LOVELL/LOVEL PLANK

Lovel Plank was born on 24 April 1785 in Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut.  He was christedn on 12 July 1785 in Abington Congregational Church, Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut.  He died on 1 October 1864 in Brookfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.  He was buied in the Plank Cemetery, Brookfield Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

 

Lovel married Mehatabell Metcalf, daughter of Daniel and Jedidah Lacey Metcalf, they were married in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut.  Mehatabell was born in 1791 in Connecticut.  She died on 28 December 1857.  She is buried in the Plank Cemetery, Brookfield Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania.

 

Lovell and Mehatabell had the following children:

1.  Sylvester Lovel Plank was born on 11 October 1809 and died on 22 January 1881.

2.  Daniel Lovel Plank was born on 10 June 1812 and died on 23 March 1886.

3.  Olive Jedidiah Plank

4.  Isaac F. Plank was born in 1818 and died on 6 May 1883.

5.  Charles Harvey "C>H>" Plank was born on 19 January 1820 and died on 17 November 1891.

6.  Laura L. Plank was born on 29 April 1827 and died on 21 December 1902.

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I have researched the following information about Lovell Plank --

 

***HISTORY OF LEWIS COUNTY, NEW YORK - shows that ZEBEDIAH AND LOVELL PLANK were among the 1807 census of Electors at Lowville, Lewis County, New York.

 

***Northern Pennsylvania History Book, Page 1279 (IV) (TYPED AS IS FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT DATA)
Lovell, son of Zebediah Plank, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, April 24, 1795, died in Brookfield township, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1864.  He resided in Connecticut until after his marriage, then lived in Oneida county, New York, until 1831 when he moved to Tioga county, Pennsylvania, settling in Brookfield township on the farm later owned by his grandson, Welcome L. Plank.  There he resided until his death.  He was prominent in public affairs and for many years was a deacon of the First Baptist Church of Brookfield.  He married Mehitable Metcalf, who died December 28, 1857, aged sixty-six years.  ChIldren: Sylvester L. married Permelia Stanton; Daniel L., married Eliza White; Olive J., married Samuel Robinson; Isaac: Charles Harvey, of whom further; Laura L. married John George.

 

**Lovell Plank lived in Brookfield Township which was later called Sylvester (named after Sylvester Plank, Lovell's oldest son)  Early description of the village of Sylvester is found on Page 11 of the book History of Brookfield Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, written by Lawrence Plank:  states the following: 

 

When the first settlers came to Sylvester they found an Indian camp on the Nobles Place near the Winfield Hubbard sugar house. There were six wigwarms and about twenty Indians.  Little Turtle the Chief spoke English and was friendly.  He told the settlers that they were Delawares, part of Black Kettle's village in Black Forest, that they were an outpost to watch the Senecas who were their enemies, that there had been settlers here before and that the Senecas had driven them away,  and that he had lived at a villagge east of Knoxville and before that at a place called Minisink (?)  Little Turtle was a Mason and it was said that he and Godfrey Bowman, Dan Metcalf, Elihu Hiller, and others held Masonic Lodge in a wigwam.  Someone asked one of the other Indians what they were doing and he said, "they make big medicine".  So they called the wigwam "Big Medicine Lodge".  When Little Turtle died in 1827 they had a Masonic - Indian Funeral and burned the lodge with his body inside it.  I am not sure where this lodge was but in Gene Brown hollow there is a large rock with a masonic emblem carved on it.  It is well carved being about fifteen inches square.  There was an Indian camp near this place, Gene Brown's mother was an Indian.  Little Turtle's grandson who was called Limpy because of lameness lived for a while with Lovell Plank after his grandfather's death and he used to come back to the old camp occassionallly, the last time in 1834.  Several of the older people remember seeing him.

 

 

***Tombstone reads: Deacon Lovell Plank, 69 yr, 5 mo, 7 da.

 

***The Plank Cemetery, in 1854 was deeded to the heirs of Lovel Plank, by the old pioneer, and has since been used as a place of interment by the immediate neighborhood.

 

***1897 Tioga County, Pennsylvania History Book (TYPED AS IS FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT DATA)
LOVEL PLANK, SR., a native of Pomfret, Connecticut, born April 24, 1795, was a son of William (incorrect should be Zebediah) and Olive J. (Holmes) Plank, and a grandson of Ebenezer and Jedidah Plank (information incorrect Jackie Rohde), who were of English descent.   Lovel was the youngest in a family of six children, named as follows: Matilda, Waldo, Elijah, Elisha, Elizabeth and Lovel (incorrect, Elijah, Elisha and Elizabeth were Lovel's uncles and aunt) In 1831 he settled in Brookfield township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, on the farm now owned by his grandson, W. L. Plank, where he resided until his death, October 1, 1864, in his seventieth year.  His wife was Mehitabel Metcalf, who died December 28, 1857, aged sixty-six years.  She bore him six children, viz: Sylvester L. who married Permilia Stanton; Daniel L., who married Eliza White; Olive J., who married Samuel Robinson; Isaac, Charles H., who married Lurana Beebe, and Laura L. who married John George.  Mr. Plank was a deacon in the First Baptist Church of Brookfield, Pennsylvania for many years, and also took an active part in public affairs.

 

***1897 Tioga County History Book, Chapter 34, Brookfield Township (Pennsylvania) 
Early Settlers:  LOVEL PLANK, a native of Pomfret, Connecticut, settled in 1831 on the old homestead, where his grandson, W.L. Plank, now resides.

 

***1897 Tioga County History Book, Chapter 34, Brookfield Township (Pennsylvania)
The Plank Cemetery, just east of the residence of W.L. Plank, near Sylvester, was at first a family burying ground.  In 1854 it was deeded to the heirs of LOVELL PLANK, by the old pioneer, and has since been used as a place of interment by the immediate neighborhood.

 

***1897 Tioga County History Book, Chapter 34, Brookfield Township (Pennsylvania)
The First Baptist Church of Brookfield, Pennsylvania - The original members were Benjamin Cuer and wife, George Hunt, Jackson hunt, Laura L. Plank, Maria Metcalf, Elisha Hackett, Matilda Maschow, LOVELL PLANK and D.B. Fisk

 

 

***THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST John Hubbard Family of Brooklyn, Connecticut - July, 1946 - Pages 224 and 225 - states of following:
Brooklyn Land Records, Vol. 3: 630 - January 8, 1810, Jonathan Holmes, Nathaniel Holmes, Gardner Cleveland, Mary Cleveland, Jonas Hubbard, Matilda (Plank) Hubbard and LOVELL PLANK  all of New York and Heirs to Estate of Nathaniel Holmes Late of Brooklyn appointed Jessaniah Holmes of Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N.Y., Power of Attorney...[acknowledged Jan. 8, 1810, Oneida Co., Jonas and Matilda (Plank) Hubbard; January 31, 1810, Herkimer Co., Lovell Plank; January 14, 1810, Gardner Cleveland, Rutland, N.Y.; Feb. 5, 1810 Nathaniel Holmes, at Litchfield; March 13, 1810, Jonathan Holmes, Herkimer Co.].  It also states in the article that Revolutionary soldier, Zebadiah Plank married, December 7, 1780, in Brooklyn ch. rec., Olive Holmes, who was also unlisted in the G.A. Gray's Holmes Genealogy.

State of New York, Herkimer County - Personally appeared Lovell Plank one of the within Signers, the acknowledement taken before me the 31st Day of January 1810.  -- Richard Smith, Justice of the Peace.


***BROOKLYN CT., VOLUME 3,  pages 630 & 631 LOVELL PLANK heir to the estate of Nathaniel Holmes: (TYPED AS IS FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT DATA)
Know all men of these presents that we Jonathan Holmes, Nathaniel Holmes, Gardner Cleveland, Mary Cleveland, Jonas Hubbard, Matilda Hubbard and LOVELL PLANK,  all of the State of New York and Heirs to the estate of Nathaniel Holmes late of the Town of Brooklyn, Ct., deceased, do make constitute and appoint Jessaniah Holmes of the Town of Litchfield, County of Herkimer and State of New York our true and lawful attorney for us and in our names severally to receive in our behalfs our several rights dividend or dividends which may be lawful to us or be set off from the estate of said Nathaniel Holmes deceased either real or personal and to sell transfer assign and set over all and every part oR parts thereof and with full power to transact and do in our behalf all lawful acts effecting the property or premises and hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said attorney or substitute shall do herein by virtue in witness where we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 8 January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten.  Jonathan Holmes, Nathaniel Holmes, Gardner Cleveland, Mary Cleveland, Jonas Hubbard, Matilda (Plank) Hubbard and LOVELL PLANK. It continues on stating where each person is acknowledging by signing their names receiving their share of the estate. 


THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LOVEL PLANK, Probate #310, 1854   
In the name of God, I Lovel Plank of the Town of Brookfield, in the County of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, being of sound mind and memory, and considering the uncertainty of this frail and transitory life, there make, ordain, publish, and declare, this to be my Last Will and Testament; that is to say, First, after all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, the residue of my personal property I give, bequeath, and dispose of, as follows to wit:  To my beloved wife, Mehatable Plank, the one equal half of all of the stock now on the farm, that I reside on, one mare, one colt, one pair of oxen, eight cows, three hefers, one sow, and nine pigs, and eleven sheep, and all of my household furniture, beds and bedding and all of my wearing apparel also, six calos, one lite wagon, one lite sleigh, one plow, one drag, also one Dollar out of the same to each of my children, to Wit; one Dollar to Sylvester L. Plank, one Dollar to Dan L. Plank, one Dollar to Olive Jedidah Robinson, one Dollar to Isaac F. Plank, one Dollar to Charles H. Plank one Dollar to Laura L. George.  In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal the twenty eight day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.  LOVEL PLANK (SEAL)
              The within written Instrument was subscribed by the said Lovel Plank in our presence and acknowledgeD by him to each of us to be his last Will and Testament and we as the testators request and in his presence site our names and places of residence.  Isaac H. Metcalf, Brookfield, Tioga County, Pa., W. G. Raymond, Little Valley, Lent Co., New York.  Tioga County on this 25th day of October 1854 before me James P. Magill., Esq. Register for the Probate of Wills and granting letters of administration in and for the County of Tioga personally came Isaac H. Metcalf who upon his solemn oath says that he was present and saw and heard LOVEL PLANK the testator sign seal, publish, pronounce and declare the within instrument of writing as and for his testament and last will, and the time of so doing he was of perfect and sound mind, memory and understanding to the best of his knowledge, observation and belief, and furth says that W.G. Raymond the other subscribing winess was present and that the signature of W. G. Raymond is in his own proper           writing and further the deponent saith not.        ISAAC H. METCALF --                           Whereas, I LOVEL PLANK of the Township of Brookfield County of Tioga and State of Pennsylvania have made my last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the 28th May of March A.D. 1854 in by which I have given to and bequeath to my beloved wife Mehatable Plank all my personal property.  Now, therefore, I do by this writing which I hereby declare to be a codicil to my Last Will and Testament and to be taken as a part thereof I do order and declare that my will is that my Son, Isaac Plank have one hundred dollars to be paid out of my personal property in three annual and equal payments.  It is my desire that this codicil be annexed to and made a past of my Last Will and Testament as aforesaid to all intents and purposes.  In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and opposite   seal the twenty sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.    LOVAL PLANK  (SEAL)
                The above written instrument was subscribed by the said LOVEL PLANK in our presence and acknowledged by him to each of us and he at the same time published and declared the above instrument so subscribed to be his Last will and testament and we at the testators request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses thereof:   Simmons, Brookfield Twp., Tioga Co.