Book/Periodical Name: The Border Warfare of New York During the Revolution, or, Annals of Tryon County
Author: William W. Campbell
Publisher: Baker & Scribner
Volume:
Date: 1849
Page:
Repository: www.rootsweb.com/~nyalbany/book/Contents.html
Detail: PDF. cross-reference Valeria’s DAR application?
Book
Source 168 – Book: Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill
Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The “War Memories” of John Henry Otto
Author: John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Pvt. Nelson B. Draper of Ellington, Wisconsin, enlisted August 12, 1862. He mustered out June 8, 1865.
Source 141 – Book: A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, MI (George S. Thomas)
Book/Periodical Name: A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, MI
Author: Henry Franklin Thomas, Lewis Publishing Company, 1907
Publisher:
Volume:
Date:
Repository: URL: https://books.google.com/books?id=tBgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA350&lpg=PA350&dq=george+s+thomas+dorr+mi&source=bl&ots=YpzpiGe86t&sig=oWqiO4YHA-KH7Agx2Xd3PUtZj9g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcycLI9bHJAhXMJh4KHXGYBpMQ6AEILzAD#v=onepage&q&f=false
Detail: full excerpt on George S. Thomas is in booklet
P. 349
George S. Thomas – One of the prominent and honored early settlers of Allegan county is the gentleman whose name introduces this review.
Source 092 – Book: The Settlers of Beekman Patent
Author: Frank Doherty,
Title: The Settlers of Beekman Patent, Dutchess Co, NY
Publisher:
Publication date:
Page numbers: 885
The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, a newly formatted and updated database featuring Frank J. Doherty’s groundbreaking work, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent.
The Settlers of the Beekman Patent contains data on over thirteen hundred families who settled in the Beekman Patent, an original land grant given to Col. Henry Beekman in 1697 by the English Crown and the second largest patent in present-day Dutchess County. Many emigrants from New England lived in and passed through the Beekman Patent on their way west. Others, such as the Palatines and Quakers (almost all from New England), were early settlers and remained for several generations or more. The area of study includes the towns of Beekman, Dover, LaGrange (part), Pawling (including Quaker Hill), and Union Vale.
Volumes 1 through 7 contain Beekman Patent families Abbot to Leavens as well as all early information on the Patent including the lease system, town records, and Revolutionary War records.
Source 119 – Book: History of Ionia County, MI
Author: Rev. Elam E. Branch
Title: History of Ionia County, MI
Publisher: B.F. Bowen & Company
Publication Date: 1916
Page Numbers: 551
URL: https://archive.org/details/historyioniacou01brangoog
www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/text/text-idx?c=micounty;idno=ARH7564.0002.001
Dedication: To the dear, departed ones, whose busy hands changed the giant forests into fertile fields; whose love of home established the hearthstones, the tender ties of which yet bind together the heartstrings of the native born; whose patriotism gave the best of their lives and substance for the defense of their country; whose graves make sacred the soil their feet so often trod.
Page 317 – Free & Accepted Masons, Ionia Lodge 36, E.E. Branch, Chaplain
Page 315 – May 13, 1912, Ionia Building & Loan Association’s first directors elected, including E.E. Branch
Page 402 – F.E. Branch, present pastor (1916) of First Baptist Church of Ionia
Page 519 – Young Men’s Christian Association – Among others, E.E. Branch urged the need of organizing a Young Men’s Christian Association
Source 120 – Book: History of Van Buren County
Author: Captain O.W. Rowland
Title: A History of Van Buren County, MI: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its Principal Interests
Publisher: Lewis Publishing
Publication Date: 1912
Page Numbers: 671
URL: https://archive.org/details/ahistoryvanbure01rowlgoog
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Chapter XI – Birge’s Sharpshooters
Chapter XXX (543-563) – Township of Lawrence; The Branch family
p. 544 – Lawrence was settled in 1835. John Allen founded the village of Mason, named in honor of Governor Mason, but which was afterward platted and called Lawrence.
p. 546 – Eaton Branch came to Lawrence from Ann Arbor the same year (1835). Eaton died 7 January 1891. His sons: Elam, Francis, Luther (soldiers in Civil War).
Israel was a brother of Eaton, was a cooper by trade, came to Lawrence in 1836, died in 1873.
Luther was a brother of Eaton, was a cooper by trade, came to Lawrence in 1837, died in 1845.
Vine Branch – father of Eaton, Israel, and Luther, resident of Lawrence in 1836, died in 1852.
Chapter XXXI (564-590) – Township of Paw Paw