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"Imprints On the Sands of Time" - Rev. 5 by Mr. Henry Kelly
Left By Certain KELLY'S, LAMPMAN'S, CRAIG'S, FERGUSON'S
By HENRY R. KELLY
1st Edition August 1, 1939
2nd Edition August 1, 1955
3rd Edition August 1, 1972
4th Edition April 1, 1991
5th Edition September 1, 1997
Part I Lampman - INTRODUCTION
What started as a 14 page xerox family history " Footprints on the sands of time " left by certain Kelly's; Lampmans'. Craigs, Fergusons' has become this last Edition 5 passing through Edition 2, addition 3, 4 supplements to Edition 3, Edition 4, and 2 additions to Edition 4. It has become so large this Edition 5 is divided into two books. The first covers the Lampman Family, the second covers all the other families including an Albrecht Family, a Hamilton Family, another Kelly Family, a Crowther Family, a McDuffee Family. In a section titled "Tracing Backward" many other families are treated of but only going back.
In all the publications new material was identified by linking to a page number in Edition 3 or Edition 4 as appropriate. Obviously in this combined Edition that is not necessary. Any older tag number in later pages can be found on an earlier page.
As has occurred so many time over the years, positive new data will continue to tie in people who have 2 different tag numbers. In many cases I have pointed this out. When such a discovery is made, just continue the obvious, eliminate one tag, or point out that a certain tag number is the same as the other number.
Recently there has been printed considerable concerning the method of writing dates in genealogies, with some effort to standardize rather broadly. One, for example, is to write November 12, 1870 as 12 Nov 1870. It appears Europeans could mistake 11-121870 as December 11, 1870 instead of November 12, 1870, which is the way Americans read it. This book uses the American system i.e., month, date, year in sequence with no apologies. Where only two numbers appear such as 11-1920 it means month and year, i.e., November 1920.
Any error is a bane to a conscientious genealogist's efforts, and we are not exempt. We are, therefore, happy to state only one major error has been found in Edition #3. For that see the WILLIS Family account, which eliminates the Seaman Family from our connections and families in the ancestral tree were established.
Often a man with records in some Eastern state disappears. He could have died or just vanished into America's great West, or left no further record for some unknown reason. When several males of the same given name in the East are possible ancestor of a family located in, say, Michigan there may be clues but no certainty. So, future genealogist, when and if you find proof of some error in this book, do not condemn the whole. Just do something to correct the error as I did in the case of the widespread error in publications of the Canadian descendants of Frederick Lampman the Loyalist, that he was born in Germany instead of New York State. I do regret that in some cases I have used the word 'probably" to indicate descent whereas the word 'possibly" conveys a more proper meaning.
There are a large number of persons listed in this boob particularly in the families traced backward which have not been given identification numbers, and which are therefore not listed in the index. However, anyone interested in a family surname which has been treated of in some detail, will find such family names page indexed.
Kelly, Ferguson, Craig, Lampman and Albrecht we have carried back into Europe. I was most pleased when the Lampman ancestry back in Hessen, Germany, was located. Research on this continues, and it is possible Peter's grandfather can be accurately determined but it is unlikely that the record will go any further back than the middle 1600's since a great many records were destroyed in the 30 Year War which ended in 1648. We are especially pleased, however, to find that our original deductions and conclusions concerning the immigrant Peter Lampman and his family were verified.
As this consolidation has progressed, l have been impressed with the large number of corrections and the possible difficulty for a researcher, unless he or she were in possession of all the Supplements and Edition Three and carefully made the corrections. Thus, if it were possible, I would like to see all the previous supplements as well as all copies of Editions #3 and #4 destroyed but of course that is impractical. The introduction to Supplement #1 of Edition Three stated how fortunate I was to not only publish a Family genealogy but also to add to it and, more importantly, to make the corrections that come about when one exposes thousands of bits of data to light of day. We have been extremely fortunate in this respect from the help received from LAWMAN descendants. And even now it is possible that new evidence will turn up to more clearly trace some lines. There is always hope and actually mountains of data buried in attics, courthouse files, newspapers, books. It turns out there is a mass of documents stored in the castle of Ortenberg, Hessen, Germany dated from the 17th Century at least.
My files contain literally hundreds of Lampman names without the needed information to tie them into the record. These are all listed under a Miscellaneous Section. Thus, a large job still needs to be done.
Finally, I thank you all who contributed data or help, especially Mrs. Ida Pardue of Big Bear Lake, California. Also thanks to Mrs. Ruth Naylor for typing and Mrs. Sharon Bates for typing and composition. Keep new data coming in and who knows, someone may continue this happy effort.
Henry R. Kelly
12 45th Street
Ocean City, Maryland 21842
Now let us start with the Introduction of the Lampman Family in Edition 3 without any changes.
Tracing ancestors and relatives is a chore that can go on forever. To one interested enough to even start, let alone continue, it quickly becomes so vast afield that one is tempted to draw comparison with an amateur astronomer, who starts with a low power lens, and intrigued, progresses to ever higher power, with ever increasing field of search.
Setting down family history is not new. Entire books have been written containing nothing but lists of previously written genealogys. Still percentage wise the field has been scarcely touched. There is a history of the "Descendants of Seth Kelly", a "Kelly Genealogy" by Giles Kelly, etc., and yet there is no known connection to the Kellys treated herein. The hours spent in the New York State Educational Building library, the Washington, D.C. Library of Congress and DAR libraries among others have only barely tapped the sources available.
This is the third edition of "Imprints on the Sands of Time, left by certain Kellys, Lampmans. Craig's, Fergusons". The first edition was distributed, in 1939 mainly to relatives. The second edition was issued in 1955. This last one is better in that certain minor errors which were discovered have been corrected. Also it is much larger with many additional facts uncovered and added. One ironic statement in the first edition was - "probably Scotland and England have better kept records than most other countries for war on their soil has been ab sent for centuries": Of course there was much internal feudal type strife which did cause destruction. Then one year later they were to experience the "blitz". Dover, the Eaton home land was hard hit.
The writer in edition one, after contemplating the enormous printed volumes of some families, wrote of his consciousness of the quite limited results of his first eight years part time efforts. Tile extra years since have not added data in proportion to the time spent. However, in an old volume of Scottish genealogy was discovered a quotation from one John Smyth of Nibley, 16th century, which expresses well the writer's feeling - "He is held a good Huntsman that can catch some game, though not all."
It is, or should be, also necessary that the huntsman be of a scientific turn of mind for it is all too easy to draw conclusions and it is very hard to reject a plausible conclusion for lack of explicit proof. But to one with such scientifc turn the problems of genealogical research become as interesting as the pursuit of a technical experiment. Theory must be followed by test and proof.
From the family interest shown, there are but few of us who are not interested in who we are. People, including relatives, as a topic of conversation outranks both religion and politics. But careful questioning and record keeping reveals that only one fourth of the many individuals asked, even know their four grandparents, so quickly does time erase memory. Everyone knows that each additional generation of ancestors doubles in numbers but few realize that in twelve generations the blood, or shall we say genes, of 2048 individuals to start, and 4094 individuals total, is mingled in one. Of course intermarriage may, and if one goes far enough back probably always does, reduce the progression and numbers. For example, when at long last the Anna Mae Craig (2), Ferguson, Turnbull, Dom, Dorothy Depew chain tied in, it was to Young, Lampman, thus providing the first common ancestor to both her and Henry R Kelly (1) in John Peter Lampman (1011). Since this occurred in the 9th generation, it only reduced the total 12th generation ancestors of Carol Kelly (154) from 2048 to 2040.
Using averages, twelve generations back reach to around the year 1638, only 332 years ago. The Pilgrims arrived in 1620. Any present day American, even if he could trace two or tree of the 2048 ancestors back to earliest days, would still have to find the vast bulk abroad. Abroad there were so many wars, records were destroyed, or burned or lost. Many records have been accidentally burned in this country, such as the early ones of the Cobblestone Reformed Dutch Church of Rotterdam, N. Y. From the records available it takes a great deal of time to ferret out genealogical information. To my limited knowledge no one has ever known who all his or her 2048 ancestors twelve generations back were. It is a feat to determine all sixteen five generations back and twenty-five of thirty-two six generations back, as has been done here in one case.
Tracing ancestors gives one a more intimate, a more personal viewpoint on the history of America. We hear tell of the Dutch arriving first in New York State, then the English, then the Palatine Germans, then the Scots and Irish, etc., but it takes meaning when we see the names mingling on the ancestral tree. We read in a novel by Turnbull " Remember the End " an account of the setting forth for America of one Scotsman. Our tree has many such. We read of the Dutch in New York contempory with the English in New England and Virginia. Our tree research leads to many Dutch ancestors around 1630 in New Amsterdam, and among others, to the famous Anneke Jans. As for near relatives, more than one Kelly has said after looking at part of the record "1 didn't know that there were so many Kellys so closely related to us."
One continuing frustration to family research is the disappearance of a name from a church or other record. But we must remember the process of settling the American West was and is a continuous one. How many trails were lost when lives were lost on the frontier. Or in truth the keeping of records was unimportant.
One other reason for knowing ones ancestors is that so many of the genus homo are inveterate joiners. Certain organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution , Holland Society of New York, Huguenot Society of America, and others require roof of ancestry. Then too, records of Civil War and Revolutionary War participants are of major interest. World War I and II are too recent, but they will soon excite real attention of the participants descendants.
There are two major ends or trails to follow in genealogy. The first is to determine all possible of the ancestors of a given person. This is the hardest to do as it quickly leads to the non-living . .In drawing a chart one notes that it takes the form of an inverted triangle Q The only person whose ancestors are thusly and also rather extensively traced herein, although all others included in the triangle are to some extent traced also, is Carol Ann Kelly. This work is for her and if she should be interested well worth while. However, many of the persons treated of in this record can fit themselves into the same framework and with a minimum of effort can carry on.
The second trail is to determine the descent of a given individual. On a chart the result shows as a triangle . It is much the easier path to define, the main difficulty being only the amount of time and effort necessary to gather the information. In the case of this genealogy, it was complicated by the fact that the Scots and Scots-Irish have been a migratory lot, scattering to the four winds. Customarily the honored starting individual is a man. The woman is just as important as the man in blood strain and inheritance but our custom of changing a woman's name upon marriage has provided the cause for more easily lost identity. Dutch and German ministers almost always listed the woman's name while the English ministers did not. Maybe one can find a moral or morale here.
In this work we have set down four lines of descent, namely
KELLY, LAMPMAN, CRAIG, FERGUSON And for this last edition - ALBRECHT
Normally also the man chosen to start from has been the first immigrant to this country from the old world. For all five we have such a start, namely William Kelly, Joseph Craig, and John Ferguson, all from Scotland, Peter Lampman from the Palatinate, and Frederick Albrecht from Baden Germany.
It is not usual to tell the story of more than one line in a given genealogy. Mayhap to treat of five is too ambitious but it is a hobby and like a stamp collection keeps growing and is never done.
Where does one get the information? From old family bibles, cemetery records, family documents handed down, records of wills, other genealogical histories, books such as Pearson's " First Settlers of Schenectady ", civil records, army or service records, old newspapers, and for the living from the living. There is always someone in each family who is interested "in that sort of stuff". And when we find out about these ancestors, we are generally astonished to find that they were very much like ourselves. They got into trouble, went to school, married, worked, were successful or not, etc., just as we. Occasionally an ancestor is found who is famous or wealthy but although we take pride in pointing them out, we must not forget the large number are average working folk. For them the only " Hall of Fame " is a genealogy of this kind.
Various methods have been used in family histories to tabulate the data unearthed.
All methods seem to have problems to get clarity. Few of the histories carry extensive charts. Charts make for clearness and should always be used by the genealogist when asking people for information. Each name on the too few accompaning charts is numbered and in the text likewise. There is seemingly an excess of identifying persons with specific rather than genealogical numbers. 1 prefer this excess to the necessity in most genealogies of charting and backtracking most or all of the data to understand the linkage. Many text individuals are numbered but do not appear on the charts as they fall just beyond the scope of this work. They can be used in the future as a starting point for others interested in connecting our records with their own particular lineage research.
The marriage of Carol Ann Kelly (154) really provided the incentive for this third edition, since to an addict, the chance to open up a whole new area could not be passed up. And this new area of Albrecht , Cavey, Cougle, Zaiser, Frost, etc. also opened up a new geographical area, that of Maryland , the adopted State of the writer. Joining the Maryland Genealogical and Historical Societies, examining the information at the Maryland Hall of Records in Annapolis and at the Baltimore Lovely Lane Methodist church museum, and even exploring the countryside along the Patapsco River have been unanticipated pleasures. Actually the extensive data accumulated would qualify at least the family name Albrecht in the title but since there is also included in this edition extensive data on the Crowther and other families, the title remains unchanged and researchers will have to wait for future codices.
While accuracy has been especially striven for, some errors may still be found or clearer explanation of the facts maybe known to others. The writer may issue a supplement in the future and would appreciate any help toward making this book as complete as possible, especially in the way of more descriptive matter on individuals, and the areas of new marriages, births, deaths, etc. If some are written of more fully than others, it is only because of lack of familiarity. Obviously the more immediate family are more fully treated of.
And finally one is always razzed a bit for digging up this information. We have to be able to take it and along the same line we accumulate certain humorous items. In appendix are some such as well as other interesting information.
Before starting on the specific families, it is in order to record a few observations concerning the locale early history of that portion of New York State wherein falls the bulk of the families treated of, namely the present Counties of Schenectady, Montgomery, Schoharie, Albany, Saratoga, and Greene. Until 1772 Albany County comprised the bulk of the area involved, when Tryon County was set off. In 1784 Tryon was changed in name to Montgomery. Saratoga County was split off from Albany in 1791, Schoharie in 1795, Schenectady in 1809. In 1800 Greene was split off from Albany and Ulster. Search of wills, deeds, etc. prior to the split off dates must be made therefore at Albany, N.Y.
In the early pioneer days the western part of Schenectady County was not closely attached to Schenectady City as today. People went to Albany to marry rather than to Schenectady. A revolutionary regiment was labeled "of Duanesburg and Schoharie", another " of Duanesburg and Florida ". Oft times a man is referred to in one record as from Duanesburg , in another as from Currys Bush or Princetown. Care must betaken in searching the records to realize the possibility that separate families are not involved. The census records, starting in 1790, help to straighten the facts out.
New York City was settled in 1614, supposedly by all Dutch, but careful inspection of the names leading to much not too long ago research work, revealed that French Huguenots were in large number, even though they attended the Dutch Reformed Church established there in 1628 with records beginning 1639. The rivers were the highways and the Dutch being there first naturally settled the fertile river flatlands. The Albany Dutch Reformed church started in 1642 with records existing from 1683.
The English were coming in both from New England and abroad so that by 100 years later they were dominant and New Amsterdam became New York. Of course the several thousand Palatines that they settled on the Hudson in 1709 were a large contribution to the population increase.
But around 1750 the Scots and Scot-Irish influx started and with them and the Palatines we are mostly concerned. Here it is pertinent to note that of all the family genealogies published, there are very very few of these Palatines and none previous of the names we are most interested in - Lampman, Kiefer, Ergenbreg, Muller, Striebel. A Loucks genealogy was published in 1940 by E. M. McBrier and includes some data and connections with our line. Likewise of the Scots and Irish who settled the backcountry of Schenectady, the hills of Princetown, Duanesburg, Florida, and Galway, I know of but two other extensive histories, one published of the Donnan family and one, with limited distribution, of the Patterson family.
One bit of information, uncovered by tracing the Scots-Irish families of our line, is new, being found nowhere else in the literature of Schenectad County. The Scots settlement of Princetown (Scotch Ridge, Scotch Bush, etc..) was by way Xrst of Galway, Saratoga County. Immigrants customarily first contact and locate with relatives or people le of like country and religion and then fan out into new territory. Schenectady was not the early center for the Scots. A study of the names in Pearson's " First Settlers " confirms the evidence of Robert Wingate's letter (see later) wherein he described Galway as being better country, settled and comfortable, and Princetown, Corry's Bos, as being wild new country. To some Pattersons, as stated in their history , a move of but twenty miles west of Schenectady, made them pioneers in real rough country . Evidence also comes from the records of the West Charlton Presbyterian Church of Saratoga County where two significant things appear. The subscribers lists to the building fund contained familiar Princetown names as follows 1801 David Maxwell (See the Robert Wingate letter which named the Maxwells, Fergusons and Doigs), Alexr. Ferguson. 1802 Joseph Maxwell, John Ferguson, Andrew Cowan, Peter Cowan. 1803 Nathan Thompson, John Kelly. 1806 Joseph Taylor, William Kelly (married Sara Taylor), David Maxwell, Duncan Ferguson, John Ferguson. Definitely a canvass was made of the Princetown settlers. They were a part of the older, and not a separate, colony. Even short distances were formidable in those days and this canvass as well as other church and family records show the close tie to the Galway area. Here should be made mention of the fact that the Curry's Bush and Remsen's Bush Presbyterian churches of Princetown and the churches in the Galway area were stronger (reflecting of course the membership and status of the people) than the First Presbyterian Church of Schenectady prior to 1795. The " Vosburg " records as well as the early records of the Presbyterian Church preserved at the Presbyterian Historical Society at Philadelphia, Pa. so show. Of course a little later the Schenectady church became stronger and dominated but at the earliest times the perimeter of the Schenectady wheel was the strongest Scots area.
As is stated in the Donnan family history referred to above, there is only one Schenectady in the world. Refer to Pearson's " History of the Schenectady Patent " for a chapter on the various (some 84) ways it has been spelled. One early spelling and reference comes from the Journal of Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, two Dutchmen who made a journey through New Netherland in 1680. On 24 Wed. they wrote " The horses were got ready and we left about eight o'clock for Schoonechtendeel, a place lying about 24 miles west of Albany to wards the country of the Maquas ". This was Mohawk Indian land.
As this history has increased in size, some way of eliminating repetition was deemed necessary. Coding of church record source of data therefore has been done in the text as follows -
(A) Athens Zion Lutheran, Green County.
(B) Catskill Reformed Dutch, " "
(C) Coxsackie " " "
(D) Albany " Albany County
(E) Germantown Reformed Church of the Camp, Columbia County
(F) Trinity Episcopal New York City (records covered Schenectady and Albany)
(G) Stone Arabia Lutheran, Montgomery County
(H) St. Pauls Ev. Lutheran, Schoharie "
(I) Greenville Presbyterian, Greene "
(J) Clavarack Reformed Dutch, Columbia "
(K) Kaatsbaan Ulster "at Saugerties, N. Y.
(L) Linlithgo Columbia "
(M) Hillsdale "
(N) West Copake "
(O) Gilead Ev. Lutheran of Center Brunswick, Rensselaer County
(P) Cherry Valley Presbyterian, Otsego County
(Q Schaghticoke Reformed Dutch, Rensselaer County
(R) 1st Presbyterian Schenectady, Schenectady County
(S) German Flatts Reformed Dutch, Herkimer County
(T) Schenectady “ “ Schenectady County
(U) Kinderhook Columbia "
(W) Coxsackie Trinity Episcopal, Greene County
(X) Albany Episcopal, St. Peters, Albany "
(Y) Minaville Reformed Dutch, Montgomery County
(Z) Christ Episcopal Duanesburg, Schenectady "
(R T) Round Top Lutheran, Pine Plains, Duchess "
(AA) Kiskatoom Reformed Dutch, Greene County
(AB) Fishkill Duchess "
(AC) Hopewell " "
(AD) Tarrytown Westchester County
(AE) St. Georges Episcopal Schenectady, Schenectady County
(AF) St. Peters Lutheran Rhinebeck, Dutchess County
(AG) St. Johns Livingston, Columbia "
(AH) Ft. Plain Reformed Dutch, Montgomery County
(AI) St. Johnsville " "
(AJ) Stone Arabia " "
(AK) All Saints Anglican, Dunham, Quebec, Canada
(AL) St. Pauls Red Hook Lutheran, Dutchess County
(AM) Rhinebeck Flatts Reformed Dutch, Dutchess County
(AN) Kingston Reformed Dutch, Ulster County
(AO) German Reformed Church of Rhinebeck, Dutchess County
(AP) Reformed Presbyterian Duanesburg, Schenectady County
(AQ) New York Reformed Dutch, Kings County
(AR) New Hackensack Reformed Dutch, Dutchess County
(AS) 3rd E. U. Brethern, Baltimore, Maryland
(AT) St. Peters Episcopal, Ellicott City, Maryland
(AU) Christ Episcopal, Elkridge, Maryland
(AW) Emory Methodist, Ellicott City, Maryland
(AX) Kilmadoch Parish, Scotland
(AY) Callendar Parish; Scotland
(AZ) Kincardine Parish, Scotland
(BA) New York Lutheran, Kings County
(BB) Rumbouts & Poughkeepsie hkeepsie Presbyterian, Dutchess County
(BC) Poughkeepsie Re Reformed Dutch, Dutchess County
(BD) Tappan Reformed Dutch, Rockland County
(BE) Smithfield, Pennsylvania, Reformed Dutch
(BF) St. Thomas Lutheran, Churchtown (Clavarack) Columbia Co.
Census data is coded. (X19) is the 1990 census, (X50) is the 1850 census, (X191) is the 1910 census.
New coded reference symbols - (LDS) Later day saints. (SSDI) Social Security Death Index.
For clarity some persons have issue tag numbers under or along side. Now let us start the Lampman family with the introduction without change from Edition #3