Pollett-MD-1783-1872 Bible Record and Post from another list. I submit the following information for anyone tracing your Pollitt, Pollet, or Pollett family. Please contact me at paulinho@bellatlantic.net if you know of a connection. I am trying to find the descendents of the Rev. Frost Pollett. Thank you, Paul Morris "Bible Record of Levin Morris The Bible was found in the James Morris (1780 - 1873) desk in the house of Dorothy C. Morris, 717 South Division Street, Salisbury, MD on 7 August 1985. Miss Morris had deceased on 24 Jul 1985. The desk and its contents were given to Louis P. Morris, Sr., of Gradyville, PA. On 31 July 1998, Mr. Morris' son, L. Paul Morris, Jr., became the owner of the James Morris desk when Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Morris, Sr. moved into a retirement home. L. Paul Morris, Jr. Can be reached at Yonaguska Farm, P. O. Box 201, Gradyville, PA 19039-0201. The Bible does not have any cover on it and several of the beginning and ending pages are gone. The spine is in two pieces and hand sewn together. The pages are aged to a medium brown. The first page is Genesis, Chapter XIII, verse 2 and the last page is James, Chapter V, verse 3. At the beginning of the New Testament, is printed the following text: Printed London by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King and the Assigns of Robert Baskett, MDCCLXII (1797). The following writing is in the Bible: 1. Deuteronomy, Chapter IV, verse 30, on side of page: Levin M. 2. Samuel, Chapter VIII, verse 2, at bottom of page, upside down: Mr. Levin Morris Deven 3. I Chronicles, Chapter XIX, bottom of page, upside down: Levin Morris 4. At the end of Malachi: Mr. Leavin Morris, his book August 18th 1811 Miss Levin Morriss Miss Levin Morriss 5. On the cover page of the New Testament: Levin Morris July 3 13 Levin Morris was born May 29th 1782 6. On the reverse page of the above: The Eages of Negro Titus (deron?) Chil[dren] Negro Lue was born December March 1783 Negro Sal was born December 1784 Negro Bridget was born March 1787 Negro Frost was born october 1789 Negro Mill was born July 1792 Negro George was born December 1794 Negro Laymans was born Fbry 1800 Negro Charles was born January 1803 Negro Ann was born April 1805 Negro Titus [Tate ?] was born March 1807 Negro Ann was born april 1805" Additonal Notes: "It should be noted that a Mrs. Frost Pollitt was mentioned in James Morris'obituary as a former slave. Levin Morris preceded his brother, James, dying on November 11, 1841. There is a Rev. Frost Pollitt, age 60, listed in the 1850 Maryland Census, Somerset County, Princess Anne District, 1st Division, as a Methodist Episcopal Clergyman. He was listed in the same household as Levin Robertson, age 40, a farmer, and Violet Robertson, age 70. Below additional sources prove that this is the famous Rev. Frost Pollett. Although Frost may have been born a Morris, the Morris and Pollitt families intermarried a lot. James MorrisĖ mother was a Pollitt and JamesĖ first wife was a Pollitt. " Additional source information: "The Committee on Memoirs. The Committee on Memoirs beg to leave to report Rev. Frost Pollett was a son of Titus and Rachael Pollett, and was born near Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., about the year 1788, and departed this life March 12, 1872, about the 84th year of his age. His parents were members of the M. E. Church and brought up their child in the nature and admonition of the Lord, notwithstanding they were slaves. His early training was like bread cast upon the waters. He was a subject of divine guidance from a youth, and when about eighteen years of age he embraced religion, he joined the church with his parents. He on account of his diligence and punctuality in a short while become to be a very useful member of the church and soon after felt that he was called to preach, being willing to give himself more fully to God and his work he entered the ministry. Owing to his being a slave he could not work very extensively, but as the great head of the church had called him and sent him out, his earthly master could not hold him, therefore he bought himself at about 40 years and gave himself more fully to the ministry and the Lord went with him throughout the States of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania and often Virginia without being molested, with some exceptions, where others could not travel without some trouble, and if he was molested he would not stop, and as soon as the Delaware Conference was organized he (full of zeal) entered the itinerant ranks and there preached until almost spent and then gave up without consent. I. Hinson } J. Q. Dennis } Committee." Minutes of the Ninth Session of the Delaware Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Dover, Del, July 25 to 29, 1872, pub. by the Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., 1872, pp. 14-15 "Among the most notable of the colored Methodist Episcopal ministers of the Peninsula, was Rev. Frost Pollet. He was one of the original members of the Delaware Conference, and served a term therein as Presiding Elder. Frost was nearly six feet in height, of bony and angular build; more erect than Bishop Simpson; but, except in color, not unlike him in general form and appearance. There was an admixture of about one-eighth of white blood in his veins. This seems to have given form and expression to his features which were more Anglican than African. In him, however, the negro voice and dialect were perfectly developed. His manner was marked by great simplicity, and humility was the distinguishing feature of his Christian character. He was intensely earnest and enthusiastic in his religious experience and efforts. Whenever it was known among the white residents of Princess Anne, and other Peninsular towns where he labored, that Frost Pollet was to preach, the best and most cultured of all religious persuasions flocked to hear him; and his congregations at bush meetings were oft-times real ovations. No pen and ink portraiture can do justice to either the man or his preaching." Todd, Robert W., "Methodism of the Peninsula", Methodist Episcopal Book Rooms, Philadelphia, Pa., 1886, pp. 187-193 p. 197 "Presiding Elder: Frost Pollett (1864-1872). Admitted on trial were John W. Saunders, Simon Taylor, Abraham Brown, Stephen Johns, Wesley J. Parker, Charles Pollett, Stephen Whittington, Samuel G. Waters, Anthony Driver, and Robert Robinson. The following were elected as officers: President, Frost Pollett; vice-president, Jehu H. Pierce; secretary, Wilmore S. Elsey; treasurer, Isaac Hinson; managers, James Davis, Joshua Brinkley, and Harrison Smith; treasurer of the conference collections, David Tilghman." p. 201 Now it is 1864 and these ten men stand in front of Bishop James consciously or unconsciously the composite of all these factors. In their initial legislation there are three items that show the maturity of the ten men who have now achieved the itinerancy. First they honored, by electing and placing in the number three spot on the roll, Frost Pullett. He was seventy-six years of age, all black, had been born in 1787, knew his parents (both of them), and had a son sitting in the church who was born in 1817 and about to become a conference member. He had in 1840 purchased his freedom and as an independent evangelist, traveled the Peninsula, Delaware, and to Philadelphia preaching to all who would hear with such skill that aside from one arrest and numerous flights from ruffians, had made it to his seventy-sixth year." Official Journal and Year Book of the Delaware Annual Conference The Methodist Church, One Hundred Third Session, Tindley Temple Methodist Church, Broad and Fitzwater Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., April 27 and 28, 1965, The Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn., 1965, pp. 197-211. To research: 1860 Maryland Census, Somerset County, Frost Pollitt [Pollett] 1870 Maryland Census, Somerset County, Frost Pollitt [Pollett] Marriage of Frost Pollitt [Pollett] Obituary of Frost, died March 12, 1872 1850 Maryland Census, Somerset County, Charles Pollitt [Pollett], age 33 1860 Maryland Census, Somerset County, Charles Pollitt [Pollett], age 43 1870 Maryland Census, Somerset County, Charles Pollitt [Pollett], age 53 Marriage of Charles Pollitt [Pollett] Found: Somerset County, MD Marriages Pollitt, Frost Priscilla Stewart 12 Mar 1867 Is this Rev. Frost Pollitt? Is Priscilla Stewart the woman listed in James MorrisĖ obituary as one of his slaves? Worcester County, MD Marriages Pollitt, Titus Ansy Price 12 Nov 1833 Probably brother to Frost, check to see if Titus was born in 1807 ______________________________ Lafleur Genealogical Archives Specializes in the Internet Archival of Family Bible Records. http://www.lafleur.org Contributed by: "Betteye" bbolden@tir.com By way of: "Paul Morris" paulinho@bellatlantic.net