Joseph Sibley and Susanna Follett
Husband Joseph Sibley 1 2
Born: 1655 - Manchester, Essex Co, MA 1 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: John Sibley (1603-1661) 1 2 Mother: Rachel Pickworth ( - ) 2
Marriage: 4 Feb 1683 3
Wife Susanna Follett 3
AKA: Susanna Fallet 2 Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Robert Follett ( - ) 3 Mother: Persis Black ( - ) 3
Children
1 M Joseph Sibley 2 4
Born: 9 Nov 1684 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
2 M John Sibley 2 4
Born: 18 Sep 1687 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
3 M Jonathan Sibley 2 4
Born: 1 May 1690 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
4 F Hannah Sibley 2 4
Born: 10 Aug 1722 2 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Ebenezer Dagget ( - ) 2
5 M Samuel Sibley 2 4
Born: 1697 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
6 M William Sibley 2 4
Born: 7 Sep 1700 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
7 M Benjamin Sibley 2 4
Born: 19 Sep 1703 2 Christened: Died: 2 Nov 1789 - Willington, Tolland Co, CT 4 Buried:Spouse: Priscilla Rich (1706- ) 2 4
General Notes: Husband - Joseph Sibley
Though he was a landowner and husbandman, yet he was, like his father, for a part of his life engaged in the fishing trade, which contributed so materially to the welfare and prosperity of the colony. It is recorded in Felt's “Annals of Salem” that on his return from a fishing voyage to Cape Sable, he was impressed on board a British frigate. His wife petitioned the governor and after a time his release was secured. Little is known of him, though it would appear that he was a man of vigor and of social disposition and that he had influential friends. He was of Lynn in 1715, when he bought land in Sutton, Massachusetts. Five of his sons settled in Sutton.
On his return from a fishing voyage he was impressed on board a British frigate and put to hard service for seven weeks, after which he was released and sent home. He married and settled in Sutton, Massachusetts.
Joseph Sibley was the common ancestor of many who have been honored for their character, talents and important public services. Only a few of these can here be mentioned, viz: Henry Hastings Sibley, “The Father of Minnesota,” carried through, while a member of congress from Wisconsin, the bill creating the territory of Minnesota; was its first governor when it became a state; put down with raw troops the Sioux Rebellion, was brevetted a brigadier-general by President Lincoln. Subsequently he was brevetted a major-general. He was president of the Minnesota State Historical Society; president of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota; he commanded the whole military district of Minnesota during the civil war; was commander of the Loyal Legion; was president of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce; president of the State Normal School Board, and the recipient of many other state and national honors.
Henry Hopkins Sibley, of Louisiana, was brevetted a major for gallantry during the Mexican war. He was a general in the Confederate army; was the inventor of the Sibley tent. After the close of the civil war he was for some years engaged in engineering work for the Khedive of Egypt.
Hiram Sibley learned several trades. He put through the first line of telegraph from the Mississippi river to the Pacific coast. He was the first president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He owned forty thousand acres of land and had the most widely known seed raising establishment of any man of his day. He conducted successfully many other great business enterprises. He founded the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, and made other noteworthy benefactions.
Solomon Sibley was a member of congress and a member of the first territorial legislature of the northwest. He drafted and carried through' the latter body the bill incorporating the city of Detroit, one of the streets of which is named in his honor. He was United States commissioner with General Lewis Cass to treat with the Indians for the cession of territory equal in area to more than three states the size of the state of Rhode Island. He was chief justice of Michigan for twelve years.
Dr. John Sibley, a surgeon in the revolutionary war, was for several years a member of the legislature of Louisiana. Under the administration of Jefferson he was, according to the “History of Sutton, Massachusetts,” a commissioner to make treaties with Indian tribes in the lands ceded by Spain. Gallatin stated that Dr. Sibley's account of the tribes between the Mississippi and the Red river was the most complete that had been written.
Jonas Sibley was for seventeen years in succession a representative to the general court of Massachusetts; was also a member of the state senate and a representative in congress.
Jonas L. Sibley, his son, was the recipient of several political honors in the state of Massachusetts. He was an eminent lawyer, and it is recorded that he had eighty-one cases at one term of court.
Mark H. Sibley was a judge, state senator, and a member of congress from New York.
Josiah Sibley, of Augusta, Georgia, was one of the pioneer cotton manufacturers of the south; was widely known and esteemed not only for his business ability, but also for his nobility of character and public spirit.
Major George Champlain Sibley, with a band of one hundred Osage warriors explored the Grand Saline and Salt Mountain, and published an account of the expedition. He was a United States commissioner and made many treaties with Indian tribes. He put through a highway from Missouri to New Mexico. In or about 1838 he with others founded a woman's college at St. Charles, Missouri.
Frederick W. Sibley, lieutenant-colonel of the United States army, was twice brevetted for gallantry, and was recommended for a gold medal. He was in 1910 the commandant at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Rufus A. Sibley, eminent as a breeder of Jersey cattle; is the head of a firm having stores in Rochester, New York, in New York City, in Chemnitz, Germany, and in Paris, France.
Frank J. Sibley, orator, editor and author, now, or recently, a resident of Los Angeles, California, has been for over thirty years prominent as a leader in temperance and prohibition work throughout the United States.
Hiram Luther Sibley was judge of the circuit court of Ohio; was appointed in 1906 a member of the commission of three to revise and consolidate the laws of the state of Ohio. He has had several other honors. He is the author and editor of legal works.
From 1755 down through the period of the war of the revolution we find of the descendants of Joseph Sibley conspicuous for their military services: Captain John Sibley, Captain James Sibley, Captain William Sibley, Captain Nathaniel Sibley, Captain Jonathan Sibley, Captain Solomon Sibley and Colonel Timothy Sibley. Ten of Joseph Sibley's descendants were among the minute-men at Concord.
The Sibleys of New England, according to West, “are intermarried with the Putnams and Whipples, the Bigelows and Sumners, the Pierponts and Morses, the Lelands and Wheelocks, the Tarrants and Bancrofts, the Dudleys and Spragues, and, later down in the flow of their generations, with the Wellses and Conklings, the Livingstons and Chases and other influential families.”
The Sibleys in the central, southern and western states are, in general, descended from Joseph Sibley. There are, however, certain Sibleys in Florida and in Maryland who are not related to the New England family. [GPHAV, 310]
1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 309.
2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 392.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 310.
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John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 311.
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