Nathan Mitchell, II

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Nathan had 13 children, Isaac was the 10th, Nathan Mitchell came to the Upper Delaware Valley- early settler, his grandparents were David and Susan Butterfield Mitchell who first came to America in 1635.

source: EARLY HISTORICAL EVENTS IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY, by John T. Bradley ; ( A series of historical articles of interest to everyone who resides in the Delaware section of the county ). CHAPTER 15 - THE MITCHELL FAMILY 27Sep1927

In the summer of 1636 Johnathan Mitchell and two brothers left England for America. Johnathan Mitchell and one brother arrived. Johnathan Mitchell was graduated from Harvard in 1647. The Mitchells were not a spineless family. They fortified themselves with two powerful weapons - the rifle and the Bible- the symbol of war and the symbol of peace. They were associated with the King of England, the Mayflower and the Presbyterian church. Sometime during the eighteenth century Nathan Mitchelll, the second found his way to Cochecton, N.Y., called at that time by the old Indian name of Cushetunk. This was what was known as Old Town and lies a little east of the Erie lines, which caused the starting of new Cochecton.

Records show that Nathan Mitchell had been sent by Minisink to look after the safety of the settlers. He first built a log cabin then fell to clearing the land surrounding it. These were the days of Whigs and Tories and the relationship of the two factions was not amiable. In one sense of the word the later might be called hypocrites and scouts were sent out to regulate them. Bazaleel Tyler, a cousin of Nathan Mitchell was captain over a hand of scouts. There are some people who from the very nature of things hold the destiny of events in the hollow of their hand. Such a one was Grandmother Mitchell, "Aunt Nobby," the youngest child of "Captain Tyler, born in Poughkeepsie, Oct. 1770. She was gifted with a remarkable memory, and could recite past events so vividly and correctly that she won for herself a place in the history of the Mitchells. Mrs. Mitchell had a premonition that all was not well at the home of Bryant Kane and went by horseback to the home. She found the entire family murdered and the struggle for life had been so great that one little boy was found some distance from the cabin dead. This was in April 1777. This followed the Indian raid of 1763. The Indians were determined to wipe out the white race. The Minisink Massacre soon followed. Capt. Tyler and Moses Thomas, second martyrs of this battle were second cousins of Amos T. Mitchell. Aunt Nobby Mitchell knew, in her early days much trouble and sorrow. She was left an orphan at the age of five. The funeral of her mother was private and at its conclusion the body of her dear mother was placed by loving hands in the family skiff and floated down the Delaware to the Milanville cemetery. The little orphan was not permitted to go but she stood upon the bank and watched the skiff drift out of sight. At the age of nineteen she married Joseph Mitchell and to them ten children were born, nine reaching adult age. When the monument to the dead heroes of the Minisink was dedicated July 22, 1862, the most distinguished person present was Aunt "Nabby" Mitchell. She was called hence in September, 1867 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.B. Herbard.

Jonathan Mitchell seems to have been of a roving nature. He died in Stamford, Conn., 1645, aged 55 years. His son Johnathan, 2nd, was born in England in 1624 and was eleven years of age when he came to America. He graduated from Harvard in 1647 and was ordained to the ministry in 1650 and took the pastorate of the second Presbyterian Congregational church in Cambridge, Mass. Not long afterward he married Miss Stephens, daughter of his predecessor. He died at the age of 44 leaving no heirs.

Nathan Mitchell, 2nd, migrated from New Jersey, coming about the middle of the 18th century, 1755, settling on land about one mile north of Cochecton Falls now owned by John Scheltz. The Indian dialect for Cochecton was Cashiegtunk. The township of Cochecton was formed in 1828. Nathan Mitchell was a Whig and when the Indian outbreaks began would have gone to a place of safety with the other settlers but his wife was a Tory and wished to stay near her relatives in Cushetunk. He had on a cap of a design worn by the Tories for protection from the Indians. He nearly lost his life at the hands of the scouts at one time. He saw scouts coming and took for the woods closely pursued and just as they were about to shoot he was recognized by them and a tragedy was averted. Sold to Stephen Mitchell 16Nov1837 a parcel of land in Tyler Hill 25 ac for $1500, being the same land conveyed to Elihu S. Page by John & Martha Little by deed dated 1823 etc. etc back to pioneer David Young

From the Mail Box by Arthur N. Meyers: Record of the Mitchell-Tyler and Calkins families: The following interesting letter was written by Bezaleet Mitchell in 1879 to a man by the name of Draper: My grandfather, Nathan Mitchell, lived one mile above the Tory, Bryant Kane, at the time his family were killed. He was not at home at the time in the morning when the news came of their being killed. His wife took a horse and her three children - all she had at the time- and started for Bound Brook, a place down in Jersey where her father once lived, and remained there until the war was over. I am well acquainted with the place where Kane lived, but cannot tell where he died. I have an uncle, Isaac Mitchell, who is now living, who told me that the las he saw of Kane was just above Trenton Falls on the Jersey side of the Delaware River. In all probability, he died there, steeped in disgrace. All I know about the Tory, Cole of whom you spoke, is that it was siad of him that the shot and killed Moses Thomas, Second, at the Minisink Battle. Moses Thomas, First was killed ljust above Cochecton Falls on the Pennsylvania side of the river, now called Milanville. I think that was in the time of the French War. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nathan Mitchell, who was a prominent figure in the early history of the settlement, always lived on the New York side of the Delaware. His wife was Betsy, the oldest daughter of Captain Ross, and Abraham, one of his sons,moved to Rileyville, where he married Polly Smith. James, another son lives at the homeste

Nathan MITCHELL - at the time of the revolution, the name Cochecton referred to a 12-mile stretch of sparsely settled land on both sides of the Delaware river between the present day communities of Milanville, Wayne county, Pa and Callicoon, Sullivan county, NY...the older name "Cushetunk" probably referred to the portion at the southern end near Milanville... Birth: 9 Aug 1739 in Litchfield, Litchfield county, CT Death: 28 Jul 1822 Military 1775 Cochecton, Ulster county, NY Note: Bob Boyd's study "Nathan Mitchell, patriot, loyalist, or both" states "on 22 dec 1775 Nathan Mitchell was elected ensign of the Cochecton Company, of the second, or south end, regiment, commanded by Colonel James Clinton. Bezaleel Tyler Jr. was elected to command the Cochecton Company. the war came to Cochecton with a vengeance a few years afterward, with the murder of a pioneer's family"...("a few years afterward"...a reference to the so-called "Wyoming Massacre" of Jul 1778)...

1820 Census Buckingham township, Wayne county, Pa Nathan Mitchell 200001 22110 living in Buckingham township... Nathan is age 81 in 1820...wife, Elizabeth (Ross) Mitchell died in 1800 and, of course, does not appear in the 1820 census...(there is a report Elizabeth died in 1811....the 1810 census indicates Elizabeth Ross is alive, her date of death has been changed to 1811...

1810 Census Bethel, Sullivan county, NY Nathan Mitchell 01411 11101 the census shows Nathan age '45 and over' (actual age c. 71) and one female age '45 and over'...this could be wife, Elizabeth Ross, who is recorded as dying in 1800 altho acknowledging reports her date of death could be 1811...this 1810 census indicates Elizabeth Ross died after the 1810 census... Elizabeth Ross' date of death is now (sep 2003) changed to 1811... son, Joseph Mitchell also appears in this census next door to his father, Nathan Mitchell... James and John Ross, brothers of Elizabeth Ross, wife of Nathan Mitchell all appear in this census...

1800 Census Lumberland, Ulster co., NY Nathan Mitchell 22301 32101 Nathan's census age group 45 and over; wife Elizabeth's 45 and over...Nathan's actual age c. 61...Elizabeth's c. 46...13 children...7 boys and 6 girls... Sullivan co. formed out of Ulster Co. in 1809...

1790 Census Mamakating, Ulster co., NY Nathan Skinner 2 6 5...2 males 16 and up...6 males<16...5 females any age...11 children at 1790 census time...Nathan actual age 51...Elizabeth 36... Father: Nathan Mitchell b: ABT 1690 Woodbury, Litchfield co., CT Mother: Hannah Steevens b: 23 JAN 1702 Killingworth, Middlesex co., CT Marriage 1 Elizabeth Ross b: 8 Nov 1754 in bound brook, somerset co., NJ Married: 1769 14 Children: Hannah MITCHELL b: 8 Nov 1772 Sarah MITCHELL b: 28 Dec 1773 Cochecton, Ulster Co, NY Nathan MITCHELL b: 14 Feb 1775 Joseph MITCHELL b: 7 Dec 1777 Cochecton, Ulster Co, NY John MITCHELL b: 26 Aug 1780 James MITCHELL b: 28 Jan 1783 Cochecton, Ulster Co, NY Stephen MITCHELL b: 15 Mar 1785 NY Abraham MITCHELL b: 14 Aug 1786 Elizabeth MITCHELL b: 11 May 1788 Jane MITCHELL b: 1 Aug 1790 Isaac MITCHELL b: 29 Feb 1792 Bethel, Ulster Co, NY Jacob MITCHELL b: 15 Jul 1795 Lydia MITCHELL b: 8 Feb 1797 Mary MITCHELL b: 13 Sep 1798

Sources: Clark family records; many, mostly handwrittten, family records passed down to the author of this genealogy... Nathan Mitchell vitals; ancestors of Nathan Mitchell by Robert S. Boyd; determines the ancestral line and the line of descent of Nathan Mitchell, the Delaware river pioneer, born in Litchfield, CT in 1739... Author: Robert S. Boyd, descendant of Thomas Young Boyd and Elizabeth (Betsey) Mitchell Boyd; identifies Mitchell ancestral line through Nathan Mitchell to Elizabeth (Betsey) Jane Mitchell... The Nathan Skinner Manuscript Author: Barbara J. Sivertsen and Barbara l. Covey Publication: Bowie, Maryland 1993; the authors depended to a great extent upon a manuscript and collection of deeds provided to author James Eldridge Quinlan by Nathan Skinner a resident of Cochecton, who was born about the time of the revolution. Quinlan then published the "History of Sullivan county, New York" in 1873...the authors rearranged the manuscript into chronological order and matched it with surviving documentary evidence from archival records. An account of Nathan Mitchell (born 1739) and others from the 1750's through the period of the revolutionary war...early residents of the Cochecton area... - clark gedcom from FO 8.0 Title: GEDCOM file imported on 3 Sep 2001. Author: d a clark

Ct Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Nathan Mitchell Gender: Male Birth Date: 9 Aug 1739 Birth Location: Litchfield Parent Name: Nathan Parent Name: Hannah

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