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(III) Isaac, son of Saffarine Cortright, was born at Red Creek. He was educated in the public schools, and was a farmer in Wayne county, New York. He married Permelia. daughter of Dr. and ( Mack ) Wright. the latter a sister of John and Henry Mack. Children: 1. Chester, enlisted in the Ninth Heavy Artillery. 2. Curtis, enlisted in the One Hundred and Eleventh New York Regiment in the civil war and was killed in the service. 3. Sarah, married Alfred Fridd. 4. Hannah. married Amasa Quincy. 5. James H. 6. Ira A., mentioned below. 7. Louisa. 8. David. 9. Julia, married John Chamberlain. 10. Ed- ward. 11. Lizzie.
(IV) Ira A., son of Isaac Cortright, was . born in Wayne county, New York, October 31. 1849. He was educated in the public schools of Red Creek, New York. For two years he was clerk in a store, and for one year was employed in Syracuse, New York. From 1869 he was clerk in a store in Baldwinsville, and at that time removed to Rollingfork, Mississippi, and in partnership with his brother, James H. Cortright, con- ducted a general store and a cotton planta- tion.
Eventually he retired from the mer- cantile business and made his home in Bald- winsville, but he continues to own an interest in the cotton plantation and he has also Nova Scotia gold mining properties. He is a mem- ber of Seneca River Lodge. Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, October 4, 1881. Sarah M. Greenfield, born at Baldwinsville, August 31,
1852, daughter of DeWitt C. and Harriet (foster ) Greenfield.
John Taylor, immigrant ances- TAYLOR tor, was born in England. and came early to Boston. In 1639 he came with Rev. Ephraim Hewett to Wind- sor, Connecticut, and a lot was granted to him in 1640. In 1644 he served on a jury there. He sailed from near New Haven in the first ship built in the colony in January. 1645-46, and was lost. This was the famous and mysterious Phantom Ship of New Haven. His will was dated November 4. 1645. His widow Rhoda married Hart and re- moved with son Thomas to Norwalk, Con- necticut. Children of John and Rhoda Tay- lor : John, settled at Northampton. Massachu- setts, and was killed by Indians in 1704; Thomas, mentioned below; Abigail, died in 1043; Anna, died 1644; Hannah, died 1650. ( Il) Thomas, son of John Taylor, was born in Windsor in 1643, died at Danbury. January, 1735. Ile went to Norwalk, Fairfield county, Connecticut, with his mother, and in 1685 his was one of eight families that founded the town of Danbury. He became a prominent citizen. He married ( first ) - -: (second), February 14, 1677. at Norwalk, Rebecca, daughter of Edward Ketcham. His children were remarkable for longevity. Children: I. Thomas. born November 26. 1669. died 1758: married Phebe Benedict. 2. Deborah, born January, 1670-71. died aged eighty. 3. Jo- seph. born 1672-73, died aged ninety. 4.
John, twin of Joseph, died aged seventy. 5. Daniel, mentioned below. 6. Timothy, born 1678, died aged fifty-six. 7. Nathan, born 1682, died aged one hundred. 8. Theophilus. born 1687, died aged ninety. 9. Rebecca, died aged ninety-eight. 10. Eunice, died aged ninety.
(III) Daniel, son of Thomas Taylor, was born in 1676, died 1770, aged ninety-four years. According to some accounts his first wife was named Elizabeth, daughter of James Benedict, his second. Starr, but no rec- ord is found, and it is likely that the second marriage is confused with the marriage of his son Daniel, as given here. Children : 1. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Rev. Nathaniel. who with others of the family settled at New Milford, and died December 9. 1800, aged seventy-eight. 3. Captain Daniel, died at New Milford, September 23, 1791, aged seventy-
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seven ; married ( first) June 10, 1739, Rachel Starr; (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Cap- tain Samuel Boughton, a farmer of Danbury. Probably others. Rev. Nathaniel and family are given in the New Milford history, and the others are not carried down in that work.
(IV) Thomas (2), son of Daniel Taylor, was born about 1708, probably at Danbury, and settled with his brothers in New Milford, where he died between August 20, 1773, and March 17, 1775. He appears to have lived in Fairfield in 1754. His wife was of Fairfield. He lived two miles north of the village of New Milford, near the old paper mill, and owned considerable land in that vicinity. He mar- ried Catherine, born at Fairfield, June 22, 1714, died at New Milford, May 30, 1790, daughter of Sergeant Daniel and Hannah (Adams) Morehouse. Her father, Sergeant Daniel Morehouse, was son of Samuel and Mary (Sherwood) Morehouse, and grand- son of the first settler of the family, Thomas Morehouse. Children : I. Abraham, born about 1732, died September 8, 1755, at Lake George in the French and Indian war. 2. Daniel, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, about 1739; married, April 19, 1759, Caleb Dayton. 4. Hannah, born about 1741, died about 1793 : married John Main. 5. Rev. Nathaniel, about 1752; married Johanna Smith. 6. Elizabeth, about 1754 ; married Dile.
(V) Daniel (2), son of Thomas (2) Tay- lor, was born about 1735, died May 10, 1805. He married Abigail Elliott, and resided at New Milford. Children, born at New Mil- ford: I. Abraham, mentioned below. 2. Wil- liam, born about 1767, died October, 1836; married Jabez Williams, who served six years in the revolutionary war. 3. Thomas, born 1768, died December 27, 1841, unmarried. 4. Eunice, married Abraham Anson and moved to Amenia, Dutchess county, New York. 5. Laura, married Draper. 6. Mabel, married Albert Campbell. 7. Daughter, mar- ried - Small. 8. Nathaniel, died Septem- ber 7. 1851 ; married Thalia Stilson. 9. Na- than Elliott, born February II, 1781, died Oc- tober 8, 1865; married Sally Giddings. 10. Betsey, married Noah Seeley and Isaac Beers. II. Elizabeth, mentioned in Daniel's will.
(VI) Abraham, son of Daniel (2) Taylor, was born at New Milford, May 17, 1765, died June 9. 1839. He served in the revolutionary war from June 1, 1780, to the following De- cember, and was mustered out at Morristown,
New Jersey. He was in Captain Daniel Camp's company, Colonel Canfield's regiment of Connecticut. He removed from New Mil- ford to Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and settled on the Wyalusing creek about a mile below Stevensville. The property he bought was owned by Samuel Meredith, first treasurer of the United States. He married, March 30, 1785, Mary, daughter of Ithiel and Martha (Baldwin) Stone. She was born December 28, 1767, died November 8, 1836. Children : I. Polly, born October 7, 1786, at New Mil- ford; married, June 22, 1808, William Brad- comb and - Lively successively. 5. Melli- son, born April 2, 1791, died March 4, 1814. 4. Nathan, born June 26, 1793, died in 1835 ; married Anna Ross, Betsey (Fairchild) New- comb and - - Lively successively. 5. Nelli- son, born April 26, 1796, died August 16, 1861 ; married Roswell Kingsley. 6. Ed- mond, born March 2, 1799, died May 3, 1799. 7. Esther, born March 2, 1800, died July 6, 1831 ; married (first) Walker Stone, and (sec- ond) Elijah Rouse. 8. Abraham, born No- vember 29, 1803, died September 14, 1886; married Eunice Gregory. 9. Eunice, born May 20, 1805 ; married Henry Fessenden. 10. Charles, born August 15, 1807. died October 17, 1818. II. Ithiel, born February 15, 1809, died August 8, 1860; married Immira Stey- ens.
(VII) Daniel (3), son of Abraham Taylor, was born December 19, 1788, at New Milford. died May 28, 1865. He came with his father to Pennsylvania when he was four years old .. When his son Edwin moved to Montrose, he went with him and lived there several years ; afterward he made his home with his son Alan- son at Rummefield, Pennsylvania, where he and his second wife are buried. He married (first) November 27, 1810, Olive, born Sep- tember 26, 1789, died January 14, 1823, daugh- ter of Reuben and Abigail (Turrell) Wells. He married ( second) Children : I. Orrin, born February 3, 1812, died February 15. 1875; married (first) Fidelia Gregory, (second) Philena , (third) Caroline Williams. 2. Alanson, September 10, 1815. died December 3, 1881; married Margaret Houk and Osse Van Ness. 3. Mary Abigail. born October 27, 1817: married, January, 1837. Orlando Eldridge. 4. Edwin, mentioned below. 5. Olive, born January 15, 1822, died June 15, 1837.
(VIII) Edwin, son of Daniel (3) Taylor.
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was born October 8, 1819, in Pennsylvania, died June 18, 1885. He was a soldier in the civil war in Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-first Regiment of Pennsylvania Volun- teers. He married, February 28, 1841, Angel- ina Atherton Snell, born at Deposit, New York, May 3, 1821, died June 1, 1897, daughi- ter of Joseph Snell. Children: 1. Amanda I., born in 1842, died August 21, 1856. 2. Daughter, born August 12, 1844, died soon. 3. Charles Edward, mentioned below.
(IX) Charles Edward, son of Edwin Tay- lor, was born March 23, 1847, near Stevens- ville, Bradford county, Pennsylvania. He at- tended school at Montrose in his native state, and then served an apprenticeship in the jew- eler's trade. Thence he moved to Waymart, Wayne county, Pennsylvania, and afterward to Binghamton, New York. He was a travel- ing salesman for the firm of E. D. Vosburg & Company, wholesale jewelers, for three years. He then started in business on his own account in partnership with W. H. Wright, afterward with Mason Lowell. Since the last firm was dissolved he has continued with much success in the wholesale jewelry business with- out a partner at Binghamton. He married, October 16, 1871, Agnes Case, born July 28, 1847, near Waymart, Pennsylvania, daughter of Ralph and Maria (Jenkins) Case. Her parents came from Walling's Hill, a village in Connecticut. Children : 1. Louis Benjamin. born January 2, 1873, resides at Pleasanton. California, owns a stock farm and is agent for the New York Life Insurance Company. 2. Lizzie, born May 8, 1876, died February I, 1877.
(The Snell Line).
The Snell family came before the revolu- tion, and had a grant of three thousand acres of land near what is now Little Falls, then Tryon county, now Herkimer county. in the Mohawk valley, New York. Five generations or more have lived on this original grant, and the name is still common in that section. Many served in the revolution from Palatine town, and the ancestry is thought to be Dutch or Palatine. It is said that nine brothers in one Snell family served at the battle of Oriskany in the revolution.
(I) Selah Snell, of this family, lived in Montgomery county, and was a soldier in the revolution in the first New York regiment under Colonel Goose Van Schaick. He mar- ried Polly Failing.
(II) Joseph, son of Selah Snell, was born October 9, 1777, died in 1862. He married Elizabeth Christman, born May 24, 1783, died in 1859. Children: 1. John, born in 1800, died August 11, 1867. 2. Polly, born 1802, died 1855; married Josiah Nourse. 3. Elijah, born 1804, died 1836; married Violetta Broad. 4. Archibald, 1808. 5. Louisa, born 1811, died June 12, 1877; married Alanson Philley and Silas Seward. 6. Amanda, born 1813, died February, 1832. 7. Joseph, born August 17, 1815; married Lavinia Hungerford and Eliza Saxton. 8. Emily, born 1816, died 1860; mar- ried Randolph Seeman. 9. Orland, born 1818; married Temperance Jennings and Harriet Ross. 10. Angelina Atherton, married Edwin Taylor (see Taylor VIII). 11. Sylvanus, born 1823, died June 1, 1897; married Olive Bald- win and Franklin. 12. Pamelia, born February, 1825; married Lafayette Keeler.
John Frink, immigrant ancestor, FRINK was born in England, and was an early settler in Ipswich, Mas- sachusetts. He was doubtless a mariner, but we know very little of him. He died early, leaving a will in which he made bequests to his two sons, George and John, and wife Mary. Children, probably born in England : John, mentioned below; George.
(II) John (2), son of John (1) Frink, was born about 1635, probably in England, and as early as 1666 settled at Stonington, Con- necticut, and bought a tract of land at Taub- wonk in Stonington where he erected a dwell- ing house for himself and family. He was a soldier in King Philip's war. He mar- ried, in Taunton, 1657, Grace Stevens, and presumably lived there for a time. He had three daughters when he came to Stonington. Children: Grace, born 1658; Hannah, 1661 ; Deborah, 1665 : born at Stonington : Samuel, February 14, 1668-69 : John, mentioned below ; Thomas, May 25, 1674: Judith, baptized April 15, 1680.
(III) John (3). son of John (2) Frink. was born in Stonington, May 18, 1671, died there, March 2, 1718. He married, Febru- ary 15, 1694, Hannah Prentice. Children, born at Stonington: John, October 7, 1694; Nicholas, December 17, 1696; Thomas, Jan- uary 15, 1700; Hannah, November 27, 1701; Zachariah, November, 1702: Mary. 1705: Jo- seph, baptized June 6, 1708; Benjamin, men- tioned below: William, baptized March 10,
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1714: Thankful. baptized February 8, 1716; Esther, baptized January 23. 1717.
(IV) Benjamin, son of John (3) Frink, was born in Stonington, January 25, 1710. He married, January 12, 1732, Tacy Burdick, of Westerly, Rhode Island. Children, born at Stonington: John, mentioned below ; Sam- tel, born October 24, 1734; Amos, January 1, 1737 : Joseph, June 20, 1739 ; Prentice, July 31. 1741 : Prudence, March 18. 1744; Tacy or Tracy (twin), September 22, 1748; Ann (twin) : Oliver, September 4, 1751.
(\') John (4). son of Benjamin Frink, was born at Stonington, October 26, 1732. He married, November 22, 1750, Anna Pendle- ton. Children, born at Stonington : Jolın, mentioned below : Giles, May 12, 1753; Sarah, December 9, 1755; Thomas, lived in Spring- field in 1790: perhaps other children.
(VI) John (5), son of John (4), Frink, was born at Stonington, September 12, 1751. He was a soldier in the revolution, Captain Robert Oliver's company, Colonel Greaton's regiment (First Hampshire County ) in 1777- 80. He was in the Major's company in 1780. In 1790 the census gives him one son under sixteen and five females in his family.
(VII) Stephen, son or nephew of John (5) Frink, was born January 18, 1777, died Jan- uary 11, 1860. He married Hannah Low, whose father was a soldier in the revolution. Their son John is mentioned below: their daughter Johanna Low, born July 2, 1802, married, September 7. 1821, while on a visit to Roseboom, Otsego county, New York, Par- cefor Carr Dutcher, born January 3, 1794.
(VIII) John (6), son of Stephen Frink, married, and among their children was John, mentioned below.
(IX) John (7). son of John (6) Frink, was born January 17, 1821. He married Marv Louise Jacques, born November 3, 1838. Moses Jacques, her father, was born Marchi 4. 1802, died February 25. 1855 : married, July 7, 1832, Mary Jane Wemple, born December IO. 1810. died April 6, 1883. Their children : Freeman Jacques, born August 24, 1834; Charles Jacques, married Wilcox and had Jennie Wilcox and Clark Wilcox Jacques : Mary Louise Jacques, married John Frink. mentioned above. Moses Jacques, father of Moses Jacques, was born April 24, 1773: married, April 29, 1792, Hannah Islestine, born April 29, 1772, died April 23, 1855. Their children : Hannah Freeman Jacques, born An-
gust 27, 1796: Polly Jacques, October 21, 1797: David Jacques, December 24, 1799; Moses Jacques. mentioned above; Albert Jacques, December 28, 1803; Isaac Jacques, May 22, 1807, died July 15, 1826; Rebecca Jacques, twin of Isaac, died August 26, 1836. Hannah (Islestine) Jacques was born April 29, 1772, daughter of Robert Islestine, who was born in Holland, June 27. 1729. His children by his wife Catherine were: Mar- garet Islestine, born March 17, 1757: Jolin Islestine, May 5, 1759: Robert Islestine, May 14, 1761 ; Hannah, mentioned above. Chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs. Frink: Flora Alberta, born February 25, 1871, died November 6, 1892. 2. Theodore Wemple, mentioned be- low. 3. Harry Van Ness, born June 21, 1879; married, June 7, 1905, Flora May Henry ; children : Henry Lowell and Marion.
(X) Theodore Wemple, son of John (7) Frink, was born in Richfield Springs, Otsego county. New York, September 8. 1875. He was educated in the public and high schools of his native town. He entered the employ of a firm manufacturing chinaware, and in 1907 he became secretary of the Lily France Corset Manufacturing Company of New York City. He married, February 24. 1906, Irene Madeleine Mandon, born May 5, 1882. Child. Madeleine Van Ness, born June 19, 1908.
John Giles was a soldier in the GILES revolution. He married -- and among his children was John, men- tioned below.
(II) Dr. John (2) Giles, sone of John (I) Giles, was a physician. He was drowned in the Susquehanna river at Apalachin, New York. He married Priscilla Smith. After his death his widow married Smith Barton, of Apalachin. Children of Dr. John and Priscilla Giles: John S., mentioned below : Frances, married E. A. Morey. of Candor ; Mary E., married Rev. David W. Barton : died in Missouri; four children: Smith G., Silas, Arthur, Lillian, deceased.
(III ) John S., son of Dr. John (2) Giles, was born November 3. 1836, in Apalachin, New York, died there August 5, 1904. He followed farming in his native town all his active life. He enlisted in the Union army. August 27, 1862, and served in the civil war until discharged on account of physical dis- ability, Jun 19, 1864. He was a second lieu- tenant in Company H. One Hundred and
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Ninth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infan- try. and was commissioned first lieutenant, February 16, 1864. He took part in all the engagements in which his regiment partici- pated until he was mustered out. He was taken prisoner during the battle of the Wild- erness, May 7, 1864, and he was wounded, June 17, 1864, during the assault on Peters- burg. He took a prominent part in public affairs. For many years he was president of the board of education, an office he held at the time of his death. He was instru- mental in forming the union school district, and acted as highway commissioner for six years. He secured the incorporation of the Cemetery Association and was president of the corporation. He was a member of Round- hill Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Union, New York. In religion he was a Methodist, and in politics was a Republican.
He married. April 29, 1858, Martha A., born at Apalachin, May 23, 1842, daughter of Anson Buffum and Lois M. (Burton) Glover. Children, born at Apalachin : 1. Charles Frederick, mentioned below. 2. William Henry, born February 7, 1862 ; died January 3, 1879. 3. Emma Louisa, born May 26, 1865 ; died October 12, 1865. 4. Nettie Eliz- abeth, born August 31, 1868; married Ran- som S. Holmes, of Apalachin ; children : Dora A. and Ransom S. Holmes Jr. 5. John Ran- som, born July 12, 1872: bank cashier, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts; married Mary Coop- er and has two children: George Royal and Charles F. 6. George Anson, born August 4, 1875 ; a real estate broker, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts ; was member of Massachu- setts legislature two terms, also member of common council ; married Susie Richardson ; children : John Silas and Susan.
(IV) Charles Frederick, son of John S. Giles, was born at Apalachin, June 20, 1860. He was educated in the public schools. Dur- ing his youth he worked on the homestead and he succeeded to the ownership of the farm on which he has always lived. He makes a specialty of fancy fruit and market gardening and of registered cattle and sheep. He is thoroughly progressive and enterpris- ing, adopting the best modern methods of agriculture and making it financially prof- itable. He is president of the Cemetery As- sociation, and has been justice of the peace of the town for twelve years. He is an ac- tive and influential Methodist, and a trustee
and secretary of the official board of the Methodist Episcopal church. In politics he is a Republican. He is also a member of Tioga Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; of Wamsutta Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Binghamton: of Anawan Lodge of Hay Makers of Binghamton. He is a member and was one of the founders of the Order of Royal Fellowship of Philadel- phia and is a councilor of the order.
He married, August 18, 1878, Anna Good- now, of Apalachin, born November 13, 1860, daughter of Abram and Parmelia (Barney ) Goodnow. Children, born at Apalachin: I. Evan R., born January 12, 1881, died Octo- ber 4, 1881. 2. Lillian M., born June 1, 1885, died March 17, 1907; married George B. Palmer : one son, Francis Charles, born Feb- ruary 28, 1907.
Walter Palmer, immigrant an-
PALMER cestor, was born, according to tradition, in county Notting- ham, England, died in Stonington, Connecti- cut, November 19, 1661. The first authentic records of him in New England are in Charlestown, Massachusetts, when he and Abraham Palmer were admitted freemen, May 14, 1634. He owned considerable real estate and received land in the first division in 1637 and again in the division of 1643. He was among those who met to prepare for the new settlement at Seacuncke, afterwards Reho- both, Massachusetts, and settled there. At this time he gave the value of his estate as four hundred and nineteen pounds. He was deputy to the general court from Rehoboth, and in 1653 moved to what is now Stoning- ton, Connecticut. He bought land from Gov- ernor Haynes on the east bank of the Weque- tequoc river. His entire tract of land con- tained about twelve hundred acres. His will was dated May 19, 1658, and proved May II, 1662. He married (first) in England, Ann -; he married (second) Rebecca Short, a member of Rev. John Eliot's church in Roxbury. Children of first wife: Grace, married Thomas Minor: John, died unmar- ried : William, died unmarried : Jonas; Eliza- beth. Children of second wife: Hannah, born June 16, 1634; Elihu, January 24. 1636; Ne- hemiah, mentioned below : Moses, April 6, 1640; Benjamin, May 30, 1642: Gershom ; Rebecca.
(II) Nehemiah, son of Walter Palmer, was
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born November 27, 1637, in Charlestown, died in Stonington, Connecticut, February 17, 1717. He was interred in the old burial ground on the east side of Wequetequoc cove, and his gravestone is still standing. He was admitted a freeman in Connecticut, May 10, 1666, and became a prominent man in the town of Ston- ington, where he settled. For fifteen years, from 1668 on, he served as deputy to the gen- eral court, and in 1681 was on a committee to buy land from the Indians He gave most of his property to his sons before his death. He married, in Stonington, November 20, 1662, Hannah, born in 1644, died October 17, 1727, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton. Children, born in Stoning- ton : Joseph, October 3, 1663; Elihu, March 12, 1666, died young; Jonathan, August 7, 1668; Daniel, mentioned below; Elihu, bap- tized December 14, 1674; Jonathan, baptized December 14, 1674, twin of Elihn1; Nehemiah, baptized July 8, 1677 ; Hannah, baptized April II, 1680.
(III) Daniel, son of Nehemiah Palmer, was born June 12, 1672, died February 28, 1762. He received one-half the homestead by deed of gift from his father, for his "duti- ful care" of him, and owned land also in Vol- untown, given him by Nehemiah Smith, his wife's father. He was a commissioner in 1724 and 1728, and justice of the peace for fifteen years. He repeatedly served as deputy to the general court. He gave much of his land to his children before his death. His will was dated May 12, 1747, and it is interest- ing to note that he owned several slaves, as he bequeathed to sons Daniel, Nathan, Nche- miah, Rufus and James, each a negro girl or boy. and to his daughter Rebecca a negro girl. He married (first ), March 25, 1700-0I, Margaret Smith, who died June 4, 1726, daughter of Nehemiah Smith. He married (second). January 12, 1732, Mrs. Mary Den- ison, born November 14, 1680, died 1762, widow of William Denison, and daughter of John and Abigail (Chesborough) Avery. Children by first wife: Nehemiah, born April 9, 1702: Daniel, mentioned below; Samuel, April 7, 1707, died August 5, 1727 : Nathan, October 27, 1711 : Rufus, October 7, 1713; Huldah, November 15, 1715, died July 25, 1727 : Lydia, August 16, 1718, died June 25, 1727; James, July 18, 1720: Rebecca, April 13. 1725.
(I\') Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Palm-
er, was born in Stonington, Connecticut, June 10, 1704, died in Voluntown, Connecticut, Au- gust 17, 1772. His estate was distributed among his heirs, March 13, 1773, and he made a will which has been lost. His wife Mary and son Samuel were executors, and Samuel died before the final distribution, in 1773, when those who received shares were Rebecca Sherman, his daughter, Joseph, his son, Lydia, Margaret, Mary Stanton, and Huldah, his daughters, and Joseph, the son of Samuel, who was deceased. Daniel Palmer married, in Stonington, January 6, 1731, Mary, born in Stonington, March 21, 1704, daughter of Deacon Joseph and Mary (Palmer) Palmer. Children : Samuel, mentioned below ; Daniel, born January 17, 1734; Mary, January 31, 1737; Lydia, May 13, 1738; Rebecca, April 24, 1742; Joseph, December 27, 1744; Mar- garet, November 1, 1747; Huldah, March 3, 1750; Freelove, May 14, 1753.
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