Duthan Jed Northrup (1795 - 1883)

Born 28 Feb 1795 in Brookfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Husband of Pamelia (Johnson) Northrup — married about Jan 1819 in Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, USA

Descendants

Died 26 Sep 1883 at age 88 in Mentor, Lake, Ohio, United States

Biography

Son of Joseph Winthrop Northrup (1766-1843) and Charity Benjamin (1769-1851)

Educated in Cornwall, CT.

Settled in Medina, Medina Co, OH

School teacher, music teacher, and farmer

Married Pamelia Johnson (1796-1866) at Nelson, Portage Co, OH, in Jan 1818; 2 children: Rockwell Johnson (1824-1850) and Jane Pamelia (1826-?)

Elected Sergeant of the Medina militia in 1820 and rose to the rank of Brigadier General.

Elected to the Ohio legislature in 1831 and again in 1832.

Removed to St. Clair Co, MI, in 1836 and in the "Patriot War" he was commissioned as a Brigadier General by Gov. Mason

Removed to Mentor, Lake Co, OH

Received 40 acres from the Michigan-Toledo Strip in Sanilac Co, MI, on 15 Jun 1854

Appointed US Postmaster in Mentor, Lake Co, OH, on 27 May 1861

Research Notes

Ancestry.com, Lake County, Ohio, Obituary Index, 1830-2011 (database on-line), Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Ancestry.com, U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 (database on-line), Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008 (Doc #30773).

Ancestry.com, Michigan, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908 (database on-line), Provo, UT, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1997.

Ansel Judd Northrup, Northrup-Northrop Genealogy (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908), p. 153.

Sources

• "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8F7-5L4 : 29 September 2021), Dathan Northrop and Pamilia Johnson, 1819.
• Fourth Census of the United States, 1820; Census Place: Medina, Medina, Ohio; Page: 97; NARA Roll: M33_90; Image: 112 Ancestry Record 7734 #1490557
• "United States Census, 1850", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8G-NTR : Fri Oct 06 20:10:44 UTC 2023), Entry for D Northrop and Pamelia Northrop, 1850.
• "United States Census, 1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M89X-Q3K : Wed Oct 04 23:10:48 UTC 2023), Entry for Duthan Northrup, 1880.