Joiner-Joyners of New England, and DeWolf, Crane FamiliesUpdated April 24, 2008 |
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| WELCOME! Many thanks to FTM for continuing to provide a FREE homepage to family historians. This database represents a work in progress. We have been family historians for over 40 years and continue to update all files as necessary. There are several Joiner-Joyner lines in our family. My line of descent begins with William JOYNER (1694-1734) of New London, CT. and Egremont, MA. to our Joiner family living in Sycamore, Illinois (since 1835). Egremont is the town of the Ancient Trees located 24 miles south of Pittsfield and 140 miles southwest of Boston in the Berkshire Hills. When the first English settlers came to Egremont in 1725 they found a number of Dutch settlers with substantial farms. Dutch claims to the area arose under the 1722 Patents of Westhook. The Joyner brothers, William and Robert, came to Egremont from Cornwall, CT. in 1745, negotiating and purchasing their land from the Indians. In October of 1757 they bought additional land from the Indian Chief Jehoiakim (John Peter) known as the Shawenon Purchase. Sycamore, Illinois, is the embodiment of classic small town Mid-America, a place where smiles are a way of life. Downtown parking meters still give 12 minutes for a penny and if you stay longer than your penny's worth, you may get a ticket that carries a 25-cent fine. Nowhere is the wonderful small town character of Sycamore better portrayed than in its downtown business district. My favorite remembrance is that of the Old Popcorn Stand at State and Maple streets which bought the popcorn from my maternal grandparents (Entwistle-DeWolf)have been there since the late 1800's and how us kids would gather there on a Sunday night after church services. My family roots go back to Cyrus Joiner who settled in Sycamore in 1837 and the following year, his father Sylvanus Joiner joined him on the farm in Mayfield township, not far from the banks of the Kishwaukee River. A maternal grandparents (Wood and Gandy)arrived as the earliest pioneers to settle in Cortland in 1835. In 1850 a second-great uncle Roswell Dow was hired as the town surveyor to lay out the streets and to plot and make the maps. Grandfather Joiner served in the County Clerk's Office for nearly 50 years and Uncle Ralph Joiner served for another 25 years. All the generations since Cyrus Joiner have lived in DeKalb County and quite likely we are related to many other pioneer families. My ancestral roots go back to William JOYNER of Egremont, Massachusetts. I am a direct descendant of Balthazar DEWOLF, the great mercantile family of Lyme, CT. and Rhode Island, and of Jasper CRANE, Esq., one of the original planters and magistrate of New Haven, CT. Thank you for visiting our FTM home page. |
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