Amanda Carolyn Northrop: The Rest of the Story: Part 1
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Amanda C. Northrop and Her Family
Amanda Carolyn Northrop was born in Fairfield, Vermont, on June 19, 1858.[1]
Her parents were Abraham Northrop, Jr.,[2] and Rebekah (or “Rebecca”) Potter.[3] Abraham, of Fairfield, Vermont, married Rebecca Potter of Bakersfield, Vermont, on February 9, 1847, in Bakersfield.[4]
Abraham Northrop, Jr., was born October 30, 1811,[5] in Fairfield, Vermont.[6] He was the son of Abraham Northrop, born on November 25, 1770, in Connecticut. Abraham Northrop, Sr., together with his brothers, Thomas and Amos, “removed to Vermont” in 1792.[7] Abraham Northrop, Sr., married Jane Bradley, on April 24, 1798.[8] Jane died in Fairfield, on June 25, 1812.[9] Abraham Northrop, Sr., died on June 12, 1857.[10]
Abraham and Rebecca (Potter) Northrop had the following children:
[1.] Ella A. Northrop, born on December 28, 1848. She married Albert Whitcomb on February 28, 1876.[11] She died on December 18, 1885.[12]
In his will, Albert Whitcomb left $1,000.00 to “Amanda C. Northrop, sister to my late wife.”[13]
[2.] Jane (“Jennie”) Bradley Northrop, born on March 15, 1852.[14] She married Alfred Webster on March 19, 1885.[15] She died on Friday, November 11, 1921, at Randolph sanatorium in Vermont.[16]
Her “sister, Miss Amanda C. Northrop, a professor of history in Hunter college” in New York City attended the funeral.[17]
[3.] Octavius P. Northrop, born in Fairfield, Vermont, on August 14, 1855.[18] He married Ellen R. Toof of St. Armand, P. Q., on December 31, 1880.[19] He died in Lakeland, Florida, on September 20, 1930.[20]
“Mr. Northrop’s sister, Miss Amanda C. Northrop, accompanied the remains” from Lakeland, Florida. Amanda and “[a] brother-in-law, Albert King of Fairfax,” attended the funeral.[21]
[4.] Amanda Carolyn Northrop, born in Fairfield, Vermont, on June 19, 1858.[22] I have found no evidence to date that she was ever married. She died in a Burlington, Vermont, hospital on October 5, 1955.[23]
[5.] Abbie L. Northrop, born on May 28, 1862. She married Albert J. King on January 10, 1883.[24] She died on April 18, 1890.[25]
“EAST FAIRFIELD. . . . Miss Amanda Northrop of Northfield, Mass., accompanied by her sister, Miss Abby Ring [sic; Abbie King] is visiting friends in town.”[26]
“There was an abundance of flowers [at the funeral for Mrs. Albert King], among which was a beautiful pillow, so arranged as to read ‘Our Sister,’ upon one side, the gift of her sister, Miss Amanda Northrup [sic; Amanda C. Northrop], who is a teacher in Richmond, Va.”[27]
Abraham Northrop, Jr., died in Fairfield, Vermont, on July 28, 1864.[28]
Rebekah (or “Rebecca”) Potter Northrop died in Fairfield, Vermont, on October 19, 1880.[29]
[1] St. Albans Daily Messenger, October 6, 1955, p. 3.
[2] St. Albans Daily Messenger, October 6, 1955, p. 3; Green-Mountain Freeman, March 4, 1847, p. 3.
[3] Green Mountain Freeman, March 4, 1847, p. 3. “Rebekah Potter” is on her gravestone; “Rebecca Potter” is used in books and newspapers. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15476392/rebekah-northrop (accessed 9/3/2021).
[4] The Universalist Watchman, February 19, 1847, p. 7.
[5] “375 ABRAHAM6 NORTHROP” in A. Judd Northrup, The Northrup–Northrop Genealogy (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908), 177. The birth year given for “Northop [sic; Northrop], Abraham” is 1812. See: The U.S. Federal Census of 1860; Franklin [County] – The Town of Fletcher, p. 3.
[6] “Name: rnorthorp — Northrups\Northorps\Gallops & Families; Updated: 05-06-2019 13:05:39.”
[7] “167. ABRAHAM NORTHRUP” in A. Judd Northrup, The Northrup–Northrop Genealogy, 80. A. Judd Northrup adds, in speaking about “165 AMOS NORTHRUP” on page 78: “. . . b. [i.e., “born”] 1765, Sherman, Fairfield, Conn. Removed in 1792 to Vermont with his brothers, Thomas and Abraham. They were the first settlers in, and named, the town of Fairfield.” Col. Samuel Perley, in his article on “FAIRFIELD,” states that “Abraham Northrop” was found “[a]mong the names of other early settlers” in Abby Maria Hemenway, The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: Volume II: Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille and Orange Counties (Burlington, Vt.: Published by Miss A. M. Hemenway, 1871), 192. Emory R. Northrop stated in a letter to the “Editor or The Messenger” titled “REMINISCENCES”: “Grandfather [i.e., Amos Northrop] and his two brothers Thomas and Abraham Northrop came from Connecticut about 1785 and settled on Fairfield ridge. They were still living there in ’44.” St. Albans Daily Messenger, May 8, 1894, p. 2.
[8] “167. ABRAHAM NORTHRUP” in A. Judd Northrup, The Northrup—Northrop Genealogy, 80.
[9] The Universalist Watchman, October 29, 1812, p. 3.
[10] “167 ABRAHAM NORTHRUP” in A. Judd Northrup, The Northrup–Northrop Genealogy, 80.
[11] St. Albans Weekly Messenger, March 3, 1876, p. 5.
[12] For the middle initial “A” in “Ella A. Northrop,” see, for example: Lamoille Newsdealer, August 21, 1872, p. 3.
[13] Herald and News, January 16, 1890, p. 1.
[14] The Bethel Courier, November 17, 1921, p. 9.
[15] Vermont Journal, April 4, 1885, p. 5.
[16] The Bethel Courier, November 17, 1921, p. 9.
[17] The Bethel Courier, November 17, 1921, p. 9.
[18] Herald and News, October 2, 1930, p. 10.
[19] The Bethel Courier, July 3, 1924, p. 4.
[20] Herald and News, October 2, 1930, p. 10.
[21] Herald and News, October 2, 1930, p. 10.
[22] St. Albans Daily Messenger, October 6, 1955, p. 3.
[23] St. Albans Daily Messenger, October 6, 1955, p. 3.
[24] “375 ABRAHAM6 NORTHROP” in A. Judd Northrup, The Northrup–Northrop Genealogy, 178.
[25] The St. Albans Daily Messenger, April 22, 1890, p. 1;
[26] St. Albans Daily Messenger, August 21, 1889, p. 4.
[27] News and Citizen, May 1, 1890, p. 3.
[28] Argus and Patriot, August 4, 1864, p. 3.
[29] St. Albans Daily Messenger, October 27, 1880, p. 3.
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