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THE 


VALENTINES  IN  AMERICA. 


1644 — 1874, 


BV 

T.    W.    VALENTINE, 

MEMBER  OF  THE   LONG   ISLAND    HISTORICAL   SOCIEIT, 


NEW  YORK : 

CLARK  &  MAYNARD,  PUBLISHERS, 

5  Barclay  Street. 

1874. 


^^; 


^A/-^^^^^'. 


PREFAC  E, 


This  book,  except  in  some  of  its  parts,  is  not 
a  Genealogy.  It  does  not  profess  to  give  in  com- 
plete detail  the  gcnealog)'  of  any  branch,  and  but 
of  comparatively  feu-  families.  Tiiis,  in  the  wide 
extent  of  territory  over  which  the  Valentines  are 
spread,  and  the  little  or  no  relationship  existing 
among  many  of  them,  would  manifestly  have  been 
impossible.  In  the  case  of  one  or  two  families  of 
the  Long  Island  branch,  this  has  been  attempted 
with  but  partial  success  ;  and  with  the  descendants 
of  TiiOM.\s  Valentine,  of  Hopkinton,  it  is  be- 
lieved, with  complete  success.  If  any  inquire  why 
it  was  not  done  with  other  families,  we  answer,  it 
wr.s  simply  impossible  to  obtain  the  neeessary  data. 

Nor  is  this  work  simply  a  History.  True,  some 
regard  is  paid  to  the  arrangement  of  events,  but 
in  works  of  this  kind,  a  continuous  story  chror;- 
ologically  presented,  is  also  impossible.  It  ii  ;.- 
fesses  to  be  only  a  collection  of  facts  in  relation  to 
the  Valentine  name  and  history,  such  as  were  ac- 
cessible to  the  author.  Whatever  could  be  obtained 
by  patient  research,  by  careful  inquiry,  and  by  long 
and  extensive  correspondence,  is  here  given  :  and, 
though  it  may  contain  a  thousand  imperfections, 
it  is  believed  to  comprise  more  information  in  re- 
gard to  the  \'alentines  than  anj'  other  book  e.xtant. 


iv  Preface. 

It  is  easy  to  find  errors  in  such  a  work.  In 
regard  to  the  spelling  of  proper  names  *'  ever>'  man 
is  a  law  unto  himself,"  and  no  rules  can  be  followed. 
Figures  and  dates  are  also  proverbially  difficult  to 
be,  made  perfect ;  but  when  it  is  remembered  these 
are  often  sent  from  remote  points,  and  with  every 
diversity  of  hand-writing,  the  wonder  should  rather 
be  that  there  are  not  more. 

A  word  in  regard  to  the  illustrations.  The 
author's  alternative  was,  one  or  two  costly  ones, 
or  a  larger  number  of  less  expensive  ones,  which 
should,  nevertheless,  give  the  reader  a  good  idea 
of  the  subject.  So  far  as  he  knows,  he  can  at  least 
say  that  they  are   remarkably  good   likenesses. 

Whatever  defects  the  work  may  have,  it  has 
cost  the  author  an  immense  amount  of  labor,  and 
not  a  little  money,  for  which  he  expects  no  ad- 
equate return  ;  but  he  has  done  it  con  avtore,  and 
only  asks  that  it  may  be  properly  appreciated  by 
those  in  whose  behalf  it  is  written,  namely,  all  U'/io 
hear  and  lair  the  name  of  VALENTINE. 

His  ^acknowledgments  are  due  to  Mrs.  F.  E. 
Weston,  of  Boston,  John  J.  Valentine  and  William 
C.  Valentine,  Esquires,  of  Brooklyn,  Jacob  T. 
Bowne,  Esq.,  of  Glen  Cove,  L.  I.,  Prof.  H.  M.  On- 
derdonk.  of  Jamaica,  L.  I.,  Mrs.  S.  B.  Valentine, 
of  London,  Eng.,  Messrs.  Harpers,  New  York, 
the  Librarians  of  the  L.  I.  Hist.  Scciety,  A'.  Y.  Hist. 
Soiit-ty,  and  the  Astor  Library,  and  many  others, 
for   very  efficient   aid  in  pursuance  of  his  work 

T.  W.  V. 

Bkooklvn.  N.  v.,  July,  iS^4. 


C  0  X  T  F.  X  T  S 


'          ;•  PAr.E 

CilAPTtR     I.     The  Name  cf  Valentine I 

11.     The  Valeniines  of  Long  Island S 

III.      The  Long  Kland  Valentines — Continued 27 

"         IV.      Notable      IndivirluaK     of      the     Long     Island 

Branch 34 

"           V.      The  \V.i>hinj;lon  County  Valentines 47 

VI.     The   New  Jersey  Valentines 50 

VII.     The  New  York  Valentines 57 

•■     VIII.     The  \VestchcsIer  County  Valentines 76 

I.\.     The  New  York  Valentines — Continued 81 

X.     The  Miryland  Valentines 91 

■'        XL     The    Washington    County    Valentines  —  Con- 
tinued   98 

XIL     The  Valentines  of  Lancashire,  England 103 

•'    XIII.     John  Valentine,  Esq.,  of  Boston no 

"     XI\'.     Thomas  Valentine,  of  Hopkinton 1 16 

XV.     The  Valentines  of  Boston  and  Hopkinton 121 

'•     XVI.     Descendants     of     Samuel     Valentine — Con- 
tinued    132 

"   XVII.      Descendants     of      Samuel      Valentine  —  ton- 

tinued 144 

■  -Will.     William     Valentine     and     Elizabeth    (JonesJ 

Valentine, and  their  Descendants   174 

■■     XIX.     The  Fifth  Generation l58 

XX.     The  Sixth  (rtneration 214 

•*     XXI.     Gleanings 225 

■■  XXII.     X'alentines    in    the    New    York    and    Brooklyn 

Directories 237 

♦ 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Hon.   David  T.  Valentine,  The  Historian  of  New  York... 

(Frontispiece). 

PAGE 

Kf.sidfnCf,  of  William  M.  Valentine,  Esq.,  Roslyn,  L.  I..  g 

Dr.  William  Valentine,  The  Humorist 17 

William   M.  Valentine,  Merchant,  Roslyn,  L.  1 25 

jiDCE  Thomas  Valentine,  Williamsburgh,  L.  1 33 

Joel  Valentine,  Esq.,  Bennington.  Vt 41 

Major  Alon/.o  H.  Valentine,  Manufacturer,  Bennington,  Vt.  49 

Valentine's  Knitting  Factorv,  Bennington,  Vt 57 

Hon.  Daniel  M.  Valentine,  Judge  Supreme  Court,  Kansas.  5a 
Map    of    Valeniine's    Hill,   and    adjacent    country,   from 

Lossing's  Field  Book  of  the  Revolution 73 

Old  Valentine    House,   Valentine's    Hill.    Heaquarters   of 

Gen.  Wa>-hington 81 

Pennsylvania  College,  Gettysburg,  Pa 89 

Rev.  Milton  Valentine,  D.D..  President  Tenn.  Coll 97 

Daniel  Valentine,  Esq.,  Merchant  and  Banker,  Aurora,  111.  105 

Valentine,  Clarke,  Price  and  Ffvtche  Arms 113 

Miss  Elizabeth  Gooch  (afterwards  Mrs.  Thomas  Valentine), 

Hopkinlon.  Mass 121 

Old  Valentine  Homestead,  as  it  was,  Hopkinton,  Mass...  129 

I.AWSON  Valentine,  Esq.,  Merchant,  of  Boston,  Mass 137 

DiiiBV,  Enoch    Lvnde,   Simon    Lynue,   Newdicate   and 

Jones  Arms 145 

Elmer  Valentine,  the  Veteran  Teacher,  Northboro',  Mass 169 

Cai'T.  Joseph  Valentine,  Hopkinton,  Mass 177 

<;iLL  Valentine,  Esq.,  the  last  survivor  of  Fourth  Generation, 

Norihlioro',  Mass 185 

T.  W.  Valentine,  Author  of  this  work.  Brooklyn,  N.  Y 201 

Col.  Henry  E.  Valf;ntine,  General  ^Vgt.  of  Insurance,  Hart- 
ford, Conn 209 

Col.  Samlel  I,.  Valf.nti.ne,  Bangor,  Me 217 

William  J.  Valentine.  F.  R.  G.  S.,  Banker,  London,  Eng. . . .  225 
f;oLD  AND  .Silver    Medals  and   Star  of   Honor,  Confer- 
red on  Wm.  J.  \'alcntinc,  by  the  Kmperor  Nai>oleon  HI.  .  233 


THE 


Valentines  in  America 


CHAPTER    I. 


THE    NAME    OF    VALENTINE. 


THAT  the  original  signification  of  the  word  Fal- 
entine  was  strong,  healthy,  robust,  powerful,  there 
can  be  no  doubt,  and,  in  fact,  Webster  so  de- 
fines it;  but  whether  its  first  use  as  an  individual  or 
family  name  was  on  account  of  any  peculiar  supe- 
riority in  this  respect  in  those  bearing  it,  it  is  impos- 
sible now  to  ascertain — although,  as  most  individual 
and  family  names  originated  in  this  way,  it  is  not  at 
all  improbable.  At  what  precise  time  and  locality  it 
first  came  into  use,  it  is  difficult  now  to  determine; 
but  that  it  was  known  among  the  ancient  Romans  is 
clearly  shown  in  history.  The  most  complete  and  in- 
genious of  all  the  Gnostic  systems  was  founded  in  the 
second  century,  by  Valentinus  (equivalent  to  Valentine 
in  English),  a  learned  and  eloquent  Alexandrian,  who 
was  born  A.  D.  140.  The  canonized  representative  of 
the  name,  St.  Valentine,  wjs  a  presbj-ter,  or,  accord- 
ing to  some  writers,  a  bishop,  who  flourished  about 
the  middle  of  the  third  century,  and  suffered  martyr- 
dom at  Rome  in  the  year  270.     He  was  so  eminently 


The  I  'ahntincs   in  A  mcrica. 


distinguished  for  his  love  and  charity,  that  the  custom 
of  clioosing  Valentines,  or  special  loving  friends,  on 
his  day  (Feb.  14),  is  supposed  bj-  some  to  have  origin- 
ated thence.  Of  tlie  three  Roman  emperors  named 
Valentinian,  the  first  ascended  the  throne  in  the  year 
364,  and  the  last  in  425.  Pope  \'alentine  succeeded 
Eiigenius  II.  in  827. 

The  name,  with  slight  variations  of  spelling,  is  also 
found  in  the  histories  of  France,  Spain,  Germany  and 
Holland,  and,  indeed,  in  nearlj-  all  the  countries  of 
southern  and  central  Europe.  The  Latin  spelling  of 
it  is  Va/i-ntinus ;  ihe  French,  /W^//////;  the  Italian,  Val- 
entino; Spanish  and  German,  Valentin;  Holland,  Val- 
entyn ;  though,  it  should  be  observed,  tlie  name  is 
frequently  Anglicized  bj-  adding  the  final  e  in  nearly 
all  tiiese  languages.  Even  in  English,  the  spelling  of 
the  name  varies  in  certain  periods  and  localities;  be- 
ing often  found  corrupted  into  Volentine,  Vollentine, 
Vnlingtine,  Vollunton,  and  even  /",  '/ington;  but  these  are 
more  the  result  of  ignorance  or  carelessness  in  spell- 
ing than  distinctness  of  family  or  race,  since  different 
members  of  the  same  family  often  manifest  the  same 
spirit  of  independence  in  spelling.  The  word  is  also 
used  not  onl)'  as  a  surname,  in  all  the  foregoing  lan- 
guages, but  is  frequently  used  as  a  first,  or  Christian 
name,  as  well,  more  especially  among  the  Germans 
and  French. 

But,  while  this  name  is  so  frequently  found  in  the 
various  countries  of  both  the  Old  and  New  World  as 
applied  to  iniiiiiihiah  and  families,  it  is  a  somewhat 
singular  fact  that,  according  to  the  gazetteers  and  en- 
cyclopedias, only  one  toi^n  or  village  in  the  whole 
world  is  called  or  named  Valenti.ve;  and  that  is  in 
France,  in  the  department  of  Haufj-Garonne,  about 
one  mile  southwest  of  St.  Gaudcns,  on  the  river  Ga- 


The  Name  of  Va  leu  tine. 


runne.     It   is  a  small  town  of  about  fifteen   hundred 
inhabitants,  the   most    of  whom    are  engaged   in  the 
manufacture  of  woolens.       According  to  the    French 
pronunciation,  though  spelled  as  in  English,  it  is  there 
called  Va-long-tccn,  w'wh.  the  accent  on  the  last  syllable. 
Occasionally,  the  name   is  found  in    biographical 
dictionaries,  encyclopedias,  &c.,  though  not  very  fre- 
quently.    Thus,  Michael    Bernard  Valentin    is    men- 
tioned  as  a  German  botanist  and  professor  of  medi- 
cine who  was  an  author  on  both  sciences.     He   was 
born    in    1637,   and    died  at  Giessen    in    1726.     Basil 
Valentine,  a  monk  of  Erfurt,  was  an  alchymist  of  con- 
siderable note,   who  flourished  in  the   sixteenth  cen- 
tury.    Antimony   was    first   discovered   or    extracted 
from  the  ore  by  him.     N.  Valentin,  a  French   painter, 
was   born    in    1600   and   died  at  the  age   of  32.      L. 
A.  V^alentin,  a    French    surgeon    of  much    note,  was 
born    in    1736    and    diefl    in    1S23.      F.    Valentine    is 
regarded  worthy  of   mention   as  a  Dutch  missionary 
who    lived    in    the    seventeenth    century.     Baron  von 
George  William  Valentin,  a  lieutenant-general  in  the 
Prussian  service,  a  military  writer  of  reputation,  was 
born  in   1775,  and  educated  in  Berlin.     His  "Treatise 
on  War  in  Refcrenee  to  Great  Operations"  was  published 
in  three  volumes  in  Berlin,   1821.     Rev.  Thomas  Val- 
entine, of   London,   published  three  quarto  Sermons 
in  1642-7.     Henry  Valentine  was  tlie  author  of  "  Pri- 
vate Di-votions,"  London,  1654,  printed  also  in  Welch. 
Mrs.  R.  Valentine  is  an   English  authoress  of  many 
valuable  juvenile  books,  as  also  is  Laura  Valentine  of 
that  ilk.     Mrs.  S.  Valentine  is  given  as  the  authoress 
of  "Beatrice,"  London,   1859.      John   Valentine    was 
the  author  of  "  Elements  of  Practical  Harmony ;"  and 
J.  S.Valentine  wrote  "The  .Assistant  Engineer,"  Lon- 
don, 1848. 


The  Valentines  in  Avieriea. 


In  our  own  country,  the  only  authors  of  the  name 
that  have  come  to  my  knowledge  are  Rev.  M.  Val- 
entine, D.D.,  President  of  Pennsylvania  College, 
Gett)-sburg,  Pa.,  wiio  wrote  "  The  Relations  of  the 
Family  to  the  Church,"  and  Hon.  David  T.  Valentine, 
the  author  of  "History  of  New  York,"  and  of  the 
famous  "  New  York  Manuals,"  special  sketches  of 
whom  are  given  elsewheic  in  this  work. 

The  name  of  Valentine,  though  by  no  means  very 
common  in  this  country,  is,  nevertheless,  found  in  al- 
most, and  perhaps  quite,  every  State  in  the  Union,  and, 
in  some  sections,  even  frequently.  In  searching  the 
Indexes  of  about  two  hundred  Genealogies  in  the 
Library  of  the  L.  I.  Historical  Society,  the  name  was 
found  in  not  more  than  one-fourth  of  them.  Perhaps 
as  fair  a  test  of  its  commonness  is  given  by  the  number 
of  Valentines  found  in  the  City  Directories*  of  the 
United  States.  These,  so  far  as  they  could  be  conve- 
nientl)'  reached,  give  the  following  figures,  taking  the 
cities  in  the  order  of  population  ; 

That  of  New  York,    for  the  yc.ir  1S72,  contains  72  Valentines. 


Philadelphia. 

" 

31 

" 

BrtKjkiyn, 

"           4.           .i 

59 

Bosiur.. 

'•           •'            ■• 

«7 

Balumore, 

.. 

7 

SL  Louis, 

•• 

10  . 

Chicago, 

1870, 

10 

Cincinnati, 

1872, 

«5 

New  Orleans, 

1870, 

14 

Washington, 

J872, 

II 

Louisville. 

4*                           41                            44 

3 

44 

*  It  should  be  remembered  that  these  Directories  probably  do  not 

cont.iin  nil  the  Valentines  who  are  heads  of  families  in  these  cities, 

^since  many  persons,  for  various  reasons,  refuse   to  allow  their  names 

to  be  puMished  in  a  Directory.     This  is  kno-cn  to  be  especially  true 

of  the  cities  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn. 


Tlic  Natnc  of  Valentine. 


That  of  Cleveland, 
Pittsburgh, 
Detroit, 
Albany, 
Milwaukie. 
Providence, 
Wilmington, 


for  the  year    1S72,  Loniains     7  Valentines. 

9 

1867,   "II 
1871,   ••     4     - 
1S65.   ••     2     " 
1870,   ..     ,      " 


1866. 


8 


As  the  proportion  of  names  in  any  City  Directory 
to  the  whole  population  is,  1  believe,  about  as  i  105, 
the  number  of  persons  in  all  these  1 8  cities  bearing  the 
name  of  Valentine  must  be  about  1500.  Of  these, 
a  verj-  few  are  put  down  as  colored  persons  ;*  a  few  are 
also  evidently  emigrants  directly  from  the  Old  World  ; 
but,  judging  from  all  the  best  evidences  at  command, 
at  least  three-foanhs  (and  probably  a  much  larger 
jiroportion)  may  safely  be  classed  as  direct  descend- 
ants of  the  three  great  families  of  Valentines  herein- 
after described.  Some  of  them,  judging  from  their 
occupaticins,  are  found  in  the  humbler  walks  of  life;  a 
fair  proportion  are  classed  as  professional  men  ;  a  con- 
siderable number  are  known  to  have  attained  success 
and  wealth  in  mercantile  affairs;  but  much  the  largest 
proportion  are  found  among  the  middle  classes,  as 
business  men  and  successful  artisans.  Whatever  may 
have  been  their  lineage  and  position  in  the  old  coun- 
try in  former  days,  all  branches  of  the  Valentine 
family  in  this  country  may  be  regarded  as  fair  speci- 
mens of  the  true  American  character — depending 
neither  upon  titles  nor  landed  estates,  but  upon  their 
own  energies  and  integritv  of  character,  for  their  po- 
sition in   society  and    success  in   life;    and   rejoicing 


*  All  of  this  class  in  New  York  and  Brooklyn  who  bear  the 
name,  give  Lcng  Island  as  their  birthplace,  and  their  ancestors, 
having  once  been  slaves,  took  the  name  of  their  masters  or  owners,  as 
was  the  custom  wherever  slavery  existed. 


The  Vahntincs  in  Aiiuricj. 


that,  wliile  a  few  sj)ecimens  of  uppcr-ten-dom  and  the 
lower  stratum  may  be  found  among  tliem,  the  vast 
majority  of  those  who  bear  tlie  name  are  to  be  fou  nd 
between  the  two  extremes. 

That  common  (and  I  might  almost  say  universal) 
tradition  in  old  American  families  that  they  descended 
from  "three  brothers  who  came  over  and  settled,"  &c., 
has,  of  coarse,  prevailed  to  some  extent  among  the 
X'alenlines,  and,  in  gathering  the  materials  for  this 
work,  I  have  met  a  few  wlio  insisted  upon  the  truth 
of  the  tradition  with  great  pei:tinacity.  It  is  true, 
as  already  stated,  that  nearly  all  the  Valentines  in 
America  are  descended  fmm  three  progenitors;  but  it 
is  not  true  that  these  were  brothers,  nor  even  near  rel- 
atives; although  it  is  the  writer's  opinion  that  if  the 
lineage  could  be  traced  back  a  few  centuries  farther, 
their  common  origin  would  be  found  to  meet  in  some 
old  family  of  Northern  Europe — probably  Holland  or 
Germany.  There  arc  a  few  Irish  families  of  Valen- 
tines in  New  York  city,  who  inform  me  that  the  name 
is  quite  common  in  some  parts  of  Ireland,  especially 
in  the  counties  of  Kildare  and  Wicklowe,  where  they 
are  generally  well-to-dc  farmers.  These  disclaim  a 
Celtic  origin,  are  generally  Protestants,  and  claim 
that  their  ancestors  came  from  Holland  some  six  cen- 
turies ago. 

But  instead  of  endeavoring  to  explore  the  laby- 
rinths of  the  long-de])arted  past,  in  relation  to  which 
the  clearest  statements  are  of  doubtful  authority,  I 
propose,  in  this  work,  to  give  a  sketch  of  each  of  the 
three  great  branches  of  the  name  in  this  country,  viz: 
the  Long  Islaiui  Valentines,  or  descendants  of  Richard 
Valentine,  who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Hemp- 
stead in  1644 — the  -Wti'  Etighind  Valentines,  or  de- 
scendants of  John  Valentine,  who  came  to  Boston  in 


The  Name  of  Valentine. 


1675 — and  the  New  York  Valentines,  or  descendants 
of  Benjamin  Valentine,  who  settled  in  East  Chester, 
Westchester  Co.,  N.  Y.,  about  1679  or  1680.  There 
are  doubtless  other  minor  branches  descended  from 
more  recent  emigrants,  but  they  are  of  quite  limited 
extent;  and  some  others,  supposed  to  be  separate  and 
independent,  would,  if  some  of  the  missing  links  of 
the  chain  coald  be  found,  be  traceable  to  some  one  of 
the  above. 

In  another  chapter  will  be  found  a  list  of  the  Valen- 
tines whose  names  are  given  in  the  New  York  and 
Brooklyn  Directories  of  the  present  year,  the  object 
of  which  is  to  show  the  relative  proportion  of  each  of 
these  great  branches,  taking  these  cities  as  a  test. 


The  Valentines  in  America. 


CHAPTER    II. 

THE    VALENTINES    OF    LONG    ISLAND. 

THE  first  settlers  of  Long  Island,  excepting  the 
few  Dutch  settlers  at  the  western  extremity, 
were  mainly  of  English  origin.  Some  of  these 
came  directly  hither  from  their  Old-World  homes,  but 
not  a  few  of  them  first  tried  it  for  a  while  in  some  part 
of  New  England.  Thus  a  large  portion  of  the  original 
proprietors  of  Hempstead  first  settled  in  Stamford, 
Conn.,  where,  however,  they  remained  but  one  year, 
when,  for  reasons  that  do  not  appear,  they  removed  to 
Long  Island,  then  a  wilderness  uninhabited  except 
by  a  few  tribes  of  Indians. 

Hempstead  was  originally  one  of  the  largest  towns 
in  territory  on  the  Island,  extending  from  the  Sound 
on  the  north  to  the  Atlantic  on  the  south,  and  from 
Oyster  Bay  on  the  east  to  Jamaica  on  the  west.  The 
first  division  of  land  among  the  sixty-six  proprietors 
of  the  town  took  place  in  1647,  hardly  a  quarter  of  a 
century  after  the  Pilgrims  at  Plymouth,  and  the  ad- 
vent of  the  Dutch  in  New  York.     Among  these  was 

RICHARD    VALENTINE, 

then  probably  a  young  man  of  twenty-five  or  thirty 
years  of  age,  but  whether  married  or  single  I  have  no 
means  of  knowing.  He  was  of  English  origin,  and, 
from  the  fact  that  some  of  the  company  came  from 
that  section,  as  well  as  the  identity  of  name,  it  is  not 


^m:^^^^ 
^v^- ■■-.■-; 


\.-. 


'H\A 


The  Vahntitics  of  Loii^  Island. 


at  all  improbable  that  he  was  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Richard  Valentine  of  the  parish  of  Eccles  in  Lan- 
castershire,  the  undoubted  ancestor  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Valentines,  more  fully  mentioned  in  another 
chapter— which,  if  my  conjectures  are  correct,  would 
seem  to  prove  that  these  two  great  branches  have  one 
common  origin. 

Of  this  first  American  Valentine,  tut  little  is 
known,  for  the  public  and  private  records  of  those 
days  were  but  imperfectly  kept.  He  must  have  been 
married  soon  after  immigrating  if  not  before,  for,  in 
1685,  he  had  four  sons,  and  perhaps  more,  who  were 
freeholders.  In  a  tax  laid  that  year,  Widow  Richard 
Valentine  is  assessed  for  40  acres,  Obadiah,  44,  Wil- 
liam, 40,  Ephraim,  40,  and  Richard  (Jr.),  71  acres. 
Besides  these.  I  find  from  the  N.  Y.  Calendar  of  Hist. 
MSS.,  that  in  Feb.,  1679,  Jonah  Valentine  of  Hemp- 
stead petitioned  the  Governor  for  a  grant  of  100  acres 
of  land.  Moreover,  I  find  from  the  same  source  that 
in  1679  Richard  Valentine  (Jr.),  "one  of  the  Hemp- 
stead rioters,"  asks  to  be  exempted  from  punishment 
"on  account  of  his  youth  and  ignorance."  As  men- 
tion is  made  of  Richard  Valentine  (Sen.),  in  1682,  and 
of  his  widow  in  1785,  it  seems  clear  that  he  must  have 
died  between  those  years,  leaving  at  least  five  sons, 
and  several  daughters.  There  is  a  tradition  in  the 
family  that  the  farm  of  the  original  Richard  con- 
tained 600  acres — which  probably  included  some 
"out-lots"  or  wild  lands,  as  well  as  the  homesteads 
named  in  the  foregoing  list. 

But  if  the  young  Richard  came  to  grief  from  his 
"  sky-larking "  propensities,  his  paternal  ancestor 
could  hardly  reprove  him,  for  he,  too,  had  his  own 
troubles.  In  the  "Colonial  History  of  the  Slate  of 
New  York,"  Vol.  II.,  Page  728,  I  find  that  "the  Mar- 


shal  of  the  town  of  Hemstede,  Richard  V^alentyn  by 
name,"  is  complained  of  before  tiie  [Dutch]  Governor- 
General  and  Council  of  New  Netherlands,  July  7, 
1674,  for  refusing  to  put  in  execution  a  judgment 
against  one  Jeremy  Wood,  and  "  for  uttering  these  se- 
ditious words:  '  Is  it  in  the  name  of  the  King  of  Eng- 
land? for  I  will  do  nothing  in  the  name  of  the  Prince 
or  of  the  States  of  Holland,'  "  &c.  True  to  his  English 
origin,  the  Marshal  found  the  Dutch  Government  a 
galling  yoke  to  bear.  It  would  seem,  however,  that 
neither  father  nor  son  received  any  severe  punishment, 
or  some  mention  would  have  been  made  of  it. 

In  the  stirring  events  of  that  period,  the  V'alentines 
appear  to  have  taken  an  active  part.  Thus,  in  1702, 
Richard  X'alentine  was  one  of  the  Grand  Jury  raised 
especial!}- to  indict  Samuel  Bownes,  an  itinerant  Qua- 
ker preacher  who  came  to  that  region ;  but  instead  of 
doing  so,  the  jury  indorsed  the  paper  '■'Ignoramus" 
and  returned  it  to  the  Judge,  utterly  refusing  to  have 
anything  to  do  with  such  dirty  work.  Many  of  Rich- 
ard's posterity  afterwards  became  "  Friends "  them- 
selves, and  some  remain  such  to  this  day. 

In  1726,  Obadiah  Valentine  was  one  of  a  committee 
to  put  a  stop  to  the  "  wicked  and  wanton  burning  of 
Hempstede  Plains." 

Of  this  family  of  Richard  Valentine  and  his  five 
sons,  there  is  not,  so  far  as  I  can  learn,  any  continuous 
and  authentic  genealogy  in  existence;  but  it  is  certain 
that  nearly  all  the  Valentines  of  Long  Island,  except 
those  in  the  city  of  Brooklyn  (and  even  many  in  that 
city  also),  have  descended  from  these.  The  family 
name  soon  extended  to  adjoining  towns,  especially 
to  Oyster  Bay,  Jamaica  and  Flushing,  until  finall)'  it 
was  common  in  ever)-  town  in  Queens  County,  and 
was  occasionally  found  in  the  other  counties  of  Long 


Tlu  Valentines  of  Long  Island. 


II 


Island,  Kings  and  Suffolk.  I  find,  at  an  election  for 
Deputies  held  in  Jamaica  Nov.  7,  1775,  ^^e  names  of 
Philip,  Richard,  Jacob,  William,  Obadiah,  Robert, 
Jacamiah  and  Jonas  Valentine  among  the  voters.  Ac- 
cording to  Sabine's  "American  Loyalists,"  some  of 
the  Valentines,  like  their  original  ancestor,  were  quite 
partial  to  the  British  crown,  as  Caleb,  Jacob,  Jonah, 
Obadiah,  David,  Robert,  Philip,  Thomas  and  William 
Valentine  did  not  acknowledge  allegiance  to  the 
American  government  till  October,  1776,  though  after 
this,  they  appear  to  have  been  patriotic  enough,  and 
Philip  even  became  Captain  of  a  company  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary Army. 

But  though  in  favor  of  liberty  for  themselves,  they, 
like  many  others  in  that  day  and  since,  seem  to  have 
had  rather  obscure  views  in  relation  to  that  of  others. 
Thus,  according  to  Onderdonk,  June  2,  1791,  Obadiah 
Valentine  of  Oyster  Bay  offers  a  "  ^5  Reward  for  the 
return  of  his  remarkably  black  negro  man.  Bob,  aged 
22.  He  had  on  a  brown  coat  and  green  linings,  yellow 
vest,  old  boots.  He  has  gray  hair  on  his  neck."  Oba- 
diah ought  to  have  known  that  to  a  young  man  of  22 
(and  graj-  at  that .')  liberty  was  as  sweet  as  to  himself. 

In  the  absence  of  all  genealogies,  familj-  records, 
and  other  similar  data,  I  am  compelled  to  resort  to 
such  public  and  private  resources  as  can  be  found.  Of 
these,  the  oldest  are  the  "Town  Records  of  Hemp- 
stead," found  in  the  North  Hempstead  Town  Clerk's 
Office  at  Roslyn,  which  furnish  the  following  items: — 


Thos.  Ellison  sold  to  Richd.  Valentine  5  acres  meadow,  >far.  14, 1658. 
Simon  Searing  sold  certain  lands  to  Obadiah  Valentine  about  1670. 
John  Jackson       "        "             "           Ephraim           ..  «  « 

\Vm.  Valentine    "         '"             "           Benjamin  Birdsall       "  " 

Jonas        "  "         "  "  


12  TIu  Valentines  in  America. 

The  records  of  Conveyances  in  the  County  Clerk's 
Office  at  Jamaica  mention  the  following  Valentines: — 


Kichaid  Valentine, 

of  Hempstead, 

Yeoman, 

in  1706. 

Obadiah 

•' 

" 

1717. 

Henry 

" 

" 

1759. 

Henry 

Oyster  Bay, 

" 

** 

Joseph               " 

Hempstead, 

" 

1783. 

Philip 

North  Hemps 

lead. 

1791. 

Benjamin         " 

" 

" 

1800. 

Richard 

" 

•• 

1806. 

Caleb 

" 

" 

1814. 

William 

•• 

" 

1B24. 

Jeremiah 

Flushing, 

•• 

" 

David 

Oyster  Bay, 

" 

" 

Isaac 

•• 

" 

1825. 

Jacob                " 

" 

(■ 

•( 

James 

Flushing, 

'* 

M 

Absalom 

Oyster  Bay, 

*• 

1827. 

Daniel 

" 

" 

" 

Daniel 

" 

" 

I83I. 

Oliver 

North  Hemps 

ead. 

1835. 

Lewis               " 

Oyster  Bay. 

'• 

" 

The  following  are  from  the  Records  of  Wills,  &c.. 
in  the  Surrogate's  Office,  Jamaica: — 

The  Will  of  Jacamiah  Valentine,  of  Jamaica,  speaks 
of  children  William,  Jacob,  Philip,  Jane,  Phebe, 
Rebecca  and  Sarah;  and  names  his  brothers,  William 
and  Obadiah,  as  Executors. 

The  Will  of  Jacob  Valentine,  of  North  Hempstead, 
1802,  speaks  of  children  Samuel,  Abigail  (Vander- 
water),  Elizabeth,  Susannah  and  Jane. 

The  Will  of  Pliilip  Valentine,  of  North  Hempstead, 
1816,  names  his  wife,  Jane,  sister,  Ann  Smith,  also  of 
Richard,  son  of  Jas.  \'alentine — also  of  Mary  Ann 
and  Phebe,  dau.  of  his  brother  Richard. 

The  Will  of  George  Valcmine,  of  Hempstead,  1823, 


The  Valentines  of  Long  Island. 


>3 


gives  a  portion  to  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  and  his  children, 
Sarah,  Robert,  Oliver  and  Miriam,  and  names  his  son, 
Charles,  as  one  of  his  Executors. 

The  Will  of  Zebulon  Valentine,  N.  Hempstead, 
1830,  speaks  of  his  wife,  Ruth,  and  his  brother, 
Oliver, — also  appoints  his  friend,  Ephraim  Valentine, 
Executor. 

The  Will  of  Elbert  J.  Valentine,  of  Oyster  Bay, 
1843,  speaks  of  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Ann,  his  sons, 
Chas.  Smith  Valentine  and  Elbert  J.,  and  his  dau. 
Hannah  Elizabeth. 

The  Will  of  James  J.  M.  Valentine,  of  New  York 
city,  1845,  speaks  of  his  father,  William,  and  mother, 
Phebe,  his  brother,  William  M.,  his  other-  brothers, 
Washington,  Meyers  and  Eugene,  his  sisters,  Ann  E. 
Nicholls  and  Phebe  Bunting — and  his  daughters, 
Leonora  and  Sarah  J. 

To  that  indefatigable  walking  encyclopedia  of 
Long  Island  antiquarian  lore,  Henry  Onperdonk, 
Esq.,  of  Jamaica,  I  am  indebted  for  most  of  the  fol- 
lowing records: — 


From  the  Assessors'  Books  of  Queens  County  (exrept  Newtown),  iyS6  : 
Obadiah  Valentine,      N.  Hempstead,  Val.     £  6,      Tax,     £  1     2r. 


Richard 

" 

8, 

«     9 

Philip 

tl                                                       M                                                  *4 

8. 

I     9 

William 

...                                                        « 

4. 

0  14 

Jacob 

M                                               *.                                           .. 

4. 

0  14 

George 

Hempstead,             " 

3. 

0  II 

Jacob 

"            N.  Hempstead, 

12, 

3     4 

Philip 

"                       " 

26, 

4   16 

Richard 

"    £sf. 

22, 

4     I 

Jacamiah 

*'           Jamaica,                  " 

4. 

0  14 

" 

.«                  <•                          <■ 

»5. 

2    IS 

William 

*•                          " 

14. 

2    12 

George 

M                                           •«                                                              M 

«. 

0    7 

14  TJu  Valentines  in  America. 


Jacob  Val 

entine. 

Oyster  Bay, 

Val.    C  78. 

Tax, 

£ 

14     9X. 

Charles 

" 

" 

30, 

" 

5  II 

David 

" 

" 

6. 

" 

1     9 

Robert 

" 

M 

4. 

" 

0  14 

Jacamiah 

" 

Flushing, 

3. 

" 

0  II 

Caleb 

" 

" 

s. 

" 

0    7 

MARRIAGES. 

From  the  Records  of  St,  Geor^f*s  Episcopal  Churchy  Hempstead^  L.  I. 

Oljadiah  Valentine  married  to  Martha  Thurston May  27,  1728. 

Jacob  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Sarah   Downing, 

of  Oyster  Bay Aug.    3,  1728. 

\Vm.  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Rebecca  Baldwin, 

of  0)ster  Bay Mar.  16,  1730. 

John  Grittman,  of  Hemp-stead,  to  .Anne  Valentine,  of 

Hempstead June    3,  1735. 

Nathan  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Jane  Southard, 

of  Hempstead Dec.  12,  1736. 

Peter  Vandewater,  of  Hempstead,  to  Maiy  Valentine, 

of  Hempstead Dec.  12,  1736. 

Jacob  Valentine,  of   Hempstead,  to   Maty  Coles,  of 

Oyster  Bay Jan.     i,  1740. 

Wm.  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  10  Maiy  Fowler,  of 

Hempstead Dec     27,  1752. 

Silas  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Elizabeth  Jackson, 

of  Hempstead Dec.     3,  1754. 

James  Van  Velsor,  of  Oyster   Bay,  to   Phebe  Valen 

tine,  of  Hempstead Dec.  30,  1760. 

Eliphalet  Stratlon,  of   Suffolk   Co.,   to   Mary  Valen- 

tine,  of  Suffolk  Co SepL2b,  1767, 

James  Smith,  of   Hempstead,  to  Ann  Valentine,  of 

Hempstead Nov.  25,   1 772. 

Whitney  Darling,  of  Hempstead,  to  Sarah  Valentine, 

of  Oyster  Bay Jan.    14,   1779. 

Obadiah  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Rachel  Waters, 

of  Oyster  Bay Feb.  17,   1779. 

John  Gelding,  of  Hempstead,  to  Phebe  Valentine,  of 

Hempstead Aug.  14,  1781. 

John  Treadwell,  of  Hempstead,  to  Rachel  Valentine, 

of  Oyster  Bay June    i,  178*. 


The  Valentines  of  Long  Island.  IJ 

Benjamin  Waters,  of  Hempstead,  to  Elizabeth  Valen- 
tine, of  Oyster  Bay Mar.    9,1783. 

Uriah  Hendrickson.  of  Hempstead,  to  Elizabeth  Val- 
entine, of  Oyster  Bay May  27,   1783. 

John    Valentine,  of    Hempstead,  to  Elizabeth  Nos- 

trand,  of  Hempstead Aug.  22,  1784. 

Silas  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to   Mary  Abrahams, 

of  Hempstead Nov.  16,  1 786. 

Lewis  Valentine,  of  Oyster  Bay,  to  Jane  Rushmore, 

of  Oyster  Bay 1st  mo.  7th  da.  1790. 

John   Eldret,  of  Hempstead,  to  Mary  Valentine,  of 

Hempstead Apr.  14,   1 790, 

Caleb  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Elizabeth  Cornell, 

of  Jamaica Nov.  13,  1791. 

Jacob  Valentine,  of  Huntington,  to  Phebe  l.oines,  of 

Hempstead 12th  mo.  21st  da.  1791. 

Jacob  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to   Hannah  Wood, 

of  Oyster  Bay Nov.    7,  1795. 

Oliver  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Martha  Williams, 

of  Jamaica Nov.    i,  1 798. 

Jacob  Valentine,  of  North  Hempstead,  to  Sarah  Car- 
man, of  Hempstead Nov.    9,   1 800. 

Lewis   Valentine,  of   Oyster   Bay,  to  Jane   Post,  of 

Hempstead 4th  mo.  3rd  day,  1 802. 

Samuel  Valentine,  of  N.  Hempstead,  to  Mary  Ann 

Clowes,  of  Hempstead Oct.   13,   1805. 

David  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Mary  Langdon,  of 

Hempstead . . .  > Feb.  10,   18 10. 

Benj.  Hatfield,  of  Hempstead,  to  Esther  Valentine, 

of  Hempstead Mar.  16,   1811. 

David  v.,  son  of  Chas.  and  Mary,  of  Glen  Cove,  to 

Hannah  Cock,  of  Hempstead 4th  mo.  29th  da.  1813. 

Chas.  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Phebe  Bedell,  of 

Hempstead May    I,  1813. 

Obadiah  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Ruth  Watts,  of 

Flushing May    6,  1815. 

Geo.  Valentine,   of  Hempstead,  to  Clarissa  Mill,  of 

Jerusalem.... Oct.  31,  1818. 

Dr.  Jas.  Townsend,  of  Glen  Cove,  to  Ann  S.  Valen- 
tine, of  Glen  Cove Nov.    5,  1823. 

Obadiah  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Phebe  Higby, 

of  Jamaica July     6,  1825. 


1 6  Tfu  Valentines  in  America. 


3-  -I 


Samuel  Valentine,  oC  Hempstead,  to  Maria  Riker,  of 

Jamaica Nov.    2,   1825. 

Robert  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Eliza  Seaman,  of 

Hempstead May  24,   1826. 

Sidney  Seaman,  of  Hempstead,  to  Phebe  W.  Valen- 
tine, of  Hempstead Nov.    6,1826. 

\Vm.  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Marj-  Ann  Bedell, 

of  Hempstead Mar.  12,  1828. 

Joseph  \V.  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Mary  Cock, 

of  Hempstead Apr.  10,   1832. 

Geo.   Molt,  of  Hempstead,  to  Nancy  Valentine,  of 

Hempstead July     7.   '832- 

John  T.  Valentine,  of  Westbury,  to  Elizabeth  Mudge, 

of  Hempstead nth  mo.  27th  da.  1834. 

Leonard  Valentine,  of  Westbury,  to  Caroline  Hew- 
lett, of  Hempstead Sep.   25,   1835. 

Lewis  Flower,  of  Hempstead,  to  Elizabeth  H.  Valen- 
tine, of  Hempstead Dec,  23,  1835. 

Wm.  A.  Valentine,  of  Flushing,  to  Frances  E.  Carll, 

of  Jamaica Jan.     3,  1836. 

Jacob  C.  Valentine,  of  East  Woods  (O.  B.),  to  Sarah 

E.  ANTiitney,  of  Hempstead July   17,  1836. 

Wm.  Bunting,  of  New  York,  to  Phebe  L.  Valentine, 

of  Hempstead Oct.   1 1,  1837. 

Wm.   H.  Valentine,  of   Hempstead,   to  Ann   Maria 

Oilman,  of  Flushing Dec    3-  !?'37- 

Ephraim  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to   Eliza  Cornell, 

of  Hempstead Dec.  20,  1837. 

Chas.  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Keziah  W.  Coles, 

of  Westbury 5th  mo.  1 7th  da.  1 838. 

Thos.  C.  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  to  Phebe  Willis, 

of  Hempstead Feb.    4,   1840. 

Richard  Valentine,  Jr.,   of    Hempstead,  to    Lavinia 

Hopkins,  of  Hempstead Aug.  18,  1840. 

Samuel  C.  Hendrickson,  of  Oyster  Bay,  to  Eliza  Val- 
entine, of  Flushing Oct.   19,  1841. 

Geo.  A.  Valentine,   of  Flushing,  to  Annie   B.  Dore- 

mus,  of  Hempstead Dec.  28,  1842. 

Wobley   Horton,  of  Jericho,  to  Susan  Valentine,  of 

Topping  Town Mar.    I,  1843. 

James  W.Valentine,  of  Flushing,  to  Sarah  Provost,  of 

Bushwick Sep.   19,  1843. 


DR.     WILLIAM    VALENTINE. 
rilK    HCMOKISl. 


The  Valentines  of  Long 

Island 

>7 

W'm.  E.  Valentine,  of  Flushing,  to  Phebe  E. 

Kissam, 

of  Flushing 

OcL   16,  1846. 

BIRTHS. 

From  Records  of  Friendi  Meiling, 

Westbury, 

L.f. 

Manha  Valentine,  dau.  of  Obadiah  and  Mar- 

tha Valenline.  of  Hemp,  in  Westbur)-.  . 

nth  mo. 

I7ih  da.  1717. 

Mary  Valentine,  dau.  of  Obadiah  and   Mar- 

tha  Valenline,  of  Hemp.,  in  Westbury.  . 

2nd  mo. 

I2ih  da.  1 719. 

Phebe  Valentine,  dau.  of  Obadiah  and  Mar- 

tha  Valentine,  of  Hemp.,  in  Westbury.  . 

gth  mo 

29ih  da.  1721. 

Elizabeth  Valentine,   dau.  of   Obadiah  and 

Martha  Valentine,  of   Hemp.,  in  West- 

bury  

2nd  mo. 

2Slh  da.  1724. 

Esther  Valentine,  dau.  of  Obadiah  and  Mar- 

tha Valentine,  of  Hemp.,  in  Westbury..  . 

tst.  mo. 

l6th  da.  1733. 

Chas.  Valentine,  son  of                     Valentine, 

;\ 

in   M  atinecock 

9th  mo. 

30tb  da,  1742. 

Daniel,  son  of  Chas.  Valentine,  in  Matine- 

cock 

nth  mo. 

25th  da.  1784. 

Henry  Valentine,  son  of  Samuel  and  Han- 

nah Valentine,  in  Musquito  Cove 

6ih  mo. 

4th  da.  1813. 

Jane  Valentine,  dau.  of  I.ewis  and  Jane  Val- 

entine, in  Matinecock 

I. St    mo. 

22nd  da.  1814. 

Chas.  Valentine,  son  of  Jacob  and   Martha 

Valentine,  in  N.  V 

4th  mo. 

15th  da.  1815. 

Mary  C.  Valentine,  dau.  of  David  and   Han- 

nah Valentine,   in   Matinecock    

4lh  mo. 

6th  da.  1816. 

Catherine  S.  Valentine,   dau.  of    David  and 

Hannah  Valentine,  in   Matinecock 

5th  mo. 

7th  da.1818. 

Lewis  Valentine,  son  of  Jacob  and  Martha 

Valentine,  in   Musquito  Cove 

5th  mo. 

1st  da.  1S20. 

Daniel  Valentine,  son  of  David  and  Hannah 

Valentine,  in   Matinecock. 

loth  mo. 

22nd  da.  1S21. 

Caroline    Valenline,    dau.    of    Elwood   and 

Mary  T.Valentine,  in   Matinecock.... 

loth  mo. 

3l5t   da.  1824. 

Ann  E.,  dau.  of  David  and   Hannah  Valen- 

entine,  in  M  atinecock 

3 

5th  mo. 

2nd  da.  1625. 

iS  '/"//(    ]'iih  lit  tins  in  Aiiuricd. 

Lewis  Valentine.  >on  of  Jacob  and   Martha 

Valentine,  in    Musijuilo  Cove 12lh  mo.  20th  da.  1S29. 

Emily  N.,  dau.  of  Ehiood  and  Mary  T.  Val- 

enline.  in    Mu>i|uito  Cove 12lh  mo.  iSth  da.  1832. 

I.clilia  Valentine,  <lau.  of  D.tvid  and  Han- 
nah  V.ilcnline,   in    Matinecock Sth   mo.  17th  da.  1833. 

Jane  K.  Valentine,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Mar- 
tha Valentine,  in    Glen  Cove      1st    mo.  23rd  da.  1834. 

BAPTISMS.  j 

from  RtOtrJs  of  St.  George's  Church,  Iltinpslead,  L.  I.  1 

\\  m.  v.,  son  of  \Vm.  and  Rebecca,   Feb.  II,  1730,  at  Hempstead.     ■ 
Mary  v.,  dau.  of  Thos.  and   Eliza- 

btlh    Feb.  16, 1783,       Oyster  Bay.  [ 

Mary  V.,  dau.  of    Sam.  and    Maiy 

Ann July     5, 1807,        Hempstead.  1 

Catherine    E.,    dau.    of    Sam.    and  I 

Mary  -Xnn Apr.  23, 1S09,       N.Hempstead.  1 

Samuel,    son   of    Sam.    and    Mary  | 

Ann    Mar.24,1811, 

Sarah  .\nn,  dau.  of  Sam.  and  >Iary 

Mary  Ann -\ug.     1,1813, 

Susan,  dau.    of    Sam.    and    Mary 

Ann July     7, 1816, 

Thos.   C,  son  of  Sam.   and    Mary 

Ann Oct.   28,1818, 

Saml.   .\.,   son   of    Sam.  and  Mary 

Ann July     5,1821, 

Louisa  A.,  dau.  of  Sam.  and   Deb- 
orah     Sept.  23, 1822,       Great  Neck. 

.\lfred,  son  of  Sam.  and  Annie...   July     9,1826,        Hempstead. 
Celia  .\.,  dau.  of  Thos.  and   I'hcbe  Feb.  10,  1840, 
Sam.  \V.  son  of  Thos.  and  Pbebe. .    Feb.  14, 1843, 

DEATHS. 

From  R,(orJs  of  Friends'  Meeting,  Westbury,  L.  I. 

Obadiah  Valentine,  died  in  Westbury,  10  mo.  8  da.  1767,  art.  77. 
David  Valentine,  died  in  Weslbiir)-,  4  mo.  18  da.  1812,  .-et.  66. 


The  Valentines  of  Long  Island. 


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Daniel  Valentine,  died  in  Matinecock,  7  mo.  21  da.  1814. 

Charles  Valentine,  died  in  \Ve>tbury,  3  mo.  22  da.  1815. 

Lewis  Valentine,  died  in  M us.  Cove,  II  ino.  12  da.  1821,  .net.  I  yr.  6  mo. 

Ann  Elizal)elh  Valentine,  dau.  of  D.-m.  and  Han., died  in  Matinecock, 

4  mo.  27  da.  1826,  x\..  I  yr. 
Silas  Valentine,  son  of  Lewis,  died  3  mo.  II  mo.  1831,  it.  36. 
Lewis  Valentine,  son  of  Chas.  and   Mary,  died    in   Glen  Cove,  2  mo. 

3  da.  1S46,  cet.  80  yrs.  10  mo. 
Elizabeth  Valentine,  dau.  of  Chas.  and  Mar)',  died  in  Clen  Cove,  12 

mo.  16  da.  1846,  a?t.  73. 
Smith  Valentine,  died  in  fsearingtown,  Nov.  5,  1820,  aft.  47. 


/>. 


(Taken  from  tombstones  in  churcti-yards,  ccraetenes,  &c.) 

rom  Laii'renc'f*  Family  Bitritil  Grouiui^  \t"-'fo'i<n^  L.  /. 

Richard  Valentine  died  Oct.  29,  1812,  aet.  77. 

rhelie  Valentine,  wife  of  Richard,  dic-d  June  12,  1800,  x\.  42. 

Philip  Valentine  died  Feb.  29,  1816,  xt.  74. 

Maria  R.  Valentine,  wife  of  Samuel,  died  Mar.  3,  1828,  xl.  32. 

Maria  Valentine,  dau.  of  Saml.  and  Maria  R. 

Saml.  Augustus  Valentine,  son  of  .Saml.  and  Mary  .Ann,  died  Dec.  12, 

1837,  at  18. 
Jane  Valentine,  relict  of  Philip,  died  .\ug.  II,  1838,  oet.  84. 
Susan  Valentine,  dau.  of  Brewster  and  Eliza  .\nn,  died  June  10, 1839, 

xt  2. 
Alfred  Valentine,  son  of  Saml.  and    Mary  .\nn,  died    Sept.  22,  1843, 

set.  19. 
Thos.  Clones  Valentine,  son  of  Saml.  and  Mar)'  .Ann,  [died  Aug.  8, 

1844,  set.  27. 


From  Episcopal  Church  Records,  yamaica,  L.  /. 

Elihu  Baldwin  Valentine,  son  of  Samuel    and    Mary,  died   Apr.  16, 

1845.  xt.  7. 
Mary  Valentine,  wife  of  Jeremiah,  died  Oct.  14,  1820,  act.  56. 
Sarah  Valentine,  dau.  of  Obadiah  and    Phel)e,  died    May  17,   1838, 

xt.  12. 

•  From  the  fact  mentioned  el-ewhere  that  one  of  the  Westchester 
Co.  Valentines  mained  a  I.3wrence,  it  is  possible  that  some  of  the 
above  list  belonged  to  that  and  not  the  L.  L  branch. 


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TItc  ]'alcn tines  in  America. 


Susan  Ann  Valentine,  dau.  of  Obadiah  and  Ruth,  died  Feb.  8, 1821, 

xt.2. 
Mary  Valentine,  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Sarah,  died  Apr.  27,  1821,  set.  I. 
Mary  Valentine,  dau.  of  Thomas  and   Sarah,  died   July  17,  1825,  art. 

2  mos. 
Jeremiah    Valentine,  son   of  Thomas  and   Sarah,  died  Aug.  26,  1834, 

set.  2. 
Obadiah  Valentine  died  May  22, 1842,  aet.  54. 
Ruth  Valentine,  wife  of  Obadiah,  died  Mar.  26,  1823,  x\.  31. 
William  R.  Valentine,  son   of  Obadiah  and   Phebe,  died   Feb.  I,  1837, 

JBt.  3. 
John  H.  Valentine  died  Mar.  II,  1843,  St.  43. 
Martha  Valentine,  wife  of  John  H.,  died  Oct.  18,  1835,  aet.  30. 
Elizabeth  Valentine,  dau.  of  John  H.  and  Martha,  died  Dec.  29,  1833, 

aet.  3  mos. 

From  St,  C forge s  Chunk  Records,  Hfmpstead^  Z.  /. 

Sarah  Valentine,  wife  of  Jacob,  died  Mar.  30,  1818,  act.  37. 

William  Valentine,  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah,  died  Aug.  7,  1806,  aet.  I. 

Townsend   Valentine,  son  of  Jacob  and    Sarah,   died    Feb.  17,  1816, 

aet.  I. 
Carman  Valentine,  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah,  died  May  5,  1816,  act.  3. 
Sarah  Valentine,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Sarah,  died  July  4, 1817,  aet.  4  mos. 
Samuel  Valentine,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Ann,  died  Feb.  26,  1812, 

aet  I. 

The  following  valuable  article  was  kindly  furnished 
by  that  enthusiastic  genealogist,  Jacob  T.  Bowne,  Esq., 
of  Glen  Cove,  L.  I.  It  is  lacking  only  in  the  matter 
of  dates. 


No.  I,  Generation  I. — David  Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  I..  I.,  was  bom 
in  May,  l68g,  and  married,  about  1716,  Charity,  daughter  of  N«- 
than  and  Rachel  Coles,  of  MusVctfi-cove  (now  Ghn  Core,  L.  I.). 
Charity  was  born  Sept.  I,  1695.  Shortly  after  marriage  he  must 
have  removed  to  Glen  Cove  to  live,  as  on  the  illh  of  March, 
1719-20,  he  bought  of  his  father-in-law  property  described  as  fol- 
lows :  "  All  that  certain  messuage  or  homestead  where  I  ye  said 
Nathan  Coles  now  dwcllelh  in  Musketo-cove,"  &c.,  paying  therefor 
/^500.     This  place  has  never  passed  out  of  the  family,  being  now 


The  Vattutincs  of  Long  Island. 


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in  possession  of  I  he  daughters  of  the  late  Ellwood  Valentine. 
The  will  of  David  bears  date  Oct.  6,  1743.  In  it  he  mentions 
"daughter  Sarah  when  she  shall  be  21,"  his  wife  Charity,  and  son 
Jacob  ;  also  granddaughter  "  Phebe  Coles;"  They  had  one  son 
and  four  daughters,  viz  : 

2.  Charity,  born  Apr.  30, 1 71 7. 

3.  Jacob,  bom  Dec.  22,  1718 — married,  jsl,  Mary  Coles ; 

2nd,  Linda  Deal. 

4.  Mary,  bom  July  17,  1721. 

5.  Sarah,  bom  Oct.  II,  1725. 

6.  Phcbe,  bom  Apr.  4,  1 735. 

(One  of  these  daughters  married   Joseph  Coles,  whose  daughter 
was  Phehe,  spoken  of  above.) 
No.  3,  (Icneration  II. — Jacob  Valentine,  son  of  David,  was  bom  Dec. 
22,  1718,  and  married,  1st,  Mary  Coles;  2nd,  Linda  Deal.     Chil- 
dren of  1st  marriage  were : 

7.  Charles,  married  Mary  Frost.* 

8.  David,  married  Hannah  Townsend. 

9.  Susanna,  married  Thomas  Udall.* 

No.  7,  Generation  HI. — Charles  Valentine,  son  of  Jacob*,  was  bom 
Sept.  30,  1742,  and  married,  in  1762,  Mary,  daughter  of  Jacob 
Frost.  After  marriage  he  removed  to  his  falher-in-law's  place  at 
Matinecock,  now  occupied  by  Mrs.  Catherine  Lewis,  a  descendant. 
Issue : 

10.  Jacob,  married,    1st,  Phebe   Sjtns  ;   2nd,   Elizabeth    A. 

Eyre. 

11.  Lewis,  married,  1st.  Jane  RuNhmore  ;  2nd,  Jane  Post. 

12.  Elizabeth,  died  unmarried. 

13.  Letitia,  married  William  Willels. 

14.  David,  married  Hannah  Cock. 

15.  Theodosia.  married  Isaac  Downing. 

16.  Frost,  married  Elizabeth  Rodman.. 

17.  David,  married  Jemima  Underbill. 

18.  Isaac,  married  Mary  Parent. 

No.  8,  Generation  III. — r)avid  Valentine,  son  of  Jacob',  ^as  bom 
Sept.  27,  1745,  and  married  Hannah  Townsend.     Issue: 

19.  Susan,  died  unmarried. 

20.  Sarah,  died  unmarried. 

21.  George,  married  Mary  Frost. 


*  Index  to  N.  V.  Marriage  Bonds — O'Callaghan. 


22 


Tlw  1  'iiltutincs  in  A vicrica. 


22.  Elhvood,  married  ^^ary  Post. 

23.  Charlo.  married  Catherine  Adee. 

24.  To«n-cnd.  died  unmarried. 

10,  Gener.alion  IV. —  l.uob  Valentine  (sometime-,  known  as  "  Capt. 
lacul)  Valentine").  s,>ii  of  Charles',  was  horn  Jan.  29,  \^fv)  ;  mar- 
rie<l.  I-t,  I'hehe  Syms  ;  2nd,  EIizal>eth  Eyre. 

CliHJ  of  Vahnlitu  and  Lines. 
25.   Mar)',   married  Richard  Talcott. 


ChilJnn  of  I ',ihnti}ii-  and Eyoe. 

lU.  Renjamin,  married  Elizabeth  Pope. 

27.  Beulah,  married,  1st,  Dr.  .Samuel  Enilin  ;  2nd,  Joseph 
Lloyd. 

2S.  William,  married  Marian  Bedell.  (This  was  the  well- 
known  "  Dr.  Valentine.") 

2Q.  Barclay.     (See  Genealogy  on  another  page.) 

30.  Mortimer. 

31.  Eliza. 

No.  II,  Generation   IV. —  Lewis  Valentine,  son  of  Ch.irles',  married, 
I-l,  Jane  ku^hmore  ;  2nd,  Jane  Post. 

ChiJJn-n  of  VaUntitK  a'ui  Rushmort. 

32.  Jacob,  married  Martha  Titus. 

33.  Isaac,  married  Freelove  Craft. 

34.  Stephen,  married  Ann  Titus. 

35.  William,  died  young. 

36.  Silas,  died  unmarried. 

Children  of  Valentine  and  Post. 

37.  Townsend,  married  Ann  Titus. 

.    38.  Johr.  T.,  married  Elizabeth  Mudge. 

39.  George,  married  Hannah  Willets. 

40.  Jane,  unmarried. 

No.  13.  Generation  IV. — Lclitia  Valentine,  daughter  of  Charles',  mar- 
ried William  Willets.     Issue . 

41.  Jo-e]ih,   married,    1st    I'hebe    Smith  ;    2nd,  Jane    Far- 

rington. 


The  Valentines  of  Long  Island. 


23 


Xo, 


No 


42.  Jacob,  married  Underbill. 

43.  Charles. 

44.  Valentine,  married  Jane  Rushmore. 

45.  Mary,  married  Gidei'n  Frost. 

.  14,  (jeneralion  IV. —  David  Valentine,  son  of  Chas.',  married  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  Daniel  Cock.     Issue  : 
4O.    Henry,  married  Annie  Willis, 

47.  Mary,  married  Ixttt  Cornelius. 

48.  Catherine,  married  Isaac  B.  Lewis. 

49.  Daniel,  unmarried. 

50.  Elizabeth,  married  John  Lewis, 

51.  Letitia. 

52.  Edward,  married  Mary  .\.  Kickback. 

14,  (Icneration  IV. — Theodosia    Valentine,  daughter   of   Chas.'. 
married  Isaac  Downing.     Issue: 

53.  Phehe,  unmarried, 

54.  Silas,  married  Elizalwth  Boyd. 

55.  Letitia,  married  William  Willis. 

56.  Benjamin,  died  young. 

17,  (ieneralion  I\'. ^Daniel    Valentine,  son   of   Charles',  married 
Jemima  Underbill.     Issue: 

57.  Joseph,  married  Mary  Cock.  • 

22,  General'on   IV. — Ellwood  Valentine,  son  of  DaWd",  married 
-Mary  Post.     Issue : 

58.  Caroline,  married  James  Titus. 
5g.  Susan, 

60.  Emily. 

23,  Generation   IV.— Charles  Valentine,  son  of  David',   married 
Mary  Post.     Issue : 

61.  DaN-id  A. 

62.  Charles. 

32,  Generation  V. — Jacob    Valentine,    son    of    Lewis",   married 
Martha,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  .M)igail  Titus.     Issue: 

63.  Charles,  married  Kezia  \V.  Coles, 

64.  Mary  T.,  died  young. 

65.  Lewis,  died  young. 

66.  Mary,  married  William  Willets. 

67.  -\nn,  died  young. 

68.  Lewis,  married  .\nna  C.  Thorne. 

69.  Jane  R. 

33,  Generation  V. — ^Is.aac  Valentine,  son  of  Lewis",  married  Free- 
love,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  .\bbyCraft.     Issue: 


No 


No. 


No. 


No. 


24 

Tlu  Valentines  in  America. 

70.  Joseph,  married  Elizabeth  Coles.     Issue  ;  Jennie  and                    j 

Lena. 

No 

34,  Generation  V. — Stephen   Valentine,  son  of  Lewis", 

married 

Ann  Titus.     Issue; 

71.  Samuel,  married  .\nn  Kirk. 

72.  E!izal>eth,  married  Jeremiah  Winlringham. 

73.   Martha,  married  Henry  Griffen. 

74.  Sarah  .\.,  married  Charles  Griffen. 

No 

37,  Generation  V. — Townsend  Valentine,  son  of  Lewis" 
Ann  Titus.     Issue; 

75.  Cornelia,  married  Marshal  Frost. 

76.  Silas. 

77.  Emma,  married  Benjamin  BritL 

married 

No 

38,  Generation  V. — John  T.  Valentine,  son  of  Lewis", 
Elizabeth  Mudge.     Issue : 

78.  \Vm.  M.,  married  Emily  Post. 

79.  Hannah  E. 
So.  Ellwood. 

married 

No. 

Si.  Mary  J. 
39,  Generation  V.— George   Valentine,  son  of    Lewis," 
Hannah  Willets.     Issne : 

married 

No 

82..  Jacob  D. 
46,  Generation  V. — Henry  Valentine,  son    of   David'*, 
Anna  Willis.     Issue: 

83.  Sener. 

S4.  Napoleon  B. 

85.  Catherine,  married  Clinton  More. 

86.  Matilda. 

87.  Isaac. 

88.  Joseph. 

89.  Wm.  E. 

90.  Anne, 
gi.  David  H. 
92.  Ruske. 

married 

No. 

93.  Mary. 

47,  tiencration   V.  —  Mary  Valentine,  dau.  of    David", 
Lolt  Cornelius.     Issue  : 

94.  Valentine  M. 

95.  Amanda,  married  Jar\-is  Underbill. 

marrie<i 

No. 

48,  Generation  V. — Catherine  Valentine,  dau.  of  David", 
Isaac  B.  Lewis.     Issue ; 

96.  Mary  Anna,  married  Daniel  VaiL 

married 

WILLIAM    M.     VALENTINF,    MERCHANT. 


Ro^LVN.  L.  I. 


The  I  'ohiitiiii-s  of  Long  Island. 


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No.  50,  Generation  V. — Eli/alictli  Valcnline,  ilau.  of  Daviil",  niarritd 
lohn  Lewis.     Is-ue: 

97.  Jo-cpliine,  married. 

98.  Kaac  B. 

99.  John. 
100.   Frank. 

No.  52,  (feneration   V. — Edward    Valentine,  -on   of  David'-",  married 
Marj-  .\.  Rickbatk.     Issue  • 
loi.  William. 
No.    54,   (".eneration    V. — Silas     Downing,  son    of    David",    married 
Elizabeth  Hoyd.     Issue : 

I02.   Matilda,  died  young. 
loS.  William,  died  young. 

104.  Cornelia,  married  E.  H.  Thome. 

105.  Alfred. 

106.  Isaac 

107.  Mary  .\nna,  married  James  Harrold. 
loS.   Elizabeth,  died  young. 

No.  58,  Generation  \'. — Caroline  \'alentine,  dau.  of  Ellwood*^.  mar- 
ried James  Titus.     Issue  ; 

109.  Edward  P. 

110.  Henry. 
:il.   Ellwood. 
112.  Mary. 
llS.  Caroline. 

114.  Emily. 

No.  63,  Generation  VI. — Charles  Valentine,  son   of  Jacob",  married 
Keziah,  dau.  of  Thos.  and  .\melia  Coles.     Issue: 

115.  '.  hos.  E.  married  Maria  E.  Kenedy.     Issue;  John  H. 

116.  Jacob  L. 

Xo.  66,  Generation  VI. — Mary    Valentine,  dau.   of   Jacob'*,   married 
Wm.  Willets.     Issue : 

117.  .\nna,  married  Fred,  E.  Willets. 

IIw.  Martha  V.,  married  Sidney  B.  Bowne. 

119.  Jennie  R. 

120.  Tillie  W. 

Xo.  71,  Generation  W. — Samuel  Valentine,  son  of  Stephen*^,  married 
dau.  of  Danl.  and  Mary  Kirk.     Issue; 

121.  Mary  Anna. 

122.  Louise. 

123.  Stephen. 


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The  I  'alciitincs  in  A  iiicrica. 


124.  Richard. 

125.  Florence. 

126.  Daniel. 

127.  Ella. 
12S.  Hannah. 

Xo.  72,  Generation  VI. — Elizab-th  \alenline,  ilau.  of  Stephen",  mar- 
ried Jeremiah  Wintringham.      Is..ue: 

129.  Louise. 

130.  Valentine. 

131.  Clement. 

132.  Helen. 

Xo.  73.  Generation  VI. — Maiiha    Valentine,  dau.  of  Stephen'*,   mar- 
ried Henr)'  Griflen.     Usue  : 

133.  Hannah,  married  Daniel  Willets.  , 

134.  Elizaljeth. 

Xn.  74,  Generation  VI. — Sarah  .\.,  dau.  of  Stephen^,  married  Chas. 
Griflen,     Issue: 

135.  Ann  T.  U. 
1S6.   Henry  E. 
137.  Edith  C. 


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CHAPTER    III. 

THE    LONG    ISLAND    VALENTINES — CONTINUED. 

THE  following  article,  furnished  by  John  J. 
X'alentine,  Esq.,  of  Brooklyn,  speaks  for 
itself:  — 
Thomas  and  Robert  Valentine  were  brothers,  and 
resided  upon  the  eld  farm  of  their  father,  near  West 
Hills,  in  the  town  of  Oj'Ster  Bay.  This  farm*  was 
divided  between  them,  and  was  supposed  to  contain 
about  1,000  acres.  Thomas  married  Elizabeth  Hew- 
lett,! and  resided  upon  his  part  of  the  farm  ;  but  of 
Robert's  subsequent  residence,  and  of  his  descendants, 
we  know  nothing.  Of  Robert's  farm,  there  is  a  tradi- 
tion that  a  brook  ran  through  it,  which  emptied  into 
Cold  Spring  mill-pond,  and  which  was  never  either 
frozen  over,  or  dry. 

Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Hewlett)  Valentine  had  ten 
children,  their  four  sons  being,  Obadiah,  Absalom, 
Hewlett  and  Jeremiah.  Hewlett  was  never  married, 
and  was  supposed  to  have  been  lost  at  sea.  The 
daughters,  six  in  number,  were,  Elizabeth,  who  mar- 


*  This  Valentine  farm  is  now  owned  by  Benjamin  Brush  ;  and  I  am 
informed  that  there  is  an  old  burying  ground  upon  it,  in  which  the 
remains  of  some  of  our  forefathers  are  deposited.  It  was  once  owned 
and  occupied  by  Hewlett,  father  of  James  W.  Valentine,  now  of 
Greenpoint. 

t  Captain  Charles  Hewlett,  of  Revolutionary  War  notoriety,  was  a 
brother  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Thomas  Valentine,  and  resided  near 
the  Jericho  Turnpike. 


i8 


The  Valentines  in  America. 


ried  Benjamin  Waters,  of  West  Hills,  near  the  village 
of  Cold  Spring,  in  the  town  of  Oyster  Bay;  Hannah, 
who  married  Daniel  Travis,  of  West  Hills,  who  after- 
ward removed  to  Manctto  Hill;  Ruth,  who  married 
William  Weeks,  commonly  called  "  Penn  ;"  Mary,  who 
married  Gerrit  Suydani,  of  East  Woods  (now  Syosset); 
Sarah,  wlio  married  Gerrit  \'an  Nostrand,  also  of 
East  Woods;  Martha,  who  married  Samuel  Wright,  of 
Near  Rockaway. 

Obadiah  \'alentine  married  Rachel  Waters.  We 
know  of  their  having  had  two  children — a  daughter, 
who    married    Samuel     Waters— and    Hewlett,    who 

married    Hendrickson,  and  was  the  father  of 

James  W.  Valentine,  now  of  Greenpoint.  Hewlett 
was  at  one  time  the  owner  of  the  old  V^alentine  farm. 
With  the  name  of  Absalom's  wife  we  are  unacquainted, 
but  they  had  at  least  five  children,  three  sons,  viz : 
Jackson  and  Richard,  who  were  both  married,  and 
Abram,  who  is  still  unmarried. 

Jeremiah  Valentine,  my  grandfather,  son  of  Thomas 
and  Elizabeth  Hewlett  as  aforesaid,  was  born  June  21, 
1762,  married  Mary  \'an  Velsur  May  28,  17S4,  and  died 
June  15,  1850,  in  the  88th  year  of  his  age.  They  had 
eight  children,  viz :  Obadiah,  born  October  6,  1787, 
(lied  May  22,  1842;  James,  born  February  6,  1790,  died 
June,  1865;  Samuel,  born  August  30,  1792,  died  Jan- 
uary, 1865  ;  Thomas  (my  father),  born  Augusfi,  1794, 
died  in  Williamsburgh  December  i,  1S72  (see  obituary 
on  another  page);  John  Hewlett,  born  Octobers, 
iSoo,  died  March  11,  1843.  Their  daughters,  Mary 
Ann,  Elizabeth  and  Rachel,  all  died  unmarried. 

Obadiah,  son  of  Jeremiah,  married  Ruth  Waters, 
and  they  had  two  children — Jeremiah,  now  living  at 
Richmond  Hill,  L.  I.,  and  George  W.,  now  deceased. 
Obadiah's  second  wife  was  Pha'be   Higbie,  by  whom 


The  Valentines  of  Long  Island. 


lie  had  Sarah  Jane,  Rachel  Ann  and  Henrj- — all  now 
deceased,  except  Rachel  Ann,  wlio  married  John 
Speidling,  and  is  now  a  widow.  Jeremiah,  son  of 
Obadiah,  married  Sarah  Vanderverg,  and  tliey  had 
four  children — Ruth  Emma,  John  Hewlett,  George 
and  Alonzo  J.  George  AV.,  son  of  Obadiah,  married 
Ann  Doremus,  and  they  had  one  child,  Obadiah. 

James,  second  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  Valentine, 
married  Ruth  Waters,  and  had  five  children — three 
sons,  Benjamin,  James  and  Jeremiah;  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Mary  Elizabeth,  who  married  David  Bergen,  of 
Jamaica,  and  Harriet  Adelia,  who  married  John  Gracy, 
also  of  Jamaica.  Of  the  above,  Benjamin  married 
Phoebe  \'anderwater,  by  whom  lie  .id  Rozine  L., 
wjio  married  William  Lockwood,  Jarnes  and  Sarah 
Elizabeth. 

James,  second  son  of  James  and  Ruth  Valentine, 
married  Louisa  J.  Piatt,  and  they  had  three  children — 
Eliza  Ann,  Benjamin  P.  and  Louisa  J.,  now  residents 
of  Rocky  Hill,  L.  L 

Jeremiah,  son  of  Obadiah,  married,  ist,  Phcebe  Ann 
Cox;  2nd,  Jane  P.  Cornell.  They  had  two  children 
— Charles  B.  and  William  C,  who  now  reside  at 
Flushing. 

Samuel,  third  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mafy  Valentine, 
married,  ist,  Maria  Riker;  2nd,  Mary  Mott.  They 
had  four  sons  and  three  daughters,  of  whom  Martha 
H.,  Mary  A.  and  Frederick  E.,  together  with  their 
widowed  mother,  now  reside  at  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
Three  of  their  children  died  voung  or  unmarried. 
George  Samuel,  their  eldest  son.  married  Marv  Cole, 
and  they  had  three  children — Mar)-,  Helen  C.  and 
Harry  Sedgwick,  who  reside  in  Brooklyn. 

Thomas,  fourth  son  of  Jeremiah,  married  April  i, 
1819,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Daniel   Brooks,  of    New 


York.  They  had  seven  children,  three  of  whom  died 
in  infancy,  the  survivors  being  Sarah  J.,  Thomas, 
Elizabeth  H.  and  John  J.  Sarah  J.  married  George 
Vanderverg,  Jr.,  of  Jamaica,  and,  after  his  decease, 
married  John  M.  Stearns,  Esq.,  of  Williamsburgh, 
where  they  now  reside;  Thomas,  Jr.,  living  in  Flush- 
ing, married  Cornelia  E.  Cornell,  and  they  have  seven 
children,  viz:  Sarah  Elizabeth  (who  married  John  R. 
Wright),  John  Hewlett,  Charles  W.,  Emma  R  ,  Cor- 
nelia C,  Thomas,  Jr.,  and  Lincoln.  John  J.,  second 
surviving  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Valentine,  mar- 
ried Eliza  F.  Hobby,  and  they  have  two  children — 
Edith  Alice  and  Frank  Clifford — all  residing  at 
Williamsburgh. 

John  Hewlett,  fifth  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary 
Valentine,  married  Martha  H.  Denton.  They  left  one 
surviving  daughter,  Mary  R.,  who  married  Charles  A. 
Roe,  of  Flushing. 

Absalom  married  Susan  Bumstead;  they  had  eleven 
children ;  seven  sons — Thomas,  Daniel,  Woodward, 
Abram,  Lewis,  Jackson  and  Richard  ;  and  four  daugh- 
ters— Abbie,  Beckie,  Hannah  and  Zeruiah.  Abram 
and  Hannah  reside  at  Norwich,  L.  I.  Robert  (the 
brother  of  Thomas),  married  a  Miss  Bunce,  from  the 
east  end  of  Long  Island.  They  had  seven  children ; 
two  sons — Isaac  and  Israel  ;  and  five  daughters — 
Peggy,  Betsy,  Jennie,  Rhoda  and  Hannah.  Isaac 
lived  on  the  old    homestead,   and   married    Greechie 

Van  Velsor.     Israel  married  ,  and  they  had  five 

children;  three  sons — Uriah,  Absalom  and  Zebulon; 
and  two  daughters — Sally  and  Hannah. 


This  information  was  furnished  me  by  Mrs.  James 
Valentine,  widow,  who  resides  with  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
John   Gracy,  of   Jamaica,  L.  I.     She    is   now  jn    her 


The  Valentines  of  Long  Island. 


31 


eighty-third  year,  and  her  recollection  of  events  that 
occurred  in  her  j-outhfiil  days  is  remarkable,  as  I  find 
■her  memory,  from  personal  research,  to  be  an  index 
of  historical  facts.  Her  mother  was  Elizabeth  (the 
daughter  of  Thomas  Valentine,  of  Woodbur)-),  and 
she  married  a  Benjamin  Waters,  of  West  Hills.  Ruth, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  married  James  Valentine, 
the  son  of  Jeremiah,  who  was  the  son  of  Thomas. 
Xow  Ruth,  being  the  daughter  of  Elizabeth,  who 
was  the  daughter  of  Thomas,  was  thus  doubly  re- 
lated to  the  Long  Island  Valentine  family.  She  was 
granddaughter  to  Thomas  Valentine,  niece  to  Jere- 
miah Valentine,  her  father-in-law,  and  cousin  to  her 
husband. 

The  following  genealogy  was  furnished  by  B.  E. 
Valentine,  Esq.,  a  rising  voung  lawyer,  of  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. 


'  David  Valentine 

born  al  Mosquito  Cove,  L.  I.,  May,  1C89. 

Married  April,  1716. 

Children : 

Charity  Valentine,  bom  Apr.  30, 1717. 

'  Jacob  "  "       Dec.  22, 1718. 

Mary  "  "      July  17, 1721. 

Sarah  "  "      Oct.  11,1725. 

'  Jacob  Valentine  and  Mary  Coles, 

Married  Jan.  I,  1740. 

Children : 

Mary        Valentine,  bom 

'Charles  "  "      Sept.  20, 1742. 

Da\id  •'  "      Sept.  27,  1745. 

Susannah  "         married  Thos.  Udall. 

'  Charles  Valentine  and  Mary  Frost, 
Married  at  Matinecoclc 


Charity  Carpenter, 
bora  Sept.  1695. 


32  The  Valentines  in  America. 


Children 

i                                                 «  Jacob      Val 

entine 

born  Jan.  29. 1763. 

Lewis 

•' 

■• 

Apr.          1765. 

Sarah 

•• 

'• 

Oct.     8, 1767. 

Lalitia 

•• 

" 

Oct.    10,1769. 

Elizabeth 

•• 

" 

Oct.    19,1773- 

Theodocia 

•• 

•' 

Apr.  27,1776. 

Frost 

•' 

June    8, 177S. 

i                                                 Isaac 

•• 

•• 

Dec.  17, 1780. 

David 

•• 

" 

Apr.  28, 1783. 

Daniel 

•• 

•• 

Nov.  26, 1785. 

*  Jacob  Valentine  and  Phoebe  Syms. 

Married  at  Westbury,  L.  I. 

Children  : 

Mar)-  Valentine,  married   Richard   Talcott. 

William       " 

'  Jacob  V.Tlentine  married   his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  .\nn  Eyre, 

of  Philadelphia,  June  4,  1799. 

Children  : 

Beulah  S.        Valentine,  bo.'n  May  11,1800. 

'  Benjamin  E.  "  "      May  28,  1801. 

William  "  "      Oct.  20, 1802. 

Elliott  '•  "      Mar.  17, 1804. 

Harriet  E.  "  "     June  30, 1806. 

Elizabeth  K.  "  •'      Feb.  14,  1808, 

Jane  "  "      Feb.    9,  1810. 

Charles  M.  "  "      Oct.   16. 1811. 

Robert  B.  "  "      July   21,1815. 

*  Benjamin  E.  Valentine,  first  wife,  Ann  Humphrey  Cresson, 
Married  at  Friends*  Meeting-house,  Philadelphia,  Apr.  I,'l824. 

Children  : 
James  C.Valentine,  bom  Feb.     1,1825 — died  July,  1847. 
Jacob  "  "     Oct.     9, 1826, 

Lewis  "  "     May  10, 1828 — died  same  day. 

*  Benjamin  E.  Valentine  married  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth 

Rhoads,  of  Philadelphia,  Sept.  20, 1832. 
Children : 
.\nna  C.     Valentine,  born  June  29,  1833. 
Samuel  R.         "  •'      June    4,  1835. 


ilUl^ 


JUDf.E    IHOMAS    VALtNTlNE, 
WILLI AM^m  Klill,  L.  >• 


The   Valentines  of  Long  Island. 


33 


Emien  Valentine,  born  Jan.  g,  1838 — died  May  5, 1843. 

Elizabeth  R.  "  died  Aug.  8,  1843. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Rhoads  Valentine  died  May  II,  1848. 
'  Benjamin  E.  Valentine  married  his  third  wife,  Elizabeth 
H.  Hope,  of  Salem,  Mass.,  June  27,  1844. 
Children : 
Margaret  P.      Valentine,  bom  Apr.  12, 1845. 
•  Benjamin  Eyre        "  "      Mar.    5, 1847. 

•  Benjamin  Eyre  Valentine  married  Marie  Antoinette  Storrs, 
of  Brooklyn,  Nov.  6,  1872. 


34  The   I'll /iitti III s  in  Aiinrict. 


CHAPTER     IV. 

NOTAI'.LE    INDIVIIiL'ALS    OF    THE    LONG    ISLAND    HRASCH. 

REV.  ANDREW  W.  VALENTINE,  son  of 
James,  and  grandson  of  Obadiah  (a  brother  of 
Jeremiah  and  Absalom),  frequently  mentioned 
elsewhere  in  tliis  work,  was  born  in  Woodbury,  L.  I., 
May  8,  1813.  While  he  was  yet  quite  young,  his 
father  purchased  a  farm  in  the  township  of  Flushing, 
about  four  miles  from  Jamaica,  and  removed  his 
family  (consisting  of  five  sons  and  one  daugliter, 
thither.  Both  parents  and  children  were  bred  in  the 
Episcopal  faith,  but  all  of  these  spbsequently  united 
with  the  Baptist  Church,  in  which  faith  those  of  the 
family  living  yet  remain.  From  the  age  of  fifteen  to 
twenty-five  he  lived  in  New  York  city,  but  where  he 
received  his  theological  training,  and  when  and  where 
he  was  ordained,  I  cannot  slate.  He  has,  however, 
been  an  acceptable  and  fairly  successful  Baptist 
preacher  for  over  twenty-five  years,  having  served  as 
Pastor  of  the  following  churches,  viz  : — Weedsport, 
four  years;  West  Henrietta,  four  years;  Pawlings.  five 
years;  Patterson,  eight  years;  besides  shorter  terms 
in  other  places.  He  has  three  sons  (two  in  New  York 
city  and  one  in  Memphis,  Tenn.) — and  two  daughters. 
He  has  no  charge  at  present,  but  often  supplies 
churches  in  the  neighborhood — his  present  residence 
being  Monsej-,  Rockland  county,  N.  Y.  So  far  as  I 
can  learu,  lie  bears  a  good  reputation  in  all  tlie  places 
where  he  has  labored. 


Long  Island  Notables. 


35 


Of  all  the  Long  Island  branch  of  Valentines,  no 
one  has  been  more  extensively  known  through  the 
countr)- than  William  Valenmne,  or,  as  he  was  gen- 
erally called,  "Dr.  X'alentine,  the  J/ umorist,"  whose 
likeness  is  given  on  another  page.  He  was  born 
in  the  city  of  New  York  in  1S02,  and  was  the  son 
of  Jacob,  and  grandson  of  Charles  Valentine,  whose 
names  are  elsewhere  mentioned  in  this  history.  His 
mother  was  Elizabeth  Eyre,  who  belonged  to  a  ver)- 
respectable  family  in  Philadelphia;  and  it  was  prob- 
ably through  this  marriage,  and  acquaintances  conse- 
quent upon  it,  that  some  of  the  present  Valentines  of 
that  city  are  descendants  of  this  branch.  He  was 
educated  in  New  York,  studied  medicine  under  the 
celebrated  Dr.  Cheeseman  of  that  city,  and  finally 
graduated  at  New  York  Medical  College.  He  married 
Marian,  daughter  of  John  Bedell,  of  Hempstead,  but 
this  connection  did  not  prove  a  happy  one  in  all  re- 
spects, and  they  had  no  issue.  He  gave  humorous 
lectures  through  the  country  for  many  years,  and,  as  a 
delineator  of  character  and  scenes,  he  had  few  supe- 
riors. He  also  practiced  ventriloquism  to  some  ex- 
tent, and  was  an  excellent  performer  on  the  flute.  He 
published  one  or  two  books  of  a  humorous  character, 
which  had  a  considerable  sale.  His  death  occurred  in 
New  York  in  1865. 


Hon.  James  J.  M.  Valentine  was  born  in  New 
York  March  6,  1807.  He  studied  law  with  Hon.  Caleb 
S.  Woodhull,  of  New  York  (who  afterwards  became 
Mayor  of  that  city),  and  finally  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  him.  He  was  one  of  the  Sachems  of  the 
Tammany  Society,  was  a  supporter  of  that  party  in 
the  da3-s  of  its  purity,  and  was  elected  to  represent 
that  city  in  the  Legislature  of  m>jS-     '^^  married 


36  The  Valentines  in  America. 

in  iS;?i,  and  she  died  in  1835.     He  died  December  10, 
1845,  leaving  two  daugiiters — Leonora  and  Sarah  J. 

William  M.  Valentine,  the  next  younger  brother 
ol  tljc  above,  a  likeness  of  whose  genial,  smiling  face  is 
seen  on  anoti.cr  page,  was  bo.  n  in  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 20,  1S09,  and  is  now  a  prosperous  and  successful 
merchant  in  the  village  of  Roslyn,  L.  I.  From  a 
Record  in  his  Family  Bible,  I  find  these  brothers  were 
grandsons  of  William  V'alentine,  who  was  a  son  of 
Jacob,  who  was  a  son  of  Obadiah,  but  of  which  one  of 
that  numerous  name,  I  am  unable  to  state,  as  no  date 
is  given  of  either  Jacob  or  his  father.  William  was 
born  November  14,  1741,  and  married  Phebc  Smith 
April  II,  1764.  No  record  of  the  death  of  either 
is  given.     They  had  seven  children,  as  follows: — 


No  record  of  either 
marriage  or  death. 


William,  son  of  the  last  named,  and  father  of  Wil- 
liam M.,  was  born  September  8,  i78i,and  died  No- 
vember 23.  1863.  He  married  Pliebe  Myers,  of  New 
York,  February  27,  1806.     Their  issue  was  as  follows: 

James  J.  M.,  bom  Mar.    6, 1S07— died  in  New  York,  Dec.  10, 1845. 

William  M.,  •■  Jan.  20,  1S09— yet  living  at  Roslyn,  L.  I. 

Otjadiah  \V.,  "  Jan.   13,  1811— died  July  17.  1854. 

Henry,  '•  Feb.  25,  1813— ilied  July    3,1813. 

Ann  Eliza.  "  Oct.   13, 1S14— died  Oct.  25, 1865. 

Myers,  "  Dec.  26,  1818. 

Eugene,  "  .Apr.  23, 1S21— died  Mar.  24, 1853. 

Charles  A.,  "  Nov.  30,  1825— died  July    13,1826, 

None  of  the  above  deceased  left  any  male  issue. 


Mary, 

bom  Mar. 

«3. 1765- 1 

Caleb. 

"     Aug. 

23.1767. 

Ann 

"     Sept. 

8.  1769. 

rhel>e. 

"     Apr. 

2,1772. 

Smith, 

"      May 

16,1774. 

Charles, 

••    July 

8,1776. 

Jacob, 

'•     Sept. 

3. 1779- J 

Long  Island  Notables. 


37 


William  M.  Valentine  lias  one  son,  James  E.,  born 
November  7,  1837,  who  has  two  sons,  one  an  infant  of 
a  lew  months;  the  other,  William  M.,  aged  four  years. 
Myers,  above  named,  has  two  sons — Theodore  P.,  born 
January  19,  1S44  (lately  married),  and  Eugene,  born 
August  24,  1853. 

[Note. — If  the  Obadiah  Valenline,  mentioned  at  the  commence- 
ment of  the  above  Record,  was,  as  I  suppose,  a  son  of  Richari>, 
the  first  Long  Island  Valentine,  then  this  is  the  most  perfect  and 
direct  lineage  I  have  found  among  this  branch  of  the  name.] 

Robert  Barclay  Valentixe,  now  the  well  known 
Insurance  .\gent,  120  Broadway,  New  York,  was  born 
in  New  York,  July  21,  1S15.  He  was  the  son  of  Jacob 
Valentine,  of  New  York,  b}-  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Ann, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Benjamin  George  Eyre,  of  Phila- 
delphia, who  was  born  June  i,  1747,  died  July  11, 
1789,  and  was  buried  in  Christ  church-yard.  Arch- 
street,  Philadelphia,  by  his  second  wife,  Mary,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Cheeseman,  of  New  York,  born  January 
30,  1773.  She  was  born  Ma)-  22,  1756,  married  in  her 
sixteenth  year,  and  died  while  on  a  visit  to  Glen  Cove, 
September  ^7,  iSoi.  She  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas 
Cheeseman,  of  Sonursetshire,  England,  who  was  at- 
tached to  the  British  service,  and  came  to  New  York 
in  1664.  Mary  Cheeseman  was  sister  of  Captain 
Jacob  Cheeeman,  of  the  New  York  troops,  who  was 
killed,  with  General  Richard  Montgomery,  at  the 
storming  of  Quebec,  December  31,  1775,  aged  29. 
Colonel  Benjamin  George  Eyre,  son  of  General 
Eyre  3rd,  of  Nottinghamshire,  born  November  17, 
1700,  came  to  America  in  1 727,  and  settled  at  Burling- 
ton, N.J.  His  wife  was  Mary  Smith,  of  that  town. 
George  3rd  was  son  of  George  2nd,  burn  December 
19,  1693,  by  his  wife,  Sarah  ist,  married  May  i,  1604. 


George  Eyre  ist,  born  1630  or  1636,  died  1708, 
March  16,  aged  78,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth  ist,  who  died 
January  14,  1673.  He  was  a  descendant  of  the  Eyre 
family,  of  Rampton,  county  of  Nottinghamshire, 
from  William  Lee  Eyr,  of  Hope,  Derby  countv,  who 
lived  during  the  reign  of  Henry  HI.  of  England. 
Robert  B.  X'alentine  married  Maria  Owen,  daughter 
of  Edward  Parry.  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia,  a  native  of 
Wales.  She  Avas  born  at  Portsmouth,  X.  H.,  and  on 
the  mother's  side  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Governor 
Bradford. 

Children  of  Robert  B.  .ind  .Maria  P.  Valentine  are; 
Louisa  Eyre. 
Robert  B.,  Jr. — Rt  idence,  .\t!artic  .Avenue,  Brooklyn. 

Of  all  the  notable  descendants  of  Richard  Val- 
entine, none  are  more  worthy  of  a  place  in  this 
record  than  the  two  distinguished  physicians,  a  sketch 
of  whom  is  here  g^ven  : — 

V.\LENTINE  Se.am.w,  M.  D.  (Universit)'  of  Phila- 
delphia, 1792),  physician,  the  fourth  son  of  Samuel, 
who  married  Martha,  daughter  of  Obadiah  Valentine, 
and  who  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Captain  John 
Seaman,  who  settled  at  Hcm])stead,  1640,  was  born  in 
North  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  April  2,  1770,  and  died  in 
New  York,  July  3,  1817.  He  studied  medicine  with 
Dr.  Romayne,  and  was  a  surgeon  of  the  New  York 
Hospital  from  1796  to  his  death.  He  was  conspicuous 
in  the  introduction  of  vaccination  in  New  York.  He 
published  an  "Inaugural  Address  on  Opium,"  Phila- 
delphia, 1792;  "Waters  of  Saratoga,"  1793;  "Mid- 
wife's Monitor,"  iSoo;  "On  Vaccination,"  1S16,  and  a 
pharmacopia. 

Dr.  Seaman   married  the  second  daughter  of  John 


Ferris,  ol   U'estcliester.     Like  his  father,  lie  adhered 
throiigii  life  to  the  Society  of  Friends. 


Valentine  Mott,  M.  D.  (Columbia  College,  1806), 
LL.  D.,  surgeon,  was  born  in  Glen  Cove,  L.  I.,  Au- 
gust 20,  17S5,  and  died  in  New  Vork,  April  26,  1865. 
His  father,  Henry  Mott,  a  distinguished  physician  of 
New  Vork,  died  in  1840,  xt.  S3.  He  was  a  descendant 
of  Adam  Mott,  who  settled  in  HeinjDstead  in  1665,  and 
whose  grandson,  William,  married  Elizabeth  Valen- 
tine. Moreover,  Dr.  Molt,  senior,  married  a  daughter 
of  Samuel  Way,  who  married  Estiier  Valentine,  so 
that  Dr.  Valentine  Mott  had  two  ancestors  who  were 
\'alentines,  and  hence  his  Christian  name. 

After  leaving  college.  Dr.  Mott  continued  his  studies 
in  London  and  Edinburgh,  and,  on  his  return  to 
America  in  1S09,  he  was  appointed  to  tlie  Chair  of 
Surgery  in  Columbia  College,  which  position  he  also 
subsequently  filled  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  until  1S26,  and  from  that  year  till  1830,  in 
the  Rutgers  Medical  College,  as  Professor  of  Surgery 
and  Relative  .\natomy,  of  which  latter  science  he  was 
the  founder. 

In  1S18,  Dr.  Mott  placed  a  ligature  around  the 
brachio-cephalic  trunk,  only  two  inches  from  the 
heart,  for  aneurism  of  the  right  subclavian  artery — an 
operation  which  the  patient  survived  twentj--six  days. 
He  also  exsected  the  entire  right  clavicle  for  malig- 
nant disease  of  the  bone,  applying  forty  ligatures — the 
most  dangerous  an<i  difficult  operation,  as  he  himself 
asserted,  that  can  be  performed  upon  the  human  body. 
He  was  also  the  first  to  tic  the  primitive  iliac  arterj' 
for  aneurism,  and  the  first  who  removed  the  lo^-er  jaw 
for  necrosis.  In  short,  as  Sir  .\stley  Cooper  justly 
says,  '■  Dr.    Mott   has    performed    more    of   the    great 


40  The  Valentines  in  Avterica. 

operalions  than  any  man  living,  or  that  ever  did  live." 
In  1S55,  he  traveled  extensively  through  England,  the 
Continent,  and  the  East.  He  published  "  Traicls  in 
Europe  and  the  East ;  "  translations  of  "  Vclpeaus  Opera- 
tive Surgery  "  (4  vols.) ;  "  Anniversary  Discourse  "  before 
the  Graduates  of  tlie  New  York  University,  i860; 
"  Jfott's  C/i/iit/ues,"  and  "  Transactions  of  the  New  York 
Aeaiicmy  of  Medicine."  In  acknowledgment  of  his  high 
character  and  great  services,  he  received  many  honors 
from   learned  societies,  both  in   Europe  and  America. 

Thomas  Valentine  was  born  August  1,  1794,  at 
East  Woods  (now  Woodbury),  Queens  county,  L.  I. 
In  1S02,  his  fatlier  purchased  a  farm  containing  one 
hundred  and  thirty  acres,  situated  on  tlie  road  leading 
from  Jamaica  to  Black  Stump,  and  distant  about  two 
and  a  half  miles  from  the  former  place.  To  this 
property  he  removed,  and  continued  to  reside  there 
until  about  the  year  1811,  when  he  purchased  three 
hundred  acres  situated  near  Rocky  Hill,  about  one 
mile  from  the  head  of  Little  Neck  Bay,  in  the  town- 
ship of  Flushing,  being  distant  from  the  latter  place 
about  four  and  a  half  miles.  Upon  this  place  he  re- 
sided until  his  demise,  which  occurred  in  1850,  in  his 
eighty-eighth  year.  A  portion  of  the  farm  is  now  the 
property  of  one  of  his  grandchildren,  who  resides 
upon  it,  continues  the  occupation  of  his  grandfather, 
and,  like  him,  is  educating  his  family  to  the  require- 
ments of  an  agricultural  life.  Thomas  remained  at 
home  with  his  parents  until  he  attained  his  tenth  year, 
when  he  went  to  live  with  his  grandfather,  Gerrett 
Van  Velsor,  a  weaver  by  occupation,  residing  at  Cold 
Spring,  Suffolk  county.  Here  he  acquired  the  art  of 
weaving — a  trade  which  it  was  almost  absolutely  neces- 
sary for  one  member  of  a  family  to  possess,  as  most 


JOF.L    VALKNTINE,    ESQ. 
BKNMNOTON,   VT. 


Loiit;  Island  Xotablcs. 


41 


persons  at  this  time  were  clotiied  in  garments  cut 
from  fiomespun — a  name  applied  to  all  cloths  manu- 
factured within  the  family  circle.  At  this  date,  the  in- 
genuity of  our  American  inventors  was  in  its  infancy, 
and  the  manufacture  of  cloths  by  machinery  impelled 
by  water  or  steam  power,  tlien  unknown.  After 
gaining  proficiency  in  the  art  of  weaving,  he  returned 
to  his  father's  house,  assisted  in  cultivating  the  farm, 
and  resided  with  his  parents  until  he  attained  his 
twenty-fourth  year.  During  the  war  of  181  3,  when  in 
his  twentj--first  year,  he,  together  with  his  three  older 
brotliers,  Obadiah,  James  and  Samuel,  was  enrolled 
in  the  militia  of  Queens  county,  under  Captains  Van 
Wyck  and  Areson,  and  assigned  to  duty  at  Fort 
Green,  which  they  assisted  at  entrenching  and  fortify- 
ing, but  were  not  called  upon  for  more  active  duty, 
and  were  mustered  out  of  service  in  the  spring  of 
1815.  In  his  twenty-fourth  year  he  married  Sarah 
Brooks,  daughter  of  Daniel  Brooks,  who  then  resided 
near  Cookey  Hill  (now  Whitestone,  L.  I.),  but  for- 
merly of  New  York  city,  a  master  mason  by  occupa- 
tion, but  who  had  acquired  a  competency,  and  retired 
from  active  business.  About  the  time  of  his  marriage 
his  father-in-law  removed  to  New  York  city,  and 
Thomas  took  control  of  and  cultivated  the  farm,  re- 
ceiving in  payment  for  services  a  share  in  the  profits 
derived  from  its  cultivation.  Here  lie  remained  one 
year;  but  farming  not  being  especiallv  suited  to  his 
tastes,  and  being  in  those  days  an  occupation  requiring 
much  toil  for  little  profit,  he  concluded  to  relinquish 
the  calling  of  his  ancestors,  and  embark  in  mercan- 
tile pursuits.  Borrowing  from  his  father  a  small  sum 
as  capital,  he,  in  1S20,  removed  to  New  York,  hired 
from  his  fathur-in-law  a  small  store  on  the  corner  of 
Suffolk  and  Dclancy  streets,  and  commenced  his  mer- 
6 


42  The  Vale  III  iitis  in  Ameriea. 


oinlile  career  in  the  retail  grocery  business.  Possess- 
ing that  very  essential  requirement,  good  judgment, 
being  prvident  in  his  expenditures  and  attentive  to 
business,  he  succeeded  in  his  enterprize,  and  at  the  ex- 
piration of  one  year  paid  off  Iiis  borrowed  capital,  and 
had  still  remaining  his  stock  in  store.  As  his  means 
increased  he  gradually  enlarged  his  business,  until  he 
finally  was  in  a  position  to  bu)-  and  handle  large  lines 
(jf  goods,  and  would  occasionally  purchase  an  entire 
shipment  of  produce  or  other  stock  in  which  he  dealt. 
At  the  expiration  of  two  years  he  had  accumulated 
sufficient  funds  to  purchase  a  store  and  lot  on  the 
corner  of  Delancy  and  Cannon  streets,  to  which  he 
removed,  and  in  which  he  continued  his  business  for 
the  space  of  five  years,  when  he  again  removed  to  a 
new  store  which  he  had  erected  on  the  corner  of  Lewis 
and  Rivington  streets.  After  conducting  a  successful 
business  for  twenty  years,  he  deemed  it  advisable  to 
dispose  of  his  stock  in  trade  and  retire  from  business. 
He  resided  in  the  Eleventh  and  Thirteenth  wards  for 
twenty-two  years;  took  an  active  interest  in  the  pol- 
itics of  the  day ;  was  an  ardent  admirer  of  Henry 
Clay,  and  a  strong  Whig.  The  two  wards  mentioned 
above  were  overwhelmingly  Democratic — so  much  so 
that  it  was  exceedingly  difficult  for  the  Whig  party  to 
obtain  suitable  persons  willing  to  accept  their  nomina- 
tions for  local  offices,  as  it  was  an  empty  honor,  and 
equivalent  to  a  defeat.  Mr.  Valentine  upon  two  occa- 
sions— once  in  each  ward — allowed  his  name  to  be 
used  as  a  candidate  for  Alderman,  net  expecting  to 
be  elected,  but  for  the  purpose  of  keeping  up  and 
strengthening  his  party  organizations  in  these  wards. 
During  the  year  1S43,  in  his  fiftieth  year,  at  the  re- 
quest of  his  father,  who  was  now  far  advanced  in 
j'ears,  and  unable  to  attend   to  the  cultivation  of  his 


Long  Island  Notables. 


43 


land,  lie  returned  to  and  occupied  a  portion  of  the  old 
farm,  where  his  earlier  days  had  been  spent.  For  a 
time  he  assumed  the  entire  control  of  the  farm,  which 
for  some  years  ])revious  had  been  conducted  by  his 
younger  brother,  John,  now  recently  deceased,  and 
whose  place,  at  the  urgent  solicitation  of  his  aged 
father,  he  had  returned  to  occupy.  After  a  short  in- 
terval his  older  brother,  Samuel,  who  had  also  been 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  in  New  York,  re- 
moved to  the  old  homestead,  and  relieved  Thomas  of 
the  cultivation  of  about  one-half  of  the  farm.  At  the 
demise  of  their  father  the  farm  was  inherited  by  them, 
subject,  however,  to  bequests  made  to  other  heirs. 
While  residing  here  Mr.  Valentine  was  actively  en- 
gaged in  all  local  improvements  that  would  tend  to 
advance  the  interest  of  the  township  or  county  in 
which  he  resided.  Here  also  he  continued  his  alle- 
giance to  the  Whig  party,  and  was  a  prominent  mem- 
ber in  all  its  organizations  and  councils;  and  although 
his  township  and  county  were  Democratic,  he  was  suc- 
cessful in  his  election  to  all  offices  for  which  he  was  a 
candidate.  During  a  residence  here  of  nine  years  he 
served  for  at  least  two  terms  each  in  the  capacity  of 
School  Trustee,  Highway  Master,  Justice  of  the  Peace; 
and  was  also  twice  elected  Associate  Judge  of  the 
county.  He  was  actively  engaged  in  the  incorporation 
and  construction  of  the  Flushing  and  Bay  Side  Plank 
Road  Company,  and  was  elected  President  of  that 
corporation. 

After  a  residence  of  nearlj-  a  quarter  of  a  century 
in  one  of  the  world's  busiest  thoroughfares,  the 
change  from  the  noise  and  tumult  of  city  life  to  the 
quietude  of  a  rural  home  was  agreeably  appreciated  by 
him.  The  s  i(iervision  of  his  farm,  the  selection  of 
the  best  seed  for  cultivation,  and  the  raising  of  fine 


44  The  Valentines  in  Anicriea. 

block  occupied  liis  attention,  and  was  to  him  a  source 
of  much  enjoyment.  Tlie  solicitations  of  his  wife  and 
iicr  declining  beallh  induced  him  to  resign  the  super- 
vision of  his  f;\rm  to  liis  eldest  son  ;  and  in  the  spring 
of  1S52  he  removed  to  (now)  Xo.  105  Fourth-street, 
Williamsburgh,  which  property  he  had  previously  pur- 
chased, and  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  During  his  residence  here  he  was 
elected  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Williamsburgh 
Savings  Rank;  which  office  of  trust  he  retained  for 
about  fourteen  years,  until  his  demise. 

After  his  removal  to  Williamsburgh  he  took  no 
prominent  part  in  politics, but  still  continued  to  inter- 
est iiimself  in  the  welfare  of  the  Whig  party,  with 
whirh  he  acted  until  the  year  1S56,  when  he  joined  the 
Republican  ranks. 

Following  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father,  he  at- 
tached himself  to  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
and  while  residing  in  New  York  was  an  attendant  of 
All  Saints  Church,  in  Henry  street.  While  residing 
at  Flushing  he  attended  Grace  Church  at  Jamaica,  of 
which  his  father,  Mr.  Jeremiah  Valentine,  had  long 
been  a  member,  and  in  which  he  had  served  as  Vestry- 
man for  a  long  period  of  years.  The  infirmities  of  age 
preventing  the  attendance  of  his  father  at  church 
meetings,  induced  him  to  resign  his  office,  and  his  son 
Thom.is  was  chosen  to  occupy  his  chair  in  the  vestry, 
whiili  he  continued  to  fill  until  his  removal  to  Wil- 
liamsburgh. Shortly  after  removing  to  Williamsburgh 
Mr.  \'alentine  began  his  attendance  at  Christ  Church, 
then  a  dilapidated  wooden  structure,  of  small  dimen- 
sions, situated  on  what  was  then  known  as  "the  lots," 
but  now  a  po])ulous  jiart  of  Bedford-avenue.  During 
the  year  1S54  he  was  elected  one  of  the  Vestrymen  of 
the  church,  in  which  position  he  was  continued  until 


Long  Island  Notables. 


45 


chosen  Warden,  and  during  his  occupancy  of  the 
latter  office  was  also  Treasurer  of  the  church.  Mr. 
Valentine's  official  connection  with  this  church  ex- 
tended over  a  period  of  about  fourteen  years.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Church  Building  Committee,  and 
devoted  gratuitousl}-,  for  about  two  years,  nearly  his 
entire  time  and  attention  to  the  supervision  of  its  con- 
struction, besides  rendering  substantial  pecuniary  aid. 
The  church,  in  the  ornamentation  of  its  surroundings, 
in  its  solidit)-  and  conveniences,  attests  Jiis  zeal  and 
perseverance  in  its  erection  and  completion, and  is  the 
best  memorial  of  his  disinterested  services.  Mr.  Val- 
entine was  liberal  in  his  views,  the  friend  of  the  poor 
and  distressed,  but  unostentatious,  preferring  that  his 
acts  of  kindness  and  charity  should  in  themselves  be 
his  reward.  His  death  occurred  December  i,  1872, 
when  in  his  seventy-ninth  year.  His  funeral  services 
were  conducted  at  Christ  Church,  in  accordance  with 
a  desire  expressed  bj-  him  during  the  erection  of  the 
building,  "that  he  might  live  until  its  final  comple- 
tion, and  be  buried  from  its  door."  His  remains  now 
repose  in  the  cemeterj-  attached  to  Grace  Church,  of 
Jamaica,  in  whose  councils  he  had  officially  served, 
and  in  whose  grounds  are  deposited  the  remains  (with 
but  a  single  exception)  of  the  entire  family  of  his 
father. 


List  of  I'altitlinfs  -whost  nanus  arf  found  itpen  "  B^erss  Ke-u.'  Map 
of  Lcng  Island,  tSjJ." 

\V.  E.  Valentine,  Queens (Queens  Co. 

S.  '•  Springfield 

.V  '•  ••         

H.  "  East  Rockaway " 

E.  •■  " 

W.  ••  Hemp-leaJ  P.  O.    

J- 


46  The  Valentines  in  America. 

U.  Valentine,  Hempstead  V.O Queens  Co. 

G.  "  •■  ••    

E.  ■'  Smilhville  P.  O.,  ncin|)sicad 

K.  D.  ••  "  '•  "  

E.  "  Bcllmore       *'  "  " 


S.  **  Seaford  "  "  

G.  "  Searii:g  Town  P.  O.,  N.  HeD:pstead, 

W. 

R. 

\V. 

\V.  M.         •■  Rosl)Ti 

M.  "       .        •• 

\Vm. 

A.  •'  Oyster  Bay   

\V.  M.         ■•  Glen  Cove 

k.  •'  Grcenvale  P.  O.,  Oyster  Bay 


S. 

Mr^.  A.  ••  I^ocust  Valley  P.  O.. 

L.  "  Jericho  " 

B.  "  Syosset 

R.  "  Woodbury 

A.  "  East  Norwich 

J.  T.  "  Glen  Cove 

E. 

\V.  M.  ** 

S.  •*  " 


Cold  Spring,  Huntington Suffolk  Co. 


D.  "  "  ••  " 

S.  "  "  "  

I  M  M  4*  ^  •» 

Lewis  Valentine  (farmer),  Greenvale   Road,  Glen  Co\c, 

Oyster  Bay Queens  Co. 

Ephraim  Valentine  (farmer),  Old  Westbury " 

H.  Valentine,  Huntington Suffolk  Co. 

G.  Valentine,  Bay  Shore,  Islip *' 

J.  C.  Valentine,  \V<>od\illc   Landing,   Brookhaven " 

C  Valentine,  Wading  River,  Kiverhead " 


The   Washington  County   Valentines. 


47 


CHAPTER    V. 

THE    WASHINGTON    COUNTY    VALENTINES. 

JOSEPH  VALENTINE,  the  son  of  Richard  Val- 
entine, of  North  Hempstead,  L.  I.,  was  born  at 
that  place,  January  6,  1750.  He  seems  tq,  have 
left  the  home  of  his  youth  when  he  arrived  at  man- 
hood, for,  in  1775,  he  is  found  at  Poughkeepsie, 
Dutchess  county,  N.  Y.,  where,  in  that  year,  he  en- 
listed in  Captain  Swartwout's  Company,  in  the  Revo- 
lutionar)'  War.  He  appears,  however,  either  to  have 
seiAcd  only  about  a  year,  or  to  have  obtained  a  fur- 
lough, for  he  was  married  July  11,  1776.  After  his 
service  in  the  war,  he  lived  for  a  short  time  in  Chatham, 
Columbia  count)-,  N.  Y.,  but  finally  seitk-d  perma- 
nently in  the  town  of  Jackson,  Washington  county. 
New  York.  Here  were  born  unto  him  the  following 
sons  and  daughters: — 


Daniel,   bom 

June    2, 

«777 

Elias, 

Jan.    10, 

1779 

rhetw.       •• 

.\pr.  20, 

1782 

John  \^     " 

Mar.  16. 

1784. 

Betsey, 

May  27, 

1786 

Stephen,     " 

July  II, 

1788. 

Joel. 

Jan.  22, 

1791 

.\bbie. 

May     2, 

J793- 

Moses       " 

Mar.  21, 

1796. 

Prudence,  " 

Oct.    26, 

1798. 

Lydia, 

Nov.  16, 

1800. 

Harvey,     " 

June  28, 

1803. 

Of  this  large  family,  all  of  whom,  with  one  excep- 


48 


The  Valentines  in  America. 


lion,  lived  to  adult  age,  and  themselves  had  families, 
there  arc  now  many  descendants  scattered  through 
New  York,  \'ermunt,  Michigan,  and  other  States; 
some  of  whom,  however,  for  some  unaccountable 
reason,  spell  their  name  V'olentine.* 

Joel  Valentine,  whose  likeness  accompanies  this 
sketch,  was  the  fifth  son  of  Joseph,  above  mentioned. 
He  was  in  the  military  service  for  a  time,  in  the  war 
of  1812,  having  then  just  reached  his  manhood.  He 
was  married  to  Judith  Wells  on  the  15th  of  March, 
1821,  soon  after  which  he  removed  to  Bennington,  Vt., 
where  he  engaged  in  the  business  of  manufacturing 
woolen  cloths.  He  was  a  man  of  strong  character, 
and  of  the  most  stern  and  unyielding  integrity.  He 
was  also  for  many  years  an  active  member  of  the  Bap- 
tist Church  in  Bennington,  for  the  support  of  which 
he  contributed  liberally.  He  was  economical  in  his 
habits,  and,  as  a  business  man,  careful,  prudent  and 
successful.  He  died  July  17,  1866,  aged  seventy-five 
years  and  six  months. 

Samuel  Wells  Valentine,  the  eldest  son  of  the  above, 
was  born  in  Bennington,  January  19,  1825.  He  was  a 
young  man  of  very  remarkable  promise,  but  died 
February  3,  1844. 

Alonzo  B  X'alentinc,  the  only  other  son  of  the 
above  mentioned  Joel  Valentine,  was  born  in  Ben- 
nington, April  I,  1830,  and  yet  resides  in  the  house  in 
which  he  was  born.     He  succeeded   his  father  in   his 


*  Since  wriiiin;  ihc  above,  I  have  learned  the  reason  of  this  change. 
Sume  of  the  Lon^;  Island  N'alcniincs  were,  as  is  stated  elsewhere,  in- 
clined to  be  loyalists  though  all  these  afterwards  took  the  oath  of  al- 
legiance. Joseph,  who  was  intensely  patriotic,  was  so  exasj>crated  at 
their  course  lh.it  he  c.ille<l  ihcm  Tories,  would  not  acknowledge  them 
as  relatives,  an<l  changed  the  s])elling  of  his  name  to  Vohnlinf.  Most 
of  his  descendants,  however,  retain  the  original  sj:)elling. 


MAJOR   ALONZO  B.  VAI.tNMlNE,   MANUFACTURER. 


IlKNMNOTON.  VT. 


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49 


business,  yet  occupying  the  same  factory  or  mill  that 
the  parent  had  erected  in  1845,  but  now  much  en- 
larged and  improved,  presenting  the  fine  appearance 
shown  by  the  beautiful  steel  engraving  on  another 
page,  which  the  proprietor  has  kindly  permitted  the 
author  to  use,  and  for  which  he  has  his  sincere  thanks. 

Mr.  Valentine  served  three  years  in  the  army  during 
the  rebellion,  going  out  in  the  Tenth  Regiment  of 
Vermont  V'olunteers,  but  being  afterwards  promoted 
and  transferred  to  the  Commissary  Department,  and 
leaving  the  service  at  the  close  of  the  war  with  the 
rank  of  Major.  He  is  now  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  knit  goods,  and  his  establishment  has  grown  to 
be  one  of  the  largest  and  most  successful  of  any  of  the 
kind  in  the  State  of  Vermont,  employing  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  hands,  and  turning  out  over  twenty- 
three  thousand  dozens  knit  under-shirts  and  drawers 
each  year. 

Mr.  Valentine  is  a  man  of  fine  personal  appearance 
and  commanding  presence — even  more  so  than  his 
likeness,  herewith  given,  would  indicate.  He  is  every 
inch  an  excellent  specimen  of  the  true  business-man — 
prompt,  energetic,  enterprising  and  courteous;  and 
the  writer  must  be  permitted  to  add  that,  of  all  the 
many  new  acquaintances  with  which  the  preparation  of 
this  work  has  brought  him  into  personal  communica- 
tion, none  has  more  favorably  impressed  him  than  the 
subject  of  this  sketch.  1 1  e  must  be  grcath-  respected  in 
the  community  in  whicii  he  resides,  especially  for  his 
zeal  in  the  promotion  of  progressive  education,  in 
which  good  cause,  being  a  member  of  the  School  Com- 
mittee of  Bennington,  he  is  more  particularly  inter- 
ested. 

The  children  of  Alonzo  B.  and  Alma  L.  (Park)  Val- 
entine are  as  follows: — 
7 


50 


The  Valentines  in  America. 


May  S.,  born  Sept.  29,  1858. 
Park.  '•     July     9,  i860. 

Jennie,        "      Sept.  II,  1863. 
Wells,  •■      May     6.  1S66. 

T'aniel  Valentine,  the  eldest  son  of  tlie  before-men- 
tioned Joseph,  had  sons  Leonard,  Joseph,  Thomas, 
Horace,  and  perhaps  others.  The  latter  is  yet  living,  in 
Cambridge,  Washington  county,  N.  Y.  Of  the  others 
I  know  nothing. 

Elias,  the  second  son  of  Joseph,  as  above,  had  two 
sons,  and  perhaps  more.  Of  these,  I  have  informa- 
tion only  of  Daniel,  who  is  now  a  highly  successful 
merchant  and  banker  in  Aurora,  Illinois,  and  has  a 
family. 


Of   Harvey,  the   youngest    son    of   Joseph,  I    only 
know  that  he  had  one  son,  Charles. 


Tlu  New  Jersey  Valentines.  51 


CHAPTER     VI. 

THE     NEW     JERSEV     VALENTINES. 

IN  "  Littell's  Genealogies  of  the  Passaic  Val- 
ley, N.J. ,"  we  read  that  "  Richard  Valentine  mar- 
ried Phoebe  Haines,  and  settled  in  or  near  Eliza- 
beth, where  he  died  in  1766,  aged  sixty-three  years." 
This  would  lead  us  to  infer  that  he  was  born  about 
1703  or  1704;  but  where?  This,  in  view  of  the  fact 
that  he  is  the  first  of  the  name  found  in  that  State,  be- 
comes an  important  question.  Was  Richard  V^alen- 
tine  an  immigrant  from  the  Old  World.'  If  so,  from 
what  country  ?  It  is  impossible  to  answer  these  ques- 
tions now  with  positive  certaintj' ;  for  the  records, 
both  public  and  private,  were,  at  that  date,  but  very 
imperfectly  kept.  But  the  writer  will  give  his  opinion 
in  the  case,  and  leave  others  to  judge  for  themselves. 

It  will  be  found,  on  a  careful  examination  of  the  his- 
tory of  each  of  the  several  branches  of  V^alentines,  that 
certain  Christian  names  are  constantly  recurring — 
from  the  fact  that  parents  are  very  apt  to  name  their 
ciiildren  from  themselves,  their  own  parents,  or  their 
uncles  and  aunts,  and  these  not  always  merely  as  name- 
sakes, but  sometimes  in  the  hope  of-a  future  inherit- 
ance for  their  children.  Thus,  in  the  New  York  branch 
of  Valentines,  observe  the  Mathiases  and  the  Abra- 
hams; in  the  NciV  England  branch,  observe  the  num- 
ber of  Thomases  and  Johns,  and  so  on.  Now,  in  the 
Long  Island  branch,  the  ever-prevailing  names  are  es- 
pecially Richard   and    Obadiah — names   that    seldom 


52  The  VaUnlincs  in  America. 

occur  in  the  other  branches.  As  these  two  Christian 
names  are  also  found  among  the  early  New  Jersey  Valen- 
tines, the  inference  is  plain  that  the  Richard  Valentine 
who  married  Pha!)e  Haines  (Pha-be  being  also  a  favor- 
ite Long  Island  name),  and  settled  in  New  Jersey,  was 
none  other  than  the  son  of  Richard,  who  was  also  the 
son  of  Richard,  the  first  Valentine  on  Long  Island. 
Moreover,  there  was  then  no  Great  West  to  which 
emigrants  turned  their  eyes,  as  now;  and  New  Jersey 
being  not  verj'faroff,  with  a  soil  as  easy  of  tillage  and 
more  fertile  than  that  of  Long  Island,  it  was  the  most 
natural  thing  in  the  world  that  Richard  Valentine 
should  take  his  young  Phoebe  and  start  thither.  His 
first  son  he  named  Obadiah,  after  either  his  uncle  or 
his  brother  of  the  same  name.  Richard,  the  father, 
died,  as  has  already  been  mentioned,  March  lo,  1766, 
and  his  widow,  Phcebe,  who  was  three  or  four  years 
younger,  survived  him  until  May  21,  1783. 

Obadiah  was  born  in  1740,  and  died  May  19,  1788. 
He  married  Mary  Mulford,  who  was  born  Decem- 
ber 18,  1741,  and  died  June  9,  1777.  He  married 
three  wives,  but  had  children  only  by  the  first,  the 
above-named  Mary  Mulford. 

HON.   DANIEL  M.  VALENTINE, 
Associate  yttdge  of   !hi  Supreme  Court,  Kansas.     < 

Danio'  \'alentine,  son  of  the  above-named  Obadiah, 
and  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  notice,  was  born 
December  20,  1776;  was  first  married  to  Rachel 
Winans,  February  14,  1799, and  died  February  21,  1849. 
She  was  born  June  34,1777,  and  died  August  23,  1820. 
The  second  wife  of  Daniel  was  Isabel  Bull,  to  whom 
he  was  married  in  1S22.  He  removed  from  New 
Jersey'  to  Ohio  about  the  year  1805. 


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HON".    DAMEL    M.    VALENTINE. 
JIDGE   SirREME   COVRT.   KANSAS. 


Tlie  Nnv  Jersey  Valentines. 


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John  Winans  Valentine,  son  of  the  above,  and 
father  of  Judge  V^alentine,  was  born  October  24, 
iSo},  and  married  Rebecca  Kinkennon,  who  was  bom 
in  Tennessee,  Februarj'  10,  181 1.  He  died  September 
I,  1856,  and  she,  November  29,  1861. 

The  above-mentioned  Daniel  Valentine  had  eight 
children  by  his  first  wife,  and  three  by  his  second, 
viz: — 


Pamelia,  bom  l8o2,  died  1841. 

John  W.,  •■  Oct.  24. 1S04,  died  Sept.  1.  1856. 

Richard  \V.,  "  1806,  is  slill  living  in  Kirkwood,  Shelby  Co.,  O. 

Jonathan  Mulford,  "  1 808,  died  1837. 

David,  "  1810,    "     1867. 

William  Berry.  "  IB13,  is  still  li\Tng,  Shelby  Co.,  O. 

Sarah,  "  1815,  died  1834. 

Dariel,  "  1817,  "  1841. 

Rachel,  "  1820,  "  1847. 

Ann«,  '•  1823,  "  i860. 

Polly,  "  1825,  still  living  at  Lincoln,  Nebraska. 

Rebecca,  "  1827,        "               Shelby  Co.,  O. 


Many  of  the  children  of  the  above,  now  grown  to 
maturity,  are  yet  living  in  Shelby  county. 

William  Valentine,  brother  of  the  aoove-named 
Daniel,  Senior,  removed  from  New  Jersey  to  Cham- 
paign Co.,  Ohio,  and  died  there.  He  also  had  a  large 
familj-,  now  largely  scattered  through  that  section  of 
country. 

The  children  of  John  W.  and  Rebecca  K.  Valentine 
were  as  follows : — 


Daniel  Mulford,  the  subject  of  this  article,  born  Shelby  Co.,  O.,  June 

18, 1830. 
James  Kinkennon,  bom  September  27, 1832,  now  living  at  Fontanelle, 

Adair  Co.,  Iowa,  has  been  married  three  times,  and  has  6ve  sons 

and  one  daughter. 


54  The  Valentines  in  America. 

Sarah  Isabel,  born  January   l6,  1S40,  married  Abram   Rutt,  living  at 

Fontanellc. 
William,    born     May    6,    1843,  married    Naomi    ;   has    three 

(lau^jhters,  living  at  Fontanellc 
Margaret,  born  October  g,  1847,  living  at  Fontanellc. 

Judge  Valentine,  tlie  eldest  of  the  above,  was  about 
six  years  of  age  wiien  his  fatlier  removed  from  Ohio 
to  Tippecanoe  Co.,  Indiana.  Here  lie  had  few  facili- 
ties for  obtaining  an  education,  being  allowed  to  attend 
school  only  some  three  months  each  year,  and  the 
schools  in  that  region  being  then  none  of  the  best.  He, 
however,  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  very  fair  common- 
school  education,  with  some  knowledge  of  all  the 
sciences;  but  he  has  never  acquired  a  knowledge  of 
any  language  except  his  own  mother  tongue.  He  is 
not,  therefore,  indebted  to  any  Alma  Mater  for  his  ad- 
vancement and  success  in  life,  but  to  his  own  innate 
energy  and  his  persevering  efforts  at  self-culture.  He 
commenced  his  legal  studies  in  his  youth,  and  has  con- 
tinued them  even  to  the  present,  for  a  well-read  jurist 
never  finishes  his  studies;  but,  as  he  quaintly  says  in  a 
private  note,  he  never  studied  in  any  law-office  except 
his  own.  His  lather  being  a  farmer,  he  was  of  course 
expected  to  do  his  part  of  the  labor  on  the  farm ;  but 
having  at  length  acqtiircd  stifficient  education  for  the 
])urpose,  he  commenced  teaching,  and  taught  three 
terms — two  in  Indiana,  and  one  in  Iowa.  Leaving  the 
former  State  in  1S54,  he  first  went  to  Jefferson,  Greene 
cDuiity,  low.a,  afterwards  to  Winterset,  Madison  county, 
and  thence  to  Fontanellc,  .\drian  cotintv.  After  one 
term  of  tcai  liing,  he  principally  followed  surveying, 
serving  as  County  Surveyor  of  Adair  from  June,  tSss, 
to  1S57,  when  lie  became  County  Attorney  for  the 
same  county,  serving  in  that  capacity  about  two  years. 
After  practicing  law  for  several  years,  he  was  finally 


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elecTed  Judge  of  the  District  Court  in  Kansas  (whither 
lie  had  removed),  in  November,  1864.  Previously, 
howeve/,  he  had  served  as  a  member  of  tlie  House  of 
Representatives,  Kansas,  frcm  Franklin  county,  1S62, 
and  as  State  Senator  in  1863  and  1S64,  from  the  Dis- 
trict composed  of  Franklin  and  Anderson  counties. 
He  was  Judge  of  the  Fourth  Judicial  District  (com- 
posed originally  of  Johnson,  Miami,  Lynn,  li.irbcjur, 
Allen,  Anderson,  Franklin  and  Douglas  counties), from 
1864  to  1 868,  when  he  became  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Kansas,  which  position  he  yet  fills. 
He  is  said  to  have  written  more  opinions  than  any 
other  Supreme  Court  Judge  in  Kansas,  and  some  of 
these  are  regarded  as  very  able  ones — that  of  the  case  of 
Leavenworth  County  v.  Miller  (7  Kansas  Sup.  Court 
Reports,  749,  and  i  Am.  Railway  Rep<<rts,  259),  being 
the  most  elaborate. 

In  politics,  Judge  Valentine  was  a  member  of  the 
old  Whig  part}-  until  it  ceased  to  e.xist;  he  then  be- 
came a  Rti  ubiican,  and  continues  such  to  the  present 
time.  In  religious  matters,  he  is  rather  inclined  to 
liberality  of  opinion,  not  being  connected  with  any 
church  a;,  a  member.  His  grandfather  Daniel  and  hit 
brother  William  were  Baptists. 

As  to  his  domestic  relations,  they  are  briefly  stated. 
He  married  Miss  Martha  Root,  of  .\dair  county,  Iowa, 
June  26,  1855.  Mrs.  V.  was  a  native  of  Delaware 
county,  Ohio,  where  she  was  born  April  i,  1836.  Their 
children  are : — 

Adelbert.         bcm  .^p--    16, 1856. 

Sarah  Eva,  "  Oct.     3,  1S60. 

John  Williim     "  Junt  10,  1864. 

Harr)- Edward,  ■■  Ftb.    5,1867. 

Martha  .\bbie,    "  Feb.    8,1869. 

Maggie  Elsie,     "  July  29, 1871. 

Ralph  Elmer,     "  June    7,  l87j. 


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Tiu  Valentines  in  America. 


One  thing  more  is  worthy  of  special  mention. 
Judge  Valentine  is  able  to  say  that  he  has  never  used 
alcoholic  drinks,  nor  tobacco,  nor  has  he  ever  sworn  a 
profane  oath  in  his  life.  Would  to  Heaven  all  our 
magistrates  and  public  men  could  say  as  much! 

If  the  brand)  to  which  he  belongs  have  not  been 
distinguished  for  great  intellectual  endowments,  they 
have  at  least  been  favored  with  a  fair  share  of  that  old- 
frshioned  commodity,  j/ri?/;^,  common  sense.  Not  only 
is  it  true  that  none  of  them  have  been  charged  with 
crime,  but  they  have  been  marvelously  kept  from  most 
of  the  gayer  and  lighter  vices.  No  one  of  them  has 
ever  been  insane  or  idiotic,  or  even  very  eccentric,  nor 
has  one  ever  been  deformed,  so  far  as  is  known.  The 
Judge  himself  is  a  fair  specimen  of  our  American  self- 
made  men,  and  his  history  and  success  in  life  show 
what  energy,  perseverance  and  strict  virtue  can 
do  for  our  j-oung  men,  even  under  the  mort  adverse 
circumstances. 


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CHAPTER     \II. 

THE     NEW     VCRK     VAuENTINES. 

BOLTOX,  in  his  valuable  "  Hislory  of  West 
Chester  Count)-,'  says  that  Benjamin  Valen- 
tine, the  anccbtor  of  *Iie  Westchester  county 
Valentines,  was  a  dragoon  i.i  the  French  militar)-  ser- 
vice, and  that  he  rem(jved  to  !\  tw  York  about  1680. 
This  would  imply  that  he  was  of  French  origin; 
whereas,  there  is  abundant  proof  that  he  was  not  a 
Frenchman,  but  a  Hollander.  That  the  6rst  settler 
and  his  sons  understood  the  Dutch  language  is  evi- 
dent; and  all  the  families  of  this  branch  repudiate  the 
idea  of  a  French  origin. 

In  a  work  entitled  ^'■Journal  of  a  Voyage  to  A'rw 
York,  and  a  Tour  in  sneral  of  the  American  Colonies  in 
1679-S0,  by  JASPER  DuNKER  and  Peter  Si.uvter,  of 
Wreu'crd,  in  Friesland"  (recently  published  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society,  from 
MSS.  obtained  in  Holland  by  the  Hon.  Henry  C. 
Murphy,  of  Brooklyn),  I  find  the  following:  "We 
crossed  the  Spylden  Duyzel  in  a  canoe,  and  paid  nine 
stuivers  for  us  three,  which  was  very  dear.  We  fol- 
lowed the  opposite  side  of  the  land,  and  came  to  the 
house  of  one  Valentyn,  a  great  acq\iainlance  of  our 
Gaiict.*  He  had  gone  to  the  city,  but  his  wife,  though 
she  did  not  know  Garret  or  us,  was  so  much  rejoiced 
to  see  Jfollanden  that   she  hardly  knew  what  to  do  for 

*  Garret  Cornelius  Van  Duyne,  the  common  ancestor  of  the  Van 
Duyne  family  in  Ihiscounlry,  who  died  in  1706. 

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58  Tlic  Valcntiiifs  in  America. 

us."  That  this  "  V'alentyn  " — the  common  wAj  of 
spelling  the  name  in  Holland — was  the  Benjamin 
above  mentioned,  there  can  be  no  doubt;  and  this 
discovery  settles  the  question  both  as  to  origin  and 
time.  This  was  about  the  beginning  of  the  "Tour" 
(or  1679);  and  this  Valentine  had  already  been  there 
long  enough  to  have  business  with  the  city,  to  form 
strong  friendships,  and  to  have  his  homesick  wife 
overjoyed  to  see  even  strangers  from  "Faderland."  So 
that  Benjamin  Valentine,  though  he  may  have  been  in 
the  French  service,  was  a  Hollander,  and  probably 
came  to  this  vicinity  as  earl)-  as  1678. 

But,  in  ali  candor,  it  should  be  stated  that  there  is 
one  circumstance  that  appears,  at  first  view,  a  little 
inconsistent    with    the    above   theory.      According  to 

Bidton,    Benjamin    Valentine   married  a   Miss  

Odell,  and  the  Odells  were  of  New  England  or  Eng- 
lish origin,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  country  having 
been  William  Odell,  of  Concord,  Mass.,  who  removed 
to  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  1644,  whose  son  William  was 
one  of  the  principal  proprietors  of  the  neighboring 
town  of  Rye  in  1660.  But,  as  Mathias,  the  eldest  son 
of  Beniamin,  was  not  born  till  169S,  it  seems  very 
probable  that  this  Miss  Odell  was  Benjamin's  second 
wife,  and  that  his  first  marriage  was  to  a  country- 
woman of  his  own  native  Holland,  and  she  having 
died  without  issue,  the  circumstance  is  not  on  record. 
Upon  this  supposition,  the  whole  matter,  otherwise  so 
mysterious,  becomes  clear  a.id  reasonable,  as  there  is 
no  evidence  that  any  other  ValenMne  had  settled  in 
this  region  about  that  time. 

Benjamin  X'alentine  did  not  at  first  settle,  as  some 
erroneously  suppose,  on  Vahnliiif's  Hill,  but,  Bolton 
says,  "  upon  the  farm  in  Vonkers  now  {1848)  owned  bj- 
Frederick  Rich."     The  spot,  as  pointed  out  to  me  (in 


The  New   York  Valentines.  59 

August,  1873)  by  George  Bishop  Valentine,  from  his 
residence  on  the  summit  of  Valentine's  Hill,  appeared 
to  be  some  two  miles  or  more  to  the  east  of  that 
elevated  spot,  in  the  town  of  East  Chester,  not  far 
from  the  Bronx  river,  and  perhaps  half  a  mile  north  of 
(or  above)  the  present  station  of  West  Mount  Vernon, 
on  the  Harlem  Railroad.  How  long  he  lived  there 
does  not  appear — perhaps  all  the  rest  of  his  life  His 
(second  ?)  wife  was,  as  above  stated,  a  Miss  Odell,  by 
whom  he  had  three  sons — .\faihias,  the  first  proprietor 
of  Valentine's  Hill,  Vonkers,  born  169S,  and  who  was 
buried  at  East  Chester,  1781  ;  A'icholas,  who  removed 
South;  and  Joseph,  who  is  said  to  have  been  so  pas- 
sionately fond  of  the  violin  liiat  he  was  everywhere 
known  as  "  The  Fiddler." 

The  following  is  but  an  imperfect  genealogy  of  this 
nov  extensive  family,  made  up  partly  from  Bolton, 
and  partly  from  the  limited  data  furnished  the  author 
by  others : — 

GENEALOGY  OF  THE  NEW  YORK  VALENTINES. 

FIRST   GENERATION. 

Col.  Benjamin  Valentine,  first  settler,  bom   in    Holland,  came  to 

Westchester  Co.  about  1678;  m.  I, .and  2,  Mis.s Odell, 

by  whom  he  had  three  sons;  1,  Mathias ;  2,  Nicholas;  3,  Joseph. 

SECOND   GENERATION. 

I.  Mathias,  sop  of  Benjamin,  bom  1698,  was  the  firs'  of  the  name 

on  Valentine's  Hill ;  m.  1,  .^nna  Rych  ;  2,  Marj' ;  and  had  five 

sons:  Abraham,  John,  Mathias,  Samuel  and  Thomas,  and  died  1781, 

and  was  buried    at    East    Ciiester 2.  Nicholas,  went   South   and 

settled. . .  .3.  Joseph,  "  The  Fiddler,"  had  one  son,  Caleb. 


6o  The  Valentines  in  America. 


THIRD    GENERATION. 

I.  A1>raham,  son  of  Mathias,  born  1719  ;  m.  Deborah  Barton  ;  had 
I«o  sons  and  five  daughters,  and  died  1769 2.  John....  3.  Ma- 
thias. ..  .4.  .Samuel.  ..  .5.  Thomas  (of  Valentine's  Hill),  born  1723; 
m.  I.  Isabel  Lawrence;  2,  Mary  liarlon  ;  had  five  sons  and  five 
daughters,  and  <lied  iSoo.  ...6.  Calel).  son  of  Joseph,  lx)rn  1736;  m. 

Mary ;  had  three  sons.  Caleb,  .Anthony  and  Reuben,  and  d.  1814. 

.\ntliony  d.  Stamford,  Conn.,  aged  82. 

FOIRTH  GENERATION. 

I.  (iilbcrl,  son  of  .Vbraham,  born   1748  ;  m.  I,  Mary  Morgan,  and 

2,  .\Iartha  liriggs  ;  had  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  and  d.  1819 

2.  .\braham,  son  of  .\braham,  b.  1755;  m.  I,  Jane  Odell ;  2,  Fanny 
Newman  ;  3,  Kliz.abelh   Lent ;  had   five  sons  and  one  danghter,  and 

died    1798.... 3.    Dorothy,    ni.  Vincent    Fowler 4.  Nancy.... 5. 

Sallie. . .  .6.  Mary.... 7.  Susan,  b.    1756,   m.   Vredenbui^gh,  of 

Vonkers.     [.Ml   the  foregoing  were  children   of   .\braham,  of   third 

gen.]. . .  .9.   lames,  so;i  of  Thos.,  of  Val.  Hill.  m. Warner;  had 

five  daughters  and  three  sons,  .Staals,  Charles  and  Nathaniel. ..  .lo. 
Elijah,  son  of  Thos.,  m.  Rebecca  Odell  (sister  of  Gen,  Jacob). ..  .II. 
Nathaniel,  of  V.  Hill,  born  1754,  S(.n  of  Thos.,  left  three  sons,  Geo. 
Bishop,  Thomas  Burling  and  Elijah,  and  d.  1R30.  ...12.  Thomas,  of 
Pelham,  son  of  Thos.,  had  Charles,  of  East  Chester,  who  m.  sister  of 
D.  D.  Briggs,  Police  Com.  of  Brooklyn.  . .  .13.   Mathias,  son  of  Thos.. 

m.  Dcighton,  and  had  Samson,  of  E.  Chester. ...  14.   M.'.ry,  dan. 

of  Thos.  ...15.  Margaret,  dau.  of  Thos.,  m.  Isaac  Odell. ..  (l6. 
.\nna,  dau.  of  Thos.,  m.  AVni.  Warner. ..  .17.  Sarah,  dau.  of  rh'»s., 
ir.  Richard  .Archer,  Second  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Fordhara,  who  d. 
1783.... 18.  Jane,  dau.  of  Thos.,  m.   Reuben  Fowler. ..  .19.  Caleb, 

son  of  Caleb 20.  Anthony,  .son  of   Caleb   had  Anthony,  Jurdan, 

Mercy,  Susan,  Margaret  and  Jane.... 21.  Joseph,  son  of  Caleb... 
22.  Reuben,  son  of  Caleb. 

FIFTH    GENERATION. 

I.  .Abraham, -siin  of  Gilbert,  b.  1773,  m.  Hannah  BriggsI798;  had 
one  son  (.Abraham)  and  two  dau.  who  d.  in  infancy,  and  d.  1858,  aged 
85.... 2.  Mathias,  son  of  Gilbert,  m. Briggs,  and  had  Ma- 
thias Thos.,  Martha,    Mary   .ind    Stacia,   and   d.  1833 3.  John,  b. 

,  m.  Mary  Bussing  ;  had  Gilbert,  John,  I'eter,  Mary  and  Georgia, 


Tlie  New   York   Valentines.  6 1 

and  d. . . .  .4.  Gilbert,  son  of  John,  d.  without  issue   . .   6.  Mary, 

dau.    of    John.... 7.  Sarah... 8.    Samuel,    son    of    .Abraham. ..  .9. 
i  Odell,  son  of   .Abraham. ...  10.  James,  son   of  Abraham. ..  .II.  Gil- 

\  bert,  son  of  .\br.iham,  b.  1774,  d.  I7q5.  ...12.  Jacob,  son  of  .\bra- 

I  ham,  b.  I78l,d.  1S05....13.  .\nn,  dau.  of  .\braham,  m.  Elijah  Wil- 

I  hams. . .  .14.  Staats,  son  of  James. . .  .15.  Charles,  son  of  James,  b. 

1802,  d.  1836 16.   K.athaniei,  son  of  James,  m. ;  now  lives  at 

I  Bronxville,  ajjed    80.  ...17.   Geo.  Hishop,  son   of  Nathaniel,  b.  about 

I  l'-oo....l8.  Thos.  Burling,  son  of  Nathaniel,  b. ;  now  living  in 

I  Mount  Vernon   village   ...Ig.   Elijah,  son  of  Nathaniel,  bom ; 

yet  living. . .  .20.  Charles,  of  E.  Chester,  son  of  Thos.,  of  Pelham,  m. 

1  Mi.ss Briggs. . .  .21.  .Samson,  of  E.  Chester,  son  of  Matthias. . . . 

I  22.  .\nthony  .\rcher,  son  of  Richd.  and   Sarah  Valentine  Archer,  m. 

Mary    Mapes,  and    left    large   issue.  ..  .23.    Malhias    .\rcher,  son  of 
Richd.   and   Sarah   Valentine   .Archer. ..  .24.  Janis.  son   of  .Anthony 
'•  Valentine,  married   Charlotte    Law^on...    25.   Anthony,  son  of  An- 

thony A'alentine,  m.  Jane    Farriiiglon  ;  died   aged  67 ;  had   children, 
Ann,  Delavan,  Jane,  \Vm.  A.,  Penelojie.  James,  ChTles,  Elmira,  Re- 

ibecca,    .Amanda   and    John. ..  .26.    Jurdan,  son  of    Anthony  Valen- 
tine, died  young. . .  .27.  Daniel,  son  of  .Anthony  Valentine,  m.  Miriam 
Fisher,  a  descendant   of  John    Lawrence. ..  .28.  Mercy,  dau.  of  An- 
!  ihony  Valentine,  m.  Moses  Farrington,  and  d.  aged  75.  . .  .29.   Susan, 

i  dau.  of  .Anthony  Valentine,  m.  Joseph  Farrington,  and  d.  aged  85. . . 

30.  Margaret,  dau.  of  .\nihony  Valentine,  died  single,  aged  85 .31. 

Jane,  dau.  of  .Anthony  \'alentine,  died  young. 

SIXTH   CENERATIO.S. 

I.  .Abraham,  son  of  Abraham,  bom  1804,  m.  Jane  Bates,  1826;  had 
Abraham,  Edward,  John,  William,  George,  Mary  Jane,  J^mily  and 
Catharine.  ..  .2.  Mathias,  son  of  Mathias. . .  .3.  Thomas,  M>n  of 
.Mathias. . .  .4.  Martha,  dau.  of  Mathias  ...5.  Mary,  dau.  of  Ma- 
thias....6.  Sarah,  dau.  of  Mathias. ..  .7.  Stacia,  dau.  of  Mairuas. 
....8.  Gilbert,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Bussing. ..  .9.  John,  son  of 
John  and  Mary  Bussing,  m.  .Anna  Morgan. . .  .10.  Peter,  son  of  John 
and  Mary  Bussing  . .  .11.  Mar)-,  dau.  of  John  and  Mary  Bus-ing. . . . 
12.  Georgia,  dau.  of  John  and  Marj'  Bussing. . .  .13.  Sarah  .Anne,  dau. 
of  Jjcob,  m.  James  Morgan. ..  .14.  Fi^her  Ferris  Valentine,  >on  of 
Daniel,  m.  J.Tne  Morgan  ...15.  Jurd.in,  son  of  Daniel. ...  16.  Edwin, 
son  of  Daniel.  ...  17.  David  Thomas,  ^nn  of  Daniel,  borr  iSoi,  m.  I, 
Martha  Carnell  (by  whom  he  h.-.d    three  sons  and  two  daughters) ;  2, 


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Caroline  M.  Spicer  (by  whom  he  had   no  issue),  and  d.  Feb.  25,  1869 

...  .18.   Evaline,  diu.  of  Daniel,  m.  -\.  Secor  ;  had  seven  children 

ig.   Emma,  dau.  of  Daniel,  m.   Dr.  Parkinson  (no  issue);  .low  living 

in   Fordham.  .  .    20.  Elizabeth,  dau.  of  Daniel,  m. Disbrow   (no 

issue) 21.  -Amelia,  dau.  of  Daniel,  m.  Thos.  P.  Wilson  (no  is..ue)  ; 

now  living  in  Fordham.  ..  .22.  rianiel,  son  of  Daniel,  m.  Rebecca 
Bumpo  (by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  Chas.  and  Thomas) ;  now  living  in 
Fordham. . .  .23.  Charles  F.,  son  of  Staats,  is  a  builder,  and  now  lives 

in  ^^)rkville. . .  .24.  Ann,  d:iu  of  .\nthony,  m. Bailey  ;  had  chil-    -    ^A 

dre       •■  '       ^     „_,.,.-_...-,._-         -..,Ts_,...--'->t^- 

son 


n,   .Mary,  Jo-eph,   Charles,  Halsled  and  Adeline 25A'Delavan.  .^.^      P  \' ■ 

of  .Anthony,  had yflmory  .Mason  and   Lewis  Pease  (tvvins),  Rufus  i*  " 


P^^l 


4ltt^ 


Babcock  and  James  William  (twins),  Frederick  and  .Ann  Eliza  (twins), 
^i<^  and  l>iiiii||i|~. .  .26.  Jane.dau.  of  Anthony,  d.  young.  ..  .27.  William  A., 
son  of  .\nthony.  b.  iSog,  m.  Jane  -A  Mead  ;  hud  children,  Mary  J.,  Wil- 
liam. Eleanor  E.,  Elizabeth  A.,  Stephen  A.,  ard^ Frederick   D 28. 

James,  son  of  .Anthony,  m.  Catherine  Rillay  ;  had  children,  James, 
Eliza  J.,  .Adricnne,  Slephen  H.,  Sarah,  William,  Emma,  Frank  and 
Catherine.  .  .  .29.  Charles,  son  of  .Anthony,  m.  Phebe  Coleman  ;  had 
.Sarah  J.,  Mary,  .Alonzo,  Theodore,  .Amanda  and  Emily.... 30.  Al- 
niira.  dau.  of 'Anthony,  m.  Thompson  (no  issue) 31.  Re- 
becca, dau.  of  Anthony,  d.  unm. . .  .32.  .Amanda,  dau.  of  An'hony, 
living  unm.  . .  .33.  John,  son  -jf  .Anthon)'.  m.  Annie  Odell ;  had  chil- 
dren Warner.  John.  Kiltie,  .Albert  and  Daisy 34.  Penelope,  dau.  of 

Anthony,  m. Purdy  (no  issue),  dec. 

SEVENTH   GENERATION. 

I.  Abraham,  son  of  Abraham. . .  .2.  Edv.ard,  son  of  Abraham. . . . 
3.  John. ..  .4.  William   ...5.  George.... 6.  Mar)' Jane. ..  .7.  Emily, 

d.   1843.... 8.  Catharine g.  Charles,  son  of   F.  F.  and  Jane  M. 

Valentine. ..  .10.  A  dau.  of   same,  m. I  jne  ;  had  two  children, 

one  of  whom  m. Havibnd   ...II.  Gilbert,  son  of   Edwin,  has 

two  children. ...  12.  Ed\\in,  son  of  Ed«in. . .  .13.  David,  son  of 
David  T.,  m.  Christina  Odell  ;  has  five  children.  . .  .14.  William  Cor- 
nell, son  of  David  T.,  m.  Ellen  Higgins;  has  one  child.  Ellen  Camell 
Valentine.  ..  .15.  Martha,  dau.  of  David  T.  and  Martha  Camell 
Valentine,  m.  Thon»as  H.  Smith;  had  no  issue. ...  16.  Amanda  A., 
dau.  of  D.  T.  and  Martha  C.  Valentine. ..  .17.  Augusta,  dau.  of 
same,  m.  Joseph  W.  Owens;  has  two  children,  Jennie  and  Clarence 
...  .18.  Gustavus  ,A.,  son  of  the  same,  m.  Louisa  T.  Lynch  ;  had  no 
issue....  19.  Charles,  son  of  Daniel  and  Rebecca  Valentine,  lives  in 


TJie  New   York  Valentines.  63 

Fordham. . .  .20.  Thomis  son  of  Daniel,  as  above,  lives  in  Fordham 
....21.  Marj',  dau.  of  Ann  Bailey,  m.  Rufus  Banks;  had  one  son, 
John. . .  .22.  Joseph,  son  of  Ann,  m.  Mary  A.  .Miller  ;  has  several  chil- 
dren. . .  .23.  Charle  .on  of  Ann,  m.  Mary  L.  Satchell  ;  has  one  child 
. . .  .24.  Halsted,  son  of  Ann,  m.  Mary  L.  Banks;  has  three  children 
. . .  .25.  Aaal  ne,  m.  James  Foshay  ;  had  Ella  and  .\ddie. .  .  .26.  Mary 
J.,  dau.  of  Wm.  A.,  m.  Henry  M.  Tobitt  (of  fi'm  of  Tolitt  &  Bunce, 

printers  of  this  book). . .  .27.  William,  son  of  Wm.  K 28.  Elear    . 

E.,  dau.  of   Wm.  A 29.    Elizabeth  A.,  dau.  of   Wm.  A 30. 

Stephen   A.,  son  of   Wm.  A.,  d.   1873 31.  Frederick    D.,  son  of 

Wm.  A.,  dec. ..  .32.  Sarah  I.,  dau.  of  Charles,  m.  Josiah  Morgans; 
lives  in  Cutchogue. . .  .33.  .^I'ary,  dau.  of  Charles. ..  .34.  Alonzo, 
son  of  Charles,  m.  Maggie  M-.rgans;  has  one  son.  Charles. ..  .35. 
Theodore,  son  of  Charles. ..  .36.  Kmily,  dau.  of  Charles. ..  .37. 
Amanda,  dau.  of  Chas.,  dec. . .  .38.  Warner,  son  of  John,  dec.  . .  .39. 
John,  son  of  same. . .  .40.  Kittie,  dau.  of  same. . .  .41.  Albert,  son  of 
same. . .  .42.  Daisy,  dau.  of  same. . .  .43  Emory  Mason,  son  of  Dcl- 
avan....44.  Lewis  Pease,  son  of  same,  dec. ..  .45.  Rufus  Babcock, 
son  oi  same.... 46.  James  William,  son  of  same.  ...47.  Frederick, 
son  of  same. . .  .48.  Ann  Eliza,  dau.  of  same. . .  .49.  Mari.  dau. 
of  same,  dec.     (The  sur\iving  children  of   Delavan  mostly  reside  in 

the  neighborhood  of  Natick,  Mass.) .50.  James,  son  of  James,  is  a 

physician  in  one  of  the  Western  States,  married,  and  has  several  chil- 
dren....51.  Eliza  J.,  dau.  of  James.... 52.   .•Kdrienne,  dau.  of  Jas, 

dec. 53.  Stephen   H.,  son  of  Jas.,  dec 54.   Sarah,  dau.  of  Ja,s., 

living  unm....55.  William,  son  of  Jas.... 56.  Emma,  dau.  of  Jas., 
is  a  wijf^'.v,  with  one  child.... 57.  Frank,  son  of  Jas.,  dec.... 58. 
Catherine,  dau.  of  Jas.,  dec. 

EIGHTH    GE.NERATION. 

I.  Samuel,  son  of  Edw.  B.  and  Eliza  Pinckney  Valentine. ...  2. 
James,  son  of  same.  b.  1813,  died  in  infancy. . .  .3.  Wm.  Henry,  son 
of  same,  b.  1S22,  d.  1S32. . . .  }.  .^nne  Delia,  dau.  of  same,  b.  1802,  m. 
Edw.  G.  Faile,  of  West  Farms.  1821. . .  .5.   Harriet,  dau.  of  same,  b. 

1S06,  m.  Gilbert  Bates Hannah,  dau.  of  same,  d.  1812 7.   Mary 

Jane,  dau.  of  same,  b.  1S18,  d.  1825.... 8.  Juhn,  son  of  Rufus  and 
Mary  B.  Banks,  m.  Grace  .Mead,  of  Connecticut  ...9.  Ella  Foshay, 
dau.  of  Jas.  and  .\daline  Foshay. . .  .10.  Addie,  dau.  of  Jas.  and  Ada- 
line  Foshay. . .  .11.  Oi.Trles,  «on  of  .\lonzo.  .  .  .t2.   Ellen  Camel;,dau. 

of  William  C.  . .  .13.  Jennie,  dau.  of  Augusta  and  J.  W.  Owens 

14.  Clarence,  son  of  same. 


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Tlie  following  were  copied  from  the  Episcopal 
Churchyard,  in  East  Chester,  Westchester  County, 
New  York  : 


(I.) 

In  Meni(jr\'  of 

Deborah 

Wife  of  Abraham  Vollixtixe 

WTio  departed  this  life 

Aug.  5,  1777. 

Aged    %v 

64  years  10  months  and  12  days. 

(2.) 

Here  lyes  the  Body 

V^  of 

Abraham  Vollixtixe 

WTio    departed    this    life 

May  8   A.  D.  1769 

Aged 

49  yrs.  6  mo.  and  6  days. 


(3) 
Thomas  Valextixe 
W  died 

Jan.  26,  1800 

Aged 

77  yrs.  8  mo.  and  16  days. 


(4.) 
In  Memory  of 
L.f  Cm  tB  V.\i.F.NriNE 

Who  dcjiarlcd  lliis  life 
17  A.  D.  1814 
he  ySlh  yr, 
his  age. 
(Part  jf  ihis  iribcription  worn  off.) 


(5.) 

1    /    In  Memoiy  of 

Mars'  Valextine, 

Wife  of  Caleb  Valentine. 

She  departed  this  life 

Mar.  5,  A.  D.  1817. 

(The  age  is  worn  off  this  stone.) 

(6.) 

In  Memory  of 

G;:  BERT  Valentine 

Who  departed    this    life 

on  the    28lh    day  of    April 

In  the  year  of  our   Lord  1819 

Aged 

71  yrs.  8  mo.  and  10  days. 

(7.) 

.  .  /      In  Memory  of 

Mary 

Wife  of  Gilbert  Valentine 

who  died 

July   5.   1773. 

Aged 

25  yrb.  10  mo.  and  5  days. 


(8.) 

■  ^  In  Memory  of 

.\iiraham  Valexti.xe 

Who   dcjiartcd    this    life 

Jan.  5,  1798 

Aged 

43  years  3  mo.  and  2  days. 


The  AVji'    York    Va/iii/iins. 


(9-) 
jj  In  Memory'  of 

Jkan  Vali.imink 
Wife  i>f  -\brahnm  \"a!liiuinc 

Daughter  of 

Aliraliam  and   Rebecca  Oilell 

Who  dej)arled  ihis  life 

Sept.  12,  1787 

Aged 

32  yrs.  1 1  mo.  and    2S  days. 

(10.) 

J      Sacred  lo  the  Memory  of 

Naiiiamkl  Valentine 

WIio  (lied  Jan.  26,  1S30, 

In  llie  76th  year  of  his  age. 

(II.) 

In  Meinon'  of 
^         .\NN  VoMlNTlNi; 

Wli.i  (kpaned  llii.>  life 

Mar.  20,  17S3 

.\ged  24  )Ts.  and  3  days. 


(12.) 
j    \  In  Memory  of 

J.VNK  V.\Ij;.\TINF. 

Wife  of  llcnrj*  Valentine 

Who  departetl    this  life 

Oct.  8,  A.  I).  1816 

Ayed  57  yrs. 


(>3) 
In  Memory  of 

SXR.MI  Voi  l.l.\TINE 

Who  dejiarted  this  life 
Jan.  10,  177S 
Aged  15  yrs.  4  mo.  and  10  days 
9 


(I4-) 

t.  \    The  grave  of 

.M.\RV  V.M.H.sriNE 

who  died 

Dec.  17,  1822 

Aged  57  yrs. 

(15.) 
^ —      In  Memorj*  of 

Hknry  Vai.kniine 

Who  died   April  29.  1833 

Aged  68  yrs, 

(16.) 

Ei  iZAiiFiH  Vaij;\tixe 
Horn  Ian.  II,  1765 
Died  Nov.  7,  1855. 

(■7) 
.^         In  Meir  )ry  of 

Tii'j.\i.\s  Vai.kxtixe 

Who  died  Sept.  16,  1839, 

In  hi^  71.'^^  >T- 

(16.) 
^El.lZABtfH  Valf.ntix" 
dii  J  Oct.  io,  1854, 
.\   ed  88  yrs.  3  mo.  and  5  ciays. 

(19) 

jj  MARTHA 

Widow  of  Gii.nKKT  Vai.kxtixe 

who  dicti  .May  13,  1843, 
.\ged  76  yrs.  5  mo.  and  13  days. 

^  (20.) 

V        The  (irave  of  Sll.liY 
Wife  of  Kli  llXKIi  VaI  f  \TISK 
Who  did  M.iy  28.  1^56. 
.\ged  SS  yc3r>  and  7  nio. 


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Ul 


(21.) 

V         In  Memory  of 

Sakah  Willow  of 

Nathamf.l  Valfstinf. 

Who  iliiil  Mar.  25,  1S53 

Aged  S2  yr'i.  and  5  da;  s. 

(22.) 
Sacred   to  the  Memory  of 

.XllRAllAM  VaLENTI.NE 

Died  June  7,  185S 
in  the  85lh  year  of  hi>  Age. 

(23) 

In  ?»:emory  of    - 

Gilbert  Vai.estixe 

Son  of  ALraham  Valentine 

Who  departed  \\\\-^  life 

Sept.  18,  1795. 

.\ged  21  yrs.  and  5  aays. 

(24.) 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

Hannah,  widow  of 

.Abraham  Valentine 

Died  Oct.  24.  1862 

In  the  86th  year  of  her  age. 

(25) 

The  Grave  of 

Hewlet  Valentine 

Who  died  Dec.  4,  1829 

Aged  49  yrs. 


(26., 
To  the  Memory  01 
V*^       Jacob  Valentine 

Who  lU-pai  led  this  life 

On  llic  3rd  day  of  October 

In  the  year  of  our  I>ird  1805 

,\gcd  24  yrs.  2  mo.  and  9  d.iys. 


(27) 
/  The  Grave  of 

Elvin  Valentine 

Who  died  Mar.  17.  1832 

.\gid  50  yrs.  S  mo.  and  13  days. 

(28.) 

In  Memory  of 

IsAA'-  Valentine 

Who  dieo  Sept.  8,  i860 

,\ged  75  yrs.  9  mo.  and  29  d. 

(29.) 

In  Memory  of 

Mrs.  Anna 

Wife  of  Isaac  Valenti.st. 

Who  died  Mar.  21,  1842 

.'^d  57  yrs.  4  mo.  and  21  d. 


¥ 


(30.) 

Mary  Vallntine 

Daughter  of 

Giilicrl  and  Martha  Valentine 

Who  died  Oct.  31.  1846, 

.\gcd  57  yrs.  and  16  days. 


^ 


(31) 

Id  Memory  of 

Ann  Valentine 

Who  died  Oct.  6,  1835 

In  her  45lh  year. 


(32.) 

^j^        In  Memory  of 

Maithias  Vai.eniine 

Who  died  Sept.  13,  1833 

.\gcd  41  yrs.  10  ino.  and  23  days 


The  New   York   Valentines. 


67 


(33) 

In  Memi.ry  of 

M/RV 

Wife  of  John  Valentine 

Who  died  July  10,  183 1 

Aged  35  yrs.  10  mo.  and  7  days. 

(34) 

In  Memory  of 
Waltkk  P   Valc.ntine 
Who  departed  this  life 

Dec.  21,  1797 
Aged  8  mo.  and  27  days- 

(35.) 

In  Memory  of 

^^      Harriet  Amelia 

Daughle  •  of 

Nathaniel  &  Saram  Valentine 

Who  departed  lais  life 

Muy  t),  1813 

.Agetl  14  yrs   6  mo.  and  25  days. 


V( 


(36-) 

In  Memory  of  GILBERT 

Son  of 

Gilbert  &  Martha  Valentine 

Died  May  17,  1853 

Aged  54  years. 

(37.) 

\d  In  Memory  of 

Charles  Valentine 

Who  died  Oct.  20.  1836. 

In  Mi  34th  year. 

(38.) 
W  In  Memory  of 

.\hkaham  G.  Valentine 

Who  died  .\ug.  12.  1849 

In  ihe  46lh  year  of  his  age. 


(39) 

\^  In  Memory  of 

Edwin  Vai.entint; 

Who  died  Oct.  26,  1833 

,\ged  28  yrs.  2  mo.  ard  17  days. 

(40.) 
To  the  Memory  of 
'^'  KinvARi)  B.  Valentine 
Who  departed  this  life 

Sept.  24.  1834 
Aged  25  yrs.  and  8  mo. 

(41.) 

In  Memory  of 

^      Elizabeth  Ann 

Daughter  of 

Nathaniel  &  Sarah  Valentine 

Who  departed  this  life 

Jan.  II.  1846 

In  the  37ih  yeir  of  her  age. 

(42.) 

\iy  In  Memory  of 

Hannah,  daughter  of 

.\hraham  &  Hannah  Valentine 

Who  dcj'aried  this  life 

Dec.  10,  1812, 
Agtd  I  yr.  and  9  mo. 


w 


(43.) 

Amelia 

Wife  of  Gilbert  Valentine 

Died  Sept.  13.  1S58 

.\ged  47  yrs.  3  mo.  and  10  days. 

(44.) 
^'  In  Memory  of 

William  Henrv,  son  of 
.\LFRKi)  &  Hannah  Valentine 

Who  died  .\ug.  13. 1836 
Aged  14  yrs.  3  mo.  and  3  days. 


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The  Vitlcniinci   in  Aiiicrka. 


(45) 
\«r    -Martha  Jane  Valentine 
n.inghlerof 
Mauhia^  and  Hannah  Valentine 

Dieil  June  20,  1S45 
Aged  22  yrs.  6  mo.  and  22  days. 


(46.) 
>yf  In  Memon"  of 

Matthias  son  of 

Matthias  &  Hannah  Valentine 

Died  Apr.  15.  1S48 

\^ei  25  yrs.  5  mo.  9  days. 


(47) 

Caroline  Theresa  Valentine 

Died  Dec.  25,  :S54 

Aged  51  )TS.  and  17  days. 


US.) 

,      S-ncred  to  ihe  Memory  of 
Makv  Jane,  daughter  of 
.\i.RAii  \M  &  Hannah  V.\i£.N-nNE 
Who  departc<i  this  life 

Feb.  10.  1S25 
.\ged  4  mo.  and  2  days. 


(49-^ 

Sacred  to  the  Memory  of 

Matilda,  daughter  of 

Isaac  and  .\nna  Valentin-e 

Who  died  Oct.  24,  1S2S 
Aged  I  yT.  7  mo.  and  19  day<;. 

(50.) 

In  Memory  of 

.Vbraham,  son  of 

John  and  Marv  Valentine 

Who  died  July  17,  TS54, 
.Xged  6  yr«.  9  mo.  and  20  days. 

(5I-) 

^<  In  Memory  of 

Thos.  son  of' 

Math  Hi.\s  &  Hannah  Valentin-e 

WTi.idied  Oct.  3irj84S, 

.\ged  21  yrs.  5  mo.  anS  5  day?^ 

(52-) 

In  Memory  of 

A.NN  Ameli.v  daughter  of 

.\LFRED  &  SlSANNAll  VaLEN-TINE 

Bom 

July  16,  1840 

Died 
.^ug.  29,  1S40. 


The  following  arc  copied  from   tombstones    in    St. 
Peter's  cliiirchyard,  Westilicstcr  village  : — 


(I.) 
William  Valentine 

Iiiol  Oct.  1793 
Agol  13  yr».  17  day~ 


(2.) 

Polly  Valentine 

Died  Jan.  19  1S05 

.\gol  30  yr~  5  mi>-  ;  Hays 


The  New   York   Vahutitics. 


69 


(3) 
\J^  Benjamin  Valentine 
Died  July  25  1S20 
Aged  So  yvr.  2  mo<;  14  days 


(+) 
Benjamin  Valentine,  Sr. 
VI  Hied  July  27  1S26 

Aged  7S  yri  I  mo 

(5.) 

Marv  Seccr  Valentine 

Died  Sept.  4  1827 

Aged  45  yn 

(6.) 
Elizaiietii  Valentine 

Died  May  29  1S33 
Aged  9  yrs  3  nios  3  days 

(7) 

George  Valentine 

Died  June  7  1833 

Aged  I  yr  3  m<>s  2f>  days 

(8.) 

Theodore  E.  Valentine 

Died  Oct.  16  1S34 

.\gcd  2  yrs  5  mos 

(9) 

Maria  Victoria  Valentine 

Died  Sept.  25  1S39 

Aged  S  mos  25  days 

(10.) 
.\i;ijAii  Valentine 
Died  Mar.  12  1S40 
.\ged  12  yr>.  5  mos 


(II.) 

Pheiie  Vaij-;ntine 

Died  .\ag.  14  1 840 

.\ged  49  yrs  9  nios  20  day*: 

(14.) 

Charles  F.  Valeni  ine 

i:»ied  J.in.  26  1848 

Aged  2  yis  I  mo 

(13) 
Maikice  .S.  Valentinx 

Died  Oct.  10  1S49 
Aged  I  yr  I  mo  I  day 

(14) 

William  E.  Valentine 

Died  Oct.  24  1849 

/\ged  22  yrs  2  mos 

(IS.) 

Abacal  E.  Valentine 

Died  Oct.  26  1849 

Aged  15  yrs  3  mos 

(16.) 

Phebe  Jane  Valentine 

Died  Nov.  11  1849 

.\ged  24  yrs  5  mos  12  days 

(I7-) 
Catharine  A.  Valentine 

Died  Nov.  23  1859 
-Aged  iS  yrs  10  mos  15  days 

(18.) 
Beverly  Valentine 

Died  .Mar.  8,  1S54 
.Aged  14  mos  6  days 


The  Valcniincs  in  America. 


(19- 

Kkhiiekick  Valentine 

Died  M.ir.  S  1S54 

AgcJ  8S  yrs  5  mi)-.  12  days 

(20.) 

PiiEiiE  Valentine 

Died  Dec.  11  1S54 

Aged  63  yrs  9  mos  II  days 

(21.) 

Catherlne  a.  Valentine 

Died  Aug.  8  1861 

Aged  7  mos 


(22.) 

Etgent;  Valentine 

Died  Jan.  I  18C5 

Aged  45  yrs  4  mos 

(23-) 

William  F.  Valentine 
Died  Aug.  31  1S65 
Aged  15  yrs  II  mos 

(24.) 
AiGisTi's  A.  Valentine 

Died  Dec.  25,  1871 
.Aged  52  yrs  I  mo  12  days 


VALENTINES    HILL. 


"  Valentine's  Hill  (so  often  mentioned  in  these 
pages)  is,"  s.\vs  Bolton,  "a  liigli  ridge  bordering  the 
.^^ilc■  S(juare  on  the  west ;  and  its  summit  affords  one 
of  the  finest  views  in  Westchester  county.  To  the 
east  the  eye  ranges  over  an  extensive  country  of  hills, 
woods  and  vales  stretching  towards  Long  Island 
.Sound,  the  distant  horizon  skirted  by  light-blue  hills. 
To  the  north  lie  the  Tiickahoe  hills,  while  westward 
the  view  is  bounded  by  the  Yonkers  ridge  surmounted 
with  lot'ty  woods,  with  here  and  there  a  glimpse  of  the 
dark  Palisades  peeping  through  some  opening  of  the 
trees;  while  below  lies  a  beautiful  vale  through  which 
meanders  Tippet's  brook.  At  the  base  of  this  hill 
winds  the  Croton  Aqueduct." 

This  hill  and  the  .uijoining  property  have  been 
occupied  !))■  the  ancient  and  numerous  family  of  the 
X'alcntincs  for  nearly  one  hundred  and  fifty  years. 
Mathias  X'alcntine,  the  first  occupant  of  the  same,  was 
one  of  the  first  tenants  under  the  Pliilipse  patent,  and 
in  the  possession  of  the  family  are  numerous  receipts 
for  rent,  of  which  the  following  are  specimens: — 


J  III-  Nc'a.'   York   Valentines.  j\ 

"  Op  Niri'EKA  Uci  20  Mars  No.  1727. 
"ilcii  20  Mar^  hcfl  Theis  Valenlin  en  cyn  Moeilci  hiergebracht  13X 
I>)~Lh<.l  lurue  vor  de  huei  von  land  vdt  ye  Tahr  .\i  1726." 

f 

■•■SoNKKKS.  Januar)-  je  2S  day  1734-5. 
"Then    received  of    Mr.  MatihiA>e  Vallenline  7X  bushels  of  Rent 
wheat  on  behalf  of  Mr.  Philips^.     '  said  received  by  me. 

••  William  Peck." 


"At  the  commencement  of  the  Revolution,"  siys 
Hiilton,  "lliis  hill  was  rented  by  Thomas  and  Gilbert 
Valentine  (grandsons  of  Mathias),  who  occupied  it 
tlirough  the  war.  In  the  summer  of  1776,  tlie  Ameri- 
can army  threw  up  entrenchments  on  its  summit,  the 
rem.Tins  of  which  are  still  visible.  When  General 
Washington  lay  encamped  on  Valentine's  Hill  in  the 
fall  of  1776,  it  was  supposed  to  be  the  design  of  the 
enemy  to  attack  his  position.  On  this  occasion, 
T!i()m.''.s  \'alentine  was  engaged  in  crnversation  with 
the  Gc.ieni'i  (as  represented  in  the  view  of  the  old 
"  X'alentine  House"),  leaning  upon  the  pommel  of  his 
saddle,  when  the  heads  of  the  British  columns  were 
seen  approaching  at  a  distance  of  three  or  four  miles, 
on  the  opposite  side  of  the  Bronx,  as  if  taking  the 
direction  of  the  hill.  Under  this  supposition,  V>'ash- 
ington  order-.-d  out  several  companies  to  attack  the 
thinking  parties  of  the  enemy,  who,  it  was  discovered, 
were  taking  the  high  road  to  White  Plains.  It  was 
afterwards  asserted  by  a  British  officer  that,  through 
the  aid  of  their  glasses,  he  had  seen  Thomas  Valentine 
in  this  conversation  with  the  General." 

This  old  "Valentine  House,"  which  sto(jd  northwest 
(jf  the  present  residence,  was  used  for  some  time  by 
General    Washington    as   his   headquarters.      It    was 


72  riii    I'll  h  lit  nil  J   111     hii.r/ctt. 

destroyed  by  fire  many  years  ago,  but  the  spot  is  yet 
plainly  to  be  seen. 

From  the  following  'ettcr,  yet  in  the  possession  of 
the  family,  it  would  appear  that  Thomas  Valentine- 
aided  somewiiat  in  the  advance  of  Washington's  army 
toward  White  Plains: — 

"Valentine's  Hill,  Jan.  27,  1777. 
"These  may  tcrlify,  that  on  or  aboul  the  25th  day  of  Oct.  la^t,  I 
ordered  Thoma>  Valcrline's  one  yoke  of  oxen  and  cart  to  be  taken 
for  the  public  ser\  ice.  They  carried  a  load  to  ye  White  Plains.  There 
I  discharged  them.  I  am  informed  they  were  further  taken  on  their 
return,  ar.o  that  NTr. \'alen'ine  has  not  received  them. 

"  B.  Lincoln." 

During  the  absence  of  the  arntics,  Valentine's  Hill 
was  much  exposed  to  the  depredations  of  .gangs  of 
outlaws  called  Cowbf)ys  and  Skinners,  who  "^oamed 
the  coiintr)'  in  search  of  plunder.  On  one  occasion,  a 
party  of  the  former  forced  an  entrance  into  the  Valen- 
tine House.  Seizing  the  proprietor,  Thomas  Valen- 
tine, they  demanded  his  life  or  money;  whereupon, 
uri  his  refusing,  they  threatened  to  h.ing  hiin  instantly. 
Getting  no  satisi.iciion,  the}-  carried  him  to  a  cherry- 
tree,  still  standing  near  the  corner  of  the  old  garden, 
and  jilaced  the  cord  around  his  neck,  when  he  sud- 
denly threw  it  off,  exclaiming,  "  Don't  be  such  u d 

fools  as  to  hang  a  man  when  he  !iasn't  an\  money!" 
His  coolness  and  ajiparent  sincerity  disarncti  the  r<;b- 
bers,  and  they  released  him. 

One  or  two  instances  of  heroic  courage,  says 
Bolton,  "in  a  fen. ale  of  this  fainilj-  (Susan  Valentine, 
afterwards  Mrs.  V'rcdenburgh,  and  yet  living  in  1S47, 
aged  9j),  are  deserving  of  re<  ord.  When  a  young 
wom.in,  she  prevented  a  companv  of  thoe  inarauderi- 
froin   entering  the   house  by  threatening  them,  single 


MAI'    OK    VAI.KNIINES    HILL    ANL>    ADJACENT    COUNTRY. 
KKOM    LOSSING'S   FIELD   BOOK   OF   REVOLUTION. 


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The  New   York  Valentines. 


73 


haiified,  tliat  she  would  split,  with  a  large  ovcn-sliovel 
she  held,  the  head  of  the  first  man  that  dared  to  cross 
the  threshold.  Her  courage  and  determination  alone 
saved  the  house  from  plunder. 

On  another  occasion,  an  intimate  friend  of  hers  was 
going  a  long  journey  into  the  interior,  and  desired  to 
leave  his  money  (tliirty  pounds  in  gold  and  silver,) 
with  her  for  safe-keeping.  For  greater  security  she 
concealed  the  money  in  her  dress,  designing  to  keep  it 
until  the  owner's  return;  but  that  same  evening  « 
party  of  Skinners  forced  their  way  into  her  bed-room, 
and  demanded  the  money.  She  cither  denied  possess- 
ing it,  or  refused  to  deliver  it,  and,  upon  their  becoming 
violent,  she  called  her  brother.  During  the  scuffle 
that  followed  her  brother's  entrance,  she  contrived  to 
crawl  away,  hoping  to  c»  ape  unobserved,  but  in  this 
she  was  disappointed.  In  this  second  assault,  the 
money  fell  on  the  floor,  or,  as  she  described  it,  "  it 
was  fairly  shaken  out  of  her."  Of  course  the  free- 
booters seized  and  made  off  with  it,  delighted  at  their 
success. 

Thus  much,  mainly  on  the  authority  of  Bolton; 
and  now  let  us  hear  from  Lossinc.  In  his  "  Field- 
Book  of  the  Revolution,"  that  author  says  :  "  Valen- 
tine's Hill,  rising  on  the  west  side  of  the  beautiful  vale 
of  Mile  Square  (a  favorite  ground  for  all  parties 
during  the  war),  affords  some  of  the  most  charming 
prospects  in  Westchester.  It  is  upon  the  road  leading 
from  Vonkers  to  the  Hunt's  Bridge  Station  (now 
West  Mount  Vernon),  on  the  Harlem  Railway.  From 
its  summit  the  rough  hills  .'.nd  cultivated  valleys  ot 
that  region  are  spread  out  like  a  panorama,  and  the 
eye  catches  glimpses  of  the  Palisades  on  the  Hudson, 
and  the  more  distant  varieties  of  feature  displayed  by 
Long  Island  Sound  and  the  villages  upon  its  borders. 


74  The  I'nliiitiiiiS  in  Aiiu-ricn. 

Suutiiwaid,  stretcliing  aw.iy  toward  King's  Bridge, 
is  tlie  beautiful  vale  sparkling  with  Tippett's  Book, 
famous  in  ilic  annals  of  West  Chester  for  deeds  of 
valor  in  |)arli/.an  warfare.  When  I  visited  this  region 
in  1.S50,  MibS  Elizabctli  \'alentine,*  aged  eighty-three, 
was  yt  li\ing  there  with  the  present  owner  of  the 
farm,  Elijah  Valentine.  She  well  remembers  being 
caressed  bv  Washington,  and  afterwards  frightened  by 
the  fierce-looking  Highlanders  and  Hessians. 

"On  the  summit  of  this  hill  intrenchnients  were 
cast  up  in  the  summer  of  1  776,  and  here  Washington 
was  encamped  a  few  days  before  the  battle  of  While 
Plains.  Here  Sir  William  Erskine  was  encamped  with 
a  detachment  of  British  troops  in  January,  177S;  and 
in  the  autumn,  a  few  weeks  before  he  sailed  to  attack 
Savannah,  Sir  Archibald  Campbell  was  liere  with  tlic 
Seventy-first  Regiment  of  Highlanders.  During  the 
whole  war  Colonel  James  Delancey  kept  recruiting 
officer-,  at  .Nlile  Scjuare;  and  in  this  vicinity  Simcoe, 
with  the  Queen's  Uangers,  often  traversed,  and  some- 
times penetrated  to  the  Croton  River.  Heath  says 
tliat  on  the  i^tli  of  Se|)tcml)er,  i  7.S2,  foragers,  with  a 
covering  part)'  (Ive  or  six  thousand  strong,  accompa- 
nied by  Sir  Guy  Carleton  and  the  young  Prince, 
William  Henry,  m.ule  an  incursion  as  far  as  Valen- 
tine's Hill.  After  this,  the  vicinily  was  abandoned  by 
the  military,  and  then  the  lawless  marauders  harassed 
the  pcvple.  PriiKc  C/iar/rs's  /iV</i'//,'V  tiiuf  X(;^ro  Fort 
were  on  the  east  side  of  this  hill." 

I  have  dwelt  thus  much  on  the  incidents  connected 
with  this  region  because,  if  not  classic,  it  is  at  least 
historic  ground,  and  because  it  is,  and  must  always 
remain,  the  Mecca  of  the  New  York  branch  of  the  Val- 

*  She  ilicd  in  1854,  .lyol  cijjhly-ciijlil. 


The  Mew    York  VaUntints. 


75 


entines.  From  this  point,  besides  those  yet  residing 
there  and  in  the  immediate  vicinity,  thousands  bearing 
the  name  have  gone  out,  not  only  through  the  county, 
"  and  the  region  round  about,"  but,  with  the  enterprise 
of  the  race,  have  gone  to  the  neighboring  and  more 
distant  cities,  and  in  some  cases  to  distant  parts  of  our 
country.  From  all  I  have  read,  seen  and  known  of 
this  branch,  I  should  say  they  are  noted  for  their  cour- 
age and  tenacity  of  purpose,  and  their  stalwart  size, 
strength  and  longevity — elements  which  ought  to,  and 
generally  do,  secure  success  in  life.  In  the  metropolis, 
many  of  this  branch  and  their  descendants  are  found, 
and  they  are  almost  uniformly  enterprising  and  suc- 
ctssful  business  men,  and  not  a  few  have  been  able  to 
if-iireand  enjoy  their  otium  cum  dignitate,  with  fortunes 
ol  their  own  gathering. 


76 


Tlif  I'li/iiiliiiis  in  Atnerica. 


CHAPTER     VIII 


THE    WESTLHESTER    COUNTY    VALENTINES. 


[ConlrihiUj  by  WHHjiii   C.  VnUnline.  Esq.,  Brooklyn,  N.  )'.] 

THE  Westchester  County  Valentines  are  de- 
scendants from  Benjamin  Valentine,  a  native 
of  Holland,  who,  after  serving  in  the  Fiench 
army  in  Canada,  settled  near  the  town  of  Yonkcrs  in 
1679,  near  "Valentine's  Hill,"  a  high  ridge  bordering 
what  was  known  as  the  "Mile  Square."  Its  summit 
affords  one  of  the  finest  views  in  Westchester  county, 
and  belonged  to  the  Manorial  grant  of  lands  to  the 
Philipse  family,  from  whom  it  was  for  a  period  o*"  years 
leased  by  Mathias,  son  of  Benjamin  Valentine,  and 
finally  purchased  (two  hundred  and  thirty-eight  acres) 
by  Thomas  Valentine,  grandson  of  Benjamin,  upon 
the  confiscation  of  the  Manorial  grant  to  the  Philipses 
(in  consequence  of  the  violation  of  the  militarj*  parole 
given  by  Colonel  Frederick  Philipse,  in  not  returning 
to  Yonkers),  and  sold  and  convejed  by  the  Commis- 
sioners of  Forfeitures  appointed  in  pursuance  of  an 
Act  of  the  Legislature  of  the  State,  passed  May  12th, 
1781.  Benjamin  X'alentine  married  a  Miss  Odell,  and 
left  three  sons,  Mathias,  Nicholas  and  Joseph.  Ma- 
thias resided  during  his  life  upon  the  lands  leased  by 
liimself,  and  afterwards  by  his  sons,  and  was  married 
to  Anna  Ryclie,  a  daughter  of  Balthassar  Ryche,  son 
of  the  L'lrich  of  Fhiack,of  the  county  of  Kyburgh,  in 
Germany.     An  old  document,  written  in  German,  of 


The  Wcstclicsicr  County  Vahiitincs. 


77 


which  the  tolhjwing  is  the  translation,  is  in  possession 
of  the  family,  relatinij  to  the  Rychcs,  and  indicates 
the  hii^li  estimation  placed  upon  moral  character  and 
legitimate  birth  by  the  early  Dutch  emigrants: — 

"I,  Jolmnn  Conraitt  I Iciilt-gijcr,  ScnV,  of  the  C<)q>(>mli<m  for 
Ciuilil,  anil  by  the  Council  of  tlie  honorable  city  of  Zurich,  duly 
a|>|ii>inlL'il  Sheriff  of  thi'  county  of  Kyhurjjh,  certify  ami  make  known, 
that  on  the  date  incnlioneil  below,  the  bearer  of  this,  Haltha'.sar 
Kyche,  son  of  the  late  Ulrich  cf  Flaacl<,situateil  in  my  juri^iliction. 
appeared  before  me,  stating,  that  whereas  having  been  many  years  and 
days  absent  from  this  countr)-,  and  in  eonsc'jnence  of  a  purchase  made 
by  him,  intending  to  reside  in  future  with  his  wife  ami  children  at 
Sandhu^^en.  in  the  electoral  palatinate,  as  his  permanent  residence,  he 
therefire  humbly  requestetl  an  authentic  certificate  showing  his  honest 
birth,  pedigree  and  name,  and  likewise  that  be  leaves  this  country 
with  a  go<»d  name  and  character,  in  order  that  he  may  pr<»duce  such 
testimony  when  and  where  it  might  be  requisite. 

"Wherefore,  I,  having  heard  the  said  Kyche's  petition,  conceive  it 
to  be  no  more  than  right  and  just  to  grant  him  his  request,  after 
hn\ing  made  diligent  inquiries  respecting  his  character,  and  also  ob- 
tained from  the  regularly  oidained  minister  here  a  written  acknowl 
eilgment  that  his  parents  were  lawfully  married,  and  he  thus  legiti- 
mately conceived  and  born,  and  subsequently  baptized  in  a  Chris- 
tianlike manner,  on  the  first  day  of  June,  ifi62,  in  the  presonLt  of 
sponsors, 

"  It  also  ap|>cars,  from  his  infancy  and  during  the  time  he  resided 
her.,',  he  conducted  hini^^clf  ujirightly  ami  without  reproach;  and  that, 
when  he  left  this  place,  he  carried  with  him  an  honest  reputation.  In 
te-linitmy  whereof,  and  in  (.i-rapliance  with  his  humble  and  dutiful 
request,  I  have  caused  this  \\Titten  certificate  to  l>e  prepared  for  the 
said  Ryche,  and  have  i.t  i>ed  the  seal  of  office  to  l>e  affixed  thereto. 
Done  and  pas^ed  on  the  lOlh  day  of  January,  l6<^9,  counting  from  the 
birth  of  Christ,  our  Savfour.     (.Signed) 

■•  The  County  Clerk  (Scl.iegk)  at  Kyburgh." 


From  the  marri.ige  of  Mathias  Valentine,  the  eldest 
son  of  Benjamin,  wiili  Anna  Ryche,  daughter  of  Bal- 
thassar   Ryche,   five  sons  were    the    issue — Abraha.m, 


78 


The  l'(i/i  iitiiiii  ill  .h/hrirti. 


John,  Mathias,  Samuel  and  Thomas.  Tlie  Inst  named, 
Thomas,  was  married  to  Isabel  Laurence,  and  became 
proprietor,  by  purchase,  of  the  lands  formerly  leased 
by  his  father  from  the  Philipses,  an-l  whicli  have  been 
owned  by  his  descendants  in  many  successive  genera- 
tions to  the  jircscnt  day. 

During  the  Revolutionary  War,  the  Valentines 
evinced  an  active  sympathy  for  the  Patri(jt  cause,  and 
contributed  their  means  and  personal  services  in  tlic 
furtherance  of  American  independcni  e.  Their  resi- 
dence on  Valentine's  Hill  was  accepted  and  occupied 
as  the  headquarters  of  General  Washington  iluring 
the  military  operations,  resulting  in  llie  evacuation  of 
the  city  of  New  York  b)-  the  British  forces. 

Nicholas  Valentine,  the  second  son  of  Benjamin, 
settled  in  New  Jersey,  and  his  posterity  are  numerous 
in  that  State.  Joseph  Valentine,  the  youngest  son  of 
Benjamin,  removed  to  East  Chester,  and  left  one  son, 
Caleb,  who  left  two  sons,  Caleb  and  Anthony.  An- 
thony married  a  Miss  Farringdon,  and  left  four  sons, 
James  Anthonj",  Jurdan  and  Daniel.  The  youngest 
son,  Daniel,  married  Miriam  Fisher,  a  great-grand- 
daughter of  Isaac  Lawrence,  the  progenitor  of  the 
East  Chester  branch  of  tlie  Lawrences.  This  Isaac 
Lawrence  removed  from  Newtown,  Long  Island,  to 
East  Chester  in  16S9.  llis  fither,  Thomas  Lawrence, 
was  <me  of  the  Patentees  of  Newtown  in  i'666,  and 
propriet(jr  of  Ilell-G.ite  Neck,  and  was  Major  in  Gov- 
ernor Leislcr's  forces,  i6yo.  His  uncle,  John  Law- 
rence, emigrated  ivith  his  father  from  England  to  the 
Colony  of  New  Amsterdam  in  161 1,  and  was  one  of 
te  first  Patentees  <if  North  Hempstead,  Long  Island, 
in  1644.  lie  was  a  Deinity  to  Hartford  from  Gov- 
ernor Siuyvesant  in  1663;  was  Mayor  of  New  York, 
Judge   of    the   Sii]>eiior  Court,  and   was  a  member  of 


The    Wcstclustcr  County   Vn/iiiliii,s. 


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tlie   Governor's    Council   .Tt   the   lime  of  his  death   in 
1699. 

Miriam  Fislier  Valentine,  wife  of  Daniel  Valentine, 
lived  to  an  advanced  age,  and  died  in  the  city  of  New 
York  in  the  year  1S61.  The  C<jninion  Council  of  New- 
York  passed  the  following  resolutions  in  reference  to 
her  decease : — 


"  Al  a  !.Iated  Ne->ion  of  the  B'larJ  of  AMcrnicn  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  held  January  2S.  lS6l,  Aldtrman  F.  I.  A.  lioole  presenled  the 
fullowinsj  ]>ri.amljlt  and  resolutions: 

•'  Whereas,  this  Board  has  learned,  with  jirofound  regret,  of  the 
decease  of  MiKi.wi,  widow  of  Hanicl  Valentine,  and  mother  of  our 
mo't  esictincd  and  ■cneralile  Clerk,  David  T.  Valentine,  which  oc- 
curred at  her  residence  in  this  cit  '  on  Kriilay  evening  last,  the  25lh 
ir.slant,  al  the  aJ-.'anccd  age  of  eighty  years: 

"And  whereas,  the  aliscncc  of  our  vencraldc  Clerk  from  the  meet- 
ing of  this  Hoard  this  evening  is  occasioned  by  his  lieing  engaged  in 
paying  the  last  tribute  of  respect  to  the  remains  of  his  deceased 
parent,  in  East  Chester,  Westchester  county  :   Be  it,  therefore, 

"  Kesohed,  That  this  Board,  deeply  sympjlhijing  with  the  afflicted 
relatives  of  the  deceased,  particularly  her  descendants,  and  especially 
so  with  our  rcsj>ected  Clerk,  her  son,  David  T.  Valentine,  do  hereby 
tender  to  him  and  tiicm  our  condolence  in  their  affliction,  reminding 
them  that  the  deceased  had  far  exceeded  the  allotted  time  for  sojourn- 
ing here  below,  and  that  her  advanced  age  and  unimpaired  faculties 
were  the  result  of  a  well-sj^nt  life,  and  should  tend  in  a  marked  de- 
gree to  assuage  the  grief  consequent  upon  being  forever  deprived  of 
the  companionship  of  one  so  universally  admired  for  her  good  quali- 
ties of  head  and  heart. 

"  Reu'lveJ.  That  this  Board,  out  of  consideration  for  the  memory  of 
the  decea-ed,  do  now  adjourn.  Francis   J.  TwuMty, 

••  Defuly  CUrkr 


The  issue  of  Daniel  and  Miriam  Fisher  Valentine 
were  four  sons  and  four  daughters — Fisher  Ferris, 
David  Thomas,  Jurdan  Edwin,  Daniel,  Evaline,  Eliza- 
beth, Amelia  and   Emma.     The  issue  from  each  gen- 


8o 


Till-  I  'a/iitliiics  in  A  titer  ica. 


cr;i:ion  iii  the  \'alciitincs  being  large,  tliey  are  to  be 
foiiiui  in  almost  c\CTy  U>\\n  witliin  tlie  cdiinty  of 
Westchester,  and  adjoining  counties,  and  are  more  or 
lessronneeted  h)-  marriage  with  all  of  the  families 
hxated  within  the  count)-  i)rior  and  subsequent  to  the 
War  of  the  Revolution.  In  the  formation  of  all  the 
different  townships  throughout  the  county,  as  well  as 
in  the  establishment  of  churches  and  schools,  their 
names  appear  as  active  jiarticipants  in  the  ])rogress 
and  advancement  of  the  interests  of  the  section  in 
which  they  were  residents.  Many  of  their  names  ap- 
pear in  the  professions,  but  the  greater  number  are 
found  engaged  in  agricultural,  manufacturing  or  com- 
mercial pursuits. 


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8l 


CHAPTER     IX. 


THE    NEW    YORK    VALENTINES — CONTINUED. 


HON.  DAVID  THOMAS  VALENTINE,  the 
second  son  of  Daniel  and  Miriam  Fisher  Val- 
entine, was  born  in  the  town  of  East  Chester 
in  the  year  iSoi,  and  there  resided  until  his  education 
at  the  town  academy  was  completed.  After  the  close 
of  the  w.ir  with  Great  Britain  (1812-1815),  he  came  to 
New  York  city,  and  entered  as  a  clerk  in  a  mercantile 
house,  witli  whom  he  continued  for  several  years.  The 
stirring  events  of  the  war  gave  rise  to  military  desires, 
and  he  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier  in  the  old  Twenty- 
seventli  Regiment,  National  Guard,  now  known  as  the 
Seventh  Regiment;  passed  through  all  the  subordi- 
nate gradations  of  rank,  and  was  finally  elected  Cap- 
tain of  his  Company;  which  position  he  filled  for  a 
considerable  period  of  lime,  resigning  in  1826,  and 
declining  the  position  of  Major  of  the  Regiment, 
which  was  tendered  him.  The  high  appreciatioii  ot 
his  command  for  him  as  a  soldier  and  officer  was  man- 
ifested by  their  presentation  to  him  of  a  magnificent 
sword,  the  duplicate  of  the  one  presented  by  the  city 
to  General  Lafayette  on  his  visit  to  this  country ;  and, 
upon  the  occasion  of  his  resignation,  of  a  massive 
silver  pitcher  duly  inscribed. 

The  seven  )-ears  of  militar)-  service  performed  by 
him  had  given  rise  to  a  distaste  for  commercial  life, 
and  his  connection  with  the  militia  had  brought  hiin 
into  contact  with  manj-  of  the  prominent  persons  in 
political  power  at  that  time,  .\mong  these  were  the 
1 1 


The  Vahnlinrs  in  America. 


Honorable   Recorder,  Richard    Riker,  the  late  Judge 
James  R.   Whiting,  and   the    Honorable   William   S. 
Coe,  member  of  Congress,  with  all   of  whom   he  en- 
jojed  the  most  intimate   relations  during  his  whole 
life;  and  it  was  chiefly  by  their  influence  that  in  1826 
he  obtained  the  position  as  Clerk  to  the  Marine  Court ; 
which  office  he  retained   until   the  )-ear  1830,  when  a 
considerable  revolution  occurred   in  the  city  govern- 
ment.    It  was   at    this    time    that    he  was   appointed 
Deputy  to  Major  General  Jacob  Morton,  who  was  at 
that  time,  and  had  been  for  fifteen  years  previousl)-. 
Clerk  of  the  Common  Council.    During  the  period  of 
his  service  as   Deputy  Clerk,  and   up  to  the  time  of 
General    Morton's  death    in    1836,  the   duties   of  the 
office  were  almost  entirely  performed  by  the  Deputy, 
as  General   Morton's  health  had   been  for  some  years 
so  feeble  as  to  preclude  him  from  any  active  exertions. 
Though  the  official  work  bore  at  that  time  but  an  insig- 
nificant proportion  to  what  now  falls  to  this  depart- 
ment, it  was  then  quite  enough  to  tax  the  energies  of 
any  one  individual.     He  continued,  by  the  advice  of 
friends,  to  serve  as  Deputy,  although  he  performed  all 
the  work   required  of   the  Chief  of   the  Department 
until  the  year  1842,  when  he  declined  longer  ser\-ice  in 
that  capacity.     His  long  service,  experience  and  well- 
tried  talents  secured  him,  however,  upon  the  nomina- 
tion of  his  friend,  the  late  Ex-Judge  James  R.AVhiting, 
a  unanimous  appointment  as  Clerk  of  the  Common 
Council,  and   Chief  of  the    Legislative  Department, 
the  representatives  in  the  Board  of  the  different  po- 
litical   parties  all   uniting  in  voting  for  his  appoint- 
ment ;  and  the  same  unprecedented  course  of  the  rep- 
res'^-iiiatives  of  the  different  political   parties  occurred 
in  voting;  his  unanimous   re-appointment  from  year  to 
year  until  1868. 


The  Nc'll<   York  Valctitincs. 


83 


Besides  receiving  numerous  testimonials  of  plate, 
presented  by  retiring  members  of  the  Common  Coun- 
cil of  various  years,  as  mementoes  of  their  respect  for 
his  high  character  and  services,  the  Common  Council 
of  the  year  1851  voted  an  appropriation  of  five  hun- 
dred dollars  for  the  procurement  of  his  portrait; 
which  was  executed  bj-  Jarvis,  and  now  hangs  in  the 
Governor's  room  of  the  Citj-  Ilall — this  action  of  the 
Council  being  a  compliment  never  before  extended  to 
any  public  officer,  excepting  the  Chief  Magistrate  of 
the  City  and  the  Governor  of  the  State. 

From  the  time  of  his  appointment  as  Clerk  of  the 
Common  Council  may  be  dated  that  career  of  erudite 
capability  for  which  he  has  been  so  many  years  con- 
spicuous. The  Compilation  of  the  Laws  of  the  State 
of  New  York,  relating  particularly  to  the  City  of  New 
York,  published  in  1862;  the  Revision  of  City  Ordi- 
nances in  1859  and  1862,  prepared  by  order  of  the 
Common  Council — all  attest  his  accuracy  and  research, 
and  merit  the  encomiums  bestowed  upon  his  labor  by 
the  press  and  judiciary.  But  the  work  by  which  he 
was  best  known,  and  with  which  his  popular  fame  is 
most  associated,  is  the  "  Manual  of  tlie  Corporation  of 
the  City  of  New  York,"  including  twent)'-five  annual 
volumes,  commencing  in  1841-2.  This  work  proves 
alike  his  industri",  his  literary  talent,  and  his  love  for 
the  antiquarian  history  of  his  citj*  To  all  who  feel 
an  interest  in  the  early  history  of  New  York;  in  its 
first  attempts  to  become  a  city  of  the  first  rank  ;  in  its 
progress  during  the  first  three  decades  of  the  century ;  in 
its  increasing  and  almost  magical  devclo|»inent  of  later 
years — these  Manuals  are  a  mine  i>i  wealth  Enriched 
as  it  is  with  capital  views  of  every  jioint  of  historic 
nclL,  and  containing  maps 'if  old  family  estates,  dating 
back  to  the  remotest  settlement  of  .Nlanhattan   Island, 


84 


The  Valentines  in  America. 


these  scries  will  rciii.iiii  an  eiulurinsa;  iiioiKiiiient  of  his 
incomparable  zeal,  iudiistry  and  judgment.  It  was 
his  great  love  for  the  compilation  of  these  Manuals 
that  operated  upon  his  mind  in  declining  the  nomina- 
tion to  tlie  Chief  Magistracy  of  the  City  of  New  York, 
often  urged  upon  his  acceptance  by  warm  and  power- 
ful friends,  as  it  would  have  precluded  him  from  grati- 
fying his  love  for  antitpiarian  lore  in  this  field,  which 
to  him  was  a  labor  of  love,  in  rescuing  from  oblivion 
much  of  the  Ancient  History  of  New  York.  He  also 
prepared  and  published  the  Documentary  Histor)-  of 
tiie  City  of  New  York,  one  volume;  and  had  his  life 
been  spared  but  a  short  time  longer,  the.second  volume 
-vould  have  been  given  to  the  public. 

The  great  length  of  time  (thirt3--seven  years,)  that 
he  had  held  his  official  position  irr  the  Legislative  De- 
partment of  the  city,  had  familiarized  him  with  the 
details  of  the  various  charter  rerpiirements  and  legis- 
lative enactments;  and  his  judgment  was  often  sought 
and  invariably  respected,  in  many  a  complicated  and 
disputed  question,  by  distinguished  men  of  all  political 
parties,  with  many  of  whom,  and  more  particularly 
in  the  earlier  days  of  the  cit)-  government,  he  was  on 
terms  of  the  warmest  friendship.  The  community  at 
large  were  never  more  shocked  than  by  his  super- 
sedure  in  office  on  the  ist  January,  iS68;  and  the 
press,  without  a  single  exception,  united  in  condemn- 
ing the  act  as  a  public  misfortune. 

He  was  married  by  Rev.  Dr.  AVilHams  to  Martha 
Carnell,  youngest  daughter  of  Captain  William  Car- 
nell,  an  officer  in  the  Ii!nglish  n.ival  service,  June  24, 
iS^i.and  by  this  union  left  issue  surviving  him,  of 
three  sons  and  two  daughters,  viz:  David  T.,  William 
Carnell,  Gustavus  .\.,  Martha  A.  and  Amanda  A. 
This   wife,  the  mother  of   his  children,  died,  and   in 


lite  Xc%i.<   York   Valentines.  85 

1856  he  was  married  to  Caroline  M.  Spicer  by  Rev. 
Edward  Laliirop.  By  tiiis  second  marriage  tiiere  was 
no  issue. 

Miss  Emma  Valentine,  sister  of  llavid  T.,  married 
Dr.  Parkinson,  tlic  presiding  Pliysician  at  the  Dis- 
pensary, the  son  of  Rer.  Dr.  Parkinson,  a  noted  Hap- 
tist  clergyman  of  New  Vork.  Miss  Amelia  V'alentine, 
another  sister  of  D.ivid  T.,  married  Tlioinas  P.  Wilson, 
merchant,  of  New  Vork  city,  now  deceased.  I?oih  the 
widowed  sisters  now  reside  together,  at  Fordham,  de- . 
voting  their  tiine  to  wortliy  objects  of  benevolence. 
The  youngest, and  only  surviving  brother  of  David  T., 
is  Daniel  X'alentine,  a  retired  merch.int,  who  has  re- 
sided in,  and  been  for  many  years  coniiecte  I  with,  the 
interests  .jf  the  town  of  Fordham,  Wcstcliester  count)-, 
now  the  ?4th  Ward  of  New  Vork  <ity,  by  recent  an- 
nexati  i  and  his  name  was  recently  |)resented  to  the 
Mayor  ^i  New  Vork  city  by  his  luwnsmeii  as  one  of 
the  School  Trustees  of  the  Ward. 

It  can  justlv  be  said  of  David  T.  X'alentine,  tliat  no 
man  ever  left  a  more  pure  and  spotless  reputation. 
His  love  for  truth,  and  his  integrity,  was  not  only 
evinced  in  a  long  and  honi>ral>le////'//V  career,  but  tlicy 
fairly  shone  forth  in  his  beaming  countenance.  No 
man  ever  thought  of  approaching  him  with  a"  ques- 
tionable proposal,  and  none  \ere  ever  found  to  breathe 
a  suspicion  on  any  public  or  private  action.  His 
whole  life  was  a  noble  record  and  example  to  the 
community;  and,  while  bearing  this  testimony  of  his 
career  as  a  public  officer,  it  falls  short  of  expressing 
fully  his  character.  The  eminent  piety  that  adorned 
his  whole  life  is,  in  a  religious  aspect,  the  most  charm- 
ing feature  of  his  character,  and  is  eloquently  set  forth 
by  his  pastor.  Dr.  Kendrick,  at  his  funeral  before  one 
of    the  largest  congregations   ever   assembled,  which 


86  The  Valentines  in  Ameriea. 

was  held  in  the  Baptist  Tabernacle  Church,  on 
Secund-uvcnue,  of  wiiich  church  lie  had  long  been  a 
Deacon. 

The  writer  of  this  brief  and  imperfect  sketch  feels 
that  it  is  due  alike  to  the  subject  as  well  as  to  the  dis- 
tinguished preacher,  to  give  the  following 

Synopsis  oj  Dr.  KendHck's  Sermon. 

"  There  were,  he  doubted  noi,  some  passages  in  the  Bible  indicative 
of  the  live*;  of  each  of  God's  children  ;  and,  with  regard  to  this  particular 
Chri>tinn  soul,  who  had  been  called  hence,  and  who-.e  demise  they 
row  so  deeply  regretted,  he  thought  the  Scrijilures  might  supply  a 
word  that  would  empha>i2e  their  ideas.  In  the  36th  verse  of  the  13th 
chapter  of  Acts  he  'ead  :  '  Aftt-r  he  had  scnrd  his  oum  generation  hy 
the  -i'ill  of  God,  he  fell  on  sleep.'  This  is  spoken  of  King  David; 
but  were  he  (the  preacher)  called  upon  to  write  the  epitaph  of  their 
decea^d  friend  and  brother  Christian,  he  knew  of  nothing  that  would 
more  -vtrikingly  indicate  the  life  of  Mr.  Valentine  than  the  senlence  he 
had  ju-t  read.  David's  life  showed  that  his  heart  was  in  the  business 
of  serving  God.  But  he  likewise  served  his  own  age  faithfully,  and 
in  serving  it  he  ser\ed  all  the  ages.  After  dwelling  on  this  point  at 
some  length,  and  showing  how  like  David's  in  this  respect  was  the  life 
of  the  decea^ed,  the  speaker  alluded  to  the  dignity  and  reward  of  a 
Useful  public  career.  Such  a  life  is  sublime  with  the  inspirations  of 
beauty.  To  serve  the  present  age  is  the  duty  of  ever)'  man,  each 
acting  in  his  own  allotted  sphere,  and  exercising  whatsoever  talent 
God  has  given  him.  The  true  man  must  inevitably  be  of  service  to 
his  fellows,  and  mu-^t  leave  hi^  impress  wide  and  deep  on  the  age  that 
comes  after  him.  Our  first  duty  is  to  serve  God,  but  we  cannot  dis- 
connect this  from  ihe  service  of  mankind  ;  they  go  together — piety 
and  u-efu!ness,  religion  and  philanthropy.  There  are.  it  is  true,  many 
men  of  warm  and  charitable  hearts,  practical  philanthropists  in  every 
scn.e,  who  are  without  religion.  He  would  say  nothing  to  dispraise 
them,  nor  to  lessen  their  charitable  impulses,  but  candor  compelled 
the  avowal  that  in  the  highest  and  best  sense  they  were  not  sening 
their  generation  according  to  the  will  of  God.  To  fulfill  this  require- 
ment, religion  must  be  intimately  connected  with  and  be  the  main- 
sjiring  of  all  our  actions.  It  became  the  public  officer  as  well  as  the 
citizen  in  private  station.     Although,  he  said,  he  could  not  fully  sub- 


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87 


scribe  to  the  tlocinne,  that  an  honest  man  is  the  noblest  work  of  God, 
he  confessed  thai  he  reverenced  that  quality  which  is  described  by 
the  strong  but  homely  word  "  integrity."  He  maintained  a  profound 
respect  for  honesty  in  public  life,  whether  it  be  found  at  Albany,  in 
Washington,  or  in  this  great  metropolis ;  but  noble  as  was  the  h<  nest 
man,  the  Christian  man  was  nobler  still.  Their  deceased  friend  came 
fully  up  to  this  requirement.  The  useful  Christian  life  is  sure  of  its 
reward.  There  is  nothing  more  true  than  the  old  aphorism,  '  Virtue 
is  its  own  reward/  There  is  a  positive  luxury-  in  doing  good,  and,  by 
the  force  of  our  example,  influencing  others  in  the  same  course.  It  is 
something  consoling  to  grow  old  in  the  consciousness  of  being  es- 
teemed by  a  whole  community.  For  such  a  man  as  this — for  the  aged 
Christian — dying  is  but  going  home,  and  departure  hence  is  simply  to 
enjoy  the  full  fruition  of  eternal  beatitude.  Such  a  life,  such  a  death, 
he  believed,  was  David  T.  Valentine's.  His  life  was  a  public  one. 
Few  names  in  our  great  city  were  better  known  than  his  ;  few  men 
were  more  respected.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school.  An- 
other of  the  old  landmarks  of  New  Vork  society  was  now  removed. 
His  thirty-seven  years  of  service  as  Clerk  of  the  Common  Council 
show  his  capacity  as  well  as  the  implicit  trust  reposed  in  him.  Not- 
withstanding the  mutations  of  party  politics,  he  was  always  retained 
in  office  ;  and  after  having  passed  through  so  many  years  of  ser\'ice, 
the  breath  of  suspicion  dares  not  t^day  asperse  the  character  he  has 
left  behind  him. 

"The  preacher  spoke  of  what  had  often  been  I'emarked  of  him — 
his  strong  rtsemblattcc  to  George  Washington — and  said  that  every  one 
would  remember  how  this  thought  occurred  to  their  minds  uhen  they 
first  saw  the  deceased.  Much  as  he  would  be  missed  in  civil  life,  how- 
ever, he  would  be  still  more  regietted  by  the  congregation  of  which 
he  was  so  devoied  and  pious  a  member.  He  was  prized  as  one  who 
had  served,  with  all  the  ardor  of  his  nature,  the  cause  of  Je-us Christ. 
At  fifteen  years  of  age  he  joined  the  B.aplist  denomination,  and  was 
baptized  in  the  old  Mulberr^-slreet  church  by  Rev.  Dr.  Maclay.  In 
1S42.  he  was  made  a  Deacon  of  the  Tabernacle  church, and  coniinued 
in  the  discharge  of  his  deaconate  duties  until  his  death.  He  was  in 
truth  a  devoied  Baptist  of  the  old  school. 

"  When,  in  1S6S,  he  left  the  public  office  he  had  held  so  long,  his 
mind  and  body  missed  their  accustomed  stimulus  and  general  debility 
ensued.  Throughout  all  his  illness,  however,  his  trust  was  in  his 
Saviour,  and  his  dcjiarture  hence  was  calm  and  pca«  eful.  Literally, 
*  he  fell  on  sleep,'  and  went  to  the  bo*om  of  his  Father  and  his   God. 


88  TJie  Valentines  in  America. 

The  old  and  faiihful  clerk  has  cca->ed  lo  write ;  the  hand  of  the  scrn>c 
has  forgot  its  cunning,  and  care?*  of  office  no  longer  vex  his  brain. 
Hut  he  has  gone  to  scrutinize  the  bookb  the  Recording  Angel  is  writing 
fur  us  all,  and  to  receive  the  reward  of  his  faith  and  unbounded  trust 
in  Jesus  Christ." 

[As  a  specimen  of  the  feeling  of  the  public  at  the 
removal  of  Mr.  Valentine,  the  author  of  this  work 
may  be  pardoned  for  giving;  the  following  extract  en- 
tire— taken  from  the  Brooklyn  Tiffirs  o\  Dec.  19,  1S67.] 

A    FIXTL'RE    REMOVKD. 

"  David  T.  Vnlenline,  Clerk  of  the  New  York  Bocrd  of  Aldermen 
uninterruptedly  since  1855,  is  at  last  to  be  turned  out  of  the  position 
which  he  has  held  so  many  years,  that,  under  the  legal  doctrine  of 
'adverse  pos'vession/  he  has  long  seemed  to  have  a  peculiar  and  Im- 
pregnable title  to  the  office.  They  must  be  a  cruel  set  of  people  who 
in  caucus  oa  Tuesday  night  resolved  lo  eject  the  old  man.  Every 
body  who  has  a  mental  habit  of  venerating  the  past  will  feel  a  twinge 
of  regret  al  hearing  that  the  old  man  is  not  to  be  allowed  to  '^pend 
the  brief  rennnant  of  his  life  in  the  office  he  has  so  long  occupied.  It 
affects  us  just  as  did  the  intcliigence  of  the  Missouri  Legislature 
electing  a  successor  to  Old  Bullion,  instead  of  allowing  the  name  of 
Thoma-.  H.  Benton  still  lo  remain  on  the  roll  of  the  United  Stales 
Senate,  where  it  had  stood  so  long  We  cannot  say  that  there  is  any 
wrong  done  in  either  case.  Of  course,  the  occupant  acquires  no  legal 
right,  nor  can  it  even  be  averred  thii  he  nlilains  a  moral  title  to  reten- 
tion in  an  office  by  reason  of  long  aiui  faithful  service.  It  would  be 
intoleratle  to  adopt  the  constant  rule  f»f  continuing  a  man  in  an  office 
simply  because  he  had  been  found  in  it.  Rotation  in  office  as  a  rule 
is.  on  ihe  whole,  infinitely  superior  to  fixity  of  tenure.  The  evils  of 
the  frequent  change — and  they  are  many — are  light  compared  with  the 
abuser,  which  would  result  from  immobility  in  office.  But  still,  to  all 
rules  there  are  exceptions  ;  and  it  does  ^eem  that  a  man  must  have  had 
peculiar  fitness  for  the  office  to  have  commended  himself  to  over  thirty 
successive  bodies  of  nominators,  so  that  each  year  he  was  continued 
in  his  post  as  if  by  acclamation.  New  light  seems  to  have  al  last 
dawned  upon  the  New  York  Aldermen;  as  in  Hgypl,  'a  new-  King 
arose,  v  ho  knew  not  Joseph.'  The  scr\ices  of  the  veteran  Clerk — 
his  long  experience,  hi?  incomnuinitable  (jualification  of  possessing  in 


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memory  the  key  to  the  past  history  of  the  corporation — all  have  not 
availed  to  save  him  from  the  fate  which,  sooner  or  later,  overtakes 
alike  the  most  able  and  useful  public  servant,  as,  Dy  way  of  compen- 
sation, it  also  involves  the  most  valueless  and  dishonest  official." 


"  Another  Valentine. — While  writing  of  David  T.  V^alentine,  the 
thought  strikes  us  that  we  owe  a  paragraph  to  another  Valentine, 
nearer  ht>me,  our  friend  Thomas  \V,,  the  talented  and  estimable  Prin- 
cijjal  of  Public  School  No.  19.  He  is  to  lecture  to-nigbl  at  the  rooms 
of  the  Library  Association,  South  Eighth-street,  and  we  need  not  as- 
sure our  readers  that  he  will  say  something  well  worth  listening  to. 
He  has  chosen  as  his  topic  'Bribery,' — a  practical  subject,  on  which 
people  can  be  amused,  instructed  and  improved  quite  as  much  as  by  a 
discourse  on  any  of  the  historical  subjects  or  generalities  which  are 
most  frequently  lectured  upon,  while  at  the  same  lime  good,  in  the 
sense  of  useful,  practical  reform,  may  be  promoted  by  the  ideas  which, 
un  such  a  topic  as  bribijr)',  may  be  evolved  from  a  shrewd  and  sensible 
mind  like  Mr.  Valentine's.  The  clergj-and  profes^-ional  lecturers  have 
almost  a  monopoly  of  the  rostrum.  Nov,  i'  is  said  to  be  possible 
to  choke  a  dog  with  pudding  ;  and  if  so,  may  it  not  be  equally  pos- 
sible for  the  lecture  committees  to  be  giving  the  jiublic  too  much 
preacher,  by  filling  their  courses  with  the  names  of  gentlemen  who 
are  constantly  ventilating  their  ideas  in  public?  Many  of  our  clergy- 
men are  vcr)' able  men  ;  and  the  practice  of  constantly  speaking  in 
public  makes  them  not  only  fluent,  but  quickens  and  sharpens  their 
mental  faculties,  so  that  they  perceive  a  good  deal  which  it  is  for  the 
public  benefit  to  learn,  and  they  know  how  to  tell  it  to  the  public  in 
aver)'  interesting  manner.  But  still,  no  vessel  will  hold  more  than  a 
certain  <iuantity,  and  when  we  come  to  be  perpetually  pouring  out  of 
it,  the  fluid  will  be  exhausted,  or  will  trickle  out  in  very  slow  drops. 
So  it  is  with  the  ideas  of  the  mini:*ters  and  oi  Jinary  lecturers.  They 
have,  no  doubt,  more  and  better  ideas  than  other  men,  and  are 
better  able  to  express  them;  but  they  are  finite.' and  the  drain  on 
them,  mentally  and  verbally,  is  immense.  It  is  well,  therefore,  to  vary 
a  lecture  course  by  inter>perbing  the  names  of  gentlemen  like  Mr. 
Valentine,  who,  w  ith  all  the  menial  cultivation  of  the  professional 
speakers,  is  exempt  from  the  mental  exhaustion  which  their  work  en- 
tails. He  may  bring  to  the  rostrum  the  first  fruits  of  months  of  silent 
study  and  reflection,  freshened  by  the  cheerful  medium  of  their  con- 
veyance, his  ow  n  merrj'  and  w  ilty  disposition.  There  is  no  resident 
of  the  district  who  is  better  able  to  prepare  a  discourse  which  shall  be 


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at  once  malli.rof  amusement  and  .suggc:!tive  of  valuable  thought,  than 
Mr.  \'alentinc;  and  we  expect  the  more  from  him  because  of  the 
rarity  of  the  demands  upon  his  powers  in  this  dircctioi). 


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CHAPTER     X. 

THE    MARYLAND    VALENTINES. 

THE  following  letter,  though  not  intended  for 
publication  in  its  present  form,  as  it  distinctly 
states,  is,  in  itself,  so  good  a  sketch  of  this 
branch,  that  the  editor  takes  the  liberty  of  giving  it 
entire,  and  just  as  it  was  received  from  its  distin- 
guished author,  the  Rev.  Milton  Valentine,  D.D., 
President  of  Pennsylvania  College,  at  Gettysburg, 
Pa.  If  all  the  editor's  circulars  and  letters  in  search 
of  d.ita  for  this  work  had  brought  equally  prompt, 
clear  and  well-digested  responses,  his  task  would  have 
been  a  comparatively  easy  and  agreeable  one: — 


"Gettysburg,  Pa.,  March  18,  1874. 
"  Prof.  T.  W.  Valentine: 
"Dear  Sir: 
"The  Valentine  Family,  the  genealogy  and  con- 
nections of  which  are  requested  in  your  circular  and 
letter   of    February   25,  seems   to   have    no  traceable 
relationship    to    any    of    the    three    distinct    families 
mentioned  as  first  settled  on   Long  Island,  in  Massa- 
chusetts, and  in  Westchester  county,  N.  Y.    Several  of 
the    points,  concerning  which    information    has    been 
specially  sought,  have  not  been  ascertained.    Possibly, 
if  more  time  were  taken,  and  search  made  among  old 
papers  in  some  branches  of  the  family,  in  the  records 
of   Frederick   county,   Maryland,  and  elsewhere,  the 
facts  in  reference  to  these  points  might  be  recovered. 


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But  to  make  tliis  search  would  delay  the  publication 
of  your  work.  The  information  still  wanting  concerns 
the  precise  linic  and  |)lare  of  tlie  original  settlement  of 
the  family  in  this  country,  and  the  particular  part  of 
Germany  from  which  it  came.  Perhaps  more  definite 
and  satisfactory  information  may  yet  be  obtained. 

"Througli  the  kindness  of  William  Valentine,  Esq., 
the  only  surviving  brotlier  of  the  writer's  father,  who 
has  examined  all  the  papers  and  other  sources  of  in- 
foiniation  within  Jiis  reach,  and  from- Mrs.  Jacob  Val- 
entine (the  writer's  mother),  the  following  may  be 
given  as  the  principal  facts  known  as  to  the  family 
genealogy  and  historj': — 

"i.  This  family  of  Valentines  has  its  origin  in  this 
country   from    George   Valentine,   who   came   from 
Go  many,  probably  from  the  Rliine  distinct,  some  time 
in  the  earh'  half  of  the  eighteenth  century-,  settling  at 
first  most  likely  in  the  State  of  New  York,  or  in  Dela- 
ware, or  Eastern  Pennsylvania,  but  removing  afterward, 
about  1740,  to  Frederick  c<juntj%  Md.,  and  settling  on 
ilie  Monocacy  river.     He  engaged  in  agriculture,  own- 
ing a  farm  of  from  four  to  five  hundred  acres  of  land. 
He  lived  here  on  his  farm  till  his  death,  in  1783,  and 
was  buried,  I   believe,  in  the  private  family  burying- 
ground.     Tliough  the  precise  date  of  his  immigration 
cannot  be  fixed,  circumstances  seem  to  connect  it  with 
the  time  of  the  bitter  sufferings  of  the  Protestatits  of 
(Germany,  in  connection  with  '  The  War  of  the  Spanish 
Succession.'     Circumstances  likewise  point  to  his  first 
settlement,  or  at  least  residence,  in  New  York,  Dela- 
ware, or    Eastern    Pennsylvania,  as  traditions  in  the 
family   represent   that    the   captains   of    the   emigrant 
sliips  were   required   to  report   their  immigrants,  and 
l/iesr  had  to^'^  fo  Philadelphia  to  take  the  oath  of  alle- 
giance.    Of  the  time  and  occasion  of  his  subsequent 


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settlement  in  Frederick  county,  Md.,  only  the  fact,  as 
above,  is  known.  This  '  first  parent '  of  this  family  of' 
Valentines  was  a  Lutheran.  Though  not  a  preacher, 
he  was  earnest  and  active,  and  held  meetings  on  Sab- 
bath-day, in  which  he  read  and  explained  the  Scrip- 
tures. These  meetings  were  held  in  private  houses,  as 
churches  had  not  yet  been  built  in  the  neighborhood. 
"Whetlier  or  not  George  Valentine  was  accompa- 
nied by  any  brothers  or  other  relatives  of  the  name, 
we  are  unable  to  ascertain. 

"2.  The  Family,  or  Children,  of  this  Mr.  George 
Valentine,  consisted  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters. 
The  names  of  the  sons  were  Jacob,  John,  Henry,  and 
George.  The  order  of  their  ages  !  am  unable  to  give. 
Jacob  and  John  spent  their  lives  at  the  family  home- 
stead. Henry  removed  to  the  State  of  Ohio.  George, 
unmarried,  died  in  Frederick  City.  The  three  daugh- 
ters were  married,  one  to  a  .^Ir.  Wagner,  one  to  a  Mr. 
Matthies,  and  the  other  to  a  Mr.  Ogle.  Two  of  these 
lived  in  Maryland,  and  one  in  McConnell's  Cove,  Pa. 

"  We  drop  out  of  view  now  all  the  branches  of  the 
family  but  that  of  Jacob  V'alentine,  the  first-men- 
tioned son  of  George  Valentine.  He  was  married  to 
Miss  Mary  Freese,  and  they  had  nine  children,  viz: — 

"The  oldest,  John  Valentine,  born  April  12,  17S0,  left 
Frederick  county,  removed  to  Ohio,  and  settled  near 
Ciicleville,  where  his  family,  I  believe,  have  mostly 
continued.  He  died  at  the  age  of  about  seventy-eight 
years. 

'■^George  Valentine,  born  April  28,  1782,  removed  to 
Fairfield  county,  Ohio,  where,  dying  at  an  old  age, 
seventy-seven  or  seventy-eight,  he  left  a  large  family. 

"Elizabeth  I'alenlinc,  born  April  22,  1785,  was  mar- 
ried to  Mr.   Philip  Zimmer,  and  lived  in  Ohio. 

"Sarah  Valentine,  born  June  22,  1788,  was  married  to 


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Mr.  Peter  Warri felts,  and  lived  and  died  in  Frederick 
county,  Md. 

"Jacob  Valentine,  born  January  7,  1793,  married  Re- 
becca Picking,  and  lived  and  died  in  Maryland — the 
latter  part  of  his  life  in  Carroll  county,  engaged  in 
agriculture.  He  died  in  1863.  He  had  a  family  of  six 
sons  and  three  daughters.  As  your  correspondent  is 
one  of  these  sons,  he  will  take  the  liberty  of  a  further 
statement  of  the  present  generation  of  this  family  of 
Valentines. 

'■^Catherine  Valev.tine,  born  January  7,  1793,  died  in 
her  twenty-second  year. 

"Samuel  Valentine,  born  March  3,  1796,  lived  as  a 
farmer  all  his  days  in  Frederick  county,  Md.  He  died 
at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years,  leaving  his  children 
in  tlie  neighborhood  in  which  the)' were  brought  up. 

"Henry  Valentine  and  Magdclene  Valentine  were  twins, 
born  December  14,  1798.  Henry  removed  to  Ohio  in 
1846,  and  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-five  years.  He  left  a 
family  there.  Magdelene  was  married  to  Mr.  Jacob 
Firor.  They,  too,  removed  to  Ohio  some  years  ago, 
but,  since  the  death  of  Mr.  Firor,  she  has  returned  to 
the  East,  and  now  lives  in  Virginia. 

"William  Valentine,  born  August  9,  1802,  remained 
on  the  old  family  homestead  for  a  long  while,  and  still 
lives  near  it,  giving  it  over  to  the  charge  of  one  of  his 
sons.  He  has  eight  children  living,  six  sons  and  two 
daughters,  all  married,  and  living  in  Carroll  and 
Frederick  counties.  This  uncle,  William,  and  Mrs. 
Fir6r,  are  the  only  children  of  my  grandfather  still 
living. 

"4.  The  above  statements  show  the  branching  out 
of  this  stock  of  Valentines,  from  the  original  settle- 
ment uptm  the  Monocacy  river,  Md.  It  is  unnecessary 
to  give  any  further  account  of  these  families  in  the 


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present  generation,  or  of  their  still  enlarging  num- 
bers. And  the  account,  were  it  attempted,  would  take 
too  much  time.  It  may  not  be  out  of  place,  however, 
to  state  briefly  a  few  things  in  reference  to  that  branch 
in  which  I  myself  stand.  My  father,  Jacob  Valen- 
tine, ilie  fifth  child  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Freese)  Val- 
entine, had  a  family  of  nine  children,  six  sons  and 
three  daughters,  all  of  whom  lived  to  adult  age,  and 
all  but  two  of  whom  still  live.  The  six  sons,  in  the 
order  of  tlieir  ages,  are  Levi,  Josiah,  Ezra,  William, 
Milton,  Thomas.  Thomas  was  married,  and  died  in 
Baltimore:  '"  '853.  He  left  no  children.  Levi  Valen- 
tine resides  in  Baltimore,  and  is  connected  with  the 
Government  Office  of  Steamboat  Inspection.  Ezra 
Valentine  also  resides  in  Baltimore,  carrj-ing  on  the 
business  of  milhvrighting.  Josiah  Valentine  is  a  farmer 
in  Frederick  county,  Md.  William  Valentine  also  re- 
sides in  Frederick  county.  Of  the  three  daughters  of 
my  father,  in  the  order  of  their  ages,  Ann  Bebccca, 
Afary  Ellen,  and  Lydia  Laviula,  the  last  died  in  1863. 
The  other  two,  married,  as  was  also  Lydia,,  are  living, 
the  one  in  Frederick  county,  and  the  other  in  Carroll 
county,  Md. 

"  As  to  my  own  history  since  entering  the  ministry  of 
the  Gospel,  in  the  Lutheran  Church,  in  1852,  I  need 
say  little.  This  ministry,  begun  in  Winchester,  Va., 
was  c(jntinued  in  Allegiian)-  City,  Pa.,  Greensburg, 
Pa.,  and,  subsequently,  Reading,  Pa.  From  this  place, 
in  1S66,  I  was  called  to  the  Chair  of  Ecclesiastical 
Historj",  &c.,  in  the  Theological  Seminary  of  the 
Lutheran  Cliurch,  at  Gettysburg,  Pa.  On  the  death 
of  Dr.  H.  L.  Bauglier  (1S6S),  President  of  Pennsyl- 
vania College,  I  accepted  the  call  to  the  presidency  of 
this  institution. 

"  I  do  not  suppose  that  much  of  the  detail  in  the  ac- 


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count  I  liiive  given  you  will  be  of  any  interest  to  you, 
or,  indeed,  of  mucii  account  to  you  in  writing  your 
buoic.  I  have,  however,  written  the  detailed  state- 
ments, botli  to  throw  tiie  facts  into  shape  for  my  own 
preservation,  and  to  furnish  )-ou  the  materials  out  of 
which  you  may — should  you  think  it  advisable  to  make 
any  notice  of  it  at  all — shape  such  notice  after  your 
own  ideas  or  plan.  I  wish  you  not  to  consider  my 
own  writing  as  for  the  press,  in  form  as  from  me. 
Any  additional  facts  which  you  may  desire  and  which 
are  within  my  reach,  I  shall  be  happy  to  furnish  to 
your  use.  "  Truly  yours, 

„  "  M.  Valentine." 

On  another  page  will  be  seen  a  good  view  of  the 
excellent  institution  of  which  Rev.  Dr.  Valentine  is 
the  honored  President ;  and  on  another  still,  a  likeness 
of  his  somewhat  pallid  but  intellectual  face  and  head. 
He  is  evidently  one  of  those  to  whom  hard  study  is  no 
stranger;  but,  after  all,  in  the  writer's  opinion,  he  is  to 
be  honored  for  his  earnest,  unaffected  piety,  his  sub- 
lime faith  in  the  Christian  religion,  and  his  frequent, 
sturdy  and  telling  blows  in  its  propagation  and  de- 
fense, even  more  than  for  his  intellectual  greatness. 
Of  his  printed  works,  I  can  only  refer  now  to  the  fol- 
lowing: "  The  Relations  of  the  Family  to  the  Church" 
published  some  years  ago,  while  a  pastor  in  Reading; 
"  The  Essential  Principle  of  Reform"  an  Address  deliv- 
ered before  the  Alumni  Association  of  Pennsylvania 
College,  1865;  ^'^ Inaugural  Address"  on  his  taking  the 
Presidcncj',  December  21,  1868;  "Jusiifcatuu  by  Faith" 
the  Holman  Lecture  before  the  Theological  Seminar}-, 
Gettysburg,  1S69;  "Completeness  in  Christ"  a  Bacca- 
laureate Discourse,  Gettysburg,  1870;  "  The  Dynamics 
of  Success,"    a    Baccalaureate   Discourse,  Gettysburg, 


KEV.    MlLloN    VALENTINE,    D.  D. 
IKEsIDKNT  I'ENNSYLVAMA  COLLEGE. 


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1871;  "Faith  the  Essential  Element  for  Jiight  Living" 
also  a  Baccalaureate  Discourse,  1S72.  All  these 
works  (and  many  other  articles  for  Reviews,  Maga- 
zines, &c.),  evince  intellectual  vigor  and  profound 
scholarship;  but  his  "Inaugural  Address  "  especially 
proves  him  to  be  one  of  the  most  intelligent,  skillful 
and  progressive  educators  of  our  country,  and  fully 
shows  the  wisdom  of  the  Trustees  of  the  College  in 
calling  him  to  preside  over  the  institution  which  had 
been  his  Alma  Mater  more  than  twenty  years  before — 
a  post  which  he  accepted  only  upon  their  repeated 
solicitations.  The  writer  only  regrets  that  Dr.  Valen- 
tine's innate  and  profound  modesty  should  prevent  the 
readers  of  this  work  from  knowing  more  of  one 
whom,  though  he  maj-  bear  no  relationship  to  most  of 
them,  they  will  ever  regard  with  interest,  not  merely 
because  of  his  name,  but  on  account  of  his  strength  of 
character  and  his  great  moral  worth. 
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The  Valentines  in  America. 


CHAPTER     XI. 


WASHINGTON    COUNTY    VALENTINES- 


:ONTINUED. 


DANIEL  VALENTINE,   ESQ., 
Merchant   and    Banker^    Aurora^   lUiHoh, 

[The  following  article  should  have  been  inserted  at 
the  head  of  "The  Washington  County  Valentines," 
but  its  facts  were  not  received  in  season  for  it.] 

THE  histor}-  of  a  man  who  achieve:  success  and 
acquires  a  competence  by  his  own  exertions  is 
far  more  interesting  than  that  of  one  who  sim- 
ply inherits  a  fortune,  especially  if, -vhile  "diligent  in 
business,"  he  is  also  "  fervent  in  spirit,  serving  the 
Lord,"  his  history  becomes  doubly  interesting;  for  it 
proves  that  one  may  be  a  good  business  man,  and  an 
active  Christian  at  the  same  time.  Such  a  man  is  the 
subject  of  this  notice 

Daniel  Valentine,  son  of  Elias  S.  and  Mary  (Church) 
Valentine,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Salem,  Washing- 
ton count)-,  N.  Y.,  July  30,  1813.  In  early  manhood, 
he,  in  connection  with  his  father,  commenced  the  lum- 
ber business,  and,  though  only  twenty  years  of  age, 
would  have  succeeded  well  but  for  the  common  mis- 
take of  ambitious  young  men,  in  overtaxing  his 
strength,  often  working  eighteen  hours  a  day.  This 
brought  on  a  long  illness  from  typhoid  fever,  which 
so  much  imp.Tired  his  constitution  that  it  was  then 
supposed  he  would  never  be  able  to  endure  hard  labor 
again.  At  the  suggestion  of  his  father,  in  1S34,  he 
commenced  mercantile  life  in  the  village  of  Shushan, 
which    he   successfully  prosecuted    there   for   twenty 


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years,  adding  to  the  usual  country  trade  the  purchase 
of  wool,  pork,  and  other  farm  products,  gradually 
building  up  a  large  trade,  and  making  a  lasting  repu- 
tation for  himself  as  a  thorough  business  man,  a 
public-spirited  citizen,  and  a  zealous  working  Chris- 
tian. He  thus  built  up  a  large  trade  in  that  Iiitherto 
insigniScant  place,  and  "  D.  Valentine's  Store"  be- 
came known  to  all  the  farmers  for  thirty  miles  around 
there.  Affable,  full  of  wit,  friendly,  and  especially 
true  to  his  word,  he  was  the  man  to  gain  friends;  but 
another  secret  of  his  success  was  selling  cheaply,  for  he 
then  and  yet  believes  a  swift  sixpence  better  than  a 
slow  shilling.  "  Low  prices  and  quick  returns  "  is  his 
motto. 

He  was  married,  March  17,  1841,  to  Miss  Sarah  J. 
Ruste,  of  Cambridge,  N.  Y.  About  three  years  after- 
ward, they  united  with  the  Baptist  Church  in  Shu- 
shan,  holding  that  relation  till  their  removal  to  their 
present  location,  when  they  connected  themselves 
with  the  First  Baptist  Church,  a  relation  that  yet 
continues. 

But  while  yet  in  Shushan,  so  incessant  were  his 
labors  in  every  department,  that  he  again  overtaxed 
his  strengm,  and  his  health  failed,  so  that  he  was 
obliged  to  close  up  business  for  over  a  year.  During 
that  time  he  visited  Saratoga,  the  South,  and  the  West ; 
and  finding  the  climate  of  the  latter  agreeable,  he 
finally  removed  to  Aurora,  Illinois,  where  he  yet  re- 
sides. Here  he  is  still  engaged  in  the  same  business 
as  formerly,  only  far  more  extensively.  He  has  done 
for  Aurora  what  he  did  for  Shushan.  When  he  came 
to  that  place  twenty  years  ago,  there  was  no  market  of 
any  extent  for  the  farmers  around,  and  he  therefore 
made  one ;  so  that  these  now  come  from  the  country 
fifty  or  sixty  miles  around,_to  bring  their  produce  to 


lOO  Tlie  Valentines  in  Awrrica. 


Aurora.  He  also  receives  wool  from  Iowa,  Wisconsin, 
Minnesota,  &c.,  making  tliat  the  best  wool  market  in 
the  State — all  of  wliich  is  secured  by  liberal  prices  and 
honorable  dealing.  He  has  done  much  for  the  North- 
west, by  influencing  tlie  railroads  to  reduce  the  prices 
of  freight,  therebj-  giving  the  farmers  an  increased 
price  for  their  products. 

To  show  the  extent  of  Mr.  Valentine's  business,  his 
average  annual  shipments  to  New  I'ork  and  Boston 
for  tlie  last  ten  vears  liave  been  :  five  hundred  thou- 
sand poimds  of  wool,  from  one  Iiundred  to  two  hun- 
dred car-loads  of  pork,  one  hundred  tliousand  dollars' 
worth  of  butter,  thirty  thousand  dollars  to  forty  thou- 
sand dollars'  wortli  of  poultry,  besides  eggs  and  other 
things  in  proportion.  He  bears  the  same  reputation, 
here,  among  the  farmers,  in  the  world,  and  in  the 
Church,  as  he  did  in  Xew  York  State.  For  the  past 
five  years  he  has  also  been  engaged  in  banking — three 
years  under  tlie  firm  of  X'ai.emine  &  Williams,  and 
for  the  past  two  years  as  Cashier  of  the  "Second 
National  Bank  of  Aurora." 

Mr.  Valentine  often  remarks  that  if  any  influence, 
bevond  that  of  the  teachings  of  good  Christian  parents, 
had  a  tendency  to  inspire  him  with  a  desire  to  excel,  it 
was  the  counsel  and  advice  of  his  very  dear  friend  and 
uncle,  Clark  K.  Esiee,  wlio  was  his  teacher  for  ten 
years,  and  his  adviser  till  llic  d.'iy  of  his  death. 

The  children  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Ruste)  V^alentine 
liave  been  as  follows: — 

Hattie  A.  Valentine,  born  in  Shushan,  Xov.  13,  1842. 
George  D.  Valinlinc,  born  Dec.  II,  1S51,  died  Oct.  ig,  1S52. 
H.  Fannie  Vaii  nine,  born  Feb.  5,  1854.  died  April  19.  1873. 
William  J.  \"alcn!ine,  born  in  Aurora,  Oct.  30,  1858. 

The  lady  who  furnished  the  facts  for  the  foregoing 


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sketch,  sends  also  the  following  interesting  incident. 
Tlie  owner  of  tlie  ring  marked  "  L.  V."  was  Lydia 
Valentine,  daughter  of  Joseph,  as  mentioned  on  page 
47  of  this  work.  The  "Moses"  referred  to  afterward 
removed  to  Michigan,  where  he  had  one  son  and  three 
daughters,  and  died  about  a  dozen  years  ago: 


"TREASURE  TROVE. 

"  It  is  evening — in  one  of  those  large  old  farm-houses,  of  the  olden 
time.^ — and  a  happy  fanrly  of  brothers  and  sisters  are  gathered  in  the 
spacious  kitchen,  with  their  gentle  mother  enthroned  as  a  queen 
among  them.  All  is  life  and  animation  ;  for  two  of  the  stalwart  sons 
have  just  returned  from  taking  a  load  of  produce  to  Troy,  and  of 
course  arc  brimming  over  with  the  worlds  of  }uw  things  they  have 
seen,  and  heard,  and  dont.  But  one,  a  fair  girl  of  sixteen,  sits  apart 
to  enjoy  her  hapj/iiiess,  which  is  too  great  for  many  words  For  has 
she  not,  on  that  plump,  white  hand  a  nice  gold  ring,  bought  in  Troy 
by  her  brother  ?  and  her  heart  thrills  with  joy  as  we  can  hardly  ap- 
preciate in  these  days  of  ever)'  luxury.  One  little  trouble  we  can  see 
in  her  eyes,  as  she  looks  on  the  beautifully  engraved  '  L.  V.'  The 
ring  is  a  little  large,  and  she  is  afraid  she  shall  lose  it.  But  time 
passes  on,  and  she  is  so  choice  of  her  treasure  that,  though  wearing  it 
constantly,  she  begins  to  think  it  is  not  necessary  to  bear  it  so  con- 
tinually on  her  mind.  But  the  dark  day  comes,  when  no  ring  is  on 
that  plump  hand.  It  is  gone,  and  she  laments  her  loss,  searching  the 
house  over  from  garret  to  cellar,  taking  candles  to  assist  her,  as  a  last 
resort ;  also  the  yard,  where  waste  water  has  been  thrown — every- 
where, possible  and  impossible — but  no  ring  is  found.  It  is  gone 
forever,  to  her.  Years  passed,  and  that  young  girl  rounded  up  into 
her  gentle,  dignified  womanhood.  One  whom  ?he  considered  worthy 
came  and  sought  her  as  the  queen  of  his  heart  :i'.d  home  ;  so  she  left 
the  dear  old  farm-house,  and  went  forth  to  new  cares,  and  joys,  and 
sorrows,  .\gain  we  see  her,  after  the  lapse  of  more  years,  a  dignified 
matron,  a  few  silver  threads  creeping  among  the  locks  so  smoothly 
banded  away  under  the  pretty  little  cap.  Her  daughters  are  around 
her,  and.  as  they  piece  their  blocks,  or  ply  their  busy  knitting-needles, 
she  delights  to  wander  back,  in  thought,  to  the  dear  old  farm-house, 
among  the  hills,  and  tell  them  of  her  happy  childhood  ;  of  the  silvery 
pond,  with  its  fair  white  lilies  ;  the  boat  rides  ;  the  berry  pickings,  and 


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a  beautiful  gold  ring  Moses  brought  her  from  Troy,  and  how  she  lost 
it.  But  time  lingers  not.  Those  childien  are  grown  to  womanhood, 
and  now  that  wife  anJ  mother  sees  the  hand  of  death  laid  on  him  who 
has  made  a  Heaven  of  ihis  world  for  her  !  How  her  heart  sinks  within 
her!  Agonizing  are  her  urayers  and  tears!  but  the  fiat  has  gone 
forth,  and  the  loved  one  is  taken  up  'higher.*  For  a  time  she  sinks 
under  the  burden  of  her  sorrow,  till  the  kindly  physician  says.  'You 
must  try  and  live  for  your  children/  Then,  indeed,  does  she  turn  her 
back  upon  the  past,  and  struggle  for  life  ;  but  it  is  too  late — the  death 
stroke  has  beei:  given,  and  she  too  must  go.  So  they  laid  her  down 
to  rest — and  her  children  live  on,  forming  new  ties,  and  again  ihe 
music  of  children's  voices  is  heard  in  their  once  desolate  home.  So 
the  summers  and  the  winters  roll  around,  till  the  dear  mother  has  been 
sixteen  years  with  the  angels ;  when  '  one  of  the  family,'  living  in  the 
old  homestead,  sends  a  message  by  the  screaming  locomotive  to  the 
far  Western  home — '  Did  your  mother  ever  lose  a  ring  here,  with  "  L. 
V."  engraved  upon  it?  We  have  found  such  an  one,  where  waste 
water  has  been  thrown  out.*  '  Yes  !  Oh,  yes  !  It  is  a  precious  memo- 
rial of  the  girl  of  sixteen.'  So  it  is  sent,  and  received  as  a  precious 
legacy  from  the  dear  dead  mother,  after  its  burial  in  the  ground  for 
half  a  century.  J.  A.  BrOWN.** 


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CHAPTER     XII 


THE    VALENTINES    OF    LANCASHIRE,    ENGLAND. 


THE  ancient   fami'y  of  Valentines,  from   whom 
have  descer.ded  t)  e  present  New  England  Val- 
entines, and  possibly  the  Long  Island  branch  as 
well,  had    their   family  estate,  known    as   "  Bencliffe 
Hall,"  in  the  parish  of  Eccles,  in  the  county  of  Lan- 
caster, England.     This  region  of  countr)*  having  been 
apportioned  and  set  off  at  a  later  period  than  the  more 
southern  and  eastern  portions  of  England,  in  the  time 
of  William  the  Conqueror,  in  the  eleventh  century,  of 
course  no  mention  of  the  name  is  found  in  the  famous 
'■^ Doomsday  Book ;"  but  the  evidence  is  clear  and  con- 
clusive that  the  family  occupied  this  section  at  a  very 
early  period.     Whether   the    progenitors   of  it  came 
over  from  Normandy  among  the  followers  of  William, 
or  afterward  directlj'  from  Saxony,  or  some  other  part 
of  Germany,  it  is  impossible  now  to  say;  but  as  this 
part  of  England  was  the  last  taken  and  occupied  by 
the  invaders,  the  latter   supposition   seems  the   more 
probable.     The  Valentines  of  Sutfolk  are  supposed  to 
have  come  from  that  portion  of  Europe  now  known  as 
Holland;  and,  as  the  name  of  Valentine  is  frequently 
found  in  France,  and   especially  in  Germany,  and  is 
traced  so  on  to  Southern  Europe,  it  seems  probable 
that  the  Lancashire  family  original!}-  came  from  Cen- 
tral Europe,  and  are  undoubtedly  of  Sa.\on  descent. 
All  this,  however,  is  rather  conjectural   than  certain, 
and,  leaving  the  lab^Tinths  of  the  obscure  past,  our 


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oSject  henceforth  will  be  to  trace  out  the  family  his- 
tory only  from  a  positively  known  point. 

The  earliest  record  of  this  Lancashire  family,  of 
which  we  have  positive  evidence,  is  a  copy  of  the  Will 
of  Richard  Valentine,  dated  1520.  This  document 
the  author  of  this  work  has  seen,  but  it  is  now  unfor- 
tunately mislaid  or  lost.  Richard  Valentine" married 
Anne  Hopwood,  and  at  his  death  left  his  estate  to  his 
son,  Thomas  Valentine  (whose  name  is  found  as  wit- 
ness to  a  Will  in  1526),  who  in  turn  left  it  to  his  son, 
Richard.  This  Will  of  Thomas  Valentine  is  such  a 
rare  specimen  of  the  language  and  customs  of  those 
times,  that  it  is  deemed  worthy  of  being  copied 
verbatim : — 

Tif  If'Hl  of  Tf.'  •  .3J  I'altntine,  of  Bent/iffe,  Co.  Lane.,  Gmi.* 

In  the  name  ic.  2S  March  1550.  4  Edw.  6.  I  Thomas  Volan- 
tyne  of  Bencliffe,  gent.  &c.  and  my  bodye  to  be  buryed  in  Eccles. 
Churche.  I  gyflfe  to  my  sunne  Richard  Valentyne  all  my  landys  &c. 
accordyne  to  the  tenor  of  certen  dcdys  indentyd  made  7  Oct.  3  Edw. 
VI.  Also  that  these  dysposyde  of  char)'te  to  pore  folks  by  the  ad\')'se 
of  Syr  Robart  I.angley  and  Richarde  my  sune  my  executor.  And  I 
make  Syr  Rob.irt  I.anj^Icy  of  Agecrofte  kn\'ght  [my]  suprysorc.  Also 
that  all  ycmen  and  ofTycers  w^in  the  howse  shall  have  e\')e  one  theym 

•  There  is  no  date  of  probate,  but  the  inventory  is  dated  8th  April, 
4lh  Edw.  VI.  Rich.Trd  Valentine,  of  licncliffe,  Esq.  (sixth  in. descent 
from  the  testator),  baptized  at  Eccles,  lOth  June,  1675,  was  high  sheriff 
for  the  county  of  Lancaster  in  1713.  By  his  will,  dated  23rd  June, 
1 713,  and  proved  at  Ciivster,  in  1716,  he  bequeathed  Bencliffe  Hall  to 
his  kinsman,  Thomas  Valentine,  Clerk,  of  Franckford,  in  the  county 
of  Sligo,  Ireland.  The  latter,  in  1673,  devised  the  estate  to  Samuel, 
son  of  John  \'alcntine,  of  Boston,  in  New  England,  by  a  member  of 
which  family  the  Hall  and  fifty  acres  of  land  were  sold,  about  the  year 
I7q2,  to  a  Mr.  Partington.  .Ac.  8120.  AcaJemies.  Chclham  Society, 
vol.  51,  pp.  134-5.  (Remains  Historical  and  I.ilcraiy,  of  Lancaster 
and  Chester  counties).       .     .  .   , 


tlANlEL    VALENTINK,    ES(.>.,  MtKCHANT  AND  BANKER. 
AlKOkA,    ILLS. 


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xij'  a  pese  to  prey  ffbr  my  sawle  and  cvye  scnynge  meyde  xij''  lyke- 
wyse  to  prey  for  my  sawle  and  evye  husbandman  or  workman  iiij''  a 
pese  to  prey  for  my  sawle.  To  Alys  my  servaunde  woman  for  hyr 
paynys  takynye  v'.  To  cvye  on  of  the  gcnlylwomcn  xij''  a  pese  to 
prey  for  my  sa«le.  This  beynge  wylnes.  TllOMAS  Dddf.sox,  pste, 
RoBART  Laxglf.y,  Robart  Howden,  Thomas  Longworih. 
Thomas  Locke,  Xyciiolas  Langton,  Rouart  Hali.e,  Hexrve 
DoDESON,  Ottys  Hollaxue,  of  Clyflon,  w"  others. 

This  second  Richard,  the  legntee  of  the  foregoing 
Will,  had  a  son,  Thomas,  who  married  Doroth)', 
daughter  of  Ralph  Malbun,  of  the  Wast,  Eccles,  and 
died  September  12,  1609.  His  children  were  John, 
vvlio  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Risley,  and 
died  March  30,  1625  ;  Richard,  who  died  single;  Mar- 
garet, who  married Prestwick  ;  and  Dorothy,  who 

married  Edward  Htirt. 

The  children  of  John  V'alentine  were  John,  who 
married  Margerie,  datigliter  of  J(jhn  SIcighe,  of  Big- 
gin Grange,  Derbyshire,  and  died  March  14,  1680; 
Elizabeth,  who  married  John  Alderse}',  of  Chester 
county ;  Thomas,  who  died  single — and  possibly 
others.  But  from  this  point  the  chain  is  broken,  and 
much  of  the  family  history  is  involved  in  obscurity, 
so  that  what  follows  is  only  inference  or  conjecture, 
owing  to  the  loss  of  important  documents.  It  is 
known,  ho  a  ever,  that  tlie  second  John  had  a  son, 
Thomas,  and  [)robably  several  other  children.  To 
show  tlie  several  relationships,  oilier  testimony  must 
now  be  introduced. 

REV.    THO.MAS    VA  LE.NTINE. 


Tiie  evidence  is  clear  iliat  ihere  were  three  persons 
who  bore  tlieabove  namcand  title,all  of  whom  belonged 
to  this  Lancasliire  family.     'i"he  ftrst  I  shall  mention  is 


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tlius  described  in  RoflTc's  "-Biilis/i  Monutncntal  Inscrip- 
tions :"  "  Rev.  Tliotnas  Valentine,  M.  A.,  fift)--six  years 
a  Dissenting  minister  at  Epsom,  descended  from  an 
anlinit  family  in  Lancashire,  1756,  aged  eighty."  The 
second  was  the  Rev.  Thomas  Valentine,  Vicar  of 
Frankfort,  Sligo  county,  Ireland,  who  died  there  in 
November,  1763,  leaving  "  BencliflTe  Hall,"  of  which 
he  was  at  that  time  the  owner,  "to  Samuel  Valentine, 
the  eldest  son  of  John  \'alentine,  late  of  Boston,  in 
New  England,  mj-  second  cousin."  Besides  these,  there 
had  been  still  another,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Valentine,  of 
London,  a  clergyman  of  the  Established  Church,  and 
the  autlxjr  of  the  two  printed  sermons  mentioned  by 
Ailibone  as  published  in  London  in  1642-1647. 

The  Will  of  the  Frankfort  Vicar,  above-mentioned 
is  as  follows: — 

•■  Ccfpy  <•/  Ihi  R,vd  Mr.  Thos.   I'ahnlim-  of  Trtland  Will  and  Te:- 
tament." 

"  In  the  name  of  [God]  Amen.  I  Thomas  Valentine  Clk  Vicar  of 
Frankfort  in  the  county  of  Sliyoe  &  Kingdom  of  Ireland  being  weak 
in  body  but  in  sound  &  perfect  mind  and  memory  blessed  be  Almighty 
God  for  the  same  do  make  and  publish  this  my  last  will  and  Testa- 
ment in  manner  and  form  following  that  is  to  say  First  I  Give  and 
Devise  to  Samuel  Valentine  the  eldest  son  of  John  Valentine  deceased 
late  of  Hoston  in  New  England  my  ."Second  Cousin  his  heirs  &  as- 
signs all  that  my  Messu.ige  and  tenement  Scituate  lying  and  being  in 
the  Parrish  of  Eccles  and  county  of  I.mcasler  called  Bencliffe  Hall 
together  with  Riders  Tenement  Contiguous  thereunto — ^To  hold  to 
him  the  said  .Samuel  Valentine  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever  lyable  and  . 
subject  to  three  shillings  pr  week  to  be  paid  by  him  the  said  Samuel 
Valentine  for  the  Mentenance  of  M.irtha  Holt  my  Kinswoman  for 
and  during  her  natur.il  life  as  also  to  five  Pounds  for  defraying  her 
funeral  E\i>enccs  and  in  else  of  failure  of  payment  by  the  said  Sam- 
uel I  hereby  Impowcr  my  Executors  herein  after  to  le  mentioned  io 
lexy  the  same  of  the  Prcuii?es  aforesaid.  Secondly  I  leave  and  be- 
queath  to   .'^aniucl  Valentine  aforesM  his  Brother   Thomas   and   theii 


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Sister  Eliz'e  Gotich  the  sum  of  six  hundred  pounds  Ster  to  be  equally 
devided  amongst  them  share  and  share  alike  that  is  to  say  two  hundred 
pounds  apiece.  Thirdly  I  leave  and  bequeath  to  William  Dawson 
Esquire  of  Lincoln's  Inn  and  his  Sister  Elizabeth  Broome  of  Dids- 
bury  the  children  of  the  lale  Mr.  \Vm.  Dawson  of  Manchester  my 
Kinsman  the  Sum  of  seven  hundred  pounds  Stcrl  to  be  equally  de- 
vided between  them  that  is  to  say  Three  hundred  &  fifty  pounds  each. 
Fourthly  I  give  &  Bequeath  the  Sum  of  Six  hundred  pounds  Sterl  lo 
Mr.  .Mien  Vigor  North  Vigor  and  their  Sister  Abigail  to  be  equally 
divided  amongst  them  that  is  to  say  Two  hundred  pounds  Each. 
Fifthly  I  Give  and  Bequeath  the  Sum  of  Three  hundred  pounds  to 
Mr.  Thomas  Crompton  &  his  Sister  Mary  Partington  both  of  the 
I'arrish  of  Eccles  aforesaid  to  be  equally  divided  between  them  that 
is  to  Say  one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  each.  Sixthly  1  Give  &  Be- 
queath the  Sum  of  Two  Hundred  pounds  to  Michael  Holt  of  Eccles 
afores'd  &  his  sister  Anne  to  be  thus  divided  between  them  that  is  to 
say  one  hundred  and  fifty  pour  Js  to  the  said  Michael  and  fifty  to 
.\nne.  Seventhly  I  Give  and  bequeath  the  Sum  of  Sixty  pounds  to 
be  equally  devided  between  the  children  of  the  late  Thomas  Holt 
Brother  to  the  said  Michael.  Eighthly  I  Give  and  bequeath  the  Sum 
of  Eleven  Hundred  pounds  English  .Ster  w'ch  I  now  have  in  the 
South  sea  fund  I  to  ray  Nephew  John  Ccckbum  if  it  appears  within 
six  months  after  my  Decease  that  he  is  in  the  Land  of  the  living  and 
if  he  be  dead  my  Will  and  desire  is  that  five  hundred  &  fifty  pounds 
of  the  said  Sum  shall  flow  in  equal  proportions  thro*  the  aboves'd 
families  of  the  aboves'd  Cromptons  and  Holts  and  as  many  others  as 
are  connected  to  me  in  the  same  relation  with  them  and  are  neces- 
sitous. All  w'ch  aforesaid  Legacies  I  order  to  be  paid  out  of  my 
English  property  as  sf<on  as  they  can  be  collected  by  Mr.  Allen  Vigor 
&  William  Broom  aforesaid  boih  of  whom  I  do  hereby  Nominate  and 
Appoint  Executors  of  this  part  of  my  Property  afores'd,  and  for  ttieir 
trouble  in  Executing  the  same  I  Give  &  Bequeath  the  Sum  of  two 
hundred  pounds  to  Each  and  all  the  rest  i;  Residue  of  my  personal 
property  that  shall  be  in  England  at  my  Decease  after  my  Debts  and 
Legacy's  are  first  paid  I  Give  &  Bequeath  in  equal  proportions  to  .Mr. 
Samuel  Valentine  Wm.  Dawson  of  Lincoln's  Inn  Esq'r,  Allen  Vigor 
and  Wm.  Broome  thus  far  for  the  Dispositi'.'n  of  so  much  of  my 
property  xs  shall  be  found  in  England  at  my  Decease  and  w'ch  will  be 
found  in  the  Hands  of  Mi.  Wm.  Broome  <»f  Didsbury  afores'd  in 
cash  Bonds  Mortgages  &c.  that  belong  and  appertain  lo  me  and  are 
my  property. 


lo8  The  Vale  lit  ines  in  Avteriea. 

'•  Now  for  the  Disposition  of  my  properly  in   IrelaBj    1   do  hereby 
Order  &  direct  that  it  he  applied    lo  the  uses  and  purposes  follow  ing 
lliat  is  (o  say  lirst  I  do  herchy  (ji\e  iS;  Hcquealh  the  Sum  of  Six  hun- 
drciJ  i>ouiids  Slerl.  for  the  Sui>port  and  Maintenance  of  the  distressed 
Willows  of   the  Clcrjjy  of  the  dioceses  of    Hillala  li  Achowcy.     Sec- 
ondly I   Give  and    Bequeath  the   Sum  of  four  hundred  pound   Sterl. 
towards   the    Institution    of  a  Protestant    charily  schixil    and  for  the 
jniiing  out  a  few  of  the  Protestant  Apj)rentices  to  Trades  w'ch  school 
I  •)riler  to  b**  erected  within  the  Unirjn  of  ffranckforl  and  I  do  hereby 
nominate  &  appoint   the    Lord    Bishop  of  Hillala  and    the  Vicar  of 
ffrankfort   both  for  the   time   being  to   be  Trustees  of  the  above  sum. 
Thirdly  I  Give  and  Bequeath  to  my  Beloved  Friend  the  Rev'd  Alex- 
ander Clendining  all  and  Singular  my  Library  of  Books  together  with 
the  sum  of  two  hundred    pounds   Sterl.  my  Gold   headed   Cane   and 
three  Silver  Spoons  to  match  three  I  formerly  gave  him,  and  as  to  the 
surplus  rent   arising  arising  out  of  the   farm  of  Carrowgarry  I  leave 
tliis  to    Mr.  Henry  (farrel    Surgejn  of  Sligoe   during  his  natural  life. 
But    in  case    Mr.  Saml.  Scoclnvood  of    Hillala  Survives  him  I  order 
that  the  said  Surjilus  rent  shall  appertaii;  ;■  d  Belong  to   Rev'd   Mr. 
Clandining  during   the  term  of    said    le.i  Fourthly   to    my   kind 

Friend  and  benefactress  Mrs.  .^nne  Brown  of  Fortland  I  give  and 
Bequeath  :he  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  Sterl.  Fifthly  I  give  and 
Bequeath  to  the  poor  of  the  Union  of  Frankfort  the  sum  of  Sixty 
pounds  Ster.  to  be  disposed  of  by  the  Rev'd  Mr.  Clandining  as  he 
shall  think  most  proper.  Sixthly  I  leave  &  Bequeath  such  a  sum  as 
to  Mr.  Clandining  will  seem  sufficient  to  buy  a  decent  cushing  & 
Cloth  for  the  Pulpit  &  also  a  proper  coverlet  for  the  communion 
Table.  Seventhly  I  Give  and  Bequeath  the  sum  of  twenty  pounds 
Ster.  to  Thomas  Waldron  twenty  pounds  to  Robert  Dillon  twenty 
pounds  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Lynn  Ten  ]^'»unds  to  ffrancis  Moore  (ifty  jxiunds 
Ster.  to  the  Widow  ,\nne  .\tkinson  relict  of  the  late  Thomas  Atkin- 
son of  Cabragh.  And  I  hereby  nominate  and  appoint  the  Rev'd 
Alexander  Clandining  aforcs'd  my  sole  Executor  to  this  part  of  my 
above  Will  w'ch  concerns  my  Irish  property  most  of  w'ch  at  this  lime 
is  put  out  in  the  manner  following  that  is  S.ay  Eleven  hundred  pounds 
in  the  hands  of  .Annesley  Gore  K^q'r  four  hund'd  pounds  in  the  pub- 
lick  loan  Three  hundred  pounds  to  Vaughan  Jones  E~q'r  Two  hun- 
<lred  pounds  to  Robert  Brown  Esq'r  One  hundred  pounds  to  Mathew 
Ormsby  Esq'r  and  fifty  pounds  to  John  Osborne  all  at  five  pr.  Cent. 
I  also  leave  the  Rev'd  .\lexander  Clandining  aforesaid  Executor  the 
rest  and  Residue  of  my  said   Iri^h  fortune  after  having  first  paid    the 


Tlie  Lancashire  (England)   Valentines.       109 


above  sums  appointed  for  charitable  uses  Legacy's  funeral  Expences 
and  Debts  revoking  all  former  Wills  by  nr.e  made. 

•'  la  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  Set  my  hand  and  seal  ihU 
tenth  Day  of  September  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  one  Thou- 
sand Seven  hundred  and  Sixty  Three. 

"  Thomas  Valentine.  [i_  s.] 

"Signed  Sealed  published  &  Declared  by  the  above  named  Thomas 
Vi'nuinc  to  be  his  last  Will  and  Testament  in  presence  of  us  who 
have  hereunto  Subscriljcd  our  names  as  witnesses  in  the  presence  of 
the  Testator  and  of  each  other. 

"Jon'l  Leech," 

"  Elias  Bowrav," 

"  Rich'd  Arbuthnot." 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Valentine,  the  testator  of  the 
above  Will,  diuj  Xov.  6,  1763,  or  about  four  months 
after  the  instrument  was  dated. 


no  T]u  Valentines  in  Avuriea. 


C  H  A  P  T  E  R     X  I  I  I . 

JOHN       VALENTINE,      ESQ.,     OF       BOSTON, 
The  Aruestor  of  the  Nnv  En^and  Valentimej. 

IT  must  be  acknowledged  that  when  the  writer  of 
this  work  first  commenced  his  researches  into  the 
history  of  this  first  ancestor  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Valentines,  he  had  but  few  and  slender  materials 
for  his  work.  All  the  historj-  of  the  English  Valen- 
tines, as  given  in  the  last  Chapter,  was  to  him  then 
unknown.  He  only  knew  what  his  father.  Gill  Val- 
entine, Esq.  (yet  living  in  Xorthboro',  Mass,  in  his 
eighty-sixth  year),  had  told  him,  viz  :  that  his  great- 
grandfather's name  was  John,  and  that  he  lived  in 
Boston — "only  this  and  nothing  more."  Next,  he 
consulted  Sav.age,  and  learned  only  that  "  John  Val- 
entine was  made  freeman  in  Boston,  May  12,  1675." 
Soon  after,  he  found  an  old  legal  document,  verified 
before  "John  Valentine,  Notar)- and  Tabellion  Pub- 
lick  for  Mass.  Bay,"  dated  1706.  Even  the  "Old 
Lynde  Bible,"  so  often  referred  to  in  these  pages,  and 
so  famous  as  an  heir-loom  in  the  family,  simply  said 
this  only  of  him:  "My  father,  John  Valentine,  died 
Feb.  I,  1723;"  and  even  this  was  probablj-  written  by 
his  son  Thomas  years  after  the  death  of  his  father,  and 
from  recollection  only,  as  there  is  a  mistake  in  the 
year.  When  the  writer  finally  found  the  "Genealogy 
of  the  Valentine  Family,"  written  b)-  General  E.  W. 
Pierce,  he  thought  he  could  say,  "Eureka;"  but  this 
document  only  said  of  him,  "Of  John  Valentine,  I 
learn   nothing  more  than  that  he  was  the  husband  of 


John   Valentine,  of  Boston.  1 1 1 

Mary  Lyiide,  of  Boston,  sj<i  of  Thomas  Valentine, 
Vicar  of  Frankfort,  in  Ireland,  and  father  of  the 
family  hereinafter  to  be  described."'  So  that  even 
these  data,  meager  as  they  were,  have  since  been  found 
to  be  erroneous  in  two  important  particulars,  namely, 
his  parentage,  and  the  date  of  his  death. 

But  what  may  not  be  found  out  by  patient  and  care- 
ful research.'  Poring  over  the  volumes  of  tlie  N.  E. 
Gciualo^ical  Rtgistcr,  the  writer  stumbled  upon  the  fol- 
lowing, taken  from  the  private  "  Diary  of  Jeremiah 
Bumstead  ": — 

"1724,  Feb.  I. — On  ye  I,  Mr.  Valentine,  ye  lawyer,  hanged  himself 
aU  home  in  his  upper  chamber,  with  his  sash.  Mr.  Harris,  minister, 
&  Mr.  .^uchmully,  giving  calh  of  his  dislraclion,  he  had  a  funeral] 
and  »as  burycd  in  ye  church  on  ye  4th  day  of  ye  month." 

Again:  in  "Extracts  from  Iiiterleaiied  Almanacs, 
by  Samuel  Sewall,  Jr.,"  he  found  the  following  cor- 
roboration : — 

"Feb.  I,  1724. — Mr.  Valentine,  the  l:iwyer,  Han|;s  himself  in  a 
cockloft.  A  Little  the  afternoon  they  litid  him.  The  Jury  brought 
in  Xon  Ct^mpos." 

Here  was  a  mystery.  Could  the  individual  whose 
tragical  demise  is  thus  recorded,  be  our  ancestor.' 
Probably  not;  for  among  all  the  Valentine  families, 
even  the  oldest  persons  could  recall  no  tradition  that 
their  ancestor  had  been  a  lan'jcr — much  less  that  he 
had  hanged  himself!  Moreover,  some  of  the  proud, 
fastidious  ones  thought  it  was  useless  (or  worse)  to 
pursue  the  investigation  any  farther;  for  the  idea  that 
the  ancestor  of  a  race  could  be  both  a  lawyer  (a  rara 
avis  in  those  days)  and  a  sukiile  (also  then  more  rare 
than  now),  and  no  record  or  tradition  of  these  facts  be 


112  The  Valentines  in  America. 

found  among  all  his  descendants,  was  simply  absurd 
and  impossible!  But  the  writer,  more  intent  on 
reaching  the  truth  tiian  serving  or  sparing  family 
pride,  kept  up  the  search  for  a  full  year,  and  is  well 
satisfied  with  the  result  of  his  pains.  In  the  "  Massa- 
ciiusetts  Historical  Rooms,"  he  finally  found  the  object 
of  his  search:  a  complete  file  of  the  old  '■^Boston 
Ne-,i.<s  Letter"  (almost  the  onlj-  newspaper  then  pub- 
lished in  New  England)  for  the  year  1724.  In  that 
paper,  he  found  the  following: — 

"Boston,  Feb.  i,  1724. — On  Tuesday  the  4ih  Instant,  the  Corps  of 
John  Valentine,  Esq.  ;  His  Majesty's  Advocate  General  for  the 
Provinces  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay,  New  Hampshire  and  Colony  of 
Rhode  Island,  was  here  decently  Interred  :  He  was  a  Gentleman  for 
his  Knowledge  i:  Integrity  most  eminent  in  his  Profession,  Clear  in 
his  ConcejJtions,  and  Disliiiguihhal)le  happy  in  his  Expressions.  It 
pleased  GOD.  some  short  time  before  his  Death,  to  deprive  him  of 
these  Excellent  Endowments  by  afflicting  him  with  a  deep  Melan- 
choly which  brought  on  him  the  loss  of  his  Reason,  and  was  the 
cause  of  his  much  Lamented  Death." 

If  there  is  aiiglit  in  the  above  obituary  which  should 
cause  atiy  of  the  descendants  of  such  a  man  to  blush 
for  siiamc,  the  writer  is  unable  to  discover  it.  More- 
over, as  the  Records  of  King's  Chajjcl  showthat  John 
V^aientine  was  one  of  the  Wardens  of  that  Church  in 
1715-16,  his  funeral  probably  took  place  there  (on  the 
same  spot  where  Ch.vrles  Su.mner's  funeral  obsequies 
recently  occurred),  and  his  remains  were  buried  in 
King's  Chapel  Church-yard. 

Further  reference  is  made  to  Mr.  V'alentine  in  Ex- 
Governor  Emory  Wasliburn's  ''Sketches  of  the  Judicial 
History  of  .^fassachiisctts,"  as  follows: — 

"J|>11N   \'.\l  KMINE.  uf  Holoii,  held   the  office  [.\dvorale  General] 
at  the  time  of  his  d-.alh,  in  1724,  and   may  have  been  the   immediate 


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successor  of  Mr.  Lynde.  ^Btfijamin  LynJt\  who  Iiad  been  appointed 
to  the  office  in  l6g7.  He  was  a  relative — perhaps  a  brother — of  Mary 
L)Tide,  who  afterward  became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Valentine.  He  subse- 
quently became  a  Judge  of  the  Superior  Court.]  Mr.  \'alcntine  was 
a  lawyer  of  distingui>-hcd  learning  and  integrity.  An  argument  of  his 
in  the  case  of  Matson  v.  Thomas,  in  which  he  was  tipjwsed  by  Auch- 
mutly.  Reed  and  Littles,  is  preserved,  in  which  he  manifested  great 
familiarity  with  legal  principles,  as  well  as  ability  as  an  advocate.  He 
is  also  said  to  have  been  an  agreeable  and  expressive  speaker." 

As  to  the  parentage  of  Mr.  Valentine,  it  is  certain 
that  he  was  not  the  son  of  Rev.  Thomas  Valentine, 
Vicar  of  Frankfort,  as  General  Pierce  asserts;  for 
that  gentleman  died  childless.  The  following  docu- 
ment, in  the  handwriting  of  Thomas  Valentine,  of 
Hopkinton,  who  was  a  son  of  John  Valentine,  would 
seem  to  throw  some  light  upon  the  matter.  Though 
not  dated,  it  is  indorsed, — 


"Copy  of  a   Litter  to  Mr.   Wm.  Trenh.bn,   .V,r,>iant  in  Plymouth, 

"  Sir, — I  am  informed  by  Captain  Coleman,  of  Boston,  that  you 
have  been  inquiring  after  some  person  of  my  name  who  had  some- 
thing left  to  him  by  some  Relative  in  Old  England,  but  could  not 
find  him.  My  father  was  born  in  I^ncxshire  in  England,  and  had 
several  Relations  living  there  some  years  ago — jjarticularly  an  Uncle, 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Thomas  Valentine  of  Epsom,  who,  by  Letiers,  gave 
us,  his  Relations  i;i  X.  E.  some  reason  to  expect  he  would  lake  notice 
of  us  in  his  last  Will.  I  shall  take  it  very  kind  of  you  if  you  will 
give  yourself  the  trouble  to  write  me  a  line  giving  me  furlhcr  infor- 
mation of  the  affair.  In  so  doing  you  will  greatly  oblige 
"Your  most  Obt,  Humb.  Servt, 

'•  (Signed)  T.  V. 

"Please  direct  to  me  at  Hopkinton,  to  the  care  of  Mr.  Wm.  Gooch, 
at  the  Sign  Admiral  J'^rnon,  Boston." 

The  following  letter,  from  the  clergyman  referred 
to  in  the  foregoing,  may  have  been  one  of  those  upon 
which  these  "great  expectations"  were  based: — 


114  Tlic  I'aliiitiius  in  Aiiiirira. 

'■  I-iiM)u.\  Nov'r  lolli  1753. 
"  Mv  I)k.  Mt  Nki'IIKW, — I  caniiMl  c.n>ily  exprc.-s  the  yrcnt  pleasure 
I  li.itl  al  llic  arrival  uf  Viuir  letter  with  the  account  of  your  ])er-son 
ami  family  ;  though  that  hail  a  great  allony  in  the  mention  of  the 
loss  of  your  companion  in  life;  which  is  a  mournful  event  especially 
in  so  numerous  a  family  where  the  tender  care  of  a  mother  is  as  much 
w.inteil  as  the  wisiiom  of  a  Father.  'Tis  easy  to  say  we  must  submit, 
hut  a  hartl  lesson  to  learn  in  the  Schoc>l  of  Pnjviilencc.  I  pray  f  lod 
;;ive  y^m  all  the  jmlience  to  hear,  ami  wisiloni  to  improve  such  trjing 
dispensations.  Tho'  I  have  not  the  satisfaction  of  seein;;  my  relations 
in  New  Kn^l.md  nor  ever  exjtect  to  he  so  happy  on  earth,  yet  I  hot>e 
to  meet  iheui  in  heaven,  with  any  alloy  or  end.  In  the  mean  time,  I 
do  not  forget  hut  give  them  a  con-tant  ])lace  in  my  addresses  to  the 
mercy  seat ;  when  I  ask  wisdom  and  (irace  for  my  own  Soul  to  lead 
us  through  the  present  valley  of  tears  to  that  stale,  where  all  tears 
shall  he  wi]>ed  aw.iy.  I  wiOi  I  had  pi)wer  eiju-al  to  do  more  accord- 
ing to  the  aflTectious  of  my  heart  for  my  dear  relations  at  a  distance. 

"  ^■ou  ilesire  an  .account  of  our  family  in  Old  Kngland  which  by 
lime  and  ileath  are  reduced  in  numbers.  I  have  only  one  sister  re- 
maining, who  has  a  son  marry'd  with  children,  and  one  daughter  who 
lives  w  ith  her  mother  and  who  is  dutifull  and  servic.ible  to  her  mother 
in  the  evening  of  life. 

"  There  are  many  nephews  and  nieces  that  are  prudent  and  sober 
in  their  l>ehavior  ;  tho."  not  in  the  prosperity  of  the  world.  My  Cozen 
Thom.T-s  Valentine  is  a  worthy  clergyman  in  Irelaml  who  )>ossesscs  the 
seal  and  estate  of  the  family,  that  has  been  some  hundred  years  in 
the  same  name. 

"  I  have  sent  him  the  account  of  the  family,  not  being  willing  the 
estate  (tho'  not  large)  should  change  its  name. 

"This  is  the  account  I  send  you,  but  your  family  are  more  nu- 
merous, an<l  prosj>erous  in  New  Englantl. 

"  I  have  niithing  lo  add  but  ihe  assurances  of  my  esteem,  ami  affec- 
tion to  all  my  ilear  relations  which  I  would  be  gl.ad  to  manifest  in 
Religion  and  friendship  to  the  utmost  of  my  power. 

"  I  comn'end  you  to  God's  Protection,  blessing  and  conduct,  and  am 
w  ith  affectionate  res]x;cts  to  all  my  dear  relations  in  New  England, 
"  Dear  Nephew, 

"Vour  faithful  frien<l  and  .Affectionate  Uncle, 

"TiiciMAS  Valkminj:. 
"  l.iisrxis,  Nov'l)cr  lolh,  1753. 

'*  I  will  soon  write  lo  vuir  lliother  and  Sister  Gouch." 


Jphu    Vnlcntinc,  of  Boston. 


"5 


In  tlie  foregoing  letters,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  rela- 
tionsiiip  of  uncle  and  nephew  are  acknowledged  on 
botii  sides.  Xow,  if  this  is  correct,  tlien  tiie  parentage 
of  John  Valentine  is  settled;  for  the  Matriculation 
Papers  of  this  Rev.  Tiionias  \'aientine,  of  Epsom, 
show  that  he  entered  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  1692, 
at  the  age  of  si.xteen,  where  he  is  recorded  as  the 
"son  of  Francis  \'alentine,  Merchant,  of  Lancashire." 
Though  a  link  in  the  chain  may  be  wanting,  yet,  from 
the  foregoing  it  would  appear  that  John  Valentine 
was  an  elder  son  of  this  "  Francis  Valentine,  Mer- 
chant, <jf  Lancashire" — that  he  must  have  emigrated 
tt)  Boston  when  a  3-oung  man  just  of  age — that  he  re- 
mained a  bachelor  until  forty-eight  or  fift)-  years  of 
age,  when  he  married,  in  1702,  Mary,  only  daughter  of 
Samuel  Lynde,  Lsq.,  of  Huston,  by  whom  he  had  seven 
children — and  that  he  must  have  been  nearly  or  quite 
seventy  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death,  February 
I,  1724.  It  is  a  matter  of  regret  that  the  e.xact  record 
of  one  so  prominent,  and  whose  course  was  so  honor- 
able, should  be  found  so  indefinite  and  uncertain;  but 
the  above  is  believed  to  be  as  correct  and  clear  as  it 
can  be  made  at  this  late  day.* 

*  Frjin  a  ilocumciH  recently  receiveJ  from  England,  I  fird  that  a 
John  VaKntine  ^va^  bapli^cil  in  Kcclcs,  I.amaOiire.  .Vpril  25,  1643. 
Tlicro  i->  Minie  reason  to  suj>])0>e  that  this  \\a>  tl»e  one  who  was  made 
freeman  in  Boston.  1675  ;  and  tliat  the  Joint  X'alcntine  who  married 
Mary  I.ynde  in  1702,  must  have  l.een  a  f<'H  of  this  freentan  Jolin — in 
which  case.  Maiy  I-yntle,  instead  of  marrying  a  lough  ohl  bachelor  of 
nearly  (ifly;  ha^l  a  young  hnshand  of  about  her  own  age.  If  this  sup- 
[xjsition  is  well-founded,  then  "ye  Lawyer,"  instead  of  I>cing  an  old 
gentleman  of  seventy  at  the  time  of  his  melancholy  exit,  was  prob.ibly 
about  forty-five  or  fifty,  and  right  in  the  prime  of  life.  It  seems  strange 
that  no  puljlic  or  private  record  can  be  found  which  would  positively 
settle  this  (Question  ;  yet  s<i  it  is.  It  is  the  ho])e  of  the  writer  that  the 
publication  of  tliis  woik  may  yet  bring  to  liglil  some  item  or  record 
which  shall  settle  the  cjueslion  beyond  ail  doubt  or  controversy. 


Il6  The  Valentines  in  America. 


CHAPTER     XIV. 

THOMAS    VALKNTINR,    OF    HOPKINTON. 

THOMAS  \'AI,I:NTI\E,  the  foiirtli  son  of  John 
■.\\\<\  Mary  Lyndu  Valentine,  was  born  in  Hos- 
toii,  August  3,  1713.  As  liis  maternal  grand- 
fatlicr,  Samuel  [,yn(ic,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  owned  a  large 
pro])ertv  in  Freetown,  Mass.,  it  appears  probable  that 
Thomas,  as  well  as  his  older  brother,  Samuel,  divided 
his  vouth  and  early  manhood  between  that  place  and 
nostf)n.  In  conveyances  and  legal  documents  made 
after  he  was  of  age,  he  is  entitled  "  Merchant,  of  Bos- 
ton ;"  and  therefore,  though  so  netimes  spoken  of  as 
ccHuing  from  Freetown,  he  undoubledlv  called  Boston 
his  home.  When  and  where  he  first  became  acquainted 
with  the  beautiful  Ei.izaiif.th  Gooch  (whose  likeness, 
taken  frotn  a  painting  made  in  her  sixteenth  year,  is 
<7//<v///i/,v/ on  anijlher  page),  does  not  appear;  but  it 
was  probably  about  the  time  of,  or  soon  after,  his  re- 
moval to  Ilopkiiiton.  Slie  was  the  daughter  of  James 
Gooch,  Es<].,  and  Hester,  his  wife,  who  owned  a  farm 
adjoining  his  own.  They  were  married  July  17,1735,116 
having  already  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the 
southern  declivity  of  the  famous  Magunco  Hill,  in 
that  town,  near  where  John  Eliot  had  his  Indian 
church  and  burial  ])lace.  The  old  Frankland  farm  ad- 
joining it,  and  "  all  that  region  nnind  about,"  are  classic 
ground,  not  only  because  of  Eliot's  labcjrs,  but  for 
reasons  fully  set  forth  in  Rev.  Elias  Nason's  "  Afcmoin 
of  Sir  Harry  Fraiiklaiui,"  and  more  especially  because 


TJwmas  Valentine,  of  Hopkinton. 


117 


Mrs.  H.  B.  Stowe  has  made  it  the  scene  of  one  of  her 
most  popular  works,  "  Oliltouin."  True,  the  latter  has 
made  sad  havoc  of  names  and  places,  but,  after  all,  the 
scene  is  well  chosen,  and  the  story  one  of  great  interest 
and  power. 

The  tract  of  land  taken  up  by  Thomas  V^alentine 
tficn  embraced  several  hundred  acres.  Some  of  it  was 
indeed  rough  and  rockj',  like  much  of  Hopkinton 
lands;  yet  a  goodly  share  of  it  was  level  and  highlj- 
productive.  This  old  "  Valentine  Farm,"  e.xcept  for  a 
short  interval,  has  ever  since  remained  in  possession 
of  those  who  bear  the  name ;  but  a  large  portion  of 
its  broad  acres  has  been  sold  off,  so- that  its  glory  has 
departed.  "  The  Old  Homcslead"  (lately  reconstructed 
and  modernized  by  its  present  proprietor,  William 
Price  Valentin^,  great-grandson  of  Thomas)  may  be 
seen  as  it  was,  on  another  page,  and  is  furl  her  described 
by  .Nlrs.  Weston,  whose  pen  and  pencil  :im  capable  of 
doing  it  ample  justice,  as  will  be  seen.  Tiie  spot  over- 
looks the  village  of  Ashland,  a  new  town  set  off  from 
Huiikinton,  and  lies  within  the  limits  of  that  place. 

On  this  romantic  and  beautiful  spot  Thomas  and 
Elizabeth  Valentine  lived  in  peace  and  happiness  for 
seventeen  years,  rearing  their  children,  and  prospering 
in  worldly  affairs  at  least  as  well  as  their  neighbors. 
Then  came  a  change;  for  the  light  of  the  house  went 
out.  In  1752,  the  wife  and  mother  died,  leaving  a 
brood  of  eight  children — the  youngest  only  two  years 
old,  and  the  eldest  less  than  seventeen — just  at  a  time 
when  they  most  needed  her  motherly  care.  Her  lius- 
band,  true  to  her  memory,  lived  on  in  lonely  widower- 
hood  to  the  end  of  his  daj-s,  or  more  than  thirty  years 
— a  rare  instance  in  a  family  that  gn-atly  value  con- 
nubi.il  or  domestic  life,  as  a  bachelor  or  a  widower  is 
seldom  found  among  them. 


ii8 


The  Valentines  in  America. 


Tliomas  Valentine  seems  not  to  have  belonged  to 
the  then  "st:in(ling  order,"  or  Congrcyationalists,  as 
did  most  of  his  neighbors  and  t<jwnsmen,  but  must 
have  adhered  to  the  faith  of  his  fathers;  as  we  find 
that  in  1752  he  was  allowed  53-.  "?•/.  fridn  his  town  tax, 
on  accoiiiil  <jf  being  an  aUeiidant  upon  the  Episcopal 
Cluuch.  llow  strict  a  cliurchiiian  he  was  does  n(jt  ap- 
])ear;  but  his  children  certainlv  attended  the  Congre- 
gational Church,  and  some  of  them  became  members 
of  that  body. 

The  first  nunlion  made  of  anj-  Valentine  in  the 
Ilopkintcjn  Town  Records  is  as  follows: — 

"  Mar.  4.  1750. — \'(»(cil  l<)  Thuniai  V;i!ciilinc  for  llircc  Hays*  \\«irk 
at  tlic  great  bridge  £(i  \s.  yi." 


It  should  here  be  mentioned  that  Mr.  V^.  was  an 
Innkeeper  (as  also  were  his  sons,  Samuel  and  William 
afterward,  and  his  grandson,  Samuel)  as  well  as  farmer, 
so  that  this  charge,  so  ver)'  large  f<jr  those  days,  was 
])n)bably  for  a  gang  of  men  and  their  entertainment 
also. 

The  ncNt  mcntiiin  of  .^l^.  \'.  in  the  Records  is  in 
1761,  when  he  was  made  one  of  a  committee  of  seven 
to  supply  the  town  with  a  school.  Then,  in  1765,  he 
was  one  of  a  committee  to  prepare  "Instructions  to 
John  J(jnes,  lis(].,  at  this  critical  coujuiK  ture  in  relation 
to  Hritish  Aggressions" — the  said  ".Squire  Junes  being 
I  bipkinluirs  Representative  in  the  great  "General 
Ciiurt,"  or  Provincial  Legislature  of  Mass;icliusetts. 

Thomas  \'alentine  died  April  17,  17.S3,  in  the  sev- 
ciiticlh  year  of  his  age.  As  alieady  stated,  his  wife 
had  preceded  him,  having  died  April  25,  1752.  Their 
issue  and  ullicr  items  being  given  elsewhere,  it  is  un- 
net:essary  to  repeat  them 


Thomas  Valentine,  of  Hopkinton. 


119 


"iMK    Ul.l)    LVMli:    lUM.E, 

SO  often  alliuiod  to  in  tlicsc  patrcs,  may  as  well  be  de- 
scribed here.  As  stated  elsewhere  by  Mrs.  Weston,  it 
was  one  of  the  only  two  things  saved  at  the  burning 
of  Thomas  Valentine's  house — hence  its  great  value 
as  a  Famih'  Record,  it  being  the  only  early  account  of 
the  family  e.xiant.  As  a  book,  it  is  nothing  remark- 
able, being  of  common  octavo  size,  and  having  been 
printed  in  the  year  i66;.  The  fly-leaf  gives  the  list  of 
owners  as  follows: — 


.Sriniuell  Lyntle, 
'  M.irj'  Valentine, 
Thiiin.is  Valentine, 
Jo*.ei>h  \'alcnline, 
Josejih  Valentine, 


his  Hook,  1670. 
her  Book,  1 721. 
his  I'ook,  1732. 
his  ISook.  1783. 
his  Book,  1817. 


Joseph  Valentine  Filch,  his  Book,  1S61. 


Which,  being  interpreted,  signifies  that  Samuel  Lynde 
bought  the  book  (in  London  probabl)-)  in  1670 — 
eight  years  after  it  was  printed — that  on  his  death, 
in  I  721,  it  became  the  property  of  his  daughter,  Mary 
Valentine,  wife  of  Jolin— who,  at  her  death,  in  1732, 
left  it  to  her  son,  Thomas — who,  at  his  death,  in  1783, 
left  it  to  his  son,  Joseph — who,  before  his  death,  in 
1S17,  probabl)-,  gave  it  to  his  nephew,  Joseph,  as  he 
had  no  children  to  inherit  it — who,  at  his  death,  in 
1S61,  gave  it  to  his  grandson  and  namesake,  Joseph 
Valentine  Fitch,  of  Maples,  Ind.,  the  present  owner. 

Some  of  the  entries  are  queer  and  quaint  enough, 
and  it  is  as  remarkable  for  what  it  does  not  mention,  as 
for  what  it  does.  Thus  it  gives  the  day,  hour  and 
minute  of  an  infant's  birth,  even  though  it  died  in  a 
few  hours;  but  it  wholly  omits  to  give  any  particu- 
lars of  the  tragic  end  of  the  illustrious  ancestor  and 


I20  The  Vahi.iims   in  America. 

noblest  Roman  of  them  all,  John  Valentine,  Esq., 
mcrclj-  because,  in  an  insane  moment,  he  committed 
suicide,  as  ihougli  that  were  a  disgrace  to  him  or  his 
posterity 


m:\  m:iim' 


Ml^^    LLIZAIIKIH     COOCll,    OK     HDI'K  I.NTON,    MASS. 
At  ILKWAYDS,    MKS.    IHuMAi    VALENTINE. 


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The  Valentines  of  Boston  and  Hopkinton.     121 


CHAPTER     XV, 


J 


THE    VALENTINES    OF    BOSTON    AND    HOPKINTON. 
By  Mrs.  F.  E.  Weston,  of   Boston  Highlands,  Mass. 

OHX  VALENTINE,  the  first  American  pro- 
genitor of  that  name  in  Boston,  Mass.,  was 
descended  from  an  ancient  famil}-  in  the  parish 
of  Eccles,  county  of  Lancaster,  England,  where  they 
owned  an  estate  called  "Bencliffe  Hall."  In  1550,  the 
then  owner  of  the  estate,  Thomas  \'alentine,  wills  it 
to  his  son,  Richard,  and,  through  m.any  generations,  it 
comes  to  another,  Richard  Valentine,  who  was  high 
sheriff  of  Lancaster,  by  whom  it  was  willed  to  his 
kinsman,  Thomas  Valentine,  of  Frankfort,  Sligo 
county,  Ireland,  who  was  the  Vicar  of  the  English 
church  there.  By  the  Rev.  Thomas  Valentine,  of 
Frankfort,  it  was  bequeathed,  in  1763,10  his  second 
counsin,  "Samuel  X'alentine,  eldest  son  of  the  late 
John  \'alentine  of  Boston  in  New  England."  Samuel 
Valentine's  heirs  sold  the  estate,  about  1792,  to  a  Mr. 
Partington,  whose  wife  or  motiier  was  probably  the 
Mary  Partington  mentioned  in  the  Rev.  Thomas  Val- 
entine's will  as  being  related  to  him,  and  to  whom  he 
gives  a  large  sum  of  money. 

John  Valentine  is  mentioned  in  the  Boston  Records 
as  having  been  made  freeman  May  12,  16-5.  The 
next  entry  in  the  Records  is  his  marriage,  April  16, 
1702,  to  Mar\-  L)-nde.  According  to  the  '^  LynJe  Bible," 
which  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Joseph  Valentine 
Fitch,  and  from  which  many  of  the  following  records 
16 


122  The  Valentines  in  America. 

arc  takc-n,  Mary  Lyiidc  was  tlic  only  surviving  child 
(of  a  family  of  five  cliikircn)  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
(Ballard)  Lynde,  and  was  horn  in  Boston,  November 
i6,  1680.  The  Lynde  family  being  noted  both  in  Old 
and  New  England,  a  few  words  in  regard  to  them 
maj-  not  come  amiss  in  this  account. 

Enoch  L)-nde,  of  London,  married  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Everard  and  Katlicrinc  jC4'/;r,  one  of  the  most 
renowned  and  chivalric  names  in  English  History. 
Their  son,  Simon  (named  for  his  ancestor,  Simon 
Digby,  grandfather  of  the  Earl  of  Bristol),  was  born 
in  London,  June,  1624.  He  was  a  merchant  in  Lon- 
don, and  removed  to  Boston  in  1650.  In  February, 
1652,  he  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and 
Annie  Xewdigate,  of  Boston,  by  whom  he  had  twelve 
children,  manj-  of  whom  became  distinguished  in 
Massachusetts,  and  from  whom  are  descended  some  of 
the  best  families  in  Xew  England— among  them,  the 
Bowdoins,  Ervings,  Temples,  Olivers,  Walters,  Win- 
throps,  &c. 

Lynde-street,  Boston,  received  its  name  from  this 
family.  Siiniucl  Lyiuic,  their  eldest  son,  was  born  in 
Boston,  December  i,  1653,  and  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Jarvis  Ballard,  October  20,  1674.  Samuel 
Lynde  was  a  merchant  in  Boston,  where  he  died  Oc- 
tober 2,  1721.  His  wife  died  Ftljruary  i,  1697-8. 
Their  only  surviving  child,  Mary  Lynde,  became  the 
wife  (if  'John  X'alcntine,  as  before  mentioned.  They 
had  seven  children,  the  records  of  whose  births  and 
deaths  are  taken  from  the  "  Lynde  Bible"  as  fol- 
lows:— 

SECOND   GENERATION. 

'  Samuel,  born  Dec.  28,  1702  ;  m.-niid,  isl,  .Mjijjail  Durfee.  of  Tiver- 
ton, June  25,  1729;  2(1,  Rebecca   Hall,  of  Swanzca,  Oct.,  1766. 


The  Valentines  of  Boston  and  Ilopkinton.     123 

He    died    March   14,  17S1.     He  was    tlie    inheritor  of    BencUfie 

Hall. 
'  Elizabeth,  born  Fell.  22,  1703  ;  in.  James  Gouch,  1724,  son  of  James 

and  Hester  Gooch. 
'  John,  born   Nov.  8,  1706;  died  at    Pott^mouth,  Old  England,  5^ept. 

24,  I?"- 
'  Edmond,  born  Jan.  16,  1709;  died  Jan.  50,  1710-II. 
'  Thomas,  born  .\ug.  3,  1 713;  m.  Elizabeth  Gooch. 
*  Mar)',  born  March  23,  1 714  ;  m.  a  Durfee. 
'  Edmond,  born  Oct.  22,  1717;  died  July  4,  1730. 

From  the  notice  of  tlie  de.itli  of  the  second  son, 
John,  at  Portsmoiitli,  Old  England,  at  the  age  of  five 
years,  it  must  be  inferred  that  his  parents  were  visiting 
Old  England  at  tliat  time. 

Samuel  Valentine,  the  eldest  son,  was  the  ancestor 
of  the  Freetown  and  Fall  River  Valentines. 

Thomas  Valentine,  the  third  son,  removed  to  Hop)- 
kinton,  Mass.,  about  1730,  where  he  took  up  a  large 
tract  of  land,  built  a  house,  and,  Jul}'  17,  1735,  married 
Elizabeth  Gooch,  the  daughter  of  James  and  Hester 
Gooch. 

James  Gooch,  Esq.,  ovned  the  land  adjoining 
Tliomas  Valentine's,  and  lived  in  Ilopkinton  until  his 
house  was  burned,  when  he  sold  his  land  to  Sir 
Charles  Henry  Frankland,  and  removed  to  Boston. 
He  lived  in  that  part  of  the  cit}'  which  now  bears  his 
name — Gooch-street. 

The  incidents  regarding  the  burning  of  his  house 
may  be  interesting  to  his  descendants,  and  are  there- 
fore given  here.  Mrs.  Gooch  was  on  a  visit  to  her 
friends  in  Boston,  leaving  her  Iiouse  in  the  charge  of 
negro  servants,  or  slaves.  One  day  a  large  silver 
spoon  was  luissing;  search  was  made,  but  it  could  not 
be  found.  In  the  evening,  as  one  of  the  black  women 
went  up  stairs  to  put  her  cliild  to  bed,  she  thought  of 
the  lost  spoon,  and,  supposing  her  child  might  have 


124  The  Valentines  in  America. 

had  it  playinq;  with  it  in  the  garret,  she  commenced 
searching,  and  tijjped  down  a  barrel,  wliich  was  filled 
with  tow.  Her  candle  fell  into  the  tow,  and  instantly 
there  was  a  blaze.  She  lost  all  presence  of  mind, 
riislicd  down  stairs,  forgetting  her  poor  child  in  her 
fright;  the  flames  swept  everything,  and,  before  aid 
could  be  obtained,  the  lioiisc  was  gone,  and  the  poor 
child  with  it.  Mrs.  Gooch  possessed  a  beautiful  head 
of  dark  hair,  and,  when  the  news  came  to  her  of  the 
catastrophe,  her  hair  turned  graj'  in  one  night.  She 
would  never  return  to  live  on  the  farm,  so  her  hus- 
band established  himself  in  Boston. 

'  Thomas  Valentine  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  had  a 
large  family,  viz  : — 

THIRD  GF.NERATION. 

*  Thomas,  bom  .^ug.  31.  1736  ;  m.  Rebecca  Ingraham,  Dec.  20,  1763  ; 

was  a  sailor  ;  his  family  lived    in    Boston.     -\  >on,  Thomas,  \va<i 
born   Feb.  22,  1765.     .\  ilaughtcr,  Rebecca,  was  buried  in  King's 
Chapel  ground,  .\ug.  II,  1769,  aged  eleven  months. 
»  James,  bom  Dec.  31,  1737  ;  died  at  Gaiidelupe,  Sept.  23, 1755. 

*  Elizabeth,  born  May  iS,  i"3'>;  m.  a  Hallard  ;  lived  in  Vermont. 
'  John,  bom  July  I,  1740;  settled  at  Little  Complon,  R.  I. 

*  Joseph,  born  Oct.  21,  1741  ;  sailor,  unmarried  ;  died  at  his  brother 

Samuel's  in  1 81 7. 
'  Hester,  born  Aug.  30,  1743  ;  died  Sept  30,  1745. 
'  Hester,  bom  Oct.  25,  1744  ;  died  Dec.  22,  1744. 

*  Samuel,  bom  Dec.  7,  1745  ;  m.  Klizal)eth  Jones. 

'  Mary,  born   Nov.  14,  1747  ;  m.  Zaccheus  Ballard  ;  lived  in  Oxford, 

Mass. 
'  Hannah,  born  June  2,  1749;  '^''^J  '^^t.  25,  1749. 

*  Willi.im,  born  Nov.  2,  175');    »n.   Kli/abcih   Jones,  daughter  of  Ar.- 

thony  Jones,  and  cousin  to  his  brother  Samuel's  wife. 

FOURTH    GF.NERATION. 
Saiinul  ]^<il(nliiif  iiiui  I :<   DrscenJants. 
'  Samuel    \'alentine  ('  Thomas,  '  John)   fifth  son  ol 


'Ike  Valentines  of  Boston  and  Hopkinton.     125 

Thomas  nn.d   ElizaLictli  (Goocli)   X'alcntiiie,  was  born 
at   Hopkinton  (on   the  farm   taken   up    by  his  father 
about  1730),  December  7,  1745.     This  firm  became  his 
at  his  father's  death,  and  lie  lived  and  died  upon  it. 
Of  liis  early  life  and  education  very  little  is  known. 
He  possessed  a  refined  nature  and  genial  disposition, 
was  tall,  slender,  and  of  light  complexion.    In  Decem- 
ber, 1 77 1,  he   married    Elizabeth,  second   daughter  of 
Colonel  John  and    Mary  (Mellen)  Jones,  and  grand- 
daughter of   Cohjnel    John    and    Hannah    (Simpson) 
Jones.     Hannali    Simpson    was    daughter    of    Savill 
Simpson,  of  Boston,  who  took  up  the  first  land  occu- 
pied for  farming  purposes  in  the  town  of  Hopkinton, 
about  16S9.     Much  of  this  land  went  to  liis  daughter 
and  her  children,  and   is  now   entirely  covered   with 
houses  and   factories,  being  the  center  of  the  town  of 
Ashland,  Mass.     The  "  Magunco  Hill  "  was  a  portion 
of  this  property,  which  afterwards  came  to  Mrs.  Val- 
entine, through  her  fatiier.     The  Colonels  John  Jones, 
both  father  and  son,  were  j^rominent  men  in   Boston 
and   Hopkinton,   filling   many   responsible   offices    in 
colonial   times,  and   afterwards.     Among  the    list   of 
Esquires  who  were  in  the  habit  of  using  coats-of-arms 
in  1736,  by  right  of  birth,  was  Colonel  John  Jones,  of 
Hopkinton.     In    1754,  Colonel  John  Jones  the  elder 
made  a  will,  giving  his  large  property  in  land,  slaves, 
mills,  S:c.,  to  his  three  sons,  Dr.  Simpson  Jones,  John 
Jones,  and  Anthony  Jones,  and  his  six  daughters,  and 
their  heirs.     He  died   February  7,  ?  773,  aged  eightj'- 
two  3-ears;  and  his  son,  John,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Val- 
entine,  died    September   5,    1797,  aged    seventj'-three 
years.     Both  father  and  son  arc  buried  in  a  private 
ground,  where  their  old  moss-covered  tomstones  are 
still  in  existence.    - 

Mrs.  Valentine  was  a  woman  of  rare  judgment  and 


126  Tlic  Vah-ntiiics  in  America. 

great  executive  ability,  and  a  good  manager  in  her 
liousehold.  Siie  ivas  the  opposite  of  her  husband  in 
lof)ks,  being  sh(^rt,  thick-set,  and  of  a  very  dark  com- 
plexion; the  children  being  also  mostly  of  dark  com- 
plexion. Thomas,  Rebecca  and  Lawson  were  the  only 
light  ones.  In  connection  with  the  farm  Mr.  Valen- 
tine carried  on  a  i)Mblic  house,  or  inn,  as  it  was  then 
called,  for  many  vears.  He  also  had  a  grist-mill, 
situated  on  a  stream  at  the  lower  part  of  his  meadow, 
which  was  in  operation  about  two-thirds  of  the  year. 
He  was,  morc(jvcr,  concerned  in  a  nail-factory,  near 
the  "Old  Ford,"  some  distance  from  his  farm;  and, 
when  the  war  broke  out,  he  and  others  established  a 
wire-mill  on  the  stream  below  the  grist-mill,  on  land 
now  owned  by  the  Eames  family.  These  were  not  all  re- 
munerative. Tiie  grist-mill,  which  was  the  most  profit- 
able, was  set  on  fire  and  entirely  consumed,  and  was 
never  rebuilt.  A  scheme  was  started  to  build  a  cotton- 
factory  at  t!ie  lower  part  of  the  town ;  and,  as  it  was 
supposed  it  would  prove  excellent  property,  every 
one  who  had  the  means  wished  to  obtain  shares. 
Among  others,  Mr.  Valentine  went  into  the  scheme, 
although  he  g.iined  a  very  unwilling  consent  from  his 
wife  to  sell  the  land,  which  came  to  her  from  her 
father,  and  put  the  monev  thus  obtained  into  shares  in 
the  factory.  His  wife  had  always  intended  to  use  the 
proceeds  (jf  thai  land  to  ed\icatc  two  <jf  her  sons  at 
college;  and,  as  she  was  not  very  sanguine  regarding 
the  cotton-f.ictory  scheme,  she  therefore  saw  her  land 
sold  with  great  reluctance.  Mr.  X'alentine  was  not 
content  with  the  shares  thus  (jbtained,  for  he  and  Iiis 
boys  did  work  for  tlie  corjior.itiim,  and  received  pay  in 
sliarcs  in  this  wonderful  factory,  that  would,  in  time, 
give  them  a  fortune.  Like  many  other  schemes  of  this 
kind,  through  mihinanagcment,  it  proved  a  disastrous 


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failure,  and  he  not  only  lost  all  the  money  put  in,  but 
was  assessed  for  debts  incurred  by  the  company.  What- 
ever Mrs.  Valentine  disapproved,  generally  failed. 
Slie  was  an  invalid  for  many  years,  but  so  great  was 
her  judgment  that  she  could  advise  about  the  farm 
matters  better  than  those  who  were  constantly  around 
the  farm — as,  although  she  was  unable  to  leave  her 
room,  she  seemed  to  have  an  intuitive  knowledge  of 
what  was  best  to  be  done. 

She  died  very  suddenly,  September  28,  1828,  about 
one  month  after  the  death  of  her  dear  son,  Lawson. 

In  a  notice  of  her  cit-.iih  the  following  remarks 
were  made : — 

"  Mrs.  Valentine  was  one  who  lived  under  the  influence  of  those 
virtues  which  render  life  peaceful  and  happy.  As  a  wife,  she  was 
kind,  attentive  and  affectionate.  In  this  relation  of  life,  discretion 
marked  her  footstep^.  She  made  her  partner  and  herself  happy  by 
the  constancy  of  her  affections  and  mildness  of  her  disposition.  .\s  a 
mother,  she  cherished  a  most  lively  interest  for  the  happiness  of  her 
child-en.  Her  family  could  look  to  her  as  capable  and  willing  to 
afford  the  best  of  parental  instructions.  In  her  domestic  concerns,  she 
was  influenced  by  prudence  and  econoiny  ;  and,  aided  as  she  was  by 
intelligence,  in  this  capacity  she  sets  a  worthy  example.  As  a  friend, 
she  was  obliging.  Possessing  the  spirit  of  philanthropy,  she  had  a 
heart  and  hand  to  commiserate  and  relieve  the  sufTerings  oi"  others. 
She  was  well  known  in  society  as  the  friend  of  peace.  Possessing  a 
strong  mind,  and  intelligent,  her  advice  was  no  less  salutary  abroad 
than  at  home.  As  a  Christian,  no  trail  was  more  eminently  seen  in 
her  character  than  that  of  humility.  This  she  cultivated  m  the  spirit 
of  the  Gospel.  Having  long  lived  justly  esteemed,  she  died  much 
lamented." 


Her  second  daughter,  Betsey,  kept  the  house  during 
her  father's  lifetime,- for  thej-  always  were  good  livers, 
and  everjthing  went  on  the  same  until  the  death  of 
Mr.  \'alentine,  March  10,  1834.  Tlien  the  youngest  son, 
Charles,  and  Betsey  carried  on  the  farm,  retaining  the 


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The  Valentines  in  America. 


same  lielp,  in  doors  and  out,  as  in  their  father's  life- 
time. In  the  early  years  they  had  some  of  the  slaves, 
bcqiieatlied  by  Mrs.  Valentino's  grandfather  to  her 
father,  'n  the  family.  In  about  two  years  the  farm  was 
sold  to  Lucian  Snow,  of  Woodstock,  Vt.,  a  man  who 
had  lived  with  Mr.  Valentine  many  years.  He  and  his 
brotlier,  Charles,  took  charge  of  the  farm  together  for 
a  ^c\\  years,  when  it  was  purchased  of  them  by  An- 
drew Price  X'alcntine,  grandson  of  Samuel  \'alentine. 
This  was  the  only  time  the  farm  was  out  of  the  Valen- 
tine nr.me  since  it  was  first  settled  bj-  Thomas  Valen- 
tine. The  farm  was  afterwards  divided  between  An- 
drew Price  and  William  Price  Valentine,  sons  of 
Lawson  Valentine,  thej-  owning  what  is  left  of  it  at 
the  present  time,  1S74.  After  the  cotton-factory  was 
built,  that  part  of  the  town,  and  up  beyond  the  Valen- 
tine farm,  was  called  Unionville;  but  later,  a  portion 
of  Holliston,  Franiingham.  Southboro'  and  Hopkin- 
ton  was  set  off"  as  a  separate  town,  by  the  name  of 
Ashland. 

The  first  house  built  by  Thomas  Valentine  was 
burned,  all  the  articles  that  were  known  to  have  been 
saved  from  this  fire  being  the  old  "  Lynde  Bible,"  and 
a  mahogany  or  oak  escritoir,  evidently  of  English 
make,  badly  scotched — a  very  curious  affair,  which  was 
in  the  family  of  Captain  Joseph  Valentine  for  many 
years,  and  is  now  in  possession  of  his  daughter,  who 
resides  at  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Thomas  Valentine  rebuilt,  probably, on  the  same  site, 
as  melted  glass,  nails,  &c.,  have  been  found  in  digging 
under  and  about  the  present  house.  Samuel  Valen- 
tine, in  his  time,  raised  the  roof,  altered  it  somewhat, 
and  put  it  in  good  order.  It  was  changed  a  little  in 
the  intcricjr  when  A.  P.  X'alcntine  purchased  it,  stoves 
for  Cooking  and  warming  the  rooms  being  substituted 


£kS^^ 


I  r    t  liiilX^tm^itakm 


The   Valtiitincs  of  Boston  mid  Hopkinton.     129 


for  tlie  generous  open  fire-places,  where  the  wood 
used  was  merely  sawed,  not  split,  for  back-logs;  the 
crane  from  which  the  pots  and  kettles  hung;  tlie  stone 
hearth,  where  the  crickets  came  and  chirped  in  the  au- 
tumn evenings;  the  iiigh-backcd  settle  drawn  up  on 
one  side  of  the  fire-place;  the  iron  andirons,  huge  and 
strong — all  these  old  accompaniments  of  the  ancient 
kitchen  were  pushed  aside  to  make  way  for  the  modern 
improvements.  Two  of  the  fire-places  were,  however, 
retained  for  a  time,  but  finally  yielded  to  tlie  want  of 
more  heat,  with  less  expenditure  of  labor  and  wood. 
In  1856,  \V.  P.  \'alentine  changed  the  interior,  and,  in 
1870,  he  tore  the  poor  old  house  all  to  pieces,  inside 
and  out.  The  barn,  which  stood  on  a  hill,  some  dis- 
tance from  the  house,  was  moved  close  up  to  it.  So 
complete  is  the  change,  that  wece  it  not  for  the  old 
cider-mill,  which  stands  opposite  the  house,  and  the 
old  trees,  no  one  would  recognize  the  spot.  A  small 
sketcli,  taken  by  Miss  Ellen  Bowditch,  and  a  picture, 
painted  from  this  sketch,  and  from  memory,  by  one  of 
the  family,  is  all  that  is  left  to  tell  of  what  it  once  was. 

The  Hopkinton  Railroad  has  gone  through  some  of 
the  very  best  land  on  the  farm,  in  several  directions, 
making  sad  hnvoc  with  the  trees,  and  cutting  the 
farm  into  small  pieces,  injuring  it  for  farming  pur- 
poses, far  beyond  tlie  very  small  sum  paid  for  the  land 
taken,  and  injury  done. 

In  a  few  years  this  old  farm,  where  so  manj-  genera- 
tions of  the  Valentines  have  been  born,  lived  and  died, 
will  have  passed  away,  cut  up,  divided  and  subdivided, 
and  this  once  retired  and  pleasant  spot  perhaps  be 
covered  with  houses,  with  nothing  left  to  tell  of  its 
former  quietness  and  beaut}'.  * 

Samuel  Valentine's  children  were  numerous,  and  all 
but  one  liv  d  to  grow  up.     They  were : — 
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130  Tlu  Valentines  in  America. 

'Samuel  Valentine,  Jr.,  born   Feb.   14,  1 773;  ra.  lit,  Kanny  Clarke  ; 

2n<i,  Mary  Fiik. 
'  John  Jones,  born  Feb,  5,  1775  ;  m.  Sally  Voung. 
'Joseph,   born   Nov.    18,  1776;    m.    1st,    Fanny   Haven;    2nd,   Eliza 

Borden. 
'  Mary,  born  Jan.  II,  1779  ;  m.  Dea.  Elijah  Fitch. 

*  Thomas,  b^rn  July  S,  17S0;  m.  Hellcn  Read. 
'James,  born  .\ug.  20,  17S2;  died  Oct.  20,  17S2. 

'  Betsey,  born  Oct.  2S,  17S4  ;  m.  Dca.  Elij.ih  Fitch. 
'  Harrj',  born  Oct.  5,  17S6;  m.  Mary  Manney. 

*  Rebecca,  bom  Sept.  19.  17SS  ;  died  unmarried,  January  S,  1S26. 
'  Fanny,  born  March  20,  1790;  m.  Homer  Tilton. 

'  Lawson.  born  Sept.  22,  1792;  m.  Mary  .\nn  Price. 
'Charles,  born  March  C,  1797  ;  m.  Isanna  ChamberlaiD. 

FIFTH    GENERATION. 

'  Samuel  Valentine,  Jr.  ('  Samuel,  '  Thomas,  '  John), 
eldest  son  of  Samuel  and  Eli/abeth  (Jones)  Valentine, 
was  born  at  Hopkinton,  at  the  old  homestead,  Feb- 
ruary 14,  1773,  St.  Valentine's  Day.  He  was  educated 
at  the  District  School,  with  his  brothers,  sisters.  Dr. 
Stimpson's,  Dr.  Shepherd's,  and  Mr.  Deuch's  children, 
besides  several  other  families.  The  first  school-house 
was  a  small  wooden  building,  situated  about  where 
Mr.  Enslin's  bam  now  stands;  the  second,  built  of 
brick,  which  remained  standing  until  within  a  few 
years,  when  it  was  taken  down,  and  A.  P.  Valentine 
built  a  house  just  back  of  the  site.  Samuel  remained 
with  his  father,  assisting  him  on  the  farm,  until  he 
and  his  brother,  Joseph,  opened  a  store  together,  in  a 
building  running  along  the  yard  adjoining  his  father's 
house.  In  a  few  years  he  gave  this  up,  and  removed 
to  the  upper  part  of  the  town,  now  the  center,  and 
purchased  a  stone  house,  which  he  remodeled  into  a 
public  house.  He  also  built  a  store  adjoining  the 
upper  end  of  the  house,  and  carried  on  hotel,  store 
and  farm  until  his  death.     He  married,  for  first  wife, 


Tlu    Valentines  of  Boston  and  Hopkinton.     1 31 

Frances  Clark,  dauglitcr  of  Isaac  and  Elizabeth  (Hill) 
Clark,  Jr.,  who  was  born  September  25,  1767  ;  married 
May  25,  1800;  died  April  12,  1808,  leaving  two  daugh- 
ters and  one  son.  When  young  she  was  very  beau- 
tiful ;  as  a  wife,  mother  and  friend,  very  much  beloved. 
She  possessed  great  executive  ability,  and,  although 
confined  to  her  room  for  many  years,  she  managed 
her  household  with  ease  and  thorough  completeness. 
He  married,  for  second  wife,  Mary  Fisk,  daughter  of 
Richard  Fisk,  of  Framingham,  Mass.  She  was  born 
January  29,  1783;  married  January  i,  1809.  Samuel 
Valentine,  Jr.,  died  Februarj-  19,  1823,  a  few  days  after 
completing  his  fiftieth  year.  His  widow  was  a  capable, 
energetic  woman,  and  carried  on  the  house  in  con- 
nection with  the  farm,  supporting  her  family,  which 
consisted  of  eight  of  her  own,  and  three  of  her  hus- 
band's children.  After  a  time  she  converted  the  house 
into  a  summer  resort  for  boarders  from  the  cities,  and 
this  she  continued  up  to  the  time  of  her  death,  at  an 
advanced  age,  August  13,  1861. 

Children  by  First  Wife. 
*  Mary  Clark,  born  Feb.  i8,  iSoi  ;  ra.  William  Dennison  Jamison. 
'  .\lbert,  born  March  8,  1S03  ;  died  in  Boston,  June  22,  1829. 
'  Emerline,  bom  Oct.  15,  1S06;  unmarried  ;  still  living  in  Hopkinton. 

Children  by  Second  Wife. 

'  Fanny,  bom  Nov.  12,  1S09  ;  m.  Philip  W.  Bixby. 

'  Su^n  Gilbert,  bom  Dec.  27,  iSio;  m.  Homer  Tilton. 

'  Eliza  Fibk,  born  Nov.  10, 1S13  ;  m.  Benjamin  S.  Famsworth. 

'George,  "  "  "       went   to   Detroit,  Mich.,   1838;  m. 

Caroline  Froit  in  1S44.  He  died  July  23,  1846.  Wife  and  chil- 
dren all  dead. 

'  Samuel  Fisk,  born  1815;  m.  Henrietta  M.  Jackson. 

'  Jane,  born  Jan.  4,  1817  ;  m.  Dr.  Jarno  Swan  Sullivan,  who  died  at 
Savannah.  Geo.,  Feb.  20, 1874. 

'  John  Tyng,  born  Sept.  2,  1S18  ;  m.  Mrs.  Mary  (Claflin)  Valentine. 

.\nn  Maria,  born  Dec.  23,  jSlg  ;  m.  Charles  Winslow  Claflin.  . 


CHAPTER     XVI. 

DESCENDANTS   OF    SAMUEL    VALENTINE — CONTINUED. 
By  Mrs.  F.  E.  Wkstom. 

'  JOHN  JONES  VALENTINE  ('Samuel.'Thomas, 
I  '  John),  brotluT  (if  the  preceding,  born  February 
%J  5.  '775  ;  received  the  same  education  in  the  Dis- 
trict S(  hool.  He  remained  with  his  fatlier  a  few  years, 
wlien,  bcc(jming  restless,  his  father  gave  Iiim  liis  time, 
and  he  went  to  Boston,  entered  into  business,  and  was 
long  known  under  the  firm  of  Bixb)'&  Valentine,  and 
later,  as  Bixby,  Valentine  &  Co.  It  was  one  of  the 
oldest  firms  in  Boston,  He  was  a  good  business  man, 
whole-souled,  free  with  his  money,  and  alwa^-s  ready 
to  assist  others.  He  married  Sally  Voung,  who  was 
b<irn  at  Wellfleet,  Mass.,  17R0,  the  date  f)f  the  marriage* 
not  being  known.  She  was  daughter  of  Dr.  Young. 
An  anecdote  of  him,  related  by  a  cousin  (on  the 
mother's  side),  may  not  be  uninteresting.  This  cousin, 
John  J.  Clarke,  Esq.,  always  attended  to  Mr.  Valen- 
tine's law  business,  when  he  had  any.  One  daj-  he 
was  in  Mr.  Clarke's  office.  During  the  conversation 
religious  subjects  were  broached,  and  some  remark 
made  by  Mr.  Valentine  led  Mr.  Clarke  to  saj',  "Why, 
John,  I  was  not  aware  that  you  were  religiously  in- 
clined;— to  what  sect  do  you  belong.'"  "Upland  Bap- 
tists"* was  the  quick  reply. 

*  The  cxpl.inrtlion  c»f  this  is,  that  he  was  hmg  a  regular  attendant 
u|)on  the  ministry'  of  Dr.  H.iUiHin.  pastor  of  the  .Second  Baptist 
Church,  Boston,  but  never  became  a  member  of  the  church. 


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During  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he  was  ver)-  fleshy, 
like  his  mother,  and,  like  her,  he  died  very  suddenly. 
He  had  retired,  as  well  as  usual,  when  his  wife  was 
awakened  in  the  night  by  a  strange  noise  he  was 
making.  She  endeavored  to  rouse  him,  but  without 
success,  and,  before  she  could  obtain  assistance,  he  was 
dead.  He  died  M.irch  7,  1844,  aged  sixty-nine  years. 
His  widow  died  at  Cambridgeport,  March  29,  1845, 
aged  sixty-five  years.     Their  children  were: — 

Lucinda  Young,  died  in  infancy. 

Caroline  Clarke,  born  in  Boston,  lSo2;  married,  1 5t,  Joseph  Fox,  of 
Milford,  -Mass,  June,  1825.  He  was  of  the  firm  of  Fox  f:  Bixby, 
burned  out  in  the  Kilby-street  fire,  1825.  lie  died  January  20, 
1S28.  They  had  one  son,  who  died  in  infancy.  She  married, 
2nd  time,  Oct.,  1S34.  Henry  Mellen  Chamlerlain,  lawyer,  of 
Cambridgeport.     She  died  January  24,  1858. 

'  Gorham,  born  June,  1S04  ;  died  Oct.  2,  1805. 

'  ChaHes  Henry,  died  in  infancy. 

'  John  Young,  bora  1S08  ;  was  with  his  father  in  business  for  a  time. 
He  went  to  California  in  1853  ;  died  at  Crescent  City,  Nov.  18, 
1871  ;  married,  1st,  Rosalie  Purdy,  of  Newburg,  N.  V. ;  and, 
Elizabeth  Sievens  who  survives  him. 

'  Mary  Ann  Dexter,  born  July  31,  1S12  ;  m.  1st,  N.  T.  Rogers;  2nd, 
G.  W.  Light. 

'  Saiah,  died  in  infancy. 

'  Lucinda  Mayo,  born  Aug.,  1818;  was  the  third  wife  of  Heniy  M. 
Chamberlain  ;  died  in  De  Solo,  Wis.,  Nov.  18,  i858. 

'  Charles  Henry,  born  Sept.  14,  1820;  lives  in  California. 

'George  Frederic,  born  Feb.  14,  1826  (St.  Valentine's  Day);  died 
March  29, 1 861. 

COLONEL    JOSEPH    VALENTINE. 

'Joseph  Valent i ne  ('Samuel, ' Thomas,  'John),  brother 
of  preceding,  b.tii  November  18,  1776.  He  and  his 
brother,  Samuel,  Jr.,  had  a  store  together,  adjoining 
their  father's  house,  but  gave  that  up,  and  bi  ught  out 
Samuel   Haven,  Jr.,  and  kept  that  business  for  a  time, 


134  The  Valentines  in  Atn^rica. 

when,  his  house  being  burned,  he  removed  to  Boston, 
about  1S25  or  1S26,  and  engaged  in  business  in  the 
firm  of  Burrill,  Kimball  &  Co.  He  returned  to  Hop- 
kinton  again,  about  1830,  and  purchased  the  Price 
place.  The  old  Roger  Price  house  had  been  burned  a 
few  years  before,  and  he  built,  upon  the  same  site,  a 
large  brick  house,  where  he  continued  to  reside  during 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  During  the  war  of  181 2  he  was 
Colonel,  and  stationed  in  Boston,  or  thereabouts.  He 
was  representative  from  the  town  of  Hopkinton  for 
many  years;  and,  being  a  clear-headed,  shrewd  man, 
his  speeches  were  always  excellent,  and  to  the  point. 
He  purchased  some  of  the  first  mill  privileges  on  the 
Genesee  river,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and,  had  he  kept 
them,  they  would  have  given  him  a  large  fortune.  He 
also  purchased  land  in  St.  Louis. 

He  married  Fanny  Haven  in  1799.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Samuel  Haven,  who  went  from  Hopkin- 
ton to  Shrewsbur)-,  about  1800.  By  her  he  had  a  large 
familj-.  She  died  June  27,  1841.  In  August,  1842,  he 
married  Mrs.  Eliza  Borden,  daughter  of  Leonard 
Walker.  He  died  March  26,  1845,  and  his  widow  mar- 
ried Nathaniel  Johnson,  of  Hopkinton.  His  children 
were : — 


•  Harriet  Jones,  born  1800;  m    1st,  Abraham  Harrington;  2nd,  Dr. 

Jefferson  Pratt. 

•  John  Lowell,  l>om  1S02  ;  m.  Miriam  Haven. 

'  Jo-ieph  Haven,  born  1S06;  died  in  Smyrna,  1831. 
•George   Washington,  bom    iSog  ;  m.  Mary  W.  Claflin  ;  died    in  St 
Louis,  1840. 

•  Eliza  .^nn,  born  1813  ;  m.  B.  G.  Cutter,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 
'Charles  Henr)-,  bom   1817;  m.   1st,  C.  A.  S.  Jones;  2nd,  Julia  F. 

Devens. 
•Edward   Hopkins,  born   1822;  ra.  1st,  Julia   Moses;   2nd,  Clara  G, 
Baker. 


Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentine. 


•35 


'  Mary  Valentine  ('  Samuel,  'Thomas,  '  John),  sister 
of   preceding,  and    eldest    daughter   of  Samuel    and 
Eliza  (Jones)  Valentine,  born  J.-inuar\-  ii,  1779;  mar- 
ried June   II,   1800,  Elijah   Fitch,  third   son   of  Rev. 
Elijah  and  Hannah  (Fuller)  Fitch.    He  was  born  June 
24,   1778.     His  father  was  the  second   pastor  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in   Hopkinton,  who  was  de- 
scended from  the  Rev.  James  Fitch,  first  minister  of 
Norwich,  Conn.,  who  was  brother  of  Thomas  Fitch, 
Governor    of   Connecticut,    1754-1766.      They   came 
from  an  old  family,  of  Bucking,  Essex  county,  Eng- 
land,  where   Thomas   and   James   were    born.      The 
family  coat-of-arms  is  still  in  the  name  in   England 
and    America.      Elijah    Fitch   had    his    father's   farm, 
which   he  carried   on  until  within  a  few  years  of  his 
death.     He   went    into    silk-worm    raising.      In    his 
family  the   first   silk  was  spun  from  the  cocoons   in 
Massachusetts.     He  also  raised  bees,  and  sold  honey. 
He  was  chosen   Deacon   of  Rev.   Nathaniel    Howe's 
church,  Februar)-  7,  1814;  which  office  he  held  more 
than  thirty-three  years.     His  wife  was  a  very  indus- 
trious, capable  woman,  and  brought  up  a  large  family. 
She  died  September  22,  1835,  aged  fifty-six  years.    Her 
husband  married  her  sister,  Betse)-,  November  2,  1836. 
She  was  another  capable  woman,  a  good  manager  in 
doors  and  out.     She  died   February  21,  1843,  of  lung 
fever. 

Deacon  Fitch  married,  the  third  time,  Mrs.  Olive 
Hayward,  in  1843,  wiui  survived  him.  He  died  very 
suddenly,  from  over-exeruon,  April  27,  1847,  near  the 
railway  station  at  Brighton.  While  hastening  to 
catch  the  train,  he  fell  instantlj-  dead.  He  was  the 
last  of  his  father's  family.  All  his  children  were  by 
his  first  wife,  and  were : — 
•  William  Fuller,  born  May  28,  iSol  ;  m.  Eliza  Ann  Lyon. 


136  The   Valentines  in  Atturica. 

'  Emily  Slimpson.  born  July  26,  1S02  ;  m.  Edward  D.  Baker. 

*  John  Augustus,  born  Oct.  8,  1S03  ;  m.  Lucy  .\nne   Howe. 

'  Leonard  .Millen,  born  June  3.  1S05  ;  m.  Louisa  Ball. 

'  Mary  .\nn,  born  .\pril  S,  1807  ;  m.  Oilman  BalL 

'  Fanny  Valentine,  born  Dec.  24,  iSoS  ;  m.  John  Sa»-yer. 

'James  Harvey,  born  Oct.  7.  iSlo;  m.  Susan  Hayward. 

'  Elizabeth  Jones,  born  Sept.  7,  1813:  m.  Fisher  Hcmenway. 

'Nathaniel    Howe,  born   July  16,  1S15  ;  m.   1st,  .Adeline  Valentine; 

2nd,  Mary  Bailey. 
'  Hannah  Fuller,  born  Dec.  23,  1S16  ;  died  Jan.  24,  1838. 
'  Elijah,  Jr.,  born  March  I,  1819  ;  died  in  Texas,  May  20,  1841. 
»  Charles  Henry,  bom  .Sept.  2,  1S20  ;  m.  Augusta  Parker. 

'Thomas  Valentine  ("Samuel,  'Thomas,  'John), 
brother  of  the  preceding,  born  July  8,  1780;  remained 
with  his  father  for  a  time;  then  went  into  his  brother 
Samuel's  store.  He  left  the  store,  and  purchased  the 
Dench  farm,  with  the  "Bench  House"  that  Mrs.  Stowe 
has  made  so  famous,  b}-  mistaking  it  for  the  "  Frank- 
land  House."  He  also  bought  a  large  wood-lot,  with 
pasturing,  near  Holliston.  He  had  a  brick-j-ard  on 
the  farm,  which  he  worked.  He  married  Helen  Read 
in  1803,  daughter  of  Ephraim  Read,  of  Hopkinton. 
Just  as  he  had  laid  the  fouudauon  for  making  a  good 
living,  he  was  seized  w  ith  a  fever,  and  died  October  8, 
1825.  His  widow  survived  him  many  years,  and 
died  at  Ashland,  December  23,  1S50.  Their  children 
were : — 

'  .\deline  Matilda,  born  Jan.  2,  1804  ;  n-..  Benjamin  Pond. 
'  Lucinda  Voung,  born  April  4,  1807  ;  m.  Sj.encer  Nolen. 
'  Helen  Maria,  born  Feb.  17,  1810;  m.  James  M.  Jones. 
Emily  Read,  born  Jan.  11,  1815  ;  m.  Daniel  C.  Morey. 
•  Thomas  Rucklin,  born  Aug.  6,  1821  ;  m.  Harriet  H.  Parker. 

'  Harrj-  V^ilcntine  ('  Samuel,  '  Thomas,  '  John), 
brother  of  the  preceding,  born  October  5,  17S6;  mar- 
ried, in  1S07,  to  Mary  Mawney,  daughter  of  Dr.  Wil- 


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Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentine. 


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liam  and  Elizabeth  (Clarke)  Mawney,  of  Providence, 
R.  I.  He  had  a  country  variety  store,  under  the  firm 
of  Herrick  &  Valentine,  at  the  upper  part  of  Hop- 
kinton,  where  he  continued  for  a  few  years,  and  then 
bought  out  Samuel  Haven,  Jr.,  who  had  a  store  in 
Shrewsbury,  Mass.  He  moved  his  family  to  Shrews- 
bury, where  he  remained  until  1822,  when  he  went  to 
New  York,  and  engaged  in  business  with  Mr.  Pettin- 
gill.  After  a  time  he  went  into  the  manufacturing  of 
cotton  at  Stirling,  Conn.,  but  still  continued  in  busi- 
ness in  New  York.  He  kept  his  cotton-factory  going 
until  his  death,  which  took  place  in  New  York,  March 
7,  1847.  His  widow  died  in  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
1864.     Their  children  were  : — 

'  Maria  A.,  born  June  lo,  1808  ;  m.  WTnthrop  Eaton. 

'  Edward  Hcniy,  born  July  2,  1805  ;  m.  Olive  L.  Place. 

'  John  Mawney,  born  March  13,  iSlI  ;  died  Feb.  4,  J857. 

'  Eliiabeth,  born  March  26,  1813  ;  m.  A.  H.  Kimmell,  March  25, 1833 ; 

died  August  27,  1833. 
'  Horatio,  bom  June  26,  1815  ;  died  Dec.  7,  1822. 
Harriet  A.,  bom  Sept.  I,  1817  ;  m.  Dr.  P.  H.  Wildman. 
Alfred  A.,  born  Sept.  27,  1819  ;  m.  Sarah  P.  IngalU. 

«  Fanny  V^alentine  ('  Samuel, '  Thomas, '  John),  sister 
of  preceding,  and  youngest  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Elizabeth  (Jones)  Valentine,  born  March  20,  1790; 
married,  October  22,  1S17,  Homer  Tilton,  son  of  Abra- 
ham Tilton,  of  Hopkinton.  He  was  born  December 
23,  1792;  was  in  business  for  a  time  at  Cambridge- 
port;  then  moved  to  Hubbardston,  Mass,  where  he 
had  a  country  variety  store;  thence  went  to  Union- 
ville.  From  there  he  moved  to  Framingham,  where 
he  was  partner  of  Eliphalet  Wheeler  for  a  time,  and 
then  went  into  partnership  with  John  Jones  Clark 
and  Levi  Eaton.  About  1S35  he  moved  to  New  York, 
where  he  continued  in  business  until  his  death. 
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138  Tlu   Valentines  in  America. 


Mrs.  Tilton  was  an  excellent  wife  and  mother, 
capable  and  energetic.  She  died  in  New  York,  Au- 
gust 4,  1850- 

Mr.  Tilton  married,  for  his  second  wife,  Susan  Gil- 
bert, daughter  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Mary  (Fisk)  Valen- 
tine, June  23,  1851.  He  died  September  27,  1S69.  His 
widow  is.  still  living,  in  New  York.  Mr.  Tilton  pos- 
sessed a  cane,  which,  for  its  historical  associasions, 
ought  to  be  mentioned.  It  was  made,  in  1693,  for 
Henry  Plympton;  bears  his  initials,  "  H.  P.,  93,"  on 
the  head.  It  was  presented  by  him  to  Governor  John 
Hancock,  and  he  (Governor  Hancock)  presented  it  to 
Michael  Homer.  Mr.  Tilton,  being  named  for  Mr. 
Homer,  received  the  cane  from  him.  Mr.  Tilton  gave 
the  cane  to  his  grandson,  Homer  Tilton,  son  of  E.  L. 
Tilton,  and  the  cane  is  now  in  possession  of  the  latter. 
His  children  by  his  first  wife  were: — 

'  George  Homer,  born  March  30,  1819;  died  June  II,  1819. 

'  .\lbcrt  Homer,  bom  April  2,  1820  ;  m.  Joanna  Spader. 

'  George  Eugene,  bom  .\pril  22,  1822  ;  m.  Mrs.  Joanna  Sirrine. 

»  Edward  I.arajelle.  born  June  13,  1824  ;  m.  Mary  E.  Penlland. 

'  Lawson  Valentine,  bom  April  13,  1828  ;  m.  Mary  Marks  Fowler. 

By  his  second  wife. 
»  Samuel  Valentine,  born  May  17,  1852  ;  died  Nov.  30,  1855. 

LAWSON    VALENTINE. 

*  Lawson  Valentine  (»  Samuel,  '  Thomas,  '  John), 
seventh  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Jones)  Valen- 
tine, was  born  September  22,  1792  ;  remained  with  his 
father  until  he  was  twenty-one.  He  then  went  to 
Leicester  Academy  for  a  time  From  there  he  went 
to  Cambridgcport,  and  entered  the  store  of  Hayden  & 
Miriam.  He  remained  with  them  until  he  went  into 
business,  under  the  firm  of  Parker,  Goodnow  &  Val- 


Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentine. 


139 


entine,  Cambridgeport.  He  married,  December  15, 
1817,  Mary  Ann  Price,  born  at  Hopkinton,  January 
24,  1 79?,  daughter  of  Major  William  Price,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Commissar)'  Roger  Price,  who  was  Rector 
of  King's  Chapel  from  1729  to  1746.  The  marriage 
took  place  at  the  house  of  Madam  Elizabeth  Price, 
the  only  surviving  daughter  of  Rev.  Roger  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bull)  Price.  She  afterwards  became  an  inmate 
of  Lawson  Valentine's  famil}-,  and  died  with  them, 
Jul)'  3,  1826.  Andrew  Price,  the  youngest  child  of 
Roger  Price,  was  educated  at  Oxford,  and  became  a 
clergyman  of  the  Established  Church.  He  had  a 
living  at  Bromley,  and  one  at  Britwell,  but  lived  and 
died  at  the  latter  place,  June  7,  1856,  at  the  age  of 
ninety-eight  years.  He  was  born  in  England,  and 
never  came  to  this  country.  He  was  the  last  male  of 
this  branch  of  the  Price  family. 

Lawson  V'alentine  left  Cambridgeport  after  the  firm 
was  dissolved,  and  went  into  business  in  Kilby-street, 
Boston,  about  1822.  In  a  year  or  two  he  associated 
himself  with  a  brother  of  one  of  his  former  partners, 
under  the  firm  of  William  i'arker&  Co.,  paper  busi- 
ness, 116  State-street.  They  owned  and  carried  on 
paper-mills  at  Watertown  and  Sudburj'.  He  placed  a 
large  sum  of  money,  for  the  times,  in  this  concern,  and 
never  drew  out  one  dollar  for  the  support  of  his 
family  during  his  life,  but  let  the  profits  due  him  go 
into  the  business  to  increase  the  capital  and  enlarge 
the  business.  In  May,  1828,  his  health  gave  out,  and 
he  was  obliged  to  keep  in  the  house  for  a  few  days  to 
recruit.  His  partner  sent  one  of  the  customers  to  him 
who  had  not  been  quite  square  in  h's  business  rela- 
tions with  the  firm.  During  the  excitement  of  the 
interview  Mr.  Valentine  fell  senseless  upon  the  floor. 
Assistance  was  rendered  at  once,  but  he  was  found  to 


I40  Tlu  Valentines  in  America. 


be  paralyzed,  utterly  speechless  and  helpless;  and  in 
this  condition  he  remained  three  months.  He  ap- 
peared to  have  his  senses,  but  was  unable  to  commu- 
nicate what  was  passing  in  his  mind.  Although  every 
means  was  tried,  his  anxietv  and  distress  were  so  great 
that  the  cfTiirts  made  w(juld  throw  him  into  spasms. 
Everything  was  done  by  physicians  and  friends,  but 
he  never  rallied,  and  grew  weaker  daily  until  his  death, 
August  17,  182S.  Mis  funeral  took  place  at  Hopkin- 
ton,  and  his  remains  were  placed  in  the  Price  tomb. 

He  was  a  man  greatly  beloved  by  all  who  knew 
him,  fcjr  he  was  always  rendering  aid  and  assistance  to 
others,  either  in  business  or  private  matters.  He  was 
an  excellent  business  man — prompt,  energetic,  and  of 
great  integrity  of  character.  His  manners  were  win- 
ning and  gentlemanly.  In  appearance  he  was  tall, 
well  made,  of  a  light  complexion,  and  possessed  a 
pleasing  countenance.  He  was  styled  the  "Jlajver  of 
the  family"  by  those  who  knew  him  best.  A  picture, 
in  water  colors,  was  taken  of  him  as  he  lay  ill,  but  all 
his  friends  miss  his  cheery  and  bright  expression  in  it, 
and  many  have  failed  to  recognize  it  at  all.  Some 
twenty-five  years  after  his  death  his  only  daughter 
met,  at  a  friend's,  an  old  gentleman,  who  inquired 
whose  daughter  she  was,  and,  when  slie  told  him,  he 
placed  his  hand  upon  her  head,  and  said,  "  Thank  God 
for  your  father,  my  child,  for  he  was  a  good  man." 

During  Mr.  Valentine's  illness  liis  wife  sent  to  the 
firm  for  money,  and  received  one  hundred  dollars  in 
cash,  and  sixty  dollars  was  paid  for  wood,  which  she 
needed,  and  this  was  all  that  was  ever  received  by  his 
famil)'  from  the  concern  from  that  day  to  this.  Had 
it  not  been  for  his  business  matters  outside  of  the 
concern,  and  his  wife's  property,  his  family  would 
have  been   left  destitute.     He  wai  a  kind  husband,  an 


Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentine.  141 

indulgent  father,  and  a  great  provider;  and  it  is  now 
supposed  the  distress  he  showed  in  not  being  able  to 
communicate  to  his  friends,  was  owing  to  the  fear  he 
felt  in  regard  to  his  business  matters  He  attended 
Dr.  Lowell's  church,  Boston,  but  was  not  a  member 
of  the  church.  He  belonged  to  the  Societj-  of  Masons, 
and  had  attained  and  passed  some  of  the  higher  offices 
in  the  society  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

His  widow.  Mar)'  A.  (Price)  Valentine,  married  a 
second  time,  August  2,  1841,  Isaac  Peabody  O.sgood, 
born  at  Peterboro',  X.  H.,  son  of  Dr.  Kendall  and 
Lois  (Peabody)  Osgood.  He  graduated  at  Harvard 
College,  1814;  was  a  lawyer  at  No.  5  Court-street, 
Boston,  upwards  of  forty  years.  He  was  made  gjuar- 
dian  of  Lawson  Valentine's  children,  bj-  the  Judge  of 
Probate.  He  died  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  January  12, 
1867. 

Mrs.  Mar)-  A.  (Price,  Valentine)  Osgood  is  still 
living  at  Roxbur}-  (Boston  Highlands),  being  eighty 
two  years  of  age.  She  retains  her  faculties  in  a  re- 
markable degree;  is  bright,  energetic  and  active;  at- 
tends to  her  household  and  business  matters  as  well 
as  ever.  Her  memory  is  wonderful.  In  her  3'oung 
days  she  saw  at  her  aunts,  Madam  Price's  house,  the 
very  best  society  in  the  country;  and  her  accounts  of 
the  "  olden  times"  are  interesting  and  accurate.  To 
her  is  largely  due  most  of  the  histor)-  of  this  branch 
of  the  Valentine  family.     The  children  were: — 

.\ndrew  Price,  born  Nov.  14,  1818;  m.  Hannah  Read. 
William  Trice,  bom  Sept.  30,  1820;  m.  Caroline  Warren. 
F.dward  Lawson,  born  .Aug.  3,  1623  ;  m.  Marj'  J.  .\ngier. 
Infant,  born  June  12,  1S25  ;  died  June  13.  1825. 
Frances  Er\ing,  born  June  4,  1S27  ;  m.  Samuel  M.  Weslon.' 


CHAKLES    VALENTINE. 

'  Charles  Valentine  ('  Samuel,  '  Thomas,  '  John), 
bruiIiLT  of  the  preceding,  and  )-oungest  child  of  Sam- 
uel and  Elizalioth  (Jones)  Valentine,  was  born  March 
6,  1797.  lie  remained  on  the  farm  with  his  father  a 
time;  then  went  to  the  Framingham  Academy.  He 
then  went  to  the  center  of  the  town  of  Hopkinton, 
and  established  himself  in  business  there.  He  tiiar- 
ried,  September  16,  1821,  Isanna  Chamberlain.  She 
was  tlie  daughter  of  Moses  and  Rhoda  (.Mellen)  Cham- 
berlain. They  went  to  live  in  the  old  Roger  Price 
house,  and  their  two  eldest  children  were  born  there. 
He  then  removed  to  Caiiibridgeport,  where  lie  lived, 
and  carried  on  business  in  Boston.  In  1826  he  was  of 
the  firm  of  Valentine  &  Bridges,  until  thej-  dissolved, 
and  he  went  in  with  Daniel  Draper.  He  was  with 
him  several  years.  In  1S32"  he  was  by  himself,  at  13 
Long  Wharf,  in  1836  having  taken  in  his  brother-in- 
law,  Ambrose  Chamberlain,  under  the  name  of  Charles 
Valentine  &  Co.  In  1S39  the  firm  had  removed  to 
4  South  Market-street,  where  they  continued  until  Mr. 
Valentine's  death.  Charles  Valentine  was  a  shrewd 
business  nT.m,  and  carried  on  a  very  extensive  busi- 
ness, both  in  Boston  and  at  the  West.  On  the  morn- 
ing of  January  10,  1S50,  he  rose  apjjarently  in  his  usual 
health,  but  some  member  of  the  family  hearing  a  fall, 
ran  to  his  room,  and  found  him  dead  upon  the  floor. 
He  died  of  heart  disease,  which  had  alreadj-  taken  so 
many  of  the  familj-.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Steam's  church  (Congregational)  for  many  years. 
His  widow  is  living*  at    Xcwtonville,  Mass.,  at  the 

*  Nfrs.  Ts.nnna  C,  widow  of  Charles  \*alcnline,  (ii-  ■!  in  New  York 
cily.  while  on  a  visit  to  her  sons,  .^pril  23,  1874. 


Descendants  of  Samu'-l  Valentine. 


'43 


present  time,  1.S74.  At  Iier  house  is  the  portrait  of 
Thomas  Valentine's  wife,  Elizabeth  Gooch.  This 
likeness,  which  has  hung  in  the  "Old  X'^alentine 
House"  about  a  century,  has  been  restored,  and  is  in  a 
good  state  of  preservation.  The  companion  portraits, 
supposed  to  be  lier  father  and  mother,  are  in  pos- 
session of  Mrs.  Samuel  P.  Barker,  Scituate,  Mass. 
Charles  and  Isanna  Valentine's  rhildren  were: — 


'  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  at  Hopkinton,  Jan.  20.  1S23  ;  married  lo  Jo- 
seph S.  Allen,  of  New  York.  Oct.  12,  1849. 

'  .Augusta  Maria,  born  at  Hopkinton,  Oct.  31,  1824  ;  m.  Ezra  T. 
Nelson. 

'  Infant  daughter,  born  Nov.  20,  if 26;  died  Nov.  20.  1S26. 

'  I.awson.  bom  at  Cambridgei>ort,  .\\W\\  13.  182S  ;  m.  Lucy  Houghton. 

'  Henry  Chamberlain,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  .\pril  13,  1830;  m. 
Grace  Barrett. 

'  Ann    Rebecca,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  Dec.  24,  1 831  ;  died   Nfarch 

4.1834- 
'  Rebecca  Jones,  bom  at  Cambridgeport,  Feb   22,  1834  ;  id.  Leiand 

Fairbanks. 
'  Ellen,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  Sept.  I,  1836. 
'  Caroline,   bom   at   Cambridgeport,   Sept.  16,  1837  ;   died   May  16, 

1841. 
^  Frances  Gertrude,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  March  23, 1842  ;  m.  A. 

H.  Sylvester. 
'Charles,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  May,  1845  ;  died  Ju'/,  1845. 
'  Charle'^  Theodore,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  Oct.  26,  1 846;  m.  Char- 

lottte  G.  Light. 


144  7"//^   Valentines  in  America. 


CHAPTER     XVII. 

DESCENDANTS    OF    SAMUEL    VALENTINE CONTINUED. 

By  Mes.  F.  E.  Westoh. 
SIXTH    GENERATION. 

M.\  R  V  CLARK  V  A  L  E  N  T I  N  E  ( '  Samuel, 
^Samuel,  'Thomas,  'John),  the  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Fanny  (Clark)  Valen- 
tine, born  at  Hopkinton,  February  i8,  i8ci  ;  married, 
December  15,  1822,  William  Dennison  Jennison.  He 
was  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Sumner)  Jennison; 
born  in  Shrewsburj-,  Sept.  10,  1798;  was  in  business  in 
Swanton,  Vt.,  Hopkinton,  and  New  York,  and  finally 
settled  in  Unionville  (now  Ashland,  Mass.)  where  he 
had  a  country  variety  store  until  his  death,  February 
27.  185;.  Mrs.  Jennison  is  still  living.  Like  her 
m  :her,  she  was  ver^-  handsome.  Their  children 
were : — 

•  William  Clark,  born  May  2S,  1824  ;  lives  in  New  York. 

•  Mary  Frances,  Ixjm  .March  I,  1830;  died  Jan.  9,  1835. 

•  .\!bert  Valentine,  born  Dec.  21,  1831  :  lives  in  New  York. 

•  Fanny  Clark,  born  Jan.  i,  1837  ;  m.  S.  C.  Bixby. 

»  Fanny  Valentine  («  Samuel,  Jr.,  '  Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
'  John),  the  daughter  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Mary  (Fisk) 
Valentine,  born  in  Hopkinton,  November  12,  1809; 
married  Philip  Wentworth  Bixby,  April  22,  1829.  He 
was  in  business  in  Boston,  under  the  firm  of  Fox  & 
Bixby,  burned  out  in  the  Kilby-street  fire  1825.  After- 
wards, for  many  years,  employed  by  the  Eastern  Rail- 


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road  Company.     He  died  April  29,  1S57.     Mrs.  Bixby 
died  June  26,  1866.     Their  ciiildren  were: — 

'  Samuel  Valentine,  born  Dec  12,  lS2g  ;  in.  Marj-  Bartlett,  June,  1852. 
Mar)'  I-izzie,  George  Dale,  Nellie  Valentine,  their  children,  all 
dead.  S.  V.  Bixby  was  accidentally  drowned  at  Hull,  June  5, 
1S69. 

'  Frances  Maria,  born  April  4,  1833. 

•  Alfred,  born   Sept.   S,  1S36;    m.  Orelia   C.   Pannelee,  of    Lansing, 

Mich.,  July  I,  1S62  ;  resides  in  Lansing. 

'Eliza  Fisk  Valentine  ('Samuel,  Jr.,  'Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  '  John),  twin  daughter  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and 
Mary  (Fisk)  Valentine,  born  November  10,  1.S13; 
married  Benjamin  S.  Farnsworth,  March  21,  1S32.  He 
was  born  in  Boston,  August  9,  1804.  He  was  in 
business  in  Hopkinton;  removed  to  Detroit,  Mich., 
1837,  where  the}*  still  reside.     Their  children  were: — 

•  Harriet  Eliza,  bom  in  Detroit,  Aug.  5,  1839. 

•  Henrietta  Lou' .e,  born  in  Detroit,  .\pril  16,  1842. 

'  Mary  Susan,  born   in   Detroit,  Dec.  17,  1847  ;  m.  Wlliam  \V.  Smith. 

'Samuel  Fisk  Valentine  ('Samuel,  Jr.,  'Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  '  John),  son  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Mary  (Fisk) 
Valentine,  born  1S15;  married  Henrietta  Maria  Jack- 
son, daughter  of  James  and  Martha  Jackson,  of  Ash- 
land. She  was  born  October  8,  i8;!3;  married  May 
14,  1S45  ;  died  November  3,  1S54.  Samuel  Fisk  was  in 
business  in  Buston  and  Providence,  R.  I.  He  died  in 
Hopkinton,  October  30,  1S63.    Their  children  were: — 

•  James  Jackson,  born  June  6,  l?46  ;  m.  .\gnc'^  \V.  Palmer. 

•  Martha  Price,  born  Nov.  6,  1848.     She  graduated  at  the  State  Nor- 

mal School,  Framingham,  .Mass.,  July  10,  1S66;  commenced 
teaching,  Oct.  I.  lSi6,  in  Worcester,  where  she  remained  three 
years  ;  taught  in  a  private  school  at  .St.  Louis,  Mo.,  one  year,  and 
is  now  teaching  in  Brookline,  Mass. 

•  Mary  Jenni^on,  born  Sept.  12,  l8;i  ;  died  Dec.  20,  1S54. 

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'Jane  Valentine  (' Samuel,  Jr.,  'Samuel,  'Thomas, 
'  Ji)hn),  sister  of  the  preceding,  born  January  4,  1S17  ; 
married  November  24,  1S40,  to  James  Swan  Sullivan. 
Me  was  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Swan)  Sullivan, 
born  in  Boston,  Februar}-  17,  iSii  ;  graduated  at  the 
Medical  College,  Harvard,  in  1832;  practiced  his  pro- 
fession in  Hopkinton  for  a  time;  then  removed  to 
Galena,  Illinois.  From  there  he  went  to  Darien,  Geo. ; 
thence  to  Savannah,  where  the  famil)-  now  reside,  and 
where  he  died,  February  .'o,  1874.  Their  children 
were : — 

•  Sarah  S^an,  born  in  Galena,  Oct.  7,  1843. 

•  Jamc?^.  bom  in  Darien,  Aug.  17,  1845. 

•  '.Villiam.  born  in  Hopkinton,  Oct,  13.  1847. 

•  John,  bom  in  Darien,  Dec.  23,  1849. 

•  Swan,  born  in  Hopkinton,  Nov.  13,  1851. 

•  Meredith  .^inor}',  born  in  Hopkinton,  Jan.  2,  1853. 

•  Gertrude,  born  in  Hopkinton,  Sept.  13,  1855  ;  died  in  Savannah. 

•John  Tyng  Valentine  ('Samuel,  Jr.,  'Samuel, 
'Thomas,  'John),  )-oungest  son  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and 
Mar)-  (Fisk)  Valentine,  born  September  2,  1818;  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Mary  W.  (Clafiin)  Valentine,  December, 
1814.  He  carried  on  his  father's  farm,  and  died  Octo- 
ber 6,  1S52.     Their  children  were  : — 

•  Fanny  .\.,  Ijorn  Sept.  21,  1S42;  is  a  successful  teacher. 

•  Emma   Kale,  born  May  7,  1S44;  graduated  ,Tt  the  Winthrop  School, 

Boston,  receiving  the  silver  medal ;  gradua'ed  at  the  Girls'  High 
and  Normal  School,  Boston,  1S63;  has  taught,  since  1665,  at  the 
Winthrop  School. 

•  George  .\lbert,  born  .Aug.  3,  1S46;  m.  Anna  E.  Loring. 

'Ann  Maria  Valentine  (' Samuci,  Jr.,  =  Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  '  J<jlin),  yuiingcst  child  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  and 
Mary  (Fisk)  X'alentine,  born  December  23,  1819;  mar- 
ried Charles  Winslow  Claflin,  April  18,  1844.     He  was 


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•47 


son  of  James  and  Susan  (Wardsworth)  Claflin,  of 
Hupkinton.  They  reside  at  Hopkinton.  Their  chil- 
dren were : — 

•  Emma  Frances,  born  Feli.  21,  1S45  ;  m.  Edward  W.  Pierce. 

•  Charles  Leslie,  born  March  l6,  1S5I. 

•  Mary  Valentine,  bom  Nov.  3,  1855. 

'Mar}'  Ann  Dexter  Valentine  (*  Jolin,  'Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  '  John),  the  second  daughter  of  John  Jones 
and  Sally  (Voting)  V^alcntine,  born  in  Boston,  July 
ji,  1812;  married  to  Captain  Nathaniel  Sherburne 
Rogers,  October  20,  1840.  He  was  born  at  Mt.  Ver- 
non, Me.,  in  1S05,  and  died  in  New  Orleans,  January 
6,  1848.     Their  children  were: — 

•  John  Jones,  boni  in  Boston,  Aug.  30, 1 841 ;  died  !n  Charleston,  S.  C, 

1842. 

•  Nathaniel  Sherburne,  born  in  Paterson,  N.  J.,  June  8,  1845  ;  died  in 

Cambridge,  Oct.  24,  1846. 
•George  Augustus,  born  in   Liverpool,   England,  Sept.  12,1843;  m. 
Susan  R.  Cunningham. 

•  Harriet  Jones  Valentine  (*  Joseph,  »  Samuel, 
Thomas,  '  John),  eldest  daughter  of  Colonel  Joseph 
and  Fanny  (Haven)  Valentine,  born  in  Hopkinton, 
1800;  married  Abraham  Harrington,  in  1816,  as  his 
second  wife.  He  was  a  lawyer ;  graduated  at  Har- 
vard College  in  1S12;  settled  in  Hopkinton,  where  he 
died  in  1S28.  Mrs.  Harrington  married  again,  in  1829, 
Dr  Jefferson  Pratt,  son  of  David  and  Lucy  Pratt,  of 
Belchertown,  where  he  was  born  in  1803;  graduated 
at  the  Berkshire  Medical  School,  Pittsfield.  His 
father  was  a  Captain  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Dr. 
Pratt  was  the  youngest  of  sixteen  children.  His 
inother  was  fifty-four  years  old  when  he  was  bom,  and 
lived  to  be  ninety-three.  Dr.  Pratt  was  representative 
from  Hopkinton  in  1839,  1840,  1841. 


1 48  The  I'alenti Ill's  in  Anuriia. 


Mrs.  Hiirrict  J.   (V'alcntinc  Harrington)    Pratt  died 

at  Hojikiiiton,  October  19,   1S71. 

Chihiriit  by  Afr.  I/arrini^h'n. 

'  Frances  Ann,  born  1S17;  m.  Norman  Cutler. 
'  llcnrj'  n.,  born  1S19;  died  in  1821. 

*  Catherine  Marlha,  bom  1S22  ;  m.  Amos  Cutter. 

*  Cicorge  H.,  bom  1S26;  m.  Maitha  Mann. 

Childr.n  by  Dr.  Pratt. 

•  .Mar)'  Jane,  born  1S30;  in.  isl,  George  Bowen  ;  2nd,  H.  B.  Wilder. 

*  Sarah  B.,  burn  1S32  ;  died  in  infancy. 

'Sarah    Elizal)eth.  born   1S36;  livea  with  her   father,  at    Hopkinton. 
and  is  quite  an  amateur  artist. 

'  Jolin  Lf)\vell  Valentine  ('  Joseph,  '  Satniiel, 
»  Tliomas,  '  Jolin),  eldest  son  of  Joseph  and  Fanny 
(Haven)  Valentine,  born  1S02;  married  Miriam  Rice 
Haven  in  1S26;  lived  in  Hopkinton,  where  he  died  in 
1S52.     Their  children  were  : — 

•  Frances  Caroline,  born  l526  ;  m.  Luther  Phipps, 

•  Henry  Clay,  born,  1S30;  m.  .\nnie  D.  Hagar. 

•  Frederic  Eugene,  born  1S34  ;  m.  Ella  Go-jsom. 

•  Eliza  Jane,  born  1836  ;  died  1840. 

'  Ellen  .Maria,  bom  1S39  ;  m.  Hiram  .\.  Wright. 

•  Eliza  Ann,  bom  1641. 

»  Eli2a  Ann  Valentine  (*  Joseph,  '  Samuel,  -  Thomas^ 
'  John),  sister  of  the  preceding,  born  in  Hopkinton,  in 
1S13;  married  B.  G.  Cutter,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  where 
they  resided  until  Mr.  Cutter's  death,  in  1S49.  Mrs. 
Cutter  then  rettirncd  to  Massachusetts,  with  her  chil- 
dren. She  resides  with  her  daughter,  in  Brooklyn, 
X.  Y.     Their  children  were: — 

'Josephine    Eliza,   born    1839;    m.   lit,  G.    S'.rickland  ;    2nd,  Ur.  J. 
Snively. 


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149 


•  Faany  Haven,  bom ;  m.  Clinton  Hardy. 

•George  Lewis,  born   1S47  ;  m.  Fanny  Knapj>,  of  New  Vork,  Nov. 
12,  1873. 


'  Charles  Henry  Valentine  (*  Joseph,  '  Samuel, 
'  Tiiomas,  '  John),  brotlier  of  preceding,  born  at  Hop- 
kinton,  1S17;  married,  1st,  Mrs.  Cjtithia  Ann  Saw- 
telle,  in  183S.  Thc\'  had  two  children,  who  died 
young.  She  died  at  St.  Louis,  in  1S47.  Cliarles  H. 
Valentine  was  in  business  in  St.  Louis  until  after  his 
wife's  death,  in  1S49,  and  in  1850  lie  was  of  the  firm  of 
Wheeler  &  Co.,  Boston,  successors  to  Harnden's  Ex- 
press. He  married  Julia  F.  Devins,  of  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  in  1S51,  and  soon  after  removed  to  Xew  Vork, 
where  he  was  very  successful  in  business.  lie  died  in 
1S70.  His  widow  lives  on  the  Hudson!  Their  chil- 
dren were : — 

•  Julia. 

•  Florence. 

•  Charles,  died  young. 

'Edward  Hopkins  Valentine  ('Joseph,  'Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  •  John),  brother  of  preceding,  and  j-oungest 
of  ihe  famil)-,  born  in  1S22  ;  married,  ist,  Julia  Moses, 
of  Exeter,  X.  H.  She  died  in  Exeter,  and  he  married, 
2nd,  Mrs  Clara  (Gooe)  Baker.  They  live  in  Balti- 
more, and  have  one  child  : — 


Annie,  bom  ■ 


-,  1861. 


•  William  Fuller  Fitch  (»  Mary,  »  Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
'  John),  eldest  son  of  >Liry  (Valentine)  and  Elijah 
Fitch,  of  Hopkinton,  born  May  28,  iSoi ;  iiiarried 
Eliza  Ann  Lyon,  June  3,  1827.  He  lived  in  Hopkin- 
ton for  a  time,  and  tlien  removed  to  Lewiston,  Me. 
He  was  constantly  inventing,  and  endeavoring  to  per- 


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feet  (jtlier  inventions — among  those  best  known, 
"  Fitch's  Self-Adjusting  Sliingle  Machine,"  and 
"  Fitch's  Regulator."  He  overtaxed  iiis  brain  and 
was  paralyzed,  which  caused  his  death,  May  8,  1S57. 
Their  children  were : — 

•  Ann  Maria  Fitch,  born  Aug.  16,  1828. 

•  Henry  C,  born  Dec.  17, 1S30 ;  m.  Agnes  Wright,  Dec.  3,  1S63. 
•Charlotte  P.,  born  July  13,  1832;   m.  George  A.   Seabury,  May  6, 

1S56;  one  child,  'Carrie  A.,  born  July  15,  1857. 
•William   L.,  born  Aug.   15,1834;  m.  Viola  T.  W'estcott,  July    18. 
1S63. 

•  Mary  E.,  born  July  29,  1S36;  died  April  12,  1837. 

•  Ch.irlcb  E.,  born  .\pril  15.  1S3S  ;  died  Sept.  10,  1838. 

•  James  A.,  bom  Dec.  21,  1843. 

'  Emily  Stimpson  Fitch  ('  Mary,  '  Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
'  John),  sister  of  preceding,  and  eldest  daughter  of 
Mary  Valentine  and  Elijah  Fitch,  born  July  26, 1802  ; 
married  Edward  Dodge  Baker,  of  Wenham,  Mass., 
May  I,  1834.  They  lived  in  Salem,  where  all  their 
children  were  born;  then  removed  to  Hopkinton, 
where  he  died,  February  6,  1864.  Their  children 
were  : — 

•  Mar)'  Filch,  bom  March  5,  1S36  ;  taught  at  the  South,  in  New  York, 

and  now  has  a  private  school  in  Hopkinton. 

•  Hannah  Fitch,  born  May  2,  1838  ;  teaching  in  h  r  sister's  school. 
'  licnjamin  Franklin,  born  Aug.  24,  1S40;  m.  Sarah  J.   Ball. 

•  Edward  Henry,  born  Jan.  14,  1842  :  m.  .\nnie  Moore. 

'  John  Augustus  Fitch  (•  Mary,  '  Sainuel,  «  Thomas, 
John),  brother  of  preceding,  born  at  Hopkinton,  Oc- 
tober 8,  1S03;  married  Lucy  Ann  Howe,  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  N'athaniel  Howe  and  Olive  (Jones)  Howe, 
March  19,  1829.  (Mrs.  Howe  was  the  daughter  of 
Ji)hn  Jones,  Esq.,  and  sister  of  Mrs.  Samuel  Valen- 
tine, the  grandmother  of  J.  A.  Fitch.)     John  A.  Fitch 


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151 


lived  on  tlie  Howe  farm  for  many  years,  but  sold  that, 
and  bouq^lit  the  Adams  farm,  wliich  he  stifl  owns.  He 
was  Representative  from  Hoptiinton  in  1S54,  1855; 
Chairman  of  Board  of  Assessors;  Trustee  of  State 
Reform  Sciiool  for  three  years  ;  Trustee  of  Industrial 
School  for  Girls;  Overseer  of  Poor;  Justice  of  Peace 
for  twcnty-fivc  years;  and,  for  the  last  three  years. 
Trial  Justice  for  Middlesex  county.  Their  children 
were : — 

'  .\pplclon  Howe,  born  March  It,  1S30;  m.  Elizabeth  Bennett. 
'  Eilward  I'-Tyson.  born  March  S,  1832  ;  m.  Sarah  \.  Wilmarth. 
'  John  Wilher^poon,  born  .May  31,  1834. 

*  Mary  Ru'.scll,  born  Oct.  17,  1S36  ;  died  July  19,  1837, 
'  Harriet  Loud,  born  July  17,  1839  ;  died  Sept.  I,  1841. 
'  Elijah,  born  Oct.  24,  1841. 

'  Calvin  Webster,  born  June  8,  1843. 

•  Nathaniel  Emmons,  born  May  12,  1S45  ;  died  Oct.  12,  1846. 

'  Leonard  Mellen  Fitch  (*  Mary,  'Samuel, '  Thomas, 
'  John),  brother  of  preceding,  born  June  3,  1805  ;  edu- 
cated at  tlie  Burlington  College,  Vt.;  studied  medi- 
cine; then  law;  taught  school  at  the  same  time; 
received  a  lucrative  offer  to  go  South  to  teach,  which 
he  accepted,  and  remained  nine  years.  He  married, 
there,  Louisa  Ball,  daughter  of  Dr.  Stephen  Ball,  of 
.\orthboro',  Mass.,  July  21,  1835.  She  taught  in 
Southern  Virginia  five  years.  They  then  went  West  for 
a  time;  finally,  went  to  Boston,  and  he  associated  him- 
self with  his  brother-in-law,  Dr.  Ball,  Dentist,  where 
he  now  is.  Thcv  reside  at  West  Newton,  Mass.  Their 
children  were : — 


*  George  Lincoln,  born  1S38. 
'  Mary  Louise,  born  1S40;  died  young. 

'Caroline  Eli?abcih  ;  born  1846;  leaches  in  a    Kindergarten  school, 
in  Boston. 


'  Mary  Ann  Fitch  ('  Mnry,  '  Samuel,  '  T'lomas, 
'  Jolin).  sister  of  preceding,  born  April  S,  1S07  ;  mar- 
ried Oilman  Ball,  March  19,  iSjj;  lived  in  Hopkin- 
ton.  He  died  June  27,  1S43.  Slie  died  October  31, 
iS6:.     Their  children  were: — 

'  Mar)-  J.inc,  l>orn  March  1<).  1S33  ;  died  young. 

•  George  Hrnr)-,  born  July  29.  1S34  ;  died  in  infancy. 

•  Ellen  Maria,  horn  Nov.  5,  1S36;  in.  Elisha  Frail. 

•  Sarah  Jane,  born  July  23,  1S3S  ;  m.  B.  F.  Baker. 

'  Fanny  Valentine  Fitch,  sister  of  preceding,  born 
December  24,  180S;  married  to  John  S.awyer,  April 
7,  1S36.  She  died  at  Hopkinton,  AiigTJSt,  1S44.  Their 
children  were : — 

•  Franccena,  Iwm  Jan.  6,  1837. 

•  Isabel,  born  .\pril  29,  1S40;  m.  James  \V.  Leonard. 
'  .\nna,  bom  May  20,  i?42     m.  Lorenro  Wallace. 

•  Arthur  Tappan,  born  Jui>  ' .  1S44  ;  died  July  13,  1S46. 

'  James  Ilarvcy  Fitch  ('  Mar)*,  '  Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
'  John),  brother  of  preceding,  born  October  7,  1810; 
married  Susan  Haxward  (daughter  of  liis  father's 
third  wife,  Mrs.  Olive  Ilayward),  April  13,  1836;  lived 
many  years  in  Hopkinton;  then  removed  to  Worces- 
ter. Mass.,  where  he  now  resides.  Their  children 
were : — 

•  Olive  H.iyward.  born  May  30,  1S37  ;  m.  Harrison  G.  Otis. 

•  .\nn  .AugiHta,  born  .\pril  19,  1S41  ;  died  March  23,1865. 

•  .\bby  Claflin,  bom  .\pril  24,  1S44  ;  died  Dec  25, 1847. 
'  William  Henrj-,  born  Jan.  8,  1S47. 

•  Charles  .Albert,  born  Oct.  10,  iSjl ;  died  Dec.  27,  1S52. 

*  Elizabetli  Jones  Fitch  ('  Mar)-,  '  Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
'John),  sister  of  preceding,  born  September  7,  1S13; 
married  Fisher  Ileincnway,  of  Framingham,  Mass.,  in 


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1S35.  They  reside  in  Hopkinton.  Mrs.  Hemenway 
is  a  verj-  energetic,  capable  and  intelligent  woman, 
and  brouglit  up  a  large  family.  Their  children 
were : — 

•  Marj'  Filch,  born  Nov.  3,  1S35  ;  m.  Charles  H.  Pierce. 
'  Rebecca,  born  June  26,  1S37  ;  died  June  5,  1S42. 

'  .Mfrcd,  bom  .\ug.  17,  1839  ;  graduated  al  Vale  College,  1S61  ;  grad- 
uated at  Harvard  I,aw  School,  1S63  ;  lawjer ;  lives  in  Boston; 
married  Myra  L.  McT-anaihan,  Oct.,  1871. 

•  .\lice,  born  Nov.  2,  1840. 

'  Frances  ,\nn  Erving,  born  Jan.  17.  1844  ;  died  Feb.  II,  1848. 

•  Charles  Fisher,  born  July  13,  1S46;  died  March  6,  1848. 

•  Everett,  bom  Oct.  2.  1848. 

•  George  Louis,  born  Nov.  23,  1S50 ;  graduated  at  Yale  College,  187a  ; 

is  now  studying  law. 

•  James  Wilbur,  born  Aug.  16,  1853. 

•  Lizzie  Valentine,  born  March  5, 1857. 

•  Edwin  -Mien,  born  May  3,  1859. 

•  Harry,  bom  .^ug.  19,  1861. 

'  Nathaniel  Howe  Fitch,  brother  of  preceding,  bom 
July  16,  i3i5;  married  Adeline  Valentine,  daughter 
of  Captain  Joseph  Valentine,  of  Hopkinton,  February 
27,  1818.  They  lived  in  Hopkinton  until  the  death  of 
his  wife,  which  took  place  October  26,  1863.  He  then 
removed  to  Maples,  Ind.,  where  he  now  resides.  He 
married  second  wife,  Mary  Bailey,  October,  1869. 

ChiUren  by  First    ,  'iff- 

•  Sarah  >L,  born  Jan.  2, 1S40;  m.  John  M.  Parkey,  of  Ohio,  Oct.  31. 

1871  ;  live  in  Columbia  City,  Ind. 

•  George,  bom  May  9,  1841 ;  died  Sept.  17, 1841. 

•  Harriet  R.,  bom  Jan.  3,  1S44;  died  Sept.  23,  1863. 

•  Rebecca  \V.,  bom  Dec.  17,  1S47  ;  died  Aug.  14,  1848. 
'  Martha  V.,  born  Jan.  27,  1S50;  died  June  10,  1850. 

•  Lewis  y\.,  born  Dec.  9,  1851  ;  died  Feb.  2,  1852. 

•  Charles  W.,  born  Sept.  28,  1S55  ;  died  Oct.  17,  1854. 

•  Frank  H.,  bom  July  II,  1856  ;  died    .ug.  23,  1856. 

20 


'54 


The   Vnlciitincs  in  Aiiitrica. 


•  lo-icph  Valentine,  born  Nov.  7,  1S57 ;  owner  of  the  "  Lynde  Bible.' 

•  .\rlhur  M.,  I»irn  Sept,  3,  1S59. 

Br  S.roii,i  Wife. 
Clarence  Khiyn.Ixjrn  .\pril  7,  1S71. 

'  Ch.irles  Henry  Fitch  ('  Mary,  '  Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
'  Johnl,  brother  of  preceding,  and  youngest  of  the 
family,  born  September  2,  1S20;  married  Augusta 
Parker,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Polly  Parker, 
February  8,  1S43.  He  lived  for  a  tiine  at  Hopkinton; 
then  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  wliere  he  is  en- 
g.iged  in  the  manufacturing  of  boots.  Their  children 
were : — 

•  .\(ielia  .\iigust.T,  born  Dec.  15,  I>45  ;  m.  Henry  J.  Nelson,  1872. 

•  Jennie  Sophi.a,  l">rn  in  Worcester,  Sept.  9,  1850. 

"  Charles  Sumner,  born  in  Worcester.  June  9,  1853. 
«  Fanny  Etta,  born  in  Worcester,  May  19,  1855. 

•  Frank  Evarts,  born  in  Worcester,  Feb.  22,  1858. 

'  Adeline  Matilda  Valentine  (*  Thomas,  '  Samuel, 
»  Thomas,  '  John),  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Helen  (Read)  Valentine,  born  Jantiar)-  2,  iSo4  ;  married 
Benjamin  Clark  Pond,  1S21  ;  lived  at  Ashland,  where 
she  died,  October  30,  1S51.  He  died  March  17,  1870. 
Their  children  were  : — 

'  Frances  Maria.  Imin  Jan.  27,  1S22;  m.  Otis  Cole. 

•  Henr)-  Valentine,  born  June  26,  1S24. 

'  I.ucinila  Valcnline   Pond,  born  Oct.  21,  1S26  ;  died  March,  1P43. 
'George  Frederic.  l)orii  Nov.  17,  1S30;  m.  Mar)-  Devine. 

•  Catherine  Corncli.!,  born  Oct.  22,  1832  ;  m.  William  Jones. 

•  Thomas  Clark,  I>orn  1840. 

'  Lucinda  Young  Valentine,  sister  of  preceding, 
born  April  5,  1S07;  married  Spencer  Nolen,  Nov.  13, 
1S37.     Thcv  reside   in   Boston,  where   he   has  been  a 


Dcscctidaiits  of  Samuel  Valentine. 


155 


successful    dentist 
were : — 


for   many  years.      Their^children 


'  Albert  Valentine,  born  Dec.  16,  1S3S  ;  m.  Elizal>eth  .S.  Morton. 

'  Samuel  Andrews,  bom  March  3,  1S41  ;  m.  Mar)-  H.  Howe. 

•Caroline,  born  Feb.  5,  1S45  ;  graduated  at  the  Girls'  High  and 
Normal  School,  Boston  ;  taught  in  the  Winthrop  School  several 
years;  then  went  to  Germany  two  year^,  to  perfect  herself  in 
music  and  the  modem  languages. 

'  Helen     Maria     \'alentine     (''  Thomas,     '  Samuel, 

•  Thomas,  '  John),  sister  of  preceding,  born  February 
17,  1810;  taught  eight  years;  married  James  H.  Jones, 
January  15,  1840.  He  had  charge  of  the  depot  at 
Ashland  for  many  years,  and  was  also  postmaster. 
Their  children  were: 

•  Mary  Valentine,  Ixjm  July  17,  1S41  ;  m.  Wesley  U.  Houghton,  Oct, 

21,  1863. 

•  Helen  M.,  born  Dec.  15.  1S42,  m.  Charles  O.  Melcalf. 

•  Lucinda  M.,  born  Jan.  16,  1S46  ;  taught  two  years,  died   Feb.  23. 

1869. 

•  Caroline  Hale,  bore  .April  23,  1848. 

•  Cereno  Upham,  bom  April  23,  1S51  ;  succeeded  his  father  as  agent 

of  the  Boston  and  Albany  Railroad  Company;  died  suddenly,  of 
typhoid  fever,  October  I,  1S73:  very  fine  young  man. 

•  Adeline  I'ond,  bora  Oct.  24,  1S53. 

'  Emily  Read  Valentine,  sister  of  preceding,  bom 
January  11,  1815;  married  Daniel  Coburn  Morey  in 
1838.  He  died  September  4,  1863.  Their  children 
were : — 

'  Georg--  Valentine,  born  Sept.  2g,  1 839. 

•  Helen  Frances,  born  Sept.  iS,  1842. 

'  Emma  Pauline,  Ixjra  Jsn.  22,  1S45  ;  is  a  successful  teacher. 

•  James  Baniard  Reed,  bom  Dec.  25,  1S48. 

'  Fanny  .\sinath  I'arsons,  born  July  26,1850;  m.  Millard  J.  Pole, 
Jan.  S,  1S73  ;  died  Jan.  21,  1874. 

•  Daniel  Webster,  born  July  12,  1S52. 

•  Lucinda  Cobura,  born  Oct.  6,  1S56. 


156  The  Valentines  in  America. 

'  Thomas  Bucklin  Valentine  ('  Thomas,  '  Samuel, 
<  Thomas,  '  John),  brother  of  preceding,  and  only  son 
of  Thomas  and  Helen  (Read)  V'alentine,  born  No- 
vember 7,  1S18;  married  Harriet  M.  Parker,  July  30, 
1845.     Their  children  were  : — 

'  Annie  Parker,  born  in    Brooklyn.  N.  V.,  Aug.   17,   1848;   m.  \V.  B. 

Hilchcock. 
Helen  Pauline,  bom  in   Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  7.  1S50;  died  July  19, 

1852. 

*  Marv  Frances,  bom  in  New  York,  Aug.  3,1853. 

*  Hattie  Lucinda,  bom  in   Flushing,  L.  I..  April  7,  1854;  died  .\pril 

9.  '854. 

'  Maria  A.  \'alentine  ('  Harry,  '  Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
I  John),  eldest  daughter  of  Harry  and  Mar)-  (Mawney) 
Valentine,  born  June  10,  1808;  married  January  31, 
1833,  Winthop  Eaton.  He  died  soon  after  their 
youngest  child  was  born.  Mrs.  Eaton  resides  in 
Brooklyn,  X.  Y.     Their  children  were: — 

Cecelia,  born  1S33  ;  died  June,  1854. 
William  Uenr)-,  born  1835  ;  died  1836. 
Harry  Valentine,  born  1837  ;  died  1853. 
Maria  A.,  bora  1841  ;  died  1856. 
Winthrop,  bora  1S43;  died  1872. 

'  Edward  Harrj-  \'alentine  ('  Henry,  '  Samuel, 
'Thomas,  'John),  eldest  son  of  Harry  and  Mary 
(Mawney)  Valentine,  born  in  Hopkinton,  October  5, 
17S6;  married  Olive  L.  Place,  daughter  of  Stephen 
Place,  of  Foster,  R.  I.,  November  1,  1843;  lives  at 
East  Greenwich,  R.  I.     Their  children  were: — 

•  Horatio  Henr)',  born  in  Stirling,  Conn.,  .\ug.  5,  1844. 

'  Kdward  I.a»!><jn,  born  in  .Stirling,  Conn.,  .Xjiril  19,  1S46. 

•  Charles  Clinton,  born  in  Stirling,  Conn.,  May  2.  1851. 

'  Alfred  .\.  Valentine  ('  Harry,  '  Samuel,  »  Thomas, 


Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentine. 


•57 


'  John),  brother  of  preceding,  liorn  September  26, 
1S19;  married  Sarah  P.  Ingalls  in  1845.  He  is  of  the 
firm  of  Valentine  &  Butler,  manufacturers  of  the 
Alum  Safe;  resides  in  Xew  York.  They  have  one 
child:— 

•  Helen  Ingalls;  m.  May  7,  1873.  Waller  C.  Hubbard,  of  N.  Y. 

'  Harriet  A.  V'alentine,  sister  of  preceding,  born 
September  i,  1817;  married  April  26,  1839,  Dr.  P.  H. 
VVildman.  She  died  April  4,  1S46,  and  left  the  follow- 
ing children  : — 

•  Julia,  born  June  9,  1S40  ;  died  Aug.  29,  1S41. 

'  Clara,  born  July  19,  1842  ;  m.  .\lfred  Young,  of  New  York. 

•  Valentine,  bom  Sept.  5.  1844. 

•  Gerlrude,  born  March  16,  1846  ;  died  May  14, 1846. 

'Albert  Horner  Tilton  (' Fanny, 'Samuel,  '  Thomas, 
'  John),  the  eldest  son  of  Fanny  (Valentine)  and 
Homer  Tilton,  born  April  2,  1820;  married  Joanna 
Spader,  August  15,  1848;  lived  in  Xew  York,  where 
all  his  children  were  born,  until  recently.  Now  re- 
sides in  Ashland,  Mass.     Their  children  were: — 

*  Frederic  Eaton,  born  May  29,  1 849. 

•  Albert  Valentine,  bom  Jan.  6,  1851. 

•  Charles  .Mills,  born  May  3,  1853. 

*  Ella  Spader,  bom  Feb.  26,  1855. 

'  George  Eugene  Tilton,  brother  of  preceding,  born 
September  22,  1822;  married  Mrs.  Joanna  Sirrine, 
May  15,  1S49;  resides  in  Xew  York.  Their  children 
were : — 


'  George  H.,  born  Jan.  31, 1850. 
'  Ed»  in  N.,  born  .\ug.  28.  :856. 
'  Douglas,  bom  July  15,  lS6j. 


_-=-t-=- 

~~'~^. 

'58 

The 

I 'all  nil  Ill's  ill  America. 

'  Edward  Lafayette  Tilton,  brother  of  preceding, 
born  June  13,  1S24;  married  Marj-  E.  Pentland,  No- 
vember 8,  1S45;  resides  at  Providence,  R.  I.  The 
Pl\  inpton-Hancock  cane  is  in  liis  possession.  Their 
children  were  : —  r 

'  Fanny  Valentine,  born  Oct.  5,  1846. 

'  Homer,  born  Sept.  6,  1S4S;  dieJ  in  Philadelphia,  Sept.  23, 1S64. 

'  Francis  P.,  borr  Sept.  6, 1S48  ;  died  in  Xew  York,  Sept.  7,  1S48 

•  Lauson  Valentine,  born  Dec.  22, 1850;  died  March  12,  1852. 

•  William  Jenni-'on.  born  May  25,  1853. 
'  Leila  E.,  born  Xov.  12,  1S55. 

'  Edwin  I'oolh,  born  Sept.  14,  1S59. 

'  Lawson  Valentine  Tilton  ('  Fanny,  '  Samuel, 
'Thomas,  '  Jolin),  youngest  son  of  Fanny  Valentine 
and  Iloiner  Tilton,  born  April  13,  1828;  married 
Mary  Marks  Fowler,  December  11,1851;  resides  in 
New  York;  has  been  connected  with  the  Fall  River 
and  Long  Branch  steamboats;  has  a  hotel  in  New 
Vork.     Their  onlj' child  was: 

Emma,  bom  Dec.  15,  1852. 

'  Andrew  Price  X'alentine  (Lawson,  Samuel,  Thomas, 
John),  eldest  son  of  Lawson  and  Mary  Ann  (Price) 
\'alentine,  born  in  Carnbridgeport,  Mass.,  November 
14,  1818;  married  H.innah  Read,  May  6,  1841  ;  lives 
on  a  portion  of  the  old  X'alcntine  hometead,  Ashland, 
Mass.     Their  children  were: — 

•  Mary  .Ann  Osgood.-born  in   the  old  "Valentine  House,"  June  26, 

1S44;  m.  Franklin  Eu^li^. 

•  Lawson  Edward,  Iwrn  in  the  old  "  Valentine  House,"  Jan.  22,  1847  ; 

lives  in  Chicago,  Illinois. 

•  Eliial>e:h  Read,  be'rn  Dec,  1S53  ;  died  Dec.  30,  1S54. 

=  William     Price    X'alentine    ('  Lawson,    '  Samuel, 


Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentine. 


'59 


*  Thomas,  '  John),  brother  of  preceding,  born  in  Cam- 
bridgeport,  September  30,  1S20;  married  Caroline 
Warren,  June  7,  1848;  lives  in  the  old  "Valentine 
House,"  and  carries  on  what  remains  of  the  old  farm. 
fhe  Hopkinton  Railroad  has  cut  the  farm  up  into 
sections,  injured  it  for  farming  purposes,  and  made 
sad  havoc  among  the  old  hills  and  trees.  Their  chil- 
dren were : — 


•  Grace,  born   in   the   *'  Valentine   House,' 

Scott,  April  27,  1872. 

•  Albert  William,  bom  June  29,  1855. 

•  Lizzie  Maria,  bom  Sept.  17,  1858. 


Nov.  20,  1850:  m.  G.  A. 


»  Edivard  Lawson  Valentine  (*  Lawson,  'Samuel, 
'Thomas,  '  John),  brother  of  preceding,  born  in  Bos- 
ton, August  3,  1823;  went  to  California  in  the  ship 
"  Regulus,"  among  the  first  who  went  around  Cape 
Horn;  remained  there  five  years;  returned;  then 
went  West,  and  settled  in  Michigan  City,  Indiana, 
where  he  still  resides.  He  married  Mary  Jane  Angier, 
of  Worcester,  Mass.,  July  30,  1S56.  Their  children 
were : — 

•  Florence  Erving,  bom  in  Michigan  City,  Jan.  13,  1858. 

'  Fanny  Jennison,  bom  in   Michij;an  City,  Jan.  4,  1S60;  died  Oct.  6, 
lS6a 

•  Florence  .\ngier,  born  in  Michigan  City,  Oct.  15,  1S61. 

•  Kate  Palmer,  bom  in  Michigan  City,  March  15,  1S67. 


»  Frances  Erving  V.:lentine  (•  Lawson,  '  Samuel, 
»  Thomas,  •  John),  only  daughter  of  Lawson  and 
Mary  Ann  (Price)  Valentine,  born  in  Boston,  June  4, 
1827;  married,  February  4,  1S67,  Samuel  Martin 
Weston,  third  son  of  Elephas  and  Elizabeth  (Long 
fellow)   Weston,  born    In    Bristol;    married   July  21, 


i6o  TItc  I'lilcnfiiics  in  A  me  r  tea. 


iSrp;  graduated  at  Bo\vd<jin  College,  1844;  entered 
Ent^lish  \V\'^\\  School,  Bcjston,  as  a  teacher,  1845; 
remained  there  until  1S52,  when  he  was  chosen  Prin- 
cipal of  tlie  English  High  Sdhool  for  Boj-s,  under  the 
charge  of  Trustees,  Roxbury,  Mass. ;  was  elected  by 
Roxbur)-  High  School  Coinniittee  to  take  charge  of 
the  "  Roxbury  High  School  for  Boys  and  Girls,"  in 
the  year  1S60.  He  still  remains  Head  Master  of  this 
School. 

'  Augusta  Maria  X'alentine  (*  Charles,  '  Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  '  Johnj,  second  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Isanna  (Chamberlain;  Valentine,  born  in  the  old 
"Roger  Price  House,"  at  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  Octo- 
ber 31,  1824;  married  to  Ezra  T.  Nelson,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.,  October  9,  184S.  He  was  born  in 
Milford,  Mass,  May  9,  1823;  went  to  Grand  Rapids; 
entered  into  business;  and  has  thus  far  been 
very  successful.  Mrs.  Xclsun  is  quite  an  amateur 
artist,  both  in  oil  and  water  colors.  Their  chil- 
dren were: — 

*  .Annie  Valentine,  bom  .\ug.  3,  1849. 

*  Isabel  Augu-Ia,  boru  May  7,  1854. 

*  Elizabeth  Gouch,  born  Feb.  2S,  1S55  ;  died  Sept.  2,  1855. 

*  Louise  ^laud,  bom  Jan.  iS,  1S60. 

'  Eawson  X'alentine  ('Charles,  '  Samuel,  -  Thomas, 
'  John),  youngest  son  of  Charles  and  Isanna  (Chamber- 
lain) V'alcntine,  born  in  Cainbridgeport,  Mass.,  April 
13,  iS;S;  married  Lucy  Hey  wood  Houghton,  May  27, 
1S51.  She  was  born  January  7,  1830.  He  was  of  the 
firm  of  Stimson,  Valentine  &  Co.,  Boston,  paints  and 
varnishes;  occupied  at  one  time  the  former  store  of 
his  uncle   Lawson,   iiJ   State-street.      He  afterwards 


Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentitu.  i6i 

engaged  in  the  manufacturing  of  varnish,  under  the 
firm  of  Lawson,  \'alentine  &  Co.,  Riverside,  Cam- 
bridge. The  factory  was  burned,  and  he  then  removed 
his  establishment  to  Williamsburgh,  X.  Y.,  where  he 
now  manufactures,  and  has  liis  business  house  in  New 
York  cit)-.     Their  children  were: — — 

•  Howard  Lawson,  born  in  CambriH^e|K)rt,  May  29,  1852;  died  Sept. 

19.1855. 

•  .Almira  Houghton,  bom  in  Cambridgeport,  Nov.  13,  1855. 
'  Mary  Campbell,  born  at  West  Newton,  Nov.  15. 1862. 

'  Henry  Chamberlain  Valentine  ('Charles,  'Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  '  John),  brother  of  preceding,  born  in  Cam- 
bridgeport, April  21, 1830,  second  son  of  Charles  and 
Isanna  (Chamberlain)  V.'ljntine;  is  associated  in 
business  with  his  brother,  Lawson  Valentine;  married 
Grace  Barrett,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Barrett, 
of  Boston,  November  14,  1873;  resides  at  Spuj'ten 
Duyvil,  N.  Y.     Their  only  child  was: — 

•  I^ngdon  Barrett,  bom  Oct.  12, 1873. 

'  Rebecca  Jones  Valentine,  sister  of  the  preceding, 
born  in  Cambridgeport,  February  22,  1834;  married 
Leland  Fairbanks,  Jr.,  December  17,  1855  ;  son  of  Le- 
land  and  Polly  (Crosby)  Fairbanks,  born  in  1825, 
settled  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  as  a  lawyer;  removed  to  New 
York,  where  they  no-.v  reside.    Their  children  were : — 

•  Leland  Fairbanks,'  3rd,    bom  at  Cambridgeport,  Ma.ss.,  April  17, 

1859. 
'  Ellen  Valentine,  bom  at  Orange,  N.  J.,  SepL  16, 1862. 

'  Charles  Theodore  Valentine  ('  Charles,  '  Samuel, 
'  Thomas,  '  John,  youngest  son  of  Charles  and  Isanna 
(Chamberlain)  Valentine,  born  at  Cambridgeport,  Oc- 
tober 29,  1846;  married  Charlofte  G.  Light,  February 
21 


1 62  The   ] 'die  11/ tins  ill  Aiitcri.-n. 


13,1872;  has  a  printing  establishment  in  Boston;  was 
blown  up  and  burned  out  in  tlie  great  fire  of  Nov.  6, 
1872:  and  lost  everything.     Their  only  child  was: — 

•  Robert  Groosnor,  Lorn  Nov.  29.  1S72. 
SEVF.NTH    GENERATION. 

•  Fanny  Clark  Jennison  P  Mary,  *  Samuel,  'Samuel, 
■  Thomas,  '  John),  the  youngest  cliild  of  Mary  Clarke 
(Valentine)  and  William  Dennison  Jennison,  born  at 
Hopkinton,  Jan.  i,  1S37;  taught  in  the  Winti)rop 
School,  Boston,  from  January,  1857,  to  June,  1867; 
married  S.  C.  Bixby,  June  20,  1867;  reside  at  Boston 
Highlands.     Their  children  were: — 

'  Lucy  Melville,  born  July  29.  i86g. 
'  Mar)' Jennison,  born  Oct.  2,  1873. 

'  Mary  Susan  Farnsworth  ('  Eliza,  *  Samuel,  '  Sam- 
uel, 'Thomas,  'John),  youngest  daughter  of  Eliza 
Fisk  (\'alentine)  and  Benjamin  S.  Farnsworth,  born  in 
Detroit,  Mich.,  December  17,  1847  ;  married,  February 
14,  1S6;,  William  Wirt  Smith,  sixth  son  of  James  Ayer 
Smith,  one  of  the  oldest  settlers  of  Chicago,  Illinois, 
born  in  Chicago,  April  4,  18^9;  is  a  great-great- 
nephew  of  John  Hancock,  one  of  the  signers  of  the 
"Declaration  of  Independence;"  reside  in  Chicago. 
Their  onh'  child  was: — 

'  Kmma  Valentine,  born  June  21,  1873. 

(•  Jaines  Jackson  Valentine  C  Samuel,  *  Samuel, 
'Samuel,  'Thomas,  '  John),  eldest  son  of  Samuel  Fisk 
and  Henrietta  M.  (Jackson)  \'alcntine,  born  June  6, 
1S46;  married  at  .Ncwtonville,  Mass.,  June  16,  1869, 
Agnes  Wales  Palmer.     She  had  taught  some  time  in 


Dcsceitdauts  of  Sninucl  Vali-ntine.  163 

private  schools.     James  J.  Valentine  is  Casliier  of  the  j 

Framingham  Bank;  is  very  much  liked  and  respected  t 

by  those  who  have  business  relations  with  him.    Their  1 
children  were : — 

'  Freileric  Palmer,  bom  .\pril  24,1870. 
'  James  Clark,  bom  Feb.  9, 1872. 

•  George  Albert  X'alentine  ('  John,  '  Samuel,  '  Sam- 
uel, '  Thomas,  '  Johnj,  son  of  John  Tyng  and  Mary  W.  i 
(Claflinj    Valentine,   born    in    Ilopkinton,   August    3,  [ 
1846;  is   in  business  in   B'itcjn;  married  October  29, 
1873,  Anna   E.   Loring,   daugliter  of  J.  F.  Loring,  of                | 
Xewton  Center,  Mass. 

•Emma     Frances    Claflin    ('Ann    Maria,   'Samuel,  ' 

'Samuel,  'Thomas,  'John),  eldest  daughter  of  Ann 
Maria  (Valentine)   and    Charles   W.  Claflin,  bora   at  i 

Hopkinton,  February  21,  1845;  married  February  28,  . 

1 866,  Edward  Willard  Pierce.  He  gradu.ated  with 
distinction  at  Amherst  College,  1859;  for  some  con- 
siderable time  was  sucscssfully  employed  in  teaching 
at  Madison,  Conn.,  Abingdon,  Hopkinton  and  New- 
ton, Mass.  He  subsequentlj-  settled  iu  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
and,  finallv,  in  New  Orleans,  where  he  died  of  vellow 
fever  (while  his  family  wire  North),  September  13, 
1S71.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  in  addition  to  the 
position  of  State  Senator,  he  was  a  most  active  and 
efficient  member  of  the  City  Board  of  Public  School 
Directors.     Their  children  were: — 

'  Edward  W'inslow,  born  Jan.  19, 1S67. 
'  Winslow  Claflin,  bom  Sept.  19,  lS7a 

'George  Augustus  Rogers  ('Mar)-  Ann,  'John, 
'Samuel,  'Thomas,  'John),  only  surxiving  son  of 
Mary  .\nn  De.xter  (\'alentine)  and  Captain  Nathaniel 


164  TIu  Valentines  in  America. 


S.  Rogers,  born  at  Liverpool,  England,  September  12, 
1843;  married  Susan  Rice  Cunninghatr,  of  Boston, 
1S68;  has  been  employed  at  the  Ames  Manufacturing 
Company,  Seymour,  Conn. ;  is  now  at  the  Waltham 
Bleachery.     Their  children  were: — 

'  Nalhaniel  Sherburne,  bom  Dec.  19, 1868. 

'  Nellie  Pierce,  born  Oct.  25,  1 870. 

'  Alice  Cunningham,  born  Oct.  4,  1872. 

•  Frances  Ann  Harrington  {'  Harriet,  '  Joseph, 
'Samuel,  'Thomas,  'John),  the  eldest  daughter  of 
Harriet  J.  Valentine  and  Abraham  Harrington,  born 
at  Hopkinton,  1S17;  mairied,  in  1838,  Norman  Cutter, 
of  St.  Louis.     Their  children  were: — 

'  .Mary  Webber,  bom  1839;  m.  Hugh  McKittrick. 

'  Elizabeth  Harrington,  born  1841  ;  m.  Chester  H.  Knim. 

•Catherine  Martha  Harrington,  sist;r  of  preceding, 
born  in  Hopkinton,  182;;  married  Amos  Cutter,  of 
St.  Louis,  1840.     Their  children  were: — 

'  Harriet  Valentine,  born  184I  ;  died  1847. 

'  George  Webber,  born  Mareh  10,  1S43  ;  m.  Susan  Osbom. 

'  Norman  W.,  bora  1S46  ;  died  1 854. 

'  Norman,  born  1S46;  died  1 849, 

'  Kate  Harrington,  bom  1852. 

'  Laura  France^,  born  1862. 

•George  Hnr:  :igton  ('Harriet,  'Joseph,  'Samuel, 
'Thomas,  '  John  ,  only  son  of  Harriet  J.  (Valentine) 
and  Abraham  Harrington,  born  in  Hopkinton,  1826; 
entered  Amherst  College  in  1S43;  wa-  there  nearly 
three  years.  His  health  failed,  and  lie  went  to  St. 
Louis,  where  he  studied  law;  afterwards  studied  with 
Robert  Rantoul,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Bos- 
ton ;  married  in  Boston,   1S50,   Martha  S.Mann;   re- 


Descendants  of  Samuel  \'alentine.  165 

turned  to  St.  Louis,  wliere  he  was  drowned  in  1853. 
His  wife  has  twice  married ;  is  now  the  wife  of  Hon. 
S.  C.  Pomeroy,  of  Kansas. 

•Mary  Jane  Pratt  ('Harriet,  'Joseph,  'Samuel, 
'Thomas,  'John),  the  eldest  daughter  of  Harriet  J. 
(Valentine  Harrington)  and  Dr.  Jefferson  Pratt,  born 
at  Hopkinton,  1830;  married,  1st,  George  Bowen  in 
1854;  married  2nd,  Haivey  B.  Wilder,  of  Worcester, 
Mass.,  in  1S72.     Their  only  child  was: — 

Charles  I'ratt,  born  in  Worcester,  April  3,  1873. 

"Frances  Caroline  Valentine  ('John,  Moseph, 
'Samuel,  'Thomas,  'John),  eldest  daughter  of  John 
Lowell  and  Miriam  R.  (Haven)  Valentine,  born  at 
Hopkinton,  1826;  married,  in  1S54,  Luther  Phipps. 
They    reside    in    Worcester,    Mass.      Their    children 


were  :- 


'  .\rthur  Valentine. 
'  Ralph  Leon. 

•  Henry  Clay  V'alentine,  brother  of  preceding,  and 
eldest  son  of  J.  Lowell  and  Miriam  R.  Valentine, 
born  at  Hopkinton,  1830;  married  .-Xnnie  D.  Hagar, 
of  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  they  reside.  Their  only 
child  wa;  — 

'  Florence,  born  in  Worcester,  1867. 

'Frederic  Eugene  Valentine  ('John,  'Joseph, '  Sam- 
uel,'Thomas,  'John),  brother  of  the  preceding,  born 
in  Hopkinton  in  1834;  married  Etta  Gossom  in  1872. 
Their  only  child  was  : — 

'  Miriam  Haven,  bom  Oct.,  187^!! 

•  Ellen    Maria   Valentine,   siiter   of  the   preceding. 


l66  The  Valitt tines  in  Ameriea. 


born  in  Hopkinton,  1S39;  married  Hiram  A.  Wright, 
of  Boston,  Nov.  24,  1S64.     Their  cliildren  were: — 

Katie  Nasim,  born  1S67. 
Lizzie  \'ak-iuine,  bora  1S68. 
Jobej)h  \'alciuinc,  born  1871. 

•Josepliine  Eliza  Cutter  (' Eliza,  '  Joseph,  '  Samuel, 
» 'Diomas,  'John),  eldest  daughter  of  Eliza  Ann  (Val- 
entine) and  B.  G.  Cutter,  born  in  Louisville,  Ky., 
1839;  married  George  Strickland,  of  Louisville,  in 
1S61;  had  three  children  ;  married  a  second  time.  Dr. 
Joseph  C.  Snively,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  V.,  in  1872.  They 
reside  in  Brooklj-n.     Their  children  were: — 

'  .\nnie  Whitney  Strickland,  born  1862. 
'  Lucy  Williams  Strickland.  ' 

'  Fanny  Cutter  Strickland.  : 

*  Fanny  Haven    Cutter,  sister   <>f    preceding,    born 
-;  married  Clinton  Hardy,  of  Adrian,  Mich. 


Their  children  were : — 

'  Eliza. 

'  Josephine 

*  Benjamin  Franklin  Baker,  eldest  son  of  Emily 
Stimpson  (Fitch)  and  Edward  D.  Baker,  born  at  Sa- 
lem, Mass.,  August  24,  1840;  married  his  cousin, 
Sarah  Jane  Ball,  daughter  of  Mary  Ann  (Fitch)  and 
Gilman  Ball,  February  11,  1864;  live  in  Hopkinton. 
He  is  now  State  Constable.     Their  only  child  was: — 

'  Ed«ard  Dodge,  boin  Oec  iS,  1S71. 

'  Edward  Henrj-  Baker,  brother  of  the  preceding, 
born  in  Salem,  January  14,  1842;  inarried  Annie, 
daughter  of  James  and  Elizabeth  Moore,  of  Oak 
Creek.   Wis  ,  formerly  of  England,  July  2,  1872.     He 


served  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  nearly  three  years, 
and  was  honorably  discharged,  August,  1864.  He 
went  into  business  in  Chicago,  Illinois;  lost  ever)-- 
thing  in  the  great  fire  of  1871;  began  anew,  as  all 
other  sufferers  did,  and  is  doing  well.  Their  only 
child  was : — 

'  Mar)-  Emily,  bom  in  Chic.igo,  Sept.  6,  1S73. 

'  Appleton  Howe  Fitch,  eldest  son  of  John  A.  and 
Lucy  A.  (Howej  Fitch,  born  March  11,  1S30;  married, 
October  3,  1859,  Elizabeth  Bennett.  He  graduated  at 
Amherst  College,  1S55;  laugiit  school  at  Chicago  and 
Peoria,  Illinois;  finallj-,  went  to  Maples,  Ind.,  where 
he  has  a  steam  mill,  manufacturing  staves.  Their 
children  were: — 

'  Herbert,  bom  lS6o  ;  died  in  infancy. 
'  Xellie  .Appleton,  bcm  Oct.  4, 1S62. 
'  Lucy  .Adaline,  bom  July  12, 1865, 
"  Florence  Houe,  bora  Jan.  15, 1S68, 
'  Grace,  bom  Sept,  29, 1871.^ 

'  Edward  Paj-son  Fitch,  brother  of  preceding,  born 
in  IJopkinton,  March  8,  1832;  married  Sarah  A.  Wil- 
inartli,  April  19,  1857.  He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
in  Kansas,  after  that  Territorj-  was  open  for  settle- 
ment; was  a  firm  friend  of  freedom  during  all  the 
border  troubles;  and  was  finally  murdered  in  his  own 
house,  in  the  presence  of  his  family,  at  Lawrence, 
Kansas,  by  Ouaiitrell's  band,  August  21,  1863,  at  the 
a^a  of  thirt}--one  j-ears.     Their  cliildrcn  were: — 

■  Julia  Sumner,  born  Jan.  12, 1S58. 
'  Charles  Otis  born  June  6, 1S60. 
'  Edward  Pay^on,  >tay  26, 1S63. 

'Zllcn   Maria  Ball,  daughter  of  Mar)- Ann  (Fitch) 


and  Gilraan  Ball,  of  Hopkinton,  born  November, 
1836;  married  Elisha  Frail,  March  10,  1S58;  live  in 
Hopkinton,  Mass.     Their  children  were  :— 

•  '■  Erne^t  Leslie,  born  May  31,  i860. 

'  Mar)-  Ellen,  bom  Aug.  iS,  1862. 
'  Walter  Elton,  born  July  iS,  1S68. 
'  H.ittie  F.ldora,  born  May  16,  1870;  Hied  young. 

'Isffbel  Sawver,  second  daughter  of  Fanny  Valen- 
tine Fitch  and  John  Sawyer,  born  in  Hopkinton, 
April  20,  1S40;  married  James  W.  Leonard,  Foxboro, 
Mass.,  July  8,  1862.     Theit  children  were: — 

'  .\rthur  William,  bom  Sept.  21, 1863. 
'  Carrie  Eliza,  bora  Oct.  21. 1865. 

«  Anna  Sawyer,  sister  of  preceding,  married  Lorenzo 
Wallace,  of  Foxboro,  Mass.  She  was  born  in  Hop- 
kinton, May  20,  1842  ;  married  August  i,  1868.  Their 
children  were : — 

'  Lula  May,  bom  Aug.  I,  1E69. 

■  Herbert  I.orenrn,  born  May  3,  1871. 

"  Olive  Hayward  Fitch,  eldest  child  of  J.  Harvey  and 
Susan  (Hayward)  Fitrh,  born  May  30,  1837;  married 
to  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  April  29,  1858.  Their  children 
were : — 

■  Charles  Herbert,  bom  July  7,  1859. 
•  Edward  Filch,  born  Sept.  2q,  1867. 
'  .Annie  l.oui^e,  born  March  3,  1870. 

"  Mary  Fitch  Hcmenway,  eldest  child  of  Elizabeth 
Jones  (Fitch)  and  Fisher  Hcmcnwa}-,  of  Hopkinton, 
born  November  3,  1835  ;  married,  Februarj-  26,  1862, 
Cliarlcs  Henry  Pierce.  She  taught  school  three  years. 
Her   hiisb.ind  was  educated  at  Worcester  Academy; 


ELMER   VALENTINE,    THE    VETERAN    TEACHER. 
NORTHEOROfGH,  MASS. 


Descendants  of  Samuel  Valentine. 


169 


graduated  from  office  of  J.  H.  Shcdd,  Civil  Engineer, 
Boston;  established  the  Saturday  Evening  Chronotype  ; 
was  editor  two  years ;  served  four  years  on  the  Board 
of  Assessors  of  the  town  of  Weston  (three  years  as 
Chairman);  also,  two  j-ears  on  the  Board  of  Select- 
men; in  the  United  States  service  three  months  in 
1S64;  appointed  Assistant  Engineer  of  the  Providence 
Water  Works,  October,  1S69,  which  position  he  still 
holds.     Their  only  child  was: — 

■  Walter  Fitch  Pierce,  born  in  Westboro,  March  25,  1863. 

'Frances  Maria  Pond  ('Adeline,  'Thomas,  'Sam- 
uel, 'Thomas,  'John),  eldest  child  of  Adeline  M. 
^Valentine)  and  Benjamin  C.  Pond,  born  January  27, 
1S22;  married,  November,  1837,  Otis  Cole.  He  is  a 
farmer;  took  charge  of  the  Frankland  farm;  and 
three  of  his  children  were  born  in  the  old  "Sir  Flarrj 
Frankland  House,"  Ashland,  Mass.  Their  children 
were : — 


■  Stephen  Barnard,  bum  May  12,  iSjS  ;  died  Dec.  22, 183! 

"  Sarah  Elizabeth,  bom  .\pril  6, 1S40;  has  taught  for  many  years  and 
is  an  excellent  teacher. 

■  George  Otis  bom  July  '6,  l542  ;  died  March  ?t,  1853. 

■  George  Otis,  bora  Jan.  19, 1S45. 

'  Lucinda  Pond,  bom  July  '3'  ''47;  ■"■  Charl's  B.  Travis,  Oct.  14. 
1S68. 

■  John  Henry,  bom  Feb.  10, 1S51  :  died  Feb,  1852. 

'  .Adeline  Frances  Maria,  bom  Feb.  12.  1553  ;  m.  E.  A.  Brigham. 
'  Benjamin  Clark,  bom  Oct.  21,  1S55. 
"  Frank  Nelion,  bora  Sept.  20,  1S61. 
"  Kate  Cornelia,  bDm  March  12,  1S65. 


'  George  Frederick  Pond,  brother  of  the  preceding, 
born  November  17,  1S30;  married  Mary  Devine,  Feb- 
ruarj-  22,  1S57;  reside  in  Boston.  Their  children 
were : — 

22 


i^'O  The  Vnlcniiitcs  in  America. 

'  Benjamin  Clark,  Iwrr.  April  28,  1858. 

•  Adeline  Valenlinr.  bnrn  Ocl.  24.  1859. 

•  Anna  Maria,  horn  Aj>ri!  29,  1S61. 

'  Gcorije  Frederic,  Jr.,  born  Fel).  2.  1S64. 

'  Qiiincy,  bom  Nov.  13,  1S65. 

'  Pearl  Frances,  born  June  15,  iSfig. 

'Catherine  Cornelia  ^ond,  sister  of  the  preceding, 
and  youngest  daughter  of  Adeline  M.  (Valentine) 
and  Benjamin  C.  P.ond,  born  October  22,  1S32;  mar- 
ried William  Jones,  October  22,  1S52;  died  March  22, 
1S71.     Their  children  were: — 

*  Charles  Frederic,  born  Feb.  22,  1S69. 
'  Ede  Frances,  born  .\ug.  27,  1870. 

"Albert  \'alentine  Nolen  (' Liicinda,  'Thomas, 
"Samuel,  "  Thomas,  '  John),  eldest  son  of  Lucinda  Y. 
C\"alentinc)  and  Dr.  Spencer  Xolen,  born  in  Boston, 
December  t6,  1S3S;  graduated  at  the  English  High 
School,  Boston,  1852;  went  to  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacv  ;  graduated  from  there  with  honors;  in 
business  at  Philadelphia  some  years;  then  went  to 
New  York;  perfected  a  machine  for  splitting  leather; 
is  now  in  England,  manufacturing  and  selling  his  ma- 
chines; married,  December  20,  1K64,  Elizabeth  S. 
Morton,  daughter  of  Dr.  Joslipa  Morton,  of  Wheeling, 
West  Virginia. 

'Samuel  .Vndrews  Xolen,  brother  of  the  preceding, 
born  in  Boston,  March  3,  1S41;  graduated  at  the 
English  High  School,  1S55;  served  his  time  in  Bos- 
ton; then  went  to  New  Yr)rk  ;  has  steam  mills  and 
lumber;  is  a  good  business  man,  and  successful  ;  mar- 
ried Mary  H.  Howe,  December  4,  1862.  Their  chil- 
dren were : — 


Descindants  of  Saiuuil  V'alctitine.  171 

'  George  Howe,  born  Oct.  14,  1S63, 

'  Frederic,  burn  July  9,  JS65  ;  died  young. 

'  Spencer,  bum  June  22,  1868. 

'  Mar)'  Huwe,  born  Nov.  23,  1871, 

•Helen  M.  Jones  ('Helen,  'Thomas,  'Samuel, 
-Thomas,  '  John),  daughter  of  Helen  M.  (Valentine) 
and  James  H.  Jones,  born  in  Hopkinton,  December 
15,  1842;  married  Charles  O.  Metcalf,  of  North 
Belengham,  August,  1S60;  live  in  Ashland.  Their 
children  were : — 

■  Oiarles  Uughsion,  born  Dec.  13,  1862. 
'  Florence  Ethelyn.  l>orn  Nov.  10,  1867. 
'  James  Cereno,  horn  June  8,  1 869. 

'Annie  Parker  Valentine  ('Thomas,  'Thomas, 
=•  Samuel, '  Thomas,  '  John),  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas 
Bucklin  and  Harriet  H.  (Parker)  Valentine,  born  in 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  August  17,  1848;  married  William 
B.  Hitchcock,  April  13,  1867.  They  reside  at  Staten 
Island.     Their  children  were: — 

'  William  Valentine,  bom  July  23,  1670,  at  Siaten  Island. 
'  Edward  Parker,  bom  Aug.  28,  1872, 

•  Mar)-  Ann  Osgood  Valentine  ('  Andrew,  '  Lawson, 
'  Samuel,  '  Thomas,  '  John),  born  in  the  old  "  Valen- 
tine House,"  Ashland,  June  26,  1844:  daughter  of 
Andrew  Price  and  Hannah  (Read)  X'a..  ntine;  grad- 
uated at  the  Roxbury  High  School  in  1864;  taught 
for  two  years  in  Ashland  and  Roxbury;  married 
Franklin  Enslin,  January  13,  1S69;  reside  in  Ashland, 
Their  only  child  was  : — 

'  William  Franklm,  born  Feb.  3,  1873. 


172  The  Valentines  in  America. 


EIGHTH    GENERATION. 

'  Mary  Webber  Cutter,  daiigliter  of  Frances  A. 
Harrington  and  Norman  Cutter,  and  great-great, 
granddaughter  of  Colonel  Joseph  and  Fanny  (Haven) 
X'alentinc,  of  Hopkinton,  born  at  St.  Louis  in  1838; 
married  Hugh  McKittrick,  of  St.  Louis,  Januar)-  24, 
1859.  They  reside  in  St.  Louis.  Their  children 
were : — 

"  Norman,  born  Oct.  i8,  1859  ;  <'■'<'  Nov.,  1863. 

'  Harrington,  born  Oct.  27,  1S61  ;  died  Oct.  26, 1863. 

*  Thomas,  born  April  17,  1864. 

*  Martha,  born  Jan.  12,  1866. 

*  Hugh,  born  Aug.  16,  1868. 
'  Alan,  bom  July  17,  1871. 

'  Walter,  born  March  19,  1S73. 

'  Elizabeth  Harrington  Cutter,  sister  of  the  preced- 
ing, bor.i  at  St.  Louis,  1841  ;  married  1866,  Chester 
Harding  Krum,  of  St.  Louis,  grandson  of  Chester 
Harding,  of  Springfield,  Mass.    Their  children  were : — 

•  Mary  Frances,  bom  Oct.  24,  1867. 
•John  Marshall,  bora  Jan.  28,  18O9. 

•  Clara  Ridgway,  born  March  30,  1871. 

•  Flora,  bora  Dec.  14,  1872. 

'  George  Webber  Cutter,  son  of  Catherine  >L  Har- 
rington and  Amos  Cutter,  of  St.  Louis,  and  great- 
granOion  of  Colonel  Joseph  and  Fanny  (Haven) 
Valentine,  born  a:  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  March  10,  1843; 
graduat.'d  at  Washington  University,  St.  Louis,  in 
1864,  aiid  'emsined  for  one  year  as  tutor  in  that  insti- 
tution. In  1S07  he  received  the  degree  of  A.  M.,  from 
the  same  College;  in  1869  graduated  at  the  Divinity 
School  of  Harvard  College,  and  the  following  winter 


s^ 


DtSii-iitiants  of  Samuel  Valentine.  173 


continued  his  tlieolugical  studies  at  the  University  of 
Berlin  (Prussia).  The  next  year  he  made  a  tour  of 
Prussia,  Austria,  Italy,  Switzerland,  France,  Holland, 
England  and  Scotland.  He  was  ordained  pastor  of 
the  First  Congregational  Parish  in  Arlington,  Mass., 
Januarj-,  1870.  In  1872  he  again  visited  Europe  for 
six  months;  remained  for  the  most  part  in  Demark, 
Sweden,  Russia  and  Poland.  In  the  autumn  of  the 
same  year  he  resumed  his  ministerial  labors  at  Ar- 
lington. He  married,  June  24,  1873,  Susan  Osborn, 
daughter  of  John  Osborn,  of  Arlington. 

■  Adeline  Frances  Maria  Cole,  daughter  of  Frances 
M.  (Pond>  and  Otis  Cole,  and  great-granddaughter  of 
Thomas  and  Helen  (Read)  Valentine,  born  February 
22,  1853;  married  Ernest  .\lgernon  Brigham,  October 
2,  1870.     Their  only  child  was: — 

'  Archie  Valentine,  born  April  26,  1871. 


174  ^/'''  yalen tints  in  America. 


CHAPTER     XVIII. 

WILLIAM    AND   ELIZABETH   (jONEs)   VALENTINE,   AND  THEIR 
DESCENDANTS. 

WILLIAM  VALENTINE,  the  youngest  son 
of  Thomas,  and  grandson  of  John,  was 
burn  at  the  old  "Valentine  Homestead,"  in 
Hopkintun,  Mass-^November  ?,  1750.  Of  his  bo^-hood 
and  youth  little  is  recorded  that  can  be  woven  into 
story;  but,  as  his  mother  died  when  he  was  an  infant 
only  eighteen  months  old,  leaving  him  the  youngest  of 
<-/>/;/  living  children,  it  may  reasonably  be  inferred  that, 
like  most  youngest  sons,  he  was  either  the  pet  and 
plaything  of  his  older  brothers  and  sisters,  or  the  butt 
and  servant  of  them  all.  Probablj-  his  youth  and 
early  manhood  were  spent  in  going  to  school,  or  upon 
his  father's  farm,  or  in  that  immediate  vicinity.  The 
date  of  his  marriage  is  not  given,  but  must  have  been 
in  1770,  as  his  oldest  child  was  born  when  he  was 
about  "  one-and-twenty."  His  wife  was  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Anthony  Jones,  and  granddaughter  of 
Colonel  John  Jones;  so  that  William's  wife  and  his 
brother  Samuel's  wife  were  cousins.  She  was  born 
January  26,  1751  ;  so  that  there  was  little  difference  in 
their  ages.  They  lived  ab(jut  fifteen  \-ears  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  prjscnt  village  of  Ashland — two  of 
their  children,  who  died  young,  being  buried  in  the 
old  cemetery,  nearly  opposite  the  "  Dench  Place,"  a 
short  distance  south  of  the  village — where  also  repose 
the  ashes  of  Colonels  John  Jones,  Senior,  and  Junior. 


Discnuf tints  of  William    Valentine.  175 

About  the  year  17S4,  he  removed  to  a  small  farm  in 
the  nortlnvesterly  part  of  Hopkinton,  near  the  West- 
boro'  line,  where  he  kept  a  public  house,  and  where 
the  remainder  of  his  children  were  born.  Thence  he 
removed  to  Wcstboro' Center,  where  he  first  opened  the 
since  famous  "  Brigliam  Tavern" — thence,  in  1804,10 
Xorthboro',  where  for  seven  years  he  kept  the  well- 
known  "Jonas  i3all  Tavern."  This  ended  his  career  as 
an  inn-keeper,  and,  after  farming  seven  or  eight  years 
on  the  "  Nathan  Green  Place,"  in  Xorthboro',  he  re- 
moved to  a  farm  in  that  part  of  Hopkinton  known  as 
"  Whiteliall,"  near  his  former  residence,  where,  with 
his  second  son.  Captain  Joseph  Valentine,  he  and  his 
companion  resided  the  remainder  of  their  lives.  Of 
their  character  and  worth  the  writer  may  not  be  a 
competent  ..'.^6.  impartial  judge,  but  Mrs.  Valentine 
was  always  spoken  of  by  her  children  in  terms  of  the 
greatest  respect  and  veneration.  Truly  did  "her  chil- 
dren rise  up  and  call  her  Dlessed." 

She  died  April  :6,  1825,  and,  although  her  husband 
was  about  in  his  usual  health,  in  ten  days  after,  \\z: 
May  6,  1825,  he  followed  her  in  death,  saying  he 
"could  not  live  without  Elizabeth." 

FOURTH    GENERATION. 

The  children  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Jonesi 
Valentine  were  as  follows: — 

Elizabeth,  b.-Nov.  30,  1771  ;  m.  Joshaa   Mellen,  Esq.;  d.  Wesiboro", 

June  10.  1795. 
\Villi.im,  b.  .\pril  14,  1773;    m.  .Xb'gail    Spring,  of   Northboro',  d. 

Westbrook,  Me.,  April  t6,  1845. 
Thomas,  b.  May  2,  1775  ;  d.  Hopkinton,  Oct.  I,  1777. 
Joseph,  b.  Dec.   S,    1776;    m.   Patty  Burnap  ;  d.   Hopkinton,  Aug.  2, 

1861. 
James  Gooch,  b.  .\ug.  II,  1778  ;  d.  Hopkinton,  Aug.  30,  1788. 


176  The  Valentines  in  Ameriea. 


Anna,  b.  July  18,  1799;  m.  Joseph    Bouman  ;  d.  CambriHge.  M»5&, 

March  2,  1843. 
Hannah,  b.   March   25.  17S1;  m.  Asahcl   Bellows;  d.  Groton,  Mxss,, 

Sept.  II,  1843. 
Comfort,  b.  March  10.  i;S3  ;  m.  Aaron  lirijjham  ;  d.  I,cxing1on,  Mas«„ 

Dec  20,  1S63. 
John,  b.  Jan.  6,  1785  ;  m    Charlotte    Rrelt  ;  d.  Mechanic    Falls,  Me.. 

May  28,  1S62. 
Lydia,  b.  .\ug.  g,  17S6  ;  in.    1st,   Peter  Brigham  ;  2nd,  Thos.   Beaton; 

d.  Worcester,  Sept.  6,  1871. 
Gill,  b.  Sept.  8,  17S8  ;  m.  1st,  Sabra  W.K.d  ;  2nd,  Sarah  C.  Bartlett ; 

yet  living,  in  Northboro",  Mass. 
Elijah    Fitch,  b.    Dec.    10,   17S9  ;  m.   1st,  Jane    Mahan  ;  2nd,    LydU 

Hurd  ;  d.  Northboro",  Aug.  21, 1863. 
Samuel   Lynde.  b.  Oct.  21,  179I  ;    m.  ist.  Elizabeth    Farnham  ;  2nd, 

Sarah  J.  March  ;  d.  Bangor,  Me.,  Sept.  II,  1851. 
Elliot,  b.  Oct.  3,  1793  '.  ">•  J="ie  A.  Gray  ;  d.  Nenton,  Mass.,  July  13, 

1864. 
Elmer,  b.  June  4,  1795  ;  m.   Rebecca  Crawford  ;  Northboro',  .Mass^ 

Dec  27,  1863. 

The  first  eight  were  born  in  the  east  part,  and  the  last  seven  in  the 
west  part,  of  Hopkinton. 

FIFTH    GENERATION. 

Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
J.  Valentine,  married  Joshua  Mellen,  Esq.,  of  Westboro' 
(father  of  Judge  Mellen,  of  Worcester),  who  was  born 
September  14, 1765,  and  died  Febrtiarj-  22,  1856.  They 
■^■CTC  married  November  15,  17S9.  Their  children 
were  as  follows: — 

Joshua  N.,  b.  July  l,  1790;  d.  Westboro',  Jan.  5,  1858. 
John  R.,  b.  March  15,  1792  ;  d.  Dec.  29,  1814. 

Clarissa,  b.  Jan.  3,  1794  ;  m.  Jubal  Weston,  who  was  born  in  Grafton, 
Feb.  19,  .735  ;  d.  Hopkinton,  May  27,  1868. 

William,  eldest  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth  J. 
X'alentine,    married    Abigail    Spring,    of   Northboro'. 


CAPT.    JOStPH    VALENTINE. 
OF    HOrKlNToN,    MASS. 


^^ 


Dcsci'itdants  of  William   Valentine.  177 

and  in  1803  removed  to  West  brook,  Me.,  where  he 
engaged  in  trade  and  in  the  manufacture  of  nails,  the 
heading  of  wliicli  was  tlien  done  entirely  by  hand.  In 
1814  he  gave  up  all  other  business,  and  turned  his  at- 
tention to  farming.  He  was  for  several  years  one  of 
the  Selectmen  of  the  town,  and  was  frequently  be- 
sought to  accept  other  offices  of  honor,  but  he  always 
declined  them.  Few  men  were  ever  held  in  higher 
esteem  than  he  in  the  community  in  which  he  lived. 
The  children  of  William  and  Abigail  S.  Valentine 
were  as  follows: — 

Gill,  1).  July  19,  1793  ;  d.  Dec.  5.  1802. 

Lowell,  b.  April  2,  1796  ;  d.  Oct.  ig,  1815. 

Olii,  b.  Dec.,  15,  179S  ;  m.  Man  siaibird  ;  d.  Aug.  28,  1863. 

IJctsey,  b.  July  27,  iSoi  ;  d.  June  4.  1820. 

Dexter,  b.  .March  27,  1S04;  m.  Nancy  P.  Pease;  d.  Oct.  18, 1851. 

Sukey,  b.  March  i,  1S07 ;  d.  July  24,  1808. 

William,  b.  May  8,  1S09;  d.  Oct.  27,  1820. 

Albert,  b.  Sept.  26,  iSil  ;  m.  Hannah  E.  Foss. 

Leander,  b.  March  iS,   1814:    m.   Margaret  S.  Coolbroth  ;  lives   in 

Westbrook,  Me. 
Caroline,  b.  Aug.  16,  1816. 
Lowell,  born  June  22,  1819  ;  d.  July  16,  1819. 

Captain  Joseph  Valentine,  the  third  son  of  William 
and  Elizabeth  J.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Hopkinton, 
December  8,  1776,  and  died  August  2,  1861.  He  mar- 
ried Patty  Burnap,  who  was  born  October  23,  1779, 
and  seems  to  have  lived  in  Hopkinton  for  several  years, 
when  he  removed  to  Falmouth,  Me.,  about  1806,  where 
several  of  his  children  were  born.  He  was  a  Captain' 
in  the  war  of  iSi2,but  how  long,  and  where  he  ser\-ed, 
I  am  not  able  to  state.  He  was  afterwards  z.  farmer 
in  "  Whitehall,"  Hopkinton,  and  his  parents  spent  their 
last  years  under  his  roof.  He  was  also  for  many  years 
a  successful  teacher  in  the  Winter  Schools.and,  on  one 
*3 


178  The  Valcnti)ics  iit  America. 

occasion,  had  ten  of  his  own  brothers  and  sisters  as 
pupils  in  his  school.  He  held  man}-  town  offices,  was 
long  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  was  greatly  respected 
in  the  community  where  he  lived.  He  was  called 
Joseph  \'alentine,  Stroinf,  to  distinguish  him  from  his 
cousin,  Colonel  Joseph,  elsewliere  mentioned,  who  lived 
in  the  same  town.  Thej-  had  thirteen  children,  as  fol- 
lows : — 

Eliza,  b.  Dec.  26,  iSoi  ;  d.  Hupkinton,  IJec.  23,  1S40. 

Emily,  b.  Jan.  31,  1S03;  m.  Lawson  Jones  (d.  1S55);  now  living  in 

Cambridge. 
Gilbert,  b.  SrpL  II,  1804. 
Caroline,  b.  Feb.  9,  1S06  ;  d.  Jan.  13,  1807. 

Xancy  13.,  b.  July  14,  1S07  ;  m.  Slowell  Rich.nrds  ;  d.  June,  1852. 
Jones,  b.  Oct.  iSoS  ;  m.  Elizabeth  J.  Valentine  ;  living  in  Cambridge. 
Alanson,  b.  April  17,  iSio  ;  m.  .Miranda   E.  Smith  ;  d.  June  30,  1S64, 

Beaufort,  S.  C. 
Gerry,  b.  .\ug.  24,  1811  ;  m.  Sarah   H.  Walker;  living  in  Hammon- 

ton.  N.  J. 
Elmer,  b.  Dec.  9,  1S12  ;  m.  Mar)'  C.  Walker  ;  living  in  Salem,  Mass. 
Isaac  B.,  b.  March  29,  1S14  ;  m.  Elizabeth  J.  Guy  ;  living  in   Hop- 

kinton. 
Harriet,  b.  Dec.  29,  1S15  ;  m.  Dea.  William  T.  Richardson  ;  living  in 

Cambridge. 
Adaline.  b.   Feb.  27.  1S18;   m.  Nathaniel    Howe   Fitch  ;  d.  Maples, 

Tnd.,  Oct.  26,  1S63. 
William,  b.  Jan.  4,  1S21  ;  m.  Susan  J.  Guy  ;   d.  Hopkinton,  May  4, 

1851. 

Anna,  second  daughttjr  of  Williain  and  Elizabeth  J. 
Valentine,  was  born  at  Hopkinton,  July  18,  1779; 
married  Joseph  Bowman,  of  Westboro,'  who  died 
Febrti.iry  21,  1S15,  and,  after  living  his  widow  many 
years,  she  died  at  Cambridge,  March  2,  1843.  They 
had  three  children,  as  follows: — 

Albert,  \  Hopkinton,  Sept.  25,  iSoo;  m.  Jane  Taylor,  at  Leomin- 
ster, Mass.,  Oct.  31,  1S30,  and  died  while  teaching,  at  West  Phila- 
delphia, June  14,  1S31,  leavipg  no  issue. 


^Dcscaidants  of  William   Valentine.  179 

Mary,  b.  July  18,  1S02,  in  llopkiuton  ;  m.  Samuel  Fisher,  and  is  yet 

living,  in  Xorthboro'. 
Elizabeth,  b.  Westboro',  May  25, 1S07  ;  m.  Samuel  Wood,  Xorthboro'. 

Hannah,  third  daughter  of  William  and  E.  J.  Val- 
entine, was  born  at  Hopkinton,  March  25,  1781 ;  mar- 
ried, in  1804,  Asaliel  Bellows,  of  Westboro";  lived  in 
Westboro",  and  Worcester,  where  he  long  kept  the 
Hotel  near  the  Jail,  of  which  h'  was  also  keeper.  He 
was  born  17S2,  and  died  suddenly  in  Worcester, 
1835.  She  died  while  residing  with  her  daughter, 
Groton,  Mass.,  September  11,  1843.  Mr.  B.  was  a  man 
of  great  executive  ability.  He  was  a  relative  of  Rev. 
H.  W.  Bellows,  D.D.,  of  New  York.  Their  children 
were  as  follows : — 

Albert  Jones,  b.  Westboro",  1S05:  m.  1st,  Pamelia  A.  Fitch;  2nd, 

;  3rd, ;  d.  Boston,  1869. 

Emclinc  A.,  b.  Westboro',  I S06 ;  m.  William  Lewis  ;  lives  in  New  Jersey. 
Maria  B.,  b.  Worcester,  1 S07  ;  m.  Dorrance  J.  Wilder. 
Christopher  W.,  b.  Westboro',  1S12  ;  lives  in  Pcpperell,  Mass. 
And  one  which  died  in  infancy. 


Comfort,  fourth  daughter  of  William  and  E.  J.  Val- 
entine, was  born  in  Xorthboro",  March  10,  1783.  She 
married  Aaron  Brigham,  of  Marlboro",  who  was  long 
a  successful  merchant  in  Boston,  August  2,  1808.  He 
died  in  Lexington,  Mass.,  October  30,  1S63,  and  his 
wife,  December  19,  1S63.  Their  children  were  as 
follows : 

Catherine  Jones,  b.  Xorthboro",  Mass.,  June  9,  1S09;  d.  Lexington, 

Dec.  29,  1S63,  unm. 
William,  b.  Xorlhampton.   Mass.,  Sept.  30,  i5l2  ;  m.  1st,  Jane  Clapp 

Munroe,    I'  'ion,   who    d.   May   16,  1S3S  ;   m.   ;nd,  June,  1S34 

Lucy  \.  Mcrriam,  of  Concord.    He  d.  Westboro",  .\ug.  12, 1853. 
Sophia,  b.  .\ihul.   Ma^s,   Jan.  17,  1S15  ;  m.  William  J.  Valentine,  of 

Bangor,  now  a  banker  in  London,  Eng,,  where  they  reside. 


i8o  The  Valfittiius  in  America. 


John,  filth  son  of  William  and  E.  J.  Valentine,  was 
born  January  6,  1785.  lie  married  Charlotte  Brett, 
December  11,  1814.  They  resided  in  Maine.  When  he 
was  seventy-five  years  of  age  the  writer  remembers 
hearing  him  repeat,  word  (or  word,  all  the  advertise- 
ments posted  in  the  bar-room  of  his  father's  tavern 
nearly  seventy  years  before  !  so  wonderfully  tenacious 
was  his  memory.  When  a  child  he  was  subject  to 
"  fits,"  so  that  his  school  education  was  less  in  amount 
than  that  of  his  brothers  and  sisters;  but  in  rapid 
mental  calculations  he  could  beat  them  all.  A  com- 
mon pastime,  after  they  had  retired  to  bed,  was  to  see 
which  could  tell  soonest,  by  mental  calculation,  how 
many  .tfrc/zrA  old  each  one  was;  and  John  always  came 
out  ahead.  He  was  a  consistent  member  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church,  and  a  godly  man.  He  died  at 
Mechanic  Falls,  Me.,  May  28,  1S62.  Their  children 
were  as  follows : — 

Sophia,  b.  Nov.  29.  1S15  ;  m.  Jo^ph  II.  II.ilI,  .\i)ril  24,  1839  ;  live  in 

EarlvUle.  IlL 
Lowell,  b.  .\ug.  30,  1S20;  m.  Judith  W.  Hackelt,  June  6,  1S42  ;  live 

in  Kcosaugua,  Iowa. 
Nelson,  b.   Feb.  15.  1S23;  m.  Rachel  W.  Cobb,  June  3,  1S46;  living 

in  West  Newton,  Mass. 
Elmer,  b.  March  24,  1S25  ;  d.  Feb.  2S,  1832. 
Eliialwlh,  b.  March  23,  1S27  ;  m.  Jaini^  D.  lirig^am,  Apinl   26,  1S54. 

He  d.  April  7, 1R55.     She  lives  in  Woburn,  Mass. 
Lydia  Jane,  b.  Oct.  8,  1S29;  lives  in  Wobuni. 
John,  Jr.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1S33  ;  m.  Mary  lirown,  of  Ohio,  -Vpril  I,  1856. 

She  d.  Nov.  26,  1S69.     He  m.  2nd,  Belle  C.  Smart,  of  Scotland, 

.\ug.  ifj,  1S71.     They  live  in  Manchester,  loua. 

Lydia,  fifth  daughter  of  William  and  E.  J.  Valen- 
tine, was  born  at  Hopkinton,  .\ugiist  9,  17S6;  married, 
ist,  Peter  W.  Brigham,  June  8,  1S07,  who  died  July 
24,    1831  ;   married,  2nd,   Tlionias    Bccton,   1834,   who 


Disccndants  of  William   Valentine.  i8i 


died  1S57.     She  died  in  Worcester,  September  6,  1S71. 
Their  children  were  as  follows: — 

William  Augustus,  b.  Boston,  Aug.  z%  iSoS;  m.  1st,  Maria  Gray,  April 
15, 1S30,  who  d.  March  21,  1S47  ;  m.  2nd,  Hannah  S.  Chapman  ; 
now  lives  in  South  Boston. 

Ljilia  .\nn,  b.  Bostun,  Feb.  5,  iSlo;  m.  Holland  Forbes,  Feb.  5, 
1S29,  who  d.  Salem,  N.  H.,  June   17,  1S70.     She  lives  in    Boston. 

John  Wells,  b.  Boston,  Sept.  5,  iSiS  ;  d.  Sept.  24,  1S18. 

Gill,  sixth  son  of  William  and  E.  J.  Valentine,  was 
born  at  Hopkinton,  September  8,  17SS;  married,  ist, 
Sabra  Wood,  Xorthboro',  March  30,  181 4,  who  died 
August  30,  1S65 ;  married,  2nd,  Sarah  C.  Bartlett, 
1S66.  lie  was  a  trader  in  Xorthboro';  Hanover,  N. 
H.;  Tempieton,  Mass.,  and  Worcester ;  manufactured 
children's  carriages  in  Xorthboro'  manj-  j-ears,  where 
he  \»"as  also  Postmaster,  and  held  several  town  offices; 
was  Deputy  Sheriff;  afterward.  Alderman  in  Worces- 
ter, where  he  was  also  City  Auditor  for  Clteen  con- 
secutive years,  till  he  was  nearly  eighty-three  years  of 
age.  He  was  also  a  noted  land-siirve3-or  and  con- 
veyancer for  nearly  sixty  years.  He  now  holds  only 
the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  lives  in  Xorth- 
boro", Mass.,  in  his  eighty-sixth  year,  in  the  enjoyment 
of  reasonably  good  health — the  last  surviivr  of  the 
founh  generation  of  Valentines.  He  never  had  a 
headache  or  a  toothache  in  all  his  life  ! 

"  Fatlicr,"  said  the  writer  recently,  "  are  )-ou  j-et 
Jiisliic  0/  the  Peace  t  "  "  I  guess  you'll  think  so,"  said 
the  old  gentleman,  with  a  twinkle  in  his  eye,  "  u-/ten 
you  come  to  see  me  try  a  case .'"  It  is  just  that  streak  of 
humor  in  his  temperament  which  has  contributed  to 
his  good  health  and  long  life.  He  has  had  five  chil- 
dren, as  follows : —  .       . 

Georpc  Gill,  b.  Feb.  12,  1S15  ;  m.  Citherine  Dri^h.im  ;  d.  NorlhI>oro', 
Feb.  24,  1S69. 


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182  The  Valentines  in  America. 

Thomai    Weston,  b.  Feb.  16,  l8i8  ;    m.    Harriet    Drjden  ;    lives    in 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Elizabeth  Wood,  b.  Oct.  24,1820;  m.  Charles  W.  Marden  ;  lives  in 

Hartford,  Conn. 
Sarah  .\nn.  b.  May  12.  1S22  ;  d.  Northboro",  .\ug.  2,  1840. 
Henry  Elliott,  b.  July  5,  1S34;  m.  Mary  J.  Woodhouse ;  d.  Edgai- 

ton,  Mass.,  Aug.  15,  1872. 

Elijah  Fitch,  seventh  son  of  William  and  E.  J.  Val- 
entine, was  born  in  Ilopkinton,  December  10,  1789, 
and  died  in  Xorthboro',  August  21,  1863.  He  mar- 
ried, I  St,  Jane  Mahan,  of  Northboro',  March  26,  181 1, 
who  died  November  8,  1S53;  married,  2nd,  Lydia 
Hurd,  of  Cambridge,  1855,  who,  after  his  death,  mar- 
ried    Rushworth,  and    now  lives   in    ("Chicago. 

Mr.  Valentine  was  for  sixteen  consecutive  years  a 
successful  teacher  in  one  of  the  public  schools  of 
Cambridge;  was  Superintendent  of  Cambridge  Aims- 
House  for  several  years,  and  Assistant  Steward  or 
"Patron"  of  Harvard  University  for  a  long  period. 
He  was  a  firm  and  consistent  member  of  the  Baptist 
Church  for  over  fiftj-  years.  His  children  by  his  first 
wife  were  as  follows : — 

John  William,  b.  Feb.  13,  1812  ;  m.  Sarah  B.  Brown  ;  d.  Cambridge, 

Nov.  2, 1838. 
Nancy  Crawford,  b.  Nov.  20,  1 813  ;  m.  Rev.  O.  O.  Steams  ;  d.  March 

27,  184* 
James,  b.  Oct.  20,  1815  ;  unmarried  ;  d.  Cambridge,  Nov.  11, 1838.. 
Martha,  \v,m  Jan.  16,  1S17 ;  m.  .\.  H.  NeweU  ;  d.  Shrewsbury,  Mass., 

Jan.  2<j,  1S73. 
Elijah,  b.  June  30, 1S19;  m.  Pamelia  Dresser  ;  lives  in  California. 
Mary  Jane,  b.  Aug.  27,  1S26;  d.  Cambridge,  Dec  13,  1826. 

By  his  second  wife  he  had  only  one  child : 

William,  b.  Cambridge.  ^ 

Colonel  Samuel  Lyndc,  ciglith  son  of  William  and 
E.  J.  Valentine,  was  born  in   Ilojjkinton,  October  21, 


Descendants  of  IViHiam   Valentine.  183 

1 791.  He  married,  1st,  Elizabeth  Farnliam,  born  in 
Andover,  Mass.,  February  18,  1792,  died  in  Bangor, 
Maj-  14,  1S33;  married,  2nd,  Sarah  J.  March,  born  in 
Gorham,  December  29,  1806,  who  survived  him,  and 
has  since  married  John  Ginn,  of  Orland,  Me.,  where 
she  now  lives.  Colonel  Valentine  died  in  Bangor, 
September  11,  1849.  He  was  among  the  first  settlers 
of  Bangor,  having  gone  there  when  he  was  only 
eighteen  or  twenty  years  of  age,  and  when  the  place 
was  only  a  large  village.  He  first  taught  school  there, 
and  meanwhile  was  called  to  hold  several  offices.  He 
was  a  Colonel  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  served  in  that 
capacity  in  the  famous  battle  of  Hampden.  He  was 
twice  taken  prisoner,  and  put  upon  parole;  and  once, 
while  a  prisoner  on  a  British  man-of-war,  was 
ordered  to  put  his  head  into  a  cannon's  mouth,  which 
he  immediately  did.  It  is  said  of  him  that  when  a 
young  man  he  hardly  knew  what  fear  was,  so  that  his 
companions  would  sometimes  test  him  on  that  point. 
Once,  when  going  from  his  work  past  a  grave-yard, 
late  at  night,  he  was  confronted  by  a  man  wrapped  in 
a  sheet,  who  suddenly  arose  as  from  one  of  the  graves. 
"  Ha  !  "  said  he ;  "a  ghost,  eh  .'  "  and  then  let  fly  a  vol- 
ley ol  stones  that  compelled  the  "ghost  "  to  drop  his 
sheet  and  flee,  the  more  frightened  of  the  two. 

Soon  after  his  first  marriage  he  commenced  trad- 
ing in  Bangor,  and  with  good  success.  In  1822  he 
removed  to  Castine,  where  he  kept  a  large  country 
score;  and  here  he  also  built  a  vessel,  which  he  named 
"  Oriando,"  which  being  Ioni  on  its  first  voyage,  ended 
his  ship-building.  He  was  a) so  the  Jailer  and  SheriflF 
of  the  county  for  some  _vr;rs,  as  he  had  been  at 
Bangor  for  a  time,  and  where  he  once  came  very  near 
being  killed  by  a  fractious  pr  ?uner.  In  1828  he  again 
moved   to    Bangor,  and    engaged    in   the  wholesale 


grocery  trade.  At  tliis  period  of  his  history  his 
business  was  prospcnius,  and  lie  was  regarded  as 
wealthy;  but  in  an  evil  hour  he  signed  a  bond  to  a 
large  amount  for  a  friend,  and  his  failure  was  the  con- 
sequence. After  that  he  engaged  in  the  saw-mill  and 
lumbering  business;  was  a  surveyor,  and  finally  an 
inventor,  devoting  the  last  years  of  his  life  to  the 
study  of  water-power.  Four  water-wheels  were 
patented  by  him,  two  of  which  went  into  general  use, 
and  yet  ramain  so.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
Assessor;  had  been  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  many 
years;  and  had  taken  all  the  degrees  in  the  Masonic 
Order.  He  was  always  a  great  favorite  with  the 
Indians  (which  were  tlien  numerous  in  the  vicinity  of 
Bangor),  and  never  wearied  of  telling  his  adventures 
among  the  Red  Men  of  the  Penobscot  tribe,  many  of 
whom  evinced  much  grief  at  his  death.  The  papers 
of  Bangor,  at  his  death,  said  of  him :  "  Colonel  Val- 
entine was  widely  and  favorably  known  in  business 
circles.  He  was  greatl}-  respected  for  his  moral  worth, 
his  social  qualities,  and  his  Christian  life."  He  was 
one  of  the  earliest  advocates  of  the  temperance  cause, 
and  was  one  of  the  first  lecturers  on  that  subject.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church,  and  so 
also  are  all  his  children,  with  but  a  single  exception. 
Colonel  Valentine  had  sixteen  children — eight  by 
each  wife,  viz  : — 

By  First  Wife. 

Elizabeth  Johnson,  b.  Bangor,  Dec.  3,   1S15  ;   m.  Jones  Valentine; 

lives  in  Cambiidge. 
William  Jones,  b.  Ranger,  .Aug.  3,  1S17  ,  m.  S<Ji>hia  Brigham  ;  is  now  a 

t»ankcr  in  London,  Eng. 
Roxena  Farnham,  b.  Bangor,  March  15,  lS;o  ;  d.  July  3.  1S3S. 
Sarah  Bowman,  b.  Bangor,  Nov.  ig,  1S21  ;  m.  Harvey  Howard  ;  now 

lives  in  Chelsea,  Mass. 


CILL  VALENTINE,  ES<.).,  AGED  Sy,  OF  NORTHDOKOUGH,  MASS 
TIE  U^T  bl  KVIVOR  OF  THl    K'HRTH  OtNERATION. 


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Descendants  of  William    Valentine.  185 

Mary  Jane.  b.  Casline.   Nov.   8,  1S23  ;  m.  Joseph  H.  Sandford  ;  live 

in  Chelsea,  Mass. 
Samuel    Winler,   b.  Casline,  June    21,   1S26;  m.    Eliza  A.  Garland; 

lives  in  Bristol,  Conn. 
Harriet  Ann,  b.  Bangor;  m.    1st,  James   Gibb  ;  2nd,  David  A.  Ross; 

lives  in  Quebec. 
Catherine  Sophia,  b.  Bangor,  N|ay  14,  1S32  ;  m.  Isaac  T.  Cole  ;   lives 

in  Brunswick,  Me. 

By  Secmd  Wift. 

James  .M.,  b.  Bangor.  .\ug.  g.  1834  ;  m.  Carrie  J.  Clark. 
Hannah  Pcabody,  b.  Bangor,  Oct.  15,  1S36;  d.  Aug.  12,  1841. 
Edward  Kent,  b.  Bangor,  April   7.  1838  ;  m.  Frances  H.  Clark  ;  lives 

in  Boston. 
Caroline  Maria,  b.  Bangor,  Dec.  16,  1S39  ;  m.  Cyrus  R.  Clark;  lives 

in  Boston. 
-\bbie  F.,  b.  Bangor,  Nov.  4.  1 84 1  ;  lives  in  Orland,  Me. 
.\nna  B..  b.  Bangor,  July  31,  1843;  m.  George  G.  Powers. 
Delia  L.,  b.  Somersille.  Mass.,  .\pril  4,  1^45  ;  now  lives  in  Boston. 
Charles  E.,  b.  Bangor,  .\ug.  22, 1S4S ;  no  j  lives  in  Orland. 

Elliot,  ninth  son  of  William  and  E.  J.  V^alentine, 
was  born  in  Hopkinton,  October  3,  1793.  He  married 
Jane  A.  Gra)'(born  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  April  25,  1796, 
and  who  is  yet  living),  November  5,  1823.  In  early 
manhood  he  engaged  parth"  in  teaching,  and  partly  in 
mercantile  life,  but  finall}-  gave  up  the  latter  entirely, 
and  in  1S26  became  Principal  of  one  of  the  Public 
Schools  in  Bangor,  Me.,  where  he  remained  for  about 
thirty  years,  when  he  was  chosen  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  and  held  the  office  from  1S55  to  1862.  He 
was  greatly  respected  in  these  positions,  and  few  have 
attained  greater  success  in  the  profession.  He  was  a 
worthy  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  for 
many  years.  His  death  occurred  at  Newton,  Mass., 
July  13,  1864,  his  remains  being  deposited  in  the 
cemeterj-  in  Northboro".  Their  children  were: — 
94 


lS6  lite   Valiiiliiu-s  in  Avicrica. 

Joho   Ellicit.  b.  Worcester.  March  20,  1826  ;  m.  H.  Jennie  PjuI.  May 

31.  iSOo. 
Sarah  Ely,  b.  Bangor,  Aug.  ig,  1832  ;  d.  Bangor,  May  31,  1S34. 
Mar)'  Huntington,   b.    Banjor,  June   23,  1S35  ;    unmarried;  lives  in 

Bangor. 
Charles  .\Ibert,  b.  Bangor,  Dec.  iS.  1S38  ;  d.  Bangor.  Jan.  21,  1843. 
William   Buckingham,  b.  Bangor,  July  16,  1S43;  d.  Bangor,  Sept.  14, 

"843- 

Elmer,  tenth  and  youngest  son  of  William  and  E. 
J.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Uopkinton,  June  4,  I79S- 
He  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Colonel  John 
Crawford  (btjrn  in  Nurthboro",  May  7,  1S02),  April  2, 
1S21.  After  attending  the  schools  in  Northboro,  and 
receiving  private  instructions  from  Rev.  Dr.  Allen,  he 
pursued  Ills  studies  at  Framingliam  Academ)-  for  some 
time.  He  was  an  eminent  and  highly  successful 
teacher  for  fortv-seven  years,  twelve  of  which  were 
spent  in  Hoston,  and  the  remainder  in  Northboro".  In 
the  departinent  of  penmanship  he  was  especially  suc- 
cessful ;  and  he  published  a  sytem  of  his  own  on  that 
subject.  His  "Northboro'  Boarui.sg  School"  be- 
came well  known,  and  was  largely  attended,  es- 
peciall)-  by  pupils  from  Boston.  His  list  of  former 
pupils  is  a  long  one,  embracing  many  who  are  now  in 
eminent  positions — among  whom  may  be  mentioned 
Honorable  Charles  Sumner,  late  United  States  Sen- 
ator from  Massachusetts,  and  many  others.  His  sunny 
temper  and  humorous  disposition  made  him  a  favorite 
among  his  pupils;  and  one  of  his  sly  jokes  would 
often  bring  results  that  the  rod  could  never  have  se- 
cured. He  was,  withal,  in  his  prime,*  a  fine-looking 
man,  of  rather  winning  if  not  coinmanding  presence, 
and  few  had  the  temerity  to  disobey  him.    [The  writer 

•  His  likeness,  copied   in  this  work,  was   taken  but  a  short   time 
previous  to  bis  death,  and  af'er  he  had  suffered  much  from  ill  health. 


Descendants  of  William    \'a!cntinc. 


187 


may  be  excused  for  thus  dwelling  upon  the  character 
and  sen-ices  of  one  to  whom,  perhaps,  he  is  more  in- 
debted for  whatever  success  he  has  had  in  life, 
than  to  any  otlier  individual.]  In  religion  he  was  a 
decided  Baptist;  and  the  Church  of  that  faith  in 
Northboro'  owes  its  origin  more  to  him  than  to  any 
other  person.  He  was,  for  many  j-ears,  a  great  suf- 
ferer from  asthma,  and  finally  died  of  congestion  of 
the  lungs,  in  Northboro",  December  27,  1863.  The 
children  of  Elmer  and  Rebecca  (Crawford)  Valentine 
were  fifteen  in  number,  as  follows: — 


Charles  Elmer,  b    Boston,  .March  13,  1S22;  m.  Olive  Scavcr;  d.  West 

Newton,  June  23, 1870. 
Elizabeth  Jones,  b.  Charlestown,   Feb.  4,  l?24;  m.   Dr.  Geo.  \V.  Bur- 

ditt;  lives  in  Clinton,  Mass. 
Julia  .\nre,  b.  Boston.  Sept.  14,  1S25;  m.  L.  F.  Bancroft  ;  d.  S.  Had- 

ley  Falls,  July  31, 1850. 
Lucy  Crawford,  b.   Northboro',  Oct.  15,  IS26;  m.  Josiah  Alexander, 

lives  in  Boston  Highlands. 
Henry  Jackson,  b.  Northboro',  Feb.  2S,  1S2S  ;  d.  Northboro',  Sept.  13. 

182S. 
Rebecca  Jane,  b.    Boston,   Nov.  27.  1S30;  m.   Wm.   A.    Bartlett  ;    d. 

Northboro',  Nfarch  g,  1S70. 
Sarah,  b.  Charlestown,  .March  iS,  1S32  ;  d.  in  Charlestown,  March  22, 

1832. 
William,  b.  Charlestown,  March  30.  1S33;  m.  Mary  A.  Barnes:  lives 

in  Chicopee,  Mass. 
Henry,  b.  Charlestown,  April  3.  l535;  d.  Northboro',  Sept.  6,  1S56. 
Sarah    Crawford,  b.    Northboro',    .\ug.    15,    1S36;    lives    in     Boston 

Highlands. 
Mary  Crawford,  b.  Northboro",  July  25,  1S37  ;  d.  there,  Dec.  25, 1837. 
Ellen,  b.    Northboro",    Dec.    5,  1S3S;   m.   Jacobs;    lives   in 

Northboro'. 
Waller,  b.  Northboro',  Jan.  16,  1840;  m.  I..  .Augusta  Mentzer;  lives 

on  his  father's  place,  Northboro'. 
Mary  .\bby,  b.  Northboro'.  Sept.  iS,  1841 ;  resides  in  Fitchburgh. 
Norman    Foster,  b.  July  S,  1S47;   m.  .Annie  C.   Dennett;  resides  io 

Chicago. 


1 88  Tlu  Valentines  in  America. 


CHAPTER      XIX. 

THE    FIFTH    GENERATION. 

CAPT.\IN    JOSHUA    X.,  eldest  son  of  Joshua 
and  Elizabeth  (Valentine)  Mellen,  was  born  in 
Westboro",  Mass.,  July  i,  1790;  m.  Annie  Bar- 
ber, July  4,  iSii.     She  was  born    March  5,  1795,  ^"^^ 
died  October   2,  1S46.     He  died  Jan.  5,  1858.     Their 
children  were  as  follows: — 

Ann  Eliza,  b.   Nov.  27,   iSil;    m.  Joseph   H.   Fairbanks,  April    14, 

1831. 
John   Dwinnell,  b.  Nov.  8,  1813;    m.  Ann    M.    Hardy,  Oct.  l8,  1835; 

d.  July  17, 1865. 
Susan  Mop.e,  b.  Feb.  29,  1S16;  m.  C.  S.   Hardy,  Oct.  14.  1837;  lives 

in  Westboro*. 
Clarissa  Valentine,  b.  June  24,  1S18  ;  d.  Oct.  24,  lS2a 
Harriette  Valentine,  b.  June  24, 1820;  m.  G.  H.  Greenwood,  June  14 

1848;  resides  in  Ayer,  Ma^s. 
Marietta  Hey»ood,  b.   Feb.   13,  1823;    m.  Lincoln  Wood,  .\pril  8 

1852  :  resides  in  Westboro*. 
Joshua  Edward,  b.  Aug.  3,  1825. 

Charles  Homer,  b.  .\ug.  30,  1^27;  m.  Florence  C.  Ing,  Der.  15,  1852. 
Helen   Maria,  b.  June   22,  1S29;  m.  C.    K.   Dorman.  Oct.  10,  1S52  ; 

resides  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
George  Henr)-,  b.  July  27,  1S32  ;  d.  June  18,  1847. 
Abncr  Melville,  b.  Dec.  16,  1S34  ;  m.  Adclia  I-.  Tike,  Nov.  15,  1656. 
Emily  Sophia,  b.  Jan.  30.  1S37  ;  m.  H.  D.  .\insworlh. 
William  Frederick,  b.  Sept.  9,  1S39  ;  is  supposed  to  be  in  Montana. 

Clarissa,  daughter  of  Joshua  .^lellen,  Esq.,  and 
Elizabeth  (Valentine)  Mellen,  was  born  in  Westboro", 
January   3,   1794.     She    married   Jubal   Weston,   who 


Descendants  of  William    Valentine.  189 

was  born  in  Grafton,  Februarj-  19,  17S6,  and  died  in 
Hopkinton,  May  27,  186S.  She  is  yet  living  in  Hop- 
kinton.     Their  cliildren  were  as  follows  : — 

Aaron,  b.  Nov.  ii,  1S14  ;  m.  Julia  Churchill;  d.  Feb.  25,  1S68,  in 
California. 

John  M.,  b.  Jul)  S,  1S16;  law  ^tmlent  and  aclor  ;  d.  Nov.  4,  1S65. 

Elizabelh  Valenline,  b.  Sept.  24,  iSiS;  m.  J.  J.  McGowan,  M.  D.,  of 
Boston. 

Samuel  E.,  b.  Sept.  ig.  1820;  m.  Mar)  A.  Vincent,  of  Boston  ;  d. 
April  12.  1862. 

Clarissa  M.,  b.  Sept  21,  1S22;  m.  Stedman  \V.  Howe;  lives  in 
Hopkinton. 

Jubal,  Jr.,  b.  Nov.  13,  1S24  ;  m.  Fanny  Richardson,  of  Boston;  re- 
sides in  California. 

Harriette  .\.,  b.  Sept.  17,  1S26  ;  m.  Thos.  K.  Gray,  Boston. 

Joshua  M.,  b.  July  17,  1829;  resides  in  California. 

Olivia  L.,  b.  .\ug.  29.  1S51  ;  m.  Chas.  McFarland,  Burlington,  la. 

Henry  C,  b.  March  13,1835;  m.  Marie  H.  Barrett,  of  New  York. 

Emily  Day,  b.  Oct.  9,  1838  ;  d.  Aug.  29. 1 840. 

Otis,  son  of  William  and  Abigail  (Spring)  Valen- 
tine, was  born  in  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  December  15, 
1798,  and  died  Auj^ust  28,  1S63.  His  fanier  removed 
to  Maine  when  he  was  about  five  years  uf  .age.  He 
married  Mary  Starbird,  of  Westbrook,  Me.,  August 
29,  1S22,  bj-  whom  he  had  children  as  follows: — 

William,  b.  Jane  15.  1824;  d.  July  6,  1847. 

Leonard  J.,  b.  July  I,  1S32  ;  d.  June  18,  1836. 

Leonard,  b.  May  15,  1S40;  d.  May  18,  1840. 

I.eonard  (adopted),  b.  May  19,  1S40 ;  m.  Laura  Paine,  Westbrook. 

Dexter,  son  of  William  and  Abigail  S.  Valentine, 
was  born  in  Westbrook,  Me.,  March  27,  1804.  He 
married  Nancy  P.  Pease,  of  Bridgton,  in  Gorham, 
October  20,  1S51,  and  removed  the  same  month  to 
Harmony,  Me.,  where  he  followed  farming  until  his 
death,  October  18,  1851  ;   and  his  wife  died  only  two 


I90 


Tlic   Valentines  in  Avieriea. 


weeks  later,  viz:  November  2,  1851.     Their  children 
were  as  follows: — 

Albion    T.,  b.   Mnrmony.  Sept.  20,   1832;   m.    Florence  A.  Bartlett, 

Sept.  20.  1S63;  lives  in  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
.\bbie  S.,  b.  Hannony.  .\\ig.   lo,   1S34;  m.  John    M.   Bartlett,   July 

18,  1S61  ;  lives  at  Island  Pond,  Vt. 
.^^arah   P.,  b.   Harmony,  July   i,  1S36;  m.  Charles   Hamilton,  May  I, 

1855;  lives  in  Davenport,  la. 
I.,eonaJd    D.,  b.   H.Trmony,   .\ug.   11,   1838;    m.    Helen    A.    Burrows; 

lives  in  Minneapolis  East,  Minn. 
Lowell  W.,  b.  .\ug.  19.  1S41  ;  lost  his  left  leg  in  the  War  of  the  Re- 
bellion; was   Postmaster  of   Harmony   till    1866;    now  in   shoe 

trade  in  Minneapolis. 
Elizabeth  C,  b.  Harmony,  Sept.  14,  1844  ;  m.  Geo.  A.  Magoon  ;  lives 

in  Harmony,  Me. 

Albert,  son  of  Willi,im  and  A.  S.  Valentine,  was 
born  in  Westbrook,  September  26,  181 1.  He  was  a 
teacher  in  that  town  for  several  years,  but  finally  re- 
moved to  Mechanic  Falls,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
trade.  He  married  Hannah  E.  Foss,  of  Minot,  and 
afterward  spent  some  twelve  years  in  California,  but 
has  now  returned  to  Maine.  Their  children  were  as 
follows: — 

Albert,  b.  Dec.  8,  1840;  m.  Clara  Chase;  lives  in  Chelsea,  Mass. 

Elmer,  b.  Nov.  5,  1842. 

Flora  Ella,  b.  May  10,  1845  ;  d.  March  13,  1847. 

Flora  Eva,  b.  Jan.  27,  1848  ;  m.  I,.  \V.  Mason  ;  lives  in  .\ubum,  M*. 

Honorable  Leander  Valentine,  son  of  William  and 
A.  S.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Saccarappa  village,  town 
of  Stroudwatcr  (afterward  changed  to  Westbrook), 
March  tS,  181  4.  After  securing  a  good  edtication,  he 
commenced  to  teacli  in  1S35,  which  he  continued  till 
1854,  mostly  in  Westbrook.  He  was  married,  August 
28,  1842,  to  Miss  Margaret  S.  Coolbroth,  of  the  samp 
town.     He  was  one  of  the  School  Committee  and  one 


Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  191 

of  the  Selectmen  for  several  j-ears.  He  also  repre- 
sented the  town  in  the  Legislature  two  years  (1847-8); 
was  a  member  of  tiie  Senate  in  1849;  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Council  in  1 850-1 85 1,  and  1852;  and  has 
been  connected  with  the  Custom  House  in  Portland 
over  a  dozen  years,  viz :  six  years  as  Weigher  and 
Gauger,  one  year  as  Assistant  Appraiser,  and  five,  as 
Appraiser,  in  which  office  he  yet  r. mains.  He  has 
always  resided  near  the  place  where  lie  was  born  ;  and 
the  places  of  honor  and  trust  he  has  held  are,  of  them- 
selves, sufficient  evidence  of  the  esteem  in  which  he 
is  held  by  his  townsmen  and  the  public.  Their  only 
child  was: — 

Mircena  Adriana.  b.  .May  l6,  1845  ;  d.  April  I,  1846. 

Caroline,  daughter  of  William  and  A.  S.  Valentine, 
was  born  in  Westbrook,  August  16,  1816.  She  was  a 
teacher  for  a  while,  but  married,  December  25,  1837, 
Moses  B.  Walker,  of  Scarboro',  who  has  long  been  a 
well-known  and  most  successful  teacher,  of  the  very 
first  ranK,  in  public  and  private  schools  in  Portland 
and  Westbrook.  They  now  reside  in  Poland,  Me., 
where  he  is  engaged  in  farming.  Their  children 
were  — 

Elmer  V'.,  b.  Westbrook,  Sept.  23,  1841  ;  m.  1st,  Anna  A.  Hutchin- 
son, who  d.  Dec.  10,  1861  ;  m.  2d,  Julia  A.  Holden. 
Flora  E.,  b.  Weslbrook,  May  22,  1847. 
Edgar  H.,  b.  Poland,  April  3,  1861. 

Emily,  daughter  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Patty  B. 
Valentine,  was  born  in  Hopkinton,  Januarj- 31,  1803; 
m.  Lawson  Jones,  farmer,  of  Hopkinton,  Dec.  16, 1823. 
He  died  July,  1855;  and  she  now  resides  in  Cam- 
bridge.     Their  children  were: — 


192  IJu   Valentines  in  Avurua. 

Manha  Valentine,  b.  in  iiopLioton.  Oa.  2,  1S24;  rcides  in  Cam- 
bridge. 

Hannah  Elizabeth,  b.  in  IlopVinton,  July  15,  1825  .  resides  in  Cam- 
bridge. 

Gilbert,  son  of  Joseph  and  Patiy  Valentine,  was 
born  in  Hopkinton,  September  11,  1S04. 

Nancy,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Patty  Valentine, 
was  born  in  Falmouth,  Me.,  July  14,  1S07  ;  married 
Stowell  Richards.  She  died  in  Southboro",  June, 
1852.     Their  children  were: — 

Newell    Smith     Richard^  b-   Southboro'.    -May   6.   1S38;    reside*    in 

Soathboro'. 
Henry  Valentine    Richards  b.   Southboro',  Oct.   I,  1839;  m.   Ida  S. 

Seavcy,  of  .\-hland  ;  resides  in  Baltimore. 
Anna   Eliza    Richards   b.   Hoplinlon.   March  14.  I?4I  ;    d    July  15. 

1841. 
Harriet  .\ugusta   Richards  b.  Southboro",  July  16,  1S43;   m.  Geo.  E, 

Walkup  ;  resides  in  Southboro', 
George  .Mlxrt   Richards  b.  S:  .;ihboro',  Nov.  19,  1S44  ;  m.  Ellen   E. 

Co^-inow;  resides  in  Marlboro'. 
William  HarriiOQ  Richards  b.  Southboro',  June  15.  1S50;  died  Sept. 

17,  185a 

Jones,  son  of  Joseph  and  Patty  B.  Valentine,  was 
born  in  Falmouth,  Me,  Oct.  14,  1808.  He  married 
Elizabeth  J.  Valentine,  eldest  daughter  of  Colonel 
Samuel  L.  Valentine,  of  Bangor,  January  1,  1835; 
and  they  now  reside  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  Their 
children  were : — 

Roiana  Elizabeth,  b.  Bangor,  May  31,  1837  ;  died  Feb.  25.  1838. 
.Maria  Veazie,  b.  Oldlown.  March  7,  1S39. 
Emma  Jane,  b.  Oldlo'wn,  Feb.  22,  1 84 1. 

Alanson,  son  of  Joseph  and  Patty  B.  Valentine, 
was  bom  in  Falmouth,  Me.,  April  17,  1810.     He  grad- 


Descendants  of  William    Valentine.  1 93 

uated  at  Pliillips  Academy,  Andover;  m.  Miranda  E. 
Smith  ;  was  a  teacher  in  Roxbury  and  other  places  for 
twelve  years;  was  afterward  of  the  firm  of  Jameson 
&  \'alentine,  proprietors  of  a  well-known  restaurant 
in  Boston.  He  died  in  Beaufort,  S,  C,  June  30,  1S64. 
Their  only  child  was: — 

Miranda  Lyman  Valenline,  b.  Jamaica  Plain,  July  29,  1S43  ;  m.  John 
F.  Ealon,  of  New  York,  Feb.  8,  1872,  and  now  resides  in  Cam- 
bridge. 

Gerry,  fourth  son  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Pattj-  B. 
Valentine,  was  born  in  Falmouth,  Me.,  August  zj, 
iSii.     He  married  Sarah   H.  Walker,  of   Hopkinion, 

1835,  and  now  resides  in  Hammondton,  N.  J.  Their 
children  were: — 

William   Henry,  b.  Hopkinton,  Sept.  21,  1835  ;  m.  Mary  A.  Samson, 

Worcester.  Feb.,  1864. 
Sarah  .Annette,  b.  Graflon,   Mass.,  OcL   I,  1837;  m.  Wm.  \.  Flood, 

Worcester,  Oct.  10,  1857. 
Edward  Gerry,  b.  Worcester,  Dec  31,  1844  ;  d.  Aug.  19, 1S48. 
Charles,  b.  Worcester,  Feb.  14, 1852 ;  d.  Feb.  17, 1852. 

Elmer,  fifth  son  of  Captain  Joseph  and  Patty  B. 
X'alentine,  was  born  in  Falmouth,  Me.,  Dec.  9,  1812. 
He  married   .\Iary  C.  Walker,  of  Hopkinton,  May  26, 

1836,  who  was  born  June  4,  1817.  He  was  a  teacher 
of  note  in  Marblehead,  Danvers  and  other  places  fur 
man)-  years,  and  was  a  Church  Chorister  for  about 
twenty  j-ears.  He  has  since  been  mostly  engaged  in 
insurance  business  in  Boston,  and  resides  in  Salem. 
Their  children  were: — 

Marion  Ediiah,  b.  West  .Mt-dway,  .Mass.,  -Aug.  I,  1837. 
Herbert  Eugene,  b.  South  Danvers.  Jan.  l3.  1841. 
.\bby  Jane,  b.  South  Danvers.  Jan.  16,  1843. 
Laura  Li^ette.  b.  South  Danvers,  Sept.  17,1846. 


194  The  Valentines  in  America. 

Isaac  Burnap,  sixth  sun  of  C;ipt:iiii  J.  and  Patty  B. 
\'alentine,  was  born  in  Stroudvvater,  Me.,  March  29, 
1814.  He  married  Elizabeth  J.  Guy,  Ilopkinton,  Oc- 
tober 3,  1839,  and,  after  living  many  years  in  Maine, 
has  recently  returned  to  Ilopkinton,  where  he  now  re- 
sides. It  is  worthy  of  note  tliat  he  is  tlie  only  one  of 
the  name  now  living  in  that  ancient  town,  wiiere  the 
Valentines  were  once  so  numerous  and  influential. 
Their  ciiildren  were: — 

Alfred  Wilbur,  b.  in  Hopkinton.  Aug.  S,  1841  ;  ni.  Laurcila  .M.  CaH- 

dard.  Miy  18.1864. 
Emmie  Forbes,  b.  Hopkinlon,  Oct,  1S4S  ;  d.  .\pril  3. 1S51. 
Willie  Orrille.  b.  Hopkinlon.  March  7.  1856  ;  d.  Feb.  25. 185S. 

Harriet,  fifth  daughter  of  Captain  Jo^ph  Valen- 
tine and  wife,  was  born  in  Westbrook,  Me,  December 
29,  1S15.  In  early  life  slie  resided  with  her  aunt,  Mrs. 
Bowman,  in  Cambridge,  where  she  subsequently  mar- 
ried, Dea.  William  T.  Richardson,  a  successful  coal- 
merchant,  and  a  useful  and  honored  officer  of  the 
Baptist  church  in  Old  Cambridge.  Their  children 
were : — 

Harritl  .\nna  Kichardson.  b.  Cambridjje.  Nov.  27,  1S44. 

Wm.  Taylor   Richardson.  Jr..  b.  Cambridge,  .\pril  S.  1846;  d.  .April 

16.1864. 
Joseph  Valcniine  Richardson,  b    Cambridge,  Dec.  9.  1S49. 

Adaliiie,  sixth  daughter  of  Captain  Joseph  \'alen- 
tine,  was  born  in  Ilopkinton,  February  27,  1S18.  She 
was  married  .\pril  2,  1839,  to  Nathaniel  Howe  Fitch, 
of  Hopkinton,  where  they  first  resided,  but  removed 
manv  vears  ago  to  Maples,  Indiana,  where  she  died, 
October  26,  1S63.     Their  children  were. — 

Sarah  M.  Filch,  b,  Jan.  2.  1840;  ra.  J.  M.  Parkey,  Oct.  11.  1S71. 
George  Filch,  b.  .May  y,  1S41  ;  d.  Sept.  17,  1841. 


Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  19 

Harriot  R.  Fitch,  b.  Jan.  .1,  1844  ;  d.  Sept.  23, 1S63. 
Rebecca  \V.  Fitch,  b.  Dec.  17,  1847. 
Martha  V.  Fitch,  b.  Jan.  27,  1S50  ;  d.  June  10, 185a 
Lewis  M.,  b.  Dec.  9,  185 1  ;  d.  Feb.  2,  1852. 
Charles  \V.  Fitch,  b.  Sept.  28,  1S53  ;  d.  Oct.  17,  1S54. 
Frank  H.  Fitch,  b.  July  II,  1S56;  d.  .\ug.  23,  1S56. 
Joseph  Valentine  Fitch,  b.  Nov.  7,  1857. 
Arthur  H.  Fitch,  b.  Sept.  3,  1S59. 

William,  the  seventh  and  youngest  son  of  Captain 
Joseph  X'alcntine,  was  born  in  Hopkinton,  January  4, 
1821.  Like  some  of  his  brothers,  he  was  very  fond 
of  music,  and  taught  singing  schools  and  led  choirs, 
as  did  they.  He  married  Susan  I.  Guy,  November  i, 
1843  (who  was  born  August  18,  1S24),  and  died  of 
consumption  in  Hopkinton,  May  4,  1851,  leaving  no 
issue. 

Mary  Bowman,  eldest  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Anna  (Valentine)  Bowman,  was  born  in  Hopkinton, 
Jul}-  iS,  1802.  She  married  Samuel  Fisher,  of  North- 
boro'  (who  was  born  at  Westboro',  April  29,  1791),  No- 
vember 26,  1820.  He  died  March  16,  1854.  She  is  yet 
living  in  Northboro'.     Their  children  were: — 

Mary  Am,  b.  Northboro",  Sept.  30,  1821  ;  d.  Oct.  2,  1S24. 
Charles  Samuel,  b    Northboro",  .\pril  26,  1S24  ;  d.  June  10,  1828. 
Mary  Ann,  b.  Northboro",  .April  14,  lS;6;  m.  Rev.  Horatio  Slebbinj. ; 

resides  in  California. 
Joseph  Samnel,  b.  Northboro",  .\pril  13,  1828  ;  d.  New  Orleans,  Sept. 

10,  1S67,  unm. 
Elizabeth    Maria,   b.   Northboro",   Dec.  28,  1829;    m.  Samuel   Clark, 

Esq. ;  resides  in  Northboro*. 
Jane  Taylor,  D.  Northboro",  Oct.  4,  1833  ;  m.  Jairus  Lincoln  ;  resides 

in  Colorado. 
Ellen  Frances,  b.  Northboro",  .April  4,  1S37;  d.  May  3,  1839. 
Ellen  Frances,  b.  Northboro",  .\pril  8,  1S43  ;  resides  in  California. 

Elizabeth  Bowman,  youngest   daughter  of  Joseph 


196  Till  Valentines  in  America. 

and  Anna  V.  Bowman,  was  born  in  Westboro',  May  25, 
1S07.  She  was  married,  April  16,  18:6,  to  Dea.  Sam- 
uel Wo(jd,  of  Nortliboro'  (born  February  21,  1799), 
and  died  greatly  lamented,  May  18,  1868.  Their  chil- 
dren were : — 

Abraham,  b.  Norlhboro',  Nov.  20,  1S28;  d.  June  23,  1S31. 

Samuel,  Jr.,  b.  N'orthboro',  Feb.  13,  1831 ;  m.  Lucreiia  G.  Hubbard; 

resides  in  Xorthboro*. 
Albert,  b.   Norlhboro',  Feb.  19,  1835;    m.  Emma  Allen;    resides  in 

Worcesier. 
Charles  Johnson,  b.  Norlhboro',   Aug.  28,  1838;  m.  Helen  S.   Dodd  ; 

resides  in  Harlford. 
l.ydia  .Ann.  b.  Norlhboro',  Mar.  ig,  1S44  ;  d.  Sept.  22,  l8j8. 
P^mma  Eh^abelh,  b.  Norlhboro',  March  14,  1848;  d.  .\pril  25,  1S51. 

Dr.  Albert  Jones  Bellows,  eldest  son  of  Asahel  and 
Hannah  (Valentine)  Bellows,  was  born  in  Westboro', 
Mass.,  1805.  He  p;raduated  at  Harvard  Medical  Col- 
lege in  1829,  and  practiced  his  profession  in  Salem 
and  Charlestown  for  many  years,  and  then  removed 
to  Roxbury.  He  was  married  three  times,  but  the 
only  marriage  given  in  the  record  is  to  Miss  Pamelia 
A.  Fitch,  who  died  in  1845,  leaving  two  children.  Dr. 
Bellows  was  the  author  of  "  Philosophy  of  Eating,"  and 
"Now  not  to  he  Sick" — works  that  have  been  widely 
circulated.  He  was  successful  in  his  profession 
wherever  he  was  located.  He  visited  Europe,  and,  on 
his  return,  settled  in  Boston,  where  he  died  in  1869. 
His  children  were  : — 

Albert   F.  Bellows,  b.  1829;    m.   Miss  C.  J.  Brown,  of  Fall  River; 

lives  in  Boston. 
Mary  P.  liellows,  b.  1844;  died  1869. 

Fnielinc  A.,  daughter  of  Asahel  and  Hannah  V. 
Belhjws,  was  born  in  Westboro',  1806.  She  married 
William  Lewis,  and  lived  for  many  years  in   Groton, 


sr 


Descendants  of  William   Valentrne.  197 

Mass.,  and  afterwards  with  her  son,  in  Bos'.  >_.  Her 
son.  Dr.  W.  M.  Lewis,  was  born  in  Groton,  i'?4o,  and 
now  lives  in  Bergen  Point,  N.  J.  He  and  A.  F.  Bel- 
lows, the  artirt,  are  the  only  surviving  grandchildren 
of  Asahcl  and  Hannah  Valentine  Bellows. 

Honorable  Christopher  VV.  Bellovs,  youngest  son 
of  Asrihel  and  Hannah  V.  Bellows,  was  born  in 
Westboro',  1R12.  The  writer,  thougii  well  acquainted 
with  him  in  his  bo)hood,  only  knows  tliis  of  him: 
that  he  was  once  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
Senate,  from  Middlesex  countj-,  and  afterwards  for 
many  years  an  officer  in  the  Custom  House,  Boston. 
When  the  writer  last  heard  from  him,  he  was  in  very 
feeble  health,  residing  in  Pepperell,  Mass. 

Sophia  \^'llentine,  eldest  daughter  of  John  and 
Charlotte  (Brett)  Valentine,  was  born  in  Paris,  Me., 
November  29,  1815.  She  was  married,  April  24,  1839, 
to  Joseph  Haven  Hall,  a  native  of  Maine,  and  now 
resides  in  Farlville,  III.     Their  children  were: — 

Frank   Haven   Hall,  b.  Feb.  g,   1841;  m.  Sybil   Morton;  residence, 

Aurora,  III. 
Louie  E.  Hall.  b.  Feb.  1.^,  .844  ;  m.  Henry  Dupee;  lesidence,  Earl- 

ville.  III. 

Lowell  Valentine,  eldest  son  of  John  and  Charlotte 
B.  Valentine,  was  born  August  30,  1820,  and  married, 
June  6,  1S42,  to  Judith  W.  Hackett,  of  Maine.  Their 
present  residence  is  Keasaugua,  la. 

Nelson,  second  son  of  John  and  Charlotte  B.  Val- 
entino, was  born  February  15,  1S23,  and,  June  3,  1846, 
was  married  to  Rachel  W.  Cobb,  of  Maine.  Their 
present  residence  is  West  Newton,  Mass.  Their  chil- 
dren were: — 


198 


The  Valentines  in  America. 


Kate   Klizal>elh,  b.    NTccIianic   Falls.   Mc.  Nov.  iq,  1S48  ;  ci,  June  4 

1870. 
Cclia  K.llen.  h.  Mechanic  Falls.  Me.,  June  23.  1852. 
KHward   Payson,  b.  West    Newton.    Mass.,   Dec.   15,  1856;    d.   March 

22.  1857. 
F.Hilie    Payson.  b.  West   Newton.   .Mass..  Jan.    19,    1S62,  H.   Sept.  IJ, 

i86j. 
Ccorge  Stuart,  b.  Oct.  6,  1S66;  d.  March  II,  1867. 

Rli/.abeth,  second  daugliter  of  John  and  C.  B.  Val- 
entine,.was  born  March  23,  1S27,  and  married,  April 
26,  1856,  to  Jairiis  G.  Bridgliam,  of  Maine.  Me  died 
April  7,  1S55,  leaving  no  issue. 

John  Valentine,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Paris,  Me.,  Feb- 
rtiar\-  22,  1^33,  and  was  married,  April  i,  1S56,  ist,  to 
.^Iary  Brown,  of  Ohio,  who  died  November  26,  1869; 
2nd,  to  Belle  C.  Smart,  a  native  of  Scotland,  August 
16,  1871.     The  issue  of  the  first  marriage  was: — 

I-otlie  I.avinia,  b.  Keasaugua,  la.,  Jan.  24,  1858. 
John  .Mjiha,  b.  Kcasaugua.  June  26,  1859. 

Mr.  Valentine  has  long  been  a  teacher  of  marked 
success,  and  his  present  field  of  labor  is  as  Superin- 
tendent of  City  Schools,  Waverly,  la. 

William  Augustus  Brigham,  eldest  son  of  Peter  W. 
and  Lydia  (V^alentine)  Brigham,  was  born  in  Boston, 
.\iigust  29,  1808.  He  was  married  in  Worcester,  April 
15,  1830,  to  Miss  Maria  Gray,  of  that  place,  their  issue 
being  as  follows: — 

.\nn    .Nfaria,  b.  Westl)oro',  .\ug.  12,  1831  ;  m.  deo.  R.  Bowman;  now 

lives  in  F'lmira,  N,  Y. 
.Augustus  Ajiplelon,  b.  Wcstboro',  July  31,  1833;  in.  M.irllia  Jones. 

Stafford,  Conn.  ;  d.  Worcester,  Jan.  23, 1868. 
Sarah  Waldo,  b.  Westboro",  Feb.  14,  1837;  m.  1st,  Stephen  F.  Logee ; 

2nd,  Kdward  Boden,  Elmira. 


Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  199 

Susan  B.  U.,  b.  NorthUoro',  July  25,  1S59;  in.  S.J.  Waiie,  Worcester, 
June  9,  1S64. 

Elizabeth  X'alentiiie,  b.  \Vo^cc^^er,  Sept.  9,  1841  ;  died  there,  .^ug.  13. 
1849. 

Marj'  Chapman,  b.  Worcester,  .\ug.  30,  1S44  ;  now  lives  in  Boston. 

Amelia  G.  P.,  b.  Worcester.  .March  15,  1347;  m.  J.  O.  Egerton.  Bos- 
ton, Dec.  25,  1S71. 

Mr.  Brigliain's  first  wife  died  in  Worcester,  March 
21,  1847,  aged  thirty-eight  3ears.  He  was  married, 
second  time,  to  Miss  Hannah  S.  Cliapman,  of  Melcher- 
town,  Ma}-  3,  184S,  and  by  iter  liad  issue  as  follows: — 

Hannah   Augusta,  b.   \Vurte»ler,    Feb.  22,  1849;  d.   there,   Aug.   29. 

1849- 
William  Vaknline,  b.  Worcester,  May  17.  1850;  m.  I..  E.  Lillie.  Wil- 

limantic,  Ct.,  1868. 
Louis  Kos!>ulh,  b.  Worcester.  Jan.  30,  1S52  ;  lives  in  Boston. 
Oliver  S.  C.  b.  Worcester,  March  13,  185C:  lives  in  Boston. 
Georgianna  Nancy,  b.  Worcester,  March  2,  1858;  lives  in  Boston. 
Sylvia  .\ugtista,  b.  Worcester,  Jan.  9,  1S60;  d.  Boston,  Feb.  1, 186$. 

Lydia  Ann,  daughter  of  Peter  W.  and  Lydia  (Val- 
entine) Brigham,  was  born  in  Boston,  February  5, 
1810.  She  married  Holland  Forbes,  Jr. ,  Westboro', 
November  9,  1829,  and  had  issue  as  follows  : — 

John  W.  B.,  b.  Westboro',  Nov.  9,  1S29;  m.  Diantha  Houghton, 
Swanzy,  X.  H.  He  d.  Carlisle,  Pcnn.,  Nov.  27.  1863.  She  d. 
Boston,  Nov.  1. 1871. 

Martha  .\.  B.,  b.  Brighton.  July  4.  1834;  ui.  .\.  \\.  Merrill;  live*  in 
Salem,  N.  H. 

George  Gill,  eldest  son  of  Gill  and  Sabra  (Woodj 
Valentine,  was  born  in  .Northboro',  Mass.,  Februarj- 
12,  1815.  He  rriarried  Catharine  B.  Brigham, of  .North- 
boro', October  8,  1839  (born  September  8,  181 8),  and 
died  there,  Febrtiary  24,  1869.  He  was  for  many  years 
one  of  the  Selectmen  of  the  town,  and  was  Chairman 


200  The  Vahntines  in  America. 

iif  the  lioard  at  tlie  time  of  his  death.  He  was  also 
tor  inanv  years  one  of  the  Town  Assessors,  and 
was  Postmaster  from  iSj4  to  1861.  Their  children 
were  — 

George  Lewi-;,  b.  Norlhljuro",  May  13,  1841  ;  d.  Oct.  7,  1848. 

Helen   Maria,  b.  Norlhlxjro',    May  7,1846;  m.  O.   .M.    Kolanson,  and 

lives  in  We^lboro*. 
Sarah  Elizatelh,  b.  Weslboro",  Dec.  4,  1850. 
Harriet  Dolly,  b.  Weslboro',  Oct.  19,  1853. 

Thomas  Weston,  second  son  of  Gill  and  Sabra  W. 
Valentine,  was  born  in  Northboro',  February  16,  1818. 
He  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  that  town,  and  at 
the  Worcester  Academy.  He  cotnmenccd  teacliing  in 
Lancaster,  Mass.,  in  1836;  then,  1837-8-9,  in  his  native 
town;  in  Pennsylvania  in  1840;  in  Ashland  in  1841  ; 
and  in  1842  removed  to  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was 
Principal  of  a  Public  School  eleven  years.  He  was 
Superintendent  of  the  Albany  Orphan  Asylum  in 
'853-4;  was  Alderman,  1852-3-4;  was  Editor  of  the 
Xe-u>  York  Tfa^her  two  years;  and,  in  1855  became 
Principal  of  lublic  School  No.  19,  Brooklyn  (now 
containing  over  sixteen  hundred  pupils);  which  po- 
sition he  yet  holds  He  was  also  Deacon,  Clerk, 
Chorister,  and  S.  S.  Superintendent  of  Baptist 
Churches  in  Albany  and  Brooklyn  for  many  years. 
As  a  licensed  lay-preacher,  he  has  preached  on  over 
five  hundred  occasions,  in  more  than  fifty  pulpits,  in 
ten  counties  and  three  States.  His  "  busiest  season  " 
was  in  1S71,  when  his  day-school  contained  seventeen 
hundred  pupils;  his  evening- school  (five  evenings  a 
week),  fifty  colored  pupils  ;  his  Saturday  evening 
Singing-School,  twenty  to  forty — besides  preparing 
three  sermons  a  week  for  two  different  churches,  nine 
miles  apart,  and  over  fifty  miles  distant  from  his  home 


T.    W.    VALENTINE,    OF    l:R  JOKLVN,  N.  Y. 
AUTHOK    I'F    IIIIS   WOKK. 


Desceyidants  of  William   Valentine. 


20 1 


— and  all  these  duties,  with  the  care  of  a  family  of 
seven,  besides  several  boarders,  and  an  occasional  page 
of  manuscript  for  this  work,  or  letter  for  some  news- 
paper, kept  him  rather  husy  He  writes  this  not  to 
boast,  but  as  an  example  for  his  children,  and  in  a 
spirit  of  gratitude  to  God,  who  gave  strength  equal  to 
his  need.  The  only  specialty  he  claims  in  his  pro- 
fessional life  is  his  efforts  to  excite  more  esprit  de  corps 
among  teachers.  In  1838  he  called,  and  presided  over, 
the  first  Convention  of  Teachers  ever  held  in  Worces- 
ter county.  In  1S45  he  orginated  the  New  York  State 
Teachers'  Association,  the  oldest  of  the  kind  in  this 
country.  In  1857,  while  President  of  the  New  York 
State  Association,  he  made  the  first  movement,  which 
resulted  in  the  formation,  in  Philadelphia,  of  the 
Xational  Teachers'  Association,  which  became  the 
National  Educational  Association,  the  largest  and  most 
important  educational  body  in  the  world.  He  married 
Harriet  Dryden,  Albany,  February  16,  1844,  their 
children  being:— 

Harriet  Ada,  b.  Albany,  Dec.  10, 1844  ;  is  now  a  teacher  in  Brooklyn. 
Thomas  Walter,  b.  .Mbany,   Mardi   i,   1647;  d.  Worcester,  5?ept.  I, 

1848. 
Thomas  Wilmot,  b.  Albany,  July  4,  1849. 
Eli  Perry,  b.  Albany,  Dec.  22,  1850. 
John  Gill,  b.  Brooklyn,  Nov.  21, 1855  ;  m.  Emma  A.  Fisk. 

Elizabeth  Wood,  eldest  daughter  of  Gil!  and  Sabra 
W.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Northboro',  October  24, 
1S20.  She  was  married,  June  24,  1847,  to  Chas.  W. 
Marden,  of  Hartford,  where  they  now  reside,  having 
no  issue. 


Henry  Elliot,  third  and  youngest  son  of   Gill   and 
Sabra  W.  Valentine,  was  born  in   Northboro',  July  5, 
26 


202  The  Villi- ntiiics  in  A  titer  tea. 

1834.     He  married  Mary  J.  Woodhoiise,  of  Hartford, 
Conn.,  November  3,  1857,  their  issue  being: — 

Henrietl'.  Wood,  b.  Hartford,  Dec.  28,  1S5S  ;  d.  Jan.  23,  i860. 
Nathaniel  Gill,  b.  Hartford,  Aug.  2,  1863. 

Colonel  Henry  E.  Valentine  was  killed  by  falling 
down  the  hatchway  of  a  whale-ship  which  he  was 
visiting,  at  Edgarton,  Martha's  Vineyard,  Aug.  15, 
1872.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  President  of 
the  Veteran  Association  of  the  "  Hartford  City  Guard ;" 
was  a  member  of  Governor  Jewell's  Staff;  and  was 
Superintendent  of  Agencies  for  the  Hartford  Life  and 
Annuity  Insurance  Company — all  of  whom  were  rep- 
resented at  his  funeral,  in  Hartford,  the  Governor 
being  present  in  person.  The  Freemasons  of  the 
Lodge  of  which  he  was  an  officer  were  present  in 
large  numbers,  besides  a  large  concourse  of  citizens. 
The  Spectator  saj'S  of  him : — 

"Colonel  Valentine  was  the  central  figure  of  a  very  large  social 
circle,  being  of  a  genial  temper  and  attractive  manners,  and  remark- 
ably well  calculated  to  win  esteem  and  confidence.  He  was  an  accom- 
plished Insurance  Manager,  possessing  rare  powers  of  attaching  and 
influencing  Agents  ;  and  in  all  the  duties  of  his  position  exhibited 
great  energy  and  efficiency.  His  successful  work  in  connection  with 
the  Hartford  Life  will  long  remain  his  honorable  memorial." 

He  was  also  a  member  of  the  South  Congregational 
Church  in  Hartford. 

Dr.  John  William  Valentine,  eldest  son  of  Elijah  F. 
and  Jane  (Mahan)  Valentine,  was  born  in  Xorthboro', 
February  13,  1812.  He  was  graduated  from  Harvard 
University,  1832.  He  married  Sarah  B.,  daughter  of 
Dea.  William  Brown,  of  Cambridge,  and  practiced 
medicine  with   unusual    success    for  a  few  years,  in 


Descendants  of  Williavi   Valentine.  203 

Charlestown,  Mass. :  but  his  own  health  failing,  he 
was  obliged  to  relinquish  his  practice,  and  died  of 
coi^.oumption,  at  his  father's,  in  Cambridge,  November 
J838 — his  next  younger  brother,  James,  dying  of 
the  same  disease,  under  the  same  roof,  only  nine  days 
afterward.  Mrs.  Valentine  subsequently  married  Royal 
B.  Hancock,  and  died  in  Cambridge,  July  2,  1868.  Dr. 
Valentine  had  two  daughters,  viz  : — 

Martha  Jane,  b.  Charlestown,  Feb.  II,  1835  ;  d.  April  6,  1839. 
Sarah  Charlotte,  b.  Charlestown,  Dec.  31, 1837;  now  resides  in  New- 
burgh.  N.  Y. 

Nancy  Crawford,  eldest  daughter  of  E.  F.  and  Jane 
M  Valentine,  was  born  in  Northboro',  November  20, 
1813.  I  copy  the  following  brief  memoir  from  the 
"jV.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen.  Register"  of  Julj-,  1849: — 

•'Mrs.  Nancy  C.  Stearns  died,  in  Milford,  N.  H.,  March  27,  1849, 
aged  thirly-five  years.  This  lady  was  the  daughter  of  .Mr.  Llijah  F. 
Valentine,  the  present  worthy  Assistant  Steward  and  Patron  of  the 
University,  at  Cambridge.  Having  filled  the  responsible  situation  of 
a  school  teacher  in  Cambridge  for  several  years,  with  ability  and  suc- 
cess, she  was  married,  September  14,  1 837,  to  Rev.  O.  O.  Stearns.  Nat- 
urally of  a  retiring  disposition,  she  was  most  happy  in  the  bosom  of 
her  family,  occupied  in  the  duties  of  a  wife,  for  which  relations  she 
was  admirably  fitted  by.  her  mild  and  cheerful  tempi  rameht,  her  truly 
Christian  meekness  and  patience  Suddenly  and  unexpectedly  pros- 
trated upon  a  bed  of  sickness,  she  endured,  with  exemplary  resigna- 
tion, the  suffering  with  which  she  was  visited  ;  and,  after  a  few  days  of 
pain  and  anguish,  calmly  breathed  her  last,  in  the  full  assurance  of  a 
happy  resurrection  beyond  the  grave." 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stearns  had  the  following  issue: — 

John  William,  b.  Sturbridge,  Mass.,  Aug.  10,  1839;  graduated  at 
Harvard  University,  1S60;  m.  Florence  E.  Blood,  Winona,  Minn., 
Sept.  iS,  1S61  ;  now  Professor  of  Latin,  &c.,  in  Chicago  University. 

James  Henry,  b.  Hancock,  N.  H.,  Jan.  9,  1841  ;  graduated  at  Har 


204  Tlie  Vale  lit  i lies  in  America. 

Yard  University,  1S62  :  in.  Nancy  R.  Cliapin,  Dubuque,  la.,  June, 
lS6g;  now  Law  Student  and  Telegraph  Manager,  Freeport,  111. 

George  A.,  b.  Hampton  Falls  N.  H.  ;  graduated  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, 1S65  ;  m.  .\da  Hope,  Caftleton.  Vt. ;  now  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  in  the  .\rgentine  Republic,  and  Principal 
Normal  School  at  Parana,  South  .\merica. 

Charles  A.,  b.  L'eerfield,  N.  H.,  .\ug.  i,  1S44  ;  graduated  at  Chicago 
University,  1S69;  m.  Josephine  Stowe,  Chicago,  Sept.  g,  1S72  ; 
now  Telegraph  Operator,  Jamcsville,  Wis. 

Edward  Franc's,  b.  Milford,  N.  H..  Aug.  16,  1S46  ;  graduated  at  Chi- 
cago University,  1S69  ;  ra.  Eva  E.  Burroughs,  daughter  of  Presi- 
dent Burroughs.  Dec.  27,  i5;i  ;  now  Principal  of  Wayland  Univ. 
Institute,  Beaver  Dam,  Wis. 

Manha,  second  daughter  of  E.  F.  Valentine,  and 
Jane  M.  his  wife,  was  born  in  Xorthboro',  January  16, 
181 7.  She  was  married,  in  Cambridge,  October  13, 
1839,  to  Andrew  H.  Newell,  who  survives  her,  and 
now  resides  in  Boston,  although  for  many  years  a  res- 
ident of  Australia.  She  died  in  Shrewsbury,  Mass., 
January  29,  1873.     Their  issue  was  as  follows: — 

Andrew,  b.  Dec.  26,  1841 ;  m.  Frances  Colgate  Lord,  of  Melbourne; 

Australia. 
Martha  Jane,  b.  Feb.  II,  184S  ;  d.  .\ng.  19,  1848. 
Grace  Johnston,  b.  Oct.  16.  i?49;  d.  Dec.  17,  1853. 
Edward  Hooper,  b.  Sept.  26,  iS^A;  d.  March  i,  1858. 
Henry  Barkly,  b.  Nov.  12,  1857  ;  d.  OcL  16,  1S64, 

Elizabeth  Johnson,  eldest  daughter  of  Colonel  Sao)- 
uel  L.  and  Elizabeth  Farnham  Valentine,  was  born  in 
Bangor,  December  15,  1815;  married  Jones  V'alentine, 
January-  i,  1835,  in  Bangor.  They  now  reside  in  Cam- 
bridge, and  have  issue  as  follows: — 

Roirna  Elizabeth,  b.  Bangor.  May  31.  1S37  ;  d.  Feb.  25,  1838. 
Maria  Veazie,  b.  Oldtown,  Me,  March  7,1839;  lives  in  Cambridge. 
Emma  Jane,  b.  Oldtown,  Me.,  Feb.  22,  I?4I  ;  lives  in  Cambridge. 

William  J.,  eldest  son  of  Colonel  S.  L.  and  Eliza- 


Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  205 


beth  F.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Bangor,  August  3, 
181 7,  wliere  he  resided  until  about  1844.  He  then  re- 
moved to  Boston,  and  was  engaged  in  an  extensive 
lumber  trade.  In  1S51  he  visited  Europe  for  the  first 
time,  on  account  of  ill  health.  He  returned  to 
America  the  same  j-ear;  but,  after  remaining  a  few 
months,  again  returned  to  England,  and  established 
himself  as  a  commission  merchant  in  London.  In 
1854  he  removed  to  Paris,  France,  and  engaged  in  a 
general  commission  and  banking  business.  In  1855 
he  was  appointed,  by  an  act  of  the  Massachusetts 
Legislature,  a  Commissioner  to  attend  the  Great  Ex- 
hibition in  Paris,  and  was  chosen  President  of  the 
United  States  Commissioners  the  same  year.  He  was 
decorated  by  the  Emperor  Napoleon  III.  with  the 
Star  of  the  Legion  of  Honor,  and  was  presented  with 
the  Grand  Gold  Medal  of  Honor  the  same  year.  He 
returned  to  England  in  1862,  and,  in  1S67,  established 
the  open  stock  exchange,  which  was  carried  on  suc- 
cessfully until  the  end  of  1872,  when  he  purchased  the 
entire  good  will  of  the  business,  and  removed  to  Xos. 
17  and  18  Cornhill,  London,  where  he  continues  to 
carry  on  the  general  banking  business,  under  the  firm 
of  V'alentine  &  Co.  Their  regular  "  Banking  Cir- 
cular" is  largely  circulated,  and  is  regarded  in 
America  as  good  authority  in  financial  matters. 

Mr.  Valentine  was  appointed,  by  President  Andrew 
Johnson,  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  the  French  Ex- 
hibition in  1867,  and  served  as  one  of  the  Committee 
with  Professor  S.  F.  B.  Mok^e  and  President  Barnard, 
to  act  in  connection  with  General  C.  B.  Norton,  and 
report  in  rel.iiion  to  the  best  fire-arms;  and  the  Report 
of  this  Committee  is  a  voluminous  and  exhaustive 
document.  He  was  also  elected  Fellow  of  the  Royal 
Geographical    Society    in    London,    in    1873,    having 


206 


Tlu  Valentines  in  America. 


been  proposed  by  Lord  Clanch  Hamilton,  M.  P.,  and 
seconded  by  Admiral  Sherard  Osborne,  and  has, 
therefore,  the  right  to  add  to  his  signature  F.  R.  G.  S. 
as  well  as  Chevalier  of  the  Legion  of  Honor. 

Mr.  Valentine  married  Sophia,  youngest  daughter 
of  Aaron  Brigham,  a  merchant  of  Boston,  and  had 
issue  as  follows: — 

William  Prigham.  b.  Bmgor,  Feb.  13,  1S40;  m.  Emma  M.  McKenna, 

April,  1S61.    They  now  reside  in  London. 
Garafelia    Bigelow,  b.   Boston,  Feb.   13,  1844;    d.   Boston.   Dec  10, 

1844. 
Francena  Sophia,  b.  Boston,  Oct.  18,  1S46  ;  m.  George  F.  Marlow,  of 

Selma,  .\la.,  \ov.  17,  1S68  ;  live  in  London. 

Sarah  Bowman,  third  daughter  of  Colonel  S.  L. 
and  E.  F".  Valentine,  was  born  in  Bangor,  November 
19,  182 1,  and  married  Harvey  Howard,  Bangor,  Au- 
gust 21,  1845.  They  now  reside  in  Chelsea,  Mass., 
aod  have  had  issue  as  follows : — 

Mary  Lizzie,  b.  Bangor,  .\ug.  11,  1848  ;  d.  Chelsea,  March  27, 1852. 
Frank  H.,  b.  Chelsea,  Nov.  29,  1S57;  d.  Chelsea,  Aog.  lo,  1858. 
Arthur  H.,  b.  Chelsea,  Feb.  13,  1861. 


Mary  Jane,  fourth  daiigliter  of  Colonel  S.  L.  and  E. 
F.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Castine,  November  8,  1823, 
and  married  Joseph  H.  Sandford,  Bangor,  July -19, 
184J.  They  now  reside  in  Chelsea,  and  have  had  issue 
as  follows: — 

Cclston,  b.  Boston,  Sopl.  19,  l545;  d.  Aug.  9,  1846. 

Joseph  Head,  Jr.,  b.  Boston,  Sept.  27.  1846 ;  in.  Josephine  C.  Elliott, 

and  live  in  Everett. 
Frank  Valentine,  b.  Chcl-ea,  .\|)ril  12,  1S50;    m.  Jennie  Gilticrt ;  live 

in  ChcIsCl. 
Thomas  Hovey,  b.  Chel>ea,  Nov.  13,  1S57  ;  d.  March  4,  1S60. 
Minnie  Frances,  b,  Nov.  30,  1S61. 


Descendants  of  Williatn   Valentine.  207 

Samuel  Winter,  second  son  of  Colonel  S.  L.  and  E. 
F.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Castine,  June  21,  1826.  He 
has  been  an  inventor,  merchant,  manufacturer,  and  a 
sort  of  universal  genius.  His  family  reside  in  Bristol, 
Conn.,  and  he  and  they  are  members  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  there.  He  married  Eliza  R.  Gar- 
land, Calais,  Me.,  May  18,  1848,  and  they  have  had 
issue  as  follows : — 

Lucy  Winter,  b.  Calais,  July  21,  1849. 
Walter  Inglee,  b.  Calais,  April  iS.  1851. 

Henry  Farnham,  b.  Calais,  April  2,  1S53;  d.  Calais,  Dec.  25,  1854. 
Charlie   Paley,  b.  Iloultoa,  Me.,  April  4,  1S62 ;  d.  Bristol,  Feb.  II, 
1871. 

Catharine  Sophia,  sixth  daughter  of  Colonel  S.  L. 
and  E.  F.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Bangor,  May  14, 
1832.  She  married  Isaac  T.  Cole,  March  11,  1851,  in 
Bangor.  He  was  a  lawyer  by  profession;  lived,  in 
Machias,  and,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  April  11,  1861, 
was  serving  his  second  term  in  the  Maine  Legislature. 
She  resides  in  Brunswick,  and  has  children  as  fol- 
lows : — 

Samuel   Valentine,   b.    Machias,    Dec' 29,  1S51 ;    now  in    Bowdoin 

College. 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  b.  Machias,  Sept.  II,  1854. 
William  Isaac,  b.  Machias,  March  21,  1854. 

James  March,  son  of  Colonel  S.  L.  and  Sarah  J. 
Valentine,  was  born  in  Bangor,  Augiist  9,  1834.  He 
is  an  iron-moulder  by  occupation;  has  been  in  the 
gold  mines  of  California,  and  an  officer  in  the  State 
Prison  there.  He  married  Carrie  S.  Clark,  of  Brewer, 
Me.,  June  10,  1S57,  and  now  resides  in  Bangor.  Their 
issue  were : — 

James  Herbert,  b.  Brewer,  Nov.  28,  1859. 

May  Kent,  b.  Brewer,  April  8.  lS57  ;  J.  Bangor,  Jan.  lo,  1872. 


2o8  T}u   Valentines  in  Atnerica. 

Edward  Kent,  fourth  son  of  Colonel  S.  L.  VaFen- 
tine,  b.  April  7,  1838,  in  Bangor;  worked  five  years  as 
an  iron-moulder;  then,  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  entered 
the  merchant  marine  service,  until  he  rose  to  the  rank 
of  First  Officer.  In  1861  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
the  United  States  Navy,  and  was  rapidly  promoted 
until,  in  1S64,  he  was  given  the  command  of  a  Gov- 
ernment vessel.  He  was  on  duty  at  the  Brooklyn 
Navy  Yard,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  for  four  years — 
making  eight  years  of  service  in  all.  Since  that  time 
he  has  been  engaged  in  mercantile  affairs  and  the 
clerical  force  of  Charlestown  Navy  Yard. 

He  was  at  the  capture  of  Roanoke  Island,  at  New- 
bern,  at  the  destruction  of  the  Rebel  Fleet  at  Eliza- 
beth City,  the  famous  Black  Water  Fight,  and  others. 
He  was  also  bhrnm  up  in  the  Gunboat  "  Ellis,"  and  se- 
verely wounded.  He  married  Frances  Helen,  daugh 
ter  of  William  L.  Clark,  of  Bangor,  October  28,  1863, 
but  has  no  children 

Caroline  Maria,  daughter  of  Colonel  S.  L.  Valen- 
tine, and  Sarah  J.  his  wife,  was  born  in  Bangor,  De- 
cember 16,  1839.  She  was  a  teacher  in  Bangor  for 
three  years,  and  was  married,  December  5,  1859,  to 
Cyrus  R.  Clark,  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  where  they 
now  reside.     They  have  one  child,  viz  : — 

Annie  Ward  Clark,  b.  in  Charlestown,  Jan.  l6,  1869. 

Anna  Bowman,  daughter  of  Colonel  S.  L.  Valen- 
tine, and  Sarah  J.  his  wife,  was  born  in  Bangor,  July 
31,  1843.  She  was  married,  October  3,  1867,  to  George 
G.  Powers,  a  merchant  of  Orland,  Me.,  where  they 
now  reside.     They  have  no  issue. 

John  Elliot,  son  of  Elliot  and  Jane  A.  (Gray)  Val- 


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Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  209 


entine,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Mass.;  March  20,  1826. 
He  was  married  May  31,  1S60,  to  H.  Jennie  Paul,  and 
now  resides  in  Boston.  Their  cliildren  liave  been  as 
follows : — 

Ch.-irlcs  Elliot,  h.  July  I,  lS6l  ;  d.  evening  of  same  Jay. 

Marietta  Louisa,  b.  Pec.  13,  1S62. 

Mabel  Clarendon,  b.  .\ug.  11,  1S64;  d.  .Sept.  13,  1S68. 

Charles  Elmer,  eldest  son  of  Elmer  and  Rebecca 
(Crawford)  Valentine,  was  born  in  Boston,  March  13, 
1S22.  He  was  educated  partly  under  tlie  care  of  his 
excellent  father,  but  finalh-  gradtiated  at  the  Chauncey 
Hall  School.  He  was  Usher  of  the  Winthrop  School, 
in  Boston,  for  a  short  time,  but  was  transferred  to  the 
Ouincy  School,  where  he  served,  first  as  Usher  and 
then  as  Principal,  for  about  twenty-two  years.  His 
tragic  death  occurred  at  West  Newton  (a  few  miles 
out  of  Boston,  where  he  then  resided),  June  23,  1870, 
and  was  on  this  wise:  He  was  just  readj-  to  step  into 
the  cars,  on  his  way  to  his  school  in  Boston,  when  he 
bethought  himself  that  he  had  forgotten  to  purchase 
his  morning  paper,  and  rushed  into  the  Station  to  get 
it.  By  this  time  the  cars  had  attained  some  speed, 
and,  as  he  seized  the  iron  railing  of  the  car-platform, 
he  was  throvn  violently  forward,  under  the  wheels  of 
the  cars,  by  >\  hich  both  his  legs  were  badl)"  crushed,  so 
as  to  require  atnputation.  He  surx-ived  the  operation 
but  a  few  hours,  however,  dying  late  in  the  afternoon 
of  the  same  day. 

The  manifestations  of  condolence  at  his  death  and 
funeral,  from  the  School  Committee,  the  teachers  and 
pupils  of  his  school,  and  the  public  generally,  were 
most  marked  and  touching,  showing  tlie  high  appre- 
ciation in  which  he  was  held;  and  these  not  onlj- at 
the  time,  but  in  the  subsequent  substantial  aid  ex- 
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tended  to  the  bereaved  faiuil)-,  llms  suddenly  deprived 
of  their  chief  support. 

Mr.  Valentine  was  married,  October  lo,  1S48,  to 
Olive  Z.  Seaver,  of  Northboro',  and  their  issue  is  as 
follows : — 

John  Crawford,  b.  Boiton,  Jan.  13,  1S50. 

Julia  .\nn,  b.  Northboro',  .\ug.  29,1851';  was  a  teacher  in   Boston; 

died  in  Grantville,  Feb.  19,  1871. 
Frank  Quincy.b.  Northboro",  June  13,  1S53  ;  died  in  Boston,  1854. 
Richard  Percy,  b.  Northboro",  .\ug.  13,  1S56. 
Robert  G  cnville,  b.  Roxbur)-,  May  2,  1S58. 

Ellen  Maria,  b.  Roxbur)',  March  31,  1S60;  d  in  Boston,  Feb.  24,  1867, 
Emma  Louise,  b.  Boston,  .\ug.  27, 1S61. 
Mary  Newell,  b.  Boston,  May  6, 1S6S. 

The  family  now  live  in  Grantville,  Mass. 

Elizabeth  Jones,  eldest  daughter  of  Elmer  and  Re- 
becca C.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Charlestown,  Feb- 
ruary 4,  1S24.  She  married  Dr.  George  W.  Burditt,  of 
Clinton,  November  24,  1S46,  who  is  a  successful  phy- 
sician there;  and  both  are  respected  members  of  the 
Baptist  Church.     Their  children  are  as  follows: — 

Mary  Elizabeth,  b.  Clinton,  Oct.  2,  1849. 

George  Crawford,  b.  Clinton.  Dec.  23.  1S51  ;  d.  Marcb  4,  1S62. 

Ellen  Louise,  b.  Clinton,  March  14,  1S55. 

.\rthur  Stanley,  b.  Clinton,  Sept.  8, 1857. 

Walter  Valentine,  b,  Clinton,  ,-\pril  9,  iS6x. 

.\nnie  Crawford,  b.  Clinton,  Sept.  21,  iSfi3  ;  d.  Nov.  29, 1873. 

Elmei  Valentine,  b.  Clinton,  Nov.  30,  l£66. 

Julia  Anne,  second  daughter  of  Elmer  and  R.  C. 
\'alentine,  was  born  in  Huston,  September  14,  1825; 
inarricd  L.  V .  Bancroft,  South  Hadley  Falls;  died 
there,  July  31,  1S50.     Their  issue  was: — 

Julius  Valentine  Bancroft,  b.  July  27,  iSSo. 


Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  211 

Lucy  Crawford,  third  daughter  of  Lliuer  and  Re- 
becca C.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Xorthboro',  Oct.  15, 
1826.  She  was  married,  September  13,  1S48,  to  Josiah 
Alexander,  of  Xorthfield,  Mass.,  who  was  born  June 
6,  1825.  He  is  now  a  much-respected  merchant  in 
Boston,  where  his  family  also  reside.  They  have  chil- 
dren as  follows: — 

Mary  Emilv,  b.  Xorlhficld,  April  21,  1S50. 

Fannie  Elizalfcth,  b.  Clinton,  May  26,  1S32  ;  d.  iherf,  .\ug.  19,  1854. 

Edward  Lyman,  b.  Clinton,  Sept.  5,  1S54. 

Carrie  Crawford,  b.  Clinton,  June  1,  1S57. 

William  Valentine,  b.  Clinton,  Oct  iS.  1S59. 

Charles  Elmer,  b.  Clinton,  March  21, 1S61. 

Josiah  Francis  b.  Clinton.  April  2, 1S62  ;  d.  there,  Sept.  15,  l566. 

Myra  Lyman,  b.  Clinton,  .\pril  18, 1S63  ;  d.  there,  Sept.  19,  1S63. 

Rebecca  Jane,  fourth  daughter  of  Elmer  and  Re- 
becca C.  Valentine,  was  born  in  Boston,  November 
27,  1830.  She  was  married  to  William  A.  Bartlett, 
Second,  of  Xorthboro',  J.inuary  i,  1854,  and  died  there, 
March  9,  1S70.     Their  offspring  was  as  follows: — 

Abby  Fiske,  b.  Northboro',  Jan.  4,  1855  ;  d.  Dec.  6,  1S68. 

Frank  Valentine,  b.  Xorthboro*,  Xov.  i,  1856. 

William  Iknry,  b.  Northboro',  March  14,  1859. 

Walter  Crawford,  b.  Northboro',  Nov.  4,  1861. 

Fanny  Rebecca,  b.  Northboro*,  .\ug.  22,  1S64. 

Chester  Davis,  b.  Northboro",  March  7,  1S67  ;  d.  March  25, 1S69. 

Cora   Gertrude,  b.  Northboro",  .\pril  26,  1S6S  ;  d.  Jan.  21,  iStiq. 

Montford  \lncent,  b.  Northboro",  Oct  27, 1869  ;  d.  .\ug.  24.  1S71. 

William,  third  son  of  Elmer  and  R.  C.  Valentine, 
was  born  in  Charlcstown,  March  30,  1833.  He  was 
married,  at  Chicopee,  Mass.,  Jul)-  6,  1S65,  to  Miss 
Mary  A.  Barnes,  of  that  place,  and  yet  resides  there. 
He  received  the  earlier  part  of  his  education  in  his 
father's  school  at  Xorthboro',  and,  at  fifteen,  entered 
Worcester  Academj-,  where  he  spent  two  terms,  and 


returned  liorne,  wlicrc,  at  the  ajjc  of  sixteen,  he  as- 
sumed the  principal  care  of  his  father's  school.  In 
1S55  lie  entered  the  Westfield  Normal  School,  whence, 
graduating  in  1S56,  lie  was  appointed  Principal  of  the 
Grammar  School  at  Chicopee,  in  which  position  he 
yet  remains,  greatly  respected  personally,  and  highly 
successful  professionally.  He  is  a  worth}-  member  of 
the  Baptist  Church  there,  of  which  body  he  is  the 
efficient  clerk.     The  issue  of  this  marriage  -.vas: — 

Mabel  Louise,  b.  Chicopee,  Mass.,  .\pril  24,  1S67  ;  d.  April  9, 1S71. 

Ellen,  the  eighth  daughter  of  Elmer  and  R.  C.  V^al- 
entine,  was  born  in  Xorthboro*,  December  5,  1838. 
She  was  married  in  Xorthboro',  January  26,  1873,  to 
Joseph  R.  Jacobs.  She  was  an  efficient  assistant  in 
her  father's  school,  and  was  afterward  I'ing  a  success- 
ful teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Xorthboro'. 

Walter,  fifth  son  of  Elmer  and  R.  C.  Valentine,  was 
born  in  Xorthboro",  Januarj-  16,  1840.  In  1S62  he  en- 
listed at  Springfield,  Ohio  (where  he  had  been  residing 
for  a  year  previous),  in  the  Eighty-si.xth  Ohio  Regi- 
ment, for  three  months'  ser\-ice,  and  was  stationed  in 
West  Virginia.  After  serving  two  weeks  bej-ond  his 
time,  he  was  honorablj-  discharged ;  returned  to  Xorth- 
boro"; re-cnlisted  the  same  year  in  the  Forty-fifth 
Massachusetts  Volunteers,  for  nine  months;  went  to 
Xcwbern,  and  was  in  the  battles  of  Kinston,  White- 
hall and  Goldsboro'.  Returning  to  Xorthboro',  he 
again  enlisted,  in  the  Fourteenth  Massachusetts  Bat- 
ter}-, for  three  years,  or  till  the  close  of  the  war.  In 
all  these  periods  of  service  he  was  never  on  the  sick 
list.  While  with  the  Batterj-  he  was  under  daily  fire 
for  five  weeks,  3-et  never  was  wounded.  Once,  indeed, 
while  exchanging   newsjjapers  with  the  enemy  by  fair 


Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  213 

agreement,  he  Jiad  an  almost  miraculous  escape,  but 
finally  reached  his  camj)  unharmed.  In  view  of  his 
long  and  active  service,  it  is  indeed  wonderful  that  he 
went  through  the  war  without  receiving  the  slightest 
scratch. 

Mr.  Valentine  married  L.  Augusta  Mentzer,  and 
occupies  the  farm  so  long  held  by  his  father,  in  North- 
boro'.     Their  children  were  : — 


Ernesl  Moiitford,  b.  N'orthhoro',  Sept.  12,  lS63. 

Maiy  Crawford,  b.  Northboro",  Jan.  24, 1S70. 

Charles  Ebner,  b.  Xorlhboro",  Oct.  31,  1S71. 

Clinton  Mentzer,  b.  Northboro",  .\pril  10,  1S73  ;  d.  Oct.  8. 1 873. 


214 


The  I  'aliUtincs  in  A  tin  rii  a. 


CHAPTER     XX. 


THE     SIXTH     GENERATION. 


ANN"    RLIZA,  eldest  daughter  of  Captain  J.  N. 
and  Annie  13.  Mellen,  was  born  in  Westboro', 
November  ;;,  1812.     She  married  Joseph   H. 
Fairbank,  April   14,    1S31.      They  had   nine  childcen, 
viz : — 

.\nn  Eliz.!,  b.  .\pri!  2r,  1832  ;  m.  Geo.  M.  Willi.ims.  Sept.  14,  1851  ; 

lives  in  Grafton. 
Susan  .^ntoinetla,  b.  Dec.  7,  1S34  ;    m.   Emorj-   L.  Wood,  March    13, 

1853. 
Jane  Maria,  h.  Jan.  24,  1S37  ;  m.  David  Chase,  .\ug.  30,  1S63  ;  lives 

in  Westboro'. 
John  Mellen,  b.  May  i,  1S41  ;  d.  April  7,  1842. 
John  William,  b.  Oct.  j:.  1843;    m.  Ella  M.  Fisher,   1S6S;  lives  in 

Westboro". 
Sarah  Harvey,  b.  .^ug.  5.  1845  ;  d.  Aug.  2,  1848. 
Julia  Frances,  b.  Jan.  12,  184S  ;  m.  W.  H.  Pcmis,  Jan.  I,  1S68  ;  lives 

in  Worcester. 
Frank  Jf-rph,  b.  Jan.  iS,  1852  ;  d.  Sept.  18,  1853. 
Mary  Fisher,  b.  Sept.  23,  1855  ;  d.  March  5,  1868. 

Jiibn  Dwinnell,  eldest  son  of  Captain  J.  N.  and  A. 
B.  Mellen,  was  born  in  Westboro',  Noveinber  8,  1813; 
married  Ann  M.  Hardy,  October  18,  1835,  and  d.  July 
17,  1S65.     Their  children  were  : — 

John  On'.low,  b.  July  21,  1S36  ;  m.  Jennie  S.  Stevens,  i860;  resides 

in  Chicago.  * 

Susan  .\ntoinette,  b.  .\ug.  9,  183S  ;  d.  July  30,  1859. 
Marietta,  b.  Oct.  5,  1840;  m,  J.  M.  Wnolf.jnl,  M.iy,  1S59,  in  .\yer. 
Charles  Edward,  b.  Feb.  21,  1S45  ;  d.  March  7,  1846. 


Descendants  of  William   VaUntiiu.  215 


Albert,  b.   Sept.   16,  1845  ;    m.   Frances  L.  Gardner.  Oct.  10,  1S72, 

Boston. 
Oscar,  b.  Aug.  5,  1S4S  ;  d.  Aug.  22,  1849. 
Clara,  b.  May  27,  1S50  ;  d.  Dec  24. 1S53. 

Susan  Morse,  second  daiiglitcr  of  Captain  J.  N. 
Mellen,  was  born  in  Wcstboro",  Fcbruar)-  29,  1816, 
and  married  Charles  S.  Hard)-,  a  worth)-  mechanic  of 
that  town,  October  14,  1S37.  They  yet  reside  there. 
Their  children  were: — 

Susan   Elizabeth,  b.  Westboro',  Dec.  6,  1S39  ;  is  a  teacher  ;  resides  in 

Westboro'. 
Charles  Hcnr)-,  b.  Westboro',  March  19, 1S44  ;  d.  Jan.  4.  1S68. 
Annie  .Mellen,  b.  Westboro',  Sept.  27,  1S48  ;  is  a  music  teacher. 

Harriotte  Valentine,  fourth  daughter  of  Captain  J. 
N.  Mellen,  was  born  in  Westboro',  June  24,  1820.  She 
married  G.  H.  Greenwood,  of  Ayer,  June  14,  1848,  and 
has  one  child : — 

George  H.,  b.  .\yer,  June  26, 1853. 

Marietta  Heywood,  fifth  daughter  of  Captain  J.  N. 
Mellen,  was  born  in  Westboro',  February  13,  1823, 
and  married  Lincoln  Wood,  April  8,  1852;  live  in 
Westboro'. 

Charles  Homer,  third  son  of  Captain  J.  N.  Mellen, 
was  born  in  Westboro',  August  30,  1827,  and  married 
Florence  C.  Ing,  Dec.  15,  1S52.  They  reside  in  Mount 
Pleasant,  Iowa,  their  children  being: — 

Jeanelte,  b.  Feb.  27,  1S54. 
Florence,  b.  Oct.  2g,  1S55. 
tiara,  b.  June  25,  1S59. 

Helen  Maria,  sixth  daughter  of  Captain  J.  N.  Mel- 
len, was  born  in  Westboro',  June  22, 1S29,  and  married 


2i6  The  Vail- lit  I  lies  in  America. 

C.    K.   Dorinan,  October  lo,  1S52;    reside   in    Provi- 
dence, R.  I.     Issue: — 

Eugene,  b.  April  1, 1S57. 

Abner  Melville,  son  of  Captain  J.  X.  Mellcn,  was 
born  in  Wcbtboro',  December  16,  1S34;  married  Adelia 
L.  Pike,  November  15,  1856,  who  died  December  i, 
1 86 1.     They  had  one  child: — 

Annie  C,  b.  March  iS,  1S58. 

A.  M.  Mellcn  married,  second,  Ada  R.  Farwell,  Oct. 
I,  1S64.     Issue: — 

Adelia,  b.  Aag.  26,  1565  .  d.  Sept.  21,  1S65. 

Cora  .\delia,  b.  .Xuj.  27,  1866. 

■Josie  Celia,  b.  .\ug.  25,  1S68. 

Mary  .\da.  b.  July  9,  1S71 ;  d.  .\ug.  28. 1872. 

Resides  in  Marlboro',  Mass. 

Emily  Suphi.i,  daughter  of  Captain  U.  N.  Mellen, 
was  born  in  Westboro',  .Tanuary  30,  1837  ;  married 
Henry  D.  Ainsworth,  December  17,  1854.  They  re- 
side in  Westboro*,  and  have  issue: — 

.Mice  G.,  b.  Oct.  18. 1S55. 
Clarence  E.,  b.  Sept.  4,  1857. 
Eddie  M.,  b.  Aug.  8, 1862. 
Emma  S.,  b.  March  13,  1S6S. 

Aaron,  son  of  Jubal  and  Clarissa  (Mellcn)  Weston, 
was  burn  November  1 1,  1814  ;  married  Inlia  Churchill, 
of  Oxford,  Ohio.  He  was  .a  leather  of  music  for 
twcnt^'-fivc  years,  and  died  in  California.  Februar)-  25. 
1 868.     They  had  issue  : — 

.\lfrctl  15.,  wa<;  a  inuscian,  and  d.  in  the  army. 
Julia,  m.  O.  S.  lUake,  nf  PetroiL 
Charles,  d.  in  infancy. 


COL.    S.    L.    VALENTINE, 
BANGOR,   M.U.NE. 


o 


Descendants  of  William   Valentine.  217 


Elizabeth  Valentine,  daughter  of  Jubal  Weston, 
was  born  September  24.  1818;  married  J.  J.  McGowan, 
M.  D.,  of  Boston,  wlio  died  in  N'ew  York,  March  25, 
187 1.     They  had  issue  : — 

Juhn  E. 

Joseph  H.,  H.  in  boyhood. 

Elizabeth  \V.,  m.  Charle^  C.  liuckley,  M.  D.,  Chicago. 

Clarissa  H. 

Samuel  E.,  son  of  Jubal  Weston,  born  September 
19,  1820;  married  Mary  A.  Vincent,  of  IBoston,  who 
died  December  i,  1S69.  He  was  editor  and  proprietor 
of  the  "Avictican  f/Wi);?"  newspaper,  in  Boston,  and 
died  April  12,  1862. 

Clarissa  M.,  daughter  of  Jubal  Weston,  was  born 
September  21,  1S22;  married  Stednian  W.  Howe, 
trader,  of  Hopkinton;  had  issue: — 

Willard   N.,  is  m.,  and  has  ihrce  children — Alice  G.,  Emma  W.  and 

Jubal  Weston. 
Stedman  W. 
Edward  AV,,  is  m.,  and   has  three  children — Mary  A.,  Sarah  A.  and 

Hattie  W. 
Nathan  C. 
Clarissa  M. 
■Hattie  W. 
Clara  W. 
Elizabeth  M. 

Jubal,  Jr.,  son  of  Jubal,  born  November  13,  1824; 
married  Fanny  Richardson,  of  Boston;  is  a  farmer, 
and  resides  in  San  Francisco,  California.  Has  chil- 
dren : — 

Althea  O. 
Rcgcnia  (dead). 
Freddie  (dead). 
Arthur. 
28 


2i8  I lu   Villi- II lines  in  Aiiuriia. 

Joshua  F. 
Samuel  E.  (dead). 
Esbie  Maud. 

Harrictte  A.,  daughter  of  Jiibal,  b.  September  17, 
iSaG;  married  Tluxnas  A.  Gray,  of  Boston. 

Joshua  M,  son  of  Jubal,  bi)rn  July  17,  iS?9;  resides 
ill  St.  John's,  Cal. 

Olivia  L.,  diugliterof  Jubal,  born  August  29,  1831  ; 
married  Chas.  McFarland,  of  Burlington,  Iowa.  Has 
children  :  — 

Grace  E. 

Marie  A. 

Frederick. 

Edward  \V.  (dead). 

Blanche  A. 

Wallace  (dead). 

Henry  C,  son  of  Jubal,  born  March  13,  1S35.  He 
served  in  the  First  Massachusetts  Cavalry  during  the 
war,  and  resides  in  Chicago,  III.  He  married  Marie 
H.  Barrett,  of  New  York.     Has  children: — 

George  W. 
Mabel  (dead). 
Florence. 

Leonard  X'alcntine,  the  adopted  son  of  Otis,  was 
born  in  Westbrook,  Me.,  May  19,  1840;  married  Laura 
Pa'ine,  of  tli at  place,  and  has  children  as  follows: — 

William,  b.  .\ug.  i6.  lS68. 
.Mice  Maude,  h.  Sept.  4,  1870. 
Vienna,  b.  Jan.  19,  1S72. 

Albion  T.,  eldest  son  of  Dexter  and  Nancy  P.  Val- 
entine, was  born    in    Harmony,   Me.,   September  30, 


Dcscrndants  of  William   Valentine.  219 


1832.  He  married  Florence  A.  Bartlett,  September 
20,  1S63.  He  now  resides  in  Minneapolis  East,  in 
mercantile  business.     The}-  have  issue: — 

Guy,  b.  Minneapolis  East.  Miy  25.  1S67. 

A  daughter,  b.  Minneapoli-.  V.x-.\,  Dec.  18,  1S71. 

Abbie  S.,  daughter  of  De.xter  and  N.  P.  Valentine, 
was  born  in  Harmon)-,  August  10,  1834,  and  was  mar- 
ried, in  Lowell,  Mass.,  July  iS,  1.S61,  to  John  M.  Bart- 
lett, a  mercliant  at  Island  P<^)nd,  Vt.,  where  they  now 
reside,  and  have  one  child  : — 

George  Dexter,  b.  I-!and  Pon.l,  Oct.,  1S63. 

Leonard  D.,  son  of  luxtcr  and  X.  P.  Valentine, 
was  born  in  Harmon)-,  August  11,  1S38;  removed  to 
St.  Anthony's  Falls,  Minn.,  1S56;  married  Helen  A. 
Barrows,  of  that  place,  and  is  now  a  merchant  there. 
They  have  had  issue: — 

Mary,  b.  Minneapulis  East,  Feb.  9,  1S67 ;  d.  Aug.  6,  1867. 
Nettie,  b.  Minneapolis  East,  Oct.  9,  iSfr};  d.  March  30,  1872. 

Elizabeth  C,  daughter  of  Dexter,  as  above,  was 
born  in  Harmony,  September  14,  1844;  was  a  teacher 
in  Harmony  four  years.  She  married  George  A.  Ma- 
goon,  January  1,  1S66.  He  is  now  a  merchant  in 
Minneapolis  East,  and  they  have  issue: — 

Harry,  b.  Minneapolis  East,  July  12,  1S67. 
Roy  Lester,  b.  Minneapolis  Exst,  Dec  20.  1S69. 

Albert,  Jr.,  son  of  Albert  and  Hannah  E.  Valentine, 
w-as  born  in  Westbrook,  December  8,  1840.  He  was 
married,  in  Chelsea,  Mass.,  1S6S,  to  Miss  Clara  Chase, 
of  that  place.     They  have  one  son : — 

Albert,  b.  aiclsea,  1S69. 


220  The  Valentines  in  America. 

Mir.iuil.i,  daugliicr  of  Alanson  and  Miranda  Valen- 
tine, was  born  in  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.,  July  29,  1843  ; 
married  John  F.  Eaton,  of  New  Vork,  February  S, 
1S72,  and  they  noiv  reside  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  They 
have  one  child  : — 

Lucella  Miranda,  b.  Cambridge.  .\ug.  i6,  1S73. 

William  Henry,  son  of  Gerry  and  Sarah  H.  Valen- 
tine, was  born  in  Hopkinton,  September  21,  1835; 
married  Mary  A.  Samson,  Worcester,  February  15, 
1S64.     They  have  one  child  : — 

Florence  E.,  b.  Sept.  I,  1S70. 

Alfred  Wilbur,  son  of  Is-iac  B.  and  Elizabeth  (Guy) 
Valentine,  was  born  in  Hopkinton,  August  8,  1841. 
He  married  Lauretta  M.  Goddard,  of  Bethel,  Me., 
Maj-,  1S64,  and  residei  there.  They  had  issue  as  fol- 
lows : — 

Charles  Elmer,  b.  Bethel,  March  14, 1865. 

Fred.  Ambrose,  b.  Bethel,  Oct.  2S,  i36S ;  d.  March  14,  iS6<j. 

Willie  Aiion,  b.  Bethel,  Jan.  8,  1870. 

Ann  Maria,  daughter  of  William  A.  and  Maria  G. 
Brigham,  was  born  in  Westboro',  August  12,  1831; 
married  George  R.  Bowman,  of  Westboro',  April  26, 
"854.     The)'  now  reside  in  Elmira.  \.  Y.,  and  have: — 

Louis  \V.,  b.  .\Imond,  N.  Y.,  April  13,  1S60. 
Charles  .\.,  b.  .\lmond.  N.  Y.,  April  2,  lifti. 

Susan  B.  D.,  daughter  of  W.  A.  and  M.  G.  Brig- 
ham,  was  born  in  Northboro',  July  25,  1S39;  married 
Stephen  T.  Waite,  of  Worcester,  June  9,  1S64;  now 
live  there.     Had  issue: — 

Kate  Augusta,  b.  Worcester,  .\i)ril,  lS6S;  d.  May  i.  iS6S. 
Willie  Jenni>rf>n,  b.  Worcester,  June  7,  1S69. 


Desccmiants  of  William  Valentine. 


221 


William  Valentine,  son  of  \V.  A.  aud  Hannah 
S.  B  righain,  was  born  in  Worcester,  Maj  17,  1850; 
married  Lillco  E.  Lillie,  of  Willimantic,  Ct.,  1S68. 
Have  issue: — 

Louis  Stanhope,  b.  Stanhope,  N.  J.,  Aug.  30,  1S69. 
Oliver  II.  H.,  b.  Willimantic,  Oct.  g,  1S71. 
Charles  EJwin,  b.  Carmcl,  K.  V.,  July  26, 1373. 

John  W.  B.,  son  of  Holland  and  Lydia  A.  Forbes, 
was  born  in  Westboro',  November  9,  iSjq;  married 
Diantiia  Houghton,  of  Swanzy,  X.  H.,  and  died  in 
Carlisle,  Pa.,  November  27,  1S63.   Their  issue  were: — 

Julius  Wells,  b.  Ilopkinton,  Oct.  l4,  1S52  ;  d.  Nov.  14,  1S52. 
George  Houghton,  b.  Boston,  Feb.  3,1856. 
Charles  Oliver,  b.  Bolton,  March  4,  1862. 

Martha  Ann  B.,  dauyhler  of  Holland  Forbes,  was 
born  in  Brighton,  July  4,  1S34 ;  married  A.  H.  Merrill, 
Salem,  N.  H..  December  21,  1851.     Children; — 

Alice  Evangeline,  b.  Cambridge,  Feb.  21,  1S58. 
Annie  Marietta,  b.  South  Boston,  March  2,  1S64. 

Mary  Ann,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  (Bow- 
man) Fisher,  was  born  in  Northboro',  April  14,  1826; 
married,  June  3,  185 1,  Rev.  Horatio  Stebbins;  has  re- 
sided in  Fitchbtirg,  Portland,  Me,  and  now  resides  in 
San  Francisco,' Cal.     Their  children  are: — 

>faiy  Louise,  b.  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  June   30,   J354;    m.  Edward    S. 

Schroeder. 
Annie,  b.  Portland,  .\pril  3,  iSjS  ;  d.  .\ug.  28,  1S58. 
Roderick,  b.  Portland,  Sept.  2,  1S59. 

Elizabeth  Maria,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  B. 
Fisher,  was  born  in  Northboro",  December  28,  1829; 
married  Samuel  Clark,  Esq.,  counsellor  at  law,  North- 


222  The  Valentines  in  Amerua. 

boro'  (formcil)-  Rcprcsciu.uive  from  tliat  town),  May 
1S47,  where  tlicy  yet  reside.     Have  had  ofTspring: — 

Ella  Maria,  b.  Xorthboro',  Auj.  .15,  1S4S  ;  A.  Oct.  2,  1S43. 
Herbert  F..  b.  Xorthboro',  Feb.  S,  1S52  :  d.  Xov.  30,  1852. 
Edward  S..  b.  Xorthboro",  Feb.  12,  1S59. 

Jane  Taylor,  diiightcr  of  Samuel  and  M.  B.  Fislier, 
was  born  in  Xorthboro",  October  4,  1S35;  married 
Jainis  Lincoln,  Jr.,  March  26,  1856.    They  liad  issue  : — 

Arthur  Fisher,  b.  Xorthboro",  June  26,  1S5S  ;  d.  March  5.  1858. 
Alice  Ware,  b.  Yarmouth,  Sept.  16,  1S61, 
Annie  Fishei.  b.  Yarmouth,  July  27,  1S65. 

Dr.  Albert  Wood,  son  of  Dea.  Samuel  and  Eliza- 
beth (Bowman)  Wood,  was  born  in  Northbcjro",  Feb- 
ruary 19,  i,S33;  grad.  Med.  Coll.  H.  U.,  1864;  is  now 
Citj-  Physician  in  Worcester.  He  married  Emily 
Allen,  July  7,  1S67,  their  issue  being: — 

Albert  Bowman,  b.  Worcester,  June  28,  1S69. 
A  daughter,  •■  1873. 

Charles  Johnson,  son  of  Dea.  S.  and  E.  B.  Wood, 
was  born  in  Xorthboro",  August  28,  1838.  He  mar- 
ried Helen  S  Dodd,  Hartford,  Ct.,  June  21,  1S66,  and 
is  now  a  jeweler  in  that  city.     Their  children  are: — 

Harry  Gassetl,  b.  Hartford,  May  3,  1867. 
Lizzie  Frances,  b.  Hartford.  Dec   14,  1868. 
Callie  Dodd,  li    Hartford,  June  21,  1870. 

Joseph  Head,  Jr.,  son  of  Joseph  H.  and  Mary  J. 
Sandford.  was  born  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  September  27, 
1846;  in.irrifd  Josephine  C.  Elliott,  Maiden,  October 
19,  )868.     Issue: — 

Elliot,  b.  Everett,  Feb.  25,  1S70. 

Frank   Valentine,  son   of  Joseph    H.  and    Mary   J. 


Disccitdants  of  William   Valentine.  223 


Sandford,  born  Chelsea,  April  11,  1S50;   married  Jen- 
nie Gilbert,  Chelsea,  October  12,  1S71.     Issue: — 

Herbert  Valentine,  b.  Chelsea,  Aug.  II,  1872. 
LAST    GEXERATION. 

Ann  Eliza,  daughter  of  Joseph  H.  and  Ann  E. 
Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Wcstboro',  April  21,  1832; 
married  George  H.  Williams,  September  24,  1851. 
Issue  :— 

William  Hcnrj,  b.  Grafton  ;  d.  June  22,  1857. 

Frank,  b.  Grafloa. 

Waller,  b.  Grafton. 

Sarah,  b.  Grafton  ;  d.  Feb.  23,  1864. 

Mary,  b.  Grafton. 

Susan  .\ntoinette,  daughter  of  J.  H.  Fairbanks, 
born  Wcstboro',  December  7,  1834;  married  Emory  L. 
Wood,  March  15,  1853;  lives  in  Westboro*.     Issue: 

-Mbert  E.,  b.  July  24,  1859. 

Jane  Maria,  daughter  of  J.  H.  Fairbanks,  was  bom 
Westboro',  Jantiary  24,  1837;  married  David  Chase, 
August  30,  1S63;  lives  in  AVestboro'.     Issue: — 

Frank  Herbert,  b.  Westboro",  Oct.  6,  1S68. 

John  William,  son  of  J.  H.  Fairbanks,  was  born  in 
Westboro',  October  12,  1843;  married  Ella  M.  Fisher, 
December  25,  1S68.     Issue: — 

Minnie  Louise,  b.  Westboro",  -^ug.  2, 1S69. 

Julia  Frances,  daughter  of  J.  H.  Fairbanks,  bom 
Westboro', January  12,  i848;.marricd  William  H.  Be- 
mis,Januar}- 1,  iS6S,and  resides  in  Worcester.    Issue: — 

.^ray  Gertrude,  b.  Worcester,  June  6,  1S71. 


224  T^"^   Valentines  in  America. 

Julia,  daiiglitcr  of  A.ircm  and  Julia  C.  Weston, 
married  O.  S.  Blake,  of  Detroit,  and  has  issue: 

Charles  W. 
William. 
Ida  May. 

Mary  Louise,  daughter  of  Rev.  Horatio  and  Mary 
Ann  (Fisher)  Stebbins,  was  born  in  Fitcliburgh, 
Mass.,  June  10,1854;  married  Edward  S.  Schrocder, 
and  tliej-  have  one  child: — 

Edward  Roderick,  b.  San  Franciito.  Cal.,  Dec.  25,  1872. 


WILLIAM    J.    VALENTINE,    F.  R.  G.  S. 
BANKER,   OK    LONDON',    ENC. 


Glcanittgs. 


225 


CHAPTER     XXI. 


GLEANINGS. 


THERE  seems  to  have  been,  at  one  time,  a  few 
Valentines  on  the  island  of  Xantucket,  Mass., 
but  no  specific  information  could  be  obtained 
of  them  for  this  work.  Thcj'  were  probably  descend- 
ants of  the  Freetown  Valentines.  Samuel  Francis 
Drake,  of  Boston,  married  Emma  M.  Valentine,  of 
Nantucket,  June  26,  1850.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Henry  C.  Valentine,  who  married  Emmeline,  daughter 
of  Aaron  Mitchell,  and  died  in  1840. 

Among  the  prisoners  committed  to  Old  Mill 
Prison,  England,  taken  from  the  brig  "  Fancy," 
during  the  Revolutionarj-  war,  in  1777,  was  one 
James  Valentine. 

In  the  census  of  slaves,  taken  April  28,  1755,  Jacob 
Valentine,  of  Hempstead,  is  given  as  the  owner  of 
"1  female,  Greech;"  Jonathan  Valentine,  "  i  female, 
Sarah ;"  and  Ephraira  Valentine,  of  "  i  male,  Peter."' 
Manj-  other  Valentines  on  Long  Island  are  also  given 
as  owners  of  slaves. 

In  the  ^' Valloration"  of  Hempstead,  October  11, 
1683,  Richard  Valentine,  Sen.,  is  given  as  the  owner 
of  34  acres  of  land,  6  o.xen,  8  cows,  3  colts,  4  hogs, 
12  sheep,  2  horses  and  wagons,  &c. 

The  present   occupant  of  the  old  farm  on  Valen- 
29 


226  Tlu    Valc'itincs  in  Am.riia. 

line's  Hill,  Vonkers,  is  George  Bishop  Valentine,  now 
about  seventy-five  years  of  age,  who  has  one  son, 
Nathaniel  Bishop,  and  one  daughter,  Harriet  A.,  who 
married  James  E.  Burtis.  Each  of  these  has  three 
sons.  Near  the  above-mentioned  place,  lower  down 
on  the  hill,  is  the  liandsoTie  residence  of  Isaac  Valen- 
tine, a  wealthy  retired  merchant  of  New  York. 

Simon  Lynde,  of  Boston,  the  grandfather  of  Mary 
Lynde,  wife  of  John  Valentine,  once  had  the  audacity 
to  let  "one  of  ye.  people  called  Anabaptists,"  a  house, 
and  it  was  considered  worthy  of  record.  Simon  has 
now  many  descendants  who  are  themselves  Baptists. 
"The  late  Simon  Lynde's  .Mansion  House,"  as  the 
"  Boston  Records  "  had  it,  stood  at  the  northerly  ter- 
mination of  Tremont-street,  in  1708.  Lj-nde-street, 
laid  out  in  1732,  and  named  after  this  family,  extended 
from  Cambridge-street  to  Green-streeL  "Justice 
Lynde's  pasture  "  extended  across  from  one  of  these 
streets  to  the  other. 

'  '^Wherever  the  term  branch  is  used  in  this  work,  it  is 
intended  to  include  all  who  are  the  direct  descendants 
of  one  common  ancestor,  and  he  a  direct  immigrant 
from  the  Old  World.  But  the  writer  has  been  some- 
what puzzled  as  to  the  classification  of  the  New 
Jersej-  Valentines.  Were  they  a  distinct  branch,  or 
merely  an  offshoot  from  some  other  branch.'  A  part 
of  them  are  known  to  be  directlj-  descended  from  the 
Long  Island  Valentines;  but  there  are  families  of  the 
name  scattered  through  that  State,  whose  origin  it  is 
dilTicult  to  ascertain.  Thus,  Jf)hn  V^alentioe,  a  country 
mcrcliant,  in  the  town  of  Rose,  Wa3-ne  county,  N.  Y., 
writes  as  follows:  "My  great-grandfather,  Henry 
Valentine,  moved  from  a  place  in  New  Jersey,  called, 


Glcaninn. 


227 


if  I  recollect  right,  Hackett,  to  the  eastern  part  of  this 
State.  He  had  three  sons,  Peter,  Alexander  and 
Jacob — the  latter  being  my  grandfather.  Soon  after 
the  Revolution  (in  which  he  was  a  soldier,  and  held 
some  petty  office),  he  settled  in  Wasliington  county, 
N.  Y.,  and  had  five  sons,  Henr)-,  Peter,  Asahel,  Alex- 
ander and  Stevens.  Peter  was  mj-  father.  He  was  9 
physician,  and  came  to  this  place  in  1819,  where  he 
lived  till  his  death,  in  1857.  I  understand  the  family 
originally  came  from  Germany,  or  Holland — don't 
know  which." 

The  last  sentence  may  be  only  opinion  or  conjec- 
ture; but  the  author  of  this  work  believes  this  family 
is  only  an  offshoot  from  either  the  Westchester,  or  the 
Long  Island  Valentines.  Might  not  these  also  have 
been  descendants  of  Joseph,  "  the  bold  soldier-boy," 
of  Hempstead.'  It  hardly  seems  possible  that  two 
families  of  the  name,  both  from  Washington  county, 
should  have  a  history  so  nearly  alike. 

Honorable  Henrj-  Valentine  was  a  member  of  the 
Assembly  from  Montgomery  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1822. 
The  author  of  this  book  has  written  many  letters  and 
made  many  inquiries  in  relation  to  any  V^alentines  in 
that  section,  but  in  vain. 

There  are  Valentines  in  the  village  of  Penyan, 
Yates  county,  N.  V.  These  are  known  to  be  descend- 
ants of  the  Long  Island  branch,  and  are  cousins  of  J. 
W.  Valentine,  of  Greenpoint,  and  of  Rev.  A.  W.  Val- 
entine, mentioned  elsewhere. 


In  the  "  iV.  Y.  Historical  Calaidar"  frequent  allusion 
is  made  to  Mark  Valentine,  commander  of  the  ship 
"  Earl  of  Loudoun."    .\lso,  Thomas  Valentine  is  very 


§^^^  The  Valentines  in  Aiinrica. 

often  mentioned  as  a  surveyor,  especially  on  the 
Canada  frontier,  and  elsewhere.  An  affidavit  of  Jan 
Tyinenscn  Valentine  bears  date  November  22,  1675. 

In  looking  over  the  Directories  of  our  American 
cities,  the  writer  observed  the  following  items:  J.  S. 
Valentine  is  given  as  the  Mayor  of  Wilmington,  Del., 
in  1S68.  Valentine  &  Co.  are  given  as  the  publishers 
of  the  AVi'  Orleans  Daily  Advertiser ;  E.  Valentine  is 
mentioned  as  Assistant  U.  S.  Assessor,  New  Orleans. 
Baltimore  has  a  Rev.  Henry  J.  Valentine,  185  Hen- 
rietta-street. Philadelphia  has  John  K.  Valentine, 
lawyer,  113  South  Fifth-street.  St.  Louis  has  a  Dr. 
Ferdinand  Valentine,  826  South  Eighth-street. 

The  Westchester  County  Directory  gives  the  follow- 
ing Valentines:  Peekskill^.KnATCW,  farmer;  Charles, 
mason;  Isaac,  founder;  Jacob,  laborer;  Pierre  V.  C, 
teamster;  William,  farmer.  Sing  Sing — William  G. 
Valentine,  lumber  mercliant.  It'/iite  Plains — James 
E.  Valentine,  civil  engineer.  Morrisania — -Andrew  J., 
driver ;  David,  clerk ;  Frank,  piano-maker.  West 
Farms — Benjamin  X'alentine;  Ebenezer  Valentine, 
luinber;  Valentine  &  Overb.iugh,  lumber.  Of  course, 
the  isolated  farmers  outside  of  the  villages  are  not 
given. 

The  steamboat  A.  B.  Valentine  is  one  of  the  eight 
boats  of  Cornell's  Towing  Line  between  Rondout 
and  New  York,  and  was  so  named  in  honor  of  Abra- 
ham B.  Valentine,  Esq.,  the  present  New  York  Agent 
of  the  Line,  of  which  tlie  Honorable  Thomas  Cornell, 
of  R<.ndijiit,  is  the  principal  proprietor. 

.\inong  the  "Baptisms  in  the   Dutch   Church,  New 


Gleanings.  229 

York,  from    1697   to   1720,"  as   found   in    Valentine's 
Manual,  1864,  are  the  following: — 

Valentyn,  Jan  (the  father).  Jacobus  (the  child).  July  2S.  1717. 
"  •'  "  Jennetje         "  Aug.    7,1720. 

According  to  Valentine's  Manual,  the  following 
have  been  connected  with  the  New  York  City  Gov- 
ernment: — 

Valentine,  William  H.  (Butcher),  Councilman,  1859. 

"  Abraham  (Grocer).  Assistant  Alderman,  1820-I. 

Jacob  H.  (Builder),  "  1856-7. 

"  Abraham  -M.  (Accountant),    "  1825-6. 

It  is  stated  that  1,545,755  valentines  passed  through 
the  Post  Offices  of  the  United  States  in  the  year  1870. 

The  present  population  of  Eccles,  in  Lancastershire, 
the  parish  in  which  is  "  Bencliffe  Hall,"  the  family 
estate  of  Richard  V^alentine,  the  earliest  known  of 
the  English  Valentines,  is  given  in  the  Gazetteer  as 
33.79*- 

It  is  elsewhere  stated  in  this  work  that  Valentine  is 
frequently  used  as  a  Christian  name,  especially  by  the 
Germans.  "  Who  is  this  Valentine,  of  the  firm  of 
Valentine,  Tunbridge  &  Co.,  bankers.  Wall-street, 
who  are  advertising  so  much.'"  This  question  was 
often  put  to  the  author,  as  he  was  canvassing  the  city 
for  data  for  this  work.  Tired  at  last  of  hearing  a 
qnestion  which  he  could  not  answer,  he  resolved  to 
visit  their  banking  honse.  "  Is  the  senior  member  of 
your  firm  in.'"  he  inquired.  "  I  am  the  senior  mem- 
ber," said  a  gentleman,  stepping  forward  and  bowing 
very  politely.  "  Then  your  name  is  Valentine,"  I  said, 
inquiringly.    "  My  name  is  Tunbridge,"  said  he,  again 


230  flu   I'aleiitincs  in  Aiiuriai. 

bowing.  "But  I  called  tu  see  Mr.  V"alentine."  "  Tliere 
is  no  X'alentine  liere  but  myself,"  he  replied,  adding, 
"  Mv  name  is  \'alentine  Tiinliiidf^e."  "Ah,  I  see,"  said 
I,  buwinc-  myself  out,  and  muttering  to  mvself,  '•  He 
must  l)e  a  det  eiver,  or  lie  would  not  insert  that  comma 
between  his  first  and  l.ist  names,  as  he  always  d  les  — 
perhaps  on  purpose  t<j  deceive."  A  Gerina;i  wriuld 
have  put  it  "  \'al,  Tunbridge  &  Co.,"  which  all  would 
have  understood.  An  educated  American  would  put 
it  Valentine  Tunbridge  &  Co.,  and  then  only  i_:;no- 
rant  people  would  be  deceived.  But — as  it  was,  I 
drew  my  own  conclusions! 

Another  case  came  a  little  nearer  home  If  other 
people's  names  are  to  be  taken  witlxjut  their  consent, 
commend  me  to  the  man  that  has  the  sense  and  taste  to 
take  a  gooil  one,  while  he  is  about  it.  A  few  years  ago,  I 
was  much  surprized  and  not  a  little  annoyed  at  receiv- 
ing several  letters  from  old  friends  and  acquaintances, 
containing  such  expressions  as  these:  "  Why,  are  you 
going  to  give  up  teaching.'  I  thought  you  were  i.i  for 
life."  "So  you  are  to  appear  in  a  new  role !  Wh.re 
do  you  get  your  stock  of  birds t"  he,  &c.  .\fter 
receiving  some  half  a  dozen  such,  I  concluded  tiiat 
either  my  correspondents  were  becoming  insane,  or  / 
was;  and  I  so  wrote  them.  Their  only  reply  was  to 
send  me  a  m.irked  advertisement  in  '■'Harper's  Weekly," 
in  which  it  was  announced  that  "for  the  ver)-  mod- 
erate sum  of  ten  cents  the  subscriber  would  give  in- 
structions how  to  imitate  the  singing  of  any  and  every 
bird  extant,"  and  duly  signed  T.  W.  Vai.eminf,  in 
good     fair    capitals,    with     the    appendix    in    smaller 

type,  "Address  Box  Xo.  ,  Jersey  City  P.  O."    My 

first   im])ulse  was  to   laugh;   my  next  was  to  ex))ress 
my    indignation    in    unmeasured    terms.      What    busi- 


Gleaning. 


231 


ness  had  he  to  take  my  good  name,  and  make  mc  the 
laughing  stock  of  all  creation  I     I  started   for  him  at 
once — at  least,  I  went  to  Jersey  City.     His  name— or 
rather,   my    name    was    not    in    the    Director)-,   which 
looked  suspicious.     I  bethought  myself  of  the  Post- 
master.    He  began  to  laugh  as  soon  as  I  mentioned 
mj-    name.      "  I   know   nothing  about   him,"  said  he, 
"  e.xcept  that  he  receives  more  letters  through  the  P. 
O   than  anj-  other  man  in  Jerse)-  City,  and   must  be 
getting  rich."     Worse  and  worse !     Not  only  stealing 
m\- good  name,  but  actually  getting  rich  on  the  bor- 
rowed or  stolen  capital !     As  the  elder  Weller  said,  it 
was  "  werry  aggrawatin  I  "     The  Postmaster  doubted 
if  that  was  his  name  at  all;  but,  after  all,  what  could  I 
do.'  Until  that  lime  I  had  never  heard  of  a  person  of  the 
name  e.xcept  my  own  proper  self,  and  the  bare  idea  of 
such    agrarian    socialism    or   partnership   as    sharing 
my  own  sign  manual   with  another  seemed  decidedJr 
rather  (7M(>r /■<•///.  Wliile  thus  uncorking  the  vials  of  my 
wrath   and   pouring  out  anathemas  without  stint   or 
measure  upon  the  offender,  it  occurred  to  me  that  he 
might  be  among  that  coterie  of  listeners,  and  1  had 
tiest  be  prudent ;  for  having  got  so  far  as  to  take  my 
name,  what  might  he  not  take  next.'    My  li/f  perhaps; 
and  shaking  off  the  dust  of  mj-  feet  against  him  and 
his  fellow-denizens  in  that  forcij^n  soil,  I  straightway 
departed  out  of  their  coasts.     I  have  reason  to  believe 
that  he  took  the  hint,  for  the  troublesome  advertise- 
ment disappeared  soon  after,  and  he  too — much  to  my 
relief     A  list  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  John  Smiths  in 
the  yrti'  York  Diratorx  is  nothing,  for  they  get  used 
to    it  —  but    one    proprietorship  of  my  own  name  is 
enough  for  me. 


The  Boston  Times  of  April  4,  1874,  says:  "Albert  F. 


232  The  Valentines  in  America. 

Bellows,  whose  studio  is  on  the  second  floor  of  the 
Art  Club  building,  is  at  work  upon  views  of  English 
scenery  in  water-colors,  a  branch  of  art  in  which  he 
has  no  equal  in  America.  We  are  pleased  to  learn 
that  all  of  his  largest  and  best  works  found  prompt 
and  appreciative  purchasers  at  the  recent  sale  of 
water-colors  at  the  National  Academy  in  New  York. 
The  popularity  of  Mr.  Bellows'  pictures  is  not  con- 
fined to  this  countPi",  but  is  equally  great  in  London, 
where  many  of  his  exquisite  bits  of  landscape  scenery 
have  been  reproduced  in  engravings  and  chromos. 
The  pictures  of  Bellows  are  a  perpetual  delight  to  the 
eye  of  taste.  What  Tennyson  is  to  poetr)-,  Bellows  is 
lo  the  world  of  art." 

A.  F.  Bellows,  the  artist  to  whom  allusion  is  here 
made,  is  a  great-grandson  of  William  Valentine,  and 
his  genealogy  will  be  found  on  page  196  of  this  book. 

The  likeness  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Gooch  (who  after- 
wards became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Valentine),  was 
taken  from  a  portrait  paiiued  about  1724,  when  she  was 
si.\teen  years  of  age.  She  was  dressed  in  a  red  satin 
dress,  with  beautiful  lace  around  the  neck  and  arms. 
Her  hair,  which  was  a  dark  auburn,  flowed  down  her 
neck  below  her  waist,  as  worn  in  these  modern  times^ 
The  mates  to  this  picture,  the  father,  mother  and 
sister,  are  in  possession  of  the  Gooch  family,  at 
Cohasset.  Of  course,  this  likeness  can  hardly  do 
justice  to  the  original. 

Here  is  another  apparent  puzzler.  David  M.  V^ai- 
entine,  of  New  York  city,  writes:  "  My  father's  father 
was  Jonathan  Valentine,  a  farmer  in  Middlebury 
(Middleborough  ?),  Mass.  He  had  two  sons,  Jonathan 
and  Samuel   L.  (my  father),  and  a  daughter,  Olive.     I 


GOLD    AND    SILVER    MEDALS. 
CONKEKKKD  ON  W.M.  J.  VALENTINE,  BY  THE  EMl-EROR,  NAI'OLEON  III. 


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STAR    OF    HONOk, 
CO-.FERKtU  ON  \VM.  J.  \  ALKNTINE,   BV  THE  EMI'EROR,   NAl'OLEO.N  III. 


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have  never  seen  any  of  them,  as  my  fiither  died  a  few 
days  after  my  birth.  Olive,  I  think,  died  before  my 
father.  The  other  son,  Jonathan,  was  living  a  few 
years  ago  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  but  I  have  heard  that 
he  has  since  died.  I  have  understood  we  were  of 
English  descent,  and  presume  we  are  descended  from 
the  John  Valentine  of  1675." 

The  answer  given  to  the  above  is  tliis:  John  Valen- 
tine, son  of  Samuel,  the  eldest  son  of  the  "John  of 
1675,"  was  born  in  Freetown,  April  29,  1743-  He 
married  Hannah  Winslow,  of  Freetown,  November 
21,  1765.  Jonathan,  their  seventh  and  youngest  child, 
was  born  August  16,  17S0.  John,  the  father,  inherited 
a  large  property  in  Boston,  but  was  reduced  to  pov- 
erty through  the  wrong  doing  of  one  of  his  sons. 
They  afterward  lived  in  a  small  cottage  near  the  Pond 
Meeting-house,  Middleboro',  now  Lakeville.  Jona- 
than became  a  farmer,  and  lived  in  that  town.  He, 
too,  had  a  sister  Olive.  Samuel  L.,  the  father  of 
David  M.,  and  the  writer  of  this  were  therefore  third 
cousins. 

The  Fall  River  Valentines  have  been  an  enigma 
to  the  writer.  Years  ago  he  read  a  par.igraph  in  the 
papers,  stating  that  the  highest  tax  paid  in  Fall  River, 
Mass,  was  that  on  the  estate  of  the  late  William  Val- 
entine, valued  at  §1,500,000.  Thinking  of  course  so 
large  an  estate  must  have  a  prominent  family  to  rep- 
resent it,  the.  wi  iter  tried  ever)-  method  to  learn  their 
history,  but  in  vain.  Xo  answers  cy  "e  to  any  letters, 
and  he  finally  gave  it  up.  Xext  he  heard  of  a  very 
wealthy  William  Valentine,  a  Bank  President,  in  Prov- 
idence, R.  I.,  and  tried  letters  in  that  quarter,  with  the 
same  result.  Finall)-,  in  his  despair,  he  wrote  to  a 
prominent  editor  in  that  city,  and  learned  the  foUow- 
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234  riic    \'ii/iiitiius  III  Aiut'rua. 

ing:  '•William  Valentine  was  once  a  blacEsmith  in 
Freetown,  near  Fall  River,  anil  Dwntd  the  stream  that 
furnishes  tliat  <;re:'.t  manufacturing  city  with  its  water 
jjower.  IJeforc  the  mills  were  located  there,  he  left 
his  shop,  came  to  Providence,  engaged  in  trade,  and 
became  President  of  the  Iligh-strcet  Bank.  By  and 
by,  his  interest  in  the  Fall  River  water  power  made 
him  verj-  rich;  and  to  escape  taxation  here,  he  re- 
moved back  to  F:ill  River,  where  he  died  many  years 
ago.  Some  of  his  property  remains  with  his  descend- 
ants, who  are  not  numerous  nor  verj-  thrifty.  A 
daughter  Julia — or  perhaps  a  granddaughter — mar- 
ried James  A.  Fox,  brother  of  your  comedian,  George 
L.  Fox,  himself  an  actor  when  young,  but  now,  I  be- 
lieve, a  lawver,  of  Boston."  [The  lady  here  referred 
to,  Mrs.  Julia  \'alcMtine  F-ix,  was  drcjwned  from  a 
Fall  River  steamboat,  on  her  way  to  New  York,  in 
September,  1872.] 

It  seems  strange  that  General  Pieice's  "  C/v.r,//.;jy 
0/  Ihc  \'ith-niiiic  Faiiii/v,"  which  is  devoted  .ilniost  ex- 
clusively to  the  Freetown  and  I'all  River  \'alenlines, 
should  make  no  mention  of  this  f.imilv. 

Bain's  "///VA''^'  0/  Liincaslersliire"  in  spe  iking  of 
Fcclcs,says:  "Bkalciiffe  IIai.i.,  in  this  township,  on 
the  side  of  tlie  village  of  Fccles,  was  taken  down 
tliirly  years  ag.),  and  has  bei  n  replaced  by  two  mod- 
era  mmsions,  c.il'ed  lligher  -.vmX  Lower  Bentclifre. 
Iji:  \i  _i.i!  FE  was  once  the  seat  of  Tliomis  Holt,  Fsq., 
and  w.is  afiervvard  llic  seat  of  Richard  \'alenline,  who 
married  .\nae  Ilopwood,  in  the  reign  of  IIknkv  \'II 
lio.u  whini  it  passe. 1  to  Thomas  X'alentine,  in  1505, 
aad  Riclianl  X'.ileatine,  I'f  I'reslon  and  BeiitcliftV, 
High  SherilT  of  the  county  of  Lancaster,  in  1713,  by 
wiiose  descend. nits  it  was  sold,  in  the  last  centurv,  |.. 


Gleanings.  235 

Mr.  Partington,  from  whom  it  passed  to  Mr.  Beiitley, 
the  late  owner." 

Rev.  Thomas  Valentine,  of  London,  must  have 
been  a  preaclier  of  some  note,  as  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, November  30,  1642,  invited  him  "to  prcac!i  next 
Fast  at  St.  Margarett's,  and  Sir  William  Massam  was 
apjiointed  to  present  the  invitation."  Afterwards 
December  2S,  the  House  passed  a  vote  of  thanks  for  the 
discourse,  and  voted  that  tlie  same  be  printed.  Tiiis  i 
probably  one  of  the  sermons  mentioned  by  Allibone 


s 


David  Valentine,  of  the  well-known  firm  of  "Da- 
vid Valentine  &  Co.,"  354  Broadway,  New  York,  one 
of  the  most  extensive  houses  in  the  line  of  silks  and 
dress  goods  in  the  city,  belongs  to  none  of  the 
branches  of  Valentines  mentioned  in  this  work,  but  is 
a  direct  descendant  of  some  English  fimily,  his  father 
having  been  a  distinguished  military  officer  in  the 
British  service,  in  Canada.  He  bids  fair,  however,  to 
establish  a  branch  of  his  own,  as,  although  still  a 
young  man,  he  is  alrcadv  ihe  father  of  twelve  chil- 
dren— the  family  residing  in  Eli;jabetli,  N.  J. 

In  1629,  during  the  reign  of  Charles  I.  (King  of 
England),  Sir  John  Elliot,  Denzil  Holies  and  Benja- 
min Valentine,  members  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
were  arraigned  before  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  for 
seditious  speeches  in  Parliament,  contempt  against 
the  King  in  refusing  to  obey  his  verbal  mess.age  to 
adjourn  the  House,  and  for  a  conspir:icy  to  keep  the 
Speaker,  Sir  John  Finch,  in  the  Chair.  Holies  and 
Valentine  forciblv  compelled  the  Sjjeakerto  retain  his 
seat,  and  he  afterwards  leaving  it,  was  seized  by  them, 
drawn  to  and  thrust  in  the  Chair. 


2}fi  The  Villi  III iitis  in  America. 

In  refuting  the  cli.irges  broiiglit  against  them,  they 
claimed  tliat  the  King  did  not  possess  tlie  authority  to 
adjourn  Parliament  by  verlial  message,  and  if  guilty  of 
uttering  seditious  speeches,  they  should  be  tried  by 
their  peers,  the  House  of  Commons,  and  not  by  an 
inferior  Court. 

Judgment  was  pronounced  against  them.  Elliot 
was  committed  to  tlic  Tower,  fined  two  thousand 
pounds,  and  upon  liberation  was  to  give  sureties  for 
his  good  behavior.  Holies  and  Valentine  received 
the  same  sentence,  with  the  exception  that  the  former 
was  to  pay  one  thousand  marks,  and  the  latter,  five 
hundred  pounds. 

Tn  the  next  Parliament,  wliich  met  in  16.40,  Sir  John 
Fincli  was  condemned  for  his  action  in  adjourning  the 
House  with'i:  ;  tlic  consent  of  its  members. 

Tlie  House  was  also  about  to  inquire  into  the  im- 
prisonment of  Elliot,  Holies  and  X'alentine,  when 
they  were  suddenly  dissolved,  without  making  any 
progress  in  their  inquiry. 

Another  Parliament  meeting  the  same  year,  re- 
solved that  Holies  and  X'alcniine  should  have  five 
thousand  pounds  each  for  their  imprisonment  and 
suffering  in  defense  of  the  people's  rights.  For  the 
same  reasons,  Parliament  also  voted  five  thousand 
pounds  to  the  heirs  of  Elliot  (he  having  died  during 
his  imprisonment). 

This   imprisoning  and   fining    members  of  Parlia-  • 
ment,  although   almost  justified  by  the  exigency  of 
the  times,  was   the    Cfunmenceinent    of   the  arbitrarj- 
measures  which    led   t"   the  dethronement  and    final 
beheading  of  Charles  1.,  which  occurred  in  1648.' 


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CHAPTER     XXII. 

VALENTINES    IN    THE    NEW    VOKK    AND    BROOKLYN 
DIRECTORIES. 


L 


1ST  of  Valentines  found  in  the  Neiu  York 
Directory,  1873,  and  the  branches  to  which 
thej-  belong. — 


Valentin,  Charles,  baker,  90  Park-st,  Ital. 

Valentin,  Alphons  D^  v.  consul,  Ig  Broad,  S.  Am. 

Valentin,  Charles,  fin,  105  W.  loth.  Germ. 
Valentin,  Philip,  paper-hanger,  95  Stanton  (had  moved). 
Valentine,  .\braham  A.,  agt.  stearal-  -at  line,  41  Jay,  h.  70  E. 

31st.  N.V. 

Valentine,  All>ert  E.,  physician,  h.  43  E.  31st,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  Alfred   A.,  mer,  10  Burling-dip,  h.  118  E.  iSlh,  N.  E. 
Valentine,  AUelta,  wHd.  Henry,  h.  137  E.  45th  (mistake). 

Valentine,  Anna,  wid.  .\lbert,  h.  43  E.  31st,  X.  V. 

Valentine,  Benj.  C,  roofer,  227  Green,  h.  Haverstraw,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  Benj    S..  clerk,  459  \V.  34th,  N.  V. 
Valentine,  Berlho..  wid.  William,  III2  Third-ave.  (dead). 

Valentine,  Caroline,  wid.,  nurse,  75  Delancy,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Charles,  grocer,  667  Sevenlh-ave.,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  Charles  F.,  builder,  h.  42  E.  II2th,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  Cornelius,  cartman,  28  Goerck,  L.  I. 
Valentine,  Daniel,  carpenter.  36S  Seventh-ave.  (moved). 
Valentine,    Daniel    .\.,    produce,   344    W.    Wash.    Market,   h. 

Brookljm,  I.  I. 
Valentine,   David,  dress  goods,  354    Broadway,  h.    Elizabeth, 

N.  J,  Eng. 

Valentine,  David  M.,  419  E.  48th,  N.  E. 

Valentine,  Ebenezer  B.,  frames,  9  Tivter,  h.  240  Henry,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  Frederick,  clerk,  36S  W.  35ih,  N.V. 

Valentine,  Geo.  F.,  mer.,  134  Pearl,  h.  10  E.  4ISI,  N.V. 

Valentine,  Gto.  F.  M.,  roofer,  227  Green,  h.  27  First,  N.V. 


238  The   I'lj/c II lines  in  America. 

A'alcntine,  Gcrardu'^,  butrhcr,  h.  336  Sevcniy-ninlh,  N.  Y, 

Valcndne,  Hcnr)-,  h.  147  E.  63^1,  N.  Y. 

X'.ilcntinc,  Ilcnr^*,  cabinet-maker,  h.  327  W,  2Sth,  Germ. 

Valeiilinc,  Henry,  chair-maker,  h.  131  Suffolk,  L.I. 

Valentine.  Ilenrj'.  clerk,  174  Pearl,  h.  Fordham,  N.  Y. 

\'alenline,  I Icnrj' C,  mer.,  8S  Chambers,  N.E. 

Valentine,  I^.aac  P.,  h.  35  Bond,  N.E. 

Valentine,  Isidor,  broker,  24  Broad,  h.  135  \V.  loth,  Prus. 

Valentine,  Jacob,  I04  E.  36th,  N.  Y. 

ValentTne,  Jacob,  variety,  2350  Second-ave.,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  Jacob  D.,  feed,  S6  ?4arket,  h.  Brooklyn,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Jacob  F.,  clerk,  h.  309  Henry,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  Jacob  F.,  lawyer.  New  Courthouse,  h.  305  Madison,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  James  fireman,  h.  38  .\ttorney  (mistaken  for  Bal- 
lentine). 

Valentine,  James  S.,  stone  yard,  415  W.  14th,  h.  3'i3  \V.  19th,  Scotch. 

V.nlentine,  Jamc^,  watchman,  h.  32  Stanton,  X.  Y. 

Valentine,  J.imcs  F.,  hardware,  594  Hroadway,  h.  240  Henry,        N.  Y. 

Valentine,  James  W.,  clerk,  h.  578  I.exington-ave.  (mistake). 

Valentine,  Jane,  wid.  .\br.iham  G.,  h.  10  E.  41st, 

\'alentine,  John,  cabinet-maker,  h.  24S  Delancy, 

Valentine,  John,  cartman,  h.  836  Greenwich, 

Valentine,  John  C,  book-binder,  4  Howard,  h.  173  Henry, 

Valentine,  John  H.,  mer.,  134  Pearl, 

Valentine,  John  \V..  fancy  goods,  112  Duane,  h.  19  \V.  130th, 

Valentine,  Julia,  wid.  Chas.  H.,  95  Park-ave., 

\"alentine,  Lawson,  mer.,  ^6  Chambers,  h.  19  Fifth-ave., 

Valentine,  Lemuel,  meats,  i  Tompkins  market,  h.  146  Lexing- 

ton-ave, 
Valentine,  Le\^  is,  painter,  116  Forsyth, 
Valentine,  Lydia,  wid.  Michael,  h.  368  Hudson  (m^vcd). 
Valentine,  Miran<la,  wid.  Jacob,  h.  57  E.  I2gth,  N.Y. 

\'alentine,  Mary,  wa-.hitig,  216  \V.  29lh  (colored),  b.  L.  L 
Valentine,  Napoleon,  mer.,  180  Chambers,  h.  Long  Island,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Nancy,  wi<l.  Guy  \V.,  319  E.  25th,  N.Y. 

Valeniine,  O-car  J,  jeweler,  1S2   Bro.ndway,  h.   Newark,  N.  J.,  N.Y. 
Valentine,  Peter,  h.  216  \V.  53rd,  N.Y. 

V.ilentine,  Peter,  Jr.,  meat,  203  \V.  4Sih,  h.  258  \V.  54th,  N.Y. 

Valentine.  Peter  J.,  meat,  42  Fulton  market,  h.  344  E.  86th,         N.Y. 
Valentine,  Robeit  B.,  ins.,  120  Broadway,  h.  Brooklyn,  L.  I. 

Vj|e  Mine,  Robert  B.,  Jr.,  120  Broadway,  h.  Brooklyn,  L.  I. 


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Valentine,  Samuel  H.,  lawyer,  64  Wall,  h.  177  MadKon  ave., 

Valentine,  Samuel  M.,  physician,  h.  177  Madison-ave., 

Valentine,  Samuel  T.,  flour,  169  Cherry,  h.  Brooklyn, 

Valentine,  Sarah  .M.,  wid.  Richard,  1300  Third-ave., 

Valentine,  Seth  \V.,  janitor,  h.  E.  115th  n.  Third  ave., 

Valentine,  Stephen,  flour,  169  Cherry,  h.  Brooklyn, 

Valentine,  Thomas,  "^yrup,  74  Varick  [mistaken  for  Bath-ntinf). 

Valentine,  Thomas  W.,  liquors,  540  Third  ave.,  h.  542, 

Valentine,  Virginia,  wid.  Joseph,  h.  121  \V.  33rd, 

Valentine,  Washington,  meats,  70  Wa-hinglon  Market  (dec'd). 

Valentine,  Williain.  c.ibinet-maker,  h.  797  Second  ave..  Germ 

Valentine,  William,  driver,  h.  10  Lispenard  (colored — b.  L.  I.) 

Valentine,  William,  express,  S4  Barclay,  h.  317  E.  II7lh, 

Valentine,  William,  Sec.  Ins.  Co.,  172  Broadway,  h.  Kosciusko, 

Brooklyn, 
Valentine,  William    U.,  meat,  52  Washington   Market,  h.  216  i 

W.  53rd, 
Valentine,  William  H.,  mer.,  66  South,  h.  Brooklyn, 
Valentine,  J.,  treasurer,  4  Warren,  h.  Fordham, 
Valentine,  William  L.,  variety,  356  W.  40th, 
Valentine,  William  P.,  paper,  h.  157  Worster, 
Valentine,  B.  C.  &  Co.,  roofers,  227  Greene, 
Valentine,  R.  B.  &  Son,  Ins..  120  Broadway, 
Valentine,  S.  &  Sons,  flour,  169  Cherry, 
Valentine  &  Butler  Safe  and  \jocV  Co..  29S  Broadway, 
Valentine  &  Co.,  varnishes.  SS  Chambers, 
Valentine  &  Gildersleeve,  produce,  344  W.  Washington  Market,     L  I. 

Valentines  in  New  York,  not  found  in  Directory : — 

Valentine,  Daniel,  tobacconist,  no  Water,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  Henry,  cabinet,  W.  3Sth  n.  Eighth-ave.,  Germ. 

Valentine,  Henry  A.,  coach-makers' good-,  2S8   Bowery,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  John  J.,  N.  V.  Post  Office,  h.  141  E.  iioth,  N.  Y^ 

Valentine,  .Mathias  B..  coach-makers"   goods.  2SS  Bowery,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  Sidney,  tobacconist,  no  Water,  N.Y. 

List  of  Valentines  found  in  the  Brooklyn  Directory, 
1S73,  and  the  branches  to  which  they  belong: — 

Valentine,  Andrew  J  ,  lawyer,  h.  96  Kent,  L.  I. 


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The   Valentines  in  America. 


Valentine,  Alfreil,  mtlU,  h.  24  rort  Greene  Place,  1—  I. 
Valenline,  Brcwiler,  grocer,  15  Fulton,  h.  North   River,  N.  \'.,     L.  I. 

Valentine,  Catherine,  « id.  Obadiah,  h.  5S0  I.orimer,  I..  I. 

Valentine,  Catherine,  wid.,  h,  64  Prince,  I-  1. 

Valentine,  Charles  carpenter,  100  Ryerson,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Charle*,  ferrjman,  155  Prospect,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Charles  E.,  clerk,  h.  loS  Ainblie,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  Char'es  B.,  printer,  h.  3S1  South  3rd,  N.  Y. 
Valentine,  Charles  S.,  coachmaker.  Si  India,  h.  \e*'  Jersey,         N.  Y. 

Valentine,   Daniel  A„  com.  mer.,  h.  92  N.  Oxford,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  David,  contractor,  h.  130  Kent,  1-.  I. 

Valentine,  Edward,  engineer,  h.  148  West,  L  I. 
Valentine,  Edward,  gen.  dealer,  h.  102  Concord,                     Eng.  Jew's. 

Valentine,  Edward  H.,  clerk,  h.  164  Lawrence,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Ezra,  iron  railing,  h.  645  Baltic,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Edward  H.,  grocer,  13  Atlantic-ave^  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Francis,  lal>orer,  li.  43  MacDougal,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Frederick,  carpenter,  h.  244  Hudson-avc,  N.  Y, 

Valentine,  George  S.,  supt..  ft.  24th,  h.  126  Twenty-third,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  George  \V.,  clerk,  159  Macon,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  George  W.,  sexton,  h.  207  Twenty-second,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  Henr)-,  cabinet,  2S  Devoe,  Germ. 

Valentine,  Henry,  cartman,  26  Bocrum,  I-  I. 

Valentine,  Henrj-,  rope-maker,  h.  906  Flushing  ave.,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  Henry,  h.  324  Pacific,  I-.  I. 

Valentine,  Henry  C,  varnish  factory,  364  Eweo,  N.  E. 

Valentine,  Isaac,  carpenter,  h.  373  Bergen,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Jacob,  builder,  64  Lawrence,  L.  I. 

Valentin;,  Jacob  D.,  flour,  h.  67  Cliulon-ave,  L.  I. 
Valentiie,  James  \V.,  coal  mcr.,  37  Greenpoint-ave.,  h.  96  Kent,    L.  I. 

Valentine,  Jane,  wid.  William,  h.  70  South  loth,  N.V. 

Valentii:^,  John,  butcher,  h.  165  Gates-ave.,  X.  Y. 

Valentine,  John,  clerk,  h.  297  Hudson-ave.,  N.Y. 

Valentine,  John,  police,  h.  131  Dcbevoise,  N.Y. 

Valentine,  John,  tailor,  h.  190  Johnson-ave.,  Germ. 

Valentine,  John  W.,  tin-smith,  h.  320  N'.  2nd,  N.  Y. 

Valentine,  John,  watchman,  h.  139  Partition,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  John,  Jr.,  butcher,  h.  374  Bond,  N.Y. 

Valentine,  John  IL,  com.  mer..  h.  2  Second  PI.,  L.  I. 

V.ilentine,  John  H.,  jeweler,  h.  172  Livingston,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  John,  J.,  h.  105  Fourth,  L,  L 


Valentines  in  Brooklyn  Dircetory.  241 

Valentine,  Joseph,  clerk,  h.  219  Sands,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  La«  ion,  varnii-h  factory,  3^)4  E«en,  N.  E. 

Valentine,  Lena,  Hid., h.  265  Floyd,  I_  1. 

Valentine,  Margaret,  wid.  K  X.  7th,  n.  5th,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  Oliver,  h.  54  Willoughby-ave.,  L.  I. 

Valentine,  Peter,  driver,  h.  395  Mmle-ave.  (not  found). 

A'alcniine,  Philip,  h.  106S  Fullon-ave.  (not  found). 

Valentine,  Richard,  clcrV,  h.  96  Kent, 

Valentine,  Robert   B.,  insurance,  561  .\tlantic-ave., 

Valentine,  Samuel,  clerk,  h.  375  Bergen, 

Valentine,  Samuel  T.,  flour,  h.  154  Clinton, 

Valentine,  Stephen,  flour,  h.  260  Henry, 

\'alentine,  Thomas,  tailor,  S  Herbert, 

Valentine,  Thomas  E.,  book-keeper,  h.  Ill  .\delphi, 

Valentine,  Thomas  W.,  teacher,  h.  213  Rodney, 

Valentine,  Thomas  Wilmot,  lobacc   nist,  bds.  213  Rodney. 

Valentine,  Vander^vater,  brashes,  277  Pearl.  N.  Y.  h.  520  La- 

fayette-ave., 
Valentine,  William,  clerk,  h.  47  Johnson, 
Valentine,  William,  ergineer,  h.  170  West, 
Valentine.  Bergen  &  Co.,  wholesale  grocers,  15  Folton, 
Valentine  &  Co.,  vamishre,  364  Eiren, 

V.nlentines  in  Brookl3-n,  not  found  in  Directory  : — 

Valentine,  William  C,  lawyer,  h.  1230  Fajton-ave.,  N.V. 

Valentine,  John,  Jr.,  h.  331  Adams,  N.  V. 

Valentine,  John,  meat,  h.  331  Adams,  N.Y. 

Valentine,  Schuyler,  grocer,  h.  247  North  6th,  N.V. 


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The   Valcniincs  in  Ajuirtca. 


RECAPITLLATION    OF    NEW    YORK    AND    BROOKLYN 
DIRECTORIES 1 873. 


Number  of  New  Vort  branch 

of  Valeniine^ 

Number  of  Long  Island  branch 

of  Valcclir.c> 

!Caml>er     of      Ne-*'     England 

branch  cf  Valcniincs 

Number  of  New  Jersey  branch 

of  Valentines 

Number  of  GermiO  branch  of 

Valentines - 

Number    of    Irish    branch   <rf 

Valentines 

Number  of    Scotch  branch  d 

Valentines 

Number  of  Jeuish  bnmch  of 

Valentines 

Numl^^r  of  Colored  branch  of 

\  Jenlines 

Number  of  English  branch  ol 

Valentines 

Number  of   Italian  brajich  of 

Valentines. . ........ 

Numl^^r  of  error  of  name  .... 

NumV-er  not   found 

Number  found  not  in  Dircc- 
tofj . 


New  York     Brooklyn  Total 

Directory.     Directory.        ol  boih. 


40 

16 

5ft 

17 

37 

54 

7 

5 

3 

0 

6 

3 

I 

0 

I 

0 

0 

3 

1 

0 

0 

0 

0 

3 

4 

93 

6S 

161 

INDEX. 


A. 
< 

A  Fixture  Removed,  88. 
Ainsworth,  H.  D.,  l88,  2l6. 
Alexander,  J.,  1S7,  211. 
Another  Valentine,  89. 
Anabaptists,  226. 
Another  branch,  235. 
Ashland,  Town  of,  117,  125,  128. 
Auchmuttj.  Mr.,  iii,  113. 

B. 

Baker,  B.  F,  166. 

Baker,  E.  D.,  150. 

Baker,  E.  H.,  166. 

Ball.  G.,  152,  168. 

Ballard,  Mary,  122. 

Bancroft.  L.  F,  187,  21a 

Baptisms,  St.  George's  Church, 
Hempstead,  20. 

Baagher,  Dr.  H.  L,  95. 

Bartlett,  W.  A,  1S7,  211. 

Bartlett,  J.  M,  190. 

Bellows,  .\sahel,  176,  179. 

Bellows,  Dr.  A.  J.,  179,  196. 

Be. lows,  .\.  F..  196,  231. 

Bellows  Rev.  H.  \V.,  D.D.,  179. 

Bellows,  Hon.  C.  W.,  179.  197. 

Bceton,  Thomas,  iSo. 

Btmis,  \V.  H.,  214,  223. 

BcnclifTe  Hall,  103,  22g,  234. 

Bixby.  S.  C,  162. 

Births,  Rec  Westbury  Meeting, 
17- 

Blake,  O.  S.,  224. 

Bodcn.  E.,  198. 

Borrou  ing  a  name,  230. 

Bownes,  Samuel,  Quaker  Preach- 
er, la 


Bowen,  George,  165. 
Bowditch,  Miss  S.  E.,  129. 
Bowman,  Albert,  178. 
Bowman,  Jos.,  176,  178. 
Bowman.  G.  R.,  198,  220. 
Bowne,  J.  T.,  20. 
Bridt;ham,  J.  D.,  iSo.  198. 
Brigham,  A.,  176, 179,  206. 
Brigham,  A.  A.,  198. 
Brigham,  E.  A.,  173. 
Brigham,  P.  W.,  176,  iBo,  199. 
Brigham,  \Vm,  179. 
Brigham,  \V.  A^  181,  I9S,  22a 
Brigham,  W.  V.,  199. 
BurditI,  Dr.  G.  W.,  187,  2IO. 
Burials  Epis.  Ch..  Jamaic*,  19. 
Burials  St.  Geo.  Ch.,  Hemp,  18. 
Baitis,  J.  E,  226. 


Chase,  D.,  214. 
Clafflin,  C.  W.,  146,  163. 
Clark,  C.R..  185.  208. 
Clark.  S,  Es/j,  195.  221. 
Coe,  Hon.  W.  S,  82. 
Cole,  J.  T..  1S5,  207. 
Cole,  O.,  ic^ 
Colored  Valentines,  5. 
Cutter,  Amos,  164. 
Cutter,  B.  G.,  148. 
Cutter,  Rev.  G.  W.,  172- 
Cutter,  N,  164,  172. 

D. 

Deaths,  Rec  of  We^lbury   Meet- 
ing. 18. 
Dench  Houie,  136,  174. 
Digby,  Ev.  and  KatK,  12 


244 


Index. 


Digby,  Simon,  122. 
Dormin.  C.  K.,  iS8, 
Dupee,  H.,  197. 


216 


East  Che-ler  Church-yard,  64   65, 

66,  67,  6S. 
Eaton,  J.  F.,  193,  220. 
Eaton,  \V..  156. 
Ecclcs,  Parish  of,  229, 
Edgerton,  J.  (>.,  1(^. 
Eliot,  Rfv.  John,  116. 
Enslin,  K.,  171. 
Escriloir,  Old,  Ij8, 
Estee,  C.  K..  100. 
Extent  of  Valentines,  4. 


Fairbanks.  J.  H.,  188,  214. 

Fairbanks  J.  W.,  214. 

Fall  River  Valentines,  233, 

Earnsworth,  B.  S.,  145. 

Fisher,  Miriam,  79.  81. 

Fisher,  S.,  179,  195,  221. 

Fitch,  A.  H.,  167. 

Fitch.  C.  H..  154. 

Fitch,  Dea.  E  ,  135. 

Fitch,  Ed.  Payson,  167. 

Filch,  J.  A..  Esq.,  150. 

Fitch,  Jos.  v.,  119,  121. 

Fitch,  ni.  I,.  M.,  151. 

'^itch,  J.  H.,  152. 

Fitch.  X.  H..  153,  178,  194. 

Filch.  \V.  F,  149. 

Flood,  \V.  \,  193. 

Forbes.  H.,  iSi,  Kjg,  221. 

Forb.v.  J.  W.  B.,  199,  221. 

Fox.  Mrs.  fulia  X'alcnline,  234. 

Fr.iil.  Eli.h.a.  16S. 

Fraiikland,  Sir  H.,  116,  123,  136. 


Oibb,  J.,  1S5. 

Cinn,  J.,  1S3. 

Clooch,  Miss  E.,  107,  Ilfi,  232. 

(jooch.  Hester,  116. 

(looch  Mouse,  burning  of,  123. 

Oooch,  Jas.,  E-.!].,  ii(),  123. 

Gooch,  \Vm.,  113. 


I'lray,  Thos.  A.,  189. 
Gr-cenwood,  G.  H.,  1S8,  215. 


Haines.  Plurbe.  51* 
Hall,  K.  H.,  197. 
Hall,  J.  H  ,  iSo,  197. 
Hamilton,  C,  190. 
Hancock,  R.  B..  203. 
Hardy.  C.  S.,  1S8,  215. 
Harrii>gton,  .\.,  Esq.,  147, 
Harrington.  G.,  164. 
Hemnicnway,  F.,  152 
Hitchcock,  W.  B.,  171. 
Howard,  H.,  184.  206. 
Howe,  Rev.  N.,  150. 
Howe,  S.  W.,  189. 

J' 

Jacobs,  J.  R..  1S7.  212. 
lones,  Anthony,  125. 
Jones,  John,  Esq.,  118,  125. 
Jones,  Col.  John,  125,  174. 
Jones,  J.  H..  155,  171. 
Jones,  Lawson,  178,  19O1 
Jones,  \Vm.,  170. 
lennison,  Capl.  W.  D.,  144. 
Jennison,  Mrs,  M.C.,  144. 


Kendrick,  Rev.  Dr.'s  Sermo 
Krum,  C.  H.,  172. 


86 


I.angley,  Sir  Robt.,  104. 
l,av\  rtnce  Cemetery,  19. 
I.iiirr  from  Rev.  Thos.  Valentine, 

Epsom,  114. 
I.eonar.l.  J.  W.,  168. 
Lewis,  W'm..  196. 
Lewis,  Ur.  W.  H.,  197. 
Lincoln,  J..  Jr..  195,  222. 
Logce,  S.  F.,  198.  " 
l.ynde.  Judge  B.,  113. 
Lynde  liililo,  119,  121,  122. 
l.ynde,  Enoch,  122. 
Lynde,   .Mary,  115,   116,   119.  121, 

122. 
Lynde,  Samuel.  115,  119,  122. 


Index. 


245 


Lynde-streel,  122. 
Lynde,  Simon,  226. 
Lyncie  Mansion,  226. 
Lillie,  L.  E..  221. 

M. 

Maclay,  Rev.  Dr.,  87. 
Marriages,    St.    Geo.  Ch..    Hemp- 
stead, 14. 
Magoon,  G.  A..  190. 
Marden,  C.  \V.,  182,201. 
Marlow,  G.  F.,  206. 
Maryland  \'alenlines,  gl. 
Mauiiey,  Dr.  \Vm.,  137. 
Mason,  L.  W.,  190. 
Mellen,  A.,  215. 
.\!ellen,  A.  M.,  1S8,  216. 
Mellen,  J.,  Esq.,  175,  176. 
Mellen,  Capt.  J.  N.,  176,  188. 
Mellen,  C.  H.,  188,  215. 
Mellen,  J.  D..  188,  215. 
Meller.,  J.  O.,  214. 
Mellen,  \V.  F.,  188. 
Merrill,  A.  H.,  lyg. 
McFarland,  C,  189. 
.McGowan,  Dr.  J.  J.,  189,  217. 
McKittrick,  H.,  172. 
Morey,  D.  M.,  155. 
Morton,  Gen.  J.,  82.  • 

Morion,  Dr.  J..  170. 
Mott,  Dr.  v.,  39. 

N. 

Nason,  Rev.  E.,  116. 

Nantucket  Valentines,  225. 

Nelson,  E.  T.,  160. 

Newdigate,  John  and    Annie,  122. 

Newell,  A.,  204. 

Newell,  A.  H.,  1S2,  204. 

New  Jersey  Valentines,  51,  226. 

Nolen,  Dr.  S.,  154,170. 

Nolen,  S.  A.,  170. 


Odell,  Wni.,  58. 

Oldtown,  117, 

Old  I.vnde  Bible,  119,  121,  12S. 

Onder'donk,  H.  M.,  13. 

Otis,  H.  G.,  168. 


Parkey,  J.  M.,  194. 
Partington,  Mr.,  104,  121,  2.'5. 
Partington,  Mary,  107. 
Pierce,  Gen.  E.  \V.,  1 10,  234. 
Pierce,  C.  H..  168. 
Pierce,  Ed.  \V.,  163. 
Pomeroy,  Hon.  S.  C,  165. 
Phipps,  L.,  165. 
Pond,  B.  C,  154,  169. 
Pond,  G.  F.,  169. 
Powers,  G.  G.,  185,  208. 
Pratt,  Dr.  J.,  147. 
Price,  Mrs.  Mary  K.,  140, 141. 
Price,  Rev.  Roger,  139. 
Price,  Major  \Vm.,  139. 

R. 

Richards,  G.  A.,  192. 

Richards,  S.,  178,  19O. 

Richards,  N.  S.,  192. 

Richardson,  Dea.  W.  T.,  178,  194. 

Riker,  Hon.  R.,  82. 

Rogers,  G.  A.,  163. 

Ross,  D.  A..  185. 

S. 

Sandford,  F.  V.,  206,  222. 
Sanilford,  J.  H.,  185.  206. 
Sandford,  J.  H..  Jr.,  206,222. 
Sawyer,  J.,  152,  168. 
Seaman,  Dr.  V.,  38. 
Schroeder,  E.  S.,  221,  224. 
Simpson,  S.,  125. 
Slaveholding  Valentines,  225. 
Smith,  W.  W.,  162. 
Snively,  Dr.  J.  C,  166. 
Steams,  C.  .K.,  204. 
Stearns,  E.  F.,  204. 
Stearns,  G.  A.,  204. 
Steams,  J.  H.,  203. 
Stearns,  J.  W.,  203. 
Steams,  Rev.  O.  O.,  182,  203. 
Stebbins,  Rev.  H.,  195,  221,  224. 
Strickland,  G.,  166. 
Sullivan,  Dr.  J.  S.,  146. 
Sumner,  Hon.  C,  186. 
Stowe,  Mrs.  H.  B.,  117,  136. 


246 


Indfx. 


r. 

Tillon.A.  H..  157. 
Tilton,  E.  I,.,  158. 
Tillon,  G.  E.,  157. 
Tillon,  Homer,  137,  138. 
Tillon,  Homer  2d.  138. 
Tillon,  L.  v..  15S. 
"  Treasure  Trove,"  lOl. 

V. 

YJenl'ne,  Abb.,  177.  Igo. 
'•  A,  Jr.,  219. 

A.  A,  156. 
"  Absalom,  12,  30. 

Ab.  B.,  228. 
AI.  B.,  48,  49. 
"  Alanson,  17S,  192. 

A.  P..  128,139.  141,158 
Rev.  A.  \V..  34. 
"  A.  \V.,  194,  220. 

A.  T.  190,  218. 
Valentines, on  Assessors'  books,  13. 
Valentine,  Basil,  3. 
Valentine,  Benj.  (N.  V-).  57,  58.  59, 

76,  77- 
Valentine.  Benj..  M.  P.,  235. 
Benj.  (I..  I.),  12. 
BE,  31. 

Caleb  (I..  1.),  II,  12. 
Chas..  127.  142. 
"  Chas.  H.,  14Q. 

Chas.  T..  161. 
Chas.  E.  (Me.).  185. 
Chas.    E.  (Mass.).    187. 

209.  210. 
Hon.  r>.  T..  4.  81  to  90. 
Daniel  (L.  I.),  12. 
D.iniel  (Wa^h.  Co.).  47. 
Daniel  (III),  50.  gS. 
•'  Daniel  (Foidli.im),  85. 

David,  235. 
David  M  ,  232. 
Dexter,  177.  1S9.  219. 
Mrs.  E..  12fj.  127. 
•*  Ephraim.  9. 

Ed.  H..  149. 
Ed.  Harij.  156. 
Ed.  I.  .  159. 
Elijah.  185. 
Elijah  E.,  i;6, 1S2,  203 


Valentine,  Elliot,  176,  1S5. 
Elmer,  176,  186. 
"  Elmer  2nd,  178.  I93. 

"  Elbert  J..  13. 

E.  K.,  185. 

**  and  Eyre,  22. 

F.,  3. 
"  Francis,  115. 

F.  E..  165 

Geo.  (Md),  92, 93. 

Geo.  (L.  I).  12. 

Geo.  A.,  163. 

Geo.  B.,  59.  60.  61.226. 
"  Geo.  G.,  181.  ir,9. 

'•  Geo.  \V.  (liaron).  3. 

"  Gerr)-,  17S.  193. 

Gdl.  110,  176.  iSl. 

Henrv's  •■Dcvoti<:n^,"^. 

(1..  I.').  12. 

H.  C,  165. 
Col.  H.  E.,  182.  20I. 
Hon.  H  .  227. 
Rev.  H.  I..  228. 
"  H.   and    M.  (twins).  94. 

\'a!enlinc's  Hist.  N.  Y..  84. 
Valentine's  Hill.  58.  70.  71.  72,  73, 

74.  76.  226. 
Valentine.  Horace,  50. 
\'. dentines,  Irish,  6. 
Valentine.  Isaac  (I-.  I  ).  12.  21,  22. 
I.  B..  178.  194. 
Jacob  (I..  I).  II.  12. 
Jacob  (.Md.),  93. 
Jacamiah,  1 1,  12, 
James  (1..  I).  12. 
"  James  (Pris).  225. 

lames  J.  (Ma^-.).  163. 
Hon.  Jas.  J.  M.  13,  35.  . 
"  Jamts   M..  1S5.  207. 

"  Jeremiah,  12,  27.  28.  44. 

"  John   (Boston),  0,   106, 

no.     III,     Ii2,     113, 
I20.   121. 

lohn  (Hop.)  123. 

John  (Me.).  i;6,  iSo. 
"  John's  '*  Haimony."  3. 

"  John    (Wavne    Co.,    N. 

v.),  226.' 

John,  Jr.,  180,  198. 

John  E..  1S6.  2c^. 
"  John  G.,  201. 

John  J.  (I,.  1.),  27.  30. 


Index. 


247 


Valentine,  John    J.    (Mass.),   130, 
132. 
"  John  L.,  134.  148. 

"  Dr.  Jno.  W.,  1S2,  202. 

**  J    S.'s  "  Engineer,"  3. 

"  Jonah,  9. 

Jonas,  II. 

Joseph  {L.  I.),  12,47. 
Col.  Joseph,  130,  133. 
("apt.  Joseph,  175,  177 
Joel,  48. 

Jones,  178,  184,  204. 
L.  A.,  3. 
Valentines  of  Long  Island,  S. 

"  and  Lines,  22. 

Valentine,  Lawson,  127,  138,  139, 
140. 
"  I-awson  2nd,  160. 

"  Hon.  Leander,  177, 190. 

"  I^wis,  12. 

"  Leonard,  189,  219. 

*■  Leonard  D.,  190,  219, 

"  L-o«eIl,  l8o,  197. 

"  I^well  \V..  190. 

Mark  (See  GUamngs\ 
Mathias,  58,  59,  76. 
"  Manuals,  83,  229. 

Mayor,  -28. 
Michael  B. 
•■  Missionary,  5. 

Rev.    Milton,  D.D.,  4, 

91.  97. 
"  Rev.      Milton,     D.D.'s 

Works.  96,  97. 
Valentines,  Mar)-1and,  91. 
Valentines,  Nantucket,  225. 
Valentine,  N.,  painter,  3. 
*'  Nelson,  180,  197. 

N.  F.,  187. 
Valentines,  Origin  of,  5. 
Valentine,  Obadiah  (N.  J.),  52. 

Obadiah  (L.  L),  9,  10, 

II,  12,  28,  2g,  52. 
Oliver,  12. 
Otis,  177,  189, 
Valentines,  Penyan,   227. 
Valentines,  and  Posts,  22. 
Valentine,  President,  91,  96,  97. 
"  Dr.  Peter.  227. 

"  Capt.  Philip,  II,  u. 

Valentines  sent  through  P.  O.,  229. 


[Valentine,  R.,   of    Eccles,  9,    12, 
104,  105,  121. 
R.,  of  L.  L,  6,  8,   10, 

225. 
K.,  Jr..  9.  10,  12. 
"  Richard  N.  J.,  51. 

Robert,  II,  27. 
R.  B.,  37. 
Mrs.  R.,  3. 
Wid.  R..9. 
Valentines  and  Rushraores,  22. 
Valentine,  St.,  i. 

Valentine,  Samuel,  of   Freetown, 
104,    106,    121,    122, 
123. 
"  Samuel,  of  Hop.,   118, 

124,  125,  126. 
"  Samuel,  Jr.,   129,    131. 

"  Samuel  F.,  145. 

"  Col.    Samuel    L,    176, 

182. 
"  Samuel  Wells,  48. 

"  SamT  Winter,  18^  207. 

"  Samuel  (L.  L),  41. 

Mr.  S.  (Beatrice).  3. 
"  Spelling  of,  2,  48. 

Thos.  (L.  I.),  27. 
"  Thos.   (Judge),  29,  31, 

40.  45- 
Thos.  (of  V.'s  HiU).64, 

71,  72.  76- 
"  Rev.    Thos.    (Epsom), 

106,  113,  115. 
Rev.  Thos.  (Frankfort), 
106,  113,  114,  121. 
"  Rev.    Thos.   (I^ndon), 

3,  106,  235. 
Thos.  (Hopkinton),  113, 
116,    117,    119,    123, 
124. 
TTios.  (Ashland),  136. 
"  Thos.  (Surveyor),  227. 

Thos.  B.,  156. 
"  TTios.  W.,  89,  182,  200, 

201,  230. 
"  Tunbridge  &  Co.,  229. 

"  Town  of,  2. 

"  William  (L.  L),  9,  12. 

William    (Fall    River), 
234- 
•'  Dr.  William,  22,  35. 


hs 


Index. 


Valentine,  William  (Md.),  02. 

William    (Mass),    Il5 

124.  ■74- 
William      (Me.),     IT5 

176,  177. 
William     (lli)pkinlon), 

■;5.  195- 

William         (Chicopce), 
1S7,  211. 

William  H.,  206. 

William  C,  81. 

William  II..  193,  220. 

William    J.,    179,    l54. 
204,  205. 

William  M.,  13,  ■»6,  37. 

William    P.,    I17,   129. 
139.  141.  '58. 

Waller,  1S7.  212. 

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