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[1]. Uncle Sam wrote that the name of Joseph's oldest son was Stith, but it is shown as Steth in Willoughby's Marriage Records of Allen County. A written undotted "i" can easily be mistaken for an "e" and it may be that the name should have been recorded as Stith both in the marriage records and in Chalkely's Chronicles.

[2]. "The early settlers of Augusta County were of the Scotch-Irish race; and up to the time of the Revolution, very few persons of any other race came to live in the county . . . Ulster County in Ireland had been their former home, where refugees from Scotland had mingled with the native Irish- . . Nearly 6000 landed at Philadelphia in 1739 and by the middle of the century nearly 12,000 had arrived annually for several years . . . Many of the more enterprising and industrious inhabitants fled from the scarcity and oppression in Ireland, landing on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. Many of these, including the Breckenridges, Trimbles, Logans, Wilson, and others, soon found their way into the wilderness of Augusta County. . . They were generally farmers or mechanics, with a few merchants. There was not a so-called cavalier among them, nor a sprig of nobility - . . . Almost all were Presbyterians." Annals of Augusta County, Waddell, pp. 1-15. There was only one notable immigration from abroad (to Virginia) after 1725. This came with the remarkable exodus of Scotch after the rebellion of 1740. Virginia received several thousand of these wanderers, who took up land in and beyond the Blue Ridge, principally in Amherst, Augusta, and Rockbridge Counties. Kentucky, A Pioneer Commonwealth. Shaler, p. 10.

[3]. A Hitlerism (or Shickelgruberism) which seems to mean "living space". My spontaneous use of the term was probably due to an instinctive outcropping of my German subconscious ego. Correct spelling is "Lebensraum" - living space.

[4]. Kentucky Land Grants, Jillsen, and Marriage Records of Allen County, Ky., Willoughby.

[5]. The Binions are a probable exception. A Henry Binion from Allen County lived in Vernon, Ill. He was born in 1800, died in 1910, and was a pallbearer at the funeral of Grandmother Wilson's when she was 8 years old, or in 1819. At one of her "fireside chats", about 1890, she cited this latter fact as evidence of his great age, adding that at the time of this funeral he was a "grown man". She also said then, as I recall it, that the Binions came with her party from Virginia. Binion was an unusually rare name. I have found listed in the Virginia Census, 1790, only two families of that name, William and William Jr. They lived then in Pittsylvania County, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, south of Augusta County.

[6]. History of German Elements in Virginia, Scheright, pp. 77-78; Tyler's Quarterly, vol. 20; Chronicles of Scotch-Irish Settlers, Chalkedy, vol. 2; Kentucky Land Grants, Jillson; Virginia Soldiers 1776, Burgess; D.A.R. Reports, various; Census Reports, 1790.

[7]. History of Kentucky, Collins; and American Guide Book series, p. 295, Kentucky volume.

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[2]. This a printed summary of the 1790 census and shows the following forms; Mora, Morey, Mauray, Maury, Maurey, Moorey, Moria, Moray, Morery, Morrey, Morrie, Morry, Mory, Mowrey, Mowery, Mowra, Mowrie, Mowry, and Moury.

[3]. Chiefly, Genealogy New England Families, Cutter; Compendium of American Genealogy, Virkus; Old Families of Rhode Island, Beers; American Ancestry, Hughes; and New England Historical and Genealogical Register.

[4]. History of Bond County Ill., McCasslin, and Biographical Sketches in +Appendix hereto.

[5]. The actual date appears to have been 1813, which was before the close of the War of 1812.

[6]. See Part 5 of this chapter, Ancestors of Joseph Morey of Vermont.

[7]. Nathaniel Mowry and his Descendants, 1878; Richard Mowry - His Ascendants and Descendants, 1878; and Descendants of John Mowry of Rhode Island, 1909, all by William Augustus Mowry. Copies of these are said to be on file in the Providence Public Library and the libraries of the Harris Institute and the Society of Friends at Woonsocket, R. I. Copies are probab1y also on file in the Congressional Library at Washington and in the genealogical libraries of other large cities.

[8]. There is a well known family of Virginia named Maury, of which Matthew Fontaine Maury, the noted "Geographer of the Seas", was a distinguished member. I have found nothing to indicate that this family is related to the New England Mowry's or Morey's. Chalkely's Chronicles of Scotch-Irish Settlers in Virginia, contain various references to Abraham, Henry, Lewis, and Ludwig Mowrey, and to a John Mowery.

[9]. The term "Town" as used in the census report refers to the name of the township, and not merely to that of an incorporated town or city.

[10]. See Footnote 3, above, for references.

[11]. A picture of the house and the fol1owing description of it by Wm. A. Mowry are shown in the "john Mowry Book", pp.18, 19; "The original structure consisted of one large room 15 or 20 feet square, 1ow-studded, with a loft for sleeping above. The "summer beam" across the middle of the room, after the ancient fashion, was of white oak, beautifully hewed, the corners chamfered out, and not a score of the ax visible in the surface. The old chimney, originally outside The house, was built; of stone and was a fine piece of mason work. The fireplace within was just 10 feet wide. The old brick oven was on the left hand side of the fireplace. The mortar was made of shell-lime, closely resemb1ing that used in the old stone mill at Newport". The picture shows a two-story gabled roof house and in the front wall a door near the end, two windows in the lower floor, and three in the upper story. The end of the house was flush with the outer face of the chimney. Enormous shade trees were in the yard and the roof and picket fence enclosing the yard were blanketed with snow.

[12]. Additional references: Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol.51, p. 262; vol.52, pp.33, 107, 194, Old Northwestern Genealogical Quarterly, vol.2, pp. 101, 103; Hudson and Mohawk Valley Genealogy, Reynolds, vol.2, p. 685, and Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Austin.

[13]. Compendium of American Genealogy, Virkus, vol. 5, pp. 320, 790; Mayflower descendants, vol. ___ p. ___.

[14]. Plymouth Records, vol. 1, p. 155.

[15]. Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Austin, pp. 346, 347; Compendium of American Genealogy, Virkus, vol. 1, p. 732, vol.6, pp. 421, 449; Mayflower Descendants, vol. 2 p. 18; Plymouth Records vols. 1 and 2, and other sources.

[16]. D.A. R. Reports, vols. 1, 8, 46, 52, 55, 112, 119.

[17]. Vital Records, Scituate, Mass.

[18]. Reports of Record Commission, Boston Registry Department, vol. 9, p. 36; vol.24, pp.37, 92; vol. 30, p. 330, and other records.

[19]. These facts were taken largely from Genealogy New England Families, Cutter, vol. 4, pp. 2110-13, 2355-56; Old Families of Rhode Island, Beers; and New England Historical and Genealogical Register.

[20]. Some misguided patriots have been known to suggest that the currently reigning Roosevelt has long been fit meat for the Anannias doghouse, all because he has u blushingly failed to reduce the costs of Government, balance the budget, provide gainful employment in productive enterprises for all, banish poverty, disease, and woe, keep us out of war, etc., in accordance with his quadrennial 1st term, 2nd term, and 3rd term pre-election promises. Such critics have failed to note the clear distinction between mere electioneering piffle or sales talk and downright, harmful lying, such as saying that the toothful Teddy said so and so or did such and such whereas he said he'd be d...... if he had said or done any such dad-blasted thing.

[21]. Sullivan Papers, vol.2, p. 83, N.H. Historical Society; and Rhode Island Colonial and State Records, vol.8, pp.428-9.

[22]. History Oneida County, N.Y., Wayton, Pt.1, pp. 64, 297.

[23]. Other references; Principally, Descendants of John Mowry of Rhode Island, Wm. A Mowry; Old Northwester Genealogical Quarterly, vol. 2, pp. 101-3; Dictionary of Rhode Island Families, Austin; and Vital Records, various cities and towns in Massachusetts.

[24]. History East Greenwich, R.I., Greene, pp. 9-11.

[25]. Magazine of New England History, vol. 3, p. 204.

[26]. References: Chiefly, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Austin; Vital Records of Rhode Island, vols. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6; American Genealogy, Virkus; Vital Records of Mendon and Douglas, Mass; 1790 Census; New York Records, various; Colonial Families of the U.S. MacKenzie.

[27]. References: Descendants of John Mowry of Rhode Island, Wm. A. Mowry; Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Auttin; History of Windham County, Conn., Larned; Soldiers of King Philip's War, Bodge; [missing line]

[28]. References: American Ancestry, Hughes, vol.2, p. 87; New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 87, pp. 80-81. Vital Records of Rhode Island, vol. 5-6, pp. 32, 422, 598; Abstract of Wills, Columbia County, N.Y. Burger; various others.

[29]. American Genealogy, Virkus, vol.6, pp. 94, 896; Proceedings New Hampshire Historical Society, vol. 5, pp. 59-72; Vital Records of [missing line]

[30]. Proceedings New Hampshire Historical Society, vol. 5, pp. 59-72. Vermont Gazetteer, Haminway, vol.2, pp. 889-890; New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers, vols. 1, 2, 3, 4; D.A.R Reports, vols. 6, 9, 129, 152, 156.

[31]. Proceedings New Hampshire Historical Society, vol. pp. 59-72; Vermont Gazetteer, Heminway, vol. 2, pp. 889-894; Encyclopedia Americana (1939), vol. 19, p. 449; Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 11, p. 168.

[32]. Genealogical Record (Press clippings, Sons Revolution Library, Los Angeles, Calif.); American Genealogy, Virkus, vol.4, p. 126; History of Andover, N.H., Eastman, pp. 244-246.

[33]. American Genealogy, Virkus, vol. 6, pp. 94, 96, 696; Vital Records, Charlton and Leicester, Mass.; Census 1790; Revolutionary Records, D.A.R. and others.

[34]. Old Families of Southeastern Mass.; Beers, vol.1, p. 541.

[35]. Vital Records, Norton, Mass; Dedham Historical Registry, vol. 13, p.33

[36]. Old Families of Southeastern Mass., Beors, vol.1, p. 541; Vital Records, Norton, Mass.; Revolutionary Records, D.A.R. Reports, vol. 91, p. 116, and others; American Almanac, Obituaries, 1836; Census 1790.

[37]. Vital Records, Norton, Mass.; Revolutionary Records, D.A.R. Reports, vols. 96, 109, and others; Census 1790.

[38]. [nothing entered]

[39]. Some of those were negroes and mulattos, evidently slaves or ex-slaves of the family.

[39]. History of Bond County, Ill., McCasslin, and biographical sketches in +Appendix hereto.

[40]. Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, vol. 12, p. 13. The marriage records of Licking County, Ohio, as therein abstracted, record the marriage on November 23, 1815, by Rev. Harris, of "Daniel Morey and Harriet Reynolds". The name should have been shown as David as it is in the original records, a copy of which is included in the +Appendix.

[41]. Lorin Morey, a Civil War soldier, b. October 11, 1838, d. Feb. 3, 1892. Cemetery inscriptions of Centerburg, Knox County, Ohio, published in Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, vol. 13.

[42]. See biographic sketch of Hiram in the +Appendix, also Footnote 40. The latter suggests another reason for suspecting the alleged vigorous mentality of Hiram.

[43]. History of Know County, Hill, b. s. in +Appendix.

[44]. In a letter to me, February 11, 1942, that office stated: "We have made a thorough search of our vital records, but fail to find any record relative to one David Morey (Mowry and other spellings) alleged to have been born in Vermont between 1790 and 1795. We regret that we are unable to be of assistance in his case, and also that of Joseph Morey, father of the above."

[45]. Rutland County, it is said, was originally settled by Puritans from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and has been under five different Powers: Indians, France, England, Independent Republic (177-1791) and State of Vermont. It was organized February 13, 1781, and until 1785 extended (according to the claims of Vermont - disputed by New York) from the northern boundary of Bennington to Canada, and from the Green Mountains to the Hudson River and Lake George and Champlain. History of Rutland County, Smith; Historic Rutland, Brohmer.

[46]. From Preceding page. The census of Vermont was not taken until April-September, 1791.

[47]. In early days Rutland County was thickly infested with wolves and other wild beasts "which often descended from the eastern mountains". History of Rutland County, Smith.

[48]. But, lacking knowledge as to the doing of this Joseph between 1790 and 1827 one might speculate further that he moved from Hartland to Rutland and thence to Licking County; and that after the death of his wife he returned to Hartland and in due season went to Taunton in quest of Charity or for some other reason. It might also supposed with good reason that this Joseph was the son of John, (Note 1). This could dispel the mystery concerning Joseph of Hartland and may be the solution of it. See "Author's Note" at end of chapter.

[49]. Transcripts of these records were filed by Frank Joel Morey of Oakland, Calif, with his application (No. 2049) for membership in the Calif. Chapter, Sons of the Revolution. They are the source of most data concerning these families given on the following pages.

[50]. History of Ulster County, Clearwater, and other records. The application of Frank Joel Morey is based on his descent from this Joseph and it recites these Revolutionary services. He is also a descendant of Stephen (1738-1806) through his son Roger (1765-1842), who married Mercy Morey, the daughter of Joseph; Benjamin 1795-1843); and Leonard (1823-1900). Before seeing these records, I had assumed that Stephen of Washington (1736-1806), great-grandfather of Frank Joel, was also the Stephen of Dutchess County Revolutionary records.

[51]. Land bounty warrants in denominations of 500 acres each were granted for enlistments - one to each enlisted man, two to a Lieutenant, three to a Captain, etc. The monthly salaries were $6-2/3 for privates, $7-2/3 for corporals, $8 for sergeants, $20 for ensigns, $26-2/3 for lieutenants, $40 for captains, $50 for majors, $60 for Lieutenant- colonels, and $75 for colonels. State troops were called to service as needed and sent home when circumstances permitted. they might serve for short periods several times a year and could not be used outside the State for longer than three consecutive months. They were paid only for he actual time in service. Discipline and records of service were somewhat sketchy and soldiers permitted to go home on account of sickness in the family or to harvest crops, etc. frequently were recorded as deserters when not present at musters. New York in the Revolution. Roberts, 2d Edition.

[52]. History of Rutland County, Smith, and other sources.

[53]. New York in the Revolution, Roberts, 2d Edition.

[54]. Gazetteer of Vermont, Heminway, vol.2, p. 592.

[55]. History of Rutland County, Smith; Census 1790 and 1800; Morey Bible Record; Various other records.

[56]. Censuses of 1790 and 1800; New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol. 51, p. 273.

[57]. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 65, p. 53. The Ohio Company of Associates was organized at Boston, March 1, 1786, by Gen. Rufus Putnam of Rutland, Mass. In the winter of 1787-1788, he headed a party of emigrants from Connecticut which founded at Marietta on April 7, 1788, the first permanent white settlement in Northwest Territory. This Company purchased about 1,500,000 acres in southeastern Ohio for 8 or 9 cents an acre, and was granted certain other lands without charge. Each of the 1,000 shares in the Company had a par value of $1,000 in Continental currency or $125.00 in gold. John (1743-1823) and Elisha (1735-1792) were great-great-grandsons of Roger the immigrant. See +Chart M-2b.

[58]. The descendants of George are recorded, it is said, in Orford Centennial, p. 123. This is a rare book or booklet which I have not seen, published to commemorate the founding of Orford, N. H.

[59]. Some of these other Moreys became quite well known. One, Henry Lee Morey (b. 1841) whose grandfather William (b. 1773) moved from Connecticut to Butler County in 1814, was a captain in the Civil War, Prosecuting Attorney, and Congressman (1880-1884) Biog. Cyc. of Ohio, 1884.

[60]. See biographical sketches of William and Rhoda in +Appendix hereto.

[61]. Those and other facts concerning the Granville Colony are taken largely from Hill's History of Licking County and Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, vol. 8.

[*61]. Quare: Did Great-grandfather Joseph and all his lads do this? No other evidence that they were topers has come to my attention.

[62]. Great-great-grandfather Joseph, if my identification of him is correct, was one of these. Also included were two Wilsons, a Captain Archibald, and a Colonel Benjamin. Several of their descendants served in the War of 1812, the Mexican, and the Civil War.

[63]. Among those were "Little Johnny Clem", the "Drummer Boy of Shiloh" who, by enlisting at the age of 11, was the youngest Union soldier and became later a Major General of the regular army. He was one of my Washington acquaintances during the years about 1912-1922. Others included Gen. Rosecrans of Civil War fame, Senator James Wilson of Iowa, later Secretary of Agriculture, several other Generals and Senators and Herbert Howe Bancroft, the noted historian. History of Licking Co., p. 237. Its educational institutions are Denison University, Shepherdson College for Women, Doane Academy, and Danny Doane Home for Missionary Children.

[64]. The following are examples: (a) Philip of Salem was held to Ipswich Court "for suspicion of being in the orchard of Mr. Saltenstall in the time of the exercise the last Sabbath". Essex County Records and Files, vol.1, p. 179. (b) Roger, the immigrant was sued "for rent due and repair of a house"; Essex Co. R. & F., vol. 1, p. 194. (c) "One Anne Morey, a sick stranger, not having wherewithal to support herself, was sent to almshouse to be supported on the Province charge". Boston Records, Nov. 29, 1769. (d) Jonathan and Nathaniel of Norton, Mass. (Revolutionary Records) (e) David and Philip of Rhode Island and Jonathan of New York. The first two were fined, and the latter's estates were confiscated. Revolutionary Records. (f) Jonathan of Norton, Mass., also a Daniel of Albany County, N. Y. Vital Records, Norton, Mass. and N. Y. Gen & Brig. Register. (g) A son of Benjamin did this to "Wm. Smith, the taylor, with a pair of sheep shears". Magazine of New England History, vol. 3, p. 204. (h) Jacob, the Founder, village blacksmith, and inn-keeper in 1800 of Morey's Corners, Dutchess County, N. Y. "While Morey made the anvil ring with his honest strokes, Mrs. Morey attended to the affairs of the inn, especially the "spiritual" part, or the bar, and became her own best customer. Morey was obliged to close the tavern on account of his wife's intemperate habits, and rely exclusively upon his trade for his livelihood. This added to his family's reputation, as the inn was anything but commendable to him or the neighborhood. History of Dutchess County, Smith, p. 468. (i) Other examples are perhaps unnecessary.

[65]. Transcript furnished to me by Henry C. Ashcraft, Probate Judge of Licking County, March 20, 1942

[66]. A lot consisted of 100 acres. Land was then worth from $1.25 to $3 per acre. This Joseph is assumed to be the one that was the husband of Rhoda since he is known to have lived in Milford Township. I have found nothing to suggest that Great-great-grandfather Joseph removed there from Granville. However, the reference to "several" descendants" does not seem to fit in well with the fact that but two children were born to his brother Joseph and Rhoda. The children of these two, if any, must have been rather young when Hill's History was published in 1881. It is possible, therefore, that the reference applied to Gregg Joseph rather than to his son Joseph.

[67]. This noble lady had suffered disappointment in an earlier romance and may have taken Gershem as a consolation prize.

[68]. Forefronted, of course, by daring adventurers among the Wilson-Morey ancestral families.

[69]. How Vandalia lost in the scramble for Capital honors has been thus described: "A feverish campaign for internal improvements spread in the Thirties. By the end of the decade the movement had brought the State to the verge of bankruptcy under a staggering debt of $14,000,000. ... At the same time the question of removing the State Capital from Vandalia arose. Alton, Jacksonville, Peoria, Springfield, and others wanted to succeed it. They also wanted the benefit of internal improvements. Consequently, in the session of 1837, the Sangamon County delegates, called the "long Nine" because all its members, including Abraham Lincoln, were exceptionally tall men, arranged a trade. They voted internal improvements for these towns in return for votes for Springfield as the Capital. ... Lincoln was both strategist and field general". Illinois, American Guide Book Series, Federal Writer's Project, 1939. This piece of political skullduggery was perpetrated despite the fact that in a referendum a short while before, Vandalia had received only a few votes less than Alton, the leading contender. Springfield had practically no popular support. Historic Illinois, Parish. Vandalia had at that time little claim to Capital splendors. Its public buildings included the "State House", a Presbyterian, a Methodist and an undenominational church, and two schools. There were two printing offices (the Free Press and State Register), four taverns, eight stores, two groceries, one clothing store, four lawyers, four physicians, one steam and one water sawmill, and about 850 inhabitants. Gazetteer of Illinois, Peck, 1837

[70]. The statement, p. 128, that Grandfather Henry first went to Vandalia about 1838 has no specific factual basis and is open to some doubt. According to Hiram, Henry was "quite a young man" when he made the trip and "in a short time he married Miss Delia Lockwood and they returned to his old home in the Buckeye State where they remained for a number of years". Probably they were married in 1839, as Leonard, their oldest child, was born in 1840. Such a short stay in Illinois followed by a "number of years" in Ohio, does not fit in well with other statements of Hiram and with other facts. One would infer from Hiram's account that Henry became a wagon-maker after going to Vandalia, and had worked as such there and at Pocahontas and Mulberry Grove before his marriage. To have done these things would have taken considerable time. Moreover, it was not until April 16, 1841, that Hiram "landed in Mulberry Grove and "went to work in the wagon shop of his brother Henry", which some time later he "finally purchased". This development, also, was doubtless time consuming.
It may be that Henry went to Vandalia as early as 1836 or sooner and did not immediately engage in wagon manufacturing. So far as I have found, he was the first Morey to set foot in Fayette County. Yet, there was a Morey Building" in Vandalia while it was still the Capital of the State, as evidenced by the following:
"The frame Morey building, 419 Gallatin St., during Vandalia's heyday was the most pretentious rooming house in town. Lincoln roomed on the second floor while serving in the Legislature, and it was here tradition has it, that he first met Stephen A. Douglas. Today the front of the building is occupied by shops". Illinois, American Guide Book Series, Federal Writers Project, 1939. I f this building did not derive its name from Grandfather Henry, I am unable to imagine what other Morey had the honor of entertaining Abe and Steve.

[71]. History of Fayette County, Brink, 1878; History of Fayette County, Rossand Bullington, 1910.

[72]. Reports, Adjutant General of Illinois, Vol. 8

[73]. The story of Andersonville Prison by John McElroy, once a prisoner there, and later publisher of the National Tribune, affords a picture of what Uncle Ben's experiences must have been like.

[74]. We called her Aunt Mary Leonard to distinguish her from Aunty Mary Lyman (wife of Uncle Lyman). Their homes, about 1/4 mile apart, used the first telephones in my experience. A wire between their houses was attached to a tin disc or the bottom of a tin can inside box-like contrivance which had an open end. Speech projected into one of these home-made phones could be understood by a listener at the other. Ring to gain attention for a call was accomplished by thumping on the box with any convenient implement.

[75]. Marriage Records, Fayette County, County Clerk's Office, Vandalia, Ill.

[76]. See 2nd Report, Federal Coordinator of Transportation. Senate Document No. ___ and Public Aids to Transportation, vols. 1 and 3.

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