The family of Enos Eddy 1774-1817

Don't pay too much attention to the death date I've given Enos here.  It may or may not be correct.  Most trees show him as dying in 1817 in Darien, New York.  His last child, who could of course have been born after his father had died, was botn March 29, 1818.  I have been unable to locate him in the 1820 or 1830 census so it's possible that the 1817 death date is correct; I just can't verify it.

However, we do know that Enos was the son of Enos and Sarah (possibly Brown but not proven) Eddy and was born in 1774 in Glocester, Rhode Island.  He married Deborah Paine, possibly the daughter of Nathan and Lillis Winsor Paine, in 1794, still in Glocester.  And let us take a moment to thank Deborah, who gave birth to 14 children in 24 years, with only one dying young.  She must have been quite a woman, devoted to caring for her family.  Their children were:

Chloe, born in 1792, who married Joel Wheelock, possibly the son of Joel Wheelock.  Their children are Mariam, Chloe, Charity, Sophronia, Joel, Lewis, Mary, and Almira.  Chloe died in 1861 in Lockport, Niagara, New York.

Lydia, born in 1794, married Orman Pray, the son of Rev. John and Deborah Wade Pray.  Their children are Cornelia, Lucy, Deborah, Almon, Ambrose, Mary, and Eddy.  She died in 1877 in Noble County, Indiana.

Enos (the first of two by that name) was born probably in early 1796, and died in infancy.

Rachel was born in 1797 and married John Grant Huit, Hulett, or Hewitt, likely the son of Thomas and Grace Hall Hewett.  Their children are Mercy, John, Caroline, Enos, Charles, and Julius.  She died in 1875 in Onandaga County, New York.  

Next was Enos, again, born in 1799.  He married Miranda Stannard, the daughter of Ezra and Margaret Norton Stannard, and if there's a connection to our Stannard families I haven't yet found it.  Their children are Roswell, Sheldon, Betsey (also seen as Elizabeth), Nathan, Almanda, Thomas, John, Almira, and James. Enos died in 1871 in Mansfield, New York.   

After Enos, in 1801, came Deborah, who married first Nathan Angell, son of Jesse and Amey Hammond Angell.  She was his second wife.  She had at least one and possibly more children with him, Nathan and perhaps Walter.  Nathan probably died in the early 1820s.  She then married Josiah Hollister, the son of Josiah and Naomi Tredwell Hollister.  They had several children together, including Sarah, Amanda and Tylphia (?).  Deborah died in 1850 in Mansfield, New York.  

Their next child was Joseph Brown Eddy, who was born in 1803 and married Susan Lamphire, the daughter of James and Hannah Eames Lamphire.  Their children were Permelia, George, Sarah, Susan, Mary Ann, Joseph, Washington, Thomas, Amelia, and Garrett.  Joseph died in 1876 in Lee Center, Lee County, Illinois, and I will write more of this family in my next post.  

Nathan was the next born, in 1805.  His first marriage was to Laura Stannard, whom I am not able to identify further, She may or may not be part of our Stannard family, but one of their children married John Stannard, who was a grandson of our Libbeus Stannard so the connections are there.  Their children were Sylvia, Sheldon, Enos, Laura, Mary, and Abbie.  After Laura died in 1843, he married Relief Farnham, daughter of Moses and Submit Faulkner Farnham.  Their children were Florence, Arthur, Lydia, and Edwin.  After the death of Relief, Nathan married Susan Olds, whom I'm unable to further identify.  They had no children.  Nathan died in 1896 at Sheffield, Bureau County, Illinois.

Sarah was born in 1806.  She married John Woodward, son of John and Sarah Galloway Woodward.  Their children were Sarah, Mary, Daniel, Lillis, Maria, Harriet, Henry, and Agnella.   She died in 1871 in Ross Township, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Lillis was born in 1809 or possibly 1807. She married Hiram Sutton, the son of Jeremiah and Hanny Smalley Sutton.  Their children are Betsey or Elizabeth, Albert, Jane, another Albert, Henry, and Hannah.  She died in 1865 near Richmond, Macomb County, Michigan.

Next came George, born in 1810.  He married Betsy Wheeler, the daughter of Uzziah and Azubah Banks Wheeler.  Their children are Alonzo, George, Betsey, Sheldon, Hiram, Harriet, Charles, Julia, Sarah, Ezra, Washington, Leonia, Ella, and Enos.  George died in 1882 at Amboy, Lee County, Illinois.

John was born in 1813.  He married Nancy Wheeler, who was likely a sister to Betsy, mentioned above. (I have found alternate parents for Nancy, but the location doesn't make sense).  Their children are Levi, George, Nathan, Albert, Adaline, John, Sylviette, Achsa, Mary, Reuben, and Ida.  John died in 1878 at Elk Falls, Elk, Kansas.  This is the first of this Eddy family to have crossed the Mississippi, or at least the first who died west of the river.

Almira was born in 1815.  She married Lowell Hulett, the son of Oliver and Elizabeth Ames Hulett.  Their children are Allen, Ellen, Edwin, Thoren, Hattie, and Lynn.  Almira died in 1887.  Some sites say she died in Massachusetts but her gravestone is at Augusta, Kalamazoo, Michigan.  

The last child was Stephen, born in 1818, a few months after Enos died.  He married Olive Hulda Williams, the daughter of William and Mary (unknown) Williams.  They had just two known children, Lucius and George.  He enlisted in the Civil War in 1861 and died in December of 1862 in a Union hospital at Niagara, Buffalo, New York, of chronic dysentery.  He would have been 43 years old when he enlisted, which was somewhat above the usual age, and he was a private.  

103 grandchildren, more or less! I think that's the largest number I've found for any family I've researched thus far.  Enos, in his short life, and Deborah left a legacy of Eddy family members scattered from New York to Michigan, Illinois, and Kansas, with many of their grandchildren serving in the Civil War.  

 

 

The family of Enos Eddy died 1782

 Enos Eddy was born in Glocester, Rhode Island, the son of Elisha and Sarah Phetteplace Eddy.  I have no record of a birth date but it was probably early in the 1740s.  He died in 1782 so his was not a long life, and he lived it entirely in Glocester.  His wife was Sarah Brown, who was believed to be the daughter of Othniel and Deborah Burlingham Brown, but that identification may not be correct.  More research needs to be done. 

Enos and Sarah had four known children after they married in 1761.  The only one with what seems to be a firm birth date is George, who was born in 1765.  George married an unidentified Chloe and was in Hawley, Massachusetts (at the time known as Plantation Number 7) by 1788, where he owned an ironworks.  By 1800 he was in Ulster County, New York.   There are four persons in the household young enough to be his children, plus a male and female who were in the 16-25 year age group.  There was also a slave.  In 1810, the children had aged 10 years and there are still 2 males and a female in the 26-44 age bracket who are unaccounted for.  There were also four slaves.  The 1820 census has him in Eddyville, New York (near Kingston) which was named in his honor.  He was the owner of a cotton mill and a saw mill there, and had two slaves living in his household.  He died in 1827.  The names of his children are Stephen, who died young, Margaret, George, and Mary, and possibly a Nancy.  It's possible there were more children.

Enos Eddy was their next son.  He was not 21 when his father Enos died, and probably was born about 1768-1770.  He married Deborah Paine (Payne) and they had as many as 13 children.  I will follow this family in my next blog post.

Then there were two daughters, about whom little is known.  Sarah was under 18 in 1782, and married a Mr. Green, so far not further identified.  I show both a marriage and a death date for her of 1802, but no documentation for either, so I'm not confident with either "fact".  

There was also a daughter, Rebecca, who was born before 1774 and was included in her father's 1782 will.  Many of the web sites show Rebecca as having died in 1775, so either the early death date is incorrect, or there were two daughters named Rebecca.  

This is what I've been able to learn about the family of Enos and Sarah, the most undocumented Eddy family I've found. It is possible there were more children but if so, their lives seem to be unrecorded. I certainly hope there is someone out there who knows more, and I hope they will contact me! 

The family of Elisha Eddy 1710-1764

There are still plenty of mysteries about Elisha Eddy, whom I've previously written about.  In this series of blog posts, I've been working on identifying the children, who the children married, and the names of the grandchildren.  But in looking at these brief facts about Elisha, I've noticed that he married in 1734 but his first known child wasn't born until 1748.  What is the rest of the story?  Was there a series of unsuccessful pregnancies?  Was his Sarah too ill, or injured, to conceive?  I wonder if we'll ever know.

To return to the usual construction of these posts, Elisha was the son of Zachariah and Amphillis Smith Eddy, born in 1710 and died in 1764.  He married Sarah Phetteplace, the daughter of Walter and Joanna Mowry Phetteplace in 1734.  The couple is known to have had four children.

Enos was born in 1748 and married Sarah Brown, the daughter of Othniel and Deborah Brown Brown.  They had four children, George, Enos, Sarah, and Rebecca.  I'll write more about this family in my nextg blog post.  

Jesse was born in 1751 and died in 1826.  He married Lydia Brown, the daughter of Jeremiah and Abigail last name unknown Brown.  Jeremiah was a descendant of Chad Brown, as were both Othniel and Deborah, the parents of Sarah Brown mentioned above.  Their children were Levi, Daniel, Lydia, Abigail, and Jesse.

Amasa was born in 1754 and died in 1843.  He married Abigail Harrington, the daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Pierce Harrington.  THeir children are Marcy, Elisha, Stephen, John, Amasa, Anna, and Abigail.

There was also a son Stephen but I have not been able to identify him further.  Quite a few trees show him married to a Zerviah Ross, but this appears to be a different Stephen, as he was born in 1734 in Essex County, Massachusetts, and all of Elisha's family are from Glocester, Rhode Island.  It is more likely that Stephen died young, but whether as an infant or a child or a young adult, I cannot say.  

I have found no records that indicate that any of these boys/men served in the Revolutionary War.  We know that son Enos was jailed for his opposition to the war and perhaps Jesse and Amasa shared his views.  If someone reading this has relevant information about anyone I've mentioned here, I would love it if you'd comment or send me an email.  

The family of Zachariah Eddy 1664-1737

There are a lot of Eddy men to keep track of, and it doesn't help much when so many of them seem to be named Zachariah.  This Zachariah is the son of the the Zachariah I wrote about last week, and Alice Paddock Eddy.  He was born April 10, 1664 in Plymouth County, and lived for over half of his life in Swansea, Massachusetts.  Swansea was very near Providence Plantation and Rhode Island, and tolerated Baptists.  This may be the reason Zachariah moved to Rhode Island, as we know that there were Baptists in the family.  I'm not sure when the decision was made to leave the Puritan church, nor do I know why.  

Zachariah was married twice.  His first wife was Mercy Baker, who was likely the daughter of Samuel and Eleanor Winslow Baker.  They had five children together:

Alice was their first born, in 1684.  She died just eight years later, in 1692.

Eleanor was born in 1686.  She probably died young as I have found no further mention of her.

 Jemima was born in 1688.  She married Stephen Harding, the son of Abraham and Deborah Gardner Harding in 1707.  Abraham and Deborah are our ancestors through their daughter Mercy, so we are starting to see our families intertwining, which I always find fascinating. Their children are Amy, John, Abraham, Stephen, Thomas, Lemuel and Israel.  (It's possible that Lemuel and Israel are twins, also possible that they are one and the same, with a misreading of handwriting somewhere along the line.)  Many sites say Jemima died in 1707 but that was her marriage date.  She is referred to as Jemima Harding in her father's will of 1737.

Zachariah was born in 1691 and married Ruth Thurston, the daughter of Thomas and Mehitable Tripp Thurston.  Their children are Thomas, Joseph, Enoch, Thomas (again, the first one probably died young), Eliphalet, Ruth, Alice, and Elizabeth.

The last child of Mercy and Zachariah was Alice, born in 1694.  She married Obadiah Jenckes, the son of Joseph and Martha Brown Jenckes.  (Martha was the daughter of John and Mary Holmes Brown, who are also our ancestors through another line.)  Alice and Obadiah had Obadiah, John, Martha, Alice, and Zachariah.

Mercy died in October of 1703 and about four years later, Zachariah married Anphillis (or Amphillis) Smith, the daughter of Edward and Anphillis Angell Smith. Anphillis was the widow of Noah Whipple, but no children are known from that marriage.  Zachariah and Anphillis had at least four children:

Anna was born in 1708 and married first Timothy Sweet, the son of Daniel and Ethelanah Carpenter Sweet. Their children are Hannah, Jeremiah, Jonathan, Simeon, Nathan, and Sarah.  After Timothy's death, she married Thomas King, the son of James and Sarah Winsor King.  Their children are Samuel, Stephen, and Amos.

Elisha was born in 1710 and married Sarah Phettiplace, the daughter of Walter and Joanna Mowry Phettiplace.  Their children are George, Enos, Sarah, and Rebecca, and we will follow this family in my next post.

Joseph was born in 1713 and married Barsheba Smith, the daughter of Joseph and Patience Mowry Smith.  (Yes, Joanna Mowry Phettiplace and Patience Mowry Smith are sisters, which makes for more double relationships.)  Their children are Eliakim, Joseph, Jacob, Zilpah, Elisha, and Gideon.  

Finally there was Samuel, who was born in 1715, when his mother was about 49 years old.  He died in his infancy.  

This makes 39 grandchildren for Zachariah, if I've not missed any nor included any erroneously.  The children contributed to the British colonies they lived in, and many of the grandchildren were active during the Revolutionary War.  They helped build out country and our family.