Person:Stephen Vail (5)

Watchers
Stephen Vail
d.Bet 18 Apr 1808 and 25 Dec 1808 Lemon Twp, Butler Co., Ohio
m. 25 Nov 1761
  • HStephen Vail1739 - 1808
  • WSarah Smith1741/42 - 1769
m. 26 Oct 1763
  1. Samuel Vail1765 - 1830
  2. Moses VailEst 1767 -
m. Bef 19 Jun 1771
  1. Rebecca Vail1772 -
  2. Shobel Vail1774 -
  3. Aaron Vail1775 -
  4. Sarah Vail1777 -
  5. Randall Vail1779 - 1847
  6. Mary Vail1781 - 1870
  7. Esther Vail1784 -
  8. Hugh Vail1786 - 1868
  9. Catherine Vail1787 -
Facts and Events
Name Stephen Vail
Gender Male
Birth? 19 Dec 1739 Green Brook, Somerset Co., New Jersey, United States
Residence[2] 1761 Somerset Co., New Jersey, United States
Marriage 25 Nov 1761 Plainfield, Essex (now Union) Co., New Jersey, United Statesto Rebecca Jackson
Marriage 26 Oct 1763 to Sarah Smith
Marriage Bef 19 Jun 1771 to Mary Fitz Randolph
Death? Bet 18 Apr 1808 and 25 Dec 1808 Lemon Twp, Butler Co., Ohio

Note copied from Fitz Randolph source doc, pg 31: "Stephen Vail's first wife (2nd int. declared Dec. 16, 1761) was Rebecca Jackson; his second wife, whom he married 10 mo., 1763, was Sarah (Smith) Marriott, . . . a cousin of Mary Fitz Randolph. Of course Stephen and Mary were not related by consanguinity, but the Quakers considered that they were related "by affinity," and so frowned on this [3rd] marriage. The Rahway-Plainfield Minutes state that "19 of 6 mo., 1771, Stephen Vail, Jr., is complained of for marrying his first (sic) wife's cousin," and he was disowned 18 of 9 mo., 1771. Stephen must have acknowledged his breach of discipline, for the Westmoreland Monthly Meeting, Washington Co., Pa., had "25 of 12 mo., 1790;" Stephen Vail produced a Certificate for himself and his wife Mary from Rahway dated 16 of 9 mo., 1790;" and on "22 of 10 mo., 1791, Stephen Vail requests that his seven minor children be taken under care of friends." "26 of 11 mo., 1791, Shubal, Aaron, Sarah, Randall, Mary, Hugh and Catharine, children of Stephen Vail, are received into membership."

"On the '1 of 3 mo., 1805,' the Redstone (Fayette Co., PA) MM wrote: "Dear Friends: agreeable to your Request we inform you that the following friends have removed from amongst us and we believe now reside within the limits of your meeting - to wit Stephen Vail, Mary his wife and four children, Aaron, Randolph, Catharine and Hugh: they removed in or about the year 1800." Also mentions that the son Randolph had married 'out of meeting'.

From pg 379, "Moses Vail of Huntington, L.I.": He [Stephen] was one of the founders of Middletown, Ohio, in 1802, having come to Ohio in 1799. He purchased a large tract of land on both sides of the Miami River and began erecting mills,--a grist-mill, fulling mill, and saw-mill,--which were finished in 1802. He was buried on the banks of the Miami River; his grave was washed away by a flood. (Note: For a summary of his Will, see the end of this chapter.) At the first election held 1 April, 1837, by 106 legal voters, Hugh Vail, Stephen Vail and John R. Russel, a grandson of Stephen Vail the original proprietor, were three of the five Trustees of the Corporation elected."

References
  1.   Rootsweb chart of Gail White: Vail. (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1170221).
  2. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
    Vol. 9 No. 1; Jan 1878, pg 29.
  3.   Vail, William Penn. Moses Vail of Huntington, L.I: showing his descent from Joseph (2) Vail, son of Thomas Vail at Salem Massachusetts 1640, together with collateral lines. (unknown: unknown, 1947)
    Pgs 379, 380.
  4.   General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various)
    11[3]:27.