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(VIII) John, son of Joseph Clarke, was born at Richmond, Rhode Island, July 8, 1740, died February 22, 1836, at Amsterdam, New York. He served in the revolution as lieutenant from May, 1776, to May, 1778, as captain from May, 1778, to May, 1783. under Colonels Dyer and Maxson. After the war he moved from Richmond to Argyle, Wash- ington county, New York, and after a short time there he moved again to Broadalbin, New York, where he was living in 1832. He married, 1759-60, Sarah, born in 1738, died August 21, 1836, at Amsterdam, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah ( Pierce) Gardiner, of South Kingston, Rhode Island. Children,
born at Richmond : Gardiner: Asa, 1764; Jesse, May 17. 1770: John, March 18, 1772; Nathaniel, July 21, 1777 ; Paris Garner, men- tioned below : Russell ; Sarah; Susanna.
(IX) Paris Garner Clark, son of John Clarke, was born in Richmond, and died at Broadalbin. He was the first to drop the "e" from the name, spelling it Clark. He was a merchant in Mayfield and Broadalbin, New
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York. He married Esther Wetherby. Chil- dren : Paris Garner; John; Richard Marvin. (X) John, son of Paris Garner Clark, was born in Mayfield, Fulton county, New York, December 12, 1812, died in Guilford, Chenan- go county, New York, March 15, 1874. He was graduated from Fairfield Medical Col- lege and practiced for forty years in Guilford. In religion he was an Episcopalian, being vestryman in the church. He married, Feb- ruary 6, 1843, Lucia Ann Smith, born Octo- ber 22, 1816, died April 21, 1906, daughter of Samuel Asher and Wealthy (Phelps) Smith. Children: I. John, born March 22. 1844 : an attorney in Utica, New York ; mar- ried Minnie Wilson, had two children: Mary W. and Lois W. 2 and 3. Paris Garner and Richard Marvin, twins, born October 17, 1845 ; Paris Garner is a physician in Unadilla, New York; married Josephine Cameron, and has daughter Sarah, who married Dr. Charles Turner ; Richard Marvin, mentioned below.
(XI) Dr. Richard Marvin Clark, son of John Clark, was born in Guilford, New York, October 17, 1845, in the same house in which he has always lived. He attended the public schools of Guilford and Norwich Academy. He studied medicine at the Belle- vue Hospital College in New York City and was graduated in the class of 1868. He was associated in practice with his father at Guil- ford, and since the death of his father has practiced there alone. He has taken a keen interest in public affairs and has assisted every enterprise designed to better- the town. In politics he is a Republican, and for more than twenty-five years he was a member of the Republican county committee. Since 1906 he has been county treasurer to the satisfaction of the public and of those especially having business with the office. He is a member of Freedom Lodge, No. 374, Free and Accepted Masons, of Unadilla, New York ; of Skenando Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. of Guilford, New York. He is a communi- cant of the Protesant Episcopal church and for many years has been a vestryman.
He married. June 21, 1871, Julia A. Clark. of Guilford, New York, born August 22, 1849. at Newark Valley, daughter of Watson W. and Phebe L. (Smith) Clark ( see Clark VII).
( The Clark Line).
(I) Lieutenant William Clark, immigrant ancestor of Mrs. Richard Marvin Clark, came
to New England in the ship "Mary and John," which sailed from Plymouth, England, March 20, 1633, and arrived at Nantasket, May 30, 1633. He settled at Dorchester, where he and his wife Sarah were members of the church in 1636 and where he was a town proprietor. He was dismissed from the church, April 28, 1661, to join a church then forming at North- ampton, Massachusetts, whither he had re- moved about 1659. He was allotted twelve acres of land, which included part of the site of Smith College, and which remained in the family for many generations. He erected a log house, which was burned by a negro slave in 1681. He then built another house which stood until 1825. He was a leading citizen ; was for fourteen years deputy to the general court, and held other offices of the town. His wife Sarah died September 5, 1675, and he married (second) Sarah Cooper. widow of Thomas Cooper, who was killed by the Indians at Springfield in King Philip's war, 1675. Lieutenant Clark died July 19, 1690, aged eighty-one years, and his wife died May 8, 1688. About 1880 a fine monu- ment was erected by his descendants near his grave in Northampton. Children : Sarah, born June 21, 1638, died young ; Jonathan, October 1, 1639; Nathaniel, January 27, 1642, died March 30, 1669, married Mary Meekins ; Experience, March 30, 1645: Rebecca, about 1649: John, about 1651: Samuel, baptized October 25, 1653, died August 5, 1729; Will- iam, mentioned below ; Sarah, born March 9, 9, 1659; Increase.
(II) Captain William (2) Clark, son of Lieutenant William (1) Clark, was born in 1656, died May 9, 1725. He was admitted a freeman in 1690, and in 1700 removed from Northampton to Lebanon, Connecticut. He married (first) Hannah Strong, who died in 1694: (second), January 31. 1695, Mary Smith, who died April 23. 1748. aged eighty- seven years. Children, born at Northampton and Lebanon, by first wife: Hannah, born May 5, 1681; Abigail, January 25. 1683; William, February 15. 1685: Jonathan, men- tioned below : Thomas, April, 1690; Joseph. December 31, 1691 ; Benoni, January 31, 1693. Children by second wife: Timothy, born Oc- tober 12. 1695 : Gershom. November 18, 1697 : Mary. November 22. 1699. died young : David. died young ; David. 1705. died young.
(III) Jonathan, son of Captain William (2) Clark, was born at Northampton, May 13.
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1688. He settled in Lebanon, Connecticut, where he died in 1743-44. He married Han- nah Smalley. Among their children was Jonathan, mentioned below.
(IV) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (I) Clark, was born about 1712-13 at Lebanon, Connecticut. He married, January 16, 1735, Mercy Dewey, born April 1, 1714, daughter of William Dewey. Children, born at Le- banon; Hannah, September 25, 1735; Jona- than, April 29, 1737; Lemnel, April 3, 1739; Daniel, May 25, 1741 ; Mercy, June 24, 1745; David, August 23, 1748; Zerviah, April 28, 1751 : Lemuel, August 8, 1753; Gershom, mentioned below.
(V) Gershom, son of Jonathan (2) Clark, was born at Lebanon, Connecticut, September 6, 1755. He was a soldier from Connecticut in the revolution. He married Lucretia Thatcher. Among their children was Ger- shom, mentioned below.
(VI) Gershom (2), son of Gershom (1) Clark, was born about 1780. He married (first) Mary Brown: (second ) Lydia Phelps. Among their children was Watson W., men- tioned below.
(VII) Watson W., son of Gershom (2) Clark, was born at Tolland, Connecticut, April 9. 1813, died March 15, 1889, at Sidney, New York. He married, December 9, 1844, at Guilford, New York, Phebe L. Smith, born October 17, 1825, at Oxford, New York, died September 25, 1905, at Sidney. Children : 1. Henry W., born in Newark Valley, Novem- ber 23, 1845 : married (first) Ella Clark, (sec- ond) Ida Goodnow ; one child by first wife, William W. 2. Julia A., married Dr. Richard Marvin Clark ( see Clark XI). 3. Arthur P., born September 10, 1864, at Guilford, New York; married Bertha Bundy, now living at Sidney, New York.
The Wilgus family is of Eng- WILGU'S lish origin. Some of the coats- of-arms of the family are : Wildgoose ( Kent ) vert. on a chev. ar. between three lions' heads erased or, as many quatre- foils sa. Wildgoose, or Wilgos or on a chev. betw. three lions heads erased sa. as many quatrefoils of the field. Wildgoose or Wilgos (judge of court in Essex and Sussex) ar. on fesse sa. three amulets or. This was accom- panied by a crest consisting of a wild man clothed with a green wreath around his head and loins and bearing a great club. The
name has been spelled in various ways. In court records it is found Wilgris, Wildigos, Wilgrice and Wilgress, and also there are still other spellings; as early as 1586 it is found spelled Wilgus.
There seem to have been two by the name of William Wilgus and one by the name of James Wilgus in the revolution from New Jersey. The family located in New Jersey some years before the revolution, coming thither doubtless from England. We find the record of a sale of property owned by James Wilgoss and Moses Burges, one hundred and fifty acres situated four miles from the court house of Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1768, on writs of Venditioni Exponas. The victim of writs of such character survived, however, and left a numerous family. The records are scanty, but it is believed that this James Wil- gus (Wilgoss) was the progenitor and had sons, William, James, John and perhaps otli- ers. Sarah Wilgus, presumably a daughter married, in Sussex county, March 9, 1784, William Hutchinson. Sussex county was set off from Morris county in 1753. John Wil- guss, of Sussex county, married Mary
and had sons John, born December 25, 1797, a farmer of Andover, Sussex county, and Samuel. John Willguss, only son of Samuel Willguss, of Newtown, New Jersey, was born March 12, 1787.
(II) William Wilgus, probably son of James Wilgus, was born August 23, 1755, in Sussex county, New Jersey. He was a soldier in the revolution in a New Jersey regiment (see New Jersey in the Revolution). He re- moved to Lansingburg, New York, where he died in 1817. Among his children were: William, born about 1780, married Rhoda Hering, removed to Lansingburg : Samuel, mentioned below.
( III) Samuel, son of William Wilgus, was born in New Jersey or Lansingburg, New York, November 25. 1777. His parents re- moved to Lansingburg just before or soon after his birth. He married Hepsibah White, March 20, 1798. She is said by family tra- dition to be directly descended from Pere- grine White, the first white child born in Plymouth, son of William and Susannah White who came in the "Mayflower."
(IV) Henry, son of Samuel Wilgus, was born about 1800. He married Anne Butler, who came of Scotch-Irish stock from the north of Ireland. Henry Wilgus settled in
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Westmoreland, Oneida county, New York, where he became a successful dry goods mer- chant.
(V) Henry Lyman, son of Henry Wilgus, was born at Westmoreland, New York, Octo- ber 6, 1830, died August 6, 1910, in Ithaca, New York. He came with his parents to Ithaca when a child, and attended the public schools there and the old Ithaca Academy. He became associated with his father in the dry goods business, and when his father died he succeeded to the ownership of the store which he conducted with success until he re- tired a few years before he died. He built the Wilgus Block in Ithaca. In politics he was a Republican ; in religion a Presbyterian. He married, May 24, 1853, Sarah Esty, born May 21, 1831, and who is now living in good health at Ithaca, at the age of eighty-one years (see Esty VII).
(The Esty Line).
The surname Esty is variously spelled Esty, Estey, Estee, Este and Estes. The only coat- of-arms of the family is: Azure three fleur- de-lis or within a bordure parted per bor- dure daucette over all exterior argent interior gules. Crest : A garb or, banded gules.
(I) Jeffrey Esty, immigrant ancestor, lived in Salem, Massachusetts, as early as 1636, when he was granted twenty acres of land. August 23, 1651, he sold land in Salem to Henry Bullock. That same year he removed to Southold, Long Island, afterwards to Hunt- ington and later to Little Neck, where he died January 4, 1657. He left a will, with- out date, proved January 23 following, in which he mentioned a daughter Catherine and son Isaac.
(II) Isaac, son of Jeffrey Esty, was born probably in England before 1630, and came to Salem with his father when very young. He was a cooper by trade and is designated as such in the first record of him, dated April 5. 1653. At that time he bought a house and land in Salem. Before 1660 he settled in Topsfield, Massachusetts. In 1661 he was one of the commoners appointed to share in the common land on the south side of Ips- wich river. In 1664 he was rated at nine- teen shillings, six pence, which was the min- ister's rate for that year and entitled him to a proportionate share in the division of the common land. In 1669 he was given the fifteenth share. In 1672, with five others,
he was granted all the swamp meadow lying upon Ipswich river, within certain bounds, for a consideration of fifty pounds. He was prominent in the political affairs of the town; in 1680-82-86-88 he was selectman; in 1681- 84-85 he was juryman at Ipswich, and grand juryman in 1691-96; he also served as tyth- ingman, surveyor of fences and highways, and was a member of different committees of the town. In 1689 he was called "Sargent" Esty. He was a member of the church, was twice a member of the committee chosen to secure a minister, and in 1684 he and his wife and family were members in full com- munion. He died at Topsfield, in 1712, and his will was proved June II, 1712.
He married Mary, daughter of William and Joannah ( Blessing) Towne, of Topsfield, born at Yarmouth, Norfolk county, England, and baptized at St. Nicholas Church, August 24, 1634. She was a victim of the witchcraft delusion which spread over Salem and vicin- ity in 1692. She was arrested April 21, 1692, kept in jail until May 18, and then released. On May 21 she was again arrested, taken to jail and placed in chains. She was tried, found guilty and condemned to death. In September, 1692, with seven others, she was executed. She was a woman of sound judg- ment and exalted character. She was far in advance of her age in intelligence and while in prison sent a petition to Sir William Phipps, in which she begged not for her own life but for others. For this unselfishness she was called "the self-forgetful." After her execution her husband did all in his power to rescue her name from reproach and his chil- dren from disgrace and after twenty years was in a measure successful. His petitions were recognized. the verdict annulled, and he was given twenty pounds in acknowledg- ment of the injustice of the original decision. Children: Isaac, born 1656: Joseph, men- tioned below : Sarah, June 30, 1660; John, January 2, 1662-63: Hannah, 1667: Benja- min, April 29. 1669; Samuel, March 25, 1672; Jacob. January 24, 1674-75 ; Joshua, July 2, 1678.
(III) Joseph, son of Isaac Esty, was born at Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 5, 1657-58. died at Stoughton, Massachusetts, October 25. 1739. He was a highway sur- veyor in Topsfield in 1683. About 1705 he removed to Stoughton, then Dorchester, and he and his brother Benjamin were among the
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original signers of the church covenant during the pastorate of Rev. John Davenport. In 1706 he bought land of the Indians in what is now Canton. He deeded seventy acres of land to his son Joseph Jr. He married, June 2, 1682, Jane Steward. Children, born in Stoughton : Isaac, March 12, 1682-83, died April 30, 1683; Mary, February 22, 1684; Joseph, mentioned below; Jacob, October 15, 1690, died April, 1777, had three sons, Jacob, John and Elijah in the revolution (Elijah Esty went to Natick and Judge C. C. Esty was a descendant) ; Samuel, baptized May, 1691, died at Sharon, December 25, 1779; Elizabeth, baptized March 13, 1692; Edward, baptized July 16, 1693, (Professor W. C. Esty, of Amherst, the Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and Sutton, Massachusetts, fam- ilies are descendants) ; Lydia, born August 26, 1697; Benjamin, October 9, 1701, died at Lake George, a soldier in the French war.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Esty, was born in Stoughton, baptized May 5. 1688-89, died there February 6, 1765. He married, June 16, 1715, Experience Bennett, of Dorchester, who died April 28, 1768. Chil- dren, born at Stoughton: Theodore, June 29, 1716; Ruth, May 25, 1722; Joseph, mentioned below.
(V) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Esty, was born in Stoughton, December 8, 1725. He married, at Stoughton, July 10, 1755, Han- nah Callaham. Hon. E. S. Esty, of Ithaca, Willard L. Esty, of Lewiston, Maine, C. H. Esty, of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Jacob Esty are descendants. He was a soldier in the revolution from Stoughton in Captain William Bent's company in the Thirty-sixth Regiment in 1775, also in Colonel Benjamin Gill's regiment in 1776, in Captain Theophilus Lyon's company, and later under Captain James Endicott. His son Joseph was also a revolutionary soldier. Children, born at Stoughton : Hannah, April 14, 1756; Joseph, February 27, 1758; Elijah, mentioned below. And others probably.
(VI) Elijah, son of Joseph (3) Esty, was born in Stoughton or vicinity, about 1760-65. He started from Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1796, with an ox-team and a single horse and transported his family and goods to West- moreland, Oneida county, New York, where he located in the wilderness, built a log cabin with a bark roof and cleared a farm. He was a tanner by trade. In 1800 the family
was again moved to what was then Harden- burgh's Corners, now the city of Auburn. Here he built a tannery and dwelling house on what is now the corner of North and Sem- inary streets. He died in 1812, leaving his estate involved on account of accommodation endorsements, and his family was thrown upon their own resources. He married Sarah Will- iams. Among his children was Joseph, men- tioned below.
(\'II) Joseph (4), son of Elijah Esty, was born January 20, 1798, at Westmoreland, Oneida county, New York, died November 17, 1881, at Ithaca, New York. When he was two years old the family came to Auburn and he received his early education there in the district schools. He learned the trade of tanner as an apprentice of Ezekiel Williams, of New Hartford, New York. He was after- ward in the employ of Mr. Morse, who failed after he had worked six months, whereupon Mr. Esty returned to Auburn and was em- ployed as foreman by the firm of R. & J. Patty, and supervised the building of their new tannery. Afterward he was for a year and a half a keeper in the state prison. In 1822 he came to Ithaca and a few years later purchased of Simeon DeWitt a lot of land at the corner of Tioga and Green streets, where he built a tannery and conducted business un- til 1852. He was then succeeded by his son, Edward S. Esty, who afterward became a prominent business man of Ithaca. He was one of the founders of the First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca, of which he was an elder and a deacon, a title by which he was famil- iarly known during most of his life. He in- vested largely in real estate in Ithaca and built many houses; one of the streets was named by the town Esty street in his honor. Ile was a trustee of the incorporated village in 1829, was overseer of the poor of the town some years, and in 1836 was supervisor of the town. He was a director of the Ithaca Bank and an original stockholder and incor- porator of the First National Bank, also a trustee of the Ithaca Savings Bank at the time it was chartered in 1868. Ife was an able and successful man of affairs, a conscien- tious and faithful Christian, a highly useful and public-spirited citizen.
He married Mary Selover, born May 7, 1796, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, died June 26, 1868, at Ithaca, New York. Chil- dren : John H., born August 15, 1822, at
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Auburn ; Edward S., July 17, 1824, at Ithaca, died in 1900: Mary, June 4. 1829, died in 1902; Sarah, May 21, 1831. married Henry Lyman Wilgus ( see Wilgus V) ; William W., May 14. 1833: Joseph, June 18, 1835, died in 1876.
HOWARD Stephen Howard was born in Massachusetts in 1774. died in Candor, Tioga county, New York. about 1856. When he was a young man he moved to Tompkins county, New York, where he was engaged as a shoe- maker. He served in the war of 1812, and received a pension for his services at that time. He married Jane Children : Charles Chase, mentioned below ; Eliza, mar- ried Lewis Head: Stephen ; Julia, married George Snyder : Samuel.
( II) Charles Chase, son of Stephen How- ard, was born in Newfield, Tompkins county, New York, about 1805. died in Candor, New York, in 1886. When he was a boy he worked on a farm, herding cows on land where the city of Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, now is situated. He was always an indus- trious farmer, working at Cayuta Lake in Schuyler county, town of Danby, and in Can- dor, where he lived on Anderson Hill. Dur- ing the war the pigs raised by him were sold at the rate of sixty dollars apiece and some of them weighed more than five hundred pounds. He married (first) Laura O., daugh- ter of Jonathan Phelps, of Massachusetts. He married ( second) Roba R. Watrous. Chil- dren by first marriage: Warren ; Minerva Ann. married Samuel Benjamin; Thirza J., married David W. Andrews: Charles, died in Alpine, New York, 1911 : Rhoda M., mar- ried Morgan Eastman. and lives in Iowa: Margaret E., married Samuel Floyd Kyle : Hiram, deceased: Loring Phelps, mentioned below : Laura E., married Luther Baker, of Spencer, New York.
(III) Loring Phelps, son of Charles Chase Howard. was born in Danby, Tompkins conn- ty. New York, August 20, 1846. He went to Candor, New York, with his parents when he was a child. Here he received his educa- tion and worked on his father's farm. Until 1874 he carried on a dairying business, and in that year he gave up farming and became a licensed Methodist Episcopal preacher. He remained in that capacity at Litchfield, Penn- sylvania, for three years, and then was three
years at Harford. Cortland county, New York. After this he was three years at Or- well, Pennsylvania, and four years at Spen- cer, N. Y., four years at Windham, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and four years at Danby, Tompkins county, New York. After five years at Hornbrook, Pennsylvania, he went to Spencer, where he now lives, and during the past eight years has supplied the West Danby Methodist Church. He married, October, 1869. Emily A., born in May, 1850, on Anderson Hill, Candor, Tioga county, New York, daughter of Ezra and Catherine (Jackson) Barden. Children : I. Edna, born May, 1870; married Samuel K. Marsh, principal of high school in Candor, and their children are: Minerva, Jesse Lee, Emily and Howard. 2. Frank Loring, men- tioned below. 3. Fenton Phelps, born Febru- ary 27, 1874: was a farmer; died on home- stead on Anderson Hill, Candor, January, 1897 : married Hattie Stanton, of Windham, Pennsylvania, had son named Myron.
(1\') Frank Loring, son of Loring Phelps Howard, was born on Anderson Hill, Candor, New York, February 4, 1873. He received his early education at Litchfield, Pennsylvania, Harford, Cortland 'county, New York, and Orwell, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and then attended Spencer Academy, from which he was graduated in 1889, at the age of six- teen years. For three years he worked in a general store at Jersey Shore as clerk, and in 1892 moved to Elmira. New York, where he studied stenography. In January, 1893, he became stenographer in the office of Bacon & Aldrich, and during the time he was there he studied law, being admitted to the bar, July 7. 1896. He began the practice of his profession in February. 1897, in Waverly, New York, and worked alone until 1905, when lie took as a partner, Edgar D. Sebring, under the firm name of Howard & Sebring. In politics he is a Republican. He served as village clerk from 1898 until 1901, a period of three years. In 1900 he was elected super- visor of the town of Barton and for eight vears served in this office. In 1908 he was elected to the state assembly. and also served in 1909-10. For two years he was on the judiciary committee, and also served on the joint legislative committee investigating the operation of direct primaries in the various states. He is a member of Waverly Lodge, No. 407. Free and Accepted Masons, of Wav-
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erly: Cayuta Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; St. Omars Commandery, Knights Templar, ot Elmira ; Katurah Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Binghamton; Monoca Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Waverly; Owego Lodge, No. 1039, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Owego. In religion he is a Methodist.
He married, June 28, 1898, Josephine Knapp, born March 28, 1872, at Orwell, Penn- sylvania, daughter of Chauncey MI. and Emo- gene (Knapp) Frisbie. Children : Emogene Knapp, born November 15, 1899: Chauncey Frisbie, March 9, 1901; Frances Josephine, October 16, 1908.
STAMP The Stamp or Stam family came to this country before the revolu- tion. Jacob Stam was in a Tryon county regiment in the revolutionary war, and Lawrence Stamp, of Ulster county, was a private in Colonel Klock's regiment in 1780. the second Ulster county regiment. He was living in 1818 or later, as his name appears among the applicants for a pension after the law of 1818 was passed. In 1790 we do not find Lawrence Stamp reported as head of a family in the census, but Peter Stamp, of Ul- ster county, is reported with no children. A widow, Elizabeth Stam, of Palatine, Mont- gomery county, doubtless widow of Jacob, had four males over sixteen, two under six- teen and four females in her family. As there were no others of the name on record, it is fair to assume that Peter and Lawrence Stamp were closely related, perhaps brothers. (I) Jonathan Stamp was born about 1800 in Ulster or Orange county, New York, near Newburg. Early in life he came to the town of Newfield, Tompkins county, New York, where he purchased a farm. He not only fol- lowed farming for a livelihood, but conducted a hotel and became a prominent and useful citizen. He retired from active business a few years before his death and spent his last years at Newfield. He was popular and wide- ly known in this section of the state. He married Catherine Puff. Children: Alvina, James, Abial B., Mary, Peter, Ann Eliza, Gil- bert, Jonathan, Julius, Catherine, Julia.
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