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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

1654 - Anne Marie Amiot dit Villeneuve in Quebec, Canada

1664 - Louis Lemelin in Quebec, Canada

1713 - Clement Urbain Bisson in Ste Foy, Quebec, Canada

1726 - Ignace Goulet in L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada

1742 - Marie Louise Huret dit Rochefort in St Pierre de la Riviere du Sud, Quebec, Canada

1744 - Marie Louise Goulet in Québec, Quebec, Canada

1775 - Marie Madeleine Goulet in L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada

1781 - Marie Euphrosine Gariepy in Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada

1789 - Josephe Goulet in Neuville, Portneuf, Quebec, Canada

1817 - Mary Lottridge in Brantford, Brant, Ontario, Canada

1819 - Jean Baptiste Girouard in St-Philippe, Quebec, Canada

1826 - Oliver Benoit in St-Denis-Sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada

1826 - Victoire Goulet in Sts Gervais et Protais, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1829 - Isidore Goulet in Mascouche, Quebec, Canada

1835 - Edouard Pouliot in St Isidore de Lauzon, Quebec, Canada

1838 - Marie Cecile Eloise Dessein Decin in Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1839 - Augustin Leonore Goulet in St Charles, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1848 - Francois Xavier Goulet in Carleton, Avignon, Quebec, Canada

1850 - Marie Emilie Delphine Goulet in St Augustin, Quebec, Canada

1853 - Marie Elizabeth Eugenie Goulet in Ste Elisabeth, Quebec, Canada

1858 - Albert Johnathon Simons in Alpena, Alpena, Michigan, USA

1880 - Amanda Bolduc in Minnesota

1901 - Benoit J Goulet in New Hampshire

1903 - Fredrick Joseph Goulet in Stevens, Minnesota, USA

1903 - Raymond Joseph Goulet in Minnesota

1914 - Grace Exelia Goulette in Washington County, Vermont, USA

1921 - Alex Campeau in Ontario

1921 - Florence Alice Ball in Ohio

1921 - Alice Rose Goulet in Toledo Lucas, Ohio

1926 - Therse Landry

1931 - Florence Mary Goulet in Colchester, Vermont

Past Marriages

1751 - Aaron Cole and Huldah Butterworth in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

1880 - Samuel Lane Neal and Catherine Lucinda Dills in Macon, North Carolina, USA

1899 - Onesime Jolicoeur and Leda Goulet in St Denis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1900 - John Billingsley and Anna Rhode in Henry, Illinois, USA

1907 - Albert Otto Rieger and Pauline Wirth in Windsor, Ontario

1918 - Erwin Ruemmele and Rosina Dorothea Sophia Sebald in Hamilton, Ohio, USA

1942 - ~ and ~ in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA

Past Deaths

1689 - Urbain Tessier dit Lavigne in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1730 - Francoise Rondeau in Saint Vallier, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1756 - Jean Baptiste Goulet in St-Charles-de-Beaumont, Bellechasse, Montmorency, L'Île-d'Orléans, Capitale-Nationale, Québec Province, Canada

1792 - Pierre Boisme in Mascouche, Quebec, Canada

1810 - Charles Goulet in Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada

1813 - Marie Reine Morin in Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada

1832 - Marie Genevieve Brodeur Lavigne in Richelieu, Quebec, Canada

1837 - Emilie Brouillet in St Jacques de l'Achigan, Quebec, Canada

1847 - David Lantagne in St Gervais, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1847 - Marie Agnes Lantagne in St Gervais, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1848 - Felicity Seguin dit Laderoute in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

1848 - Monica Seguin dit Laderoute in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

1852 - Etienne Goulet in Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1863 - Lucinda Timmons in Polk, Tennessee, USA

1883 - Elijah Monroe Garner

1886 - Lydia Todd Chapin

1905 - Felicite Sequin in Essex, 1654297, Ontario, Canada

1905 - Christena Hartman in Au Sable, Iosco, Michigan

1931 - Marceline Cusson in Essex, Ontario, Canada

1936 - Arthur Leslie Klock in Los Angeles County, California, USA

1991 - Ruth Hermanson in Albuquerque,NM,USA

1991 - Elizabeth Weiss in Killeen, Bell, Texas, USA

2000 - Frank Miceli

2005 - Marian Lillian Gerhard

2007 - Mary A McKenna

2010 - Louis A. Goulet in Ville-Marie, Quebec

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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