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| Birth: | 21 Sep 1774 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT |
| Death: | 4 Jul 1858 in Barnes Corners, Town of Pinckney, Lewis, NY |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Elnathan Lucas b. 16 Dec 1747 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT |
| Mother: | Mary Margaret Ward b. 1757 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT |
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| Esther Stow (Wife) b. 22 Feb 1776 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
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| Marriage: | 30 JUN 1796 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT |
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 John Ward Lucas, Jr. b. 4 Apr 1797
- Elnathan Lucas b. 12 Oct 1798 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
- James Lucas b. 24 Aug 1800 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
- Elizabeth Lucas b. 14 Aug 1802 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
- Thomas Jefferson Lucas b. 23 Oct 1804 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
- Mary Lucas b. 20 Nov 1806 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
- Madison Lucas b. 19 Mar 1809 in Middletown, Middlesex, CT
 Caroline Lucas b. 12 Jul 1811 in Barnes Corners, Lewis, NY
- Esther Lucas b. 17 Mar 1813 in Rodman, Jefferson, NY
- Julia Lucas b. 18 Mar 1815 in Barnes Corners, Town of Pinckney, Lewis, NY
- Charles Lucas b. 26 Jun 1817 in Barnes Corners, Lewis, NY
- Horace Lucas b. 7 Sep 1821 in New York State
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Individual:
He is listed in the index of the 1810 census of Lewis Co., NY, having moved there in the spring of 1809.
From a history, original source unknown:
John was only three years old when his father died and age seven when his mother died. He was bound out to learn leather tanning and the shoe trade. In this home, the woman was brutal. She enjoyed watching the young man tied by his thumbs and whipped. She fed him only food made with sour milk. He was treated so badly that he was taken from the home. He finished his trade apprenticeship and worked for himself.
By 1800, he was employed by Mr. Hubbard, a dealer in foreign goods and provisions. He also worked part time for Mr. Paddock, an uncle of Loveland Paddock, as a butcher and meat packer.
In May 1809, he moved to the Black River country of NY shortly after the birth of his son Madison. They traveled by a covered wagon, 20-foor base with hoop bows over the top, covered in tow cloth. It had four heavy wheels and was drawn by four large oxen.
They steered their course through the corner of Massachusetts to Greenbush near Albany. With great rejoicing they arrived at the ferry opposite the city of Albany, thankful that they were escaping the blue laws of Connecticut. The team was loaded onto the ferry to cross to Albany. Then they started through Albany to Schnectady and made their way up the Mohawk River to Utica. They arrived at Martinsburgh, then Lowville. At about three miles from Copenhagen, they stayed the night at Oliver Green's tavern. They moved on to Whitesville, cutting their way through the woods for 13 miles. The next morning all hands chopped and cleared the road for the four-mile trip to Barnes Corners. It had taken 17 days to travel the 300 miles.
From a biography, original source is unknown:
He went as an apprentice to a shoe maker when he was 12 years old. While learning the trade, which he followed for many years, his diet consisted mainly of pudding and sour milk until it became so distasteful to him that he only took milk if it was cooked in custard.
When their son Madison was three weeks old they started from Middletown, CT with an oxcart and four oxen, John Lucas and the three eldest boys going on foot most of the way to Barnes Corners. They were three weeks on the trip arriving in May 1809, being the third settler of Barnes Corners. (Elisha Barnes was the first settler.) The second settler was Eber Lucas, first cousin to John Ward Lucas. Eber did not have any family. Both Eber and Mr. Barnes came from Middletown, CT.
Many years of toil and hardship were endured ere the land was cleared, the buildings erected and furnished but after these many years they lived in comfortable circumstances.
Eber Lucas built the first frame building in Barnes Corners, a barn in about 1810. He left soon after building it. John Ward Lucas bought his farm and John Ward Lucas, Jr. later had it and lived there his entire life. In 1929 it was still in the family.
John Ward Lucas served in the War of 1812 and was taken prisoner in the Battle of Sackets Harbor, May 29, 1813, and was held a prisoner until the end of the war.
Of all of his grandsons there were four who resembled John Ward Lucas the most. They were Israel, Charles, and Henry Lucas, and John Budlong.
More from a history, source unknown:
After the death of his beloved companion he lived a lonely life, although he had the best care by his youngest son, Horace, and Horace's wife, Emeline, and all of their family. None of the children could do anything for him to make him as happy as when he and Esther were together. When he died, he was buried beside his wife at Barnes Corners.The marriage is recorded in "Early Connecticut Marriages" in Volume 6 of Middletown, CT, Fair Haven Church Records, p. 116.
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