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(I) John Wilcox lived in Hartford, Con- necticut, and was chosen surveyor in 1643-44.
and surveyor of the jury in 1645. He served first as selectman in 1640, and died in 1651, his will being dated July 24, 1651. He was buried in the Center Church burying ground in Hartford, and his name is on the monument with that of the other first proprietors. His wife died about 1668. Children: I. John, see forward. 2. Sarah, born about 1614; married John Biswell, and settled in Middletown. 3. Ann, born about 1616; married John Hall Jr., and settled in Middletown.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Wilcox, was born in England, and came to Hartford, Connecticut, with his father, where he was one of the first proprietors in 1639. He re- moved to Middletown Upper Houses (now Cromwell) in 1655, where he died May 24, 1676. He had agreed to settle in Middletown, but failing to do so promptly the general court voted in 1653 to compel him to occupy his grant or to find a substitute. On March IO, 1657, he bought the homesteads of Joseph Smith and Matthias Treat, and afterwards sold them to his cousin, Samuel Hall. In 1659 he was a member of the committee on roads, and June 30, 1660, he was granted lands at Wongunk. It has been claimed that he re- moved to Dorchester, where he resided for a few years. He purchased land and built a house prior to November 1, 1665, on land oc- cupied by the Beaumont-Hammer house. He married (first) September 17, 1646, Sarah, who died 1649-50, daughter of William Wads- worth. (Second) January 18, 1650, Cather- ine, daughter of Thomas Stoughton, of Wind- sor, who built the stone house or fort. (Third) Mary, widow of Joseph Farnsworth ; she died in 1671. (Fourth) Esther, born May, 1650, died May 2, 1732, daughter of William Cron- wall; she married (second) John Stow, of Middletown. John Wilcox had a child by the first marriage: Sarah, born October 3, 1648, died December 3, 1727. Children by the sec- ond marriage: John, born October 29, 1650, died young ; Thomas, died young ; Mary, born November 13, 1654, died young ; Israel, men- tioned below ; Samuel, November 9, 1658. Children of the fourth marriage: Ephraim; Esther, born December 9, 1673, married Jo- seph Hand ; Mary, March 24, 1676; married Benjamin Hand.
(III) Israel, son of John (2) and Catherine (Stoughton) Wilcox, was born June 19, 1656, in Middletown, died December 20, 1689, at East Berlin, Connecticut. He married, March
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26, 1678, Sarah Savage, born July 30, 1657, died February 8, 1724, daughter of John Sav- age. Children: 1. Israel, born January 16, 1680. 2. John, July, 1682. 3. Samuel, men- tioned below. 4. Thomas, July, 1687. 5. Sarah, November 30, 1689.
(IV) Samuel, son of Israel and Sarah (Savage) Wilcox, was born September 26, 1685, in East Berlin, died January 19, 1727. He married, March 3, 1714-15, Hannah Sage, born December 21, 1694, daughter of John and Hannah (Starr) Sage, of Middletown. She married (second) Malachi Lewis, and died April, 1737. Samuel Wilcox's children : Daniel, born December 31, 1715; Josiah, men- tioned below; Hannah, December 24, 1718; Rachel, January 6, 1722; Elizabeth, October 25, 1726.
(\') Josiah, second son of Samuel and Han- nah (Sage) Wilcox, was born June 28, 1717, in what was then Farmington township, and resided in that town. His will made distribu- tion of his property to sons, Josiah, Ezra, Eleazer, Jesse, and daughters, Lovice Thomp- son, Salome North, Mary Ann Hart, Hannah Gillette and Anne Wilcox. He married, Jan- nary I, 1751, Elizabeth Curtiss, who survived him.
(VI) Ezra, second son of Josiah and Eliza- beth (Curtiss) Wilcox, was born June 16, 1753, in Farmington, where he probably passed his life. He married Phebe Woodruff.
(VII) Ezra Aaron, son of Ezra and Phebe (Woodruff) Wilcox, founder of the family in western New York, was born in 1789, in Farmington, as shown by family records (not recorded in Farmington). For some years he resided in Floyd, Oneida county, New York, and in 1837 removed to Niagara county, New York, settling first in the town of Royalton, removing in a short time to the town of Som- erset, where he died November 4, 1872. He served in a cavalry regiment in the war of 1812, and participated in the battle of Platts- burg. He was an active member of the Pres- byterian church in Somerset, and a highly re- spected citizen. He married, at Half Moon, Oneida county, New York, Sarah Davis, born there in 1793, who survived him nearly three years, and died August II, 1875, in Somer- set. Children: Ezra, Davis, Edwin, Freder- ick. Charles W., Theodora, Adelia, Emily, Melissa, Julia, Mariette, Sarah and Frances.
(VIII) Charles William, son of Ezra Aaron and Sarah (Davis) Wilcox, was born at
Floyd, New York, April 25, 1829. He mar- ried Mary P. Wilcox, born September 12, 1840, daughter of Josiah S. and Mary (Root) Wilcox, of Orwell, Vermont, and now resides at Niagara Falls, New York. Mr. Wilcox owned and conducted a farm in the town of Somerset for many years, and served as super- visor of the town for two terms in the early eighties. He was for many years an elder of the First Presbyterian Church of that town, and was elected several terms as delegate from the Niagara Presbytery to Auburn Theological Seminary. He was of a pronounced literary turn of mind, and wrote much high-class poetry and made many public addresses. Mr. Wilcox died at Niagara Falls, February 15, IgII. Children: I. William Stevens, men- tioned below. 2. Minnie Frances, married Ed- ward T. Williams, June 21, 1893, and resides at Niagara Falls, New York (see Williams, III).
(IX) William Stevens, only son of Charles William and Mary P. (Wilcox) Wilcox, was born November 4, 1872, in Somerset. He received his elementary educational training in the Lockport union school at Lockport, New York, where he attended three years. This was supplemented by a course in the Albany Business College, where he was graduated in 1891. Soon after this he became secretary to Charles E. Bush, at Orwell. Vermont, where the latter was president of the First National Bank. In 1895 Mr. Wilcox resigned this po- sition and became associated with the Ticon- deroga Paper & Pulp Company at Orwell, first as purchasing agent and subsequently in other capacities of confidential character until 1898, when he removed to New York City to repre- sent the company there. In 1903 he was elected secretary of the corporation, which office he now occupies, with headquarters on Fifth avenue. He is a member of the West Presby- terian Church, located on Forty-second street, New York City, and affiliates politically with the Republican party. He is a member of the Aldine and Traffic clubs of New York City, and Continental Lodge, No. 287, Free and Ac- cepted Masons.
He married, in New York City, February 24, 1903, Maud Elizabeth Cowen, born Janu- ary 19. 1878, in New York, daughter of Charles Anthony and Mary Elizabeth (Paton) Cowen, of that city. Mr. Cowen, now de- ceased, was a prominent contractor and builder of New York.
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This is a very ancient name in America, having numer- WILLIAMS ous immigrants in New England, and is also found very early in New Jersey, where the family still flourishes. It has been impossible to trace the earlier ances- try of the family herein mentioned because of lack of definite data.
(I) The first known member of this family was John Williams, a native of New Jersey, who resided in Ovid, Seneca county, New York, whence he went about the middle of the last century to Pendleton, Niagara county, New York. He was a farmer and merchant ; in religion a Methodist, and in politics a Re- publican. He married Sarah Ann Drake and they had children: George W., John, Abram C., Charles Albert, Theodore C., Frederick D., Rhoda M., Jane Ann, Sarah Ann, Elmira S., Lucinda, Elizabeth L., Phebe N.
(II) Abram C., son of John and Sarah Ann (Drake) Williams, was born September I, 1849, in Pendleton, Niagara county, New York. He was a farmer and stockdealer in Somerset, same county. In religion he was a Methodist, in politics a Democrat. He mar- ried Emma Augusta, daughter of George K. and Emma (Stocking) Hood, of Somerset, who came from Otsego county, New York. She was born in 1840 in that town. Children : Edward Theodore, mentioned below; Hattie Rose, born June 25, 1871 ; Minnie A., Febru- ary 19, 1875; Emma A., September 19, 1877.
(III) Edward Theodore, only son of Abram C. and Emma Augusta (Hood) Wil- liams, was born April 30, 1868, in Somerset. Here he early attended the district schools, and was afterward a student of the Wilson union school and Cornell University. His business life began as a reporter on the staff of the Buffalo Courier, and he subsequently . became president of the Cataract Journal Company, and editor of the Daily Cataract Journal and Weekly Niagara Falls Journal, serving for ten years. For four years he was a member of the board of education of the city of Niagara Falls, and was one year ap- praiser of real estate for the city of New York in the condemnation of Ulster county property, for the construction of the Ashokan Reservoir. He has been for some years and is at present industrial commissioner of the city of Niagara Falls. He is a member of Niagara Falls Lodge, No. 132, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, the Ongiara Club of Niagara
Falls, and of the Civic Club of Niagara Falls, of which he has been president and vice-presi- dent. Mr. Williams is serving his third term as president of the Niagara County Pioneer Association and has been recording secretary of the Niagara Frontier Historical Society for many years. He is also a charter member of the Niagara Frontier Landmarks Association. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Niagara Falls, and acts politically with the Democratic party.
He married, June 21, 1893, in Somerset, Minnie Frances, daughter of Charles W. and Mary P. (Wilcox) Wilcox, of that town (see Wilcox VIII). Mr. and Mrs. Williams have a daughter, Marjory Frances, born April 22, 1906.
DONNELLY
The Donnellys of Olean, New York, herein recorded, descend from Irish ances-
-O'Neill tors. John Donnelly married Of their and came to the United States.
eleven children nine grew to maturity: John, Henry, of whom further; Ann, Michael, James, William, Charles Hugh, Jane. Of these, John, the eldest, and Jane, the young- est, are still living (1911).
(II) Henry, son of John Donnelly, was born in 1833, in Ireland, died in West Kendall, New York, 1879. He was fifteen years of age when he came to the United States with his father, and for many years father and son were associated in business. They first settled in Vermont, then came to New York state, set- tling in Fowlersville, Livingston county, where they engaged in farming and operated boats on the old Genesee canal from Weston's Mills to Rochester. Henry then started for himself. He went to Scottsville, where he learned black- smithing, and after mastering his trade lo- cated in Kendall and opened a blacksmith shop. Later he moved his business to Jenkins Cor- ners in the town of Greece, where he contin- ued in successful operation for several years. He then settled in West Kendall, where he was in active business until his death. He was a Democrat in politics, an energetic, useful citizen, and well regarded. He married Cath- erine, daughter of Bryan Brice, who died in Liverpool, England. Children: 1. Henry, of whom further. 2. Mary Jane, married Fred Day, of Albion, New York ; children : Tapha N. and Jessie. 3. Owen, married Margaret Donohue, and resides in Buffalo.
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(III) Henry (2), eldest son of Henry (1) Donnelly, was born in West Kendall, Orleans county, New York, March 16, 1861. He was educated in the public schools, Albion high school and Brockport State Normal school. He decided upon the profession of law and studied under John Cunneen, afterward at- torney-general of New York. He finished his studies under W. P. L. Stafford, who was district attorney of Orleans county. He was admitted to the bar in 1888; came to Olean, New York, the same year and began the prac- tice of his profession. He had not reached this point in his career without hard work and unusual perseverance. During his years of legal study he taught school, and for a period of five years before had taught and studied, so that he was well equipped to begin his legal preparation. He has attained a good position at the bar and is established in a good legal practice. He was chosen town clerk of Olean and is the present city attorney. He has many friends and is held in high regard. He is an active Democrat, an untiring worker for party success and a leader in his city. He is a member of the State and County Bar as- sociation, and attends the Presbyterian church. He married, March 5, 1888, Mary Brower, born in Albion, Orleans county, New York.
COIT In Grove's Antiquities of England and Wales is a description of Coity Castle, also spelled Coite. "The exact time when this Castle was first erected seems uncertain, though in all likelihood it was first built about the year 1091 by Payanus de Tuberville, one of the twelve Norman knights who under Robert Fitzhamon seized the Lordship of Glamorgan." An ancient coat-of-arms is thus described: "He beareth sable on a chevron between three spears heads argent, three cross crosslets of the first, by the name of Coit."
John Coit, the first of the name in America, came to America probably from Glamorgan- shire, Wales, between 1630 and 1638. He was in Salem, Massachusetts, where he had a grant of land in 1638. He removed in 1644 to Gloucester, where he was selectman in 1648, having been admitted freeman in 1647. In 1650 he had a grant of land in New London, Connecticut. At the same time several others from Gloucester received grants, hence the sec- tion in New London allotted to them was called "Cape Ann's Lane," Gloucester, being
situated upon the peninsula of Cape Ann. He was a ship carpenter by trade. He later re- ceived a grant along the water front and made some purchases that gave him room to start a shipyard. He was also allotted a farm in Ledyard. His will, made August 1, 1659, provides for his son Joseph. and daughters Mary and Martha, but he refers to four other children, two sons and two daughters, as be- ing "absent from him," and leaves them a trifling legacy "if they be living." Of these four none appear on the New London or Gloucester records except Jolin, who came to New London with his father in 1651, but re- turned to Gloucester. The other three prob- ably never left England. John Coit married, in England, Mary Ganners, or Jenners. "Mr. John Coit died August 29, 1659. Mrs. Mary Coit died January 2, 1676, aged eighty." Chil- dren: John, married Mary Stevens; Joseph, of whom further; Mary, married Jolin Stevens; Martha, married (first) Hugh Mould, (second) Nathaniel White.
(II) Joseph, son of John and Mary (Jen- ners) Coit, was probably one of the younger children of his parents, and may have been born in Salem, Massachusetts. He is sup- posed to have settled in New London at the same time his father died (1651). He was a ship carpenter, and carried on business at New London with his brother-in-law, Hugh Mould. They built many vessels in their yard, and seem to have been important characters, as in 1667 they were "freed from common training" by order of the county court. Mr. Coit was elected constable July 24, 1665, and in 1683 was on a committee to procure a min- ister. He joined the church with his wife, April 3, 1681, and in 1683 he is mentioned as deacon in the church records, an office he held for more than ten years. He died March 27, 1704. He married, July 15, 1667, Martha Harris, died July 14, 1710, daughter of Wil- liam and Edith Harris, of Wethersfield, Con- necticut. From this marriage spring most of the Coits of America. Children: John, a ship builder, married Mehabel Chandler; Jo- seph, of whom further; William, married Sarah Chandler, sister of his brother John's wife; Daniel, died young; Solomon, deputy and man of note, married (first) Mary Stevens, (second) Elizabeth Short, (third) Abigail Cary, (fourth) Margaret ; Samuel, baptized August 4, 1692.
(III) Rev. Joseph Coit. second son of
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Deacon Joseph and Martha (Harris) Coit, was born in New London, Connecticut, April 4. 1673, died at Plainfield, Connecticut, July I, 1750. He was graduated at Harvard College itt 1697, and was admitted to a master's de- gree at the first commencement in Yale Col- lege in 1702. He became a minister of the gospel, and preached in Norwich in the latter part of 1698, but declined an offer to settle there. He soon after went to the new town of Plainfield, where he preached for the next five years, then accepted a formal call to settle as pastor, and remained forty-three years. On March 6, 1748, he "appeared before a coun- cil and desired a dismission by reason of his advanced age and some other reasons, all of which so influenced ye counsel's judgment that according to his desire ye people consent and they dismissed him." He continued to reside in Plainfield until his death in 1750. His property at his death was considerable. and included one male and two female negro slaves. Twenty years after his death he was described as "an ornament to his profession, not only a preacher of the Gospel of Peace, but a zealous promoter of peace among his hearers." He married, September 18, 1705, Experience, died January 8, 1759, aged seventy-five years, daughter of Isaac Wheeler, of Stonington. She lies by her husband's side in the old burial place of Plainfield. Children : I. Elisabeth, died young. 2. Colonel Samuel, of further mention. 3. Joseph, settled in North Preston (now Griswold) ; married Mary Spalding. 4. Martha, married Lemuel Smith, (second) Humphrey Avery. 5. Isaac, deacon of church, captain of militia, deputy, moderator, and member of the committee on correspondence. In his will he bequeathed £250 for the maintenance of a Latin or gram- mar school, a legacy yet held intact by Plain- field Academy. He married Ruth Spalding, (second) Elizabeth Pratt, widow of Rev. Nathan Webb. 6. Abigail, married Thomas Gates. 7. Mary, married Nathaniel Stanton. 8. William, married, and had a family. 9. Ex- perience, married John Stevens. IO. Daniel, married Tamasine Kimball.
(IV) Colonel Samuel Coit, eldest son and second child of Rev. Joseph and Experience (Wheeler) Coit, was born at Plainfield, Con- necticut, in 1708. He settled in the town of North Preston (now Griswold), Connecticut, and there spent a long and honored life, dy- ing October 4. 1793. In military life he rose
to the rank of colonel, and in 1758 had com- mand of a regiment which wintered at Fort Edward. In civil life he represented Preston in the general court in 1761-65-69-71-72-73. He sat as judge of the county court and of a maritime court during the revolution. In 1774 he was moderator of a meeting on the "Boston Port Bill," and one of the Preston committee on correspondence. He joined the church in 1742, his wife having joined in 1733. He married (first) Sarah Spalding, March 30, 1730; she died July II, 1776, aged sixty-five years, daughter of Benjamin Spald- ing. He married (second) March 22, 1779, Mrs. Jemima Hall. Children: I. Benjamin, of whom further. 2. Samuel, married Mary Clark. 3. William, shipmaster and merchant of Norwich, Connecticut; married (first) Sarah Lathrop, (second) Elisabeth, widow of Joseph Coit, of Hartford. 4. Oliver, lieuten- ant and captain in the revolutionary army ; married Zipporah Morgan. 5. Wheeler, deputy in 1793 ; a merchant and man of high stand- ing ; married (first) Mehetabel Lester, (sec- ond) Sibyl Tracy, (third) widow, Hannah Abel. 6. John, a farmer, married Mehetabel, daughter of General John Tyler, of Preston. 7. Sarah, distinguished as a woman of high endowments and marked piety ; married Peter Lanman. 8. Joseph, died at the age of twenty years. 9. Isaac, died at the age of ten years. IO. Olive, married Captain Elisha Morgan.
(V) Benjamin, eldest child of Colonel Sam- uel and Sarah (Spalding) Coit, was born at Preston, Connecticut, March 28, 1731, died while on a visit to North Stonington, April 21, 1812, and is buried in the Coit tomb in Griswold Cemetery. He was a farmer and a very influential man; was often moderator of town meetings; representative in the state legislature, 1772-73 and 1778; judge of county court, and held many other positions of trust and honor. He was a member of the Second Church in Preston, where he owned the covenant October 20, 1754, always remaining a devoted, sincere Christian. He married (first) January 30, 1753, Abigail, daughter of Roger Billings, of Preston; she died Jan- uary 27, 1760, aged thirty years. He married (second) May 28, 1760, Mary Boardman, died June 15, 1800, aged seventy years, widow of Elijah Boardman, and daughter of Captain Moses Tyler of Preston. Children of first marriage: Isaac, married Ruhamah Hall, who bore him fifteen children; Roger, mar-
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ried Olive Brewster; Daniel, married Olive Tyler, (second) Mary Brewster; Benjamin, of whom further. Children of second mar- riage: Harry, died unmarried ; George, died in London, England ; William, a merchant of New York City, married Hannah Corning ; Abigail, married Nathaniel Shipman ; Martha, married Dwight Ripley ; Betsey, married Rev. Jonathan Pomeroy ; Thomas, lost at sea.
(VI) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (I) and Abigail (Billings) Coit, was born in Pres- ton, Connecticut, December 21, 1759, died at Norwich, Connecticut, December 28, 1841. He was a shipmaster and merchant of Nor- wich. At the age of eighteen years lie enlisted in the naval service of the colonies, serving on board the "Spy," a vessel of fifty tons, commissioned by Governor Trumbull for con- veying intelligence and transporting supplies. In the extemporized navy of 1779 he was made commander of the armed ship "Hope." The remainder of his life he was engaged as a merchant of the firm of Erastus Coit & Company. He was for several years judge of the county court, as his father and grand- father had been before him. He married, October 15, 1788, Sarah, daughter of William and Sarah Coit, of Norwich, who survived him until August 31, 1855, aged ninety years six months. Children: I. George, of whom further. 2. William Henry, manufacturer and merchant, married Cornelia A. Bray. 3. Fran- ces, lost at sea. 4. Charles Frederick, died 1829. 5. Sarah Lanman, died unmarried. 6. Benjamin B., graduate of Yale, 1822, Jeffer- son Medical College, 1826, also of College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City ; he settled in San Francisco, California, where he rose to the front rank of his profession; he was a member of the California Pioneer Association, who attended his funeral in a body; he married Adelaide C., daughter of William and Susan Johnson, of Lebanon, New York. 7. Edward, a goldsmith and jeweler ; married Elisabeth Richards Coit, daughter of Doctor Thomas and Mary W. Coit. 8. Abby, married George P. Barker, a lawyer, of Buf- falo, New York.
(VII) George, eldest son and child of Ben- jamin (2) and Sarah (Coit) Coit, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, June 10, 1790. He learned the drug business, and had a store in Norwich in partnership wth Charles Town- send, which yielded them a competence. In 18II the partners came to New York state,
locating at Lewiston, where they opened a general store stocked with a full stock of goods they had brought with them. In 1812 they established a drug store in Buffalo on the present site of the Townsend Block, con- ducting this until 1818, when it was sold to Orsamus Marshall. Then, as Townsend & Coit, they became heavily interested in lake transportation, forwarders of freight and owners of lake boats. They became very prosperous, and were leaders in Buffalo. Dur- ing their forty years' partnership, it is said, they used everything in common, each taking from common stock and funds what was re- quired, no account being kept and no friction ever arising. After the Erie canal was com- pleted, Sheldon Thompson & Company re- moved from Black Rock to Buffalo, and the two firms united, doing an immense freighting business as the Troy and Erie Line. Mr. Coit continued his residence at the corner of Pearl and Swan streets for fifty years. He was one of the pioneers that Buffalo should always hold in grateful remembrance. When money was needed for the construction of a harbor, George Coit was one of the four men who gave bond and mortgage for the raising of needed funds. The firm of Townsend & Coit were of the highest business standing, and stood back of many of the early industries of Buffalo. Mr. Coit was conservative in his political and religious views, practicing what he professed, and professing no more than he practiced. His charities were unostenta- tious, but no worthy object or applicant left his door empty handed. In March, 1825, he united with the First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, but from his youth had been atten- tive upon the means of grace, sober, reverent, and in a sense devout. He was a director of the Buffalo Water Company, of which he was an organizer. He was also a member of the Buffalo Historical Society, and in his quiet way helped along all good causes.
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