by Phyllis Emery Skeats Copyright 2000
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The following is a survey of some of the early families in Hatley Village who arrived prior to 1900. Although some of these families did not actually live in the village, they were pioneers in the Township of Hatley who would have shared in the life of East Hatley, also known as Charleston in 1818, later to become the Village of Hatley. The name is also recorded as Hatley Borough in some documents. These inhabitants would have done their business, shopping, socializing and church going as well as participating in social happenings in the village.
The sources used for this survey include family genealogies, the St. Francis District vital statistics (1815-1879), vital statistics from the Stanstead Journal and the Sherbrooke Daily Record, B. F. Hubbard's Forests and Clearings, The Story of Hatley by Maude Gage Pellerin, Men of Today In the Eastern Townships, Planters of the Commonwealth by Charles E. Banks, and oral information from descendants still living in the area.
Not intended to be a complete genealogy of the following families, this survey deals with several members of some of the families who lived in the village of Hatley, and surrounding areas, in most cases commencing in the early to mid 1800s. In the case of some of the early families, there was not enough information available to include them in this book.
Sturtevant
The Sturdevant [Studevant, Sturtevant] family members who resided in Hatley Township in the early years were descendants of Samuel Sturdevant and his wife Ann [Hannah] Lee. Samuel was born about 1620, Ann in 1625. It is presumed the family emigrated to Massachusetts with descendants later removing to New Hampshire.
Samuel Sturtevant was the second son of Samuel and Ann Lee. He was born in 1654 and married 1st Mary [Mercy] Cornish and 2nd Elizabeth [Smith] Morrell. They were parents to nine children:
Mercy b 1676
Samuel (3rd) b 1677
Hannah b 1679
Nehemiah b 1681
William b 1683
James b 1688
Josiah 1690
John b 1692
Moses b 1695
Samuel Sturtevant 3rd, born in 1677, married Mary Prince [Price], born in 1685. They were parents to four children:
Desire b 1709
Lemuel b 1710/1711
Samuel b 1716
James b 1718
Lemuel Sturtevant, son of Samuel 3rd, was born in 1711. He married Deborah Bryant, born in 1720. They were parents to eleven children:
Desire b 1738
Mary b 1740
Jesse b 1742/3
Elsie 1745\
Deborah 1748
Samuel 1750
Huldah b 1752
Lucy 1754
Lemuel (Jr.) 1756
Jacob n.d.
Barzilla b 1763
Lemuel Sturtevant Jr. was born in 1756; he married Priscilla Thompson, born in 1760. They resided in Lyme [originally spelled Lime], County of Grafton, New Hampshire. Lemuel and Priscilla were parents to thirteen children:
Cyril b 1779 d 1866
Lemuel b 1781 d 1863
Priscilla b 1782 d 1822
Jairus b 1784 d 1867
Mary [Polly] b 1786 d 1849
Ezra Thompson b 1788 d 1872
Cyrus b 1789 d 1864
Huldah 1791 d 1870
Lucy b 1793 d 1843
Isaac Bryant b 1795 d 1797
Sarah Sally b 1798 d 1878
Deborah b 1799
Lydia b 1802 d 1871
Mary Polly Sturtevant, daughter of Lemuel and Priscilla, married Joshua Sawyer Woodman, born in 1789. They settled in Hatley where they raised their family [see the Woodman family]:
Mary Ann b 1812The children were mostly married in the Free-Will Baptist Church in Stanstead County, perhaps the Old North Church, which was Free-Will Baptist after 1828. It leads one to believe the family might have resided in Hatley for a time.
Mary Maria b 1813 m George Walker
Joshua Sawyer b 1815 m Florinda Bachelder
Eliza Jane b 1818 d 1820
Eliza J. b 1821 m Isaac Gordon Jr.
Caleb Thompson b 1821
Albert Alonzo b 1825 m Mary Jane Sanborn
Sarah Priscilla b 1828 m L.D. Parker
Mary Polly died in 1849 and Joshua married Arethusa Bicknell. Arethusa died in 1854, Joshua in 1865: "At Compton on March 10, 1865, Mr. Joshua S. Woodman, aged 76 years [Stanstead Journal]." Mary Polly and Joshua are both buried in the Old North Church Cemetery. Their daughter Eliza Jane [1818-1820] is also buried there.
Sarah Sally Sturtevant, daughter of Lemuel and Priscilla Thompson and sister of Mary Polly, was born in Lyme, New Hampshire in 1798. She married Jeremiah Leavitt, born in 1795, son of Jeremiah and Sarah Shannon Leavitt. In her own words, she wrote in her journal, commencing April 19, 1875: "I was born in the town of Lime, County of Grafton, New Hampshire and am now 76 years, seven months and fifteen days old. My father was Lemuel Sturdevant and my mother was Priscilla Thompson ...When I was 18 years old the Lord sent me a good husband. We were married at my father's house, March 6, 1817, in the town of Barton, County of Orleans, State of Vermont. The next June we moved to Canada, fifteen miles from the Vermont line..."
Her husband's parents were already living in Hatley; Sarah and her new husband would have joined them there. Jeremiah's father, Jeremiah Sr., died about 1817 and the family finally decided to remove to Utah. Sarah writes again in her journal: "From this time we set out in earnest and ready to start with the rest of the company July 20, 1835. The company was made up of the Leavitt family, Mother Sarah Shannon Leavitt and her children, consisting of twenty-three souls. Franklin Chamberlain, her oldest son-in-law, took the lead. He did not belong to the church, but his wife did." [Franklin Chamberlin married Rebecca Leavitt in 1820 in Hatley at the Anglican Church {i.e., the Old North Church}.]
Their children were born in Canada and the United States, those prior to 1835 in Hatley and the rest in the United States:
Ann b 1818 died an infant
Clarissa b 1819 died an infant
Louisa b 1820 d 1855 m William Jones
Jeremiah 3rd, b 1822 d 1878 in Utah
Lydia b 1823 d 1847 Weare b 1825 d 1847
Lemuel b 1827
Dudley b 1830 d 1908
Thomas Rowell b 1834 d 1890/91
Mary Amelia b 1832 m William Hamlin
Betsey b 1839 in Illinois; she was the 2nd wife of William Hamlin
Sarah Priscilla b 1841 at Nauvoo, Illinois
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