RootsWeb.com Mailing Lists
Total: 1/1
    1. [VTBENNIN] Looking for "missing" spouses called DUNHAM or STONE in Sandgate or Arlington circa 1765 - 1790.
    2. David J. Ellis
    3. I'm trying to locate the spouses of two SCHOOLCRAFT's who are located just over the State Line in Cambridge NY. Is anyone researching the names DUNHAM or STONE around Arlington or Sandgate? John SCHOOLCRAFT was living in Anaquassacook, Cambridge in 1790 and is enumerated with a small family. His wife's name is "Barbary". Some circumstantial evidence suggests the surname was DUNHAM and that her father might have been Solomon DUNHAM. Has anyone come across any DUNHAM's in this vicinity between 1785 and 1795? The second one is Anne SCHOOLCRAFT who married a Simon STONE. She was also living in Anaquassacook, Cambridge in 1790. Her first child was born in 1789. Has anyone come across a Simon STONE born abt. 1765 in this vicinity between about 1785 and 1795? [IMPORTANT NOTE BELOW.] ------- The second question is a bit more tricky than it first seems. Simon's age is determined from census data and there is an extremely good record of him as a Loyalist in 1782 and a well proven record of children in Quebec from 1789 through 1816. He dies in Quebec just after 1825. i.e. The one I'm after is definitely a Loyalist and is in Quebec by 1795. I am well aware of another Simon STONE born 18 Nov 1762 in NH to Elias STONE and Sarah SAWYER and who appears to have also gone to Washington County and from there to Pittsford NY: "August 1789: Captain Simon Stone and Lieutenant Israel Stone, cousins from Salem, New York, purchase a Phelps and Gorham tract at Big Spring (the future site of Northfield, later Pittsford) containing 13,296 acres, for $4,786.56. They make a $30 down payment. They go back to Salem for the winter." Pittsford's history states "Settled in 1789 by Captain Simon Stone and Lieutenant Israel Stone, Pittsford was incorporated as a village in 1827." That Captain Simon Stone was not a Loyalist and, even though he is of the appropriate age, his record from New Hampshire to Salem to Pittsford seems well researched and accurate. What I'm after is another Simon Stone of about the same age and in the same location and who married an Anne/Hannah Schoolcraft. Any ideas would be appreciated.

    03/18/2004 08:11:40