Isaac Rumsey

1763 - 1829  (65 years)

• Name	Isaac Rumsey  [1, 2]
  Birth	16 Sep 1763	Goshen Precinct, Orange Co., New York, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Will	4 Aug 1829  [3]
  	In the Name of God Amen. I Isaac Rumsey of the town of Enfield in the County of Tompkins and State of New York, being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say--First I give and bequeathe unto my beloved wife Jane one third of the avail of all my freehold estate with the use of my new frame house during her natural life also what household furniture she may think proper to keep to furnish said house and two Milch Cows to pastured and kept on said farm. I do also give and devise unto my second son Isaac N. Rumsey his heirs and assigns one part of my freehold estate in the town of Enfield county and State aforesaid, butted and bounded as followeth to wit beginning at the North East corner of Great lot Number Seventy Six in said town from thence running West in the North line of said Lot to the first spring Brook known by the Name of high bridge Brook thence down the centre of said Brook as it runs to a hemnlock Stake in said Brook near it Juncture with the five mile Creek and about eight feet south west of a hemlock stump marked with a blaze and three hacks and about twenty three feet south of a helmlock tree marked with a blaze and three hacks[;] from thence on a south west direction to a hemlock stake standing in the section of the highway where the Spring that runs from the south side of the dwelling house crosses the same [;] thence south along the center of the highway to land owned bgy Charles Woodward thence East on the North line said Woodwards land to the East bounds of said lot thence north along the East line of said lot to the place of beginning containing twenty five acres of land be the same more or less. I also give and devise to my youngest son Oliver Rumsey his heirs and assigns the remainder of my freehold Estate in the town of Enfield butted and bounded as followeth to wit beginning at the North West corner of land herein devised to Isaac N. Rumsey thence south and South west on the west line of said Isaac N. Rumsey's land to land owned by Charles Woodward, thence West on the North line of said Woodward's land to land owned by Ebenezer Haven, then north to the north line of said Woodward's land to land owned by Ebenezer Haven, then north to the north line of said lot Number Seventy Six, thence East on the North line of said lot to the place of beginning containing Eighty five acres of land be the same more or less. I do also give and bequeathe to my oldest son Jacob Rumsey six hundred Dollars to be paid by my son Isaac N. Rumsey in six equal annual payments from my decease. I do also give and bequeathe to my Daughter Eliza Doolittle one hundred and fifty Dollars likewise to be paid by my son Isaac N. Rumsey in three equal annual instalments the first to be paid four years after my decease. I do also give and bequeath to my Daughter Charlotte Rumsey one hundred and fifty Dollars to be paid by my son Oliver to be paid in two equal annual instalments after my decease [. I] Also give and bequeath in addition to the above to my Daughter Charlotte Rumsey one good Milche Cow to be paid by my son Oliver Rumsey, within one Year after my decease. I do also give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Ann Townsend and her heirs one hundred and fifty Dollars to be paid by my son Olive Rumsey in three equal annual instalments the first in three years after my decease. I do also give and bequeath unto my Daughter Jane Arrilla Smith one hundred and fifty Dollars to be paid in two equal annual instalments by my son Oliver Rumsey the first in six years after my decease. I do also give and bequesth tomy Daughter Maritta Rumsey two hundred Dollars andan eutset [outfit?] equal to those which her Sisters had at their marriage, the two hundred Dollars to be paid in two equal annual instalments by my son Oliver Rumsey the first in eight years after my decease. I also will and dirct that my Executors sell and dispose of all my personal property of all kinds whatsoever not herein before bqueathed and collect all my debts due me as far as they can be ascertained and collected and pay all my debts of every kind and nature out of the same [;] and should there be a surplus left after all my debts is paid i will and direct that my Executors pay the Same to Isaac N. Rumsey and Oliver Rumsey to whom I bequeathe the same to be equally divided between them, share and share alike, and should there be a dificiency of personal property as above mentioned to pay all my debts I will and order that my son Isaac N. Rumsey and Oliver Rumsey equally make up the same share and share alike. I do further Will and devise to my son Isaac N. Rumsey the privilege of taking the water from any parts of the five mile creek in the time of a drouth on the premises hereinbefore devised to my son Oliver for the use of the Grist Mill and for no othyeruse on this express condition that he is not to take so great a share of water out of said Creek as to injure any machinery that may be erected hereon [,] to hold said privilege while said Isaac Rumsey shall own said Grist Mill and no longer. Lastly I hereby appoint my beloved wife Jane Rumsey executrix and Squire J. Nobles James Rumsey Junior and Gilbert J. Ogden Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal this twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred twenty nine. --["]His heirs and assigns["] interlined between the thirteenth and fourteenth line from top on first page before signed [;] likewise ["]to injure["] interlined betwen between the twelfth and thirteenth line from top of last page before signed-- Signed sealed & published and declared by the above named Isaac Rumsey to be his last will and Testament in the presence of us who have Isaac Rumsey < LS > hereunto subscribed our names, as witnesses in the presence of the Testator. George W. Stephens Ira Winchel Jesse H. Brown Tompkins County SS: Be it remembered that on this twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine personally appeared before me, Miles Finch Surrogate of the County of Tompkins aforesaid George W. Stephens and Jesse H. Brown two of the subscribing witnesses to the Will of Isaac Rumsey, late of the town of Enfield, in the said County deceased, who being duly sworn declared that they were present at the execution of the instrument herunto annexed and impressed with the seal of office of the Surrogate, and that they heard the said Isaac Rumsey acknowledge the execution of the same for the uses and purposes within expressed, which said Instrument purports to be the last Will and Testament of the said Isaac Rumsey deceased, bearing date the twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; that they heard him the said Isaac Rumsey publish and declare the same as and for his Last Will and Testament, that at the time thereof he the said Isaac Rumsey was of sound disposing mind and memory to the best knowledge and belief of them the said George W. Stephens and Jesse H. Brown, & that they together with Ira Winchel the other witness to the said Will, did severally subscribe their names thereto as witnesses, in the presence of the Testator. In testimony whereof the said Surrogate hath herunto set his hand < LS > and affixed his seal of office. Done at the Village of Ithaca this twenty Seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. Miles Finch Surrogate Tompkins County SS: Be it also remembered that on the twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine personally appeard before me the said Surrogate James Rumsey Junior and Gilbert J. Ogden, two of the Executors in the aforesaid Will named, and were duly sworn to the faithful performance and execution thereof, by taking the usual oath in that case provided. With the reservation of the right of Jane Rumsey the Executrix, and Squire J. Nobles the other executor in the said will named, to come in and qualify themselves also to execute the same. Miles Finch Surrogate
  Death	Between 24 Aug 1829 and 27 Nov 1829	Enfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA   [2, 4]
  Notes	Isaac Rumsey was in the 1800 census of Montgomery, Orange Co, NY. He and his wife were between 26 and 44, and had 1 boy and 1 girl under 10. In 1810 Isaac Rumsey was in Scipio, Cayuga Co, NY. His household held 2 males and 3 females under 10, 1 male and 1 female 10-15, his wife was still under 45, but he was over 45. He joined his brother James in Enfield, Tompkins Co, in 1817, (the year Tompkins Co was formed), where he built the first grist mill at Enfield Falls (LTC). In 1820 he was enumerated in Ulysses Tp (that part which later became Enfield), Tompkins Co, NY. He and his wife, both over 45, had 1 female under 10, 1 male and 2 females 10-15, 2 males 19-25 and 1 female 16-25. Isaac Rumsey and his wife Jane of Enfield sold 87 acres in Section 74 of Enfield to Joshua Nicholson in 1825 (LR I:468). Isaac died before the 1830 census. The probate of Isaac Rumsey of Enfield is the first Rumsey estate indexed in the surogate records of Tompkins Co. His will was dated 24 Aug 1829, and probated 27 Nov 1829. His wife Jane was to have the use of his new frame house, among other things. His second son Isaac N. Rumsey ["N" for phonetic Knapp] land with bounds including the NE corner of Great lot Number 76, high bridge Brook near five mile Creek, land owned by Charles Woodward. To his youngest son Oliver he gave an adjoining parcel. His oldest son Jacob was to have $600 to be paid by Isaac in 6 annual payments. He gave $150, to be paid by Isaac and Oliver at various times, to his daughters Eliza Doolittle, Charlotte Rumsey (plus a good milch cow), Mary Ann Townsend, Jane Arrilla Smith. His daughter Maritta Rumsey was to have $200 and the equivalent of what was given to her sisters at their marriage. "I also Will and devise to my son Isaac N. Rumsey the privilege of taking the water from any parts of the five mile creek in the time of a drouth on the premises hereinbefore devised to my son Oliver Rumsey for the use of the Grist Mill and for no other use on this express condition that he is not to take so great a share of water out of said Creek as to injure any machinery that may be erected hereon, to hold said privilege while the said Isaac Rumsey shall own said Grist Mill and no longer." He named as executors his wife Jane Rumsey, Squire J. Nobles (#96), James Rumsey Jr, and Gilbert J. Ogden. The witnesses were George W. Shepherd, Ira Winchel and Jesse H. Brown, (PR B:132) (Also: Gertrude A. Barber - Abstracts of Wills of Tompkins Co, NY (1941),p.31.) In the 1830 census of Enfield, his widow Jane was listed as "Mrs Rumsey". She was in her 60s, and with her were 1 male and 2 females in their 20s. These might be Jane Arilla and her husband Bartemus Smith, who have not been found in the 1830 census, and Maritta, the only child not yet married. On 23 Nov 1830, Oliver Rumsey of Enfield sold to Ashbel and Jerad Treman of Hector, the water rights out of Five Mile Creek. Mentioned in the deed was the grist mill now owned by Jacob Rumsey which had been devised by Isaac Rumsey deceased (LR S:394, rec 1831). Recorded the same year though not checked for date of the transaction, Jacob and Sally Rumsey conveyed to Jared Treman 25 acres in Section 76 (LR S:184). In 1835 Jane Rumsey was listed next to her son Oliver in Enfield, and had only one unmarried female (Maritta) with her who was over 16. She had no land under cultivation, but did have two cows and two sheep. In 1840 Jane Rumsey was between 60 and 69 years old, listed next to her son Isaac N. Rumsey in Newfield. With her was 1 female 30-39, possibly her daughter Mary Ann Townsend who was perhaps divorced by then from her unidentified husband. (Though only two persons were marked in the columns, the census gave a total of three in the family, one being engaged in agriculture. Was there actually someone else in the household?) Jane has not been found in the 1850 census, so may have died before then. [3]
  Person ID	I5048	Rumsey/Ballou Family Tree
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2012

  
  

  Father	Simon Rumsey,   b. 1728, Southold, Suffolk Co., New York, USA d. 1811, Goshen, Orange Co., New York, USA (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Jemima Knapp   d. 1808, Orange Co., New York, USA
  Marriage	Abt 1748	Orange Co., New York, USA   [5]
  Family ID	F1811	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Keene,   b. Between 1770 and 1775   d. Aft 1840 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1798  [1, 2]
  Children	1. Jacob Rumsey,   b. Abt 17 Apr 1798, Orange Co., New York, USA d. 6 Apr 1857, Enfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA (Age 58 years)   2. Charlotte Rumsey,   b. 22 Jan 1799, Orange Co., New York, USA d. 8 Feb 1886, Enfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA (Age 87 years)   3. Mary Ann Rumsey,   b. Abt 1803, Cayuga Co., New York, USA d. 23 Sep 1884, Newfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA (Age 81 years)   4. Isaac Knapp Rumsey,   b. 18 Sep 1803, Cayuga Co., New York, USA d. 26 Jul 1877, Newfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA (Age 73 years) + 5. Oliver Rumsey,   b. Abt 1805, Scipio, Cayuga Co., New York, USA d. Between 1880 and 1892, Enfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA (Age 75 years)   6. Jane Arilla Rumsey,   b. Abt 1806, Cayuga Co., New York, USA d. 16 Sep 1853, Enfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA (Age 47 years)   7. Eliza Rumsey,   b. Between 1808 and 1809, Cayuga Co., New York, USA d. 3 Feb 1888, Odessa, Schuyler Co., New York, USA (Age 80 years)   8. Maritta Rumsey,   b. Abt 31 Jan 1810, Cayuga Co., New York, USA d. 16 Nov 1877, Newfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F1855	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2012

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 16 Sep 1763 - Goshen Precinct, Orange Co., New York, USA Death - Between 24 Aug 1829 and 27 Nov 1829 - Enfield, Tompkins Co., New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S636] Jean Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey, (Jean Rumsey), SR7-11. [S636] Jean Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey, (Jean Rumsey), SR25-31. [S636] Jean Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey, (Jean Rumsey), SR25-31: 25. [S113] The Rumsey Family Genealogy, (http://www.geocities.com/eureka/plaza/1371/rumsey.html), 1 Aug 2004. [S636] Jean Rumsey, Descendants of Simon Rumsey, (Jean Rumsey), SR1-6.