PIXLEY, JON A Great Barrington, Berkshire County. [1]

Transcription

1 PIXLEY, JON A Great Barrington, Berkshire County. [1] JONATHAN PIXLEY, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Phelps) Pixley, was born on 20 July 1744 in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, [2] probably in the part set off as Great Barrington in He died on 27 October 1826 at age 86 and was buried in the Water Street Cemetery in Great Barrington. [3] He married on 2 March 1774 [4] MABEL FOWLER, who was born in Guilford, Connecticut, 15 May 1754, daughter of Phineas and Esther (Benton) Fowler. [5] She died in Great Barrington on 2 March 1843 aged 89 and was buried with Jonathan. [6] On 5 April 1770 Jonathan s father sold him for 40 the north half of lot #1 in the East Division called Housatunik Propriety in Great Barrington, and on 19 November 1772 Mercy Pixley of Great Barrington, widow, sold him the south half of the same lot. [7] During the Revolution Jonathan entered service as a private on 8 July 1777 in Capt. Hewit Root s company, Col. John Ashley s Berkshire County regiment, to reinforce Fort Edward, New York, and he served again for 25 days from 19 September 1777 in the Northern department under Capt. Silas Goodrich and Col. Ashley. [8] In 1800 at Great Barrington, Jonathan had two males under 10 [Phineas and Lebbeus], two [Jacob and Benton], himself over 45, two females under 10 [Lucia and?], one [Electa], and one over 45. [9] U.S. Census, Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass., roll 4, p Joseph M. Kellogg, Early Vital Records of Sheffield, Mass., typescript (Lawrence, Kans., no date), R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, NEHGS, database online at AmericanAncestors.org, 13 (birth and marriage of parents, Jonathan and Elizabeth Phelps, both of Upper Housatonic, 14 April 1736). Upper Housatonic is an early name for Great Barrington. 3 Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, online at AmericanAncestors.org; photograph of the gravestone online at findagrave.com. 4 William R. McCallum, Genealogy of the Pixley Family in America since 1663, bound typescript (Silver Spring, Md., 1978), Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, from Guilford Vital Records, 2:94 (birth); 2:66 (parents marriage); Alvan Talcott, Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, Jacquelyn L Ricker, ed. (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984), 459, Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections; photograph of the gravestone online at findagrave.com. Vital Records of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1904), 80, has the death of Mrs. Pixley in June 1843 age 30. The age, 30, is clear in the original, but the month does not appear on her line (Great Barrington vital records in Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, at Ancestry.com). 7 Berkshire County Deeds, Middle District, 8:140; 10:218, Mercy s relationship not yet established. 8 Massachusetts Secretary of State, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, 17 vols. (Boston: Wright and Potter, ), 12: U.S. Census, Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass., roll 13, p. 107.

2 2 Children of Jonathan and Mabel (Fowler) Pixley, probably all born at Great Barrington, the first four baptized there on 18 Sept. 1791: [10] i. JACOB PIXLEY, b. ca. 11 Aug. 1779; d. Great Barrington 21 Dec aged 78 years 4 months 10 days; [11] m. in 1816 ANNA (WINCHELL) PIXLEY, widow of Silas Pixley, [12] who d. Great Barrington in June [13] Jacob was at Great Barrington from 1820 through [14] ii. BENTON PIXLEY b. 20 July 1783; said to have d. Independence, Mo. (where he had moved in 1831), 11 April 1835; [15] m., probably in Williamstown, Orange Co., Vt., [16] perhaps 27 Aug LUCIA F. HOWELL, [17] b. ca [18] He was ordained at the Congregational Church in Williamstown on 3 Jan and dismissed in Feb [19] He appears there in the 1820 census with apparently a wife and two daughters. [20] A graduate of Middlebury College in 1811, he was a missionary to the Osage Indians. [21] Benton was of Jackson Co., Mo., when he acquired land there in [22] In 1850 at Blue, Jackson Co., Mo., Lucia was 61, with several children, one born in 10 McCallum, Pixley Family, 18, lists them with approximate birth dates, but includes Edmund who was actually a grandson of William and Lucy (Alexander) Pixley. (See a separate sketch for them). Edmund d. at Great Barrington 1 May 1857 aged 60 years 11 months 15 days, called son of Alexander and Abigail Pixley (Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 111:45.) The baptisms are from The Remarkable Records of Rev. Gideon Bostwick, , Great Barrington, Massachusetts, transcribed by Arthur C. M. Kelly (Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Kinship, 1988), Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 111:46, cancer, widower, farmer, parents named. 12 Newton H. Winchell and Alexander N. Winchell, The Winchell Genealogy (Minneapolis, Minn.: Horace V. Winchell, 1917), 460, 463. See the sketch for William and Lucy (Alexander) Pixley. 13 Vital Records of Great Barrington, 80, no name, only called wife of Jacob, from church records U.S. Census, Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, roll 48, p. 156; 1830, roll 62, p. 357; 1840, roll 176, p. 289; 1850, roll 306, p William W. Graves, The First Protestant Osage Missions, (FHL microfiche 6,048,977), 243; W. W. Graves, History of Neosho County, Kansas, 2 vols. (St. Paul, Kans.: Journal Press, 1949), 1:63. This work has extensive detail on Benton s mission. However, entries on WorldConnect at Rootsweb.com and at familytreemaker.genealogy.com (both unsourced) say he died at Dayton, Camp Branch Township, Cass Co., Missouri on 28 September A child, Harriet Newel Pixley, daughter of Benton and Lucia, was born at Williamstown 14 Sept (image online in Vermont Vital Records, at FamilySearch.org) 17 Unsourced data at WorldConnect on Rootsweb.com and familytreemaker.genealogy.com census (see below), which perhaps says she was born in Va. but was probably married in New England; perhaps a sister of Mary J. Howell who married Lebbeus (see below). 19 Abby Maria Hemenway, Vermont Historical Gazeteer, 7 vol., CD-ROM (Boston: NEHGS, 2003), II:1144; Graves, First Protestant Osage Missions, U.S. Census, Williamstown, Orange County, Vermont, roll 127, p Caledonian, St. Johnsbury, Vt., 9 May 1862, p. 1, in a reprint from The Rutland Herald, a biography of Carlos Coolidge identifying classmates at Middlebury. 22 Ancestry.com, U.S. General Land Office Records, , database online (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008), original data from United States, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes, (Springfield, Va.: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007), online at Ancestry.com.

3 3 Indian Territory, and the youngest, surely a grandchild, named Benton P. Pixley, age 9 months. [23] iii. ELECTA PIXLEY, b. ca. 1788; d. Great Barrington, 29 Sept aged 31; [24] bur. Water Street Cemetery, Great Barrington. [25] iv. PHINEAS PIXLEY, b. 9 April 1790; [26] d. Unionville, Ohio, 28 July 1882 aged 92; [27] buried Middle Ridge Cemetery, Madison Twp, Lake Co., Ohio; [28] m. (1) Stockbridge, Mass., 2 Sept. 1814, HANNAH CURTIS, [29] b. ca. 1796; d. Stockbridge, Mass., 5 April 1817 in her 21st or 23rd year; [30] bur. Stockbridge Cemetery very near her father; [31] She was the daughter of Samuel and Betsy (Garnsey) Curtis. [32] Phineas was of Stockbridge when he m. (2) Lenox, Mass., 1 Feb. 1819, ALICE RICHMOND of Lenox, [33] b. Washington, Mass., 8 Oct. 1792, daughter of Elkanah and Polly (Stevens) Richmond, [34] d. 18 Oct aged 83; buried with her husband. [35] U.S. Census, Blue, Jackson Co., Mo., roll 402, p. 317A. 24 Vital Records of Great Barrington, Photograph of the gravestone online at findagrave.com, which says died 30 Sept., aged Photograph of the gravestone online at findagrave.com. 27 Phineas Pixley obituary, clipping from unidentified newspaper, Archives & Genealogy Dept., Ashtabula County District Library, Geneva, Ohio, copy in possession of the author. This lists four children, Electa M., Wm. H., Edwin, and Mary C. Unionville is an unincorporated community on the line between northwestern Harpersfield Township in Ashtabula County and eastern Madison Township in Lake County (Wikipedia). 28 Photograph of the gravestone online at findagrave.com; author s visit in July Stockbridge Vital Records, p. 158, image online at Ancestry.com in the database titled Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, , 474, marriage of Phineas Pixley and Hannah Curtis (daughter of Samuel Curtis) both of this town. 30 Index to Stockbridge Vital Records, image online at Ancestry.com in the database titled Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, , daughter of Samuel, the date 5 April and age 21 from town records and 15 April and age 23 from church records, the latter mistaken as to the day; Index of Deaths in Massachusetts Centinel and Columbian Centinel, (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society) in Columbian Centinel, 16 April 1817; Berkshire Star, Thurs. 10 April 1817, p. 3, In this town on Saturday last, Mrs. Hannah Pixley, consort of Mr. Phineas Pixley, online at GenealogyBank.com. 31 Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, online at AmericanAncestors.org; author s visit in October 2008; photograph of three headstones, taken by this author, online at findagrave.com. 32 Harlow Dunham Curtis, A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis Family of Stratford, Conecticut, a Supplement to the 1903 Edition (Stratford, Conn: Curtiss-Curtis Society, 1939), 56. The will of Solomon Guarnsey of Ballston, Saratoga County, New York, named his daughter, Betsey, the wife of Samuel Curtis (Saratoga County Probate, Wills, 1:168 70), and a related paper said she was living at Stockbridge (Abstracts of Wills, Admins. and Guardianships in NY State, , database online at AmericanAncestors.org, the probate of Solomon Garnsey which names daughter Betsey [no surname] living at Stockbridge, wife of Samuel Curtis). 33 Vital Records of Lenox, 376, image online in Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, at Ancestry.com. 34 Joshua Bailey Richmond, The Richmond Family (Boston: the author 1897), 127, 369; her birthdate also from her gravestone; Oliver W. Osborne, Manuscript of Farm Owners & Descendants of Families on East Street, Lenox, Mass, transcribed by R. C. Rockwell (FHL 0,250,260), 16n-17n; McCallum, Pixley Family, Photograph of her gravestone online at findagrave.com.

4 4 Phineas was a blacksmith. [36] He served in Chamberlin s regiment of Massachusetts militia during the War of [37] He was a delegate from Ohio to the national convention of the Abolitionist Party in [38] They were at Stockbridge in 1820 and in Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, from 1830 to 1870, with the exception of [39] He received land grants in Wisconsin of 40 acres in 1849 and 120 in 1858, [40] so he evidently relocated for a time. But he returned to Geneva by [41] He was on a list of pensioners, his residence Unionville, Lake Co., Ohio, in [42] v. JONATHAN PIXLEY, bp. 23 Feb. 1792; [43] bur. 23 [44] or 24 Feb [45] vi. LUCIA PIXLEY, b. ca. 6 Sept. 1794; d. Great Barrington, 2 April 1878 age 83 years 6 months 27 days; [46] buried in Water Street Cemetery. [47] vii. LEBBEUS M. PIXLEY, b. ca. 12 Dec. 1796; [48] bp. Great Barrington, 9 March 1797; [49] d. Great Barrington 7 Aug aged 85 years 7 months 26 days; [50] He m. MARY J. HOWELL, b. Sunderland, Vt., ca. 23 Aug. 1800, daughter of 36 Phineas Pixley obituary. 37 War of 1812 Service Records, indexed as Phinehas (Direct Data Capture, comp., War of 1812 Service Records, database online (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999), original data: National Archives and Records Administration, Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration); War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, , roll 75 (Pid-Por), image 418, online at Ancestry.com. 38 New York Herald, 6 May 1856, p. 2, viewed at 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, database online via AmericanAncestors.org U.S. Census, Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, roll 48, p. 130; 1830 U.S. Census, Geneva, Ashtabula County, Ohio, roll 126, p. 163 (P. Pixley); 1840, roll 376, p. 272; 1860, roll 933, p. 325 (P. Pixley); 1870, roll 1170, p United States, Bureau of Land Management, Wisconsin Land Records, database online (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997), original data from United States, Bureau of Land Management, Wisconsin Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat Index, General Land Office Automated Records Project; Ancestry.com, U.S. General Land Office Records, , database online (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008), original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes, (Springfield, Va.: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007) U.S. Census, Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, roll 933, p. 325, recorded as P. Pixley. 42 List of pensioners on the roll January 1, 1883, Volume III, , Serial Set Vol. No. 2080; S. Exec., Doc. 84, part 3, online at GenealogyBank.com. 43 Remarkable Records of Rev. Gideon Bostwick, Great Barrington Vital Records, 130, image online in Massachusetts Town Vital Collections, , at Ancestry.com. 45 Vital Records of Great Barrington, 80; Remarkable Records of Rev. Gideon Bostwick, Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 301: Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, online at AmericanAncestors.org; photograph of the gravestone online at findagrave.com. 48 Calculated from his age at death. 49 Father Nash's Record of Baptisms, Central New York, , Register 115 (1961):14, which says Lebbeus was born in June Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 337:34.

5 5 John and Mary ( ) Howell; d. Great Barrington 16 Nov aged 72 years 2 months 24 days. [51] Both were bur. in Water Street Cemetery. [52] John T. Miller, Jr., Rising Sun, MD, jmiller8@zoominternet.net April 2012 INDEX Alexander Lucy, 2 Ashley John, 1 Benton Esther, 1 Bostwick Gideon, 2, 4 Chamberlin Col., 4 Connecticut Guilford, 1 Coolidge Carlos, 2 Curtis Betsy (Garnsey), 3 Hannah, 3 Harlow Dunham, 3 Samuel, 3 Fowler Esther (Benton), 1 Mabel, 1 Phineas, 1 Garnsey Betsy, 3 Solomon, 3 Goodrich Silas, 1 Graves William W., 2 Hemenway Abby Maria, 2 Howell John, 4 Mary (--), 4 Mary J., 2, 4 Kellogg Joseph M., 1 Kelly Arthur C. M., 2 Massachusetts Berkshire County, 1 Great Barrington, 1 4 Lenox, 3 Sheffield, 1 Stockbridge, 3 4 Upper Housatonic, 1 Washington, 3 McCallum William R., 1, 3 Missouri Blue, 2 Camp Branch, 2 Cass Co., 2 Dayton, 2 Independence, 2 Jackson Co., 2 Nash Father, 4 New York Fort Edward, 1 Ohio Ashtabula Co., 3 4 Geneva, 4 Harpersfield, 3 Lake Co., 3 4 Madison, 3 Unionville, 3 4 Osborne Oliver W., 3 Phelps Elizabeth, 1 Pixley Abigail (--), 2 Alexander, 2 Alice (Richmond), 3 Anna (Winchell), 2 Anna (Winchell) (Pixley), 2 Benton, 1 2 Benton P., 3 Edmund, 2 Edwin, 3 Electa, 1, 3 Electa M., 3 Elizabeth (Phelps), 1 Hannah (Curtis), 3 Harriet Newel, 2 Jacob, 1 2 Pixley (cont.) Jonathan, 1, 4 Lebbeus, 1 2, 4 Lucia, 1, 4 Lucy (Alexander), 2 Mabel (Fowler), 1 Mary C., 3 Mary J. (Howell), 4 Mercy (--), 1 Phineas, 1, 3 4 Silas, 2 William, 2 William H., 3 Richmond Alice, 3 Elkanah, 3 Joshua Bailey, 3 Polly (Stevens), 3 51 Massachusetts Vital Records from 1841, 247:38, typhoid fever. 52 Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, online at AmericanAncestors.org, her maiden name listed on the gravestone; photograph of the gravestone online at findagrave.com.

6 Index Ricker Jacquelyn L., 1 Rockwell R. C., 3 Root Hewit, 1 Stevens Polly, 3 Talcott Alvan, 1 Vermont Orange Co., 2 Sunderland, 4 Williamstown, 2 Winchell Alexander N., 2 Anna, 2 Horace V., 2 Newton H., 2 6