SYMMES Part I of 2
Generations marked (1) (2) etc. -- the oldest are (1) –just applies to this page. Most lists I’ve seen only count the male line. In order to do direct decent, this list uses both male and female.
Before the SYMMES shown below:
(12) Herbert Blanchard Leadbeater 1917-1998 (my father)
(11) Helen Muriel Blanchard-Leadbeater 1891-1989 (my grandmother)
(10) Harriett Louise Skinner-Blanchard-Batcheldor-1868-1956 (my great grandmother)
(9) RACHEL A or ANNA R SYMMES 1832 -0 (my 2nd great grandmother)
Spouse & Children
Henry Bates Skinner 1830 – 1892
Children (11) Gurdon Grant Skinner –(11) Marian Skinner)
(10) Harriet L Skinner 1868 – 1956 (see above)
TIMELINE
Birth 1832 Massachusetts
Residence 1850 — Age: 18 Boston Ward 10, Suffolk, Massachusetts
INCLUDES Reny Symmes 52-1798 Sarah Presley 24 - 1826 Moses E Presley DRIVER 28-1822 Joseph E Presley 1-1849 William Symmes CLERK 22-1828 Thomas Symmes CLERK 21-1829 Ann Symmes 18-1832 Joseph P B Symmes 16-1834 Cornelius Reian 15-1835
Marriage to Henry Bates Skinner 1853 16 Aug — Age: 21
Residence 1880 — Age: 48 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
INCLUDES Elias Skinner Head 74-1806 Sarah Skinner Wife 72-1808 Henry Skinner Son 50-1853 Anna Skinner D-in-Law 48-1855 Henry B. Skinner GSon 27-1853 Anna B. Skinner GDaughter 25-1855 Edward L. Skinner GSon 20-1860 Sarah A. Skinner Gdaughter
SOURCES
- 1850 United States Federal Census
- 1880 United States Federal Census
- Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
(8) PEYTON SHORT SYMMES 1793-1861 (my 3rd great grandfather)
(aka Payton)
Spouse & Children
Hannah B Close 0 – 1850
(9) Allen Cleves Symmes 0-0
(9) Daniel Cleves Symmes 0-0
(9) Ethan Allen Symmes 0-0
(9) Harriet Louise Symmes 0 – 1852
(9) William Symmes 1820 – 1820 1 yo Died in Childhood
(9) Mary Susan Symmes 1822 – 0. (1847 m Charles L Colburn)
Children: (10) Charles Colburn –(10) James Lupton Colburn – (10) Mary Giddon Colburn
(9) Elizabeth Symmes 1825 – 0 (abt 1845 m. Langdon H Haven
Children: (10) Ethan Allen Haven – (10) Henry Langdon Haven
(9) Rachel Anna Symmes 1832 – 0 (see above)
(9) Henry Edward Symmes 1835 – 1864
Timeline
CINCINNATTI -- The Musical Fund Society.... It's officers were.....Peyton S Symmes
Residence 1789 -1881 Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Marriage to Hannah B Close 1819 ABT — Age: 26
Residence 1860 — Age: 67 Cincinnati Ward 15, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
also Servants Sarah Lownds 44 England, Tamer Brown 62 England. OCCUPATION: GENTLEMAN
Burial 1861 Cemetery of Spring Grove, Hamilton, Ohio
Source Information
- 1850 United States Federal Census
- 1860 United States Federal Census
- Ancestry Family Trees
- Cincinnati, the Queen City : 1788-1912
- History of Cincinnati, Ohio : with illustrations and biographical sketches / compiled by Henry A. Ford and Kate B. Ford.
- U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
- Web: Ohio, Find A Grave Index, 1787-2012
Biographical Sketch can be found
Name: Peyton Short Symmes
Birth - Death: 1793-1861
Source Citation:
- Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889. (ApCAB)
- The New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564-1860. By George C. Groce and David H. Wallace. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957. (NewYHSD)
(7) Judge TIMOTHY SYMMES 1744 – 1797 (my 4th great grandfather)
Spouses & Children
Abigail Tuthill 1749 – 1776
(8) Celadon Symmes 1770 – 1837 (1794 m Phoebe Fitz Randolph)
Children: Daughter Symmes – William Cleves Symmes – Daniel Tuthill Symmes – John Cleves Symmes
Mercy Harker 1762 – 1795
Spouse & Children
Marianne Lockwood 1785-1864
(9) John Cleves Symmes 1742 – 1814
(9) Louisiana Symmes 1810 – 1853
(9) Americus Vespucius Symmes 1811 – 1878 (my 1st cousin 4x removed)
(9) Harrison Symmes 1813 –
Frances Scott 1826-1860
(9) Florence Symmes 1841 – 1903
(9) Scott Symmes 1843 –
(9) Americus Symmes 1846 –
(9) William Symmes 1848 – 1903
(9) Henry Symmes 1852 –
(9) Lilly Symmes 1855 – 1856
(9) Ida Symmes 1858 –
(8) Elizabeth Symmes 1814 – 1821
(8) Mary Symmes 1785 – 1834
(8) Julianna S Symmes 1791 – 1844
(8) Timothy Symmes 1795 – 1822
Timeline
Marriage to Abigail Tuthill 1765 28 Nov — Age: 21 Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA
Marriage to Mercy Harker 1778 — Age: 34
Residence 1789 -1881 — Age: 45 Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Death 1797 20 Feb — Age: 52 North Bend, Hamilton, Ohio
SOURCE INFORMATION
- Ancestry Family Trees
- Family Data Collection - Births
- History of Cincinnati, Ohio : with illustrations and biographical sketches / compiled by Henry A. Ford and Kate B. Ford.
- The Official roster of the soldiers of the American Revolution buried in the state of Ohio
- U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
FIND A GRAVE NOTES
Birth: Apr. 10, 1744 Death: Feb. 20, 1797 (QTR MR, NJ Militia, Revolutionary War) (NB: this stone placed in cemetery in 1992 or early 1993 by federal government, Timothy is John Cleves Symmes' brother) Information from: http://files.usgwarchives.org/oh/hamilton/cemeteries/congress-green.txt Family links: Parents: Timothy Symmes (1715 - 1756) Mary Cleves Symmes (1746 - 1746) Spouses: Abigail Tuthill Symmes (____ - 1776)* Mercy Harker Symmes (1762 - ____)* Children: John Cleves Symmes (1779 - 1829)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Congress Green Cemetery North Bend Hamilton County Ohio, USA Created by: cfenters Record added: Feb 14, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 33841197
The Official roster of the soldiers of the American Revolution buried in the state of Ohio record for an ancestor SYMMES, TIMOTHY (Hamilton Co.) Quartermaster of Sussex Co. NJ Mil Br 1744 New Jersey. Mar Abigail Tuthill lst wife. D 1797 Cincinnatti OH 1783. Judge Common Pleas in Sussex Co NJ. 1790 Joined his brother John Cleves Symmes in Cincinnatti OH where he died. S.A.R. and Natl No 39298 Vol 140 DAR Line . Fur Info Cincinnatti Chap
From THE HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
The pioneer settler at the site of South Bend was Timothy Symmes, the only full brother of Judge Symmes. He was also a prominent citizen in New Jersey, a judge in one of the courts of Sussex county, and followed his brother to the western country soon after the Purchase was settled. He did not live, however, to see more than the beginnings of the mighty development of the Miami tract, but died February 20, 1797, aged fifty-three. He was the father of Captain John Cleves Symmes, the famous author of the theory of a hollow and inhabitable earth, open for several degrees about the poles, who was residing at South Bend when his uncle, the judge, obtained his first appointment in the army; also of Daniel Symmes, who became a distinguished cit-zen of Cincinnati, serving in many public capacities, as is elsewhere detailed in this work; of Celadon Symmes, who spent nearly all his adult life on a farm three miles south of Hamilton, where he gave the name to Symmes' Corners, a hamlet and post office on the Cincinnati turnpike; and of Peyton Short Symmes, the youngest of his Sons, save one, and in some respects the most distinguished of all. He is noticed at some length in our chapter on the Bar of Cincinnati. Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr. Symmes, became wife of Hugh Moore, a prominent Cincinnatian, and died in 1834, the same year her only sister, Julianna, wife of Jeremiah Reeder, departed this life.
HOLLOW AND HABITABLE WITHIN:
SYMMES’S THEORY OF EARTH’S INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND POLAR GEOGRAPHY.
Duane A Griffin
Department of Geography
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Abstract: In 1818, John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) circulated a flyer announcing his theory of Earth’s structure and polar geography. Declaring the Earth is “hollow, and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees,: Symmes solicited “one hundred brave men” for an expedition north of the 82nd parallel in search of “a warm and rich land, stocked with thrifty vegetables and animals if not men.” So began the history of American polar exploration. Symmes’s supporters attracted general ridicule, but also tapped a vein of cultural patriotism, national pride, and expansionist ambition that won him a group of loyal followers. Chief among Symmes’s supporters was Jeremiah Reynolds, who played a key role in obtaining congressional funding for the Great American Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842.
From HISTORY OF CINCINNATI, OHIO page 74 (John Cleves Symmes)
He fell into ill health, and became much enfeebled in 1826 by a laborious tour through the eastern cities, Maine and Canada. His chief ailment was dyspepsia, induced by long continued overwork upon his theories and plans. Notwithstanding his now serious illness, in New York city he was thrown into jail by a heartless landlord, for inability to pay a bill of thirty to forty dollars, remaining incarcerated three days, when he was by a friendly Cincinnatian who happened to be in the city, and who helped him to the residence of a relative in New Jersey, where he remained until his health was measurably restored. He managed to reach Cincinnati in February 1829, and was there presently met by his son Americus with a two-horse wagon and a mattress, upon which he was borne to the farm near Hamilton—to which the family had removed in March of the previous year—where he died May 29th, 1829, aged only forty-eight.
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