52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. - #40 Sarah Burt

Sarah Burt is my maternal 4th great grandmother and another one of my ancestors about whom I know very little. She was the daughter of John Burt and Susannah Silver and the mother of Sarah (Sallie) Rulon. I accidentally skipped writing about Sarah Burt in my 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks posts even though I wrote about her mother and her daughter.

I don't have birth or death dates for Sarah Burt. She married John Rulon on December 10, 1782, in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

New Jersey Marriages, 1684-1895 about Sarah Burt

Name: John Rulon Spouse: Sarah Burt Marriage Date: 10 Dec 1782 County: Cumberland State: NJ

The above is from ancestry.com

Cumberland County, New Jersey, as of 1780
(map from http://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html)

The children I have listed for them are John, Deborah, Lydia, Mary, Theodosa, Sarah (my 3rd great grandmother), Henry, and Anna. They may have stayed in Cumberland County for several years. There is a John Rulon listed in the New Jersey compiled census records for the years 1802 and 1807 in Cumberland.

Before I wrote this post, I searched online on ancestry.com and familysearch.org but didn't find any new information about Sarah Burt. I wish there were more hours in the day!

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #25 Susannah Silver

Susannah Silver was my maternal fifth great grandmother. I have next to nothing about her in my family tree except that she was married to John Burt and had a daughter named Sarah who married John Rulon (Sarah Burt and John Rulon are the parents of Sarah Rulon whom I wrote about in my post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #19 Sarah Rulon).

I did some searching online to see what else I could find. There's a will abstract for John Burt "of Cumberland County," New Jersey, on ancestry.com that lists daughter Sarah "Rulong" and six sons: Noah, Richard, Daniel, John, Jesper (probably should be Jasper), and Moses. The will is dated March 25, 1798, and was proved on March 31, 1801. It doesn't list Susannah, so she must have died by 1798.*

This is all of the information I've been able to find about Susannah so far.

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.

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* the will abstract is from a digitized version of Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revoluntionary and Post-Revoluntionary History of the State of New Jersey, First Series Vol. XXXIX, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Volume X--1801-1805, edited and indexed by Elmer T. Hutchinson, New Jersey Historical Society, MacCrellish & Quigley Co., Trenton, New Jersey, 1946, 67

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #21 Theodosia Robbins

Born on February 15, 1742, in New Jersey, Theodosia Robbins was my maternal 5th great grandmother. It's possible she was born in Burlington County, as that's where her parents Nathaniel Robbins (or Robins) and Ruth Vanroom were married on October 7, 1741. (Either these dates are incorrect, or she was already on the way when her parents married.) A Bible record attached to a tree on ancestry.com lists her siblings as Vanroom (b. 1743), Ann (b. 1747), Abel (b. 1749), Nathaniel (b. 1752), Susannah (b. 1754), Obadiah (b. 1761), Job (b. 1764), and Ruth (b. 1769).[1]

Theodosia was a Quaker. I've found several mentions of her in Quaker Meeting Records on ancestry.com. I haven't found a marriage record, but she married Henry Rulon, son of David Rulon and Exercise Allen, prior to the birth of their first child in 1758. She gave birth to ten children, 9 boys and 1 girl: John (b. 1758, my 4th great grandfather and the father of Sarah Rulon), Benjamin (b. 1761), David (b. 1763), Nathaniel (b. 1764), Moses (b. 1767), Henry (b. 1769), Jonathan (b. 1774), Abel (b. 1779), Anna (b. 1782), and Ephraim (b. 1784).

It looks like Theodosia and Henry and their family lived in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Henry is listed in several tax lists in that county. Henry died on February 8, 1810, in Cumberland. Theodosia out-lived him by 15 years and died on February 26, 1825.

Cumberland County, New Jersey, as of 1758 where Theodosia Robbins and Henry Rulon lived (from http://www.randymajors.com/p/maps.html)

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.



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[1] Ancestry.com U. S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994, Green Street Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Births 1728-1884, Deaths 1798-1885, birth record for Theodosia Robbins; Ancestry.com. New Jersey Marriage Records 1683-1802, for Nathaniel Robins and Ruth Vanroom; Ancestry.com, Bible record for Nathaniel and Ruth Robbins, from the GSNJ Bible Collection #4364, added by SaraHoffman505.

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #20 Exercise Allen, Quaker

Not long after ancestry.com uploaded U. S., Quaker Meeting Records 1681-1994, I received an email from them with hints for Exercise Allen and her father Henry Allen. What a surprise! I had no idea we had Quakers in our family. Exercise is my maternal 6th great grandmother.

I've always wondered about the name "Exercise." What did it mean back then? Did it mean the same as it does now? She may have been named after her maternal grandmother Exercise Shattuck.

Exercise Allen was born on October 18, 1705, in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey, to Henry Allen and Hannah Corlies. Her siblings were Jacob (b. 1704), Moses (b. 1707), Zachariah (1709), and Patience (b. 1711). Her paternal grandparents were Jedediah Allen and Elizabeth Howland.

Exercise's mother Hannah died in early 1712, not long after the birth of Exercise's sister Patience. Exercise was only seven years old when her mother died. It must have been hard for such young children to lose their mother. Exercise's father Henry married again in about 1714 to Abigail Adams and had at least seven more children.

Exercise Allen's siblings and half siblings 
(the Shrewsbury, New Jersey, monthly meeting, 
from U. S., Quaker Meeting Records 1681-1994 on ancestry.com)

Exercise married David Rulon, my 6th great grandfather (and great grandfather of Sarah Rulon) in 1724. I wonder if David was a Quaker, too. His father was Ruel Rulon, a French Huguenot who left France to escape religious persecution sometime in the late 1600s or early 1700s. I found a birth notice for Exercise and David's son Henry (my 5th great grandfather) in the Quaker meeting minutes, and I found several references to a David Rulon in the Quaker records. I haven't yet found if it was David who became a Quaker or if it was his father Ruel.

Exercise gave birth to at least 13 children: Catherine, Hannah, Mary, Henry (my 5th great grandfather), Eunice, Patience, Lydia, John, Phebe, Dorcas, David, Jonathan, and Abigail. The ancestry.com index for the Quaker meeting notes gives son Henry's birth place as Philadelphia, but I believe that's where the district meeting place at the time. "Greenwich Monthly Meeting, NJ" is typed on the first page of the digitized record, and on the page where Henry's birth is recorded, the residence is unfortunately left blank.

I have that Exercise died in 1770, but I don't know if that's correct. David died on March 15, 1778.

Catherine

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.



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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - #19 Sarah Rulon

Sarah (Sallie) Rulon was my maternal 3rd great grandmother and one of my French connections. Her 2nd great grandfather was Ruel Rulon, a Huguenot immigrant from France who came to America for religious freedom.

One of at least seven children, Sallie was born on February 19, 1785, in New Jersey (possibly Cumberland County) to John Rulon and Sarah Burt. The siblings I have listed for her are John, Deborah, Lydia, Mary, Theodosa, Henry, and Anna.

Sallie married John Adam Redles, a German immigrant, on May 19, 1806, in Cumberland County, New Jersey. John had just landed in America four years earlier in 1802.

Marriage record for Sarah (Sallie) Rulon and John Adam Redles [1] 

Sallie gave birth to at least four children: Ann (b. 1809), Elizabeth (b. 1811), John Adam (b. 1817, my 2nd great grandfather), and George (b. 1821).

Sallie is listed twice in the 1850 U.S. census for Philadelphia: Once with her husband John Adam in the Chestnut Ward of Philadelphia on August 19 and once with her son George Redles in Germantown two days later on August 21.[2] (At the time, Germantown was a suburb of Philadlephia.*) She died seven months later on March 8, 1851, so maybe she had taken ill in the summer of 1850 and had gone to live with George and his wife Dorcas.

Sallie's funeral was to start at her son George's house in Germantown the following Monday after she died, with burial to follow. According to her findagrave.com memorial, she's buried in the Hood Cemetery in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her husband John Adam died eight years later on August 13, 1859. His funeral also started at their son George's house.[3] I don't yet know where he is buried.

Catherine

* Thanks for the correction cousin Amy! I mistakenly said in the previous sentence that Germantown was part of Philadelphia.

This post is part of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge by genealogist Amy Crow at No Story Too Small.



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[1] "New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VW55-295 : accessed 12 May 2014), Adam Riddels and Sarah Rulon, 19 May 1806; citing p. 75, Cumberland, New Jersey; FHL microfilm 853720.

[2] 1850 U. S. census, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Philadelphia Chestnut Ward, p. 464B, dwelling 115, family 144, Sarah Redles, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 May 2014), citing NARA microfilm publication M432_813; 1850 U. S. census, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Germantown, Philadelphia, p. 230B, dwelling 574, family 604, Sarah Redles, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 May 2014), citing NARA microfilm publication M432_824.

[3] Death notice for Sarah Redles, Public Ledger, Philadelphia, 10 March 1851, online archives (www.genealogybank.com : accessed 12 May 2014), p. 2; Death notice for Adam Redles, Public Ledger, Philadelphia, 15 August 1859, online archives (www.genealogybank.com : accessed 27 December 2012), p. 2

Sunday’s Obituary—John Adam Redles

My maternal 2nd great grandfather John Adam Redles was born June 10, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was married to Jane Eliza Myers, and he was a ship chandler (wholesaler for ships). The letter copies that I found in my grandmother Leona (Roberts) Redles’s desk at my mom’s house from the 1840s indicate he was in business at the time as Redles and Stewart. Thirty years later, as of the 1874 Philadelphia city directory, he’s in business as Young and Redles [1]. He died in Philadelphia on October 5, 1880. Below is a transcription of his death announcement.

JOHN REDLES, A WELL KNOWN AND highly respected citizen of Southwark, died at his residence, No 122 Almond street, on Tuesday last. He was a quiet, earnest worker among the poor, taking a deep interest in the welfare of the Southwark Soup Society, of which he was a member. His left hand never knew what his right hand was so quietly and unostentatiously doing. He was a vestryman of the Old Swedes’ Church, and for the past twelve years its rector’s warden. An upright, earnest Christian, earth can illy afford to spare such men as he.     S.

Philadelphia Inquirer 11 October 1880.

His death certificate indicates that he died from heart disease. I had trouble reading the doctor’s handwriting (of course), but the second word on cause of death is “pulmonale” [2]. John was buried on October 8, 1880, at the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church [3], [4].

An interesting side note: the undertaker was John C. Rulon, a cousin of John Redles [5]. John Redles’s mother was Sallie Rulon. The 1880 census lists John C. Rulon, age 43, as an undertaker [6]. According to The Rulon Family and Their Descendants, John C. Rulon’s grandfather was Nathaniel Rulon who was the brother of my maternal 4th great grandfather John Rulon [7].

Catherine

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[1] Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

[2] "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915," index and images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDVY-BQS : accessed 16 Sep 2012), John Redles, 1880.

[3] See footnote 2 above.

[4] findagrave.com memorial for John Redles.

[5] See footnote 2 above.

[6] Ancestry.com, 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Roll 1174, Family History Film 1255174, page 410B, Enumeration District 229, Image 0141.

[7] John C. Rulon. The Rulon Family and Their Descendants. (Lineaweaver & Wallace, Philadelphia, 1870).

Breaking News! Ruel Rulon Escapes from France!

[Warning, there might be sarcasm.]  Anonymous sources tell us that the Huguenot Ruel Rulon has escaped from France by hiding on board a ship in a hogshead (kind of like a wine barrel for those more familiar with such things).  Alleged accomplices are his two brothers (who are Catholic) who it is believed helped him escape.  If the Catholic Rulon brothers are found guilty of aiding and abetting the Huguenot Rulon, they will be dealt with!  Actions like this will not be tolerated!  The ship is believed to be heading for America, possibly New York.  If anyone has any information about this escapee-from-religious-persecution, please alert your local authorities!  Do not approach him yourselves.  A reward for information leading to his capture is being offered (but only if you are Catholic)!

The Rulons in America

Ruel Rulon, my maternal 7th great grandfather, was a Huguenot (Protestant) who left France sometime between 1684 and 1704 during the persecution of the Huguenots [1].  The above paragraph about his escape is based on family lore written about in The Rulon Family and Their Descendants by John C. Rulon [2].  (This book is free on Google Books.)  The story goes that Ruel’s brothers (who were Catholic) hid him in a hogshead and put him on board a ship bound for America so that he could escape the persecution.  Once he was a safe distance from France, he got out of the hogshead.  I wonder how he explained his sudden appearance on the ship if this story is true! 

It is thought that Ruel landed in New York [3].  He settled in Monmouth, New Jersey, at least by 1704 [4].  He is apparently mentioned in some documents from that year, and his son David, my maternal 6th great grandfather, was born around that time [5].  Several family trees (including mine) on ancestry.com list Ruel’s wife as Margaret Paulding.  I haven’t confirmed this. 

How I Connect to the Rulon Line

Below is my descent from Ruel Rulon down to my mother.  The family tree on the left that I scanned from a copy of the original was drawn by my maternal grandfather William Liming Redles.  It begins with Ruel’s son David Rulon and includes the Redles line.  I haven’t confirmed all of the information below.  Some of it is from John C. Rulon’s book mentioned above and from the tree my grandfather drew. 
1. David Rulon (1704-1778), son of Ruel Rulon and Margaret Paulding, married Exercise Allen (1705-?), daughter of Henry and Hannah Allen. 
2. Henry Rulon (1732-18100), son of David Rulon and Exercise Allen, married Theodosa Robbins.
3. John Rulon (1758-1833), son of Henry Rulon and Theodosa Robbins, married Sarah Burt.
4. Sarah Sallie Rulon (1785-1851), daughter of John Rulon and Sarah Burt, married Johan Adam Rodelsperger/Redles (1781-1869).
5. John Adam Redles (1817-?), son of Sarah Sallie Rulon and Johan Adam Rodelsperger/Redles, married Jane Eliza Meyers (1818-1885).
6. George Albert Redles (1843-1912), son of John Adam Redles and Jane Eliza Meyers, married Isabella Liming (1844-?)
7. William Liming Redles (1873-1932), son of George Albert Redles and Isabella Liming, married Martha Leona Roberts (1895-1955).
8. Leona Roberts Redles (1925), daughter of William Liming Redles and Martha Leona Roberts, married Albert Sidney Pendleton, Jr. (1925-2006).

For a history of the French Huguenots see The National Huguenot Society. 

We’ll probably never know if  the above account of Ruel Rulon’s escape from France is truth or fiction, but it sure makes a good story. 

Any family legends in your family?  I’d love to hear about them!

Catherine
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[1] John C. Rulon.  The Rulon Family and Their Descendants.  (Lineaweaver & Wallace, Philadelphia, 1870).
[2] See footnote 1 above.
[3] Albert F. Koehler.  The Huguenots or Early French in New Jersey. (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, reprinted 2007).
[4] See footnote 1 above.
[5] See footnotes 1 and 3 above.