Ancestors of Charles E.

Conklin
Generation One 1. Charles E.1 Conklin (Isaac, #2)1 was born on 14 Apr 1846 in Troy, Orleans County, Vermont. 2 After spending most of his childhood and youth in the Eastern Townships in Quebec, Canada, Charles E. Conklin immigrated in 1863 to Michigan. 3 He and Lumina Lemoin, daughter of Laban Clark Lemoin and Rozilla Hinkston, were married by John Emmons, minister, on 11 Oct 1868 in Leighton, Allegan County, Michigan. 4 He was a stone mason. He died on 30 Mar 1908 in Otsego, Allegan County, Michigan, of ascites.5 He was buried on 1 Apr 1908 in Mountain Home Cemetery, Otsego, Allegan County, Michigan. 6 11 Oct 1868 Charles E. Conklin, 23, of Heath, miller, b Troy, VT, and Mina Lemoin, of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, b Ohio, were married at Leighton by John Emmons, minister. Witnesses were Gerit Smith and Mary E. Byles, both of Leighton. (Marriage record, Vol. 4, p 19, Allegan County Clerk) 1870 Census, Heath Twp, P. O. Hamilton, Allegan, MI, p 9/186, dwelling 70, family 66 Charles Conklin, 24, stone mason, real estate $300, personal estate $300, b VT, with Lemina, 24, keeping house, b OH. 1877, 1878 Charles Conklin was a constable of Heath Township. (History of Allegan and Barry Counties, 1880, p 243) 1880 Census, Health Twp, Allegan, MI, p 175, dwelling 2, family 2 Chas. Conklin, 34, stone mason, he and his parents b VT, with wife Mina, housekeeping, b OH, her father b MA, her mother b VT, with son Reuben, 2, b MI, his father b VT, his mother b OH. 1882-1887, 1890, 1895-1909 The name Charles E. Conklin appears in the Boston City Directories, showing that from 1882-1884 he boarded at 2 Bowditch Court, from 1885-1896 he boarded or roomed at 59 Pynchon, from 1897-1901 he roomed at 1241 Columbus Avenue, and in 19021909 a Charles Conklin had a house at Squantum. When I first found these listings I thought they were for the Charles E. Conklin described in this record (my great grandfather), but I later found that his brother Edward D. Conklin had a son whom he named Charles E. (perhaps after his brother). Descendants of Edward's son Charles report that he lived in Squantum at one time. The occupation of the Charles E. Conklin who lived in the Boston area was shown as car driver or hack driver until 1890. Starting in 1895 he was shown as having a stable, first at 59 Pynchon, and later at 1233 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury. The Pynchon Street address was the location of the stable of Edward D. Conklin, who died in 1894. Probably all these mentions of Charles E. Conklin refer to Edward's son, but we have no proof that none refers to the Charles who went to Michigan. It's not impossible that the Michigan Charles sometimes traveled to Boston to work with his brother, perhaps because of the shortage of employment opportunities in Allegan County. 1900 Census, Otsego, Allegan, MI, dwelling 204, family 208 Charles Conklin, husband, b Apr 1847, 53, married 32 years, b VT, his parents' birthplaces unknown, mason, unemployed 4 months, in household of Mina Conklin, b Apr 1849, 51, married 32 years, has had 3 children, 2 now living, b OH, her father b MA, her mother b VT, with son Rubin, b May 1878, 22, single, b MI, his father b VT, his mother b OH, back tender, paper mill, no unemployment, daughter Bell, b Aug 1880, 19, single, b MI, her father b VT, her mother b OH, dressmaker, no unemployment, with boarder Harry Lince, b Aug 1877, 22, single, b MI, parents' birthplaces unknown, laborer, chair factory, no unemployment. All in the household can read and write.
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Both his parents' names from O.J. Lemoin's family record, called the Red Book; His mother's name from his death record. Date and place from his obituary in Otsego Union, 2 Apr 1908, p 1, or 15 Apr 1846 according to his age at death; Year (as 1843) from the 1851 Census. 3 The date of his arrival in Michigan from his obituary. 4 Marriage record, Allegan County Clerk, Vol. 4, p 19. 5 Allegan County vital records, originals on microfilm, LDS Library; His obituary in the Otsego Union. 6 Place from his gravestone, seen 1979; Date and place from his obituary.

(We don't know why Mina was enumerated as the head of the household, because in 1900 the husband was usually considered head of the household when both were present. Perhaps it was a slip up or a misunderstanding by the census enumerator, or perhaps it was because Charles was living somewhere else at that time.) 11 April 1906 Charles H. McBride and Emily L. McBride his wife, of the City of Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan, sell the south half of lots 70 and 71 on Franklin Street in the Village of Otsego, Allegan County, MI, to Charles Conklin and Mina Conklin, jointly and severally as husband and wife, of the Village of Otsego, for $625. (Abstract of deed, as recorded in Allegan County, MI, on 18 Apr 1906) 30 Mar 1908 Died March 30, 1908; Charles E. Conklin; male; white; married; 61y 11m 15d; at Otsego Village; cause, ascites; born Vermont; occupation, mason; father (unknown); mother, Martha Evert, birthplace unknown. (Death record, Vol. 3, p 166, Allegan County, Michigan, as abstracted by Viola Wilson in 1979) [Pat Lince (widow of one of Charles E. Conklin's grandsons) said that she heard that his death was the result of a bad case of poison ivy, which he got while working as a stone mason.] 2 Apr 1908 Death Brings Relief After an illness of two years of intense suffering Chas. E. Conklin passed quietly away at his home on Kalamazoo street, Monday morning, March 30th, aged 61 years, 11 months, and 16 days. Mr. Conklin was born in Troy, Vermont, April 14, 1846. He moved to Michigan in 1863. In 1868 he was united in marriage to Miss Mina Lemoyn at Wayland, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Conklin moved to Otsego in 1898, where they have since resided. There are left to mourn his departure, besides his beloved wife, two children, Reuben of Plainwell, and Mrs. Harry Lince of Allegan; two grandchildren; a brother, H.J. Conklin, Arlington, Vermont; and a sister, Mrs. George Buxton, of Proctersville, Vermont, together with a large circle of friends. The funeral was held at the home at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, Rev. E.R. Clark of the Baptist Church officiating. Burial in Mountain Home Cemetery. Those who were here from away to attend the funeral were: Messrs. and Mesdames J. Bills, H. Bills, and Harry Lince, and Mesdames J. Stafford and Sadie Rathburn of Allegan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lemoin, O.J. Lemoin, Mrs. Charles Dostie and F. Lemoin of Heath and Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Conklin of Plainwell. (Otsego Union, Thursday afternoon, April 2, 1908, p 1, as transcribed by Viola Wilson in 1979).

Generation Two 2. Isaac2 Conklin (Jacob, #4)7 was born in 1798 in Canada.8 He was a licensed peddler.9 He married Martha Maria Evert (or Everett) (see #3), daughter of James Evert (or Everett) and Martha [---], on 24 Mar 1834 in St. Armand, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada, when he was recorded as a bachelor, 36, she a spinster, 23. Both were of Stanbridge. 10 He died before 1861 in Stanbridge?, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada.11 1831 Census, Stanbridge Twp, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada, p 1259, Concession 8 Isaac Conklin, farmer, single, age 30-60. Also in the household are two single females age 14-45 and one married female age 45 and up. There are 4 Methodists in the household, and there is one person engaged in agriculture. He holds 40 acres by deed, and 12 of them are improved. He has 14 acres of rye, 10 of Indian corn, 50 of potatoes. There are 2 neat cattle, 1 horse, 3 hogs. (This listing is next to that of John Conklin.)

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His name is given in O.J. Lemoin's family record, called the Red Book; His name from Martha Buxton's death certificate. Date from his age in his marriage record; Place from his daughter Martha's record in the 1900 Census. 9 His marriage record. 10 Pamela Wood Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 11. 11 Martha Conklin was listed as a widow in the 1861 Census.

14 Mar 1834 Before the subscribing Notary Public, residing in the Seignory of St Armand, in the County of Missiskoui, in the District of Montreal, in the Province of Lower Canada, personally appeared, Isaac Conklin, of the Township of Stanbridge, in the County aforesaid, Trader, of the one part, and Martha Maria Everett, of the same place, Spinster, of lawful age, of the other part, which said Parties in the presence of us the said Notary and of the witnesses herein after named, respectively declare that they and with the Advice & consent of their respective relations & friends have made and entered into the treaty and convention of Marriage following, that is to say Firstly, That they will take & wed each other as man & Wife by law and name of Marriage and the same at the request of either of them, cause to be solemnized according to the rites of any of the established or tolerated Clergy in this Province Secondly, that such debts as either of them may have created & contracted prior to their intended marriage, shall be paid and discharged by & out of the property of the Party who shall have created & contracted them, Thirdly, that it shall at all times during the life and after the decease of the said Isaac Conklin, be optional with her the said Martha Maria Everett or the Children which may be procreated by & between them, either to claim the right of Communaute [community], to the extent of the one equal half in & of all the property & Estates of what nature soever and wherever situate which they the said Parties may together acquire from & after the day of their intended marriage or in lieu thereof claim & have out of such Estates or out of any Estate & Property that he the said Isaac Conklin is now or may hereafter be seized & possessed of in his own proper right the sum of five hundred pounds Current money of the Province aforesaid, as a Dower [?] prefixed and either right of Community or Dower free & Clear of & from any debt that he the said Isaac Conklin might have Contracted previous to such claim being made by either she the said Martha Maria or the Children, Issue of their intended marriage. Provided however that if either right shall be claimed by the said Martha Maria, the same, whether right of Communaute or Dower shall after her decease or the termination of her widowhood if she should survive him the said Isaac, be revertable to the Children, issue of their said intended marriage if any there should be living. Provided also that if either Claim should be made by her during the life of him the said Isaac and he should survive her and there should be Children issue of their said marriage whether in minority or majority the same shall remain in the hands & possession of him the said Isaac to hold during his natural live in trust for such Children, to whom the same at his decease shall descend. Provided further that if the decease of the said Isaac should precede that of the said Martha Maria & there should be no Children, issue of their said intended marriage or if any, they should die in their minority leaving no lawful issue, he the said Isaac may by his Last Will & Testament, order & direct to whose benefit such reversions should after her decease or termination of her widowhood pass & escheat to Thus the said Parties have covenanted, agreed & declared, and for the purpose of causing these presents to be registered wheresoever requisite, make and constitute their lawful attorney the bearer thereof giving him the necessary power therefor This Done and Passed at St Armand aforesaid, in the office of the said Notary, in the afternoon of the fourteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, in the presence of Christian Snyder the younger & Polly Johnson his Wife friends and the said subscribing Witnesses, in the presence of Manley W. Squier and Josiah W. Hale, the said Witnesses; and the said Parties, their said friends and us the said Notary & Witnesses have to these presents (first duly read) set & subscribed our respective names, in faith and testimony of the premises. (signed) Christian Snyder jr, Isaac Conklin, Poly J. Snyder, Martha Maria Evrett, Josiah W. Hale, Manley W. Squier, L Lalanne (From a document in the notarial records of Leon Lalanne, as microfilmed by the LDS Library) 24 Mar 1834 On the twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four Isaac Conklin Licenced Pedlar of the Township of Stanbridge Bacholer aged thirty six years and Martha Maria Evrett of the same place Spinster aged twenty three years After due Publication of Banns and with the Consent of their Parents were united in the Holy Bands of Matrimony in the presence of the Subscribing witnesses by me Matthew Lang Minister [signed] Isaac Conklin [signed] Martha Maria Evrett J. [?hard to read] Cumings Samuel Borden Jr. (Records of the Methodist Church in St. Armand, available on microfilm from the LDS Library. The originals are part of records for the Protonotaire de Cowansville, in the Archives nationales du Quebec.)

1842 Census, Stanbridge, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada, p 2571 Isaac Conklin, proprietor of real property, farmer, 6 in household. Males 1 5 and under, 2 5-14, 1 30-60, married (Isaac) Females 1 5 and under, 1 14-45, married (could be Martha) Children between 5 and 16 2 2 British Wesleyan Methodists The farm occupies 250 acres, 125 acres improved Produce 12 bu oats, 12 bu peas, 70 bu Indian corn 5 neat cattle, 1 horse The farm produced 10 yards fulled cloth, 10 yds flannel (unfulled), 20 pounds wool this year. Land held by deed. (From a microfilm of the original document, at the LDS Library. It is difficult to tell which entries belong to which line, as the columns go across several pages) 1851 Census, Stanbridge Twp, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada, 1st Enumeration District, p 7 Isaac Conklin, farmer, b USA, age 50, married, with Martha, b USA, age 49, married, Edward, farmer, b USA, age 17, single, Lorenzo, b Canada B, age 15, single, Martha, b Canada B, now living in St Armand, age 14, and Jacob, farmer, b Canada B, age 12. All in the household are Methodists. They live in a one-story log cabin in Concession 1, Lot 13, holding 50 acres, 25 cultivated, 15 in crops, 10 in pasture, and 225 in woods or wild. Crops are Wheat 1 acre, 6 bushels B. wheat 1 acre, 5 bushels Potatoes 1 acre, 100 bushels. The farm produces 10 bundles of hay. There are 2 milk cows, 1 pig. (Jacob's name is at the bottom of a page and there are no Conklins at the beginning of the next page. However, at the beginning of the previous page there are 5 Conklin children shown without a head of household. I assume they represent the rest of Isaac's family and their names were misplaced at some time during the recording or storing of the data. These are the names:) John Conklin, farmer, age 10, Charles, farmer, age 9, James Conklin, farmer, age 7, Catherine, age 6, and Caroline Conklin, age 5. All are shown as having been born in Canada B, and to have no religion. All but Caroline are shown to be attending school. [Canada B refers to Canada Bas, meaning Lower Canada, which is the way Quebec was referred to at that time.]. Children of Isaac2 Conklin and Martha Maria Evert (or Everett) (see #3) were as follows: i. Edward D.1 Conklin was born in 1835 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. 12 He and Susan B. Whelan obtained a marriage license on 19 Jul 1859 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 13 He married Susan B. Whelan, daughter of Edward Whelan and Eliza [---], before 1860.14 He and Susan B. Whelan were divorced after 1860.15 He was a stable owner. He died on 18 Oct 1894 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.16 He was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.17 1860 Census, Boston, 12th Ward, Suffolk, MA, p 326, dwelling 1961, family 2650 Edwin D. Conklin, 24, teamster, with Susan B. Conklin, 23. Both were b MA. Sep 1862 Edward Conklin, age 27, enlisted in the Civil War at Camp Meigs in Readville MA (which is now part of Boston) and all of his service apparently was as a teamster in the 45th regiment in Milton, Norfolk, MA. He was mustered out in 1863. There are no pension records. (Military records from the National Archives)

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Year (as 1835) and place from his marriage intention on file at Boston City Archives, City Hall; Not in Worcester vital records; Year (as 1836) from Civil War military records of Edward D. Conklin. 13 According to the marriage record, #1340 in the Boston City Archives, he was Edward D. Conklin of Boston, aged 24 years, a teamster, born in Worcester, son of Isaac and Martha, and she was Susan Wheeler, aged 22, born in Dorchester, daughter of Edward and Eliza. It was the first marriage for both. 14 Edward and Susan were shown has husband and wife in the 1860 Census. 15 1860 Census. 16 Date and place in his death record in the Boston City Archives, City Hall, which says he died of alcoholism; Date from the Boston City Directory, 1894. 17 Place from Boston City Archives, City Hall.

May, 1886 E. D. Conklin, the well known stable keeper on Pynchon street, has in his possession the military coat used by the confederate, Major General Hill, when the latter was captured. The coat is still in excellent condition, and Mr. Conklin, who is an old veteran, takes great delight in showing it to visitors. (Unidentified newspaper clipping pasted in Charles E. Conklin's ledger book) (undated) The brewers' picnic at Amory Grove on Wednesday was a grand affair in every sense of the word. The morning procession was quite imposing. Probably the proudest man in it and justly so was Mr. Edward Conklin, proprietor of the Pynchon street livery stable. Seated on the box and holding the reins over six of the handsomest sorrel horses ever seen in these parts, he felt every inch a king. When he took the present stable it was a dubious experiment, but by strict attention to business he has been successful to an extraordinary degree. (Unidentified clipping pasted in Charles E. Conklin's ledger book. On the reverse it displays information about the New York Sun perhaps only an advertisement) 1880-1894 Edward Conklin was listed in the Boston City Directory, with a stable, first at 44 Culvert, then, starting in 1882, at 59 Pynchon. ii. Lorenzo Conklin was born in 1837 in Quebec, Canada. 18 iii. Hiram Jacob Conklin19 was born on 26 Nov 1839 in Canada.20 He immigrated to the United States in 1875.21 He lived in 1878 in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont. 22 He and Rosalind E. Blinn, daughter of LeRoy Blinn and Almira M. Larned, were married by I.A. Griffin, Pastor, on 6 Aug 1878 in Burlington?, Chittenden County, Vermont. This was his first marriage. 23 He was a carpenter and a sexton.24 He was naturalized before 1900.25 He lived in 1910 in Arlington, Bennington County, Vermont. 26 He died on 27 Mar 1917 in Mary Fletcher Hospital, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, of pernicious anemia. 27 1880 Census, Burlington Centre, Chittenden, VT, Enumeration District 66, p 12/56D, Centre Street, dwelling 99, family 109 Jacob Conklin, 41, carpenter, he and his parents b Canada, with wife Rossey E., 35, dress maker, she and her parents b VT, daughter Carrie A., 1, she and her mother b VT, her father b Canada, mother-in-law Almira M. Blynn, 72, b VT, her father b NH, her mother b MA, and sister-in-law Ella A. Blynn, 31, single, house keeper, she and her parents b VT. 1900 Census, Burlington, Chittenden, VT, Enumeration District 69, p 7B/139B, 163 Cherry St., dwelling 138, family 187 Hiram J. Conklin, b Nov 1850, age 49, married 22 years, he and his parents b Canada, immigrated 1875, in this country 25 years, naturalized, sexton, no unemployment, owns mortgaged home, with wife Rosalina E., b Feb 1846, age 54, has had one child, who is now living, she and her parents b VT, and daughter Caroline A., b May 1879, age 21, single, she and her mother b VT, her father b Canada, stenographer, unemployed 11 months during the year.

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1851 Census. His parents' names from his marriage record, in Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier. 20 Date and country from his death record; Year and country from the 1880 Census; Month, year (as 1850), and country from the 1900 Census; Year (as 1840) from his age at marriage, according to his marriage record in Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier; Year (as 1840) and place (as Vermont) from the 1910 Census. 21 1900 Census. 22 His marriage record, in Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier. 23 Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier. 24 1880 Census. 25 1900 Census. 26 1910 Census. 27 His death record.

1910 Census, Arlington, Bennington, VT, Enumeration District 22, p 11A/11A, dwelling 228, family 251 Hiram J. Conklin, father-in-law, age 70, widowed, he and his parents b VT, carpenter, refrigerator shop, employee, no unemployment, in household of Charles W. Phillips, 32, married once, for 6 years, he and his mother b VT, his father b NY, physician, general practice, with his wife Caroline C., age 30, married once, has had no children, she and her parents b VT. All in the household can read, write, and speak English. [This page of the census is faint and hard to read. Microfilm at the National Archives, and online copies at Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com, and Heritage Quest have all been studied to obtain this transcription.]. iv. John Conklin was born in 1841 in Quebec?, Canada.28 v. Martha A. Conklin29 was born on 26 Dec 1841 in Dunham, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. 30 She immigrated in 1860 to Vermont. 31 She and George Cornelius Buxton, son of Benajah Case Buxton and Elizabeth Phillips, were married by S.D. Elkins, Minister, on 10 Dec 1869 in Essex, Chittenden County, Vermont. He was of ---, she was of St. Albans.32 She died on 1 Jan 1918 in Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, of Brights disease and epilepsy, age 76y 7d. 33 1880 Census, Jericho, Chittenden, VT, Enumeration District 78, p 34/262B, dwelling 398, family 405 Mattie Buxton, 37, wife, keeping house, in household of George Buxton, 34, carpenter, with daughter Rose Buxton, 9, at school, and son George, 6, at school. All in the household in the household and their parents b VT. 1900 Census, Burlington, Chittenden, VT, Enumeration District 68, p 6A/110A, 12 North Battery, dwelling 94, family 115 Martha Buxton, wife, b Dec 1842 [? last digit hard to read], age 57, married 35 years, has had 2 children, both now living, she and her father b Canada, her mother b VT, immigrated 1860, in this country 40 years, in household of Geo. C. Buxton, b 1846 [month unknown], age 54, he and his parents b VT, machinist, unemployed 1 month during the year, owns house free of mortgage, with son Geo. D. Buxton, b Jan 1874, age 26, single, he and his father b VT, his mother b Canada, bookkeeper, no unemployment. All in the household can read, write, and speak English. 1910 Census, Proctorsville Village, Cavendish Town, Windsor, VT, Enumeration District 272, p 3A/272A, dwelling 50, family 58 Martha Buxton, mother, 69, widowed, she and her parents b Canada, in household of George D. Buxton, [his age faint and hard to read], married once, [number of years hard to read], he and his father b VT, his mother b Canada, doctor of medicine, on own account, rents home, with his wife Veronica, 29 [? hard to read], married once, has had no children, she and her father b VT, [her mother's birthplace hard to read]. All in the household can read and write. vi. James Conklin was born in 1845 in Quebec, Canada.34 1870 Census, Heath Twp, Allegan, MI, p 9/186, dwelling 75, family 71 James Conklin, 23, laborer, b VT, one of 24 in the household of Samuel Johnson, 44, works in saw mill, RE $600, personal estate $200, b Canada, his parents foreign born. Samuel Johnson is a citizen. [This might be the James Conklin who was a brother of the Charles E. Conklin who lived in the same township, but no proof has been found.]. vii. Catherine Conklin was born in 1846 in Quebec, Canada. 35 1 viii. Charles E. Conklin. ix. Caroline Conklin was born in 1847 in Quebec, Canada. 36

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1851 Census. Her parents' names in her marriage record; Her parents' names in her death record in Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier. 30 Place from her marriage record; Date from Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier; Month and year from the 1900 Census. 31 1900 Census. 32 Their marriage record in Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier. 33 Her death record in Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier. 34 1851 Census. 35 1851 Census. 36 1851 Census.

3. Martha Maria2 Evert (or Everett) (James, #6)37 was born on 12 May 1807 in Vermont.38 She married Isaac Conklin (see #2), son of Jacob Conklin and Sarah Darby, on 24 Mar 1834 in St. Armand, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada, when he was recorded as a bachelor, 36, she a spinster, 23. Both were of Stanbridge. 39 She was baptized on 16 Jul 1843 in Methodist Church, St. Armand, Missisquoi County, Vermont.40 She moved to Otsego, Allegan County, Michigan, from Boston sometime in the 1890s to live with her son Charles and his family.41 She died on 4 Nov 1896 in Heath Township, Allegan County, Michigan. According to her death record she was age 89y 5m 23d, born in Vermont. 42 She was buried in Mountain Home Cemetery, Otsego, Allegan County, Michigan. 43 14 Nov 1896 Dunningville Old Mrs. Conkling, formerly of Boston, died at the home of her son, Charlie Conkling, in this township, last Friday, aged eightyfive years. (Allegan Gazette, Saturday, November 14, 1896, as transcribed by Viola Wilson in 1979).

Generation Three 4. Jacob3 Conklin was born before 1765.44 He married Sarah Darby (see #5). He died before 1831 in Stanbridge?, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada.45 1825 Census, Stanbridge Twp, Bedford County, Lower Canada, p 807 Jacob Conkling, head of a family of 8 Children 1 6-14, 2 14-18 Males 1 25-40, single, 1 60 or over, married Females 1 under 14, 2 14-45, single, 1 14-45, married, 1 45 and over, married (This listing is next to the listing for John Conkling.). Children of Jacob3 Conklin and Sarah Darby (see #5) were as follows: i. John2 Conklin46 was born circa 1796. He married Sylvia Johnson, daughter of Peleg Johnson and Abigail Parker, on 28 Jan 1823 in St. Armand East, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. 47 He died before 1842 in Quebec?, Canada.48 1825 Census, Stanbridge Twp, Bedford County, Lower Canada, p 807 John Conkling, head of a family of 3 Children 1 under 6 Males 1 25-40, married Females 1 under 14, 1 14-45, married (This listing is next to the listing for Jacob Conkling.)

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Her father's name and her mother's given name from her baptism record in St Armand Methodist Church records, according to Lorna Toope Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 38 Date and place from her age at death, according to Allegan County vital records, originals on microfilm, LDS Library. 39 Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 11. 40 Date and place from St Armand Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 41 Pat Lince, of Fennville, Michigan, interviewed by Joan Lince several times in the 1980s. 42 Allegan County vital records, originals on microfilm, LDS Library. 43 Gravestone, seen 1979. 44 1825 Census. 45 His son Isaac was head of his father's household in the 1831 Census. 46 His parents' names assumed from his proximity to Jacob in the 1825 Census. 47 Ralph Neil Broadhurst, Protestant Marriages in the District of Bedford Quebec, 1991. 48 His wife Sylvia was head of the household in the 1842 Census.

16 Nov 1829 Receipt by John Conklin to Peleg Johnson. The whole amount of [hard to read] which [hard to read] property is fifty five pounds fifteen shilings current money of the said Province of Lower Canada the receipt & payment whereof is hereby acknowledged [hard to read] and therefor [hard to read] voluntarily declare [hard to read] bargained & sold and by these presents bargains sells transfers [hard to read] makes [hard to read] and for ever quit all and each and every the articles & parcels of property in the Schedule enumerated & described all, each and every articles thereof the said John Conklin in our presence, did and doth hereby declare & affirm he is legally possessed of and hath good right and lawful authority to sell and transfer [hard to read] can legally do, and for the execution of these presents makes election of Domicile at his present dwelling, where &c Notwithstanding &c promising &c [hard to read] This Decree witnessed in the office of the said Notary, the day & year aforewritten; in the presence of Joseph Lincoln and Freeman Bridge, The said Witnesses and the said Parties and we the said Notary have to these presents (first duly read) set and [hard to read] In faith and testimony of these premises. [The above is in an almost unreadable handwriting. The following is in a better handwriting] Before the signing hereof and in our presence the within named John Conklin receives of Peleg Johnson the younger, the sum of ten shillings current money of the province in part of the within mentioned Consideration. [John Conklin signed with his mark; Peleg Johnson Jr, the witnesses, and Leon Lalanne signed.] Peleg Johnson Jn bo't of John Conklin one Gelding Horse (Bay) 10- 0-0 one Mare (Dark Grey) 11- 5-0 one Double Waggon 12-10-0 one Double Slay 5- 0-0 one Inferior Do Do 1-15-0 one Double Harness 4- 0-0 Two Cows 7- 5-0 Six Sheep 2- 5-0 Chest of Drawers 0-15-0 2 Common Chests 1- 0-0 Total 55-15-0 (From the Notarial records of Leon Lalanne, microfilmed by the National Archives Quebec. Other records show that Peleg Johnson the younger was John Conklin's brother-in-law.) 1831 Census, Stanbridge Twp, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada, p 1259, Concession 8 John Concklin, owns land, farmer, 5 in family 2 5 and under, 1 5-14 Males 1 30-60, married (John) Females 1 under 14, 1 14-45 (could be Sylvia) 5 members of the Church of England 40 acres, 25 improved, land held by deed Produce 8 bu peas, 40 bu oats, 8 bu rye, 25 bu corn, 35 bu potatoes 4 neat cattle, 3 horses, 9 sheep, 3 hogs (This listing is next to that of Isaac Conklin). ii. Isaac Conklin. iii. Elizabeth Conklin49 was born on 9 Dec 1799 in New York. 50 She married Peter Perault on 10 Feb 1825 in St. Armand East, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada.51 She was baptized on 8 Oct 1837 in St. Armand, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada.52 She died on 14 Dec 1886 in Stanbridge?, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. 53 She

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Her parents' names from her baptism, according to Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 13. Date (as 9 Dec 1799) from her baptism record; Year (as 1798) and state from the 1851 Census; Date (as Dec 10 1796) from her gravestone, seen Oct 2003; Date (as 9 Dec 1797) from her death record in Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 13 Apr 2006. 51 Broadhurst, Protestant Marriages in the District of Bedford Quebec, 1991. 52 Date and place from Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 13. 53 Date from Missisquoi Historical Society, cemetery records; Date from Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by

was buried on 16 Dec 1886 in Corey Cemetery, moved to Ridge Cemetery, Stanbridge Township, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. Her gravestone gives her age as 90y 4d. 54 1851 Census, Stanbridge Twp, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada, Enumeration District 2, p 93 Elizabeth Perrault, b N York, 53, married, in household of Peter Perrault, farmer, b Canada Bas, 53, married. Also in the family are Adeline, 21, Lamira, 20, Miles, 16, Jane, 14, Permilla, 12, Almer, 8, and Albert, 8. All in the household are Methodists, and all the children are in single and were born in Canada Bas. Jane, Permilla, and Albert attend school. They live in a one-story frame house in Concession 7, Lot 5, holding 42 1/2 acres, 25 1/2 cultivated, 15 in crops, 10 in pasture, 1/2 in gardens or orchards, and 17 in woods or wild. Crops are Wheat 2 acres, 12 bushells Peas 2 acres, 47 bushells Oats 5 acres, 60 bushells B. wheat [buckwheat] 2 acres, 25 bushells Potatoes 1 acre, 50 bushells The farm produces 10 bundles of hay and 65 lbs wool, 250 lbs butter, 450 barrels of beef, 450 barrels of pork. There are 2 milk cows, 1 calf or heifer, 1 horse, 2 sheep, 1 pig. iv. Hulda Matilda Conklin was born on 20 Apr 1803 in Quebec, Canada.55 She married Hiram S. Fleming on 13 Jan 1831 in St. Armand West, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. 56 She died on 22 Mar 1875 in Stanbridge?, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. 57 She was buried in Morgan's Corner Cemetery, Morgan's Corner, Stanbridge, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. According to her gravestone she was age 62.58 1851 Census, Stanbridge Twp, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada, Enumeration District 2, p 103 Huldah Flemmings, age 40, married, in household of Hiram Flemmings, farmer, 46, married, with Almira, 20, Hiram U. [or A.], 18, Louisa, 15, Chester, 13, Sarah, 11, and John H., 8. Also in the household is Laura Conklin, 44, single. All in the household were b Bas Canada, and all are Methodists, and are members of one family. They live in a 1 story frame dwelling, in Concession 10, Lot 1, holding 100 acres, 35 cultivated, 20 in crops, 14 in pasture, 1 in gardens or orchards, and 65 in woods or wild. Crops are wheat 3 acres, 25 bushells; oats 4 acres, 160 bushells; B. wheat 2 acres, 30 bushells; Indian corn 2 acres, 40 bushells; potatoes 1 acres, 150 bushells; beans 4 bushells. The farm produces 15 bundles of hay per year, 30 lbs of wool, 300 lbs of maple sugar, 300 lbs of butter, 460 [? hard to read] lbs of cheese, 480 barrels of beef, 850 barrells of pork. There are 4 bulls or steers, 6 milk cows, 3 calves or heifers, 3 horses, 18 sheep, 2 pigs. v. Phebe Conklin59 was born on 6 Oct 1806.60 She was baptized on 8 Oct 1837 in St. Armand, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada.61 vi. Laura Conklin62 was born on 21 Feb 1807.63 She was baptized on 16 Jul 1843 in St. Armand, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada.64 She died on 4 Oct 1881 in Stanbridge, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada.65 the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 13 Apr 2006. 54 Place from Missisquoi Historical Society, cemetery records; Date and place from St. Armand Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006; Date from Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 13 Apr 2006. 55 Date (as 20 Apr 1803) from Missisquoi Historical Society, Methodist Church records; Date (as 29 Apr 1803) from St. Armand Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an email from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 13 Apr 2006. 56 Broadhurst, Protestant Marriages in the District of Bedford Quebec, 1991. 57 Missisquoi Historical Society, cemetery records. 58 Missisquoi Historical Society, cemetery records. 59 Her parents' names from her baptism record Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 14. 60 Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 14. 61 Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 14.

vii. Mary A. Conklin66 was born on 2 Jun 1813 in Stanbridge, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. 67 She married Samuel Borden.68 She died on 27 Nov 1884.69 She was buried on 30 Nov 1884.70 5. Sarah3 Darby71 was born before 1786.72 She married Jacob Conklin (see #4). She immigrated in 1810 to Quebec, Canada. 73 She died after 1842 possibly in Stanbridge, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada. 74 18 Sep 1815 Before the Subscribing Notary ... personally appeared Christian Snyder, of the Township of Stanbridge [of the District of Montreal], Gentleman, who, in the presence of the said Notary & of the Witnesses hereinafter named, voluntarily declared & acknowledged that with a view to promote & facilitate the establishment of a School for the education of children in his vicinity he hath ... granted ... under the title of Donation ... unto Barnabas Minkler, of St Armand, George Hogel, John Snyder, Henry Snyder, Abner Blood, Childs Blood, Isaac Conklin, Sarah Conklin, Anthony Stokeham, of Stanbridge, Jabez Hungerford, Ephraim Deuel, of St Armand, John Schoolcraft, Prentice Hitchcock, Isaac Helliker, William McKeny, Peter Schoolcraft of Stanbridge, John Murray of St. Armand. [The following several lines have a dark background on the microfilm and are very hard to read.] Benoni Grant, Peter Montle, James Macy, Jacob Hyatt & Asa Borden of St Armand, James Macy, yeomen, the said Barnabas Minkler & George Hogel alone present & for the other persons above named their associates as well as for themselves accepting, Donees, two roods of Land in Superficies, part & parcel of that Trace of Land Situate lying & being in the aforesaid Township of Stanbridge, known & distinguished by Lot Number Two in the Ninth Range of Lots in the Said Township, the said ... land to be laid out & measured on the first rise or eminence of ground southerly of the said Christian Snyder's dwelling house & on the Easterly side of a highway which leads to Abraham Lampman's Mills in said Stanbridge, the Northwesterly corner or angle of which said piece of ground shall be formed or Set at the distance of about twenty five rods from the said Christian Snyder's house thence Easterly from the Easterly side of & at right angle with the Said highway to extend Eight rods, thence Southerly parallel with the Said highway, ten rods, thence westerly at right angle Eight rods to the Said highway, thence Northerly along the Same to the angle first above mentioned as the said piece of Land is and generally all the Rights, Titles ... of the said Christian Snyder ... To Have & To Hold ... unto the said
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Her parents' names from her baptism record, as transcribed in Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 17. 63 Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 17. 64 Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988, p 17. 65 Methodist Church Records, Bedford Circuit. 66 Her first name, middle initial, and her parents' names from Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 67 Missisquoi Historical Society; Year (as 1813) and province from the 1881 Census; Year (as 1812) from her age at death, according to her death record in Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 68 Mary Conklin is described as relict of the late Samuel Borden in her death record in Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 69 Date from Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 70 Date from Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 71 Her given name from her daughter's baptism record in Waugh, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988; Her full name from Leon Lalanne, notarial records, as microfilmed by the National Archives of Quebec; Her full name from her daughter Mary's death record in Bedford Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006. 72 1831 Census. 73 1842 Census. 74 Date from the 1842 Census, place assumed.

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Barnabas Minkler & George Hogel & their Associates aforenamed & such others as a committee as may from time be appointed & formed by & among themselves Shall See meet & proper hereafter to receive & admit and to the only use & behoof of them all & their respective Heirs or Assigns forever, by virtue of these presents to & for the object & purpose & under the terms, provisions & limitations hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: This grant cession & Donation is thus by the said Christian Snyder made, meant & intended to & for the Sole purpose of erecting & building a School House thereon, provided that the Said Donees Shall build & complete the Same within ten years from the day of the date hereof and that if the Said Donees their Heirs or Assigns shall at any time hereafter by any other cause than War or other imperious & temporary occurrence cease to use the House that shall or may be erected on the said piece of Land as a School House and Shall not within ten years from such cessation resume the use thereof of the same purpose, then in such case the present grant of the said piece of Land Shall cease & be absolutely void, and the Said piece of Land & premises together with all the buildings & Edifices which may at the expiration of the aforesaid ten years be standing thereon shall revert & escheat unto the said Christian Snyder his Heirs or Assigns and Shall thereupon become the absolute & entire property of him or them forever in the Same manner as if the present grant & Donation had never been made .... And the Said Christian Snyder in consideration of the premises for himself his Heirs & Assigns doth hereby covenant & agree to erect & constantly keep in due repair at his & their own proper cost a fence on the Northerly, Easterly & Southerly boundary lines of the aforesaid piece of Land .... And for the purpose of causing these presents to be registered wheresoever requisite the Parties thereto have respectively made & constituted their lawful attorney the donee [?hard to read] thereof giving him the necessary power. [Signed at the house of Thomas Russell, Esq. in the afternoon of 18 Sep 1815 by Christian (his mark) Snyder, Barnabas Minckler, and George Hogel in the presence of David Krans, Tho Foot, and L. Lalanne.] (From the Notarial Records of Leon Lalanne, as seen on a microfilm available from the LDS Library.) 15 Dec 1815 A deed by Peter Montle to Christian Snyder the Younger, both of Stanbridge, District of Montreal, describes the land as follows: ... all the remainder of that Tract & Parcel of Land, Situate lying & being in the aforesaid Township of Stanbridge known & distinguished by Lot Number three in the Eighth Range of Lots in the Said Township; the said remainder consisting of all the surplus in Said Lot, of about eighty acres which hath been Sold & conveyed and of the Southwesterly part of Said Lot to Sarah Derby the wife of Jacob Concklin; as the Said remainder & Surplus is be its contents what it may with all the improvements erected & made thereon. [The deed says the land was conveyed to the grantor by Peter Koon by Deed, but it doesn't give the date of that deed. The deed is subject to the conditions of the Letters Patent of the Township of Stanbridge. The witnesses to this deed are George Hogel, William Heath, and the notary, L. Lalanne.] (From the Notarial Records of Leon Lalanne, as seen on a microfilm available from the LDS Library) 10 Feb 1821 On the tenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & twenty one in the afternoon personally came & appeared & were present before the undersigned Notary Public ... Peter Montle, Jacob Hyatt, Prentice Hitchcocke stipulating for Isaac Conklin, absent, George Hogel the Second, Asa Fleming Ira Fleming, Barnabas Murray for himself and the Widow of Barnabas Minkler, absent, John Murray, Barnabas Hitchcock for himself & for Caleb Cory, Christian Snyder the Younger, Asa Borden; Isaac Helliker; Samuel Borden; Abner Blood for himself & Childs Blood his Son, absent; Jacob Best for James Macy absent; Jacob Konklin for Sarah Darby his Wife; John Snyder, Henry Snyder, Ephraim Duville, Peter Hawley, (of Caldwell Manor) now by all present admitted to be one of the original grantees with them & at the date of the Deed herein after to be referred to, was one of the absent who in the presence of the said notary & of the Witnesses hereinafter named, voluntarily & respectively declared & acknowledged that in pursuance of the directions contained in a certain act of the said Province made & passed in the forty first year of the reign of his late Majesty George the third entitled "an act for the establishment of Free Schools and the advancement of Learning in the Province;" they have given granted conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do give grant convey & confirm from henceforth forever in trust unto Christian Snyder, Prentice Hitchcock and Anthony Stokham all of Stanbridge aforesaid, Gentlemen, Commissioners duly constituted for the purpose of erecting a school house in the aforesaid Township of Stanbridge according to the form of the Act or Statute abovementioned and to their Successors for ever all that piece & parcel of land Situate lying in the aforesaid Township of Stanbridge & being part & parcel of Lot number two in the ninth range of Lots in the said Township the said piece & parcel thereof consisting of two roods of Land in Superficies laid out & measured on the first rise or Eminence of Ground Southerly of the said Christian Snyders dwelling house and in the Easterly side of a highway which leads to Abraham Lampman's mills in Stanbridge aforesaid, the Northwesterly corner or angle of which said piece of Ground shall be formed or Set at the distance of about twenty five rods from the said Christian Snyder's House thence Easterly from the Easterly side of & at right angle with the said highway ten rods, thence westerly at right angles, Eight rods to the said highway thence Northerly along the same to the angle first above mentioned, as the said piece of Land is with that certain house now standing thereon erected & made for the purpose of teaching a school therein and an other house intended for the dwelling of the Teacher of the Said School and as the said piece of Ground was given & granted by Christian Snyder by Deed dated the Eighteenth day of September AD 1815 executed before the said Notary.

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To Have & To Hold the said piece of Ground & houses aforesaid and their appurtenances to the said Commissioners & their Successors to & for the uses interests & purposes in & by the said Statute particularly described & [one word hard to read] Thus Done & Passed at St Armand aforesaid in the house of Oliver Whiting the day & year first before written in the presence of Calvin May & Abraham V.V. Hogel, the said Witnesses & the said Parties and we the said Notary & Witnesses have to these presents (first duly read) Set & Subscribed our respective names In faith & Testimony of the premises. [Signed] Ephraim Deuel, Peter Hawley, Peter Montle, Jacob Hyatt, Asa Fleming, George Hogel, Ira Fleming, Barnabas Murray, John Murray, Barnabas Hitchcock, Christian Snyder Jr, Asa Borden, Isaac Heliker, Samuel Borden, Jacob Best, Abner Blood, John Snyder, Jacob (his mark) Conklin, Henry Snyder. Witnesses Calvin May, A.V.V. Hogel, and L. Lalanne. (From the Notarial Records of Leon Lalanne, as seen on a microfilm available from the LDS Library.) 1831 Sarah is presumably the female over 45 years old enumerated in the household of Isaac Conklin. 10 Dec 1838 On the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty eight in the presence of the Attorney and Witnesses after named personally appeared Sarah Derby residing in the Township of Stanbridge in the County of Missiskoui in the district of Montreal in the Province of Lower Canada, Widow of Jacob Conklin in his life time of Stanbridge aforesaid yeoman who voluntarily declared and acknowledged that from parental regard and affection towards her son Isaac Conklin and with a view to his welfare in this world as well as to remunerate him for past and expected future services she hath ceded granted and given and, by these presents doth cede grant confirm and give under the title of donation entre vifs [donation among the living] but remuneratory and in the best form and manner that donation can be made unto the said Isaac Conklin Donee present hereto and accepting all that tract and parcel of land part and parcel of that tract of land situate lying & being in said Stanbridge known and distinguished by Lot number three in the eighth range of Lots in said Township, measured off of said lot as follows viz beginning at the South West angle of said lot, thence running northwards on the West line of said lot six acres, thence running Eastwards parallel with the South line of said lot six acres wide to the Queen's highway as the same now is containing eighty five acres or thereabouts more or less together with all the buildings and other improvements erected and made thereon and generally all and every the estate & estates rights titles interests property claims and demands whatsoever of her the said Donor if in to or out of the said piece & parcel of land & every part thereof as the same was unto her conveyed by Peter Montel by deed dated the eighteenth day of November 1811 executed before Leon Lalanne Notary Public & certain witnesses. To have and to hold to the said Donee his heirs and assigns and to his wife Martha Maria Everett after his decease and after the decease of both to their children, for the only use and behoof of the Donee and others & his and their heirs and assigns for ever by virtue hereof. This Donation is thus made under the conditions following to wit; First that the said Donee shall be bound to support and maintain the said Donor and her two daughters Phebe and Laura Conklin in the same house in which they now live by furnishing to them yearly and every year immediately after harvesting Four bushels of wheat, four bushels of Indian corn and four bushels of buck wheat or rye at the option of said Donor. Also one hundred & fifty pounds of pork thirty bushels of potatoes and six pounds of good tea and twenty pounds of sugar. Secondly that the said Donee shall be bound to keep and maintain upon said piece of land for the exclusive use of said Donor and daughters one cow and six sheep of which the increase shall belong to said Donee, but in case of the death of the cow now on said farm belonging to Laura or of the sheep or in case of the removal thereof along with the owner from said piece of land, then the said Donee shall be bound to supply its or their place or to find butter and enough of the increase of the sheep to preserve the proportion above expressed. Thirdly in case of the death of any one of the said Donor or of her said daughters the said Donee shall be bound to furnish the articles of provision above mentioned only in proportion to the number of survivors. Fourthly The said Donee shall not be at liberty to sell alien encumber let or in any way dispose of said piece of land during the life time of said Donor without her express consent in writing first asked and obtained. And in order that these presents may be duly confirmed & have the due effect in law the said parties hereby authorise and impower James Moir Ferres their respective lawful Attorney to deposit these presents in the office of Leon Lalanne Notary Public to whose office the said parties have come for the purpose hereof and in his absence have requested the said Attorney to proceed to the execution hereof For which and every legal effect & purpose in the premises the said parties hereby make election of domicil on said piece of land where &c Notwithstanding &c Promising &c obliging &c Renouncing &c.

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This done and Passed at Frelighsburg in said County in the dwelling house of M. James Pollock in the presence of William McGowan Tailor and Alexander Ferres Farmer both of said St Armand the said Witnesses and the said parties & we the said Attorney & witnesses have to these presents first duly read set & subscribed our respective names in faith and testimony of the premises .... and the said Donor declares she cannot write therefore makes her usual mark a cross Sarah her X mark Derby Isaac Conklin William Magowan Alex Ferres J.W. Moir Ferres Atty Received by the hand of Alexn Ferres who, on the behalf of Jas Moir his brother left the same in my custody to remain of record in my office on Saturday the 27th day of July A.D. 1839 L. Lalanne (From a microfilm of the original document, in the Notarial Records of Leon Lalanne, from the Quebec National Archives, available at the LDS Library) 1842 Census, Stanbridge, Missisquoi, Quebec, Canada, p 2567 Sarah Conklin, non-proprietor of land, weaver, 3 people in the family, 1 native of the USA, 32 years in the province. Females 2 14-45, single; 1 45 and over, single. 2 British Wesleyan Methodists. 6. James3 Evert (or Everett) was born say 1780. He married Martha [---] (see #7). He was of Vermont. 75 Children of James3 Evert (or Everett) and Martha [---] (see #7) were: 3 i. Martha Maria2 Evert (or Everett). 7. Martha3 [---] married James Evert (or Everett) (see #6).

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Place from his daughter Martha's baptism record in St Armand Methodist Church records, according to Rhicard, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince, 10 Apr 2006.

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Bibliography
1825 Census. 1831 Census. 1842 Census. 1851 Census. 1860 Census. 1861 Census. 1880 Census. 1881 Census. 1900 Census. 1910 Census. Allegan County vital records, originals on microfilm, LDS Library. Baptism record. Boston City Archives, City Hall. Boston City Directory. Broadhurst, Ralph Neil, Protestant Marriages in the District of Bedford Quebec, 1991. Civil War military records of Edward D. Conklin. Lalanne, Leon, notarial records, as microfilmed by the National Archives of Quebec. Lince, Pat, of Fennville, Michigan, interviewed by Joan Lince several times in the 1980s. Methodist Church Records, Bedford Circuit. Missisquoi Historical Society, cemetery records. Missisquoi Historical Society, Methodist Church records. Missisquoi Historical Society. O.J. Lemoin's family record, called the Red Book. Otsego Union. Rhicard, Lorna Toope, transcription from microfilm in a series of books entitled Missisquoi County Births, Baptisms, Deaths and Marriages, published by the Brome County Historical Society, Knowlton, Quebec, and extracted in an e-mail from Brenda Wilson Birch to Joan Lince. Vermont vital records, index at Montpelier. Waugh, Pamela Wood, St. Armand Methodist Church Records 1831-1836, Vol. 1, 1988. Worcester vital records.

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[---] Eliza (1803), 4 Martha, 2, 13 Blinn LeRoy (1807-before 1860), 5 Rosalind E. (28 Feb 1846-4 Jul 1904), 5 Borden Samuel (24 May 1795-2 Dec 1876), 10 Buxton Benajah Case (1813-1885), 6 George Cornelius (27 Oct 1845-30 Jun 1908), 6 Conklin Caroline (1847), 6 Catherine (1846), 6 Charles E. (14 Apr 1846-30 Mar 1908), 1, 6 Edward D. (1835-18 Oct 1894), 4 Elizabeth (9 Dec 1799-14 Dec 1886), 8 Hiram Jacob (26 Nov 1839-27 Mar 1917), 5 Hulda Matilda (20 Apr 1803-22 Mar 1875), 9 Isaac (1798-before 1861), 2, 4, 7, 8 Jacob (before 1765-before 1831), 7, 10 James (1845), 6 John (1841), 6 John (circa 1796-before 1842), 7 Laura (21 Feb 1807-4 Oct 1881), 9 Lorenzo (1837), 5 Martha A. (26 Dec 1841-1 Jan 1918), 6 Mary A. (2 Jun 1813-27 Nov 1884), 10 Phebe (6 Oct 1806), 9 Darby Sarah (before 1786-after 1842), 7, 10 Evert (or Everett) James (say 1780), 2, 13 Martha Maria (12 May 1807-4 Nov 1896), 2, 4, 7, 13 Fleming Hiram S. (1806-12 Mar 1868), 9 Hinkston Rozilla (7 May 1812-11 Jan 1863), 1 Johnson Peleg (circa 1760-before 2 Jul 1841), 7 Sylvia (1796-after 1851), 7 Larned Almira M. (1808-after 1880), 5 Lemoin Laban Clark (17 Aug 1807-11 Sep 1865), 1 Lumina (16 Apr 1849-16 Jul 1940), 1 Parker Abigail (circa 1765-before 2 Jul 1841), 7 Perault Peter (12 Sep 1797-30 Dec 1886), 8 Phillips Elizabeth (1813-), 6 Whelan Edward (1803), 4 Susan B. (1837), 4

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