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Post by Dave on Dec 21, 2011 19:16:13 GMT -5
This thread combines posts from other threads.
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Post by Dave on Dec 21, 2011 19:25:17 GMT -5
Click to enlarge to read. Firefox click twice. Judge Sayre, his wife and servant were murdered. The Judge's wife was named Sarah. ![]() www.windsweptpress.com/images/sayre murder.jpg[/img] |
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Post by Dave on Dec 23, 2011 10:41:43 GMT -5
Here we are, and google finds this at 83 south st, morristown. I'd seen it before and without noticing the similar architectural details, rejected it because it looks like it has a brick outer surface. In other StreetView angles one can see the three dormers, the same gambrel roof style, and it's right down the street from the other house. ![]() www.windsweptpress.com/images/wood hse2.jpg[/img] |
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Post by Dave on Dec 23, 2011 10:44:25 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Dec 23, 2011 10:49:21 GMT -5
A block apart.  |
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Post by Dave on Dec 23, 2011 10:57:28 GMT -5
By the way, the house in the video shot at Jimmy's Haunt doesn't look like either of the above houses. And the restaurant, reputed to be the old Sayre house/farmstead, is three blocks down the street from the other two houses. BUT ... the implied exterior shot of the restaurant in the video doesn't look like the building shown on Google StreetView as Jimmy's Haunt.
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Post by fiona on Dec 23, 2011 19:21:45 GMT -5
OK. Great work. No, the info I read specifically states that the Library owns the "Wood" House and that it is on the corner. I can do more research and work with the adresses, if all else fails I can contact the library. For some reason I find this piece fascinating. The maps and post of the horse and buggy are beautiful.
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Post by fiona on Dec 23, 2011 19:33:39 GMT -5
we'll figure it out somehow. After the New year I may have time to do some simplified geneology. This is just something - a hunch I went on - which is proving out. To me this is as interesting as writing the story line. It's a big what if... right/ as in, what if these families were related/ what if John had one of those wallets/ ....
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Post by fiona on Dec 23, 2011 19:44:20 GMT -5
That map is fine. I have to take my time and read it. Thanks. Do you see where it says estate of James Wood? To the left.
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Post by Dave on Dec 23, 2011 21:51:28 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Dec 23, 2011 21:55:03 GMT -5
Notice that the other house down the street on the corner of Community Place was owned by J. W. Muchmore. (Community place wasn't there in 1899.)  |
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Post by Dave on Dec 24, 2011 10:35:12 GMT -5
The estate of James Wood across the street from the T.T. Wood house on South Street. and I.B. Woods adjoining and fronting on Elm St. ![]() www.windsweptpress.com/images/wood james.jpg[/img] |
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Post by Dave on Dec 24, 2011 10:55:05 GMT -5
The site of Jimmy's Haunt Restaurant, reported to be where the Sayre family was murdered in 1833 on their farm by Antoine LeBlanc, was just west of the intersection of South St. and Madison Ave, about one third mile from the Wood brick house at 83 South Street. By 1887, as can be seen on the map, below, the Morris Female Institute stood there on land evidently owned by W. V. Lidgerwood after the Sayres. ![]() www.windsweptpress.com/images/morris female.jpg[/img] |
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Post by fiona on Dec 25, 2011 16:27:43 GMT -5
Mrs T. T. Wood would have been John's mother. His fathers first name was Theodore. So it was a large family all living close to one another. It was hard to know from just the picture of the library house. I assumed it was just one family. Let me see if I can get anything on her.
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Post by Dave on Dec 25, 2011 17:15:10 GMT -5
Yes, I see it now. Theodore T. Wood.
Corrections:
In post #25 to this thread, I said: "Notice that the other house down the street on the corner of Community Place was owned by J. W. Muchmore. (Community place wasn't there in 1899.)"
First, the date of the map we're using here is 1887, not 1899, the latter being the date of the Bird's Eye drawing of Morristown, also on that Map site. Second, and more important, The "other white house" on the other side of the Presbyterian Church was not the home of J.W. Muchmore, as I stated. It is the home of Mrs. Brandige, which is kind of close to Brandegee. Could it be another spelling? And if so, John Brandegee Wood might also be searched among the on line documents with John Brandige Wood.
Checking the sources I have here, even at Yale I see no more reference to John than "John B. Wood." I haven't looked at all the Utica press stories ... the Daily Press, Globe, Herald, etc. ... but is there a reference in any of them to John with the Brandegee spelling?
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