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Josephs Family History

A mostly American story for the children of the Josephs, Paige, and Callister families

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American ancestors of Alice Vernon Wilson

The story of where Alice Vernon Wilson came from is really the story of her mother, Mary…

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  • Early texting, 1938 edition
  • Grandpa effects an Arctic rescue
  • Grandpa explains the mosquito
  • Memories of Stottville: dogs, donkeys, ducks & other critters
  • Memories of Stottville – Kitty Jenks
  • The 6th Regiment, or: how Sgt. Stott defeated Napoleon and underestimated the Americans
  • The rise and fall of Stottville
  • Jonathan Stott, 1793-1863
  • The Great Falls at Paterson, New Jersey
  • John Colt the younger, ca. 1661-1751
  • Sir William Lovelace, Knight of Bethersden
  • Thomas Baxter, a somewhat unpleasant person
  • The first American Colt
  • Have a pedigree why don’t you
  • The Oranjeboom expedition of 1625

Historical Notes

  • The first colonial Jews
  • The Great Migration, 1620-1642
  • King Philip’s War
  • The oldest tallit in America
  • The College Heights Low Down, 1937-1940

Family Trees

  • Aaron Keppel Josephs
  • Lyman Colt Josephs
  • Dorothy Stott Pearson
  • John Magoun Pearson
  • Kate Stott
  • Alice Vernon Wilson

Immigrants

  • Josephs, Wilson, Pearson & Stott immigrants by year
  • The ships they came in on
  • The Mary and John
  • The Oranjeboom

Places

  • Cole’s Harbor, Baltimore
  • The fevered swamps of New Hampshire
  • The Great Falls at Paterson
  • Hartford: blecchh, but still
  • A house called “Louisiana”
  • The Hugh Wilson house
  • Schenectady
  • Spuyten Duyvil Hill
  • Memories of Stottville (1) (2)
  • The rise and fall of Stottville

Ancestor Bios

Lyman Colt Josephs

  • American ancestors of Lyman Colt Josephs
  • John Colt, ca. 1630-ca. 1713
  • John Colt, ca. 1661-1751
  • Abraham Isaacks, d. 1743
  • Mathers, Woodwards, Pomeroys & Lymans

Alice Vernon Wilson

  • American ancestors of Alice Vernon Wilson
  • Elizabeth Aucher, 1561-1627
  • Rev. Humphrey Cole, 1572-1624
  • Thomas Cole, 1603-1679
  • Serjeant William Lovelace, ca. 1527-1577
  • Sir William Lovelace of Bethersden, 1561-1629

John Magoun Pearson

  • Rev. Peter Bulkeley, 1583-1659
  • Samuel Libby, 1783-1857
  • William Pynchon, 1590-1662
  • Richard Swain, 1600-1682
  • John Warren, 1585-1667

Kate Stott

  • (Mostly) American ancestors of Kate Stott
  • Thomas Baxter, ca. 1626-
  • A few of the later Pearsons & Stotts
  • Stott ancestors, Bronx division 
  • Jonathan Stott (1) (2) (3)
  • Wolffaert Van Kouwenhoven, 1580-1662

Interesting Kith & Kin

  • John Corish Devereux
  • Jane Charlotte Stott

Fun Stuff

  • Trouble in church
  • Trouble with Indians
  • Trouble with witches
  • We’re rich! (oh, the land we used to own…)

Family history to check out if you happen to be visiting…

  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • New York City
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Mississippi
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • Virginia

British Isles

  • England
  • Isle of Man
  • Northern Ireland
  • Scotland

Holland

Germany

Categorized Tag Cloud

Wilheit Plumb Peckham Almy Weller immigrant Brasbrigg Clark Benson Van de Walle Jacobs Lovelace Gass Wroth Le Chevalier Warner Levering Holdridge Gardner Jenkes Despenser Bogert Cole Oldton Curwen Gorsuch Blackburn Shoemaker Willey Josephs Ambrose Garrard Ensign Betenham Scott Woodward Knutsworth Hill Hall Thompson Rockett Colt Isaacks Stott Tippett Van Schaick Stanford Tyrell Barne Dingley Walker Briggs Nethermill Stevens Seavey Oakley Lord Mears Van Gelder Ryers Hatfield Schulke Oliver Adams Cornell Delameter Green Osborne Alsopp Morris Haute Skinner Braviers Bulkeley Baxter Hantschin Lewes Roome Roesen Mathews Brooke Rawson Eynsham Goodwin Chauncy Polock Van Deusen De Groot Betts Rich Wilson Mather Righter Baker Loomis Hargrave Charlesworth Halliwell Pynchon Armitage Pearson Fischer Stansbury Hosford Schumacher Church Pomeroy Lyman Libby Boteler Bennet Easton Aucher Clayton Van Kouwenhoven Hillson Hickes Arundel Boekrs Cornwallis Long Barlowe Sandys Morske Gysin Mueller Whetenhall Mott Roos Colles Taylor Bordley Chaplin Esselstyne Johnston Dixon Jaggor Harden Locke Wilsford Stanley Smith Spies Jung Newdigate Bogart Deards Gerstein Frowicke Rand

Books by Ancestors

  • Bulkeley, Peter (Rev.), The Gospel Covenant, 1646.
  • Pearson, Jonathan, A history of the Schenectady patent in the Dutch and English times, 1883.
  • Pearson, Jonathan, Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, From 1662 to 1800, 1872.
  • Pearson, Jonathan, The Diary of Jonathan Pearson, Vol. 1 and 2, 1828-1875. His “thinking book.”
  • Pearson, Jonathan, Early records of the city and county of Albany, and colony of Rensselaerswyck, 5 volumes.
  • Pynchon, William, The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, 1650. “Derogatory!” “Erroneous!” “Unsound!” “Heretical!” said the Puritans.

Ancestors in Books

  • Asbridge, Thomas. The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones. William Marshal is a Pearson and Wilson ancestor.
  • Brooks, Geraldine. Caleb’s Crossing, 2011. A Wampanoag Indian attends Harvard; president Charles Chauncy in residence.
  • Butler, Jo Ann. Rebel Puritan: A Scandalous Life. The story of Herodias Long.
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Hamatreya,” from Poems, 1847. Paints Rev. Peter Bulkeley as prideful, focused on the wrong things, and, despite his great importance, dead.
  • Greer, Bill. The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan: A Novel of New Amsterdam. Cameo appearance by an odious Thomas Baxter.
  • Rapaport, Diane. The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England, 2007. Rev. Peter Bulkeley, Rev. Charles Chauncy, William Pynchon, and John Pynchon are all featured. 
  • Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World. George Baxter, Thomas Baxter, and Jacob Van Kouwenhoven all appear.
  • Williams, William Carlos. Paterson, epic poem in five volumes, 1946-1958. Peter Colt and Roswell Colt both mentioned.

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