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Note for: Dionise Allen, 23 JUN 1623 - 1692
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Place: 14HD-SJX
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Note for: William Havens, 1618 - 25 SEP 1683
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Place: 14HD-SHQ
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Note for: Edward Thurston, 1617 - 1 MAR 1707
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Place: 8HV3-DG
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Note for: Elizabeth Mott, 1628 - 2 SEP 1694
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Place: 8HV3-FM
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Note for: Aaron Woodruff, 1745 - 27 FEB 1793
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Burial: Place: Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Westfield, New Jersey
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Note for: Thomas Terry, 8 APR 1781 - 15 OCT 1846
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Burial: Place: Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Westfield, Nj
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Note for: Hannah Marsh, 29 JAN 1791 - 25 FEB 1879
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Burial: Place: Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Westfield, Nj
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A NEW YEARS POEM - BY HANNAH MARSH TERRY - 1844
(Composed and rited by your great grandmother. Terry in 1844)
(Copied by your grandmother Terry, in January 18th, 1892.)
Happy. New Year. now is com.
Welcome chilren. welcom home
Come. sit. round father's table.
Mother. wait on you while she is able.
Come in William the oldest man.
Nancy is comeing. iff she can.
Where is John he is far away.
Come. in. Sallie. come and stay.
Where is Charlott. she is fled
She is numbered. with the dead.
Here is betsy, come to tell,
Phebe cant come for she is not well.
Here is Thomas. fresh and fair.
Come Frazee and take a chair.
Here. comes. Carman he's a stanger.
Com in Daniel. fear no danger.
Abbygal. Comes singing with a smile.
Here is Hannah. the youngest child.
13 children.
HMARSH
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Note for: Thomas Terry, 11 APR 1746 - 24 APR 1832
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Burial: Place: Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Westfield, New Jersey
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From application for Membership to the NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WASHINGTON, D.C. from Fannie Clark Mitchell,
dated October 8, 1963,
Page 4 of said application ... states ... ANCESTOR'S SERVICES ...
Soldier, Essex County Militia, Westfield Township, originally in
Essex County, New Jersey.
See Gazetteer, page 262
Westfield now in Union County, New Jersey
Union County, New Jersey, was formed from Essex County 1857 (see
History of Union County, New Jersey, Volume 1, Page 199.
The said Thomas Terry is the ancestor who assisted in establishing
American Independence, while acting in the capacity of Soldier.
References given:
Volume page 782 Strykers "Officers and men of New Jersey in the war
of the Revolution."
Passaic Valley Littell's Genealogy, pages 223 and 226
Westfield Church Book, Page 400, 402, 404, 435, 436, 440, 443, 444, 480
and 481.
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Note for: Ann (Nancy) Shaw, 1756 - 30 MAR 1786
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Burial: Place: Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Westfield, New Jersey
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Note for: Thomas Griggs, ABT 1585 - 23 MAY 1646
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1. Ancestors of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles, pp. 474-480
2. Early Griggs Families of Massachusetts, New England Historical and Genealogial Record, Vol . 123, pp. 169-173
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Note for: William Marsh, 24 SEP 1785 - 5 NOV 1850
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Line in Record @@I1199@@ (RIN 1199) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
OCCU At one time: Cashier of Rahway Bank
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Note for: Thomas Gifford Terry, 12 MAY 1845 - 1 DEC 1911
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Burial: Place: Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana
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THE NORTHERN INDIANAN, dated Thursday, December 7, 1911
"DIED AT SOLDIERS HOME. THOMAS G. TERRY, LIFELONG RESIDENT OF KOSCIUSKO
COUNTY, PASSED AWAY AFTER ILLNESS OF ONE DAY."
Word received in Warsaw on Friday announcing the death of Thomas G.
Terry, a former resident of this county, at the Soldiers Home at Marion.
He was the father of Mrs. B. L. Durbin, of south of this city. Mr. and
Mrs. Durbin went to Marion as soon as they heard of the death and
returned to Warsaw with the body on Saturday after the remains were taken
to their home, when the funeral was held. The death was very sudden, Mr.
Terry having been sick only one day. The cause is not known.
The deceased was a resident of Kosciusko County all his life. He
was born on May 12, 1845. He was veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted
in Company A., 57th Illinois Infantry, on November 1, 1861, and was
attached to the Army of the Tennessee for two years, when he was
discharged for promotion to the office of first lieutenant of Company A,
63rd U. S. Colored infantry. He was with this department for two years,
participating in many skirmishes and minor engagements. An incident of
his soldier life occurred on July 4, 1864, when he visited the home of
Jefferson Davis and attended a dance given by the Confederate chieftain.
After his honorable discharge, Mr. Terry returned to Kosciusko County
where he resided until the time of his connection with the Soldier's home
at Marion.
OBITUARY from WARSAW DAILY UNION, dated Saturday, December 2, 1911
"T. G. TERRY FUNERAL"
The funeral of T. G. Terry, who died at Marion, Saturday and whose
body was brought to the home of B. L. Durbin, Saturday, was conducted
from the home Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Rev. G. C. Carpenter,
officiating. Interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
OBITUARY from WARSAW UNION, dated December 14, 1911
Thomas Gifford Terry, son of John and Harriet Terry was born near
__________, on May 12, 1845, died December 1st, 1911, aged 66 years, six
months and 17 days.
He married Anna Waldo of Mendota, Illinois, February 6, 1866. She
died June 28, 1881. They had one daughter Mabel. He married again,
Carrie Dix of Mendota, Illinois, March 13 1884, who died March 19, 1896.
He leaves to mourn one daughter, Mrs. B. L. Durbin, and one
granddaughter, Fanny Durbin, who resides south of this city, a cousin,
Mrs. Hannah Winters of this city and three nieces and two nephews.
Mr. Terry grew to manhood in this county and lived here until the
beginning of the Civil War when he enlisted in Company A, 57th Illinois
Infantry, November 1, 1861, where he served for two years, after which he
was promoted to first lieutenant of Company A. 63rd United States colored
infantry which office he held until the close of the war.
At the close of the war he returned to Kosciusko County, where he
resided until the time of his connection with the Soldiers Home at Marion
about eleven years ago.
BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL RECORD OF KOSCIUSKO, CO., INDIANA, pages 465-466
T. G. Terry, son of John Terry, was born May 12, 1845, and was
educated in the common schools. He has been twice married. His first
wife was Anna Waldo, of Mendota, whom he married February 6, 1866. They
had one child - Mabel. Mrs. Terry died in June 1881. He married his
present wife in March, 1884. November 1, 1861, he enlisted in Company A,
Fifty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and became attached to the Army of the
Tennessee. He continued in this department over two years. He fought at
Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, the battle of
Corinth, following and various others of minor importance. He was
discharged from the Army of the Tennessee, for promotion as First
Lieutenant of Company A. Sixty-third United States Colored Infantry,
which became a part of the Army of the Mississippi. He was with this
department over two years, and participated in numerous skirmishes and
minor engagements -- in an attack of guerrillas at Camp Holly Springs,
near Memphis, Ashwood Landing, in Louisiana and Davis Bend, Mississippi,
the latter place being the former home of the celebrated Confederate
chieftain, Jefferson Davis. On the 4th of July, 1864, Mr. Terry danced
in the house of Mr. Davis. This was considered an interesting incident
of the civil war. He was honorably discharged January 9, 1866. He then
spent a short time in Missouri, and returned to this county, where he has
since resided. he is at present officiating as junior vice-commander of
Kosciusko Post, No. 114, G.A.R., at Warsaw. In politics he affiliates
with the Republican party.
TGTERRY.