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In 1855 census, Argyle NY, district 2, Elizabeth McDougall age 64, son William age 35, Samuel Tomb age 17, and Martha Tomb, aunt, age 50. 1865 census notes Elizabeth bore 9 children, only 6 accounted for . On the 1865 census there is also an Anna L. McDougall age 17 listed as her grandchild. This might be Anna O. McDougall, daughter of John B. by his first wife.
Elizabeth was likely the daughter (Betsey MdDougal) mentioned in the will of James Tomb of Salem, dated 16 apr 18131 and proved 18 apr 1813. The wife of James was Elizabeth.
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[10891] In the early research notes of Dr. Hugh Calvin Rea of Charlotte, NC, Martha is given the surname of Tomlin or Tomblin and she was supposedly from near Indian Trail, Union Co., NC. Dr. Rea's notes were so confusing that I discarded them early on. Dates used for birth and death of Martha were estimated and included in the notes of Tom Rea of San Francisco, CA.
[10894] Date of death was estimated by Tom Rea but, at this late date, I can't find the notes referring to this event.
[15034] There has been a lot of speculation amongst researchers as to the identity of Martha, who married John Rea, Sr. Surnames of Tomlin or Tomblin, Little, Farmer and McCrary have all been considered but there is no real proof for any of those names. The marriage date of 1755/56 is estimated from the birth of the first son, David, in 1757.
October Session 1784. Ordered that Letters of Administration on the Estate of Robert Lewis, deceased, issue to Martha Lewis and David Rea, Administratrix & Administrator who comes into Court and Qualifies and enters into Bond with Samuel Flenniken and James Osborn who were Bound in the Sum of 600 pounds.
In consequence of a situation and Refusal to attend on the same and a Warrant from this Court to compel the appearance of Robert Lewis and Martha his wife other Securities on their Administration of the John Rea deceased Estate by Information made to this Court is likely to be embezled.
Daughter of the late Clement du Torraux of Gilliarin, parish of Promasin.
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[15383] Frances Tough was a widow when she married Edward Stebbins, circa 1628. Her first husband was Sampson Chester and her second husband was Thomas Smith. See TAG 30:193-204. Sampson Chester was the brother of John Chester, who married Dorothy Hooker, sister of Thomas Hooker. See TAG 30:193-96.
Inventory taken 23 December 1673 by Thomas Bull & Robert Webster. Will dtd 20 May 1670, with a codicil added on 12 November 1673.
Frances was the daughter of Ralph Tough of Burrough-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire; widow of Sampson Chester and Thomas Smith (see TAG 30:193-204).
Some accounts call her Fornier (Fournier?) instead of Tournier. Whatever her name, the version that places her date of birth in 1752 cannot be correct, since her son Jean Louis was born in that year!
She was present at the baptism of her granddaughter Maria Georgina, daughter of William Power and Susanne Aubert de Gaspé, in 1832. She signed her name "Eliza Power". One secondary source gives her name as Tory. The Library and Archives of Canada transcribed her name in an extract of the 1829 marriage of William Power as Torrey, but the script could equally well be read as Tovig, the version most often cited. Another possible reading is Tovey, which can also be interpolated from the clearly-written spelling Tovay, on the 1818 census of the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec, where she is listed as the widow of the "Ecuyer" (i.e., Squire) Michael Power, age 47, with her son "Guillaume", age 19, also in the household. The spellings similar to Torey might come from a hypothetical obituary of her son William in 1860, presumed to be the source of the biographical sketches. Until the "family record" surfaced (see below), we knew of no other document containing her name. It seems likely that something more will eventually be found in the records of the notaries of Quebec.
In 1818, she and her son were living in the household of Isaac Gingras, on the south side of the rue Richelieu, in the parish of Notre-Dame de Québec.
Confirmation of her name was found in a photograph of a leaf from a "family record" (likely from a family bible), attached to several family trees on Ancestry.com, on which we find the following text: "Elizabeth Tovey, Widow Power and Paternal Grand-Mother of the Children in the preceding page, died at Charlesbourg (aged 80 years) on the 18th January 1851 and was interred in the Cholera burying ground near the St. Louis Road, Quebec, on the 21st of the same month." The whereabouts of this document and of the remainder of the "family record" are unknown. (At that time, the place was known as the St. Louis Cemetery, but it has been used for cholera burials in the 1830's.) However, a notice of her death appears in an undated clipping from what is evidently an Irish newspaper, possibly from the city of Limerick (https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/02%2012%2051%20frankenstein%20.pdf), begging the question of why it should appear in this specific newspaper: "At Charlesbourg, Canada, at the residence of J. P. Bradley, Esq., Mrs. Elizabeth Tovey, aged 80 years, relict of the late Michael Power, Esq. of Waterford, Irlenad, and mother of Mr. Justice Power, of Quebec." This entry is part of a long list of death, and there are several dates associated with entries at the top, the last of which is "on the 9th inst." Details of the way the web site (an obsolete section formerly attached to a web site for the city and county of Limerick, Ireland) suggests the date of the newspaper may have been February 12, 1851. The image turns out to be supporting documentation for a project of Limerick, Ireland "local studies", https://limericklocalstudies.ie/obituaries/ (an initiative of the Limerick Library Service, indexing only those obituaries that relate to people with a connection to Limerick — Elizabeth Tovey is not one of them), and the image is from the Limerick Chronicle of February 12, 1851. The earliest version of the notice found so far is in the Morning Chronicle and Commercial and Shipping Gazette (Quebec), Wednesday, January 22, 1851, p. 3, a list of deaths: "At Charlesbourg, on the 18th instant, at the residence of the late J. P. Bradley, Esq., Mrs. Elizabeth Tovey, aged 80 years, relict of the late Michael Power, Esq., of Warterford, Ireland, and mother of Mr. Justice Power, or Quebec."
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The family name also appears as Towne or Towns.
Much of the information about this family was collected by Charles A. Towne, whose papers are on 37 reels of microfilm at the Family History Library. Shirley Drury Patterson, well-known researcher for the Towne Family Association, gave me this synopsis (personal communication, 23 apr 2005): "In 1907, Martha (Town) Marcy, born in 1842, gave information from a bible or family records to Charles A. Towne, an early Towne researcher. She gave her grandmother as Nancy McDougall born in Argyle, NY; and all of the children's names in the order of their births, plus other information about their marriages, etc."
Some of the Town descendants have taken autosomal DNA tests and prove to be genetic matches with at least two of the descendants of John McDougall and Elvira Uran who have taken the same tests. The degree of matching is consistent with the hypothesis that Nancy McDougall was an aunt of John McDougall, but the evidence is not strong enough to establish their exact relationship.
Nancy Town and Jane Dings, then in St. Lawrence Co., NY, quit claimed their interest in property in Lot 75 to John McDougall in 1849, Washington Co. Deeds 21 pp. 488-489, but the property is vaguely described. However, it seems virtually certain that they were selling their interest in the remaining property from their father's estate.
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Protestant minister.