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     Sarah Guernsey was born on 30 August 1760 at Litchfield County, CT, USA. She married John Mattoon at Watertown, Litchfield County, CT, USA, on 2 August 1784.¹ Sarah Guernsey died on 3 November 1796 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA, at age 36.¹ She was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     Sarah may not be the mother of all of the children. Some say that she died in 1784 and Prudence Miles was the mother of some of the children.

     Child Mattoon was born on 23 May 1785 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. She was the daughter of John Mattoon and Sarah Guernsey. Child Mattoon died on 25 May 1785 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA.

     Orrilla Mattoon was born on 24 October 1786 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. She was the daughter of John Mattoon and Sarah Guernsey. Orrilla Mattoon died on 13 April 1812 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 25. Wife of Oliver Willard. She was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     Senah Mattoon was born on 23 August 1788 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. She was the daughter of John Mattoon and Sarah Guernsey. Senah Mattoon died on 24 June 1796 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 7. She was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     John Mattoon Jr. was born on 25 December 1790 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. He was the son of John Mattoon and Sarah Guernsey. John Mattoon Jr. married Phebe Brooks on 19 February 1815 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA. John Mattoon Jr. died on 1 October 1853 at Berkshire County, MA, USA, at age 62. He was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     David Mattoon was born on 4 April 1793 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. He was the son of John Mattoon and Sarah Guernsey. David Mattoon died on 29 September 1797 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 4. He was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     Sarah Mattoon was born on 1 May 1795 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. She was the daughter of John Mattoon and Sarah Guernsey. Sarah Mattoon died on 4 June 1796 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 1. She was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     Amanda Mattoon was born on 23 June 1798 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. She was the daughter of John Mattoon and Prudence Miles. Amanda Mattoon died on 24 May 1880 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 81. She was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. Amanda Washburn.

     Henry Mattoon was born on 16 June 1799 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. He was the son of John Mattoon and Prudence Miles. Henry Mattoon died on 15 June 1823 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 23. He was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     His tombstone inscription reads, "In memory of Mr Henry Mattoon, who was one of the two which drowned in the Housatonic River, July 15, 1823, aged 24 years."

     Chauncey Mattoon was born on 1 February 1803 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. He was the son of John Mattoon and Prudence Miles. Chauncey Mattoon died on 10 June 1875 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 72.

     Calvin Mattoon was born on 4 February 1804 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. He was the son of John Mattoon and Prudence Miles. Calvin Mattoon died on 2 January 1810 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, at age 5. He was buried at Church on the Hill Cemetery, at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA.

     David Guernsey Mattoon was born on 7 May 1810 at Lenox, Berkshire County, MA, USA. He was the son of John Mattoon and Prudence Miles. David Guernsey Mattoon died on 10 June 1875 at age 65.

     Asa Hopkins was born on 22 July 1799 at New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT, USA. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271." He married Amanda R. Loomis at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, USA, on 3 February 1825. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271". He married Diadama Elizabeth Crampton Babcock at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, on 22 April 1845. Asa Hopkins appeared on the census of 1850 at Barrington, Yates County, NY, USA. The census lists the family as: Asa Hopkins, 49, carpenter, born CT; Deiadamia, 31, born NY; Emily, 16, born NY; Elizabeth, 9, born NY; Electa, 7, born NY; Mary, 2, born NY; Bryon B. Babcock, 25, carpenter, born NY.. He died on 20 March 1873 at Branchport, Yates County, NY, USA, at age 73. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy, pg 288". He was buried at Lakeview Cemetery, at Penn Yan, Yates County, NY, USA.

     Amanda R. Loomis was born on 19 November 1806 at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, USA. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy pg. 288." She was the daughter of Gamaliel Loomis and Nancy Kellogg. She married Asa Hopkins at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, on 3 February 1825. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271". Amanda R. Loomis died on 18 May 1844 at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, at age 37. She was buried at Highland Cemetery, at Marcellus, Onondaga County, NY, USA.

     Gamaliel was born at Coventry, Tolland County, CT, USA, on 20 November 1771. Internet posting. He married Nancy Kellogg at NY, USA, in October 1796. Internet posting. Gamaliel Loomis married Elizabeth Root on 17 December 1807 at NY. Gamaliel Loomis died on 12 December 1864 at Raymond, Racine County, WI, USA, at age 93. He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, at Raymond, Racine County, WI, USA.

     Gamaliel Loomis (1771 - 1864)
By 1846 when Gamaliel Loomis was 74, five of his children had died (Nancy, Polly, Amanda, Flavel and Hannah) and the other four had moved West. Shopronia Hart in Belvidere IL, Livonia Prentiss in Quincy IL, Fidelia Gookins in Terre Haute IN, and Theron in Mendon IL. In May of 1846 Gamaliel and his wife Elizabeth headed West to join them. Gamaliel's grand daughter Abitha Alderman wrote to her future husband Paul Howe on May 21, 1846, "Grandfather and mother left this week Monday, probably the last time I shall ever see them."

In July, Elizabeth Loomis wrote to Abitha describing their journey:

July 2lth 1846
My Dear Abitha

I would with gratitude recount the kindness of our heavenly Father manifested to your Grand Father and Me in our Journings which I will here briefley describe. In Canandaigua we took the cars, arrived at Rochester 1 pm. Went in to the City purchased about twenty Dollars worth of books. That evening Monday took a packet boat, arrived at Buffalo Tuesday 6 pm. At 7 took pasage in the DeWitt Clinton bound for Toledo but did not sail until 2 am. Had a pleasant but slow pasage. Thursday about sun down took a Canal boat and pursued our course down the Ma Me canal arrived at Fort Wayne Saturday eve. Stayed there over the sabbath. ...

Monday we again set sail on the Ma me. in a boat bound to Lafayette where we arrived Tuesday evening. There we expected to find a boat bound to Terre Haute; boats had gone out the evening before and more were hourly expected. But the water had fallen and none arrived. Had boats run, we could have got their in a short time but we had to take the stage after waiting two nights and one day. We had a fine view of the flourshing village, but we left it without regret for our round about passage in the stage of one hundred 25 miles we arrived at Terre Haute Friday about 9 p.m. ...

We spent over two weeks in Terre Haute then left for your uncle Theron's. We took the stage Tuesday morning about two o'clock bound to St. Louis a distance of 188 miles which was accomplished in forty hours. We then took a steam boat which was ready and proceded up the Mississippi 190 miles to Quincy. Arrived there Thursday near sundown. Friday morning went to Mendon 19 miles from Quincy. ...
Elizabeth Loomis


Note: The "Ma Me" canal would be the Wabash and Erie canal system which in part traverses the Maumee River.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_and_Erie_Canal)

Edited for punctuation, capitalization and spelling.
Transcribed from the original by Harlan Howe
Edited by Donald Howe, 4th great-grandson of Gamaliel Loomis.

     Nancy Kellogg was born on 2 April 1776 at New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT, USA. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy, pg 288." She married Gamaliel Loomis at NY, USA, in October 1796. Internet posting. Nancy Kellogg died on 23 November 1806 at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, USA, at age 30. She was buried at Prattsburgh Pioneer Cemetery, at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, USA.

     Diadama Elizabeth Crampton Babcock was born in 1828 at NY, USA. Age 31 at the 1850 census. Findagrave.com give birth as 1819. She was the daughter of Abiram Babcock and Susanna Lee. She married Asa Hopkins at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, USA, on 22 April 1845. Diadama died on 18 July 1860 at Penn Yan, Yates County, NY, USA. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy, pg 288". She was buried at Lakeview Cemetery, at Penn Yan, Yates County, NY, USA. Findagrave.com gives birth date as 1819..

     Abiram Babcock was born in 1787 at Noble Town, Columbia County, NY, USA. He married Susanna Lee at Sempronius, Cayuga County, NY, USA, in 1812. Abiram Babcock died in May 1829 at Wayne, Steuben County, NY, USA.

     Susanna Lee was born in 1790 at Sempronius, Cayuga County, NY, USA. She married Abiram Babcock at Sempronius, Cayuga County, NY, in 1812. Susanna Lee died in 1850 at Milo, Yates County, NY, USA.

     Elizabeth Loomis Hopkins was born on 1 April 1841 at Prattsburgh, Steuben County, NY, USA. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy, pg 288." She was the daughter of Asa Hopkins and Amanda R. Loomis. She married William Henry Hayward at MI, USA, on 5 May 1878. Elizabeth Loomis Hopkins died on 14 July 1926 at Penn Yan, Yates County, NY, USA, at age 85. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy, pg 288".

     William was born at Kent County, England, in 1839. Age 41 at the 1880 census.. He married Eleanor Unknown circa 1861 at England. He married Elizabeth Loomis Hopkins at MI, USA, on 5 May 1878. William Henry Hayward appeared on the census of 1880 at Jackson, Jackson County, MI, USA. The census lists the family as: Wm H. Hayward, 41, Printer, born England; wife Eliz L., 36, born NY, father born CT, mother born NY; dau Minnie, 16, born England; dau Lillian, 18, born England; son Claude, 14, born England.. William died on 6 June 1893 at Jackson, Jackson County, MI. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy, pg 288". He was buried at Mount Evergreen Cemetery, at Jackson, Jackson County, MI, USA.

     Emily Elizabeth Hayward was born on 19 May 1881 at Jackson, Jackson County, MI, USA. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 and some of his Descendants, pg 271" and "Loomis Genealogy, pg 288." She was the daughter of William Henry Hayward and Elizabeth Loomis Hopkins. Emily Elizabeth Hayward died on 25 February 1903 at Bessemer, Gogebic County, MI, USA, at age 21. She was buried at Mount Evergreen Cemetery, at Jackson, Jackson County, MI, USA.

     William Morse Parker was born on 5 September 1779 at Adams, Berkshire County, MA, USA. Internet Posting. He married Lydia Gilbert Bull on 26 March 1803 at Bridgewater, Oneida County, NY, USA. William Morse Parker died on 27 August 1861 at Royal Oak, Oakland County, MI, USA, at age 81. William M. Parker married Lydia Gilbert Bull in Bridgewater, Oneida county, New York, in 1802. They had eleven children, seven of whom removed with the family to Michigan in 1835. William M. Parker owned numerous tracts of land in the State of Michigan, in Oakland and Genesee counties especially, but settled upon the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 6, township of Royal Oak, and on the old road previously described. They purchased the land of Alexander Campbell. Of his children, Asher B. Parker first settled upon the west half of the northeast quarter of section 8, and the east half of the northeast quarter of section 7, township of Royal Oak. For four years, 1840 to 1844, he lived in the township of Genesee, county of Genesee. In 1839, Asher B. Parker married Harriet M. Castle, they having seven children, all of whom are living at the present date. One son, Ralzemond A. Parker, lives upon the old homestead and is a practicing lawyer in Detroit.) He was buried at Royal Oak Cemetery, at Royal Oak, Oakland County, MI, USA.

     Lydia Ann Parker was born on 7 November 1806 at Bridgewater, Oneida County, NY, USA. Internet Posting. She was the daughter of William Morse Parker and Lydia Gilbert Bull. Lydia Ann Parker died on 28 February 1838 at White Lake, Oakland County, MI, USA, at age 31. Internet Posting.

     Harris Hopkins was born on 16 April 1785 at NY, USA. He married Achsah Jackson on 17 March 1808 at NY. Harris Hopkins died on 5 July 1871 at Holland Patent, Oneida County, NY, USA, at age 86. He was buried at Holland Patent Cemetery, at Holland Patent, Oneida County, NY, USA.