Captain Ephraim Deuel
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Chapter 7 - Ephraim Deuel Found In Dutchess!
I speculated that Ephraim may show up in Dutchess, and even a broken clock is right twice a day. Ephraim Deuel is on the tax lists
for Crum Elbow/Nine Partners in the years 1765 to 1773. This is too early to be any other Ephraim. Timothy4 is on the same lists
for 1760-1779, so he was there first while Ephraim was getting his powder horn etched.
Timothy "engaged in farming in Rhode Island for many years before relocating to Dutchess County around 1750" according to the
"Biographical Record of Dutchess County" entry for Stephen Deuel (the brother of the Henry H. Deuel, 1831-1881, who Cindy
had inquired about, buried in the Friends Cemetery in Stanfordville).
I can't find anything in my RI sources on him, but I'm less sceptical after finding that the first recorded settlers of Bangall in 1755,
namely Jabez Wood and Robert Wheaton, were from Swansea, MA, which borders Bristol (which was a part of MA until 1742).
My focus is on the present towns of Stanford and Washington in Dutchess, this is the most likely location. The village of Hartsville
or Hart's Corner was named after Philip5(Richard4-2, Nicholas1) Hart, who was from Little Compton. His mother was a Taber,
which connects him to the Moshers discussed below. The first two settlers were, according to a history of Dutchess, Tripp Mosher
and Ephraim Mosher, shortly before 1760 (Timothy Deuel must be one of the first settlers of this area as well).
The two Moshers were not all that closely related, second cousins once-removed, but they were both from Dartmouth and their
family connections are interesting.
Tripp5 (Caleb4, Philip3, Joseph2, Hugh1) Mosher (1744-1822) built a mill at Hartsville and later was steward of the Quaker
boarding school. The school was designed to be exactly 99 feet long because that "sounded longer" than a hundred feet (if they
charged them more too, it sounds just like the contractors I know). Tripp Mosher's mother was Elizabeth4(Samuel3-2, William1)
Wilbore, who grew up in a house about 300 yards from where I grew up in Little Compton. Her sister was the Mary Wilbore who
married Silas4 Deuel.
Ephraim4(Hugh3, Nicholas2, Hugh1) Mosher I've mentioned before. His daughter Phebe married Daniel Hoag and was
mother-in-law to Seth Griffith in South Hero, and his daughter Mary married Wesson Macomber, who also went to South Hero, and
his aunt Lydia3 Mosher was the wife of Timothy4 Deuel.
My next project is to go through the list of Deuels in the 1790 census for Dutchess, cross out the ones whose ancestry is known,
and see if Ephraim may have left behind adult children, who may have followed the family to Canada at a later time. I came across
the gravestone record for Jonathan Deuel, great-grandfather of Jay Clarence, he was buried in Milan and definitely born in 1764.
Given the absence of any mention of him in Silas4's will, Mary Wilbore's 1718/19 birth date, and her last recorded child being
born in 1757, there's reason to doubt that Jonathan was a son of her and Silas4. Phoenix Newton Deuel says in "Biographical
Record" that Jonathan was born in Stanford, which seems likely. He doesn't give the line beyond Jonathan, but says that the
family relocated to Dutchess from Long Island, maybe he meant Rhode Island.
Richard Gifford
May 17, 2002
I speculated that Ephraim may show up in Dutchess, and even a broken clock is right twice a day. Ephraim Deuel is on the tax lists
for Crum Elbow/Nine Partners in the years 1765 to 1773. This is too early to be any other Ephraim. Timothy4 is on the same lists
for 1760-1779, so he was there first while Ephraim was getting his powder horn etched.
Timothy "engaged in farming in Rhode Island for many years before relocating to Dutchess County around 1750" according to the
"Biographical Record of Dutchess County" entry for Stephen Deuel (the brother of the Henry H. Deuel, 1831-1881, who Cindy
had inquired about, buried in the Friends Cemetery in Stanfordville).
I can't find anything in my RI sources on him, but I'm less sceptical after finding that the first recorded settlers of Bangall in 1755,
namely Jabez Wood and Robert Wheaton, were from Swansea, MA, which borders Bristol (which was a part of MA until 1742).
My focus is on the present towns of Stanford and Washington in Dutchess, this is the most likely location. The village of Hartsville
or Hart's Corner was named after Philip5(Richard4-2, Nicholas1) Hart, who was from Little Compton. His mother was a Taber,
which connects him to the Moshers discussed below. The first two settlers were, according to a history of Dutchess, Tripp Mosher
and Ephraim Mosher, shortly before 1760 (Timothy Deuel must be one of the first settlers of this area as well).
The two Moshers were not all that closely related, second cousins once-removed, but they were both from Dartmouth and their
family connections are interesting.
Tripp5 (Caleb4, Philip3, Joseph2, Hugh1) Mosher (1744-1822) built a mill at Hartsville and later was steward of the Quaker
boarding school. The school was designed to be exactly 99 feet long because that "sounded longer" than a hundred feet (if they
charged them more too, it sounds just like the contractors I know). Tripp Mosher's mother was Elizabeth4(Samuel3-2, William1)
Wilbore, who grew up in a house about 300 yards from where I grew up in Little Compton. Her sister was the Mary Wilbore who
married Silas4 Deuel.
Ephraim4(Hugh3, Nicholas2, Hugh1) Mosher I've mentioned before. His daughter Phebe married Daniel Hoag and was
mother-in-law to Seth Griffith in South Hero, and his daughter Mary married Wesson Macomber, who also went to South Hero, and
his aunt Lydia3 Mosher was the wife of Timothy4 Deuel.
My next project is to go through the list of Deuels in the 1790 census for Dutchess, cross out the ones whose ancestry is known,
and see if Ephraim may have left behind adult children, who may have followed the family to Canada at a later time. I came across
the gravestone record for Jonathan Deuel, great-grandfather of Jay Clarence, he was buried in Milan and definitely born in 1764.
Given the absence of any mention of him in Silas4's will, Mary Wilbore's 1718/19 birth date, and her last recorded child being
born in 1757, there's reason to doubt that Jonathan was a son of her and Silas4. Phoenix Newton Deuel says in "Biographical
Record" that Jonathan was born in Stanford, which seems likely. He doesn't give the line beyond Jonathan, but says that the
family relocated to Dutchess from Long Island, maybe he meant Rhode Island.
Richard Gifford
May 17, 2002