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- The births of the first two children were given in the Fayette Centennial Historical Sketch (CHF), as well as that of John, son of David5. The 1810 census of Fayette, Seneca Co, listed John Rumsey Junr with a household of 3 males under 10, and 1 male and 1 female 26-44. (Seneca Co had been formed from Cayuga Co in 1803. The earlier deeds of Cayuga Co have not been checked.)
On 14 Dec 1816, John Rumsey Jr and his wife Sally of Fayette, Seneca Co, sold land in the Village of Ovid to Shadrack N. Knapp (LR L:141). On the same day, Shadrick N. and Jerusha Knapp of Middlesex Tp, Ontario Co, sold land there to John Rumsey of Fayette, Seneca Co (LR 35:463, rec 16 May 1820). (Yates Co was formed 1823, from Ontario and Steuben counties. Middlesex, in Ontario or Yates Co, eventually became Jerusalem, Yates Co, between 1825-30.) (See deed below, recorded in Yates Co 1825, perhaps dated 1815?.)
The same land in Middlesex, Ontario Co, was involved in a deed of 4 Nov 1817, with John Rumsey Jr of Middlesex, Ontario Co, and (his brother-in-law) Andrew Nowland of Benton Tp (later in Yates Co), described as that which had been conveyed 10 March 1809 by Abraham Lane to Shadruck N. Knapp (LR 29;205). The following year, John Rumsey and his wife Sally of Middlesex, sold land there to Jonathan Willson, 27 Jan 1818 (LR 32:307).
A Yates Co deed recorded 1 June 1825, dated 22 Nov (year copied as 1825! perhaps it should have been read as 1815?), gave the residence of John Rumsey Jr still as Fayette, when he purchased of Potter & Potter, land in Middlesex, Ontario Co (LR 1:516). (There has been no opportunity to check this.)
John Rumsey was listed in the 1820 census of Middlesex Tp, Ontario Co, as having 3 males and 1 female under 10 (Peter, John, Andrew ?, & Watey), 2 males 10-15 (Timothy, George), his wife 26-44, and John over 45.
The 1825 state census of Middlesex, Yates Co, showed John Rumsey heading a household consisting of 6 males, two of whom were subject to militia duty (between the ages of 18-45), and one who was eligible to vote; 2 females, one of whom was married, and one who was under 16. George and his father would be the males of military age, and the others were probably Timothy, John, Peter and Elisha. John had 4 acres of improved land, 8 neat cattle, 1 cow, 4 hogs, and they had produced 15 yards of "fulled cloth manufactured in the domestic way, in the same family, during the preceding year."
A Yates Co deed of 15 June 1825 called him John Rumsey "Sen" of Middlesex Tp when, with his wife Sally, he sold land to Hezekiah Roberts of Penn Yan (LR 2:2). This suggests that his son John may have been living at that time and in Middlesex, though he was probably under 15. His younger brothers David and Thomas, each with a son John, did not arrive until 1828. John Rumsey was among those who received a payment from his father's Seneca Co estate in 1829.
In 1830 John Rumsey was in Jerusalem Tp, Yates Co, where he had 1 male and 1 female 10-14 (Peter, Watey), (there was no boy under 10 to account for Elisha, raising doubts that he belongs in the family), 1 female 20-29 (probably domestic help), his wife in her 50s, and John in his 60s. George had his own household, but the others have not been found.
The John Rumsey listed in Jerusalem in the 1835 census was not this John, but David's son. But this John was still of Yates Co when, for $450, he purchased from Jacob Ackwright and his wife Ratchel [sic], 66 acres in New London Tp, Huron Co, Ohio, which he mortgaged to Ackwright 27 May 1835, with Peter Kinsley JP and David Rumsey Jr as witnesses, (Huron Co LR OS-10:285; OS-9:521).
According to Watey's obituary, she had told of her family starting out from Yates Co on 10 May 1835 with a team of horses and a team of oxen, reaching New London, Huron Co, Ohio on 2 June 1835.
In the 1840 census of New London, Huron Co, John Rumsey and his wife were listed as both being in their 60s. Only Watey was still with them, in her 20s. Elisha might have been with his brother George. On 24 Feb 1848 Watey Rumsey gave a life lease to John Rumsey, relinquishing her interest in 53 acres deeded to her by John Hoffstatter. John Rumsey was to live there as a home, and she was to "give said John Rumsey and Saloma Rumsey wife of said John a life lease for his life", and to Saloma after his death. (LR OS-22:103,104)
John Rumsey died within six months of this lease, and Saloma may have died early in 1851, the year on her gravestone. For on 4 March 1851, Watey Bristol sold to Ambrose Ketchum Lot 8, Section 2 in New London, consisting of 12 acres deeded to her on 24 Feb 1848 by John Hofstatter (LR 1:476). He was probably the John Hofstatter who married her cousin Mary6 Rumsey (#61-2).
There are three uniform stones in the small Prosser cemetery in New London Tp, on Route 60 at Prospect Road, for John Rumsey 1770-1848, Saloma Rumsey 1779-1851, and Watey Bristol 1819-1902. There is an older single stone for John Rumsey, saying he died Sept. 1, 1848 Aged 78 Yrs.
The names of John Rumsey's children were listed in family records of James S. Rumsey (JSR), a descendant of John's brother David. No dates of birth or death, and no marriages, were given to help identify them. From the above it is obvious that Watey was John's daughter. The descendants of John or David (there are many records of the latter) who stayed in Huron Co were those of John's son George P. Frank W. Rumsey (#60-72), who took me to the Prosser Cemetery, was sure that Watey Bristol was a sister of his grandfather George, and that the rest of the Rumseys in the county, most of whom settled around Fitchville, were more distant cousins.
My reason for identifying the above Timothy as John's son Timothy, is the similarity of names among his children, which included Watsey, Andrew and Sally. The connection with Peter Rumsey who married Charlotte McClung is through family records that claim he was born in Seneca Co, NY. As for Elisha, there is little evidence to connect him with John except that John was said to have had a son Elisha. But there is considerably more doubt about placing him here than about the other two.
The History and Directory of Yates County, by Stafford C. Cleveland, has an Isaiah Youngs from Sussex Co, NJ, where he married Mary Haggerty. They settled in the town of Milo, Yates Co, about 1802. He died 1829 aged 80, so was born about 1749; she died 1833 aged 82, so born about 1751. Their children were: Elizabeth, who died unmarried in 1811 aged 34, so born about 1777 (a contemporary of Saloma Young), Nancy, Experience and Temperance (twins), Stephen (unmarried), Peter who married Hannah Green of Milo and had George N., Peter and Waity, and George who also had children (p.692). Note the names Peter, George and Waity, which correspond with the names of Saloma's children. This is the only suggestion of any possible connection of Saloma with this family. [2]
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