Comments on: GILBERT, Elisha, of MA, VT and Steuben Co NY

By: Linda Freeman Clifford

Linda Freeman Clifford — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:49:56 +0000

By: Linda Freeman Clifford

Linda Freeman Clifford — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:49:21 +0000

If you will send me your email address, I can send you a Gedcom file with all of the history I have on the SEARL family, back to when they came to this country, around 1620, I think.

Linda Freeman Clifford

By: alvispat

alvispat — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:20:03 +0000

I am very interested in the family history you have, in particular Reuben Searl who married Mary Ann Dickinson in 1826 in Clermont Co OH. I assume he was a son of the Reuben Searl who was in the 1800 census in Steuben Co NY, near Elisha Gilbert, Mary Ann’s grandfather, and also in Middletown, Vermont.

By: Linda Freeman Clifford

Linda Freeman Clifford — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:19:38 +0000

I am descended from the Searl side of this tree and would be very interested in exchanging information with you.

By: Linda Freeman Clifford

Linda Freeman Clifford — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:17:53 +0000

Most of the history relayed in this reply was from the biography in my great-grandfather’s poetry book (Collected Poems of Fernando Cortez Searl). That family history was mostly inaccurate. I have the actual family history of the Searl(les) if anyone is interested.

By: alvispat

alvispat — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:50:49 +0000

Right now I am concentrating on who was in these areas of Vermont at the early dates where Elisha Gilbert appears on various lists: the taking of Fort Ticonderoga, May 1775; Pawlett Township, 1778; Poultney Vermont, 1781; Middletown, 1784. My hypothesis is that Elisha went from Massachusetts with Lt. David Pixley’s troops and stayed in the same region, where he married Hepzibah, Jan 1776. So, who were Hepzibah’s parents? Who was there with a family that early?

By: Aaron Gleim

Aaron Gleim — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:52:05 +0000

Pretty neat stuff…

I can tell you that the ” Searl ” family and ” White ” family are related to the same family as my Ancestors here in Scioto county Ohio .

I have an ancestor Abel White , that had a son Daniel White ,who married Sarah Osborn .

Abel White also had a daughter , Rebecca White ( Daniel’s sister ) that married a Nathaniel Searl .

Nathaniel Searl and Rebecca ( White )Searl had a son named .. Fernando Cortez Searl ( F. C. Searl )..who became a teacher, lawyer & judge in Portsmouth , Scioto County .

I have info , photos, and Gravesite info…on all above…

By: maria butler

maria butler — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:53:15 +0000

In searching the Butler family, I found John and Thomas Butler (brothers) listed in the 1790 Chemung census. Also listed is Elisha Gilbert. According to the census Gilbert lists 1 free white male under 16 and 6 free white females including head of family.

There has been some evidence that the Butler Brothers may have also lived in Vermont. Now I am curious if there are any connections.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:51:36 +0000

One of my Mates from PA who were connected to my Palmer’s from NY & Jackson Co., OH married briefly into the Searl/Searles family. So while looking for the Searl/Searles I came across the following which does show the White/Searl connection:

Searl/Searles/White

Apparently a Searl/Searles came from England with his brother Gideon, this brother of Gideon had a son Reuben b England, and a son Nathaniel b February 1788 Middleton, Rutland Co., VT.

Nathaniel Searl/Searles b 1788 m Rebecca White b 1797, daughter of Abel White (wife, Comfort), Rev. Vet from Steuben Co., NY. The White’s died in Scioto Co., OH. Nathaniel Searl and Rebecca White married Steuben Co., NY, March 26, 1806. They moved to Scioto from NY in 1813. Son: Judge Fernando Cortez Searl born July 8, 1825, his biography you will find on the following site:

http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Scioto/Scioto1901CIXP272.htm