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Lydia Amelia Blakeney

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Alexander H. Coulter

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1. [S84] , Census Online, Viewed on ancestry.com.

Jacob Lent

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1. [S287] Find a Grave Website, online www.findagrave.com, Hope Methodist Church Burial Ground, Somers, New York

Harriet A. Lent

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1. [S857] New York, 5 boroughs; familysearch.org database, New York Municipal Archives

Leed

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1. [S857] New York, 5 boroughs; familysearch.org database, New York Municipal Archives

James Currey

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Birth	4 October 1814	James Currey was born on 4 October 1814 in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York.
Marriage	22 October 1843	He and Eliza Royce Ferris were married on 22 October 1843
Death	17 August 1891	He died on 17 August 1891 in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois,
Obituary	19 August 1891	19 August 1891, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, The Inter Ocean Obituary:. James Currey, an old-time Chicagoan, died at his home on Judson Avenue in South Evanston on Monday evening. He was in his 77th year. He received a mild stroke of apoplexy a few weeks ago and he gradually weakened from that time. Mr. Currey was born in Peekskill, N.Y., where he married Miss Eliza Ferris in 1843. He was a "forty-niner," and spent several years in California. He came to Chicago thirty years ago and removed to Evanston about 1867 and later to South Evanston. Judge John Currey, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, was his brother. Mr. Currey leaves a widow and the following six children: Mrs. John L. Miller, of Ottawa, Kan., Mrs. A. L. Marcy, of Richmond, Va., Mrs. C.F. Goessling, of South Evanston, J. Seymour, Edward C. and Arthur Currey, of Evanston. The funeral services will be held Friday.

Robert O'Neill Fleischer

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Major John M. O'Neill

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Nancy Fleischer

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Iva Edith Crane

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1. [S287] Find a Grave Website, online www.findagrave.com, Garden of Memories, Salinas, CA

B. E. Cahoon

Charles Fleischer

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Louis Fleischer

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1. [S81] , 1900 Census Online, Viewed on ancestry.com, Entry for Charles Fleischer, San Francisco.

Alma Fleischer

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1. [S81] , 1900 Census Online, Viewed on ancestry.com, Entry for Charles Fleischer, San Francisco.

Josiah Seymour Currey

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Bio Detail		The book "Andrew Warde and his descendants" has a one-page biography of Josiah Seymour Currey. This book is available online at archive.org, link in footnotes.1
Family History		Personal Memories of the Royce and Redman families. Josiah Seymour Currey left handwritten notes about his family at the Evanston Historical Society, of which he was a founder (in 1898) and an officer (secretary and president). These notes identify the maiden name of his great-grandmother, information about the immigration of his great-grandparents to the United States, the disappearance of his great-grandfather William Royce, and other details about the family in New York. These handwritten notes are attached, scanned and emailed to Holly Kilpatrick by the Evanston Historical Society in 2021.2
Birth	2 October 1844	Josiah Seymour Currey was born on 2 October 1844 in Peekskill, Westchester County, New York.
Death	25 December 1926	He died on 25 December 1926 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,

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1. [S1002] George Kemp Ward, Andrew Warde and his descendants, 1597-1910 (New York: A.T. De La Mare Publishing Company, 1910), p. 508; digital images, archive.org, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/andrewwardeandh00unkngoog/page/n11/mode/1up : accessed
2. [S999] Josiah Seymour Currey, The Papers of J. Seymour Currey: In the Collections of the Evanston Historical Society, Collection Number 117 (Evanston, Illinois: Between 1869 and 1929), handwritten memoirs.; 4 archival boxes, (https://connect.historyit.com/PublicSites/browse/603/0?account=evanstonhistorycenter : accessed

Edward Coke Currey

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Frances Elizabeth Currey

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Anna Mulberry Currey

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Mary Sherman Currey

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Arthur Lincoln Currey

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Lydia Lent

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1. [S605] , 1850 Federal Census (.)

J. Benson Lent

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Birth	1838	J. Benson Lent was born in 1838 in New York.
Census	1880	He appeared in the household of Sarah (Sally) Ferris in the census 1880 in Somers, Westchester County, New York. Sarah is listed as Sarah Lent, age 83, widowed, keeping house, b. New York and parents also. Lent, J. Benson (age 42, Farmer, Son) Post, Lina L. (age 22, granddaughter) (This is the daughter of Sarah's daughter, Philena who died in 1857.)1
Newspaper Mention	30 March 1884	The 30 March 1884 edition of the Mount Kisco Recorder, Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, reported The "Walking Armory" fined again At the Court of Sessions at White Plains, last week, the case of assault against J. Benson Lent, known as the "Walking Armory," was tried. This was a criminal suit. The defendant resides at Somerstown, and was indicted for an assault in the first degree upon William J. Dean, on the 4th of December 1883, on the charge that he stabbed him through the arm with a pitchfork. At the March term of the Supreme Court a suit for damages was tried, and Mr. Dean recovered a judgment of $1,000 and costs, in all $1,282. This judgment Lent has paid, and as he had no defense in this criminal action, he withdrew the plea of not guilty, and with permission of the Court and District Attorney, pleased guilty to an assault in the 2nd degree and asked for mercy. The punishment for the above offense is a fine or imprisonment not exceeding five years or both. At Lent had already paid $1,282 beside the expense of his attorney, etc., the Court showed mercy by simply fining him $75, which he paid, and left for his home, it is hoped a wiser man.
Newspaper Mention	8 May 1886	The 8 May 1886 edition of the The Highland Democrat, Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, reported A Healthy Old Mortgage Which Ran for twenty-eight years and could not be paid off One of those peculiar freaks of the law, even when most wisely administered, has just been brought to light in the settlement of a mortgage on a farm in Somers, which has been running for the past 28 years, and which the unhappy mortgager could not pay off any sooner, if he wanted. To give a proper understanding of the matter, we will begin at the beginning, and relate the facts in chronological order. Mr. Jacob Lent, who owned a large and valuable farm in the town of Somers, died in March, 1844, without having made a will. He left a widow, Mrs. Sarah Lent, and four children -- Harriet Teed, J. Benson Lent, Lydia S. Lent, and Mrs. Philena Post. The son, J. Benson Lent, succeeded to the possession of the farm and worked it, his mother and sister Lydia living at the homestead with him. Mrs. Philena Post died at Poughkeepsie, on October 7th, 1857, leaving a daughter named Philena L. Post. In 1858, a petition was presented to Hon. W. H. Robertson, then county judge of this county by Philena L. Post, asking for the sale of her grandfather's real estate, and that her mother's share be paid to her. In the final order in these proceedings, Judge Robertson directed the $1,250 should be invested in the name of the county treasurer, for the benefit of the widow, Mrs. Sarah Lent, as her dower right, and the interest paid to her during her lifetime; and after her death, the principal was to go to the petitioner Philena L. Post. J. Benson Lent therefore gave a mortgage on the farm for the required amount. Mrs. Sarah Lent died about three weeks ago, on April 1st, in her 88th year. Consequently, the mortgage can now be paid off. Under the order of the court, Mr. J. Benson Lent has paid 7 per cent interest on the $1250, from December 1858, up to date -- twently-eight years. The interest has amounted to nearly double the value of the mortgage, and there is one payment alone of $1300 interest recorded on the back of this $1250 mortgage. On Wednesday, April 21st, the proceedings began before Judge Robertson in 1858, were concluded at White Plains, before Judge Mills. Mr. D. H. Hunt, as attorney for Philena L. Post, asked the court to direct the county treasurer to assign the mortgage to her. The application was granted. At first sight, it seems that the mortgage worked a hardship to Mr. J. Benson Lent, by reason of his being compelled to pay interest on it for so long a time. But Judge Robertson acted as the law directs, in requiring the mortgage to be given to the county treasurer, and the interest to be paid to the widow, during her life, and at her death to the granddaughter. Of course, it was not thought that Mrs. Sarah Lent would have lived so long as she did; but whether she was likely to live a long or a short period, her dower right in the property was a legitimate claim, and had to be taken care of. Another complication arising out of the matter is the fact that the Croton water commissioners of New York City awarded Mr. J. Benson Lent the sum of $400, in 1880, as land damages for taking some of his land in their acquisition on the Muscoot River. [Note: for creating the Muscoot Reservoir.] This sum they refused to pay over to him, because of the mortgage above described, and they placed the amount with a trust company in the city, to await the death of the widow Mrs. Lent, and the final settlement of the mortgage. The necessary legal proceedings to get the $400 will now be begun. The J. Benson Lent who has paid the interest on this healthy mortgage, is the same Mr. Lent who figured in the county papers a year or so ago, as the "Walking Armory," from having been covered with various weapons at the time he assaulted a man with a pitchfork. We don't blame a man for getting mad and carrying weapons, whose soul have been aggravated by paying $2,400 interest on a $1,250 mortgage, and has to pay the principal besides. --Mount Kisco Recorder.
Newspaper Mention	9 November 1888	The 9 November 1888 edition of the Mount Kisco Recorder, Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, reported West Somers News: Mr. J. Benson Lent is buildinng a large barn on his farm on Tomahawk Street.
Residence	1911	As of 1911 J. lived in Somers, Westchester County, New York, The attached 1911 property ownership map shows two tracts owned by J. Benson Lent, at the top end of the Muscoot Reservoir, one on each side of the Muscoot River. Also attached is an 1858 map showing Lent property ownership in the same area, before the reservoir was dammed up.
Death	6 May 1914	He died on 6 May 1914 in Somers, Westchester County, New York,
Burial	8 May 1914	He was buried on 8 May 1914 at Tomahawk Chapel Cemetery in Somers, Westchester County, New York.
Obituary	9 May 1914	9 May 1914, Peekskill, Westchester County, New York, The Highland Democrat Obituary:. J. Benson Lent died suddenly at his home, near Baldwin Place, on Tuerday, May 6, aged 79 years. Mr. Lent was born and lived all his life on the farm where he died. He leaves two sisters and several nieces and nephews to mourn his loss. Funeral services were held at the chapel, in Tomahawk street, Thursday morning at 11 o'clock. The interment was in the family plot in the cemetery adjoining.

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1. [S83] , 1880 Census Online, Viewed on ancestry.com.

Philena Lent

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