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2. Margaret, born 1728, married John Crooke.
3. Eleanor, born 1730, died unmarried.
4. Thomas, born 1732, married Mary Reck, of New York.
5. Mary, born 1733, died unmarried.
6. John, born 1736, married Catharine Johnson, of Kingston.
7. William, born 1739, married Mary Floyd, of Long Island.
Margaret (2), who married John Crooke, had but one child, a daughter. Her father dying when quite young, she was brought up by her grandfather. She married Rev. Charles Inglis, an English clergyman attached to Trinity church in New York .**
Thomas (4), after having served his father for a number of years, went to New York, where, in connection with his father and brothers
*Her husband writes of her in 1796: "She is of the name of Ellison, an Eng- lish family, the most respectable then in this neighborhood, and also wealthy. We have now lived together about fifty years, and, I believe, no fifty years were spent happier by any one pair."-Eager's Orange Co. 247.
** Charles Inglis, D. D., was born in 1734. He conducted a free school at Lan- caster, Pa., from 1755 to 1758, when he was recommended to the Bishop of Lon- don for orders. On receiving ordination in England, he returned to America in July, 1759, and entered on his mission as pastor to the church of Dover, Pa. Here he lost his first wife. Sometime after this he removed to New York, where he became assistant to the Rev. Dr. Auchmuty, in 1765, whom he succeeded in 1777. He was an active leader in the cause of the crown, and refused the request to omit prayers for the King on the occasion of Washington's visit to Trinity. Pending the outbreak of hostilities he removed (1775) his family, then consisting of his second wife and three children, Mrs. Crooke, (his mother-in-law), and four servants to Goshen for safety. In 1776 he obtained permission from the Provincial Convention, of New York, for their return to New York by flag of truce, and they accordingly returned, (via New Windsor), in one of Mr. Ellison's sloops. Having been included in the act of attainder of 1779, the return of peace rendered it obligatory on him to leave the States. He accordingly accompanied some loyalists of his congregation to Annapolis, N. S. He was consecrated Bishop of that Province on the 12th Aug .. 1787, and was appointed member of the Pro- vincial Council in 1809. He died in 1816, aged 82 years. His son John was the third Protestant Bishop of Nova Scotia .- Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii. 1006, ck. Prov Com. N. Y., 1, 1746, 748; ii 249. Hawkins' Missons. One of his daughters mar- ried Judge Haleburton, author of "Sam Slick," etc. In 1778 he procured the re- lease of Major DuBois, of Salisbury's Mills, taken prisoner at Fort Montgomery, and had him sent home on parole.
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John and William, in New Windsor, he carried on a large business in breadstuffs. His place of business was at Coenties and Old Slip, and his residence in later years at 13 Broadway. He became a man of large wealth, and at his death, in 1796, left to the Episcopal church in New Windsor a generous endowment. His family servants were all remembered; those too old to enjoy freedom were provided for for the rest of their days. He left no children.
John (6), inherited that portion of his father's landed estate lying about what is now Vail's Gate. He took possession of the old stone mansion erected by his father at that place and lived therein until his death in 1814. In religious belief he was an ardent admirer of Wesley, and religious services in the Methodist faith were held for a long time in one of his tenant houses. As the members of the congregation in- creased and a large building became necessary, he interested himself in erecting a new edifice on his own land. This was the first Methodist church in Orange county. His house, as already stated, was the head- quarters of General Knox during the encampment. The timber on his farm was mainly cut down for firewood for the army, for which he was awarded compensation .* He left no children.
William (7), who married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Floyd, of Brookhaven, L. I., resided with his father in the homestead at New Windsor village. He succeeded him in his business at New Windsor, but after the Revolution the business declined in favor of the greater advantages possessed by Newburgh, and ultimately ceased. He served as captain in the second regiment of militia of Ulster county (his father being colonel), under commission bearing date Dec. 13th, 1772. His name also appears among the judiciary of the county as judge of common pleas in 1782. He died in 1810, leaving three children, viz :
I. Thomas, who married Harriet Rumsey, of Maryland, daughter of Col. Chas. Rumsey, of the Revolutionary army. He left eight chil- dren, viz: I, Mary Jane, who married Thomas DeLancey; 2, Eliza, who married Dr. Edward Bullus; 3, Henrietta, who married Chas. F. Morton **; 4, John, who married Mary A. Ross (died in 1835, leaving two sons, Robert R. and Charles L. Ellison) ; 5, Caroline, who married Edmund Morton; 6, Emily, who married John L. Morton; 7, Thomas,
*Joshua Sears and Matthew Smith, appraisers, awarded him "for timber and firewood in the years 1777 and '78, to the amount of two thousand cords and in the years '79, '80 and '81, four thousand and fifty cords; also for one hundred large trees for timber for the use of the garrison at West Point, which amounts to two hundred cords of wood."
** Chas. F. Morton occupied for several years the homestead of John Ellison, at Vail's Gate.
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who married Mary A. Ellison (has three children, Mary A., Thomas W., and Matilda) ; 8, Charlotte, who married William C. Maitland.
2. Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Floyd, of Long Island. She died without issue.
3. Margaret, who married John Blackburn Miller, of New York, and left three children, viz: I. Wm. Ellison Miller; 2, Christopher ; 3, Mary E.
There was much in the business carcer of Col. Thomas Ellison, much in his experience in pioneer life, and much in his example that deserve a more complete record. There were few men who enjoyed more unreservedly the confidence of the people of the district. He was their agent, their adviser, their merchant, their banker, and their mili- tary commander. Through his family connection with Governor Col- den, he was for years influential with the government of the province, and through his personal kindness and aid to the Clintons, secured their aid at a time when perhaps political necessity made it most es- sential. His conduct during the Revolution comes down to us some- what obscure. In the early stages of the trouble with England he was with the remonstrants against the measures of the ministry; but with large property interests in New York as well as in Ulster county, he was peculiarly situated-the one he could not retain, after the British troops gained possession of the city, without allegiance to the crown; the other was lost without allegiance to the revolutionary government of New York. Precisely how the difficulty was met is perhaps of little moment; it is sufficient to know that the Ellison estates suffered no losses from the war, except those incident to business, and that the founder of the family lived and died very greatly respected.
The business at New Windsor was continued during the war so far as it could be from the almost total suspension of intercourse with New York. It is said that at the time of the reduction of the forts in the Highlands, when the people of New Windsor, as well as of other ex- posed settlements, hastily fled to the country, William Ellison, then occupying the homestead (Col. Ellison being in New York), gathered up the plate and jewelry of the family and deposited in the bottom of the smoke house, covered it with earth and ashes, lighted the cob fire and left a number of hams on the poles. When the alarm passed over and he returned the hams were gone, but the treasure was safe. However true the story may be, it is a well attested fact that Col. Thomas Ellison was for many years in the habit of burying his accumulations of coin in his garden. At his death he left a chart of his deposits by which it
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was all recovered by his heirs except perhaps a single pot .* There is now very little of the Ellison estate in the hands of the family.
THE NICOLL FAMILY.
The ancestor of the Nicoll family of New Windsor was Dr. John Nicoll, of Scotland, who came to New York in 1711. He was an earn- est Presbyterian, and appears very soon after his arrival to have been at work in the interest of that denomination, having in 1716, in com- pany with Patrick McKnight, Gilbert Livingston, and Thomas Smith, organized the Wall street Presbyterian church, the first society under the discipline of the church of Scotland in New York city. Samuel Miller, D. D., in his memoir of the Rev. John Rodgers, D. D., a late pastor of this society, says of Dr. Nicoll: "His exertions in behalf of the church in New York were as useful as they were unwearied." In a sermon preached on the occasion of his death, by the Rev. Dr. Pem- berton, at that time pastor of the church, which was afterward pub- lished, the speaker said: "These walls will be a lasting monument to his (Dr. Nicoll's) zeal for the house and the public worship of God; in the erecting of which he spent a considerable part of his estate, and undertook a hazardous voyage to Europe, ** for the establishment of security of this infant society. Upon these and other accounts too numerous to be mentioned, while a Presbyterian church subsists in the city of New York, the name of Nicoll will ever be remembered with honor as one of its principal founders and its greatest benefactor."
Dr. Nicoll was an early purchaser of land covered by the Minisink patent; and also of patents in New Windsor and Cornwall, holding at the time of his death 14,500 acres. Of these lands falling more par- ticularly in the field of this volume, may be enumerated the following, viz: On the 7th October, 1734, he purchased from John Waldron, Cornelius Van Horne and James Livingston, one hundred and sixty acres at Plum Point, being the lands granted by patent August 6, 1720, to "Patrick Mac Gregorie, otherwise called Peter MacGregory." From the same parties, two thousand acres previously granted by patent to John Lawrence, excepting one hundred acres for which a deed had been given to John McLean. This purchase was subsequently known as the Bethlehem tract. From the same parties, seven hundred and
*A pot containing some $600 was unearthed by Mr. H. F. Corwin in 1869. There was no eivdence in regard to its ownership. It may or may not have been a part of Mr. Ellison's treasure.
* * During the visit to Europe here referred to, Dr. Nicoll was made Burger and Guild Brother of the Burgh of Linlithgow, Scotland.
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sixty-five acres, which had also been patented to John Lawrence, ad- joining the Bethlehem tract-excepting one hundred acres previously sold to David Sutherland. From the same parties, six small islands in the mouth of Murderer's creek, containing about seven acres. On the 12th April, 1838, he purchased of Peter Post and Anne, his wife, five hundred acres on the north bank of Murderer's creek and imme- diately west of Plum Point .* On the Plum Point lands he erected a homestead house, still in good preservation, its site being that or near that of the log house built by Patrick MacGregorie in 1685. This homestead remains in his descendants as well as the principal part of the purchase from Peter Post.
Dr. Nicoll married Mrs. Rebecca Ransford, nee Dowden, of Boston. Mass. He lived in New York city, where he died October 2, 1743, in his sixty-fourth year. He was buried under the communion table in the Wall street church. His children were: (1) John2, (2) Mar- garet2.
(1) John Nicoll2 was sent to Scotland to be educated and graduated at the University of King James at Edinburgh, where his father re- ceived his degree. He married (marriage license Sept. 7, 1736) Fran- ces Little, daughter of Rev. John Little and Frances Fitzgerald, of Stonefield. ** Their children were : (3) John3, (4) Leonard Dowden3, (5) Isaac3, (6) William3.
(2) Margaret2, daughter of Dr. John Nicoll, married, first, Isaac DuBois, and second Rev. Alex. Cumming, of New York. She had one daughter by her first husband, Margaret DuBois.
John (3), Leonard D. (4), and Isaac (5), were all more or less active for the colonies in the war of the Revolution. John (3) OCCI1- pied the homestead on Plum Point, and was there probably soon after his marriage. He was commissioned second lieutenant in Col. Ellison's regiment of militia, Dec. 15. 1763, by Gov. Colden, and again by Gov. Tryon, Dec. 9, 1772. In May, 1775, he was chosen one of the com- mittee of safety of New Windsor, and identified himself fully with the revolution. On the 20th September of the same year, he was com- missioned captain in second Ulster regiment of militia, under Colonel James Clinton, and was on duty in the frequent services in which that
*The deed to Peter Post is dated July 22, 1732, and was from George In- goldsby, son of Mary Ingoldsby and lieutenant-governor Richard Ingoldsby. The plateau above the creek is called "Post Hill," in deeds of over one hundred years ago.
** The Little's were among the members of the Clinton colony. Fanny Little was the wife of Alexander Denniston, and George Little, one of the charter party of 1729.
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regiment had part, and especially in the short but sharp campaign in defence of the Highland forts and the march for the protection of Kingston. He was associated with Captain Machin in the construction of the booms and chains for the obstruction of Hudson's river, and rendered other important public services. He married Hannah Youngs, daughter of Abimael Youngs and Phebe Birdsey, of Wallkill precinct, Jan. 26, 1766, and had: (7) Abimael Youngs4, (8) Francis4, (9) John Dowden4, and (10) Leonard William4. He died at the old homestead on Plum Point, Sept. 27, 1783.
Leonard Dowden Nicoll4 was also a captain in Colonel James Clin- ton's regiment of militia, and was in service at Fort Montgomery at the time of its capture. He was also on frontier duty. In 1778-80 he was a member of the committee of safety of New Windsor. He married Ruth Birdsley, Dec. 18, 1768. Their children were: (II) Eliza- beth4, and (12) John4. His father built a house for him on the site now occupied by the house belonging to the estate of his grandson, the late Ethelbert B. Nicoll .* He died there June 12, 1815.
Isaac Nicoll5 was commissioned colonel of minute men, Jan. 5, 1776, and immediately following was placed in command of the forts in the Highlands, then being constructed, "until the arrival of a proper con- tinental officer, or until otherwise ordered." He continued in this duty until relieved by Lieutenant-Colonel Livingston in May following, and for "his faithful service and his strict attention to the public in- terests" was given a vote of thanks by the provincial convention of New York. The minute-men having been disbanded in June, 1776, he was, on the 12th July following, commissioned colonel of militia of Orange county, to go into immediate service under a resolution calling out one-fourth of the militia. In this capacity he was in command at Haverstraw, Aug. 7th; at Moriscaug, Sept. 29th, and at Peekskill, Dec 12th. On the 24th September, 1777, he was appointed by Gov. Clin- ton sheriff of Orange county, and served in that office until March 22,
1781. In this capacity he had charge of the execution of Claudius Smith and several of his band of outlaws. In 1783, he moved to New Jersey, where, for a number of years, he was a member of the state legislature. He married Deborah Woodhull, sister of General Na- thaniel Woodhull and daughter of Nathaniel Woodhull and Sarah Smith, of Mastic, L. I., May 20, 1763. Their children were: (13) Frances4, (14) John4, (15) Sarah4, (16) Nathaniel W.4, (17) Walter D.4, (18) William4, (19) Sarah4, (20) Elizabeth4, (21) Margaret*,
*This house was burned in 1780, and another erected. The latter was taken down and the present, third, one erected by (12) John 4.
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(22) Julia4. He resided for some years in New Windsor, and sub- sequently at Goshen. He died Oct. 9, 1804, at Scrawlingborough, near Hackensack, New Jersey.
William Nicoll (6), choosing a sea-faring life, owned and com- manded different merchant vessels. He was not in the country dur- ing the Revolution. He married Ann Bicknall, of Plymouth, Eng- land, which place he made his home, and died there Sept. 1, 1808, leav- ing two children, William and Elizabeth.
(7) Abimael Young Nicoll , oldest son of John (3), was commis- sioned lieutenant in U. S. artillery, March 4, 1791; was promoted to the ranks of captain and major, and on the 13th March, 1813, was made adjutant and inspector-general with the rank of colonel. He re- signed his commission June 1, 1814. He married Caroline Agnes Led- better, daughter of Col. Drury Ledbetter and Winifred Lanier, of Vir- ginia, in 1792. Their children were: (23) John C.5, (24) William H.5, (25) James S.5. (26) Charles H.5, (27) Alexander Y.5, (28) Lewis F.5, (29) Caroline W.5. (30) George A.5, (31) Francis E.5. (32) Fred- erick5. His descendants are living in Georgia.
(8) Frances Nicoll4, daughter of John (3), married William Ber- nard Gifford, son of Arthur and Mary Gifford, of Flatbush, L. I., June 20, 1792.
(9) John Dowden Nicoll4, son of John (3), married (II) Mrs. Elizabeth Woodhull (nec Nicoll), Jan. 28, 1802. Their children were: (33) Eliza Ann5, (34) John W.5, (35) Leonard D.5. He lived in the old homestead, now belonging to the estate of his son, (35) Leonard Dowden Nicoll5, until 1843, when he removed to a new house about half a mile north.
(35) Leonard Dowden Nicoll5, married Arietta Denton, daughter of Henry Denton and Sarah Bedford, of Goshen, June 26, 1838. Their chil- dren were: John Dowden, Sarah, Wm. Leonard, Henry D., Elizabeth, and Francis G. He dropped "Dowden" from his name when (12) John Nicoll4 named one of his sons Leonard Dowden. His eldest son, John D., married Helen Irene Lee, daughter of Leonard Lee and Ann Maria Graham, of New Windsor, May 15, 1861. They had no chil- dren. His second son, Henry D., married Anna, daughter of Dr. Will- iam and Ellen M. Camac, of Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1877. His young- est son, Francis G., married Alice, daughter of Joseph H. and Cornelia Scranton, of Scranton, Pa., Oct. 13, 1775, and had one child, Leonard.
(10) Leonard William Nicoll4, never married.
(II) Elizabeth Nicoll4, married Nathaniel Woodhull, son of Col. Jesse Woodhull and Hester DuBois, of Blagg's Clove, Sept. 3. 1787.
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There was only one child, who died in infancy. Nathaniel Woodhull" was born Oct. 1, 1758, and died April 12, 1799.
(12) John Nicoll , married Anna Williams, daughter of Jonas Will- iams and Abigail Brewster (daughter of Elder Samuel Brewster), of New Windsor, Oct. 29, 1802. Their children were: (36) Helen M.5, (37) Frances E.5, (38) Ruth5, (39) Leonard D.5, (40) Leonard D.5, (41) Mary A.5, (42) John W.5, (43) Ethelbert B.5, (44) Jonas W.5. His father left him his house and land, which now belong to the estate of his son, Ethelbert B. Nicoll.
(37) Frances E. Nicoll5, married George W. Johnes, son of Dr. Timothy Johnes and Abigail Blanchard, of Morristown, N. J., June 5, 1827.
(38) Ruth Nicol15, married John Richard Caldwell, son of Richard Caldwell and Maria Chandler, of Blooming Grove, Sept. 13, 1831. Charles Caldwell, of Newburgh, is her son.
(40) Leonard D. Nicoll5, married Ann, daughter of Gen'l Gilbert O. Fowler and Rachel Ann Walker, of Newburgh, Oct. 23, 1839. Their children are: Gilbert Ogden Fowler and Edward Leonard.
(41) Mary A. Nicoll5, married Enoch L. Fancher, son of Samuel M. Fancher and Matilda Lewis, June II, 1840.
(42) John W. Nicoll5, married Elizabeth P. Craig, daughter of James J. and Harriet P. Craig, of 'Craigville, Sept. 28, 1843.
(43) Ethelbert B. Nicoll5, married Frances F. Randolph, daughter of Hugh F. and Sarah N. Randolph, of Bloomfield, N. J., Oct. 19, 1853. Their children are: Helen M., Anna R., Frances L., Mary G. F., and John William.
(18) William Nicoll4 married Euphemia, daughter of Frederick and: Mary Ten Eyck Fine, of New York, June 16, 1796. Their children were : (45) William5, (46) John 5, and (47) Mary F.5.
(45) William Nicoll5, son of William Nicoll (18), married Mary- Montfort Brinkerhoff, daughter of John V. D. L. Brinkerhoff and Sarah Montfort, of Fishkill, Sept. 28, 1823. Their children were: Willianı, Mary M., Euphemia F., William J. and George Z. Some of these reside at Middle Hope, Orange County.
(46) John Nicol15, son of William Nicoll (18), married, second, Mrs. Elizabeth Howell Denniston, daughter of Judge Nathan White and Fanny Howell, of Blooming Grove, Dec. 21, 1855. Their children by this marriage were: John M., Augustus W., Isaac, Julianna, Charles, Edward, Charles and Elizabeth W., some of whom are living at Wash- ingtonville. There was one child, William, by former marriage.
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TIIE JOHN YOUNG FAMILY.
The John Young family, of Little Britain, sprang (maternally) from the same stock as Colonel Charles Clinton. In "a genealogical and biographical sketch, written by Joseph Young," in 1807, it is said: "James Clinton, Esquire, who lived near Belfast, in the North of Ire- land, had a sister named Margaret. and one son, named Charles, and two daughters, viz: Christiana and Mary. James Clinton's sister, Mar- garet Clinton, was married to my great-grandfather, John Parks, and had a son named John ( who was the grandfather of Arthur Parks), and two daughters, Jane and Barbara." About the year 1700, the whole connection removed to the county of Longford, and lived nearly con- tiguous to each other near Edgeworthstown, where Jane Parks (daugh- ter of Margaret Clinton Parks), was married to my grandfather, John Young, and had a son named John Young, 2d, and a daughter, Mary; and my grand-aunt, Barbara Parks (sister of Jane Parks and daugh- ter of Margaret Clinton Parks), was married to John Crawford, and had three sons, viz: Matthew, Alexander and Joseph, and a daughter named Mary. After my grandfather, John Young, died, his widow, Jane Parks, was married to Thomas Armstrong," who died on the passage to America, in 1729. Jane Parks-Young-Armstrong died at Little Britain, Feb. 5th, 1761, aged 84 years, as inscribed on her monu- ment in the Clinton burial ground at Little Britain. John Young, 2d, son of John Young, Ist, and his wife, Jane Parks, married his cousin, Mary Crawford, and her husband, John Crawford, and daughter of Bar- bara Parks, sister of Jane Parks, wife of John Young, Ist. A sketch more particularly of the descendants of John Young and his wife, Mary Craw- ford, is appended.
John Young, 2d, one of the immigrants with Charles Clinton in 1729, was born in Ireland in 1702. His wife was Mary Crawford, granddaughter of Margaret Clinton and John Parks. She was born in Ireland in 1704, and, according to the sketch of the family by her son, Joseph, was living in the vicinity of Albany in 1807, at the age of 103 years. He settled on the Johnston patent, east of the Clinton home- stead, his deed dating Aug. 22, 1730, on which day Clinton also received deed. He sold to John Welling, about 1764, and removed to the White Creek district* in what is now Washington county, and from thence to the residence of his son, Joseph, in Albany, soon after the
*The names of John Young, Andrew McClaughry, Richard McClaughry and Matthew McClaughry appear on the records of White Creek in 1774, but their settlement was made there at an earlier period.
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outbreak of the war of the revolution. He died in 1784, aged 82 years. His children were: I, Thomas; 2, Joseph; 3, John; 4, Isaac; 5, Jane ; 6. Mary ; 7, Barbara.
Thomas Young (1) was born in Little Britain, Feb. 19, 1831; died at Philadelphia in June, 1777. He was an apt scholar in his youth, and subsequently studied medicine, attaining high rank in his profes- sion. He located at Sharon, Conn., from which he removed to Albany
in 1764. While here he was not only active in his profession, but also in the political measures in which the colony embarked in opposition to the stamp act. In the fall of 1766 he removed to Boston, Mass., where his political proclivities soon gave him rank with the most ex- treme men of the Hancock and Adams school, and rendered himself specially obnoxious to the local officers of the British government from his leadership of the band of "Mohawks," so called, who threw over- board the cargo of tea in Boston Harbor, Dec. 16th, 1778, for which, and other activities against the British government, he was among the number designated for arrest and transportation to England for trial for high treason. To escape arrest he fled to Newport, whence he was followed by the officers of the frigate Rose, and barely escaped seizure by flight in the night. He found refuge in Philadelphia, where he fell into some practice, and when the general army hospital was estab- lished there he was appointed its senior physician with the celebrated Dr. Rush, and had its chief care until his death. While at Sharon, Conn., he married Mary, daughter of Captain Winegar, by whom he had two sons and four daughters, viz: Rosmond, John, Susan, Cath- erine, Sarah, and Mary. Rosmond died young. Susan married Mr. Knies, of Philadelphia, and had two sons, Thomas Y. and John; she died in 1803 or '04, and her sons, Thomas Y. and John, removed to the westward of Albany, where their grandmother resided with them. John, the only son of Thomas (I), who survived him, studied medicine with his father and was mate in the hospital at Philadelphia until his father's death, when he was transferred to the army hospital at Albany, then under charge of his uncle, Joseph. At the close of the war he re- roved to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and from thence to Henderson- ville, Tenn., where he was killed by a fall from his horse in November, 1805. He married Mary Hammond, of Fayette, Pa., by whom he had four children: Mary, Thomas, William, and Sarah. Catherine, the second daughter of Thomas (1), married Daniel Castle, who removed near Canandaigua Lake, where she died. Sarah, the third daughter, married Mr. Clark, of Sharon or Amenia; and Mary, the fourth daugh- ter, married a Doctor Strong.
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