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EDITOR:

Miss Mabel Lindly
1715 South Twentieth Street
Lincoln, Nebraska

COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION

Mrs. William Rogers '29	Mrs. H. B. Marshall '28
Mrs. D. 0. Cleghorn '29	Mrs. Theodore Westermann '28
Mrs. C. H. Jenkins '28

CONTENTS

Graves Family -----------------------------------------------	21
Revolutionary Soldiers at Valley Forge -------------------------	23
Jackson Bible Records -----------------------------------------	24
Franklin County Virginia -------------------------------------	24
Coffin Family -------------------------------------------------	26
Call Family --------------------------------------------------	26
Halstead Family ----------------------------------------------	27
Ancestry and Posterity of Abner White -------------------------	29
Family Lines of Frank Bradbury Hollenbeck --------------------	37
Bierer-Berry Family ------------------------------------------	39
"Salisbury" White Lineage ------------------------------------	41
Queries ------------------------------------------------------	43
Corrections ---------------------------------------------------	44

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The Nebraska and Midwest

GENEALOGICAL RECORD

VOL. V

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, APRIL, 1927

NO. 2

THE NEBRASKA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

LIFE MEMBERS

Mrs. R. J. Kilpatrick, Beatrice, Nebraska.
Mr. J. V. Thompson, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. C. R. Peterson, University Place, Nebraska.

OFFICERS

Mrs. M. M. Fogg, President, 1540 So. 21st St., Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mrs. W. S. Whitten, First Vice-President, 1640 So. 23rd St., Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mrs. R. J. Kilpatrick, Second Vice-President, Beatrice, Nebraska.
Mrs. Findley Dunn, Recording Secretary, 2054 E St., Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mrs. H. B. Marshall, Corresponding Secretary, 4090 R St., Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mrs. C. C. Waldo, Treasurer, 826 So. 14th St., Lincoln, Nebraska.
Mrs. C. S. Paine, Librarian, Station A, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Miss Mabel Lindly, Editor, 1715 So. 20th St., Lincoln, Nebraska.

GRAVES FAMILY JOHN GRAVES, born in England, came to the American Colonies with his wife in 1635 and settled in Concord, Mass. He soon after became a member of the church of which Rev. Peter Buckley was teacher. He was one of the signers to the petition to the General Court in 1643 in favor of Ambrose Martin, and in 1644 his name Was attached to a document pledging its signers, nearly every head of a family in Concord, to the support of the government. The original signature to one of these papers, probably the first, was seen and inspected by the writer among the Shuttuck papers relating to Concord, now in possession of the New England Historical Society in Boston, Mass. John Graves had two sons: 1 BENJAMIN.
2 John.

BENJAMIN GRAVES (John) was born in Concord in 1645. He married Oct. 21, 1667, Mary Hoar, daughter of John Hoar of Concord, who was the son of Charles Hoar, alderman from 1632 to 1638
* Means more in next generation.


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of the "Cittie of Gloster" (City of Gloucester), England, sheriff in 1634, died in 1638, and grandson of Charles Hoar, mayor of the "Cittie of Gloster", who died in 1636. John Hoar and his wife were of Scituate in 1643 to 1655, removed to Concord about 1700 and died April 2, 1704. He was a lawyer of prominence in the colony and his son Daniel, brother of Mary, was great, great grandfather of Hon. George F. Hoar, United States Senator from Massachusetts.

Benjamin Graves was a member of Captain Wheeler's Company of Concord against the Indians in 1675. In volume 38 of New England Genealogical and Historical Register he was given credit September 28, 1675, for services in King Philip's War, and again February 29, 1676. He and John Graves of Sudbury, Mass., with others, purchased May 20, 1861, from Christopher Hall "All the mines and minerals of one kind and another found or to be found, or that may be found on his land in Groton, Massachusetts, at a place called Cold Spring, near William Lingley's house, with liberty to dig, delve or use the land and to erect buildings, etc." He moved to Saybrook, Conn., in 1703 where he purchased January 25, 1703, of Nicholas Stoughton by consent of William Shipman of Colchester, Conn., one-half of the home lot which Stoughton bought with Shipman at a place called Pottaconk "whenever the division of which ever part is agreed upon is made, Stoughton to have first choice"; also the one-half of eleven acres of planting land. Benjamin Graves signed his mark "B". October 16, 1704, division of above recorded.

November 4, 1716, Benjamin Graves yoeman for love and good will to loving son, John, now resident of Killingworth, a messuage or tenement at Pottaconk, with all the buildings, etc., bounded westerly by land of Joseph Graves, it being understood that Benjamin is to retain the life use of the same. John sold the above property in 1724.

March 18, 1715, Benjamin Graves for love and affection to son Joseph deeded one-half of the farm I now dwell upon-the westerly half. Benjamin Graves died before March 23, 1724, leaving the following named children:

1	Mary, born January 18, 1669; married April 1, 1691, Benjamin Rice, born December 22, 1666, son of Edward and Anna Rice of Sudbury, Mass. Benjamin Rice and wife resided at Marlboro, Mass., where he died February 23, 1749, in his eighty-third year.
2	Elizabeth, born April 25, 1671, married December 26, 1706, Joseph Beebe at New London, Conn.
3	Ruth, born November 23, 1674; married January 25, 1699-1700, John Webb.


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	He died January 28, 1711-12.
4	BENJAMIN, born March 2,1676-77.
5	Joseph, born September 1, 1679.
6	Joanna, born February 2, 1681. 7 John, born in 1683.

Compiled by John Card Grimm.
Contributed by Mrs. L. M. Troup, Lincoln, Nebr.

(To be continued.)

Revolutionary Soldiers at Valley Forge

List of men from Windham, Maine, in the Massachusetts Regiments wintered at Valley Forge. They were in regiments commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, Colonel Benjamin Tupper, Colonel Brewer, Colonel Vose and Colonel Wigglesworth. The records with the exception of "Eli Herbert" are in Massachusetts Men in the Revolutionary War. Captain Richard Mayberry (on muster roll of July, 1778, at Valley Forge.)
Ebenezer Barton.
Amos Brown.
Eleazer Chase.
Josiah Chute.
Richard Dole.
Enoch Graffan.
Job Hall.
Eli Herbert.
Nicholas Hughes.
Stephen Manchester.
Stephen Manchester, jr. (died at Reading, Penn., January 5, 1778).
Richard Mayberry, jr.
William Mayberry.
Robert Millions.
Lonon Rhodes.
James Rines.
Peter Smith.
John Swett.
George Teshary.
Stephen Tripp.
Edward Webb.

Contributed by Kim Mary Frances Call, Syracuse, N. Y.


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Jackson Bible Records BIRTHS Daniel Jackson, December 26. 1753.
Jemima Jackson, July 7, 1754.
Silas Jackson, March 17, 1776.
Nancy Jackson, December 20, 1777.
Hannah Jackson, January 21, 1779.
Silas Jackson, June, 1781.
Sarah Jackson, January 4, 1783.
Mary Jackson, November 2, 1784.
Elizabeth Jackson, October 28, 1786.
Daniel Jackson, August 10, 1792.
Joseph Jackson, August 21, 1795.
Benjamin Jackson, August 1, 1800.

MARRIAGES

John Rines to Elizabeth Jackson, September 4, 1811.

Contributed by Mrs. A. L. Gooden, 335 No. 33rd St. Lincoln, Nebr.

Franklin County, Virginia

Partial List of the Marriage Bonds.

James Wright married Peggy Young October 9, 1786.
Jacob Webster married Fanny Walker Woods May 3, 1790.
James Akers married Lucy Webster January 13, 1792.
Theodric Webb married Permelia, Webster February 23, 1792.
Joseph Price married Nancy Webster January 2, 1797.
Thomas Billips married Sadly Webster November 28, 1793.
Edward Billips married Susanna Webster January 7, 1789.
Henry Reel married Patty Akers April 29, 1790.
Samuel Flora married Elizabeth Dillman April 8, 1788.
Abraham N. Hartsell married Elizabeth Houts May 4, 1796.
Josiah Wright married Peggy Ferguson November 20, 1797.
Christley Peters married Mary Noftsinger February 20, 1796.
Jacob Hichman married Mary Overfelt May 13, 1793.
Rebecca Tony married Joshua Ferguson August 18, 1792.
Abner Bird married Jane Jamison March 11, 1791.
John R. Webster married Deborah Webster February 3, 1834.
James Webster married Polly Akers October 15, 1834.
David Webster married Lucinda Hawkins January 16, 1819.
Henry Akers married Sarah Wimmer March 22, 1823.
Christian Peters married Charlotte Webster October 6, 1838.


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George Kerby married Elender Jamison, 1799.
John Holcomb married Nancy Jamison, 1799.
Charles Perrin married Catherine Jamison, 1799.
Ruffin Brown married John Jamison October 8, 1794.
Joe Hickman married Jane Akers, 1825.
Daniel Bowman married Catherine Nafe July 31, 1818.
John F. Aldredge married Lucy Akers December 18, 1835.
John Spradlin married Louisa Meador December 11, 1837.
Samuel Webster married Sarah Billips February 16, 1801.
Daniel Akers married Rebecca Webster December 2, 1800.
James Akers married Susanna Smith January 29, 1811.
Fleming Boone married Susanna Kinsey February 24, 1820.
James Akers married Pauline Howell February 16, 1829.
William Akers married Jincey Haynes August 26, 1834.
Samuel Jamison married Sarah Webster February 23, 1832.
Cyrus Price married Elizabeth Boone February 24, 1831.
Isaac Nafe married Mary Peters April 23, 1839.
Daniel Webster married Roda Arthur January 25, 1803.
Samuel Copper married Barbara Prillaman February 11, 1806.
Goodman Wright married Elizabeth Jamison October 27, 1835.
John Jamison married Katherine Boone January 6, 1806.
William Webster married Elizabeth Reynolds, 1807.
Samuel Akers married Sarah Highley August 5, 1802.
Mr. Miller married Ann Capper January 1, 1801.
John Boone married Susan Fowler, 1810.
Thomas Arthur married Nancy Webster December 21, 1802.
Joseph Green, jr., married Catherine Webster October 12, 1824.
Phebe Akers married John Wade December 19, 1834.
Jacob A. Ferguson married Jane Webster March 2, 1837.
Stephen Wood married Nancy Cabiness May 4, 1837.
George Boitnott married Polly Hambrich February 2, 1830.
David Webster married Phebe Akers November 16, 1830.
Stewart Tinsley married Nancy Price July 1, 1830.
Elias Quigley married Susanna McCraw July 27, 1822.
David Peters married Chistiana Brubaker April 1, 1809.
Michael Peters married Mary Flora December 7, 1808.
Henry Brubaker married Sallie Eller January 24, 1810.
Luke Akers married Jane Webster January 12, 1824.
Samuel Jamison married Sarah Webster February 18, 1832.


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John Boone married Martha Turner October 22, 1832.
Fleming Akers married Nancy Akers, October 3, 1825.
Jacob Peters married Susannah Bowman January 7, 1805.
Henry Webster married Elizabeth Webster August 12, 1800.
Samuel Webster married Sarah Billips February 16, 1801.

Contributed by Mr. John Ernest Jamison, Roanoke, Va.

Coffin Family Several theories are advanced regarding the origin of the family surname Coffin, or Coffyn, as was the earlier spelling. Allen Coffin, Esq., says, "Coffin is a word of Hebrew origin signifying a small basket. Whether the Israelitish hosts were sufficiently enlightened to be in the enjoyment of baskets before the Egyptians, or whether the chosen of God were especially favored with the knowledge of basket making while the rest of the world plodded on with a less commodious means of transit, are matters which cannot at this remote period of time be satisfactorily answered."

From Arthur's derivation of family names, we find that Coffin is in Welch, Cyffin, which signifies a boundry, a limit or a hill; cefyn, a ridge of a hill. This authority also says that the name has its origin from "co", high, exalted, and "fin", a head, extremity, boundary, but the family surname is probably not indebted to either of these last named derivations. It is believed by many that sometime before the Norman Conquest of England by William, which took place in 1066, the family of Coffin lived in Normandy, a duchy of France, which the Norsemen had made peculiarly their own by invasion and by conquest.

Bardsley, in his "English Surnames," says, "It is to some dealer in earthenware we owe our name of Pots, some worker in metals our Hammers, some carpenter our Coffins, once synonomous with coffer."

Contributed by Mrs. E. H. Wescott, Plattsmouth, Nebr.

(To be continued)

Call Family THOMAS CALL (Caule) was born in 1597 in England; died 1676 in Malden, Mass. He came to America in 1636 from Faversham, County of Kent, England, with his wife and three children and settled in Charlestown, Mass., on the bank of the Mystic River about two and one-half miles from where Bunker Hill Monument now stands. He married first ----- Bennet; married second Joanna Shepherdson. His children were:


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1	Thomas, born 1633 in England; married July 22, 1657, at Charlestown, Maw., Lydia Shepherdson. He died November 1678.
2	JOHN, born 1635 in England; married Hannah Kettell.
3	Mary, born in England; unmarried in 1670.
4	Elizabeth, born in Charlestown, Mass., in 1640; married in 1663 Samuel Tingley; married second in 1677 Daniel Shepherdson.
5	Mercy, born in Malden, Mass., November 7,1643; married 1662 Samuel Lee; married second in 1677 John Allen.

ENSIGN JOHN CALL (Thomas) born in England in 1635; died in Charlestown, Mass., in 1697; married June 21, 1656, at Charlestown, Hannah Kettell, who was born in Charlestown in 1637 and died August 27, 1708. Hannah Kettell was a daughter of Richard Kettell, who was born in England in 1609 and died in Charlestown June 20, 1680, and Hester Ward, who was born July 15, 1679. Richard Kettell and Hester Ward were married about 1636. Henry D. Thoreau, "Hermit of Walden Pond", was decended from Richard Kittell. Ensign John Call fought in King Phillip's War. The children of Ensign John Call and Hannah Kettell were:

1	Captain John.
2	Thomas, baptised 1662; married May 23, 1683, Elizabeth Crossley.
3	Jonathan, born September 12, 1663; died September 25, 1682.
4	Nathanial, born January 17, 1665.
5	Mehitabel, born 1668; married 1685 John Rand.
6	Caleb, born 1670; married March 3, 1697-8, Ann Whaff.
7	Hannah, born 1673; married William Hurry.

Contributed by Mine Mary Frances Call, Syracuse, N. Y.

(To be continued.)

The Halstead Family

(Continued from January, 1927)

THIRD GENERATION

FRANCES GLOW WRIGHT (Phoebe Halstead²) had six children:

1	Thomas Wright was a conductor on the Erie R. R. Had one child.
2	Byrum Wright, a tinner.
3	Hiram Wright, employed by the Erie R. R.
4	John Wright
5	Charles Wright.
6	Mary Wright.

HENRY NELSON WRIGHT, son of Phoebe Halstead, born Aug. 9, 1813, married Miss Corbin, sister of Albert Corbin. He died at Port Huron, Mich. Issue:
1 Theodore Wright, who had two daughters.

WILLIAM HALSTEAD WRIGHT, son of Phoebe Halstead, born


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March 1, 1818, married Feb. 16, 1841, Eliza Beardsley of Fairfield, Conn. He died at Beekman, N. Y. Children:

*1	William Henry Wright, born 1841.
*2	John Lewis Wright, born Sept. 3, 1843.
*3	John Emerson Wright, born in 1845.
*4	George Washington Wright, born in 1848.
*5	Harriett Eliza Wright, born in 1849.
*6	Paulina (Lina) Wright, born in 1855.
*7	lbert Daniel Wright, born Feb. 9, 1863.

BENJAMIN HALSTEAD WRIGHT, son of Phoebe Halstead, born Jan. 4, 1823. His wife was named Charlotte. They lived at Dover Plains, N. Y., and later at Kewanee, Ill., where he died. Children:

1	Silas Wright.
2	Anna Wright.
3	Ella Wright, married Will Bowen first, and second a Mr. Jones.

SARAH JANE WRIGHT, daughter of Phoebe Halstead, born Jan. 23, 1825, at Florida, Orange Co., N. Y. Married Jan. 23, 1847, at Beekman, N. Y., Henry Power, born April 2, 1820, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and died at Kewanee, Ill., Aug. 2, 1873.

1	Benjamin Power, born July 5, 1848, at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson; died at Kewanee, Ill., Aug. 14, 1896.
2	Augustus Power, born Feb. 16, 1851, at Fishkill; died at Kewanee, Ill., Jan. 31, 1877.
3	Mary Catherine Power, died young.
4	Edward Henry Power, born Aug. 2, 1857, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Living in 1919 in San Francisco, Cal. Married May 19, 1906, Rose L. Cooper.
5	Helen Corbin Power, born March 2, 1860, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. For many years a primary teacher at Kewanee, Ill.
*6	Mary Jane Power, born Dec. 29, 1863, at Kewanee, Ill.
*7	Alfred Nicholas Power, born Mar. 18, 1866, at Kewanee, Ill.

ASA HALSTEAD WRIGHT, son of Phoebe Halstead, was born April 7, 1831, at Florida, Orange Co., N.Y. Married June 17, 1858, at Dover Plains, N. Y., Harriet B. Hammond, who died Dec. 22, 1887. He died at Port Huron, Mich., April 2, 1923. Children:

1	Harry B. Wright, of the insurance firm Wright, Hoyt & Co., Port Huron, Mich.
2	Mrs. H. C. Adams, 1420 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

ELIZA MOORE WRIGHT, daughter of Phoebe Halstead, born Oct. 13, 1834, at Florida, N. Y.; married April 15, 1854, at Toulon, Stark Co., Ill., Nathaniel Mayhew, born March 10, 1829, at or near Marietta, Ohio, and died Nov. 27, 1880, at Kewanee, Ill. Children:

*1	Addie Eliza Mayhew, born Nov. 11, 1855.

(Concluded on page 37)


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Ancestry and Posterity of Abner White
of Dutchess County, N. Y. Compiled by Maude Egbert (White) Cleghorn of Chadron, Nebraska, with the assistance of a number of interested members of the family. TENTH GENERATION CONTINUED MORGAN C. WHITE (Samuel Barlow White⁹) was born Feb. 27, 1842; died May 24, 1891, and is buried at Dover Plains, N. Y. He married May 10, 1862, Annie E. Thomas, born August 24, 1845, and still living in 1925. Had one child:

1	Herkimer L. White, living in 1926 at Millerton, N. Y.

GEORGE JAY WHITE (Samuel Barlow White⁹) was born Sept. 30, 1852; died June 8, 1893. Married Aug. 27, 1878, Lydia A. Brooks, born Aug. 19, 1856. Children:

1	Homer White, died young.
2	Grace White, married ----- Townsend.

PEREGRINE WHITE (Alfred⁹, Peregrine⁸) was born Aug. 6, 1850, in Dutchess Co., N. Y. Moved with his parents to DeKalb, Ill. Married Lizzie Patrick. Children:

*1	Pearl White.
*2	Ralph White.
*3	Mable White.
*4	Kathryn Amelia White.
*5	Margaret White.
*6	Edith White.

BENJAMIN WHITE (Alfred⁹) married Elizabeth Baum and lived in 1925 at Waynoka, Okla. Children:

*1	Ruth White.
2	E. Delaney White.
3	Walter C. White, living In 1926, R. F. D. No. 31, Beloit, Wis. His wife is named Carle
4	Perrygreene (?) White.
5	Pearl White, married George Nickels and lived In 1925 at Waynoka, Okla.
6	Julia White.
7	Gar White.
*8	Joel White.

DELANCY WHITE (Alfred⁹) married Maethan Downing. Is dead. Children:

1	Alfred White, married Nan Calkins (no children).

*Means more in next generation.