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He married (first) August 7, 1872, Nettie B., daughter of Rev. Thomas Newman, of Granby Center, New York. Her father was a Methodist Episcopal minister of the New York conference. She died July 2, 1891, at Fulton, New York. Dr. Haviland married ( second) October 10, 1893. Emma Newton Chaffee, daughter of William C. and Ande- lusia Newton. Mrs. Haviland is a musician of rare ability and considerable note. Chil- dren by first wife: I. Dr. Clarence Floyd, born at Spencertown, August 15, 1875. He was educated in public schools of Fulton, New York, and graduated from the Fulton high school. 1893; he graduated from College of Medicine, Syracuse University, 1896. In 1896 he was appointed medical interne, at Manhattan State Hospital, Ward's Island, New York City, and successively occupied positions of junior physician, assistant physi- cian and second assistant physician at the same institution. Since 1910, he has been first assistant physician at Kings Park State Hospital, Kings Park. Long Island, New York. From 1899 to 1904. he has been clini- cal assistant, department of neurology and psychiatry, Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
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and since 1904, he has held the same position in Columbia University. Dr. Haviland is the author of "Tuberculosis Among the Insane," "Prognosis in Alcoholic Paranoic Conditions," "Differential Diagnosis of Constitutional In- feriority and Dementia Præcox," "Occupation for Insane." "Causes of Insanity," and so forth. Dr. Haviland is a member of the Suf- folk County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, American Medical As- sociation, and American Medico-Psychological Association. He also belongs to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and the Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity ; and is a member and past master of La Fayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; and is a member of Amity Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar. Dr. Clarence Floyd Hay- iland married Amy Muller, June, 1908. 2. Frank Ross, born January 18, 1880, at Fulton, New York, attended Fulton high school, and then entered Syracuse Medical College, Syra- cuse, New York. remaining from 1899 to 1903, graduating June 10, 1903, with degree of Doctor of Medicine. He is a member of college fraternities : Nu Sigma Nu and Phi Kappa Psi.
He has since held in succession the fol- lowing positions: September, 1903, house physician, Watertown City Hospital, Water- town, New York, but resigned October I, 1903, to enter State Hospital Service ; October 3. 1903. to November, 1904, medical interne, Manhattan State Hospital. Ward's Island, New York City; November, 1904, to January I, 1907, junior physician, Manhattan State Hospital; 1905 to 1906, also assistant physi- cian, West Side German Dispensary, nervous and mental diseases, New York City ; Janu- ary I, 1907, to January 1, 1908, junior and house surgeon at St. Francis Hospital, New York City; January 1, 1908, to October I, 1908, junior physician, Manhattan State Hos- pital ; October 1, 1908, to March 1, 1911, as- sistant physician, Manhattan State Hospital; appointed second assistant physician at Man- hattan State Hospital, March 1, 1911 ; clinical assistant, department of psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- versity, New York City. He has contributed medical papers on "A Consideration of Invo- lution Melancholia," "Report of a case of De- pression in a Psychopathic Individual with pronounced suicidal tendencies, with special reference to management and treatment,"
"The relation of Infective Exhaustive Phy- chosis to Manic Depressive Insanity," etc.
(The Newton Line).
(I) Isaac Newton was probably born about 1770 in Connecticut. He settled in Stock- bridge, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and was living there in 1824 when he deeded to his son Chauncy. He also had a son Isaac.' (II) Chauncy, son of Isaac Newton, was born about 1800. He received land from his fatlier Isaac and brother of the same name by deed in 1824 (see p. 234, Book 3-4. Berk- shire Deeds, Lenox, Mass.). He removed to a farm near Fulton, Oswego county, New York, with his family, about 1832. Among his children was William C., mentioned be- low.
(III) William C., son of Chauncy New- ton, was born June 7, 1824, at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, died at Fulton, New York, August 7, 1911. He married Andelusia - Among their children was Emma, married Dr. N. H. Haviland (see Haviland VII).
(II) Thomas Seymour, eld-
SEYMOUR est son of Richard (q. v.) and Mercy Seymour, was probably born in England, as no record of his birth appears in this country. His name occurs in the list of inhabitants and land- holders of Norwalk, in 1655, and he was one of the patentees named in the charter of 1686. In 1668 he was made freeman, and in 1673 possessed an estate of one hundred pounds. Fourteen years later his estate was valued at one hundred and eighty-four pounds in a list of the "Estates Commonage of the Inhabitants of Norwalk." He was de- puty from that town to the general court of Connecticut in 1690. His home lot, which had been his father's, was on the west side of the common, bounded on the west and north by the highway, and on the south by Richard Webb, being near the present First Church and old burying ground. He died in 1712, between September 22 and November 7. He married (first) in January, 1653, Hannah Marvin, baptized December 12, 1634, in Great Bentley, county Essex. England, and daughter of Matthew Marvin, of Hartford and Nor- walk. The date of her death is unknown, but we learn from his will that he had a second wife, Elizabeth. Children: Hannah, born December 12, 1654: Abigail, January, 1656;
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Mary and Sarah (twins), September, 1658; Thomas, September, 1660 (not mentioned in will ) ; John, mentioned below; Mercy, No- vember, 1666; Matthew, May, 1669; Eliz- azeth, December, 1673; Rebecca, January, 1675.
(III) John, second son of Thomas Sey- mour and probably child of his first wife, was born in 1662, in Norwalk, and died there be- tween May 26 and August 5, 1746, the dates respectively of making a codicil to his will and the proving of same. He married (first) Sarah Gregory, born September 15, 1678, in Norwalk, daughter of Jachin Gregory, son of John Gregory, one of the settlers of Nor- walk in 1655. His second wife bore the name of Hannah. Children, probably all born at Norwalk, and presumably of the first wife: John, mentioned below ; Mary, married Thomas Hanford; Sarah, married Daniel Trowbridge; Abigail, married, November 5, 1729, John Selleck, of Stamford; Rebecca, married ( first) July 6, 1734, Elijah Whit- ney, (second) John Bouton, of Danbury ; Martha, married Samuel Jarvis.
(IV) John (2) only son of John (1) and Sarah (Gregory) Seymour, was born 17II, in Norwalk, where he died, September 8, 1796.
He married (first) Ruth, daughter of William and Margaret ( Arms) Belden. Will- iam Belden, born 1671, was son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Foote) Belden, of Deerfield, Mas- sachusetts, and represented one of the early families of Wethersfield, Connecticut. This branch of the family was a severe sufferer through the Indian massacre at Deerfield. Ruth Belden was born January 18, 1713, at Norwalk, and died there May 29, 1782. Through her line the descendants of John (2) Seymour are entitled to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars. She was also descended from Nathaniel Foote and John Deming, pioneer settlers of Connecticut. John (2) Seymour married (second ) at New Ca- naan, Connecticut, February 4, 1784. Eliz- abeth Wood, of Huntington, Long Island. Children of first wife: John, mentioned be- low ; Seth, married Anna Benedict ; William, born 1735, married, January 6, 1757, Lydia St. John ; Sarah, married Ezra Hoyt ; Martha, married, February 12, 1761, Levi Taylor; David, born December 24, 1744, married, Sep- tember I0, 1773, Lucy Alvord: Ira, born Au- gust 31, 1748, married (first) November 14,
1772, Ruth Smith, (second ) December 24, 1795, Jerusha Parsons ; James.
(V) John (3) son of John (2) and Ruth (Belden ) Seymour, was born in 1734, at Nor- walk, where he resided on what has been known as the McMahon place on West ave- nue. In 1779 General Tryon, of the British army, burned the old Seymour house and he erected what was intended for a temporary home, and died before completing the house he planned to build. The temporary house stood until 1896, when it was taken down. He died at Norwalk, November 22, 1786, aged, according to his gravestone, fifty-two years. He married Rebecca Keeler, who was living at Norwalk in 1790. Children born at Norwalk: 1. Jonathan, July 11, 1755; mar- ried Hannah Betts. 2. Samuel, October 20, 1758; married Lydia Hanford. 3. Ruth, Oc- tober 16, 1760; married Augustus Sammis. 4. Rebecca, February 22, 1763; living at Nor- walk, unmarried, in 1811. 5. Sarah, March I, 1765 : married Ebenezer Squire. 6. John, mentioned below. 7. Betty, October 18, 1770; married, December 1, 1798, William Aspin- wall Cannon. 8. Martha ( Patty), February II. 1773; married, January 1, 1797, Briant Stoddard.
(VI) John (4) son of Jolin (3) and Re- becca (Keeler) Seymour, was born in 1767, in Norwalk, died in 1856, at Whitney Point, Broome county, New York. At the age of sixteen years he enlisted in the Connecticut line of the revolutionary army. As the war closed that year and he probably did not get into action, his name does not appear in the revolutionary rolls of Connecticut. He was, however, a pensioner in his old age. He was twelve years of age when Norwalk was burned by General Tryon in 1779. In 1792 he removed to Whitney Point, New York, conveying his belongings with ox teams ; there he acquired two hundred acres of land which he cleared and on which his grandson now resides. He was a member of the Congrega- tional church at Whitney Point, and was a Whig in politics. He married, after 1792, Sally Stoddard. He was the father of four sons and four daughters: 1. Eliza, married General Patterson, and resided at Medina, New York. 2. Susan, died unmarried. 3. Nancy, married Benjamin Walter, who died at Newark Valley, New York; she returned to Whitney Point in old age. 4. Ruth, wife of Charles Waldo, resided and died in Pon-
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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. Henry Augustus, mentioned below.
(VII ) 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. He 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 Lisle, New York, in 1807. Flis son Harvey was the father of Mrs. Seymour, as above noted. She was the mother of one son.
(VIII) 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. Hle married, February 24, 1886, at Whitney Point, Helen 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.
SEYMOUR (II) Richard (2) Seymour, son of Richard (1) Sey- mour (q. v.) lived in Hart- ford and Farmington, Connecticut. He was made freeman in 1669. He married Han- 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.
(III) 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 Hik- 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 I, 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, I769.
(V) Josiah, son of Richard (3) Seymour, was born October 11, 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, ISII, 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: I. 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: 1. 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: 1. 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- borough 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- tel 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), abont May, 1733, Mrs. Hannah Pidge, of Attleboronghi, 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-II ; 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, he 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. 1746: Johanna, January 3, 1749-50: Elizabeth, April 1I, 1753: Dorothy. January II. 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. He 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: Lois, 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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