Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, or, our Quaker forefathers and their posterity embracing a genealogical and biographical register of nine generations of the Shotwell family in America, together with the pedigree and near kindred of the author's parents, Nathan and Phebe B(Gardner) Shotwell . rensburg, Mo.,and finally in 1872 to Idana, Clay Co., Kans.,where he took a homestead adjoining those ofhis s. Edward and dau. Mary, being then 75 age, and there d. 30 of 3 mo., 1878; m. inGalen (N. Y.) Friends meeting 3 of 2 mo., 1825,Catharine Pugsley, b. 5 of 12 mo., 1806,
Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, or, our Quaker forefathers and their posterity embracing a genealogical and biographical register of nine generations of the Shotwell family in America, together with the pedigree and near kindred of the author's parents, Nathan and Phebe B(Gardner) Shotwell . rensburg, Mo.,and finally in 1872 to Idana, Clay Co., Kans.,where he took a homestead adjoining those ofhis s. Edward and dau. Mary, being then 75 age, and there d. 30 of 3 mo., 1878; m. inGalen (N. Y.) Friends meeting 3 of 2 mo., 1825,Catharine Pugsley, b. 5 of 12 mo., 1806, d. Bed-ford, Mich , 2 of 2 mo., 1870, or 3 of 2 mo., 1869,dau of Wm. and Prudence Pugsley of Galen, ; she was a worthy member of Battle Creek ; her obituary in a local paper contained theremark that these aged Friends were not rich inthe perishable things of this world but, if theywere rich in faith realizing that they were equallychildren of our Father in Heaven, heirs of Godand joint heirs with Jesus Christ, then were thedeparted far better off than the most wealthy ofthose who make gold their god and ready paytheir religion. Benjamin and Samuel Shotwellof the town of Palmyra, N. Y., are mentioned ina bond given by Scott Fuller of Elba, N. Y., toJoseph Hoag 26 Nov., 1822. ?8 3 ^ ^^ o) O 5. I Zj. THE SHOTWELL FAMILY. 97 7. SamueF, b. 23 of 8 mo., 1802, Independence,N. J., waa farmer and lawyer, removed fromGalen, Wayne Co., N. Y., to the little hamlet inGenesee Co., now known as East Oakfield, wherehe kept a saw mill and grist mill and owned thefarm which was afterward the homestead ofMoses Vail. According to records in the GeneseeCo. clerks office (liber 28 p. 221 and liber 24 ) he bought land in Elba (now Oakfield) on I May, 1831, and 18 July, 1832; but on 18 Sept.,1832, he and wife Mercy conveyed land there toEdmond F. Bradly. He afterward dwelt formany years at or near Ottawa, 111., and there d.;lost one arm in a sorgum grinder in 111.; , Seneca (now
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