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Descendants of Timothy Chase Sargent, Sr. Generation No. 1 1. TIMOTHY CHASE7 SARGENT, SR. (TIMOTHY6, TIMOTHY5, CHARLES4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, RICHARD1) was born February 01, 1748/49 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, and died Abt. 1827 in Pittsfield, Orange County, Vermont. He married ANN HORTON March 27, 1770 in Templeton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, daughter of JOSEPH HORTON and ALICE KNIGHT. Notes for TIMOTHY CHASE SARGENT, SR.: There is some confusion regarding the birth date of Timothy C. Sargent. The IGI of the LDS Temple states that he was born in 1749 of a Timothy Sargent. The DAR Patriot Index, 1966, lists Timothy Sargent as having been born in 1751. The parents were "Timothy Sargent and Dorothy Chase... so she sayeth." This suggests that Timothy C. Sargent was the illegitimate son of Dorothy Chase and perhaps Timothy Sargent. [Information per Patricia Hunt Manusov.] As reported in the Sargent Sampler, Vol I. No. 2., published by Patricia Hunt Manusov, the work of Barbara Caty Wheeler suggests that Timothy C. Sargent was actually born John Sargent Chase, the illegitimate son of Timothy Sargent and Dorothy Chase, "but was adopted by Timothy Chase and his wife Leah Robbins. Timothy Chase was a first cousin of a Dolly (possibly Dorothy?) Chase. Timothy and Leah raised him in Templeton, Worcester Co., MA as John Sargent Chase along with their daughter, Abigail (who later married her first cousin Solomon Chase) and 8 other sons, including a Timothy (who married Sarah Newton). In 1770 John Sargent Chase married Ann Horton in Templeton [Massachusetts] and then they moved to Williamstown, Berkshire Co., MA, where he changed his name to Timothy Chase and where their daughters, Ann and Alice, were born in 1771 and 1773, and son Enoch in 1775, and possibly some other children. The Pittsford history says he enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Williamstown (c. 1776). The "Massachusetts Soliders and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol. III, p. 368 (1897), lists Timothy Chase as having enlisted on July 10, 1775 as a private in Capt. Lemuel Stevens' company. He served 1 month and 26 days and was discharged (probably under General Schuyler) on September 6, 1775. He enlisted again from Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1780. He served for 5 months and 20 days and was discharged on December 11, 1780. At p. 184 under the heading "Case, Timothy" it states he was in a list "of men raised for the 6 months service and returned by Brig. Gen. Paterson as having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway, Oct. 25, 1780". They were living in Townshend, Windham County, Vermont by 1790. The 1790 census lists Timothy Chase with 3 sons under 16 and 4 daughters. The oldest daughter, Ann (Nancy), stayed in Templeton, Massachusetts, keeping the name Chase and married Asa Woolson, Jr. there in 1793. Timothy and Ann's son Ira was born in 1793. Apparently, Timothy Chase changed his name to his birth name of Timothy Sargent by the time his second daughter, Alice, married Solomon Chase, Jr. in Townshend, Vermont in 1792. In 1793 he was "Timothy C. Seargent" owing a fine of 2 pounds sterling in the town records of Mount Holly, Rutland County, Vermont.Sons Enoch, Timothy, Jr., and son-il-law are also there. [Barbara Wheeler- Sargent Sampler]. In the book "History of Pittsford, Vermont" by Caverly, 1882, it states at p. 351 as follows:
"Junia Sargent was the son of Timothy C., who was born at sea, on the voyage from England to America, in 1751, and whose early life was spent in Williamstown, Mass. In 1770, he [i.e., Timothy Sargent] married Ann Horton, of Londonderry, Vt., who was born in 1755, and they located in that town. At the commencement of the Revolutionary War Mr. Sargent enlisted in the army, and as he enlisted from Williamstown it is quite likely that he had returned to that town before enlisting. But he had had a little military experience before enlisting in the regular service, and probably before he removed from Londonderry, as it is known that he went with Allen to Ticonderoga and witnessed the capture of that fortress in 1775. After entering the regular army he was stationed some time at Fort Edward, shared in most of the military movements in the vicinity of North River, was one of the number detailed to escort Andre from prison to the place of execution, and after serving through the war was honorably discharged, and returned to his family. He had five sons, Timothy, Enoch, Ephraim, Junia and Ira; and five daughters, Alice, Lucinda, Nancy, Jerusha and Eunice. Junia, the fourth son, born in Londonderry, July 5, 1788, married, February 17, 1806, Sally, daughter of Thomas Clark, of Fitzwilliam, N.H., and located in Rutland, Vt. In 1819, he came to Pittsford and located on the Rood farm now owned by D.A. and J. Richardson. In 1821, he removed to the Caleb Hendee farm where he resided for two years, and after changing his residence several times in this town, bought a farm in Hubbardton, whither he reoved and resided six or seven years, and then returned to this town and spent the remainder of his life with his son Leonard. He died May 20, 1869.* Mrs. Sally Sargent died April 12, 1863. *He had resided about two years on the Benjamin Stevens farm, now owned by R. and E. Hendee, and while there his aged father went to live with him, and died there in 1827, His wife, Ann, died in Hubbardton in 1829."
The foregoing information was provided by Patricia Hunt Manusov. She states that Timothy Sargent could not have lived in Lodonderry, Vermont in 1770 because it did not come into existence until April 20, 1780, when the village of Kent became Londonderry. (Thompson's Gazeteer of Vermont, Sutro Library F49t48).
A "Warnings Out" from the Town of Mt. Holly, Rutland County, Vermont dated March 23, 1807 referred to Timothy Sargent and Anna Sargent, his wife. DAR Index 1966, p. 593, lists him as Pvt VT. Sources of dates & places: Patricia Hunt Manusov; affidavit by Dorothy Chase stating Timothy Sargent was the father "so she sayeth" in records of Newburyport [filmed by LDS]:Revolutionary War records; Children's names written down by grandson, Charles Sargent; land records; "Warning out" from Mt. Holly, Rutland Co., VT; papers of Kandi Schoelerman; Esther McCormick; work done by Barbara Wheeler and other "cousins" {The Sargent Sampler vol I #2, vol II #1}. Source: D.A.R. Lineage Book, Vol. 98, (1913), p. 23-24, Cora A. Engley Gaskill, includes Timothy Sargent as an ancestor: "Timothy Sargent (1751-1827) enlisted, 1775, in a company of minute men, under Capt. Thomas Johnson. He was born at sea; died in Pittsford, Vt." D.A.R. Lineage Book, Vol. 117, (1915), p. 223, Mrs. Louella Campbell McCarthy, lists Timothy Sargent as an ancestor: "Timothy Sargent (1751-1827) served as a private under Captains Johnson, Bayley and Stevens, Col. Peter Olcott's Vermont regiment. He was born at sea; died in Londonderry, Vermont." D.A.R. Lineage Book, Vol. 116, (1915), p. 237, Miss Lora B. Phillips, lists Timothy Sargent as an ancestor: "Timothy Sargent (1751-1827) served as private under Captains Johnson, Bayley and Stevens, Colonel Peter Olcott's Vermont regiment. He was born at sea; died in Londonderry, Vt." Application dated November 13, 1957, of Bertha Matilda Stewart to the Daughters of the American Revolution, National No. 472071. Source for birth date: Pedigree Chart by Barbara Canty Wheeler of Sacramento, California, dated April 25, 1992, included in Sargent Sampler Vol. II, No. 1. Phyllis Beebe of Geneseo, New York, lists the place of death as Templeton, Massachusetts.
Notes for ANN HORTON: History of Pittsford, Vermont, Caverly, pp. 351-2 of Londonderry, Vermont. Woolson-Fenno Ancestry and Allied Lines, by Lulu Woolson, 1907, p. 63: b info., married at Templeton, Massachusetts, 27 March 1770 [John Sergant Chase of Templeton]{sic}. Source: Patricia Hunt Manusov. Marriage Notes for TIMOTHY SARGENT and ANN HORTON:Patricia Hunt Manusov lists the town of marriage as being Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
Children of TIMOTHY SARGENT and ANN HORTON are:
Information assimulated and cataloged by .....David R. SARGENT
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