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• Early Church Membership 1830-1847: Joined the Mormon Church in 1830, at Nelson, Portage, Ohio. Died in the privations of Missouri persecution.
• Census: 1790, Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts; U. S.
• Census: 1820, Nelson, Portage, Ohio, United States; U. S.
• Census: 1830, Nelson Township, Portage, Ohio, United States; U. S.

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!Mary Lewis May have been part Native American. She SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED with the Mary Lewis who married Elijah Noyes. Both were having children at the same time but lived many miles apart. The above according to Whiting Family Organization; "Before & After Mt. Pisgah"-1979 by Clare B. Christensen
pp. 29,30 claims (from stories told by Emeline Whiting) Mary Lewis died 1835 at Clay County, Missouri, and that Mary Lewis was daughter of Francis Lewis b.abt 1737 and Jane or Tryphena (the darker mother) who was the daughter of Squawman (perhaps Charles) and Running Deer b.abt 1715. "Pitch Pine Tales" 1955 by Howard R. Driggs also tells of Mary Lewis being part Native American.
!Arch Rec of Haoma M. Harker; Rec of O.C. Day

!Following is the wrong Mary Lewis for us:
TIB 1,263,172 SL 8441 6R p 383 gives following: Birth 3 Apr 1761, Parents:
Jonathan Lewis (1731)/Persis Crosby /Elijah Noyes (marriage 16 Sep 1785 Sylvanus Hulet); TIB LA507357.

The following ordinances have been performed for our Mary Lewis and Sylvanus
Hulet: Her Bapt. 5 Dec 1940 SL, 3 Dec 1965; Endow. 26 Jan 1966 LA; Seal
Parents 22 Sep 1981 MT; Seal Spouse 23 Jun 1992 Portland, 28 Aug 1992 Manti and 19 Jan 1953.

!BIRTH: Utah Gen & Hist Mag v.XXV p.77;1
!MARRIAGE: Church Rec of Thompson, Conn; Vit Rec of Lee, Mass.
BAPTISM: Baptisms for the dead in Nauvoo 1841;
ENDOWED: TIB 1,263,172 SL 8441 6R p383 gives following: Birth 3 Apr 1761, Parents: Jonathan LEWIS (1731)/Persis CROSBY/ Elijah NOYES (marriage 16 Sep 1785 Sylvanus HULET) (This is APARRENTLY WRONG.) TIB LA507357

!BIRTH :Utah Gen & Hist Mag v.XXV p.77; MARRIAGE :Church Rec of Thompson, Conn; Vit Rec of Lee, Mass; DEATH : BAPTISM :Baptisms for the dead in Nauvoo 1841; ENDOWED : SEAL PARENTS : SEAL SPOUSE : Arch Rec of Haoma M. Harker; Rec of O.C. Day

Mary Lewis May have been part Native American.
She SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED with the Mary Lewis who married Elijah Noyes. Both were having children at the same time but lived many miles apart. The above according to Whiting Family Organization:

"Before & After Mt. Pisgah"-1979 by Clare B. Christensen pp. 29,30 claims (from stories told by Emeline Whiting) Mary Lewis died 1835 at Clay County, Missouri, and that Mary Lewis was daughter of Francis Lewis b.abt 1737 and Jane or Tryphena (the darker mother) who was the daughter of Squawman (perhaps Charles) and Running Deer b.abt 1715.

"Pitch Pine Tales" 1955 by Howard R. Driggs also tells of Mary Lewis being part Native American.

Archive Record of Naoma M. Harker;

Record of Orville Cox Day

FOLLOWING IS THE WRONG MARY LEWIS FOR US:
TIB 1,263,172 SL 8441 6R p 383 gives following: Birth 3 Apr 1761, Parents: Jonathan Lewis (1731)/Persis Crosby /Elijah Noyes (marriage 16 Sep 1785 Sylvanus Hulet); TIB LA507357.

The following ordinances have been performed for our Mary Lewis and Sylvanus Hulet: Her Bapt. 5 Dec 1940 SL, 3 Dec 1965; Endow. 26 Jan 1966 LA; Seal Parents 22 Sep 1981 MT; Seal Spouse 23 Jun 1992 Portland, 28 Aug 1992 Manti and 19 Jan 1953.

BIRTH: Utah Gen & Hist Mag v.XXV p.77;1
MARRIAGE: Church Rec of Thompson, Conn; Vital Records of Lee, Mass.
BAPTISM: Baptisms for the dead in Nauvoo 1841;
ENDOWED: TIB 1,263,172 SL 8441 6R p383 gives following: Birth 3 Apr 1761, Parents: Jonathan LEWIS (1731)/Persis CROSBY/ Elijah NOYES (marriage 16 Sep 1785 Sylvanus HULET) (This is APPARENTLY WRONG.) TIB LA507357

Death date: "The Hulet Quarterly" Volume 5, No. 1, June 1972: (page 2) "I have been trying to locate the date and place of Mary Lewis' death and just could not seem to find any trace as to where she was and also tried the recorders in Nelson, Portage County, Ohio and in Jackson and Clay Counties in Missouri, but found no trace of her. In one of the sketches of Sylvester Hulet's biographies by O.C. Day, he mentioned that there was an "old lady" living with Sylvester Hulet and also one of his sisters and two of her daughters and the son of Sylvester's brother, Francis. So I just took a chance that this old lady was our Mary Lewis. Then I found where Eldred A. Johnson of Orem had found in Grandfather Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet, Sr., in his temple work that Mary Lewis had died in 1835. So that showed her as being in the Hulet settlement near Nauvoo, Illinois. I then started to check the reference given by a distant cousin with the name like the third child of our Mary and Sylvanus Hulet. It was Charlotte Cox of Shelley, Idaho. She gave the date of death as being 6 March, 1835. So, evidently Mary Lewis is buried in the cemetery at the Hulet settlement near Nauvoo.
(Editor's note: I wonder if the year 1835 is the right date, or if Nauvoo is the right place. The saints did not settle around Nauvoo until 1839, except for members who were converted locally in the Nauvoo area previous to the saints going to Illinois as a group from Missouri. If Mary Lewis died in 1835, it would probably have been in Missouri, in Clay, Daviess or Caldwell Counties.)"

MARY LEWIS
By Orville Cox Day
January 31, 1966
Hulet Family Newsletter

Dear Cousins,
No, I cannot believe that Mary Lewis, daughter of Jonathan, is our Mary Lewis. There are many reasons for this.

1.
To find a man’s wife, you follow his travels. I have never heard of a road from Lee to Pepperell by 1786. The easiest way to get there would be to go south from Lee to the coast by ship to Boston, then 70 miles by boat and road to Pepperell.

I cannot learn that Sylvanus ever made that trip, but definitely Sylvanus was in Albany County in 1777-78 at age 19-20 and it was only 30 miles from Lee to Albany County.

2.
I cannot find the least indication that any of Mary Lewis Lewis. I investigated the possibility that Elijah died shortly after his marriage, but he did not.

4.
So many mistakes are made by some doing research. Archibald F. Bennett was such a dependable genealogist. He printed in the Utah Genealogical Magazine that Elijah Noyes and Sylvanus Hulet were having children during the same period of years… Elijah and “his wife, Mary Lewis”.

5.
There was a well-traveled road in 1786 from Lee to Albany… in fact two often traveled highways. One was used for 180 years from Lee to Lake Champlain, another from Lee to the Hudson River and by boat to Albany.

6.
D.L. Jacobus, the best genealogist of all, stated that almost never did any White Man marry a New England Indian woman, but so many married Mohawk Indians.

7.
So many researchers are prone to mistakes.
Please forgive me. Yours, O[rville].C[ox]. Day

Sylvanus was released from the Army in Albany County after Bourgoyne surrendered, after October 20, 1777. O.C.

After 71 years, since mother Euphrasia told me our 7th mother back was an Indian:
1. Euphrasia
2. Elvira
3. Rhoda
4. Mary Lewis Hulet
5. ¼ Indian
6. ½ Indian
7. Running Deer (Josnorum Scoenonti)

I’m so glad to find her, and thankful to the Lord we can do her temple work. Tell all cousins please and thanks. With love, your cousin Orville Cox Day. The Lord surely will bless you for the good work you are doing. O.C.D.

PITCH PINE TALES

Reference: “Pitch Pine Tales”, by Howard R. Driggs, son of Rosalie, daughter of Emeline Whiting, first wife of F. Walter Cox of Manti, Sanpete County, Utah. Sally Hulet, who later married Elisha Whiting Jr. was the oldest child of mary Lewis and Sylvanus Hulet. Sally was taken to visit her Indian relatives. This would be around 1800, when Sally was 13 years old. They traveled northwest from Lee in Berkshire County in western Massachusetts about 50 miles to Albany, New York, then west, up the Mohawk River Valley to the Indian village. Running Deer, her grandmother was then dead.

About 1906, Howard R. Driggs, at the Cox Reunion, asked each one of the older Coxes still alive to write about their pioneer experiences. Howard is now dead.

His grandmother, Emeline Whiting Cox told him how her mother Sally had been taken to visit her Indian relatives. Emeline remembered the name in English, “Running Deer”, but had forgotten it’s Mohawk equivalent. Probably we can find it.

These older relatives, aunts, wrote their stories. After Howard died, his nephew Clare Christensen (son of Maud Driggs) got a box of Howard’s papers. Clare also went to Manti for more pioneer manuscripts.

From a Cox/Tuttle School Teacher cousin in Nephi, Clare got another box of manuscripts. He is now writing a Cox history.

In 1814, the Hulets sold out in Lee, Massachusetts and moved to Nelson, Ohio.

I hope Running Deer’s temple work can be done. I wish every one of the descendants of Walter Cox of Fairview could learn about Running Deer. The Book of Mormon is our book.

How many of us have hunted and hunted for the ancestry of Mary Lewis

JOSNORUM SCOENONTI or RUNNING DEER

Cousin Howard R. Driggs was born about 1877, a son of Rosalie Cox Driggs of Pleasant Grove, Utah, daughter of F. Walter Cox of Manti, Utah.

Around 1900, Howard was much interested in family history. At a reunion, he assigned to each aunt to write her pioneer memories. Several copies of each one have been typed since the aunts died.

Later, Howard spent his time on Utah and Western History.

After Howard’s death, his young second wife Margaret looked over his stacks of papers and books and manuscripts. She gave a lot of them to cousin Clare Christensen in American Fork.

Clare is a son of Howard’s sister, Maud Driggs Christensen. He has gathered up so many of these old manuscripts and is writing a Cox history and trying so carefully to get dates and places accurate.

He figures that when grandfather Orville S. Cox was endowed in the Nauvoo Temple in January or February, 1846, they recorded the place where he was born.

In Manti, aunt Ada hired Peter Poulsen to keep the Cox and Mills temple books for the family and he spelled the town wrong, making it the wrong town, many miles… 50 or 75 or 100, away from where the Coxes lived.

Clare phoned me as to who could look up grandpa’s endowment record. I told him I thought you would know how best of any cousin. He asked me if I would write you and ask you to please find it for us… Nauvoo Temple Record, Endowments.

Uncle F. Walter Cox died around 1878 or later. Afterward, his first wife, aunt Emeline Whiting Cox visited a lot with her daughter Rosalie Cox Driggs in Pleasant Grove. She told the Driggs cousins ‘til she died in 1896, many true stories about every family history.

Howard printed many books. In a book for children, age ten, “Pitch Pine Tales”, he put the name in English of our 5th great grandmother, Running Deer.

I wrote to Utah Representative Burton in Washington, D.C. and he looked up her Indian name in the Indian Dictionary, Josnorum Scoenonti. (She was baptized in the temple 15 September 1966 and endowed 2 February 1967).

It will be recorded in the archives [LEWIS] Josnorum Scoenanti or Running Deer, born C 1682 in Mohawk Village, Mohawk River Valley, Northern New York, married a White Man C 1700. (Perhaps 26,000 descendants).

We have arranged to have her temple work done.

JOHN HULET FAMILY

The John Hulet family moved from Killingly to Lee in 1860. Sylvanus Hulet moved from Lee to Nelson in 1814. He made application for a Revolutionary soldier’s pension on 14 June 1814 and said his wife was age 57. The application was revised 8 August 1820 and granted. For 4 years she received $16 per month. He served in two campaigns, against Burgoyne in 1777 and against Arnold in 1780. We have not yet found the parents of Mary Lewis. Some one said she was part Mohawk Indian. The Mohawks lived west of Albany, New York. When asked how much Indian blood he had, Sylvanus answered “not one drop”.

The Hulets moved from Nelson, Ohio to Jackson County, Missouri around 1831 and there Mary Hulet West died. She left 2 litt

Mary married Hulett, Sylvanus Revolutionary War Soldier about 1786 in , , , Connecticut. Sylvanus (son of Hulet, John Revolutionary War Soldier and Searles, Sarah) was born on 7 Nov 1758 in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut; was christened on 10 Dec 1758 in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut; died on 10 Nov 1824 in Nelson, Portage, Ohio, United States; was buried in Nov 1824 in Nelson, Portage, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hulet, Sally was born on 29 Oct 1787 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1846 in Mt.Pisgah, Union, Iowa; was buried in Mt.Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States.

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BIRTH: Also shown as Born Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.

DEATH: Also shown as Died Deceased

Francis married Darker Mother, Jane or Tryphena in 1761 in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts. Jane (daughter of Charles Squawman and Josnorum Scoenonti Running Deer) was born in 1740 in of, Mohawk River Valley, Albany, New York; died on 3 Apr 1756. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Jane Tryphena

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.

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!SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 6 Apr 1995, PROVO.

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David married Lewis, Mrs. David about 1736 in of, Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts. Mrs. was born about 1715 in of, Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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What we know about the man that Running Deer married we get from Pitch Pine Tales, by cousin Howard R Driggs. He quotes from (probably) Sally Hulet, whose daughter Emeline Whiting married Frederick Walter Cox. Family history says that Sally Hulet visited her ggmothers village along the Hudson River in NY, and she would have known about 'Charles" but I cannot find any written information about that.
Pitch Pine Tales says that her husband built a log cabin, rather than a wigwam of bent poles and bark that the Natives lived in. The story does not entirely agree with our genealogy dates and places, but it is all we have.
O C Day's information says his name was probably Charles, which is why I put it in quotes. "Squawman" is not a name, but a term for a white man that cohabited with an Indigenous woman. All dates are guesses until we get to Tryphena, and I have not found the source of O C Days information about her.
Please note that the Millennium File and the Family Data Collection on Ancestry are not sources, but just collections of user submitted genealogy.
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Running Deer was Mahican/Mohican rather than Mowhak. Carl Cox

Charles married Josnorum Scoenonti Running Deer in 1739 in of, Mohawk River Valley, Albany, New York. Josnorum was born about 1718 in of, Mohawk River Valley, Albany, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Oriville Cox, 4:30 a.m. on 16 July 1967 while he was awake,
Running Deer visited me.
She said she was appearing as she looked at age 18, just before she married a white man.
She was dressed in yellowish-brown buckskin; beaded moccasins; leggins, ankles to waist; dress, shoulders to above knees.
She was tall, athletic, beautiful, and very appealing.
She had been converted in the bad part of the spirit world by Mormon missionaries, and now wanted her temple work done so she could go to happy paradise and there learn the gospel thoroughly, and then return to her people as a "Savior on Mount Zion" (Last verse of Obadiah.)
She died about 200 years ago.
We may suppose she will convert her own family first and then they will help us to find their genealogy.
She had been a choice spirit in heaven before her birth upon earth, and had asked permission to be born into the family of Lehi so she might help bring them to salvation. They have been held in prison and dammed from progress so very long.