Family Group Record
22 Oct 2003
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Husband: Rowland BIRD
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Born[1,2]: 27 Apr 1793 Place: Massachusetts
Christened: Place:
Census[3]: 1820 Place: Palmyra, Ontario County, New York
Census[4]: 1830 Place: Macedon, Wayne County, New York
[5]: BET 1837 AND 1839 Place: Hillsdale County, Michigan
Census[6,7]: 1840 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Census[8]: 1834 Place: Monroe County, Michigan Territory
[9]: Place:
Res[10]: 1814 Place: Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
[11,12]: 8 Mar 1836 Place: Hillsdale County, Michigan
Res[13]: 9 Mar 1840 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Loc[14]: 2 Apr 1849 Place: Bird, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Res[15]: Apr 1837 Place: Jefferson, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Res[16]: 29 Jan 1823 Place: Macedon, Wayne County, New York
Died[17,18]: 22 Sep 1840 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Buried: Place:
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Married[19,20,21,22]: 19 Feb 1814 Place: Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
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Husband's mother:
Husband's father:
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Wife: Lydia FORD
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Born[23,24]: 22 Sep 1795 Place: Plainfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Christened: Place:
Died[25]: 23 May 1846 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Buried: Place:
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Wife's father: Solomon FORD
Wife's mother: Anne COOK
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Children
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1. Lorinda BIRD
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F Born: 7 Feb 1814 Place:
Christened: Place:
Died: 8 Apr 1840 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Buried: Place:
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Spouse: Leander CANDEE
Married: 1 Mar 1840 Place: Hillsdale County, Michigan
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2. Salome BIRD
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F Born: 15 Jun 1816 Place: New York
Christened: Place:
Died: 5 Sep 1855 Place: Whiteford, Monroe County, Michigan
Buried: Aft 13 Nov 1850 Place: Van Aucken Cemetery, Whiteford, Monroe County, Michigan
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Spouse: Ira SAWYER
Married: 6 Oct 1834 Place: Whiteford, Monroe County, Michigan
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Spouse: Isaac FOREMAN
Married: 17 Apr 1850 Place: Whiteford, Monroe County, Michigan
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3. Almond BIRD
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M Born: 9 Mar 1818 Place: Palmyra, Ontario County, New York
Christened: Place:
6 Jan 1859 Winona County, Minnesota
BET MAY 1853 AND 30 JUL 1855 Winona County, Minnesota
1867 Winona County, Minnesota
Died: BET 1873 AND 1880 Place: Winona County, Minnesota
Buried: Place:
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Spouse: Julia Bassett AMBLER
Married: 1842 Place:
1850 Cambria Twp, Hillsdale County, Michigan
1860 Troy, Winona County, Minnesota
1870 Saratoga, Winona County, Minnesota
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4. Allen BIRD
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M Born: 26 Jun 1820 Place: Palmyra, Ontario County, New York
Christened: Place:
Died: 3 Mar 1839 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Buried: Place:
Spouse:
Married: Place:
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5. Priscilla BIRD
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F Born: 6 Jun 1822 Place: Palmyra, Ontario County, New York
Christened: Place:
14 Jun 1860 Hillisdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan
1870 Ransom, Hillsdale County, Michigan
2 Jun 1880 Ransom, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Died: Aft 2 Jun 1880 Place:
Buried: Place:
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Spouse: Nelson DOTY
Married: 4 Apr 1843 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
29 Jul 1850 Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
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6. Anna Marie BIRD
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F Born: 10 Feb 1825 Place:
Christened: Place:
Died: BET 1836 AND 1840 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Buried: Place:
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Spouse:
Married: 1845 Place:
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7. Eunice BIRD
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F Born: 7 Apr 1828 Place: Macedon, Wayne County, New York
Christened: Place:
Died: 9 Apr 1840 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Buried: Place:
Spouse:
Married: Place:
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8. Horace BIRD
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M Born: 1 Sep 1834 Place: Michigan Territory
Christened: Place:
Died: 18 Sep 1840 Place: Rowland, Hillsdale County, Michigan
Buried: Place:
Spouse:
Married: Place:
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Notes:
Hillsdale Hist. History of Hillsdale County, Michigan, with illustrations
and biographical sketches. Philadelphia, Everts & Abbott, 1879. 334 p.
(L. C., Y. S.)
With the opening of the Erie Canal, many families in New York State and
other eastern states felt the time was right to seek land in Michigan.
The years 1835-1850 brought almost a flood of new settlers into the
southern portions Michigan.
On March 8,1836 the first white settler arrived in the area, by the name
of Rowland Bird. He brought along his wife and seven children and a man
by the name of Leander Candee, a man of all work.
On January 28, 1840 the Township was named "Roland" in honor of its first
settler. On March 9th. 1848 the Township was renamed, Ransom due to the
influence of "certain parties" living in the Township, Who these people
were has been lost in time but the residents of the Township believed the
pioneer of the Township should be honored so on April 2, 1849 the name
was changed to "Bird Township". The final act which named the Town and
Township, Ransom was adopted March 28, 1850.
Residents of the Township believed the pioneer of the Township should be
honored so on April 2, 1849 the name was changed to "Bird Township" from
"Ranson". The final act which named the Town and Township, Ransom was
adopted March 28, 1850.
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Sources:
1. Horace Burbank Sawyer Bible, Family Info: Sawyer family, Present Owner: ?. Sawyer Family Bible - Presented to Horace B. Sawyer by Minnie E. Sawyer
October 29, 1896
2. Charles A. Flagg, An Index of Pioneers from Massachusetts to the West Especially the State
of Michigan, Volume: R929.1 F57, The Salem Press, Massachusetts, 1915, indicates Rowland Bird, b. Mass in 1793 settled in New York and then
Michigan.
3. 1820 Ontario County, New York - Roland Bird household, Record Type:
Federal Census, Household: Roland Bird household, Record Info: Palmyra,
pg 179, Film: M33_62, 1820.
HUSBAND - Rowland BIRD
Roland Bird
Males: 1<10, 1 16<18, 1 16<26, 1 26<45
Females: 2 <10, 1 26<45
4. 1830 Wayne County, New York - Rowland Bird household, Record Type:
Federal Census, Household: Rowland Bird household, Record Info: Macedon,
pg 101, Film: M19_117, 1830.
Rowland Bird
Males: 1 5<10, 1 10<15, 1 30<40
Females:2 <5, 1 5<10, 1 10<15, 1 15<20, 1 30<40
5. Grant signers found in pre-1908 Michigan Cash & Homestead Entries on the
Cadastral Survey Plat of Township 8 South, Range 2 West (roughly Ransom
Twp. - Hillsdale County), Grant signers found in pre-1908 Michigan Cash & Homestead Entries on the
Cadastral Survey Plat of Township 8 South, Range 2 West (roughly Ransom
Twp. - Hillsdale County) These documents were signed between 1837 and
1839.
6. Hillsdale County Historical Society and Hillsdale County Bicentenial
Commision, 150 Years Hills and Dales http://www.jowest.net/Research/RansomTwp.htm:
Ransom Township, Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas, 1976, Chapter on Ranson Township indicates Priscilla Bird married Nelson Doty
April 4, 1843 so she must have been alive during 1840 census.
7. 1840 Hillsdale County, MIchigan - Rowland Bird household, Record Type:
Federal Census, Household: Rowland Bird household, 1840.
Rowland Bird
Males: 1 <5, 2 20<30, 1 40<50
Females: 1 10<15, 1 15<20, 1 40<50
8. 1834 Michigan Territory Statehood Petition List
9. Charles A. Flagg, Pioneers from Massachusetts, Index indicates Rowland Bird of Massachusetts settled in New York then in
Michigan. Cites two books: The Bean Creek Valley. Incidents of its early
settlement. (New York?) and History of Hillsdale County, Michigan,.
10. Plainfield (Massachusetts) Births, marriages and intentions, deaths,
1785-1960, and indexes, 1785- 1960, Compiler Address: Town Clerk.
11. Osseo & Jefferson Township - MI Hillsdale County Community Center, Url:
http://www.hillsdalecounty.info/history0100.asp.
12. Historical Highlites of Ransom - MI Hillsdale County Community Center,
Url: http://www.hillsdalecounty.info/history0096.asp.
13. Historical Highlites of Ransom.
14. Historical Highlites of Ransom.
15. MI Hillsdale - Osseo & Jefferson Township.
16. NY Wayne - Townships - Macedon, Url:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywayne/index.html, PROFILE OF MACEDON, WAYNE COUNTY, NEW YORK
From the 1824 Gazetteer of the State of New York, by Horatio Gates
Spafford
17. Sawyer Bible.
18. Historical Highlites of Ransom.
19. Elizabeth (Cobb) Stewart, New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Descendants of Andrew
Ford of Weymouth, Mass., Volume: 119 and 120, 1965-1966, Lydia Ford married in Plainsfield, 5 May 1814, Roland Bird of Cummington.
They may have removed to Palmyra, N.Y., in 1820. No children are known. Based on Plainfield town records and Wayne County, N.Y. Deed, Book 4, p.
466-67.
20. Marriage Index: Massachusetts, 1633-1850, Rowland Bird found in: Marriage Index: Massachusetts, 1633-1850
Married: Feb 19, 1814 in: Cummington, Hampshire Co., MA
Gender: M This record can be found at: Family History Library, Salt
Lake City, UT, Film # 0234538.
Spouse name: Ford, Lydia
21. Plainford, MA Vital Records.
22. MA Marriage Index 1633-1850, Rowland Bird married Lydia Ford Feb 19, 1814 in Cummington, Hampshire
Co., MA
23. Sawyer Bible.
24. Elizabeth (Cobb) Stewart, Ford Descendants (NEHGR).
25. Sawyer Bible.
26. Elizabeth (Cobb) Stewart, Ford Descendants (NEHGR), NEHGR article indicates the Lydia Ford who married Roland Bird was the
daughter of Solomon Ford and Anne Cook. ...
May 62 in Abington and died 7 Jan 1849 in Wayne County, N.Y. and was buried in Lock Berlin Cemetery.
27. Elizabeth (Cobb) Stewart, Ford Descendants (NEHGR), Indicates that Anne Cooks was born in Doughlas 20 May 1769, died in Wayne
County 10 Aug 1857, buried beside he husband.
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Prepared by: Janis Parkison Rodriguez ivakota@smartneighborhoood.net
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