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CUTLER, JONATHAN, of Colchester, Conn., had issue Abigail, b. Aug. 28, 1711 ; Jonathan, Jr., b. Aug. 17, 1713, and Beach, b. July 4, 1716. (Colchester Record.) Farmer, notices James, of Watertown, where his son James was b., 1635 ; John, of Charles- town, representative, 1680 and '82. He also says, "probably the Major Cutler, father of Rev. Timothy Cutler, D. D., of Boston, who d. Aug. 17, 1765, aged 82. (The same who was President of Yale College named above.) Robert, deacon at Charlestown, d. March, 1665. His son Nathaniel, graduated at Harvard College, 1663 and d. Aug. 13, 1678. Seth Cutler, from the first church in Killingly, admitted to the first church in Hampton, Feb. 20, 1738. Cutler, has 9 coats of arms ; Cutlers, one. 7 of this name graduated at Yale
In the following year, 1816, her former associate, Miss Hyde, was called away, and she per- formed tlie task of writing her biography, and editing a volume of her remains.
In the year 1819, Miss Huntley was married to Charles Sigourney, Esq., a gentleman of edu- cation, possessing a taste for literature, although he confined his attention through life to mer- cantile pursuits, and became one of the most eminent merchants in Hartford. He was a descendant of a Frenchi Huguenot, Andrew Sigourney, who was born in France, in 1639, and left at the revocation of the Edict of Nantz, in 1686, for Boston, Mass., where he died in 1673, leaving one son. Charles Sigourney, Esq., died December 30, 1854, aged 76.
The writings of Mrs. Sigourney, are too well known to need special mention here ; they consist of numerous volumes in prose and verse, and have ever been kindly received, and highly eulogi- zed. Mrs. Sigourney is one of the most popular prose writers of the age ; and her poems, which include almost every variety of subject, are all made to subserve a high inoral sentiment.
In the month of August, 1830, Mrs. Sigourney sailed for Europe, where she was well received, and every attention paid to her, that a stranger could desire. She was in Paris when the remains of Napoleon, were brought from St. Helena, on which occasion she wrote one of the most beautiful and heart-thrilling poems that ever fell from her gifted pen. After vising Eng- land, Scotland and France, she returned and gave to the world that charming volume, " Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands," a very popular book, which has passed through numerous editions.
Her "Letters to Mothers," "Letters to young Ladies," and "Letters to my Pupils," are too well known to need comment in this place, they are exceedingly popular, and will always stand foremost among works of that character.
After her return to America, she received from the Queen of France, the wife of Louis Phillippe, a beautiful bracelet, set with diamonds and pearls, and ornamented with blue enamel, a just tribute to the talents of our much loved poetess, of whom the nation may well be proud.
Mrs. Sigourney, at present resides in Hartford, where she is much beloved, and respected for her rare talents and many virtues.
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College, before 1844; 15 at Harvard College, before 1848 ; 4 at Dartmouth College, before 1853; 2 at Amherst, before 1826 and 1840 ; 3 at Brown, before 1823 ; 4 at Williams College, before 1826. CYNKER, JOHN, early in Conn.
The anxiety which appears in some persons to brand Conn. and Mass., as being the first in this country, who were alarmed about, and punished witches. It was made a capital offence not only by the laws of Pennsylvania, but New York, and trials for witchcraft (spiritualism) were had in these two colonies for the offence, before they were at Old Salem, (see Matson's Annals of Philadelphia,) where is found the trial of two Swedes for witchcraft, with Wm. Penn, instructing the grand-jury on the subject, and he presiding on the trials ; but they escaped conviction, by technical defects.
DABOLL, NATHAN, the school-master, mathematician and a self-taught man ; he resided in Groton, and is familiarly known in New England, as the author of the well-known Daboll's Arithmetic, for many years a standard school-book. The name was not known in Conn., among the first settlers.
DAGGETT. This was rather a late name in Connecticut, and came first on the east side of Conn. River, after 1700, where the name is yet found. Hon. David Daggett, late deceased, of New Haven, was a native of Rhode Island. Rev. Napthali Daggett, who was President of Yale College, was professor of theology as early as 1755 ; president in 1766, until 1777, when Mr. Stiles took the presi- dency. President Daggett, d. in 1780. He was b. at Attleborough, Mass., and graduated at Yale College, in 1748; studied theology and settled on Long Island, where he m. Sarah Smith, dau'r of Richard; he continued to preach there, until he was appointed pro- fessor of divinity at Yale College, and accepted the offer and re- moved to New Haven, 1756. President Clapp, d. in 1766, and Mr. Daggett, was appointed in his place the same year, and continued to officiate as such, until 1777. In 1779, Dr. Daggett, became as much distinguished in war as in literature, being one of the volun- teers who turned out with his musket to defend New Haven, against the attack by the British troops, and was taken prisoner or forced to surrender, and though a prisoner, was so severely treated by the enemy, beaten, bruised, wounded, robbed, insulted and marched in his enfeebled state for miles, and forced forward at the point of their bayonets, while his wounds were yet bleeding, which so greatly reduced him in health that he was hastened to his grave in 1780. (See Dr. Daggett's deposition, Barber's His. of Conn. )
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President Daggett and Hon. David Dagget, both have descendants at New Haven, where they both died, neither of whom were early settlers in Conn., though were adopted ornaments of the state. The name is occasionally spelled Dogget on the early records. Thomas Daggett, aged 21 years, embarked from England, for Virginia, in the Primrose, July 27, 1635. Eleven of this name had graduated at Yale College, in 1839; Napthali, 1771, at Harvard ; 3 at Brown University, before 1827. Daggett, has one coat of arms. (Burk.)
DAILEY, DALEY, DAYLEY, DALY, NICHOLAS, made free in 1663.
DAILEY, JOSEPH, and wife Patience, of Colchester, Conn., had a dau'r Frances, an adult, bap. June 28, 1741, and a son John, b. at Colchester, Dec. 11, 1708 ; Joseph Dailey, resided in Middletown, where he died, and his son Field Dailey, aged 14, chose Joseph Dailey, for his guardian, in 1748-9.
DAILEY, BENJAMIN, and Elizabeth, of Colchester, had a son Benjamin, b. at Colchester, June 3, 1744; Lucretia, b. April 4, 1742 ; Joseph Dailey, Jr., of Colchester, m. Rebecca Dewey, 1747. This has been an old name in Woodbury, and is a frequent name in Ireland and England. Several families of this name have within a few years past immigrated to this country.
DALY, has three coats of arms, all Irish.
One (Co. Galway, Ireland.) One Benmore, Co. Galway. An ancient family, now represented by Malachy. Daly, of Paris, Esq., banker, eldest son of the late Dominick Daly, Esq., by Joanna Harriet, his wife, sister of the first Lord Walscourt, same arms, &c. One (Dunsandle, Co. Galway,) same arms, crest, &c. (Burk.)
DALGLESH, DAGLICH, ROBERT, was one of the signers at Branford, Conn., to settle a town upon Passaic River, in New Jersey, and went there in 1667, and aided in settling Newark. The name was for some years spelled, Dalglesh, which is supposed to have been Douglass. (See Douglas.)
Michael Tompkins, in his will of 1688-9, in mentioning his chil- dren, Jonathan, Micah, Seth, Mary Rose, names ABIGAL DALG- LESH, and Elizabeth Bishop, note, p. 83, Stearn's History of Newark. Dr. Mc Whorten, in his manuscript history, mentions four men who had fled from Scotland, to avoid persecutions there under Charles II., and names them Young, Nesbit, Clisby and Douglass, who, for their zeal and piety, had been admitted by the first settlers (of Ne- wark) to great privileges. Stearns' His. of Newark, note, p. 86. This is the Robert Dalglesh, (now Douglas, ) who signed the contrac named above. In 1663, Robert Douglas and Wm. Douglas, were.
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both of New London. Dalgliesh, has a coat of arms, (Scots craig Scotland.) See Burk.
DALISON, GILBERT, and his brother James, were early at Milford, James the eldest (Lamb't says) d. in 1642, unmarried, and his estate settled by Capt. Astwood as judge, being the first estate settled in Milford, by the probate court. Gilbert Dalison, is noted by Lamb't, as principal after planter in Milford, in 1647. And he with Charles Deal, Samuel Coley, Jr., and Robert Haughton, were at Milford, in 1676. Richard Haughton, was one of the second class of planters at Milford, with Dalison, &c. Rev. Timothy came over to New England, with Rev. Samuel Eaton, Rev. John Fisk, &c., in 1637. Dalison, has three coats of arms. One (Laughton, Co. Lin- coln.) One (Hamptons, Co. Kent.) One ar. a pile engr. sa. One Dalisone, (Scotland, see Dalyson.) Burk.
DANA, JACOB, JR., settled in Ashford, Conn. ; he was descended from Richard Dana, a French Protestant, who settled at Cambridge ; Jacob had a son Anderson, (who became a lawyer at Ashford ;) when his son Sylvester, was quite young, he removed to Wyoming, Penn., in 1772. The father of Sylvester, was killed in the horrid massa- cre at Wilksbarre, in 1778, together with his son-in-law, White, and his mother, who was the dau'r of Deacon Caleb Huntington, of Lebanon, escaped the conflict, and with her children fled to Conn., on foot, which was even a harder fate than when she moved there on horseback, with Sylvester on the horse behind her, and a young child in her arms. Sylvester graduated at Yale College, 1797, and settled in the ministry at Concord, New Hampshire, where he d. in 1849, aged about 79 years, so that Sylvester, when he rode behind his mother to Wyoming, was about 3 years old. He was b. at Ash- ford, Oct. 14, 1769.
Dana is not found to have been an early name either in the Conn. or New Haven Colonies, though at a later period it has been promi- nent in the State, by the exalted rank the Hon. Mr. Dana, deceased, of Middletown, held in Congress, for several years, as well as by the high reputation as a divine, maintained by the Rev. James Dana, D. D., of New Haven. Dr. Dana, came into Connecticut from Cambridge, Mass., about 1757 or 8, and became a candidate for set- tlement at Wallingford, Conn., where the people agreed to settle him as their minister. Some feared he was not orthodox, and inquired of him his views of original sin, falling from grace, free will, &c., all which he answered shortly. And when he was asked what he thought of the platform ; he answered, he had not seen it, but re-
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marked if he settled he supposed he should settle upon it. They finally inquired if he had seen the doctrines of faith used by his pred- ecessor? He answered he had; they then wished to know if he liked them ? Dr. Dana, being probably impatient, asked why they did not inquire of him how he liked John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Prog- ress and Æsop's Fables ? A violent quarrel arose in the town against him, but he was ordained by the ordaining council, but they ordained him against the will of the consociation. Mr. Dana remained their preacher a few years and was dismissed, and afterward settled and died in New Haven.
DANE, DANES, EBENEZER, of Windham, (this name per- haps should have been recorded Dean, or Dana,) had by his wife Mercy, issue, viz., Zuruiah, b. March 31, 1720 ; Hannah, b. Aug. 9, 1722; John, b. June 29, 1724; perhaps others. Ebenezer, the father, d. May 22, 1753.
DANE, NATHAN, and wife Sarah, from Abington, united with the church at Hampton, Conn., in 1755 ; issue, recorded, Nathan, b. May 11, 1752, d. 1752; Lydia, b. March 8, 1754; 2d Nathan, b. March 16, 1756 ; Aaron, b. Jan. 21, 1758.
DANE, THOMAS, aged 32 years, carpenter, sailed for New England in the Elizabeth and Ann, in 1635.
Nine by the name of Dana, graduated at Yale College, between 1760 and 1845. Hon. Samuel W., graduated at Yale College, 1775 ; 17 at Harvard, before 1849, and spelled Dane; 2 at Brown Univer- sity, before 1831; 3 at Amherst. Dane, has 4 coats of arms. 16 by the name of Dane, had graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1854, and one Dane, in 1800.
DANFORTH, THOMAS, of Wethersfield, m. Elizabeth, and had issue, viz., Elizabeth, b. Aug. 22, 1789; Thomas, Jr., b. July 6, 1792 ; Almira, b. 1794. His son Thomas, m. Mary Ann Butler, Sept. 14, 1827. This was an early and very respectable name in Mass., but a late name in Conn.
DANIELL, DANIELS, STEPHEN. This name is Daniel, gen- erally, upon the early records of Conn. Stephen was an early
NOTE .- The original records of Stratford, from the first settlement in 1639, to 1650, were destroyed by the burning of the building in which they were kept, so that the direct evidence from record showing who the first settlers were, is somewhat uncertain, though some things were recorded again, grants of land, some births, &c. But the dates to the grants are often omitted, yet the births give some light ; still a tolerable correct account can be given, though probably some of the first settlers left the town, before the records were burned; of such no account is found.
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settler at New Haven, and the first found in the two Colonies. His children b. in New Haven, were Joanna, b. Sept. 1, 1652; Eliza- beth, b. Oct. 1, 1655 ; Rebecca, b. 30th, 11th, mo., 1657, probably others. Edward Daniel, d. in New Haven, Aug., 1662. Mrs. Anna Daniel, of New Haven, d. May 3, 1709. Stephen Danyell was fined 40s. and Greenfell Larreby, fined £5, for disorderly carriage, by the General Court, of Conn., Nov. 3, 1650, and both required, that if Joshua Jennings ( whom they rescued from authority) came on board their ships again on the river or at Saybrook, to deliver him to the authority. The name Daniel, was at Hartford, in 1643, perhaps not a settler. John Daniel, of New London, as early as 1663. Thomas Daniel, was one who was paid " for fetching guns from Saybrook to New London," in 1691. John, was of New Lon- don, when the patent of the town was sanctioned by the Gov'r and Company. John, of New London, d. about 1709, or 10, and his widow Mary, named. Miss Caulkins says, he m. Mary Chappell, Jan. 19, 1664-5, after he came to New London, and had nine chil- dren, viz. :
1. John, b. Jan. 19, 1665-6; m. Agnes Beebe.
2. Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1667.
3. Thomas, b. Dec. 31, 1669.
4. Christian, b. March 3, 1671.
5. Hannah, b. April 20, 1674.
6. Rachel, b. Feb. 27, 1676.
7. Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1679.
S. Jonathan, b. Oct. 15, 16S2.
9. Clement, (not recorded.)
John, sen'r, the father of the above children, divided his land to his four sons. He gave Thomas his homestead, which joined the farms of John Keeney and Samuel Manwaring. This Thomas d. Oct. 12, 1725. The sons of John, sen'r, m. and all had children.
DANIEL, JOHN, JR., b. 1665, m. Agnes Beebe, dau'r of Samuel, Dec. 3, 1685, d. Jan. 15, 1756, wanting only 15 days of being 90 years old. John, of New London, in 1709, was one of the petition- ers there for a grist-mill, to be built upon the falls of Jordan Brook, " where it falleth into the cove," in place of the old and neglected grist-mill, of Governor Winthrop's, which was built in 1712, by Richard Manwaring, on the falls of Jordan Brook, as petitioned for in 1709. (See Caulkins and record.)
DANIELS, JONATHAN, of Colchester, Conn., perhaps son of John, of New London, d. 1750, aged 72 ; his wife d. 1743, aged 60. He had a dau'r Jemima, bap. June, 1740 ; Jonathan, (supposed) Jr.,
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of Colchester, m. in Colchester, Feb., 1744. His wife bap. May 29, 1737.
DANIELS, NEHEMIAH, of Colchester, m. Elizabeth Worthing- ton, Dec. 19, 1743, and had issue, Rhoda, b. 1744; Jonathan, his eighth child, b. 1760; Amasa, b. 1762.
DANIELS, EZEKIEL, of Colchester, m. Elizabeth Olcott, of East Haddam, Oct. 28, 1787.
DANIELS, LEMUEL, of Colchester, settled at Middle Haddam, about 1750.
DANIELS, DANIEL, of Bolton, Conn., d. 1758; estate £29, 16s. 4d., and his son Daniel Daniels, adm'r.
DANIELS, JOEL, of Bolton, d. 1763, and Daniel Daniels, adm'r; estate, £25, 2s. 1d.
DANIELS, PELATIAH, m. Abigail Daniels, of Colchester, 1750.
DANIELS, WILLIAM (Massachusetts,) m. Katherine, dau'r of John Greenway, of Dorchester. He was the first applicant to be made free from Dorchester. His wife had for three years previous to 1653, bestowed much of her time to educate Indians, for the trifling sum of £6. This humane and praiseworthy act, induced the commissioners of the United Colonies to allow her £9, more for her past services, and to encourage her in further exertions, allowed her £3 in advance for the then ensuing year.
DANIELS. "Davey Danell," taxed at O. R., 1661 to 1672. " Daniell Teage," b. 1647, taxed at O. R., 1666 to 1671. John had a grant of land Sept. 23, 1701, New Hampshire. (His. Reg.)
Farmer names, Richard Daniel, of Billerica, 1675, and Andover. Robert, Watertown and Cambridge, free 1638, d. at Cambridge, July 6, 1655 ; also Thomas Daniel, of Cambridge, d. Nov., 1644 ; Thomas, Kittery, 1652, perhaps afterward of Portsmouth, and one of the first council of New Hampshire, under President Cutt., in 1680 ; William, Mass., made free 1648, and Wentworth Daniels, of Lynn, 1640. (Lewis.) Elizabeth Daniell, aged 2, came to New England, in the Increase, in 1635 ; Edward Dannell, aged 18, em- barked for Virginia, July 27, 1635 ; Daniel Daniell, embarked for Virginia in the Merchant bona venture, 1634-5. This name has been many years at East Hartford, and Hartford, and in several other towns in Conn. ; Daniel, of New Haven, was there soon after the settlement of that Colony, and perhaps was a part of the New London family. The coats of arms are variant, and the spelling of the name as much so; viz., Daniel, Daniell, Danyell, Daniels ;
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Daniel, (Ireland and England ; as borne by Nicholas Charles Daniel, of Westbrook House, Co. Dorset, Esq.,) has one ; Daniel, (Ireland,) 1; Daniel, (Trelissick, Co. Cornwall,) 1; Daniel or Danyell, has one ; Daniell, (Cheshire,) 4; Daniell, (Clifton, and Rostherne, Co. Chester,) 1; Daniell, (Cheshire, Suffolk, and Wells,) 1; Daniell, (Truro, Co. Cornwall,) 1; Daniell, (Durham,) 1; Daniell, (Glou- cestershire,) 1; Daniell, (Little Berkampstead, Co. Hertford,) 1; Daniell, (Scotland,) 1; Daniell, (Aldridge-Lodge, Co. Stafford,) 1 ; Daniell, (Suffolk,) 1; Daniell, (Beswick, Co. York,) 1; Daniell, (Beswick, Co. York and Wiltshire,) same as of Scotland ; Daniell, (Yorkshire,) 2; Daniell, (Tideswell, Co. Derby, a co-hieress, m. Meverell,) 1; Daniels, (St. Austins, near Lymington, Co. Hauts,) has one ; Danyell, has 2, and several others. One Daniel, and two Daniels, graduated at Harvard Collge, before 1847 ; David Daniels, at Brown University, 1824 ; one Daniels at Dartmouth, in 1844.
This name was so early scattered in different towns and Colonies, it is now not only expensive, but difficult tracing them.
DANIELSON, JAMES, Joseph Cady, and Eph'm Warren, were early settlers at Killingly, not far from 1700. Barber says, the first white person buried there, was a member of said Cady's family, the great-grandmother of Nell Alexander, who was living quite aged in 1836. N. Alexander was a nephew of Levens; he lived near Alexander's Lake, in Killingly.
DANIELSON, GEN. JAMES, of Killingly, m. Sarah Lord, dau'r of Elisha Lord, of Pomfret. James Danielson, is the first found at Killingly, soon after 1700 ; Danielston, (Danielstan, Scotland,) has I coat of arms.
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Here is entered gross errors.
Page 15, for John Abbot, on 2d line from top, read Robert Abbott, 1641. Same page, read Wm. Abernatha, sen'r, wife Sarah Doolittle, named in her father's will.
Page 18, for Accorly, read Ackerly.
Page 23, Jacob Adams, of Suffield, d. in Boston, Nov., 1717, while a mem- ber of the General Court ; son of Robert, of Newbury ; he m. Anna, at Newbury, and had 2 children b. there, and 7 afterward.
Page 27, Adkins, Josiah, had 2 or 3 children by a previous wife, and Thomas, of East Hartford, was one of them.
Page 29, for Aiken, read Joseph Eason.
Page 36, Allen, Col. John, had two wives.
Page 42, the 4th line from top, read Leek, for Leet.
Page 44, 12th line from top, for Deerfield, read Ipswich.
Page 44, the two children entered for Eldw'd, Jr., put Edw'd, sen'r.
Page 47, 15th line from bottom, read Feb., 1797, for 1697.
Page 51-2, Samuel did not go to Saybrook, but d. in Hartford.
Page 58, Joseph, son of John Arnold, was not an original proprietor in Hartford, in 1639.
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Page 99, Nathaniel Bacon did not act as Justice of Peace, but was present and interested in the depositions taken, Oct. 17, 1661.
Page 126, Thomas Barber, sen'r, of Windsor, d. in 1662, and his son Thomas, was of Simsbury, in 1677.
Page 130, 3d line from top, for Barclay, read Barlow ; his dau'r Mary Barlow, in. John Nash, of Norwalk, in 1684.
Page 141, Thomas Barnes, of Hartford, and Farmington, not connected with Thomas, of Middletown. Thomas, of Middletown, was in New Haven, as early as 1644, and his children b. there, and nearly as old as Thomas, of Hartford.
Page 146, Wm. Bartholomew, of Branford, was ancestor of the name in Conn., a mill-wright, and built the first mill in Woodstock, where he and two sons held lands.
Page 74, in note, for brother, read " nephew."
Page 157, for Wm. Bascum, read Bassum.
Page 174, Thomas Beers, not a constable in 1647, but Thomas Bunce. The first Beers, was in Fairfield Co., in Conn.
Page 182, Mathew Bellamy, was a school-teacher in Conn., in several towns ; he probably d. at sea, and not being heard from in some time, in 1689, the court appointed guardians for his son and dau'r.
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Page 444, 12th line from top, read 1639, for 1689.
Page 344, on 10th and 11th lines from top, erase all after daughters, to the bracket, and insert, Anna, b. Oct. 5, 1675; Ab'm, Jr., b. March 29, 1677, d. single; Mary, b. March 21, 1680, and Elizabeth, b. Aug. 12, 1682.
Page 639, note, 20th line from bottom, for father, read brother-in-law.
Page 644, 4th line from bottom, read Rev. John Calvin, and erase Martin Luther. Allen Joseph, of Coventry, was father of Col. Ethan, and son of ' Samuel Allen, who d. in Windsor, in 1648.
Hon. Joel Barlow, author of Hasty Pudding, was born in the town of Read- ing, Conn., March 24, 1754, son of Samuel B., by his second wife Esther Hull, and grandson of Samuel. Joel Barlow was the wonder of his age and more so, in this age, by having foretold in his writings, the electric wires, the great western canal, and navigation by steam, many years before Fulton and Morse were known as inventors or discoverers. He was licensed to preach in New Haven. (See E. Stiles' Diary.) Chaplain in the 3d and 4th Mass. Brigades, 1750, 1753. Embarked from New York, for Havre, in France. Wrote his " Hasty Pudding," while in Savoy, in January, 1793. Went to Algiers, the last of 1795, and retured to Paris, in the summer of 1797. Hed. at Zarnawica, a small village 20 miles north of Cracon, in Poland, Dec. 24, 1812, when on his return from Wilna, to Paris, whither he had been to confer with the Emperor Napoleon. Married Ruth Baldwin, Jan. 26, 1781, dau'r of Michael Baldwin, and had no issue. She d. at Washington, D. C., May 30, 1815. Samuel Bar- low, the son of Samuel and father of Joel, the poet, m. Eunice Bradley, dau'r of Daniel, Aug. 2, A. D., 1731, and had issue :
1. Daniel, son of Samuel and Eunice, b. Nov. 24, 1734.
2. Ruhamah, dau'r of Samuel and Eunice, b. Jan. 22, 1737.
3. James, b. Jan. 29, 1739.
4. Jabez, b. March 21, 1742 ; Samuel, m. for second wife Esther Hull, dau'r of Nathaniel Hull, Aug. 7, 1744 ; and had children, viz. :
5. Nathaniel, b. May 13, 1745.
6. Aaron, b. Feb. 11, 1750.
7. Samuel, b. April 3, 1752 ; d. at Rhinebeck, New York.
8. Hon. Joel, (the Poet,) b. March 24, 1754.
Huldah Barlow, d. April 11, 1809, m. Nathan Bennet, and d. in Dunning street, Malta, Saratogo Co., New York. Samuel, father of Joel, the Poet, d. Dec. 20, 1773, aged 63 ; Esther, the mother of Joel, the Poet, d. Aug. 28, 1775, aged 54; Col. Aaron, full brother of Hon. Joel Barlow, d. in Norfolk, Virginia, Aug. 12, 1500. Few of the great and good men of this country, have been as much and as maliciously misrepresented by the politicians, religious fanatics, and historians, as Hon. Joel Barlow, when few deserved it less, and much of it was probably to be attributed to the fact of his being fifty years ahead of the day in which he lived, and foretelling most of the important discoveries since his decease, mechanically, politically and religiously. (See his original letters and other writings in the hands of Olmsted, who will probably do him justice, with the facts in his possession, and with a pen few can wield to better advan- tage. See note, page 131, of this work.)
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