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Rev. Lucien Williams Prescott (Jesse5, Joseph4, Joshua3, Joshua2, James 1) son of Capt. Jesse and Eliza (Harriman) Prescott, was born at Bridgewater, N. H., September 23, 1831. His father and grandfather filled most of the offices of their town and were members of the legislature. His maternal grandfather, Capt. John Harriman, settled in Plymouth, N. H., about 1824.
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He had four brothers who settled in Clarksville and Stewarts- town, N. H., and four sisters who settled in the latter town and married respectively, Drew, Heath, Cross and Craig.
L. W. Prescott was born on a rocky hill farm. He attended the common schools of his native town and a private school in Plymouth. In 1849 he entered the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Sanbornton Bridge, now Tilton. He remained at the Seminary most of the time until the spring of 1853 when he entered the Methodist General Biblical Institute at Concord, N. H., completing the course there. In 1855 he joined the New Hampshire Conference on trial and two years later at the session held at Lawrence, Mass., he was received into full connection and ordained deacon by Bishop Thomas A. Morris. In 1860, at the session held in Manchester, he was ordained Elder by Bishop Simpson. His first charge was Stratford and Northumberland in 1855, and he was returned there for 1858-59. Other pastorates in New Hampshire followed.
When fourteen years of age, Mr. Prescott sustained an injury to his knee from which he never recovered, and which caused him great suffering throughout his life. In the summer of 1879 he had a severe illness due to this and was laid aside from work for the rest of the year. Because of continued ill health he took up a supernumerary relation with the conference and in 1881 took up his residence in Warren, N. H., where he had purchased a home the previous year. From that time he supplied different churches until 1892, when he commenced preaching in Hebron, and in the spring of 1893, he received a unanimous call from the Methodist and Congregational churches to become their pastor.
While obtaining his education, Mr. Prescott also taught several terms of school in his native town, in Northfield Center, in Rindge, and at Hill Academy. While pastor at Stratford, in 1855, he taught one term of private school in the hall of the hotel, then owned by William Curtis, and in the fall of 1859, a private school in the store owned by Daton G. Piper. In the winter he taught the district school in the same place. He also served on school committees in Tamworth, Hillsboro and Warren.
On August 12, 1857, he was married to Julia Platt French, the -
daughter of Abijah S. and Hannah (Platt) French. Four children were born to them, two sons, who died in early childhood, Ettie (Mrs. Fred O. Gleason of Warren, N. H.,) and Gracia (Mrs. Walker F. Cummings of Springfield, Mass.).
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Mr. Prescott undertook the work of writing the history of Stratford at the urgent request of Fred N. Day. For twelve years he devoted the greater part of his time to research and corre- spondence in reference to the work; to interviewing all of those old persons who could be reached, and those still living and con- nected with the early history of the town. Several of the first generation, of those who came here, were still living, when he first came to Stratford to preach; these he knew intimately and attended the funerals of many.
Mr. Prescott died at his home in Warren, N. H., August 27, 1909. He was laid to rest in the family lot in Stratford, the town he had loved so devotedly, and with which he had been so in- timately connected.
ROLFE
Jonathan Rolfe came from Dixfield, Mass. He settled first in Colebrook, coming to Stratford in 1836, where he made his home on the Isaac Stevens farm, since owned by Prescott Mason, caring for Mr. Stevens for the remainder of his life. He married (1) Sally Harvey, (2) Margaret Parsons, daughter of Hezekiah Parsons of Colebrook. (3) Mrs. Lydia (Johnson) Mahurin, (4) Ann Meranda Curtis. Mr. Rolfe was active in town affairs, serving as moderator in 1839, '44, '48 to '52 inclusive, 1854.
(First marriage)
SALLY, d. 20 yrs. (Second marriage)
CHARLES E., m. Ellen Dickinson ; 5 ch.
ALMENA, m. George Brower; 3 ch .: Belle, Margaret, Mary. SUSAN M., m. Allen Forbes ; 4 ch .: Fred, Mary, Oscar, Allie. HARRIET, b. 17 Sept. 1833; m. Monroe Smith.
(Third marriage)
SAMANTHA J., b. 20 Apr. 1835; d. 22 May 1919; m. Prescott Mason; 7 ch .: Etta, Harriet, Frank, Henry, Charles, Eugene, George.
CYRUS W., m. Elizabeth Mason; 8 ch.
FRANK, m. (1) Caroline Hibbard; 7 ch .; (2) Ellen Wiggin; 3 ch. HENRY O., m. Lena Clough.
ADELAIDE, d. 3 yrs.
(Fourth marriage)
WILLIAM P., b. 13 May 1851; d. 23 June 1908; m. Annie Dalbec.
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SCHOFF
Jacob Schoff was one of a party of seven Germans who pur- chased of the town of Lexington, Mass., in 1757, a tract of a thousand acres of land in the plantation then known as "Dor- chester Canada," now the town of Ashburnham, Mass. Jacob Schoff came to America in the St. Andrew, September 1752. He was born some time between 1725 and 1730. He is said to have come from Hornberg, and to have been a baker by trade. He took a leading part in the Ashburnham settlement, and was evi- dently a man of intelligence and activity. He married, October 1752, Mrs. Elizabeth (Darrow) Grapes, a former sweetheart in Germany. By her first husband, Jacob Grapes, she had three children. When Jacob Schoff came to "Dutch Farms," in 1757, his family consisted of his wife and three children. Five children were born to him there. In 1772 he bought 500 acres in Fran- conia, N. H., which was his home for about ten years. About 1782 he moved to Northumberland, about three miles south of Groveton. Two or three years later he moved to Maidstone, Vt., just north of the present Stevens Station. This was his home for ten years. During his residence in Maidstone, Jacob Schoff acquired consid- erable land in the four neighboring towns, some of which he con- veyed to his sons when they married. In 1796 we find him living in Brunswick, at the time that town was organized. The exact date of his death cannot be determined. The census of 1800 shows that he was living at that time, but his name does not appear in that of 1810. He conveyed land in 1906. This would place his death between 1806 and 1810.
ELIZABETH, b. 1753, probably in Boston or Lexington; d. in Bloomfield, Vt., Mar. 1848; m. (I) Philip Christian Grapes, (2) James Rider ; 3 ch .: Jacob, Dorothy, Elizabeth. LENA, b. 1754, probably in Boston or Lexington; m. Aaron Samson; 2 ch .: infant d. 1771, Hadley.
2. JACOB, b. 2 May 1756; m. Anna French.
KATHERINE, b. 6 July 1759; d. 1775.
JOHN, b. 15 Aug. 1761 ; m. Priscilla Chase; 2 ch. : John Chase, Sarah.
3. DANIEL, b. 26 Aug. 1764; m. Lucy Merrill.
4. HENRY, b. 9 Aug. 1766; m. (1) Mary French, (2) Mrs. Lydia (Hilliard) Bailey.
5. ISAAC, b. 1768.
2. Jacob Schoff (Jacob1) was born May 2, 1756, probably in Lexington, Mass. He died in Northumberland, N. H., January
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17, 1848. He married, February 14, 1780, Anna French, who was born (in Mendon, Mass .? ) July 18, 1759, and died in Northumber- land in 1848.
6. HAYNES FRENCH, b. in Franconia, N. H., 15 Dec. 1780. FANNY, b. in Franconia, 21 July 1781; d. in infancy.
FANNY A., b. in Northumberland, 18 Sept. 1783; m. Rich Stevens.
ELI, b. in Northumberland 9 Dec. 1784; m. Eliza Gardner, Louisiana.
ANNA, b. 30 Aug. 1786; d. 1851; m. Edward Smith; 7 ch .: Sarah, Eli, Homer, Bushrod, Delia, Michael, Althea; lived in Northumberland.
JACOB, b. in Stratford, 17 July 1788; d. in infancy.
ABIJAH FRENCH, b. in Maidstone, Feb. 1791; m. (I) Anna
Pratt, (2) Mrs. Nancy Seymour; d. near Portland, Mich .; I2 ch.
ORPHA, b. in Stratford, July 1792; d. in infancy.
AHAZ, b. in Stratford, 1794; d. in infancy.
SARAH, b. in Stratford, 17 Sept. 1795; m. Martin French.
ORPHA, b. in Stratford, 14 Apr. 1797; m. John Cargill; 2 ch .: Laura, Almira Jane.
JACOB, b. in Maidstone, 22 June 1800; m. (I). Mary Chase,
(2) Sallie M. Haire; d. in Birmingham, O., 1859; 6 ch .:
Charles P. (10a), Helen M., Hannah A., Horatio N., Fanny M., Ann Eliza.
HORATIO NELSON, b. 30 June 1802; d. 13 Jan. 1872; unm. ELMINA, b. 27 Feb. 1806; m. Victory Gamsby.
3. Daniel Schoff (Jacob1) was born in Ashburnham, Mass., August 26, 1764, and died in Maidstone, Vt., in April 1843. He married Lucy Merrill.
JEREMIAH, b. 28 Apr. 1787; m. Sophia Woodbury; d. in Brasher, N. Y.
ELIZABETH, b. 10 Mar. 1789; d. 14 Aug. 1791.
NANCY B., 17 Dec. 1791; m. John Cummings.
RUTH, b. 4 Oct. 1793; m. John Amey; removed to Mich.
LUCY, b. 23 Jan. 1796; m. Hardin Willard; 7 ch .: Leander,
Lawrence, Jeremiah, Hubbard, Lucy, Diadama, George- anne.
SARAH, b. 23 June 1799; m. Bishop Lamkin.
DANIEL, b. 17 July 1801 ; m. Annie Lamkin; d. in Brunswick; 3 ch .: Chester W., Leroy B., Sarah A.
JOHN, b. I Oct. 1805; m. (I) Fanny Lamkin, (2) Mrs. Eliza
T. Lyford; lived in Pittsburg, N. H .; d. in Compton, P. Q.
4. Henry Schoff (Jacob1) was born in Ashburnham, Mass., August 9, 1766, and died in North Stratford, N. H., December 27,
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1838. He married (1) Mary, daughter of John and Anna (Haynes) French. She was born in Mendon, Mass. (?), April 25, 1796, and died in North Stratford, December 8, 1820. He married (2) Lydia Hilliard, widow of Timothy Bailey, who was born in 1786, and died August 8, 1870.
(First Marriage)
HENRY, b. 17 Aug. 1788; m. Mary Hurlburt, Portland, N. Y. CATHERINE, b. in Northumberland; m. Nathan Baldwin. MARY, b. Northumberland, 18 May 1793; m. George Kimball. 7. SENECA A., b. 29 Nov. 1794; m. Susanna French.
ELIZABETH, b. 1796; m. Warren Bennett, Tioga County, N. Y.
HAZEN, d. young.
JOHN WARREN, b. 18 Jan. 1801 ; m. Clarissa Center, Elkland, Pa.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, b. 24 Nov. 1803; m. Sally R. Washburn, Lysander, N. Y.
BERENICE, b. 26 May 1807; m. George Blake, Elkland, Pa .; lived Troupsburg, N. Y.
EDWARD HUDSON, b. 1808; d. Cato, N. Y .; m. Anne J. Wash- burn.
DANIEL BRAINERD, b. 30 Nov. 1810; d. Wellsville, Kan .; m. Anne Stevens.
EMILY, m. John S. Lyman, Columbia, N. H.
CLARINDA, m. Dr. B. Franklin Hatch.
(Second Marriage)
JANE, b. 16 Sept. 1823; m. John Partridge; 2 ch .: Henry G., Mary Jane; Galien, Mich.
ANNIE, b. 1828; d. North Stratford, 25 Jan. 1846.
5. Isaac Schoff (Jacob1) was born probably in Ashby, Mass., and died near Stratford, N. H., in a log jam on the Connecticut River. He married (1) - , about 1789, (2) about 1801, Amarilla, daughter of Hezekiah and Tryphena (Lamkin) Fuller, who was born about 1780, and died in Stratford in 182I.
(First Marriage)
8. HENRY D., b. June 1790; m. Tamson Lamkin.
(Second Marriage)
HIRAM, b. 8 Apr. 1802; m. Rebecca Brainard; d. Pittsburg, N. H., 18 June 1830; 3 ch .: Hiram B., James Horace, John Nelson.
AMARILLA, b. 22 Jan. 1804; m. James Waldron; d. Clifton, P. Q .; 5 ch .: Julia, Isaac, Martha, Thomas J., Ira.
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THIRD GENERATION
6. Haynes French Schoff (Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Fran- conia, N. H., December 15, 1780, and died in Brunswick, Vt., November 25, 1851. He married, April 30, 1804, Lois Webster, who was born in 1785, and died May 12, 1852.
9. ORLANDO, b. May 1805; m. Harriet Johnson.
AMANDA P., m. Abdial Blodgett.
FANNY S., m. Selden Burbank; 6 ch .: Sydney, Arthur, Rollin, Marion, Albert, Anna Schoff; moved to Wisconsin.
IO. DANIEL H., b. 17 Jan. 1812; m. Fanny Stevens.
MARTHA P., m. Milton Cook, 25 Dec. 1845; 3 ch .: Henry A., Edmund A., Jacob Haynes.
ANNA F., b. 1818; d. Sept. 1847.
ABIJAH P., d. young.
ROLLIN, b. 22 Apr. 1822; d. 4 Dec. 1843.
JULIA LOIS, b. 12 Aug. 1826; m. George S. Blodgett; d. Lyndon, Vt., 1868; 6 ch .: Haynes S., Eva Amanda, Edward Jacob, Irvin, Everett E., George S.
7. Seneca A. Schoff (Henry2, Jacob1) was born in North Strat- ford, N. H., November 29, 1794, and died there February 16, 1878. He married in Stratford, March 8, 1820, Susanna, daughter of John and Patience (Warren) French, who was born in Brattleboro, Vt., April 1, 1794, and died in Stratford.
SUSAN A., b. 31 Jan. 1831, Maidstone, Vt .; d. 14 Feb., 1885; unm.
ALLISON S., b. 27 Sept. 1822, Stratford; d. 28 Aug. 1849, Lowell, Mass .; unm.
II. WILLIAM B., b. 20 Sept. 1824; m. Mary Green.
HENRY J., b. 19 Dec. 1826; d. 25 Sept. 1849, Burnett, Wis .; unm.
NATHAN B., b. II Apr. 1829; d. 25 Feb. 1890, Columbia, N. H .; unm.
CATHERINE B., b. 28 Oct. 1831 ; d. Colebrook, N. H., 19 May 1907; m. Van R. Davis; 2 ch .: Hattie E., John E.
ANNETTE, b. 21 Nov. 1833; d. Whitefield, N. H., 17 July 1901; m. John Shed.
TIRZAH, b. 30 Aug. 1835; d. Concord, N. H., 10 Mar. 1915.
8. Henry D. Schoff (Isaac2, Jacob1) was born in Maidstone, Vt., June 1790, and died in Brunswick, Vt., April 7, 1877. He mar- ried Tamson Lamkin, who was born in September, 1790, and died March 4, 1881.
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12. CHARLES G., b. Nov. 1820; m. Mary Taylor.
AMANDA MALVINA, b. 1824; m. Ezekiel Gardner, Bartlett, N. H., 1847; d. 28 Feb. 1900; 8 ch .: Henry A., Hannah C., Emma A., Lilla A., Mary L., Isabel Clara, Charles M., Idolyn F.
CAROLINE, b. Dec. 1826; m. Charles D. Keney, Andover, Conn .; d. 1857; 2 ch .: Harriet T., Julia.
FOURTH GENERATION
9. Orlando Schoff (Haynes F.3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., in May 1805, and died in Bloomfield, Vt., Octo- ber 1, 1880. He married, in Stratford, N. H., in 1836, Harriet, daughter of Samuel and Deborah (Cole) Johnson, who was born June 14, 1809, and died April 10, 1882.
13. OSCAR H., b. 16 Sept. 1837; m. Ellen P. Holbrook.
OCTA L., b. Oct. 1838; m. Albert Buzzell; 3 ch. : Ola A., Annie, Hattie.
14. SAMUEL O., b. 8 Feb. 1841; m. Josephine French.
15. GARDINER J., b. 13 June 1843; m. Emma Dennis Stevens. HARRIET A., m. Virgil York.
MARY J., m. Robert Gathercole.
IO. Daniel Haynes Schoff (Haynes F.3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., January 17, 1812, and died in Warren, Waushara County, Wis., March 18, 1899. He married Fanny, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Crouch) Stevens, who was born in Bloomfield, Vt., October 24, 1818.
DELIA A., b. 19 Dec. 1843; m. James Edward Brown, b. Milwaukee, Wis., 4 Oct. 1838; g ch .: Alma L., Charles S., Rollin S., Guy H., George S., Harold B., Leon J., Josephine A., Evelyn R.
SAVILLON STORY, b. 9 Feb. 1845; unm .; Wis.
ALMA, b. 22 June 1846; m. Beeman Bowker, Bloomfield, Vt. GEORGE D., b. 7 June 1848; d. Warren, Wis., II Feb. 1870.
IOa. Charles P. Schoff (Jacob3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Lunenburg, Vt., April 30, 1826, and died in North Stratford, N. H., August 30, 1905. He was married, August 8, 1847, to Eliza Spaulding, at East Charleston, Vt., by Rev. Moses Pattee. Mr. Schoff was a carpenter and builder. He lived several years in Brighton, Vt., and built the first framed house in what is now the village of Island Pond. He came to North Stratford in 1858. Mr. Schoff was a veteran of the Civil War, serving two years in 16th Maine Regiment. In January, 1900, he was made post-
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master at North Stratford, and was holding that office at the time of his death.
MARY S., b. 7 May 1850, Island Pond, Vt .; m. Clark Stevens.
II. William B. Schoff (Seneca3, Henry2, Jacob1) was born in North Stratford, N. H., September 20, 1824, and died in Colebrook, July 16, 1907. He married Mary S. Green, July 4, 1851.
HELEN A., b. No. Stratford, I Apr. 1852; m. Albert Corbett, Colebrook; 2 ch .: Burton A., Welby W.
16. HERBERT G., b. No. Stratford, 30 May 1853; m. Cora I. Mclellan.
WILL I., b. Colebrook, N. H., 13 July 1859; d. 31 Jan. 1912; m. Jane M. Ramsay; I ch .: Beatrice.
LEE F., b. Colebrook, 31 Jan. 1864 ; m. Alma E. Cooley; I ch .: Lester.
GUY H., b. Colebrook, 22 Jan. 1867; m. Cornelia Burr.
17. LILLIE M., b. Brunswick, Vt., 6 Aug. 1870; m. Henry Jonah.
12. Charles G. Schoff (Henry D.3, Isaac2, Jacob1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., in November, 1820, and died there June 24, 1866. He married in Brunswick, November, 1840, Mary Taylor, who was born in Brunswick January 30, 1816, and died in Stratford, N. H., October 20, 1895.
ELVIRA, m. Samuel F. Brown, 1865; 5 ch .: Forrest E., Agnes A., Eva D., Elizabeth A., Howard E.
ADNA B., b. 1843; d. 12 Apr. 1916; m. Eliza Bagley, Crafts- bury, Vt .; 6 ch .: Leon H. (21), Loney, Clinton (22), Ina, Vernon, Hermon.
CARLOS, b. 1849; d. 1923; m. Margaret Martin ; 3 ch. : Irving, William, Mary.
CAROLINE, b. 1851; m. Henry M. Johnston, Lowell, Mass .; 3 ch .: Inez V., Charles H., Arthur R.
HAVEN, b. 1854; m. Lucy Blodgett; 2 ch .: Archie, Ila.
ELMORE, b. 1857; m. (1) Lavina M. Leighton, (2) Mary Bennett; (1) 4 ch .: Joseph, Melvin, Herbert, Edith, (2) 4 ch .: Lena, Caroline, Beatrice, Elinor.
FIFTH GENERATION
13. Oscar Haynes Shoff (Orlando4, Haynes F.3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Bloomfield, Vt., September 16, 1837. He married in Lemington, Vt., November 5, 1861, Ellen P., daughter of Thomas P. and Olive (Buffington) Holbrook.
ADA C., b. 13 Sept. 1862; m. Orvis F. Paschal; 4 ch .: Maude, Mattie, Leroy O., Beatrice.
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FLORA V., b. 27 May 1864; m. Fernando C. Gould; I ch .: Oscar H.
MABELLE, b. 8 Apr. 1866; m. John E. Deering ; 3 ch .: Ethel M., Clyde O., Quinn J.
ANNIE A., b. 4 Feb. 1868; m. John Bowker; I ch .: Ina. ARTHUR H., b. 20 Nov. 1870.
ORLANDO T., b. 20 Feb. 1875.
14. Samuel O. Shoff (Orlando4, Haynes F.3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Bloomfield, Vt., February 8, 1841, and died August 22, 1908. He married in Brunswick, Vt., March 4, 1870, Josephine B., daughter of John D. and Lucina (Norris) French, who was born April 3, 1850, and died May 1, 1922. Samuel O. Shoff was a veteran of the Civil War, enlisting in the 5th Vermont Regt., March 22, 1865.
INA CELIA, b. 29 Sept. 1872; m. Andrew E. Elliott; 3 ch. : Luna Georgia, Austin Andrew, Clayton Schoff; Berlin, N. H.
18. SAMUEL LESLIE, b. 8 Dec. 1874; m. Mary Williams.
19. FLOYD GARDINER, b. 22 June 1876; m. Maud Trufant. Lucina J. b. 28 Dec. 1879; d. April 1881.
LYLE K., b. 25 Apr. 1888; m. Myrtle Blodgett; d. 22 Feb. 1925; I ch .: Manford.
15. Gardiner J. Shoff (Orlando4, Haynes F.3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Bloomfield, Vt., June 13, 1843. He married in Strat- ford, N. H., January 1, 1871, Emma Dennis Stevens. Mr. Shoff spent the early part of his life in Bloomfield, then moved to Lan- caster, where he ran a large milk farm for several years, later going to Arizona. He died at Phoenix, Ariz., April 5, 1919.
CORA, b. 19 Oct. 1871; m. Edward Mills; 3 ch .: Merville (b. Claremont, N. H.), Chester (b. Claremont, N. H.), Charlotte Emma (b. Maine, Ariz.).
CARRIE M., b. 5 Aug. 1873; 7111 Grand Ave., Phoenix, Ariz.
16. Herbert G. Schoff (William4, Seneca3, Henry2, Jacob1) was born in North Stratford, N. H., May 30, 1853. He married in Colebrook, N. H., November 24, 1880, Cora I. Mclellan. Mr. Schoff, after several years' residence in Maine and Arizona, re- turned to North Stratford where he has since carried on a feed and grain business.
MARCE HERBERT, b. II Jan. 1883; m. (1) Josephine Iris Beals, (2) Edna Gondreau; 3 ch .: Esther Edna, Marce Thomas, Dorothy Irene.
20. MAYNARD RAY, b. 3 Nov. 1894; m. Ruth Cleveland.
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17. Lillie M. Schoff (William4, Seneca3, Henry2, Jacob1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., August 6, 1870. She married in North Stratford, N. H., December II, 1890, Henry Jonah. Mrs. Jonah occupies the Henry Schoff farm, which has been in the family over 125 years.
CHRISTIE MAY, b. 22 Feb. 1892; teacher, Hackensack, N. J. MAHLON A., b. 12 July 1893; overseas service; m. Bernice Boyne.
WESLEY W., b. 4 Sept. 1904; student Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass.
HARLEY H., b. 24 July 1906; student Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt.
MARY ALICE, b. 18 Nov. 1908; student Plymouth Normal.
SIXTH GENERATION
18. Samuel Leslie Shoff (Samuel O.5, Orlando4, Haynes F.3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Bloomfield, Vt., December 8, 1874, and died there May 13, 1907. He married, November 19, 1896, Mary E., daughter of Leonard and Martha (Fuller) Williams.
LEONARD LESLIE, b. 1898; m. Gladys Elliott; 2 ch .: Phyllis Fay, Leonard Murray.
THEO, d. in infancy.
EDNA MARIE, b. 1899; m. Carroll Nugent; 4 ch .: Theodore C., Douglas W., Reginald S., Paul C.
ELISHA SAMUEL, b. 1900; m. Augustine Hamel.
CEDRIC ROOSEVELT, b. 1902; m. Dora Larrabee; I ch .: Cedric Raymond.
DONALD WILLIAMS, b. 1903; m. Marion Lang; 2 ch .: Mary, Lang.
19. Floyd Gardiner Shoff (Samuel O.5, Orlando4, Haynes F.3, Jacob2, Jacob1) was born in Bloomfield, Vt., June 22, 1876. He married, October 31, 1900, Maud Gertrude Trufant. He died March 15, 1925.
FLOYD LYNWOOD, b. II Mar. 1903; student Boston Univer- sity.
LILLIAN JOSEPHINE, b. 21 Aug. 1905; teacher public school No. Stratford.
MARIAM STELLA, b. 14 Aug. 1908.
ALICE MAE, b. 4 May 1910.
MADELINE T., b. 7 July 1913.
SAMUEL O. b. 12 Sept. 1914.
LESLIE CANNING, b. 23 Nov. 1918.
ELAINE H., b. 23 Nov. 1918; d. 12 Jan. 1919.
ELAINE HARRIETT, b. 25 Dec. 1921.
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20. Maynard Ray Schoff (Herbert G.5, William B.4, Seneca3, Henry2, Jacob1) was born in Bowdoinham, Maine, November 3, 1894. He graduated from Stratford High School in 1913. He joined the National Army at New Hampshire State College; was with the 76th Division in France. He married, July 7, 1917, Ruth, daughter of Levi and Harriet Cleveland.
ALLISON CLEVELAND, b. 9 Sept. 1920.
21. Leon Hollis Schoff (Adna B.5, Charles G.4, Henry D.3, Isaac2, Jacob1) was born in Brunswick, Vt., October 3, 1867. He married in Groveton, N. H., April 6, 1888, Etta Mary Blodgett.
MYRTLE ARDELLE, b. 3 Oct. 1891.
HAROLD LEON, b. II Mar. 1894.
22. Clinton H. Schoff (Adna B.5, Charles G.4, Henry D.3, Isaac2, Jacob1) was born in Craftsbury, Vt. He married in Gorham, N. H., August 29, 1896, Cora Etta (Young) Lamkin.
CARROLL. GLADYS E., b. 25 Sept. 1897. MERLE A., Reg. Army, Cavalry, 7th Regt.
DELLA. GORDON. CLINTON.
SMITH
James Smith and his wife, Elizabeth, came from Worcester- shire, England, to Derby, Conn., between the years 1714-27. Their only son, John Smith, born about 1728, married Elizabeth Chatfield, September 17, 1751. In the proprietors' records of the town of Stratford, December, 1772, we find the sum of £3 voted to John Smith, one of the eight men to be rewarded "for their extraordinary trouble and expense in proceeding to settle and make improvements the last summer in the new township." As the next year the sum of fro was voted to Mrs. Barlow for being the first woman to settle here, we conclude that his family did not come until later. They were here during the Revolutionary War, theirs being one of the seven families that remained in Stratford during that period. John Smith was once captured by the Indians; and his name is signed to several petitions as late as 1791.
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In 1790 Elijah Hinman transfers land to John Smith; this was just north of James Brown's farm. Tradition says that John Smith committed suicide there. Whether this was the pioneer or his son, John Smith, who disappeared early, cannot be proved now; or it may have been the other son, Phileas, or "File." The heirs of Phil Smith are found in the inventory of the tax list of 1809, and for several years the name of Smith occurs in the town records, presumably the descendants of Phileus or Phileas Smith. But the Smith family, for the most part, settled in Brunswick, Vt.
JOHN, no later trace.
PHILEMON, m. Sarah Kauffman of Brunswick, Vt .; d. about 1809.
2. GIDEON, m. Elizabeth Amee (Amy).
BETTY A., no further trace.
DAVID, m. Patience Blake, Lawrenceville, N. Y .; d. 1840; 12 ch .: Hannah, Abigail, Delight, Sarah, Elisha, Mary, David, Jr., Elvira, Julia, Nancy, Ruth, Phebe.
2. Gideon Smith (John2, James1) married Elizabeth Amy of Guildhall, Vt., June 20, 1780. He settled in Brunswick, Vt., on land still owned by his descendants. His was one of the thirteen families listed in Brunswick in 1796, and he was one of the officers chosen in the organization of the town that year. He died in 1801.
ISAAC, Zanesville, O .; 3 ch.
3. GIDEON, m. Marion Booth.
4. DANIEL, m. (I) Elizabeth Wait, (2) Anna Smith.
THOMAS P., b. 13 Nov. 1789; m. Mary C. Pitman, 1816; d. 20 Nov. 1859; settled in western New York; 5 ch .: William Harrison, Thomas, Mary Ann, Izah Elizabeth, Mark Pitman.
DAVID, b. 1792; m. Elizabeth Keyser, western N. Y .; 3 ch.
PHEBE, b. 29 Dec. 1799; m. Samuel Fairbank; 7 ch .: Abby,
Martha, Henry, Charles A., James M., Abbie E., Mary A. ELIZABETH, b. 25 Oct. 1800; m. Jason Bent; d. Natick, Mass., 1872.
JOANNA, b. 7 May 1798; m. David Merriam.
ARNOLD, b. 1795; left Brunswick at 21; no further trace.
3. Gideon Smith (Gideon3, John2, James1) was born in Bruns- wick, Vt., married Marion Booth of Maidstone, Vt., and settled in Guildhall, Vt.
ANDREW HARRISON, m. Caroline Colby; I ch .: Henry J., Salem, Wis.
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HISTORY OF STRATFORD
ALEXANDER, m. Martha Ann Lurvey; lived in Maidstone; d. IO Mar. 1897.
FREEMAN A., unm .; went to Racine, Wis., in 1823.
REBECCA M., b. 19 May 1825; m. Lucius Morton of Lancaster ; d. 1856.
JASON BENT, b. 27 July 1829; m. Susan Badger; d. 19 Oct. 1892.
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