Genealogical and family history of northern New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume II, Part 17

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 994


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(II ) Lieutenant Jonathan, son of Philip Delano, was born in Duxbury, died in Dart- mouth, now Fairhaven. December 23. 1720. aged seventy-three years. He married. Feb- ruary 28, 1678, in Plymouth, Mercy, daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Sarah ( Walker ) War- ren, son of Richard and Elizabeth Warren. of the "Mayflower." She was born Febru- ary 20, 1658. died at Dartmouth, after 1727.


Lieutenant Jonathan Delano removed to : township of Dartmouth, Bristol county. a. ; was one of the original proprietors of : latter town. His name is among the thi: : six shareholders who received their : . from the Indians. His share comprised al . . . eight hundred acres. He was chosen deper to the general court, June, 1689, and in It- cember of the same year was re-elected. Ii: held many offices besides constable, sele .. man, etc. December 25, 1689. he was on missioned lieutenant by Governor Hinckley .. served in the Indian war of 16;5-76. al was with Captain Benjamin Church : Mount Hope, the stronghold of King PIS; August 22. 1676. Children : 1. Daughter. born November 25. died November 28. 1978. 2. Jonathan Jr., January 30. 1680. 3. Ja1. .. November 8, 1682. 4. Sarah, Januar; .. 1684. died February 7, 1690. 5. Mary, Oc- tober 27, 1686. 6. Nathan October 2 1688. 7. Bethia, November 29. 1690, die . July 19. 1693. 8. Susanna, September 3. 1693. 9. Son, born and died October 2. 1694. 10. Nathaniel, October 29. 1695. 1 Esther. April 4. 1698. 12. Jethro. July 31. ITO1. 13. Thomas, May 10, 1704.


(III) Jonathan (2), son of Lieutena: . Jonathan ( I) Delano, was born January 3 1680, diel in Tolland. Connecticut. Mar 25. 1752. He married. June 20. 1704. A ::: daughter of Joseph Hatch, of Falmou: Massachusetts. The Hatch records of !' mouth mention a Joseph Haich, bor 1652, who had a daughter Amy (proi .. her father ). Ilis father was Jonathan. » in England. in 1626. Jonathan Delan moved from Dartmouth to Tolland. M. 1722. as shown by a deed to him of : date. He was town clerk in 1724-30. . selectmian 1724-35. The records show : he was a man of superior education a .: most useful citizen. Children: 1. .. born March 18. 1705. Dartmouth. 2. 1 December 16. 1706. 3. Jabez. January 1,08. 4. Nathan, March I, III, ment: : below. 5. Amy. August 11. 1713. 6. 1 . than. December 2. 1715. ; Barnabas.


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11. 1718. 8. Sylvanus, May 17, 1720. 9. Elizabeth, May 15. 1722. 10. Susanna, June 23. 1724, Tolland. 11. Thomas. De- cember 24, 1726. 12. Timothy, November 4. 1729. 13. Jethro, October 29, 1732.


(IV) Nathan, son of Jonathan (2) De- lano, was born March 1, 1711, in Dart- mouth, died in Walpole. New Hampshire, before 1774. He married, September 3. 1731, in Tolland, Ruth With his brothers Jonathan, Sylvanus, Thomas, Tim- othy, and Jethiro, he went to the western part of Connecticut. and eastern New York. some settling in Litchfield county. Connecti- cut, and others in Dutchess county, New York. In 1743 his daughter Ruth was bap- tized in Litchfield county. The church rec- ords show that he lived in Kent, Connecti- cut : also April 28. 1763. he appears as church clerk in Walpole. His wife Ruth survived him, according to the records of Walpole : "agreement of heirs of Nathan De lano, of Walpole, 1774. widow Ruth." Abisha is here named as eldest son. Chil- dren : 1. John, December 3. 1732. 2. Ja- bez, February 10, 1734. 3. Nathan, January 5. 1739. 4. Ruth, baptized Litchfield coun- ty, May 15, 1743. 5. Sarah, married, Oc- tober 13, 1774. Eli Snow, in Walpole. 6. Olive, married, February 2. 1775. John Snow, in Walpole ( Nicholas Snow, of Mas- sachusetts, 1623). 7. Abisha, 1746, men- tioned below.


(V) Abisha, son of Nathan Delano, was born in 1746. in Walpole, died August 25, 1802, in Cornwall, Vermont. He married, September 9. 1773. Joanna or Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail Hovey. She married (second) Mr. Munger, of Whiting, Vermont. She was descended from Daniel Hovey, who came to Massa- chusetts in 1637, was married in 1625. and had six sons. She was born and probably died in Verniont. The first knowledge of Abisha Delano is in Walpole in the settle- ment of his father's estate. It is supposed that he lived at one time in Dummerstown. Vermont, and that some of his children were


born there. June 28. 1777, he was a private in Colonel Benjamin Bellows' regiment of militia, and went to re-enforce the garrison at Ticonderoga. Children, the first three recorded in Walpole: 1. Nathan, January 10. 1774. mentioned below. 2. Jabez. 1770. 3. Abigail, June 26, 1778. 4. Ichabod. May 8, 1783. Cornwall. 5. Ashbell. February 19. 1784. 6. Olive. 1785. 7. Asa, 1786. S. James. 1787. Shoreham, Vermont. 9. Clark, 1792. 10. Sarah, May 25. 1793. II. Nancy, December 15. 1794. 12. Buell. 1796, died 1810.


(VI) Lieutenant Nathan (2), son of Abisha Delano, was born January 10. 1774. in Walpole, died May 9. 1855, at Wadhams Mills, New York. He was a farmer, manu- facturer of lumber: moved to Ticonderoga in 1800. He married ( first) in Shoreham. Lois, daughter of Joseph and ---- ( Phelps) Robinson. She was born December, 1780. in Coventry, Connecticut, died January 29, 1844, in Wadhams. He married ( second ). 1851, at Wadhams Mills, Rebecca Law- rence, widow of Francis Laws and Nathan Mason. She was born, 1788, in Hillsbor- ough, New Hampshire, died in Cambridge. August 25, 1872. Nathan Delano was first lieutenant of a company of cavalry, War of IS12, and was at the battle of Plattsburgh, New York. Children, of the first wife: I. Joseph Robinson, December 24, 1801, Ti- conderoga, New York ; merchant and manu- facturer ; postmaster ; died aged sixty-five. 2. Benjamin Phelps. mentioned below. 3. Electa. 1806; accidentally killed March 15. I&II. 4. Asa Potter, March 13. I&II ; re- moved to Mexico; farmer and merchant. 5. Thomas, June 12, 1813: farmer, Ticondero- ga. 6. James Milton. November 8, 1824: farmer. 7. George, May 20, 1825.


(VII) Benjamin Phelps De Lano,* son of Nathan (2) Delano, was born March 4. 1804, in Ticonderoga, died there. December 11, 1892. He was an extensive land owner. having four large farms amounting to six


*In this generation the original form of the family name, De Lano, is restored.


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hundred acres. He married (first). Janu- ary 19, 1834, in Ticonderoga, Amanda, daughter of Joshua and Mittie ( Palmer) Harris. She was born December 11, 1809. in Kingsbury, New York, died July 1, 1871. He married (second). January 1, 1879, Georgiana, daughter of Charles and Lucinda Armstrong. She was born November 12, 1859. Children of first wife : Clayton Harris, born February 8. 1836, mentioned below. 2. Mary Jane. April 16. 1838. 3. Volney Har- ris, May 26, 1840, died May 31, 1843. 4. Rollin W., December 11. 1842, died aged thirty years: graduate of Middlebury ; was an editor at St. Cloud, Minnesota; married Hattie Bacon. 5. Antoinette Louisa. De- cember 14, 1845. died aged twenty-one. 6. Annie Maria. October 15. 1848. died aged thirty years. 7. Arthur Le Roy. August 3. IS52 ; farmer on homestead. Child of sec- ond wife: 8. Hattie Amanda, October 17, 1879.


(VIH) Hon. Clayton Harris De Lano. son of Benjamin Phelps De Lano. was born at Ticonderoga. New York, February 8. 1836. He attended the public schools, the Fort Edward Institute and the Albany Law School. He was admitted to the bar. In- stead of following the profession of law, however, he returned to his native town and engaged in farming until 18-2, except the year 1864, when he was in a mercantile venture. He removed to the village of Ticonderoga in 1872 and entered partner- ship with Clark P. Ives in the lumber busi- ness. After four years the firm sold the business to the Champlain Manufacturing Company, and Mr. De Lano retained a third interest until its dissolution in 1880. In 1878 he assisted in organizing the Ticon- deroga Pulp Company, the original capital of which was thirty thousand dollars, and became its manager and treasurer. Three years later he was elected president and gen- eral manager. The business developed and grew rapidly, new factories were added to the pulp plant. a fibre plant was built, and paper and ground woud mills added. The


present capital is seven hundred thousa: dollars, and between two hundred and fit and three hundred hands are employed. Ti concern is the largest and most prosperous .. this line of business in this section. M: De Lano is also president of the Mount :.:: Lumber Company of Plattsburgh, the X. . tional Chemical Company of New York City, the Essex County Pulp and Paper Company, the Ticonderoga Railway Com- pany and the Mount Hope Cemetery .1 ... . ciation. He is a director in the Light and Power Company, and the Ticonderoga M .: chine Company. He has been presiden: and general manager of the Piscataqui- Falls Pulp and Paper Company since July t. 1897, and of the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company of Maine. Most of his time i- spent of late at the Boston office, 35 Feder ..! street. Boston, and at his Ticonderoga home. Notwithstanding his advanced years. M. De Lano maintains an oversight of his lain. interests, which include some of the most in .- portant industrial establishments of Esse. county. In politics he is a Republican. For eight years he was supervisor of the town and he was a member of the assembly of New York for two years. He is a member of the Congregational church, and is one (i the board of trustees. He is a member . Mount Defiance Lodge, No. ; 94. Free an, Accepted Masons, of Ticonderoga, and of the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry.


He married. January 1, 1867. Annie Ma- ria, born August 20. 1839. daughter .: George and Betsey ( Barlow ) Themp- : Children. born at Ticonderoga: 1. Kat Bessie, March 8, 1868: graduate of Clave- rack College : married, June 20, 1892. Ehic: Willis Hyde, of ;72 St. Nicholas avert. New York City: he was born at Swant. : Vermont, March 1, 1863: now secretary ( the International Paper Company, Nes York City: they have no children. 2. Nora Belle. May 15, 1870: educated at Greenfie! !! Massachusetts. 3. Florence, May 16, 18 ;. graduate of the State Normal School, One. onta, New York.


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The name of Lockwood LOCKWOOD is of very ancient origin, and is found in Domes- day book, England's oldest book of records, that was ordered compiled by William the


Conqueror. Burke's "General Armory" gives the Lockwood arms, as derived from the Rev. Richard Lockwood, rector of Ding- ley. Northampton, England, in 1530, thus : Arms: "Argent a fesse between three mart- let sable ;" crest : "On the stump of an oak tree, erased proper a martlet sable :" motto : "Tutus in Undus" (Secure against the waves). "Ne Cede" ( Break rather than bend). A detailed history of the family in America would show many names of men and women eminent in the professions, the public service, civil and military, and in the world of business.


In the Historical Records in Connecticut it appears that many Lockwoods were in the wars colonial and revolutionary. Forty-two officers of this name were in the revolution- ary war, besides many privates in the army and navy. The Tories in and about Nor- walk, Greenwich and Fairfield said "They could not endure the notoriously rebellious Lockwood tribe," but after years a grandson and granddaughter healed the breach. These same Lockwoods had been burned out, plun- dered, and had their harvests destroyed by the British and distressed. The record adds the general assembly reported their taxes abated. They were called the "Fighting Lockwoods."


(I) Robert Lockwood came from Eng- land about 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where his first six children were born and births recorded. He was made a freeman March 9, 1636. About 1646 he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he died. 1658. He was made a freeman of Connecticut, March 20, 1652. and was ap- pointed sergeant at Fairfield, May, 1657. He sold to Bryan Pendleton all the land granted him by the town, also four acres of remote meadow and one acre of patch mea- dow. September 29, 1645, to Edward Gar-


field, ancestor of the late President James A. Garfield. He left no will, and his estate was administered upon by his widow Susan- na There being no will, the court decided that the widow shall have one-third of the estate, the ten children the remainder. The inventory showed property to the value of four hundred and sixty-seven pounds. Su- sanna Lockwood gave evidence in a witch case May 13. 1654, at a court held in New Haven, and stated she was present when Goodwife Knapp was hanged for a witch. She subsequently married Jeffrey Ferris. She was daughter and heir of Richard Cutts, Esq. She died. December 23. 1660, at Greenwich, Connecticut. Children of Robert and Susanna Lockwood: 1. Jonathan, born September 10, 1634. died in Greenwich, Connecticut, aged fifty-four years; he was a prominent citizen; he married Mary, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris, his stepfather. 2. Deborah, October 12, 1636. 3. Joseph, August 6, 1638. 4. Daniel, March 21, 1640. 5. Ephrahim, see forward. 6. Gersham, September 6, 1642: he was the principal carpenter and builder in the town of Green- wich, and filled many offices of trust and importance; he married Lady Ann Mil- lington from England, daughter of Lord Millington : she came to America seeking her lover, a British army officer : failing to find him, she became a school teacher, and liter the wife of Lieutenant Lockwood. 7. John. 8. Abigail, married John Barlow. 9. Sarah. IO. Mary, married Jonathan Hue-ted.


(II) Ephrahim, fourth son of Robert and Susanna (Cutts) Lockwood. was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. December n. 1611. He removed to Connecticut with his father when a youth, and settled in Norwalk. He is on the list of freemen admitted Oc- tober 13. 1660. He married, June 8, 1065. Mercy Sentien (now written St. John ?. daughter of Matthias Sention (I) of Ner- walk. Children, born in Norwalk: I. John B., March 19, 1666. 2. Daniel, August 13. 1668; married Charity Clement -. 3. Sarah. November 3. 1670: married John Platt. 4.


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Ephrahim (2), May 1, 1673. 5. Eliphalet (deacon), February 27, 1675: married Mary, daughter of Jolin Gold, of Stamford. 6. Joseph, see forward. 7. Lieutenant James, April 2, 1683: married Lidia Smith. Both Eliphalet and James Lockwood were mem- bers of the general assembly of Connecticut. 8. Edmund, unmarried. 9. Mary, married Joseph Gainsey. 10. Abigail, married Cook.


(III) Deacon Joseph, fifth son of Ephra- him and Mercy (Sention ) Lockwoed, was born in Norwalk. Connecticut, April I. 1680, and died there November 23. 1760. He married. August 14. 1707, Mary Wood, of Stamford. Connecticut, who died June 1. 1736. She was daughter of John Wood. Children. born in Norwalk : 1. Ephrahim. August 23. 1708: married Thankful Grum- mon. 2. Joseph, November 23. 1710: mar- ried Rebecca Rogers, of Huntington, Long Island. 3. Ruth, July 17, 1714; married David Hoyt. 4. Daniel. December 5. 1716. 5. Mary, March 7. 1719: married Deacon Nathaniel Benedict. t. Elizabeth. May 23. 1721 ; married Nathan Hoyt. 7. Sarah, No- vember 28. 1723: died young. 8. Isaac, see forward.


(IV) Isaac, fourth son and youngest child of Deacon Joseph and Mary ( Wood) Lockwood. was born in Norwalk. Connecti- cut. December 24. 1726. He served in the revolutionary army. He was a Mason and worshipful master in Stamford. Connecti- cut. He married. January 10. 1755. Ruth Whitney, of Norwalk. born January 3. 1736-37. Her house in Norwalk was burned by the British troops while General Tyron sat on the hill and saw it burn. She was a strong-minded, go-ahead woman. She died .August 18. 1828, aged ninety-one years, seven months, three days. Her grave- stone may be seen at New Milford. Con- necticut. Children: 1. Ilezekiah, born No- vember 15. 1755. died July, 1816; he set- tle in Westchester county. New York, and married Catherine Seymour. 2. Mary, July 24, 1757. 3. Ruth, April 4. 1759. 4. Isaac.


December 22, 1761 ; married Ann Nichol -. 5. Jeremiah, see forward. 6. Josiah. Ma. 18, 1766; married ( first ) Molly Dickin son ; ( second ) Abigail Wilkinson. 7. San :- uel, January 24. 1769; married Sarah J. Canfield. 8. Sarah, January 22, 1772. 9. David; married Eunice Baldwin.


(V) Jeremiah, third son of Isaac and Ruth ( Whitney) Lockwood, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, March 23. 1764. About 1810 he removed to northern New York, settling at Schroon Lake. Essex coun- ty, where he followed farming and his trade of wagon maker. He built the tavern at Schroon Lake that in the old stage coach days was one of the regular stations, and a scene of great activity as the coaches ar- rived and departed. He died there. Septem- ber 25. 1857. aged ninety-three years. He married. January 19. 1786, Mehetable, born .August 11. 1769, daughter of Iahakel Clark. Children : 1. Leander J., born July 30. 1789. died at Burlington, Iowa, April 25, 1845. 2. Clark L., see forward. 3. Abel. May I. 1795 (major), died at Chestertown, Apri! 19. 1869. 4. Jeremiah, May 17, 1797, died at Chestertown, April 19, 1869. 5. Harriet. November 29, 1799. died at Schroon. New York. January 2, 1810. The father of these children died at Schroon, September 25. 1857, and his wife died there August, 1838. Leander J. and Abel served at battle of Plattsburgh.


(VI) Clark L., son of Jeremiah and Me- hetable (Clark) Lockwood. was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, August 29. 1792. died at Schroon Lake. Essex county. New York. August 2. 1814. He settled at Schroon Lake before his father, who fol- lawed him a few years later. He married Sarah Toms, and had one child. Linns C. Ilis widow married (second ) Judge Wol- cott Tyrrell, judge of Essex county court. and had Hiram and Lucina.


(VII ) Linus C., only son and child of Clark L. and Sarah ( Toms) Lockwood, was born at Schroon Lake, Essex county, New York. November 11. 1813, died there, Janut-


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ary II, 1895. He was a wagon maker and a farmer. He married, March 11, 1838, Harriet Rawson, born at Schroon Lake, May 27, 1813. died there August 6, 1895, daughter of Clark and Laura ( Pond ) Raw- son. Her father settled at Schroon Lake in 1797. Children : 1. Rosalia A., born April S. 1840 : married William Fullen, and lived on the old Lockwood homestead at Schroon Lake; she died April 16, 1899. 2. Edward L., see forward.


(VIII ) Edward L., only son of Linus C. and Harriet ( Rawson ) Lockwood, was born at Schroon Lake, New York. October 6. 1850. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the wagonmaker's trade with his father, and has followed it all his life in connection with farming. He is still in active business at Schroon Lake. He is a Democrat in politics, and has served as overseer of the poor, and in various town offices. He married, February 19, 1871, Betsey Wilcox, born at Schroon Lake. Au- gust 4, 1848. daughter of Orlando and Olive (Wiswell) Wilcox. Children: 1. Roy, see forward. 2. Harriet. born November 3. 1877, died March 13, 1883. 3. Clayton, born July 4, 1879: is a farmer, and lives at home. 4. Olive. August 3. 1882; married Wesley Hodskins, of Chestertown, New York, December 9. 1909. 5. Edward Lee, November 20, 1886; is a stenographer and law student at Ticonderoga, New York.


(IX) Roy, eldest son of Edward L. and Betsey ( Wilcox) Lockwood, was born in The Old Lockwood Tavern, at Schroon Lake, New York, July 8. 1874. 1Ie was educated in the public schools, and at Sher- man Collegiate Institute. Moriah. New York. He decided on the profession of law, and studied in the office of Hand. Kel- logg & Hale, Elizabethtown. New York, un- til 1893. In that year he removed to Lari- more, North Dakota, where he entered the law office of his uncle. O. A. Wilcox. In 1895 he was admitted to the bar of North Dakota. He remained in that state in the practice of law until 1898. when he returned


east and was admitted to the New York bar in 1899. He opened a law office in Schroon Lake, and remained there in practice until 1901, when he located permanently in Ti- conderoga, New York, where he has since been engaged in the active practice of his profession. For one year he had as a part- ner Robert Dornburgh, under the firm name of Dornburgh & Lockwood, of Ticondero- ga; otherwise he has been alone in prac- tice. Politically he is a Democrat. He is unmarried.


William C. Coats was born in COATS Devonshire, England, in 1828, and comes of an ancient Eng- lish family of this name. He had a common school education in his native place, and when a boy went to sea. For many years he was a mariner and went to all parts of the world. In 1859 he came to New York City, and after a short time located at Ful- ton, Oswego county, New York, where he has made his home and followed farming for an occupation since 1860. In politics he is a Republican, in religion a Baptist. He enlisted and served three years in the civil war in Company For I, Eleventh New York Cavalry. He took part in a number of important engagements, and was active in the work of clearing the country of raid- ers and bushwhackers that infested most of the southern states. He married, in 1847. Elizabeth Inchdon, born in Devonshire, England. in 1829. died in Fulton, New York, in 1004. Children: Son died in in- fancy ; William Henry, mentioned below.


(II) William Henry, son of William C. Coats, was born in Devonshire, England. January 24, 1851. He came to America with his parents when he was a child. He had some instruction under a private tutor in England, and attended the village sem- inary in Fulton, New York. He began teaching school when a young man, at first in the district schools in the vicinity of his father's home, afterward in Oswego county. and for eight years he was superintendent


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of schools at Fulton, New York, and for another eight years principal of the high school at Elizabethtown, Essex county, New York. He was then in business at Plattsburgh, New York, for ten years. He came to Saranac Lake in 1907 as teacher of classics and languages in the high school, and is at the present time filling this posi- tion. He was a prominent candidate for principal of the State Normal School at Plattsburgh, and was offered and declined the chair of mathematics in that institution. He is a Republican in politics. He married, in 1870, Emma M. Guernsey, born January 4. 1852, in Broome county, New York, near the town of Lysle, a daughter of John L. and -(Nichols) Guernsey. Her father was of English and her mother of Dutch an- cestry. Children : Herbert Philip, men- tioned below, William Henry, Lucy E.


(III) Hon. Herbert Philip Coats, son of William Henry Coats, was born in Fulton, New York, September 1, 1872. He attended the public schools and graduated from the Elizabethtown high school, of which his father was principal. He began the study of law in the office of Shedden & Booth, and continued in the offices of Weed, Smith & Conway, of Plattsburgh, and at the Al- bany Law School, from which he was gradu- ated in the class of 1894, and was honored with the position of class orator at com- mencement. In the same year he was admit- ted to the bar and opened an office at Sara- nac Lake. Since then he has been in general practice in this town, and has taken a promi- nent position at the bar of the county. He is an active Republican and has served as atter- ney for the village of Saranac Lake con- tinuously for fifteen years. He has for years taken an active part in nominating con- ventions of his party, and given to its can- didates his hearty support. He was elected state senator. in November, 1900. and was appointed to important committees in the present session of the legislature. In 19to he was unanimously nominated to succeed himself as senator. the nomination being


equivalent to an election. He was one the organizers of the Adirondack Native, Bank. He was instrumental in securit. the location of the Ray Brook Tubercul. .. Institution of New York State in this v: cinity. He is a member of White Fao Mountain Lodge, No. 789, Free Mason -. and of Waneta Chapter. No. 291, Roy .. ] Arch Masons, of Saranac Lake, and was one of the founders of the latter: and is a member of Franklin Commandery. Knights Templar, of Malone, New York. and of Karnak Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Montreal, Canada. He married September II. 1895. Bertha E. Roberts, of Platts- burgh. They have one son, Herbert Philip. Jr., born December 19, 1896.


Sergeant Ephraim Wheel- WHEELER er, immigrant ancestor. and brother of Thom. . Wheeler, Sr .. of Fairfield. came from Eng- land in the company of the Rev. John Jones to Concord, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman. March 13, 1639. I: 1644 he came to Fairfield, also with Mr. Jones' company, and with a wife and pos- sibly two children. He became a large land- hohler and leading citizen. In his will, dated September 22, 1669, he mentioned his wife Ann, and sons Samuel. Timothy, Ephraim and Isaac, daughters Mary, Ruth. Rebecca Judith and Abigail. To the first three suns he gave all his "lands and housings": to Isaac, Mary and Ruth, they having already had their shares, ten pounds each. to Hannah. fifteen pounds, to Rebecca, Judith and Abi gail. each thirty pounds, and to his wife Ann all his other estate. The inventory was taken October 28. 1670, and amounted ". one thousand and twenty-six pounds, eigh- teen shillings, six pence. In 168t his widow paid tax en seven hundred and six acres ri lind. Children: 1. Isaac, born 1638. diti young. 2 Isaac. December 13, 1642, men- tioned below. 3. Mary. 4. Ruth. s. Han- nah. 6. Rebecca. 7. Judith. 8. Abigaï .. died February 7. 1712. 9. Samuel, 50:




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