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Record for Edward Hackett Otis * Reverend 20180815 HAv (89) facts, mostly Otis, & Edgerton
The Otis Family
With the marerial now at hand, the genealogy of this family can be traced back five generations. We begin with Robert Otis, who came from Ireland to America about the year 1705, and settled in Massachusetts. His father originally from England, came to America some years previous, but returned to the old country, and located in Dublin, Ireland, for the purpose of educating his children. When Robert was about fifteen years old, he was playing upon the sea-shore, and a man came along in a little boat and asked the lad if he would not take a ride. Robert accepted the offer, but the man instead of taking him where he said he would, rowed him to a vessel bound for America. He was placed onboard and brought over, and was bound or indentured to a butcher for the payment of his transatlantic passage. .
At sixteen years of age he commenced teaching school. His wife was a Miss Stafford. His children were : Robert, Stephen, John, Edward, Lewis, Mary, Phoebe. Robert the oldest child, was an officer in the Revolutionary war, and was a special friend of General Washington. At one time, to save being taken prisoner by the British he deserted to their ranks, and soon deserted back again bringing with him a valuable white horse which he had stolen from John Bull, and which he presented to General Washington. He was advised by Washington to "go home, as he had done enough for his country; for if the British should catch him, they would kill him." He went home, but of his own accord returned in two weeks, and served through the war as a teamster. After the war he became a sailor. Once during a terribly cold storm, being ordered by the captian to go down into the hull, he refused, saying 'that it was his duty to assist in saving the ship." He held on to the helm through the pitiless beatings of the tempest, during which his fingers were frozen that he lost them all. For this act of gallant daring he was made captain of the vessel in place of the former captian, who was discharged for his cowardice. Mr. Robert Otis, Sr. lived to the remarkable age of one hundred and fifteen years. At the age of one hundred he lost his sight, and was blind for ten years. His sight returned, and for the next five years he could read with the use of spectales..
Stephen Otis was a major on General Warren's staff at the battle of Bunker Hill, and when General Warren fell the command fell upon Major Otis. He was taken prisoner, and upon an exchange of prisoners, the British commander treated the Americans, with wisky impregnated with small pox, from which disease Major Otis and all of his family then at home died. The wife of Major Otis was Sarah Lunt, of Scotch descent. John, Barnabas, Edward, Lewis, Elizabeth, and Marrilla..
Edwar Otis third son of Stephen, was born April 6,1766, in the village of Otis Massachuetts, which town was founded and named by some ancestor of the family. When about fifteen years of age, Edward went into the army in the Revolutionary war, for the avowed purpose of avenging his father's dastardly death. In 1804 he came to Ohio, located in Tuscarawas County. He was a clergyman of the Baptist denomination. He died in Indiana in 1851, of injuries received by a fall from a horse. His wife was Miss Mary Merrill, whom he married in 1787. She was born in Vermont in 1770. His children were: Louis, born in 1788; Ezekiel, born in 1797; Jesse, born in 1793; Phoebe, born in 1795; Polly, born in 1797; Merrill, born in 1800; Edward, born in 1802; and Marrilla, born in 1805..
Jesse Otis, the third son of Edward Otis just noticed, was born in Vermont, August 11,1798. On April 17,1817, he married Charlote Davy, a relation of Prof. Davy, of Baltimore, Maryland. His children wer: John D., Merrill, Wiliam, Ann, Edward H., Ezekiel, and Henry W. Mr. Otis emigrated from Vermont to Ohio in 1808. He was a blacksmith by trade, and made the mill iron for the first mill that was built in Massillon. April, 1818, Mr. Otis moved to Wayne County, and settled in the woods among the wild beasts. He here cleared a farm, which remains in the name of his widow "till this day." He died mysteriously and very suddenly while riding home one day in his wagon..
Dr. John D. Otis, oldest son of Jesse Otis, was born in Stark County, Ohio, January 24,1818. This was the times of primitive fruniture, and his infant majesty was rocked in a sugar-trough. At the age of seventeen he commenced teaching school, having previously enjoyed three months of attendance himself. At the age of twenty-two he went for three years to Wadsworth (Medina County) Seminary, under the tution of John McGregor. In 18441 he began the study of medicine with Sr. Smith Dalton, whom he read for a short time, and subsequently by himself for about three years. He then read for some eighteen months with Dr. John R. Cline, of Front Royal, Virginia; and about a year with Prof. Ackly, of Cleveland. Graduated at the Western Reserve College in 1850. He began the pratice of medicine, however, in Stark County, in 1840. In 1862 the Doctor came to New Philadelphia, where he has since been engaged in the successful pratice of his profession. On March 16,1843 he married Miss Eliza Welty, daughter of Philip Welty, and born in Stark County, November 16,1824. He has had five children: Miriam, born July 25, 1844; Samantha Ann, born April 28,1846; Malcom, born August 20, 1851; Mary Ellen, born April 27,1856; Ida C., born November 22,1860. Miriam, died August 24,1847; Malcom, on January 24,1856..
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Compination Atlas Marp of Tuscarawas County Ohio pp 10-11
?1875 ?Tuscarawas County, Ohio
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SAR app 71343 for Merrill Stephan Otis
Posted 26 jul 2012 by djotfamily
Stephan Otis
1. Served in the Connecticut Troops, as a solider, corporal and sergeant.
2. Was in the Battle of Long Island and was taken prisoner.
3. When about to be exchanged, was taken with small pox which caused his death.
Family tradition has it that he was innoculated with the small pox germ. This information was brought from the hulk on which he died. His wife was there and nursed him some days before his death. When this became known, all his brothers ande nephews who were not already in the service, volunteered, as soon as they were old enough to carry a gun, hoping to get a chance to get a shot at the British. Even his Father, who was a very old man, offered his services and served as a wagon master in a movement of supplies from Saybrook to Hartford.
His brothers were named Robert and Richard. They also served in the Connecticut troops.
This line has been accepted in the SAR. See National number 53,369 Edward Otis Mitchell (supplemental application) dated Aug 8, 1939. Also by my brother, the late Clarence H. Otis, who died August 20, 1947. See National number 66,752. However his ancester was Edward Otis, the son of my ancester Stephan Otis. I will submit a supplement for Edward Otis later on.
Family History: Stephan Otis and Sarah Lunt had:
I. Robert
II. Mary
III. John
IV. Edward (married Mary Merrill and had Ezekiel who married Mary Miller Stansbery)
V. Elizabeth,
VI. Louise
VII. Stephan
VIII. Sarah
References:
1. Federal Census 1790 Connecticut
2. My Father and my Mother, by Merrill E. Otis, Page 30-31
3. The Otis Family in America, Page 127
4. Connecticut Men in America, Pages 18 and 120.
SAR app 71343 for Merrill Stephan Otis
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Not sure this is the right Stephen Otis
Posted 28 jul 2012 by djotfamily
STEPHEN OTIS was a major on General Warren's staff at the battle of Bunker Hill, and when General Warren fell the command fell upon Major Otis. He was taken prisoner, and upon an exchange of prisoners, the British commander treated those Americans with whisky impregnated with small-pox, from which disease Major Otis and all the family then at home died. The wife of Major Otis was Sarah Lunt, of Scotch descent. His children were John, Barnabas, Edward, Louis Elizabeth, and Marrilla.
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