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From: "Mary Caudle" <>
Subject: Re: [Hamilt'n] James H. and Robert H. Center/Centre/Senter & FLINN
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:44:11 -0800


Since several people are interested in the Priors, Flinns, Bonnells,
Littells and Centers.....I am going to post what I found while looking for
James H. Centre.

P153
David Flinn lived where Elias Osborn, son of Stephen B. Osborn, now lives;
he married, 1st, (???) (???), and had children:

1. Benjamin

He married, 2nd, Lydia, the widow of Andrew Prior, and daughter of David
Littell, Son of Samuel, and had children:

2. Stephen, who married Sally (???)

3. Lydia, who married, in Ohio, Edmund Buxton.

4. Susanna married John Miller. They and family went to the Shakers. Mrs.
flinn had, by her first husband, Andrew Prior, two sons, Andrew Prior Jr.,
and Moses Prior, the latter of whom was killed by the Indians in the war of
1794.


Stephen Flinn, (son of David) had children:

1. Joanna, who married William Mills.

2. James married Sophronia Smith: lives on Indian Hill, Hamilton County, OH.

3. David married Sally (???)

4. Vincent married Alla Robinson, lives near Dayton, OH.

5. Jesse married Henrietta Hammel; have a son, John.

6. Moses

7. William, who died at 21 years.

And by his 2nd wife Joanna, half sister of his first wife, had :

8. Sarah, who died at about 18.

9. Sabra, who died at 17 years.


Andrew Prior, 1st wife Polly (???)

1. Simeon

2. Sarah, who married, 12 July 1770, John Winans

3. John , married 10 May 1775, Elizabeth Maxwell, daughter of William
Maxwell.

4. Betsey married William Maxwell Jr., brother of John Prior's wife.

5. Jane, who died young.

By his 2nd wife, Lydia Littell, daughter of David Littell, he had children:

6. Andrew Jr., who went to Ohio with his step-father, David Flinn.

7. Moses, who also went to Ohio, and was killed by the Indians, in 1794.

Andrew Prior died 5 Feb, 1768, and his widow Lydia married David Flinn on 14
May 1769.


Andrew Prior Jr. married Polly Marsh, and by her 9 children:

1. Nancy who married Samuel Littell, son of (???), of Cincinatti, and had
children, Moses, William, and James.

2. Lydia married James Centre; had a child Nancy, who died at 9 years of
age.

3. Sally married William Wilson; had 4 children.

4. Huldah married Edward Price; live in Indiana, had children; William and
Hester Anne.

5. Phebe married 1st William Bowman, 2nd Henry Meyers.

6. Charlotte

7. Mary Anne

8. Moses married Sarah Ferguson, a niece of Charles Buxton's wife.

9. Aaron married Abigail Clark, Daughter of Joseph.

By his 2nd wife, Polly, Andrew Prior Jr. had:

10. Willam

11. John




-----Original Message-----
From: Audrey Shields Hancock <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Hamilt'n] James H. and Robert H. Center/Centre/Senter & FLINN


>I am trying to find out information on a Stephen FLINN from NJ who married
>#1 Sally ??? and #2 Joanna.
>Children of Stephen & #1 Sally: Joanna (m Wm. MILLS), Harriet (m Edward
>MILLS), James (m Sophronia SMITH), David (m Sally ???), Vincent (m Alla
>ROBINSON), Jesse (Henrietta HAMMEL), Moses, and William. Stephen & #2
>Joanna are said to have had Sabra and Sarah.
>
>This information is gleaned from here and there, so I don't know how
>accurate this is. This FLINN family was from NJ and settled very early in
>Hamilton Co., OH. The only one I can vouch for is Joanna who married my
>ancestral gf, William MILLS, as his 2nd wife and they resided in Shelby Co.
>and Miami Co., OH.
>
>Perhaps there is something here that someone else recognizes. I, too,
would
>be delighted to learn more. One BONNELL intermarried into my DUNHAM
lineage
>and they, too, were from NJ...many of Essex Co. and Union Co., NJ.
>
>Audrey
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mary Caudle" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:21 PM
>Subject: [Hamilt'n] James H. and Robert H. Center/Centre/Senter
>
>
>> Looking for information on the Center family that was in Hamilton County
>from 1790 to 1830. James H. Center married Lydia Pryor, daughter of Andrew
>Prior and sister of Moses Pryor. Maria Center married Samuel Bonnell in
>Cincinatti around 1834. Is anyone out there researching this family or any
>Centers from Hamilton Co., or know anything of the allied families of
Pryor,
>Bonnell, or Flinn. Looks like they originally settled in Mill Creek.
Thanks!
>>
>> Mary Caudle
>>
>>
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