new wife were living in the household of Franklin Chapin (born abt. 1786 in Massachusetts) and Sally (b. abt. 1792 in New Hampshire) in Albion, Oswego Co., New York. I have more information on the descendants of James A. and William E. SHERIDAN in Michigan and the ancestors of Betsey FISK and Julia MOORE but little else on the earlier SHERIDAN ancestors other than what is included here. I have just recently searched the census records and other records in Rhode Island and Connecticut. The census records, combined with a family bible have provided me with this data. It is probable there are descendants, particularly of the many daughters, in New York. I would be most pleased to hear from somebody with information or a connection.