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Children.
Ashley, b. March 24, 1840. Cornelia, b. Dec. 20, 1842.
Dotha Eliza, b. Sept. 22, 1845.
Florence, b. Nov. 22, 1848.
VII. ALBERT A. THOMSON (s. Amos, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. July 1, 1815; m. Juliett Manning of P .; one son. Removed to Wis. about 1842.
VII. FREDERICK A. THOMSON (s. Jesse, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. Oct. 13, 1802; m. Eunice Horrt of Dunham, L. C., Oct. 18, 1827.
Children. Lauriston E., b. July 17, 1828. Stillman K., b. Dec. 18, 1830.
VII. FRANKLIN THOMSON (s. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Feb. 22, 1808; m. Louisa Goway Jan. 1, 1836.
Child.
John, b. Nov. 6, 1843.
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VII. EMILY THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. May 21, 1812; m. George C. Stewart, P., Nov. 1, 1830.
Children.
Louisa, b. March 20, 1834. Mary, b. July 3, 1836. Lauriston, b. Nov. 13, 1844.
VII. LAURISTON THOMSON (s. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Dec. 14, 1815; m. Charlotte A. Pearle of Southington, Conn., Feb. 25, 1845.
VII. HULDAH F. THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. April 10, 1817; m. A. J. P. Martin Sept. 6, 1833.
Children.
Julia, b. Jan. 9, 1836. John. b. Nov. 20, 1842. Marian, b. March 27, 1840. Charlotte, b. Oct. 8, 1845. Frances, b. June 6, 1848.
VII. LAURA A. THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Sept. 20, 1820; m. Lemuel Harvey, June 23, 1840.
Child.
Marian, b. Aug. 4, 1843.
VII. ABIGAIL L. THOMSON (dau. Jesse, David, Gideon, Sam- uel, John, Anthony), b. P. Feb. 27, 1824; m. Samuel Stewart, Nov. 25, 1842. Reside (1850) Fort Edward, N. Y.
VII. Asahel C. Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. Dec. 7, 1809; graduated from Clinton Coll., 1830; m. Ann E. Fisher, 1836. Professor Greek and Latin, Uni- versity of Rochester.
Children.
Caroline, b. May, 1840.
Helen, Jan. 7, 1843. Florence, b. Jan. 10, 1848.
VII. Samuel S. Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. Aug. 12, 1814; m. Emily Fisher, Barnesville, Ga., 1836, where he was a merchant in 1850.
Isabella.
Children. Charles. John R.
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VII. A. Judson Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. Feb. 16, 1816; m. Eliza Randle in Ga. 1841.
Child.
Julia, b. 1847.
VII. Ryland Kendrick (s. ESTHER, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. P. April 18, 1822; graduate from Brown Uni- versity, 1840; m. Arabella Randal of Ga., 1841. Preaching Charles- ton, S. C., 1850.
Child.
Clark A., b. 1848.
VIII. WILLIAM SPARKS THOMSON (s. Eben N., David, David. Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. March 22, 1823; m. Jan. 8, 1850, Jane Trumbull Lewis. William S. and his brother Charles Henry married sisters, daughters of Henry and Martha Graves (Nash) Lewis. Henry (s. Elijah, Phinehas, Nathaniel, William, Wil- liam). See Lewis Genealogy.
Children.
William, b. Jan. 14, 1855. Annie Lewis, b. July 28, 1857. Charles Ernest, b. Dec. 2, 1861.
VIII. CHARLES HENRY THOMSON (s. Eben N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. New Haven Dec. 5, 1836; m. Farmington, Conn., Nov. 23, 1858, Celia Maria, dau. of Henry and Martha Graves (Nash) Lewis. He d. Stockbridge, Mass., Aug. 4, 1884. She d. New Haven, Dec. 14, 1860.
Not often does any community suffer the loss of such a man as Charles H. Thomson. Such men are rare. The intelligence of his death will send a pang to many hearts, not only in this city of his birth, but over a far wider field. Possessing in an unusual measure those sterling qualities of character and temperament that are calcu- lated to inspire respect, admiration, and affection, he naturally at- tached to himself, as with hooks of steel, such as had the good for- tune to share his acquaintance and confidence. It would be difficult to explain the fascination that he exercised over the hearts of his friends, to those that did not know him. While he was an ex- ceptionally energetic, exact, and successful business man, he, at the same time, freely indulged his natural aesthetic and literary tastes, which were marked by the refinement and intelligence of a true artist and scholar. It is not possible, in a paragraph, to do justice to such a character as Mr. Thomson's. To those who knew him it need not be said that he was a dutiful son, an affectionate brother, a loving husband and father, a generous and faithful friend, Thought-
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ful of the poor, whom he aided with unostentatious liberality and delicacy; an ardent patriot, and always and, above all, loyal to his dnty toward his Maker. In a word, he was, emphatically, a Chris- tian gentleman. Seldom does a man go to his grave more sincerely and justly mourned. Even nature, in tears, sympathized with weeping friends at his burial here, in his birthplace, to-day! - From the New Haven Palladium of Aug. 9th.
Child.
Arthur Cecil, b. March 19, 1860.
IX. ARTHUR CECIL THOMSON (s. Charles H., Eben N., David, David, Gideon, Samuel, John, Anthony), b. New Haven March 19, 1860; m. Oct. 24, 1889, at New Haven, Lillian Cornelia, dau. of George and Sarah Cornelia (Thomson) Rice.
Children.
Eliot Cecil, b. at New York Oct. 22, 1890.
Cecile Lewis, b. at New York Feb. 7, 1892.
Marian Carter, b. at New York March 11, 1893.
Allen Loring, b. at Brookline, Mass., Jan. 17, 1896.
TOWNER.
I. RICHARD TOWNER settled in Guilford, Conn., in 1686; re- moved to Branford in 1689, where he died in 1727.
Children.
Richard, whose descendants are living in Branford, almost on the spot where his father lived in 1690.
Sarah, m. (1) Samuel Frost; (2) Henry Cook, from Litchfield. She was his third wife. He was one of the three first settlers of Plymouth, Conn.
John, settled in Derby, the part now Oxford. Some of his children resided in Southbury, but his descendants in that vicinity have died out in the male line.
Joseph, died young.
Benjamin, settled in Haddam, Conn., where a few descendants are now living.
Mary, m. Samuel Tyler.
Samuel, settled in Goshen. Hannah, m. - Hitt.
Thankful, died unmarried.
II. SAMUEL TOWNER (s. Richard), b. about 1690 in Branford; d. Goshen about 1785, when he must have been ninety-five years old. He m. (1) Jan. 25, 1716, Rebecca Barnes of North Haven, g. dau. of Thomas Barnes, who settled in East Haven, 1644, and signed the
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first colony constitution. She d. Wallingford Jan. 31, 1727-8. He m. (2) 1728, Amy, dau. of Capt. William Ward.
Mr. Towner removed from Branford to Wallingford in 1723, thence, in 1731, to Waterbury, the part now Plymouth, where he was one of the first three settlers, the others being Henry Cook, from Litchfield, and - Sutliffe, from Branford. He bid off one right in the township of Goshen, at New Haven, April 20, 1738, and removed here in 1739, and superintended the surveying of his first four divisions. His first division lot was on the east side of East Street, on the south side of the road, south of the house of Mr. Robert Palmer. Here he huilt a framed two-story house, in the present garden of Mr. Palmer. Aug. 19, 1741, he sold this place to . Timothy Stanley, and purchased of Benoni Hills the lot of 69 acres, on the west side of East Street, the farm afterwards owned by Ezekiel North. Here he continued to live until May 8, 1744, when he sold the place to Joseph North of Farmington, and bought again, June 8, 1744, his old home, the first-division lot. He continued to live here until June 11, 1746, when he sold to Matthew Judd of Farm- ington. He was chosen selectman and grand juror at the first town . meeting, Dec. 6, 1739. Dec. 8, 1740, he was again elected selectman, after which time he held no office.
In 1746 he went to what is now Southbury, then a new part of Woodbury; in 1748, to Newtown; in 1750, to New Fairfield. In all these places he was a large landholder. The New Fairfield records are burned, but there are private records showing that he was living there in 1754. He removed, about 1763, to Phillip's Patent (now Putnam Co.), where a post-office and railway station still bear his name - Towner's Station and Four Corners - in town of Patterson, Putnam Co., N. Y.
Tradition says that, when a very old man, he returned to Goshen on a visit to his grandsons (sons of Ephraim) and died there .* He had, by both wives, thirteen children, all of whom lived to grow up, and all, except the oldest son, left children.
Children, by Rebecca Barnes.
Phebe, b. Branford Sept. 14, 1717; m. Arah Ward, youngest bro. of her step-mother; lived first in Goshen, later in Waterbury. Had dau. Diantha, b. Goshen 1741; and dau. Eunice, b. Water- bury. Four of the Wards, viz .: William, Zenas, Meacock, and Arah are in the proprietor's book in Goshen. Capt. Wil- liam, their father, also owned land there, but died in Walling- ford.
* The statement in the History of Waterbury, that he died in Sherman, is an error.
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Samuel, oldest son, whom we know only by a deed in Waterbury, 1742, from Samuel, in Goshen, "to beloved son Samuel, in Waterbury." He seems to have left no children, and evi- dently died soon after, for another son was named Samuel in 1746.
David, b. Wallingford March 3, 1724. Settled in New Fairfield, the part now Sherman, where he was pastor of the Congrega- tional Church. Had a dau. Mary.
Ephraim, b. Wallingford Nov. 28, 1727, two months before the death of his mother; m. Oct. 3, 1750, Sarah Willcox. He was the only one of the family who settled permanently in Goshen.
Children, by Amy Ward.
Zaccheus, b. Wallingford, 1729; settled in Sherman; member of Colonial Assembly.
Dan, b. Wallingford, 1731; settled in Sherman; member of Colonial Assembly.
Letticc, b. Waterbury, 1733; m., in Sherman, Gideon Pringle.
Amy, b. -; d. 1767; m. David Barnum, Sherman.
Rebecca, b. -; m. Joseph Vaughn, Sherman.
Thankful, b. --; m. William Beach.
Ithiel, b. March 1, 1742, probably in Goshen. Was in the French War, 1762; on Phillip's Patent, 1763-'69. Later removed to St. Johns, Canada, where he d. in 1810. He has descend- ants at St. Johns, Montreal, and other places.
Deborah, b. ; m. Tuttle and settled in Can.
Samuel, b. 1746; settled at Towner's, Putnam Co. Has many de- scendauts living at Towner's, Albany, Chicago, and else- where.
III. EPHRAIM TOWNER (s. Samuel, Richard), b. at Walling- ford Nov. 28, 1727; d. Goshen Dec. 20, 1760; m. Oct. 3, 1750, Sarah Willcox, ouly dau. of John Willcox, Sr., of Goshen; d. at Lexington, Greene Co., N. Y., aged 90.
He made his first purchase in Goshen in Feb., 1750, when he is described as belonging to Goshen. On April 9, the same year, he purchased of his wife's brother, Samuel Willcox, 15 acres in the north part of Goshen, ou the south side of the east and west road, about 200 rods westerly from the north meeting-house. Here he built his house, about 20 rods east from the south end of the road leading southerly from Elisha Baldwin's.
Children, born Goshen.
Ephraim, b. March 29, 1752; m. Olive Willoughby.
Laban, b. Feb. 2, 1754; m. Abi Beach.
Ezekiel, b. March 3, 1756; no record of marriage.
Elijah, h. April 3, 1758; m. Lurinda Collins, dau. Cyprian and Azuba (Gibbs) Collins.
Moses, b. Sept. 15, 1760; m. Avis Culver.
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IV. EPHRAIM TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, l.ichard), b. Goshen March 29, 1752; d. Goshen July 8, 1834; m. July 7, 1774, Olive Willoughby, dau. of John and Olive (Smith) Willoughby; b. Goshen Sept. 2, 1758; d. G. July 23, 1837. They were both members of the church and she was the last living member of those who were mem- bers at the ordination of Mr. Hooker.
They lived for many years at the old house (long gone) at the southeast side of Ivy Mountain, on the west side of the road, and north side of the road coming from the west. In the latter part of his life he sold this place and built and removed to the red house about one mile north from the Center meeting-house aud about sixty rods east of the turnpike road; at which place both his wife and him- self died. His first place had been owned and occupied by Royce Beach.
Children.
Ephraim, b. Oct. 18, 1775; m. Anna Kellogg.
Ebenezer, b. Oct. 24, 1777; m. Chloe Hopkins Lucas; no children.
Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1779; d. March 25, 1843; unm.
Olire, b. July 18, 1782; m. Samuel Wadhams Feb., 1812.
Norman, b. Oct. 16, 1784; m. Elizabeth Sherman.
Erastus, b. Sept. 5, 1788; m. Anna
Theron, b. Feb. 10, 1791; m. Sophronia Roberts.
Clarissa, b. July 6, 1798; m. (1) Dr. Brown; (2) Dr. Markham.
V. EPHRAIM TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. G. Oct. 18, 1775; m. (1) May 8, 1798, Anna Kellogg; b. Sheffield, Mass., July 16, 1778; d. Nov. 3, 1816; (2) a Widow Page of Hartford. He resided Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1845.
Children, born E. Bloomfield, N. Y.
Delia, b. Feb. 8, 1799; d. Feb. 4, 1801.
Carlton, b. June 12, 1800; d. a young man.
B. Franklin, b. Oct. 20, 1801; m., several children.
Delia, b. April 28, 1803; m. Samuel Holden, Batavia, N. Y.
Louisa, b. May 12, 1805; m. - Chicago.
Nelson, b. May 8, 1810; d. unm.
Olire S., b. March 23, 1812; m. Worthington; resided Batavia. Norman K., b. Oct. 3, 1816; d. unm.
V. OLIVE TOWNER (dau. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. July 18, 1782; m. 1812 Samuel Wadhams, Goshen.
Children, born Goshen.
Delphine, d., unm.
Norman, m. (1) Mary Gillette; (2) Miss - Whittlesey. Children: Melville, living in New Haven; Mrs. Delphine Norris, in Waterbury; Frederick, New Haven; Irwin, Torrington.
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V. NORMAN TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. Oct. 16, 1784; d. Wallingford, Vt., about 1815; m. Elizabeth Sherman of Wallingford, Vt., who d. a few weeks after her husband, at Easton, N. Y.
Children, born Wallingford, Vt.
Noble, m. Louisa Kingsley of New Haven; was judge of probate, Avon, Conn .; shipping-merchant, New Haven; U. S. Consul Barbados. Children: Alexander, b. 1832; d. 1852; Louisa, b. 1840, unm .; Mrs. Ella Cutler; Noble; all living New Haven. Louisa E., m. Jan. 25, 1842, John W. Elliot, a descendant of the Miss'y Eliot; d. at Eutaw, Ala., March 25, 1853. Child: Luella, b. Eutaw, Feb. 27, 1844; residing Brooklyn, N. Y., 1896.
V. ERASTUS TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. Sept. 5, 1788; m. Anna -; was engaged in manufacturing in England; settled later in Dayton, Ohio, where his two sons, Theron and Arthur, d. young.
V. THERON TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Rich- ard), b. Feb. 10, 1791; d. 1862; m. Sophronia Roberts, Owego, N. Y., 1816; dau. Dr. Joseph Roberts of Farmington and Owego; d. March 7, 1846. He was merchant in Charleston, S. C .; returned to Goshen about 1820; went to New Haven, 1829, where he was a well-known shipping merchant. He m. (2) Clarissa Benham, by whom he had no children.
Children.
Mary Caroline, b. Owego, 1817; m. Alfred A. Holly. They have one son, Theron Towner, b. 1850.
Erastus Willoughby, b. Goshen 1821; d. 1859, Havana, Cuba, unm.
Theron W., h. New Haven 1831; Trinity Coll., 1852; Sorbonne, Paris; unm.
V. CLARISSA M. TOWNER (dau. Ephraim, Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen July 6, 1798; m. (1) Dr. Ephraim Brown of Ba- tavia, N. Y .; (2) Dr. William W. Markham, and removed to Ply- mouth, Mich. Had Daniel B. and Ephraim hy first husband.
Children, by Dr. Markham.
William B., d. young.
Edward W., b. July 24, 1833.
Delphine E., b. Jan. 9, 1839. Charles A., h. 1837; d. 1848.
IV. LABAN TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen Feb. 3, 1754; d. 1788; m. Abby Beach, dau. of John and Lois (Ives) Beach.
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Children, born Goshen.
Timothy, b. July 8, 1777; m. -; d. about 1798, as appears by deeds. John Morse, b. Oct. 18, 1779; m. Charlotte Ketcham of Brewsters, N.
Y. Was living. 1808, in Poultney, Vt .; removed about 1810 to Thompson, Sullivan Co., N. Y., the part now Monticello, where he d. Aug. 25, 1850. Children: Martha Elizabeth, h. 1813; Reuben Beach, b. 1815; d .; left sons, Frederick W. aud Ralph; Rhoda, b. 1819; m. Dr. MeCabe; Jesse Laban, h. 1824; lives in Middletown and Brooklyn, N. Y.
Reuben, b. 1782: m .: was living, 1808, in Wells, Rutland Co., .Vt .; had au only dau., Lois; both d. before 1827, as appears from deeds. Jesse, h. 1784; m .; was living, 1808, in Poultney, Vt .; in 1810, in Mouticello. Children: Hiram, living in Monticello; Mrs. Harriet Oakley, in Newburg.
IV. EZEKIEL TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), b. Goshen March 3, 1756; studied medicine with Dr. Bird of Litchfield; no record of marriage; went West and d. before 1803; supposed to have been drowned in the Ohio River.
IV. ELIJAH TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), h. Goshen April 3, 1758; d. in 1848; m. Lurinda Collius, dau. Cyprian Collins. Removed, 1807, to Wyndham, Greene Co., N. Y., taking his mother with him. Here he always resided. The name of the town has been changed to Lexington, Hunter, and Jewett.
Children, born Goshen.
Mrs. Lord, b. 1786. Ezekiel, b. 1788.
Mrs. Ford, b. 1791. Mrs. Francis, b. 1793. Moses, b. 1796.
Loammi, b. 1799.
Reuben, b. 1804.
They settled in Lexington, but most of their children have re- moved, and the only grandson of Elijah now in that vicinity is Horace, son of Loammi, b. 1822; living, 1891, in Jewett.
IV. MOSES TOWNER (s. Ephraim, Samuel, Richard), h. Goshen Sept. 15, 1760; d. 1793; m. Avis Culver. Had no children. After his death his widow m. Andrew Bailey.
WADHAMS.
I. JOHN WADDAMS (as the name was spelled at that time), from Somersetshire, Eng., came to Wethersfield, Conn., 1650. His wife was Susannah -. In 1656 a house lot was given him " by
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the town." We have record of three children, viz .: Noah, John, Jr., and Ichabod, who d. unm.
II. JOHN WADDAMS, JR. (s. John), b. in 1655, at Wethers- field; m. Hannah - --. Had son Noah, b. Wethersfield.
III. NOAH WADDAMS (s. John, John), b. Wethersfield in 1695; m. (1) March 17, 1716, Elizabeth Sage, who d. Sept. 16, 1716; (2) Anne Hurlbut; (3) Hannah Benham, wid. of Samuel Beach. His chil- dren were all by his second wife. He removed to Goshen in 1741, and d. there in 1783. His third wife d. there, aged 99 years.
Children.
Elizabeth, m. Zophar Beach.
Hannah, m. Timothy Tuttle, Sr.
Noah, b. May 17, 1726; m. Elizabeth Ingersoll of New Haven; was graduated from the College of New Jersey Sept. 25, 1754; was first pastor of the " Church of Christ," at New Preston, Conn., in 1758; went with a colony to Luzerne Co., Pa., as their pastor, in 1769. He d. May 22, 1806. Had five chil- dren: Anne, Calvin, Ingersoll, Moses, Noah. Jonathan, m. Judith Howe.
John, m. Ruth Marsh. Deliverance.
Mary, m. John Howe.
Anne, m. John Hoy.
Solomon, m. Abigail (Beebe) Allen.
Seth, m. Anne Catlin (or Catling).
IV. JONATHAN WADHAMS (s. Noah, John, John), b. at Wethersfield Oct. 18, 1730; m. Aug. 7, 1754, Judith Howe of Goshen; d. at G. April 12, 1812; she d. at G. July 15, 1813.
Children, born Goshen.
Abraham, b. May 11, 1755; d. in infancy.
Abraham, b. Sept. 24, 1756; m. Tryphena Collins.
Moses, b. Sept. 17, 1759; m. Anne Collins.
Susannah, b. Dec. 28, 1762; m. Nathan Holbrook.
Lucia, b. Nov. 14, 1766; m. Luther Child.
Jonathan, b. Dec. 4, 1774; m. Mandana Adams.
V. JONATHAN WADHAMS, JR. (s. Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Dec. 4, 1774; m. (1) Jan. 21, 1796, Mandana Adams; she d. at G. March 11, 1819; (2) June 20, 1819, Sarah Keeler of Litchfield; she d. Jan. 20, 1848; he d. Dec. 14, 1854.
Children, born Goshen.
Lucinda, b. Dec. 20, 1797; m. Henry Adams.
Birdsey, b. Aug. 28, 1800; m. Eliza Marsh.
Lorinda, b. Nov. 24, 1802; m. Samuel Strickland.
THE "OLD WADHAMS HOMESTEAD."- WAS OCCUPIED AS EARLY AS 1775.
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Elisabeth, b. June 11, 1804; m. James Chapman.
Nelson, b. Jan. 11, 1806; m. Elvira Griswold.
William, b. Dec. 23, 1807; m. Betsey Matthews.
Henry, b. April 24, 1809; d. Dec. 12, 1824. Amy, b. Nov. 4, 1811; d. Oct. 9, 1830.
Abby J., b. Nov. 5, 1813; d. in infancy. Ellen, b. Dec. 3. 1815; m. James Bradley. Emeline, b. March 11, 1818; m. (1) Dec. 2, 1840, Eli Perkins, who d. Dec. 14, 1864; (2) 1866, Albert Wadhams (s. Beebe, Solomon, Noah, John, John), who. d. May, 1884. Children: Dwight, b. April, 1844; d. Dec. 2, 1863; Daniel, b. July 31, 1846; d. Oct. 4, 1848; Octavia, b. July 14, 1852; d. Sept. 23, 1854. Jonathan, b. Dec. 3, 1820; m. Ann P. Lucas.
VI. NELSON WADHAMS (s. Jonathan, Jr., Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Jan. 11, 1806; m. June 13, 1837, Elvira Griswold; d. -; she d.
Child.
Wilbur H., b. Nov. 6, 1847; m. Sept. 3, 1874, Julia, dau. of John M. Wadhams. Child: Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1876.
IV. JOHN WADHAMS (s. Noah, John, John), b. Sept. 3, 1732; m. Jan. 3, 1765, Ruth, dau. of Timothy Marsh of Litchfield. She d. at G. Feb. 9, 1801; he d. at G. March 2, 1816.
Children, born Goshen.
John, b. Sept. 17, 1765.
Isaac, b. Jan. 3, 1767; m. Nov. 26, 1818, Mary, the widow of his bro. John. Child: Isaac, b. Aug. 30, 1821; d. He d. at G. Feb. 24, 1832; she d. G. Jan. 4, 1850.
Elizabeth, b. June 5, 1769; m. John Hatch; d. Sept. 23, 1803.
Aaron, b. April 3, 1772; d. Jan. 1, 1776.
Obed, b. May 18, 1775; d. March 16, 1794.
Sarah Marsh, b. May 22, 1778; m. Stephen Russell of Litchfield; d. at L. June 25, 1818. Children: John W., b. Jan. 28, 1804; Isaac W., b. March, 1810.
V. JOHN WADHAMS (s. John, Noah, John, John), b. Sept. 17, 1765; m. April 25, 1805, Mary Ripley; d. at G. Sept. 3, 1814.
Children, born Goshen.
George, b. Jan. 28, 1806; m. Nov. 24, 1836, Angeline Parmelee.
Elizabeth, b. April 21, 1807; d. Aug. 13, 1809.
Mary, b. Aug. 30, 1808. (Brooks Gen.) Infant, b. and d. Feb. 5, 1810.
John Marsh, b. May 7, 1811.
Infant twins. b. Sept. 20, 1812; d. soon. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 5, 1813.
Noah S., b. March 20, 1815.
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VI. JOHN MARSH WADHAMS (s. John, John, Noah, John, John), b. May 7, 1811; m. (1) Oct. 30, 1837, Eunice W. Hodges of Torrington, who d. Aug. 7, 1855; (2) Dec. 2, 1857, Marantha D., widow of Alexander Gillett. She d. at G. Aug. 28, 1895. He d. at G. Oct. 10, 1896.
Children, boru Goshen.
Sarah Jane, b. June 5, 1839; d. June 9, 1842.
John Hodges, b. Nov. 30, 1840.
Sarah Jane, b. May 24, 1842; d. Jan. 18, 1843.
Sarah Jane, b. July 12, 1846. (Lucas Gen.)
Julia, b. Sept., 1852.
VII. JOHN HODGES WADHAMS (s. John M., John, John, Noah, John, John), b. Nov. 30, 1840; m. Sept. 11, 1865, Mary G., dau. of Robert and Alma Pelton. She was b. Torrington Dec. 11, 1846.
Children, born Goshen.
Julia E., b. July 6, 1867.
John Marsh, b. Sept. 14, 1870; m. May 6, 1896, Annie E. Tenney. Child: John Marsh, Jr., b. June 13, 1897.
Lucy Burr, b. April 8, 1872.
Mary Harriet, b. Feb. 21, 1876.
Robert Pelton, b. Jan. 10, 1879.
V. NOAH S. WADHAMS (s. John, John, Noah, John, John), b. March 20, 1815; m. Sept. 9, 1838, Lucy M. Ray, b. March 29, 1819. He d. Nov. 29, 1874. She d. Sept. 19, 1896.
Children, born Goshen.
Mary E., b. June 5, 1839; m. Jan. 20, 1859, Ephraim Brewster. He d. Feb. 10, 1864; she d. July 3, 1869. Child: Clarence Nelson, b. April 16, 1860; m. . Franklin E. and Francis M. (twins), b. July 17, 1844; Franklin E. m. Nov. 25, 1875, Alice Barnum, who d.
Lucy Octavia, b. Feb. 27, 1849; m. June 24, 1880, J. C. Lester. Henrietta Josephine, b. Jan. 9, 1852.
VII. FRANCIS M. WADHAMS (s. Noah S., John, John, Noah, John, John), b. July 17, 1844; m. Dec. 28, 1870, Frances M., dau. of Joseph Palmer.
Children, born Goshen.
May Palmer, b. Sept. 30, 1872; m. June 2, 1897, Clifford P. Thompson. Noah Samuel, b. May 27, 1875. Joseph Palmer, b. April 22, 1877. Francis Ray, b. Jan. 22, 1880.
V. MOSES WADHAMS (s. Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. Sept. 17, 1859; m. Jan. 9, 1783, Anne, dau. of Cyprian Collins; d. at G. March 11, 1823; she d. Oct. 30, 1853.
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EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES.
Children, born Goshen.
Infant, b. and d. Jan. 7, 1784.
Samuel. b. March 18, 1786; m. Feb., 1812, Olive Towner. Children: Norman Towner, b. Sept. 14, 1813: m. (1) Nov. 6, 1838, Mary Gillett, who d. Aug. 15, 1850; (2) April 16, 1851, Mary R. Whittlesey, who d. July 1, 1877; he d. Aug. 6, 1882. Chil- dren: Della E .; Samuel M .; Erwin Ray; Frederick E. Del- phine E., b. April 27, 1818; d. Oct. 20, 1837.
Lucretia, b. -; m. Silas A. Gray of Sharon; d. at Sharon July 11, 1853. Children: Augustus B .; Ann M .; Betsey E .; Franklin . D .; Cyrus W .; Moses W., b. April 10, 1824. (Gaylord Gen.) Ann, m. Augustus Baldwin. Lewis Collins.
Maria. m. - Jewett; d. at G. Oct. 24, 1819. No children. Moses. b. Aug. 22, 1797; m. Oct. 30, 1828, Louisa, dau. of David Wad- hams; d. July 6, 1833. Children: Moses C., b. Sept. 22, 1829; d. Nov. 17, 1849; Maria Louisa, b. May 30, 1831; m. Charles Hall Everest, D.D., Feb. 11, 1862.
Uri. b. Oct. 27. 1801; m. March 13, 1827, Mary Ann Page of Salisbury; d. Aug. 4, 1859. Children: Mary, b. 1829; d. 1831; Maria, b. Feb. 19, 1831; m. May 19, 1852, Joseph F. Lawton; Ann, b. May 14, 1834; Sidney, b. March 9, 1837; Harriet, b. May 22. 1839; William, b. Oct. 12, 1842.
Rachel, d. April 9, 1824, aged 15.
VI. LEWIS COLLINS WADHAMS (s. Moses, Jonathan, Noah, John, John), b. May 27. 1793; m. Nov. 19, 1819, Lydia Gallup of Groton, Conn .; d. Aug. 27, 1865; she d. Dec. 13, 1883.
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