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• Name: John TODD
• Sex: M
• Birth: 18 Apr 1756 in New Jersey ^b
• Death: 29 Oct 1829 in Beaver Co, Pennsylvania ^d
• Burial: Old Frame Meeting House, Smithfield, Pennsylvania ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Andrew TODD Birth: 1718 in Northern Ireland
Mother:

• Mary (TODD)

Family:
Marriage:

• Jane CALDWELL on 20 May 1779 at Bedford Co, Pennsylvania .^m1
  
• Jane CALDWELL Birth: 19 Jul 1761 Death: 7 Sep 1831 in Smithfield, Pennsylvania

Children:

1. Martha TODD Birth: 27 Feb 1780 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania Death: 16 Nov 1864 in Springville, Iowa
2. Martin Luther MD TODD Birth: 29 Apr 1782 in Washington Co, New York Death: 8 Apr 1866 in Bellaire, Ohio
3. Stephen TODD Birth: 31 Jul 1784 in Washington Co, New York Death: 31 Apr 1867 in Cleveland, Ohio
4. Betsy TODD Birth: 25 Mar 1787 in Washington Co, New York Death: 25 Oct 1858 in Scales Mound, Illinois
5. John MD TODD Birth: 28 Sep 1789 in Washington Co, New York Death: 6 Sep 1816
6. Samuel MD TODD Birth: 24 Feb 1792 in Washington Co, New York Death: 30 May 1836 in Woodbridgeton, near Smithfield, Pennsylvania
7. James Caldwell MD TODD Birth: 25 Aug 1795 in Washington Co, New York Death: 8 Nov 1879 in Bringhurst, Indiana
8. Archibald Stevenson MD TODD Birth: 10 Apr 1798 in Washington Co, New York Death: 1 May 1883 in Wheeling, West Virginia
9. Hiram TODD Birth: 28 Jan 1800 Death: 5 Mar 1817 in Greenwich, New York
10. Jane TODD Birth: 25 Dec 1803 in Greenwich, New York Death: 26 Dec 1803 in Greenwich, New York

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Jackman TODD G2, Jackman TODD p1f, Jackman TODD p3],

place:

[Ref: Jackman TODD G2, Jackman TODD p3],

parents:

Andrew TODD & Mary ___ [Ref: Jackman TODD G2, Jackman TODD p1]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Jackman TODD G2, Jackman TODD p1f],

place:

[Ref: Jackman TODD p4]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Jackman TODD p19]

Sources with Information about marriage to Jane CALDWELL

date:

[Ref: Jackman TODD G2]

1779 [Ref: Jackman TODD p4]

20 Mar 1779 or 20 May 1779 [Ref: Jackman TODD p6],

place:

[Ref: Jackman TODD p6],

child:

[Ref: Jackman TODD G2, Jackman TODD p12, Jackman TODD p13, Jackman TODD p16, Jackman TODD p17, Jackman TODD p19, Jackman TODD p4]

Research Notes:
John was born in southern New Jersey, near Philadelphia. Some time before 1776, while still not married and a part of his father's household, he was taken to Bedford County, PA. There we know that he was a farmer. By modern standards he was a very small farmer; for the tax lists of 1776 show him as the owner of two horses and two cattle. He was still unmarried and probably still lived with his parents. By 1783 he was still carried on the tax rolls of Bedford County, PA, as the owner of 200 acres of land, two cattle, two horses, and two sheep - although he apparently left Pennsylvania a year or two before this. [Ref: Jackman TODD p2]

John TODD commissioned Second Lieutenant in Captain James Anderson's Battalion (or Company) of Bedford County Militia, on May 23 1778. [Ref: Jackman TODD p2]

Some time after his marriage to Jane CALDWELL, and prior to 1782, John moved to Washington County, NY, and remained there most of his life, until about 1821. As his sons became old enough to leave home and shift for themselves, with one exception, Stephen, they all went to Southwestern Pennsylvania or to Wheeling, West Virginia, and settled there. Soon after the death of Jane's father, William CALDWELL, at Greenwich, Washington Co, NY, in 1820, John and Jane followed their sons back to Pennsylvania and lived with them there for the rest of their lives. [Ref: Jackman TODD p3]

We know nothing about what John TODD's occupation or business was after his move to Washington County, NY, but it looks as if he had either become a much more extensive farmer or had taken up some other vocation. He seems to have prospered; for his sons were educated in private schools and five of them became physicians. His daughters all seem to have done well in their marriages. How or why John's sons developed such a general interest in medicine is not known. [Ref: Jackman TODD p9]

John and Jane apparently moved to Washington County, NY, in order to be with her father when he made the same move. Probably they all went together sometime between 1780 and 1782, but we have no definite information about this. We are sure, however, that John TODD and Jane lived in or near Greenwich, NY, for about forty years, and that they brought up and educated their family there. Their sons lost no time in migrating to Southwestern Pennsylvania or to Wheeling. Their daughters married men living in the general vicinity of Albany, NY. The third child, Stephen, became a mechanic and died in Cleveland, OH, in 1867. [Ref: Jackman TODD p9]



Pedigree of John TODD
 /-----Andrew TODD
John TODD
 \-----Mary (TODD)



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