The Hogarths
can be traced back to the great grandfather, Richard
Hogarth, born in London about 1724. He went to the
north of Ireland, Ulster County, in early life.
Before leaving
London, he drank the wassail with his cousin, William
Hogarth, the celebrated painter. I have seen the
little common porcelain bowl, decorated with Masonic
emblems, from which they drank. It was the property
of his grandson (uncle John Hogarth).
He married
in Ireland and three sons, James
(our Grandfather) (should be John Hogarth),
Thomas and another whose names is ---- came to
this country, leaving him in Ireland.
Our grandfather,
James (John)
Hogarth, had six children, five born in Ireland
and one John who said he was born after he came over.
His wife died soon after his arrival.
The country,
which is now the finger lake region, was opening up
to settlers and grandfather Hogarth acquired
the land on which Sheldrake Point is situated.
The outlook of so much water and sand did not appeal
to him and he sold it.
There was
a family burying ground north of Sheldrake where
the older Hogarths were buried on a farm overlooking
Lake Cayuga. The land belonged to Thomas (?) Osborn,
the husband of Mary, oldest daughter of James
(John)Hogarth. It was sold after many years
and John Osborn, son of Mary Hogarth Osborn,
removed the bodies to the Sheldrake cemetary.
Here are buried James Hogarth and his first wife.
(Jane Scott)
James
(John)
Hogarth went over to Ireland about 1811 to
bring his father, then over 90, to this country. They
were a long time in crossing the ocean to America and
James (John)
Hogarth never recovered from the voyage but
died soon after his return. Great Grandfather lived
to be 100 years old. My mother, Rebecca Hogarth,
six years old when he died and remembered going into
the woods with him and her brother Andrew to
worship. His son Richard gave him a large print
Prayer Book that was a great joy to him. He was buried
near the Pultney Street entrance at the old cemetary,
Geneva.
The first
family of James (John)
Hogarth were:
Mary Hogarth, wife of ThomasOsborn
Richard Hogarth, husband of Julia Seymour
Alice Hogarth, wife of James DeMotte
Jane Hogarth, wife of Abram DeMotte
Early in
the 19th century (date unknown) grandfather Hogarth
married for his second wife, grandmother, Rebecca
Seeley Bloomer, and by this marriage there were
five children:
Clarissa,
married Joseph Johnson
Sally, married ---- Nicolas
Emily, married Cornelius Covert
Andrew, married Marie
Rebecca, married John Dennis
Grandmother
Hogarth, Rebecca Seeley, was born in Danbury Conn.
In direct descent from Nathaniel Seeley who came
over from England in 1636 in the New Haven Company,
a charter member, and settled in New Haven. Her father
Gideon Seeley was captain in the Revolution.
The family moved to Bradford, Westchester County,
near New York. The farm is still in the family. Many
distinguished families live there, relatives of the
Seeley family.
Rebecca
Seeley married James Bloomer and went to
White Plains to live on a farm that was to help carry
the Croton Acquaduct. Her brother Gideon Seeley
was a surveyor and located for himself a tract in South
Onondaga and for the Bloomers one in Seneca County,
where at an elevation both lakes Seneca and Cayuga can
be seen.
The Dunlaps
were the first to enter this, the Finger Lake section
and were at Scotts Corners when the Bloomers
came up from New York. There the family stayed until
the log house was built near Ovid Center.
It was a
long tiresome journey. The trip was along the Erie railroad
line, built many years afterward then north to Ithaca,
where there were two houses and a grist mill - from
there to Ovid it was only a trail by blazed trees.
Grandmother
was left a widow with five children and an unimproved
farm. Edward, sixteen years old, was killed by
a falling tree and his mother rode an ox to the place
of the accident. The death of an only daughter, Clarissa,
added to her grief.
The farm
was divided among the Bloomer family, grandmother
having an annuity, a house and a few acres at Scotts
corners (life lease). The widow of her son Isaac
bought the place. She married a Mr. Rowley. This
place of theirs was slice off the Nicolas Huff Farm.
The deed was interesting, one party signing by a mark.
As stated
above, for her second husband grandmother married grandfather
James (John)
Hogarth. She died in Geneva 1850 and was
buried at McNeils with her first husband James
Bloomer.
