(1768.) MELISSA JANE HIATT (669.) (172.) (26.) (3.) (1.):
b. 3-6mo-1828 (or 1831?)., Wayne Co., Indiana; m. 14-8mo-1849, to BENJAMIN F. DIGGS.CH: (3654.) Liebe Eseretta; (3655.) Alvin Shelley; (3656.) Lowell Clyde.
[] Margret was born (date given in Ida Frost Robinson's Items ofAncestry) as July 20, 1729 to Jonas and Mary (Morse) wood, who had aplantation in Elizabeth, NJ. Sometime after her little sister, Sarah,was born, her mother died, and Jonas remarried a second Mary, a widowWinans. There were no children by this marriage. Perhaps Margaretdidn't get along too well with her step-mother, as Margaret named nochild for her own mother, whose name was also Mary (unless a childdied we don't know about). When Margaret was 17 or 18, herstep-mother died (1747) and shortly thereafter in 1747 or 1748Margaret was married to widower Recompense Stanbery Jr., probably bythe minister of the Scotch Plains Baptist Church. He was 38 years old.She therfore moved into a well-established household eith Recompense'ssons by his first wife, Joseph, 10 years old,and Issac who was eight.Jacob would have been seven, although he may have died in infancy.Margaret undoubtedly led a busy life cooking over the fire in thefireplace, making soap, dipping candles, spinning wool and flax, andknitting stockings, to name a few of the chores expected of ahousewife. No doubt she also taught the children their lessons, asrecords show the offspring of Recompense were well educated for theirday in reading and writing. Children were taught at hme in those days.We think her husband was often away from home, so that she had romanage alone. Records show that Recompense transported "provisions andnecessaries" to Savannah, GA., in 1737 and 1739 and probably continuedto do so throughout his career and to visit other coastal cities. Hemay, in fact, have been away when quite a few of his offspring wereborn, leaving Margaret with the responsibility of naming them, as sheinvariably chose those names from her own family. She presentedREcompense with nine children, five girls and four boys. When heryoungest child, Jacob, was five, her husband died (May 20,1777). Shewas 48, and the American Revolution was in full swing. Two of her sonswent to war, Samuel and Recompense III. On Sept. 2, 1780 shemarried Capt. John Darby and lived the rest of her life in the Darbyhome. She died on "Jann ye 18th 1812" in the 83rd year of her age."Far from this world of toil and strife They'represent with the Lord The labors of this mortal lifeEnd in a large reward." (Inscription on her tombstone in ScotchPlains, NJ) "I note in marriages sent by Mr. Greaves in 1946, thata Sarah Wood married a Josiah Stanbery of Mendham, NJ, Feb. 17, 1751,some three or four years after Margaret married Recompense Stanbery.This could have been Margaret's little sister, but who was thisJosiah? Recompense had a brother Josiah, was this he?" We aredescended from Woods NOT Searings! The mystery of Margaret's maidenname solved at last, Febuary 20, 1992 In the 1930's and 1940's aMr Richard P. Greaves of Scotch Plains, NJ, slipped the Stanberydescendants a red herring whrn he asserted that the wife of RecompenseStanbery Jr., was named Margaret Searing. I was surprized, to say theleast, that at last we knew Margaret's maiden name, as none of thesources I had checked gave her family name. But when I pressed Mr.Greaves for his source in 1946, he could only state that "someone told(him her name), so he put it down, hoping that further study mightprove it to be correct".(Why did he want her name to be Searing?) Thiswhen he had been circulating the name as Bible truth! I now thinkno one "told him" at all, but he saw the name Joseph Searing inREcompense's will of 1777 (NJ Archives XXXIV p.492-493, Recompense hadbought property from Searing) and later put "Searing" down, notrelizing where he had come across it. Unfortunately, he circulatedthis surmane far and wide to many diverse Stanbery descendants acrossthe United States, with the result that we almost came to accept thename simply on the basis that it appeared in so many cousin's records(without any source named). I remember felling very angry when Mr.Greaves letter arrived in 1946 admitting there was no source for thename "Searing". Perhaps Margare was communicating with me somehow thather name had been no such thing, and I was not to swallow it hook,line and sinker. Thus I did not provide a surname for Margaret whenwriting to relatives unless I cautioned that it was suspect and boreno proof. It was a relief to me, therefore, when evidence turned upalmost 50 years later to prove Mr. Greaves was wrong and my instinctcorrect. Although I have found no Bible or marriage records to back upmy allegations ( there simply aren't any) -- I think my assertion thatMargaret was a Wood can be at least partly backed up by internalevidence, as the Margaret Wood of whom I an speaking had a fathernamed Jonas, and Margaret had a son named Jonas. Furthermore,Joseph Searing died leaving a will which proved he had NO DAUGHTERNAMED MARGARET. Nor did I find any other Searing wills that mentioneda Margaret. A Mrs. Fratt, a volunteer of the Genealogical Societyof the WEst Fields in New Jersey, was the kind person who called ourattention to the fact that a Jonas Wood-- who had property adjoiningthat of REcompense Stanbery--mentioned an unmarried daughter Margaretin his will of 1745. Mrs. Fratt suggested that the name "Jonas" was atleast "provocative" in view of the fact that Margaret named a sonJonas. I had noticed in Rev. Hatfield's History of Elizabet, NJthat a Jonas wood was one of the original "Associates" of Elizabeth. Iknew there had to be a relationship because the name Jonas had beenused widely in the Stanbery family--but where did the Woods fit in: asancestors of Sarah, wife of REcompense Sr. or of Margaret, wife ofREcompense Jr? The clue should have been, had I been perceptive enoughto register the fact, that the name Jonas didn't appear in theStanbery family until Recompense Jr. married Margaret! After beingspurred into action by the suggestion that Margaret may have been aWood, I consulted the New Jersey Archives (first series) and discoverdwill abstracts that back up my allegation that Margaret was a Wood.These are: 1.Vol.XXX p. 542: wil of Jonas Wood (a descendant of theassociate) and of his widow Mary, and 2.Vol.XXIII p.330: will ofJoseph Morss, father in law of Jonas Wood Jonas Wood died in April1745, leaving wife, Mary, a son Samuel, married daughters Anna andPhebe, and unmarried daughters Margaret and Sarah. He mentionsproperty lying adjacent to that of Recompense Jr. Joseph Morss(Morse/Morris)wil dated 16 March 1726/7, proved 28 July 1729, names inhis will not only his surviving children but also his grandchildrenborn to date. Among these are Mary (Morss), wife of Jonas Wood, andthe mother of Ann, Phebe, Samuel, and Jerimiah Wood. Notice thatMargaret Wood is not mentioned because she hasn't been born yet.Ida Frost Robinson in her 1894 book Items of Ancestry (including theStanbery lineage) gives Margaret ----- Stanbery's dates as follows:born: 20 July 1729 died:18 June 1812 (tombstone says January) (Hertombstone states she "died in her 83rd year") Therefore Morss'seill proves that Margaret Wood is the correct age to be Mrs.Recompense StanberyJr. and there fore must be the same person.Secondary proof lies in the fact that Margaret gave six of herStanbery children names that "coincide" with Wood names. Jonasfor her father and great-grandfather Phebe for her sisterSamuel for her brother and grandfather Wood Margaret forherself(also grandfather Samuel Woode had a wifeMargaret, NJA XXIII p 520) Sarah for her sister Anna forher sister But why didn't Margaret name a child for her mother,Mary Morse Wood? I think the answer lies in the abstract of widow MaryWood's will (same page as husband's) Mary, widow of JOnas Wood,late of Elizabeth, NJ, died in 1747. Her will names only children of aprevious marriage (named Winans) and completely ignores the offspringof Jonas Wood. Perhaps Margaret Wood Stanbery didn't get along toowell with her step-mother and thus wasn't too keen on the name Mary.I believe that Mary Morss (Morse/Morris) was the mother of MargaretWood Stanbery because her son Samuel in later life adopted the name"Morris" for a middle name. For the above reasons I postulate thatthe maiden name of Mrs. Recompense Stanbery Jr. of Elizabeth/ScotchPlains NJ was Wood. All of the aboce from Mary Ann Cummins, 25Forest Ave, Delaware, OH 43015-1620
[] WILLIAM STANBOROWE Birthdate isunknown, if Josiah eldest children born about 1600, then William'sbirthdate could be dated 20 years earlier to 1580 if not earlier. Hiswife is not known. According to his will he had a brother James, adaughter, Mary and son Josias. The Will of William Stanborowe ofCanons Ashby in the County of Northampton, yeoman(farmer), 19 Nov.1642. To son Josias Stanborow my house, messuage, snd tenement, withthe appurtenances as they are now used, lying in the town of Banburyin the County of Oxford on the south side of a street called "yeBeastmarket," and now in the use and occupation of William Sanedge,stuffweaver. To brother James Stanborow all wearing apparel. Toson-in-law Robert Raynford and Mary his wife, and the heirs of saidMary, the other house with appurtenances as they are now used, lyingin the said town of Banbury and adjoining the house on theBeastmarket aforesaid, and now in the use and occupation of RaphLaurance, 'day labourer. Son Robert Rainsford residuary legatee andexecutor (Signed) William Stanbarrow. Witnesses: Wm. Sprigg and Wm.Allen. Proved 1 May 1647 by Robert Rainsford. From Aspinnall'sNotarial Records P. 104; "15 (9) 1647 Josias Stanborrough grantedunto Hezekiah Usher of Boston bookseller a fre Attorney to aske &c:the rents of a house & garden in Banbury...given& Bequethed to him bythe last will & c of Wm Stanborrough his Father late of Canons Ashbiein Northamptonshire deceased"'.
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