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( IV) Levi, son of Lieutenant Nathan (2) and Abigail (Cobb) Babbit, was born in Nor- ton, Massachusetts, August 31, 1757, died in the same town, May 8, 1795. He married Betty Babbitt, of Hendrick, Massachusetts, December 21, 1779. He served in the revolu- tion as follows: "Private in Captain Silas Cobbs' company, Colonel Timothy Walker's regiment : muster roll dated August 1, 1775; enlisted May 2, 1775; service three months, seven days; also a private in Captain Seth Gilbert's second company, Colonel John Dag- gett's regiment, which marched on the Lex- ington alarm, April 19, 1775; served ten days." (See Massachusetts Rolls, vol I. p. 387-390. )
(V) Williard, son of Levi and Betty ( Bab- bitt ) Babbit, was born in Norton, Massachu- sett, December 11, 1787. He was also of Eas- ton and Walpole, Massachusetts. He mar- ried, April 13, 1815, Sophia, born in Norton, Massachusetts, March 17. 1790, daughter of Dr. Samuel Morey, and granddaughter of Samuel Morey, a prominent patriot of Nor- ton. When the town of Boston, Massachu- setts, wrote to Norton asking for food sup- plies, which were badly needed, Samuel Mo- rey was elected on the committee to collect sheep and grain to carry to Boston. Samuel was a son of George and Elizabeth Morey, of Norton, Massachusetts. He married his cousin Mary Hodges, descendants both of Wil- liam Hodges and Mary Andrews, of Taun- ton, Massachusetts, 1643. She was not quite sixteen years old, and a month after their marriage he was appointed her guardian by the court. They had seven children. Dr. Samuel, son of Samuel Morey, was born in Norton, Massachusetts, June 14. 1757, died there May 8, 1836. He was graduated at Yale College, class of 1777, studied medicine and surgery, and shortly after his graduation en- listed in the revolutionary army as surgeon and served until the close of the war. He was a popular and influential citizen, and a skilled medical practitioner of Norton from the close of the revolution until his death. He was town treasurer six years, a member of the state legislature two terms, school trustee, and in 1794 one of the original board of direct-
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ors of Norton Library. He was a charter member of Bristol Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, charter A.L. 5797. He married, April 19, 1787, Sarah, born in Norton, Mas- sachusetts, December 2, 1764, daughter of Rev. Joseph and Sarah (Eames) Palmer, of Norton.
(VI) Sophia, daughter of Williard and So- phia (Morey) Babbit, married George Cope- land (see Copeland VI).
The Allens of Albany and Sche- ALLEN nectady, herein recorded, have, through intermarriage with the Seymours of New England, a clear title to Royal descent, and to a most distinguished line of ancestors, including Henry III. and Edward III., of England, a son of the latter, Sir Lionel Plantagenet, having married Lady Wanda Plantagenet, a great-granddaughter of King Henry III. Nine generations later Lady Elizabeth Wentworth, a lineal descend- ant of King Edward III. married Sir John Seymour, of Wolf Hall, Wilts, England, also of Royal descent. Their son, Sir Edward de Seymour, K.G., first Duke of Somerset, was beheaded 1552. His son, Sir Edward de Sey- mour, died 1598. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Judge John Mabie, and they were the grandparents of Richard Seymour, the emi- grant to America, and ancestor of Emelescent Seymour, wife of Rufus Allen. The ances- try of King Henry III. has been traced to King Alfred, "the Great," born at the palace of Wantage, and died 901. This ancestry touches the royalty of all countries, and from King Alfred goes still farther back to Cedric, 519, founder of the Kingdom of Wessex, whose line continued down to Egbert, King of Wessex, 800-836, grandfather of Alfred, "the Great." To go still farther back into antiquity : About the beginning of the Chris- tian era, a warlike prince of Asia left his kingdom near the Black Sea, and with a mighty army invaded the northwestern penin- sula of Europe. According to early historians he established rule over a vast extent of coun- try, which was inhabited by his posterity, and nine generations later his descendant Cedric founded the Kingdom of Wessex, 519 B.C. Ten Kings of Wessex reigned to Egbert, who spent many years of his youth at the court of Charlemagne, and reigned 800-836. Ilis grandson, Alfred the Great, was a wise and just ruler, and under him England rapidly advanced from a semi-barbarous to a semi- civilized people, and some advancement was made in the arts and sciences. To King Ed- ward I11. the line of descent is through many of the famous early rulers of England-Ed-
ward, "the Elder." Ethelred, "the Unready," Edward, "Ironside," Edward, "the Outlaw," with whom in 1057 the Saxon line became ex- tinct. Then the descent shifts to Scotland, and King Malcolm who was murdered by Macbeth, and Henry I., son of William the. Conqueror, and Matilda, daughter of Bald- win, Count of Flanders, and his wife Ade- laide, daughter of Robert, King of France,. who was also a descendant of the mighty Charlemagne, Matilda, daughter of Matilda of Scotland and Henry I., of England, married Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjon, who died 1151. To Matilda was left all the pos- sessions of her father, Henry I., but the throne. was usurped by her cousin Stephen, and upon his death reverted to her son Henry II, who married Eleanor, Countess of Poitou and Aqui- tane. Their son, King John Lackland, mar- ried Isabella of Angoulene in 1200, and their son was King Henry III., who married Elea- nor of Provence. With their son the line of Edwards began, which has just terminated with the death of King Edward VII. (1910).
(I) Joseph Allen, of Massachusetts, had three wives, the last being a widow named Sabin.
(II) Rufus, son of Joseph Allen, was born April 13, 1749. He resided in Pittsfield, Mas- sachusetts, where he married, October II, 1774, Emelescent Seymour (see Seymour VII).
(III) Horace, son of Rufus and Emeles- cent (Seymour) Allen, was born November 14, 1775, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, died in Albany, New York, November 1, 1836. He married Jane Pierson, born 1775, died Sep- tember 4, 1847 (see Pierson II). Children: I. Elizabeth Gelston, born 1809, died Febru- ary 19, 1843; married Dr. Leverett Moore ; children : David Pierson, Mary Rose, who died 1908. 2. Jane Pierson, born 18II ; became the third wife of John Milton Newton ; children : i. Walter W., married Anna M. Parsons, and had three children, John P., Elsie Allen and Eleanor B .; ii. William, died unmarried ; iii. Henry Allen, married Sophia Beckwith ; chil- dren : Harriet, Caroline, Mary and Elizabeth ; iv. Caroline Allen, married William Easton ; children : Helen Newton and Mary Boyd. 3. Henry Augustus, see forward. 4. Caroline, unmarried.
(IV) Henry Augustus, son of Horace and Jane (Pierson) Allen, was born in 1818, died' in Albany, New York, February 16, 1854. He married (first) Bleecher : (second) February 21, 1854, Louisa, born February II, 1827, died March 6, 1892, daughter of Jere- miah Osborne, of Albany, born 1800, died' November 14, 1872, and his wife, Jane ( Bo --
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wie) Osborne, born 1799, died December 20, 1873. Children: 1. Annie Bleecker, married Alfred Edgerton. 2. Harriet, married A. V. Benson. 3. Henry Augustus (2), see for- ward. 4. Amie Pierson, married William P. Rudd.
(V) Henry Augustus (2), son of Henry Augustus (1) and Louisa (Osborne) Allen, was born December 11, 1854, in Albany, New York. He married, June 25, 1878, Carrie Isabella, born January 2, 1857, daughter of Michael Maginnis, of Albany, New York, born 1825, died 1838, married Charlotte Ro- silla Hermance, born in 1835, died September 5, 1868. She was a daughter of Cornelius Hermance, born in 1793, died September 5, 1867, and his wife, Ann (Bane) Hermance, born 1796, died January 14, 1867. Children of Henry A. Allen: I. Henry Augustus, see forward. 2. Carrie, unmarried. 3. Charlotte T., born October 21, 1882. 4. Charles.
(VI) Henry Augustus (3), son of Henry Augustus (2) and Carrie Isabella (Maginnis) Allen, was born in Albany, New York, March 31, 1879. He was educated in the common and high schools of that city, and at the Boys Academy. In 1897 he began his busi- iness career as messenger in the Albany Coun- ty Bank, was promoted exchange clerk, and later assistant general bookeeper. In 1902 he resigned to become receiving teller of the Schenectady Trust Company, of Schenectady, New York, continuing until 1907, when he was appointed assistant secretary and treas- urer of the same institution. He has been for many years actively interested in the National Guard of New York. He served in Troop B, of Albany, for ten years, holding the rank of sergeant. For three years, 1889-1902, he served in the signal corps, which was in the latter year merged with Troop B. He is a Republican, but takes no active part in po- litical affairs. He is a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of Albany, and active in the work of St. Paul's congregation, being particularly interested in St. Paul's Sunday school, of which he was assistant su- perintendent. His club is the Mohawk Golf, of Schenectady. He married, April 13, 1907, Ethel M., daughter of Isaac and Mary (Hettrick) Blauvelt, of Albany, the former having been for thirteen years in the state treasurer's office.
(The Seymour Line).
(I) Sir Edward de Seymour, Lord Sey- mour, a lineal descendant in the eleventh gen- eration from King Edward III., of England, married Mary, daughter of Judge John Walsh.
(II) Sir Edward Seymour, son of Lord
Seymour and Mary Walsh, was Baronet of Berry, Pomeroy, Devonshire, England. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Arthur Champernoun, of Darlington, Devonshire, England (also of Royal descent).
(III) Richard, son of Sir Edward and Lady Elizabeth (Champernoun ) Seymour, was born in Devonshire, England, 1596, died November 25, 1655. He came to America in 1639-40, and was one of the first settlers of Hart- ford, Connecticut. In 1652 he removed to Farmington, and later to Norwalk, Connecti- cut, where he was selectman in 1655. He married Mercy, daughter of Thomas Rash- leigh, who survived him, and married (sec- ond) in 1656, John Steele, being his second wife.
(IV) John, son of Richard and Mercy (Rashleigh) Seymour, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, died in 1715. He settled on the south side of Little river, in Hartford, where he died at an advanced age. He was made freeman in 1667. He married Mary, daughter of John Watson, of Norwalk, supposed to have been born in England. He was a juror in Hartford, Connecticut, 1644, and high sur- veyor in 1646. He married Margaret Smith, who died in 1683 ; he died 1650. Among their descendants may be named Ex-Governor Ho- ratio Seymour, of New York.
(V) Zachariah, son of John and Mary (Watson) Seymour, was born January 10, 1685. He married, November 24, 1709, Han- nah, daughter of Deacon Joseph and Eliza- beth (Butler) Olmstead, and granddaughter of Captain Nicholas Olmstead, of Hartford, Connecticut, who died August 31, 1684; mar- ried, 1640, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Loom- is, of Windsor, Connecticut, the latter born 1590, died 1658.
(VI) Zachariah (2), son of Zachariah (1) and Hannah (Olmstead) Seymour, married Saralı Steele, born 1716, died April 25, 1739, daughter of Jonathan and Dorothy (Mygatt) Steele, a descendant of George Steele, born in Essex county, England, came to America in 1631-32; was freeman of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, 1634; was proprietor at Hartford, Connecticut, 1639, and died there in 1663, "a very old man." His son, James Steele, was a very prominent man. His record is: "In 1657-58 he was a trooper in the war against the Pequots. In 1662, was appointed by the general court to lay out lands *
* * . In 1672, was appointed with others to run the dividing line between the towns of Lyme and New Bedford, for which service he received six pounds, fifteen shillings. In the same year he was granted one hundred and fifty acres of farm land. In 1675 was appointed com-
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missary in King Philips' war, and was al- lowed at the rate of fifty pounds a year com- pensation for line service." He married Anna, died 1676, daughter of John Bishop, of Guil- ford, Connecticut. Captain James, son of James and Anna (Bishop) Steele, born about 1658, died 1712, married Sarah Barnard, died 1730, daughter of Bartholomew Barnard. He left quite a valuable estate for his day.
Jonathan, son of Captain James and Sarah (Barnard) Steele, born about 1693, died Jan- uary 6, 1753, married, May 6, 1715, Dorothy, born January 26, 1696, died November 8, 1775, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Webster) My- gatt, granddaughter of Jacob and Sarah (Whitney) Mygatt, and great-granddaughter of Joseph and Anna Mygatt. Sarah, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Dorothy (Mygatt ) Steele, married Zachariah (2) Seymour.
(VII) Emelescent, daughter of Zachariah (2) and Sarah (Steele) Seymour, married, October 11, 1774, Rufus Allen (see Allen II).
Sarah Webster, born June 30, 1655, grand- mother of Emelescent (Seymour) Allen, was a daughter of Lieutenant Robert and Su- sannah (Treat) Webster, and granddaughter of Colonial Governor John Webster and his wife Agnes. Susannah Treat was a daughter of Richard Treat, of Mayfield, Connecticut, died 1669, and his wife Joan.
(The Pierson Line).
David Pierson, father of Jane (Pierson) Allen, was a descendant of Henry Pierson, one of the earliest settlers of Southampton, Long Island, New York, in 1640. He was probably of Lynn, Massachusetts, prior to that date, as Southampton was settled by a colony of forty families from Lynn. He was a brother of Rev. Abraham Pierson, of Southampton, New Haven, Connecticut, and Newark, New Jersey. Henry was clerk of Suffolk county (Long Island), 1669-80, and otherwise prom- inent. He died in 1680, leaving several chil- dren : John, Daniel. Joseph, Henry, Benjamin, Theodore and Sarah.
(II) Colonel Henry, son of David Pierson, was born in Southampton, Long Island, 1652, died at Bridgehampton, Long Island, 1701. He was a member of the New York state as- sembly from Suffolk county, 1691-95, and from 1698 to 1701. He married Susannalı Howell. David Pierson, a descendant of Col- onel Henry Pierson, was a resident of Sag Harbor, Long Island. He married Elizabeth Gelston, and they were the parents of Jane Pierson, wife of Horace Allen.
(The Gelston Line).
The Gelstons are of Irish descent. Hugh Gelston, born in Belfast, Ireland, 1697, was
a merchant of Southampton, Long Island, ir 1717. In 1752 he was appointed judge of the- court of common pleas for Suffolk county, and held the office twenty-one years. He was. a Presbyterian. His brother Samuel, who came from Ireland with him, was a minister. They were sons of a prosperous mill owner of Belfast. Judge Hugh Gelston married, in. 1717, Mary, died July 23. 1737, daughter of John (2) and Susannah (Clark) Maltby, of Southampton, a granddaughter of John (I) Maltby, born about 1670 in Yorkshire, Eng- land. He came to America, and was a mer- chant of New Haven, Connecticut. He mar- ried, in 1671, Mary, daughter of Richard, and granddaughter of Alexander Bryan, who came from Ashton, county of Bucks, England. John (1) Maltby was lost at sea in 1676. His widow Mary married (second) Rev. John Taylor: (third) John Howell, of Southamp- ton. He died in 1692, leaving her, at the age of thirty-eight years, three times widowed. John (2) Maltby, born June 1, 1673, married Susannah, daughter of Samuel Clark. Their daughter, Mary Maltby, married Judge Hugh Gelston, and had thirteen children.
(II) Maltby, son of Judge Hugh and Mary (Maltby) Gelston, was born March 20, 1723, died September 22, 1783. He married Mary Jones, died February 28, 1785, daughter of Dr. Thomas Jones, whose second wife, Mar- garet Livingston, was a sister of Catherine Livingston, second wife of Governor De Witt Clinton, of New York. Maltby Gelston and wife lived at Bridgehampton, Long Island, where he was a deacon of the church and highly esteemed for his piety. They were the parents of eight children.
(III) Elizabeth, eldest daughter and sec- ond child of Maltby and Mary (Jones) Gel- ston, was born November 30, 1746. She married David Pierson.
(IV) Jane, daughter of David and Eliza- beth (Gelston) Pierson, married Horace Al- len, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts (see Allen III).
"The honorable family of PARSONS Parsons have been advanced to the dignity of viscounts, and more lately earls of Ross." ( Bishop Gib- son A.D. 1725 in "Camden's Brittannia").
"It does not appear that there has ever been any attempt to collect even the materials for a history of the English family of Parsons, notwithstanding there have been many indi- viduals among them of great distinction, as knights, baronets and noblemen." (New Eng- land Gen. Reg. 1847). Guppy's "Homes of English Names," says, "Parsons is a striking
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example of a purely south of England name. It is represented in most of the southern coun- ties, but its great home is in Wilts, and is numerous in most of the counties around this centre, Somerset, Dorset, Hants, Oxford and Monmouth." In America the name is early found. The English family bore arms. Those of Sir Thomas Parsons, of Great Milton, 1636, are those claimed by the American family. Gules: Two chevronels, ermine between three eagles displayed or. Crest : an eagle's leg erased at the high or, standing on a leopard's face, gules.
The family herein recorded is that of Dea- con Benjamin Parsons, an early settler of Springfield, Massachusetts. From that state they went to Enfield, Connecticut, settling in Kingsboro, Fulton county, in 1792. The pres- ent is the eleventh generation from Thomas Parsons, of Great Milton, England, and the ninth in America beginning with Deacon Ben- jamin.
(I) Thomas Parsons, of Great Milton, Ox- fordshire, England, was buried May 23, 1597. He married Catherine Hester, and had five children.
(II) Hugh, son of Thomas and Catherine (Hester) Parsons, was born November 27, 1563, in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. He married Elizabeth (Bagshaw) Thomp- kins, who died January 24, 1642. They were the parents of ten children.
(III) Deacon Benjamin, son of Hugh and Elizabeth Parsons, was born and baptized at Sanford Farms, Oxford, England, March 17, 1627, and died Springfield, Massachusetts, August 24, 1689. He came to America, and was among the early settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts. He was a chief instrument in the formation of the Springfield church, as appears from his correspondence with Rev. Increase Mather. He was a deacon, and a prominent citizen of exemplary moral charac- ter. In the civil affairs of the town he held many responsible offices which he discharged with strict fidelity. From the time of mar- riage to that of his death, Deacon Parsons, with the exception of four years, held some office of public trust in Springfield. He mar- ried (first) November 6, 1653, Sarah, daugh- ter of Richard Vore, of Windsor. She was a member of Rev. John Warham's church in Dorchester, and accompanied him to Wind- sor. She died at Springfield, Massachusetts, January 1, 1676. He married (second) Feb- ruary 21, 1677, Sarah Heald, widow of John Leonard, who settled in Springfield in 1639. He was killed by the Indians. She died in 1690, after a second marriage to Peter Tilton. Children by first marriage, all born in Spring-
field: I. Sarah, August 18, 1656; married James Dorchester. 2. Benjamin (2), Septem- ber 15, 1658; died at Enfield, Connecticut, De- cember 28, 1728; he married Sarah Keep ; her mother was Sarah, daughter of John Leon- ard. Her father, John Keep, was killed by the Indians at Long Meadow in 1676. 3. Mary, December 10, 1660, died at Spring- field, January 27, 1662. 4. Abigail, January 6, 1662 ; married (first) John Mun; (second). John Richards. 5. Samuel, see forward. 6. Ebenezer, born November 17, 1668; married Margaret Marshfield; he was deacon of the Congregational church of West Springfield fifty-two years. 7. Mary, December 17, 1670; married Thomas Richards, October 21, 1691. 8. Hezekiah, November 24, 1673; married Hannah Cooley, February 20, 1701. 9. Jo- seph, December, 1675 ; married Abigail Phelps, September 15, 1697.
(IV) Samuel, son of Benjamin and Sarah. (Vore) Parsons, was born at Springfield, Massachusetts, October 10, 1666, died Febru- ary 17, 1735. He married, March 18, 1683, Hannah, born September 10, 1668, daughter of John and Hannah (Chapin) Hitchcock. Children: 1. Samuel, November 23, 1690; married December 4, 1713, Abigail Randall. 2. John, see forward. 3. Luke, born January 4, 1696; married, September 13, 1716, Sarah Os- born. 4. Hezekiah, April 13, 1698; married November 15, 1723, Rebecca Burt. 5. Hannah, August 2, 1700; married Nathaniel Horton, March 3, 1720. 6. Nathaniel, December 28 .. 1703; married, December 18, 1725. Mary Pease. 7. Sarah, November 10, 1704; mar- ried, June 10, 1742, Thomas Jones. 8. Moses, June 10, 1707 ; married, January 13, 1736, Hannah Stebbins. 9. Miriam, April 9, 1710; married, November 10, 1730, Caleb Jones. 10. Daniel.
(V) John, son of Samuel and Hannah: (Hitchcock) Parsons, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, July 23, 1693, died in Somers, Connecticut, July 4, 1739. He married, June 20, 1716, Thankful, born November 12, 1693, died July 4. 1739. daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Dumbleton) Root. They were the parents of seven children, among whom were John, Moses and Thomas.
(VI) Jolın (2), son of John (I) and' Thankful (Root) Parsons, was born at En- field, Connecticut, April 22, 1724, died at Windsor, Connecticut, March 14, 1769. He married, April 30, 1747, Elizabeth Barrett, who died March 6, 1758. They had six chil- dren.
(VII) James, son of John (2) and Eliza- beth (Barrett) Parsons, was born in Wind- sor, Connecticut, October 9, 1748, died Janu-
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ary 22, 1810. He settled in Kingsboro, Ful- ton county, New York, in 1792, and was the ancestor of Judge Levi Parsons. He was a farmer of Fulton county until his death. He married, January 25, 1770, Hannah Phelps, born September 2, 1748, died March 25, 1837. They were the parents of eight children.
(VIII) Gurdon, son of James and Hannah (Phelps) Parsons, was born July 4, 1780, at Windsor, Connecticut, died October 5, 1848, in Fulton county, New York. He was twelve years old when his parents settled in Fulton county, two miles north of Gloversville. He was reared a farmer, an occupation he fol- lowed all his life. He married (first) March 11, 1801, Sally Permelia Leavenworth, born May 20, 1783, died December 30, 1824; (sec- ond), Helen Demarest, died October 3, 1863; no issue. There were five sons and three daughters by first marriage. Parents and chil- dren were active and original members of the Congregational church of Kingsboro.
(IX) Tallmadge Leavenworth, son of Gur- don and Sally P. (Leavenworth) Parsons, was born on the Parsons' homestead farm in Kingsboro, Fulton county, New York, January 13, 1813, died on the farm where his life was spent, January 13, 1847. He was an active Whig, and a faithful member of the Congre- gational church. He married Jane MacGre- gor, born August 8, 1814, died December '9, 1883. They had one child.
(X) Tallmadge Lester, only child of Tall- madge Leavenworth, and Jane ( MacGregor) Parsons, was born July 2, 1843, at Kingsboro, on the Parsons' homestead farm. His father died when he was about three and one-half years of age, and his early life was spent un- .der the care of an uncle. He was educated in the common schools and at the academy. About April 1, 1878, he came into possession ·of the Parsons farm, first settled by his great- ·grandfather, James Parsons, he being the fourth generation to own and cultivate the property. The original tract contained one hun- dred acres, to which has since been added by Mr. Parsons' father and himself one hundred :and fifty acres. He is a successful modern farmer, and a capable business man. He is active in town affairs, and has served three terms as supervisor. He is a member and an elder of the Presbyterian church. He is a Republican in politics. He married, June 5, 1878, Juliette, born July 1, 1850, daughter of ·George and granddaughter of Charles Mus- grave, of England. George Musgrave was born in England, February 2, 1810, died Jan- uary, 1881. He came to the United States in 1830. and settled in Johnstown, Fulton ·county, New York. He was a farmer, a Re-
publican, and a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church. He married Elizabeth, born June 13, 1815, died December 24, 1886, daughter of William, born January 7, 1776, died May 18, 1856, and his wife Mary Pot- ter, born February II, 1778, died November 18, 1859. Children of George and Elizabeth ( Potter) Musgrave: William; Ann Sarah ; Margaret Jane, married Peter Stewart ; Charles, married Julia Van Arnum ; Matthew, married Jennie Brownell; Mary Elizabeth, married Calvin R. Jackson; Emily, Juliette, married Tallmadge Lester Parsons; James, married Jennie Van Deusen; George Henry, married Janette Stewart. Children of Tall- madge L. and Juliette (Musgrave) Parsons : Jennie, born April 20, 1879; Elizabeth, Feb- ruary 25, 1881 ; Levi, August 9, 1883 ; Duncan MacGregor, March 30, 1885; Margaret K .. April 4, 1889.
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