I don't know how / where to put this info from a research trip narrative from my cousin Carolyn Ybarra when she and her dad visited both upstate NY and SLC in about 2004 ... so I just pass it on for info about the Southwell family's origins here in USA:
Luther Bishop was our GGGG grandfather
(Mama and Aunt Jean, add a G). His daughter Nancy married Joseph
Southwell and they settled in Tyre (Seneca) NY. His son Luther
Bishop Jr. settled on the next farm and lived a long life in Tyre
(Daddy & I already have lots of info on all of them, from our New
York trip a couple years ago).
Luther Jr. served in the War of 1812. Luther Sr. apparently served
in the Revolution at the Lexington Alarm for 3 days, with the other
guys from Guilford, CT. (He would have been about 21 years old.)
Cousin David Fons initially gave me a pedigree on the Bishops, taken
from printed sources (thanks!), and I am verifying it with original
documentation. (Note that at least according to some printed
pedigrees I have looked at, we had at least 5 sets of British 8x
great grandparents who helped found Guilford in 1635.)
Luther Bishop (Sr.) lived (and died) in Mayfield (Fulton) NY, which
was part of Montgomery Co. when he first moved there. His will is
dated 7 June, 1826. He died before 3 Sept 1832 (according to the
pedigree chart, it was in 1830 but I have not verified that). This
document is dated with the 1832 date, as the time this estate was
settled at the courthouse. (This is not an original document, but is
the official court transcription of the original, probably written in
1832.)
Luther had a wife Patience, six sons, and six daughters (making her
name particularly apt!). He leaves several of them one dollar each,
which was most likely a token to let them know he had not
inadvertently left them out of his will. (Usually this was done
which property or money was already settled on adult children, and
the remainder was to go to those who were younger or had not yet
married, or sometimes to the eldest son).
Luther's children (living as of 1826) were: Luther, Phares, David,
Neriah, James, Nehemiah, Nancy, Polly, Laura, Olive, Betsy, and
Almira. Nehemiah gets the most, including all real estate (with the
lot numbers listed!) and "all personal property such as horses, cows,
oxen, plows, drags ... sheep, hogs". I am guessing he is youngest
and these are in birth order within the boys' and girls' groups (just
a guess). Note that this will names both Luther Jr. and Nancy,
helping to verify his relationship to our family!! Unfortunately it
does NOT say "of Seneca Co" NOR does it say "Nancy SOUTHWELL," but it
is still good support.
Note also that Joseph & Nancy (Bishop) Southwell ALSO had girls named
Olive & Betsy, and I think also Polly. (Polly Southwell is mentioned
in a land description in a land sale related to Joseph's land, but we
don't have further information on her. Olive M. is also mentioned in
a land document as Joseph's daughter, after which we lose her.)
Nancy seemed to have named all her girls after her sisters, and I
wonder if there was a Laura who died young.
I also looked at some microfilm of some court records from Guilford
(New Haven) CT, where the Bishop family apparently lived for 200
years starting in 1635. I did not see anything on Luther's birth,
but did find information on the men who are supposed to be his father
and grandfather (Ebenezer Bishop and Nathaniel Bishop). Again, this
information is from very old court ledgers, but not written at the
time of the events (births & marriages). (This is apparent because
the dates are all out of order.) I need to look at this film again,
because there was a LOT of information.
I did not find anything new on Southwell's, although I looked for it.
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