All of the outlines from Caneland try obliterated. Just the stone tomb, thus unusual when you look at the construction and you can exceptional in design, stands to help you mark the region, and you may within mausoleum, when he had need the newest remains of Gen. CALMES with his spouse repose.
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It’s from the kindness and generosity of William Bailey, historian and you will genealogist, the newest Gen. Marquis Calmes Chapter D. could have been capable fully grasp this works from maintenance done. The guy contributed one hundred duplicates out-of his History of Woodford County towards production of a money for usage inside really works. —-Regarding D. Journal, August, 1941. (Brand new wife out of Gen. Calmes was Age “Betsy” Combs, a brother away from my high-great-grandfather) E. S. (Extracted from the Combs Researcher Anne B. Musser)
J. From inside the 1729,* Thomas Combs, off Tenure [Monmouth Co], Letter
Notes: Marquis CALMES died 1834, Woodford Co., KY was maybe not the husband of Elizabeth Combs (daughter of John & Seth BULLITT Combs, Sr. of Stafford Co VA). Marquis CALMES, husband of Elizabeth Combs, died testate ca 1794 in Frederick Co VA. Nevertheless, presumably he was “somehow kin” to him. Extracted by Researcher Barbara Combs from Teunis Bergen’s 1876 book, The Bergen Family, pp. 422-423 (surname capitalization added):
“George I. BERGEN, b Summer 16th, 1764, bap. October. cuatro, 1767, because of the Rev. Mr. VAN HARLINGEN; d. Feb, 1825; meters. 1789 Rebecca, dau. out-of Courtroom Jonathan Combs, from Middlesex County, Nj. His widow two years once his decease yards. the fresh new Rev. Mr. KENNER, a great Baptist preacher of Virginia, and you will d. when you look at the 1846.”
“The newest ancestor regarding Jonathan Combs, they do say, came from Scotland, on dated vessel Caledonia, which brought the original emigrants in the property of harsh Presbyterianism; they trying to property in the great outdoors nation away from the intolerance from Papal and you may Episcopal electricity and persecution.”
“When you look at the 1679, Francis Combs, an excellent cooper, is actually provided countries inside Newtown, Much time Area [NY], in order to create him to repay indeed there and you will ply their exchange getting the genuine convenience of the fresh new settlement. The guy d. when you look Se pГҐ dette nГҐ at the 1700, and his awesome a few sons, Francis and you can Thomas, paid in Hopewell, Letter. J., having [pounds] fifty, shown lands for the Hempstead [Much time Area, NY] so you’re able to John Combs out of Madnans neck off said city, as per Hempstead records.
“There clearly was a good John Combs out of Eastern Hampton, N. Y., around 1675, a good Daniel Combs inside the Hempstead [Queens Co Ny] in the 1708, a great Richard Combs when you look at the Hempstead when you look at the 1709, and a beneficial Richard Combs inside Jamaica (note: this is element of N. Y. in this perspective, I think) [Queens Co New york]from inside the 1718.
“In the 1777, John Combs are a person in the revolutionary panel from safeguards of new Jersey, and also at an identical several months a great Solomon Combs was a resident from Monmouth County.
“In order to access their fortunes, George I. [BERGEN], his son David, as well as 2 ilies left Nj for the June 1818, having Kentucky, where his brother Margaret along with her husband John VOORHEES, as well as 2 siblings out of his spouse, Rebecca Combs, making use of their husbands, Peter CONOVER and you will Peter COX, next existed; they which have emigrated in 1790, to repay from the Red-colored Stone, close to the expose Wheeling [Kansas Co, WV], then ultima thule. Here they tarried lower than a year. Peter COong the first just who produced their ships and you will rafts wade on the Ohio Lake.
“At the time George We. emigrated, they resided during the Woodford State, Kentucky, contained in this a dozen kilometers out of Lexington [Fayette Co., KY]. Within per year such family intermarried. Old Major CONOVER was a huge landholder and you will respected are rich, in brand new troublesome minutes up coming from inside the Kentucky, and also by old Virginia house claims, the end result are his palace dropped, in which he determined inside 1824, to sell his homestead, as well as his, and you may George I.’s the reason relatives made a decision to make their home within the Indiana. The existing big, their young buck Jonathan Combs CONOVER, who’d partnered Martha, an excellent child off George I., and you will Jonathan Combs BERGEN (young man of George We.), who had hitched Mary Ann, an effective child of your major, and you may George We., constituted the examining people.”