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(VI) Jonathan Frost, son of John Frost ii-12
(5), was born at West Cambridge, (Belmont) December 7, 1788, and died May 1, 1873. His father died when he was quite young and he had a hard time to obtain an education and help the family to live. When he was twenty years old he learned the brick maker's trade, making the bricks by hand in the old way. Thrown on his own resources, he became a hard working man all his life. After his father's death he bought from the other heirs the homestead, a place of eighty or a hundred acres, and did market gardening and some mill business. In 1851 he sold the house to his son Warren and built another on Brighton street, some distance below. Here he was as- sociated with his sons Artemas and Herbert, but after some years gave up the business and retired. He was a strong man and a great worker. He had the reputation of being very fond of fishing. A man of rigid principles, he was temperate in all things. He had no ene- mies. He was an old time musician and play- ed in the West Cambridge band. He trained in the early militia. He was first a member of the Parish church and afterwards a Baptist, joining the church when he was sixty years of age.
He married (first), May 13, 1816, Lucy Brown Frost, who died August 3, 1817, daughter of Captain Stephen Frost. He mar- ried (second), January 31, 1821, Evelina Hull, born April 9, 1796, died May 31, 1857, daugh- ter of Isaac and Jerusha (Billings) Hull, of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Her father was Commodore Hull. Child of the first wife, I. Lucy, born April 15, 1817, died unmarried. Children of the second wife : 2. Warren Shat- tuck, born March 7, 1823, mentioned below. 3. Varnum, born December 23, 1824, married, November 16, 1852, Sarah Russell Hutchinson Peirce, daughter of Abel and Almira (Russell) Peirce ; children : i. Alma Louise, born October I, 1856; ii. Howard Varnum, April 19, 1861; iii. Lewis Peirce, January 1, 1866, died March II, 1900 ; married, April 20, 1893, Ruth Read Gage, of Arlington, Massachusetts. 4. Evelina Clark, born January 9, 1827, married, Novem- ber 12, 1846, Francis Hill, of Belmont ; chil- dren : i. Anna Francis Hill, born October I, 1847; ii. Charles Herbert Hill, March 13, 1853; iii. Evelina Frost Hill, March 9, 1858; iv. Marietta Hill, August 21, 1861, died July 25, 1862. 5. Anna Grafton, born March 2, 1829, married, August 10, 1854, Roland H. Crosby, of West Cambridge: children: i. Eve- lina Frost Crosby, born August 7, 1858, died November 1, 1877; ii. Edward Roland Crosby, October 6, 1859, died September 3, 1897; iii.
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Walter Sears Crosby, January 24, 1864, died July 30, 1864. 6. Artemas, born April 7, 1831, , mentioned below. 7. Mary Hastings, born April 13, 1833, married, December 9, 1862, George S. Teele : children : i. Herbert Sullivan Teele, born November 1, 1863; ii. Mary Helen Teele, April 17, 1865. 8. Henrietta Caroline, born March 31, 1835, married, May 21, 1856, Warren S. Shattuck, of Brooklyn, New York; children : i. Edith Shattuck, born February 6, 1862, died November 3, 1880; ii. Herbert Alonzo Shattuck, January 17, 1864 ; iii. Evelyn Frost Shattuck, May 29, 1866; iv. Warren S. Shattuck, August 9, 1870; v. Lucia Rowland Shattuck, November 2, 1873; vi. Marguerite Shattuck, December 13, 1878. 9. Jonathan Herbert, born April 29, 1837, married, Decem- ber 8, 1864, Mehitable B. Bird; children: i. Mabel, born March 26, 1869; ii. Horace Bird, May 10, 1871; iii. Elizabeth Homer, April 29, 1875.
(VII) Warren Shattuck Frost, son of Jona- than Frost (6), was born at West Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 7, 1823, and died Sep- tember 2, 1907. He received a common school education and helped his father on the farm, driving the team to Boston with produce. About 1851 he bought the farm of his father, about thirty acres, and began the cultivation of market produce, and like the others of the family became successful in the business. When he was sixty years old he retired from active life, handing over the business to his son Walter, having previously met with a severe carriage accident, which affected him physical- ly the remainder of his life. He was one of those who opposed setting off of the town of Belmont from West Cambridge, as he thought the expenses of a smaller town would be too great. He was a man of strict integrity, noted for his honesty, but lacking in a sense of humor. He was devoted to his family, chil- dren and grandchildren. He was a member of the North Congregational Church at Arling- ton, serving as deacon for thirty years. His first thought was for the church, and he gave largely to missionary work. He was a member of the old volunteer fire department of West Cambridge. In politics he was a Whig and later a Republican. He was on the school com- mittee for years. He served in the early mi- litia. He belonged to the Congregational Club of Boston.
He married (first), December 6, 1848, Mary Shattuck Thaxter, born September 1, 1823, died September 23, 1853, daughter of Gridley and Susanna Dyer (Brown) Thaxter. He married (second), September 12, 1855, Lucena
Hopson Lord, born at Thetford, Vermont, May 26, 1838, died May 25, 1903, daughter of Reuben and Lucena (Moore) Lord. Children of the first wife: I. Susan Thaxter, born Sep- tember 2, 1849, married, October 7, 1879, George Henry Andruss, of San Francisco, Cal- ifornia ; children: i. Newton Frost Andruss, born October 15, 1882; ii. Julia Andruss, De- cember 22, 1884, married, June 7, 1905, Nel- son Towne Shaw; iii. Mary Andruss, March 25, 1887. 2. Warren Lincoln, born May 9, 1853, married, November 22, 1876, Anna Clark Wyman, born March 3, 1853 ; children : i. Edith Anna, born March 17, 1877; ii. John Newton, December 25, 1878. Children of the second wife : 3. John Newton, born September 24, 1856, drowned in the St. Johns river, Flor- ida, December 20, 1878. 4. Walter Lord, born October 16, 1859, mentioned below. 5. Lucena Moore, born September 22, 1861. 6. Carlton Shattuck, born September 27, 1864, married, April 14, 1903, Annie Stewart Root, of San Francisco, California.
(VIII) Walter Lord Frost, son of Warren Shattuck Frost (7), was born at Belmont, Massachusetts, October 16, 1859. He received his education in the public schools, supple- mented by a course at Warren Academy at Woburn, Massachusetts, where he fitted him- self to enter the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On account of his father's fail- ing health he relinquished his studies and took charge of his father's business, sharing the profits with him. When he was twenty-six years of age he decided to take the whole re- sponsibility of the farm, and leased it with all the stock, sash, etc., and has conducted it ever since. He has twenty acres, all outside culti- vation, and raises everything in the line of produce, with a market in Boston, his goods selling through commission merchants. In 188I he built his present residence beside the old house of his father's. Mr. Frost is consid- ered one of the most successful market garden ers in Belmont, and is devoted to his business. He was formerly a member of the Market Gardeners' Association of Boston. He is a member of the Arlington Congregational church and has served on the parish commit- . tee. He is a Republican. He married, Oc- tober 7, 1891, Etta Lucy Eastman, born at Hollis, New Hampshire, August 12, 1860, daughter of Oliver Perry and Lucy (Hardy) Eastman. Her father was a farmer and one- of the "forty-niners" who went to California during that period. Children: I. Walter Eastman, born November 30, 1893. 2. Cath- erine Lord, July 28, 1896, died February 21,
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1900. 3. Richard Warren, May 30, 1903. (VII) Artemas Frost, son of Jonathan Frost (6), was born in West Cambridge, Massachu- setts, April 7, 1831, and died February 6, 1903. He attended school at West Cambridge until he was fourteen years old, most of the time during the winter months. He was a thorough scholar, and took up bookkeeping. He early began to work on his father's farm, and with his brothers conducted it until their father moved to his new house on Brighton street, some rods below the Pleasant street house. This house the father sold to his eldest son Warren about 1851. Artemas and his brother, Jonathan Herbert, moved with their father to the new home, and after a few years the whole care of the place was given up to them. Later Jonathan Herbert took the Francis Hill farm, and Artemas continued to conduct the Brigh- ton street farm to the time of his father's death in 1873, when the property, eighteen acres, was divided. Artemas received the house and six acres. In 1870 he bought of his father three and one-half acres north of the house and erected a house where he lived until his death. He attended to the general cultivation of the place and was a successful grower of fruits, making a specialty of this branch of farming. He also grew all kinds of market produce. He was a man who had many friends, was of a retiring disposition, and was strictly honorable in all his dealings. He was a member of the Arlington Baptist church from the time he was twenty years of age, and served on the stand- ing committee. He was a Whig and later a Republican. He was a member of the Boston Horticultural Society and was often an exhibi- tor. He was also a member of the Market Gardeners' Association.
He married, December 18, 1856, Cynthia Maria Haskell, born July 24, 1831, and died at Belmont, September 2, 1899, daughter of John and Cynthia (Haskell) Haskell, of Bos- ton. Children: I. Eliza Haskell, born March 16, 1858, died March 21, 1858. 2. Etta Maria, June 19, 1859. 3. Carrie Haskell (twin), De- cember 21, 1862, died February 25, 1883. 4. Alice Haskell (twin), December 21, 1862, died March 1, 1900. 5. Artemas Calvin, June 16, 1870, died July 4, 1871.
David Fisher was born in Lon- FISHER donderry, Nova Scotia, Janu- ary, 1828, son of James and Mary Osborne (Layton) Fisher, of Nova Scotia. He acquired his education in the schools of his native town, and shortly after
attaining manhood left Londonderry and came to Belmont, Massachusetts, where he engaged in the market gardening business. In 1858 he entered into partnership with Newell C. Frost to carry on the business of market gardening, and this connection proved highly remunerative and continued until his decease. In 1859, the year of his marriage with the sister of his partner, the business was enlarged by the purchase of a large farm in Winchester, which became his home for the following four years. He purchased the Ephraim Tufts place on the corner of Massa- chusetts avenue and Tufts street, Arlington, and the following seven years in his new home were active and prosperous ones, but were terminated by his death which occurred August 28, 1871, at the age of forty-three years and six months, in the prime of life. He was a man of upright character, untiring energy, and of a genial and social disposition which won him many friends. He was a lov- ing husband and an indulgent father, and his untimely death was a severe blow to his fam- ily, and a great loss to the community. He was a member of Hiram Lodge of Free Ma- sons, and Bethel Lodge of Odd Fellows in Arlington.
Mr. Fisher married, October 9, 1859, El- vira Anstes Frost, born October 2, 1827, at Belmont, Massachusetts, daughter of Seth and Anstes (Trow) Frost (see Frost family sketch). They had one child, Ethel Eugenia born June 26, 1861, married, December 22, 1884, Daniel Langdon Tappan, and they are the parents of one child, Arthur Newell Tap- pan, born December 6, 1885.
TAPPAN The surname of this family, originally written Topham, or De Topham, was assumed from a place of that name in Yorkshire, upon the introduction of surnames in England. The practice of taking names from towns and villages in England is sufficient proof of the ancient descents of those families who are still inhabitants of the same place. The fami- ly of Topham anciently possessed the greater part of the vale of Coverdale, in Yorkshire, and Richard Topham (from whom there has been a continual male succession) held the lordship and property of Caldburg in Cover- dale, temp. Henry V. 1420. The earliest mention of the family in the Registry of the Archbishop of York is found in the will of John Topham, of Pately Bridge, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, dated May 1, 1403. It
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divides his property between his wife Eliza- beth and his sons and daughters, but does not give their names. In England the name is spelled Topham, Tophan, and Toppan; in America the two spellings of Tappan and Toppan are still in use. Four generations of the ancestry of the American line have been traced in England.
(I) Robert Topham, with whom the pedi- gree commences, resided at Linton, near Pately Bridge, Yorkshire, England. He made his will in January, 1550, which was proved in the Archbishop's court at York in February of the same year. In this will he mentions his sons-Edward, Thomas, John, William and Robert; his daughter Agnes; legacy to Ellen Topham, appoints his son Robert, exec- utor.
(II) Thomas Topham, second son of Rob- ert Topham (I), was of Arncliffe in Craven. He died in 1589. His will was dated April 24, 1588, and in it he desires to be buried in the church of Arncliffe. Mentions his wife Isa- bel; sons Edward, Anthony, Lawrence (from whom Sir William Topham and the Tophams of Holderness and Middleham Hall are de- scended), Henry and William; daughter Isa- bella; legacies to each of his grandchildren. (III) Edward Topham, eldest son of Thomas Topham (2), was of Aiglethorpe, near Linton. His pedigree is recorded in the College-of-Arms with the following ar- morial bearings : Arms: Ar. chev. gu. btw. three crane's heads, er. sa. Crest: Two ser- pents entwined about a Maltese cross, patee, fichee. Motto: Cruce non prudentia. (The Tappan coat-of-arms may be seen in the pub- lic library in Newburyport, Massachusetts.) Children of Edward and Margery Topham or Tophan were seven sons: I. Henry, reader of Gray's Inn, London, Esq., of the parish of St. Martyne, in the city of York. Will dated April 29, 1612. He married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John Darley, of Killinghunt. 2. Ed- ward, counsellor of Gray's Inn, Esq., married Anne, daughter of John Scroope, of Danby; he had six children, of whom Francis married Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Payler, Bart., and Henry, who was slain at Marston Moore, 1644. 3. Matthew, an alderman of the city of York; died in 1633. 4. William, men- tioned below. 5. Christopher, of York, died 1626. 6. Godfrey. 7. Thomas.
(IV) Anthony Topham, second son of Thomas Topham (2), was of Arncliffe. His will is dated July, 1623. He desires to be buried in the church of Arncliffe. Mentions
his wife Agnes, son Anthony, daughter Isa- bel, brother Lawrence.
(III) Lawrence Topham, Esq., third son of Thomas Topham (2) was of Calbridge in Coverham. His wife's name was Agnes. (See Burke's "Landed Gentry.")
(IV) William Toppan (Tophan), fourth son of Edward Topham (3) of Aiglethorpe, re- sided some time at Calbridge. Children of William and Cecelia Toppan: I. Abraham, mentioned below. 2. Cecelia (Cicely), bap- tized February 27, 1608. 3. Isaac, died Jan- uary, 1612.
(V) Abraham Toppan, son of William Top- pan (4), of Calbridge, in the parish of Cover- ham, was baptized April 10, 1606. He lived for some time in Yarmouth, county of Nor- folk. He married Susanna Taylor, who was born in the year 1607, and died March 20, 1689. Her mother, Susanna Taylor, inher- ited considerable property from a second hus- band, Mr. John Goodale, of Yarmouth, whose will is dated 1625. On the "Register of names of such persons who are twenty-one years and upward, and have license to passe into forraigne parts from March 1637 to the 29th of September, by virtu of a Commission of Mr. Thomas Mayhew, Gentleman," are the names of Abraham Toppan, aged thirty- one; Susanna, his wife, aged thirty-one; with their children, Peter and Elizabeth, and one mayd servant, Anne Goodin, aged eigh- teen years, and Susanna (Taylor) Goodale, his wife's mother, May Ioth, 1637. In the year 1637 Abraham Toppan, his wife, two children his wife's mother, and servant, Anne Goodin, sailed from Yarmouth, May 10, in the ship "Mary Ann," (ship "Rose"?) for New Eng- land. He was admitted into the township of Newbury, Massachusetts, October 16, 1637, and at various times in the following year grants of land were made him and he built his dwelling house near the meeting house, a few rods north of the house of Captain Rich- ard Adams, and between that house and an- other owned by the heirs of the late Joseph Toppan, a descendant. "Abraham Toppan being licensed by John Endicott Esq., to live in this jurisdiction, was received into the town of Newberry as an inhabitant thereof, and have promised under his hand to be sub- ject to any lawful order that shall be made by the towne. October 16, 1637. Abraham Toppan." He made sundry voyages to the Barbadoes, of which one or two were profita- ble. "He brought home sugar, cotton, wool, and molasses with great profit." His will is
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dated June 30, 1670. In it he says he has done for his son Peter more than he can for the other children. He died November 5, 1672, aged sixty-six years, in the house on "Toppan Lane" which he had built about the year 1670 for his son Jacob. The house is still standing (1907). It is owned and has been occupied by his descendants without in- terruption. His widow died March 20, 1689, aged eighty-two. Her mother, Mrs. Goodale, died at Newbury, April 8, 1647. Children of Abraham and Susanna (Taylor) Toppan: I. Peter, born in England, 1634, mentioned be- low. 2. Elizabeth, born in England, October 16, 1635, married, March 21, 1661, Samuel Mighill of Rowley. 3. Abraham, born in Newbury, 1644, married, November 9, 1670, Ruth Pike, daughter of John Pike; children all died young at Woodbridge, New Jersey. 4. Jacob, born 1645, married (first), August 24, 1670, Hannah Sewall, daughter of Judge Sewall. She died November II, 1699. He married (second) Mrs. Hannah (Fessenden) Sewall .. 5. Susanna, born June 13, 1649, in Newbury. 6. John, born in Newbury, April 23, 1651, married (first), September 3, 1688, Martha Brown; married (second), 1717, Ruth Heard. 7. Isaac, born in Newbury, married (first), September 29, 1669, Hannah Kent; married (second), March 27, 1691, Mary March. He removed with his brother Abra- ham to Woodbridge, New Jersey, and has many descendants in that state, at Liberty, Indiana, and in the Middle West. (See "Tap- pan Genealogy," by Judge Good).
(VI) Peter Toppan, M. D., eldest son of Abraham Toppan (5), was born in England, 1634, and was brought by his parents to New England in 1637. He married, April 3, 1661, Jane Batt, daughter of Mr. Christopher and Anne (Toppan) (sister of Abraham Toppan) Batt (now Bates). In the record of deaths at Salisbury, Massachusetts, is the name of "Mrs. Ann Batt, sister to Abraham Toppan of Newbury." In her will dated March 14, 1678, she mentions Anne, wife of Edmund Angier, of Cambridge, and Jane, wife of Pe- ter Toppan, "To have lands, etc., etc., in Sal- isbury and Amesbury." Peter Toppan was a physician at Newbury. He belonged to one of the five companies into which the sheep- owners of Newbury were divided and was the third largest owner, having eighty sheep. "He traded at sea." He died November 3, 1701, from the effects of a fall. His eldest sons Pe- ter and Samuel were administrators, ap- pointed March II, 1708. He had a negro slave valued at thirty pounds. Children of
Dr. Peter and Jane (Batt) Toppan: I. Peter, born December, 1662, died young. 2. Eliza- beth, born October 13, 1665, married, De- cember 1685, Nathaniel Clark, of Newbury. 3. Peter, born December 22, 1667, married, April 28, 1696, Sarah Greenleaf. 4. Samuel, born June 5, 1670, died October 30, 1750; married, June 3, 1701, Abigail Wigglesworth, born March 20, 1681, died January 28, 1771. 5. Christopher, born December 15, 1671, mentioned below. 6. Jane, born January 4, 1674.
(VII) Samuel Toppan, son of Dr. Peter Toppan (6), was born in Newbury, June 5, 1670, and died there October 30, 1750, aged eighty years. He married June 3, 1701, Abi- gail, daughter of the Rev. Michael Wiggles- worth, of Malden, Massachusetts. She was born March 20, 1681, and died January 28, 1771, aged ninety years. "The house in which they lived was built in 1700, and is still stand- ing. It is situated on High street, the second house from Marlboro street" (1879). (From "My Ancestors in America," by William Blake Pierce). Children of Samuel and Abi- gail (Wigglesworth) Toppan: I. Samuel, born 1702, married Dorothy Moody. 2. Wig- glesworth, born 1705, died unmarried, 1781. "In the former part of his life he lived at Old York, Maine; was one of the deacons there, and much respected. In his old age he re- turned to Newbury, bought his father's man- sion house and died there." 3. Abigail, born 1707, married Daniel Noyes. 4. Martha, born 1710, married John Smith. 5. Mary, born 17II, married Joseph Couch. 6. Ebenezer, born 1714. 7. Lydia, born 1716, married Jesse Smith. 8. Benjamin, born 1720-21, married Elizabeth Marsh, mentioned below. 9. Joseph, born 1723, married Anne Grow. (VIII) Rev. Benjamin Tappan, son of Samuel Toppan (7), was born at Newbury, February 28, 1720, and graduated at Harvard College, 1742. He was ordained at Manches- ter, Massachusetts, September 17, 1745, and died there May 6, 1790. He married, in 1746, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Deacon David Marsh, of Haverhill. She died Au- gust, 1807. Children of Rev. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Marsh) Tappan: I. Benjamin, born 1747, mentioned below. 2. Samuel, born 1749, died 1751. 3. Mary, born 1751, mar- ried (first) Josiah Fairfield, married second Aaron Burnham. 4. David, born 1752, men- tioned below. 5. Wigglesworth, born 1754, married - Chase. 6. Abigail, born 1757, married first, - Chase of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; married second, John Bak-
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er. 7. Samuel, born 1759, mentioned below. 8. Ebenezer, born 1761, married Elizabeth Foster. 9. Michael, born 1763, married Sar- ah IO. Elizabeth, born 1765, married Chase, of Saco, Maine. II. Martha, born 1766. 12. Amos, born 1768, graduated at Harvard College 1788; married Isabella Buckminster, who died 1814.
(IX) Benjamin Tappan, son of Rev. Ben- jamin Tappan (8), was born at Manchester, Massachusetts, October 21, 1747. He was married at the age of 23, on November 2, 1770, to Sarah, daughter of Lieutenant Wil- liam Homes. Mrs. Tappan was a grand- niece of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Tap- pan died January 29, 1831, aged eighty-three. His wife died March 26, 1826. Children of Benjamin and Sarah (Homes) Tappan: I. Sarah, born August 1, 1771, married Novem- ber 9, 1799 to Solomon Stoddard. 2. Hon. Benjamin, born May 25, 1773. He was a judge and U. S. senator from Steubenville, Ohio. He married March 20, 1801, Nancy Wright of Farmington, Connecticut, and mar- ried second, Mrs. Lord. 3. Rebecca, born July 4, 1775. married November II, 1793, to Colonel William Edwards. Colonel Edwards commanded a regiment of artillery in 1813, stationed at South Boston for the protection of the seaboard. 4. Lucy, born July 14, 1777, married May 6, 1802, to the Rev. John Pierce of Brookline, Massachusetts. 5. Wil- liam born July 21, 1779, married 1805, Sarah Patterson, of Northumberland, Pennsylvania. He resided at Binghampton, New York. 6. John, born July 26, 1781, married September 30, 1805, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Salis- bury. They had eleven children. His wife died August 28, 1839. He married second September 22, 1841, Mrs. Hannah (Pomroy) Edwards. In 1843 he was sent by the United States government to London as a delegate to the International Convention of Peace. He died at Boston, where he resided. 7. Charles, born August 8, 1784; married Ann Maria, daughter of the Hon. George Long, of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, September 24, 1809. He died at Washington, D. C., April 8, 1875. 8. Arthur, born May 22, 1786, married Sep- tember 18, 1810, Frances, daughter of Colo- nel Edward Antill. She was a great-grand- daughter of Governor Morris of New Jersey, and a native of Montreal. Arthur Tappan was a New York drygoods merchant andabo- litionist. He was widely known as a patron of religious and patriotic organizations, en- dowed Lane Seminary at Cincinnati, a profes- sorship at Auburn Theological Seminary, and
built Tappan Hall at Oberlin College, Ohio; assisted in founding the Journal of Commerce and The Emancipator, and was first president of the Anti-Slavery Society. He aided in sus- taining the Liberator, and by paying an enormous fine freed William Lloyd Garrison from the Baltimore jail. One of the most notable of his benefactions was his paying the board and tuition of one hundred divinity students for four years at Yale College. 9. Lewis, born May 23, 1788. He was a dry -- goods merchant, philanthropist, and anti- slavery advocate. The partner in business of his brother Arthur Tappan. He was a lead- ing founder of the American Missionary As- sociation. He married September 7, 1818, Susan, daughter of Dr. William Aspinwall, of Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at Brooklyn, New York, June 21, 1873. 10. Elizabeth, born October 31, 1790, married Alexander Phoenix. She died May 30, 1819. II. George, born 1793, died the same day.
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