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- 1850 Federal Census of Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania (5 Aug 1850)
George Bassett - 34 - M - Pennsylvania 1500
Mary - 33 - F - Pennsylvania
David - 8 - M - Pennsylvania
Eliz. - 6 - F - Pennsylvania
Ruth - 3 - F - Pennsylvania
Lucy - 7/12 - F - Pennsylvania
1860 Federal Census of Danville, North Ward, Montour County, Pennsylvania (29 Jul 1860)
George Basset - 43 - M - Pennsylvania - Teamster 2000 400
Mary - 42 - F - Pennsylvania
Mary - 16 - F - Pennsylvania
Bette(?) - 14 - F - Pennsylvania
Lucy - 11 - F - Pennsylvania
George - 8 - M - Pennsylvania
Margaret - 5 - F - Pennsylvania
Priscilla - 3 - F - Pennsylvania
1870 Federal Census, 3rd ward, Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania (5 Aug 1870)
George Bassett - 52 - M - Pennsylvana - Teamster 11,000 1,000
Mary - 52 - F - Pennsylvania
Ruth - 23 - F - Pennsylvania
Lucy - 20 - F - Pennsylvania
George - 18 - M - Pennsylvania - Apprentice to Harness Maker
Margaret - 16 - F - Pennsylvania
Celia - 13 - F - Pennsylvania
Alda - 6 - F - Pennsylvania
1840 Federal Census of Danville, Columbia County, Pennsylvania
John Rockafellow 00001-00000
1M20-30
David Rockafellow 00001-00000
1M20-30
Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy (Pages 23 thru 47)
ROCKEFELLER. The Rockefeller family has long been well represented among the best class of citizens of Northumberland county, and one of the townships of the county bears the name. The family was founded here by Godfrey Rockefeller, from whom the brothers to whom this article chiefly refers are descended in the fifth generation. All the surviving sons of the family of the late Lewis Rockefeller are prosperous and substantial business men of Sunbury, and there resides the family of the late Lemuel C. Rockefeller. His brothers, Isaac and Charles O. Rockefeller, are associated in business under the firm name of C.O. Rockefeller & Brother, and are proprietors of the Sunbury Market House and of the Sunbury Sanitary Dairy Company, both of which are well patronized by the people of the borough.
The Rockefeller family traces its beginning in America to one Peter Rockefeller, who was born in Europe in 1710 and on emigrating to America settled at Amwell, Hunterdon Co., N.J. He died there about 1740, leaving to his son, who was also named Peter, 763 acres of land in the county mentioned.
Godfrey Rockefeller, born in 1747, was a son of Peter Rockefeller (2). He came to Northumberland county, Pa., in 1789, and took up land in the vicinity of Snydertown. He married Margaret Lewis, and they had a family of eleven children, three sons and eight daughters. One of the sons was the grandfather of John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil fame. The other two were John and William, the former the great-grandfather of the brothers of Sunbury just referred to, the latter the father of David (born Sept. 6, 1802) and grandfather of Judge William M. Rockefeller (born Aug. 18, 1830), who married Emily Jones, daughter of Thomas and Maria Housel Jones, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
John Rockefeller, son of Godfrey, was the great-grandfather of Lemuel C., Charles G. and Isaac Rockefeller.
John Rockefeller, the grandfather, was killed on his way home from Reading, at a time when much of the country was still a wilderness. He married Elizabeth Moore, and they were the parents of Lewis Rockefeller, mentioned below, their other children being as follows: Henry married Elizabeth Morgan and had five children, John, James, Jacob, Franklin and Harriet (Mrs. John Gulick); Michael never married; David was twice married, his first wife being Isabella Campbell; John married Harriet Kneiss and had five children, Alice (wife of Rev. John Bowman), Caroline (Mrs. Woods) Anne (wife of Jacob Frye), Elizabeth (wife of Jesse Cleaver) and Ella (Mrs. Sanders); Mary married George Basssett and had six children, Lucy, Alda, Ruth, Maggie, Elizabeth and George; Hester married Isaac Eckman and had children, Col Charles (married Sophia Gearhart) and David (married Ella Wolfe and had children, Franklin, Alfred, Dyer and Ethel), Elizabeth (married first Oscar Heller and second Joseph Bonner); Harriet (married George Mettler and had two children, Ella and Susan and Lewis....
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