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Note for:   Almon David WILLIAMSON,   18 May 1893 - 11 Aug 1893         Index
Individual note:    Williamson Almon D. Hebron,N.Y. Wm.J.& Mary Ann Hebron # 2
Hebron,N.Y. Aug.11,1893 2m24d Cholera Infan.



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Note for:   Lucretia Woolsey,   1714 - 15 Jan 1812         Index
Individual note:   There's a Prall genealogy, The Prall Family, by Richard Dwight Prall which was published in 1990. It seems that a Mary S. Prall (1807-1847) married Issacher Hoagland (1803-1878) who was the grandson of Derrick Hogeland (1743-1827) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (1748-1829) Elizabeth was the daughter of our ancestors, Lewis Chamberlain (1710-1772) and Lucretia Woolsey Chamberlain (1709-1812). Mr. Prall therefore included some info on the Chamberlains on pages 144 & 145 of his book.
He repeats the story about Lewis and Lucretia crossing the Sourland Mountains on foot but regulates it to "family tradition". He then adds the further information that "Lewis built a log cabin and cleared the land while Lucretia helped drag brush for burning while carrying their first child (our ancestor William) in a sack on her back."

66. Lucretia13 Woolsey (George12 , George11 , George 'Joris'10 , George9 Wolsey, John8 , John7 , Thomas6 , Robert5 , Robert4 , John3 , William2 , John1 ) was born Abt. 1714, and died 15 Jan 1812. She married Judge Lewis Chamberlain, son of John Chamberlain and Rebecca Morris. He was born Bet. 1712 - 1714, and died 03 May 1772 in Amwell, Hunterdon, NJ.
Notes for Lucretia Woolsey: Thanks to Chuck Taylor of Austin TX for providing information on Lucretia Woolsey's ancestors. It was provided to him by: Jeanne Laurene (ROWE) WOOLSEY AusChuck@aol.com http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/a/y/Charles-L-Taylor/index.html
from the Family Bible of Derick Sutphen and Ann Chamberlin in the possession of the Hunterdon County Historical Society (transcribed by Susan Case October 12, 2000): Died on the 15 January 1812 Lucretia Chamberlin aged Ninety Eight years. She had bin(sic) a member of the first Baptist Church in Hopewell for neer(sic) seventy years about the eighteth year of her age. She was at some times complaining that she had become a stranger in the world that a new generation who knew her not had rised on the Earth. She frequently Lamented that all the Acquaintence of her youth had gone home and Left her behind and that her own Summons to the Grave was So Long Delayed. After this period her Resoning(sic) facultys failed her memory finally failed and became inadequate to embrace more than a few seconds of time. During the Last three or fore(sic) years of her Life pain and Sorrow Seemed to mar her for their own. She had no (rest?) Day nor Night, providence protracted her Distresses to a Verry(sic) Late hour. She seemed to be as a monument of Antiquity Created and Maintained by the Eternal hand to instruct by her own Example her Children and Descendents Down to the third and forth(sic) Generation. Vain monthly fond Persuits forbear Repent Thy end is Nigh Death at the farthest can't be far O think before You Die
Children of Lucretia Woolsey and Lewis Chamberlain are:
+ 101 i. Col. William14 Chamberlain, born 23 Sep 1736 in Ringoes, Hunterdon, NJ; died 21 Aug 1817 in Union Co., PA.
102 ii. Sarah Chamberlain, born 27 Feb 1737/38.
103 iii. John Chamberlain, born 27 May 1739 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died 26 Dec 1821 in Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon, NJ. He married Mary Stout Abt. 1759; born Abt. 1740; died 24 Jun 1815 in Bethlehem Twp., Hunterdon, NJ.
+ 104 iv. Hannah Chamberlain, born 12 Jul 1741 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died 14 Jul 1819 in Mt. Pleasant, Hamilton, OH.
+ 105 v. Rebecca Chamberlain, born 19 Nov 1743 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died Feb 1776 in Hunterdon Co., NJ.
106 vi. Lucretia Chamberlain, born 18 Dec 1745; died Bet. 1772 - 1773.
Notes for Lucretia Chamberlain:
Bequeathed the sum of 100 pounds by the terms of her father's will in 1772. However, she prob. died unmarried about 1772-73. Many sources erroneously state she married a John Chamberlain of NY. However, it was her niece Lucretia Sutphen, daughter of her sister Ann, who married John Chamberlin (her nephew - son of her brother Lewis). In the probate record maintained by Derrick Sutphen, co-executor of her father's estate, is the entry: "March 1773. Paid Jacob Houghton for coffin for testator and his daughter Lucretia, 3 pounds."
+ 107 vii. Elizabeth Chamberlain, born 11 Jan 1747/48 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died 07 Jan 1829.
+ 108 viii. Lewis Chamberlain, born 25 Feb 1749/50; died 30 Jun 1813.
+ 109 ix. Anne Chamberlain, born 13 Apr 1752 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died 15 Jul 1838.
110 x. Uriah Chamberlain, born 26 Mar 1755 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died Aft. 27 Aug 1777. He married Sarah Pittenger Abt. 02 Jan 1773.
Notes for Uriah Chamberlain:
Bequeathed 100 pounds of Proclamation money in his father's will of 1772 in which he was to be paid when 21 years of age. (The legacy was paid to him 16 May 1776.) Married Mary Pipenger, by Lisc. dated 2 Jan 1773, Reading Town, Hunterdon Co., NJ. Emma TenBroeck Runk says her name was Sarah Pettinger. He served as a Sergeant in Capt. Polhemus' Company, First Regiment, NJ, Continental Line during the Rev. War. Taken prisoner on Aug. 27, 1777, he was incarcerated in the " Sugar House" in New York where he died before the end of hostilities in 1783. The authority for this last information is the Bible record of his brother Col. William Chamberlin. There appears to be no record of any progeny.
Notes for Sarah Pittenger:
or Mary Pittenger or Mary Pipinger.
111 xi. Rachel Chamberlain, born 21 Feb 1758 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died 19 Aug 1785. She married Dr. John Andrews Abt. 19 Oct 1773 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; born 15 Jan 1745/46; died 01 Feb 1814.
112 xii. [Unnamed] Chamberlain, born 17 Jun 1763 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ; died 17 Jun 1763 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ.
101. Col. William14 Chamberlain (Lucretia13 Woolsey, George12 , George11 , George 'Joris'10 , George9 Wolsey, John8 , John7 , Thomas6 , Robert5 , Robert4 , John3 , William2 , John1 ) was born 23 Sep 1736 in Ringoes, Hunterdon, NJ, and died 21 Aug 1817 in Union Co., PA. He married (1) Elizabeth Ten Broeck 08 Jun 1758 in Hunterdon Co., NJ, daughter of Wessell Ten Broeck and Neeltje DeWitt. She was born 23 Aug 1740 in Hunterdon Co., NJ, and died 29 Apr 1770 in Hunterdon Co., NJ. He married (2) Anne Park Abt. 1771. He married (3) Margaret Park Abt. 1782. He married (4) Ann Mary Kimble Abt. 1794 in Buffalo Valley, PA. She was born Nov 1769 in New York City, NY, and died 04 Mar 1859 in PA.
Notes for Col. William Chamberlain: From: Barbara Rampt Ramptex@aol.com 1998
There's a Prall genealogy, The Prall Family, by Richard Dwight Prall which was published in 1990. It seems that a Mary S. Prall (1807-1847) married Issacher Hoagland (1803-1878) who was the grandson of Derrick Hogeland (1743-1827) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (1748-1829) Elizabeth was the daughter of our ancestors, Lewis Chamberlain (1710-1772) and Lucretia Woolsey Chamberlain (1709-1812). Mr. Prall therefore included some info on the Chamberlains on pages 144 & 145 of his book.
He repeats the story about Lewis and Lucretia crossing the Sourland Mountains on foot but regulates it to "family tradition". He then adds the further information that "Lewis built a log cabin and cleared the land while Lucretia helped drag brush for burning while carrying their first child (our ancestor William) in a sack on her back."
With regard to William, Prall states "Co. Wm. Chamberlain was of the Chambellon Huguenot family who settled in London about two decades before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685. After the great fire in London in 1666, the family moved to Ireland. Tradition says that three sons of the Chambellon refugee came to America about the beginning of the 18th century, changed their name to Chamberlain or Chamberlin, and the ancestor of Co. Wm. settled in Hunterdon Co., N. J.
Co. Wm. Chamberlain purchased from John Garrison in 1761 a house and mill on Neshanic Creek at Rainbow Hill, Hunterdon Co., N. J. At the time of the Rev. War, he owned a farm and mills on Neshanic Creek near Wertsville. He was a capt. of the 2nd Regt. of Hunterdon Co. during the Rev War and was in a number of battles and skirmishes. In 1776 he was promoted to major and later to Lt. Col. in both the militia and the continental army. Col. Wm. was at Trenton, Germantown 1777, Monmouth 1778, Elizabethtown 1780, and Springfield 1780. When Major Wm. Chamberlain was promoted in 1776, Capt. Nathan Stout (see Stout Ch.) took over his company. A foraging party of the British in 1776 burned Col. Wm. Chamberlain's mill at Clover Hill. At the Battle of Germantown on 10-3 & 10-4-1777, he lost his oldest son Lewis 18y. On 3-22-1780 Col., Wm. was court martialed for his "ungentelmanly and unofficer-like behavior towards the officers and men, impeding the militia, and favoritism toward certain officers." He was cashiered from the militia on 5-14-1781. In the 1780 Hunterdon Co. rateables he had 94 acres of farm land plus 20 acres of undeveloped land. Col. Wm. moved to Shamoken, Union Co., Pa., in 1792 where he purchased 600 acres."
Lucretia was one tough lady. No wonder she lived past 100 after bearing twelve children. I believe that Prall is incorrect about the Chamberlains having evolved from Chambellons. There seems to be an abundance of evidence that Henry Chamberlain came to Mass. in the 1600s and we are descended from him. I also think that both the court martial and cashiering were in 1781. The 1780 date is probably a typo. Haven't checked the other details but Prall probably did. I have seen other accounts which state that Col. William's son Lewis was not in the army but was visiting his father at the time of the battle of Germantown. He is supposed to have taken up a rifle but was struck by a cannon ball and bled to death before he could be taken to a surgeon."
Notes for Ann Mary Kimble: Obituary of a Venerable Lady Died at the house of Mrs. John Chamberlin, in Lewisburg, Friday morning, 4th of March 1859, Mrs. Ann Mary Chamberlin, relict of Col. William Chamberlin, deceased, in her 90th year. The weakness of old age was her only disease; she was confined to her bed bur a few days, and retained her senses to the last. The life and character of this admirable mother, afford materials for an interesting chapter of domestic history. Her maiden name was Kimble; her parentage of a French and German origin; her birth place, New York city, in November 1769. When the British took possession of the city, the family -- to avoid them -- retreated to Hunterdon county, New Jersey, where, however their premises were afterward robbed by the Hessians. She had many reminiscences, of varied character, respecting those dark days in our country's history. After peace was declared, the family returned to the city. Their residence was on Ann street, near William, where she daily saw President Washington, going to and from Congress, or driving out, and sated that, no matter how often he passed, all would press to the window to see his noble form -- she thought the popular feeling for him approached idolatry, and that his death might have been a wise providence to theck that tendency. Her memory was distinct of the persons many other Revolutionary worthies. Amoung their nearest neighbors was the family of Washington Irving, and she often carried the child, now the author of the "Sketch Book," in her arms. His writings were among the choice treasures of reading. His sister, Miss Nancy Irving, Mrs. C. corresponded with her in her earlier years, and oftern expressed her regret that she had not preserved her letters, which were among the most elegant compositions she ever read -- fully equal, she judged, to the literary productions of the brother. Not long before her death she sad,' Washington Irving must be getting old -- as much as 75," and on enquiry it was found to be exactly his age. In 1794, she married Col. William Chamberlin in Buffalo Valley, by whom she had eight children, (the five younger of whom are living,) and survived him 42 years. Her industry and judgment in rearing a numerous family, were happily rewarded, and she passed a good old age in the enjoyment of the love and esteem of a large circle of friends. From her youth up, Mrs. C. had a passion for reading, and perhaps few people have perused more books, or better retained their contents in memory. While a girl, "she devoured everything accessible in the shape of letters, often at times and places unknown to her mother; and when tree-score and ten, would sit at her spinning wheel with her book and before her both wheel and book were involved. For five years past, her eyesight .. she used the eys of others in pursuing her wanted past-time of reading. Her memory, especially of dates, was most extraordinary, and she was a living family record of all the old settlers in the Valley. Her intimate knowledge of the politics of the day was excelled by men; her early Whig training made her an ardent Republican and the religious progress of the world interested her to the last week of her life. She had no prejudice against innovations -- did not esteem old times or old persons as necessarily better than new -- but judged everything by reason and its merits. She could adapt herself to any company, and draw out and impart instruction on almost any topic. Mrs. C. was christened by Rev. Dr. John Rogers (who was converted under Whitfield's ministry) of the Presbyterian church in New York city, but some time attended the Baptist meeting, on account of their having a stove in their house of worship -- a piece of furniture then almost unknown in such places. Her church relationship was Presbyterian; her Christian character firm, cheerful and conciliatory. Among the celebrated preachers she had heard was Rev. Dr. Withersppon, of Revolutionary memory. She had also witnessed Commencements at Princeton, and could never forget the excessive fit of laughter into which at one time Pres. Withersppon was thrown by the oration of one of the graduates; the narration of the incident always excited a similar influence upon herself. Thus has passed away one of the brightest links in the chain connecting the present age with the past -- pehaps the most intelligent person who had any direct knowledge of the great men and stirring events of our Revolutionary era. No one in this region, probably was as well informed of the local history which came with her means of knowledge ... gainable and interesting annals .. Cherished be her memory.
Chi1 NOTE With regard to William, Prall states "Co. Wm. Chamberlain was of the Chambellon Huguenot family who settled in London about two decades before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Lo