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Elias
Naudain (1655-c.1685)
and Some of His Descendants
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Generation One
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1. Elias NAUDAIN1 was born in 1655 in France. He married Jahel ARNAUD in 1676. He died circa 1685 in England. He was a pilot or shipmaster. They lived in La Tremblade, a little seaport on the west coast of France about thirty miles south of La Rochelle. They and all but about six families of La Tremblade were Huguenots. In 1681 Louis XIV seized their temple, made it a Roman Catholic church, and tried to force the citizens of La Tremblade to convert to catholicism. Instead, Elie (as the French spelled it) obtained from Charles II of England letters patent for naturalization, which were issued at Whitehall on 17 Nov 1681 and which described him as a ship's master. In early 1682 the family escaped by ship to Southampton and traveled to London, where they were naturalized on 8 Mar 1682. The last record of him was his attendance at a baptismal service in Threadneadle Street Church on 26 Apr 1685, and he is believed to have died that year or early in 1686.
Jahel ARNAUD2 came to America about 1686, probably within a year after the death of her first husband, Elias NAUDAIN, and was one of the first colonists of Narragansett. There she met Jacob RATIER and married him on 18 Mar 1689 in Narragansett Colony, Rhode Island.. They moved to New York City when the Narragansett Colony disbanded. They and Arnauld were naturalized by parliamentary act on 8 May 1697, and on 12 Nov 1697 Governor Fletcher of New York granted letters of denization to Arnauld NAUDAIN. She is believed to have lived with her son, Elias, in Delaware after Jacob died in late 1702 to have died there in 1720 or 1721. She was born in France. She died circa 1720 in Delaware.
Children of Elias NAUDAIN and Jahel ARNAUD were:
Generation Two
4. Elias NAUDAIN (Elias)6 was born circa 1680 in La Tremblade, France. He married Lydia LEROUX, daughter of Peter LEROUX and Alida VRYMAN, on 21 Jul 1715 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; They were married by Rev. Jed. Andrews, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. He married Mary _____ after May 1743. He died circa Nov 1749. He immigrated to England with his parents in 1682 and was naturalized on 8 Mar 1682. After his father's death he immigrated to Rhode Island in about 1686 and moved with her and her second husband, Jacob RATIER, to New York City in 1691, when the Narragansett Colony disbanded. Apparently he became a mariner, as had his father and his stepfather. He was in Delaware by 1717 and he and Lydia probably moved there in 1715 or 1716, soon after their marriage. Elias bought and sold several tracts of land, and the deeds sometimes described his as a resident of Appoquinimink Hundred, Delaware and sometimes as of St. Georges Hundred, Delaware, and they usually described him as a mariner. In 1735 he acquired farmland known as the "old Naudain homestead," which was located near Taylor's Bridge in Appoquinimink Hundred, and which, except for the period 1816-1827, remained in his descendants' hands into the 20th Century. He has been described as "a man of high character and of prominence in the community" and sat in the first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America.
Lydia LEROUX7 was born circa 1694. She died after 2 May 1743.
Children of Elias NAUDAIN and Lydia LEROUX were:
There were no children of Elias NAUDAIN and Mary _____.
Generation Three
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8. Andrew NAUDAIN (Elias, Elias)12 married Susan _____. He was born in 1720. He died in 1769.
Susan _____13 later married Christopher DENNEY.
Children of Andrew NAUDAIN and Susan _____ were:
9. Arnold NAUDAIN (Elias, Elias)14 was buried in Old Drawyer's Church Cemetery, near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. He was born in 1723. He married Catharine ALLFREE, daughter of John ALLFREE, on 1 Jan 1751. He died on 6 Aug 1796.
He owned a large amount of land, was a member of the legislature in 1763, and was said to have been "a man of very large stature." He and Catharine died on the same day and were burined in a single grave near the front door of Old Drawyer's Church, near Odessa, Delaware.
Catharine ALLFREE15 died on 6 Aug 1796 and was buried in Old Drawyer's Church Cemetery, near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware.
Children of Arnold NAUDAIN and Catharine ALLFREE were:
11. Charles NAUDAIN (Elias, Elias)18 married Ann _____. He was born in 1732. He died in Aug 1766. His will indicates that at his death he owned a plantation and at least four slaves.
Children of Charles NAUDAIN and Ann _____ were:
12. Lydia NAUDAIN (Elias, Elias)21 was born in 1734. She married Thomas DEAKYNE in 1755. She married Isaac STIDHAM before 1770.
Thomas DEAKYNE22 died circa Feb 1761.
Children of Lydia NAUDAIN and Thomas DEAKYNE were:
There were no children of Lydia NAUDAIN and Isaac STIDHAM.
13. Cornelius NAUDAIN (Elias, Elias)25 married _____ GOODING. He was born circa 1736. He married Mary SCHEE. He died on 1 Mar 1798. He was the only son to whom his father did not devise real property, leaving him money instead. Cornelius was especially close to his brother Robert, choosing him as his guardian and being the devisee of Robert's real property. When he died, Cornelius owned about 230 acres in Appoquinimink Hundred, Delaware.
Children of Cornelius NAUDAIN and _____ GOODING were:
Children of Cornelius NAUDAIN and Mary SCHEE were:
Generation Four
14. Elias NAUDAIN Jr. (Andrew, Elias, Elias)27 married _____ _____. He died in Oct 1800. At his death he owned about 375 acres of upland and marsh in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, which appraised at $4,121.55.
Children of Elias NAUDAIN Jr. and _____ _____ were:
15. Elias NAUDAIN V (Arnold, Elias, Elias)31 was buried in Old Drawyer's Presbyterian Church, New Castle County, Delaware. He was born in Sep 1751 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He married Catharine SKEER, daughter of Lawrence SKEER, in 1777. He died on 9 Mar 1800 in New Castle County, Delaware, at age 48. He was born on his parents' farm near Taylor's Bridge in Appoquinimink Hundred. He and his wife were active in Drawyer's Presbyterian Church, of which he was an elder and a member of the board of trustees, and where they are buried. He was a surveyor and farmer, and both of them died on their farm. He owned several slaves, whom he freed by his will. Ruth Bennett's The Naudain Family of Delaware states that his "force of character and upright life made him a man of influence in the community where he lived."
Catharine SKEER32 was buried in Old Drawyer's Presbyterian Church, New Castle County, Delaware. She died in New Castle County, Delaware. She was from St. Georges Hundred. She was born on 22 Oct 1749. She married Jacob MCCOMBS before 1777.
Children of Elias NAUDAIN V and Catharine SKEER were:
16. Arnold NAUDAIN (Arnold, Elias, Elias)34 was born in 1753. He was born in 1753. His first wife was Mary SCHEE, daughter of James SCHEE, whom he marriedbefore 1779. His second wife was Mrs. _____ SKILLETON, and his third wife was Sarah _____. He died on 21 Sep 1819 and was buried in Mount Airy, New Castle County, Delaware. He farmed in Appoquinimink Hundred, where he owned three farms. He had no children by his second or third wife. He replaced his deceased brother, Elias, as an elder of Drawyer's Presbyterian Church in 1801 and served for four years, when he became a Methodist.
There were no children of Arnold NAUDAIN and Mrs. _____ SKILLETON.
There were no children of Arnold NAUDAIN and Sarah _____.
Mary SCHEE35 was buried in Mount Airy, New Castle County, Delaware. She was born circa 1757. She died circa 1800.
Children of Arnold NAUDAIN and Mary SCHEE were:
18. Andrew NAUDAIN (Arnold, Elias, Elias)39 was born on 27 Oct 1758 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He married Rebecca SNOW on 30 Mar 1786. Their marriage date may have been 3 Mar 1786. He married Ann WILSONon 25 Dec 1816. He died on 19 Sep 1819 at age 60 and was buried in Naudain's Landing, Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. He farmed and operated a store at Naudain's Landing. Following the tradition of his father and grandfather, he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
Rebecca SNOW40 was from near Leipsic, Delaware, and her ancestors came to Delaware in 1635. She inherited land near Leipsic, 300 acres that became known as Naudain's Landing, and she and Andrew lived there and are buried there. Their home was known as Snowland. She was buried in Naudain's Landing, Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. She was born on 30 Dec 1770. She died on 28 Jan 1813 at age 42.
Children of Andrew NAUDAIN and Rebecca SNOW were:
Ann WILSON45 died on 25 Dec 1816.
There were no children of Andrew NAUDAIN and Ann WILSON.
19. Mary NAUDAIN (Arnold, Elias, Elias)46 was born on 13 May 1761. She married Francis Barber in Feb 1784. She died in Dec 1814 at age 53.
Francis BARBER47 farmed and owned a large amount of land in East Dover Hundred, Kent County, Delaware. His will directed that his sons Francis and Benjamin pay to provide a classical education to the youngest son, Edward, to be followed by the study of his choice of law or physic. He died in 1819.
Children of Mary NAUDAIN and Francis Barber were:
21. Rachel NAUDAIN (Arnold, Elias, Elias)57 was born in 1765 in New Castle County, Delaware. She married Abraham Staats, son of Abraham Staats, in 1795. She died in 1830. She was born near Fieldsboro, Delaware.
Abraham Staats58 is believed to be the Abraham Staats who served in the Delaware House of Representatives in 1801, 1802, 1804, 1810, 1811, and 1812 and in the Delaware Senate in 1814-1818. He died after 5 Feb 1820.
Children of Rachel NAUDAIN and Abraham Staats were:
22. Rebecca NAUDAIN (Arnold, Elias, Elias)61 married John Frazier. She was born in 1769. She died in 1808.
John FRAZIER62 was a prominent farmer of Little Creek Hundred, Kent County, Delaware and at his death owned the 200-acre Mansion Farm in Little Creek Neck. He died circa 1805.
Children of Rebecca NAUDAIN and John Frazier were:
23. Henry NAUDAIN (Charles, Elias, Elias)63 married Mary _____. He died in Aug 1792 in Saint Georges Hundred, Delaware. He probably lived with his mother and brothers on the farm near Middletown, Delaware that his father had left to them.
Children of Henry NAUDAIN and Mary _____ were:
25. Laroux NAUDAIN (Charles, Elias, Elias)67 married Rebecca _____. He was born in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He died in Mar 1798 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware.
Children of Laroux NAUDAIN and Rebecca _____ were:
29. Elizabeth NAUDAIN (Cornelius, Elias, Elias)70 married Thomas Deakyne. She died before 1847.
Thomas Deakyne.71 He was a farmer in Appoquinimink Hundred. He died before 1847.
Children of Elizabeth NAUDAIN and Thomas Deakyne were:
30. Robert NAUDAIN (Cornelius, Elias, Elias)73 was born in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He married Susanna Gooding, daughter of William Gooding. He married Jane Johnson, daughter of Dr. W. T. Johnson. He died circa 1817. His first wife, Susanna, was a sister of Mary Gooding, who married Robert's brother, Cornelius. He was born on the farm known as Hartups Pasture, which had been in the family for a couple of generations.
Children of Robert NAUDAIN and Susanna Gooding were:
Jane Johnson76 married Peter Staats in 1818.
There were no known children of Robert NAUDAIN and Jane Johnson.
32. Mary NAUDAIN (Cornelius, Elias, Elias)77 was born in 1763. She married Hermanus Schee, son of James Schee. She married Richard Hambly. She died in 1799.
Children of Mary NAUDAIN and Hermanus Schee were:
Children of Mary NAUDAIN and Richard Hambly were:
33. Sarah NAUDAIN (Cornelius, Elias, Elias)80 married Benjamin Fields, son of William Fields.81 She married Benedict Hutchinson.82 She died before 1847.
Benjamin FIELDS83 farmed in Appoquinimink Hundred. He died before 1849.
Children of Sarah NAUDAIN and Benjamin Fields were:
Benedict Hutchinson84 was a prominent farmer of Appoquinimink Hundred.
Children of Sarah NAUDAIN and Benedict Hutchinson were:
34. Rachel NAUDAIN (Cornelius, Elias, Elias)85 married Rev. James Lattomus, son of _____ Lattomus, on 1 Jan 1801. She married William Gooding, son of William Gooding, in 1807. She married James Carrow in 1815. She died after Oct 1825.
Rev. James LATTOMUS86 was a well-known Methodist preacher and was described as "a man of delicate constitution [who] had a vigorous mind and was upright in his walk and demeanor." He was born on 24 Jan 1771 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He died on 11 Sep 1806 in Fieldsboro, New Castle County, Delaware, at age 35.
Children of Rachel NAUDAIN and Rev. James Lattomus were:
William GOODING88 was a farmer and first cousin of Rachel's first husband, Rev. James Lattomus. William died a few months after he and Rachel married. He died circa 1808.
There were no known children of Rachel NAUDAIN and William Gooding.
James CARROW89 was a farmer.
There were no known children of Rachel NAUDAIN and James Carrow.
35. Hester NAUDAIN (Cornelius, Elias, Elias)90 was born after 1785. She married Thomas Lyons. She married Shadrach Gooding. She died before 1847.
Thomas Lyons.91 He was a farmer in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He died before 1849.
Children of Hester NAUDAIN and Thomas Lyons were:
Shadrach Gooding.92 He was a farmer in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He died before 1849.
Children of Hester NAUDAIN and Shadrach Gooding were:
36. Susanna NAUDAIN (Cornelius, Elias, Elias)93 was born after 1785. She married Dickinson Webster in 1812. She died in 1825.
Susanna was Dickinson Webster's third wife of four.
Dickinson WEBSTER94 was a well-known resident of Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. On the death of his first wife, Rachel, he became tenant by the courtesy of all land that had been owned by Rachel's father, Lewis Allfree, when he died; by arrangement with the Fields brothers, Dickinson took fee-simple title to a 360-acre farm at Dexter's Corners and relinquished his interest in the remaining Allfree lands. He married Rachel Allfree, daughter of Lewis Allfree, in 1800. He married _____ _____ circa 1809. He married Mary Ann Brown on 11 Dec 1826. He died on 19 Dec 1848.
Children of Susanna NAUDAIN and Dickinson Webster were:
Generation Five
38. Mary NAUDAIN (Elias, Andrew, Elias, Elias)95 married Allen Fields Jr., son of William Fields, before 1797. She died in 1798.
Allen Fields Jr.96 He was a farmer in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He died in 1797. She was his second wife.
Children of Mary NAUDAIN and Allen Fields Jr. were:
40. Susannah NAUDAIN (Elias, Andrew, Elias, Elias)98 married William Fields, son of William Fields.
William Fields99 was a farmer. He founded Fieldsborough, Delaware on a large tract of land he owned at the intersection of the road between Odessa and Blackbird and the road between Taylor's Bridge to Noxentown. From Ruth Bennett's Naudain Family of Delaware, p. 39: "There is a tradition to the effect that when the frames of the first houses [at Fieldsborough] were ready to be raised the workmen requested Fields to supply them with whiskey on that occasion. He replied that it was 'hard Scrabbling' enough to get money to pay them without giving them whiskey. Thereupon the workmen bought their own liquor and christened the village, giving it the name of Hardscrabble." It was frequently called by that name into the 1900's. He died in 1820.
Children of Susannah NAUDAIN and William Fields were:
41. John Elias NAUDAIN (Elias, Andrew, Elias, Elias)102 was buried in Paul Allfree Mansion Plantation cemetery, New Castle County, Delaware. He was born in 1780 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware.103 He married Catherine BAKER circa 1800.104 He married Susanna Lattomus ALLFREE, daughter of William ALLFREE and Diana Lattomus, after Nov 1804. He married Mrs. Martha MURCH on 15 Nov 1825. He died in 1827. He was born on the "old Naudain homestead" at Taylor's Bridge that his great-grandfather, Elias Naudain, had bought in 1735. He was a farmer and lived all his life in Appoquinimink Hundred. By a series of conveyances designed to cut off any interest of the children of his second wife, Susanna Allfree, he acquired interests in some land in Appoquinimink Hundred that Susanna had inherited; these lands were sold by the sheriff after John's death to pay his creditors. Ruth Bennett's Naudain Family of Delaware says, at p. 41, that his third wife, Martha, treated John's younger children very cruelly, and that they finally left to live with their half-brothers, Elias and James Nelson Naudain.
Children of John Elias NAUDAIN and Catherine BAKER were:
Susanna Lattomus ALLFREE105 died circa 1825.
Children of John Elias NAUDAIN and Susanna Lattomus ALLFREE were:
Mrs. Martha MURCH.109 She was the widow of Matthew Murch when she married John. She survived John.
There were no children of John Elias NAUDAIN and Mrs. Martha MURCH.
42. Rebecca NAUDAIN (Elias, Andrew, Elias, Elias)110 married Rev. Daniel Crouch circa 1802. She died after Jun 1819. Her husband, Daniel, acquired 177 acres and 99 perches, being half of the "old Naudain homestead" near Taylor's Bridge in Appoquinimink Hundred, which had been in her father's estate, from her brother, Andrew, in 1805. In 1819 they sold it to William Fisher Corbit, who had acquired the other half from Andrew in 1816.
Rev. Daniel Crouch.111 Some of his land was sold at a sheriff's sale after his death to satisfy a judgment obtained against him in October 1824. He died in Oct 1824.112
Children of Rebecca NAUDAIN and Rev. Daniel Crouch were:
43. Elias NAUDAIN (Elias, Andrew, Elias, Elias)114 married Cassandra Fields, daughter of Allen Fields. He died in 1830. He was a farmer, and he and his wife, Cassandra, lived on a 140-acre farm belonging to her, located on the east side of the road between Odessa and Blackbird, Delaware, on Blackbird Creek.
Cassandra FIELDS was from Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, and was the only child of Allen Fields. She died in 1828.
Children of Elias NAUDAIN and Cassandra Fields were:
45. Arnold Skeer NAUDAIN (Elias, Arnold, Elias, Elias)117 was born on 11 Oct 1778 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He married Jemima Van Horn, daughter of Jacob Van Horn, on 1 Feb 1805. He died on 13 Feb 1845 at age 66. He was born near Taylor's Bridge, and he lived on his parents' farm there until about 1810, about age 32. In 1808-1809 he bought about 230 acres of James Schee's land, about a mile and a half south of Middletown, where he built a home and spent his later years. He owned adjacent land and for a while owned Mount Airy. From Ruth Bennett's Naudain Family of Delaware, p. 44: "He was an intelligent and scientific farmer and brought his land to a high state of cultivation for those times. His habits were studious and his leisure moments were devoted to reading and study. He acquired some knowledge of law and was commissioned by Governor Joseph Haslet as a Justice of the Peace on May 7, 1813. He was a devout student of the Bible and though raised a Presbyterian, became an ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church." His will indicates that he owned several slaves.
Children of Arnold Skeer NAUDAIN and Jemima Van Horn were:
47. James Schee NAUDAIN (Arnold, Arnold, Elias, Elias)123 was buried in Methodist Cemetery, Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. He was born on 20 Nov 1779. He married Ann Mountain in 1807. He died on 20 Oct 1842 in White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, at age 62. He worked on his father's farm until age 27, when he rented one of his father's farms near Summit Bridge. After his father died he moved to White Clay Creek Hundred, where he lived until his death.
Ann Mountain.124 Her name may have been Ann Mountain March when they married. She died in Jul 1852.
Children of James Schee NAUDAIN and Ann Mountain were:
48. Elizabeth NAUDAIN (Arnold, Arnold, Elias, Elias)128 was born on 27 Oct 1783. She married William Reynolds, son of Thomas Reynolds, on 17 Nov 1801. She died on 20 Nov 1850 at age 67. When her husband died in 1821, she and her seven young children moved to Middletown, Delaware, where the children were educated at the academy.
William Reynolds129 was born in 1773 in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He died in 1821.
Children of Elizabeth NAUDAIN and William Reynolds were:
49. Maria NAUDAIN (Arnold, Arnold, Elias, Elias)139 married Alexander Moody. She was born in 1785. She died on 25 Apr 1860. She inherited from her father a 195-acre farm in western St. Georges Hundred, at the southeast corner of the old Choptank Road and the road leading to Mt. Pleasant, where she lived with her son until her death.
Alexander MOODY140 was from St. Georges Hundred and had been married before, to Mary Schee, widow of Cornelius Schee.
Children of Maria NAUDAIN and Alexander Moody were:
53. Dr. Thomas NAUDAIN (Arnold, Arnold, Elias, Elias)142 was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois. He was born on 1 Aug 1796 in Appoquinimink Hundred, near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. He married Lydia W. Burnham, daughter of John Burnham, in 1836. He died on 21 Dec 1872 in Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois, at age 76. He was tax collector for Appoquinimink Hundred for a few years around 1820-1824. From 1830 to 1856 he lived on a farm near Mt. Pleasant, Delaware that he inherited from his father. He then moved to Genesee, Illinois, where he practiced medicine. His will provided $1,500 for erection of a monument at his grave.
Lydia W. Burnham.143 She was the widow of John Burnham.
Children of Dr. Thomas NAUDAIN and Lydia W. Burnham were:
55. Arnold NAUDAIN M.D. (Andrew, Arnold, Elias, Elias)145 was buried in Old Drawyer's Church Cemetery, near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. He was born on 6 Jan 1790 in Snowland (Naudain's Landing), near Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. He married Mary M. Schee, daughter of Hermanus Schee and Mary NAUDAIN, on 22 Nov 1810. He died on 4 Jan 1872 in Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware, at age 81. He was educated at Princeton College, graduating in 1808, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a medical degree in 1810. He established a practice at Cantwell's Bridge (now Odessa), Delaware before age 21 and gave medical service in the War of 1812 as surgeon of the Delaware Regiment. In 1822 he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives but lost to Louis McLane. He lost to McLane in races in 1824 and 1828. In 1825 he was elected to the Delaware Legislature from New Castle County, served with his brother, Elias, who represented Kent County, and was elected speaker. In 1828 he was commissioned a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. McLane resigned his U.S. Senate seat in 1829 to become Minister to England, and Dr. Naudain was appointed to replace him, taking his seat in 1830. In 1832 he lost a race for Governor of Delaware but was reelected to his Senate seat in 1833. He resigned in June 1836 but reentered public life in 1841 as Collector of the Port of Wilmington and Superintendent of Lighthouses on the Delaware River. He moved from Wilmington to Philadelphia in 1845, continued his medical practice there, and founded and was the first elder in the Green Hill Presbyterian Church. He became more active in the Presbyterian Church and several times served as a commissioner of the Church's General Assembly. He returned to Delaware in 1857 and lived there until his death at the home of a son-in-law, Dr. W. N. Hamilton, at Odessa. He was described as "a most courteous gentleman, commanding in person, handsome in feature, and neat in attire; and evenly balanced in temperament; an humble, sincere Christian, a delightful companion, as winsome and interesting in old age as in the hey-day of youth."
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Mary M. Schee.146 From Ruth Bennett, Naudain Family of Delaware, p. 57: "She was an accomplished and religious woman, a devoted and loving wife and mother. Her personal appearance was attractive, graceful and commanding and notwithstanding years of suffering, bore her beauty to the day of her death, which occurred . . . suddenly and very unexpectedly . . " She was buried in Old Drawyer's Church Cemetery, near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. She was born on 18 Sep 1789. She died on 26 May 1860 in Dover, Kent County, Delaware, at age 70.
Children of Arnold NAUDAIN M.D. and Mary M. Schee were:
57. Elias NAUDAIN (Andrew, Arnold, Elias, Elias)148 was born on 16 Jan 1795 in Snowland (Naudain's Landing), near Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. He married Lydia Jones, daughter of Dr. James Jones, circa 1818. He married Margaret Pettigrew Meillechamp in 1828. He died on 12 Mar 1849 in Snowland (Naudain's Landing), near Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware, at age 54. During the 1820's he was justice of the peace in Leipsic, in Little Creek Hundred. He served in the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly in 1827 and in that same year was commissioned first major of the Fourth Regiment of the Delaware Militia. In 1832 he was elected a delegate to the convention to revise the Delaware Constitution. He later was elected to the Delaware Senate. From McCarter and Jackson, Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of Delaware (1882): "He resided always upon the domain left to him by his father, cherishing to his last hour the associates of his boyhood, and a fondness for agriculture; as is attested by the fact that he left behind him the best improved lands in Kent [County]. He was a man of singular excellence and purity of character. . . . He was a man of most courteous and agreeable manners, the natural outgrowth of a true and manly heart, a Christian and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. His name should long be cherished as one of the worthiest of the sons of the ancient Delaware State."
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Lydia Jones149 died in 1826.
Children of Elias NAUDAIN and Lydia Jones were:
Children of Elias NAUDAIN and Margaret Pettigrew Meillechamp were:
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58. Lydia NAUDAIN (Andrew, Arnold, Elias, Elias)156 married John Eddowes. She was born on 26 Jan 1797. She died in 1866 in Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. They moved to Galena, Illinois.
John Eddowes.157 He survived his wife, Lydia, and died at age 80.
Children of Lydia NAUDAIN and John Eddowes were:
61. Ann NAUDAIN (Andrew, Arnold, Elias, Elias)168 married Alexander V. Murphy. She was born on 4 Dec 1804. She died on 1 Oct 1845 at age 40.
Alexander V. MURPHY169 was from Philadelphia.
Children of Ann NAUDAIN and Alexander V. Murphy were:
62. Mary NAUDAIN (Andrew, Arnold, Elias, Elias)176 was born on 25 Nov 1806. She married Daniel Cowgill on 3 Aug 1824. She died on 27 May 1877 at age 70.
Daniel COWGILL177 lived in Dover, Delaware and owned considerable land.
Children of Mary NAUDAIN and Daniel Cowgill were:
63. Eliza NAUDAIN (Andrew, Arnold, Elias, Elias)178 was born on 10 Oct 1810. She married Daniel Corbit, son of William Corbit, in 1833. She died on 18 Dec 1844 at age 34. In 1827 her husband acquired for $3725 a farm of about 400 acres in Appoquinimink Hundred that was known as the "old Naudain homestead," which her great-grandfather, Elias Naudain, had acquired in 1735.
Daniel CORBIT179 was a director of the National Bank of Smyrna, Delaware. He was elected to the Delaware constitutional convention of 1852 and served several terms in the Delaware Legislature. He married Mary Wilson, daughter of David Wilson, in 1847. He died circa 1877.
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Children of Eliza NAUDAIN and Daniel Corbit were:
64. Andrew NAUDAIN (Andrew, Arnold, Elias, Elias)182 was born on 30 Dec 1812. He married Virginia Chambers in Jul 1836. He died on 23 Feb 1864 at age 51. When his mother died when he was a month old, he was adopted by the family of his brother, Dr. Andrew Naudain. He graduated from Jefferson College in 1836, practiced medicine near Dover, Delaware, and moved to Philadelphia, where he engaged in business and married Virginia Chambers, who was from there.
Virginia Chambers183 was born in Jun 1811. She died in 1844.
Children of Andrew NAUDAIN and Virginia Chambers were:
74. Abraham Staats (Rachel NAUDAIN, Arnold, Elias, Elias)187 was buried in Union Cemetery, near Blackbird, New Castle County, Delaware. He married Marie Crouch, daughter of Abel Crouch and Sarah _____. He was born on 22 Sep 1799. He died on 16 Jun 1873 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, at age 73. He lived in Appoquinimink Hundred until 1847, when he moved to Wilmington, where he lived until his death. He was elected state auditor in 1845 and 1847, and he was appointed deputy collector of the port of Wilmington in 1849, in which he served for four years. He also served two seven-year terms as magistrate. He was a Whig and then a Republican and was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was described as a "grand old man."
Marie CROUCH188 was buried in Union Cemetery, near Blackbird, New Castle County, Delaware. She was born on 11 Feb 1809. She died on 16 Mar 1879 at age 70.
Children of Abraham Staats and Marie Crouch were:
75. Elias Naudain Staats (Rachel NAUDAIN, Arnold, Elias, Elias)194 was born in 1801. He married Martha Weldon, daughter of John Weldon, in 1834. He died in 1835. He was well educated, taught school, and had an "unblemished character."
Martha Weldon195 married John Lynam after 1835. She married John Naudain, son of Elias NAUDAIN and Cassandra Fields, in 1854.
Children of Elias Naudain Staats and Martha Weldon were:
78. John Frazer (Rebecca NAUDAIN, Arnold, Elias, Elias)196 married Elizabeth Ann Bell. He died on 25 Nov 1850.
Elizabeth Ann Bell197 died after 1850.
Children of John Frazer and Elizabeth Ann Bell were:
88. Mary M. Schee (Mary NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)200 was buried in Old Drawyer's Church Cemetery, near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. She was born on 18 Sep 1789. She married Arnold NAUDAIN M.D., son of Andrew NAUDAIN and Rebecca Snow, on 22 Nov 1810. She died on 26 May 1860 in Dover, Kent County, Delaware, at age 70. From Ruth Bennett, Naudain Family of Delaware, p. 57: "She was an accomplished and religious woman, a devoted and loving wife and mother. Her personal appearance was attractive, graceful and commanding and notwithstanding years of suffering, bore her beauty to the day of her death, which occurred . . . suddenly and very unexpectedly . . "
Arnold NAUDAIN M.D.201 was educated at Princeton College, graduating in 1808, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a medical degree in 1810. He established a practice at Cantwell's Bridge (now Odessa), Delaware before age 21 and gave medical service in the War of 1812 as surgeon of the Delaware Regiment. In 1822 he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives but lost to Louis McLane. He lost to McLane in races in 1824 and 1828. In 1825 he was elected to the Delaware Legislature from New Castle County, served with his brother, Elias, who represented Kent County, and was elected speaker. In 1828 he was commissioned a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. McLane resigned his U.S. Senate seat in 1829 to become Minister to England, and Dr. Naudain was appointed to replace him, taking his seat in 1830. In 1832 he lost a race for Governor of Delaware but was reelected to his Senate seat in 1833. He resigned in June 1836 but reentered public life in 1841 as Collector of the Port of Wilmington and Superintendent of Lighthouses on the Delaware River. He moved from Wilmington to Philadelphia in 1845, continued his medical practice there, and founded and was the first elder in the Green Hill Presbyterian Church. He became more active in the Presbyterian Church and several times served as a commissioner of the Church's General Assembly. He returned to Delaware in 1857 and lived there until his death at the home of a son-in-law, Dr. W. N. Hamilton, at Odessa. He was described as "a most courteous gentleman, commanding in person, handsome in feature, and neat in attire; and evenly balanced in temperament; an humble, sincere Christian, a delightful companion, as winsome and interesting in old age as in the hey-day of youth." He was buried in Old Drawyer's Church Cemetery, near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. He was born on 6 Jan 1790 in Snowland (Naudain's Landing), near Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. He died on 4 Jan 1872 in Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware, at age 81.
Children of Mary M. Schee and Arnold NAUDAIN M.D. were:
90. Mary Fields (Sarah NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)202 married Benjamin Fields Jr., son of Allen Fields Jr. She and her husband, Benjamin, were first cousins. She died young and he remarried.
Benjamin Fields Jr203 married _____ _____. When he died he owned a 300-acre farm on the north edge of Middletown, Delaware, opposite Forest Cemetery, and a large tract between Townsend and Taylor's corner. He died in Jul 1842.
Children of Mary Fields and Benjamin Fields Jr. were:
91. John A. Hutchinson (Sarah NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)205 married Mary Jane Wright. He was born in 1819. He died in 1889.
Children of John A. Hutchinson and Mary Jane Wright were:
92. Sarah Hutchinson (Sarah NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)217 was born in 1822. She married William Weldon before 1849. She married Jacob Van Dyke after 1849. She died in 1911.
William WELDON218 was a well-known farmer of Appoquinimink Hundred.
Children of Sarah Hutchinson and William Weldon were:
Jacob VAN DYKE,224 her second husband, was a retired farmer of Appoquinimink Hundred. They had no children.
There were no known children of Sarah Hutchinson and Jacob Van Dyke.
93. Rachel Hutchinson (Sarah NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)225 was born on 15 Aug 1825. She married Jacob Daniels before 1849. She died on 13 Jun 1857 at age 31.
Children of Rachel Hutchinson and Jacob Daniels were:
94. James Cornelius Lattomus (Rachel NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)230 was born on 7 Oct 1801. He married Ann Meldrum on 24 May 1827. He died on 2 Feb 1849 at age 47.
Children of James Cornelius Lattomus and Ann Meldrum were:
Children of James Cornelius Lattomus include:
96. Robert McCombs Lattomus (Rachel NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)239 was born on 4 Mar 1806. He married Margaret Price on 20 Mar 1828. He died on 8 Aug 1886 at age 80.
Children of Robert McCombs Lattomus and Margaret Price were:
97. William Lyons (Hester NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)245 was born in 1811. He married Rebecca Webster, daughter of Dickinson Webster and Susanna NAUDAIN, before 1849. He and his wife, Rebecca Webster, were first cousins. They moved to near Williamsburg, Virginia. They returned to Delaware after their farm was overrun by warring forces during the Civil War, their crops were destroyed, their livestock was driven off, their house was shattered by cannon balls, and they barely escaped with their lives.
Rebecca Webster246 was born on 11 Nov 1813. She died on 7 Feb 1879 at age 65.
Children of William Lyons and Rebecca Webster were:
98. Thomas Lyons (Hester NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)249 was born in 1819. He married Lydia A. Van Dyke, daughter of Thomas Van Dyke, in 1848. He married Mary Elizabeth Van Dyke, daughter of Thomas Van Dyke, in 1850. He died in 1859. He farmed in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, until his death. In his last few years he owned a farm located two or three miles south of Townsend, Delaware. His two wives were sisters.
Lydia A. Van Dyke250 was born on 8 May 1826. She died on 30 Nov 1848 at age 22.
There were no children of Thomas Lyons and Lydia A. Van Dyke.
Children of Thomas Lyons and Mary Elizabeth Van Dyke were:
99. Mary Jane Gooding (Hester NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)254 was born before 1828. She married James R. Collins before 1849.
James R. COLLINS255 was a prominent farmer of Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware.
Children of Mary Jane Gooding and James R. Collins were:
100. Rebecca Webster (Susanna NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)259 was born on 11 Nov 1813. She married William Lyons, son of Thomas Lyons and Hester NAUDAIN, before 1849. She died on 7 Feb 1879 at age 65.
William LYONS260 and his wife, Rebecca Webster, were first cousins. They moved to near Williamsburg, Virginia. They returned to Delaware after their farm was overrun by warring forces during the Civil War, their crops were destroyed, their livestock was driven off, their house was shattered by cannon balls, and they barely escaped with their lives. He was born in 1811.
Children of Rebecca Webster and William Lyons were:
101. William W. Webster (Susanna NAUDAIN, Cornelius, Elias, Elias)261 married Mary Elizabeth Crusen. He was born on 26 Sep 1819. He died on 8 Apr 1869 at age 49.
Children of William W. Webster and Mary Elizabeth Crusen were:
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105. Elias NAUDAIN (John, Elias, Andrew, Elias, Elias)263 was buried in Barr Cemetery, near Nevin, Ohio.264 He was born on 27 Oct 1801 in Delaware. He married Martha ELIASON, daughter of John ELIASON and Mary Davis, on 20 Jan 1824. He died on 29 Aug 1855 in Highland County, Ohio (near Hillsboro), at age 53. He was born near Fieldsboro, Delaware and farmed in Appoquinimink Hundred until 1836, when the family moved to Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. Son Corbit's account appears at pages 65-66 of Ruth Bennett's Naudain Family of Delaware: "In 1836, our father, who then lived in a little hipped roof house that stood nearly opposite to the entrance to the land that led down to Bishop Scott's house, put his family, consisting of himself, my mother and two children, into a wagon, that in after years and in the far West would have been called a 'Prairie Schooner', and started for what was then, indeed, the far West, Hamilton, Ohio, where mother had relatives. When they reached Hillsboro, fifty or sixty miles short of their destination, as the crow flies, mother's health became such that going farther seemed impossible. Father went to work at once on a farm for alan Trimble. Before the summer was over, he was persuaded to buy a little farm about seven miles away, where he went to work to hew himself out a home in what was literally and truly the big timber country of Southern Ohio. There we were all born, excepting the two born in Delaware, and there he ended his days. Things there were very primitive. I have reason to think he was much respected. While I was only eight years old when he passed away, still I can recollect that he had a class in Sunday School, was sometimes class leader and was a visitor to our Day School; hence, I conclude, a Director." He was a Whig and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She died two days after his death.
Martha ELIASON265 was buried in Barr Cemetery, near Nevin, Ohio. She was born on 2 Mar 1806 in New Castle County, Delaware (near Noxontown). She died on 31 Aug 1855 in Highland County, Ohio (near Hillsboro), at age 49.
Children of Elias NAUDAIN and Martha ELIASON were:
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106. James Nelson NAUDAIN (John, Elias, Andrew, Elias, Elias) was born on 29 Oct 1804 in New Castle County, Delaware (near Fieldsboro).273,274,275 He married Ellen GROSE, daughter of Philip GROSE and _____ _____, on 24 Mar 1825.276 He married Mrs. Henrietta BAILEY on 11 Feb 1873 in Robertson County, Texas.277 He died on 23 Nov 1880 in Paint Rock, Concho County, Texas, at age 76.278,279 He farmed for a few years in New Castle County, Delaware. On 7 Jun 1833 he bought his father's small farm near Fieldsboro but sold it to John Mercer a few months later, on 26 Aug, "with the exception of one-quarter of an acre for the burial ground which is to be laid off around the present graveyard and to take in said graveyard or burial place, which said Naudain reserves for himself and his heirs forever." This land is part of what had been the Paul Allfree Mansion Plantation. James's father is believed buried there, but there are no longer any grave markers and the cemetery cannot now be located. In 1845 the family moved from Delaware to Cincinnati, traveling down the Ohio River part of the way and losing their household goods en route. After visiting his brother, Elias, at Hillsboro, Ohio, they moved on to Henderson County, Texas, near Athens, and were there in 1846. James taught in several West Texas counties and practiced medicine during the Civil War. He was a Presbyterian, as were many in his family, and was a church elder for many years. A grandson, John Wesley Dalton, understood that the Naudains were of Irish descent and "moved to Peter's Colony, now Kaufmann [sic] County, Texas, in 1832." He also remembered that "Grandfather Naudain taught school in a log cabin called Shilo just across the San Saba River from Pecan Grove, in 1870 or 1871. A strange man one day rode up to the sc