My Endicott ancestry

My maternal grandmother was Ruth ENDICOTT Strawn (1895-1967), a life long resident of St. Joseph, Missouri, and a school teacher prior to marriage. She was a daughter of Joseph Endicott Jr. (1855-1916). He was principal of Lincoln Elementary School in St, Joseph, Missouri. Joseph and his older siblings were born , in slavery, in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri to Joseph Endicott Sr. (1825/28-1902) and Mahala Mosby Endicott (1833-1918). One of Joseph Jr.s sisters' was Alice Endicott Vann (b. 1859), a school teacher in Indian Terrirory. It was her daughter Grace Vann Collazo ( d.1974) who gave me bountiful information on the Endicott family. According to my Cousin Grace, her mother and my great grandfather ( siblings)  were very well treated slaves, and were slaves in name only ( quasi free ) and were the property of THEIR UNCLE, a white half brother of their father, Joseph Endicott Sr. Though, there is nothing in writing definitively verifying the master/slave blood relationship, I put credence in Graces oral history because she obtained the information firsthand from her mother who was one of the slaves. Also, Grace had proven to be a very reliable source of information because nearly everything else she told me could be verified.  In an effort to determine who the benign slave owning uncle was , I examined the 1860 slave schedules of Clay County and adjacent Platt County, Missouri. There were only two slave owners in Clay and Platt Counties, Missouri, named Endicott,in 1860. They were Albert Endicott in Clay County,and his brother Ludlow in Platt County. Also, I ,spent a day comparing the slave schedules with the index of the regular census schedules for all of the Endicotts in the state of Missouri in 1860. Unless I may have overlooked some which is quite possible, I only saw two slave holders in the whole state of Missouri in 1860. The two were Albert Endicott (1827/29-1912) in Clay County where Joseph Sr. ,Mahala,,and children lived and Alberts brother Ludlow Endicott (b.1819) in adjacent Platt County. Albert and Ludlow were sons of Lewis Endicott Sr. (1793-1858). I feel that it is plausible to conclude that ALBERT ENDICOTT was  the slave holding half brother of JOSEPH ENDICOTT SR. Therefore, I also concluded that LEWIS ENDICOTT SR. was the father of Joseph Eddicott Sr. as well as Albert and Ludlow. In the 1850 Clay County, Missouri Census Schedule, Albert and Lewis Endicott Jr. were in the household of the aformentioned Lewis Endicott Sr. Lewis Jr. died in 1857, and Lewis Sr. died a year later in 1858. In the estate settlement of Lewis Endicott Sr., Albert and a cousin in law William Adams were the administrators of the estate. In a slave bill of sale the first slave on the list was ONE NEGRO MAN NAMED JOE aged 30 ,who I am certain is Joseph Endicott, However JOE did not go anywhere. He was retained by William Adams. In a meticulously documented history of the Endicott genealogy, SOME DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ENDICOTT GOVERNOR OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY by MABEL  McCLOSKEY, the lineage of Lewis Endicott Sr. is given back to Governor John Endicott (1588/89-1665) . Below is ,my believed, lineage from  Gov. John Endicott:

Gov. John Endicott (1588/89-1665)   m. Elizabeth Cogan (b.1607)

Zerubabbel Endicott ( 1635-1684)    m.   Mary Smith

Joseph Endicott ( 1672-1747)    m.   Hanna_________

Joseph Endicott ( 1711-1749)   m.   Anne Gilliam

Thomas Strawn (1737-1831)    m.   Sarah Walsh

Joseph Endicott ( 1761-1827)   m.   ______________

Lewis Endicott ( 1793-1858) ....................____________________

Joseph Endicott (1825/28-1902)    m.   Mahala Mosby (1833-1918)

Joseph Endicott ( 1855-1916)   m.   Mary Lawrie (1866-1937)

Ruth Endicott (1895-1967)   m.   Dr. Estil Strawn (1887-1951)

Cornelia Strawn ( 1917- living )   m.   Goler Collins ( 1814-1966 )

                                     Alvin Collins ( 1950-living )