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LLLI ASA& LOVELL (Parents are unknown at present time.)
BORN Abt 1750-60, Location unknown. New York.
DIEDs Mar 171 1835, Enfield Tompkins
C07 «npkins Co., New York.
BURIEDii Enfield Cemetery, Enfield Center,
Asahel is listed as a Private in the Militia of New Jersey in the
D.A.R. Patriot Index (1966). He lived in Sussex Co., New Jersey and was active
as Judge of Election in the formation of Byram Twp•1804Hopatcong
i n 1798. He
sold his property In Byram Twp., Sussex Co. May 8, Tompkins and,
signed her name with an X). In a book, History of Tiooa, Chemunci,
Schuyler Counties of New York,(Pub. 1897)9
is a paragraph, 'In the rear 1806 one
04 Mr. Baker's cows strayed away, and while looking for her, west from his
residence about one mile, he heard the sound of an axe, and following it up he
came to a clearing, where he found Asahel Lovell with his family, and who had
been there about a year, and on the farm now occupied by Daniel Johnson. His
descendants are now living in town.' When Asahel and Hannah moved from New
Jersey they had a family of 10 children who moved with them across the
wilderness to central New York. One daughter, Huldah, was already married and
had 3 small children of her own which made 5 children under 5 years of age that
made the trip west. As a Revolutionary Soldier, he was eligible for a
"Soldier's Right' claim in the Military Land Grant in Tompkins Co., New York.
According to the "Dundee Record", Moses said, 'In May 1804 he came with his
father to Enfield, then part of Ulysses----'.
From Ithaca, New York, Office of the County Clerk:
Land Record: The final division of the lands of Asahel Lovell, made April 217
1836, by the commission appointed, is recorded in papers filed in the box of
Partition Papers (1817-1839). This partition record names the following heirs
of Asahel Lovell: Huldah Byram, Moses Lovell, Amos Buck and wife Susannah,
Silas Harvey and wife Abigail, Aaron Lovell, Joseph Harvey and wife Hannah,
Silas Woolsey and wife Rebecca, Japhet B. Lovell all of Enfield, Abraham of
Allegeny, Pa., Hannah Covert, Silas C. Covert, Asahel L. Covert, Myron L.
Covert, all of Romulus, N.Y., Hudson Covert and Lewis Covert of Troy, Mich.
Asahel and Hannah ended up with at least 91 grandchildren! These were very
large families!
MARRIED
Hannah Byram,
April 3, 177?,
Newton Twp., Sussex Co., New
Jersey, by Justice of the Peace,
Daniel Predmore. She died
about 1824, in
Enfield, New
York.
CHILDREN:
11.1
Huldah
1779-1863
1. Jephthah Byram
2. Joel Bassett
11.2
Rebecca
1780-
Silas Woolsey
11.3
Elizabeth
1783-1820
Peter J. Covert
11.4
Abraham
1785-1865
Elizabeth Crosby
11.5
Moses
1787-1877
1. Susanna Baker
2. Mercy Covert Swick
11.6
Abigail
1789-1859
Silas Harvey
11.7
Susannah
1790-1851
Amos York Buck
11.8
Aaron
1791-1851
Hetta Griffin
11.9
Hannah
1793-1876
Joseph Harvey
11.10
Japhet Syr am
1801-1879
Elizabeth Beardsley
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