Selected Families and Individuals

Daniel BRUGH [Parents] married Catherine PAINTER on 1817.

Catherine PAINTER married Daniel BRUGH on 1817.

Henry STAIR married Sarah BRUGH on 1819.

Sarah BRUGH [Parents] married Henry STAIR on 1819.

Samuel BRUGH [Parents] married Lucinda PETERMAN on 1827.

Lucinda PETERMAN married Samuel BRUGH on 1827.

Jacob BRUGH [Parents] married Mary MORITZ.

Mary MORITZ married Jacob BRUGH.

Benjamin F. BACKUS [Parents] married Caroline GROSE.

Caroline GROSE [Parents] married Benjamin F. BACKUS.

William GROSE.

He had the following children:

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Caroline GROSE.

Samuel NEIL married Sabrina MCCUTCHEON.

a wagon maker, bought improvements of Conrad Young on Peters Creek.
History of Nicholas County, West Virginia, Pioneer Families, Copyright 1954, W. C. Brown; Available from Higginson Book Company,148 Washington Street; Post Office Box 778, Salem, Massachusetts 01970 page 41

Sabrina MCCUTCHEON [Parents] was born 1848. She married Samuel NEIL.

James CRAWFORD was born 1812. He married Mary BURDETT.

Mary BURDETT was born 1814. She married James CRAWFORD.

They had the following children:

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John Hampden CRAWFORD was born 1845. JOHN HAMPDEN CRAWFORD - is a descendent from early and prominent settlers of Irish Corner district, Greenbrier County, was born in this county, August 7, 1845, in Irish Corner district, and is here the owner of 342 acres of good farming land. He has fine bearing orchards of peaches, pears and plums, good grape vineyards, and the uncleared portion of his land is finely timbered with oak and hickory. James CRAWFORD, his father, was born August 30, 1812, near Second creek, and his mother, her maiden name Mary BURDETT, was born in the same locality, February 28, 1814. She is now living with the son, and his father died March 17, 1866. John H. CRAWFORD was a member of Company D, 26th Virginia Battalion, Confederate army, war of 1861, and served with honor on the fields of Wite [sic] Sulphur Springs, New Market, Cold Harbor, Lynchburg, Winchester, Cedar Creek, and Leesburg. He returned to his home in April, 1865. Near Nickels Mills, Greenbrier County, November 19, 1867, John H. CRAWFORD and Nannie J. RODGERS were wedded, and in their home are six children: Ozella, born October 17, 1868; Bessie, March 28, 1871; Roberta, January 9, 1874; James Eli, January 9, 1877; John Simpson, September 18, 1879; Charles Franklin, October 4, 1882. Eli and Charlotte (HOKE) RODGERS were the parents of Mrs. CRAWFORD, who was born in Irish Corner, July 21, 1845. Her parents were natives of this county, her father born May 10, 1812, and her mother born July 21, 1816. Her father died March 21, 1881. In addition to his other farm labors, Mr. CRAWFORD gives a great deal of attention to the raising of stock. His postoffice address is Second Creek, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. [Nannie J. (RODGERS) CRAWFORD died Jul. 21, 1898, of "nervous prost". She was listed as age 51, daughter of Eli and Charlotte RODGERS. Greenbrier County Death Reocrds, Vol. 1A. vfc] [Charlotte (HOKE) RODGERS died May 9, 1886 of heart disease. Her death was reported by Eli RODGERS, son, and recorded in Greenbrier County Death Records, Vol. 1A. vfc] Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvgreenb/bios/bios-c.htm

William THORN was born 1610 in estimate.

One of our first American ancestors, William Thorne, was in America by May 2, 1638 when he was made a Freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Lynn, Massachusetts. Lynn was settled in 1629 and originally was called "Saugust." In 1637, the area was named "Lin" or "Lynn," in honor of Lynn Regis, an English village formerly lived in by a popular local minister.

It appears that after his arrival in America and becoming a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, William began to question Puritan religious practices and may have even become a follower of Anne Hutchinson.

Anne Hutchinson’s father had been jailed in England for opposing church practices. Upon coming to America, Anne Hutchinson expected freedom to express her beliefs.
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However, the Puritan church in Massachusetts did not tolerate a women thinking independently. Anne started a women's club in her home to discuss the Bible and the weekly sermons, but the attendance at these meetings increased with the controversy over the banishment of Roger Williams.

Roger Williams had been a priest in an Anglican parish in England, but in time he spurned the Anglican Church structure and rituals. He became a Puritan, a Separatist, a Baptist and a Seeker. When he came to America, he rejected a position at the Boston Church because they did not offer strict separation of church and state. In July 1635, Roger Williams was tried for his political heresies and was banished from Massachusetts for 300 years. He fled to Rhode Island and founded the settlement of Providence.

By herself or as a leader of a group of women, Anne Hutchinson probably would not have threatened the Puritan establishment in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. However, as a woman leading a growing number of men as well as women, she was a threat to their authority. On March 15, 1638, Anne was tried before the elders of the church of Boston, convicted of heresy, and banished from the colony by Governor John Winthrop. She went with her family to what is now Rhode Island. She later moved to New York where Indians killed her and some of her children.

William Thorne may have supported Anne Hutchinson because on September 7, 1641, William Thorne was fined 6 2/3 pounds for "concealing, hiding and supplying" the escaped son of Anne Hutchinson.

He had the following children:

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John THORN.

John THORN [Parents] married Mary PARSELL on 1664.

John Thorne, son of William Thorne, married Mary Parsell, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah Parsell, on May 9, 1664 in New York. Nicholas Parsell was born in England about 1620 and died 10 Mar. 1689 in Queens, New York. Nicholas had also been one of the signers of the Flushing Remonstrance. On May 12, 1664, the year of the British occupation of New Amsterdam, the General Assembly of Connecticut, in a futile attempt to annex Long Island, "accepted" as freeman, "if they accept it," ten residents of Flushing, including "John Thorne" and "Nicholas Persell." On August 12, 1667, following serious disorders in Flushing, John Thorne and Joseph Thorne, his brother, in company with Nicholas Parcell and eleven others from Flushing, "presented themselves to the Governor, & gave their names to be ready to serve his Maty under his honors Command upon all occasions". The confirmation of the original Dutch patent to Flushing by Governor Dongan on March 24, 1685, names "the present freeholders and Inhabitants of the Towne of Flushing," including John Thorne. An exact list of “all ye inhabitants of Flushing & p'cints of old and young freemen & servants black & white 1698 Long Island NY” lists John Thorne Senior & Mary his wife with Hannah, Sarah & William. Some of John’s children became Quakers while others remained Anglican.

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Mary PARSELL married John THORN on 1664.

They had the following children:

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Thomas THORN.

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