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with his grandfather, George H. Power, and for three years was with him in New York & Hudson Steamboat Company ; in 1897 he went with his father and is now superinten- dent of the Athens Knitting Company ; he married Mrs. Millie Harrington, daughter of Aaron Vanderpoel. 3. Adele, born 1879, died 1886. 4. Dr. Sherwood Volkert. 5. Kather- ine Power, a graduate of Hudson high school.
(IX) Dr. Sherwood Volkert Whitbeck, son of Charles and Margaret (Power) Whitbeck, was born in Hudson, December 26, 1879. He was educated in the public schools, a graduate of Hudson high school, 1896, graduate of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, was two years at the Roosevelt Hospital, and at Sloan Maternity Hospital three months. In 1904 es- tablished in Hudson in general practice, spe- cializing in surgery. He served in the New York National Guard one year. He is a Re- publican in politics. He is a member of the Hudson board of health, surgeon of the City Hospital, consulting physician and sur- geon of New York State Training School for girls, a member and vestryman of the Christ Episcopal Church, a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, Elks Club, the Alumni Association of Roosevelt and Sloan Maternity Hospitals of New York City, Columbia County Society of New York. American Medical, New York State, and Columbia County Med- ical societies. He married, April 12, 1904, at Hudson, Caroline, daughter of Albert Hoysradt, and granddaughter of Jacob War- ren Hoysradt.
Jacob Warren Hoysradt, grandfather of Caroline (Hoysradt) Whitheck, was born in Columbia county, New York, died in Hud- son, New York, where he resided, October, 1890. He married Caroline Lucinda McAr- thur. Children: Albert, see forward. Charles, died in infancy. Arthur died in infancy. Grace, married Dr. William Stanton Gleason (always known as Dr. Stanton Gleason), graduate of New York University, medical department ; resides at Newburg, New York; child, Charles B. Gleason, born June 22, 1890, graduate of Hotchkiss Preparatory School, sophomore at Yale, 1908. Jessie, married Dr. Theodore Von Riempst; resides in Boston. Florence, married Dr. Clark E. Rossman. Warren Jacob, born December 7, 1878; grad- uate of Yale ; engaged in mercantile business in New York City ; resides in Lawrence Park, New York; married Ethel Wolf, of Gettys- burg, Pennsylvania ; children: John McÅr- thur, born October, 1904, and Eleanor.
Albert Hoysradt, father of Caroline (Hoys- radt) Whitbeck, was born in Hudson, New
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York, February, 1854. died there in Decem- ber, 1896. He was a graduate of Yale, re- ceiving therefrom the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1877 ; he was a member of the Skull and Bones fraternity. He served as attor- ney for Hudson, in which capacity he ful- filled faithfully all the duties required of him, also served as county recorder, and was nomi- nated for the office of mayor, but was de- feated by his Democratic opponent. He was highly esteemed in his native town, in the affairs of which he took an active and lead- ing part. He married. July 10, 1877, at Hud- son, Alice, daughter of William Henry and Cordelia (Newland) Gifford, and grand- daughter of Elihu Gifford. Children: Caro- line, married April 12, 1904. Dr. Sherwood Volkert Whitbeck (see Whitbeck). Gertrude McArthur, married, October 8, 1902, Judge John Volkert Whitbeck. Sanford Gifford, born July 28, 1882; resides in Hudson. Mar- jorie, born June 1, 1886, died August 7, 1902. Children of Dr. Sherwood Volkert and Caro- line (Hoysradt) Whitbeck: Mary Gifford; Volkert Sherwood, born January 30, 1910.
WHITBECK (IV) Andries, son of Jan (q. v.) and Agnietje (Bronck) Witbeck, was baptized July 4. 1707, died November 22, 1765. The family were now settled in the town of Coeymans, Albany county, New York, where they possessed lands and were well-considered among the settlers. Andries Witbeck married, about 1738. Mayke, first- born of Pieter Barentse and Elizabeth (Grev- eraad) Coeymans. Pieter Barentse was a son of Barent, "the Miller," and grandson of Pieter Coeymans, the emigrant to Rensse- laerwyck in 1636 from Utrecht. Mayke Coey- mans was baptized October 19, 1714. Chil- dren : Elizabeth, born in 1739, died July 29, 1820; married, 1757, Thomas, son of Hen- drick Hoogteling; Zelotte, born 1741; Ag- nietje, 1742; Peter, see forward; Charlotte, 1746, married, 1771, David McCarty, and died in Coxsackie, April 22, 1828; Gerritje, mar- ried Daniel Van Antwerp; Mayke, married Cornelius
(V) Peter, son of Andries and Mayke (Coeymans) Witbeck, was born March 22, 1744, died February 12, 1813. He married, October 16, 1766, Maria Van Alen. Chil- dren: Mayke, born March 12, 1769, died March 31, 1825 ; married, March 3, 1787, Pe- ter Van Bergen; Catherina, born March 30, 1770, married John Ten Eyck; Elizabeth, born July 12, 1778, died 1779 ; Elizabeth, born November 18, 1785, married David Ver- planck; Andrew, see forward.
(VI) Andrew, son of Peter and Maria (Van Alen ) Witbeck, was born February 3, 1790; married Charlotte Ameha Branek. Children : Peter, died young: Elizabeth ; John, see forward; William, David, Henry. Van Alen, Maria and Peter.
(VIII) John, son of Andrew and Charlotte A. (Bronck ) Witbeck, (or Whitbeck , was born in the town of Coeymans, Albany county. New York, about 1816, died in the town of New Scotland, same county, July 13. 1885. He was educated in the town schools, and grew up to the business of a farmer. Ile set- tled in New Scotland in 1847, where he pur- chased a farm adjacent to the village of New Scotland. He was a thrifty farmer and a good man of business. He was an earnest, devoted Presbyterian, serving the New Scot- land congregation as trustee. He was a local leader of the Democratic party and a man of much influence. He was open and generous by nature, and had a wide acquaintance. 1Ie married in Coeymans a kinswoman, Maria Whitbeck, born 1817, died at the New Scot- land farm. January 11, 1899. She was an ac- tive, energetic woman and a devoted Presby- terian. Children of John and Maria ( Whit- beck) Whitbeck: 1. Catherine, died unmar- ried at the age of thirty-one years. 2. Gitty Ann, born in 1838, died in Voorheesville, New York, February 14, 1906; she married James H. Coughtry, born August 27. 1834. died in 1904. son of Jacob, born February 25. 1797, died 1829, and Rachel (Taylor ) Coughtry, grandson of William Coughtry, born in Scot- land, January, 1765, married in New Scot- land, great-grandson of John Coughtry, bap- tized August 13, 1732, emigrated to this coun- try from Scotland, 1774. locating in New Scotland. Albany county, New York, on a farm, and great-great-grandson of John and Margaret (Skellec) Mccoughtry ( as the name was spelled in Scotland ), natives of Tamafed, Scotland. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Cough- try : i. John W., now a merchant and post- master of New Scotland ; married children : Florence, married Calvin J. Nichol- son and has Elwood, Marie and Ruth; they reside in Tonawanda, New York : Edmund C., clerk for his father, unmarried; ii. William M., farmer of New Scotland ; married Lizzie Wideman and has James, Minnie, Frank and Harriet ; iii. llarriet M., born April 2, 1862, married Samuel D. Raynsford, of Voorhees- ville, New York, and has a son Raymond, born October 21, 1894: iv. Robert T., mes- senger and agent for National Express Com- pany at Voorheesville, New York, married Charlotte Stevens and has Gertrude, Laura and Royal. 3. Martin, a retired mechanic of
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New Scotland; married Ellen J. Hotaling; children: i. Sarah, deceased, married Jerry Mead and had Nellie and Martin M. ; ii. Car- rie, wife of Charles Underhill, merchant of Albany. 4. Andrew J., see forward.
(VIII) Andrew J., youngest child of John and Maria (Whitbeck) Whitbeck, was born July 30, 1847, the year his parents removed from Coeymans to New Scotland. He was educated in the public schools and grew up a farmer. He owns and cultivates the home- stead acres and is a prosperous, highly re- garded citizen. He served the town as tax collector and enjoys the distinction of having turned over his books to the treasurer with every dollar collected. He is now serving his third term as supervisor. He is a Democrat in politics and attends the Presbyterian church. He married, December 2, 1868, in New Scotland, Amelia Hotaling, born Janu- ary II, 1846, daughter of Garret and Sarah A. (Relyea) Hotaling, both life-long residents of New Scotland. Child of Andrew J. and Amelia Whitbeck: Jay M., born 1871, edu- cated in the public schools, reared a farmer, now a hay, grain and produce dealer of New Scotland. He married Eretta Crouse, born in Guilderland, daughter of Henry P. Crouse. Child, Pauline, born 1896.
The earliest record of Henry WHITNEY Whitney, the American an- cestor of this branch of the Whitneys, is found October 8, 1649, when he was associated with two others in the pur- chase of land in Southold, Long Island. He was born in England in 1620, died in Nor- walk, Connecticut, 1673. He removed to Hunt- ington, Long Island, where he built a grist mill for Rev. William Leverich, about which there was some trouble resulting in law suits. He next removed to Jamaica, Long Island, where his name appears several times on the records-1662-63-64. In 1665 he appears in Norwalk, Connecticut, where he built a "Grounde Corn Mill" at the mouth of "Nor- wake River by the falls." His last appear- ance on the records is October 11, 1669, in "A true and perfect list of all the freemen appertaining unto the plantation of Norwake." His will was dated June 5, 1672. An inven- tory was sworn to November 8, 1673. He was twice married, but nothing is known of his wives further than that his second wife was a Widow Ketcham.
(II) John, son of Henry Whitney, "the founder," (the only child mentioned in his father's will) was most likely born before his father went to Southold, Long Island, as he was of legal age prior to January 20, 1665-66.
He settled with his father in Norwalk, fol- lowed the business of miller and millwright, succeeded him in the possession of the mill and homestead, later building a fulling mill at Norwalk, and seems to have been a busy, prosperous man. He married, March 17, 1674-75. Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith. Children: I. John, born at Norwalk, Connecticut, March 12, 1676-77; married, March 4, 1709-10, Elizabeth Finch; he was a miller. 2. Joseph, of whom further. 3. Henry, born February 21, 1680; a weaver; he married, June 14, 1710, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of "the late lieutenant John" and Mary (Benedict) Olmstead. 4. Elizabeth, born
about 1684; married Joseph Keeler, son of Samuel and Sarah (St. John) Keeler. 5. Richard, born April 18, 1687; a millwright ; married, April 7, 1709, Hannah, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Beers) Darling, of Fair- field, Connecticut. 6. Samuel, born 1688; removed to Stratford; married, January 18, 1721, Anne Laboree. 7. Anne, born 1691; married, October 13, 1709, Matthew St. John, one of the original settlers of Ridgefield, Con- necticut. 8. Eleanor, born January 27, 1693 ; married, June 13, 1717, Jonathan Fairchild, a fuller and cloth dresser of Norwalk. 9. Nathan, settled at Ridgefield after his mar- riage, about 1715, to Sarah Io. Sa- rah, married, June 13, 1717, Samuel Smith, a farmer. II. Josiah, married, October 30, 1729, Eunice Hanford.
(III) Joseph second son of John and Eliza- beth (Smith) Whitney, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, March 1, 1678, died 1741. After the death of his elder brother John, he came into possession of the grist mill by deed from his father, stipulating to pay all his debts and give him one-half the tolls which the mill should earn during his father's lifetime. He was a very eccentric man about whom many anecdotes are told. He married, in Nor- walk, July 6, 1704, Hannah, daughter of Ze- rubbabel Hoyt, of Norwalk. She was a mem- ber of the First Congregational Church in Norwalk in 1725. Children: I. Hezekiah, born April 10, 1705; married, January 3, 1732 Margaret Harris. 2. Hannah, born Novem- ber 5, 1707 ; married (first) Daniel Keeler, a farmer of Norwalk; married (second) Sam- uel Betts, of Wilton. 3. Joseph, born Decem- ber 6, 1710; married Mary Coit. 4. Thank- ful, born March, 1713; married Ebenezer Benedict ; settled at New Canaan, Connecti- cut. 5. Elizabeth, born 1717; married (first) June 26, 1735, Miles Riggs, of Stamford, Connecticut ; married (second) David Rock- well, a great-grandson of John Rockwell, an early settler of Stamford in 1641; married
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(third) 1791, being then about seventy years of age, Agur Fairchild, who was six years her senior; he died in 1797, after which she lived in Ridgebury until she was ninety-four years old, then went to live with her son, Miles Riggs, at Newfield, Connecticut, where she died in August, 1815, aged ninety-eight years. Miles Riggs, her son, was a soldier of the revolution, and tradition says that on one of his visits home from the army he found two of his three children dead and his wife very ill. 6. David, of whom further. 7. Abraham, born February 23, 1723; married, December 23, 1750, Anne Plumb.
(IV) David, son of Joseph and Hannah (Hoyt ) Whitney, was born at Norwalk, Con- necticut, May II, 1721.
He was an ardent patriot. and rendered good service during the revolution. "For many years he owned and commanded a sloop which was used by the Government in carrying de- spatches and supplies sometimes under the very guns of the enemy." "When Norwalk was burned in 1779 he ran out of the harbor with his sloop loaded with the families and goods of his neighbors, escaping from the British and safely reaching Stamford." He conducted a grist mill in Norwalk in which his son Ebenezer succeeded him. He married, May II, 1741, Elizabeth, born at Norwalk, June 6, 1718, daughter of Ebenezer and Eliza- beth Hyatt. She died October 28, 1798, aged "80 years, 4 months and 22 days." He died at Silver Mine in New Canaan, Connecticut, April 16, 1816. Children : I. Ebenezer, of whom further. 2. Timothy, born July, 1744; a cooper, served in the revolution ; married, February 25, 1770, Anna Wood, born No- vember 3. 1742, daughter of Alexis Wood, of Norwalk. 3. Betsey, born April 5, 1746; married, about 1767, James Jerrit. 4. David (2), born February 17, 1748, died March 30, 1748. 5. Anna, born February 14, 1749, died September 16, 1754. 6. Esther, born Febru- ary 3, 1751 ; married, October 27, 1773, Phi- neas St. John, son of Nathan and Lois (St. John) St. John; they settled in Wilton, Con- necticut, and later in Walton, New York, where they died; Phineas was a soldier of the revolution. 7. Abigail, born April 3, 1754, married, July 6, 1775, John Reed, a soldier of the revolution. 8. Anna, born April 10, 1756. married Samuel Seymour ; they settled at Walton, Delaware county, New York, where they died. 9. Deborah, born July 20, 1758; married, September 26, 1781, Isaac Keeler. 10. David Hyatt, born August 25, 1761 ; cooper, miller, millwright, farmer, and soldier of the revolution; he married, May 12, 1796, Nancy Raymond, who survived him,
dying at the home of her son in l'aylor, Cortland county, New York.
(V) Ebenezer, eldest son of David and Elizabeth (Ilyatt) Whitney, was born in Nor- walk, Connecticut, August 8, 1742. After fol- lowing the sea for forty five years he inoved to Silver Mine, in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he bought and managed a grist mill. He was a master mariner (or captain) but seems to have been equally proficient in the time-honored family business of milling. He died in Silver Mine, April 3, 1808, and is buried in the cemetery there. He married, December 19, 1771, in Norwalk, Ruth, born November 15, 1756, daughter of Simeon Ray- mond. Tradition says he was a paymaster in the revolutionary army and that it was he and not his father who took the sloop load of women and furniture out of Norwalk harbor in 1779. Children: I. Betsey, born Febru- ary 1, 1773 ; married (first) January 31, 1793, Richard Sherman, of Albany, New York, a sailor who was lost at sea ; inarried (second) January 5, 1812, Deodate Gaylord, a soldier and a pensioner of the revolution; she died October 16, 1846. 2. Asa, born and died in 1774. 3. Abby, born June 8, 1775; married, July 19, 1796, Henry Fitch; she lived to be eighty-three years of age; he to the age of "95 years, 9 months, 12 days." 4. Asa, of whom further. 5. Lucretia, born July 19, 1778, drowned in a well, May 22, 1781. 6. Clarissa, born February 21, 1780, died in Dunsville, Ingham county, Michigan, in her ninetieth year ; she married (first ) Lockwood Hoyt; (second) Lewis Blackman; (third) Ja- cob Wright. 7. Aaron Wilkes, born October 17, 1781; settled at Wilton, Connecticut, where he was ordained a minister of the Bap- tist church; he married, July 5, 1804, Sarah Bennett. 8. Eben, born November 19, 1783; was bound to his brother Asa, May 15, 1798, to learn his trade of silversmith and watch- maker; he was in business many years in New York City; his tombstone records that "The law of truth was in his mouth and in- iquity was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and equity and did turn many away from iniquity"; he married (first) Esther Patterson, born at Red Bank, New Jersey ; married (second) Emeline Hoyt, of Stamford, Connecticut : married (third) Eliz- abeth Raymond, of Norwalk. 9. Lucretia, born June 27, 1786; married Daniel Fitch. IO. Roxana, born October 26, 1789; married, March 19, 1815, James Taylor. 11. Maud, born in Troy, New York, June 27, 1792; re- moved to Norwalk, Connecticut ; married, Jan- uary 21, 1816, Benjamin Weeks, a soldier of the war of 1812; they settled in Henrietta,
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Monroe county, New York, then in Webster, same county, where he served the Baptist church as deacon for thirty years ; Maud lived in Webster until 1874, the last survivor of the thirteen children of her parents. 12. George Washington, born July 26, 1794; set- tled in East Venice, New York, a farmer ; married, April 4, 1816, Matilda Olmstead ; he died December 18, 1861; she was living in August, 1874. 13. Hannah Hoyt, born Feb- ruary 4, 1796, married, September 23, 1817, Miles Root, of New Canaan.
(VI) Asa, son of Ebenezer and Ruth (Raymond) Whitney, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, August 17, 1776, died in New York City, December 8, 1812. He learned the trade of silversmith and watchmaker; set- tled in New York City where the directory names him at different business locations from 1798 to 1811 and with home at 123 Cherry street, where he died. He and his wife are buried in the "Cemetery of the Brick Meet- ing-house" on Christie street. He married, in Norwalk, October 7, 1797, Catherine Leg- gett, born June 26, 1778, died December 31, 1813 or 1814. Children, all born in Norwalk : I. Edwin, died in infancy. 2. William Reed, born October 5, . 1799; a jeweller of New York City ; died December 16, 1824; his place of business was on Wall street near Broad- way. 3. Catherine, died in childhood. 4. Edwin Leggett, born July 15, 1803; a mer- chant of New York City and Philadelphia ; married, February 22, 1825, Joanna Eliza Bicknell, born in Portsmouth, England, Octo- ber 20, 1809. 5. Henry, died in infancy. 6. Thomas Richard, born April 30, 1807; author and engraver ; he was a senator of New York in 1854-55 from the fourth district, represen- tative in the thirty-fourth congress from the fifth New York congressional district, 1855- 57 ; he was at one time editor of The Repub- lican and The Sunday Times; published 1845 an historical poem "The Ambuscade"; was also the author of the "American Policy"; he died in New York City, April 12, 1858, and is buried in Greenwood; he married (first) October 7, 1827, Elizabeth Comstock, born November 6, 1808; he married (second) Sa- rah Ann Heustis, born at Westchester, New York, May 8, 1810. 7. Simeon Raymond, died in infancy. 8. Asa Harvey, of whom further.
(VII) Asa Harvey, youngest son of Asa and Catherine (Leggett) Whitney, was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, February 25, 1811, died May 1, 1846. He engaged in the lum- ber business in northern New York, where he also owned a farm. He was a successful and capable business man, but at an early age
contracted consumption which carried him away while still a young man. He married, September, 1836, Almira Matilda Wait, born February 8, 1815, died February 7, 1897. Children: 1. Josephine, born April 18, 1838; married, March 17, 1858, George R. Phelps. 2. Isabelle Alsina, born January 1, 1840. 3. Sarah Emily, born August 13, 1842; married William Rufus Washburn; child, Charles. 4. Warren Edwin, of whom further.
(VIII) Warren Edwin, only son of Asa Harvey and Almira Matilda (Wait) Whitney, was born in Hadley, Saratoga county, New York, December 24, 1844. He was educated in the public school, and for a few years engaged in farming. He later began work in the glove factory of William Case, fol- lowing with six years in the employment of
Uriah Case. January 1, 1871, he began glove manufacturing at 14 School street, Gloversville, where he remained two years, when he removed to Prospect street. He pur- chased a property on the Height on which he erected a home with factory on the same plot of ground. This has now developed and become one of the leading residential streets. His business is a large and prosperous one, his special line of manufacture being fine goods for men's and women's wear. Mr. Whitney has been a director of the City Na- tional Bank since its organization and vice- president since 1891. Since 1903 he has been treasurer of the Prospect Hill Cemetery As- sociation. He has now been in active busi- ness life for forty years and is gradually withdrawing wherever possible from outside affairs. Since 1901 he has been a member of the school board, and since 1898 president of the Nathan Littauer Hospital board, hav- ing been a director since its organization. He was chairman of the building committee that had in charge the erection of the new Con- gregational church in 1894; he is now an active member and trustee. Politically he is a third party Prohibitionist and supports his convictions with all his energy. He married, October 31, 1867, Anna Sarah Robertson, born February 25, 1843, daughter of Robert Robertson, granddaughter of Duncan Rob- ertson, and great-granddaughter of Robert and Jane (McMartin) Robertson, of Scotch ancestry. Duncan Robertson married Tirzah Woodruff. Their son Robert (2) married Angelina Brownell; children: Mary, Jane, Duncan, Anna, Sarah and Frances. Children of Warren Edwin and Anna Sarah Whitney : I. Marion R., born September 26, 1869. 2. Florence Anna, born June 26, 1876; married, October 20, 1903, Charles J. Fox ; born Octo- ber 20, 1873; children: i. Charles Warren,
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born July 24, 1904; ii. Marion Gertrude, Oc- tober 1, 1906; iii. and iv. Donald Whitney and Dorothy, twins, March 7, 1909. 3. Walter Duncan, born January 25, 1878. 4. Jane Bell, born February 9, 1883.
CHAPMAN This name is of Saxon ori- gin and one of the numerous class derived from an occu- pation, business or trade. The Saxon word Chapman means a chapman, marketman, mer- chant. The surname Chapman occurs among the earliest of English surnames, and the fam- ily in many of its branches was somewhat distinguished at an early period. The name occurs in several of the early settlements of New England, also in Maryland and Virginia. Fifteen of the name settled in these colonies at a date from about 1635 to 1645. Hence the difficulty genealogists experience with the name, as they now number many thousands from one ancestor, Robert, of Saybrook, Con- necticut.
(I) Edward Chapman came to Windsor, Connecticut, it is supposed in 1660. Accord- ing to the town records he married Elizabeth Fox in England. He died of wounds received in fighting the Indians, December 19. 1675. He resided in that part of Windsor called Simsbury. His widow married Samuel Cross, July 12, 1677. His children were: Henry, Mary, Mary (2), Elizabeth, Simon (see for- ward), Hanna, Margaret and Sara.
(II) Simon, son of Edward and Elizabeth (Fox) Chapman, was born April 30. 1669. His wife's name is unknown, but the marriage was performed in 1692-93. They were the parents of Samuel and Simon, the only two children of record.
(III) Captain Samuel, son of Simon Chap- man, was born March 2, 1606. He removed to Tolland, Connecticut, where he was admit- ted an inhabitant in 1726. In 1736 he was captain of the train band. Ile was killed in the French and Indian war while in his coun- try's service. His marriage to Hannah Strong, August 8, 1717, is recorded in the Windsor records. Their children were: Eli- jah, see forward; Samuel, Ruth, Simon and Margaret.
(IV) Deacon Elijah, eldest child of Cap- tain Samuel and Hannah ( Strong) Chapman, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, and died February 22, 1812. He moved to Tolland, where he was a deacon in the church. He represented the town in the legislature of 1765-76-81-82. He married Ruth Steele, who died February 17, 1808. She bore him twelve children : Joanna, married Joshua Griggs; Reuben ; Sarah; Elijah; Ashbel (see for-
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