Lemuel Hoadley (bef. 1737 - 1816)

Born before 27 Feb 1737 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Urania (Mallory) Hoadley — married 5 Jan 1767 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1 Aug 1816 after age 79 in Brecksville, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

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Biography

The Hoadley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Hoadley of Branford, Connecticut Together with Some Account of Other Families of the Name on pages 19 and 20 states:

"LEMUEL HOADLEY (Lemuel¹⁸, William⁶, William², William¹), baptized 27 Feb 1737 in Branford, Conn.; died 1 August 1816 in Brecksville, Ohio; married 5 January 1767 in Naugatuck, Conn., URANIA MALLORY, daughter of Peter and Mary Mallory, born 1749 in North Stratford, Conn.; died in March 1799 in Winsted, Conn.

Lemuel Hoadley was brought to Naugatuck by his father. In 1772 he sold his house and an acre of land to Ezra Bronson, so that probably his two eldest children were born in what is now Naugatuck. He lived in what is now called Platt's Mills in Waterbury, where he had a grist mill. The mill and land were sold to Joseph Hopkins when he and his sons removed to Columbia, Lorain County, Ohio.

The following is from address delivered at Columbia in 1859 by Pev. S. A. Bronson, D. D., before the Lorain County Historical Society. "Early in the month of September, 1807, at Waterbury, Conn., thirty persons began preparations to remove to the far West. They were Calvin Hoadley, wife and five children ; Lemuel Hoadley, wife and three children; his father and his wife's mother, * * * * and others. In November the company arrived at Buffalo and a small party started up the lake in a small craft of forty or fifty tons burden. They were buffeted about by storms for a whole month, landing three times for shelter, the last time at Erie * * * *. After hardships on land and lake, a small party at length reached the Cuyahoga river. The river was then the western boundary of civilization so far as the lake region was concerned, and the Forest City contained but three log cabins. The party were bound for Columbia, and among them, it is said, were the first team and first white woman, except Canadian-French, that had ever crossed the Cuyahoga. It took eight days cutting a road through the forest for the little party, to reach Columbia Township from the Cuyahoga river, and they arrived late in December. The nearest dwelling was twenty miles away, the nearest post office at Painesville fifty miles distant, and the nearest grist mill at Newburg twenty-eight miles distant."

Lemuel Hoadley was a blacksmith by trade and is said to have set up the first blacksmith shop in Columbia in 1808. He also built the first fanning mill there. He died in Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, whither he had gone with his son Lemuel in 1812."^[1]

Children

Children of Lemuel Hoadley and Urania Mallory, all born in Waterbury, Connecticut:

1. Molly Hoadley, born 1 November 1767; married 1 February 1787, Asahel Osborne of Columbia, Ohio.
2. Calvin Hoadley, born 2 July 1769; married Miriam Terrell.
3. David Hoadley, born 29 April 1774, married, first, Jane Hull; second, Rachel Beecher.
4. Samuel Hoadley, born 25 November 1776; married Content Barnes.
5. Lemuel Hoadley, born 20 April 1779; married Chloe Tyler.
6. Luther Hoadley, born 30 March 1781; married Sophia Dexter.
7. Sally Hoadley, born 22 September 1786; married 7 November 1805, Dr. Zaphni Potter of Columbia, Ohio.
8. Urania Hoadley, born 5 May 1788; married, first, 9 February 1806, Riley Whiting of Winsted, Conn.; second, 30 October 1841, Erasmus D. Calloway of Winsted, Connecticut.
9. Marshall Hoadley, born 3 May 1791; drowned 20 April 1796.

Census

Lemuel Hoadly [Hoadley] appeared on the 1790 Federal Census of Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut, with a household consisting of three males over age 16, three males under age 16, and three females.^[2]

Burial

Lemuel Hoadley's burial site is currently unknown; he may be buried somewhere in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where he died there in Brecksville.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Trowbridge, Francis Bacon. The Hoadley Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of William Hoadley of Branford, Connecticut Together with Some Account of Other Families of the Name. New Haven, CT: Printed for the Author by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1894. Print. Pages 19 and 20.
2. ↑ 1790 United States Federal Census, New Haven County, Connecticut, population schedule, Waterbury, p. 169 (written), line 21, Lemuel Hoadly; digital image, FamilySearch.com, (https://familysearch.org : accessed 2015), citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M637, roll 1.
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 27 July 2017), memorial page for Lemuel Hoadley (1737 – 1816), Find A Grave Memorial no. 82739772; his burial site was probably destroyed or lost.

• Prichard, Sarah J. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut from the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-five. New Haven: Price and Lee, 1896. Print. Appendix 67.