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Subject: Isaac Hodge family of New York
Date: 4 Jul 2004 20:53:07 -0600

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Surnames: Hodge, Tompkins, Kasper, Scribner, Thomson, Lutner, Cooper
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I'm researching Isaac Hodge of New York. He would be my GG grandfather on my mother's side. We believe he and his wife were full-blooded Mohawk Indians but do not have their Indian names. I know he was living in Sullivan County (Neversink, Liberty, Rockland to name a few towns) according to the 1840-1880 censes. I have been able to trace the name Isaac Hodge in Sullivan, Greene, Columbia and Saratoga counties but because the early censes only listed the head of household name I can't be sure where my Isaac fits in. Interestingly, the Isaac I came across in the 1790 census lived in Mohawk, NY, which was part of the old Indian territory.

I also noticed that my Isaac's race wasn't listed until the 1870 census and then he was listed as white (although his daughter and her children have very definite physical Indian characteristics).

Isaac Hodge was born about 1814 or 1815 and married a woman named Caroline, who was 10 years younger than he. They had the following children: Hulda, Charles, Emily, Helen(?), John, Melvin, and Caroline (Katy). Emily was my great-grandmother. She was born about 1843 and married Henry Gerow Tompkins probably in the early 1860's. Their first child was born in about 1864.

If you have any thoughts or information on any of this, please e-mail me at

Thanks.

Marj Lutner

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