Birth: 10 Aug 1762 Place: Farmington CT²

Death: 30 Dec 1813 Place: Buffalo, NY

Father: James HOISINGTON - 693 (1721-1802)

Mother: Elizabeth RICHARDS - 698 (1728-)

Wife: Sarah KNAPP - 799

Birth: 26 Apr 1775/1776 Place: Amenia, NY

Death: 15 Apr 1850 Place: Oberlin, OH

Father: Zadock KNAPP - 5735 (1738-1790)

Mother: Elizabeth TURNER - 5958

Other spouses: Asahel MUNGER Sr. - 818

1. F Child: Harriet (I) HOISINGTON - 809

Birth: 18 Oct 1793 Place: Panton, VT

Death: 17 Jan 1794 Place: Vergennes, VT

Birth: 16 Apr 1795¹⁹ Place: Vergennes, VT

Death: 26 Feb 1881 Place: Sylvania, OH

Spouse: Luke DRAPER - 979

Marriage: May 1813 Place: Buffalo NY¹⁹

Birth: 7 Jun 1797 Place: Vergennes, VT

Death: 8 Jan 1826 Place: Springfield, PA

Birth: 21 Aug 1799 Place: Vergennes, VT

Death: 17 Aug 1801 Place: Vergennes, VT

Birth: 23 Aug 1801 Place: Vergennes, Addison, VT¹⁵¹

Death: 16 May 1858 Place: Saybrook, CT

Spouse: Nancy LYMAN - 980

Marriage: 21 Sep 1831

Birth: 12 Jan 1804 Place: Vergennes, VT

Death: Place: OH

Spouse: Asahel MUNGER Jr. - 824

Marriage: 15 Feb 1825 Place: Lockport, NY Marriage perf by Rev. Arastus Kent

Spouse: Isaac BUXTON - 1373

Marriage: Place: OH

Birth: 31 May 1806 Place: Vergennes VT

Death: 19 Jul 1806 Place: Vergennes VT¹⁹

Birth: 21 Jul 1807 Place: Vergennes, VT

Death: 20 Jun 1881 Place: Dane Co., WI¹⁹

Spouse: Hannah Bailey JACOBS - 1341

Marriage: 9 Nov 1834

Spouse: Mary E. JOHNSON - 1349

Marriage: 7 Jul 1859

Birth: 30 Nov 1809 Place: Vergennes, VT

Death: 9 Dec 1879 Place: Dane, WI

Birth: 10 Apr 1813 Place: Buffalo, NY

Death: Jul 1899 Place: Janesville, Rock, WI¹⁴⁰

Residence: 1880 Magnolia, Rock, WI⁵⁶³

Spouse: Rachel COLEMAN - 819

Marriage: 28 Jan 1845 Place: Wayne, OH Married by Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff¹⁹

Spouse: Lauretta H. CUTLER - 1355

Marriage: 11 Jul 1880 Place: Page Co. IA by Rev. H. Avery

HOSINGTON, Job 175? Connecticut. Record of Conn. Men in mil. and naval service during the Rev. War, 1775-1783. By Henry P. Johnston. Hartford. 1889. (17,779p.):583

"Job was a carpenter by trade, and had a successful business in Vermont. He is reported to have been a Mason, active in all public affairs, and to have employed many men, and erected many bridges. He is described as 5 feet 2 inches tall, quite broad and heavy bodied, and 'preferred tea to beer.' He was for 20 years Captain of the Militia at Vergennes" [Harry Hoisington, 1934]

Listed in 1800 Census at Vergennes VT, 1 male under 10, 1 male between 10-16, 1 male between 16-26, 2 males between 26-45, 2 fem. under 10, 1 fem. between 16-26. [Note: Because Sarah Knapp is under 26, 3 of the males are too old to be her children. Either these are from Job's birth family or he was married before.]

Listed as a freeman in Bridgewater VT 1801.

Listed at Vergennes in 1810 census for Vermont

"Job was killed in the defense of Buffalo NY against the British and Indians, Dec. 30, 1813. He was for 20 years Capt of Militia at Vergennes, VT. Was 5 ft. 2 inches tall, quite broad and heavy bodied. A capable carpenter. Prefered tea to beer." references memo between Kidder and Job's daughter Mary Jane (Toledo OH 11/22/1867) which says that Job was Mason and active in all public matters - erected many bridges - employed many men. ²²

From "A memoir of the late William Hodge, sen., and illustrative miscellanies". by William Hodge and Albert Bigelow. Buffalo, 1885, pp. 51-52:

"I add a few incidents of the battle. Mr. Job Hoisington is referred to in the memoir of my father (see page xc) and from two accounts of his death during the battle of Black Rock, which I have published, one in the Buffalo HistoricalSociety's publications,* vol. i., page 53, the other in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, Dec. 30, 187 I, I here give a single and full account of the event. It will be suitable to mention concerning him that his son, the Rev. Henry Hoisington, was for many years a devoted missionary in the Island of Ceylon. Mr. Hoisington, "gallant Job Hoisington" he has well been called, was an intelligent, resolute, patriotic man; and when the news of the approach of the British towards Buffalo came, he took his musket and left his family early in the morning, to meet the enemy. He went into the ranks with Capt. Hull's Buffalonians, and they stood their ground well; but when the three thousand and odd of new levies broke and fled precipitately, only a few hundred were left to face as many Indians, and over a thousand disciplined British regulars. For a brief period they contested the field, but seeing that they were flanked, they retreated, along the Guide-board road, now North street, eastward. But here Hoisington lingered, withdrew a little, stopped, and said, "I will have one more shot at them," and started to go back. His companions urged him to go on with them, but could not prevail on him to do so. This was the last that was known of him by his friends till, in the following spring, some eight weeks later, his remains were found beside a log in the woods (near the spot on which the residence of the late Frederick Gridley, on North street, stands,&emdash;a block or two west of the Normal School building)&emdash; and not far from the place where he had left his companions. A bullet had perforated, and a tomahawk had cleft, his skull; while his scalp had been torn from his bleeding head, as a trophy of savage conquest and a token of British inhumanity. His faithful musket lay empty by his side, and no dotibt his death was avenged ere it occurred. He was buried in the old Cold Spring cemetery, and in i8~o, his remains were re interred with those of nearly a hundred others buried there, in "Forest Lawn." Mr. Hoisington's family (a wife and six children), left theirhome on foot that cold morning, having no one to help them, and went along the Batavia road towards Williamsville. Two or three of the smaller children were picked up by some of our horsemen who were escaping, and carried away some fifteen or twenty miles, into the town of Clarence, and one of them many miles further, into Genesee County, and left with strangers. It was several days before the mother learned where her children were. "

From Buffalo's Cemeteries (Buffalo, NY)

"The Cold Spring Burying Ground

Some years prior to the war of 1812, there was a small burying ground on farm lot No. 59, now the southwest corner of Delaware and Ferry streets. Mr. Hodge says he remembers being present at burials in that ground, when he was a boy; among them being a child of Mr. Seth Granger, and a child of a Mr. Caskey; those burials were made before the war [of 1812]. There, too, were buried the mutilated remains of poor brave Job Hoysington, who was killed and scalped by the Indians on the morning of December 30, 1813. Hoysington's remains were removed to Forest Lawn in 1850, with those of most of the others who had been buried in the rural cemetery--nearly one hundred in all. This ground was never formally granted for a cemetery, but was used by the consent of the owner. When Ferry street was graded and widened in 1876, a good many bones were unearth, which were humanely taken by Mr. Hodge and placed in Forest Lawn with the others that had been removed there."

Wife's Notes...

 During the Battle at Black Rock, "Sarah Knapp Hoisington had fled. Two of her children were separated from her, but cared for by soldiers and reunited later. After the War of 1812, Sarah and the Hoisington children returned to Buffalo where the children were brought up."³³⁵

Unless otherwise noted, data is from "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington.²²

² Dates from Darcy Hoisington

¹⁹ Hoisington/Munger Bible 1823, transcribed in Branches & Twigs Vol 19, No 2

²² "Hoisingtons in America" by Harry Hoisington, privately published 1935 and on file at NEHGS, Boston

¹⁴⁰ e-mail from Jonalee Slackta9/30/98

¹⁵¹ From IGI

³³⁵ Folwell/Hoisington Descendants Newsletter, March 1999

⁵⁶³ 1880 Federal Census, Magnolia, Rock, WI