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May 30, 1642; Gershom, mentioned below; Rebecca.
(II) Gershom, son of Walter Palmer, was baptized in Charlestown. June 5, 1684, he re- ceived from his brothers, Nehemiah, Moses and Benjamin, five hundred acres of land in Stonington, as part of their parents' estate. May 3, 1693, there was laid out to Lieutenant Gershom Palmer first, fifty acres, then one hundred acres, and again, fifty acres. Novem- ber 20, 1711, there was laid out to him four hundred acres of land in the Purchase of Catta- peset. In this deed he is called "Deacon." Most of this property he distributed to his sons before he died. He married (first), in Ston- ington, November 28, 1767, Ann, daughter of Captain George and Ann (Borodel) Denison. Her mother, Ann (Borodel) Denison, was from a fine old English family, and from her Mrs. Palmer inherited such stately and elegant manners that she was commonly called "Lady Ann." She was born May 20, 1649, died in Stonington, 1694. He married ( second) Mrs. Elizabeth Mason, widow of Major Samuel Mason, of Stonington. Her maiden name was Peck, and she was from the Rehoboth family of that name. Gershom Palmer died Septem- ber 27, 1718. Children of first wife: Mercy, born 1669; Gershom, baptized September 2, 1677; Ichabod, baptized September 2, 1677; William, mentioned below; George, baptized May 29, 1680; Rebecca, baptized 1682, died young ; Ann, baptized May 20, 1682; Walter, baptized June 7, 1685 ; Elihu, baptized May 6, 1688, died young: Mary, baptized June 8, 1690; Rebecca, baptized July 1, 1694.
(III) William, son of Deacon Gershom Pal- mer, was baptized April 25, 1678. He received by deed from his father, May 9, 1716, land at Puckhunganuck, which on his death was to go to his three sons, William, Elihu and Wait. He was living in 1728, when he gave rights in two parcels of land to the three sons mention- ed above. He married, January 10, 1701-02, in Stonington, Grace, daughter of Ephraim and Hannah (Avery) Minor, born in Stonington, September, 1683. They lived in Tangwonk and removed later to Punghungguenuch Hill, in North Stonington. Children: Grace, bap- tized June 27, 1703: William, born March I, 1705 : Elihu, baptized December 6, 1706; Wait, mentioned below.
(IV) Elder Wait Palmer, son of William Palmer, was born and baptized in Stonington, May 27, 1711. He lived on Pendleton Hill, in
Stonington, and was active in church interests there. April 10, 1772, he sold to his son Wait the farm where he lived, on condition that the latter give to him and his wife one-half the profits yearly during their lives. He married, 1727, Mary, daughter of Ebenezer and Ann (Pendleton ) Brown, born November 28, 1703. Children : Wait, mentioned below ; Amos, Au- gust 27, 1729; Israel, January 16, 1730; Isaac, September 15, 1732 ; Mary, May 4, 1735; Con- tent, January 27, 1736-37 ; Ebenezer, January 21, 1738-39; Elihu, March 10, 1741.
(V) Wait (2), son of Elder Wait (1) Pal- mer, was born in Stonington, May 5. 1728, died October 18, 1785. He married, April 4, 1751. Mary Safford, of Coventry, Connecticut, died in Stonington, October 19, 1785. Children, born in Stonington: Wait, August 2, 1753; Edith, January 7, 1756: Stuckley, January 23, 1758; Charles, June 25, 1760 : Asa, September 7, 1763; Rowland, mentioned below ; Mary, August 24, 1770.
(VI) Rowland, son of Wait (2) Palmer, was born in Stonington, October 31, 1766. He removed from Pendleton Hill to Otsego, New York, in 1793. He married (first), in Ston- ington, January 1. 1792, Sabra, daughter of Dr. Joseph and his second wife, Mrs. Eliza- beth (Stewart) Palmer, born in Stonington, April 25, 1767, died July, 1850. Billings and Polly Coats sold for twenty-two pounds, Feb- ruary 1, 1793, their share in the estate of their late father. Wait Palmer Jr., to Rowland Pal- mer. He died in Lafayette, New York, April 29, 1856. Children: Lucretia, born October 24, 1792 ; Avery F., February 1, 1795 ; Water- man, August 30, 1798; Betsey, June 3, 1802; Prentice, September 22, 1804: Ransom, March 30, 1807; Orrin D., March 29, 1811. Avery F. Palmer (p. 974. "History of Onondaga County") came with his father Rowland to Lafayette in 1815; married Sarah, daughter of Captain Richard Bailey ; his son, Avery R., lived at Lafayette. Rowland Palmer married (second) Martha Cole. Children : Rowland ; Abel : Nathaniel ; Ebenezer, mentioned below.
(VII) Ebenezer, son of Rowland Palmer, was born in Onondaga county, New York, about 1810-15. He married Cole. Chil- dren : Horatio, mentioned below : Alfonso ; La- vina, married Charles Teall; Letitia, married John Whipple.
(VIII) Horatio, son of Ebenezer Palmer, was born in Granby, Oswego county, New York. He was educated there in the public
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schools and followed farming. He was one of the leading citizens of the town. In religion he was a Methodist. He married Harriet Cornwall. Children: Mary E .; George B., mentioned below ; Seymour A. ; Charles E.
(IX) George B., son of Horatio Palmer. was born in Granby, March 12, 1864, and was educated there in the public schools. He en- gaged in farming for a number of years. In 1893 he became a produce and commission merchant and shipped large quantities of pota- toes and other produce to New York markets. Since March, 1905, 'he has made his home at Fulton, New York, and has been in the flour. feed, grain and produce business there. He is also a dealer in livestock. In politics he is a Democrat. He was elected an alderman of the city in 1909, and has been president of the city council since January, 1910. He is a prominent member of the Methodist church, of Fulton. He has been a member of the Pat- rons of Husbandry for twenty-five years, and is now affiliated with Fulton Grange. He is also a member of the Maccabees and the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He married, March 7, 1887, Cora A., daugh- ter of John C. and Arvilla Fuller. Children : Wava Fay, born August 31, 1890, died Au- gust 25, 1910; Neva May, November 30, 1891. married Raymond Lyboldt, July 9, 1911 ; Har- low Horatio, May 6, 1897 ; Harold Raymond, December 13, 1900.
ROBINSON Rev. John Robinson, the lead- er of the Pilgrims and pastor of the flock in Holland, was
born in one of the midland counties of Eng- land, in 1575. He entered Corpus Christi Col- lege. Cambridge University, in 1592, and re- ceived a fellowship there in 1598, resigning it in 1604. He was a Puritan and a powerful supporter of the Puritan movement. He began his career in the ministry in Norwich, Norfolk- shire, England. In 1606 the church at Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, on the borders of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, was formed and he became its teacher, with Richard Clifton, pastor. The congregation moved bodily to Holland in 1607- 08, under Mr. Robinson, and worshiped in a house he bought there. He intended to follow the Pilgrims to Plymouth but died at Leyden during the prevalence of the plague, February 19, 1625. Ile is generally called the "Father of Congregationalism." He married Bridget White. Children: James or John ; Bridget,
married, at Leyden, May 26, 1629, John Gryn- wich; Isaac, mentioned below; Mercy : Fear : Jacob.
( II) Isaac. son of Rev. John Robinson, came to New England in 1631, and settled at Plymouth. In 1636 he went to Scituate and in 1639 to Barnstable, Massachusetts. About 1663 he removed to Falmouth and in 1673 to Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard, where he re- sided until November. 1701. He then return- ed to Barnstable. He was a member of the Barnstable church for almost seventy years. He died in 1704. aged ninety-four. He mar- ried ( first ) Margaret Hanford, of Scituate, June 27, 1636. She died June 13, 1649, and he married ( second ) Mary . Children of first wife, born at Scituate: Susanna, bap- tized January 21, 1638, died young. Born at Barnstable: John, baptized April 5, 1640: Isaac, baptized August 7, 1642 ; Fear, baptized January 26, 1644-45; Mercy, baptized July 4, 1647: Daughter, June 6, 1649. Children by second wife: Israel, baptized in Barnstable. October 5, 1651; Jacob, baptized May 15. 1653 : Peter ; Thomas.
(III) John (2), son of Isaac Robinson, was baptized at Barnstable, April 5, 1640. He lived at Falmouth from 1665 to April, 1714. when he removed to Connecticut. He was deputy from Falmouth to the colony court. 1689-90-91 .. He married, May, 1667, Eliza- beth Weeks. Children: John, born March 20. 1668: Isaac, January 30, 1669; Timothy, Oc- tober 30, 1671 : Abigail, March 20, 1674: Fear. June 16, 1676; Joseph ; Mary, March 31, 1679: Son, December 12, 1683; Daughter, May 1, 168 -.
(V) Isaiah, son or grandson of John (2) Robinson, if the family tradition is correct, re- moved from Barnstable county to Connecticut.
(VI) Noah, son of Isaiah Robinson, was born as early as 1750. He lived in Danbury, Connecticut, and was a shoemaker by trade. He was a soldier in the revolution. He mar- ried Mary Foote, born June 19, 1751, daugh- ter of John and Deborah (Hoyt) Foote ( see Foote \'). They moved to Hubbardton, Ver- mont. He died at Trumansburg, New York. Children : Amos, Lewis, Jeremiah, Noah, Rachel and Mary.
(\'II) Amos, son of Noah Robinson, was born in 1787, in Putnam county ; died în Tru- mansburg, New York, about 1885, aged ninety- eight years. He was one of the pioneers of the town of Trumansburg, Tompkins county,
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New York, where he bought fifty acres of land in 1817, and cleared a farm. Previously he lived in Putnam county, New York. At one time he kept a hotel at Trumansburg. He married (first) Rhoda Wixom, who died in 1854, aged fifty-six years. He married ( sec- ond) Theodosia Neal (Shepherd ) Fletcher. Children, all by first wife: George, Ursula. Doane and Amarintha.
(VIII) George, son of Amos Robinson, was born in Putnam county, New York, near Mill- town, March 31, 1816; died in Homer, New York, January 7, 1900. He received a com- mon school education in Trumansburg. whither he came with his parents when he was a year old. He followed farming in that town most of his active years and retired only two years before he died. These last two years he spent in Homer. He was a member of the Baptist church. He married Cynthia Pease, of Tru- mansburg, born in 1804, died in March, 1890, daughter of Simeon and Cynthia ( Markham) Pease. Her father came from Enfield, Con- necticut. Her mother was a daughter of Isaac Markham, of Hartford, Connecticut, a soldier in the revolution, who took part in the battle of Bunker Hill. Children of George and Cyn- thia Robinson: 1. John Hopkins, mentioned below. 2. Harriet, born July 30, 1843 ; married T. H. King and lives in Trumansburg ; chil- dren : Elizabeth Edwards, born August 5, 1866; Alice Cynthia, February 2, 1869; Herbert P., April 17. 1872; Florence, May 5, 1874; Asa Carleton, June 24, 1877; Turtullus Harrison, October 15, 1882. Children of Herbert P. King : Donald Ely, born March 20, 1906, and Marion. April 23, 1911 ; child of Asa Carleton King: Dorothy, born August 1I, 1909: child of Turtullus Harrison King: Helen E., born in November, 1908. 3. Scott, born September 27, 1846, died May 30, 1895; a merchant at Cortland : married Mary Smith ; children : Lewis, Charles, Harriet, Augusta, Ida, James and Eve. 4. Mary, born September 13, 1850 : married D. G. Clark, of Trumansburg. 5. George, born May 30, 1853: lives at Homer, New York. 6. Fred, born March 27, 1857 : photographer at Ithaca, New York ; married Clara Burr. 7. Anna, born March 25. 1861. died November 16, 1899. 8. Emily, born July 21, 1863; married (first) N. A. Bates, ( sec- ond) Charles Hinman, of Homer.
(IX) Dr. John Hopkins Robinson, son of George Robinson, was born in Trumansburg. New York, February 2, 1842. He was educated
in the district schools of his native town and at Trumansburg Academy. He taught school for a time and followed farming when a young man. He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. I. E. Hill, of Trumansburg, and afterward under the instruction of Dr. John J. Fleckwager. In 1882 he began to practice medicine at Homer, New York, and he has continued there to the present time. He is a member of the County Medical Society and of the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In religion he is a Universalist. He married, in 1877, Anna W. Gallup, daughter of Ezra and Ann ( Bates) Gallup. Her father was a professor in Col- gate University for many years and a Baptist minister. Children: 1. Anna, born August, 1878, lives at home with her father. 2. George, born September 10, 1883. train director of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, at Utica, New York ; married, Sep- tember 25, 1905, Ada Riebeunacht, and has one daughter. Elizabeth, born August 22, 1906.
(The Foote Line).
(I) Nathaniel Foote, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1593. He came probably from Shalford, Colchester, England, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. He took the free- man's oath in 1633. He removed to Wethers- field, Connecticut, where he was one of the first settlers. In 1640 he had a home lot of ten acres on the east side of Broad street. He was a farmer. He was deputy to the general court in 1644. He married, in England, about 1615, Elizabeth, sister of John Dewing, a first settler of Wethersfield. She was born about 1595, and married (second) Thomas Welles. Nathaniel Foote died in 1644. Children : Eliz- abeth, born about 1616; Nathaniel, born about 1620, mentioned below : Mary, 1623: Robert. 1627: Frances, 1629; Sarah, 1632; Rebecca. 1634.
(II) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1) Foote, was born about 1620, in England, and married, 1646, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieuten- ant Samuel Smith. He lived in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and Hadley, Massachusetts. He died in 1655, and his wife married ( second) William Gull, of Wethersfield, and Hatfield, Massachusetts. Children : Nathaniel, born January 10, 1647 ; Samuel, May 1, 1649 ; Dan- iel, 1652, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, 1654.
(III) Daniel, son of Nathaniel (2) Foote, was born in 1652, and married (first) Sarah
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, (second) Mary -. He lived in Stratford, Connecticut. Children : John, born June 17, 1680, mentioned below ; Daniel, Janu- ary 10, 1682; Hannah, February 13, 1684; Jehiel, March 17, 1687; Peter, died 1753, un- married.
(IV) John, son of Daniel Foote, was born June 17, 1680, and married, July 13, 1715, Sarah Prindle. He lived in Newton, Con- necticut. Children : Sarah, October 30, 1716; Elizabeth, May 14, 1718; Nathan, October 24, 1719; John, November 29, 1721, mentioned below; Phebe, 1723; Peter, 1725; Hannah, 1727.
(V) John (2), son of John ( 1) Foote, was born November 29, 1721, and married, 1750, Deborah Hoyt, who died August 6, 1777. He died July 28, 1791. Children: Mary, born June 19, 1751, married Noah Robinson ( see Robinson VI) ; Deborah, August 22, 1753; Sarah, May 9, 1755; Mindwell, January, 1758; John, April 2, 1761 ; Lucy, 1763 ; David, May 28, 1765; Enoch, May 2, 1770.
It is supposed that the name CORWIN Corwin comes from the village of Corvinus, in Wallachia, Fru- ley, on the Danube river, so named by one of the Greek emperors, out of respect to Marcus Valerius Corvinus, a Roman consul, and most worthy man. It is now common in Austria and Germany. Some writers claim that the celebrated warrior, John Hunyadi Corvinus, commander in the great battle of "Belgrade," I456, was from this village, and that his son, Matthias Corvinus, the still more celebrated king of Hungary, was the ancestor of the American immigrant, Matthias Corwin.
(I) Matthias Corwin, the immigrant ances- tor, was born in England between 1590 and 1600, and was in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1634. He removed to New Haven, and later to Southold, Connecticut. His wife was Mar- garet ,and they had three children : John : Martha : Theophilus, mentioned below.
(Il) Theophilus, son of Matthias Corwin, was born in or before 1634, died before 1692. He married Mary In 1655 he had lands at Southold, Long Island, and also at Aquebogue. In 1686 he had four males and three females in his family. Children : Daniel, mentioned below ; Theophilus : David : Mary ; Mehetable : Bcthia ; Phebe.
(III) Daniel, son of Theophilus Corwin, was born between 1660 and 1670, died before
1719. He married Mary, daughter of Simon and Mary Ramsay, before 1698. She survived him. In 1703, he received a deed from The- ophilus, his brother, for land at Aquebogue. Children: Daniel, mentioned below ; Henry ; Simeon.
(IV) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Cor- win, was born about 1690, died September 7, 1747. The name of his first wife is unknown. He married (second) Elizabeth Cleaves, in January, 1722-23. An Elizabeth Corwin, widow of Daniel, died March 30, 1774, according to the Aquebogue records. He is named as a freeholder of Southold, Long Island, in 1737. His will mentions three grandchildren, Ed- ward, Separate and Mehetable Armstrong, and the following children: Nathan; Pelatiah ; Mary ; Michal ( feminine name) ; Lucas ; Jede- diah; Silas, mentioned below ; John ; Daniel ; Edward; and another daughter who married - Armstrong.
(V) Silas, son of Daniel (2) Corwin, was born on Long Island, in 1731, died March I, 1806. He married, January 13, 1753, Eliza- beth Halleck, born in September, 1731, died February 12, 1831. Both he and his wife were buried at Jamesport, Long Island. His wife's mother's name is supposed to have been Booth. In 1775 he signed an agreement to support congress. In 1776 his name occurs on census list, No. 94, and at that time he had in his family three males, one female over six- teen, and five children under sixteen. Chil- dren : Silas : Azubah ; Ezra, mentioned below ; Mary; Peter; Jabez; Elizabeth; Ebenezer ; Daniel ; Elizabeth.
(VI) Ezra, son of Silas Corwin, was born September 27, 1759, baptized October 14, 1759, at Mattituck, Long Island. He died · April 24, 1840. He married (first) Dorothy Tuthill, born September, 1760, died December 15, 1795. He married (second) Hannah Cook, born January 30, 1772, died April 23, 1841. He united with the church at Aquebogue, No- vember 16, 1783. He settled in Orange county, New York, as a farmer, and bought land claims from revolutionary soldiers. Later, he settled in Cortland county, near Blodgett Mills. Here he cleared an extensive tract of land, about three hundred acres, and built a log house. Children : Baldwin; Ebenezer; Orsamus or Erasmus ; Polydore B., mentioned below ; Dor- othy F. ; Mary ; Samuel ; Cortlandt E. ; Julia N.
(VI) Polydore B., son of Ezra Corwin, was born March 30, 1801, at Ipswich, Long Island.
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When a young child, his father removed to the Cortland region, and he was brought up on the home farm. Eventually he fell heir to one- third of this farm. In 1826 he built a tavern on the site of the old log house which his father had built, and became highly successful. Besides his tavern business he cultivated three hundred acres of land. After some years he sold his farming interests and removed to New York City. Here he served on the police force and carried on a grocery store. In 1854 he removed again to the village of Cortland, and began business there as a builder and con- tractor. He had already had much experience in this line at Blodgett Mills. He married (first), February 12, 1824, Sarah Thompson, born May 11, 1803. He married (second) Phebe Kendall, May 14, 1842. She was born April 23, 1819. He married (third) Catharine, daughter of Henry H. Palmatier, of Cobleskill, New York, born October 6, 1819. Children of the first wife: Almeron; De Forest; Ezra : Theresa ; Sarah R. Children of the second wife: Isabelle; Marion. Children of the third wife: Harriet ; Dudley G., mentioned below ; Philistia.
(VII) Dudley Gregory, son of Polydore B. Corwin, was born at Charleston, Montgomery county, New York, November 1, 1849. He attended the public schools of his native town. When fifteen years old he began to learn the trade of carpenter, and at the age of twenty- one he was a skillful journeyman. A few years later he began to take contracts and since then he has been a builder and contractor with headquarters in Cortland. For many years he has been the leading contractor of the city and has probably built more residences, business buildings and factories than any two other builders of this section. He erected the Squires Block, the Keator Block, the First National Bank building, the Second National Bank building, the manufacturing building of the Cortland Wagon Works, at Cortland, another at Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and a third, at Eighty-first and Wallace streets, Chicago; the Top and Rail factory ; the E. H. Brewer factory; the Miller Block and many others. He is a skillful architect and has prepared the plans for many houses and buildings that he has erected. On his own account he has erect- ed many dwelling houses in the city and has large holdings in Cortland real estate. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and in religion a Pres- byterian.
He married (first), in 1874, Mary A. Ste- vens, who died in 1887, aged thirty-eight years, daughter of Wilbur Stevens, of Freetown. He married (second), July 3, 1888, Antoinette B. Briggs, daughter of Samuel Briggs, a farmer of Trumansburg, New York. Children by first wife: 1. Wilbur E., born July 25, 1876, died August 19, 1893. 2. Jennie L., March 31, 1881 ; married John Lewis Clark, of Green- port, and had Evelyn Clark. 3. Charles D., July 18, 1884, instructor in mechanical draw- ing, electrical and civil engineering at Sibley College, Cornell; married, December 29, 1909, Mary Agnes Lyon ; had daughter, Elizabeth Marie. 4. Merton Polydore, December 15, 1886, student in Amherst College, class of 1911. Child of second wife: 5. Mary Cath- erine, June 21, 1889; married Irving C. Mathews, a chemist in Newark, New Jersey.
Thomas Stafford, the immi- STAFFORD. grant ancestor, was born at Warwickshire, England, in 1605 ; died at Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1677. He is said to have come to Plymouth, Massa- chusetts, in 1626, and to have built there the first gristmill operated by water power in this country. His name is on the list of inhabitants admitted to Newport, Rhode Island, after May 20, 1638, and he soon received a grant of land there, seventeen acres, and was mentioned as in the employ of Nicholas Easton. He was witness to the will of John Walker, of Ports- mouth, March 18, 1647. He was received as a townsman of Warwick, June 7, 1657, hav- ing bought a house of Christopher Unthank. He bought another house and land of Unthank, March 1, 1653. In 1655 he was a freeman of the colony. He bought a house and land in Warwick of Thomas Lawton, of Portsmouth, April 16, 1657. In 1662 he was granted a lot in the division of Potawomut, and also one in the division of Toscunk. In 1673 he was a deputy to the general assembly. His will, dated November 4, 1677, and proved April 27, 1678, bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth, and children. He married Elizabeth , who died after 1677. Children : Thomas, died January 26, 1723; Samuel, born in 1636, died March 20, 1718; Hannah, married Luke Bromley ; Sarah, married Amos Wescott; Joseph, mentioned below ; Deborah, married, June 9, 1670, Amos Wescott.
(II) Joseph, son of Thomas Stafford, was born at Warwick, Rhode Island, March 21,
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1648, died after 1697. He was apprenticed, April 11, 1661, to Thomas Smith, of Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, to learn the tailor's trade. In 1678 he was a freeman. His wife's will was dated January 5, 1727, and proved June 28, 1731, bequeathing to children.
He married Sarah Holden, born in Febru- ary, 1658, died in 1731, daughter of Randall and Frances ( Dungan) Holden. Children : Stukeley, a well-to-do and prominent citizen of Warwick; Joseph, mentioned below ; John, a captain, died 1753; Frances, married Benja- min Congdon; Elizabeth, married William Clark and Israel Arnold ; Mary, married Pasco Whitford : Sarah, married Joseph Smith ; Mar- garet, married - - Place.
(III) Colonel Joseph (2) Stafford, son of Joseph (1) Stafford, was born about 1690. He was a blacksmith by trade and prominent in public and military life. He was deputy to the general assembly 1730-35, 1737, 1739, 1742- 44 and 1746. In 1739 he was major and after- ward colonel. He married (first ) Susanna Gorton, born June 4, 1694, died August 29, 1734, daughter of Samuel and Susanna ( Bur- ton) Gorton. He married ( second ) Margaret Havens, widow of William Havens, daugh- ter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Wightman) Huling. Children, born at Warwick: Mercy, June 2, 1717 ; Joseph, mentioned below : Sus- anna, August 15, 1721 ; Susanna, March IO, 1723.
(IV) Joseph (3), son of Colonel Joseph (2) Stafford, was born January 16, 1718-19. He was a captain, according to the vital rec- ords. He settled at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and married there, May 27, 1739, Re- becca Arnold, daughter of Captain William Arnold. Children, born at East Greenwich : Susanna, July 1, 1740; Sarah, December 8. 1741 ; Deliverance, June 15, 1743; Thomas, August 23, 1744: Joseph, December 3, 1745; Arnold, mentioned below; Margaret, January 9, 1751.
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