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Peter Lester, Jr., born April 4, 1734, son of Peter, Sr., and Anna Street Lester, married Delight Karon Bailey, daughter of Jedediah Bailey. She was born April 13, 1741. His second wife was widow Bridget Bailey, who died April 13, 1822. Chil- dren by first wife-Asa Lester, born Sept. 26, 1761, married Dorithy Morgan. Jonas Lester, born -, killed at Fort Gris- wold, Sept. 6, 1781. Peter, 3d, born 1768, married Anna Lester, daughter of Amos Lester. Child by second wife, Karon Lester.
Solomon Lester, born 1771, married Polly Forsyth. He died Dec. 4, 1840. Their children were Prudence, born 1807, mar- ried Ephraim Stoddard. She died July 18, 1875, age 68 years. John, born -, single. Amy, born -, married Mr. Isah Adams.
Asa Lester, son of Peter Lester, Jr., and Delight Karon Bailey Lester, married Dorithy Morgan. He died July 2, 1839. She died March 29, 1828. Their children were John, born Jan. 1, 1786, died Aug. 6, 1814; drowned. Eliza, born Oct. 25, 1788, married James McCracken, a widower. Nancy, born Nov. 9, 1790, married John Comstock. Mary, born April 13, 1793, married Amos Etheredge. Sarah E., born Feb. 23, 1795. Lucindy, born May 1, 1798, single, died Dec. 12, 1870. Thomas J., born May 4, 1801, died Jan. 20, 1828. Wiliam P., born July
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19, 1803, died Oct. 30, 1807. Asa Lyman, born Feb. 10, 1810, married Mariah Lester. He died Oct. 5, 1841, aged 32 years. Susannah, born Sept 24, 181I.
Peter Lester, the 3d, son of Peter, Jr., and Delight Karon Bailey Lester, married Anna, daughter of Amos Lester, Sr. He died June 5, IS52. She died July 4, 1852. Their children were Avery, born 1791, single, died Nov. 21, 1873, age 82 years. Hannah, born April 10, 1793, married Isaac Bailey, died Oct. 19, 1859, aged 66 years. Abby W., born 1800, single, died Nov. 15, 1853, aged 53 years.
Amos Lester, Jr., son of Amos and Anna Lester. daughter of Peter Lester, Sr., born March 25, 1776, married Sarah Avery, daughter of James Avery, born March 3, 1781, married Jan. 18, 1800. Their children were Anna, born July 20, 1801, married Oliver S. Tyler, Jan. 3, 1831. Lydia, born Dec. 19, 1802, mar- ried Erastus Kimball, Dec. 30, 1821. Amos A., born March 30, 1805. Isaac A., born March 4, 1810, married Mary Chapman, Oct. 7, 1838. Eliza Mariah, born July 26, 1813, married Asa Lyman Lester, Aug. 16, 1835.
Isaac Lester, son of Amos Lester, Jr., and Sarah Avery Les- ter, born March 4, 1810, married Mary Chapman, daughter of Ichobod Chapman, married Oct. 7, 1838. Their children were Amos, 3d, born Dec. 3, 1839, married Caroline S. Spicer, May 28, 1868. Mary Jane, born June 6, 1841, married Courtland Lamb, Dec. 12, 1860. Nathan L., born Jan. 1, 1843, married Sarah E. Spicer, May 24, 1871. Henry C., born Oct. 20, 1844, died Sept. 17, 1850. Jonathan F., born June II, 1846, married Cecelia Spicer, May 28, 1873. William I., born Feb. 7, 1848, married Sarah E. Simmons, April 16, 1885. Frank L., born April 23, 1850, died Nov. 17, 1876. Samuel W., born April 7, 1852, single. Walter C., born April 15, 1854, died July 14, 1855. Sarah E., born Jan. 22, 1856, died March 11, 1857.
Edward E. Lester, born April 29, 1858, son of Isaac and Mary Lester, married Almyra Chapman, Sept. 6, 1884. Their children were Edna Lucy, born May 28, 1886. Samuel L., born April 23, 1889. Dorithy, born April 20, 1893.
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Edward E. Lester and his family reside on the same farm, formerly owned by his great-grandfather, Amos Lester, Sr., and his children are the fifth generation that have lived on this farm in Ledyard.
Allyn Lester, of Groton, son of -- , born April 28, 1775, and Lydia Miner, born Feb. 25, 1782, were married April 17, 1803. Their children were Austin M. Lester, born Feb. 2, 1804. married Nancy Stoddard. Emelyne Lester, born Jan. 20, 1806, married John Short, March 23, 1828. Rebeca A. Lester, born Nov. 1I, 1808, married Avery E. Bailey, March 18, 1832. Francis A., born 1810, single.
Austin M. Lester, son of Allyn and Lydia Miner Lester, mar- ried Nancy Stoddard, daughter of Asa Stoddard, Sept. 16, 1827. Their children were Sally Ann, born April 22, 1829, died Sept. 6, 1849. Emelyne, born May 25, 1831, married Orlando Stoddard. Austin A., born June 23, 1832, married Laura Marshall, March 12, 1856. Elizabeth, born Jan. 3, 1835, married Charles Davis.
Avery E. Baily and Rebeca Lester, daughter of Allyn Lester and Lydia Miner Lester, were married March 18, 1832. They had no children.
John Short and Emelyn Lester, daughter of Allyn and Lydia Lester, were married March 23, 1828. They had one child, Emelyne Lester Short, born May 12, 1829.
Austin A. Lester, son of Austin M. Lester and Nancy Stod- dard Lester, married Laura Marshall, March 12, 1856.
Orlando Stoddard, son of Daniel Stoddard, married Emelyne Lester, daughter of Austin M. Lester and Nancy Stoddard Lester.
Elizabeth Lester, daughter of Austin M. Lester and Nancy Stoddard Lester, married - Davis. [T. B.]
THE MAIN FAMILY.
In the early part of the last century, three brothers by the name of Main, with their families, were living in the north-east part of the town of Groton (now Ledyard). Their names were Abel, Samuel and Thomas. They were sons of Benajah Main, who, according to Hon. Richard A. Wheeler, in his "History of
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Stonington," was the son of Thomas (born Feb. 13, 1730), who was the son of Jeremiah (born about 1778), who was the son of Ezekiel, the first of the name who came to Ston- ington to reside permanently. He settled in that town in 1670. He was admitted to the First Church, Sept. 3, 1676, and he died June 19, 1714. The name of his wife was Mary. Their children were Ezekiel, married Naomi Wells, died 1715; Mary, baptized 1677, died young; Jeremiah, married Ruth Brown, died 1727; Thomas, baptized 1679, died young ; Phebe, baptized 1681, mar- ried Kingsbury ; Hannah.
The descendants of Thomas Main, the last of the three brothers named above, are quite numerous. Many of them have settled not far from the places of their birth. At the present time there are probably more persons by the name of Main living in Ledyard than there are of any other name.
THE MORGAN FAMILY .*
The first ancestor of the Ledyard Morgans, resident in this country, was James Morgan, who was born in Wales in 1607. With two younger brothers, John and Miles, he sailed from Bristol, England, in March, 1636, and arrived at Boston, the following April. John journeyed southward and settled in Vir- ginia. Miles joined a company of emigrants, mostly from Rox- bury, Mass., and became one of the founders of Springfield, Mass.
James, the elder brother, may have spent a few years in Plymouth, Mass. He is found, however, in Roxbury, before 1640. Here, on August 6, 1640, he was married to Margery Hill, and here most of his children were born. In 1650 he moved to Pequot (New London), where lands were granted him on what is now one of the western suburbs of the city. Here was his home for half-a-dozen years. "On the 25th day of Dec., 1656, he sold his homestead and removed soon after, with several others, across the river, upon large tracts of land previously
*Most of the facts contained in this sketch are found in "The Morgan Genealogy," by N. H. Morgan, Hartford, 1869.
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granted them by the town, upon the east side of the Thames river, now the south part of Groton. James Avery, William Meades and Nehemiah and John Smith, who also had grants of land adjoining him, were among the first settlers, and the earliest resident farmers in that region."
"James Morgan was a large proprietor and dealer in lands ; distinguished in public enterprise ; often employed by the public in land surveys, establishing highways, determining boundaries, adjusting civil difficulties as a magistrate and ecclesiastical diffi- culties as a good neighbor and a Christian man, in whom all seem to have reposed a marked degree of confidence and trust."
"He was one of the 'townsmen' or selectmen of New London for several years, and was one of the first 'Deputies' sent from New London plantations to the General Court at Hartford, May Session, 1657; and nine times afterwards was chosen to fill the same important position, the last time in 1670." He was an active member of the First Church in New London.
In respect to property he ranked high among his fellow townsmen. In 1662, his list, on the town assessment, stood the third highest in amount, being £250. Only seven, out of about one hundred taxpayers, had lists amounting respectively to more than £ 200.
"The spot where he first built his house, in 1657, and where he ever afterward resided, and where he died, is about three miles from Groton Ferry, on the road to Poquonoc Bridge. This patriarchal homestead has had an unbroken succession of Morgan occupants from the days of James Morgan, first, down to the present time."
He died in 1685, aged 78.
Children of James and Margery (Hill) Morgan :-
Hannah, born 18th May, 1642, married Nehemiah Royce, 20th Nov .. 1660.
James, born 3rd March, 1644, married Mary Vine, Nov., 1666.
John, born 30th March, 1645, married Rachel Dymond ; 2d, widow Elizabeth Williams.
Joseph, born 29th Nov., 1646, married Dorothy Park, April, 1670.
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Abraham, born 3rd Sept., 1648, died Aug., 1649.
A daughter, born 17th Nov., 1650, died the week after.
The descendants of James and Dorothy (Hill) Morgan have been very numerous. There is hardly a state or territory in the Union which has not had at some time members of the family residing in it.
In regard to the general characteristics of the family its his- torian, Hon. N. H. Morgan, remarks : "The family, as a whole, is an honorable one, ranking quite above the average in moral and social position. Standing as I have been, for several years, at the focal point of a widely extended family correspondence, gathering in the rays which have come to me from every State and territory of the Union, I have been highly gratified with the abundant evidence of general intelligence, moral worth, and social standing, which has greeted me from every branch of the sept or clan. Although among us 'one star differeth from another star in glory' the constellation is an effulgent one."
All this may be said of the family as a whole.
Then there have been a good many individuals in it who have held important official positions, and filled them often with such ability as to achieve high commendation. The family has had a fair number of representatives in each of the learned professions, and some of them have risen to eminence in their callings. Quite a number, outside of the professions, have developed marked ability in highly useful pursuits, and attained to eminent success. Some have been remarkably successful in business, and have acquired princely fortunes. This is especially true of Charles Morgan, son of Col. George, born at Killingworth, Conn., in the year 1795 ; moved to New York, and became an extensive ship- ping merchant and founder of the famous Morgan Iron Works; also of Gov. Edwin D. Morgan, son of Col. Jasper, born in Wash- ington, Mass., in 1811, lived afterwards in Hartford and later in New York City, and there engaged in commercial pursuits which were remarkably successful.
Some members of the family have obtained high rank as mili- tary officers, in the several wars, in which the country has been engaged, and been specially honored for their courageous and
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efficient services. Quite a number as civilians have been placed in high and honorable positions, and proved themselves every way worthy of the trusts committed to their hands. One, Edwin D. Morgan, for two successive terms, served as Governor of the great State of New York. Three at least have been members of Congress, and done much to shape the counsels of the nation, and guide it in the ways of righteousness. They are Edwin B., of Aurora, N. Y., son of Christopher, born 1806; in Congress for four terms in succession-1850-1858; Christopher, of Auburn, N. Y., son of Christopher, born 1808, in Congress two succes- sive terms-1839-1843; and Edwin D., of New York City, son of Jasper, born 1811, member of the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869.
THE ROACH FAMILY.
The farm now occupied by Calvin Roach, in Ledyard, was bought from Dea. Peter Avery, by Thomas Roach, Sen., grand- father of the present occupant, about 1816.
Thomas Roach, Sen., was the son of John Roach, who en- listed in January, 1777, and joined the Georgia Battalion, April II, 1777.
Thomas Roach, Sen., enlisted in the Revolutionary Army July 15, 1780, and received a pension for his services in 1839. He was probably born in New London. When a boy he lived in the family of Mr. Vine Stoddard in North Groton. He married Thankful Williams.
Thomas Roach, Jr., married in 1817, Lydia Avery. Their children were Sidney A., m. Isabel Settle. Delia A. Lucy A., m. Simeon Stoddard. Albert B. Erastus N., m. Mrs. Emma Phillips. Frank V. R., m. Mary Burrows. Calvin H., m. Maria Lamb.
Thomas Roach, Jr., served in the War of 1812-15, under Capt. Stephen Billings.
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THE SMITH FAMILY.
Lieut. Nehemiah Smith's house stood on a lot east of the Bill parsonage, only the cellar now remains to locate the place. He was son of John and Temperance (Holmes) Smith, of Groton, and was born Oct. 30, 1733. He married May 3, 1758, Abigail Avery, daughter of Benjamin and Thankful Avery and died May 4, 1810. He served in the Revolutionary War as first lieutenant in Capt. William Whitney's Company in Col. Samuel Mc- Clellan's regiment, which was raised for one year's service from March, 1778. They served in Tyler's brigade under Sullivan in Rhode Island, August and September, 1778. He had eight chil- dren of whom one died young.
Abigail, born Aug. 10, 1759, married first, Peleg Lewis, Jan. 27, 1782, and lived in Groton. He died Dec. 25, 1792.
She married, second, Noah Bailey and lived on Meeting- house Hill, Ledyard. Noah Bailey died Dec. 26, 1819. His wife died Sept. 16, 1842. They are buried in the Starr cemetery, Groton.
Sarah Smith, born Aug. 10, 1761, married Nathaniel Bellows, and lived on the neighboring farm now owned by Samuel Cas- well and buried there.
Anna Smith, born Dec. 8, 1765, married Oct. 5, 1786, Capt. Isaac Gallup, who died Aug. 3, 1814. She married, second. Jan. 30, 1825, Seth Williams, who died May 21, 1843. She died Dec. 21, 1848. They were buried in Ledyard.
Nehemiah Smith, born April 21, 1767, married 1792, Abigail, daughter of Amos and Mary (Wight) Geer, and lived in Pres- ton. He died Aug. 13, 1803. His wife died Dec. 2, 1856, in Norwalk, Ohio, and was buried there.
Temperance Smith, born Jan. 1, 1769, married, first, Park Allyn ; second, - Packer ; lived in Ledyard. She died Feb. 6, 1859.
John Smith, born April 9, 1771, married June 13, 1792, Martha Brown, of Stonington. He married, second, March 27,
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1839, Abigail, daughter of Reuben Palmer, of Colchester. He died April 3, 1856, and was buried in Salem.
Thankful Smith, born Jan. 21, 1775, married Ezra Geer, son of Isaac and Mary (Leeds) Geer, and lived in Ledyard, north of her parents. She died July 1, 1864. Her husband died June 13, 1855 They are buried in the Poquetanuck cemetery.
Lieut. Nehemiah Smith was fifth in line of descent from Rev. Nehemiah Smith, who was born in England, about 1605. He emigrated to America and was admitted freeman at Plymouth, Mass., March 6, 1637-8. He married Anna Bourne, of Marsh- field, Jan 21, 1640, sister of Martha Bourne, who married John Bradford, son of Gov. William Bradford.
Rev. Nehemiah Smith lived in Stratford, New Haven, New London, Groton, and came to Norwich as one of the original proprietors of the town who purchased the land from Uncas in June, 1659.
His son, Nehemiah Smith, born in New Haven, 1646, came to Groton with his parents about 1656. He married Oct. 24, 1669, Lydia Winchester, daughter of Alexander Winchester, of Roxbury, Mass. He served in the Colonial militia and held various offices in the town as justice of the peace, representa- tive to the General Assembly from New London, 1705, and Groton, 1707, and town clerk of Groton, 1707 to 1718. He married, second, Mrs. Elizabeth Haynes, Sept. 7, 1724, and died Aug. 8, 1727. They are buried in Smith Lake cemetery, Groton.
His son, Nehemiah, third, born Nov. 14, 1673, married April 22, 1696, Dorothy Wheeler, daughter of Isaac and Martha (Park) Wheeler. He died Nov. 21, 1724, and his wife died May 25; 1736.
His son, Capt. John Smith, born June 14, 1704, married May 10, 1727, Temperance Holmes, daughter of Joshua and Fear (Sturges) Holmes. They lived in Groton and later in Colchester. He was buried in Poquonoc. His widow married, second, James Treadway, of Colchester.
[E. G.]
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THE STANTON FAMILY.
The first ancestor of the Ledyard Stantons, resident in this country, was Thomas Stanton, who bore a very prominent part among the early settlers. He embarked at London, England, Jan. 2,1635, in the merchantman "Bonaventura." He went to Virginia ; but evidently did not stay there very long, for in the next year, 1636, he appears on record in Boston, serving as a magistrate. The next we know of him is in connection with. the Pequot War. In this war he came near losing his life in the battle of Fairfield Swamp. Soon after this he returned to Bos- ton; but how long he remained there we are not informed. Some time about 1637-8, he was married to Ann Lord, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Dorothy Lord, of Hartford; and from this time on for quite a number of years his home was in Hartford, though he seems to have been called away from there quite frequently on official business, particularly as an Indian interpre- ter. He probably went to Pequot (New London) in 1651 and in 1658, to his permanent home in Stonington, where he had al- ready established a trading post on the Poquetuck river, upon a 300 acre tract of land, granted to him as early as 1652. A descendant of Mr. Stanton, Rev. William A. Stanton, D. D., com- piler of the "Stanton Genealogy," truly says of him: "Mr. Stan- ton's prominence, in the affairs of colonial Connecticut, can be best estimated by the possibility of so much about him being secured from contemporaneous history after a lapse of two and a half centuries. As interpreter for Connecticut and for Gov. Winthrop, as interpreter-general of the New England Colonies, as county commissioner and judge for twelve consecutive years, as a member of the Connecticut General Assembly for seven years, as Indian commissioner for many years, as a successful, all around man of affairs, as a worthy husband, father, citizen and Christian, the descendants of Thomas Stanton have every reason to be proud of their emigrant ancestor."
Miss Caulkins, in her "History of New London," speaks of him, as an interpreter, in these words: "Never, perhaps, did the acquisition of a barbarous language give a man such immediate
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wide-spread and lasting importance. From the year 1636, when he was Winthrop's interpreter with the Nahantic sachem, to 1670, when Uncas visited him with a train of warriors and captains, to get him to write his will, his name is connected with almost every Indian transaction on record." And it is an interesting fact that all of his sons seem to have inherited their father's ability to speak the Indian dialects, and were in much demand as inter- preters.
Children of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton :
Thomas, born 1638, married Sarah Denison, died April II, 1718.
John, born 1641, married 1664, Hannah Thompson, died Oct. 3, 1713.
Mary, born 1643, married Samuel Rogers, Nov. 17, 1662.
Hannah, born 1644, married Nov. 20, 1662, Nehemiah Palmer.
Joseph, born 1646, married June 19, 1673, Hannah Mead; married Aug. 23, 1677, Hannah Lord; married two more wives, the fourth probably being a Miss Prentice. He died 1714.
Daniel, born 1648, married and died in Barbadoes ; he died before 1688, and left one son, Richard.
Dorothy, born 1651, married Rev. James Noyes, Sept. II, 1674. died Jan. 19, 1742.
Robert, born 1653, married Joanna Gardiner, Nov. 12, 1677, died Oct. 25, 1724.
Sarah, born 1655, married Ist, Thomas Prentice; 2nd, Will- iam Denison ; died 1713.
Samuel, born 1657, married Borodell Denison, June 16, 1680, died not before 1698.
All of these ten children lived to have children of their own.
The descendants of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton have been very numerous, and have been very widely scattered. Dur- ing the early generations many of them resided in Stonington. Hence we find on the records of the First Church, founded in 1674, of which Mr. Stanton was one of the first members, and his son-in-law, Rev. James Noyes, the first pastor, that betw. . n the years, 1674 and 1842 no less than 156 persons by the name of Stanton were baptized; between the years 1674 and 1856, 61
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persons received into full communion; and between 1715 and 1871, 83 couples, in which one of the parties was a Stanton, were united in marriage.
Thomas Stanton is the first name on the roll of members, and Thomas Stanton, Jr., is the sixth. Ann, wife of Thomas Stanton, Sen., became a member in 1675. Some pastors failed to leave on record their baptisms, etc. This fact accounts for periods during which the family is apparently not represented in the church. At the same time it is a well-established claim that at no period during the entire history of the church has it been without descendants of Thomas Stanton among its members.
In each of the wars in which the country has been engaged, the Stantons have borne a prominent part. "It is worthy of note," says the genealogist of the family, "that from the Pequot War in 1636 to the Civil War in 1861-5, there was no colonial or national war in which our family was not well represented among it country's defenders. In the massacre at Fort Griswold, Sept. 6, 1781, four of the Stanton family were victims. Quite a number rendered valuable services in the War of 1812-15; and one of them, Phineas Stanton (1780-1842), became a major-gen- eral. In the Civil War, of 1861-5, no less than thirty-six Stan- tons are known to have served, some as privates, quite a number as officers of various rank from corporal up to colonel and brigadier-general.
Some have engaged in the naval service. Thomas Stanton, son of Daniel, and a descendant of the first Thomas in the fifth generation, was with that famous naval commander, John Paul Jones, on board the "Bon Homme Richard," and was killed in a naval battle off the coast of Scotland. John Stanton (born 1758), son of Nathaniel, and a descendant of the first Thomas in the fifth generation, was in the privateer service in the time of the Revolution ; was captured and confined for a long time on the infamous Jersey prison ship. Afterward, when France was at war with England, he enlisted in her marine service and remained in it quite a number of years, that he might (to use his own words) "have his revenge upon England for the injury she had done him."
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The Stantons have been engaged in almost every industrial employment that has been opened to them. Many have been farmers; many mechanics and merchants and not a few sea- faring men. Goodly numbers have entered the learned profes- sions, and a fair percentage of them have acquired honorable distinction. Dr. Daniel Stanton (1799-1884), of Mount Pleasant, Pa., Dr. George D. Stanton (1839-+-), of Stonington, and others have ranked well in the medical profession. Judge Joshua Stan- ton (1740 -- ), of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont ; Hon. Joseph Stanton (1739-1842), member of Congress from Rhode Island; Hon. Lewis E. Stanton (1833-), of Hartford, Conn .; and others have acquired a good degree of distinction as lawyers and civilians. Henry Brewster Stanton (1805-1887), of Connecticut and New York, husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was quite celebrated in his day as a philanthropist and reformer ; and his wife was perhaps more celebrated than he. Rev. Robert Stanton (1751-1821), pastor of Baptist Churches in Stonington and Woodstock, Conn .; Rev. Benjamin F. Stanton, (1789-1843), pastor of Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in New York and Connecticut ; Rev. Robert P. Stanton (1818-1898), for many years pastor of the Congregational Church in Greeneville, Conn .; Rev. William A. Stanton (1854-), pastor of Baptist Churches in Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania ; and many more have stood well in the clerical profession.
THE STODDARD FAMILY.
The name Stoddard has been found in history as far back as 1060. There is a tradition that there was a noble Norman by the name of Stoddard with William when he invaded England in 1066, and that he was a relative of the famous Conqueror. Families bearing the name have lived in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. All the Stoddards in this country claim the same coat of arms, a fact which points to a common ancestry.
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