HUSBAND..(full name ): LOOP, John BORN.....(date/place): 27 FEB 1771 NY CHR......(date/place): 26 AUG 1771 Schagticoke, Albany, NY MAR......(date/place): by 1793 DIED.....(date/place): 1 OCT 1862 Freetown, Cortland, NY BUR......(date/place): HUSBAND'S FATHER.....: LOOP, Hendrick (Ensign) Compiled by: HUSBAND'S MOTHER.....: SCHERP (or SHARP), Nelly Eleanor Victor L. Bennison HUSBAND'S OTHER WIVES: (2) FISHER, Avis 2 Georgetown Drive ---------------------------------------------------------- Amherst, NH 03031 WIFE.....(full name ): (1) EGGLESTON, Mary (Polly) BORN.....(date/place): CHR......(date/place): DIED.....(date/place): BUR......(date/place): WIFE'S FATHER........: WIFE'S MOTHER........: WIFE'S OTHER HUSBANDS: FILE: HEJO.FGSV ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ # / | CHILDREN | WHEN | WHERE OR TO WHOM | SEX | surname / given names | | town, county, state or country | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------| 1. | LOOP, Mary |b. 1795 | | F | |m. | | | |d. prob. young | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 2. | LOOP, Hannah |b. 15 OCT 1797 | | F | |m. | SWEETLAND, Walton (Judge) | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ WIFE.....(full name ): (2) FISHER, Avis BORN.....(date/place): 1 FEB 1775 CHR......(date/place): MAR......(date/place): DIED.....(date/place): 13 JAN 1861 BUR......(date/place): WIFE'S FATHER........: WIFE'S MOTHER........: WIFE'S OTHER HUSBANDS: ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 3. | LOOP, Mary (Polly) |b. 6 MAY 1810 | | F | |m. | CONGER, Samuel | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 4. | LOOP, Avis |b. | German, Chenango, NY | F | |m. | | | |d. | | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ 5. | LOOP, John Henry |b. 15 AUG 1813 | | M | |m. | (1) DORAN, Almira A. | | |m. after 1845 | (2) DORAN, Rachel | | |m. after 1888 | (3) BARNUM, Nancy | | |d. 17 DEC 1905 | Polkville, ______, NY | ----+-------------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+ NOTES: From Omer Loop's records: John Loop b. Feb 23, 1770, m. (1) Mary ("Polly") Eggleston, m. (2) Avis Fisher (b. Feb 1, 1775; d. Jan 13, 1861), he d. Oct. 1, 1862 in Freetown, Cortland, NY. Children by (1): Mary Loop, Hannah Loop. by (2) Mary ("Polly") Loop, Avis Loop, John Henry Loop. Notes from Joanne Ellis, original source Mabel Gertrude Feint [I think]: John Loop was the son of Ensign Henry Loop and Nelly Sharpe Loop. John Loop was born in 1770 and died Oct. 1, 1862 at the age of 82 yrs, 7 months, and 6 days. His wife Avis Fisher Loop died 1/13/1861 at the age of 85 years 11 months, and 13 days. John and Avis Loop had two children: (1) John Henry Loop who was born August 15, 1813, died 12/17/1905 age 92 yrs, 4 months, 2 days, in Polkville, NY. John Henry had three wives: (A) Almira A. Doran - 11/26/1845 age 30 yrs, 21 days. (B) Rachael Doran Cameron died 6/25/1888. Raised the three living children of John Henry and Almira. (A) and (B) were both daughters of Abraham and Polly (Sullivan) Doran. (C) Nancy Barnum, died 2/14/1892, widow of Rev. Marcellus Barnum. (2) Polly Loop m. Samuel Conger. An article in the Cortland Standard - "HISTORICAL STORIES ABOUT LOOP FAMILY" of August 20, 1931 [excerpted here]: True Tales of Early Freetown Settlers Told at Recent Reunion - Story of Hannah Loop - Of particular interest to Cortland county is the story related by Edgar P. Watrous of Groton, father of Mayor Dent P. Watrous of that willage, about his grandmother, Hannah Loop, who was born Oct. 15, 1797, and who became the wife of Judge Walton Sweetland. Judge Sweetland for 50 years or more, lived in Freetown, and was for some years, in the period preceding 1850, prominent in legal circles in his adopted county. In 1844 he was appointed associate county judge, which office he held for some years. Judge Sweetland was a native of Granville Conn., coming to Freetown in 1814 and settling on lot 22, which afterwards called the Tripp farm. He married Hannah Loop in 1817. He was a farmer until 1838 and then engaged in the mercantile business and legal activities during the remainder of his life. Hannah Loop Sweetland was the daughter of John Loop, third son of Ensign Henry Loop of the Revolution. When she was 12 years of age, or in 1809, with her father and stepmother, she emigrated from the eastern part of New York State. Stopping first at German, Chenango county for two or three years. The family story is that John Loop, a manufacturer in an eastern county, had met with financial reverses, also his first wife, Polly Eggleston, had died, leaving two daughters, Mary, who was born in 1795, and Hannah, born Oct. 15, 1797. He had remarried, the second wife being Avis Fish or Fisher. When the family came to this section they had their belongings in two covered wagons. The first was drawn by horses and in it rode Avis Fisher Loop and her young child, Polly, born May 6, 1810. Polly married Samuel Conger of Freetown. The second wagon, hauled by an ox team, was driven by Hannah. After the birth of Avis Loop Wayle, in German, the family came on to Freetown. The first home here was a log cabin, as were all the homes of that date. The story runs that for a time John Loop returned each year to his former home to earn money, which was a scarce commodity in Cortland county then. One time when Hannah had kept the home for weeks alone, late one evening the latch string was pulled, and in stalked four huge indians. In sign language they asked for food and young Hannah built a big fire in the fireplace and prepared a meal for them. That night they slept in a circle on the floor of the cabin. In the morning Hannah prepared them another meal, when they left, leaving her and the home all unharmed, but with a much depleted larder. A kindly and gifted neighbor woman, Mrs. Fuller, taught Hannah all the housewifely arts of the day. At one time, when her parents were absent in the east some months, Hannah spun and wove the material for a new linsey- woolsey suit for her father, and cut and made the garments. When he returned he put the suit on and was greatly pleased with his daughter's industry and ability. He said, "Hannah, you have done so well that I now want to do something for you. What can I do to please you?" To this Hannah replied that in his long absence she had become hungry for meat. So he shouldered his gun and went out for a deer, wearing the new suit. He shot a large buck, wounding but not killing it. The buck charged him, and he dodged behind a small maple tree, grasping the horns of the buck with each hand, with the tree between them. In his dying struggle the deer fought desperately, his tiny sharp hoofs cutting the front of the new suit in many places. Blood poured onto the suit from the deer's wounds and from cuts in Mr. Loop's face, so that when he reached home with the buck on his shoulder, he was a frightful spectacle. However, the meat was enjoyed and Hannah washed the suit and mended the many holes in it, and the incident became a familiar story to later generations. Ensign Henry Loop is said to have settled for a time in Rensselaerwyck, a huge area just south of Albany, on the east side of the Hudson, owned by Killian Van Rensselaer, patroon. He had a lease of land here at a rental of one cow per year, for "as long as timber grows or water flows," a typical lease of that day. However, he became dissatisfied and moved to Stillwater, his farm lying so near the scene of the second battle of Saratoga that it had to be evacuated very hurriedly with all sheep, cattle and family belongings on the day of that battle. John Loop, later of Freetown (who was an ancestor of Dr. A. M. Loope of this city, also of both Mr. and Mrs. John Loop and the latter's brothers, Frank and Dr. Clarence Loop of Cazenovia) was then seven years, eight months of age and to his death distinctly remembered bringing up the rear, when the family moved out of this area, on the back of an old family horse. John's second wife, Avis Fisher, was two years old at the time of this battle. Her family lived 16 miles from the scene of the battle, and her mother died the day of this battle for lack of medical attention, the surgeons all being busy at the scene of the battle. Little Avis was brought up by her grandfather, John Fish, or Fisher, who in 1800 moved to Cincinattus. His son, Ephraim Fisher, was the first man to represent Cortland county at Albany in 1810. He and his grandfather it is said, built the first grist mill at Cincinnatus.