To members...I hope I am doing this right to go back to all the list and not
just one person. This is about a Benjamin Cady and Hannah, and Elisha Smith
connection that was brought up in a recent email.
In the past few days there was an email on this listserve about someone
whose line included an Elisha Smith on a mother's side, and they were
looking for Hannah Cady links in NY State, I think?? I remember Hannah
Smith, or Hannah Cady, Benjamin Cady and Elisha Smith as being "clues" and
was looking for name recognition and if any of the names "meant" anything to
anyone else.
I inadvertently deleted that message before I absorbed it and checked dates.
I have some info that might be connected to that person's search somehow,
but can't put a finger on it. So, maybe if I just state some of the info and
history that struck me as similar to that query, that person will recognize
something in MY info that will set off a lightbulb. Its been awhile since I
stated my Cady line on the list looking for cousin "hits" anyway.
My 3xggf Andrew Cady was one of several children of Jacob Cady, Jr.. Jacob
Cady Jr's line was Nicholas> Nicholas> Nicholas> Jacob >Jacob, Jr. who
m.
Martha Downer>Andrew (my 3xggf)>Andrew(2xggf)>Darius(ggf)>Jennie who was my
paternal grandmother.
Andrew Cady (3xggf b. January 8, 1768) is listed as having a brother named
"Elisha Smith Cady" born May 8, 1770.
Late 1790's this Andrew Cady married in Preston (now Groton) CT, and moved
to upstate central NY around 1800, with his bride the former Martha Gallup
of Voluntown, CT. Martha Gallup's Line was John Gallup, immigrant> Capt.
John Gallup Jr. m Hannah Lake> John Gallup III> Nathaniel Gallup m.
Margaret Gallup (they were cousins on father's and mothers sides...Margarets
father was brother to Nathaniel's father, but there was were also maternal
connections to a sister of Hannah Lake)> Benjamin m. Amy Kinne (also cousins
but that is even more complicated)
Martha's family was an intensely intermarried line of Gallup...of Martha's
13 brothers and sisters, all but Martha and a brother who died young married
first or second cousins, most of them of the Gallup or Kinne surname. This
went on in Martha's family long before and long after Martha marrying Andrew
Cady. Both of these CT Cady and Gallup lines had some strong connections to
Hudson area and NY city area, apparently, as well as the ancestral
connections to MA, RI, NH and VT, but my 3xgf went to upstate Central NY,
Oneida County....the wilderness...they were essentially "pioneers" at that
time and place.
Martha Gallup marrying Andrew Cady APPEARS to be an exception to the cousin
marriages in her family......but somehow, I don't think so....I think that
somehow, Andrew Cady WAS a "cousin", but the connection is not as obvious or
as close as some of the others.
Andrew and Martha (Gallup) Cady had at least three sons. One of them,
Andrew Gilson or Gilson Andrew died young without marrying. Of the others,
one was named Andrew and was to be my 2x gf....he married a "kissin'
cousin"
also, Susan E. Wilkinson. The other son was Benjamin who was born around
1800 and was apparently born in Vermont, even though my 3xgf Andrew already
apparently gone ahead to work and buy land in upstate NY. Benjamin was
probably named after Martha's father, Benjamin Gallup. Benjamin Cady being
born in VT. may have been the result of Martha going to stay with a married
sister of hers who lived in Vermont at the time of her "confinement".
Upstate CNY was virtually "frontier and wilderness" at that time, and all
they had to live in here was a log cabin in the wilderness, if that, so it
is likely that Martha went or stayed "east" with family during her
pregnancy. However after the birth of Benjamin, they settled for good in CNY
and developed a large farm that stayed in this Cady family for at least 150
years.
Benjamin Cady, son of Andrew married a "Hannah Smith" before 1836 and they
lived in or near Remsen, NY, and had the following offspring: Benjamin Smith
Cady, Thomas Randall Cady, Hannah Melissa Cady, and George W. Cady, between
1836 and 1850 or so. Benjamin died in abt Feb. 4, 1858 in Remsen, Oneida
County, NY and there is an estate proceeding in Oneida County clerk's office
that listed the above offspring. Apparently some of the offspring had moved
to the midwest, I remember notices that had to be sent to the midwest in the
estate proceeding, but would have to go back and look at the estate further
to be sure which ones. I did not take off a lot of documentation as
Benjamin was not in my direct line, but an "uncle".
I used to look half heartedly for parents of Hannah (Smith) Cady m. to this
Benjamin "uncle" but haven't done much on the genealogy for awhile. But
was
struck by the name coincidences in the email that came through on the
listserve earlier this week. Anybody else having interest in these Cady
name coincidences, or any other connections they see, let me know.
(Other names subsequently associated with my Cady line by marriage, either
direct or through sibling marriages, include Elijah Greenfield, Wilkinson,
Popple, Hughes, Lamb, Griffith).
Deanna