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WITH CHARTS OF THE FAMILY AND Tlt^ CONNECTIONS

From 1640 to 1882

COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY NATHANIEL ROCHESTER

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ABOUT eight or nine years ago Ifirst began to collect material for this family record

but with no intention at that time of publishing it Many from whom Imight have

obtained important information having passed away before that date the earlier history of

the family has been secured principally from old wills and deeds of land and property found

among the records in the office of the County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia

The information in regard to the Coat of Arms Igot when in London England in 1878 bullAmong those living to none am Iso much indebted as to John H Rochester of

Rochester N V and R Hart Rochester of New-York City Comparatively few of those

to whom Ihave written for information declined to give it and generally it has been given

cheerfully The short biography of Col Nathaniel Rochester Ihave compiled from a

manuscript history of his life written by himself from OReillys History of Rochester

and from the sketch of his life in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase The rapid growth of

the family since 1800 and the distances by which they have been separated prevent a fuller

history of the family since that date than such as can be obtained from the Charts 11 to

XI in which Ihave given all the births deaths and marriages of the descendants of Col

Nathaniel Rochester Great care has been taken to avoid errors and ifany are discovered

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take greater pleasure in reading it than Ihave had in its compilation

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Nicholas Rochester the first member of the family who came to this country

was born in the County of Kent 3 England about the year 1640 and was _ bull_ _1 lI TT_ j_l gt 1 _f IT T ~

O 1 T~v -s-- _ I married there He came to the Colony of Virginia in 1689 an d on Dec 26thof that year purchased 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County from one

Mishy John Jenkins a planter who by patent from Governor Richard Bennet 4 in 1653

had obtained 1000 acres of land in consideration of importing 20 persons into

this colony 5 $

brvbarI The land conveyed by Jno Jenkins to Nicholas Rochester was located in Nominy (or Nomini) Forest in the southeastern part of the county where is now Lyells store close to the line of Richmond County and about three miles from Warsaw in Richmond County The deed of the land is not

recorded 6 but is mentioned by date and description of land in a settlement of disputed boundary with one John Dunkin Nov 2d 1726 William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester and John Rochester (first) son of William

Rochester (first) afterwards purchased other lands on Machodoc (or Machotock) River adjoining the 100 acres bought from John Jenkins in 1689 until the

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plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

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Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

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William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

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allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

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In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

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in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

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died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

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large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

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14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

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1 WilliamRochester

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BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

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WITH CHARTS OF THE FAMILY AND Tlt^ CONNECTIONS

From 1640 to 1882

COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY NATHANIEL ROCHESTER

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PREFACE

ABOUT eight or nine years ago Ifirst began to collect material for this family record

but with no intention at that time of publishing it Many from whom Imight have

obtained important information having passed away before that date the earlier history of

the family has been secured principally from old wills and deeds of land and property found

among the records in the office of the County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia

The information in regard to the Coat of Arms Igot when in London England in 1878 bullAmong those living to none am Iso much indebted as to John H Rochester of

Rochester N V and R Hart Rochester of New-York City Comparatively few of those

to whom Ihave written for information declined to give it and generally it has been given

cheerfully The short biography of Col Nathaniel Rochester Ihave compiled from a

manuscript history of his life written by himself from OReillys History of Rochester

and from the sketch of his life in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase The rapid growth of

the family since 1800 and the distances by which they have been separated prevent a fuller

history of the family since that date than such as can be obtained from the Charts 11 to

XI in which Ihave given all the births deaths and marriages of the descendants of Col

Nathaniel Rochester Great care has been taken to avoid errors and ifany are discovered

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While hoping the family will receive this little work kindly Ifeel sure that none can

take greater pleasure in reading it than Ihave had in its compilation

NATHANIEL ROCHESTERBuffalo N V July 1 1882

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I when the Coat of Arms or a fesse between three crescents sa was confirmediH or allowed to the family2

Nicholas Rochester the first member of the family who came to this country

was born in the County of Kent 3 England about the year 1640 and was _ bull_ _1 lI TT_ j_l gt 1 _f IT T ~

O 1 T~v -s-- _ I married there He came to the Colony of Virginia in 1689 an d on Dec 26thof that year purchased 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County from one

Mishy John Jenkins a planter who by patent from Governor Richard Bennet 4 in 1653

had obtained 1000 acres of land in consideration of importing 20 persons into

this colony 5 $

brvbarI The land conveyed by Jno Jenkins to Nicholas Rochester was located in Nominy (or Nomini) Forest in the southeastern part of the county where is now Lyells store close to the line of Richmond County and about three miles from Warsaw in Richmond County The deed of the land is not

recorded 6 but is mentioned by date and description of land in a settlement of disputed boundary with one John Dunkin Nov 2d 1726 William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester and John Rochester (first) son of William

Rochester (first) afterwards purchased other lands on Machodoc (or Machotock) River adjoining the 100 acres bought from John Jenkins in 1689 until the

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plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

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Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

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William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

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In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

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in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

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large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

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14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

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Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

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3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

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7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

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9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

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WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

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lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

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DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

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WITH CHARTS OF THE FAMILY AND Tlt^ CONNECTIONS

From 1640 to 1882

COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY NATHANIEL ROCHESTER

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PREFACE

ABOUT eight or nine years ago Ifirst began to collect material for this family record

but with no intention at that time of publishing it Many from whom Imight have

obtained important information having passed away before that date the earlier history of

the family has been secured principally from old wills and deeds of land and property found

among the records in the office of the County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia

The information in regard to the Coat of Arms Igot when in London England in 1878 bullAmong those living to none am Iso much indebted as to John H Rochester of

Rochester N V and R Hart Rochester of New-York City Comparatively few of those

to whom Ihave written for information declined to give it and generally it has been given

cheerfully The short biography of Col Nathaniel Rochester Ihave compiled from a

manuscript history of his life written by himself from OReillys History of Rochester

and from the sketch of his life in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase The rapid growth of

the family since 1800 and the distances by which they have been separated prevent a fuller

history of the family since that date than such as can be obtained from the Charts 11 to

XI in which Ihave given all the births deaths and marriages of the descendants of Col

Nathaniel Rochester Great care has been taken to avoid errors and ifany are discovered

Itrust that they willbe excused brvbarbrvbarbull jraquoi

While hoping the family will receive this little work kindly Ifeel sure that none can

take greater pleasure in reading it than Ihave had in its compilation

NATHANIEL ROCHESTERBuffalo N V July 1 1882

EARLY HISTORY

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IHE family of Rochester were resident in the County of Essex England brvbar-f Jtrl

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I when the Coat of Arms or a fesse between three crescents sa was confirmediH or allowed to the family2

Nicholas Rochester the first member of the family who came to this country

was born in the County of Kent 3 England about the year 1640 and was _ bull_ _1 lI TT_ j_l gt 1 _f IT T ~

O 1 T~v -s-- _ I married there He came to the Colony of Virginia in 1689 an d on Dec 26thof that year purchased 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County from one

Mishy John Jenkins a planter who by patent from Governor Richard Bennet 4 in 1653

had obtained 1000 acres of land in consideration of importing 20 persons into

this colony 5 $

brvbarI The land conveyed by Jno Jenkins to Nicholas Rochester was located in Nominy (or Nomini) Forest in the southeastern part of the county where is now Lyells store close to the line of Richmond County and about three miles from Warsaw in Richmond County The deed of the land is not

recorded 6 but is mentioned by date and description of land in a settlement of disputed boundary with one John Dunkin Nov 2d 1726 William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester and John Rochester (first) son of William

Rochester (first) afterwards purchased other lands on Machodoc (or Machotock) River adjoining the 100 acres bought from John Jenkins in 1689 until the

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plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

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Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

having had six children mdash

William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

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In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

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in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

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large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

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14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

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1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

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BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

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Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

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3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

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7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

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9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

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WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

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Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

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EARLY HISTORY

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WITH CHARTS OF THE FAMILY AND Tlt^ CONNECTIONS

From 1640 to 1882

COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY NATHANIEL ROCHESTER

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PREFACE

ABOUT eight or nine years ago Ifirst began to collect material for this family record

but with no intention at that time of publishing it Many from whom Imight have

obtained important information having passed away before that date the earlier history of

the family has been secured principally from old wills and deeds of land and property found

among the records in the office of the County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia

The information in regard to the Coat of Arms Igot when in London England in 1878 bullAmong those living to none am Iso much indebted as to John H Rochester of

Rochester N V and R Hart Rochester of New-York City Comparatively few of those

to whom Ihave written for information declined to give it and generally it has been given

cheerfully The short biography of Col Nathaniel Rochester Ihave compiled from a

manuscript history of his life written by himself from OReillys History of Rochester

and from the sketch of his life in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase The rapid growth of

the family since 1800 and the distances by which they have been separated prevent a fuller

history of the family since that date than such as can be obtained from the Charts 11 to

XI in which Ihave given all the births deaths and marriages of the descendants of Col

Nathaniel Rochester Great care has been taken to avoid errors and ifany are discovered

Itrust that they willbe excused brvbarbrvbarbull jraquoi

While hoping the family will receive this little work kindly Ifeel sure that none can

take greater pleasure in reading it than Ihave had in its compilation

NATHANIEL ROCHESTERBuffalo N V July 1 1882

EARLY HISTORY

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IHE family of Rochester were resident in the County of Essex England brvbar-f Jtrl

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I when the Coat of Arms or a fesse between three crescents sa was confirmediH or allowed to the family2

Nicholas Rochester the first member of the family who came to this country

was born in the County of Kent 3 England about the year 1640 and was _ bull_ _1 lI TT_ j_l gt 1 _f IT T ~

O 1 T~v -s-- _ I married there He came to the Colony of Virginia in 1689 an d on Dec 26thof that year purchased 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County from one

Mishy John Jenkins a planter who by patent from Governor Richard Bennet 4 in 1653

had obtained 1000 acres of land in consideration of importing 20 persons into

this colony 5 $

brvbarI The land conveyed by Jno Jenkins to Nicholas Rochester was located in Nominy (or Nomini) Forest in the southeastern part of the county where is now Lyells store close to the line of Richmond County and about three miles from Warsaw in Richmond County The deed of the land is not

recorded 6 but is mentioned by date and description of land in a settlement of disputed boundary with one John Dunkin Nov 2d 1726 William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester and John Rochester (first) son of William

Rochester (first) afterwards purchased other lands on Machodoc (or Machotock) River adjoining the 100 acres bought from John Jenkins in 1689 until the

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plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

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Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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7 being in the following order was made on the 27th day of May 1719 bullNicholas Rochester an ancient person is upon his mocon acquitt from future

T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

having had six children mdash

William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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L v On June 9th 1793 he married Ann McClannahan (widow of Wm McCianshy r

fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

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In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

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in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

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large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

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DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

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2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

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3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

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9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

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Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

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2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

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PREFACE

ABOUT eight or nine years ago Ifirst began to collect material for this family record

but with no intention at that time of publishing it Many from whom Imight have

obtained important information having passed away before that date the earlier history of

the family has been secured principally from old wills and deeds of land and property found

among the records in the office of the County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia

The information in regard to the Coat of Arms Igot when in London England in 1878 bullAmong those living to none am Iso much indebted as to John H Rochester of

Rochester N V and R Hart Rochester of New-York City Comparatively few of those

to whom Ihave written for information declined to give it and generally it has been given

cheerfully The short biography of Col Nathaniel Rochester Ihave compiled from a

manuscript history of his life written by himself from OReillys History of Rochester

and from the sketch of his life in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase The rapid growth of

the family since 1800 and the distances by which they have been separated prevent a fuller

history of the family since that date than such as can be obtained from the Charts 11 to

XI in which Ihave given all the births deaths and marriages of the descendants of Col

Nathaniel Rochester Great care has been taken to avoid errors and ifany are discovered

Itrust that they willbe excused brvbarbrvbarbull jraquoi

While hoping the family will receive this little work kindly Ifeel sure that none can

take greater pleasure in reading it than Ihave had in its compilation

NATHANIEL ROCHESTERBuffalo N V July 1 1882

EARLY HISTORY

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IHE family of Rochester were resident in the County of Essex England brvbar-f Jtrl

| -brvbar in the year 1558 as is proved by the Heralds Visitations1 of that County nijspt

I when the Coat of Arms or a fesse between three crescents sa was confirmediH or allowed to the family2

Nicholas Rochester the first member of the family who came to this country

was born in the County of Kent 3 England about the year 1640 and was _ bull_ _1 lI TT_ j_l gt 1 _f IT T ~

O 1 T~v -s-- _ I married there He came to the Colony of Virginia in 1689 an d on Dec 26thof that year purchased 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County from one

Mishy John Jenkins a planter who by patent from Governor Richard Bennet 4 in 1653

had obtained 1000 acres of land in consideration of importing 20 persons into

this colony 5 $

brvbarI The land conveyed by Jno Jenkins to Nicholas Rochester was located in Nominy (or Nomini) Forest in the southeastern part of the county where is now Lyells store close to the line of Richmond County and about three miles from Warsaw in Richmond County The deed of the land is not

recorded 6 but is mentioned by date and description of land in a settlement of disputed boundary with one John Dunkin Nov 2d 1726 William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester and John Rochester (first) son of William

Rochester (first) afterwards purchased other lands on Machodoc (or Machotock) River adjoining the 100 acres bought from John Jenkins in 1689 until the

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plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

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Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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7 being in the following order was made on the 27th day of May 1719 bullNicholas Rochester an ancient person is upon his mocon acquitt from future

T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

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William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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mdash William died young

mdash John (third) died 1825 mdash Betsey married Lawson Moore January 2 1794

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Hester married Jno Crabb Jr June 26 1797mdash Hannah

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fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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ltH By his will his son John Rochester (third) was made guardian of his

brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

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In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

X

IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

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DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

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9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

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WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

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lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

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Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

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Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

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5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

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PREFACE

ABOUT eight or nine years ago Ifirst began to collect material for this family record

but with no intention at that time of publishing it Many from whom Imight have

obtained important information having passed away before that date the earlier history of

the family has been secured principally from old wills and deeds of land and property found

among the records in the office of the County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia

The information in regard to the Coat of Arms Igot when in London England in 1878 bullAmong those living to none am Iso much indebted as to John H Rochester of

Rochester N V and R Hart Rochester of New-York City Comparatively few of those

to whom Ihave written for information declined to give it and generally it has been given

cheerfully The short biography of Col Nathaniel Rochester Ihave compiled from a

manuscript history of his life written by himself from OReillys History of Rochester

and from the sketch of his life in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase The rapid growth of

the family since 1800 and the distances by which they have been separated prevent a fuller

history of the family since that date than such as can be obtained from the Charts 11 to

XI in which Ihave given all the births deaths and marriages of the descendants of Col

Nathaniel Rochester Great care has been taken to avoid errors and ifany are discovered

Itrust that they willbe excused brvbarbrvbarbull jraquoi

While hoping the family will receive this little work kindly Ifeel sure that none can

take greater pleasure in reading it than Ihave had in its compilation

NATHANIEL ROCHESTERBuffalo N V July 1 1882

EARLY HISTORY

OF THE

ROCHESTER FAMILY fi

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IHE family of Rochester were resident in the County of Essex England brvbar-f Jtrl

| -brvbar in the year 1558 as is proved by the Heralds Visitations1 of that County nijspt

I when the Coat of Arms or a fesse between three crescents sa was confirmediH or allowed to the family2

Nicholas Rochester the first member of the family who came to this country

was born in the County of Kent 3 England about the year 1640 and was _ bull_ _1 lI TT_ j_l gt 1 _f IT T ~

O 1 T~v -s-- _ I married there He came to the Colony of Virginia in 1689 an d on Dec 26thof that year purchased 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County from one

Mishy John Jenkins a planter who by patent from Governor Richard Bennet 4 in 1653

had obtained 1000 acres of land in consideration of importing 20 persons into

this colony 5 $

brvbarI The land conveyed by Jno Jenkins to Nicholas Rochester was located in Nominy (or Nomini) Forest in the southeastern part of the county where is now Lyells store close to the line of Richmond County and about three miles from Warsaw in Richmond County The deed of the land is not

recorded 6 but is mentioned by date and description of land in a settlement of disputed boundary with one John Dunkin Nov 2d 1726 William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester and John Rochester (first) son of William

Rochester (first) afterwards purchased other lands on Machodoc (or Machotock) River adjoining the 100 acres bought from John Jenkins in 1689 until the

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plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

4

Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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T j At this time being an old man and the County Court of Westmoreland

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7 being in the following order was made on the 27th day of May 1719 bullNicholas Rochester an ancient person is upon his mocon acquitt from future

T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

having had six children mdash

William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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$lt-gt deceased In 1789 his wife died leaving the following children

mdash William died young

mdash John (third) died 1825 mdash Betsey married Lawson Moore January 2 1794

S5 Robert mdash

Imdash Nancy married Capt Fadlock mdash

Hester married Jno Crabb Jr June 26 1797mdash Hannah

mdash Nathanielmdash Jane married Lawson Moore (his second wife)mdash bull Artemisha

if mdash m bull SophiaI1

L v On June 9th 1793 he married Ann McClannahan (widow of Wm McCianshy r

fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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ltH By his will his son John Rochester (third) was made guardian of his

brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 9

on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

i

In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

X

IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

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WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

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EARLY HISTORY

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IHE family of Rochester were resident in the County of Essex England brvbar-f Jtrl

| -brvbar in the year 1558 as is proved by the Heralds Visitations1 of that County nijspt

I when the Coat of Arms or a fesse between three crescents sa was confirmediH or allowed to the family2

Nicholas Rochester the first member of the family who came to this country

was born in the County of Kent 3 England about the year 1640 and was _ bull_ _1 lI TT_ j_l gt 1 _f IT T ~

O 1 T~v -s-- _ I married there He came to the Colony of Virginia in 1689 an d on Dec 26thof that year purchased 100 acres of land in Westmoreland County from one

Mishy John Jenkins a planter who by patent from Governor Richard Bennet 4 in 1653

had obtained 1000 acres of land in consideration of importing 20 persons into

this colony 5 $

brvbarI The land conveyed by Jno Jenkins to Nicholas Rochester was located in Nominy (or Nomini) Forest in the southeastern part of the county where is now Lyells store close to the line of Richmond County and about three miles from Warsaw in Richmond County The deed of the land is not

recorded 6 but is mentioned by date and description of land in a settlement of disputed boundary with one John Dunkin Nov 2d 1726 William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester and John Rochester (first) son of William

Rochester (first) afterwards purchased other lands on Machodoc (or Machotock) River adjoining the 100 acres bought from John Jenkins in 1689 until the

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plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

4

Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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7 being in the following order was made on the 27th day of May 1719 bullNicholas Rochester an ancient person is upon his mocon acquitt from future

T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

having had six children mdash

William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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mdash William died young

mdash John (third) died 1825 mdash Betsey married Lawson Moore January 2 1794

S5 Robert mdash

Imdash Nancy married Capt Fadlock mdash

Hester married Jno Crabb Jr June 26 1797mdash Hannah

mdash Nathanielmdash Jane married Lawson Moore (his second wife)mdash bull Artemisha

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L v On June 9th 1793 he married Ann McClannahan (widow of Wm McCianshy r

fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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ltH By his will his son John Rochester (third) was made guardian of his

brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

i

In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

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1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

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2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

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5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

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DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

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bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

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9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

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WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

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Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

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Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

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3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

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4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

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2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

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6 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

plantation grew to about 400 acres which descended to the children of the second]

John Rochester and was sold by them in 1798 to one John Gordon when theyk

migrated to Kentucky This plantation was situated (as above mentioned) at LyelPs store at the intersection of two roads and fronting on both One road

leading from Hague in Westmoreland County to Warsaw in Richmond County

and the other leading from Oldhams Cross Roads 7 and impinging upon the former

The old homestead which is one of the oldest (perhaps the oldest) house onshy

in Westmoreland County still stands in excellent condition 8 and bears fcAthe

ottZttciJL 9f-lt~fpound^tchimney corner the legend W R 1746 cut in a broad brick near the coping stone The lands purchased by William Rochester (first) were located partly

in Richmond County and partly in Westmoreland County 9 and a house now

fiti-hraquolaquo-lt yyzstanding facing the Warsaw Road a few rods from Lyells store was Athe home )r zpoundraquolampampffdegf William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first)

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Nicholas Rochester born in Kent County England about 1640 had one

son named William born about 1680 He came to Westmoreland County an(Virginia in 1689 lived upon his plantation which as before stated he

purchased from John Jenkins On the 26th day of May 1719 he made a deed of gift of the property to his son William in which he provided for its descending

fr to the eldest son of William and his issue and in case the eldest son shoulddie without issue then to the younger son and his issue

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7 being in the following order was made on the 27th day of May 1719 bullNicholas Rochester an ancient person is upon his mocon acquitt from future

T _ payment of liens in this county He died soon after this date Ip

William Rochester (first) son of Nicholas Rochester was born about the year 1680 married Frances McKinney (widow of William McKinney) He died between the 23d and 30th of October 1750 leaving two sons

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

having had six children mdash

William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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$lt-gt deceased In 1789 his wife died leaving the following children

mdash William died young

mdash John (third) died 1825 mdash Betsey married Lawson Moore January 2 1794

S5 Robert mdash

Imdash Nancy married Capt Fadlock mdash

Hester married Jno Crabb Jr June 26 1797mdash Hannah

mdash Nathanielmdash Jane married Lawson Moore (his second wife)mdash bull Artemisha

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L v On June 9th 1793 he married Ann McClannahan (widow of Wm McCianshy r

fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

i

In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

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in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

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1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

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3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

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7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

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9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

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lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

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uH John Rochester (first) the eldest son of William Rochester (first) was

ibri about the year 1708 and married Hester (or Esther) Thrift daughter of

VBpip Thrift Esq of Richmond County Va He died in November 1754

having had six children mdash

William (third) who died in childhoodmdash JL John (second) born 1746 died 17944 Ann mdashmarried Benj Rayland

mdash Phillis married Samuel Morsemdash Nathaniel born February 21 1752 died May 14 1831

frT mdash Esther (or Hester) married Ruben Pyles

I His widow Mrs Hester Thrift Rochester in 1759 married a Mr Thomas

Critcher who removed about the year 1763 to Granville County North Carolina

taking the entire family with him

t William Rochester (second) second son of William Rochester (first) was

Iborn about the year 1710 In 1735 he married Miss Mary Asbury and lived

in Richmond County VirginiaAm the house before mentioned in which is the

-legend R 1746 His wife died in 1757 leaving no children In 1759 or

1760 he married again and by his second wife had three children mdash

poundAnn mdashElizabeth mdash married Charles JonesJeremiah

All born between the years 1760 and 1765 He died in July 1767 and his

second wife in 1800 His willand that of his second wife Mrs ElinorRochester

crre recorded in Richmond County Virginia

His only son Jeremiah Rochester died before the year 1829 and left

no issue

John Rochester (second) the eldest son of John Rochester (first) was born

in 1746 and in 1763 was taken with the rest of the family by his step-father

Thomas Critcher to Granville County North Carolina In 1766 he returned to

Westmoreland County Virginia and married Ann Jordan daughter of Robert

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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$lt-gt deceased In 1789 his wife died leaving the following children

mdash William died young

mdash John (third) died 1825 mdash Betsey married Lawson Moore January 2 1794

S5 Robert mdash

Imdash Nancy married Capt Fadlock mdash

Hester married Jno Crabb Jr June 26 1797mdash Hannah

mdash Nathanielmdash Jane married Lawson Moore (his second wife)mdash bull Artemisha

if mdash m bull SophiaI1

L v On June 9th 1793 he married Ann McClannahan (widow of Wm McCianshy r

fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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ltH By his will his son John Rochester (third) was made guardian of his

brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

i

In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

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1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

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7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

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9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

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WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

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3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

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3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

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Jordan a rich planter of Cople Parish 10 Westmoreland County Virginia Onj the 28th of October 1767 he purchased from Gerard Hutt Sr Gentleman

mdash and Mary his wife 100 acres of land in Cople Parish adjoining the land of his mdash

father John Rochester (first) which was at that time owned by his mother Mrs

Critcher (it being her dower-right at his fathers death) On the 28th day ofk

J September 1773 he purchased from Thomas Critcher (his step-father) the land

on which he was born it being the land whereon the said Thomas Critcher formerly lived and his wifes dower from her late husband John Rochester

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$lt-gt deceased In 1789 his wife died leaving the following children

mdash William died young

mdash John (third) died 1825 mdash Betsey married Lawson Moore January 2 1794

S5 Robert mdash

Imdash Nancy married Capt Fadlock mdash

Hester married Jno Crabb Jr June 26 1797mdash Hannah

mdash Nathanielmdash Jane married Lawson Moore (his second wife)mdash bull Artemisha

if mdash m bull SophiaI1

L v On June 9th 1793 he married Ann McClannahan (widow of Wm McCianshy r

fc^ nahan) and died in December 1794 Tlt There were no children by the second1-it

Ll marriage He was a man of prominence in the county served as sheriff was NEr^ in the militia and in 17851 captain was vestryman in Cople Parish

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ltH By his will his son John Rochester (third) was made guardian of his

brothers and sisters who were minors In October 1798 the minors were

vi Hannah 3 Jane 5 Sophia

2 Nathaniel 4 Artemisha

t John Rochester (third) in 1798 took all his brothers and sisters with him

to Kentucky where he died in the year 1825

Nathaniel Rochester second son of John Rochester (first) was born on

the 21st day of February 1752 in Cople Parish Westmoreland County Virginia

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on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

i

In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

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IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

_gtlaquoraquoC AuLfe^v1fS~V

5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

^ L T lh m

DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

raquo

CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

(

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 9

on the plantation on which his father grandfather and great-grandfather had

lived When he was two years old his father died and when he was seven 12

his mother married a Mr Thomas Critcher who in 1763 removed with the

entire family to Granville County North Carolina During his childhood the

opportunities for a liberal education were extremely limited The varied and i

practical information for which he was distinguished in private intercourse as

well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled was the fruit of the later application of a clear and vigorous mind in the intervals of leisure afforded by

a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude 13

I In the autumn of 1768 when sixteen years old he entered the mercantile

establishment of James Monroe in Hillsboro N C (forty miles from home) as I a clerk where he remained till 1773 when he entered into partnership with

1 his former employer^ and Col John Hamilton who was consul for the British

iGovernment in the Middle States after the close of the Revolution In 1770 he was Clerk of the Vestry of Hillsboro

fyen In 1775 the partnership was dissolved by the breaking out of the

Revolution and the same year (being only twenty-three years old at the time) f he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for Orange County

N C whose business it was to use his own words To promote the revolushytionary spirit among the people procure arms and ammunition make collections

4 for the people of Boston whose harbor was blocked up by a British fleet and

to prevent the sale and use of East India teas

I In August of the same year 1775 he attended as a member the first

Provincial Convention in North Carolina and at that time was made paymaster

(with the rank of Major) for the North Carolina line which at the time

consisted of four regiments About the same time he was also made a Justice of the Peace

T At the re-assembling of the Convention in May 1776 the North Carolina line was increased to ten regiments and in the proceedings of the Convention

on Friday May 10 1776 it was Resolved That Nathaniel Rochester Esquire be appointed Deputy Commissary-General of Military and other stores in this county for the use of the Continental Army and that he be allowed the same

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

i

In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

X

IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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14 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

century and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variouscentury and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variousmembers of the family J^members of the family J^V(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrtsV(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrts$-zy7vis 759 tamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^759$-zy7vis trimtamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^ trim amppound--amppound--ii

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

_gtlaquoraquoC AuLfe^v1fS~V

5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

^ L T lh m

DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

raquo

CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

10 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

allowance as provided by the Continental Congress for such officer and that

he give security in for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed

in him14

On the adjournment of the Convention he entered upon the active duties of

providing food and clothing for the army the fatigue incident to which accomshypanied by unusual exposure in unhealthy districts brought on disease so pershy

manent in its character as to compel him to resign in accordance with medical

advice Returning to Hillsboro he found that he had been elected a member of

the Legislature in which he soon took his seat thus becoming a member of one 1

of the earliest legislative bodies organized^ and assembled in defiance of British claims to dominion During this session he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of militia and in the following spring was made Clerk of Orange County which

office had been held for many years by General F Nash who was killed at the battle of Germantown

i

In 1777 he was appointed commissioner to establish and superintend a

manufactory of arms at Hillsboro the iron for which had to be drawn in wagons

from Pennsylvania a distance of over 400 miles Resigning the office of County Clerk because the fees of the office would

not pay for the postage he was appointed one of a board of three to audit t the public accounts and was also promoted to be Colonel

In 1778 he again embarked in mercantile pursuits with Col Thomas Hart1

(father-in-law of Henry Clay) and James Brown (afterwards Minister to France) In 1783 he and Col Hart began the manufacture of flour rope and nails at

Hagerstown Md

On the 20th day of April 1788 he married Sophia daughter of Col Wm Beatty of Frederick Md She was born in Frederick Md Jan 25 1768

While living at Hagerstown Md he successively filled the offices of Member

of Assembly of Maryland Postmaster at Hagerstown Judge of the County

Court and in 1808 was chosen a Presidential Elector (with Dr Jno Tyler of

Fredericktown Md)- in favor of James Madison for President (Frederick

Washington and Allegany Counties forming the district)

In i8oraquo he was the first president of the Hagerstown Bank A portrait

X

IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

century and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variouscentury and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variousmembers of the family J^members of the family J^V(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrtsV(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrts$-zy7vis 759 tamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^759$-zy7vis trimtamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^ trim amppound--amppound--ii

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

_gtlaquoraquoC AuLfe^v1fS~V

5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

^ L T lh m

DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

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CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

IIEARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

taken whilst he held that position is now in the possession of the Bank andis highly prized All this time he was carrying- on extensive manufacturing

establishments in Hagerstown and had in operation two mercantile establishments

in Kentucky

In 1800 he first visited the Genesee Country where he had previously

made a purchase of 640 acres and in September of that year associating with

him Maior Charles Carroll Col William Fitzhugh and Col Hilton made large iampS^f purchases of land in Livingston County near Dansville In 1802 with Qampaampiu^pze^zZ~~ Fitzhugh and Major Carroll he purchased the 100 acre or Allan MillTract

(in what is now called Rochester at that time called Falls Town) for seventeen

and a half dollars ($1750) per acre In May 1810 having closed up his

business in Maryland he first became a resident of Western New-York and

removing to Dansville with his family occupied his purchase there Here

bull-1 he remained five years and erected a large paper mill and made many

improvements In 1815 having disposed of his interests in Dansville he removed to a

large and well-improved farm15 in Bloomfield Ontario County After staying

here for three years during which time he constantly visited the Falls of the

Genesee and his property there laying it out into lots to be brought into the

market he in April 18 18 took up his residence there the town in the interim f having been called after him Rochester

foac~-es In 18 16 he was a second time an Elector of President and Vice-President In January 1817 he was secretary of the important convention at Cananshy

daigua which urged the construction of the Erie Canal During this year he

went to Albany N V as an agent of the petitioners for the erection of what

is now known as Monroe County but was not successful till the year 1821 in

obtaining its accomplishment He was the first Clerk of the new County and

also its first representative in the State Legislature iszlig2i-J2 In 1824 he was

one of the commission for taking subscriptions to the capital stock of the Bank

of Rochester and upon the organization of the institution was unanimously elected its President He resigned this position the December following on

account of an impaired physical constitution and the increasing infirmities of age

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

century and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variouscentury and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variousmembers of the family J^members of the family J^V(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrtsV(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrts$-zy7vis 759 tamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^759$-zy7vis trimtamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^ trim amppound--amppound--ii

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

_gtlaquoraquoC AuLfe^v1fS~V

5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

^ L T lh m

DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

raquo

CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

12 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

This was the last of his numerous public or corporate trusts From this time 1he retired from active duties but was always a good and willing counselor to

those in the young and thriving town which was rapidly growing up around

him He had always been attached to the Protestant Episcopal Church and

was one of the founders of St Lukes Church Rochester It was the will of

-God to remove him by a most painful disorder forbidding him even an hours

troubled repose but the end finally came and the pain ceased and there was quiet and peace that was so gradual that those about him scarcely knew

the moment of his final departure He died on the morning of the 17th of

May 1831 Starting in life with but few advantages thrown upon his own resources at

the early age of sixteen with energy and integrity of purpose and a fearless

self-reliance he had a long career of usefulness His country demanded his

services and he freely gave them alternating in its financial military and legisshy

lative work Its exigencies terminating he was a zealous co-worker in all that related to the beneficial uses of free government Almost constantly

i filling important public trusts he was at the same time the founder of business establishments the promoter of public prosperity and finally the Founder of

a City His wife Sophia Beatty was a descendant of John Beatty who was born

1

in Scotland in 1660 from which on account of religious prosecutions he emigrated

to Ireland and from thence to England where he married Susanna Ajbfordby i

He then went to Holland and about 1700 came to America and settled at

Esopus New-York where he died leaving six sons and two daughters His

widow removed with the children to Maryland 16 about the year 1728 where she purchased a large tract of land Their third son whose name was William

was born about the year 1693 and died in 1757 leaving one son William and

five daughters The son William was born January 17 1739 and married Mary

Doratha Grosh (daughter of Jno Conrad and Maria Sophia Grosh of Mayence on the Rhine who settled in Frederick Maryland in 1743) March Ist 1757 He

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

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5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

^ L T lh m

DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

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WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

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3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY 13

died April 25th 1801 and his wife on August 2d 1810 They had sixteen

children of whom Sophia born January 25th 1768 was the sixth

Col Nathaniel Rochester and Sophia his wife had twelve children

William Beatty Rochester Catharine Kimball Rochester

Nancy Barbara Rochester Nathaniel Thrift Rochester

John Cornelius Rochester Anna Barbara Rochester Sophia Eliza Rochester Henry Elie Rochester

I Mary Eleanor Rochester Ann Cornelia Rochester

I Thomas Hart Rochester Louisa Lucinda Rochester

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NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

century and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variouscentury and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variousmembers of the family J^members of the family J^V(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrtsV(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrts$-zy7vis 759 tamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^759$-zy7vis trimtamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^ trim amppound--amppound--ii

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

_gtlaquoraquoC AuLfe^v1fS~V

5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

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DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

raquo

CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

14 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

NOTES

1Heralds Visitations Commissions were issued under the great seal to the provincial Kings

of Arms authorizing and commanding each by himself or deputy to visit the whole of his

province as often as he should deem it necessary to convene before him all those who bore or

assumed to bear arms and were styled Esquires or Gentlemen and to cause them to produce and

show by what authority and right they challenged and claimed the said use of arms The circuits^ of the Kings of Arms called Visitations commenced about the beginning of the 16th centuryj and were continued till the close of the 17th century These Visitations are preserved as book

of record and the principal hereditary arms of the Kingdom (of Great Britain) are borne undeimdash the authority of these records From Sir B Burke1s (JJlster King of Arms) General Armory

2 See Harleian Manuscript now preserved in the British Museum

3 Phelps amp Gorham purchase p 588 Essex and Kent are adjoining counties and the family 1

at this time (1640) lived in both I 4 Richard Bennet was Governor of the Colony of Virginia from 1652 to 1655 (

5 See record of patent in office of County Clerk of Westmoreland County Virginia Other 1

records of the same time (1653) and subsequent dates show that John Jenkins was the owner

oft]

large tracts of land in the southern part of Westmoreland County I 6 The earliest records of Westmoreland Richmond and adjoining counties in Virginia are the

middle of the 17th century Of parish records there are none in existence except of recent dates U 7 This is called the Northumberland Road in some of- the deeds as it runs from Oldhams -I1

Cross-roads into Northumberland County 8 July 1882

9 The county line being on or near the road from Oldhams Cross-roads before mentioned

lOCople Parish the most easterly of the three parishes of Westmoreland County and the one

in which the Rochester property lay The parishes of Westmoreland County are Cople Montross and Washington

11For account of parishes in Virginia and names of the Vestry see Old Churches and Families

of Virginia Vol 11 p 153 By Bishop Meade

Year 1759 13 OReillys History of Rochester

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

century and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variouscentury and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variousmembers of the family J^members of the family J^V(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrtsV(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrts$-zy7vis 759 tamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^759$-zy7vis trimtamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^ trim amppound--amppound--ii

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

_gtlaquoraquoC AuLfe^v1fS~V

5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

^ L T lh m

DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

raquo

CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

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3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

15 EARLY HISTORY OF THE ROCHESTER FAMILY

14 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 30114 Forces American Archives Vol IV p 301

13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at13 The farm still bears the name of The Rochester Farm 1882 In the Court-House at

Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-Canandaigua the county seat of Ontario County are portraits of the pioneers of Western New-

York among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent placeYork among which that of Col Nathaniel Rochester has a prominent place

16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th16 The Beattys were prominent and active citizens in Maryland during the last half of the 18th

century and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variouscentury and in ScharfFs History of Western Maryland frequent mention is made of the variousmembers of the family J^members of the family J^V(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrtsV(Jsfogtt^ ampzyrts$-zy7vis 759 tamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^759$-zy7vis trimtamptutVbuatf^ g~ox poundamp(jf^yh ^t^ trim amppound--amppound--ii

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CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

_gtlaquoraquoC AuLfe^v1fS~V

5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

^ L T lh m

DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

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CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

CHART I

1 WilliamRochester

2 John Rochester

NICHOLAS ROCHESTER JHediSSS

BorninEngland about 1610 3 Betsey Rochester^4 Robert Rochester

DiedinVirginiaafter 1719 5 Nancy Rochester

6Esther Rochester - 7 Hannah Rochester

WilliamRochester 8 Nathaniel Rochester 9 Jane Rochester

DUdbetween October 23d and SOii 1750 10 Artemisha Rochester

Married Frances McKinney 11 Sophia Rochester (Widowof Wnu McKinney)

~shybrvbar Nolasue QJr^ f 1 John Rochester

Bornabout 1703 1 WilliamRochester 1 WilliamBeatty Rochester See Chart 11DiedNovember 1754 Died InChildhood HornJanuary 20 1780 Jgt- laquoU- ^ ^VltT

2 WilliamRochester 2 John Rochester 2 Nancy Barbara Rochester

Born1746 BornNovember 11780

DiedDecember 1704 Died November SO 1702

3 Ann Rochester 3 John Cornelius Rochester See Chart 111 BornJampmaraquo-y 28 1792 33 raquo~-~-ltS- bulllt-VlaquoJBorraquo1748

4PhillisRochester 4Sophia Eliza Rochester See Chart IV

JSorn 1750 BonfNiwmnbet2o l79B brvbarbull

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5NATHANIELROCHESTER 5 MaryEleanor Rochester See Chart ~V Born AprtlZ1790XVbruary 21 1752

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DiedMayifiISSL 6 Thomas HartRochester See Chart VI

7 Esther Rochestei Born September^23l797 3gtoraquo+ C Born1753 7 Catherine KimballRochester VII

Born July 41799 (jzgt ltyU_ip 9-3f

bull 8 Nathaniel ThriftRochester raquo raquo VIIINoIssue

Born Marc141802 _Zgt J~tvc TP-J

9 Anna Barbara Rochester 1 Ann Rochester BornJanuary 3 1804

Born 1781 DitdjLuaiutiSfSo 1 2Elizabeth Rochester 10 Henry ElieRochester See Chart IX V

Born1708 BornJanuary 71800 2gt J 3 Jeremiah Rocheste 11 AnnCornelia Rochester See Chart X

Born1785 BornFebruary 5180amp shy

Dfccl6eoraquolaquo 1829 12 Louisa Lucinda Rochester See Chart XI Born September 221810 ampamp I

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CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

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CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

CHART 11

WILLIAMBEATTY ROCHESTER-Born January 291789 lt--poundampfeampbraquovtltpound 1 Enos Throop KocliesterZgtUd Zostat Sea JineltfiB33 BornJanuary 151847

Married three time 2 ADaughter

lstWife Harriet Irwin BornSeptember 91648 DiedSeptember yn1848

Married September 121812

DiedJanuary 271815 ampZZJy~ l7gt 3WilliamBeatty Rochester BornJuly 281850

2dWife Amanda Hopking^7nXSpoundcraquo 33s 4 James Hervey Bochester Married January XI181C Born April181859 poundpoundDiedJanuary 161831

gt pound$HVa3dWife Mrs ElizaPowersMarried April01832

1 WilliamX

AL AlbertRochester Macy

Z) JT^y rrsr Bull Born Auffiut221875 Horn 1853

Zgtied 18Z3 Died December A1878

Nathaniel Montgomery Rochester 2 Harriet Rochester Bull y lt 2Marion Rochester Macy BornSeptember 2^ 1313 poundorraquo October 291854 amp Born XVbruary1878t Died February 281823 3 Arthur Rochester Macy

BornJanuary 101SS0

1 Annie Townsend Rochester Born JPclgtruary IlinampifYcudLfc-JZCf-MM

1 James Harvey Rochester 2IVilliamBeatty Rochester gp Bom April191819 Ujidpoundamppoundampamppoundampraquo BornMarch 23 1860 focUJx^JlC IS

2gtftdJfarcA22lB6o 3 HenryMartinRochester jj brvbars1

Born June 11 18G9 SampCs+rtrtos S|raquo2 Harriet Louisa Kochester in

MornXardi27 1821 ~3apound laquofcs~gpoundi 4 AliceDavies Kochester WBorn April20 1875 r^eft^(cylt^ilt

JDied Dec 131554 lt7

3 Sophia Rochester Born1824

IEliza Hatch Pitkin JZ)^ltrU Young

3orraquo March 21855

4 WilliamBeatty Rochester bullBomFeampruary 15 1836 lt^ j4raquo^laquolccot JKST

5 Nathaniel Rochester Sorn 1820 JL+ 1Benjamin Pitch

JBonraquo September 221850Dted ISampZ

Charlotte Fitch _ tw^VY df OSfSs^^ (U^j j^rlti

3 WilliamRochester Titch ornJanuary 7131nlaquoeliTHdtJ1 ElizaHatch Rochestermdash-mdash JgtletlJuly23im

BornDecember 18 1833 t^v~ampuJfrxpoundampf L Evelina Throop Fitch9+AAit poundlt ltgt C-L S-lt=f 2Hed April241863 Morn October 2SISGS

2 George WilliamRochester 5 Augusta BelleFitch Born December 251835 iX amps+ff BornJuly 81807 DtedAuffiatlBlS3l DiltaJtfarci7lB6R

William Beatty Rochester eldest son of Col Nathaniel Rochester founder of the City of Rochester NV was born in Hagerstown Md January 29 1789 was graduated at

Charlotte HallSt Marys county Maryland In 1812 he was aid-dc camp to General McClure in Western New York Studied law in Maysville Ky with his uncle Judge Adam Beatty and with Henry Clay in Lexington Ky and was admitted to the bar

In 1818 he represented Steuben county in the New York legislature in 182 1 he was Presidential elector from New York was a member of the XVIICongress and was placed on the Committee on District of Columbia

In 1823 was appointed Judge of the Eighth Circuit of New York resigned in 1826 to accept the Bucktail nomination for governor of New York in opposition to Dewitt Clinton was on account of the disaffection ofMartin Van Buren who had become an avowed Jackson man defeated by a very small majority Nathaniel Pitcher nominated for lieut governor on the same ticket being electedTwas subsequently appointed Secretary of the Congress of Nations at Panama at the instance of his personal and political friend Henry Clay then Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams

In1827 he was commissioned Charge dAffairs to the Fedshyeration of Central America in 1828 a branch of the Bank of the United States was established in Buffalo and he was appointed its president a position he held until the bank was abolished

Judge Rochester spent the winter of 1837mdash8 in Pensacola Fla where he was president of the Bank of Pensacola and a director in the Alabama and Florida R R Co Returning North he was lost with the Steamer Pulaski off the coast of South Carolina on her passage from Charleston S C to Baltimore Thursday June 14 1838

CHART 111

JOHN CORNELIUS ROCHESTER

Sarah Catherine Rochester BornNovember 11829

5 Henry Thompson Rochester j

Born July121833gt

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J^s^22Llaquo

1 Harriet Louisa Rochester Born OctdherV 1raquo19raquo

2 Sarah AnnRochester Born September 181851

3 Henry Maceabee Rochester JBorn January 181853

4 James Thomas Rochester BornJanuary 2018CL

5 Malinda Rochester

No Issue

1John Wesley Bear Born Sfay 301843

JgtUdlB4s

2VirginiaCatherine Bear Born 4prlaquo26 1846

3 AGirlDied Young

4 James Henry Bear jszligornJiay2slBBL

5 WilliamRochester Bear BornMarehl4TSsi

6 Nancy AliceBear JJorn March 291857

jouams

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1 1John Nathaniel Rochester

Born January 901859

2 George HRochester Born April31861

3 MaryNRochester Jsolaquoi October 151863

4 Amanda ARochesterBornNovember 71866

5 Sarah E Rochester JBor7iApriCl4tS69

6Franklin WRochester BornJuly 201872

7WilliamP Rochester Born2poundardfirSo lB7s

8Emmet BRochesterBornJulyIV1881

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CHART IV 1Jonathan ChildGibbons

SOPHIA ELIZA ROCHESTER Jiorn October 121842

Born November 29 1793 Ma-jfUXn^O^ XgtledMarch 28 1845

DiedMarch 3 1850 Married Z^Goofurt 2 Sophia Rochester Gibbons

Born October 19 1844(JONATHAN CHILD gt-May 71818

3 Nathaniel Rochester Gibbons Bom June 121817

Died September C1850

4Minnie Gibbons BornMay15 1851

DUdDecember 171858

5 Montgomery Gibbons

Born October 15 1854

6 EmilyNichols Gibbons Born April17 185

1 Anna Cutter Child Rom March 8 1845

Died September 8 1851

2 Nathaniel Rochester Child JBorn Auoutt 3 1848

DUd March 3 1840

10 A Daughter died at once ( NoIssue

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CHART V1Harvey Montgomery

Born April10 1816

Born Augutt 21 1817 WilliamRochester BornFebruary 121819

MARY ELEANOR ROCHESTER 1Edward Moltroup MontgomeryJBorn Jiity29 1858

Born AprilZT 17)C 2Mortimer MontgomeryDied March 21849 Born November 12 1855

Died April26 1857Married 3LillieLouisa MontgomeryBorn July27 1855HARVEY MONTGOMERY^ cuff-- 4Mary KingMontgomery

May19 1812 Born October i1861

(1 NellieAMontgomery5Rochester MeigsMontgomery BornDecember 20 18G3 BornJuly171872

2 Hugh BMontgomery NoIssuei JBorn August 151874

1WilliamRochester MontgomeryBornMat eh 121813 1nawoy Garnsoy Montgomery

Born and Died in18 IS2 Sophia Harriet Montgomery

Born June 30 181 Samp 1Ruth Ridgcly Montgomery 1 AustinNMontgomery

Died lUbmary14 153G (S^^ Born April26 1832 BornSeptember 231871AMampyp 2 Harvey Eglinton Montgomery3 Robert HallMontgomery Jjss Born185S

Bom October 10 1816 ampamp Died ISoi3 Fannie Montgomery

HornDecember IC18~gt1

4 Harvey Fitzhugh Montgomeiy__^---^fe gt^^ 4 GuyBocliestor Montgomery

- 3raquo 6V^ ^ Born June 28 1857 j 1 Ruth Jennie VailBoj-rJiiy21 1818 G AliceMontgomeiy

5 Thomas Colman Montgomery Som June 14 1839 I BornJune 25 1876 C Katherinc Montgomery

2orraquo JuJEy 13 1820 Jtorn December 21 1860 2 Pauline Vail

6 Mary Eleanor Montgomery Jorn March 41878

1 John Talman MontgomeryBorn Apra X01822 1822 JBorn JVotiemier la ISiJ 3 VirginiaVaii

7 Robert Henry Montgomery DiedMarch 12 1830 BomSeptember 18 1879 2Mary Whitney Montgomery

Born April20 1824 Born June 25 1851 4Lois Vail 3 Florence Montgomery BornAp)-U4ISSIJDitdAxtOutt 18 1825 JBornFebruary 1 1853

8 EmilyLouisa Montgomery 4ASon Born and Died Fcb 1 1855

~Born2fovemVerlB lB2s 5 Joseph me Montgomery9Nathaniel ChildMontgomery BornMarch 8 1836

Died March 3 1861BornDecember 20 1827 6Hugh MontgomeryJDied April261830

lornJuly 22 1857DiedFebruary 11 1873

10 Henry Meigs MontgomeryBornDecember 23 1829

1 Montgomery Backus11 Charles Skinner Montgomery Bom July 23 1818 Born December 51831 4 XbCUCIUi EXIpoundUUpoundIIJJJUlum2Rebecca FitzhughBackus

Xorn September 18 1850 JOUedatSatUecf DiiJanuary 30 1879 lto

Hatches Sun VirginiaFeb 6 1865 I3 Frederick WilliamBackus Vi

Born December G1852 ^12 BMontgomery ZMlaquoIticptcmbcr 23 1853 1 Emily MColeman BornMarch 31 1834 4Gerrit Fitzhugfc Backus Yyi Born September 111872Born September 28 183G 32laquogt DiedSeptember 51862 5 Gorrit Smith Backtw yamp 2 Frederick W ColemanBorn June 11 1861 V

13 Cornelia Rochester Montgomery JDiecJ January 29 1882 BornMay171874

BornJuly 31836

(1 Sidney Rochester Pitcher 3 Archibald Coleman Jtorn October 61868DiedMay91865DiedFebruary 121809

BornMay 28 1877 14 Josephine CMontgomery

BornNovember 24 1833

15 Xouisa Whitney Montgomery1Jomea Harvey Montgomery

Born October 23 155CampornAprils1843 ] 2 Marguerite Montgomery

I Born November 21801

1Charles Altrater JSorn October 16 1865

Pied 1867

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CHART VI laquo

1Nathaniel Kochester THOMAS HART ROCHESTER Born March 2C1554

BornSeptember 231797 2 Frances Munro Rochester

JDled October 6 1874 Born August 8 1855

Married 3 Elizabeth Cuming Rochester

PHEBE ELIZABETH CUMING Born March7 1857 September 26 1822

33 U-uJy-H gtIbrvbar 4 DeLancey Rochester BornFebruary 4 1859

5 Thomas Hart Rochester Bom July2818G1--iatvCeX JDled 3tarch 2 ISG2

g2iES^^6ris^ ^rf3 6laquo Margaret Fortescue Rochester t

-Jgt f^ Born October 113fi2

7 Caroline Montgomery Rochester Born November 9 1863

DlttXAugust 301804

8 Mary Heathcoto Rochester Born June 81865

Died August 2315G9

9 Emily Nichols Rochester Born February 22 1867

1 Thomas Moore Rochester tw

BornNovember 121854 i

2 Francis C Rochester 1Haydon Kochester BornMarch 161856 BornJanuary 231879

2 Caroline Louisa Rochester 3 Paul AffordbyRochester 80711 October 2G 1880

Born Augutl21 1857 IHca November 161880

4 Susan B Rochester 3 Thomas AffordbyRochester Bom March 20 1859 Born March 51882

1 Montgomery Hewson Rochester BornJanuary 6 1860

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CHART VII

1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

5 Bertha Bragg BornJuly 2018C3

6Hart Rochester Bragg BornMay51867

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CATHERINE ANN CUMMINGSJune 15 1836

CHART VIHI

(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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CHART IX

HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

ANN CORNELIA ROCHESTER Born February 5 1808 ~c JK^fem ltampltlaquo-lt_

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CHART 111

JOHN CORNELIUS ROCHESTER

Sarah Catherine Rochester BornNovember 11829

5 Henry Thompson Rochester j

Born July121833gt

jr to

J^s^22Llaquo

1 Harriet Louisa Rochester Born OctdherV 1raquo19raquo

2 Sarah AnnRochester Born September 181851

3 Henry Maceabee Rochester JBorn January 181853

4 James Thomas Rochester BornJanuary 2018CL

5 Malinda Rochester

No Issue

1John Wesley Bear Born Sfay 301843

JgtUdlB4s

2VirginiaCatherine Bear Born 4prlaquo26 1846

3 AGirlDied Young

4 James Henry Bear jszligornJiay2slBBL

5 WilliamRochester Bear BornMarehl4TSsi

6 Nancy AliceBear JJorn March 291857

jouams

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1 1John Nathaniel Rochester

Born January 901859

2 George HRochester Born April31861

3 MaryNRochester Jsolaquoi October 151863

4 Amanda ARochesterBornNovember 71866

5 Sarah E Rochester JBor7iApriCl4tS69

6Franklin WRochester BornJuly 201872

7WilliamP Rochester Born2poundardfirSo lB7s

8Emmet BRochesterBornJulyIV1881

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CHART IV 1Jonathan ChildGibbons

SOPHIA ELIZA ROCHESTER Jiorn October 121842

Born November 29 1793 Ma-jfUXn^O^ XgtledMarch 28 1845

DiedMarch 3 1850 Married Z^Goofurt 2 Sophia Rochester Gibbons

Born October 19 1844(JONATHAN CHILD gt-May 71818

3 Nathaniel Rochester Gibbons Bom June 121817

Died September C1850

4Minnie Gibbons BornMay15 1851

DUdDecember 171858

5 Montgomery Gibbons

Born October 15 1854

6 EmilyNichols Gibbons Born April17 185

1 Anna Cutter Child Rom March 8 1845

Died September 8 1851

2 Nathaniel Rochester Child JBorn Auoutt 3 1848

DUd March 3 1840

10 A Daughter died at once ( NoIssue

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CHART V1Harvey Montgomery

Born April10 1816

Born Augutt 21 1817 WilliamRochester BornFebruary 121819

MARY ELEANOR ROCHESTER 1Edward Moltroup MontgomeryJBorn Jiity29 1858

Born AprilZT 17)C 2Mortimer MontgomeryDied March 21849 Born November 12 1855

Died April26 1857Married 3LillieLouisa MontgomeryBorn July27 1855HARVEY MONTGOMERY^ cuff-- 4Mary KingMontgomery

May19 1812 Born October i1861

(1 NellieAMontgomery5Rochester MeigsMontgomery BornDecember 20 18G3 BornJuly171872

2 Hugh BMontgomery NoIssuei JBorn August 151874

1WilliamRochester MontgomeryBornMat eh 121813 1nawoy Garnsoy Montgomery

Born and Died in18 IS2 Sophia Harriet Montgomery

Born June 30 181 Samp 1Ruth Ridgcly Montgomery 1 AustinNMontgomery

Died lUbmary14 153G (S^^ Born April26 1832 BornSeptember 231871AMampyp 2 Harvey Eglinton Montgomery3 Robert HallMontgomery Jjss Born185S

Bom October 10 1816 ampamp Died ISoi3 Fannie Montgomery

HornDecember IC18~gt1

4 Harvey Fitzhugh Montgomeiy__^---^fe gt^^ 4 GuyBocliestor Montgomery

- 3raquo 6V^ ^ Born June 28 1857 j 1 Ruth Jennie VailBoj-rJiiy21 1818 G AliceMontgomeiy

5 Thomas Colman Montgomery Som June 14 1839 I BornJune 25 1876 C Katherinc Montgomery

2orraquo JuJEy 13 1820 Jtorn December 21 1860 2 Pauline Vail

6 Mary Eleanor Montgomery Jorn March 41878

1 John Talman MontgomeryBorn Apra X01822 1822 JBorn JVotiemier la ISiJ 3 VirginiaVaii

7 Robert Henry Montgomery DiedMarch 12 1830 BomSeptember 18 1879 2Mary Whitney Montgomery

Born April20 1824 Born June 25 1851 4Lois Vail 3 Florence Montgomery BornAp)-U4ISSIJDitdAxtOutt 18 1825 JBornFebruary 1 1853

8 EmilyLouisa Montgomery 4ASon Born and Died Fcb 1 1855

~Born2fovemVerlB lB2s 5 Joseph me Montgomery9Nathaniel ChildMontgomery BornMarch 8 1836

Died March 3 1861BornDecember 20 1827 6Hugh MontgomeryJDied April261830

lornJuly 22 1857DiedFebruary 11 1873

10 Henry Meigs MontgomeryBornDecember 23 1829

1 Montgomery Backus11 Charles Skinner Montgomery Bom July 23 1818 Born December 51831 4 XbCUCIUi EXIpoundUUpoundIIJJJUlum2Rebecca FitzhughBackus

Xorn September 18 1850 JOUedatSatUecf DiiJanuary 30 1879 lto

Hatches Sun VirginiaFeb 6 1865 I3 Frederick WilliamBackus Vi

Born December G1852 ^12 BMontgomery ZMlaquoIticptcmbcr 23 1853 1 Emily MColeman BornMarch 31 1834 4Gerrit Fitzhugfc Backus Yyi Born September 111872Born September 28 183G 32laquogt DiedSeptember 51862 5 Gorrit Smith Backtw yamp 2 Frederick W ColemanBorn June 11 1861 V

13 Cornelia Rochester Montgomery JDiecJ January 29 1882 BornMay171874

BornJuly 31836

(1 Sidney Rochester Pitcher 3 Archibald Coleman Jtorn October 61868DiedMay91865DiedFebruary 121809

BornMay 28 1877 14 Josephine CMontgomery

BornNovember 24 1833

15 Xouisa Whitney Montgomery1Jomea Harvey Montgomery

Born October 23 155CampornAprils1843 ] 2 Marguerite Montgomery

I Born November 21801

1Charles Altrater JSorn October 16 1865

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1Nathaniel Kochester THOMAS HART ROCHESTER Born March 2C1554

BornSeptember 231797 2 Frances Munro Rochester

JDled October 6 1874 Born August 8 1855

Married 3 Elizabeth Cuming Rochester

PHEBE ELIZABETH CUMING Born March7 1857 September 26 1822

33 U-uJy-H gtIbrvbar 4 DeLancey Rochester BornFebruary 4 1859

5 Thomas Hart Rochester Bom July2818G1--iatvCeX JDled 3tarch 2 ISG2

g2iES^^6ris^ ^rf3 6laquo Margaret Fortescue Rochester t

-Jgt f^ Born October 113fi2

7 Caroline Montgomery Rochester Born November 9 1863

DlttXAugust 301804

8 Mary Heathcoto Rochester Born June 81865

Died August 2315G9

9 Emily Nichols Rochester Born February 22 1867

1 Thomas Moore Rochester tw

BornNovember 121854 i

2 Francis C Rochester 1Haydon Kochester BornMarch 161856 BornJanuary 231879

2 Caroline Louisa Rochester 3 Paul AffordbyRochester 80711 October 2G 1880

Born Augutl21 1857 IHca November 161880

4 Susan B Rochester 3 Thomas AffordbyRochester Bom March 20 1859 Born March 51882

1 Montgomery Hewson Rochester BornJanuary 6 1860

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1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

5 Bertha Bragg BornJuly 2018C3

6Hart Rochester Bragg BornMay51867

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CHART VIHI

(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

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SOPHIA ELIZA ROCHESTER Jiorn October 121842

Born November 29 1793 Ma-jfUXn^O^ XgtledMarch 28 1845

DiedMarch 3 1850 Married Z^Goofurt 2 Sophia Rochester Gibbons

Born October 19 1844(JONATHAN CHILD gt-May 71818

3 Nathaniel Rochester Gibbons Bom June 121817

Died September C1850

4Minnie Gibbons BornMay15 1851

DUdDecember 171858

5 Montgomery Gibbons

Born October 15 1854

6 EmilyNichols Gibbons Born April17 185

1 Anna Cutter Child Rom March 8 1845

Died September 8 1851

2 Nathaniel Rochester Child JBorn Auoutt 3 1848

DUd March 3 1840

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CHART V1Harvey Montgomery

Born April10 1816

Born Augutt 21 1817 WilliamRochester BornFebruary 121819

MARY ELEANOR ROCHESTER 1Edward Moltroup MontgomeryJBorn Jiity29 1858

Born AprilZT 17)C 2Mortimer MontgomeryDied March 21849 Born November 12 1855

Died April26 1857Married 3LillieLouisa MontgomeryBorn July27 1855HARVEY MONTGOMERY^ cuff-- 4Mary KingMontgomery

May19 1812 Born October i1861

(1 NellieAMontgomery5Rochester MeigsMontgomery BornDecember 20 18G3 BornJuly171872

2 Hugh BMontgomery NoIssuei JBorn August 151874

1WilliamRochester MontgomeryBornMat eh 121813 1nawoy Garnsoy Montgomery

Born and Died in18 IS2 Sophia Harriet Montgomery

Born June 30 181 Samp 1Ruth Ridgcly Montgomery 1 AustinNMontgomery

Died lUbmary14 153G (S^^ Born April26 1832 BornSeptember 231871AMampyp 2 Harvey Eglinton Montgomery3 Robert HallMontgomery Jjss Born185S

Bom October 10 1816 ampamp Died ISoi3 Fannie Montgomery

HornDecember IC18~gt1

4 Harvey Fitzhugh Montgomeiy__^---^fe gt^^ 4 GuyBocliestor Montgomery

- 3raquo 6V^ ^ Born June 28 1857 j 1 Ruth Jennie VailBoj-rJiiy21 1818 G AliceMontgomeiy

5 Thomas Colman Montgomery Som June 14 1839 I BornJune 25 1876 C Katherinc Montgomery

2orraquo JuJEy 13 1820 Jtorn December 21 1860 2 Pauline Vail

6 Mary Eleanor Montgomery Jorn March 41878

1 John Talman MontgomeryBorn Apra X01822 1822 JBorn JVotiemier la ISiJ 3 VirginiaVaii

7 Robert Henry Montgomery DiedMarch 12 1830 BomSeptember 18 1879 2Mary Whitney Montgomery

Born April20 1824 Born June 25 1851 4Lois Vail 3 Florence Montgomery BornAp)-U4ISSIJDitdAxtOutt 18 1825 JBornFebruary 1 1853

8 EmilyLouisa Montgomery 4ASon Born and Died Fcb 1 1855

~Born2fovemVerlB lB2s 5 Joseph me Montgomery9Nathaniel ChildMontgomery BornMarch 8 1836

Died March 3 1861BornDecember 20 1827 6Hugh MontgomeryJDied April261830

lornJuly 22 1857DiedFebruary 11 1873

10 Henry Meigs MontgomeryBornDecember 23 1829

1 Montgomery Backus11 Charles Skinner Montgomery Bom July 23 1818 Born December 51831 4 XbCUCIUi EXIpoundUUpoundIIJJJUlum2Rebecca FitzhughBackus

Xorn September 18 1850 JOUedatSatUecf DiiJanuary 30 1879 lto

Hatches Sun VirginiaFeb 6 1865 I3 Frederick WilliamBackus Vi

Born December G1852 ^12 BMontgomery ZMlaquoIticptcmbcr 23 1853 1 Emily MColeman BornMarch 31 1834 4Gerrit Fitzhugfc Backus Yyi Born September 111872Born September 28 183G 32laquogt DiedSeptember 51862 5 Gorrit Smith Backtw yamp 2 Frederick W ColemanBorn June 11 1861 V

13 Cornelia Rochester Montgomery JDiecJ January 29 1882 BornMay171874

BornJuly 31836

(1 Sidney Rochester Pitcher 3 Archibald Coleman Jtorn October 61868DiedMay91865DiedFebruary 121809

BornMay 28 1877 14 Josephine CMontgomery

BornNovember 24 1833

15 Xouisa Whitney Montgomery1Jomea Harvey Montgomery

Born October 23 155CampornAprils1843 ] 2 Marguerite Montgomery

I Born November 21801

1Charles Altrater JSorn October 16 1865

Pied 1867

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1Nathaniel Kochester THOMAS HART ROCHESTER Born March 2C1554

BornSeptember 231797 2 Frances Munro Rochester

JDled October 6 1874 Born August 8 1855

Married 3 Elizabeth Cuming Rochester

PHEBE ELIZABETH CUMING Born March7 1857 September 26 1822

33 U-uJy-H gtIbrvbar 4 DeLancey Rochester BornFebruary 4 1859

5 Thomas Hart Rochester Bom July2818G1--iatvCeX JDled 3tarch 2 ISG2

g2iES^^6ris^ ^rf3 6laquo Margaret Fortescue Rochester t

-Jgt f^ Born October 113fi2

7 Caroline Montgomery Rochester Born November 9 1863

DlttXAugust 301804

8 Mary Heathcoto Rochester Born June 81865

Died August 2315G9

9 Emily Nichols Rochester Born February 22 1867

1 Thomas Moore Rochester tw

BornNovember 121854 i

2 Francis C Rochester 1Haydon Kochester BornMarch 161856 BornJanuary 231879

2 Caroline Louisa Rochester 3 Paul AffordbyRochester 80711 October 2G 1880

Born Augutl21 1857 IHca November 161880

4 Susan B Rochester 3 Thomas AffordbyRochester Bom March 20 1859 Born March 51882

1 Montgomery Hewson Rochester BornJanuary 6 1860

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1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

5 Bertha Bragg BornJuly 2018C3

6Hart Rochester Bragg BornMay51867

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CHART VIHI

(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

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SOPHIA ELIZA ROCHESTER Jiorn October 121842

Born November 29 1793 Ma-jfUXn^O^ XgtledMarch 28 1845

DiedMarch 3 1850 Married Z^Goofurt 2 Sophia Rochester Gibbons

Born October 19 1844(JONATHAN CHILD gt-May 71818

3 Nathaniel Rochester Gibbons Bom June 121817

Died September C1850

4Minnie Gibbons BornMay15 1851

DUdDecember 171858

5 Montgomery Gibbons

Born October 15 1854

6 EmilyNichols Gibbons Born April17 185

1 Anna Cutter Child Rom March 8 1845

Died September 8 1851

2 Nathaniel Rochester Child JBorn Auoutt 3 1848

DUd March 3 1840

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CHART V1Harvey Montgomery

Born April10 1816

Born Augutt 21 1817 WilliamRochester BornFebruary 121819

MARY ELEANOR ROCHESTER 1Edward Moltroup MontgomeryJBorn Jiity29 1858

Born AprilZT 17)C 2Mortimer MontgomeryDied March 21849 Born November 12 1855

Died April26 1857Married 3LillieLouisa MontgomeryBorn July27 1855HARVEY MONTGOMERY^ cuff-- 4Mary KingMontgomery

May19 1812 Born October i1861

(1 NellieAMontgomery5Rochester MeigsMontgomery BornDecember 20 18G3 BornJuly171872

2 Hugh BMontgomery NoIssuei JBorn August 151874

1WilliamRochester MontgomeryBornMat eh 121813 1nawoy Garnsoy Montgomery

Born and Died in18 IS2 Sophia Harriet Montgomery

Born June 30 181 Samp 1Ruth Ridgcly Montgomery 1 AustinNMontgomery

Died lUbmary14 153G (S^^ Born April26 1832 BornSeptember 231871AMampyp 2 Harvey Eglinton Montgomery3 Robert HallMontgomery Jjss Born185S

Bom October 10 1816 ampamp Died ISoi3 Fannie Montgomery

HornDecember IC18~gt1

4 Harvey Fitzhugh Montgomeiy__^---^fe gt^^ 4 GuyBocliestor Montgomery

- 3raquo 6V^ ^ Born June 28 1857 j 1 Ruth Jennie VailBoj-rJiiy21 1818 G AliceMontgomeiy

5 Thomas Colman Montgomery Som June 14 1839 I BornJune 25 1876 C Katherinc Montgomery

2orraquo JuJEy 13 1820 Jtorn December 21 1860 2 Pauline Vail

6 Mary Eleanor Montgomery Jorn March 41878

1 John Talman MontgomeryBorn Apra X01822 1822 JBorn JVotiemier la ISiJ 3 VirginiaVaii

7 Robert Henry Montgomery DiedMarch 12 1830 BomSeptember 18 1879 2Mary Whitney Montgomery

Born April20 1824 Born June 25 1851 4Lois Vail 3 Florence Montgomery BornAp)-U4ISSIJDitdAxtOutt 18 1825 JBornFebruary 1 1853

8 EmilyLouisa Montgomery 4ASon Born and Died Fcb 1 1855

~Born2fovemVerlB lB2s 5 Joseph me Montgomery9Nathaniel ChildMontgomery BornMarch 8 1836

Died March 3 1861BornDecember 20 1827 6Hugh MontgomeryJDied April261830

lornJuly 22 1857DiedFebruary 11 1873

10 Henry Meigs MontgomeryBornDecember 23 1829

1 Montgomery Backus11 Charles Skinner Montgomery Bom July 23 1818 Born December 51831 4 XbCUCIUi EXIpoundUUpoundIIJJJUlum2Rebecca FitzhughBackus

Xorn September 18 1850 JOUedatSatUecf DiiJanuary 30 1879 lto

Hatches Sun VirginiaFeb 6 1865 I3 Frederick WilliamBackus Vi

Born December G1852 ^12 BMontgomery ZMlaquoIticptcmbcr 23 1853 1 Emily MColeman BornMarch 31 1834 4Gerrit Fitzhugfc Backus Yyi Born September 111872Born September 28 183G 32laquogt DiedSeptember 51862 5 Gorrit Smith Backtw yamp 2 Frederick W ColemanBorn June 11 1861 V

13 Cornelia Rochester Montgomery JDiecJ January 29 1882 BornMay171874

BornJuly 31836

(1 Sidney Rochester Pitcher 3 Archibald Coleman Jtorn October 61868DiedMay91865DiedFebruary 121809

BornMay 28 1877 14 Josephine CMontgomery

BornNovember 24 1833

15 Xouisa Whitney Montgomery1Jomea Harvey Montgomery

Born October 23 155CampornAprils1843 ] 2 Marguerite Montgomery

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1Charles Altrater JSorn October 16 1865

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1Nathaniel Kochester THOMAS HART ROCHESTER Born March 2C1554

BornSeptember 231797 2 Frances Munro Rochester

JDled October 6 1874 Born August 8 1855

Married 3 Elizabeth Cuming Rochester

PHEBE ELIZABETH CUMING Born March7 1857 September 26 1822

33 U-uJy-H gtIbrvbar 4 DeLancey Rochester BornFebruary 4 1859

5 Thomas Hart Rochester Bom July2818G1--iatvCeX JDled 3tarch 2 ISG2

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-Jgt f^ Born October 113fi2

7 Caroline Montgomery Rochester Born November 9 1863

DlttXAugust 301804

8 Mary Heathcoto Rochester Born June 81865

Died August 2315G9

9 Emily Nichols Rochester Born February 22 1867

1 Thomas Moore Rochester tw

BornNovember 121854 i

2 Francis C Rochester 1Haydon Kochester BornMarch 161856 BornJanuary 231879

2 Caroline Louisa Rochester 3 Paul AffordbyRochester 80711 October 2G 1880

Born Augutl21 1857 IHca November 161880

4 Susan B Rochester 3 Thomas AffordbyRochester Bom March 20 1859 Born March 51882

1 Montgomery Hewson Rochester BornJanuary 6 1860

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1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

5 Bertha Bragg BornJuly 2018C3

6Hart Rochester Bragg BornMay51867

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(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

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8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

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CHART V1Harvey Montgomery

Born April10 1816

Born Augutt 21 1817 WilliamRochester BornFebruary 121819

MARY ELEANOR ROCHESTER 1Edward Moltroup MontgomeryJBorn Jiity29 1858

Born AprilZT 17)C 2Mortimer MontgomeryDied March 21849 Born November 12 1855

Died April26 1857Married 3LillieLouisa MontgomeryBorn July27 1855HARVEY MONTGOMERY^ cuff-- 4Mary KingMontgomery

May19 1812 Born October i1861

(1 NellieAMontgomery5Rochester MeigsMontgomery BornDecember 20 18G3 BornJuly171872

2 Hugh BMontgomery NoIssuei JBorn August 151874

1WilliamRochester MontgomeryBornMat eh 121813 1nawoy Garnsoy Montgomery

Born and Died in18 IS2 Sophia Harriet Montgomery

Born June 30 181 Samp 1Ruth Ridgcly Montgomery 1 AustinNMontgomery

Died lUbmary14 153G (S^^ Born April26 1832 BornSeptember 231871AMampyp 2 Harvey Eglinton Montgomery3 Robert HallMontgomery Jjss Born185S

Bom October 10 1816 ampamp Died ISoi3 Fannie Montgomery

HornDecember IC18~gt1

4 Harvey Fitzhugh Montgomeiy__^---^fe gt^^ 4 GuyBocliestor Montgomery

- 3raquo 6V^ ^ Born June 28 1857 j 1 Ruth Jennie VailBoj-rJiiy21 1818 G AliceMontgomeiy

5 Thomas Colman Montgomery Som June 14 1839 I BornJune 25 1876 C Katherinc Montgomery

2orraquo JuJEy 13 1820 Jtorn December 21 1860 2 Pauline Vail

6 Mary Eleanor Montgomery Jorn March 41878

1 John Talman MontgomeryBorn Apra X01822 1822 JBorn JVotiemier la ISiJ 3 VirginiaVaii

7 Robert Henry Montgomery DiedMarch 12 1830 BomSeptember 18 1879 2Mary Whitney Montgomery

Born April20 1824 Born June 25 1851 4Lois Vail 3 Florence Montgomery BornAp)-U4ISSIJDitdAxtOutt 18 1825 JBornFebruary 1 1853

8 EmilyLouisa Montgomery 4ASon Born and Died Fcb 1 1855

~Born2fovemVerlB lB2s 5 Joseph me Montgomery9Nathaniel ChildMontgomery BornMarch 8 1836

Died March 3 1861BornDecember 20 1827 6Hugh MontgomeryJDied April261830

lornJuly 22 1857DiedFebruary 11 1873

10 Henry Meigs MontgomeryBornDecember 23 1829

1 Montgomery Backus11 Charles Skinner Montgomery Bom July 23 1818 Born December 51831 4 XbCUCIUi EXIpoundUUpoundIIJJJUlum2Rebecca FitzhughBackus

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Born December G1852 ^12 BMontgomery ZMlaquoIticptcmbcr 23 1853 1 Emily MColeman BornMarch 31 1834 4Gerrit Fitzhugfc Backus Yyi Born September 111872Born September 28 183G 32laquogt DiedSeptember 51862 5 Gorrit Smith Backtw yamp 2 Frederick W ColemanBorn June 11 1861 V

13 Cornelia Rochester Montgomery JDiecJ January 29 1882 BornMay171874

BornJuly 31836

(1 Sidney Rochester Pitcher 3 Archibald Coleman Jtorn October 61868DiedMay91865DiedFebruary 121809

BornMay 28 1877 14 Josephine CMontgomery

BornNovember 24 1833

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Born October 23 155CampornAprils1843 ] 2 Marguerite Montgomery

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1Nathaniel Kochester THOMAS HART ROCHESTER Born March 2C1554

BornSeptember 231797 2 Frances Munro Rochester

JDled October 6 1874 Born August 8 1855

Married 3 Elizabeth Cuming Rochester

PHEBE ELIZABETH CUMING Born March7 1857 September 26 1822

33 U-uJy-H gtIbrvbar 4 DeLancey Rochester BornFebruary 4 1859

5 Thomas Hart Rochester Bom July2818G1--iatvCeX JDled 3tarch 2 ISG2

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-Jgt f^ Born October 113fi2

7 Caroline Montgomery Rochester Born November 9 1863

DlttXAugust 301804

8 Mary Heathcoto Rochester Born June 81865

Died August 2315G9

9 Emily Nichols Rochester Born February 22 1867

1 Thomas Moore Rochester tw

BornNovember 121854 i

2 Francis C Rochester 1Haydon Kochester BornMarch 161856 BornJanuary 231879

2 Caroline Louisa Rochester 3 Paul AffordbyRochester 80711 October 2G 1880

Born Augutl21 1857 IHca November 161880

4 Susan B Rochester 3 Thomas AffordbyRochester Bom March 20 1859 Born March 51882

1 Montgomery Hewson Rochester BornJanuary 6 1860

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1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

5 Bertha Bragg BornJuly 2018C3

6Hart Rochester Bragg BornMay51867

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CHART VIHI

(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

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CHART V1Harvey Montgomery

Born April10 1816

Born Augutt 21 1817 WilliamRochester BornFebruary 121819

MARY ELEANOR ROCHESTER 1Edward Moltroup MontgomeryJBorn Jiity29 1858

Born AprilZT 17)C 2Mortimer MontgomeryDied March 21849 Born November 12 1855

Died April26 1857Married 3LillieLouisa MontgomeryBorn July27 1855HARVEY MONTGOMERY^ cuff-- 4Mary KingMontgomery

May19 1812 Born October i1861

(1 NellieAMontgomery5Rochester MeigsMontgomery BornDecember 20 18G3 BornJuly171872

2 Hugh BMontgomery NoIssuei JBorn August 151874

1WilliamRochester MontgomeryBornMat eh 121813 1nawoy Garnsoy Montgomery

Born and Died in18 IS2 Sophia Harriet Montgomery

Born June 30 181 Samp 1Ruth Ridgcly Montgomery 1 AustinNMontgomery

Died lUbmary14 153G (S^^ Born April26 1832 BornSeptember 231871AMampyp 2 Harvey Eglinton Montgomery3 Robert HallMontgomery Jjss Born185S

Bom October 10 1816 ampamp Died ISoi3 Fannie Montgomery

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4 Harvey Fitzhugh Montgomeiy__^---^fe gt^^ 4 GuyBocliestor Montgomery

- 3raquo 6V^ ^ Born June 28 1857 j 1 Ruth Jennie VailBoj-rJiiy21 1818 G AliceMontgomeiy

5 Thomas Colman Montgomery Som June 14 1839 I BornJune 25 1876 C Katherinc Montgomery

2orraquo JuJEy 13 1820 Jtorn December 21 1860 2 Pauline Vail

6 Mary Eleanor Montgomery Jorn March 41878

1 John Talman MontgomeryBorn Apra X01822 1822 JBorn JVotiemier la ISiJ 3 VirginiaVaii

7 Robert Henry Montgomery DiedMarch 12 1830 BomSeptember 18 1879 2Mary Whitney Montgomery

Born April20 1824 Born June 25 1851 4Lois Vail 3 Florence Montgomery BornAp)-U4ISSIJDitdAxtOutt 18 1825 JBornFebruary 1 1853

8 EmilyLouisa Montgomery 4ASon Born and Died Fcb 1 1855

~Born2fovemVerlB lB2s 5 Joseph me Montgomery9Nathaniel ChildMontgomery BornMarch 8 1836

Died March 3 1861BornDecember 20 1827 6Hugh MontgomeryJDied April261830

lornJuly 22 1857DiedFebruary 11 1873

10 Henry Meigs MontgomeryBornDecember 23 1829

1 Montgomery Backus11 Charles Skinner Montgomery Bom July 23 1818 Born December 51831 4 XbCUCIUi EXIpoundUUpoundIIJJJUlum2Rebecca FitzhughBackus

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Hatches Sun VirginiaFeb 6 1865 I3 Frederick WilliamBackus Vi

Born December G1852 ^12 BMontgomery ZMlaquoIticptcmbcr 23 1853 1 Emily MColeman BornMarch 31 1834 4Gerrit Fitzhugfc Backus Yyi Born September 111872Born September 28 183G 32laquogt DiedSeptember 51862 5 Gorrit Smith Backtw yamp 2 Frederick W ColemanBorn June 11 1861 V

13 Cornelia Rochester Montgomery JDiecJ January 29 1882 BornMay171874

BornJuly 31836

(1 Sidney Rochester Pitcher 3 Archibald Coleman Jtorn October 61868DiedMay91865DiedFebruary 121809

BornMay 28 1877 14 Josephine CMontgomery

BornNovember 24 1833

15 Xouisa Whitney Montgomery1Jomea Harvey Montgomery

Born October 23 155CampornAprils1843 ] 2 Marguerite Montgomery

I Born November 21801

1Charles Altrater JSorn October 16 1865

Pied 1867

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1Nathaniel Kochester THOMAS HART ROCHESTER Born March 2C1554

BornSeptember 231797 2 Frances Munro Rochester

JDled October 6 1874 Born August 8 1855

Married 3 Elizabeth Cuming Rochester

PHEBE ELIZABETH CUMING Born March7 1857 September 26 1822

33 U-uJy-H gtIbrvbar 4 DeLancey Rochester BornFebruary 4 1859

5 Thomas Hart Rochester Bom July2818G1--iatvCeX JDled 3tarch 2 ISG2

g2iES^^6ris^ ^rf3 6laquo Margaret Fortescue Rochester t

-Jgt f^ Born October 113fi2

7 Caroline Montgomery Rochester Born November 9 1863

DlttXAugust 301804

8 Mary Heathcoto Rochester Born June 81865

Died August 2315G9

9 Emily Nichols Rochester Born February 22 1867

1 Thomas Moore Rochester tw

BornNovember 121854 i

2 Francis C Rochester 1Haydon Kochester BornMarch 161856 BornJanuary 231879

2 Caroline Louisa Rochester 3 Paul AffordbyRochester 80711 October 2G 1880

Born Augutl21 1857 IHca November 161880

4 Susan B Rochester 3 Thomas AffordbyRochester Bom March 20 1859 Born March 51882

1 Montgomery Hewson Rochester BornJanuary 6 1860

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1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

5 Bertha Bragg BornJuly 2018C3

6Hart Rochester Bragg BornMay51867

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CHART VIHI

(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

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1Nathaniel Kochester THOMAS HART ROCHESTER Born March 2C1554

BornSeptember 231797 2 Frances Munro Rochester

JDled October 6 1874 Born August 8 1855

Married 3 Elizabeth Cuming Rochester

PHEBE ELIZABETH CUMING Born March7 1857 September 26 1822

33 U-uJy-H gtIbrvbar 4 DeLancey Rochester BornFebruary 4 1859

5 Thomas Hart Rochester Bom July2818G1--iatvCeX JDled 3tarch 2 ISG2

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-Jgt f^ Born October 113fi2

7 Caroline Montgomery Rochester Born November 9 1863

DlttXAugust 301804

8 Mary Heathcoto Rochester Born June 81865

Died August 2315G9

9 Emily Nichols Rochester Born February 22 1867

1 Thomas Moore Rochester tw

BornNovember 121854 i

2 Francis C Rochester 1Haydon Kochester BornMarch 161856 BornJanuary 231879

2 Caroline Louisa Rochester 3 Paul AffordbyRochester 80711 October 2G 1880

Born Augutl21 1857 IHca November 161880

4 Susan B Rochester 3 Thomas AffordbyRochester Bom March 20 1859 Born March 51882

1 Montgomery Hewson Rochester BornJanuary 6 1860

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1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

5 Bertha Bragg BornJuly 2018C3

6Hart Rochester Bragg BornMay51867

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CHART VIHI

(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

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1 Catherine Rochester Van Eyrie

Bern July918laquo

1 Charles Edward Shepard BornMarch U1843

2 Catherine E Shepard BornMarch 101850

DiedMarch 20 1850

3 Thomas Rochester Shepard J^y311852

4 MaryShepard Jorn JUly 23 1860

5Arthur Shepard BornJanuary 311867

Sarah Louisa Colman Bom July101851

2 Charles Phillips Colman Born January 28 155C

JHedJulyK 1850

3 John DarlingCohnan 2torn June 22 1859

Kate Cohnan Bragg BornNovember 10 1854

2 WilliamKohlBragg BornDecember 2 185G

3 Margaret Bragg Barn September SO 1850

4Harry Sweet Bragg BornFebruary 7 1862

Died October 201852

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(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

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(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

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HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

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(1 Delia Granger Rochester BornAugust 19 1864

Dted April418G5

1 James Cummings Rochester JBorn October 2t 1837

Died January 5 1840

2 Nathaniel Beatty Rochester BomSeptember 15 1839

DiedNovember 11 1807

3 Nugent ColmanRochester BornSeptember 10 1842

Died May 201848

4Frederick William Rochester BornMay7 1845

Died JulySI ISIS

5 AlfredGardner Rochester Born April11848

Died August24 1856

G Catherine Cummings Rochester BornAugust 3X851

Died September 17 1558

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CHART IX

HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

ANN CORNELIA ROCHESTER Born February 5 1808 ~c JK^fem ltampltlaquo-lt_

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Louisa liucinda Rochester Born September 221810 laquo^- TsAAJtpound6c JT^C

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CHART IX

HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

ANN CORNELIA ROCHESTER Born February 5 1808 ~c JK^fem ltampltlaquo-lt_

Jgt c^- foHjuaJ- ltJ ltregXtS-- S( Jfrf

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Louisa liucinda Rochester Born September 221810 laquo^- TsAAJtpound6c JT^C

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CHART IX

HENRY ELIE ROCHESTER BornJan 71806 3gtJZ~u^3 19Vf

1 Rochester Everett Marriedj

Born October 111861

(^MNEHART DiedNovember 12 1865 April17 1833 s)k dultamp J~Osuultxy poundpoundgtamp

2 Edward Rochester Everett Barn October IG180G

3 Helen Louise Everett 1 Henry Hart Rochester BornMarch 111568

BornJune 211835DiedFebruary 20 1838

2Louisa Beatty Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Born May 30 1837 | BornMarch 301880

3 Roswell Hart Rochester 1Morn Aucwrt 17 1839- 3gtf f~7

4 Nathaniel Charlton Rochester 1 Anna Rochester Cuming Horn Ortdber 2S1811 l Horn February 9 1870

t_ DUdApril111841 2 Rochester Cuming

3 Jane Eliza Rochester jfforet July-20 1872

MornMay15 15-IJ 3 Thomas Barnes Cuming

G Anna Mumford Rochester HornOctober 281873

BornJuly 2 1317 4 Allen Jackson Cuming

7 Fanny Cooper Rochester JJorn October 7 1881

Born October IS VampS)

8 Edward Hungerford Rochester

Morn April2G 1853 1 Fanny Beatrice Rogers

DkdJanuary R ISG2 BornDecember 13 1877

2Alice Montgomery Rogers

BornMarch 41579

C Rochester Hart Rogers Born AprU31361

ANN CORNELIA ROCHESTER Born February 5 1808 ~c JK^fem ltampltlaquo-lt_

Jgt c^- foHjuaJ- ltJ ltregXtS-- S( Jfrf

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Louisa liucinda Rochester Born September 221810 laquo^- TsAAJtpound6c JT^C

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ANN CORNELIA ROCHESTER Born February 5 1808 ~c JK^fem ltampltlaquo-lt_

Jgt c^- foHjuaJ- ltJ ltregXtS-- S( Jfrf

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Louisa liucinda Rochester Born September 221810 laquo^- TsAAJtpound6c JT^C

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