Zina married Aurelia Watkins in Sep 1830 in Austinville, Bradford Co., PA. Aurelia was born on 19 Sep 1804 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT; died on 21 Aug 1886 in Troy Twp., Bradford Co., PA; was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Troy Twp., Bradford Co., PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Susan Johnston:
The subject of family group sheet A16414 in the Case manuscript is Samuel Case, son of Philip Case.1 Information is confused and comes from four sources: letter no. 964 of Mary J. Case dated June 1903, letter no. 2541 of Mrs. A. Z. Mason dated Oct. 1904, letter no. 1231 of Mrs. Hester M. Watkins dated Dec. 1903, and letter no. 1084 of Thomas Dunbar dated March 1905. Mary Jane (Case) Case (1834-1905) is a granddaughter, daughter of Samuel's son Zina; Hester Maria (Case) Watkins (1839-1928) is also a granddaughter, daughter of Zina; Thomas Dunbar (1845-1905) is a grandson, son of Samuel's daughter Cynthia. His letter to Dr. Case must have been written shortly before his death as he died in March 1905. Kate E. Wood (1856-1913), Mrs. Arthur Z. Mason, is a great-granddaughter, the daughter of Samantha (Case) Wood, daughter of Samuel's son Samuel.

The will of Philip Case of Hebron and Candor, NY, names Samuel Case as one of his sons, but the probate record gives little information on his children. The disposition of part of Philip's real estate is found in land records of the county, not in the probate records. One deed does support the father-son relationship of Philip Case of Candor, NY, and Samuel Case of Pennsylvania. (Tioga County, NY, Deeds, 11: 544-548, microfilm no. 818,199, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah).
In an indenture dated 1 February 1816, Samuel Case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, son and one of the heirs of Philip Case of Candor, Tioga Co, NY deceased, of the first part and Abraham Case of Hebron... of the second part... for $125... Lot # 7 in the 2nd tier of lots in the NE section of Twp # 9 in the 12 Townships... being devised to the said party of the first part in & by the last will and testament of the said Philip Case deceased bearing the date on the ninth day of July 1811 as by the said last will and testament will appear containing 11 acres of land be the same more or less the same being in common and undivided with all of said lot # 7 excepting 20 acres on the south end of said lot conveyed to Aaron Pennell by the said Philip Case.2 This deed does not give the precise residence of Samuel Case, but when read in conjunction with the deed executed by brother Aaron of Springfield Township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania on the same day and a charge on the estate recorded by Abraham Case of $12.00, also dated 1 February 1816, a payment to two witnesses from Sugar Creek,3 Samuel Case's home region, it supports this identity.

The Case manuscript states the Samuel was possibly born in 1772 in New York.1 Both date and place are questionable. Samuel has not been positively located in the 1790 or 1800 U.S. censuses to date, but the 1810 census entry gives his age as over 45 placing his year of birth before 1765.4 The 1820 entry would place his year of birth before 17755 and that of 1830 between 1770 and 1780.6 Although the latter two censuses support the birth year of 1772, Samuel's first child was born in 1791. Of course, it is possible that a nineteen-year-old fathered a child, but it would be unlikely. It is more likely that his birth year is earlier, probably circa 1770, a date which would fit the birth pattern suggested by Philip Case's will and the known birth dates of Samuel's siblings. At this time, the Philip Case family was residing in East Barrington, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts. Note, though, that Samuel's son Philander states on the 1880 U.S. census that Samuel was born in VT. Son John, the only other child of Samuel living at the time the 1880 federal census was taken, leaves his father's birthplace blank.7

No evidence of Samuel's marriage to Delight Emory was found in the records of Washington Co., NY, although a complete study of any Emory families there has not been undertaken. It is also possible that this marriage took place in Addison Co., VT. If so, the record was not found in VT vital records in Montpelier. No Emory family records in Addison County have been searched. It is impossible to tell which correspondent provided the name of Samuel's first wife in the Case manuscript. Dr. Case identifies the origins of the conflicting evidence provided for the identity of Samuel's second wife, implying that only one correspondent named the first wife, or there was no conflict in information provided. The name Delight is repeated several times among the descendants of Samuel Case. Thomas Emory (Emry) was a neighbor of the Case family in Washington County, NY. These bits of evidence lend support to this marriage. Although Samuel's land in Bradford Co., Pennsylvania, was located through the recorded deeds of his neighbors, neither land records nor probate records for Samuel Case have been found in Bradford County or Lycoming County records. Perhaps land records may be found in Luzerne County, one of Bradford's parent counties. If so, his wife's name should appear on any document showing sale of land.

Samuel Case first appears in the records of Bradford County on the 1804 tax list for Burlington township.8 He was not present in November 1801 when his brothers and nephews signed the Connecticut claimants' petition to Congress, as his name does not appear on any of the petitions. The birthplace of son Zina, born 12 March 1802, appears variously as VT and Pennsylvania. It is likely that Samuel brought his family from the Hebron, NY-Middlebury, VT, area to Bradford Co. about the time of Zina's birth in 1802.

A Samuel Case was baptized 28 January 1810 in the Troy Baptist Church with Stephen Palmer.9 It is possible that this was Samuel the father; but the association with Stephen Palmer, who had married Samuel's daughter Lydia, makes it more likely that this Samuel was the son of Samuel Case. Regardless, religion does not appear to have been particularly important to either Samuel. The name of Samuel Case was not found on any member list or list of meeting attendees of the church. He withdrew from church fellowship February 1813 after a church committee called on him for drinking.9 He is a son and legatee in the will of Philip Case on 9 July 1811 Candor, Tioga Co., NY.10,11

Samuel's first wife died in 1813 and he remarried, probably circa 1814, to Hannah, possibly the "widow Murray."1 Samuel's death date found in the Case manuscript, 17 June 1836,1 has not been verified in contemporary records. He left no probate record in Bradford County and land record analysis has not provided any information on his death to date. Although most of his children are buried in area cemeteries, Samuel's burial place has not been found by this author. Samuel Case sold land Candor, Tioga Co., NY, to Abraham Case on 1 February 1816.12,2

Children of Samuel Case: The picture of Samuel's family early census records supports the children named in the Case manuscript, although alternate interpretations do exist. Samuel's first child, daughter Lydia, was married before 1810 and is the one child not shown in these censuses. Samuel's second wife was younger than his first and appears in the 1820 census. All informants state that this was Hannah's second marriage and she already had children. It is possible that one of the young men shown in the 1820 census is Samuel's step-son. If so, it is possible that the son Benjamin attributed to Samuel and Hannah may not have existed.

Samuel married Delight Emory about 1790 in Poss. Washington Co., NY. Delight and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Susan Johnston:
Delight Emory was born say 1772 in NY.7 She died in PA 1813 "when son Zina was eleven years old."1

I have found no direct contemporary evidence to confirm Delight Emory as the first wife of Samuel Case. Thomas Emory, a neighbor of the Case family in Washington County, NY, is a possible relative. Emory's family as shown in the 1790 U.S. census consists of himself and three females, but gives no clue as to the age of the family.13 Other records on the Emory family have not been investigated to date. "Delight" is an unusual name and it occurs several times in descendants of this line, lending support to the identification. The oldest female in Samuel Case's household, presumably his wife, is age 26-45, placing her birth between 1765 and 1784. As this is the only census entry found for Samuel's wife, it is of little help in narrowing her date of birth. Her burial place, like her husband's, has not been found by this author.

Notes:

DAR Patriot Index: and Index to the Spouses of the DAR Patriots, V. 3, Washington, DC 1986, p.676.

In 1782 and 1786 there are two Leonard Case's listed in Hebron, Washington Co., NY sons of Philip Case and Lydia ??? in the Gene Pool Database at Ancestry.com.
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From Susan Johnston's web site:
Our present-day story of Philip Case's life is filled with questions and contradictions. Despite the fact that the Daughters of the American Revolution have accepted his descendants on the basis of service in the Northern Army in Massachusetts, supporting evidence on file at the N.S.D.A.R. Library contains no documentation explaining the assumption that a man who died in Candor, NY, is the same as the man descendants say fought in the Battle of Saratoga, and is the same man who lived in Alford, Massachusetts, and is the same man who was born in Simsbury, Connecticut. In genealogy, as in real estate, the most important factor is location. Despite similarities in names and ages, documentation of identity is required before deciding that the Philip Case of Candor, NY, is the same as the Philip Case of Alford, Massachusetts. Philip's story will be told in two parts: the first based on evidence created during his lifetime; the second, a discussion of conflicts found in evidence created by his descendants.

The birth of Philip Case, eldest child of Timothy Case, is recorded in the town records of Simsbury, Connecticut, as 12 February 1731/2. It is followed by the birth records of siblings, Sarah, Timothy, and Martha, the latter born 25 May 1739.1 E. E. Case states that Timothy removed with his family from Simsbury about 1740 to Great Barrington (then Sheffield), Massachusetts, where Timothy died in 1754.5 This identity may be confirmed by land records and the probate and guardianship records which arose from Timothy's death, none of which this author has investigated. The earliest confirmed record of this Philip Case is therefore, his 1757 marriage to Lydia Soveril recorded in the Sheffield, Massachusetts, town records.2 In 1761, Berkshire County was created from Hampshire County and the northern parish of Sheffield became part of what was then called Great Barrington. In 1773, part of Great Barrington was set off to form what became Alford, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Therefore, at the time the Revolutionary War began, Philip Case was a resident of Alford, Massachusetts.

In 1777, men were called to resist the troops of General Burgoyne. A company from Alford under Captain Sylvanus Wilcox was one of two area companies in the regiment of Colonel John Ashley that answered this call. Philip Case, private, was on the list of this company. He served a total of nineteen days, from 8 July to 26 July 1777.6 Philip's name on this list does confirm his Revolutionary War service, but does not confirm his presence at either Battle of Saratoga, those taking place later that year. According to Great Barrington history, though, Willcox's company was present at Saratoga, so it is likely that Philip Case was there.

Philip's eldest son, Timothy, had enlisted in 1775 and Timothy's pension papers, combined with Philip Case's estate file in Tioga County, NY, provide the evidence identifying the Philip Case of Candor with the Revolutionary soldier of Alford. The 1 February 1830 deposition of Abraham Case in this pension file begins, "Abraham Case of Hebron in said county [Washington County, NY] being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is a brother of Timothy Case - that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and and seventy five this deponent lived in Alford in the County of Burkshire in the state of Massachusetts with his father and mother and the said Timothy his brother. . .". 7 This same Abraham Case was named executor in the 1811 will of Philip Case of Candor, NY, and identified there as Philip's son.3 Timothy Case's actual signature is found on only one affidavit in his pension file, but that signature is identical to one found on a 5 May 1814 receipt in Philip Case's Tioga County estate file.3

Land records of Hampshire and Berkshire counties have not been personally examined by this author. Evidence of four land transactions by Philip Case are known, however: a 1761 quit claim deed from Jeremiah Olmsted of a place called the County Land West of Stockbridge to Philip Case of Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts;8 and three land sales from Philip Case to Ephraim Case: land in Gore, 25 December 1770, and lands in Sheffield, 15 September 1784 and 14 June 1790.5 These land transactions must be examined. Land descriptions may be similar in the various documents, identifying Philip's exact residence in Berkshire County. After the Revolutionary War, Philip's children began their migration west into the state of New York. The latter land documents may identify Philip's residence as Hebron or Granville, NY, adding more evidence for Philip's own journey from Alford to Candor.

Sometime between Philip's 1777 military service and the year 1784, Philip and his family left Alford, Massachusetts, for the area now known as Washington County, NY. His name appears on an undated tax list for the Black Creek District, Charlotte County, NY, with sons Timothy and Abraham Case. Philip owed a tax of ?00-06-09? for real estate valued at ?28-00 and personal property valued at ?20-15. This tax could be paid in wheat: one bushel one peck three quarts.9 Although undated, this tax list must predate 2 April 1784 when the New York legislature passed a law changing the name Charlotte County to its present name of Washington County. The earliest land record involving Philip recorded in Washington County is a mortgage deed dated 10 April 1789 and recorded 15 June of the same year. Philip Case "of Hebron township" mortgaged 666 acres of land in Granville township for the sum of ?176-10-10 from Lt. David Bory, the owner of the Bory Tract.10 He remained in Hebron and is recorded on the federal censuses of 1790 and 1800 in that town.11,12

Four land records executed between December 1801 and June 1802 have been recorded in Washington County records in which Philip sold about 400 acres of the 666 acres he owned in Granville township.13 In a deed executed 29 February 1804, Philip Case, then called "of the town of Owego" in Tioga County, NY, bought land described as "Lot Number Seven in the Second Tier of Lots in the northeast Section of the Ninth Township in the Twelve Townships so called containing one hundred and four acres of Land" from a Reuben Case.4 Philip Case removed with his wife and at least one of his children to this property on the Catatunk Creek just west of modern Gridleyville in Candor township. Here he opened the first store in Candor and lived the remainder of his life. Philip Case sold a small piece of land Candor, Tioga Co., NY, to the Farmington Society for use as a burial ground on 30 October 1812.14,4

On 22 November 1814, Philip Case sold twenty acres off the south end of his Candor lot to his son-in-law, Aaron Pennell.4 This deed narrows Philip's date of death to the three month period between the signing of this deed and the date probate was begun on his estate, 18 February 1815. Philip was buried with his wife in the burial lot he himself had set off on his property several years before.4,15 This small cemetery sits high above the road leading from Gridleyville to Spencer and is now called Snyder Station Cememtery. It is not maintained, but the large number of pine trees keeps the undergrowth to a minimum. This author and other Case family researchers have searched the grounds for Philip's tombstone, or tombstones of other Case family members, but none have been found.16

Children of Philip Case: The births of Philip Case's children have not been found recorded in Massachusetts or New York records searched to date. The wide variety of indirect sources and family legends have given rise to variations in birth dates and number of children. Sources for the Philip Case family group sheet in the Case manuscript include letter no. 931 from Leonard F. Case dated June 1903, records of Hiram A. Case, and the 1900 Temple genealogy written by Levi Daniel Temple.5 Leonard F. Case, son of Reuben Case and grandson of Philip, was born circa 1832 and died at the age of 100 in April 1932. Hiram A. Case, Reuben's grandson, was born in 1825 and died in 1900. It is likely that family information from these two sources was similar. The Temple genealogy is undocumented, but information on Philip's family probably came from descendants of Philip's son Abraham, as it was his daughter, Elizabeth, who married a Temple.17 Erastus Ely Case may have given preference to the former sources, as his group sheet does not agree with the Temple genealogy. Neither reference appears to give an accurate or complete picture of Philip's family. Because the information given here differs from both the Case manuscript and the Temple genealogy, a discussion of the evidence is warranted. First, Philip's 1811 will names ten children in this order: five sons, Timothy, Abraham, Reuben, Aaron and Samuel; and five daughters, Lydia, Rachel, Semanthy, Justinia, and Sarah.3 Both Case and Temple list Philip's children as being born males first, but vary the order within the gender group and assign birth years where necessary to accomodate the supposed birth order. It is more likely that Philip followed the common practice of naming his children in birth order within their gender, males first. The dates of birth which have been discovered tend to support this assumption and the children listed below follow this new birth order. The Temple genealogy includes an eleventh child, Leonard, born 1786. Case does not include this child in his listing, but does mention the possibility.5,18 However, no contemporary documents found to date support the existence of this child. In fact, a memorial record written by Philip's granddaughter, Miriam (Case) Vorhis, states explicitly that her father, Aaron, was one of ten children, five sons and five daughters.19 Philip did have a grandson Leonard, born 1793, son of Abraham Case. A note in the Case manuscript suggests why some Philip Case descendants favored this hypothetical son. "Leonard Case, claimed to be the Leonard Case of Cleveland, whose son left a large estate." This information came from the July 1903 letter of Leonard F. Case (Reuben, Philip) to E. E. Case. The Leonard Case of Cleveland, however, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the son of Meshach Case.

Although Philip Case's will does name his ten children, he does not include his daughters' married names or the residences of any children, nor do the records found to date in his estate file name each child. Direct evidence does exist for the following relationships, however.

* Abraham Case, executor of Philip's estate, is called his son and accounts filed by Abraham identify him as the Abraham Case of Hebron, Washington County, NY.
* Timothy Case, son of Philip, is identified with the Timothy Case of Alford, Massachusetts; Middlebury, VT; and Cook County, Illinois, by his signatures found on a receipt in Philip Case's estate file and on affidavits in his Revolutionary War pension file. The receipt calls the payment an advance on "his portion".
* Aaron Case, son of Philip Case, is identified with the Aaron Case of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, through a land record in which he deeds his 1/7 share in his father's estate to William Case [his nephew].
* Samuel Case, son of Philip Case, is identified with the Samuel Case of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, through a land record in which he deed his share in his father's estate to Abraham Case. Note that Abraham's expense account lists a charge of $12.00 "To cash pd. for 2 witnesses from Sugar Creek [home region of Aaron and Samuel Case] to attend & expenses settling an arbitration & their expenses" dated 1 February 1816, the date the above deeds were executed.
* A 1 February 1816 charge of $5.50 is labelled "To attending an arbitration with Reuben Case". No residence identifies him, but the Reuben Case of Troy, Pennsylvania, and Danby, NY, is closely associated with Aaron Case (above) throughout his life.
* Sarah Case, daughter of Aaron Case, is identified with Sarah, wife of Aaron Pennell, in a deed in which she deeds her 2/7 share in her father's estate to Abraham Case. In accordance with her father's will, she received twice her brothers' shares.

Lydia Soveril was born 15 September 1736 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.20,18,21,1 She probably died before 1811 Candor, Tioga Co., NY, as she is not named in her husband's will.21 She was buried in on the family lot, Candor, Tioga Co., NY.4

The Case manuscript states that Philip Case married Lydia Holcomb circa 1761 in Hebron, NY. As both the Temple genealogy17 and Sheffield, Massachusetts, marriage records2 show that Philip Case married Lydia Soveril, Dr. Case must have taken this information from either the records of Hiram A. Case (1825-1900), the great grandson of Philip and Lydia, or letter no. 931 dated June 1903 from Leonard F. Case (1833-1932), Philip's grandson. Both these informants were descendants of Philip's son Reuben and it is with this branch that the idea of a Philip Case-Lydia Holcomb marriage seems to have entered family lore. A letter from Merritt Birdsell Case [Leonard's brother] to his niece Helen Palmer dated 3 August 1914 was partially transcribed in a 1965 letter found in the N.S.D.A.R.'s Philip Case file:
Len is 82 years old, 7 years older than myself; He is hail & hearty, allso has good memory and Explained Evrything as near he knew. . . .
Our greate grand father Case was of an English decent. Our greate grand father Timothy Case came over on the May Flower with his 2 brothers and his wife (a Welch lady) to America. . . . Timothy with his wife settled in VT or Mass. and there raised a famley. One of his Sones Philip Case our grand father moved to the Eastern part of NY and marrid Lidy Holdcome; there raised a large famley.6

The writer of the 1965 letter, called only AB, points out the Mayflower absurdity and notes that she believes that the Holcomb name actually referred to Philip's mother, Sarah Holcomb. A second record found in this branch of the family is a recopied family Bible. On the Memoranda page of the undated Bible is the following: "Philip Case Sr. born in England 1740, married to Lydia Holcomb (born 1740) at Hebron N.Y. He died 1816 at Candor N.Y."22 Records in this Bible were copied 20 November 1898 by Adrial Hebard Case, Reuben's grandson, "from an old bible." Judging from the order of information copied in this Bible, the original was probably the family Bible of Elihu Case, Hebard's father. Notes on relationships and earlier generations appear to be added by Hebard and are in conflict with contemporary evidence. For example, Philip Case's death date of 1816 is incorrect as probate of his estate was begun in February 1815. Pending the discovery of additional primary evidence, it seems safe to assume that in the matter of Lydia's maiden name the Case manuscript is incorrect. She was Lydia Soveril, not Lydia Holcomb.

Lydia's birth is recorded in Simsbury town records with the births of her siblings.1 Her father, Abraham Soverhill, died before 12 August 1746, the date her older brother, also an Abraham, was appointed her guardian, as well as the guardian of three other minor siblings: Anna, Samuel, and Reuben.23 At the time, Lydia was only nine years old. Her brother Abraham was a resident of Newark, Connecticut, in 1746; but some members of this family appear to have removed to Sheffield, Massachusetts. In addition to Lydia's marriage to Philip Case, the marriages of sisters Rachel2 and Anna2 are also found in the Sheffield marriage records.

Lydia was not named in her husband's will of 9 July 1811 and so it is assumed that she died before this date. Tioga County, NY, land records confirm, though, that she was buried with her husband in the family burial lot now called Snyder Station Cemetery.4,15 Her tombstone, if it ever existed, has not been found.

Philip married Lydia Soveril on 30 Nov 1757 in Sheffield, Berkshire Co., MA. Lydia (daughter of Abraham Soveril and Jemima Adams) was born on 15 Sep 1736 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT; died in 1810 in Candor Or Spencer, Tioga Co., NY; was buried in Snyder Station Cemetery, Candor, Tioga Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]