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Thomas Larkin m. Ann Rogers Cooper > son Thomas Oliver Larkin of Monterey California...US Consulate to then "Spanish" California..for the American Government.
"TOL" was born in Massachuestts...wife (1) Hannah Cordis, may of been "Custis", (2) Ann Rogers Cooper (3) possibly
Mary Abbott (James?) and so forth according to what is
said in posting below...whcih I will have to research myself.
Subject of this is the sons being sent to Hawaii for their education, as letters sent to me by the Historical Larkin House out of Monterey in the past...notes amoung my California relatives...I thoughut with Thomas being born in the Boston area, that with his postion he would of sent his sons to "Harvard" perhaps, if not had them privately tutored in California by the Catholic missions there..but No, he sends them to an relatively remote at
the time...island of Hawaii. I found that curious.
Yeserday I came across an Book on an Hawaiian family that were pioneers by the name of Lyman. I already know that the Rogers family were mariners and the Coopers..colny properitors of New Jersey and investors/merchant traders of foreign lands. John Larkin I found assoicated with the East India company at one time. So in this book,
I find this.."In memory of Henry Obooklah..a native of "Owyhee"(Hawaii/skl)..his arrival ..gave rise to the to the foreign mission school ..of which he was an memeber....he died in 1818...age 26. It does not say how he got to be in New England, but it says his story was so popular that the "Amiercna Board of Commisioners for Foreign Missions in 1818, formed an company bound for the Islands of Hawaii. In late October of that year an company of Protestant missionsaires left Boston in the brig called Thaddues, chartered by the American board. I will have to read the rest of this book, but it seems that Thomas Oliver Larkin's parents out of the Boston area could of been associated to have told Thomas Oliver Larkin about it also...or he,them maybe? Being an wildly popular issue of its day, he too engaged in it. I find it very strange as they show this Hawaiian "Lyman" house built the same as the Larkin house in Monterey, which is not your typical New England style house by any means...though these Lyman people are from New England, Thomas Oliver larkin house is of the Spanish style with balcony along its upstairs and an courtyard..so is this Lyman house. They lved near Hilo, Hawaii, thier house is now also an Museum of the family. I can see Thomas Oliver Larkin also being protestant as well, and wanting his sons out of then "Spanish" California..as the Gold Rush was highly popularized during Thomas Oliver Larkin's day,and was so on purpose, to see more "Americans" in California then "Spanish Missions", so that it could later by sheer numbers...be an part of the American Union of states. I'll have to update you all more when I read this book and understand more about it. But it does answer my question for me, on why these boys were educated in Hawaii...or how they got there anyway. Several later companies of more people went there to settle the
area also, one of them being an "Brown" family. which may have some bearing on the family of Harper's Ferry John Brown not only being in my ancestors pictures on the Nebraska-Kansas line, but also married into the Lawson family of my husband's also. In this case they show an picture of Captain Brown next to his daughter's grave whom
died when her house collapsed in an 1868 earthquake in
Hawaii. It seems that Sarah Lyman wrote an "diary" that has been an historical significance in Hawaii's disasters during her lifetime...of earthquakes, Tusunmi's and Volcanic eruptions.
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