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Oct. 19, 1777.
Sarah. Sarah.
Hezekiah and Anne Read. Robert and Anna Stow.
Nov. 23,
Dec. 14,
Levi. Oliver and Rachel Sanford.
Jan. 4, 1778. 66
Zalmon.
Levi and Rebecca Dikeman.
23, Betty.
Hezekiah and Sarah Platt.
66
66
Polle.
25, 60
Martha.
John and Esther Bates. 66
Feb. I,
Abraham.
Richard and Rebecca Youngs.
Mch. 14,
Esther.
Seth and Millison Meeker.
66
Beth.
Batterson (Jeremiah).
Apr. 12,
Bille.
Thaddeus and Deborah Benedict
66 66
16, 26,
Nathan.
Nathan and Mabel Coley.
May 3,
66 Sarah.
David and Abiah Sanford.
June 21,
Sarah.
John and Sarah Byington.
Hannah.
John and Esther Griffin.
Aug. 23, 66
Isaac.
Daniel and Elizabeth Perry, Jr.
Samuel Ward.
Jesse and Molle Benedict.
Abigail.
Daniel and Esther Bartlett.
Sept. 6,
Nathan.
Joseph Adams.
20,
66
Hezekiah.
William and Sarah Read.
66
Anne.
Daniel and Ann Bartram.
Jesup.
Simon Couch, Jr.
Oct.
4, 7,
Obadiah.
Samuel and Abigail Platt.
Elizabeth.
James and Ellen Rogers.
24,
Bette.
Nathanaiel and Jane Barlow.
Hannah.
Nathan and Phebe Burr.
Nov.
I,
Ezekiel.
Ezekiel and Abigail Sanford. Stephen Jackson.
Jan. 3, 1779.
Mary.
Benjamin and Mary Darling.
Abigail.
Nehemiah Hull.
29,
Dinah.
Slave to Samuel Smith.
3I,
Molle.
Jonathan and Mabel Couch.
Nehemiah Collins. Joel and Sarah Smith.
66 Hannah.
Nathan Sanford.
Molle.
William and Mary Slone.
66
John.
John and Sarah Fairchild.
Henry.
William and Sarah Hoyt.
Isaac Rumsey.
(Adult.)
Esther.
66
William.
Samuel and Hannah Mallery.
Dec. 6,
"
Martha.
Aaron.
66
Slauson.
- -
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HISTORY OF REDDING.
Feb. 10, 1779. Mabel.
Jesse and Mabel Banks.
21, "
Aaron.
Timothy and Elizabeth Parsons.
Moses.
David and Esther Jackson.
60
Phebe.
John and Tabitha Marchant.
28,
Eunice.
Silas and Witely Lee.
Mch. 21,
Abijah. .
Phillip and Rachel Burrit.
Apr. 4,
Sarah.
Micajah Starr.
May 9,
Hannah.
James and Hannah Bartram.
June 13,
Stephen.
Aaron and Rebecca Barlow.
20,
Abigail.
Lemuel and Mary Sanford.
Aug. 8,
Mary.
John and Mary Clugston.
22,
"
Flora.
Russell and Rachel Bartlett.
Sept. 5,
Eunice.
Daniel and Rachel Mallery.
Oct. 10,
Martha.
Asael Fitch.
Jan. 30, 1780. Eli.
Abraham and Sarah Adams.
Feb. 3,
Zalmon.
Samuel and Huldah Smith.
Feb. 27, "
Mary.
Timothy Sanford.
Mch. 5,
Jonathan.
Elijah and Eunice Couch.
16,
Margaret.
Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons.
Daniel.
John and Sarah Fairchild.
19,
Abigail.
Stephen and Sarah Betts.
26,
Ellenor.
Daniel and Anne Bartram.
Hiram. Thaddeus and Deborah Benedict.
Ulilla. Hezekiah and Anne Read.
28,
John.
Ephraim and Rachel Robbins.
Deaths.
Dec. 7, 1734.
Abigail, d. Ebenezer Ferry, I 3-4 yrs.
Mch. 19, 1736. .Abigail, w. Peter Burr. a
Aug. 28, “
/ Elizabeth, d. Asa Hull, 7 years.
a
Sept. 3, “
v Deborah, d. Joshua Hull, 5 yrs.
Mch. 22, 1737. -- , s. Samuel Smith, infant.
May 29, , Jesse, s. Timothy Platt, 2-3.
Mch. 1738. / Rebecca, d. Peter Mallery, 4 mos.
Samuel
15,
Grace.
Daniel and Sarah Gold.
Olive.
Bille and Ruth Morehouse.
29,
Daniel.
Robert and Anne Stow.
29,
Rene.
Chauncey and Hannah Marchant.
Mary.
Michael Wood.
Daniel.
Daniel Rumsey.
Ezekiel and Abigail Sanford.
Sarah.
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HISTORY OF REDDING.
Mch. 27, 1739. May 17,
Hezekiah, s. John Read, 4 yrs. y Seth, s. Samuel Smith.
Richard Lyon, ae. 87 yrs.
/ Elizabeth, d. Gershom Burril, 2-3.
Bunil
VAnne Aldredge, d. Anne Corns, 4-5.
/John, s. Joseph Lee, 14 yrs. /William Edwards, 22 yrs.
Sarah, w. Samuel Chatfield, 34 yrs.
Phillip, s. Deacon Burr, 13-14.
June
Oct. 20, “ July 4, 1741.
Sept. 18,
, Mary Hull, 17 yrs.
/Mary, w. David Gray (?)
V Nathaniel Gray.
/ Nathan, s. James Bradley. -, w. John Clugston.
/Ezra, s. Jolın Bates, 8 mos.
Mary Ann, d. William and Mary Raymond, 7 yrs.
V Esther, d. Ephraim and Elizabeth Sanford, 10 hrs. /John Gray, about 47 yrs.
June 22,
v Elizabeth Morehouse.
Sept. 2, "
v Eunice, d. Widow Hannah Gray, 8 mos.
v Tabitha, d. Benjamin & Hannah Hambleton I mo. Ensign John Read.
Sept. 23, Mch. 8, 1758.
Mary, d. Col. John Read, 4 days.
II, 23,
66
v Phebe, w. Seth Raymond, 20 yrs.
Apr. 28, 66
Samuel s. Eleazar and Lucy Smith, 2 yrs.
Feb. 2, 1759.
v Joseph, s. Paul and Mary Bartram, 4 days.
May 5, 17,
/ Elizabeth, w. of John Clugston, 55 yrs.
/ Joseph Johnson, 24 yrs.
Nov. 15, Dec. 2,
Daniel Barlow, 25 yrs.
/Esther, d. Nathaniel Hull, 1 1-2 yrs.
Ruth, d. Stephen Betts, 54 yrs.
Nov. 6, y Arsena, w. James Gray, Jr. II, v Elizabeth Hull, 64 yrs. 16, / Elizabeth, w. Jabez Burr, 42 yrs. 26, v Elizabeth, w. Stephen Burr, 62 yrs.
Joseph Rumsey, 40 yrs.
29
Feb. 5, 21,
Mch. 20,
Apr. 15, 26,
~ /Thomas, Indian Servt. John Read. v Sarah, d. Adam Clark, 10 mos.
Isaac Hall.
Oct. 21,
Jan. 2, 1742.
May 1744.
Sept. 1, 1745.
Mch. 14, 1754. Jan. 28, 1755. Meh. 27, May 16,
June 3,
v/ Abigail, d. William Lee, 7 yrs.
Apr. 26, 1757.
John Clugston, 64 yrs.
V Dinah, w. Parrow (slave), 46 years.
Oct. 14, 1760.
28, "
Jan. 1740.
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Dec. 16, 1760. Abigail Bixby.
17, “
/ Abigail Hull.
Feb. 2, 1761. 7, " Daniel Rumsey, 37 yrs.
Feb. 25, 1761. -, Nathaniel and Abigail Hull.
Apr. 30,
May I, 66
Phyllis, slave Benjamin Darling, II yrs.
June 18, Seth, s. Benjamin Hambleton, 6 mos.
Dec. 5, 1752.
/ Ruhamah, w. Calvin Wheeler, 19 yrs.
Mch. 10, 1763. 21, “ 5, 1764. I9, -- , John and Sarah Read, at birth.
/ John, s. Anne Ward (and Moses), 7 yrs.
June 28, Eunice, w. John Clugston, 23-24.
July 16,
v Abraham, s. Abraham Fairchild, 19 yrs.
Jan. 20, 1765. 1766 / Lois, d. Benjamin and Katherine Meeker, 12 yrs. William, s. William and Lydia Hawley, infant.
Apr. 10, 1766.
v David Burr, 56 yrs.
July 24, "
/ Ruth, wid. Nathaniel Hunn, 67 yrs. [ Read]
Aug. 8, "
/ Elnathan, s. Elnathan and Deborah Sanford, 4 yrs.
Sept. 14,
/ Esther, d. Nathaniel Hull, infant. Abner Booth, 22 yrs.
July 9, “
/ Matilda, d. William and Sarah Read, 6 mos.
Jan. 30, 1768.
Venus, slave Simon Couch.
Feb. 7,
/ David Bartram, about 60 yrs.
Mch. 7, / Ezekiel, s. Nehemiah and Griswold Hull, infant. Mehetable, w. Josiah, 53 yrs.
Apr. 24, 28, 66
John Dikeman, 97 yrs.
May 5,
/ Ephraim Jackson, 65-6.
June II,
/ Gershom Morehouse, 64 yrs.
July 7,
" / Elephalet, s. James Gray, 19 yrs.
Nov. 6, "
v Capt. Samuel Sanford, 62 yrs.
Feb. 2, 1769.
9, 66
-, Timothy and Mary Sanford, infant. George Hull, 83 yrs.
June 18,
Ruth, d. Paul and Mary Bartram, II hrs.
July 16, 66 / Hannah Hawley (Joseph), 59 yrs.
Sept. 4,
" V Esther, d. Stephen and Abigail Sanford.
26, -, w. Thomas Williams, 84 yrs.
v Abner, s. Gershom and Anna Morehouse, 17 yrs.
Mch. 26, 1767.
June 23,
Joanna, w. Joseph Banks, 53 yrs.
Oct. 25,
Deborah, w. Abraham Adams.
/ Capt. Ephraim Sanford, 53 yrs.
Nanne, slave Benj. Darling, 15-16. / Ensign Elias Bates.
/ Sarah, w. Joseph Rumsey, 20-21. Stephen, s. Abner Taylor, 25 yrs.
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HISTORY OF REDDING.
Dec. 5, 1769. /-, w. Timothy Platt, 62 yrs.
Feb. 21, 1770.
/ Hill, s. of George and Anne Morehouse, 5 yrs.
Mar. 24,
/ Abner, s. Ebenezer and Elizabeth Couch.
Apr. 29, 66 / Jabez Burr.
May 15,
Daniel, s. Abraham Fairchild, 22 yrs.
/Gurdon Marchant, 46 yrs.
12, 66 / Rebecca, d. Daniel Meeker, 20 yrs.
/ Eunice, d. Dea. Lemuel Sanford, 25 yrs.
/ Anna, d. David and Anna Jackson, 9 mos.
/ Joseph Hawley, 66 yrs.
May II, 1772.
v Mary, d. Daniel Couch, 2 mos.
Aug. 21,
/ John, s. Stephen Sanford, 2 yrs.
May II,
/ Rhoda, w. Elijah Burr, 24 yrs. Betsey Canada (Burr), 17 yrs.
/ Twins, Chauncey and Hannah Marchant, birth.
/ Mabel, d. Cornet and Sarah Hill, birth.
/ Huldah, w. Abijah Fairchild, 27 yrs.
/ Sarah, w. Col. John Read, 48 yrs.
/ Widow Allen (supposed) 98 yrs.
Squire, s. Obadiah Wood, 2 I-2 yrs.
Ellen, w. Seth Wheeler, 23 yrs. m.
Y Elnathan, s. Aaron and Rebecca Barlow, 10 y. 1I m. /Ruth, d. Preserved Taylor, 7 yrs.
/ Hannah, d. Preserved Taylor, 5 yrs.
Eleazar Smith, 74 yrs.
Darius, s. Onesimus Coley, 6 yrs.
V Mabel, d. Jesse and Mabel Banks, 2 yrs.
Nov. 27, Dec. 17, Lemuel, s. Reuben and Prudence Salmon, 3 yrs.
/ Nehemiah Smith.
/ Daniel, s. Daniel and Abiah Sanford, 16 mos.
Feb. 2, 1775. 4, 5,
/ Widow Sturges, 80 yrs.
/ Esther, w. Nathan Burr, 21 yrs.
Records of marriages, baptisms and deaths of the Congregational Church close with 1780, and do not begin again until 1809, in the pastor- ate of the Rev. Daniel Crocker. The early parish records of Christ Episcopal Church are missing. The town record of vital statistics be- gins 1767, and ends in 1804. These records were kept in a fragmentary manner, the town clerk seemingly having invited the heads of families at various times to bring in for record a list of their children.
Nov. 6,
Dec. 8, May 29, 1771. Dec. 12, 25, /Parrow.
Francis, s. Henry and Hannah Hopkins, I mo.
Jan. II, 1773.
Aug. 28, Apr. 20, 1774.
May 19, July 22, 31, Aug. 6, 28,
Oct. 5, 2, 7,
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From 1820 to 1832 ministers and Justices of the Peace reported mar- riages to the town clerk, under a State law; in 1832 a law was enacted compelling them to make such returns.
The probate records of Redding date from 1839, and are in the hands of Judge John Nickerson, who is also town clerk, and has the custody of the town records. The clerk of the Congregational Society having charge of its records is John B. Sanford. From 1812 to 1839 the Pro- bate records were kept in Danbury, where they may be found for those years. Prior to 1812 they were in Fairfield.
CHAPTER XXIV. The Early Families of Redding .*
ADAMS.
Joseph Adams removed, when a young man, from Boston to Fair- field, and married soon after, Joanna Disbrow of Fairfield. About 1760 he removed to Redding and settled in Lonetown on the farm later owned by his grandson, Stephen. He died May 18, 1826, age 86 years. His children were: Stephen, bapt. Aug. 15, 1762; 2, Hezekiah, bapt. Sept. 30, 1764; 3, Ellen, bapt. Nov. 10, 1765 ; 4, Abigail, bapt. March 6, 1768; 5, Joseph, bapt. April 28, 1771 ; 6, Israel, bapt. Jan. 10, 1773 ; 7, Aaron, bapt. July 16, 1775; 8, Nathan, bapt. Sept. 6, 1778.
Of these children Stephen enlisted in the Continental Army and never returned. Hezekiah married Betty Parsons of Redding, and had Betsey, who married John Gray and settled in Norwalk; Stephen, who lived in the old homestead and died aged ninety-nine; Lemuel, who also lived in Redding, and died aged ninety-eight; Aaron, who removed to the west, and Elenor, who married Hawley Judd. Stephen married Polly Judd of Bethel, Conn., and had two children, twins, Henry and Harriet. Henry married Juliet Hawley of Monroe, and had three children, George Henry, Eugene and John. George Henry married Miss Emma Olmstead of Redding and had one child, who died in infancy. He died in 1878. Eugene married Miss Josephine Clark of Bethel, Oct. 30, 1872, and has one child, May Helen, who married Theodore Haight of Ridgefield,
*These notes are not intended as complete histories of the families mentioned, but rather as sketches of the early settlers of the town and as aids to the geneal- ogist.
For complete histories .the early records of Fairfield, Stratford, Norwalk, West- port, Newtown and Danbury should also be consulted.
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Conn., June 16, 1904, and has one child, Eugene Milton, born Apr. 16, 1905. John married Miss Jennie Sherwood of Redding, and has one son, Clayton Sherwood, born Jan. 4, 1888. Mr. John Adams is foreman of the shipping department of the United States Armory at Springfield, Mass. Mr. Henry Adams died Aug. 5, 1906. His wife, Juliet, died Nov. 20, 1905.
Lemuel, 2d, son of Hezekiah Adams, married Miss Rebecca Hoyt of Danbury, and had two children, Julia, who married Dr. Joseph E. Clark of Redding and had two children, Henrietta and Joseph, and Theodore, who married Miss Sarah Gates of Newfane, Vt., and had two children, Julia R. and Edgar C. Julia R. died in girlhood. Edgar C. has been for many years inspector in the United States Armory at Rock Island, Illinois.
Mr. Theodore Adams, after holding a responsible position for thirty- five years with the large carriage manufacturing firm of William H. Smith, of Springfield, Mass., has recently come back to live in the old homestead of his father in Redding.
Lemuel Adams held a captain's commission in the State Militia dur- ing the War of 1812, and at one time was detailed to take his company to the defense of New London, then menaced by a British fleet.
Israel, sixth child of Joseph Adams, married Abigail Stowe, March 28, 1796, and settled in Lonetown near his father. Their children were, Philo, Linda, Lucinda, John, Huldah, Betsey, Amanda, Polly and Minot, the latter now living, aged 88 years. Israel Adams died Sept. 27, 1838; his wife, Abigail, died Oct. 27, 1824.
Joseph Adams, the original settler, died May 18, 1826, aged 86 years; his wife, Joanna Disbrow, died Nov. 5, 1829, aged 90 years.
It is related of Hezekiah Adams, second son of Joseph the first, 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 contemporary with him in Redding, and lived where Joseph Hill now resides. 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. Fam- ily record mentions a son Abraham. This family probably removed to the West.
BANKS.
Jesse Banks, son of Joseph Banks, of Fairfield, removed to Redding at an early day ; married, June II, 1763, Mabel Wheeler (town record says Mehitable Wheeler). Their children were: Hyatt, born December
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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 Summers. Mabel mar- ried Ebenezer Foot, August 29, 1797. Seth Banks also appears in Red- ding contemporary with Jesse; married Sarah Pickett, November 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 1668, and died in 1674. Samuel Barlow, son of Samuel 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 Boston district, near the present residence of Brad- ley Hill. He married, first, Eunice, daughter of Daniel Bradley, of Fairfield, August 2, 1731. Their children were: Daniel, born Novem- ber 24, 1734; Ruhamah, 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 II, 1750; Samuel, born April 3, 1752; Joel, the poet, born March 24, 1754; Huldah, born - Mr. Samuel Barlow 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 lead- ing from Boston through the Centre to Redding Ridge. "This northern boundary," says Mr. Hill, "together with the familiar names of the old owners of property 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 unmistakably 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 respectable size, erect- ed 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 undoubtedly 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
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in the old cemetery west of the Congregational Church in Redding Cen- tre."
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 re- moved to the South ; Lewis, Abigail, and James, who settled in Vermont. Jabez, the youngest 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, 1865; died of con- sumption September 24, 1794. Esther, born September 30, 1767; a deaf mute ; died May 10, 1783. Sarah, born January 16, 1770; died April II, 1845. Jonathan, born April 14, 1772; died August 28, 1775. Betsey, born August 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, in Umpawaug, on a farm purchas- ed by his father several years before. He was a man of ability, tall, and was of imposing bearing, and was an officer in the Revolution. He re- moved 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 accom- panied him to France as his private secretary. He was also his com- panion 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.
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 Russell, of Bran- ford, Conn. Their children were: Russell, bapt. June 9, 1754; Daniel C., bapt. January 16, 1757; Anne, bapt. February 25, 1759; Eunice, bapt. April 26, 1761; Jonathan, bapt. October 14, 1764; Lucretia, bapt. March 27, 1768. Russell married, February 28, 1776, Rachel Taylor, and had children : Clare, bapt. March 30, 1777, and Flora, bapt. 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 Bartlett married, first, Roda, daughter of Lemuel Sanford;
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second, Betsey Marvin, of Wilton; and, third, Abigail, daughter of Lem- uel Sanford. He had no children.
Sketches of Rev. Jonathan Bartlett, and of his father, Rev. Nathaniel Bartlett, are given in the history of the Congregational Church.
BARTRAM.
David Bartram removed from Fairfield to Redding 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 Red- ding. David married, April 30, 1762, Phebe Morehouse, by whom he had Joel, David, John, Jonathan, Hulda, Hepsy, and Phebe. (Family record.) Paul married, September 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, bapt. May 9, 1773; Joseph, bapt. March 10, 1776. (Family record mentions a daughter Olive.) Of these children, Mary married Jabez Burr, and removed to Clarendon, Vt. Sarah married Milo Palmer, and removed to the same place. Eu- nice married Daniel Parsons, of Redding. Eli married Dolly Lyon, of Redding; and about 1804 removed to Delaware Co., N. Y. His chil- dren were William, Belinda, Phebe, and Lodema. Ezekiel married
Esther, daughter of Jonathan Parsons, 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 emi- nence in the profession ; was judge, representative, and senator. Ezekiel removed 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, re- moved to Delaware Co., N. Y., where he died shortly after, leaving chil- dren-Joel M., Ezra, Uriah, and Lucy. Joseph removed first to Ver- mont, and afterward 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 ; married Molly Hamilton, by whom he had seven children: Isaac H., Harry, David, Willis, Chasie, Lucy, Polly, and Huldah.
ISAAC H. BARTRAM.
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Isaac H. Bartram, born May '22, 1785, married Lydia Platt of Red- ding, November II, 1811. Their children were: Betsey, born Aug. 5, 1812, m. Charles B. Rich, of Richville, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1833 ; Mary Jane, born Feb. 27, 1814, married John Harrington, of Newsted, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1861; Urilla, born 1816, died in 1822; Sally Hill, born Jan. 20, 1818, married Aaron Squire, of Weston, Apr. 14, 1834; Lydia, died in in- fancy ; Lydia B., born Jan. 16, 1822, married Levi Drew of Bethel, Conn., Oct. 13, 1847; Abby, born Aug. 19, 1824, married Perry Fairchild, of Stepney, June 13, 1852; Adaline, born Dec. 29, 1826,married Asabel P. Clapp, of Sharon, Oct., 1850; Lucy, born March 20, 1829, married Rev. Charles W. Lockwood, of Monroe, Apr. 23, 1850; Huldah, born July 4, 1831, married Comfort Blake, of Napanoch, N. Y .; Laura, born Sept. 9, 1833, married Joel Osborne, of Redding, Nov. 9, 1852; Isaac Newton, born March 25, 1838, married Helen Delphine Winans, of New Haven, March 27, 1861; Ezra Albert, born Oct. 22, 1843, married Lucy Maria Stowe, of Redding, Oct. 22, 1862. Isaac H. Bartram died April 25, 1864; his wife Lydia died Oct. 6, 1873.
Aaron, son of James, also settled in Redding, married Eunice Jen- kins, and raised a large family of children.
Daniel, fourth son of David, also settled in Redding, was a tanner and currier by trade, and built the first works of the kind in the town, on the ground later occupied by Walter M. Edmonds for the same purpose. He married, October 10, 1768, Ann Merchant, of Redding. Their chil- dren 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 I, 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 Septem- ber 19, 1790, married - - Curtin ; David, born June 5, 1795. At the time of Tryon's invasion, with nearly every other man in the town capa- ble 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 for the purpose of attending to the matter. On the 3d of May, 1810, Daniel Bartram left Redding, accompanied by his wife, his four children, Uriah,
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Levi, Phebe, and David, and several of his neighbors, for what was then the wilderness of Ohio. They arrived in Madison, Lake Co., Ohio, on the Ioth of June, where they settled, and where many of their descend- ants 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 home- stead later occupied by his grandson David. Uriah, second son of Daniel, settled in Madison, Ohio, where he died quite suddenly 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 removed to Trumbull, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. He married, March 12, 1818, Elizabeth Gregory, formerly of Harpersfield, N. Y. They had six children. Mr. Bartram died of heart disease September 2, 1875.
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