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Greetings,
Interesting, so we are perhaps named for the same person – me for my grandfather, him for his uncle Charles Griffiths, him for his uncle Charles Townsend, and him for his uncle Charles Decew. I've been trying to figure out where Frederick Decew and Elizabeth Lacey got the name Charles from since it isn't in either family before that.
Elizabeth Decew Summers was the wife of Andrew Hansell and (2nd) Hudson Summers – she was the third daughter of Frederick DeCew and Elizabeth Lacey. Her will and the will of George Lacey are both cited in the DAR application as references but I've never come across either of these. I'd be very interested if anyone actually has a copy of George's will ( d. 1840 ) since it would help to clarify a lot about the family. Ichabod Lacey is one of the "lesser knowns" of Upper Canada, about whom it's hard to find any new information – he resided Haldimand in Northumberland County and disappeared completely after the 1851 Canadian census. The main reason I'd like to find George of Thorold's will, if it does still exist, is to see which children are listed, and hopefully to verify that indeed this Ichabod Lacey ( b. 1810 Upper Canada, when there were few settlers here and even fewer settlers named Lacey with eldest sons named George and wives born New Jersey ) is among them. The DAR application lists "Children of Revolutionary Ancestor" as "John (eldest), Isaac, Jesse, Abigail, Elizabeth, Nancy", with a date of birth 28 July 1801 indicated next to Abigail and a date 1812 next to Elizabeth; "Father's Will in Data File" is written in pencil underneath this but it's unclear to me whether this means that the info on the children came from a will or whether someone is recording the presence of a copy of the will in the DAR registry ( in which case I need a copy ). The location or owner or microfilm number at which George Lacey's will can be reached aren't mentioned in the bibliography. In any event a will isn't likely to have stated that Abigail was born 28 July 1801 and Elizabeth 1812, so I figure the list is at least partially assembled from memory or tradition.
I'd be interested to hear if you find anything else on the family. That there are any references to Elizabeth Lee being born in Maryland in the work of Green ( who wrote early in the 1900s and d. 1947 ) perplexes me, since that predates the DAR application and would indicate that the Maryland tradition was older than my great aunt's interest in genealogy. I know that some branches of the Frederick DeCew family, of which Green was also a descendant, relocated to the Maryland and Washington D.C. area late in the 1800s, so it's possible that the connection to the State evolved there and then gravitated back to Green and the DAR record, though if so I'm not exactly sure via who and when – some historiography to look into if anyone's interested. I'm pretty confident in light of the birth and marriage records for George Lacy in New Jersey that his wife's family probably connects back to the same place ( a 200 mile move from the city of Georgetown to the backwoods of Hunterdon County strikes me as an odd one ) but things might also be otherwise.
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