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TIFFANY LINE:
1-Henry Tiffany b. abt. 1577, Yorkshire Eng.
2-Henry Tiffany, b. Aug. 21, 1603, St. John Parish, of Hackney, London, Eng. d. Oct. 30, 1638
3-Humphery Tiffany, b. June 4, 1630, Yorkshire, Eng.
4-James Tiffany, died June 28, 1732, Attleboro, MA, m. Bethia (?), d. Feb. 27, 1710
5-James Tiffany, b. 1697, Attleboro, MA, d. Oct. 1776 in Attleboro, m. Elizabeth
ALLEN, Nov. 11, 1725, d. Aug. 1, 1796.
6-Gideon Tiffany, b. Sept. 19, 1737, Attleboro, MA, m. Sarah DEAN FARRAR, b. abt. 1738, Norton, MA, m. Feb. 3, 1759, Norton, MA. He produced several news papers.
7-Sylvester, b. Aug. 9, 1759, m. Francis DAVIS HOPKINS.
Sylvester was also a newspaper man. (Our Line) It is his
brother Gideon, who is in Keene, NH mentioned earlier and
he married Hannah (Ruth) TOMLINSON. His children were
born in Delaware, Ontario, Canada
Sylvester Tiffany is the gg-grandson of Humphery Tiffany (Henry -2, Henry-1) who
was born June 4, 1630, in Yorkshire, England and died July 15, 1685 in ``betwix Swansey and Boston strok by lightening.´´ Swansea, MA, Bristol Co. He m. Elizabeth (?)
- ``Att the General Court holden att Plymoth the frist day of March, Anno Dom 1663. ``Humphrey Tiffany made a complaint against an Indian for abuse receivede.´´
- ``Humphrey Tiffany, Rehoboth, 1663, by wife Elizabeth had Sarah, b. July 6, 1683, and was inhabited of Dover for some time, killed July 15, 1685, on Journey bettween Swanzey and Boston were slain with lighting with Frances LOW.´´--written by Savage.
- ``Hezeiah, the son of Humphery Tiffany and of Elizabeth his wife, was drowned in Swansey River on the 4th of December near night, anno 1689´´ From town records.
- From the Viatl Records of Rehoboth, page 917, Humphery Tiffany´s heirs are quoted as proprietors not inhabitants, Feb. 7, 1689, of property in Rehoboth.
- The emigration of the sons of Humphery Tiffany was for a time limited to short distances. We hear of James at Attleboro, MA 1693: Thomas, his brother, first at Bristol, then at Ashford:
Ebenzer, (m. Elizabeth) another brother, at Barrington, R.I: Consider and Ephraim seem to have found their way to the town of New Shoreham, which town was admitted to the Colony as Block Island, May 4, 1664. Here, per New Shoreham records furnished by town clerk of New Shoreham - Consider Tiffany and Abigail NILES were married and had children. Here also his brother, Ephraim and wife Leshia, (was also married #2 Mary DAVIS and #3 Dethia)) and had issue. They also had sisters Elizabeth, and Sarah. and brothers Thomas and James. (by Savage)
History and biographical record of Lenawee County, Michigan: By William A. Whitney, Richard Illenden Bonner
JUDGE ALEXANDER R. TIFFANY was horn in Niagara, )[ Canada, October 16th, 1796. His father, Sylvester Tiffany, son of Dr. Gideon Tiffany and Sarah Dean, was born in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, previous to the Revolutionary war. There is a tradition among the Tiffany family that their ancestors came from Italy about four hundred ago, and settled in England. They were cloth-makers, or silk-weavers, rather. The name ``Tiffany´´ undoubtedly comes from their occupation, as the word when translated, means thin silk. Webster defines the word:-´´ a species of gauze, or very thin silk.´´ Dr. Gideon Tiffany and Sarah Dean, his wife, came to this country and settled in Norton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. In order to give his children an education, he moved to New Hampshire, where his sons Gideon, Sylvester, George and Oliver, were educated at Dartmouth College. About the year 1792, the sons went to Canada, and Gideon and Sylvester published the first newspaper in the
Province of Upper Canada, under the patronage of Governor Simcoe, at Niagara.
Sylvester Tiffany married Miss Elizabeth Ralston, who was of English-Scotch parents,
and subsequently went to the State of New York, and first settled at the `` landing,´´ near the present city of Rochester, expecting that would soon become a place of importance. He moved from there to Canada, which was then the centre of political and social influence in Western New York. Here he established a newspaper, and his son Alexander, the subject of this sketch, before he was tall enough to stand on the floor and reach the type in the case, would sit on a high stool and set type for the paper. The Canadian Constellation, established by the Tiffany brothers, above alluded to, passed away about the beginning of the present century. A few years ago a copy of the paper was exhibited in the Canadian Parliament by William Lyon McKenzie, as a valuable relic. Alexander R. Tiffany, the subject of this sketch, learned the art of printing, with his father, in Canandaigua, New York, and being a very
studious young man, commenced the study of the law, and became a student in the office of the Hon. John C. Spencer, at that time one of the ablest and best lawyers in New York, and who was subsequently Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State.
The history of freemasonry in Canada, from its ..., Volume 1, Part 1 By John Ross Robertson
In Mrs. Simcoe´s diary is the following brief entry: `` Navy Hall. I5th May, 1796. Whit Sunday. Coll. Butler buried.´´
Page: Bro. William McKay, the Deputy Grand Secretary, resided in Kingston, and was a member of lodge No. 6. For the convenience of the brethren living east of York, in the Midland district, he was appointed Deputy Grand Secretarv (on the 14th December,
a letter from R. W. Bro. Sylvester Tiffany, the Grand Secretary at Niagara, written to R. W. Bro. Jarvis, contains amongst other matters a reference to this new appointment. Bro. Tiffany writes:
`` I must inform you likewise that W. McKay, Esq., of Kingston, is appointed Deputy Grand Secretary. Any orders you may have to make to the lodges eastward may be done thro´ him.´´
The Provincial Grand Lodge in this matter, as in many others, had acted without consultation with the Provincial Grand Master. The first mention of Bro. McKay´s name is found at the head of the warrant of the Grand Master´s lodge in 1796, in which he is mentioned as `` Grand Junior Warden.´´ In the proceedings of the Provincial Grand Lodge of 18oo there is mentioned `` W. Bro. John McKay, Grand Junior Warden,´´ and also the record of the appointment of R. W. Bro. Wm. McKay, as Deputy Grand Secretary. His signature is not found in any documents
connected with Grand Lodge. He was a government official and the W. M. of No. 6, at
Kingston in 1795. He was also the bearer of the warrant of that lodge, when it was exchanged for the dispensation under which it worked until June, 1796. Bro. McKay died in March, 1801, and was buried with Craft honors by lodge No. 6.
Bro. Sylvester Tiffany who succeeded Bro. Davenport Phelps as Grand Secretary was the brother of Mr. Gideon Tiffany, both of Niagara. They were publishers of the Upper Canada Gazette, or American Oracle, the first newspaper published in Upper Canada, and the official organ of the government.
Bro. Sylvester Tiffany was a member of the New England branch of the Tiffany family. Humphrey Tiffany, the founder of the American branch, was born in 1628, and came to America in 1663, settling at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He was killed by lightning in 1685. Sylvester, who was the great-great-grandson of Humphrey, was born at Norton, Bristol county, Massachusetts, on August gth, 1759. He was twice married, his first wife being Frances Hopkins, his second, Elizabeth Ralston, of Keene, New Hampshire. Eight children survived him. Bro. Tiffany left Canada about 1803, and moved to Canandaguia, N.Y., and there established a newspaper. He ceased his connection as Grand Secretary in 1802 as R. W Bro Jermyn Patrick held that office in 1804, and R. W. Bro. Wm. Emery held the same office in the schismatic Grand Lodge at Niagara in November, 1803. Bro. Sylvester Tiffany was the
granduncle of Bro. E. H. Tiffany, of Alexandria, Ontario.
RALSTON LINE
Keene, NH History, Town History -
Alexander RALSTON was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1755; married Janet (Janey)
BALLOCH, of the same place. Her family was one of rank and they opposed the match, but she escaped with her lover, and they were married, by the Rev. M. Etiherson, of Falkirk, Dec. 10, 1767. (Falkirk records.) She was then eighteen years of age. They came to this country in 1773, and to Keene, NH in 1775. He owned and kept - probably built - the Ralston Tavern, elsewhere described, and he also owned several farms and much other real estate in and about the village. He had a distillery on Packersfield Road, and for several years was the largest taxpayer in town. Ralston Street was named for him.
Their children were: 1.) Mary, b. 1768, in Falkirk, Scotland, married Elijah DUNBAR, of Keene, NH.
2.) Elizabeth, b. 1770, in Falkirk, and married Sylvester TIFFANY.
3.) Janette, b. 1773, in Charlestown, MA, married Ithamar CHASE.
4.) Hannah, b. 1775, in Keene, married Jonathan CHASE, of Cornis, NH.
5.) Alexander, b. 1778, in Keene (in trade with Wm. M. Bond and went to Claremont). 6.) Ann, b. in1781, in Keene, died young.
7.) James B. b. 1783, in Keene.
8.) Nancy, b. 1785, in Keene,and married William M. BOND, of Keene.
9.) Sally, b. 1788, in Keene, married James H. BRADFORD of Keene,
10.) William.
Mrs. Janet RALSTON was a very talented woman, and her daughters were noted
for their beauty and brilliance. ``Mrs. Ralston told my father, Abijah METCALF, that
when she came from Scotland she brought her stockings full of gold.´´ (Dea. William
Metcalf.) After the death of her husband, Alexander, in 1819, she lived for many years in one of her own houses, on Main Street, where the ``Appleton House´´ now stands, but was at Cornish with her daughter, Mrs. Jonathan CHASE, when she died in 1833.
Alexander was also a Mason: From the history of Keene, NH:
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Grand Lodge, among others, had chartered Rising
Sun Lodge, No. 4 at Keene, NH, March 5, 1784, with Asa DUNBAR, Esq. as its first
Master. The charter of dispensation was signed by John Warren, most Worshipful Grand Master, Paul Revere, Deputy Grand Master, and other Masons of note, and was issued to ``Daniel Jones, Asa Dunbar, Alexander Ralston, Samuel Smith, Prentice Willard, Luther Eames, Jonas Prescott, Benjamin Ellis and Josiah Goldsmith, all Ancient, Free and Accepted Mason, resident in New Hampshire.´´ Among the places where meetings were held may be mentioned the Phoenix Hotel, the Ralston Tavern, the hall over the brick store now the southern addition of the Eagle Hotel, and the house now owned by George Tilden, Esq. on Court street, which was moved from Main street, near the Eagle Hotel, to its present location many years ago. The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire was organized July 8, 1789, when there were but three lodges in the state, viz: St. John´s (1736), and St. Patrick´s at Portsmouth, and Rising Sun No. 4 at Keene. This fact may account for the change in the number of Rising Sun Lodge to No. 3 on the Grand Lodge.
It was said of Elizabeth ``Betsy´´ that she was very set in her ways and only for the fact
that ``great-uncle´´ Joshua was a very kind and quiet, or they would not have had much
harmony. In 1852 they were living in a one-story frame house on the southeast half of
Lot 14, together with their unmarried son John, b. 1810. On Sept. 6, 1856 Joshua and
Betsy are still in Caradoc, possibly he was very ill from the argue. The next year 1857
Betsey and her son John appear on the West Albany census without Joshua.
1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
Record for Silvester Applegarth
Listed on this census:
Name: Born:
Christopher DOWLING - Ireland
Marther Ireland
Joshua Applegarth England 73 Born: 1814
Betsy Utah
John Canada 42
Elizabeth Lawyer Canada
Augustus Lawyer, Dr. Utah Mormon
Silvester Applegarth Canada
Helen ? Applegarth Canada
Nauban ? Canada
Henry ``
Adoline ? ``
Edmond ``
Elizabeth ``
Clancey ``
Francis ``
Hugh Fuller Canada - School Teacher
Hannah Fuller
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Elizabeth (Betsy) Tiffany was born in 1787 in Albany, New York. She married Joshua (Baker) Applegarth in 1810 in New York. They had five children in 11 years. She died in 1860 in Wabasha, Minnesota, at the age of 73.
Family Relationships
Children
John Applegarth
+ 4 Children
William Applegarth
Sylvester Applegarth
Elizabeth Applegarth
George Augustus Applegarth
Elizabeth (Betsy) Tiffany
Spouse
Joshua (Baker) Applegarth
Parents
Unknown Father
Unknown Mother
Locations
Birth
Elizabeth (Betsy) Tiffany was born in 1787 in Albany, New York.
1787 • Albany, New York, United States
1810
AGE 23
Marriage
Elizabeth (Betsy) Tiffany married Joshua (Baker) Applegarth in New York in 1810 when she was 23 years old.
Joshua (Baker) Applegarth
1779-1857
1810 • New York, United States
1810
AGE 23
Birth of Son
Her son John was born in 1810 in Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada.
John Applegarth
1810-1876
1810 • Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada
25 JUN
1812
AGE 25
Birth of Son
Her son William was born on June 25, 1812, in Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada.
William Applegarth
1812-1872
25 Jun 1812 • Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada
26 APR
1814
AGE 27
Birth of Son
Her son Sylvester was born on April 26, 1814, in Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada.
Sylvester Applegarth
1814-
26 Apr 1814 • Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada
1817
AGE 30
Birth of Daughter
Her daughter Elizabeth was born in 1817 in Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada.
Elizabeth Applegarth
1817-1910
1817 • Upper Canada Village, Ontario, Canada
1821
AGE 34
Birth of Son
Her son George Augustus was born in 1821 in Ontario, Canada.
George Augustus Applegarth
1821-1870
1821 • Canada West, Canada
1857
AGE 70
Death of Husband
Her husband Joshua (Baker) passed away in 1857 in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 78. They had been married 47 years.
Joshua (Baker) Applegarth
1779-1857
1857 • London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
AFTER
1860
AGE 73
Death
Elizabeth (Betsy) Tiffany died in 1860 in Wabasha, Minnesota, when she was 73 years old.
after 1860 • Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA