SAMUEL KELSEY FAMILY GENEALOGY

STANCLIFF FAMILY GENEALOGY

From book "Descendants of James Stanclift of Middletown, Connecticut and Allied Families", By Robert C. and Sherry [Smith] Stancliff

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                                        SAMUEL KELSEY FAMILY

(17) MARY3 STANCLIFT (James2, James1)

Daughter of James and Abigail [Bevin] Stanclift born East Middletown, Hartford County, CT Dec. 8, 1717(1), baptized Feb. 16, 1717/8(2), died Torrington, Litchfield County, CT May 10, 1774 � 57(3), and gravestone in the Torrington Cemetery indicates specifically "wife of Samuel". She married New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Jan. 26, 1742/3 SAMUEL KELSEY(4) son of Stephen and Dorothy [Brounson] Kelsey born Wethersfield, Hartford County, CT July 8, 1718(5), died about 1775 as Land Records indicate a distribution of his estate that year.

They lived New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT, but church records show they transferred to the East Torringford Society on Aug. 5, 1754(6). A number of children in the Kelsey families living in New Hartford died about 1749 and gravestones for these children and for some adults are located in the New Hartford Cemetery and were cut by Mary's father, James Stanclift of Middletown, CT. Perhaps the necessity of sending all the way to Middletown for gravestones, suggested to other Stanclift carvers the need for these skills in New Hartford. The earliest stones in the yard are cut by the three Stanclift carvers, James2, James3(son of William), and Comfort3Stanclift. These stones also represent the earliest examples of the work of James, son of William, and of Comfort Stanclift.

CHILDREN: Samuel and Mary [Stanclift] Kelsey

1. DANIEL KELSEY born New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Nov. 25, 1743, baptized there Nov. 27, 1743(7)died Feb. 6, 1749 and buried New Hartford Cemetery, stone cut by his grandfather, James Stanclift.

2. TIMOTHY KELSEY baptized New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Sept. 15, 1745. Lived Torrington, Litchfield County, CT in 1775 and served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. John Strong's Ninth Company, Seventeenth Regiment from Torrington, CT with brothers Daniel and Samuel, and in Capt. Griswold's Company in 1777.

3. LUCY KELSEY born New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT 1747 died Feb. 6, 1749 AE 2 years buried New Hartford Cemetery next to brother, Daniel, who died same day. Her stone cut by grandfather, James Stanclift.

4. DANIEL KELSEY second child in this family of this name baptized New Hartford Sept. 1751(8) died while serving with the Revolutionary Army in Canada in 1776.

He was living New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT before 1775. Daniel purchased Comfort Stanclift Sr's land in Torrington, Litchfield County, CT on Dec. 5, 1775(9). He served during the Revolutionary War in Capt. John Strong's Ninth Company, Seventeenth Regiment from Torrington, CT and New Hartford, CT. He participated in the Canadian Campaign, with his cousin John Stanclift, son of Comfort Sr and Margaret [Lee] Stanclift, who was with him in Canada when he died. John Stanclift informed the family of his death in a letter and sent Daniel's silver buttons home to the family in New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT(10).

5. LUCY KELSEY second child in this family of this name baptized New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Nov.5, 1749(11), probably married before 1775 LT SIMEON HULBERT(12) or HUBERT of Sandisfield, Berkshire County, MA a neighbor of her Uncle Stephen Kelsey. She was termed Lucy Hubert in 1775 Land Distribution Record, and signed receipt with that name in Berkshire County, MA in 1781.

6. SARAH KELSEY baptized New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Sept. 2, 1753(13), lived unmarried in Berkshire County, MA in 1781.

7. SAMUEL KELSEY born New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Mar. 30, 1756(14) baptized New Hartford, Litchfield County, CT Apr. 4, 1756, married Torrington, Litchfield County, CT Oct. 25, 1774 BETTY HOLLISTER of Glastonbury, CT(15). He lived Torrington, Litchfield County, CT in 1775, Berkshire County, MA in 1781 and by 1832 he lived in Sheldon, Erie County, NY at which time he gave a deposition for the pension application of his cousin, John Stanclift(16). This same deposition outlined that part of the War he had spent in company with John Stanclift. He enlisted with John sometime in May 1775 in Connecticut Troops, in Capt. Griswold's Company of Colonel Hinman's Regiment, they marched first to Albany then to Crown Point and stayed there through the summer and in the fall went by water through Lake Champlain under command of General Schuyler to "Island Ore"(17), from there went under command of General Montgomery and took St. Johns after a siege of about six weeks..... It was John Stanclift who wrote a letter in 1776 to tell him of the death of his brother, Daniel, who was at that time serving with John in Canada.

See Appendix A: KELSEY

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Footnotes:

1. .Middletown Land Records, Vol. 2, page 26.

2. .Middletown First Congregational Church Records, Vol. 1, page 119.

3. .While the gravestone age and date agree with Mary's birth records the Torrington Town Records give her death date as May 10, 1770 in Volume I, page 59.

4. .The New Hartford Vital Records indicate that she married Jonathan Kelsey this date and not Samuel, but all other records, including her gravestone, prove she was the wife of Samuel.

5. .GENEALOGY of the DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM KELSEY by Edward A. Claypool and Azalea Clizbee 1928, page 181.

6. .New Hartford Congregational Church Records, Vol.1, page 36

7. .New Hartford Congregational Church Records Vol.1, page 4. This page also contains the baptism of Timothy Kelsey.

8. .New Hartford Congregational Church Records Vol.1, page 6

9. .Torrington Land Records, Vol. 3, page 113.

10. .Deposition of Daniel's brother, Samuel Kelsey of Sheldon, Erie County, NY given Aug. 18, 1832 and attached to the pension application of John Stanclift.

11. .New Hartford Congregational Church Records Vol.1, page 6

12. .According to Kelsey Genealogy page 182 the New Hartford Land Record Feb. 15, 1775 distribution of father's land refers to her as "Lucy Hubert of Sandisfield, Berkshire County, MA" in acknowledgement of that deed she signed Feb. 28, 1781 in Berkshire County, MA, as Lucy Hubbard. In 1781 Lt Simeon Hulbert lived land adjoining that of Daniel Kelsey, son of Stephen Kelsey, uncle of Lucy.

13. .New Hartford Congregational Church Records Vol.1, page 8

14. .New Hartford Vital Records Vol. 1, page 43

15. .Torrington Vital Records, Volume I, page 59

16. .Contained in the Pension application of John Stancliff

17. .Ile-aux-Noix

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