| Below are requests received through the Enfield Historians Office. If you have information (some we have found answers to) please contact Sue Thompson sdt1@cornell.edu |
| Buck Family - William Sherman Buck Born -- April 11 ,1820 in Tompkins Co. Other researchers have this man with two different sets of parents. They also have one parent, (Amos Buck born in Pa and buried in Enfield) the other researcher has Amos born in Tompkins co. and buried in Enfield. |
| Head Family - I am looking for my family history. I have as my great Grandfather Peter Head who I understand was a doctor in Enfield in the 1840s to approx 1860s. I know very little about him or his ancestry. I had one clue in that he and his first wife Mary Elizabeth Odell lived in Enfield. I found cemetery information for Mary Elizabeth on the Tompkins county web site that confirmed the death date for Mary Elizabeth. She was listed in a cemetery record for the "Christian Cemetery" that was associated with the Christian Church. I know that they had several children while living in Enfield and that with the second marriage they moved with their father and stepmother. They passed through Wisconsin as I found a land grant patent made out to him in 1867. I then found him in Colorado in the gold fields in 1880. |
| My family is the family of Jane (Jean) (Patterson) Scott (born Scottland 1766), and her children Alexander (1801 Scotland), Margaret (1803 Scotland) married Alexander Milne, twins Elizabeth and James (Scotland 1806) and Robert (Scotland 1817). Family moved from Scotland to Tomkins County around 1832. In Tomkins County they appeared to be in both Ulysses and Enfield. A deed from 1844 states Robert Scott from Enfield Township, Tompkins County New York purchased land in Michigan in 1844. Sale took place in New York. Only Margaret as far as we know had a family while in Tompkins County. I believed she married Alexander Milne in the late 1830s and they had at least two children David and Mary Ann. Mary Ann died after about 13 1/2 months and is buried somewhere Tomkins County in Oct 1843. Family appears to have moved to Michigan around 1845. |
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Recently we learned that my husband's great, great grandmother's family lived in Enfield. Hannah LOOMIS was born Jan. 31, 1817, according to the records we have, to Samuel LOOMIS and Elizabeth WARDWELL LOOMIS who migrated to the area from Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. We believe Hannah LOOMIS married John COLE who was a blacksmith in Waterburg. Karen Dickson (Ulysses Web) believes John COLE is the son of David COLE and Rachel TOWNSEND. Of course these folk straddle Schuyler, Tompkins, and Seneca Counties which poses some challenges. I have been told that the 1870 Census record for Enfield, Tompkins County, NY has the following LOOMIS, Samuel 83 shoemaker Mass Elizabeth 83 Mass. We found Charles BOYLE and his family on the microfilmed copy of the 1880 Enfield Census at the library. This indicated that Charles' parents were both foreign born. I searched through the Enfield Census for 1865 to see if I would find Charles listed with his parents. I did! On page 18 lines 30-38 are his parents his siblings and himself. I am copying this to you in case anyone else needs help with Boyles. It appears that Michael and Mary and the first son James were all born in Ireland. The remaining boys, including Charles, were born in Seneca Co. Then the girls were born in Tompkins Co., so they must have migrated down to Tompkins about 1855. |
| I am trying to find more about my greatgreatgrandfather, Arial Martin Lawton. He is listed in the History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Counties, NY, pub 1879, page 496-7 as being the sixth pastor of the Baptist church of Enfield. I have my grandfathers rundown on the family and this gives Arial Martin Lawton as being born in Vermont, April 7, 1801 and dying in Ithaca, May 1, 1864 He was a machinist and Engineer on the Delaware and Lackawanna RR and Incline RR. He married Angeline Austin of Caroline, Tompkins County May 11, 1832. She was born August 6, 1816 and died March 11, 1867. I have found records of the Austin Family in Caroline. They had 9 children born 1835 thru 1857. and my grandfathers notes state that they aere all born at home in Ithaca. We have the death records and burrial of 4 of them in Ithaca but no record of death or burial of Arial or Angela. |
| My great grandfather, Henry Horton (age 9), moved with his family from New York City to Enfield in 1838. I do not know his father's first name or anything else. I plan to search the 1840 census. Can you suggest any other resources? Could he have been associated with Cornell University? ( Henry Horton later went on to attend Yale). |
| My name is Rick Bart, and I am following the Pease family from Great Baddow, England. I understand that General Meade's Company during the Civil War, was formed in Tompkins County, NY and that a Charles E. Pease was a Lt. in this Company. Do you have any info on him or any Pease from the area? Thanks in advance, Rick in Taunton, MA |