Ralph Bacon Genealogy

Record modified: 2006-06-07
This is my direct ancestor 7 generations back.

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Born: 1777-00-00 Vermont USA
Died: 1849-06-14 Crawford Co, Ohio USA
Marriages:
1. 1801-00-00 Mary "Polly" Jordan
Children of Ralph Bacon and Mary Jordan:
Mary Bacon
Martin Bacon
Minerva Bacon
Clarissa Bacon
Emily Bacon
Eliza Bacon
Caroline Bacon
Charles Bacon b. 1802-04-16
*Sarah "Sally" Bacon b. 1805-10-04
Emeline Bacon b. 1811-07-16 d. 1887-09-20
Ralph III Bacon b. about 1814-00-00
Dexter Bacon b. 1822-05-06
William S Bacon b. 1829-12-01

Notes:

born NY? MA?
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This page has him born between 1751 and 1780 on Isle of Man?. Its reference is World Family Tree.
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According to this page he is not from Isle of Man, but his ancestors are. It says he is a native of MA.
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And this page says he lived in the part of Geauga Co that is now in Lake Co, and was from MA.
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The Bacon Genealogy book says his parents lived in VT.
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I found a book called "Bacons of Sutherland VT" by the Colorado DAR, but it does not mention this Ralph.
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Children from RootsWeb; Charles is actually the first child but I don't have dates for the others.
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another researcher sends:

Mary Jordan married Ralph Bacon in 1801. They then moved to Vermont. Ralph Bacon's parents lived there and Ralph was to have gone home to help on their farm. Their first child, Charles, was born in Vermont on 16 April 1802. Since no record could be found to prove that this was right, and the Bacon family had no proof, until Mary's marriage record is found, we won't know for sure.

By 1805 they were back in Geauga County Ohio, where they had bought land and stayed until 1820.

Charles Parker, one of the surveyors in the Moses Cleveland party, and a good friend of Ralph Bacon, wrote in his surveyor's book that he had reserved 115 acres of "good land" for Ralph Bacon and 170 acres for himself. They planned to clear and live on adjoining tracts of land. This was the land Ralph and Mary returned to when they came back to Ohio.

In 1820, Mary and Ralph Bacon bought land in Crawford County and moved the family there. They traveled by wagon with two yokes of oxen and one horse. There were but two houses in what would later be the city of Bucyrus when the Bacon family passed through on the way to their land, which was three miles east of Bucyrus,Ohio.

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If Ralph was living with his parents when he was 13, as seems likely, he would be on the 1790 census. These Bacon families in VT have son(s) under 16 years old:
Addison Co, Leicester Town: Joseph (1), Asa (5)
Bennington Co, Sunderland: Amos Bakon (2)
Orange Co, Randolph: John (2)
Rutland Co, Brandon: Nathaniel (1), Philip (2)
Windsor Co, Royalton: Jerub (1)

If Ralph was born earlier than 1777, he might be over 16 on the census. This family is also possible:
Windsor Co, Royalton: Thomas (1 son over 16)
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This page about "Olde Northfield Township" OH, which was where the current-day town of Macedonia is located, says:

The first settler to occupy property in the town was Issac Bacon of Massachusetts. He purchased Lot No. 63 in 1806 from the Connecticut Land Grant Company and moved to his newly acquired 160 acres in April of 1807. Bacon and his family traveled to the new frontier in the traditional covered wagon. Their trip took them over the Alleghenies, traveling Indian trails until reaching Cleveland on the shores of Lake Erie. It was called Cleveland Township at that time, was part of Geauga County and had only about 30 inhabitants.

Could this be a relative of Ralph? Note that Ralph was in Geauga by 1805.
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BLM General Land Office records, Delaware OH land office

Crawford Co OH, serial no OH0720_.215
1821-12-10 Ralph Bacon 80 acres
E 1/2 of SE 1/4 of section 33, Township 2 Range 17

Crawford Co OH, serial no OH0720_.281
1821-12-10 Ralph Bacon 160.11 acres
NE 1/4 of section 4, Township 3 Range 17

[Possibly one of those was his father. However, there is only one Ralph Bacon in Crawford Co on the 1830 census.]

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1840 census Crawford Co OH p66, Whetstone twp
Ralph Bacon 1 M 10-15, 1 M 15-20, 1 M 20-30, 1 M 60-70, 1 F 5-10, 1 F 10-15, 1 F 15-20, 1 F 20-30, 1 F 30-40, 1 F 50-60
[William 11, Dexter 18, x, Ralph 63, x, x, x, x, x, Mary 52]

1830 census Crawford Co OH p172, Liberty twp
Ralph Bacon 1 M <5, 2 M 5-10, 2 M 20-30, 1 M 50-60, 1 F <5, 1 F 5-10, 1 F 10-15, 1 F 15-20, 1 F 30-40
[William 1, Dexter 8, x, x, x, Ralph 53, x, x, x, x, Mary 42]

1820 census Delaware Co OH p246, Big Rock twp
Ralph Bacon 1 M 0-10, 1 M 10-16, 1 M 16-18, 1 M 16-26, 2 M 26-45, 4 F 0-10, 2 F 10-16, 1 F 26-45
I don't know if that's my Ralph Bacon. He should be in Crawford Co. Delaware Co is on the other side of Marion Co from Crawford Co.
[Ralph sb 43, Sarah sb 15]

1810 census for OH is lost except for Washington Co.
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