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- ↑ Papers in file in Morgan CO. WV Hist. Society, Berkeley Springs, WV.
- F. Marie Waltman. Nine Families From The Sideling Hill Area In Western Maryland. (2000
Heritage Books
Bowie, MD).
- WV Marriage Record.
- Marriage License
Thomas Rockwell, Sarah Clawson, Berkeley, VA, USA, 10 DEC 1787.
- Rootsweb Board. (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com)
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CLAWSON/2010-09/1284248470.
- Anon. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey : a book of the achievements of her people in the. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1910, 1962 pgs.)
p.1419.
- Site admin. Pauly, Rockwell, Cleveland, Boncquet and allied families. (https://paulyfamily.org)
https://paulyfamily.org:443/individual.php?pid=I10939.
- Sarah Clawson is the accepted wife of Thomas Tolbert Rock* Sr. See for example http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60124843 and the book "Nine Pioneer Families from the Sideling Hill Area in Western Maryland" (F.M. Whitman, Heritage Press, 2000)
However, the signature on the marriage license does not match the signature of Thomas Tolbert Rockwell Sr. on his Rev. War Pension application. The Pension application is undoubtedly his signature. The marriage license is not even the correct name - Rothwell instead of Rockwell.
Besides, the date of marriage (1797, not 1787 as sometimes stated) is too late for Sarah Clawson to be the mother of Thomas Tolbert Sr.'s children, except for Mary who is doubtful as a child of Thomas Tolbert Sr. anyway.
The place of marriage, Berkeley, Virginia (now WV), is inconsistent with the birth of Thomas Tolbert Sr.'s children in Maryland.
Sarah Clawson is, nonetheless, a distant cousin, a descendant of Claes Corneliszen "Meutelaer" Van Schouwen. Claes Corneliszen "Meutelaer" Van Schouwen is an ancestor of our Wyckoff line (Joanna Wyckoff was the mother of Eva Beckley who married Walter E. Rockwell). Van Schouwen's daughter Pieterje Claeszen's daughter Geertje "Charity" Van Arsdalen married Cornelius Pieterse Wyckoff.
No record of Thomas Tolbert Sr.'s marriage in Maryland has been found. He lived in Harford County as a young man and later in Washington County, where in 1790 he lived with his family, consisting of himself, four males under sixteen and three women whose ages are not given. Washington Co. Maryland is adjacent to Berkeley Co. Virginia.
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