Pedigree of Harriet (Chittenden) Loomis 1821-1906
CHITTENDEN – LOOMIS – CAVANAUGH GENEALOGY A Treatise On The True Parents and Pedigree of Harriet (Chittenden) Loomis Born 23 Feb, 1821, (probably) Townsend Township, Huron County, OH Married 1st Edwin S. Tucker, 29 Jul 1838, Cass County, MI Married 2nd Jerome B. Loomis, 13 Dec 1846, Cass County, MI Died 13 June 1906, North Freedom, Sauk, WI Probable father: George R. Chittenden Probable mother: Margaret Candes Townsend By Richard E. Bankes 820 Waynoka Drive Lake Waynoka, OH 45171 richard@bankes.net September 18, 2011 Abstract: It is widely reported that the parents of Harriet Chittenden, 1821 – 1906, wife of Jerome B. Loomis, are Thomas Chittenden (grandson of Thomas Chittenden, famous colonial Governor of Vermont) and Mary Cavanaugh. This document provides both factual and circumstantial evidence to refute that claim, and provides what will hopefully be proven as her correct pedigree. It was compiled, with respect, to benefit the many Loomis families of Wisconsin and their allied families in determining their true heritage. Background: My wife, Judith Mae Hagmann, descends from Harriet Chittenden and Jerome B. Loomis. In compiling the genealogy of our family a number of Loomis, Rose and other allied family researchers kindly shared their knowledge of the family lines, saving me enormous amounts of work, especially since I started this effort in the very early days of the internet. Some of this shared information was, of course, incomplete and most of it was un-sourced. As my research efforts into our family pedigrees evolved, I began to have issues with what was being shared and recorded as the ancestry of Harriet. This “Treatise” reflects the results of my efforts to date, and is offered as updated and corrected information to be shared and evaluated by all family members. After all, I hope we all really want to know for sure where we truly came from. It may be that my interpretations and assumptions are incorrect, and that I’ve erred somewhere along the line. The research is by no means complete. Additional effort and newly published historical documents will surely cause new facts to come out. Should new information refute the conclusions in the Treatise, I solicit and welcome such comments along with the factual information that substantiates it. For simplicity and ease of reading, sources are not individually footnoted with each applicable fact. References and factual sources are summarized at the end of the document. Explanatory comments of the author are included where appropriate and italicized. The Issue: Virtually every genealogy distributed among family members to this point, and those recorded in One World Tree or Ancestry.com and many others published elsewhere, involving Harriet (Chittenden) Loomis and her descendents invariably name her parents as Thomas Chittenden and Mary Cavanaugh. Many years of research by the author of this document and other family researchers have failed to uncover the source of that information, but it is evidently quite old and quite common. It seems someone along the line made some assumptions, proposed here to be unlikely, and this error has been carried forward by family members unable to resolve some apparent obvious conflicts in the information or to discover the true facts. Upon review, it might be that early researchers confused the many Thomas Chittendens of the day, or possibly had clues that Harriet Chittenden may have had a brother Thomas but, because of limited information available to them at that time, associated her to the only Chittenden family they could find which had a individual of that name and of the approximate correct age. Newer research now allows that error to be corrected. The True Story: These interpretations of the facts and my conclusions based on the circumstantial evidence of the matter may be incorrect. The author welcomes any and all additional evidence and discussion which could propose a different conclusion and lead to the discovery of the correct ancestry of Harriet Chittenden. To establish the pedigree of Harriet Chittenden, it is first necessary to review the pedigree and lives of alleged “parents” Thomas Chittenden and Mary Cavanaugh. The probable true pedigree of Harriet Chittenden will then be proposed. Thomas Chittenden: Our subject “Thomas” Chittenden, the alleged father of Harriet, is the grandson of Thomas Chittenden, famous Revolutionary Patriot and colonial Governor of Vermont. The early Chittenden family line is well documented in published genealogies, including the Vermont state web site. Here we need only concern ourselves with the essentials applicable to the pedigree of Harriet Chittenden. Governor Thomas Chittenden, was born 06 Jan 1730, Guilford, CT, and died 25 Aug 1797, at Williston, VT. He lived all his later adult life in VT. He married Elizabeth Meigs, 1731 – 1817, dau. of Janna Meigs and Elizabeth Dudley. Noah Chittenden, son of Thomas 1730, was born 26 Oct 1753, Salisbury, CT, and died 09 Jan 1835, at Jericho, VT. He married Sarah Fassett, 1796- 1835, the daughter of John Fassett and Hannah Safford. They lived all their lives in Vermont. (The date of death of Noah is important, as son Thomas is reported in numerous Vermont histories as removing to Granville, OH only after Noah’s death in 1835. This date is thirteen years after the date of birth of Harriet Chittenden in NW Ohio. The Chittenden, Follett and Fassett families are closely allied for many generations in Vermont and elsewhere, and units of these families lived together at Granville, Ohio, as will be seen later). Thomas Chittenden, son of Noah and the commonly reported father of Harriet, was born 21 Feb 1791, at Jericho, VT, and died 20 Apr 1868 in WI. He married his cousin Sally Fassett, 1796 – ca 1875, the daughter of Elias Fassett and Sarah Walbridge. (Elias Fassett was the brother of Sarah (Fassett) Chittenden, wife of Noah. Sally Chittenden also died in WI, while living with their only child and son, Thomas J. Chittenden. (This 1791 Thomas is commonly reported in most family genealogies previously noted as having died in Granville, OH in 1834 (source is probably “Talcott”, see below), obviously not the case. Others have never reconciled this conflict, even though they have noted it in their genealogies. It is further reported in published histories of Vermont and the Chittenden families there that the family fortunes in Vermont had turned by the time Noah died in 1835, and Thomas and his wife moved to Granville, OH shortly thereafter. As will be documented later, they followed their Fassett relatives to what evidently were better opportunities in the area of Granville, Ohio.) Census summaries for Thomas Chittenden and Sally Fassett family: 1820: Jefferson County, NY 1830: Jericho, Chittenden, VT 1840: Grand Township, Licking, OH 1850: Granville, Licking, OH 1860: Utica, Winnebago, WI Sally’s enumeration is continued with son Thomas J. Chittenden Thomas Jefferson Chittenden, the only child and son of Thomas 1791, was born 21 Mar 1820 in Jericho, VT. He married his cousin Mary Chittenden (daughter of Truman and Lucy (Jones) Chittenden there. They followed his father and mother to Granville, OH by 1850. He died in WI 02 Nov 1892, preceded in death by Mary in April of 1882. (It is noted here that it is well documented that Harriet Chittenden was born in Ohio, 23 Feb 1821, requiring her birth to occur only eleven months after her “brother”, and in a far distant state. No discovered Chittenden genealogy naming a sister Harriet to this Thomas Jefferson Chittenden has been found. Likewise, Loomis family researchers have never named a brother Thomas to Harriet. And in view of the facts concerning the locations and the families and their dates of moving, it seems impossible for Harriet to be of this family). Census summaries for Thomas J. and Mary(Jones) Chittenden family: 1850: Harrison, Licking, OH 1860: Oshkosh Ward 4, Winnebago, WI 1870: Berlin Ward 1, Green Lake, WI, with mother Sally Fassett 1880: Berlin, Green Lake, WI A final and perhaps the most convincing piece of evidence documenting the true facts of the Thomas Chittenden 1791 family concerns their relatives, the Fassetts. By the mid-1840’s Granville, OH evidently had become unattractive to both the Fassetts as well as the Chittendens. Thomas J. and Mary Chittenden removed to Wisconsin just prior to 1850, and his father and mother soon followed them there. Three of the Fassett children had gone to California, to improve their fortunes, as the Gold Rush unfolded. Three of the children of Dr. Harry Fassett and wife Clarissa - he the brother of Sarah Fassett, wife of Thomas Chittenden (above) - wrote their parents at Granville from CA during the period 1852-1862. These wonderful letters have been transcribed by descendents and are available on the web. In letter 38, dated Sept 16, 1857, Ann (Fassett) Germain in CA writes to her mother Clarissa Fassett, in Granville, OH, quote: “Am sorry to hear that Uncle T [Thomas] and Aunt S [Sally] are going to leave you, it seems so lonely….Give my love to Uncle and Aunt. Hope they will like their new home and enjoy many happy years with Jeff and his family” This statement refers to them leaving Granville to follow son Thomas Jefferson Chittenden and family to WI. They first settled at Weelaunee, Utica Township, Winnebago Co., WI. Thomas Jefferson Chittenden was in business in Oshkosh, WI in 1859, and on the 1860 Federal Census there. A great city fire of May 10, 1859, one of many in Oshkosh in those years, ruined his business. Letter 61, from Ann’s brother Noah “Chitt” Fassett in CA dated July 3, 1859 states: “I regret exceedingly Jefferson’s loss and can sympathize fully with him. Am very sorry that Uncle T [Thomas] and Aunt S [Sally] will not return to Granville. Hope they may consider better of it and come back. “ There are 103 transcribed letters in this database. It is significant to note that none of these many letters mention a cousin Harriet Chittenden, a sister to Thomas Jefferson “Jeff” Chittenden. Mary Cavanaugh: Despite much research, no pedigree or genealogy or further mention of the named Mary Cavanaugh has been discovered, nor any record of a marriage between her and Thomas Chittenden. Researchers have stated family rumors that she may have been part native-American. In view of what facts have been uncovered concerning the life of her alleged husband, any such association or pedigree to Harriet seems impossible. No further research seems worthwhile, pending concrete facts. There is a Cavanaugh family connection in what is believed the true pedigree of Harriet (discussed below). An aunt, Amy Kinney Townsend married James Cavanaugh (also sometimes Kavanaugh) 11 April 1830 in Cass County, MI. However, based on dates and names, it seems unlikely that anyone in this family could have been interpreted as “Mary”, mother of Harriet. Harriet Chittenden: The family of Harriet Chittenden and Jerome B. Loomis and their descendents is well documented in the Loomis family genealogies. His pedigree is also well documented. Those facts are not within scope. What was commonly documented as her pedigree, however, was long suspect, as detailed above. One difficulty in researching the Chittenden line is the naming pattern in this family. Names often repeat themselves every generation, honoring the parents and grandparents, as was the practice at the time. Efforts were further complicated by the fact that her father’s name was reported as “Thomas”. There are many, many Thomas Chittendens as well as Thomas Jefferson Chittendens (and George’s) born in this period, all no doubt fathers and sons, uncles, cousins, etc., evidently named in honor of Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The author spent many years researching the many Thomas Chittenden families for a daughter Harriet, without result. The mystery was solved by diligent research and a stroke of luck. Prolonged research was done on state and federal census records, marriages and deaths, legal records, local histories and so forth. The key points of discovery are described here; with additional details at the end. A summary of the key facts are: Harriet herself stated on all census records her entire life that she was born in Ohio, while family genealogies variously stated the Harriet was born in Ohio or sometimes Michigan, married in Michigan or sometimes Wisconsin, etc. Research was concentrated in those states. Eventually, Harriet’s first and second marriages (2nd to Jerome B. Loomis, 13 Dec 1846) were discovered as having occurred in Cass County, Michigan. An 1882 Cass County, MI history stated that one Harriet Chittenden and Thomas Chittenden attended the first La Grange Township school sometime after it was built in 1830. Note that Abram Townsend, grandfather of Harriet, and a family of nine in the household were enumerated there on the 1830 census (further comments under George R. Chittenden). An 1882 Cass County history, discussing the pioneer Hurd family, stated that one Ann (Hurd) Chittenden was “now” living in Iowa. She married Harriet’s brother Thomas. A check of Michigan marriage records revealed Ann Hurd marrying Thomas Chittenden 21 Mar 1846 in Cass County. The further descent of this family has been fully documented by the author. A search for Ann Hurd and Thomas Chittenden in Ancestry.com revealed their marriage, and family trees naming a sister to Thomas named Harriet and the names of their father and mother: George R. Chittenden and Margaret Candace Townsend. This family tree was the first one found by this author to closely fit the known facts. (Since there had previously been no knowledge of “Ann” and her relationship to Harriet or a brother Thomas and their father, this family line had never been uncovered despite years of research). A review of published Ohio marriage records revealed the marriage of George R. Chittenden and Candes Townsend on 19 Jan 1820 in (then) Huron County. Subsequent research indicates this was probably in Margaretta Township, now Erie Co. George R. Chittenden and his wife were enumerated in the 1820 census for Margaretta Township (as Chittendon) and are also included there on the 1819, 1820, 1821 and 1825 tax lists. It appears that Margaret is the given name of Harriet’s mother, but she often used what is believed her middle name, variously spelled as Candace, Candes or Candice in the records. Subsequent research has uncovered the descendent families of Harriet’s brother Thomas and his two children, and the published maternal Townsend pedigree but, so far, not that of the father George R. Chittenden; research continues on this line. In addition, the referenced Townsend family genealogy has been documented by two family members and substantiated in filings for approved membership in the First Families of Huron County (Ohio) association. Other Townsend descendents have accepted this genealogy. Some definitive facts are still missing, and a few recorded “facts” remain in conflict. But the remaining proven dates, times and places uncovered on Harriet Chittenden, her brother Thomas and these new parents lead unerringly to the conclusion that George R. Chittenden and Margaret Candace Townsend are with little doubt the true parents of Harriet (Chittenden) Loomis and her brother Thomas. George R. Chittenden: The proof at this point that George R. Chittenden is the father of Harriet (Chittenden) Loomis rests on the offerings of a few individuals, namely Martha Burke and Nancy Freeman, elsewhere mentioned, who filed Townsend descent for First Families of Ohio, and those few families with this reported pedigree in Ancestry.com (late 2010). Additional facts and circumstantial evidence herein cited strongly supports the case. More government and vital records linking Harriet to George as her father are needed to cement the probabilities. The further ancestry of George R. Chittenden is as yet undiscovered. But furthering his pedigree is not the focus of this Treatise nor is it necessary for the conclusions regarding Harriet’s true parents. Chittenden research is complicated by there being discovered several George R. Chittenden’s referenced in documents of the period, probably all named in honor of President George Washington, and perhaps distantly related in some way. Comments, along with what is known or surmised follows: 1. Based on the birth date of Margaret Candace Townsend and their two children, census and other records, George R. Chittenden would probably have been born before 1795. 2. No state or Federal census records, other than the one for 1820, fitting the known facts have been found for our George R. Chittenden. He does not appear as a head of household on the 1830 census or after. This might indicate he died before 1830. 3. Margaret (Townsend) Chittenden also has been lost in the records after her marriage. Townsend family researchers report family tradition that she remarried at some point, moved to possibly Tennessee and ultimately to Florida. Research has met with a dead end so far. 4. Her father Abram Townsend, noted pioneer of both Huron County, OH and Cass County, MI, emigrated to Cass County in 1827. Margaret and the children evidently accompanied them at some point, possibly with husband George, as the children are noted as attending the new school there after 1830. Or, Margaret may have been widowed or even remarried by that time, and perhaps the children never adopted. (More on Townsend below.) 5. Of particular interest in the 1830 Michigan census for Abram Townsend. It shows nine individuals in the household, including two children of the correct age range for Harriet and her brother Thomas. Abram had no children of this age. Others included in the census could have been his widowed daughter Margaret Candes, his youngest children, possibly with a husband, and farmhands he was known to have boarded. 6. Several published references to different individuals named George R. Chittenden in the early to mid-1880’s exist. It is interesting to note the emphasis on the middle initial “R” since it seems not that common that individuals used their middle initial in documents and signatures in the early 1800’s. This may indicate some familial relationship or knowledge of each other or other “Georges” of the time. a. A George R. Chittenden served in the MI militia in the War of 1812 as a private, was captured at Detroit, and was a signatory as George R. Chittenden to the objection to the orders of 1813 for the evacuation of Detroit issued by British Col. Proctor. This George would evidently have been born by 1795 or so. (War of 1812 service and historical reference documents on file of author.) (Individuals living in the area around the NE Ohio frontier – where the Townsend’s lived after the war - were enlisted in the militia and served at Detroit and elsewhere during the War of 1812. George R. Chittenden is specifically reported elsewhere as being enlisted from Michigan, but could he possibly have traveled there from NE Ohio to volunteer?). b. A George R. Chittenden served jury duty, in the Territory of Michigan between 1814-1824. Details not yet recovered. See Sources. c. A George R. Chittenden with wife Nellie Treat of the Milwaukee and Chicago areas was very prominent in the early 1800’s, along with others (or the maybe the same) of the same name mentioned in the sewing machine and horse racing/breeding industries in the period. Any relationship to our George R. Chittenden is so far undiscovered. Thomas M. Chittenden: Included here are brief facts concerning the family of Thomas M. Chittenden, brother to Harriet (Chittenden) Loomis. (He is sometimes called Thomas W. Chittenden in early records, an assumed transcription error. Since “M” was used at the time of his death, it is adopted as correct). Thomas M. Chittenden, born 21 May 1822 in or near Sandusky, OH. Died 20 Nov 1915 at Clearfield, IA. Married 21 March 1846 at Cass County, MI, Ann Hurd, born 14 Feb 1825 at Lincolnshire, England, died 17 July 1919 at Clearfield, IA. Parents John Hurd and Rebecca Walker. Children of Thomas and Ann Chittenden: (1) daughter Amy J., born 1847 at Cass County, MI, died 1920, Taylor Co., IA., married 16 Mar 1879 at Cass County, MI., William C. Fleming. No known issue of this marriage. (2) son George W., born 1850, Cass County, MI., died 6 Mar 1880 at Taylor, Co., IA. No known marriage or issue. The Townsend Family: The Townsend family is well known in colonial America. Several branches exist. The details included in this Treatise are limited to essential facts related to the Chittenden line. Abram Townsend, wife Stratta Kinney and family originated in upstate New York. In early 1800’s the family located to Ontario, Canada where the family resided until 1816. In 1816 the family went to what is now Margaretta Township, Erie County, OH, and remained there until 1818. He sold out in 1818 and moved to Townsend (named after him?), Sandusky County, OH. After a few years in Sandusky County, Abram decided to move to Pokagon Township, Cass County, MI, a move he completed with the family in June 1827. A township was later named for him in Cass County. Our difficulty arises from the fact that the lives of Abram Townsend and one of his sons, Gamaliel, are well documented in Huron and Erie counties, OH, and Cass County, MI, records, but those of his daughter Margaret and her husband George R. Chittenden after their early years of marriage are unknown. Something happened to the George and Margaret Candes Chittenden family between the dates their second child, son Thomas M. Chittenden, was born 21 May 1822 and when the children are noted as attending school after 1830 in Cass County, MI. Townsend records at the Probate Court of Cass County, MI, were reviewed in July 2011. It was hoped that a will of Abraham Townsend might name his daughter Margaret Candes and her possible re-marriage and proof of two grandchildren, Harriet and Thomas. No will was found probated. There is a file of five documents relating to the guardianship of grandson AbrahamTownsend 1823-1883, a son of Ephraim Townsend, who died in 1827. Licking County Ohio Research: “Talcott” (see Sources) notes the death of “Judge” Thomas Chittenden, person 282, the son of Noah 141, and the father of Thomas Jefferson Chittenden 570, in Granville, [Licking County], OH in 1834. As has been shown elsewhere in this Treatise, this death information for Thomas 282 is incorrect, while the pedigree information itself is correct. While many family researchers have evidently incorrectly named this Thomas as the father of Harriet, and thus associated Harriet with this specific famous branch of the Vermont Chittenden line, they never reconciled Talcott’s statement of his 1834 death in Ohio with the facts. No source for the Talcott death information has been found. It may be that a different “Thomas” Chittenden died in Granville, OH in 1834. But searches by the author over several years and by representatives of the Licking County Genealogical Society in 2010 (early census records, cemetery records, land records, and local history books) failed to find any records of Chittendens in the county prior to 1840 census records. There were many contemporary Thomas Chittendens of the period in the U.S., including one in NW Ohio prior to the War of 1812, and there are many other Granville towns throughout the east, so an error in reporting to Talcott or transcription could be easily accepted. Some records of Chittendens in early Licking County (in addition to the later census records) do exist. Probate records which survived the several County Courthouse fires have been published by the county Genealogical Society, and are of interest because they further corroborate facts and relationships noted elsewhere in the Treatise. Estate of Samuel Reese, 26 Aug 1843. Heirs: Elizabeth. Guardian: Curtis Howe. Bondsmen: Curtis Howe, Thomas Chittenden. (Based on the date, this is probably Thomas 1791-1868, the father.) Estate of Jeremiah Munson. Bond $40,000. 7 Dec 1848. Executors: Elias Fassett, Harry C. Taylor, Eliphalet Follett, Thomas J. Chittenden. Estate of Jeremiah Munson, 13 Feb 1850. Heirs: Alford J. and Alma J. [Munson]. Guardian: Elias Fassett. Bondsmen: Elias Fassett, Justin Hillyer, T.J. Chittenden, Henry C. Taylor, Frank Dunlevy. (No other Chittenden records and none for Cavanaugh or Kavanaugh etc. were noted in this volume, i.e. no connection to Mary Cavanaugh/Kavanaugh in Licking County, OH.) Jacob Little’s History of Granville includes extensive detailed information and the deaths of named individuals in and around Granville in the 1830’s, much of which was termed “the great dying” due to several epidemics during that period. There is no mention of any Chittenden deaths during that time, and specifically no mention of a Thomas Chittenden who, based on a descent from Thomas 1730-1797, would probably have been considered a notable citizen. Attachments: Pedigree Chart, Harriet Francis (Chittenden) Loomis Family Group Sheet, Harriet Francis Chittenden Family Group Sheet, Thomas M. Chittenden Family Group Sheet, George R. Chittenden Family Group Sheet, Abram Townsend Pedigree Chart, Thomas J. Chittenden, the only child of Thomas Chittenden 1791 This is the commonly reported but incorrect pedigree of Harriet Chittenden. Thomas Jefferson Chittenden would have been her brother. Basic information only shown, additional genealogy facts and history of this family line are available from the author. Future updates and revisions: Any future updates to this September Treatise will be inserted as Addenda at this place in the report, with sources cited, and redistributed in its entirety. //////////////////// Sources (from primarily Chittenden, Townsend and other surname-specific searches): 1. Chittenden Family: William Chittenden of Guilford, CT, and His Descendents. Compiled by Alvan Talcott, A.M., M.D., Guilford, CT, Nov 20, 1882. Pub. Not recorded. Vermont Historical Society; also available in Google Books. 2. Michigan’s Early Military Forces, a Roster and History of Troops. LeRoy Barnett and Roger Rosentreter. Google Books. (George R. Chittenden) 3. History of Detroit. 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Chittenden, Australia, available on the World Wide Web, at http://www.chittenden.com.au/ 20. The Fassett Letters, The Gold-Rush Fassetts from Licking Co., Ohio, Catalog of letters from the California Fassetts to the Ohio Fassetts, 103 Letters written between February 1852 and November 1862 , available on the World Wide Web at http://physics.clarku.edu/~rkohin/Fassett.html 21. Michigan Marriages Prior To 1850, Ancestry.com, extract August 6, 2010. Thomas W. Chittenden to Ann Hurd, 16 Mar 1846, Harriet Chittenden to Edwin S. Tucker, 29 Jul 1838, Harriet [Chittenden] Tucker to Jerome B. Looms, 13 Dec 1846, all recorded in Cass County, MI. 22. http://familytreemaker.com...George R. Chittenden and Margaret Candes Townsend marriage and children named Thomas and Harriet, extract 6 Nov 2010, Shiela J. Thurston, submitter. 23. Certified copy of marriage record, Edwin S. Tucker to Harriet Chittenden, 29 July 1838, Cass County, MI., 15 June 2010 24. 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