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Subject: Birds of Somerset Co
In a message dated 01/28/2000 2:50:23 AM Pacific Standard Time,
NJSOMERS-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
<< 'm looking for info on the family of Isaac BIRD of Warren Twp, Somerset
Co. He was born abt 1780 and died in 1832; he married ELizabeth ? and had
children Elias, m. Mary Trimmer; Phoebe, m Jacob Trimmer; Jane, m John
Giddis; Fanny, m John Smith; Simeon, who died before 1832 but left children;
and Clarkson, m Mary Coddington. These families all lived in Warren Twp for
generations. Would really like to know Elizabeth's maiden name and Isaac's
parents. >>
Hi--I have the booklet "Villages at the Crossroads" which is a history of
Warren Twp 1806-1976. There is a good deal of information on the Bird
Family,
the Giddes and Coddington families too. Here's what is in my booklet. I do
not know if it is possible to obtain copies of this booklet anymore. I got
mine in 1989 when they were still selling them. I lived in Warren at the
time. There is quite a bit more on the Coddington's but I was not sure if
you
would be interested in that and my typing isn't so great! While I didn't
have
anything specifically on Isaac and Elizabeth, I think the ones I have here
are likely to be their children. Hope you find this helpful!
Debbie in California
Pg.15
"Mt. Bethel Baptist Church's largest revival took place in the
mid-nineteenth
century under Rev. Edward C. Ambler. One of the 107 converts was David
Bird,
owner of the hotel across the road. It is said he and a number of others
rolled barrels of whiskey out of the hotel, broke them open, and let the
contents run down the street."
Pg. 16
They were duly baptised in Elias Bird's sawmill pond that winter after the
ice was broken.
(referring to the King George Inn--oldest inn standing in Warren)
Mrs. Mary Ralph recalled that during the 1850's David Bird owned the inn and
built a house on the hill later owned by a Mr. Barnhart. Bird died in 1884
having sold the inn some ten years previously.
Page 14
Thomas(Coddington) married Julia Mundy. He was known as Sheriff Coddington
having been elected Somereset County sheriff in 1863. The Coddington's
daughter married Thomas Bird and when he died in 1903 Marietta and her
brother Lewis ran the dairy farm.
Giddes
Pg 24
"North of Perley's on the other side of the road is the home of Doris Penek
which was once owned by Jacob Giddes, grandson of John Giddes the first of
that name in Warren. Jacob died in 1863 and left his extensive landholdings
to his sons Amos and Samuel and the ridge farm of his father Jeremiah, to
his
daughter Caroline Spencer.
Amos Giddes lived in a house now owned by the Hurds on Partridge Run Rd. and
ran a store at 36 Mt. Horeb Rd. where the Frank Salvatos live now. Frank Sr.
bought the 51 acres in 1908 and added an upstairs to the house which is
built
with old barn beams.
The Coddington family in Warren was descended from Isaac who was born about
1720 in Woodbridge. He married Sarah Giddes and they had John, Benjamin,
Archibald, and Abby. John settled on a 122 acre farm on the corner of
Liberty Corner and Mt. Horeb Roads and left the property to his sons George
W. , Reuben, John, and Bartholemew when he died in 1844. Reuben it is said
built the present house in 1873 which is now owned by the Egans.
Next door to the farm owned by Lester and Lora Coddingtron lived Archibald
"Corrington" or Coddington, son of Isaac, who was born in 1756 and served as
a priivate in the militia. When he died his sons Ben and William stayed on
to farm the 100 acre property. The plce came to Lester and Lora from their
fathere John Wesley Coddington who bought it from his Uncle William A.
John Wesley's father was Isaiah Coddington (a son of Archibald) who acquired
patches of peoperty on both sides of Mt. Horeb Rd. and built the house
recently owned by John and Barbara Evans. The house is one room deep and
two
rooms wide and some of the beams appear to be from another structure: one is
even charred. Isaiah was a blacksmith and his brother Archibald, Jr.
learned
this trade from him before buyying the Green Valley Mill in 1861 in
Watchung.
Their brother David, born Nov 30, 1797at Mt. Horeb, was "converted while
praying alone in a barn" at age twenty and became an enthusiastic Methodist
and a licensed exhorter. The Methodists were an active group in the Mt.
Horeb
area and it is said the first class met in a house a mile southeast of
Martinsville as early as 1770. By 1820 services were being held in the
homes of John Smith, David Ruckman, Rachel Adams, and Benjamin Coddington.
That same year Rev. Bartholomew Weed organized a a class of eight persons
who
met in Ben Coddington's home 1 1/2 miles east of the present church.
Pg 29
Many of the houses in Dead River are still standing. ONe at 5 Mountainview
Lane, now owned by G.F. Kennedy, was owned in 1850 by John Moore who bought
his 56 acres from the estate of Ben Moore in 1843. Jacob Giddes bought the
farm in 1875 and more recently John Betzhold owned it.
(Ben Moore)....His 131 acre farm was sold in 1839 to William A. Coddington
for $2484, a handsome sum in those days. To his wife he willed "two cows
of
her choice, all the furniture she brought to me when we married and the use
of two east rooms of the house." The house is quite possibly the same one
today owned by the Langmacks. His farm was bought from Archibald Coddington
1862 by John Zeglio, later Zergabiles, and is today known as Hillcrest Horse
Farm.
Page 35
Another old school house is on Mountainview Road and is now the home of Miss
Eleanor Nissley. It was built on land acquired in 1874 from Jacob J Gides
and Jonathan Moore. The school was built near the site of an old stone
schoolhouse called the Back Road School which was built on ta small tract of
land given by Isaac B. Moore in 1840. Around 1910 the pupils oaf Dead River
School decided to call it by a more chreerful name and chose the name
Mountainview School.
About this time the teacher was Miss Imogene Coddington who lived with her
two sisters in a house on the corner of Roundtop and Mountainview Roads, now
owned by the Wallaces. Students at the school used to walk down to the
Coddington's well to fetch their water.
Would be grateful for info on Isaiah Coddington b1781 and married 1831 to
Charity Smith Bird b1809 Mt. Horeb, Warren, Somerset, NJ. A couple problems
with Charity:
1) was she a originally SMITH or BIRD? The wording "Charity Smith
Bird" would indicate a maiden name of Smith. But several sources give her
ancestry as Charity Bird<John Bird & Charity Coon b1788 Piscataway, NJ.
2) if Charity Coon was her mother, then there is disagreement the
parents of Charity Coon:
Azaraiah Coon b1750 & Catherine Van Tuyl
Benjamin Coon & Catherine Van Tuyl
Israel Coon & Catherine Van Tuyl
Isaiah Coddington & Charity Smith Bird had a son, Manning Force Coddington
b1838 Mt Horeb, NJ who married Sarah*Frances "Fannie" Smith b1846. They
married 20 February 1867 Mt Horeb. I can't find any info about Sarah's
parents. All suggestions gratefully accepted. Thanks.
Bob Foran - Connecticut