Ruth Moon

Citations

1. [S265] E.R. Ellis, editor, Biographical Sketches of Richard Ellis (Detroit, Michigan: W. Graham Printing Co., 1888), p. 366-7.
2. [S726] New England Historic Genealogical Society, compiler, Vital Records of Ashfield Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1942), Marriages:131, Barnabas Annible [sic] of A. and Ruth Moon of Petersburg, intentions.
3. [S265] E.R. Ellis, Richard Ellis.
4. [S116] 1830 U.S. Federal Census. age 50-59.
5. [S989] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Ashfield 1750–1895, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, Town Records, 1750–1857, p. 1a (img 100/122), 1791, Barnabas Annible and Ruth Moon, Petersburg.
6. [S957] Elliot G. Storke, History of Cayuga County, New York (Syracuse, N. Y.: D. Mason & Co., 1879), 443–45:
   Niles was formed from Sempronius March 20th, 1833....The first settlements were made in 1792....The Conovers settled about a half mile west of Niles, on the David Pratt farm....
   Edward and John Ellis, brothers, came in from Ashfield, Mass., in the winter of 1795, with an ox-sled....
   Settlements were made in 1802, by David Johnson, Hugh McDowell, John Rooks and Joseph Carr. Johnson, who was five years a Revolutionary soldier, being present at the surrender of Burgoyne and the evacuation of New York by the British, came in from Buckland county, Massachusetts, and settled near West Niles or Pennyville, on the farm now occupied by James Duryee. About 1817 he removed to Twelve Corners, to the place now occupied by his son Roswell, where he died June 22d, 1840. He married Prudence Coburn, who was born in Boston, November 13th, 1765, and died February 12th, 1849, by whom he had nine children, only two of whom are living, viz : Clara, wife of Abraham Van Etten, and Roswell, both in Niles, the latter on the homestead at Twelve Corners.
7. [S269] 1800 U.S. Federal Census. Barnabus (26-44), F (16-25) [Ruth]; 2 m (<10) [Samuel and Daniel/Bromley]; 2 f (<10) [Electa and Nancy].
8. [S1248] Cayuga County, New York, Deed Records, 1794-1901, manuscript/manuscript on film, Cayuga County Courthouse, Auburn, New York, Deeds 1799-1802, vols. A-C, Book C, pp. 238–239, FHC film 0851930, images 660,661/862. Samuel Sharp and Mary Sharp, of Scipio, NY, to Barnabas Annable of Sempronius, 100 acres in the Town of Sempronius, being the northeast part of Lot number 44, for consideration of "three hundred Dollars Current money of New York ". Dated 5 Jun 1804, recorded 6 Jun 1804, by Seth Phelps, first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cayuga.
9. [S265] E.R. Ellis, Richard Ellis, p. 366-8.
10. [S1248] Cayuga County, New York, Deed Records, 1794-1901, manuscript/manuscript on film, Cayuga County Courthouse, Auburn, New York, Deeds 1816-1817 vols. R-S, Vol. R, pages 286-287. New York, Land Records, 1630-1975, FHL film 0851938, imgs. 166,167/734. Barnabas Annable to Rufus Johnson, both of Sempronius, for consideration of one hundred and seventy-five dollars, fifty acres of land, namely the west half of the hundred acres bought by Barnabas Annable of Samuel Sharp off of Lot 44 in Sempronius, NY, the west line of the said fifty acres being on Samuel Phillip's land; Ruth Annibel assigns over all rights of dower. Received by William Garrison and Jacob T. E. DeWitt, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cayuga Co., 12 Apr 1806.
11. [S238] 1810 U.S. Federal Census. 2 M (45+) [Barnabas, ____], m (16-25) [Samuel], m (10-15) [____], 4 m (<10) [____]; 2 F (45+) [sister Bethia, ____], F (26-44) [Ruth], f (16-25) [Electa], f (10-15) [Nancy], f (<10) [Elizabeth].
12. [S265] E.R. Ellis, Richard Ellis, p. 366-8; "After the death of his mother, in 1818, he [Barnabas] removed, the next year, with his family [and his sister, Bethia], to Mt. Vernon, Indiana, in the extreme southwestern part of the State. From Sempronius they went overland to Olean, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., on the Alleghany River, where they went on rafts and flatboats down that river and the Ohio, to their new home in Indiana...Daniel, David and Nancy Annable, children of Barnabas, removed to Farmersville with their parents in 1819, where they all died, leaving no children. Enos had no children."
    Page 366 has Mt. Vernon (on the river), p. 367 has Farmersville. Actually, Nancy had removed to Indiana the previous year, with her brothers Bromley and Enos, and her sister Electa and her husband, Elisha Phillips.
13. [S115] 1820 U.S. Federal Census. Barnabas (45+); F (45+) [Ruth]; F (45+) [____]; 2 m (16-17) [____, ____]; 2 m (10-15) [____, ____]; m (<10) [____]; 3 f (<10) [____. ____, ____]. [also indexed as Mount Vernon, img. 1/3]
14. [S265] E.R. Ellis, Richard Ellis, 447–48, letter from Samuel Annable, son of Barnabas, to Deacon Dimick Ellis of Ashfield, MA, dated Yankee Settlement, Posey County, Ind., Dec. 15, 1839: "It was eleven years ago last summer that an unusual fever for this country broke out in our family in the month of June. My mother was the first who fell a victim to it, sister Nancy next, then brother David and Bromley, then sisters Eliza and Rhoda — all in the space of six weeks.". 367 has "Barnabas Annable died in 1835, and his wife Ruth in 1827."
15. [S265] E.R. Ellis, Richard Ellis, 447–48, letter from Samuel Annable, son of Barnabas, to Deacon Dimick Ellis of Ashfield, MA, dated Yankee Settlement, Posey County, Ind., Dec. 15, 1839: "It was eleven years ago last summer that an unusual fever for this country broke out in our family in the month of June. My mother was the first who fell a victim to it, sister Nancy next, then brother David and Bromley, then sisters Eliza and Rhoda — all in the space of six weeks.".
16. [S265] E.R. Ellis, Richard Ellis, p. 447, letter from Samuel Annable, 1839. I have but one brother left in the country. That is Russel, the youngest. He is a young man, about twenty-three, rather an oddfellow, something like old uncle Thomas Annable."