Isaac (Timothy) Southard
Born: after 1700, Hempstead, Long Island, New York
Died: possibly between 1740-45, somewhere enroute from New Jersey to Hempstead, Long Island, New York
Parents: Isaac Southard & Grace Southard
Note: According to the research of Betsey Heath Howes, Timothy Southard was actually Isaac Southard.
Marriage: unknown
Wife: Jane Pine
Born: after 1707, Hempstead, Long Island, New York
Died: between 1740-45, Rockaway, Morris County New Jersey
Children:
Timothy Southard
(adopted by the Hedden family)
"FROM ROCKAWAY RECORDS OF MORRIS CO., N.J. FAMILIES"
J. Percy Crayon, Rockaway, N.J., Rockaway Publishing Co., 1902.
In the earliest days of Hibernia, probably as early as 1740,
not later than 1745, lived one Timothy Southard. He was unfortunate in
the death of his wife, who it is probable was buried at Rockaway. They
had one son, an infant at the death of the mother, and also named
Timothy. The father sold out his household belongings, not very
extensive in those days, and carried his infant in his arms, and was
going to make the journey on foot to some of his relatives living at
Elizabethtown Point, or to Long Island, where he came from. He stopped
for the night at an acquaintance by the name of Hedden, then living on
the back road between Rockaway and Hibernia, the only road then
traveled at that times perhaps a bridle path, and the family induced
him to leave the infant in their care until he should he return in two
or three weeks, which arrangement had been satisfactorily made, and
Timothy proceeded on his journey, saying that when he returned the
family would be amply repaid for their kindness and trouble, and other
arrangements for the keeping of the family of the child satisfactorily
made. He was never heard from again, and it was thought that he had
died of grief stricken before he had reached his relatives, as they had
never received any tidings from their relative, and a case of misplaced
confidence, or intended disappearing was unusual, as the ties of
affection were stronger in those days than in this present day and
generation.
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