Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
NameJames Braffett
Birthabt 1763, Plainfield, Windham, CT1,2
Deathabt 1808, Luzerne, PA1,2
FatherBraffett (~1740-)
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH: Find a Grave1, 5 children, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156301343
!BIRTH-DEATH: FamilySearch2, James Braffett, 5 children, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/LC5J-TSV
!BIRTH-DEATH: Braffett descendants, James Braffett, https://willbraffitt.org/roots/BraffittDescendants.txt
!REFERENCE: Braffett Family Notes179, James Braffett
!NOTE: James Braffett and Gamaliel Jaqua came from CT about 1792 to the area that is now Burlington, Bradford County, PA. James began improvements on the Morley farm and erected the first framed house in Burlington Township in 1804. He married Rebecca Gore whose father Silas Gore was slain at the battle of Wyoming. James and Rebecca had 5 children before he died about 1808. Rebecca then married Joseph Bloom who occupied the farm. Gamaliel married Eleanor Campbell, daughter of James Campbell, and their child Judson married Lucinda Braffett, daughter of Rebecca and James. Gamaliel did not stay long in Burlington Township. Rebecca, Joseph, and most of Rebecca's children moved to Harrison, Darke County, OH by 1826. Luzerne County was formed from Northumberland County in 1786, and Bradford County from Luzerne County in 1810. Burlington Township was formed from Wysok Township in 1802. Most of the children of James and Rebecca were born probably in what is now Burlington, Bradford County, PA.
!REFERENCE: Connecticut Archives Series I:184, 13-Sep-1796 petition from James Breffet and others in Luzerne County, PA to the CT General Assembly
!REFERENCE: 01-Oct-1798 Ulster, Luzerne County, PA, tax list entry for James Braffet
!CENSUS: 10-Apr-1800 Wysox, Luzerne, PA182, page 207B, page 405, line 28, James Braffot, 1 male 0-10, 1 male 26-45, 1 female 0-10, 1 female 26-45, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR6-NKY
!REFERENCE: Luzerne County Federalist183, 20-Aug-1803, James Braphet
!REFERENCE: 1807, "A number of cases of small pox occurred in 1807, in Burlington.", https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://.../outline/burlout.htm
!REFERENCE: 07-Oct-1808 US Army Enlistment, James Brafitt, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJD5-NGQB
!REFERENCE: History of Bradford County 1770-187872, James Braffitt
!REFERENCE; History of Bradford County 1770-187872, pages 109, 288, 291; Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Pennsylvania 1770-180075, pages 240, 267, 280, volume II, page 385; First Ladies of Indiana and The Governors164, page 85; FGS from Lala Vadeina Gifford Whitley (1917-2004), P.O. Box 621, Sweet Home, OR 97386; History and Geography of Bradford County 1615-1924, page 341; DAR 50697 (1904) for Mrs. Clara Barton Jaqua Meck, page 313, Braffitt; DAR 71768 (1908) for Mrs. Genevra Imogene Jaqua Hawkins, page 274; DAR 77824 (1910) for Mrs. Mary Stakebake Hinshaw, page 305
!REFERENCE: 16-Dec-1936 LDS sealing for the dead, James Braffitt born abt 1763 Plainfield, Windham, CT married 1785 Rebecca Gore, Plainfield, Windham, CT
!REFERENCE: Windham, CT Court Records184, check this reference for Braffett, Jaqua, Gore
!REFERENCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana162
!REFERENCE: http://www.chesebro.net/wgf22.html#I6519
!REFERENCE: 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://...ownhist/ulster01.htm
!REFERENCE: 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://...ownhist/burlhist.htm
!REFERENCE: 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://.../outline/burlout.htm - "The early settlers were ... Ezra Brafit, Ephraim Jacque, ..., Moses Calkins..."
!REFERENCE: 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://...pabradfo/1796tax.htm - James Brafitt
!REFERENCE: 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://...radsby/burlinhcb.htm - "... The next year, however, the Swains, Nichols and Noble families came and made settlements, also the Braffits and Joquas. ... In the fall of 1807, a family named Durand came with a sick child to the house of Mr. Braffit. Dr. Alexander was called in, and at once pronounced it a case of smallpox. ..."
!REFERENCE: 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://...ownhist/ulster01.htm - "... Mrs. Clark had three daughters by her first marriage, Patty Gore married a son of Jermiah Shaw, who came to Sheshequin with his family in 1786; Rebecca Gore married James Braffit, an early settler of Burlington, who died ..."
!REFERENCE: MyHeritage181 and FamilySearch2, records for Edtwort Breffoert and Roedy Comstock and children Rebecca Breffoert and Mary Breffert, https://www.myheritage.com/person-3502953_865941671_865941671/edtwort-breffoert, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/LD9P-Z1P
Spouses
Birth17 Jan 1776, Sheshequin, Northumberland, PA1,2
Death6 Aug 1859, New Madison, Darke, OH1,2
BurialFirst Universalist Church Cemetery, New Madison, Darke, OH1,2
FatherSilas Gore (1747-1778)
MotherKeziah Yarrington (1751-1837)
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: First Universalist Church Cemetery, New Madison, Darke, OH1, Rebecca Bloom, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113223999, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118156151
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, Rebecca Gore, 9 children, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/LC5J-TWC
!BIRTH-DEATH: Braffett descendants, Rebecca Gore, https://willbraffitt.org/roots/BraffittDescendants.txt
!CENSUS: 1810 Burlington, Lycoming, PA, 861, Burlington Township was disconnected from Lycoming County, but enumerated with it in the 1810 census. Starting in the 1820 census (when Rebecca was in the household of Joseph BLOOM), this township is with Bradford County; 1820 Burlington, Bradford, PA; page 106; family of Joseph BLOOM; 1830 Harrison, Darke, OH; page 18; family of Joseph BLOOM; 1840 Harrison, Darke OH; page 23; family of Joseph BLOOM; 14-Nov-1850 District 31, Harrison, Darke, OH; 65/68; page 357; Rebeca
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE: Probably born and married in what is today Burlington, Bradford, PA
!REFERENCE: History of Bradford County 1770-187872
!REFERENCE: Pioneer and Patriot Families of Bradford County, Pennsylvania 1770-180075, page 240, 301; DAR 50697 (1904) for Mrs. Clara Barton Jaqua Meck, page 313; DAR 71768 (1908) for Mrs. Genevra Imogene Jaqua Hawkins, page 274; DAR 77824 (1910) for Mrs. Mary Stakebake Hinshaw, page 305
!REFERENCE: 2004 Rebecca Gore, https://web.archive.org/web/20040223050825/http://www.chesebro.net/wgf76.html
!REFERENCE: 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20041118011502/http://...ownhist/ulster01.htm
!REFERENCE: 2019, Rebecca Gore, https://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/trees/115129/I2200/-/individual
Marriageabt 1796
ChildrenLucinda (1797-1885)
 Silas (1799-1867)
 Alfred (1802-1866)
 Evelina (1805-1882)
 Minerva (1807-1899)
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