Cathy (Belknap) Morey (abt. 1774 - abt. 1854)

Born about 27 Aug 1774 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Died about 15 Jul 1854 at about age 79 in Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Caty née. Belknap appears to have moved to Colebrook, CT with her family and it was there that she probably married Calvin Morey. Extensive research of original records of Colebrook CT and Norfolk CT has not turned up the necessary marriage and death dates for Calvin and Caty, nor have we located a marriage which might explain the surname of Hoskins in Catys death record in Blandford, MA.

Sources

Source for birth date of Caty née Belknap Morey is in the ledger kept by her son Lyman Morey. She was the daughter of Jonathan Belknap and Olive.

The Hoskins surname appears in her death record at Blandford, Ma.

Caty Morey appears in the Federal Census of 1850 in Farmington, CT. Volume 2, PG 13; 177:) She was age 75 years, in the household of Lyman Morey. Her place of birth was given as "Massachusetts."

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SY4L-LKJ : accessed 2015-11-03), entry for Catherine B. /Hoskins.

1781 Brimfield Congregational church Records

• 1781: Jonathan Belknap and his wife OLIVE ______ join the Brimfield Congregational Church on August 4, 1781. (Church Records).

In 1782 their children-MARY, KATE, OLIVER, LOIS, were baptised. In 1783 Jonathan paid a school/church tax to S. Brimfield. In 1784 Jonathan sells his sawmill in Holland, MA. (Hampden County LandRecords.) In 1788 his father dies, leaving his property to sons William and John. Jonathan does not appear on the tax rolls of South Brimfield MA. He has left town. In 1790 Jonathan, father of Caty, appears in the Litchfield, Litchfield County, CT Census.

Her death records, in Blandford, MA say "Catherine B. Hoskins, mother of Calvin Morey. Parents and place of birth unknown."

The original ledger of Calvin Morey, Sr., kept by Frances Young, Lyman's descendants, provides the surname of Caty, Calvin Morey Sr. wife.