Hillbillies & Vikings

This site is focused broadly on all descendants of John Denboe, an indentured servant who came to the Crown Colony of Maryland in about the year 1664. Also, it maintains a special emphasis on the descendants of John Denbow (1797-1862) and his brother Bazeleel (1795-1857), early pioneers in the hills of Southeastern Ohio, as well as the descendants of Jón Jónsson (1841-1934) of Dalasýsla, Iceland, who was an Icelandic immigrant to Canada and now has progeny throughout North America.

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801	from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism degree	Denbow, Mary Katheryn (I6396)
802	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I1177)
803	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I1050)
804	From the Dec 2005 issue of the Denbow Diaspora newsletter Jim Denbow Unearths Interesting New Information on John Denboe's Indenture James Denbow, co-editor of the Denbow Diaspora, and professor of archaeology and anthropology at the University of Texas, has put his professional sleuthing skills to work for us and unearthed, at least figuratively speaking, some very interesting new information and fascinating new leads about the probable first Denbow in North America. This is the John Denboe who came to these shores as an indentured servant in 1663 [actually 1676]. I'm going to ask Jim to write an article about his findings for an upcoming issue of the Diaspora, but for now, I'll tantalize you with a copy of an email that he sent me that outlines some of his findings and analysis. The Sandy referred to in this email is Sandy Jameyson, of Lodi, Ohio, a long-time Denbow researcher. I had forwarded to Jim some material that Sandy had sent me on John Denboe, some of this was material originally collection by Mary Denbow Petro, of Chillicothe, Ohio. Before reading the email below, please click here to see a copy of a most interesting map of colonial Maryland showing an area called Scotland near the place that John Denboe would have likely served his indenture. Hi Carl, Got the stuff you forwarded to me from Sandy today. Here is my take on this: 1. the "Hursfurl" document is simply a retyping of the info from Mary Petro that you had earlier. I don't believe Sandy herself went back to the originals. After doing so, in two different versions since there are no "original" originals -- those were apparently burnt in 1704 in a fire -- I believe the man's name is George Hasfurt, not Horsford and certainly not Hursfurl. If you type in Hasfurt in your search engine and look at all the documents I think you will agree. It is well known that many typos and transcription errors crept into these documents, some of which can be seen by comparing the two versions I have, which are listed below. 2. While waiting for those copies from you, I received from the Maryland State archives the following copies of the following two documents: John Denboe 1675-1680 Description: Liber WC, page 147. Accession No.: 17, 319 MSA No. S920-32 Location: 1/28/4/34 And John Denboe 1675-1680 Description: 19, transcript of Liber WC, page 258. Accession No. 17,353-1 MSA No. S920-46 Location 1/29/2/61 I believe the first transcript is the earlier one and is likely NOT the version copied by Mary Petro. What led to the problems of the Hasfurt association is that in the later transcription, the bottom of the page conveniently ends with the "mysterious" 2nd May Thomas Thurston signature and seal giving over the rights to his "servants" to Miles Gibson. She does not seem to have gone on to the next page where those servants, including John Denboe, are mentioned again. In the later version, one would have to go on to the NEXT PAGE to find the final two sections signed by Thomas Thurston ON THE SAME DAY, 2nd May, 1676, mentioning those servants, including John Denboe, for whom he (Thurston) paid transport. Quite what the legal sense of these missed entries is, I am not sure -- maybe you can figure it out. They most certainly have something to do with the marriage of Miles Gibson and Thurston's daughter Ann. Nonetheless, I think it is indisputable that the Hasfurt document has nothing at all to do with John Denboe -- and if you read Mary Petro's transcription of it you can see it deals only with the parcel of land, not other property such as servants. It is the next TWO (or maybe three depending on how they should be separated) signed by Thomas Thurston on the 2nd of May that outline his transport of servants, as well as 200 acres of land to Miles Gibson, soon to be his son-in-law. The third entry deals with some kind of other obligation involving an obligation to pay 10,000 pounds of tobacco to Lord Baltimore. Maybe mentioning the servants was some kind of surety -- I really have no idea. But Hasfurt and Brittain have nothing to do with us. Also interesting is that if you look at the copy the earlier record I sent you, it has brackets that are different from the ones in the later copy. Specifically, the earlier document appears to leave out the first 4 names in the last column as those to be included in the notation "12 years since" and does not mark off the last column of names as somehow different from the other two. The second record seems to show that he is giving Gibson (who was himself a 1660s transportee) five(?) hundred acres of land for the transport of his family and 8 of the servants (not John Denboe). The last entry dealing with the tobacco obligation, however, mentions all of the servants by name again, including John Denboe, as having been transported by him (Thurston) "into the said province of Maryland." On the hand written notes (by Sandy?), there is also a question about whether or not Thurston returned to England after trying to settle in Virginia. This is indeed the case, and after being jailed as a trouble maker in Jamestown in 1657 or 8, he returned to America with his wife, family and servants in 1663, but this time to Maryland which was more tolerant of Quakers because they were more desperate for labor. Another mystery is how long John Denboe's indenture lasted. Generally they were for 4-5 years, though if the person was under the age of 18 they could last until they were 25. Thus, I don't see how John Denboe was still an indentured servant in 1676 unless he got a really bad deal out of the firebrand-Quaker Thurston, who would later backslide into establishment respectability and eventually even lead a militia. The other John Denbow indenture that you sent dates to 1828 and has nothing to do with the original indenture of 1663, which probably no longer exists in any paper form. But given Thurston's connections with Gloucestershire and sailing from Bristol, maybe those are areas we need to investigate in UK -- perhaps looking to see who was associated with Thurston, Fox, or other early Quakers there. In sum, I think we need to now more carefully go back to original, first hand sources whenever possible to see how things were expressed, how they were written, etc. if we are to sort out some of these relationships. Fortunately, in some ways DNA stuff gives us firmer ground around which to base interpretations of whatever paper documents we find. That being said, if indentures of some sort were still around in 1828, and "Scotland" is located just across the river from the Tanyard and near others of Thurstan's holdings, then maybe it is that "Scotland" our early family stories are referring to. (I still can remember the shock of my son Jeremy when he found out that the "Tangiers" inhabited by the beat poet William Burroughs was a neighborhood in New Orleans -- not North Africa! He couldn't believe it.) So maybe it really is Scotland, Maryland that some of our early ancestors "escaped" from. Cheers, Jim	Denboe, John (I6377)
805	From The History of Minnesota. West Palm Beach, Florida: Lewis Historical Publishing: Kristjan Valdimar 'Val' Bjornson (August 29, 1906-March 3, 1987) was a Minnesota writer, newspaper editor, and politician who served as state treasurer for more than two decades. He was born in Minneota, Minnesota of Icelandic descent. In World War II, he served in Navy intelligence, stationed in Iceland. He was able to speak Icelandic, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian. He was part owner of the <i>Minneota Mascot</i> newspaper and an associate editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. As the Republican candidate in the United States Senate elections, 1954, he lost to Hubert Humphrey, with whom he sometimes shared a car to travel the state. He died in Minneapolis. The University of Minnesota, his alma mater, and the University of Iceland have a student exchange scholarship named in his honor. Bjornson, Val (1969).	Björnson, Kristjan Valdimar (I434)
806	From tombstone	Fribley, Susan M. (I6333)
807	from tombstone	Fribley, Susan M. (I6333)
808	From tombstone: Charles Son of Mary A Flint Born Jan 30, 1870 Died Apr 27, 1906	Flint, Charles (I5202)
809	From: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/7441383/person/-898078409/story Nees further research to prove.	Rutherford, Nancy Ann (I6184)
810	Funeral arrangements by Woodyard Funeral Home, 255 E. State St., Columbus, Ohio.	Blum, Jacob (I472)
811	Funeral Home: Robinson Lytle Telephone number: 412-465-9582 Places ofResidence: 208 Hemlock Rd., St. Marys, PA. 15857 and 974 Marion Rd.,Indiana, PA. 15701	Reid, Lois Jean (I3516)
812	Funeral service was in Grace Brethern Church, Ashland, Ohio, at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, 29 Aug 1993. Bonnie's husband Doug gave a 25-minute sermon based on a 'lesson plan' he had devloped. It outlined the mission work that the two of them had done together. He concluded that God's ways are perfect.	Cunningham, Bonnie Lou (I943)
813	General Manager of Cambridge Potteries for many years. Moved to Phoenix with wife after retirement. They both passed away in that town.	Denbow, Furn Upton (I1148)
814	German-language newspaper obit.	Feilner, Anna Barbara (I1803)
815	Gilda Haddox has marriage date as 10 Jul 1909. Witness Role: Bride: [I4138] Elsie M. STARKEY Witness Role: Groom: [I4530] Charles WHISTON	Family: Charles Whiston / Elsie M. Starkey (F760)
816	Gilda Haddox has marriage date as 10 Jul 1909. Witness Role: Principal: [F760] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I4138] Elsie M. STARKEY Witness Role: Groom: [I4530] Charles WHISTON	Starkey, Elsie M. (I4138)
817	Gilda Haddox has marriage date as 10 Jul 1909. Witness Role: Principal: [F760] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I4138] Elsie M. STARKEY Witness Role: Groom: [I4530] Charles WHISTON	Whiston, Charles (I4530)
818	Grace (Gigax) Moore visited in August 1991. She shared the following information. Art Haldeman has a 'book' of family information. Art and Betty Haldeman 150 Kingsdale Road Pittsburgh, PA 15221 (412) 351-1267 ____________________________ Also she said that John Gigax's sister was a member of the DAR. Her maiden Name was Mae Gigax and she was born in about 1880. She said that the following individuals would have information. Cousins of Grace and Ruth Carl Denbow 61 Columbia Avenue Athens, OH 45701 (614) 592- 1048 ___ Bernard and Helen Wietzel Daton, OH (513) 293-6233 Carl Denbow 61 Columbia Avenue Athens, OH 45701 (614) 592- 1048 ___ Bernard and Helen Wietzel Daton, OH (513) 293-6233	Haldeman, Notes (I2123)
819	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I3448)
820	Graduated from Woodsfield High School, after having transferred there in 1909 for his junior year. He previously attended school in Beallsville. His parents moved to Woodsfield that year.	Denbow, Carl Kendrick (I6388)
821	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I4392)
822	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I4096)
823	Had 2 children who died of whooping cough	Frantz, Henry (I1874)
824	Had 3 sons per Tad. Lived on Catawba Island.	Rofkar, Carrie (I3642)
825	had places of residence in Clymer, Pa., and Orlando, Florida, but the exact time of residence in each place is not known at this time.	Good, Thomas (I2028)
826	Had three wives	Denbow, Chauncey Merill (I6390)
827	Had trouble reading date: it could be 24th Nov and year might beanytime in 1940s. Witness Role: Bride: [I2450] Joretta HUFF Witness Role: Groom: [I1378] Robert Paul DENBOW	Family: Robert Paul Denbow / Joretta Huff (F637)
828	Had trouble reading date: it could be 24th Nov and year might beanytime in 1940s. Witness Role: Principal: [F637] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I2450] Joretta HUFF Witness Role: Groom: [I1378] Robert Paul DENBOW	Denbow, Robert Paul (I1378)
829	Had trouble reading date: it could be 24th Nov and year might beanytime in 1940s. Witness Role: Principal: [F637] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I2450] Joretta HUFF Witness Role: Groom: [I1378] Robert Paul DENBOW	Huff, Joretta (I2450)
830	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I1065)
831	Haldeman was a fire-breathing sessionist, and his paper was one of the foremost pro-secession papers in the State of Kentucky.	Haldeman, Walter Newman (I6246)
832	Hand written above the printed date is 27 Feb, 1783, so I suspect that's an altnerate possible death date.	Haldeman, Jacob (I2119)
833	Handwriting is hard to read. This name is only an approximation.	Nuchow, Katherina (I3299)
834	He and his wife were murdered by a burglar in their home.	Craig, Robert Sr. (I5100)
835	He appears to be living with the family of Wm & Elsie Denbow; this an extended family, including in-laws and two grandsons. The person listed as "William C." appears actually to be C. William (Carl William) as the birth year matches.	Denbow, Carl William Sr. (I1052)
836	He died of smallpox. The Pension Office ruled that his death was not "service related" because there was no smallpox in camp when he left for home. The family spent years appealing this denial, and there is a very large pension file at the National Archives. It's is unclear whether or not the denial was ever reversed. The last denial on record, though undated, appears to have been in 1899.	Denbow, James (I1190)
837	He enlisted as a coporal and was later promoted to sergeant. Witness Role: Principal 2: [I1517] Linus DEVOR	Devor, Linus (I1517)
838	He is buried in Plot H, 0, 659 at Ft. Snelling National Cemtery.	Brøgger, Arne (I709)
839	He lived in Akron during his working years and then moved to Muskingum County when he retired, according to some unsourced information at ancestry. This same family tree says he died in Salt Creek Twp., and is buried in Chandlersville Cemetery.	Denbow, Charles Raymond (I1064)
840	He never married Kristin, but later married Marriage Status: Unmarried Couple	Family: Björn Kristinn Anderson / Kristín Benjamímsdóttir (F1526)
841	He received undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, earning his Ph.D. in 1937. He began teaching mathematics at Ohio University in 1938. After service in the Navy in WWI, he taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Annapolis, Maryland, until 1950, when he returned to Ohio University. He then taught there until the early 1980s. Witness Role: Principal 2: [I1049] Carl Herbert DENBOW	Denbow, Carl Herbert (I1049)
842	He seems to disappear from the picture sometime around 1870; Hannah remarreis an Joseph Paith.	Family: Issac Scott / (F532)
843	He served as a major in the U.S. Army during World War II. Was one of the lawyers who prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials after the war.	Brøgger, Arne (I709)
844	He was a paratrooper in World War 2. During a jump on Saipan, he waskilled.	Long, Gilbert (I2875)
845	He was in hospital in Alabama, after being wounded near Selma, Mississippi.	Denbow, James Alexander (I1197)
846	He was in the 1820 Census of Little Mahanoy Twp., NorthumberlandCounty, Pa., as 1 male, between the ages of 26 and 45; no futherinformation on him.	Dunkelberger, Philip (I1683)
847	He was living with his parents.	Denbow, Elmer Forest (I1124)
848	He was living with Porter Flint in 1850 Census, while his mother, Mary Ann is living with Sarah Denbow Reed and her husband.	Flint, David Delos (I5199)
849	He was the first child born in Jefferson County after his parents moved from Northumberland County, Pa.	Doney, Daniel D. (I1571)
850	He was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Corinth in Mississippi on 3 Oct 1862.	Denbow, James Alexander (I1197)