Thankful (Foote) Pond (1762 - 1814)

Born 30 Jun 1762 in Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Barnabas Pond — married 17 Feb 1784 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1814 at age 52 in Clinton, New York, United States

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Biography

Thankful was born about 1762 to Amy Richards and Moses Foote.

Thankful's brothers served with Pond brothers and were sent to NY during the Revolutionary War

From 1776 to 1779, Thankful's brothers Bronson Foote (abt.1757-1836) and Ira Foote (1759-) enlisted with then Captain David Smith, also of Waterbury, Connecticut ^[1][2]. They were assigned to the Connecticut Regiment of Samuel (Elmer) Elmore (abt.1720-1805). In August 1776, during their first year of enlistment, they marched west from Albany New York to reinforce Fort Stanwix on the frontier of central New York. Captain Smith's Company spent the winter in German Flatts (in what was to become Oneida County, NY)^[3]. The resulting experience changed the course of Foot and Pond family history. After the Revolutionary War, members of the two families were to found Clinton, N.Y. on the new frontier of central New York.

Post-Revolutionary war marriages between Pond's and Foote's

Within a couple of years of the end of the Revolutionary War, Thankful Foote (abt.1762-1814)]] married Barnabas Pond (1755-1841)^[4][5][6],Bronson Foote (abt.1757-1836) marrried Thankful Pond (1757-1843) (the oldest sister of Barnabas and Bartholomew Pond (1754-1850)) ^[7] and Ira Foote (1759-) married Mary Pond (1761-).

Children of Barnabas and Thankful

Various primary and secondary sources document the children born to Thankful and Barnabas Pond:

1. Lewis Pond (1784-1854)^[8][9]
2. Andrew Storrs Pond (1787-1864)^[10][11]
3. Julius C. Pond (1789-1840)^[12]
4. Julia Pond (abt.1791-)^[13][14]
5. Charles Barnabus Pond (1797-1872)^[15]

Barnabas Pond is also given as the father of two other children baptized at the Clinton Congregational Church:

1. Polly, bp. 26 Sept. 1791)^[16][17] The 19th century Pond family genealogical history also includes Mary Pond (1791 - 1856) among the children of Barnabas and Thankful Pond^[18] and a Find a grave memorial website for Mary Pond (1791 - 1856) says that her nickname was "Polly".^[19]
2. Erastus, bp. 21 July 1793^[20][21]

Family migration to Oneida County, NY began in 1787

Barnabas' name is on the Clinton Founders monument ^[22] along with those of Bronson Foot and Ira Foot. These first settlers arrived in Clinton in 1786/1787.

An 1802 land deed shows Barnabas and his wife "Thankful Pond" (Thankful Foote (abt.1762-)) "of Paris" (5 miles SW of Clinton) selling a parcel of land in that town for $600.^[23]. Another 1804 deed shows them fetching $1,000 for another parcel. ^[24]

With the benefit of such land sales, Barnabas and Thankful were able to build a quality house which stands to this day. In a YouTube video ^[25], current owner Christian Goodwillie, Director of Special Collections at Hamilton College gives viewers an inside look at the circa 1804 home. The video presents the architecture, construction, joinery (for woodworkers) , period door hardware and findings from dendrochronology and paint microscopy (two more disciplines supporting genealogy).

Other members of the Pond family followed Barnabas from coastal CT, where their family had resided for generations, to Oneida county, New YorK: Timothy Pond (1730-1801) (the father of Barnabas Pond (1755-1841), Bartholomew Pond (1754-1850) and Thankful Pond (1757-1843)), Philip Pond (1773-) and others (e.g. Jacob Hungerford (1749-1812) ; Lot Hungerford (1777-1827)) -- a veritable second migration of Puritans (or third migration if you count their 17th century move from Boston to the frontiers of Connecticut).

Death of Thankful

Thankful died in 1814.^[26]

Sources

1. ↑ Colonel Samuel Elmore's Regiment, 1776 ( https://www.americanwars.org/ct-american-revolution/colonel-elmores-regiment-1776.htm )
2. ↑ "United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9WB-H8L2?cc=2068326&wc=M61K-F29%3A355080201 : 21 December 2016), 24-Connecticut (jacket 135-138) > image 272 of 682; citing NARA microfilm publication M246 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1980).
3. ↑ Colonel Samuel Elmore's Regiment, 1776 ( https://www.americanwars.org/ct-american-revolution/colonel-elmores-regiment-1776.htm )
4. ↑ Notes and receipts of the Northbury Society; minutes of meetings; lists of members, communicants and church officials; baptisms; marriages ; deaths; admissions and dismissions; contri- butions; Society records and treasurers' reports and account, 1739-1949. "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHM-X9VK-D?cc=2658799 : 3 October 2019), > image 1 of 1; Connecticut State Library, Hartford. Image 43 ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHM-X9VK-D?cc=2658799&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQGGS-K4ZC )
5. ↑ See image 926 of 1341 (page 842) of Ancestry.com. The Munson record [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data:Munson, Myron A.. The Munson record : a genealogical and biographical account of Captain Thomas Munson (a pioneer of Hartford and New Haven) and his descendants. New Haven, Conn.: Printed for the Munson Association, 1895. (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/12171/images/dvm_GenMono001594-00502-0?ssrc=&backlabel=Return)
6. ↑ Foote Family: Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield Connecticut, by Abraham W. Foote, 1907. See page 63 of Volume 1 (https://books.google.com/books?id=f1dMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q&f=false)
7. ↑ Notes and receipts of the Northbury Society; minutes of meetings; lists of members, communicants and church officials; baptisms; marriages ; deaths; admissions and dismissions; contri- butions; Society records and treasurers' reports and account, 1739-1949. "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHM-X9VK-D?cc=2658799 : 3 October 2019), > image 1 of 1; Connecticut State Library, Hartford. Image 43 ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHM-X9VK-D?cc=2658799&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQGGS-K4ZC )
8. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2C7-JMV : 21 January 2020), Barnabas Pond in the Clinton Congregational Church record of the 16 Nov 1788 baptism of Lewis Pond
9. ↑ Records of the Society of Clinton. A Congregational Church in the village of Clinton in the town of Kirland, Oneida County, N.Y. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34Y-D9TT-C?i=11&cat=866489710)
10. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2C7-9VM : 20 January 2020), Barnabas Pond in the Clinton Congregational Church record of the 16 Nov 1788 baptism of Andrew Pond
11. ↑ Records of the Society of Clinton. A Congregational Church in the village of Clinton in the town of Kirland, Oneida County, N.Y. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34Y-D9TT-C?i=11&cat=866489710)
12. ↑ A genealogical record of Samuel Pond and his descendants, by Daniel Streator Pond, 1875 ( https://archive.org/details/genealogicalreco00inpond/page/43/mode/2up )
13. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2C7-GPF : 21 January 2020), Barnabas Pond in the Clinton Congregational Church record of the 26 September 1791 baptism of Julia Pond
14. ↑ Records of the Society of Clinton. A Congregational Church in the village of Clinton in the town of Kirland, Oneida County, N.Y. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34Y-D9T1-V?i=12&cat=866489710)
15. ↑ "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6FY-6JF : 4 November 2020), Sarah Foot and Barnabus Pond in the Ohio death record for Chas Barnabus Pond, 1872.
16. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2C7-FJ9 : 21 January 2020), Barnabas Pond in the Clinton Congregational Church record of the 26 September 1791 baptism of Polly Pond
17. ↑ Records of the Society of Clinton. A Congregational Church in the village of Clinton in the town of Kirland, Oneida County, N.Y. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34Y-D9T1-V?i=12&cat=866489710)
18. ↑ A genealogical record of Samuel Pond and his descendants by Pond, Daniel Streator, b. 1805 (https://archive.org/details/genealogicalreco00inpond/page/43/mode/2up)
19. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36711991/mary-e-ackley : accessed 18 March 2022), memorial page for Mary E. “Polly” Pond Ackley (16 Jun 1791–15 Apr 1856), Find a Grave Memorial ID 36711991, citing Rosehill Cemetery, Saint Clair, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Karin Haubold (contributor 49440612).
20. ↑ "New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2CQ-141 : 20 January 2020), Barnabas Pond in the Clinton Congregational Church record of the 21 Jul 1793 baptism of Erastus Pond
21. ↑ Records of the Society of Clinton. A Congregational Church in the village of Clinton in the town of Kirland, Oneida County, N.Y. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C34Y-D9T1-V?i=12&cat=866489710)
22. ↑ Clinton Historical Society ( https://clintonhistory.org/village-of-clinton-settled-by-veterans-of-the-revolutionary-war/ )
23. ↑ "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9W3-1QNF?i=44 ), Herkimer > Deeds 1802-1807 vol 11-12 > image 45 (pages 46 & 47) of 636; multiple county courthouses, New York.
24. ↑ "United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975," database with images, FamilySearch ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99W3-165?i=44 ), Herkimer > Deeds 1804-1807 vol 13-14 > image 45 (pages 58 & 59) of 630; multiple county courthouses, New York.
25. ↑ Barnabas Pond's Homestead Presentation May, 2021 for the Clinton Historical Society ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nllT1-j4gjE )
26. ↑ Findagrave memorial 103911047 ( https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103911047/thankful-pond ). Inscription: In memory of Thankful Pond wife of Magr. Barnabas Pond who died October 8th, 1844

• Notes and receipts of the Northbury Society; minutes of meetings; lists of members, communicants and church officials; baptisms; marriages ; deaths; admissions and dismissions; contri- butions; Society records and treasurers' reports and account, 1739-1949. "Connecticut, Church Records, 1660-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHM-X9VK-D?cc=2658799 : 3 October 2019), > image 1 of 1; Connecticut State Library, Hartford. Image 43 ( https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHM-X9VK-D?cc=2658799&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQGGS-K4ZC )

• Foote family, comprising the genealogy and history of Nathaniel Foote, of Wethersfield, Conn., and his descendants; by Foote, Abram William, 1907 ( https://archive.org/details/footefamilycompr011907foot/page/64/mode/2up?q=Moses )

• Findagrave memorial 103911047 ( https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103911047/thankful-pond ). Inscription: In memory of Thankful Pond wife of Magr. Barnabas Pond who died October 8th, 1844

• Pond, Daniel Streator. A Genealogical Record of Samuel Pond and His Descendants (Runyan, Rochester, Ohio, 1875) Page 42.