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Northrop Genealogy ~~~ The Who's my Dad Game
Amos' Father,
Isaac Northrop 1734 ~ 1811
Or George Northrop 1754-1821

The published Northrop genealogy, A Judd Northrop is not without generally acknowleged errors AND neither Amos Northrop/up's nor Rachel Ives' parentage is documented. Here are some of the speculations that brought me to the most likely candidates for Amos' father.

  • Amos may have been a farmer, shoemaker (his eldest son Alvin was a shoemaker) or in a profession related to leather
  • Chatham (identified in the geneaology as a probably birthplace) may or may not have been a long term residence. It may have been the residence of his family or her family where she went to have the children.
  • Amos is a common family first name for the Northrops( there are so many it's hard to tell them apart).
  • Gerrit may be family first or surname for the Ives or the Northrops.
  • George may be a faily name -- more difficult in some periods since people wanted to name children after George Washington in many circles.
  • Fenn is a family surname -- One of Rachel's sisters married a Fenn
  • Burr is a family surname
  • Elmore may a family surname
  • Winthrop may be a family given or surname
  • Blaine may be a family name
  • Azonetta/Anzonetta is not likely a family surname
  • Others with the same surname in the same town could be siblings or cousins with earlier ones possibly more closely related
  • Warren CT may have been Amos' home when he died or he could have been staying/living with relatives.
  • Other family connections might be important in establishing who's who.
  • Marshs (in-laws)
  • Ives (wife's family)
  • Cadys (child's spouse in A Judd Northrup)
  • Prestons(child's spouse in A Judd Northrup)
  • Searching through the available individuals unearthed some interesting possibilities

 

amosbridge

Brookfield Mr. Elmore Northrop (Father: Waite Northrup b: 2 MAY 1763 in Brookfield/Mother: Jerusha Baldwin b: 26 JUL 1770 in Brookfield) to Miss Lucy Hawley (b: 23 JUN 1801 in Brookfield)

Date: December 4, 1821

 

1730 Father: Waite Northrup b: 6 SEP 1730 in Milford, CT
Mother: Anne Benedict b: 22 FEB 1730 in Ridgefield, CT
     
        As early as 1732 in an area that became known as the Iron Works District. Brookfield was a thriving town with iron furnaces, grist mills, sawmills, comb shops, carding and cotton mills, a paper mill, a knife factory, hat factories, stage-coach shops, lime kilns, harness shops and other plants in operation. The grist mill still stands, as The Brookfield Craft Center building.  
b. 1763
m.
  Name: Waite Northrup 1
Birth: 2 MAY 1763 in Brookfield
Death: 6 DEC 1824 in Brookfield
+    
1771     Gershom Fenn, Born Washington, CT Jan 12 1771  
b. 1763
m. 1787
 

Name: Waite Northrup 1
Birth: 2 MAY 1763 in Brookfield
Death: 6 DEC 1824 in Brookfield

+ Jerusha Baldwin b: 26 JUL 1770 in Brookfield Married: 5 JUL 1787 in Brookfield  
b. 1794    
  1. Has Children Elmer Baldwin Northrup b: 12 AUG 1794 in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., CT Marriage 1 Lucy Hawley b: 23 JUN 1801 in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., CT Married: 4 DEC 1821 in CT 6 7 3
    Children
    1. Has Children Mary Amaryllis Northrup b: 5 SEP 1824 in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., CT
    2. Has Children Elmer Hawley Northrup b: 24 OCT 1828 in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., CT
  2. Has Children Sarah Northrup b: 23 MAR 1800 in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., CT
  3. Has Children Anna Northrup b: 27 JUN 1802 in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., CT
 
         
         
         
~ 1820?     Eli Terry inaugurated this policy in a shop that he obtained from Gershom Fenn, a local tailor  
1820     Wallace & Northrop newspaper ad Boot and shoemaking Connecticut Courier New Haven??  
m. 1821        
nov. 1822     Amos late of said Torrington foreclosure mortgaged to eno eliphalet age 44 if my amos  
1822     Ziba & Nichols Northrop and Co.Bridgeport nespaper ad looking for carpenters and joiners  
1822     Wallace & Northrop Connecticut Courier New Haven?? ad Cash for green calf skins  
job 1824        
1820s    

Northrop & Smith Clockmakers, Goshen, CT

 
1826    

ATWOOD belive this shd be alvord
Sally, m. Alvin NORTHROP, July 2, 1826, by Rev. L. P. Hickox

Kent Vital Records

 
1831     Winchester letters remaining at post office (Gerrit)  
         
         
1850     garnett s. fenn age 40 Plymouth b~1810liv w samuel 80, polly age 70 census  
1850     another polly census
Wm. W.? or M.? Camp, 27, Farmer, value of real estate owned: $1500, b. CT,
Emily C., 25, b. CT
Wallis, 4, b. CT
Horace B., 2, b. CT
Aaron Fenn, 46, Farmer, value of real estate owned: $3000, b. CT
Polly Fenn, 33, b. CT
Mary Fenn, 79, b. CT
 
1856     1856 country stores listing New Britain, CT Northrop and Wilcox  
1856     Isaac Northrop Postmaster, Lanesville CT 1856  
1857     Page 245... u JH Akin, H. Coles, Cornwall Northrop Brothers, New Milford Wm. N. Clark,
Chester WN Rogers, ...
The Illustrated Commercial, Mechanical, Professional, and Statistical ...by A. D. Jones, Thomas J Stafford - History - 1857 - 304 pages
 
1860     Garret S. Fenn Plymouth census age 50 farmer w Polly age 83  
1865    

1865 L. Northrop Constable in Kent from History of Kent (Lewis?)

 
1875     Beardsley Park Architect, builder, or engineer: Northrup, Joseph W., Olmsted, Fredrick Law
Architectural Style: Queen Anne, Modern Movement
Area of Significance: Architecture, Landscape Architecture
http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/CT/Fairfield/districts.html
 
1878     assessor Lewis S. Northrop Kent also 1891 and 1892  
1880s        
         
1900     George E Ffld  
1906     Amos Bridgewater World Fair Walnuts also Hickory nuts 1902 CANT B  
1910     george E Ffld  
         
         
1912     Fred? TaylorsLegHistory On graduating from school he took a position as bookkeeper with the firm of
Northrop Brothers (his father and uncle), dealers in lumber and coal. ...
 
         
         
1919        
         
1929     Northrop Bros Southport mentioned in leg tarrif act US Congress  
         

 

 

 

Isaac appears to be the most likely FATHER for Amos Northrop. The age is plausible and genealogy mentions there are probably more children.

1766

1780

  • ID: I6579
  • Name: Isaac NORTHROP
  • Given Name: Isaac
  • Surname: Northrop
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 6 AUG 1734 in Newtown,Fairfield Co.,Connecticut
  • Death: ABT 1817 in New Milford,Litchfield Co.,Connecticut
  • Change Date: 8 MAR 2005 at 17:08:22

    Father: Thomas NORTHROP b: 16 MAR 1701 in Milford,New Haven Co.,Connecticut
    Mother: Abigail TERRILL b: 3 SEP 1699 in Milford,New Haven Co.,Connecticut

    Marriage 1 Lydia MARSH b: 11 APR 1747 in Mansfield,Tolland Co.,Connecticut

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=blackandnob&id=I6579

contact: j_barrows@sbcglobal.net

 

The initial information was from The History of New Millford & Bridgewater, CT, by Samuel Orcutt.  I have since found a death date of 8 May 1823 in Newtown, from the Barbour Collection of CT vital statistic.  Also find Lydia died 11 Mar 1828 in Middlebury, CT in the Middlebury cemetery records at rootsweb.  Does not mean he wasn't in Sharon in 1800, but I think there are too many Isaac's running around to hazard that guess.  Your right, I haven't updated the database lately, but haven't stopped working, maybe an update with sources soon

NORTHROP ISAAC

 

1790 CT NEW HAVEN WOODBRIDGE 1 male over 16 2 males under 16 4 females 0 0     Total of 7
NORTHROP ISAAC 1790 CT FAIRFIELD BROOKFIELD 1 male over 16 1 male under 16 3 females 0 0     Total of 5
NORTHROP JOB 1790 MA BERKSHIRE LENOX 2 3 5 0 0     Total 10
Isaac Northrup Sr. 1790 Salem Township, NY 1 0 1 0 0     across fm danbury ridgefield
Isaac Northrup Jr. 1790 Salem Township, NY 1 1 4 0 0     across fm danbury ridgefield
NORTHROP ISAAC 1800 NY COLUMBIA HUDSON 1011030
11000
            only northrop in hudson none in canaan or chatham
Isaac Northrop 1800 New Milford, CT 11010 31010 -              
NORTHROP ISAAC 1800 Salem Westchester NY               try later
across fm danbury ridgefield
isaac 1800 NY or MA               no UP NY or MA
isaac 1800 CT               no UP CT
no northrup 1790 ct                
Isaac 1810 Ridgefield CT 00100 0?010                
Isaac 1810                 no UP CT MAor NY
Isaac 1810 no OP NY or MA               no OP NY or MA
Isaac 1820 Darien 00010 01110 00100                
Isaac 1820 Newtown 00001 01010 00001--                
Isaac 1820 no OP MA NY                
Isaac 1820 no up MA                
Isaac 1820 UP Whitestown Oneida NY                
Isaac 1820 UP Wayne Stuben NY                
                     
                     
Joel Northrop 1790 DUANESBURGH, albany, NY 1 4 4 0 0     only other op in ny
Joel Northrop 1790 Lenox, Berkshire, MA 1 1 2 0 0      
Job Northrop 1790 Lenox, Berkshire, MA 2 3 5 0 0      
Elijah Northrop 1790 Lenox, Berkshire, MA 2 2 5 0 0      
Pheby Northrop 1790 Lenox, Berkshire, MA 3 2 4 0 0      
Jeremiah Northrop 1790 Lenox, Berkshire, MA 1 1 1 0 0      
                     
Isaac Northrop 1800 New Milford, CT 11010 31010 -              
Isaac Northrop 1800 Sharon, CT 00101 00001 -              
Isaac Northrop 1800 Woodbridge 21010 12110 -             also turrills in Woodbridge
Job Northrop 1800 Woodbridge 10011 00001 -              
                     
                     
Amos Northrup 1790 Tyringham, berkshire, NY 4 3 3 0 0                    
Amos Northrop 1800 Tyringham, berkshire, NY 00101 00101             also John & Barzillai              
Amos Northrop JR 1800 Tyringham, berkshire, NY 10010 10100                            
amos 1800 NY or MA               no UP NY or MA              
amos 1810 no UP CT               no UP CT MA or NY              
amos 1810 New Milford, CT 20010 20010 -               only one in CT              
amos 1810 no OP CT               no OP MA or NY              
amos 1820 one OP Rome NY                              
Amos Northrup 1820 Kent 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3    
Amos Northrop 1820 Torrington 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4
Amos Northrop 1820 no OP MA                              
Amos 1820 no up MA                              
Amos 1820 UP Smithfield Madison Cnty                              
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
  George Northrop 1790 Newtown 1 1
amos about 12 if 1778 birth is correct
3 0 0                  
  George Northrup 1800 Newtown 4 1 0
Amos about 22
not here
0 1 0 0 2 0 1        
  no george in ny 1800 NY                            
  Geo Northrop 1810 Newtown 01301 02010                            
  Geo Northrop 1810 no OP MA, NY                            
  George 1820 Newtown 00110 10010 10200 --                            
  George 1820 no OP MA                            
  George 1820 one george OP Franklin Delaware Cnty                            
  Geroge 1820 UP Griswold, CT                            
  George 1820 no up MA                            
  George 1820 UP Johnstown Montgomery                            
  George 1820 Hamburg Niagra UP                            

NORTHRUP          GEORGE 58 M   W  b. CT       Carpenter                                         

  1860 Jewett City GRISWOLD NEW LONDON                                

 

 

Here is how the listing appears in the A. Judd Northrup genealogy:
72 ISAAC4 NORTHRUP
**(
Thomas3, William2, Joseph1), b. Aug. 6, 1734, Newtown; m. Lydia (b. Apr. 11, 1747), dau. of Elder Elihu Marsh, and sister of Eunice, who m. Joel Northrup. He d. at the age of 77. 168

i Job5, b. Sept. 21, 1775, Brookfield.
ii Dau., b. 1776; m. (???) Waldo, and d. at Chatham,N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
iii Dau., b. (???); m. (???) Preston, of Chatham.
(Probably others.)Note in A Judd Northrop history

Another possibility is an undocumented son of George Northrop.
George * /Northrup/
Birth: 21 MAR 1754 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
Death: 11 AUG 1821 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut Mr., old age, 67 NORTHROP

            
Occupation: Shoemaker, Newtown, Connecticut
Residence: Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
more on the George possibility

Thomas (Isaac's father) Religion: Puritan
Isaac's father, Thomas Northrup, son of William, lived at Newtown, from its early settlement.

They were prominent men in public affairs. Thomas Northrup married Abigail Terrill, of Newtown. After her death, and after their children were married and settled, Thomas lived with his son at New Milford, Conn."

What can we speculate about Newtown in the mid 18th century?
Newtown was known as "An important crossroads throughout its early history" Wickipedia

While little more than wilderness when Thomas arrived, by the time Isaac was born in 1734 it would have been a hardworking agricultural community.

Within Isaac's lifetime he probably saw Newtown move from subsistence farming andsome basic trades peformed mostly at the farms to a community productive enough to send crops and goods to market.

The community had its own saw mills, fulling mills, better roads for travel

Children would have worked on the farms with their parents at least into their teens. At that point they might have hired out their sons as farmers for cash or have left home apprenticed in a trade like the carpenter or blacksmith trade. They would have tried to keep one or two children at home to help with the farm and household. A girl would have continued to live at home except for the few who might have become servants in another's home.

Here's a description of items on a farm from a 1772 loan transaction"all the wheat he has sowed on said Ketchum's land, one yoke of oxen, one mare colt, one white faced cow, three swine, a certain piece of corn on said Ketchum's ground, one iron bound cart and iron shod slay, two plows and irons, one ox yoke, two ox chains, two pair horse traces of iron, and three horse clevices"

The values of individual towns were changing as well. Land speculation and the desire for individual economic advancement, rather than the practice of religious ideals or the protection of group values, increasingly inspired the settlement of new towns in the northwest and northeast corners of the state. In old towns like Wethersfield and Simsbury, the same growing spirit of economic individualism steadily undermined the cooperative, community-centered ideal of the Puritans. Connecticut’s people, as one historian put it, were inexorably changing from “Puritans” to “Yankees.”
CHILDREN OF ISAAC NORTHROP
i Job5, b. Sept. 21, 1775, Brookfield.
bapt. South Salem, N. Y. (church record), Aug. 17, 1755. His father removed to Lenox, Mass., where Job lived for a time on his father's farm, but removed to Monroe Co., N. Y., near Rochester, about 1793. M., 1st, Sarah (???), who d. Aug. 26, 1786, at Lenox; m., 2d, Sept. 10, 1795, Sarah Bennett, at Lenox. He d. aged 93 years. Six children recorded at Lenox, of "Job and Sarah."
ii Dau., b. 1776; m. (???) Waldo, and d. at Chatham,N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
iii Dau., b. (???); m. (???) Preston, of Chatham.
(Probably others.)

William Jewett (1795-1874) - Portrait painter. Formed a partnership with Samuel Waldo and collaborated in painting many prominent men. The museum owns two landscapes by Jewett and a portrait of David Sherman Boardman by Waldo and Jewett.

Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) - Portrait painter. Studied with Stewart, and in 1806 in London with West and Copley at the Royal Academy. William Jewett became his pupil in 1812, after which they became partners.

Short Biographies of Exhibited Artists in the NMHS New Milford Hist Soc.

** NOTE THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE ISAAC4s in A judd Northrups history. The likely one for our line is descended from Thomas3, William2, Joseph1.

Have not found any record of Isaac in the Revolution. (Of course the Amos that appears in Revolutionary records can't be our Amos -- he was either a small child or not born yet.) "The story handed down in the Northrup family is that there were three branches of this family who left the US and came to Canada as Loyalists One branch to what is now Nova Scotia. One branch to Upper Canada, settling at or near Brockville. And Benajah Northrup <Eli<Joseph<Joseph<Joseph1.

 

 

(Name: Elihu Marsh
Sex: M
Birth: 18 JUL 1717 in Plainfield, CT
Death: ABT 1784 in New Milford, CT
Change Date: 2 AUG 2000
Note:
From Abbe-Abbey Genealogy:
He resided for a time in Mansfield, then removed to New Fairfield, and later to New Milford, where he purchased alnd, 1765, 1769, and 1770. His home was in the part now called Jerusalem, and he resided there until his death. He was an elder in the Strict Congregational Church of New Milford for a number of years.

From History of New Milford (Orcutt)

Settled in New Milford (CT), at the place now called Jerusalem, on Rocky River, where he resided until his decease. He officiated as the minister of the Separate Church in New Milford, and as such was of very great importance to that church, for they were not able to pay the salary of a regularly installed minister, and Mr. Marsh had an independent property of his own. Whether he ever received any salary is unknown, but he probably served them as their minister several years while living in New Fairfield, and three years after settling in New Milford.

Elihu's will (not mentioning his wife) was admited to the Woodbury court on 5/18/1784 (per original document). 9. Elder Elihu, son of Thomas Marsh, m. "Sariah" Abby; resided a time in Mansfield, Conn., then removed to New Fairfield, where he was living Sept. 30, 1765, when he purchased his first land in New Milford, it being, with other pieces, "25 acres lying north of Azariah Canfield's dwelling-house, and in partnership with John Marsh and Abraham Marsh, sons of John Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Mary Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Sarah Lake, wife of Daniel Lake, dau. of said John Marsh, deceased, also with Mary Marsh and Hannah Marsh, all the natural heirs of said John Marsh." This land lay in the vicinity of the home of the late Wanzer Marsh in Merryall. In April, 1769, he, still of New Fairfield, purchased another piece of 170 acres, for 70 pounds, lying "on both sides of Rocky river, and in August of the same year, he being then of New Milford, purchased a piece on the west side of Candlewood Mountain, with a dwelling-house on it." In May, 1770, he bought 86 acres, for 40 pounds, "lying southerly of my dwelling-house on Rocky river," of Zadoc Noble, which was formerly James McKeeney's home-lot. His home was at the place now called Jerusalem, where he resided until his decease. He served, according to tradition, as an Elder in the Strict Congregational church of N. M., a number of years. Ch.: )He resided for a time in Mansfield, then removed to New Fairfield, andlater to New Milford, where he purchased
land, 1765, 1769, and 1770. His home was in the part now calledJerusalem, and he resided there until his death. He was an elder in theStrict Congregational Church of New Milford for a number of years.

Mathias Marsh dabt 1781 reportedly owned large tracts of land in Connecticut and in Dutchess County, NY

i Job5, b. Sept. 21, 1775, Brookfield.
bapt. South Salem, N. Y. (church record), Aug. 17, 1755. His father removed to Lenox, Mass., where Job lived for a time on his father's farm, but removed to Monroe Co., N. Y., near Rochester, about 1793. M., 1st, Sarah (???), who d. Aug. 26, 1786, at Lenox; m., 2d, Sept. 10, 1795, Sarah Bennett, at Lenox. He d. aged 93 years. Six children recorded at Lenox, of "Job and Sarah."
ii Dau., b. 1776; m. (???) Waldo, and d. at Chatham,N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
iii Dau., b. (???); m. (???) Preston, of Chatham.
(Probably others.)

Isaac, along with his brothers and sisters, was born in Newtown before his father moved to New Milford, CT.

Isaac moved from Newtown to Brookfield and probably then to the Chatham NY area.

There is no proof that Isaac4 was Amos' father, but the years and locations seem to fit better than any other documented possibilities.

Again was he moving TO something or away from something? Was he moving due to British threats? To other family members to economic possibilities?

72 ISAAC4 NORTHRUP **(Thomas3, William2, Joseph1), b. Aug. 6, 1734, Newtown; m. Lydia (b. Apr. 11, 1747), dau. of Elder Elihu Marsh MARRIAGE: Abt 1768, Brookfield,CT , and sister of Eunice, who m. Joel Northrup. He d. at the age of 77. DEATH: 1811, Brookfield,NY?
http://www.pa.uky.edu/~shapere/dkbingham/d0004/g0000098.html      168
"Northrop was, in an earlier day, an emblem of the groundbreaking progressive education movement that was popular early in the 20th century. " believe this was Cyrus Northrop

PATENTEE PATDATE PATENT# TITLE RESIDENCE

Northrop, Isaac 1/7/1817 -2717 cutting and heading nails at one operation Oneida County, NY

from http://www.ptdla.org/

Maxam Lana*, of Sharon, m Allen NORTHROP of Washington, N.Y., apr 17, 1828, by Rev Phinehas Cook (* "Lana MAYSOME" in Arnold Copy)

Underground Railroad, Old Fort House Museum, Fort Edward (Solomon Northrop house)
from http://www.albanyinstitute.org/info/exhibits/Hudson%20Fulton%20Themes%20Outline.htm

Also at the Luzerne Post Office

Stop Her! $20 Reward! On the evening of the 14th inst., Desire SABIN, female prisoner, confined for adultery, made her escape from the Goal of this County. She is a fine buxom looking woman; about 40 years of age, has lost her fore teeth, her eyes are lively black, fair complexion and her countenance declares that Venus is yet at high meridian. She had no peculiar mark by which to distinguish her from other weak sisters of the household of love. Whoever will stop her, and bring her back to her place of confinement shall receive the above reward. James WHEELER, Sheriff
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pawyomin/LuzFed1807.html

** NOTE THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE ISAAC4s in A judd Northrups history. The likely one for our line is descended from Thomas3, William2, Joseph1.

72 ISAAC4 NORTHRUP **(Thomas3, William2, Joseph1), b. Aug. 6, 1734, Newtown; m. Lydia (b. Apr. 11, 1747), dau. of Elder Elihu Marsh MARRIAGE: Abt 1768, Brookfield,CT , and sister of Eunice, who m. Joel Northrup. He d. at the age of 77. DEATH: 1811, Brookfield,NY?
http://www.pa.uky.edu/~shapere/dkbingham/d0004/g0000098.html
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FATHER IN LAW (Name: Elihu Marsh
Sex: M
Birth: 18 JUL 1717 in Plainfield, CT
Death: ABT 1784 in New Milford, CT
Change Date: 2 AUG 2000
Note:
From Abbe-Abbey Genealogy:
He resided for a time in Mansfield, then removed to New Fairfield, and later to New Milford, where he purchased alnd, 1765, 1769, and 1770. His home was in the part now called Jerusalem, and he resided there until his death. He was an elder in the Strict Congregational Church of New Milford for a number of years.

From History of New Milford (Orcutt)

Settled in New Milford (CT), at the place now called Jerusalem, on Rocky River, where he resided until his decease. He officiated as the minister of the Separate Church in New Milford, and as such was of very great importance to that church, for they were not able to pay the salary of a regularly installed minister, and Mr. Marsh had an independent property of his own. Whether he ever received any salary is unknown, but he probably served them as their minister several years while living in New Fairfield, and three years after settling in New Milford.

Elihu's will (not mentioning his wife) was admited to the Woodbury court on 5/18/1784 (per original document). 9. Elder Elihu, son of Thomas Marsh, m. "Sariah" Abby; resided a time in Mansfield, Conn., then removed to New Fairfield, where he was living Sept. 30, 1765, when he purchased his first land in New Milford, it being, with other pieces, "25 acres lying north of Azariah Canfield's dwelling-house, and in partnership with John Marsh and Abraham Marsh, sons of John Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Mary Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Sarah Lake, wife of Daniel Lake, dau. of said John Marsh, deceased, also with Mary Marsh and Hannah Marsh, all the natural heirs of said John Marsh." This land lay in the vicinity of the home of the late Wanzer Marsh in Merryall. In April, 1769, he, still of New Fairfield, purchased another piece of 170 acres, for 70 pounds, lying "on both sides of Rocky river, and in August of the same year, he being then of New Milford, purchased a piece on the west side of Candlewood Mountain, with a dwelling-house on it." In May, 1770, he bought 86 acres, for 40 pounds, "lying southerly of my dwelling-house on Rocky river," of Zadoc Noble, which was formerly James McKeeney's home-lot. His home was at the place now called Jerusalem, where he resided until his decease. He served, according to tradition, as an Elder in the Strict Congregational church of N. M., a number of years. Ch.: )

Most of Isaac's siblings (children of Thomas) stayed in Connecticut, but not all stayed in Newtown.
This is the period when most of the towns in Connecticut were formed many taking portions of other towns. The boundaries change so a change in the town name does always mean that the family moved.
Here's a table with some events and dates for Thomas(Father) along with those for Isaac and his siblings.

 

Sept. 28, 1760, informed of the death of Job Northrup at Schenectady, New York." Distribution of the estate of Job Northrup at Brookfield, or Newtown, May 11, 1761. His children, Isaiah, Sarah, and Mary, chose William Northrup as their guardian, and Mehetabel Northrup was made guardian of the "three younger." This does not quite agree with dates of birth. Quite likely "Mehetabel" and "Mabel" are the same. The record is in Danbury, Conn.

51 CAPT. JONATHAN4 NORTHRUP (John3, Jeremiah2, Joseph1), b. March 3, 1715, Milford. Removed to Newtown, Conn., with his parents, when quite young. "Captain"-- commanded a company under Gen. Braddock, and afterward in the Revolution. M. June 2, 1740, Ruth Booth, who d. July 25, 1799. He d. 1783. Children b. at Newtown:
THE tract now comprising the towns of Kent and Warren was sold at auction at the court house in Windham, in March, 1738

 

Name Born Married   Age 1775 1790 1800 1810 Died
Job
Northrup

25 APR 1731 Brookfield 8 APR 1756 in Newtown Violet Peck Woodbridge b4 1758 thru 1775
On 20 Feb 1781 daughter mary marries Coe in Derby, cT
age 44
Woodbridge
(Amity), CT
Woodbridge, CT OP Woodbridge Woodbridge
00001 00001
9 NOV 1813 on visit to Sherman fm Woodbridge
Thomas Northrup
2 DEC 1732
25 AUG 1757 in Newtown Joanna Leach
Son named Amos born 1765 too early for our Amos to VT --his son Isaac born 1767 New Ffld
NF/
Sherman 1757 Farmer but someties preached 1765 Ffld perhaps preaching?
age 43
New Fairfield
Sherman
Farming was the predominant occupation, along with mills for timber, shingles, cider and grain. Early Sherman had one church, one store, a doctor, and men who could build, bank , and deal in cattle and property sales.
Ridgefield, CT?? UP deceased not listed deceased ABT. 1771 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
Isaac
Northrup

6 AUG 1734 ABT 1774 in Brookfield, Fairfield Co., CT Lydia Marsh dau of Elder Elihu Marsh a son named Job after his brother? age 41 woodbridge? or brookfield both OP
none in NY

Check Amos for 1790
new milford, OR Sharon, OR Woodbridge woodbridge
00001 00001
ABT. 1811
Sarah
Northrup

ABT. 1736 ? perhaps unmarried died age 90 ABT 1832 in Newtown age 39 not listed not listed not listed in Age 96 years Newtown, CT
Abraham Northrup
1733 or 13 Aug 1738 ABT 1766 in Litchfield Co Martha Waters (1st)
Polly Green (2nd) when he was over 70
  age 37
New Fairfield / Sherman,CT
not listed New Fairfield UP
011 00011(1?)0
only Thomas G no other thomas 14 JUN 1829
about age 91
Joel
Northrup
3 MAR 1741/42   Married: ABT 1772 in Milford, married daughter of Elder Elihu Marsh (Eunice) She was a noted housekeeper; and had at her marriage, when 28 years of age, £100 of money of her own earnings then with the Separatists. Was very religious, a great reader, and accumulated "a comfortable property. age 34 or 33
Brookfield, CT He learned the cooper's trade, then the tailor's; was a member of the First Church in New Milford, later of the Separates; was very religious, a great reader, and prosperous in business.
~1784 moved from Brookfield to Newtown later to New Milford or Watertown OP He resided in New Milford until about 1784, then in Brookfield for a few years, returning to New Milford before his death. New Milford New Milford also 1820 MAR 1824 in New Milford, Litchfield Co., Connecticut
Isaac Northrop Woodbridge & Susanna Persons of Derby -- April 20, 1780 could be parsons /pierson believe this is Job and Violet's SON not brother

Northrup, Isaac. Commission, 1791. 1 item.
A certificate commissioning him as captain of a company of Westchester County militia.

from mead family papers
http://www.westchesterhistory.com/Mead%20Family%20Papers%20Inventory.pdf

in same collection

102.7 Northrup family. Family record, 1721-1804. 1 item.
Record of the births of Nathan Northrup (1721-1801) and Eunice (–) Northrup (d. 1804)
and their 11 children, including Mary (b. 1749) who married Jacob Gilbert. Record states that the
parents were admitted to the church in South Salem in 1754.

Rockwell and Northrup, storekeepers. Account Book, 1803-05.
Thomas Rockwell and Jacob Northrup closed out accounts 7 October 1805. Near the
back is “An accompt of butter sold April 6, 1818.”

Gilbert, Mary Northrup, 146
Northrup family, 146
Northrup genealogy, 146
Northrup, Eunice, 146
Northrup, Isaac, 26
Northrup, Jacob, 160
Northrup, Nathan, 146

April 6, 1830 Obediah P. Northrop of New Hartford m Nancy M. Judson for history of Ancient Woodbury

March 20, 1822 Isaac Northrup and Ruth Wheeler marriages in Southbury - Ancient Woodbury

Jan 9, 1734 Births Abigail Northrop Newtown

March 1, 1827 deaths in Woodbury Child .of Isaac Northrop

nov 9, 1832 deaths in woodbury ea. obidiah P. Northrop om wallingford died age 54

 

 

It appears Isaac had an extra connection with Joel (each married a daughter of Elder Elihu Marsh) and it appears Isaac named his eldest (living) son after Job. Job also named his eldest after Isaac and again named a second son Isaac after the first died in infancy. Abraham had sons names Isaac and Joel. and Thomas had a son named Isaac. It appears Joel had a single son Cyrus named after no one I can find.

Both the era (with the "Great Awakening") and documentation of preaching & church membership suggest religion must have been a subject of much discussion and reflection among the Northrup/Northrop brothers. Congregeations around Connecticut were occupied with who should be allowed in the congregation and whether any of the new branches of thought were acceptable. Meanwhile members wer "Falling away" to Quakerism, Methodism and Baptism in all their flavors.

Isaac is the hardest to trace and appears to have spent some time in New York. Here's a timeline on some Isaac events

It is mentioned that Thomas moved from Newtown to live with his son in New Milford. Is it possible to decide if this was Isaac? After his wife Abigail died in ( ) and son's were raised and settled would be about 1765. Thomas dies 1786.

ISAAC4 NORTHRUP born **(Thomas3, William2, Joseph1), He d. at the age of 77. about 1811 Newtown, CT BORN Aug. 6, 1734, Newtown. Isaac was right in themiddle with two older brothers and two younger as well as a younger sister. BORN   1734 A Judd Northrup  
Lydia Marsh (Isaac's future wife) born, Mansfield, Tolland, CT dau. of Elder Elihu Marsh, and sister of Eunice, who m. Isaac's brother Joel Northrup before he married Lydia.. BORN   Apr. 11, 1747 A Judd Northrup
Rootsweb I6569
 
Father-in-law to be "1747 Elihu Marsh separatist ordination at Windham Oct 7th"
Windham,CT
NEW ORDINATION   Oct 7, 1747 The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of ...  By Joseph Tracy  
Job Northrop (the eldest brother of Isaac) of Amity marriage to Violet Peck --- April 8, 1756 in Newtown
Birth: 25 APR 1731 Death: 9 NOV 1813 Death: 9 Nov 1813 in Woodbridge, New Haven, CT or on a visit to Sherman about age 82 moved to Woodbridge before 1758

MARRIAGE  

April 8, 1756
NEWTOWN

rootsweb  
May 25. 1758 -Brother Samuel Waldo ordained
Elder Samuel Waldo
Birth: 1731
Death: 1798 in Wingdale NY
Father: Shubal Waldo b: 7 APR 1707 in Windham CT
Mother: Abigail Allen b: ABT 1712 in Bridgewater MA
Marriage 1 Hannah Waters
Children Abigail Waldo
x ORDAINED
Dover, NY and Wingdale, NY by Elder Marsh
1758 was 26 when he began his ministry in Dover First Baptist Church (Samuel Waldo's father) was ordained our Elder; by Elder Millard, and Elder Marsh
On September 7, 1764, ten members were dismissed to organize a Church in the “upper end of the Oblong” which is now Quaker Hill (Elder Samuel Waldo d. 1793) upper meeting house in Dover and the lower meeting houses which today would be in Wingdale.
BEEKMAN’S PRECINCT, NY
 

Samuel Waldo Painter primarily Portraits
Formed a partnership with Samuel Waldo(this must be the son) and collaborated in painted many prominent men some in collaboration with William Jewett (1795-1874) . The museum owns a portrait of David Sherman Boardman by Waldo and Jewett.
From 1820 to 1854, Waldo worked with an apprentice, William Jewett, in a highly successful portrait painting partnership until Jewitt's retirement. It is thought that Waldo did the overall design and executed the head and hands. He also did individual portraits, considered superior to the joint portraits.

Samuel Lovett Waldo1 was born April 6, 1783 in Windham, Connecticut, the second of eight children born to Zacheus Waldo (1756–1834) and Esther Stevens Waldo (1758–1825).2 The elder Waldo was a veteran of the American Revolution who earned his living as a farmer and miller. Samuel Waldo received his first formal art instruction in 1799 from Joseph Steward (1753–1822), who was a minister, painter, and museum keeper in Hartford. Steward painted in a wooden style and his compositions were derivative of the work of Ralph Earl.  Waldo moved next to Litchfield, a small but thriving town in northwestern Connecticut.3 There he met the Congressman John Rutledge, who invited Waldo to Charleston, South Carolina, where he earned enough commissions between 1803 and 1805 to finance a trip to London.

  partnership 1820-1854    
           
Isaac's father-in-law, Elder Elihu Marsh
He served, according to tradition, as an Elder in the Strict Congregational church of N. M., a number of years. Ch
  LAND PURCHASE
New Milford
Sept. 30, 1765

1765 when Elihu Marsh, Sr., bought land, in that locality New Miford,—. He must have removed to the north part of Bridgewater soon after, for he appears to have been residing there during the Revolution. He resided for a time in Mansfield, then removed to New Fairfield, and later to New Milford, where he purchased land, 1765 (Merryall) , 1769 West side Candlewood Mountain where he buildt his homestead, and 1770. His home was in the part now called Jerusalem, and he resided there until his death.

 

Obadiah Preston born
(Death: 1842 lived in Chatham New York).
Father: Martin Preston b: ABT. 1740
Mother: Rebe cca Judd b: ABT. 1742 Marriage
Married Amy Northrop: 1792
       Children:       Judd M. Preston b: 1809

x BORN 1765 rootsweb ID: I21638  
Isaac Northrup marries Lydia Marsh, Brookfield dau of Elder Elihu Marsh. This seems a rather late marriage. (her sister, Eunice married Joel was 3 yrs younger)

Isaac
age 35-40
Lydia ~
age 22
MARRIES 1774?? prob should be 1769 or 1771 A Judd Northrup
Rootsweb ID: I13535
 
Abiah NORTHRUP daughter of Isaac & Lydia born Brookfield,
(dies 14 JUL 1865 in Chatham, Columbia, New York daughter Hannah WALDO b: 17 APR 1796 in Chatham, Columbia, New York marries Joseph Benjamin ELIOT b: 23 JUL 1793 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut)
later she marries waldo maybe
x BORN 16 APR 1770
OR 1772
Rootsweb ID: I13535(Rootsweb ID: I10800)  
Samuel (II)/Waldo (who later marries Northrop daughter   BORN 8 NOV 1769
South Dover, New York


Samuel (II)/Waldo/
death 4 MAY 1858 Chatham,Columbia Co, NY

 
           
Thomas, father of Isaac After wife dies and when children grown and settled Thomas moves to New Milford and lives with one of sons Isaac ~ 31
youngest son Joel ~ 23

MOVED TO LIVE WITH SON about 1765 A Judd Northrup  
Newtown was a stronghold of Tory sentiment during the early American Revolutionary War. 41 REVOLUTION 1775 Wickipedia  
Isaac Northrup 41 REVOLUTION 1775 CALCULATED  
dau in law, Rachel Ives later marries Amos Northrop   BORN ~ 1775 A Judd Northrup  
Is itpossible some of the family were living with Elder Elihu Marsh at his homestead in Jerusalem New Milford, CT during the revolution? see 1765     1775    
Job (5) Northrop, Son of Isaac and Lydia, is born Brookfield, CT 21 SEP 1775
41 BORN Sept. 21, 1775
Brookfield.
A Judd Northrup
Rootsweb ID: I13535
named after his brother Job?

d. 22 SEP 1845 in Wallingford, Connecticut
Occupation: Teacher - 16 years, Excellent penman and great joker, Job exchanged 16 farms, Resided at Middlebury, Woodbury, etc., Connecticut & Chatham, Columbia Co., New York

bapt. South Salem, N. Y. (church record), Aug. 17, 1755. His father removed to Lenox, Mass., where Job lived for a time on his father's farm, but removed to Monroe Co., N. Y., near Rochester, about 1793. M., 1st, Sarah (???), who d. Aug. 26, 1786, at Lenox; m., 2d, Sept. 10, 1795, Sarah Bennett, at Lenox. He d. aged 93 years. Six children recorded at Lenox, of "Job and Sarah."
 
     
         
Daughter Northrop Born later marries m. (???) Waldo, and d. at Chatham,N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
?? NORTHROP b: Wft Est. 1750-1787 Marriage 1 Unknown WALDO b: Wft Est. 1741-1785   Rootsweb ID: I13535              ID: I10800?
  BORN 1776 A. Judd Northrop  

iii Dau., born (???); later m. (???) Preston, of Chatham.
Amy Northrop rootsweb ID: I21638

  ?BORN? after 1766 A Judd Northrup
rootsweb ID: I21638
 
           
daughter born perhaps Abiah? 42 BORN 1776
 
daughter born perhaps 43? BORN maybe1777
???
iii Dau., b. (???); m. (???) Preston, of Chatham.  
Amos Northrop born ? check later census Isaac ~ 44 BORN 1778 (Probably others.)Note in A Judd Northrop  
(Probably others.) Note in A Judd Northrop history   BORN 1779- A Judd Northrop  
           
Matthias, son of Thomas Marsh (brother of Eunice and Lydia)

THIS IS HOW MARSHS AND NORTHROPS CAME TO BE IN KENT AREA
    Prob before 1780
Long Mountain Road, New Milford
On the East the boundary of Gaylordsville is Quanuctnic or Long Mountain.
settled at "Beekman's Precinct," Dover, in Dutchess Co., N. Y., and when residing there bought of Elnathan Brigham of Mansfield, Conn., for 5, 675 pounds, old tenor, 436 acres of land in several pieces; one piece "on both sides of West Aspetuck river, containing 97 acres," and 255 "acres on the west side of the country road leading to Kent," and other pieces adjoining the last, as well as one on Long Mountain. Some of the above described land he sold to Reuben Bostwick, and some to his brother, William Marsh, and some of this land, after passing through the hands of two or three parties, was purchased by Elder Elihu Marsh of Rocky river, and was afterwards occupied for many years by his descendants.  
    BORN   (Probably others.)Note in A Judd Northrop history  
Brookfield becomes a town x BROOKFIED 1780 A part of the town was set off from Newtown & others to form part of the town of Brookfield  
Newtown French General Rochambeau and his troops encamped here in 1781 on their way to the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, which ended the Revolution.
Isaac ~ 47
Amos ~ 3
REVOLUTION 1781 Wickipedia  
           
Susan Cady   BORN 25 SEP 1781 Susan cady born future wife of Job, son of Isaac) daughter of  
           

Joseph Marsh, son of Elder Elihu and Sarah Marsh,(brother of Eunice and Lydia Marsh Northrop) marries Abigail Waldo (dies early Jan. 28, 1793) HERE IS A CLEAR CONNECTION TO WALDO FAMILY

  MARRIES Nov. 29, 1781 rootsweb

 
Marsh Siblings       Other Marsh Children later lived in Sherman, CT and one moved to Vermont
Thomas, father of Isaac dies in 1786. Must be Isaac or Joel (Joel does not move to New Milford until after 1784, removed to Brookfield, then to New Milford ~ 86 DIES 1786 or 7
New Milford
A Judd Northrup
87
date - rootsweb
I640645288
           
Isaac Northrup/op Isaac 56
Amos age 12
Job age 15
CENSUS 1790 woodbridge? or brookfield both OP
none in NY

Check Amos for 1790
 
Isaac Northrop
This fits better with the dates, 3 daughters or a boarder, relative or servant for the extra female. Also closer to Rachel Ives family CT NEW HAVEN WOODBRIDGE
Isaac 56
Amos age 12
Job age 15
CENSUS 1790 CENSUS
1 male over 16, 2 males under 16, 4 females Total of 7 Amos age 12, Job age 15
Lydia and 3 daughters
 
Isaac Northrop
. Don't think this is right UnLESS Job is apprenticed to someone and not at home CT FAIRFIELD BROOKFIELD
Isaac 56
Amos age 12
Job age 15
CENSUS 1790 CENSUS
1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, 3 females, Total of 5 amos age 12, Job age 15, 2 daughters
 
Isaac Northrop none in new york Isaac 56
Amos age 12
Job age 15
CENSUS 1790 CENSUS  
NORTHROP JOB Isaac's brother Job Isaac's brother 59 CENSUS 1790 CENSUS
2 males over 16, 3 males under 16, 5 females, Total 10. Job age 15 too young to have this family MA BERKSHIRE LENOX
 
           

Amy Northrop marries Obadiah Preston

East Chatham. It is an important station on the Boston and Albany railroad, The early settlers in this locality were Garrett M. Rowe, Obadiah Preston, Joshua Gifford, Noadiah Gillett, and M. Vanderpoel. ??When did Preston move to Chatham??
Chatham Centre is a little west of the centre of the town, on both banks of Kinderhook creek. a station on the Boston and Albany railroad. (The Boston and Worcester Railroadbuilt 1831-1833;)The Methodist have a neat church.
?? one of the oldest villages in the town, and was for many years the most important. It is north and east from the centre of the town. It is a station on the Harlem Extension railroad
(built 1852)

Don't know where married
  MARRIES 1792 rootsweb ID: I21638
from book on history of Chatham http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/
columbia/chatham/index_chat.htm
 
Joseph Marsh, son of Elder Elihu and Sarah Marsh,(brother of Eunice and Lydia)   MARRIES Nov. 19, 1793 He m., 2d, Deborah Waldo, after Abigail Waldo died in 1793.. He resided on his father's homestead. (New Milford) He did much for, and was the first to undertake the draining of Wood Creek Meadows by lowering the bed of Rocky River.  
GARRET IVES   BORN March 19, 1794 GARRET IVES, b. March 19, 1794. son or Aner and Rachel neighbors and distant relatives to Rachel and Amos Possible source for Garritt's name?  
daughter, Abiah Northrop   MARRIES 1794-1796? Daughter (prob Abiah) marries Samuel Waldo son of Elder of Dover (NY) First Baptist Church
Dau., b. 1776; m. (???) Waldo, and d. at Chatham,N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
 
Abiah marries Samuel WALDO , Jr. b: 8 NOV 1769 in South Dover, New York (Rootsweb ID: I10800) Son of Elder Samuel Waldo and Hannah Waters
The "First Baptist Church of Dover" was organized 1757, built the "Red Meeting House" at South Dover(Wingdale) in 1758. The first pastor of this church, Samuel Waldo, is buried in this ground. On September 7, 1764, ten members were dismissed to organize a Church in the “upper end of the Oblong” which is now Quaker Hill. upper meeting house in Dover and the lower meeting houses which today would be in Wingdale.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county
/dutchess/data/cems/familygrounddover1.htm
South Dover, NY by Webatuck and Wingdale just across border from bulls bridge lower edge of Kent/Sherman
  MARRIES

1795? Rootsweb ID: I10800  
           
Obadiah Preston mention in Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York Dutchess couty Lieutenant, Vice E. Preston, Dutchess County, E. Preston,1797

 

 
PROMOTED 1797 Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York  
Elijah Northrop   CENSUS 1800
Washington, CT
CENSUS 11010 12010 00  
Isaac Northrop 1011030 11000 only northrop/up is in hudson none in canaan or chathamNY COLUMBIA HUDSON   CENSUS 1800 CENSUS  
Amos Northrop matches A Judd info for ages and location mentioned Kent, CT   CENSUS 1800 CENSUS  
new milford, OR Sharon, OR Woodbridge   CENSUS 1800 CENSUS  
           

Isaac's Son Job Northrup marries Susan Cady.

New Concord (Chatham) is a very pleasant hamlet, in the southeastern part of the town, near the Canaan line. It is about five miles northeast from Chatham village, and a mile south form East Chatham, on the railroad, There are about thirty houses, mostly the homes of retired families. the early settlers in this locality were the Palmers, Bebees, Eastons, Pratts, Savages, Lovejoys, Dotys, and Cadys.

Chatham, NY Columbia County
  MARRIES 1802 A Judd Northrop  
son, Amos marries Rachel Ives   MARRIES   ?  
           
Job, bro of Amos Job about age 27 Susan about age 21 MARRIES Married: 1802 in Chatham, Columbia, NY Son Job marries Susan Cady Prob Presbyterian? Susan Cady Stanton was brought up Presbyterian and then left organized religion in her book mentions Immediately after the death of my brother, a journey was planned to visit our grandmother Cady, who lived in Canaan, Columbia County about 1826. Children born Chatham 1803 through 1816  
Amos ' son Alvin Northrop born (Amos about 25 Rachel about 28 ) later census check ny or ct Chatham NY or ??? (Alvin's 1870 census says born NY)   BORN 4/15/1803 A Judd Northrop  
Son of Job and Susan Cady named Obadiah Preston Northrop (??None named for Amos??) prob Brookfield?   BORN Jan. 6, 1809 A Judd Northrop  
    CENSUS 1810 CENSUS
woodbridge
00001 00001
 
    DIES ABT. 1811    
           
Amos's son Gerrit Northrop born (Alvin about age 9 Amos 34, Rachel 37)Chatham, NY   BORN 8/9/1812 A Judd Northrop  
In 1814 the Town Clerk for Chatham was Job Northup. 1786 when Columbia County was taken from Albany and to 1795 when the town of Chatham was taken from Kinderhook At a later period than the settlements in the western part were those in the south and the east of the town, made by immigrants from Dutchess county and the New England States. Many of those in the latter section were members of the Society of Friends, whose relations with the natives here, as elsewhere, were of the most amicable nature.

Early in 1800 a post road had been made from Albany east. After crossing the creek, it divided, one part south through Spencertown to Hartford, the other branch climbed the hills into Massachusetts.

That part of Chatham has been settled principally by English people, coming usually from Connecticut.

Then came the railroad. (after 1814??) Chatham, NY
  OFFICIAL POSITION 1814 WEB  
           
Amos Northrup
one male under 10, one male 18-26, one male 26-45, one female 26-45, one female 45 and over, 3 engaged in agriculture Alvin about 17, Gerrit about 8
Kent, CT
  CENSUS 1820 CENSUS  
           
Amos' son Alvin married Alvin age 23, Amos Kent,   MARRIES July 2, 1826 x  
Northrop Lydia w of Isaac   DIES Mar 11, 1828
middlebury, CT
d Mar 11, 1828 age 81 yrs from records of Middlebury, CT (Hale Collection  
           
Amos 52, Alvin age 27 Rachel Kent   CENSUS 1830 CENSUS  
Gerrit's son James Edward Northrop Amos age 62, Alvin age 37 Warren, CT   BORN Jan. 26, 1839, A Judd Northrop  
Amos Age No Census Available online where ??   CENSUS 1840 CENSUS  
Gerrit's son Charles Alvin Northrop, b. ( Amos age , Alvin age 43) BORN July 6,1886 prob shd be 1846   BORN 1846 A Judd Northrop  
Gerrit's dau, Eliza Ann Northrop (Alvin Age 44, Amos Age 69 ) BORNDec. 7, 1847   BORN 1847 A Judd Northrop  
Amos Age 72, Alvin age 47 where?   CENSUS 1850 CENSUS  
Amos Northrop aged 69   DIES 5/19/1855 means birth of about 1786?? fm History of Ancient Woodbury deaths in Washington, CT  
           
Amos Dies age 80, Alvin is 55   DIES 5/16/1858
Warren, CT
A Judd Northrop  
           
Samuel (II)/Waldo (who married Northrop daughter   DIES 4 MAY 1858 Chatham,Columbia Co, NY Samuel (II)/Waldo/
death

Rootsweb

 
           
dau in law, Rachel Ives       prob Congregational  
Dea Obidiah P Northrop   DIES 11/9/1862 from Wallingford fm History of Ancient Woodbury  
Martha Northrop Aged 77     2/16//1869
woodbury
fm History of Ancient Woodbury Is she related??  
      1797 ISAAC NORTHRUP 1797 as one of assessors of Hudson, NY SW of Chatham, ny. Also assessed NORTHROP at $150 pounds. not the highest, but definitely well-to-do.  
      1799 1799 charter for Columbia county turnpike Hudson-(across the Taghkanic hills) built in that year and in 1800, running from Hudson city to the Massachusetts line, through the towns of Hudson, Greenport, Claverack, Taghkanic, Copake, and Hillsdale, about twenty miles. Isaac Northrup was one of the turnpike toll road company. This appears to have been a successful venture, although other later toll roads in the area (by other corporations) may have been less advantageous .  
Job Northrop and Susan Cady Northrop     between 1816 and 1817 Move to Sharon CT from Chatham, NY. None of the children listed are named Amos. NORTHROP, Adeline, dau. of Job and Susan, b. July 8, 1816, d. June 26, 1817. in Ellsworth Sharon (charon) burying ground.  
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815October 26, 1902 (daughter of Judge Daniel Cady Elizabeth Smith CADY b: 12 Nov 1815 in Johnstown, New York, USA)  

FROM THOMAS PAGE

1701 THOMAS3 NORTHRUP (William2, Joseph1), b. March 16, 1701, Milford
1705 The town of Newtown, originally known as Quanneapague, was purchased from the Pohtatuck (members of the Algonquin Federation.) Indians in 1705.
1708

In 1708, 36 Connecticut Englishmen petitioned the General Assembly to settle an area north of Stratford. The 36 became "petition proprietors" legally entitled to own its common land and share in the division when the town decided to parcel out tracts into private hands. In May 1708, the General Assembly voted that the land on the west side of Stratford or Potatuck River should become New Towne of the town of Newtowne.

1709-1710

1In 1709, a "Town Plat" (a design for town roads and properties) was established calling for a 132-foot wide north-south road (now Main Street), intersected by a northern and southern Cross Highway (now West Street/Church Hill Road and Glover Avenue.) Their 4 acre home lots in this center were usually saltbox or small cottages. In the back were a barn, privies and other small outbuildings, and typically an orchard farther back. Small gardens were started for vegetables and herbs.

Each 4 acre meadow plot was a little southwest of the area shown - by Deep Brook. Each had an additional 20 acres elsewhere. As time went on, people built home by their larger plots and started to form small communities. There were now 48 early proprietors with a 49th parcel was reserved for the minister when one was chosen.

1711 The town was incorporated in 1711.as the town of Newtown.
1712 Among the residents of Newtown, in 1712, were Thomas Northrup (age 11) , Benjamin (age 16) and Jeremiah (perhaps 18) and John Northrup perhaps as old as 20 (brothers-- all sons of Jeremiah2 except for Thomas) Northrup. This seems young for Thomas. He is the only recorded Thomas alive at the time. It is possible he did not arrive until later.
The town's first settlers had a lot in common. They were generally in their late 20s and early 30s, mostly from Stratford and Milford, and second- and third-generation immigrants and farmers to a man. A move to the interior meant they could have more land to farm. Most of the men settled with their families on the original four-acre plots in a relatively compact village near the main street.[1]
1712 cousins settle in Newtown

LIEUT. JOHN3 NORTHRUP (Jeremiah2, Joseph1), He and his brothers, Jeremiah and Benjamin (Deacon Benjamin A Northrup mason), were among the first settlers of Newtown, Conn., where they took their "pitch" with others for home lots, commencing Apr. 7, 1712, Each to have 4 acres of meadow land

1713-14 "Lieutenant John." Married Jan. 7, 1713-14, Mary Porter, (who d. March 19, 1786, aged 97 years.)
1715

May 1715 "Upon the petition of the inhabitants of New Town , This Assembly grant them liberty to embody in church estate as soon as God in his providence shall make way therefor."

1715- Newtown was known as "An important crossroads throughout its early history" Wickipedia
1715-1730

Life of the town probably included clearing forests, setting out the roads, fences and meadow as designated in the plat, building the meetinghouse and organizing a school for 4 or 5 months in the winter, A tavern or two probably existed from before the incorporation but more may have been established. Mills were established by Town meeting vote and commissioned to various citizens at an early date. Travel, mostly by horseback or ox cart, was difficult over the primitive roads of the era which were little better than rutted paths.

Children would have worked on the farms with their parents at least into their teens. At that point the parents might have hired out their sons as farmers for cash or sent the sons to be apprenticed in a trade like the carpenter or blacksmith trade. They may have tried to keep one or two children at home to help with the farm and household. A girl would have continued to live at home until she was married.

1715 First official Town highway outside the center was laid out to the boundary of Stratford (now Monroe) following the old Indian trail along what is now Main Street South. Other highways were laid out shortly after to connect to the several fords of the Housatonic, and to adjoining towns, most following original trails.
By 1715 By 1715 – saw mills set up on Deep Brook, Halfway River and at the mouth of the Pootatuck Brook, along with a fulling mill on Deep Brook.
1718 Thomas would have been about 17 by this age he would have been farming full-time or would have been apprenticed in some other profession. Without any further information, it's probably safe to assume he is a farmer.
1720 Northrup cousins LIEUT. JOHN3 NORTHRUP (Jeremiah2, Joseph1), and brothers, Jeremiah and Benjamin A. Northrup (mason and a Deacon of Congregational Church), a are together allotted 10 acres more.
1722 Thomas Married 1722 in Milford to Abigail Terrill, dau. of Daniel.prob. First Congregational Church Milford,
1722 Cousin John appointed Selectman LIEUT. JOHN3 NORTHRUP (Jeremiah2, Joseph1)He was appointed Selectman in 1722, and held the office 13 years; was Town Clerk from 1739 to 1752. He was a weaver. He was known as "Lieutenant John."M. March 4, 1724, Sarah Platt.
1718 1718 Newtown granted permission to tax for meeting house.
1725 1725 Newtown to make a list of polls and rateable estate
1727 1727 Newtown among the towns shall have a town brand for their horses and other creatures which shall be the letters and figures hereafter made.
1731 Thomas' son born 70 i Job4, born Apr. 25,
b. Apr. 25, 1731, Newtown, Conn.; m. Apr. 8, 1756, Violet Peck, dau. of Joseph and Rebecca (Shepard) Peck, in Newtown, and removed to Woodbridge, Conn., where he lived and reared his family. His wife d. Feb. 17, 1813, aged 78. He d. Nov. 9, 1813, while on a visit at Sherman, Conn.
1732 Thomas' son born 71 ii Thomas, b. Dec. 2, 1732.
b. Dec. 2, 1732, Newtown; m. Aug. 25, 1757, at New Fairfield, Conn., Joanna, dau. of Amos and Mercy (Martin) Leach. In 1759 had son in Sherman and 1765 son in Fairfield He d. (???), and his widow m., 2d, (???) Page, and removed to Vermont, to her 3 s., and d. there about 1832, aged 99. Thomas was a farmer, but sometimes preached.
1733 In 1733, a ferry was authorized to operate on the Housatonic to connect to Woodbury (modern Southbury)( replaced in 1781 by a "pole bridge" near the present-day Rochambeau (I-84) Bridge.)
1734 Thomas' son born

ISAAC4 NORTHRUP (Thomas3, William2, Joseph1)born b. Aug. 6, 1734 in Newtown, CT. **(Thomas3, William2, Joseph1), He d. at the age of 77. about 1811 [one source says says died brookfield NY] Newtown, CT .   Isaac was right in the middle with two older brothers and two younger as well as a younger sister. m. Lydia (b. Apr. 11, 1747), dau. of Elder Elihu Marsh MARRIAGE: Abt 1768, Brookfield, CT , and sister of Eunice, who m. Joel Northrup.

1735 or 36 Thomas' father, William dies (Will probated, New Haven, June 28, 1736)
~1736 iv Sarah, b. (Newtown CT); d. at Newtown, aged 96.
1738 73 v Abraham, b. Aug. 13, 1738 or 1733 in New Fairfield
b. Aug. 13, 1738; m., 1778 son born in Sherman. 1st, Martha Waters, who d. July 6, 1809, aged 70; and m., 2d, Polly Green, when he was over 70 years old. He d. June 14, 1829.
1740s

Waning, too, was the influence of the Congregational church. Once utterly dominant in the colony, Congregationalists saw Baptists, Quakers and even Anglicans establish congregations in Connecticut in the early 1700s. In the 1740s a wave of intensely emotional religious revivals, known as the “Great Awakening,” swept the colony, further weakening the established church. The “Great Awakening” provided deep divisions in the Congregational church between “Old Lights,” true to the established Congregational church, and “New Lights,” who favored a less rational, more emotional and often anti-establishment approach to religious experience. “Old Lights” were appalled by the “screechings, cryingsout, faintings and convulsions” that accompanied the preaching of such celebrated ministers by George Whitefield and James Davenport: but these preachers succeeded in pulling many followers from the established church, particularly in eastern Connecticut. Many “New Lights” abandoned the church for evangelical sects more sympathetic to their views and became Baptists and Methodists. Some “Old Lights,” repelled by the excesses of the Great Awakening, sought order and reason among the Anglicans. The Congregational church never recovered from these blows. The basic values and ideals of the Puritans would continue to influence Connecticut for decades, but by the 1750s their utter dominance had ended and a new, more in­dividualistic, religiously diverse and far more economically aggressive society had emerged.
By Bruce Fraser

1741 Judea, (incorporated first in 1741) and New Preston were the two parishes that would later become Washington.
1742 Connecticut prohibited itinerant preachers in 1742. and refused to recognize separatist congregations so they would have to keep paying taxes ti spuuort the established Congregational Church. (baptists, Anglicans and Quakers however, were tolerated.
1742 74 vi Joel, b. March 3, 1742. Newtown
), b. March 3, 1742; m. Eunice (b. Dec., 1744), dau. of Elder Elihu and Sarah Abby Marsh. She d. May 1, 1811, aged 67. He was a cooper, then a tailor. United with the First Church in New Milford, then with the Separatists. Was very religious, a great reader, and accumulated "a comfortable property." Resided, after marriage, first in Newtown, then, about 1784, removed to Brookfield, then to New Milford, where he d. March 10, 1824
1742 Spinning Wheel Inn
Eli Sanford, purchased a tract of land in what is now Redding from a Sagamore Mohawk Indian  chief, Chief Chickens Warrup. The deed of sale was signed: Chickens X Sagamore. Master Sanford built the inn as a salt box design in 1742. Legend has it that he built secret rooms as a repository for contraband. In fact, in 1777, Governor Tryon's troops marched right past the inn, on their way from Westport, to burn supplies in Danbury. For a short time a boot and shoemaking trade was carried on in part of the inn. An early contract tells of a young apprentice "who would learn the art or trade of boot and shoemaking, and at the expiration of his indenture, be presented with a full and complete suit of apparel, proper for holidays and occasions of worship.
1747 Lydia Marsh (Isaac's future wife) born, Mansfield, Tolland, CT dau. of Elder Elihu Marsh, and sister of Eunice, who m. Isaac's brother Joel Northrup before he married Lydia. Apr. 11, 1747
1747 Father-in-law to be "1747 Elihu Marsh separatist ordination at Windham Oct 7th"
Windham,CT Oct 7, 1747
~1750 Abigail Terrill dies sometime after this date
1750s While travel remained difficult, Newtown was on one of four east-west "Colonial Highways" established by Connecticut in the mid-eighteenth century to provide links with sister colonies. The route from Hartford to the Westchester-Hudson Valley area in New York entered Newtown via the ferry from Woodbury, passed through the village center and westward by the road to Danbury.
1756 Job Northrop (the eldest brother of Isaac) of Amity marriage to Violet Peck --- April 8, 1756 in Newtown    Birth: 25 APR 1731 Death: 9 NOV 1813 Death: 9 Nov 1813 in Woodbridge, New Haven, CT or on a visit to Sherman about age 82 moved to Woodbridge before 1758
1756 Job Northrop (the eldest brother of Isaac) is already "of Amity" by the time of his marriage on April 8, 1756 in Newtown The area, formed of New Haven and Milford, was later incorporated as WOODBRIDGE in 1784.Ther is some mention of dissent in the formation of Amity. It is not known whether there was some religious basis to it's separation of whether this refers only to the long period of time betwwen the initial request for a separate parish -- as early as 1717. " Whether the fact that North Haven, which was constituted a society in 1718, was moving for the same purpose, and the old Center Church was afraid of losing too many of her children at a time, or for some other reason, they only obtained winter privileges... It was not till twenty years after this, in 1737, that they obtained the consent" Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
"There was a saw mill owned by Mr. Northrop, in the valley southwest of Mr. Bennett Peck's; a saw mill and bolt works, at the Isaac Smith place." and also "There was a mill for grinding various kinds of grain, and also a saw mill owned by a Mr. Northrop, and still in possession of a descendant of the family, and owned by Mr. Frank Northrop, in the vicinity of Mr. Dwight N. Clark's".from Colonial Woodbury section of
Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, By New Haven Colony Historical Society It's quite possible at least one of these refers to Job.
There is also mention of Ebenezer Peck perhaps a relative of Job's wife, Violet.
1760s By the 1760's most of Newtown's primeval forest cover had been reduced to scattered wood lots, and self sufficient small farms dotted the landscape. A checkerboard pattern of small fields, already stumped and being cleared of stones, extended throughout every section.
~ 1765 Thomas, father of Isaac After wife dies and when children grown and settled Thomas moves to New Milford and lives with one of sons Isaac ~ 31 youngest son Joel ~
1765

1765 Elihu Marsh, Sr., bought land, in New Milford(Merryall), removed to the north part of Bridgewater, he appears to have been residing there during the Revolution. Resided for a time in Mansfield, then to New Fairfield, and later to New Milford, he purchased more land, 1769 & 1770 West side Candlewood Mountain ( Jerusalem, on Rocky River)New Milford where he built his homestead, he resided there until his death. [while living in New Fairfield, and three years after settling in New Milford.]

25 acres lying north of Azariah Canfield's dwelling-house, and in partnership with John Marsh and Abraham Marsh, sons of John Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Mary Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Sarah Lake, wife of Daniel Lake, dau. of said John Marsh, deceased, also with Mary Marsh and Hannah Marsh, all the natural heirs of said John Marsh." This land lay in the vicinity of the home of the late Wanzer Marsh in Merryall. In April, 1769, he, still of New Fairfield, purchased another piece of 170 acres, for 70 pounds, lying "on both sides of Rocky river, and in August of the same year, he being then of New Milford, purchased a piece on the west side of Candlewood Mountain, with a dwelling-house on it." In May, 1770, he bought 86 acres, for 40 pounds, "lying southerly of my dwelling-house on Rocky river," of Zadoc Noble, which was formerly James McKeeney's home-lot. His home was at the place now called Jerusalem, where he resided until his decease (Most of Jerusalem was flooded by Candlewood Lake but Jerusalem Road exists to this day.)

for more Marsh details http://www.dunhamwilcox.net/ct/new_milford6.htm

1764 ???Isaac Northrop m. Hannah Wheeler Sept 27, 1764 She died March 6, 1765. Derby history of the old town of Derby, Connecticut,
1769,71 or 74 Isaac Northrup marries Lydia Marsh, Brookfield dau of Elder Elihu Marsh. This seems a rather late marriage. (her sister, Eunice married Joel was 3 yrs younger) Isaac age 35-40 Lydia ~ age 22.
1757 By 1757 the meeting house was dedicated, the Iron Works had been in operation since 1732 and the area had a gristmill since 1748. in 1788 became town of Brookfield. Cousin Amos Northrop collected Brookfield’s first taxes for the meeting house before Brookfield became Brookfield. Cousin Amos was also a representative to the Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut in 1757.

Once Brookfield was a town, the residents elected a Town Clerk, Selectmen, State representatives, a Tythingman, Howards, Fence Viewers, Collector of the Town Rate, List Takers, Grand Juryman, Gager, Snow Packer, Leather Sealer, Sealer of Weights, Sealer of Measures, Bee Keeper and Surveyor of Highways.  http://www.brookfieldcthistory.org/page_Brookfield.html#Newbury
  With Isaac's and Job's marriages to Lydia and Enice Marsh there are two joinings of Northrups to Marshes. the Separatist beliefs of Father-in-law Elihu may be significant in other aspects. Isaac's child will marry a Waldo and a number of Waldos were prominent Separatists and Baptists. It MAY also have some significance in their connection to villages in New York, including Chatham, NY.
1770 or 1772 Abiah NORTHRUP daughter of Isaac & Lydia born Brookfield (formerly Newbury parish of New Milford. By 1757 they had their own Congregational Church became Brookfield in 1778
(dies 14 JUL 1865 in Chatham, Columbia, New York daughter Hannah WALDO b: 17 APR 1796 in Chatham, Columbia, New York marries Joseph Benjamin ELIOT b: 23 JUL 1793 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut)
later she marries waldo maybe 16 APR 1770
OR 1772
  As early as 1732 in an area that became known as the Iron Works District. Brookfield was a thriving town with iron furnaces, grist mills, sawmills, comb shops, carding and cotton mills, a paper mill, a knife factory, hat factories, stage-coach shops, lime kilns, harness shops and other plants in operation. The grist mill still stands, as The Brookfield Craft Center building.
1772 1772> Joel Northrup Marrried Eunice Marsh daughter of Elihu Marsh in New Milford
~? Marsh Siblings Other Marsh Children later lived in Sherman, CT and one moved to Vermont
1775 Revolutionary War Isaac prob. 41 Have not found any record of Isaac in the Revolution. (Of course the Amos that appears in Revolutionary records can't be our Amos -- he was either a small child or not born yet.)
1775 Isaac prob in Brookfield for birth of son, Job5, b. Sept. 21, 1775, Brookfield.
A Judd Northrup
Rootsweb ID: I13535
named after his brother Job?

d. 22 SEP 1845 in Wallingford, Connecticut
Occupation: Teacher - 16 years, Excellent penman and great joker, Job exchanged 16 farms, Resided at Middlebury, Woodbury, etc., Connecticut & Chatham, Columbia Co., New York

?? this part may be about another Job bapt. South Salem, N. Y. (church record), Aug. 17, 1755. His father removed to Lenox, Mass., where Job lived for a time on his father's farm, but removed to Monroe Co., N. Y., near Rochester, about 1793. M., 1st, Sarah (???), who d. Aug. 26, 1786, at Lenox; m., 2d, Sept. 10, 1795, Sarah Bennett, at Lenox. He d. aged 93 years. Six children recorded at Lenox, of "Job and Sarah."
1775 Newtown was a stronghold of Tory sentiment during the early American Revolutionary War. There is no one I've found in the William line who was a Tory, but it's reported that there were three branches of this family who left the US for Canada as Loyalists One to Nova Scotia, one to Upper Canada near Brockville and Benajah Northrup <Eli<Joseph<Joseph<Joseph1.
1776 Isaac had child reported to be daughter., b. 1776 location of birth not reported Daughter Northrop Born later marries m. (???) Waldo, and d. at Chatham,N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
?? NORTHROP b: Wft Est. 1750-1787 Marriage 1 Unknown WALDO b: Wft Est. 1741-1785   Rootsweb ID: I13535              ID: I10800? daughter born perhaps Abiah?
after 1777 iii Dau., born (???); later m. (???) Preston, of Chatham.
Amy Northrop rootsweb ID: I21638
~1778 The Revolutionary period saw the passing through of the French General Rochambeau.
1778 Amos Northrop born ? check later census Isaac ~ 44 location unknown Alvin is only one with documentation he was born someplace in NY
1779 (Probably others.) Note in A Judd Northrop history
Prob before 1780
Long Mountain Road, New Milford
On the East the boundary of Gaylordsville is Quanuctnic or Long Mountain.

Matthias, son of Thomas Marsh (brother of Eunice and Lydia) or grandson of Elihu Marsh

IS THIS HOW MARSHS AND NORTHROPS CAME TO BE IN KENT AREA

settled at "Beekman's Precinct," Dover, in Dutchess Co., N. Y., and when residing there bought of Elnathan Brigham of Mansfield, Conn., for 5, 675 pounds, old tenor, 436 acres of land in several pieces; one piece "on both sides of West Aspetuck river, containing 97 acres," and 255 "acres on the west side of the country road leading to Kent," and other pieces adjoining the last, as well as one on Long Mountain. Some of the above described land he sold to Reuben Bostwick, and some to his brother, William Marsh, and some of this land, after passing through the hands of two or three parties, was purchased by Elder Elihu Marsh of Rocky river, and was afterwards occupied for many years by his descendants.

1780 A part of the town was set off from Newtown & others to form part of the town of Brookfield
1781 Newtown French General Rochambeau and his troops encamped here in 1781 on their way to the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, which ended the Revolution. Isaac ~ 47
Amos ~ 3
1781 Joseph Marsh, son of Elder Elihu and Sarah Marsh,(brother of Eunice and Lydia Marsh Northrop) marries Abigail Waldo (dies early Jan. 28, 1793) HERE IS A CLEAR CONNECTION TO WALDO FAMILY Nov. 29, 1781
Mathias Marsh 1781 reportedly owned large tracts of land in Connecticut and in Dutchess County, NY
1784 Elihu's (Marsh) will (not mentioning his wife) was admited to the Woodbury court on 5/18/1784
1783 Revolutionary War ends.
1786 Thomas, father of Isaac dies in 1786. Must be Isaac or Joel (Joel does not move to New Milford until after 1784, removed to Brookfield, then to New Milford ~ 86
by 1790 By 1790 the agricultural abundance of Newtown was beginning to create a demand for better roads to tidewater ports from which produce could be exported. In 1801, the Bridgeport and Newtown Turnpike was chartered by the General Assembly and established a route from Bridgeport to New Milford along what is now Main Street and Currituck Road. Toll gates were located on Tollgate Hill at the southern boundary of the Town and at the Brookfield line.

Shortly after, another turnpike, from Newtown to Norwalk, was chartered which followed Sugar Street and Poverty Hollow Road to Redding, Weston and Norwalk. A third turnpike, the Monroe and Newtown, followed still later and connected the village of Stepney to southern Brookfield via Hattertown Road.

 

As the children were growing up in Newtown 1731-1762, They would have experienced:
Newpapers start appearing 1704 Boston, 1725, New Yok, 1727 New England Weekly Journal, Connecticut Courant 1764.

1755 men going off to the French Indian War.
1754 The formation of the Parish of Newbury (Brookfield) Newtown contributed 6 sq. miles.
1758-62
- men from town sent to the Colonial Wars.
1775-80
Newtown would have sent men to the Revolutionary War.
When word of Leexington and Concord reached Connecticut, somememarched toaid the Boston area. Others volunteered in the militia from Connecticut andsomevolunteered from new York or Massachusetts. Isaac and his brothers would have ranged in age from age 33 to age 44 in 1775. We can't be certain if they are the same northrups, but records show
From Connecticut
Isaac: enlisted May 20, 1776, in Col. Waterbury's Regt. ; discharged Dec. 6, 1776 ; enlisted for the war, in the Conn. Line, Apr. 26, 1777 ; made a Corporal, Jan. 1, 1781 ; pensioner, 1818.
Joel : in Capt. Benedict's Co., Bradley's Battalion.

Also recorded Isaac Northrup as "Oxford men who served the cause of freedom". From New York Isaac Northrup, Isaac Northrup, Junr and Joel Northrup  as serving from New York:

Isaac Northrup, Jr. : Westchester Co. Militia, Col. Thomas.
Isaac Northrup, Jr. : 2d Lieut. Westchester Go. Militia, Col. Van Cortlandt and Col. Drake.
Isaac Northrup: Westchester Co. Militia, Col. Van Cortlandt and Col. Drake.
Isaac Northrup: Westchester Co. Militia, Col. Crane.
Joel Northrup : Westchester Co. Militia, Col. Thomas.
Joel Northrup : Westchester Co. Militia, Col. Van Cortlandt and Col. Drake.
Joel Northrup : Westchester Co. Militia, Col. Crane.

And finally, March 3, 1841 In Woodbridge, Con., on the 19th ult., Lieut. Isaac Northrop, 81; a revolutionary pensioner, and late one of the nine surviving officers of the Connecticut Line. This is Not Amos father Isaac he died about 1811..

Those at home might have endured the hardships of a missing head of the household and even rationing ( Salt was rationed in places because it was used to make gun powder.), Helped support the troops in providing provisions, had Brigades of the Continental Army passing through or encamped. Might have see General Washington as he passed through, might have voted on pay for Revolutionary War officers and voted whether to accept the Federal Constitution


Travels With Isaac & Lydia

Newpapers start appearing 1704 Boston, 1725, New Yok, 1727 New England Weekly Journal, Connecticut Courant 1764.

The Boston Post Road was a system of post roads from New York City to Boston, Massachusetts, containing some of the first major highways in the United States. The Upper Post Road was originally called the Pequot Path and had been in use by Indians before the colonists had arrived.[1] Some of these important Indian trails had been pounded by moccasined feet so that they were two feet below the surrounding woodland. The colonists first used this trail to deliver the post using post riders (the first ride to lay out the Upper Post Road starting January 22, 1673), and developed into a wagon, or stage road in later colonial times
1761
- The Separatists or Strict Congregationalists built a house of worship

1782 - Jemima Wilkinson

1793 Decided by vote that three taverns was enough for the town.

1798 Dollars referred to instead of pounds. 1794 - A destructive tornado crossed New Milford causing much damage.1796 - Union Circulating Library established.

1787 - Probate District formed first Judge.1788 - Nicholas Wanzer deeded land to the Quakers.

January 6 1843 Voted to build suitable and convenient sidewalk or footbridge on the south side and adjoining the west side of Mill Bridge


Here is the information for Isaac Northrup

Name: Isaac NORTHRUP
(
Thomas3, William2, Joseph1),
Birth: 6 AUG 1734 in Newtown, Fairfield, CT (AJ Northrup says nothing of his whereabouts no date of death but dying at age 77)
Death: 1811

Father: Thomas NORTHRUP
b: 16 MAR 1701/02 in Milford, New Haven, CT
c: 19 Mar 1720
Mother: Abigail TERRILL
b: 3 or 6 SEP 1699 in Milford, New Haven, CT
c: 3 Sep 1699 in Milford,New Haven County,Connecticut in Firstcongregatio, Milford
Marriage 1774 in Brookfield, Fairfield, CT or ABT. 1773 2
Lydia MARSH OR Married: ABT 1768 in of New Milford, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
b. 11 MAR 1746/47 in Windham, Windham, CT or b: 11 APR 1747
d. UNKNOWN
Father: Elihu Marsh b: ABT. 1719
Mother: Sarah Abby b: ABT. 1721 or Zerviah ABBE b: 17 MAR 1719/20 in Windham Co., CT

NOTE: Lydia's Sister, Eunice, married Joel Northrup b: 3 MAR 1742 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., CT Married: ABT 1772 in Milford, New Haven Co., CT

This would put AMOS NORTHROP, b. Jan. 8, 1778, probably at Chatham, N. Y. as the fourth child of Isaac Northrup.Thomas G Northrop (Good Hill Cemetary Kent, CT -- Northrop, Thomas G died Sept. 8, 1850 age 79y8m3d
Northrop, Aurelia wife of Thomas G died Mar. 4, 1839 age 54y9m11d) born 1/5/1771? is a good possibility for a brother of Amos -- Aurelia would have been born ca 1785

Since there are multiple Amos Northrop/Northrups in the general area, it is, so far, hard to tell if these references are for Amos Northrop, father of Alvin

When I told Philip Osofsky that I only knew of two Jewish-owned working farms in Ellsworth: his father’s and the Northrop Farm on Northrup Road that George D. Northrop sold to Morris Schulman in April 1909, Philip said there was one more. That was a very small farm at the foot of Northrup Road, still in Ellsworth, and owned by the Cohen family. 1 He also reported the existence of a few small Jewish-owned family farms that fattened beef cattle and calves. A local Jewish-owned slaughter house provided kosher beef prepared according to ritual lawThe soil of the Northwest corner may be thin and rockySharon Historical Society

Another possibility is an undocumented son of George Northrop. There is a record of George having an earlier marriage to a "Miss Kimberly" before his marriage to Mary Kimberly perhaps a sister or cousin to Mary. She would have died before 1782. Amos' reported DOB is 1778, so this could be possible. "Miss Kimberly" would likely have a date of birth of about 1760 or earlier. (at least age 18 when he was born).

There are several points that would support this option. The name George -- Amos named his son George -- and the fact that he is a shoemaker. Amos' son Alvin worked with leather making shoes harnesses etc. as well as farming. We don't know what Amos did, but he probably farmed and may have been a shoemaker as well.

  • ID: I08649
  • Name: George Northrop 1 2 3
  • ALIA: George * /Northrup/
  • Birth: 21 MAR 1754 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2
  • Death: 11 AUG 1821 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2
  • Occupation: Shoemaker, Newtown, Connecticut
  • Residence: Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
  • ADDR: Newtown, Fairfield Co. Connecticut
    **************
  • ID: I08649
  • Name: George Northrop 1 2 3
  • ALIA: George * /Northrup/
  • Birth: 21 MAR 1754 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2
  • Death: 11 AUG 1821 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2
  • Occupation: Shoemaker, Newtown, Connecticut
  • Residence: Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
  • ADDR: Newtown, Fairfield Co. Connecticut U. S. A.
    Father: Jonathan Northrup )John ,Jeremiah,Joseph) b: 3 MAR 1714/15 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut
    Mother: Ruth Booth b: ABT. 1717
    Marriage 1 Mary Kimberly b: ABT. 1760
    • Married: 28 OCT 1782 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2
      IT IS POSSIBLE THERE COULD HAVE BEEN AN EARLIER CHILD and EARLIER MARRIAGE
    Children
    1. Has Children Jonathan Northrop b: 5 AUG 1783 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    2. Has Children Anna Northrop b: 16 APR 1785 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    3. Has No Children Phoebe Northrop b: 28 DEC 1786 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

    Marriage 2 Anna Booth b: 29 OCT 1768 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    • Married: 21 MAY 1789 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2
    Children
    1. Has Children Booth Northrop b: 8 JAN 1790 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    2. Has Children Elijah Booth Northrop b: 10 FEB 1791 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut ** Elijah B. came to Pine Plains, NY in 1815, carpenter, introduced the system of "the square rule" in framing
    3. Has Children Ziba Booth Northrop b: 15 JUL 1792 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    4. Has Children Philo Booth Northrop b: 23 NOV 1793 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    5. Has Children Nicholas Booth Northrop b: 11 MAR 1795 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    6. Has Children Phoebe Booth Northrop b: 29 OCT 1796 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
    7. Has Children Lucy Ann Booth Northrop b: 14 JUN 1800 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Event(s)
Birth:  21 Mar 1754  Newton, Fairfield, Conn 
Death:  11 Aug 1821  Newton, Fairfield, Conn 
Parents
Father: Jonathan NORTHROP (AFN: RMG3-9H) Family
Mother: Ruth BOOTH (AFN: XZP8-MH)
Marriage(s)
Spouse: (Miss) KIMBERLY (AFN: 1Q0Z-B6H) Family
Marriage: Abt 1774
Spouse: Mary KIMBERLY (AFN: 1BZ1-CZQ) Family
Marriage: 28 Oct 1782

Ann, Anna Abrigail Abiah, ELizabeth, Esther, Hanah, Hannah, Jane, Katharine,Lauranna, Lois, Mabel, Mary, Mary Osborne,Phebe, Prudence, Ruth, Sabra, Sarah, Susanna are names of Kimberlys within a plausible date range.

Name: Mary Kimberly 1
Birth: BEF 31 AUG 1760
Father: Abraham Kimberly b: 6 JAN 1738/39 in Newtown, CT
Mother: Tamar Bennett b: ABT 1738
Spouse: (Miss) BOOTH (AFN: 1Q0Z-B7P) Family
Marriage: 
George Northrop 1790 Newtown 12300 amos about 12 if birth is correct

  • George Northrup 1800 Newtown 41001000201- about 22
    George Northrop 1810 Newtown 0130102010
    Millard file has mention of both Northrup and Waldo http://www.geocities.com/heartland/garden/7021/genfam/mm6.html
  • Name: George Northrop 1 2 3 Sex: M ALIA: George * /Northrup/ Birth: 21 MAR 1754 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2 Death: 11 AUG 1821 in Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 2 Occupation: Shoemaker, Newtown, Connecticut Residence: Newtown, Fairfield Co., Connecticut ADDR: Newtown, Fairfield Co. Connecticut U. S. A.Son of Jonathan Could Amos have been apprenticed to George? is that where the name comes from?census 1790 12300
  • his son is elijah someplace there was co-location of amos and Elijah
  • Amos Northrop 1790 1 2 2 0 0 total 5 Washington

1801 Methodism continued to grow in upstate New Yor, Vermont and Western Massachusetts in such places as ... Chatham, NY...

1902 Windham County Waldo and Elmer H.and Charles H Northrop were part of constitutional convention D. W. Northrop of Middlesex County

William Jewett (1795-1874) - Portrait painter. Formed a partnership with Samuel Waldo and collaborated in painting many prominent men. The museum owns two landscapes by Jewett and a portrait of David Sherman Boardman by Waldo and Jewett.

Isaac moved from Newtown to Brookfield and probably then to the Chatham NY area.

There is no proof that Isaac4 was Amos' father, but the years and locations seem to fit better than any other documented possibilities.

 

Have not found any record of Isaac in the Revolution.

Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) - Portrait painter. Studied with Stewart, and in 1806 in London with West and Copley at the Royal Academy. William Jewett became his pupil in 1812, after which they became partners.

Short Biographies of Exhibited Artists in the NMHS New Milford Hist Soc

William Jewett (1795-1874) - Portrait painter. Formed a partnership with Samuel Waldo and collaborated in painting many prominent men. The museum owns two landscapes by Jewett and a portrait of David Sherman Boardman by Waldo and Jewett.

Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) - Portrait painter. Studied with Stewart, and in 1806 in London with West and Copley at the Royal Academy. William Jewett became his pupil in 1812, after which they became partners.

Short Biographies of Exhibited Artists in the NMHS New Milford Hist Soc.

1801 Methodism continued to grow in upstate New Yor, Vermont and Western Massachusetts in such places as ... Chatham, NY...

1902 Windham County Waldo and Elmer H.and Charles H Northrop were part of constitutional convention D. W. Northrop of Middlesex County

(Name: Elihu Marsh
Sex: M
Birth: 18 JUL 1717 in Plainfield, CT
Death: ABT 1784 in New Milford, CT
Change Date: 2 AUG 2000
Note:
From Abbe-Abbey Genealogy:
He resided for a time in Mansfield, then removed to New Fairfield, and later to New Milford, where he purchased alnd, 1765, 1769, and 1770. His home was in the part now called Jerusalem, and he resided there until his death. He was an elder in the Strict Congregational Church of New Milford for a number of years.

From History of New Milford (Orcutt)

Settled in New Milford (CT), at the place now called Jerusalem, on Rocky River, where he resided until his decease. He officiated as the minister of the Separate Church in New Milford, and as such was of very great importance to that church, for they were not able to pay the salary of a regularly installed minister, and Mr. Marsh had an independent property of his own. Whether he ever received any salary is unknown, but he probably served them as their minister several years while living in New Fairfield, and three years after settling in New Milford.

Elihu's will (not mentioning his wife) was admited to the Woodbury court on 5/18/1784 (per original document). 9. Elder Elihu, son of Thomas Marsh, m. "Sariah" Abby; resided a time in Mansfield, Conn., then removed to New Fairfield, where he was living Sept. 30, 1765, when he purchased his first land in New Milford, it being, with other pieces, "25 acres lying north of Azariah Canfield's dwelling-house, and in partnership with John Marsh and Abraham Marsh, sons of John Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Mary Marsh, late of Dutchess county, deceased, and also with Sarah Lake, wife of Daniel Lake, dau. of said John Marsh, deceased, also with Mary Marsh and Hannah Marsh, all the natural heirs of said John Marsh." This land lay in the vicinity of the home of the late Wanzer Marsh in Merryall. In April, 1769, he, still of New Fairfield, purchased another piece of 170 acres, for 70 pounds, lying "on both sides of Rocky river, and in August of the same year, he being then of New Milford, purchased a piece on the west side of Candlewood Mountain, with a dwelling-house on it." In May, 1770, he bought 86 acres, for 40 pounds, "lying southerly of my dwelling-house on Rocky river," of Zadoc Noble, which was formerly James McKeeney's home-lot. His home was at the place now called Jerusalem, where he resided until his decease. He served, according to tradition, as an Elder in the Strict Congregational church of N. M., a number of years. Ch.: )He resided for a time in Mansfield, then removed to New Fairfield, andlater to New Milford, where he purchased
land, 1765, 1769, and 1770. His home was in the part now calledJerusalem, and he resided there until his death. He was an elder in theStrict Congregational Church of New Milford for a number of years.

Mathias Marsh dabt 1781 reportedly owned large tracts of land in Connecticut and in Dutchess County, NY

i Job5, b. Sept. 21, 1775, Brookfield.
bapt. South Salem, N. Y. (church record), Aug. 17, 1755. His father removed to Lenox, Mass., where Job lived for a time on his father's farm, but removed to Monroe Co., N. Y., near Rochester, about 1793. M., 1st, Sarah (???), who d. Aug. 26, 1786, at Lenox; m., 2d, Sept. 10, 1795, Sarah Bennett, at Lenox. He d. aged 93 years. Six children recorded at Lenox, of "Job and Sarah."
ii Dau., b. 1776; m. (???) Waldo, and d. at Chatham,N. Y., 1868, aged 92.
iii Dau., b. (???); m. (???) Preston, of Chatham.
(Probably others.)

Isaac, along with his brothers and sisters, was born in Newtown before his father moved to New Milford, CT.

Again was he moving TO something or away from something? Was he moving due to British threats? To other family members to economic possibilities?

Samuel Lovett Waldo (1783-1861) - Portrait painter. Studied with Stewart, and in 1806 in London with West and Copley at the Royal Academy. William Jewett became his pupil in 1812, after which they became partners.

Short Biographies of Exhibited Artists in the NMHS New Milford Hist Soc

There are quite a few Northrups in Salem, Westchester, NY. Abraham Sr married Abigail in the South Salem Church in 1645. That church became Presbyterian in the 1700's and has burned down, twice. Abraham Jr, was born in Salem, married in Salem and eventually moved to Saratoga, NY.

deaths lee mass

NORTHROP (see Northrup), Susanna, wid., Sept. 28, 1815. [a. 79, C.R.] [Anna Northrup, wid. Abraham, Sept. 29, a. 84, G.R.]


NORTHRUP (see Northrop), Thomas, Aug. 8, 1799. [Northrop, Aug. 9, a. 72,C.R.]

Mention for Job 5 His father removed to Lenox, Mass., where Job lived for a time on his father's farm, but removed to Monroe Co., N. Y., near Rochester, about 1793, but I think this is not the correct Job

NEWTOWN Dead; school on site; formerly house of delegate Northrop

from

Locations of 1902 Constitutional Pin Oaks in 2002
Glenn Dreyer, Connecticut's Notable Trees Program and The Connecticut College Arboretum

1832 Sheet glass is invented

 
128 EARLT WOODBRIDGE.


After the dismission of Mr. Allen, the church soon rallied and settled the Rev. Prince Hawse. It was during his ministry that the present house of worship was built. It is an old proverb, I believe, that " the minister who builds a meetinghouse never preaches in it," and the proverb seems to have had a fulfillment in the present instance.

INDUSTSIES. woodbridge

 

 


EARLY WOODBRIDGE. 129

There was a saltpetre works,

The leather was made from the farmer's own cattle. The skins were taken to the tannery, and made into leather, and then taken home, when the cobbler came with his kit of tools, and made the leather into the kind of shoes desired,

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isaacridgefieldkeeler
From History of Ridgefield among the Keeler references

Isaac Northrop m. Hannah Wheeler Sept 27, 1764 She died March 6, 1765. Derby
The history of the old town of Derby, Connecticut, 1641-1880 : with biographies and genealogies
Springfield, Mass.?: unknown, 1880, 965 pgs.

Amos business directory lewisboro ny from

Gopsill's Westchester County directory : containing a general directory of names in the towns of Peekskill, Sing Sing, Tarrytown, White Plains & Yonkers : together with a business directory of the whole county : also, a list of farmers, banks, insurance companies, incorporated companies, county and town officers, churches and clergymen, fire department, public schools, and much other useful information
Jersey City, N.J.: J. Gopsill, 1866, 309 pgs.

1788 assessors list New Milford transferred to Brookfield as they lived or owned property within the territory given by New Milford to constitute the north part of Brookfield town includes Isaac NorthrOP
from Annals of Brookfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Brookfield, Conn.: E.C. Hawley, 1929, 688 pgs.
urania Hubbell married Isaac Northrup of Sherman CT and moved to Cato Cayuga County NY
son of Abraham and Martha Waters Northrup

The earliest cemetery within present Brookfield is on Huckleberry Hill at the intersection of Old New Milford Road and Federal Road. Stones from this cemetery were moved to Central Cemetery. The second earliest burying ground is Merwin Brook off Obtuse Hill Road. The third earliest burying ground, the Northrop cemetery, is located on the west side of the railroad track off Stony Hill Road. There is no present access to this cemetery.mapnorthropcemetaryarea brookfield

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Entering Kent you will pass Bull's Bridge whose roots date to the Revolution. This is one of two covered bridges in CT open to auto traffic. The bridge you see today was rebuilt in 1842 using the town and queen truss design. Over the years, one bridge replaced another as each was washed away by high water and ice. During the Revolutionary War, Kent was known for its' strategic importance and for supplying the Continental Army with iron ore, goods and soldiers. Local history has documented that George Washington had an accident at Bull's Bridge in 1781. What happened has never been told in detail, but one thing is clear; one of his horses, perhaps his own mount, fell in the raging Housatonic River. One exciting bit of confirmation regarding this incident appears in George Washington's own expense account for March 3, 1781. The first travel expense of the day noted: getting a horse out of Bull's Bridge Falls, $215.00. The amount spent to resolve this incident indicates that it involved quite a rescue operation. It must have taken time and the General was on his way to make plans with the French for naval support of New York against the British. Any ordinary horse might have been allowed to stay in the river. So, it might be assumed that this was no ordinary horse, and perhaps it was Washington's own mount. Today, we can only wonder.

Mary Hubbell b. June 4, 1749, dau of Adrew Hubbel and 2nd wife Mary Wells married Northrop

no first name but other sources show some Hubbells had propert in Newtown although most residend Stratford

A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut

  By Samuel Orcutt

 

Elihu Ives - Mary/Polly Northrop b. 1780 dau of Joel and Mabel Sarah Bird

grandfather was Rev Samuel Bird was expelled from harvard for advocating the new light theology

when the british came to new haven he fled to hamden

 

 

 

 

This home on Pequot Avenue, Southport, Connecticut is a recently restored example of the Northrop Brothers fine carpentry and building in the Southport-Greeens Farms area.

Image Courtesy of David Parker Associates