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Ichabod Ide

31 MAR 1717 – 23 JAN 1785 · 7th great-grandfather

Ichabod Ide, the user’s 7th great-grandfather, was born 31 Mar 1717 and died 23 Jan 1785. A 2011 family-tree note reports that a Westminster town clerk called him “crop eared Ide” and that he was apprehended in connection with alleged counterfeiting involving Owen Sullivan. The supplied material does not provide the original town record or a dated record of an apprehension.

Ichabod Ide was born 31 Mar 1717 and died 23 Jan 1785. He is identified in the supplied relationship path as the father of Sarah Ide and as the user’s 7th great-grandfather.

A 2011 family-tree note titled “Ide's and Willson's From Westminister to the Northeast Kingdom” reports that the town clerk of Westminster referred to Ichabod as “crop eared Ide.” The original town-clerk record was not supplied, so the wording and its context cannot be independently assessed from the material provided.

The same note refers to pages from Ben Tarnoff’s 2011 book, A Counterfeiter's Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers, concerning colonial counterfeiter Owen Sullivan. According to the family-tree note, Ichabod was apprehended for taking part in counterfeiting with Sullivan. No date for this reported apprehension was provided. The note suggests that it may have occurred between 1752, when Sullivan was based in Dover, New York, and 1762, when Ichabod reportedly left Rehoboth, Massachusetts. This date range is an inference offered in the note, not a dated record supplied here.

Historical context

The supplied material identifies Ben Tarnoff’s 2011 book as discussing colonial counterfeiter Owen Sullivan. It does not provide enough detail to establish independently how, when, or whether Ichabod Ide was involved in the events described in the family-tree note.

Sources & research

“Ide's and Willson's From Westminister to the Northeast Kingdom” (family-tree note, 2011).

Tarnoff, Ben. A Counterfeiter's Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers. Penguin Books, 2011.

Westminster town clerk quotation referring to Ichabod as “crop eared Ide,” as reported in the 2011 family-tree note; original record citation not supplied.