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Places of Interest
For the family
of William Gallop and Hannah
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Date |
Event |
Source |
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1759 |
Marriage of William and Hannah Gallop at Scituate,
Rhode Island |
per "Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636- 1850" by James N. Arnold |
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1760 |
William purchased 90 acres
of land in Scituate |
book "William Gallop,
Revolutionary Soldier" |
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1760 |
William is on the tax list for Scituate, Rhode
Island |
book "William Gallop, Revolutionary Soldier" |
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1765 |
William admitted as freeman of Scituate |
book "William Gallop, Revolutionary Soldier" |
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1773 |
William purchased 47 acres of land in Scituate |
book "William Gallop, Revolutionary Soldier" |
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1774 |
William is listed on the Rhode Island census |
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1777 |
William is listed on the
Rhode Island military census |
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early 1779 |
William and family moved to
Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont |
1) based on sale of Scituate
land in January 1779;
2) based on residences of oldest son Nathaniel,
who also moved to Pownal in 1779. |
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1780 |
The 45 acre farm that
William owned, was surveyed by Pownal, Vermont |
book "William Gallop,
Revolutionary Soldier" |
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1786 |
William is listed on the
Vermont state census |
www.ancestry.com |
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10 Oct 1786 |
William requested
indemnification for building a bridge over the Hoosick River in Pownal,
Vermont |
book "William Gallop,
Revolutionary Soldier" |
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1787 - 1788 |
Hannah died |
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Jan 1789 |
William alone (wife Hannah
not named) sold his farm in the northwest part of Pownal Vermont. |
book "William Gallop,
Revolutionary Soldier" |
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1790 |
There is a possible listing
for William in Stephentown, Albany County, New York. |
see William's sources. |
William and family lived in Scituate from at least the time
of marriage in 1759 up until about 1779. I've noted where Scituate is on
the map below.
In 1779, they went to Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont.
They would have gone up into the far northwest corner of Massachusetts, a
distance of roughly 160 miles. Pownal was located at the corner where
Massachusetts, Vermont and New York meet. If you look at the map below from
1790, you'll see that Pownal is right on the edge between Bennington County
Vermont and Albany County New York. These 2 maps are not to the same scale, but
you can see where they fit together. There were apparently many border battles
between New York and Vermont, with New York relinquishing all claims to Vermont
in 1791.
You will note the close proximity of Pownal to Petersburg.
And in Stephenstown, I found a possible listing for William Gallop in the 1790
census. So it is quite possible that William and family did in fact move
to Petersburg/Stephentown. And that is also quite possibly the place where
William died, although no records to substantiate that have been found yet.
[Note: these maps were made using
Animap, a software program available from Goldbug -
http://goldbug.com/store/page1.html]
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Janet Hagan Monnin
jansgenealogy at gmail.com
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September 18, 2008
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