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Leaving Ireland

Mary Ann Agar was born in Knockulard, Carlow County, Ireland on July 29, 1940. She was 5 years old when the Irish potato famine began in 1845 which lasted until 1852, devastating her homeland. Her father James Agar was a prosperous nail maker, so perhaps the famine didn't really affect them, there are no family stories about the Agars suffering from the famine. At the end of the famine her father James Agar emigrated to America in 1852, when she was twelve. Two years later, in the Fall of 1854, James sent money to Mary's mother for the family to emigrate to America. It is believed they traveled from Liverpool, England to America on the ship 'Antarctic'. I have found no history on this ship, other than it is listed as an emigrant ship. For Mary Ann and her family it was one of the many 'coffin ships', with 87 passengers dying of "ship fever". Mary's mother Eliza and her younger brother James, just 5 years old, fell victim to this dreaded death. This description of the disease is found in the book entitled, "The Ocean Plague -- A diary of a coffin ship voyage" by Robert Whyte, who sailed from Liverpool in 1847.

"The first [symptom] is usually a reeling in the head, followed by a swelling pain, as if the head were going to burst. Next came excruciating pains in the bones, and then a swelling of the limbs, commencing with the feet, in some cases ascending the body and again descending before it reached the head, stopping at the throat. The period of each stage varied in different patients, some of whom were covered with yellow, watery pimples, and other with red and purple spots, that turned to putrid sores."

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Gustav Gustafson
Gustav Gustafson

Gustav Gustafson

Gustav was born in Sweden-Tjörröd 3, Höganäs, Malmöhus län (Skåne)
He came to America on August 9, 1870, with his parents Carl & Marie as a one yr old

Lucinda Blackmer Cummings
Lucinda Blackmer Cummings

Lucinda Blackmer Cummings

Lucy Blackmer was born in 1858 on the banks of Lake Huron, the Granddaughter of a French Voyageur and an Indian Princess

Harriet Foster Badgley
Harriet Foster Badgley

Harriet Foster Badgley

Hattie was born April, 26, 1866 in Summit, Essex County, New Jersey
She married William Henry Morrow on December 27, 1885 in Orange, Essex County, New Jersey

Cortez Clark Spears
Cortez Clark Spears

Cortez Clark Spears

Cortez was born in 1857 in Ashtabula, Ohio and died in Genesee, Michigan.
He married Della Ann Hewitt on September 24th 1877 in Genesee, Michagn.


Family Fights

Long before a shot was fired at Lexington, Ethan Allen was banding together with his neighbors to fight the tyranny of New York's Governor, they called themselves the Green Mountain Boys.

On May 9th 1775, on their way north to Fort Ticonderoga, the Green Mountain Boys captured the settlement of Skenesbourgh where Joel and Deborah Prindle and their children were tenant farmers.

Skenesbourgh, Birthplace of the US Navy

The trading schooner of Philip Skene, the settlement's owner, became the first ship of the US Navy when it was taken to Crown Point armed and used under the leadership of Col. Benedict Arnold to capture a British ship renamed Enterprise on May 18, 1775.

In 1776 when Col Seth Warner's regiment returned to Skenesbourgh, three of Joel Prindle's Sons enlisted. Joel Jr as a Corporal, Doctor as a Private and Timothy, who is made Sergeant in December 1776. Also in December 1776, younger brother Joseph enlisted for a 3 year hitch in Capt. Gregg's Company of the 3rd New York Regiment, commanded by Col. Peter Gansevoort .

Meanwhile the oldest son, William stayed behind in Skenesbourgh with his wife and children and the families of his parents and brothers, until . . . . . .           More


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