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Lawrence Winsheimer married, February 15, 1845, Anna Margaret Zeise, born in Germany, died January 18, 1903, after a married life of fifty-seven years. She was a daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth Zeise, who resided neat Greensburg, coming there from Germany when Anna Margaret was but an in- fant. The marriage was quite unique, inasmuch as there were three couples
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united by the same ceremony : Augustus Vogel to Mary Winsheimer, Augus- tus Graff to Louisa Smith and Lawrence Winsheimer to Anna Margaret Zeise, the Rev. M. J. Steck officiating. Of the seven persons connected with the triple wedding Mr. Winsheimer was the last survivor. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Winsheimer: I. George Stineman, born July 21, 1847, mar- ried Priscilla Blose Murray ; children : Ava Gertrude (Mrs. George Wendell, of Wheeling, West Virginia) ; Etta Rebecca, George Huff and Archie Stewart. 2. William Jack, D. D. S., born at Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1849; married Jennie C. Agnew. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born August 26, 1851, married James Filmore Steele, of Greensburg. 4. Harriet Lucetta, born June 28, 1853, married John B. McQuade; children : Catharine and Lawrence. 5. Thompson Richard, see forward. 6. Edward Lawrence, D. D. S., born No- vember 20, 1860, of Parkers Landing, Pennsylvania.
THOMPSON RICHARD WINSHEIMER, third son and fifth child of Lawrence and Anna Margaret (Zeise) Winsheimer, was born at Greensburg, Pennsyl- vania, November 30, 1856. He was educated in the schools of his native city. He learned the trade of printer in the office of the Westmoreland Democrat where he worked for several years. November 23, 1882, in company with his cousin, Benjamin Franklin Vogel, he purchased the Democrat and since that date he has continuously edited and published that periodical as a weekly Dem- ocratic newspaper. Besides his newspaper work, to which he has devoted his life, Mr. Winsheimer has contributed to other publications, poems and histori- cal papers, and has composed some music that has been well received. He has managed the business department of the Democrat successfully, and has al- ways kept it a clean, forcible exponent of sound Democratic doctrine. Through its editorial columns Mr. Winsheimer has advocated and been a potent force in pushing to a successful issue, the plans for civic improvement that have placed Greensburg so far in advance of many sister towns. He has always stood for clean politics and reputable, capable office holders. He married, April 7, 1881, Lydia Melissa Widaman.
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ELIZABETH WHITEWRIGHT LEEDS KIMBALL
ELIZABETH WHITEWRIGHT LEEDS (Mrs. G. C. Kimball), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a descendant of the Revolutionary soldier, Noah Smith, who was a minuteman from Gloucester, New Jersey. He died in Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, in December, 1790. He married and had issue.
Catherine Smith, daughter of Noah Smith, married Vincent Leeds.
WARNER MIFFLIN LEEDS, son of Vincent and Catherine (Smith) Leeds, married Elizabeth Bateman.
WILLIAM BATEMAN LEEDS, son of Warner Mifflin and Elizabeth (Bateman) Leeds, was born December 18, 1833, in Richmond, Indiana, died July 6, 1894, at Lakewood, New Jersey. He prepared for the profession of law and be- came a practicing attorney of New York City. He married, March 8, 1877, in New York City, Annie Stuart. Children : Elizabeth Whitewright, see forward ; Margaret Stuart; William Stuart.
ELIZABETH WHITEWRIGHT LEEDS, daughter of William Bateman and Annie (Stuart) Leeds, was born in New York City. She married, November 19, 1902, George Carle Kimball, of Lakewood, New Jersey, a graduate of Har- vard, class of 1900, and an engineer by profession. Mrs. Kimball is a member of the Shady Side Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, and of Pittsburgh Chap- ter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball have two children : Marjorie Stuart and Richard.
MARGARET S. BEAVER CASSIDY
MARGARET S. BEAVER (Mrs. William H. Cassidy) is of the distinguished Beaver family of Pennsylvania, who have been residents of the state since 1744. General and ex-Governor James A. Beaver is of the same family, the Ameri- can ancestor being George Bieber Beaver, who sailed from Rotterdam, but was probably of Alsace.
GEORGE BIEBER BEAVER left Rotterdam in the ship "Friendship" and landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his brothers, Johannes and Dewalt, No- vember 2, 1744. He settled in Great Valley, Pennsylvania. He married and had children.
CAPTAIN GEORGE BEAVER, son of George Bieber Beaver, was born in Great Valley, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1755, died near Upper Strasburg, January, 1836. He enlisted as a private in Captain Caleb North's Company under Colonel An- thony Wayne. He was engaged at Three Rivers, Canada, June 8, 1776, where General Thompson was captured. Later George Beaver was captain of Berks county, Pennsylvania, Associators. He married Catherine Keiffer, daughter of Dewalt Keiffer, proprietor of Upper Strasburg, and granddaughter of Abra- ham Keiffer, who sailed from Rotterdam in the ship "Two Brothers" in 1748.
REV. PETER BEAVER, son of Captain George and Catherine (Keiffer) Beaver, was born in Upper Strasburg, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1782, died at New Berlin, August 26, 1849. He became a useful and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was ordained deacon in 1809, and an elder in 1810. He married, in 1801, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Saul) Gilbert and had issue.
PETER BEAVER, son of Rev. Peter and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Beaver, married Eliza G. Simonton.
MARGARET S. BEAVER, daughter of Peter and Eliza G. (Simonton) Beaver, married William H. Cassidy. Mrs. Cassidy is a member of Pittsburgh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she is also a director.
WILLIAM GRAFTON WENTWORTH
WILLIAM GRAFTON WENTWORTH obtains membership in the Society, Sons of American Revolution, through the services in war of his great-great-grand- father, Samuel Wentworth. The lineage shows five generations of an unbrok- en male line.
SAMUEL WENTWORTH was a private in Captain Waldron's company. He enlisted July 3, 1775, at Dover, New Hampshire. He was afterwards enrolled in Captain Hodgdon's Company, Long's New Hampshire Regiment, subse- quently under command of Captain Abraham Perkins. Samuel Wentworth married Patience Downs and had issue :
SAMUEL WENTWORTH (2), son of Samuel (1) and Patience (Downs) Went- worth, married Rosanna Hill and had issue :
WILLIAM GOWAN WENTWORTH, son of Samuel (2) and Rosanna (Hill) Wentworth, married Martha Harvey, and had issue :
SAMUEL CLINTON WENTWORTH, son of William Gowan and Martha (Har- vey) Wentworth, married Caroline Putnam.
WILLIAM GRAFTON WENTWORTH, son of Samuel C. and Caroline (Putnam) Wentworth, was born in Nashua, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, Au- gust 28, 1857.
CHARLES LOVE SCOTT TINGLEY
The Tingleys were early settlers in what was known as "The Three Lower Counties," until 1776, territories of the Province of Pennsylvania, and since that date of the State of Delaware.
BENJAMIN WEST TINGLEY, grandfather of Charles L. S. Tingley, was born in the State of Delaware in the year 1799, and was a son of Samuel Johnson Tingley, a seaman, it is said, in the Pennsylvania Navy in 1776, and his wife Elizabeth West, of the family to which belonged Benjamin West, the famous painter; and grandson of Rev. Samuel Tingley. Benjamin West Tingley, while still a young man came to Philadelphia, and engaged in the mercantile business, becoming a prominent dry-goods commission merchant. He retired from active business in 1865, and died in 1872. He married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of James Wilson, a wholesale grocer of Philadelphia, and his wife Eleanor. They had four sons and three daughters.
CLEMENT TINGLEY, the second son and third child of Benjamin West and Elizabeth (Wilson) Tingley, was born in Philadelphia, October 21, 1832, died at Mechanicsville, New Jersey, October 27, 1876. He married, September II, 1856, Louise Henrietta Scott, born at "Rose Lawn," Ross county, Ohio, March 23, 1837, daughter of Charles Love and Elizabeth Ellen (Slesman) Scott, of Culpeper county, Virginia; Ross county, Ohio; and Germantown, Philadelphia, and a descendant of Rev. Jolin Scott, (1650-1726) rector of Dipple, parish of Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, whose eldest son, the Rev. Alexander Scott, ( 1686- 1738) came to Virginia in 1710 as pastor of Overwharton parish, Stafford coun- ty, Virginia, over which he presided until his death, April 1, 1738.
The Rev. James Scott, son of the Rev. John Scott, of Dipple, parish of El- gin, Morayshire, Scotland, by his second wife, Helen Grant, studied for the ministry under his stepfather, the Rev. John Patterson, and was licensed to preach in Virginia by the Bishop of London about 1736. He inherited the es- tate of his half-brother, the Rev. Alexander Scott, at Dipple, parish of Over- wharton, county Stafford, Virginia, and came to Virginia soon after the death of his brother in 1738. He resided at Dipple, Virginia, until 1745, then re- moved to Prince William county, Virginia, as rector of Dettingen parish in that county, which position he filled until his death in 1782. He was a justice of Prince William county, 1769-1770. The Rev. James Scott married in Charles county, Maryland, about 1738, Sarah Brown (born Aug. 29, 1715, died 1784) daughter of Dr. Gustavus and Frances (Fowke) Brown.
The Hon. Gustavus Scott, youngest child of the Rev. James and Saralı (Brown) Scott, was born at Westwood, Prince William county, Virginia, in 1753. He went with his elder brother, John Scott, to Scotland in 1765, and studied at King's college, Aberdeen, and in 1767 began his legal studies at the Middle Temple, London, England, and completed them in 1771. Returning to America, he located in Somerset county, Maryland, where he practiced law with eminent success. When the struggle began between the colonies and the moth-
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er country he became an ardent supporter of the patriot cause. He was elected a deputy to the Maryland convention of June 22, 1774, from Somerset county, and again to that of December 7, 1775. He was a member of the "Associa- tion of Freemen" July 26, 1775, and was made one the committee to draught instructions to deputies representing Maryland in the Continental congress. He was elected one of the four delegates from Somerset county to the Maryland convention of August, 1776, which framed the first State Constitution. He was also a delegate to the Provincial conventions of May 8, and June 21, 1776, and a member of the Somerset county Committee of Safety in 1776-77. Soon after the adoption of the State Constituion he removed to Dorchester county, Mary- land, which he represented in the State Assembly, 1780 to 1784. In the lat- ter year he was elected to the Continental Congress, and served for two years. He was one of the conferees appointed with a like number from Virginia, in 1784, to consider the matter of the improvement of the navigation of the Po- tomac river. He removed to Annapolis about 1785, and from there to Mont- gomery county, near Georgetown, District of Columbia. In 1794 he erected in Georgetown the "Rockhill" mansion in which the remainder of his life was spent. In 1795 he was one of the commissioners to superintend the erection of the capitol and other public buildings at the national capital but resigned on account of failing health in 1796. He died in 1801. The Hon. Gustavus Scott married, in 1777, Margaret Hall Caile, a daughter of Hall Caile of Annapolis, Maryland. They had eight children.
John Caile Scott, eldest son of the Hon. Gustavus and Margaret Hall (Caile) Scott, was born in Maryland in 1782. He married, November 21, 1802, Ann Love, (born 1780) daughter of Samuel Love of "Salisbury," Fairfax county, Virginia, and soon after settled at "Western View" Culpeper county, Virginia, where and at his plantation of "Bush Hill," he resided until 1828, when he re- moved to Ross county, Ohio. His wife died at "Keys Farms," Ross county, Ohio, October 15, 1832, and he at "Muhlenburg Farm," Pickaway county, Ohio, March 14, 1840. They had fourteen children.
Charles Love, eighth child of John Caile and Ann (Love) Scott, was born at "Bush Hill", Culpeper county, Virginia, September 20, 1812. He removed with his parents to Ross county, Ohio, but came to Philadelphia when a young man and engaged in business there, residing in Germantown, where he died January 24, 1861. He married, May 8, 1834, Elizabeth Ellen Slesman, (born Philadelphia, January 7, 1815, died at Germantown, December 31, 1873) daugh- ter of George and Elizabeth (Scull) Slesman, and had nine children, the second of whom, Louise Henrietta, before mentioned, became the wife of Clement Tingley, of Philadelphia. Clement and Louise Henrietta (Scott) Tingley had two children : Benjamin W., born August 6, 1857; and Charles L. S., mentioned below.
CHARLES LOVE SCOTT TINGLEY, second son of Clement and Louise H. (Scott) Tingley, was born in Philadelphia, June 8, 1865. He graduated at the Episco- pal academy, Philadelphia, in 1881, and at once entered the employ of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company at the grain elevators in Philadelphia, and later was associated with the well-known shipping firm of Peter Wright & Sons. In 1899, he was made secretary of the American Railways Company, of which he was elected vice-president in 1903, which position he still fills. Mr. Tingley is
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a member of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, in right of descent from the Hon. Gustavus Scott, and is a member of various clubs and social organizations in his native city. He married, May 10, 1893, Anna Bankson Taylor, daughter of William B. Taylor of Philadelphia, by his wife Ellen J. Tingley, daughter of Benjamin West and Elizabeth Wilson Tingley before mentioned. They have three children: Dorothea, born February 12, 1894; Eleanor Louisa, born February 15, 1896, and Charles L. S. (2), born June 26, 1901. Another daughter Anna Bankson, born January 30, 1899, died May 26, 1906.
WALTER FIELD PEET AND EDWARD BUTLER PEET
The Peet family, name originally spelled Peake, and later for several gener- ations, Peat, was founded in America by --
JOHN PEAT, son of John and Sarah Peat, was born about the year 1638, died New England, in the ship "Hopewell", Captain Bundoch, in 1635, at the age of thirty-eight years, and soon afterward settled in Stratford, Fairfield county, Connecticut, where he died in 1676. His wife Sarah, who survived him, is supposed to have been a daughter of Richard Osborn, of Fairfield, Connecti- cut, who in 1669 is referred to as father of John Peat.
JOHN PEAT, son of John and Sarah Peat, was born about the year 1638, died at Stratford, Fairfield county, Connecticut, September 1, 1684. His widow Sarah married (second) John Brooks, as shown by a receipt for their inheri- tance given her by her five children, dated November 15, 1694.
JOHN PEAT, son of John and Sarah Peat, born in Fairfield county, Connecti- cut, November 20, 1672, died there, February 1, 1709-10. He was a sergeant of the local Train Band, and is mentioned on the records as Sergeant John Peat. He married, May 12, 1695, Mary, daughter of Thomas Morehouse, who after his decease married, prior to 1719, John Corbet, and on September 5, 1723, mar- ried as her third husband, Benjamin Peat.
DAVID PEET, son of John and Mary (Morehouse) Peat, was born in Fairfield county, Connecticut, June 30, 1698. He acquired lands at New Milford, Litch- field county, Connecticut, which he devised to his three sons, Samuel, David and John, but it is not known that he settled there himself. He married (first) Oc- tober I, 1719, Mary Titharton, who died about 1737; and (second) in Novem- ber, 1739, Thankful Whippe. His younger son, David Peet, of North Strat- ford, Connecticut, born October, 1730, was commissioned May, 1775, lieutenant of Captain Zalmon Reed's company, in Colonel David Waterbury's regiment, and was discharged July 22, 1775.
SAMUEL PEET, eldest son of David and Mary (Titharton) Peet, was born in North Stratford, Fairfield county, Connecticut, April 1, 1720. He joined his father in the purchase of lands at New Milford, Litchfield county, Connecti- cut, in 1741, and about 1748 settled in that town, it is said, in the most secluded place that could be found, where he devoted much time to devout religious piety. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, as were his parents. It is not known that he rendered active military service during the Revolutionary War, but as an able-bodied man of mature age, it is probable that he as well as his son of the same name bore their share of the struggle for national independence. The rolls of the militia companies are very incomplete, scarcely ten per cent. of them being preserved. Samuel Peet married, in 1748, Sarah Wildman. Beside his own purchase of land in 1741, he received from his father additional land in New Milford, which passed to his children.
SAMUEL WILDMAN PEET, eldest son of Samuel and Sarah (Wildman) Peet, was born in New Milford, Litchfield county, Connecticut, July 30, 1750, died
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there, February 12, 1824. He married, in 1771, Lucy Bostwick, who was born November 21, 1753, died April 21, 1832.
EBENEZER PEET, son of Samuel Wildman and Lucy (Bostwick) Peet, was born at New Milford, Litchfield county, Connecticut, October 5, 1772, died in New York City, July 10, 1849. He married Deborah Beecher, who was born September 27, 1773, died March 10, 1831.
STEPHEN BEECHER PEET, son of Ebenezer and Deborah (Beecher) Peet, was born in New Milford, Litchfield county, Connecticut, September, 1799; and died in New York City, where he was many years engaged in business, July 16, 1862. He married, at Plymouth, Litchfield county, Connecticut, No- vember 4, 1832, Eleanor C. Butler, who was born at Point Coupee, Louisiana, October 29, 1805, died at Jersey City, New Jersey, September 30, 1873, daugh- ter of Minor Butler, who was born at Harwinton, Litchfield county, Connecti- cut, October 31, 1774, died there, November 6, 1836; and his wife, Augustine (Plochie) Butler, who was born in New York City, in 1787, died in Connecti- cut, January 1, 1864.
The Butler family was founded in America by Deacon Richard Butler, who with his brother William came from Braintree, county Essex, England, in the ship, "Hector", in 1632, and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They were part of the company including Rev. Mr. Hooker, Samuel Stone, William Hyde, Stephen Post and others who left Cambridge in 1636, and settled Hartford, Connecticut. Deacon Richard Butler died at Hartford, Connecticut, August 6, 1684. He married as his second wife, Elizabeth Bigelow, of Hartford, who was born June 15 or 18, 1657.
Thomas Butler, son of Deacon Richard Butler, was born in England, and accompanied his father to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the "Hector", in 1632, and to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1636. He died at the latter place, August 29, 1688. He married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Stone, another of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut.
Thomas Butler, son of Thomas Butler, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1661, died there, August 2, 1725. He married, August 6, 1691, Abigail Shep- herd, who was born in 1665, died September 5, 1750.
Isaac Butler, son of Thomas Butler, born November 27, 1692, died in Win- tonbury, Connecticut, February 19, 1777. He enlisted May 8, 1775, in the Second Company, in the Second Connecticut Regiment, raised on the first call for troops, by the Provincial Legislature in April and May, 1775; recruited mainly in Middlesex county, in the eastern part of the Colony. This regiment marched at once by companies to the camps of the Continental troops about Boston, Massachusetts, where it served under General Spencer. Isaac Butler received his discharge from the Continental service, December 18, 1775. He married, January 22, 1722-23, Sarah Mansfield, who died at Wintonbury, Con- necticut, January 12, 1753.
Stephen Butler, son of Isaac and Sarah (Mansfield) Butler, and father of Minor Butler, above mentioned, was born in Guilford, Windham county, Con- necticut, November 22, 1736, died August 25, 1801. He enlisted March 3, 1778, for three years service in the Third Continental Regiment, Connecticut Line, recruited mainly in Hartford county, and the eastern part of the state, and it had its principal rendezvous in and about Middletown, Connecticut, and
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took part in repelling the enemy at Danbury, April 16 and 27, 1778. Stephen Butler received his discharge, December 31, 1780. He married, October 12, 1761, Sarah Rossitur, who was born at Harwinton, Litchfield county, Connecti- cut, December 1, 1744, died September 8, 1827.
EDWARD BUTLER PEET, son of Stephen Beecher and Eleanor C. (Butler) Peet, was born in New York City, April 23, 1838, died in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, April 14, 1871. He married, in New York City, April 30, 1864, Julia Frances Husted, who was born in New York City, September 17, 1844. She married (second), September 11, 1877, Charles Warren Merrill, of Philadel- phia, where she still resides.
Robert Husted, the pioneer ancestor of Julia Frances (Husted) Peet, now Mrs. Charles W. Merrill, at the age of forty years, on March 20, 1635-36, em- barked from Weymouth, England, in a ship bound for New England, and on his arrival settled for a time at Mount Wollaston, later Braintree, Massachu- setts. He was one of a company of early settlers in Massachusetts Bay Col- ony, who in 1642, received a grant from the General Court, confirmed by au- thority of the Crown, of the land on Long Island Sound, in what became Fairfield county, Connecticut, and founded the first European settlement there. Robert Husted's will dated July 8, 1652, leaves special legacies to his wife Elizabeth and his daughter Ann; and devises his lands at Greenwich with their housings to his son, Angel Husted, and all his lands, cattle and housings at Stamford to his son Robert. The will of the widow, two years later, mentions her son Angel, of Greenwich, son Robert, of Stamford, and daughter Ann, wife of Richard Hardy.
Robert Husted, the son, was probably an adult when his parents came to Stamford, he inherited the lands and homestead there, and they passed to his SO11-
Samuel Husted, who died at Stamford in 1741, leaving a wife Elizabeth, and several children.
Joseph Husted, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Husted, was born at Stamford, Connecticut, and spent his whole life there. He was confirmed by the General Assembly of Connecticut between the years 1751 and 1757, as ensign of the Second Company for the town of Stratford, Fairfield county, Connecticut, and he probably saw considerable service in the French and Indian War. A Jo- seph Husted was corporal of a company in Colonel David Waterbury's fifth Connecticut regiment, May 8, 1775. He married, December 2, 1731, Deborah Ferris, who was born August 27, 1706.
Nathaniel Husted, son of Joseph and Deborah (Ferris) Husted was born at Stamford, Fairfield county, Connecticut, March 29, 1748. He married, at Stanwich, Connecticut, April 14, 1768.
Joseph Husted, son of Nathaniel Husted, was born at Stamford, August 14, 1771, died there, April 27, 1813. He married Mary -, whose maiden name has not been ascertained.
Hiram Husted, son of Joseph and Mary Husted, was born March 18, 1809, died in the City of New York, May 3, 1867. He married, at St. Paul's Church, Troy, New York, August 16, 1832, Mary Ann Truesdell, who was born at Troy, May 2, 1812, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1876, daughter of John Truesdell, of Troy, New York, who was born in Hudson, New York,
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September 5, 1780, died at Troy, May 12, 1853, and his wife, Charity Water- bury, born at Darien, Connecticut, July 20, 1782, died at Troy, New York, May 10, 1867.
John Waterbury, the pioneer ancestor of Charity (Waterbury) Truesdell, was one of the first settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, in 1642, and died there May 31, 1658, leaving a widow, Rose, and sons, John, Jonathan and David. He was a representative in the General Court from Darien, Connecticut, in 1657.
Lieutenant David Waterbury, son of John and Rose Waterbury, was born at Stamford, Fairfield county, Connecticut, in 1655, died there November 20, 1706. He was an ensign in the Fairfield Dragoons in 1690; lieutenant of Stamford Militia, 1698; and was a senator from Darien district, 1696-1700-02-05-06. He married, at Stamford, August 11, 1698, Sarah Weed, born at Stamford, No. vember 18, 1675, daughter of Daniel Weed, and granddaughter of Jonas Weed, who was born at Stanwick, Northamptonshire, England, and first settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, becoming one of the first settlers at Stamford, Fair- field county, Connecticut, in 1642.
David Waterbury, son of Lieutenant David and Sarah (Weed) Waterbury, was born at Stamford, Connecticut, November 9, 1701. He married there, January II, 1721, Mary Sturgess, a native of Stamford.
Lieutenant David Waterbury, son of David and Mary (Sturgess) Waterbury, was born at Stamford, Fairfield county, Connecticut, May 14, 1728. He was a private in the company of Captain Eli Reed, in the Fifth Connecticut Regiment, Colonel David Waterbury, commanding, in 1775, and later a second lieutenant in command of a detachment of Connecticut Militia, in pursuit of the British on their retreat from Danbury, Connecticut. He married, at Stamford, Con- necticut, December 1, 1751, Jemima Knapp.
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