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He married Drusilla R., daughter of America and Mary C. Chandler, born in Fryeburg, Me., January 28, 1833; died July 8, 1910.
2. OLA HENRY, b. 19 June 1858; m. Annie Grey.
HARLEY HALL, b. 13 May 1864; d. 14 May 1905; m. Jennie Grant; I ch .: Pauline N. Earl, b. 15 July 1896, pianist of note.
ZILLA MAY, b. 3 Nov. 1872; d. 31 Aug. 1884.
2. Ola Henry Danforth (Joseph H.1) was born June 19, 1858; died 1924. Married Annie Grey, daughter of Alexander and Mary (Barton) Grey of Oldtown, Maine. O. H. Danforth began his business career at North Stratford with his father. He re- moved to Oldtown in 1891 and engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods.
JOSEPH H., b. 6 May 1888.
HERBERT, b. 9 Dec. 1889.
DANIELS
Joseph Daniels came to Stratford from Newton, Mass., about 1796. He settled on the Abijah French place, buying of John Holbrook and later selling to Mr. French. This house was the site of the first post office in town. Mr. Daniels' son, Jared W., was appointed postmaster, and the office opened for business, October 1, 1810. Mr. Daniels later removed to the Hollow, where he spent the remainder of his life. He built a carding mill on the site of the late Fisk mill, which was burned about ten years later. He married Susanna Ames, and lived a few years in Northumberland, where his son, Joseph S., was born in 1799. He died June II, 1833, aged 75 years.
JARED W., surgeon in 1812 War; first postmaster in Stratford; settled in Salina, N. Y .; 2 ch .: Waldo, Nahum; both in Civil War, the former as a surgeon.
LYMAN, settled in Ohio.
WILDER, d. in early life.
ANNIE, m. Leonard Hatch.
2. JOSEPH S., b. 12 Sept. 1799; m. Roxana Hatch.
2. Joseph S. Daniels (Joseph1) was born in Northumberland, September 12, 1799. He married, March 30, 1825, Roxana Hatch, daughter of Noah and Anne (Brown) Hatch, who was
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born September 12, 1805. Joseph S. died March 14, 1830. Roxana married (2) George W. Moore, June 26, 1843. Mr. Moore was born July 14, 1799, and died in July, 1875. Roxana died April 16, 1889, in St. Peter, Minn.
3. JARED WALDO, b. 15 June 1827; m. (1) Hortense E. Beards- ley, (2) Mrs. Ella Winslow.
4. ASA WILDER, b. 15 Jan. 1829; m. Emma Brown Evans. ANN H., b. 19 Sept. 1830; d. 19 Dec. 1861; m. -; I ch.
3. Dr. Jared Waldo Daniels (Joseph S.2, Joseph1) was born in Stratford, June 15, 1827. When he was but four years of age he was deprived of a father and left in very humble circumstances. He left home when young, secured an academical education, studied medicine with his uncle, Dr: B. F. Hatch, in Boston, and graduated from Bellevue Medical College, New York. He went West in 1855 and was appointed resident physician at Yellow Medicine Agency. In 1856 he married Hortense Eugenie Beards- ley of New York, taking her to the Agency, where she had the society of two missionary families living within five miles. She won the hearts of the Indians by her kindness, as she generally accompanied her husband on his visits, carrying such articles of food as they required. She died in 1870.
In 1862 Dr. Jared was commissioned surgeon in the volunteer forces of Minnesota and served during the war. At its close he located at Faribault, Minn., but after years of civil practice he was appointed Indian agent to gather the Indians who were driven from their homes at the time of the massacre, and place them on a reservation. They were Indians he had lived among six years. He knew them all and they showed their confidence in him by obedience to his wishes so that within three years he had them living in homes of their own make and cultivating fields of their own breaking.
He established schools, a court of native officers for the trial of criminals and a native police force for the protection of the frontier and to keep the peace of the reservation. That was the first Indian police force ever established among any tribe in this country.
After spending nearly three years among these people and see- ing them well started on the road to self-support he was sent to North Platte River, near Fort Laramie, to influence Red Cloud and his people, numbering 6,000, to locate an agency.
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This great Sioux had made a treaty but would not avail him- self of its advantage, remaining north with the hostile bands. He was the most influential war chief in the Sioux nation. When he heard that the "medicine man" was in his country he met him at Fort Laramie and was influenced by him to go to where the Indian supplies were and in a few months afterwards to locate his agency on White River.
In the summer of 1872, he took Red Cloud and thirty braves to visit eastern cities. This gave them a chance to see the power of the government and that band has been at peace ever since. On his return from the east he was ordered to take a few influen- tial Indians and join a commission at the head waters of the Missouri River to make a treaty with a band of northern Sioux.
In 1873 he was appointed inspector of Indian Agencies. This required of him visits to all agencies west of the Mississippi, both north and south. In 1875 he was one of the commissioners to make treaty for the Black Hills country. This was consummated in the fall of 1877. This closed his connection with the Govern- ment after twenty-two years' service.
In 1882 he married (2) Mrs. Ella Winslow, and settled in Fari- bault, Minn.
JARED W., d. early. GEORGE C., d. early.
HORTENSE VIRGINIE, b. 1863; m. Henry B. Hill, lawyer, Faribault, Minn.
ASA WILDER, b. 1865; m. Meda Camps, Placerville, Calif .; 3 ch .: Ella Laura, Gladys, Asa Waldo.
4. Dr. Asa Wilder Daniels (Joseph S.2, Joseph1) was born in Stratford January 15, 1829. His experiences in leaving home and obtaining an education were similar to those of his brother, Jared. He studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. F. B. Hatch, and gradu- ated from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. He went to Minnesota in 1853 and secured a position in the service of the government as physician of the Lower Sioux Agency. At that time this agency was far beyond the limits of civilization on the upper waters of the Minnesota River. He married, in 1853, Emma Evans of Boston, Mass., and took her West with him. She was the only white woman at the agency for two years. He left the agency in 1861 and settled in St. Peter, Minn. He was for several years a member of the State Board of Health, and of
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several medical societies. He was a successful practitioner, one of the first in his profession in the state, and honored in the community.
Three children died in infancy.
ANNA CORA, b. 1856; m. John Thirlwell; 2 ch .: John C., Arthur Francis.
EMMA VICTORIA, m. Hon. John Van Ingar Dodd; I ch.
JARED WALDO, b. 1867; physician with his father (1888)
in one of the most successful medical firms, St. Peter, Minn. HENRY WHIPPLE, b. 1869.
DAY
The earliest of the family in this country was Anthony Day, who was born in England in 1616. He sailed from London in 1635, and settled in Gloucester, Mass., in 1636. Some of the old records in the clerk's office in Gloucester are so old and worn that they are obscure; but it appears that "Anthony married Susanna Ring, born in 1633, and died December ye 12th, 1717. Anthony died April ye 13th, 1707. His second son, Timothy Day, born 1653, married Phebe Wilder, July ye 24th, 1679. His son, Timo- thy, Jr., died about 1757. The children of Timothy, Jr., were:
PHEBE, b. at York, Oct. ye 11th, 170 -; d. Jan. 20, 1714. ZEBULA, b. at Gloucester, Apr. ye 14th, 1707. ELIPHALET, b. at Gloucester, Dec. ye 11th, 171I. JUDITH, b. at Gloucester, Apr. ye 2nd, 1714.
2. ABNER, b. at Gloucester, Aug. ye 12th, 1716. TABITHA, b. at Gloucester, Jan. ye 29th, 1719. BETHULAH, b. at Gloucester, Apr. ye 2nd, 1722."
2. Abner Day (Timothy, Jr.1) was born at Gloucester, August 12, 1716. The following record has been found: "October 27, 1736. Abner Day intends marriage with Susanna Marshall of Ipswitch." From this marriage there were seven children. Abner Day died in 1763.
"BETHULAH, b. Apr. ye 3rd, 174 -. , son, b. July ye 26th, 1743. , son, b. Aug. ye 16th, 174 -. ABNER, b. Mar. ye 14th, 1748. ANNA, b. July ye 14th, 175 -.
3. ELIPHALET, b. Feb. ye 11th, 1754. EZRA, b. Apr. ye 12th, 1761."
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3. Eliphalet Day (Abner2, Timothy, Jr.1) was born in Ipswich, Mass., February II, 1754. His father died when he was nine years of age, and he was adopted by his uncle, William Marshall, and brought up in Hampstead, N. H. When twenty years old he came with his uncle, Antipas Marshall, seventeen years of age, Isaac Merriam, and two others to Northumberland. He married Thyrza, daughter of John French, of Maidstone, Vt., who was born May 15, 1765. Eliphalet Day afterwards came to Stratford and built, first in the northern part of the town, on the farm so long known as the "Nahum Day farm," now owned by Don Stevens. There he built a log house by the road close to the line of the Martin farm. Later he settled on the left-hand side of the "Hog- back," since called the "Judge Day farm." The dates of the births of his several children, as recorded in Stratford, give us the time and place of his residence in the town. One daughter was born in Sandown, N. H., while the parents were on a visit to that town. Mr. Day died August 6, 1826.
SUSANNA, b. 23 Jan. 1781, Northumberland; m. Joseph Merrill; 3 ch .: Samuel, Lewis, Tabitha.
BETSEY, b. 19 Mar. 1783, Sandown; m. Joshua Marshall.
4. ABNER, b. 24 Mar. 1785, Northumberland; m. (1) Mary Wait, (2) Susan Bradley.
TABITHA, b. 24 July 1787, Northumberland; d. at 26.
5. OLIVE, b. 9 Feb. 1790, Northumberland; m. John Todd. GILES, b. 17 Apr. 1792, Northumberland; d. 23 Apr. 1800. ELIPHALET, JR., b. 4 May 1794, Northumberland; master of a vessel; d. Havana.
TIRZAH, b. 29 Apr. 1796, Northumberland; m. John M. French.
AHAZ, b. II June 1798, Northumberland; d. 8 Mar. 1800. MARCIA, b. 18 Aug. 1800, Northumberland; m. Grant Lamkin SILAS, b. 23 Nov. 1802, Maidstone, Vt .; d. 21 Apr. 1803.
6. NAHUM DANIELS, b. 24 Feb. 1807, Stratford; m. Janet Platt.
7. SHUBAEL BABCOCK, b. 21 Sept. 1809, Stratford; m. Lucinda Gamsby.
4. Abner Day (Eliphalet3, Abner2, Timothy, Jr.1) was born March 24, 1785, in Northumberland, N. H. He married (I) Mary Wait, and settled in the northern part of the town, where his father had formerly built his log cabin. In that house two of his children were born. Later he built the Day homestead, now occupied by Don Stevens. Abner Day enlisted in the 1812 War, and was stationed at Plattsburg, N. Y. August 31, 1813, he
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married (2) Susanna Bradley. He died July 4, 1835. Susanna died August 13, 1872, aged 73 years.
(First Marriage)
SILAS, b. 1813; m. Frances Wilson, b. 1831, d. 1897; he d. 1864; 2 ch .: Bertha, m. (1) Fred Dunklee, (2) Chester Andrew Leavitt; Christopher C., m. Augusta Hunt.
ANN, m. George T. Barlow; 5 ch .: Fred, Horace, Charles, Elizabeth, Mary.
(Second Marriage)
8. ABNER L., m. Lucia Manning Lyman. SUSAN, m. George Brabrook; I ch .: Eunetia A.
9. SAMUEL, m. Amanda Thayer.
IO. EUNETIA, m. (1) Horace Campbell, (2) Charles D. Water- house.
II. NAHUM D., m. Mary Curtis.
12. ALBERT M., unm.
13. VOLNEY, m. (I) Ellen Dennison, (2) Mrs. Augusta (Martin) Adams.
5. Olive Day (Eliphalet3, Abner2, Timothy, Jr.1) was born in Northumberland, N. H., 9 Feb. 1790. About the year 1815 she married John Todd, and lived in Eaton, P. Q.
EUSEBIA, m. William Sunbury.
EMOGENE CASS, m. Amos Tyler.
OLIVE, unm. JOHN, m. Frances Brown.
SILAS, m. - - Flemming.
RALPH, m. Anne Lyon. HUBBARD, m. Adelaide Aldrich.
6. Nahum Daniels Day (Eliphalet3, Abner2, Timothy, Jr.1)- "Judge Day"- was born in Stratford, February 24, 1807. To natural endowments of a high order he added good educational acquirements, qualifying himself for teaching, to which he devoted several years of early manhood both here and in Western N. Y. Returning from there about the year 1827, he engaged several years in mercantile pursuits, from which he retired about the year 1837, and entered upon farming, which from choice he fol- lowed to the close of his life, interspersed with the performance of various public trusts, which he held from time to time. He represented the town in the legislature two years and discharged his duties with ability and fidelity. On the retirement of Judge Joshua Marshall, in 1850, he was appointed associate justice of
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the Court of Common Pleas for Coos county, and held that office to general acceptance until it was abolished by the reorganization of our judiciary in 1855. In the years 1860-61 he was treasurer of Coös county. Judge Day was a man of strong convictions, a party leader, but tolerant in all of his relations, business, social, or official. He adhered to his own views with rigid conscientious- ness, while he fully accorded the same right to those who differed from him. He died on the 15th of August, 1872, his death being caused by severe mental strain from sickness and death in his family. Judge Day married Janet J., daughter of David and Roxanna (Brown) Platt. She was born February 15, 1819, and died August 19, 1872, surviving her husband but four days. Mrs. Day was a very kind-hearted and benevolent woman and was greatly loved and respected in the community.
EMMA, b. 1838; m. Charles D. Johnson; d. 18 Dec. 1864. 14. ELIPHALET, b. I Dec. 1840; m. S. Maria Ockington.
15. FRED N., b. 24 Aug. 1847; m. Ellen Drew.
7. Shubael Babcock Day (Eliphalet3, Abner2, Timothy, Jr.1) was born in Stratford September 21, 1809. He married Lucinda Gamsby.
CAROLINE PHIVELLA, m. John Eames; 2 ch .: Seth, Byron. BETSEY MARION, m. (1) George E. Holyoke, (2) Henry
Sloan; 3 ch .: Frank and William Holyoke, and George Sloan.
ELLEN M., m. Fred Taylor; 2 ch .: John, Katie.
THIRD GENERATION OF ELIPHALET DAY, COOS PIONEER
Abner Langdon Day (Abner2, Eliphalet1) was born in Strat- ford, September 21, 1821, and died October 21, 1891. He married, November 12, 1851, Lucia Manning, daughter of Stephen and Caroline M. (Smith) Lyman, who was born June 17, 1834, and died November 10, 1891.
LUCIA ELIZABETH, b. 5 Nov. 1852; m. Moses Henson ; 5 ch. : Herbert Abner (d. at 17 mos.), Frank Curtis, Harvey Beecher, Harriet Lucinda, Ola Everett.
ABNER HERBERT, b. 13 Apr. 1855; d. Mar. 1925; m. (I) Mary L. Evans; 2 ch .: Daisy, Hallie Arny; (2) Mary Flint; 3 ch .: Rena, Herbert A., Margaret F.
CAROLINE ALMA, b. 21 Mar. 1857; m. Edwin Cummings; 2 ch .: Rena Loomis, Harry Lyman. Mrs. Cummings was
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for 26 yrs. editor and proprietor of the News and Sentinel at Colebrook, N. H. She was early left a widow with two young children. Though knowing but little of the details of her husband's business when she entered upon its manag- ment, she soon mastered them, and the paper became one of the leading periodicals of the North Country.
JENNIE EUNETIA, b. II Feb. 1859; m. William Henry Ashe; 4 ch .: William Horace, Harvey Day (d. at 13), Jennie Eunetia, Volney Day. Mrs. Ashe also wields a ready pen, and her articles have appeared in the New England Maga- zine, American Magazine of Civics, Arena, and other magazines and papers.
IRVING NAHUM, d. 1864 at 9 mos.
MYRA PHEBE, b. 31 Mar. 1858; m. Fred Cook; d. 1918. INEZ, b. 1864; d. 1878.
9. Samuel Day (Abner2, Eliphalet1) was born in 1824. He married Amanda Thayer, and died May 8, 1893. He lived for several years on the Nahum D. Day place, on the opposite side of the road, and half way between Ray Fuller's and Don W. Stevens'.
GEORGE, m. Iva Hatch; 2 ch .: Minnie, May. JAMES LANGDON, m. Nettie Sawyer; I ch .: Ethel.
WILLIAM C., m. Lois Curtis; 3 ch .: Allison, Lawrence, Willis. ALBERT MARSHALL.
MINNIE MAY, d. at 5 yrs.
AMY EDITH, m. Charles Mackey, Dudswell, P. Q .; 2 ch. Two sons d. in infancy.
IO. Eunetia Day (Abner2, Eliphalet1) married (1) Horace Campbell, (2) Charles D. Waterhouse. Mr. Waterhouse was formerly conductor on the Grand Trunk Railway, and later had charge of the Grand Trunk Railway station at North Stratford. The house now occupied by Ray Fuller was built by him.
(First Marriage)
ADA, m. Frank Platt, Valley Park, Mo.
SUSAN EMMA, m. John T. Appler; 2 ch .: Judith Eunetia, a son (name unknown).
CHARLES N., m. Genevieve Voorhees; I ch.
(Second Marriage)
ALBERT EDWARD, d. at 6 mos. EDWARD.
II. Nahum D. Day (Abner2, Eliphalet1) was born April 1827. He married Mary E., daughter of James and Cordelia (Marshall)
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Curtis. She was born September 7, 1850, and died June 17, 1895. Mr. Day d. November 7, 1905.
ERNEST L., b. I July 1874; d. 20 Sept. 1901 ; m. Lilla Nason; I ch .: Marion Ernestine.
MAURICE N., b. 29 June 1875; d. 21 Dec. 1893.
ALBERT M., b. 16 Jan. 1879; d. 26 Dec. 1896.
CLARA M., b. 1I May 1886; d. 2 July 1907.
12. Albert M. Day (Abner2, Eliphalet1) was born in 1843, and was never married. He left Stratford for Boston at the age of 13, December, 1858. He entered the employ of G. W. Warren & Co., which was then the leading firm of the city. In 1859 they sold to Jordan, Marsh & Co., and he remained with the latter company until 1872, when he left to join A. T. Stewart & Co., New York, and remained with that firm 20 years. During that time he crossed the Atlantic 86 times as buyer, visiting England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Austria, afterwards four times for pleasure.
13. Volney Day (Abner2, Eliphalet1) was born in Stratford. He married (1) Ellen Dennison. Mr. and Mrs. Day did a large business at Colebrook in millinery and ladies' furnishings. He married (2) Mrs. Augusta (Martin) Adams. Mr. Day died in 1912.
14. Eliphalet D. Day (Nahum D.2, Eliphalet1) was born December 1, 1840. He married, August 18, 1866, S. Maria, daughter of Benjamin Bird and Sarah F. (Sawyer) Ockington, who was born in Stratford, October 1, 1844. Eliphalet died July 30, 1872. Mrs. Day married (2) Frederick A. Padfield. She died February 26, 1923.
JOHN HENRY, b. I Dec. 1867; d. 9 June 1872.
FRANK ELIPHALET, b. 3 Aug. 1870; drowned in Connecticut River 29 July 1882.
15. Fred N. Day (Nahum D.2, Eliphalet1) was born in Nor- thumberland, N. H., August 25, 1847, and died in Auburndale, Mass., April 1, 1915. He married Ellen J. Drew of Stewartstown, N. H., August 12, 1882, daughter of Amos W. and Julia Esther (Lovering) Drew. Fred N. Day came to Stratford when a small child, and was a resident here until his removal to Auburndale in 1901. He trained at Plymouth Normal School and devoted several years to teaching in both the public and private schools of Stratford. Upon retirement from active service in the school- room he assumed the duties of superintendent of schools when
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they were at a low educational ebb, introducing new methods and obtaining increased appropriations.
Mr. Day's public interests were not confined to schools alone, but, as legislator, town officer, or citizen, he served the town generously and well. The story of his citizenship is written in the social, political, and religious life of the community in which he lived. In this work he was ably assisted by Mrs. Day, who came first as a teacher to Stratford Hollow.
Recognizing the increasing value of Stratford's timberland, he bought wisely and widely, and realized a fortune. Fred N. Day was a man affable and kind in all his relations with men. Scholar- ly in his taste, cultivated through travel and extensive reading.
ESTHER JENNETTE, b. 20 May 1891; m. C. Lathrop Tower; 3 ch .: John, Frederic, Richard Binney.
FREDERIC DREW, b. 28 Aug. 1893; graduated Newton High 19II, Dartmouth 1915; joined Ist Corps Cadets 1916, which body formed the nucleus of the IoIst Engineers. He was among the first to enlist, and went overseas in Sept. 1917, with one of the first detachments sent across. He con- tracted spinal meningitis, and d. in Chaumont, France, 22 Jan. 1918.
FRENCH
Two families by the name of French are closely connected with the history of Stratford, and the two pioneers, curiously, both bore the name of John. Whether they came from the same an- cestral stock we cannot determine, but, as both belonged to Massachusetts families, this is probable.
The family of the first John can be traced back to Thomas French, born in the north of Scotland, lived a few years previous to his emigration at Suffolk, England, died at Ipswich, Mass., in 1639. He married Alice - -, probably in Suffolk.
John French, I, was born in Suffolk, England, probably 1619- 20. Died at Dorchester, Mass., August 6, 1699. Married Grace in 1640. She was born in 1621, and died February 28, I680.
John French, II, son of John and Grace, was born in Dorches- ter, Mass., February 28, 1641, and died August 6, 1699. He married Experience Thayer, April 16, 1685; she was born in Braintree, Mass., May 15, 1655, and died September 29, 1719.
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John French, III, son of John and Experience, was born in Dorchester, Mass., April, 1699, and died at Mendon, Mass. He married Margaret -- , who was born in Dorchester in I722.
John French, IV, son of John and Margaret, was born in Mendon, Mass., March 14, 1728, and died in Maidstone, Vt., April 18, 1781. In 1754 he married Anna Haynes, who was born at New London, Conn., April 28, 1733, and died in Maidstone, Vt., in 1835, aged one hundred and two years.
Mr. French came to Maidstone with several other settlers before 1774, receiving a grant of one hundred acres of land, and settled on what is now known as the Benton farm. He was a prominent citizen, and a member of the Vigilance Committee in the Revolution. He lived in Walpole, N. H., previous to coming to Maidstone.
JOHN, b. 7 Oct. 1755; went to Lake Champlain.
OLIVE, b. 8 Aug. 1757; m. Abraham Gile.
ANNA, b. 17 July 1759; m. Jacob Schoff.
2. HAYNES, b. 15 May 1761; m. (I) Irene Learned; (2) Sally Hughes.
BATHSHEBA, b. I April 1763; m. John Bradley.
THIRZA, b. 15 May 1765; m. Eliphalet Day.
EUNICE, b. 15 May 1767; m. Abner Barlow.
POLLY, b. 12 April 1769; m. Henry Schoff. ABIJAH, b. 12 Mar. 1771; no further trace.
3. THOMAS GILES, b. 12 July 1773; m. Aletta Hinman.
4. AHAZ, b. 12 April 1775; m. Marcia Baldwin. BETSEY, b. 18 Feb. 1777; no further trace.
2. Haynes D. French (John1) was born May 15, 1761. He mar- ried (1) Irene Learned, (2) Sally Hughes, daughter of Judge Hughes of Maidstone, Vt. Colonel French was an officer in the War of 1812, and died of black measles at Plattsburg during the last year of the war. His three sons, Ovid, Homer, and John Milton, were with him at Plattsburg, the last named being the only one of the family group to return.
(First Marriage)
HOMER, killed in the War of 1812. OVID, died in the War of 1812. NANCY, m. Nathan Owen of Mariette, Ohio.
5. JOHN MILTON, m. Thirza Day. OLIVE, m. Noah Lyman.
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(Second Marriage)
EUSEBIA, m. Abram Bowker; 5 ch .: Annolt, Allouvia, Myron, Frederick, Mary.
SARAH, m. Leander Mead Hubby of Cleveland, Ohio; 3 ch .: Louisa, Frank, Ella.
HAYNES, JR., m. (1) Mary Leet; 2 ch .: Charles Leet, Sarah Alma, m. Clarence Waters; m. (2) Wealthy L. Douglas; 4 ch .: Mary L., Hattie H., Martha E., Haynes.
6. VOLNEY, m. (1) Ann Hatch; (2) Addie Hatch.
3. Thomas Giles French (John1) was born July 28, 1773, at Mendon, Mass. Married Aletta Hinman, daughter of Elijah Hinman, March 28, 1799. She was born August II, 1781. Mr. French died at Muskego, Wis.
7. ABIJAH SIDNEY, b. 31 Dec. 1799; m. Hannah Platt.
8. ALVIN GRANDISON, b. 9 Sept. 1801; m. Nancy Stevens.
9. ALETTA, b. 12 June 1803; m. Luther Parker.
EUNICE, b. II Mar. 1805; m. James Finch; Milwaukee, Wis .; 2 ch.
HARRIPH VOLNEY, b. I April 1807; m. Prudence Hart; I ch .: Louise.
MYRANDA, b. 4 June 1809; m. Joel Walker; 4 ch .: Julia, Aaron, William, Emma.
IO. THOMAS GILES, II, b. 19 June 1811 ; m. Nancy Rogers; Berlin, Wis.
AHAZ, unm .; Muskego, Wis.
JAMES MUNROE, m. Sarah Landon ; 7 ch. : Helen, Byron, Alice, Ida, Austin, Abbie, Charles; settled in Austin, Minn.
CHARLES HORACE, m. Lucinda Rhodes; 4 ch .: Charles, Helen, Claire, Kate; last heard from in Kansas.
HELEN MARR, m. Casper Rouse; 2 ch. : Fred, Herman ; Madi- son Wis .; Mrs. Rouse d. Marion, Kan., with her son.
4. Ahaz French (John1) was born April 12, 1775. He married Marcia Baldwin, daughter of Jabez Baldwin. Mr. French lived in Stratford, three miles from North Stratford, but removed to Jamestown, N. Y., early in the nineteenth century.
LUCIA, b. 9 Apr. 1808. JOHN JARVIS, b. 22 Nov. 1809. SOPHIA, b. 6 Sept. 181I. JABEZ BALDWIN, b. 18 May 1815. DANIEL HAYNES, b. 6 May 1816.
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THIRD GENERATION .
5. John Milton (Haynes2, John1) was born in 1791, in Maid- stone, Vt. He enlisted in the 1812 War, and was in Plattsburg in company with his father, Colonel Haynes, and his brothers, and was wounded during the campaign. His relatives fell, but he returned home and settled in Columbia, N. H., and married Thirza Day, December 25, 1815. His grandmother, who had been committed to his care by Colonel French before his death, made her home with him, dying in 1835, aged 102 years. John Milton, in 1844, moved to Wisconsin, and built the first sawmill in Columbia County, on French Creek, at Fort Winnebago. In 1865 he was attacked by a disease that took away his sight. He died at Marcella, Wis., March 29, 1887, aged 96.
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