Mary Todd Lincoln Group of Todds
and the
Todds of New Jersey and Pennsylvania:July
2005, rev Oct 14, Mar 2006, Aug, Oct
2006, August 2019, May 5, 2020, June 2021
Richard K. McMurtry
Past essays about the Todds of New
Jersey and Pennsylvania contained many errors which this essay intends to
correct.
There were four groups of Todds
who came to colonial New Jersey.
1.
Todds of Somerset
County, New Jersey
2.
Todds of Hunterdon
Co, New Jersey
3.
Mary Todd Lincoln Group of Todds
(Philadelphia Co and Chester Co PA and Hunterdon Co NJ
4.
Possibly the Todds
who later settled in Mecklenburg Co NC
Arrival in
Somerset
County Todds; In the early days of the settlement of
northwest New Jersey, came a group of five brothers, William, John, James,
Andrew and Robert and an unnamed sister, who appeared in the Janeway Store
records in Somerset County New Jersey as early as 1735/1736 in Peapack and Baskingridge.[i] I assume that the Todds
in Somerset County in later years
(William d 1760, Andrew d 1781 and James d 1781) are three of these
brothers and that John and Robert removed from the county after 1739/41,the
last date that they appeared in the Janeway Store records. However, we don’t have birthdates for these
three Todds; so it is hard
to tell if they are the individuals of the Janeway Store records or the
offspring of that group. William d 1760
and Andrew Todd d 1781 appeared in Peapack, Bedminster Township, in landlord
and court records as early as 1744 – and remained in the county.[ii] James appears in records by 1755 in Bernards Township.[iii] Based on DNA genetic analysis, William d
1760, Andrew d 1781 and James d 1781 seem to have been either brothers or close
cousins to each other but not related to the Todds of
Hunterdon County, nor the Mary Todd Lincoln group of Todds,
nor the Mechlenburg Co NC Todds.[iv]
Mary Todd
Lincoln Group of Todds
The family tradition in the Mary Todd Lincoln family was
that Robert 1697-1775 and his half brother Andrew
came to New York and then Robert came on “immediately” to Philadelphia Co and
Andrew followed. Tax records show
Robert coming to Chester Co by 1755 and then Philadelphia County by 1760 and
Andrew Todd arriving in Chester County by 1760. Prior to Robert coming to Pennsylvania, a
William Todd and John Todd baptized their children at Abingdon and First
Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia Co between 1723 and 1738.
Though we have found no references to the family in early
New York, we do find William, John and
Robert, in Bethlehem Twp, Hunterdon Co sometime after 1744.[v] William appears in a trespass case there in
1745/1746. John appears on a court
docket in 1743[vi]; he later
encumbered a debt in 1748 and was summoned to court in 1757 to pay it off. John also was served some
time between October 1754 and March 1755 with an ejectment order for
land he apparently leased in
Curiously, the three in Hunterdon Co, William, John and
Robert, appear to have all been associated with the Abington Presbyterian Church
in Philadelphia County, PA. John and
William baptized their children at Abington Church between 1723 and 1738,
though they both seem to have switched churches to the First Presbyterian
Church in downtown Philadelphia, 12 miles further south of Abington, during an
interlude between 1729 and 1734.[ix] Also, Robert’s son David was married in
Abington in 1749 when the family was presumably living in Hunterdon County
based on the court records.[x]
How and why William and John managed to travel the 46 miles from
Bethlehem Twp to the Abingdon Church and to downtown Philadelphia to have their
children baptized is a bit puzzling.
And why David Todd traveled so far to be married in 1749 in Abington is
also puzzling. We assume this had
something to do with the “Great Awakening” that split Presbyterianism into factions
during the 1730s.
After 1749, the family appears to have dispersed. By 1750, William had moved to Augusta County,
Virginia[xi]; by 1756,
Robert had moved to Pikeland Township in Chester Co,
PA[xii]; by 1760, David Todd and Robert Todd Jr, both
sons of Robert Todd Sr had begun to get land grants in Philadelphia County[xiii]; by 1760,
Andrew Todd had bought land in Chester County, PA[xiv]; We do not know the fate of John Todd, nor
his relationship to Robert, Andrew and William. However, there are several possibilities
for the fate of this John.
We have a John Todd in the Abington church and 1st
Presbyterian Church records between 1724 and 1738. There is a John Todd in the New Jersey
Supreme Court records for actions in Hunterdon Co between1754 and 1757. There is also a John Todd in Sussex County in
1764[xv], Lastly, we have a John Todd d 1799 who shows
up in Mecklenburg Co NC by 1766 and the names of his children and relative ages
are similar to those of John Todd who appears in the Philadelphia County church
records. However, in order for John to
have had children at Abington
in the 1720s and died 1799, he would have to have been 99 years
old when he died. Not impossible, but a bit at the outer edges of
likelihood. We do not know which if any
of these four references are for the same John Todd and which are for a
different John Todd. But they could be
the same person.
In any event, we know that John Todd d 1799 Mecklenburg Co
NC was not a brother of the Mary Todd Lincoln group based on this DNA being 2
mutations different from the Mary Todd Lincoln group of Todds.
John Todd
of Philadelphia County, PA and John Todd of Mechlenburg
County NC
The John Todd who died in Mecklenburg Co NC in 1799 was
probably an Irish immigrant and probably from County Derry/Londonderry where
the same DNA pattern existed in Todds born in the
1780s and 1790s.
This family had DNA that was two mutations different from
the Mary Todd Lincoln family – implying a common ancestor no less than 50 years
before coming to America and possibly 100-200 years before. So the two families
were not close kin.
In previous years, I attempted to make the case that John
Todd d 1799 of Mecklenburg Co NC was the same person as the John Todd who
baptized children at the Abington Presbyterian Church beginning in 1725. I am no longer certain of this and hold it
out simply as a possibility.
Comparing the birth data of the first four children of John
of Mecklenburg Co with the births of John Todd in the Abington and First
Presbyterian Church shows a marked similarity.
The first name for the Todd birth entry for 1736 was a blank usually
indicating a repeat of the name above, but on one microfilm the name John was
written in. So
we are not sure if the name of this child was Alexander or John[xvi].
|
Abington Pres & 1st Pres |
John Todd 1712-1799 Family History |
|
|
|
|
James Todd, 2 May 1725 at Abington |
James abt 1733 |
|
Elizabeth Todd, 29 Jan 1726/27 at
Abington |
|
|
Mary Todd, 7 Dec 1729 at First
Presbyterian to John and Jane |
Polly abt 1736 |
|
Alexander Todd or John Todd, 2 Oct 1736,
at Abington |
John abt 1738 |
|
|
William H abt 1742 |
|
|
Hugh abt 17 |
|
|
Joseph 1749 |
|
|
Hannah abt 1750 |
|
|
Adam 1751 |
If we accept that the 1736 birth was for John and not
Alexander, then the first four names of the birth registers match the first
four names of the family history. We
also note the 7 year gap between Mary b 1729 whose
mother was Jane and John b 1736 whose mother is not identified but may be
Margaret Russell identified in the family history as the wife of John Todd in
Mecklenburg Co. This would suggest that
Margaret was a second marriage about 1735.
This linkage to Abington Presbyterian Church would require
that John Todd be at least 95 years old when he died in Mecklenburg Co in 1799,
assuming he was 20 years old when his first son was born. This seems somewhat doubtful though not
impossible.
Hunterdon
County NJ Todds
This family included:
David Todd 1730-1809, John Todd 1729-1802, and John Todd 1755-1820.
David and John were reported by a grandson of David to have
been brothers and to have come to America in 1749 when David was 18 years
old. David’s daughter Jane married
John Todd 1755-1820 who was reported to have been from Ireland. Since John b 1729 did not report a son John
in his will, we assume that John Todd was the son of a third brother who
possibly remained in Ireland.
Descendants of all three of these have the same DNA pattern,
but that pattern does not match the DNA pattern of the Somerset County Todds at all, and is 1 mutation from the pattern of the
Mary Todd Lincoln group of Todds and the Mechlenburg Co NC Todds.
David b 1731 lived in Tewksbury Township which was 15 miles
from Bethlehem Township, but right across the county line from Somerset
County. John b 1729 was in Hunterdon in
1780 but moved to Somerset County where he died. John b 1755 also moved to Somerset County
There is also evidence for other siblings of this John
1755-1820. There is a James Todd of the
1778 Hunterdon Co tax list may be the James Todd who bought land in Hardwick
Twp, Sussex Co in 1779 and sold it in 1789 and died there in 1790 with young
children. Further there is an Elizabeth
Todd who married David Wiley in 1768 and a Jane Todd who married Robert Caskey
in 1777. However, Jim Todd, a
descendant of William Todd d 1760 Somerset Co NJ, reported that Jane Todd Caskey
was buried in Lamington Churchyard, suggesting that this Jane was daughter of
William Todd d 1760, not the Hunterdon Co Todds.
Other Lost
Branches
There are two branches of the Todds
who could be Irish immigrants or could have some connection to the other Todd
families described above. These are Andrew Todd b abt
1758 d 1801 Tazewell
Andrew Todd b abt 1758 d 1801 was a single
man on tax lists in Hamilton Bann Twp in York County Pennsylvania in 1779 and
1781 and a married man in 1783. In 1782,
he married Elizabeth Sipes in Frederick Co MD and by 1787, he was living in
Rockingham Co, VA. By 1789, he was in a
portion of Washington Co, VA which later became Tazewell Co where Andrew died
in 1801.
(There is also a Patrick Todd (on the same 1781 York Co, PA
tax list as Andrew) who moved to Harford Co, MD who is considered to be a
brother of Andrew (though we have not been able to trace Patrick’s descendants
to get DNA samples) Andrew’s descendants DNA matches the Hunterdon Co Todds and is one mutation from the Mary Todd Lincoln group
of Todds AND the Mecklenburg Co Todds. So he could either
be an Irish immigrant or a descendant of a lost branch of the Mary Todd Lincoln
family or the Hunterdon Co NJ Todds.
The Big Y male DNA test conducted in 2021 indicated that
Andrew d 1801 was most closely related to the Mary Todd Lincoln Group of Todds, presumably through a descendant of a sibling or
cousin of Robert Todd 1697-1775 and Andrew d 1791.
James Todd was in Rockingham Co, VA in 1787 (same year as Andrew
appeared there) and in 1789 was in Augusta Co (Mossy Creek) where he died in
1799. James’ birth is estimated at 1750
based on his son George being born 1770-1775.
James’ descendant STR DNA matches the Mary Todd Lincoln group of Todds. But there is
no place on their tree for this James; hence he is most likely an Irish
immigrant. A Big Y Male DNA test
conducted in 2021 does not suggest a close relationship with the Mary Todd Lincoln
Todds.
Todds of the Janeway Store Records
The five Todd
brothers and an unnamed sister were listed in the Janeway Store account books
in Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey as early as Oct/Nov 1735 for
William, John and James, the following Feb for the Andrew and Robert and in
1737 for the sister.[xvii] William, John and Robert who lived in “Papack” (Peapack)
for certain years and James who lived in Baskenridge
for certain years. Andrew delivered
goods to John and William and received goods from James, John and William; so his residence is ambiguous.
William and John were closely associated with each
other. For the almost two
year period Oct 1735 to September 1737, they were named on a joint
account at the Janeway Store.
Afterwards, from Dec 1737 to March 1743, they appeared individually
except for jointly getting a bond in March 1738 and paying it off in full in
December 1744.
James Todd appears in the Janeway Store records in November
1735, only one month after William and John.
He last appears in July 1737.
Both Robert and Andrew appear a few months later than the
previous three brothers – in February 1735/1736. Neither takes out an account at the store at
this time, but rather deliver goods to or receive goods from others. Andrew continues to appear until January
1737/1738, but Robert gets his own account and records purchases in May to July
1739.
Bedminster Todds
The Todds of Bedminster Tonwship are best known for the battles of William Todd
against his landlords in the 1750s.[xviii]
William Todd d 1760
The first time they came to evict William and his family in
1753, they relented because William’s wife was still in bed after childbirth[xix]. But this was only a brief respite. They returned and despite William and his
friends and neighbors threatening violence, William and family were eventually
evicted and their home demolished.
Undaunted, William was determined to return to his land. He returned and rebuilt their home and
renegotiated a lease with the landlord.
They stayed on the land til 1760 when tragedy
struck again. William died, probably
only in his 40s and left a widow with few resources and a family of young
children, including John b 1739, George b 1753 and William Todd b 1755 and
possibly a Robert Todd born 1740s who moved to Dutchess
County New York prior to 1770.[xx] A Supreme
Court case in 1762 indicated that William’s widow was still in possession of a
parcel that Andrew and Lewis Johnston had transferred to a John Styles.
George and William served in the Revolution and remained in
the county.[xxi] William died in 1845; George in 1830.[xxii]
Deeds for land of George Todd reveal that George who died in
1830 had a widow Mary Todd and a son George Todd. George Todd also died in 1830 leaving land
to his brothers Robert C. Todd and William G. Todd. This William G. Todd married Catherine LNU
and moved to Whitewater Township, Franklin County Indiana. He sold his portion of the inherited lands
to his brother Robert C. Todd for $1. He left a son William G. Todd b 1810/1814
who lived in Franklin Co IN 1850 and 1860 and in Tipton Co IN in 1870. [xxiii]
Kenn Stryker-Rodda, a
professional genealogist and a descendant of William Todd d 1760, believed that
William’s son John was one of the “young children” mentioned in the landlord
records in 1760 and hence concluded that John Todd 1755-1820 was that son. However, DNA proves that the DNA of John Todd
1755-1820 doesn’t match the DNA pattern of William d 1760, Andrew d 1781 and
James d 1781 of Somerset County. The only other unaccounted for John Todd
living in Somerset County during this period was John Todd 1739-1823. Unlike John Todd b 1755, John b 1739 would
have been old enough in 1760 when his father died to go and talk with the
landlord about his mother’s situation. Furthermore,
a descendant of John b 1739 has DNA that matches the Somerset Co Todd
pattern. So I
conclude that William’s son John is John Todd 1739-1823.[xxiv]
John Todd
md Sarah Ismay
John Todd 1739-1823 died in Bedminster Township, and his DNA
matches another descendant of William Todd d 1760.
Their children were:
Eliz 1768, Jane 1770 (md Welsh), Elanor 1771 (m James Morrow), Mary 1773
(m John Van Doren), John 1776-1857 (m Ann Phenix), Ann 1778, Rebecca 1781
md Mullen, Sarah 1782 md John Royer, Esther 1785, Lydia 1787, Robert 1789,
William J. 1792-1870 md Rosannah Melick.
Since the Ismay family had lived
in Dutchess County New York, we have assumed that the
John Todd in the 1768 and 1769 tax lists of Dutchess County
may have been the John Todd who was born in Somerset County, married Sarah Ismay in Duthcess County and that
he returned to Somerset County after his marriage. This further supports the theory that Robert
Todd who married in 1770 in Dutchess County was a
brother of John who married Sarah Ismay. DNA from a descendant of Robert Todd of Dutchess County matches the DNA of the descendants of John Todd and
Sarah Ismay and the descendants of William Todd 1755-1845. The Descendants of William seem to
consistently have an STR DNA marker value of 29 in marker 449 whereas descendants
of Andrew d 1781 and James d 1781 seem to usually have an STR DNA marker value
of 28 for marker 449, i.e both of the two samples
from descendants of Andrew d 1781 and two of three samples for descendants of
James Todd d 1781 have a value of 28.
Andrew Todd
d 1781
Andrew Todd who lived only a mile away from William Todd of
the landlord battles seems to have fared much better. He negotiated leases and eventually purchased
over 200 acres of land which he divided when he died in
John b 1756 md Jane Caldwell 1779 d 1829 moved to Washington
County in upstate
Samuel b abt 1758 d 1816 (check
date). His children according to his
will were: Nancy, Daniel, Samuel, Andrew, John F., James S., Jos W. Daniel Todd was in
The only Todd who lived in Bernards
Township was James Todd died 1781.
I have assumed that he is the same person as the James Todd
who lived in Baskingridge in 1735-37 as documented in
the Janeway store records. However, we
are unable to precisely define the birthdates of his children and hence have
difficulty inferring whether James was old enough to have been shopping in the
Janeway store in 1735.
The only other old record we have for James appears in
Somerset County on a road survey record in 1755.[xxvii] His will in Bernards
Township in 1781 lists his wife Jemima (who died in 1809) and the following
children: James, Joseph, John, David,Robert, Mary (md MacTire),
Ann, Elenor, Dau? (m Alan
Cameron?).
Later deed and mortage records in
the 1780s show that the family lived near Greater Crossroads adjacent to the
Son John seems to have had a son James b 1782 who married in
1805 in Baskingridge Presbyterian Church to Betsy/Elizabeth
Anderson and went to Tompkins County, New York prior to 1810.[xxx] James and Elizabeth had a son James
Kirkpatrick Todd which makes us think that James b 1782 was the son of John and
Sarah Kirkpatrick.
Conclusion
This essay has sorted out the origins and relationships
between the many lines of Todds of colonial Somerset
and Hunterdon County. It has also listed
the second generation so that researchers trying to connect their
Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the Todd historians that have
gone before us and paved the way for this research:
Rev. Isaac Todd 1796-1885, descendant of David Todd
1731-1809
George W. Todd, descendant of David Todd 1731-1809
Emily Todd Helm, descendant of Robert Todd 1697-1775
Dr. Seymour Simeon Todd, descendant of Robert Todd 1697-1775
Arthur McFarland, descendant of Robert Todd 1697-1775
Carrie McLaughlin, descendant of John Todd 1755-1820
John Emmett Todd, 1853-1901, descendant of John Todd 1755-1820
Deanne Moreau Jackman, descendant of Andrew Todd d 1781
Kenn Stryker Rodda, descendant of William Todd d 1760
Bruce Baker, desc of John Todd 1712-1799 Mecklenburg Co, NC.
Also, to all those current researchers and DNA donors: Carol
Langford, George J. Todd, Adair Shephard, Kay Newland (Kotch), John Stratton
Todd, Richard Todd, Grantland Todd, Constance Christie, Morris Todd, Stephen
Thompson, Olive Todd (Mrs George W Todd), Kathryn
Gardner, G Peter Todd, Miles Todd, Dorothy Strafford. Also to “anonymous”
Todd who doesn’t like me to use his name because he disagrees with my
conclusions and methods but who has been of immense assistance in providing me
with the information that served as a point of departure in the research
leading to the results of this essay.
[i]
In February 1735, “John and
William Todd” delivered goods to “their brother Andrew” (page 579) and in Mar
1735, James Todd also delivered goods to “his brother Andrew” (page 595). In July 1739, William Todd delivered goods to
“his brother Robert” (page 133); In March 1737, John Todd
delivered goods to his sister (page 763).
“William Todd of Papack” is listed on the
account ledger from Oct 1738 to
[ii]
Andrew Johnston Journals,
[iii]
James appears in a
[iv] The DNA indicates that the Andrew and William had 1 mutation between them, and John Todd 1739-1823 has the same mutation as William. This suggests that William had the mutation and John b 1739 was his son. However, a descendant of James d 1781 has this same mutation; so a second sample of a second lineage of James d 1781 is needed to confirm that James had the same value for that DNA marker as Andrew d 1781. DNA shows a dozen mutations or so from the other New Jersey Todds; so they are not related. DNA samples from Robert Todd, son of James d 1781 are essential to confirm this interpretation of the data.
[v]
John McQuire vs William Todd, New Jersey Supreme
Court Case, 27139, 1745/1746, New Jersey State Archives: “To the Sheriff of our
county of Hunterdon, we command you to take William Todd otherwise ___ Todd of
ye Township of Bethleham in thee
Benjamin Armitage vs John Todd, Case 1751, May Term
1757, Hunterdon County New Jersey Inferior Court of Common Pleas: “May
term..1757..John Todd otherwise called John Todd of Bethelhem
Township in the county of Hunterdon in the province of New West Jersey, cooper
was summoned to answer Benjamin Armitage of a Plea that he render unto him the
sum of 19 pounds 17 shillings and 6 pence lawfull money
of Pensilvania which to ..he owes and from him
unjustly detains and whereupon the said Benjamin Armitage by William Pidgeon
his attorney saith that whereas the aforesaid John Todd the Eleventh day of May
in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty eight at Trenton
in the county of Hunterdon and within the Jurisdiction of this court by his
certain writing obligatory did grant him self to be
held and firmly bound unto the said Benjamin in the said sum of 19 pounds 17
shillings and 6 pence money aforesaid to be paid to the said Benjamin when he
the said John Todd should be thereunto required Nevertheless the aforesaid john
Todd hath often required..the aforesaid 19 pound 17
shillings and 6 pence unto him the said Benjamin Armitage hat no t as yet paid the same o time as yet to pay he the said
John Todd hitherto altogether hath refused and still doth refuse to the damage
of him the said Benjamin Armitage Ten Pounds proclamation money and thereof he
brings this suit.. and brings here into Court the writing obligatory aforesaid
which the debt aforesaid in form aforesaid. Witnesseth
the date whereof is the same day and year aforesaid. …John Todd of
Peter Kembel vs Robert Todd,
Case 1321, February Term 1755, Hunterdon County New Jersey Inferior Court of
Common Pleas: “February term 1755..Robert
Todd otherwise called Robert Todd of Bethlehem Township in the county of
Hunterdon and Province of New Jersey was summoned to answer of Peter Kemble of
a plea of that he render unto him the sum of eight pounds one shilling and two
pence ..whereas the said Robert the … day of April 1753 at
[vi]
[vii]
New Jersey Supreme Court Case 20116, “Andrew Johnston, John Stevens and James
Parker the tenth day of October “(1754) “at Bethlehem in the county of
Hunterdon” sued a fictitous
person referred to as “Richard Fen” for illegally possessing “500 acres of
arable land, 500 acres of pasture land, 500 acres of woodland and 500 acres of
Meadowland” “situate .. in
[viii]
[ix] Abington Presbyterian Church baptisms and marriage records, LDS microfilm #______
[x] Early Pennsylvania Marriages, source??
[xi]
Deed Records of Augusta County per Lyman Chalkley, Chronicles of the
Scotch-Irish Settlement in
[xii]
Index to
[xiii] Land Warrants of
David Todd,accept ,150acres,
Robert Todd, Jr, accept, 200 acres,
David Todd, accept,44.56 acres, 7 mar 1765,
David Todd, accept, 134.115 acres,
[xiv] Deed Records of Chester County, PA (need to dig out the book and page number)
[xv]
[xvi]
Alexander Todd that appears in later
The Supreme Court record is in relation to the Sharp family into which an Alexander Todd married a Polly Sharp in 1770. Alexander was in business dealings with Polly’s father in Sussex Co NJ.
Alexander appears on a Philadelphia tax list in 1769 and had a son William Hepburn Todd who married in Philadelphia in 1795.
Todd, Alex vs Sharp, Samuel (Ex.), Case 41530, 1789; Todd, Alex vs Sharp, Edward, Case 41531, 1790; Todd, Alex vs Sharp, Elizabeth, Case 41532, 1790; The Samuel Sharp case had to do with Samuel executor of the estate of Samuel’s father Anthony Sharp of Gloucester Co. who owed Alexander money.
[xvii] Janeway Store records are contained in microfilm in the Special Collections Dept of Rutgers University Library. A published index is available also.
[xviii] The story of William Todd and his battles with the landlord are in two places: The Somerset County Historical Quarterly (get exact title, date, volume, pages); a manuscript of Kenn Stryker-Rodda in the possession of the Somerset County Genealogical Society which includes excerpts from a court case involving William Todd.
[xix] The childbirth story is in the Styker-Rodda manuscript.
[xx] The Johnston Journals mention John Todd as son of William Todd. Kenn Stryker-Rodda manuscript gives a rationale for George and William also being sons of William Todd. He gives John’s birth as 1755 which misled me to think that this was John Todd 1755-1820, but DNA shows that John Todd 1755-1820 was from Hunterdon County NJ group of Todds and not the Somerset County NJ Todds.
[xxi] William or George has a revolutionary war pension application that makes reference to the other brother.
[xxii] William’s gravestone says died 1845 age 90 per Somerset County Historical Quarterly (check title).
[xxiii]
Sept 8, 1831: Release of Dower Catharine Todd wife of William G. Todd: Whereas George Todd, late of the Township of
Bedminster did by his last will..8 June 1830..dispose of all his real Estate
lying and being in the aforesaid township of Bedminster..1/3 part ..to his
widow Mary Todd during her widowhood..the remaining
2/3 the use of to his son George and after the death of his said widow Mary
Todd the remaining one third also to his son George all during life and at his
death incase he leaves no lawful ..sire then the said
real estate to descend and be equally divided between his surviving brothers
and whereas George Todd (the son) after the death of his father (the Testator)
.entered in the possession and enjoyment of the Estate. and whereas George Todd
(the son) departed this life in the month of October last past leaving no
lawful issue and whereas by virtue of the will of George Todd (the father( aforesaid the two brothers via William G. Todd and
Robert C. Todd surviving their brother George have entered into the possession
of the real Estate..and whereas the said William G.
Todd did on. 27 Nov 1830 sell unto his brother Robert C. Todd..all his equal undivided half part of all that
farm and plantation owned and held by them..
William G. Todd at the time of conveyance did reside in the state of New Jersey ..being a married man and whose wife resides in the state of Indiana(named Catharine Todd)..I Catharine Todd of the Township of Whitewater and County of Franklin and State of Indiana..wife of aforesaid William G. Todd. for $1..quitclaim interest to Robert C. Todd.
[xxiv]
Morris Todd of
[xxv]
Will of Andrew Todd, 1781,
[xxvi] Ibid
[xxvii] Somerset County Road Book (need volume, page,date)
[xxviii] Need to get deed references
[xxix] Sharilyn Whitaker has researched this family or knows of folks who have.
[xxx] Kathryn Gardner has researched this family.