The SYMMES Part 1 OF 2

 I picked the Symmes line because it was short and I'd just make it a small post but in cleaning it up, I found I had a lot more that just wasn't connected.  It's now in two part:

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 2^nd great grandmother)

Spouse & Children

Henry Bates Skinner 1830 – 1892  

(10) Henry Colburn Skinner 1854 – 1900 (1881 m Mary Grant)

                    Children (11) Gurdon Grant Skinner –(11) Marian Skinner)

(10) Anna B. Skinner 1855 – 0

(10) Edward L. Skinner 1860 – 0

(10) Sarah A. Skinner 1862 – 0

(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 3^rd 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

Birth  1793   Sussex, New Jersey, USA 

Residence  1788 -1912   Hamilton, Ohio, USA 

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  1850 — Age: 57 Broadway Hotel, Cincinnati Ward 3, Hamilton, Ohio 

Residence 1860 — Age: 67  Cincinnati Ward 15, Hamilton, Ohio, United States 

also Servants Sarah Lownds 44 England, Tamer Brown 62 England. OCCUPATION: GENTLEMAN

Death 1861 27 Jul — Age: 68  Mount Auburn, Hamilton, Ohio, USA 

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 4^th 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

(8) Daniel Symmes 1772 – 1827

(8) William Symmes 1774 – 1809

Mercy Harker  1762 – 1795

(8) Capt John Cleves Symmes 1779 – 1829   (my3rd great grand uncle) (see Historical Notes below)  

Spouse & Children

Marianne Lockwood 1785-1864

(9) William Henry Symmes

(9) John Cleves Symmes 1742 – 1814

(9) Louisiana Symmes 1810 – 1853

(9) Americus Vespucius Symmes 1811 – 1878 (my 1^st 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 – 

(9) Daughter Symmes 1861 –               

(8) Elizabeth Symmes 1814 – 1821

(8) John Cleves Symmes

(8) Mary Symmes 1785 – 1834

(8) Julianna S Symmes 1791 – 1844

(8) Peyton Short Symmes 1793 – 1861 (my 3^rd great grandfather) (see above)

(8) Timothy Symmes 1795 – 1822

Timeline

Birth 1744 10 Apr Aquebogue, Suffolk, New York 

Marriage to Abigail Tuthill 1765 28 Nov — Age: 21  Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA 

Residence 1775 -1783 — Age: 31  Ohio, 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 

Occupation Sussex, New Jersey, USA  Judge Common Pleas

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.

Historical Notes:  Capt John Cleves Symmes 1779 – 1829   (my3rd great grand uncle)

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 82^nd 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 29^th, 1829, aged only forty-eight.

Andover, Massachusetts

ANDOVER

Since Andover was the place that so many of our ancestors call home -- this post is for Andover and the -- Adams, Abbott, Berry, Blanchard, Greenleaf, Mooar families and more.

Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1646 and as of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201. It is part of the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Massachusetts-New Hampshire metropolitan statistical area, and is a suburb of Lawrence.

I never found a good blurb to cover the Andover history -- just a long description covering the wars, Salen Witch Trials and more.



1900s School Street





1900s Center Street




1900-1906 Abbott



Charlotte Helen Abbott

Charlotte Helen Abbott was born in 1844 and died in 1921. She was a member of the Punchard High's first graduating class in 1859. Both a teacher and a dressmaker, her real love was documenting the families of early Andover History. In fact, for 25 years she wrote a column in the Andover Townsman; some of these articles have been added to the Andover Massachusetts page on the Essex County USGenWeb Project. http://andover.essexcountyma.net/chaseries/chaindex.html

Andover Historical Series

Published in the Andover Townsman newspapers

beginning in 1896

ADDITIONS TO ORIGINAL ARTLCLES

# 4 - Nicholas Holt and his Neighbors
# 5 - One Sunday Noon - mostly fictional, article about a typical Sunday around the North Parish of Andover in the 1600's.
#7 Farnham Girls - covers the woman of the Ralph Farnham line of Andover. 
#12 A Few Days and Full of Trouble - covers the Faulkner family of Andover.
#13 - Nicholas Holt's Children - first of many articles to appear about the Holt family of Andover. 
#14 Concerning a Scotchman - details the RUSSELL and MARSHALL families of Andover.
# 15 Russell Family of Andover - a second article about the RUSSELL'S
#16 & # 18 Early Osgood's & Osgood's That Staid at Home - two articles about the John, Christopher Osgood families of Andover and Essex County. A must read for ANYONE with early ancestors who were related to an Osgood of any town. 
# 19 - Holts (continued) Another article detailing some Andover and emigrant Holts.
# 33  Along the Merrimack - article covers multiple families including Ingalls, Barnard, Holt, Frye, Stevens, Baker, Parker, Lovejoy, Abbott to name a few. 
# 36 - The Early Abbotts Starting with English history, covers George Abbott in Rowley, and Abbott lines in Andover.
#40  #41  #42 Johnson Family Articles  - three stories relating to the John Johnson family of Andover. Includes real estate and probate transaction excepts. 
#46 Deserted Farms - another story covering multiple families including Abbot, Lovejoy, Cummings, Holt, Russell. 
#50 Farnham Boys - covers the male lineage of the Ralph Farnham line.
# 52 Graves Severed Far and Wide - More of the Farnum, Ingalls, Holt, Stevens and Martin lines 
#69  #72   Ingalls from Lynn & Henry Ingalls- of interest to anyone with Ingalls ancestry of early Essex County.
#74 Frye's We Kept - History and genealogy of some lines of the Andover Frye family.
#75  #76  Our First Ancient and Honorable  & A Ballard Estate - both articles cover the early Ballard's of Andover
#88 Our Mayflower Society - History and genealogy of some of the Mayflower Pilgrims and Andover residents.
#89 Tourjours Fidelis - History and genealogy of some of the BLANCHARD lines of Andover.
#91 Our Last Blanchard's - Lines of Thomas Blanchard family of Andover
#125 The Berry's of Andover - covers this early family.
#127 A Friend of Quakers - on the same page as the Berry article (#125) this story covers the family of Henry PHELPS 
#130   #131  Immigrant Danes & Francis Dane of Andover - two stories regarding this early Andover family of Dane's
#140  #141  On Sunset Rock  & Story of the Hollow - two more stories which cover multiple families including Abbot, Ingalls, Allen and WHITTINGTON
#144 John Farrington's Lines - details this early family of Andover.
Dated November 8, 1901 - FROM FRANCE TO ANDOVER details the history of the MARSHALL & CORNELL family (Corneille, Corneel, etc.)

MEMORIAL HALL LIBRARY

http://www.mhl.org/andover/Abbott/index.htm

Abbott Genealogies

Andover genealogist Charlotte Helen Abbott wrote these unpublished genealogies. Earlier versions of some genealogies were published in the Andover Townsman, the local newspaper. They generally cover older Andover families through the late 19th century. Miss Abbott's genealogies are subjective and rich with anecdotes, but list few sources. Kay O’Neil, with the cooperation of the Andover Historical Society, worked to digitize the typescript manuscript. Originals are also held at Memorial Hall Library.
These are some of the documents thar you’ll find there: Early Settlers  -- Abbot/Abbott Family  -- Berry Family  -- Blanchard Family  -- Farnum Family  -- Mooar Family  -- Symmes Family