Footnotes

Shepard-Hamilton transcription research

April 1857

Following is the set of footnotes associated with research of the transcription of the April 1857 diary entries by Lorette Shepard & John Hamilton. These footnotes are also interspersed and embedded within the transcription.

 

  1. Mary Brainard ♢ Mary Brainard (1839-1865) is a daughter of Levi Brainard and his first wife, Mary Morse, who died in 1842 in Freedom, NY.
  2. Daniel Shepard ♢ Daniel Shepard (1835-1909) is a son of James and Amanda Putnam Shepard.
  3. Richmond place ♢ The Richmond Place was property on Putnam Settlement, near East Road, owned by Leverett Richmond, who died in 1856.
  4. Osgood Putnam & A. Webster ♢ Osgood Putnam was a son of Peter Putnam and Prudence Johnson, and Aaron Webster was a son of Ann Dusenberry, widow of Constant Webster. to sisters Emily and Malvina Bryan.
  5. Grandmother Shepard & the girls ♢ Grandmother Shepard was with her unmarried daughters Harriet 27 and Laura 24.
  6. Charles Lathrops ♢ Charles Alfred Lathrop (1830-1873) lived with his parents Henry and Linda Rindge in Bethany.
  7. Mrs. Clark Newton/Theodore Smith ♢ Sarah E Lincoln married Clark Newton on December 23, 1856, and Emily Bromley married Theodore Smith on March 18, 1857.
  8. Mariah Judd ♢ Sarah Maria Judd (1836-1915) daughter of Luther Judd and Esther Odion of Stafford, NY, married John Chamberlin Gardner (1825-1893), son of Joel and Bathsheba Gardner.
  9. their mother ♢ Harriet and Laura were the unmarried daughters of Lorette’s Grandfather, John Shepard, Sr., who died in 1856, and Catherine Wilson Shepard.
  10. Caroline Shaw ♢ Caroline Elizabeth Gibson (1827-1893) was with her husband Horace Shaw's mother, Catherine Wilson Shaw Shepard (1791-1862). Horace was a son of Catherine's first husband, Daniel Shaw who died in 1823. They lived across from each other on Putnam Settlement. Grandmother was visiting before moving to Corfu with her daughters Laura and Harriet.
  11. Benjamin Lord ♢ Benjamin F. Lord (1822-aft 1905) was John Hamilton cousin; a son of Daniel Lord (1787-1859) and Amanda Chapman (1784-1847) of Colchester, CT.
  12. Israel & Lib ♢ Israel and Elizabeth Showerman Quance.
  13. James Watts ♢ James Howland Watts (1807-1857) was the oldest son of Ebenezer Watts and Nancy Delano of Rochester. Daniel Powers, Lorette’s uncle, lived with this family in Rochester when he was a young man.
  14. uncle Marvin ♢ Martin Shepard (1853-1857) had just turned four years old. His parents were Marvin and Persis Chaddock Shepard; they lived on Shepard Road in Wethersfield, Wyoming county. Martin was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Pike, NY.
  15. Ben Lord ♢ Benjamin F. Lord (1822-?) was youngest child of John Hamilton’s uncle Daniel Lord, his mother’s brother’s son from Connecticut.
  16. Martin & Malvina ♢ Martin and Marvin shepard each had sons around 1853-54 and named them after their twin brother; so Martin who just died was Marvin’s son and Marvin, Martin’s son, lived until 1865. That day Martin was with his 13 year old, only daughter, Malvina.

 

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1857 Diary Summary

John 25 and Lorette 21 settle into their second year of marriage. They live with her parents who are remodeling their house on Shepard Road, Batavia, NY. Baby brother, Charles is 3 and Lorette helps with his care. Daily they see their relatives and friends marry and have children. Lorette gives music lessons to neighbors and attends singing school and weekly sees her best friend and half-aunt Elizabeth Showerman Quance who lives around the corner on East Road with her husband Israel. John attends a debate club, reads a book on spiritualism, moves his barn, goes fishing, raises sheep, makes maple syrup, and plays baseball. Life is filled with dinners, picnics, attending various churches, deaths and marriages, and a lot of visiting.

1857 Surnames Mentioned

Andrews, Ashley, Benedict, Benton, Bostwick, Brainard, Brown, Bryan, Buell, Burt, Calkins, Chaddock, Charles, Cole, Cornwell, Cortez, Covell/Coville, Cummings, Davis, Denton, Dorman, Emmons, Farnham, Fillmore, Fister, Green, Hamilton, Hart, Hathaway, Hawley, Holden, Holter/Holton, Houghton, Huggins, Huntington, Jackman, Johnson, Judd, Judson, Keaton, Knowlton, Lamkin, Lane, Lathrop, Lawrence, Leonard, Levings, Lincoln, Loomis, Lord, Lovelace, Lyman, Lyons, Madden, Marsh, Marshall, McMillen, Moore, Newton, Northrup, Norton, Nott, Olin, Parmer, Patterson, Perry, Phelps, Plato, Powers, Putnam, Quance, Read, Reamer, Rogers, Rolland, Sale, Shaw, Shepard, Showerman, Skinner, Smith, Sprague, Stevens, Stewart, Strong, Sweetland, Thayer, Thompson, Town, Waite, Walker, Wales, Ware, Watts, Webster, Weed, West, Wilkenson, Woodward, Wortendyke

Life as Lorette

Life as Lorette presents the journey from diary discovery to revealing pioneers of Genesee County, New York.

World Events of 1857

  • An earthquake hit Tokyo and about 107,000 died
  • Frederick Laggenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse
  • H. Sichel & Sohne, the producers of the popular Blue Nun white wine, was founded in Germany
  • The SS Central America sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, cargo includes 43 bars of gold

National Events of 1857

  • In Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court rules that a slave is not a citizen
  • James Gibbs of Virginia patented a chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
  • The California gold rush town of Columbia burned down in a fire that was blamed on a Chinese cook; the miners soon evicted all Chinese from the town
  • Mormon leader Brigham Young called out the Nauvoo Legion to fight the U.S. Troops if they enter Utah Territory
  • Lithographers Nathaniel Currier and Charles Ives become partners
  • Count Agoston Haraszthy founded the Buena Vista Winery in Sonoma, California
  • Paul Broca discovered that particular regions of the brain are specialized for particular functions
  • The first US coin to be called a nickel was the copper and nickel one-cent piece

New York State Events in 1857

  • The first passenger elevator is installed in a New York City store
  • Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead and architect Calvert Vaux won the competition to develop New York City's Central Park
  • New York City's Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company branch fails, precipitating a financial panic; 4,932 U. S. firms fail
  • John Alsop King takes office as the first Republican governor
  • The American Chess Association organized. The first major US chess tournament was held in NYC

Local Events in 1857

  • Treaty with the Seneca Tonawanda Band was signed restoring about 8,000 acres of land to the Seneca Nation
  • The Genesee River floods carrying away buildings on Rochester's Main Street Bridge
  • Susan B. Anthony and William Lloyd Garrison speak at an Abolition meeting in Corinthian Hall, Rochester
  • Le Roy's Ingham Collegiate Institute is chartered as Ingham University
  • Belva Lockwood graduates from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, NY; she later runs for U.S. President in 1884 and 1888
  • Polly Hoag Frisch's second husband, Otto Frisch, deserts her in the same year that two more of her children die in the Town of Alabama. Relatives, neighbors, and friends are suspicious
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