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Page, Line Dwelling, Family, Name, Age, M/F, Birth
112, 35 83 83 Sixbury Robert 76 m NY
112, 36
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/bartlett.htm) (Reliability: 3), 6 Dec 2004.
- [S676] Watertown Re Union, New York. Watertown., "Robert Sixbury's Habits of Life," November 6, 1873, p. 1, col. 5; digital images, \i nys historical newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 2014.
Watertown Re-Union
Vol. VI. No. 12
Watertown N.Y. Thursday November 6, 1873
New Series Vol. 4 No. 91
Robert Sixbury's Habits of Life.
The Westfield (Mass.) News Letter copies our article upon Robert Sixbury, and adds:
"We should like to know how he lived, what kind of food he ate, and whether or not he made use of ardent spirits, tobacco, wine, ale, cider, tea, coffee, &c. Will the Watertown Despatch inform us on this point?"
Mr. Sixbury, although the oldest resident of the county, was but little known, and a man of simple habits, and in moderate circumstances in life. His life was spent, to within a few months of its close, in a log house. During the past twenty five years he has lived alone. He cooked his meat and potatoes, and made his tea; his bread was furnished him from his youngest son's house, about a half mile distant. His object in life seemed to be to kill deer and Indians. His affection for the noble red man seemed to be like that of Richard the Third for his brother Clarence. He loved them so he lost no opportunity to send them to heaven. Mr. Sixbury ate only the coarse, wholesome food of a farmer in later life, and in early life lived as hunters and back-woodsmen live. He had always been in the habit of using liquor whenever he saw fit, sometimes to excess, and never with any conscientious scruples. He was a free hearted, frank old gentleman, always enjoyed a good joke and was excellent company. He used tobacco-chewing and smoking whenever he saw fit. When about 80 years old he fell in the fire-place while under the influence of liquor, and was obliged to have a leg amputated in consequence. He had seven children living, the youngest over 60. Had he been a man of temperate habits he might have lived to a good old age and seen his children grow up, instead of passing away at the premature age of 109 years and 7 months!
- [S983] 1865 New York State Census, New York, Jefferson, (Digital images. Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. \i FamilySearch.org\i0 . http://familysearch.org : 2015), Le Ray, p. 23, dwelling 160, family 157, line 15, Robert Sixbery; (http://familysearch.org : accessed Apr 22, 2016); citing source p. 23, line 15, household ID 157, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 895,246 (Reliability: 3), 22 Apr 2016.
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Robert Sixbery living in household of his nephew Jacob Sixbery, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York,1865
Robert Sixbery living in household of his nephew Jacob Sixbery, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York,1865
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- [S2] Obituary for Robert Sixberry - 1873, (The Watertown Post, October 1873, Watertown, New York) (Reliability: 3), 23 Oct 2010.
- [S678] Cape Vincent Eagle, New York. Cape Vincent., W. W. Ames, "County News," October 30, 1873, col. 3; digital images, \i Northern New York Historical Newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 23 Oct 2010.
- [S580] American Biographical Notes, Franklin Benjamin Hough, (Albany: Joel Munsell, 1875), pg. 364 (Reliability: 3).
SIXBURY, Robert, d. in LeRay, Jeff. co., N.Y., Oct. 1873, a. 110 y. 7 m.; Mr. S. had acquired great reputation as a hunter on John Brown's tract, in northern New York, where he had slain more than 2,200 deer; the funeral was attended by several of his children of the ages from 80 to 90 years; the deceased had enjoyed comparatively good health up to the day of his death.
- [S286] Genealogical and Family History of the County of Jefferson, New York, R. A. Oakes, (Lewis Publishing Co.., 1905), pg. 929 (Reliability: 3), 2 Feb 2005.
ROBERT SIXBURY, father of Mrs. Joseph V. Besha, was a most remarkable man, and lived to be almost one hundred and ten years old. From a local journal is taken the following account of his life, which is the best now attainable: "In the town of Le Ray, about five miles from Theresa, on the road to Evans Mills, in a little house by the roadside, last week, Thursday, Robert Sixbury died. A large majority of the readers of the Post never before heard of this remarkable man. Few of our people would have believed that there was a man in Jefferson county who had lived here for ninety-five years; yet such was really the case. In 1778, at the age of fourteen years, Robert Sixbury came to this section of the country from Amsterdam, Montgomery county, where he was born on the 6th day of March, 1763. His favorite hunting and fishing ground was in what was afterward LeRay and finally divided and now composes the towns of Alexandria, Theresa, and LeRay. Upon the banks of Indian river all kinds of game did then abound for trappers and hunters, and its waters were filled with fish and covered with Indian canoes, while the dense forests swarmed with the treacherous savages and no permanent white habitation was known nearer than the Mohawk Valley. After spending a number of years in this wilderness, with no local habitaion and no comapnion but his musket and traps, he went to Herkimer County, where he married Miss Betsey Hoover, and the loving couple returned to his lodge in the vast wilderness and doubtless enjoyed the contiguity of shade. He became the companion of Foster the Indian hunter, and many an Indian has gone to his "happy hunting ground" as the penalty for stealing their traps. Sixbury built a log house about two miles north of Evans Mills and there for years he supported his family by hunting and fishing. For over sixty years he lived at this place, outliving two log houses which rotted down, and then he moved into his shop, where he has lived until the past few months. He had eight children, four boys and four girls, who pg. 930 are all living but one son, who died about thirty years ago, aged thirty-seven years. His wife died about twenty-five years ago. Since which time the old gentleman has lived by himself in his old log house, cooking his own victuals except bread, positively refusing all assistance or to move from the home where he brought his young bride and where together they commenced life nearly ninety years ago; and where their children had grown up around them. Where he had slept so many anxious nights fearful that the tomahawk and the torch would deprive him of the ones dearer than life, if not life itself, he determined to remain. Not until the old shop, too, rotted down would he consent to occupy the little house near his son where he died. "His three sons live in LeRay. John is about seventy-five years old; Jacob, seventy-two, and Isaac, the son who took care of the old gentleman, is about fifty-six. Of his daugters, Betsey married A. J. Shattuck, and lives in St. Lawrence county; Mary married Isaac Cushman of Cape Vincent; Cushman died very suddenly while on a visit to his father-in-law, and his widow still lives; Annie was a twin of Alexander - the son who died at the age of thirty-seven - and she married Isaac Walradt and lives near Evans Mills; Almira married Joseph Bichet, and lives near Lafargeville. The old gentleman had sixty-five grandchildren, fifty of whom are living. There were thirty great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. About thirty years ago the old gentleman fell in the fire-place and burned his foot so badly that his leg was amputated just above the knee; although about eighty years old it healed up and he has ever since traveled about with a wodden leg. Last spring he was out shooting a mark with some friends, but did not like the Springfield rifle. He retained his hearing and eye-sight until he died. He always expressed a dislike for civilization, often wishing the country was just as he found it ninety-five years ago. He took no interest in any of the three wars through which he lived, and without doubt was at his death the oldest man in the state, and if half the stories about him are true the most remakable man that ever lived. The world has witnessed many great changes during his life but of them he knew or cared nothing."
- [S255] US Census 1850 - Jefferson County, New York - Roll 514, National Archives and Records Administration, (The National Archives, The National Archives And Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington: 1963), M432, Roll 514., Page 112, Lines 35 through 42 (Reliability: 3), 17 Jan 2005.
Page, Line Dwelling, Family, Name, Age, M/F, Birth
112, 35 83 83 Sixbury Robert 76 m NY
112, 36
- [S983] 1865 New York State Census, New York, Jefferson, (Digital images. Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. \i FamilySearch.org\i0 . http://familysearch.org : 2015), Le Ray, p. 23, dwelling 160, family 157, line 15, Robert Sixbery; (http://familysearch.org : accessed Apr 22, 2016); citing source p. 23, line 15, household ID 157, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 895,246 (Reliability: 3), 22 Apr 2016.
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- [S432] Jefferson County Journal, (Adams, N.Y., Established as the Jefferson County Democrat, 1844), October 30, 1873, page 8, column 1 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 2006.
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Death of a Veteran Woodsman. -
On Thursday morning, October 23rd, Robert Sixbury died at the residence of Isaac Sixbury, his son, in the town of Leray, Jefferson county. Mr. Sixbury was born the 7th of March, 1763, and, hence, at the time of his death, was, in all probability, the oldest man in the state. For many years - in fact for the greater portion of his life - he has been a North Woods hunter. No man living has killed more deer in those woods than he. When eighty years of age the number of these animals that had fallen before his unerring aim was over 2,200. There was no section of John Brown's tract that he had not visited. He had camped by its lakes in summer, and slept beneath its snows in winter. Sixbury Lake in this tract was named from him, and he may have fished in its waters before Lexington. The crack of his rifle, perchance, was echoing in these primitive wilds when Warren was dying at Bunker Hill, when the crown yet rested lightly on the head of Louis XVI, when England was mistress of the world, and when the checkered history of America and England and France, the years he should live to see, was not yet revealed to men. One hundred and ten years! What thrones have fallen, what people have passed away, what governments have been born and grown strong since he listened to his mother's lulaby! What changes in nature, in politics, in science, in invention, in society, in civilization! He heard the knell for Washington and the knell for Lincoln. He heard the tramp of a French conquerer in Berlin, and the tramp of a German conqueror in Paris. He saw France mourning over a dead Napoleon, and a live Napoleon mourning over a dead France. - During his life were born the achievements of steam, of light and of electricity. "Full of years." No trio of the English language mean more than this, when spoken of this man. Not passing away when three score years and ten had been told, but living a generation beyond the period that is reached only "by reason of strength." An accident deprived him of a leg when he was eighty years old, and yet his wonderful vitality enabled him to survive the accident for a generation. In fact, he enjoyed good health up to the time of his death. Rarely is it the fortune of man to live so long as did Robert Sixbury. ~ Utica Herald.
- [S228] Ernest G. Cook article - September 12, 1929, Ernest G. Cook, (Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, NY, Thursday, September 12, 1929, p. 15, col 4-6), Thursday, Sept.12, 1929, pp. 15, col 4-6. (Reliability: 3), 6 Dec 2004.
"He rather thought his other parent died shortly after he was a year old, for when he was just under two years, so he has been told, he was placed in the care of a family who lived on a farm in the Catskill mountains, near the Hudson river. The family were very devout Catholics and for fear he had not been baptized, took him to the church when he was two and had him christened in the Catholic faith. Tall Charlie said the parish records had been searched and they found where a Robert Sixberry was christened in 1765 at about the age of two years."
- [S382] US Census 1870 - Jefferson County, NY, National Archives and Records Administration, (Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. [database on-line] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003-. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1870 U.S. Federal Decennial Census.1870 United States Federal Census. [database online] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Original data: Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. 1870 Federal Population Census. M593, 1,761 rolls; part of Minnesota T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.), NARA Series: M593, Roll 945; Page: 416; Image: 8 (Reliability: 3), 2 Jan 2006.
Dwelling: 58
Family: 60
Sixbury, Robert
Age: 105
Occupation: Past labor
Birthplace: New York
Father of foreign birth
Mother of foreign birth
Cannot read or write
Dwelling: 59
Sixbury, Jacob
Age: 68
Occupation: farmer
Mary
Age: 62
Occupation: keeping house
Margaret
Age: 28
Occupation: at home
Melissa
Age: 26
Occupation: at home
Gertrude
Age: 24
Occupation: at home
- [S528] St. Lawrence Plain Dealer, S. F. Remington, Editor, (S. F. Remington, Editor
Canton, New York), Thursday, May 7, 1868, page ?, column 6 (Reliability: 3), 24 Jun 2007.
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Robert Sixbury, of LeRay, Jefferson
Co., was one hundred years old the
4th of March last.
- [S102] State Census Jeff Co. NY 1855, (State of New York, 1855 Census
Records by town:
A-E, reel 0895241
E-P, reel 0895242
P-W, reel 0895243), LDS Microfilm Reel Number: 0895242 (Reliability: 3), 12 Jul 2007.
First Election District
Town of LeRay
Jefferson County
June 18, 1855
Dwelling house numbered in order of visitiation: 109
Type: Stone
Value: 500
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 112
Name: Joseph Bisha
Age: 40
Place of birth: France
Marital status: Married
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Occupation: farmer
Naturalized
Owned land
Name: Almira Bisha
Age: 37
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: wife
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status: married
Years resident in this city or town: 37
Name: Mary Bisha
Age: 13
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 13
Name: S J Bisha
Age: 11
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 11
Name: M Bisha
Age: 9
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 9
Name: Joseph Bisha
Age: 7
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 7
Name: C E Bisha
Age: 5
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 5
Name: F A Bisha
Age: 3
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 3
Name: July Bisha
Age: 7/12
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 7/12
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 113
Name: Francis Bisha
Age: 69
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family:
Birthplace: France
Marital status: married
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Occupation: farmer
Naturalized
Owns land
Name: Susan Bisha
Age: 49
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: wife
Birthplace: France
Marital status: married
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Occupation:
Dwelling numbered in the order of visitation: 110
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 114
Name: P C Lodwick...
Dwelling numbered in the order of visitation: 111
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 115
Type: Logs
Name: Robert Sixbery
Age: 77
Birthplace: Herkimer Co.
Widowed
Years resident in this city or town: 56
Occupation: farmer
Native
Owns land
Dwelling numbered in the order of visitation: 112
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 116
Type: Logs
Name: Jacob Sixbery
Age: 55
Birthplace: Herkimer Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 55
Occupation: farmer
Native
Owns land
Name: Mary Sixbery
Age: 48
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: wife
Birthplace: Herkimer Co.
Married
Years resident in this city or town: 43
Name: Marthy Sixbery
Age: 22
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 22
Name: Mar Sixbery
Age: 20
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Name: Jacob Sixbery
Age: 17
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 16
Occupation: farmer
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Name: M Sixbery
Age: 14
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 14
Name: M Sixbery
Age: 11
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 11
Name: G Sixbery
Age: 9
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 9
Name: Alonz? Sixbery
Age: 7
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 7
Name: M Sixbery
Age: 3
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 3
Several families were living within close proximity to one another:
Helmer, VanBrocklin, Bisha, Sixbury and Hoover.
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Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Source: "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-25847-10835-45?cc=1937366 : 22 May 2014), Jefferson > Le Ray, E.D. 1 > image 7 of 32; count clerk offices, New York. |
- [S313] History of Jefferson County, NY - Everts, Holcom, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, (Published by L.H. Everts & Co. , 714-16 Filbert Street, Philiadelphia, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, 1878, Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia), pg. 421 (Reliability: 3), 4 Feb 2005.
Coffeen settled where B. Steinhilber's farm now is, a mile southeast of Evans' Mills, but removed the next year to a place near Sterlingville. Sixbury was one of the surveying party, who, in 1804, accompanied Cadwallader Child to Alexandria Bay, and thence back to Great Bend. In the same year he with John Hoover, from Herkimer county, purchased the improvement of D. Coffeen, when the latter moved to Philadelphia.
- [S313] History of Jefferson County, NY - Everts, Holcom, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, (Published by L.H. Everts & Co. , 714-16 Filbert Street, Philiadelphia, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, 1878, Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia), pp. 420, 421 (Reliability: 3), 4 Feb 2005.
Several new settlers came in 1803, and more in 1804. Among those who arrived in the first-named year were Joseph Child, with his three sons, Daniel, Samuel and Moses, from Pennsylvania, Thomas Ward, Daniel Coffeen, John Petty, and Robert Sixbury. The Childs settled in the neighborhood which still bears their name, southwest from Le Rayville, and Ward located where Joseph Bichet now lives, between Le Rayville and Evans' Mills. In the following year he, with Samuel child, working in the employ of Cadwallader Child, made the first clearing in the present town of Philadelphia. Coffeen settled where B. Steinhilber's farm now is, a mile southeast of Evans' Mills, but removed the next year to a place near Sterlingville. Sixbury was one of the surveying party, who, in 1804, accompanied Cadwallader Child to Alexandria Bay, and thence back to Great Bend. In the same year he with John Hoover, from Herkimer county, purchased the improvement of D. Coffeen, when the latter moved to Philadelphia. From this place he (Sixbury) afterwards moved to a farm two miles north of Evans' Mills, upon which he spent a good portion of his long life. He became widely known and famed as a skilled and successful hunter, for which his iron constitution and great powers of endurance eminently fitted him. He died in Le ray in the fall of 1875, having passed the age of 112 years. John petty removed, in the fall of 1804, to Philadelphia, being one of the first settlers in that town.
- [S218] Our County and It's People, Edgar C. Emerson, Editor; Lewis Cass Aldrich, Assistant Editor, (The Boston History Company, Publishers; September, 1898), Chapter XXXI, The Town of LeRay, pg. 666, 667 (Reliability: 3), 8 Feb 2005.
The pioneer of Le Lay was Benjamin Brown, brother to General Jacob Brown, the latter the first permanent settler in the county north of Black river. Both came to the region and made their respective itnprovements while the territory formed a part of Oneida county. In the fall of 1801 Benjamin Brown visited this town in quest of a suitable site whereupon to erect a mill, and after casting about for a time selected a location on Pleasant creek, about on the site of the hamlet of Le Raysyule. He made a clearing and prepared timber for a dam across the stream, but the severity of winter coin pelled his party to return to Brownville. Early in the following spring work was resumed by cutting a road from Brownville to the mill site, General Brown going in advance of the party with his surveying implements, marking the course, while they followed with the work of construction. After many incidents and some misfortunes and hardships, the road was built to Le Raysville and work on the improvement was renewed. In due time the dam and mill were completed, and if local, tradition be true the
- [S306] Jefferson County Centennial 1905, Hungerford-Holbrook, (Hungerford-Holbrook Co., Watertown, New York, 1905), pg. 304 (Reliability: 3), 24 Feb 2005.
The year 1803 witnessed the arrival of several families. Among them were men of prominence who in after years had an active share in both town and county history and made for LeRay a prominent place among the towns of this region. Conspicuous among the settlers in 1803 were Joseph Child and his three sons Daniel, Samuel, and Moses; all of whom came from Pennsylvania and were associated with many early events. Their surname has ever since been known and respected in the county. The Child family located south of Brown's Mill on what has since been known and designated as Child's Hill. In this same year Daniel Coffeen, William Cooper, John Petty, and Robert Sixberry also came to this region.
- [S431] Watertown Daily Times, (Watertown, N.Y.), June 10, 1905, pg. 14 (Reliability: 3), 30 Apr 2006.
LeRay's Early History
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....Brown was the only setller in1802, but the following year witnessed the arrival of several pioneers, prominent among them being Joseph Child and his sons, Daniel, Samuel and Moses from Pennsylvania and Thomas Ward, Daniel Coffeen, William Cooper, John Petty and Robert Sixbury. The Child family located between Brown's mill and Watertown; Ward settled between LeRay'sville and Evans Mills, while Coffeen's improvements were located below Evans Mills. Later Coffeen moved near the present village of Sterlingville. Sixbury and Hoover bought Coffeen's tract in the vicinity of Evans, but the former removed to the north part of the town. He died in 1875, aged, it is claimed, 112 years.
- [S249] Ernest G. Cook article - September 18, 1929, Ernest G. Cook, (Wednesday, September 18, 1929, Watertown Daily Times, pg. 14, col. 1-6) (Reliability: 3), 4 Feb 2005.
- [S218] Our County and It's People, Edgar C. Emerson, Editor; Lewis Cass Aldrich, Assistant Editor, (The Boston History Company, Publishers; September, 1898), Chapter XXXI, The Town of LeRay, pg. 667 (Reliability: 3), 8 Feb 2005.
This Child family located between pioneer Brown
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- [S313] History of Jefferson County, NY - Everts, Holcom, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, (Published by L.H. Everts & Co. , 714-16 Filbert Street, Philiadelphia, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, 1878, Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia), pp. 420, 421, 473 (Reliability: 3), 7 Jan 2005.
LE RAY
THE EARLIEST SETTLERS
Into this wilderness the first come was Benjamin Brown, brother of General Jacob Brown. He explored the country in the autumn of 1801, chose a spot on the banks of Pleasant creek, where Le Rayville now is, and commenced to clear the ground and to make preparations for the construction of a dam across the stream. The closing in of winter suspended the work, and he and his party of laborers retired to Brownsville to await the opening of spring. In the following April he returned to his purchase, setting out from Brownsville on the 17th of that month, under the lead of his brother Jacob, who proceeded with compass, to lay their course, Benjamin and his party following, and cutting a track as they went. Short as the journey was, it bought some hardship, for their provision-train, which has been expected to follow them closely, encountered so many obstacles and delays that it did not overtake them until the second day, when they had reached their destination, not a little exhausted from their prolonged season of fasting.
A log house was erected for the workmen, and, although Benjamin was then a bachelor, he made further preparations for the reception of a prospective Mrs. Brown. She arrived in July, a newly-made wife, and the first white woman who set foot in the present town of Le Ray. Meanwhile good progress had been made in the construction of a saw-mill upon the creek, an enterprise which ad chiefly induced Brown's settlement at this place. it is related that a the 'raising' of the frame men came from a long distance, not more to help on the work than to participate in the festivities of the occasion, for not only did they feast on a remarkable fine carcass of venison well roasted, but they liberally moistened the viand with deep draughts of spirituous sustenance. In those days they would as soon have thought of constructing a building with a frame as of rearing the frame without ardent spirits! As it was, all went off propitiously, and before winter came the mill was completed.
Several new settlers came in 1803, and more in 1804. Among those who arrived in the first-named year were Joseph Child, with his three sons, Daniel, Samuel and Moses, from Pennsylvania, Thomas Ward, Daniel Coffeen, John Petty, and Robert Sixbury. The Childs settled in the neighborhood which still bears their name, southwest from Le Rayville, and Ward located where Joseph Bichet now lives, between Le Rayville and Evans' Mills. In the following year he, with Samuel Child, working in the employ of Cadwallader Child, made the first clearing in the present town of Philadelphia. Coffeen settled where B. Steinhilber's farm now is, a mile southeast of Evans' Mills, but removed the next year to a place near Sterlingville. Sixbury was one of the surveying party, who, in 1804, accompanied Cadwallader child to Alexandria Bay, and thence back to Great Bend. In the same year he with John Hoover, from Herkimer county, purchased the improvement of D. Coffeen, when the latter moved to Philadelphia. From this place he (Sixbury) afterwards moved to a farm two miles north of Evans' Mills, upon which he spent a good portion of his long life. He became widely known and famed as a skilled and successful hunter, for which his iron constitution and great powers of endurance eminently fitted him. He died in Le ray in the fall of 1875, having passed the age of 112 years. John petty removed, in the fall of 1804, to Philadelphia, being one of the first settlers in that town.
Guillaume Coupart, better known in Le Ray as William Cooper, or "French Cooper," was one of the comers in 1803. He was born in Normandy, France, June 24, 1773, and about twenty years later fled fromhis native country to escape conscription. He went to Newfoundland, was there taken prisoner, and carried to Halifax, whence he escaped, went to the State of Connecticut, where he remained for some time. He came to the Black river country in 1798, and located in Pamelia. In 1803, as mentioned, he came to Le ray, and settled west of Le Raysville, and south of Ingerson's Corners. He became a very large land-owner in the town, and died here January 19, 1851. His son, Victor Cooper, now resides at Sandford's Corners station.
Roswell Woodruff, father of Norris W. Woodruff, late of Watertown, settled in 1804 at the place later called Jewett's Corners, from Captain Ezekiel Jewett, to whom Mr. Woodruff afterwards sold the property, and removed to New Hartford, Oneida county, where he passed the remainder of his life. Benjamin Kirkbride came also in 1804, settling about one mile southeasterly from Evans' Mills, on the tract afterwards owned by Ezekiel Steinhilber.
Among the earliest pioneers in Le Ray were:
Michael Coffeen, Ruel Kimball, James Anthony, Captain Richardson Avery, William Barber, S. Brownell, Alfred Comins,
Eli Davis, Sylvanus Evans, Amos Braughton, David Burhans, Perley Fuller, Oliver Fuller, Wm. H. Granger, Peter Hoover, Thomas Huston, John Huston (weaver), Wm. Huston, Isaac Ingerson, Ezra Ingerson, Silas Ward, Leo Woodward, Francis Trevaller, Joseph Taggart, Reuben Treat, Elisha Steele, Abiel Shurtliff, Elisha Scofield, Alvah Scofield, Amaziah Parker, Solomon Parker, Barnhart Minick, Elias Minick, Arnold Miller, Alanson Lyon, Thomas Hurlbut,
Joel W. Hurlbut, Lyman Holbrook, Ivah Holbrook, Alvin Clark, Davis M. Caldwell, Dr. Horatio Orvis (Le Ray's first physician), Willard Barrett, Fred H. Bellinger, Levi Butterfield, Asa Barnes, David M. Caldwell, Jotham Goodale,
Alfred Vebber, Alvin Herrick, Fayette Herrick, Solomon Hawkins, John Ingerson, Ansel Winslow, Gilbert Taylor, Stephen D. Sloan, Edwin Hungerford, Peter Slack, Jesse Smith, Samuel Stewart, John V, and Patrick S. Stewart, Levi Reed, William Palmer, Isaac Palmer, Jos. J. Petrie, Oliver Pierce, Abraham Jewett, Ezekiel Jewett, James J. Murphy, Homan Millard, John Macomber, Stephen Macomber, Chauncey Morse, Samuel C. Kanady, Sylvester Kelsey, Beni Henry, Elom Henry, Stephen and Nathan Ingerson, Andrew Roberts, Olsey Roberts
pg. 473
All that is now the town of Philadelphia was at that time a wilderness, in which no blow of white man's axe had been struck, except by the surveying parties of Brodhead; and it was to explore this and to examine their purchase that Cadwallader Child and Mordecai Taylor started northward in May, 1804. In their company came SamuelEvans, who had visited Le Raysville and vicinity in 1803. On leaving Albany they traveled on horseback to Brownville for a conference with Jacob Brown in reference to projected roads, after which, early in June, Mr. Child, with Michael Coffeen, Solomon Parker, Robert Sixbury, the hunter, and another assistant, but without Mr. Taylor and Mr. Evans, who remained at Brownville, set out from Le Raysville to follow Brodhead
- [S310] A History of Jefferson County In The State of New York, Franklin B. Hough, (Albany, Joel Munsell, 78 State Street, Watertown, N.Y., Sterling & Riddell, 1854), pg. 81 (Reliability: 3), 1 Feb 2005.
Alexandria Bay was selected by Cadwallader Child, in 1804, while surveying a road from the
Friends Settlement to the St. Lawrence, as an eligible site for a port, and accordingly a
reservation of a mile square was made by Mr. Le Ray, for a village, which was surveyed out for
that purpose by Edmund Tucker, about 1818.
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Baptism record of Mary Quilty
Baptism record of Mary Quilty
Microfilm 05019 / 03 | Page 43
Carrigeen and Mooncoin; County of Kilkenny; Diocese of Ossory. Baptisms
Source: http://registers.nli.ie/pages/vtls000635316_043 |
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Jefferson County Centennial
see page 369 for reference to Robert Sixbury |
- [S231] Atlas of Jefferson County New York, 1864 - LeRay, S.N. & D.G. Beers, (S.N. & D.G. Beers, 1864) (Reliability: 3), 7 Feb 2005.
- [S313] History of Jefferson County, NY - Everts, Holcom, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, (Published by L.H. Everts & Co. , 714-16 Filbert Street, Philiadelphia, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, 1878, Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia), pp. 421, 422 (Reliability: 3), 2 Feb 2005.
pg. 421
EVANS
- [S310] A History of Jefferson County In The State of New York, Franklin B. Hough, (Albany, Joel Munsell, 78 State Street, Watertown, N.Y., Sterling & Riddell, 1854), pg. 87 (Reliability: 3), 1 Feb 2005.
Antwerp.
The land books show the following names of settlers, with the dates of their purchase: 1805, Wm. Lee. 1806, John Bethel, John Robinson, Peter Vrooman, Edward Foster, Jr., Mary Stirling, Benajah Randall, John Jenison, Peter Raven, Hopestill Foster and John C. Foster. 1807, Zebulon Rockwell, Samuel Griswold, David Coffeen, Zopher Holden.
- [S357] US Census 1810 - Jefferson County, New York, National Archives and Records Administration, (The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington: 1958), page 53a (Reliability: 3), 30 Oct 2005.
Lysbury, Robert
3 males, age 0-9
1 male, age 26-44
3 females, age 0-9
1 female, age 26-44
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Jacob Sixbery children (cont.)
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Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Source: "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-25847-10835-45?cc=1937366 : 22 May 2014), Jefferson > Le Ray, E.D. 1 > image 7 of 32; count clerk offices, New York. |
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- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S461] War of 1812 Service Records, National Archives and Records Administration, (Direct Data Capture, comp.. War of 1812 Service Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1999. Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M602, 234 rolls.), Roll Box: 190, Roll Exct: 602 (Reliability: 3), 11 Aug 2006.
Name: ROBERT SIXBERRY
Company: 108 REG'T (BRITAIN'S), NEW YORK MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 190 Roll Exct: 602
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S83] Perkins, Carolyn - 1/26/97, Attachment to letter: "War of 1812 pension record" This title is handwritten by Carolyn Perkins, Chairman of the Genealogy Dept. Flower Memorial Library. (Reliability: 3).
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S83] Perkins, Carolyn - 1/26/97, Attachment to letter: "War of 1812 pension record" This title is handwritten by Carolyn Perkins, Chairman of the Genealogy Dept. Flower Memorial Library. (Reliability: 3).
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S1253] Jefferson County Land Records, New York. Jefferson., M: 679, Deed from V. LeRay DeChaumont to Robert Sixbury, August 8, 1813 (Reliability: 3), 18 Nov 2016.
This indenture made the eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirteen between James Donationus Le Ray De Chaumont by V. Le Ray De Chaumont his attorney of the first part and Robert Sixbury of the second part witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of twenty one dollars 56/100 lawful money of the United States of America to the said party of the first part in hand well and truly paid by the said party of the second part at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents (the receipt and payment whereof the said party of the first part doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and every part and parcel thereof doth exonerate, acquit and discharge the said party of the second part his heirs executors administrators and assigns and every of them forever by these presents) Hath granted, bargained and sold, aliened, released, conveyed and confirmed and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell, alien, release, convey and confirm unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever all that parcel of land situate in the town of Le Ray, County of Jefferson, State of New York in number two hundred and thirty eight of Great Lot number four of Macomb's Purchase beginning at the most west of land deeded to Peter Hoover the 13 of July, 1813, thence on said Hoover's boundary northeasterly to his most northerly corner: thence north fifty four degrees west twenty two chains 36 links thence south thirty six degrees west twenty two chains 36 links thence to the place of beginning. Containing fifty acres more or less. Together with all and singular the rights members priveleges, hereditaments and apputenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appurtaining and the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders of all singular the said lands tenements hereditaments and premises hereby granted or mentioned to be hereby granted and of every part and parcel thereof and all the rents, issues, profits and ____ thereto or to any part or parcel thereof belonging or in any wise appurtaining and also all the estate, right, title, claim, interest and demand what soever of the said party of the first part of in to or out of the same and every part and parcel thereof to have and to hold the said lands tenements hereditaments and premises hereby granted bargained and sold or mentioned or intended to be and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtinances unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever:
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Deed to Robert Sixbury pg. 1
Source: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89W5-FCYZ?i=364&wc=M7C7-G2W%3A358135401%2C359487301&cc=2078654 |
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Sixbury overlay
Satellite image:
Google Earth
Overlay:
Atlas of Jefferson County, published by S. N. & D. G. Beers in 1864. |
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Sixbury deed overlay
Overlay:
This is a metes and bounds map overlay from deed recorded April 7, 1819, Liber M, Page 679, Jefferson County, NY.
Image:
Satelite imaging from Google Earth |
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Location of Sixberry property
This Microsoft Word document (Robert Sixberry Deed M_679.doc) was created by Paul Kelly. It is intended to illustrate the location of the property granted to Robert Sixberry/Sixbury by deed recorded April 7, 1819. It also illustrates the location of the adjoining property owned by Peter Hoover by deed recorded March 30th 1819, Liber M, Page 638 |
- [S88] Ben Cobb 6/2/97, (June 2, 1997), June 2, 1997 Dear Mr. (Reliability: 4).
Kelly, I recently received your letter dated May 25, 1997. I was able to find the information you requested concerning Robert Sixbury from the grantee indexes for Jefferson County Deeds for the nineteenth century. I found Robert Sixbury mentioned only oncein the deed indexes from 1800 to 1885. I have enclosed a copy of the deed for a Robert Sixbury from a James Leray, which was recorded in Deed Liber M page 679. I have also enclosed the $40.00 check which you had originally sent to us. We are unable to make change for this check. The genealogical search we did for you costs $5.00. In order to pay for this service please make a check made out to the Jefferson County Clerk for the five dollars. As for the copies of the wills that you requested, these documents are stored in the Surrogate's Court vault. Surrogate's Court charges $70 to do a search for a will that is more than 70 years old. But they only charge 25 cents a page if someone comes in and does the search themselves. Since you sent me the book and page numbers for all these wills, I will be able to copy all of these documents for 25 cents per page. Surrogate's Court is unable to make change for your check either. I counted the number of pages for all the wills you requested. There is 47 pages altogether. That means it will cost $11.75. In order to pay for this please make a check made out to Jefferson County Surrogate's Court for $11.75 and send it to me at the above address. Please send the two checks to my office at the above address. Upon receiving your checks, I will mail the copies of the wills to you. I am sorry for the inconvenience of needing to write us back in order to receive the information concerning these wills. Please call me at the above telephone number if you have any questions concerning this matter. Thank you. Sincerely, Benjamin J. Cobb Records Management Coordinator
- [S231] Atlas of Jefferson County New York, 1864 - LeRay, S.N. & D.G. Beers, (S.N. & D.G. Beers, 1864) (Reliability: 3), 7 Dec 2004.
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Map of LeRay
This map shows the location of Robert Sixbury property described in the grant deed dated 18 Aug 1813. See lot 238.
Source of the map:
Atlas of Jefferson County, published by S. N. & D. G. Beers in 1864.
Available online version courtesy of http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/leray.htm |
- [S313] History of Jefferson County, NY - Everts, Holcom, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, (Published by L.H. Everts & Co. , 714-16 Filbert Street, Philiadelphia, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, 1878, Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia), pg. 421 (Reliability: 3), 4 Feb 2005.
From this place he (Sixbury) afterwards moved to a farm two miles north of Evans' Mills, upon
which he spent a good portion of his long life. He became widely known and famed as a skilled and successful hunter, for which his iron constitution and great powers of endurance eminently fitted him. He died in Le ray in the fall of 1875, having passed the age of 112 years.
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S83] Perkins, Carolyn - 1/26/97, Attachment to letter (Reliability: 3).
: "War of 1812 pension record" This title is handwritten by Carolyn Perkins, Chairman of the Genealogy Dept. Flower Memorial Library. The following is one typed paragraph from the page. (Author unknown.) Service: Robert Sixbury enlisted as a private from March 5, 1813 to March 22, 1813, in Capt. Ezra Ingerson's Co. of New York Militia, and from Oct. 19, 1814 to Nov. 8, 1814, in Capt. John Hoover's Co. of New York Militia. The soldier stated he was in the battle at Cranberry Creek about July 3, 1812, and at Sackets Harbor May 29, 1813, dates of enlistment and names of officers for this service not stated. War Dept. Washington, D.C. S.C. 19434
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S358] US Census - 1820, Jefferson County, New York, National Archives and Records Administration, (The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Serives Administration, Washington: 1959), Year: 1820; Census Place: Le Ray, Jefferson, New York; Roll: M33_72; Page: 433; Image: 232. (Reliability: 3), 3 Jan 2007.
Head of household: Robert Sixberry
2 males, age 0-9
1 male , age 16-18
2 males age 18-25
1 male, age 45+
2 females, age 0-9
1 female, age 10-15
1 female, age 26-44
3 persons engaged in agriculture
- [S358] US Census - 1820, Jefferson County, New York, National Archives and Records Administration, (The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Serives Administration, Washington: 1959), page 433 (Reliability: 3), 30 Oct 2005.
Head of household: Robert Sixberry
2 males, age 0-9
1 male , age 16-18
2 males age 18-25
1 male, age 45+
2 females, age 0-9
1 female, age 10-15
1 female, age 26-44
3 persons engaged in agriculture
- [S331] US Census 1820 Index , New York, Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., (3346 South Orchard Drive, Bountiful, Utah 84010, 1977, Dana Press, Provo, Utah), 974.7 - x2pa., pg. 422 (Reliability: 3), 30 Aug 2005.
Sixberry, Robert Jeff 433 Le Ray
- [S94] State Census Jeff Co. NY 1825 (Reliability: 3).
5 males
2 males subject to militia duty between 18 and 45
3 male qualified voters
2 paupers
5 females
no married females under 45
2 unmarried females between 16 and 45
2 unmarried females under 16
50 acres of land, 13 cows, 3 horses, 12 sheep, 17 hogs, 30 yards fulled
cloth, 30 yards flannel not fulled
- [S96] State Census Jeff Co. NY 1835 (Reliability: 3).
1.The name of the head of each family.
Robert Sixbury
2.The number of male persons in the family, (the name of whose head is
in the first column) including its head, if male. 2
3.The number of female persons in the same family, including its head,
if female. 2
4.The number of male persons in the same family subject to militia
duty. 1
5.The whole number of male persons in the same family entitled by the
constitution of this state to vote for all officers
elective by the people. 2
12.The number of unmarried female persons in the same family, between
the ages of sixteen and forty-five years. 1
17.The number of acres of improved land occupied by the same family.
30
- [S360] US Census 1840 - Jefferson County, New York, National Archives And Records Administration, (Ancestry.com. 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1840. M704, 580 rolls.), M704, Roll 291, New York, Vol. 15 (1-359)., M704, Roll 291, Volume 15, Page 40 (Reliability: 3), 1 Nov 2005.
Head of household: Robert Sixberry
2 males, age 0-4
1 male, age 30-39
1 male, age 50-59
1 female, age 20-29
1 female, age 60-69
- [S255] US Census 1850 - Jefferson County, New York - Roll 514, National Archives and Records Administration, (The National Archives, The National Archives And Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington: 1963), M432, Roll 514., Page 112, Lines 35 through 42 (Reliability: 3), 17 Jan 2005.
Page, Line Dwelling, Family, Name, Age, M/F, Birth
112, 35 83 83 Sixbury Robert 76 m NY
112, 36 83 83 Sixbury Isaac 34 m NY
112, 37 83 83 Sixbury Robert 10 m NY
112, 38 83 83 Sixbury Isaac 5 m NY
112, 39 83 83 Sixbury Susannah 33 f NY
112, 40 83 83 Sixbury Eleanor 74 f NY
112, 41 83 83 Sixbury Betsey 7 f NY
112, 42 83 83 Sixbury Jane Ann 2 f NY
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~aliecor/1850_Census/LeRay/page_index_to_town_of_leray.htm
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S102] State Census Jeff Co. NY 1855, (State of New York, 1855 Census
Records by town:
A-E, reel 0895241
E-P, reel 0895242
P-W, reel 0895243), LDS Microfilm Reel Number: 0895242 (Reliability: 3), 12 Jul 2007.
First Election District
Town of LeRay
Jefferson County
June 18, 1855
Dwelling house numbered in order of visitiation: 109
Type: Stone
Value: 500
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 112
Name: Joseph Bisha
Age: 40
Place of birth: France
Marital status: Married
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Occupation: farmer
Naturalized
Owned land
Name: Almira Bisha
Age: 37
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: wife
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status: married
Years resident in this city or town: 37
Name: Mary Bisha
Age: 13
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 13
Name: S J Bisha
Age: 11
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 11
Name: M Bisha
Age: 9
Sex: F
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 9
Name: Joseph Bisha
Age: 7
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 7
Name: C E Bisha
Age: 5
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 5
Name: F A Bisha
Age: 3
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 3
Name: July Bisha
Age: 7/12
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Marital status:
Years resident in this city or town: 7/12
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 113
Name: Francis Bisha
Age: 69
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family:
Birthplace: France
Marital status: married
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Occupation: farmer
Naturalized
Owns land
Name: Susan Bisha
Age: 49
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: wife
Birthplace: France
Marital status: married
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Occupation:
Dwelling numbered in the order of visitation: 110
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 114
Name: P C Lodwick...
Dwelling numbered in the order of visitation: 111
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 115
Type: Logs
Name: Robert Sixbery
Age: 77
Birthplace: Herkimer Co.
Widowed
Years resident in this city or town: 56
Occupation: farmer
Native
Owns land
Dwelling numbered in the order of visitation: 112
Family numbered in the order of visitation: 116
Type: Logs
Name: Jacob Sixbery
Age: 55
Birthplace: Herkimer Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 55
Occupation: farmer
Native
Owns land
Name: Mary Sixbery
Age: 48
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: wife
Birthplace: Herkimer Co.
Married
Years resident in this city or town: 43
Name: Marthy Sixbery
Age: 22
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 22
Name: Mar Sixbery
Age: 20
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 20
Name: Jacob Sixbery
Age: 17
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 16
Occupation: farmer
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Name: M Sixbery
Age: 14
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 14
Name: M Sixbery
Age: 11
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 11
Name: G Sixbery
Age: 9
Sex: f
Relationship to head of family: daugh
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 9
Name: Alonz? Sixbery
Age: 7
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 7
Name: M Sixbery
Age: 3
Sex: m
Relationship to head of family: son
Birthplace: Jefferson Co.
Years resident in this city or town: 3
Several families were living within close proximity to one another:
Helmer, VanBrocklin, Bisha, Sixbury and Hoover.
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John Fitzpatrick
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Jacob Sixbery children (cont.)
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Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Source: "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-25847-10835-45?cc=1937366 : 22 May 2014), Jefferson > Le Ray, E.D. 1 > image 7 of 32; count clerk offices, New York. |
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
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Map of LeRay
This map shows the location of Robert Sixbury property described in the grant deed dated 18 Aug 1813. See lot 238.
Source of the map:
Atlas of Jefferson County, published by S. N. & D. G. Beers in 1864.
Available online version courtesy of http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/leray.htm |
- [S379] US Census 1860 - Jefferson County, NY, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.), NARA Roll: M653_761; Page: 354; Image: 357 (Reliability: 3), 29 Dec 2005.
Name: Robert Sixbury
Age: 89
Value of real estate: 2,000
Birth: NY
- [S983] 1865 New York State Census, New York, Jefferson, (Digital images. Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. \i FamilySearch.org\i0 . http://familysearch.org : 2015), Le Ray, p. 23, dwelling 160, family 157, line 15, Robert Sixbery; (http://familysearch.org : accessed Apr 22, 2016); citing source p. 23, line 15, household ID 157, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 895,246 (Reliability: 3), 22 Apr 2016.
Name:
- [S382] US Census 1870 - Jefferson County, NY, National Archives and Records Administration, (Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. [database on-line] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003-. Indexed by Ancestry.com from microfilmed schedules of the 1870 U.S. Federal Decennial Census.1870 United States Federal Census. [database online] Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Original data: Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. 1870 Federal Population Census. M593, 1,761 rolls; part of Minnesota T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.), NARA Series: M593, Roll 945; Page: 416; Image: 8 (Reliability: 3), 2 Jan 2006.
Dwelling: 58
Family: 60
Sixbury, Robert
Age: 105
Occupation: Past labor
Birthplace: New York
Father of foreign birth
Mother of foreign birth
Cannot read or write
Dwelling: 59
Sixbury, Jacob
Age: 68
Occupation: farmer
Mary
Age: 62
Occupation: keeping house
Margaret
Age: 28
Occupation: at home
Melissa
Age: 26
Occupation: at home
Gertrude
Age: 24
Occupation: at home
- [S527] Utica Weekly Herald, Tuesday, March 4, 1872, page 4, col. 3 (Reliability: 3), 18 Jun 2007.
Utica Weekly Herald
Tuesday, March 12 1872
Jefferson County
Mr. Robert Sixbury. a veteran trapper and
woodsman, of Leray, was 108 years old on the
7th. He has camped out more nights in the
North Woods, and killed more deer than any
other man in the State, and to-day his sight is
as clear and aim as sure as any man of half
his age. He has a brother 102 years old.
- [S2] Obituary for Robert Sixberry - 1873, (The Watertown Post, October 1873, Watertown, New York).
- [S286] Genealogical and Family History of the County of Jefferson, New York, R. A. Oakes, (Lewis Publishing Co.., 1905), pg. 929 (Reliability: 3), 3 Feb 2005.
pg. 929
ROBERT SIXBURY, father of Mrs. Joseph V. Besha, was a most remarkable man, and lived to be almost one hundred and ten years old. From a local journal is taken the following account of his life, which is the best now attainable:
"In the town of Le Ray, about five miles from Theresa, on the road to Evans Mills, in a little house by the roadside, last week, Thursday, Robert Sixbury died. A large majority of the readers of the Post never before heard of this remarkable man. Few of our people would have believed that there was a man in Jefferson county who had lived here for ninety-five years; yet such was really the case. In 1778, at the age of fourteen years, Robert Sixbury came to this section of the country from Amsterdam, Montgomery county, where he was born on the 6th day of March, 1763. His favorite hunting and fishing ground was in what was afterward LeRay and finally divided and now composes the towns of Alexandria, Theresa, and LeRay. Upon the banks of Indian river all kinds of game did then abound for trappers and hunters, and its waters were filled with fish and covered with Indian canoes, while the dense forests swarmed with the treacherous savages and no permanent white habitation was known nearer than the Mohawk Valley. After spending a number of years in this wilderness, with no local habitaion and no comapnion but his musket and traps, he went to Herkimer County, where he married Miss Betsey Hoover, and the loving couple returned to his lodge in the vast wilderness and doubtless enjoyed the contiguity of shade. He became the companion of Foster the Indian hunter, and many an Indian has gone to his "happy hunting ground" as the penalty for stealing their traps. Sixbury built a log house about two miles north of Evans Mills and there for years he supported his family by hunting and fishing. For over sixty years he lived at this place, outliving two log houses which rotted down, and then he moved into his shop, where he has lived until the past few months. He had eight children, four boys and four girls, who
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are all living but one son, who died about thirty years ago, aged thirty-seven years. His wife died about twenty-five years ago. Since which time the old gentleman has lived by himself in his old log house, cooking his own victuals except bread, positively refusing all assistance or to move from the home where he brought his young bride and where together they commenced life nearly ninety years ago; and where their children had grown up around them. Where he had slept so many anxious nights fearful that the tomahawk and the torch would deprive him of the ones dearer than life, if not life itself, he determined to remain. Not until the old shop, too, rotted down would he consent to occupy the little house near his son where he died.
"His three sons live in LeRay. John is about seventy-five years old; Jacob, seventy-two, and Isaac, the son who took care of the old gentleman, is about fifty-six. Of his daugters, Betsey married A. J. Shattuck, and lives in St. Lawrence county; Mary married Isaac Cushman of Cape Vincent; Cushman died very suddenly while on a visit to his father-in-law, and his widow still lives; Annie was a twin of Alexander - the son who died at the age of thirty-seven - and she married Isaac Walradt and lives near Evans Mills; Almira married Joseph Bichet, and lives near Lafargeville. The old gentleman had sixty-five grandchildren, fifty of whom are living. There were thirty great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. About thirty years ago the old gentleman fell in the fire-place and burned his foot so badly that his leg was amputated just above the knee; although about eighty years old it healed up and he has ever since traveled about with a wodden leg. Last spring he was out shooting a mark with some friends, but did not like the Springfield rifle. He retained his hearing and eye-sight until he died. He always expressed a dislike for civilization, often wishing the country was just as he found it ninety-five years ago. He took no interest in any of the three wars through which he lived, and without doubt was at his death the oldest man in the state, and if half the stories about him are true the most remakable man that ever lived. The world has witnessed many great changes during his life but of them he knew or cared nothing."
- [S75] Perkins, Carolyn - Package, unknown, (2 Jan 1997), Group 2, Page 1 (Reliability: 3).
- [S225] CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS, JEFFERSON COUNTY, NY, A. E. Rogers, John Bartlett, Ellen Bartlett, (Downloaded from:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/bartlett.htm), http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/barles.htm (Reliability: 3), 6 Dec 2004.
SIXBURY ROBERT, 1761-1855
Cemetery: HOOVER CEMETERY, LeRay, NY
Location: West of Farrell Road, between Route 17 and Van Tassel Road
- [S2] Obituary for Robert Sixberry - 1873, (The Watertown Post, October 1873, Watertown, New York).
- [S676] Watertown Re Union, New York. Watertown., "Robert Sixbury's Habits of Life," November 6, 1873, p. 1, col. 5; digital images, \i nys historical newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 2014.
Watertown Re-Union
Vol. VI. No. 12
Watertown N.Y. Thursday November 6, 1873
New Series Vol. 4 No. 91
Robert Sixbury's Habits of Life.
The Westfield (Mass.) News Letter copies our article upon Robert Sixbury, and adds:
"We should like to know how he lived, what kind of food he ate, and whether or not he made use of ardent spirits, tobacco, wine, ale, cider, tea, coffee, &c. Will the Watertown Despatch inform us on this point?"
Mr. Sixbury, although the oldest resident of the county, was but little known, and a man of simple habits, and in moderate circumstances in life. His life was spent, to within a few months of its close, in a log house. During the past twenty five years he has lived alone. He cooked his meat and potatoes, and made his tea; his bread was furnished him from his youngest son's house, about a half mile distant. His object in life seemed to be to kill deer and Indians. His affection for the noble red man seemed to be like that of Richard the Third for his brother Clarence. He loved them so he lost no opportunity to send them to heaven. Mr. Sixbury ate only the coarse, wholesome food of a farmer in later life, and in early life lived as hunters and back-woodsmen live. He had always been in the habit of using liquor whenever he saw fit, sometimes to excess, and never with any conscientious scruples. He was a free hearted, frank old gentleman, always enjoyed a good joke and was excellent company. He used tobacco-chewing and smoking whenever he saw fit. When about 80 years old he fell in the fire-place while under the influence of liquor, and was obliged to have a leg amputated in consequence. He had seven children living, the youngest over 60. Had he been a man of temperate habits he might have lived to a good old age and seen his children grow up, instead of passing away at the premature age of 109 years and 7 months!
- [S676] Watertown Re Union, New York. Watertown., "The City," October 30, 1873, p. 3, col. 1; digital images, \i nys historic newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 2014.
Watertown Re-Union, October 30, 1873
p. 3
col. 1
Robrrt Sixbury died at the residence of his son, Isaac Sixbury, in the town of LeRay, Thursday morning, Oct. 23d, aged 110 years, the 7th of March last. Mr. Sixbury was probably the oldest man in the State at the time of his death. He was always a hardy, industrious man, and had killed probably more deer in the North Woods than any living person. He enjoyed comparatively good health up to the day of his death. He had spent many seasons in John Brown's tract and Sixbury Lake derived its name from the old hunter. On its banks he had many a time and oft slept with the snow for a couch and the sky for a canopy. He, up to the time he lost his leg by an accident, which suffered amputation at the hands of Dr. Spencer, the elder, the old gentleman at the time 80 years of age and past (bearing the operation unflinchingly) - had killed no less that 2,200 deer. The old gentleman has now gone to the happy hunting ground "over the river" - full of years and honor.
- [S1086] Bolivar Bulletin, Tennessee. Bolivar., Nov 7 1873, p. 2, col. 2; digital images, \i Chronicling America\i0 (Reliability: 3), 2 Apr 2014.
- [S678] Cape Vincent Eagle, New York. Cape Vincent., W. W. Ames, "County News," October 30, 1873, col. 3; digital images, \i Northern New York Historical Newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 23 Oct 2010.
- [S432] Jefferson County Journal, (Adams, N.Y., Established as the Jefferson County Democrat, 1844), October 30, 1873, page 4, column 4, and page 8, column 1 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 2006.
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Died
SIXBURY - At the house of Isaac Sixbury, in the town of Leray, on the 23rd inst., Robert Sixbury - probably the oldest man in the state - aged 110 yrs. and 7 months.
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Death of a Veteran Woodsman. -
On Thursday morning, October 23rd, Robert Sixbury died at the residence of Isaac Sixbury, his son, in the town of Leray, Jefferson county. Mr. Sixbury was born the 7th of March, 1763, and, hence, at the time of his death, was, in all probability, the oldest man in the state. For many years - in fact for the greater portion of his life - he has been a North Woods hunter. No man living has killed more deer in those woods than he. When eighty years of age the number of these animals that had fallen before his unerring aim was over 2,200. There was no section of John Brown's tract that he had not visited. He had camped by its lakes in summer, and slept beneath its snows in winter. Sixbury Lake in this tract was named from him, and he may have fished in its waters before Lexington. The crack of his rifle, perchance, was echoing in these primitive wilds when Warren was dying at Bunker Hill, when the crown yet rested lightly on the head of Louis XVI, when England was mistress of the world, and when the checkered history of America and England and France, the years he should live to see, was not yet revealed to men. One hundred and ten years! What thrones have fallen, what people have passed away, what governments have been born and grown strong since he listened to his mother's lulaby! What changes in nature, in politics, in science, in invention, in society, in civilization! He heard the knell for Washington and the knell for Lincoln. He heard the tramp of a French conquerer in Berlin, and the tramp of a German conqueror in Paris. He saw France mourning over a dead Napoleon, and a live Napoleon mourning over a dead France. - During his life were born the achievements of steam, of light and of electricity. "Full of years." No trio of the English language mean more than this, when spoken of this man. Not passing away when three score years and ten had been told, but living a generation beyond the period that is reached only "by reason of strength." An accident deprived him of a leg when he was eighty years old, and yet his wonderful vitality enabled him to survive the accident for a generation. In fact, he enjoyed good health up to the time of his death. Rarely is it the fortune of man to live so long as did Robert Sixbury. ~ Utica Herald.
- [S434] Auburn Daily Bulletin, (Auburn, N.Y.), Monday, October 27, 1873, page ?, column 3 (Reliability: 3), 4 Apr 2006.
STATE NEWS
Death of Octogenerian.
Watertown, Oct. 25
Robert Sixbury died on the 23d inst., in Leary [Leray], Jefferson county, aged one hundred and ten years and seven months. He had acquired great reputation as a hunter on John Brown's tract, in northern New York, where he had slain over 2,200 deer. When past eight [eighty] years of age he met with an accident which necessitated the amputation of one of his legs, and he assited the country doctor to perform the operation without flinching. The funeral was attended by several of Mr. Sixbury's children, aged 80 to 90 years. Deceased had enjoyed compartively good health up to the day of his death.
- [S580] American Biographical Notes, Franklin Benjamin Hough, (Albany: Joel Munsell, 1875), pg. 364 (Reliability: 3).
SIXBURY, Robert, d. in LeRay, Jeff. co., N.Y., Oct. 1873, a. 110 y. 7 m.; Mr. S. had acquired great reputation as a hunter on John Brown's tract, in northern New York, where he had slain more than 2,200 deer; the funeral was attended by several of his children of the ages from 80 to 90 years; the deceased had enjoyed comparatively good health up to the day of his death.
- [S286] Genealogical and Family History of the County of Jefferson, New York, R. A. Oakes, (Lewis Publishing Co.., 1905), pg. 929 (Reliability: 3), 2 Feb 2005.
ROBERT SIXBURY, father of Mrs. Joseph V. Besha, was a most remarkable man, and lived to be almost one hundred and ten years old. From a local journal is taken the following account of his life, which is the best now attainable:
"In the town of Le Ray, about five miles from Theresa, on the road to Evans Mills, in a little house by the roadside, last week, Thursday, Robert Sixbury died. A large majority of the readers of the Post never before heard of this remarkable man. Few of our people would have believed that there was a man in Jefferson county who had lived here for ninety-five years; yet such was really the case. In 1778, at the age of fourteen years, Robert Sixbury came to this section of the country from Amsterdam, Montgomery county, where he was born on the 6th day of March, 1763. His favorite hunting and fishing ground was in what was afterward LeRay and finally divided and now composes the towns of Alexandria, Theresa, and LeRay. Upon the banks of Indian river all kinds of game did then abound for trappers and hunters, and its waters were filled with fish and covered with Indian canoes, while the dense forests swarmed with the treacherous savages and no permanent white habitation was known nearer than the Mohawk Valley. After spending a number of years in this wilderness, with no local habitaion and no comapnion but his musket and traps, he went to Herkimer County, where he married Miss Betsey Hoover, and the loving couple returned to his lodge in the vast wilderness and doubtless enjoyed the contiguity of shade. He became the companion of Foster the Indian hunter, and many an Indian has gone to his "happy hunting ground" as the penalty for stealing their traps. Sixbury built a log house about two miles north of Evans Mills and there for years he supported his family by hunting and fishing. For over sixty years he lived at this place, outliving two log houses which rotted down, and then he moved into his shop, where he has lived until the past few months. He had eight children, four boys and four girls, who
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are all living but one son, who died about thirty years ago, aged thirty-seven years. His wife died about twenty-five years ago. Since which time the old gentleman has lived by himself in his old log house, cooking his own victuals except bread, positively refusing all assistance or to move from the home where he brought his young bride and where together they commenced life nearly ninety years ago; and where their children had grown up around them. Where he had slept so many anxious nights fearful that the tomahawk and the torch would deprive him of the ones dearer than life, if not life itself, he determined to remain. Not until the old shop, too, rotted down would he consent to occupy the little house near his son where he died.
"His three sons live in LeRay. John is about seventy-five years old; Jacob, seventy-two, and Isaac, the son who took care of the old gentleman, is about fifty-six. Of his daugters, Betsey married A. J. Shattuck, and lives in St. Lawrence county; Mary married Isaac Cushman of Cape Vincent; Cushman died very suddenly while on a visit to his father-in-law, and his widow still lives; Annie was a twin of Alexander - the son who died at the age of thirty-seven - and she married Isaac Walradt and lives near Evans Mills; Almira married Joseph Bichet, and lives near Lafargeville. The old gentleman had sixty-five grandchildren, fifty of whom are living. There were thirty great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. About thirty years ago the old gentleman fell in the fire-place and burned his foot so badly that his leg was amputated just above the knee; although about eighty years old it healed up and he has ever since traveled about with a wodden leg. Last spring he was out shooting a mark with some friends, but did not like the Springfield rifle. He retained his hearing and eye-sight until he died. He always expressed a dislike for civilization, often wishing the country was just as he found it ninety-five years ago. He took no interest in any of the three wars through which he lived, and without doubt was at his death the oldest man in the state, and if half the stories about him are true the most remakable man that ever lived. The world has witnessed many great changes during his life but of them he knew or cared nothing."
- [S306] Jefferson County Centennial 1905, Hungerford-Holbrook, (Hungerford-Holbrook Co., Watertown, New York, 1905), pg. 369 (Reliability: 3), 3 Mar 2005.
There were some noted white hunters who became famaliar with the haunts of the wild animals of the forests, and were seldom disappointed in supplying themselves with game. Gilman Vrooman was a celebrated hunter. Robert Sixbury before 1800 was so well known as a sure shoot that the wild animals were very shy when they heard the tread of his footsteps. He died a few years ago at the ripe age of 109 years. Janus Rich was also a famous hunter of this section and the thrilling adventure which he had in his struggle for his life with a panther is related in the back part of Lindley Murray's English Reader as published by Knowlton and Rice three quarters of a century ago.
- [S75] Perkins, Carolyn - Package, unknown, (2 Jan 1997), Group 3, page 14 and 16 (Reliability: 3).
- [S676] Watertown Re Union, New York. Watertown., "The City," January 8, 1874, p. 5, col. 2; digital images, \i nys historic newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 2014.
Persistent link:
http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn85054450/1874-01-08/ed-1/seq-2/
- [S578] Decatur Republican, pg. 3 (Reliability: 3), 2 Jan 2008.
It is a rare thing in this age of the world for a person to live to be 100 years old. Mrs. Elizabeth Weed, the grandmother of Judge Heaton, of Dixon, Ill., who died at that place on Wednesday, outlived her century. She was 105 years old. Robert Sixbury, a hermit fisher and hunter of "John Brown's Tract", died in Jefferson County N.Y. last week, aged 109.
- [S243] Ernest G. Cook Article - September 21, 1929, Ernest G. Cook, (Saturday September 21, 1929, Watertown Daily Times, pg. 15, col. 5-8), Saturday September 21, 1929, pg. 15, col. 5-8. (Reliability: 3), 19 Dec 2004.
When the doctor arrived, driving by horse and buggy from Watertown to the Sixberry home, it was found to be a young man who had but recently opened his office in the city. His name was Dr. Grafton and he was sure he could give proper aid to the suffering man. He advised amputation at once, taking his leg off just below the knee.
- [S244] NORTHERN NEW YORK BUSINESS DIRECTORY 1867-68, WAITE BROTHERS & CO, (WAITE BROTHERS & CO. WATERTOWN, New York, Compilers
Lyttle, Hanford & Company. Printers, Book Binders, and Blank Book
Manufacturers. 1867-1868) (Reliability: 3), 19 Dec 2004.
Grafton, John, physician and surgeon, 4 Iron Block
Lewis B.F.A. physician and surgeon, 4 Iron Block.
- [S38] Sixbury, Robert - only photo, (Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, New York) (Reliability: 3), 19 Dec 2004.
- [S315] Gazetteer And Directory of Jefferson County, NY - 1866-67, Hamilton Child, (Compiled by Hamilton Child, June 15, 1866.), pg. 179 (Reliability: 3), 8 Feb 2005.
Physicians and Surgeons.
John Grafton, Allo, 4 Iron Block, h 7 High
- [S218] Our County and It's People, Edgar C. Emerson, Editor; Lewis Cass Aldrich, Assistant Editor, (The Boston History Company, Publishers; September, 1898) (Reliability: 3), 3 Dec 2004.
THE TOWN OF THERESA.
Away back in the early years of the century Benjamin Wright, the pioneer surveyor and explorer, informed James Le Ray that the high falls on Indian river offered abundant and never failing water power for any mills which the proprietor might feel disposed to build at that point. This information determined Le Ray to make a clearing and found a settlement, to accomplish which he caused a road to be opened from Evans
- [S247] Ernest G. Cook article - September 16, 1929, Ernest G. Cook, (Monday, September 16, 1929, Watertown Daily Times, pg. 16, col. 5-7), Monday September 16, 1929, pg. 16, col. 5-7. (Reliability: 3), 28 Dec 2004.
Going forward he discovered that hidden by rocky ledges which were covered with a screen of thick forest, was a smaller lake. Hidden in its deep bowl-like container, the lake could not be seen unless one was right at its bank. The Indians had probably seen it in other years and maybe knew about it, but hardly counted it, there being so many lakes to fish in.
Years after, when the white men had begun to settle in this country and Sixberry himself was located on lands near Evans Mills, he told how there was a small lake completely hidden by ledges and trees. Some of the explorers laughed at him and would jokingly refer to Sixberry's lost lake. But one day the hunter, it is said went with a company and, locating Millsite lake, followed his trail of years before and soon showed them the lake. From that time on it has been known as Sixberry lake and such is its name today.
- [S313] History of Jefferson County, NY - Everts, Holcom, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, (Published by L.H. Everts & Co. , 714-16 Filbert Street, Philiadelphia, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, 1878, Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia), pg. 511 (Reliability: 3), 7 Feb 2005.
The northern portion of the town contains a number of beautiful lakes, abounding in fish. Of these, Butterfield and Mud lakes lie on the Alexandria line, and partly in that town, Grass lake is partly in St. Lawrence county, Moon lake extends from this into the town of Antwerp, while Hide, Crystal, Sixberry, Mill-site, Red, and Muskalonge lakes, and the Lake of the Woods, lie wholly in Theresa.
- [S409] New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources
Lake Map Series
Region 6), http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/lakemaps/lakemapsjeff.html (Reliability: 3), 11 Feb 2006.
New York State Deparment of Environmental Conservation
Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources
Lake Map Series
Region 6
Sixberry Lake
County: Jefferson
Town: Theresa
Surface Area: 123 Acres
Mean Depth: 46ft.
Fish Species Present: Lake Trout, Walleye, Smallmouth Bass, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Atlantic Salmon, Yellow Perch, Bluegill
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Lake Map Series
Region 6
Sixberry Lake
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- [S410] Sixberry Lake Campgrounds, Don and Alice Sears, (http://www.rusticcreationsinwood.com/page0003.html) (Reliability: 3), 11 Feb 2006.
- [S676] Watertown Re Union, New York. Watertown., "The City," October 30, 1873, p. 3, col. 1; digital images, \i nys historic newspapers\i0 (Reliability: 3), 3 Apr 2014.
Watertown Re-Union, October 30, 1873
p. 3
col. 1
Robrrt Sixbury died at the residence of his son, Isaac Sixbury, in the town of LeRay, Thursday morning, Oct. 23d, aged 110 years, the 7th of March last. Mr. Sixbury was probably the oldest man in the State at the time of his death. He was always a hardy, industrious man, and had killed probably more deer in the North Woods than any living person. He enjoyed comparatively good health up to the day of his death. He had spent many seasons in John Brown's tract and Sixbury Lake derived its name from the old hunter. On its banks he had many a time and oft slept with the snow for a couch and the sky for a canopy. He, up to the time he lost his leg by an accident, which suffered amputation at the hands of Dr. Spencer, the elder, the old gentleman at the time 80 years of age and past (bearing the operation unflinchingly) - had killed no less that 2,200 deer. The old gentleman has now gone to the happy hunting ground "over the river" - full of years and honor.
- [S435] Carthage Republican and Northern New Yorker, (Carthage, N.Y.), Tueday, April 1, 1879, No. 51, Page 1, Column 7 (Reliability: 3), 4 Apr 2006.
Sixbury's Lively Ride
When Mr. LeRay established his residence at Leraysville he decided to stock a park with wild deer, which were abundant in that locality. For this purpose he consulted Robert Sixbury, a noted hunter, who assured him that his plan was feasible, and that he (Sixbury) would undertake the capture of the animals, for which Mr. LeRay promised to pay a liberal price per head for all deer brought to him alive and un-injured. Mr. Sixbury associated himslef with Isaac Ritter, a lad about 18 years of age, who was fond of the chase. They went forth upon snow shoes with their dogs, who drove the deer to the runways, where these venturous hunters would seize them by the head, throw them down, tie thier feet together and mount them on a bush cut for the purpose, which served as a vehicle to convey them to the park. The price usually paid by Mr. LeRay for ordinary animals was $50 per head. On one eventful occasion, Sixbury and Ritter set out for a hunt as usual. The former was a man of unusual muscular powers and an iron will. He was on this occasion to capture the deer while Ritter was to keep in the rear and take off the dogs. Thier game proved to be an enormous buck, strong and bold. When he arrived at the proper point Sixbury sprang upon him, caught him by his big horns and dashed him down, but in an instant this powerful beast arose with Sixbury upon his back and dashed away through the forest with maddened fury. Ritter in amazement followed the track, hoping that the deer would soon be overcome with fatigue under the wieght of his powerful rider an become an easy prey. But to his astonishment, he found in the distance Sixbury laying in nearly a state of nudity, apparently dead, probably the result of his rapid ride among the drooping branches of the trees. Ritter succeeded in restoring him to consciousness, when he exclaimed, "Let the dogs loose and you grab him when he comes around." Ritter obeyed orders, but fearing the powerful animal, armed himself with a club, with which he smote his buckship on the nose, and with the help of the dogs, secured him to the bush. Sixbury had so far recovered as to be himself again, and, fixing up his riddled garments as best he could, delivered their captive alive and sound, for which Mr. LeRay allowed them $75. Mr. Sixbury survived after the hardships of that eventful day for nearly 50 years, but died in the 119th year of his age. Whether his life was shortened many years by his encounter with the buck has not been revealed.
- [S577] Nevada State Journal, (Reno, Washoe County, Nevada), Vol. 5, pg. 1, col. 2 (Reliability: 3), 2 Jan 2008.
Temperance lecturers are indebted to Jefferson County, New York, for the latest awful example, which his name, Robert Sixbury. He used to be an indian fighter, but he chewed, and smoked, and drank till even his constitution gave way under it.
- [S435] Carthage Republican and Northern New Yorker, (Carthage, N.Y.), Vol. XIX, No. 51, April 1, 1879, pg. 1 (Reliability: 3), 4 Jan 2008.
Sixbury's LIvely Ride
When Mr. LeRay established his residence at LeRaysville he desired to stock a park with wild deer.
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Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Robert Sixbury; Joseph Bisha and family, New York State Census, 1855, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York
Source: "New York State Census, 1855," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-25847-10835-45?cc=1937366 : 22 May 2014), Jefferson > Le Ray, E.D. 1 > image 7 of 32; count clerk offices, New York. |
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- [S2] Obituary for Robert Sixberry - 1873, (The Watertown Post, October 1873, Watertown, New York).
- [S75] Perkins, Carolyn - Package, unknown, (2 Jan 1997), Group 1, page 1 (Reliability: 2).
- [S75] Perkins, Carolyn - Package, unknown, (2 Jan 1997), Group 1, page 1 (Reliability: 0).
- [S75] Perkins, Carolyn - Package, unknown, (2 Jan 1997).
- [S227] Ernest G. Cook article - September 10, 1929, Ernest G. Cook, (Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, NY, Tuesday, September 10, 1929, p. 15, col. 1-2), Watertown Daily Times, September 10, 1929, p. 15, col. 1-2. (Reliability: 3), 6 Dec 2004.
- [S313] History of Jefferson County, NY - Everts, Holcom, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, (Published by L.H. Everts & Co. , 714-16 Filbert Street, Philiadelphia, L.H. Everts, J. M. Holcom, 1878, Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia) (Reliability: 3), 4 Feb 2005.
From this place he (Sixbury) afterwards moved to a farm two miles north of Evans' Mills, upon
which he spent a good portion of his long life. He became widely known and famed as a skilled and successful hunter, for which his iron constitution and great powers of endurance eminently fitted him. He died in Le ray in the fall of 1875, having passed the age of 112 years.
- [S306] Jefferson County Centennial 1905, Hungerford-Holbrook, (Hungerford-Holbrook Co., Watertown, New York, 1905), pg. 369 (Reliability: 3), 3 Mar 2005.
There were some noted white hunters who became famaliar with the haunts of the wild animals of the forests, and were seldom disappointed in supplying themselves with game. Gilman Vrooman was a celebrated hunter. Robert Sixbury before 1800 was so well known as a sure shoot that the wild animals were very shy when they heard the tread of his footsteps. He died a few years ago at the ripe age of 109 years. Janus Rich was also a famous hunter of this section and the thrilling adventure which he had in his struggle for his life with a panther is related in the back part of Lindley Murray's English Reader as published by Knowlton and Rice three quarters of a century ago.
- [S546] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, NARA, (Primary source: Footnote.com; http://www.footnote.com
Original source:
National Archives and Records Administration
Wasington, D.C.
Series M804, rolls 461-1710), Pension No. W23,355 - Huber, Henry (Reliability: 3), 13 Oct 2007.
The transcription of each page [59 in all] in Pension file W23,355 follows.
Source: Footnote.com
Page 1:
SERVICE:
New York
Huber, Henry
Elizabeth
Number
W 23,355
Page 2:
further proof of
Elizabeth Huber
apptn for pension affdt
of Geo. Rosencrantz
Hn A. Loomis
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In the matter of the application of Elizabeth Huber for a pension as the widow of Henry Huber late of the Town of Little Falls deceased
Herkimer County Ls George Rosencrantz of the town of Little Falls, County of Herkimer and State of New York being duly sworn saith that he is seventy years of age and upwards, and that his father was the Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz the minister of the Reformed protestant Dutch Church in the German Flats in the now county of Herkimer from the anchist revolution of deponent previous to the Revolutionary War & during that war & long afterwards until his death - that a short time since Peter Huber of the county of Jefferson a son of old Captain Henry Huber called upon this deponent to search the records kept by this deponents father of marriages where the ceremony was perfomed by him & alledged that his mother stated that she was married to said Henry Huber by deponents father. This deponent saith he searched the only book of records in deponents posesion of his fathers record of marriages & could not find the marriage of said Henry Huber and in fact no record of marriages going so far back in date as the widow of said Henry Huber alledges they were married, and deponent saith that said Peter also searched said book of records & which book deponent states is the only book of records of baptisms and marriages or letters extant and that when his father died about the year 1796 all his books & papers extant were left in the care and posesion of this deponent. This deponent saith that on Saturday the second of December instant he was looking over some papers which he supposed useless in an old chest of drawers and that
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in looking them over he came across a half sheet, or leaf, of paper in his said fathers hand writing and on which he found the record of marriages commencing with the 15th day of February 1774 and ending the first day of November of the same year, on which half sheet or leaf of a book is the record of the marriage of said Henry Huber in the record spelled in the German Henrich Huber to Elizabeth Frank on the 27th M
This Pension record contains several pages [59 in all] each of which are transcribed in their entirety (see Detail Text tab) :
*There are many more pages contained in the original NARA file folder than I received when ordering the information from NARA back in 2004. Upon going to Footnote.com and checking their collections, I found the same Pension No. W23,355 which contained 59 pages, not 26 as originally thought. I include all 59 images from Footnote.com (Oct. 2007, greyscale) and the images I received from NARA (2004, black and white).
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Side note:
Adam Loux (now Loucks), whose house, about three-fourths of a mile north of Stone Arabia, on the farm now occupied by J. Ervin Graff, was a meeting place of the Tryon county Committee of Safety, was born in Schoharie, N. Y., Dec. 15th, 1715; was married Oct. 16th, 1739, and died Feb. 14th, 1789. His son, Peter Loucks, was first lieutenant of the 3d company of the Palatine battalion, under Capt. Christopher W. Fox, at the battle of Oriskany.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymontgo/palatine/palexcerpts2.html
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Side note:
Another transcription of the same pension record appears on this web page:
http://morrisonspensions.org/huber.html
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Michael Bardol and Mary Ann Fraley and family, 1865 New York State census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, NY, (part one)
Michael Bardol and Mary Ann Fraley and family, 1865 New York State census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, NY (part one)
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Michael Bardol and Mary Ann Fraley and family, 1865 New York State census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, NY, (part two)
Michael Bardol and Mary Ann Fraley and family, 1865 New York State census, Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, NY, (part two)
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- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434. (Reliability: 3), 28 Dec 2004.
"...that his wife's name was
Betsey Hoover to whom he was married at Little Falls on the 7 day of
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Duchese D' Orleans, passenger manifest (cover page), arrival in New York City, April 22, 1843
Duchese D' Orleans, passenger manifest (cover page), arrival in New York City, April 22, 1843
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Duchese D' Orleans, passenger manifest (page 1), arrival in New York City, April 22, 1843
Duchese D' Orleans, passenger manifest (page 1), arrival in New York City, April 22, 1843
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Duchese D' Orleans, passenger manifest (page 3), arrival in New York City, April 22, 1843
Duchese D' Orleans, passenger manifest (page 3), arrival in New York City, April 22, 1843
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- [S10] Probate of the Will for Henry Hoover, Nathaniel S. Benton, Surrogate, (June 18, 1824).
- [S75] Perkins, Carolyn - Package, unknown, (2 Jan 1997), Group 2, Page 1 (Reliability: 3).
- [S2] Obituary for Robert Sixberry - 1873, (The Watertown Post, October 1873, Watertown, New York), "he went to Herkimer county where he married Betsy Hoover" (Reliability: 3).
- [S75] Perkins, Carolyn - Package, unknown, (2 Jan 1997), Group 1, page 4 (Reliability: 3).
- [S4] Bounty Land Warrant for Robert Sixbury - S.C.-19434, National Archives and Records Administration, (National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Reference Branch
(NNR1), 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20408), Series: S.C. 19434.
- [S105] NARA - Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946, U.S Army, (Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration; Series: World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 6/1/2002 - 9/30/2002).
- [S1422] Utica Daily Observer, New York. Utica., "Central New York: Jefferson County," March 9, 1872, col. 5; digital images, \i Old Fulton Post Cards\i0 (Reliability: 3), 23 Jun 2016.
Mr. Robert Sixbury, of the town of Leray, is 108 years old. The old boy has camped out more nights in the North Woods it is stated and killed more deer than any other man in the state, but his sight now is as clear and aim as sure as any man of half his age. He was born in Herkimer County. Another chip off the same block, a young man of 102 years, visited his big brother Robert some three or four years since.
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Utica Daily Observer, March 9, 1872
Utica Daily Observer, March 9, 1872
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Robert Sixbery living in household of his nephew Jacob Sixbery, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York,1865
Robert Sixbery living in household of his nephew Jacob Sixbery, Le Ray, Jefferson County, New York,1865
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