! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6 William Merrickappeared on
the 1670 list of Eastham freeman, he served there as surveyorof highwasy in
1678-9 and as a grand juror in 1684. He moved to the northprecinct of Harwich
(later Brewster) bef. 1694, the year in which hepetitioned for incorporation
of the town. He was one of seven whoestablished the church in Harwich in 1700.
He served as a ensign in themilitia, was selectman from 1692 to 1709 and
represented Harwich in theGeneral Assembly in 1719.
! Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol.6
Pioneer Oct 28,1849, Ezra T. Benson company.
BIRTH PLACE: Of Bishops Stortford, Hertford, England.
DEATH DATE: WILL PRVD. 13 FEB 1554/5
BIRTH PLACE: Of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.
New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Torrey shows a John Mousall(1595-1665)
married to Joanna Thompson about 1628; Charleston/Woburn.
Could this be the mother of Sarah?
Member of Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, p.1082
Member 97th quorum seventies; ward teacher;Sunday schoolsuperintendent;Black
Hawk Indian War veteran. Justice of peace at Vernal.School trustee; school
teacher. Farmer. Minuteman and guard during earlyIndian troubles.
Came to Utah 1864, with oxteam
In 1740 a famine occured in Ireland which took the lives of 400,000people.
The remaining inhabitants were so permanently undernourished that toolswould
drop from the hand of workmen from sheer weakness andmalnutrition.. Living
conditions became so bad for the Irish peasants ofthat period that only one
hut in twenty had a chimney. The smoke in some150,000 chimneyless hovels soon
caused wide-spread blindness.
James John O'Neil was born during the last years of the 18th century.
Onedescendant has the date as 1789. His father's name is not known. It
wouldseem probable that he was of the smae area where his son was born,
GreyAbbey, County Down on the northeast coast of Ireland just south of
themodern city of Belfast.
He is believed to have descended from the ancient Gaelic O'Neil familywhose
leaders were cheiftans of Ulster and Meath and other countries ofNorth Ireland
for many centruies of the early Christian Era.
James John O'Neil grew to manhood in County Cown and Grey Abbey. About1827 he
married Elizabeth Margaret Cummings of the same community. Theywere parents of
six children that we know of. They emmigrated toDalry,Scotland. The coal mines
there in the early nineteenth centuryprovided a better livelihood than did the
impoverished Irish farm lands.
By 1828 one of the L's had been dropped from O'Neil. Their firstchild,John,
had been born 6 April,1828.
Pioneers & Prominent Men of Utah
High Priest in Wasatch Stake; home missionary; Justice of Peace at Mound City.
Captain in Black Hawk Indian War. Died June 24,1880, Midway,Utah. Came to Utah
in 1864. Settled at Midway.
In 1864 John and Nannie O'Neil's long cherished dream became a realityand they
boarded the sailing vessel "John Boyd" in Liverpool, England and with other
Mormon converts sailed away to Zion in the valleys of the mountains of North
America.
The family consisted of John,Nannie, and the children James 16, John
11,William 9, Rachel 7, Samuel 1 (Thomas, David, and Robert having previously
died). They crossed the plains in the "Rollins, Warren, and Canfield Company"
until they reached Wyoming. Their few worldly possesions were transported on a
hand cart in which the younger children sometimes rode when they were too
tired to walk. The older boys helped push. Somewhere in Wyoming John secured
employment as an ox team driver of a freight wagon to ease the burdens of the
family.
It was the 3rd of October 1864 that the family finally arrived in Utah.After
the arduous and difficult trip across the plains their son, John O'Neil,Jr.,
died of a bronchial infection on 26 Oct.1866.
The following is a letter written to his brother James O'Neil, who was still
in Scotland, December 3,1867 Mound City, Provo Valley, Wasatch County, Utah
Territory, United States of America
Dear Brother James,
I take up my pen to write you a few lines to let you know how I have been
getting along in the world since we saw each other last. You will have seen
some of my letters that I wrote to Dalry, I depended on Wm. Burt or Samuel
Haire to answer my letter and let know how mother and Elizabeth and all my
brothers and sisters were getting along in this world. Well we had a splendid
voyage o're the sea. We sailed from Liverpool to NewYork in 31 days with two
births and one death out of eight hundred and three souls. Everything went on
well considering the long journey by railway over 1700 miles through a country
afflicted with civil war and hostile outrages.
I joined a freight train at Wyoming and drove four yoke of Big Bulllocks over
plains and prairies, over the sandy waste, desert, through the Rocky
Mountains.
I crossed the south pass (just west of present day Landers,Wyoming) and
camped at the Pacific Springs on the 12th of Sept. '64. We lost or rather
there died over one hundred head of cattle on the Platte River and on the
plains of Laramie. They were poisoned with alkali which lays in the sloughs
and holes along the traveled way. Our train amounted to fifteen wagons when we
left the frontier but we increased to about sixty wagons with four or five
yoke of cattle on each train.
The main body of our company were Danish or from Denmark, Emigrating to Utah.
They numbered over thirty wagons, other straggling parties joined our train
for safety traveling through the Indian country. The Indians were very hostile
on the plains when we passed. They were murdering all the white sttlers they
could find. THey visited our camp, occasionally begging. We treated them
kindly with flour and pork and I smoked the pipe of peace with five of the
Cheyenne and Souix tribes. We passed unmolested.
So much for our journey to Salt Lake City. We arrived there in peace and
health on the 3rd of Oct. 1864. We stayed there to the eleventh when we rolled
away for Provo Valley. It is a beautiful little valley in the midst of the
Wasatch Mountains, whose peaks tower high in the skies.Worst of all we are on
the frontier of a hostile Indian tribe, the Ute, with their various chiefs.
Some of them are very mean, especially the murdering Black Hawk, he is a
villan. But old Taby of Wenty (Uintah), he is head chief of all the Utes. He
is friendly to us but he cannot keep his Indians from stealing horses or
cattle.
In the vicinity of where I am living now there are many curious things from
the study of geologists. We have warm springs and cold springs gushing from
the mountains. The warm springs, being filled with acids and carbon of lime,
form large basins or mounds of tremendous heights. There are curious things
many travelers call to see. Some of them are nearly one hundred feet in
height.
Well something about farming now, the first year I put one acre and half of
wheat but an early frost killed it in the milk so that I had not one pound of
wheat to thresh. I had to work for my bread another way. I got the chance of
keeping school but my health would not permit me to. They offered me eighty
dollars per month. Second year I put in two and a half acres of wheat, the
crops were pretty favorable. Some parts were mildew or rusted that made the
wheat weight very light. I raised about nine months bread. The third year I
put in about six acres of wheat and some shares. The crops were looking
beautiful to about the middle of August when the locust came in clouds from
the mountains, all but abscuring the sun rays. They lighted on the crops and
the late wheat suffered. In 3 days they destroyed more than one half of my
wheat. Leaving me little enough to do me to spring. The locust or grass
hoppers have layed their eggs by the millions of millions all over the
mountains and valleys so that when they hatch out they will eat up every green
thing. They are on locust which signifies a burnt lace.
I am thinking at present to move in the spring. North of Salt Lake City about
36 miles to a new section of land that is called Hopeville. The air on the
shores of the Great Salt Lake will be more congenial to my lungs. I had a
severe attack of lung fever about two months ago. I have done but two or three
days work since and now winter is in. The snow is about two feet deep in the
canyons and we have nothing to do but feed our stock and ourselves and go to
school and to dances and to every social amusement.
I have not seen John Morton since I came here but I heard from him last
spring.
He and family are well. Archie Morton was living at Colechester,Illinois when
I passed by in '64. I saw his chimney among the trees but had no time to call
on him. My son John died on 20 Oct. '66 at age 13 years five months and five
days.
Write when this comes to you or your letter may not reach me before I leave.I
will draw my letter to a close as my eyes are glimmer and my paper nears, over
to another scrap. Where is brother Wm. Is he married. Is he doing well. Send
him our kind love if you know his address. I would write him a letter if he is
near you. Give him my address and tell him to write to me. How is sister Mary,
her husband and family. How are they getting along. Give my best love to them
all. What about Hugh Barelcaly. Give my love to Sister Margret and her husband
and all their family and last but not least to my mother and Elizabeth, may
God bless them if theyare still alive. If I was beside them I could do them
some good. I have killed a beef about six hundred pounds and salted him in the
barrel. I have a big pig I intend to kill before the end of the year. It is
over two hundred pounds. Now I have a yoke of oxen and a cow and calf and a
wagon. One yoke of oxen is worth one hundred dollars.A cow and calf is worth
forty dollars. I bought a wagon at one hundred dollars. Nanney joins in
sending mother and Elizabeth her kind love. Write to the addresson the head of
my letter.
From your affectionate brother, God bless youall.
John O'Neil
John O'Neil died in June 1880 at the age of fifty two. Despite chronic illness
which became more aggravated with the passing years, he lived 15 years in the
new country. His lung problem grew worse towards the end ofthe 1870's. He
lived to see three of his children grow and marry. Six grandchildren were born
before he died.
The first marriage in the O'Neil family in Utah took place on July 12,1875.
James O'Neil Jr. married Mary Elizabeth Alexander.
! Death certificate
! Family records
! Marriage certificate
Percy died of heart failure while on a hunting trip to Orcas
Island,Washington. He was with his son-in-law Leo Smith, Donan Smith, and
FarrelPugmire. He was alone when he died and was not found for three
days.There were many people looking for him. He was found by one of the
LummiIndians from the reservation. He and Iva were on a Lamanite Mission atthe
time of his death. He had served as Mission President on the LummiReservation
for seven years.
son of Peggy Anne O'Neil - unmarried at time of birth
BIRTH: Adopted by Donald Alvah O'Neil. Birth surname: Bauer
Came to Utah in 1864. Pres. of Uintah Stake YMMIA. Member State Legislature.
Delegate to National Irrigation Congress in 1903
Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah.p.1082
Missionary to Scotland and Ireland 1889-1901. High Priest; President Uinta
Stake Y.M.M.I.A. 1893-1896; 1st Counselor to Bishop Joseph A. McKee of Glines
Ward; 1st counselor to S.A. Russell in Cedar View Branch;Assistant Sunday
School Superintendent and teacher of Glines Ward; home missionary; member High
Council. Member 3rd legislature from Utah County.Secretary and treasurer Cedar
View Building Co. Delegate to eleventh National Irrigation Congress 1903,
school trustee and treasurer of Roosevelt school district 1911-12. Veteran
Black Hawk Indian war.
! Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Compiled byLee D.
van Antwerp. Picton Press. Camden, Maine
Revolutionary War Veteran listed in DAR Patriot Index, Cpl MA, Vol.1,p.515
Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: IDFAL.
Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: STGEO.
Invalid baptism temple code: STGEO.
Invalid endowment temple code: STGEO.
Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: STGEO.
Invalid baptism temple code: STGEO.
Invalid endowment temple code: STGEO.
Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: STGEO.
History of Acworth, N. H.
Logan Geneological Library
Marlboro, Reading & Woburn V. R.
French & Indian War Record
Boston Transc 3282
Revolutionary War Veteran listed in DAR Patriot Index, Cpl PS
(PatrioticService) NH
Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: STGEO.
Invalid baptism temple code: STGEO.
Invalid endowment temple code: STGEO.
Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: STGEO.
Invalid baptism temple code: STGEO.
Invalid endowment temple code: STGEO.
Invalid seal-to-parents temple code: STGEO.
! Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Compiled byLee D.
van Antwerp. Picton Press. Camden, Maine.
This name is variously written, Phinney, Finney, Fennye, but moregenerally the
former. John Phinney, the first of the name in town, wasfirst in Plymouth,
where in 1638 his son John was born, and where in 1649his wife Christian,
died. He was not a very rigid sectarian, for his sonwas not baptized until
1653, after his removal to Barnstable. In 1650 hemarried Abigail, the widow of
Henry Coggin, a wealthy merchant andadventurer, who was among the first
settlers of the town. She, dying in1653, John Phinney for his third wife
married, in 1654, Elizabeth Bayly.Mr. Phinney, with his townsman, Major
Walley, became interested in thefertile region about Mount Hope, R.I., where
he removed, after holdingthe office of constable in Barnstable. The importance
of this office isnot to be estimated by its relative consideration at the
present day. Aconstable, in the time of the fathers, was a most imposing
andawe-inspiring personage, and those who saw fit to indulge in any levityat
his expense, would find it to be a fatal and costly experiment.
Revolutionary War Veteran listed in DAR Patriot Index, Pvt MA
! Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Compiled byLee D.
van Antwerp. Picton Press. Camden, Maine.
% Death Notice: Thomas Prence, Esquire. Govr. of the Jurisdiction of
NewPlymouth died the 29 of March 1673 and was interred the 8th of
thefollowing, after he had served God in the office of Governor sixteenyears
or near thereunto. He finished his course in the 73 years of hislife: he was a
worthy gentleman, very pious and very able for his officeand faithful in the
discharge thereof. Studious of peace, a wellwiller toall that feared God, and
a terror to the wicked; his death was muchlamented, and his body honorable
buried at Plyouth the day and yearabovementioned.
! Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Compiled byLee D.
van Antwerp. Picton Press. Camden, Maine.
Excommunicated - 4 Jan 1998 - Everett Washington Stake
Excommunicated 25 Jan 1998 - Everett 7th Ward
Had child out of wedlock by Angel Brooke Fletcher -son - Cullen Reed Fletcher
- b. 7 Aug 1996, Everett, Snohomish, Washington
Had child out of wedlock by Jenee' Bailey - daughter - Bailey Ross - b. 14
Jul 1998, Lynnwood, Snohomish, Washington
! Craven and Jones County deeds - Will of John Shelfer
! Will of Louis Thomas, Craven & Jones County Deeds
! 1790 - 1810 census of Jones County, North Carolina ! Will of JohnShelfer
! Deeds of Craven and Jones Counties
! Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Compiled byLee D.
van Antwerp. Picton Press. Camden, Maine.
Revolutionary War Veteran listed in DAR Patriot Index, Sol NC, Vol.1,p.617
Revolutionary War Veteran listed in DAR Patriot Index, Pvt MA, Vol.1,p.617
Chr place too long: Parish Of Macosquin, Londonderry County, NorthernIreland
Burial place too long: Old Burying Ground, Londonderry, NH
Adopted at birth.
Widow of Jabez Snow