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(VIII) Samuel Danforth, son of Jonathan Danforth (7), was born in Billerica, Septem- ber 16, 1692. Married, August 5, 1714, Dor- othy Shed, daughter of John and Sarah (Chamberlain) Shed. She was born January 14, 1691-92. He died about 1749, and admin- istration was granted August 17, 1749, to his son Samuel Danforth, Jr. Children : I. Dorothy, born June 27, 1715, married Walter Pollard. 2. Rebecca, born March 15, 1716-17, married Ephraim Davis, of Bedford. 3. Samuel, born March 29; died May 5, 1719. 4. Joseph, born June 30, 1720. 5. Samuel, born June 24, 1722. 6. Thomas, born May II, 1724. 7. Benjamin, born July 1, 1726. 8. Sarah, born April 14, 1728, married her cousin David, son of Chris- topher and Eliazbeth (Danforth) Osgood. 9. John, born February 14, 1729-30, mentioned below. IO. Joshua, born February 24, 1731- 32. II. Lucy, born April 5, 1734, married Joseph Ross. 12. Jonathan, born June 14, 1736.
(IX) John Danforth, son of Samuel Dan- forth (8), was born at Billerica, February 14, 1729-30. He removed to Andover, Massachu- setts. Married, March 6, 1755, Elizabeth Wil- son, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Wilson, of Billerica. She was born October 10, 1732. Child : John, Jr., born July 23, 1756, mention- ed below.
(X) John Danforth, son of John Danforth (9). was born July 23, 1756, died August 16, 1796. Married, September 14, 1779, Hannah Bancroft. who was born May 17. 1755, and died April 12, 1806. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a private in Captain Jonathan Stickney's company, Colonel Ebenezer Bridge's regiment. in 1775. He enlisted in the Conti- nental army for three years, giving his age July 22, 1779, as twenty-two years, his stature as five feet six inches, and his residence Billerica (also given Tewksbury). He was in Captain Pollard's company, Seventh Middlesex Regi- ment ; also private in Captain Pierce's com- pany, Colonel Michael Jackson's regiment, in . 1780, when his age was given as twenty-four,
his stature as five feet seven inches, complexion, light ; hair, fair ; occupation yeoman, birthplace Billerica, residence Billerica. He may have also been in the service in 1782 in Captain Japheth Daniel's company, Lientenant Colonel Calvin Smith's regiment. John Danforth, of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, aged sev- enty-eight years, received a pension in 1834, ninety-six dollars per annum. Child : John, born May 29, 1788, mentioned below.
(XI) John Danforth, son of John Danforth (IO), was born May 29, 1788, died May 31, 1868. Married (first), April 24, 1814, Betsey Boynton Fowle, born June 4, 1788, died Sep- tember 4, 1847. He married (second), April 26, 1849, Mrs. Dorothy Richardson, born June, 1791, died October 26, 1861 ; resided at Lynn- field, Massachusetts, where their children were born : I. John, born November 20, 1814, men- tioned below. 2. Hannah, born May 17, 1816, died September 28, 1820. 3. Nathaniel Ban- croft, born April 21, 1818, died October I, 1819. 4. Mary Taylor Bancroft, born Febru- ary 25, 1820, died September 23, 1820. 5. Nathaniel Bancroft, born September 24, 1821. 6. Henry, born August 7, 1824.
(XII) John Danforth, son of John Dan- forth (II), was born at Lynnfield, Massachu- setts, November 20, 1814, died November I, 1880. Married, May 2, 1839, Sarah Hawkes Perkins, who was born August 3, 1820, and died November 1, 1899, at Lynnfield Center. His farm was one of the largest and best in that agricultural town. He was during nearly twenty-five years the railroad station agent also, and served the town in the offices of se- lectman, assessor and overseer of the poor, his accounts being models of exactness. He rep- resented the town in the general court, and was one of the trustees of the Essex County Agricultural Society. In religion he was a Universalist ; in politics a Republican ; he was a most useful and honored citizen. He was buried in the Forest Hill cemetery. Children : I. John Morton, born January 1, 1840, mar- ried, June 7. 1866, Emily Augusta Burditt, of Wakefield, born May 16, 1842; resides in Lynnfield. 2. George Forrest, born May 16, 1841, married. June 5, 1872, Caroline Eliza- beth Atwood, born June 1, 1848; no children. 3. Sarah Ellen, born October 4, 1843, married Albert Richardson Bryant; no children. 4. Mary Taylor, born November 25, 1845, men- tioned below. 5. Charles Henry, born April I, 1850, married Clara E. Hewes. Children : Raymond H., Arthur P., John, Helen E. 6. Hannah Bancroft, born July 28, 1854, married William E. Norwood, one child, Charles.
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(XIII) Mary Taylor Danforth, daughter of John Danforth (12), was born November 25, 1845. Married, October 24, 1866, Samuel Augustus Clough, who was born in Al- fred, Maine, January 18, 1838. While very young he came with his parents to Boston, where he was educated in the public schools. At the age of fifteen, however, he entered the employ of George Blackburn & Company, cot- ton manufacturers. He remained with this firm until the Civil war, when he left to enlist in Company E, Forty-fourth Regiment, Mas- sachusetts Volunteer Militia, for nine months. He served his time faithfully and returned with an honorable discharge and an excellent record to his former employers, George Blackburn & Company. He was industrious, active and zealous in the performance of his duties, and from time to time received promotions until at length he was placed in charge of the business. He held this important position until the time of his death, January 26, 1904. He made his home in Wakefield, where he was highly re- spected by all classes as a good citizen, an up- right and estimable man. He was a member of H. M. Warren Post, No. 12, Grand Army of the Republic:
Children of Samuel Augustus and Mary Taylor (Danforth) Clough: I. Nellie Dan- forth, born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 17, 1867, married Rodney A. Young. 2. Cyrus Putnam, born July 22, 1870, married, May, 1906, Marion G. Stowell, of Brimfield, Massachusetts. 3. Ernest Allen, born April 16, 1873. 4. Mary Eloisa, born July 18, 1879. 5. Leslie, born April 17, 1881, married, Feb- ruary, 1906, Beatrice Smith, of Wakefield. 6. Bradley, born February 13, 1887.
William Whittredge, im- WHITTREDGE migrant ancestor, was born in England in 1599. At the age of thirty-six he embarked in the ship "Elizabeth," April 1I, 1635, with his wife Elizabeth, aged thirty, and his son Thomas, aged ten years. His home was in Beninden, county Kent, England. Nathaniel Whittredge, who was in Lynn in 1637, is be- lieved to be his brother. The name was spelled in the early records Whitridge, Whiteridge, Whitered and Whitred, the origin of the sur- name being obviously from a locality named for some white ridge.
William Whittredge settled in Ipswich, Mas- sachusetts, and had a house-lot on the farther end of High street as early as 1638. He was
a soldier in the Pequot war in 1637. In 1648 his name appears among the subscribers to the Major Denison fund. He mortgaged a two- acre house lot October 17, 1640, to William Tinge, and February 4, 1646, he sold a house lot to Moses Pingree, a salt maker. In 1664 as a tenant of John Perkins he had a share in Plum Island; February II, 1667, he had a five acre grant of land near Nicholas Marble's farm to use during his life. He married (second), late in life, 1663, Susanna Colby, widow of Anthony Colby. He died December 9, 1668, and his estate was settled July 2, 1669, by his eldest son Thomas, and administered in 1699 by his grandson, Thomas Whittredge. Child : Thomas, mentioned below.
(II) Thomas Whittredge, son of William Whittredge (I), was born probably at Benin- den, Kent, England, in 1625. His parents lived there before coming to America, and they came when he was ten years old. He settled in Ips- wich. His wife Frances died April 26, 1658, and his second wife Florence died in 1672. Rev. William Adams gave a doleful report of her death in his diary, which was published in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll, 1, 17. At that time his son was thirteen years old. He himself died also in 1672, making a noncupative will. His es- tate was appraised September 3, 1672, by Rob- ert Colburn. He bequeated to three sons. Children: I. Samuel (twin), born March 31, 1658, nothing further known of him. 2. Will- iam (twin), born March 31, 1658, mentioned below. 3. Thomas, administrator of his grand- father ; married Charity and had in Beverly four children: i. William, born June 12, 1683 ; ii. Charity, born March 10, 1684-85 ; iii. Thomas, born May 3, 1687: iv. Rebekah, born May 24, 1689. 4. Richard.
(III) William Whittredge, son of Thomas Whittredge (2), was born at Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, March 31, 1658, died at Gloucester, Massachusetts, August 8, 1726, aged about seventy, according to Babson's account. He settled in Gloucester, being undoubtedly a sea- faring man. He married there, March 4, 1684, Hannah Roberts. He had a tract of land granted him in 1692 in Gloucester in common right. His children: 1. Hannah, born 1685 at Gloucester. 2. Samuel, born 1692, men- tioned below. 3. Susanna, born 1697. .
(IV) Samuel Whittredge, son of William Whittredge (3), was born in Gloucester in 1692, and was drowned at Sable Island, May IO, 1732, aged forty. He was also a mariner and probably a fisherman. He married, in 1720, Hannah Whiston, of Barnstable. Bab-
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son names only one son, William, mentioned below.
(V) William Whittredge, son of Samuel Whittredge (4), was born in Gloucester about 1730. His father died when he was very young, and he was brought up by his mother probably in Gloucester. He married there, 1755, Mary Saville. He removed after the birth of three children to the Second Parish of Reading, Massachusetts, and was on the tax list and voting list there in 1771. Children : I. William, Jr., born about 1760, mentioned below. 2. Oliver Saville. 3. Mary. And perhaps other children.
(VI) William Whittredge, Jr., son of Will- iam Whittredge (5), was born at Gloucester about 1760. He married Hannah
They settled at Reading, where their children were born, viz .: I. Alden, born July 22, 1795, mentioned below. 2. Polly, born February 7, 1798. 3. Daniel, born April 9, 1800. 4. Thomas Jefferson, born November 9, 1801. 5. Alford, born November 2, 1803.
(VII) Alden Whittredge, son of William Whittredge (6), was born at Reading, July 22, 1795. He settled in that town and married Mary . He is thought to be a descend- ant of John Alden through Hannah Whiston and perhaps other ancestors. Children : I. Mary Eliza, born July 1, 1821. 2. William Austin, born May 4, 1823, mentioned below. 3. Joseph Alexander, born May 26, 1825. 4. Henrietta, born June 27, 1827. 5. Joseph Alex- ander, September 18, 1832. 6. George Cook, born October 5, 1835.
(VIII) William Austin Whittredge, son of Alden Whittredge (7), was born in North Reading, May 4, 1823. He was educated there in the common schools and learned the trade of shoemaker. He began manufacturing and car- ried on what was then deemed an extensive business. He opened the first general store kept in the village of North Reading. He was a very prominent man, a citizen of large in- fluence, and enjoying the fullest confidence and respect of his townsmen. He married, August 18, 1835, Mary Jane Skinner, who was born at Lynnfield, and died there November 20, 1885. Children, born at Lynnfield: I. Ellen Marion, born May 26, 1836. 2. George My- ron, born May 8, 1838, died October 21, 1839. 3. Elzina Florence, born March 29, 1840, mar- ried Colonel Thomas E. Barker ; she was first national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic. 4. My- ron Holly, born 1842, enlisted in Company E, Fiftieth Regiment, Massachusetts Volun-
teers; died in 1907. 5. William Wirt, born May 23, 1844, mentioned below. 6. Alfrena W., born October 15, 1846, died in infancy. 7. Alfrena Jane, born February 22, 1849, mat- ron of Soldiers' Home at Togus, Maine. 8. Fremont, born August 5, 1851. 9. Alfred Fremont, born 1853.
(IX) William Wirt Whittredge, son of William Austin Whittredge (8), was born at Lynnfield Center, Massachusetts, May 23, 1844. He received his education in the public schools and at Pembroke (New Hampshire) Academy. At the age of fifteen he left school and began to learn the trade of shoemaking under the direction of his father, who was then a shoe manufacturer. His health failed after a few years and he went west by advice of his physician and made his home in Leavenworth, Kansas, and not content with resting and seek- ing health in idleness he established a whole- sale shoe business there. He prospered in business and improved in health at the same time. After five years he sold his Leaven- worth business, but retained his home there, and during the next five years carried on a wholesale shoe business in St. Louis. He then returned to his home in Massachusetts with health fully restored and settled in Wakefield, where he manufactured shoes until 1900, when he sold out his business and retired. Although not in the best of health he prefers an active life, and for several years has had charge of the gypsy moth commission work of Wake- field and has won great praise for his zeal and energy in prosecuting the work of destroying the pest. In religion he is a Universalist, liberal and tolerant in his views and chari- table to the extent of his means. He is a Re- publican in politics. He is a member of Golden Rule Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Wakefield, Masachusetts, although he was raised a Mason in King Solomon Lodge, 10, of Leavenworth, Kansas. He is a member of Leavenworth Chapter, No. 2, Royal Arch Masons; Leavenworth Commandery, No. I, Knights Templars; Abadalah Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine; past patron of the (Ladies' Auxiliary) Eastern Star, of which Mrs. Whittredge is an active member.
He married, January 31, 1863, Martha A. Hutchinson, daughter of William H. and Martha (Richardson) Hutchinson, of Wake- field. Their only child is Gertrude, born May, 1874, at Leavenworth, Kansas ; married Earle V. D. Brown, of Concordia, where they now reside.
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The Deadman or Dadmun DEADMAN family, said to be of Scotch ancestry, was represented in New England as early as May 27, 1714, by Samuel Deadman, of Framingham, who mar- ried on that date Martha Jennings, daughter of Stephen Jennings. His descendants may be found in the vicinity of Framingham yet. Just what relationship existed between the Framingham and Stoneham branches is not known. It is significant, however, that in those towns where Deadmans are found we also find the Damon family, and the mis- spellings of these names are sometimes alike: Demon, Dimond, Dedman, Dedmun, etc.
(I) William Deadman, the first of this fam- ily of which definite record has been found, is said to be the son of William Deadman, who settled in Salem and Stoneham, Massa- chusetts. William (I), was born about 1758. He settled in Stoneham and Beverly, later in Reading. He was a soldier in the Revolu- tion in 1778, credited to Hubbardston though his residence was given as Stoneham, in Captain Adam Wheeler's company, Colonel Thomas Nixon's regiment. Colonel Nixon was a Framingham man, and Deadman may have joined this regiment on account of rela- tionship with the Framingham Deadmans. Possibly Samuel Deadman, the Framingham settler, was his grandfather. In 1779 he en- listed for three years in the Fifth Regiment (Colonel Nixon's), first under Captain Ben- jamin Heywood, then under Captain Peter Clayes, (also of a Framingham family). His enlistment record shows that he was five feet, eleven inches in height, of dark complexion, and in 1779-1780 was (about) twenty years old. Another record belonging to him, or possibly to his father, shows William Dead- man a private from Danvers in Captain Asa Prince's company, Colonel Danforth Keyes's regiment, enlisting August 22, 1777, dis- charged January 3, 1778.
He married (first) (published August 29, 1779) Sarah Cressey, who was born January 20, 1758, at Royalside, Salem, now Beverly, daughter of Nathaniel Cressey (IV), Job (III), John (II), Mighill Cressey (I). She was probably the mother of Nancy. He married (second) Mary Green, daugh- ter of Captain Thomas Green. She died at Reading at the age of ninety-eight years, a very worthy and pleasant woman throughout her long life. William, his wife Mary, and children Mary, Nancy, William and Lvdia, were in Reading in 1790, coming from Salem, as the "warning" record shows,
doubtless meaning Royalside as Lydia was born there the year before. Children: I. Polly, born at Beverly, September 27, 1780. 2. Sally, born at Beverly, October 21, 1782. 3. Captain William, born 1788, mentioned be- low. 4. Lydia, born at Beverly, February 4, 1789. 5. Nancy, married, July 31, 1803, George W. Vinol; (second). Eliab Parker. (See page 203, Reg. 1877). About 1805 Dead- man purchased a small cottage that stood where now is the Deadman house in South Reading, and is part of the present structure. The other part of the . Deadman house was owned several years by Molly Parker, but was subsequently bought by Deadman who erect- ed the present building. The estate of Will- iam Deadman (or Dadmun) was administered in 1817 by his son-in-law, Eliab Parker.
(II) Captain William Deadman, son of William Deadman (I), was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1788. He came with his parents to South Reading, where in 1813 he married Sally Boutwell, daughter of James Boutwell. He was first captain of the Wash- ington Rifle Company of South Reading. A man of high respectability, great mechanical ingenuity, excellent taste and skill in con- triving and arranging the useful and orna- mental surroundings of house, garden and field. He was town sexton for many years and died in 1865, aged seventy-seven years. He lived on the farm formerly owned by the Tottinghams in South Reading. Children of Captain William and Sally Deadman: Will- iam, mentioned below. Henry. Sarah, mar- ried Josiah Tyzzer. Mary, married John H. Emerson. Both the girls are living in Wake- field.
(III) William Deadman, son of Captain William Deadman (2), was born in South Reading about 1810. He was educated there in the common schools, and like most of the boys of that vicinity learned the trade of shoe- making. He worked at this trade many years, but later entered the employ of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company and remained in the railroad business until his death. He was generous, manly and kindly in his disposi- tion, upright and honorable in character, and respected and esteemed by everybody who knew him. He married Ruth Sleeper, who was born at Canaan, New Hampshire. Their child, William Dexter, born July 22, 1843, mentioned below.
(IV) William Dexter Deadman, son of William Deadman (3), was born in South Reading, now Wakefield, Massachusetts, July 22, 1843. He was educated in the public
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schools of his native town, and at the age of fifteen he became a clerk in a meat and provision store, a position he held until the Civil war in 1861. He enlisted first for ninety days in Company E, of Wakefield, Fiftieth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, served his term and was mustered out. He enlisted again in Company E, Eighth Massa- chusetts Regiment, for a hundred days and at the end of this period was again mustered out at Readville, Massachusetts. After the war he established himself in Wakefield as proprietor of a meat market, and has been in this business and very successful to the pres- ent time. He is interested in town matters and has aided to the extent of his ability everything intended to develop and benefit the town. He is a Republican in politics, but has not been active in party affairs, believing that a merchant should not mix business and politics. He is a member of the Wakefield Congregational church. He is an active member of Golden Rule Lodge of Free Masons, of which he is a past master. He is also a member of the Quannapowitt Council, Royal Arcanum. He is popular in both social and business circles, and an upright, honorable and honored citizen. He married Jane C. Fiske, of Lyneborough, New Hamp- shire, daughter of Ebenezer Fiske. Children: I. William F., married Edith Colley, and they have one child, Ruth F. 2. Roy S., deceased. 3. Alice M., unmarried.
Elder John Strong, the immi- STRONG grant ancestor of all the known families of this surname in New England, and virtually all in this country, was born in England at Taunton in 1605, son of Richard Strong. The family was originally located in the county of Shropshire, England, but one of the family married an heiress of Griffith, county Caernarvon, Wales, and went thither to reside in 1545. Of this Welsh branch was Richard Strong, who was born in the county Caernarvon in 1561, and in 1590 removed to Taunton, Somersetshire, England, where he died in 1613, leaving besides his son John a daughter Eleanor. John Strong lived at London and Plymouth, and finally,. having strong Puritan sympathies and convictions, he and his sister came to New England, sailing March 20, 1630, in the ship "Mary and John" and landing at Nantasket (Hull). They settled in Dorchester. The sister married Walter Deane, a tanner, of Taunton, Massachusetts, previously of Taunton, England.
In 1635 John Strong removed to Hingham. He was admitted a freeman, March 9, 1636. He removed to Taunton before December 4, 1638, when he was on the list of inhabitants and proprietors there and remained there until 1645 or later ; was deputy from that town to the general court in Plymouth in 1641-43-44; removed thence to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was appointed with four others "to superintend and bring forward the settlement of the place." He settled finally, however, in Northampton, Massachusetts, with which his name has been always associated since; was one of the first and most active founders and for a full forty years a prominent and influen- tial citizen. He prospered in his business as a tanner and husbandman. His tanyard was on what is now the southwest corner of Market street near the railroad station. He owned some two hundred acres of land in and near Northampton. He was elected ruling elder of the church and ordained May 13, 1663.
His first wife died on the passage or soon after landing in Massachusetts, and about two months later her baby died also. He married (second), in December, 1630, Abigail Ford, daughter of Thomas Ford, of Dorchester, Windsor and Northampton, and she died, the mother of sixteen children, July 6, 1688, aged about eighty years. He died April 14, 1699, aged ninety-four years. He had at the time of his death one hundred and sixty descendants, among whom were eighteen children and at least thirty-three great-grandchildren. He made over his lands during his lifetime to his children. Children of first wife: I. John, born in England in 1626, died in Windsor, Febru- ary 20, 1698. 2. Infant, died in Dorchester in 1630. Children of second wife: 3. Thomas, born 163 -. 4. Jedediah, born May 7, 1637, died May 22, 1733, aged ninety-six years, mentioned below. 5. Josiah, born about 1639, died young. 6. Return, born about 1641, died April 9, 1726, aged about eighty-five years. 7. Elder Ebenezer, born 1643, died February II, 1729, aged eighty-six. 8. Abigail, born about 1645, married Rev. Nathaniel Chauncy ; (second) Medad Pomeroy. 9. Elizabeth, born in Windsor, February 24, 1647, died May 12, 1736; married Joseph Parsons. 10. Experi- ence, born in Windsor, August 4, 1650, mar- ried Zerubbabel Filer, of Windsor. II. Sam- uel, born August 5, 1652, died October 29, 1732. 12. Joseph (twin), born August 5, 1652, died young. 13. Mary, born October 26, 1654, at Windsor ; married Deacon John Clark. 14. Sarah, born 1656, at - Windsor, married Joseph Barnard, of Hadley. 15. Hannah,
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born May 30, 1659, married William Clark. 16. Hester, born June 7, 1661, married Thomas Bissell. 17. Thankful, born July 25, 1663, married Baldwin. 18. Jerijah, born December 12, 1665, died April 24, 1754.
(II) Jedediah Strong, son of Elder John Strong (1), was born May 7, 1637, and bap- tized April 14, 1639. Married, November 18, 1662, Freedom Woodward, who was baptized at Dorchester in 1642, the daughter of Henry Woodward, later of Northampton. He was a farmer at Northampton until 1709, when at the age of seventy or more he removed to Cov- entry, Connecticut, where twenty-four years afterwards he died May 22, 1733, aged ninety-six. During the years 1677-78-79 he was paid eighteen shillings a year for blowing the trumpet on Sunday to summon the people to church. His wife Freedom died May 17, 1681, and he married (second), December 19, 1681, Abigail Stebbins, who was born Septem- ber 6, 1660, daughter of John and Abigail (Bartlett) Stebbins. She died July 15, 1689, and he married (third) Mrs. Mary (Hart) Lee, widow of John Lee, of Farmington, and daughter of Stephen Hart. His wife Mary died October 10, 1710, from an injury received the day previous by falling from a horse on which she was riding on a pillion behind her husband when just started well upon their way to Coventry to visit their children. The acci- dent happened at the ford at South Hadley. Children I. Elizabeth, born June 9, 1664. 2. Abigail, born July 9, 1666, married Thomas King. 3. Jedediah, born August 7, 1667, men- tioned below. 4. Ford, born September 2, 1668, died November 1, 1668. 5. Unnamed child, born October 11, 1669, died young. 6. Hannah, born February 3, 1671, married Ben- jamin Carpenter. 7. Thankful, born April 15, 1672, married Deacon Thomas Root, Jr .. 8. John, born November 15, 1673, -died same month. 9. Lydia, born November 9, 1675, married David Lee. 10. Mary, born May, 1677, died young. II. Experience, born August 19, 1678, died September 16, 1678. 12. Preserved, born March 29, 1680. 13. John, born May 10, 1681, died April 21, 1699. Child of second wife: 14. Mary born 1683, married Ebenezer Pixley.
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