Sunday, June 28, 2026
The American Revolution DANIEL HULETT
All this week Fold 3, an online subscription-based database owned by Ancestry.com specializing in military and historical records, is offering 250 hours of free access. I thought I would take advantage of this.
I'll start with the Arnold side of my family tree and work my way down until I run out of "free look up" time.
It does appear that military service seems to run in certain branches of my tree. If I find one soldier of a particular surname, I will find more in that branch of my tree. The Lobdell side proves this fact.
Most of these Revolutionary War soldiers are my 5th and 6th great grandparents, mostly male at this time in history. The war began 19 April 1775 and concluded 3 September 1783. I'll look at my grandparents born around the 1760 to 1730 give or take. In the category of 5th great grandparents, I could have 256 individuals, but I don't have all of my 5ths identified.
DANIEL HULETT, my 5th great grandfather, fought and was injured in the Revolution. Daniel and his wife, Abigail (Paul) Hulett are the parents of Eunice Hulett. Eunice married Henry Lobdell Jr. Henry Lobell and Eunice (Hulett) Lobdell are the parents of Lovicy Lobdell. And Lovicy Lobdell married Stukly Arnold. They are the parents of my great, great grandfather, Amos Arnold.
Lovicy Lobdell
Me, Glen Arnold, Ernest Arnold, Johnson Arnold, Amos Arnold, Lovicy Lobdell, Eunice Hulett, Daniel Hulett.
Daniel Hulett was born 11 May 1748. He married Abigail Paul in the year 1775. I was able to find an obituary for them, as they died very close together in 1838 in Vermont. Daniel's obituary is wordy and describes an injury he received during the war.
Died at Pawlet on the 12th of July last, Mrs. Abigail Hewlett aged 83. On the 27th of August following, Mr. Daniel Hewlett, aged 90. The funeral ? were each performed by Rev. Joseph Ayers, and discourses delivered to large congregations, well adapted to the solemn occasions.
Mr. Hewlett was a revolutionary war soldier and was at the battle of Bunker Hill--in the retreat of New York--in the Battle at White Plains--in Sullivan's expedition at Rhode Island, and at the capture of Burgoyne. In this last engagement his ramrod was hit by a bullet as he was charging, and bent so that he could not charge until he had got a stone and straightened it. Soon after, two balls hit him at one and the same time, and brought him to the ground. One struck him on the left side of his throat, the other on the right side of his face, each taking out a piece of flesh about as large as a man's thumb. He had the offer to be carried off the field, but refused, though the blood flowed profusely. He remained on the field till night put an end to the carnage. He had with him a wife and two children who now grew tired of the ? and returned home to Connecticut. Mr. H. had a small farm there which he sold, intending to settle in this state, but had to take continental money for his pay and nearly lost the whole thing being obliged to pass 72 dollars for one. Poor and penniless but not discouraged, he removed to Pawlet, put up a log or pole cabin. Though now in a desolate and somewhat retired spot he was not beyond the din of war--in October a few weeks before his wife's confinement, two men in the dead of night came to his hut and demanded of him "to turn out immediately for the French and Indians are upon us." After some parlaying, he shouldered his musket and took leave of his wife and children, then in a howling wilderness, without any of the comforts or conveniences of life, solitary and alone. He returned in about two weeks, it being then the 8th of November, and the ground covered with snow. In his absence and alone, his wife bore him a fine daughter, which must have been somewhat cheering to a brave soldier under these circumstances. Thank you, oh ye fair daughters of Vermont, what your mothers suffered and endured to raise the standard of liberty and to procure for you, your invaluable civil and religious privileges. Will you assist in perserving them?
The subjects of this brief notice lived together 63 years and raised up a large family, (3 sons and 8 daughters.) ten of whom lived to have families. Grand Children 104. Great Grand Children 105. --Comm.
--Rutland Weekly Herald. Rutland, Vermont.18 September 1838. Page 3.
--Hulett Cemetery. Pawlett, Rutland County, Vermont.
It seems to obtain their pensions for service in the war, the soldiers needed documents of proof from friends or family that they served. Below is the image and transcript of Aaron Hulett (I imagine a family member, but not sure of the relationship.)
I Aaron Hulet of Shaftsbury in the County of Bennington
& State of Vermont do testify & say that I am acquainted
with Daniel Hulet of Pawlet in the County of Rutland &
that I knew him to belong to the Company of Captain Crosby
said Company being under the Command of Colonel Sage in
the summer & fall of 1776, that he served in said Company
from some time in the spring of said year until the 25th of
December, at which time his term of service expired – that he served
at least seven months according to my best recollection.
The Christian names of the Colonel & Captain aforesaid I do
not recollect – The Colonel resided in Middle town
Con. & the Captain in Killingely, now, Thompson (Con.)
I was, during the summer & fall of 1776 in the service
also, under the command of Col. Tyler, & I several times saw
the above mentioned Daniel Hulet & believe that he served
faithfully, the full term of his Enlistment & further this
deponent saith not.
Aaron Hulet
State of Vermont
County of Bennington p. 3 Shaftsbury 17th day August 1833.
Sworn to before me.
Nathan A. Bottom. Judge County Court
I certify that the above named Aaron Hulett
is a person of credit & veracity.
Nathan A. Bottom –
Judge. County Court
to be continued . . .
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Arnold Lobdell 50th Anniversary
A small paragraph in a lengthy article about the 50th anniversary party of Stukely Arnold and Louvisa (Lovicy) Lobdell Arnold which contains much family information. Stukely and Lovicy are the parents of my great, great grandfather, Amos Arnold, an early settler of Lyman Township in Ford County, Illinois, located near Roberts, Illinois.
I do not know the exact date of the article and the paper which published it. It is a very yellowed clipping that someone has saved from 1879. It is wrapped neatly in plastic to preserve the information for many years. I think Louise Arnold may have given it to Mom.
First clues in the first line . . . "three brothers bearing the name of Arnold, (direct descendants of one of the four brothers who landed at Plymouth Rock about 1620, coming over in the second vessel that brought colonists from England,) settled in what was then called the town of Plattsburgh," but now belonging to the town of Peru.
The second ship would be the Fortune. It arrived at Cape Cod November of 1621. The info below about the Fortune is from Wikipedia. Also, from the site Mayflower History no Arnold's are listed as passengers on the Fortune. The brothers may have been on the Fortune. It was a smaller ship, and it carried only 35 passengers, mostly young men. Not all the passengers have been identified.
Possibly a family tale. Maybe. I have only found documentation of my ancestor, Thomas Arnold, arriving in 1635 on the Plain Joan in my research.
But there is so much more information in this article to be researched. Next up, who are the 3 Arnold brothers settling in the town of Plattsburgh and when.
WIKIPEDIA
In fall 1621, the Fortune was the second English ship destined for Plymouth Colony in the New World, one year after the voyage of the Pilgrim ship Mayflower. Financed as the Mayflower was by Thomas Weston and others of the London-based Merchant Adventurers, Fortune was to transport thirty-five settlers to the colony on a ship that was much smaller than Mayflower. The Fortune required two months to prepare for the voyage and once underway, reached Cape Cod on 9 November 1621 and the colony itself in late November. The ship was unexpected by those in the Plymouth colony and although it brought useful settlers, many of whom were young men, it brought no supplies, further straining the limited food resources of the colony. The ship only stayed in the colony for about three weeks, returning to England in December loaded with valuable furs and other goods. But when nearing England, instead of heading to the English Channel, a navigation error caused the ship to sail southeast to the coast of France, where it was overtaken and seized by a French warship.
The Fortune finally arrived back in London in February 1622, over two months after leaving Plymouth, but without its valuable cargo. In the end, Weston lost his total investment in the Fortune voyage making it worthwhile only in providing the Plymouth colony with new settlers, some of whom became notable persons in the history of the colony.[1][2][3]
Preparing for the voyage
At 55 tons displacement, and about one-third the tonnage of the Mayflower, the Fortune was tasked with delivering thirty-five new settlers to Plymouth Colony. Their leader was Robert Cushman who, in 1620, had been the Leiden agent in London for the Mayflower and Speedwell. It is believed that the majority of the passengers of the Fortune were gathered together in London by Thomas Weston and his partner. And although William Bradford stated that there were thirty-five persons on board Fortune, the names of only twenty-eight persons are noted as receiving lots credited to those arriving as noted in the 1623 Division of Land. Eighteen persons are known to have been unmarried, eight married, but emigrating without their families, and as far as can be determined, Mrs. Martha Ford may have been the only woman on the ship. Although it is possible some of the missing seven persons in the passenger count were wives, Bradford does not leave that impression in his account.
Per author Charles Banks, individual records show that sixteen of the passengers can definitely be assigned to London or districts of the city such as Stepney and Southwark. Another three passengers were from Leiden in Holland. Ten more passengers, whose origins cannot be determined, either died early or left the colony as determined by who was listed in the 1627 Division of Cattle, which also doubled as a type of census.[4][5]
Arrival in the New World
The primary reason for problems at their arrival was the unexpected nature of it and the severe lack of food. As Bradford recorded, "...So they were landed, but there was not as much as biscuit-cake or any other victuals for them neither had they any bedding, but some sorry things they had in their cabins, nor pot, nor pan, to dress meat in; nor over many clothes,…" The colony government was not pleased that Weston had unexpectedly sent over new settlers, and without provisions or other goods to support them. But the labor that had come on the Fortune was welcome, being many young men. Per Bradford, the arrivals were "lusty young men, and many of them wild enough."[1][3][6][7]
Passengers
The problem that most concerned the colony was the continuing shortage of food made more severe by the arrival of the Fortune. Weston had not provided any provisions for the settlement on board the Fortune. And instead of making the colony situation stronger, the arrival of thirty-seven more persons to feed with the second severe winter for the colony coming on had put things in what would be a disastrous situation. Bradford calculated that even if their daily rations were reduced to half, their store of corn would only last for six more months. And after having worked tirelessly this year and experiencing extreme hardships since their arrival one year earlier, they now would face another hard winter with a shortage of provisions. Bradford wrote, "They were presently put to half allowance, one as well as another, which began to be hard, but they bore it patiently, under the hope of (future) supply."[7][8]
Although there were thirty-five people on Fortune, only the names of twenty-eight persons are listed as receiving lots in 1623. Eighteen people are known to have been unmarried, eight married but emigrating without their families, and as far as can be determined, Mrs. Martha Ford and Elizabeth Bassett wife of William Bassett were the only women on the ship. Records indicate that sixteen of the passengers were from the London area and three from Leiden. The origins of ten passengers could not be determined.[9][10]
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Grandma Arnold
My grandmother, Mildred Day (Robbins) Arnold. Married to Ernest Linn Arnold.
Her family. Front L to R: Halsey Robbins, Stella (Day) Robbins, Alice (Robbins) Shambrook, Mildred (Robbins) Arnold.
Back L to R: Ethel (Robbins) Ecker, Evelyn Robbins, Wilbur Robbins.
--Added to Ancestry by Stephen Mitchell. 2 June 2024.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Ida (Johnson) Ladd
Ida S. Johnson, the youngest of eight daughters born to David Johnson and Seba Maud (Ayer) Johnson, was born 17 April 1857 at Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, New York.
Ida is a sister to my great, great grandmother, Lora (Johnson) Arnold.
Ida married Dr. Jedediah Ladd 29 June 1876 in Burlington, Vermont.
She and her husband are buried at the Riverside Cemetery, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York.
** More research needed on Clyde Ladd, listed at the bottom of the large stone, as Dr. Ladd and Ida had no children.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Aunt Lib's Diary
Page 4
Tuesday 16 Lora and children here all day. Lora and Amos have not moved to Illinois yet, many recordings of their visits.
Sunday 21 Lora took ether and chloroform and had her upper teeth pulled.
Photos below from inside the Johnson Home in Morrisonville, New York, from our 1996 trip.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Map of Clinton County, New York
Map of Clinton Co., New York - Copy 1 | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
The link above is to a great map of Clinton County. You can click on the map to enlarge and makes it so easy to read the names. The map was surveyed in 1856. I am not sure if these are township divisions (like we have in Illinois), but go to the Schuyler Falls location to find our family's homes.
Aunt Lib's Diary
Page 3
J Lobdell, D Johnson, and St Arnold all living in close proximity. Middle of the map by the little house. All neighbors that marry. Stuckley Arnold married Lovicy Lobdell and Lora Johnson (daughter of David Johnson) married Amos Arnold (son of Stuckley Arnold.)
And near the top left corner is U Ayes (probably Ayer) the father of Seba (Ayer) Johnson. Joseph Arnold just above D Johnson to the right, but another Arnold just above D Johnson, looks it might say St Arnold also.
Letters from New York to Illinois
More writings from Aunt Lib as she corresponds with her sister Lora:
New York Letters: 1869 January 31 (newyorktoillinoisletters.blogspot.com)
Aunt Lib's Diary
Page 2
Mary Elizabeth Johnson (Aunt Lib) is the daughter of David Johnson and Seba (Ayer) Johnson. She is a sister to my great, great grandmother, Lora (Johnson) Arnold. Lora Johnson (Arnold) had already married Amos Arnold and moved to Lyman Township, Ford County, Illinois at the time of Aunt Lib's writings.
My line. Me (Janice) > Glen Arnold > Ernest Arnold > Johnson Arnold > Lora (Johnson) Arnold > David Johnson and Seba Ayer.
The Johnson home in New York:
Aunt Lib's Diary
Page 1
Johnson Sisters.
Seated Left to Right: Elizabeth (Lib), Lora, Flora (Lora and Flora are twins)
Standing Left to Right: Amanda, Martha, Ida
New York in the Summer of 1996
My two sisters (Lisa and Jackie), mother (June), and my dad's (Glen Arnold) sister (Frances), traveled to upstate New York in early August of 1996. We went to locate the Johnson homestead, the home of my great, great, great grandparents, David and Seba (Ayers) Johnson. We had an old, blurry photo as a guide. We did locate the homestead, which was in 1996 being maintained as a bed and breakfast. We toured the home and visited the small Johnson/Weatherwax Cemetery located in a field behind the home and barn.
What a memorable trip it was. We found the home of David Johnson, met family, visited great cemeteries, bought artwork, took hundreds of photos and found some great family history.
The current owners of the Johnson Homestead told us about a lady, Olive Lewis, who also was related to the Johnson family. Olive just lived up the road a few miles from the homestead. We contacted Olive and we were invited to her home for lunch. Olive had in her possession a diary kept by Elizabeth Johnson (Lora (Johnson) Arnold's sister) that had been transcribed and a binder of genealogy notes by Robert Johnson. Olive let us take the binders into Plattsburgh to a small copy shop where I got two binders full of family history to bring back to Illinois.
The diary that Elizabeth Johnson recorded was written in 1866 when she received the book as a New Year's gift. There are many entries about the neighbors, family, births, and deaths in her/my family. I hope to share the pages of her diary here. And hopefully I can connect some of the names and entries for my genealogy records.
--Photos by Janice, Jackie and Lisa Arnold. August 1996.
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Tapestry by Seba (Arnold) Linn
Posted on Facebook January 2024 by Ann Woltjen. A tapestry sewn by her great grandmother, Seba (Arnold) Linn. Seba was born 4 September 1872 in Lyman Township, Ford County, Illinois. She lived to be 105 years of age, passing on 25 November 1977.
--Contributed by Ann Woltjen. 2024.
Sunday, January 22, 2023
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
The Clinton County Historical Association
A DOCTOR AT ALL HOURS – October 7, 1886 – 135 years agoThe following excerpt is from Dr. David S. Kellogg’s diary:
Oct. 7 – A report published in the Morning Telegram today stated that some divers from Boston were at Port Jackson and were going immediately to work to investigate the Royal Savage, Arnold’s boat sunk near Valcour Island in October 1776. I communicated with John Martin, at the Customs House and he thought nothing could be done. However, the United States law was very clear on that subject – the penalty being imprisonment and a fine of not over $5,000. So Emmet Armstrong and I, John Martin and Charles H. Spear, both deputies from the Customs House, John Henry Myers and Colonel George F. Nichols started for Valcour. The deputies went by order of William Reed, Collector of Customs at this port.
There was one diver and he was then partly in his diving apparatus. He had on a covering continuously over his body and extremities as far up as his neck. Around his neck was a kind of an iron band. Over his whole garment, the diver put something like pants and a frock and also he put on mittens and heavy shoes weighted with iron. His copper headpiece, something like a large iron kettle with glass on four sides, was fastened to the iron neckpiece. To his headpiece was fastened a rubber tube not unlike an inch garden hose, which was fastened to an air pump on the scow. As soon as the headpiece was fastened on, the men began to pump and immediately the diving garment began to swell out on all sides. After this was full, with two robes in his hands – one for signal and one for tying around any material he might get hold of – he was let down into the water with a rush. The pump was kept constantly in motion while he was under water, and we could easily trace his path by the bubbling of air to the surface. He was then in 35 feet of water.
While we were at the house for lunch, the men rowed they scow up south where the remains of the Royal Savage lie. We followed them after lunch and saw the diver bring up what was probably part of a gun carriage. Then we rowed alongside, and Mr. Martin asked who was in charge of the expedition. One of the strangers said that Captain Duncan, the diver, was. Then Mr. Martin told him he was sent there by the Collector of the district, that that was United States property he was handling and read the law on the subject to him. The diver said he had had a good deal to do with the United States, that he had been in the business a good while. After some further conversation, we pulled away. The strangers on the scow said they were getting these things to sell, and that they were not sent by any society, that some people would pay a large price for these relics. I hope they will not return. He only got a few pieces of timber, some shot and a spoon.
A more complete story can be found in the Plattsburgh Sentinel of Oct0ber 16, 1886, at: http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/.../1886-10-16/ed-1/seq-1/
Thankfully, there are more stringent regulations about exploring wrecks on our lake and people are more aware of the best archaeological practices. Also, there are more eyes on the lakeshore that would notice anything untoward going on with our precious heritage and would be willing to report it. We do have pieces of the Royal Savage at the museum. The canes, purportedly made from wood from the Royal Savage, were donated to CCHA by Dr. and Mrs. Philip Barton in 1946.
Dr. Kellogg’s diary, edited by Allan Everest, and published in 1970, can be found for sale at our museum, on ebay and at bookfinder.com.
--The Clinton County Historical Association Facebook Page. February 16, 2021.
The above excerpt was from an original clipping my family has saved for many years. It is the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Stukley Arnold and Lovicey Lobdell Arnold. They were married February 19, 1829.
They too received a piece of the "Royal Savage" for an anniversary present. So interesting. The article is much longer. I wonder where the Arnold family cane is now?
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Highest Grade Attended
--Federal Census. 1940.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Lobdells in Melvin?
I had no idea there were Lodells in Illinois until Mom and I visited The Fort in Lexington, Illinois. There was a handmade binder with the name Lobdell printed on the side. I did a quick scan, but we did not have time to really investigate. But here is Eleanor Lobdell teaching at the Melvin High School in 1943. I got these images from Ancestry on January 16, 2021. Really a surprise to me.
Sunday, June 21, 2020
The Cook Side
Ellis Cook has been identified as the gentleman in the photo.
So this will leave us with Flora Elma Arnold (known as Elma) standing, daughter of Amos and Lora Arnold. Elma married Carvosso William Cook May 14, 1888. Ellis Cook is their son, one of seven children. Elma died in 1921 at the age of 56. She along with her two older siblings, Hattie and Johnson, were born near Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, New York. Elma was born on January 9, 1864. Elma's obituary states that "she came with her parents when three years of age (October 26, 1867) to Roberts, Illinois, and grew to womanhood in this vicinity." I imagine Flora Elma Arnold would have received that name from her mother's twin sister Flora Johnson.
Ellis Cook was born June 22, 1889 and had a twin brother who died at birth. His twin's grave is marked as "Infant" in Lyman Township Cemetery.
The child we assume is Ellis and Leone (Houk) Cook's daughter. They had two daughters and two sons. This most likely is their older daughter, Elma Cook. Elma Cook was born November 8, 1911, in Guthrie, Illinois. She married Herbert W. Jacobs. They had no children.
Ellis Cook at the age of 80 died at Gibson City Community Hospital February 1970, following the collision of his car and an Illinois Central freight train at the Weldon crossing in Roberts, Illinois.
--Photo KTH. June 2020.
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