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(I) William Pitts, son of Joseph Pitts, was born in the town of Chatham, Columbia county, New York. He was a school teacher in his younger days, but later a farmer. He was a devoted Methodist and a class leader in that church, and was of the Democratic faith. As a boy he recalled the incidents of the revo- lution and often told of his visits when a boy to the camp of the soldiers, driving cattle which were to be killed for their sustenance. He married (first) Salome Wickham, who bore him twelve children; (second) Charity Couse, who was the mother of two.
(II) David W., son of William and Salome (Wickham) Pitts, was born in the town of Nassau, Rensselaer county, New York, where his father had removed from Columbia county. He also followed the occupation of a farmer all his days. He enlisted and served in the American army during the war of 1812-14. He was a prominent and useful member of the Methodist church and an ardent Democrat. He married Susanna, daughter of Ebenezer Boyce, of the town of Schodack, where she was born. They were the parents of thirteen children.
(III) Sylvester, son of David W. and Su- sanna (Boyce) Pitts, was born in Nassau, Rensselaer county, New York, April 4, 1818, died in Colonie, Albany county, March 27, 1886. He was a farmer of Colonie all his adult years and prospered. He was a con- sistent member of the Methodist church, a good but not an austere man, liberal in thought and deed and highly respected in his community. He departed from the family political faith and joined the Republican party when the party was formed. He was em- phatically a home man, holding no public office nor belonging to any fraternal organi- zations. He married, in 1849, Mary Ann Wetherwax, born in 1828, died in 1901. Chil- dren: 1. Emerson A., died in infancy. 2. Se- bastian W., see forward. 3. David W. (2), born July 12, 1860; married Daisy, daughter
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of Judge Martin, of Helena, Montana, and they live in Garden City, Kansas, he being with a packing company of Topeka, Kansas. 4. Ida L., born in Colonie, New York, mar- ried Edward M. Dennison, of the same town ; she died February 26, 1908: he died four years before. 5. Blanchard E., died in Albany City Hospital, December 11, 1900: no issue. 6. Albert F .. born December 24. 1868: married Hattie R. Rowe, and resides in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, sales agent for Watson & Com- pany. of Canastota, New York.
(IV) Sebastian W., eldest son and second child of Sylvester and Mary Ann (Wether- wax) Pitts, was born in the town of Colonie, Albany county, New York, June 28. 1858. He was educated in the town schools, has all his life been a farmer, owns and lives upon the old Pitts homestead farm in Colonie. He has given much of his time to the public service of his country and has always been an adher- ent and supporter of the Republican party. For several years he was on the school board of his town, and in 1895 was appointed deputy sheriff of Albany county. He served as deputy for three years and was then appointed under sheriff. which office he held continu- ously until 1904, in which year he received the nomination of his party for the office of sheriff. At the ensuing election he was the choice of the people and held the office for three years. On January 14. 1907, he was elected clerk of the county board of super- visors, and is now serving in that capacity (1911). He has always stood high in the local councils of the party and has been their choice. ratified by the party conventions, as delegate to the county and state conventions. He is a member of the Unconditional Club of Albany, and the Colonial Club of Watervliet. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and with his family a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, taking an active and promi- nent part in church affairs. He married, at Colonie, November 5, 1880, Mary E. Lewis. born at Greenfield, Saratoga county, New York, April 12, 1859. daughter of George Van Rensselaer Lewis, a mill owner of Saratoga county, and his wife, Sarah M. (Weed) Lewis. She has one brother, George L. Lewis, a resi- dent of Whitestone, Long Island, and an at- torney in New York City. Children of Se- bastian W. and Mary E. (Lewis) Pitts: 1. Clarence Van Rensselaer, born in Colonie, August 11. 1881 : married. November 8. 1905. Mary Seisel, and has a daughter Dorothy and a son Edwin Lewis Pitts. 2. Clifford Sylves- ter, twin of Clarence V. R. : married, in 1904, Effie Swatling. Both Clarence V. R. and Clifford S. are farmers, and cultivate the old
Pitts homestead farms, the poqwerty of their father. 3. Bertha L., born March 16. 1883; married Irvin Dedrick, a farmer of Colonie. 4. Arthur Emerson, born June 23, 1885; he was educated in the town schools, afterward taking the full course and graduating from the Cohoes high school; he then entered Union College : at the expiration of his first year he was compelled by failing health to abandon all idea of completing the course: later he took up the study of medicine, spent four years at Albany Medical College, graduating and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medi- cine in 1900: he then took a course at the Lying-In Hospital of New York, and was on the staff of the Albany Hospital, but now is practicing medicine and surgery at 255 Quail street, Albany, New York. Arthur Emerson Pitts married, September 17. 1910. Carrie Louisa Becker, of East Schodack, Rensselaer county, New York. All the children of Mr. Pitts are graduates of the Cohoes high school.
This branch of the Hoff family
HOFF was founded in America by Rich- ard Iloff, born in Holland. Ile came to America about the year 1750, and settled in the town of Glen, Montgomery county, where he died about 1810, leaving a large family.
(II) Richard (2). son of Richard (1) Hoff, was born 1758. died March -20, 1856. He was a farmer in Glen. Ile married there. June 24, 1784, Marguerite, born 1765. died February 20, 1837, daughter of Jacob Put- nam. Children: 1. Cornelius R., born June 25, 1785, died May 27, 1837. 2. Hannah. July 23, 1790, died August 15, 1846. 3. Elizabeth, September 16, 1792, died January 25, 1833. 4. Jacob, see forward.
(III) Jacob, youngest child of Richard (2) and Marguerite (Putnam) Hoff, was born March 30, 1796, died June 20, 1841. He mar ried. December 24, 1824. Nellie, born 1795. died December 28, 1890, daughter of William and Mary (Marlett) Newkirk. William New kirk, born November 27. 1764. lost his life January 26, 1828, in Schoharie creek. In company with one daughter, two nieces and a Mr. Chase, he was attempting to cross the creek on the ice, which was apparently strong enough to carry the weight. but gave way when they were in the middle of the creek. They were all thrown into the jey waters and none of the party was saved. He was the son of Garrett Cornelius Newkirk, born about 1720, in Holland, came to America, was a pioneer settler in Glen, where he died at an advanced age, leaving & family. Children of Jacob and Nellie Newkirk ) Hoff : 1. William
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N., born October 11, 1825, died November 9, 1907; married, October 1I, 1853, Maria A. Shelp, born May 6, 1835, died October 31, 1905, leaving children: i. Mary E., born March 13, 1855; married Jay H. Faulknor, born February 8, 1849; children: Abram M. Faulknor, born July 10, 1873; married Sarah J. Miller, born March 22, 1874, and Glen H. Faulknor, born May 22, 1886; ii. Elizabeth A., born June 18, 1857; married Burr Rock- well, both deceased; iii. Cornelius J., born August II, 1859, died August 27, 1898 ; mar- ried Ida Barlow, and left a daughter Eleanora A .; iv. Henrietta, born October 10, 1863; married Abram L. Van Horne. 2. Cornelius, born 1828; married Susan C. Sweet, January 1, 1856, both deceased. 3. Mary M., born March 11, 1830, died June 24, 1854; married Jeremiah A. Blood, both deceased without issue. 4. John, see forward.
(IV) John, youngest child of Jacob and Nellie (Newkirk) Hoff, was born November 12, 1834. He was reared on the old Hoff homestead, began a farmer's life in early boy- hood, and has always followed that occupa- tion. He owns the homestead farm on which he was born and his life spent. He is un- married.
BUHRMASTER This family now in the second American gen- eration is native to the town of Minden, Westphalia, Empire of Ger- many. Through intermarriage, however, they are connected with one of the old revolution- ary families of the Mohawk Valley. Dutch and German blood in that section has inter- mingled with that of other nations and pro- duced a race of men and women in which the essentially Teutonic traits, thrift and frugal- ity, predominate. The first of this family to come to America was Christian Buhrmaster, who descended from a long line of German ancestors, hardy farmers of the former king- dom of Westphalia, now a constituent part of the German Empire.
(I) Frederick Buhrmaster was born on his father's farm in the town of Minden, West- phalia, Prussia, in the year 1820, died there in 1907. He followed the usual family vocation, farming, all his life. lle married a girl of the same province, Caroline, born about 1830, died in 1899, daughter of Frederick Bartling, a worthy man, and like the Buhrmasters a faithful member of the Lutheran church. Be- sides his daughter Caroline he was the father of Frederick Bartling and other children, one of whom survives, 1909, a resident of Minden. Frederick Buhrmaster and his wife were the parents of six children : 1. Frederick (2), who
came to the United States, settled in Amster- dam, New York, where he married Carrie Shumyer; children: Anna, Frederick (3), Edward and Henry. 2. Mary, married a farmer of her native town, where they reside. 3. Henry, who also came to the United States,. settled in the town of Florida, Montgomery county, New York; married Sophia Shumyer ; children : Charles, Emma, Lena, Mattie. 4. Christian F., see forward. 5. Charles, a farmer of Minden, living on the Buhrmaster homestead; married, and has a family. 6: Sophia, resides in Minden with her brother Charles ; unmarried.
(II) Christian F., fourth child of Frederick and Caroline (Bartling) Buhrmaster, was born in Minden, Westphalia, Prussia, Decem- ber 9, 1864. He received the customary edu- cation of the German public schools which. fairly equipped him for life's battle in the far-away land to which he emigrated in the year 1882. He sailed from Bremen on the steamship "Elba," and landed in New York City in April of that year. He did not long remain there, but soon is found in Montgom- ery county, where he worked at farming, the occupation he had followed in Westphalia. He was then just past sixteen years of age. He possessed those two essentials to success, in- dustry and thrift. After years of effort and frugality he became, by purchase, the owner of two hundred acres of land in the town of Florida, part of an historical estate near Scotchbush. He has since resided on this farm, which he has greatly improved. He is interested particularly in fine stock breeding, although the products of his farm are of the. usual character general in the neighborhood. He is a Presbyterian in religion, and a Demo- crat in politics. He married, in Florida, De- cember 24, 1893, Emma Jane Hutton, born there September 1, 1873. She descends from. an old Columbia county family that settled in Montgomery county about the year 1800 (see forward). Children of Christian F. and Emma J. (Hutton ) Buhrmaster : Roy H., born June 15, 1895, and C. W. Fay, born November 4, 1897. Mrs. Buhrmaster is also a member of the Presbyterian church.
(The Hutton Line).
Mrs. Christian F. Buhrmaster (Emma Jane Hutton) descends from Christopher Hutton, born in Columbia county, New York, about 1750. He removed to Troy, New York. He enlisted in the revolutionary army and served also on the Troy committee of safety. He married and had issue.
(II) Timothy, son of Christopher Hutton, was born at Bed Rock, Columbia county, New
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York. about 1780, died in Montgomery county, August II, 1862. He settled in the town of Glen, Montgomery county, about 1800. This was before his marriage. He married Mary Onderkirk, born in the village of Curry, town of Root. They had issue :
(III ) John V., son of Timothy and Mary (Onderkirk ) Hutton, was born in the town of Florida, Montgomery county, March 29, 1815. He married Mary Jane Voorhees, of Cherry Valley, Otsego county, New York, born in 1824, died in Florida in January, 1890, daughter of John and Mary (Francisco) Voorhecs, of Dutch and French ancestry. Mary Francisco was a niece of General Row- land, of revolutionary fame. John V. and Mary Jane (Voorhees) Hutton were the par- ents of James.
(IV) James, son of John V. and Mary Jane (Voorhees) Hutton, was born September 3, 1848. He was a farmer of the town of Flori- da. He married Sarah, born in Florida, July 24. 1852, daughter of Isaac J. and Catherine (Lingenfelter) De Graff, of that noted Mo- hawk Valley family. Children: I. Emma Jane, wife of Christian F. Buhrmaster (see Buhrmaster II). 2. John, married May Dou- gall. 3. Elbert J., born September 8, 1886, died June 7, 1909 ; he enlisted in the United States regular army, Sixth Infantry Regi- ment ; he had an unblemished military record and died suddenly at Fort Harrison, Montana.
The date of this particular SMITH branch of the Smith family in Montgomery county, New York, is somewhat obscure, but taking the facts as known, 1780 approximates the year of the migration of Charles Smith from New Jer- sey, where he was born about 1760. Ile was married about this time, and it was a very young bride who helped him make a home in the then wilderness of southern Glen. But the farm was cleared and the home established which they occupied during their joint lives. He married, either in New Jersey or soon after his coming to New York, Anna Ding- man, born 1765. died in Glen, 1844. The an- cestors of both Charles Smith and Anna Ding- man were Dutch, and settled in America at a very early date. Children : Polly, married Frank Perrine: Gertrude, married John Da- vis : John Andrew, died young : George A.
( II) George A .. son of Charles and Anna (Dingman) Smith, was born in Glen, Mont- gomery county, New York, April 20, 1793, died August 18, 1879. He was reared, passed his life and died on the original homestead farm cleared by his father. He married, in Glen, May 20, 1822, Elizabeth Bellows, born
in that town, April 27. 1804, du! January 9. 1889. Both are buried in Glen cemetery. Children: 1. Andrew S., see forward. 2. Eliza Jane, born December 9, 1824; married, January 10, 1843, Priest Rider, born May 17, 1817, died March 9, 1876: she survives her husband and is still a resident ( 1909) of Glen, physically and mentally bright and quite ac- tive ; child, Howard L. Rider, married Della Rider and has Groot T. and Jennie. 3. Har- riet, born December 10, 1841 ; married Wins- low Dievenpeck, a farmer of Glen, born April 14, 1837, died May 22, 1870, son of Cornelius and Margaret (Van Wormer ) Dievenpeck, early settlers of Glen, where they died, leav- ing children: Ann, Susan, Mary, Caroline, Sarah, Margaret, Abram, Isaac and Winslow ; all grew to maturity but Mary, who died young ; and all married but Sarah, who resides in Glen. Children of Winslow and Harriet (Smith) Dievenpeck : i. Flora V., died in in- fancy ; ii. Smith, born February 5, 1862, died January 18, 1894; married Minnic now deceased, leaving Merwin Dievenpeck, born November 30, 1890; iii. Ivy, born Feb- ruary 5, 1865, married John Becker, and has Newell Becker, born December, 1907; iv. Me- lissa, born July 10, 1866, married Jerome Brown, born July 18, 1856, has Jay Brown, born May 24, 1884; May Brown, born Octo- ber 31, 1885, and Smith Brown, born Decem- ber 1, 1888.
(III) Andrew S., only son of George A. and Elizabeth ( Bellows ) Smith, was born in Glen. June 9, 1823, died at the home of his daugh- ter in Mohawk, Montgomery county, New York, September 30, 1905. He was a farmer. He married, in Glen, January 10, 1843. Ruth, born in Princetown, New York, April 1, 1826. died in Glen, August 6, 1893. daughter of Lewis and Nancy (Van) Rider, of Sharon, Schoharie county, New York. Children: I. Eliza J. (Jennie), born November 23, 1845 ; married Milan Pierce, a veteran of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry ; served through the war of the rebellion, now resides at Fort Ilunter, New York ; children : Adelbert, Fanny, Ruth, Charles, William, Andrew D. Hunter. 2. George H., see forward.
(IV) George Il., only son of Andrew S. and Ruth (Rider) Smith, was born in Glen, Montgomery county, New York, September 19. 1848. He is one of the substantial farm- ers of Glen, living ncar Auriesville. He is a Democrat politically, and a member of the Reformed church. He married, February 17. 1875. Ada, born in Glen, March 25, 1855, daughter of Isaac N., born June 7, 1802, died March 20, 1885, and his second wife, Eliza-
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beth (Miller) Quackenbush. This is one of the oldest families of this section of the Mo- hawk Valley. Isaac N. was a son of Nicholas Quackenbush, who was born December 9, 1750, on his father's farm along the banks of the Mohawk east of what is now Fultonville. His father came into the town about 1740, built a log cabin along the Indian trail near the river, and literally wrested a farm from the wilderness surrounding him. After gen- erations made further improvements and the place is still known as the Quackenbush farm. Nicholas Quackenbush (son of the pioneer ) married, April 17. 1777, Helen Collyer, born May 19, 1761, died June 14, 1843 ; among their children was Isaac N., who married (first) March 18, 1823, Mary Turnbull, born August IO, 1805, died January I, 1842. Children : Nancy C., born July 18, 1824, died aged sev- enty-seven, unmarried. Peter, born Decem- ber 10, 1825, died in childhood. George W., March 18, 1829, died February 22, 1907. Isaac N. Quackenbush married (second) Elizabeth Miller, born June 19, 1822, died October 28, 1902. Children : Mary, born March 15, 1849, married James F. Polhamus, of Au- riesville. New York ; no issue. Ada, married George H. Smith. Children: I. Jay, born December 9, 1875, died January, 1876. 2. Ruth E., August 24, 1877 : married Daniel Ar- gersinger, of Amsterdam, and has George Giles, born November 2, 1908. 3. Blanche, September 19, 1881, died February 22, 1882. 4. Charles Q., see forward. 5. Milton, July 29, 1898.
(V) Charles Q., son of George H. and Ada (Quackenbush) Smith, was born July 1, 1884. He completed his education in the public schools and decided on agriculture as his life work. He is the owner of a good farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres, not far from Glen Village, and is one of the prosper- ous, ambitious and progressive young farm- ers of the section. He is a Democrat politi- cally, and a member of the Reformed church. He married, June 28, 1905, in Glen, Laura, born January 5, 1886, daughter of Jacob Clement.
In an old graveyard at Larison FISIIER Corner, New Jersey, is the grave of Peter Fisher. Whence he came to this country and when is not known. From a careful examination of the old records it would seem that he could not have settled in New Jersey later then 1725, with the strong probability that it was much carlier. His wife's name was Maria, believed to have been born in Germany and most likely married there. Peter Fisher, upon his re-
moval to New Jersey, settled in Somerset county, where he remained until 1730, when he removed to Hunterdon county, where he purchased a two-hundred-acre farm; the deed bears date of March 30, 1730, and states the consideration to have been £132 of "lawful silver money." He had eight children, the eldest born 1725: Anthony, John, Elizabeth, Christopher, John, Peter. Jacob, and another daughter. Christopher, born 1730, married Charity Boss and had six children. It is from Christopher that the Fishers of Montgomery county here under consideration are believed to descend, but the connection cannot be defi- nitely traced.
(I) Samuel Fisher, born in New Jersey, later a resident of Montgomery and Herki- mer counties, New York, died in the latter county, where he had removed after his sec- ond marriage. His wives were born in Mont- gomery county, where he lived in the town of Charleston. By his first wife, Anna (Craig) Fisher, he had six children: I. Rebecca, born in the town of Charleston; married John P. Miller, son of Jacob Miller ; left sons: Charles F. and Abraham J. D. 2. Amelia, married Peter J. Weldon ; died at age of sixty years; her husband married (second) anđ settled in Herkimer, where he died at age of eighty years. 3. Jane, married Joel Smith ; they settled in Herkimer and died at advanced ages ; leaving Samuel, John, Peter, Charles, Nettie and Annie Smith. 4. Samuel, settled in Glen when he was over sixty years old; he was a farmer there the remainder of his days; married Mary Harris; children: Anna, Rebecca. Jennie, Elizabeth, Charles, Hattie. 5. Ellison E., see forward. 6. Catherine, mar- ried John H. Bell, a farmer of Glen : he died at age of seventy-two and she at sixty-five; children : Ephraim J. and Charles Bell. Sam- uel Fisher married (second) Catherine Van Patten and had a daughter, Hannah, married Joel Davis ; both deceased ; without issue.
(II) Ellison E., son of Samuel and Anna (Craig) Fisher, was born in Charleston, Montgomery county, New York, July 8. 1826, died in Glen, October 20, 1894. At age of twelve he left home to do battle with the world and carve out his own fortune. He went to the town of Glen, where he found employment on a farm. Ile was determined to succeed in life, and by untiring industry, economy and right living became a substantial land owner in Glen, where he resided until his death. He was a man of integrity, whose word and promise always held good. He was a religious man and gave liberally of his sub- stance for the support of his church, the Dutch Reformed. He married in Glen, February 14,
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1850, Elizabethi J. Serviss, born in Florida, August 27, 1825, of the early Montgomery county family of Serviss. She was a woman of rare force and character. She died August 3, 1910. Children: 1. Mary, born July 14, 1851 ; married Jacob Clement. 2. Annie, April 6, 1853, died May 27, 1866. 3. Jay, see for- ward.
(III) Jay, only son of Ellison E. and Eliza- beth J. (Serviss) Fisher, was born in Glen, Montgomery county, New York, October 21, 1854. He is a successful farmer and a man of high standing in the community. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed church, and politically a Republican. He married (first) in Center county, Kansas, June 13, 1886, Nancy S. Baird, born in Will county, Illinois, May II, 1855, died at their home in Glen, October 3, 1889. Child, Floyd E., born Sep- tember 29, 1889; married Adelia Minch and has a son, Edward J. Fisher, born December 15, 1908. Floyd E. Fisher is one of the rising young farmers of Glen. Jay Fisher married (second) in Glen, May 5, 1907, Mrs. Nettie (Hoag) Crouse, born in Argusville, New York, August 3, 1860, daughter of Ira and Annie M. (Gordon) Hoag, of Schoharie county, their lifelong home. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Hoag: Amanda, married Garrett Lansing, a farmer of Charleston; children : Frank and Leland Lansing. Mark, deceased ; married Anna E. Kling ; children : Irving and Anna Hoag. Charles, married Hattie Neskern and has issue. Nettie, married Jay Fisher. Mrs. Annie M. (Gordon) Hoag survived her first husband, Ira Hoag, and married (second) John Heyney ; children : Ella. Elmer, married Luella Kellogg; children: Lela and Mervin Heyney, the latter of whom married Dora Frank and has a daughter, Celia Heyney. Jay Fisher by his second marriage had no children.
The Shibleys of Glen, New SHIBLEY York, descend from Swiss an- cestors on the paternal and Dutch on the maternal side. John Shibley, born in Switzerland, started when a young man to emigrate to America. While on his way he met Jane Wagman, a young girl born in Holland. They were married and continued their journey to the new world together. They landed in New York City, where they re- mained for a time, later settling in Schodack, Rensselaer county, New York, where they died at very advanced ages. They left one daughter and several sons.
(II) Henry, son of John and Jane (Wag- man) Shibley, was born in Rensselaer county, New York. After his marriage he removed to Charleston, Montgomery county, where he
purchased a tract of five hundred acres of land heavily covered with timber. lle made a clearing and with the help of a good wife com- pelled the forest to make way for the fields, and left for his children a well-improved prop- erty. He married, in Rensselaer county, Elizabeth Shuntz, born of German and Eng- lish parents. She died October 30, 1847. 11er husband survived her, dying at the age of ninety-three. Children: Jacob, John, George, Jeremiah, Mahala, Serena, Henry (2), see forward, Samuel.
(III) Henry (2), son of Henry (1) and Elizabeth (Shuntz) Shibley, was born in Charleston, Montgomery county, New York, January 30, 1805, died October 4, 1895, on the old homestead he had helped to erect in the wilderness. He lived the life of a farmer. He married Jane Frank, born 1814, died No- vember 21. 1847, daughter of Andrew and Jane (Conover) Frank, and granddaughter of Adam Frank, one of the first settlers of the town of Glen, and a well-known patriot dur- ing the revolution. With Peter Hall and Isaac Conover he formed a trio that gave con- stant exhibitions of active muscular patriotism that brought woe to the offending Tories, and caused a reward of one hundred pounds to be offered for their heads; but they outwitted their enemies and came through the war safely. Andrew Frank, son of the patriot, owned a large property in Glen, known as Logtown, which he purchased. He erected an inn on this property, where he entertained the early-day travelers. He was a man of large business interests. Ile married Jane Conover, born in Glen, where she died. Children of Henry (2) and Jane (Frank) Shibley, his first wife: H. Milton, Andrew, see forward, Adam, George and Elizabeth. He married (second) Caroline Thorp, of English birth (said to descend from the royal family of Stuart). Child by second marriage: Lucy J., a resident of Charleston, New York, unmar- ried.
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