Floyd Cemetery Floyd, Oneida County, New York
Draper, Cynthia, b. 1787, d. 02 Mar 1867, age: 80yrs 5mos 11dys
Draper, Nathan, b. 1781, d. 05 Mar 1836, age: 57yrs
Draper, Nathan C.
Source 001 – Family Record: Drapers by Valeria Nelson
Author: Valeria Louise (Nelson) Nelson
Title: Family Record of the Drapers
Date: undated
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note: eight pages; found in family papers of Helen J. (Thomas) Hoorn of Byron Center, MI
Deaths:
23 May 1877 Draper, Amos P age 87
03 August 1889 Draper, Orvilla age 89
21 August 1868 Brooks, Charles
13 December 1788 Draper, Harry
13 August 1803 Draper, Polly
10 May 1848 Draper, Eleazer
03 July 1848 Draper, Hannah Palmer
30 December 1860 Draper, John
31 August 1868 Brooks, Eliza D.
04 February 1876 Draper, Lawton
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“Gideon Draper [Gideon Draper Sr] the first to found our part of the family. He married at Roxbury, MA, on April 22, 1713. Abigail Aldis. He had 10 children, one of whom was the Gideon [Gideon Draper Jr] that we think founded our branch of the family. Our Gideon was born in Dedham, MA, August 25, 1722 , and died at Dover, NY, 1778.
The first Gideon’s father was James Draper who was born at Roxbury, MA, 1654, and died there April 30, 1698. He married February 18, 1681. Abigail Whiting. This James was a son of James Draper who came from England, about the year 1647. His wife was Miriam Stansfield. He and she were both born in the village of Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England.
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He was born in 1618, and she was born November 27, 1625, and both died in Roxbury and their graves and gravestones are well preserved. James Draper Sr, born 1618, wife Miriam Stansfield born November 27, 1625, in Heptonstall, Yorkshire, England. James Draper Jr born 1654 at Roxbury, MA, and died there April 30, 1698. He was married to Abigail Whiting, February 18, 1681.
Gideon Draper Sr birth unknown, was married at Roxbury, MA, April 22, 1713, to Abigail Aldis. Gideon Draper Jr born in Dedham, MA, August 25, 1722, and died at Dover, NY, 1778.
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Great-great-grandfather Ebenezer Draper born January 21, 1747.
Hannah Spicer born October 29, 1751.
Ebenezer Draper and Hannah Spicer were married March 10, 1767
Mary Draper born May 11, 1768
John Draper born July 1, 1770
Lemual Draper born January 17, 1773; d December 15, 1776
Hannah Draper born January 15, 1775
Ruth Draper born May 16, 1778; d September 14, 1779
Benj Draper born August 10, 1779
Millie Draper born September 21, 1781
Elizabeth Draper born December 16, 1788
Oliver B. Draper born February 26, 1786
Sarah Draper born May 20, 1788
Caty Draper born June 24, 1790
Nancy Draper born February 15, 1792
Barrett Draper born July 22, 1794
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John Draper (great grandfather) born July 1, 1770
Hannah Palmer Draper (great grandmother) born November 15, 1767
Harry Draper born December 28, 1787 (Dutchess Co, NY)
Ebenezer Draper born Sept 17, 1789
Amos P. Draper born June 22, 1791 (Dutchess Co, NY)
Polly Draper born June 22, 1794
Eleazer Draper born January 23, 1797 (Connecticut) – Twins
Eliza Draper born January 23, 1797 (Connecticut) – Twins
Orvilla Draper born May 2, 1800 (Connecticut)
Lawton Draper born January 19, 1803 (Connecticut)
Deaths:
30 December 1860 Draper, John Westmoreland 90 yrs
02 July 1848 Draper, Hannah P [Valeria listed 3 July 1848 earlier]
3 December 1788 Draper, Harry
13 August 1803 Draper, Polly
10 May 1848 Draper, Eleazer
31 August 1868 Draper, Eliza (Brooks)
04 February 1876 Draper, Lawton
23 May 1877 Draper, Amos P
03 August 1889 Draper, Orvilla 89 years
21 August 1868 Brooks, Charles (husband of Eliza Draper)
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Draper, Ebenezer b 17 September 1789; d 05 August 1867; m 06 January 1814
Draper, Sarah Beckwith b 27 May 1787; d 13 July 1852
Draper, Nancy J b 28 September 1814
Draper, Joseph b 26 July 1817; d 27 July 1817
Draper, Mary b 26 July 1817; d 29 July 1817
Draper, John F. b 08 April 1819; m 06 August 1893 (Harriett N. Howe) [Harriet died in 1868, though]
Draper, Hannah P. b 07 October 1821
Draper, Nelson B. b 13 December 1823; m 21 November 1855 (Sarah Spencer)
Draper, Nathan C b 24 February 1828 (twins); m 08 January 1854 (Julia Longfit)
Draper, Esther Ann b 24 February 1828 (twins)
Draper, Nancy J m 28 January 1834 (Moses Nelson)
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Draper, Barrett d 27 October 1815
Draper, John d 30 December 1860 90 years
Draper, Hannah Spicer d 27 October 1817
Draper, Ebenezer d 29 March 1825
5 boys Joseph, Ebenezer, Harry, Lenica, and Jesse Brownell. (Polly-nickname) Mary Brownell. Joseph Brownell and Hannah. Hannah Baker. 3 children…(confusing…)
Gideon Draper great-great-great-great grandfather, father of Ebenezer and Gideon, died October 1799. Wife of Gideon great-great-great-great-grandmother (name unknown) died March 1814.
Millie drowned in a well.
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Nelson, Nancy J. d 03 March 1903 (Paw Paw, MI) 88 years
Draper, Esther Ann d 17 May 1843 (Westmoreland) 15 years
Draper, Nelson B d 25 October 1880 (Appleton, WI) 57 years
Draper, John F d 01 February 1897 (Taberg, NY) 78 years
Draper, Nathan C d 15 December 1903 (Merrifield, VA) 75 years
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When our trials are all ended
Our mistakes are in the past
And the glories comprehended
When we reach our home at last.
We shall have the satisfaction
Jesus knows our hearts the best
Knows our thoughts and every action
Takes our sins and gives us rest.
We shall know as Jesus knows us
Numbered in that blood-washed throng,
We shall shout glad hallelujahs
To our king in praise and song.
Source 035 – Personal Letter by Nathan C. Draper
Author: Nathan C. Draper of Washington DC
Title: Letter to “Sister” [Nancy J. (Draper) Nelson]
Date: July 1856
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
Washington DC
July, 1856
Dear Sister [Nancy J Nelson]
I received your letter last Sunday the 6 of July. I have been thinking of writing to you for a long time, but I did not know where to direct a letter so I did not write. You have been moving about so much I could not keep track of you. My health has been very good this year past. Julia is not so good. She is very bilous. She has had the chills and fever this summer and that is enough to kill any person.
Sister, since I commended this letter I have been very sick with the chills and fever. I have had the chills and fever before for over a year off and on, but I think I never was sick than I have been this spell. My fever are so hard that am out of my head the most of the time. Washington is more subject to chills and fever than any place I ever saw or heard of. The oldest settlers here say there has been more of that complaint this last two years than ever before. But I have been taking medicine till I have got the bile pretty well out of my stomach. I feel better now than I have before for the last two months and as my work is very light to what it used to be a year ago. I think I shall get along now.
The man that I was at work for a year ago has failed in business and cheated his creditors out of all he owed them and all his journeymen lost some, I among the rest lost $38. But since I left him I have been at work for Mr. Baldwin and Brothers. They have a large Machine Shop where they run all kinds of Machinery for manufacturing all kinds of Carpenter work such as doors, sash, blinds, brackets, and moldings and many other things. They employ me a sash and pivot blind maker that is all I have to do and that is very light work. I do all of it by machinery except put it together. So the labor on that work is very light.
Dear sister, have read your letter over and over again and again there is something in it I do not understand. Do not the old school Baptist believe and put there whole trust in God. I used to hear my mother [Sarah Beckwith Draper] say, trust in the Lord for he doeth all things well and with out him we can do nothing. You say in your letter amidst the cares of earth you hope I will not neglect the one most needful. Also if I have not sought an interest in Jesus let it be my first care. What can I do with out the help of the God that rules all things. I know I am a sinner but can I ask to be forgiven until there is an impression made on my mind. If I am among the number that the Lord has chosen there will be a time when it will be manifested to me.
Sister, when you write to me again tell me if I am right or wrong in my opinion of the doctoring of the old School Baptist. There is one meeting house here and we have preaching every Sunday nearly. The Elders name is Purington from Maine. I take the Sines of the Times, so I have letters written by some of our old acquaintance and I do not recollect of hearing any one of them say do this or do that or you will be doomed. I do not think you mean so but you know the Methodist say so. Sister, I just write this to get your opinion what I can do to seek an interest in Jesus.
Is not that a work of God? Sister, I will drop the subject for I cannot express myself here on paper (I will number the pages for I commenced wrong on the second page). Sister, I wish it was so we could see each other once more. I should like to see your children very much, but unless they come here I shall probably never see them. I am very sorry to hear of your bad health. Also of Moses [Nancy’s husband] poor health for I do think good health is the greatest blessing that ever was bestowed on a person.
Remember me to all, Moses in particular. This from your Brother NC Draper
Please write as soon as convenient
Source 034 – Personal Letter by Nathan C. Draper
Author: Nathan C. Draper of Washington DC
Title: Letter to “Brother and Sister” [Moses Nelson Jr and Nancy J. (Draper) Nelson]
Date: 21 November 1852
Curator: Christine Fisher
Note:
Washington City DC
November 21, 1852
Good evening, Brother and Sister. [Moses Nelson Jr & Nancy J. Draper Nelson]
After so long a time I will try to write a few lines to you to let you know that I am well at present and hope those few lines will find you all the same. Sister [Nancy] I received your letter and was much pleased to hear from you again. I was glad to hear that you had been at Westmoreland and seen all of our folks. If I was not there I presume you see all that you had time to see so it was just as well as if I had been there for if I had been there I should wanted you to start a week expressly for me to talk to but I do not expect some times to ever see you for a week for I do not know where I shall be this time next year. I may be here and I may be in some far distant land where I have never dreamed of, there is no knowing where I shall be for I am not yet settled and I never shall be till I get some where where I can make enough to pay my share of our fathers and sisters support and board and clothe me and the same for a wife if I should ever have the fortune to get one. But sister there is more prospect of that than there was at the time I was out to see you.
I am doing very well here where I am but no better than I was when I worked at my trade in Westmoreland. To be sure I get more a day but I have to pay such a high price for everything that I have Board Close of all kinds I will just tell you what my boots has cost me since I have been in Washington then you can judge from that what my Close has cost. I am all most a shamed to tell you but it is the fact they have cost me $21.25. This is from the first of December 1851 to December 1852 for I calculate I have got enough to last until then if no longer and every thing that I have had has cost me in proportion to that Board and Close. But I guess I can stand it till next spring if I have my health. Then I will see what I can do but I tell you that if I make a living it is little than I have done for the last 2 years for I worked as hard as ever a fellow ever did and got all of nothing for it and I expect the same for interest and that is mighty poor encouragement don’t you think and while I am here I have some enjoyment if nothing els but I do have some money and all the close I want to ware and I will as long as I work for them. I have sent home some money but it is a small some.
I guess you will think I am in a hurry by my writing but I guess you can guess at it and that is all you will want to know of such a subject.
Now I will tell you now about the price of edibles. Butter good is worth 50 cents, pork from 12 to 15 cents a pound. Apples is from $2 to $2.50 per bushel that is the best fruit. Flour is worth $6 to $6.50 and all kinds of vegetables in the same proportion. So you can see that a person cannot Board very cheap here. Now I have told you of all the bad things but I have not said any thing about the weather. It is very fine but rather cool. It has been very wet this summer and rather cool to what they usually have it here. Though I think I have seen some warm days and as warm as I want to see for comfort.
Nancy I am very glad that you have got that picture of mine if you consider it looks enough like me to call it Brother. But I will assure you that it is a perfect likeness as far as the features is concerned though it is rather dark I will admit. Rather darker than the original if I have lived where the Dorkeys are. It is getting quite late and I will have to close by saying good by. Write as often as you can.
Yours as ever,
Nathan C Draper [age 34, unmarried until 1854]