Early History of the Rochester Family in America: With Charts of the Family and Its Connections from 1640 to 1882 |
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acres Ann Cornelia Rochester Ann Rochester Born April 26 Artemisha Backus Born Born June Born September 18 Bragg Born Colman Born July Cople Parish Dansville Died April Died August Died January Died July Died March Died September EARLY HISTORY Edward Colman February 28 Granville County Hagerstown Hart Rochester Born Henry Elie Rochester Hillsboro John Cornelius Rochester John Jenkins John Rochester July 28 June 26 land Louisa Lucinda Rochester Lyell's store Mary Eleanor Rochester Montgomery Born April Montgomery Born December Montgomery Born July Montgomery Born November Nathaniel Rochester Born Nathaniel Thrift Rochester Nicholas Rochester October 23 Ontario County purchased Richmond County Rochester Born April Rochester Born February Rochester Born January Rochester Born July Rochester Born March Rochester Born November Rochester Born October Rochester Born September ROCHESTER FAMILY Rochester Macy Born Samuel Morse September 23 Sophia Eliza Rochester Sophia Rochester Thomas Critcher Thomas Hart Rochester Vail Born Virginia Westmoreland County William Beatty Rochester
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Page 9 - Rochester was distinguished in private intercourse, as well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled, was the fruit of the application of a vigorous and clear mind, in the intervals of leisure afforded by a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude. At the age of twenty he commenced his mercantile career, in company with Col. John Hamilton, who afterwards held the Consulate for the British...
Page 14 - ... and whenever he should think fit ; and to convene and call before him, or his deputy or deputies, at such certain places, and at such convenient times, as he or they should appoint, all manner of persons that did, or pretended to bear arms, or were styled esquires or gentlemen...
Page 11 - Genesee country," where he had previously bought 640 acres, and in September of that year he made large purchases of land in Livingston county, NY, near Dans ville, in connection with Maj. Charles Carroll, Col. William Fitzhugh, and Col. Hilton. In 1802 he purchased, jointly with Carroll and Fitzhugh, the " 100-acre or Allan Mill tract...
Page 9 - To promote the revolutionary spirit among the people, procure arms and ammunition, make collections ï for the people of Boston, whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet, and to prevent the sale and use of East India teas.
Page 9 - ... early deficiencies. In 1768 he became a clerk in Hillsboro,NC,and in 1773 entered into partnership with his employer. In 1775 he was appointed a member of the committee of safety for Orange county, and in August, 1775, he attended, as a member, the first provincial convention in North Carolina, and was made paymaster, with the rank of major, of the North Carolina line, consisting of four regiments. On the reassembling of the convention in May, 1776, the provincial force was increased to ten regiments,...
Page 14 - Arms, authorising and commanding each of them, either personally or by deputy, to visit the whole of his province as often as he should think fit, to convene before him all manner of persons who pretended to the use of arms, or were styled esquires and gentlemen, and to cause those thus summoned to show by what authority they claimed the distinction. In furtherance of their arduous and...
Page 8 - 100 acres of land in Copie Parish, adjoining the land of his father, John Rochester (first), which was at that time owned by his mother, Mrs. Critcher (it being her dower-right at his father's death). On the 28th day of September, 1773, he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land on which he was born, " it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived, and his wife's dower from her late husband, John Rochester, deceased.
Page 6 - The old homestead, which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house in Westmoreland County, still stands in excellent condition (July 1882) and bears in the chimney corner the legend "WR 1746" cut in a broad brick near the coping stone.
Page 11 - In January, 1817, he was secretary of the important convention at Canandaigua which urged the construction of the Frie Canal.
Page 5 - or a fesse between three crescents sa," was confirmed or allowed to the family.