From: "Linda & David Carr" Subject: Lake - Beardsley Error Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:16:52 -0700 Below is the correspondence between Barbara Peters and I concerning the non-marriage between David Lake, b. 1724, and Sarah Beardsley. In her family tree on Ancestry.com, she has this union. We have since proven it is incorrect, but she is unable to remove it from Ancestry.com. The proof also appears below. Thanks a lot. Linda ================================================= ================================================= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda & David Carr" To: "Barbara Peters" Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:09 AM Subject: Re: Lake - Beardsley Error Hi Barbara, Thanks for trying. There are a couple of things you can do to try and set the record straight. You can put a post-it on the pages of Sarah and David clarifying the error. Anyone can do this, so you shouldn't have a problem. Also, we can send our correspondence or a note of some kind to Marshall for his website, so when future genealogists look them up they'll see that you no longer think that Sarah Beardsley was married to David Lake. I think it's important that you have your name attached to the statement, because you are a respected genealogist, and people believe in you and your work. Thanks, Barbara. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Peters" To: Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:02 PM Subject: RE: Lake - Beardsley Error Hi Linda, Finally time to answer you. I can't find any way to eliminate my file from ancestry.com. They have it on OneTree which they now charge 39.95 for - they put our trees there and charge us to use them - which I refuse to do. When it was on Ancestry World Tree it was free with your subscription. Beardsley is no longer in my file so what I will try to do is re-send it to ancestry and hope they replace the incorrect file....unless you have a better idea! I, too, would like it to be correct...otherwise why bother? Thanks for writing - Barbara From: "Linda & David Carr" >>>To: "Barbara & Ed Peters" , "Barbara Use this >>>one Peters" >>>Subject: Lake - Beardsley Error >>>Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 16:36:17 -0700 >>> >>>Hi Barbara, >>> >>>Last time we exchanged emails, you were not feeling very well. I hope >>>you're doing better. >>> >>>I am still trying to get everyone to set the record straight and hope >>>that you will please change your listing on ancestry.com for David Lake >>>II and Sarah Beardsley. I don't want others to keep copying the wrong >>>information. Right now, there are only two listings that say they were >>>married, yours and David Leach Emmons's. He said he just copied the >>>information from you, which is why I'm hoping you'll change it. >>> >>>Again, here is the proof that Sarah Beardsley was not ever married to >>>David Lake, and remained married to Peleg Sunderland until he died in >>>1797. I hope that you will change the information you have for Sarah >>>Beardsley and David Lake II. As I am related to David Lake II, I really >>>would like the information to be correct. Thanks so much. >>> >>>Linda >>> >>> >>>Proof of Peleg Sunderland & Sarah Beardsley long marriage. She was NOT >>>married to David Lake II. >>> >>> >>>Marriages At >>> >>>Congregational Church of Stratford / Trumbull >>>(prev. Unity of N. Stratford) >>>1747 To 1800 >>>Peleg Sunderland & Sarah Beardsley on 4 Mar 1759 >>> >>> >>>http://home.earthlink.net/~jrodgers2/sunder/dani1680.html >>> >>>9. Peleg (Sunderlin) Sunderland b. 1736, CT, m. 4 Mar 1759, in Trumbill, >>>Fairfield, CT, Sarah Beardsley, b. 26 Mar 1736, (daughter of Obadiah >>>Beardsley and Mercy Jackson). Peleg died 1797, Hartford, Washington, NY. >>> >>> >>>Children: >>> >>>i Wallis Sunderland b. ABT. 1760, Trumbill, Fairfield, CT. >>> >>>ii Sarah Sunderland b. ABT. 1762, Trumbill, Fairfield, CT, m. (1) ABT. >>>1780, Eli Freeman, b. ABT. 1761, m. (2) BEF. 1821, John Ashley, b. ABT. >>>1762. >>> >>>iii John William Sunderland b. Mar 1766, Manchester, Bennington, VT, m. >>>(1) 23 Nov 1788, Tabitha Lee, b. ABT. 1768, d. UNKNOWN, m. (2) Margaret >>>unknown. John died UNKNOWN. >>> >>>iv Jeremiah Sunderland b. 14 Oct 1769, Manchester, Bennington, VT. >>> >>>v Phebe Sunderland b. ABT. 1775, Manchester, Bennington, VT, m. Abraham >>>Boyce, Jr., b. ABT. 1775, d. UNKNOWN. Phebe died 13 Feb 1802, Fort Ann, >>>Washington, NY. >>> >>>20. vi Gideon b. 9 Oct 1779. >>>================================= >>> >>> >>>4. Sarah (338) >>> b. 26 Mar 1736 >>> m. Peleg Sunderland >>> d. >>> >>> >>> FREEMAN, Eli >>> >>> Massachusetts >>> Vermont >>> R. 3784 >>> Widow: Sarah >>> >>> Mary Freeman of Victor, NY daughter of Sarah Freeman who died 26 >>>Dec 1839 and Eli Freeman who died in 1807 a Rev. War Soldier, a native of >>>Marlborough Mass. from where he enlisted as a substitute for his brother >>>in law Joseph Hyde and served 3 years. After the service he went to the >>>state of Vermont there he was called into service and was taken prisoner >>>... That there were three surviving children at her mothers death in >>>1839 viz Jozeph Freeman, Sarah Manning, and Polly Freeman and that the >>>said Joseph Freeman has since died ... dated 1851. >>> >>> Eli married Sarah Sunderland who was a daughter of peleg >>> Sunderland >>>.. They were married in Vt. no date given on this letter by Susanah >>>Parkhurst widow of David Parkhurst of Rev. War soldier of Webster, >>>Monroe Co. .. dated May 17, 1887. >>> >>> 4 Nov 1850, Ontario Co., NY town of Victor. A son of Eli Freeman >>>dcd. that his said father was a native of New Marlborough, Berkshire >>>Mass ... states his siter Polly who is older than himself .. states that >>>Eli Freeman married Sarah Sunderland about the year 1783 in the town of >>>Manchester of Sunderland in Vt. the two towns adjoined each other, she >>>was >>>a daughter of Peleg Sunderland who was an officer in the Rev. War from >>>Vt. >>> >>>4 Nov 1850, Ontario Co., NY town of Victor. A son of Eli Freeman dcd. >>>that his said father was a native of New Marlborough, Berkshire Mass ... >>>states his siter Polly who is older than himself .. states that Eli >>>Freeman married Sarah Sunderland about the year 1783 in the town of >>>Manchester of Sunderland in Vt. the two towns adjoined each other, she >>>was a daughter of Peleg Sunderland who was an officer in the Rev. War >>>from Vt. ... that his mother and father remained in Manchester for 10-12 >>>years and had several children born there then removed to Poultney Vt. >>>whre the said Eli Freeman died in 1807 and mother Sarah died 26 Dec 1839 >>>.. signed Joseph Freeman age 52 dated 19 April 1850. >>> >>>Statement by Eli Freeman 15 May 1806 .. that he purchased a farm of >>>land from Levi Canfield of Poultney, Rutland, Vt. ... & when as my >>>wifes mother Sarah Sunderland of Hartford in the Co. of Washington, >>>NY hld, by virtue of the last will and testament of her late husband >>>Peleg Sunderland dcd. the sole right of occupying ... to decent after >>>her death to Gideon Sunderland and having purchased from him his title. >>> >>>a.. ID: I554113409 >>>a.. Name: Peleg SUNDERLAND >>>a.. Given Name: Peleg >>>a.. Surname: Sunderland >>>a.. Sex: M >>>a.. Birth: 1736 in Of Stratford, Fairfield, CT >>>a.. Death: 1797 in Hartford, Washington, NY >>>a.. Note: >>> Peleg Sunderland can be found in the list of Revolutionary War >>> Soldiers >>>of Connecticut, along side the names of David and Ephraim Beardsley, >>>brothers of Sarah Beardsley, Peleg's wife. He served under Captain Samuel >>>Whiting in the Second Regiment during the campaign of 1762. He served >>>from May 8 - Oct 28, 1762. >>> >>> He is listed under "Stratford Men in the Revolution" meaning he was >>>from Stratford, CT. Whether he was born in Stratford or a nearby town >>>is unknown. >>> >>> After 1762, Peleg Sunderland moved his family to Vermont where several >>>of his children were born. He later re-enlisted under the State of >>>Vermont for service in the Rev. War, where he is listed in the records >>>as Lieutenant, Vermont Militia in 1776. Other military records have him >>>listed through 1782. >>> >>> Peleg was a member of the Green Mountain Boys, a citizen's militia >>>founded in Fay's Tavern in Bennington, VT, in 1770. See "Are You Related" >>>under: >>>www.ethanallenhomestead.org/HISTORY/greenmountainboys.htm - where Peleg >>>is listed as a member. "violence and intimidation often occurring as >>>they defended their lands against the hated 'Yorkers'. However, this >>>group of Yankee Vigilantes was very instrumental in resisting New York's >>>claims to land in what is now Vermont. It is worth noting that the Green >>>Mountain Boys took no lives." >>> >>> From the Archives of the U.S., Rev. War records Continental Green >>>Mountain Boys, Vermont, File 10956, a soldier's records are as follows, >>>"...that he entered as a volunteer in the service in the state of >>>Vermont in the year 1776 under Captain Peleg Sunderland." Source: >>>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~russellgs/notes/not0036.html >>> >>> Another entry on >>> http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/RutlandClarendon.html >>>states the following: "In consquence of the proceedings of the Green >>>Mountain Boys in Durham, the NY Assembly upon petition of Benjamin Hough >>>offered a reward of... fifty pounds for either Warner, Smith, Sunderland, >>>Brown or Cockran; and on March 9, 1774, passed the noted "most minatory >>>and despotic act" against the Green Mountain Boys; adjudging them if >>>they did not 'surrender within 70 days, to be guilty of convicted and >>>attempted of felony and punished with death without trial...'" >>> >>> "None of the Yorkers in Clarendon seem to have made any further >>>resistance to the Green Mountain Boys, except Benjamin Hough who, having >>>March 12, 1774, obtained a commission as justice of the peace under >>>NY, became so troublesome that it was found necessary to silence and >>>make an example of him. On the night of 26th December, 1774, he was >>>arrested...tried for his offenses, Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Robert >>>Cockran, Peleg Sunderland... acting as judges." >>> >>> The marriage of Peleg and Sarah Beardsley is listed under Connecticut >>>Marriages to 1800, Early Connecticut Marriages: Seventh Book. >>>Stratford-Trumbull, from Fair Haven Church Records, P. 97, Peleg >>>Sunderland & Sarah Beardsley, March 4, 1759. >>> >>> From Vermont, he later moved to Hartford, Washington, New York, where >>>he died in 1797. Some of his children can be found in the census under >>>Hartford, NY. >>> >>> >>>Father: John, Sr. SUNDERLAND b: 1707/08 in So. Kingston, RI >>>Mother: Jemima SHERWOOD b: 16 Dec 1711 in Unity, Fairfield, CT >>> >>>Marriage 1 Sarah BEARDSLEY b: 26 Mar 1736 in Stratfield, Fairfield, CT >>> a.. Married: 4 Mar 1759 in Trumbull, Fairfield, CT >>>Children >>> 1.. Jeremiah SUNDERLAND b: 14 Oct 1769 in Manchester, Bennington, VT >>> 2.. Sarah SUNDERLAND b: Abt 1762 in Trumbull, Fairfield, CT >>> 3.. Phebe SUNDERLAND b: 4 Dec 1774 in Manchester, Bennington, VT >>> 4.. John William SUNDERLAND b: Mar 1766 in Manchester, Bennington, VT >>> >>> 5.. Gideon SUNDERLAND b: 9 Oct 1779 in Manchester, Bennington, VT >>> 6.. Wallis SUNDERLAND b: 1759 in Trumbull, Fairfield, CT >>>