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CHILDREN.
I. JERUSHA, 3
b. Nov. 26, 1755 ; m. May 12, 1774, Abel Wetmore ; d. May 1, 1780.
III. ZIMRI,3
b. Oct. 2, 1762 ; m. Mille Catlin, Jan. 17, 1782.
IV. ESTHER3 (twin),
b. June 1, 1766.
V. JOHN3 (twin),
b. June 1, 1766 ; d. July 21, 1766.
VI. LORRAIN,3
b. May 30, 1768 ; d. Mch. 7, 1772.
VII. CLARAMAN (dau.),
b. Oct. 5, 1770.
VIII. OLIVE,3
b. July 23, 1773.
IX. LEWIS,3
b. Sept. 8, 1775.
X. ROGER,3
b. Jan. 9, 1779; d. Oct. 1, 1780.
BERIAH HILLS came into the town after 1769, and lived on Torring- ton line on the east side of the road, in the third tier, second division, runuing north from Fyler's. He was for several years appointed " to read the psalm" in the old meeting house, and died March 25, 1778, in his fifty-second year. His wife Mary survived him. Their
II. LORRAIN LEWIS,3
b. Feb. 6, 1758 ; d. Oct. 14, 1763.
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CHILDREN WERE :
I. MARY,3 bap. in Torrington, Mch. 20, 1748.
II. BENONI,3
Dec. 24, 1749.
III. LoIs,3 " Feb. 2, 1751-2.
IV. CHAMERY,8
Feb. 17, 1754 ; m. Lois Grant.
V. BELA, 3
Aug. 22, 1756.
VI. ROGER ENO,3
Mch. 4, 1759.
VII. ZIMRI,8
Ap. 23, 1763.
VIII. HULDAH,3 "
Aug., 1767.
MEDAD HILLS of Goshen, third son of Benoni, a gunsmith, who made muskets for the state during the Revolution, was a large landowner in Winchester, and resided at one period in the Norris Coe house. He had a son, Hewitt, who came into the town in 1788, and became one of its most prominent citizens. He will be spoken of hereafter.
.JESSE HILLS, son of Deacon Seth, lived on the farm recently occupied by Samuel Hurlbut second, which he sold to Elijah Blake in 1798, and removed to Windham, Green Co., N. Y., and afterwards to Vernon, N. Y., and a few years later to Kirtland, Lake Co., O., where he died April, 1841, aged 81. He had a second wife.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. LAURA, b. Oct. 14, 1790; m. Benj. D. Allen.
II. HULDAH, b. Jan. 19, 1793 ; m. Augustus Allen.
III. LUCY, b. Sept. 11, 1795; m. Ira Brown.
CHAUNCEY HILLS, second son of Beriah, "a noted stammerer," lived in his father's homestead bordering on Torrington line, until about 1802, when he sold out to Luke Case and William Bunnell, and removed to Litchfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y.
BENONI HILLS, oldest son of Beriah, had no real estate during the life of his father. One of his daughters married Chauncey Humphrey. He married, October 28, 1773, Elizabeth Agard, and had
CHILDREN.
I. THEODOSIA, b. Feb. 1, 1775.
II. ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 20, 1776.
III. AMANDA, b. Tor., June 18, 1780 ; bap. Aug. 27, 1780.
SETH HILLS and IRA HILLS, third and fourth sons of Deacon Seth, moved with their father to Vernon, N. Y. To the latter, the compiler is
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indebted for much valuable information respecting the family, and respect- ing Vernon families generally which originated in Winchester.
The Hills' in a body seem to have pulled up stakes and abandoned the town at the great exodus about 1800. Not a single descendant of Benoni Hills' bearing the name has lived in the town for several years. Descend- ants in the female line are not unfrequent.
Deacon Abel S. Wetmore is descended from Benoni' in the fifth generation.
In 1751 CAPTAIN JOSIAH AVERED, of Woodbury, (Bethlem Society) became the owner of undivided lands in Winchester, and was soon after disabled by the kick of a horse, and confined to his bed until his death in 1765. His property being almost exhausted during his protracted con- finement, his widow, Mrs. Hannah (Hinman) Avered, or Everett, as now spelled, soon after his death removed with her aged mother and seven children to the wilds of Winchester, while there were as yet but three families in the central part of the old society. They stayed in a house on the farm now owned by Deacon Abel S. Wetmore, until a clearing had been made and a house erected on their land about two miles north of the center, on the old South Country road, as it then ran toward Norfolk. This house is the oldest now standing in the town .* It has never been painted, and had not, when built, an iron hinge or latch on any of its doors. .
Here this energetic and godly woman reared her young family, and so discharged the duties of a mother and revolutionary matron, that her chil- dren and fellow-townsmen might well rise up and call her blessed. Her aged grand-daughter, Mrs. Swift, now of New York, has permitted the copying from her reminiscences the following account of the experiences of the pioneer family :
" It is evident that my grand-mother removed from Bethlem in 1765 ; and with her children, came also her mother, Mrs. Mary Noble Hinman, who died in Winchester, at 92 years of age. The date of her death is not known. Her grave is on the left hand of her daughter's, as you face the head-stone of the latter. She is said to have been born in Northampton, and to have removed to old Milford at the age of 16, and that soon afterward, on a Sabbath morning, she and her sister went into the forest to collect thorns with which to dress themselves in order to at- tend church at New Haven. This sister was ancestress of Presi- dent Day.
" During the severe winters of that period, the hungry wolves howled in the little enclosure of my grand-mother's cottage during the nights, and
* It was crushed to the ground by the weight of snow in the winter of 1870-71.
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were seen to jump over the fence when any one opened the door. Many are the incidents related in my childish ears, of the sufferings of the family during the revolutionary war, particularly in the 'hard winter ' of '83.
" No grinding could be done at the mill - snow fell every other day for six weeks - and the wind and drifting seemed only a continuation of the storm ! Grain and corn were boiled for family use. Wood was drawn on the tops of the drifts, on a hand-sled by my Uncle Andrew (the youngest son) on snow shoes, and received by his sisters through a win- dow at the back of the house. My Uncle Noble at this period was a chaplain in the army, and my father (Josiah), also away getting his pro- fession, and afterwards in command of a company on the Canada frontier.
" During the hard winter a piece of check-woolen for soldiers' shirts was put into the loom, but it was impossible to weave it on account of the cold ; so it was all wound out in balls, then doubled (one thread white and the other blue) and twisted on the 'great wheel '; and thus prepared, my grand-mother and her four daughters sat in a circle,- enclosed by blankets suspended from the joists over head around the high fire-place - and . knitted the yarn into stockings for the army. One night during these times, my grand-mother and her children sat up amid the howlings of the winter blasts, in consultation whether they should break up house- keeping and each take care of themselves. After retiring and passing the remaining night sleepless, grand-mother arose in the morning, and told her family that ' by the help of God they would keep together.'
" When she was 84 years old, she often rode on horseback from her home two miles to the village, went to the store, then stopped at my father's to rest, and then rode home alone. She was 89 at her death.
" During the war my Aunt Diana, one Monday morning, received an invitation to a wedding just one week from that evening; she must, there- fore, have a ' new gown.' The only store in the town was south of the burying-ground, near Torrington line, nearly four miles distant. My grand-mother rode over the hills to the store, where she found a pattern of chintz, which she could have for eleven and a half yards of checked woollen shirting for soldier's wear ; but could not buy it with ' continen- tal bills.' The old lady returned about one hour before . sundown,' and told her story. 'We had,' says my aunt, ' wool, cards, wheel, net, loom, and blue dye all in the house, but not a thread of yarn. That night, be- fore I went to bed, I carded, spun, washed, and put into the dye-tub, one run of yarn, and so the work went on ;. the cloth was wove, the 'gown' pattern purchased, made up, and worn to the wedding at the week's end. I have often seen this gown ; and in 1843 I slept under a bed-quilt, made principally from its remains, in a good state of preserva- tion.
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"On another occassion, years afterwards, (within my own memory) this Aunt Diana, being engaged at her cheese-tub, heard the cry of a chicken at the open door ; looking out, she perceived a large hen-hawk pounced on a poor fowl, her back towards her. With a long cheese knife in her hand she sprang lightly forward and sat down over the hawk, took him by the head and, with her knife, cut it off. 'He acted as if he felt ashamed when I was doing it,' she said, when she told me the story. Often have I played with its great talons.
" Annt Diana, - afterwards wife of Deacon Theophilus Humphrey, of Canton - was almost 91 years old at her death, December 11. 1843. She was remarkable for her piety and talents - was educated beyond what was common at that early period - had spent three years at school in New London."
Richard Everitt, one of the founders of Dedham, Massachusetts, had a son, Israel,? born July 14, 1657 ; who had a son, Josiah," born August 3, 1768 ; who had a son, Josiah,4 born August 5, 1710, at Guilford. Con- necticut ; who married Hannah Noble Hinman. He died in Bethlem; will proved March 19, 1765. She died in Winchester, May 19, 1803, aged 88.
CHILDREN :
I. ELIHU,5 b. March, 5, 1741, d. October 25, 1759.
II. MARY,5
b. February 13, 1743 ; d. March 9, 1760.
III. AARON,5 b. April 3, 1745 ; d. December 4, 1761.
IV. REV. NOBLE,5 b. March 3, 1747.
V. DOCT. JOSIAH,5 b. February 27, 1749.
VI. HANNAH,5 b. January 1, 1751 ; m. March 2, 1774, Thomas Hosmer.
VII. DIANA,5 b. February 14, 1753; d. December 11, 1843; m. Dca. Theophilus Humphrey.
IX. MABEL,5 b. b. July 30, 1755 ; } Twins. d. Jan. 31, 1835.
VIII. ANDREW,5
« d. February 24, 1804 ; m. May 30, 1776, Daniel Corbin.
X. AMELIA,6
b. May 14, 1757; d. October 22, 1843 ; m. May 15, 1782, Doct. Sol. Everitt.
REV. NOBLE EVERITT, graduated at Yale, in 1775, served as a chap- lain in the revolutionary army, afterwards settled in the ministry at Ware- ham, Massachusetts, and died in the discharge of his pastoral duties De- cember 30, 1819.
DOCTOR JOSIAH EVERITT,5 married December 5, 1776, Esther Hin- man. She died September 30, 1783, in her 30th year. He married (2d) February 23, 1785, Nelly, daughter of Captain Samuel Pease, of Enfield, Connecticut ; born December 23, 1762; she died, November 2, 1791 ; 7
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and he married, (3d) September 26, 1794, Hannah Stanley, who died, June 27, 1826. He died, February 5, 1829, aged 80. He studied medicine with Doctors Bird, of Bethlem, and Hall, of Woodbury, and settled in Winchester as a physician, living first in the store building, re- cently torn down, that stood in front of Mr. Theron Bronson's new store at Winchester centre, and afterwards, through his remaining life, in the house now occupied by his son, Noble J. Everitt, a quarter of a mile south of the centre.
He served as captain of a company of Connecticut troops in the Northern army in the first year of the revolutionary war.
CHILDREN OF DOCTOR JOSIAH5 AND NELLY (PEASE) EVERITT.
I. NELLY MINERVA, 6 b, July 30, 1786 ; m. Doct. Zepheniah Swift.
II. JOSIAH NOBLE, 6 b. December 10, 1788 ; m. Roxy L. Cook, daughter of Elisha Cook, Esq.
III. CHESTER P.,6 b. November 12, 1790 ; d. April 24, 1807.
CHIDREN OF DOCTOR JOSIAH AND HANNAH (STANLEY) EVERITT.
IV. HANNAH B.,6 b. June 7, 1798; m. March 8, 1825, Rev. Henry Bushnell.
V. MARY,6 b. December 29, 1799 ; d. May 29, 1807.
ANDREW EVERITT,5 married, May 18, 1780, Abigail North. She died, June 2, 1795, aged 31 ; and he married (2d), December 26, 1799, Statira, daughter of Deacon Setli Hills, and widow of John Marshall. He resided with his mother in the old homestead until her decease, and continued to own and occupy it until 1809, when he sold it, and removed to Vernon, New York, where he died.
CHILDREN OF ANDREW5 AND ABIGAIL (NORTH) EVERITT.
I. ELIHU,6 b. December 16, 1780; d. September 11, 1781.
II. ELIHU, 6 b. January 21, 1783; m. Roxy, daughter of John Marshall.
III. ANDREW HINMAN,6 b. October 27, 1788; d. March 9, 1791.
CHILDREN OF ANDREW' AND STATIRA (HILLS) EVERITT.
IV. ANDREW HINMAN,6 b. November 26, 1800.
V. TRUMAN,6 b. December 26, 1801 ; d. October 9, 1804.
VI. ELISHA,6 b. February 15, 1805.
JONATHAN COE,5 of Torrington, purchased 100 acres of land at the south end of the third tier, first division, lying immediately north of the farm of Deacon Seth Hills, in 1764, which remained in
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his family ninety-nine years. In 1765 he conveyed one half of this lot to his son Oliver, and the other half to his son Robert. He was born in Durham, Connecticut, about 1710; son of Robert4 and Bar- bara (Parmele) Coe; grand-son of John3 and Mary (Hawley) Coe ; great-grand-son of Robert? and Coe ; and great-great-grand-son of Robert1 Coe, who was born in Suffolkshire, England, in 1596, and came to New England with his wife Anna, in 1634; settling successively in Watertown, Massachusetts; Wethersfield and Stamford, Connecticut ; and in Hempstead, Newtown, and Jamaica, Long Island. He married in Durham, September 23, 1737, Elizabeth Elmer, and was one of the first settlers of Torrington. They came to Winchester when old. She died June 28, 1794, aged 84 ; he died April 23, 1795, aged 84.
CHILDREN.
I. OLIVER,6 b. in Torrington, September 3, 1738.
II. ROBERT,6 b. in March 28, 1740.
III. JONATHAN,6 b. in
August 20, 1742 ; m. April 15, 1767, Eunice Cook ; she d. April 12, 1818 ; he d. August 21, 1824.
IV. ELIZABETH,6 b. in Torrington, September 5, 1743.
V. JERUSHA, 6 b. in March 27, 1746.
VI. MARTHA,6 b. in January 5, 1748-9.
VII. EBENEZER,6 b. in
December, 2, 1750; d. in Torrington, Octo- ber 18, 1784.
VIII. LUCRETIA,6 b. in June 9, 1755 ; m. March 18, 1776, Daniel Murray, she d. June 1792.
OLIVER COE,6 moved on to the south half of the above lot at or soon after the date of his deed and occupied the same until his death, Decem- ber 31, 1775, at the age of 37. He served in the continental army under Captain Sedgwick, and Colonel Hinman, at Ticonderoga, in 1775 ; was discharged November 20th; was taken sick on his way home near Lake George ; procured a horse on which he reached' home November 28th ; and was confined to his bed with the camp or typhoid fever, until his death, five weeks afterward. He left a widow and six children, from three to thirteen years old, all of whom were sick with the same disease. These facts are gathered from a memorial to the assembly by his admin- istrator, asking a reimbursement of the expenses of his sickness and death on which a grant was allowed of £14 6s. He married, October 7, 1762, Mary Agard, of Torrington.
CHILDREN.
I. ABNER,7 b. in Torrington, April 12, 1763 ; m. May 20, 1784, and had Wealthy, b. Oct. 16, 1785 ; moved to Burk, Vt., had five more children ; and d. Aug. 15, 1846.
II. OLIVER,7 b. November 7, 1764.
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III. MARY,7 b. September 2, 1766 ; d. September 13, 1766.
IV. JUSTUS,7 b. September 1, 1767; m. 1789, Ruth Bailey ; they moved to Jewett, N. Y., where she d. March 4, 1838 ; and he in June 1850.
V. MARY,7 b. December 6, 1769; m. Doctor Abraham Camp, of Mt. Mor- ris, N. Y .; she d. 1846.
VI. JOB,7 b. April 22, 1772.
VII. JAMES,7 b. May 31, 1774.
ROBERT COE,6 settled on the north half of the hundred acre lot afore- said, and remained until 1768, when he sold out to his brother, Jonathan Coc, Jr. He afterwards owned and lived on the Levi Bronson farm near the southeast corner of Norfolk, until 1788, when he removed to Cooperstown, New York. He married, December 26, 1764, Chloe Thrall.
CHILDREN.
I. JOEL,7 b. May 4, 1765.
II. ARMANDA,7 (son), b. July 3, 1767.
III. ABIJAH,7 b. October 23, 1769.
IV. ARIEL,7 b. October 31, 1772.
V. ROSWELL,7 b. February 5, 1780.
JONATHAN COE, Jr.,6 known as Ensign Jonathan Coe, moved with his father and mother in 1768 on the farm until then occupied by Robert Coe, where Jonathan Coe, senior, died. He removed to Winsted in 1796 and resided until near his death in the house afterward occupied by Col. N. D. Coe. He married, April 15, 1767, Eunice Cook. She died April 12, 1818; he died August 1, 1824.
Ensign Coe may be considered the father of the Methodist denomina- tion in the town; having been perhaps the earliest convert and a con- sistent and earnest supporter of the order through his life.
CHILDREN.
I. LOVINA,7 b. February 11, 1768 ; m. October 26, 1788, Asahel Miller.
II. JONATHAN,7 b. March 23, 1770.
III. EUNICE,7 b. March 27, 1772; m. January 20, 1793, Abiel Loomis.
IV. ROGER,7
b. July 27, 1774, (see 1795).
V. RIIODA,7 b. March 27, 1777 ; m. Eben Woodruff, of Barkhamsted.
VI. HULDAH,7 b. January 3, 1779 ; m. May 16, 1796, Major Lloyd Andrews.
VII. DAVID,7 b. February 11, 1781.
VIII. DANIEL,7
b. February 2, 1783.
IX. EBEN,7
b. July 9, 1785.
OLIVER COE, Jr.,7 owned and lived on the Henry Drake farm, near Torrington line, in the second tier, first division, from 1805 to 1814, when he moved to Hudson, Ohio, and died there August 14, 1825, aged 61.
Chorav. J .JCT .tr:
Jonathan fac, to
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He served on several tours of duty in the revolutionary war, and on the breaking out of the Indian war again enlisted for three years, and served in General Harmer's campaign down the Ohio, and was one of seven sur- vivors of Col. Harden's detachment which was cut off by the Indians on the headwaters of the Scioto in the fall of 1791. He also served as military guard of the surveying party that surveyed the Ohio Company's purchase ; after which he returned to the place of his nativity and be- came a thrifty and wealthy farmer, enjoying in a high degree the respect and confidence of the communities in which he lived. He married, De- cember 1, 1791, Sarah Marshall, daughter of Thomas. He married (2d), Chloe Spencer, daughter of Thomas. He died in Hudson, Ohio, August 14, 1825.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. NORRIS,8 b. May 1, 1792; m. March 10, 1814, Chloe Hubbell, b. Jan- uary 25, 1788, daughter of Silliman Hubbell.
II. DEMAS,8 b. January 11, 1794 ; m. April 15, 1819, Eliza Ward. He d. December 1, 1853.
III. ARTEMISIA,8 b. December 5, 1799; m. 1815, George Chase.
JONATHAN COE, Jr.,7 married, October 3, 1792, Charlotte Spencer, daughter of Thomas. She died July 15, 1842, aged 70. He married (2d), Huldah (Spencer) Wetmore, widow of John Wetmore, 2d, and sis- ter of his first wife. She died July 10, 1845; and he married (3d), No- vember 30, 1848, Mrs. Betsey (Miller) Wetmore, of Wolcottville. He died May 31, 1849 ; she died September 18, 1850, aged 80.
CHILDREN.
I. JEHIAL, 8 b. October 5, 1794.
II. CHLOE,8 b. February 24, 1797 ; m. Chauncy Eggleston.
III. WEALTHY,8 b. March 1, 1799; m. May 10, 1820, Nelson Wilson ; she d. February 2, 1845.
IV. CHARLOTTE,8 b. August 24, 1801 ; d. February 15, 1814.
V. ASAHEL,8 b. April 4, 1804.
VI. SYLVIA,8 b. August 12, 1806 ; m. September 20, 1825, Samuel Boyd.
VII. HULDAH,8 b. April 6, 1809; m. October 13, 1834, Erastus Sterling Woodford ; she d. April 18, 1859.
VIII. JANE,8 b. August 14, 1812; m. October 13, 1834, Henry Hinsdale ; she d. October 5, 1839 ; he d. October 14, 1846.
IX. RUTH,8 b. April 5, 1814; m. November 30, 1837, Abel A. Smith ; he d. May 11, 1841 ; she d. April 18, 1847, childless.
DAVID COE,7 married, March 15, 1804, Prudence Ward. She died February 23, 1823, aged 42; he married (2d), Esther Wright. He died June 12, 1834.
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CHILDREN.
I. SAMUEL WARD,8 b. June 10, 1805; m. August 16, 1831, Abigail B. San ford ; she died December 23, 1838 ; he married (2d), May 10, 1841, Julia M. Starks. In company with Luman Hubbell and E. S. Woodford, he engaged in trade at Winsted about 1830, and continued the business un- til his death, September 20, 1868, and was largely identified with the public interests of the town, filling with ability many offices of trust and honor. He was Justice of the Peace from about 1830 to the time of his death; Town Clerk from 1833 to 1837, and from 1841 to 1851; Judge of Probate from 1843 to 1850; State Senator in 1850. He was also a faithful member and office-bearer of the Methodist Episcopal Church from early manhood. As a citizen, public spirited and a faithful worker in the Temperance and Anti-Slavery causes ; as a neighbor, kind and obliging -especially to the sick and dying. Social in disposition, re- spected and beloved in life, and lamented in death. Children by first wife; 1. Charles Betts,9 b. January 15, 1838; 2. David Ward,9 b. May 11, 1836. By second wife : 3. Francis Abby,9 b. June 26, 1842 ; 4. Wilbur Fisk,9 b. November 23, 1844.
II. EMERY,8 b. March 17, 1809; m. May 7, 1837, Almira Griswold; he d. August 27, 1861 ; she m. (2d) March 22, 1866, Milo Burr, of Torring- ton. Children : 1. Sarah Jane,9 b. March 29, 1840; 2. Edward Gris- wold, b. April 3, 1847.
III. SALLY,8 b. June 24, 1811, m. November 17, 1834, Alvin Gilbert.
IV. DAVID FLETCHER,8 b. June 30, 1819 ; d. September 7, 1823.
V. PRUDENCE,8 daughter of David7 and Esther W. Coe, b. July 1, 1828 ; d. Sep- tember 11, 1829.
REV. DANIEL COE,7 married, October 17, 1803, Mrs. Anna (Sweet) Keyes, daughter of Rev. John Sweet ; she died November 29, 1818. He married (2d), January 20, 1820, Lucy Hall ; he died January 12, 1847.
CHILDREN.
I. CAROLINE,8 b. September 20, 1804 ; m. April 15, 1833, Wm. Currie.
II. CLARISSA ANNA,8 b. April 16, 1807 ; m. December 30, 1829 ; Shadrack Manchester.
III. LOUISA,8 b. April 11, 1809; m. March 14, 1836, Oliver H. Loomis ; he d. December 25, 1838 ; she m. (2d), September 9, 1845, Chas. Hall.
IV. COL. NELSON DANIEL,8 b. November 8, 1811.
V. REV. JONATHAN,9 b. June 1, 1815.
VI. REV. JAMES ROGER,8 b. March 30, 1818.
EBEN COE,7 married, December 1, 1806, Eliza Kirkham ; he died Sep- tember 10, 1818.
CHILDREN.
I. JULIA, 8
b. August 26, 1807; m. Voorhies.
II. SAMUEL MILLS,8 b. February 21, 1809; d. December 26, 1809.
III. ELIZA.8 b. December 23, 1811; mı. Porter, of Cleveland, Ohio.
IV. CHARLES,8 b. October 25, 1816.
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JEHIAL COE,3 married, September 4, 1816, Amanda Betsey Case, born in Simsbury, April 28, 1797, daughter of Luke and Betsey (Adams) Case. She died February 18, 1855 ; and he married (2d), September 25, 1856, Mrs. Harriet E. Sage.
CHILDREN.
I. CHARLOTTE,9 b. December 21, 1817 ; m. September 14, 1841, Lemphier B. Tuttle.
II. LUKE CASE,9 b. June 13, 1821 ; m. July 18, 1844, Sarah Jane Andrews, and has Lillie, adopted April 7, 1855, b. August 17, 1847 ; and Florence Amanda,10 b. July 11, 1857.
III. SPENCER WALLACE, 9 b. October 15, 1827; m. June 3, 1856, Carrie Capron, of New York; and has 1. Spencer Capron,10 b. April 4, 1858.
IV. WILLIAM GILMORE,9 b. September 10, 1829 ; m. September 15, 1852, Martha A. Williams; she d. October 6, 1854, leaving a daughter, Martha Jane,10 b. in Jonesville, New York, February 17, 1854; and he nı. (2d) May 27, 1856, Jeannette T. Lee; and has Minnie Agnes,10 b. October 31, 1857 ; and Alice Lee,10 b. August 12, 1859 .* V. MARY JANE,9 b. June 20, 1831.
ASAHEL COE,8 married, April 26, 1826, Louisa Hale, born in Glaston- bury, July 31, 1803, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah (Cornwall) Hale; they removed to Pennsylvania, settling finally at Lock Haven.
CHILDREN.
I. ANNA,9 b. in W., October 2, 1827 ; m. E. S. Woodford.
II. JONATHN HALE, b. in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1831 ; d. May, 1832.
III. WILLIAM HALE,9 b. in Rome, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1843.
COL. NELSON D. COE,8 married, February 5, 1834, Maria H. Sey- mour ; he died November 1, 1856 ..
* He died of a disease of the brain, after a long and distressing illness, May 31, 1872. He studied law with Hon. O. S. Seymour; was admitted to the Litchfield bar in 1851 ; entered into successful practice at New Britain, Connecticut ; wlience he re- turned to Winsted in 1856, where he engaged in manufacturing business as Agent of the Clifton Mill Company, and soou became prominently identified with the public interests of the community - originating our Borough Corporation and Water-works, and efficiently aiding all other measures of public improvement. Though not the origina- tor, he was the leading organizer of the Connecticut Western Railroad Company, and acted as its Secretary from its organization to the time of his prostration by the disease that caused his death. He served in two sessions of the General Assembly, acquitting himself with decided ability, and wielding a large influence. He was gifted with a magnetism that made him a natural leader of others, and secured to him the warm attachment of many friends and admirers. At the centennial of the town in August, 1871, he presided with a dignity and ability creditable alike to himself and to the con- munity he represented.
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ANNALS OF WINCHESTER,
CHILDREN.
I. LUCY ANN,9 b. November 18, 1834 ; m. December 24, 1857, Rufus E. Holmes; has children : 1. Anna Louisa, b. September 17, 1860; 2. Susan Beecher, b October 27, 1862; 3. Rufus, b. April 4, 1865, d. March 16, 1866; 4. Edward Rufus, b. March 7, 1867; 5. Ralph Winthrop, b. October 6, 1869.
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