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Historical Highlights

American Revolution
The American Revolution

Our patriot ancestors include:
George Klock (1714-1790)
Judge Jacob G Klock (1738-1814
William Knowlton (1738-1784)
Cornelius Beekman (1733-1790)
Joseph Hall Jr (1757-1831)
Thomas Fournier (1732-1808)

Mayflower Connection
Mayflower Connections

We descend from families that came over on the Mayflower:
John Alden (1599-1687) and his wife Priscilla Mullins (1602-1685)
John Howland (1593-1672) and his wife Elizabeth Tilley (1607-1687)
and William Brewster (1567-1644)

Mohwak Indians
Mohawk Indian Heritage

My wife's family comes from Brantford, Ontario. She is able to trace her Mohawk lineage back to Joseph Brant (1743-1807). He was a famous Mohawk Indian chief that sided with the British during the American Revolution.

New France Pioneer
New France Pioneer

Jacques Goulet (1615-1688) is our French pioneer that was one of the first settlers of Quebec. Him and his wife arrived in New France in 1646. Most people with the Surname Goulet descend from this man.

Past Births

1712 - Johan Jost Bellinger

1729 - Michel Charbonneau in St. Francois de Sales, Ile de Jesus, Quebec, Canada

1747 - Marie Dorothee Francoise Bouchard in L'Isle-aux-Coudres, Charlevoix West, Quebec, Canada

1784 - Charles Goulet in Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada

1826 - Joseph Henry (Diomede) Goulait in Ste Elisabeth, Quebec, Canada

1826 - Mary Margaret Klock in Ellery, Chautauqua, New York, USA

1834 - Calixte Goulet in St Ignace de Coteau du Lac, Quebec, Canada

1836 - Dolphice Goulet in Riviere-du-Loup, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada

1841 - Marie Leocadie Pouliot in St Isidore de Lauzon, Quebec, Canada

1843 - Charles Yauney

1848 - Marie Melanie Goulet in St Isidore, Lauzon, Quebec, Canada

1850 - Marie Louise Goulet in Beloeil, Quebec, Canada

1853 - Martha Chrisman

1860 - Marie Louise Goulet in St Hilaire, Quebec, Canada

1872 - Catherine Scheid in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan

1874 - Earl Herbert Klock in Illinois

1880 - Joseph Philip Goulet in Wisconsin

1882 - Theodore J Weihe in Kentucky

1886 - Alexander Peter Goulette in St Martin, Quebec, Canada

1888 - Lea Laura Goulet in St Denis, Richelieu, Quebec, Canada

1898 - Hobert Odell Garner in Missouri

1899 - Louis J Bouchard in Rhode Island

1899 - Mary A Goulet in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

1916 - Albert Goulet in Bay City, Michigan

1918 - Eston Siscoe in Dexter, Stoddard County, Missouri, USA

1918 - Joseph Adelard Tanguay in St Boniface, Manitoba

1919 - Francis Joseph Lacasse in Hanover, New hampshire

1921 - Colette Fortier in Quebec Canada

1944 - ~ in Notre Dame

Past Marriages

1765 - Jacques Goulet and Angelique Avice in Beauport, Quebec, Canada

1781 - Francois Antoine Goulet and Marie Thérèse Lemay

1788 - Francois Pose and Marie Madeleine Goulet in Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada

1788 - Prisque Leclerc and Marie Radegonde Guibord in Mascouche, Quebec, Canada

1793 - Joseph Robert Dit Lafontaine and Amable Benoit dit Livernois in Beloeil, Québec

1821 - Jacob Larue and Anasthasie Goulet in Neuville, Quebec, Canada

1834 - Joseph Gariepy and Scholastique Charbonneau in Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada

1834 - Frederic Roussel and Therese Cote in Trois-Pistoles, Les Basques, Quebec, Canada

1840 - Pierre Goulet and Appoline Nolin in St-Pierre, Ile Orleans, Quebec, Canada

1856 - Louis Goulet and Helen Champaign in St Clair, Michigan, USA

1858 - Patrick McNabb and Mariann Harden in Pike, Indiana

1862 - David Labrie and Marie Virginie Celine Goulet in St Lazare, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1868 - Alexis Asselin and Marie Julie Goulet in Ste Elisabeth, Quebec, Canada

1879 - Narcisse Goulet and Margaret Bourget in Cap D'Espoir, Quebec, Canada

1884 - Onesime Nadeau and Marie Rose Delima Goulet in St Bernard, Beauce, Quebec, Canada

1902 - Joseph Ernest Asselin and Elisabeth Alice Goulet in St Charles Borromee, Quebec, Canada

1929 - Joseph Georges Andre Goulet and Jeannette Gauthier in Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

Past Deaths

1647 - Marie Anne Cloutier in Quebec, Canada

1754 - William Lawson in Brunswick County, Virginia, USA

1767 - Pierre Morin in St Pierre de la Riviere du Sud, Quebec, Canada

1796 - Francois Goulet in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada

1872 - Maria Klock in Orleans, Jefferson, New York, United States

1885 - Charlotte Eliza Barclay in New York

1916 - Marian C Praught in Minnesota, USA

1918 - Joseph Adelard Tanguay in St Boniface, Manitoba

1920 - Horatio London in Bloomfield, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

1940 - Martha Ann Green in Kewanee, Henry, Illinois

1943 - Alphonse Bolduc in Laconia, Belknap, New Hampshire

1948 - Serephie Goulet in Yakima, Yakima, Washington

1975 - Emery Marcel Rancour in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA

1979 - James Albert Curran in Inpatient, St Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, USA

1989 - Helen Howard in Benton, Polk, Tennessee, USA

1993 - Margie Ann Meng in Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan, USA

1998 - Therese Bisson in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Last Names

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Adam Gearheart

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Full Name
Adam Gearheart
Date of Birth 1750
Place of BirthWashington, Virginia, United States
FatherUnknown Unknown
MotherUnknown Unknown
Spouse Margaret Justice
Date of Marriage Unknown
Place of MarriageUnknown
ChildrenJoseph Gearheart
Date of Death 1833
Place of DeathFloyd, Kentucky, United States

Fact: Birth

Date: 1750

Place: Washington, Virginia, United States

1810 United States Federal Census

Fact: Residence

Date: 1810

Place: Floyd, Floyd, Kentucky, United States

1810 United States Federal Census
1820 United States Federal Census

Fact: Residence

Date: 1820

Place: Floyd, Kentucky, United States

1820 United States Federal Census
1830 United States Federal Census

Fact: Residence

Date: 1830

Place: Floyd, Kentucky, USA

1830 United States Federal Census

Fact: Death

Date: 1833

Place: Floyd, Kentucky, United States

GearhartSlaveReceipt2

Received of my father Adam Gearhart one negro man names Dinas and one tract of land on the right hand fork of bever creek being a part of my father old farm on the deed from him to me and a deed ? I have this day made to him will fully explain the boundary as advancements from him to me as part of his estate and I am to pay to my sister Cathy Gearhart $250.00 and to my sister rhoda $250.00. Making five hundred dollars and after paying the above sume I receive the above land and negros at the sum of one thousand dollars and is to have no more until all my brothers and sisters shall have received one thousand dollars of his estate to be valued at the rate of the property. That Peggy tarter got received this 29th day of January 1845. sign H G ? and ? Gearhart This was found in an old trunk Winnie Fitzpatrick Johns and the article attached says this One receipt, dated January 29th, 1845, says: "Received of my father Adam Gearhart one negro man named Dinas and one tract of land on the right hand fork of beaver creek being a part of my fathers old farm." First section of Samuel May's Bill of Complaint against John Graham and John Spurlock, 1816. Adam Gearheart Slave Receipt dated January 29th, 1845. There are also several other documents relating to the Gearhart family, including a complaint filed by Hetty Gearhart in 1856 against "the hairs and creditors of Adam Garehart decest" and an 1830 deed conveyed by Adam and Esther Gearhart to Prestonsburg attorney John Preston Martin for"the John Harris Farm" on Bull Creek. The chief value of this document is that it allows us to fix the precise date when Martin moved his family to Floyd County. As many of you already know, Martin went on to become one of the town's leading lawyers and a U. S. Congressman during the 1840s. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mayhouse/mayhouse/LongLostTrunk.html

GearhartSlaveReceipt2

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