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Birth	bet 1749-1750 Farmington, Hartford, CT
Death	aft 1820 (age 71) Ellisburg, Jefferson, NY? 7
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Marriage

Spouse	Hannah LAMPHERE
Date	bef 1773 (age 24)
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Children

Elizabeth HOISINGTON (5 Jan 1773 - 1866)

Grout HOISINGTON (5 Jun 1780 - abt 20 May 1867)

Notes

Residence bef 1772 (age 23) Windsor, Windsor, VT

Residence 1772 (age 23) Woodstock Twp., Windsor, VT 2

"His (Joab's) brother Asahel came from Windsor about the same time, though he located in the southern part of the township, upon lands he had purchased of Joab."

Note: This is the property later owned by Salmon Hoisington and known as Lottery Hill Farm.

Just north of Joseph Cottle's farm (in the area of Woodstock known as the Fletcher School), Asahel Hoisington settled. He bought this land of his brother Joab, who lived where the Savings Bank stands, in 1771 and settled here in 1772. This is the Bagley farm west of the Fletcher School. In 1803, it was known as Lot No.6. Asahel sold out to Salmon Hoisington in 1803 and moved away. 3

Elected 1773 (age 24) collector; Woodstock Twp., Windsor, VT 3

Military 1781 (age 32) 4,5

State of Vermont Revolutionary War Rolls, p. 358

"A Pay Roll of Capt. Warren Cottle's Company of Melition, for service in the last alarm, with their milage, March 9, 1781.


Name: Asael Hoisington
Commencement of Pay: March 9
Time of service: 3
Pr day: 1.4
When discharged: Mar. 11
Amt. of pay: 4.
Miles: 16
Pr mile: 4
Total: 5.4

Tax List 1787 (age 38) Woodstock Twp., Windsor, VT

'Asahel is listed in a Grand List of the Town of Woodstock, November 19, 1787, with 38 pounds of tax. '

Census 1790 (age 41) Woodstock Twp., Windsor, VT

Hoisington, Asahel 00001-0010100

'Asahel is listed in the 1790 census of Woodstock, Vermont. Listed is one male head of household (Asahel), one male under the age of 16 (Grout), and 2 females (Hannah and Hannah).'

Census 1800 (age 51) Woodstock Twp., Windsor, VT

1 male betw 16-25, 1 male over 45, 1 fem over 45.

Property 1803 (age 54) Ellisburg, Oneida, NY 6

Asahel Hoisington bought 'a certain tract of land lying in the Town of Ellisburgh and County of Oneida and State of New York and lying on the East side of Lake Ontario and described in a general map of the Town of Ellisburgh and part of the land bough of Samuel Wordwell and is bounded as followeth beginning at a stake in the south east corner of lot No. twenty-eight thence north in the line to the center of the creek thence in the center of sd creek to Amos Noye's northeast corner bounds thence in sd Noyes no line south and Daniel House's to the twenty seventh lot and there as much of the twenty seventh lot in a parallel line as to make up one hundred and seventeen acres and half' (Deed from Dyer McCumber & wf. (Susanna Maccumber) to Asahel Hoisington, 1803) [found on http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/jefferson/lyme/lymeearlyset2.htm]

Census 1820 (age 71) Ellisburg, Jefferson, NY 8

'...there is an Asahel Hoisington in the 1820 census of Ellisburgh, New York, living with a female next door to Grout. Both the Asahel and the female are over 45 years old. This Asahel is undoubtedly Grout's father, and the female is probably Hannah. It is likely that they both died in Ellisburgh.'

Sources

1. Gazetteer, Business Directory, Windsor County, VT, for 1883-84. Compiled and published by Hamilton Child (1884). p. 287.
2. Ibid. p. 287.
3. Henry Swan Dana. History of Woodstock VT.
4. State of Vermont Revolutionary War Rolls.
5. Transcribed by Virgil D. White. Index to Revolutionary War Service Records. Vol II, E-K.
6. Mary Grace Canfield. The Valley of the Kedron, the South Parish. Kedron Associates, South Woodstock, VT. 1940. p.40.
7. e-mail from Robert Wilcox 11/7/98 quoting e-mail from Blaine Bettinger .

8. Jefferson County History, L. H. Everts, 1878. p 400.

Unless otherwise indicated in the text, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington, privately published 1935 and on file at NEHGS, Boston.