I'm looking for info about a Frederick Mitten (I believe that was his first name), who was a sheriff in Bradford Co. many years ago. He was born about 1874 and was married to Mary Morrow Mitten, born about 1877. When he died, she took over the office of sheriff. If anyone can help me with this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. Sheree

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Hello, everyone -- Hannah Peet (b. 1772) and Benoni Watkins had a son named Daniel. Does anyone know if this is the same Daniel Watkins who married Phillyra (also written as Philaria) Budd (b. 1800)? Thank you, Frances Whitehead

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has any information on a Hotel with 5 stone cabin located near Marie Antoinette lookout in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County, PA. It was in business during 1959- 1961 or longer. We think that it was called Breeze? If anyone has any informaiton please let me know. Thanks, Sue Camp

I prefer daily messages as well. Regarding the copying of an original e-mail when replying, I find that it's much more helpful to have the original message included. I get so many e-mails that it's hard to keep track of what a person is responding to, if the original isn't there. And sometimes the responses are so obscure, and don't have the original included, that I have no idea what they're talking about. Best, Lorraine Latta

I believe a weekly digest posting could get terribly long. So lets keep it as it is. Regards Jim and Jan

I, for one, would not want a weekly digest. The daily digest is perfect. If there are a lot of messages you may get 2 a day. Much better than stringing them out, I can deal with the topic all at once. I just wish people would not copy the whole entire complete (yes I am being repetitively redundant!) message (or worse the whole digest) when replying to the list - just copy the pertinent sentence, please. And please set your email response settings so you don't add >>>'s to every line - it makes reading so difficult. (This is not a specific individual complaint, it happens with all lists I am on.) Lee

I prefer to keep the frequencey of the digests as is. Weekly would make it longer for replies. Nancy

James was born in "Athena", Bradford Co., PA 3/4/1896 (I suspect "Athena" is a misspelling of Athens). At any rate he married Charma Marie Moore of Fultonham, OH 7-14-1922 in Tokyo, Japan. Both died on 12-20-1943 in the Philippines and are buried there. Would anyone have any knowledge of James and his parents? My grandfather was born in Ridgebury in1851so I wonder if there may be some relationship involved. Al--Check my web site: www.thecovellgatestree.com

One other rootsweb mailing list I suscribe to sends out digests once weekly instead of daily. It looks as if there are about some 15-ish posts per week. Could you consider maybe going weekly? What do others think? Or do daily digests getting effectively faster responses seem preferable? --- [email protected] wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 > > PABRADFO-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 216 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [Tri-Counties] LEE's of Tioga & Br ["Alan & Lynn Hudson" > <[email protected]] > #2 [Tri-Counties] a little help pleas [Bruce Preston > <[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from PABRADFO-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:05:22 -0700 > From: "Alan & Lynn Hudson" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Tri-Counties] LEE's of Tioga & Bradford Co.'s > > Hi all; > I'm back. I was a part of this list about 2 years ago. I was working on > my Blood Line connections. My Father passed away last summer 25 Jul 2001, he > almost made 91 lacking about 6 weeks. I put my Blood Line on the "back > burner" for awhile and concentrated on my Rodgers line. There I have hit > some "brick walls", so I decided to come back and intensify my search for my > Mary LEE. I just spent a couple of weeks in Utah traveling to the Genealogy > Library and the Joseph Smith Memorial Bldg where the Family Histories are > kept. (From where I was staying in American Fork, it would take me 3 1/2 to > 4 hours each day, round trip with buses and TRAX to get there) A couple of > years ago, someone sent me a copy of an article on the LEE Family from a > Bradford County History Book and the article was written by a Rev. Earl L. > Smith. In his article he mentions that if you want to know more, see his > book A LEE TREE. Well, the Family History Library had that book and several > more on d! > ifferent LEE's in the U.S. I found my Darlington Worrell who had married a > Sarah LEE from Covington, Tioga, PA. They had 4 children, two who died in > infancy. Darlington and Sarah LEE Worrell's first child was Mary Frances b.7 > Jun 1849 in Covington, second child, who died in infancy was James Mifflin b. > 17 Oct 1851, third child, who died in infancy was Ella Jennetta b. 26 Mar > 1854 and their last child was Charles Curtis b. 27 Mar 1855. Sarah Susannah > LEE was b. 21 Jun 1826 in Homer, Cortland, NY. She married Darlington E. > Worrell 5 Nov 1847 and Sarah died 10 Aug 1855. She is buried in the > Covington Cemetery at "the edge of town"? These LEE's came from Homer, > Cortland, NY and originally came from Lyme, New London, CT. Rev. Smith's > book then says that he "did not know what became of Darlington, whether he > moved or died". Well I know what happened to Darlington. After Sarah died > he married a Mary LEE in Bradford, PA and had a child James H. Worrell b. Nov > 1856 in Troy,! > Bradford, PA. Mary died in Aug of 1857 in Troy. Darlington then moves to > Pleasantville, Venango, PA and dies 12 Feb 1858. Now we have 3 children > under the age of 9, one being a baby not yet 2, with NO PARENTS . My > secondary question is where did the children go? I am in the process of > checking Orphan Court records right now and eventually I will figure this > out. My main question is this: Who is this Mary LEE? I'm not sure but for > right now I cannot connect her to the LEE's in Tioga that came from Homer, > that came from Lyme. I now know through my research, that she is NOT > connected to the Bradford LEE's that came from Rensselaer, NY. Were there > any other LEE's in the area at this time? I am guessing that Mary LEE would > have been born, no later than 1835? Darlington was b. 15 Jun 1819 in Paoli, > Chester, PA to Curtis and Mary Howard Worrell. > So to recap my questions: > 1. Who is this Mary LEE from Bradford? > 2. Where did the children go? > 3. Are there Orphan Court records of Bradford County on line? Or does > someone have a phone number for them? I have found Bradford difficult to > research. There is not very much available on line. I would love to come to > the Tri-Counties and do some of the "leg work" myself, but I live in Southern > Oregon and right now, I don't have any funding to get there. So I must do > everything else by phone, mail or otherwise. > Thank you to anyone who can help me on my way . . . > > Lynn W. Hudson > GG Granddaughter of Darlington and Mary LEE Worrell > > ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:32:03 -0500 > From: Bruce Preston <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Tri-Counties] a little help please > > Forgive the intrusion but can anyone tell me the census twp. , etc for > Shores Hill in Bradford County? private e-mail please. > Bruce Preston in Missouri > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/

GREAT NEWS!!! (Thanks for sharing Carol B.!) You can now search the U.S. 1880 and Canadian 1881 censuses on-line FREE. (LDS already had the British 1881 census on-line.) To use, go to http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp and click on "Census." More info: "The United States 1880, the British 1881, and the Canadian 1881 censuses can be searched on-line. The 1880 United States Census is complete. Approximately 50 million individuals are contained in this census. The British Isles census contains 25 million individuals from England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. The 1881 Canadian census contains 4.3 million individuals. ...another great leap forward in online family history research!" You can only view one record at a time, but you can view households as well as individuals, and look at nearby households too. This is useful as relatives often lived near one another. Names can also be searched with "inexact" (varied) spelling. I immediately found some of my relatives and with some more work, will no doubt locate additional ancestors and relatives. NEAT! Bill Benson

>From the 1897 History of Tioga County for Jackson Township it is related that - "The next settlement was made in 1797 by Reuben Daggett, who brought his family from his native state - New Hampshire - and settled on Seeley creek, near the Bradford county line, in the southeastern part of the township. The place is still known as Daggett's Mills. Here he and his son, Rufus, Reuben and Seth, erected the first grist-mill and the first saw-mill in the township." Further it is stated - "The pioneer grist-mill in the township was the Daggett mill, erected on Seeley creek, about a mile below the present village of Daggetts. The mill is now the property of George W. Eighmey." The actual mills (grist and saw) from which the name Daggett Mills evolved were on Seeley Creek near the Bradford County line in the vicinity of the present residence of Kenneth Eighmey. This is about one mile north of the present hamlet of Daggett. If you cross the creek on the dirt road next to this residence and then just past the bridge go north on a private drive, Reuben Daggett and family are buried on a small rise behind the only house on the private drive. This was the actual site which became known as Daggett Mills where the Daggett Family settled and where the grist and sawmills were erected. About one mile further south on Seeley Creek the present hamlet of Daggett became a post office and was established as Daggett Mills. Later, the Mills was dropped and the hamlet became Daggett. Thus, originally the two were separate locales and about a mile separated the two on Seeley Creek. J. Kelsey Jones [email protected] Seeley Creek Valley resident

Hi Darla, First you will NEVER find any birth records in PA from that early date as you will see in the Vital Records section of the site's Online Research Library. Daggett and Daggett's Mills are the same place. It is and has "always" been in Jackson Township, Tioga County since that township was formed. You'll find all the information on the formation and formation dates of the counties and townships in the Online Research Library of the site, near the top. There's LOTS there, but you have to learn the site's structure and explore its crannies. It is an enormous library and you will learn a LOT by exploring it thoroughly. It is FULL of answers to many of the questions that hit the mail list and the query system. Best wishes, Joyce M. Tice > Subj: [Tri-Counties] Mary R. Sawyer & Daggett Mills > Date: 10/18/2002 12:56:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Casay) > To: [email protected] > > > > > Hello, > I've been trying to determine the birth place of my 2nd great grandmother > Mary R. Sawyer, daughter of Ami (Ammi) Sawyer and Mary Gifford. There's a > Sawyer site that has her information as - born 28-Sep-1831, Daggett Mills, > Bradford County, New York. He's unable to tell me where he got the > information from. > > I have 28- Sep- 1831 in Daggett, Tioga Co. PA. Census records say NY. > > According to Joyce's wonderful site the area changed names a few times. > Family record has it that her father owned a saw mill for a short time in > Daggett. I've found the family in 1840 & 1850 in Wells Twp, Bradford Co. PA. > I'd like to verify her birth information but I'm pretty confused about > whether Daggett Mills is in NY or PA? Is it now Jackson Twp? Is Daggett > Mills and Daggett two different places? Was there a state line change there > too? How might I go about finding her father's saw mill there? > > A little more info on her - She married David Bennett, son of Josiah Bennett > and Hannah Kimber and they are both buried in Webb Mill cemetery. > > I'd greatly appreciate any help in understanding this better and finding her > birth record. > Darla Stimbert >

Hi Ellen, If you are talking about the Seven Counties Outline the entire Tioga, Bradford and Chemung County sections are on the site in the Online Research Library. at <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-County Genealogy Site of Joyce M. Tice</A> Joyce M. Tice > Subj: [Tri-Counties] Outline History of Tioga and Bradford Counties > Date: 10/17/2002 11:35:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [email protected] (Ellen Buglewicz) > To: [email protected] > > > > > My gggrandfather, A.B. Dickinson, is included in the index to the Outline > History of Tioga and Bradford Counties. Does anyone know where I can order > copies of the entries? Thanks. > > Ellen Kane Buglewicz >

Forgive the intrusion but can anyone tell me the census twp. , etc for Shores Hill in Bradford County? private e-mail please. Bruce Preston in Missouri

Hi all; I'm back. I was a part of this list about 2 years ago. I was working on my Blood Line connections. My Father passed away last summer 25 Jul 2001, he almost made 91 lacking about 6 weeks. I put my Blood Line on the "back burner" for awhile and concentrated on my Rodgers line. There I have hit some "brick walls", so I decided to come back and intensify my search for my Mary LEE. I just spent a couple of weeks in Utah traveling to the Genealogy Library and the Joseph Smith Memorial Bldg where the Family Histories are kept. (From where I was staying in American Fork, it would take me 3 1/2 to 4 hours each day, round trip with buses and TRAX to get there) A couple of years ago, someone sent me a copy of an article on the LEE Family from a Bradford County History Book and the article was written by a Rev. Earl L. Smith. In his article he mentions that if you want to know more, see his book A LEE TREE. Well, the Family History Library had that book and several more on d! ifferent LEE's in the U.S. I found my Darlington Worrell who had married a Sarah LEE from Covington, Tioga, PA. They had 4 children, two who died in infancy. Darlington and Sarah LEE Worrell's first child was Mary Frances b.7 Jun 1849 in Covington, second child, who died in infancy was James Mifflin b. 17 Oct 1851, third child, who died in infancy was Ella Jennetta b. 26 Mar 1854 and their last child was Charles Curtis b. 27 Mar 1855. Sarah Susannah LEE was b. 21 Jun 1826 in Homer, Cortland, NY. She married Darlington E. Worrell 5 Nov 1847 and Sarah died 10 Aug 1855. She is buried in the Covington Cemetery at "the edge of town"? These LEE's came from Homer, Cortland, NY and originally came from Lyme, New London, CT. Rev. Smith's book then says that he "did not know what became of Darlington, whether he moved or died". Well I know what happened to Darlington. After Sarah died he married a Mary LEE in Bradford, PA and had a child James H. Worrell b. Nov 1856 in Troy,! Bradford, PA. Mary died in Aug of 1857 in Troy. Darlington then moves to Pleasantville, Venango, PA and dies 12 Feb 1858. Now we have 3 children under the age of 9, one being a baby not yet 2, with NO PARENTS . My secondary question is where did the children go? I am in the process of checking Orphan Court records right now and eventually I will figure this out. My main question is this: Who is this Mary LEE? I'm not sure but for right now I cannot connect her to the LEE's in Tioga that came from Homer, that came from Lyme. I now know through my research, that she is NOT connected to the Bradford LEE's that came from Rensselaer, NY. Were there any other LEE's in the area at this time? I am guessing that Mary LEE would have been born, no later than 1835? Darlington was b. 15 Jun 1819 in Paoli, Chester, PA to Curtis and Mary Howard Worrell. So to recap my questions: 1. Who is this Mary LEE from Bradford? 2. Where did the children go? 3. Are there Orphan Court records of Bradford County on line? Or does someone have a phone number for them? I have found Bradford difficult to research. There is not very much available on line. I would love to come to the Tri-Counties and do some of the "leg work" myself, but I live in Southern Oregon and right now, I don't have any funding to get there. So I must do everything else by phone, mail or otherwise. Thank you to anyone who can help me on my way . . . Lynn W. Hudson GG Granddaughter of Darlington and Mary LEE Worrell

Just wanted to thank all that responded to my request about the social security application and how long it should take. I guess I need to be patient! Nancy

Your last post mentioned Taylor Are you related to Al Taylor from Towanda who married a Hurley? Paula Miller Parties by Paula "Everyday you waste is one day you can never make up" Coach George Allen

Mr. Taylor, If you are still participating in this list, please contact me. I have information on your Walter W. Taylor and mail addressed to you at Herbert Taylor <[email protected]> bounced back to me. -- Dick McCracken Towanda, PA Yesterday is History... Tomorrow is a Mystery... Today is a Gift... That's why we call it The Present...

Hi, Daggett Mills is in Jackson Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It is situated in the Seeley Creek Valley on Route 549 and is close to the Wells Township, Bradford County line. If you continued south on 549 you will come to Daggett. There is usually a distinction between the two and they are about a mile apart. However, in some histories present Daggett is refered to as Daggett Mills. You can find Daggett on a modern Rand McNally atlas. Daggett Mills is not on the Rand McNally atlas. Daggett Mills consists of a few homes and there is a historical roadside plaque designating the location. The 1897 Tioga County History for Jackson Township states - "The next settlement was made in 1797 by Reuben Daggett, who brought his family from his native state--New Hampshire--and settled on Seely creek, near the Bradford county line, in the southeastern part of the township. The place is still known as Daggett’s Mills. Here he and his sons, Rufus, Reuben and Seth, erected the first grist-mill and the first saw-mill in the township." It further states - "The pioneer grist-mill in the township was the Daggett mill, erected on Seely creek, about a mile below the present village of Daggetts. It first appears on the assessment list in 1817, and is assessed to Reuben Daggett, Jr. It was a water-mill, and was operated until 1820 by Reuben Daggett, Jr., from which time until his death in 1835 it was carried on by Rufus Daggett. His widow, Hannah Daggett, retained control of the property until 1849, when it passed into the possession of William Daggett. He rebuilt and operated it until 1853, when the firm became Daggett & Sixbee, who ran it for a number of years. The mill is now the property of George W. Eighmey. It has three run of stone and the roller process, and has a capacity of 200 barrels of flour a day. Steam and water power are both used. The first saw-mill in the township appears on the assessment list of 1817, assessed to Seth Daggett, for many years a prominent and leading lumberman. He operated this and other mills until 1843, when he removed to Tioga. This is the only saw-mill appearing on the assessment list of the township until 1831, when the names of Seth Daggett, Ezra Houghton, James Miller , Joshua G. Spencer and Foster Updyke are given as owners of saw-mills. All these mills, except that of James Miller, which was at Millerton, appears to have been in operation on Seely creek. The Foster Updyke mill was between Daggett’s Mills and Job’s Corners and was operated by him until his death about 1847. It then became the property of Warren Wells, and afterward had other owners. In 1832 Boynton & Dalrymple began operations in the township and had three mills on Hammond creek. In 1834 they were operating five mills in various parts of the township. The hard times of 1837 appear to have caught them, as after that year their names are not on the assessment list. The mill established by James Miller at Millerton appears to have been conducted successfully for a number of years. Among the other early mills owners and operators were Aaron Gaylord, Thomas & Sayre, Irvin Clark, Norman Wells A. C. Bush, William S. Valleau, Henry Johnston, Richard Jones, Jedidiah and Thomas Luce, Amos Kelly, Richard Updyke, George Weyborn, Abraham Minear, John Mitchell, Nathan Boynton, Clark Stilwell, Samuel Buchanan, William B. Keyes, S. L. Parmeter, Thomas Shear, Oliver B. Cook, Aaron Chidister, Samuel Rexford, who erected the first steam saw-mill in the township in 1846, and who at one time owned six mills; William R. Sherford and Albert Mitchell. The only mill now in operation, except portable mills, is the Mitchell on Alder brook, established in 1835, and now owned by George Mitchell." Ami Harrington Sawyer first appears on the 1839 assessment list of Wells Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania which was compiled in the fall of 1838 and which would imply the family arrived in 1838. The 1850 census indicates that children - Jane Antoinette Sawyer b. c. 1828, Mary R. Sawyer b. 28 Sept 1831, and Myron Sawyer b. c. 1835 were all born in New York State. Jackson Township assessment lists would have to be consulted to see if the family resided in Jackson Township. Ami could have lived in Wells and operated a sawmill or was foreman of a sawmill at Daggett Mills in Jackson Township. The family removed in the early 1850's to Michigan and were enumerated in Albion Township, Calhoun County in 1860. Any idea why Mary R. Sawyer and David Bennett who were married in Calhoun County, Michigan returned east to Chemung County, New York? J. Kelsey Jones [email protected] > Hello, > I've been trying to determine the birth place of my 2nd great grandmother > Mary R. Sawyer, daughter of Ami (Ammi) Sawyer and Mary Gifford. There's a > Sawyer site that has her information as - born 28-Sep-1831, Daggett Mills, > Bradford County, New York. He's unable to tell me where he got the > information from. > > I have 28- Sep- 1831 in Daggett, Tioga Co. PA. Census records say NY. > > According to Joyce's wonderful site the area changed names a few times. > Family record has it that her father owned a saw mill for a short time in > Daggett. I've found the family in 1840 & 1850 in Wells Twp, Bradford Co. PA. > I'd like to verify her birth information but I'm pretty confused about > whether Daggett Mills is in NY or PA? Is it now Jackson Twp? Is Daggett > Mills and Daggett two different places? Was there a state line change there > too? How might I go about finding her father's saw mill there? > > A little more info on her - She married David Bennett, son of Josiah Bennett > and Hannah Kimber and they are both buried in Webb Mill cemetery. > > I'd greatly appreciate any help in understanding this better and finding her > birth record. > Darla Stimbert >