McMillan, Humphrey-Enos and Bell-Gerow: Notable Connections Research

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McMillan, Humphrey-Enos and Bell-Gerow: Notable Connections Research

Research for the Notable connections and Small world pages on three branches of the ancestry of Lucile McMillan (1905-1996), mother of Frances Fairchild Holbrook: the McMillans of Lochaber and Glen Urquhart; the Adams, Humphrey and Enos families (with the Windsor, Connecticut, families behind the Enoses: Eno, Bissell, Holcombe); and the Bells and Gerows. It builds on McMillan Frost Master Research (5 Oct 2026) and does not repeat what that file already establishes, except where a story is needed for the Notable connections pages.

Date: 8 October 2026 (first edition).

Ratings as in the master research and DATA-FORMAT.md: how we know it, [D] documented (a record, or a published transcript, index or abstract of one), [C] compiled, [I] inferred, [T] tradition; how sure, proven / probable / possible / disproven. Compiled sources alone top out at probable.

Relationships are reckoned from Frances Fairchild Holbrook. Generations: Lucile (mother), Alfred McMillan and Florence Frost (grandparents), William McMillan, Harriet Adams, George W. Frost, Lucy Bell (great-grandparents), Duncan and Mary McMillan, Robert Adams and Caroline Humphrey, William H. Bell (2nd great-grandparents), and so on.

Abbreviations. Humphreys = Frederick Humphreys, The Humphreys Family in America (New York, 1883), vols. 1-2 (archive.org humphreysfamilyi01hump, humphreysfamilyi02hump). Stiles = Henry R. Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, 2 vols. (Hartford, 1891-92) (archive.org historygenealogi01stil, historygenealogi02stil). Union = The History of Union, Conn., founded on material gathered by Rev. Charles Hammond ... compiled by Rev. Harvey M. Lawson (New Haven, 1893) (archive.org historyofunionco01hamm); the archive cites it as "Hammond 1893". Bailey 6 = Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records prior to 1800, Sixth Book (1904) (archive.org cu31924092205867). TGSI 53 = Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 53 (1982-84), "The Urquhart Settlement in Nova Scotia: Manuscripts held by the late Mr I. R. Mackay, submitted by Hugh Barron, 4th May 1984", printing Rev. Dr D. B. Blair's manuscript "Urquhart men in Nova Scotia" (archive.org tgsi-vol-liii-1982-1984). Mackay = William Mackay, Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish (Inverness, 1893) (archive.org urquhartandglen01mackgoog). Bowman = Fred Q. Bowman, 10,000 Vital Records of Western New York, 1809-1850 (1985) (archive.org bwb_P9-DTM-862, lending copy, read as search snippets). FS = FamilySearch; WT = WikiTree (profile IDs given, read through the WikiTree API).

Page numbers were checked against the printed page headers of the scans, not only the OCR.

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What this pass found

The Humphreys are not Michael Humphrey's family, as far as any source shows. Frederick Humphreys (1883) puts Caroline Humphrey's grandfather in a separate section headed "EBENEZER HUMPHREY, OF MASS., AFTERWARD OF WINDHAM COUNTY, CONN. MAY BELONG TO THE CAPT. EBENEZER HUMPHREY FAMILY, OF OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS" (vol. 2, p. 913), and that Oxford family is "Thought to be a Son of Arthur Humphrey, of Woodstock, Ct." (p. 909). Neither Michael Humphrey of Windsor and Simsbury nor Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester comes into it. Ebenezer's parents are unknown. There is no blood link to the archive's Dorchester Humphreys (jonas-humphrey-d1662 and family).
Ebenezer Humphrey's second marriage is now documented: "Ebenezer Humphrey & Lucy Robbins, June 19, 1781," Second Church at Westford, Ashford, Connecticut (Bailey 6, p. 84). Joseph, Caroline's father, was born nine months later, on 16 Mar 1782.
The Enos link is stronger than the master research knew. Hannah Enos's brother Joseph Enos, born at Union in 1779, was "Joseph Enos of Marcellus, N. Y." when he married Chloe Burley in 1805 (Burleigh, Burley or Burleigh Family, 1880, p. 135), and Marcellus is where Joseph Humphrey and Hannah Enos settled after their marriage about 1802 (Humphreys, p. 914). The Enoses go back through Joseph Enos (b. 1721) and James Enos (1679-1762), the one proprietor of Union who settled there, to James Eno and Abigail Bissell of Windsor and Simsbury, and from them to John Bissell of Windsor's ferry, Thomas Holcombe of Dorchester and Windsor, and James Eno, the Windsor barber (d. 1682). These are Windsor Puritan families of the 1630s and 1640s, well recorded in Stiles.
Lucy Bell's grandparents married in 1827: "Bell, John M. of Geneva m 12/3/27 Sarah Giraud of Manchester in Vienna, NY; Thomas Smith, Esq." (Bowman, abstracting the Geneva Gazette of 5 Dec 1827; the Ancestry tree has a clipping of the same notice). The name Gerow is confirmed in its older form, Giraud. Her parents (Daniel A. Gerow and Anna Hammond) remain possible only.
Mary McMillan's mother's family is named, and her grandfather was a Gaelic bard. Rev. Dr D. B. Blair's manuscript, printed in TGSI 53, says "Penuel who married William MacMillan and came to Antigonish, Nova Scotia" was a sister of John MacDougall, the elder at Blue Mountain, Pictou County, and a daughter of John McDougall and Euphemia Bethune of Ailean Mór, Glen Urquhart (pp. 446, 448-449). Mackay (1893) names that elder's father as "John Macdougall (Iain Mac Dhughaill), author of 'Braigh Rusgaich'", a song he calls "one of the most popular songs of the district of Loch Ness" (pp. 415, 570).

What each part depends on

Everything above Caroline Humphrey (Humphrey, Robbins, Enos, Eno, Bissell, Holcombe) depends on Humphreys (1883) naming Caroline's parents as Joseph Humphrey and Hannah Enos. Its informant was Caroline's brother Capt. Jasper Humphrey, and the 1850 census and the Wisconsin records are consistent with it, but no record names Caroline's parents. Probable.
Everything above Hannah Enos depends on her being the Hannah born at Union on 31 May 1781 to Joseph Enos and his third wife Abigail Keyes. Humphreys says "Hannah (daughter of Joseph) Enos, of Tolland, Windham Co., Ct., b. in Aug., 1781"; the History of Union lists the Union Hannah; and her brother Joseph was at Marcellus by 1805. Probable.
Above Joseph Enos (b. 1721) the links are recorded in Windsor vital records as transcribed by Stiles: a single chain of births and marriages, proven (compiled).

Doubtful links that famous kin or notable ancestors would depend on. Read these before using anything below.

All the Enos, Bissell and Holcombe kin (Gifford Pinchot, Gen. Roger Enos, Oliver Ellsworth, the Bissells, Gen. Thomas Holcomb, and the new lines for Richard Gere, Humphrey Bogart, Amelia Earhart and Benjamin Spock) depend on the two probable links above (Caroline to Joseph and Hannah; Hannah to Joseph Enos). They are probable, not proven, and should be labelled that way.
Joseph Enos's mother (Hannah Phelps, m. 1708) is not identified. Stiles says she was a daughter of Lt. Timothy Phelps, but the Phelps genealogy (1899) shows that Hannah married Thomas Phelps in
1. WikiTree makes her Hannah Birge, widow of Benjamin Phelps, which fits her age at death but has no published proof. No famous kin are offered through her (Birge, Watson, Phelps).
James Eno's Walloon origin (baptized 1625 at the French church in Threadneedle Street, London, son of Jean Hennot of Valenciennes) is a modern claim that WikiTree itself calls unproven. Possible.
Sarah Gerow's parents (Daniel A. Gerow and Anna Hammond) and everything above them (Andrew Gerow, the Huguenot Girauds and Sicards of New Rochelle) rest on the Ancestry tree and a family book not seen. Possible. No famous kin are offered through them.
Arthur Humphrey of Woodstock as Ebenezer Humphrey's ancestor: Humphreys' "may belong" only. Possible. Sir Charles Tupper, already on the Notable connections page, descends from Arthur Humphrey (WT Tupper-249), but should not be given a line through this branch.
Penuel MacDougall as Mary McMillan's mother is still probable, not proven: no record names Mary's parents. The bard John MacDougall is one step further and rests on two compiled accounts (Blair's manuscript and Mackay), which agree. Probable at best.

1. Pedigree, link by link

1a. The McMillans and MacDougalls

The master research covers Alfred, William, Duncan and Malcolm McMillan. New here: the Blair manuscript and Mackay on William McMillan, Penuel MacDougall and her family.

Mary McMillan (c. 1819-1872), wife of Duncan, to William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall (Frances's 3rd great-grandparents)

The best account is Rev. Dr Duncan Black Blair's manuscript "Urquhart men in Nova Scotia," written for William Mackay about 1890 and printed in TGSI 53. Blair was minister at Blue Mountain, Pictou County, where Penuel's brother John was an elder.

"William MacMillan, the brother of Ann, wife of Donald Campbell, married Penuel MacDougall, the sister of John MacDougall the elder at Blue Mountain. He emigrated to Nova Scotia from Glenurquhart in 1818, and took up his residence at the South River of Antigonish in the county so called. After his death, his widow with the youngest son Alpine removed to Illinois in the United States. But his eldest son Donald still continues to live at the South River of Antigonish."

TGSI 53, pp. 448-449.
This is the source of Dobson's entry (Dobson cites TGSI 53: 448), now read in full. [C]
Supporting the link to Mary: Duncan and Mary named children Penuel and Alpin (1860 census) [D]; a "Penuel Ann MacMillan," aged 88, was buried at South Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin, in February 1870, near Mary's home at Calamus [C, Find a Grave index]; John McMillan of Calamus, probably Mary's brother, also named children Penuel and Alpin (1850 census) [D].
Against it, or at least not fitting: Blair sends the widow and Alpine to Illinois, not Wisconsin. A minister writing in Nova Scotia fifty years later could easily confuse the two, and the burial at South Beaver Dam is the stronger evidence. Blair names only two sons (Donald, the eldest, and Alpine, the youngest) and no daughters.
Rating: probable [I, from compiled accounts and records of names]. No record names Mary's parents.

William McMillan's sister. Ann MacMillan, "sister of William MacMillan," married Donald Campbell (b. about 1790) when he was eighteen; they emigrated in 1820, settled at Merigomish and then on the Moose River, Pictou County, in a valley "which he called Urquhart, in memory of the place he left in Scotland"; he died 6 Dec 1878 aged 88 (TGSI 53, p. 448) [C]. William's own parents are not named anywhere seen.

Penuel MacDougall to John MacDougall and Euphemia Bethune (Frances's 4th great-grandparents)

Blair, of Penuel's brother:

"John McDougall was the youngest son of John McDougall and Euphemia Bethune, who lived at a place called Ailean mór in Glenurquhart. His eldest brother Duncan McDougall was in the constabulary force in the county of Kirkcudbright and his second brother Alpin came out to Nova Scotia. He had five sisters, viz., Christy who married James Livingstone and came out to this country and settled at Blue Mountain with her family. Penuel who married William MacMillan and came to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Jessy or Mrs Fraser who once lived at Fort Augustus about 1830, and Mary who lived in Nairn, near Inverness, and another sister whose name the writer knows not."

TGSI 53, p. 446.
Blair on the father: "John MacDougall's father was a blacksmith and it seems had some connection with the army or Volunteers; for he lived in Edinburgh with the Regiment to which he belonged and there he died. After his death his widow came to Glenurquhart, their native place, and with her family took up her residence at a place called Ailean Mor, where the youngest son was born, who was called for his father John, the date of his birth being the 15th March 1805." The mother "was a pious, prudent, wise woman, of the family of the Bethunes of the Isle of Skye descended from the Bethunes of Mull and Isla." There were "ten children in the family — five sons and five daughters" (TGSI 53, pp. 446-447). [C]
Mackay independently: "John Macdougall, son of John Macdougall (Iain Mac Dhughaill), author of 'Braigh Rusgaich' (see pp. 415 and 532). John Macdougall emigrated in 1828, and settled at Blue Mountain, where he died, greatly lamented, in 1873" (Mackay, p. 570). Mackay got his Nova Scotia information from Blair and Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair (p. 571), so the two accounts are not fully independent, but Mackay supplies the bard's identity from his own knowledge of the parish (p. 415). [C]
The names fit: Penuel had a brother Alpin and a son Alpin, and the rare name Alpin recurs among Mary McMillan's children and her brother John's. Penuel, born about 1782 by her age at death, fits as an elder daughter of parents whose youngest child was born in 1805.
Rating: probable [C] for Penuel as a daughter of John MacDougall and Euphemia Bethune.
The Bethune ancestry ("descended from the Bethunes of Mull and Isla") is family tradition [T]; no pedigree is given. The Bethunes or Beatons of Mull and Islay were the hereditary physicians of the Lords of the Isles; nothing connects Euphemia to them beyond Blair's sentence. Treat sceptically.

Above Malcolm McMillan of Lochaber: nothing new. The online land papers of Nova Scotia go only to 1809; Malcolm's petition, if any, would be later (see Lookups).

1b. Adams, Humphrey, Robbins

Harriet Ellen Adams to Robert Adams and Caroline Humphrey (great-grandmother; 2nd great-grandparents): proven in the master research. Add: "He was married in 1874 to Emeline, daughter of Robert and Caroline (Humphrey) Adams, natives of New York and early settlers of Columbia Co., Wis., the birth place of Emeline" (History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p. 468, biography of Cyrus Wheeler) [C]. Robert Adams's parents: unknown; nothing found.

Caroline Humphrey to Joseph Humphrey and Hannah Enos (3rd great-grandparents)

"Joseph Humphrey, [4] (Ebenezer) was born in Windham County, Ct., 16 Mch., 1782. He married about 1802, Hannah (daughter of Joseph) Enos, of Tolland, Windham Co., Ct., b. in Aug., 1781, and settled in Marcellus, N. Y. He subsequently resided, successively, in Steuben, Ontario and Chautauqua Counties, N. Y., and from the place last named removed to White Water, Walworth Co., Wis., where he died in 1864, aged 82 years. He was a farmer for many years, Deacon of the Baptist Church, and a man generally respected and beloved. His wife died at White Water, Wis., in 1855, aged 74 years."

"Caroline, b. at Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., 22 Mch., 1814; m. Robert Adams. Res. in Iowa. Children: ... Jerome B., b. in Richmond, Walworth Co., Wis.; served through War of Rebellion; was killed, accidentally, at La Crosse, Wis., about 1884. He was a cool, brave soldier. ... Ellen; m. —. Resides in Iowa. ... Marion; m. —. Resides in Iowa."

Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914.

Informant: "her brother, Captain Jasper, the contributor of this line chiefly" (p. 913). [C, from a brother's information.]
Consistent records: Robert and Caroline at Richmond, Walworth County, in 1850, near Joseph and James G. Humphrey, who settled Richmond township in 1837-39 (master research) [D, C].
Rating: probable. A record naming Caroline's parents (her death record, an obituary, Joseph Humphrey's probate) would make it proven.

Joseph Humphrey to Ebenezer Humphrey and Lucy Robbins (4th great-grandparents)

Marriage: "Ebenezer Humphrey & Lucy Robbins', June 19, 1781" (Bailey 6, p. 84, under Ashford: "The Second Church at Westford, organized ... 1768, furnishes the following marriages," p. 82) [D, published transcript]. Joseph born 16 Mar 1782 (Humphreys) [C].
Humphreys: Ebenezer "according to some accounts, was born in Windham, or Tolland County, Conn., about 1725; and according to others, was born in Massachusetts and removed to Windham, Conn. He married (1) Betsy —. He married (2) about 1780, Lucy (daughter of Joseph) Robbins, born in 1750. She died at Chatauqua, N. Y., in 1835, aged 85 years, having been deaf from her youth. She married (2) — Cheney." Children by the second marriage, "born in Windham Co., Ct.": Joseph (1782) and John (about 1784, later of Pulaski County, Indiana) (vol. 2, p. 913). [C]
Rating: probable [C with a documented marriage].
Lucy Robbins's father, Joseph Robbins: Humphreys says "daughter of Joseph"; WikiTree (Robbins-123) gives "Luce Robbins" born 22 Aug 1750 at Ashford, citing the Barbour index, a daughter of Joseph Robbins (b. 1719, Attleborough, Mass.) and Lucy Cushing. Probable for Joseph as her father (two sources agree); possible for the Attleborough identification and for Lucy Cushing (WikiTree only; not seen).

Ebenezer Humphrey's parents: unknown. See Checked and ruled out for Michael Humphrey, Jonas Humphrey, Arthur Humphrey and the FamilySearch chain.

1c. Enos, Eno, Bissell, Holcombe

Hannah Enos to Joseph Enos and Abigail Keyes (4th great-grandparents)

"Joseph Enos, son of James, married Rachel, daughter of deacon Wm. Ward, July 15, 1746. They had one child, Rachel. The mother died February 24, 1747. Joseph Enos married, second, Elizabeth White, March 7, 1750. She died May 4, 1777. He married, third, Abigail Keyes of Ashford, December 21, 1778. Ch. 1. Rachel, b. February 15, 1747; m. first, Dr. Seth Hovey, second, James Thompson. 2. Joseph, b. September 26, 1779; m. Chloe Burley. 3. Hannah, b. May 31, 1781. 4. James, b. September 26, 1783. 5. Jonathan, b. June 24, 1784."

Union, p. 340.

Hannah's brother: "Chloe, b. 4 May 1777, d. 19 Jan. 1843, m. 15 Sept. 1805 Joseph Enos of Marcellus, N. Y., he b. 2 Sept. 1779, d. 19 Sept. 1852" (Charles Burleigh, The Genealogy of the Burley or Burleigh Family of America, Portland, 1880, p. 135; archive.org genealogyofburle00inburl). [C]
Humphreys: "Hannah (daughter of Joseph) Enos, of Tolland, Windham Co., Ct." Union is in Tolland County. [C]
The fit: the only Hannah born to a Joseph Enos in this area in 1781; her full brother at Marcellus, where she and Joseph Humphrey settled; her age at death (74 in 1855) [C].
Conflict: born 31 May 1781 (Union) or "in Aug., 1781" (Humphreys). The Union town record would settle it.
Rating: probable.
Abigail Keyes "of Ashford" may have been a widow. WikiTree (Chaffee-5047) notes that the Ashford records leave unclear which of two Abigail Chaffees married Ephraim Keyes Jr.; a DNA-based note there argues for Abigail, daughter of Jonathan Chaffee and Abigail Lyon, born 17 Dec 1740. If Joseph Enos's third wife was the widow of Ephraim Keyes Jr., FamilySearch's "Abigail Chaffe" could be her maiden name. The master research's "Disproven" for 'Abigail Chaffe' is too strong: the Union record calls her "Abigail Keyes," which proves her name in 1778, not her birth surname. Maiden name: unknown; Chaffee possible.

Joseph Enos to James Enos and Hannah Phelps (5th great-grandparents)

Birth: "Joseph Enno born on 20 Jan 1721, child of James, in Pinemeadow, Windsor" (Connecticut Vital Records prior to 1850, FS QPQH-YLM2, as quoted on WT Enos-497) [D, index]. Union, p. 339, lists "7. Joseph, b. January 20, 1721" among James's children [C]; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242: "7. Joseph, b. 20 Jan., 1721; prob. the Ens. 2d Co., 5th Regt., 1762; rec'd 100 acres ld. in Vt., 20 June, 1782" [C].
That the Joseph Enos of Union who married three times is this Joseph: Union, p. 340, "Joseph Enos, son of James" [C]. In the 1790 and 1800 censuses Joseph Enos was at Union [D index, WT]. Proven (compiled).

James Enos (1679-1762)

"James Enos was one of the original proprietors of the town of Union and the only one who actually settled in the town. His name is sixth in the list of twelve persons, all from Windsor, to whom the legislature of Connecticut deeded the town of Union. The first ancestor of James Enos in Windsor was James, who came there as early as 1646. ... It was his oldest son James (third) who came to Union. He was born September 23, 1679, and died May 22, 1762. He lived in the south part of town on the hillside between the Matthew Paul place and the one now occupied by Fred Barber. His first wife was Mary Grant, whom he married April 5, 1703. She died March 6, 1704. They had one child, James. He married, second, Hannah Phelps, July 15, 1708. She died July 13, 1760, aged 78."

Union, p. 339.

Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, Fam. 4: "James (Sgt.) (Jas., Jas.), of W. and Union; m. (1) 5 Apl., 1703, Mary (dau. John and gd.-dau. Matthew) Grant, b. 23 Jan., 1675; d. 6 Mch., 1704; (2) 15 July, 1708, Hannah (dau. Lieut. Timo. and Mary Griswold) Phelps, b. 16 Aug., 1684; d. Mch., 1728; he d. 1764. Joseph Eno and Mary Loomis were executors of will of James Eno of Union, died 1764." [C]
His death: 22 May 1762 (Union) or 1764 (Stiles, citing an executorship). Unresolved.
Hannah Phelps: see the Read-this-first note. The Phelps genealogy shows the daughter of Lt. Timothy Phelps (bapt. 16 Aug 1684) "m. Thomas Phelps 1708, child of John and Sarah (Buckland) Phelps," with children born at Poquonock from 1709 (O. S. Phelps and A. T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America, 1899, vol. 1, pp. 111-112) [C]. So Stiles p. 242 is wrong. Stiles himself says elsewhere "Sergt. James Eno m. Hannah Phelps (dau. of Joseph, George)" (vol. 2, p. 594n). WikiTree (Birge-159, Phelps-5409) has her as Hannah Birge, b. 17 June 1682, daughter of John Birge and Hannah Watson (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 75, gives that birth, with no marriage), widow of Benjamin Phelps (a daughter Mary Phelps b. 4 Sept 1706, Poquonock). Union's "died July 13, 1760, aged 78" fits a birth in June 1682 exactly. Her identity: unresolved. Birge is possible.
Link Joseph to James: proven (compiled, with documented birth). Link Joseph to Hannah (Phelps): proven as to the marriage and the birth date of 1721 falling in it; her parentage unknown.

James Enos (1679) to James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell (6th great-grandparents)

Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, Fam. 2: "James (James), m. 26 Dec., 1678 (O. C. R.) Abigail (dau. Samuel and Abigail Holcombe) Bissell (O. C. R.), who was b. 6 July, 1661; d. 19 Apl., 1728; he d. 16 July, 1714; both buried in Old Burying-ground, Simsbury. He was probably the J. who was one of 11 petitioners, 1705, for a grant of land for services in the Swamp Fight, in King Philip's War. Ch.:
1. James, b. 23 Sept., 1679. — O. C. R." (O. C. R. = Windsor Old Church Record.) [C, from records]
James Eno (b. 30 Oct 1651) is listed among the children of James Eno the immigrant (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 241). Proven (compiled).

James Eno (1651) to James Eno (d. 1682) and Anna (Bidwell) (7th great-grandparents)

Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240: "James, came to W. 1646; m. (1) 18 Aug., 1648, Hannah [Anna] ... Bidwell of W. (O. C. R.) ... d. 7 Oct., 1657 (O. C. R.); (2) 5 Aug., 1658, Elizabeth (wid. of Thos.) Holcombe of W.; she d. Oct., 1679; 'bu. the 8th day' (O. C. R.); m. 'by Capt. Newbery,' 29 Apl., 1680 (O. C. R.), (3) Hester (b. Williams, and said to have been the first white ch. b. at Hartford, and wid. of James, s. of Begat) Eggleston of W.; she d. 10 July, 1720 (W. R.); James Eno d. W., 1 July, 1682." [C; the OCR is damaged at the first wife's parentage.]
Anna: "It is extremely likely that the Anna Bidwell who m. Aug. 18, 1648, James Eno, was widow of Richard Bidwell who was buried in Windsor, Dec. 25, 1647. Positive proof has not been seen" (D.L.J., The American Genealogist 10: 60, as quoted on WT Eno-6) [C]. Her maiden name is unknown.
James (1651) was her son: born 1651, during the first marriage. Proven (compiled).
Death date: 1 July 1682 (Stiles), 11 June 1682 (Barbour index, per WT) or 11 July 1682 (the memorial tablet put up by his grandson Samuel Eno, as quoted by H. L. Eno, 1920). Unresolved.
Origin: see Checked and ruled out (Walloon claim, possible).

Abigail Bissell (1661) to Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb (7th great-grandparents)

Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78, Fam. 4: "Samuel (John), m. Abigail (dau. Thos.) Holcomb, 11 June, 1658; ... His father gave him 106 acres, — all of the B. property except that E. of the Great River and that which was sold to Job Drake. He avowed the Half-Way Covenant in W. Ch. 27 Nov., 1659. — O. C. R. He d. 17 May, 1697/8; his wife d. 17 Aug., 1688. Children (O. C. R.): 1. John, b. 5 Apl., ... 1659 ...
1. Abigail, b. 6 July, 1661. ... 4. Mary, b. 15 Sept., 1666. ... 8. Deborah, b. 29 Oct., 1679." [C, from records]. WikiTree gives Samuel's death as 3 Dec 1700; Stiles is preferred.
Proven (compiled).

Samuel Bissell to John Bissell (8th great-grandfather)

Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77: "John, Sr., d. 3 Oct., 1677, æ. 86; his wife d. 21 May, 1641 (O. C. R.). Children:" John (b. England), Thomas (b. England), Mary (b. England; m. Jacob Drake), Samuel, Nathaniel (b. at Windsor) and Joyce (m. Samuel Pinney). [C; the OCR of the children's dates is damaged.] His wife's name is unknown. Proven (compiled).

Abigail Holcomb to Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth (8th great-grandparents)

Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394: "HOLCOMBE, Thomas, early at Dorchester, Mass., where, in May, 1634, he was made freeman; in 1635 sold his ho. and lands to Richard Jones; soon after rem. to W.; in 1639 went to Poq., 4 m. W. of W.; was, in 1639, one of those who rep. W. and Hartford in the forming of the Constitution of the Col. of Conn. ... He d. at W. 7 Sept., 1657; his wid. Elizabeth m. (2) James Enno,
1. Children (all but two eldest b. in W.): 1. Elizabeth, m. 16 Nov., 1654, Josias Ellsworth of W. ... 2. Mary, m. ... George Griswold. 3. Abigail, bp. 6 Jan., 1638/9 (W. Rec., O. C. R.); m. 11 June, 1658, Samuel Bissell of W. 4. Joshua, bp. 27 Sept., 1640. ... 9. Deborah, b. 15 Feb., 1650 (O. C. R.); m. 5 Nov., 1668, Daniel Birge of W." [C, from records]. Elizabeth's maiden name is unknown. Proven (compiled).
A curiosity of the tree: Thomas Holcombe's widow Elizabeth became the second wife of James Eno the barber, so James Eno Jr. (b. 1651) married, in 1678, the granddaughter of his stepmother.

1d. Bell and Gerow

William H. Bell to John M. Bell: proven (1880 census), master research.

John M. Bell's marriage to Sarah Giraud (Gerow) (3rd great-grandparents)

"Bell, John M. of Geneva m 12/3/27 Sarah Giraud of Manchester in Vienna, NY; Thomas Smith, Esq. (3-12/5)"

Bowman, 10,000 Vital Records of Western New York (1985), entry for Bell, John M., read as a full-text snippet of the archive.org lending copy; "(3-12/5)" appears to be Bowman's code for the newspaper and issue date (5 December).

The Ancestry tree attaches a clipping of the same notice: "Bell-Giraud marriage, Geneva, NY Gazette, 5 Dec 1827" (GEDCOM object O55, research/gedcom/ellingwood-family-tree-2026-10-04.ged). So the newspaper is the Geneva Gazette of 5 Dec 1827, and the wedding was 3 Dec 1827. Vienna was the village in the town of Phelps; Geneva, Manchester and Phelps are all in Ontario County.
[D, a published abstract of a newspaper notice.] Proven as to the marriage.
That this John M. Bell is William H. Bell's father, John M. Bell (b. about 1804, N.Y.): the same name and middle initial, the right age, and William born in New York about 1829. Probable [I].
That Sarah was William's mother: married fifteen months or so before his birth. A first wife cannot be ruled out. Probable [I]. The archive's "possible" can be raised to probable.
Sarah's age: "about 1806" in the Ancestry tree; no record seen gives it.

Sarah Giraud to Daniel A. Gerow and Anna Hammond (4th great-grandparents, if right)

The Ancestry tree gives "Daniel A Giraud\Gerow," b. 29 May 1774, Yorktown, Westchester County, d. 16 Jul 1835, and "Anna Hammond," b. 9 Feb 1782, Cortlandtown, d. 4 Jan 1828, citing a screenshot of The Giraud-Gerow Family in America, vols. 1-3, "First four generations in America" (GEDCOM object O7). WikiTree (Giraud-102): "On 1 April 1826 Daniel A. Gerow and his wife Ann of Fishkill sold land to Jacob Griffin," citing the same book, and a death in Dutchess County, 16 Jul 1835. [C]
Nothing seen connects Sarah Giraud "of Manchester" (Ontario County) in 1827 with a Daniel A. Gerow "of Fishkill" (Dutchess County) in 1826. The book may; it has not been seen.
Rating: possible. Keep the names on Sarah's page; no new pages.
Above: Andrew (André) Gerow, b. 27 Aug 1734, bapt. 3 Sept at the French Church, New Rochelle, son of Daniel Giraud and Catherine Sicard; married Anne Wicks; his will of 15 Dec 1808 names children including Daniel; d. 1809, Yorktown (WT Giraud-80, citing the French Church register and the Westchester will) [C]. Possible as Sarah's grandfather.

Anna Hammond's parents: unknown. The Hammond genealogy (Roland Hammond, History and Genealogies of the Hammond Families in America, 1902, vol. 1, pp. 443-448) has the Tarrytown family of Capt. William Hammond (d. 1762) and Col. James Hammond of the 1st Westchester Regiment, but no Anna born in 1782 and no Gerow marriage. Not connected.

2. Notable-ancestor material

Short stories for notable-ancestors.yaml, with suggested groups. All are probable or better, except where marked.

James Eno, the Windsor barber (d. 1682): Frances's 7th great-grandfather (suggested group: court)

He came to Windsor by 1646-48. On 28 Nov 1663 the town granted him "a stray [i.e., a strip, or small, unused piece] of ld." "in the Palizado, to build him a shop upon, to barber in, and he has now built it" (Windsor records, as quoted by Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240) [D, transcribed].
His barber's bowl survived in the family of Eliphalet Eno of Torrington: "of coarse delft, or crockery, of a grayish-white color ... has on one side of its rim a circular indentation, intended to fit around the neck and under the chin of the person being shaved ... The inner face of the bowl is decorated with representations of the various utensils and adjuncts of the barber's trade (viz., scissors, razor, combs, soap, and brush, and the date 1663)." Stiles prints a photograph, "The Eno Shaving Bowl, 1663" (vol. 2, pp. 240-241) [C].
In March 1663/4 "The Church of Christ at Windsor complaynes of James Enoe and Michaell Humphrey, for seuerall things contayned in a paper presented to the Court." The General Court declared "such practises to be offensiue," but remitted their censure "prouided answerable reformation doth followe" (Connecticut Colonial Records 1: 420, as printed in Stiles, vol. 1, p. 193, and Humphreys, vol. 1, p. 104) [D]. The quarrel was over the Windsor church's refusal to baptize the children of those who were not full members.
On 17 Oct 1664 he was one of seven who signed a petition to the General Assembly, "Beeing Proffessors of the Protestant Christian Religion, members of the Church of England," complaining "that wee and ours are not under the Due care of an orthodox Ministry ... that will ... administer to us those ordinances that we stand capable of, as the Baptizeing of our Children," and asking that no law should make them pay for "any Minister ... that will neglect or refuse to Baptise our Children." The signers: "Wm: Pitkin, Michaell Humphrey, John Stedman, James Enno, Robert Reeue, John Mosess, Jonas Westover" (Humphreys, vol. 1, pp. 104-105) [D, printed].
"1665. May 11. Jas. Enno was fined for his wife's fault, in selling cider to the Indians" (Windsor records, as abstracted by Stiles, vol. 1, p. 183) [D, abstracted]. His wife then was Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Holcombe.
In April 1666 he and John Moses, for the town of Windsor, bought from Nassahegan, sachem of Poquonock, a tract of 28,000 acres, and the town granted him Tilton's Marsh for the service (Richardson, The Eno and Enos Family in America, 1973, p. 1, as quoted on WT Eno-6) [C, not seen].
Married three times; died at Windsor in the summer of 1682.

Thomas Holcombe (d. 1657): 8th great-grandfather (suggested group: lead)

Made freeman at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in May 1634; sold his Dorchester house and lands in 1635 and went to Windsor with the Dorchester church; in 1639 settled at Poquonock. Stiles: "was, in 1639, one of those who rep. W. and Hartford in the forming of the Constitution of the Col. of Conn." (vol. 2, p. 394) [C]. (Stiles's claim that he had a hand in the Fundamental Orders of 1639 should be checked against the Connecticut colonial records before it is used as fact.)
Through his daughters he is the ancestor of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth and of the Bissell and Eno kin below.

John Bissell of the Windsor ferry (c. 1591-1677): 8th great-grandfather (suggested group: lead)

"John, the founder of the W. line of Bissells, sett. at W. before 1640 ...; rec'd 1648 or '49, a grant from the Col. Ct., of the monopoly of a ferry across the Conn. River" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77) [C, citing the court grant]. "Bissell's Ferry" kept the name for a century; in King Philip's War "the Bissells had neighbors and their house was fortified and garrisoned" (p. 77) [C].
Died 3 Oct 1677 "æ. 86"; his wife died 21 May 1641 (p. 77).

James Eno (1651-1714) and the Swamp Fight (6th great-grandfather; suggested group: mil, possible)

"He was probably the J. who was one of 11 petitioners, 1705, for a grant of land for services in the Swamp Fight, in King Philip's War" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242) [C]. Possible: Stiles's "probably." The Great Swamp Fight was 19 Dec 1675. Buried in the Old Burying-ground at Simsbury.

Sgt. James Enos, founder of Union (1679-1762): 5th great-grandfather (suggested group: first)

One of twelve Windsor men to whom the Connecticut legislature deeded the town of Union, and "the only one who actually settled in the town" (Union, p. 339) [C]. Quotation above. The family stayed in Union for three generations; his son Joseph lived there all his life.

Joseph Enos of Union (1721-after 1800): 4th great-grandfather (suggested group: mil, possible)

"prob. the Ens. 2d Co., 5th Regt., 1762; rec'd 100 acres ld. in Vt., 20 June, 1782" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242) [C, "prob."]. The 1762 regiments served in the last campaigns of the French and Indian War. His first cousin was Gen. Roger Enos (see Famous kin), who settled Enosburgh, Vermont, in 1780.
Married three times (Union, p. 340). His daughter Hannah, Frances's 3rd great-grandmother, was born when he was sixty.

Joseph Humphrey, Baptist deacon (1782-1864): 3rd great-grandfather (suggested group: lead)

Moved from Connecticut to Marcellus, Danville (Steuben County), Richmond (Ontario County) and Ripley (Chautauqua County), New York, and in 1839 to Richmond township, Walworth County, Wisconsin, where at the first town meeting in 1842 he was elected a supervisor (master research). "Deacon of the Baptist Church, and a man generally respected and beloved" (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914).
Two sons went to sea: Elias "d. at Detroit, Mich., in 1836, æ. 18 years; unmarried; was a seaman," and Capt. Jasper (see Famous kin, close) (p. 914).

John MacDougall, Iain Mac Dhùghaill, the bard of Bunloit: 4th great-grandfather (suggested group: lead; probable)

"'Braigh Rusgaich' — the only song, so far as is known, composed by Iain Mac Dhughaill, Bunloit — has for the last eighty or ninety years continued to be one of the most popular songs of the district of Loch Ness. It was composed in Edinburgh, where the bard died in the early years of the present century, and happily depicts Nature in her pleasantest moods, and gives pathetic expression to his strong desire for the peaceful solitudes of Brae Ruiskich" (Mackay, pp. 415-416) [C]. Mackay prints the Gaelic text as "Oran Bhraigh Rusgaich (By Iain Mac Dhughaill)" (p. 532). Its opening: "Ged is Bochdan mo leabaidh, / Cha'n e cadal tha shùrd orm: / B' annsa bhi suainte am breacan, / 'N inbhir ghlaiceagan Rùsgaich" (OCR corrected). Roughly, he would rather be wrapped in his plaid in the hollows of Rùsgaich; a later verse has him with "mo ghunna fo m' achlais" (my gun under my arm). [Translation ours; a Gaelic speaker should check it before use.]
Blair: a blacksmith with "some connection with the army or Volunteers," who "lived in Edinburgh with the Regiment to which he belonged and there he died"; his widow went home to Glen Urquhart, where the youngest son was born on 15 Mar 1805 (TGSI 53, p. 446) [C].
His son John, elder at Blue Mountain, emigrated in 1828; on his tombstone, "Air chuimhne gu bràth bithidh am fìrean" (TGSI 53, p. 447; Mackay, pp. 570-571) [C]. [Psalm 112:6, "the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance"; our gloss.]

William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall, emigrants of 1818: 3rd great-grandparents (suggested group: first, or more-ancestors "ships")

From Glen Urquhart to Nova Scotia in 1818, to the South River of Antigonish; after William's death Penuel went with her youngest son Alpin to the United States (TGSI 53, pp. 448-449). Penuel died in Wisconsin in February 1870, aged 88 (master research). Mackay lists a William Macmillan among the Urquhart settlers arriving "In 1818, and subsequent years" (p. 570).

From the master research, suited to the page

Duncan McMillan, the Highland emigrant (2nd great-grandfather; group: first): born at Lochaber, Nova Scotia, just after his father and others from Lochaber in Scotland had named the lake; to Calamus, Wisconsin, in 1845; his son Malcolm, 18, mortally wounded at Shiloh; his own account in the 1880 county history (master research, section 8).
Alfred McMillan of McMillan Bros., druggists (grandfather; group: lead): the Tacoma stores, the 1917 raid, the duck hunt and the hung jury (master research, section 2; already on his page).
William H. Bell, carpenter and coroner (2nd great-grandfather): Walworth County coroner, elected four times, 1874-1880 (master research).

3. Famous kin

Fifteen, best-supported first within each shared ancestor. All the Enos, Bissell and Holcombe kin depend on the two probable links described in Read this first (Caroline Humphrey's parents; Hannah Enos's father). None of the shared ancestors has a page yet; until they do, each line needs shared_name and start: caroline-humphrey-1814 with before: listing the steps above her (see Proposed new pages).

Frances's side, from each shared ancestor down (for the before steps):

From James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell (1661-1728): James Enos (1679-1762) > Joseph Enos (1721-after 1800) > Hannah Enos (1781-1855) > Caroline Humphrey (1814-1889) > Harriet Ellen Adams (1848-1926) > Alfred Ross McMillan (1884-1966) > Lucile McMillan (1905-1996) > Frances. (Eight generations.)
From Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb: Abigail Bissell (1661-1728) > the above. (Nine.)
From John Bissell or Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth: Samuel Bissell (d. 1697/8) or Abigail Holcomb (1638/9-1688) > Abigail Bissell > the above. (Ten.)

3.1 Roger Enos (1729-1808): public

Who: Continental Army officer (lieutenant colonel on Arnold's march to Quebec, 1775), later brigadier and major general of the Vermont militia and founder of Enosburgh, Vermont. Wikipedia, "Roger Enos": "a colonial Vermont political and military leader during the American Revolution. In 1775, he took part in Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec, and he later commanded the Vermont Militia as a major general."
Shared ancestors: James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell.
Their line: David Eno (1702-1745) > Roger Enos (1729-1808).
- David, b. Simsbury 12 Aug 1702, "died in the Cape Breton campaign, June, 1745"; children include "Roger (Gen.), b. 1729; d. Oct. 6, 1808" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, Fam. 7) [C].
- Roger: Stiles, vol. 2, pp. 244-245, Fam. 15 [C]; WT Enos-377.
Relationship: first cousin, six times removed, of Frances Fairchild Holbrook. (He was a first cousin of her 4th great-grandfather Joseph Enos.)
Story (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 244): in 1775 he "returned from that exped. with his command, 25 Oct., 1775, and on 1 Dec., 1775, was tried by court-martial on the charge of 'quitting his commanding officer without leave,' and was 'honorably acquitted,' his return being a necessity to preserve his troops from starvation." In 1780 he settled Enosburgh; in 1781 "Brig.-Gen., and placed in command of all the Vermont troops then in service"; he retired to Colchester, Vermont, "with his daughter, Mrs. Gen. Ira Allen," and "was buried at Burlington, Vt., in the same plot as Ethan Allen and Ira Allen." His daughter Jerusha married Ira Allen, a founder of Vermont (p. 245). Ira Allen is an in-law, not kin.

3.2 Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946): public

Who: Wikipedia: "an American forester and politician. He served as the fourth chief of the U.S. Division of Forestry, as the first head of the United States Forest Service, and as the 28th governor of Pennsylvania."
Shared ancestors: James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell.
Their line: David Eno (1702-1745) > Capt. Jonathan Eno (1739-1813) > Salmon Eno (1779-1842) > Amos Richards Eno (1810-1898) > Mary Jane Eno (1838-1914) > Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946).
- Jonathan, son of David: Stiles, vol. 2, p. 245, Fam. 16 ("Jonathan (Capt.) (David, Jas., Jas.) of Sims.; m. 7 Jan., 1764, Mary ... Hart") [C].
- Salmon, son of Jonathan, "b. 13 Dec., 1779": Stiles, vol. 2, p. 245 (Jonathan's children) and p. 246, Fam. 24 [C].
- Amos Richards, son of Salmon, "b. Nov. 1, 1810; m. Lucy Jane (dau. of Hon. Elisha and Lucy Smith) Phelps ... chief partner in the mercantile firm of Eno & Phelps of N. Y. city"; his children include "Mary J." and "William Phelps" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 246) [C].
- Mary Jane Eno (b. Simsbury 23 Sept 1838), wife of James Wallace Pinchot, mother of Gifford: WT Eno-332, Pinchot-8 [C]; his brother Amos Pinchot was named Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (Wikipedia, "Amos Pinchot").
Relationship: fifth cousin, twice removed.
Note: WikiTree shows him descended a second way from Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb, through their daughter Mary Bissell (1666-1740) and her daughter Abigail Pettibone (1706-1787). He was born at Simsbury (WT). His brother Amos Pinchot (1873-1944), progressive reformer, stands in the same place.

3.3 William Phelps Eno (1858-1945): science

Who: Wikipedia: "responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the 'father of traffic safety', despite never having learned to drive a car himself."
Shared ancestors: James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell.
Their line: David Eno > Capt. Jonathan Eno > Salmon Eno > Amos Richards Eno > William Phelps Eno. Sources as for Pinchot; William Phelps is the ninth child named in Stiles, vol. 2, p. 246; WT Eno-433.
Relationship: fourth cousin, three times removed. (Gifford Pinchot's uncle.)

3.4 Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807): public

Who: Wikipedia: "a Founding Father of the United States, attorney, jurist, politician, and diplomat. Ellsworth was a framer of the United States Constitution, United States senator from Connecticut, and the third chief justice of the United States."
Shared ancestors: Thomas Holcombe (d. 1657) and Elizabeth.
Their line: Elizabeth Holcombe (d. 1712) > Capt. Jonathan Ellsworth (1669-1749) > Capt. David Ellsworth (1709-1782) > Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807).
- Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Holcombe, m. 16 Nov 1654 Josias Ellsworth (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394, and p. 210) [C].
- Jonathan, b. 28 June 1669, son of Josias and Elizabeth (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 210) [C].
- "Oliver (Wm. W., Chief-Justice Oliver, Capt. David, Jona., Josias)" (Stiles, vol. 2, Ellsworth Fam. 61), which gives the Chief Justice's descent [C]; WT Ellsworth-583.
Relationship: third cousin, six times removed.

3.5 Wilson S. Bissell (1847-1903): public

Who: 36th Postmaster General of the United States (1893-1895) under Grover Cleveland, later chancellor of the University of Buffalo (Wikipedia, "Wilson S. Bissell": "He was the son of John Bissell, a prominent forwarding merchant in Buffalo").
Shared ancestors: Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb.
Their line: John Bissell (1659-1684) > John Bissell (1682-1771), of Bolton > John Bissell (1717-1759) > John Bissell (1748-1813) > Noah Bissell (1778-1836) > John Bissell (1808-1889) > Wilson Shannon Bissell (1847-1903).
- John, b. 5 Apr 1659, son of Samuel; his inventory, 27 Jan 1684, names a son John, 2 years old (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78) [C].
- The rest: WT Bissell-1142 and ancestors [C, online tree].
Relationship: sixth cousin, twice removed.

3.6 Richard M. Bissell Jr. (1909-1994): public

Who: Wikipedia: "an American Central Intelligence Agency officer responsible for major projects such as the U-2 spy plane and the Bay of Pigs Invasion."
Shared ancestors: Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb.
Their line: John Bissell (1659-1684) > John Bissell (1682-1771) > Ozias Bissell (1731-1822) > Russell Bissell (1756-1807) > George Francis Bissell (1784-1829) > George Francis Bissell (1827-1885)

Richard Mervin Bissell (1862-1941) > Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. (1909-1994).
- First step: Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78. The rest: WT Bissell-636 and ancestors [C].
Relationship: seventh cousin, once removed.

3.7 Daniel Bissell (1754-1824): public

Who: Revolutionary War spy, undercover in the British Army; "Sergeant Daniel Bissell was awarded the Badge of Military Merit by General George Washington in June 1783" (Wikipedia, "Daniel Bissell (spy)": born Windsor 30 Dec 1754; died Richmond, New York, 21 Aug 1824; buried Allens Hill Cemetery; parents Daniel and Elizabeth Bissell).
Shared ancestor: John Bissell (c. 1591-1677). (His wife, who died in 1641, is presumably the mother of both sons; not proven, so not marked half or full.)
Their line: John Bissell Jr. (d. 1693) > Daniel Bissell (1663-1738) > Daniel Bissell (1694-1770)

Daniel Bissell (1724-1814) > Daniel Bissell (1754-1824).
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77: John Jr. "d. at the homestead in W., 1693, and was succeeded there by his son Daniel, b. 1663; he by his s. Daniel, b. 1694; he by his son Daniel, who remained on the homestead until 1790, when he removed to Randolph, Vt." [C]. The last step: WT Bissell-298 [C].
Relationship: fourth cousin, five times removed. (A fourth cousin of Hannah (Enos) Humphrey; see Small world.)

3.8 George H. Bissell (1821-1884): science

Who: Wikipedia: "an entrepreneur and industrialist who is often considered the father of the American oil industry. His company, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil, was the first Petroleum company in America."
Shared ancestor: John Bissell (c. 1591-1677).
Their line: John Bissell Jr. (d. 1693) > Jeremiah Bissell (1677-1755) > Samuel Bissell (1722-1759) > Isaac Bissell (1749-1822) > Isaac Bissell (1779-1834) > George Henry Bissell (1821-1884). WT Bissell-1134 and ancestors [C]. (WikiTree makes Jeremiah a son of John Jr.'s first wife, Isabel Mason, who died in 1665 by Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77; he was presumably by the second wife. This does not affect the relationship.)
Relationship: fifth cousin, four times removed.

3.9 Thomas Holcomb (1879-1965): public

Who: Wikipedia: "the seventeenth Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 to 1943. He was the first Marine to achieve the rank of general"; afterwards U.S. minister to South Africa.
Shared ancestors: Thomas Holcombe (d. 1657) and Elizabeth.
Their line: Joshua Holcomb (1640-1690) > Joshua Holcombe (1672-1727) > Joshua Holcombe (1697-1772) > Hezekiah Holcombe (1725-1794) > Hezekiah Holcomb (1750-1820) > Thomas Holcomb (1779-1865) > Chauncey Pettibone Holcomb (1803-1855) > Thomas Gurnsey Holcomb (1843-1916) > Thomas Holcomb (1879-1965).
- Joshua, "bp. 27 Sept., 1640," son of Thomas (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394; Fam. 2, p. 395) [C]. The rest: WT Holcomb-1440 and ancestors [C].
Relationship: eighth cousin, once removed.

3.10 Richard Gere (b. 1949): stage, already listed; a new line

Shared ancestors: Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb.
Their line: Deborah Bissell (1679-1756) > Noah Pettibone (1714-1791) > Esther Pettibone (1747-1833) > John Alworth (1782-1865) > William Alworth (1813-1893) > Mary Mae Alworth (1848-1933) > Albert William Gere (1889-1967) > Homer George Gere (1922-2023) > Richard Gere (b. 1949).
- Deborah, "b. 29 Oct., 1679," daughter of Samuel (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78) [C]; the rest WT Gere-23 (the archive's existing source for Gere) [C].
Relationship: eighth cousins. (His existing lines, through the Riders and Bartletts, are on the Holbrook side.)

3.11 Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957): stage, already listed; a new line

Shared ancestors: Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth.
Their line: Nathaniel Holcombe (1648-1741) > Margaret Holcomb (1687-1777) > John North (1711-1785) > Esther North (1739-1818) > Jonathan Humphrey (1771-1835) > Harvey Humphrey (1796-1877) > John Perkins Humphrey (1836-1891) > Maud Humphrey (1868-1940) > Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957). Nathaniel, "b. 4 Nov., 1648," son of Thomas (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394) [C]; the rest WT Bogart-6 [C].
Relationship: eighth cousin, once removed.
Note: Bogart's Humphreys are the Simsbury family of Michael Humphrey, not Frances's Humphreys.

3.12 Amelia Earhart (1897-1937): science, already listed; a new line

Shared ancestors: Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth.
Their line: Nathaniel Holcombe (1648-1741) > Hester Sarah Holcombe (1684-1775) > Elizabeth Higley (1724-1774) > Elizabeth Mills (1754-1825) > Gideon Curtiss (1776-1847) > Caroline Abigail Curtiss (1808-1883) > Alfred Gideon Otis (1827-1912) > Amelia Otis (1869-1962) > Amelia Earhart (1897-1937). Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394, for Nathaniel; WT Earhart-1 for the rest [C].
Relationship: eighth cousin, once removed.

3.13 Benjamin Spock (1903-1998): science, already listed; a new line

Shared ancestors: Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth.
Their line: Elizabeth Holcombe (d. 1712) > Lt. John Ellsworth (1671-1720) > Martha Ellsworth (1702-1798) > Nathaniel Stoughton (1746-1815) > Thomas Potwine Stoughton (1789-1855) > Henry Evander Stoughton (1815-1873) > Charles Bradley Stoughton (1841-1898) > Mildred Louise Stoughton (1876-1968) > Benjamin Spock (1903-1998). John, "b. 7, bp. 15 Oct., 1671," son of Josias and Elizabeth (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 210) [C]; the rest WT Spock-2 [C].
Relationship: eighth cousin, once removed. (A kinsman of Oliver Ellsworth through the same marriage.)

3.14 Capt. Jasper Humphrey (1812-1892): close

Who: Great Lakes captain and Wisconsin politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1857) and harbor master of Milwaukee; Wikipedia stub "Jasper Humphrey": "born on March 15, 1812, in Steuben County, New York. On February 13, 1835, he married Sarah Bull. By trade, he was a sailor and a sea captain. On February 2, 1892, Humphrey died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was buried in Richmond, Walworth County, Wisconsin. His former home is located in what is now the Walker's Point Historic District. ... an alderman of Milwaukee in 1854 and 1855. Later, he was a member of the Assembly during the 1857 session. In 1877, he was Harbor Master of the Port of Milwaukee."
Relation: brother of Caroline Humphrey; Frances's great-great-granduncle. sex: male.
Bio (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 915, written with his help): "of a roving disposition; followed a sea-faring life for forty years, and was a successful navigator. He commanded a number of ships at different times, both at sea and on the lakes; was commander of three different steamers, at different times, in the passenger trade between Milwaukee and Grand Haven. ... has held the office of County Supervisor, Alderman three years, and member of the State Legislature; was Vice-President of a Marine and Fire Insurance Company; was, for about three years, Inspector of the Marine Board of Underwriters ... The last office held was that of Harbor Master, at Milwaukee, for five years. He has also been Master of a Masonic lodge. To his interest we are especially indebted for much of the history of this branch of the family."
Depends only on Caroline's parentage (probable).

3.15 Not proposed

Sir Charles Tupper (already listed) descends from Arthur Humphrey of Woodstock (WT Tupper-249: Mehetable Humphrey > Zerviah Watkins > Margery Knowlton > Miriam Lockhart > Charles Tupper). Frances's descent from Arthur is only possible. Do not add.
Ira Allen: married Roger Enos's daughter; in-law of a cousin. Mention on Roger's entry only.
No famous kin found for the McMillans, MacDougalls, Bells or Adamses. The Gerow and Phelps-Birge possibilities are too weak to use.
Checked against this branch's colonial ancestors (Eno, Bissell, Holcombe, Robbins, Watson, Birge, Giraud, Sicard, Arthur Humphrey) through WikiTree, with no shared ancestor found: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft, the Bushes, Emerson, Thoreau, Hemingway, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Bill Nye, Alan Shepard, Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Julia Child, Diana, Princess of Wales, Hal Holbrook. (WikiTree's trees are incomplete; absence there is not proof.)

4. Small world

4.1 Windsor, 1663-64: the barber and the Humphrey (probable). The coordinator's guess that Frances's Humphreys came from Michael Humphrey of Windsor turns out to be wrong, but the two names do meet in Windsor. In March 1663/4 the Windsor church complained to the General Court of "James Enoe and Michaell Humphrey," and in October 1664 James Enno and Michael Humphrey signed the same petition for the baptism of their children (Humphreys, vol. 1, pp. 104-105; Stiles, vol. 1, p. 193). James Eno is Frances's 7th great-grandfather through the Enoses; the Humphreys who married his great-great-great- granddaughter Hannah Enos a century and a half later were a different family, from Ashford.

4.2 Dorchester, 1634-35 (probable on both sides). Thomas Holcombe was made freeman at Dorchester in May 1634 and sold his house there in 1635 before going on to Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394). Jonas Humphrey, tanner, of Wendover, was at Dorchester by 1634 (Savage), and in 1635 the widow Patience Foster arrived with her son Hopestill. Thomas Holcombe is Frances's 8th great-grandfather on her mother's side (through the Enoses and Bissells); Jonas Humphrey and Hopestill Foster are her 9th great-grandfathers on her father's side (through Susanna (Humphrey) White and the Tylers, and through the Fosters and Lows). Their descendants met three hundred years later when Lucile McMillan married Richard Holbrook.

4.3 Two Humphrey families. The name Humphrey comes into Frances's tree twice, from both parents, with no known relation: Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester (father's side, through the Whites of Taunton and Norton) and Ebenezer Humphrey of Ashford (mother's side, through Caroline (Humphrey) Adams).

4.4 Richmond, Ontario County (proven as to places; inference as to acquaintance). Caroline Humphrey was born at Richmond, Ontario County, New York, in 1814, and her brothers and sisters there until 1818 (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914). Daniel Bissell, the Revolutionary spy who received the Badge of Military Merit, died at Richmond in 1824 and is buried at Allens Hill there (Wikipedia). He and Caroline's mother, Hannah (Enos) Humphrey, were fourth cousins, both great-great-great-grandchildren of John Bissell of the Windsor ferry. Whether the families knew each other is not known. Later, Joseph and James G. Humphrey settled Richmond township in Walworth County, Wisconsin, and Jasper Humphrey was buried there; whether it was named for the Richmond they had left is a question for the Walworth histories.

4.5 Crom Pond, Yorktown, Westchester County (possible). In 1763 Isaac Frost and Mary Cock sold their Long Island farm and moved to Crom Pond in Cortlandt Manor (master research); Crompond is in the town of Yorktown. Andrew Gerow lived and died at Yorktown, and his son Daniel A. Gerow was born there in 1774 (Ancestry tree; WT Giraud-80). If the Ancestry tree's Gerow line is right, two of Frances's 5th great-grandfathers, Isaac Frost and Andrew Gerow, lived in the same Westchester neighbourhood in the 1760s and 1770s, and their descendants George W. Frost and Lucy Bell married at Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in 1876. [Possible: Sarah Gerow's parents are not proven.]

4.6 Two brothers, two sisters (proven). The existing "Two brothers, two sisters" story is all Ellingwood. The McMillan side has a third pair: Alfred Ross McMillan married Florence Frost at Spokane in January 1904, and his brother George Emmett McMillan married her sister Dora Belle Frost in July 1905 (master research; Frost Genealogy p. 267). Suggest adding.

4.7 When cousins married (probable). George W. Frost and Lucy Ellen Bell, Frances's great- grandparents, were second cousins, both great-grandchildren of Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett (master research, item 13). Suggest adding to "When cousins married."

4.8 One war, every branch: King Philip's War (possible). The McMillan side can join this story: James Eno (1651-1714) was "probably" one of the eleven men who petitioned in 1705 for land for service in the Great Swamp Fight (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242), the fight in which Ralph Ellinwood also served; and in that war John Bissell's house on the east side of the Connecticut "was fortified and garrisoned" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77).

4.9 Walloons and Huguenots (possible). Philip Delano, a Holbrook-side ancestor, was baptized in the Walloon church at Leiden. Two of Lucile McMillan's lines carry Huguenot or Walloon traditions: James Eno, said (unproven) to be Jacques Hennot of a Valenciennes family, baptized at the French church in Threadneedle Street, London, in 1625; and the Girauds of New Rochelle, if Sarah Gerow was of that family (possible). Both are too weak for a story yet.

4.10 A Duncan who married a Mary McMillan. Duncan McMillan's wife was born a McMillan too; there is no evidence the two families were related, and in Lochaber and Glen Urquhart the name was common.

Windsor and Simsbury in the other lines. A search of people/ for Windsor, Simsbury, Eno, Bissell, Holcomb, Birge, Phelps, Robbins, Keyes, Gerow, Giraud and Hammond found no shared ancestors in the archive's other lines. (The only Windsor is Windsor, Vermont, on the Chapin side; the Keyes on the Ginn side is a different family; Hammond appears only as a Sandwich officer of 1676.)

5. Proposed new pages

Only ancestors at probable or better. Dates as the sources give them. "Frances's" relationship in brackets. Where a fact conflicts, both readings are given; leave the date out of the page rather than pick.

McMillan side

William McMillan: William McMillan [3rd great-grandfather]

sex: male
born: leave out (FamilySearch's christening at Urquhart, 6 Apr 1786, unverified; master research). Place: Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire [C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 449).
died: leave out; before his widow left for the United States (TGSI 53, p. 449). Place: probably South River, Antigonish County [I, possible]; leave out.
father/mother: unknown. A sister Ann married Donald Campbell (TGSI 53, p. 448).
spouse: Penuel MacDougall [C, probable] (TGSI 53, pp. 446, 448-449). Marriage date and place unknown.
note: "He emigrated to Nova Scotia from Glenurquhart in 1818, and took up his residence at the South River of Antigonish" (TGSI 53, p. 449) [C].
Link to mary-mcmillan-1819: inferred, probable (the master research's argument plus this source). The page would replace the name: on Mary's page.

Penuel MacDougall: Penuel MacDougall [3rd great-grandmother]

sex: female
born: c. 1782 (aged 88 at death) [C, Find a Grave index, probable]; Glen Urquhart [C, probable].
died: Feb 1870, buried South Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin [C, Find a Grave index "Penuel Ann MacMillan," FS 1:1:QVVP-RRYP; probable]. Note Blair's "removed to Illinois."
father: name John MacDougall (or the bard's page, below) [C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 446; Mackay, p. 570).
mother: name Euphemia Bethune [C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 446).
aka: Penuel McMillan, Penuel Ann MacMillan.

John MacDougall: John MacDougall, Iain Mac Dhùghaill [4th great-grandfather]

sex: male
born: leave out. Of Bunloit, Glen Urquhart (Mackay, p. 415) [C].
died: in Edinburgh, before 15 Mar 1805 (his youngest son, named for him, was born after his death) [C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 446; Mackay, p. 415, "in the early years of the present century"). The ID year is the latest possible year of death, not a recorded one; if the archive prefers, use a -fl form once a record is found.
spouse: Euphemia Bethune [C, probable].
note: blacksmith with "some connection with the army or Volunteers" (Blair); author of the song "Bràigh Rùsgaich" (Mackay, pp. 415-416, 532). Children (Blair): Duncan, Alpin, Christy (m. James Livingstone), Penuel (m. William MacMillan), Jessy (Mrs Fraser), Mary, John (b. 15 Mar 1805, d. 1 July 1873), and others; ten in all.
Rating for the Penuel link: probable. Could be held as a name: on Penuel's page instead of a page of his own, if the archive wants to wait for the Urquhart parish register.

Euphemia Bethune: Euphemia Bethune [4th great-grandmother]

sex: female; widow living at Ailean Mór, Glen Urquhart, in March 1805 (TGSI 53, p. 446) [C, probable]. Leave out birth and death. The Bethune-of-Skye descent is tradition [T].

Humphrey, Robbins and Enos side

Joseph Humphrey: Joseph Humphrey [3rd great-grandfather]

sex: male
born: 16 Mar 1782, Windham County, Connecticut [C, probable] (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914).
died: 1864, Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin, "aged 82 years" (Humphreys, p. 914) [C, possible]; FamilySearch has 6 Sept 1866. Unresolved; record the year as "1864 or 1866."
father: ebenezer-humphrey-fl1781 [C, probable] (Humphreys, pp. 913-914). mother: lucy-robbins-1750 [C, probable; marriage documented June 1781] (Humphreys; Bailey 6, p. 84).
spouse: hannah-enos-1781; married "about 1802" (Humphreys, p. 914) [C]; place not stated (they settled at Marcellus, N.Y.).
note: Marcellus, Danville (Steuben Co.), Richmond (Ontario Co.), Ripley (Chautauqua Co.); Richmond township, Walworth Co., Wis., 1839; supervisor 1842 (History of Walworth County, 1882, pp. 776-777); Baptist deacon.
Then caroline-humphrey-1814's father becomes id:, basis compiled, probable.

Hannah Enos: Hannah Enos [3rd great-grandmother]

sex: female
born: 31 May 1781, Union, Tolland County, Connecticut (Union, p. 340) [C, probable]; Humphreys has "Aug., 1781" (p. 914). Give the Union date with the conflict in a note.
died: 1855, Whitewater, Wisconsin, "aged 74 years" (Humphreys, p. 914) [C, probable].
father: joseph-enos-1721 [C, probable] (Union, p. 340; Humphreys, p. 914; Burleigh 1880, p. 135 for her brother at Marcellus). mother: abigail-keyes-fl1778 [C, probable] (Union, p. 340).
aka: Hannah Humphrey.

Ebenezer Humphrey: Ebenezer Humphrey [4th great-grandfather]

sex: male
born: leave out ("about 1725" by "some accounts," Humphreys, p. 913, is too vague; FamilySearch's 1739 Ashford unsupported).
died: leave out.
parents: unknown (see Checked and ruled out).
spouses: (1) Betsy — [C] (Humphreys, p. 913); (2) lucy-robbins-1750, married 19 June 1781, Ashford, Connecticut (Second Church at Westford) [D, proven] (Bailey 6, p. 84).
note: of Windham County; "There is a tradition that Ebenezer Humphrey had brothers in Massachusetts" (p. 913). Children by Lucy: Joseph (1782), John (about 1784; later Pulaski Co., Ind.); by Betsy: Ebenezer (removed to Attica, Genesee Co., N.Y.) and Betsey (m. Kingsbury).

Lucy Robbins: Lucy Robbins [4th great-grandmother]

sex: female
born: 1750 (Humphreys, p. 913) [C, probable]; 22 Aug 1750, Ashford, per the Barbour index as cited on WT Robbins-123 [not seen; possible until seen].
died: 1835, Chautauqua County, N.Y., "aged 85 years, having been deaf from her youth" (Humphreys, p.
1. [C, probable].
father: name Joseph Robbins [C, probable] (Humphreys; WikiTree). mother: leave out (WikiTree's Lucy Cushing, possible, as a note).
spouses: ebenezer-humphrey-fl1781 (above); (2) — Cheney [C] (Humphreys).

Joseph Enos: Joseph Enos [4th great-grandfather]

sex: male
born: 20 Jan 1721, Windsor (Pine Meadow), Connecticut [D, index, proven] (Connecticut Vital Records prior to 1850, FS QPQH-YLM2, as quoted on WT Enos-497; Union, p. 339; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242).
died: after 1800, Union [D index for the 1800 census, probable]; leave the date out.
father: james-enos-1679 [C, proven] (Union, pp. 339-340; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242). mother: name Hannah Phelps [C, proven as wife of James at the time]; identity unknown.
spouses: (1) Rachel Ward, daughter of Deacon William Ward, 15 July 1746; she d. 24 Feb 1747; (2) Elizabeth White, 7 Mar 1750; she d. 4 May 1777 (WT: widow of Ebenezer White of Attleborough; unverified); (3) abigail-keyes-fl1778, 21 Dec 1778 (all Union, p. 340) [C, proven (compiled)]. Place of the third marriage not stated; Union by implication.
note: "prob. the Ens. 2d Co., 5th Regt., 1762" (Stiles) [C, possible].
aka: Joseph Eno.

Abigail Keyes: Abigail Keyes [4th great-grandmother]

sex: female. "Abigail Keyes of Ashford," married Joseph Enos 21 Dec 1778 (Union, p. 340) [C, proven]. Maiden name unknown: possibly the widow of Ephraim Keyes Jr., born Chaffee (WT Chaffee-5047; possible). Leave out birth and death.

James Enos: James Enos [5th great-grandfather]

sex: male; aka James Eno, Sgt. James Eno.
born: 23 Sept 1679, Windsor, Connecticut (Union, p. 339; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, "O. C. R.") [C from record, proven].
died: 22 May 1762, Union (Union, p. 339) or 1764 (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242). Unresolved; leave out or give both.
father: james-eno-1651 [C, proven]; mother: abigail-bissell-1661 [C, proven] (Stiles, p. 242).
spouses: (1) Mary Grant, 5 Apr 1703; she d. 6 Mar 1704 (Union; Stiles: "dau. John and gd.-dau. Matthew Grant, b. 23 Jan., 1675"); (2) Hannah Phelps, 15 July 1708 (Union; Stiles) [C, proven as to the marriages].
note: one of the twelve Windsor proprietors of Union and the only one to settle there (Union, p. 339).
Hannah Phelps: suggest name: only until identified. If the archive wants a page: hannah-phelps-1682 (by her age at death, Union), with the Birge and Phelps identifications as alternatives.

James Eno: James Eno [6th great-grandfather]

sex: male
born: 30 Oct 1651, Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 241) [C from record, proven].
died: 16 July 1714 (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242) [C, proven]; buried Old Burying-ground, Simsbury.
father: james-eno-d1682 [C, proven]; mother: name Anna (Bidwell) [C, probable].
spouse: abigail-bissell-1661, married 26 Dec 1678 (O. C. R.), Windsor by implication (Stiles, p.
1. [C, proven].
note: probably one of the 1705 Swamp Fight petitioners (possible).

Abigail Bissell: Abigail Bissell [6th great-grandmother]

born: 6 July 1661, Windsor; died: 19 Apr 1728; buried Simsbury (Stiles, vol. 2, pp. 78, 242) [C, proven].
father: samuel-bissell-fl1658; mother: abigail-holcomb-1638 (Stiles, p. 242) [C, proven].

James Eno: James Eno, the barber [7th great-grandfather]

sex: male; aka James Enno, James Ennoe; (possibly Jacques Hennot).
born: leave out (bapt. 21 Aug 1625, Threadneedle Street, London, if he is Jacques Hennot: possible).
died: 1682, Windsor: 1 July (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240), 11 June (Barbour index, per WT) or 11 July (memorial tablet, per H. L. Eno 1920). Give the year only, with the three readings in a note.
spouses: (1) Anna, probably widow of Richard Bidwell, 18 Aug 1648, Windsor (Windsor church record, per Stiles; TAG 10: 60) [C, proven]; she d. 7 Oct 1657. (2) Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Holcombe, 5 Aug 1658 [C, proven]; she d. Oct 1679. (3) Hester (Williams) Eggleston, widow of James Eggleston, 29 Apr 1680 [C, proven]; she d. 10 July 1720.
note: the barber's shop "in the Palizado" (1663), the shaving bowl, the 1663/4 complaint and 1664 petition with Michael Humphrey, the cider fine of 1665 (see Notable-ancestor material).
Anna: name: only on James (1651)'s page, or anna-bidwell-d1657 if a page is wanted (maiden name unknown).

Samuel Bissell: Samuel Bissell [7th great-grandfather]

born: leave out (WikiTree's 1636 unsupported). died: 17 May 1697/8 (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78) [C, probable]; WT has 3 Dec 1700. Give Stiles's date with the conflict.
father: john-bissell-1591 [C, proven]. mother: name unknown (John's wife, d. 21 May 1641).
spouse: abigail-holcomb-1638, married 11 June 1658 (Stiles, p. 78) [C, proven].

Abigail Holcomb: Abigail Holcomb [7th great-grandmother]

born: bapt. 6 Jan 1638/9, Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394: "bp. 6 Jan., 1638/9 (W. Rec., O. C. R.)") [C from record, proven]. (ID year 1638 for the Old Style year; 1639 also defensible.)
died: 17 Aug 1688 (Stiles, p. 78) [C, proven].
father: thomas-holcombe-d1657; mother: elizabeth-holcombe-d1679 [C, proven].

John Bissell: John Bissell [8th great-grandfather]

born: c. 1591, England (aged 86 at death) [C, probable].
died: 3 Oct 1677, Windsor, "æ. 86" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77) [C, proven].
spouse: unnamed; she d. 21 May 1641 (O. C. R.). No page for her.
note: ferry monopoly 1648/9.

Thomas Holcombe: Thomas Holcombe [8th great-grandfather]

born: leave out.
died: 7 Sept 1657, Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394) [C, proven].
spouse: elizabeth-holcombe-d1679; marriage date and place unknown.
note: freeman at Dorchester May 1634; Windsor; Poquonock 1639.

Elizabeth Holcombe: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Holcombe and James Eno [8th great-grandmother]

Maiden name unknown; recorded as Holcombe. died: Oct 1679, "bu. the 8th day" (Windsor church record, per Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240) [C, proven]. Second marriage to james-eno-d1682 recorded on his page.

Bell side

No new pages. Changes to existing pages are under Conflicts: the 1827 marriage on john-bell-1805, and Sarah Gerow's link to William raised to probable.

6. Conflicts with the archive's existing pages

sarah-gerow-1806: "As the Ancestry tree has her. No record is attached." The Ancestry tree does attach a record, a clipping of the Geneva Gazette marriage notice of 5 Dec 1827 (GEDCOM object O55), and Bowman abstracts the same notice: John M. Bell of Geneva married Sarah Giraud of Manchester, 3 Dec 1827, at Vienna (Phelps), Ontario County. Add the marriage (on john-bell-1805, whose line it is) and the alias "Sarah Giraud."
william-bell-1829: mother "compiled, possible." The marriage makes Sarah probable as his mother.
john-bell-1805: the ID year is 1805, the census age gives c. 1804, and the page's "Ancestry tree has Geneva, Ontario County" as a birthplace. The 1827 notice gives Geneva as his residence, not his birthplace.
caroline-humphrey-1814, mother note: "Born 31 May 1781, Union, Conn." Humphreys gives "b. in Aug., 1781." Both should be shown.
caroline-humphrey-1814, mother note: "daughter of Joseph Enos and his third wife Abigail Keyes of Ashford (not 'Abigail Chaffee')", and the master research's "FS 'Abigail Chaffe' Disproven." Keyes may be her married name; the Chaffee claim is unproven, not disproven.
The Humphreys' origin. Nothing in the archive pages says so, but the working assumption (in the brief for this pass) that the Humphreys were Michael Humphrey's Windsor-Simsbury family is not what Humphreys (1883) says (see 1b and Checked and ruled out).
mary-mcmillan-1819, mother note: "Probably the 'Penuel Ann MacMillan' who died in February 1870, aged 88, buried at South Beaver Dam." Blair says the widow "with the youngest son Alpine removed to Illinois." Wisconsin is probably right, but the note should mention Blair.
mary-mcmillan-1819, father note: says "to Pictou in 1818, settled at South River, Antigonish" from Dobson. Blair, Dobson's source, says "emigrated to Nova Scotia from Glenurquhart in 1818, and took up his residence at the South River of Antigonish" (no mention of Pictou); Mackay lists him among settlers of the Pictou Urquhart Settlement "In 1818, and subsequent years." Minor.
The master research, item 5 and section 9, cites Dobson only. The source is now read in full: TGSI 53, pp. 446-449. The master research's FamilySearch "Penuel's son John (b. 1814)" and the Urquhart christenings 1811-1816 can be checked against Blair's "eldest son Donald" and "youngest son Alpine."
lucille-mcmillan-1905 says she was "the only child of Alfred McMillan"; alfred-mcmillan-1884 has "Alice McMillan," 2, a daughter in the 1930 census. Not this branch's question, but the two pages disagree.
Collateral, for future pages: James Enos (1679)'s death, 22 May 1762 (Union) or 1764 (Stiles); Joseph Enos Jr.'s birth, 26 Sept 1779 (Union) or 2 Sept 1779 (Burleigh); James Eno the barber's death, 1 July, 11 June or 11 July 1682; Samuel Bissell's death, 17 May 1697/8 (Stiles) or 3 Dec 1700 (WikiTree); Hannah Phelps's parentage (four versions).

7. Lookups

Each says what it would settle. "FS" = needs a FamilySearch login; "Ancestry" = needs Ancestry.

Union, Conn., town records (Barbour Collection, Union; FS/Ancestry): the 1778 Enos-Keyes marriage (does it say "widow"?) and Hannah Enos's birth (31 May or Aug 1781). Settles Abigail's status and Hannah's birth date.
Joseph Enos's probate (Stafford probate district, Connecticut State Library; FS images): if he died after 1800 leaving an estate, a distribution naming "Hannah Humphrey" would make Hannah's link proven.
Barbour Collection, Ashford (FS/Ancestry): "Luce" Robbins's birth, 22 Aug 1750; Ebenezer Humphrey's first marriage and children; Joseph Humphrey's birth in 1782 (if recorded); Ephraim Keyes Jr.'s death and widow. Settles Lucy's parents and may name Ebenezer's parents.
Ashford and Pomfret probate for Ebenezer Humphrey, and Connecticut Revolutionary War rolls for an Ebenezer Humphrey of Ashford.
1850 census, Walworth County (FS): Joseph Humphrey, about 68, and Hannah, about 69, born Connecticut, near Robert Adams. Supports the Humphreys account with a record.
Joseph Humphrey's death and burial (Whitewater, 1864 or 1866; Walworth County death records, gravestone): settles the year.
Robert Adams (Iowa death record 1909; obituary in the Mason City or Plymouth papers; Iowa state censuses of 1885, 1895, 1905; his marriage to Caroline Humphrey, probably Walworth or Columbia County, 1840s): his parents and birthplace in New York.
Jerome B. Adams: Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers and his death at La Crosse "about 1884."
The Geneva Gazette, 5 Dec 1827 (NYS Historic Newspapers, blocked from here; or the Geneva Historical Society): the full notice.
1830 and 1840 censuses, Ontario and Cattaraugus counties (FS): John M. Bell's household; Girauds or Gerows at Manchester, Ontario County, in 1820-1830. Would show where Sarah came from.
The Giraud/Gerow Family in America, vols. 1-3 (FamilySearch Books or a library): what links Sarah to Daniel A. Gerow. Also Daniel A. Gerow's probate (Dutchess County, 1835) and Andrew Gerow's will (Westchester, proved 1809).
Anna Hammond (b. 1782, Cortlandt): Westchester church and probate records.
ScotlandsPeople, Urquhart and Glenmoriston Old Parish Registers: the marriage of William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall (before 1811) and their children's baptisms; the baptisms of John MacDougall's children (Penuel about 1782; John 15 Mar 1805) and his marriage to Euphemia Bethune; his burial in Edinburgh (about 1800-1805). Would raise the MacDougall links to proven or disprove them. Also William McMillan's parents.
Nova Scotia Archives, RG 20 Series A, land petitions after 1809 (on site or microfilm): William McMillan at South River (after 1818) and Malcolm McMillan at Lochaber (about 1810). Petitions often give origin and year of arrival. The online land papers stop in 1809; one Antigonish County petition of 1808 is by a Donald McMillan (Land Papers ID 1705), relationship unknown.
Dodge County, Wisconsin: Penuel McMillan's death (1870 mortality schedule; South Beaver Dam gravestone) and whether an Alpin McMillan lived with her; settles Blair's "Illinois."
Douglas Richardson, The Eno and Enos Family in America (1973, 1985): James Eno's second wife Hannah Phelps (Birge?); the 1666 land purchase; the Walloon origin.
Connecticut colonial records: the 1705 Swamp Fight petition (is James Eno on it?); Joseph Eno's 1762 commission; the 1639 constitution and Thomas Holcombe.
Rankin (1929): borrow the archive.org copy for exact pages (master research item).

8. Checked and ruled out

Michael Humphrey of Windsor and Simsbury as the Humphreys' ancestor: not supported. Humphreys (1883), the book that treats both families, gives Michael's descendants at length and puts Ebenezer Humphrey of Windham County in a separate section, "MAY BELONG TO THE CAPT. EBENEZER HUMPHREY FAMILY, OF OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS" (vol. 2, p. 913). No descent from Michael found. (Michael does appear in the family story, as James Eno's co-petitioner; see Small world.)
Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester: no connection found. Humphreys treats him as a third, separate immigrant family (vol. 2, pp. 839 ff., by Gilbert Nash). The archive's Dorchester Humphreys are on the Low side; the Ashford Humphreys are on the McMillan side.
Arthur Humphrey of Woodstock and Ashford: possible only. Humphreys: the Oxford Ebenezer (b. about 1691) was "Thought to be a Son of Arthur Humphrey, of Woodstock, Ct." (p. 909), and Frances's Ebenezer "may belong" to that Oxford family (p. 913). Arthur's family helped found Ashford, where Ebenezer married in 1781, so a connection is plausible. But WikiTree lists no Ebenezer among the children of Arthur's sons Samuel (b. 1711) and John (b. 1702), and FamilySearch's Ebenezer "b. 1739 Ashford," son of Samuel, has no source (master research). Not enough for a page or for Sir Charles Tupper.
Hannah Phelps as daughter of Lt. Timothy Phelps (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242): disproven. That Hannah married Thomas Phelps in 1708 and had children by him from 1709 (Phelps Family of America, 1899, vol. 1, pp. 111-112). Her other identifications (daughter of Joseph Phelps; Hannah Birge, widow of Benjamin Phelps) are unproven.
"Abigail Chaffe" (FamilySearch) as Hannah Enos's mother: not disproven (see Conflicts, item 5).
James Eno as Jacques Hennot, son of Jean Hennot of Valenciennes: possible only. WikiTree's own research note: "I have found no document that 'proves' James' parents ... there was at least one family around Lincoln with the last name of Eno around 1600. And there is a Jacques Hennot having a child in London in 1663, when our Jacques was 38." Stiles (vol. 2, p. 240) called the French tradition "worthless unless the tradition was written down by some one early in the 18th century." Treat sceptically.
The Bethunes of Skye, Mull and Islay behind Euphemia Bethune: tradition only (Blair). Do not connect to the Beaton physicians or to later Bethunes (Norman Bethune and others).
John MacDougall, M.P. for Pictou, named by Blair and Mackay: grandson of a different Roderick MacDougall of Glen Urquhart, whose daughter married Penuel's brother John. No blood kinship to Frances known. Unrelated.
Daniel Hammond of the Truelove, 1635: the Hammond genealogy (1902, p. 443) makes him a conjectural ancestor of the Tarrytown Hammonds ("there must be one generation of which we have no record"). Nothing connects Anna Hammond to that family. (The Truelove is Ralph Ellinwood's ship, which makes the claim tempting.) Unrelated as far as known.
"William Macmillan" among the Urquhart arrivals of 1801-1803 (Mackay, p. 570): a different man; Blair dates Penuel's husband's emigration to 1818.
Finlay McMillan and John McMillan of the East River of Pictou (Sinclair's manuscript, TGSI 53, p. 455): Glen Urquhart men of 1784 and 1801; no known relation to William McMillan of South River.
Elizabeth White, Joseph Enos's second wife, said by WikiTree to be the widow of Ebenezer White of Attleborough: not found in Lothrop's Nicholas White Family (1902), so no link to the archive's Whites of Taunton and Norton. She is not Frances's ancestor in any case.
Gen. Leonard T. Gerow (V Corps, Omaha Beach) and other Gerows: not checked further, since Sarah Gerow's parentage is only possible.

Sources read in this pass

Archive.org (full text read unless noted):

Frederick Humphreys, The Humphreys Family in America (1883), vol. 1, pp. 104-105; vol. 2, pp. 909-915. humphreysfamilyi01hump, humphreysfamilyi02hump.
The History of Union, Conn. (Hammond, comp. Lawson, 1893), pp. 339-340. historyofunionco01hamm.
Henry R. Stiles, History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, vol. 1 (1891), pp. 183, 193; vol. 2 (1892), pp. 74-75 (Birge), 76-78 (Bissell), 210 (Ellsworth), 240-246 (Eno), 394-395 (Holcombe), 594n (Phelps). historygenealogi01stil, historygenealogi02stil.
Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages, Sixth Book (1904), p. 84. cu31924092205867.
Charles Burleigh, The Genealogy of the Burley or Burleigh Family of America (1880), p. 135. genealogyofburle00inburl.
O. S. Phelps and A. T. Servin, The Phelps Family of America (1899), vol. 1, pp. 111-112. phelpsfamilyofam01phel.
Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 53 (1982-84), "The Urquhart Settlement in Nova Scotia," pp. 443-456 (Blair and Sinclair manuscripts). tgsi-vol-liii-1982-1984.
William Mackay, Urquhart and Glenmoriston (1893), pp. 415-416, 532, 570-571. urquhartandglen01mackgoog.
History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa (1884), p. 468. historyofmitchel00unio.
Roland Hammond, History and Genealogies of the Hammond Families in America, vol. 1 (1902), pp. 443-448. historygenealogi0001fred.
George Lothrop, The Nicholas White Family (1902), searched for Enos. nicholaswhitefa00loth.
Fred Q. Bowman, 10,000 Vital Records of Western New York (1985), search snippets only. bwb_P9-DTM-862.

WikiTree (API, compiled; used for steps marked WT): Enos-497, Eno-21, Eno-22, Eno-6, Birge-159, Phelps-5409, Robbins-123, Chaffee-5047, Humphrey-1283, Humphrey-1654, Humphrey-1320, Giraud-80, Giraud-102, Enos-377, Eno-433, Eno-211, Eno-332, Pinchot-8, Ellsworth-583, Bissell-298, Bissell-1134, Bissell-1142, Bissell-636, Holcomb-1440, Gere-23, Bogart-6, Earhart-1, Spock-2, Tupper-249.

Wikipedia (summaries and page text): Roger Enos; Gifford Pinchot; Amos Pinchot; William Phelps Eno; Oliver Ellsworth; Wilson S. Bissell; Richard M. Bissell Jr.; Daniel Bissell (spy); George Bissell (industrialist); Thomas Holcomb; Jasper Humphrey.

The archive's own files: research/gedcom/ellingwood-family-tree-2026-10-04.ged (Bell, Gerow, Hammond entries and objects O7, O55); the people pages for this branch; connections/*.yaml.

Searched without result: NYS Historic Newspapers (blocked by a browser check); Nova Scotia land papers after 1809 (not online); Rankin's text on Malcolm McMillan's family (lending copy, snippets only); the Glasgow Colonial Society's 1826 Lochaber letter (lending copy); The Giraud-Gerow Family in America (not online).

# McMillan, Humphrey-Enos and Bell-Gerow: Notable Connections Research
Research for the Notable connections and Small world pages on three branches of the ancestry of
Lucile McMillan (1905-1996), mother of Frances Fairchild Holbrook: the McMillans of Lochaber and
Glen Urquhart; the Adams, Humphrey and Enos families (with the Windsor, Connecticut, families behind
the Enoses: Eno, Bissell, Holcombe); and the Bells and Gerows. It builds on
`research/mcmillan/McMillan_Frost_Master_Research.md` (5 Oct 2026) and does not repeat what that
file already establishes, except where a story is needed for the Notable connections pages.
**Date:** 8 October 2026 (first edition).
**Ratings** as in the master research and `DATA-FORMAT.md`: how we know it, **[D]** documented (a
record, or a published transcript, index or abstract of one), **[C]** compiled, **[I]** inferred,
**[T]** tradition; how sure, **proven / probable / possible / disproven**. Compiled sources alone top
out at probable.
**Relationships** are reckoned from Frances Fairchild Holbrook. Generations: Lucile (mother), Alfred
McMillan and Florence Frost (grandparents), William McMillan, Harriet Adams, George W. Frost, Lucy
Bell (great-grandparents), Duncan and Mary McMillan, Robert Adams and Caroline Humphrey, William H.
Bell (2nd great-grandparents), and so on.
**Abbreviations.** *Humphreys* = Frederick Humphreys, *The Humphreys Family in America* (New York,
1883), vols. 1-2 (archive.org `humphreysfamilyi01hump`, `humphreysfamilyi02hump`). *Stiles* = Henry
R. Stiles, *The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut*, 2 vols. (Hartford, 1891-92)
(archive.org `historygenealogi01stil`, `historygenealogi02stil`). *Union* = *The History of Union,
Conn., founded on material gathered by Rev. Charles Hammond ... compiled by Rev. Harvey M. Lawson*
(New Haven, 1893) (archive.org `historyofunionco01hamm`); the archive cites it as "Hammond 1893".
*Bailey 6* = Frederic W. Bailey, *Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records
prior to 1800*, Sixth Book (1904) (archive.org `cu31924092205867`). *TGSI 53* = *Transactions of the
Gaelic Society of Inverness* 53 (1982-84), "The Urquhart Settlement in Nova Scotia: Manuscripts held
by the late Mr I. R. Mackay, submitted by Hugh Barron, 4th May 1984", printing Rev. Dr D. B. Blair's
manuscript "Urquhart men in Nova Scotia" (archive.org `tgsi-vol-liii-1982-1984`). *Mackay* = William
Mackay, *Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish* (Inverness, 1893) (archive.org
`urquhartandglen01mackgoog`). *Bowman* = Fred Q. Bowman, *10,000 Vital Records of Western New York,
1809-1850* (1985) (archive.org `bwb_P9-DTM-862`, lending copy, read as search snippets). *FS* =
FamilySearch; *WT* = WikiTree (profile IDs given, read through the WikiTree API).
Page numbers were checked against the printed page headers of the scans, not only the OCR.
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## Read this first
**What this pass found**
1. **The Humphreys are not Michael Humphrey's family, as far as any source shows.** Frederick
Humphreys (1883) puts Caroline Humphrey's grandfather in a separate section headed "EBENEZER
HUMPHREY, OF MASS., AFTERWARD OF WINDHAM COUNTY, CONN. MAY BELONG TO THE CAPT. EBENEZER HUMPHREY
FAMILY, OF OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS" (vol. 2, p. 913), and that Oxford family is "Thought to be a
Son of Arthur Humphrey, of Woodstock, Ct." (p. 909). Neither Michael Humphrey of Windsor and
Simsbury nor Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester comes into it. Ebenezer's parents are unknown.
**There is no blood link to the archive's Dorchester Humphreys** (jonas-humphrey-d1662 and family).
2. **Ebenezer Humphrey's second marriage is now documented:** "Ebenezer Humphrey & Lucy Robbins,
June 19, 1781," Second Church at Westford, Ashford, Connecticut (Bailey 6, p. 84). Joseph, Caroline's
father, was born nine months later, on 16 Mar 1782.
3. **The Enos link is stronger than the master research knew.** Hannah Enos's brother Joseph Enos,
born at Union in 1779, was "Joseph Enos of Marcellus, N. Y." when he married Chloe Burley in 1805
(Burleigh, *Burley or Burleigh Family*, 1880, p. 135), and Marcellus is where Joseph Humphrey and
Hannah Enos settled after their marriage about 1802 (Humphreys, p. 914). The Enoses go back through
Joseph Enos (b. 1721) and James Enos (1679-1762), the one proprietor of Union who settled there, to
James Eno and Abigail Bissell of Windsor and Simsbury, and from them to **John Bissell** of
Windsor's ferry, **Thomas Holcombe** of Dorchester and Windsor, and **James Eno, the Windsor barber**
(d. 1682). These are Windsor Puritan families of the 1630s and 1640s, well recorded in Stiles.
4. **Lucy Bell's grandparents married in 1827:** "Bell, John M. of Geneva m 12/3/27 Sarah Giraud of
Manchester in Vienna, NY; Thomas Smith, Esq." (Bowman, abstracting the *Geneva Gazette* of 5 Dec
1827; the Ancestry tree has a clipping of the same notice). The name Gerow is confirmed in its
older form, Giraud. Her parents (Daniel A. Gerow and Anna Hammond) remain **possible** only.
5. **Mary McMillan's mother's family is named, and her grandfather was a Gaelic bard.** Rev. Dr D. B.
Blair's manuscript, printed in TGSI 53, says "Penuel who married William MacMillan and came to
Antigonish, Nova Scotia" was a sister of John MacDougall, the elder at Blue Mountain, Pictou County,
and a daughter of John McDougall and Euphemia Bethune of Ailean Mór, Glen Urquhart (pp. 446,
448-449). Mackay (1893) names that elder's father as "John Macdougall (Iain Mac Dhughaill), author
of 'Braigh Rusgaich'", a song he calls "one of the most popular songs of the district of Loch Ness"
(pp. 415, 570).
**What each part depends on**
- **Everything above Caroline Humphrey** (Humphrey, Robbins, Enos, Eno, Bissell, Holcombe) depends on
Humphreys (1883) naming Caroline's parents as Joseph Humphrey and Hannah Enos. Its informant was
Caroline's brother Capt. Jasper Humphrey, and the 1850 census and the Wisconsin records are
consistent with it, but no record names Caroline's parents. **Probable.**
- **Everything above Hannah Enos** depends on her being the Hannah born at Union on 31 May 1781 to
Joseph Enos and his third wife Abigail Keyes. Humphreys says "Hannah (daughter of Joseph) Enos, of
Tolland, Windham Co., Ct., b. in Aug., 1781"; the History of Union lists the Union Hannah; and her
brother Joseph was at Marcellus by 1805. **Probable.**
- **Above Joseph Enos (b. 1721)** the links are recorded in Windsor vital records as transcribed by
Stiles: a single chain of births and marriages, **proven (compiled)**.
**Doubtful links that famous kin or notable ancestors would depend on. Read these before using
anything below.**
- **All the Enos, Bissell and Holcombe kin (Gifford Pinchot, Gen. Roger Enos, Oliver Ellsworth,
the Bissells, Gen. Thomas Holcomb, and the new lines for Richard Gere, Humphrey Bogart, Amelia
Earhart and Benjamin Spock) depend on the two probable links above** (Caroline to Joseph and
Hannah; Hannah to Joseph Enos). They are probable, not proven, and should be labelled that way.
- **Joseph Enos's mother (Hannah Phelps, m. 1708) is not identified.** Stiles says she was a daughter
of Lt. Timothy Phelps, but the Phelps genealogy (1899) shows that Hannah married Thomas Phelps in
1708. WikiTree makes her Hannah Birge, widow of Benjamin Phelps, which fits her age at death but
has no published proof. **No famous kin are offered through her** (Birge, Watson, Phelps).
- **James Eno's Walloon origin** (baptized 1625 at the French church in Threadneedle Street, London,
son of Jean Hennot of Valenciennes) is a modern claim that WikiTree itself calls unproven.
**Possible.**
- **Sarah Gerow's parents (Daniel A. Gerow and Anna Hammond) and everything above them**
(Andrew Gerow, the Huguenot Girauds and Sicards of New Rochelle) rest on the Ancestry tree and a
family book not seen. **Possible.** No famous kin are offered through them.
- **Arthur Humphrey of Woodstock** as Ebenezer Humphrey's ancestor: Humphreys' "may belong" only.
**Possible.** Sir Charles Tupper, already on the Notable connections page, descends from Arthur
Humphrey (WT `Tupper-249`), but **should not be given a line through this branch.**
- **Penuel MacDougall as Mary McMillan's mother** is still **probable**, not proven: no record names
Mary's parents. The bard John MacDougall is one step further and rests on two compiled accounts
(Blair's manuscript and Mackay), which agree. **Probable at best.**
---
## 1. Pedigree, link by link
### 1a. The McMillans and MacDougalls
The master research covers Alfred, William, Duncan and Malcolm McMillan. New here: the Blair
manuscript and Mackay on William McMillan, Penuel MacDougall and her family.
**Mary McMillan (c. 1819-1872), wife of Duncan, to William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall**
(Frances's 3rd great-grandparents)
- The best account is Rev. Dr Duncan Black Blair's manuscript "Urquhart men in Nova Scotia," written
for William Mackay about 1890 and printed in TGSI 53. Blair was minister at Blue Mountain, Pictou
County, where Penuel's brother John was an elder.
> "William MacMillan, the brother of Ann, wife of Donald Campbell, married Penuel MacDougall, the
> sister of John MacDougall the elder at Blue Mountain. He emigrated to Nova Scotia from
> Glenurquhart in 1818, and took up his residence at the South River of Antigonish in the county so
> called. After his death, his widow with the youngest son Alpine removed to Illinois in the United
> States. But his eldest son Donald still continues to live at the South River of Antigonish."
>
> TGSI 53, pp. 448-449.
- This is the source of Dobson's entry (Dobson cites *TGSI* 53: 448), now read in full. [C]
- Supporting the link to Mary: Duncan and Mary named children Penuel and Alpin (1860 census) [D]; a
"Penuel Ann MacMillan," aged 88, was buried at South Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin, in February
1870, near Mary's home at Calamus [C, Find a Grave index]; John McMillan of Calamus, probably
Mary's brother, also named children Penuel and Alpin (1850 census) [D].
- Against it, or at least not fitting: Blair sends the widow and Alpine to **Illinois**, not
Wisconsin. A minister writing in Nova Scotia fifty years later could easily confuse the two, and
the burial at South Beaver Dam is the stronger evidence. Blair names only two sons (Donald, the
eldest, and Alpine, the youngest) and no daughters.
- **Rating: probable** [I, from compiled accounts and records of names]. No record names Mary's
parents.
**William McMillan's sister.** Ann MacMillan, "sister of William MacMillan," married Donald Campbell
(b. about 1790) when he was eighteen; they emigrated in 1820, settled at Merigomish and then on the
Moose River, Pictou County, in a valley "which he called Urquhart, in memory of the place he left in
Scotland"; he died 6 Dec 1878 aged 88 (TGSI 53, p. 448) [C]. William's own parents are not named
anywhere seen.
**Penuel MacDougall to John MacDougall and Euphemia Bethune** (Frances's 4th great-grandparents)
- Blair, of Penuel's brother:
> "John McDougall was the youngest son of John McDougall and Euphemia Bethune, who lived at a place
> called Ailean mór in Glenurquhart. His eldest brother Duncan McDougall was in the constabulary
> force in the county of Kirkcudbright and his second brother Alpin came out to Nova Scotia. He had
> five sisters, viz., Christy who married James Livingstone and came out to this country and settled
> at Blue Mountain with her family. Penuel who married William MacMillan and came to Antigonish, Nova
> Scotia, Jessy or Mrs Fraser who once lived at Fort Augustus about 1830, and Mary who lived in
> Nairn, near Inverness, and another sister whose name the writer knows not."
>
> TGSI 53, p. 446.
- Blair on the father: "John MacDougall's father was a blacksmith and it seems had some connection
with the army or Volunteers; for he lived in Edinburgh with the Regiment to which he belonged and
there he died. After his death his widow came to Glenurquhart, their native place, and with her
family took up her residence at a place called Ailean Mor, where the youngest son was born, who was
called for his father John, the date of his birth being the 15th March 1805." The mother "was a
pious, prudent, wise woman, of the family of the Bethunes of the Isle of Skye descended from the
Bethunes of Mull and Isla." There were "ten children in the family — five sons and five daughters"
(TGSI 53, pp. 446-447). [C]
- Mackay independently: "John Macdougall, son of John Macdougall (Iain Mac Dhughaill), author of
'Braigh Rusgaich' (see pp. 415 and 532). John Macdougall emigrated in 1828, and settled at Blue
Mountain, where he died, greatly lamented, in 1873" (Mackay, p. 570). Mackay got his Nova Scotia
information from Blair and Rev. A. Maclean Sinclair (p. 571), so the two accounts are not fully
independent, but Mackay supplies the bard's identity from his own knowledge of the parish (p. 415).
[C]
- The names fit: Penuel had a brother Alpin and a son Alpin, and the rare name Alpin recurs among
Mary McMillan's children and her brother John's. Penuel, born about 1782 by her age at death, fits
as an elder daughter of parents whose youngest child was born in 1805.
- **Rating: probable** [C] for Penuel as a daughter of John MacDougall and Euphemia Bethune.
- The Bethune ancestry ("descended from the Bethunes of Mull and Isla") is family **tradition [T]**;
no pedigree is given. The Bethunes or Beatons of Mull and Islay were the hereditary physicians of
the Lords of the Isles; nothing connects Euphemia to them beyond Blair's sentence. Treat sceptically.
**Above Malcolm McMillan of Lochaber**: nothing new. The online land papers of Nova Scotia go only
to 1809; Malcolm's petition, if any, would be later (see Lookups).
### 1b. Adams, Humphrey, Robbins
**Harriet Ellen Adams to Robert Adams and Caroline Humphrey** (great-grandmother; 2nd
great-grandparents): proven in the master research. Add: "He was married in 1874 to Emeline,
daughter of Robert and Caroline (Humphrey) Adams, natives of New York and early settlers of Columbia
Co., Wis., the birth place of Emeline" (*History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa*, 1884, p. 468,
biography of Cyrus Wheeler) [C]. Robert Adams's parents: **unknown**; nothing found.
**Caroline Humphrey to Joseph Humphrey and Hannah Enos** (3rd great-grandparents)
> "Joseph Humphrey, [4] (Ebenezer) was born in Windham County, Ct., 16 Mch., 1782. He married about
> 1802, Hannah (daughter of Joseph) Enos, of Tolland, Windham Co., Ct., b. in Aug., 1781, and settled
> in Marcellus, N. Y. He subsequently resided, successively, in Steuben, Ontario and Chautauqua
> Counties, N. Y., and from the place last named removed to White Water, Walworth Co., Wis., where he
> died in 1864, aged 82 years. He was a farmer for many years, Deacon of the Baptist Church, and a man
> generally respected and beloved. His wife died at White Water, Wis., in 1855, aged 74 years."
>
> "Caroline, b. at Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., 22 Mch., 1814; m. Robert Adams. Res. in Iowa.
> Children: ... Jerome B., b. in Richmond, Walworth Co., Wis.; served through War of Rebellion; was
> killed, accidentally, at La Crosse, Wis., about 1884. He was a cool, brave soldier. ... Ellen; m. —.
> Resides in Iowa. ... Marion; m. —. Resides in Iowa."
>
> Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914.
- Informant: "her brother, Captain Jasper, the contributor of this line chiefly" (p. 913). [C, from a
brother's information.]
- Consistent records: Robert and Caroline at Richmond, Walworth County, in 1850, near Joseph and James
G. Humphrey, who settled Richmond township in 1837-39 (master research) [D, C].
- **Rating: probable.** A record naming Caroline's parents (her death record, an obituary, Joseph
Humphrey's probate) would make it proven.
**Joseph Humphrey to Ebenezer Humphrey and Lucy Robbins** (4th great-grandparents)
- Marriage: "Ebenezer Humphrey & Lucy Robbins', June 19, 1781" (Bailey 6, p. 84, under Ashford: "The
Second Church at Westford, organized ... 1768, furnishes the following marriages," p. 82) [D,
published transcript]. Joseph born 16 Mar 1782 (Humphreys) [C].
- Humphreys: Ebenezer "according to some accounts, was born in Windham, or Tolland County, Conn.,
about 1725; and according to others, was born in Massachusetts and removed to Windham, Conn. He
married (1) Betsy —. He married (2) about 1780, Lucy (daughter of Joseph) Robbins, born in 1750.
She died at Chatauqua, N. Y., in 1835, aged 85 years, having been deaf from her youth. She married
(2) — Cheney." Children by the second marriage, "born in Windham Co., Ct.": Joseph (1782) and John
(about 1784, later of Pulaski County, Indiana) (vol. 2, p. 913). [C]
- **Rating: probable** [C with a documented marriage].
- **Lucy Robbins's father, Joseph Robbins:** Humphreys says "daughter of Joseph"; WikiTree
(`Robbins-123`) gives "Luce Robbins" born 22 Aug 1750 at Ashford, citing the Barbour index, a
daughter of Joseph Robbins (b. 1719, Attleborough, Mass.) and Lucy Cushing. **Probable** for Joseph
as her father (two sources agree); **possible** for the Attleborough identification and for Lucy
Cushing (WikiTree only; not seen).
**Ebenezer Humphrey's parents: unknown.** See Checked and ruled out for Michael Humphrey, Jonas
Humphrey, Arthur Humphrey and the FamilySearch chain.
### 1c. Enos, Eno, Bissell, Holcombe
**Hannah Enos to Joseph Enos and Abigail Keyes** (4th great-grandparents)
> "Joseph Enos, son of James, married Rachel, daughter of deacon Wm. Ward, July 15, 1746. They had one
> child, Rachel. The mother died February 24, 1747. Joseph Enos married, second, Elizabeth White,
> March 7, 1750. She died May 4, 1777. He married, third, Abigail Keyes of Ashford, December 21, 1778.
> Ch. 1. Rachel, b. February 15, 1747; m. first, Dr. Seth Hovey, second, James Thompson. 2. Joseph,
> b. September 26, 1779; m. Chloe Burley. 3. Hannah, b. May 31, 1781. 4. James, b. September 26,
> 1783. 5. Jonathan, b. June 24, 1784."
>
> Union, p. 340.
- Hannah's brother: "Chloe, b. 4 May 1777, d. 19 Jan. 1843, m. 15 Sept. 1805 Joseph Enos of
Marcellus, N. Y., he b. 2 Sept. 1779, d. 19 Sept. 1852" (Charles Burleigh, *The Genealogy of the
Burley or Burleigh Family of America*, Portland, 1880, p. 135; archive.org
`genealogyofburle00inburl`). [C]
- Humphreys: "Hannah (daughter of Joseph) Enos, of Tolland, Windham Co., Ct." Union is in Tolland
County. [C]
- The fit: the only Hannah born to a Joseph Enos in this area in 1781; her full brother at Marcellus,
where she and Joseph Humphrey settled; her age at death (74 in 1855) [C].
- Conflict: born 31 May 1781 (Union) or "in Aug., 1781" (Humphreys). The Union town record would
settle it.
- **Rating: probable.**
- **Abigail Keyes "of Ashford"** may have been a widow. WikiTree (`Chaffee-5047`) notes that the
Ashford records leave unclear which of two Abigail Chaffees married Ephraim Keyes Jr.; a DNA-based
note there argues for Abigail, daughter of Jonathan Chaffee and Abigail Lyon, born 17 Dec 1740. If
Joseph Enos's third wife was the widow of Ephraim Keyes Jr., FamilySearch's "Abigail Chaffe" could
be her maiden name. **The master research's "Disproven" for 'Abigail Chaffe' is too strong:** the
Union record calls her "Abigail Keyes," which proves her name in 1778, not her birth surname.
Maiden name: **unknown**; Chaffee **possible**.
**Joseph Enos to James Enos and Hannah Phelps** (5th great-grandparents)
- Birth: "Joseph Enno born on 20 Jan 1721, child of James, in Pinemeadow, Windsor" (Connecticut Vital
Records prior to 1850, FS QPQH-YLM2, as quoted on WT `Enos-497`) [D, index]. Union, p. 339, lists
"7. Joseph, b. January 20, 1721" among James's children [C]; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242: "7. Joseph,
b. 20 Jan., 1721; prob. the Ens. 2d Co., 5th Regt., 1762; rec'd 100 acres ld. in Vt., 20 June, 1782"
[C].
- That the Joseph Enos of Union who married three times is this Joseph: Union, p. 340, "Joseph Enos,
son of James" [C]. In the 1790 and 1800 censuses Joseph Enos was at Union [D index, WT]. **Proven
(compiled).**
**James Enos (1679-1762)**
> "James Enos was one of the original proprietors of the town of Union and the only one who actually
> settled in the town. His name is sixth in the list of twelve persons, all from Windsor, to whom the
> legislature of Connecticut deeded the town of Union. The first ancestor of James Enos in Windsor was
> James, who came there as early as 1646. ... It was his oldest son James (third) who came to Union.
> He was born September 23, 1679, and died May 22, 1762. He lived in the south part of town on the
> hillside between the Matthew Paul place and the one now occupied by Fred Barber. His first wife was
> Mary Grant, whom he married April 5, 1703. She died March 6, 1704. They had one child, James. He
> married, second, Hannah Phelps, July 15, 1708. She died July 13, 1760, aged 78."
>
> Union, p. 339.
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, Fam. 4: "James (Sgt.) (Jas., Jas.), of W. and Union; m. (1) 5 Apl., 1703,
Mary (dau. John and gd.-dau. Matthew) Grant, b. 23 Jan., 1675; d. 6 Mch., 1704; (2) 15 July, 1708,
Hannah (dau. Lieut. Timo. and Mary Griswold) Phelps, b. 16 Aug., 1684; d. Mch., 1728; he d. 1764.
Joseph Eno and Mary Loomis were executors of will of James Eno of Union, died 1764." [C]
- **His death:** 22 May 1762 (Union) or 1764 (Stiles, citing an executorship). Unresolved.
- **Hannah Phelps:** see the Read-this-first note. The Phelps genealogy shows the daughter of Lt.
Timothy Phelps (bapt. 16 Aug 1684) "m. Thomas Phelps 1708, child of John and Sarah (Buckland)
Phelps," with children born at Poquonock from 1709 (O. S. Phelps and A. T. Servin, *The Phelps
Family of America*, 1899, vol. 1, pp. 111-112) [C]. So Stiles p. 242 is wrong. Stiles himself says
elsewhere "Sergt. James Eno m. Hannah Phelps (dau. of Joseph, George)" (vol. 2, p. 594n). WikiTree
(`Birge-159`, `Phelps-5409`) has her as Hannah Birge, b. 17 June 1682, daughter of John Birge and
Hannah Watson (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 75, gives that birth, with no marriage), widow of Benjamin Phelps
(a daughter Mary Phelps b. 4 Sept 1706, Poquonock). Union's
"died July 13, 1760, aged 78" fits a birth in June 1682 exactly. **Her identity: unresolved.** Birge
is **possible**.
- **Link Joseph to James: proven (compiled, with documented birth). Link Joseph to Hannah (Phelps):
proven as to the marriage and the birth date of 1721 falling in it; her parentage unknown.**
**James Enos (1679) to James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell** (6th great-grandparents)
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, Fam. 2: "James (James), m. 26 Dec., 1678 (O. C. R.) Abigail (dau. Samuel and
Abigail Holcombe) Bissell (O. C. R.), who was b. 6 July, 1661; d. 19 Apl., 1728; he d. 16 July,
1714; both buried in Old Burying-ground, Simsbury. He was probably the J. who was one of 11
petitioners, 1705, for a grant of land for services in the Swamp Fight, in King Philip's War. Ch.:
1. James, b. 23 Sept., 1679. — O. C. R." (O. C. R. = Windsor Old Church Record.) [C, from records]
- James Eno (b. 30 Oct 1651) is listed among the children of James Eno the immigrant (Stiles, vol. 2,
p. 241). **Proven (compiled).**
**James Eno (1651) to James Eno (d. 1682) and Anna (Bidwell)** (7th great-grandparents)
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240: "James, came to W. 1646; m. (1) 18 Aug., 1648, Hannah [Anna] ... Bidwell of
W. (O. C. R.) ... d. 7 Oct., 1657 (O. C. R.); (2) 5 Aug., 1658, Elizabeth (wid. of Thos.) Holcombe of
W.; she d. Oct., 1679; 'bu. the 8th day' (O. C. R.); m. 'by Capt. Newbery,' 29 Apl., 1680 (O. C. R.),
(3) Hester (b. Williams, and said to have been the first white ch. b. at Hartford, and wid. of James,
s. of Begat) Eggleston of W.; she d. 10 July, 1720 (W. R.); James Eno d. W., 1 July, 1682." [C; the
OCR is damaged at the first wife's parentage.]
- Anna: "It is extremely likely that the Anna Bidwell who m. Aug. 18, 1648, James Eno, was widow of
Richard Bidwell who was buried in Windsor, Dec. 25, 1647. Positive proof has not been seen" (D.L.J.,
*The American Genealogist* 10: 60, as quoted on WT `Eno-6`) [C]. Her maiden name is unknown.
- James (1651) was her son: born 1651, during the first marriage. **Proven (compiled).**
- Death date: 1 July 1682 (Stiles), 11 June 1682 (Barbour index, per WT) or 11 July 1682 (the
memorial tablet put up by his grandson Samuel Eno, as quoted by H. L. Eno, 1920). Unresolved.
- Origin: see Checked and ruled out (Walloon claim, possible).
**Abigail Bissell (1661) to Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb** (7th great-grandparents)
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78, Fam. 4: "Samuel (John), m. Abigail (dau. Thos.) Holcomb, 11 June, 1658; ...
His father gave him 106 acres, — all of the B. property except that E. of the Great River and that
which was sold to Job Drake. He avowed the Half-Way Covenant in W. Ch. 27 Nov., 1659. — O. C. R. He
d. 17 May, 1697/8; his wife d. 17 Aug., 1688. Children (O. C. R.): 1. John, b. 5 Apl., ... 1659 ...
2. Abigail, b. 6 July, 1661. ... 4. Mary, b. 15 Sept., 1666. ... 8. Deborah, b. 29 Oct., 1679."
[C, from records]. WikiTree gives Samuel's death as 3 Dec 1700; Stiles is preferred.
- **Proven (compiled).**
**Samuel Bissell to John Bissell** (8th great-grandfather)
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77: "John, Sr., d. 3 Oct., 1677, æ. 86; his wife d. 21 May, 1641 (O. C. R.).
Children:" John (b. England), Thomas (b. England), Mary (b. England; m. Jacob Drake), Samuel,
Nathaniel (b. at Windsor) and Joyce (m. Samuel Pinney). [C; the OCR of the children's dates is
damaged.] His wife's name is unknown. **Proven (compiled).**
**Abigail Holcomb to Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth** (8th great-grandparents)
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394: "HOLCOMBE, Thomas, early at Dorchester, Mass., where, in May, 1634, he was
made freeman; in 1635 sold his ho. and lands to Richard Jones; soon after rem. to W.; in 1639 went
to Poq., 4 m. W. of W.; was, in 1639, one of those who rep. W. and Hartford in the forming of the
Constitution of the Col. of Conn. ... He d. at W. 7 Sept., 1657; his wid. Elizabeth m. (2) James Enno,
1658. Children (all but two eldest b. in W.): 1. Elizabeth, m. 16 Nov., 1654, Josias Ellsworth of
W. ... 2. Mary, m. ... George Griswold. 3. Abigail, bp. 6 Jan., 1638/9 (W. Rec., O. C. R.); m. 11
June, 1658, Samuel Bissell of W. 4. Joshua, bp. 27 Sept., 1640. ... 9. Deborah, b. 15 Feb., 1650
(O. C. R.); m. 5 Nov., 1668, Daniel Birge of W." [C, from records]. Elizabeth's maiden name is
unknown. **Proven (compiled).**
- A curiosity of the tree: Thomas Holcombe's widow Elizabeth became the second wife of James Eno the
barber, so James Eno Jr. (b. 1651) married, in 1678, the granddaughter of his stepmother.
### 1d. Bell and Gerow
**William H. Bell to John M. Bell**: proven (1880 census), master research.
**John M. Bell's marriage to Sarah Giraud (Gerow)** (3rd great-grandparents)
> "Bell, John M. of Geneva m 12/3/27 Sarah Giraud of Manchester in Vienna, NY; Thomas Smith, Esq.
> (3-12/5)"
>
> Bowman, *10,000 Vital Records of Western New York* (1985), entry for Bell, John M., read as a
> full-text snippet of the archive.org lending copy; "(3-12/5)" appears to be Bowman's code for the
> newspaper and issue date (5 December).
- The Ancestry tree attaches a clipping of the same notice: "Bell-Giraud marriage, Geneva, NY Gazette,
5 Dec 1827" (GEDCOM object O55, `research/gedcom/ellingwood-family-tree-2026-10-04.ged`). So the
newspaper is the *Geneva Gazette* of 5 Dec 1827, and the wedding was 3 Dec 1827. Vienna was the
village in the town of Phelps; Geneva, Manchester and Phelps are all in Ontario County.
- [D, a published abstract of a newspaper notice.] **Proven** as to the marriage.
- That this John M. Bell is William H. Bell's father, John M. Bell (b. about 1804, N.Y.): the same
name and middle initial, the right age, and William born in New York about 1829. **Probable** [I].
- That Sarah was William's mother: married fifteen months or so before his birth. A first wife cannot
be ruled out. **Probable** [I]. The archive's "possible" can be raised to probable.
- Sarah's age: "about 1806" in the Ancestry tree; no record seen gives it.
**Sarah Giraud to Daniel A. Gerow and Anna Hammond** (4th great-grandparents, if right)
- The Ancestry tree gives "Daniel A Giraud\Gerow," b. 29 May 1774, Yorktown, Westchester County,
d. 16 Jul 1835, and "Anna Hammond," b. 9 Feb 1782, Cortlandtown, d. 4 Jan 1828, citing a screenshot
of *The Giraud-Gerow Family in America*, vols. 1-3, "First four generations in America" (GEDCOM
object O7). WikiTree (`Giraud-102`): "On 1 April 1826 Daniel A. Gerow and his wife Ann of Fishkill
sold land to Jacob Griffin," citing the same book, and a death in Dutchess County, 16 Jul 1835. [C]
- Nothing seen connects Sarah Giraud "of Manchester" (Ontario County) in 1827 with a Daniel A. Gerow
"of Fishkill" (Dutchess County) in 1826. The book may; it has not been seen.
- **Rating: possible.** Keep the names on Sarah's page; no new pages.
- Above: Andrew (André) Gerow, b. 27 Aug 1734, bapt. 3 Sept at the French Church, New Rochelle, son of
Daniel Giraud and Catherine Sicard; married Anne Wicks; his will of 15 Dec 1808 names children
including Daniel; d. 1809, Yorktown (WT `Giraud-80`, citing the French Church register and the
Westchester will) [C]. **Possible** as Sarah's grandfather.
**Anna Hammond's parents**: unknown. The Hammond genealogy (Roland Hammond, *History and Genealogies
of the Hammond Families in America*, 1902, vol. 1, pp. 443-448) has the Tarrytown family of Capt.
William Hammond (d. 1762) and Col. James Hammond of the 1st Westchester Regiment, but no Anna born in
1782 and no Gerow marriage. Not connected.
---
## 2. Notable-ancestor material
Short stories for `notable-ancestors.yaml`, with suggested groups. All are probable or better,
except where marked.
### James Eno, the Windsor barber (d. 1682): Frances's 7th great-grandfather (suggested group: court)
- He came to Windsor by 1646-48. On 28 Nov 1663 the town granted him "a stray [i.e., a strip, or
small, unused piece] of ld." "in the Palizado, to build him a shop upon, to barber in, and he has
now built it" (Windsor records, as quoted by Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240) [D, transcribed].
- His barber's bowl survived in the family of Eliphalet Eno of Torrington: "of coarse delft, or
crockery, of a grayish-white color ... has on one side of its rim a circular indentation, intended
to fit around the neck and under the chin of the person being shaved ... The inner face of the bowl
is decorated with representations of the various utensils and adjuncts of the barber's trade (viz.,
scissors, razor, combs, soap, and brush, and the date 1663)." Stiles prints a photograph, "The Eno
Shaving Bowl, 1663" (vol. 2, pp. 240-241) [C].
- In March 1663/4 "The Church of Christ at Windsor complaynes of James Enoe and Michaell Humphrey, for
seuerall things contayned in a paper presented to the Court." The General Court declared "such
practises to be offensiue," but remitted their censure "prouided answerable reformation doth
followe" (Connecticut Colonial Records 1: 420, as printed in Stiles, vol. 1, p. 193, and Humphreys,
vol. 1, p. 104) [D]. The quarrel was over the Windsor church's refusal to baptize the children of
those who were not full members.
- On 17 Oct 1664 he was one of seven who signed a petition to the General Assembly, "Beeing
Proffessors of the Protestant Christian Religion, members of the Church of England," complaining
"that wee and ours are not under the Due care of an orthodox Ministry ... that will ... administer to
us those ordinances that we stand capable of, as the Baptizeing of our Children," and asking that
no law should make them pay for "any Minister ... that will neglect or refuse to Baptise our
Children." The signers: "Wm: Pitkin, Michaell Humphrey, John Stedman, James Enno, Robert Reeue,
John Mosess, Jonas Westover" (Humphreys, vol. 1, pp. 104-105) [D, printed].
- "1665. May 11. Jas. Enno was fined for his wife's fault, in selling cider to the Indians" (Windsor
records, as abstracted by Stiles, vol. 1, p. 183) [D, abstracted]. His wife then was Elizabeth,
widow of Thomas Holcombe.
- In April 1666 he and John Moses, for the town of Windsor, bought from Nassahegan, sachem of
Poquonock, a tract of 28,000 acres, and the town granted him Tilton's Marsh for the service
(Richardson, *The Eno and Enos Family in America*, 1973, p. 1, as quoted on WT `Eno-6`) [C, not
seen].
- Married three times; died at Windsor in the summer of 1682.
### Thomas Holcombe (d. 1657): 8th great-grandfather (suggested group: lead)
- Made freeman at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in May 1634; sold his Dorchester house and lands in 1635
and went to Windsor with the Dorchester church; in 1639 settled at Poquonock. Stiles: "was, in 1639,
one of those who rep. W. and Hartford in the forming of the Constitution of the Col. of Conn." (vol.
2, p. 394) [C]. (Stiles's claim that he had a hand in the Fundamental Orders of 1639 should be
checked against the Connecticut colonial records before it is used as fact.)
- Through his daughters he is the ancestor of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth and of the Bissell and
Eno kin below.
### John Bissell of the Windsor ferry (c. 1591-1677): 8th great-grandfather (suggested group: lead)
- "John, the founder of the W. line of Bissells, sett. at W. before 1640 ...; rec'd 1648 or '49, a
grant from the Col. Ct., of the monopoly of a ferry across the Conn. River" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77)
[C, citing the court grant]. "Bissell's Ferry" kept the name for a century; in King Philip's War
"the Bissells had neighbors and their house was fortified and garrisoned" (p. 77) [C].
- Died 3 Oct 1677 "æ. 86"; his wife died 21 May 1641 (p. 77).
### James Eno (1651-1714) and the Swamp Fight (6th great-grandfather; suggested group: mil, possible)
- "He was probably the J. who was one of 11 petitioners, 1705, for a grant of land for services in
the Swamp Fight, in King Philip's War" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242) [C]. **Possible**: Stiles's
"probably." The Great Swamp Fight was 19 Dec 1675. Buried in the Old Burying-ground at Simsbury.
### Sgt. James Enos, founder of Union (1679-1762): 5th great-grandfather (suggested group: first)
- One of twelve Windsor men to whom the Connecticut legislature deeded the town of Union, and "the only
one who actually settled in the town" (Union, p. 339) [C]. Quotation above. The family stayed in
Union for three generations; his son Joseph lived there all his life.
### Joseph Enos of Union (1721-after 1800): 4th great-grandfather (suggested group: mil, possible)
- "prob. the Ens. 2d Co., 5th Regt., 1762; rec'd 100 acres ld. in Vt., 20 June, 1782" (Stiles, vol.
2, p. 242) [C, "prob."]. The 1762 regiments served in the last campaigns of the French and Indian
War. His first cousin was Gen. Roger Enos (see Famous kin), who settled Enosburgh, Vermont, in 1780.
- Married three times (Union, p. 340). His daughter Hannah, Frances's 3rd great-grandmother, was born
when he was sixty.
### Joseph Humphrey, Baptist deacon (1782-1864): 3rd great-grandfather (suggested group: lead)
- Moved from Connecticut to Marcellus, Danville (Steuben County), Richmond (Ontario County) and Ripley
(Chautauqua County), New York, and in 1839 to Richmond township, Walworth County, Wisconsin, where at
the first town meeting in 1842 he was elected a supervisor (master research). "Deacon of the
Baptist Church, and a man generally respected and beloved" (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914).
- Two sons went to sea: Elias "d. at Detroit, Mich., in 1836, æ. 18 years; unmarried; was a seaman,"
and Capt. Jasper (see Famous kin, close) (p. 914).
### John MacDougall, Iain Mac Dhùghaill, the bard of Bunloit: 4th great-grandfather (suggested group: lead; probable)
- "'Braigh Rusgaich' — the only song, so far as is known, composed by Iain Mac Dhughaill, Bunloit —
has for the last eighty or ninety years continued to be one of the most popular songs of the
district of Loch Ness. It was composed in Edinburgh, where the bard died in the early years of the
present century, and happily depicts Nature in her pleasantest moods, and gives pathetic expression
to his strong desire for the peaceful solitudes of Brae Ruiskich" (Mackay, pp. 415-416) [C].
Mackay prints the Gaelic text as "Oran Bhraigh Rusgaich (By Iain Mac Dhughaill)" (p. 532). Its
opening: "Ged is Bochdan mo leabaidh, / Cha'n e cadal tha shùrd orm: / B' annsa bhi suainte am
breacan, / 'N inbhir ghlaiceagan Rùsgaich" (OCR corrected). Roughly, he would rather be wrapped in his
plaid in the hollows of Rùsgaich; a later verse has him with "mo ghunna fo m' achlais" (my gun under
my arm). [Translation ours; a Gaelic speaker should check it before use.]
- Blair: a blacksmith with "some connection with the army or Volunteers," who "lived in Edinburgh with
the Regiment to which he belonged and there he died"; his widow went home to Glen Urquhart, where the
youngest son was born on 15 Mar 1805 (TGSI 53, p. 446) [C].
- His son John, elder at Blue Mountain, emigrated in 1828; on his tombstone, "Air chuimhne gu bràth
bithidh am fìrean" (TGSI 53, p. 447; Mackay, pp. 570-571) [C]. [Psalm 112:6, "the righteous shall
be in everlasting remembrance"; our gloss.]
### William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall, emigrants of 1818: 3rd great-grandparents (suggested group: first, or more-ancestors "ships")
- From Glen Urquhart to Nova Scotia in 1818, to the South River of Antigonish; after William's death
Penuel went with her youngest son Alpin to the United States (TGSI 53, pp. 448-449). Penuel died in
Wisconsin in February 1870, aged 88 (master research). Mackay lists a William Macmillan among the
Urquhart settlers arriving "In 1818, and subsequent years" (p. 570).
### From the master research, suited to the page
- **Duncan McMillan, the Highland emigrant** (2nd great-grandfather; group: first): born at Lochaber,
Nova Scotia, just after his father and others from Lochaber in Scotland had named the lake; to
Calamus, Wisconsin, in 1845; his son Malcolm, 18, mortally wounded at Shiloh; his own account in the
1880 county history (master research, section 8).
- **Alfred McMillan of McMillan Bros., druggists** (grandfather; group: lead): the Tacoma stores, the
1917 raid, the duck hunt and the hung jury (master research, section 2; already on his page).
- **William H. Bell, carpenter and coroner** (2nd great-grandfather): Walworth County coroner, elected
four times, 1874-1880 (master research).
---
## 3. Famous kin
Fifteen, best-supported first within each shared ancestor. All the Enos, Bissell and Holcombe kin
depend on the two **probable** links described in Read this first (Caroline Humphrey's parents; Hannah
Enos's father). None of the shared ancestors has a page yet; until they do, each line needs
`shared_name` and `start: caroline-humphrey-1814` with `before:` listing the steps above her (see
Proposed new pages).
Frances's side, from each shared ancestor down (for the `before` steps):
- From **James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell (1661-1728)**: James Enos (1679-1762) > Joseph Enos
(1721-after 1800) > Hannah Enos (1781-1855) > Caroline Humphrey (1814-1889) > Harriet Ellen Adams
(1848-1926) > Alfred Ross McMillan (1884-1966) > Lucile McMillan (1905-1996) > Frances. (Eight
generations.)
- From **Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb**: Abigail Bissell (1661-1728) > the above. (Nine.)
- From **John Bissell** or **Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth**: Samuel Bissell (d. 1697/8) or Abigail
Holcomb (1638/9-1688) > Abigail Bissell > the above. (Ten.)
### 3.1 Roger Enos (1729-1808): public
- **Who:** Continental Army officer (lieutenant colonel on Arnold's march to Quebec, 1775), later
brigadier and major general of the Vermont militia and founder of Enosburgh, Vermont. Wikipedia,
"Roger Enos": "a colonial Vermont political and military leader during the American Revolution. In
1775, he took part in Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec, and he later commanded the Vermont
Militia as a major general."
- **Shared ancestors:** James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell.
- **Their line:** David Eno (1702-1745) > Roger Enos (1729-1808).
- David, b. Simsbury 12 Aug 1702, "died in the Cape Breton campaign, June, 1745"; children include
"Roger (Gen.), b. 1729; d. Oct. 6, 1808" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, Fam. 7) [C].
- Roger: Stiles, vol. 2, pp. 244-245, Fam. 15 [C]; WT `Enos-377`.
- **Relationship:** first cousin, six times removed, of Frances Fairchild Holbrook. (He was a first
cousin of her 4th great-grandfather Joseph Enos.)
- **Story** (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 244): in 1775 he "returned from that exped. with his command, 25 Oct.,
1775, and on 1 Dec., 1775, was tried by court-martial on the charge of 'quitting his commanding
officer without leave,' and was 'honorably acquitted,' his return being a necessity to preserve his
troops from starvation." In 1780 he settled Enosburgh; in 1781 "Brig.-Gen., and placed in command of
all the Vermont troops then in service"; he retired to Colchester, Vermont, "with his daughter, Mrs.
Gen. Ira Allen," and "was buried at Burlington, Vt., in the same plot as Ethan Allen and Ira Allen."
His daughter Jerusha married Ira Allen, a founder of Vermont (p. 245). Ira Allen is an in-law, not
kin.
### 3.2 Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946): public
- **Who:** Wikipedia: "an American forester and politician. He served as the fourth chief of the U.S.
Division of Forestry, as the first head of the United States Forest Service, and as the 28th governor
of Pennsylvania."
- **Shared ancestors:** James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell.
- **Their line:** David Eno (1702-1745) > Capt. Jonathan Eno (1739-1813) > Salmon Eno (1779-1842) >
Amos Richards Eno (1810-1898) > Mary Jane Eno (1838-1914) > Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946).
- Jonathan, son of David: Stiles, vol. 2, p. 245, Fam. 16 ("Jonathan (Capt.) (David, Jas., Jas.) of
Sims.; m. 7 Jan., 1764, Mary ... Hart") [C].
- Salmon, son of Jonathan, "b. 13 Dec., 1779": Stiles, vol. 2, p. 245 (Jonathan's children) and p.
246, Fam. 24 [C].
- Amos Richards, son of Salmon, "b. Nov. 1, 1810; m. Lucy Jane (dau. of Hon. Elisha and Lucy Smith)
Phelps ... chief partner in the mercantile firm of Eno & Phelps of N. Y. city"; his children
include "Mary J." and "William Phelps" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 246) [C].
- Mary Jane Eno (b. Simsbury 23 Sept 1838), wife of James Wallace Pinchot, mother of Gifford: WT
`Eno-332`, `Pinchot-8` [C]; his brother Amos Pinchot was named Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (Wikipedia,
"Amos Pinchot").
- **Relationship:** fifth cousin, twice removed.
- **Note:** WikiTree shows him descended a second way from Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb, through
their daughter Mary Bissell (1666-1740) and her daughter Abigail Pettibone (1706-1787). He was born
at Simsbury (WT). His brother **Amos Pinchot** (1873-1944), progressive reformer, stands in the same
place.
### 3.3 William Phelps Eno (1858-1945): science
- **Who:** Wikipedia: "responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic
control. He is sometimes known as the 'father of traffic safety', despite never having learned to
drive a car himself."
- **Shared ancestors:** James Eno (1651-1714) and Abigail Bissell.
- **Their line:** David Eno > Capt. Jonathan Eno > Salmon Eno > Amos Richards Eno > William Phelps Eno.
Sources as for Pinchot; William Phelps is the ninth child named in Stiles, vol. 2, p. 246; WT
`Eno-433`.
- **Relationship:** fourth cousin, three times removed. (Gifford Pinchot's uncle.)
### 3.4 Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807): public
- **Who:** Wikipedia: "a Founding Father of the United States, attorney, jurist, politician, and
diplomat. Ellsworth was a framer of the United States Constitution, United States senator from
Connecticut, and the third chief justice of the United States."
- **Shared ancestors:** Thomas Holcombe (d. 1657) and Elizabeth.
- **Their line:** Elizabeth Holcombe (d. 1712) > Capt. Jonathan Ellsworth (1669-1749) > Capt. David
Ellsworth (1709-1782) > Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807).
- Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Holcombe, m. 16 Nov 1654 Josias Ellsworth (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394,
and p. 210) [C].
- Jonathan, b. 28 June 1669, son of Josias and Elizabeth (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 210) [C].
- "Oliver (Wm. W., Chief-Justice Oliver, Capt. David, Jona., Josias)" (Stiles, vol. 2, Ellsworth
Fam. 61), which gives the Chief Justice's descent [C]; WT `Ellsworth-583`.
- **Relationship:** third cousin, six times removed.
### 3.5 Wilson S. Bissell (1847-1903): public
- **Who:** 36th Postmaster General of the United States (1893-1895) under Grover Cleveland, later
chancellor of the University of Buffalo (Wikipedia, "Wilson S. Bissell": "He was the son of John
Bissell, a prominent forwarding merchant in Buffalo").
- **Shared ancestors:** Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb.
- **Their line:** John Bissell (1659-1684) > John Bissell (1682-1771), of Bolton > John Bissell
(1717-1759) > John Bissell (1748-1813) > Noah Bissell (1778-1836) > John Bissell (1808-1889) >
Wilson Shannon Bissell (1847-1903).
- John, b. 5 Apr 1659, son of Samuel; his inventory, 27 Jan 1684, names a son John, 2 years old
(Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78) [C].
- The rest: WT `Bissell-1142` and ancestors [C, online tree].
- **Relationship:** sixth cousin, twice removed.
### 3.6 Richard M. Bissell Jr. (1909-1994): public
- **Who:** Wikipedia: "an American Central Intelligence Agency officer responsible for major projects
such as the U-2 spy plane and the Bay of Pigs Invasion."
- **Shared ancestors:** Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb.
- **Their line:** John Bissell (1659-1684) > John Bissell (1682-1771) > Ozias Bissell (1731-1822) >
Russell Bissell (1756-1807) > George Francis Bissell (1784-1829) > George Francis Bissell (1827-1885)
> Richard Mervin Bissell (1862-1941) > Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. (1909-1994).
- First step: Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78. The rest: WT `Bissell-636` and ancestors [C].
- **Relationship:** seventh cousin, once removed.
### 3.7 Daniel Bissell (1754-1824): public
- **Who:** Revolutionary War spy, undercover in the British Army; "Sergeant Daniel Bissell was
awarded the Badge of Military Merit by General George Washington in June 1783" (Wikipedia, "Daniel
Bissell (spy)": born Windsor 30 Dec 1754; died Richmond, New York, 21 Aug 1824; buried Allens Hill
Cemetery; parents Daniel and Elizabeth Bissell).
- **Shared ancestor:** John Bissell (c. 1591-1677). (His wife, who died in 1641, is presumably the
mother of both sons; not proven, so not marked half or full.)
- **Their line:** John Bissell Jr. (d. 1693) > Daniel Bissell (1663-1738) > Daniel Bissell (1694-1770)
> Daniel Bissell (1724-1814) > Daniel Bissell (1754-1824).
- Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77: John Jr. "d. at the homestead in W., 1693, and was succeeded there by his
son Daniel, b. 1663; he by his s. Daniel, b. 1694; he by his son Daniel, who remained on the
homestead until 1790, when he removed to Randolph, Vt." [C]. The last step: WT `Bissell-298` [C].
- **Relationship:** fourth cousin, five times removed. (A fourth cousin of Hannah (Enos) Humphrey; see
Small world.)
### 3.8 George H. Bissell (1821-1884): science
- **Who:** Wikipedia: "an entrepreneur and industrialist who is often considered the father of the
American oil industry. His company, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil, was the first Petroleum company in
America."
- **Shared ancestor:** John Bissell (c. 1591-1677).
- **Their line:** John Bissell Jr. (d. 1693) > Jeremiah Bissell (1677-1755) > Samuel Bissell
(1722-1759) > Isaac Bissell (1749-1822) > Isaac Bissell (1779-1834) > George Henry Bissell
(1821-1884). WT `Bissell-1134` and ancestors [C]. (WikiTree makes Jeremiah a son of John Jr.'s first
wife, Isabel Mason, who died in 1665 by Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77; he was presumably by the second wife.
This does not affect the relationship.)
- **Relationship:** fifth cousin, four times removed.
### 3.9 Thomas Holcomb (1879-1965): public
- **Who:** Wikipedia: "the seventeenth Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 to 1943. He was the
first Marine to achieve the rank of general"; afterwards U.S. minister to South Africa.
- **Shared ancestors:** Thomas Holcombe (d. 1657) and Elizabeth.
- **Their line:** Joshua Holcomb (1640-1690) > Joshua Holcombe (1672-1727) > Joshua Holcombe
(1697-1772) > Hezekiah Holcombe (1725-1794) > Hezekiah Holcomb (1750-1820) > Thomas Holcomb
(1779-1865) > Chauncey Pettibone Holcomb (1803-1855) > Thomas Gurnsey Holcomb (1843-1916) > Thomas
Holcomb (1879-1965).
- Joshua, "bp. 27 Sept., 1640," son of Thomas (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394; Fam. 2, p. 395) [C]. The rest:
WT `Holcomb-1440` and ancestors [C].
- **Relationship:** eighth cousin, once removed.
### 3.10 Richard Gere (b. 1949): stage, already listed; a new line
- **Shared ancestors:** Samuel Bissell and Abigail Holcomb.
- **Their line:** Deborah Bissell (1679-1756) > Noah Pettibone (1714-1791) > Esther Pettibone
(1747-1833) > John Alworth (1782-1865) > William Alworth (1813-1893) > Mary Mae Alworth (1848-1933) >
Albert William Gere (1889-1967) > Homer George Gere (1922-2023) > Richard Gere (b. 1949).
- Deborah, "b. 29 Oct., 1679," daughter of Samuel (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78) [C]; the rest WT `Gere-23`
(the archive's existing source for Gere) [C].
- **Relationship:** eighth cousins. (His existing lines, through the Riders and Bartletts, are on the
Holbrook side.)
### 3.11 Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957): stage, already listed; a new line
- **Shared ancestors:** Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth.
- **Their line:** Nathaniel Holcombe (1648-1741) > Margaret Holcomb (1687-1777) > John North
(1711-1785) > Esther North (1739-1818) > Jonathan Humphrey (1771-1835) > Harvey Humphrey
(1796-1877) > John Perkins Humphrey (1836-1891) > Maud Humphrey (1868-1940) > Humphrey Bogart
(1899-1957). Nathaniel, "b. 4 Nov., 1648," son of Thomas (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394) [C]; the rest WT
`Bogart-6` [C].
- **Relationship:** eighth cousin, once removed.
- **Note:** Bogart's Humphreys are the Simsbury family of Michael Humphrey, not Frances's Humphreys.
### 3.12 Amelia Earhart (1897-1937): science, already listed; a new line
- **Shared ancestors:** Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth.
- **Their line:** Nathaniel Holcombe (1648-1741) > Hester Sarah Holcombe (1684-1775) > Elizabeth
Higley (1724-1774) > Elizabeth Mills (1754-1825) > Gideon Curtiss (1776-1847) > Caroline Abigail
Curtiss (1808-1883) > Alfred Gideon Otis (1827-1912) > Amelia Otis (1869-1962) > Amelia Earhart
(1897-1937). Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394, for Nathaniel; WT `Earhart-1` for the rest [C].
- **Relationship:** eighth cousin, once removed.
### 3.13 Benjamin Spock (1903-1998): science, already listed; a new line
- **Shared ancestors:** Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth.
- **Their line:** Elizabeth Holcombe (d. 1712) > Lt. John Ellsworth (1671-1720) > Martha Ellsworth
(1702-1798) > Nathaniel Stoughton (1746-1815) > Thomas Potwine Stoughton (1789-1855) > Henry Evander
Stoughton (1815-1873) > Charles Bradley Stoughton (1841-1898) > Mildred Louise Stoughton (1876-1968) >
Benjamin Spock (1903-1998). John, "b. 7, bp. 15 Oct., 1671," son of Josias and Elizabeth (Stiles,
vol. 2, p. 210) [C]; the rest WT `Spock-2` [C].
- **Relationship:** eighth cousin, once removed. (A kinsman of Oliver Ellsworth through the same
marriage.)
### 3.14 Capt. Jasper Humphrey (1812-1892): close
- **Who:** Great Lakes captain and Wisconsin politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1857)
and harbor master of Milwaukee; Wikipedia stub "Jasper Humphrey": "born on March 15, 1812, in
Steuben County, New York. On February 13, 1835, he married Sarah Bull. By trade, he was a sailor and
a sea captain. On February 2, 1892, Humphrey died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was buried in
Richmond, Walworth County, Wisconsin. His former home is located in what is now the Walker's Point
Historic District. ... an alderman of Milwaukee in 1854 and 1855. Later, he was a member of the
Assembly during the 1857 session. In 1877, he was Harbor Master of the Port of Milwaukee."
- **Relation:** brother of Caroline Humphrey; Frances's great-great-granduncle. `sex: male`.
- **Bio** (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 915, written with his help): "of a roving disposition; followed a
sea-faring life for forty years, and was a successful navigator. He commanded a number of ships at
different times, both at sea and on the lakes; was commander of three different steamers, at
different times, in the passenger trade between Milwaukee and Grand Haven. ... has held the office of
County Supervisor, Alderman three years, and member of the State Legislature; was Vice-President of
a Marine and Fire Insurance Company; was, for about three years, Inspector of the Marine Board of
Underwriters ... The last office held was that of Harbor Master, at Milwaukee, for five years. He has
also been Master of a Masonic lodge. To his interest we are especially indebted for much of the
history of this branch of the family."
- Depends only on Caroline's parentage (probable).
### 3.15 Not proposed
- **Sir Charles Tupper** (already listed) descends from Arthur Humphrey of Woodstock (WT `Tupper-249`:
Mehetable Humphrey > Zerviah Watkins > Margery Knowlton > Miriam Lockhart > Charles Tupper). Frances's
descent from Arthur is only possible. Do not add.
- **Ira Allen**: married Roger Enos's daughter; in-law of a cousin. Mention on Roger's entry only.
- No famous kin found for the McMillans, MacDougalls, Bells or Adamses. The Gerow and Phelps-Birge
possibilities are too weak to use.
- Checked against this branch's colonial ancestors (Eno, Bissell, Holcombe, Robbins, Watson, Birge,
Giraud, Sicard, Arthur Humphrey) through WikiTree, with no shared ancestor found: Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft, the Bushes, Emerson, Thoreau, Hemingway, Laura
Ingalls Wilder, Bill Nye, Alan Shepard, Orson Welles, Bing Crosby, Julia Child, Diana, Princess of
Wales, Hal Holbrook. (WikiTree's trees are incomplete; absence there is not proof.)
---
## 4. Small world
**4.1 Windsor, 1663-64: the barber and the Humphrey (probable).** The coordinator's guess that
Frances's Humphreys came from Michael Humphrey of Windsor turns out to be wrong, but the two names do
meet in Windsor. In March 1663/4 the Windsor church complained to the General Court of "James Enoe and
Michaell Humphrey," and in October 1664 James Enno and Michael Humphrey signed the same petition for
the baptism of their children (Humphreys, vol. 1, pp. 104-105; Stiles, vol. 1, p. 193). James Eno is
Frances's 7th great-grandfather through the Enoses; the Humphreys who married his great-great-great-
granddaughter Hannah Enos a century and a half later were a different family, from Ashford.
**4.2 Dorchester, 1634-35 (probable on both sides).** Thomas Holcombe was made freeman at Dorchester
in May 1634 and sold his house there in 1635 before going on to Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394). Jonas
Humphrey, tanner, of Wendover, was at Dorchester by 1634 (Savage), and in 1635 the widow Patience
Foster arrived with her son Hopestill. Thomas Holcombe is Frances's 8th great-grandfather on her
mother's side (through the Enoses and Bissells); [[jonas-humphrey-d1662|Jonas Humphrey]] and
[[hopestill-foster-1620|Hopestill Foster]] are her 9th great-grandfathers on her father's side
(through Susanna (Humphrey) White and the Tylers, and through the Fosters and Lows). Their descendants
met three hundred years later when Lucile McMillan married Richard Holbrook.
**4.3 Two Humphrey families.** The name Humphrey comes into Frances's tree twice, from both parents,
with no known relation: Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester (father's side, through the Whites of Taunton and
Norton) and Ebenezer Humphrey of Ashford (mother's side, through Caroline (Humphrey) Adams).
**4.4 Richmond, Ontario County (proven as to places; inference as to acquaintance).** Caroline
Humphrey was born at Richmond, Ontario County, New York, in 1814, and her brothers and sisters there
until 1818 (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914). Daniel Bissell, the Revolutionary spy who received the Badge of
Military Merit, died at Richmond in 1824 and is buried at Allens Hill there (Wikipedia). He and
Caroline's mother, Hannah (Enos) Humphrey, were fourth cousins, both great-great-great-grandchildren of
John Bissell of the Windsor ferry. Whether the families knew each other is not known. Later, Joseph and
James G. Humphrey settled Richmond township in Walworth County, Wisconsin, and Jasper Humphrey was
buried there; whether it was named for the Richmond they had left is a question for the Walworth
histories.
**4.5 Crom Pond, Yorktown, Westchester County (possible).** In 1763 Isaac Frost and Mary Cock sold
their Long Island farm and moved to Crom Pond in Cortlandt Manor (master research); Crompond is in the
town of Yorktown. Andrew Gerow lived and died at Yorktown, and his son Daniel A. Gerow was born there in
1774 (Ancestry tree; WT `Giraud-80`). If the Ancestry tree's Gerow line is right, two of Frances's 5th
great-grandfathers, Isaac Frost and Andrew Gerow, lived in the same Westchester neighbourhood in the
1760s and 1770s, and their descendants George W. Frost and Lucy Bell married at Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in
1876. [Possible: Sarah Gerow's parents are not proven.]
**4.6 Two brothers, two sisters (proven).** The existing "Two brothers, two sisters" story is all
Ellingwood. The McMillan side has a third pair: Alfred Ross McMillan married Florence Frost at Spokane
in January 1904, and his brother George Emmett McMillan married her sister Dora Belle Frost in July
1905 (master research; Frost Genealogy p. 267). Suggest adding.
**4.7 When cousins married (probable).** George W. Frost and Lucy Ellen Bell, Frances's great-
grandparents, were second cousins, both great-grandchildren of Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett
(master research, item 13). Suggest adding to "When cousins married."
**4.8 One war, every branch: King Philip's War (possible).** The McMillan side can join this story:
James Eno (1651-1714) was "probably" one of the eleven men who petitioned in 1705 for land for service
in the Great Swamp Fight (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242), the fight in which Ralph Ellinwood also served; and
in that war John Bissell's house on the east side of the Connecticut "was fortified and garrisoned"
(Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77).
**4.9 Walloons and Huguenots (possible).** Philip Delano, a Holbrook-side ancestor, was baptized in
the Walloon church at Leiden. Two of Lucile McMillan's lines carry Huguenot or Walloon traditions:
James Eno, said (unproven) to be Jacques Hennot of a Valenciennes family, baptized at the French church
in Threadneedle Street, London, in 1625; and the Girauds of New Rochelle, if Sarah Gerow was of that
family (possible). Both are too weak for a story yet.
**4.10 A Duncan who married a Mary McMillan.** Duncan McMillan's wife was born a McMillan too; there is
no evidence the two families were related, and in Lochaber and Glen Urquhart the name was common.
**Windsor and Simsbury in the other lines.** A search of `people/` for Windsor, Simsbury, Eno, Bissell,
Holcomb, Birge, Phelps, Robbins, Keyes, Gerow, Giraud and Hammond found no shared ancestors in the
archive's other lines. (The only Windsor is Windsor, Vermont, on the Chapin side; the Keyes on the
Ginn side is a different family; Hammond appears only as a Sandwich officer of 1676.)
---
## 5. Proposed new pages
Only ancestors at **probable or better**. Dates as the sources give them. "Frances's" relationship in
brackets. Where a fact conflicts, both readings are given; leave the date out of the page rather than
pick.
### McMillan side
**`william-mcmillan-fl1818`**: William McMillan [3rd great-grandfather]
- sex: male
- born: leave out (FamilySearch's christening at Urquhart, 6 Apr 1786, unverified; master research).
Place: Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire [C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 449).
- died: leave out; before his widow left for the United States (TGSI 53, p. 449). Place: probably
South River, Antigonish County [I, possible]; leave out.
- father/mother: unknown. A sister Ann married Donald Campbell (TGSI 53, p. 448).
- spouse: Penuel MacDougall [C, probable] (TGSI 53, pp. 446, 448-449). Marriage date and place
unknown.
- note: "He emigrated to Nova Scotia from Glenurquhart in 1818, and took up his residence at the
South River of Antigonish" (TGSI 53, p. 449) [C].
- Link to mary-mcmillan-1819: inferred, probable (the master research's argument plus this source).
The page would replace the `name:` on Mary's page.
**`penuel-macdougall-1782`**: Penuel MacDougall [3rd great-grandmother]
- sex: female
- born: c. 1782 (aged 88 at death) [C, Find a Grave index, probable]; Glen Urquhart [C, probable].
- died: Feb 1870, buried South Beaver Dam, Dodge County, Wisconsin [C, Find a Grave index "Penuel Ann
MacMillan," FS 1:1:QVVP-RRYP; probable]. Note Blair's "removed to Illinois."
- father: name John MacDougall (or the bard's page, below) [C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 446; Mackay, p.
570).
- mother: name Euphemia Bethune [C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 446).
- aka: Penuel McMillan, Penuel Ann MacMillan.
**`john-macdougall-d1805`**: John MacDougall, Iain Mac Dhùghaill [4th great-grandfather]
- sex: male
- born: leave out. Of Bunloit, Glen Urquhart (Mackay, p. 415) [C].
- died: in Edinburgh, before 15 Mar 1805 (his youngest son, named for him, was born after his death)
[C, probable] (TGSI 53, p. 446; Mackay, p. 415, "in the early years of the present century"). The
ID year is the latest possible year of death, not a recorded one; if the archive prefers, use a
`-fl` form once a record is found.
- spouse: Euphemia Bethune [C, probable].
- note: blacksmith with "some connection with the army or Volunteers" (Blair); author of the song
"Bràigh Rùsgaich" (Mackay, pp. 415-416, 532). Children (Blair): Duncan, Alpin, Christy (m. James
Livingstone), Penuel (m. William MacMillan), Jessy (Mrs Fraser), Mary, John (b. 15 Mar 1805, d. 1 July
1873), and others; ten in all.
- Rating for the Penuel link: probable. Could be held as a `name:` on Penuel's page instead of a page
of his own, if the archive wants to wait for the Urquhart parish register.
**`euphemia-bethune-fl1805`**: Euphemia Bethune [4th great-grandmother]
- sex: female; widow living at Ailean Mór, Glen Urquhart, in March 1805 (TGSI 53, p. 446) [C,
probable]. Leave out birth and death. The Bethune-of-Skye descent is tradition [T].
### Humphrey, Robbins and Enos side
**`joseph-humphrey-1782`**: Joseph Humphrey [3rd great-grandfather]
- sex: male
- born: 16 Mar 1782, Windham County, Connecticut [C, probable] (Humphreys, vol. 2, p. 914).
- died: 1864, Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin, "aged 82 years" (Humphreys, p. 914) [C,
possible]; FamilySearch has 6 Sept 1866. Unresolved; record the year as "1864 or 1866."
- father: ebenezer-humphrey-fl1781 [C, probable] (Humphreys, pp. 913-914). mother: lucy-robbins-1750
[C, probable; marriage documented June 1781] (Humphreys; Bailey 6, p. 84).
- spouse: hannah-enos-1781; married "about 1802" (Humphreys, p. 914) [C]; place not stated (they
settled at Marcellus, N.Y.).
- note: Marcellus, Danville (Steuben Co.), Richmond (Ontario Co.), Ripley (Chautauqua Co.); Richmond
township, Walworth Co., Wis., 1839; supervisor 1842 (*History of Walworth County*, 1882, pp.
776-777); Baptist deacon.
- Then caroline-humphrey-1814's father becomes `id:`, basis compiled, probable.
**`hannah-enos-1781`**: Hannah Enos [3rd great-grandmother]
- sex: female
- born: 31 May 1781, Union, Tolland County, Connecticut (Union, p. 340) [C, probable]; Humphreys has
"Aug., 1781" (p. 914). Give the Union date with the conflict in a note.
- died: 1855, Whitewater, Wisconsin, "aged 74 years" (Humphreys, p. 914) [C, probable].
- father: joseph-enos-1721 [C, probable] (Union, p. 340; Humphreys, p. 914; Burleigh 1880, p. 135 for
her brother at Marcellus). mother: abigail-keyes-fl1778 [C, probable] (Union, p. 340).
- aka: Hannah Humphrey.
**`ebenezer-humphrey-fl1781`**: Ebenezer Humphrey [4th great-grandfather]
- sex: male
- born: leave out ("about 1725" by "some accounts," Humphreys, p. 913, is too vague; FamilySearch's
1739 Ashford unsupported).
- died: leave out.
- parents: unknown (see Checked and ruled out).
- spouses: (1) Betsy — [C] (Humphreys, p. 913); (2) lucy-robbins-1750, married 19 June 1781, Ashford,
Connecticut (Second Church at Westford) [D, proven] (Bailey 6, p. 84).
- note: of Windham County; "There is a tradition that Ebenezer Humphrey had brothers in Massachusetts"
(p. 913). Children by Lucy: Joseph (1782), John (about 1784; later Pulaski Co., Ind.); by Betsy:
Ebenezer (removed to Attica, Genesee Co., N.Y.) and Betsey (m. Kingsbury).
**`lucy-robbins-1750`**: Lucy Robbins [4th great-grandmother]
- sex: female
- born: 1750 (Humphreys, p. 913) [C, probable]; 22 Aug 1750, Ashford, per the Barbour index as cited
on WT `Robbins-123` [not seen; possible until seen].
- died: 1835, Chautauqua County, N.Y., "aged 85 years, having been deaf from her youth" (Humphreys, p.
913) [C, probable].
- father: name Joseph Robbins [C, probable] (Humphreys; WikiTree). mother: leave out (WikiTree's Lucy
Cushing, possible, as a note).
- spouses: ebenezer-humphrey-fl1781 (above); (2) — Cheney [C] (Humphreys).
**`joseph-enos-1721`**: Joseph Enos [4th great-grandfather]
- sex: male
- born: 20 Jan 1721, Windsor (Pine Meadow), Connecticut [D, index, proven] (Connecticut Vital Records
prior to 1850, FS QPQH-YLM2, as quoted on WT `Enos-497`; Union, p. 339; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242).
- died: after 1800, Union [D index for the 1800 census, probable]; leave the date out.
- father: james-enos-1679 [C, proven] (Union, pp. 339-340; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242). mother: name Hannah
Phelps [C, proven as wife of James at the time]; identity unknown.
- spouses: (1) Rachel Ward, daughter of Deacon William Ward, 15 July 1746; she d. 24 Feb 1747; (2)
Elizabeth White, 7 Mar 1750; she d. 4 May 1777 (WT: widow of Ebenezer White of Attleborough;
unverified); (3) abigail-keyes-fl1778, 21 Dec 1778 (all Union, p. 340) [C, proven (compiled)]. Place
of the third marriage not stated; Union by implication.
- note: "prob. the Ens. 2d Co., 5th Regt., 1762" (Stiles) [C, possible].
- aka: Joseph Eno.
**`abigail-keyes-fl1778`**: Abigail Keyes [4th great-grandmother]
- sex: female. "Abigail Keyes of Ashford," married Joseph Enos 21 Dec 1778 (Union, p. 340) [C,
proven]. Maiden name unknown: possibly the widow of Ephraim Keyes Jr., born Chaffee (WT
`Chaffee-5047`; possible). Leave out birth and death.
**`james-enos-1679`**: James Enos [5th great-grandfather]
- sex: male; aka James Eno, Sgt. James Eno.
- born: 23 Sept 1679, Windsor, Connecticut (Union, p. 339; Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242, "O. C. R.") [C from
record, proven].
- died: 22 May 1762, Union (Union, p. 339) or 1764 (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242). Unresolved; leave out or
give both.
- father: james-eno-1651 [C, proven]; mother: abigail-bissell-1661 [C, proven] (Stiles, p. 242).
- spouses: (1) Mary Grant, 5 Apr 1703; she d. 6 Mar 1704 (Union; Stiles: "dau. John and gd.-dau.
Matthew Grant, b. 23 Jan., 1675"); (2) Hannah Phelps, 15 July 1708 (Union; Stiles) [C, proven as to
the marriages].
- note: one of the twelve Windsor proprietors of Union and the only one to settle there (Union, p.
339).
- Hannah Phelps: suggest `name:` only until identified. If the archive wants a page:
`hannah-phelps-1682` (by her age at death, Union), with the Birge and Phelps identifications as
`alternatives`.
**`james-eno-1651`**: James Eno [6th great-grandfather]
- sex: male
- born: 30 Oct 1651, Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 241) [C from record, proven].
- died: 16 July 1714 (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242) [C, proven]; buried Old Burying-ground, Simsbury.
- father: james-eno-d1682 [C, proven]; mother: name Anna (Bidwell) [C, probable].
- spouse: abigail-bissell-1661, married 26 Dec 1678 (O. C. R.), Windsor by implication (Stiles, p.
242) [C, proven].
- note: probably one of the 1705 Swamp Fight petitioners (possible).
**`abigail-bissell-1661`**: Abigail Bissell [6th great-grandmother]
- born: 6 July 1661, Windsor; died: 19 Apr 1728; buried Simsbury (Stiles, vol. 2, pp. 78, 242) [C,
proven].
- father: samuel-bissell-fl1658; mother: abigail-holcomb-1638 (Stiles, p. 242) [C, proven].
**`james-eno-d1682`**: James Eno, the barber [7th great-grandfather]
- sex: male; aka James Enno, James Ennoe; (possibly Jacques Hennot).
- born: leave out (bapt. 21 Aug 1625, Threadneedle Street, London, if he is Jacques Hennot: possible).
- died: 1682, Windsor: 1 July (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240), 11 June (Barbour index, per WT) or 11 July
(memorial tablet, per H. L. Eno 1920). Give the year only, with the three readings in a note.
- spouses: (1) Anna, probably widow of Richard Bidwell, 18 Aug 1648, Windsor (Windsor church record,
per Stiles; TAG 10: 60) [C, proven]; she d. 7 Oct 1657. (2) Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Holcombe, 5
Aug 1658 [C, proven]; she d. Oct 1679. (3) Hester (Williams) Eggleston, widow of James Eggleston, 29
Apr 1680 [C, proven]; she d. 10 July 1720.
- note: the barber's shop "in the Palizado" (1663), the shaving bowl, the 1663/4 complaint and 1664
petition with Michael Humphrey, the cider fine of 1665 (see Notable-ancestor material).
- Anna: `name:` only on James (1651)'s page, or `anna-bidwell-d1657` if a page is wanted (maiden name
unknown).
**`samuel-bissell-fl1658`**: Samuel Bissell [7th great-grandfather]
- born: leave out (WikiTree's 1636 unsupported). died: 17 May 1697/8 (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 78) [C,
probable]; WT has 3 Dec 1700. Give Stiles's date with the conflict.
- father: john-bissell-1591 [C, proven]. mother: name unknown (John's wife, d. 21 May 1641).
- spouse: abigail-holcomb-1638, married 11 June 1658 (Stiles, p. 78) [C, proven].
**`abigail-holcomb-1638`**: Abigail Holcomb [7th great-grandmother]
- born: bapt. 6 Jan 1638/9, Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394: "bp. 6 Jan., 1638/9 (W. Rec., O. C. R.)")
[C from record, proven]. (ID year 1638 for the Old Style year; 1639 also defensible.)
- died: 17 Aug 1688 (Stiles, p. 78) [C, proven].
- father: thomas-holcombe-d1657; mother: elizabeth-holcombe-d1679 [C, proven].
**`john-bissell-1591`**: John Bissell [8th great-grandfather]
- born: c. 1591, England (aged 86 at death) [C, probable].
- died: 3 Oct 1677, Windsor, "æ. 86" (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 77) [C, proven].
- spouse: unnamed; she d. 21 May 1641 (O. C. R.). No page for her.
- note: ferry monopoly 1648/9.
**`thomas-holcombe-d1657`**: Thomas Holcombe [8th great-grandfather]
- born: leave out.
- died: 7 Sept 1657, Windsor (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 394) [C, proven].
- spouse: elizabeth-holcombe-d1679; marriage date and place unknown.
- note: freeman at Dorchester May 1634; Windsor; Poquonock 1639.
**`elizabeth-holcombe-d1679`**: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Holcombe and James Eno [8th
great-grandmother]
- Maiden name unknown; recorded as Holcombe. died: Oct 1679, "bu. the 8th day" (Windsor church record,
per Stiles, vol. 2, p. 240) [C, proven]. Second marriage to james-eno-d1682 recorded on his page.
### Bell side
No new pages. Changes to existing pages are under Conflicts: the 1827 marriage on john-bell-1805, and
Sarah Gerow's link to William raised to probable.
---
## 6. Conflicts with the archive's existing pages
1. **sarah-gerow-1806**: "As the Ancestry tree has her. No record is attached." The Ancestry tree does
attach a record, a clipping of the *Geneva Gazette* marriage notice of 5 Dec 1827 (GEDCOM object
O55), and Bowman abstracts the same notice: John M. Bell of Geneva married Sarah **Giraud** of
Manchester, 3 Dec 1827, at Vienna (Phelps), Ontario County. Add the marriage (on john-bell-1805,
whose line it is) and the alias "Sarah Giraud."
2. **william-bell-1829**: mother "compiled, possible." The marriage makes Sarah probable as his mother.
3. **john-bell-1805**: the ID year is 1805, the census age gives c. 1804, and the page's "Ancestry tree
has Geneva, Ontario County" as a birthplace. The 1827 notice gives Geneva as his **residence**, not
his birthplace.
4. **caroline-humphrey-1814**, mother note: "Born 31 May 1781, Union, Conn." Humphreys gives "b. in
Aug., 1781." Both should be shown.
5. **caroline-humphrey-1814**, mother note: "daughter of Joseph Enos and his third wife Abigail Keyes
of Ashford (not 'Abigail Chaffee')", and the master research's "FS 'Abigail Chaffe' Disproven."
Keyes may be her married name; the Chaffee claim is unproven, not disproven.
6. **The Humphreys' origin.** Nothing in the archive pages says so, but the working assumption (in the
brief for this pass) that the Humphreys were Michael Humphrey's Windsor-Simsbury family is not what
Humphreys (1883) says (see 1b and Checked and ruled out).
7. **mary-mcmillan-1819**, mother note: "Probably the 'Penuel Ann MacMillan' who died in February 1870,
aged 88, buried at South Beaver Dam." Blair says the widow "with the youngest son Alpine removed to
Illinois." Wisconsin is probably right, but the note should mention Blair.
8. **mary-mcmillan-1819**, father note: says "to Pictou in 1818, settled at South River, Antigonish"
from Dobson. Blair, Dobson's source, says "emigrated to Nova Scotia from Glenurquhart in 1818, and
took up his residence at the South River of Antigonish" (no mention of Pictou); Mackay lists him
among settlers of the Pictou Urquhart Settlement "In 1818, and subsequent years." Minor.
9. **The master research, item 5 and section 9**, cites Dobson only. The source is now read in full:
TGSI 53, pp. 446-449. The master research's FamilySearch "Penuel's son John (b. 1814)" and the
Urquhart christenings 1811-1816 can be checked against Blair's "eldest son Donald" and "youngest son
Alpine."
10. **lucille-mcmillan-1905** says she was "the only child of Alfred McMillan"; **alfred-mcmillan-1884**
has "Alice McMillan," 2, a daughter in the 1930 census. Not this branch's question, but the two
pages disagree.
11. **Collateral, for future pages:** James Enos (1679)'s death, 22 May 1762 (Union) or 1764 (Stiles);
Joseph Enos Jr.'s birth, 26 Sept 1779 (Union) or 2 Sept 1779 (Burleigh); James Eno the barber's
death, 1 July, 11 June or 11 July 1682; Samuel Bissell's death, 17 May 1697/8 (Stiles) or 3 Dec
1700 (WikiTree); Hannah Phelps's parentage (four versions).
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## 7. Lookups
Each says what it would settle. "FS" = needs a FamilySearch login; "Ancestry" = needs Ancestry.
1. **Union, Conn., town records** (Barbour Collection, Union; FS/Ancestry): the 1778 Enos-Keyes
marriage (does it say "widow"?) and Hannah Enos's birth (31 May or Aug 1781). Settles Abigail's
status and Hannah's birth date.
2. **Joseph Enos's probate** (Stafford probate district, Connecticut State Library; FS images): if he
died after 1800 leaving an estate, a distribution naming "Hannah Humphrey" would make Hannah's link
proven.
3. **Barbour Collection, Ashford** (FS/Ancestry): "Luce" Robbins's birth, 22 Aug 1750; Ebenezer
Humphrey's first marriage and children; Joseph Humphrey's birth in 1782 (if recorded); Ephraim Keyes
Jr.'s death and widow. Settles Lucy's parents and may name Ebenezer's parents.
4. **Ashford and Pomfret probate** for Ebenezer Humphrey, and Connecticut Revolutionary War rolls for
an Ebenezer Humphrey of Ashford.
5. **1850 census, Walworth County** (FS): Joseph Humphrey, about 68, and Hannah, about 69, born
Connecticut, near Robert Adams. Supports the Humphreys account with a record.
6. **Joseph Humphrey's death and burial** (Whitewater, 1864 or 1866; Walworth County death records,
gravestone): settles the year.
7. **Robert Adams** (Iowa death record 1909; obituary in the Mason City or Plymouth papers; Iowa state
censuses of 1885, 1895, 1905; his marriage to Caroline Humphrey, probably Walworth or Columbia
County, 1840s): his parents and birthplace in New York.
8. **Jerome B. Adams**: *Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers* and his death at La Crosse "about 1884."
9. **The *Geneva Gazette*, 5 Dec 1827** (NYS Historic Newspapers, blocked from here; or the Geneva
Historical Society): the full notice.
10. **1830 and 1840 censuses, Ontario and Cattaraugus counties** (FS): John M. Bell's household;
Girauds or Gerows at Manchester, Ontario County, in 1820-1830. Would show where Sarah came from.
11. ***The Giraud/Gerow Family in America*, vols. 1-3** (FamilySearch Books or a library): what links
Sarah to Daniel A. Gerow. Also Daniel A. Gerow's probate (Dutchess County, 1835) and Andrew Gerow's
will (Westchester, proved 1809).
12. **Anna Hammond** (b. 1782, Cortlandt): Westchester church and probate records.
13. **ScotlandsPeople, Urquhart and Glenmoriston Old Parish Registers**: the marriage of William
McMillan and Penuel MacDougall (before 1811) and their children's baptisms; the baptisms of John
MacDougall's children (Penuel about 1782; John 15 Mar 1805) and his marriage to Euphemia Bethune;
his burial in Edinburgh (about 1800-1805). Would raise the MacDougall links to proven or disprove
them. Also William McMillan's parents.
14. **Nova Scotia Archives, RG 20 Series A, land petitions after 1809** (on site or microfilm): William
McMillan at South River (after 1818) and Malcolm McMillan at Lochaber (about 1810). Petitions often
give origin and year of arrival. The online land papers stop in 1809; one Antigonish County petition
of 1808 is by a Donald McMillan (Land Papers ID 1705), relationship unknown.
15. **Dodge County, Wisconsin**: Penuel McMillan's death (1870 mortality schedule; South Beaver Dam
gravestone) and whether an Alpin McMillan lived with her; settles Blair's "Illinois."
16. **Douglas Richardson, *The Eno and Enos Family in America* (1973, 1985)**: James Eno's second wife
Hannah Phelps (Birge?); the 1666 land purchase; the Walloon origin.
17. **Connecticut colonial records**: the 1705 Swamp Fight petition (is James Eno on it?); Joseph Eno's
1762 commission; the 1639 constitution and Thomas Holcombe.
18. **Rankin (1929)**: borrow the archive.org copy for exact pages (master research item).
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## 8. Checked and ruled out
- **Michael Humphrey of Windsor and Simsbury as the Humphreys' ancestor: not supported.** Humphreys
(1883), the book that treats both families, gives Michael's descendants at length and puts Ebenezer
Humphrey of Windham County in a separate section, "MAY BELONG TO THE CAPT. EBENEZER HUMPHREY FAMILY,
OF OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS" (vol. 2, p. 913). No descent from Michael found. (Michael does appear in
the family story, as James Eno's co-petitioner; see Small world.)
- **Jonas Humphrey of Dorchester: no connection found.** Humphreys treats him as a third, separate
immigrant family (vol. 2, pp. 839 ff., by Gilbert Nash). The archive's Dorchester Humphreys are on
the Low side; the Ashford Humphreys are on the McMillan side.
- **Arthur Humphrey of Woodstock and Ashford: possible only.** Humphreys: the Oxford Ebenezer
(b. about 1691) was "Thought to be a Son of Arthur Humphrey, of Woodstock, Ct." (p. 909), and Frances's
Ebenezer "may belong" to that Oxford family (p. 913). Arthur's family helped found Ashford, where
Ebenezer married in 1781, so a connection is plausible. But WikiTree lists no Ebenezer among the
children of Arthur's sons Samuel (b. 1711) and John (b. 1702), and FamilySearch's Ebenezer "b. 1739
Ashford," son of Samuel, has no source (master research). Not enough for a page or for Sir Charles
Tupper.
- **Hannah Phelps as daughter of Lt. Timothy Phelps (Stiles, vol. 2, p. 242): disproven.** That Hannah
married Thomas Phelps in 1708 and had children by him from 1709 (*Phelps Family of America*, 1899,
vol. 1, pp. 111-112). Her other identifications (daughter of Joseph Phelps; Hannah Birge, widow of
Benjamin Phelps) are unproven.
- **"Abigail Chaffe" (FamilySearch) as Hannah Enos's mother: not disproven** (see Conflicts, item 5).
- **James Eno as Jacques Hennot, son of Jean Hennot of Valenciennes: possible only.** WikiTree's own
research note: "I have found no document that 'proves' James' parents ... there was at least one
family around Lincoln with the last name of Eno around 1600. And there is a Jacques Hennot having a
child in London in 1663, when our Jacques was 38." Stiles (vol. 2, p. 240) called the French
tradition "worthless unless the tradition was written down by some one early in the 18th century."
Treat sceptically.
- **The Bethunes of Skye, Mull and Islay** behind Euphemia Bethune: tradition only (Blair). Do not
connect to the Beaton physicians or to later Bethunes (Norman Bethune and others).
- **John MacDougall, M.P. for Pictou**, named by Blair and Mackay: grandson of a different Roderick
MacDougall of Glen Urquhart, whose daughter married Penuel's brother John. No blood kinship to
Frances known. Unrelated.
- **Daniel Hammond of the *Truelove*, 1635**: the Hammond genealogy (1902, p. 443) makes him a
conjectural ancestor of the Tarrytown Hammonds ("there must be one generation of which we have no
record"). Nothing connects Anna Hammond to that family. (The *Truelove* is Ralph Ellinwood's ship,
which makes the claim tempting.) Unrelated as far as known.
- **"William Macmillan"** among the Urquhart arrivals of 1801-1803 (Mackay, p. 570): a different man;
Blair dates Penuel's husband's emigration to 1818.
- **Finlay McMillan and John McMillan of the East River of Pictou** (Sinclair's manuscript, TGSI 53, p.
455): Glen Urquhart men of 1784 and 1801; no known relation to William McMillan of South River.
- **Elizabeth White, Joseph Enos's second wife**, said by WikiTree to be the widow of Ebenezer White of
Attleborough: not found in Lothrop's *Nicholas White Family* (1902), so no link to the archive's
Whites of Taunton and Norton. She is not Frances's ancestor in any case.
- **Gen. Leonard T. Gerow** (V Corps, Omaha Beach) and other Gerows: not checked further, since Sarah
Gerow's parentage is only possible.
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## Sources read in this pass
Archive.org (full text read unless noted):
- Frederick Humphreys, *The Humphreys Family in America* (1883), vol. 1, pp. 104-105; vol. 2, pp.
909-915. `humphreysfamilyi01hump`, `humphreysfamilyi02hump`.
- *The History of Union, Conn.* (Hammond, comp. Lawson, 1893), pp. 339-340. `historyofunionco01hamm`.
- Henry R. Stiles, *History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor*, vol. 1 (1891), pp. 183, 193; vol. 2
(1892), pp. 74-75 (Birge), 76-78 (Bissell), 210 (Ellsworth), 240-246 (Eno), 394-395 (Holcombe),
594n (Phelps). `historygenealogi01stil`, `historygenealogi02stil`.
- Frederic W. Bailey, *Early Connecticut Marriages*, Sixth Book (1904), p. 84. `cu31924092205867`.
- Charles Burleigh, *The Genealogy of the Burley or Burleigh Family of America* (1880), p. 135.
`genealogyofburle00inburl`.
- O. S. Phelps and A. T. Servin, *The Phelps Family of America* (1899), vol. 1, pp. 111-112.
`phelpsfamilyofam01phel`.
- *Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness* 53 (1982-84), "The Urquhart Settlement in Nova
Scotia," pp. 443-456 (Blair and Sinclair manuscripts). `tgsi-vol-liii-1982-1984`.
- William Mackay, *Urquhart and Glenmoriston* (1893), pp. 415-416, 532, 570-571.
`urquhartandglen01mackgoog`.
- *History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa* (1884), p. 468. `historyofmitchel00unio`.
- Roland Hammond, *History and Genealogies of the Hammond Families in America*, vol. 1 (1902), pp.
443-448. `historygenealogi0001fred`.
- George Lothrop, *The Nicholas White Family* (1902), searched for Enos. `nicholaswhitefa00loth`.
- Fred Q. Bowman, *10,000 Vital Records of Western New York* (1985), search snippets only.
`bwb_P9-DTM-862`.
WikiTree (API, compiled; used for steps marked WT): `Enos-497`, `Eno-21`, `Eno-22`, `Eno-6`,
`Birge-159`, `Phelps-5409`, `Robbins-123`, `Chaffee-5047`, `Humphrey-1283`, `Humphrey-1654`,
`Humphrey-1320`, `Giraud-80`, `Giraud-102`, `Enos-377`, `Eno-433`, `Eno-211`, `Eno-332`, `Pinchot-8`,
`Ellsworth-583`, `Bissell-298`, `Bissell-1134`, `Bissell-1142`, `Bissell-636`, `Holcomb-1440`,
`Gere-23`, `Bogart-6`, `Earhart-1`, `Spock-2`, `Tupper-249`.
Wikipedia (summaries and page text): Roger Enos; Gifford Pinchot; Amos Pinchot; William Phelps Eno;
Oliver Ellsworth; Wilson S. Bissell; Richard M. Bissell Jr.; Daniel Bissell (spy); George Bissell
(industrialist); Thomas Holcomb; Jasper Humphrey.
The archive's own files: `research/gedcom/ellingwood-family-tree-2026-10-04.ged` (Bell, Gerow,
Hammond entries and objects O7, O55); the people pages for this branch; `connections/*.yaml`.
Searched without result: NYS Historic Newspapers (blocked by a browser check); Nova Scotia land
papers after 1809 (not online); Rankin's text on Malcolm McMillan's family (lending copy, snippets
only); the Glasgow Colonial Society's 1826 Lochaber letter (lending copy); *The Giraud-Gerow Family in
America* (not online).