Lorette's Diary

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

1. Frances Quance ♢ Lorette Quance (1845-1917) age 12, daughter of Lyman Quance and Sarah Ann Chaddock of East Road, Batavia.
2. Mr. Calkins ♢ Sylvester (1824-1882) lived with his wife Clarissa Moore 29, on Ellicott Street Rd, Batavia, just south of Shepard Road.
3. Myron Putnam ♢ Myron Putnam age 41 lived on Putnam Settlement with his wife of the same age, Elizabeth Lord. Her parents, both from Maine, were Enoch (1774-1850's) and Sally Lord (1780's-1864). Myron’s parents were Franklin and Phebe Putnam, and he had six siblings: Joseph (moved west), Amanda (wife of James Shepard), Daniel (of Putnam Settlement), Caleb (deceased), Lyman (moved west), and Charles (Pastor of Free Will Baptist Church).
4. All the brothers ♢ The six brothers of Lorette’s father John Shepard (age 46) were: James 53, Asahel 51, Ira 44, and twins Martin and Marvin 43. Oldest brother and only one to leave western NY, was Andrew who died at age 41 in Illinois.
5. Locke Amsdem ♢ Locke Amsden: Or, The Schoolmaster, A Tale is still available today, by Daniel P Thompson in 1847. It is a collection of works about early American history covering 400 years of people, places, religion, opinions, and events of that time.
6. Mrs Hart ♢ Lucy Osborn Barnea Hart was born in 1799, a daughter of Jedediah Osborne and Ascenath Pike. She was first married to Nicholas Barnea and had four children: Benjamin, Seth, Lucy, and Nicholas. Daughter Lucy married James Quance in 1849 and they lived on East Road, Batavia. Nicholas died before 1840, and in 1848 Lucy married Samuel Hart of Monroe County.
7. Thompson ♢ Charles, Leonard, and Mary Lorette Thompson were three of ten children of Joseph and Amanda Thompson. Amanda was a widow living on Bethany Center Road next to David Knowlton.
8. Bostwick’s young folks ♢ Austin Bostwick and Mary Jane Lathrop were married in 1834 and had children: Harris Austin 21, Henry Olson 19, Noble Solomon 17, and Maria Arietta 14. They lived near David Knowlton on Bethany Center Road, Bethany.
9. Frank Lyman ♢ Franklin Lyman was the 20-year-old son of Samuel and Charlotte (Williamson) Lyman of Ellicott Street Road, Batavia.
10. William Waite ♢ William Henry Waite, 31, lived in Bethany
11. Mr. Hathway ♢ Charles G Hathaway, 31 was a single man and a tuner who lived in Palmyra, Wayne County with his mother, Charlotte 71 and brother Henry 41.
12. Browns ♢ Browns Mills in West Bethany
13. blackguarding ♢ Blackquarding was an act by a person who is villainous at heart. (Vocabulary.com)
14. she was gone ♢ Lorette’s cousin, Elizabeth Showerman Quance, age 29.
15. Billy Ware ♢ William Ware was born in England in 1809. His wife was Elizabeth Warren. They lived on Ellicott Street Road in Batavia. They had a baby girl in 1857, Elizabeth, also known as Libbie. The couple had seven children in all.
16. visited here ♢ Two daughters of John & Clarissa Moore: Sabra (1837-1921) with her sister Clarissa (1828-1921) with husbands Mortimer Judson and Sylvester Calkins.
17. Ellen Lyman ♢ Ellen Maria Lyman (1836-?) was the oldest child of Samuel Lyman and Charlotte Williamson.
18. Caroline Smith ♢ This could be Caroline Bristol Smith (1822-1899). She was a great aunt of Lorettes through the Powers family.
19. Ellen & George ♢ Ellen and George Lyman, children of Samuel and Charlotte Williamson of Ellicott Street Road.
20. Hellen ♢ Helen Shepard Showerman, 20, was the wife of Henry Showerman (Roxanny’s son).

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