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- Colleen(Smith),
I am sending you another copy of my earlier e-mail. I did get all your other e-mails and am still reading them. Thanks for the great information. I have found Ezekiel Bardwell's baptismal record. One of the e-mails you sent identified a Solomon Budwell in Arkansas Territory in 1803. So I went to the library this morning and found a book entitled "A Baptismal Record of the Parishes Along the Arkansas River, August 5, 1796 to July 16, 1802." I found the following entry (this is the only entry I found for any Bardwell/Bodwell/Budwell entry):
"Ezechiel Juan Bodwell. The 14th day of July of this year of 1802, I Friar Juan Brady, balded Carmelite monk and priest of the parish of Our Lady of Carmen in the beginnings of the Red and Ouachita Rivers, finding myself in this district of Arkansas by commission of Mr. Thomas Hassett, Vicar General of Louisiana, baptised and anointed with the holy oils a child that was born the 15th day of October of the year of 1791, the legitimate son of Solomon Bodwell and of Jisseu (?) Cohon. The paternal grandparents are Deres Bodwell and Tabitha Dicheson, natives of Massachusetts; the maternal Ezechiel Cohon and Crese Neil, natives of North Carolina. On that child I performed the sacred ceremonies and prayers and I put for a name Ezechiel Juan. His godparents wre Juan Hutson and Catalina Kemble, to whom I advised of the spiritual kinship, and so that it might be certain I signed it. Friar Juan Brady."
This is a translation from the original Spanish. I have researched both my sisters-in-law families which include Louisiana French and Spanish ancestors, and I find that Spanish priest both French names and French priests botch Spanish names. Therefore, I can only imagine what a Spanish priest (despite the Irish surname) would do to English names. You provided me with information regarding a son Solomon had whose name is given variously as Pierce, Peres, Percy, etc. Therefore, from this the grandfather of Ezekiel is probably Peres Bardwell. Also, I checked North Carolina records, and the only name close to Ezechiel Cohon is a Ezekiel Cahoon who appears in a 1784 tax list of Tyrrell County, North Carolina. There are lots of Cahoons/Cohoons as wells as Neals in this county as well as in Jones, Onslow, and Bladen Counties. I checked the DAR index for Peres Bardwell and found one I believe you is familiar with: Peres Bardwell b 1737 MA d 1812 NY m. Tabitha Hastings Lt MA, The IGI states that a Peres Bardwell was born 1737, Franklin, Whatley, Mass, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Gillete Bardwell.
To summarize:
Ezekiel John Bardwell b. October 15, 1791
Father: Solomon Bardwell
Mother: Jessie (?) Cohoon/Cohon/Cahoon (?)
Grandfather: Peres Bardwell
Grandmother: Tabitha Dickensen (?)
Grandfather: Ezekiel Cohoon/ Cohon/Cahoon (?)
Grandmother: Crese Neal
I will go for now, but I must add one caveat. My eyes in an awful condition. My left eye has never been 20/20 even with contacts and after laser surgery a blood vessel in my left eye has been leaking. It's all fixable. However, the point of this heart rendering tale of woe is that I am ten time more likely now than before to get letters or numbers mixed up. Therefore, do not take any number or spelling as Gospel. I can mail you a copy of all these records if you provide me with your mailing address.
Thanks.
John(Caskey)
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