Captain Thomas Robinson’s Heirs

A man named Robinson, an engineer with a ship building company, contacted me the other day. Somehow he found my blog post on my ancestor Martin Tidd documenting his service with Robinson’s Rangers during the American Revolution. The man is a descendant of Captain Thomas Robinson, after whom the unit is named. Hello, I saw [...]

Marvin-Randall-Tidd

Today I found some links I’d never known about before. A woman sent a query to the DAR, which was subseqently published in the DAR magazine, in the March 1986 issue. MARVIN-RANDALL-TIDD: David Randall, 1765-1835, is son of David Randall, 1742-1820 and wife Sarah Ann Marvin, Dec 1748-1822 Kinsman, OH; she dau. of Samuel John Marvin [...]

William Tidd’s File at the National Archives

Every since finding my great-great-great-great-great-great-great uncle’s Revolutionary War pension file on Footnote.com a few years back, I have been meaning to get a hold of it again and then put it somewhere easily accessible. I don’t mean a hard copy, but a digital one. Unfortunately, the document — a Revolutionary War pension file — apparently is only available [...]

The Susquehanna Company Papers

I stopped by the main libraries at UDub (the University of Washington) on Saturday to look at The Susquehanna Company Papers again. It’s been awhile since I’ve looked through this series of books. Some of my Tidd ancestors are included in some of the volumes. The man named Tidd of most interest to me is the [...]

Martin Tidd in Kinsman

I finally got my first hit on “Martin Tidd” as a search phrase for one of my many Google Alerts. Martin is mentioned in a post on a blog about Kinsman, Ohio, where he lived for many years. He is buried in the Old Kinsman Cemetery, although the marker for his grave may be lost. He [...]

Zopher Tidd

Zopher Tidd is a man listed among the “Proprietors of the Five Townships,” a document dated the 17th of June 1770. It was printed in the book A History of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania by Oscar Jewell Harvey and Ernest Gray Smith. Among the original early Wyoming documents now in the possession of the Wyoming Historical [...]

Colonel Zebulon Butler’s Desk

An auction is slated for Tuesday, August 30, 2011 in Plains, Pennsylvania. Some of the items, one in particular of note, relate to the American Revolution and colonial era. Loaded with early Americana and featuring the 18th Century DESK of Colonel Zebulon Butler, who served in the French and Indian Wars, was the military leader [...]

‘The Original Teed Property’

There’s a map, shown above, in a book, Report of the Commission to Locate the Site of the Frontier Forts, Volume One, that shows the location of a house and land once owned by a family with the surname Teed. The two volumes are accessible online in varying forms, including via Google Books and USGenWeb Archives Special [...]

Martin Tidd & Robinson’s Rangers

Commanded by its namesake, Captain Thomas Robinson, Robinson’s Rangers was a citizen militia unit during the American Revolution. My ancestor Martin Tidd is listed as serving in this unit in a document at the Pennsylvania State Archives, some of which are online. (Martin’s brother William also served during the war. William Tidd’s file at the National Archives is nearly 200 [...]

James Hill and His Sister Rebecca

A History of the Tidds of Ohio has material on not only the Tidd family, of course, but also the Hills. It is difficult to know how much of it is accurate. For example, Maryland is mentioned as the home state of the Hill family, but all census records of James Hill record Pennsylvania as his birthplace. But [...]