James Montgomery

1765 - 1834  (69 years)

• Name	James Montgomery
  Birth	1765	Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	1834	Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
  Burial	1834	Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I16289	Clan Montgomery Society | William Montgomery and May Aiken
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2026

  
  

  Father	Robert Montgomery, Sr,   b. 13 Jul 1741, Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA d. 15 Oct 1822, Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary White,   b. 2 Dec 1741, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 9 Oct 1804, Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	2 Dec 1764	Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F537	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mamre Gaylord,   b. 1775, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, USA d. 1796, Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA (Age 21 years)
  Marriage	1795	Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA
  Children	1. Levi Gaylord Montgomery,   b. 1796, Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA d. Abt 1849, Maumee, Ohio (Age 53 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Mary (Polly) Baldwin,   b. 1774, Catskill, Greene, New York, USA d. 1815, Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	1796	Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, USA
  Children	+ 1. Lewis Montgomery,   b. 1798, Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA d. 11 Feb 1874, Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] > 2. Polly Montgomery,   b. Abt 1800, Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 3. Davis Montgomery,   b. Abt 1801, Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Nancy Montgomery,   b. Abt 1802  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Hanna Montgomery,   b. Abt 1803  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] > 6. Laughton Montgomery,   b. Abt 1804, Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 7. Julia Montgomery,   b. 14 Dec 1806, Conneaut, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA d. 24 Oct 1882, Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 8. James Montgomery, Col.,   b. 22 Dec 1814, Austinburg, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA d. 6 Dec 1871, Fort Montgomery, Linn Co., Kansas (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F5284	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2026

  
  

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  Birth - 1765 - Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 1795 - Harpersfield, Delaware, New York, USA Marriage - 1796 - Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, USA Death - 1834 - Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA Burial - 1834 - Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  NOTE: One source shows 9 children with only Lewis, Julia and Capt.James (of Civil War fame) named. From; History of Ashtabula County,Ohio , Williams Bros. 1878. Page 145; James Montgomery had married Mary Baldwin, of Catskill,New York. The pair became pioneers of Conneaut , Ashtabula County, having removed there three years after the first settlement of Harpersfield. The journey from Buffalo was made in open boats, the intervening country being but a trackless forest. The parents and their four children disembarked at night, sleeping on the beach beneath their sheltering boats. Arrived at Conneaut, a dwelling was hastily construced from th e barks of trees, until a more substantial one of logs could be made; and this speedily became "a tavern," for the accomodation of people emigrating still farther toward the setting sun. The husband followed the business of boating beuween Conneaut and Erie, thus supplying the infant colony with provisions and other necessaries of life. He served for a time in the War of 1812, and later served for two successive terms on the legislature at Chillicothe, then the seat of government for the State. Four more children were born to them in Conneaut, and when Julia was four years of age, the Watrous family, then on their way to Ashtabula, stayed overnight at the inn, and then and there began the acquaintance which culminated in the marriage if John B Watrous and Julia Montgomery on the 23rd of June, 1823. James Montgomery removed to Austinburg in 1813, and here soon after was born his son, Colonel James Montgomery, of Kansas celebrity,- the famed" guerrilla chieftaen," the "fighting preacher." Colonel Montgomery also commanded the Union army in Florida during the "late unpleasantness." He died at Mound City, Kansas in 1872. James Montgomery, Sr.., died at Ashtabula in 1834, and Mrs. Julia Montgomery Watrous is now the sole survivor fo her father's family."

  
  

• Sources

  [S4689] DAR Ancestor A079056, (Name: Name: Daughters of the American Revolution;;), Robert Montgomery. [S2841] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;). Record for Robert MtGomary http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=MATownVital&h=16177031&indiv=try