Martha Blanchard & John Bent: Double ancestors of the Rice line

From RobertMarshallLong on Ancestry.com:

John Bent (1596-1672) and Martha Blanchard (1603-1679) had two daughters: Anna Agnes and Martha.

Anna marries Edward Deacon Rice and they have a son Daniel Rice
Daniel marries Bethiah Ward and they have a son Daniel Rice (jr)
Daniel Jr. marries Elizabeth Taylor and they have a son Jabez Rice
Jabez marries Miriam Morse.

     Meanwhile

Martha Bent married Samuel Howe and they had a daughter Hannah Howe
Hannah married John Barnes and they had a daughter Abigale Barnes
Abigale married Joseph Morse and they have a daughter Miriam Morse
Miriam Morse marries Jabez Rice who is her third cousin.


From Find A Grave:

John Bent came to New England on the "Confidence" from South Hampton, England, on April 24, 1638, and became one of the early settlers of Sudbury. His mother Agnes (Annis) Gosling Blanchard departed for New England in 1639 but died during the passage. On the ship's manifest, he was declared a husbandman, age 35 (incorrect), with wife Martha; and children Robert, William, Peter, John, and Ann, their children all under 12. Vital statistics on them can be found in the Registers of the Parish of Wayhill, Penton-Grove, Southampton, England.

Thomasine Frost and Edmund Rice: Ancestors of Henry Rice Mann

There is an extensive Wikipedia page on Edmund Rice (1594-1693) with some mention of his wife Thomasine Frost (1600-1654).  They were born and married in England, and emigrated to Massachusetts probably in 1638. They settled in Sudbury (probably among the founding members).

Our branch of the Rice family remained in Massachusetts until Patty Rice (1790-??) married Larnard (Leonard) Man (1787-1848). They moved to Vermont and then Michigan.  Their son Henry Rice Mann (b. Vermont) married Olive Lucinda Trowbridge (b. Vermont).  Henry is the one who was killed by a bear in California, while Olive and their children were travelling to join him by covered wagon.

Our branch is descended from Edmund & Thomasine's son Edward; but another son Thomas is the ancestor of Charlotte Clapp, who is an ancestor of my father's family.

Rice home in Sudbury, built ~1643.

Elizabeth Freestone & Robert Turner, ancestors of Jesse Foote Turner

Our Turners trace back to Massachussetts in the 1600's to Elizabeth Freestone (1619-1665), from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, and Robert Turner (1611-1651), from South Walsham, Norfolk, England.  Apparently Robert came over as an indentured servant, and then became a shoemaker.  Elizabeth and Robert married in 1647 in Massachusetts.

Elizabeth and Robert lived in Boston, and had three children who lived to adulthood: John, Habbakuk (our ancestor), and Elizabeth.  Robert died at age 40 when the children were 7, 4, and 3, another child Frances who didn't live long was 2, and Elizabeth was pregnant again.  (The child of that pregnancy lived only a few months.)  After Robert's death Elizabeth remarried Lieutenant George Gardner, and the family moved to Salem (I don't know in what order.)

Elizabeth was a nonconformist with respect to the puritan religion of Massachusetts, but unlike our Footes who moved to Connecticut, or Elizabeth's own relatives Ann and William Hutchinson, who moved to Rhode Island, she and Robert stayed in Mass. After Robert's death Elizabeth remarried to a widower George Gardner.  They did eventually move to Connecticut.  (But returned?  Both Elizabeth and George died in Salem.)  They had at least one child, Ruth, who married John Hathorne, one of the judges involved in the Salem witch trials.  Elizabeth died at age 43, when her and Robert's children were 20, 17, and 16.

Both John and Habbakuk became sea captains, and John had built for himself the house upon which The House of Seven Gables was based.

Habakkuk married Mary Gardner (daughter of his mother's 2nd husband???). They had Robert Turner, who married Elizabeth Foote.  These were the g.g.g.parents of Jesse Foote Turner.  Habakkuk was lost at sea in Liberia (must track down the story on that!), but Mary and her son and daughter-in-law Robert & Elizabeth all ended up in Connecticut. A few generations later the Turners moved to New York, from where they began their migration westward.


Source to track down: The Turners of New England and Barbados


From The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne By Margaret B. Moore:

Elizabeth Deming & Nathaniel Foote: Ancestors of Jesse Foote Turner

Elizabeth Deming (1595-1683) and Nathaniel Foote (1593-1644) were from Shalford, in the borough of Colchester, Essex Co., England.  They immigrated to Massachussetts along with Elizabeth's much younger brother John Deming (1615-1705).  Based on birth locations of their children gleaned from Ancestry.com trees (not always reliable), it looks like they came over around 1630 (perhaps as part of the Winthrop Fleet, a migration of 700 colonists to MA in 1630), when they were in their late 30's and John was ~15.  Their child Nathaniel Foote (1620-1655) who our line descends from would have been ~10.  According to Wikipedia they had 7 children.

They first settled in Watertown, MA (near Cambridge, and at the time almost as big as Boston), but in 1636 they moved with other colonists to Connecticut to found the town of Wethersfield (Wikipedia). After Nathaniel Sr.'s death, Elizabeth married a widower, Thomas Welles, about 1646.  Welles was a magistrate of Connecticut and also governor and deputy governor.  Her brother John married Honour Treat, daughter of another early Connecticut bigwig (Richard Treat).

Nathaniel Jr. married Elizabeth Smith (1627-1711), also born in England, daughter of a glover. He died when he was only 35, and she remarried and moved to Mass.  Their oldest son was also Nathaniel Foote (1647-1703), who lived and died in Wethersfield CT, and married a Margaret Bliss (1649-1745).  Their daughter, Elizabeth Foote, (g.g. daughter of Elizabeth Deming and Nathaniel Foote) married Robert Turner (grandson of Elizabeth Freestone and Robert Turner, who immigrated to Mass. in the 1630's).  This joined the Foote and Turner lines, after which Foote was passed down as a middle name. The third Nathaniel and Margaret Bliss also had a son who was also Nathaniel, and who was the ancestor of Mary Hallock Foote's husband.  Mary Hallock Foote's letters from the time of the California gold rush were used without permission in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose.

William Man, Ancestor of Adeline Martha Mann

The Mann ancestors of Adeline Martha Mann can be traced back to a William Man (~1607-1662) who came to America from England in the early 1600's.

He was born around 1607 in Kent, England (according to his son's diary) and settled in Cambridge, Massachussetts. There are two William Mann/Man records on passenger lists from that time period, one arr. Virginia 1635 (age 25) and one arr. Rhode Island 1636. (Unclear what this means, since Rhode Island wasn't established until 1636.) The latter seems more likely to be our guy.  However, a William Mann was granted land in Cambridge in 1634.  Could he have acquired the land while still in England? Or did our guy come on an earlier ship?

He was probably a farmer, as there as several records of him purchasing land.

He was married twice, first to Mary Jarred (b. England), with whom he had one son, Samuel Man, b. 1647 in Cambridge.  Mary died in 1657(?), when Samuel was ~10.  After Mary's death he married a widow, Alice Tidd, either that same year or in 1661 (there are conflicting records).  He had no more children.  He died in 1662, when Samuel was ~15, and Alice died in 1665.

Samuel attended Harvard, became a teacher and a minister, and lived in Wrentham MA.  He married Esther Ware when he was 25 and she was 18, and they had 11 children. 


Sources

Sibley (1881) Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, Vol. II (this is really about the son, Samuel):

A book called Mann Memorial:

 

Sources which I need to track down:

- Diary of his son, Rev. Samuel Mann (1647-1719)
- The Great Migration, Volume V, by Robert Charles Anderson- A book by Anna Maria (Tolman) Pickford (1895)


Posted by a Ronald Mann to the boards on Ancestry.com. Relevant to us is the James Mann, ancestor of our William Mann:

John 1495 is the son of Sir John Man of Broad Oak, Keeper of the West Gate at Canterbury. He is the same person(?) as John Le Man of Beawisberg, Kent s/o Saloman or(?) poss John 1430) the s/o Saloman) whose lineage can be traced through LeMan and/or Lyman a very long way back in time.
The brother to John 1494 above is a James Man(n) who married Dorothy Vidal and this lineage can be traced to William Mann (abt 1607) who was the first person of the name Mann in New England (Scituate, Mass), and is the father of the very prolific Rev Samuel Mann, and the eventual patriarch of a (probable) VERY high percentage of the Manns now in the USA, including HORACE MANN (educator) and THOMAS MANN (writer).

From zman293 on Ancestry.com:

William Man arrived in the new world and settled In Cambridge, MA. Some sources claim he was born in 1607 and died in 1662. He must have married late in life as his only child, Samuel Man, was born July 6 1647, when William would have been about forty years old. It is said that William was the youngest of eleven children.

He was a proprietor of Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1634. His will was dated December 10, 1661, proved April 1, 1662. unsigned, bequeathed to his wife and only son Samuel.
From The Great Migration, Volume V by Robert Charles Anderson:

WILLIAM MANN
ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATI ON: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 4 August 1634[CaTR9]).
FI RST RESIDENCE: Cambridge.
EDUCA TION: His inventory-included "an old Bible and 4 old'books" valued at 6s. [Rodgers 2:75].
OFFICES: Cambridge fenceviewer, 13 March 1653[/4], 10 February 1655/6 [CaTR 104, 109].

His inventory included "a musket[,] rest and bandoliers" valued at 14s. [6d.], "a sword and belt" valued at 7s. [6d.] and "a pound of powder
and bullets" valued at 2s. 4d. [Rodgers 2:75].

ESTATE: On 4 August 1634, "Will[iam] Man" was granted three acres in the Westend Field in Cambridge [CaTR 9]. In the 20 August 1635 division'-of the undivided meadow ground, "William Man" received a one-half share [CaTR 13]. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "those men who have houses in the town at this present," "William Mann" was credited with one house in the Westend [CaTR 19]. In the Cambridge land inventory of 1639, "William Man" held two parcels: "bought of John Moore one house lot upon the Cow Common"; And "in the New Lots next Manotomie given by the town two acres of planting ground" [CaBOP 64]. In the Cambridge land inventory of 6 September 1642, "William Man" held five parcels: "on the Common one dwelling house with about a rood of land"; "on the plain toward Menotamye two acres of land"; "in the West Field three acres"; "in the Fresh Pond Meadow two acres & h a l f ; and "in the Great Marsh four acres" [CaBOP 101-2].

In an undated list of "the lots given out by the town on the south side of Charles River, in two several divisions," "William Man" received Lot #56, four acres each in the-lower division and the upper division [CaBOP 332]. On 8 March 1642/3, "Will[ia]m Man" sold to Nathaniel Sparhawk "four acres ... on the south side of Charles River being the fifty-sixth lot in the lower division of lots there" [CaBOP 122]. In 1662 "Will[ia]m Man" had three acres laid out on the south side of Charles River in the second squadron [CaBOP 141].

In the 1645 grant of "lots on the west side of Monotamye River, "William Man" received "three acres & h a l f [CaBOP 128]. On 4 June 1652, "William Man" was granted seventy acres at Shawsheen[CaTR98].
In the 1645 grant of "lots on the west side of Monotamye River, "William Man" received "three acres & h a l f [CaBOP 128]. On 4 June 1652, "William Man" was granted seventy acres at Shawsheen[CaTR98].

In his will, dated 10. .December 16611 and proved3 1 April 1662, "William Man of the abovenamed town [Cambridge]" bequeathed to "my loving wife ... her dwelling in the house I now dwell in, with use of the barn and outhouse, and the land and orchard adjoining thereto, for her wood and firing to enjoy the same, during her widowhood, or in case,she shall marry again then to hold the same for six years ..., also I do give to my loving wife one full third part of all my moveable estate, my debts and funeral - charges .being paid before such division, also I do give, her some clothes that were my former wife's, also I do give her, my said wife, all those 'particular parcels of household stuff (remaining in my hands at my decease) which were brought by her to me at our marriage"; "the residue-and remainder of my estate "... to my son and only son, Samuel Man"; "my trusty and well beloved 'friends Thomas Chesholme and.Jno. Fessington" to be sole" executors [Rodgers 2:73-74, transcribing MPR 2:49-51, Case"# 145.72], -,

The inventory of "the estate of William Man. of Cambridge deceased the 7th of the first month [March] 1661/2," taken on an unknown date, totalled £126 5s. Id., of which.£69 15s. was real estate: "a dwelling house,-one barn and hovels and.about one acre of land and half a acre of swamp adjoining to the house, with all -town rights," £36; "five acres of land ... whereof three acres is broke up lying in the West Field, Robart Holmes..on south;side, John Cooper on the north," £9; "in the West Field three.acres, of broke up land ..., Abraham, Errington on the south side, the highway on the north," £9; "in the plain two acres broke up, Ben[jamin] Crackbon east, Frances More on the .West," £4. 10s.; "in the plain two acres broke;up, Mr. John Glover on the west, Robart Parker on the east," £10; and "at Fresh Pond Meadow two acres one half," £1 -5s. [Rodgers
2:74-77 , transcribing1 MPR 2:52-57, Case #14572].

On 13 January 1662[/3], "Thomas Chesholme and John Fessenden, administrators as abovesaid," sold to "John Paulfere of the town abovesaid, joiner, ... all the abovenamed;messuage or tenement" [MLR 2:296]. (The first half of this deed, in the microfilmed version, is illegible, thus preventing us from learning just which parcels , the executors of the will of William Mann were selling. The sale-was probably made to provide funds to pay Samuel Mann's expenses at Harvard College.)

BIRTH: About 1607 [DeHR 6:127 (probably derived from the journal of Samuel Mann)]. DEATH: 7^March 1661/2 [MPR 2:49].

MARRIAGE: (1) 1643 Mary JarredlfDeHR 6:127 (probably derived from the journal of Samuel-Mann)]. (2) Cambridge 11 June 1657 Alice Tidd, widow of JOHN TIDD
{1637, Charlestown} [Wyman 945; Stevens-Miller Anc 125-26].
CHILD: With first wife * SAMUEL MANN,-b. Cambridge 6 July 1647 [DeHR 6:127 (probably derived from the journal of Samuel Mann)]; Harvard College 1665 [Sibley 2:190-93]; m. Dedham 13 May 1673 Esther Ware [DeVR 17], daughter of Robert Ware [NEHGR 41:21-24].

COMMENTS: Samuel Mann kept a journal, which is probably the source of some of the vital dates above. In that journal he gave an account of his father's migration [DeHR 6:127]: My father William Man was born in the other England in the county of Kent (in what town I cannot, learn) about the year of Lord 1607 being the youngest of eleven children of what age he was and in what year he came into the land & in what, year I cannot learn, only*this much he was one of the first comers into the Colony of the Massachusetts. The vagueness of this statement and the exaggerated claim; that his father was "one. of the first comers" may encourage us to be doubtful of the other information he provided of events that occurred prior to his birth.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1895 Anna Maria (Tolman) Pickford compiled an account of this immigrant and his son [DeHR 6:124-29].

Mary "Polly" Mathis, g.g.g.mother of the Trowbridge siblings

This branch of the family was from the South.  Polly (1789-1876) m. John William Borland and they lived their whole lives in the region of Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina.  (Their granddaughter Naomi Borland Wagner (1831-1807) finally left the South with her husband Joshua Elliot Clayton in the gold rush.)

Polly's father's will is reproduced below.  Two points of interest:

1) The family owned slaves. I've mostly been aware of branches of the family that went from New England to the midwest to California -- branches that trace mostly through the male lines, preserving last names and making it easy to think of them as "us" -- so this is a little difficult for me to absorb as being part of "my people."  But there it is.

2) There are hints of family drama with Polly that we can only guess at.  In his will, made in 1829, 7 months before his death, her father bequeaths:

"unto the children of my daughter Polly Borland, which may be in her life at the time of my death, one Negro girl named Judah and one hundred dollars in cash.  And also, the tract of land which I purchased of John Thomason, making it descretionary with my executors, hereinafter named, to sell said tract of land and purchase other property for the benefit of said children.  And also in their descretion to appropriate the use and benefit of said Negro and land for the support and maintenance of my said daughter, Polly Borland, during her natural life, or for a shorter period if they think proper."

In addition to this, he gives his executors:

the power to appropriate the one-tenth part [of the residual estate] which I especially give and bequeath to the children of my daughter Polly Borland, in such manner as to afford my said daughter the use and benefit of the same for such length of time as my said executors in their discretion think proper. 

 Clearly Polly and her kids are more in need than the rest of the family.  Is her husband dead?  But no:

 Item thirteenth, I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law John Borland, twenty dollars and no more. 

Oo, Papa Mathis really didn't like John Borland. A drunk perhaps?  Unable to hold a job?  Mismanaged the family finances?

The full text of the will is from the Ancestry.com page of LWG1975, Borland Family Tree.

The Last Will and Testament of Thomas Mathis

In the name of God, Amen.
I, Thomas Mathis, of the county of Hancock in the State of Georgia, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, but calling to mind the uncertainty of human life, do make and ordain this, my last will and testament, in the manner and form as follows.
1st, it is my will and desire that my body be decently interred in Christianlike manner, and that my funeral expenses and all the just debts which I may owe at my death may be paid out of my estate.  Then all the property which I have heretofore delivered to any and everyone of my children, I hereby give and bequeath to them to whom the same has been delivered respectively, their heirs and assigns forever.
Item second, I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Sally Chappell, a certain Negro boy named Anthony her heirs and assigns forever.
Item third, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Dorothy Mintner, a certain Negro boy named Peter, her heirs and assigns forever.
Item fourth, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Nancy Mathis a certain Negro boy named Tom, her heirs and assigns forever.
Item fifth, I give and bequeath unto my son, Gabriel Mathis, a certain Negro girl named Maria, his heirs and assigns forever, and the sum of fifty dollars in cash at my death.
Item sixth, I give and bequeath unto my son John Mathis's orphans, a certain Negro girl named Dilly, them and their heirs and assigns forever, and fifty dollars cash at my death.
Item seventh, I give and bequeath unto my daughter Martha Cox a certain Negro boy named Martin, her heirs and assigns forever, and one hundred and sixty dollars in cash at my death.
Item eighth, I give and bequeath to my daughter Eliza Hunter a certain Negro girl named Rhoda, her heirs and assigns forever, and one hundred and seventy dollars in cash at my death.
Item ninth, I give and bequeath unto the children of my daughter Polly Borland, which may be in her life at the time of my death, one Negro girl named Judah and one hundred dollars in cash.  And also, the tract of land which I purchased of John Thomason, making it descretionary with my executors, hereinafter named, to sell said tract of land and purchase other property for the benefit of said children.  And also in their descretion to appropriate the use and benefit of said Negro and land for the support and maintenance of my said daughter, Polly Borland, during her natural life, or for a shorter period if they think proper.
Item tenth, I give and bequeath unto the orphans of my son Charles Mathis, deceased, three hundred and fifty dollars at my death to be divided among them share and share alike.
Item eleventh, I give and bequeath unto the orphans of my son, Robert Mathis, deceased, three hundred and fifty dollars in cash to be divided among them share and share alike.
Item twelfth, It is my will and desire that all the residue of real and personal property of which I may die, ceased and possessed after paying my just debts and the cash legacies mentioned in this will, may be equally divided among my children and grandchildren in ten equal shares according to the laws of distribution in force in this state, reserving to my executors the power to appropriate the one-tenth part which I especially give and bequeath to the children of my daughter Polly Borland, in such manner as to afford my said daughter the use and benefit of the same for such length of time as my said executors in their discretion think proper.
Item thirteenth, I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law John Borland, twenty dollars and no more.
I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Gabriel Mathis, Elisha Mathis and John M. Mintner my executors to this, my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made and executed.
Witness my hand and seal this second day of June 1829.  Thomas Mathis
Acknowledged in the presence of William P. Broyer, J.P., Stevens Pearson, Solomon Robinson
Located in Book M, Folios 524, 525, 526.  Ordinary's office, Sparta, Hancock County, Georgia
Probated January term, January 4, 1830

Small World: St John & Dement

Elliot's first husband, who she met at UC Berkeley, was this guy:

Lucien Bela St John, 1908-1997

Years later, her sister Ruth married this guy in Denver, Colorado:

Theodore Lee Dement, 1902-1991

Turns out Lucien and Ted were freakin' third cousins of each other!

Back in the 1700's in Virginia there was a George Dement (or Demint) m. Sarah Gordon. Among their children were two sons, William (1768-1853) and Elias (1775-1847).

William Dement moved to Ohio and fathered William Harrison Dement (1815-1887), who quite late in life fathered Glenn Vernon Dement (1879-1924).  Glenn fathered Ted, and moved the family to Colorado.

Meanwhile, Elias Dement fathered Louisa Dement (1810-1847) m. Watson George Parrish, and they moved to Illinois.  She had Amanda Louisa Parrish (1845-??) m. Bela Taylor St John who had Burton Little St John (1873-??) m. Io Barnes.  They went to China as missionaries, where they had Lucien, and when they returned to the U.S. they settled in Berkeley.

So really, Lucien and Ted were third cousins once removed.  Ted was third cousins with Lucien's father Burton.  Going down a generation on one side but not the other makes it a "once removed."

Elliot in Santa Barbara

This post is about my grandmother, Kate Elliot Turner, daughter of Kate Elliot Trowbridge and Wallace Foot Turner.  When she was three years old her family moved from northern California to Santa Barbara, where her father had been hired to be the Dean of Math at the newly established junior college.  They lived in Santa Barbara from about 1912 to about 1918, when Elliot would have been about nine.

 Elliot, age 2-3 and 3-4?

 Wallace, Ruth, Wallace Jr., Kate Elliot, and Kate Elliot Jr.

Ruth was born Nov. 1916, so this must have been taken around 1917-18, close to the time they left Santa Barbara.

This was before the 1925 earthquake, and the current Spanish style did not exist.  Elliot probably didn't visit Santa Barbara between her childhood and when her daughter's family moved there in 1967.  I imagine it must have been quite a shock, with the look of the downtown area completely changed, and the massive amount of development out to La Cumbre Plaza and beyond.  Here I try to reconstruct a bit of the Santa Barbara Elliot lived in.

Santa Barbara in the 1910's

They lived in this house, at 2126 De La Vina (then called Hollister) between Los Olivos and Padre (then called 1st), which at the time was on the outskirts of town.  This is the house that Elliot's younger sister Ruth was born in.

Elliot's school was Garfield School, just a few blocks away at the corner of Padre (1st) and Bath.  (The building was replaced in the 1935, and is now the Schott Campus of SBCC.)  There was also a separate kindergarten building on 1st Street "near Bath," probably right next door, built in 1912.  (These pictures are from a 1963 Masters thesis on the history of SB schools.)

 

 Garfield School in 1906.

 Garfield School in 1935, just before demolition.  Oddly, the ground seems higher up the sides of the building than in the older picture, and the stairs are gone.

Garfield Kindergarten in 1963 (now no longer there).

They attended the Methodist church, of which there were two at the time, so this may or may not have been the one they went to:

 The American Film Company (the "Flying A") had its studio in Santa Barbara from 1910 to 1922.  It was the biggest movie company in the U.S. at the time, and it was just two blocks from Elliot's house, between State and Chapala, and between Mission and Padre.  This shows the side along Mission Street, at the time and today.

A few blocks down on De La Vina (Hollister) at Sola was the Upham Hotel, shown here in 1887, and today:

And still further down, at Anapamu, was the high school, built in 1902, which also housed the junior college established in 1911.  Here's a picture of it after the earthquake, I'll be trying to find a better picture:

The current Art Museum was the Post Office at the time:

 1915 4th of July Parade down State Street

Note the very utilitarian building behind, where the library now is.

At the site of the current Lobero Theater was the Lobero Opera House, which looked like this:

The pre-earthquake Courthouse looked like this:

Since Santa Barbara was a tourist destination, there were at least two major luxury hotels: the Arlington Hotel at the site of the current Arlington Theater, and the Potter Hotel by the waterfront.

 Additional sites I want to include are Alameda Park and Cottage Hospita, when I find photos.

Here are pictures of Elliot and her little brother Wallace Jr. from the Santa Barbara period, presumably before Ruth was born.

Joshua Elliot Clayton

 Father of Catherine "Kate" Jessie Clayton who married Nelson Seymour Trowbridge.  Joshua Elliot Clayton was from Georgia, came west in the gold rush and became a prominent mining engineer and consultant.

Joshua Elliot Clayton (Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, via Spence article)

Most of his siblings (including half-siblings from his father's first marriage) stayed in the southeast, but one sister, Joanna "Jo" Bruce Clayton and her husband William Cogan Buckalew came west.  They bought Clayton Ranch in Yuba CA (need to track down origin of this ranch -- one website says it belonged to her brother "John" but this is probably a mistake, although there was a half-brother John who stayed back east -- perhaps it was really her brother Joshua).  After her husband died Jo moved to the bay area.

Joshua Elliot Clayton was married to Naomi B. Wagner, and they had six children, including Kate.  He travelled extensively throughout the west, while it appears that Naomi and the children maintained a home in the east bay.  It appears that they either divorced or perhaps quietly separated.  Naomi went to live in Butte, Montana, with her daughter Mary Jessie, who was married to a John William Gunn. Joshua went on to have a second marriage with Helen Maria Huntley, who had two children from a previous marriage.  One of them, William Huntley Hampton, apparently went into business with his stepfather.

According to the Spence paper (see below), Joshua Elliot Clayton was killed in a stagecoach accident near Wardner, Idaho.  He was buried in Portland, OR, where his second wife had family.


 Sources about Joshua Elliot Clayton's career:

1. An academic paper all about his mining career can be found in:
Spence, C. C. (1980).  Joshua E. Clayton: Pioneer Western Mining Engineer.  Arizona and the West, Vol. 22, Issue 3, pp. 211-222.

2. Documents relating to his mining career are at Yale.

3. The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley also has documents, including his diaries (which are mostly about his mining activities).  From A Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Bancroft Library, Vol. 1, pp. 306-307:

4.  A few more letters by JE Clayton are at Brigham Young University's library.

5. A 1958 pamphlet, Ghost Mines of Yosemite, by Douglas Hubbard, tells a brief anecdote involving Joshua Elliot Clayton. The text of the pamphlet is at the Yosemite library online.
6. Mark Twain mentioned Clayton in a letter to his brother, Orion Clemens, in 1862: "These mills here are not worth a d--n -- except Clayton's -- and it is not in full working trim yet." (Mark Twain's Letters: 1853-1866, M.B. Frank & K.M. Sanderson, Eds., p. 186).  The end notes explain:

7. From the Masters thesis of Emily S. Dale, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Nevada Reno, Archaeology on Spring Street: Discrimination, Ordnance 32, and the Overseas Chinese in Aurora, Nevada:

Smith, Grant H.1998.  The History of the Comstock Lode. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geologyin association with the University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV

Stewart, Robert E. 2004 Aurora: Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn. Nevada Publications, LasVegas.

Rosemary Dobbins Lloyd

Papa Nelson Trowbridge had a sister, Mary Eloise Trowbridge,

who married a man named Dobbins.  He was a Presbyterian minister, and they lived in various places around California and ended up back in the bay area, where they were a socially prominent family.

Among their many children were Hugh Trowbridge Dobbins (1866-1943) and Rosemary Dobbins (1869-1959).  Rosemary attended Cal in 1888!  Earliest I've found yet of the women in our family who attended Cal.

Hugh became a Presbyterian minister like his father, and in 1895, at age 29, married Roberta Tomlin Lloyd,

daughter of Lewis Marshall Lloyd,

a Missouri state senator, Confederate army captain and prisoner of war, turned Los Angeles land baron and inventor.  The wedding made the society news, and Rosemary was one of the bridesmaids.  At the time of the wedding the Lloyds lived at the corner of Oxford and Rose in Berkeley, I'm guess at this house:

But wait, there's more!  Eighteen years later, Rosemary, who had remained single and been an active and prominent society woman in the bay area, married Lewis Marshall Lloyd himself, her brother's father-in-law.  He was 77 and she was 44 at the time of the wedding, and his first wife had died two years before.  Lewis and Rosemary lived in Los Angeles, and after his death nine years later she returned to Berkeley.  Here is Rosemary in later years:

  This story is interesting for its own sake, but it also connects to my immediate family.  Rosemary was the older cousin with whom my grandmother Elliot lived when she was a student at Cal.

From Elliot's affidavit:

I entered the University of California in the Fall semester, 1927, majoring in English as my father had intended that I should become an English teacher. In October of that year my mother died suddenly, two weeks before the anticipated birth of a child. Since my step-father was ill at the time, I took charge of the household and funeral arrangements, and for the rest of the semester cared for the family while continuing my studies at the University of California. At the end of the semester my stepfather secured a housekeeper and I moved to live with a distant cousin, Mrs. Rosemary Lloyd, in Berkeley. I lived with her for the next three years while my brother and sister remained with my stepfather.  

It's interesting that Elliot refers to her as a distant cousin.  She was the first cousin of Elliot's mother, so Elliot's first cousin once removed.  But I suppose if they weren't close it could feel like a distant relative.  I imagine that Elliot felt very much like the poor churchmouse relation. 

From notes that I took during a conversation with Elliot when I was in high school:

[After high school] Elliot went to live with Aunt Rosemary, her mother’s cousin on the Trowbridge side, who had married a wealthy man, who died.  Elliot lived with the maid.  It was a big house, with silver at the place settings and so on.  Elliot “learned by stumbling.”  After her mother died Elliot moved back to take care of [siblings] Ruth and Wallace.  It was evident that [stepfather] Frank was madly looking for a new wife.  She went back to live with Rosemary again.

Note that the chronology is unclear -- did she go to live with Rosemary when she started college, or only after her mother died?   

Rosemary's house in Berkeley was 2844 Garber Path (phone directory) or 2845 Garber Path (census), just across the street.  I'm inclined to trust the former.

The overall impression is that Elliot was very uncomfortable there.  I recall a story Elliot told me about being obliged to share a room, and indeed a bed, with a maid, and how much she resented it.  It's unclear if this was at Rosemary's house or some other house where she worked, since the affidavit says: "I spent my next three summers doing domestic work by which I was able to earn enough to continue college."  (But if she spent that three years living with Rosemary, it seems unlikely that she would have physically moved out to go do domestic work for the summers. Hence it seems likely that she shared a bed with the maid at Rosemary's house.)

The census shows a Helen Perry, age 23, living at Rosemary's house at the same time as Elliot.   Was this the maid? She is listed as a "guest" while Elliot is listed as "cousin."  Like Elliot, she is listed as in school, and not employed.  Could she have been working for Rosemary to work her way through school?  Could Rosemary have been too polite or embarassed to admit it to the census taker?  Further sleuthing on Helen Perry shows she came from a family of farmers, and didn't finish college until age 33 while still single, presumably because she was supporting herself.  Since she wasn't a relative, this definitely sounds like someone Rosemary would have hired as an employee, not taken in socially as a "guest."  Perhaps the situation at Rosemary's house was rather fluid and undefined, with both Elliot and Helen expected to do domestic work in exchange for their board?  Perhaps the domestic work Elliot did was actually for Rosemary, for pay, during the summers, and Elliot herself was too embarassed to say so directly?