Is Isaac GARRISON, Shepherdstown, c1740s, s/o Lambert named in 1723 Will?
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In reply to:
Wikipedia's West Virg. Waterways with Isaac GARRISON, Shepherdstown, c1740s
Dee Bardes 5/14/09
Judy Cassidy advised all on the Dutch-Colonies List, to record the corrections compiled by Pamela J. Sears related to the confusion with the DORLAND, BRITTON, GERRETSON, GARRISON, SEGERS/SAEGERS lines in early Staten Island, NY. These issues have been raised off and on for years, and this is the best answer, I have seen...I cannot attest to whether this is the final conclusion, of course...This pertains to the Gerrit Jansen Van Oldenburg line and the Gerrit Segers, c1620s, NY soldier, line, the Isaac Garrison 1732 ancestral search and ...
Since the problems regarding Lambert's lineage and wives has long haunted my Y-DNA pink group, Gerrit Segers/GARRISON lineage (in my POOLE DNA Project for particular study during 2010) I am posting a segment of their (Cassidy/Sears) Sept. 2008 comments here in hopes of eliciting further critical review and postings. See extract below. Despite research, patience, and the years which have passed since the Y-DNA results started coming out, true answers are elusive for my pink group...Does anyone have them?
Their conversationaffects this thread on Isaac Garrison of Shepherdstown WV c1730s-1740s. Who believes that this Isaac could be (or not) Lambert's son, Isaac born c1703? Is Isaac c1703 the father of Isaac 1732 RWS or not?Be sure to read IGA historian, Denzil Doss Garrison's (attorney of Bartlesville, Oklahoma) Introduction in the revised 2009 Isaac Garrison Association book.Denzil writes both of a relationship with a Nicholas Garrison...and of french cousins.
As an IGA member (despite clearly not being from the Isaac 1732 direct descendants bloodline), I went down to the IGA Manchester, Kentucky family reunion this summer which was fabulous.I helped load up the last of the new 2009 books (The Family of Isaac Garrison (1732-1836), Frontiersman and Soldier of the American Revolution, Vol I-II) into Edwanna Garrison Chenault's car, so if anyone still needs one, write soon to Edwanna Chenault in Winchester Kentucky 40391.Edwanna cautions that when she runs out, the 2009 books are sold out. Next year in Missouri will be the 50th annual reunion so be sure to join up and go!
Here is the correction:
"From: jacassidy22 snip
Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Two Nathaniel Brittons of Staten Island
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:06:04 -0400
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Unfortunately since Barbara A. Barth is deceased there will not be a forthcoming list of corrections or addenda published, so I suggest that everyone mark their books with this correction.???
Judy
-----Original Message-----
From: Pamela J. Sears
Sent: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 7:26 pm
Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Two Nathaniel Brittons of Staten Island
To all those interested in this thread,
A question recently came up which revealed confusion between two Nathaniel Brittons of Staten Island and their wives. This is an attempt to clarify the issue regarding the parents of an Elizabeth Britton and a
John Britton, who married into the Dorland Family in Bucks Co. and/or Montgomery Co., PA.
From The Dorland Enigma Solved, on page 254, we learn:
> Lambert Dorland (John, Lammert) baptised 21 Oct. 1707, Staten Island,
> Sp. Lambert Dorlandt, Helena Dorlandt (father and sister?of Jan
> Dorland), married 18 Aug. 1731 Elizabeth Brittain, dau. of Nathaniel
> Brittain and Elizabeth dau. of Jan Gerritsen, originally of Staten
> Island.? Lambert resided in Abington Twp., Moreland Manor, then
> Philadelphia Co. PA, where he was taxed for 50 acres and listed as a
> freeholder in 1734. Elizabeth Dorland was named in the will of her
> father of Byberry, Philadelphia Co, dated 15 June 1754, pvd. 12 May 1760.
Liz Johnson pointed out in her follow-up email:
> Are you saying that Lambert Dorland married Elizabeth Brittaine, a
> daughter of Nathaniel Brittaine and Elizabeth Garretson??
>
> But I don't see where any Elizabeth, daughter of Jan Gerritsen, fits
> into this group.
>
> Nathaniel Brittaine's will (abstract!) indicated that his mother was
> "Mary Garison," not Elizabeth, daughter of Jan Gerretson. Is the
> abstract wrong?
Briefly, there were 2 Nathaniel Brittons of approximately the same age.
Nathaniel Britton #1 was born about 1666 (according to Elmer Garfield Van Name in his Britton Genealogy, page 6) and died 1729 [WNYHS 11:150]. He was the eldest son of Nathaniel Britton and Ann Stillwell of Staten Island, and "surely married more than once, but the identity of his
first wife has not been recovered." Elmer proceeded to mis-identify his second wife, Elizabeth Gerrits (as the daughter of Gerrit Gerritszen & Neeltje Pieterse), and indeed Phyllis J. Miller in her article "The
Garrison-Gerritsen Descendants of Gerrit Jansen van Oldenburg alias Gerrit de Mof" which appeared in the Jan 1993 issue of the NYG&B Record, corrected his error. On pages 5-6 of Volume 124, Ms. Miller wrote that
Elizabeth Gerrits, b ca 1688, the daughter of Jan Gerritsen and Lysbeth Gysberts (and granddaughter of Gerrit Janszen van Oldenburg), married as his 2nd wife, to the above Nathaniel Britton of Staten Island, and was
indeed much younger than her husband. This Nathaniel Britton and his two wives had a total of 14 children, all named in his will, and it is
impossible to determine the mother of each of these children. Indeed,
there was a daughter Elizabeth who was only _possibly_ the daughter of
Elizabeth Gerrits, but this is inconclusive. More importantly, in the
will of her father dated 1 June 1729 and proved 11 November 1729,
Nathaniel Britton named his daughter "Elizabeth, wife of James Poillon."
Elmer Garfield Van Name shows a date of birth for this Elizabeth Britton
as 19 September 1704, which would certainly preclude her from having
married Nathaniel Britton on 13 April 1710.
Nathaniel Britton #2 was born 1665, and subsequently baptized along with
his siblings on 14 July 1678 (recorded both at Flatbush "op N. Utrecht,"
Voorhees page 387, and at Brooklyn, Van der Linde's "First Book of
Records" page 158), the son of William Britton and Mary Stillwell. This
Nathaniel Britton married circa 1687 to Mary __?__ (who is
unidentified), and they were the parents of Nathaniel Britton, born
1688, who married Elizabeth Saunders 13 April 1710 and removed to
Pennsylvania. Nathaniel Britton, father of this Nathaniel and husband of
Mary, probably died sometime in 1702, as evidenced by the following:
> The first printed copy of the inventory of the estate of Nathaniell
> Britton, late of Newderrup (New Dorp), dated 21 Nov 1702, is to be
> found in SIH, April-June, 1966, vol. 27, p 17. It is also listed in
> Dec 1966 in NGSQ 54:254. The appraisers were Stoffel Van Sant and
> Thomas Walton. The law required that an inventory be made within 48
> hours of the tim
e of death (NGSQ 54:246). On April 10, 1708,
> administration on the estate of Nathaniel Brittain, was granted to his
> wife, Mary Duchan, Nathaniel having died at a time not specified. (On
> that same date, four letters of administration were granted, and 3 of
> them stated "lately deceased.") The surname of Nathaniel's wife Mary
> has not been established; some theorize that she was a Du Chesne;
> others that she may have married a Du Chesne following the death of
> Nathaniel. The widow, Mary, wed after 13 Apr 1715 and before 4 May
> 1716, Judge Lambert Garrison, a widower, and she was living in 1754
> when her son Nathaniel made his will. It is believed that Mary and her
> son Nathaniel 'probably' appeared on the 1706/1709 census.
Elmer Garfield Van Name provided the following (page 32) :
1715, Apr 13. Nathaniel Brittin, yeoman, of Richmond county, on acount
of love and affection for his mother, Mary Brittin, of the same place,
conveyed to her one acre of land lying on the south side of Staten
Island, and also the privilege of cutting wood upon his land. Nathaniel
Britton signed the deed, and his wife Elizabeth made her mark. They
acknowledged the deed as a voluntary gift before Nathaniel Britton,
Justice, in 1715.
On the 4th of May 1716, Mary Britton, "now the wife of Lambert
Garretson, Esq." relinquished this gift to her son, Nathaniel. Recorded
for Mary Britton, May 27, 1716. Will of Lambert Garrison, of Staten
Island, dated May 7th, 1723; proved May 22, 1725, mentioned : wife Mary;
children, Susannah, Lambert, Charles, Nicholas, Isaac, Jacob, Catharine
and Elizabeth; grandsons, Daniel and Nathaniel, sons of hs son Daniet.
Lambert Garrison was one of the Protestant Petitioners of Richmond
county, in 1701, to King William III. He was also a Justice (Apr 1,
1703) in Richmond Cunty, and a prominent man generally. "Stillwell
Genealogy," p. 125
Liz Johnson provided this source record, which fully agrees with Elmer
Garfield Van Name's citation to [PMHB 23:105] for the marriage:
> The marriage of Nathaniel Brittaine and Elizabeth Saunders (by
> license) is recorded in "Baptismal and Marriage Records 1704-1713"
> extracted from the journal of Rev. John Sharpe, and was published in
> "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography" Vol XXIII (1899)
> by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Page 105 contains the
> record, which says: "Nathaniel Brittain & Elizabeth Saunders, Apl. 18,
> 1710."
Liz also provided the will abstract of Nathaniel Britton of Byburry
(also in Britton Genealogy):
> BRITTAIN, NATHANIEL. Bybury, Co. of Philadelphia. Yeoman.
> June 15, 1754. May 13, 1760. L.444.
> Wife: Elizabeth. Mother: Mary Garison.
> Children: John, Elizabeth Derland, Mary Vansandt and Rachel.
> Sons-in-Law: Nicholas Vansandt and Isaac Belue.
> Exec: John Brittain, Nicholas Vansandt, Isaac Belue.
> Wit: John Worthington (his mark), William Walmsley, Sarah Walmsley.
> [http://files.usgwarchives.org/pa/philadelphia/wills/]
Therefore, there can be only one conclusion. Nathaniel Britton, born say
1688, the son of Nathaniel Britton (1665-1702) and Mary (?) his wife,
was the one who married on 13 April 1710 to Elizabeth Saunders (who is
unidentified). They were the parents of Elizabeth Britton and John
Britton who married Lambert Dorland and Eve Dorland respectively.
When a list of corrections or an addenda is published for "The Dorland
Enigma Solved," this information should be included for page 254.
Regards,
Pam Sears"
[end of paste, Dutch-Colonies-L Archives]
Is there anyone out there that claims descent from Lambertor who can shed further light on his progeny or lineage? Y-DNA which aligns with my pink group is still needed to help with the haunting riddles not dissipating easily.
Thanks.
Dee in Cincy