Kate FITZ-GERALD

Family/Spouse: James GREEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William MILES. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Bartholomew LOTT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living in Vernon, Sussex Co, New Jersey
• Census: 1860, Living in Vernon, Sussex Co, New Jersey
• Census: 1870, Living in Vernon, Sussex Co, New Jersey
• Census: 1875, Living in Vernon, Sussex Co, New Jersey
• Census: 1880, Living in Vernon, Sussex Co, New Jersey

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DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN

Said to have killed the Last Bear Ever Seen in the Warwick Mountains.

Goshen, N.Y., Aug. 22 - When Gen. John Hawthorne marched with the Goshen militia in pursuit of the Indian Brant, after the bloody Minisink massacre in 1779, he left in charge f his farm in Warwick a man of the name Lott. the General was one of the few who returned from the fatal chase of the bloody Mohawk chief, and the Lott family remained on his farm. Fourteen years later a son was born to them on Sept. 11, 1793. Gen. Hawthorne name the infant John Hawthorne Lott. Last Thursday John Hawthorne Lott died within a stone's throw of where he was born, having lived nearly 101 years in Warwick. Until within a few weeks he was apparently in the best of health. Last march he walked three miles to deposit his eightieth consecutive annual vote at town meeting. Until only a short time ago he worked at his trade of cooper, making cedar tubs, for which he was famous the country round.

In his prim, Lott stood 6 feet 2 inches tall. He was a giant in strength, and noted as a wrestler, jumper, and runner in the days when those accomplishments were greatly the test of a man's standing in the rugged communities of Orange and Sussex counties. No one could approach him in handling the scythe or cradle. He was also a famous hunter and claimed to have killed the last wild bear ever seen in the Warwick Mountains. He killed it in a hand to hand contest, with no weapon but his pocket knife. Lott was an intelligent man and a genial companion. His memory extended with clearness back over ninety-five years. He was the father of nineteen children.


The Sun (NY) Aug. 23, 1894

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Warwick, New York

John Hathorn Lott was born in the house in 1793. His father Bartholomew Lott is recorded as having served in Washington's Life Guard. Both Bartholomew and John Hathorn Lott lived to be a centenarians. Bartholomew Lott's father in law was William fFtzgerald, who was involved in the Sterling Iron works with the Townsends. He was captain of the Sterling company of hathorn's Regiment, 1776 and it is said that he was a survivor of the Battle of Minisink. His farm was at the border of Warwick and Monroe in dutch Hollow (Fitzgerald falls, on the Appalachian Trail, named for the family.)

The History of the John Hathorn House: Other Household Members


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John married Abigail CONKLIN on 18 Jan 1819. Abigail was born in 1804; died in 1839. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: R. Lavina EDWARDS. R. was born in 1829; died on 9 Mar 1883; was buried in Wantage Cemetery, Wantage, Sussex Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]