Notes:
Joshua is probably buried in a family plot next to his house in the town of Knox. He deeded the property to his son Samuel H. Gallup on April 10, 1826, "excepting the one-eighth of an acre of land that I the said Joshua Gallup doth reserve for burying ground". The property (identified as belonging to Samuel H. Gallup in a map printed about 1860) is located at the end of Gibbs Road off of Knox Cave Road (County Road 252) two miles southeast of the village of Knox. The mailing address is 52 Gibbs Road, Altamont NY.
Paul and Glenna Nance visited the house in the summer of 1995, when it was owned by Mr. and Mrs. P. Floyd Gibbs. A few gravestones were still visible just to the right of the house, but they could only read one name, Eunice Gallup. When Mr. Gibbs purchased the property, the cemetery was in very poor condition. He placed the remaining stones face-up in the ground to preserve them and facilitate lawn-mowing.
For years 1810 - 1811, Joshua was the Berne Town Supervisor. His will was probated April 10, 1837. It may be found in the Albany County Surrogate Court Will Book, volume 9, page 365, and again in volume 10, page 113.
Notes:
Soon after the close of the Revolutionary war, Samuel, with his brothers Silas, Levi and Ezra, their cousin, John Gallup, son of Joseph Gallup, and several other families from the towns of Groton and Stonington, Connecticut, established the settlements of Knox and Berne in Albany County, NY.
Other Gallup families established the nearby town of Gallupville, NY. Descendants of these four brothers are still numerous in that vicinity, many of them being prominent citizens. Of the sons of Samuel, Nathaniel was the grandfather of Albert Gallup, Treasurer of Albany County, NY; Joshua was the great grandfather of Ezra Twichell, Sheriff of Schoharie County; John was father of Justice John J. Gallup of Albany and Nathan was the father of Prof. Henry Gallup of Poughkeepsie, NY. [sources Jocelyn Hubbard & Gallup Genealogy)
"Old Homes in Stonington" by Grace Denison Wheeler, 1903, has: "Mr. Gilbert Fanning sold his house to Mr. Samuel Gallup who married Jemima Enos, a Seventh Day Baptist of Rhode Island. He put up a dam and sawmill on Mustuxet Brook about 1768, a few rods above where the old grist mill stood."
The wives of Samuel were not lucky, both died at age 49 years. Samuel was married less than seven years to Sary, his second wife, after which he apparently lived alone for the remaining 24 years of his life.
Notes:
"Old Homes in Stonington by Grace Denison Wheeler (1903) describes Jemima Enos as "...a Seventh Day Baptist of Rhode Island." The death date of Jemima came from her gravestone which also gave her age at death ("aged 49 yrs 2 mos 20 days") from which her birth date was calculated.
Notes:
Abel purchased 112 Acres in Berne, NY, on 4 March 1803 and he was the Berne Town Supervisor during 1808 - 1809. He was a Revolutionary War veteran.
Notes:
The mother of Anna Hinckley is not given in the 1893 Gallup Genealogy but the 1966 genealogy gives her name as Sarah Hubbard and this name is carried forward to the 1987 edition. With substantial reason, Paul Nance of Albany, has reported that the wife of Abel Hinckley was actually named Sara Hobart. On 25 may 2000, Paul wrote to me (LWG) with the following information:
The correction of Hubbard (as found in most sources) to Hobart is based on the following:
(1) the document in which Joshua Gallup deeds his property to Samuel H. Gallup lists the latter's full name as
Samuel Hobart Gallup (you may have noticed that Samuel H. always used his middle initial, suggesting that
he was named after a relative.)
(2) Hinckley Heritage & History, written and published in 1982 by E. Charles Hinckley, lists Anna Hinckley's
mother as Sara Hobart or Hubbard.
(3) the same work says that Anna had a brother named Samuel Hobart Hinckley, born 26 December 1772.
I have not been able to go further back on Sara's family, but it seems certain that Samuel Hobart Gallup and Samuel Hobart Hinckley were both named for one of Sara's ancestors, very likely her father. Thus, the name "Hubbard" appears to have been an error made by Darwin C. Gallup in his 1966 edition of the Gallup Genealogy.
Sara's date and place of death are uncertain. She is also reported as having died 16 Oct 1806 at Stonington, CT.
Notes:
Soon after the close of the Revolutionary war, Samuel, with his brothers Silas, Levi and Ezra, their cousin, John Gallup, son of Joseph Gallup, and several other families from the towns of Groton and Stonington, Connecticut, established the settlements of Knox and Berne in Albany County, NY.
Other Gallup families established the nearby town of Gallupville, NY. Descendants of these four brothers are still numerous in that vicinity, many of them being prominent citizens. Of the sons of Samuel, Nathaniel was the grandfather of Albert Gallup, Treasurer of Albany County, NY; Joshua was the great grandfather of Ezra Twichell, Sheriff of Schoharie County; John was father of Justice John J. Gallup of Albany and Nathan was the father of Prof. Henry Gallup of Poughkeepsie, NY. [sources Jocelyn Hubbard & Gallup Genealogy)
"Old Homes in Stonington" by Grace Denison Wheeler, 1903, has: "Mr. Gilbert Fanning sold his house to Mr. Samuel Gallup who married Jemima Enos, a Seventh Day Baptist of Rhode Island. He put up a dam and sawmill on Mustuxet Brook about 1768, a few rods above where the old grist mill stood."
The wives of Samuel were not lucky, both died at age 49 years. Samuel was married less than seven years to Sary, his second wife, after which he apparently lived alone for the remaining 24 years of his life.
Sary or Sara (Mrs. Samuel Gallup)
Notes:
"Sara" is the spelling of her name which we find in some research, including the Gallup Genealogy, but her name was spelled "Sary" on her gravestone. Her birth date is calculated from her gravestone ("aged 49 yrs 9 mo 20 days").
Notes:
Land records found in the Groton, CT, town hall show that John Enos moved from Stonington, CT, to Groton in 1780. He probably was then a resident of Groton, CT, until 1798, the year his will was probated in Groton. In his will he makes a bequest to "Jemima Gallup" which positively identifies him. His will mentions his wife "Lidy" and the probate record identifies her as "Lydia".
This information was researched by Gerald Cruthers of Norwich, CT, a professional genealogist. At the State Library in Groton he was unable to find a death record or cemetery inscription for Mercy (Hall) Enos but he speculates that Mercy died when Jemima was born and John's second wife, Lydia, raised her. Either that or Mercy died of some other cause whereupon John married Lydia and they had Jemima.
Notes:
Amos and his first wife were buried in the New Village Cemetery of Jefferson, Schoharie Co., NY, (since named Evergreen Cemetery). Minnie Cohen in her book "Gravestone Inscriptions of Schoharie County New York" reportedly has included the following entry:
"In Evergreen Cemetery-Jefferson, NY I find:
Gallup Amos, Feb. 26, 1818 - July 2, 1882
Lemira A., wife, Sept. 8, 1818 - Sept. 13, 1851, 33 ys. 5 ds.
Eliza, wife, May 10, 1828 - "
This reading was confirmed during a trip East in Sept of 2001 by Lynn Gallup, his wife Carol and Jared Wong (third-great grandson of Amos Gallup). While the large family plot marker does have Eliza's name on it, footstones had been placed for only Amos and Lemira, none for Eliza. There was, however, a third empty place in the family plot where Eliza must be buried as her death certificate records her burial in Jefferson. Amos must have prepared the family plot after his marriage to Eliza as her name is on the plot marker but when Eliza died someone must have neglected to have a footstone placed for her.
Along with Calvin and Justin Dyer, Amos is listed in the "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Schoharie County, N.Y. for 1872/73" as a farmer. His farm home is located at the approximate northeast corner of the intersection of Nichols Road and Moxley Street, about two miles west-northwest of Jefferson, NY, town center. In September 2001 the house was found to be in good condition and under restoration by one Alphonse Delgado from the greater NY City area who purchased it in 1998/99 for use as a summer home. Lynn Gallup spoke to the son of an early owner of the Amos Gallup house and farm who stated that he was born in the house and that he understood it to have been erected in the mid 1800's which would make it about the right age to have been Amos' house. He recalled that his father, Gus Dreier, purchased the farm in 1947 and sold off 80 acres of it to a Ben Fister in about 1955.
Notes:
Her name is spelled "Lemira" in the ancient Gallup Genealogy but the obituary notice for her daughter Jemima names her as "Le Myra" which fits with Jemima having named her daughter "Myra", probably after her grandmother. On the other hand, her name was carved "Lemira A." on her gravestone, seen by my own eyes.
The final variation on her name is to be found in a Fuller family compilation dated 22 Sep 1983 by Mildred L. Bailey, Jefferson Town Historian, who names her "Elmira". This is probably a mistake.
Another consideration is that according to the Ruland Family genealogy Polly M. Fuller, sister of Lemira, named one of her daughters Lemira A. (To honor her sister?). This has been a source of confusion for some later historians who swapped the names of these two Lemira's?).
At any rate, Lemira died in 1851 and in this year both her husband and her father were still living in the same township
as she, so it is very unlikely that the wrong information was given to the gravestone cutter. Thus, "Lemira A." is most likely
her name.
Notes:
Amos and his first wife were buried in the New Village Cemetery of Jefferson, Schoharie Co., NY, (since named Evergreen Cemetery). Minnie Cohen in her book "Gravestone Inscriptions of Schoharie County New York" reportedly has included the following entry:
"In Evergreen Cemetery-Jefferson, NY I find:
Gallup Amos, Feb. 26, 1818 - July 2, 1882
Lemira A., wife, Sept. 8, 1818 - Sept. 13, 1851, 33 ys. 5 ds.
Eliza, wife, May 10, 1828 - "
This reading was confirmed during a trip East in Sept of 2001 by Lynn Gallup, his wife Carol and Jared Wong (third-great grandson of Amos Gallup). While the large family plot marker does have Eliza's name on it, footstones had been placed for only Amos and Lemira, none for Eliza. There was, however, a third empty place in the family plot where Eliza must be buried as her death certificate records her burial in Jefferson. Amos must have prepared the family plot after his marriage to Eliza as her name is on the plot marker but when Eliza died someone must have neglected to have a footstone placed for her.
Along with Calvin and Justin Dyer, Amos is listed in the "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Schoharie County, N.Y. for 1872/73" as a farmer. His farm home is located at the approximate northeast corner of the intersection of Nichols Road and Moxley Street, about two miles west-northwest of Jefferson, NY, town center. In September 2001 the house was found to be in good condition and under restoration by one Alphonse Delgado from the greater NY City area who purchased it in 1998/99 for use as a summer home. Lynn Gallup spoke to the son of an early owner of the Amos Gallup house and farm who stated that he was born in the house and that he understood it to have been erected in the mid 1800's which would make it about the right age to have been Amos' house. He recalled that his father, Gus Dreier, purchased the farm in 1947 and sold off 80 acres of it to a Ben Fister in about 1955.
Notes:
That Eliza Dingman was the wife of Amos Gallup has been documented in John D. Gallup's "The Genealogical History of the Gallup Family in the United States" published in 1893, and it has been of longstanding knowledge within the family as well. Unfortunately, an error was made during the preparation of Darwin C. Gallup's "Gallup Genealogy", a rewrite and update of the 1893 work, published in 1966. In it, Eliza's surname was printed as "Dingham", a typographical error. The 1987 edition of the Gallup genealogy, edited by a committee of the Gallup Family Association, was never proof read against the original 1893 book and thus became infamous for it's typographical errors and other descrepancies. (Eliza's erroneous surname was picked up by some unwitting researcher and entered into the ancestral files of Latter Day Saints Church, thus becoming available for now and forever to dupe researchers using the LDS files.)
On December 17, 2001, after a long wait, I finally received a photocopy of Eliza's death certificate from the State of New York. The certificate reveals that Eliza died October 24, 1902 following only a six months residency in Binghamton, NY, and that her remains were returned from there to Jefferson, NY, for burial on October 26th, 1902. Thus we may assume that Eliza's health failed and she was probably taken in by Elam D. Gallup and his wife, Georgia, who were living in Binghamton at the time. It is unlikely that her remains would have been placed in any plot in Jefferson other than in the one bearing her name in the family plot of Amos Gallup, so we must further assume that it was simply out of neglect or poverty that a footstone was not placed at her location there.
The death certificate also tells us that Eliza was aged "74 years, 5 Months" which agrees with her birth date as given in the Gallup Genealogy and on the headstone of her husband, Amos Gallup. The certificate also records that Eliza's parents were "Henry Dingman, born in Columbia County", and "Rebecca Macy, born in Mass." which corroborates information from the Nantucket, MA, vital records.
In April of 2001 a certified transcript of death for Eli, the brother of Elam D. Gallup, was obtained from the Jefferson, NY, City Clerk. It is recorded therein that the parents of Eli Gallup were Amos Gallup and Eliza Dingman. So far as is known, this is the only primary evidence linking Amos and Eliza as man and wife; their marriage record has not been found and her death certificate is silent on the matter of her spouse who had been deceased for twenty years at her death. Eli's and Eliza's death certificates, are also primary evidence re-establishing the correct spelling of Eliza's maiden name as "Dingman". (This fact has been reported to the Gallup Family Association in hopes that any future genealogical publication of their's will contain the correction.)
Notes:
From the Eugene Bouton Papers (held in the Public Library, Albany NY) it is learned that Henry and Rebecca are buried "in a clump of trees in the southeast angle of the State concrete road and the crossroad to the Old School Baptist Church" another reference has described this location as the "... east side of the Jefferson-Summit Road south of the crossroad to the Old School Baptist Church on the farm where they lived.". With better directions given by Walter Ruland the Jefferson Town Historian [RR2 Box 290, Jefferson, NY 12093; (607) 652-6703], this burial plot was located during a trip East in Sept of 2001 by Lynn Gallup and family. At that time some of the gravestones are still standing but the grave site had clearly been vandalized. Henry's gravestone was in excellent shape but Rebecca's could not be found. The grave site may be found as follows:
Take SH 10 toward Summit from Jefferson. From the point where Morrisville Rd. wyes to the right, continue on SH 10 about another 1,000 ft. where there is a house on the east side of the road. ( This is a weekend summer home and may not be occupied but ask for permission). Walk behind the house, then walk north across a little creek, dry at times of the year, and up the hill through small trees and saplings to a clump of mature trees at the top within which are the gravestones. What was once the Old School Baptist Church Road is now renamed Peraglia Road. Probably in the late 1930's, before the grave site was vandalized, Bouton recorded the inscriptions on the stones as:
Henry Dingman, died January 9, 1872, age 89 yrs. (b. 1783)
Rebecca, wife of Henry Dingman, died May 16, 1860
A key piece of information about Henry Dingman came to Mr. Bouton in a letter dated January 21, 1941 from one Amy May Dingman of Brooklyn, NY. Amy wrote:
[begin quoted letter]
The new information I received was sent to me by one who I believe is a professional Genealogist who wishes to trace the family at so much per hour. I candidly told her my finances won't permit. I did send her a dollar in appreciation and asked for the source of her information but she merely answered 'If I have time it would be worth my time to hunt up all I can find this coming winter. If I ever succeed putting them together I will let you know.' Here is the information received:
Hendrik Dingman son of Hendrik Dingman and Margareta Boom, baptised March 9. 1783- witnesses: Hendrik Boom and Lettitia Van Riveren, j.d. There were six other children: Rodolfus, bap. 1/20/1771; Johannes, bap. 12/27/1772; Cathrine, bap. 10/30/1774; Annatje, bap. 11/10/1776; Jan, bap. 11/8/1778 and Maria 10/29/1780."
This is doubtless the Henry Dingman who is buried in Jefferson, N. Y. as he was born 1/10/1783 which would make him two months old-when he was baptized.
[end quoted letter]
In the Nantucket Vital Records, Vol. I, pgs. 406 & 407 will be found the birth years (not birth dates) of Henry Dingman and all of his children. The evidence suggests that this record of Rebecca Macy's family was entered in the interest of having a complete record on a Nantucket native who left the Island to pioneer the frontier. It does not mean that any of the family were actually born in Nantucket, accept for Rebecca who's birth is recorded in the Nantucket Vital Records under the names of her parents. Entries of actual Nantucket births in the Vital Records are typically given as full dates while only the birth year is typically given to off-Island births, as were the entries for Henry and his children.
Notes:
The primary source for Rebecca being a child of Samuel Macy and Lydia Folger is the Nantucket Vital Records. Those records also document that this Rebecca married Henry Dingman [from] "N.Y. State", thus positively identifying her.
The ancestry of Rebecca's father for the next five generations is given in the book "John Howland of the Mayflower" by Elizabeth Pearson White. [White is a particularly thorough genealogist whose work on John Howland is accepted as "proven" by the Mayflower Society of Plymouth MA.] Rebecca is therefore the descendent of four Pilgrims: John Howland, his wife Elizabeth Tilley and her father and mother, John Tilley and Joan Hurst.
The principle secondary source is the papers of Eugene Bouton, held in the New York State Library in Albany, N.Y. Bouton was a meticulous and diligent compiler of the families and family histories of the settlers of Jefferson in Schoharie County, NY. However, based on his letters of correspondence in the early 1940's, when his interest was turned toward the Dingman family, it would appear that his source of information might also have been the Nantucket Vital Records.
There is some uncertainty about the exact date of Rebecca's birth. According to the "Bouton Papers", her grave stone reads "Rebecca, wife of Henry Dingman, d. May 16, 1860, 70-10-16", meaning aged 70 yrs, 10 mos, 16 days. This calculates to a birth date of 30 June 1789. The Nantucket Vital Records, however, give 3/7/1789 for her birth date (in the form of day, month, year). This is the source of some compilers who give her the birth date of 3 July 1789 (including Ms. Muriel E. Gartner, the source of so much excellent Dingman material). It is possible that the Nantucket record is correct and either the gravestone or the reading of it is wrong. It is the position of this compiler that the record of Nantucket is the most likely to be correct because the record is contemporary with the event, as contrasted with the time interval elapsed between her birth and the carving of her gravestone, especially when considering that her husband, Henry, was the likely source of information for the gravestone and was already 77 years old. (This decision presumes that the Nantucket recorders were using proper New Style dating, which they should have been at this time.)
The statement "Rebecca Macy is of the Macy's Dept. Store family from Nantucket Island & Stonington, Connecticut.", was found in a note from Florence (Gallup) Falconbury to Lynn Gallup. Actually, Roland H. Macy (1822-1919), who started the famous business, was a rather distant cousin of hers.
The ancestry of Rebecca Macy is reportedly also given in the book "Macy Genealogy" by Silvanus J. Macy which is referenced as the Macy family source for the genealogy of William M. Worth in which Rebecca appears together with the name of her spouse. Mr. Worth, however, gives "Dingham" as the spelling of Henry's surname; it could hardly be a coincidence that this same misspelling first occurred as a typo in the 1966 edition of the Gallup Genealogy from which it was picked up and entered into the LDS records. This compiler believes that Worth used LDS data for this entry in his compilation.
Notes:
Justin is listed in the "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Schoharie County, N.Y. for 1872-3" as farmer and as the "inspector of elections". The names of Justin's two children, Stella and Milton, have been taken from a note to me from Florence (Gallup) Bunn Falconbury, Georgia Dyer's granddaughter. Florence wrote, "Don't know too much about Dyers except Grandma Gallup was a Dyer, had a brother Milton and a sister Stella." "Stella" is obviously Estella, a known child of Justin, but this brief reference for Milton is the only supporting source for that child I have found.
Notes:
An announcement appeared in the issue of 13 July 1875, p.2, c.5, of the "Stamford/Bloomville Mirror", newspaper of Delaware Co., NY, reporting: "Dyer, Justin of Harpersfield. Celebration of 25th wedding anniversary, July 1st", thus fixing his marriage date. Mariah died only four years later at the age of 47.
From the Gilboa Monitor obituary pages, issue of Feb 6, 1879, is found:
PATCHIN - In Jefferson, Jan 11th, Maria Patchin, wife of Justine Dyer, aged 47 yrs.
From Lambert Martin, copy holder:
"Gravestone Inscriptions of Schoharie County New York" by Minnie Cohen has the following inscription:
Dyer -
Justin, July 15, 1829
Maria, wife, Jan. 12, 1879, 47 ys. 22 ds.
A copy of the book "Prospectus of the History and Genealogy of the PATCHIN (Patchen) Family" is held in the historical archives of Old Blenheim, NY. An excerpt of this genealogy, obtained from Ms. Josie Fuller, Old Blenheim Town Historian, reveals a "Mariah" Patchin recorded who married a Dyer. Without doubt, this person and the "Maria" buried with Justin Dyer are the same person because I myself appear in that genealogy as Mariah Patchin's descendant. (It should be noted that the surnames PATCHIN and PATCHEN have appeared virtually interchangeably in this family over the years.) Had there been no other supporting evidence, the name "Maria" would still be suspect as it is a name not found elsewhere in the Dyer line. However, there is the more compelling reason that Mariah's child, Georgia, and her husband unwaveringly followed the custom of the times of choosing the given names of their children to honor an ancestor. They named their daughter Eliza Adaline after her paternal grandmother and grand aunt, their son Ward Amos after his paternal grandfather, his brother Winfield Dyer after his maternal grandfather. Their daughter Blanche Mariah, as shown on her birth certificate, was most probably named to honor her grandmother, Mariah Patchin. For this record, therefore, "Mariah" Patchin, not Maria, has been used.
Notes:
Resided in Summit, NY.