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(II) Thomas, son of William Davis, married Lydia -. Chil- dren : Thomas, born October 1, 1718; Alice, January 16, 1721 ; Joseph, September 30, 1723; Lydia, November 24, 1725 ; Benjamin, September I, 1728, mentioned below ; Job, April 13, 1731 ; Moses, November 14, 1733; Stephen, July 20, 1738.
(III) Benjamin, son of Thomas Davis, was born September I, 1728. He married Lydia Nichols, of Salem. Children: Mary, died young ; Lydia, married Preserved Eddy, of Swanzey ; Mary, born 1756; Eunice, 1759; Sarah, married James Chase, of Somerset, died 1849; Harriet, married Collins Chase, died 1846; Benjamin, married Sarah Bowers, of Somerset, died 1814; Mercy, married (first) David Bowen, of Newport, (second) Colonel Joseph Kellogg, of Somerset, died June, 1803; Anna, mentioned below ; Patience, married (first) Gideon Robin- son, (second) Oliver Chase, died 1855.
(IV) Anna, daughter of Benjamin Davis, died in 1835. She married, 1805, Michael Hoag. They lived in Duanesburg, New York. Children : Brice W., born 1806; Daniel B .; Lydia, married Silas Bower- man (see Bowerman VI) ; Anna.
CLAPPER.
Dr. William B. Clapper was born in Bristol, New York, December 13, 1864. His mother was of English descent and his father German. He attended the public schools and Starkey Seminary, and after a year in Syracuse University, entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
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Baltimore, Maryland, from which he was graduated, April 19, 1894. He began to practice his profession, July 5, 1894, at Farmington, New York, and continued there until 1901. Since then he has been located at Victor. Ontario county, New York. He has made a specialty of the diseases of women and children. Dr. Clapper is a member of Ontario County Med- ical Society, the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and is an honorary member of the Canandaigua Village Medical Society. He is on the board of directors of the County Tuberculosis Hospital. Although he is a Democrat in politics in a Repub- lican town and county, he has been elected trustee of the incorporated village and for two terms as supervisor of the town, holding office for four years and taking a prominent part in the board of supervisors of the county. In religion he is a Presbyterian. He is active in Free Masonry, a member of Victor Lodge, No. 439, and Consistory of Rochester.
He married, May 1, 1895, Minnie A. Hausner, born at Cayugaville, New York, March 25, 1864, daughter of Irvin and Ruth Hausner. Her father died in 1872 and her mother, December 5, 1894. Children: Ruth E., born April 11, 1896; Mildred L., July 16, 1897.
ALDRICH.
The surname Aldrich is of ancient English origin, and the spelling varies considerably. In the early records is was spelled Aldridge and Old- ridge, and some branches of the family still prefer the spelling Aldridge. The famous Rhode Island family and their descendants have for many generations used the spelling Aldrich.
(I) George Aldrich was born in Derbyshire, England, about 1605. He married, in England, November 3, 1629, Katherine Seald, and came to New England in 1631 with his wife. She was born about 1610, according to her deposition made June 18, 1670, when she was sixty years old. He was a tailor by trade. He settled in Dorchester, Massa- chusetts, and belonged to the church there about 1636. He was admitted a freeman, December 7, 1636. In 1663 he was one of the first seven per- sons to arrive in the township of Mendon, Massachusetts. He sold his land in Braintree to his friend, Richard Thayer, of Braintree, June 9, 1663. He died at Mendon, after the re-settlement following King Philip's war, March 1, 1683. His wife died January 1I, 1691. His will was dated at Mendon, November 2, 1682, and proved April 26, 1683.
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He bequeathed to wife; to children Joseph, John, Jacob, Mary, Sarah Bartlett, Mercy Randall and Martha Dunbar. Children: Abel, born 1633; Joseph, June 4, 1635; Mary, June 16, 1637; Miriam, June 29, 1639, died May 10, 1652; Experience, September 4, 1641, died February 2, 1642, at Braintree; John, April 2, 1644; Sarah, January 26, 1646, died February 17, 1665; Peter, April 14, 1648; Mercy, June 17, 1650; Jacob, February 28, 1653, mentioned below; Martha, July 10, 1656; Miriam, March 16, 1659.
(II) Jacob, son of George Aldrich, was born in Braintree, February 28, 1653. He settled in Mendon, and was a farmer there on the home- stead all his life. He died October 22, 1695. He married, November 3, 1675, Huldah Thayer. Children, born at Mendon : Jacob, May 28, 1676, mentioned below ; Abel, January 27, 1677; Seth, July 6, 1679; Huldah, 1680; Rachel, 1682, died young; Sarah, 1683; David, May 23, 1685; Peter, October 17, 1686; John, November 17, 1688; Moses, April I, 1691 ; Mercy, February 17, 1692, died same year ; Rachel, December 27, 1694.
(III) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (1) Aldrich, was born at Mendon, May 28, 1676, died about 1750. His will was dated May 5, 1748, and his property was divided August 23, 1753. He was a Quaker. He married Mary- Children : Jacob, his executor ; Noah, mentioned below; Mary, married Israel Taft, of Upton; Hannah, married John Harwood; Experience, married Benjamin Craging; Margery, married Ichabod Amidon, of Mendon; Bethia, married Abraham Fletcher, of Mendon.
(IV) Noah, son of Jacob (2) Aldrich, was born in Mendon about 1720. He deeded lands in Mendon in 1772. He appears to have moved soon afterward to New Salem, Massachusetts, of which he was a soldier in the revolution in 1775 in Captain John King's company, Colonel Ben- jamin Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment. In 1790, according to the first federal census, he was living in Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and had one son over sixteen and four females in his family. He mar- ried Rachel
(V) Nathan, son of Noah Aldrich, was born about 1760-65, prob- ably in Mendon. In 1789 he was living with his father in Adams and came to the town of Victor, Ontario county, New York, among the first settlers. He sowed the first wheat sowed in that town, and after prepar- ing his home returned to his old home in the Berkshires. In the spring of 1790 he came with his family and later he built the first frame house in Victor. He had sons: John, born in Victor, October 30. 1790, mar-
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ried Leonora Aldrich, formerly of Massachusetts; Willis, mentioned below.
(VI) Willis, son of Nathan Aldrich, was born in Adams or New Salem. He settled on a farm in Farmington, New York. He married Edna Smith and died in 1852. His wife died in 1857. Children: Urial, mentioned below ; Esther ; Reuben.
(VII) Urial, son of Willis Aldrich, was born at Farmington, 1810, died November 24, 1883. He was educated in the district schools. He owned a farm of ninety-two acres. In politics he was a Republican, and in religion was of the Society of Friends. He married Esther Power in 1831, and she died in 1897. Children : Arthur, died aged six months; Esther, born March, 1832, married Norman P. Bartles, who died in March, 1901 ; Lydia, born January, 1834, married Amos Gardiner and had two sons, Cassius and Roy Gardiner; Byron, born November 10, 1837, died in 1889 at Farmington; Cassius R., mentioned below; Gra- lette, born March, 1842, married (first) Fanny Bowers and (second) Mary Whipple; children: Esther, Leslie and one that died in infancy.
(VIII) Cassius R., son of Urial Aldrich, was born in Wayne county, New York, October 15, 1839. He was educated in the Farmington dis- trict schools. At the age of eighteen years he began to learn the trade of mason in Farmington. After two years he came to Victor, where he worked at his trade for many years. In the spring of 1904 he bought a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres a short distance out of the vil- lage of Victor. In recent years he has been assisted in the management of the farm by his son, Milton U. Aldrich. In politics Mr. Aldrich is a Republican. He was a trustee of the village of Victor for four years. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Victor and one of the trustees.
He married, October 14, 1869, Cornelia Bartles, born in Monroe county, New York, September 16, 1843, daughter of John W. and Mary (Bowers) Bartles. Her father was born in 1811, died in 1893; her inother died in 1873. Her brother, Norman P. Bartles, was born in 1834, married Esther Aldrich and he died in 1867; her sister, Julia A. Bartles, was born in 1836, married John H. Gilbert, of Palmyra, Wayne county, and had one child, Carrie, who lives in Texas; her sister Julia A. died in 1867; her sister, Mary E. Bartles, was born in November, 1838, married A. B. Cooper and had one child, Eva Cooper ; her sister, Ardella Bartles, was born October 18, 1840, died in 1863; Mrs. Aldrich's twin sister, Cordelia Bartles, was born September 16, 1843, married C. W. Lane and had one child, Blanche; her brother, George Bartles, born in
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1846, married Martha (Gardiner ) Cooper; her brother, Frank Bartles, born October 27, 1850, died December 28, 1908, unmarried. Philip Bartles was the father of John W. and grandfather of Mrs. Aldrich. Philip Bartles married Margaret Shute, of German descent. Peter Bowers was the father of Mary (Bowers) Bartles. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich had but one child, Milton U., born at Victor, September 12, 1870, married, November, 1893, Kate Cornford, born September 30. 1871, in Michigan, daughter of William and Catharine ( Chandler ) Corn- ford. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Milton U. Aldrich: Helen C., born October 4, 1895; Louise C., September 30, 1899; Gerald, February 8, 1902.
KNOWLES.
The surname Knowles is identical with the ancient English name Knollys and has been spelled in a variety of ways.
(I) Rev. John Knowles, immigrant ancestor, was born in Lincoln- shire, England, and educated at Magdalen College. He came to New England about 1636 and was admitted to the church as a "studyent" in Lynn, August 25, 1639; was dismissed to the church at Watertown and ordained colleague pastor, November 10, 1640; was a godly man and prime scholar; was selected to accompany Mr. William Thompson to Virginia in the effort to plant churches of the New England type there. He returned from Virginia to Watertown and finally to England. He sold land to the Iron Works Company at Lynn, October 24, 1651. He was living in Bristol, England, March 30, 1655, when he sold more land at Lynn. He married Elizabeth Children: Richard (according to good authority), mentioned below; Mary, born April 9, 1641; Elizabeth, May 15, 1643 ; Hannah, married Benjamin Eyres.
(II) Richard Knowles, progenitor of the Plymouth county family, son of Rev. John Knowles, was probably born in England, before his father, Rev. John, came to this country. He commanded a barque engaged in transporting military supplies for the government. Before 1653 he was located at Eastham, Massachusetts. Children: I. Mercy, married -. February 5, 1663. 2. Colonel John, married, December 28, 1670, Apphia Bangs; he was killed by the Indians in King Philip's war and his widow married Joseph Atwood. 3. Samuel, born September 17, 1651, mentioned below. 4. Mehitable, May 20, 1653, died young. 5. Mehitable, 1655. 6. Barbara, 1656.
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(III) Samuel, son of Richard Knowles, was born at Eastham, Sep- tember 17, 1651, died in 1737. He married Mercy Freeman, a grand- daughter of Governor Prince. Children, born at Eastham: James, 1680; Mercy, 1681 ; Samuel, 1682; Nathaniel, 1686; Richard, 1688; Rebecca, 1690; Ruth, 1694; Cornelius, 1695; Amos, 1702.
(IV) It has been found impossible as yet to trace the line for the next few generations. Samuel and Bethia Knowles, of this family, had at Eastham, a son Seth, born January 20, 1721-22. Seth Knowles, son of John and Mary, was born at Eastham, August 7, 1700. Another Seth was born about 1750 and his widow Hannah died at Eastham, July 6, 1823, aged sixty-seven years. Another Seth married Ruth , who was a member of the church at Orleans, formerly Eastham; they had a daughter Achsah, baptized November 14, 1773, at Eastham, and a daugh- ter Bethia, baptized August 12, 1781. This Seth was a soldier in the revolution and was living at Eastham, December 2, 1801, when he assigned a claim against the government for pay as a revolutionary sol- dier. We find the deaths of three Seth Knowles at Eastham, but as their ages are not given, we cannot identify them. Seth Knowles died in the south parish in 1802. Seth Knowles died at Eastham in 1787, and Seth, a young son of Seth, died there in 1774.
(V) Seth Knowles, it is known, was born in Massachusetts in 1789. He was probably son of Seth Knowles who was living, according to the first federal census, at Loudon, now Otis, Berkshire county, Massa- chusetts, in 1790, and had in his family two sons under sixteen and two females. The father, Seth, doubtless came with other settlers from Cape Cod, and belonged to the family mentioned above. Seth, born 1789, moved to Orleans county, New York, with his parents, when a young lad, and settled in the town of Clarendon. He died in the year 1848 at Littleville, town of Hopewell, Ontario county. He married Hannah Reynolds, who was born in Connecticut, and died in Hopewell in 1868. Among their children was Eber A., mentioned below.
(VI) Eber A., son of Seth Knowles, was born at St. Johnsville, Montgomery county, July 13, 1834. He came to Hopewell, Ontario county, in 1857 ; enlisted at Canandaigua, January 1, 1864, in the Fiftieth New York Regiment of Engineers, Company L, and served until he was mustered out with his company at the end of the civil war. He married, in February, 1855, Lydia Bastedo, who was born at Somerset county, New Jersey, November 4, 1837, and came to Cayuga county, New York, with her parents when she was sixteen years old. Her ancestors were
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residents of New Jersey. Among their children was Fred W., mentioned below.
(VII) Fred W., son of Eber A. Knowles, was born at Hopewell, Ontario county, November 1, 1858. After receiving his education in the common schools he engaged in farming to which he had been accus- tomed from early boyhood, and he has always continued in this occupa- tion. His farm gives evidence in the substantial buildings and well-kept fields of his industry and prosperity. Not only progressive and ready to adopt new methods, but painstaking and thorough in his work, he has fairly won the success he has achieved in life. His private life, his kindly. cheerful, generous disposition and high standards of honor and integrity have won for him the respect and esteem of all his neighbors. He is a member of the Manchester Baptist Church. In politics he is a Repub- lican and he has served the town four years as justice of the peace, and is now serving a second term of four years.
He married, at Farmington. Ontario county, December 29, 1881, Cora A., daughter of William and Ann ( Allen) Randall. Children: I. Mary B., born October 2, 1882, married, June 12, 1907, Homer Whit- aker, of South Solon, Ohio; she was a graduate of the Shortsville high school and a student at the Oswego State Normal School. 2. William Eber, February 7, 1886, married, September 6, 1910, Elizabeth Worm- stead, of Seneca Falls, New York; he was graduated from the Rochester Business College in the class of 1907 and is now employed in the office of the Gould Manufacturing Company of Seneca Falls. 3. Frank Lester, born January 14, 1899, student in the public schools.
HAMLIN.
It is supposed that the name of Hamlin was originally of Germanic origin, perhaps derived from the town of Hamlin in Lower Saxony, sit- uated at the junction of the river Hamel with the Weiser. The name Hamelin is still common in France, whence some have emigrated to this country and to Quebec, where they have since become numerous. In England this name was formerly spelled Hamblen, Hamelyn, Hamelin and Hamlyn. As the name is found in the "Roll of Battle Abbey" it is undoubtedly of French origin and was brought into England by a fol- lower of the Norman conquerer. Burke's "Encyclopedia of Heraldry" describes several coats-of-arms belonging to the Hamblins and Ham-
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lyns. Representatives of the distinguished American family of this name participated in the war for national independence and the civil war. It has produced a goodly number of able men, including clergymen, law- yers, physicians and statesmen, and its most distinguished representative of modern times was Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, vice-president of the United States during Abraham Lincoln's administration, for many years a member of the national senate from Maine, and afterwards minister to Spain. A numerous progeny sprung from Captain Giles Hamlin, who immigrated to Middletown, Connecticut in 1650. It is supposed that James and Giles Hamlin were brothers, but their relationship, like the connection between Sire de Balon and Hamelinus, was never determined. At the time Giles cames to this country Lewis Hamelin, of France, set- tled in Canada and established the Hamlin family of that part of the con- tinent. The English ancestor of the Hamlins of New England appears to be John Hamelyn, of Cornwall, living in 1570, who married Amor, daughter of Robert Knowle, of Sarum. This couple had a son and heir who lived in Devonshire, by the name of Giles. Giles Hamelin, or Hame- lyn, married the daughter of Robert Ashley, and had two sons: Thomas, gentleman, of London, 1623 ; and James. James is the ancestor of the larger part of the Hamlin race in this republic. He made a voyage to Cape Cod unaccompanied by his family, and there made a home at Barn- stable, then returned to England, and in 1639 returned with his wife and several children.
(I) James, son of Giles and - (Ashley) Hamelin, lived until 1636 in the parish of St. Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, England,* between 1630 and 1636. Children, baptized in the church of St. Law- rence : James, October 31, 1630, died before April, 1636; Sarah, Sep- tember 6, 1632; Mary, July 27, 1634; James, April 10, 1636, mentioned below. The first record of his children born in America is Bartholomew, born in Barnstable, Plymouth colony, April 11, 1642; Hannah was prob- ably born in England between 1636 and 1642 but no record of her birth appears either in England or New England.
Other children of James and Anna Hamlin were: John, born June 26, 1644 ; child, stillborn and buried December 2, 1646; Sarah, born No- vember 7, 1647; Eleazer, March 17, 1649; Israel, June 25, 1652.
*James Hamlene appears among the list of freemen in Barnstable in 1643 and James Hamhlen Junior, and James Hamhlen Senior on a list of freemen, May 29, 1670. James Sr. made his will January 23, 1683, Governor Hinckley and Jonathan Russell witnessing the signing and sealing of the will. In this will he names his wife as Anna, but no other record of her name has been found.
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(II) James (2), second son and fourth child of James (I) and Anna Hamlin, was born in England and baptized April 10, 1636, at St. Lawrence parish, Reading, Berkshire. He came to Plymouth colony, New England, with his mother and sisters, prior to 1642, and married, November 20, 1662, at Barnstable in that colony, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Dunham. John Dunham, who was an inhabitant of Marl- borough, Massachusetts, in 1623, was deputy to the general court several years and died in 1692, aged seventy-two years. He was a son of Deacon John Dunham, who came from England to Plymouth with his wife Abi- gail, and they had, about 1628, three sons and a daughter. James Ham- lin was a farmer and lived on the Coggin's Pond lot, owned by his father up to 1702, when he removed to Hamblin Plains in West Berkshire. In his will, made in 1717, he claims to be a resident of Tisbury, but is reported as a representative at a great and general court or assembly, for Her Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, held in Boston, Wednesday, May 13, 1705, as Mr. James Hamlin, Barnstable. His wife, Mary, died April 19, 1715, in the seventy-third year of her age, and James Hamlin died in Tisbury, May 3, 1718. Their children, all born in Barnstable, were fourteen in number: I. Mary, July 24, 1664. 2. Elizabeth, February 14, 1665-66. 3. Eleazer, April 12, 1668. 4. Experience, April 12, 1668. 5. James, August 26, 1669. 6. Jonathan, March 6, 1671. 7. A son, March 28, 1672, died April 7, 1672. 8. Ebe- nezer, July 29, 1674. 9. Elisha, March 5, 1676-77, died December 20, 1677. 10. Hope, March 13, 1679-80. 11. Job, January 15, 1681. 12. John, January 12, 1683. 13. Benjamin, baptized March 16, 1684-85. 14. Elkanah, baptized March 16, 1685.
(III) Deacon Ebenezer, eighth child and fifth son of James and Mary (Dunham) Hamlin, was born July 29, 1674. He occupied the homestead farm at Coggin's Pond until about the time of his second mar- riage when he removed to Rochester, Massachusetts, now Wareham. He was one of the original members of the Wareham church which was organized December 25, 1739. He was chosen deacon, February 18, 1740. He was dismissed to the church at Sharon, Connecticut, May 30, 1742, which is about the date of his removal to that town and state. In his will he bequeathed "twenty-four pounds, old tenor, toward the wor- ship of God, in the neighborhood where I now dwell," viz., in or near the newly-erected meeting house on the oblong near Sharon. This was the Presbyterian church at Amenia Union, in Dutchess county, New York, across the line from Sharon, now South Amenia. He died at Sharon, April 8, 1755. He married (first) at Barnstable, Massachusetts, April
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4, 1698, Sarah Lewis. He married (second) at Rochester, September 20, 1729, Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Arnold. Children, all by first wife and born at Barnstable. I. Ebenezer, born March 18, 1699. 2. Mercy, Sep- tember 10, 1700. 3. Hopestill. July 23. 1702. 4. Cornelius. June 13, 1705. 5. Thomas. May 6, 1710. 6. Isaac, of whom further. 7. Lewis, January 31, 1718.
(IV) Isaac, sixth child and fourth son of Deacon Ebenezer and Sarah (Lewis) Hamlin, was born July 1, 1714, died at Springfield, Massachusetts, 1805. He removed to Wareham where he and his wife were original members of the church in 1739 and where their eldest son Seth was baptized, March 14, 1742. He was dismissed to the Sharon church May 30. 1742. He owned a share in the Sharon Iron Works which he sold in 1749. He removed from Sharon, Connecticut, and his name appears on the records of Lenox, Massachusetts, June II, 1777, where he bought land and erected a mill. In 1783 he deeded twenty acres of land with grist mill and half a sawmill to Perez and Asa Hamlin "my sons." This will at Lencx Furnace. now Lenox Dale, was kept in operation for many years and was burned after passing out of the family. Isaac and his wife were admitted to the Lenox Congregational church August 20, 1780, "by recommendation." He married Mary Gibbs of Agawam, intentions published September 24, 1737, sister of Ruth Gibbs, wife of his brother Thomas. Children: I. Seth, of whom further. 2. Isaac. January 10, 1742. 3. Perez. February 3. 1748. 4. John. March 21, 1750. 5. Jehial, October 2. 1751. 6. Jesse, December 17. 1753. 7. Cyreneus. August 15. 1755. 8. Mercy. September 8, 1757. 9. Asa, Sep- tember 23. 1759. Their first child was born at Wareham. Massachu- setts. the others at Sharon, Connecticut.
(V) Captain Seth Hamlin, son and eldest child of Isaac and Mary (Gibbs) Hamlin, was born September 9, 1740. His name appears on the records of Alford, Massachusetts, in 1793-94, but not later. He is believed to have died there in 1795. He resided at Sharon, Connecticut ; New Concord, New York, and Alford, Massachusetts, where his name frequently appears on the early records, sometimes as Captain Seth Hamlin. He was a highway surveyor in 1777, and town clerk in 1783- 1785. He was a soldier of the revolution, serving in Captain Wilcox's company, Colonel Ashley's regiment. He enlisted for three years in the continental army; resident of Alford, Massachusetts; also private in Captain Job Alvord's company in Colonel Shepard's regiment, Third Massachusetts, for three years; returned by Truman Wheeler, muster master of Berkshire county, Massachusetts ; mustered between January
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20, 1777, and June, 1778; in service August 15, 1777; also private, same company and regiment. On return dated January 31, 1778, residence Alford; also private on continental army pay account in Captain Learned's company, Colonel Shepard's regiment, May 25, 1777, to June, 1778.
He was appointed purchasing commissary in 1778 and remained in the service twelve months. Also private on depreciation roll of Colonel Shepard's regiment to make good the wages for the first three years' service in the continental army from 1777 to 1780; also in a statement of continental balances in Colonel Shepard's regiment, certified May 12, 1780, enlisted for three years. He was a member of the Masonic order. He married (first ) at Sharon, Connecticut, October 15, 1761, Mary Pitcher. Marriage record in church at Amenia Union, New York. She bore him four children. He married (second) at Sharon, May 25, 1773, Submit Hyde, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, November 24, 1742, died at East Bloomfield, New York, August, 1821, at the home of her stepson, Elijah Hamlin. Children of first wife: 1. Eunice, married William Drake, revolutionary soldier. 2. Elijah, of whom further. 3. Betsey, married Calvin Hooper. 4. Philo, married a widow, Esther Hatch, daughter of Seth Pope. Children of second wife, Submit Hyde: 5. Seth, died at age of twenty-one. 6. Leander, born April 15, 1786, mar- ried Paraloxy Candee. 7. Mary, died young.
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