Notes for Thomas KELSEY

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Notes for Thomas KELSEY

One possibility, very unlikely, in 1850 census:
name: Thomas Kelsey:
Census: 1850
event place: Enfield, Tompkins, New York, United States
gender: Male
age: 51
marital status:
race (original):
race (standardized):
birthplace: New Jersey
estimated birth year: 1799
dwelling house number: 56
family number: 57
line number: 29
nara publication number: M432
nara roll number: 606
film number: 444322
digital folder number: 004203574
image number: 00272
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Thomas Kelsey M 51 New Jersey
Clarissa Kelsey F 45 New York
Charles F Kelsey M 21 New York
Sarah Kelsey F 18 New York
Dana Kelsey M 16 New York
John Kelsey M 12 New York
William Kelsey M 9 New York
Susan Jane Kelsey F 5 New York
Mary Kelsey F 0 New York
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Exerpts from ""History of Niagara county, N. Y., with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, private residences, public buildings, fine blocks, and important manufactories, and portraits of old pioneers and prominent residents":
The most famous of early travelers by the canal was
the illustrious Marquis de Lafayette. After a tour in
the west he reached Buffalo in the first week of June,
1825, and journeyed down the Niagara to its mouth,
where he was received with a salute from the guns of the
fort. At Lewiston he spent a night at the hotel kept
by Thomas Kelsey. Thence he was conveyed to Lock-
port, art escort from that place meeting him at Howell's
on the Ridge road. At Lockport he embarked for the east
on a packet at the foot of the locks. At all points he
was received with such honors as might be expected from
a people who appreciated his services to their country
during the Revolutionary war.
The following is a list of the tavern-keepers in the vil-
lage after the war, with the date at which each began
business, as nearly as can be now ascertained: Thomas
Hustler, who returned as soon as safety permitted;
Hart, 1816; Josiah Shepard, opposite the present brick
store of A. S. Bairsto & Co., 1817; Sol Hersey, 1823;
Samuel Chubbuck, at the river side, 1824, and Thomas
Kelsey, in the " Kelsey Tavern," in the same year;
Listed in the 1820 census of Lewiston, Niagara County, New York.

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