Thanks so much for the detailed response to my earlier posts. I'll respond in between various statements in your message. On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Jim Boyce wrote: > Frances, > > Based on your earlier message, I would gbet that both the Stephen VAN > SCHOICK named by Judge Jacob Brinkerhoff and the Stephen Vanscoyoe named > by A.A. Graham are your ancestor, which clearly outs him there before > 1820 as well as the Marvins. I think Stephen Van Scoyoc is a distant cousin of mine. Based on Melwood Van Scoyoc's 3 volume work The Descendants of Cornelis Aertsen Van Schaick, here is his line: Iden Van Schaick (1665-1728) - Isabel BLOETGOET Francis Sedan Van Schaick ( -1754) New Jersey - Isabel RHEA Peter Van Schoick (1733-aft1810) NJ - Mary THOMAS Stephen VAN SCOYOC (1770-1849) - Margaret KINNEY Iden and Isabel (Bloetgoet) Van Schaick are my great(7)- grandparents. I descend from a different son, Cornelius. Stephen Van Scoyoc was born 15 February 1770 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. He married 8 February 1791 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Margaret KINNEY. He died 23 June 1849 in Richland County, Ohio, and was buried in Ford Cemetery. Knapp's history of Ashland County says that in what is now Ashland County, one of the six distilleries was on Stephen's farm. (I have more information on this couple.) > > Have you seen the long bio of the Stephen MARVIN family on pp. 885-886 > of the A.A. Graham History? Lots of info there. Graham also names > Isaac Marvin as a settler on Section 10 in Jackson Twp. in about 1818. > The book of original land purchasers shows that Eben BOULT of Fairfield, > Connecticut originally purchased the SW� of Section 10 on 1 March 1816, > but that he assigned it to Isaac Marvin, who paid it off on 20 September > 1827. Sounds as if the Marvins and the Boults moved out to RCO from > Fairfield Co., Conn. together. > I don't have a copy of the Graham book (although I do have reprinted copies of Baughman's and Brinkerhoff's books). However, I found this biography on-line at http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Richland/RichlandSharon.htm The information about Eben BOULT is totally new to me. Did his family also come to Richland County? > I also have an abstract of Isaac's will, if you don't have it. The most > poignant part is his gift "To son Ezra, $300.00, should he return. He > has been gone 13 years." I wonder if he ever came back, or what became > of him? > I don't have a copy of the full abstract of Isaac's will, only what I copied roughly thirty years ago about my own ancestor: "To son Silas, payment of two debts of his (Silas): 1) $25.00 to store of Wm. Goodenow of Norwalk; 2) $250.00 to EP & E Sturges of Mansfield This to be all he is to receive." George Franklin Marvin and William T. R. Marvin's 1904 Descendants of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, CT., 1638 and 1635 Sons of Edward Marvin, of Great Bently England gives a birth date for Ezra of 18 April 1812 but no other information about him. The 1850 census has an Ezra Marvin living in Jackson Township, Richland County, Ohio, but he is only 6. He is in a family headed by Joseph Warren, age 39, cabinet maker, born in Ohio. Other members of the household are: Hannah Warren, 38, b Connecticut Ezra Marvin, 6, b Ohio Alfred Marvin, 5, b Ohio Amelia Marvin, 1, b Ohio Emily Marvin, 1, b Ohio Richard Meredith, 13, b England I'm pretty sure this is Hannah Marvin (13 Nov 1813-19 May 1896) daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Hoyt) Marvin. According to the Marvin book, Joseph B. Warren was born 25 Aug 1819 in Whetstone, Ohio, and died 23 February 1876. These 4 Marvin children in their household are likely nieces and nephews The Marvin book says that Henry Huls Marvin (1801-1874) is reported to have been married twice and to have children Ezra, William, "and perhaps others." He lived in Newark, Ohio. Another brother of Hannah for whom I know no children is William W. Marvin (1808-1892) who married Nancy KENNEDY. > Graham says that Isaac's grandson Hiram moved out to the farm when Isaac > died, but then moved into Shelby when Hannah died. By 1873, the land > seems to be in the hands of Isaac Bricker and Isaac Miller. I see the > land in Jackson Twp. that was part of Stephen's estate at that time, but > not over in Sharon Twp. Baughman has information on Hiram Marvin. > > E-mail me if you want copies of any of the township maps showing where > the Marvin and Van Scoy farms were located. I would appreciate copies of the maps. > > Happy New Year, > Jim Boyce >