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tiac, Michigan. 5. John Belden, resided for some years in California, subsequently at Pon- tiac, Michigan, and died at Whitney Point, November 13, 1875. 6. George W. engaged in farming on a part of the paternal home- stead. 7. Orange Stoddard, died at Bath, New York, July 17, 1903, where he was at one time high sheriff. 8. llenry Augustus, mentioned below.
(Vll) Henry Augustus, youngest child of John (4) and Sally ( Stoddard ) Seymour, was born February 2, 1819, at Whitney Point and resided on the paternal homestead there, a part of which he owned. Besides farming he dealt in lumber and in real estate and died December 5, 1909, in his ninety-first year. lle was an active member of the Presbyterian church, in which for many years he served as trustee and elder, and was for a period of eighteen years a member of the local board of education, being one of the original board, which in 1866 established the village high school. Politically he acted with the Repub- lican party, and served as supervisor of the township of Triangle from 1864 to 1866. He married, December 19, 1849, Nancy Manning Squire, born March 6, 1824, daughter of Har- vey and Abigail (Manning) Squire, of Lisle. New York. Harvey Squire's great-grand- father removed from Boston to Southbury. Connecticut, where three sons were born to him. One of these. Ebenezer, settled at Lanesboro, Massachusetts, and was the father of Andrew Squire, who moved to Lisie, New York, in 1807. His son Harvey was the father of Mrs. Seymour, as above noted. She was the mother of one son.
(VIH ). Dr. Ralph Augustus Seymour, only child of Henry Augustus and Nancy M. ( Squire ) Seymour, was born August 24. 1855. at Whitney Point, and there attended the local schools, passing through the high school. In 1880 he graduated from Williams' College, and from the Long Island College Hospital in 1888. Since that time he has en- gaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at Whitney Point, and is owner of the Sey- mour estate. purchased there by his grand- father in 1792. He is a stockholder of the First National Bank of Whitney Point. He is a member of the college Greek Letter So- ciety, Chi Psi, and a member of the Presby- terian church, in which he has been for sev- eral years a trustee and elder. He is a Re- publican politically. He has served nine years
as coroner of Broome county, and six years as a member of the local school board, serving as a member of the building committee which erected the new high school building in 1901. lle married, February 24. 1886, at Whitney Point, Ilelen S., born March 27. 1851, in Greene, Chenango county, New York, daugh- ter of George W. and Eliza ( Walworth ) Boynton. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton resided on a farm in Greene, and of their eleven chil- dren, nine grew to maturity and married. Mrs. Boynton died October 17, 1885; Mr. Boynton died January 24. 1896. The only child of Dr. and Mrs. Seymour, Ella Ruth, was born November 12, 1897.
(II) Richard (2) Seymour, SEYMOUR son of Richard (1) Sey- mour (q. v.) lived in Hart- ford and Farmington, Connecticut. He was made freeman in 1669. He married Ilan- nah, daughter of Matthew and Hannah Woodruff. Matthew Woodruff was an orig- inal proprietor of Farmington, was made free- man in 1657, and died in 1682. Children : Samuel : Mercy, born January 14, 1683; Ebe- nezer, mentioned below: Jonathan, baptized April 17, 1687 ; Hannah.
(IHI) Ebenezer, son of Richard (2) Sey- mour, was baptized February 1, 1684. He married. at Wethersfield,. Connecticut, De- cember 27, 1708, Abigail, born in Wethers- field, August 16, 1688, daughter of Captain Stephen and Abigail ( Treat ) Hollister. They lived in the part of Farmington known as Kensington. Children: Rebecca, baptized in Farmington, October, 1711 : Samuel, baptized in Farmington, October, 1711 ; Abigail, born March 3, 1711; Anna, July 28, 1712: Eliz- abeth, April 28, 1714: Richard, mentioned below ; Stephen, born in Kensington in 1718; Lydia ; Gideon.
(IV) Richard (3) son of Ebenezer Sey- mour, was born October 16, 1716, died Au- gust 14. 1796. He married (first ) May 20. 1740, Mary, daughter of Captain Samuel Ilik- cox. She died July 15. 1744, and he married ( second ) April 27. 1747. Johanna, daughter of Samuel Brown. She died November 5. 1813. Children by first wife: Joash, born May 1. 1742, drowned November 18, 1795: Mary, July 15, 1744. Children by second wife: Samuel, born June 5, 1748: Lucy, April 6, 1751: Joanna, May 19. 1753, died 1756; Huldah, October 4. 1755, died 1756;
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Joanna, September, 1757; Josiah, mentioned below : Huldah. December 23, 1761 ; Ann, died 1764; Vodice, born March, 1766; Miles, July, 1769.
(V) Josiah, son of Richard (3) Seymour, was born October II, 1759, at Waterbury. He married Dinah Doolittle, December 7, 1780. Children, born at Waterbury : Heloise, February 17, 1783; Silas, December 8, 1785 ; Josiah, mentioned below ; Wealthy, October 18. 1788.
(VI) Josiah (2) son of Josiah (1) Sey- mour, was born at Waterbury, April 23, 1787, died in Coventry, Chenango county. New York, July 3, 1853, where he settled in 1815, one of the early settlers. He was a farmer. He married Beulah Dayton, born February 20, 1788, died June 20, 1862. Children : Spencer D., born July 2, 1807, died August 4, 1873 ; Bela, September 17, 1809, died Feb- ruary 7, 1893; Henry B., mentioned below ; Lucy Ann, July 8, 1813, died August 9, 1889, married Dorastus Green; Albert A., Febru- ary 17, 1821, died August 27, 1887, was a doctor ; Josiah. February 16, 1823, died June 16. 1892; Jane R., February II, 1832, died July 5, 1851.
(VII) Henry B., son of Josiah (2) Sey- mour, was born in Connecticut, October 24, 18II, died in Coventry, New York, June . 4. 1897. He came with his parents to Coven- try when four years old. He was a shoe- maker in Seneca county, New York, for a short time, but he spent the greater part of his life in Coventry where he was a shoe- maker and a farmer. He married (first) Clarissa Amanda Smith, born May 24, 1814, in Seneca county, near Farmersville, died in Coventry. in 1843. He married (second) Sa- rah J. Barnes, born May 3. 1822, died in 1903. Children by first marriage: 1. Frank- lin Smith, mentioned below. 2. Albert Henry, born December 2, 1840; farmer in Coventry ; married. November 13, 1867, Jane E., daugh- ter of John R. and Lucy (Tyler) Stork, of Coventry. 3. Julia Ann, January 30, 1843 : married Wallace A. Chamberlain; lives in Elizabeth, Colorado.
(VIII) Franklin Smith, son of Henry B. Seymour, was born in Coventry, October 4, 1839, died there January 13, 1887. He re- ceived a public school education in Coventry, and became an unusually good scholar and a fine business man. For many years he taught school, and for a few years as a young man
he was a clerk in a store. For about thir- teen years he was in the west, and taught school in Kansas. He had a grant of govern- ment land in Iowa which he sold, and then had another grant in Missouri which he also sold. He finally returned to Coventry where he farmed for a time, and there spent the remainder of his life. In religion he was a Congregationalist. He married, November 29, 1862, Emily Waters, born in Madison county, New York, January 2, 1837. daugh- ter of Archibald and Martha (Austin) Wa- ters. Children: I. Nellie, died in childhood. 2. James H., born December 31, 1867 ; farmer in Coventry : married Jennie Ketchum. 3 Charles D., February 5, 1870 : farmer in Cov- entry ; married, June 27. 1890, Clara Bell Kingsley ; children : Frank J., born February 9, 1891; Floyd K., July 17, 1892; May L., December 14, 1894; Carl R., January 30, 1897 ; Nellie, March 4, 1899 : Gladys, October 8, 1901 ; Mildred E., March 22, 1909. 4. Al- bert S., June 23, 1872, died December 29. 1886, aged fourteen. 5. Fred Wellington. mentioned below.
(IX) Fred Wellington, son of Franklin Smith Seymour, was born in Coventry, Che- nango county, New York, May 24, 1874. He attended the district schools of his native town, and during his boyhood and youth worked on his father's farm and as clerk in the general store of Curtis Hughes in Greene for a period of seven years. In 1906 he came to Oxford, New York, and in partnership with Oliver S. Brown bought a large furni- ture and undertaking business, which has been carried on since that time under the firm name of Brown & Seymour. The firm is one of the most prominent and successful in this line of business in the county. Mr. Seymour is active in politics and is one of the leading Democrats of the town. He was elected president of the incorporated village of Oxford, March, 1911. He is a communi- cant of the Methodist Episcopal church and one of the board of trustees. He is also a member of Oxford Lodge. No. 175, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Canasawacta Lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Nor- wich, New York.
He married, December 25. 1894. Maud Elizabeth Whitlock, of Greene, New York. born in town of Greene, November 22, 1873, daughter of Charles and Jennie (Pulver) Whitlock. Children: I. Lynn LeRoy, born
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in Greene, December 29, 1896. 2. Mora Belle, March 23, 1898.
(III) David Chaffee, son of CHAFFEE Nathaniel Chaffee (q. v.), was born in Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts, August 22, 1680, died there February 25, 1750-51. In the records he is spoken of as husbandman and yeoman. On March 25, 1723, he was chosen surveyor of the highway in Rehoboth, and again in 1726. On Febru- ary 13, 1724-25, with his brother Daniel and John Stevens, he obtained permission of Na- thaniel Read to build a dam on Ten-Mile river, and to build a saw mill and a corn mill ; this was in Attleborough, and was called Chaffee's Dam and Chaffee's Mill. On May 8, 1725, they sold three-sixteenths of the mill privilege to Daniel Read, and on July 3, 1727, the four, with Nathaniel Read and Samuel Robinson, all millers, bought land in Attle- boroughi for fifteen pounds from Silas Titus, of Rehoboth. On March 29, 1731, David Chaffee was chosen constable of Rehoboth. On October 9, 1734, he sold seven and a quarter acres of land in Rehoboth to Daniel Perrin. and bought in that year a hundred acres in Ashford, Connecticut, from his brother Jonathan, adding to this in 1737, twenty-six and a half acres bought of Na- thaniel Fuller, including a house. On April 12, 1737, he sold eleven acres of his home lot in Rehoboth to Daniel Perrin of that place, and twenty-eight acres more of the same prop- erty on January 23, 1737-38. In 1739 he bought one hundred acres more in Ashford of Ichabod Ward, and was living there at that time. On September 12, 1743, he gave one- half of his lands in Ashford where he was living to his son Atherton, and in 1746 bought twenty-four acres there of Increase Sumner, of Roxbury. He gave thirty acres in Ash- ford. October 3, 1750, to his son David Jr., and on November 16, 1750, he sold to his son Atherton three tracts of land near Lead Mine Hill, containing about eighty-five acres, a house and buildings. He died about three months after this, and he and his first wife were buried in the part of Rehoboth which is now Seekonk.
He married (first) in Rehoboth, April 7, 1708, Patience, daughter of Watching Ather- ton ; Watching was son of Humphrey Ather- ton, a prominent man of Dorchester, Massachu- setts, and an active persecutor of the Friends.
She died at Rehoboth, January 28, 1731-32, aged forty-nine years ; as her children's great- grandfather, Humphrey Atherton, had left property to them, the three of age to choose their own guardian chose their uncle, Sam- utel Atherton, their father consenting, and ask- ing that a guardian be appointed for Experi- ence, who was under fourteen ; Samuel Ath- erton was made guardian for her also, the records being dated December 5, 1733, and May 25, 1734. David Chaffee married (sec- ond), about May, 1733, Mis. Hannah Pidge, of Attleborough, Massachusetts, the intention of marriage being published there and in Re- hoboth, April 28, 1733. She married (third) Captain John Hoyle, of Providence, Rhode Island, the intention being published at At- tleborough, April 18, 1752. Children of first wife: David Jr., mentioned below ; Elizabeth, born March 21, 1710-11; Patience, April 14, 1713; Atherton, April 7, 1715; Mary, June 15, 1717 ; Margaret. September 13, 1719; Ex- perience, June 20, 1722.
(IV) David (2), son of David (1) Chaffee, was born in Rehoboth, February 27, 1708-09, died in Westford, Ashford township, Connec- ticut, February 19, 1784. He was baptized and admitted as a member of the First Con- gregational Church in Rehoboth, September 3, 1732, and on May 2, 1736, his wife joined the church. They lived in Attleborough until some time between 1748 and 1749-50, when he moved with his family to Ashford. On Jan- uary 5, 1736, lie and his wife sold sixteen acres of land in Rehoboth, Martha's share in her father's estate, to Ebenezer Walker, black- smith, her brother, and on November 21, 1736, they sold an acre of salt marsh in Barrington, Massachusetts, also part of her father's es- tate, to Jonathan Robinson. On December 28. 1747, he sold to Alexander More, of Attle- borough sixty acres of land there. In 1748 he bought of Joseph Byles, one hundred acres of land in Ashford, and in 1750 was living there, receiving in that year from his father, "for love, good will and fatherly affection," thirty acres more there. In 1763 he was elected lister, and twice in 1764 held that of- fice. On January 8, 1769, he and his wife were dismissed to the Second Church at Ash- ford. He was a husbandman. His will was dated May 19, 1783, and proved March 9, 1784. He was buried in Ashford.
He married, in Rehoboth, April 4, 1732-33, Martha, born July 20. 1714. died in Westford,
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September 20. 1820, daughter of Ebenezer Walker, of Rehoboth. Children, first six born in Attleborough. the remainder in Ashford : David, mentioned below : Martha. about 1735. died in infancy : Martha, April 27, 1737 : Dor- othy, January 22. 1739-40, died October 10, 1755: Patience, January 16, 1742-43: Abner, September 14, 1740: Johanna, January 3. 1740-50: Elizabeth. April 11. 1753: Dorothy. January 11, 1756; Ama (Anna), September 2. 1759: Sarah, July 10, 1763.
(V) David (3), son of David (2) Chaf- fee, was born in Attleborough, October 28. 1733. died in Ashford, October 3. 1814. He was a farmer and carpenter. He served in the revolution, being appointed, May, 1777. by the assembly of Connecticut as ensign of the Eleventh company or train band in the Fifth Connecticut Regiment. He was made freeman at Ashford. April 13. 1778. On June 19. 1793. he and his son Abner bought fifty- eight and a half acres of land on which a grist mill was situated, of David Robbins, of Ashford. Hle became a member of the Con- gregational church in Ashford. October 25. 1801, and his wife also was a member of this church. They were both buried in the Swamp burial ground at Ashford. According to his gravestone he died October 8. 1814. aged eighty-one. He married, at Ashford, Novem- ber 6. 1761, Priscilla, born June 4. 1741, died in Ashford, May 14, 1814. daughter of David Robbins. Children, born in Ashford : Abner. August 3. 1762: 1.ois, January 16, 1765. mar- ried Stephen Wilcox ( see Wilcox VI-p. 500) ; Esther, November 5. 1767; David, July 25. 1772: Amos, June 2, 1774: Daniel, No- vember 10. 1776, died November 15, 1776: Daniel. October 10. 1779; Sarah, May 19. 1783 : Ebenezer. October 2, 1784, died in Ash- ford, August 18. 1786.
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(1) Dr. Comfort Starr, immigrant ances- tor. was born at Ashford. county Kent. Eng- land, about forty-five miles southeast of Lon- don. Ile practiced there as a physician and sure con before he came to America, in March, 1634. in the ship "Hercules," with three chil- dren and three servants. He was warden of the church at Ashford, St. Mary's. His I rother. Jehosephat Starr. lived and died there : his brother, Joyful Starr, married Mar- garet ---- : his sister. Suretrust Starr, mar- ried Faithful Rouse and lived at Charlestown.
Massachusetts: his sister. Constant Starr, married John Morly and lived at Charlestown. The family name is now extinct at .Ashford. Dr. Comfort Starr settled first at Cambridge. Massachusetts, and bought land. June 19. 1638, at Duxbury, of Jonathan Brewster, re- moving there soon afterward. Ile was re- ported as able to bear arms in 1043 at Dux- bury. He deeded his house there to his son John afterward and moved to Boston again. where he lived at the north end near the Charlestown ferry. After 1649 his name often appears in the Boston records, especially in the probate records. His wife died June 25. 1658, aged sixty-three, and he died January 2. 1659. his will being proved February 3 fol- lowing : he mentioned property at Boston and Ashford in Kent. England. Children : Thom- as: Elizabeth. born 1621: Comfort, 1624: Mary : John, mentioned below : Samuel, bap- tized March 2, 1628: Hannah, July 22, 1632: Lydia, March 22, 1634.
(II ) John, son of Dr. Comfort Starr, was born in England, doubtless one of the three children who came over with their father in 1634. The first mention of him is on the Plymouth Colony records, in the list of males at Duxbury between sixteen and sixty years of age able to bear arms. In 1645 he signed the petition for land in Bridgewater, a part of Duxbury. He lived as a neighbor of his father in Boston. He was a carpenter and housewright. He married Martha, daughter of George and Judith Bunker, of Charles- town: George Bunker owned Bunker Hill. Children : Elizabeth, living in 1659; Judith, living in 1659: Lydia, died February 20, 1712. adopted by her uncle, Elcazer Lusher : Elea- zer: Comfort. mentioned below: John. born December, 1664: Benjamin. August 19, 1667.
( III ) Comfort ( 2), son of John Starr, was born February 4. 1661-62, in Boston, died June 9, 1720. He inherited the estate of his aunt. Mary Bunker. in Dedham, where he settled and became a prominent and wealthy citizen. He held many offices. He was dea- con of the church. He married, November 14. 1683. Mary, born January 6. 1664-65. died April 20, 1735. daughter of Simon and Mary ( Whipple ) Stone, of Watertown, Massachu- setts. Children : Mary, born November 23. 1685: Abiah. February 8, 1688: Hannah, Janvary 13. 1600: Sarah. February 13. 1691- 02: Josiah, September 4. 1693. died Novem- ber 26, 1603 : Susannah. November 24. 1604 :
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Comfort. mentioned below : Judith, Septem- ber 2, 1698; Martha and Ruth, twins, Octo- ber 5. 1700, first died December 13, 1700; Elizabeth, October 2, 1702: Jonathan, Decem- ber 8, 1704: Martha, April 27, 1708.
(IV) Comfort (3), son of Comfort ( 2) Starr, was born August 9, 1696. He lived in Dedham for a time. In 1723 he bought a thousand acres of land in the north parish of Killingly, Connecticut, part of which he sold. and settling on the remainder, near Brandy Hill, now in Thompson, Connecticut. He was a prominent man there, and a husbandman. He married ( first) Elizabeth, who died March 4. 1742. Ile married ( second ), November 3. 1763, Mrs. Sarah Knapp, of Killingly. Chil- dren by first wife: Comfort, mentioned be- low : Isaac, born June 24. 1733, died July 22. 1733: Elizabeth. September 13, 1734; Isaac. October 25, 1730; Frances, baptized and died December 3, 1737, or 1738; Josiah, baptized August 3. 1740, probably died young : Sally, married Jesse Woodward, of Thompson ; Eb- enezer, February 24, 1741-42.
(V) Captain Comfort (4) Starr, son of Comfort (3) Starr, was born in Thompson, Connecticut, August 10, 1731, died November 30, 1812. He sold his farm in Thompson about 1771 intending to settle elsewhere, but his continental money received in payment de- preciated so in value that he lost much. He went to Vermont where he commanded a company in 1773 that went to break up an English court in session in Westminster. He bought land in Guilford, Windham county, Vermont, April 17, 1777, and settled there in 1780. He married Judith Cooper, of Thompson : she was admitted to the church, June 26, 1768, and died September 15, 1815. Children: Farley, born October 14. 1755: Sarah, November 28, 1760: Abigail, Novem- ber 24, 1763: Comfort, May 30, 1766; Judith, November 27, 1768; Mary, May 27. 1772: Timothy, December 22, 1773: Martha, May 28, 1776: Ephraim, mentioned below.
(VT) Ephraim, son of Captain Comfort (4) Starr, was born in Guilford. Vermont, May 11, 1780, died December 20, 1862. He lived at Guilford, Halifax. Readsborough. Ver- mont, South Onondaga. New York, about 1819. Michigan, 1843, and Illinois. 1860. He was a wheelwright and mechanic. He served in the war of 1812. He married ( first ) Han- nah Gore, born in September, 1782. He mar- ried (second ) in South Onondaga, Dorcas,
daughter of John Eggleston, and she died October 17. 1825, in Onondaga. Chikiren by first wife: Sally, born December 19, 1802, married David Wilcox ( see Wilcox VII-p. 500) ; Lyman, June 28, 1804: Sophia, Febril- ary 5, 1807 : Lucy, July 20, 1810, in Guilford; Martha Marietta, September 28, 1812, in Hali- fax; Darius Comfort, May 22, 1815: Polly Almira. February 14. 1818. at Readsborough. By second wife: Charles, March 20, 1821.
Henry Glover, immigrant an- GLOVER cestor, was born in England. and was a settler in New Haven, Connecticut, as early as 1647. He was presumably the Henry Glover, aged twenty-four years, who came to Boston in the ship "Elizabeth" from Ipswich, England. in 1034. He married Elinor (or Helena, as sometimes spelled ) Wakeman, sister of John Wakeman, of Hartford, Connecticut. Henry Glover was admitted a freeman in 1662 and was a proprietor of New Haven in 1685. He was a prominent citizen "who was at once a supporter and critic of the governmental sys- tem." His name with that of his wife ap- pears on many wills, agreements, etc., as trus- tee and guardian. He died in 1680. His will was proved in October, 1680. His widow died May 1, 1697. Children, born at New Haven: Mary, baptized June, 1641; Mercy, baptized August, 1643: Hannah, baptized May, 1646, married, November 21, 1663, David Ashley: John. mentioned below : Abi- gail. born April 29. 1051, baptized July. 1652, died young : Abigail. born AAugust 31, 1652; Sarah, baptized December 3 or 5. 1055.
(11) John, son of Henry Glover, was born in New Haven and baptized there October 8. 1648. He died before his father, who died in 1689, and his children are legatees in his father's will. He married, December 7. 1671, Joanna Daniles. Among the children was John, mentioned below.
( III ) John (2), son of John (1) Glover. was born in New Haven, about 1072-75. He married ( first ) Mrs. Margery Hubbard ( mar- ried by Israel Chauncy ). November 27, 1700, at New Haven. He settled in Stratford, Con- necticut, about the time of marriage. His first wife died March. 1703-04. and he mar- ried (second ) Bethia Bickley, widow of Ben- jamin Bickley, in July, 1707. He removed to Newtown and became a prominent citizen there. He was selectman in 1712-17-18. He
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was warden of the Protestant Episcopal church in 1724. He was among the first set- tlers of the town. Children by first wife, born at Stratford: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Henry, October 3. 1703: captain : deputy to the general assembly from 1749 to 1771, nearly every session : selectman in 1749 and several other years. Child of second wife. born at Newtown: 3. Benjamin, May, 1708. father of Christopher, born December 9. 1750: resided in Danbury, Connecticut, and Wil- liamstown, New York, where he died May 18. 1845. having had seventeen children.
(1\) John (3), son of John (2) Glover. was born at New Haven. December 30. 1701. He was a prominent citizen of Newtown. deputy to the general court, selectman from 1733 to 1749, nearly every year.
(\') James, son or nephew of John (3) Glover, was born about 1735 in Newtown. Fairfield county. Connecticut. He married there. November 15. 1759. Eunice Booth. In 1790. according to the first federal census. he was living at Newtown and had in his family four males over sixteen and two fc- males.
At the time. the other heads of fam- ilies of this name were Daniel. Elias, Henry. John, Solomon and Benjamin, all of New- town, sons, nephews or cousins of James. There were only a few others of this family in the state at that time, and none in Ver- mont. The marriage records of Newtown show the marriages of Daniel, Rebecca and Elizabeth. between 1751 and 1767. Captain Jeremiah Glover, probably son of James, was born in 1763 and died at Essex. Connecticut. April 18. 1850.
(VI) James ( 2), son of James ( 1) Glover, was born in Newtown about 1760. He re- moved after the revolution to Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. Hle married and had one son. Jeremiah, mentioned below.
(\'II) Jeremiah, son of James (2) Glover. was in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania. during his boyhood. In 1825 he settled at Apalachin, township of Owego, Tioga coun- ty. New York, and built a saw mill. He bought large tracts of timber land, and in addition to his mill and lumber business con- ducted a large farm. lle spent his last years at Pine Creek. Lycoming county, Pennsyl- vania, where he died about 1865. IIc mar- ried Tamar Buffum, who was of English de- scent. Children: Anson Buffum. mentioned
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