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Wealthy was living with her young married daughter Hanah Bradford Snell who was married to Isiah Snell. Wealthy was my third great-grandmother. The order on the Census listed Elisha Bumpus, Blacksmith, Ephraim Gammons Master Farmer, Lydia Pierce and Alden Rounseville, Miller. The first row mentions of the Census shows the house and the second row shows the family. So that means that the 70 year old Lydia Peirce was living in the same house as Isaiah Snell – possibly with a grandchild John King. Here is an 1857 map:<\/p>\n
At that time Isaiah’s father lived on Snipatuit Road. A Rounseville and EK Gammons are shown on presetn-day Rounesville Road. I don’t see Phipps or Bumpus on the map and I don’t see A Gillmore on the Census. It could be that Isaiah Snell and his mother-in-law Wealthy were living in the Gillmore house.<\/p>\n In 1855 Wealthy and her daughter Hannah were living in the house of Mercy Snow. Here is an 1856 Map:<\/p>\n This shows Ira Clark. J. Pierce is probably Josiah South of Snow’s Pond. Barnabas Douglas is probably the Douglass to the SW of Snow’s Pond on the map above. Seth and Israel Cowen are shown on the preceding page of the 1855 Census. There are two Snow houses shown on Neck Road, so Wealthy was probably living in one of them. I don’t know what Est means after the N Snow house. My ancestor Otis Snell after moving from Snipatuit Road, moved to where the N Snow house is shown on the map. I don’t know if he lived in the same house or had a new house built.<\/p>\n In 1850 Mercy Snow was living in this house on Neck Road:<\/p>\n This could be the N Snow from the map above – my first guess for where Wealthy was living in 1855.<\/p>\n Wealthy was living in Rochester in 1850 with her mother Experience and sister Priscilla, but her two children Henry and Hannah were born in Wareham. Her son Henry was a ‘Nailor’. He likely worked at a local Nail factory.<\/p>\n Experience was her mother – Experience Cowing Hathaway. Priscilla may be a sister of Wealthy. With the Pierce’s listed in this Census, it makes me think that this may be in the Pierceville section of Rochester\/West Wareham.<\/p>\n Names listed in the 1850 Census around Hathaway are Nicholus Snow (see above), Dennis Pierce, Dennis A Pierce,\u00a0 Robert Pierce, Moses Pierce, Jonathan King, Experience Hathaway, Nerberg? Morse, Isaiah Cobb, John Pierce, George Pierce, James Nickerson, Branch Pierce and Milton Reamy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On this 1857 map, I wanted to show Pierceville on the left and a Nail Manufactory and various iron works on the right. M Reamy must be Milton Reamy. He is importantant as the Census says he was born in Virginia and has a unique surname compared to the common names of the area. N Morse may be the Morse in the Census. R Pierce may be Robert Pierce of the Census and G Pierce may be George Pierce of the Census. Of interest also is the N [I now realize this is R] Hathaway House. The Hathaway House was on what is now High Street in Rochester.<\/p>\n [Note: As per below this Hathaway House was the house of Wealthy’s sister Ruth A Hathaway and perhaps formerly her parents – Joseph Hathaway and Experience Cowing Hathaway.]<\/span><\/p>\n Here is another map from 1856:<\/p>\n Actually, it is a map with overlays. This area is called Horse Neck on the Map and the house is the Ruth Hathaway House. The road branching off to the Store to the East of the Hathaway House is currently Pierce Street.<\/p>\n The Horse Neck area reminds me that I had transcribed an deed fromWealthy Bradford to George Pierce on my Bradford Web Page<\/a>:<\/p>\n The above deed was the last listed below:<\/p>\n Part of the problem is with the spelling of her name. I would have spelled it Wealthy.<\/p>\n I was hoping the first deed in the list above would explain it all, but it didn’t:<\/p>\n The same Cobbs were mentioned. This time Alvin Drake is mentioned. It looks like Wealthy Bradford and George Pierce were selling some land to these Cobbs.<\/p>\n This land is described as being on the South side of the Road leading from Alvin Drake’s to Wareham. The lot started at Alvin’s property and went East. So that is fairly specific. The middle Branch of the Sippican River must be the one near the Hathaway House in the Map above.<\/p>\n Here Ruth buys land for $65:<\/p>\n This deed gives some more specifics as to whereWeathy’s land was.<\/p>\n Here he see Ruth died 22 June 1863:<\/p>\n Hopefully this will tie things together. Unfortunately, Wealthy had died on 11 April 1863. That left as Ruth’s heirs,<\/p>\n It gets better because Ruth had a will.<\/p>\n That must be Ruth’s signature. A little faint, but it was the day before she died. In the will, Ruth mentions her mother, Experience Hathaway and her sister Priscilla Hathaway. Here are the stones that Ruth requested at the Union Cemetery:<\/p>\n Now I know where my fourth great-grandmother Experience Cowing Hathaway is buried. This stone states that Ruth died May 22, 1863, but that cannot be right as she signed her will June 21, 1863.<\/p>\n Here are the heirs:<\/p>\n The property was sold in 1863 and recorded in 1866:<\/p>\n George Pierce ended up buying the property for $175.<\/p>\n So now I know:<\/p>\n With my recent success, I’m tempted to look further back a generation to Joseph Hathaway. With Joseph, I’ll start right off with the Probate:<\/p>\n I see a letter in the file from 1835, twenty years after Joseph’s death. Here we get into some family intrigue. All the children of Joseph are going against the administrator of Joseph’s estate.<\/p>\n The children a claiming that the administrator, Jonathan Cowing was not administering properly. I don’t think that the children got the money from the sale of the property that they should have and that Jonathan also sold property that he was not authorized to sell. At least that was the claim.<\/p>\n Interesting to me is that Harvey Bradford was still alive at this time. He is said to be of Rochester. However at the time he was married in 1832 and in the 1840 Census, Harvey was listed as being in Wareham. Here are some of the people that he is enumerated near:<\/p>\n This version is easier to read:<\/p>\n Here is Experience’s signature to the fact that Jonathan Cowing could be administrator of the Estate:<\/p>\n So that explains why Experience did not sign the letter above from 1835 against Jonathan who was probably her brother.<\/p>\n Inventories are interesting as they give a glimpse into what an ancestor owned. This one is a bit difficult to read:<\/p>\n At the top of the list is a cow worth $20. This was quite a bit of money for the time as several acres of land could be bought for less than this. The cow and steer totaled $54. He had an axe and a broad axe. I believe a broad axe could be used for turning lumber into planks or wood or dimensional wood for house framing.<\/p>\n It appears that it was the custom to set off part of the lands of the deceased husband to support the wife:<\/p>\n Here Joseph’s inventory was determined to be five hundred and thirty dollars. Land set off for his wife, Experience was appraised at one hundred and seventy six Dollars and sixty six cents and two [thirds?]. This was likely a quite generous amount and enough for Ruth to live on also. It looks like Experience also got the house. So that should mean that Ruth Hathaway was living in her father Joseph’s house.<\/p>\n As far as the 1835 letter above, I have not yet found the outcome of that.<\/p>\n Experience left a will:<\/p>\n It seems like Priscilla and Ruth Ann made out better than Wealthy. They got the house and Wealthy got $1. My guess is that Priscilla and Ruth Ann took care of their mother and Wealthy was unable to as she was raising her two children. The children of her daughter Lucy Cobb got 25 cents each.<\/p>\n Joseph Hathaway was born in Wareham before the Revolutionary War:<\/p>\n Here is a deed where Joseph buys property in Rochester from Manter in 1791 when Joseph was 28.<\/p>\n We find that Grafton Manter of Rochester was a Cordwainer. That is a shoemaker. Joseph of Wareham was a blacksmith. He managed to save or somehow get $450 dollars to buy this large property.<\/p>\n The deed mentions 55 acres adjacent to Elijah Caswell’s Lands. It also mentions some fresh meadows and meadowish lands by the East Branch of the Sippican River and by Thomas Bassett’s meadow. This house could be the same one that Ruth Ann Hathaway lived in. The extra Meadow land would have been further to the East.<\/p>\n After Joseph bought this large property in Rochester in 1797, he married Experience Cowing in Mattapoisett in 1801:<\/p>\n In the first deed in 1809, Joseph sells off his Sippican River East Branch property to John Morse.<\/p>\n The land was 15 acres. The deed mentioned a deceased John Goodspeed and an Isaac Savery.<\/p>\n The 1856 Map shows an N Morse which is probably part of the area sold to John Morse. Joseph is now called a yeoman, so perhaps he gave up the blacksmith profession. The deed was first made in 1802, a year after Joseph married Priscilla Cowing and then recorded later.<\/p>\n Here is the next deed:<\/p>\n Joseph paid $100 to William Pierce for this land.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nWealthy in 1855<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nProbate Records for Ruth A Hathaway 1863<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nThe Last Deed for Ruth A Hathaway<\/h3>\n
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Any More On Joseph Hathaway (1771-1815)<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nA Rare Mention of Harvey Bradford<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nExperience Hathaway’s Dower<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nProbate for Experience Hathaway 1855<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJoseph Hathaway Deeds<\/h2>\n
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