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Father: Caleb Ormsbee
Mother: Dorcas Bates
Date of Birth: 4 May 1769
Place of Birth: Canterbury, Windham, CT
First Marriage: Jan 1792, Cynthia, Windham, CT
Second Marriage: 1806, Rachel Titus, Berkshire Co., MA
Date of Death: 23 Jul 1853
Place of Death: E Smithfield, Fayette, PA
Second Spouse: Rachel Titus
Father: Ebenezer Titus
Mother: Tabitha Eames
Date of Birth: 10 Jul 1776
Place of Birth: MA
Date of Death: 5 May 1862
Place of Death: E Smithfield, Fayette, PA
Barbour Collection Connecticut Vital Records Windham County, CT Births, Marriages, Deaths 1692 1850 Name Data Vol. Page Abner s. Abner, b. Nov. 12, 1792 3 47 William s. Abner, b. July 25, 1796 3 47 Apama, d. Abner, b. Oct. 5, 1799 3 47
Abner Ormsby, CT Census, 1800, Windham Co. CT
LDS church records, married about 1st of 1792 Cynthia . Some time about this time his 1st wife must have died and Abner William moved to Bradford County, Penn. where an Old Family Bible, now in possession of Mr. J. Ellery Beach of Columbia Crossroads, RR#2, Bradford Co., Pa. continues the family record.
Source: Town of Windham Vital Records Vol. 1692 - 1850.
Abner William Ormsby and his son Levi Dalton Ormsby both appear
in the 1850 New York census, in Smithfield Twp, Bradford County.
History and Geography of Bradford County PA
Smithfield Township
By Clement F. Heverly
1807.- Noah Ford, Elias Needham, Zephaniah Eames, and Abner W.
Ormsby. Ford and Needham were from Cooperstown, N. Y. After nine
years they sold and moved away. Eames and Ormsby came from Becket,
Massachusetts. The former sold and removed, 1818. Ormsby was a
noted hunter as was his son, Levi D. He cleared and improved a
farm upon which he died at an advanced age.
History of Bradford County
H. C. Bradsby, 1892
Smithfield Township
In 1809 Samuel Wood came from Vermont; he had ten sons and eleven
daughters; nine of the sons came to Smithfield. The same year
Ashael and John Scott came from Vermont. Judge Bullock gave the
late of John Scott's coming as 1803. between 1809 and IS11 Maj.
Jared Phelps, Sloan Kingsbury, Isaac Ames, John -Phelps, David
Titus, Abner W. Ormsby, Zephaniah Ames and Isaiah Kingsley, all
came from Massachusetts, and settled the " Becket "
neighborhood.
Bradford Reporter, Towanda, PA June 5, 1884
Early History
From 1809 to 1811, Major Jared Phelps, Sloan Kingsley, Isaac Ames,
John Phelps, David Titus, Abner W. Ormsby, Deacon Zephaniah Ames,
and Isaiah Kingsley from Becket, Massachusetts, came in and settled
in the same neighborhood, from which fall that neighborhood was
called Becket. Titus settled on the farm now owned by Israel Phillips,
about three miles west of the Centre. Ormsby settled on the farm
now owned by his son Levi, about two and one-half miles southwest
of the Centre, and died in 1842. Deacon Ames settled on the farm
now owned by William Waldron, and left the township in 1818. Isaiah
Kingsley settled about four miles southwest of the Centre, on
the farm now occupied by Merritt Wood. Major Phelps' farm includes
the present village of East Smithfield. He served through the
Revolutionary War, and held the position of fife-major from which
he acquired his title. His daughter Polly died the same year of
his settlement. The neighbors cleared off a little spot in the
dense woods where they prepared her grave, which became afterwards
a portion of the cemetery, near the Congregational Church in Smithfield,
she being the first burial therein. Mr. Phelps was an energetic
and substantial citizen, and left a large and respectable family.
The grounds owned by the Congregational Church, at East Smithfield,
were donated by him.
Clement F. Heverly's Pioneer and
Patriot Families of Bradford Co., Pa., 1800-1825, Vol. II, 1915,
1812 Smithfield Township Taxables
Ormsby, Abner W.
Ormsby, Levi
SURNAME FIRST NAME AGE SX RE$ OCCUPAT. BRN Ormsby Levi D. 40 M 3000 Farmer PA Ormsby Lucy 33 F PA Ormsby Susan 12 F PA Ormsby Phoebe 10 F PA Ormsby Lucy 7 F PA Ormsby William 5 M PA Ormsby Rachael 3 F PA Ormsby Olive 1 F PA Wagner John 26 M Laborer GER Ormsby Abner W. 90 M CT Turnpike Cemetery Smithfield Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania Name DOB DOD Age Notes Ormsby, Abner W. Jul 23, 1853 93yrs 2mo 9days Ormsby, Rachel May 5, 1862 85yrs 9mo 25days w/o Abner W. Ormsby, Levi D. Nov 8, 1809 Nov 2, 1893 Ormsby, Lucy Mar 24, 1817 Oct 21, 1893 w/o Levi D. Ormsby, Levi Dealton Sept 1867 16yrs 3mo 16days s/o Levi D & Lucy Ormsby, Phebe Jane Dec 24,1851 11yrs 9mo 9days d/o Levi D & Lucy Ormsby, W. A. Co. E. 209th Pa. Inf.
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