CHAPTER TEN

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES OF IRELAND AND AMERICA

Register of Derry Cathedral (1 Dublin Parish Record Society), Parish of Templemore. "The banes between Adam Stoope and Margarett Nevin published (before the congregation at London Derry three several Lord’s days). The marriage was solemnized in presence of William Bacon, Thomas Norton and others, att London-Derry this 29 December 1654. Before John Hanfford, Mayor."

Same Register. "The banes between George Williams, soulder vnder the command of Lt. Coll. Phillip Ebzery and Isabell Nevin of this citty, (pub before the congregation &c). The marriage was solemnized by Mr. George Holland Minister of London Derry, James Framton, Roger Farell and seuveral other being present, att London Derry 14 January 1657."

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Andrew Nevin, Ruling Elder 1697-1706, Ballyclare, Antrim.

William Nevin, Commissioner 1691. Glendrmot, Derry.

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Copy of a letter from H. C. Irwin of Mount Irwin, Tynan, County Armagh, 19 September 1909 to Franklin T. Nevin Esq. Pittsburgh, Pa.

"The Elizabeth Nevin mention in your letter of 4 September was my great grandmother, but I fear I can tell you noting about her family. After the death of her husband, Robert Irwin, she lived at Mt Irwin with her son, William (my grandfather) until early in the 19^th century - when she moved herself to a smaller place about four miles away, called Anapola, in County Monaghan, as she wanted her son to marry, and thought he would never do so while she was in the house. She died at Anapola at the age of 80, in 1831, and was buried at Tynan on 11 November. I am afraid this is all I know of the Nevins. . ."

30 November 1909, Miss Edith Irwin of Dublin found the Will (Record Office, Dublin) Hugh Nevin, Tullyglishoglade, County Armagh, 1783: Children: James, Elizabeth, Jane, Hugh, Arthur. Also the marriage licence bond of Dr. Robert Irwin and Elizabeth Nevin, daughter of Hugh Nevin, married by the Archbishop of Armagh in 1876 (Notes of Franklin T. Nevin).

Letter of D. T. Irwin, 170 Cooper St., Ottowa, Canada, to Franklin T. Nevin 15 September 1909

"I also found the original commission signed by George II 18 May 1785, to Arthur Nevin, as Lieutenant in the 34 or Cumberland Regiment of Foot, but I know nothing more of the latter’s family or subsequent career."

Copy of a letter from McCrum Watson & Mercer, 13-15 White Street, New York 10 January 1928, to the editor.

"When you spoke to me last month regarding the sample napkin we have showing the Arms of the Nevin family, I promised to let you know when it was returned to us. We have it at present in the house and if you are in our neighborhood in the near future, we shall be glad to show it to you. One of our people on the other side writes:

"NEVIN ARMS. I am much interested in your letter under this heading. The Arms were originally woven for the branch of the Nevin family then residing at Chrome Hill, Lambeg near Belfast. They were afterwards made for the late Mr. Richard Nevin of the same address, who was a partner with the late Mr. Alex Richardson trading as ‘Richardson & Nevin’ and at that time they owned the Lambeg Factory, which is close to Chrome Hill.

"The arms were also woven for Mr. Richard Nevin’s brother, a Dr. Nevin, who was at that time a resident, I think in Canada. I have not the Factory books before me and I am writing from memory. It is now about 20 years or more since we made them for Dr. Nevin, and I do not think the cards have since been in use. The Napkin you have is the only sample we possess.

"This napkin is in a design made for Queen Victoria as far back as 1837. It was adapted from a silk tapestry woven in our factory for the Royal Household about 1760. The price of the Tapestry was one guinea the inch."

The same to same, 18 January 1928.

"Nevin Crest. Further to our letter &c. . . we have looked up the books and found that the last time we made this crest was in 1902 for Dr. R. Nevin, Airlie, Ayr, N.B. from memory the writer think that Dr. Nevin was a brother of Mr. Richard Nevin of Chrome Hill, Lambeg."

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"Lambeg House near Lisburn formerly belonged to the Wolfendens, now the property of Mr. Richard Niven." "Orangeism as it was and is" by Richard Niven, Belfast, W & G. Baird 1899.

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Index to Prerogative Wills of Ireland

The above wills deposited in care of the Master of the Rolls, Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin, were lost in the burning of the Four Courts by the Irish free State troops, June 1922.

The following correspondence in this connection may be of interest:

Memo from Deputy Keeper:

Owing to the seizure of the Four Courts Buildings the records in the Public Record Office cannot at present be consulted. When the records are again available a definite reply will be sent to your letter at the earliest opportunity.

Memo from Deputy Keeper 21 July 1922:

We regret to inform you that owing to the recent civil disturbances in Dublin the records in the Public Record Office were practically all destroyed. Should anything be saved when salvage operations are completed we will immediately notify you.

Memo 7 March 1923:

We beg to inform you that the work of salving the Records is still in progress at the Four Courts. Up to the present however none of the wills noted on the list you forwarded have been slaved.

31 March 1924

None of the Original Wills in your list have been salved. The Will Books containing copies of these Wills are not among those which have been salved. It is extremely unlikely that any of the above records will be found to have escaped the intense heat of the fire.

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Ecclesiastical Register, Dublin Diocese

SOME AMERICAN NOTES

At a Council holden at Portsm on Monday April 16, 1759, by his Excellencys Summons – Mandate from his Majesty to admit and swear James Nevin Esq. As a member of his Majesty’s Council for the Province. . .

Footnote – James Nevin Esq. was of Portsmouth, one of his Majesty’s Council and Collector of Customs for the Port. He died 6 February 1769, in the sixtieth year of his age. He was much respected in his office, the duties of which he discharged with fidelity. He was born in Scotland and was a Post Captain in the British Navy."

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New York Gazette 14 August 1738. Inward bound, Port of New York. Sloop Margaret, James Nevin for Barbadoes.

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Marriage Licences

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8 March 1736. Amy Niven and Jacob Sominidike.

13 August 1757. Elizabeth Nevens and Thomas Bell.

9 July 1764. Catherine Nevens and Alexander McDermont.

5 July 1775. Archibald Nevin and Margaret John.

29 August 1758. James Nevin and Sussanah Wilsey.

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Records, First and Second Presbyterian Churches, New York.

26 September 1753. Mary Nevin and John Blear (Blair)

25 March 1774. Frances DeVoe, N.Y. widow, James Nevin, N.Y. cooper

8 September 1796. William Nevin, Mariner, Margaret Canby, widow.

28 May 1805. Robert Nevin and Agnes Britten.

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History of the Stagg Family.

William Butler Nevin, b. Dublin, Ireland, 16 September 1828, lived in Brooklyn, N.Y. m 16 November 1849, Caroline Ann Stagg, daughter of James DePeyster Stagg. Issue

Mary Nevin, b 1850

Edward De Peyster Nevin, b. 1854, d 1860

Caroline Alethea, b 1854, d 1860

Wilbram Delisser, b 1856

Cornelia Stagg, b 1857

Marian, d 1867

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Virginia Genealogies. John Moncure Daniel M.D. married (1) 16 Jan 1792,

Maria Nivin, daughter of a Spanish merchant of Cadiz, who had a branch house at Glasgow, Scotland, where Dr. Daniel met his wife. They were married in St. John’s Church, London. She died s.p. Dumfries, Va. 30 Oct 1792. Dr. Daniel married a second time and had issue, Jean Nivin Daniel, d. 1881, who married William Crane.

Samuel Nivin, executor for Benjamin Harris who died in Virginia, 1771.

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Penna Archives. Marriages Recorded by the Register General 1685-1789.

Hugh Nevin and Sarah Todd, 4 Nov 1766.

Warrantees of land. Chester County. Single men, Hugh Nevan.

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British Officers serving in the American Revolution (Ford). Hugh Nevin, Captain 45^th Regt. Date of Commission 28 Sept 1769. Hugh Nevin served in America between 1754 & 1774. In 1775 the 45^th was in Ireland.

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The name Nevin, Niven, Nevins &c occurs many times in the Penna Archives.

South Caroline and American General Gazette. Death notices compiled by Mabel L. Webber. Died – Mrs. Isabella Nevin, wife of John Nevin Esq. Monday 7 Jan 1771.

Bounty grants Secretary of State, S.C. to Revolutionary Soldiers (Continentals) James Nevin.

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Provincial State and Town Papers, New Hampshire. "the acct of Capt. George March for sundry supplys to sundry soldiers in the Company who deserted, praying an allowance – viz. Andrew Nevin º (sterling)0-10-4."

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Hist. of City of N.Y. Valentine. 1853. App. p. 390 List of Freemen. 1745 Bryan Nevin, Mariner.

New Brunswick Loyalists. Alexander McNevin (McNiven), a grantee of St. Andrews, Charlotte County, N.B. (N.Y. Gen and Biog. Record, Vol. 38)

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Index to New York Dutch Church Marriages. Purple. "John Feagin & Margaret Neavins, Wed 19 December 1748."

Petition to the Governor of the Province for a grant of lands in Albany County, N.Y. known as the Claverack Patent. Signed by James Neavin et als 16 July 1767 (Land Papers. Vol. 54. P. 4. N.Y. State Library, Albany).

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Nevins Family. Genealogical Record of the Nivens or Nevins Families of New England, including those of Palmer and Gloucester Mass. And of Pelam and Hollis, N. H. by William Nevins Esq. of Falmouth, Maine. 1896 $4.50 Advertised in N.E. Gen. Reg. 1896.

Also – Nevins Gen. excerpt by Stearns, 4 pages, line of Thomas who came to America 17ll. Price $5.00. Joel Munsell’s Sons, Albany, N.Y. This is a record of the descendants of Thomas Nevins and his wife, Margaret, who emigrated from the North of Ireland about 17ll, and settled in Nova Scotia. While returning to Ireland on business a few years later, the ship on which he sailed was lost and crew and passengers drowned. The widow, Margaret Nevins, with her three sons, Thomas, William and David, removed to Massachusetts but later settled in or near West Dunstable, now Hollis, New Hampshire. See Hist. of Town of Hollis, N.H. Worcester. Boston. 1879.

Nevins of Connecticut. (Hist. of Norwich. Caulkins. Hartford. 1866. p.p. It was while engaged in repairing a bridge over the Quinebaug, between Canterbury and Plainfield, which had been partially destroyed, that the first David Nevins of Connecticut lost his life. He was standing on one of the cross beams giving directions to the workmen and had his watch in his hand, when, losing his balance, he fell into the swollen stream and was swept down by the current and drowned, this in the spring of 1757.

Captain David Nevins, presumably a son of the above, was born in Canterbury, Conn, in 1747, and died in New York, aged 91.

A lottery was granted by the legislature, October 1773, to raise LL 278 "for furnishing and completeing the great wharf Bridge at Chelsea in Norwich" the petition for the lottery was signed by 80 of the principal citizens. In 1837, 65 years after, only one of the signers was living viz. Captain David Nevins, he died January 1838, aged 91.

On Saturday, 3 Sept 1774, at 4 p.m. an express arrived from Colonel Israel Putnam that Boston had been attacked the night before and six killed. Mr. David Nevins volunteered to carry a message to Providence, as he had on may similar occasions, and left at 8 p.m. Mr. Nevin, on his return with the report that it was without foundation, was met by Major John Durkee at Captain Burnam’s inn, seven miles from town, with 464 men.

News of the Battle of Lexington arrived in Norwich very much exaggerated. Mr. Nevins with his usual promptness again mounted and proceeded to Providence to get correct news, he returned Saturday evening.

David Nevins married Mary Hubbard, daughter of Russel and Mary (Gray) Hubbard. Russel Hubbard graduated from Yale College and served as a private in the Mass. Militia. David Nevins and Mary Hubbard were married 7 Dec 1777, and had thirteen children.

David Nevins (Conn) ensign, 6^th Conn, 1 May to 19 Dec 1775. First Lieut. 10^th Continental Infantry 1 Jan 1776. Captain, 10 Sept to 31 Dec 1776. (Vital Records of Norwich). Hist. Reg. Officers Cont. Army. Keitman. Washington. 1914.

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The Evans, Whiting, Davis Family. By Septimus Evans Nivin, Landenburg, Pa. The genealogical record of a Nivin family who came from Ireland to New Castle, Del. And later settled in Chester county, Pa. with branches in Washington and other Pennsylvania counties.

The Scotch Irish settlement at Salem, Washington county, New York, came from Monaghan and Ballibay, Ireland, under the Rev Thomas Clark. 300 sailed from Newry, 16 May 1764 and landed in N.Y. 28 July. In 1765 Mr. Clark obtained 12,000 acres of the Turner grant and moved his parishioners there. vide John Nivin of Salem, these settlers mostly took possession of the lands in 1767. (James Murray Nevin of Pittsburgh, PA, has a record of a Nevin family of Salem and Exeter, N.Y.) The above from Scots Highlanders in America. Maclean.

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From New York Directory 1805-06

George Niven, grocer, 185 Cherry Street

John Niven, carpenter, 28 Lombard St

Thomas Nevin, laborer, 3 Bedlow

1810 Directory

Arch M’Nevan, stonecutter, Provost

Wm. James M‘Nevan M..D., 204 Duane

Arch. Nevin, 32 Lumber

John Nevin, cartman, Orange near Broome

Ruth Nevin, teacher, 28 Lumber

Thomas Nevin, laborer, rear 30 Bancker

Widow Nevin, 48 Mott

George Niven, grocer, 239 Cherry

Niven & Pennoyer, merchants, 23 Chatham

First Directory of New York 1786 contains only one of the name, viz. Daniel Nevin, resident member of St. Andrews Society. This is Captain Daniel Niven, of Newburg, N.Y.

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