It would be impossible to recount here ALL of the intrigues and events going on in the

lands of our ancestors, but I will try to include some events, just to put the times of their
existence into perspective. All of the countries - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland,
France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain are entwined in wars, religious intolerance and
upheavals.
1410 (c) John Stampe is born in Cholsey, Berkshire, England.. He later marries Ursala
Burlington, exact date unknown, but probably sometime in the 1430s. This is the
earliest record of the STAMPS branch of the family tree.
In 1413, Henry V becomes King of England, succeeding Henry of Bolingbroke
(King Henry IV) who had deposed Richard II. Henry IV was not the rightful heir,
but had been chosen by the Parliament. The house of York (white rose) or elder
branch of the Royal House was passed over and Henry was chosen from the
House of Lancaster (red rose).
In 1415 King Henry V invades France, and defeats the French at Agincourt.
In 1422 both Kings, Henry V of England and Charles VI of France, die. Henry VI
takes over in England and Charles VII ascends the throne in France. In 1424,
John, Duke of Bedford, regent for Henry VI, defeats the French at Cravant, and
in1428 Henry VI begins the siege of Orleans.
In 1429, a peasant girl from Domremy, Joan of Arc, inspires the revitalization of
French resistance to English rule. She is later captured by the Burgundians and
condemned to death by a Church court.
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen, France, in 1431. Henry VI of
England
is crowned King of France, but France still claims Charles VII of the
House of
Valois.
1440 (c) John Stampe, son of John Stampe and Ursala Burlington, is born in Cholsey,
Berkshire, England.
1453 Bordeaux falls to the French and the Hundred Years War ends. In
England, Henry VI becomes insane, and in 1454 Richard, Duke of York, is named
regent of England.
Printing with movable type is perfected in Germany by Johannes Gutenberg.
1455

Henry VI recovers and Richard of York is replaced by Somerset. The

War of the Roses - civil war between the Royal houses of Lancaster and York
begins. Somerset is defeated and killed at St. Albens.
1460 Richard of York is defeated and killed at the Battle of Wakefield. Earl of
Warwick captures London for the Yorkists, and at the Battle of Northampton,
Henry VI is captured.
1461 (c) John Stampe, son of John Stampe and spouse unknown, is born in Cholsey,
Berkshire, England. At the age of 20 he marries Elizabeth Coxe, a 19 year old
born in Mowlsfords, Berkshire, England.
Richards son, Edward of York, defeats the Lancastrians and becomes King
Edward IV of England. And Louis XI becomes King of France.
1465 King Henry VI is imprisoned by Edward IV. The next year, Warwick
quarrels with Edward VI and he forms an alliance with King Louis XI, of France.
1470 Warwick turns Lancastrian. He defeats Edward IV and restores Henry VI.
The following year, Henry VI defeats and kills Warwick at the Battle of Barnet.
Henry VI dies, probably murdered in the Tower of London.

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1483 Edward IV dies; Edward V is deposed by his uncle, Richard, Duke of

Glouchester and Richard becomes King Richard III. Edward V and his brother
murdered in the Tower of London.
1485 At the Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry Tudor, with men, money and arms
provided by Charles VIII of France, defeats and kills Richard III in a decisive
battle, but not final battle of the War of the Roses.

1486 Thomas Stampe, son of John Stampe and Elizabeth Coxe, is born at Bradford
Hall, Berkshire, England.
Henry VII (Tudor) marries Elizabeth of York, uniting the houses of York and
Lancaster.
1487 The War of the Roses ends with the final engagement at Stoke Field, when
Henry VII defeats Yorkist army.
on

1492 On October 12th Columbus sails on the Santa Maria for Spain and lands
what he thinks is an island near Japan. He will make 4 more trips back to the
New World, seeking a sea route to Asia, never certain that he wasnt in the Indies.
1496

Henry VII joins the Holy League; and establishes a commercial treaty

between England and the Netherlands.

1497 John Cabot sails from England and explores the Atlantic coast of Canada
and claims the area for the English King, Henry VII. In 1499, Amerigo Vespucci,
an Italian navigator sights the coast of South America while sailing for Spain. By
1507 the name America is used when referring to the New World.
1506 Thomas Stampe, son of John Stampe and Elizabeth Coxe, marries Joan Knapp.
1512 William Stampe, son of Thomas Stampe and Joan Knapp, is born in Bufford,
England. In 1538, at the age of 26, he marries the 19 year old Katherine Hyde in
Easthernred, Berkshire, England.
1515 (c) Richard Hull is born in England, probably in the area of Crewkerne,
Somersetshire, since that is where he will later marry twice, though the names of
his 2 wives are lost to the ages. Richard is the earliest known HULL ancestor, the
Hull's being part of the Piatt Branch.
In 1517 the Protestant Reformation begins in England. Martin Luther nails his
95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg. In 1529, Henry VIII divorces his
1st wife, Catherine of Aragon, and in 1533 he marries the pregnant Anne Boleyn,
and England officially breaks with the church in Rome by passing the Act of
Restraint of Appeals. Archbishop Cranmer, who had annulled the marriage of
Henry and Catherine of Aragon, is excommunicated, along with the infamous
Henry VIII. The following year, 1534, the king is named the Supreme Head of the
Church of England, and the Pope is designated merely as the Bishop of Rome. By
1538 the last of the monasteries in England had been dissolved. Thomas
Cromwell, chief minister and architect of the Reformation in England, issues
injunctions stating that every parish church must have the English Bible and
shrines
were to be destroyed. Thus, even the shrine of Thomas Becket was
destroyed.
1540 Claud Calmes marries Madame Dupoix in France. He succeeded his brother,
Jean, as Seigneur de Barbeiran, as his brother left no heirs. Jean Calmes was a
bourgeois
of Trebes and succeeded as Seigneur de Barbeiran by Act of January 1552.
He
appears to have been the first of the family raised to the nobility. The father of
Claud and Jean Calmes is believed to be Pierre Calmes, who is found in the town
of Trebes, as a notary, in 1524. This is the earliest record of our CALMES
ancestors.
At this time, Francis I, known as Francis of Angouleme before he succeeded his
cousin and father-in-law, Louis XII, is King of France. Francis created the

League of Cognac (1526) with Pope Clement VII, Henry VIII, Venice and
Florence, and commenced his second war (1527-29) against Charles V of Spain.
In 1535, with the death of the Duke of Milan, Francis again invaded (1526) Italy.
In 1538 a 10 year truce was signed with Charles V of Spain, at Nice. In 1542,
with the support of the Ottoman Sultan, Sulaynam I, Francis again attacked the
emperor, Charles V, in his bid to become Holy Roman Emperor. Charles V allied
himself with Henry VIII in 1543 and invaded France in 1544. This resulted in the
Treaty of Crepy, in which Francis relinquished claim to Naples, Flanders and
Artois; and peace with England (1546) confirmed the loss of Boulogne.
The reign of Francis I, despite his military failures, saw domestic glory in the
fullest development of the French Renaissance. DeVinci, Cellini and delSarto worked at
his court. Francis also founded the College de France; and formed the concordat
with the papacy and an alliance with Switzerland.
Jacques Cartier was exploring the coast of North America and establishes French
interests in Canada.
In England, in 1549 is the introduction of uniform Protestant service, based on
Edward VIs Book of Common Prayer.
1550 (c) Pierre Calmes, son of Claud Calmes and Madame Dupoix is born in France.
Pierre succeeds his father as Seigneur de Barbeiran and was confirmed in his
nobility by judgment of M. de Bezons, Entendant of Languedoc.
1552 Timothy Stampe, son of William Stampe and Katherine Hyde, is born at Bruern
Abbey in Oxon, England. At age 26, he marries Marie Gunner.
1552 (c) Thomas Hull is born in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England, the son of
Richard
Hull and his 2nd wife, her name unknown.
1553

(c) Joan Peson/Pysing is born in East Myng, Somersetshire, England.

1553 On the death of Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of
England by Duke of Northumberland, but her reign lasts just 9 days. Mary I
(Mary Tudor), daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon is the rightful heir
and takes the throne. Lady Jane Grey is executed in 1554.
Known as Bloody Mary for her persecution of Protestant leaders in her efforts
to restore Catholicism to England, it seemed the country rejoiced when she died in
November, 1558. She is succeeded to the throne by The Virgin Queen,
Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who immediately repeals
Catholic legislation and restores Protestantism to England.

1559 Richard Hull, father of Thomas, dies in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England.

Richard fathered 7 children, Thomas being the second youngest.
1560 The Treaty of Berwick is signed between Elizabeth I and Scottish
reformers. In this same year is the Treaty of Edinburgh between England, France
and Scotland.
Charles IX is now King of France, succeeding his brother, Francis II under the
regency of his mother, Catherine deMedici. She retained her influence
throughout
his reign. After 1570, however, Charles was temporarily under the
influence of the
French Huguenot leader, Gaspard de Coligny. Catherine persuades
her weak son to approve the massacre of Saint Bartholomews Day in which Coligny
and
thousands of other Huguenots were murdered.
In 1565, the first permanent European colony is founded in North America by the
Spanish at St. Augustine, Florida.
1567 Claud Calmes, father of Pierre and husband of Madame Dupoix, dies in France.
In this same year, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered,
probably by the Earl of Bothwell. Mary Queen of Scots later marries Bothwell, is
imprisoned and forced to abdicate. James VI becomes King of Scotland. In
1568, Mary escapes to England, but again is imprisoned at Fotheringay Castle by
Elizabeth I.
1572 Jan. 11th, Thomas Hull, son of Richard Hull and unnamed wife, marries Joan
Peson/Pysing in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England.
until

1574 Henry III succeeds his brother, Charles IX, in France. His reign will last
1589, and he is the last French ruler of the House of Valois.

1580 Evan Thomas is born in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales, the earliest of our
THOMAS ancestors that is known to me.
In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh lands on Roanoke Island in the New World, and
names the area Virginia, in honor of Queen Elizabeth I.
1587, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded.
In 1589, Henry IV of Navarre becomes King of France, the first of the House of
Bourbon. Raised as a Protestant, he was recognized (1569) by the Huguenot
leader, Coligny, as the nominal head of the Huguenots.

In 1595, to rid France of Spanish influence, Henry declares war on Spain and
brings it to a successful conclusion in 1598 with the Treaty of Vervins.
1596 Pierre Calmes, son of Claud Calmes and Mdme. Dupoix, marries Marguerite de
Lasbordes in France.
1596 April 25th, Joseph Hull, son and 11th child of Thomas Hull and Joan
Peson/Pysing, is born in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England.
1600 (c) Bartholemy de Calmes is born, the son of Pierre Calmes and Marguerite De
Lasbordes, in France.
1602 (c) Edmund Harrison is born, most likely in Wales, the earliest HARRISON
ancestor known thus far.
1603 John Thomas Stamps, son of Timothy Stampe and Marie Gunner, is born at
Bruerne Abbey, Oxon, England. As a young man, he will marry Jane Mallory,
the exact date is unknown.
In this same year, Elizabeth I of England dies and James VI of Scotland becomes
James I, King of England. He will rule both countries for 22 years. James
continued to have problems with the Scottish Presbyterians, and Catholic and
Protestant factions in England. James bans the Jesuits, and continues to harry the
Puritans, though he considers himself a moderate in matters of religion. In 1605,
Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators fail in their attempt to blow
up Parliament and James I. By 1607, Parliament has rejected proposals for a
union between England and Scotland.
In 1607, the Colony of Virginia is founded at Jamestown by John Smith, and
Henry Hudson begins his voyage to eastern Greenland and the Hudson River,
discovering and naming Hudson Bay. By the end of the year, starvation, disease
and a hard winter has decimated Jamestown and the number of settlers has
dwindled from the original 105 to 32. In January of 1608, 110 additional
colonists
arrive and by the end of the year the first exports of lumber and iron ore
are sent
back to England.
1608 (c) Richard Ewen is born. As a young man he will marry Sophia Scarborough,
and
will become one of the earliest settlers of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. This is
the
earliest known EWEN ancestor.
In 1611 the King James Version of the bible is completed; and English and
Scottish Protestant colonists settle in Ulster, Ireland.

1612 Dirck Janse Van Der Vliet is born. This is the first of our VLIET ancestors, the
Vliet twig being another part of the Piatt branch.
1614 Joseph Hull, son of Thomas Hull and Joan Peson/Pysing, graduates from St.
Marys Hall, Oxford and becomes an ordained minister of the Church of England.
1615 (c) Evan Thomas marries Sarah, her maiden name unknown. Their first of 3
children is born (about 1617) in Wales; but by the birth of their 3rd child, they are
in England.
1615 John Manning is born, the names of his parents lost in time. John will grow to
manhood, probably in England, and at the age of 20 will set sail for America.
Thus begins the MANNING twig on the Piatt branch.
1618 Timothy Stampe, son of William Stampe and Katherine Hyde, and father of John
Thomas, dies.
1618 Joseph Hull, son of Thomas Hull and Joan Peson/Pysing, marries Joanna in
England. Nothing is known of this 1st wife.
In this same year, 1618, the Dutch build a trading post at Bergen (now Jersey
City) New Jersey. Later, another early Dutch settlement is made at Hoboken, on the
Hudson River.
The first session of the first legislative assembly in America convenes in 1619, in
the Virginia House of Burgesses at Jamestown. 22 Burgesses represent 11
plantations.
1620 Philip Thomas, son and 3rd child of Evan Thomas and his wife, Sarah, is born in
Bristol, England.
In 1620, the Pilgrims, sailing on the Mayflower, land at Plymouth Rock, Cape
Cod, Massachusetts, and found New Plymouth.
In 1623, Capt. Cornelius Mey establishes Fort Nassau, near present Glouchester
City, New Jersey.
1624 William Stamps, son of John Thomas Stamps and Jane Mallory, is born.
He will later marry Mary Roe(Rowe), date unknown.
is

This same year the Virginia Company charter is revoked in London and Virginia
declared a Royal Colony. There are now over 1000 "Early Virginia Pioneers"

living in Jamestown.
1627 Edmund Harrison marries Jane Godfrey in Wales. This is the first known member
of the HARRISON branch of ancestors.
1628 (c) Sarah Harrison, daughter of Edmund Harrison and Jane Godfrey, is born in
Wales.
1629 Oct. Joan Peson/Pysing, wife of Thomas Hull and mother of Joseph, dies in
Crewkerne, Somerset, England.
1630 June 6th, Elizabeth Ewen, daughter of Maj. Richard Ewen and his wife, Sophia
Scarborough, is born. They were a Catholic family and among the earliest
settlers of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland. They patented 1000 acres of land on
Aug. 14, 1637; acquiring an additional 150 acres on May 17, 1650.
In 1632 George Calvert, first Lord of Baltimore, lobbied the Court of England for
a grant to create Maryland. A Catholic himself, he was forced to resign his public
position. George Calvert died in 1632, and the grant was given to his son, Cecil,
the second Lord of Baltimore. In 1633, Leonard Calvert, brother of Cecil, along
with 130 colonists set sail for America aboard the Arc and the Dove. On March
25, 1634, the settlers land at St. Clements Island.
1633 Feb. 25th, William Richardson is born at Crosbey Ravenworth, County
Westmoreland , England. He is the earliest known ancestor in the
RICHARDSON branch. He is raised as a Quaker (Society of Friends); this may
account for his being acquainted with George Fox, the Quaker of England.
Maryland was originally chartered by the Calverts to be a haven for persecuted
Catholics, and they professed tolerance for Protestants; but by 1650 the
Protestants had taken over the colony. 1689 ushered in a period of strained
relationship between the majority Protestants and minority Catholics.
1634 Joseph Hull, son of Thomas Hull and Joan Peson/Pysing, marries Agnes Coffin in
England. Agnes is his 2nd wife.
1635 May 15th, John Thomas Stamps, son of Timothy Stampe and Marie Gunner,
emigrates to America from England, aboard the Plain Joane, landing in
Virginia.
1635 Aug. 7th, John Manning sails from London, England aboard the Globe, landing
in Virginia. By 1640 he has met and married Abigail, and they are "on record" in

Boston, Massachusetts.
1635 Rev. Joseph Hull, his wife, Agnes, and 7 surviving children, emmigrate to The
Bay Colony, settling first in Wessagusset (Weymouth), Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was established about 1629, and inhabited mostly
by Puritans.
1636 Dec. Thomas Hull, widower of Joan Peson/Pysing and father of Joseph Hull, dies
in Crewkerne, Somersetshire, England.
1637 Bartholemy de Calmes, son of Pierre de Calmes and Marguerite de Lasbordes,
marries Catherine de Caton in France, Seigneur de Miramont et Montezels;
confirmed in his nobility June 17, 1669 by sovereign patent, M. Bernard
(Bornier),
Rapporteur.
At this time, Louis XIII is King of France. He succeeded his father, Henry IV, in
1610, under the regency of his mother, Marie deMedici.. The reign of Louis XIII
was remarkable for the establishment of the French Academy and for the work of
St. Francis of Sales and St. Vincent de Paul. Cardinal Richelieu strengthened
royal authority and centralized government control.
1638 Rev. Joseph Hull serves as magistrate at Hingham, and the following year, 1639,
he represents Barnstable at the General Court of Massachusetts.
1642 Guillaume de Calmes, eldest son of Bartholemy Calmes and Catherine de Caton,
is born in France. He inherits the title Sieur de Barbeiran et Demeriac from his
uncle, Jacques Guillaume de Calmes, who seems to have died without heirs.
1642 Timothy Stamps, son of William Stamps and Mary Roe(Rowe), is born.
He will later marry Margaret Frizzell. Their 1st child, William Stamps will marry
Mary Byrd.
1642 (c) Jeffrey Manning, son of John and Abigail Manning, is born (possibly) in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Suffolk County, of which Boston is the county seat, was formed in 1643; one of
the original 3 counties of Massachusetts. Middlesex County and Essex County
were the other 2.
1648 (c) Samuel Hull, son of Joseph Hull and Agnes Coffin is born in York, Maine.
Samuel is the 7th of 11 children born to Joseph and Agnes, and 1 of a total of 18
children fathered by Joseph.

York, Maine was originally "Yorkshire", the county being established in 1652.
1650 (c) Rene Piatt is born, possibly in Dauphine, France. There are clues that his
surname may have been LeFleuer or LaFlower. Rene is the first of our known
PIATT ancestors.
By 1650, in France, King Louis XIV had succeeded his father, though he did not
take over the government until 1661, after the death of Cardinal Mazarin. By then
France was economically exhausted by the Thirty Years War and fiscal abuses.
1650 Philip Thomas, son of Evan Thomas and his wife, Sarah, marries Sarah Harrison,
daughter of Edmund Harrison and Jane Godfrey, in Bristol, England. The
following year,
1651 Philip and Sarah Thomas emigrate to America. Being Quakers may have been the
reason they chose to settle in Maryland.
1653 (c) Daniel Brinson, son of William and Margaret Brinson, is born in Devon
County, England. This begins the BRINSON twig of ancestors, connected to the
Piatt branch.
1655 Elizabeth Sheffield is born in New Kent Co., Virginia. She will later move with
her family to Suffolk Co., New York, (though it is not called Suffolk Co. at this
time.) Exactly who her parents were is unknown to me, so I begin the
SHEFFIELD branch with Elizabeth.
1655 (c) Samuel Thomas, son of Philip Thomas and Sarah Harrison, is born in Calvert
County, Maryland.
1656 Dirck Janse Van Der Vliet marries Geertje Gerretse. The exact date and place of
this marriage is unknown, but this couple will eventually become part of the
Dutch community that inhabits Somerset and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey.
1658 Jan Dirckse Van Der Vliet is born, the son of Dirck Janse Van Der Vliet and
Geertje Geertse.
1662 300 acres, known as Talbotts Ridge in Anne Arundel Co., Md., was surveyed on
Nov. 30th and granted to Richard Talbott. He would be the first husband of
Elizabeth Ewen, who will later marry William Richardson. Possibly some of his
land came to Richardson through Elizabeth Ewen.

1663 (c) Mary Manning, daughter of Jeffrey Manning and Hepsibah Andrews, is born
in
Massachusetts.
In 1664 the Dutch New Netherland colony becomes English New York after Gov.
Peter Stuyvesant surrenders to the British following a naval blockade; and
Maryland passes a law making lifelong servitude for black slaves mandatory.
Woodbridge, New Jersey, was settled in the early autumn of 1664, and granted a
charter by King Charles of England on June 1, 1669.
1665 At the age of 32, William Richardson leaves England as a bachelor aboard the
ship
Constant Friendship. He will later settle on the western side of the
Chesapeake Bay, in the area of West River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
1667 William Richardson marries Elizabeth Ewen Talbott, the widow of
Richard
Talbott and the mother of 4 young children in Anne Arundel Co.
Md.
1667 Marquis de Calmes, son of Guillaume de Calmes, is born at Trebs Dioc de
Carcassone, Languedoc, France.

in

Louis XIV is still King of France. Beginning in 1665, Louis embarked on a

systematic persecution of the French Protestants (Huguenots) which finally ends
1685 with the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The architect, Jules Mansart, supervises the building of the lavish palace of
Versailles.

1674 Philip Thomas, son of Evan Thomas, husband of Sarah Harrison, and father of
Samuel, dies in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.
1675 Guillaume de Calmes, along with his wife and 8 year old son, Marquis de la
Calmes, leave France and settle in England.
1677 Nov. 16th, Samuel Hull, son of Rev. Joseph Hull and Agnes Coffin, marries Mary
Manning, the daughter of Jeffrey Manning and Hepsibah Andrews, in Piscataway,
New Jersey.
1677 Dec. 13th, Rene Piatt marries Elizabeth Sheffield in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co.,
New Jersey. Elizabeth Sheffield is from what we now know as Flushing, Long
Island, Suffolk Co., New York, but the earliest county in NY is not established

until 1683.
1677 Daniel Brinson, at the age of 24, emmigrates aboard the ship Willing Mind, and
settles in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He will meet and marry Frances
Greenland, daughter of Henry Greenland and Mary Barefoote.
1678 April 3rd, Joseph, the 5th child of William Richardson and Elizabeth Talbott is
born in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.
1678 Oct. 31st, Jacob Piatt, son of Rene Piatt and Elizabeth Sheffield , is born in
Woodbridge, New Jersey.
1680 Rene Piatt purchases 55 acres from Jabez Hendricks at Piscataway, New Jersey.
1681 Feb. 4th, Mary Hull, daughter of Samuel Hull and Mary Manning, is born in
Piscataway, New Jersey. Mary was the 3rd of 7 children.
On March 4, 1681, the Charter of Pennsylvania was signed by King Charles II and
officially proclaimed on April 2nd. The new colony was named in honor of
William Penns father, Admiral Penn. William Penn, a convert to the Society of
Friends (Quakers), was seeking a haven for the persecuted sect.
1683 Dec. 2, Jan Dirckse Van Der Vliet, son of Dirck Van Der Vliet and Geertje
Gerretse, marries Geertje Ver Kerk in Long Island, New York.. She is the
daughter of Han Van Kerk and Mayke Gisberts.
1683, Middlesex County, NJ is formed when it was carved from the
Province of East Jersey.
1684 Jan Janse Van Vliet, son of Jan Van Der Vliet and Geertje VerKerk, is born in
Flatbush, Long Island, New York. In the very early 1700's, this family will move
to Six Mile Run, New Jersey.
1685 Daniel Brinson moves to a 300 acre tract on the north bank of Stony Brook,
Middlesex Co., New Jersey. It is presumed that this is where he met and married
Frances Greenland, the daughter of Henry Greenland and Mary Barefoote.
1687 Nov. Sarah Harrison, widow of Philip Thomas and mother of Samuel, dies in
Maryland. According to the "Herring Meeting" (Quaker records), "Sarah Thomas
taken away by death; burial Nov. 25, 1687"
1688 Rene Piatt is granted a Letter Patent of Denization, issued from England.

1688 May 15th, Samuel Thomas, son of Philip Thomas and Sarah Harrison, marries
Mary Elizabeth Hutchins, daughter of Francis Hutchins and Elizabeth Burridge, at
his home in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.
1689 March 31st, Sarah Thomas, daughter of Samuel Thomas and Mary Elizabeth
Hutchins, is born in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, the first of eight children.
1689 (c) Margaret Brinson, daughter of Daniel Brinson and Frances Greenland, is born
in Somerset County, between Prince Towne and Kings Towne. In 1685 Daniel
had moved his family to a 300 acre tract on the north bank of Stony Brook.
1690 In A Catalogue of ye Names of ye Inhabitants of ye Towne of Piscataway, in the
old Towne Book, entered there about 1690, is found that of LaFlower, alias
Reni Piat; and in a list of the Freeholders of about the same date: Laflore alias
renipiat; and in another list of a later date, LaFlower alias Rene Piat. Thus, the
family surname may have been LeFleur in France.
1692 January 26th, Jeffrey Manning, son of John and Abigail Manning, husband of
Hepsibah Andrews, and father of Mary Manning, dies in Piscataway, New Jersey.

are

In 1692 the Salem Witch Trials begin. Between June and September, 150 persons
are accused, some of them prominent citizens of Puritanical Salem. 20 of them
executed, including 14 women. By October the hysteria subsides; the remaining
prisoners are released and the special court is dissolved.

1694 Rene Piatt purchases 250 acres along Cheesequake Creek, in New Jersey, from
Miles Forster.
1695 (c) Marquis de la Calmes marries Isabella Elliche in England.
1697 Nov. 2nd, William Richardson dies. He is buried in the Old Quaker Burying
Ground in West River, Maryland. An exerp taken from "Founders of Anne
Arundel and Howard Counties, Md" by Warfield states: "William Richardson
owned 4000 acres at the time of his death in 1697. He was a Quaker minister and
an intimate friend of William Penn. He was a Justice of Anne Arundel County,
and
a member of the Assembly from Anne Arundel County from Oct. 21, 1678 to
Nov. of 1683. He was a delegate from 1678 to 1679 and 1 of a committee of 3 from
the Lower House to the Upper House to consider the Acts Pertaining to Military
Affairs for the Defense of the Province. He was also a good friend of George Fox,
the Quaker, of England and of the 3rd Lord of Baltimore."

Joseph Richardson inherits the 600 acres called Franklins Enlargement from his
father. Elizabeth, widow of William, remains at Watkins Hope.
1697 Marquis de la Calmes and his wife, Isabella Elliche, emigrate to America,
probably landing in Baltimore and spending some time there. He anglicized his
name to Marquis Calmes, and in a court action in Baltimore, had his title to
nobility recognized in this country. By 1700, they are settled in lower Virginia,
but
by 1705 they are in Stafford County, Virginia.

this

the

At this point in time, in our family history, 11 branches of the tree are living in
Colonial America. The Richardson, Ewen, Thomas and Shore families in
Maryland, the Piatt, Hull, and Manning families in New Jersey, and the Stamps,
Sheffield, Waller and Calmes families in Virginia. It is possible that at least 2
other branches, the Rudd and Hudson families, may also be living in Virginia at
time, though nothing has yet been proved. Our presumed ancestor, John Rudd,
was born in James City, Virginia, in 1678.
In June, 1700, Massachusetts passes a law ordering all Roman Catholic priests out
of the colony within 3 months under penalty of life imprisonment or death. New
York passes a similar law. By 1702, Maryland has declared the Anglican Church
as the official church, financially supported by taxation imposed on all free men,
male servants and slaves. In March of 1702, Queen Anne ascends the throne of
England and by May, England declares war on Spain to stop the union of France
and Spain. This War of the Spanish Succession is called Queen Annes War in
colonies, where the English and American colonists will battle the French, their
Native American allies, and the Spanish for the next 11 years.

1700 Richard Shore, son of Thomas Shore and wife, Katherine, is born in St. Marys
Co., Maryland. It is believed that Thomas and Katherine emigrated to Maryland
in the late 1600s as indentured servants. Thomas is the earliest SHORE
ancestor,
though nothing is known about him, or his wife, Katherine. It was not
unusual for emigrants to receive passage to the new world in exchange for a few years
of
"service".
1703 June 7th, Jacob Piatt, son of Rene Piatt and Elizabeth Sheffield , marries Mary
Hull, daughter of Samuel Hull and Mary Manning, in Piscataway, New Jersey.
1704 Thomas Stamps, son of William Stamps and Mary Byrd is born in Lancaster,
Lancaster Co., Virginia. Lancaster County was formed in 1651.
1705 Aug. 25th, Joseph Richardson marries Sarah Thomas at West River Meeting
House in Anne Arundel Co., Md. Sarah was the daughter of Samuel Thomas and

Elizabeth Hutchins, also of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland.

1705 Marquis Calmes I and wife, Isabella, remove to Stafford Co. Virginia where
their son, Marquis II, is born. On May 11, 1705 a warrant for 711 acres of land on
the North Run of Aquia Creek was assigned to Marquis Calmes I by Nicholas
Brent which warrant was confirmed to him in a grant from Lady Culpeper,
Thomas and Catherine Fairfax on Oct. 5, 1705. An additional 744 acres on the
South Run of Aquia Creek are recorded on Nov. 9, 1708.
1705 Rene Piatt, husband of Elizabeth Sheffield Piatt, dies in Piscataway, New Jersey,
aged 55 years, 10 months, 16 days.
1707 (c) Simon Ruffner Sr. is born. His place of birth is believed to be Mainz,
Germany.
So far, Simon Sr. is the earliest known RUFFNER ancestor.
1708 (c) Mary Hulse is born. The place of birth and names of parents is unknown to
me, so Mary is the first on the HULSE twig, later becoming connected to the
Shore branch.
1709 Winnifred Waller, daughter of John Waller, is born in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The exact ancestry of Winnifred remains yet a mystery. It is tradition that her father
was John, son of John; but to date no concrete evidence has been found.
Winnifred is the WALLER twig, later becoming connected to the Calmes branch.
1710 (c) Jean Baptiste Bernard deValcourt is born in France. He will later marry
Margaret Provost, though dates are still elusive. Jean Baptiste is the earliest
DeVALCOURT ancestor known to me.
1710 Thomas Lendrum, son of Peter Lendrum and Helen Farquharson, is born in
Scotland. This information was only recently discovered and as yet, no dates are
available, and nothing is known of Peter. This is the earliest LENDRUM
ancestor.
1712 (c) John Piatt, son of Jacob Piatt and Mary Hull, is born in Bound Brook, New
Jersey. He is the 6th of 9 children.
1712 Dec. 26th, William Richardson, son of Joseph Richardson and Sarah Thomas, is
born in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, and named in honor of his paternal
grandfather.
1712 (c) Jan Janse Van Vliet, son of Jan Van Der Vliet and Geertje Ver Kerk, marries

is

Margaret Brinson, daughter of Daniel Brinson and Frances Greenland. Margaret

the 2nd wife of Jan Janse Van Vliet.

1713 Frances Janse Vliet, daughter of Jan Janse Van Vliet and Margaret Brinson, is
born in Somerset County, New Jersey. About this point in time the "Van" is dropped
from the surname.
1718, New Orleans, Louisiana, is founded by the French. This area will become a
haven for exiled Acadians.
1720 (c) Patrick Griffin is born in Berks County, Pa. The names of his parents or the
exact date of his birth is yet unknown. This GRIFFIN twig becomes part of the
Ruffner branch of ancestral tree.
1723 Marquis Calmes II returns to Virginia after his education in France, and spends
some time in Williamsburg.
1724 Molly McBride is born in Ireland, though I don't know the names of her parents.
McBRIDE is another twig on the Ruffner branch.
1725 Marquis Calmes II marries into one of the better Virginia families when he
marries
Winnifred Waller, daughter of John Waller, in Williamsburg, Virginia.
the

with

The Wallers of Virginia descend from the youngest brother of Edmund Waller,
famous poet and himself descended from an ancient stock still represented by the
Waller Baronets. Consequently, the American Wallers can use the arms with the
three golden walnut leaves in a band on the black shield, and the crest with the
walnut tree bearing an escutcheon charged with the arms of France. This latter
item is supposed to commemorate the achievements of Sir Richard Waller at
Agincourt.
The Wallers are in old Shenandoah Co., Va. (She, too, is a Quaker and living
the family in the place called Vineyard Plantation)

1727 Isabella, the second child of Marquis Calmes II and Winnifred Waller, is born in
Shenandoah Co., Virginia.
1727 (c) Thomas Stamps, son of William Stamps and Mary Byrd, marries Mary Rose.
1728 (c)Richard Shore, son of Thomas Shore and his wife, Katherine, marries Mary
Hulse in St. Marys Co., Maryland.

1729, Benjamin Franklin begins publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette. In 1732,

the
first public library is founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin.; and he
begins publishing Poor Richards Almanac.
1732 John Piatt is made Sheriff of Somerset County, New Jersey. Somerset County
was formed in 1688 from the parent county, Middlesex.
1733 Thomas Shore, son of Richard Shore and Mary Hulse , is born in St. Marys Co.,
Maryland.
1734 March 27th, Benjamin McCullough is born in Greenwich Township, Warren Co.,
New Jersey, the name of his parents not known to me. With Benjamin begins the
MCCULLOUGH branch.
1735 (c) Sarah Woodson is born in Prince William County, Virginia. Not knowing the
names of her parents, I must begin the WOODSON ancestors with Sarah.
1737 Jan Janse Van Vliet, husband of Margaret Brinson and father of Frances Janse
Vliet, dies in Somerset Co., New Jersey.
1737, the first colonial copper coins are minted in Connecticut.
1738 (c) Simon Ruffner Sr. marries Mary Barbara Schlitz(Schultz). Much has been
written about Simon and Mary Barbara and their Ruffner descendants. For
background information, I'd recommend reading "Ruffners of Pennsylvania" by
Jane S. Sweinberger.
1738 (c) Hannah Cooke is born, presumably in New Jersey. She is the COOKE twig,
and another part of the Piatt branch.
1739 John Piatt, son of Jacob and Mary Hull Piatt, marries Frances Vliet Wykoff, the
widow of Jacob Wykoff and daughter of Janse VanVliet and Margaret Brinson.
1741 (c) Marquis Calmes I dies in Stafford Co., Virginia. He was the husband of
Isabella Elliche and father of Marquis Calmes II.
1741 Apr. 1, Thomas Lendrum graduates Kings College, Aberdeen, Scotland with
Master of Arts degree.
1741 On Oct. 21, Marquis Calmes II purchased 108 acres of land on Hope Creek in
Stafford County, Virginia. He and others also speculated in 60,000 acres of land

on the Monongahelia River. "Calmes Neck" was on the Shenandoah River,

opposite the lands of Robert Burwell, as indicated on the Curtis Chappelear map
showing the original grants and landmarks of Clarke County.
1743 On Oct. 22, Marquis Calmes II is made one of the 13 original Justices for
Frederick County by William Gooche, Lt. Governor of Virginia. This is the same
year Frederick County was formed from Orange County. Marquis Calmes II
served as a Justice of Frederick County for 10 years, until 1753.
1743 Sept. 2, Simon Ruffner Sr. and his wife, Barbara Schlitz, emigrate to
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aboard the Loyal Judith, last from Cowes, England.
They are a Catholic family and settle in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
1743 Simon Ruffner Jr., son of Simon Ruffner, Sr. and Barbara Schlitz is born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1746 Aug. 10th, William Richardson, son of Joseph Richardson and Sarah Thomas
marries Isabella Calmes in Winchester, Warren Co., Va. She is the daughter of
Marquis Calmes II and Winnifred Waller
1747 May 17th, Jacob Piatt, son of John Piatt and Frances Vliet Wykoff, is born at Six
Mile Run, New Jersey.
1748 Aug. 18th, Joseph Richardson, son of William Richardson and Elizabeth Ewen
Talbott, dies at the ripe old age of 70. Though his place of death is unknown, he
probably died at Franklins Enlargement, in Anne Arundel Co., Md., the land he
inherited from his father, William.
1749 (c) Patrick Griffin marries Molly McBride. Date and place of marriage not
known;
nor have I located the names of her parents. The date of marriage is based
on the birth of their child, Catherine.
1749 Thomas Lendrum, son of Peter Lendrum, marries Nelly, maiden name unknown.
1749 Mary Hulse, wife of Richard Shore and mother of Thomas, dies in Virginia.
1749 July 15th, Court of Caroline Co., Va. approves motion of Thomas Lendrum,
certified to be an attorney. The following month, on Aug. 15th, the Court of
Essex Co., Va. approves motion of Thomas Lendrum, certified to be an attorney.
1750 (c) Thomas Keith Lendrum is born in King George Co., Va., the son of Thomas
Lendrum and wife, Nelly.

1750 (c) Catherine Griffin, daughter of Patrick Griffin and Molly McBride, is born in
Pennsylvania.
1750 Feb. 7th, Richard Shore, son of Thomas and Katherine Shore, and husband of
Mary Hulse, dies in Fairfax Co., Virginia, at the age of 50.
1750 Oct. 21, William Stamps, son of Thomas Stamps and Mary Rose, is born in
Virginia.
1750 Mary Hull, daughter of Samuel Hull and Mary Manning, and wife of Jacob Piatt,
dies in Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ.
1750+ Sometime after 1750, Jacob Piatt, son of Rene Piatt and Elizabeth Sheffield, and
husband of Mary Hull, dies in Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania. His exact date
of
death is unknown.
1751 July, Mary Elizabeth Hutchins, wife of Samuel Thomas and mother of Sarah
Thomas, dies in Maryland.
1751 Oct. 6th, Winnefred Waller, wife of Marquis Calmes II and mother of Isabella
Calmes Richardson, dies at the age of 42 in Frederick County, Virginia.
1751 (c) Nancy Ann Metcalfe is born, and begins the METCALFE ancestors. I have
not yet begun to explore this twig, which will later become part of the Stamps
branch. She is presumed to be the sister of the Governor of Kentucky, Thomas
"Stonehammer" Metcalfe.
In 1751, the Currency Act is passed by the English Parliament, banning the
issuing
of paper money by the New England Colonies. In 1752, the first general
hospital
is founded in Philadelphia.
1754 Jan. 29th, Sarah Thomas, widow of Joseph Richardson and mother of William,
dies at the age of 65.
1754 March 12th, John Crowley Richardson is born in Warren Co., Virginia, near
Winchester, the 5th of 9 children born to William Richardson and Isabella
Calmes.
The middle name, Crowley, was chosen to honor his aunt, Miriam Cole
Crowley, a widow who married his uncle, Samuel Richardson.
1754 (c) Thomas Shore, son of Richard Shore and Mary Hulse, marries Sarah Woodson
in Fairfax Co., Virginia.

In this year, 1754, the French and Indian War erupts, the result of disputes over
land in the Ohio River Valley. By 1756 the war had spread to Europe, where
England declares war on France.
1755 May 10th, Marquis Calmes II, widower of Winnifred Waller and father of
Isabella
Calmes, dies at age 50 in Frederick County, Virginia.
1755 (c) Sarah Bainbridge Hall is born, the daughter of Francis Hall and Sarah
Bainbridge. Her place of birth is unknown, but believed to be Virginia. The
HALL twig is another group of ancestors I have not yet researched, so Sarah is
the beginning.
1758 (c) Benajmin McCullough of Greenwich Township, NJ., marries Hannah Cooke.
This date of marriage is based on the birth of their child, William.
1760 Francis Alexander deValcourt is born in France, the son of Jean Baptiste Bernard
deValcourt and Margaret Provost.
1760 Nov. 6th, Hannah Cooke McCullough, the daughter of Benjamin McCullough and
Hannah Cooke, is born in Bloomsbury, New Jersey.
In 1763 the French and Indian War ends with the Treaty of Paris. Under the
treaty, France gives England all of the French territory east of the Mississippi
River except New Orleans; the Spanish give up east and west Florida to the English in
exchange for Cuba.
1764 July 28th, Thomas Lendrum receives letter of recommendation, candidate for
Holy Orders. (Church of England) "Parson" Thomas will serve as a minister in
Virginia until the end of his life, in 1771.
Also, Parliament passes the Stamp Act as a means to pay for British troops on the
American frontier. The Colonists violently protest the act, and by March, 1766,
the Stamp Act is repealed, but Parliament then passes the Declaratory Act,
asserting its right to make laws binding on the colonies.
1767 Jane Shore, daughter of Thomas Shore and Sarah Woodson, is born, probably
in Virginia.
1768 (c) Elijah Rudd is born in Richmond, Henrico Co., Va. I suspect that Elijah is the
son of William Rudd, and is the grandson, Elijah, mentioned in the will of Joseph
Rudd, father of William. This begins the RUDD branch, which is very twisted.

1768 Aug. 6th, William Richardson, husband of Isabella Calmes and father of John
Crowley Richardson, dies in Frederick Co., Virginia, at the age of 56.
1769 (c) William Stamps, son of Thomas Stamps and Mary Rose, marries Nancy
Metcalfe, possibly in Pittsylvania Co., Virginia.
1770 William Stamps Jr., son of William Stamps, Sr. and Nancy Metcalfe , is born in
Pittsylvania Co., Va.
1771 Jan. 8th, Simon Ruffner Jr., son of Simon Sr. and Mary Barbara Schlitz, marries
Catherine Griffin in Goshenhoppen, Pa. She is the daughter of Patrick Griffin and
Molly McBride.
1771 Nov. 16, Anna Margaret Ruffner, daughter of Simon Ruffner Jr. and Catherine
Griffin, is born in Goshenhoppen, Pennsylvania.
1772 In August, Jean Baptiste Bernard deValcourt is ennobled by King Louis XV of
France at Compeigne. He served for 33 years as Solicitor in the Royal Chamber
of
Accounts in Paris, as well as in the Department of Bridges and Embankments,
and
the Royal Treasury.
In December, 1773, Massachusetts patriots, dressed as Indians, protest the British
Tea Act by dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor. In 1774 the First
Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia; and in April, 1775, the first shots
are fired at Lexington and Concord, beginning the Revolution and Americas fight
for independence.
1775 June 1, John Crowley Richardson marries Sarah Bainbridge Hall, the daughter of
Francis Hall and Sarah Bainbridge, probably in Shenandoah Co., Virginia, as that
is
where their first child is born. By the birth of their third child (our ancestor), the
family has migrated to Fleming County, Kentucky.

is

July 4, 1776, Thomas Jeffersons Declaration of Independence is ratified by the

Congress. In December, Washington crosses the Delaware River, and Congress
sends Benjamin Franklin to France to urge the French to ally with America. In
1777, Washington is defeated at Brandywine and Germantown, and Philadelphia
lost to the British.
Dr. Thomas Keith Lendrum serves in the Virginia State Navy as a surgeons mate
aboard the ship Tempest during the Revolutionary War.

John Crowley Richardson serves as an Ensign with a Baltimore Regiment during

the Revolutionary War, achieving the rank of Captain, according to "History of
Shenandoah Co." by John W. Wayland.
Thomas Shore, husband of Sarah Woodson, was a Captain in the Loudoun Militia
for Virginia.
1778 April, Simon Ruffner Sr. dies in Lehigh Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania.
In February, 1778, France signs a treaty of alliance with the United States and the
American Revolution becomes a world war.
1779 Sarah Blakely is born in England. It is believed the Blakely family came from
Lancashire, England. At this time, I do not know Sarah's maiden name, so I have
used her married name-Blakely; and I am not completely sure her first name was
actually Sarah! According to a "list of dates to remember" compiled by Stephens
L. Blakely, he gives a "Sarah Blakely" and her date of death; but recently
discovered baptismal records from Pennsylvania suggest her name may have been
"Alice". So begins the BLAKELY branch.
1779 Mar. 15th, Jacob Piatt, son of John Piatt and Frances Vliet Wykoff, marries
Hannah Cooke McCullough, daughter of Benjamin McCullough and Hannah
Cooke in Essex Co., New Jersey. She is his 2nd wife.
1779 Dec. 26th, Benjamin McCullough Piatt, son of Jacob Piatt and Hannah Cook
McCullough is born in Bloomsbury, Warren Co., New Jersey.

of

The British attack Charleston, South Carolina and in May, 1780, the city falls. In
this year the Americans lose a series of engagements in the south, but exact a
heavy toll on the British army. On October 19, 1781, a miraculous convergence
American and French forces traps Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia and he
surrenders his British army.

1780 October 2nd, Elizabeth Barnett, daughter of William Barnett and Isabella
Woodward Harrison, is born in Fluvanna County, Virginia. Nothing is known of
William Barnett's ancestry, so I begin our BARNETT twig with Elizabeth.
In September, 1783, a peace treaty between Great Britain and the United States is
signed, and in December, George Washington gives up command of the
Continental Army and returns to private life.
Noah Webster creates and publishes a speller which helps standardize American
English.

1784 Peter Lendrum, son of Patrick, dies in Old Aberdeen, Scotland. He was the
husband of Helen Farquharson, and father of Thomas Lendrum.
Land Grants, dating from 1784 to 1786, are granted to Thomas Shore for his
services with the Loudoun Militia of Virginia during the Revolutionary War.
These grants are located in Fayette, Madison and Lincoln Counties in Kentucky.
1786 Jane Shore, daughter of Thomas Shore and Sarah Woodson, marries James Morin.
Together they have 5 children, the last child being born after the sudden death of
James Morin in 1791.
1787 The families of Simon and Catherine Griffin Ruffner, Christian and M. Ottilia
Kuhn
Ruffner, and George Adam and Anne Holstein Ruffner move to Greensburg,
Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania, Unity Township Settlement. There they
helped start the first Catholic Church west of the Alleghenies.
1789 John Crowley Richardson gives up his position as Coroner in Shenandoah Co.,
Va.
and moves to Kentucky. Taken from Famous Kentucky Duels by J. Winston
Coleman, Jr.: (John Crowley) ....eager to augment his fortune, purchased the
northeast corner of a military survey from the owner, Capt. William Russell, who
had received it for service in the French and Indian War. Capt. Richardson, his
wife, Sarah, and family moved in 1789 to his new Bluegrass acreage, which was
located on the waters of North Elkhorn in Fayette Co. Here he built a suitable log
house and reared his family of 8 children.
1789-1797 George Washington is President of the United States.
1790 Elijah Rudd marries Elizabeth Hudson, probably in the Richmond, Virginia area,
though no records have yet been found. Elizabeth begins the HUDSON branch.
1791 John Edward Smyth arrives in America, possibly from Sheffield, England, and
believed to be about 26 years old. A quote from "Century and a Half of Pittsburgh
and Her People" says he was a learned Scotch-Irishman, who had a classical
education. He is the first SMYTH ancestor.
1791 James Morin, first husband of Jane Shore, is killed felling a tree, while clearing
more land.
1792 Marquis D. Richardson, son of John Richardson and Sarah Hall, is born in
Fleming
County, Kentucky.

1792 Jan. 26th, Jane Shore Morin, daughter of Thomas Shore and Sarah Woodson and
widow of James Morin, marries William Stamps, Jr., son of William Stamps and
Nancy Metcalfe. She brings 5 children to this marriage.
1792 (c) John B. Rudd, son of Elijah Rudd and Elizabeth Hudson, is born, probably in
Virginia.
1793 Francois Alexandre deValcourt leaves France and emigrates to America, probably
landing in Baltimore, Maryland, and remaining there.
1794 July 18th, Francois Alexandre deValcourt, son of Jean Baptiste Bernard
deValcourt and Margaret Provost marries Margaret Hermange Gold in
Baltimore, Maryland. She was the daughter of Acadian exiles who came to
Pennsylvania and Maryland in 1763. The surname "Gold" was anglicized from
"Doiron", leading to the speculation that they, too, were French.
1794 (c) Anna Margaret Ruffner, daughter of Simon Ruffner Jr. and Catherine Griffin,
marries John Edward Smyth in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.
1795 (late) Thomas Shore, son of Richard Shore and Mary Hulse, and husband of Sarah
Woodson, dies in Fayette County, Kentucky.
1795 (c) Ann Daugherty, daughter of Alexander Daugherty and Susan Scott, is born.
Place of birth and more information on her parents are unknown to me.
DAUGHERTY and SCOTT are more ancestors that have not yet been
discovered; and this twig is part of the Richardson branch.
1796 Feb. 26th, the will of Thomas Shore is probated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1796 June 10th, Isabella Calmes, daughter of Marquis Calmes II and Winnifred Waller
and wife of William Richardson, dies in Waterlick, Virginia.
1797 Sarah Woodson, widow of Thomas Shore and mother of Jane Shore, dies in
Fayette Co., Kentucky.
1797-1801 John Adams is President of the United States.
1799 Sept. 21, Benjamin McCullough Piatt, son of Jacob Piatt and Hannah Cook
McCullough marries Elizabeth Barnett, daughter of William Barnett and Isabella
Harrison, in Boone Co., Kentucky.
1799 Francois Alexandre deValcourt and his wife, Margaret Hermange Gold, and their

2
to

children, Alexandre Joseph and Theodore Jean, return to France where the 3rd
child, Caroline, is born in 1801. Francois may have returned to Paris in an effort
regain his nobility and family estates, confiscated during the French Revolution.
The family returned to America before the birth of their 4th child, Samuel, in

1802.
1801 Mar. 29th, Jacob Wykoff Piatt, son of Benjamin McCullough Piatt and Elizabeth
Barnett is born at Federal Hall in Boone Co., Kentucky. He is the first of 10
children.
1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson is President of the United States,
1803 July 9th, Thomas Stamps, son of William Stamps and Jane Shore Morin, is born
in
Bourbon Co., Kentucky. He is the 9th of 10 children born to William and Jane
Stamps.
1803 Sept. 8th, Mary Barbara Schlitz, widow of Simon Ruffner Sr., and mother of
Simon, Jr., dies in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.
1804 Jan. 17th, James Blakely, son of Sarah and (?) Blakely, is born in Blackburn,
Lancashire, England.
1804 Aug. 19th, John Buckner Lendrum is born in Westmoreland Co., Va., the son of
Thomas Keith Lendrum and Margaret Stoke (Buckner?).
1804 Sept. 15th, Susanna Smyth, daughter of John Smyth and Anna Margaret Ruffner,
is born in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania.
1805 (c) Elizabeth McConnell is born. The names of her parents are as yet unknown.
1808 Harriet Harrison Chinn, daughter of John Chinn and Mildred Higgins is born in
Harrison County, Kentucky.
1809-1817 James Madison is President of the United States.
1811 June 12th, Thomas Keith Lendrum, son of Thomas Lendrum and wife, Nelly,
dies in Westmoreland Co., Virginia. He was the husband of Margaret Stoke
(Buckner?). It is not known when Margaret died, or where. She probably
removed to the home of one of her 7 children and passed her remaining years
there.
1814 Mar. 9th, Martha Eugenia deValcourt is born in Baltimore, Md., the daughter and

6th child of Francois Alexandre deValcourt.and Margaret Hermange Gold.

1816 Joseph Woodrough is born in England. Joseph is the earliest known
WOODROUGH ancestor.
1817- 1825 James Monroe is President of the United States.
1818 Jan. 29th, Marquis D. Richardson, son of John Crowley Richardson and Sarah
Bainbridge Hall, marries Ann Daugherty, daughter of Alexander Daugherty and
Susan Scott.
1818 August Hollmeyer is born in Germany. So far, the earliest known ancestor in the
HOLLMEYER line.
1819 Feb. 12th, Catherine Griffin, wife of Simon Ruffner Jr. and mother of Anna
Margaret Ruffner, dies in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. She predeceases her
husband
by just 10 months, for on
1819 Dec. 19th, Simon Ruffner Jr. dies in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
1820 John B. Rudd, son of Elijah Rudd and Elizabeth Hudson, marries 2nd wife Harriet
Anderson.
1821 William Hall Richardson, son of Marquis D. Richardson and Ann Daugherty, is
born in Fayette Co., Kentucky.
1821 Apr. 16th, Elizabeth Hudson Rudd, daughter of John Rudd and Harriet Anderson,
is born in (or near) Augusta, Bracken Co., Kentucky
1825 - 1829 John Quincy Adams is President of the United States.
1826 Harriet Anderson, 2nd wife of John B. Rudd and mother of Elizabeth Hudson
Rudd, dies. The exact date or place of her death is unknown, but is believed to
be in the Bracken Co., Kentucky area.
1826 Sept. 27th, Jacob Wykoff Piatt, son of Benjamin McCullough Piatt and Elizabeth
Barnett, marries 1st wife, Caroline Canfield at Farromont in Philadelphia,
Pa. She is the daughter of David S. Canfield.
1826 Oct. 3rd, Marquis D. Richardson, son of John Croley Richardson and Sarah
Bainbridge Hall, husband of Ann Daugherty, and father of William Hall
Richardson, dies in Toliver Co. Georgia.; there is an inventory of his estate, filed

at

the Dec. term of Court, 1826, Fayette Co., Ky.

1826 James Blakely converts to Catholicism at St. Patricks Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.
He is baptized on Dec. 24th.
1827 May 16th, Thomas Stamps, son of William Stamps Jr. and Jane Shore, marries
Eliza McConnell in Bourbon Co., Kentucky
1827 Nov. 4th, James Blakely, son of Sarah and (?) Blakely marries Susanna Smyth
at St. Patricks Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Susanna is the daughter of John Edward
Smyth and Anna Margaret Ruffner.
1828 Jane Shore Stamps, daughter of Thomas Stamps and Eliza McConnell, is born in
Bourbon Co., Kentucky.
1828 John B. Rudd, son of Elijah Rudd and Elizabeth Hudson, marries his 3rd wife,
Harriet Harrison Chinn, daughter of John Chinn and Mildred Higgins, in
Kentucky.
1829 - 1837 Andrew Jackson is President of the United States.
1829 May 8th, James Blakely files an intention of naturalization in Pittsburgh, Pa. He
claims to have emigrated from Liverpool, England, arriving in Baltimore in Sept.
1819. His brother, William, also applies for naturalization in 1830, claiming to
have arrived in Baltimore at 13 years of age. I believe the whole family
emigrated,
but so far have not found anything to substantiate this. It is unlikely 2
boys, age 13 and 15, arrived alone.
1830 (c) August Hollmeyer marries Eleanor (maiden name unknown)
1830 Feb. 6th, Caroline Canfield Piatt, wife of Jacob Wykoff Piatt, dies, leaving 2 small
children.
1832 Jacob Wykoff Piatt marries 2nd wife, Harriet Lanman.
1833 Sept. 8th, Francis Alexandre deValcourt, son of Jean Baptiste Bernard deValcourt
and Margaret Provost and husband of Margaret Hermange Gold, dies in Paris,
France.
1834 John Crowley Richardson, son of William Richardson and Isabella Calmes dies in
Fayette Co., Ky. His wife, Sarah Bainbridge Hall, has preceded him in death, the
exact date as yet unknown.

1834 Aug. 14th, Jacob Piatt, son of John Piatt and Frances Vliet Wykoff dies at
Federal Hall in Boone Co., Kentucky.
1835 Jacob Wykoff Piatt divorces 2nd wife, Harriet Lanman.
1837 Aug. 29th, Martha Eugenia deValcourt, daughter of Francois Alexandre
deValcourt and Margaret Hermange Gold , becomes the 3rd wife of Jacob Wykoff
Piatt, son of Benjamin McCullough Piatt and Elizabeth Barnett.
1837 - 1841 Martin Van Buren is President of the United States.
1838 Jane Shore, daughter of Thomas Shore and Sarah Woodson and wife of
William Stamps Jr., dies in Bourbon Co., Kentucky.
1838 Jan. 10th, Louis B. Hollmeyer, son of August Hollmeyer and Eleanor, is born in
Hanover, Germany.
for

1841 - 1841 William Henry Harrison is President of the United States, but only
1 month. He died in the White House on April 4, 1841 of pneumonia.
1841 - 1845 John Tyler becomes President of the United States. Called the
accidental President, he assumes the office of President, having been elected
Vice-president with William Henry Harrison.

1843 Mar. 4th, Laurie John Blakely, son of James Blakely and Susanna Smyth, is born
in Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania; the 8th of 11 children.
1843 July 25th, Catherine A. Huber, daughter of William Huber and Sophie Engle, is
born in Germany.
1845 Sept. 7th, Joseph Woodrough marries Agnes Moreman in Arlington, Middlesex
Co., Massachusetts.
1845 - 1849 James Knox Polk is President of the United States.
1846 May 28th, William Hall Richardson marries Jane Shore Stamps, daughter of
Capt. Thomas Shore Stamps and Eliza McConnell, in Bourbon Co., Kentucky.
John Buckner Lendrum, son of Thomas Keith Lendrum and Margaret Stoke
(Buckner?), marries Elizabeth Hudson Rudd, daughter of John Rudd and Harriet
Anderson. The exact date and place of this marriage has not been found, but is
presumed to be in Bracken or Mason County, Ky., as other Rudd marriages show

up in Mason County. They do not show up in the 1850 census of Bracken

County, so John B. and Elizabeth may have moved to northern Kentucky shortly
after their marriage.
1847 Anna Margaret Ruffner, wife of John Edward Smyth and mother of Susanna
Smyth, dies in Pennsylvania, presumably somewhere in or near the Pittsburgh
area.
1848 June 7th, James Richards Woodrough, son of Joseph Woodrough and Agnes
Moreman is born in Arlington, Middlesex Co., Mass.
1849 Jan. 26th, will of William Stamps Jr. is drawn up. William Hall Richardson is a
witness.
1849 - 1850 Zachary Taylor is President of the United States.
1850 Margaret Hermange Gold, widow of Francois Alexandre deValcourt and mother
of Martha Eugenia deValcourt, dies in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio. Shortly
after the death of her husband in Paris, she removed to the home of her daughter,
and there spent the rest of her years.
1850 - 1853 Millard Fillmore is President of the United States.
1851 April 30th, Mary Julia Wilson is born in Hamilton, Butler Co. Oh., the names of
her parents as yet unknown.
1852 Sept. 13th, Lily Hudson Lendrum is born in Covington, Kenton Co., Ky., the
daughter and youngest child of John Buckner Lendrum and Elizabeth Hudson
Rudd.
1853 - 1857 Franklin Pierce is President of the United States.
1855 Nov. 6th, will of William Stamps, Jr. is proved in Bourbon Co., Kentucky.
1856 July 25th, Edward Courtney Piatt, son of Jacob Wykoff Piatt and Martha Eugenia
DeValcourt is born at Federal Hall in Boone Co., Ky. He is the 12th child
born to Jacob Wykoff Piatt.
1857 May 29th, Jacob Wykoff Piatt, son of Benjamin McCullough Piatt and Elizabeth
Barnett dies at Federal Hall in Boone County, Kentucky.
1857 - 1861 James Buchanan is President of the United States.

1858 Jan. 9th, Sallie Scott Richardson is born at Elk Hill, Fayette Co., Ky. She is the
daughter, and 3rd child, of William Hall Richardson and Jane Shore Stamps.
1861 - 1865 Abraham Lincoln is President of the United States. Wounded by an
assassins bullet on April 14, he died in the early morning hours of April 15, 1865.
1863 Apr. 28th, Benjamin McCullough Piatt, son of Jacob Piatt and Hannah Cooke
McCullough, dies at Mac-O-Cheek, Logan Co., Ohio.
1864 (c) Louis B. Hollmeyer, son of August and Eleanor Hollmeyer, marries Catherine
Huber, daughter of William Huber and Sophie Engle, in Germany. Before the
birth of their 1st child, they emigrate to America.
1865 - 1869 Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States. Elected
Vice-president in 1864, he assumes the presidency after the assassination of
Lincoln.
1866 April 28th, Elizabeth Barnett, wife of Benjamin McCullough Piatt and mother of
Jacob Wykoff Piatt, dies at Mac-O-Cheek in Logan County, Ohio.
1869 - 1877 Ulysses S. Grant is President of the United States.
1870 Sept. 21st, James Richards Woodrough, son of Joseph Woodrough and Agnes
Moreman marries Mary Julia Wilson in Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio.
1877 June 28th, Laurie John Blakely, son of James Blakely and Susanna Smyth,
marries
Lily Hudson Lendrum, daughter of John Buckner Lendrum and Elizabeth Hudson
Rudd, in Covington, Kenton Co., Kentucky.
1877 William Hall Richardson, son of Marcus D. Richardson and Ann Daugherty, and
husband of Jane Shore Stamps, dies in Kentucky.
1877 - 1881 Rutherford B. Hayes is President of the United States.
1878 April 23, Stephens Laurie Blakely, son of Laurie John Blakely and Lily Hudson
Lendrum , is born in Covington, Kenton Co., Kentucky, the 1st of 6 children.
1878 May 20th, John Buckner Lendrum, son of Thomas Keith and Margaret Lendrum,
dies in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky.

1879 Mar. 24th, James (Jay) Richards Woodrough, son of James Richards Woodrough
and Mary Julia Wilson, is born in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
1879 Oct. 21, Edward Courtney Piatt, son of Jacob Wykoff Piatt and Martha
Eugenia DeValcourt, marries Sallie Scott Richardson in Lexington, Fayette Co.,
Kentucky. She is the daughter of William Hall Richardson and Jane Shore
Stamps.
1880 Jan. 7th, Laura Alma Hollmeyer, daughter of Louis B. Hollmeyer and Catherine
Huber is born in Newport, Campbell Co., Kentucky.
1881 - James A. Garfield is President of the United States. Wounded by an
assassin on July 2nd, he dies from his wounds on September 19, 1881.
1881 - 1885 Chester A. Arthur then becomes President of the United States.
1882 March 12th, Jane Stamps DeValcourt Piatt is born in Lexington, Fayette Co., Ky.
She is the daughter of Edward Courtney Piatt and Sallie Scott Richardson.
1882 June 19th, James Blakely, son of Sarah and (?) Blakely, husband of Susanna
Smyth, and father of Laurie John Blakely, dies in St. Marys, Elk Co., Pa., and is
buried in St. Marys Cemetery.
1885 Nov. 12th, Susanna Smyth, widow of James Blakely and mother of Laurie John
Blakely, dies at the home of her daughter, Lavinia Blakely Wimmer, in St. Marys,
Elk Co., Pennsylvania, and is laid to rest next to her husband in St. Marys
Cemetery.
1885 - 1889 Grover Cleveland is President of the United States.
1889 - 1893 Benjamin Harrison is President of the United States.
1893 - 1897 Grover Cleveland is re-elected President of the United States.
1894 May 20th, James Richards Woodrough, son of Joseph Woodrough and Agnes
Moreman, and husband of Mary Julia Wilson, dies in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co.,
Ohio.
1894 August 29th, Edward Courtney Piatt, son of Jacob Wykoff Piatt and Martha
Eugenia DeValcourt, and husband of Sallie Scott Richardson, dies at Federal Hall
in Boone Co., Kentucky.
1897 - 1901 William McKinley is President of the United States.

1901 - 1909 Theodore Roosevelt is President of the United States.

1901 March 26th, Stephens Laurie Blakely is admitted to the Bar and begins his
practice
of Law in Kentucky, a profession he will follow until his death.
1904 Oct. 12, James Richards Woodrough, Jr., son of James Richards Woodrough and
Mary Julia Wilson, and Laura Alma Hollmeyer are married in Cincinnati,
Hamilton
Co., Ohio. She is the daughter of Louis B. Hollmeyer and Catherine A.
Huber.
1906 June 28th, Jane Stamps DeValcourt Piatt, daughter of Edward Courtney Piatt and
Sallie Scott Richardson, marries Stephens Laurie Blakely, son of Laurie John
Blakely and Lily Hudson Lendrum, in Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky.
1909 - 1913 William Howard Taft is President of the United States.
1909 July 26, John Randolph Woodrough, son of James Richards Woodrough and
Laura Alma Hollmeyer is born in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Co., Ohio.
1909 Dec. 20, Jane Ashton Blakely, daughter of Stephens Laurie Blakely and Jane
Stamps deValcourt Piatt is born in Covington, Kenton Co., Kentucky. She is the
third of five children born of this union.
1913 - 1921 Woodrow Wilson is President of the United States.
1915 Sept. 1, Louis B. Hollmeyer, son of August and Eleanor Hollmeyer, and husband
of Catherine A. Huber, dies in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
1917 Jan. 21, Laurie John Blakely, son of James Blakely and Susanna Smyth and
husband of Lily Hudson Lendrum, dies in Covington, Kenton Co., Kentucky.
1921 - 1923 Warren G. Harding is President of the United States.
1922 April 2nd, Lily Hudson Lendrum, widow of Laurie John Blakely and mother of
Stephens Laurie Blakely, dies in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at the home of
her daughter, Mary Louise Blakely Baldwin.
1923 - 1929 Calvin Coolidge is President of the United States.
1926 Aug. 11th, Catherine A. Huber, widow of Louis B. Hollmeyer and mother of
Laura Alma Hollmeyer, dies in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.

1928 October 6th, Jane Stamps deValcourt Piatt, wife of Stephens Laurie Blakely, dies
in Ft. Mitchell, Kenton Co., Kentucky, following surgery.
1929 - 1933 Herbert Hoover is President of the United States.
1929 June 1st, Stephens Laurie Blakely, son of Laurie John Blakely and Lily Hudson
Lendrum, a widower with 3 surviving children, marries Margaret Hamilton James
Piatt, the widow of his late wife's brother, Jacob Wykoff Piatt II, and mother of 3
children. The wedding takes place in New York, NY, and is performed by his
brother, Paul Lendrum Blakely, a Jesuit priest.
1933 - 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt is President of the United States.
1934 July 13, Sallie Scott Richardson, wife of Edward Courtney Piatt and mother of
Jane Stamps DeValcourt Piatt, dies in Nicholasville, Kentucky, at the home of her
brother.
1937 Oct. 5, Charles Craig Glass, son of Charles Howard Glass and Helen Marie Webb,
is born in Williamstown, Grant Co., Kentucky, the first of three children. He was
born at home, delivered by "Uncle Doc".
1939 June 14, Laura Jane Woodrough, daughter and second child of John Randolph
Woodrough and Jane Ashton Blakely, is born in Waukegan, Illinois.
1945 - 1953 Harry S. Truman is President of the United States.
1953 - 1961 Dwight David Eisenhower is President of the United States.
1958 Aug. 30th, Charles Craig Glass, son of Charles Howard Glass and Helen Marie
Webb, marries Laura Jane Woodrough, daughter of John Randolph Woodrough
and Jane Ashton Blakely, in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.
1959 Feb. 24th, Stephens Laurie Blakely, son of Laurie John Blakely and Lily Hudson
Lendrum, and husband of Margaret Hamilton James Piatt, dies in Covington,
Kentucky of complications following surgery.
1966 July 20th, Laura Alma Hollmeyer, widow of James Richards Woodrough and
mother of John Randolph Woodrough, dies in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
1970 Aug. 8th, John Randolph Woodrough, son of James Richards Woodrough and
Laura Alma Hollmeyer, dies in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, of complications
following the removal of a brain tumor at Drake Hospital. John is buried at

Spring Grove Cemetery, next to his mother and father.

1974 June 27th, Margaret Hamilton James Piatt, widow and 2nd wife of Stephens
Laurie Blakely, dies in Middletown, Ohio. She is buried at Spring Grove
Cemetery, next to her parents.
1994 Aug. 26, Charles Craig Glass, son of Charles Howard Glass and Helen Marie
Webb, and husband of Laura Jane Woodrough, dies in Orlando, Florida while on
vacation. His funeral Mass is held on what would have been his 36th wedding
anniversary, Aug. 30th; then is brought back to the town of his birth,
Williamstown, Ky., and buried next to his parents in Hillcrest Cemetery, Dry
Ridge, Kentucky.