Sunday, May 4, 2008

The Case Line page 6

There are pages missing and I begin on page 6. The missing pages include foot notes for "History of Orange County, New York, and Newburgh" by E. M. Ruttenber 1875. Pages 28, 113-114.
J Rietstap's "Amorial General".
"History of Orange County, New York" by L. H. Clark and E. M. Ruttenber. 1881. Pages 22-23.
"History of Orange County, New York" by Samuel W. Bager. 1846-1847. Page 231.
"Gazetter of the State of New York" by J. H. French. 1860. Page 151.

...however, doubts much that Henry, first ancestor definitely known, of the Case family of Southold, was son of the aforesaid William; though they may have belonged to the same family in England. There does not appear to the compiler to be any evidence that William himself ever was of Southold.

There was a Thomas Case, contemporary with Henry Case, and Charles B, Moore, -- mentioned above as historian of early Southold families, -- seems to think he was, or perhaps was at Southold. He states that this Thomas Case was at Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1661, and at Newtown, Long Island, in 1666 [History of Orange County, New York. By L. H. Clark and E. M. Ruttenber. 1881. Page 16.]. Thomas Case was a Quaker, and evidently some of the Case family at Southold were Quakers; so there may have existed a relationship between Thomas and Henry Case, although this is not definitely known. The famous historian of New England genealogy, James Savage, whose Genealogical Dictionary of New England, " published in 1860, remains the best work on the subject, wrote of Thomas Case, as follows, using his customary abbreviated style and his faintly dry mild humor;

THOMAS, Fairfield, rem, to the Dutch a, 1664, and is by Mather wh, is always a liberal in obloquy against adher, of George Fox), call, a villain, Magn, VII, 25. We hear not any reason for such epith, exc, his Quaker, habit, influence among the foll, nam, by the gr, histor, Cae's crew, [Magnalia Christi Americana" by Cotton Mather, written 1693-1697, published 1702], at Southold, L. I. where, he sorrowf, adds, to this day (1699), the sect is kn. He was sev times imprision, for his cause, and by such treatm, not prob, induc, to reject the inward light, and d. 1692, perhaps unm, certain, without issue." [Reverend Mr. Dickson's history of the Goodwill Church (Presbyterian), at Montgomery, New York, quoted, Pages 371-372, in Clark's and Ruttenber's History of Orange County.]

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