Thomas Avery Pelton (1791 - 1831)

Born 29 Nov 1791 in Mount Hope, Orange Co., New York, USA

Ancestors

Son of Peleg Pelton and Anna (Stoddard) Pelton

Husband of Julia Aner (King) Baxter — married about 1813 in Middletown, Orange Co., New York, USA

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1831 at age 39 in Colchester, Delaware Co., New York, USA

Biography

Thomas Avery Pelton^[1][2] was born on 29 Nov 1791 at Mount Hope, Orange Co., New York, USA.^[3]

He married Julia Aner King, daughter of John King and Mary (--?--), circa 1813 at Middletown, Orange Co., New York, USA.^[3]

He died on 9 Sep 1831 at Colchester, Delaware Co., New York, USA, at age 39, he was killed at the raising of a log house.^[3]

Seventy years later, Milton, his son, described his death to Herman Smith who visited his Uncle Milton in 1900 and wrote in 1953:

I visited Uncle Milton Pelton at Cooks Falls on the farm his father Thomas Pelton settled in Colchester township in 1900. Uncle Milton told me he saw his father killed. He said they were putting up the top log. One man at each end and he in the middle. The decided they could not get it up. Too heavy. One man suggested they jump. He said no, if you jump this log will kill me. They jumped. His father held the log for at least a minute alone and it overpowered him and broke his neck. He was angry all his life about it.

He said "Thos cowards jumped. Certainly if he could hold it a minute alone the three of them could have rolled it over."^[4]

Children of Thomas and Julia

1. Harriet Pelton b. 1814 m. Clinton Stewart
2. Anna b. 1816 d. 1816
3. Louisa b. 1817 m. Albert Smith
4. Peleg b. 1820 d. 1822
5. Milton b. 1822 m. Hannah Sprague
6. Sydney S. b. 1825 d. 1853 unmarried.
7. William Harley b. 1829 m. Mary Perkins - no children.^[5]

DNA Confirmations

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of sixth cousins: Philip Smith and Kathy Klein, daughter of Lillian C. (Blauvelt) Urbanski and their sixth cousin once removed, Victoria Pelton, granddaughter of Donald Harrison Pelton; sharing a common 12.7 cM segment on chromosome 2 from 8,100,542 – 13,674,575. Their ancestors are siblings: Henry Pelton, Gideon Pelton, Peleg Pelton, sons of their common ancestral pair Thomas Pelton and Hannah (Avery) Pelton. Smith Blauvelt Pelton 3 Way DNA Confirmation shows documentation.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of eighth cousins: Philip Smith and Shirley (Lindenberger) Hazelwood, and their eighth cousin twice removed, Catherine Petersen, granddaughter of John Sealy Whitman; sharing a common 27.8 cM segment on chromosome 16 from 14578171 – 49779455. Their ancestors are siblings: Edward D. Avery, Margaret (Avery) Morgan and Mary (Avery) Morgan, children of their common ancestral pair James Avery Jr. and Deborah (Stallyon) Avery. Smith Lindenberger Whitman 3 Way DNA Confirmation shows documentation.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 8.1 and a 11.6 cM X-DNA match from 43,533,494 to 47,393,829 and 48,542,832 to 74,186,170 between John B. Virnich Gedmatch ID: A793652 and his seventh cousin once removed, Bill Wilson, AKA *JWPDad, - Gedmatch ID: M180959, son of Ruth (Corey) Wilson. The common ancestor is Ann (Comstock) Billings

Sources

1. ↑ Notes on Baxter Genealogy 1954, May 14. Author: Nathaniel A. Smith. "Julia A. King (Pelton) was the widow of Thomas Avery Pelton and daughter of John King of Middletown, NY. Aaron and Julia had one son Tracy b. Dec. 20, 1835 and died 1872." Collection of Phil Smith.
2. ↑ Bible King Family Extract Sep. 3, 1955 Author: Nathaniel Smith. Collection of Phil Smith.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} J. M. Pelton. Genealogy of the Pelton family in America : being a record of the descendants of John Pelton who settled in Boston, Mass., about 1630-1632, and died in Dorchester, Mass., January 23rd, 1681. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1892. p. 432. Available at Ancestry.com and at Archive .org. Genealogy of the Pelton Family
4. ↑ Herman W. Smith to Nathaniel Smith 1953 Feb. 9. Collection of Phil Smith.
5. ↑ Children page 432,3 Pelton.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Phil Smith for creating WikiTree profile Pelton-183.