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NEWELL an old New England family, was one of the pioneers of Os- wego, New York. He married Perry. (II) George Sherman, son of Noah P. New- ell, was born in Oswego, New York, March 12, 1818. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and followed farm- ing there during his active life. In religion he was a Baptist, and in politics a Republican. He was collector of taxes of the town of Argyle for one term. He married, at South West Oswego, November 22, 1841, Catherine Ann McCoy, born July 11, 1823, daughter of Joseph H. and Nancy ( Beattie) McCoy. Jo- seph H. McCoy was born on the voyage to this country. His parents came from Scot-
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land and settled in Washington county, New York. Catherine was born in the town of Argyle, Washington county. When she was ten years old her parents crossed New York state from Washington county to Oswego, traveling in wagons which not only furnish- ed them transportation but dining-room and sleeping quarters, and locating in Oswego. Mrs. Newell is now ( 1911) living at Oswego. When the McCoy family came to Oswego they found a small village consisting of a few houses on the east side of the river. They located at South West Oswego, where Mr. McCoy followed farming during a long and useful life. He built the house on the farm which he bought and cleared, now occupied by his grandson, U. W. Lewis. Children of George Sherman and Catherine Ann Newell : William Payne, born May 1, 1842; Charles Sherman, mentioned below : Sarah Adelaide, born August 13, 1846; Martha Jane, July 5, 1848; Mary Elizabeth, October 28, 1850; Ed- ward Lawton, January 20, 1851, of Oswego; Joseph Carswell, February 13, 1854, of De- troit ; Catherine Elizabeth, November 21, 1857 ; Andrew Lytle, July 8, 1859 ( ?) ; Jessie, May 5, 1864.
(III) Charles Sherman, son of George Sher- man Newell, was born November 5, 1844, in South West Oswego, Oswego county, New York, at the home of his grandfather, Joseph H. McCoy. He died at Oswego, Sunday, Feb- ruary 19, 1911, and the first six months of his life was spent in this house. He attended dis- trict school No. 9, of South West Oswego, be- ginning at the age of three years and continu- ing until he was twelve. During the next three or four years he attended only the winter terms of school, working on his father's farm during the summer. His first employment away from home was at farming, and his wages were six dollars a month. When he was nineteen years old he enlisted in the Union army and served in 1864-65, in Company C, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. Colonel W. G. Robinson. He took part in the battle of Bermuda Hundred, and in other engagements on the James river. He was mustered out at City Point, Virginia. Afterward he joined the militia, and from 1874 to 1882 was first lieutenant of the Separate Troop Cavalry, Twenty-fourth Brigade, Sixth Division, New York National Guard.
Upon returning from the war service he learned the trade of brickmason in the employ
of Jonathan Horton, of Oswego. While still a young man he engaged in business on his own account as a contracting mason, and became one of the most prominent builders of Os- wego, erecting many of the most important structures in the city in his day. He was the contractor and built the Oswego State Normal School, the Arcade Block, the Rome, Water- town & Ogdensburg railroad shops, and other public buildings and many residences. In 1881, when thirty-five years old, he was appointed superintendent of the Oswego City Almshouse, and filled that position most efficiently and satisfactorily during the rest of his life. Dur- ing this long period of thirty years, no com- plaint was filed and no dissatisfaction discover- ed in the institution. For several years be- fore he died he desired to resign, but the mem- bers of the board in charge, the commissioners of charity, persuaded him to remain at his post. He was well qualified by natural ability and experience to administer this charge. His early training on the farm and his knowledge of men and affairs acquired in the contracting business fitted him exceptionally well to man- age the farm and care for the inmates success- fully. He had an even temper, a kindly dis- position and great executive ability. He at- tended the West Baptist Church, and was a member of Frontier Lodge, No. 432, Free Masons, and of Oswego Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was well known in business circles and financially inter- ested in a number of corporations doing busi- ness in the city of Oswego; a stockholder in the Reid Hardware Company, the Oswego Oil & Fuel Company and of the New Hotel Cor- poration, and was trustee of the City Savings Bank. He was a prominent member of Post O'Brien, Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he was a lifelong Republican, earnest, influential and loyal in supporting the prin- ciples and candidates of his party. He served in the common council of the city and repre- sented the Fourth Ward in the board of alder- men in 1875-76. The following minute on the city records expresses the public sentiment toward Mr. Newell :
"On Sunday, February 19, 1911. in the death of Charles S. Newell, there closes a life of more than ordinary usefulness. The community has lost one of its best citizens, and our city one of its most faithful and courteous officials. Especially is the Department of Charity bereft in the death of one who had for thirty years most acceptably filled the exacting posi- tion of superintendent of our almshouse. His work
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had been performed in such a careful and pains- taking manner that he has ever enjoyed the complete confidence and esteem of the members of the depart- ment, as well as the greatest respect of those who were placed in his care.
"Therefore, be it resolved, that we, the members of the Department of Charity, take this means of expressing our deep sorrow in this our bereavement, that this memorial have a place on our records and that a copy of same be forwarded to Mr. Newell's family. (Signed by W. W. Buck, J. N. Lee Tulep, Frank Schilling, Arthur F. Kelly, Commissioners of Charity."
Mr. Newell married, March 3, 1864, at Han- nibal, Oswego county, New York, Addie E. Blodgett, who was born August 28, 1844, in Hannibal, daughter of Madison J. and Mary A. (Lockwood) Blodgett. Her father was a farmer and butcher at Hannibal. She had a brother, Etigene M., and five sisters, Hannah A., Eliza E., Leonora, Alberta and Adelle Blodgett. For many years Mrs. Newell served as matron of the Oswego City Almshouse, and she was a great favorite with the old people who lived there. She was well qualified for the trying duities of her position, and took great pride in the institution, which was under the management of her husband. She was tender and kindly in her treatment of the un- fortunates committed to her care. She died very suddenly at the home of her sister, Mrs. Horton, during a visit. Mrs. Newell's mother, Mary A. (Lockwood) Blodgett, was born in Hannibal, New York, May 1, 1816. Her father was born in Marcellus, Onondaga county, New York, and for a period of sixty-one years her parents lived together as husband and wife. Mrs. Blodgett was a member of the West Baptist Church of Oswego, a devout Christian, a loving and devoted wife and mother. Those who knew her loved her for her beautiful character. She was married in February, 1834, and died February 13, 1895. Madison J. Blod- gett, born 1811, died in 1898. One son and five daughters survived them : Eugene M. Blod- gett, of South West Oswego; Mrs. H. A. Dun- more, of Morgan Park, Illinois; Mrs. Robert McMillen, of South Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. J. Horton, and Mrs. L. B. Smith, of Oswego.
Children of Charles Sherman and Addie E. Newell: 1. Gertrude L., born February, 1867, died aged six years. 2. Cora E., born October 13, 1875; educated in public and high schools of Oswego ; married, September 21, 1898, Na- thaniel Lester Wright : children: Newell Na- thaniel Wright, born September 9, 1899, and
Hazel Leonore Wright, born August 12, 1901. 3. Ruth, died at birth.
David Lee was born in county Lim-
LEE erick, Ireland, about 1821. The Lee family originally came from Scotland to Ireland. David Lee came to America in 1844, and made his home in Truxton, Cortland county, New York, where in 1869 he was kill- ed by a falling tree. He was a farmer. Hc married Joannah Lane in Ireland, where she was born. Children: 1. Mary, lives in Cort- land, New York ; married John Mack, and has children: Anna, Catherine, David. 2. Mar- garet, married William Connell, of Truxton. 3. Thomas, of Cortland. 4. John Francis, mentioned below. 5. David, lives in Cortland. and is a plumber.
(II) John Francis, son of David Lee, was born in Truxton, New York, October 8, 1854. He received a public school education there. When he was twenty years of age he went to Otselic, Chenango county, New York, where he became engaged in the making of butter and cheese. After about fourteen years there, he removed to Norwich where he was engaged in the trading of butter, cheese and farm products for ten years, and now (1911) is engaged in the real estate business. Ile is a member of Lodge, No. 211, Knights of Columbus, also Ancient Order of Hibernians, and was former president of the Utica Dairyman's Board of Trade, which meets at that city every Mon lay. He married, January 1, 1883, Mary, daughter of Matthew Bulger, of Norwich. Children : 1. David Francis, mentioned below. 2. Matthew, born January 4, 1886; a civil engineer of Watertown, New York. 3. Kathryn A., born September 30, 1888; music teacher. 4. John C., February 2, 1890; a student at Syracuse University. 5. Robert J., born July 30, 1895. 6. Marian J., born October 7, 1899.
(III) David Francis, son of John Francis Lee, was born in Otselic, Chenango county, New York, January 19, 1885. He attended the public schools of Norwich in which he fitted for college. He studied law in Syracuse University and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1907. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. For a time he was clerk in the office of Edward W. Murphy, a promi- ent New York lawyer. In the spring of 1908 he began to practice on his own account with offices at 216 North Broad street. Norwich,
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one-half of Louisville and about one-half of what is now the town of Norfolk, then Louis- ville, Mr. Mac Vicar exchanging land in Louis- ville for what Mr. Miller owned in Turin. He superintended lumbering interests for Mr. Mac- Vicar, and had a one-quarter interest in the proceeds, and had power as agent for the pro- prietor to sell and contract sales of land. Tim- ber sawn into three-inch planks (called deal) was run down Grasse river to Massena Point, then rafted and run down the St. Lawrence to Quebec, and he continued this business until 1837. George Redington bought the interests of Mr. MacVicar in 1837, including his lumber interests and gristmill, also all lands, for $10,- 000, and upon his death in 1849, twelve years later, he was reputed to be worth $300,000. After the purchase by Mr. Redington, Mr. Miller ceased to act as agent. Mr. Miller was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church, and preached on every alternate Sun- day when able. He was instrumental in the laying out and construction of the Methodist Episcopal church at Louisville, called for him the Millerville Church, built in 1840, and being also a carpenter and one of the trustees, he practically furnished the greater part of the means for the same, his son, Levi Jr., having the contract for the building. Mr. Miller was one of the trustees of the church for many years.
Mr. Miller married, January 1, 1805, Polly Doud, born in Connecticut, December 28, 1787, daughter of Benjamin Doud, died January I, 1875. Children, all except the last two born in Turin, those born in Louisville: 1. Amanda, born October 20, 1805, died 1859, married Israel G. Stone. 2. Levi, June 20, 1807, died September 4, 1890. 3. Rana, May 12, 1810, married Rev. A. E. Munson. 4. William, April 26, 1812; this William and two children not named died in infancy. 5. John, January 23, 1816; attorney at law and county clerk of St. Lawrence county, New York; died at Chi- cago, Illinois, 1899. He had one son, John S., who became celebrated as attorney in the famous Illinois Central Lake Front case, and as attorney for the Standard Oil Company and the large packing houses in Chicago, and was the inventor of the now famous "Immunity Bath." 6. William, October 7, 1818; living at Fort Ann, New York. 7. Rufus HI., May 7, 1821. died January 29, 1907. 8. Mary M .. October 14, 1824; married Elias Powers, died August 10, 1866. 9. James, mentioned below.
(VII) James, son of Levi Miller, was born January 16, 1830, in Louisville, St. Lawrence county, New York. He attended the district schools and later Gouverneur Academy. As a young man he was a farmer by occupation, and lived on the homestead settled by his father. He also owned a mill and store and conducted them both for several years. In February, 1887, he removed to Potsdam in order to give his children better educational advantages. He acted as bookkeeper for his nephew, Nathan L. Stone, in 1887, and January 1, 1888, bought G. W. Bayley's interest in a general store at Massena, and removed thither March 1, 1888. He had as partner his son-in-law, Frank E. Bailey, and they conducted a general store until May, 1896. On September 6, 1894, he was waylaid and robbed on the sidewalk near his home by a highwayman, Edson McCue, who was sent for a term of thirty years to Danne- mora state prison, but was later transferred to the prison at Auburn, New York, where he is now confined. Since then Mr. Miller has been indisposed at different times and is now re- tired from active pursuits. He was collector of customs at the port of Louisville for several years, resigning December 1, 1886, on the eve of his removal to Potsdam. He also served as supervisor in Louisville twice during the civil war period; as justice of the peace for twenty years in Louisville and four years in Massena, New York ; and also served as township clerk of Louisville. He is a Methodist in religion, hav- ing served as trustee of that church in Louis- ville, and was superintendent of the Sunday school of the Methodist churches both at Louis- ville and Massena for many years. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Massena Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and has also been its master.
Mr. Miller married, February 13, 1855, Sa- mantha A. Thomas, born in Louisville, April 24, 1830, died April 12, 1911, at Massena, New York, daughter of Henry B. and Anna Car- penter Thomas. Children : 1. James L., born De- cember 10, 1855, in Louisville; for six months during the year 1878 he was in Cresco, Iowa; in 1879 went to Augusta, Wisconsin. From there he went to Emmettsburg, Iowa, then to Fern Valley, Iowa, then to Janesville, Wiscon- sin, where he remained six months, studying telegraphy, thence to Ashby, Minnesota, where he served as telegraph operator three months, then to Minneapolis, Minnesota, January, 1881, where he has since remained. He is employed
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in the commission house of Gamble, Robinson Company, 222 to 226 North Sixth street, Minne- apolis. He married (first) Nettie Strunk, Oc- tober 23, 1886; she died May 27, 1887; no children. He married (second), February 25, 1891, at Minneapolis, Jennie Palmer. Chil- dren : Bernice Lydia, born November 4, 1892; James Harold, born March 11, 1897. 2. Helen A., born October 18, 1857, died September II, 1890; married, at Louisville, October 23, 1878, John A. Oliver, who died March 1, 1896, aged forty-five years. Children : George, born Sep- tember 7, 1879; James Andrew, February 2, 1881; Jay Elton, October, 1886; Jennie Helen, September 7, 1890. 3. George A., born May 18, 1860; educated at Potsdam Normal School and Law College of Syracuse University ; em- ployed as bookkeeper for Oak Knitting Com- pany from September 14, 1903, to May 14, 1910; now salesman for a Central New York company, with headquarters in Union build- ing, Syracuse, New York. He married, June 24, 1901, Eva Dell Gardner ; one child, Selma Louise, born June 15, 1902. 4. Anna Eliza- beth, born February 13, 1862 ; married, May 27, 1884, Frank E. Bailey, of Louisville, whence he removed to Massena, where he is a mer- chant. Children : Mabel Frances, born August 4, 1886, died August 23, 1911 ; Jennie Florence, October 21, 1888; Ruth, July 20, 1893, died March, 1895; James Miller, July 31, 1896; Charles Ansel, September 6, 1898; Frank E. Jr., July 31, 1904. 5. Jennie M. Miller, born January 5, 1865 ; educated at Potsdam Normal School; has been engaged in newspaper re- porting ; reporter for Watertown Daily Times, also typesetting machine operator ; was with the Binghamton Herald, 1898-99; Peekskill Evening News, 1900, and with Massena Ob- server for about fifteen years; resides in Mas- sena. 6. John H., mentioned below.
(VIII) John Herbert, son of James Miller, was born in Louisville, New York, July 7, 1869. He attended the public schools and the Potsdam Normal School, from which he was graduated in the classical course. He then studied law in the office of Judge John A. Vance, surrogate of St. Lawrence county, and was surrogate's clerk under Judge Vance until the fall of 1893, when he entered the law col- lege of the University of Michigan, where he took the two years' law course in one year and graduated in 1894 with the degree of LL. B. That same year he was admitted to the circuit
and supreme courts of Michigan. He then returned east, and during the school year of 1894-95 taught school in Chenango county, New York. In January, 1896, he was admit- ted to the bar in New York state at a regular term of the appellate division of the supreme court held at Albany. He came to Marathon, New York, in May of that year, and bought out the library and business of an old practi- tioner and began the practice of his profession. He was admitted to practice in the district and circuit courts of the United States at Utica, New York, November 4, 1898. His work consists chiefly of general practice in United States and all state courts. He has attained a large measure of success, and has a reputation as a safe counselor and careful practitioner, and is employed in many important causes. In politics he is a Republican, and a great admirer of the policies of ex-Governor and present Justice Hughes and Colonel Theodore Roose- velt. In his early practice he was a justice of the peace in Marathon. He is a member of Marathon Lodge, No. 167, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Good Government League of Marathon. In religion he is a Meth- odist, and is chairman of the board of trustees in that church. He is popular with the fel- low members of his profession, and has besides a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
Mr. Miller married, June 2, 1897, Jessie A., daughter of William and Melissa (Nichols) Arnolds, of McDonough, Chenango county, New York. At the time of her marriage Mrs. Miller was at the head of the senior inter- mediate department of the Marathon high school. They have two children: Ruth Vir- ginia, born January 16, 1902 ; Herbert Arnold. May 5, 1904.
There is ample record that THOMPSON several of this name were among our earliest seven- teenth century settlers. Sir William Thompson, of England, was the owner of property about Boston and his coat-of-arms has come down through many generations, but patient research has failed to establish the exact connection be- tween the English and American houses. Ed- ward Thompson came over in the "Mayflower" in 1620; John, brother of the preceding, came over from England in 1643: Archibald settled in Marblehead in 1637; Edward Thompson settled in Salem in 1638; Dr. Benjamin Thomp-
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son settled in Braintree and was town clerk in 1696, and left at his death eight children and twenty-eight grandchildren.
(1) David Thompson was one of the three men who came from England in 1623 under the auspices of Mason and Gorges, making the first settlement in New Hampshire, between Portsmouth and Dover. David Thompson came from London and is said by Belknap to have been a Scotchman. He established a fishery at Portsmouth, and was the builder of Mason's hall. After a few years he removed from New Hampshire and settled on an island in Boston harbor, which was granted to him by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This is still known as Thompson's Island, and was a part of Dorchester until 1834, when it was an- nexed to Boston. David Thompson married, in England, Amyas Coles, and brought chil- ‹Iren with him on coming to America. He died soon after settling on Thompson's Island, and his widow subsequently married Samuel Mav- erick, born 1602, in England, a son of Rev. John Maverick, of Dorchester. For his loyal and good service to the crown Samuel Mav- erick was granted a house and lot in the city of New York at the point now known as No. 50 Broadway.
(II) John, son of David and Amyas (Coles) Thompson, was born about 1620, came over with his father as an infant, and on attaining manhood resided for several years in Wey- mouth, Massachusetts. In 1663 the town of Mendon, in Worcester county, which com- prised several of the present towns of that commonwealth, was granted to thirteen men of Braintree and ten of Weymouth. One of the latter group is described as "Goodman Thomp- son." In the early records of Mendon he is called John Thompson and John Thompson, Senior, and was selectman of that town in 1667-71-73-80-81. In 1674 he was granted leave to keep an inn and joined with his towns- men in 1681-85 in petitions to the general court. He died November 9, 1695. The baptismal name of his wife was Sarah and they had chil- dren : John, mentioned below ; Sarah, married, June 9. 1670, John Aldrich: Mehitable, mar- ried, November 28, 1666, Samuel Hayward. He had other children not on the record.
(III) John (2). eldest child of John (1) and Sarah Thompson, was born about 1643 probably in Weymouth, and removed to Men- don with his father. He is referred to in the records of that town as Ensign John Thomp-
son ; was selectman several years, and an active and honored citizen. When the second meet- ing house was built in 1694 he bought the old building, but we are not informed what use he made of it. He owned a considerable amount of land, and his name as grantor and grantee is often found in the land records of his time. He married, in 1665, Thankful Woodland, baptized August 9, 1646, in Dorchester, Mas- sachusetts, daughter of John and Martha Wood- land, of that town, later of Mendon and Brain- tree. In 1670 the town of Braintree voted to send Widow Woodland to Mendon to her son Thompson, "who kindly offers to receive and keep her." Ensign John Thompson died Sep- tember 18, 1739. Children: John, mentioned below: Sarah, born May 12, 1669; Ebenezer, baptized October 14, 1677, at Braintree ; Sam- tel. February 4. 1679; Woodland. January 27, 1681. settled in Uxbridge ; Benjamin, Septem- ber 17, 1684; David, May 24, 1687.
(IV) John (3), eldest child of John (2) and Thankful (Woodland ) Thompson, was born December 25. 1667, in Mendon. He re- sided in that town and Medfield until after 1696, and then in Bellingham, dying in the last town, March 6, 1749. He married, about 1688, Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Albee) Wight, of Medfield, born in 1667, died November 24, 1759. Her parents were married in 1663, the father being a son of Thomas Wight, who came from the Isle of Wight with his wife Alice, and their three sons, locating in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1636; was later in Dedham, made a freeman in 1640, and was one of the thirteen original proprietors of Medfield, where he settled in the latter part of 1652. Children: John, born December 28, 1689: Hannah, April 20, 1692; Mary, March 16, 1694: Samuel, July 2, 1696; Joseph, Octo- ber 19, 1698; Jonathan, mentioned below ; Benjamin, April 28, 1703; Martha, March 28, 1705 : Peter, March 20, 1708; Abigail.
(V) Jonathan, second son of John (3) and Hannah ( Wight) Thompson, was born Octo- ber 23, 1700, in Medfield, and resided in Bell- ingham, Massachusetts, where he died June 7. 1782, in his eighty-third year. ( Private rec- ords say he died in 1783). His wife, Hannah, died May 20, 1761, according to private rec- ords. Seven children were recorded in Bell- ingham : Eunice, born November 21, 1726, died unmarried, March 24, 1823 ; Hannah, Novem- ber 28, 1728: Jonathan, September 6, 1731, married, April 10, 1754: Jemima Baxter ; Abi-
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gail, September 27, 1735; Caleb, mentioned below ; David, March 21, 1740, married (first ) Lucy Blake, (second) Eunice Blake; John, June 8, 1744.
(VI) Caleb, second son of Jonathan and Hannah Thompson, was born November 5, 1737, in Bellingham. He served as a private in Lieutenant John Trask's company, Colonel David Leonard's regiment. of the revolution- ary army, enlisting February 26, 1777, and was discharged April 10, of the same year, having served forty-four days in the expedition to Ticonderoga, including travel (one hundred and eighty miles) home. He died in 1828, probably at Monson, Massachusetts. He mar- ried, December 21, 1768, in Bellingham, Lydia, daughter of Rev. Noah Alden. The last named was born May 30, 1725, in Middleboro, Massa- chusetts, moved to Stafford, Connecticut, in 1749, and in 1766, to Bellingham, where he «lied May 5, 1797, aged seventy-two years. The church records say he died May 6, and the town records give the date as May 5. He died in the forty-third year of his public ministry, thirty- one of which he spent in Bellingham. He was a descendant of the Puritan, Hon. John Alden, through the following: Joseph, son of John and Priscilla ( Mullins ) Alden, married Mary Simmons, and their son John married Hannah White, he and his wife becoming parents of Rev. Noah Alden, who was received into the Middleboro Congregational Church, March 7, 1742, dismissed to the Congregational church at Stafford in 1749, and a member there until 1753, when he changed his religious views and became a Baptist minister, being ordained in Stafford, June 5, 1755, and in Bellingham, No- vember 12, 1766. He was a member of the convention for adopting the constitution of Massachusetts in 1780, and of the convention which adopted the constitution of the United States in 1788. He is spoken of in various records as a pious and worthy man. He was one of the four ministers who formed the Warren association in 1767. His marriage with Joanna (or Mary) Vaughn is recorded at Middleboro, March 4, 1744. They had chil- dren as follows: Joanna,, Lucy, Ruth, Elisha, Israel, Noah, Lydia, and perhaps others. Chil- dren as follows were born to Caleb and Lydia Thompson, as recorded at Bellingham: Joel, February 13, 1770; Silence, June 21, 1771, died June 22, 1771 ; Hannah, June 3, 1773. died in 1788; Freelove, June 10, 1776; Zenus, mentioned below ; Rhufus, born in Mendon,
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