Rebecca (Perry) Farrar

Rebecca Perry was the daughter of Stephen and Esther (Loper) Perry who lived in Oakland County, Michigan.  She was buried with her parents and sister at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.


Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Oakland Co., Oxford Twp
4.  Mary J., wife of Philo Gibbs, d. 5 Aug 1875, ae 44,8,4
6.  Esther, wife of S. Perry, d. 18 Dec 1867  ae 60, 10, 7
7.  Stephen Perry  d. 22 May 1864
8.  Rebecca, wife of Samuel Praige, d. 13 June 1863  ae 31y 13d


Rebecca was married first to Loid Orville Farrar from whom she was granted a divorce.  The records were abstracted in Divorce Records For Oakland County 1839-1865 p. 81-82.  Excerpts:

FARRAR, REBECCA vs LOID ORVILLE FARRAR. Petition filed 25 Aug 1859. Rebecca's petition states that she was age 30 and a resident of Brandon Township and has been for the last five years past. She is the wife of Loid Orville Farrar, age 45, whom she married at Brandon, 11 Dec 1848. They lived as husband and wife until Mar 1858. There is one child, a daughter, Rosaltha, now three years old and residing with the complainant. The complainant believes her husband left Michigan and went to Illinois, then to Missouri, where he last was as of 24 Aug 1859.

Divorce granted 28 Dec 1859 to Rebecca Farrar. [Oakland County Marriage Records shows Rebekah [sic] A. Farrar, age 30, of Brandon who married Samuel Praige, age 46, of Holly at Brandon , 31 Dec 1859.] CASE #910

Rosaltha Farrar married James Levi More who was the brother of my great-grandmother, Addie More Powers.

Suffolk County, MA, Will Abstracts

Abstracts from the Earliest Wills On Record In The County Of Suffolk, Mass., from a volume of the NEHGS periodical.  Also here, here and here.

Thomas MacCrae, Surety

From the Upper Canada Land Petitions (see description at Olive Tree Genealogy):

Source

Thos MacCrae, surety

Montague

C-2107

"H," Bundle Miscellaneous

Petition 30

Jeremiah Harris

Was Thomas MacCrae related to my McCrea cousins whose family also lived in Montague, Ontario, Canada?  If this Thomas (this one?*) was the son of Samuel and Janet (Simpson) McCrea, then they were related.

*8. SOPHIA HOLMES

Born: 1781

Died: 1869

Married: Thomas McCrea 

Thomas Born: 30 May 1780, NY, USA

Died: 30 March 1863, Montague Twp., Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada

Father: Samuel McCrae (McRae)

Mother: Janet Simpson

Who Destroyed The Gaspee?

The proceedings of the General Assembly, relative to the destruction of the British schooner Gaspee, in the waters of Narragansett Bay on the night of 9th June 1772, will be found in the records of the August session of year. [Source]

The Gaspee Organization makes the case that Barzillai Richmond (and his son and son-in-law)  participated in "the 1772 burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots as America's 'First Blow for Freedom'TM."

Destruction Of The Gaspee

The Gaspee was pursuing [a] packet from Newport, when it ran aground... . That evening....as many as 67 colonists...seized control of the ship, shooting its Scottish captain, Lieutenant William Dudingston, in the abdomen. After sending the wounded captain and his crew to shore at Pawtuxet, the Americans set the Gaspee on fire.  [Source]

Gaspee (Source)

Source

Testimony and other reports concerning the Gaspee incident.

The Websters In Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

City Directory - Unknown date

Mary (Ball) Clement's Widow's Application

Found in Microfilm # 857998 (British) (Certificates of birth, baptisms, marriage and death, : with wills, administrations, statements of services and personal papers of officers and their families...alphabetically arranged, 1776-1881, plus eight bundles of similar certificates, 1755-1908. (W.O. 42/1-51)
Author: Great Britain. War Office):

#441
Niagara  April 18th, 1853

This is to certify that I was present on the 25th of November 1786, when the marriage ceremony was performed by Lieut. Col. John Butler, late Butler's Rangers, between the late John Clement, Lieut. late Six Nations Indian Department, and my sister Mary Ball, and that they lived together as man and wife until his death.

Geo. Ball

This is to certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named George Ball who is now in the eighty-ninth year of his age, but of sound mind and memory, that I also know Mary Clement, and that she was the wife of the late John Clement, late of the Indian Department.


William M. Ball, J.P.

Niagara April 18th, 1853

See an abstract of the land petition of John Clement here.

I was wondering if my Clement cousins were related to this couple; they were.  [Descendants of Lewis Cobes Clement].

Colonel Martin, A Confederate Spy In Canada

The Review Of Historical Publications Relating To Canada included an article entitled Confederate Agents In Canada During The American Civil War (text version).

"The secret military and political organization which the Confederacy of the Southern States built up in Canada during the Civil War centered mainly about the personality of the Hon. Jacob Thompson."

However, fellow William Roark descendant, Confederate Colonel Robert Maxwell Martin, made a cameo appearance:

"Meantime Toronto had been the scene of another plot, this time for the burning of New York. A Colonel Martin had reported to the Confederate chief for duty, and the latter tells us that "having nothing else on hand Colonel Martin expressed a wish to organize a corps to burn New York City."