Griffin's journal : first settlers of Southold, the names of the heads of those families, being only thirteen at the time of their landing; first proprietors of Orient, biographical sketches, Part 13

Author: Griffin, Augustus, 1767?-
Publication date: 1857
Publisher: Orient, L.I. : A. Griffin
Number of Pages: 330


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Col. Daniel Young's eldest daughter married Gen. David Williamson, of Acquebogue.


Asaph Monroe Youngs, born in 1819, is the son of Asaph Youngs, who was born in 1796, who was the son of Rev. Daniel Youngs, who was born in 1748, who was the son of Daniel Youngs, born in 1718, who was the son of Samuel Youngs, born 1680, who was the son of Thomas Youngs, born 1660, who was son to Thomas Youngs, Sen., born 1627, who was son to Rev. John Youngs, who first came to this town, where he died in 1672-making the eighth generation.


Rev. Moses Sweezy succeeded Rev. Daniel Youngs in the pastoral charge of the church at Upper Acque- bogue. He proved himself worthy, and fitted for the


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sacred office. His energy, piety, and industry in and over his charge was great. His spirits were buoyant; disposition, mild and pleasant ; a man of sterling sense ; kindness and complaisance were interwoven in his na- ture, and Truth his motto. He died at his post, on the 28th of January, 1826, aged fifty-five years.


My friend, the Rev. Eurystheus H. Wells, of Upper Ac- quebogue, informs me that the church in that parish, which was first organized in 1759, has, since that date, produced from its members the following preachers of the Gospel, as strict Congregationalists :


Reverend Joseph Corwin, never located. He died Jan. 29th, 1811.


Richard Benjamin, settled in the western part of the State of New York.


Abraham Luce, preached at Westhampton, Union Parish, and Northville, in this county.


David Benjamin, at Baiting Hollows, N. Y.


Ebenezer Luce, at western part of the State of N. Y.


· Nath. Fanning, not located.


Shadrach Terrey, in some part of Pennsylvania.


Moses Benjamin, western part of this county.


Christopher Youngs, at the Baiting Hollow, N. Y.


Parshel Terry, at western part of State of New York. Eurystheus H. Wells, not located.


Azel Downs, Mount Hope, Orange Co., N. Y.


William Benjamin, preacher at times, at or near Ca- noe Place, N. Y.


James Youngs, who settled in the State of New Jersey.


Manly Wells, settled or preached occasionally at Baiting Hollows, aforesaid.


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Capt .. Rufus Tuthill, father of Rufus before noticed, departed this life, in this village, December 11th, 1843, aged ninty-six years, ten months, and twenty-four days, an ornament to the Christian faith, and a Samaritan in mercy.


He was the son of Daniel Tuthill, Jr., who was the son of Daniel Tuthill, Sen., who was the son of John Tuthill Jr., who was the son of John Tuthill, Sen., who first came from Europe.


The first of the family by the name of Beebee to this country, was Joseph Beebee, who came from Plymouth, Massachusetts, not far from the year 1670, about which time he purchased Plum Island of Samuel Willys. He, Samuel Willys, had, in 1667, bought it of the Indians for one barrel of biscuit, one hundred muxes, and a few fish-hooks-altogether, not worth more than ten dollars.


Joseph Beebee was the father of Samuel Beebee, Sen., whose wife was Elizabeth Rogers, to whom he was married 9th February, 1681, and had one son, Samuel, whose wife was Ann Lester, whom he married Jan. 1st, 1717. Their children were-


1st. Elizabeth, born Oct 13, 1719.


2d. Samuel, born Nov. 25th, 1721.


3d. Eliphalet, born Dec. 27th, 1723.


4th. Elnathan, born Oct. 25th, 1725.


5th. Hannah, born August 23d, 1727. 6th. Amon, born Jan. 4th, 1729 ; died young.


7th. Theophilus, born Jan. 31st, 1731.


8th. Lucretia, born Dec. 29th, 1732.


9th. Silas, born Nov. 11th, 1734.


10th. Amon, born Aug. 29th, 1739.


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11th and 12th. Jerusha and Jemima, twins, born about 1736, betwixt Silas and Amon; of course Amon was the 12th.


Silas Beebee's family, in a straight line, who is the second son of Daniel Beebee, who is the son of Silas Beebee, who was the son of Samuel Beebee, Jr., who was the son of Samuel Beebee, Sen., who was the son of Joseph Beebee, who, as before said, came from Ply- mouth, to which place he, or perhaps his father, had come with the Pilgrims in 1620.


Lodiwick, Daniel Beebee's son, is the sixth generation.


Samuel Beebee, who was born Nov. 25th, 1721, and great-grandson to Joseph Beebee, the second proprietor of Plum Island, had five sons, viz. : Samuel, Lester, Eliphalet, Jason, and Thomas. The four last of these brothers became men of note as ship-masters. Captain Lester and Thomas died some years since, at Sag Harbor ; Eliphalet died at Newburgh, and Jason was lost at sea.


The Rev. Peter Hobart came to America about the year 1636, or very near that time, from Hingham, which is about one hundred and eight miles from London. He settled in Hingham, in Massachusetts, where he died Jan. 20th, 1679. He had five sons, viz. : Joshua, Jeremiah, Gershom, Japheth, and Nehemiah.


Joshua was some time the minister at Southold. He was born in England, in 1628; a man of liberal educa- tion ; settled at Southold about 1674. He died in the year 1717, in his eighty-ninth year. His wife, Mary, died in 1697. He was grandfather to the celebrated Indian missionary, David Brainard. Jeremiah, second son,


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was some time a minister at Hempstead, Long Island ; he, too, was born in England, in 1630, and came to this country with his father, being at the time but five years old. He died at Haddam, in Connecticut, at the age of eighty-seven years; he, too, was liberally educated. He preached in the forenoon of the day he died. Some say that Jeremiah was grandfather to Mr. Brainard, and that his daughter, Dorothy, was Mr. Brainard's mother. Be that as it may, his mother was a Hobart, and grand-daughter to Rev. Peter Hobart.


Gershom was a minister at Groton, Conn.


Japheth was a physician.


Nehemiah a minister at Newtown, Mass.


John Sloss Hobart, who was a chief judge of this State, was a grandson or great-grandson of the Rev. Peter Hobart, above mentioned. In the summer of the year 1800, I often attended church in Westchester, N. Y. Judge Hobart was strict in his attendance as a hearer. I observed him with much interest, knowing him to have been a conspicuous public man. The gen- erations of the Hobart family are seven, in a direct line from the present John W. Hobart, who is the son of Benjamin K. Hobart, who is the son of Samuel Hobart, who was the son of Joshua Hobart, (third,) who was the son of Joshua Hobart, (second,) who was the son of the Rev. Joshua Hobart, who was the son of Rev. Peter Hobart, aforesaid.


Samuel Hobart, of this village, the sixth generation from said Rev. Peter Hobart, departed this life on the 27th of June, 1837, aged sixty-four years. He had followed the sea, as a business, for more than forty years-twenty of them as an able ship-master.


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His faith was unwavering in the belief of the final salvation of every son and daughter of Adam. In his last moments he was rational and calm, saying, "I have not a doubt ; glory to God !"


Asa Partridge was born in July, 1764. Not far from 1785 he came to Sag Harbor, and took charge of the district school.


About 1798 he commenced doing business in the mercantile line. Success crowned his efforts. When more than eighty years of age, he met with reverses from which he never recovered. Disheartened and broken down with age, Mr. Partridge left Sag Harbor, in 1851, and repaired to his son-in-law's, Thomas Fessen- den, Esq., in New York, with whom he resided until his death in January, 1855, aged ninety-two years. His wife, Betsey, to whom he had been married fifty years, died seven or eight days before him.


Mary Griffin, already noticed as the fourteenth child of, Samuel Griffin, was married to Medad Stone, of Guilford, Conn., in the year 1785, by whom she had two children. The first died in infancy ; the second, named Sally, born 1787, married a Mr. Bartholomew, of Hartford, about 1816. Their children are- 1st. George Ward; 2d. Fanny Elizabeth; 3d. Frederick Stone.


Wareham Griswold, a merchant in Hartford, Conn., is the fifth generation from the first of the family that came to this country. He informs me that his great-


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great-grandfather was one of three brothers that came to America somewhere near 1650-one of which settled at or near Lyme, one at Windsor, and the other at East Granby.


Matthew was son to the first, who was the great-great- grandfather aforesaid ; Alexander was son to Matthew ; Alexander's wife was Eleanor Bernard; Hezekiah was son to Alexander. Hezekiah was born at East Granby, Feb. 5th, 1780, and died Sept. 30th, 1854, in his seventy- fifth year. Wareham, Hezekiah's son, was born at Hartford, Jan. 22d, 1808. His wife was Delia A. Thompson, born Aug. 1st, 1811 Their children are- 1st. Delia S., born July 11th, 1833.


2d. Helen M. H., born Nov. 14th, 1838.


3d. Emma C., born Feb. 8th, 1845.


4th. Lelia Isabel, born Feb. 19th, 1849.


My grandson, Chatham Augustus Griffin, born March 14th, 1829, married Delia S. Griswold in May, 1852.


In September, 1854, when in my eighty-eighth year, I visited Hartford, Conn., to see my grandson, Chatham A. G. While there, I was introduced to that excellent and talented authoress, Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. Marked civilities were accorded me; and this short visit to this lady of real merit and honor to her sex and country, was a source of much interest and satisfaction.


While on this visit, I was made acquainted with, and received the most affectionate attentions of the late Col. James Ward, aged at the time eighty-seven years. He was a very agreeable gentleman of the old school, and greatly beloved.


From Professor Stewart, the owner of the Charter


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Oak, of famous veneration, I received, also, the most respectful consideration.


Mrs. Emma Peterson, who was, before her marriage, Miss Overton, was the daughter of Jonathan B. and Elizabeth Overton, of Riverhead, L. I. She has had, by her two husbands, twenty children. She is now a delicate, fine-looking woman, I should suppose not more than forty-five years of age. Her father died in the year 1852, aged seventy-two years. He was great- grandson to Isaac Overton, mentioned before, as cele- brated one hundred years ago for his superior feats of strength.


Samuel Hazard Terry, Esq., who recently died at Ja- maica, L. I., aged fifty-six years, some twenty years since entered the United States Navy as purser. In this honorable station he remained, I believe, until his death. He fulfilled the duties assigned him in that situation with due respect to himself and country. He was the only son to the late Samuel Terry, in 1796 a dry goods merchant in New York. After this, Samuel went to St. Domingo, as supercargo; and he was mas- sacred in that awful time when it was death to all white men to be seen on the island. Samuel Terry was the son of the late Col. Thomas Terry, of Oysterponds, L. I. His mother was, when a girl, Mary Hazard. She died the widow of Mr. John Wickham, who was her fourth husband.


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at the time he came to Southold, which was not far from 1690, married Deborah, the daughter of Nathaniel Moore, whose father was Thomas Moore, who died June 25th, 1691. John Terry, Jr., of Oysterponds, married the sister of Mrs. Boiseau. This John Boiseau, at the time of his death, left two sons, viz .: John and Na- thaniel; the latter of these died in 1780. John mar- ried, we believe, a Miss Vail. We knew her more than seventy-five years ago-an affectionate mother and wife. Their children were John, Nathaniel, Benjamin, and Ezra; daughters, Hannah, Betsey, Mary, and Phebe. John, third in succession, and his brother Ezra, are now the fourth generation.


In the war of 1812, Col. Benjamin Case, of Southold, commanded the military post at Sag Harbor. He then held the commission of major. As an officer command- ing the weight of attendant duties attached to its situa- tion, the Major bore, with a decision and moral deport- ment, honorable to himself and truly satisfactory to his country. Captains Noah Terry and Joshua Fleet were on duty, at the post, at the time-men of noble minds, generous to a fault, and patriots of sterling purity.


Col. Case is the son of the late Gershom Case, of Cut- chogue, Southold, who died not far from 1816, over ninety years of age. His wife lived to attain over ninety years.


Edmond Fanning, the first of the family to America, came to Stonington, Connecticut, about 1649. He had two sons, viz .: William and Thomas. Thomas was


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grandfather to the late Col. Phineas Fanning, of Acque- bogue. The Colonel had two brothers, Thomas and Edmond. Thomas lived, in what is now Greenport, from about 1750 to 1775, and died Nov. 29th, 1782, aged sixty years. Edmond was sometime Governor of Nova Scotia, just after the Revolutionary War. Tho- mas's son was the late David Fanning, who died in the year 1812, at Sterling, leaving a widow-the late Mrs. Jane Fanning-and five daughters and three sons, viz. : Clarissa, Hannah, Betsey, Polly, and Lydia; Richard, David, and Samuel. Lydia is now the wife of Captain William Y. Brown, of Greenport. Richard was lost at sea, while master of a fine ship.


It was on a pleasant day, in the summer of 1780, that Dr. Joshua Clark, a respectable physician in the parish of Mattituck, mounted his horse, rode east to Southold village, about six miles, and stopped at the dwelling of a Mr. Chase, who was a poor, but respectable man, with a wife and two daughters-Polly and Ann. The Doctor was a widower at the time, of about seventy years of age. His business was urgent, being no less than to obtain the hand of Polly as a wife, with the consent of the pa- rents, and that, too, without further courtship. His proposals were generous and frank, if she would willing- ly consent. She modestly assented, although only in her seventeenth year. A message was sent to Judge Samuel Landon, who lived within thirty rods. The Judge, who was more than eighty years of age, soon arrived at the room. With a dignity and gravity natural to old age, he, with solemnity on the interesting occasion, performed the ceremony of pronouncing them


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man and wife. I was about twelve years of age, and at the place where this novel scene was acted. I do not suppose that the entire time of its occurrence was more than one and a half hours, when the drama closed with the Doctor's exit with his young bride, mounted on the same old roan with him, she seated on a pillion, as was the fashion in those honorable days.


On the 5th of April, 1836, I was introduced, by Jonah Halsey, of Southold, at his house, to a widow Esther Pen- ny, who then was in the one hundred and second year of her age. She had a dignified expression of countenance, was sociable, intelligent and pleasant in relating interest- ing circumstances which took place, to her knowledge, ninety years before. This excellent woman was known, for many of the last years of her life, as a doctress, and as an angel of mercy to the afflicted. Her advice and prescriptions were of the first importance. Mrs. Penny died in 1838, in her one hundred and third year.


It is said there were three brothers of the Browns- Israel, Samuel, and Richard-who came to Oysterponds about the year 1645 or 1650, and each purchased them- selves a piece of land of the natives, to improve and erect dwellings suitable for their families. The locations of these buildings have already been noticed.


Israel's children I know not except Joseph, who mar- ried Dorothy, the daughter of John Tuthill, (third,) called Squire John. By her he had Joseph, Benjamin, Hannah, and Polly. Hannah became the wife of Jo-


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seph Young, and Polly the wife of Ensign John King. Joseph Brown, Jr., married Mehitable, the daughter of Jeremiah Vail, (third,) by whom he had eighteen chil- dren, viz. :


1st. Elizabeth, born July 8th, 1757.


2d. Joseph, born September 3d, 1758.


3d. Jeremiah, born January 4th, 1760. .


4th. Benjamin, born March 24th, 1761.


5th. David, born August 9th, 1762.


6th. Nathaniel, born September 28th, 1763.


7th. Daniel, born February 17th, 1765.


8th. Isaac, born March 1st, 1766. 9th. Samuel, born July 19th, 1767.


10th. James, born February 11th, 1769.


11th. Charlotte, born March 6th, 1770.


12th. Mehitable, born March 27th, 1771.


13th. Joshua, born November 2d, 1772.


14th. Youngs, born February 5th, 1774. 15th. John, born March 20th, 1776.


16th. Hannah, born April 12, 1777.


17th. George, born April 6th, 1778. 18th. Dorothy, born March 15th, 1780.


Here we see eighteen children born of the same mother in twenty-three years. Mr. Brown, the father, was born October 30th, 1731; his wife in May 30th, 1738.


Benjamin Brown, Esq., (brother to Joseph Brown, Jr.,) married Mary, the daughter of John Tuthill (fourth,) niece to her husband. Benjamin's children were, viz. :


1st, Gershom; 2d, Israel; 3d, George; 4th, Betsey ; 5th, Polly ; 6th, Jemima ; 7th, Bethia.


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Betsey married a Mr. Taylor, of Southold, became a widow at forty-five years of age, and died in her nine- tieth year.


Jemima married Jonathan Terry, Jr., and died in 1803.


Bethia married Captain Lester Beebee, of Sag Har- bor, the ship-builder before mentioned.


Israel and Polly never married.


Richard Brown, Sen., left three sons. The oldest, who inherited the homestead, was Richard, Jr., the second son was Samuel, and third David. Samuel had a daughter, married to Samuel Beebe, of Plumb Island, named Rebecca. Her daughter married Samuel Brown, Jr., whose daughter, Mary, married Amon Taber. In the year 1740, Richard Brown was commissioned a captain in the militia of Oysterponds, under George the sec- ond. He was likewise appointed, with John Tuthill, Esq., to take charge of the heretofore mentioned cannon. If this John Tuthill, third, was he who was called Squire John, he must, at the time, have been eighty- two years of age, as he was born 1658, and died 1754, about ninety-seven years of age. This charge to Richard Brown was fifty-four years after his father's death; of course, if this was Richard Brown, Jr., he too must have been an old man-I should say seventy odd. Richard Brown, third, I should suppose was born about the year 1700. He died about 1776, aged nearly eighty years. His wife was Hannah Hawk, mentioned before. He had sons, viz. : Richard, fourth, Samuel, and Chris- topher ; one daughter, Hannah. Richard, fourth, had a son, Richard Brown, fifth; and Richard, fifth, had a son, who was Richard Brown, sixth, who removed with his family into the northern part of this State. There


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are now but two families of the male line in this place, viz. : Deacon Peter Brown, of the sixth generation, and Captain Edwin Brown, of the seventh generation.


Richard Brown, 4th, was, with his brother Samuel, drowned in the month of March, 1770, both leaving families. There were four in the boat at the time, viz : John King, Peter Brown, Richard Brown and Samuel Brown. They were all drowned in Gardiner's Bay, near Easthampton.


Rev. John Youngs, the first minister at Southold, in 1640, had four sons, viz : John, Benjamin, Gideon and Thomas. Thus, Gideon Youngs was the third son, and as he was born in 1638, must have been only two or three years old when the Youngs farm was pur- chased at Oysterponds. We cannot say, but it appears that Gideon Youngs was owner and possessor of some four hundred acres of land, as before noticed, as early as 1660. It is not probable that he took possession of the farm before he was twenty one years old, and that would be in 1659. He had two sons, viz: Gideon Jr., and Jonathan. The time of Gideon, Jr.'s, death is not known. Jonathan died in 1778, in his ninety-third year. The father, Gideon Youngs, Sr., died in Novem- ber, 1699, aged sixty-one years.


Gideon, Jr.'s, sons were-1st. Reuben; 2d. Silas ; 3d. Abimel; 4th. Gideon; 5th. Henry; 6th. Walter. The three first and the fifth mentioned, about 1732, went and settled in Orange County, N. Y. Henry died in 1767; Abimel died just after the War of the Revolution ; Reuben and Silas in about 1800-very


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aged men. They were all men of respectability, and their descendants are many in that section of the coun- try. Walter has been previously noticed. Gideon Youngs, 3d, left a son Gideon and two daughters. The son, Gideon, 4th, died childless, leaving his name, on the male side of his family, extinct.


Jonathan Youngs' sons were-1st. Jonathan ; 2d. Jo- seph ; 3d. Jeremiah; and 4th. Richard. Jonathan was born in 1710, and died in 1770; Joseph died in 1816, over ninety-five years of age. Jonathan Youngs, Sr., had two daughters, viz : Dorothy and Phœbe. The first married Jeremiah Tuthill, Sr. The second mar- ried Christopher Tuthill, Sr. There is, at this time, about nine or ten of the families, descendants of Jona- than Youngs, living in Orient. Yet, altogether, they do not own or possess more than one hundred and twenty acres of the first purchase of four hundred acres.


Thomas Youngs was the son of Joshua Youngs, who was the son of Benjamin Youngs, who was the son of Colonel John Youngs, who was the son of Rev. John Youngs. He was one of the Judges of the County Court, and several times a Representives in the Assem- bly. He resided near where Greenport is situated, and owned some five hundred acres of land, bounded on the north by the Sound, and the bay, or Shelter Island Ferry, on the south. From east to west, it was near a mile on the main or country road, running through about the centre of said farm. The Judge was a man of liberal education, benevolent, and a wise counsellor, but very tenacious of his large farm. Not a foot of it would he dispose of for any consideration. He died about 1793. His son Thomas then came in possession,


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and, as to land, he was in mind much as his father. He died in 1816. He left five sons, who next inherited said farm. It is now divided up into small farms. His children and grand-children, with Dr. Frederic W. Lord and David G. Floyd, now possess and own the most of it.


John Youngs, the 3rd, son of Judge Thomas Youngs, married Matsey, the daughter of Christopher and Phœbe Tuthill, by whom he had two sons-John and William, and daughter, Mehitable. John, Sr., was one of the noblest works of God-an honest man. He came in possession of the farm of the late John Tuthill, 4th, who died about 1746. Was son to the John Tut- hill known in his day as Squire John, before mentioned.


Judge Thomas Youngs' wife was Rhoda Budd, whose sisters were Hannah and Mehitable. Hannah married William Moore, whom she survived many years. At her death, she was in her eighty-fourth year. Mehit- able married Daniel Tuthill, Jr. He died in 1768, leaving her his widow.


Richard Terry, one of the said thirteen families, was the progenitor of all the families of the name of Terry in Oysterponds, Southold and Cutchogue, up to 1660, at which date, Thomas Terry came to Southold. How near Thomas was related to the family of Richard-or whether he was at all-we know not. Richard Terry settled down with his household near where Counsellor Cady now resides. What number of children he had, we are not informed ; but we have seen the signatures of John Terry, Jr., which he signed in 1685 and 1698.


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This man must have been the son of John Terry, Sr., who was son to said Richard Terry. This John Terry, Jr., settled at what was then called Oysterponds, as early as 1660, or near that time. His wife was the daughter of Nathaniel Moore. It appears that Nathan- iel Moore, son of Thomas Moore, who died June 20, 1691, owned a farm, which is now owned by Orange Petty, John O. Terry, and some small parcels of it by others. John Terry, Sr., was son of Richard Terry, who was grandfather to John Terry, Jr., who was fa- ther to John Terry, 3rd, who was father to Joseph Terry, Sr., whose only son was Joseph Terry, Jr., who was born September, 1766, and died in this village in January, 1852, aged eighty-six years.


Joseph Terry, Jr., held the office of Justice of the Peace for thirty years, and that of Post-master for twenty-eight years. He married Huldah, the daughter of Amon and Sibil Taber, by whom he had six child- ren, viz: John Orville, born 1796 ; Henry Horace, born 1798 ; Helen, born in 1801 ; Caroline, born 1804 ; Wil- liam and Samuel, twins, born 1811. Mrs. Terry, the mother, died June, 1835.


John Terry, Jr.'s, wife, the daughter of Nathaniel Moore, was named Hannah. By her he had eight children, viz: 1st. John, born 1698, died 1785; 2d. Nathaniel, born in 1700 ; 3rd. Richard, born 1705 ; 4th. Samuel, born 1706; 5th. Robert, born 1711. Daugh- ters were three, viz: Sally, born 1703 ; Hannah, born 1709 ; Abigail, born 1714.


John Terry, 3rd, married Martha Petty, by whom he had ten children, viz: 1st. John, born 1730; 2d. Jo- seph, born 1732; 3rd. Nathaniel, born 1736; 4th.


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Mary, twin with Nathaniel ; 5th. Jeremiah, born 1738; 6th. Martha, born 1724; 7th. Bethia, born 1728 ; 8th. Elizabeth, born 1741 ; 9th. Hannah, born 1743; 10th. Mehitable, born 1745.




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