John Anthony - Ruth Allen (New England "Planters")

John Anthony (Abt. 1727 - 1808)
Pedigree: Me > Norma Haynes (mother) > Lillian Laffin (mother) > Asa Laffin (father) > Thomas Laffin (father) > Olive Anthony (mother) > John Anthony Jr. (father) > John Anthony (father - my 5th great grandfather)

John Anthony was born about 1727 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts (his parents are unknown). In 1754 he married Ruth Allen, born in Dartmouth in 1731 (daughter of Increase and Lydia Allen of Dartmouth). Sometime after their marriage they moved to Rhode Island to farm.

As part of the British military campaign against New France in the French and Indian War, the British expelled the French living in Acadia (the present day provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island) from 1755-1764. The British first deported the Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies, and after 1758 transported additional Acadians to Britain and France. After the French Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia there was a lot of vacant, cleared and cultivated farmland. The Provincial Government advertised in the New England states (which were getting more crowded with farmers) that there was now land available to farm in Nova Scotia for anyone willing to move from New England and start over.

John and Ruth joined many others who responded to this opportunity (called "The New England Planters") and they settled on the Kennetcook River in Hants County just east of the township of Newport, Nova Scotia. The land grant which they received was dated August 1, 1767. They had a total of eight children, including John Anthony, Jr. born August 6, 1775.

The couple is buried in a small cemetery on a cow farm called the Anthony - Mosher cemetery in what is today Stanley, Nova Scotia. The original grave marker, being made of red sandstone, can still be read: "Sacred to the memory of John Anthony who departed this life the 31st of March 1808, age 81 years". Ruth is buried beside him.

"Sacred to the memory of John Anthony who departed this life the 31st of March 1808, age 81 years"

Stephen Compton (1772 - 1852)

Pedigree: Me > William R Compton > William R Compton > Norris Compton > Peter Compton > Stephen Compton (my 3rd Great Grandfather)


Stephen Compton was born about 1772 in New Jersey. His parents were David Compton and Ann. He is listed on the tax rolls for Wantage, NJ in 1792. He married Anna Van Sickle in 1795 in Wantage. He was admitted to membership by certificate to the Clove Valley Dutch Reformed Church in Wantage in 1799.

For some years after the marriage they continued to reside in Wantage until a fire destroyed their house. (Today there is a Compton Road in Wantage.)
Stephen and his family then removed to a farm near Ithaca, NY. He did very well as a farmer, able to support his large family of 11 children.

Sergeant uniform War of 1812

During the War of 1812, he was a Sergeant in the New York Militia, serving in the Consolidated (Smith's Regiment).

Some time after the War, he turned his attention from farming to the business of a contractor and builder, and he quickly lost his savings of  many years. A turnpike road over the inlet near Ithaca was the work and his lack of wisdom in advancing the men's wages from his own private means was the cause. The company under whom the contract was held failed, and Grandfather Compton saw the snug nest egg he had laid by for a rainy day melt into nothingness. This great misfortune darkened, except at rare intervals, the later days of their life. With the exception of about a year when they kept house on what is known as the Shoemaker farm just south of Sullivanville, NY he and Anna lived in the various houses of their children.

Grandmother Compton, Anna, died at the house of her daughter Katie (Catherine) Linderman in Cayuta, NY on February 10, 1842 aged sixty-three years and one day. She is buried in the Van Duzer Cemetery in Veteran, NY.


Stephen, known to all the family as Grandfather Compton, was listed in the 1850 census living with his son, Peter Compton (and his wife Amy and son Norris Compton) in Barton, NY. Stephen passed from this life at the home of his son Garrett Compton in Southport, Chemung County, NY on May 1, 1852 ten years after the death of his wife, at age eighty years. During their married life the couple were devoted and active Church workers in the Presbyterian denomination. They led most exemplary and conscientious lives, being particularly strict in the observance of the doctrinal teaching of their church.

Their family consisted of six sons and five daughters. They were Stephen, Garrett, John, Jacob, Peter, and Daniel, and Catherine, Sarah, Mary, Nancy, and Louisa.

Sadie (Sarah) Lovett Haynes (Hanes)

Pedigree: Me > Norma Haynes (mother) > Thomas Haynes > Robert Hanes and Annie McNeil

Sarah Lovett Hanes (my great aunt) was born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia on May 4, 1863, the 3rd of 9 children of parents Robert Hanes and Annie Vessie McNeil. She went by the name of Sadie. Both parents and 8 of the children (the oldest, Ida, stayed in Nova Scotia) moved to Boston in 1880, and changed the surname spelling to Haynes. I have been told this was because of pronunciation, as the name Hanes in Nova Scotia was pronounced "Hines" which the family didn't like.

35 Elmore Street, Roxbury

In Boston she lived with her parents (her father died in 1883), and later with her sister Lydia Hanes (Haynes) and her husband John Tubman.

In the 1910 and 1920 census Sadie is living at 35 Elmore Street in a boarding house with the Tubman family.

She never married, but became a registered nurse,


On her Declaration of Intent for Citizenship she is described as 5 feet 7 inches, 134 pounds, brown hair. With an oath of allegiance she was granted citizenship on January 18, 1926.

Sadie visited her brother, Thomas N. Haynes (my grandfather) in Arlington, Virginia about 1928 and is pictured with my mother, Norma Haynes, on the house front porch.















She died on October 6, 1934 and is buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain in the Ingram plot with her sister, Lavinia Haynes and her 2nd husband James Ingram.