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(III) Israel, sixth son of Nathaniel and Sarah ( Porter ) Beach, was born May 3, 1707, in Stratford, where he died in 1793, and was buried in Stratford old burial place. He set- tled on what is known as the Bear Swamp farm, where he built a house in 1735, which was in an excellent state of preservation twen- ty-five years ago. He cleared up this farm and established a good home. In 1758-59 he was a soldier in the French war, and marched to Canada and back. The powder horn which he carried is still preserved by a descendant in Chicago. By trade he was a carpenter. His descendants settled near him and are still in possession of the property. He married, July 1, 1731, Hannah Burritt, born December 3, 1711, daughter of Joseph and Mary ( Wakeley ) Burritt. Children : Phebe, Nathaniel, Mary. Israel, Hannah, Eben and Charity.
(IV) Nathaniel (2), eldest son of Israel and Hannah ( Burritt) Beach, was born July 30, 1735, in Stratford, where he was killed by
the overturning of a load of wood, February 27, 1818, in his eighty-third year. He was a carpenter, and resided on Bear Swamp farm. He married, March 22, 1758, Patience Peet, born in September, 1735, daughter of David and Mary (Titharton ) Peet. His first child, name unrecorded, was baptized in 1759. Two others were: Abiah, born September, 1760; Nathaniel, died young: Phebe, baptized No- vember 1, 1765: Nathan, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, October 21, 1772.
(V) Nathan, second son of Nathaniel (2) and Patience (Peet) Beach, was born about 1770, and settled at Easton, in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut. In 1816 he removed to Liberty, Sullivan county, New York, where both he and his wife died. Children: Isaac. Nathan, Mary, married Abraham Hunt, and two other daughters, one of whom married a Lawrence and the other a Messiter.
(\'T) Nathan (2), son of Nathan ( I ) Beach, was born April 17, 1800, in Easton, and died January 6, 1888, in Owego, New York. He was sixteen years of age when he removed with his parents to Liberty, and there grew to manhood. About 1837 he went to U'nadilla. Otsego county, New York, and in the spring of 1838 settled in the town of Owego, Tioga county, New York, where he engaged in farm- ing. Ile was a very religious man, an earnest student of the Bible, and wrote on the flyleaf of his Bible the number of books, chapters, words and letters therein. He married ( first). at Liberty, Anna Hoover, born there Septem- ber 12, 1804, died in Owego, March 1, 1861 ; ( second ) Olive Ingersoll, who died September 12, 1900. Children, all born of the first wife, the first three in Liberty: William A., men- tioned below; Isaac N., born June 12, 1828, supposed lost at sea; Minerva J., September 15. 1831, married Henry Kipp, of Owego, and died September 1, 1853: Eli G., December 1, 1838. in Owego, now living in that town.
(\'Hl) William A., ellest child of Nathan (2) and Anna ( Hoover) Beach, was born October 30, 1823, in Liberty, and died May 10. 1892, in Owego. His education was supplied by the public schools of Liberty. Unadilla and Owego, and he became a millwright and sta- tionary engineer. For a time he resided in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and subse- quently in the west, where he operated engines in sawmills. Settling in the town of Owego, he engaged in farming there until his death. Ile married, in 1853. Helen Frances Griffin,
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born December 26, -, died January 11, 1905, born in Cambridge, Washington county, New York, daughter of Alfred and Cynthia (Ris- ing) Griffin. They were the parents of two children : Arthur Nathan Alfred and Otis Seth ; the elder, born November 13, 1858, is a tele- graph operator, employed by the Erie railroad at Hornell, New York. He married Iretta Van Buren.
(VIII) Otis Seth, younger son of William A. and Helen F. (Griffin) Beach, was born February 24, 1860, in Owego, and completed his education at the Owego high school. At the age of eighteen years he became a clerk in a drug store at Owego, of which he subse- quently became and is now owner. In 1882, in company with Alburn W. Parmelee, he pur- chased the business, and this was conducted under the firm name of Beach & Parmelee until 1895. At this time Mr. Beach purchased the interest of his partner, and since then has conducted the business alone. He is a member of the Business Men's Association, and the fire department of Owego, of which he has been chief engineer. He is active in various fra- ternal bodies, having attained the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry, a member of Friend- ship Lodge, No. 153, Owego (past master) ; New Jerusalem Chapter, No. 47, Royal Arch Masons (past high priest ) ; Malta Command- ery, Knights Templar, Binghamton (past com- mander) ; and is a member of Kalurah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Binghamton. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a steadfast Democrat ; he served as a trustee of the village in 1886, and was elected super- visor in 1890, and again in 1907 and 1909. In 1910 he was elected to represent his district in the state assembly, and served on three com- mittees-those of printing, insurance, taxation and retrenchiment.
Mr. Beach married, October 26, 1892, Lena M. Writer, of Owego, daughter of Gabriel M. and Hannah (Cable) Writer. They have two children : Harold Franklin, born September 15, 1894, and Jeannette Helen, September 14, 1896.
BALL John Ball, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England, and came to this country from Wiltshire before 1650. Ile was admitted a freeman at Watertown, May 22, 1650, and was buried at Concord.
Massachusetts, November 1, 1655. He lived in that part of Concord now the town of Bed- ford. He married Joanna Children : 1. Nathaniel, settled in Concord; had sons Ebenezer, Eleazer, John and Nathaniel; many of his descendants live in Worcester county, Massachusetts. 2. John, mentioned below. 3 Abigail, born at Watertown, May 26, 1656.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Ball, was born in England, about 1620; married (first) Elizabeth Peirce (or Pers), daughter of John Peirce, of Watertown, one of the founders of the town. The wife was insane in 1660, and soon afterward died. He married (second), October 3, 1665, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Fox, of Concord and Watertown. Ball was a tailor by trade and also a farmer. He sold his farm at Watertown, originally purchased from John Lawrence, and went to Lancaster, where during King Philip's war, September 10, 1675, he and his wife and infant son were among the victims of the Indian massacre. His son John was administrator of the estate. Children by first wife: John, mentioned below; Mary, mentioned in will of her Grandmother Peirce ; Esther ; Sarah, born 1655; Abigail, born April 20, 1658, died young. Child of second wife : Joseph, born March 12, 1669-70.
(III) John (3), son of John (2) Ball, was born at Watertown, in 1644, and died there May 9. 1722. He was a farmer in Watertown. He married there, October 17, 1665, Sarah Bullard. Children, born at Watertown: Sarah, July 11, 1666; John, June 29, 1668; James, March 7, 1670: Joseph, May 4, 1674 ; Benja- min, mentioned below : Jonathan, March 29, 1680: Daniel, August 2, 1683 ; Abigail, October 5. 1686.
(IV) Benjamin, son of John (3) Ball, was born in Watertown, about 1678, and settled about 1703 in Framingham, Massachusetts. He leased in 1703 forty-four acres of land on the north side of Stone Brook, Framingham, near Colonel Buckminster's place, and took the deed of his farm January 21, 1734. He built his house on the south side of the brook, near Bullard's bridge, and March 7, 1751, sold the place to Allen Flagg, of Worcester. Children : Benjamin, born December 17, 1704; John, mentioned below: Abraham, born December 29, 1707, married, January 13, 1732, Martha Bridges, and lived in Holliston ; Isaac, mar- ried. 1738, Rachel How, of Marlboro, and settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts; Jacob, born May 28, 1712. married Deborah Belknap.
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daughter of Jedediah, resided in Brookfield; Thomas, born August 16, 1714, married, Feb- ruary 17, 1739, Hannah Wright, daughter of Edward Jr .; Mary, born February II, 1717, married Simon Mellen Jr .; Daniel, born De- cember 29, 1722.
(V) John (4), son of Benjamin Ball, was born in Watertown, July 16, 1706. He mar- ried Margaret Heminway, of Hopkinton, and Lydia Perry.
(VI) Josiah, son of John (4) and Lydia (Perry) Ball, was born at Watertown, Decem- ber 16, 1742, and died at Berkshire, New York, July 26, 1810. He came from Massachusetts to Berkshire in June, 1794, and was among the early settlers of the town. He was a shoe- maker by trade. He had an extra log house which he kept for the accommodation of pio- neers while they were building their cabins, and at other times it was used as a school- house and for a shoe shop. He was a soldier in the revolution, from Stockbridge, Massachu- setts, in Captain David Pixley's company, Colo- nel John Brown's regiment, June 20 to July 26, 1777, in the northern department. He mar- ried, February 26, 1768, Esther Ward, born in Worcester, March 7, 1750, died March 9, 1836, daughter of Major David and Mary (Coggin) Ward. Children: William, died aged two years ; Daniel, born December 27, 1769; Wil- liam, October 18, 1771; Stephen, mentioned below : Clarissa, November 14, 1775, married Isaac Brown; Samuel, November 13, 1777; Henry, November 21, 1779; Josiah, January 28, 1782; Isaac, December 27, 1783; Electa, June 9, 1788, died September 6, 1869 ; Charles, September 4, 1790, died January 4, 1814; Cyn- thia, April 24, 1793, married Luke Bates Win- ship ; Mary, July, 1801, died January 12, 1803.
(VII) Stephen, son of Josiah Ball, was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, January 29, 1774, and died in Berkshire, New York, February 19, 1857. He was one of the first settlers in Berkshire, coming thither in 1793. He settled on lot No. 336, on which he him- self cut the first tree, made a clearing and built a log house. He went back to Stockbridge and the following year returned bringing a cow. In June his parents followed him. He spent the rest of his life in Berkshire, following farming. His name is associated with many of the most important events of the early his- tory of the town. He erected the hotel which stood for more than three-quarters of a cen- tury in the village, and also the house opposite
the hotel. He married, in 1801, Polly Leonard, died October 3, 1850, a daughter of Captain Asa and Olive (Churchill) Leonard. Chil- dren: 1. Olive Leonard, born November 2, 1801; married Robert Akins. 2. Mary, born May 12, 1803, died March 21, 1815. 3. Har- riet, born July 19, 1805; married Aaron P. Belcher. 4. Eliza Ann, born October 7, 1807 ; married Charles Brown. 5. Richard Leon- ard, born June 9, 1809, died May 21, 1848. 6. James Ward, born May 24, 1811; married Sylpha Watson; settled in Ottawa, Illinois. 7. Caroline, born May 14, 1813; married Car- lisle M. Johnson. 8. Levi, born March 26, 1815; married Betsey Ann Royce. 9. Anson, born March 19, 1817, died April 27, 1884; married Caroline Moore. 10. Asa, born April 26, 1819; married Esthier Maria Manning. II. Mary Sophia, born February 2, 1821 ; married Dr. Edward H. Eldridge. 12. Robert Henry, mentioned below. 13. Frances Calista, born January 2, 1825, died October 21, 1853; mar- ried George Clark Royce.
(VIII) Robert Henry, son of Stephen Ball, was born February 25, 1823, in Berkshire, New York, and died June 7, 1900. He attend- ed the public schools. He followed farming on the homestead cleared by his father and grand- father, and lived there all his life. He was for some years town clerk of Berkshire. He was a member of the Congregational church. He married Henrietta Maria Conklin, born in Erie county, New York, February 24, 1827. died in Berkshire, January 30, 1901, daughter of William C. and Henrietta M. (Patterson) Conklin. Children: I. Polly, born October 2, 1852, died March 26, 1882; married Dem- ing A. Payne, of Ithaca, New York; chil- dren : Luther C. and Robert Henry Payne, now living in Liberty, New York. 2. George Pat- terson, mentioned below. 3. Francis C., born July 31, 1857, died July 18, 1860. 4. Anna Waldo, born September 19, 1859, died Feb- ruary 14, 1875. 5. Robert Henry Jr., born May 31, 1862, died October 17, 1886. 6. Cor- nelia Babcock, born December 14, 1870; mar- ried Irving C. Robbins, of East Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York ; children : George Ball, Robert Henry and Glenn Edward.
(IX) George Patterson, son of Robert Henry Ball, was born April 1, 1855, at Berk- shire, New York. He received his early edu- cation in the public schools of his native town. He began his business career as a buyer for E. B. Waldo, a produce merchant of Berk-
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shire, and continued for ten years. He suc- ceeded to the homestead, and has been farm- ing there since he was a young man, and has always lived in the house where he was born. For twelve years he was justice of the peace and member of the town board, and he has held the office of tax collector. Since 1898 he has been postmaster of Berkshire. For five years he was president of the board of education. He is a Republican, and has been active in politics, serving several years as a member of the Republican county committee from Berkshire. In religion he is a Congrega- tionalist and a trustee of the Congregational Society. He married, October 3, 1877, Jane C. Leonard, born in Berkshire, daughter of Joseph Waldo and Mary Ann ( Canfield ) Leonard. Children : 1. Anna May. 2. Edith Leonard, married Bert L. Gray, of Deposit, New York ; children : Eleanor. George Luther and Frederick. 3. Elizabeth Waldo, married Dr. William J. Tiffany, second assistant phy- sician at Binghamton State Ilospital: one child, Marjorie. 4. Ruth, married Joseph .1. Barr. of Berkshire: children: William and Richard. 5. Louis Robert. 6. Waldo Leon- ard. 7. Lucy Brewster.
WITTER William Witter, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England, in 1584, and died in 1659. He came from England in the ship "Mary and John," in 1639, and settled at Lynn, Massa- chusetts. lle was called into court May 2. 1646, "for antagonizing Infant Baptism." He had a case in court with an Indian known as Duke William, who claimed his land. His will, dated August 5. 1652, inventory Novem- ber 15, 1659, proved June 24, 1661, bequeathed* to wife Annis, son Josiah and daughter Han- nah, wife of Robert Burden, or Burdick. He owned much land at what is now Nahant. Children : Josiah and Hannah.
( II ) Josiah, son of William Witter, died before 1690. He settled at Stonington, Con- necticut, soon after his marriage. lle bought large tracts of land at Stonington, and built a house near Thomas Wheeler's, where all his children were born. His house was at what is now North Stonington, near the place lately owned by James T. Brown. He married ( first ), February 25. 1662, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Thomas and Mary Wheeler ; she died .August 5. 1672, and he married ( second) Sarah, daughter of Ekler John Crandall; she
married ( second) Peter Button, and had chil- dren : Peter, Mary, Mathew and Eliphal But- ton. John and Ebenezer relinquished their right in their father's estate in 1689. Children of first wife : Elizabeth, born March 15. 1663 ; Mary, February 20, 1665; Ebenezer, March 2, 1668. Children of second wife: John, men- tioned below ; Sarah, February 9, 1679; Han- nah, March 1, 1671.
( III ) John, son of Josiah Witter, was born March 11, 1677. He married (first) Sarah. daughter of Samuel Tefft, of South Kingston, Rhode Island. She died before March 16, 1725, and he married (second ) Mary -, who died soon after December 22, 1743. He was a freeman of Westerly. Rhode Island. ad- mitted January 29, 1702. He was a prominent citizen and large landholder of Westerly, Rhode Island. Children : Sarah, John, mar- ried. September 7, 1740, Annie Davis : Joseph, mentioned below: Martha, married, October 18, 1747: Stephen Lewis.
( 1\ ) Joseph, son of John Witter, was born at Westerly, April 4, 1716, and died January 12, 1799. He married, December 9, 1736, Sarah Stewart, born May 23, 1715, died March 23. 1802. Children born at Westerly or Hop- kinton : Joseph, died February, 1731 : Josiah, mentioned below : William, married, Novem- ber 1, 1764, Martha Cole.
(V) Josiah (2), son of Joseph Witter, was born January 25, 1739, at Hopkinton or W'est- erly. He married Tacy Reynolds, born March 19. 1743, daughter of Zacheus Reynolds ; they were married February 2, 1764, at Hopkinton, by Justice John Burdick. Children, born at Hopkinton : Weeden, April 30, 1765: Susan- nah, May 7. 1767 ; Lois, October 1, 1768; Han- nah, August 12, 1772; Joseph, mentioned be- low: Eunice F., October 31, 1775; Josiah, March 28, 1777; Sarah, February 6, 1779.
(VI) Joseph (2), son of Josiah (2) Wit- ter, was born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, March 28, 1773. He came to Lewis county, New York. in 1800, and settled in the town of Pinckney. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died in Jefferson county, of disease resulting from exposure in the service. He married (first). in 1803. Waity Greene, born December 20, 1787, died in Adams Center, Jefferson county, New York, September 9. 1873. She married ( second) John Trowbridge. The Witters lived in Rensselaer, then Madison county, New York, whence they came to Jef- ferson county before 1812. She was a mem-
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ber of the Seventh Day Baptist church. Chil- dren of Joseph and Waity Witter : Emily, born 1804, died at home of her brother Russell, in Verona, New York, February 10, 1852, aged forty-seven, unmarried ; Maria, Eunice, Polly, Russell G., mentioned below.
(VII) Russell G., son of Joseph (2) Wit- ter, was born September 1, 1806, and attended school in Adams, New York. During all his active life he followed farming. He married, September 22. 1828, Sarah Williams, born March 27. 1798, died at Verona, December 21. 1865, daughter of Captain William Williams, who was in the coasting trade and was lost at sea before his daughter Sally was born. The Williams family came to Verona, New York, and Sally was left an orphan when quite young, and was brought up by her uncles and aunts. Mr. Witter was a Democrat before the civil war, but in later years a staunch Repub- lican. In religion he was a Seventh Day Bap- tist. He died at Verona, May 1, 1861. Chil- dren : 1. Mary Ann, born September 1, 1830, lied November 27, 1873 : married Alben Saun- ders, who died May 5, 1864. 2. William El- bridge, mentioned below. 3. Susan A., born December 18, 1837; married October, 1860, Orin Peckham, of Worcester, Massachusetts ; two children.
(\'II1) William Elbridge, son of Russell G. Witter, was born.July 8, 1832. He spent his youth on his father's farm, and attended the public schools of his native town. He fol- lowed farming and lumbering when a young man, and then engaged in business as a builder and owner of canal boats. In the course of time he became extensively engaged in the transportation business, and for twenty years had an office in Buffalo, New York. For many years he was doubtless the largest owner and operator of canal transportation in the country. He also dealt to a large extent in live stock, and was a general merchant for many years. He owned many farms. A self-made man, he was the architect of his own fortune, and one of the leading factors in the development of this section. He retired with a competence in 1900, and since then has lived quietly in the city of Oneida, enjoying the well-earned leis- ure and substantial fruits of a busy career and long years of activity and industry. He is a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Society of Oneida and of Lodge, No. 270, Free Ma- sons. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, June 6, 1861, J. Louisa Lawton,
born in Verona, Oneida county, New York, November 26, 1833, daughter of Joseph Law- ton, and granddaughter of Joseph, Jr., and Joanna ( Belknap) Lawton. Joseph Lawton, father of her grandfather, Joseph, Jr., married Nancy Dennison ; they came from Rhode Island and Connecticut respectively. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Witter: 1. Eva May, born March 26, 1862: married, January 9, 1894, Willis Brundidge, of Oneida ; children : Violet and Orville. 2. Alice Louisa, born August 24, 1863: married, July 20, 1892, William M. Price, of London, England, later of Des Moines, Iowa, and now of St. Louis, Missouri ; children : Elbridge Witter, Priscilla Louisa, William Stanley, Alice Catherine, Cecil Lit- ten. 3. Sarah J., born .August 23, 1865 ; mar- ried, March 17, 1886, S. A. Campbell, of Bos- ton : children: Archie Witter, Russell and Marian Campbell. 4. Jennie, born September 9. 1867 ; married Dr. Eugene H. Carpenter, of Oneida, in June, 1898: children : Eugene and child who died in infancy. 5. Carrie B., born July 4, 1869 : married, September 13, 1899, Dr. Marcus L. Clawson. of Plainfield, New Jer- sev, and has one child, Elbridge Witter Claw- son. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Witter died in infancy.
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(J) John Greene. the immigrant ancestor, is first found on the records in 1639 as living with Richard Smith Sr., at a trading-post near the village now called Wickford, in North Kingston, Rhode Island. There is a family tradition that he came from England, and had the name of Clarke before he changed it to Greene. He may have come from Glou- cestershire, England, with Smith. John Greene, of Newport, and the surgeon, John Greene, of Warwick, settled in those places about the same time that this John Greene was in North Kingston. In 1663 he was brought before the Rhode Island court for declaring himself under the jurisdiction of Connecticut instead of Rhode Island, as his land was in Quidnesset Neck, which was pur- chased from the Indians contrary to the orders of the Rhode Island general court. Although he answered the charges with so much spirit that he had to ask pardon, the court agreed to protect his title to the land, and declared him still a freeman. He took the oath of alle- giance to Rhode Island, May 20, 1671, and January 1, 1672, was one of six who bought
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a large tract of land at Narragansett from the Indians, and in 1672-74 his name is written as witness to transfers of land. July 29, 1679, he signed a petition with forty-one other men of Narragansett asking the king to end the dis- pute between Rhode Island and Connecticut in regard to the jurisdiction of their territory. He deeded 120 acres of land on Allen's Har- bar to his son Daniel, March 24, 1682, and 60 acres adjoining it to his son James, for which they were to pay him a certain sum each year as long as he lived. He signed an address to the king, July 16, 1686, and May 13, 1692, he was witness to a deed. His name is not on the list of freemen for 1696, so he doubtless died between 1692 and 1696. His wife's name was Joan. Children: John, Jr., born June 6, 1651 ; Daniel; James, born 1655; Ed- ward: Benjamin, mentioned below.
(II) Benjamin, son of John Greene, was born about 1665, in North Kingston. He was on the list of freemen there in 1696, and in 1698-1703 he was deputy to the general as- semibly. In 1701-1704 was member of the town council, and in 1702 was ratemaker. He was appointed to lay out highways in 1703. March 26, 1705, he sold land in Kingston and removed to East Greenwich, where he lived until his death in 1718-19. His will, dated January 7, proved March 5, 1719, in East Greenwich, mentions wife and twelve children. He married, about 1687, Humility, daughter of Joshua and Joan (West) Coggeshall, of New- port and Portsmouth ; she was born in Ports- mouth, January, 1671. Children : John, men- tioned below; Mary, born about 1690; Ben- jamin, about 1692; Ann, about 1694; Henry, about 1696; Phebe, about 1698; Catherine, about 1700; after 1700: Caleb, Sarah, Dinah, Deborah, Joshua.
(III) John (2), son of Benjamin Greene, was born ahout 1688, doubtless at Quidnesset, North Kingston, Rhode Island, and died at West Greenwich, March 29, 1752. His will was dated March 26 and proved April 25, 1752. October 13, 1726, he gave a receipt for his wife's share of her father's estate. He is called Lieutenant John in 1732, and in some family records he is called "White-Hat John". January 0, 1733-4, he bought land in West Greenwich, and in 1743 he sold farms which had formerly belonged to his father and brother Caleb, both dead. His homestead was on the Cranston farm in West Greenwich. He married (first), about 1708, Mary Aylsworth,
born as early as 1688, daughter of Arthur and Mary (Brown) Aylsworth, who came from England or Wales to Quidnesset ; Mary Brown was daughter of Rev. John and Mary (Holmes) Brown, of Providence, and grand- daughter of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, the Bap- tist minister of Newport who was persecuted by the Puritans of Massachusetts. He mar- ried (second), August 24, 1741, Priscilla Bowen (or Barney), of Swansea, and she sur- vived him. Children, probably by first wife: Thomas, born about 1710; Philip, about 1712; Mary, probably died before 1752, not men- tioned in her father's will; Josiah, about 1715; Amos, January 17, 1717; Benjamin, about 1719; Caleb, Jonathan, Joseph, mentioned be- low ; Elizabeth, Ruth, William, about 1732; Joshua. (The order of birth of daughters is not certain ).
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