OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 96 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:35:08 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <11fe01bf8ffc$efbaf1c0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Will of John Dyer, Franklin Co., Ohio 1813 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Fran Turner Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:00 PM Subject: Will of John Dyer, Franklin Co., Ohio 1813 Will of John Dyer proved and ordered to be recorded 22 March 1813 Franklin Co., Ohio I do hereby will all my estate real and personal to be settled according to the laws of the State of Ohio, but my grist mill and sawmill and as much land as lies with the barn as described: Beginning a white ____ on Bir Darby marked with the letter "D" and thence to a white oak on Little Darby a line tho(?) west of the dam marked D containing fifty acres more or less and to be sold by Jane Dyer, my loving wife and William Dyer, my loving son and when the above-described mills are sold according to the payments it is to be divided equally between William Dyer, Mary Reed, my loving daughter, Samuel Dyer, Robert Dyer, John Dyer, Morrell Dyer, Joseph Dyer, my loving sons and daughter. In witness whereof I set my hand and seal this 7 day of January 1812. John Dyer Test Alex Blair John Turner Proved and ordered to be recorded March 22, 1813 Teste Lyne Starling, Clk. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:34:23 -0600 From: Betty Ralph To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <2.2.32.20000317193423.00707014@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Parmelee Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Bios: Parmelee - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ PARMELEE FAMILY. The annals of this family heretofore published trace their lineage back to the year 1447, to an ancient and noble Belgian family. This noble house flourished for several centuries in a parish of the same name located three leagues south of the city of Liege when Belgium was under the domination of Spain. They were reformers in religious matters and to escape persecution fled to Holland and afterward settled in England. In this volume space will only permit a record dating back to one, John Parmelee, a native of England, who with his family and twenty-four other men, presumably also with families, set sail for America in 1639. While on shipboard, a few days' sail from Boston, the company entered into the following covenant or agreement: "We, whose names are hereunder written, intending by God's gracious permission to plant ourselves in New England, and if it may be in the southern part about Quinnipisack (or New Haven) we do faithfully promise each to each for ourselves and families and those that belong to us, that we will, the Lord assisting us, set down and join ourselves together in one entire plantation, and be helpful each to the other in any common work, according to every man's ability and as need shall require, and we promise not to desert or leave each other on the plantation but with the consent of the rest of the greater part of the company who have entered into this engagement, as for our gathering together in a church way, and the choice of officers and members to be joined together in that way we do refer ourselves until such time as it please God to settle us in our plantation, in witness whereof we do subscribe our hands this 1st day of June, A.D. 1639 - Robert Rickell, John Bishop, Francis Bushnell, William Crittenden, William Leete, Thomas Joans, John Jurden, Wm. Stone, John Hoadley, John Stone, William Plam, Richd. Suttridge, John Housinger, William Dudley, John Parmelee, John Mepham, Thomas Norton, Abraham Crittenden, Francis Chatfield, William Noble, Thomas Naish, Henry Kingston, Henry Doude, Thomas Cook, Henry Whitfield." They were Presbyterians and the last-named was their Minister. This company located at Guilford, Conn. The generations of the Pamelee family may be named shortly as follows: Luther H., now a resident of Kent, Portage Co., Ohio, was the son of Elisha, the son of Theodore, the son of Abram, the son of Abraham, the son of Isaac, the son of John, Jr., the son of John Parmelee, who settled at Guilford, Conn., in 1639. John and John Jr., were born in Guildford, England; Isaac was born at Guilford, Conn., November 21, 1665; Abraham was born at Guilford, Conn., May 18, 1692; Abram was born at Guilford, Conn., April 28, 1717, and was a warm and earnest patriot during the Revolutionary war; Theodore was born April 3, 1751, and served in the same war for about four years as Captain of a company of horse on the patriot side, and though he took part in many desperate engagements was never wounded. He was a man of extraordinary resolution and courage, and once in a hand-to-hand encounter, when completely surrounded by the enemy, and ordered to surrender, he cut his way through and escaped. This same Theodore Parmelee, in company with his brother-in-law, David Hudson Birdseye, Norton and two others bought the entire township of Hudson in Summit County, Ohio, in 1797 or 1798. Elisha Parmelee was born at Goshen, Conn, February 16, 1785. In 1807 he made his first trip to Ohio to look after a one-half section of land in Hudson Township, which his father had given him. He soon afterward returned to Connecticut, where he was married, November 9, 1809, to Roxa Stanley, a daughter of Deacon Jesse and Eunice (Bailey) Stanley. The following year he moved to Mt. Morris, N.Y. At this place his wife died, January 31, 1813, leaving two children: Myron N., born at Goshen, Conn., September 19, 1810 (since deceased) and Luther H., born at Mt. Morris, N.Y., August 31, 1812. He was married a second time at Mt. Morris, N.Y., October 20, 1813, to Elizabeth M. Satterlee, and to this union were born Elisha H., July 21, 1814, died in infancy (August 23, 1815); Roxa S., born May 27, 1816; Emily E., born July 26, 1819; John R., born Jun3, 1821; Mary H., born May 1, 1824. About 1817 he moved to Warsaw, N.Y., where he was a merchant, and in 1824 moved to Batavia, N.Y., and kept a hotel. In 1832 he came to Ohio and bought a farm in Hudson Township, Summit County, where he remained for twelve years, and in 1844 went to Louisville, Ky., but returned the following year to this county and located at Franklin Mills (now Kent), where he was a successful merchant for many years. He sold out in 1858 and retired from active business. He died September 4, 1865, at Kinsman, Trumbull Co., Ohio, at the home of his son-in-law, Rev. Thomas Corlett, and was buried in the Kent Cemetery. His widow died March 25, 1867, and was interred by his side. Elisha Parmelee was a man of marked ability, thoroughly enterprising, and universally respected. During the war of 1812 he served as Paymaster in the United States Army. LUTHER H. PARMELEE, retired merchant, Kent, was born in Mt. Morris, Livingston Co., N.Y., August 31, 1812, son of Elisha and Roxa (Stanley) Parmelee, natives of Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn. He was educated in Batavia, N.Y., and came to Hudson, Summit Co., Ohio, with his parents in February, 1832. He worked on his father's farm two years and taught school winters, after which he was employed three years as clerk in a store at Copley, Ohio. In 1838 he embarked in mercantile trade in Copley, which he continued there up to 1845, when he removed to Akron, Ohio, and there resided ten years. In 1855 he came to Franklin Mills (now Kent), this county, and has since been chiefly engaged in farming. He owns a fine farm of 170 acres in Franklin Township. Mr. Parmelee was married, May 14, 1838, to Tamma, daughter of Noah and Mary (Stickles) Ingersoll, of Copley, Ohio, By this union there were seven children: Helen E., wife of George O. Rice; Walter M.; Caroline G., wife of A.L. Ewell; Luther H., deceased; Mary H., wife of Henry A. Rea; Frank H., and Roxa S., wife of W.I. Caris. Mr. Parmelee is one of the representative citizens of Kent. He has satisfactorily discharged the offices of Coroner and Commissioner of Portage County; has been Justice of the Peace, and has filled minor official positions in Franklin Township. He was Cashier of the Kent Savings and Loan Association from 1874 to 1879. In politics our subject is a stanch Republican. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #96 ******************************************