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July 28, 1730, Mary, the second daughter of Dr. Caleb Bushnell, of Norwich. She died February 8, 1795, aged eighty-seven. By the first marriage . Dr. Perkins had a daughter, Lydia, who married Daniel Kirkland (probably Daniel, born' October 1, 1725, son of Rev. Daniel Kirkland). By this latter wife there were several children. Dr. Joseph Perkins, Jr., oldest son of Dr. Joseph Perkins, Sr., born August 11, 1733; died May 5, 1775. He was instructed by his father and practiced in his native town, Newent, Lisbon, until smallpox terminated his life. He married Joanna, oidest daughter of Benjamin Kinsman and his wife, Mary ( Burn- ham) Kinsman, who was born May 30, 1733. She married the second time; on January 16, 1780. Pember Calkins. of New London. Dr. Perkins's children were four sons, viz .: Major Joseph Perkins, a Captain in the Continental Army, merchant in Norwich, whose son, Alfred Elijah Perkins, M.D., graduate Y. C. 1830, died in 1834, a generous benefactor of Yale College. His daughter. Mary Wat- kinson Perkins, was the wife of the late Hon. John A. Rockwell, M. C. from 1847 to 1849, and the mother of Alfred Perkins Rock- well, graduate Y. C. 1855. Jate professor there. She was also the mother of Joseph Perkins Rockwell, P. B. at Y. C. 1868; also of John A. Rockwell, M.D., who more recently lived at Lisbon on the Tracy farm, which he owned for a while ; also of Benjamin Perkins. graduate Y. C. 1785 : died in 1841. Elijah Perkins, M.D., graduate Y. C. 1787; died 1806; a practitioner in Philadelphia; and Hon, Elias Perkins, graduate Y. C. 1786: died 18.15: M. C. from 1801 to 1803. and was Mayor of New London 1829-32. He was the father of Nathaniel Shaw Perkins, M.D., graduate Y. C. 1812, who died 1870; he practiced medicine in New London. and was father of Thomas Shaw Perkins, who graduated Y. C. 1812, and died 18.44.
Dr. Eliphas Perkins was born in Newent, Lisbon, 1753: grad- uate Y. C. 1776; died at Athens, Ohio, 1828. After receiving medical instruction with Dr. Jabez Fitch, of Canterbury, he estab- lished himself in medical practice at Vergennes, Vt., whence he removed to Marietta, Ohio, in 1799. He was an able physician, a patron of learning, and a devout Christian, and was treasurer of the Ohio University. His father was Capt. John Perkins, born October 5, 1709 ; died April 16, 176t ; a son of Deacon Joseph Perkins. His mother, the second wife of his father, was Lydia ( Tracy) Perkins. The above Dr. Eliphas's wife was Lydia Fitch, second daughter of the above-mentioned Dr. Fitch, and who died in 1800 in Marietta, Ohio. Of their children the eldest was Chauncey Fitch Perkins. M.D., born 1782: died 1872; a practitioner in Athens, Ohio, and at Erie, Pa. The youngest was Rev. Henry Perkins, D.D., born February 9, 1796; graduate O. U. 1816. In Allentown, N. J., from 1820 to January, ISSO, a pastor there, and at his death still retain- ing the pastoral relation.
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Dr. Caleb Perkins, born at Newent, Lisbon, 1747, the youngest son of Dr. Joseph Perkins, Sr., was a physician who practiced his profession in West Hartford, Conn. His wife was a sister of John Trumbull, LL.D., who graduated Y. C. 1767, and a daughter of Rev. John Trumbull, who graduated Y. C. 1735, and was first pastor of the church in Westbury, Watertown.
Dr. Abijah Perkins, born in Newent, Lisbon, August, 1755: died August 31. 1782. He was a surgeon in the revolutionary army and was captured by the British forces, and his death occurred from hardship endured while held as a prisoner. His parents were Capt. John Perkins and Lydia (Tracy)' Perkins.
Simeon Perkins, Esq., emigrated to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, in 1762. Said to have been born in Norwich, February 24. 1735. He died May 9, 1812, having been a Judge of Probate, and held various other official positions in that Province.
He undoubtedly was born in Newent, Norwich, or Lisbon, February, 1735, as he was baptized there on record February, 1735. and was the son of Jacob Perkins, Esq., and his wife, Mrs. Jemima (Leonard) Perkins.
Enoch Perkins, Esq., fifth son of Capt. Mathew and Mrs. Hannah ( Bishop) Perkins, born at Newent, Lisbon, August 11. 1760; graduate Y. C. 1781, and was made a tutor there from 1784 to 1786: died in 1828. He was a legal practitioner in Hartford, Conn. He married Anna, born February 19, 1764, a daughter of Rev. Timothy . Pitkin, who graduated Y. C. 1747, a son of Gov. William Pitkin. A son of Enoch Perkins and his wife was Hon. Thomas Clap Perkins, born July 29, 1798, and graduate Y. C. 1818; died October 11, 1870 ; an attorney in Hartford and a revisor of the statutes of Connecticut, and often a State Senator, and elected a Justice of the Supreme Court, an office which he declined. His children by his wife Mary, a sister of Rev. Lyman Beecher, D.D., were Charles Enoch Perkins, who graduated W. C. 1853, an attor- ney-at-law at Hartford. Com., and Frederick Beecher Perkins, who graduated Y. C. 1860. Another son of Enoch Perkins and of Mrs. Anna ( Pitkin) Perkins, was Rev. George William Perkins, who graduated Y. C. 1824: died November 15, 1856: was successively a pastor at Montreal, Canada ; in Meriden, Conn., and a pastor and editor in Chicago, Ill.
Ephraim Perkins, Esq .. the third son of Capt. Mathew and Mrs. Hannah Bishop Perkins, born July 8, 1745: died April 23. 1813, was a prominent and leading citizen of Becket, Mass., where he emigrated in 1770. He married. November 7, 1771. Mary Chap-
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lin, of Mansfield, now Chaplin, and was the father of Mathew Perkins, who graduated Y. C. 1799, and died 1808; he was an attorney at Lisbon, N. Y .; and still another son, and brother to this last, was Hon. Bishop Perkins, who died in Ogdensburgh, N. Y., and was a Member of Congress, as well as a Member of the Constitutional Convention of New York.
Samuel Perkins, seventh son of Capt. Mathew and Hannah Bishop Perkins, born September 14, 1766; graduate Y. C. 1785; died September 22, 1850. He was approved as a candidate for the ministry by the New Haven Association, 1789. He lived in Wind- ham and was a deacon of a church there. He married Anna Hunt- ington, and was the father of Samuel Huntington Perkins, graduate Y. C. 1817, a lawyer in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mary Lee, born in Hanover, Lisbon, April 16, 1771, a daughter of Rev. Andrew Lee, D.D .: married February 12, 1795, William Perkins, of Ashford, who graduated Y. C. 1792; died 1820. One of the children of said William Perkins and his wife, Mary Lee, was George Perkins, born December 24, 1803; graduate Y. C. 1828; a lawyer and resident in Norwich, who died October 13, 1874.
Dr. Jabez Fitch was born in Newent, Lisbon, May 23. 1728 or 1729; he was a second son of Col. Jabez Fitch and his wife, Lydia (Gale) Fitch. This Jabez Fitch, Jr., and Hannah Per- kins were married by Peter Powers. His ancestors were of the first settlers. Major James Fitch appears as an original proprietor of large tracts of Lisbon territory. These Fitches were allied to the Bradfords and Adams families of Massachusetts; some of them had been residents in Canterbury; one of Dr. Fitch's children was Rev. Ebenezer Fitch, D.D., born 1756; died 1833: graduate Y. C. 1777, and a tutor there eight years, and the first president of Wil- liams College. Later he was a pastor in West Bloomfield, N. J.
Abigail Porter, of Newent, Lisbon, married, February 25. 1776, Jacob Galusha, whose son, Hon. Jonas Galusha, born 1753. was in 1813 Governor of Vermont, and died in Shaftsbury, Vt., 1834.
John Kinsman, born in Newent, Lisbon, 1753: died in Kins- man, Ohio, August 17, 1813. He was the oldest son of Capt. · Jeremiah and his wife, Sarah Thomas Kinsman. John married Rebecca Perkins, of Lisbon, October 4. 1792; removed June 14. 1804, to Ohio, and was chief among the founders of the township by him purchased, where his posterity perpetuates his name.
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Rev. James, a son of James Abel, whose parents were Alpheus and Elizabeth Abel, baptized at Hanover, Lisbon, April 20, 1803; graduate Y. C. 1819; was pastor at Andover Theological Seminary in 1822; afterwards in other places. He died at Oswego, N. Y., May, 1868.
Rev. Beriah Green, born in Hanover, Lisbon, 1800; died May 4, 1874; graduate M. C. 1819. He was afterwards in several positions of trust and importance, and was made President of Oneida College Institute, Whitesboro, N. Y. He had a brother, Rev. John Smith Green, born in Lisbon, graduate Andover Theological Seminary 1827, who was ordained minister and went as missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., at Wailuku, or Maui, S. I. Since 1843 he was missionary of the A. M. Association at Makawao, Sandwich Islands. He also had a son. Rev. J. P. Green, also a missionary at Oahu, S. I. Rev. J. S. Green died January 5. 1878, aged eighty-one years.
Luther Manning, M.D., born in Hanover, Lisbon, January 9, 1786; died in 1835; married on January 10, 1810, Lydia, born January 19. 1782 ; died December 11, 1811, a daughter of Jedediah Burnham, of Newent, Lisbon. He was a practitioner in Scotland, Conn. His father, Dr. Luther Manning, a physician in Hanover, Lisbon, was born in Scotland, Conn .; died May 7, 1813: was a son of Hezekiah and Mrs. Mary Manning, and married October 12, 1779. Sarah Smith, of Scotland, who died June 5, 1840. aged eighty-five years.
Rev. John Adams Allen, a son of Harvey Allen and Mrs. Luceba (Adams) Allen, was born in Hanover, Lisbon, December 1. 1816: graduate O. C. IS42, and Ob. Theo. Seminary in 1845 ; mar- ried, 1847, Elmira Pierce, and was pastor in Sheffield, Ill. Said Harvey and Mrs. Luceba Allen removed to Ohio in 1817. Their other children were Rev. Nathan W. Allen, of Oregon, and Dr. Charles P. Allen, of Princeton, Ill., who has been not only a physician, but a lawyer and a missionary among the Indian tribes of the West.
Dr. Daniel Gordon, a son of Daniel and Mrs. Jennet Gordon was born in Newent, Lisbon, August. 1765: graduate D. C. 1786; studied medicine with Dr. Elisha Perkins, of Plainfield, and married Priscilla Pierce. He was a successful physician in Plainfield, and after some ten years he was married and removed to Granville, N. Y. He is still remembered by the oldest people, but the time and place of his death have not been ascertained.
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Hon. John Lovett was born in Newent, Lisbon. February 20, 1761; graduate Y. C. 1782; died at Fort Meigs, Ohio, ISIS. He was a lawyer of distinction in Albany, N. Y., and a Member of Congress 1813-17. By his wife Nancy, daughter of Samuel Mc- Clellan, of Woodstock, he was the father of eight children. His oldest son, John Erskine Lovett, graduate Y. C. 1814, died 1847, was also a lawyer in Albany. The Hon. John, first of the above, was the oldest son of Captain Samuel Lovett, born October 14, 1735. died August 1, 1831, and of his first wife. Abigail Sprague. of Lebanon, married April 20, 1758, died 6th of March, 1761, aged twenty years. This Samuel Lovett married the second time, June 30. 1763, Charity Perkins, daughter of Jabez Perkins, Jr., of Newent, Lisbon. The Lovetts of Lisbon were descendants of his.
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Rev. Ebenezer Werks Robinson, son of Ralph Robinson, of Granville, N. Y., preached in Hanover, Lisbon, from 1849 to 1852. He died in Washington, D. C., April, 1869. At his suggestion the action was taken which resulted in the celebration at Norwich in June, 1859, of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the general association of Connecticut ; one result of which, especially due to his own industry, is seen in the valuable work published in 1861 under direction of that body. entitled "Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut.'
Dr. Jonathan Knight, born in Newent, Lisbon, 1758; after studying medicine, was a surgeon 1777 and 1780 in the Con- tinental Army, and afterwards settled in Norwalk. Conn. David Knight, one of the early occupants of Lisbon, who married in Nor- wich, March 17, 1692, Sarah, a daughter of Stephen and Mrs. Sarah ( Spencer) Backus, was a grandparent of the above Dr. Jonathan. A son of Dr. Jonathan Knight was Jonathan Knight, Jr., M.D., graduate Y. C. 1808, an eminent physician and dis- tinguished professor in Yale College, and was made President of the American Medical Society. He was born September 4. 1789: died August 25. 1864.
Rev. Caleb Knight, born in Hanover, Lisbon, October 30, 1771, graduate W. C. 1800; died October 25, 1854: was probably grandson of a Benjamin, born in Newent 1730, and removed when very young with his parents to Monson, Mass. He studied theology with the Rev. Charles Backus, D.D., and was ordained in Hinsdale. Mass .. April. 1802. His last years were passed in Hatfield, Mass. A Benjamin Knight died in Hanover, Lisbon, April 14. 1772. aged sixty-four years.
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Temperance Bishop was born at Newent, Lisbon, 1733, the daughter of John and his second wife, Mrs. Temperance Lathrop Bishop. She married, November 12, 1761, Daniel Holmes, then a physician at Woodstock, Conn. He died in 1788. Dr. Holmes served during the war between England and France ( 1750), and subsequently was in command of a company and served through several campaigns in Canada. During the American war for In- dependence he was a surgeon in the Continental Army. His second wife, Temperance Bishop, was, according to manifold testimony, a lady of noble bearing and surpassing excellence and loveliness. Their oldest child was David Holmes, born 1762. Their second child was Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D., LL.D., born December 24, 1763. He died June 4, 1837. He graduated Y. C. 1783, and was ordained at New Haven September 15. 1785. Pastor at Medway, 1785-91. A portion of that time in office as tutor in Yale College and pastor in Cambridge, Mass., in 1792-1832. Among his numer- ous published writings are "American Annals," two volumes, of which the first edition appeared in 1805. He married, first, Mary, the daughter of Rev. Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D., President of Yale College, by which marriage there were no children. He married, second, Sarah, the daughter of Hon. Oliver Wendell, of Boston, by which marriage there were five children born: Mary Jackson, wife of Usher Parsons, M.D .. of Providence, R. I .: Ann Susan, wife of Hon. and Rev. Charles W. Upham, a pastor in Salem, Mass., a mayor of that city and a Member of Congress ; a daughter, who died early ; Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., a medical professor, dis- tinguished also as a poet and an author, and a John, who was also a doctor and a lawyer.
.Rev. Stephen Tracy was born in Newent, Lisbon, 1749, graduate C. N. J. 1770; died 1822. He was a son of Jeremiah Tracy, Ir., and of his first wife, Mrs. Abigail (Story) Tracy. He was first pastor of the church in Peru, Mass .. 1772-76, and was the first pastor of the church of Norwich, Mass., now Huntington, Mass., from May, 1781, to June. 1799.
Eleazer Jewett was born in Newent, Lisbon, August 31, 1731, and died in Jewett City, Griswold. December 7, 1817. He removed early in 1771 from Newent to Preston, now Griswold, and settled on the Pachaug River near its entrance into the Quinabaug. He erected there a grist mill and later a saw mill, and by selling land at reasonable rates drew other persons to his vicinity, and from this beginning arose gradually around him a village thriving with manufacturing and mechanical enterprises, which was called Jewett City.
The headstone at his grave in Jewett City states: "In April, 1771, be began the settlement of this village, and from his perse-
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vering industry and active benevolence it has derived its present importance."
Mr. Jewett was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Farn- ham, who died May 4, 1798. His second wife, Elizabeth Gallup, died February 16, 1822. ( Of his children, Thomas married in Lisbon, February 3, 1785, Prudence Rood; Sarah married Col. Constant Murdock, of Norwich, Vt .; a daughter married John Wilson, and the fifth child. Joseph Jewett, married, March 4. 1790, Betsy King). The children of Joseph and Betsy ( King) Jewett were as follows : Betsy, born November 20, 1790: Sally, born December 25, 1792; Lydia, born . December 26, 1794: Ann. born October 19, 1796: Eleazer, born January 11, 1799; Henry, born April 2, 1801 ; Joseph
JOSEPH JEWETT HOME, LISBON.
R., born December 18. 1802: Thomas M .. born September 30. 1804. and Charles, born September 5. 1807. The last was the well-known temperance lecturer and advocate, a full account of whose life can be found in W. M. Thaver's book entitled "Life and Recollections of Charles Jewett." We are kindly permitted to print his photograph and his old homestead.
Elizabeth Clement. a daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Mosely Clement, married. in Newent. Lisbon, December 15. 1776. David Breed, of Norwich, and after his death she became the second wife of
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DR. CHAS. JEWETT.
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Rev. Aaron Cleaveland. Their daughter, Abiah Hyde Cleaveland, became the first wife of Rev. Samuel H. Cox, D.D., LL.D., and the mother of Right Rev. Arthur Cleaveland Cox, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York.
Eunice, the oldest daughter of Rev. Andree Lee, D.D., and his wife. Eunice Hall Lee, was born in Hanover, Lisbon, October 26, 1769, and married, January 21. 1706. Rev. Asa Witter, born in Preston, 1766. The earliest known persons by that name were at Lynn, Mass., in 1650: Ebenezer Witter, of Preston, born 166S. mar- ried May 5, 1693, Dorothy Morgan, a sister of Rev. Joseph Morgan, who was pastor of two churches in Greenwich and whose sister. Mary, was wife of the eldest Deacon, Joseph Perkins, of Lisbon.
Rev. Asa Witter, graduate Y. C. 1793: died 1833; was pastor of a church in Wilbraham, Mass., from 1797 to 1814. He removed . to Canandaigua, N. Y., 1815, and subsequently to Winchester. Tenn., where he died. His oldest child. John, graduate Y. C. 1812. was a tutor in 1815-17 and a practitioner of medicine in Texas, where in 1858 he died.
Rev. Timothy Allen was born in Norwich, Lisbon, August 31, 1715; graduate Y. C. 1736; died in Chesterfield. Mass., January 12, 1806. He was pastor of a church in West Haven, and at Orange 1738-42, and of the first church of Ashford from 1757-64. and that of Chesterfield. Mass., 1785-96. He preached sometimes in Granville, Mass. He was, with his father, a founder of the church in Norwich, and became a prominent leader among the so-called "New Lights." After he had been dismissed from his church at West Haven, he was in New London in 1743 at the licad of what was styled "The Shepherd's Tent." which was instituted to teach exhorters and ministers and train them for their work. Dr. Trum- bull represents him as "A man of talents and strict morals and as earnest and effective in preaching." He married, first. Mary Bishop, and his second wife was Dorothy Gallup. a widow of John Read. His grandson, Rev. Jacob Allen, born August 18, 1781, in Preston, was an earnest and instructive preacher.
Clarissa Huntington, born in Hanover, Lisbon. May 3. 1791, eldest daughter of Deacon Barnabas ( Perkins) Huntington, mar- ried Martin Bottom: they had a son. Martin, born December 2. IS10. She married a second time, on April 20, 1820, Dr. Rufus Smith, a physician of Griswold, and afterwards in Hanover, who,
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from 1838 to 1845, was also pastor of the church in Easthampton. One of their children, Rufus, born September 17, 1821, graduate Y. C. 1846 and died 18.47.
Dr. Walter Burnham, a son of Capt. Benjamin and of Mrs. Jemima ( Perkins ) Burnham, was born at Newent, Lisbon, Feb- ruary, 1762, and died September 6, 1834. He practised medicine in Brookfield, Vt. He married, first, in 1792, Submit Smith, of Northfield, Mass., who died June 26, 1826, and he married again in April, 1829, a widow Peck. He had two sons, of which the elder, Zebulon Burnham, M.D., born 1796, died 1861, was a physician of good repute. The younger son, Walter Burnham, M.D., born 1808, was a resident of Lowell, Mass., Professor of Surgery in the Wor- cester Medical Institute, 1850-60, and a surgeon in the Sixth Massa- chusetts Regiment of the U. S. V. A. from 1862 to 1863.
A brother of Dr. Walter Burnham, Sr .. was Zebulon Perkins Burnham, born 1766; died 1810; a prominent shipmaster and mer- chant of Norwich.
Josiah Read deserves mention as being probably the earliest white settler in what was then called the crotch of the rivers She- tucket and Quinabaug, later known as Newent and now Lisbon. This was in 1687. He died July 3. 1717. The estate of said Josiah Read, in Lisbon, has from his death till this time been in the pos- session of his descendants.
Jerusha Perkins, born September 1, 1711, a daughter of Deacon Joseph and Mrs. Martha Morgan Perkins, of Norwich, Lisbon. married July 17, 1733, Rev. Jedediah Hyde, who died 1761. He was pastor of a Separatist church at "Bean Hill," Norwich, from 1747 to 1757.
Rev. Horace Bushnell, born in Hanover, Lisbon. November 20, 1802, was the youngest but one of the eleven children of Mr. Jason and Mrs. Hannah ( Kirkland) Bushnell. The earliest Bush- nells in this country were at Salem, Mass., 1637-39. Horace Bush- nell united with the Congregational church at Rome, N. Y .. in 1826, was a student of the Oneida Co. Institute 1826-30, and was for two years a teacher in the class department of Lane Seminary, Ohio. He received license to preach at Cincinnati October 14. 1831. He gathered the Storrs Congregational church in that city in 1832 and labored there for a long time. He married, at Hanover. Lisbon. June 17, 1832, Caroline Hastings. Their only son, Horace, Jr .. was educated at Farmer's College. Ohio, 1830, and at Lane Seminary. 1862, and was pastor at a church in Southport. Ind .. afterwards.
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Louisa Kirkland Bushnell, born in Hanover, Lisbon, in 1791, was a sister of Rev. Horace Bushnell. She married Agrippa S. Martin, of New Jersey. Their son, Rev. Charles Finney Martin, was for some years a missionary of the A. M. S. to the Copts in Egypt in 1859; afterwards became pastor of a church in Peru. III., and in the service of the Christian Commission, at Nashville, Tenn., and died there during the War of the Rebellion.
William Fitch Bushnell, a brother of Rev. Horace Bushnell, married, in Hanover, Lisbon, April 3, 1815, Jane Corning Parish. He was born in Lisbon 1794. They removed soon after marriage to · Rome, N. Y. Their oldest son, Andrew Lee Bushnell, M.D., was a physician in Cincinnati. Ohio.
Their second son. Albert Bushnell, born IS18, studied at Ober- lin, Ohio: graduated at Lane Seminary 1843, and soon joined the Gaboon Mission of the A. B. C. F. M. in Western Africa, where he had a long service.
Rev. Nathan Lynde Lord, M.D., born December 8, 1821, grad- uate W. R. C. O. 1847; died in New York, January 23, 1868. He pursued his studies in the theological department of the W. R. College and was ordained in Hudson, Ohio, October 12, 1852. He was in 1853-60 at Oodoopitty, Ceylon, and 1863-7-having studied medicine while on a visit to America -- was at Madua, East India, a missionary and physician of the A. B. C. F. M. He married, at Stowe, Vt., August 11, 1850, Laura Weld Delano.
Rev. Amos Read, youngest child of Joseph and Mrs. Thankful (Andrew) Read. was born in Newent, Lisbon, March 25, 1756, and died in Lisbon. November 2, 1838. He was, as a minister of the Baptist denomination, employed by churches in the vicinity of his homestead. He married, first, July 9. 1778, at Scituate. R. I., Mary Bennett, who died January 11, 1831: he married, second. in Lisbon, June 28, 1831. Amelia Wales Palmer, who died January 24. 1847. Of the eleven children of Amos Read were Lydia. born July 27. 1790, who married Rev. Oliver Tuttle: [-] Caleb Read. a son. born Lisbon. November 24. 1780, who became a minister of the Bap- tist denomination and a resident in Brookfield N. Y., and in Germania, N. Y., 1805 to 1800, and in Lisbon in 18to to 1816. and later in Col- chester and in Griswold. He married, in Montville. September 6, 1804. Mary Leffingwell, and their son Caleb was a Baptist minister. as also their son Hiram, who was a missionary in New Mexico. Rev. Levi Read, third son of Rev. Amos Read, was born in Newent. Lisbon, March 16, 1783. and died there January 21, 1872; he mar-
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ried in Brookfield, N. Y., 1817, Elley Potter. Of his children are Charles B. Read, a Baptist minister, and a Daniel Read, LI .. D .. who has been a president of Shurtleff College and has lived at Law- rence, Kan. Rev. James Read, son of Rev. Amos Read, was born in Lisbon, September 8. 1793. and has been a Baptist minister.
David, son of Deacon Andrew Tracy, married, in Newent. Lis- bon, March 20, 1806, Sally Gorton. Their son, Rev. William Tracy, D.D., born in Norwich, June 2, 1807, studied at Andover, Mass., and at Princeton, N. J. : has been since 1836 a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M., at Madura. East Indies, to 1872, and then at Timpavanum, and there he died in November, 1877.
Albert L. Tracy, oldest son of Deacon Freeman Tracy, of Newent, Lisbon, and only child of Mrs. Charity Lathrop, his first wife, married. in Griswold, March 10, 1825. Harriet Burch. Their son, Rev. Thomas Tracy, was a graduate Hanover College, .Ind .. 1864. and of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J .. in 1867. Has since 1868 been a missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions in Northern India.
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