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John, Daniel.
(II) John, son of Joseph Jenks, was born in England in 1632 and died January 4, 1717. He removed from Lynn to Warwick, Rhode Island, and March 28, 1669, was granted land on either side of the Pawtuxet river in War- wick for his saw mill, and in payment for this favor agreed to let the people have boards at a special price. The grant included trees of pine, chestnut and oak, within a half mile on each side of the river, that is floatable, the proprie- tors reserving the right to cut what they need. He was foreman of a jury, January 18, 1670. On October 10, 1671, he bought sixty acres of land of Abel Potter in Providence, near Pawtucket Mills, and here he established a forge and saw mill. In 1676 his forge was
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destroyed by the Indians in King Philip's war. He was admitted a freeman in 1677. He was deputy to the general court in 1679-80-81, and an assistant thirteen years between 1680 and 1698. He and two brothers were em- powered May 5, 1680, to buy a bell for the public use, to call together the assembly and courts. He had his land laid out November 14, 1683, and was taxed afterwards. He and five others, and the deputy governor, wrote a letter, January 30, 1690, to William and Mary congratulating them on their accession to the throne, and informing them of the resuming of the former charter government, since the deportation of Andros. John Jenks was chosen by the assembly, July 2, 1695, to run the easterly line of the colony. He made his will October 21, 1708, and it was proved Feb- ruary II, 1717. He married Esther Ballard, daughter of William and Elizabeth Ballard. Children: I. Joseph, born 1656, died June 15, 1740; married (first) Martha Brown; (second) February 3, 1727, Alice Dexter, widow ; was a prominent man; deputy, speaker, deputy governor. 2. Elizabeth, 1658, died 1740; married Samuel Tefft. 3. Sarah, died 1708; married Nathaniel Brown. 4. Na- thaniel, born January 29, 1662, mentioned below. 5. Esther, 1664, married Samuel Mil- lard. 6. Ebenezer, 1669, died August 14, 1726; married, March 4, 1695, Mary Butterworth; pastor of the First Baptist Church at Provi- dence. 7. Joanna, 1672, died March 12, 1756; married Sylvanus Scott.
(III) Nathaniel, son of John Jenks, was born January 29, 1662, died August II, 1723. He was a blacksmith by trade, and resided in Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He was admitted a freeman in 1690, and was deputy to the general court in 1709-10-13. He was captain in the militia in 1709, and later promoted to the rank of major. On May 2, 17II, with his brother Joseph, he was appointed to build a bridge across the river at Pawtucket. He was a member of the town council in 1719-20-21-22-23. His will was dated April 27, 1721, with codicil dated July 31, 1723, and proved October 21, 1723. It bequeathed to his son Nathaniel all the home- stead, with dwelling house, etc., half at the testator's death, the other half at the death of the widow; also right in his Attleborough lands, and his forge, smithshop, tools, coal house, saw mill and grist mill, all at Pawtucket except the saw mill, which was on the east side of the river. He married, November 4,
1686, Hannah Bosworth. Children : Jona- than, Nathaniel, mentioned below ; Hannah, Elizabeth.
(IV) Captain Nathaniel (2), son of Major Nathaniel ( 1) Jenks, was born in Providence or Pawtucket about 1695. He was a black- smith by trade and inherited the principal part of his father's estate. He lived at Providence, where he died June 8, 1753. (See p. IOI, Vital records of Providence. Arnold). He married, February 28, 1722-23, (by William Jenckes ), Lydia Arnold. He married (second) March 29, 1729-30 Children of first wife, born in Providence: I. Martha, March 14, 1724. 2. Stephen, May 8, 1726, married Sarah 3. Lydia, September 3, 1728. Children of second wife: 4. Joanna, June 18, I730. 5. Ichabod, January 2, 1731-32. 6, James, October 13, 1733. 7. Jesse, mentioned below.
(V) Jesse, son of Captain Nathaniel (2) Jenks, lived in Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island. In the census of 1790 Jesse Jenks, Jesse Jenks Jr. and another Jesse Jenks were living at Smithfield. One of these was a son of Dr. John Jenks. Jesse Jenks married, September II, 1757, Mary Smith, of Smith- field. Among their children were: I. Stephen, married, August 5, 1784, Ann Sayles, daugh- ter of Gideon Sayles. 2. Jesse, mentioned below.
(VI) Jesse (2), son of Jesse (I) Jenks, was born in Smithfield about 1760-70. He removed in an oxteam to Cheshire, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, after 1790. The fed- eral census of 1790 gives his residence as Smithfield and his family then consisted of wife and one son. Children : I. Mowrey, born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1789, died in 1878. 2. Weighty, born in Cheshire, 1791, died in 1850; married Elijah Clark. 3. Hav- erill, born in Cheshire, 1793. 4. Welcome, born 1795, died in 1881-82. 5. Cynthia, born 1797, died 1879. 6. Patience, born 1799, died 1879. 7. Elisha, born 1801, died 1871. 8. Huldah, born 1804, died 1881. 9. Jesse A., born 1807, died in 1890.
(VII) Jesse A., son of Jesse Jenks, was born in Cheshire about 1807. He followed his father's occupation and was a farmer throughout his active life. He was a well-to- do and prominent citizen; member of the Methodist church. He married Ann Eliza Smith, born Norway, New York, daughter of Timothy Smith. Children, born at Cheshire : I. Francis L., 1834, a farmer and dealer in
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horses, later a hotel proprietor at Cheshire. 2. George W., January 14, 1840, mentioned below.
(VIII) George W., son of Jesse A. Jenks, was born in Cheshire, January 14, 1840. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, at Wilbraham Academy and at the East- man Business College. He worked for a time on a farm, and in 1864 became a clerk in the general store in Cheshire. In 1865 he bought a half interest in the store, but sold out a year later and came to Shelburne Falls where he has been in business since as a retail shoe dealer. He is one of the leading merchants of the town and one of the oldest business men. He has been active and influential in town affairs. He has been town clerk since 1894; in 1892 he was representative from his dis- trict to the general court and served on various important committees. He has been treasurer of the fire department of the town since 1878. In politics he is a Republican. . He was made an Odd Fellow in 1867 in Alethin Lodge of which he has been treasurer since 1878, and he is also a member of Alethin Encampment and its treasurer since 1878. He has been a trus- tee of the Shelburne Falls Savings Bank for many years and has been president since 1904. He is an active and prominent member of the Universalist church and clerk of the society for many years. He married, 1865, Abbie Northrop, born January 6, 1846, died August 1886, daughter of Joseph Northrup. He mar- ried (second) October 18, 1888. Mary E. Green, daughter of George W. Blanchard and widow of E. T. Green. She had one child by first marriage, Annie Green, born October 13, 1877. Children of first wife, born at Shel- burne Falls: 1. Charles E., April 16, 1868, married Irene Whipple, of Adams; child, Helen, born January 14, 1903. 2. Mabel, No- vember 6, 1873, married Edwin J. Foster ; child, Marian, born July 10, 1899.
Griswold is an ancient Eng- GRISWOLD lish surname derived from the name of a place, like a large proportion of British patronymics. The ancient seat of family was at Solihull, War- wickshire, prior to the year 1400. The ancient coat-of-arms is: Argent a fesse gules between two greyhounds currant sable.
John Griswold about the middle of the four- teenth century came from Kenilworth and married a daughter and heiress of Henry Hughford, of Huddersley Hall at Solihull, and the family has been known as the Gris-
wolds of Kenilworth and Solihull. Solihull is on the northwest border of Warwickshire, and Yardley in Worcestershire on the south and west. It is but eight miles from Kenil- worth to the westward and twelve miles north- west of Stratford-on-Avon, and was a place of importance before the Norman Conquest. The two American immigrants, Edward and Mathew, came to Connecticut from Kenil- worth. Mathew came over in 1639 and settled at Windsor, Connecticut ; died at Lyme, Con- necticut, September 21, 1698, and was buried at Saybrook; assisted in the settlement of Lyme and was a large land-owner ; was deputy to the general assembly in 1654 and afterward.
(I) Edward Griswold, brother of Mathew, was born in Warwickshire, England, about 1607. He came to Connecticut at the time of the second visit of George Fenwick when many other settlers came. He was attorney for a Mr. St. Nicholas, of Warwickshire, who had a house built for him at Windsor and a tract of land impaled, as had also Sir Richard Sal- tonstall. There were many other prominent Puritans in Warwickshire intending to settle in the colonies, when a change in the political conditions in England caused them to stay there. Rev. Ephraim Hewett and the Wylys family were from Warwickshire. Griswold had a grant of land at Poquonock to which he removed in 1649 when his house was the outpost of the colony. It was on the site of the Eliphalet S. Ladd house, having the Tunxis river on the south and west. He was active in public affairs. In 1650 he helped build the fort at Springfield for Pynchon, He was a deputy to the general court from Windsor in 1656 and every session but one afterward until the new charter was granted. He was a prominent settler of Hommonosett or West Saybrook, whither about 1663 he removed with his younger children, deeding to his sons George and Joseph his Windsor property, reserving a small annuity. The set- tlement was organized as a town in 1667 and received the name of his English birth-place and home, Kenilworth, which became strangely perverted in the spelling to Killingworth and is now Clinton, Connecticut. He was the first deputy from the town, magistrate and deputy for more than twenty years, 1662 to 1688-89, and was succeeded in office by his son John. The Colonial records show him to have been an active and influential member of the legisla- ture, accomplished much good. At sessions he had the pleasure of meeting his own son Francis and brother Mathew in office, and
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there has hardly been a time since when the family has not been represented in the legis- lature of the province and state. In 1678 he was on the committee to establish a Latin school at New London ; he was deacon of the Killingworth church and died there in 1691, aged eighty-four years. He married (first) in England in 1630, Margaret -- , who died August 23, 1670, and her gravestone is the oldest in the burial ground at Clinton, for- merly Killingworth. He married (second) 1672-73, Sarah Bemis, widow of James Bemis, of New London. Children of the first wife: I. Sarah, born in England in 1631. 2. George, mentioned below. 3. Francis, 1635. 4. Lydia, 1637. 5. Sarah, 1638, married Samuel Phelps, November 10, 1650; (second) July 21, 1670, Nathaniel Pomeroy. 6. Ann, baptized June 19, 1642, at Windsor. 7. Mary, baptized October 13, 1644, married, March 19, 1661, Timothy Phelps. 8. Deborah, born June 28, 1646, mar- ried Samuel Buell. 9. Joseph, born and bap- tized March 12, 1647. 10. Samuel, born and baptized November 18, 1649, died July 6, 1672. II. John, born and baptized August 16, 1652.
(II) George, son of Edward Griswold, was born in England, 1633, and died at Windsor, September 3, 1704. He remained at Windsor with his brother Joseph on their father's lands when the father went to Killingworth. He was also an extensive owner of land bought of the Indians ; was admitted freeman in 1654; an eminently respectable and worthy citizen. He married. October 3, 1655, Mary Holcomb, daughter of Thomas Holcomb, died April, 1708. Children, born at Windsor: I. Daniel, October 1, 1656, mentioned below. 2. Thomas, September 29, 1658. 3. Edward, March 19, 1661. 4. Mary, September 28, 1663. 5. George, December 3, 1665. 6. John, Septem- ber 17, 1668. 7. Benjamin, August 16, 1671. 8. Deborah, May 30, 1674, married, December 12, 1695, Thomas Moore. 9. Abigail, October 31, 1676, died May 7, 1682. 10. Samuel, No- vember 5, 1681, died June 1, 1682.
(III) Daniel, son of George Griswold, was born in Windsor, October 1, 1656; married there, February 3, 1680, Mindwell Bissell, died December 31, 1728, daughter of Nathaniel Bissell. Children, born at Windsor: I. Dan- iel. (twin) February 14, 1684, mentioned below. 2. Ensign Nathaniel, (twin) February 14. 1684. 3. Pelatiah, September 13, 1689. 4. Mary, 1692. 5. Edward, March 8, 1695-96. 6. Deborah, November 7, 1698. 7. David, August 6, 1701.
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wold, was born in Windsor, February 14, 1684. He married, at Windsor, September 6, 1716, Sarah White. He removed to Bolton, Connec- ticut, where his wife died February 1, 1738, aged forty-three years. He married again. Children, born at Windsor: I. Sarah, Octo- ber 14, 1717, married James Olcott. 2. Anne, March 20, 1718-19, married Benjamin Smith. 3. Bathsheba, December 2, 1720, married Jabez Dart, of Bolton; she died February 1, 1746. 5. Daniel, May 26, 1723, mentioned below. 6. Hannah, February 8, 1725-26. 7. White, Octo- ber 22, 1727, married Elizabeth Cheney, of Harwinton, Connecticut. 8. George, January I, 1730, married Sarah Jones; ( second) Sus- annah Cone ; he died at Bolton, April 26, 1813. 9. Seth, April 27, 1732, married, 1751, Sus- annah Shurtleff. 10. Daughter, June 12, 1736, died aged ten hours. II. Reuben, January 16, 1738.
(V) Daniel (3), son of Daniel (2) Gris- wold, was born at Windsor, May 26, 1723, died at Bolton, Connecticut, July 27, 1803. He or his father resided at Hatfield in 1755. He or his son of the same name was taken prisoner of war at Fort Washington, New York, No- vember 16, 1776. He married (first) Eliza- beth Baldwin, of Coventry, in 1744, and (sec- ond) Judith Shaylor, of Bolton, in 1771. He and his brother George were the only heads of families of this name in Bolton according to the federal census in 1790. George had a son under sixteen and three females in his fam- ily. Daniel had a son over sixteen and two daughters in his family. The children of Daniel and Elizabeth were: Elizabeth, born 1746; Daniel, 1748; Elizabeth, 1751; Daniel, 1753; Benjamin, 1756; Bathsheba, 1758; The- ophilus, 1761.
(VI) Theophilus, son of Daniel (3) Gris- wold, was born in Bolton, Connecticut, May I, 1761, and died at Greenfield, Massachu- setts, December, 1821. At the close of the revolutionary war, in which he served in the Connecticut troops, he came to Greenfield and settled in 1783 on the farm which has since then been known as the Griswold homestead and which is now owned by his great-grand- son, Lyman W. Griswold. He was a nail- maker by trade and also a manufacturer of lamp-black, and from his factory the section of the town called the Lamp-black district took its name. After he removed to Massa- chusetts he rose to the rank of lieutenant in the militia. He married, February 6, 1783, Elizabeth Talcott, of Bolton, a direct descend- ant of John Talcott, one of the founders of
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Hartford, Connecticut, and of William Pynchon, founder of Springfield, Massachu- setts. Children, born at Greenfield: I. Eliz- abeth, April 24, 1784, died November 3, 1802. 2. Phila, August 16, 1785, died February, 1844. 3. Sophia, June 7, 1787, died February, 1845. 4. Aurelia, March 16, 1789. 5. Talcott, July 31, 1791, died May 19, 1796. 6. Lyman, April 5, 1793, mentioned below. 7. Flavel, April 14, 1795. 8. Charlotte, June 2, 1797, died 1857. 9. Emily, June 3, 1800. 10. Ade- line, December 31, 1802, died 1827. II. Melita, April 8, 1805, died May, 1850.
(VII) Lyman, son of Theophilus Griswold, was born in Greenfield, April 5, 1793, died March, 1863. He was a shoemaker by trade and also a farmer. His shoe-shop was at Fac- tory Hollow in Greenfield. He was a lieu- tenant in the militia. He married, April 21, 1824, Urania Barrett, of Ashby, born January 12, 1796, daughter of Lieutenant Jonas and Urania (Locke) Barrett. Children, born at Greenfield : I. John Flavel, February 12, 1825, died October, 1898. 2. Theophilus Ly- man, November 28, 1828, mentioned below. 3. Katherine, September 12, 1831. 4. Mary Ellen, January 31, 1835. 5. Harriet Ware, May 4, 1838.
(VIII) Dr. Theophilus Lyman, son of Ly- man Griswold, was born in Greenfield, Novem- ber 28, 1828, died March 5, 1883. He attended the public schools and entered Amherst College where he was graduated in the class of 1853. He became a teacher and in 1856 was elected professor of mathematics in the University of Tennessee. Just before the civil war he was publishing a weekly newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. On account of his anti-slavery principles his office was raided by a mob and the plant destroyed, while he had to flee from the town to save his life. He determined to study medicine and in 1864 graduated from the Physio-Medical College of Ohio with the degree of M. D. He began to practice his profession at Elmira, New York, and followed it for a number of years. But he preferred teaching, and from 1872 to 1877 was principal of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He resigned on account of ill health. He married, in 1859, Isabel Holden, daughter of Fox and Harriet (Strong) Hol- den, of Elmira, New York. Children : I. Carl Schurz, born February 26, 1862. 2. Delos Holden, 1865, died 1865. 3. Hite Leaven- worth, January 31, 1867. 4. Lyman William, October 16, 1869, mentioned below.
(IX) Lyman William, son of Theophilus
Lyman Griswold, was born at Watkins, Schuy- ler county, New York, October 16, 1869. His parents died when he was quite young and he came to Greenfield, Massachusetts, to live with his uncle, John Flavel Griswold, at the old Griswold homestead in the north part of the town. He attended the district schools there and fitted for college at Powers Institute, Ber- nardston, Massachusetts, graduating in the class of 1882. He entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated cum laude in the class of 1892. He taught school at Presque Isle, Maine, in 1892-93. From that time until 1898 he carried on the homestead for his uncle, studying law in the meantime in the office of William S. Dana at Turners Falls from 1893 to 1896, when he was admitted to the bar. Since 1896 he has been practicing law at Greenfield with marked success. He was captain of Company L, Second Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, from 1902 to 1906, when he resigned. He was elected representative to the general court of Massachusetts from the Second Franklin Dis- trict in 1906 and re-elected the two years fol- lowing, serving on important committees and taking a prominent part in the business of the legislature. He served for eleven years on the school committee of Greenfield and on the Republican town committee for ten years. He was appointed by Governor Bates a special justice of the district court of Franklin county in 1904, and held this office until he resigned when elected to the legislature. He was appointed a master in chancery in 1908 by Governor Guild. Mr. Griswold is a member of Republican Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Frank- lin Chapter, R. A. M., Titus Strong Council, R. and S. M. In religion he is a Unitarian. He married, June 8, 1899, Grace Clarke Kim- ball, born April 24, 1874, daughter of Rev. John C. and Emily O. (Richardson) Kimball. She is a graduate of Smith College, class of 1897. Children: 1. Emily Kimball, born May 9, 1900. 2. Grace Pynchon, (twin) June 8, 1903. 3. Theophilus, (twin) June 8, 1903. 4. Ruth, October 27, 1907.
Richard Briggs, immigrant an- BRIGGS cestor, was born in England, about 1630-35, and settled in Taunton, and there is reason to believe that he and William Briggs, of Taunton, were both sons of the first settler of the name, Clement Briggs, of Taunton, though they were not men- tioned in his will. Richard Briggs married, August 15, 1662, Rebecca Hoskins, of Lake-
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ham. He settled in that part of Taunton, now Norton, and paid the Indian proprietors also for his home. His estate was divided January 15, 1696. His widow joined the church at Norton in 1714 by letter from the Taunton Church. Children : I. William, born August 21, 1663, married Constant Lincoln. 2. Re- bekah, August 15, 1665, married, February II, 1690, Nathaniel Thayer Jr. 3. Richard, April 7, 1668, died young. 4. John, February 26, 1669, died June 29, 1756; deacon ; married, May 29, 1727, Mary Burt. 5. Joseph, June 15, 1674, married Mehitable Hall. 6. Ben- jamin, September 15, 1677. 7. Richard, Janu- ary 12, 1679, mentioned below. 8. Hannah, February 17, 1681, died young. 9. Samuel, April 20, 1683. IO. Mary, January, 1685, married John Forrest. II. Mehitable, June 18, 1699, died young.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) Briggs, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, January 12, 1679, died October 27, 1732. He went to Norton in early life and built his house near a great boulder which is still one of the landmarks of the town. He joined the church in 1719, and was tithingman. He mar- ried, in 1706, Mercy Kingsbury, born at Wrentham, November 19, 1677, daughter of Joseph Kingsbury. Children: I. Richard, born 1711. 2. Timothy, January 3, 1713. 3. George, June 19, 1715, had a son Jacob, born April 9, 1745, soldier in the revolution. 4. James, March 16, 1719. Others, among whom probably Jacob, mentioned below.
(III) Jacob, son or nephew of Richard (2) Briggs, was born at Taunton or vicinity, September 13, 1707. He settled in that part of Taunton which was set off and incorporated with other territory as Berkeley in 1735. He married, May 23, 1734, Hannah , born December 28, 1711. He probably married (second) February 18, 1760, Sarah Macom- ber, of Middleborough. Children, born at Berkeley: 1. Jacob, March 29, 1735, men- tioned below. 2. Hannah, September 10, 1736. 3. Huldah, April 11, 1740. 4. Bathsheba, Jan- uary 19, 1744. 5. Micah, July 15, 1746. 6. Elizabeth, January 2, 1749.
(IV) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (I) Briggs, was born in Berkeley, March 29, 1735. He lived at Berkeley and Freetown. He was a soldier from Freetown, adjoining Berkeley, in Captain Phillip Hathaway's company, Col- onel Josiah Whitney's regiment. He was en- listed as of Berkeley in Captain Samuel Tubbs's company, Colonel Timothy Walker's regiment in 1775; also in Captain Zebedee
Redding's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment in 1776; corporal in Captain Elijah Walker's company, Colonel John Hathaway's regiment. He removed to Warwick, Massa- chusetts, during the revolution and was a soldier in Captain Rich's company, Colonel Williams's regiment, 1779-80, when he gave his age as forty-four, his height five feet seven inches and his hair brown. He was in the Sixth Hampshire County Regiment. Accord- ing to the census of 1790 he and Richard Briggs, doubtless one of his sons, was living at New Salem, Massachusetts. He married, January 13, 1759, Mary Chase. Children, born at Berkeley : I. Jacob, September 22, 1760, mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, July 21, 1761. 3. Micah, June 18, 1766. Doubtless several others.
(V) Jacob (3), son of Jacob (2) Briggs, was born in Berkeley, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 22, 1760. He went to Hampshire county with his father and served with him in the revolution. He was in Captain Elijah Walker's company, Colonel John Hathaway's regiment ; also in Captain Zebedee Redding's company, Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment in 1776; also enlisted June 9, 1779, in the Continental army, aged nineteen, height five feet, seven inches, hair brown, residence Warwick, orig- inally of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment ; also in Seth Peirce's company, Colonel Seth Murray's regiment with his father. He mar- ried, February 6, 1786, Abigail Makepeace. In 1790 he was living in Orange, Massachu- setts, the only head of a Briggs family of that town. Jacob Briggs, of Orange, bought land in Royalston of John Stockwell, of Royalston, June 29, 1793. Jacob died in Athol, 1832, leaving a widow Lydia, who died 1834. The names of his children do not appear in the probate papers.
(VI) John, son of Jacob (3) Briggs, was born and died in Orange, Massachusetts. He married twice. He lived for a time in New Salem. Children: 1. Albert. 2. John Jr. 3. Tyler, died in Athol, June 25, 1870, leaving widow Roannah and children, Clarence M., Willie K. and Florence V, all minors. 4. Lor- ing, born May 3, 1810, mentioned below. 5. Harriet. 6. Charles.
(VII) Loring, son of John Briggs, was born in New Salem, May 3, 1810. He mar- ried, March 10, 1832, in New Salem, Polly Giles, born at New Salem, July 22, 1811. He was a contractor on the construction of the Vermont & Massachusetts railroad, but a farmer most of his life. He lived at Erving,
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Massachusetts, after 1835 until his death. Children: I. Detroit N., born in Northfield, Massachusetts, October 4, 1833. 2. Elliott, Orange, April 25, 1835. 3. Dwight, Erving, August 7, 1836. 4. Albert, April 1, 1838, men- tioned below. 5. Mary H., Erving, October 12, 1842. 6. Jonas L., Erving, August 29, 1846.
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