Descendants
of Enoch Sargent, Sr.
Generation
No. 1
1. ENOCH8
SARGENT, SR. (TIMOTHY CHASE7, TIMOTHY6, TIMOTHY5,
CHARLES4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2,
RICHARD1) was born June 02, 1775 in Williamstown, Berkshire County,
Massachusetts, and died 1871 in Rockdale Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. He
married (1) ABIGAIL CHASE Bef. 1799 in Pittsfield, Orange County, Vermont, daughter of
SOLOMON CHASE and ABIGAIL CHASE. He married (2) PRUDA BACON July 22, 1813 in Pittsfield,
Rutland Co., Vermont.
Notes for ENOCH SARGENT,
SR.:
Info from Patricia Hunt
Manusov, 3308 Butler Ave. Los Angles, CA 90066: military service: War of 1812 marker on
grave. Family information places his birth at 4 Jul 1775, but family bible states 2 June.
Shreve Ridge Cemetery records; Rutland Co., VT vital records, all pertinent census
records.{the Sargent Sampler, vol 1 #4] married by Asa Gaines, J.P., as Enoch Sargent (not
Chase). A search for a probate, will or other inventory of the estates of Enoch or either
of his wives has been fruitless.
Enoch was living in
Rutledge, Vermont in 1812. He later moved to Southwestern New York and lived on an Indian
reservation on the Upper Allegheny River. His sons learned the lumbering business and
would raft lumber down to Pittsburgh and then walk back. (Source: Thomas Rea Negus
narrative.}
Enoch Sargent, Sr. is
buried at Shreve Ridge Cemetery, near Union City, Erie County, Pennsylvania.
By 1830 he lived in
Cattaraugus County, New York- see History of Cattaraugus County, New York, 1879, pp. 425.
1850 Census, Bloomfield
Twp., Crawford County, Pennsylvania, shows Enoch Sargent, Sr., age 74. living with Pruda,
age 50, and John, age 15. Enoch is identified as having been born in Massachusetts.
Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4.
More About ENOCH SARGENT,
SR.:
Burial Location:
Shreveridge Cemetery, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania
Fact 3: Bef. 1830, Moved
to Cattaraugus County, New York
Notes for ABIGAIL CHASE:
Source: Sargent Sampler,
Vol. I, No. 2. Also, Descendants of Solomon and Abigail Chase, by Patricia Hunt Manusov
dated January 7, 1994.
Notes for PRUDA BACON:
Source-Patricia Hunt
Manusov: First marriage to Nathaniel Bugbee, they had four children including Pruda &
Elias.- her sources Rutland Co., Vermont vital records; married by Asa Gaines, JP.
1850 Census, Bloomfield
Twp., Crawford County, Pennsylvania, identifies Pruda Sargeant, age 50, as residing with
Enoch Sargeant. She is identifed as having been born in Massachusetts.
Children of ENOCH SARGENT
and ABIGAIL CHASE are:
i. ALICE9
SARGENT, b. January 25, 1799, Vermont; d. December 29, 1884, Bloomfield Township, Crawford
County, Pennsylvania; m. ABRAHAM BACON, January 07, 1816, Bethel, Windsor County, Vermont.
Notes for ALICE SARGENT:
Alice Sargent Bacon is
buried at Shreve Ridge Cemetery, near Union City, Pennsylvania. Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
More About ALICE SARGENT:
Burial Location:
Shreveridge Cemetery, Crawford Co., PA
Notes for ABRAHAM BACON:
Abraham Bacon is buried at
Shreveridge Cemetery near Union City, Pennsylvania. Source: Family Group Sheet prepared by
Patricia Hunt Manusov.
More About ABRAHAM BACON:
Burial Location:
Shreveridge Cemetery, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania
ii. JERUSHA SARGENT, b.
Abt. 1802, New York; m. HARMON LEROY HENRY.
Notes for JERUSHA SARGENT:
Source: Family Group Sheet
prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
More About JERUSHA
SARGENT:
Burial Location:
Chapinville Cemetery, Rockdale Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Notes for HARMON LEROY
HENRY:
Source: Family Group Sheet
prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
More About HARMON LEROY
HENRY:
Burial Location:
Chapinville Cemetery, Rockdale Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
iii. ORPHA SARGENT, b.
Abt. 1805, Pennsylvania; m. JAMES LEE.
Notes for ORPHA SARGENT:
Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt
Manusov.
Notes for JAMES LEE:
Source: Family Group Sheet
dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
iv. SALLY C. SARGENT, b.
December 28, 1807, Vermont; d. April 07, 1875, Rockdale Township, Crawford County,
Pennsylvania; m. SEAMOUR WILCOX, December 18, 1828, Great Valley, Cattaraugus County, New
York.
Notes for SALLY C.
SARGENT:
Source: Phyllis H. Beebe
1/95; Sargent Sampler Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet dated February 5, 1991
prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
Sally C. Sargent Wilcox is
buried in Shreve Ridge Cemetery near Union City, Pennsylvania.
More About SALLY C.
SARGENT:
Burial Location: 1875,
Shreveridge Cemetery, Crawford Co., PA
Notes for SEAMOUR WILCOX:
Seamour Wilcox is buried
in the Willoughby Cemetery, Cattaraugus County, New York.Info from Phyllis H. Beebe 1/95.
Also, Family Group Sheet dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt
Manusov.
The History of Cattaugus
County, New York states at p. 700 that Seamour Wilcox came from Bath, New York in 1829 to
Hinsdale. In 1836 he came to Great Valley.
More About SEAMOUR WILCOX:
Burial Location:
Willoughby Cemetery, Cattauraugus County, New York
v. AVIAH SARGENT, b. April
18, 1809, Vermont; d. Abt. 1847, Allegany County, New York; m. (1) UNKNOWN EVERSON; m. (2)
HARVEY SPRAGUE KEEN, July 23, 1835; m. (3) HARVEY SPRAGUE KEEN, July 23, 1835.
Notes for AVIAH SARGENT:
Info from Phyllis H. Beebe
1/95: Married (1) Mr. Everson & (2) Harvey
Sprague Keen.
Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
Notes for HARVEY SPRAGUE
KEEN:
Info from Phyllis H. Beebe
1/95
Also: Family Group Sheet
dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
Notes for HARVEY SPRAGUE
KEEN:
Info from Phyllis H. Beebe
1/95
Also: Family Group Sheet
dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
vi. ALZINA SARGENT, b.
Abt. 1810; m. (1) UNKNOWN COOK; m. (2) HENRY JUDD; m. (3) JAMES GRIMES.
Notes for ALZINA SARGENT:
Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
vii. CERENA SARGENT, b.
Abt. 1817, New York; m. WILLIAM SWIFT.
Notes for CERENA SARGENT:
Source: Sargent Sampler,
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt
Manusov.
Notes for WILLIAM SWIFT:
Source: Family Group Sheet
dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
Children of ENOCH SARGENT
and PRUDA BACON are:
viii. LUCENA9
SARGENT, m. JACKSON JONES.
Notes for LUCENA SARGENT:
Lucena Sargent Jones is
buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Bloomfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
She is referred to in the written recollections of Thomas Rea Negus written sometime in
1913 and the further recollections written sometime in 1924.
ix. CELESTIA LUCRETIA
SARGENT, b. October 26, 1832, New York; d. April 17, 1892, Eagle River, Wisconsin; m.
BENJAMIN ELLICOTT WISE, April 17, 1849, Erie, Pennsylvania.
Notes for CELESTIA
LUCRETIA SARGENT:
A reference to Lucretia
Sargent is found in the Sargent Family History written by Thomas R. Negus in about 1913
and repeated in an additional summary by him in 1924. She is also referred to in The
History of Mount Pleasant Cemetery by Carl T. Blakeslee Sr., pp. 65, 103.
Notes for BENJAMIN
ELLICOTT WISE:
Source: Family Group Sheet
perpared by Lorrie Dowling.
x. PRUDA SARGENT, b. Bef.
1814; m. UNKNOWN GREEN.
xi. ENOCH SARGENT, JR., b.
November 25, 1815, Pittsfield, Orange County, Vermont; d. October 02, 1884, Hurley, Turner
County, South Dakota; m. AMY NEGUS, Abt. 1840, Bloomfield Township, Crawford County,
Pennsylvania.
Notes for ENOCH SARGENT,
JR.:
Source of dates: Sargent
Sampler Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov. One
Family Group Sheet has the date of birth as October 26, 1816.
It is the recollection of
Ford Sargent that Enoch Sargent also raised an adopted girl by the name of Lechtie (?)
Bacon. The Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov states that Enoch was
drafted at Steuben County, New York on December 10, 1836 and was honorably discharged at
Buffalo, New York on February 20, 1837. This was in the Patriot War or the New York
Frontier Disturbance.
US Census October 3, 1850,
Bloomfield Twp., Crawford County, Pennsylvania, lists Enoch, age 33, born in Pennsylvania.
US Census June 23, 1870,
Union Twp., Erie County, Pennsylvania, p. 21, lists Enoch as a farmer, age 54, born in
Vermont.
Br�derbund Family Archive
#320, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected States/Counties, 1880, Date of Import: Aug 22,
1996, Internal Ref. #1.320.1.5520.81:
Individual:
Sargent, Enoch
County/State: Turner Co.,
SD
Location: Twp 98 Range 52
Page #: 292
Year: 1880
Source: Application for
Bounty Land dated June 20, 1857, based on service in New York Frontier Disturbances. The
application states that Enoch was a resident of Union, Erie County, Pennsylvania when he
was drafted on or about December 1, 1836 at Steuben County, New York. He served as a
private in the Company commanded by Captain John O. Riley in the Volunteers regiment in
the "Patriot War" or the New York Frontier Disturbance. His term was from
December 1, 1836 to February 20, 1837. He was discharged at Buffalo, New York. He was
making aa application under the Act of March 3, 1855.
He came to Hurley, South
dakota in 1873.
More About ENOCH SARGENT,
JR.:
Burial Location: Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Hurley, South Dakota
Notes for AMY
NEGUS:
Amy Negus Sargent is
buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Bloomfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. In
The History of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, by Carl T. Blakeslee, Sr., 1980, p. e of
Dedication, it states that Amy Negus Sargent founded the Willing Workers Aid Society at
Mount Pleasant on August 27, 1893. She was 77 at the time.
US Census October 3, 1850,
Bloomfield Twp., Crawford County, Pennsylvania, lists Amy, age 31, born in Pennsylvania.
U.S. Census, June 23,
1870, Union Twp., Erie County, Pennsylvania, p. 21, lists Amy as age 51, househeeping as
occupation and born in Pennsylvania.
Source: Family Group Sheet
dated February 5, 1991 prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
More About AMY
NEGUS:
Burial Location: Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
xii. SYLVESTER SARGENT, b. 1818, New York; m. JANE WESTFALL, Bef. 1843, Pennsylvania.
xiii. SAREPTHA SARGENT, b.
Abt. 1820, New York; d. May 14, 1882, Bloomfield Twp., Crawford Co., Pennsylvania;
Stepchild; m. BENJAMIN SHREVE, Abt. 1840, Bloomfield Twp., Crawford Co., Pennsylvania.
Notes for SAREPTHA
SARGENT:
US Census, 8 June 1870,
Bloomfield Twp., Crawford Co., PA, p.12: #94-97, age 49, occupation housekeeping. Source:
Sue Rood.
Sareptha Sargent Shreve is
buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Bloomfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
Source: The History of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, by Carl T. Blakeslee, Sr., 1980, p. 65.
Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
More About SAREPTHA
SARGENT:
Burial Location: Aft. May
14, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Bloomfield Twp., Crawford Co., PA
Fact 4:
"Surpeta"
Notes for BENJAMIN SHREVE:
The Genealogy and History
of the Shreve Family from 1641. L. P. Allen,
1901.p. 328: He was the
ninth child and seventh son of Richard and Margaret Newbold. He was a farmer owning 200
acres of land in Bloomfield, PA, being 1/2 half of his father's farm at the head of Lake
Canada, formerly Oil Lake. He was a good Christian man. In height he was six feet.
Will in Book C p113-4 in
Crawford County Court House in Meadville, PA
recorded 19 Jul 1856
Mentions Sareptha, sons Washington, Caleb, daughter,
Lucinda Loretta (Negus).
Source: Family Group Sheet
prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
More About BENJAMIN
SHREVE:
Fact 4: "Ben"
xiv. LUCINDA LOUISE
SARGENT, b. January 01, 1823, Bath, Steuben County, New York; d. September 12, 1907,
Bloomfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; m. (1) WEST NEGUS, December 25, 1841,
Bath, New York; m. (2) WILLIAM BORLAND, June 13, 1890, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
Notes for LUCINDA LOUISE
SARGENT:
Lucinda Louise Sargent
Negus is buried in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Bloomfield Township, Crawford County,
Pennsylvania. She died at the home of her daughter, Prudy Ann Blakeslee.
Source of date of birth:
Sargent Sampler, Vol. I, No. 4. See Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt
Manusov, for different year of birth.
More About LUCINDA LOUISE
SARGENT:
Burial Location: Mt.
Pleasant Cemetery, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Notes for WEST NEGUS:
Source: Family Group Sheet
dated February 5, 1991, prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
Marriage Notes for LUCINDA
SARGENT and WEST NEGUS:
Source of wedding
location: Genealogy of Shailock Negus, Sr., //www.pitt.edu/~hbjst/snsr.htm.
xv. TIMOTHY C. SARGENT, b.
Abt. 1828, Bath, Steuben County, New York; d. November 15, 1864, Florence, South Carolina;
Stepchild; m. CATHERINE WOODWARD, September 18, 1853, Waterford, Erie County,
Pennsylvania.
Notes for TIMOTHY C.
SARGENT:
Timothy was captured
during the Civil War and the Negus narrative states that the family received a letter from
him when he was in Andersonville prison.
Sources of dates &
places: Patricia Hunt Manusov. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
Timothy Sargent enrolled
in Capt. Stults' Co., 145 Regt. Pa. Inf. ( which later became Co. E., 145 Regt. Pa. Inf.)
in Erie, Pennsylvania on August 15, 1862. He was 34 years old and had blue eyes and brown
hair. He was wounded in battle on December 13, 1862 near Fredericksburg, Virginia and sent
to Washington by the surgeon. He returned to camp on February 21, 1863. On April 28, 1863
he was left in camp because he was sick. In June 1863 he was detailed to work as a
teamster in the ammunition division. On June 16, 1864 he was captured. He died on November
15, 1864 (although there is some reference to October 20, 1864 as the date of death) in a
prisoner of war camp in Florence, South Carolina. Source: copy of Service Records. Also,
"History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5" by Samuel P. Bates, 1870, Vol. VII,
p. 537.
Notes for CATHERINE
WOODWARD:
Source: Family Group Sheet
prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
xvi. SIMEON B. SARGENT, b.
Abt. 1833, New York; d. September 03, 1905, Caney, Montgomery County, Kansas; m. CATHERINE
WESTFALL, June 01, 1853, Tidiout, Warren County, Pennsylvania.
Notes for SIMEON B.
SARGENT:
Simeon was in Co. E, 145th
Regiment during the Civil War. Source: "History of Pennsylvania Volunteers,
1861-5" by Samuel P. Bates, 1870, Vol. VII, p. 537.
Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
Notes for CATHERINE
WESTFALL:
Source: Family Group Sheet
prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
xvii. JOHN L. SARGENT, b.
April 26, 1835, Bloomfield Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; d. June 04, 1900,
North Branch, Lapeer County, Michigan; m. MERILLA A. GRANT, 1855, Lapeer County, Michigan.
Notes for JOHN L. SARGENT:
1850 Census, Bloomfield
Twp., Crawford County, Pennsylvania, identifies John Sargeant, age 15, as residing with
Enoch Sargeant. He is identifed as having been born in Pennsylvania.
Source: Sargent Sampler
Vol. I, No. 4. Also, Family Group Sheet prepared by Patricia Hunt Manusov.
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