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1795: Born on February 8 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Conn to Ichabod and Mary
Mitchell Stoddard.
1806: Moved with his father's family from Connecticut to Bastard Township, Leeds
County, Ontario, then known as Upper Canada
1806-1837: Yearly Assesment Rolls of Bastard Township
1818: census Bastard Twp, Leeds, Ont: unmarried age 16-60

In Bastard Twp Lyman Stoddard (called Dr. Stoddard) applied for front half of
Lot 10 in the 2nd Concession of Bastard in lieu of the drowned land and
damages sustained by him from the Rideau Canal as recommended by the
Arbitrators. (Wallace Hansen research 1965)

1819: He married Ruth Wright about 1819. Marriage record has not been found.
1819: Assessment Roll of Bastard Twp: Liman Stoddard; conc 6 lot 2
1820: Assessment Roll: conc 6 lot 2
1820: Daughter Harriet Maria born in Johnstown Dist
1823: Son Judson Lyman Stoddard born in Bastard Township
1825: Daughter Mary Jane born
1826 - 1840: Land Records in Bastard Twp, Leeds, Ont.
1828: Daughter Esther born near this time
1834: Daughter Elizabeth Ruth born
1834: Alvin Nichols, was born Aug 19, 1819 in Upper Canada, the son of Sheldon
Nichols and Susannah Chipman. He was baptized in Canada in October, 1834, by
LYMAN STODDARD. Alvin later lived in Brigham City, Utah. (LDS Biographical
Encyclopidia p 430)
1836: Daughter May Jane born
1837: "Messenger and Advocate" Jan 1837, Oliver Cowdery ed, pg 446;
"Conference was opened by prayer by the President. By revelation of God and
vote of the church, John Landers, Arnold Stevens, and Lyman Stoddard were
ordained to the office of Elders."
1838: Daughter Harriet Maria md to Solomon Nelson Conley
1838: Land and Tax Records of Kirtland Saints 1830-1839; page 162
Lyman Stoddard and A Judd
Bought land 19 Jun 1838
Lot 1-018, 17 acres for $1,200.00

Sources include Land & Tax records, Family Group sheets, Temple Index Bureau,
Book of Deeds for Ohio Geauga Co 1830-1840 on micrfilm, 1850 census
Pottawattamie Co, Names appearing in James Smith's "Nauvoo Social History
Project: Master Indfex: BYU, Lyman Platt's "Nauvoo...Early Mormon ....",
Nauvoo Temple Endowments

Members of the Kirtland, Ohio Branch: no date page 68 977.133/K1 K2p 1983
Lyman Stoddard, b 8 Feb 1796 at Woodbury, Litchfield, Conn (Navoo Temple
Register 8 Feb 1795)
father: Ichabod Stoddard, mother Mary Mitchel,
spouse: Ruth Wright, b 13 Oct 1805 at Arlington, Arlington, VA (NTR b 13 Oct
1804 Burlington, Bennington, VT) father, Benjamin Wright, mother Mary
Ingersoll [NTR = Nauvoo Temple Endowment records]

1838: Arza Erastus Hinckley, a member of the Mormon Battalion, Company B, was
baptized in 1838 by Lyman Stoddard, In Illinois, en route to Missouri. (LDS
Biographical Encyclopecia p 746)
1839: Land and Tax Records of Kirtand Saints 1830-1839: page 162
Lyman Stoddard and A Judd
Taxed on Lot 1-017, 17 acres, $105.00
1840"s: Lyman Stoddard , Land and Records of Nauvoo - Nauvoo Lot 52 on the corner
of Hubbard and Partidge Streets.
1841: Performed numerous baptisms for the dead in Nauvoo, including his paternal
grandparents, Abijah and Eunice Stoddard, his parents, Ichabod and Mary
Stoddard, one brother, and also his maternal grandparents, Nathan and Mary
Mitchell, and one sister.
1841: Oct 7 - Called by the First Presidency in Nauvoo to go on a mission to
Wisonsin with E H Groves.
"History of the Church" Vol 4 Ch 25 p 429; Elder Lyman Stoddard, to go with
Elisha H. Groves to Wisconsin.
1842: Tax List of Nauvoo shows Lyman Stoddard has a home in Block 53 of Nauvoo
1842: Daughter Aurelia Jane born
1842: Lyman Stoddard went on a mission from Nauvoo to Wisconsin and baptized
Jacob Hamblin, March 3, 1842. (Jacob named his 4th son Lyman Stoddard
Hamblin.) Lyman also performed baptisms in Michigan. "Jacob Hamblin,
Peacemaker" pages ...
1842: Jun; Elder Lyman Stoddard in Iowa County baptized Carey [Corey] Call b 24
Mar 1810 Union County Ohio "Seventies Ordained Before 1850 - Nauvoo Visitors
Center"
1842: Spring - LDS census taken by the Lesser Priesthood: 1st Ward
Stoddard, Lyman with Ruth, Judson, Mary, Esther Ann, Ruth E (under 8),
Aurilia Jane (under 8)
1843: Numerous Baptisms for the Dead performed by Lyman Stoddard and also his
wife, Ruth
1843: September 1 - at a conference in Buffalo, New York, Lyman and his son
Judson were called to go to Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, to labor as
missionaries. (JH)
1844: April 15; Vol 6 page 337, 340 List published of Elders and appointment: to
Maryland - Jacob Hamblin and Lyman Stoddard
1844: 9 May; William Myers married to Zerva Parrish at Nauvoo by Lyman Stoddard
"Marriages in Nauvoo" page 44
1844: Nov 1, 2, 3 - presided over conference in Livonia, Michigan. Three
sessions held each day. Lyman was the only high priest among all the
branches representing all of north eastern Michigan.
He traveled with Elder Wm Burton throughout the branches, regulating their
affiars and preaching the gospel.
1845: January 24, 25, 26 - Conference held in Oakland, Oakland County, Michigan,
four miles north of Rochester. Lyman Stoddard was the presiding high priest
and the speaker (Malachi Ch 3) He represented the Lyvonia Branch
1845, Apr 19 Patriarchal Blessing under the hands of John Smith, Patriarch, in
Nauvoo. It indicates that his lineage was Ephriam (Patriarchal Blessings
Vol 9 page 95.)
1845: 10 Jun; Jacob M Truman baptized by Lyman Stoddard "Seventies Ordained
Before 1850 - Nauvoo Visitors' Center"
1845: 18 Dec; Endowment in the Nauvoo Temple . Listed as a High Priest
1845: Dec 29 - Vermillion Fort, Wisconsin Churches - a letter to Lyman Stoddard
and Isaac Fuller (Brigham Young "Name File" Church Historian's Office in Salt
Lake City)
1845: Son Enoch Mahonri born December 22
1846: 4 Feb; Lyman Stoddard and Ruth Wright sealed by Brigham Young at 12:15
night in Nauvoo Temple. Witnesses were A M Lyman and N K Whitney
1847: April 4; received a recommendation and certificate of authority to preach
on the Pottawattamie lands in Iowa.
1847: May 11 - presided over a conference at Macedonia, helping to select a
president, councilors, etc.
1847: December 25 - conference held in the tabernacle at Millers Hollow, Iowa.
Lyman was sustained as a member of the High Council, Blockhouse Brancy, nine
miles up river. At the close of 1847 there were 1,000 members in
Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Orson Hyde of the quorum of the twelve was in
this area. There were 1900 in the Salt Lake Valley and 5000 in Winter
Quarters, Nebraska.
1848: Winter Quarters Temple Records: No 5492 Book A slg. Page 765
38.. A 499
Stoddard - Lyman born 8 Feb 1795 Woodbury, Litchfield, Conn. living .
(see Lyman Stoddard file for copy)
1848: Named as a High Priest, resident in Pottawattame, received into that quorum
2 Jan 1848 at the Tabernacle, Blockhouse Branch.
1848: April 6 - Conference held in Pottawattamie County, now called Kanesville.
Lyman still a member of the High Council.
1848: April 7 - Committee of five chosen to "select locations for the poor, see
that cabins were erected and field enclosed for the poor in several
branches". Lyman was on this committee.
1848: April 8 - Lyman assigned by Orson Hyde to visit the branches of
Pottawattamie County.
1848: 27 Apr; Maria Truman sealed to Lyman Stoddard. Witnesses were Ruth
Stoddard and George Wardle
1848: 17 May; Mary Mecham (dead) sealed to Lyman Stoddard. Ruth Stoddard acted
as proxy for Mary Mecham. Witnesses were L H Boundy and J P Barnard
1848: 11 Jul; Abigail Brandon sealed to Lyman Stoddard. Witnesses were Ruth
Stoddard and J P Barnard. (There is no record found to the present to
indicate that Lyman lived with or supported any of these polygamous wives.)
1848: October 6 - Conference held at Mosquito Creek, Pottawattamie
1848: October 7 - High Council again approved, including Lyman. He was also
sustained as a traveling missionary on the Pottawattamie lands.
1849: 6 Oct; Asa Calkin ordained High Priest in Pottawattamie County, Iowa by
Lyman Stoddard
1849: March 5; son Alavan Moriancum born
1849: April 7 - Conference held in Pottawattamie lands. Lyman and two others
received reports from all the branches. He was again approved as a traveling
elder.
1849: April 8 - Lyman again sustained on the High Council
1849: October 7 - Again sustained at conference as a High Councilor and a
traveling elder. He spoke at the conference about the use of timber in the
area.
1849: November 24 - The High Council met with Orson Hyde concerning dances for
the holiday season. Six men were assigned to preside over them - Lyman was on
this assignment.
1850: 6 Apr; Barnum Blake Messenger ordained a High Priest in Kanesville, Iowa by
Lyman Stoddard, G. Colson and Joseph Allred "High Priest of Nauvoo and Salt
Lake" Nauvoo Visitors Center
1850 census Dist 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa;
Lyman Stoddard, age 55, m, LDS Clergyman, b CONN
Ruth, f, age 46, b VT
Elizabeth, f, age 16, b UC
Orilla, f, age 8, b ILL
Enoch, m, age 5, b ILL
Alavan, m, age 2, b Iowa

1851: April 28 - a letter from the High Council at Kanesville, Iowa, commending
Lyman as a faithful servant among the Saints for the last three years - now
in very poor health for the past three months - desires to go to the Salt
Lake Valley. James C Snow assigned to take Lyman's place in the High Counci
as a traveling agent among the Saints. (signed by Evan M. Green)
1851: Jun 29 - his daughter Esther Ann Hamblin died
1851: October 23 - rebaptized
1851: Dec 29 - "To be adopted to Pres. B. Young" (GS film 183374 page 795,
Millcreek Ward
Lyman Stoddard and wife Ruth Wright and childre

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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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• _MILT: 1776, Crown Point, Essex, New York, United States; Soldier in Revolutionary War (possible)

Abijah + Eunice Curtiss. Eunice blev født den 20 maj 1720 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America; blev døbt den 27 mar. 1720 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA; døde den 10 okt. 1794 i Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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