Todd Family Letter
Here is a copy of a letter written by Sarah Mosher bef. 1910.It pertains to the Todd family in Vermont.This Todd family descends from Reginald (Christopher) Todd from York, England who married Grace?His son was William Todd who married Isabel Rogerson.Their two sons were John Todd and William Todd.John Todd married Alice Clayton.Their son John married Susannah Hunt, and their son John married Elizabeth Brocklebank, and their son John married Abigail Perley.their son Samuel is the primary focus of the letter outlining the descendants from there.I am always looking for more information, so if please let me know.And here is the letter:
THE TODD’S
THE TODD’SWritten by Sarah Edith Luethi Mosher, Father William Edwin Mosher, Mother Julia Ann Gould Bowser, written around 1910 (added when retyped in 1999)
Written by Sarah Edith Luethi Mosher, Father William Edwin Mosher, Mother Julia Ann Gould Bowser, written around 1910 (added when retyped in 1999)Chapter 1
Chapter 1 My great, great grandfather, John Todd, gentleman of Beverly, Mass., held a commission as Quarter-Master from George III.He inherited considerable land and was a slave herder.Slavery was abolished in Massachusetts about 1776, but his former slaves continued to come back and visit the family until his son, Samuel, my great grandfather, was a young man.John Todd was a Presbyterian.
Samuel Todd, son of John Todd, was born during the reign of George II, lived during the reign of George III, and fought against him in the Revolutionary War, and drew a pension during his lifetime.He moved from Beverly,Mass., to Pembroke, N. C. , and from there to St. Albans, Vermont, where he died when nearly one hundred years old..He died about 1837, but I am not sure of the exact year.William IV of England had died and Victoria had become Queen, making the fifth who had ruled England during his life.He was a Presbyterian, but joined the Methodists when they first came to St. Albans.He was a good and active man.Was a Farmer and lived at the place sometimes called Magnaw, on the shore of Lake Champlain, St. Albans.He married Mary Page of Massachusetts and they had six children.He had a number of brothers and sisters, but the only thing that I can find out about them is that they married into Jewett and Morrell families.
Samuel Todd, son of John Todd, was born during the reign of George II, lived during the reign of George III, and fought against him in the Revolutionary War, and drew a pension during his lifetime.He moved from Beverly,Mass., to Pembroke, N. C. , and from there to St. Albans, Vermont, where he died when nearly one hundred years old..He died about 1837, but I am not sure of the exact year.William IV of England had died and Victoria had become Queen, making the fifth who had ruled England during his life.He was a Presbyterian, but joined the Methodists when they first came to St. Albans.He was a good and active man.Was a Farmer and lived at the place sometimes called Magnaw, on the shore of Lake Champlain, St. Albans.He married Mary Page of Massachusetts and they had six children.He had a number of brothers and sisters, but the only thing that I can find out about them is that they married into Jewett and Morrell families.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Before going on with the record of Samuel and Mary Todd’s children, I will write down what I know about the family that Mrs. Samuel Todd belonged to.He father was Captain Page.It seems odd that there are Pages on both my fathers and my mothers side.Perhaps that at one time it was the same family.This Captain Page who was my great, great grandfather, lived in Augusta, Maine.One morning early he was called to the door and as he opened it, he was shot dead by an Indian.Mrs. Page, my great, great grandmother took her baby, little Mary, and went back to her former home in Massachusetts.Here she taught school and her little daughter went to school with her.They had owned a great amount of land in Maine, but lost it by going back to Massachusetts.The daughter grew up and married Samuel Todd, my great grandfather.
Mrs. Samuel Todd had a sister who married Captain Rae and they went to St. Albans Bay, Vermont to live sometime before the Todd’s left New Hampshire.Captain Rae was drowned on the trial trip of the first steamboat on Lake Champlain.This Mrs. Rae, who was my great, great aunt, had two children.The son, John Rae, married a lady named Eliza Irish.They had two daughters, one was named Phoebe.Mrs. Rae’s daughter married Mr. Mosely Potter and they had a number of children, among them being William Potter, whom I knew in my childhood as “Bill” Potter.He had one son, Charlie Potter whom I also knew.We never claimed relationship and it seems odd to think that Captain Page was my great, great grandfather, who was shot, was also Charlie Potter’s great, great grandfather, I doubt if he knows it.This is all that I know about this family of Pages except that when Grandma Mosher was about sixty years old a brother of her mother’s with his wife came from Ohio to visit her.His name was Martin, whichI can’t explain unless he was a half-brother.
Mrs. Samuel Todd had a sister who married Captain Rae and they went to St. Albans Bay, Vermont to live sometime before the Todd’s left New Hampshire.Captain Rae was drowned on the trial trip of the first steamboat on Lake Champlain.This Mrs. Rae, who was my great, great aunt, had two children.The son, John Rae, married a lady named Eliza Irish.They had two daughters, one was named Phoebe.Mrs. Rae’s daughter married Mr. Mosely Potter and they had a number of children, among them being William Potter, whom I knew in my childhood as “Bill” Potter.He had one son, Charlie Potter whom I also knew.We never claimed relationship and it seems odd to think that Captain Page was my great, great grandfather, who was shot, was also Charlie Potter’s great, great grandfather, I doubt if he knows it.This is all that I know about this family of Pages except that when Grandma Mosher was about sixty years old a brother of her mother’s with his wife came from Ohio to visit her.His name was Martin, whichI can’t explain unless he was a half-brother.
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 As before stated, my great grand parents, Mr. And Mrs. Samuel Todd had six children, Betsey, Mary, Sarah (my grandmother), Jane, Samuel Jr. and Abigal.Betsey Todd, eldest daughter of Samuel Todd, Sr., married a Mr. Brooks of St. Albans Point.They soon moved West.Mr. Brooks was in the lumber business.They had sixteen children, there being three pairs of twins.This Mrs. Betsey Brooks was never seen by her family again after she moved West, but her eldest son Orson at the age of fifty visited St. Albans and his Mother’s relatives.It was a request of his mother’s that he do so sometime.He was much liked.
Mary Todd married Ashiel Brooks and had nine children, Levi, Elihu, Melankton, Angelicia, Mary, Lucy, Ashiel or “Asa” as he was known, Julius and Alonzo.The last four I remember in my childhood and we used to call them “aunt” and “uncle”.
Levi Brooks married and had four children Jehiel, John, Jane, and Alzina.Jane married late in life a Mr. Robinson,Alzina married a Mr. Boynton and had four children that I used to go to school with.Effie, the eldest, died so long ago that I can just remember about it.Then there was Jennie, Birdie and Phillip.Both girls married after they had moved to Swanton Falls.Jennie married a Mr. Blake.Lucy Brooks marred Silzs Benjamin and lived at the Bay.Asa Brooks lived in Swanton Falls and had several children.Julius Brooks married a Miss Green and they had three children.The daughter Frances died soon after she was married.Homer married late in life.Walter Brooks married a Miss Gallagher and they have several children.He lives on the home place. This place on the Point where “Uncle Julius” and “Aunt Elizabeth” lived used to seem to me in my childhood an ideal place after making in my imagination several improvements.I used to like to visit them.Alenzo Brooks married Patty Conner.We used to call them “Aunt Patty” and “Uncle Lon”.They lived at the Bay and kept the one hotel which used to seem to me then a very grand place indeed.Later, they moved across the Little Brook that divided the Village.The house was quite a nice one and “Uncle Lon” used to keep boats to rent.They had six children.Lorenzo who was a Captain in the Civil War and was killed in the War, and two others who died before I was born I think.Three of the children were triplets, one died.The two that lived were Diana and Duane.Duane ran away when I was a little child and did not come back until I was twenty.His brother Delos found him in New York City and persuaded him to come home and see his mother.Diana marred Will Ladd of the Bay.They have a son Merrill (married recently) and a daughter named Cloe.Delas Brooks married Jennie Jewett.He afterwards became a very successful Methodist Minister.He had two children, Meyer (known when grown as Will) and Pearl.In my early childhood I used to play with them at their grandfathers hotel.I remember Meyer especially who was about sister Helen’s age.Both he and Pearl are married.Pearl married a Mr. Brown, I think, who was the principal of a school.They were visiting at the Bay the last time I was there in 1899.
Mary Todd married Ashiel Brooks and had nine children, Levi, Elihu, Melankton, Angelicia, Mary, Lucy, Ashiel or “Asa” as he was known, Julius and Alonzo.The last four I remember in my childhood and we used to call them “aunt” and “uncle”.
Levi Brooks married and had four children Jehiel, John, Jane, and Alzina.Jane married late in life a Mr. Robinson,Alzina married a Mr. Boynton and had four children that I used to go to school with.Effie, the eldest, died so long ago that I can just remember about it.Then there was Jennie, Birdie and Phillip.Both girls married after they had moved to Swanton Falls.Jennie married a Mr. Blake.Lucy Brooks marred Silzs Benjamin and lived at the Bay.Asa Brooks lived in Swanton Falls and had several children.Julius Brooks married a Miss Green and they had three children.The daughter Frances died soon after she was married.Homer married late in life.Walter Brooks married a Miss Gallagher and they have several children.He lives on the home place. This place on the Point where “Uncle Julius” and “Aunt Elizabeth” lived used to seem to me in my childhood an ideal place after making in my imagination several improvements.I used to like to visit them.Alenzo Brooks married Patty Conner.We used to call them “Aunt Patty” and “Uncle Lon”.They lived at the Bay and kept the one hotel which used to seem to me then a very grand place indeed.Later, they moved across the Little Brook that divided the Village.The house was quite a nice one and “Uncle Lon” used to keep boats to rent.They had six children.Lorenzo who was a Captain in the Civil War and was killed in the War, and two others who died before I was born I think.Three of the children were triplets, one died.The two that lived were Diana and Duane.Duane ran away when I was a little child and did not come back until I was twenty.His brother Delos found him in New York City and persuaded him to come home and see his mother.Diana marred Will Ladd of the Bay.They have a son Merrill (married recently) and a daughter named Cloe.Delas Brooks married Jennie Jewett.He afterwards became a very successful Methodist Minister.He had two children, Meyer (known when grown as Will) and Pearl.In my early childhood I used to play with them at their grandfathers hotel.I remember Meyer especially who was about sister Helen’s age.Both he and Pearl are married.Pearl married a Mr. Brown, I think, who was the principal of a school.They were visiting at the Bay the last time I was there in 1899.
Chapter IV
Chapter IV Jane Todd Married John Corliss and they had five children, all boys, Oyro, John, Dan, Martin and Levi.Oyro Corliss had no children of his own, but he adopted Levi’s youngest child, Mrya, whose mother died when she was a week old.Oyro Corliss and family lived in New York State.About 1885, I met Myra Corliss when she came to the Bay to visit her father, Levi Corliss.She has since married a Baptist Minister named Hyde.Levi Corliss married twice.By the first wife he had five children.Two of them died.One son, Herbert, is a Baptist Minister and there is a marred daughter besides the one named Myra mentioned above.By the second wife (whom we call Aunt Eliza) he had two children.The son Charlie died in early manhood after he was married.The daughter Grace married a Mr. Bell.
John Corliss, Jr. married Miss Livisa Eton and they had three boys, Lester, Clark and Oyro.Lester married and had one son.While this son, whom I remember as a very sweet little boy in dresses was still small, his mother died.Years afterwards Lester Corliss married Mrs. Valeria Stilphen whom I had known in my childhood.I went to school with her two children, Cora and Bertha Stilphen.Clark Corliss went West, married and had a number of children.I think all died but two.Oyro corliss married a young lady from St. Albans.I remember their marriage very well, though I cannot remember the lady’s name.They lived in Topeka for a while, but his wife and two sons finally settled in St. Albans.One son was named Bruce.In 1890 when Mamma left Vermont and went to Chicago, Mrs. Oyra Corliss and boys were on their way to Topeka and spent part of a day with us at Sister Mary’s home in Chicago.
Martin Corliss married Pelina Skinner.They had a number of children, Joe, Mary, Amy, Dan, Norman, Mrya, John, and I think there were more who died.Joe married Miss Bliss and lives in Heighgate.He had children but I do not know how many.Amy went to Nebraska to visit some of her brothers who lived there, and she married a Mr. Curry.Norman married Miss Agnes Janes and I think for a time at least lived on his father’s place on the “Ridge”.John, the eldest, went West and married.Mary married Hiram Hathaway of Hathaway’s Point.They had on son Frank, a great friend of Roy’s (my nephew) who took us with a party for an all day’s outing in his launch in 1899 on Lake Champlain.I can find no information about the rest of Uncle Martin Corliss children.
Daniel Corliss married Matilda Bell and they had six children, Jennie, Fred, Julius, Lenora, Sharah and Martin who was usally called “little Mart”.Jennie Corliss married David Gregg, half-brother of cousin Will Gregg and they live in boston where I visited them when I was a school girl.They have two or three children but lost some of them.They have one daughter whose name, I think is Ella.David is an architect and is quite talented.Julius married a Miss Marvin, and they live in Swanton.They have children but I do not know how many.Lenora married Chet Collins and lived on the Lake shore beyond the Lake View House.They had two children, Leon and Grace.After her husband’s death Lenora and children moved to Swanton Falls, where I took dinner with her in 1899.Martin Corliss, Jr. lived in Chicago and married there.He has at least on little girl.He came to see us in Chicago.Sarah never married but when I heard of herlast she was matron of a house of friendless women.
Fred Corliss married Hattie Mosher (my sister and his second cousin).They lived first in Virginia and later in Swanton, Vt. Where they are now.They had four children, Barry, Roy, Harold and Irene, but Irene only is now living.Their history will be given later with our own Mosher family.
John Corliss, Jr. married Miss Livisa Eton and they had three boys, Lester, Clark and Oyro.Lester married and had one son.While this son, whom I remember as a very sweet little boy in dresses was still small, his mother died.Years afterwards Lester Corliss married Mrs. Valeria Stilphen whom I had known in my childhood.I went to school with her two children, Cora and Bertha Stilphen.Clark Corliss went West, married and had a number of children.I think all died but two.Oyro corliss married a young lady from St. Albans.I remember their marriage very well, though I cannot remember the lady’s name.They lived in Topeka for a while, but his wife and two sons finally settled in St. Albans.One son was named Bruce.In 1890 when Mamma left Vermont and went to Chicago, Mrs. Oyra Corliss and boys were on their way to Topeka and spent part of a day with us at Sister Mary’s home in Chicago.
Martin Corliss married Pelina Skinner.They had a number of children, Joe, Mary, Amy, Dan, Norman, Mrya, John, and I think there were more who died.Joe married Miss Bliss and lives in Heighgate.He had children but I do not know how many.Amy went to Nebraska to visit some of her brothers who lived there, and she married a Mr. Curry.Norman married Miss Agnes Janes and I think for a time at least lived on his father’s place on the “Ridge”.John, the eldest, went West and married.Mary married Hiram Hathaway of Hathaway’s Point.They had on son Frank, a great friend of Roy’s (my nephew) who took us with a party for an all day’s outing in his launch in 1899 on Lake Champlain.I can find no information about the rest of Uncle Martin Corliss children.
Daniel Corliss married Matilda Bell and they had six children, Jennie, Fred, Julius, Lenora, Sharah and Martin who was usally called “little Mart”.Jennie Corliss married David Gregg, half-brother of cousin Will Gregg and they live in boston where I visited them when I was a school girl.They have two or three children but lost some of them.They have one daughter whose name, I think is Ella.David is an architect and is quite talented.Julius married a Miss Marvin, and they live in Swanton.They have children but I do not know how many.Lenora married Chet Collins and lived on the Lake shore beyond the Lake View House.They had two children, Leon and Grace.After her husband’s death Lenora and children moved to Swanton Falls, where I took dinner with her in 1899.Martin Corliss, Jr. lived in Chicago and married there.He has at least on little girl.He came to see us in Chicago.Sarah never married but when I heard of herlast she was matron of a house of friendless women.
Fred Corliss married Hattie Mosher (my sister and his second cousin).They lived first in Virginia and later in Swanton, Vt. Where they are now.They had four children, Barry, Roy, Harold and Irene, but Irene only is now living.Their history will be given later with our own Mosher family.
Chapter V
Chapter V Samuel Todd, Jr. married Hannah Sawyer, cousin of Steven Collin’s mother.Soon after they were married Hannah’s family moved to Cleveland, Ohio.Samuel and his wife Hannah lived with Samuel’s parents.The home at Maquam was towards the bay from the old brick school house and was on the side of the road towards the lake.This old brick school house, which I have usually heard described as being in the George Stilphen district, is still standing, and I have a picture of it.It is on interest to us because it helps to act as landmark for the Todd home, and also because Aunt Betsey Gregg, my mother and four of my sisters, Hattie, Mary, Alice and Helen, taught school in it.Here is great grandfather Todd’s house was born to Samuel and Hannah Todd five children, Betsey, Mary, Luerlia, Edward and Joseph.Joseph died when a child.
About three years after great grandfather Todd died (his wife had died before), Samuel Todd, Jr. and family moved to Swanton on the very same farm where sister Hattie lives now.The next fall his widowed sister Sarah (my grandmother) moved to Swanton also into a nearby house.She had four children, William (my father) was one of them and that is how he came to live in the same neighborhood that my mother lived in.After about ten years Samuel Todd and family moved to Franklin, Vt., then later to Troy, Vt., where he died at an advanced age.All of his sisters had died before as all but one (Abigal) were older.I can just remember his coming to visit us once and remember how pleased my father was.This uncle had been very kind to him and he looked upon him almost like a father.Great uncle Samuel was a Methodist and was considered a fine man.Neither he nor my father used tobacco, and I am very proud of the fact.I might add right here that my mother’s father and brother also did not use tobacco.Neither does my own brother, my husband nor but one brother-in-law out of five.But to return to my history of the Todds—Great Uncle Samuel Todd’s wife Hannah died seven or eight years before he died.Their eldest daughter Betsey married John Green before her parents moved away from Swanton.Betsey and John Green had about five children but only three of them, Lucius, Martha, and Augusta lived to grow up.Lucius, the eldest, is now dead.He left two children, a son Gardner L. Green and a daughter Gertrude Green.Gardner is married and live in Heighgate, Vt., where he is principal of a school.He is also working his was through college and is called quite smart.His sister Gertrude lives about four miles from there.Betsey Todd Green’s second child Martha, sometimes called Mattie is also dead.She used to be a school teacher.She married Mr. Henry Macie.She had one child, a son named Adelbert Macie.He is married and his wife was his Aunt Augusta’s step daughter.They had one child, Ruth Macie.They lived at or near Barton’s Landing, Vt.Martha Green Macie and her brother Lucius attended sister Hattie’s wedding.That was before they were married.Their sister Augusta married a Mr. Daniel Brown and after his death married Mr. Cutiss Collins.They have no children.They live about five miles from Barton’s Landing, Vt.After Betsey Todd Green’s husband John Green died, she married Mr. David Green.She had been dead some years.Mary Todd, daughterof Samuel and Hannah Todd married Robert West.They had one child Alice who died while small.They lived in Abercom.After Mr. West died Mary married a Mr. Jesse Brown.They had no children.Mr. Brown died and she married Mr. John Crawford, but had no children.She visited our home after my father died, but I do not remember her coming.Mary Todd’s Sister Lucelia Todd married George Abells, brother of the Mr. Truman Abells that I knew in my childhood.Lucelia Todd Abells and family live in Lowell, Vt., and recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.They have two sons, Rodney O. and Myron.
Samuel and Hannah Todd’s only son who grew to manhood was called Edward and I feel as If I knew him somewhat, as I have once seen him and have recently had letters from him in regard to this history.He married Miss Lucy Ward of Franklin, Vt. They are living with a married daughter Etta (Mrs. Jaslyn) at Barton’s Landing, Vt. They had six children.The eldest Adelbert (Wil) Todd, is now forty-seven years old and lives at Gulfport Miss., is a good business man and well-off.Is married and has one son, William (Willie) Todd, who is twenty two years old.
The next daughter, Etta Todd Jaslyn is married to Mr. Wildre J. Jaslyn.They live at Barton’s Landing, Vt., and have one son named Gordon R. Jaslyn.It is with Etta that the parents live.George Samuel Todd lives also in Gulfport, Miss., where his brother Adelbert lives and he is doing well in business.He has two sons and one daughter.Their names are Edward S., Lucy and Arthur.
Ina Todd married Edgar Chase, a prosperous farmer.They live in Jay, Vt., and have three children, Mildred, Elsie, and George.Ida Jane Todd would have been twenty-eight years old if she had lived.She died when six and a half years old.I can remember a visit that Edward Todd made to us before papa died, when I was a little girl.He brought with him his eldest child Adelbert, then a boy in his teens.Cousin Edward (he was first cousin to papa) was of such an affectionate disposition and made so much of his children during his short visit that Helen and I named him the “Kissing Man”.It was at this visit that a family document, a commission of George the III to John Todd, Genleman, was handed over by father to Edward Todd to keep for his son, as he bore the name of Todd.
About three years after great grandfather Todd died (his wife had died before), Samuel Todd, Jr. and family moved to Swanton on the very same farm where sister Hattie lives now.The next fall his widowed sister Sarah (my grandmother) moved to Swanton also into a nearby house.She had four children, William (my father) was one of them and that is how he came to live in the same neighborhood that my mother lived in.After about ten years Samuel Todd and family moved to Franklin, Vt., then later to Troy, Vt., where he died at an advanced age.All of his sisters had died before as all but one (Abigal) were older.I can just remember his coming to visit us once and remember how pleased my father was.This uncle had been very kind to him and he looked upon him almost like a father.Great uncle Samuel was a Methodist and was considered a fine man.Neither he nor my father used tobacco, and I am very proud of the fact.I might add right here that my mother’s father and brother also did not use tobacco.Neither does my own brother, my husband nor but one brother-in-law out of five.But to return to my history of the Todds—Great Uncle Samuel Todd’s wife Hannah died seven or eight years before he died.Their eldest daughter Betsey married John Green before her parents moved away from Swanton.Betsey and John Green had about five children but only three of them, Lucius, Martha, and Augusta lived to grow up.Lucius, the eldest, is now dead.He left two children, a son Gardner L. Green and a daughter Gertrude Green.Gardner is married and live in Heighgate, Vt., where he is principal of a school.He is also working his was through college and is called quite smart.His sister Gertrude lives about four miles from there.Betsey Todd Green’s second child Martha, sometimes called Mattie is also dead.She used to be a school teacher.She married Mr. Henry Macie.She had one child, a son named Adelbert Macie.He is married and his wife was his Aunt Augusta’s step daughter.They had one child, Ruth Macie.They lived at or near Barton’s Landing, Vt.Martha Green Macie and her brother Lucius attended sister Hattie’s wedding.That was before they were married.Their sister Augusta married a Mr. Daniel Brown and after his death married Mr. Cutiss Collins.They have no children.They live about five miles from Barton’s Landing, Vt.After Betsey Todd Green’s husband John Green died, she married Mr. David Green.She had been dead some years.Mary Todd, daughterof Samuel and Hannah Todd married Robert West.They had one child Alice who died while small.They lived in Abercom.After Mr. West died Mary married a Mr. Jesse Brown.They had no children.Mr. Brown died and she married Mr. John Crawford, but had no children.She visited our home after my father died, but I do not remember her coming.Mary Todd’s Sister Lucelia Todd married George Abells, brother of the Mr. Truman Abells that I knew in my childhood.Lucelia Todd Abells and family live in Lowell, Vt., and recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.They have two sons, Rodney O. and Myron.
Samuel and Hannah Todd’s only son who grew to manhood was called Edward and I feel as If I knew him somewhat, as I have once seen him and have recently had letters from him in regard to this history.He married Miss Lucy Ward of Franklin, Vt. They are living with a married daughter Etta (Mrs. Jaslyn) at Barton’s Landing, Vt. They had six children.The eldest Adelbert (Wil) Todd, is now forty-seven years old and lives at Gulfport Miss., is a good business man and well-off.Is married and has one son, William (Willie) Todd, who is twenty two years old.
The next daughter, Etta Todd Jaslyn is married to Mr. Wildre J. Jaslyn.They live at Barton’s Landing, Vt., and have one son named Gordon R. Jaslyn.It is with Etta that the parents live.George Samuel Todd lives also in Gulfport, Miss., where his brother Adelbert lives and he is doing well in business.He has two sons and one daughter.Their names are Edward S., Lucy and Arthur.
Ina Todd married Edgar Chase, a prosperous farmer.They live in Jay, Vt., and have three children, Mildred, Elsie, and George.Ida Jane Todd would have been twenty-eight years old if she had lived.She died when six and a half years old.I can remember a visit that Edward Todd made to us before papa died, when I was a little girl.He brought with him his eldest child Adelbert, then a boy in his teens.Cousin Edward (he was first cousin to papa) was of such an affectionate disposition and made so much of his children during his short visit that Helen and I named him the “Kissing Man”.It was at this visit that a family document, a commission of George the III to John Todd, Genleman, was handed over by father to Edward Todd to keep for his son, as he bore the name of Todd.
Chapter VI
Chapter VIAbigal Todd, daughter of great-grandfather Todd never married.She died when about forty years of age in Heighgate, Vt., at the home of a Methodist minister’s family named Lyon.They lived near the church and great-aunt Abigal who was very devout went behind the church to pray.She was found kneeling there and died soon after.This happened about the time that her brother Samuel moved into Swanton.When her father deeded his home on the lake shore to his son Samuel Jr. he reserved certain portions for his unmarried daughter Abigal, which included part of the home, so she could keep house by herself when she pleased.My father and his sister, when children used to look with longing into her parlour, but they were very seldom allowed to enter.Great-aunt Abigal used to attend nearly all the camp meetings.
Abigal Todd, daughter of great-grandfather Todd never married.She died when about forty years of age in Heighgate, Vt., at the home of a Methodist minister’s family named Lyon.They lived near the church and great-aunt Abigal who was very devout went behind the church to pray.She was found kneeling there and died soon after.This happened about the time that her brother Samuel moved into Swanton.When her father deeded his home on the lake shore to his son Samuel Jr. he reserved certain portions for his unmarried daughter Abigal, which included part of the home, so she could keep house by herself when she pleased.My father and his sister, when children used to look with longing into her parlour, but they were very seldom allowed to enter.Great-aunt Abigal used to attend nearly all the camp meetings.Chapter VII
Chapter VII Sarah Todd, third daughter of the first Samuel Todd, was my grandmother.In 1803 at the age of seventeen she came on horse back all the way from Pembroke N.C., to St. Albans Bay, Vt., to visit her aunt (her mother’s sister), Mrs. Capt.Rae.Her cousin John Rae came with her to take care of her during the journey.She liked to new country so well that she induced her parents and family to move there to live.Ten years later she married Mr. Calvin Mosher.A little story is told about grandma as follows: -She had been away for a time in New York State and when she returned to the Bay by steamer she was met at the wharf by a friend who told her that during her absence her sister Jane (afterwards Mrs. Corliss) had a new beau named Calvin Mosher.At once grandma replied “Well, I will go home and cut her out”, which I suppose she must have done I judge, however, that Jane had not become deeply interested as she was soon consoled by another.
After sixteen years grandma was left a widow and never re-married, though she had many opportunities to do so.In 1867 she died at the age of eighty-one and was buried by the side of her father, mother, three sisters, and I think some other relatives in the Point Cemetery at St. Albans, Vt.She had four children, Betsey, Samuel, William, and Abigal.An account of their lives in given in the first part of this book in the record of the Moshers.
This is, I think, a fitting tome to tell about my meeting here in Key West soon after my arrival, the Rev. William E. Todd and family.Mr. Todd was for a year the pastor of our CongregationalChurch here.We both thought that we belonged to the same Todd family.He presented me with a copy of the Todd family’s “coat-of-arms”, which represents a burly looking fox sitting on what looks like a log of wood.Under this is a shield bearing the heads of three foxes.On a scroll underneath is this motto “Oportet Vivere”, which translated means something like this:- That it behooves us to live, i.e. to live nobly so that life will be worth the living. “
After sixteen years grandma was left a widow and never re-married, though she had many opportunities to do so.In 1867 she died at the age of eighty-one and was buried by the side of her father, mother, three sisters, and I think some other relatives in the Point Cemetery at St. Albans, Vt.She had four children, Betsey, Samuel, William, and Abigal.An account of their lives in given in the first part of this book in the record of the Moshers.
This is, I think, a fitting tome to tell about my meeting here in Key West soon after my arrival, the Rev. William E. Todd and family.Mr. Todd was for a year the pastor of our CongregationalChurch here.We both thought that we belonged to the same Todd family.He presented me with a copy of the Todd family’s “coat-of-arms”, which represents a burly looking fox sitting on what looks like a log of wood.Under this is a shield bearing the heads of three foxes.On a scroll underneath is this motto “Oportet Vivere”, which translated means something like this:- That it behooves us to live, i.e. to live nobly so that life will be worth the living. “
This letter was retyped April 1999 by George Zimmerman, son of Ann Marie Zimmerman (Todd) .Written by and est date added from researching this letter and descendants of Hugh Mosher.Key to writer was she moved to Key West, Florida where Sarah Edith Luethi (Mosher died in 1940.
This letter was retyped April 1999 by George Zimmerman, son of Ann Marie Zimmerman (Todd) .Written by and est date added from researching this letter and descendants of Hugh Mosher.Key to writer was she moved to Key West, Florida where Sarah Edith Luethi (Mosher died in 1940.
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