Person:Jesse Scovell (1)

Jesse Scoville died in 1828, too early to receive a Revolutionary War Pension. However, he clearly served in the War, as his record proves.

From Janet Haase

Jesse Scoville, who married a Lucy (?), who died 12 Nov. 1820, age 51, making her born in 1769. I am still searching for the maiden name of that Lucy, so far without success. I and a friend have gone through pages of books looking for a Lucy born in 1769, but without success. I have made queries in Nutmegger, and asked the collateral lines to get in touch with me, and I have received no single reply. Surely, each of those families had a family bible that probably showed the maiden name of this Lucy. However, nothing has been forthcoming.

We know that Jesse went first to Lempster, NH, and then to Orwell, VT, and that he was in the Ticonderoga campaign. He alone, it seems, returned to Connecticut and bought his uncle's farm in Plymouth. Thus he may have had a sweetheart back in Connecticut.

From Howard <bald211@@webtv.net>

While there is a mention of Jesse & Lucy Scoville in our family records and the Bible started by Jesse Baldwin's 2nd wife in the 1860's, there is no constructive detail. There may be somewhere in CT an Episcopal church record with helpful data. I say this because, though the Baldwins of the time period were stong Congregationals, Clarissa Scoville Baldwin, daughter of Jesse & Lucy Scoville, apparently had enough influence so that three Baldwin generations are buried in St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in Cheshire, Ct.

An Update from Dick Baldulf

JESSE SCOVILLE (1794 - 1828) M. LUCY (-------) (1769 - 1820)

Jesse Scovel was baptized in Hadlyme, CT in 1759 and died in Plymouth, CT on 20 May 1828. He was the son of Thomas Scovel (Ezekiel, Stephen, Arthur) of Hadlyme and Jerusha Scoville (James, James, Arthur), who removed to Lempster, NH sometime after 1767, where Thomas Sr. and Thomas Jr. signed the famous "Association Test" pledging themselves to oppose the British. Shortly thereafter the family removed again to Orwell, VT. Jesse obviously went with them, as his name appears on the rolls of the Ticonderoga campaign during the same period as his brother Thomas, Jr. At 17, however, he would have been too young to have signed the pledge. There is a Rev. War record that almost certainly belongs to him, though he died too early to receive a pension. Data on the Scoville family, including Thomas and Jesse, can be found in the Watkinson Library files, now removed to the Trinity College Library.

Other records show that Jesse bought his Uncle Samuel Scoville's farm in Plymouth, CT about 1787, at which time he presumably married his wife Lucy, whose family name remains unknown. The records show that she died on 12 Nov. 1820, age 51, making her presumably born in 1769. We had initially believed that Jesse married his cousin Lucy Pond, who lived close by and whose birthdate was within a year of the accepted date of his wife's birth. This proved to be wrong.

After years of searching, we stumbled upon a copy of Jessica Steven's book on Lempster, NH, whose contents provided the names of all known inhabitants of that town and who they married. With great elation we discovered that Jesse had married a Lucy Felt. On getting in touch with Mrs. Stevens, however, we were told that this was a mistake, and it was Jesse's brother Nathan who had married a Chloe Felt. Initially I accepted this, but of late I have wondered whether Mrs. Stevens may have been mistaken, as my recollection of my Trinity College notes - temporary misplaced - seemed also to have suggested a Lucy Felt. This is an area that someone on the scene should investigate. Meanwhile, someone should check on Nathan's wife, Chloe. Was she indeed a Felt? [Yes, she was.]

We have also searched diligently over the years for another Lucy for the wife of Jesse. We stumbled upon a Lucy Stocking, daughter of Rueben and Sarah (Hurlbut) Stocking, born in Middle Haddam, CT and bapt. on Nov. 22, 1769. This is the same year that the Lucy who who married Jesse Scovel was born. The area is appropriate and the family relationships are reasonably close. Other Scovilles married people from this area. This Lucy Stocking had a cousin named Clarissa, that name being the name of the eldest daughter of Lucy, wife of Jesse. The Middletown private library unfortunately had nothing on that family. I did learn that Rueben's father-in-law, Stephen Hurlburt of Middle Haddam, was a Tory, and that he fled the country during the Revolutionary War. My recollection is that he returned after the War.

The above data may all be meaningless, as I learned from my experience with Lucy Pond, but it is certainly worth looking into. At ninety years and no longer living in the area, this kind of thing is now beyond me.

The children of Thomas, Sr. and Jerusha are listed as follows: Hannah bpt. 1750 Thomas b. 1753 m. Rachael Boardman Lucy bpt. 1756; d. young Jesse bpt. 1759 m. Lucy (----) d. Plymouth, CT, 1821, ae. 51 Daniel b.--- m. Rebecca (----) Jerusha bpt. 1764 m. L'Hommedieu Nathan bpt. 1768 m. Chloe (----) Ephraim b.c. 1770 m. Vina Boardman Champion bpt. 1773 m. (----) Hezekiah b.c. 1777 m. Amy Thompson

The names of Jesse's children by his wife Lucy are as follows: Henry b.28 Mar. 1790 m. Anna Terry (no children) Clarissa m. 27 May 1807 Thaddeus Baldwin Caroline b. 26 Jan. 1797; m. 14 Sept. 1815 Lyman Potter Nancy m. 20 Jan. 1813 William Barney Lucy b. 1794 m. 19 Apr. 1814 Enos Frisbie of Harwinton, CT (my line) Sophia b. 11 June 1803; m. 2 Oct. 1825 Lucius Bradley

One would think that there would have been a bible in one of the the above families setting forth the name of Jesse's wife. If the wife had been the daughter of a Tory, however, there may have been a tendency to keep the background secret. Or if the wife was a Felt from the Vermont area, the information may just not have come down to the descendants. Obviously, a check of deeds and wills in the Lempster or Orwell area or their county seats, may well unearth the needed information. I have little doubt that the information is out there if someone would make the search.

It has been a long time and I have not yet received any indication of who this Lucy (_____) was. I have a summary of perhaps 30 various connections, laid out on charts, of different possibilities. One possibility may be through the Bishop family (the undertakers) that my grandparents and their parents were long friendly with. I have a picture of a Mary Bishop (Plymouth/Terryville) among my inherited pictures, almost all of whom are relatives. There is also a document of some kind between the Bishops and the Scovilles. However, I have no other connection for this family.

In the 1800 census, his numbers were 0-1-1-1-0-3-1-0-1-0-1 In the 1810 census, his numbers were 0-1-0-1-1-1-2-1-0

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 14. Thomas Scoville, 45. Jesse Scoville, in Holley, Jennie M. Scoville, and Homer Worthington Brainard. Arthur Scovell and His Descendants in America, 1660-1900. (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing Company, 1941)
   24, 45-46.

   "45. Jesse Scoville (Thomas, Stephen, Arthur), baptized at Hadlyme, Conn., 1759; died at Plymouth, Conn., May 20, 1828, aged 60 [error for 69]; married Lucy _____, who died at Plymouth, Conn., Nov. 12, 1820, aged 51; second Sept. 16, 1824, at Plymouth, Mrs. Mary Munson of Wallingford, Conn. … Jesse Scoville returned to Connecticut from Vermont, or perhaps did not go up there with his brothers. In 1787 he bought of his father's cousin, Samuel Scoville of Meriden-Plymouth, all Samuel's real estate in the town of Plymouth. On Sept. 19, 1791, his name appears on the roll of St. Matthew's church at East Plymouth. His earmark was registered at Plymouth July 15, 1796. On the day of his second marriage he and Mrs. Munson signed a jointure in which each renounced all claim to the property of the other. He was considered well off for his time."

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Jesse Scovill, in Find A Grave.
3. ↑ Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 40 616-9 Old Cemetery, Plymouth, in Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
   88.

   "Scovel, Jesse, died. May 20, 1828, age 69 yrs."

4. ↑ Stevens, Jessica W. Lempster, New Hampshire, inhabitants from incorporation in 1767 through the 1900 federal census. (St. Petersburg, Florida: J.W. Stevens, c1995).