Selected Families and Individuals


Jospeh STARBUCK was born 25 Jun 1723 in Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Mass. He died 24 Oct 1760 in Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Mass. Jospeh married Ruth MACY on 4 Aug 1744 in Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Mass.

Ruth MACY was born 31 Oct 1723 in Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Mass. She died 8 Sep 1760 in Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Mass. Ruth married Jospeh STARBUCK on 4 Aug 1744 in Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Mass.

They had the following children:

  F i Hepsibah STARBUCK was born 6 Jul 1749.

James WRIGHT [Parents] was born 8 Nov 1718 in Chester, PA. He died 1760. James married Lucy BOWATER.

James Wright, Jr. and his wife Lucy, continued their association withthe Meeting until the 1750s when they moved with their children toVirginia. Most of their children -- Ralph, Elizabeth, James, Ann Susanna,Boyater (no doubt Bowater!-JR) and Micajah -- were born at Monocacy. JohnWright and his wife Rachel Wells, the daughter of Joseph and MargaretWells of "Boyling Springs," were overseers of the Monocacy Meeting in1745, though afterwards with their children -- William, Mary, Joseph,Margaret, Charity, Rachel and John Wright, Jr. -- they moved on to NorthCarolina

Lucy BOWATER was born 1718 in Prince George County, MD.. She married James WRIGHT.

They had the following children:

  M i Ralph WRIGHT was born 24 Jul 1746 and died 23 Jul 1837.

James WRIGHT [Parents] was born 1671 in Notingham, Chester, PA. He died 4 May 1759 in Virginia. James married MARY.

In 1726 the New Garden Monthly Meeting, which had been established atChester, Pennsylvania some eight years earlier, gave permission to theQuakers settled along the Monocacy River "to hold religious services onfirst days in the home of Josiah Ballenger, the Meeting to be calledMonoquesey." This authorization that the services be held at JosiahBallenger's and a reference to the Quaker Meeting House being "nearJosiah Ballenger's" led historians for long years to believe that theMeeting House had actually been located on the land "Josiah."

The Quakers at "Monoquesey"

Excerpts from "Pioneers of Old Monocacy:
The Early Settlement of Frederick Co.,Maryland 1721-1743
by Grace L. Tracey and John P. Dern, GenealogicalPublishing Co., 1987

The beginnings of a small Quaker settlement in the area neartoday's Buckeystown paved the way for the organization of the firstreligious establishment in western Maryland. The resulting "MonqueseyMeeting" of the Society of Friends thus preceded the churches organizedby the far more numerous German Lutherans and Reformed, as well as theEstablished Church of England.

The earliest of these settlers, Henry and Josiah Ballenger,were sons of Henry Ballenger, Sr. of Burlington, New Jersey. They came toMaryland sometime before November 4, 1725 when Josiah Ballenger had hisfirst land surveyed. His tract, which he called "Josiah," was located onthe Monocacy River northeast of present-day Buckeystown, some five milessouth of today's city of Frederick. It was surveyed in the same month aswere John van Metre's "Meadow" and Thomas Bordley's "Rocky Creek." Thelatter, in fact, made reference to its beginning point as "a mile abovethe plantation of Henry Ballenger."

Also living in this settlement, eventually (on March 23, 1734) rentingland on "Carrollton," was the beloved Quaker leader James Wright, whosedaughters Hannah and Mary Wright were to marry,respectively, HenryBallenger in 1726 and Josiah Ballenger in 1727.

MARY was born 2 Dec 1689 in Notingham, Chester, PA/Chester Co., PA. She died 2 Aug 1754 in Frederick County, VA.. married James WRIGHT.

They had the following children:

  M i James WRIGHT was born 8 Nov 1718 and died 1760.

James? WRIGHT married Susannah CROWDSON.

Susannah CROWDSON married James? WRIGHT.

They had the following children:

  M i James WRIGHT was born 1671 and died 4 May 1759.

William HILLES was born 11 Oct 1752. He married Rebbeca PUGH.

Rebbeca PUGH was born 21 Sep 1745. She married William HILLES.

They had the following children:

  M i Hugh HILLES was born 5 Mar 1778 and died 14 Jun 1847.

Benjamin CANBY [Parents] was born 6 Sep 1637 in Thorne, Yorkshire, England/Thorne, England. He died 1681 in Liverpool, England and was buried in Whitfield Par, England. Benjamin was married was married 26 Mar 1678.

He had the following children:

  M i Thomas CANBY was born 9 Apr 1667 and died 20 Sep 1742.

Thomas "The Elder" CANBY was born 1604 in Thorne, Yorkshire, England/Thorne, England. He died 16 Mar 1667/1668 in Thorne, Yorkshire, England/Thorne, England.

He had the following children:

  M i Benjamin CANBY was born 6 Sep 1637 and died 1681.

Hiram MCCOY married Eliza WALTON on 17 Nov 1863.

Eliza WALTON [Parents] was born 1841 in Jay County, Indiana. She married Hiram MCCOY on 17 Nov 1863.


Joseph WALTON [Parents] was born 1849 in Jay County, Indiana. He died 1923 in The Dalles, Wasco County, OR. Joseph married Pluma JOHNSON.

Other marriages:
JOHNSON, Pluma

He took his bride to just barely discovered Umatilla County, Now ShermanCounty Oregon....Native Americans shared the lad:
Umatilla

East of the Tenino, along the lower Umatilla River and adjacent to thesouth bank of the Columbia River, lived the Umatilla
(Berreman 1927:61). They also lived on the north bank of the Columbia(Ray 1938: 385). According to Verne Ray (1939:11) they tended to leancomparatively close to a tribal structure, but many argue that this wasonly true in the historic times (Suphan 1974a:107). One criteria Ray usesfor his statement is that virtually all the Umatilla met in one villageat the mouth of the Umatilla at a time in the winter (1939:12). Mostauthors say they had no tribal chiefs and villages were autonomouspolitically. Their chiefs were picked on the basis of achievement (Ray1939:18). There was no class stratification based on wealth, but they didrank
according to war honors with the counting of coup being important (Ray1939:43). The Plains influence was quite strong among the Umatilla. Likemost Plateau groups they had permanent villages for winter and traveledthe rest of the year to obtain various resources. Most Plateau groupslived in mat covered lodges or semisubterranean houses and, in latertimes, the tipi in the winter,and in temporary mat or brush shelters inthe summer.
Joseph Walton d ca 1923 The Dalles, Wasco County, OR at age 84. He was a
farmer in the Kent district, a great nephew of A. S. Johnson of Moro andthe
husband of Pluma Adeline ______ who died at 77 y in November 1926 at the
home of her son, L.V. Walton. The Observer, 5 November 1926. Burialunclear.
She was a sister of Mrs. Jane A. Gardner of Long Beach, CA and Mrs. Mar__
Boyd of Montpelier, IN, both living in 1926. Apparently they also had ason
G. R. who lived at "Eightmile" [this is probably in W

Pluma JOHNSON [Parents] died Nov 1926 in Wasco County, OR. She married Joseph WALTON.


Joseph WALTON [Parents] was born 1849 in Jay County, Indiana. He died 1923 in The Dalles, Wasco County, OR. Joseph married Pluma JOHNSON on 8 Jun 1872 in Jay County, Indiana.

Other marriages:
JOHNSON, Pluma

He took his bride to just barely discovered Umatilla County, Now ShermanCounty Oregon....Native Americans shared the lad:
Umatilla

East of the Tenino, along the lower Umatilla River and adjacent to thesouth bank of the Columbia River, lived the Umatilla
(Berreman 1927:61). They also lived on the north bank of the Columbia(Ray 1938: 385). According to Verne Ray (1939:11) they tended to leancomparatively close to a tribal structure, but many argue that this wasonly true in the historic times (Suphan 1974a:107). One criteria Ray usesfor his statement is that virtually all the Umatilla met in one villageat the mouth of the Umatilla at a time in the winter (1939:12). Mostauthors say they had no tribal chiefs and villages were autonomouspolitically. Their chiefs were picked on the basis of achievement (Ray1939:18). There was no class stratification based on wealth, but they didrank
according to war honors with the counting of coup being important (Ray1939:43). The Plains influence was quite strong among the Umatilla. Likemost Plateau groups they had permanent villages for winter and traveledthe rest of the year to obtain various resources. Most Plateau groupslived in mat covered lodges or semisubterranean houses and, in latertimes, the tipi in the winter,and in temporary mat or brush shelters inthe summer.
Joseph Walton d ca 1923 The Dalles, Wasco County, OR at age 84. He was a
farmer in the Kent district, a great nephew of A. S. Johnson of Moro andthe
husband of Pluma Adeline ______ who died at 77 y in November 1926 at the
home of her son, L.V. Walton. The Observer, 5 November 1926. Burialunclear.
She was a sister of Mrs. Jane A. Gardner of Long Beach, CA and Mrs. Mar__
Boyd of Montpelier, IN, both living in 1926. Apparently they also had ason
G. R. who lived at "Eightmile" [this is probably in W

Pluma JOHNSON was born 1850. She died 5 Nov 1926 in Wasco County, OR. Pluma married Joseph WALTON on 8 Jun 1872 in Jay County, Indiana.

Joseph Walton d ca 1923 The Dalles, Wasco County, OR at age 84. He was a
farmer in the Kent district, a great nephew of A. S. Johnson of Moro andthe
husband of Pluma Adeline ______ who died at 77 y in November 1926 at the
home of her son, L.V. Walton. The Observer, 5 November 1926. Burialunclear.
She was a sister of Mrs. Jane A. Gardner of Long Beach, CA and Mrs. Mar__
Boyd of Montpelier, IN, both living in 1926. Apparently they also had ason
G. R. who lived at "Eightmile" [this is probably in Wasco County OR] in1926
and maybe at one time in Los Angeles.

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