John blev gift med Martha Elizabeth Weaver den 13 okt. 1853 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Martha blev født den 24 feb. 1837 i Scio, Allegany, New York, USA; døde den 11 apr. 1904 i Dryfork, Uintah, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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HISTORY OF LEEDS AND GRENVILLE:
Arvin Stoddard settled in "Chanty" (near Brockville). List of names of Detachment of Duty 1825: (Return to Captain Jeramiah Day Co ) Brockville:
Nathaniel Stoddard, Sheldon Stoddard, Truman Stoddard, Ichabod Stoddard
Submitted by Joyce Stoddard, Jan 25, 2018

Nathaniel blev gift med Jane McManagle i 1824 i Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Jane (datter af John McManagle og Elisabeth Blair Or Blain) blev født den 16 feb. 1804 i Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; blev døbt den 15 mar. 1804 i Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland; døde i 1880 i Minersville, Beaver, Utah, USA; blev begravet i 1882 i Minersville, Beaver, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Jane was born the second child of John McManagle and Elizabeth Blain. Jane gave the date and place of her birth as 16 February 1804, Glasgow, Scotland on various LDS Church records. However, the Glasgow records and also a thorough search of all parishes in all surrounding counties by a descendant, Devon Harvey, has found some birth records on the film #1553486 has expanded Jane’s birth place adding the town of Greenock, Glasgow, Scotland. The family is found in the Glasgow, Barony parish, starting in 1808, with the fourth through the ninth children being christen there. It is assumed that the parents with the first three children went to Glasgow around 1808, from Northern Ireland. Jane was very young at that point, and may not have remembered, nor been told. McMannigle is an Irish name found in the county of Donegal in early histories.

Greenock (Grianaig in Scottish Gaelic) is a large burgh and a burgh of Barony in the Inverclyde Council Area in western Scotland, forming part of a continuous urban area with Gourock to the west and Port Glasgow to the east. It lies on the south bank of the Clyde River at the "Tail of the Bank" where the River Clyde expands into the Firth of Clyde, and is in what was the county of Renfrewshire.

Taken from the “Historical Atlas of Canada”, the sailing vessel “Brock” left Greenock, Scotland on July 9, 1820, with seven families, all members of the Transatlantic Society. These families landed in Quebec and traveled up the river on overland to settle in Lanark County, Ontario (then known as Upper Canada). Included in the seven families were John McNangle and James Blair (possibly a brother or uncle of Elizabeth Blain). So we find that when Jane was sixteen years old, her family left their native land and immigrated with her family to the British Colony of Upper Canada (now Ontario).

It was there that Jane met and married Nathaniel Stoddard in 1824, at the age of twenty years. To this marriage four boys were born, Arvin Mitchell, John Rufus, Sheldon and Albert Leonard. Nathaniel died about 1834, leaving Jane a widow with four small sons to raise. Nathaniel was still alive in the assessment rolls for 1834, but the rolls for 1835, say Widow, Jane Stoddard, 5 males under 16, 1 female over 16, total of 6 persons. We don’t know who the extra male is.

On the 20th April 1835, Jane married Arza Judd in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. He was a farmer whose wife, had passed away leaving him with six living children, (the three youngest had died as infants.) So the combined family made a family of ten children.

Jane apparently changed the spelling of her last name to McMann, possibly to anglicize it.

In the book Zadok Knapp Judd--Soldier, Colonizer, Missionary to the Lamanites by Derrel Wesley Judd, page 1, the following information was found:

“Arza Judd, Jr. found another mother for his children. In 1836, he married the widow Jane McMann Stoddard, who had four boys by her previous marriage. . . . Jane McMann Stoddard Judd must have been a wonderful woman with great capacity for love, for she not only was mother to her own four boys but opened her heart to the children of Arza. “

In the fall of 1836, John E. Dodd and James Blaksley, missionaries of the Mormon Church, came to their home and in the fall of 1836, Arza, Jane and the older children joined the Church and were baptized. The Canadian settlements were only a day or two’s journey from Palmyra, New York, and Kirtland, Ohio, and several recent converts were eager to share their new religion with relatives north of the border.

In the Journal of Zadok Knapp Judd, he states that Jane was kind and good mother to his father’s children. Shortly after she came to the Judd home, she was cooking breakfast and Zadok, who was standing nearby, was given a nice cake. He stepped to the other side of the house where his father was and was asked, “who gave you that cake?” Her boys had always called her Aunt Jane and he, of course, used the same name. He answered, “Father, Aunt Jane gave it to me.” His father, with rather a stern voice said, “No that won’t do; you must call her mother. Mother gave you that cake.” That was reminder enough for me. He never called her Aunt Jane again.”

His journal also is listed as a source stating that in 1838/39, Jane gave birth to a baby boy whom they named Samuel, he did not live very long.

“Because so many people in that area had joined the Church and had sold their possessions and were counting on starting to Kirtland, Ohio, in the spring of 1838. Owing to troubles arising between some party and the government, our folks thought it best to start sooner, and so in February of 1838 three families of the Judd’s left.”

They had six ox teams and wagons with some other cattle. The snow was deep and it took them four or five days to reach the St Lawrence River. When they arrived at the river they had to find a man who would pilot them across the river because they wouldn’t let them cross without one. He said that the man gathered an armful of pine bows and as he scouted the river he would drop bows the way they were to travel and traveled they couldn’t be closer than four to five rods with their wagons. This was because they must go around the thin ice or holes in the ice. They traveled about 5 miles from the river and found a place where they stayed for the rest of the winter.

“In our temporary location we were reasonably comfortable for campers -- three families all in one room, with one big fireplace; our stock all turned into our landlord’s barnyard or corral, as we now call it; and fed with his stock.” Sunday was a day of rest and all things prepared on Saturday so they could observe the Sabbath. He said that Sunday School and meeting was a must to attend.

As soon as it was somewhat warm, they begin their journey to Kirtland and there were now thirty wagons in their Canadian party. It was mid-summer before they arrived. Here Arza had sent money ahead and had purchased a house and small farm. Most of the people had left Kirtland because of the mob and there threats against the saints. So their stay there was short and they moved on and went to a place called DeWitt, Missouri where they arrived late in the fall. This was a new place just being started by the saints.

Here they began to prepare for winter, the tall grass was plentiful and so they started gathering it for winter feed and because there was plenty of timber, logs were cut in preparation for building a home. The mobs begin to gather to run them out of the country and the Prophet Joseph Smith sent a group of men to help them and have them all move to Far West, Missouri. The trip took five days and when they arrived there were no houses available so they had to live in their wagons, tents and shelters we could make with poles and brush laid on them. Food was scarce and so they lived on corn meal and Missouri pumpkins. It was here that the Mormons were required to give up there weapons and many of the men were taken prisoners and Judd family moved in with another family on the prairie. They spent the rest of the winter here.

In the spring of 1839, as soon as the snow melted they left and crossed the Mississippi into Illinois and settled on a farm a few miles below Warsaw on the Mississippi River bottom. They said the fog was so bad in mornings they could hardly see but a short distant and it would stay until about nine or ten o’clock. It was a sickly place and after raising one crop he moved the family to the town of Warsaw.

As winter came, Arza Judd went to Nauvoo and there started to build a house. He got the logs from a little island opposite Nauvoo and cut the logs and brought them across the ice and to the lot where he started the house. He became ill and went home to his family and after three weeks of illness he died on
February 2, 1840, in Warsaw, Illinois.

Zadok stated that after his father died, his stepmother who was Jane Stoddard Judd, having buried her second husband, gathered her family around her and made the decision to move to Nauvoo and finish the house, which they did. In the summer of 1840, they raised a fair crop on the lot they had, but in the winter of 1841, it was written that many times all they had to eat was potatoes with salt on them. We find Jane in the Nauvoo First Ward with John Rufus, Sheldon and Albert all listed under the last name of Judd. (Arvin was not listed).

We have been unable to find what they did in Nauvoo and where any of them worked because in 1841, the three boys mentioned were fourteen, eleven and nine years of age. From the journal of step-son Zadok Judd: “While living poor and enduring hard times, mother took me with her boys to the Patriarch Joseph Smith Sr. to get patriarchal blessings. She could not pay for all, but we boys each received a blessing which was not recorded. I remember some things that were said to me.” This took place in 1841.

Zadok Judd worked for a man, that must of been a short distant from where they lived in Nauvoo, and he decided to go home but the man told him that he was not wanted at home and his mother said he was only a nuisance and he had better stay but he went home anyway. On arriving at home he went to the back of the house without being seen. One of the boys happen to see him and went in and told Mother. She came out to see what was wrong and when he told her his feelings, she said that she had said no such thing and gave him many words of comfort and showed herself to be kind and affectionate. Quote: “Mother, which she always was to me, soon made me happy.”

On the Nauvoo film #0183376, 1843-1845, is found under Early Church Records, Nauvoo Temple Baptisms for the Dead. Jane Judd is found in book D. pgs, 11, 104, 145 and 194. She has been baptized for the following people:
Blackmon, Elizabeth, relationship: adopted daughter, pg 11 (this is new

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Ichabod was christened in 30 December 1750, to Abijah and Eunice Curtis Stoddard in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, he was the sixth of twelve children. This was a troubled time period, when the colonies were being suppressed by the British Crown.

Ichabod was twenty-six years old when the Revolutionary War was being fought. His father, Abijah Stoddard died fighting in the Battle of Crown Point, New York in Revolutionary War on 6 May 1776. He was fighting for the Colonists.

Information received from Jim Barton: “In William Cothren’s work, The History of Ancient Woodbury Connecticut, written in 1850, in addition to a splendid family history and a family tree, he lists on page 785, the Record of Revolutionary War soldiers from Woodbury. The names of fourteen Stoddard patriots are listed. From this list we also learn that five died in the service of the fledgling American nation and one was wounded. But the most revealing thing of all is the list includes the name of Ichabod Stoddard, who at age twenty-six (1776) was on the sick rolls at Ft. Ticonderoga.”

Ichabod married Mary Mitchell in Woodbury, about 1786. They had eleven children, all born in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut.

In the first edition of this book (A Window to our Past, A Look Back on our Curfew Heritage), I stated that I thought the Stoddard’s were Loyalists. That research has been found to be flawed as the following stated by Jim Barton, a family genealogist from Oriental, North Carolina will provide an explanation:

“First, the term Loyalist can be widely applied but generally it applies to either those who aided and abetted the Crown during the American Revolution. The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada maintains lists of these people, even including compensations awarded for properties lost. You can run down that lead for the Stoddard family, but I do not think it will yield much because if Ichabod Stoddard and his family moved there, it was well past the loyalist flight to Canada.

“Timing of the Stoddard departure to Canada combined with the patriot history of the Stoddard’s in the Revolutionary War seems to support that they were Patriots. But as history has shown there were often different beliefs and divisions among families.

“Here are a few facts I have assembled using the Canadian Encyclopedia: The American Revolution was fought 1776-1783. During the Revolution over 19,000 Loyalists served Britain in specially created provincial corps, accompanied by several thousand Indians. Others spent the war in such strongholds as New York City or in refugee camps such as those at Sorel and Machiche, Qué. Between 80,000 and 100,000 eventually fled, about half of them to Canada. The vast majority were neither well-to-do nor particularly high in social rank; most were farmers. Ethnically, they were quite mixed, and many were recent immigrants. White Loyalists brought sizable contingents of slaves with them. Free blacks and escaped slaves who had fought in the Loyalist corps and as many as 2,000 Indian allies, mainly Six Nations Iroquois from New York, settled in Canada. So, after the war concluded, the main waves of Loyalists came to what is now Canada in 1783 and 1784. While the initial influx was to the Maritime Provinces, after the creation of Upper Canada (what is now Ontario) in 1791, vast numbers of Loyalists settled there.”

It is thought to be around 1805, that Ichabod and family, including his brothers, left Connecticut and settled in Bastard Township, Leeds, Ontario, Canada.

Jim Barton continues, “In my mind it stems to the fact that the Stoddard’s were patriots during the Revolution. So, while I cannot give you a definitive reason why Ichabod Stoddard left Connecticut for Upper Canada in 1805, I can say with reasonable certainty that it was not for Loyalist reasons. The timing of it is all wrong. Why would a man age fifty-five, a Revolutionary War patriot who came from a family of patriots with a long history of service to the Colony, leave with his family for Upper Canada twenty years after the Loyalist influx? One thing is for certain, by 1850, there were no Stoddard’s listed on the Woodbury rolls. I wonder why? But to determine the answer for his reasons for emigration, I think one probably has to turn no farther than one word: opportunity. The fledging nation had its difficulties, New England especially. Maybe Ichabod sought new opportunity elsewhere.”

EARLY SETTLERS OF LEEDS COUNTY AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP OF BASTARD

Although United Empire Loyalists, principally from Vermont and Connecticut, originally settled the Township a large number of Irish Emigrants in a few years came in, taking possession principally of the northern and eastern parts of the Township. This is where the Stoddard’s settled.

The township of Bastard is located next to the Township of Kitley and Crosby in the military settlements of Canada. This township does not face the St. Lawrence River but is located next to those first settled on the river. There was another consideration. The government feared a future invasion by the Americans, in which case it would be preferable to have the officers scattered throughout the settlements, rather than all along one line. So, it was that when the settlers landed on the shore of the St. Lawrence, they drew their land by slips of paper from a hat.

NAMING OF BASTARD TOWNSHIP

The following account is given as to the peculiar name, which the Township received. Sometime after the settlement commenced, a notice was received from the Government that it was necessary to give the municipality a name. Elder Stevens, Sr., was appointed a delegate to proceed to Toronto and suggest a name, the understanding being that it would be Stevenstown. When the Elder arrived at the Crown Lands Office, the clerks were busily engaged in naming townships, following as a rule, the suggestions of the surveyors, or of interested parties. Coming to Bastard, there was a pause and a slight discussion. Elder Stevens was appealed to, and from modesty hesitated in giving Stevenstown, saying “that he did not know what to call it;” when one of the clerks remarked that, “as it has no father, it must be a bastard township.” The result was that it was set down on the map as Bastard. We do not vouch for the truth of the story, but have related it as received from an old settler.

The following information has been extracted from a book entitled History of Leeds and Grenville Ontario from 1749 to 1879, by Thaddus William Henry Leavitt, 1879. I will include the pages where the information appears. It must be noted that I have found the events listed in the book are not in chronological order, but randomly placed as I suppose, when the information was found.

Page 42 & 43, Chapter XII, Veterans of 1812-15: “Statement Showing the Names of All Veterans Who Have Proved Their Rights to Partake Of The Grant Of $50,000, Voted In Parliament In Favor Of The Militiamen of 1812-15; Leeds and Grenville. (listed among them is) “Arvin Stoddard, Chantry.”

Page 43: GOURLAY’S MEETINGS (Robert Gourlay questioned the decision of Lieutenant Governor’s in banning the granting of land to Americans. This band made it difficult for land owners to sell their land.) “In Bastard, June 23rd, 1818, at the house of E. Ryerson Chamberlain … “Committee: Judson Stoddard.”

Page 105: “In 1812, purchasing the mills … created by Sheldon Stoddard.”

Page 120: is found a list of all the patents for land granted by the Crown up to the 1st of November 1820, in the township of Bastard. There is no Stoddard found on the list. This is a good indication that the Stoddard’s were not part of the Loyalist immigration.

Page 121: “Among the early settlers of the Township were Arvin, Sheldon, Lyman and Ichabod Stoddard . . .” (Author believes these are Ichabod and his sons.)

Page 121: “The Township Clerk has in his possession an interesting book of record, which dates back to 1800. At that time any settler who wished to do so, was permitted to write in the book facts bearing upon the public interest. Part of the work was devoted to family records; another portion being set apart for the registration of sheep marks. We give an example: -- ‘Arvin Stoddard, your mark is two slits in the right ear.’”

Page 122: “Arvin Stoddard and one of his brothers walked most of the journey from Connecticut and settled at Arvin’s residence.”

Page 122: “Ichabod Stoddard settled on the farm now owned by William Barber.” “Dr. Lyman Stoddard settled on the Gallagher farm. Dr. Stoddard left Canada with the Mormons. Nathaniel Stoddard settled at Tophy’s Mill…”

Page 123: “Martha, a daughter of Samuel Seamon, married Arvin Stoddard.”

Page 124: “LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS -- In January 1837, … Truman Stoddard, Lyman Stoddard … left the Township of Bastard and crossed the St. Lawrence at Cole’s Ferry en route for the Mormon El Dorado, in the far west.”

Page 179: CHAPTER XLII, North Crosby. “Among the first and prominent settlers of North Crosby, were the following: -- Sheldon Stoddard who built the first mill in the Township … at the foot of Sand Lake, also erecting a house near at hand, on the farm at present owned by W. H. Rorison.” “A Town Meeting held at Sheldon Stoddard’s for the Township of North Crosby, on the first Monday in January 1829, ...” “In 1831, there were added to the township officers two Wardens, viz., Sheldon Stoddard. “The first building for public worship was a frame one, put up by Sheldon Stoddard ... “ (and others I will not list) ”It was also used as a school house.”

Page 180: (The Township Upper Mills) The land was purchased from (Mr.) Sherwood by (Mr.) Stoddard. In 1817-18, Sheldon Stoddard and Rueben Sherwood built an extensive mill on the north shore of Rideau Lake …”

The Stoddard family certainly was an integral part of settling and establishing the area of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario,

Ichabod blev gift med Mary Mitchel cirka 1780 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. Mary blev født den 3 jan. 1759 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; blev døbt den 3 jun. 1759 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America; døde den 3 jan. 1842 i Roxbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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John blev gift med Elisabeth Blair Or Blain den 17 apr. 1802 i Angus, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Elisabeth blev født den 28 maj 1782 i Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; døde efter 1851. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]