Lieutenant Thomas Cooper

Notes:

Thomas was a trader in beaver pelts and was active in the Springfield militia, specializing in scouting and translation. Oral history has him trading with Indians and adopting their ways to a degree that caused some friction with townspeople. Ironically, after living to a great age, he perished in the burning of Springfield-- fighting with the settlers against marauding Indians.

Family/Spouse: Mary Raynor. Mary was born in 1585 in England; died in 1675 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Reverand Samuel Hubbard. Samuel was born on 10 May 1610 in Suffolk, England; died on 10 May 1689 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Robert Burdick on 02 Nov 1655 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. Robert was born in ca 1630 in England; died on 25 Oct 1692 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Reverand Joseph Clarke, Jr.. Joseph (son of Reverand Joseph Clarke and Margaret Turner) was born on 11 Feb 1642 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island; died on 11 Jan 1726 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; was buried in First Hopkinton Cemetery, Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Martha Posner in 1690 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Martha was born about 1656; died in 1728 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Seventh-day Baptist

Notes:

Christened:
baptized by Rev. William Hixson of the Newport Sabbatarian Church

Deborah married Reverand Joseph Crandall in 1681 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Joseph (son of Elder John Crandall and Mary Opp) was born in 1661 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 12 Sep 1737 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island; was buried in Old Crandall Cemetery, Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Mary Reynolds about 1690 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Mary was born in 1664 in North Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 07 Oct 1716 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Seventh-Day Baptist

Notes:

He was an original member ofthe Westerly Sabbatarian Church, organized in 1708, but his namedisappears from the 1740 list

Samuel married Mary Foster in ca 1690. Mary was born on 14 Jun 1675 in New London, New London County, Connecticut; died in 1768 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Rebecca Foster on 04 Jan 1700 in New London, New London County, Connecticut. Rebecca was born in Jun 1681 in New London, New London County, Connecticut; died about 1732. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Maxson. Hannah was born about 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Reverand John Maxson, Jr. in 1687. John was born on 12 Oct 1666 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 28 Oct 1747 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; was buried in First Hopkinton Cemetery, Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Abigail Richmond on 01 May 1723. Abigail was born in 1656 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island; died in 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Dorcas Lewis in 1720. Dorcas was born about 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Avis Maxson on 05 Nov 1731 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Avis (daughter of Reverand John Mason and Judith Clarke) was born on 27 Dec 1712 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Robert Babcock in 1700 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Robert (son of John Babocck and Mary Lawton) was born in 1678 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 27 Aug 1719 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Rebecca Thompson on 21 Oct 1730. Rebecca was born est 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Mary Thompson on 25 Jul 1733 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Mary was born on 18 Mar 1710 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Dorothy Maxon on 24 Jul 1724. Dorothy was born on 20 Oct 1703 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Clark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Judith Clarke in 1729 in New London, New London County, Connecticut. Judith was born on 09 Jul 1710 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua married Abigail Lanphere on 25 Dec 1734 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Abigail was born on 27 Mar 1715 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Avis Lewis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Babcock. Elizabeth was born about 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Captain Zaccheus Reynolds. Zaccheus (son of Thomas Reynolds and Sarah Clarke) was born in 1686 in Rhode Island; died in 1778 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; was buried in Reynolds-Johnson Lot, Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simeon married Isabel Sanders on 20 Sep 1747 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Isabel was born on 14 Oct 1726 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; died in 1774 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Jane Bennette on 11 Sep 1744 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut. Jane was born about 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married Amy Brown in 1759. Amy was born about 1741; died on 21 Mar 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Nichols. Elizabeth was born on 17 Dec 1736 in Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98250299/remember-stewart

Remember married Phineas Stewart on 11 Jan 1744 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut. Phineas (son of Lieutenant William Stewart and Sarah Church) was born on 16 May 1721 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; was buried in Center Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phineas married Penelope Hall on 05 Feb 1767 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. Penelope was born in Nov 1746 in Rhode Island; died on 06 Jan 1827 in DeRuyter, Madison County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clarke married Amy Sisson on 12 Dec 1770 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Amy was born on 10 May 1745. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carey married Dorcus Cottrell on 27 Dec 1754. Dorcus was born on 04 May 1737 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Burdick Family newsletter March/April 2004

Stephen Burdick of Rockville, Town of Hopkington, RI ---by David Kendall Martin, M.A. (martind@westelcom.com)
For many years I accepted without question the lineage for Stephen Burdick of Hopkington, Washington Co., RI, who married Mary Church, given in The Descendants of Robert Burdick of Rhode Island by Nellie Johnson (1937), p. 91, #185. As I grew more sensitive genealogically, I noticed that if Stephen Burdick were born 16 March 1748 as Mrs. Johnson wrote, he would have been but 15 years old, perhaps barely 16, when his first child, Joel, was born in 1762/3, and seven years younger than his wife who is buried in the Burdick Cemetery, Clifford Township, Susquehanna Co. PA, where her gravestone is inscribed: died January 4, 1832, aged 90 years, (so born c.1741). While possible, the spectacle of a 15 year old boy marrying a 22 year old woman disturbed my sense of proportion.

I spent a long time investigating the births of the children of Stephen and Mary (Church) Burdick: Joel 1762/3, Billings 1765, Caleb c.1767, Joshua c.1769, Thomas c.1771, Zebediah c.1774, Stephen c.1776, Kendal 4 April 1778, Elias 20 August 1780 and Mary 1783/4, but could not shake the birth of Joel whose gravestone in the Rockville Cemetery reads died May 23, 1828 aged 65 years and who married in Hopkington 27 March 1784 Sarah Crandall (VR). In addition, even if Joel's age at death was a bit off, the 1774 census includes six males under 16 in the family of Stephen, too many births to change his marriage date significantly. Equally certain was the birth date of Stephen, son of Simeon and Isabel (Saunders) Burdick, clearly noted in the Westerly Vital Records as 16 March 1748.

As I dug into the Hopkington records, I found that several young men of that period matured at an early age, leaving home and buying land in their middle teens. That seemed to be the answer, Stephen had followed a local pattern of early male independence. Also, those with more knowledge of the time and place whom I consulted, including David W> Dumas, were comforting in their assurance that such a situation was not at all unlikely. Several also pointed out that Stephen was not the first young man to find himself obligated to marry an older woman.

Still disturbing, though, was the wording of the will of Simeon Burdick of Westerly, which adjoins Hopkington, who on 3 March 1801 wrote "I give and bequeath to my beloved son Stephen Burdick if he should Ever Return to Live here Fifty Dollars to be paid out of my Estate when he shall Return - But in Case he should not Return to be Equally Divided Between my other two sons Simeon & Jonathan". This seems odd phrasing when referring to a son living just a few miles away in the next town. Perhaps Mrs. Johnson had confused "my" Stephen with another. Stephen is not a common name in the Burdick family. The bulk of my search has been combing the records of New England and New York for references to it. None are found born in the 17th century, and I have found only these born in the 18th century:

Stephen 1748-1801+ (Simeon(4), Thomas(3), Thomas(2), Robert(1)) of Westerly

Stephen Rose c.1754-1820+ (Joseph(3), Robert(2), Robert(1)) m. Westerly 1777 Sarah West; Rensselaer and Madison Cos. NY (see Mayflower Families Through Five Generations 3:98 300).

Stephen 1758-c.1812 (Samuel Hubbard(4), Samuel Hubbard(3), Thomas(2), Robert(1)) m. ? Lodema (----); Stonington, CT and Brookfield Co. NY.

Stephen 1789-1823 (Jonathan(5), Simeon(4), Thomas(3), Thomas(2), Robert(1)) m. Merabeth (Elizabeth) Hull, Newport.

Stephen Rose 1795-? (Joseph(4), Joseph(3), Robert(2), Robert(1)) m. Elizabeth E. Wells.

What is significant about this list is that if Stephen who married Mary Church had been confused with another Stephen, it would have been a younger Stephen, making the situation even worse. Mrs. Johnson's placement seemed the most reasonable one after all.

At this point I was able to visit the Rhode Island Archives in Providence, where the very helpful Mrs. Phyllis Silva showed me the volume of early petitions. At once my entire Burdick discomfort relaxed and righted itself as I read through a petition (9-2:185):

"To the Honble General Assembly to sit at South Kingstown in and for the Colony of Rhode Island &c the Last Wednesday in October A.D. 1759 from in habitants of the North part of the Town of Hopkington and others of sd Town requesting that the northern part of the Second Company or Trained Band of Hopkington be set off as a separate company to save the hardship of travel seven or eight miles to trainings."

Among the signers was Stephen Burdick!

At the very least, as an interested party in militia training, he would be 16 years old or born by 1741; at the same time, Stephen of Westerly would only be 11 years old. Here was proof that there was an even older Stephen Burdick so far unrecognized by anyone. What was more, this Stephen apparently lived in the north part of Hopkington where the indefatigable and kind researcher, the late Miss Gladys E. Palmer of Hopeville, had placed the land of "my" Stephen Burdick and probably his grave at Rockville.

Singing with him were other Burdicks: Thomas, Edward, Thomas Jr. and Zebedia (both immediately next to Stephen on either side), Elias, Zacheus, Cary, Jesse, and William.

Another check of the Burdick genealogy showed (pp. 21-2, #29) that Thomas Burdick had married c.1724 Dorothy Maxson born 30 October 1703, a daughter of Rev. John and Judith (Clarke) Maxson, and had: Thomas 24 March 1725, Susannah, Zebediah, Elias, Cary, and Zaccheus 28 February 1738. Mrs. Johnson's account of the family of Thomas and Dorothy (Maxson) Burdick indicates the identities of their children were imperfectly known. As Thomas, Elias, and particularly Zebediah are found among the children of Stephen and Mary (Church) Burdick, Stephen is likely another son of Thomas born c.1736.

The names are right, the place is right, and the chronology is right. It is unfortunate that the ancestries of Mary Church and Hannah Gray (wife of Stephen's son Kendal) are not known, so it may or may not be significant that Kendal Burdick names his first child Dorothy and a son Kendal Mason; the latter went by the name of Mason Burdick, and I have often wondered if the name should be Maxson. To our list above we can add:

Stephen c.1736-c.1808 (Thomas(3), Samuel(2), Robert(1)) m. Mary Church, Hopkington, RI.

Stephen married Mary Church in 1762. Mary was born in 1741/1742; died on 04 Jan 1842 in Clifford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
DAR

Prudence married Joshua Whitford about 1755. Joshua (son of David Whitford and Mercy Wells) was born on 23 Jun 1731; died on 6 Sep 1813; was buried in Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery, Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martha Huling. Martha was born about 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua married Mary Lamb est 1763. Mary was born est 1740 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Martha Hitchcock in 1770 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peleg married Catherine Millard on 30 Nov 1780 in Washington County, Rhode Island. Catherine was born on 2 May 1757 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 3 May 1847 in Otsego County, New York; was buried in Carr Cemetery, Otego, Otsego County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Tabitha Wilcox. Tabitha was born on 23 Mar 1756 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; died on 04 Dec 1827 in Spafford, Onondaga County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lieutenant Josiah Witter. Josiah (son of Joseph Witter and Sarah Steward) was born on 25 Jan 1739 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 20 Jul 1828 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; was buried in Witter Lot, Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Abigail Slocum about 1780. Abigail was born on 01 Jul 1759 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Rogers. Mary (daughter of Thomas Rogers and Avis) was born on 12 Aug 1778 in Rhode Island; died on 24 Dec 1841 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Phebe Covey. Phebe was born on 02 Nov 1766; died on 27 May 1849 in Plainfield, Otsego County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 8 May 1775, Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; American Revolution (US) Capt.Samuel Prentice's Co., Col.Parsons 6th Conn Regt. Discharged December 17, 1775

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46104594/david-babcock

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 10 May 1775; American Revolution 6th Regt NY Militia

Notes:

Living in Stephentown(then Albany Co.,NY) in 1790 census 4-4-3
Petersburg in 1800.
Berlin in 1810.
In Rev. War 6th Regt NY Militia

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161811722/phineas-stewart

Phinehas married Mary E. about 1770. Mary was born in ca 1750; died on 23 May 1805; was buried in Jones Hollow Cemetery, Petersburg, Rensselaer Co., New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rufus Perkins. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Rogers. Hannah was born on 19 Sep 1792 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 28 Dec 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Sarah Wicks about 1796. Sarah was born in 1777; died on 05 Mar 1813. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Whitford. Sarah (daughter of Joshua Whitford and Prudence Burdick) was born on 14 Feb 1767 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Seventh-day Baptist

Ethan married Esther Stillman on 26 Dec 1792 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. Esther was born on 09 Feb 1763 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 30 Sep 1839 in Alfred, Allegany County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Billings married Hannah Babcock in 1787. Hannah was born on 28 Apr 1762 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 14 Apr 1840 in Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Brookfield,NY in 1794

Joshua married Phebe Palmer on 18 Nov 1779 in Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York. Phebe (daughter of William Palmer and Phebe Darrow) was born on 29 Mar 1760 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 26 Aug 1831 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Stephen Maxon on 11 Aug 1779. Stephen (son of Stephen Maxon and Martha Stewart) was born on 25 Aug 1757 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died in 1842 in DeRuyter, Madison County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Brookfield,NY in 1800 near David Whitford

Family/Spouse: Ruhama Greenman. Ruhama (daughter of Nathan Greenman and Eunice) was born in 1767 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Stephentown,NY in 1790 (1-2-1)

John married Margaret Coon on 6 Feb 1788 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Carey Burdick, Jr.. Carey (son of Carey Burdick and Dorcus Cottrell) was born in 1763 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 28 Nov 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Berlin from 1799 to 1836 then moved to Rodman.

Family/Spouse: Polly Maxon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth White. Elizabeth was born on 22 Dec 1779 in New York; died on 22 Feb 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amos married Catherine Barber on 11 May 1790 in Voluntown, New London County, Connecticut. Catherine was born on 13 Dec 1771 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 08 Dec 1859 in Alfred, Allegany County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Shubael married Tamar Wells about 1790. Tamar was born on 24 Dec 1771 in Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Rebecca Sheldon. Rebecca was born on 11 Jul 1789 in Kingston, WashingtonCounty, Rhode Island; died on 25 Feb 1874 in Otsego County, New York; was buried in Carr Cemetery, Otego, Otsego County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Died of Yellow Fever during the War of 1812

Family/Spouse: Lucy Brown. Lucy was born about 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129214596/weeden-witter

Weeden married Mary Witter in 1786 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island. Mary (daughter of Samuel Witter and Tacy Porter) was born on 10 Dec 1769 in Hopkinton, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 2 Feb 1811 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York; was buried in Brookfield Rural Cemetery, Brookfield, Madison County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married Deborah Ferris on 14 Feb 1802 in Pawling, Dutchess County, New York. Deborah was born on 27 Feb 1779; died on 05 Apr 1865 in Green Lake, Green Lake County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nelson married Maria Hoxie on 19 Oct 1834 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York. Maria (daughter of John Hoxie and Hannah M. Clarke) was born on 14 Mar 1815; died on 20 Feb 1874. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lucy Greene. Lucy was born on 04 Dec 1803 in Voluntown, New London County, Connecticut; died on 10 Aug 1833 in Plainfield, Otsego County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Possibly the Jehiel Steward who served in the War of 1812, in the 9th
Regt.(Vosburgh) NY Militia

Family/Spouse: Sarah Wilcox. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Betsey Nichols. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1830 living in Sandy Creek,Oswego Co.,NY and in 1850 with wife
Esther

Eathol married Esther Thurber in Jan 1795. Esther (daughter of Benjamin Thurber and Esther Allen) was born on 20 Oct 1777 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died in Dec 1870 in Oswego County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living in Berlin,NY in 1850

Family/Spouse: Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: 1812; War of 1812 (US) New York Militia Hardenbergh's Regt.

Notes:

In Petersburg, Rennselaer Co., NY 1810 and 1820 census.

Justus and his wife, Sarah, of Petersburg, purchased land there in January 1813 from Job Green and in 1822 sold the same land to Silas Allen.

May have lived a short time in Chenango Co., NY before moving to West Almond, Allegany Co., NY in 1825 (census there 1830, 1840).

Justus and wife, Honor, bought 36 acres in West Almond 23Mar1848 from Mary Ann Burdick (w/o William), then in June sold the same land to his son Alvin. Interestingly, William Burdick came to Almond in 1821 from RI after a short time in Chenango Co.,NY. Not sure the connection or if there is a connection there??

Birth:
born between 1775 and 1780 His wife is born between 1780 and 1784. 1880 census of his son Alvin shows that his parents are born in NY

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/221668997/justus-stewart

Justus married Sarah about 1805. Sarah was born about 1784 in New York; died after 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Justus married Honor before 1848. Honor was born about 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
born between 1774 and 1784

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200137308/asa_spaulding-burdick

Asa married Huldah Emaline Witter on 30 Dec 1847. Huldah (daughter of Clark Lawrence Witter and Polly Anna Green) was born on 29 Apr 1827 in Belmont, Allegany County, New York; died on 30 Apr 1864 in Yorks Corners, Allegany County, New York; was buried in Stannards Cemetery, Wellsville, Allegany County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Asa married Mary Towner on 24 Aug 1870 in Honeoye, Potter County, Pennsylvania. Mary was born on 12 Apr 1824 in Rome, Bradford County, Pennsylvania; died on 27 Apr 1907 in Bolivar, Allegany County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Job married Polly Ann Kenyon on 05 Feb 1820. Polly was born est 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Moved to Berlin in 1811, then Alfred in 1815 and Wisconsin in 1841.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Seventh-Day Baptist

Notes:

He came with his parents to Alfred in 1815, and went toWisconsin in 1842.

Ammitted 13 Jul 1826 - Alfred, New York.
Dismissed to Wisconsin 1842.

Burdick Genealogy gives his birth place as Petersburg, NY,
the 1880 census says he was born in Rhode Island,
his obituaries say he was born Stonongton, CT.

"Milton Junction Journal-Telephone", Milton, Wisconsin, 3 Apr1890, p 5.
Died at Milton, Wis., March 30, 1890, George Stillman Burdickaged 88 years 1 month and 19 days. The deceased was born inStonington, R. I. and married Miss Diana Macomber, July 13th,1826. Nearly 14 years ago they celebrated their golden weddingin the home where they have since resided, and where wereassembled a large circle of relatives and friends. The deceasedand his surviving companion came to Wisconsin in 1842 andsettled on a farm in the township of Lima. They united byletter with the S. D. B. church of Milton Dec. 5th, 1850. Theyhave four children, all of whom are still living in Milton. Thedeceased was an esteemed member of the church and community,leading a life beyond reproach, an example to all, of honesty,sincerety and Christian integrity. Uncle George, as he wasfamiliarly called, was a great favorite with all, a thoughtfulstudent of the Word of God, and died in the triumph of theChristian faith. The funeral services were held on Tuesday,April 1st., in the church of which he was a member, conducted bythe pastor. Sermon, Phil. 1:21, "For me to live in Christ, andto die is gain."

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 46, No 15, p 240, April 10, 1890.
Obituary on file

George married Diana Macomber on 13 Jul 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Billings married Mary Cottrell on 26 Jan 1812. Mary was born on 25 Dec 1791 in Rhode Island; died on 13 Oct 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah Clark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pheobe married Hazard Perry Clarke on 10 Apr 1807. Hazard (son of Stephen Clarke and Susanna Potter) was born on 9 Dec 1784 in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island; died on 25 Dec 1863 in Independence, Allegany County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Records from "First Alfred Seventh Day Baptist Church" Membership
Records.

Family/Spouse: Olive Burdick. Olive (daughter of Amos Burdick and Catherine Barber) was born about 1799 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York; died in Townsend Twp, Sandusky County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua married Avis Satterlee about 1815. Avis (daughter of Reverand William Satterlee and Mehitable Moon) was born on 11 Nov 1794 in Rhode Island; died on 28 Aug 1846 in Berlin, Rensselaer County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Julia A. about 1830. Julia was born about 1810 in Rensselaer County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

HON. WILLIAM C. WHITFORD, President of Milton College, of Milton, Wis., and a leader in the cause of education in this state, was born in the town of West Edmeston, Otsego Co., N.Y., May 5, 1828, and is a son of Capt. Samuel and Sophia (CLARKE) WHITFORD. His father and mother were descended from English ancestors who settled in Rhode Island early in the seventeenth century. The father was born in the town of Brookfield, Madison Co., N.Y., Aug. 28, 1797, was a farmer by occupation and also raised and dealt in cattle and sheep for market. David WHITFORD, the grandfather of our subject, died when his son Samuel was but sixteen years of age, leaving a family of eleven children, all of whom except one sister were younger than himself. Two of that number were cripples from their birth and all he assisted until of mature years. He carried on the small farm left by the father and added to the income of the family by the manufacture of potash. For fourteen years he devoted his earnings to the support of his mother, brothers and sisters. Oct. 26, 1826, he married Miss Sophia CLARKE, who was born in Plainfield, Otsego Co., N.Y., Feb. 6, 1802. Mrs. WHITFORD was related to the several families of CLARKEs that originated in Rhode Island, members of which have occupied important positions in that State. She was the eldest of eight children, and lost her father at an early age, when after reaching her majority, she aided her mother several years in supporting the younger children of the family. Mr. and Mrs. WHITFORD, the parents of our subject, first made their home in West Edmeston, and later at Plainfield, Otsego Co., N.Y. The husband possessed great physical strength and endurance, sound judgment and superior moral and religious character, and in later years became a man of considerable influence, holding various positions of honor and trust in both civil and military life. His death occurred Sept. 21, 1848, his good wife surviving him until July 14, 1888, her death occurring at the old homestead.

William C. WHITFORD, our subject, was the eldest of four children, all sons; Hamilton Joseph, the second, who for many years owned the homestead and cared for his mother after the death of his father in 1848, until her death, is now residing in Plainfield, N.Y., and is engaged in farming; Albert, the third son, since his graduation at Union College, Schenectady, New York, has been engaged in teaching, having served as principal of De Ruyter Institute, and as professor in Alfred University, both in the State of New York. He was also a professor of Milton College, Wis., and during the service of his brother William as Superintendent of Public Instruction of this State, served as President of the College. He is now the professor of mathematics in that institution. The youngest son, Herbert David, was a soldier during the most of the Civil war, having enlisted in a Wisconsin Regiment. He was in several of the principal engagements of the southwest. He has served four years in the regular service, and now resides at Leavenworth, Kansas. The subject of this sketch passed his early life on his father's farm where he developed a strong constitution and laid the foundation for that mental and physical strength and vigor, and capacity for endurance, that has since characterized his life. He attended the district or select schools in winter and worked on the farm during the other seasons of the year. At the age of twelve years he developed an extraordinary fondness for reading, and for the ensuing five years applied himself assiduously to the perusal of all works of travel, history, biography and works of a didactic nature, that came within his reach. Finding farm work ill suited to his taste, he resolved to make preparations for some literary or professional calling, and accordingly at the age of sixteen years he entered Brookfield Academy, near his home, where he was a student for nearly three years. When nearly of age, he entered De Ruyter Institute in New York, where he prepared himself to enter the Senior Class of Union College, from which he graduated in 1853. He began teaching at the age of sixteen years and taught his way through both Brookfield Academy and De Ruyter Institute. While a student at the Institute he had charge during nearly every term, of classes in penmanship, elocution, Latin and rhetoric. After graduating at Union College, he entered Union Theological Seminary of New York City, where he took a three years' course of study, graduating in 1856, and was ordained a minister of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at New Market, N.Y., in April of that year. He immediately accepted the position of pastor of the church of his faith at Milton, Wis., and held that charge for two years, when he assumed the charge of Milton Academy, in the summer of 1858, and has continued to serve as president of that institution and of Milton College, which is an outgrowth of the academy, until the present time, covering a period of thirty-one years. During five years of this time his connection with the college was only nominal, as he was granted a leave of absence to serve as Superintendent of Public Instruction for Wisconsin, to which office he was elected in the fall of 1877. Under his administration, Milton Academy enjoyed healthy development and rapidly acquired great vigor and popularity. During the late Civil War, the spirit of patriotism led to the enlistment in the military service of the country of 311 of its students, many of whom were aided by Mr. WHITFORD in securing good positions in various regiments in the State. For nine years, the school as an academy was under his charge, and in 1867, largely through his efforts, was converted into a college. Mr. WHITFORD has not only served as president of the college all these years, but has also been the head of its Board of Trustees. Under his administration old debts have been cancelled, additional rooms and other accommodations furnished and quite a large endowment fund secured. In the denomination to which President WHITFORD belongs, he has filled influential positions, among which is the presidency of its Conferences in this county, which he has twice held. He also served more than four years after 1872 in an important agency for raising a Memorial Fund of that people, visiting in that time most of the churches of the Seventh Day Baptists in the United States. From 1865 until 1882, with the exception of intervals amounting to three years, he served as a member of the State Board of Normal Regents, and for a while was an ex-officio Regent of the University of Wisconsin. In 1867, he was elected a member of the Wisconsin Legislature, and served one term; in 1877, was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin, was re-elected to that position in 1879, and served in all four years, proving a very competent and popular officer. He was during that time editor of the Wisconsin Journal of Education - a monthly. He is now corresponding secretary of the Seventh Day Baptist Education Society, and one of the corresponding editors of the Sabbath Recorder of Alfred Center, N.Y., also has been editor of the Quarterly, published by that denomination. Since residing in Milton he has been Superintendent of the Sabbath School of his church for fifteen years. Mr. WHITFORD has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Elmina E. COON, a graduate of De Ruyter Institute, N.Y., to whom he was married at that place Oct. 19, 1850. She was a most amiable and accomplished woman, who had fitted herself for teaching and a missionary life. Her death occurred within six months after her marriage, from quick consumption. Mrs. WHITFORD was a daughter of Clarke and Betsey COON and was born in Lincklaen, Chenango Co., N.Y. Mr. WHITFORD's second marriage was celebrated at Shiloh, N.Y., March 23, 1852, when Miss Ruth HEMPHILL became his wife. She was born in Deerfield, Oneida Co., N.Y., June 15, 1829, and is a graduate of Alfred University of the class of 1848. At the time of her marriage, she was engaged as a teacher in the academy at Shiloh, where Mr. WHITFORD was also employed some two years as principal during his early life. Mrs. WHITFORD began teaching in Allegany County, N.Y., when but fourteen years of age. She also taught a select school at Adams Center, Jefferson Co., N.Y., was preceptress of an academy at Shiloh, N.J. for two years, and had charge of the Seminary at New Market in the same State for three years. Since coming to Milton she has taught at intervals in the college for twenty-five years or more. Mrs. WHITFORD is a woman of superior culture and possesses a moral and religious nature most highly trained. Four children have been born of their union, only one of whom is yet living. Minnie, the eldest, died at the age of five years; William died when sixteen months old; Freddie, the third child, lived to the age of twelve years; Milton, the youngest, who was born at Milton, Wis., Sept. 17, 1866, is now employed in the mercantile business in his native village. The parents have an adopted daughter, Elizabeth A. STEER, now residing with them, who was born July 22, 1859, in the town of Cavan, Ontario. Mr. WHITFORD has been prominently identified with the educational interests of the State. While serving as a member of the Board of Normal Regents, which position he filled for nine years, he usually acted on the committees for examination of graduating classes and for conducting Teachers' Institutes in the State. He was twice elected as visitor to the State University and has frequently been called upon to lecture before teachers associations and lyceums. During the Centennial year of our country, he prepared at the request of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, a work containing a succinct history of education in Wisconsin, a most thorough and exhausted one, the result of much research on his part. This, with other contributions from the State, was on exhibition at Philadelphia. During his service as Superintendent of Public Instruction, he devoted much attention to such measures as would improve and elevate the standing of the country or upgraded schools, and delivered many addresses in various parts of the State on educational subjects. In his religious opinions and practices, Mr. WHITFORD is devoid of all cant or bigotry, while his convictions in respect to the doctrines and precepts of Christianity are firm and ardent. Among the thousands of young men and women who have been under his instructions, there is probably no one who does not cherish sentiments of respect and esteem for him, or who has not been benefited and influenced in moral and religious character by his teachings. He is endowed with a powerful physical and mental organization, which has been trained to habits of ceaseless activity; and while he does an immense amount of work, he never tires or shows signs of fatigue. He is exceedingly fond of public speaking; and with a full choice, earnest manner, a practical view of the subjects discussed and ready action of mind, he attracts and holds his audiences. From his early boyhood to the present, the subject of education has been the all-absorbing idea of his life, and he has the pleasure of knowing that thousands of young men and women have risen to a higher plain of intelligence and culture through his well-directed efforts.
Taken from "The Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock County, Wis." (c)1889, pp. 875-877.

Samuel married Sophia Clarke on 26 Oct 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phebe married Schuyler Greenman about 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Emeline Watson. Emeline was born est 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jesse Saunders Whitford. Jesse (son of Jesse Whitford and Ruhama Greenman) was born about 1796 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ancestry of Silas Richard Burdick not confirmed!

Family/Spouse: Laura H. Cook. Laura was born in 1808 in Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Harriet Gill. Harriet was born about 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Nile, N. Y., Oct. 4th, 1871, Clark Witter, in the 84th year of his age.
Bro. Witter became hopefully converted in early manhood, and united with the 1st Alfred Church, Allegany Co., N. Y. After a residence of some years within the bounds of this church, he removed to the town of Willing in the same county, where a little band of Sabbath-keepers were organized into a church. In this connection he remained until the church ceased to exist as a church. He then sought and found a home in the Friendship Seventh-day Baptist Church, where he remained a faithful member until removed by death.
The general testimony as to his Christian character is that he was truly an epistle known and read by all who were privileged to associate with him. A widow and several children still live to bear witness to his amiable and Christian character. In his case was exemplified the saying, "that a good man obtained favor of the Lord."
(The Sabbath Recorder, Vol 27, No 43, p 171, Oct. 19, 1871)

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97345636/clark_lawrence-witter

Family/Spouse: Polly Anna Green. Polly (daughter of Judge Edward Green and Huldah Sweet) was born on 10 May 1791 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York; died on 29 Jan 1849 in Scio, Allegany County, New York; was buried in Stannards Cemetery, Wellsville, Allegany County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Squire married Mary Ann Bowler on 10 Apr 1828 in Brookfield, Madison County, New York. Mary was born on 29 Dec 1809 in Charlestown, Kings County, Rhode Island; died on 22 Apr 1902 in Alfred, Allegany County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]