The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

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A subscription for the relief of Ira Humphrey's family was made among the post office
employees throughout the country.
The genealogy of Ira Humphrey, as far as it can be ascertained, is given in the following
pedigree:
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NATHANIEL HUMPHREY.
Lucy Darhy^^T=NATH.\M[£i., born in Rhode Island, removed to New Hampshire, Amos,
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thence to Vermont, thence to New York State, where he died. Lewis o
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k,vis Stick-^n^CvRUS, bom in Brookfield, Orange Co., Vt., removed to New Russell,
ney, b'rn I York State when he was 21. His family moved to Michi- Nathaniel,
abt.1794. gan in 1835. His widow prob. res. (1881) Armada, Macomb Porter,
Co., Mich., aged 87 years. Their sons are all deceased. Daughter, 1
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Clarissa, Lucinda, Ira, b. 29 Aug., 1831, N. Y. State:
m. Wm. m.Chas. d 5 Sept., 1S81, Elmer, Sanilac Co.,
Coldric; Davis: Mich.; res. Almont, Lapeer Co.,
res.i88i res.i88i Armada, Macomb Co, Imlay,
Lapeer, Armada Lapeer Co., and Marlette, Sanilac
Mich. Mich. Co., Mich. Farmer and mail-carrier-
Children born in Almont.
Cakkie, d. 5 Feb.,
Michigan.
Edward Humphries t (from Ireland) was in Sciluate, Mass., in 1740. He married Anna
.Sandlin, in 1739. He purchased land of the Randall family, one-quarter of a mile west of Wild-
Cat Hill, where he resided.
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I. Margaret, b. in 1741; m. William, son of Edward and Abigail (Russell), Corlew,+
b. in 1744. She died in 1826, and left a family in Scituate. Ch'Mren: William;
Elijah (whose son Elijah was an officer in the Suffolk Bank); Charles; Anna;
Joseph; Polly (m. Colman, of Scituate); Jane.
n. Edward, b. in 1742; a very worthy man; resided on the paternal place, in Scituate,
Mass., and died in 1825; unmarried; had been a Revolutionary soldier.
III. Richard, b. in 1744; was living, about 1831, in Littleton, Mass.
IV. Mary, b. in 1748.
V. John, b. in 1749; resided and died in Littleton, INLiss.
HUMPHREVILLE AND UMBERFIELD, OF NEW HAVEN COUNTY, CT,
The following items concerning the families bearing these names are merely contributions
toward (as we hope) a future collection, by some other hands, of a connected line of lineage
which we have not had lime to trace. (F. H.)
John^ Humphreville (John:- John') married .
"The graves of the children of John^ Humphreville were to be found in the West Haven
church-yard, adjoining the Episcopal church, twenty-five years ago, and I saw them then, and
they were in a fair state of preservation, but now they are crumbled away and are gone. In the
same yard there were also graves of the Umberfields. **
• Mrs. Humphrey was married at Ulica, Macomb County, Mich. She res. (iSSi) about two miles from the post office at Marlotte,
Sanilac Co., Mich. She has 20 acres of land, with five acres improved; no buildings worth mentioning. "Is back on the place" $250.
t Deane's History ef Scituate, p. 290. \ History of Scituate, p. 343.
•* Lemuel G. Humphreville, who makes this statement (1883), writes that he thinks the only change made m the surname Humphre.*
ville by his ancestors w.as the prefixing of the H before U and the substituting of ff for ph. On all the earliest tonibstones of the family
Ihe name is spelled as he now writes it. A great grand-daughter of Ebeneier [Fam 3) had the surname I'mbcrfield, and the question
arises how was this change in the name introduced.