Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell - (PDF ... - Adkinshorton.net

After Benjamin and Sarah returned to Deerfield the third son, Benjamin Jr.was born in 1707. Shortly after this date the family removed to Ridgefield inConnecticut. There Benjamin Sr. became a town proprietor, one of the originalland holders, and there he lived until his death in 1759.Benjamin Jr. (1707-1796) did not remain in Connecticut. When a young manhe went to the town of Warwick, Orange Co. N. Y. where his uncle Daniel Burthad settled. Benjamin married in Warwick the daughter Anna of Thomas Blainwho had come to Orange County about 1721.Being of a frontier family is is not surprising to find in Colonial recordsthe entry that "unto Lieut. Benjamine.Burt for himself and Detachments (for)scouting in Aug. 1753 on the western frontier of Ulster County (pay of)LJ 15s 6d". This is an Orange County militia record. Tradition has it thatBenjamin and Anna Blain Burt "lived to a good old age and died an hour apart onthe same day in 1796". We know the names of their large family. Several oftheir sons following the custom of all of the Burt generations before them in thiscountry moved westward to make pioneer homes.Soon after the War of the Revolution three of these sons, Thomas, Benjaminand David came to the town of Chemung as early settlers. This township inNew York State at first in Montgomery County then in "old" Tioga County wasmuch larger than it is now; in fact covered until 1792 about the same territoryas is now claimed by Chemung County.The town of Chemung was part of New York lands surveyed after the warof the Revolution by John Hathorn of Orange County under whom Thomas Burthad served. A certificate of survey was issued (the document on file in the Officeof the New York Secretary of State) on Nov. 6, 1788 to Thomas Burt, RichardWelling and Thomas Welling for 2, 300 acres in the town of Chemung. Ten dayslater, on Nov. 16, this certificate was assigned to John Hathorn. The earlydeeds of Chemung show only that by June 6, 1796 Thomas Burt was in possessionof a large part of Lot # 7 of Chemung, some 600 acres.Thomas Burt's land in this town was near the old Chemung Indian War Camplocated about where the village now stands. His brothers Benjamin and Davidboth settled a little farther north near the present village of Wellsburg sixmiles south of Elmira, which was then called Newtown. Their stones in thecemetery at Wellsburg read as follows:"Benjamin Burt died May 10, 1826 ae 77 years 2 months 1 dayJoanna Parshall his wife d. Mar. 20, 1850 ae 93 yrs. 1 mo. 4 ds.David Burt died June 20, 1828 aged 68 years 3 months 5 daysMrs. Hannah (wife) died May 6, 1824 ae 48 yrs. 10 months 8 days"In Elmira members of at least one family can trace back to both ThomasBurt b. 1752 and to his brother Benjamin born 1749. The children of ChesterHowell Jr. have descent from Thomas. Their descent from Benjamin is throughChester's wife, Georgia Isabel Lowman, daughter of Martin who was son ofGeorge Lowman who married Isabel Burt born about 1830, daughter of DavidBurt born about 1786 son of Benjamin born 1749.31