Most of the outlines from Caneland are obliterated. Just the rock tomb, very uncommon for the build and you will superior in structure, stands so you can draw the spot, and you can within this mausoleum, as he got wished this new stays out-of Gen. CALMES with his wife repose.
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It’s through the generosity and generosity away from William Bailey, historian and you may genealogist, the newest Gen. Marquis Calmes Section D. might have been able to get this really works out-of repair over. He donated one hundred copies from his History of Woodford State to your production of a money to be used within this functions. —-Throughout the D. Magazine, August, 1941. (The latest spouse of Gen. Calmes was Age «Betsy» Combs, a brother out-of my personal higher-great grandfather) E. S. (Removed by the Combs Researcher Anne B. Musser)
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Notes: Marquis CALMES died 1834, Woodford Co., KY was maybe not the husband of Elizabeth Combs (daughter of John & Seth BULLITT Combs, Sr. of Stafford Co VA). Marquis CALMES, husband of Elizabeth Combs, died testate ca 1794 in Frederick Co VA. Nevertheless, presumably he was «somehow kin» to him. Extracted by Researcher Barbara Combs from Teunis Bergen’s 1876 book, The Bergen Family, pp. 422-423 (surname capitalization added):
«George We. BERGEN, b Summer 16th, 1764, bap. Oct. cuatro, 1767, of the Rev. Mr. VAN HARLINGEN; d. Feb, 1825; m. 1789 Rebecca, dau. from Judge Jonathan Combs, out-of Middlesex County, New jersey. His widow two years once his decease m. new Rev. Mr. KENNER, an excellent Baptist preacher out of Virginia, and d. for the 1846.»
«The brand new ancestor out of Jonathan Combs, they state, came from Scotland, in the dated boat Caledonia, and this lead the original emigrants regarding land from stern Presbyterianism; they trying a property in the open nation away from the intolerance out of Papal and you will Episcopal electricity and you can persecution.»
«Inside 1679, Francis Combs, an effective cooper, are granted countries during the Newtown, Long Island [NY], to help you cause your to repay around and you will ply their trade to possess the convenience of the new payment. He d. inside the 1700, with his several sons, Francis and Thomas, settled for the Hopewell, N. J., to possess [pounds] fifty, expressed places inside Hempstead [Much time Area, NY] to help you John Combs away from Madnans neck from said urban area, according to Hempstead records.
«There’s a beneficial John Combs off Eastern Hampton, N. Y., since 1675, a Daniel Combs into the Hempstead [Queens Co Nyc] inside 1708, a beneficial Richard Combs in Hempstead in the 1709, and you can an effective Richard Combs in the Jamaica (note: this is exactly section of N. Y. inside framework, I think) [Queens Co New york]when you look at the 1718.
«Into the 1777, John Combs try a person in the revolutionary panel regarding defense of brand new Jersey, as well as the same several months a beneficial Solomon Combs is superb website to read a citizen away from Monmouth County.
«So you’re able to retrieve its fortunes, George I. [BERGEN], their son David, and two ilies leftover Nj during the Summer 1818, to possess Kentucky, in which his sister Margaret along with her partner John VOORHEES, and two siblings from his spouse, Rebecca Combs, using their husbands, Peter CONOVER and Peter COX, next resided; they with emigrated when you look at the 1790, to settle within Red-colored Stone, around the introduce Wheeling [Kansas Co, WV], then ultima thule. Here it tarried below a year. Peter COong the first who made the boats and you can rafts wade along the Ohio River.
«During the time George We. emigrated, they stayed inside the Woodford State, Kentucky, within 12 kilometers out of Lexington [Fayette Co., KY]. Inside per year these types of group intermarried. Dated Significant CONOVER is a large landholder and you will reputed becoming rich, however in brand new difficult minutes after that within the Kentucky, and also by old Virginia house says, the outcome try their palace fell, and he computed into the 1824, to market his homestead, and all sorts of their, and you will George I.’s the reason friends chose to make household from inside the Indiana. The old biggest, his young man Jonathan Combs CONOVER, who’d hitched Martha, an excellent daughter from George I., and you may Jonathan Combs BERGEN (young man off George We.), who’d married Mary Ann, a beneficial child of the biggest, and you will George I., constituted new investigating party.»