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Subject: Re: [BRADFORD-L] Bradfords - Conn
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 19:16:49 EDT


BRADFORD / SHERWOOD > BONNEY > EGGLESTON

Orilla (Sherwood) Bonney, Daughter of Ebenezer SHERWOOD & his wife Hannah
BRADFORD of Cornwall CT, was born on the 10th Day of November AD 1780.
- Cornwall Vital Records, Volume II, 1779-1828
(LDS microfilm # 1516243)
* Page 11: Ebenezer Sherwood died 24 Jan 1785; recorded 7 October 1785
* Page 12: Orilla Sherwood born 10 November 1780, daughter of Ebenezer
Sherwood & Hannah [note: Hannah Bradford]
(Orilla Sherwood and John Bonney are my 3rd Great Grandmother; Ebenezer
Sherwood and Hannah Bradford my 4th Great Grandparents. The death record of
Orilla's father, Ebenezer Sherwood, shows he deceased in Cornwall in 1785 when
she was 5 years old).

To carry the line down further, following are the children of Orilla
SHERWOOD and John BONNEY as found in Cornwall (CT) Vital Records Volume 2,
page 28 (LDS Microfilm 1516243):

"Mira, Daughter of John Bonney and Orilla his Wife was born December 20th AD
1799 (Mira/Almira is my Great Great Grandmother. She married Oliver
Eggleston,
Jr. my Great Great Grandfather. My Grandfather Richard Eggleston
was
tragically killed in an explosion while he was Clarke County, Iowa
Sheriff
at a relatively young age.)
Orpha their Daughter was born November 19th AD 1801
Hezekiah their Son was born September 23rd AD 1803
John their Son was born February 24th AD 1806
William Bradford their Son born january 3rd AD 1808
Hannah their Daughter - born June 13th AD 1810
Samuel Sherwood their Son, was born February 28th AD 1812
Recorded June 7th AD 1813, by William Kellogg Register"

Regarding the history of Ebenezer Sherwood and Hannah Bradford's daughter
Orilla, the following is quoted from "The Messinger Family" by Reniger, p. 102
regarding their lives:

"The father of Orilla (Streator) Messenger, Alpheus Streator [my note here -
Alpheus Streator was Orilla's second spouse after her first spouse John Bonney
deceased], had been born in Becket, Masachusetts on April 22, 1765 and had
married in Becket, Anna Lyman. This family and their seven children were one
of the first families to remove to Windham, Ohio in 1811. Anna (Lyman)
Streator died in Windham on March 13, 1813. Alpheus married second, Orilla
(Sherwood) Bonney, widow of John Bonney on October 16, 1816 at Windham, Ohio.
Orilla Sherwood had married first, John Bonney at Cornwall, Connecticut in
1798, and they had removed to Nelson, Ohio in 1813 where he died in 1814,
leaving the widow with eight children.

John and Orilla Bonney had left Cornwall, Connecticut in company with
others, with their teams of oxen and horses and cows, and started for Ohio in
the summer of 1813. They went by way of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Warren,
Trumbull County, Ohio, and through Southington, and finally arrived at Nelson
with a log house and barn on it. John Bonney died the second Winter in
Nelson, and Orilla was left without a provider or provision. In the spring
they lived for three days and three nights on the milk of one cow with a
little soft maple syrup. Two old ladies from Windham brought them a large
bowlful of bread and cakes. Flour at this time was fifteen dollars a barrel,
and a very scarce item."

If anyone connects or has further information on this family, would love
to learn more about them. Happy hunting all!
Jeannie Winter

In a message dated 98-08-18 14:27:25 EDT, -
gw.shsl.com writes:

<< Hannah Bradford (b. Ply 3/9/1747-48 & d.Nelson, Portage Co. OH (?))
m.#1 Ebenezer Sherwood (b. 4/10/1737 Fairfield CT & d.Cornwall CT
1/24/1785) 1/2/1772 had daughter Orilla Sherwood >>

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