Left to right:, Cousin Paul Engle, Brother Mike Coyne, His sons Josh and Cory, Bruce Coyne

An excellent fishing trip on 20 July 2019. We stayed at the Aspinwald Motel only 4 miles from the dock. Arose at 6 am, had breakfast had breakfast as the diner next door. Captain Fred was an excellent guide and handled all the dirty work. The Shady Lady was clean and comfortable for the 5 of us. Mary had had filled a huge cooler with sandwiches and Gatorade so we weer well fed and hydrated.

We took turns reeling them in. Mike and I were reeling at the same time and couldn't land them so we passed off to Paul and Josh. When they got them close to the boat, it was seen they they were tangled together. Captain Fred was able to land them both. Cory caught the largest one, 38 inches at 22 pounds.

H. Kenneth Green Family

A Green Family page has been added to Family Events. The Greens lived on Furnace street and worked at Westmoreland Malleable Iron, as did my grandfather Thomas Coyne and his brother Frank Coyne. My farther, Bernard, grew up there in a house across the street from the Greens.

My mothers sister, Elizabeth Ann Calkins married Ray Barron and his sister Joan married Pete Green.  I was at Westmoreland Central at the same time, but not class, as Dale.

The furnace is gone now, replaced by a basketball court.  Many home in the area used the burnt sand, or pickle, as fill around their houses. The bridge on Sucker Brook failed and was not replaced so Furnace Street is now a dead end but the entrance to the pool is halfway down on the left.
Bruce

Coynegen.com

Rootsweb has finally put it back up and I have been able to access it. Several pages in the Family events section have been updated. Mostly the Overend and Others pages. I have taken over the Jefferson county Rootsweb list, nyjeffers, but it has almost no traffic. Several forwards from the Jefferson County Board have been sent for my approval as List Owner but I have never been able to preview them, so I refused them all. In the past, ie before the crash, posts to the county board were automatically forwarded to the list. Ancestry will not be bringing this feature back. Random boards, lucky me, are still receiving the notice of their existence but nothing can be done except to delete them. 2019 should be a busy year for the Thousand Island Chapter. Sons of the American revolution. The Pomeroy Foundation has granted us 9 roadside markers for Jefferson county. These will honor the veterans buried in there.

Patriot Ephraim Owen

On 30 September a ceremony was held at Old Glenville cemetery, South of Martinsburg, NY, honoring this patriot. Members of the Thousand Island chapter were Dan Ames, Parks Honeywell, registrar, James Lathan and myself. James Eagan, ESSSAR state President, and George Gydesen, President Oriskany Battle chapter and Central Region State Vice-President also attended. Bette and James Lathan and the Martinsburg Historical Sociey organized the event. Leray de Chaumont and General William Floyd chapters NSDAR also attended.
L-R George Gydesen, Bruce Coyne, Dan Ames
L-R: Jim Eagan, Bruce Coyne, Dan Ames back to camera, Parks Honeywell, George Gydesen

Long Time No Post

My website has finally been restored by Rootsweb, bless their hearts.  The counter on the side bar, where it says "Counter" no longer works and will will be removed.  It a shame to lose the old count but we'll get back there again.  

I have obtained the domain coynegen.com, which can now be used instead of https://sites.rootsweb.com/~coyne2010/.  

The family tree link does work as that section has not been restored yet. I wonder if it ever will or if Ancestry will use it to increase traffic to ancestry.com.

Statcounter has replaced the old counter.  I'll try to get a fancier display.  It's used on the site I code, JCNYGW, Jefferson County New York GenWeb.  They send out a nice weekly analysis of your traffic.

The Joint Patriot Project of marking Revolutionary War graves is marching on.  Swe-kat-si and Nihanawate DAR chapters have finished St. Lawrence county.  T.I. SAR and LeRay de Chaumont DAR are working on Jefferson county.

I attended a 1812 dedication April 22, 2018 at Dexter Cemetery, Dexter, NY and fired my musket for the first time publicly.  Quite warm and no snow, a very nice day.

L-R  Jim Eagan, State President Empire State Society SAR, 3 members 3rd Regiment Artillery from Sackets Harbor, Bruce Coyne, President TI Chapter ESSSAR.

On July 3, 2016 the Syracuse Chapter ESSAR, the Thousand Island Chapter ESSAR, Kayendaysyona-Fort Orange Chapter NSDAR, the Ontario Chapter NSDAR, and the Sons of the American Legion, Post 418, Phonix, NY held marked the grave of Patriot Elias Cady in Merrett Cemeery, Granby, NY. Below are som pictures of the event.

Left to Right: Parks Honeywell, President TI Chapter, ESSAR, Bob Gang, with rifle, President Syracuse Chapter, ESSAR , Bruce Coyne, behind the flag, Registrar, T I Chapter, ESSAR .  The rifle salute squad.

Grave Dedication of Private Elias Cady
Merritt Cemetery
Granby, New York
July 3, 2016

The only debt that we can never repay is that which is owed to our brave military veterans. Today we pay our respects and mark the grave of Private Elias Cady who served in the Revolutionary war. Elias along with his brothers Elijah, Elisha, & David served in Capt. John Davis’s company of Whiting’s regiment as a Private in the 17th Albany County Militia during the Revolutionary War.  Elias’s oldest brother Ebenezer, also served as a Captain in the 17th Albany County Militia and brothers Eleazer, Elias, and John are also known to have served.  From various pension application records it appears that Capt. John Davis’ Company served doing guard duty primarily in the frontier area along the Mohawk River in upper New York State. 

In May or June, 1778, the company commanded by Capt. John Davis defended the Cherry Valley frontier and marched in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Waterman accompanied by another Regiment under Col. Van Alstyne to Albany where after remaining a few days. They then proceeded to Johnstown where they were stationed about a month and thence were ordered to Cherry Valley where they erected a picket fort and remained until they were relieved by other troops a few weeks previous to the Destruction of Cherry valley by the British and Indians under Brant and Butler.

On or about the 1st of May, 1780 the company of Captain John Davis served at New Concord, Albany County and thence marched by the way of Albany to Schoharie where men were billeted out on various scouts in different places. At the end of this service they marched back to Albany where they were dismissed and returned home on or about the 13th of June.

May 8, 1780 - Elias Cady was one of 19 men named in a document entitled “Marching Orders, May 8, 1780”.  This document was addressed to Capt. John Davis and signed by Col. W. B. WHITING, of the 17th Albany County Militia.  Elias Cady is identified as one of those militiamen ordered to march to Johnstown [NY] and there await further orders

Elias was born 7 November, 1752 and lived in what is now Columbia County [then Albany] county] where he & his six brothers and sister grew up.  He farmed in the  New Concord area from about 1762 to 1809   He then moved to Charleston / Burtonville, Montgomery County and lived there until about 1837 when he apparently moved to Granby, Oswego County, New York where he died November 10, 1838, age 86. 

Posterity can never estimate the sacrifice and sufferings of the patriots of the Revolution who are deserving of our thanks. Joseph Plumb Martin, a private in the 8th Connecticut Continental Line wrote of his experiences. In one passage he tells of marching for many long miles in the cold and rain with a sprained ankle. “When the column finally turned into a wood for the night it was so wet that he was unable to light a fire. He and his companions were “forced by necessity, to lay down and sleep if we could with three others of our constant companions, Fatigue Hunger and Cold”. Like Joseph Plumb Martin, men like Elias Cady also suffered great hardships so that we can live today in freedom. It is said that we die three times; first when our body expires, next when we are buried and finally when our names are last spoken. We therefore place this Sons of the American Revolution marker to thank, remember and honor Elias Cady for his service and for his sacrifice and for all that he gave to a grateful nation so that his memory can live on.

Robert J. Gang III
President Syracuse Chapter ESSSAR

Back at Last.

Sorry for the long absence. Last winter, if it's still snowing is it really over, was a busy one. As registrar for the Thousand Islands chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, I had several applications to work on. That's a good thing but it did take up a lot of the time available for genealogy. Ancestry announced it would no longer support Family Tree Maker which touched off a search for a replacement for FTM and Ancestry. FTM was sold to a third arty and they have updated it once so it looks like crisis averted.

Rootsweb blew up for about 6 weeks and when it came back up, it had lost about that much of the members sites.  The lists were also down.  Thankfully, I had the web site in a folder and was able to put it back to where it was before the crash.  When it went down I had around 11K hits and when it came back up, 5K.  After the update, the hits came back.

The Northern NY Genealogy site went down and was not expected back.  Thankfully we were wrong.  At a meeting of the Jefferson County NY Genealogical  Society, I learned that the Jefferson county Genweb site needed help so I'm writing code for it. 

I guess the bad weather gives me a chance to work on genealogy but it would be nice to see  the sun.