Date: 5 Oct 2006 13:47:37 -0600 From: thom.carlson@stanfordalumni.org Yes, Abijah (1763-1841) had son Abijah Jr (1786-1863), as well as Guy (abt. 1792-aft. 1819). Both were sons of his first wife, Hannah White. Abijah Sr. md. 2) Betsy Lake, widow of John Case, who lived in the neighborhood, on 18 Oct 1810. It's not clear if Abijah was the natural father of their son Barsley, b. 3 Feb 1806, though he wasn't the son of John Case. ***** Pioneer History of Meigs County, Ohio. Ervin, Edgar. (1940) pp. 26-27 John Miles, supervisor of the Third road district in Salisbury township, highway taxes for the year 1806, the district be ginning at the Widow Case's, up the road to the 7-mile tree: William Spencer, 95 cents; Abijah Hubbell, $1.35; John Miles, $1.55; Caleb Gardner, $1.65; Erastus Stow, $1.15; William Parker, Jr., $1.55; Thomas Shepherd, $1.35; Thomas Everton, 85 cents; Felix Benedict, $1.15. WILLIAM PARKER, JAMES E. PHELPS, JOEL HIGLEY, JR., Trustees. The Widow Case mentioned in the boundaries of the Second and Third road districts lived where the late lamented Virgil C. Smith afterwards lived. Mrs. Case was his maternal grandmother, who subsequently married Abijah Hubbel, Sr. She was the widow of John Case, mentioned, also, in the account of the settlement of Brewster Higley. Mr. Case had gone back to Vermont, and in company with his friend and neighbor, Noah Smith, started for Ohio. Mr. Case had a young wife, and Mr. Smith had a wife and three or four daughters, and son 3 1/2 years old. After journeying on the road from Philadelphia as far as Carlisle, in Cumberland county, Noah Smith suddenly died. His family went on with Mr. Case until rearching a little town West Liberty, the county seat of Ohio county, West Virginia, where John Case suddenly died, and where Mrs. Case gave birth to a daughter-her first child, who was named Eliza. As soon as these conditions were known by Brewster Higley he went to their relief! and brought them all to Leading creek. Mrs. Smith settled on land bought of Samuel Denny, on the west side of the creek, and Mrs. Case settled on the east side of the same stream, and nearly opposite Mrs. Smith. There she brought up her daughter, Eliza, and the Smith family were reared, so in the later years Livingston Smith and Eliza Case were married, reared a respectable family, and died, after living to a good old age. Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:42:09 EDT From: JAR422@aol.com This has been transcribed from the Athens Messenger Newspaper. I have transcribed it as shown in the paper. The names are not in any order, they are transcribed as the paper listed them. Hope this helps someone. Joyce Athens Messenger, September 18, 1927: ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN RUTLAND EARLY SETTLERS CAME FROM VERMONT ABOUT YEAR 1800 BREWSTER HIGLEY, SURVEYOR FOR THE OHIO COMPANY CAME BY WAY OF MARIETTA AND BLAZED ROAD UP LIVING CREEK. Rutland, Sept. 17. -- The Pioneer society's annual meeting at Pomeroy Thursday, brought to light some interesting local history, from a letter written by CHARLES MATTHEWS, a Meigs pioneer for many years of his latter life in the government service at Washington. One of the best known men of the early days of Rutland Township was LIVINGSTON SMITH. He was born in Bennington, Vt., about 1797 and was about four years old when he was brought to the township. His father, NOAH SMITH, who married THERESSA OWEN, who was related to the HIGLEYs, emigrated from Connecticut. The Vermont Gazetter said of him; " He is believed to have been the first lawyer to commence the practice of law in this town. There us extant a printed address styled "A Speech" delivered in Bennington, Aug. 16, 1778, the year after the battle in commemoration of that event by NOAH SMITH A B. STARTED INTO WEST About the spring of 1801, with his wife and five children, THERESA, FRANCIS, NANCY, LAURA and LIVINGSTON, the elder Smith started for what is now Rutland township, in company with the families of BREWSTER HIGLEY IV and JOHN CASE of Castleton, Vt., and perhaps others. JOHN CASE had the previous year married BETSY LAKE, of Castleton, Vt. While enroute NOAH SMITH was taken ill and died at Carlisle, Pa. about August, 1801. MRS. SMITH, with her children, continued their journey, with the other families, and on their arrival at the Ohio river at Wellsburg, W, Va. JOHN CASE was taken ill and died leaving his young wife, who in a few days gave birth to their only child, who was named ELIZA and who within 20 years became the wife of LIVINGSTON SMITH, the central figure in these chronicles. After the death of JOHN CASE at Wellsburg and during the illness of Mrs. Case, BREWSTER HIGLEY concluded, as the season was getting late, that he would push on down the river with his family to Marietts, leaving Mrs. Case and Mrs. Smith to follow with their famililies by flat-boat as soon as Mrs. Case was able to travel. BREWSTER HIGLEY on arrival at Marietta left his family and continued on to Rutland to the lands that had been previously selected for the party by the ill-fated JOHN CASE, while he was engaged with the surveying party, which a few years prior thereto had surveyed the lands in Rutland township for the "Ohio Company." HIGLEY SETTLES BREWSTER HIGLEY, during the fall and winter of 1801, erected a house of round logs on the farm known in modern times as the MILO HIGLEY farm. In the spring of 1802, Mr. HIGLEY, with the families of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Case, came from Marietta to the mouth of Leading Creek, and thence up the creek by a blazed road to the farms on which they settled. Mrs. Smith settled on what in late years became the GRANVILLE RUSSELL farm, and Mrs. Case settled on the farm now owned by CHARLES LA?HER. LIVINGSTON SMITH married ELIZA CASE about 1820 and they had seven children, CAROLINE, PRISCILLA, FRANCIS A., LAURA A., VIRGIL C., C????TA Z, and LAURINDA. The widow Case subsequently married ABIJAH HUBBELL, SR., a widower with six children. Two children were added by this marriage to the family circle, BARSLEY and AL Abijah Hubbell is my great-great-great-greatgrandfather, though it is an embarassment that his son Barsley was born in 1806, four years before he was married to the widow Betsy (Lake) Case by Rev. Eli Stedman. He is buried in the Miles Cemetery, but when I was there briefly in 1986, the slate stone had crumbled, with only a fragment remaining, just enough that I could identify it. I couldn't stay long enough to do anything about it, and left it where it was; it's probably been mowed to pieces by now. For a long time afterward I fretted about whether I should have taken it with me. ***** The Official roster of the soldiers of the American Revolution buried in the state of Ohio Columbus, Ohio: Ohio Adjutant General's Dept., 1929-1959. p. 195 HUBBELL, ABIJAH (Meigs Co.) D. Rutland. Bur. Miles Cem, Rutland, O. southeast corner of Old Cem. MI: "Abijah Hubbell, died July 18, 1841, 78 years of age. 'Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter through the gate into the city." Ref: Mrs. Bertha Rathburn, Rutland, O. For infor Return Jonathan Meigs Chap. Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:56:36 -0500 From: Thom Carlson Betsey (Lake) Case was Abijah Hubbell Sr.'s second wife; they were married 18 Oct 1810 in Gallia County. His first wife was Hannah White, parentage unknown; they were married about 1783 in upstate NY, said to be near Cooperstown. The little pamphlet "Genealogy of the Hubbell Family", written by one of Abijah's great-grandchildren, John W. Cornell (b. 1839) is the closest source. It was privately printed for circulation in the family about 1917, and since it's obscure I'll append what he says. I've moved the first paragraph for clarity. Note that he has Zilpha's birthdate wrong, as well as her mother's date-of-death, placing it five years after Abijah's second marriage. I assume he has confused Malinda for Almena Hubbell, the daughter of Betsy (Lake) (Case) Hubbell, since he notes her birthdate after their marriage in spite of making of a point of saying she was the granddaughter of Abijah Sr.; note he also thereby insinuates that Barsley Hubbell was not the natural son of Abijah Jr. There are of course other possible explanations, along the lines of Rev. Eli Stedman's embarrassment, but it's not likely there will be any real evidence that might clear up this little intrigue. I can send more information on any of these families, if anyone is interested. Genealogy of the Hubbell Family. Cornell, John W. Goshen, IN: (n.d.; ca. 1917) Abijah Hubbell, our great-grandfather, was born in Vermont in 1763, came to Cooperstown, N.Y. in a very early day, met and mar- ried Miss Hannah White, who was born in the state of New York. They were married at Cooperstown, N.Y. They moved to Meigs county, Ohio, in a very early day, where the wife died in 1815. Abijah Hubbell, Sr., erected the first salt works in the state of Ohio. He and his son, Jabez, ran two salt furnaces, the first grist and saw mill in the state and general store, doing a large business for those early days. By the aid of Hosmer Miles he laid out the town of Rutland, Ohio, in 1828. By the marriage of Abijah Hubbell, our great-grand- father and Hannah White there were nine children born. ... Henry Hubbell, born in the state of Vermont about the year 1784, was educated in the schools of that state, met and married Miss Mc- Collough in the state of New York, moved to Rutland, Meigs county, Ohio, where they lived a few years, when they returned to the state of New York, where he died a few years after and was buried there. No further record of his wife. ... Rolland Hubbell, brother of our grandfather, Abijah Hubbell, was born in Lake George county, Vermont, about 1788, was educated in the schools of the county. He was married and by this union there were two children, Ellen, his daughter and Jesse, his son. ... Guy Hubbell, brother of our grandfather, Abijah Hubbell, born in Meigs county, Ohio, about the year 1790 was educated in the schools of the county, followed the occupation of farming. Single. ... Polly Hubbell, sister of Abijah Hubbell, our grandfather, was born in the state of Vermont, December 6, 1795, was educated in Meigs county, Ohio, met and married Adam Savage, who was born in the state of Maine, March 1, 1797. He was educated in Meigs county, Ohio. They were married March 15, 1821, and by this union there were nine children born. ... Abijah Hubbell, our grandfather, was born in Lake George county, Vermont, in 1786, was educated in the schools of Meigs county, Ohio, moved to Rutland, Meigs county, Ohio with his father's family, Abijah Hubbell, Sr., where he was brought up amid scenes and wild surroundings in his pioneer home. He met and married Miss Lucretia Merrill about the year 1808, who was born in the state of Massachusetts in 1788.... Abijah Hubbell, our grandfather and Lucretia Merrill, were married on the farm of Capt. James Merrill in Salem township. Abijah Hubbell in early life fol- lowed farming and by this marriage of Abijah and Lucretia (Merrill) Hubbell, there were nine children born. ... Jabez Hubbell, brother of Abijah Hubbell, our grandfather, born in Meigs county, Ohio, July 4, 1804, was educated in the public schools of the county, met and married Miss Margaret Longfellow Simpson, September 31, 1829. By this union there was one daughter born. ... Zilphas Hubbell, sister of our grandfather, Rev. Abijah Hubbell, born in Rutland, Meigs county, Ohio, about the year 1808, was edu- cated in the schools of this county, met and married Abijah Vansickles. By this union there were two children born. ... Abijah Vansickles, the husband of Zilphas (Hubbell) Vansickle, died and was buried in Meigs county, Ohio, after which she married Elder Eli Steadman, who was born in the state of Ohio, was a Metho- dist preacher and by this marriage there were three children born. ... Sarah Hubbell, sister of Rev. Abijah Hubbell, our grandfather and daughter of our great-grandfather, Abijah Hubbell, born in Meigs county, Ohio, about the year 1810, was educated in the schools of the county, met and married a Mr. Colwell, who was born in Meigs county, Ohio, and by this union there was a small family of which I fail to get any record. Malinda Hubbell, sister of Abijah Hubbell, our grandfather, and daughter of Abijah Hubbell, Sr., born in the state of Ohio about the year 1812. Barsley Hubbell, Sr., half-brother of Elder Abijah Hubbell, our grandfather, born in Meigs county, Ohio, February 3, 1806, was edu- cated in the schools of the county. He married Miss Eliza Bellows, who was born in Meigs county, Ohio, October 9, 1828, who was educated in the county above mentioned and by this union there were nine children.