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On Staten Island NY in 1862, Hannah Anne Wood [b1840] married David Gill Proctor [b1839]. Two years later in Washington DC, Laura Vinton Prather [b1842] married William A Chauncey [b1841]. Gill and Annie Proctor had four sons: Mart b1865; Ed b1867; Bert b1872; Fred b1877. Will and Laura Chauncey had six children: Minnie b1865; Will b1870; Hallie b1871; Paul b1873; Gertie b1877; Ed b1880.
Fred [Frederick Russell] Proctor married Gertie [Laura Gertrude] Chauncey in Washington DC in 1903; they had two sons - Kenneth Chauncey b1907 and Donald Frederick b1912.
David Gill Proctor's father, Robert Alexander Proctor, arrived in Nassau NY c1835 from Aberdeen, Scotland where his father was a master clock and watch maker; his mother, a MacPherson. He married [1838] Jane Elizabeth Garrison whose families go back to, among others, Stephen Hopkins and his indentured servant, Edward Doty, passagers ('Strangers') on the Mayflower.
Hannah Anne Wood's father, Joseph Moore Wood of Staten Island, was great grandson to Samuel Ward who purchased the Billop House [later The Conference House] where Franklin, Adams, and Rutledge met with Lord Howe prior to the hostilites. He married [1838] Eliza Ann Rickhow whose families appear to have been early settlers of Staten Island.
William A Chancey/Chauncey, [no siblings] was born in 1841 in Harpers Ferry, now WV, and moved to Washington DC as a child where he was raised by his uncle and aunt, John Simpson & Bridget Chauncey. His parents may have been born in Maryland, possibly Charles Co, which was the birth place of John Simpson Chauncey's elder children: John Thomas and Lydia. John S Chauncey was born in Delaware.
Laura Vinton Prather's parents, Alfred and Elisabeth Stewart Prather, were married in Baltimore Co Maryland circa 1831. Alfred was born in Prince Georges County MD where the Prathers were early settlers; Elisabeth probably born in Prince George's or Anne Arundel Co. Laura was raised by her uncle and aunt, Leonard and Harriet Prather, in Washington DC.
As with everyone else, this is a work in progress. Any and all information will be gladly received or provided.
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