Maria Elizabeth Blanchard

Notes:

The Bent Family in America, of the Descendants of John Bent who settled in Sudbury, MA, in 1638, by Allen H. Bent. pub. 1900.

page 79.

Maria Elizabeth Blanchard, b. Oct. 30, 1846; graduated from Wheaton College; m. Aug. 5, 1869, Ezra A. Cook, printer and book publisher, of Chicago, where she still lives (1900). Ten children.

Maria married Ezra Asher Cook on 05 Aug 1869 in Wheaton,,IL. Ezra (son of Rev Ezra Sprague Cook and M. Permelia Milke) was born on 05 Nov 1841 in New Windsor, Orange, New York, USA; died in Sep 1911 in Wheaton,, IL. [Group Sheet]

1. Lillian Cook was born in 1870 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1870 in Chicago,,IL - died young.
2. Mary Amelia Cook was born on 27 Sep 1871 in Chicago,,IL; died on 04 Jun 1954 in WA.
3. Julia Elizabeth Cook was born on 05 Nov 1872 in Chicago,,IL.
4. Blanchard Cook was born in 1874 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1874 in Chicago,,IL - died young.
5. Ezra Albert Cook was born on 14 Jul 1875 in Wheaton, DuPage, Illinois, USA; died on 08 Apr 1957 in Aledo, Mercer, Illinois, USA; was buried in Port Byron,IL.
6. Hannah Ida Williston Cook was born on 05 Oct 1877 in Chicago,,IL; died on 04 Mar 1929 in (resided Seattle, WA).
7. Grace Eloise Cook was born on 30 Oct 1879 in Chicago,,IL; died on 26 May 1969 in CA.
8. M.D. Jonathan Blanchard Cook was born on 11 Sep 1861 in Chicago,,IL; died in Oct 1961 in IL.
9. David Maurice Cook was born on 09 Oct 1883 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1929.
10. Lyman Joseph Cook was born on 13 Sep 1885 in Chicago,,IL; died in in (resided Omaha, NE).
11. Ethel Marguerite Cook was born on 14 Aug 1887 in Chicago,,IL; died on 26 Dec 1918 in Elgin, IL (resided in).
12. Helen Geraldine Cook was born on 16 Apr 1889 in Chicago,,IL; died in 1925 in (resided Bellflower, CA).

Notes:

Biographies of Jonathan Blanchard:
"Fire on the Prairie" and "Minority of One" by Clyde S. Kilby;
and, "Four Hazardous Journeys of the Reverend Jonathan Blanchard, founder of Wheaton College", by Raymond P. Fischer, published Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, IL, 1987.

Source: History of Rockingham, VT, 1907-1957 withe family genealogies, by Mrs. Frances Stockwell Lovell and Mr. Leverett C. Lovell, pub. 1958, page 336:

Residents of Rockingham of the past century who have achieved an unusual amount of success:
1811 - Jonathan Blanchard - president of Knox and Wheaton Colleges, founder of the Christian Era, author, famous abolitionist.

Source: Vermonth Historical Magazine, Vol. 1, page 1010 - Guildhall, VT:

Ecclesiastical- Rev. James Tisdale ...was settled as pastor over Guildhall and Granby churches Sept. 29, 1830. He was dismissed May 5, 1836. And the following summer, Rev. Jonathan Blanchard, then, if we remember rightly, a student of Andover Theological Seminary, and latterly president of Knox College, Illinois, supplied our pulpit for a few weeks.

Jonathan married Mary Avery Bent on 19 Sep 1838 in Middlebury, VT. Mary (daughter of Samuel Browning Bent and Catharine Avery) was born on 07 Jan 1819 in Middlebury,, VT; died on 11 Jan 1890 in East Las Vegas,, NM. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Bent Family, by Allen H. Bent, pub. 1900.

page78-79

#111 in Bent family.

Mary Avery (6) Bent (Samuel B. (5), David (4), David (3), John (2), John (1)) was born in Middlebury, VT., Jan. 7 1819, and died Jan. 11, 1890, at Las Vegas, NM, while on the way to California to visit a daughter. She married, Sept. 19, 1838, Rev. Jonathan Blanchard who was born in Rockingham, VT., Jan. 19, 1811, and died in Wheaton, Ill., May 14, 1892. He was educated at Middlebury College, VT, Andover and Lane seminaries; taught school; lectured in the anti-slavery cause; was American vice-president of the World's Anti-slavery Convention in London, 1843; was pastor of the Sixth Street Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, OH., from 1838 to 1845; President of Knox College (founded in 1837), Galesburg, IL, from 1846 to 1860, and President of Wheaton Collge, Wheaton, IL., from 1860 to 1882; devoted much of his time to the Christian Association opposed to Secret Societies.

Mary Avery Bent left her home in the spring of 1835, when only sixteen years old, and , with a young friend, set out for the then distant State of Pennsylvania. The beginning of the following year found her principal of the Girls' High School in Harrisburg, where she first met her future husband, then on an anti-slavery lecturing tour. Securing her position in Harrisburg for her sister, she set out in 1837 for Montgomery, AL., where she taught a few months in the Female Seminary, and then returned to her Vermont home. The following fall, a nineteen-year-old bride, she bade farewell to her native hills and began her duties as a minister's wife in Cincinnati. She was a woman of true piety, gentle but resolute, and in her home, in the church, and in the reforms so ardently espoused by her husband, was always ready with her untiring energy and unfailing judgement.

Children, i to iv. born in Cincinnati, v. to xii. born in Galesburg, IL.:
i. Jonathan Edwards Blanchard, b. July 24, 1839
ii. Mary Avery Blanchard,b. Jan. 7, 1841.
iii. William Walter Blanchard, b. Dec. 16, 1842.
iv. Catherine Lucretia Blanchard, b. July 13, 1844.
*** v. MARIA ELIZABETH BLANCHARD, b. Oct. 30, 1846,
vi. Charles Albert Blanchard, b. Nov. 8, 1848.
vii. Williston Blanchard, b. Sept. 13, 1850.
viii. Nora Emily Blanchard (twin), b. April 3, 1853.
ix. Sonora Caroline Blanchard (twin), b. April 3, 1853.
x. Julia Waters Blanchard, b. April 16, 1855.
xi. Cyrus Louis Blanchard, b. July 11, 1857.
xii. Geraldine Cecilia Blanchard, b. Oct. 15, 1859.

Notes:

VR of Rockingham, VT - from the beginning of the records to January 1, 1845:
1797- Married Jonathan Blanchard & Polly Lovell.
April 2, 1799 - Jonathan Blanchard certified to be a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America and belonging to the Society of Rockingham.

Jonathan married Mary "Polly" Lovell on 07 Dec 1797 in Rockingham,VT First Church. Mary (daughter of Oliver Lovell and Hannah Smith) was born on 14 Aug 1777 in Rockingham,,VT; died on 26 Feb 1835 in Rockingham,,VT,age 52 yrs; was buried in Rockingham First Church Cemetery, VT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jonathan Blanchard married Mary "Polly" Lovell in First Church, Rockingham, Windham Co., VT.

Notes:

The Bent Family History, by Allen H. Bent, pub. 1900.

pages 42-43.

#49 of Bent Family.

Samuel Browning(5) Bent (David (4), David (3), John (2) , John (1)), who was named after his uncle, Lieut. Samuel Browning (1740-1783), was born in Rutland, MA., Nov. 27, 1784, and moved in 1818 to Middlebury, VT., where he died Dec. 4, 1858, age 74. He was a manufacturer of machine cards. He married first, Jan. 1, 1807, Hannah, born in Spencer, MA., Feb. 13, 1786, died in Rutland, MA., Sept. 7, 1813, daughter of Oliver Watson, Jr. (1743-1826), a Revolutionary soldier. He married second, March 13, 1816, Catherine Avery, born in Holden, MA., Feb. 3, 1788, died in Hoyleton, IL., Oct. 3, 1865, daughter of Rev. Joseph Avery (1751-1824), (***see below), who graduated from Harvard in 1771, and preached in Holden from 1774 until his death. Mrs. Catherine Bent, who is described as a woman of remarkable beauty, both in person and in mind, lived after the death of her husband with her daughter in Tarrytown, NY., but died while on a visit to her son.

(***) Rev. Joseph Avery m. 1777, Mary Allen, dau. of James Allen, tailor, of Boston, by his 2nd wife, Mary Adams, an elder sister of the Revolutionary patriot Sam Adams.

Children of Samuel Browning and Hannah Watson, all born in Rutland, MA:
i. Martha Maria, b. Jan. 12, 1808.
ii. Elizabeth Rebecca, b. Jan. 14, 1810.
iii. Samuel Watson, b. Oct. 27, 1811.
iv. infant son, b. and d. Sept. 5, 1813.

Children of Samuel Browning and Catherine Avery, i. born in Rutland, MA; ii. to vi. b. in Middlebury, VT.
i. Catherine, b. Feb. 17, 1817.
#111 ii.MARY AVERY, b. Jan. 7, 1819, m. Rev. Jonathan Blanchard.
iii. Hannah Watson, b. June 5, 1821.
iv. Joseph Avery, b. April 22, 1823.
v. Maria Allen,. b. April 5, 1825.
vi. George, b. March 29, 1827.

US SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION, membership application 1889-1970, #66401
b. date 1784 d. date 1858
Submitted by Charles Albert Blanchard, SAR #2111, Jonathan Blanchard 2111; Mary Avery Bent 2111, Samuel Browning Bent 2111.

Samuel married Catharine Avery on 13 Mar 1816 in Holden,, MA. Catharine (daughter of Joseph Avery and Mary Allen) was born on 03 Feb 1788 in Holden,, MA; died on 03 Oct 1865 in Hoyleton,, IL. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

AVERY of Dedham, MA--

Catharine,(8), (Joseph-7, William-6, William-5)

Samuel married Mary Brown on 14 Jul 1747 in Billerica,,MA. Mary (daughter of Living and Living) was born on 21 Mar 1728 in Billerica,,MA; died in 1811 in Billerica,,MA, aged 83; was buried in Old South Cem,Billerica. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: History of the Town of Rockingham Vermont 1753-1907, by Lyman Simpson Hayes, 1907
Oliver b. Worcester, Mass., May 1, 1739, came to R. among its earliest settlers; active in town and church matters as early as 1773, when the first church building was erected; appointed Aug. 21, 1885 as a warden of the church of England for the towns of R., Westminster, Chester and Grafton; appointed justice of the peace in this county Apr. 14, 1772, under authority of King George II.; Jan. 4, 1776, appointed by the Cumberland County Committee of Safety as he 2d major of the first, or "Lower regiment" of Vermont troops; Mar. 1, of the same year was promoted to be first major, and was upon various committees during the period of the formation of the state of Vermont.
Evidently Major Lovell did not espouse the Liberty cause and renounce his loyalty to the King as early in the struggle as the larger part of the citizens of R. did, as in April, 1781, a largely signed petition of the residents of R. was presented to Gov. Chittenden and his council remonstrating against his being commissioned as a justice of he peace for the county, to which office he had recently been elected. He was, however, duly commissioned, and served with distinction.
He lived on the farm near the Springfield town line, now owned and occupied by Dexer B. Damon. On this farm, about 25 rods west of the highway, are buried his remains, and those of his wife, the two headstones and one other of another family marking all the interments shown to have been made there. Early in the last century the old dwelling was torn down and the present house of Mr. Damon erected about 30 rods west of the original site of Major Lovell's home.

Source: Vermont Families in 1791, Vol. 1, Genealogical Society of Vermont, Special Publication Number 1, edited by Scott A. Bartley, Picton Press, Camden, Maine, pub. ?, pages 127-9:

"Lovell, Oliver 54a1 1-2-7-0-0 Rockingham, Windham County (note - numbers reference 1791 census data)

Oliver Lovell, son of Michael (3) (Nathaniel-2, Alexander-1) and Mary (Morse) Lovell, was born 1739 May 01 Worcester, MA (VR) and died 1804 July 17 (Gs: "family" Cem, Rockingham, ae 66). Oliver married (Rockingham2, 702-703) circa 1774 possibly Amherst, MA to Hannah Smith, daughter of Alexander and Rebecca (Warner) Smith. Hannah was born 1745/46 Jan. 12 Hadley, MA (VR) and died 1799 Mar 13 (Gs: "family" Cem, Rockingham, ae 55).

Oliver came to Rockingham as one of the earliest settlers. He was active in town and church matters as early as 1773. He was appointed justice of the peace by King George III on 1772 April 14. He was also appointed second major, then first major of the first or "lower regiment" of Vermont troops by the Cumberland County Committee of Safety in 1776 as well as other positions on various committees for this country. (Rockingham2, 702-703). His military service included a tour with the 1st Regiment Vermont Troops under Col. Williams (RSRW, 822-823; Medway MA, 169).

Oliver lived on a farm near the Springfield town line where he and Hannah were burried in a family plot now in the woods. Another gravestone, which is broken off at the ground level and is located on the opposite side of Oliver from where Hannah's stone stands, is probably Irena, his second wife (Gs; Rockingham2, 702-703; Springfield2, 57).

Their children likely born Rockingham (Rockingham2, 703) and all named in father's will (Westminster PR 2:270), (6,8) (Rockingham), 9,37); surname Lovell:

1. Sally, bc 1775 (Gs, calculated), d. 1860 (Springfield2, 34, 42, as Gs; Evergreen Cem, Keesevile, Clinton Co, NY, ae 85); m. 1795 May 20 Rockingham (VR) David Fletcher, son of Peter and Ruth (Adams) Fletcher, b. 1772 Dec. 28 New Ipswich, NH (Springfield2, 7, 32), d. 1834 Jan. 26 (Springfield2, 123, as Gs: Parker Hill Cem, Springfield); Children born Springfield (1-5, 7-8) (VR), (6, 9-11) (Springfield2, 32, 34-35; Fletcher, 43), surname Fletcher: i. Oliver Lovell, b. 1795 Oct 15; ii. Adams, b. 1797 Feb. 09; iii. Frink, b. 1798 Dec. 13; iv. Jehiel, b. 1801 Jan. 23; v. David, b. 1802 Nov. 21; vi. Asa, bc 1805; vii. Lyman, b. 1806 Sept. 17; viii. Laura, b. 1809 Jan. 25; ix. Peter Emerson, bc. 1810; x. Josiah, bc 1812; xi. Aaron Dean, bc 1817.

2. Hannah, bc 1776 (Gs, calculated), d. 1851 Apr. 26 (Gs: Split Rock Cem, Essex, Essex Co., NY, ae 75); m. 1795 Mar 02 Rockingham (VR) Abner Rice, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Marvin) Rice, b. 1773 Dec. 18 Walpole, NH (Walpole2, 346-347; Rice, 4:449), d. 1853 Apr. 07 (Gs: Split Rock Cem, Essex, Essex Co, NY); Children born Walpole NH (1-6) and probably Essex, Essex Co, NY (7-8) (Walpole2, 346-347; Rice, 4:449), surname Rice: i. Sallie, b. 1795 Aug. 24; ii. Elisha, b. 1796 Jul 08; iii. Maria, b. 1798 Sep 05; iv. Lois, b. 1803 Feb 11; v. Benjamin Franklin, b. 1806 Aug. 22; vi. Gardner, b. 1812 Mar. 14; vii. Beliza, b. 1815 May 27; viii. Sabra, bp. 1822 Sept 02.

3. POLLY, b. 1777 Aug. 14; m. 1797 Dec 07 Rockingham (VR) JONATHAN BLANCHARD; Children born Rockingham (VR), surname Blanchard: i. Mary, b. 1799 Mar 12; ii. Sophia, b. 1800 Apr. 20; iii. Hiram, b. 1801 Sep. 26; iv. Lavinia, b. 1802 Nov. 26; v. Phyadilla, b. 1804 Jan. 05; vi, Samuel, b. 1805 Jul 16; vii. Selina, b. 1807 Jan. 01; viii. Irene, b. 1808 Jun 17; ix. JONATHAN, b. 1811 Jan 19; x. Rhoda, b. 1812 Apr. 03; xi. William Walter, B. 1813 Aug.11; xii. Laura, b. 1815 May 01; xiii. Cyrus Louis, b. 1818 Feb. 11.

4. Lucy, m. 1803 Nov. 17 Rockingham (VR) John Phelps.

5. Oliver, bc. 1770 (dVR calculated), d. 1858 Jan. 14 Rockingham (VR, ac 74-3-4, liver complaint); m. (Rockingham2, 703) Nancy Clarey; resided near Buffalo, Erie Co, NY (ibid.).

6. Sabra, bp 1781 Jul. 22, d. 1832 (Springfield2, 66, ae 51); m. 1805 May 19 Springfield (VR, as Norse) John Nourse; Child born Springfield (Springfield2, 66) surname Nourse: i. John Rix, b. 1806 May 31.

7. Frink, b. 1783 Sept 14, d. 1858 Jan. 07 Putney (VR, ae 74-3-4, liver complaint; Gs: Mount Pleasant Cem); m. 1808 Mar 02 Rockingham (VR) Lydia Davis, daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia (Pulsipher) Davis, b. 1790 Oct.05 (Rockingham2, 641), d. 1869 Oct 22 Putney (VR, cancer; Gs: Mount Pleasant Cem, ae 70); Children born Rockingham (VR), surname Lovell; i. Lucia A., b. 1809 Feb. 18; ii. Minerva M., b. 1811 Jan. 29 (as Mary M, d. 1822 Apr. 05, ae 11 (Gs; Mount Pleasant Cem, Putney)); iii. Oliver M., b. 1813 Jun 06; iv. Abby D., b. 1815 Nov. 04; v. Frances E., b. 1818 May 18; vi. Royal F, b. 1822 Feb. 23; vii. Lydia M, B. 1824 May 07; viii. Charles M., b. 1827 Feb. 15.

8. Beliza, bp. 1793 Jan.11.

Oliver secondly married 1800 Jan 21, Weathersfield (VR) to Irena Chaplin, Irna secondly married 1811 Oct. 13 Weathersfield (VR) Nathaniel N. Smith.

Oliver married Hannah Smith. Hannah (daughter of Alexander Smith and Rebecca Warner) was born on 12 Jan 1746 in Hadley,,MA; died on 13 Mar 1799 in Rockingham,Windham,VT; was buried in on a farm near Springfield town line. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Bent Family, by Allen H. Bent, published 1900.

page 28-29.

#23 of Bent Family.

David (4) Bent (David (3), John (2), John (1)), blacksmith, was born in Framingham, March 30, 1730; died in Rutland, MA, Jan. 15, 1798, age nearly 68. The year of his marriage, or possibly before, he moved to Rutland, where he was an active and useful citizen. In addition to working at his trade, he had a large farm (160 acres at the time of his death) in the southern part of the town, a portion of it lying in what, in 1765, became the district of Paxton (incorporated as a town in 1775). The inventory of his estate included half of a pew in Rutland meeting-house and two-thirds of a pew in Paxton meeting-house. Rutland, it may be said in passing, is a fine old hill town in the very centre of the state. Jan. 3, 1775, he was chosen one of fifteen men who were to act as a Committee of Inspection to carry out the Acts of Congress. March 13, 1775, a military company was formed and David Bent was chosen captain. This company marched to Cambridge the day after the battle of Lexington and was out six days. From April 6, 1776, until March 13, 1780, when he resigned, he commanded a company in the 7th Worcester County regiment. Marched to Bennington in August, 1777.

Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 15, 1787, a cyclone swept over Rutland, doing much damage. The account in Sidney Perley's "Historic Storms of New England," says: "Seemingly gathering new fury, it continued down the side of a hill, struck a corner of Captain Bent's house and lifted the barn in the air, knocking it to pieces and throwing several large timbers a considerable distance. In the barn were four or five tons of hay, which was wholly lost. A blacksmith shop and part of a shed were entirely carried away, together with nearly two hundred apple trees; and much of the walls and fences was demolished."

The old house in which he lived is still standing, a two-and-a-half story building, east of Turkey Hill Pond, on the road from Rutland to Paxton, near the dividing line, and about 2 1/2 miles from the centre of either town. The big chimney, the little panes of glass, and the old floors held down by hand-made nails, have only recently(1898) been removed. The barn was divided several years ago and the blacksmith shop and out buildings have long since disappeared. The farm is still considered one of the best in Rutland.

Capt. David Bent married first, April 3, 1751, Lucy, daughter of Peter Moore of Rutland. He married second, Oct. 2, 1783, Martha, born Nov. 21, 1744, died July 9, 1817, daughter of James and Elizabeth Browning of Rutland.

Children of David and Lucy, all born in Rutland, MA: eleven

Children of David and Martha, born in Rutland:
#49 i. SAMUEL BROWNING, (5), B. Nov. 27, 1784.

David married Martha Browning on 02 Oct 1783 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA. Martha (daughter of James Browning and Elizabeth A. Davis) was born on 21 Nov 1744 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA; died on 09 Jul 1817 in Rutland,WorcesterCo,MA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Dedham Avery-s :

INFORMATION FROM: GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF THE DEDHAM BRANCH OF THE AVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA, compiled by Jane G. (Avery) Carter and Susie P. Holmes. Published by Winslow W. Avery of Plymouth, MA, 1893.

Joseph (8), William-7, William-6, William-5, William-4 (came to New England in 1650 to Dedham, MA), Robert-3, William-2, Robert of Pill-1.

Note: Pill is now known as Pylle, Somerset, England. This was the residence of our earliest known ancestor, Robert Avery (1), is 3 1/4 miles south of Shepton Mallet, in White Stone Hundred; acres, 1,570; houses, 35 in 1831;population, 216 in 1841. Pylle House (as per Black's Guide) is on the Bath & Bridport Railway. There is a town by the same name near the mouth of the Severn, on map of England, in Cotton's general atlas of 1862, (it is not the ancient Pill, however,) 15 1/2 miles from Bath, and 2 1/4 miles from Shepton Mallot.

The name Pill seems to correspond to the Welsh POIEL, an inlet or pool.

William Avery-4, our earliest ancestor in America, lived in Barkham, Berkshire, England.

DEDHAM , CONGREGATIONAL FIRST CHURCH RECORDS- record the birth of Joseph Avery.

Joseph married Mary Allen before 1778. Mary (daughter of James Allen and Mary Adams) was born about 1754 in ?? Dedham,,MA; died on 01 Apr 1842 in Holden or Dedham,,MA(in her 88th year). [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Groton Avery's-:

Mary Allen, niece of Governor Samuel Adams.

Note: Mary Allen is not included in records of Dedham 1st or South Churches.