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15951	Millie is the daughter of Fred Moore. Parents were both born in Tennessee.	MOORE, Mary Ella MILLIE (I296)
15952	Millie is the daughter of Marion Ferrier & George Depew.	DEPEW, Millie (I908)
15953	Millie is the daughter of of Mary.the 1st & Richard Lawrence Johnston. Mary A Hambly reported the death of brother John Thos. Johnson on Sep 4, 1936, Toronto Western Hospital. . Ontario Death Registration 004076 Mary Amelia Hawley, 365 Melrose Ave., Toronto, widow Born Acton May 17 1873, Aged 72 y. died 2 Jan 1946, Coronary thrombosis, chronic myocarditis, 4 years. Husband The late John R Hambley Father Richard Johnston, born York County, Ontario Maiden name of mother: Unknown, Mary, [Stevenson is crossed out]. Unknown, England. Informer Jennie Taylor, cousin, 3 Jan 1946, 1648 Avenue Rd, Toronto Burial: Hamilton Cemetery.	JOHNSTON, Mary Amellia MILLIE .7 (I666)
15954	Milo Gookins, born in 1800, moved to Vermillion County in 1826, the year Sam apprenticed himself for four fruitful years to pioneer Terre Haute newspaper publisher John Willson Osborn. Gookins wed Osborn’s daughter Mary Caroline on Jan. 23, 1834. Ref: Historical Perspective: The versatility of Judge Samuel Barnes Gookins, By Mike McCormick, 2008 Sep 13. Indiana Marriage2 on 1 Jan 1852, Vigo, Indiana, Milo Gookins married Sarah Civer. 1870 Aug 5 Census, Mill Creek Twp. Fountain Co., Indiana Gooklins, Milo S, Age 69/ 1800 Vermout, Farmer Mary [Worth], Age 59/1810 Ohio, Keeping house Frank B, 23/1846 Indiana, farmer Edward M Gookins, 16/ 1853, Indiana, at home, school. - The New England Genealogical Register traces the genealogy of the GOOKINS FAMILY from the days of King John, & the American branch of it from the original emigrants who was contemporary with Captain . Daniel Gookins (as the name was then written) came to Newport News, Virginia, in the year 1620. He brought with him 50 men & established a colonial settlement at that point. Captain SMITH seems to have thought that this settler had a will of his own. During the Indian troubles, which resulted in the captain's capture, & his release through the intervention of Pocahontas, & order was issued requiring the settlers to abandon their settlements & retire to Jamestown. Captain Smith says that "GOOKIN, at Newport News, having 50 men of his own, refused that order & made good his standing against the savages." Newport News had been almost forgotten until its fame as a military point was revived during the late war. In the days of the commonwealth under Cromwell the Puritans of New England sent their missionaries to the chivalry of Virginia & a son of the original emigrant, bearing his name, became a convert to the Puritan faith. On the restoration of Charles II the general assembly of Virginia passed a law expelling all Nonconformists from the province. The Puritan convert left & went to Boston, of which he became a permanent resident & there remained during his life, in the course of which he rendered important public services, as speaker of the general court or assembly, commander of the army, & as assistant of Elliott in his labors for the civilization & christianizing of the Indians. He was the father of the New England branch of the family. Among his descendants was William Gookins, father of the subject of this sketch. Ref: HISTORY OF VIGO & PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, by H.W. Beckwith - 1880, Terre Haute - pp. 159-164. OBITUARY OF MILO GOOKINS1 Milo Gookins, merchant & miller, Veedersburg, was a native of Vermont. He first emigrated from his native state to Vigo county, Indiana. His early education was but little, but being of a literary turn of mind he indulged his natural fondness so far as he was able, & in early life entered the profession of teaching, which he followed for several years. He began the business of selling goods in Clinton, Indiana, where he remained for a considerable time, when he went to Perrysville, Indiana, engaging in the same business; then moved to Mansfield, Parke county, where he remained 10 years in the business of merchandise. He was also engaged for a time in the business of milling. He moved to Fountain county, Mill Creek township, & shortly after, in 1863, entered the service of the government as agent from this county, in which employment he continued till 1866. Mr. Gookins was first married to Matilda Murphy, then to Mary Barnes, native of Ohio, by whom he had 11 children. Late in life he united with the Methodist church. He was a diligent worker both in the church & in the Sunday school. No one took a more hearty interest in the cause of temperance than he. He lived the life of a christian, strictly moral & temperate in all things. He died in 1870, aged 70 years. His wife died 5 years later, aged 65 years. Mr. Gookins was a staunch republican, & a great admirer of Lincoln. History of Fountain County, Indiana, H.W. Beckwith, 1881  OBITUARY OF MILO GOOKINS2 Mr. Gookins was born in Rupert, Bennington county, Vermont, July 16, 1800. His father, mother & a large family of small children, four younger than himself, removed to Rodman, Jefferson county, New York, in 1812. The father died 2 years after, leaving the mother & children dependent alone upon God & their own efforts to make their way in the world. With a thirst for knowledge which found its chief source of supply in the common school ¤t books, with scanty time to devote to either, he made a rapid progress, & early became a teacher. In 1823 an eddy in the tide of westward emigration drew him into the current, & he, his mother, & a younger brother, a lad of 14, landed from their canoes at Terre Haute. They were, it is believed, the second family that came to the Wabash valley, by what then was known as the northern route, the lakes, the Maumee & the Wabash rivers. Previous to that time, the Indians still having possession of Northern Indiana, the line of travel had been through the white settlement along the Ohio. Mr. Gookins pursued his vocation of a teacher until 1826, when he turned his attention to merchandising, which he followed, at Clinton & Perrysville, until 1850. In 1833-4 he represented Vermilion county in the State legislature. From 1850 to his death he was engaged in farming & milling in Parke & Fountain counties. Soon after the accession of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency he was appointed Indian agent, & was located at farming & milling near Fort Scott, Kansas, a position for which his unswerving integrity & familiar acquaintance with the Indian character gave him rare fitness. Mr. Goons was a man remarkable for his modesty, his integrity & his firm adherence to Christian principles. He was educated a Congregationalist, but having married first into the family of Mr. John Murphy, of Edgar county, Illinois, & after his first wife's death, into that of the late James Barnes, of Vigo county, both staunch & prominent men in the Methodist denomination, he went to that communion, where he remained until his death. He was a frequent contributor to the local press & was a clear & forcible writer & an earnest & able advocate of all moral & social reforms. Another of Indiana's pioneers is gone. Born in 1800, in the march of our marvelous progress he had kept step with the century, little thinking when pushing his canoe up the Maimee & down the Wabash, by the Indian wigwams of the period, of the ocean telegraph or the Pacific railroad. He may have expected to see lands worth $20 per acre ,but had little thought of lands that would command $1.25 per acre, bearing marble palaces, farming & milling valued at $3000 per foot. Yet, he & such as he, sowed the seed of the harvest we are gathering. If we imitate their energy & copy their virtues we, in our turn, shall be the pioneers of a still more glorious future. Milo Gookins died August 18th, 1870, at his home, Steam Corner, Fountain county, Indiana. Ref: The Attica Redge, published Sept. 1,1870 & include in Ye Gookins Family, Mrs. Mary M Gookins Martin, Attica, Indiana 1909. - - -	GOOKINS, Milo S (I711)
15955	Milton	WILKINSON, Francis FRANK (I1024)
15956	Milton culver was Maryalma's third husband.	Family (F98)
15957	Milton Elwood Goodmurphy was a veteran of WW1. He is buried in Mapleridge Cemetery east of Thessalon, Ontario.	GOODMURPHY, Milton Elwood (I219)
15958	Milton Foster died at Patricia Bay (out west) during WWII. He was a pilot and was training, when his plane went down.	FOSTER, Milton Arnoldi (I311)
15959	Milton is the son of Elizabeth S Schaller & Hamilton ADams.	ADAMS, Milton (I1798)
15960	Milton is the son of Mary E Jacobs & Wm. Teetzel.	TEETZEL, Milton THOMAS (I1379)
15961	Milwaukee.	TEETZEL, Elizabeth Jane .ii (I296)
15962	Mimico (Etobicoke), Toronto. Monument 16.5 Verify this Matthew Hall.	HALE, Matthew (I322)
15963	Minden, ON.	BROWN, Pearl Jean Marion (I772)
15964	Minden, Ontario	DUCK, Nora (I1260)
15965	Minerva married 24 May 1854 to Thomas Earle, born 1830, Gwillimbury. Their child is: Richard Thomas Earl, b 13 Aug 1855.	WILLSON, Minerva (I165)
15966	Minneapolis, Minnesota, Plow W 6746.	TOPPING, James ALLAN (I443)
15967	Minneapolis.	BOSTWICK, Lardner .ii (I144)
15968	Minnesota	Family (F678)
15969	Minnie Belle is the daughter of Amine Vanderdecken Sage, b.1940 Ohio & Sylvester Marquis LaRue., b. 1832 Sep 7, Cayuga, New York. . Minnie married1 on 20 Sep 1882, Angola, Indiana to Geo. C. Taylor & their children: Pierre Caryl Walker, b 12 Aug 1883, Hicksville, Ohio - d. 7 Nov 1956 Los Angeles & Morris (Maurice) LaRue Walker, b. Dec 1885, Ohio, d. 11 Mar 1971, Los Angeles. . Minnie married 2nd, 6 June 1891 to Edward R Walker. Their son: Vernon Walker, b. May 1894, Detroit. - - -	LARUE, Isabelle MINNIE BELLE (I538)
15970	Minnie Caroline Friederike Maria Glawe	GLAWE LUTZOW, Minnie Wilhelmine C (P217)
15971	Minnie is the daughter of Cynthia Roszel and Casper Fink.	FINK, Willemina MINNIE (I665)
15972	Minnie is the daughter of Geo. McFarlane (or Geo. M. Farlane?) amd Auvilla Maxfield.	MCFARLANE, Minnie M (I1387)
15973	Minnie is the daughter of Isabella and William Nicholson.	NICHOLSON, Minnie (I986)
15974	Minnie is the daughter of Johanna & Wm. Smith. . 1909 - Mrs. E D Johnston of Cranbrook, BC is visiting at the home of Mr. Robert Johnston. Acton Free Press, 24 Jun 1909, p. 3 - - -	SMITH, Mary Eleanor MINNIE (I939)
15975	Minnie is the daughter of Mary Darroch & George M Walker. Birth date is after the 1861 Census, Erin Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario Not present on Apr 21 1861 with mother, brother, father - nor 1871 Census, with father & bro. on Hamilton Census. - - -	WALKER, Mary J .3 (I284)
15976	Minto farmed the homestead in the 1950's. RESID: Bullock Sideroad, Mersea Twsp. OCCU: farmer and reeve RELIG: unknown	NOBLE, Minto Prosper (I229)
15977	Minutes of an Inquiry into the State of Davidson & Cort's Grant, 1785 NB	Source (S68)
15978	Miriam is the third daughter of Mary Smith & Richard Griffin. Mississauga Native Names in Ontario: distance from Niagara named streams by their natural features: Red Cedar (4 Mile Creek), Small Alder (5 Mile), White Cedar Place (8 Mile); Eagle's Nest Place (10 Mile); Last Creek - in going down (12 Mile - today's St. Catharines); Salt Lick where deer resort (40 Mile - today's Grimsby). The carrying place over Burlington Beach (the long sandbar separating Burlington Bay from Lake Ontario) "place where a small kind of turtles lay their eggs." 12 Mile now Bronte Creek, "that which lies at the end," 16 Mile , now Oakville) Creek, "having two outlets" - probably a sand bar divided the river into two beaches at its mouth. Missinnihe River, "the Credit or Trusting Creek," derived its name from the traders, who annually assembled here & gave the First Nations credit for the following year. TORONTO was the portage leading from the mouth of the Humber to the Holland River, Mississauga took to mean looming of trees. Ref: Ontario Historical Society, 1996. Death Notice MEREDITH . 1856 Jun 16 - Mrs. Marion [sic] was born, April 15, 1765, in the township of Coeymans, Albany County, N.Y., came to Canada in 1788, & married Charles Meredith, May 17, 1793. She was converted in 1781, in the village of Smithville. She died, March 17, 1856; survived by a number of children & grandchildren. The funeral was held in the Wesleyan Chapel, Smithville, Ontario. - - -	GRIFFIN, Miriam (I20)
15979	Mirium Ann is twin to Martha Ann Felker. Children of Alexander & Mirium Ann Felker are: . Wm. McDonald, 30 Cot 1848, Belwood, Wellington Co.- 22 Apr 1898, Hamilton, Ont. . Lewis Alexander McDonnell, 4 Mar 1851, Hamilton, ON. - 22 Dec 1928, Hamilton. . Mary Ann McDonnell, 1856 Hamilton - 12 Jul 1888, Hamilton . Frederick E McDonnell. . DEATH OF MRS. MACDONALD: April 22, 1898, Hamilton, Ontario She was the first white child born in Garafraxa.* Mrs. Miriam MacDonald, widow of the late Alex MacDonald, for many years a trusted employee of the hardware firm of Juson & Co., died yesterday in her 71st year. Mrs. MacDonald was born in Garafraxa Township, Wellington, & was the first white women born there. She had been a resident of Hamilton for 52 years, & notwithstanding her great age, retained her physical vigor until a short time before her last illness. She was well known & universally respected. . She leaves 3 sons - William MacDonald of the Dog & Gun Hotel, York Street; Lewis MacDonald, milk inspector & Fred MacDonald of Detroit. The funeral will make place tomorrow afternoon at 3:30. Note: * Mirium is the twin to Martha Ann & had 2 older sisters born in Garafraxa Twp. However her two eldest brothers were born in Lincoln County, Ontario. - PJA 2010. - - -	FELKER, Mirium Ann MARY (I208)
15980	Miss Joe (Miss J.W.) Wise, dau. of Mr. Lee Wise of Afton (Barbour County) and Mr. Will (W.S.) Houston were married by Rev. W.H. Chambers last Thursday. Sources: Text: Foley, Helen S. MARRIAGE ABSTRACTS from Barbour County, Alabama Newspapers 1890-1905. Eufaula, AL.	HOUSTON, William S. (I2579)
15981	Miss Louella Marie Fossum was killed at 12:45 AM on Sunday December 11, 1959 due to injuries received in a fatal collission between her vehicle and a semi tractor trailer on the Black Sturgeon bridge, 12 miles west of Nipigon. Miss Fossum was heading from Port Arthur to Red Rock.	FOSSUM, Louella Marie (I3825)
15982	Miss Monte is the daughter of John Monte, Route 3, Benton Harbor. . 1953 Jan 29 - Next Saturday Jan 31, is the date set for the wedding of Miss Eleanor Monte & Blaine Hewitt, which is to be solemnized at 4 o'clock at the First Presbyterian church.All friends & relatives of the young couple are invited to the church ceremony but the reception which follows at the home of Mr Hewitt's parents, 652 Buss Ave. will be for only immediate relatives & intimate friends. . 1953 Jan 29 - Miss Monte was guest of honor at a bridal shower given by Mrs Leo Hewitt, 537 Buena Vista ave. sister-in-law of the prospect bridegroom, Tues. evening. 14 guests attended the event at the hostess' home. Ref: News Palladium newspaper, Benton Harbor, MI. - - -	Family (F1284)
15983	Miss Phebe was married 6 months after the death of her father & one month before her sister Caroline also married. Guelph, Ontario was the closest largest town at the time of her birth. Her grandparents Mary & Henry Catchpole lived in Guelph. . 1852 Census Garafraxa Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario: Pheby Paterson, Age 2 /b.1840. . 1870 Census Upton Twp., Texas Co., MO. Phebe Patterson, 19 years /b1851, Keeping house, Born in Canada, both parents foreign born. . Phoebe & John resided at Ellis Prairie which is about 8 miles northwest of Houston where her father Richard Patterson lived. . State of Missouri, County of Texas. This is to certify that I solemnized the rite of matrimony between John S Myers & Miss Phebe Patterson, this July 2,1871. Signed, James Sitton, J.P. Recorded July 29, 1871. . 1880 Census, Lynch, Texas Co., Missouri John S Myers, Phoebe, Wilburn M, Mary C., Nancy E Patterson, Missouri. . 1910 Census, Lynch Texas Co, Missouri John S Myers, Phebe, Herbert, Grandson, age 12/ b 1898, Missouri. . Census 1910: Phebe Myers [Patterson] born Canada, Parents born England. Married 30 years / 1870. . 1920? - Jan 2nd - 5th Census, Lynch, MO. Herbert R Myers, 22 y /1898 married, General Farming Gladis, 20 y / 1909 married. b Missouri. John S Myers and wife Phebe Myers. . Ellis Prairie, A village northwest of Houston in Lynch Township. A post-office since 1879. Named for Washington Asa Ellis, a pioneer in the region. * LETTER. To Caroline Patterson Sitton, Ellis Prairie, MO., October [Estimated about 1890]. Dear Sister. I received your welcome letter & was glad to hear from you. We are all well & I hope these few lines will find you the same. I think you have had quite a ramble. I guess you will settle down now, but if you do take another wild goose chase, you must let us know where you are. I was glad to hear you are getting along as well as you are. I have lost one child since I wrote to you. It would have been 2 years old if it had lived. It is hard for us to give up our children. Not our will be done but the great Creator's who gives all we have. We are getting along very well. We have two farms. We live at the old place now. We have a good house. A frame house, seven rooms, 2. upstairs & 4 downstairs. We built our new house west of the old one. We use the old house for a wash house & smoke house. We have a well close to the kitchen door. The old folks is getting along tolerable well. They are not able to work much now. John & Monroe has planted & tended their corn for the last 3 years. They tend their garden & berry patches themselves. They are getting very childish. Grandma, that is what I always call her, can talk as much as she use to & grandpa jokes & is as funny as ever. Him & John has gone to town today. Ella & Laura is gone to school. Monroe is teaching school about three miles from home. He boards at home. I am alone. I wish you was here with me. I can talk so much better than I can write. Brother John is in Lewis Co., Washington. He settled on a new place. He wrote he had built a very good house & had some new land cleared up. He has lots of help. They have 4 boys big enough to work on the farm. Sister Mary [nee Patterson, Mrs. Felker] came out to see us last winter. She is a nice neat plain industrious woman & good company. I miss her so much when she left. Oh how I wish you would come to see us this winter. Aunt Sarah Findley got her arm broke last winter & she can't us her had yet. She is getting so old & feeble. She is nearly blind. Uncle Ezek is not able to work much now. I will send you 2 pieces. The pink is Ellas & Lauras' dresses & the black is mine. I will send you more next time. I will close. Tell the children to write. Good by. Write soon. [Phebe Myers to Caroline Sitton [estimated period around 1890 i.e., Monroe grown, maybe 18. - Jewel Sitton.] Page 5. I will send you the picture with this letter. If you don't get it I wish you would let me know. When Monroe comes home I want to get his Ella & Laura's pictures all taken together. If I do I will send you one. Now don't forget to send me yours Cicero & all the Children pictures. Aunt Sarah & Uncle Ezkiel is alive yet. They are nearly blind. Aunt Sarah said to tell you seem see? Ref: Tom Treat. 2009. . OBITUARY: Mrs Phebe Myers, whose maiden name was Patterson, was born in Canada July 28, 1850. In 1860 the family came to Texas County, Missouri, settling on a farm some 2 miles NE of Dykes, MO., where she grew to womanhood. On July 2, 1871, she was united in the holy bonds of Matrimony to J S Myers. To this union 5 child were born, 3 of who preceded here to the Great Beyond, one dying in infancy. Mary C Myers died Dec 21 1884, at the age of 11 years & Dr. Wm. Monroe Myers died Nov 1, 1903 at the age of 31 years. Ella, now the wife of H W Evans, resides on a farm near Roubidoux in the western part of Texas County, & Laure, wife of Roy Clark, lives on a farm with her family at Yelm, Washington. Herbert Myers, a grandson, who Mrs. Myers reared from childhood, lives on a farm with his family adjoining the home place where she spent many happy days. Lizze Wilson, a sister lives at Plum Valley, MO., & another sister, if not dead, resides in Canada. Aunt Phebe was converted in 1874 & later joined the Baptist church at Plum Valley, Mo., & has always lived a devoted, consistent Christian life. After a brief illness, she died on Jan 9, 1929, making her age at the time of death 78 years 5 months & 11 days. Aunt Phebe, as she was familiarly known, was loved & respected by all who know her, & number her friends & by her acquaintances. She was laid to rest at Emery cemetery by the side of those of her family who had preceded her, surrounded by a large number of relatives & friends. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Tillery of Houston. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank all our relatives & friends who so kindly assisted us by act & deed during the sickness & death of our dear wife & mother. May God bless her. J S Myers, Ella Evans & Family, Herbert Myers & Family. - - -	PATTERSON, Phebe Evie (I11)
15984	Missionary in India.	HENDRICKSON, Mary Elizabeth (I2399)
15985	Mississauga, Peel Co.	BRIDGELAND, James William (I1045)
15986	Missouri or Nebraska?	WEEKS WAGNER, Margaret Ann (P6728)
15987	Missouri Veterans Cemetery at Springfield	CHALMERS, James Scott (P4455)
15988	Missouri, Plot Section g, Row 10.	BAUCH, Herbert Fikes HERBIE (I286)
15989	Mitchell Willson is the son of Eleanor Mitchell & John Stephen Willson. Mitchell Willson married Alihey? Sylvester. . 1949 Mar 16, St. Louis Post Dispatch newspaper, p28 Partial Obituary: Mitchell Willson, died March 14. …beloved husband x Sylverster, Late John S Willson, John E Willson. - - -	WILLSON, Arthur MITCHELL .iv (I219)
15990	Mitta daughter of Lizzie Lloyd & William Baskett. . 1920 Jan 12 Census San Francisco, California Mitta Willson, Head, 38 y 1882, Divorced, B. Missouri. Rents. Service work Cafeteria work. - - -	BASKETT, Mitta (I221)
15991	Mitta daughter of Lizzie Lloyd & William Baskett. . 1920 Jan 12 Census San Francisco, California Mitta Willson, Head, 38 y 1882, Divorced, B. Missouri. Rents. Service work Cafeteria work. - - -	BASKETT, Mitta (I696)
15992	Mobile, Alabama.	MOORE, HerBERT Roland (I1917)
15993	Mobile.	DECKER, Maude Lenette (I3027)
15994	Moe Hale is the son of Matthew Hale & Lily E Heard. Moe Hale married Miss Norma; two Hale children.	HALE, Maurice MOE (I504)
15995	Molly is the daughter of Eleanor Clay & Charles Earl Lawrence.	LAWRENCE, Molly (I1489)
15996	Molly is the daughter of Jacob Compton, b 1749. REVOLUTIONARY REMINISCENCES Pretty Molly Compton spent eight years of her girlhood in the din and dangers of the Revolutionary War. Her father, Jacob Compton, owned theThomas Guest place in Bonhamtown before, during, and after the struggle for independence. Molly was six years old when the war began, and was fourteen when it ended. She saw Count Van Donop and his famous Hesse-Cassel musketeers march away in the direction of New Brunswick. She saw Sir William Howe and his royal army as they undertook to cross overNew Jersey into Pennsylvania. She saw them return a few days later quite crestfallen from a five days' interview they had with General Washington and his forces, near Middlebrook. She saw the Hessians falling back to Amboy after their fierce but futile attack on Fort Mercer. The brave men made a halt in front of her father's house. The road known as the King's Highway was blocked with footmen, dragoons, baggage wagons, and artillery. In the rear was a moving hospital, followed by a funeral procession. The ambulance contained dead and seriously wounded soldiers. To pass the jam, and hurry on to the surgeons awaiting their arrival in Amboy, the drivers turned their horses from the road, breaking down the fences and crossing the garden. In passing the house Molly saw the wounded and dying and their blood dripping from the wagons in which they were riding. Last of all came a hearse, and in it was all that was left on earth of Count Van Donop. His war horse was led by a groom, and across the saddle was tied and thrown the military boots of the late ambitious leader. Count Van Donop was a British hireling, but he was one of nature's noblemen for all that. He fell in the glacis of Fort Mercer mortally wounded while leading his men against our intrepid defenders. As he was about breathing his last he said: "I fall a victim of my own ambition, and to the avarice of my prince, but full of thankfulness for the good treatment I have received from my generous enemy." Colonel Webster was sent with a regiment of troops from Amboy to strengthen their lines near Bonhamtown. The Colonel took possession of the Jerome Ross house, and quartered his men in the best buildings he could find in the village and neighborhood. Jesse Compton and family were driven into their low chamber while the British occupied the ground floors of the little building. Soon after taking possession, the troops rolled a barrel of gunpowder into the cellar for safe keeping. This created much uneasiness in the minds of the citizens of the upper half story, but Colonel Webster ordered it so to be, and from his commands there was no appeal. Later in the year Webster and his men moved to the South and took part in the battle of Camden under Lord Cornwallis. A Colonel Webster, probably the one whose headquarters were in the Jerome Ross mansion a portion of the year 1779, was killed in the battle of Guilford Court-house, in NorthCarolina, March 15th, 1781. Molly Compton heard the booming of cannon at the battle of Monmouth on the 28th of June, 1778. She personally knew Molly Pitcher who took a conspicuous part in the struggle after her husband had been killed by the British in the bloody encounter. One day, while standing at a window of the Thomas Guest house, she saw a fine-looking man approaching on the road leading in the direction of Metuchen. He was superbly mounted on a dapple gray, whose mane and tail, white as the driven snow, were cavorting with the wind. Molly thought she had never seen such a fine-looking man, such a splendid equestrian. He turned the corner on the gallop as if going to New Brunswick, but halted in front of the house, dismounted, and then led his beautiful horse into a blacksmith shop near at hand. A few minutes were spent in having a shoe tightened on the animal, and then, coming out, the man remounted his steed and was "off to the wars again." It was General Washington. While making the Jerome Ross house in Bonhamtown his headquarters in1779, the British commander, Col. Webster, did not rest on a bed of roses. He favored the Tory element, and oppressed those he called rebels. He would pay gold to the Tory and confiscate property belonging to the Patriot, when he needed supplies. Foraging parties were sent out to buy and to plunder. Loyal farmers and dealers could sell and obtain good prices and good pay, while their neighbors, if Patriots, could seldom sell at any figure, nor were they allowed to retain what they had if the Colonel's men wanted it. This engendered such bitter feeling that men outside of military organizations united in small numbers to oppose what they termed the British marauders. Five men, well mounted, decided to do what they could in this direction.They kept in or near the camp of the American army a portion of the time; but when the exigencies of war encouraged, they made excursions along the British lines, or across them, to intercept parties taking supplies to the enemy. The little band knew every road and lane and drift way in this part of Middlesex County. These men watched Colonel Webster and his troops and weighed their doings and probable purposes with eagle eyes and the courage of lions. The leader of the scouts, Joseph Thickstun, had a sister Mary, living near Bonhamtown, who was as bold and patriotic as he. Somehow she knew when he and his four comrades would be in the neighborhood. She could not give them shelter in her home, as Tories would make speedy report to Colonel Webster. She did a better thing than that. There was a place not far away called the Swamp, near the Raritan. The men would leave Bound Brook, or some other place in the vicinity of the American army, in time to reach the Swamp after dark. Here they were sure to find a basket of provisions suitable for the not over fastidious appetite of a hungry soldier. To reach the spot, the men were obliged to pass the British lines near Stelton, Bonhamtown, or Valentine's. They remained in the Swamp until the following evening. Soon after dark they turned out to reconnoitre. One night they came upon a party driving a flock of sheep to Bonhamtown. They put the men under guard and drove the sheep to the mountains, and then to General Washington's forces, where half starved volunteers tickled their palates with mutton, and thanked the scouts profoundly between mouthfuls. When the shepherds reported their mishap, and did not know who were their captors nor whence they came nor whither they went, there was wrath and profanity in Bonhamtown. A second excursion with similar results created almost a panic, and plans as well as execrations against the perpetrators filled the minds of the Colonel, his aids, and abettors. The "Red Coats" were called dunces and idiots, interlaced with expletives. A Tory came into town and believed that Mary Thickstun knew more about the raids than ought to be known by a loyal subject of King George. Proof was so strong against her that the Colonel thought it might be well to have her watched. Accordingly he sent a Scotch sergeant with 6 men under orders to shoot her if seen 6 rods from her house after dark. Her brother William, who lived on a farm, now known as the Mumford-Wilson place, and his family talked the matter over at the breakfast table. A lad of 14 years listened intently, and before finishing the morning meal, had decided what to do. His name was Lewis. He was William's oldest son. He was proud of such an auntie, and she doted on him. He did the chores at the barn, feeding forty-five head of cattle, ninety fat sheep, a span of horses, pigs, turkeys, ducks,geese, pigeons, chickens, all that an industrious and prosperous farmer usually had in that day, and then started in quest of his uncle Joseph. He took an out-of-the-way lane, and crossed the British lines without challenge. Before night he found his uncle in the American camp, nicely located between spurs of the Watchhung Mountains. He lost no time in telling his story. In half an hour the five scouts were in their saddles. They were after larger game, this time, than sheep. Before morning they were in theSwamp, near the Raritan. They found no basket of provisions this time on the well-known stump. Mary knew that she was under guard, and didn't know that her brother and his friends were risking their lives to save hers. The hours dragged slowly along. Finally night came with her friendly mantle to hide them from their dangerous foes. Emerging from their safe retreat, they called on Mary, who told them in whispers that the Scotch sergeant and his armed men were in the little building not ten rods away.Thither they crept. The Scotchman and his squad were not so watchful as they might have been. They were playing "seven up," and deeply absorbed in the game. Each won a booby prize. There was no way of egress but by 2 windows and a door. One scout was to stand at each window, and threat the door, to prevent escape. To break open the door was to be the beginning of the attack, and the first blow was the signal for the men at the windows to smash them in and demand surrender. The door held a few moments, but the windows yielded at once. Six of the seven astonished inmates gave up their guns at once, but the Sergeant showed fight. He was cocking his musket to fire as Joseph gained the open doorway, and in a moment more would have fixed him. Joseph, although a man not thirsting for gore, was too quick for him. He blazed away without taking much aim and shot off the Sergeant's right index finger. This put a sudden end of the attempt to cock his gun, and he too surrendered. Each side took a good look at the other. Seven unarmed men, if they were proud Britons, were no match for 5 determined and doubly armed Yankees. "Walk out!" said Joseph. "Form in line! Halt!" The new commander's orders were promptly obeyed. The scouts vaulted hurriedly into their saddles, and "Forward, march!" greeted the ears of the discomfited seven. Joseph did not wish to disturb the slumbers of the Colonel and his men, scarcely half a mile distant. He was thinking of his own safety, and self-preservation only, induced him to discharge his carbine when the Scotchman was making haste to kill him. As it was, pickets heard the report and guns were soon popping all along the "King's Highway" in both directions from Colonel Webster's headquarters. Men were soon rushing hither and thither, officers were calling, fifes were screaming, drums were pounded. Molly Compton heard the din. Her eyes were wide open. She was soon at the window. She said she had never before heard such a hubbub at Bonhamtown. It seemed more like a riot than the proceedings of members of a disciplined army. They knew the scouts were out again, and glory or shame would be theirs on the morrow. Of course the troopers were in a hurry, but the Scotchman and his men were not. The Sergeant was corpulent, and to make the required time, was obliged to trot now and then on his night parade. He found room, however, to put in some bristling interjections about the "damned rebels." Just then, sometimes, he would feel a prick of his lately surrendered bayonet in some tender spot in the rear, and would conclude that discretion was more useful if not so ornamental as profanity, and would trot on. The line of march was probably by way of Piscatawaytown, New Durham and so onto the American army in the vicinity of Bound Brook. At any rate, the the vicinity scouts escaped unharmed from the many dangers which hovered closely around them from the moment of the capture to their arrival in the vicinity of the mountains. General Washington received the scouts with thanks, and took care of their crest-fallen footmen. The gallant Englishmen detailed by a British officer and led by a Scotchman to shoot an amiable woman, armed with a basket of provisions for her brother, were taken to New York and exchanged for 7 American soldiers in the Sugar House there. After the encounter with the Scotchman and his disgruntled comrades,Joseph Thickstun and his associated remained near the American army, helping wherever and whenever they could be useful. His brave young nephew, Lewis, knew better than to return to his home and be hung by the British as a spy. He was too young to carry a musket and endure the hardships of a trained militiaman, but he clung to the army, acting as a courier, and doing all he could in its interest until it was disbanded with the benedictions of the entire nation in 1783. The whole story of the raid was soon known to Colonel Webster, and a small force was sent to arrest and take William Thickstun before that austere officer. He was charged with the grave crime of being a father of a degenerate son, a crime so common that it sometimes, in the estimation of army officers, ceases to be a sin. The accused knew nothing about the plans of his brave boy before they developed into action. William had no part in the undertaking which led to the capture of the Scotchman and his men. This so appeared at the trial, and the Colonel let him off with the warning that he must expect to pay for the luxury of being the father of a reprobate. A day or so later Webster sent men to view the farm. They were clothed with military authority to confiscate the 45 head of cattle, 90 sheep, span of horses, pigs, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigeons,chickens, and every moving thing which belonged to the unfortunate William Thickstun, for the use and behoof of the British stationed atBonhamtown, Perth Amboy, and New Brunswick. Did they take them? Well, yes, every hoof, wisp of wool, bristle, wing, and feather. It was a big haul, but was too small for the greedy British. Soon afterward, redcoats were quartered in the kitchen, dining room, parlors, and bedrooms. Dirty Hessians crawled into spare beds, too lazy or too boozy to pull off their army shoes. Cockneys, fresh from London, turned into effeminate? cooks, They burned wined and dined on oysters and viands from the pantry and cellar. They burned down the orchard and cut up posts and rails which had served as fences. All the small outbuildings were torn down and used as kindling wood. The place which had blossomed as a rose was as desolate as the scouts' camp in the swamp. When Lewis returned from the war in April, 1783, he found none of his barnyard pets where he left them one morning in 1779, but he was not upbraided. He was honored and beloved by all good citizens who knew him. His father saw him while yet a great way off and ran and met him. There was no fatted calf, or even duck or chicken to kill, but the faithful lad was most welcome. His aunt shook him and hugged him and kissed him. Best of all, if possible, Molly Compton received him with open arms. Ref: by Carrie St. John's grandfather Lewis William Thickstun - - -	COMPTON, Mary MOLLY (I771)
15997	Molly Pearl does not show up in the LDS US Worth County 1880 Census with the rest of James M and Martha Houstons family. Martha nor Molly Pearl belong to this family group and need to be located elsewhere when that relationship becomes established.	HOUSTON, Molly Pearl (I998)
15998	Monday	LAWRENCE, John Brown Esq., Jr. (I379)
15999	Monday	Family (F445)
16000	Monday, by Rev. Mr. Cooke	Family (F416)