Amanuensis Monday: Johnson and Lindsley of Connecticut

Part Four in the transcription of hand-written notes found in the family file of BISHOP at the New York State Library in Albany.

Frederick H Johnson.  Born April 6, 1804.  Died Jan 8, 1883.

Married

Nancy Lindsley.  Born Dec 22, 1802.  Died Apr 18, 1849.

Children:

Henry H Johnson.  Born May 5 or 9, 1825.  Died Aug 21, 1878.

Harriet L Johnson.  Born Feb 9, 1830.  Died Feb 10, 1830.

Harriet L Johnson.  Born July 29, 1831.  Died Mar 10, 1835.

Herman Johnson.  Born Feb 8, 1834.  Died Mar 14, 1835.

Chauncey Johnson.  Born Dec 21, 1835.  Died Aug 1901.

Frederick L Johnson.  Born Sept 21, 1839.  Died Aug 23, 1908.

Nancy Adelia Johnson.  Born Feb 1, 1843.  Died July 26, 1914.

Augusta Cornelia Johnson.  Born Jan 15, 1845.  Died Dec 18, 1917.

Mary C Johnson.  Born Oct 22, 1848.  Died Dec 7, 1848.

Ancestry.com collection

We can search records for this family to make them more real.  The Barbour Collection is digitized at Ancestry and is a great resource for these older Connecticut families.  Frederick W Johnson of Wallingford married Nancy Lindley of North Branford on April 6, 1824.

Same Name, Different Spellings

Holbrook's City Directory for Newark, New Jersey 1895
Page 674.  Fold3.com

Helpful guidance from a century ago:

Members of the same family spell their name differently.

Final Journey from Queens to Westville?

Microfiche copied at New York State Archives in Albany

According to the New York State Death Index, Coe D Jackson died 18 July 1888.  [Middle name is Downing.]  This date is consistent with online transcriptions of his gravestone at the Jackson Family Cemetery in Wantagh, Nassau County (was Queens County in 1888), New York.  (Thank you Dyane for posting pictures of these stones!)

The problem is the location:  Westville.  There is a town called Westville in Franklin County, New York, near the Canadian border.  All of Coe's life events took place in Queens or Kings Counties, New York.  Coe's wife, Sarah Duryea, died two years earlier in Far Rockaway, Queens County, and Coe's estate was settled in Queens County.  What was he doing 350 miles away in Franklin County?

Queens County was not part of New York City in 1888, so deaths in Queens were reported to Albany.  My other thought is that Westville was a neighborhood or area in Queens whose name fell out of use.  Yet I cannot find any mention of such a place in Queens in the 1880s or 1890s.

If Coe died in Franklin County, this information can lead us to locate additional records and family that we never suspected.  We shall see where this trail takes us.