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Thomas Elby Cade see FAMILY TREE
| Born: 04 June 1771 Gloucester, New Jersey Married: 1st. 13 Dec 1793 to Phoebe Smith, Clarksboro, Gloucester, NJ 2nd 31 Aug 1845 to Nancy Jane Leach, Ripley Co. IN Died: 19 Dec 1855 Cicero, Hamilton Co., IN FATHER Aaron Friend Cade MOTHER Mary Barber CHILDREN with Phoebe Smith 1. Samuel Cade b. 1795 NJ 2. Elisha W. Cade b. 1800 NJ 3. Sarah Ann Cade b. 23 Oct 1808 4. Thomas Cade 5. Nancy Cade b. 1811 6. John Cade 7. Mary Cade |
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CHILDREN with Nancy Jane Leach
1. Nancy Dimicella Cade b. 23 April 1846
2. Mary Ann Cade b. 06 July 1847
3. Thomas Elby Cade b. 19 Aug 1849
4. Phoebe Ellen Cade b. 01 Sept 1852
5. John Friend Cade b. 19 Aug 1855
Thomas Elby Cade
by Susan Brooke
Sep 2022
According to his tombstone, Thomas Elby Cade was born 4 Jun 1771. (1)
He was probably born in Gloucester, New Jersey. (2) He and married
Phoebe Smith, the widow of Mark Hullings, on 12 Dec 1793 in Clarksboro, Gloucester,
NJ. (3) In 1794 he was on the tax list for Greenwich, Gloucester, New Jersey.
From 1795-1797 he was on the tax list for Woolwich, Gloucester, NY but never
listed with any improved property. (4) In 1801 he purchased 15 acres of land in
Deptford that abounded the land of Aaron Cade. (5) In the 1802 tax
record for Deptford Thomas "Kade" and Aaron "Kade" are listed
right next to each other. (6) Aaron Cade sold this land the next year. (7)
Thomas Cade and Phoebe his wife, sold land in Galloway, Gloucester
New Jersey ("where they dwell") in 1806 and moved to Claremont, OH. (8) He first
appeared in the tax records there in 1809 with 90 acres on the East Fork and the
original proprietor was named as Richard C Waters. (9) He and Jeremiah Foster
were noted as being early settlers of that area. (101) He was on a grand jury in
1809. and Justice of the Peace for Tate Township in 1812. (11)
The War
of 1812 began on 18 Jun 1812 and Thomas Cade volunteered from Clermont County on
1 Aug 1812 and served until 25 Aug 1812 as a private under Captain Daniel Cain.
(12)
Thomas Elby Cade must have been a very kind person and obviously a good
friend to Jeremiah Foster. Thomas was the appraiser to the estate of
Jeremiah Foster in 1810. Guardianship papers were drawn
up in July 1816 for his children, Mary and Martha Foster. In March of that year,
Martha Foster, who had been working as a "Servant Girl" ran away. Her
employer took out an ad in the Western American newspaper offering a reward.
He referred to her as "about 15 years of age, of a very down and sheepish look,
and a long snout nose". (Martha was 18) She must have gone to the
home of Thomas Elby Cade. He took her in and put his own ad in the same paper
claiming her employer had "kept (her) under and jammed about". "And as he
says about her long snout nose I think it looks better than his own. The
said Girl is at my house, and I shall see her righted." (13) Six years
later on 3 Oct 1822 Martha's younger sister, Mary Foster, married Elijah W Cade,
a son of Thomas Cade. Mary Foster had probably been living with the Cade
family for those six years. In 1818 she was a witness to two of the land
transactions of Thomas Cade. (14)
Thomas Elby
Cade must have been a very large man. One report has him at 7' 6" tall. (15) He
fathered his last child at the age of 83. He was a tavern keeper while in
Clermont, OH. (16) His brother, Samuel Cade, had
a shoe shop in the same town at the same time.
In the 1840
tax record says he lived in Township # 7 (Ohio) on lots #17 and #18 with a
fraction of lot #1. There was a house on lot #17 and another house on lot
#1. (17) His son Elisha had married Mary Foster in 1822 and may have been
living in the 2nd house. Also in the
1840 census for Batavia, Clermont, OH is Hiram Cade (son of his
brother, Isaac Cade.)
On 16 Jan 1839 Thomas Cade
purchased land in Ripley Co. IN. (18)
Phoebe must have died sometime after that transaction, since he married Nancy
Jane Leach on 31 Aug 1845 in Ripley Co. IN. (19) Nancy had married Luman S
Gilkey around 1840 and had two children with him. She divorced him on 6
Aug 1845 and married Thomas Cade on 31 Aug 1845. Their first daughter was
born about 8 months later. Thomas Elby Cade was 74 years old and his wife
Jane 27. They had five children within a 10 year period.
Thomas had
purchased some land with "water and a horse mill on the premises" in March of
that year. He operated this grist mill through the 1850's. In 1854 he
sold his land in Ripley County and moved to Cicero, Hamilton County, IN where he
built a cabin. (20) Thomas died in this cabin 19 Dec 1855 just four months
after the birth of his last child. His widow, Jane, stayed on in this
cabin where she raised her family.
There is overwhelming evidence that Thomas
Elby Cade is the son of Aaron Friend Cade and Mary Barber. (21)
Sources
(1) The tombstone of Thomas Elby Cade reads that he was born 4 Jun 1771
Buried: Mount Pleasant (or Pettijohn) cemetery, Jackson
Twp., Hamilton Co., IN
(2) His probable father, Aaron Friend Cade, married in Pilesgrove, Salem, NJ
in 1766. He was on the Greenwich, Gloucester,
NJ tax list in July 1773 FHL film 411298
Also recorded on
Ancestry.com
(3) Phoebe Smith married Mark Hullings 8 Jun 1791
Trinity Episcopal
Church, Swedesboro, Gloucester, New Jersey
Mark Hullings died 10 Sep 1792
Trinity Episcopal Church, Swedesboro,
Gloucester, New Jersey
Ancestry.com
Marcus B Huling had been baptized in the Trinity Episcopal Church in Woolwich on
3 Jul 1768
His father, John Hulkings, died in Woolwich in 1783
Phoebe Hullings married Thomas Elby Cade 13 Dec 1793
Register of Jeffrey
Clark, Esq. Justice of the Peace
(4) Gloucester, New Jersey Tax Records
1794 tax list Greenwich,
Gloucester, New Jersey
FHL film 865474 image 321
1795 tax list Woolwich,
Gloucester, New Jersey
FHL film 865474 image 1200
1796 tax list Woolwich,
Gloucester, New Jersey
FHL film 865474 image 1233
1797 tax list Woolwich,
Gloucester, New Jersey
FHL 865474 image 1264
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1797 tax list
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(5) Gloucester NJ Land
Record E 111-112 |
 Gloucester Land BK E page 111 |
 Gloucester Land BK E page 112 |
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(6) 1802 Tax Record Deptford, Gloucester, New Jersey |
 FHL film 865473 image 509 |
(7) Land transactions of Aaron Cade
7 Mar 1803, Gloucester Deed Bk G page
212
Aaron Cade and Sarah his wife of Deptford were selling 402 acres to
Andrew Steelman for $200. The land was next to land of Thomas Cade.
FHL film 846548 image 360
7 Mar 1803 Gloucester Deed BK pages F400-402
Andrew Steelman and his wife Hannah are selling 52 acres to Aaron Cade of
Deptford for $1000. Near Wymouth. FHL
Film 846548 image 208
(8)
Gloucester Deed BK K page 165
Thomas and Phoebe Cade selling land in
Galloway, Gloucester, New Jersey "where Thomas Cade now dwells" to Joseph
Endicott for $100
The land stood "near mouth of John Smith's Hay creek."
Signed 27 May 1806
Galloway Township was incorporated by Royal
charter on
April 4, 1774, from portions of Egg
Harbor Township,
when it was still part of Gloucester
County.
Galloway is now in Atlantic Co., NJ
(9)
1809 tax record for Clermont County, OH
(10)
Early Settlers of Clermont, Ohio by Benjamin Morris
(11)
History of Clermont County Ohio with Illustrations
page 110 Thomas Cade
on Grand Jury in 1809
page 118 Thomas Cade Justice of the Peace of Tate in
1812
| (12) Thomas Cade, aged 85 on the 13th of June1855, stated that he was "a private
in the Company commanded by Captain Daniel Cain in the regiment of Ohio Militia
Commanded by Colonel Stewart in the war with Great Britain, declared by the
United States on the 18th day of June 1812 that he volunteered at Williams
Burg, Clermont County Ohio on or about the first day of August AD 1812 for
the term of Thirty days and continued in active Service in said war for the
term of twenty five days and was honorable discharged at Fort Wayne, Indiana
about the 25th day of August AD 1812." He was trying to obtain some "bounty
land" which he might have been entitled to under a law approved March 3,
1855. See copies of document at right. . |
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| (13) Newspaper Article in Western America (Batavia,
Ohio) 20 Apr 1816 page 2 col 4 Five mills, or a pinch of snuff reward. "RANAWAY, strayed or stolen from the subscriber, living in Williamsburg, a Servant Girl, by the name of MARTHA FOSTER, on the evening or night of the 25th of March 1816. She is about 15 years of age, of a very down and sheepish look, and a long snout nose -- had on when she went away a deep and pale blue wool and cotton frock, a check handkerchief, and a linen apron, and took with her a gingham bonnet, a factory cotton frock of three or four different colours, & some other cloathing. The above reward will be given to any person who will deliver said girl to me, but no other charges; and all persons are forwarned of harboring her, or they will be proceeded against according to the serverest penalty of the law. AMOS ALLEY April 5, 1816 ______________________________ Take Notice, That the Five Mills & Pinch of Snuff, has shewn his cloven foot nicely, in advertising this down and sheepish looking girl, as he calls her. Gentlemen Citizens you can expect no better of any bound child that is kept under and jammed about as she had been for his own talk plainly shows it; or else he would not have said when he was hunting for her, that he did not care a damn for her, only he was afraid she had hung or drowned herself, which is a plain proof how she was bamboosed about. And as he says about her long snout nose I think it looks better than his own. The said Girl is at my home, and I shall see her righted. Thomas Cade Wm'sburgh, April 18, 1816 |
 Newspaper Article in Western America |
(14) Land transactions of Thomas Cade in Clermont County, Ohio
Clermont Deed BK H-7 pages 225-226
8 Jul 1811
From John Sewary of
Bourboun Co KY to Thomas Cade of Clermont 90 acres for $180 Spanish money.
Original survey of R C Waters.
Clermont Deed BK L-10 pages 35-36
15 Apr 1813
Thomas Cade and Phebe of
the township of Tate, Clermont, OH sell 90 acres to Amos Alley for $1000. On
April 19, 1813 Cade gave him a mortgage. BK 9 pg 246. Land released in 1814 L 10
page 265.
Clermont Deed BK K-9 pages 393-4
12 Jun 1813
Thomas Cade buying 4 acres
in Williamsburg from James and Mary Perrin for $20.
Clermont Deed BK M-11 pages 57-58
15 Nov 1814
Thomas and Phebe Cade of
Clermont County to Bethuel F Morris for $35 lot #270 in Williamsburg.
Clermont Deed BK N-12 page 287-288
1815
Thomas Cade bought lot 376 for
&23.
Clermont Deed BK O-13 page 83-84
1816
Thomas Cade sold lot 270 to
Israel Foster for $50.
Clermont Deed BK O-13 page 616
15 Jan 1817
Thomas Cade sold four lots
in Williamsburg.
Clermont Deed BK O-13 page 765
31 Jan 1817
Thomas Cade sold four
acres in Williamsburg to Israel Smith for $31.
Clermont Deed BK O-13 page 765
12 Apr 1817
Thomas Cade sold lot 123 for
$200.
Clermont Deed BK Q-15 page 270
FHL film 333143 image 482
Thomas Cade
of Tate Township, Clermont County to William Johnston of Williamsburg, Clermont
County
7 Mar 1818 FOR $1000
4 Acres in Clermont "on the Waters of Clover
lick Creek"
One of the witnesses was Samuel Cade.
Clermont Deed BK Q-15 page 225-6
FHL film 333143 image 459
28 Mar
1818
Thomas Cade to William Johnston lots 376, etc. for $30.
Phebe relinquished her right on 21 Jun 1819 Clermont BK T-18 page 48
Clermont Deed BK R-16 pages 211-212
12 May 1818
FHL film 333143 image
691
Thomas Cade purchased 2 lots in Williamsburg # 17 & #19 for $50 from
Thomas Foote.
Clermont Deed BK R-16 page 227
FHL film 333143 image 699
Thomas Cade
and Phebe of Clermont to Elijah Hawkins
13 May 1818
Lot # 19 in
Williamsburg for $80 (4 acres)
One of the witnesses was Mary Foster.
Clermont Deed BK R-16 page 213
FHL film 333143 image 692
Thomas and
Phebe Cade to Peninah Smith
29 May 1818
land in Williamsburg, plat # 17
for $92
Phebe, the wife of Thomas Cade, had a maiden name of Smith,
but there is no known connection
Clermont Deed BK R-16 page 403
FHL film 333143 image 788
8 Jun
1818
Oliver Lindsey to John Kain, John Earhart, Thomas Foote, Ralph Sharp and
Thomas Cade for $4000, lots 146, 314, 89, 49 and 130
"Together with all building and improvements thereon and thereunto belonging or
in anywise appertaining and the one equal third part of a Saw Mill
situated on the East Fork of the little Miami and the third part of the mill
seat on which said mill is erected. Samuel Roper and Stephen Smith
being proprietors of the other two thirds."
Clermont Deed BK S-17 page 118
FHL film 333144 image 68
17 Nov 1818
Thomas Cade and Phebe to Benjamin J Fingley for $110, 15 acres on Clover Lick
Creek. Witnessed by Mary Foster
Clermont Deed BK 45 page 300
FHL film 333159 image 692
11 Oct 1846
Thomas Cade and Jane his wife of Ripley County, IN to William Frazier
$125 for Town Lots 126-128 and Lots 150-151 in Williamsburg, Clermont, Ohio
(15) The following is from a genealogy found in the Hamilton Co., IN library and probably complied by Mary Evelyn Turner
"To the memory of my mother, Nancy Mae Cade Turner, 1893-1927, granddaughter
of Thomas
Elby Cade, Sr.
Thomas Elby Cade, B. 4 June 1771 in Northern Ireland, D. 19 Dec. 1855, Jackson
Township,
Hamilton County, Indiana.
Thomas E. Cade , his wife and five children left Ireland in 1811 and migrated to
the U.S. to fight in the War of 1812 for the United States.
He was a man of great stature, standing over 7 feet in height and weighing 275
pounds, a man of great strength who could lift a barrel of whiskey (550 pounds)
and drink from it. A blacksmith by trade and a professional prize fighter, it is
said that he fought for $1.50 a fight, bare fisted, and would take on all
comers.
Nancy Jane Leach Gilkey, b 26 Jun 1818 in Ohio, first married Lewman
Gilkey, a carpenter, of Rockport, Indiana in 1839 and had two children by him.
Sara Jane, b. 1840 in Ohio and Samuel born in Ohio. It is said Lewman
Gilkey, a carpenter, killed himself, date unknown.
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When Thomas E Cade
came to Ripley County is not yet known but since the records show their marriage
to be in 28 Jan 1845, it must have been at that time. Whether Thomas E
Cade went to Ripley County first and was followed by Jane Gilkey or he followed
Jane is simply a matter of conjure. It is known she had 2 brothers, John
Leach and Thomas Leach in Shelby Township, Ripley County. After Great
Grandmother Jane Leach Cade moved to Hamilton County all the Leach's also moved
to Hamilton County (Arcadia and Cicero) also Jane Leach Cade's father was from
Northern Ireland.
Thomas E Cade ran a grist mill while in Ripley County.
There is a place called Cades run in Ripley County, sometimes called Cades
branch, north and west of Holton, Indiana
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(16)
History of Clermont County Ohio, with Illustrations and biographical
stketches of its prominent men and pioneers, 1880 page 300 Western American Newspaper, Feb 11, 1815 new store just below Thomas Cade's tavern. --July 21 meeting of Stone Masons at his tavern.
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Western American
Newspaper, Batavia, Clermont County, OH
Thomas Cade 1814, July 29 2 appraisals of a horse by Thomas Cade pg 3 col 4 1814, Aug 5 2 more horse appraisals by Thomas Cade pg4 col 4 1814, Aug 20 Asking Debtors to pay up pg 2 col 4 1814, Dec 3 Desperate plea for debtors to pay up. pg 3 col 4 1815, Feb 4 appraising horses 1815, Feb 11 Reference to new store on Main St. just below Thomas Cades's tavern. 1815, March 25 Thomas Cake post notice about bridle taken from his stable 1815, July 21 meeting of stone masons at his tavern 1815, July 22 Horse appraisal 1816, Jan 13 Left a letter in the post office 1816, April 20 Notice about Martha Foster, the runaway servant girl 1816, May 25 Buys a mule |
(17) Census Records and Tax Records
1820 Census Ohio, Clermont, Ohio
Thomas Cade
1 male over 45
Thomas Elby Cade
2 males 16-25
Samuel 25 and Elisha 20
1 male 16-18
Thomas ?
1 female over 45
Phebe
1 female 16-25
Mary Foster?
1 female under 10
Sarah Ann or Nancy? Interestingly the later census records for these
women list Sarah Ann born in MA and Nancy born in NY.
1 person in
agriculture
2 persons in manufacture
1830 census Ohio Township, Clermont, OH
Thomas Kaid
E W Kaid
1838 Tax List in township #7, Ohio, Clermont, Ohio
Thomas Cade
Elisha Cade
1840 Clermont County, OH tax record
In 1840 the tax record says
Thomas Cade lived in town # 7, (Palestine) on lots #17 and #18 with a fraction
of lot #1. There was a house on lot #17 and another house on lot #1.
(18) Ripley County, Indiana land transactions by Thomas Cade
In 1981 Kenneth Cade sent an inquiry to the Ripley County Court House and the
inquiry was turned over to the Ripley County Historical Society.
They found
that on 16 Jan 1839 Thomas Cade purchased 40 acres from the US Government.
This was the same land that Thomas and Phebe sold in 1842 (Ripley Deed BK M page
350)
| Ripley County, IN Deed BK M page 350 FHL film 1312541 29 Aug 1842 Thomas and Phebe Cade to William Mourse $100 for land in Ripley County in Otter Creek Township |
 Ripley Co Deed BK M page 350 |
Government Land
10 Apr 1843 40 acres
Ripley County, IN Deed BK M page 87
11 March 1845
Horatio Griggs and
Margaret his wife of Ripley County to Thomas Cade of Ripley County
$500 for
39 acres plus another 12 acres including "water and horse mill on the
premises"
Ripley County, IN Deed BK V page 39
15 Jan 1852
James A Creath and
Lusella to Thomas Cade
$100 for land in Ripley, IN
Ripley County, IN Deed BK V pages 472-73
30 Dec 1852
Thomas and Jane
Cade to Daniel M Kelley
$6 for 3/4 of an acre
Ripley County, IN Deed BK W page 440
4 Mar 1854
Thomas and Jane Cade to
William Anderson
$155 for land in Ripley Co.
1840 census record Ripley County, IN
| (19) Married: Thomas Cade to Jane Gilkey 31 Aug 1845 Shelby Twp., Ripley Co., |  Marriage of Jane Gilkey to Thomas Cade 31 Aug 1845 |
 Divorce of Jane Gilkey from Luman S Gilkey 6 Aug 1845 |
| (20) Bea Boyd wrote the article to the right. Her
grandmother was a niece of Nancy Jane Leach Cade. "The Otter Creek Bridge, about one and one half miles north west of Holton was built in 1884 by Thomas Hardman. -- A friendly little stream called Cade's Branch winds its way through the land and finds its way to Otter Creek just south of the bridge. On the Branch there, lived an Irishman, over eight feet tall, by the name of Thomas Cade. He operated a mill there in the 1850's." |
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Cabin built by Thomas Elby Cade
photos taken in 2008 of Cade Cabin in Cicero,
Hamilton County, IN
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(21)
There is very strong evidence that James, Samuel, Thomas Elby, John,
Aaron Jr., Jonathan and Isaac Cade were brothers. It is also pretty
certain that their father was Aaron Friend Cade and their mother was Mary
Barber. Mary's father, Thomas Barber, was born and lived his life in Pilesgrove,
Salem, NJ. Mary was a member of the Quaker church there when she met and
married Aaron Friend Cade. In 1766 "there was "testification" against
"Mary Cade, formerly Barber, for entering in marriage and other disorders."
So, Aaron Cade and Mary Barber probably married in Pilesgrove about 1766.
The baptismal record for Samuel Cade indicates he was of "Woods town,"
which is a town right next to Pilesgrove and in an 1802 deed he was named as
Samuel Cade of Pilesgrove. Pittsgrove is another town just
15 miles east of Pilesgrove. In 1803 John Cade was purchasing land in Pittsgrove
bordering the land of a sister to his wife. So, John and Samuel were most
likely born in that area and we know that is where Aaron Friend Cade and Mary
Barber married. The mother of the wife of James Cade was also born in
Pilesgrove, Salem, NJ.
In 1802, John and James Cade were living in Woolwich and James signed as a
witness when John and his wife were selling some land. The Trinity Episcopal
Church of Swedesboro is right next to Woolwich. James, Samuel, Jonathan
and Isaac all joined that church. The wife of Thomas Elby Cade married her
first husband in that church. Her marriage to Thomas Elby Cade took pace only
five miles from there. On Christmas Day 1809 there was a list of
communicants in Trinity Episcopal Church with Samuel and Jonathan Cade listed
right next to each other and they had been baptized as adults in this church
within two weeks of each other.
In 1801 Thomas Elby Cade purchased 15 acres of land in Deptford that abounded
the land of Aaron Cade, Jr. In 1850 Aaron Cade, Jr. was living with two
children of John Cade. Sarah Phifer and Thomas Jefferson Cade were most
likely his niece and nephew.
Thomas Elby Cade migrated to Clermont, OH in 1809 and had a tavern in
Williamsburg. Samuel Cade also moved to Clermont, OH in 1811 and had a
shoe shop in Williamsburg. His granddaughter, Malvina Cade, married Elisha
Cade, a son of Thomas Elby Cade. Isaac Cade named his first son, Hiram
Barber Cade. He is most definitely a son of Aaron Friend Cade and Mary
Barber. Hiram Barber Cade moved to Clermont, OH in 1828 and named his first
two sons Thomas and Samuel.
photos courtesy of Donna Harger at [email protected]
