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The
Southard family of Long Island
Descendants
of Thomas Southard
Parts of the following
as well as parts of the Southard File came from two Rootsweb
sites. One with information submitted by Doris Wheeler Doris other websites are
www.doriswheeler.org and http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com. She has a
great deal of Southard information in both places. In addition she
manages the
Southard DNA Project at www.familytreedna.com/southworth-southard. Other information was
submitted by Gretchen Heller
as
well
Southard researcher was pointed out by Brenda Southard Keenan a Southard
researcher and a descendant of Thomas Southard, is http://www.my-ged.com/iles/ by Dwight D. Iles.
NOTE of interest
from
Brenda Southard Keenan: My father and I researched,
using the North Carolina Archives Library, here in Raleigh, NC, the
line of Henry Jr. We have seen and held, Henry Jr.'s original
will, as well as marriage and land records for many of these
people. Since we put most of this together, and made the contacts
on the Internet to provide the rest, I feel like I can share this
information. Henry and Phebe moved to North Carolina with their
son Isaac, and his family, in March of 1767. Their son,
Henry, Jr., moved further into New Jersey about that same time for
several years, and then, with a new second wife, moved to North
Carolina also, probably between 1781 and 1785. Henry Jr. is my
ancestor.
I don't know if I
told you the reason I searched you out in the first place. I made
a trip with my family for a few days vacation to New York in
June. We had heard
rumors that the Thomas Southard House was still standing on Long
Island, so
before we left, I did the Internet research to find it. Not only
did
I find it on the Internet, but I found the house on Long Island.
I
promised the 81 year old wife of the now deceased Southard descendant,
who lives in the house, I wouldn't post on the Internet where on Long
Island
it is, but if you are interested, the story can be found on the Township
of
Hempstead's
Web Site.
Thomas
probably
came on a Dutch ship directly from Holland to New
Amsterdam (later New York City) around the1640's. Appears to have been
working as a farm hand for his future father-in-law Anthony Jansen, who
was a rather well-to-do farmer of Gravesend. After their marriage he
bought a farm of 200 acres
ajoining his father-in-laws. Both Anthony and Thomas were of a
disagreeable
sort and soon started quarreling and ended up in court in 1653. After
loosing
the court case, Thomas sold his farm and bought a new farm 20
miles
away in Hempstead on 8 Dec. 1655. Eventually he owned about 214
acres
of land at this location.
"Southard or Southart,
Thomas, of Gd [Gravesend], (sup.) English, m. Annica da. of Anthony
Jansen from
Salee. Bought Dec. 20, 1650, of Thomas Applegate the one half of the
lot
Applegate bought of Randell Hunt, as per Gd. rec. Owned plantation-lot
No.
11 in Gd in 1653. He quarrelled with his father-in-law Anthony Jansen
about
the ownership of cattle, on which Anthony was imprisoned by the local
court
of Gd, but released by the higher one of the colony, as per p. 136 of
Calendar
of Dutch Man. He appears to have removed to Hempstead, where he
resided
in 1670, having sons Thomas Junr and John, whose descendants reside in
that
locality. He was also probably the ancestor of the Southards of
N.J....
" See Samuel, son of Thomas, Jr. for more info.
From a
Family Group Sheet in LDS online site: "It was fortunate for me that
Jane
and Jim were still in New Jersey when I found I had yet another family
of
that state to be researched. Jacob Falkenburg, grandson of the
first
Henry Jacob Falkenburg, married a Phoebe Southard. Jane and Jim
found
this researched by Ralph Potter at the New Jersey Historical Society in
Newark.
The first American Southards were not of which we can be proud.
Let
us hope that their unlovable characteristics were diluted through the
years by other more gentle traits given to us by other ancestors.
"Thomas
Southard was the first of this family in America. He was probably of a
family
of English dissenters who went first to Holland -- as he was born there
about
1615, possibly in Leyden. He settled at Gravesend, Long Island
and
went to work for a farmer named Anthony Jansen. Anthony was of a
somewhat
higher station in life and a man of property on Long Island. His
father
was Jan Jansen Van Haarlem. As you know, Haarlem is a city in
Holland
and no doubt that district in New York got its name from that Dutch
city.
"Anthony and Grietje Reyniers were married on board the ship that
brought them to
America ca 1631. Annica, the first of their four daughters, was
born
around 1632 in what is now lower Manhattan in New York City. In a
mutually agreeable arrangement Thomas Southard and Annica Jansen were
married. Thomas was probably looking to a dower, and Anthony no doubt
happy to have one of his daughters off his hands. Thomas bought
land of Anthony whereby making
them neighbors. Court records show Anthony to be mean and
quarrelsome, and at odds with the law, with the church pastor and his
wife, and finally with Thomas who was no less contentious. When
it became apparent that things would be no better between the families,
Thomas and Annica moved to Hempstead, Long Island. There they
raised their family of 9 children. They died there, he in
1688. Annica was still living in 1698. Their second son,
John, was our ancestor.
"As the
sons grew to manhood they found it more difficult to live in Hempstead
as
they felt more Dutch than English. "In the years before the Revolution,
feelings ran high between the American rebels and those loyal to the
crown. Their English
neighbors insisted they take sides. To escame this, many
Southards decided
to leave Hempstead, some going up the Hudson River and others going to
Connecticut.
Our John had married Grace Carman who lived on a neighboring
farm.
I believe she was the daughter of either Joseph or Caleb Carman.