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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

1677 - Pierre Noel in Ste Famille, Ile Orleans, Quebec, Canada

1678 - Francois Coron in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1702 - Thankful Dickinson in Massachusetts, United States

1781 - Catherine Ferland in St Pierre, Ile d Orleans, Quebec, Canada

1783 - Leonard Adsit in Spencertown, Columbia, New York, USA

1784 - Marguerite Chabot in St Charles, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1785 - Cornelius Klock in Mohawk Valley, Montgomery New York

1788 - Marie Therese Dufour in Laval, Quebec, Canada

1802 - Marie Louise Goulet in St Charles, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1844 - Marie Virginie Goulet in St Ignace de Coteau du Lac, Quebec, Canada

1845 - Pierre Goulet in St Joseph, Beauce, Quebec, Canada

1858 - Marie Neree Goulet in St Thomas, Joliette, Quebec, Canada

1895 - Charles J Robinson in New York, USA

1898 - George Goulet in Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada

1900 - Bryan Vaughan in Kentucky

1905 - Ulmont Jack Jones in Illinois

1905 - Catherine M Ferris

1907 - Joseph Albert Goulet in Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

1915 - Dorothy Marie Rehfuss in Detroit, Michigan

1917 - Elmer Paul Talbot in Wright County, Minnesota, USA

1917 - Homer Joseph Talbot in Wright County Minnesota USA

1920 - Romeo J Roy in Fitchburg, Massachusetts

1921 - Robert Oliver Smith in Michigan

1922 - Jane Audrey Walker in Michigan

1929 - Delia Goulet in Rhode Island

1931 - Harry Herman Goulet in Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

1932 - Laurie Klock Crispin in New York City, New York, USA

Past Marriages

1702 - Francois Coron and Marie Cyr in Laval, Quebec, Canada

1855 - Jean Baptiste Charles Defoy and Marie Alphonsine Ameline Goulet in La Prairie, Quebec, Canada

1855 - Francois Xavier Goulet and Marie Rosalie Gagne Dit Belleavance in St Isidore, Lauzon, Quebec, Canada

1861 - Jean Louis Goulet and Julie St George Dit Laporte in St Norbert, Berthier, Quebec, Canada

1870 - Aaron A Keedy and Sarah Nunemaker in Elkhart, Indiana

1876 - Napoleon Lamarche and Marie Louise Goulet in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1877 - Edouard Guillaume (William) Goulet and Vitaline Hebert in St Sylvestre, Lotbiniere, Quebec, Canada

1883 - Joseph Goulet and Marie Bacquet Dit Lamontagne in St Raphael, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1888 - Norbert Bordeleau and Amanda Goulet in St Stanislas, Champlain, Quebec, Canada

1893 - Joseph Guiseppe Buschini and Marie Sophie Lucie Goulet in St Jacques, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1899 - Joseph Goulet and Louisiana Brisseth in Allenstown, New Hampshire, USA

1909 - Harry Louis Behm and Marie Louise Goulet in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, USA

1915 - Adelard Goulet and Rose Alma Turenne in St Theodore, Boucher, Quebec, Canada

1930 - Delbert Matison and Ethel E Lafave in Moravia, New York, USA

1931 - Ulysses Grant Shields and Ruby Pauline Holbert in Harrison, West Virginia

1948 - ~ and ~ in Maine, USA

1948 - ~ and ~ in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA

1976 - ~ and ~

1976 - ~ and ~ in Lynnwood, Snohomish, Washington, USA

1980 - ~ and ~ in Barre, Washington, Vermont, USA

Past Deaths

1767 - Angelique Allard in Baie du Febvre, Quebec, Canada

1776 - Marie Therese Fournier in Montmagny, , Quebec, Canada

1805 - Dorothy Zimmerman

1818 - Elizabeth Sullivan in Hopkins, Richland, South Carolina, United States, or Kentucky

1832 - Charles Goulet in Mascouche, Quebec, Canada

1832 - Louis Goulet in Mascouche, Quebec, Canada

1847 - John Wheeler in Cicero, Onondaga, New York, United States

1856 - Sara Goulet in Quebec, Canada

1857 - Pierre Flavien Goulet in St Lazare, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada

1862 - Melissa Klock

1891 - Michael Hoffer in Polk, Nebraska, USA

1986 - Harmidas Gilbert Goulet in Hampton, Bay, Michigan

1997 - M Blanche Gertrude Cote in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, USA

2000 - Eugenie A Biron in Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA

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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