Individuals marked with a red dot are direct ancestors of L Robinson

Griswold, Samuel (b. 6 Feb 1693)

Note: BIRTH: Born 6 Feb or 9 Sep 1693

Note: Married to James Bemis of New London, who died.
Married Edward Griswold.

Note: of New London
died and left Sarah a widow. She later married Edward Griswold.

Note: BIRTH: One source has birth date of 24 Mar 1887. 1900 Census in Nebraska, vol34, ed 154 sheet 3, line 7, of the family shows birth date of Mar 1886 (14 years old)

Note: BIRTH-PLACE-CONFLICT: Marianne has birthplace of McCook, Red Willow, Nebraska, but Donna has Bartley, Redwillow, NE.

Note: NAME-CONFLICT: Donna did work for Percilla E HARRISON. Marianne shows name of Priscilla G HARRISON. If this proves correct, need to resubmit.

Percilla one of first to move to Neb. with this family, with uncle, in 1884.

Note: See notes under Reason Homer HARRISON for more info., and sources.

Note: 1880 CENSUS: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 303C
listed with parents and 7 siblings;
Asinith HARRISON Dau Female Single White age 17 b IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: OH Mo: OH.

Note: 1880 CENSUS: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 303C
listed with parents and 7 siblings;
Ellie HARRISON Dau Female Single White age 14 b IL
Occ: At School Fa: OH Mo: OH.


NOTES:
Donna shows name of Aan E rather than Anna E.

Note: 1880 CENSUS: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 303C
Reas HARRISON Son Male Single White age 12 b IL
Occ: At School Fa: OH Mo: OH.


NOTES: First name probably "Reason", not "Reese O", based on notes on old photographs.

Note: 1880 CENSUS: Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 303C
listed with parents and 7 siblings;
Hessie HARRISON Dau Female Single White age 9 b IL
Occ: At School Fa: OH Mo: OH.

Note: CENSUS:
1880 Census Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 298B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
R. H. HARRISON Self M M W 27 OH
Occ: Farming Fa: OH Mo: PA
M. J. HARRISON Wife F M W 21 IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: IL Mo: IL
Florrida HARRISON Dau F S W 3 IL
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: IL.

!SOURCE-BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-PARENTS: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr, or 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95,
REASON HOMER HARRISON, his wife, Martha Jane, and small daughter, Florida, left Effingham Co., IL in 1884 to settle in Red Willow County, Nebraska. Their possessions, which included personal things, household goods, livestock, etc. came by immigrant car. The expense of $100 for use of the railroad car was shared equally by Reason Harrison and his niece Priscilla and husband George Younger, who also made the journey with their family.
"Both families homesteaded in Box Elder Precinct, NW of Indianola, Neb. At this time the railroad extended only as far as Indianola.
"The Harrison's first home was a dug-out. Later they built a two room house about a mile north of the dug-out. Their children John and Carrie were born there. About the time Carrie was old enough to start school (ca. 1900) a frame home was built. During some of the early lean years of settlement, to help with the expenses, Reason worked in the mines near Denver, Colorado, and also helped build the Burlington Railroad out west from Indianola.
"Reason Homer Harrison was born 15 Aug 1853 at Cadiz, Harrison Co., Ohio and died 10 Apr 1928 at McCook, Nebraska. He was the son of George W. and Haldah (Scamp) Harrison, and the grandson of Peter and Sarah (Bunting) Harrison, who had come from Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania about 1810 to settle in Ohio.
"Martha Jane was born 27 Jan 1856 at Moccasin, Effingham Co., Illinois and died 14 Nov 1916 at McCook, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Ashby and Sarah Jane (Powell) Tipsword. Her great-grandfather Griffin Soward Tipsword was the first white man to come into that part of Illinois, settling among the Kickapoo Indians.
"Both Martha and Reason were buried in the Box Elder Cemetery, northeast of McCook, as well as their daughter, Florida, who was born in 1877 and died in 1891 at the age of 14.
"Their son, John Henry, was born September 6, 1888 and died September 29, 1922. He was married on December 14, 1914 to Frances Alice Nelson, daughter of Peter and Emaline (Reeves) Nelson. Frances Alice was born January 31, 1888, at Creston Uion County, Iowa and died October 28, 1857. Both are buried at Memorial Park Cemetery, McCook, Nebraska. Two children were born to this union, Stephen Jacob and Thelma Eileen.
"Their daughter Carrie may was born December 16, 1894, at Box Elder, and died September 12, 1979 at Otis, Colorado. She married on July 1, 1933 at Trenton, Nebraska, to Martin John Jones, who was born on December 7, 1879 at Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois and died August 30, 1963 at Otis, Colorado.
He was the son of William and Mary Jones. Both are buried at Otis, Colorado. They had no children."

MARRIAGE: 6 Apr 1876 in Effingham Co., IL info came from gltn80@webtv.net (Gale T. Norris), as of 7/26/00.

Note: CENSUS:
1880 Census Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 298B
Listed with husband and daughter;
M. J. HARRISON Wife Female Married White age 21 b IL
Occ: Keeping House Fa: IL Mo: IL.


!SOURCE-BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-PARENTS: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr.

Mike Welch <mgjga@acnet.net; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com~mgjga/Jackson/index.htm; as of 6 Oct 2001.

Note: CENSUS:
1880 Census Moccasin, Effingham, Illinois
Source: FHL Film 1254205 National Archives Film T9-0205 Page 298B
listed with parents;
Florrida HARRISON Dau Female Single White age 3 b IL
Occ: At Home Fa: OH Mo: IL.


SOURCE: the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska, 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95, under Reason Homer Harrison, "His wife, Martha Jane, and small daughter, Florida...Both Martha and Reason were buried in the Box Elder Cemetery, northeast of McCook, as well as their daughter, Florida, who was born in 1877 and died in 1891 at the age of 14".

Note: BIOGRAPHY: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr, or 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95, under REASON HOMER HARRISON, " "Their son, John Henry, was born September 6, 1888 and died September 29, 1922. He was married on December 14, 1914 to Frances Alice Nelson, daughter of Peter and Emaline (Reeves) Nelson. Frances Alice was born January 31, 1888, at Creston Uion County, Iowa and died October 28, 1857. Both are buried at Memorial Park Cemetery, McCook, Nebraska. Two children were born to this union, Stephen Jacob and Thelma Eileen."

Note: BIOGRAPHY: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr, or 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95, under REASON HOMER HARRISON,
"She [Mary Jane] was the daughter of Ashby and Sarah Jane (Powell) Tipsword. Her great-grandfather Griffin Soward Tipsword was the first white man to come into that part of Illinois, settling among the Kickapoo Indians."

Mike Welch <mgjga@acnet.net>; as of 2 Oct 2001 writes:
ASHBY TIPSWORD became the first Supervisor of Moccasin Township, after helping to organize the Township. He was active in civic affairs. "Although his education was quite limited, he was often called on to write will, administer on estates, and was the referee in many cases of litigation, but never got into any lawsuits himself.... Mr. Tipsword started in life with nothing, but at his death he had about 550 acres of land besides personal and town property. he was a veterinary surgeaon, and was called in all directions and at all times, and with his love of hunting, he became known to all setttlers for many miles around."
THE GRIFFIN TIPSWORD STORY: The First white settler in Effingham County, Illinois 1975 published by Effingham Count, Bicentennial Commision; 2.Title: Gayle Lillian Tipsword, Text: ggranddaugher.

Note: Mike Welch Father: Seymour R. Powell <./igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0273> Mother: Angeline <./igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0274>
!SOURCE-BIRTH-DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr.

Note: MARRIAGE: Marriage Index: IL, IN 1790-1850 CD#228, Sec.II, CH>23, Fayette Co., IL from 1821 to 1850. Tipsword, Isaac Harris,Lucinda Mar.1, 1826.

BIOGRAPHY: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr, or 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95, under REASON HOMER HARRISON,
"She [Mary Jane] was the daughter of Ashby and Sarah Jane (Powell) Tipsword. Her great-grandfather Griffin Soward Tipsword..."

NOTE: Name Isaac also came from gltn80@webtv.net (Gayle T. Norris) as of 26 Jul 2000.

Mike Welch <mgjga@acnet.net>; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0162; as of 2 Oct 2001;
Both Isaac and Lucinda died of Typhoid Fever.
Taken from the book Effingham County - Illinois - Past & Present p. 145
"TIPSWORD CEMETERY "
The Tipsword Cemetery, although not large, is unique in that it overlaps two townships, Liberty and Moccasin. According to the signboard over the gate, this cemetery was established in 1840. Griffin Tipsword, the almost legendary first settler in Effingham County who died in 1845, is said to be buried here although no regular marker indicates his grave. Someone, a few years ago, had a stone made for Griffin's son and wife and placed over their graves, containing this information: "Isaac and Lucinda Tipsword. Died same day in 1862. Age 50 years."
Sources:
Marriage Index: IL, IN 1790-1850 CD#228, Sec.II, CH>23, Fayette Co., IL from 1821 to 1850. Tipsword, Isaac Harris,Lucinda Mar.1, 1826.

Note: BIOGRAPHY: from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska G929.1782843 R213 tr, or 978.2843 H2r, by Robert T. Ray and Lois Rutledge, 1982, p 94-95, under REASON HOMER HARRISON,
"She [Mary Jane] was the daughter of Ashby and Sarah Jane (Powell) Tipsword. Her great-grandfather Griffin Soward Tipsword was the first white man to come into that part of Illinois, settling among the Kickapoo Indians." (Effingham Co., IL).
(see notes on Reason Homer HARRISON - from the book Trails West to Red Willow County, Nebraska.)

Mike Welch <mgjga@acnet.net>; http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ferret&id=I0158; as of 2 Oct 2001;
Fact 1: First settler recorded in Effingham Co.,IL.
Military Service: Revolutionary War
Note: History of Coles County [Illinois]486 ff. "Griffin Tipsoward was an early settler in this township, but after a residence of a few years, moved to the neighborhood of Kaskaskia. He was an old soldier of the Revolutinary war, and made application for a pension under a law of Congress passed in 1832.
On the early records of the County Court we find the following declaration: State of Illinois, Coles County, ss., A.D. 1832. On the 15th day of October, personally appeared in open court before Isaac Lewis and James S. Martin, County Commissioners for the county of Coles , in the state of Illinois, now sitting and constituting said County Commissioner's Court , Griffin Tipsoward, a citizen of the United States of America, in the County of Coles and the State of Illinois, aged 77 years , who, being first duly sworn according to law,doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832: That he entered the service of the United States as a Revolutionary soldier under the following-named officers, and served as herein stated,viz : In General Rutherford's Brigade, Colonel McKatty's Regiment, Major Horn's Batallion,and Captain Grimes' Company ,that he entered the service about the 18th of July , 1775, and was discharged by General Washington at the close of the war, which discharge was sunk in the Ohio River.
That he was in the engagement at the battle of Eutaw Springs , under General Greene, Col. McKatty, Major Horn and Captain Grimes; that he was in the battle of King's Mountain, under Col. Shelby; that he was in the battle of Charleston, under Col. McKatty and Capt. McGwire; that he was in the battle of Cross Creek ,under General Gates, Col. McKatty and Capt. McGwire; that he was in the battle of Hawe River, commanded by Gen'l Greene, Col. Chamberlain, Major Peat,and Capt. John Gallway. He states that he was here wounded by a musket-shot from the enemy's gun.
That he marched first after leaving North Carolina into the state of Virginia; that he was at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, under General Washington, Col. McKatty and Capt. McGwire.That he lived in the county of Roan and state of North Carolina, when he entered the service; that he was first drafted for three months; he then , at the end of three months, volunteered, and was enlisted during the war. That he was born in the state of Pennsylvania, near the Susquehanna River, in the year of our Lord 1755; that he has no record of his age that he knows of. That he moved to Kentucky the second year after the expiration of the war...that he settled in the neighborhood of Boonesborough, where he resided until he moved to the Territory of Illinois, in which Territory and State he has resided about twenty years.That he now resides in Coles County and State of Illinois;that he supposes his name will be easily found on the Continental Rolls.He hereby relinquishes all claims whatever to a pension or annuity; except the present , and declares that his name is not on the pension-roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid .
Griffin / his mark/ Tipsoward
The truth of this declaration is attested to by John Parker and Joseph Painter, Revolutionary soldiers themselves, and who file similar declarations on their own behalf. The honesty and respectibility of the petitioner is also attested by another certificate from John Parker, "a minister of the Gospel" and James Nees , after which is a certificate from the County Commissioners, stating that they believe the "foregoing declaration to be true, and that the said Griffin Tipsoward was a revolutionary soldier and seved as therein stated ,"and recommended that the pension applied for be paid him." After all that , he was denied.

The following is from "History of Effingham County, Illinois," O.L Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1883: p.12
In the year 1814 or 1815, GRIFFIN TIPSWORD came to this part of Illinois and took up his abode with the Kickapoo Indians. These Indians then occupied what is now parts of Fayette, Shelby and Effingham Counties. South of the Kickapoos were the Winnebagoes and Delawares. At that time these Indians were peaceably disposed, and, it seems, were indifferent as to the coming of the lone, straggling white man.
We make no doubt that Tipsword was the first white man that was ever here. He was a strange compound of white man by birth and Indian by adoption. He was a self-exile from civilization in his native Virginia, and by choice a roving nomad, who sought the solitudes of pathless woods, the dreariness of the desert waste, in exchange for the trammels of civilized society. Of the latter, he could not endure its restraints, and he despised its comforts and pleasures. His soul yearned for freedom - freedom in its fullest sense, applied to all property, life and everything, here and hereafter. He hunted in the Indian chase, talked in their dialect, danced their dances, and to show how fully he was for them, with them and of them, he gave them his oldest son, who remained with them wholly for years, in order that he might be fully educated in their ways.
MOSES DOTY was a nephew of Tipsword, and from him and the grandsons of the old pioneer we learn that he left Virginia in the year 1812 and came to Southern Illinois, where he remained for two or three years, and then came, with his wife and two children, to this part of the state; that he first lived in the northwest corner of this county, and in Shelby, and lived and hunted and migrated as far northwest as Quincy, and then would return to this place. The Indians did much the same in following the game and searching for new and better hunting ground.
For years after he came here he saw no human face except the Indian. His people in Virginia had no word of him for sixteen years after he left them.
In many respects he was a remarkable man. He had gone West, cut loose from kith and kin; and he didn't burn the bridges behind him, because there were none to burn. He was a pioneer, adoctor, a missionary preacher, his own bishop, as well as his own committee on ways and means. He hunted, fished, cut bee-trees, and talked with the Indians in their way and fashion. He was as illiterate as they, and hetold them in Indian the story of Mount Calvary and the lake of fire and brimstone, and those who had no fears of an angry God had a healthy dread of his unerring rifle. Beneath God's first temples he pointed the way to heaven to these simple savages. In the trackless woods he met the bad Indian and slew him. He was not onlky a physician for the poor soul, but he was a "medicine man," who could exorcise witches, conjureghosts, remove "spells", make "silver tea" for cattle sick of the murrain or otherwise bewitched. He regulated the storms, stayed the angry lightning flashes, and could appease the deep-mouthed thunders as they rolled across the darkened heavens in terrifying peals. He had much to do in his Protean capacity of a hunter, a half savage, a doctor, a preacher, and a pioneer, with no visible means of support except his rifle, and that he lived out a long life (it is supposed oveer a hundred years) is evidence that he was singularly well adapted to surrounding circumstances.
His family name was SOUARDS. He only called himself TIPSWORD after he came here. It was only in the latter years of his life that he told anyone that he had changed his name. When asked why he had done so, he would nod his head toward the south, where he had first lived mong the Indians, and reply that he did not want to run his "head into the halter". From this and other hints he gave out in his last years the inference may be drawn that, in his mind, it was much the same whether you saved a savage by preaching or by the rifle. He believed it was the Divine economy to save, and in one way or another he did a lively business.
It is not known what particular church he belonged to-perhaps he did not himself know, but the records leave no doubt it was that broad, liberal Catholic faith and practice that gathered up with as much alacrity the Indian with a bullet hole through as head as the saint with fingernails two or three feet long. He was a well-armed drummer in the golden slipper trade, a "rustler " for the golden stairs.
He could doctor the body quite as well as the souls. The prevalent diseases of his day, it seems, were witches, spooks, spells and charms. He was as superstitious as his neighbors and quite as illiterate, and yet he must have played many tricks upon his savage followers to retain his power over them, and impress and awe them with a dread of his occult power. His trade was not destroyed by the coming of the first whites and the migration from here of the Indians. He continued to practice medicine, preach and hunt. He kept sacred his witchballs to the day of his death. These were made of deer's and cow's hair, were large, and held together by a long string. They constituted his materia medica. Most people then believed implicitly in witches and charms; some do now. All diseases were the work of witches, and so it was with their cattle. Ghosts could be seen any dark night passing a grave or a graveyard....
Tipsword carried with him to the day of his death many of the customs and characteristics of the Indian. He was always reticent of speech, and a ringing hearty laugh - he had forgotten all about it. In approaching a neighbor's house, he would never be seen until standing in the door.
He lived a long time after the sparse settlements of whites had come and the Indian had gone. When the Indians first went away, it was not fleeing from the pale faces, but following the game. They would, for some years, annually return, and often TIPSWORD would go with them and not return for a year or more.
On one occasion, after the whites had settled in Shelby and Fayette counties, the Indians warned them to leave in three days or they would massacre all the country between Shelbyville, by way of Vandalia, to St. Louis. The warning came like a death knell to the poor defenseless whites --they were terror stricken. Three days was too short a time in which to get away, yet it was too long a time to wait in dread horror the cruel torture and death that they well knew that the red devils had in store for them. In the calmness that comes of despair, they talked over the situation. A few, but very few, gathered their little families and fled, but the majority could only make a feeble attempt to put themselves upon the best defense of their household gods that they could. They had hoped at first that TIPSWORD could intercede for them, but when appealed to he could give them no hope as he too, was in the list of warned. On the afternoon of the third and last day the Indians held a general pow-wow in the woods, and TIPSWORD attended it as a spectator. He had friends among the chiefs and braves, and he had no doubt talked as much as he dared to them, and told them the certain consequences that would follow a general massacre of the whites. The first speakers urged that they adjourn the meeting, paint themselves, and at early dark commence the bloody work, and allow no pale face to escape. These sentiments met the approving grunts of the braves. But late in the evening, better informed Indians talked. They told their people that, while it was true they had it in their power to murder the whites, but suppose they did, would not the word go to the people of the States, and would not an army, numbering as the leaves of the forest, come here and kill every Indian in the Territory. Such representations soon turned the attention of the Indians to questions of their own safety, and they determined to postpone the massacre. The settlers had been spared. How much they owed of this good fortune to TIPSWORD will never be known.
GRIFFIN TIPSWORD died in the year 1845, and lies buried on the banks of Wolf Creek. He left surviving children - John, Isaac, and Thomas. No stone marks the spot where the old patriarch of this numerous family sleeps.
Sources:
1."History of Effingham County, Illinois," O.L Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1883: p. 12
2.THE GRIFFIN TIPSWORD STORY: The First white settler in Effingham County, Illinois 1975 published by Effingham County, Bicentennial Commission .

Note: MARRIAGE: Indiana Marriage Through 1850, http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/tango/marriage/ ;
Jacob Notestine married Nancy Hatfield on 4 Dec 1838 in Allen Co, IN.

DEATH: A Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions, Allen Co., IN, 977.274 V22d by Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter NSDAR, p 283, Squire Hatfield Cemetery, Washington Twp. sec 21; Jacob Notestine, died Feb. 19, 1847, aged 30 yrs. 10 m. 18 d.

!SOURCE: Notestines of Oxford, Kansas, by Gene R. Alley, 1978; BIRTH-DEATH-MARRIAGE-SPOUSE.

NOTES: (from Notestines of Oxford)
Born in Fairfield Co., Ohio. Raised, married and died in Allen Co., Ind. He was the second son of Jacob Notestine.

SOURCE-TITLE-FATHER: Src: Theresa Coleman; URL http://www.visi.com/~ghat/hatftree.htm ; E-mail tcoleman@radio.org; last updated 8/98.

IGI: B&E - Film #1903944; SP #1903977; however lists b 10 Apr 1816 in Fort Wayne, Allen, IN; Also work done b 19 Apr 1816 in Fairfield Co., OH; B 9 Jun 1994, E 16 Aug 1994 & SP 6 Sep 1994 at LANGE, film #1985227.