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97. Henry Wheelock, Co. G. Discharged Aug. 31, 1863.
98. George S. Tarbell, Co. G. Discharged Aug. 31, 1863.
99. Almon S. Merwin, Co. G. Discharged Aug. 31, 1863.
100. Lyman Whitehead, Co. K. Discharged Aug. 31, 1863.
101. Seth P. Bates, Sergeant, Co. E. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. Discharged Aug. 31, 1863.
TWENTY-NINTHI REGIMENT (COLORED). MUSTERED IN MARCH 8, 1864.
102. John H. Hall, Co. A.
103. John M. Coley, Co. E.
104. Theodore Nelson, Co. E." Died Apr. 6, 1864.
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105. Lafayette S. Williams, Co. E.
106. Edward Voorhies, Co. E.
107. Joseph F. Butler, Corp., Co. G. 108. Henry B. Pease, Co. G.
109. Cato Johnson, Co. G.
On February 4, 1862, a meeting was held in George- town for the purpose of electing officers for Co. E., 8th Regt., 2d Brigade, Conn. State Militia, the Company being known as Co. E., National Guard.
David H. Miller was elected Captain: Redding.
Hiram St. John
1st Lieut. Wilton.
Geo. M. Godfrey
2d Lieut.
John N. Main
1st Sergt.
Redding.
Jas. Corcoran 66 66
2d Wilton.
Lewis Northrop 66
3d Weston.
David S. Bartram
4th
5th 66 Redding.
Aaron O. Scribner
Wm. D. Gilbert
1st Corpl.
Redding.
Jerem'h R. Miller
4th
Wilton.
Edw'd Thompson "
5th 66
Redding.
Seth P. Bates 66
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Geo. W. Gould 66
7th
66
Wilton.
PRIVATES.
John W. Mead. Ridgefield.
Moses Comstock
Wilton.
James Lobdell.
James F. Jelliff.
Weston.
Hezekiah B. Osborn.
Redding.
Joseph R. Lockwood.
Wilton.
Henry Parsons
Redding. -
Wm. H. Canfield.
Minot S. Patrick ..
Charles A. Jennings
Wilton.
Edwin Gilbert. . Redding.
David E. Smith
Hiram Cobleigh
Samuel A. Main.
66
Anton Stommel
George L. Dann. . Wilton.
Jonatlian Betts.
Weston. 1
Wilton.
Aaron H. Davis
2d
Alonzo Dickson 66
3d
Albert D. Sturges
8th
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Charles Olmsted.
Wilton.
Charles Albin.
Redding.
Fred. D. Chapman
Henry Hohman.
Wm. B. Smith.
Wm. E. Brothwell.
Wilton.
Azariah E. Meeker.
Redding.
Charles S. Gregory
66
Charles S. Meeker.
66
Charles H. Downs.
Wm. Coley. ‹ :
Lorenzo Jones
Henry F. Burr.
Obadiah P. Coleman
Charles H. Canfield.
John L. Godfrey
Wilton.
Sylvester Albin.
Redding.
The Company uniformed itself and drilled until August, 1862. When Governor Buckingham called for troops to serve for nine months, the entire com- mand volunteered its services, and was accepted. The company was immediately recruited up to 108 men, and reported for duty at Camp Terry, New Haven, where it was mustered into the U. S. service as Co. E., 23d Regt. Conn. Vols. On the forma- tion of the 23d Regt., Capt. Miller was promoted to be Major of the regiment. Geo. M. Godfrey was elected Captain of Co. E., to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Capt. Miller ; and John N. Main promoted to 2d Lieutenant, to fill vacancy caused by the promotion of Lieut. Godfrey.
The company was sent with the regiment from New Haven to Camp Buckingham, on Long Island, and from thence by steamer Che Kiang to New Or- leans, where it was embodied in the 19th Army Corps, under Gen. Banks. It was engaged at Lafourche Crossing, La., on June 21, 1863, with a superior force of the rebels, but came out victorious.
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The company was mustered out of the U. S. ser- vice at New Haven, Sept. 3, 1863, after a service of nearly thirteen months.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE EARLY FAMILIES OF REDDING .*
ADAMS.
JOSEPH ADAMS removed when a young man from Boston to Fairfield, and married, soon after, Joanna Disbrow, of Fairfield. About 1760 he removed to Redding, and settled in Lonetown, on the farm now owned by his grandson Stephen. His children were : Stephen, baptized August 15, 1762. Hezekiah, bap- tized September 30, 1764. Ellen, baptized Novem- ber 10, 1765. Abigail, baptized March 6, 1768. Joseph, baptized April 28, 1771. Israel, baptized January 10, 1773. Aaron, baptized July 16, 1775. Nathan, baptized September 6, 1778. Of these children, Stephen enlisted in the Continental Army and never returned. Hezekiah married Betty Par- sons, and had children :- Betsey, who married John Gray, and settled in Norwalk ; Stephen, now living in Redding, at the age of eighty-nine ; Lemuel, now living in Redding, aged eighty-six ; Aaron, who re-
* These notes, arranged alphabetically, are not intended as com- plete histories of the families mentioned, but rather as sketches of the early settlers of the town, and as aids to the genealogist in his researches. For complete histories, the inquirer should consult the ancient records of Norwalk, Stratford, Fairfield, and Danbury, as well as those of Redding.
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moved to the West ; and Elinor, who married Hawley Judd. It is related of Hezekiah Adams, that, too young to enlist as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, he entered the service as a teamster, and on one occasion drove a wagon, loaded with Spanish milled dollars, to Baltimore.
Abraham Adams, brother of Joseph, was contem- porary with him in Redding. His wife was Sarah Their children were: Ann, baptized March 6, 1768. Deborah, baptized April 28, 1771. Sarah, baptized July 31, 1774 ; died in infancy. Sarah, baptized October 20, 1776. Eli, baptized January 30, 1780. Family record mentions a son Abraham.
BANKS.
JESSE BANKS, son of Joseph Banks, of Fairfield, removed to Redding at an early day ; married, June 11, 1763, Mabel Wheeler (town record says Mehit- able Wheeler). Their children were : Hyatt, born December 9, 1764. Jesse, born October 29, 1766. Joanna, born July 27, 1768. Mabel, born October 2, 1772 ; died in infancy. Mary, born June 23, 1774. Mabel, born November 17, 1776.
Jesse married, December 15, 1787, Martha Sum- mers. Mabel married Ebenezer Foot, August 29, 1797. Seth Banks also appears in Redding contem- porary with Jesse ; married Sarah Pickett Novem- ber 20, 1766, and had children: Mehitable, born January 15,.1768, and Thomas ; and perhaps others.
BARLOW.
THE Barlow family in Redding is descended from John Barlow, who appears in Fairfield as early as
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1668, and died in 1674. Samuel Barlow, son of Sam- uel Barlow, of Fairfield, grandson of John Barlow, he a son of the first settler of that name, removed to Redding about 1740, and settled in what is now Bos- ton district, near the present residence of Bradley Hill. He married, first, Eunice, daughter of Daniel Bradley, of Fairfield, August 2, 1731. Their chil- dren were : Daniel, born November 24, 1734. Ruha- mah, born January 22, 1737. James, born January 29, 1739. Jabez, born March, 21, 1742. After the death of his first wife, Samuel Barlow married Esther, daughter of Nathaniel Hull, of Redding, August 7, 1774. She died August 28, 1775, aged fifty-four years. Their children were : Nathaniel, born May 13, 1745. Aaron, born February 11, 1750. Samuel, born April 3, 1752. Joel, the poet, born March 24, 1754. Huldah, born Mr. Samuel Bar- low purchased his farm of James Bradley for £2500. It consisted of 170 acres, with "buildings thereon," and was bounded on the north by the first cross highway from the rear of the long lots- without doubt the road before mentioned leading from Boston through the centre to Redding Ridge. " This northern boundary," says Mr. Hill, " together with the familiar names of the old owners of prop- erty on the other 'side of the farm, and also the names of such familiar localities on the farm as ' the boggs,' and the 'flat ridge,' and the 'up and down road, leading to each from the main road, mark this farm purchased by Samuel Barlow as being unmis- takably the present property of Bradley Hill, and the heirs of Gershom Hill. There was on it at the time a good substantial dwelling-house of respecta-
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ble size, erected by a previous owner, and which stood about four hundred feet west of the present residence of Bradley Hill, on the same side of the street. The house was demolished in 1823. Having purchased this property January 2, 1749, he un- doubtedly located his family on it the following spring, as in subsequent deeds he is recognized as a resident of the "Parish of Reading." It was here that Aaron, Samuel, Joel, and Huldah were born. It was here he lived and died, and from here he was buried in the old cemetery west of the Congre- gational Church in Redding Centre."
Of the children of Samuel Barlow, Daniel and Ruhamah died early. James settled in Ridgefield, on a farm of 130 acres conveyed to him by his father March 30, 1770. He had four children : Samuel, who removed to the South ; Lewis, Abigail, and James, who settled in Vermont. Jabez, the young- est son by the first wife, settled in Ohio.
Nathaniel Barlow married Jane Bradley, who was born May, 1744. Their children were : Gershom, born October 21, 1765 ; died of consumption Septem- ber 24, 1794. Esther, born September 30, 1767; a deaf mute ; died May 10, 1783. Sarah, born January 16, 1770 ; died April 11, 1845. Jonathan, born April 14, 1772 ; died August 28, 1775. Betsey, born Aug- ust 2, 1778 ; died September 9, 1864. Huldah, born April 3, 1780 ; a deaf mute, died August 29, 1787. Mr. Nathaniel Barlow died December 26, 1782.
Aaron Barlow settled in Redding, on Umpawaug Hill, on a farm purchased by his father several years before. He was a man of ability, tall, and of impos- ing bearing, and served in the capacity of a colonel
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in the Revolution. He removed to Norfolk, Va., and died there of yellow-fever. His children were : Elnathan, who died young. Elnathan, died in the war of 1812. Samuel, removed to Ohio. Stephen was a lawyer in Ohio. Daniel, lived and died in Redding. Aaron, died at sea. Esther, died at Norfolk, of yellow-fever. Joel, died in Redding. Rebecca, lived and died in Redding; and Thomas, called after Thomas Paine by his uncle Joel.
Thomas was educated and adopted by his uncle, the poet, and accompanied him to France as his private secretary. He was also his companion on the fatal journey to Wilna. After the death of his uncle, Thomas returned to America and established himself as a lawyer in Pittsburg, Pa., and died there.
Samuel Barlow, the third son by the second wife, was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and died at Rhinebeck, N. Y., on his return from the expedi -. tion against Ticonderoga. A stone to his memory was erected in the old cemetery in Redding, near the Congregational Church, and which is still standing.
Of Joel Barlow, the poet, a full account is given elsewhere.
BARTLETT.
REV. NATHANIEL BARTLETT, second pastor of the Congregational Church in Redding, became a resident in 1753, and so remained until his death in 1810. He married, June 13, 1753, Mrs. Eunice Rus- sell, of Branford, Conn. Their children were : Rus- sell, baptized June 9, 1754. Daniel C., baptized January 16, 1757. Anne, February 25, 1759. Eu- nice, April 26, 1761. Jonathan, October 14, 1764.
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Lucretia, March 27, 1768. Russell married, February 28, 1776, Rachel Taylor, and had children : Clare, baptized March 30, 1777, and Flora, baptized August 29, 1779. Daniel C. married Esther Read January 7, 1778, and settled in Amenia, N. Y., where some of his descendants now reside. Rev. Jonathan married, first, Roda, daughter of Lemuel Sanford ; second, Betsey Marvin, of Wilton; and, third, Abigail, daughter of Lemuel Sanford. He had no children.
Sketches of Rev. Jonathan Bartlett, and of his father, Rev. Nathaniel Bartlett, are given in the his- tory of the Congregational church.
BARTRAM.
DAVID BARTRAM removed from Fairfield to Red- ding as early as 1733, in which year he appears as surveyor of highways. He was a farmer, and settled in Lonetown. He had five sons and three daughters born in Fairfield, viz., David, Paul, James ; Daniel, born October 23, 1745 ; John, Mabel, Hannah, and Betsey. All the sons settled in Redding. David married, April 30, 1762, Phebe Morehouse, by whom he had Joel, David, John, Jonathan, Hulda, Hepsy, and Phebe. (Family record.) Paul married, Sep- tember 19, 1756, Mary Hawley. Their children were : Joseph, born January 28, 1758 ; died in infancy. Mary, born May 12, 1760. Sarah, born August 6, 1762. Eunice, born January 3, 1765. Eli, born March 30, 1767. Ruth, born January 7, 1769. Ezekiel, born July 9, 1770. (Town record.) Ezra, baptized May 9, 1773. Joseph, baptized March 10, 1776. (Family record mentions a daughter
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Olive.) Of these children, Mary married Jabez Burr, and removed to Clarendon, Vt. Sarah married Milo Palmer, and removed to the same place. Eunice married Daniel Parsons, of Red- ling. Eli married Dolly Lyon, of Redding ; and about 1804 removed to Delaware Co., N. Y. His children were William, Belinda, Phebe, and Lodema. Ezekiel married Esther, daughter of Jonathan Par- sons, of Redding. Their children were : Mary, Jared, Milo, Clarissa, Elizabeth, Jehu, Sarah, Elias, Ezra, Phebe, and Noah. One of his sons, Jehu, studied law and rose to eminence in the profession ; was judge, representative, and senator. Ezekiel moved to Ohio at an early day, and settled in Marion, where he resided until his death, March 15, 1845. Ezra was a sailor ; married Elinor, daughter of Chauncey Merchant, of Redding, and quitting the sea, removed to Delaware Co., N. Y., where he died shortly after, leaving children-Joel M., Ezra, Uriah, and Lucy. Joseph removed first to Vermont, and after- ward to Tioga Co., N. Y. Olive married Justus Stillson, of Redding, and removed to Groton, N. Y.
James Bartram, son of David, settled in Redding. Was a private in the Revolution. Married Hannah Morehouse, who became the mother of twenty-one children, ten only of whom survived. These were : Isaac, born April 15, 1758. Noah, born 1760. James, born 1770. Aaron, born February 21, 1784. Lucy, Hannah, Betsey, Irena, and Anna.
Of these children, Isaac settled in Redding ; mar- ried Molly Hamilton, by whom he had seven chil- dren -- Isaac, Harry, David, Willis, Chasie, Lucy, Polly, and Huldah. Aaron also settled in Redding,
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married Eunice Jenkins, and raised a large family of children.
Daniel, fourth son of David, also settled in Red- ding, was a tanner and currier by trade, and built the first works of the kind in the town, on the ground now occupied by Walter M. Edmonds for the same purpose. He married, October 10, 1768, Ann Merchant, of Redding. Their children were : Esther, born April 16, 1770. Gurdon, born October 25, 1771 ; died in infancy. Anna, born January 23, 1773 ; died in infancy. Elinor, born March 1, 1774 ; died in infancy. Gurdon, born September 21, 1776. Anna, born August 10, 1778 ; married -- Mead ; settled in Ridgefield. Elinor, born February 4, 1780 ; died in infancy. Uriah, born January 9, 1782. Elinor, born October 28, 1783 ; married
Nash ; settled in Marion. Julilla, born November 12, 1785 ; married -- Bangs ; settled in Central N. Y. Levi, born November 26, 1787. Phebe, born September 19, 1790; married - Curtin. David, born June 5, 1795. At the time of Tryon's invasion, with nearly every other man in the town capable of bearing arms, Daniel Bartram joined the militia and marched to the defence of Danbury. Being absent several days, he sent word to his wife that she must get some one to take the hides from the vats or they would spoil. There was not a man to be found ; and so the brave woman, leaving her four small children to amuse one another, caught her horse, hitched him to the bark mill, ground the bark, took the hides out, turned and repacked them and had just seated herself at the dinner-table when her husband rode up, having gained leave of absence
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for the purpose of attending to the matter. On the 3d of May, 1810, Daniel Bartram left Redding, ac- companied by his wife, his four children, Uriah, Levi, Phebe, and David, and several of his neigh- bors, for what was then the wilderness of Ohio. They arrived in Madison, Lake Co., Ohio, on the 10th of June, where they settled, and where many of their descendants now reside. Daniel Bartram died in Madison, May 17, 1817. His widow died August 3, 1835. Gurdon Bartram, the eldest son of Daniel, remained in Redding. He married, January 1, 1804, Lorraine, daughter of Oliver Sanford, of Redding. Their children were : Aaron R., Lucy A., Barney, Coley, Betsey, Oliver, Daniel S., Ephraim, Levi, Frederick, Mary, and Julia. Gurdon Bartram died April 12, 1845, at the old homestead now occupied by his grandson David. Uriah, second son of Daniel, settled in Madison, Ohio, where he died quite sud- denly of heart-disease, June 28, 1830, leaving a wife and six children. Levi, third son of Daniel, settled in Madison, Ohio ; married, June 17, 1813, Betsey Nott Walker, who was born in Ashford, Conn., April 29, 1790. Mr. Bartram died of heart-disease May 12, 1857, leaving a family of five children. His widow died June 13, 1863. David, fourth son of Daniel, also settled in Madison, and subsequently re- moved to Trumbull, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. He mar- ried, March 12, 1818, Elizabeth Gregory, formerly of Harpersfield, N. Y. They had six children. Mr. Bartram died of heart-disease September 2, 1875.
John Bartram, son of David the first, married, Sep- tember 19, 1756, Charity Bulkley. Family record mentions two children, Sally and Samuel.
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BATES.
ELIAS BATES was received to church-membership in Redding January 19, 1745. His wife, Sarah, March 4, 1748. There is no hint of his previous res- idence, and he probably came here direct from Eng- land. His children recorded in Redding were : Jus- tus, baptized, July 26, 1747; and Sarah, baptized February 2, 1752 : by a second wife, Tabitha -- , Walker, baptized January 6, 1760. Elias, baptized February 16, 1761, died in infancy.
John Bates, probably son of Elias, married Esther Their children were : Ezra, baptized March 23, 1760, died in infancy. John, baptized July 25, 1762. Sarah, baptized May 5, 1764. Esther, bap- tized August 23, 1767. Nathan, baptized March 25, 1770. Aaron, July 1, 1772. Martha and Slawson, January 26, 1778.
Justus Bates, son of Elias, married Hannah Coley, May 23, 1770. They had one child, Elias, baptized October 4, 1772, who married, November 9, 1793, Lydia Andrews, of Redding, and was the father of three children-Walker, born June 4, 1796 ; Ama- ziah, born May 17, 1801 ; and Harriet, born May 21, 1804.
BEACH.
JOHN BEACH, missionary of the Church of Eng- land in Redding, was born in Stratford, Conn., October 6, 1700. His father was Isaac Beach, son of John Beach who came from England in 1643. He graduated from Yale College in 1721. He married, . first, Sarah -- , who died in 1756 ; and, second,
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Abigail Holbrook, who after his death returned to Derby. He had in all nine children. Those who had families were : Joseph, born September 26, 1727. Phebe, born 1729 ; married Daniel Hill of Redding ; died 1751, leaving a son Abel. John, born 1734; married Phebe Curtis ; died in 1791. Lazarus, born 1736 ; had two children, viz., Lazarus, born 1760, and Isaac, born 1773.
Lazarus inherited his father's land in Redding, at Hopewell, near which he built his house. Lazarus Beach, Jr., was of a literary turn, and edited a paper at Bridgeport, and afterward at Washington, D. C. On his journey to the latter place he lost his trunk or valise, containing the Beach manuscripts, and all his materials gathered for the purpose of writing a memoir of his distinguished grandfather. He built the house now standing near Mr. Godfrey's. Isaac Beach built the house now occupied by Hull B. Bradley. The Rev. John Beach lived about thirty to forty rods south of the church, probably on the site of the old Captain Munger house, which has long since disappeared. The well is still used by Mr. E. P. Shaw. Lucy, daughter of the Rev. John Beach, married Rev. Mr. Townsend, and was lost at sea on her passage to Nova Scotia, probably at the time of the great exodus of Loyalists after the Revolution. The mother of James Sanford, Sen., was the daugh- ter of Lazarus and grand-daughter of Rev. John Beach.
BENEDICT.
THE Benedicts were a Norwalk family and settled quite largely in Ridgefield. The first of the name
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whom I find in Redding was Thaddeus Benedict, who was a lawyer and town-clerk for a term of years. His house stood in the lot adjoining the Congregational parsonage, near the site of the pres- ent residence of Joseph Squire. His law office was under the great elm in front of his house. He mar- ried Deborah Read, July 12, 1775, daughter of Col- onel John Read, who bore him several children.
BETTS.
LIEUTENANT STEPHEN BETTS, a prominent char- acter in the Revolution, lived on Redding Ridge, in a house that stood on the corner, nearly opposite the former residence of Francis A. Sanford. He was an active Whig, and was taken prisoner by the British on their march to Danbury in 1777. He had a son Daniel, and two or three daughters, of whom I have no record. His son Daniel was a merchant for a while on Redding Ridge and then removed to New Haven, where some of his children are now living.
BURR.
AMONG the earliest settlers of Redding were Jehu. Stephen, and Peter Burr, sons of Daniel Burr, of Fairfield, and brothers of the Rev. Aaron Burr, President of Princeton College. They all appear at about the same time, viz., 1730. In October of that year Stephen Burr was elected a member of the first Society Committee of the parish. He married Eliza- beth Hull June 8th, 1721. Children : Grace, born December 12th, 1724. Elizabeth, born January 17th, 1728. Hezekiah, born September 1st, 1730. Sarah, born November 9th, 1732. Martha, born
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March 24th, 1735. Esther, born February 5th, 1743. Rebecca. He married, second, Abigail Hall, of New Jersey. He lived in a house that stood where Dr. Gorham later built his residence. His only son, Hez- ekiah, died December, 1785, unmarried. Of the daughters, Grace married Daniel Gold, Elizabeth married Reuben Squire, Sarah married Joseph Jackson, Martha married Zacariah Summers. Esther married Antony Angevine, and Rebecca, Seth Sanford. Deacon Stephen Burr died in 1779. Of him Colonel Aaron Burr wrote in his journal in Paris : "My uncle Stephen lived on milk punch, and at the age of eighty-six mounted by the stirrup a very gay horse, and galloped off with me twelve miles without stopping, and was I thought less fatigued than I."
Peter Burr first appears in Redding as clerk of a society meeting held October 11th, 1730. His chil- dren were : Ellen, baptized September 19, 1734. Sarah, baptized February 21st, 1736. Ezra, bap- tized January 2d, 1737. Edmund, baptized Septem- ber 28th, 1761. Peter Burr died in August, 1779. His children shortly after removed to Virginia.
Jehu Burr and wife were admitted to church-mem- bership in Redding December 24th, 1738. None of his children were recorded in Redding, and none, so far as known, settled there. He owned property in Fairfield, and probably spent the last years of his life there.
Jabez Burr, son of Joseph Burr, of Fairfield, and his wife Elizabeth, appear in Redding as early as 1743. Their children were Elijah, baptized May 15th, 1743. Nathan, born January 1st, 1745. Ja-
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bez, --- Ezekiel, born March 23d, 1755. Stephen, born January 16th, 1757. Joel, born September 9th, 1759. Eunice, Huldah, and Hannah. Jabez Burr died in 1770. He is said to have settled in the Saugatuck Valley, near the present residence of Ste- phen Burr, and to have built there the first grist-mill in the town. Of his children, Elijah married Roda Sanford, April 2d, 1767, and had children-Lemuel and Elizabeth ; and by a second wife-Eunice Haw- ley, married April 27th, 1773-Joseph, Roda, John (who died of yellow-fever in the West Indies), and Lucy, who married Jonathan Knapp, of Redding. Nathan, the second son, removed to . Pawlings, Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 1792, and there founded a numerous and wealthy family. Jabez, the third son, married Mary, daughter of Paul Bartram, and re- moved to Clarendon, Vt., in 1786. He had one son, Aaron. Ezekiel, married Huldah Merchant, of Red- ding, who bore him three children : Aaron, who lived and died in the house now owned by Captain Davis ; William, who removed to Kentucky in 1816 ; and Huldah, who married Daniel Mallory in 1806, and removed to the West.
A son of William Burr is now President of the St. Louis National Bank. Another son, George, a tel- ler in the same institution, was the companion of Prof. Wise in his late fatal balloon expedition, and shared the fate of the aeronaut. Stephen Burr mar- ried Mary Griffin, of Redding. His children were : Clara, Mary, Stephen, and Ezekiel. Joel Burr mar- ried Elizabeth Gold and settled in Ballston Springs, N. Y.
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BURRITT.
WILLIAM BURRITT and wife were admitted mem- bers of the church December 9th, 1739. No hint of their previous residence is given. Their children re- corded at Redding were : Mary, baptized December 16th, 1739. Abijah, January 18th, 1741. Roda, October 24, 1742. Sybil, February 19, 1744. Ger- shom Burritt appears at the same time. His son Solomon was baptized August 5th, 1739. Noah, January 31st, 1742. Nathaniel, October 17th, 1743. Isaac, July 21st, 1745.
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