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(VII) Charles, son of Colonel Samuel (3) Ashley, was born at Claremont, New Hamp- shire, in 1782 : died March 30, 1848, in Water- loo, Wisconsin. He married, about 1802, at Claremont, Roccena, daughter of Nathaniel and Rachel (Gould) Goss. She was born February 11, 1784, in Claremont ; died Novem- ber 9, 1861, in Waterloo. Ashley took the oath of allegiance at Lexington, Vermont, in 1796, probably at the first town meeting. He removed to Danville, Vermont, where he lived until 1811, when he returned to Claremont. In 1818 he went to Springville, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, and afterward to Water- loo, Grant county, Wisconsin. He was a farmer and held numerous town offices. Children : Nathaniel, born 1803, died 1840; Lydia, born June 25, 1805, married (first ), in 1825.
Tucker, and ( second), in September, 1831. Daniel Raymond Burt; Charles, mentioned below : Roccena, 1809, married, in 1834, Jere- miah Dodge: Oliver, born January 2, 1811, died May 12, 1839, married, January, 1833, Catherine Ainsworth: Samuel, June 18, 1813, married. October 24, 1843, Sarah Ann Chaffee ; Lucius, born May 7, 1815. died February 15, 1873, married, January 29, 1843, Caroline Bid- dle : Caroline Jones, born April 10, 1817. mar- ried, April 1, 1838, James I. Blakeslee ; Will- iam Drinker, born May 5. 1819, died July 11, 1890, married, January 4, 1853, Angeline Jack- son : Rachel Matilda, born July 4, 1822, mar- ried, in 1843, Jeremiah E. Dodge.
(VIII) Charles (2), son of Charles ( I) Ashley, was born July 2, 1807, in Danville, Vermont : died October 9, 1865, in Stockton, California. He married (first), March 6, 1831. in Springville, Pennsylvania, Hannah Blakes- lee, born May 1, 1805, in Springville ; who, while crossing the plains on the way to Cali- fornia, in company with her husband, was taken sick near Fort Laramie, on the Platt
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river, and died there, June 4, 1852. He mar- ried ( second). April 29, 1855, in Stockton, Margaret Curry, who died September 14, 1865. Charles Ashley came with his father to Spring- ville, when a child, and he lived there until 1834. He removed, in 1836, to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, thence to Rockport, Pennsyl- vania, and, in 1838, to Reading, Pennsylvania, where he remained for about a year. In the following summer he located at Waterloo, Wis- consin, with others of the family, and spent nearly ten years there. In 1852 he located at Stockton, California, where he lived the re- mainder of his life. For a number of years he conducted a livery stable. After moving to California he gave his attention to farming and stock raising. Children: Roccena, born December 29, 1834, died March 5, 1839: Sarah Catherine, August 28, 1837, married, Septem- ber 21, 1855, John E. Mckenzie ; Edwin Lucius, born October 15. 1840, married, March 29, 1866, Emma Robinson Brannack: Charles Albert, born March 2, 1843, married, April 1, 1866. Louise Jahont : Robert Asa, mentioned below.
(IX) Robert Asa, son of Charles (2) Ash- ley, was born June 21, 1846, in a district called Bee Town, Wisconsin. He married, October 18, 1876, in Mauch Chunk, Lida Rosina Vanne- man, born April 12, 1849, in Auburn, Pennsyl- vania, daughter of Isaac Dana and Wealthy Zyprah ( Bennett ) Vanneman. In 1852 he went with his father's family to Stockton, Cali- fornia, and, in 1870, came eastward and located at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. A year later he went to Delano, Pennsylvania, where he was clerk in the store of his uncle, James I. Blakeslee. In 1873 he was appointed station agent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. at Delano, but he also continued in the store. In November, 1878, he removed to Slattington. Pennsylvania, and thence to Binghamton, New York. where, from June, 1879, to April, 1886, he conducted a retail grocery store. During the next two years he was in the employ of the Crandall Typewriter Company, and since then (1800) he has been contracting freight agent of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Binghamton Lodge, No. 177: Im- proved Order of Red Men, Annawana Tribe. No. 41. having formerly been a charter mem- ber of the Wanasetta Tribe, but upon the organization of the Annawana Tribe he be- came a charter member of this and has passed all the chairs of this lodge; member of the
Binghamton Club, and with his family attends Christ Episcopal Church.
Children : 1. Charles Asa, born November 7. 1878, died January 21, 1880. 2. Douglas Vanne- man, born May 23, 1881 ; graduate of Princeton College, later the New York Law School, and now practicing his profession in Binghamton, New York, being a partner of Judge Olstead, of that city : he married, July 28. 1909. Eliza- beth R. Stone, of Binghamton, New York.
(The Blakeslee Line).
(I) Samuel Blakeslee, the ancestor of this family, came from England to this country with his brother John about 1636. From Bos- ton he came first to Guilford, Connecticut, and afterward to New Haven, where he married. December 3. 1650, Hannah Porter. He died in 1678. The following account of him is taken from the notes of a descendant. Captain Samuel Blakeslee, who had the facts from his father and other older men: "In the early set- tlement of America there was two brothers by the name of Samuel and John Blakeslee, both blacksmiths by occupation, left England with their anvil, vises, hammers, tongs and other necessary tools fitted to their occupation, and landed at Boston, Massachusetts, and purchased what was and is since called Boston Neck. a poor barren strip of land which joins the penin- sula to the mainland upon which Boston is located ; here they lived for a few years with their families, following their trade of black- smithing. But the then village of Boston was poor and the narrow neck which they had pur- chased was incapable of affording much for the subsistence of their families. These two brothers, being stout, robust, enterprising men, agreed to seek their fortunes elsewhere. With their families, they left Boston and proceeded by the seashore to New Haven, in Connecticut. They did not dispose of their land in Boston Neck : time passes and they died, and it was never disposed of. Samuel bought land in New Haven and settled with his family, but his brother John went to the western part of the state to what is now Woodbury or Rox- bury." Children of Samuel : John, born 1651. Born at Guilford: Mary. November 2, 1659. Born at New Haven: Ebenezer, mentioned below : Hannah, May 22, 1666: Jonathan, March 3. 1668, died young: Jonathan, April, 1672. died young.
(]I) Ebenezer, son of Samuel Blakeslee. was born July 17. 1664, in New Haven, and
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was one of the earliest settlers of North Haven. In his house the Presbyterians held religious services until a church was established, and later the Episcopalians also held services in his mansion. He married Hannah Lupton. Chil- dren, born at North Haven: Ebenezer and Hannah, twins, born February 4, 1685; Sus- annah, May 21. 1689; Grace, January 1, 1093- 94: Abraham. December 15. 1695. mentioned below; Samuel, 1697; Thomas, 1700; Isaac, July 21, 1703.
(III) Abraham, son of Ebenezer Blakeslee, was born in North Haven, December 15, 1695. He married, March 15, 1721-22, Elizabeth Cooper, born February 18, 1694. daughter of John Cooper, of New Haven. He died March 6, 1759; his wife, January 2, 1776. His will was dated April, 1759, and proved in the same month. Children: John, born February 2. 1724-25 ; Abraham, October 22, 1727 ; Zophar, mentioned below ; Stephen, September 24, 1732 ; Jude, March 31, 1735; Joel, December II, 1737, died young ; Joel, June 30. 1739.
(IV) Zophar, son of Abraham Blakeslee, was born April 21, 1730, and his estate was administered in 1798.
(V) Zophar (2), son of Zophar ( I) Blakes- lee, married ( first) Clarinda Whitmore, and ( second) Lucinda Taylor. Children by first wife : 1. Sarah, married Judge Asa Packer, and had: Lucy; Marion; Mary, married Charles Cummings ; Robert, and Harry Packer. 2. A daughter, married Melvin, and had Gertrude Derwin. 3. Clarinda, married Will- iam Baker, and had a son, Charles Baker. 4. Hannah, married Charles Ashley (see Ashley \'III). By second wife: 5. Wallace, married Tamer Bidle, and had: Emma, Darwin, Will- iam, Jesse. 6. Frank, married - Bonnell, and had: Mary, Sarah, William, Edward. 7. Betsey, married Lyman Cogswell. 8. James I., married Caroline Ashley, and had: Eugene, Alonzo, Asa Packer, Charles Ashley. 9. Lem- uel, married Clementine Bonnell, and had : Jessie, Carrie, Robert. 10. Lucinda, married Abraham Luce, and had : Mary, Irwin, George and one daughter. 11. Eunice, married John Crellen, and had : Lucius Pittston ; Rollin, re- sides in Scranton; Lizzie; Caroline, who re- sides in White Haven.
SPAULDING The surname Spaulding or Spalding appears quite early in England. Some conjec- ture that it is a place name, the family deriving
the name from the town of Spalding, in Lin- colnshire, which is said to have been named for a spa or spring of mineral water in the market place. There have been many distinguished inen of this name in England, in ancient and modern times. Many of the family bore coats- of-arms. The Spauldings of America, with the exception of a few that have recently emigrated, are all descendants from three early settlers, one of whom located in Massachusetts, an- other in Maryland, and the third in Georgia. The latter are descended from the Ashantilly Spaldings, Perthshire, Scotland, from Sir Pierce Spalding, who surrendered Berwick castle to the earl of Murray. The Georgia pioneer, James Spalding, son of Captain Thomas, came to America in 1760, and married Anna Ler- month.
(I) Edward Spaulding, immigrant ancestor, came to New England, between 1630 and 1633, and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he appears among, the proprietors of the town as early as 1640, and was admitted a freeman of the colony. May 13, 1640. He removed thence to Wenham, and was one of the peti- tioners for the town of Chelmsford grant, Octo- ber 1, 1645. and one of the early settlers of that town. He was a leading citizen ; select- man in 1654-56-60-61 ; surveyor of highways in 1663, and juror in 1648. He died February 26, 1670. His will was dated February 13, 1666, proved April 5, 1670, bequeathing to wife Rachel, sons Edward, John and Andrew, and daughter Dinah. His wife Margaret died August, 1640, and his second wife Rachel soon after he died. Children of Edward and Mar- garet Spaulding : John, born about 1633. men- tioned below ; Edward, about 1635 : Grace, died in May, 1641. Children of second wife: Ben- jamin, born April 7. 1643 : Joseph, October 25, 1646; Dinah, March 14, 1649: Andrew, No- vember 19. 1652.
(II) John, son of Edward Spaulding, was born about 1633, died October 3, 1721. He came to Chelmsford with his father, in 1654, and was admitted a freeman, March 11, 1689- 00. He received numerous grants of land in Chelmsford from time to time. He was a soldier, under Captain Manning, in King Philip's war. He married. May 18. 1658. Hannah Hale (or Heald ), of Concord, Massachusetts. She died August 14. 1689. Children : John, mentioned below : Eunice, born July 27, 1660; Edward, September 16, 1663; Hannah, April 25. 1666; Samuel, March 6, 1668: Deborah, November
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12, 1770; Joseph, October 22, 1673 : Timothy, about 1676.
(III) John (2), son of John ( 1) Spauld- ing, was born in Chelmsford, February 15, 1659. He married (first) Ann Ballard, of Andover, Massachusetts, September 20, 1681 ; (second) Mary Fletcher, widow, November 18, 1700. He removed with his family to Plain- field, Connecticut. Children, born at Chelms- ford: Anna, born August 25, 1684; Samuel, mentioned below; Jonathan, August 7, 1688 ; Deborah and Eleazer, twins, August 12 and 13, 1690: Dinah, January 24, 1693; William, No- vember 14, 1695.
(IV) Samuel, son of John (2) Spaulding. was born at Chelmsford, August 6, 1686, died June 9, 1749. He married Susannah Children, all born at Plainfield, Connecticut : John, April 2. 1707 : Jedediah, mentioned below ; Abigail, May 7, 1711 : Elizabeth, July 16, 1714; Susannah, October 19. 1723.
(V) Jedediah, son of Samuel Spaulding, was born at Plainfield, April 1, 1709. died July 8, 1776. Ile married Mary How, born March I, 1715, died March 17, 1794. aged seventy- nine, daughter of Samuel How. Children, all born in Plainfield: Ezekiel, March 18, 1734; Timothy. February 15, 1737 ; Samuel, March 28, 1749; Asa, October 6, 1751 : Stephen, Au- gust 19, 1754: Daniel, mentioned below ; Lem- uel : Jedediah ; James.
(VI) Daniel, son of Jedediah Spaulding, was born at Plainfield, December 18, 1757. He was a soldier from Connecticut in the revolu- tion, in Captain Waterman Cleft's company ( Sixth ), Colonel Samuel Holder Parson's regi- ment, at Boston siege, in 1775; also in Lieu- tenant Clark's company, Twenty-first Militia. joining the army in New York state in 1776. He removed from Plainfield to Stephentown, New York, in the winter or early spring of 1792, and lived there two or three years, re- moving thence to Coeymans, New York, now the town of Westerlo, New York. He mar- ried, November 18. 1781, Mercy Hewitt, born November 14. 1758. in Preston, Connecticut, died February 6, 1828, in Westerlo, and he died January 4. 1852, in Westerlo. Children : Daniel, born April 25, 1784: Mary, June 17, 1786, at Stonington, Connecticut, married David Foster : William, September 18, 1791, in Plain- field : Betsey, September 21, 1794; Moses, men- tioned below.
(VII) Moses, son of Daniel Spaulding, was born in Coeymans, New York, November 22,
1800, was killed by the cars of the Erie rail- road, in the town of Conklin, Broome county, New York, near his home, May 11, 1854. He married Betsey Willsey, January 2, 1822. Chil- dren : Willsey, born December 27, 1824, died January 31, 1863, married Miranda Terboss : Amanda, January 7, 1827, married
Cross ; Daniel, born March 21, 1829, married, May 5, 1853, Emily I. Conklin : Ananias, Janu- ary 8, 1832, died March 10, 1841 ; Sally Maria, born October 19, 1834, married. September 22, 1863, Henry Terboss ; Emily, born March 21. 1837, married, December 25, 1855, Ezra P. Barton : William A., mentioned below ; Zerah. born December 28. 1844, died December 8, 1862.
(VIII) William A., son of Moses Spauld- ing, was born in Albany county, New York, March II, 1841. He came to Broome county with his parents, when a small boy, and was educated there in the public schools. For many years he was engaged in teaming business. He is now retired, living at Binghamton. He married, November 22, 1863. Melvina Jaynes, daughter of Holloway and Sarah (Rought) Jaynes. Children : Renna Z., mentioned below ; Elizabeth Jaynes, born February 23, 1872, died May II, 1892.
( IX ) Renna Z., son of William A. Spauld- ing, was born at Abington, Luzerne county. Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools at Factoryville, later Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the Binghamton high school, New York. The family came to Binghamton in 1877, when he was a youth. His first venture was as maker of cigars, and later as dealer. After- ward he engaged in the bakery business, in partnership with T. W. Russell, and the busi- ness was incorporated under the name of the Russell-Spaulding Company, of which Mr. Spaulding was president and Mr. G. W. Rus- sell, vice-president. In 1905 they started a small shop and from that small beginning the business has developed into its present large proportion the largest in this line in the city of Binghamton, and according to the popula- tion the largest in the United States.
In addition to being successful in business Mr. Spaulding has taken an active part in vari- ous fraternal organizations, being a member of the Masonic order, having passed through all the various bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
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the Binghamton Club, and the Press Club, and also the Chamber of Commerce. He is one of the directors in the Merchants' and Adver- tisers' Association. He has been a member of the Volunteer Firemen's Association for some sixteen years ; treasurer of the local company seven years.
He married, December 24, 1885, Jessie F. Slatter. Children : Bessie E., born January 6, 1889, married, June 1, 1911, E. A. Brewer, of Cortland ; Georgia Lucile, May 17, 1890; Eliz- abeth Jaynes. August 7, 1893.
Sylvester Hayward Slatter, father of Mrs. Spaukling, was son of Samuel and Hannalı (Hayward) Slatter, and was born in Sussex county, England, about 1822 ; married, Decem- ber 13, 1854. Emma Drake, at St. Mary's Church, Lewishaven, county Kent, England, and died December 22, 1878. Children of Sylvester Hayward Slatter: 1. Alice Miriam Slatter, born February 29, 1856 ; married, Au- gust 15, 1879, Harry Hart, and had: Isaac, Miriam, Esther and George Hart. 2. Adelaide, born December 24, 1857; married ( first ), Sep- tember 15, 1886, James Shaw ; (second) Scott Bruce. 3. Sylvester B. Slatter, born July 29, 1859 ; married, October 23, 1889, Nancy Brown, and had Marjorie, born June 30, 1893. 4. Walter Drake Slatter, born July 6, 1861, died January 22, 1890. 5. Jessie Florence Slatter, born January 17, 1866; married R. Z. Spauld- ing ( see Spaulding IX). 6. Edna Bertha Slat- ter, born March 29, 1867, died March 11, 1869. Emma (Drake) Slatter was a daughter of William and (Chappel) Drake, and was born about 1831, died in September, 1879. Her father was a captain in the English mer- chant marine. Children of William Drake : Sarah, Maria, Benjamin, William, Emma, Re- becca and Jane Drake.
Jacob Mckinney, of Scotch MCKINNEY ancestry, was born April 30. 1771, in Pennsylvania, and died February 4, 1848. He lived in Simsbury, Pennsylvania, and removed thence to North- umberland, New York, and finally to Bing- hamton, New York. He was a man of the highest character, and universally respected by the people of the community in which he lived. He had much to do with the early history of Binghamton, and was widely known by his title of "Judge" Mckinney. In 1808 he was sheriff of the county, and, in 1809, county clerk. For a time he was partner of General
Joshua Whitney in the business of general merchants. He married, August 8, 1805, Eliza Sabin, born November 28, 1780, died May 7. 1844, daughter of Walter Sabin, mentioned elsewhere in this work, a surveyor by pro- fession, who came from Norwich, Connecticut, to Harpersville, Delaware county, New York, prior to 1788, and then removed to Broome county, New York, returning eventually to Connecticut, where he died, leaving a widow, five daughters and one son. Children : I. Ed- ward, mentioned below. 2. Ann Eliza, born June 17, 1808, died September 2, 1862. 3. Charles, born June 17, 1810, died June 8, 1884 : married, May 27, 1839, Catherine B. Ely. 4. Samuel Sweetland, born April 1, 1813, died June 25, 1837. 5. Sabin, born March 7, 1816; married, January 27, 1847, Elizabeth Sheldon Corliss. 6. Silas, born November 2, 1818, died April 21, 1888; married (first ), February 24, 1847, Fannie M. Nelson ; (second ), 1865, Mary C. Burt. 7. Amelia, born May 4, 1823, died October 25, 1823.
(II) Edward, son of Jacob Mckinney, was born August 18, 1806, in Binghamton, New York, and died May 24, 1849. He married, April 21, 1832, Marcia Maria, daughter of John and Mehitable ( May) Phillips, of Coopers- town, New York. Children : Frank, died young ; E. Paschal, mentioned below ; William, mar- ried Mary Eliza Niven.
(III) Major E. Paschal Mckinney, son of Edward Mckinney, was born at Phoenix, near Cooperstown, New York, February 23, 1838; married. June 18, 1868, Fanny Lee Fish ( see Fish ). Major Mckinney was graduated from Yale University in the class of 1861. He im- mediately enlisted in the Union army, and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company G, Sixth New York Cavalry, October 17, 1861, and continued in service until the end of the civil war ; he was commissioned first lieutenant, Company C, January 20, 1863; captain and commissary of subsistence, United States Vol- unteers, May 18, 1864; brevet major, July 7, 1865, "for efficient and meritorious service." Major Mckinney passed through the follow- ing battles and operations : Siege of Yorktown, Virginia ; battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks ; the Peninsular Campaign ; was escort to General Keyes, commanding Fourth Corps, Army of the Potomac, in battle of Chancellors- ville ; brigade commissary on staff of General Thomas C. Devin ; acting adjutant of regi- ment, battle of Deep Bottom, Trevillian Sta-
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tion and the Wilderness, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac; battle of Cedar Creek, Vir- ginia, commissary Second Brigade, First Di- vision, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, and Sheridan's Cavalry Corps. He was wound- ed, August 13, 1864, at Berryville, Virginia, in an attack by General Mosby's troops, while serving in the Commissary Department, under General Phil Sheridan. At the close of the war he returned to Binghamton, and engaged in the wholesale grocery business, in partner- ship with his uncle, Sabin Mckinney, and this still continues. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of Watrous Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Bing-
hamton. Children, born at Binghamton: I. Edward, born September 26, 1869; married Frances Nora Sexton ; children : Frances Ruth, March 8, 1900: Edward Phillips, May 24, 1902 ; Elizabeth, died in infancy ; Marcia May, Octo- ber 31, 1908, and Georgia Christiane. 2. Marcia May, born December 27, 1871 ; married George Buell Hollister ; died February 12, 1909. 3. Fanny Lee, born November 7, 1876. 4. Carlos Tucker, born January 20, 1882, died in infancy.
(The Fish Line).
( I) Nathaniel Fish, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England, and settled in Sandwich, Massachusetts, before 1640, when he was one of the proprietors of that town. His brother John was of Lynn and Sandwich, and his brother Jonathan of Lynn, Sandwich, and finally of Newtown, Long Island, was ancestor of the famous New York family to which Governor Hamilton Fish belonged. Nathaniel married Lydia, daughter of Rev. John Miller, and from her come the names Miller in later generations. The widow Lydia and her brother, John Miller, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, ad- ministered the estate of Nathaniel Fish, who engaged before marriage to pay her as much as he had with her, £66. The inventory was dated March 14, 1693-94. Children : Nathaniel, born November 27, 1648 ; John, April 13, 1651 ; Thomas, mentioned below : Samuel, August IO, 1668, died and bequeathed £8 to his aged father, February 2, 1691-92.
(11) Thomas, son of Nathaniel Fish, was born about 1665. fle settled at Duxbury, Massachusetts. Children, born at Duxbury : 1. Thomas, May 22, 1700. 2. Ebenezer, De- cember 13, 1703, died March 2, 1791. 3. Rev. Joseph, January 28, 1705-06; graduate of Ilar- vard, 1728: married Rebecca Pabodie (Pea-
body), great-granddaughter of John Alden, December 6, 1732; he died May 26, 1781, and she died at Fairfield, October 27, 1783. 4. Lydia, born March 24, 1708; married Eliakim Willis. 5. Samuel, October 1, 1710; married Elizabeth Randall. 6. Nathaniel, mentioned below.
( III) Nathaniel, son of Thomas Fish, was born April II, 1713, at Duxbury, Massachu- setts. With his brother, Rev. Joseph Fish, he settled at Stonington, Connecticut, afterward North Stonington. He married Mary Pabodie, a descendant of John Alden ( see Peabody ). and sister of his brother Joseph's wife. Chil- dren of Nathaniel and Mary, born at Stoning- ton : Miller, mentioned below : William, April 26, 1738; Eliakim, February 2, 1741 ; Joseph, March 21, 1744; Lydia, March 1, 1746.
(IV) Miller, son of Nathaniel Fish, was born in Stonington, October 9, 1737. He set- tled in Hartford, and, in 1790, had, according to the first federal census, five males over six- teen, one under that age, and three females in his family. His brother Eliakim had two females and no sons in his family at that time.
(V) Miller (2), son of Miller (1) Fish, was born about 1765, probably in New London county, Connecticut. He married, July, 1786. in Hartford, Connecticut, Huldah Corning, who died January 15, 1806. He died Septem- ber 16, 1816. He appears to have lived with his father until about 1790. Children, born at Hartford: llenry, mentioned below ; Re- becca, September 28, 1790; John, January 15, 1792, died May 23. 1807 : Mary, December 26, 1795: Frederick. August 3, 1798; Edward. February 11, 1800; George H., September 5, 1803: Iluldah C., January 5, 1806, died Sep- tember, 1853, unmarried.
(VI) Dr. Henry Fish, son of Miller (2) Fish, was born October 15, 1788, died Decem- ber 29, 1850; married Rebecca Birch. He graduated from Yale College in 1805, and studied medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, from which he received the degrees of M. A. and M. B. in 1810. In 1826 he received the degree of M. D. from Yale College. He had what was then called a country practice in New York City, with an office in Beekman street. He removed later in life to Salisbury. Connecticut, where he resided and practiced his profession to the time of his death. Chil- dren: 1. Henry F., born October 29, 1813: married, February 21, 1850, Lucy Wilcox. 2. Myron H., mentioned below. 3. John C.,
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