NORTHERN NEW YORK
Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation.
New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.



TALBOT



Transcribed by Coralynn Brown
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The senior line of the great house of Talbot in England traces its descent from Richard Talbot, who had domains in Normandy twenty years anterior to the English Conquest, came over with Wililam the Conqueror, and appears in the Domesday Book to have acquired extensive possessions in England. He married a daughter of Gerard de Bournay, Baron of Yarmouth, by Edith, his wife (by daughter Gundred, daughter of William the Conqueror) and William Warl, of Warren and Surrey, and had issue:
Geoffrey, a witness to the charter of King Stephen.
Hugh, a younger son, who became ancestor of the house of Shrewsbury.
The ancient seat of the family was at Bashal, Yorkshire, but they became more numberous it appears, later, in Worcestershire. The Earl of Shrewsbury and his branch of the family to which the American family of this sketch belongs bears: Gules a lion rampant with a bordure angraiied or. Crest: On a chapeau gules turned up ermine a lion statant or the tail extended. Motto: Prest d'accomplir.
The Irish family located in county Wexford, and doubtless all the Irish Talbots of ancient family are descended from John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury, who distinguished himself by valiant deeds in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI and died in the battle of Chatelon in 1458, aged eighty years. He owned estates in Ireland and descendants settled there. Governor Thomas Talcot, of Massachusetts, was a direct descendant of the Earl of Shrewsduby through this Irish line. His immediate ancestors lived at Templemore, Ireland. His grandfather, William Talbot, came to America in 1807 with a large family and settled at Cambrige, New York, where he began the manufacture of broadcloth and where he died in 1817.
Charles Talbot, son of William, removed in 1819 to Danby, Vermont; married Phebe White.
Governor Talbot was born Sept. 7, 1818.
Of the same Irish family and said to be closely related to the grandfather of Governor Talbot were four brothers, Elias, Edward, John and Joseph Talbot, who came to this country in the same ship. John went south and became a slaveholder and planter.

(I) Edward Talbot, mentioned as one of the four brothers, ws born in county Tipperary, Ireland, about 1777, died at Minerva, N.Y., in 1853. He came to this country in 1808 and settled at Minerva, N.Y., where he conducted a hotel and followed farming the remainder of his life.
He maried Sarah Martin, born in Ireland, died in Minerva, N.Y., 1851.
Children:
Jane Potts, Charles, Edward, Sarah, Ellen,
the first two were born in Ireland, the others in this country.

(II) Charles, son of Edward Talbot, was born in county Tipperary, Ireland, 1806, and died at Minerva, N.Y., 1889. He attended school but a short time and was largely educated through his own efforts. He was a student by nature and became a man of learning and wisdom. He fitted himself for the ministry and became a precher of the Methodist demonination. He was also a farmer and continued in active life until a few months before his death, which was caused by an accident.
In politics he was a Republican, though originally a member of the old Whig party, and he served the town on the board of education.
He married Leonora Hall, born at Blanford, Mass. 1818, died 1894, daughter of David and Lucy Barnes, both of Scottish descent.
Children:
1. Henry, lifes at Long Lake, N.Y.
2. Martin, deceased.
3. Edward H., lives at Poland, N.Y.; was a soldier in the civil war; has been sheriff of the county, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly at Albany; engaged for many years in the lumber and real estate business.
4. Charles, mentioned below.
5. Lucy, deceased.
6. Eliza, married Charles E. Wood, of Scroon, N.Y.
7. Elenora, married Robert Dornburg, lawyer at Ticonderoga; children: Caroline and Lucile Dornburg.
8. Emma, deceased.

(III) Charles (2), son of Charles (1) Talbot, was born at Minerva, Essex county, N.Y., Jan. 16, 1846. He attended the district schools there and the Glens Falls Academy. He larend the trade of blacksmith at Minerva, where he worked for five years. He then located at North Hudson, N.Y., where he carried on the blacksmith business for a period of twenty-one years. From 1891 to 1902 he was in the same line of business. Since 1899 he has been postmaster of Crown Point. He sold his blacksmith shop in 1902 and since then has given all his time to his office.
In politics he is a Republican. He was for nine years supervisor of the town of Hudson. He is a member of the Rescue Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Crown Point. In religion he is a Methodist.
He married, Dec. 25, 1870, Tine Ward, of Crown Point, daughter of Elisha and Mary (Stone) Ward. She died March 28, 1906.
Children:
1. Frederick E., born Feb. 25, 1874; graduate of the Mount Moriah Academy, the Albany Business College and the New York School for Plumbers, and is now in business for himself in Philmont, Columbia county, N.Y., a dealer in hardware, and a contracting plumber; married in 1900, Winnie Saunders.
2. Emma, Dec. 10, 1878, resides with father.
3. Helen, Oct. 20, 1883; died March 15, 1889.

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