USA > Massachusetts > Middlesex County > Dunstable > History of the town of Dunstable, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year of Our Lord 1873 > Part 11
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26
"For 12 months at Cambridge or Dorchester £ 200 12 month York 18 00 5 Ticonderoga .
66 Rhode Island
12 00 2
500"
On July 3d of that year the Second Parish chose Jacob Kendall, Abraham Kendall, and James Taylor " to borrow such sumes of money as the officers and committee shall call for to hire Soldiers to Inlist into the Contanentel Army." On the 29th of December it chose Jonathan Fletcher, Temple Ken- dall, Joel Parkhurst, Benjamin Woodward, and Amaziah Swal- low "to Report att the Next Adjournment of this meeting Respecting the Cost that hath arisen in Said Parish By carre- ing on the present war with Great Britton."
The report of this committee, made on the fifth day of January, 1778, exhibits the remarkable sacrifices which the
127
PAYMENTS TO SOLDIERS.
1778]
patriots underwent in those trying times to sustain the cause of liberty :-
" Whareas Wee Being a Commite Chosen By the Second Parish to mak and Lay befor the Parish the Expense said Parish hath been att in going and hiring men into the Army since the Present War With Greate Brittion att an allowance for each Tower of Sarvice as wee should Judge wright according to appointment we have attended that Sarvice & Report as followeth viz : -
Lsd
For each turn to Cambrig 8 months thire be an allowance of . 4 10 0
2 months to Roxburey or Cambrig in winter . 2 00
12 months to York in Person
I5
3 months to Dorchester 2 10 0
5 months to Ticonderoga 12 0 0
2 months to York .
9 00
3 months to Jerses 12
2 months to Rhod Island 4 10 0
3 months to the Lake I 5
8 months to Pheledelpeh
20 00
I month to Stillwater 5 00 and all Times and money otherways Delivered to Capten Oliver Comings and was Laid out for hiring men into the army for the four months Sar-, vice to Tye [Ticonderoga] three months to the Jerses or the three years Sarvice be allowed to the Persons that Payed the Same and as to those that mad a Consideration to som men that Inlisted into the twelve months Sarvice have an allowanc of four pounds ten shillings each.
" Agreeable to the foregoing, Each mans Credite is as follows : -
£ sd
EBENEZER BUTTERFIELD .
6 00
JOSIAH BLODGETT
6 00
JOSIAH BLODGETT, Juner
3 00
EBENEZER BUTTERFIELD, Juner
9 100
SAMUEL BUTTERFIELD
10 00
LEONARD BUTTERFIELD
· 14 10 0
JONAS BUTTERFIELD
6 15 0
SAMUEL BROWN .
19 10 0
ELIPHALET BAYLEY
4 10 0
ZEBULON BLODGETT
7 15 0
JESSE BUTTERFIELD
II 00
OLIVER COMINGS .
· 43 50
SIMEON COMINGS .
· 16 18
.
I28
HISTORY OF DUNSTABLE.
[1778
Lsd
JOHN COMINGS
21
JOHN CHEANE
12
JOSEPH DANFORTH
22 00
ROBERT DUNN
7 100
JESSE DUTTON
4 10 0
JOSEPH FLETCHER
18 10 0
THOMAS FLETCHER
6 50
JONATHAN FLETCHER
16 10 0
EBENEZER FRENCH
4 10 0
WILLIAM FRENCH
. 19 10 0
SAMUEL FRENCH
19 10 0 ·
JONATHAN FRENCH
12 00
MOSES HARDY
10 00
ADFORD JAQUITH .
6
5 0
BENJ. JAQUITH
10 00
ABRAHAM KENDALL
18 00
JOHN KENDALL 4.
IO 10 0
JACOB KENDALL .
16 00
TEMPEL KENDALL
21 00
EDWARD KENDALL
2 50
ZEBEDEE KENDALL 5
9 15 0
JOHN MARSH
II IOO
LEMUEL PERHAM
8
JOSEPH PARKHURST
20
JOEL PARKHURST .
16 00
BENJ. PIKE .
16 15 0
JOHN PROCTOR
22 10 0 ·
GERSHOM PROCTOR
II IOO
TIMOTHY READ
3 68
TIMOTHY READ, Juner
12 00
ELIJAH ROBINS
3 15 0
ELEAZER READ ·
15 00
AMAZIAH SWALLOW
12 15 0
BENJ. SWALLOW .
3 00
PETER SWALLOW .
II I8
EBENEZER STARR
5 00
ABEL SPAULDING .
7 100
JOSEPH SPAULDING
8 80
SAMUEL TAYLOR .
22 00
DAVID TAYLOR
21 00
JONAS TAYLOR
7 70
OLIVER TAYLOR
6 00
ISAAC TAYLOR
6 10 0
1778]
THREE SOLDIERS DROWNED.
Esd 129
PERROT TINNEY
. II 15 O
JAMES TARBOX
4 10 0
JONAS FRENCH
19 10 0
BENJ. WOODWARD
9 15 0
JONATHAN WOODWARD
8 80
ISAAC WRIGHT
9 10 0
JAMES PERHAM
10 00
JAMES PIKE
14 00
SOLOMON SARTEL Sum tottel
3 15 0
911 00
And as to the Six months to Rhod Island and two turns to Roxburey Left to the Parish altogether.
the above Report being Red Voted and allowed the above said Report, Voted and Granted to be assesed the sum of Nine hundred and twenty- four Pounds Six Shilling and Eight Pence for the Cost and Charg Aresen in said Parish by Carreing on the Preset War with Great Brittion
BENJA WOODWARD Clerk"
On the 22d of March, 1778, the church in Groton contrib- uted " to Daniel Gilson of Dunstable on account of having lost his house by fire £32 15s. IOd. one pair of shoes, one bushel of rye and one bushel of Indian corn."*
The following Revolutionary soldiers belonged to that part of Dunstable which subsquently became the town of Tyngs- borough : Col Ebenezer Bancroft, Sergt. Jonathan Bancroft, Capt. Reuben Butterfield, Capt. Nathaniel Holden, Capt. Jon- athan Fletcher, Eleazer Farwell, Nathaniel Ingalls, Lieut. John Farwell, Levi Butterfield, Salathiel Frost, William Perham, Robin Skinner, John Merrill, Daniel Jaques, Benjamin Swan, Asa Emerson, Noah M. Gould, and Sergt. Reuben Butter- field, Jr., who was killed in the battle of White Plains, Oct. 7, 1777, at the age of twenty-seven years. It is related that while in battle he jumped upon a fence, and said, "I'll give them one firing more !" A shot from the enemy immediately struck him, and his comrade, Nathaniel Ingalls, of Dunstable, saw him fall. He was born May 30, 1749, and was engaged in marriage to Miss Dorcas Coburn.
Of the British soldiers quartered on Dunstable, three were drowned while attempting to cross the river at Wicasuck Island, and their remains were buried on land now occupied by Solomon Spaulding.
* Butler's History of Groton, p. 260.
9
130
HISTORY OF DUNSTABLE.
[1778
CHAPTER IX.
VOTE ON THE PROPOSED STATE CONSTITUTION. - PROPOSITION TO UNITE THE Two PARISHES. - BURDENS OF THE SECOND PARISH ARISING FROM THE WAR. - SUMS RAISED TO SUPPORT THE MINISTRY. - A NEW MEETING- HOUSE CONTEMPLATED. - THE DARK DAY. - POPULATION OF THE TOWN. - THE NEW STATE CONSTITUTION. - MEN AND PROVISIONS FURNISHED FOR THE ARMY. - NOTICES OF SOME OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. - SCHOOL TEACHERS VOTE TO REMOVE THE MEETING-HOUSE. - SINGING IN CHURCH. - VOTE TO UNITE THE PARISHES. - SCHOOLS KEPT IN PRI- VATE HOUSES. - OVERSEERS OF THE POOR FIRST CHOSEN BY THE TOWN. -SHAYS'S REBELLION. - A JOURNAL. - THE LINE BETWEEN THE TWO PARISHES ABOLISHED. - THE TOWN ASSUMES DIRECTION OF CHURCH AFFAIRS.
" IF we were ever envious, it was of the farmer, - the intelligent, inde- pendent, and happy farmer, who owned his own land and his house and his barns ; who was free from debt, and whose family were growing up prosperously around him." PORTLAND PAPER.
" With hearts unbent and spirits brave, they sternly bore Such toils as meaner souls had quelled, But souls like these, such toils impelled to soar." JAMES G. PERCIVAL.
ON the 9th of February, 1778, the town, at a legal meeting, approved of the Articles of Confederation between the thirteen States ; and at another meeting, held April 23, chose John Tyng, Esq., Joseph Danforth, and Joel Parkhurst to examine the new Constitution of the State, proposed by the General Court. On hearing the report of this committee, June 2, the town "voted to reject ye Constitution for ye following reasons, viz : Because it invests ye govornor with too unlimited a power. 2d ly because there is not an Equal Representation. 3 ly Because ye Governor ought not to have ye Title of Excellency. J. Blodgett, Town Clerk."
13I
PATRIOTISM OF DUNSTABLE.
1778]
This Constitution was drawn up by a committee of four members of the Council and twice that number of the House of Representatives. It was submitted to the people of the State in March, 1778, and by them rejected. The vote stood 10,000 against 2,000, as many as 120 towns not voting. The general objections to it were that it did not contain a declara- tion of rights, that it made representation unequal, and that the powers and duties of State officers were not accurately defined .*
Three school-teachers were paid this year, as follows : Welbe Butterfield, for keeping school, £4 16s., Jonas French, ditto, £3 4s., and Abraham Kendall, Jr., ditto, £10 135. 9d.
The Second Parish voted this year £50 for " the Suport of the Gospel," and also £12 to pay for preaching the preceding year ; and it chose a committee on the 9th of May, consisting of Dr. Ebenezer Starr, who had recently settled in the place, Jonathan Fletcher, Timothy Read, Joel Parkhurst, and Joseph Danforth, to treat with a committee from the First Parish, " as to those of the first Parish Living on the West Side of the Marimack River joyning with the Second Parish in Said Town and the Separation as to parishes be Disolved." This was for the purpose of forming a union of the two religious societies.
Paper-money had at this time greatly depreciated in value, taxes were high, many of the able-bodied men were absent in the army, and the American cause seemed, in the minds of · many thoughtful people, to be sinking ; yet the citizens of Dun- stable still went resolutely on to meet the demands the bleed- ing country made upon them.
There was a large British force at Newport, R. I. ; the term of service of many of the Continental soldiers had expired, and two thousand men were now called for to fill up the six- teen depleted regiments of the State. Fifteen hundred more were to be raised as ordered by vote of Congress. This draft fell heavily upon Dunstable ; but, true to the cause of liberty, she responded nobly to the call.
* See Barry's History of Massachusetts, Vol. III, p. 175.
I32
HISTORY OF DUNSTABLE.
[1779
A levy of shirts, shoes, and stockings was also made upon the town for the army ; and since the women manifested as much patriotic fervor as the men, those articles were promptly furnished.
On the twenty-fifth day of June the Second Parish chose Temple Kendall, Abraham Kendall, and Jonathan Fletcher a committee to procure the soldiers which " this State Now Calls for out of this Parish." The record of the last meeting of the year, Nov. 16, held first at the meeting-house and then at the house of Mr. Jonathan Emerson, reveals something of the bur- dens they with courageous hearts sustained.
"Voted to allow Mr Tempel Kendall Jonathan Woadward and John Perham and Jesse Butterfield thirty pounds Each for thire Sarvice att the Seaige of Newport att Rhod Island. £120.
"Voted to Allow Mr. Joseph Fletcher Leonard Butterfield Tempel Ken- dall Elijah Robins Eliphalet Bayley Joseph Parkhurst juner Josiah Blodgett who Did Sarvice on the Guards att Cambridge five Pounds Per month for a Bounty from the Parish £120. 0. 0.
"Voted to allow Mr John Cheny Ebenezer French Philip Butterfield Joseph Parkhurst juner Joseph Danforth James Coming Lemuel Per- ham Jonathan Fletcher Leonard Butterfield Nine Pounds Each as a Bounty for six months Sarvice att Rhod Island in the year 1777 £8I. o. o.
"Voted to Be assesed and ordered out of the Treasury forty Pound for the Support of Samuel Parkers Famalie £40. o. o.
" Voted to Be assesed the sum of Nine hundred thirty seven Pounds four Shilling for Defraying the Charges arisen in Said Parish for Carreing on the Present War Against Greate Brittion.
" BENJ WOODWARD Parish Clerk"
On the 15th of February, 1779, the parish voted £100 " for the support of famalies of those Persons this Parish have hired to Engag into Contenental Army."
The town also appropriated this year £130 for public schools and other expenses, among which was the procuring of cloth- ing for the soldiers. It also raised £134 8s. for bounties for four soldiers that went to Rhode Island; also, at another meeting, £200 for school and other charges.
The General Court allowed the town, Sept. 14, a bounty of £90 for three men in the nine months' service, and also re-
I33
THE DARK DAY.
1780]
mitted, for what cause it is not stated, a fine of £300 against the town .*
Notwithstanding the expenses of the war, the people reso- lutely sustained the institutions of the gospel. For about six years the pulpit had been supplied by such ministers as they were able to find and had the means to pay, and now, in hope of having a pastor of their own, they discussed the question of uniting with the other parish in building a church and settling permanently a minister. On the 6th of March, 1780, the town chose John Tyng moderator of the annual meet- ing, and Joel Parkhurst town clerk. It appropriated £500 for educational and other purposes.
On the 23d of March the Second Parish agreed " to Raise five Hundred Pounds for the Support of such minister or ministers of the gospel as may be caul'd to Preach to this People." At an adjourned meeting, held March 31, the above- named sum was increased by £500. Joseph Parkhurst, Benja- min Woodward, and Temple Kendall were chosen a committee to " higher " a minister, and this was to be done under the following instruction, given probably on account of Presby- terian views that were entertained by a few of the people -
" We Desire you that you Do your Endeavour to higher such Candidates to Dispense the gospel amongst us who hold to the New England Confes- sion of Faith and the Cambridge Platform as therein Exhibeted to us."
Jonathan Emerson was the parish clerk, and the above record is in his handwriting.
On the 11th of May the Second Parish voted to confer with members of the First Parish, dwelling on the westerly side of the Merrimack River, as to the erection of a meeting-house on the road between the house of Mr. Elijah Robbins and that formerly occupied by Willard Hall.
The 19th of May of this year is celebrated as the Dark Day. As an old rhymster said, -
" In 1780. the nineteenth day of May,
Will ever be remembered as being the Dark Day."
* Mass. Resolves, Vol. III A, p. 71.
I34
HISTORY OF DUNSTABLE.
[1780
The obscurity was so great that birds sought their perches at mid-day, and the people had to light candles in order to distin- guish objects in their houses. Many superstitious persons thought the day of doom was certainly approaching.
"About ten o'clock," wrote Mr. Phineas Sprague, of Malden, in his journal, " it began to Rain and grew vere dark and at 12 it was allmost as dark as Nite so that wee was obliged to lite our candels and Eate our dinner by candel lite at Noonday." * The darkness of the evening of that day was most remarkable. " I could not help conceiving at the time," says Dr. Tenney, " that if every luminous body in the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable shades, or struck out of existence, the dark- ness could not have been more complete. A sheet of white paper, held within a few inches of the eyes, was equally invis- ible with the blackest velvet."
The darkness did not extend so as to attract much atten- tion south of New York, nor far out at sea. It might possibly have been occasioned by the burning of extensive forests in Northern New Hampshire, the smoke of which, under peculiar conditions of the atmosphere, might have floated over a sec- tion of New England and obscured the sun. Coming, as it did, when the spirits of the people were greatly depressed in consequence of the war, it is not at all surprising that it caused alarm. It was far more common to attribute unusual phenomena to supernatural agency in those days than - thanks be to the progress of science - it is at the present time. The belief of the people in ghosts, apparitions, and haunted houses was then very prevalent. It was almost invariably considered ominous to see, for the first time, the new moon over the left shoulder, to spill salt, or to sit thirteen at the table. A horseshoe was nailed to the posts of the door to keep off witches, and the ticking of a death-watch, or the sight of a white spider gliding down its thread, fore- boded evil. Many of these notions came from England, and they linger still in the minds of some uneducated people. The Bible, interpreted literally, was the guide book of our fathers,
* Historical Address, p. 14, by Elbridge H. Goss, Esq.
I35
SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY.
1780]
and science, which sheds light upon the meaning of many a ·dark passage in Holy Writ, was a word almost unknown to them. The spirit of the heavenly message they, however, gen- erally caught.
Another State Constitution was framed this year by dele- gates chosen by the towns of the Commonwealth, and sub- mitted, in March, to the people for their examination.
From the record of the vote of Dunstable, May 15, it ap- pears that there was a strong opposition to the instrument. It was mainly against granting protection to all religions, against the liberty of the press, against so great a number of council- lors and senators, against the power of the governor to march the militia to any part of the State, against the appointment of all judicial officers by the governor, against the governor and other officers declaring themselves of the Christian relig- ion, against the form of the oath, - they being desirous that the words " living God " should be included, - against Quakers being excused from taking an oath, and against the time ap- pointed for the revision of the Constitution.
That instrument was, however, ratified as the organic law by more than two thirds of the votes of the State; and the Hon. John Hancock was the first governor chosen under it. The election was held on the 4th of September, and Dun- stable gave sixteen votes for Hancock and three for James Bowdoin. It also cast thirteen votes for Artemas Ward, one for James Bowdoin, and one for Jeremiah Powell, Esq., as lieutentant-governors. It moreover gave eleven votes for John Tyng, Esq., as councillor. The small vote thrown may be attributed perhaps to the disaffection of the people in respect to the new Constitution, and to the absence of many voters in the army.
The town this year furnished 7,500 pounds of beef which the General Court called for to supply the army, and voted to raise £2,500 for school and other purposes. Although the surrender of the army of Gen. John Burgoyne, Oct. 7, 1777, may be considered as the turning-point of the war in favor of the Americans, the constant reinforcement and strategic movements of the British forces called for frequent levies of
I36
HISTORY OF DUNSTABLE.
[1780
soldiers on our part and a heavy drain upon the people, as well as upon the public treasury, for supplies and bounties. The debt of the country was rated at $200,000,000 and that of Massachusetts at $5,000,000, while the valuation of its whole property was but $11,000,000. In this exigence paper-money was issued to such an extent that one dollar in silver came to be equal to forty dollars in what was called "the Con- tinental currency." The one-dollar bill, about two inches square, had on its face the Latin words, " Depressa resurgit," which is in English, " The down-trodden rises," and which had, at that time, much significance ; but so great was the depre- ciation in its value, that a blanket purchased by a soldier cost £100, and the salary of the Rev. Ebenezer Bridge, of Chelms- ford, for eight months, " was set," as Mr. Allen informs us in his history of that town, "at £3,600." Ebenezer French used to say that he once paid $40 of it for a breakfast in New York. This paper-money, becoming utterly worthless, went out of use the year following, and was never redeemed.
This was the darkest period of the Revolution. "Through- out the country," says Mr. Barry, " the sufferings of the peo- ple were almost incredible. The life-blood of the nation had been poured out like water ; there were desolate homes in every town ; family ties had been broken and sundered ; the old had grown gray in military service, the young had shot up to a premature manhood ; cities and dwellings were falling to decay, and the half-tilled soil, covered with weeds, and the ruined fences which scarcely kept out starving cattle, told of the hardships the yeomanry had endured."*
Dunstable, however, continued to furnish and to pay its quotas of soldiers, to support religious worship, and to appro- priate something for the education of its children. All classes cheerfully denied themselves the common luxuries of life, and gave themselves to unremitting labor. The music of the household was that of the loom and spinning-wheel, and the wives and daughters, during the absence of their husbands and their brothers at the seat of war, were always ready to help the aged men in out-of-door labor on the farms.
History of Massachusetts, III, p 165.
I37
1781] SOLDIERS PAID IN BEEF AND CORN.
To know the worth of liberty, we have but to turn our thoughts to those dark days and see how much it cost.
Ebenezer Proctor and James Blood, Jr., paid fines in Groton this year for not accepting the office of collector in that town. They lived on Unquetynasset Brook, and, by the frequent changes in the town lines, were citizens, now of one town and then of the other, as the votes of the majority happened to determine. The original settler, James Blood, bought his land of an Indian half-breed by the name of Cook, and lived near the house of Mr. Washington E. Blood.
In March, 1781, Lieut. Lemuel Perham, Josiah Blodgett, Jr., and Abel Coburn were chosen as a committee of correspond- ence ; and in April following, the town voted 4,460 pounds of beef and £120 in silver for the army, also, £30 in silver for public schools. It gave this year, April 2, twenty-three votes for John Hancock for governor, and eighteen votes for Thomas Cushing for lieutenant-governor.
By the defeat and capture of the British forces under Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va., on the 19th of October, 178 1, the war, which had cost so many lives and the colonies at least $ 1 35,000,000, was virtually terminated.
In furnishing men and money, Massachusetts bore about one quarter of the burden, and of this the town of Dunstable its full share.
The news of the victory of the allied French and American forces under Washington was received in every city, town, and hamlet with the liveliest demonstrations of joy. "From every family altar," says Mr. B. J. Lossing, " where a love of freedom dwelt, from pulpits, legislative halls, the army, and from Congress [October 24] went up a shout of thanksgiving and praise to the Lord God Omnipotent, for the success of the allied troops, and these were mingled with universal eulogies of the great leader and his companion in arms. The clouds, which had lowered for seven long years, appeared to be breaking, and the splendors of the dawn of peace burst forth, like the light of a clear morning after a dismal night of tempest."
Although the Second Parish of Dunstable had no bell to
138
HISTORY OF DUNSTABLE.
[1782
ring or cannon to discharge in expression of its joy on the reception of the news of the great victory, still every heart exulted in the success of Washington and Lafayette, and their names and deeds were praised by every tongue. The soldiers soon returned from their long campaigns, and the prospect of peace and independence revived the drooping spirits of the people.
The Second Parish voted, April II, 1782, "to Raise and assess thirty pound Lawful Silver money to hire a minister or ministers of the Gospel to preach in the Parish and that Joel Parkhurst, Esq., Capt Jonathan Fletcher and Mr Jacob Kendall should be a Committee to provide for Said preaching."
Of the money (£30) raised for preaching this year, the Rev. John Strickland received £3 6s., and the Rev. Phinehas Wright (H. C. 1772) £II IIS. 6d. Mr. Jacob Kendall was paid £3 4s. for boarding the last-named minister. The town cast eleven votes for John Hancock as governor.
Timothy Read, Lieut. John Cheney, and Oliver Taylor were appointed by the Second Parish, June 15, a committee to hire soldiers to reinforce the Continental army for six months, and this is the last mention on the records of the parish of any levy on the town for men to aid in carrying on the war. It was agreed at a meeting of the parish, held on the 19th of October following, to allow the accounts of the said committee. These were to be settled, not by money, for of that the people had long been almost destitute, but by two hundred and fifty bushels of Indian corn and 3,333} pounds of beef, "which grain & beef the abovesaid Committee Engaged to five men to serve in the Continental army for the term of six months unless sooner Discharged."
The following notices of some men actively engaged in the war of the Revolution were given to me by Mr. Josiah T. Cummings : -
OLIVER CUMMINGS, Jr., was a private in the battle of White Plains, Oct. 28, 1776. He returned to Dunstable and subse- quently removed to the town of Sumner, Me., where he died.
JAMES CUMMINGS was at the taking of Ticonderoga, July 12, 1777, and in other engagements during the war. He mar-
I39
HOMESTEAD OF JONAS FRENCH.
1782]
ried, first, Charlotte French, and, second, Sally Wright, both of Dunstable, and died Sept. 6, 1840, aged' 80 years.
JOSIAH CUMMINGS, son of Oliver and Sybil (Bailey) Cum- mings, entered the army when a mere boy, and served as a guard over the soldiers of Gen. Burgoyne, subsequent to their capture in October, 1777. He also performed duty with the army in New Jersey. After the Revolution he was commis- sioned as captain of the Dunstable militia company. He mar- ried first Sally and then Olive Taylor, sisters, and lived on the place now occupied by his son, Josiah T. Cummings. His death occurred Sept. 11, 1834
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.