248. GILBERT DEVOL Jr. was born 1766 in Tiverton, Newport Co., RI. He died BET. 15 ‑ 25 APR 1812 in Marietta, OH and was buried in Harmer Cemetery, Washington Co. OH. GILBERT married Rachel Peek on 14 Jul 1803 by Nehemiah Davis, “Pastor” of the Church of Christ in Adams, Washington Co., OH.
A Gilbert Devol is listed as the owner of Donation Tract #22 at the Marietta Ohio Settlement sometime between 1790 and 1820.
Cemetery stone shows death on April 21, 1812 at 49 years, which would have him born about 1763.
Gilbert Devol Jr. marriage to Mary Coburn - 17900325
Gilbert Devol Jr. marriage to Rachel Peck - 18030714
Gilbert Devol Jr. probate records (PDF file)
DEATH: Death reference Western Spectator, Marietta, OH.
"Gilbert Devol, Junior - These men on Monday, the Seventh of April, 1788, made the first lawful organized English settlement within th elimits of the great Northwest Territory." Ref. History of Washington County OH, H.Z. Williams and Brother, 1881, Page 48.
"Gilbert Devol, Jr. in 1798, supplied the iron (grating, spikes, nails, hinges etc.) for 16 cents per pound for the court house building in Marietta." Captain Gilbert Devol was still making plows and ax heads on Point Harmar 1809-1810, Ref.: Daybook, Captain Jonathan Baldwin (1768-1816). Gilbert was a blacksmith and resided on Lot 22, Point Harmar, 1812, Marietta, OH." Judge Gilbert Devol (Gilbert's father) took a pike from the Muskingum which weighted 96 lb. on the 2nd. July, 1788. He was a tall man and when he had the pike on his gig pole and the pole on his shoulder, the pike drew on the ground. The fish was cooked for the 4th of July dinner, 1788, which was celebrated by an oration by Judge Varnum and attended by all the inhabitants and General Harmar and many of his garrison" -- "Judge Devol and his son Gilbert prepared themselves with proper canoe and gigs and when informed they started the pike up the river and pursued him by his wake, meaning to tire him, above Campus Martius; they then got above him and drove him back. As the fish is very short winded they were able to press him and before he could reach deep water in the Ohio he flagged and they came up and took him ---" Pages 21-22. "---They were both blacksmiths, industrious and valuable mechanics and good citizens ---" Page 53 - Ref. Joseph Barker, Recollections of the first settlement of Ohio, 1844, Marietta Colelge, Marietta, OH, 1958.
Examples of his work at his blacksmith shop on Point Harmar (near present day southwest corner of Fort and Maple streets, park of Historic Harmar Bridge County); "1789, Major Nathan Goodale to Gilbert Devol, Debtor --- March 13, to upsetting 2 axes ---, to mending chain hook ---; May 3, to making 3 plow plates and nails ---; May 26, to mending sith (sec; scythe), hard(en)ing hammer ---; July 4, to making grub hoe ---; Aug 3, to one fish gig ---; Oct 12, to one toasting iron ---; Nov 24, to 6 fish hooks ---; March 28, 1790, to 30 nails ---; to pointing and sharpening plow irons---; to mending shovel and yoak (sec: yoke) staple ---; March 20, to stealing (sic: steeling) one axe ---; to my fathers bill for fish, 10 shillings ---; Sept. 29, 1792, serrupins (and) mending cock (gun hammer) ---; April 9, 1793, --- credit by one barrel of beef, 55 shillings ---(total due) 1 (pound), 13 (shillings), 10 (pence) = 5 dollars 64 cent." "1803, David Putnam to rimming and bailing (sic: baling) brass kettle ---; Sept. 1, 1803, to sharpening 6 Hammers, pick and chisels ---; Sept. 15, 1804, to sharpening stone tools, 7 weeks ---; Oct 23, 1804, to set one rake teeth ---; May 10, 1805, to 4 bells ---; July 3, 1805, to one stone pick ---; July 16, 1805, to eight large spikes ---; Aug 28, 1805, to mending crain (sic: crane), to thim(b) latches ---; Oct 20, 1805, to two pair of large hinges ---; April 23, 1807, to 3 pair of hinges and nails ---; Dec 17, 1807, to two pair hinges, to 4 hooks, overhead ---; May 11, 1808, to 2 pair of hinges, latches and catches; to 22 pair of hinges (for) blinds (i.e. shutters) ---; Aug 14, 1808, to springs and staples for windows ---; Dec 18,1808, to 24 springs for window blinds ---; $54.80."
"--- Subscribers --- Assign to the widow, Rachel Devol, -- the south end of the dwelling house on lot No. 22 on Point Harmar, to include the south rooms and kitchen with the rooms over & the seller (sic: cellar) under them, with an equal privilege of the entrances above and below, with the equal use of the front and back yards and under a passageway to the seller (sic: cellar) and also two thirds of the width of the garden on the south side to run back by a line east and west as far back as the east side of the barn and then south to the south side of the lot. Marietta, April 14th 1813. (signed) Paul Fearing, Levi Barber, William Skinner." The old farm and Blacksmith shop of Gilbert Devol, Jr. is now (1996) embraced by Fort, Maple and Crawford Streets and the A.H. Smith repair shop. The railroad track passes through old lot 22.
Marrage to Mary Coburn 25 Mar 1790 by Benj. Tupper.
Marriage to Rachael Peck 14 Jul 1803 by Nehemiah Davis.
1. GILBERT DEVOL Jr. (b.1766-Tiverton,Newport Co.,RI d.25 Apr 1812-MARIETTA,OHIO)
sp: MARY (POLLY) COBURN (b.1770-STURBRIDGE,WORCESTER COUNTY ? m.25 Mar 1790)
|-2. Harriet DEVOL (b.Abt 1795 d.1826)
| sp: George Dunlevy (b.1776-VA m.08 Jul 1812 d.28 Dec 1836-Marietta,OHIO)
|-2. Clarissa DEVOL (b.1791-Farmers' Castle,Belpre,North West Territory d.1859-Belpre,OH)
| sp: Joseph III Cook (b.20 Jul 1785-Long Plain,MA m.29 Nov 1812 d.03 Aug 1823-Belpre,OH)
|-2. Mary Coburn DEVOL (b.05 Jul 1795-Marietta,Washington Co.,North West Territory d.Apr 1865-Oskaloosa,Mahaska Co.,Iowa)
| sp: Solomon Goss Jr. (b.05 May 1788-Wilkes-Barre,PA m.19 Nov 1812 d.02 Nov 1864-Oskaloosa,IA)
|-2. Lucy DEVOL (b.18 Dec 1797-Marietta,Washington Co.,North West Territory d.17 Jan 1867-Danbury Twp.,Ottawa Co.,OH)
| sp: Isaac Rice (b.07 May 1792-Brattleboro,Windham Co.,VT m.25 Nov 1816 d.14 Apr 1845-Danbury Twp.,Ottawa Co.,OH)
|-2. Gilbert III DEVOL (b.25 Mar 1800-Marietta,Washington Co.,North West Territory d.24 Jul 1871-Lancster,Fairfield Co.,OH)
| sp: Cynthia Goodwin (b.06 Apr 1803-Canada m.25 Mar 1823 d.08 Jun 1870-Lancaster,Fairfield Co.,OH)
|-2. Sophia S. DEVOL (b.Marietta,OHIO d.Aft 1897-Belpre,Washington Co.,OH)
sp: Rachel Peck (b.1786-Connecticut m.14 Jul 1803)
|-2. Harrison DEVOL (b.1804-Washington Co,Ohio d.29 May 1873-Staunton Twp.,Miami Co.,OH)
| sp: Jane Orr (b.1806-PA m.11 Jun 1835 d.06 Jan 1870-Staunton Twp.,Miami Co.,OH)
|-2. Benjamin Franklin Devol (b.1809-Point Harmar,Washington Co. OH d.Aft 1870-Prairie Creek Twp.,Vigo Co. IN)
| sp: Sarah C. Turnham (b.1823-Spencer Co. KY m.16 Dec 1841 d.1868-Vigo Co.,Indiana)
|-2. Athelinda DEVOL (b.Bef 1813)
| sp: Myhew Rollins (m.Aft 1830)
+-2. Austin DEVOL (b.Bef 1813 d.Aft 1840)
sp: Elizabeth Blue (m.28 Nov 1838)
249. Rachel Peck was born 06 May 1785 in Connecticut. Rachel married Gilbert Devol, Jr. on 14 Jul 1803 in WASHINGTON CO., OH. After the death of Gilbert Devol, Jr., Rachel married Oliver Shute on 06 Oct 1821 in Washington Co., OH. Oliver’s last name on this marriage record is sometimes identified as “Sheets”. But I believe Shute is correct. It matches with a Waterford, Washington County, Ohio resident, “Oliver Shute”, in the 1820 Census. Oliver is in the 1820 census for Waterford. Oliver is in the 1830 Census for Waterford, along with a female age 40-49, likely Rachel. The 1830 Census also includes 1 male age 15-19, and 1 male age 20-29. Possibly one of these males is Benjamin F. Devol, son of Gilbert Devol, Jr. and Rachel. Oliver and Rachel (Peck/Devol) Shute moved in 1837 to Miami County OH, along with Gilbert and Rachel’s son Harrison. Rachel died 06 Aug 1861 in Miami Co., OH and was buried at Raper Chapel Cemetery in Stuanton Twp., Miami County, OH. Raper Chapel Cemetery is located about 3 miles North of Troy OH about 100 yards south of the southwest corner of the intersection of Eldean Road and Sidney/Troy Road. Oliver Shute is also buried at Raper Chapel Cemetery, next to Rachel.
1820 Census OH Washington Lawrence – Gilbert Devol, Sr. and daughter-in-law Rachel
1830 Census OH Washington Waterford - Oliver and Rachel Shute
1840 Census OH Miami Staunton - Oliver and Rachel Shute
1850 Census OH Miami Staunton - Oliver and Rachel Shute
1860 Census OH Miami Staunton - Oliver and Rachel Shute
Raper Chapel Cemetery scenery 1 2
Raper Chapel Cemetery – Left-to-Right – Oliver and Rachel Shute, Julia, Jane and Harrison Devol (Julia and Jane were wives of Harrison Devol)
Oliver Shute’s Probate Record, showing purchase of land 11 Apr 1837 in Miami Co., OH
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