All records show that Starr Hoyt was born in Connecticut in 1812, but it is not known who his parents were. There was a large Hoyt family presence in Fairfield Co CT, clustered around Danbury. Starr is a family name. There were at least four other Starr Hoyts of his generation, at least three of whom were descendants of Thomas Hoyt 1674-1746 of Fairfield Co CT. They were: Starr Hoyt 1804-1849, son of Abel Hoyt, who remained in CT (#130832655); Starr Hoyt 1807-1862, son of Ira Hoyt, who moved to Ohio and then back to CT (#1437006381); and (Samuel) Starr Hoyt 1808-1894, son of James Taylor Hoyt, whose branch of the family moved to Saratoga Co NY about 1800 (#20165531). There is also a newspaper notice that a Starr Hoyt, aged about 60, fell off of the barge Rip Van Winkle at the Franklin St. pier in NYC and drowned in 1862. I know no more about him.
The middle name Taylor was found only on his death certificate. This leads me to suspected that he was in some way related to the Saratoga Co NY Hoyts because of the intersection of Starr, Taylor, and Hoyt. I have an idea that doesn't quite work and am still researching.
There were Hoyts who moved from CT to Luzerne Co PA before 1800 but I don't know if they were immediately related. There was a Valentine Howet in Columbia in 1840 but nothing more is known about him.
Does anyone know anything about his parents?
This Starr Hoyt enters the record c. 1833 at about 21 in Columbia Lancaster Co PA when he seems to have married Hester McFadden judging from the birth date of their eldest child. No marriage record has been found. Hester is included on a 1828 list of "poor children" in Columbia showing her family lived there. He was in the 1840 Census in Columbia as "Starr White" with wife and two daughters. This fits with the 1850 Census in which he is listed as "Starr Hoyet" in Columbia. I have no idea when or how he got to Columbia PA from either CT or NY.
Starr Hoyt was in the tavern business in Columbia and in Baltimore where he arrived about 1851. It may be significant that John McFadden ran the Lamb Tavern in Columbia in the 1840s and the Rising Sun in Soudersburg in 1830s-1840s. Perhaps he was Hester's father or uncle.
He is found an 1840 newspaper article in Lancaster Co PA as "insolvent" and was charged and briefly jailed in 1841 for running a "tippling house" and "disorderly house." In 1854 he was running a "public house" in Baltimore on Caroline Street. That he was robbed of $254 (then a large sum) and his wife of gold jewelry might imply that he had come up in the world. A 1864 tax document says he was in "retail liquor." Baltimore City Directories from 1858 to 1880 list him as running restaurants or taverns, "keeping a bar room," "tavern and boarding," or "being in oysters." One son was listed as working in an "oyster house."
He had issues with the police on occasion. In 1859 he assaulted his wife and broke furniture. In 1861 he assaulted Ann Alward.
In 1880 he was a night watchman in Fells Point when a fire broke out.
His children were:
Martha Caulder 1834-1892, b. PA
Amanda Smith 1838-1901, b. PA
Henry 1844-1887, b. PA
Mary Long 1846-1930, b. PA
John 1849-1895, PA, twin Robert?
Robert b. 1849, PA, died young?
Albert 1853-1937, b. Baltimore, twin of Emma?
Emma Despeaux 1853-1888, b. Baltimore
Edward 1857-1935, b. Baltimore
He is in the and 1840 and 1850 Censuses in Columbia and in the 1870 and 1880 Censuses in Baltimore. He has not been found in 1860.
His address on his obit was 174 South Central Ave. which was changed to 409 in 1886. This building is now gone (per Dan Phelan).
The middle name Taylor was found only on his death certificate. This leads me to suspected that he was in some way related to the Saratoga Co NY Hoyts because of the intersection of Starr, Taylor, and Hoyt. I have an idea that doesn't quite work and am still researching.
There were Hoyts who moved from CT to Luzerne Co PA before 1800 but I don't know if they were immediately related. There was a Valentine Howet in Columbia in 1840 but nothing more is known about him.
Does anyone know anything about his parents?
This Starr Hoyt enters the record c. 1833 at about 21 in Columbia Lancaster Co PA when he seems to have married Hester McFadden judging from the birth date of their eldest child. No marriage record has been found. Hester is included on a 1828 list of "poor children" in Columbia showing her family lived there. He was in the 1840 Census in Columbia as "Starr White" with wife and two daughters. This fits with the 1850 Census in which he is listed as "Starr Hoyet" in Columbia. I have no idea when or how he got to Columbia PA from either CT or NY.
Starr Hoyt was in the tavern business in Columbia and in Baltimore where he arrived about 1851. It may be significant that John McFadden ran the Lamb Tavern in Columbia in the 1840s and the Rising Sun in Soudersburg in 1830s-1840s. Perhaps he was Hester's father or uncle.
He is found an 1840 newspaper article in Lancaster Co PA as "insolvent" and was charged and briefly jailed in 1841 for running a "tippling house" and "disorderly house." In 1854 he was running a "public house" in Baltimore on Caroline Street. That he was robbed of $254 (then a large sum) and his wife of gold jewelry might imply that he had come up in the world. A 1864 tax document says he was in "retail liquor." Baltimore City Directories from 1858 to 1880 list him as running restaurants or taverns, "keeping a bar room," "tavern and boarding," or "being in oysters." One son was listed as working in an "oyster house."
He had issues with the police on occasion. In 1859 he assaulted his wife and broke furniture. In 1861 he assaulted Ann Alward.
In 1880 he was a night watchman in Fells Point when a fire broke out.
His children were:
Martha Caulder 1834-1892, b. PA
Amanda Smith 1838-1901, b. PA
Henry 1844-1887, b. PA
Mary Long 1846-1930, b. PA
John 1849-1895, PA, twin Robert?
Robert b. 1849, PA, died young?
Albert 1853-1937, b. Baltimore, twin of Emma?
Emma Despeaux 1853-1888, b. Baltimore
Edward 1857-1935, b. Baltimore
He is in the and 1840 and 1850 Censuses in Columbia and in the 1870 and 1880 Censuses in Baltimore. He has not been found in 1860.
His address on his obit was 174 South Central Ave. which was changed to 409 in 1886. This building is now gone (per Dan Phelan).
All records show that Starr Hoyt was born in Connecticut in 1812, but it is not known who his parents were. There was a large Hoyt family presence in Fairfield Co CT, clustered around Danbury. Starr is a family name. There were at least four other Starr Hoyts of his generation, at least three of whom were descendants of Thomas Hoyt 1674-1746 of Fairfield Co CT. They were: Starr Hoyt 1804-1849, son of Abel Hoyt, who remained in CT (#130832655); Starr Hoyt 1807-1862, son of Ira Hoyt, who moved to Ohio and then back to CT (#1437006381); and (Samuel) Starr Hoyt 1808-1894, son of James Taylor Hoyt, whose branch of the family moved to Saratoga Co NY about 1800 (#20165531). There is also a newspaper notice that a Starr Hoyt, aged about 60, fell off of the barge Rip Van Winkle at the Franklin St. pier in NYC and drowned in 1862. I know no more about him.
The middle name Taylor was found only on his death certificate. This leads me to suspected that he was in some way related to the Saratoga Co NY Hoyts because of the intersection of Starr, Taylor, and Hoyt. I have an idea that doesn't quite work and am still researching.
There were Hoyts who moved from CT to Luzerne Co PA before 1800 but I don't know if they were immediately related. There was a Valentine Howet in Columbia in 1840 but nothing more is known about him.
Does anyone know anything about his parents?
This Starr Hoyt enters the record c. 1833 at about 21 in Columbia Lancaster Co PA when he seems to have married Hester McFadden judging from the birth date of their eldest child. No marriage record has been found. Hester is included on a 1828 list of "poor children" in Columbia showing her family lived there. He was in the 1840 Census in Columbia as "Starr White" with wife and two daughters. This fits with the 1850 Census in which he is listed as "Starr Hoyet" in Columbia. I have no idea when or how he got to Columbia PA from either CT or NY.
Starr Hoyt was in the tavern business in Columbia and in Baltimore where he arrived about 1851. It may be significant that John McFadden ran the Lamb Tavern in Columbia in the 1840s and the Rising Sun in Soudersburg in 1830s-1840s. Perhaps he was Hester's father or uncle.
He is found an 1840 newspaper article in Lancaster Co PA as "insolvent" and was charged and briefly jailed in 1841 for running a "tippling house" and "disorderly house." In 1854 he was running a "public house" in Baltimore on Caroline Street. That he was robbed of $254 (then a large sum) and his wife of gold jewelry might imply that he had come up in the world. A 1864 tax document says he was in "retail liquor." Baltimore City Directories from 1858 to 1880 list him as running restaurants or taverns, "keeping a bar room," "tavern and boarding," or "being in oysters." One son was listed as working in an "oyster house."
He had issues with the police on occasion. In 1859 he assaulted his wife and broke furniture. In 1861 he assaulted Ann Alward.
In 1880 he was a night watchman in Fells Point when a fire broke out.
His children were:
Martha Caulder 1834-1892, b. PA
Amanda Smith 1838-1901, b. PA
Henry 1844-1887, b. PA
Mary Long 1846-1930, b. PA
John 1849-1895, PA, twin Robert?
Robert b. 1849, PA, died young?
Albert 1853-1937, b. Baltimore, twin of Emma?
Emma Despeaux 1853-1888, b. Baltimore
Edward 1857-1935, b. Baltimore
He is in the and 1840 and 1850 Censuses in Columbia and in the 1870 and 1880 Censuses in Baltimore. He has not been found in 1860.
His address on his obit was 174 South Central Ave. which was changed to 409 in 1886. This building is now gone (per Dan Phelan).
The middle name Taylor was found only on his death certificate. This leads me to suspected that he was in some way related to the Saratoga Co NY Hoyts because of the intersection of Starr, Taylor, and Hoyt. I have an idea that doesn't quite work and am still researching.
There were Hoyts who moved from CT to Luzerne Co PA before 1800 but I don't know if they were immediately related. There was a Valentine Howet in Columbia in 1840 but nothing more is known about him.
Does anyone know anything about his parents?
This Starr Hoyt enters the record c. 1833 at about 21 in Columbia Lancaster Co PA when he seems to have married Hester McFadden judging from the birth date of their eldest child. No marriage record has been found. Hester is included on a 1828 list of "poor children" in Columbia showing her family lived there. He was in the 1840 Census in Columbia as "Starr White" with wife and two daughters. This fits with the 1850 Census in which he is listed as "Starr Hoyet" in Columbia. I have no idea when or how he got to Columbia PA from either CT or NY.
Starr Hoyt was in the tavern business in Columbia and in Baltimore where he arrived about 1851. It may be significant that John McFadden ran the Lamb Tavern in Columbia in the 1840s and the Rising Sun in Soudersburg in 1830s-1840s. Perhaps he was Hester's father or uncle.
He is found an 1840 newspaper article in Lancaster Co PA as "insolvent" and was charged and briefly jailed in 1841 for running a "tippling house" and "disorderly house." In 1854 he was running a "public house" in Baltimore on Caroline Street. That he was robbed of $254 (then a large sum) and his wife of gold jewelry might imply that he had come up in the world. A 1864 tax document says he was in "retail liquor." Baltimore City Directories from 1858 to 1880 list him as running restaurants or taverns, "keeping a bar room," "tavern and boarding," or "being in oysters." One son was listed as working in an "oyster house."
He had issues with the police on occasion. In 1859 he assaulted his wife and broke furniture. In 1861 he assaulted Ann Alward.
In 1880 he was a night watchman in Fells Point when a fire broke out.
His children were:
Martha Caulder 1834-1892, b. PA
Amanda Smith 1838-1901, b. PA
Henry 1844-1887, b. PA
Mary Long 1846-1930, b. PA
John 1849-1895, PA, twin Robert?
Robert b. 1849, PA, died young?
Albert 1853-1937, b. Baltimore, twin of Emma?
Emma Despeaux 1853-1888, b. Baltimore
Edward 1857-1935, b. Baltimore
He is in the and 1840 and 1850 Censuses in Columbia and in the 1870 and 1880 Censuses in Baltimore. He has not been found in 1860.
His address on his obit was 174 South Central Ave. which was changed to 409 in 1886. This building is now gone (per Dan Phelan).
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