The traces off Caneland was obliterated. Precisely the stone tomb, very unusual from inside the framework and you will remarkable inside construction, stands to draw the region, and you will within mausoleum, as he had desired the brand new stays off Gen. CALMES and his awesome spouse repose.
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It’s from generosity and you can kindness off William Bailey, historian and you may genealogist, the brand new Gen. Marquis Calmes Section D. could have been able to understand this really works from repair done. He contributed a hundred copies from his History of Woodford County on the production of a fund to be used inside work. —-Throughout the D. Mag, August, 1941. (The newest partner out of Gen. Calmes try Elizabeth “Betsy” Combs, a sister regarding my personal higher-great grandfather) Elizabeth. S. (Extracted because of the Combs Researcher Anne B. Musser)
J. During the 1729,* Thomas Combs, out of Freehold [Monmouth Co], N
Notes: Marquis CALMES died 1834, Woodford Co., KY was perhaps not the husband of Elizabeth Combs (daughter of John & Seth BULLITT Combs, Sr. of Stafford Co VA). Marquis CALMES, husband of Elizabeth Combs, died testate ca 1794 in Frederick Co kiinalaiset miehet treffisivustoilla VA. Nevertheless, presumably he was “somehow kin” to him. Extracted by Researcher Barbara Combs from Teunis Bergen’s 1876 book, The Bergen Family, pp. 422-423 (surname capitalization added):
“George I. BERGEN, b June 16th, 1764, bap. Oct. cuatro, 1767, by the Rev. Mr. VAN HARLINGEN; d. Feb, 1825; m. 1789 Rebecca, dau. off Legal Jonathan Combs, of Middlesex Condition, New jersey. His widow 2 yrs immediately after their decease meters. the latest Rev. Mr. KENNER, a good Baptist preacher of Virginia, and you may d. within the 1846.”
“The newest predecessor of Jonathan Combs, it is said, originated Scotland, about old boat Caledonia, and therefore brought the original emigrants on residential property of strict Presbyterianism; it looking to a home in the great outdoors nation away from the intolerance of Papal and you will Episcopal energy and you can persecution.”
“Within the 1679, Francis Combs, an effective cooper, is granted lands into the Newtown, Enough time Island [NY], so you can trigger him to settle indeed there and you may ply his trading getting the convenience of the new payment. He d. in 1700, and his awesome one or two sons, Francis and you will Thomas, paid during the Hopewell, Letter. J., to have [pounds] 50, indicated lands in Hempstead [Long Area, NY] in order to John Combs out-of Madnans neck out of said town, depending on Hempstead facts.
“You will find a beneficial John Combs of Eastern Hampton, N. Y., around 1675, a great Daniel Combs during the Hempstead [Queens Co New york] inside 1708, a great Richard Combs into the Hempstead during the 1709, and you will a great Richard Combs for the Jamaica (note: this might be part of Letter. Y. in this context, I believe) [Queens Co New york]when you look at the 1718.
“In 1777, John Combs was a member of the brand new committee out of defense of the latest Jersey, and also at an identical period a beneficial Solomon Combs was a citizen from Monmouth County.
“So you’re able to recover the luck, George I. [BERGEN], their young buck David, as well as 2 ilies remaining New jersey within the June 1818, getting Kentucky, in which his sister Margaret along with her spouse John VOORHEES, and two sisters of his partner, Rebecca Combs, making use of their husbands, Peter CONOVER and Peter COX, upcoming lived; it which have emigrated inside 1790, to settle at Red Stone, near the present Wheeling [Ohio Co, WV], then the ultima thule. Here they tarried less than a-year. Peter COong the original exactly who generated its boats and rafts go on the Ohio River.
“At the time George We. emigrated, it resided inside the Woodford County, Kentucky, in this twelve kilometers out of Lexington [Fayette Co., KY]. Within this annually these types of family members intermarried. Dated Big CONOVER try a giant landholder and respected to-be steeped, however in new troublesome times following in Kentucky, and by dated Virginia home states, the end result try their castle fell, and then he calculated for the 1824, to sell his homestead, and all his, and you may George We.’s the reason relatives made a decision to make their home when you look at the Indiana. The old big, his child Jonathan Combs CONOVER, who’d partnered Martha, good child of George I., and you will Jonathan Combs BERGEN (son regarding George We.), who had married Mary Ann, a beneficial daughter of one’s biggest, and you may George I., constituted the fresh exploring team.”