Genealogy of Winfield Gallup and Florence Miles

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Silas Gallup

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As a youth, Silas resided in Stonington, Connecticut but he removed with his parents to Jefferson, Schoharie Co., New York in 1806. In 1851 he is found operating a 430 acre farm in Jefferson.


Betsy Wiltsie

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Eugene Bouton spelled her surname Wiltsee, daughter of David and Sarah (Brovee) Wiltsee.


Humphrey Howland

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Humphrey was a draper who settled in St. Swithin's Parish in London. His will was written in London 28 May 1646 and proved 10 July 1646 by his second wife, Anne. In it he mentions his brothers, Arthur, John and Henry, and his sister Margaret.


Richard Gore

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The will of Richard was proved 11 May 1543 in Hampshire, England.

The Name of Gore: Originally, the word gore meant a wedge-shaped piece of land. Formerly also Goar = Scottish gair, gar < Middle English gore, gare, a gore of cloth, also a garment < Anglo Saxon gara, a projecting point of land = Old Friesic gore, a gore of cloth, a garment = Dutch, goer, a gusset, gore = Middle Low German, gore, a projecting point of land, a gusset; Old High German, gero; Middle High German, gere, a wedge-shaped piece of cloth = Icelandic, geiri = Norwegian geiri = Old Danish gere, a gore of cloth or of land. Anglo Saxon, etc. a spear. The word Gore referring to blood or clotted blood is not connected with the above derivations; it is the Anglo Saxon gor, dirt, filth. (from Lowell Gore)


Nathan Louis Gano

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An ancestor of Nathan Gano is said to have baptized George Washington.


Sarah Ann Patchin

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"Sarah Ann received from her mother many lovely linen coverlets and shawls, etc. A Gano, ancestor of Sarah Ann's husband, Nathan Louis Gano, is said to have baptized George Washington."
(Source: Nathan Gano Family Bible held by Mrs. Ray R. Gano.)