First-wife of Sewall Andrews, and co-founder of, the city of: Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI.
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Built (1842), with her husband, the first brick home in the county - today (circa 2014) known ad the "Red Brick Museum".
c.f. Source [link]: http://www.mukwonagomuseum.org/
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m. 20-Nov-1838
SOURCE: The Resseguie Family, by John E Morris, page 62.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=XzotAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&
Notes:
a) Her 1838 marriage to Sewall Andrews may have taken place at the Joseph Caldwell log cabin, at "Pike River", (Southport AKA Kenosha, Kenosha Co., WI.), or possibly, on her parent's claim, at "Caldwell's Prairie", and (logically) soon after her parents had re-established themselves inland.
b) It was probably one of the 1st marriages in Kenosha or Racine county (then, part of "Ouisconsin Territory"). The State of Wisconsin didn't exist until 10 years later...
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (of her husband): SEWALL ANDREWS, the pioneer settler of Mukwonago Village, was born Feb. 5, 1807, in Andover, Vt., son of John and Rebecca Webber-Andrews, after he was thirteen, he attended school, but little, being engaged on the farm of his widowed mother at 19, he began peddling tinware in Massachusetts, and after eight years, began business in Simonsville, Vt., his first visit to Wisconsin in the fall of 1835. Major Jesse Meacham, and A. Spoor accompanied him from Chicago to Milwaukee Village, where Milo Jones joined them, proceeding with a team, to the southwest, they tented-out on the open prairie, now the site of the city of Janesville, returning via Chicago, to his native State, remained until the spring of 1836, came to Milwaukee, met Henry H. Camp, and with him, reached the Indian village of "Mequonago", in May, 1836. Major Jessie Meacham was one week ahead of them, a present of two barrels of flour induced the Indians to allow them to build a bark roofed shanty, 10x12 feet, in their village, prior to this, they built, but did not occupy, a similar hut on Sec. 22, these were very first log buildings ever erected by a pale-face in Mukwonago, the "Los" were removed in 1837, but many returned and staid for years, the village plot was surveyed by Martin Field and Ira Blood, in the fall of 1836, in the spring of 1837, Mr. A. built a store and brought-in the first goods from New York City, this was the trade center for twenty-miles around, and the hardy frontier merchant reaped rich rewards, after relinquishing mercantile business, Mr. A. owned the grist mill five-years, but of late, has given his attention to cultivating his farm on the outskirts of the pretty village, in which, he is now the oldest settler, his substantial brick residence was built in 1842, and was one of the first of that material erected in Waukesha County. He married Nov. 21, 1838, Miss Sarah Resigue [sic] {Resseguie} of Hubbardton, Vt., died in April 1861, leaving two sons: Lorin, born Sept. 3, 1839, and Clement, born April 15, 1847, the present Mrs. Andrews, was formerly Sarah J. Mason, and was born in Pompey, Onondaga Co., NY., married Edgar Meacham, who at his death in March 1856, left two children: Clarence and Lillian. Leona only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. {Sarah J. Mason-Meacham-} Andrews, died, Feb. 27, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. A. are members of the Universalist Society of Mukwonago. Mr. A. at this writing, is a ruddy checked sturdy looking man, who can follow a team, or break-in a fractious colt, as well as he did forty-four years ago, was a prominent figure in the first recorded events of his town, and county. Politics Old Line Republican.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 965.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA965&
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"National Registry of Historic Places"
The 'Sewall Andrews House' (added 1981 - #81000063)
Also known as 'Mukwonago Museum', 103 Main St., Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI. Also known as the "Red Brick Museum'.
Historic Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style: Greek Revival
Historic Person: Andrews,Sewall
Significant Year: 1842
Area of Significance: Exploration/Settlement, Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1825-1849
Owner: Local
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Single Dwelling
Current Function: Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Museum
SOURCE: listed on the National Registry of Historic Places:
Source [link]: http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wi/waukesha/state.html
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"Mukwonago": previous to its settlement in 1836, was a large and populous Indian village, of the tribe known as the "Potawatomies", situated on Mukwonago Creek, not far from its junction with the Fox River, and near the border of an extensive forest. The inhabitants were generally peaceful and inoffensive. Their wigwams were substantially built. Their council house, a large building built of poles and covered with the bark of trees, in which the chiefs and principal men of the tribe held their annual councils, was in 1836, standing on the north bank of Mukwonago Creek, at the south end of the village. The valley in which the village was located, being very productive, they raised corn in great abundance. Col. Childs mentions the village as located here in 1820. The name of the village is derived from "mukwa" (bear).
The chief of this important Potawatomi village was "Wau be kee tschuk". He was blind, hence his name. "Tauh pauh wihs" was next in rank to him. The Milwaukee trader, Solomon Juneau states that the Mukwonago Potawatomi raised as many as 5,000 bushels of corn a year. Their principal articles of food were: fish, wild rice, muskrats, rabbits, prairie fowls, roots, corn, and wild fruits. On property formerly owned by H. H. Camp, they had a race course, where they raced their ponies. Andrew E. Elmore, an early settler (1836), opened a store, and traded with them. Sewall Andrews and Henry H. Camp, early settlers who arrived at Mukwonago, in May 1836, presented two barrels of flour to the Indians, for the privilege of erecting a cabin on their land. After 1837, when they were removed, the Indians returned, sometimes to the number of one hundred .
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Wisconsin archeologist, Volumes 1-2", 1922, page 82. By Wisconsin Natural History Society. Archeological Section, Wisconsin Archeological Society.
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The United Unitarian and Universalist Society of Mukwonago was founded in 1877. It was one of the first in the country to unite Unitarians and Universalists into one society. The three men who founded the village of Mukwonago in 1836 - Sewell Andrews, Martin Field and Henry Camp - were of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths. When these New England 'Yankees' arrived here it was still a Native American village. They stayed to settle the village of Mukwonago. Forty years later, two of the men were still living and helped to build our original church. Andrews was a Universalist and Field was a Unitarian. Thus the two denominations joined together in one endeavor eighty years before the Unitarians and Universalists formally merged, in 1961. The Yankee settlers of Mukwonago liked to build churches that resembled the churches of New England and New York State. The Baptist church across the street was of the same style, and so was a third church, Congregational, on Main Street, corner of Blood Street. All three white frame churches had steeples which were struck by lightening and taken down. Of the three, only our original church still stands. In 1987 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (the only other building so designated in Mukwonago is the Andrews house on the square, now the Mukwonago Museum).
SOURCE [link]: http://www.uumuk.org/aboutus.php
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"The flouring and saw mill now owned by J. & M. Ilowitt, were begun (and the sawmill finished) in 1847, by a Mr. McVean, but they soon passed from his hands and became the property of Mr. Sewall Andrews."
SOURCE (Google Books): The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 763.
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"US CENSUS 1850"
Name: Sewall Andrews {aka "Sewall"}
Event: Census
Event Date: 1850
Event Place: Mukwanago, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Marital Status:
Race (Original):
Race (Expanded):
Birthplace: Vermont
Estimated Birth Year: 1810
Dwelling House Number: 999
Family Number: 1020
Line Number: 23
NARA Publication Number: M432
NARA Roll Number: 1009
Film Number: 444996
Digital Folder Number: 004206495
Image Number: 00142
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 40 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 30 Vermont <<<
Loren Andrews M 11 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 3 Wisconsin
Charles Watkins M 38 Vermont
Sarah Watkins F 39 Vermont {probably née Andrews}
S E Watkins F 13 Vermont
J S Watkins F 10 Vermont
C W Watkins M 7 Vermont
Mary Watkins F 3 Vermont
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1850.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4D5-F1S
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"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1860
Event Place: Mukwonago, Waukesha, WI.
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Race: White
Race (Original): [Blank]
Birth Year (Estimated): 1807
Birthplace: Vermont
Page: 48
Affiliate Name: The U.S. (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 53 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 42 Vermont
Almira Wright F 24 Massachusetts
Lorin Andrews M 20 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 13 Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW96-PPD
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"US CENSUS 1870"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Estimated Birth Year: 1807
Gender: Male
Age in 1870: 63y
Color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, Indian): White
Birthplace: Vermont
Home in 1870: Wisconsin, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 63y Vermont
Sarah J Andrews F 42y New York <<<
Leona Andrews F 1y Wisconsin {probably a grandchild}
Clarence Meacham M 18y Wisconsin
Sillian Meacham F 16y Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1870.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNSD-BHM
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CHILDREN (3):
- Lorin Andrews, b.1839, d.1905.
- Mattie Andrews, b.1842, d.1848 (buried plot "L" with parents).
- Clement Andrews, b.1847, d.1917
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Built (1842), with her husband, the first brick home in the county - today (circa 2014) known ad the "Red Brick Museum".
c.f. Source [link]: http://www.mukwonagomuseum.org/
---
m. 20-Nov-1838
SOURCE: The Resseguie Family, by John E Morris, page 62.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=XzotAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&
Notes:
a) Her 1838 marriage to Sewall Andrews may have taken place at the Joseph Caldwell log cabin, at "Pike River", (Southport AKA Kenosha, Kenosha Co., WI.), or possibly, on her parent's claim, at "Caldwell's Prairie", and (logically) soon after her parents had re-established themselves inland.
b) It was probably one of the 1st marriages in Kenosha or Racine county (then, part of "Ouisconsin Territory"). The State of Wisconsin didn't exist until 10 years later...
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (of her husband): SEWALL ANDREWS, the pioneer settler of Mukwonago Village, was born Feb. 5, 1807, in Andover, Vt., son of John and Rebecca Webber-Andrews, after he was thirteen, he attended school, but little, being engaged on the farm of his widowed mother at 19, he began peddling tinware in Massachusetts, and after eight years, began business in Simonsville, Vt., his first visit to Wisconsin in the fall of 1835. Major Jesse Meacham, and A. Spoor accompanied him from Chicago to Milwaukee Village, where Milo Jones joined them, proceeding with a team, to the southwest, they tented-out on the open prairie, now the site of the city of Janesville, returning via Chicago, to his native State, remained until the spring of 1836, came to Milwaukee, met Henry H. Camp, and with him, reached the Indian village of "Mequonago", in May, 1836. Major Jessie Meacham was one week ahead of them, a present of two barrels of flour induced the Indians to allow them to build a bark roofed shanty, 10x12 feet, in their village, prior to this, they built, but did not occupy, a similar hut on Sec. 22, these were very first log buildings ever erected by a pale-face in Mukwonago, the "Los" were removed in 1837, but many returned and staid for years, the village plot was surveyed by Martin Field and Ira Blood, in the fall of 1836, in the spring of 1837, Mr. A. built a store and brought-in the first goods from New York City, this was the trade center for twenty-miles around, and the hardy frontier merchant reaped rich rewards, after relinquishing mercantile business, Mr. A. owned the grist mill five-years, but of late, has given his attention to cultivating his farm on the outskirts of the pretty village, in which, he is now the oldest settler, his substantial brick residence was built in 1842, and was one of the first of that material erected in Waukesha County. He married Nov. 21, 1838, Miss Sarah Resigue [sic] {Resseguie} of Hubbardton, Vt., died in April 1861, leaving two sons: Lorin, born Sept. 3, 1839, and Clement, born April 15, 1847, the present Mrs. Andrews, was formerly Sarah J. Mason, and was born in Pompey, Onondaga Co., NY., married Edgar Meacham, who at his death in March 1856, left two children: Clarence and Lillian. Leona only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. {Sarah J. Mason-Meacham-} Andrews, died, Feb. 27, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. A. are members of the Universalist Society of Mukwonago. Mr. A. at this writing, is a ruddy checked sturdy looking man, who can follow a team, or break-in a fractious colt, as well as he did forty-four years ago, was a prominent figure in the first recorded events of his town, and county. Politics Old Line Republican.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 965.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA965&
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"National Registry of Historic Places"
The 'Sewall Andrews House' (added 1981 - #81000063)
Also known as 'Mukwonago Museum', 103 Main St., Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI. Also known as the "Red Brick Museum'.
Historic Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style: Greek Revival
Historic Person: Andrews,Sewall
Significant Year: 1842
Area of Significance: Exploration/Settlement, Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1825-1849
Owner: Local
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Single Dwelling
Current Function: Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Museum
SOURCE: listed on the National Registry of Historic Places:
Source [link]: http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wi/waukesha/state.html
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"Mukwonago": previous to its settlement in 1836, was a large and populous Indian village, of the tribe known as the "Potawatomies", situated on Mukwonago Creek, not far from its junction with the Fox River, and near the border of an extensive forest. The inhabitants were generally peaceful and inoffensive. Their wigwams were substantially built. Their council house, a large building built of poles and covered with the bark of trees, in which the chiefs and principal men of the tribe held their annual councils, was in 1836, standing on the north bank of Mukwonago Creek, at the south end of the village. The valley in which the village was located, being very productive, they raised corn in great abundance. Col. Childs mentions the village as located here in 1820. The name of the village is derived from "mukwa" (bear).
The chief of this important Potawatomi village was "Wau be kee tschuk". He was blind, hence his name. "Tauh pauh wihs" was next in rank to him. The Milwaukee trader, Solomon Juneau states that the Mukwonago Potawatomi raised as many as 5,000 bushels of corn a year. Their principal articles of food were: fish, wild rice, muskrats, rabbits, prairie fowls, roots, corn, and wild fruits. On property formerly owned by H. H. Camp, they had a race course, where they raced their ponies. Andrew E. Elmore, an early settler (1836), opened a store, and traded with them. Sewall Andrews and Henry H. Camp, early settlers who arrived at Mukwonago, in May 1836, presented two barrels of flour to the Indians, for the privilege of erecting a cabin on their land. After 1837, when they were removed, the Indians returned, sometimes to the number of one hundred .
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Wisconsin archeologist, Volumes 1-2", 1922, page 82. By Wisconsin Natural History Society. Archeological Section, Wisconsin Archeological Society.
---
The United Unitarian and Universalist Society of Mukwonago was founded in 1877. It was one of the first in the country to unite Unitarians and Universalists into one society. The three men who founded the village of Mukwonago in 1836 - Sewell Andrews, Martin Field and Henry Camp - were of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths. When these New England 'Yankees' arrived here it was still a Native American village. They stayed to settle the village of Mukwonago. Forty years later, two of the men were still living and helped to build our original church. Andrews was a Universalist and Field was a Unitarian. Thus the two denominations joined together in one endeavor eighty years before the Unitarians and Universalists formally merged, in 1961. The Yankee settlers of Mukwonago liked to build churches that resembled the churches of New England and New York State. The Baptist church across the street was of the same style, and so was a third church, Congregational, on Main Street, corner of Blood Street. All three white frame churches had steeples which were struck by lightening and taken down. Of the three, only our original church still stands. In 1987 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (the only other building so designated in Mukwonago is the Andrews house on the square, now the Mukwonago Museum).
SOURCE [link]: http://www.uumuk.org/aboutus.php
---
"The flouring and saw mill now owned by J. & M. Ilowitt, were begun (and the sawmill finished) in 1847, by a Mr. McVean, but they soon passed from his hands and became the property of Mr. Sewall Andrews."
SOURCE (Google Books): The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 763.
---
"US CENSUS 1850"
Name: Sewall Andrews {aka "Sewall"}
Event: Census
Event Date: 1850
Event Place: Mukwanago, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Marital Status:
Race (Original):
Race (Expanded):
Birthplace: Vermont
Estimated Birth Year: 1810
Dwelling House Number: 999
Family Number: 1020
Line Number: 23
NARA Publication Number: M432
NARA Roll Number: 1009
Film Number: 444996
Digital Folder Number: 004206495
Image Number: 00142
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 40 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 30 Vermont <<<
Loren Andrews M 11 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 3 Wisconsin
Charles Watkins M 38 Vermont
Sarah Watkins F 39 Vermont {probably née Andrews}
S E Watkins F 13 Vermont
J S Watkins F 10 Vermont
C W Watkins M 7 Vermont
Mary Watkins F 3 Vermont
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1850.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4D5-F1S
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"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1860
Event Place: Mukwonago, Waukesha, WI.
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Race: White
Race (Original): [Blank]
Birth Year (Estimated): 1807
Birthplace: Vermont
Page: 48
Affiliate Name: The U.S. (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 53 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 42 Vermont
Almira Wright F 24 Massachusetts
Lorin Andrews M 20 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 13 Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW96-PPD
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"US CENSUS 1870"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Estimated Birth Year: 1807
Gender: Male
Age in 1870: 63y
Color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, Indian): White
Birthplace: Vermont
Home in 1870: Wisconsin, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 63y Vermont
Sarah J Andrews F 42y New York <<<
Leona Andrews F 1y Wisconsin {probably a grandchild}
Clarence Meacham M 18y Wisconsin
Sillian Meacham F 16y Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1870.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNSD-BHM
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CHILDREN (3):
- Lorin Andrews, b.1839, d.1905.
- Mattie Andrews, b.1842, d.1848 (buried plot "L" with parents).
- Clement Andrews, b.1847, d.1917
First-wife of Sewall Andrews, and co-founder of, the city of: Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI.
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Built (1842), with her husband, the first brick home in the county - today (circa 2014) known ad the "Red Brick Museum".
c.f. Source [link]: http://www.mukwonagomuseum.org/
---
m. 20-Nov-1838
SOURCE: The Resseguie Family, by John E Morris, page 62.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=XzotAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&
Notes:
a) Her 1838 marriage to Sewall Andrews may have taken place at the Joseph Caldwell log cabin, at "Pike River", (Southport AKA Kenosha, Kenosha Co., WI.), or possibly, on her parent's claim, at "Caldwell's Prairie", and (logically) soon after her parents had re-established themselves inland.
b) It was probably one of the 1st marriages in Kenosha or Racine county (then, part of "Ouisconsin Territory"). The State of Wisconsin didn't exist until 10 years later...
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (of her husband): SEWALL ANDREWS, the pioneer settler of Mukwonago Village, was born Feb. 5, 1807, in Andover, Vt., son of John and Rebecca Webber-Andrews, after he was thirteen, he attended school, but little, being engaged on the farm of his widowed mother at 19, he began peddling tinware in Massachusetts, and after eight years, began business in Simonsville, Vt., his first visit to Wisconsin in the fall of 1835. Major Jesse Meacham, and A. Spoor accompanied him from Chicago to Milwaukee Village, where Milo Jones joined them, proceeding with a team, to the southwest, they tented-out on the open prairie, now the site of the city of Janesville, returning via Chicago, to his native State, remained until the spring of 1836, came to Milwaukee, met Henry H. Camp, and with him, reached the Indian village of "Mequonago", in May, 1836. Major Jessie Meacham was one week ahead of them, a present of two barrels of flour induced the Indians to allow them to build a bark roofed shanty, 10x12 feet, in their village, prior to this, they built, but did not occupy, a similar hut on Sec. 22, these were very first log buildings ever erected by a pale-face in Mukwonago, the "Los" were removed in 1837, but many returned and staid for years, the village plot was surveyed by Martin Field and Ira Blood, in the fall of 1836, in the spring of 1837, Mr. A. built a store and brought-in the first goods from New York City, this was the trade center for twenty-miles around, and the hardy frontier merchant reaped rich rewards, after relinquishing mercantile business, Mr. A. owned the grist mill five-years, but of late, has given his attention to cultivating his farm on the outskirts of the pretty village, in which, he is now the oldest settler, his substantial brick residence was built in 1842, and was one of the first of that material erected in Waukesha County. He married Nov. 21, 1838, Miss Sarah Resigue [sic] {Resseguie} of Hubbardton, Vt., died in April 1861, leaving two sons: Lorin, born Sept. 3, 1839, and Clement, born April 15, 1847, the present Mrs. Andrews, was formerly Sarah J. Mason, and was born in Pompey, Onondaga Co., NY., married Edgar Meacham, who at his death in March 1856, left two children: Clarence and Lillian. Leona only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. {Sarah J. Mason-Meacham-} Andrews, died, Feb. 27, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. A. are members of the Universalist Society of Mukwonago. Mr. A. at this writing, is a ruddy checked sturdy looking man, who can follow a team, or break-in a fractious colt, as well as he did forty-four years ago, was a prominent figure in the first recorded events of his town, and county. Politics Old Line Republican.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 965.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA965&
---
"National Registry of Historic Places"
The 'Sewall Andrews House' (added 1981 - #81000063)
Also known as 'Mukwonago Museum', 103 Main St., Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI. Also known as the "Red Brick Museum'.
Historic Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style: Greek Revival
Historic Person: Andrews,Sewall
Significant Year: 1842
Area of Significance: Exploration/Settlement, Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1825-1849
Owner: Local
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Single Dwelling
Current Function: Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Museum
SOURCE: listed on the National Registry of Historic Places:
Source [link]: http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wi/waukesha/state.html
---
"Mukwonago": previous to its settlement in 1836, was a large and populous Indian village, of the tribe known as the "Potawatomies", situated on Mukwonago Creek, not far from its junction with the Fox River, and near the border of an extensive forest. The inhabitants were generally peaceful and inoffensive. Their wigwams were substantially built. Their council house, a large building built of poles and covered with the bark of trees, in which the chiefs and principal men of the tribe held their annual councils, was in 1836, standing on the north bank of Mukwonago Creek, at the south end of the village. The valley in which the village was located, being very productive, they raised corn in great abundance. Col. Childs mentions the village as located here in 1820. The name of the village is derived from "mukwa" (bear).
The chief of this important Potawatomi village was "Wau be kee tschuk". He was blind, hence his name. "Tauh pauh wihs" was next in rank to him. The Milwaukee trader, Solomon Juneau states that the Mukwonago Potawatomi raised as many as 5,000 bushels of corn a year. Their principal articles of food were: fish, wild rice, muskrats, rabbits, prairie fowls, roots, corn, and wild fruits. On property formerly owned by H. H. Camp, they had a race course, where they raced their ponies. Andrew E. Elmore, an early settler (1836), opened a store, and traded with them. Sewall Andrews and Henry H. Camp, early settlers who arrived at Mukwonago, in May 1836, presented two barrels of flour to the Indians, for the privilege of erecting a cabin on their land. After 1837, when they were removed, the Indians returned, sometimes to the number of one hundred .
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Wisconsin archeologist, Volumes 1-2", 1922, page 82. By Wisconsin Natural History Society. Archeological Section, Wisconsin Archeological Society.
---
The United Unitarian and Universalist Society of Mukwonago was founded in 1877. It was one of the first in the country to unite Unitarians and Universalists into one society. The three men who founded the village of Mukwonago in 1836 - Sewell Andrews, Martin Field and Henry Camp - were of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths. When these New England 'Yankees' arrived here it was still a Native American village. They stayed to settle the village of Mukwonago. Forty years later, two of the men were still living and helped to build our original church. Andrews was a Universalist and Field was a Unitarian. Thus the two denominations joined together in one endeavor eighty years before the Unitarians and Universalists formally merged, in 1961. The Yankee settlers of Mukwonago liked to build churches that resembled the churches of New England and New York State. The Baptist church across the street was of the same style, and so was a third church, Congregational, on Main Street, corner of Blood Street. All three white frame churches had steeples which were struck by lightening and taken down. Of the three, only our original church still stands. In 1987 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (the only other building so designated in Mukwonago is the Andrews house on the square, now the Mukwonago Museum).
SOURCE [link]: http://www.uumuk.org/aboutus.php
---
"The flouring and saw mill now owned by J. & M. Ilowitt, were begun (and the sawmill finished) in 1847, by a Mr. McVean, but they soon passed from his hands and became the property of Mr. Sewall Andrews."
SOURCE (Google Books): The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 763.
---
"US CENSUS 1850"
Name: Sewall Andrews {aka "Sewall"}
Event: Census
Event Date: 1850
Event Place: Mukwanago, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Marital Status:
Race (Original):
Race (Expanded):
Birthplace: Vermont
Estimated Birth Year: 1810
Dwelling House Number: 999
Family Number: 1020
Line Number: 23
NARA Publication Number: M432
NARA Roll Number: 1009
Film Number: 444996
Digital Folder Number: 004206495
Image Number: 00142
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 40 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 30 Vermont <<<
Loren Andrews M 11 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 3 Wisconsin
Charles Watkins M 38 Vermont
Sarah Watkins F 39 Vermont {probably née Andrews}
S E Watkins F 13 Vermont
J S Watkins F 10 Vermont
C W Watkins M 7 Vermont
Mary Watkins F 3 Vermont
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1850.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4D5-F1S
---
"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1860
Event Place: Mukwonago, Waukesha, WI.
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Race: White
Race (Original): [Blank]
Birth Year (Estimated): 1807
Birthplace: Vermont
Page: 48
Affiliate Name: The U.S. (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 53 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 42 Vermont
Almira Wright F 24 Massachusetts
Lorin Andrews M 20 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 13 Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW96-PPD
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"US CENSUS 1870"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Estimated Birth Year: 1807
Gender: Male
Age in 1870: 63y
Color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, Indian): White
Birthplace: Vermont
Home in 1870: Wisconsin, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 63y Vermont
Sarah J Andrews F 42y New York <<<
Leona Andrews F 1y Wisconsin {probably a grandchild}
Clarence Meacham M 18y Wisconsin
Sillian Meacham F 16y Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1870.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNSD-BHM
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CHILDREN (3):
- Lorin Andrews, b.1839, d.1905.
- Mattie Andrews, b.1842, d.1848 (buried plot "L" with parents).
- Clement Andrews, b.1847, d.1917
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Built (1842), with her husband, the first brick home in the county - today (circa 2014) known ad the "Red Brick Museum".
c.f. Source [link]: http://www.mukwonagomuseum.org/
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m. 20-Nov-1838
SOURCE: The Resseguie Family, by John E Morris, page 62.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=XzotAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&
Notes:
a) Her 1838 marriage to Sewall Andrews may have taken place at the Joseph Caldwell log cabin, at "Pike River", (Southport AKA Kenosha, Kenosha Co., WI.), or possibly, on her parent's claim, at "Caldwell's Prairie", and (logically) soon after her parents had re-established themselves inland.
b) It was probably one of the 1st marriages in Kenosha or Racine county (then, part of "Ouisconsin Territory"). The State of Wisconsin didn't exist until 10 years later...
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (of her husband): SEWALL ANDREWS, the pioneer settler of Mukwonago Village, was born Feb. 5, 1807, in Andover, Vt., son of John and Rebecca Webber-Andrews, after he was thirteen, he attended school, but little, being engaged on the farm of his widowed mother at 19, he began peddling tinware in Massachusetts, and after eight years, began business in Simonsville, Vt., his first visit to Wisconsin in the fall of 1835. Major Jesse Meacham, and A. Spoor accompanied him from Chicago to Milwaukee Village, where Milo Jones joined them, proceeding with a team, to the southwest, they tented-out on the open prairie, now the site of the city of Janesville, returning via Chicago, to his native State, remained until the spring of 1836, came to Milwaukee, met Henry H. Camp, and with him, reached the Indian village of "Mequonago", in May, 1836. Major Jessie Meacham was one week ahead of them, a present of two barrels of flour induced the Indians to allow them to build a bark roofed shanty, 10x12 feet, in their village, prior to this, they built, but did not occupy, a similar hut on Sec. 22, these were very first log buildings ever erected by a pale-face in Mukwonago, the "Los" were removed in 1837, but many returned and staid for years, the village plot was surveyed by Martin Field and Ira Blood, in the fall of 1836, in the spring of 1837, Mr. A. built a store and brought-in the first goods from New York City, this was the trade center for twenty-miles around, and the hardy frontier merchant reaped rich rewards, after relinquishing mercantile business, Mr. A. owned the grist mill five-years, but of late, has given his attention to cultivating his farm on the outskirts of the pretty village, in which, he is now the oldest settler, his substantial brick residence was built in 1842, and was one of the first of that material erected in Waukesha County. He married Nov. 21, 1838, Miss Sarah Resigue [sic] {Resseguie} of Hubbardton, Vt., died in April 1861, leaving two sons: Lorin, born Sept. 3, 1839, and Clement, born April 15, 1847, the present Mrs. Andrews, was formerly Sarah J. Mason, and was born in Pompey, Onondaga Co., NY., married Edgar Meacham, who at his death in March 1856, left two children: Clarence and Lillian. Leona only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. {Sarah J. Mason-Meacham-} Andrews, died, Feb. 27, 1871. Mr. and Mrs. A. are members of the Universalist Society of Mukwonago. Mr. A. at this writing, is a ruddy checked sturdy looking man, who can follow a team, or break-in a fractious colt, as well as he did forty-four years ago, was a prominent figure in the first recorded events of his town, and county. Politics Old Line Republican.
SOURCE (Google Books): "The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 965.
Source [link]: http://books.google.com/books?id=vQ4rAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA965&
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"National Registry of Historic Places"
The 'Sewall Andrews House' (added 1981 - #81000063)
Also known as 'Mukwonago Museum', 103 Main St., Mukwonago, Waukesha Co., WI. Also known as the "Red Brick Museum'.
Historic Significance: Person, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style: Greek Revival
Historic Person: Andrews,Sewall
Significant Year: 1842
Area of Significance: Exploration/Settlement, Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1825-1849
Owner: Local
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Single Dwelling
Current Function: Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Museum
SOURCE: listed on the National Registry of Historic Places:
Source [link]: http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/wi/waukesha/state.html
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"Mukwonago": previous to its settlement in 1836, was a large and populous Indian village, of the tribe known as the "Potawatomies", situated on Mukwonago Creek, not far from its junction with the Fox River, and near the border of an extensive forest. The inhabitants were generally peaceful and inoffensive. Their wigwams were substantially built. Their council house, a large building built of poles and covered with the bark of trees, in which the chiefs and principal men of the tribe held their annual councils, was in 1836, standing on the north bank of Mukwonago Creek, at the south end of the village. The valley in which the village was located, being very productive, they raised corn in great abundance. Col. Childs mentions the village as located here in 1820. The name of the village is derived from "mukwa" (bear).
The chief of this important Potawatomi village was "Wau be kee tschuk". He was blind, hence his name. "Tauh pauh wihs" was next in rank to him. The Milwaukee trader, Solomon Juneau states that the Mukwonago Potawatomi raised as many as 5,000 bushels of corn a year. Their principal articles of food were: fish, wild rice, muskrats, rabbits, prairie fowls, roots, corn, and wild fruits. On property formerly owned by H. H. Camp, they had a race course, where they raced their ponies. Andrew E. Elmore, an early settler (1836), opened a store, and traded with them. Sewall Andrews and Henry H. Camp, early settlers who arrived at Mukwonago, in May 1836, presented two barrels of flour to the Indians, for the privilege of erecting a cabin on their land. After 1837, when they were removed, the Indians returned, sometimes to the number of one hundred .
SOURCE (Google Books): "The Wisconsin archeologist, Volumes 1-2", 1922, page 82. By Wisconsin Natural History Society. Archeological Section, Wisconsin Archeological Society.
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The United Unitarian and Universalist Society of Mukwonago was founded in 1877. It was one of the first in the country to unite Unitarians and Universalists into one society. The three men who founded the village of Mukwonago in 1836 - Sewell Andrews, Martin Field and Henry Camp - were of the Unitarian and Universalist faiths. When these New England 'Yankees' arrived here it was still a Native American village. They stayed to settle the village of Mukwonago. Forty years later, two of the men were still living and helped to build our original church. Andrews was a Universalist and Field was a Unitarian. Thus the two denominations joined together in one endeavor eighty years before the Unitarians and Universalists formally merged, in 1961. The Yankee settlers of Mukwonago liked to build churches that resembled the churches of New England and New York State. The Baptist church across the street was of the same style, and so was a third church, Congregational, on Main Street, corner of Blood Street. All three white frame churches had steeples which were struck by lightening and taken down. Of the three, only our original church still stands. In 1987 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (the only other building so designated in Mukwonago is the Andrews house on the square, now the Mukwonago Museum).
SOURCE [link]: http://www.uumuk.org/aboutus.php
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"The flouring and saw mill now owned by J. & M. Ilowitt, were begun (and the sawmill finished) in 1847, by a Mr. McVean, but they soon passed from his hands and became the property of Mr. Sewall Andrews."
SOURCE (Google Books): The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin", 1880 (1006 pages), page 763.
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"US CENSUS 1850"
Name: Sewall Andrews {aka "Sewall"}
Event: Census
Event Date: 1850
Event Place: Mukwanago, Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Marital Status:
Race (Original):
Race (Expanded):
Birthplace: Vermont
Estimated Birth Year: 1810
Dwelling House Number: 999
Family Number: 1020
Line Number: 23
NARA Publication Number: M432
NARA Roll Number: 1009
Film Number: 444996
Digital Folder Number: 004206495
Image Number: 00142
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 40 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 30 Vermont <<<
Loren Andrews M 11 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 3 Wisconsin
Charles Watkins M 38 Vermont
Sarah Watkins F 39 Vermont {probably née Andrews}
S E Watkins F 13 Vermont
J S Watkins F 10 Vermont
C W Watkins M 7 Vermont
Mary Watkins F 3 Vermont
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1850.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4D5-F1S
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"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1860
Event Place: Mukwonago, Waukesha, WI.
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Race: White
Race (Original): [Blank]
Birth Year (Estimated): 1807
Birthplace: Vermont
Page: 48
Affiliate Name: The U.S. (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 53 Vermont
Sarah Andrews F 42 Vermont
Almira Wright F 24 Massachusetts
Lorin Andrews M 20 Wisconsin
Clement Andrews M 13 Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW96-PPD
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"US CENSUS 1870"
Name: Sewall Andrews
Estimated Birth Year: 1807
Gender: Male
Age in 1870: 63y
Color (white, black, mulatto, chinese, Indian): White
Birthplace: Vermont
Home in 1870: Wisconsin, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Sewall Andrews M 63y Vermont
Sarah J Andrews F 42y New York <<<
Leona Andrews F 1y Wisconsin {probably a grandchild}
Clarence Meacham M 18y Wisconsin
Sillian Meacham F 16y Wisconsin
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1870.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNSD-BHM
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CHILDREN (3):
- Lorin Andrews, b.1839, d.1905.
- Mattie Andrews, b.1842, d.1848 (buried plot "L" with parents).
- Clement Andrews, b.1847, d.1917
Bio by: Robert Kuhmann
Inscription
Mother, born in Hubburton, VT
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