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(The Gray Line).
(I) David Gray lived in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He and his brother, tradition says, were officers in the British army in the revolution, and served under General Corn- wallis.
(II) Arthur, son of David Gray, was born about 1755. After the revolution he settled at Binghamton, New York, and became the owner of a large tract of land which he after- ward traded with Captain Stowe for a still larger tract in Union, New York, about 1825. He married, in 1778, Mary, daughter of Daniel and Euphemia (Reid) Reading (see Sands).
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Children : 1. William, born April 3, 1779 ; mar- ried Lanning. 2. Daniel, April 9, 1781; married Lydia Bevier. 3. Euphemia, June 27, 1782; married Samuel Dean. 4. Theodosia, January 15, 1784; married Rich- ard Lowe. 5. Anastasia, March 31, 1786; married Jonathan Ogden. 6. Catherine, mar- ried James McKinney. 7. Mary, married Ly- man Page. 8. Jasper. June 22, 1792. 9. Eleanor, twin of Jasper. 10. Arthur, men- tioned below. II. Isaac, May 21, 1797 ; mar- ried Sarah Williams. 12. Barzillai, May 17, 1801 ; married H. A. Shaw.
(III) Arthur (2), son of Arthur (1) Gray, was born October 9, 1794. He married, De- cember 25. 1815, Ann, daughter of William and Mary ( Mersereau) Van Name ( see Mer- sereau). He died June 13. 1864, and was bur- ied in the Gray plot in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, New York, by the side of his wife, who died at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1893, aged ninety-eight years. Chil- dren : I. Isaac, born August 13, 1817, died March 25. 1863: married, December 3, 1851, Rebecca G. Sayer. 2. William, September 30, 1819; married (first), February 28, 1860, Sarah Rounds ; (second) Ellen Storer ; he died December 24, 1905. 3. Charles, August II. 1821, died August 5. 1850. 4. Elizabeth Ann, July 20, 1823, died March, 1898; married. July 23, 1844, Abel Du Bois, of Tioga, New York. 5. Mary Jane. April 21, 1826, died March 26, 1887 : married, October 11, 1848, Charles Man- ning, of Berkshire, New York. 6. James, February 18, 1828. died October, 1852. 7. Arthur, July 19, 1830, died May 14, 1834. 8. Euphemia Catherine, June 18, 1833: married, October 9. 1860, Joseph Du Bois, of Tioga, New York. 9. Christopher, mentioned below.
(IV) Christopher, son of Arthur (2) Gray. was born October 30, 1835, died August 22, 19II, buried in Spring Forest Cemetery. He married, in Union, New York, May 29, 1865. Lucy Baxter Richards, daughter of Jesse and Mary Richards ; she died April 21, 1892. Chil- dren, born in Union, New York: 1. Mary Richards, born June 3, 1866. 2. Alice Eliza- beth, April 28, 1868; married, February II, 1903, in Binghamton, New York, James Val- entine Beazley, a native of London, England. 3. Arthur Richard, May 3, 1870 : married, April 13, 1898, Flora Green ; child, Arthur Leverett. born September 9, 1901. 4. Helen Sayer. July 27, 1873. 5. Jesse Richards, April 6, 1880; married Phebe Lane, January 9, 1908.
(The Sands Line).
(II) Samuel, son of Captain James Sands (q. v.), was born in 1666; married Dorothy, daughter of Simon and Mary Ray, of Block Island. He lived at Cow Neck. His will was proved in Rhode Island in 1716. Children : Sybil, married Jonathan Rogers ; Mercy, mar- ried Richard Stillman ; Ann, married Kermann; Sarah, married Nathan Selleck; Samuel, Jr., married - Pell ; Mary, men- tioned below.
(III) Mary, daughter of Samuel Sands, married, December 17, 1721, Colonel John Reid, of Hortensia, New Jersey, who was born July 27, 1686. She died in October, 1776; he died June 1, 1777. Children : Mary, born No- vember 28, 1722, married, 1749, Thomas Kearney ; Anna, born February 18, 1724, mar- ried, 1748, Obadiah Bonne ; John, January 2, 1726; Helena, March 9, 1728, married Thomas Bonne; Margaretta, March 29, 1730, married James Kearney: Augustine, December 28, 1731. married Sara Reading: Catherine, August 14, 1733. married Richard Reading ; Euphemia, mentioned below : Samuel. March 12, 1737 ; Theodosia, November 24, 1738, mar- ried. 1767, Jasper Smith.
(IV) Euphemia, daughter of Colonel John and Mary ( Sands) Reid, was born May 24, 1735. She married (first), in 1755, Daniel Reading : (second), March, 1772, Peter Im- ley. Children of Daniel and Euphemia Read- ing: Mary, born March 31, 1756: married, 1778, Arthur Gray ( see Gray) ; John, May 20, 1757; Euphemia, May 16, 1761: Daniel, March, 1763: Samuel and Helena, twins, Feb- ruary, 1765. Children of Peter and Euphemia (Reid) Imley: Peter and William Imley, twins, 1773.
MASON Sampson Mason was the immi- grant ancestor of the family. He was a soldier in Cromwell's army and came to America about 1650. The earliest record found of him in America is in the Suf- folk record of the settlement of the estate of Edward Bullock, of Dorchester. His will was dated July 25, 1640, and a debt is mentioned as due to Sampson Mason for his wife's shoes. In 1651 Sampson Mason bought a house and land in Dorchester of William Botts, and after- ward sold it to Jacob Hewins. He removed to Rehoboth where by vote of the town, De- cember 9, 1657, he was given permission to buy land and settle there. He was a Baptist,
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and the records show that he, Luther and other Baptists became prominent in the town in spite of the fact that they were only allowed to live there, without the privilege of being made freemen, by the Puritan inhabitants. He ob- tained grants of land south of Rehoboth from the Indians, in the town of Swansea. His name is among the original associates and a founder of the town, and one of the original proprietors of the "North Purchase," later Attleborough, Massachusetts. He died in 1676 in the midst of Indian wars, and his widow settled that of the estate which was left after the ravages of the Indians.
He married Mary Butterworth, and she died August 29, 1714. Children: Noah, born prob- ably in Dorchester ; Sampson, born in Dorches- ter ; Samuel, born about 1656, in Dorchester ; John, born in Dorchester ; Sarah, February 15, 1658, in Rehoboth; Mary, February 7, 1660; James, October 30, 1661; Joseph, March 6, 1663-64 ; Bethia, October 15, 1665; Isaac, July 15, 1667; Pelatiah, mentioned below ; Ben- jamin, October 20, 1670; Thankful, October 27, 1672.
(11) Pelatiah, son of Sampson Mason, was born in Rehoboth, April 1, 1669. He married, May 22, 1694. Hepsibeth, daughter of Tim- othy and Mary ( Russell) Brooks. She was born about 1673, doubtless in Woburn, Mas- sachusetts, and died August 24, 1727, in Swan- sea, Massachusetts. Tradition says that he married four times, living with his fourth wife for twenty-one years, but there is record of only his first marriage. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade. His home was on the way to Great Bridge, now Myles Bridge, lead- ing to Mattapoisett, now Gardner's Neck, in Swansea. Before his death he distributed his property among his sons, and so made no will. He seems to have been an active member of the Second Church, and held several town offices. On April 28, 1724, he conveyed forty acres of land to his son Job, and August 31. 1747, he conveyed lands to his sons Job, Rus- sell and John. He died March 29, 1763, and was buried in the small family burial lot, a little more than a mile northwest from the meeting house of the Second Church, and his grave still bears its stone. Children, born in Swansea : Job, born February 28, 1695 : Elihu, January 1, 1696-97 : Elisha, January 11, 1698- 99; Samuel, January 30, 1701, died 1709: Aaron, March 8, 1703; Anne, June 9, 1705 : Elizabeth, June 18, 1707; Hepzibah, Decem-
ber 19, 1709; Pelatiah, December 16, 1711 ; Russell, mentioned below; John, October 4, 1716.
(III) Russell, son of Pelatiah Mason, was born in Swansea, April 21, 1714, died Janu- ary 8, 1799. He was a carpenter by trade. He was chosen elder of the Second Church, Sep- tember 21, 1752, and was ordained November 2, 1752, serving until his death. He married (first), June 5, 1736, Rhoda, daughter of Na- thaniel and Christian (Cole) Kingsley. She was born in Swansea, February 2, 1720-21, died October 29, 1779. He married ( second ), August 13, 1780, Mary Munroe, who died aged ninety years, March 26, 1828, and was buried in the old cemetery of the Second Church. He was buried in the old family burying ground of the present Kingsley family in Swansea. His will was dated January 2. 1786, proved June 4, 1799, and in it he mentioned his wife and children. Children, born in Swansea by first wife: Brooks, born October 2, 1737 ; Bar- bara, August 11, 1739 ; Andrew, May 20, 1741 ; Malachi, February 24, 1743; Philip, mentioned below; Russell, November 4, 1746; Rhoda, August 29, 1748; Joseph, November 15, 1749; P'hebe, January 8, 1753: Nathaniel, May 29, 1755: Kingslev, June 20, 1759, died October 23, 1761 ; Zerviah, March 3, 1761, died Sep- tember 26, 1768: Hannah, March 5, 1763. Child of second wife : Content.
(IV) Philip, son of Russell Mason, was born in Swansea, January 29, 1744-45, died July 21, 1813, and was buried in the old cem- etery in Cheshire, Massachusetts. Ilis will was proved August 3, 1813. About 1770 he removed to Adams, Massachusetts, and before then he probably lived in Providence, Rhode Island, for a few years. He married ( first) Mercy Scott, who died October 30, 1808, and he married (second) Phoebe Chil- dren by first wife : Joanna, born May 18, 1767, probably in Providence: Russell, mentioned below; Scott, August 2, 1770, probably in Adams; Rhoda, in Adams, April 10, 1772; James, April 3, 1774, in Adams; Abraham, September 14. 1775. in Adams, died young ; Mercy, September 10, 1780, in Adams ; Amy, June 8, 1782, in Adams; Sarah, August 20, 1784, in Adams; Ruth, September 6, 1788, in Adams ; Adams, died young.
(V) Russell (2), son of Philip Mason, was born at Providence, Rhode Island, February 25, 1769, died at Warren. Herkimer county, New York, May 17, 1811. He was educated
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in the schools of Adams, Massachusetts. He married, December 30, 1792, Ruth Lapham, born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, April 4, 1769, died at Warren, New York, March 18, 1829. Children: 1. Philip, born in Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, December 10, 1793. 2. Almond, mentioned below. 3. Horatio, born in Fairfield, New York, June 29, 1797. 4. Stephen, born in Fairfield, New York, September 8, 1801. 5. Mary, born in Fairfield, New York, April 10, 1803. 6. Mercy, born in Warren, New York, February 23, 1804. 7. Hiram, born in Warren, New York, September 17, 1805. 8. Isaac, born in Warren, New York, March 15, 1808. 9. Nancy, born in Warren, New York, Septem- ber 1, 1809.
(VI) Almond, son of Russell (2) Mason, was born May 11, 1795, in Fairfield, New York. He was a farmer at Palermo, New York. He married Lydia Thompson, born November 16, 1796. Children: 1. Russell, born June 2, 1816. 2. Mary Ann, December 19, 1821. 3. Nancy Jane, January 28, 1823. 4. Scott, June 2, 1826. 5. Stephen P., men- tioned below. 6. Amos Thomas, May 27, 1828.
(VII) Stephen P., son of Almond Mason, was born August 15, 1827. He was educated in the public schools, and during his active life he was a farmer in Palermo. He mar- ried Henrietta Sternburg. Children: Madge and Maude, twins; Burr, mentioned below.
(VIII) Dr. Burr Mason, son of Stephen P. Mason, was born at Palermo, New York, 1861, died September 3, 1890. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town, and studied the profession of dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He came to Phoenix, New York, and for nine years en- joyed a large and successful practice. He was a member of Callamachus Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; the Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at Phoenix. He was president of the Fifth District Dental Society and of the Syra- cuse Dental Society, was secretary of the Phoenix Union Agricultural Society, and a prominent and influential citizen of Phoenix, In religion he was a Congregationalist and in politics a Republican. He married, 1881, Olive, born in Constantia, New York, daugh- ter of W. Jesse and Ellen Jones, of Constan- tia, New York. They had one child, Dr. Burr Thomas, mentioned below.
(IX) Dr. Burr Thomas Mason, son of Dr.
Burr Mason, was born at Phoenix, New York, April 15, 1882. He attended the public schools of his native town, and the Philadelphia Den- tal College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1908. Before he studied for his profession he worked as clerk in the Syra- cuse Dry Goods Company's store for one year. Since 1908 he has had his office in Fulton. New York, and has built up an excellent prac- tice. He is a member of the Garretsonian So- ciety, the Fifth District Dental Society, Gamma Chapter of the Xi Psi Phi fraternity, the Callamachus Lodge, No. 369, Free and Accepted Masons, and Fulton Chapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons.
John Hand, the ancestor, was HAND born in England in 1611, and came from county Kent, about 1634, making his home on Long Island. Children : John, Stephen, Joseph, Shangar, Benjamin, Thomas, James, mentioned below ; Mary.
(II) James, son of John Hand, was born on Long Island, in 1651, and died in 1732. He married (first) Bishop, who died May 2, 1706; married (second) Elizabeth Dibble.
(III) Elias, son of James Hand, was born on Long Island in 1700. He married (first) Esther Osborne, who died April 25, 1727. He married (second) Experience Miller. Chil- dren by first wife: Phebe, Lemuel, mentioned below.
(IV) Lemuel, son of Elias Hand, was bap- tized in 1724. He married Hannah, daughter of John Thomas, who was a soldier in the King's service in the French and Indian war, from Durham, Connecticut. Lemuel died in 1802. Children born at New Lebanon, New York: Nathaniel, born 1739; Abraham, 1741, married Ruth Southworth, and died in 1815: Statia, married Daniel Treat ; Darius, married Elizabeth Catlin : Lemuel, mentioned below ; Nathan, married Lois Doubleday ; Polly, mar- ried Nathaniel Warden; Phebe, married Jo- seplı Hubbard; Esther, married Titus Hart ; Hannah, married Asa Pease.
(V) Lemuel (2), son of Lemuel (1) Hand, was born November 12, 1763, at New Lebanon, New York, and died there December 25, 1842. He married, September 16, 1798, Lydia, born November 15, 1771, daughter of Elisha and Hannah ( Bailey) Doubleday. He was a farmer by occupation at New Lebanon. In politics he was a Whig; in religion a free- thinker. Children born at New Lebanon :
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Elisha, born 1799, died in infancy ; Samuel, 1800, married Hannah Sherman ; Elisha, 1804, died in infancy; Hosea, 1805, married Caro- lina Bassett; Stephen Decatur, mentioned be- low; Jared, 1808, married Dorcas Montrose ; Osborn, August 27, 1810, died February I, 1886, married November 6, 1884, Maria Cowles; Nathaniel, born 1816, married Mary Palmer.
(VI) Dr. Stephen Decatur Hand, son of Lemuel (2) Hand, was born October 6, 1806, at New Lebanon, Columbia county, New York, and died March 10, 1879, at Bingham- ton, New York, where he was for many years a physician and surgeon. He married, April 8, 1832, at New Lebanon, Elmina Hayward, born in Huntington, Massachusetts, January 29, 1808, died at Binghamton, May 20, 1897, daughter of Edward and Lydia (Granger) Hayward. Solomon Hayward, father of Ed- ward, was born August 2, 1755, son of Edward Hayward, born July 24, 1689, and grandson of Deacon Joseph Hayward, who was the son of Thomas Hayward, the first ancestor of this family, who came from England to Massa- chusetts in 1635. Dr. Hand was a Presby- terian in religion and a Prohibitionist in pol- itics, and was nominated by his party for gov- ernor. Children: 1. Edward, born January 11, 1833, died January 28, 1835. 2. Edward, April 21, 1837, died May 6, 1837. 3. Edward, August 27, 1838, died April 16, 1839. 4. Julia Elmina, December 25, 1839, died Jan- uary 13, 1844. 5. George Frederick, men- tioned below. 6. Charles Edward, August 18, 1845, died March 16, 1846. 7. Walter Martin, August 9, 1850. The latter graduated with the first graduating class of the Binghamton high school, of which he was valedictorian. He then entered Hamilton College, from which he was also graduated as valedictorian of his class, after which he studied law, was ad- mitted to the Broome county bar, and prac- ticed up to the time of his death, October 9, 1906, twelve days after the death of his brother, Dr. George F.
(VII) Dr. George Frederick Hand, son of Dr. Stephen Decatur 1land. was born in Bing- hamton, New York, November 28, 1842. After receiving such education as the public schools of Binghamton afforded, he attended the sem- inary and graduated at the age of sixteen, when he began the study of medicine in New York City, and being naturally inclined to this study, he had, at twenty-three years of age,
received degrees from both the Homœopath and Allopath Colleges. Returning to Bing- hamton he began the practice of his profession in company with his father, and after the lat- ter's death he continued alone up to his death, September 27, 1906. He was a member for many years and president of the Homœo- pathic Society of Broome county ; was largely interested in church work, being a member of the West Presbyterian church, and was the first superintendent of its Sunday school. He married (first), October 31, 1867, Emily H., born at Belfast, Maine, July 21, 1846, daugh- ter of John and Mary E. (Simpson) Cald- well. She died October 29, 1874, and he mar- ried (second), May 11, 1880, S. Della Gif- ford, who was born at Wellsville, Allegany county, New York, December 30, 1857, daugh- ter of William and Clarissa M. (Jones) Gif- ford (see Miles VIII). Children by first wife : I. George Frederick, born November 1, 1871. died. July 20, 1872. 2. Julia E., December 30, 1872; was for a number of years a mission- ary in Japan ; married April 30, 1907, Freder- ick S. Bronson, of Geneva, New York. 3. John Caldwell, October 20, 1874 ; died August 10, 1875. Children by second wife: 4. George Gifford, born April 15, 1882; is with the Iro- quois Sash and Door Company, New York City; married, March 31, 1907, Winifred Cady ; children: George Frederick, born Feb- ruary 18, 1908, and Wilford Cady, born 1910. 5. Stephen Walter, February 3, 1886; died September 4, 1887. 6. Irving Forrest, March 24, 1888; was reared in Binghamton, educated in the public schools there, graduated from Union College, 1910, and is now in the lumber business in Binghamton, New York.
(The Miles Line).
Richard Miles, the American ancestor of this family, came from England with a com- pany of pioneers who arrived in Boston, July 26, 1637. After an exploring expedition in the fall of that year they set sail from Boston. March 30, 1638, for Quinnipiac, afterward called New Haven, in Connecticut, and arrived about a fortnight later. Part of them located at Milford, Connecticut, and among them was Miles. His name is sixth on the list of free planters under the date of November 20, 1639, on the first page of the town records of Mil- ford. He was appointed a commissioner to try small causes, one of the earliest magis- trates. Before 1643 he removed to New
Dr. Georgo .F. Hand
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Haven. He married Katherine Constable, probably his second or third wife, before leav- ing England, and she had children by a former marriage. Miles died in New Haven in 1663; his wife in Wallingford, January 27, 1683, aged ninety-five years. A memorial block erected to their memory has been suitably in- scribed and placed on the Milford bridge. Children of Richard Miles : Richard, Martha. Mary, Anne, Samuel, Hannah, John, men- tioned below.
(II) John, son of Richard Miles, was born in 1644, in Connecticut. In 1686 he removed from New Haven to Wallingford, Connecticut. He served as lieutenant under Major Robert Treat in the Great Swamp Fight in King Philip's war, and was captain of his company at the time of his death, December, 1704. He married (first), April 11, 1665, Elizabeth Har- riman, and (second), November 2, 1680, Mary Alsop. Children: John, mentioned below ; Mary, Richard, Samuel, Hannalı, Daniel, Joseph.
(III) John (2), son of John (1) Miles, was born at New Haven, January 9, 1667-68 ; married about 1686-87, Abigail Thompson. Children : Thomas, John, mentioned below : Joseph.
(IV) John (3), son of John (2) Miles, was born about 1687, probably at Wallingford. He married, August 2, 1710, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Glover) Ball. She was born September 16, 1687, and died November 25. 1760. Children born at Wallingford : Samuel, Sarah, Daniel, Susanna, Esther, John, men- tioned below ; Mehitable.
(V) John (4), son of John (3) Miles, was born at Wallingford, October 4, 1723; married, November 14, 1743. Martha Curtis. Children born at Wallingford: John, mentioned below ; Simeon, born April 4, 1746; Sarah, September 30, 1749.
(VI) John (5), son of John (4) Miles, was was born at Wallingford, August 31, 1745; married, January 23, 1768, at Wallingford, Abigail Perkins. He died in 1818; his wife in 1826. He was a soldier in the revolution as first lieutenant in Colonel Lamb's regiment, commissioned January 6, 1777; was commis- sioned captain, October 26, 1779, serving in the army until 1783. Children born at Wal- lingford: Brundage, born November 5, 1766; Eunice, July 3, 1768; Simeon, April 13, 1770; Moses, April 18, 1772; Patty, April 16, 1774;
Abigail, March 22, 1776; John, September 12, 1777; Russell, June 8, 1779; Sally, mentioned below ; Samuel, March 7, 1785; Roxy, Septem- ber 7, 1787.
(VII) Sally, daughter of John Miles, was born February 3, 1783, at Stonington, Connecti- cut ; married January 17, 1802, Benjamin (3) Jones, born in 1757, son of Benjamin, Jr, and Mehitable (Tyrrell) Jones, who were married May 6, 1756. His father, born in 1726, was son of Benjamin Jones, born in 1696, mar- ried Patience -, and grandson of Benoni Jones, who married, in 1689, Hester (Inger- soll) Gurley, widow of William Gurley. Grif- fith Jones, father of Benoni, was the pioneer of this family. Children of Benjamin and Sally Jones : Sally, born May 27, 1803; Ben- jamin, October 1, 1805; Roxy, May 6, 1807 : Zenas, May 10, 1810; Luman, September 24. 1811 : William, April 10, 1813; Lamando. July 15. 1814; Louisa, September 29, 1820; Clar issa, mentioned below.
(VIII ) Clarissa, daughter of Benjamin and Sally ( Miles) Jones, was born September 29. 1822, still living in Binghamton, New York, an own daughter of the revolution ; marrie.i. September 29, 1839, William Gifford, son of Hanuel Honeywell and Polly (Gowdy) Gif- ford. Hanuel Gifford was a son of Dinalı Cushman. William Gifford was educated in Oneida, New York, and was a man of schol- arly attainments. He settled at Wellsville. Allegany county, New York, and was in busi- ness as an architect, contractor and builder. He erected a number of churches, school buildings and other important edifices, for all of which he drew the plans. He was presi- dent of the board of education and held vari- ous other offices of trust and honor. He was a member of the Congregational church. His last years were spent in Binghamton, New York. Children of William Gifford. I. Louisa, died young. 2. Herbert, died in in- fancy. 3. Elizabeth, married Eugene B. Smith, of Binghamton, New York ; children : Bertha M., William C., Claremont, Eugene. Della G., and Gertrude F. 4. Mary Frances. married Frederick D. Schweiker; children : Margaretta K., who married Harvey Gerard Moore and has one daughter, Marjorie : sons : Lawrence W., married Ada Brining ; Frederick Gifford, married May Rook: Robert. 5. S. Della, married Dr. George Frederick Hand (see Hand VII).
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KING Family records state that Jehiel King hailed from Marlborough, Co- lumbia county, Massachusetts. Co- lumbia county is not in Massachusetts, but Co- lumbia county, New York, is near the Massa- chusetts line, and New Marlborough, Massa- chusetts, is near Columbia county. In 1790 we find the King family prominent in New Marl- borough. John, John Jr., Amos, Fenner, Reuben, George and Jonah were heads of fam- ilies there, according to the first federal census. This family was not from Marlborough, Mas- sachusetts, but was probably from Suffield, Connecticut, or Middletown. In 1790 Joseph King was reported from Middletown.
(1) Jehiel King, of Chatham, had children : Betsey, married Dr. Norton : Eunice, married Mr. Langdon ; Moses, Amos, Reuben, Luther and Jehiel.
(II) Jehiel (2) King, son of Jehiel (1) King, settled in Chatham, Connecticut, where he was born January 22, 1774. Chatham was formerly in Middletown. He married, May 14, 1797, Judith Lay, born February 9, 1797. He died October 2, 1823; she died in 1863. Children : I. Rena, born July 4, 1798 ; died April 8, 1842 ; married John Cody. 2. Laura, born July II, 1800; die 1866; married Joshua Willard. 3. Candace, born July 21, 1802: died March 27, 1892; married (first) Harvey Roe; (second) Hutchins; (third) Warner : (fourth ) Frank W. Slack. 4. Andrew, Feb- ruary 27, 1805; died November 5, 1805. 5. Andrew L., mentioned below. 6. Eunice, June 2, 1810: married Alexander Welton. 7. Reuben L., born April 3, 1811 ; died August 12, 1833. 8. Jonathan W., August 25, 1813: died July, 1863 ; married (first) Mrs. E. Bens- field ; (second) Margaret Welton; (third) Mrs. Margaret Hogan. 9. Henry, born De- cember 31, 1815; died January 6, 1896; mar- ried Susan Utley.
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