THE KELLOGGS IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

Hess-Nickson Family History

THE KELLOGGS IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW

The Kellogg side of the clan was my first big break in researching the family.  I knew about Amos Kellogg because Grandmother Hess left a copy of her application to the DAR based on her relationship to him.  While further exploring this line I came across an obscure reference to an article that appeared in a magazine in 1910.  This was over 25 years ago and, since it predated the age of the internet, the only copy of the magazine was in the Library of Congress.  One day I found myself in Washington, DC on business with some time to kill so I went to the Library and found the article.  That article referred me to a book, The Kelloggs in the Old World and The New, and there it was.  A complete line of Kelloggs back to the first person in England with that name. 

The Kelloggs in the old world were from Essex County located in southeast England very near to London.  The towns, Debden, Braintree and Great Leighs are all located in Essex county, and all the Kelloggs come from one of those three towns.  We can guess that the Kelloggs were people of some means.  What we know of them comes from land deeds, wills and other legal documents that would not be found lower classes.The economy was largely tied to agriculture and wool processing.  Our Kellogg ancestors were largely engaged in those activities.  Here are the details of that line:

Nicholas Kellogg (b:1488, d: 1558 in Essex, England) married (1515) Florence Hall (b: 1490, d: 1571 in Essex, England).  She was the daughter of William Hall (d:1515).  Nicholas is the first person to appear in any records with the surname Kellogg.  They had a son, Thomas (b: 1521 in Essex, England, d: 1568).

Thomas Kellogg married Florence Halles (b: 1533 in Essex, England, d: 1587) and they had a son, Phillippe (b: 1560 in Essex, England, d: after 1595 in Essex, England).  [NOTE: I am suspicious about the similarity between Florence Hall and Florence Halles but I have nothing to work on so far.  Also, Phillippe is an interesting name because it does not appear often as an English given name.  Perhaps they were anticipating a different outcome in the 1588 attack of the Spanish Armada, but I doubt it--hmmm.].  Anyway, they had 11 children, the seventh, a son, Martin (b: 1595, in Great Leighs, England, d: 1671 in Essex, England).

In 1621, Martin Kellogg married Prudence Bird (b: Before 1625, d: Before 1671).  She was the daughter of John Bird (d: 1625), but that is all I know about her line at the moment.  They had 6 children including a son, their third child, Joseph (b: 1626 in Great Leighs, Essex, England, d: 1708, in Hadley, Massachusetts).

It is not known when Joseph Kellogg first arrived in the new world, but he was in Farmington, Connecticut in 1651.  In 1653, he married his first wife, Joanna Foote (b: about 1624, in Buckland, England d: 1666 in Hadley, MA).  With Joanna, he had 9 children (20 total with 2 other wives) and the sixth was Edward (b: 1660 in Boston, MA).  Joseph was a county Selectman and a Lieutenant in the militia.

Edward Kellogg married Dorothy ? (poor grandma Dorothy. We know so little about you) and by her he had 9 children.  The last of whom was Edward Jr. (b: 1713, d: before 1753).

Edward Kellogg Jr. married Jemima Bartlett in 1738.  They had 8 children, the first of which was Joseph (b: 1738 in Bozrah, CT).

Joseph Kellogg married in 1759 Mary Cushman (b: 1740) the daughter of Charles Cushman and Mary Harvey [NOTE: The Cushman line goes straight back to the Mayflower connection as I noted in the essay on the Mayflower descendants].  Joseph was in General Wolfe's army when it captured Quebec.  Joseph and Mary had 12 children.  The first was Amos (b: 1760 in Lebanon, CT, d: 1828 in Pittsford, VT).

Brigadier General Amos Kellogg married Lucretia Harwood (b: 1764, d: 1850) in 1782.  She was the daughter of Reverend Eleazer Harwood and Elizabeth Montague (more on them to come).  [NOTE: The following is a transcript of Ancestor’s Service copied from Grace Marie Nelson’s Application for Membership in The Children of The American Revolution, written about 1906-7.

"My great great grandfather, Amos Kellogg, entered Col. Morris’

 Regiment of Continental Troops, March 19, 1777, in his 16^th year of age.  Commencing as Captain’s [one word unreadable] and serving as waiter soldier and sergeant in that unit until 1781, when he was offered a lieutenant’s commission by the Vt. Board of War.  On application for discharge, Col. Seth Warner (of the famed Green Mountain Boys) consented to give him a parole for that purpose but not a discharge from the regiment.  Yet he never was recalled nor discharged from the regiment, but served as a commissioned officer of some grade under appointment of the Vt. Board of War until the close of the war being connected with the army some seven years.

He was sick with the measles in the fort at Ticonderoga at the time of the retreat before the Battle of Hubbardton, so he was not in that battle, but incurred the risk of exposure in traveling to Bennington rather than to be taken prisoner by the British and he engaged in the Battle of Bennington.  He was married in 1780, on the 7^th day of Dec. and his wife remained in camp until 1782.  When they moved to the farm in Pittsford he was still liable to be called to service and was [one word unreadable] Commander of the troops at Castleton.  After his removal to Pittsford, his having been an officer in the army, he was immediately promoted to the office of major and then again to Brig. Gen. in the Vermont Militia.  He was a Whig of the Washingtonian stamp in the times of the War of 1812. When Plattsburgh was invaded by the British he was one of the first to volunteer and went with his horses and wagons to transport the soldiers and arms to and from Bennington and Montpelier. This action on his part and on the part of the other Whigs caused the remarks to be made by members of the opposing political parties while they were on the march that they did wrong in heretofore denouncing the whigs as enemies of the country and they asked their forgiveness and so the invasion had the effect of causing the condition of halting(?) animosities between the political parties in Vt."]

Amos and Lucretia had 8 children.  The first was Sarah (b: 1783) who married Noah Loomis and you have the rest of the connection from the Mayflower essay previously discussed.

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