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PURDY. Francis Purdy, of Fairfield, Conn., who died in 1658, is believed to have been the common ancestor of the numerous race bear- ing this name, scattered widely throughout our county. Three sons of Francis, - JOHN, JOSEPH, and FRANCIS, - came early to Rye ; John in the year 1670, Joseph by 1677, and Francis by 1679. The following account of them and of their descendants is drawn chiefly from our Town Records, for the more remote degrees. Family records have been consulted as far as accessible.
The pedigree of the Purdy family given in the appendix to Mr. Bol- ton's invaluable History of Westchester County, has been of some ser- vice in the preparation of the following account. But for the earlier portion it is utterly inaccurate and incoherent. Thus, Joseph Purdy, who died in 1709, leaving seven sons, is represented as the grandson, instead of the brother, of John Purdy.1 No mention is made of a brother Joseph,1 nor of the descendants of the brother Francis; 1 while Samuel, who married Penelope Strang (whose father Daniel was born in 1656, and came to America in 1688), is called a son of Francis of Fairfield, who died in 1658. I have relied on the pedigree only for the accounts of some of the later generations, which appear to have been derived from authentic sources, and are generally confirmed by the information I have been able to gain.
I. JOHN PURDY 1 came to Rye in 1670, from East Chester, where however his stay must have been short, for his name does not occur among the names of the early settlers of that place. On his arrival here he bought John Jackson's house and lands, with his rights, and a home-lot on the Plains from John Banks. He died about 1678, leav- ing a widow, Elizabeth, and two sons under age. His widow and John Brondig administered his estate, and 'Elizabeth Purdy's children ' figure in our records as owning various allotments, and a share in the undivided lands.
II. 1. ' Daniel Purdy, son of John, deceased,' was about thirty-five years of age when constable in 1711, and hence could have been but an infant when his father died. His name is associated with that of Fran- cis, senior, his uncle, in deeds and lists of the proprietors, 1699-1709. From this fact, and inasmuch as no other son of John 1 is mentioned, we infer that his brother died young.
I. JOSEPHI PURDY 1 is first mentioned in 1677, and in 1678 owned land adjoining that of ' his brother John Purdy's children.' He was a leading member of the community, - being supervisor of the town in 1707-1708 ; justice of the peace in 1702 and after; representative of the county for several years in the Assembly; and 'one of the chief
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promoters of the church,' writes the Rev. Mr. Wetmore many years later. With Colonel Heathcote and others, in 1701, he purchased lands in North Castle, where some of his descendants settled. His will is dated October 5, 1709. He had seven sons : Joseph, Daniel, Samuel, David, Jonathan, John (called Still John), and Francis.
II. 1. Joseph Purdy,2 son of Joseph,1 was of Rye. He died in or before 1734, leaving a son, Obadiah.
2. Daniel Purdy,2 son of Joseph,1 was one of the patentees of Budd's Neck in 1720. He was alive in 1750. Ilis house stood on the site of Mr. Sylvanus Purdy's present tenement house ; and his farm lay below this point, on both sides of the road. He also owned a thousand acres in Courtlandt's Manor, or North Salem, which he left to two of his grandsons. He had three sons : Hachaliah, Joshua, and Daniel.
3. Samuel Purdy,2 son of Joseph,1 first mentioned 1708, died in 1753. The Rev. Mr. Wetmore, in 1732, requested the Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to appoint him schoolmaster. at Rye, recommending him as . a gentleman very well respected in the town, a constant communicant in the church, a man of good abilities and sober exemplary life and conversation. He is the foremost justice of the peace in the parish, and one of the quorum, as well as chaplain [captain ?] of the militia.' (Bolton, Church, p. 261.) Mr. Purdy was chosen to various other offices of trust; as that of supervisor, town clerk, overseer, and farmer of the excise. In 1753 Mr. Wetmore reports that ' the Church has suffered a loss by the death of Mr. Purdy, the Society's schoolmaster, who was a friend to religion, and did many kind offices to the poor, as far as he was able. His corpse was attended to the Church on Ash Wednesday by a great concourse of people of all persuasions.' (Ibid. p. 284.) Shortly before his death, he had sold to his two sons, Samuel and Caleb, for one hundred and seventy pounds, ' my home-lot where I dwell, in Rye,' comprising five acres. This in- cluded the present rectory grounds of Christ Church.
4. David Purdy,2 son of Joseph,1 lived on ' Brown's Point,' in Harri- son's Purchase, 1739-1747. In 1752 he and his son Nathan were ' both of Newburgh.' The pedigree mentions also a son David.
5. Jonathan Purdy,2 son of Joseph,1 called ' Captain ' in 1750, was of White Plains as early as 1729. According to the pedigree, he married Mary Hart, and had four children : Elijah, Jonathan, Joseph, and Eliz- abeth, who married -- Williams.
6. John Purdy,2 called ' Still John,' son of Joseph,1 married Rebecca -, and removed to North Castle as early as 1736. He was.liv- ing in 1760, when 'Still John Purdy,' both senior and junior, with others, petitioned the governor for lands on the northern frontier. (See page 213.) The sobriquet, which recalls William 'the Silent,' may refer to a kind of business more frequently carried on by farmers in those days than now.
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7. Francis Purdy,2 youngest son of Joseph,1 was of Newburgh, and ' lately of Rye,' in 1750, when he released to his brother Daniel of Rye all claims on 'the farm where Daniel now lives, below the country road, on Budd's neck, which our deceased father Joseph owned.' He had a son Daniel.
III. 1. Obadiah Purdy,3 son of Joseph,2 mentioned 1734, was, accord- ing to the pedigree, the father of Caleb.
2. Hachaliah Purdy,3 eldest son of Daniel,2 lived where his father had lived on Budd's Neck. He married Sarah, daughter of Elisha Budd.
3. Joshua Purdy,3 second son of Daniel,2 was known as 'Captain.' The house now owned by Mr. William Purdy was built by Daniel for this son. Tradition speaks of him as a man of remarkable excellence. He lived until near the close of the last century. After the war he bought the farm now Mrs. A. W. Bradford's for his son Joshua, leaving his own farm to his son Roger. See page 210 for some further accounts of him.
4. Daniel Purdy,3 third son of Daniel,2 had two sons, Joseph and Daniel.
5. Samuel Purdy,3 son of Samuel,2 in 1754 sold his share of certain lands to his brother Caleb.
6. Caleb Purdy,3 son of Samuel,2 in 1740 bought two hundred acres in the lower part of Harrison's Purchase. 'Caleb Purdy's two sons' lived on West Street before the Revolution.
7. Elijah Purdy,3 son of Jonathan,2 of White Plains (see pedigree), married Lavinia Hoyt. Children :
Samuel, Mary, who married John Purdy,
David, Abby, who married Jonathan Purdy,
John, Fridy, who married John Haviland,
Israel, Lavinia, who married Isenhart Purdy,
Elijah, Hester ; and Melissa, who married Thomas Halsted.
8. Jonathan Purdy,3 of White Plains, son of Jonathan 2 (pedigree), married Charity Hadden. Children :
Jonathan, Nebe, married Amos Purdy,
Benjamin, Glorianna, married Henry Budd,
Timothy, Sarah, Elizabeth, Charity. Job,
9. Joseph Purdy,3 son of Jonathan 2 (ibid.) married Charity Isenhart. Children :
Jonathan, Wermoth,
-, married - - De Lancey,
Joseph, Michael, Charity, married - Purdy.
Henry,
IV. Joshua Purdy,4 son of Joshua,3 was living on the farm above men- tioned at the commencement of the Revolutionary War. The pedigree in Bolton's History states that he married Lætitia Guion, and had
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three sons : Isaac of North Salem, Thomas of Rye, and Joshua of North Salem.
2. Roger Purdy,4 son of Daniel,3 lived where Mr. William Purdy now lives, on the post-road below the village. In 1774 he, or another Roger, was a prisoner at Fishkill under the orders of the Provincial Congress. His good conduct subsequently is certified in the follow- ing paper: 'Cortlandt's Manor, 18th Nov' 1775. Gentlemen, whereas Roger Purdy of the town of Rye in the County of Westchester was some time last fall made prisoner, and was till some time in January under the care of the guard at Fishkill, at which time his brother Joseph [Joshua ?] Purdy of this place released him from that confinement by giving his obligation that the said Roger shall not at any time abscond the said Joseph's farm, until by authority released from that confine- ment. Now the said Roger humbly begs of the gentlemen so author- ized to enlarge his bounds 4 or 5 miles, his said brother giving obliga- tions that he shall not exceed his boundaries for which and we the subscribers (being near neighbours to the said Purdy) do certify that the said Roger has since he has been in this place been true to his trust and behaved himself very well to our knowledge.
JAMES BROWN ANDREW BROWN.'
I. FRANCIS PURDY,1 brother of John,1 is first heard of in 1679. At a Court of Election held at Hartford, May 8th in that year, 'This Court doe grant liberty to John Brandig and Eliz: Purdy, who are administrators to the estate of John Purdy of Rye, deceassed, to make, signe, seale and deliver unto Francis Purdy deeds of sale for the one halfe of those lands John Purdy afoarsayd bought of John Jackson, lyeing in Rye, which were purchased for the sayd Francis Purdy inten- tionally as appeares by sundry testimonies exhibited in this Court by Mr. John Bankes : which sayd deeds of sale when compleated accord- ing to law shall have full force and vertue to hold the sayd lands firm to the sayd Francis Purdy, his heires and assignes forever.' (Public Rec- ords of Conn., vol. iii. p. 28.)
Francis thus acquired land and proprietary rights in Rye. Ilis house-lot was on Wolf-pit, - afterward called Pulpit Ridge, - the hill above the village, where the district school, Park Institute, and Female Seminary now stand. His name occurs until 1722. when he gave to his son Daniel all his house and lands in Rye - Daniel promising to leave his parents in possession during their lives, 'and if it please God as they live till they are past labour, to maintain them sufficiently during their natural lives.'
The children of Francis, whom we find mentioned, are, Francis junior, Joseph, Daniel, and a daughter who married Samuel Kniffen. Thomas and Samuel were perhaps also his sons.
II. 1. Francis Purdy,2 son of Francis,1 in 1698-1699 bought land at
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the White Plains, and in 1701 a 'lotment' of thirty-eight acres on Hog-pen Ridge. In 1716 'Francis Purdy junior' appeared for his father Francis senior, at the Court of Sessions in Westchester, with a request relative to his nephew William Sneffin. (Co. Rec., B. 50.) We have no account of any children of his.
2. ' Joseph Purdy,2 junior, son of Francis,' was so styled in 1699, when he bought Richard Ogden's dwelling-house, with eight and one half acres, on ' the highway that goeth to the mill.'
3. Daniel Purdy,2 son of Francis,1 lived on the east side of Blind Brook, or on Peningo Neck. He was constable in 1717, and is men- tioned repeatedly, 1711-1722, as son of Francis, and perhaps, 1724- 1728, as ' Daniel Purdy drummer.'
4. Thomas Purdy 2 was perhaps another son of Francis.1 He is first mentioned 1704. In 1717 he owned land on Branch Ridge with Daniel 'merchant :' and in 1737-1747 his son James, 'with Daniel Purdy, drummer,' sells part of his estate. Thomas' will was dated 1731. His homestead of thirty acres, 'with house, barn, cider-mill, or- chard,' etc., on the west side of the country road near Benjamin Brown's, was bought in 1737 by Joshua Brundige. His sons were James and Nehemiah.
III. Of Francis Purdy's1 descendants beyond the second generation we cannot speak positively, but there are grounds for believing that his son Joseph 2 was the ancestor, perhaps the father, of Roger, Moses, and William; that Thomas,2 the father of James,3 was the ancestor of Joseph, Jacob, and James.
The late David Purdy informed me that his great-grandfather Joseph lived in a house on the knoll south of the house on the road to Milton now owned by Mr. W. Mathews - formerly the Clark mansion ; and that from there he removed to North Street. This location agrees with the description of Richard Ogden's homestead, bought in 1699 by Joseph Purdy.2 Our account of this branch of the family is derived from the person above referred to, and from the Town Records.
Roger Purdy, son of Joseph, lived on North Street, nearly opposite the present district school-house. In 1741 he bought land on the east side of the White Plains Road, extending to Roger Park's land. Later, he purchased land of Elisha Budd, north of this.
William and Moses Purdy, sons of Joseph, in 1746 bought a farm of eighty acres on the west side of the White Plains Road, above Job Hadden's. Moses in 1763 bought seventy-seven and one fourth acres ' between the White Plains road and Mamaroneck river.'
William Purdy had a son Abraham, who was the father of the late David Purdy, father of Isaac Purdy of Rye.
James Purdy,3 probably son of Thomas,2 had a son James,4 the father of Joseph,5 Jacob,5 and James 5 Purdy. Joseph 5 spent a number of years at the South, and died at Milton, in Rye, about the year 1848.
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He left no children. Jacob 5 had two sons, James 6 and Alexander.6 He died at Milton about the year 1806. His son James 6 - still living - was born in 1788, and has had five sons and three daughters, all of whom, except one daughter, are dead. His brother Alexander never married. James,5 third son of James,4 died about the year 1855. He resided in the West, and left several children.
SAMUEL PURDY, who ' married Penelope, daughter of Daniel Strang and Charlotte his wife,' is called in the pedigree the 'youngest son of the first Francis' (of Fairfield). This is altogether improbable, as the sons of Francis - John, Joseph, and Francis - were men in 1670-1679, when Penelope was not yet born. Besides, Samuel is not mentioned in our records until 1709. I think it likely that he was a son of Francis,2 who might readily be mistaken for Francis.1 He was at all events con- temporary with this third generation ; and for convenience the names of his descendants will be numbered accordingly in the following ac- count, which is based upon the pedigree. Samuel and Penelope had five sons : Samuel, Henry, Gabriel, Josiah, Caleb; and three daugh- ters, Charlotte, married Samuel Fowler ; Clara, married George Merritt ; Elizabeth, married Josiah Fowler.
IV. 1. Samuel Purdy,4 eldest son of Samuel 3 and Penelope, married Wineford Griffin.
2. Henry Purdy,4 second son, married Mary Foster.
3. Gabriel Purdy,4 third son, married Eliza Miller.
4. Josiah Purdy,4 son of Samuel,3 and Penelope, married Charity. daughter of the Rev. James Wetmore. His grandson, Mr. Josiah Purdy, informs me that he lived in a house which stood close by the road, a few rods north of the Park Academy. The chimney of this house was standing seventy years ago. He owned a tract of sixty-five acres across the road, known as ' the Cedars,' as well as all the land between the post-road and the Purchase Road, for some distance north- ward from the present flag-staff. Part of this land he sold to Jesse Hunt. Josiah Purdy died about the year 1755, leaving one son, Seth ; and three daughters : Alethea, married first Joseph Purdy, second, Wil- liam Purdy ; Esther, who married Henry Purdy of King Street; and Hannah, who married Josiah Merrit. (Josiah in 1753 took the ear- mark' which was Francis Purdy's.' This confirms the supposition that his father Samuel was Francis' son.)
5. Caleb Purdy,4 son of Samuel 3 and Penelope, married Hannah Brown, daughter of Samuel, and had seven sons and four daughters :
Caleb, Nehemiah, Hannah
Samuel, Sylvanus, Lavinia,
Josiah, Elias, Andrew, Caroline,
Anne.
V. 1. Seth Purdy,5 only son of Josiah 4 and Charity, succeeded to his
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father's lands in Rye, and was living here at the time of the Revolution. He married Phobe Ketchum of Long Island. Children :
Joshua, Josiah, Alethea, Charity, Phœbe. Seth, Keziah, Elizabeth, Melinda,
2. Caleb Purdy,5 eldest son of Caleb 4 and Hannah, married Ruth Peck. Children : Caleb, Elias, Ruth, Sarah.
3. Samuel Purdy,5 second son of Caleb 4 and Hannah, married Glori- anna Fowler. Children : Gabriel, Samuel, Phoebe, Elizabeth, Glori- anna, Hannah.
4. Josiah Purdy,5 third son of Caleb 4 and Hannah, married U. Knapp. Children : Josiah, Joshua.
5. Andrew Purdy,5 fourth son of Caleb 4 and Hannah, married Phoebe Merrit. Children : Robert, Andrew (' Andrew, son of Andrew & Phobe Purdy, bapt. Jan. 1791.' - Notit. Paroch.), John Merrit ; Phœbe, Hevelinda.
6. Nehemiah Purdy,5 fifth son of Caleb 4 and Hannah, married Eliza- beth Burchum. Children : Thomas, Nehemiah, Caleb (' Caleb, son of Neh. & Eliz. Purdy, bapt. Sept. 28, 1791.' - Notit. Paroch.), Hannah, Anne, Elizabeth, Deborah.
7. Sylvanus Purdy,5 sixth son.
8. Elias Purdy,5 seventh son of Caleb 4 and Hannah, married Rachel Merrit. Children : Elias, Merrit (' Merritt, son of Elias & Rachel Purdy, bapt. Mar. 4, 1793'), William Henry, Caleb, Sarah, Ophelia.
VI. 1. Joshua Purdy,6 eldest son of Seth 5 and Phœbe.
2. Seth Purdy,6 second son.
3. Josiah Purdy, third son.
ROBERTS. 'Simon Robards, of Boston,' about 1680 bought of Philip Galpin a house-lot of three acres in Rye, near the Field Gate, with one quarter of all his ' commonage or undivided lands, on the east side of Blind brook.'
ROBISSON. Hannah, wife of Thomas Robisson, and sister of Joseph, John, and Benjamin Horton, in 1699, had five acres from her brother Benjamin, on Budd's Neck, between Stony Brook and Westchester old path. Her husband was perhaps Thomas of Guilford, whose contro- versies are set forth in the Public Records of Connecticut, 1677-1699. (Vol. ii. pp. 322, 323 ; vol. iii. pp. 90, 99 ; vol. iv. p. 447.)
ROCKWELL. John Rockwell was of Stamford, 1641-1669. (Hist. of Stamford, p. 40.) In 1673 he had land at Rye on Budd's Neck, east of Joseph Horton. He died in or before 1677. The General Court at Hartford, that year, May 18, 'being informed to their sattis- faction of the necessity of the selling of the land of John Rockwell, late of Rye, to pay his just debts and for the supply of his wife and children, doe impower the relict of sayd Rockwell and Daniel Weed to make sale of the sayd Rockwell's land, and to grant assureance of the same.' (Pub. Rec. of Conn., vol. ii. p. 313.) A difficulty occurred in
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the settling of this estate, which was not ended until thirty years after. In 1707, Jonathan Rockwell, of Norwalk, acknowledged satisfaction received from Philip, son of Garit Traves of Rye, 'concerning a dis- pute a lotment of upland and parcel of salt meadow belonging to it on Budd's Neck, formerly possessed by his deceased father John Rock- well of Rye.'
SHERWOOD. I. Stephen and Isaac Sherwood were the sons of Thomas, one of the settlers of Stratford, who came to Boston in 1634 from Ipswich, England. He was at Stamford in 1648, and his will, dated July 21, 1655, mentions these sons, with Matthew and three daughters, as the children of his first wife. (Hist. of Stamford. p. 61.) Stephen was in 1664 a freeman of Greenwich. He removed to Rye between that year and 1668, when he bought John Coe's . house and housing and home-lot upon the north side of Manusing island.' In the same year he with others remonstrated against Budd's proceedings. His lands were chiefly located in the direction of Byram River. In 1680 he bought the remainder of the north neck of Manussing Island - forty-six acres - from John Banks, senior. Stephen had proprietary rights in Will's purchases, which his family retained. In 1708, Nathan- ael and Stephen, and Elizabeth, perhaps their mother, ranked among the proprietors.
Isaac in 1677 bought rights on Peningo Neck, formerly Lancaster's but sold his rights at White Plains in 1683, and in 1684 ' all his rights in both them two purchases of land that the town of Rye bought of that Indian that is commonly called limping Will.' He had a son Daniel, and probably Isaac.
Both the brothers removed to Fairfield by 1680. In that year Stephen was formerly of Fairfield, now living at Stanford.' (Rec.) In 1685-1688, he divided . his neck of land on Manussing Island ' be- tween his sons Stephen, junior, and Joseph.
II. 1. Isaac Sherwood,? probably son of Isaac,1 was called senior in 1733, when he gave his son Daniel of Ridgefield all his rights to land in Rye. He was then living in Fairfield. In 1765, Isaac Sherwood of Fairfield, perhaps a third Isaac, released to Thomas Disbrow of Fair- field, for fire pounds. all his right to undivided lands both in Rye and in Fairfield;' the former of which may well have become infinitesimal by that time.
2. Daniel Sherwood,2 son of Isaac,1 was of Fairfield in 1696, when he conveyed to Stephen, of Rye, his lands 'lying in the field of Rye' - forty or fifty acres, bordering on the creek (between the main and Manussing Island).
3. Stephen Sherwood,2 son of Stephen,1 married Mary -. IIe remained in Rye, where he acquired considerable property. In 1708 he bought from the . trustees or overseers of the town of Rye,' a tract of seven hundred acres 'at or near the upper end of Will's second
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purchase ;' between Byram River and the colony line, and extending southward from the upper end of that purchase 'till it contains said quantity of land.' The same year, Stephen offers to sell this land in parcels, at two shillings per acre. He died in or before 1713, when his widow sold to Henry Hill one hundred acres of this tract for fifty-three pounds.
4. Joseph Sherwood,2 of Rye, son of Stephen,1 is mentioned in 1682. He had land on Barton's Neek, and Gunn Brook Plain, apparently where the 'homestead' afterwards lay, on Grace Church Street. He had a son Joseph, and perhaps a son Andrew.
5. Nathanael Sherwood,2 of Rye, probably son of Stephen,1 was 'aged about 32 years ' in 1704. (Rec.) He had land with Joseph on Branch Ridge and elsewhere, which they sold together in 1719. Joseph, with Abigail, Nathanael's widow, were executors of his estate in 1733.
6. John Sherwood,2 probably son of Stephen,1 in 1726 sold land in Will's Purchase, part of a ' lotment drawn by the Sherwoods.'
III. 1. Stephen Sherwood,¿ perhaps son of Stephen,2 is mentioned 1740-1765. He had land on Hog-pen Ridge.
2. Andrew Sherwood,3 of Rye, perhaps son of Joseph,2 is mentioned in 1715. In 1729 he sold to Joseph, for ninety-one pounds, his ' home- stead in Rye' of fifty-five acres, ' with house, orchard, garden, &c. ; ' apparently in the same locality with that noticed above and below. He married Anne Young, called in 1750 'widow of Andrew Sherwood deceased.'
3. Joseph Sherwood,3 of Rye, son of Joseph,2 is called junior in 1741, and was perhaps of Greenwich in 1736. About 1751 he sold to Abraham Theall for seven hundred and seventy pounds, 'his farm whereon I now dwell,' comprising twenty acres between 'Gracious street and the water-side,' - in the vicinity of the present steamboat landing, - and one hundred acres on the opposite side of the road : and in that year he bought for seven hundred and seventy-three pounds, from Samuel Bayard, merchant, of New York, and Frances his wife, ' two farms in Courtlandt manor.' In 1771 he was of the latter place.
IV. 1. Daniel Sherwood.4 son of Andrew,3 is so designated in 1749. He was perhaps the father of Daniel and Jabez.
2. Nehemiah Sherwood,4 perhaps son of Stephen,3 had land in the same vicinity - on Hog-pen Ridge - in 1764. He was living in 1771.
3. Samuel Sherwood,4 perhaps son of Stephen,3 was living in 1743 on King Street, upon a farnı of fifty acres.
V. 1. Daniel Sherwood,5 perhaps son of Daniel,4 kept a store and tavern, known as Sherwood's, by the bridge across the Byram River at Glenville, also known as Sherwood's, or Sherrod's bridge. Children : Hugford, Jabez, Daniel, Willis. They all lived in the neighborhood of Glenville.
2. Jabez Sherwood,5 brother of Daniel,5 and perhaps son of Daniel,4
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lived where William Sherwood now lives, east of Glenville. Children : Benjamin, and several daughters.
VI. Benjamin Sherwood,6 son of Jabez,5 died about the year 1863, aged eighty-seven. Children : Alanson, Allen, William, Warren, Jo- tham.
SMITH. Abraham bought in 1700 of Samuel Odell ' his right, from his father William,' to lands in the White Plains purchase ; and in 1705 a 'lotment' in that purchase, where he appears to have been one of the earliest settlers. His farm lay near the site of the Presbyterian Church in White Plains. He was living there in 1729. Daniel owned property in the town in 1722. Benjamin is mentioned in 1761. Mau- rice or Morris, of Rye, sold land on Budd's Neck about 1760. For the family of Rev. John Smith of Rye, see part second.
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