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Daniel Sayre married Sarah , and had issue :
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Daniel Sayre, called "Daniel Tertius" in a list of inhabitants of Southampton, 1698; m. Phebe, dau. of Isaac Raynor; removed to Elizabeth, N. J., about 1730, d. in 1763; ISAAC SAVRE, of whom presently ;
Hannah Sayre, b. 1690; m. (first) Capt. John Cooper, b. at Southampton, 1685, d. there Dec. 14, 1715, (second), March 3, 1718, Maj. William Henry Smith, b. March 13, 1689, tenth child of Col. William Smith ("Tangier Smith"), ex-Gov. of Tangier, by his wife, Martha Tunstall;
Mary Sayre, m. Samuel Ludlam (will dated July 18, 1766, probated Feb. 13, 1767, New York) ;
Ann Sayre, b., Bridgehampton, L. I., 1709; d. July 8, 1787; m. Daniel Moore, of Bridge- hampton, who d. May 10, 1791 ;
Ethan Sayre, m. -
-; d. before 1747, leaving seven children ;
Silas Sayre, m. Abigail, dau. of Ezekiel and Dorcas Sanford; his will dated May 16, probated at New York, May 27, 1747; d. before his father.
ISAAC SAYRE, son of Daniel and Sarah Sayre, lived in Bridgehampton, New York, and married Elizabeth, born November 26, 1699, at Haddam, Connecti- cut, daughter of John and Sarah (White) Smith. Her mother was a daughter of Captain Nathaniel White, and granddaughter of Elder John White, of Had- dam. On December 27, 1721, Isaac Sayre "declared ear-mark" at Southamp- ton. In the Southampton town book, vol. ii., p. 187, is an account of the pro- ceedings of the Commissioners of Highways, 1726, in rectifying the highway between Hezekiah Topping and Isaac Sayre's corner; and also, "between East Hampton line and Isaac Sayre's land we have laid out a highway to the beach." Isaac Sayre died in 1725-26, long before his father, who does not mention eith- er him or his issue in his will. Isaac Sayre's own will, dated December 14, 1725, probated at New York, March 21, 1726, leaves all his estate to his wife and son, Isaac; providing also for a prospective child, Ezekiel, born after his father's death; failing survival of all of whom, he left his estate successively to his brothers, Silas and Ethan.
Issue of Isaac and Elizabeth (Smith) Sayre:
ISAAC SAYRE, of whom presently ;
Ezekiel Sayre, b. 1726, probably the Ezekiel Sayre, who was Lieutenant of Monmouth co., N. J. militia, during the Revolution, and afterwards removed to Ohio, where his descendants held many public offices.
After the death of Isaac Sayre, his widow, Elizabeth, married Jeremiah Lud- low, born in Southampton, Long Island. They removed to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and about 1737 to near New Providence, New Jersey, where he died August 1, 1764, aged sixty-seven years. Elizabeth (Smith-Sayre) Ludlow, according to the family Bible of her son, Isaac Sayre, Jr., was born 1699, died March 13, 1790. By her second husband she had two sons, Jeremiah and Col. Cornelius Ludlow. The latter was father of Gen. Benjamin Ludlow, grand- father of George Harris Ludlow, once Sheriff of Morris county, New Jersey, and the great-grandfather of George Ludlow, Governor of New Jersey in 1881.
ISAAC SAYRE, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Smith) Sayre, was born in South- ampton, Long Island, 1722, and removed with his mother and stepfather to what is now New Providence township, Union county, New Jersey, living be- tween the mountains southwest of Springfield, near Summit. In 1780, at the time of the battle of Springfield, many Continental scouts made their quarters in this valley. "Isaac Sayre's house was the resort of many of these foot-sore scouts, and there they found a welcome. His wife, it is said, could not do too much for them. To her last day she recounted the fact that she had enter- tained General George Washington, and encouraged his men as they came to
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her mountain home, never turning them empty away. The old homestead was until recently, still standing on the road corner where the old red school house stood."
On August 21, 1804, the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Providence, deeded to Isaac Sayre and his son, Anthony, a tract of six- teen acres in that town, on the road from there to Chatham; this was sold by Isaac's widow and Anthony, November 23, 1808. Isaac Sayre died April 25, 1805. He married Jane, daughter of Matthias and Catharine Swaine.
Issue of Isaac and Jane (Swaine) Sayre :
Elizabeth Sayre, m. Enoch Vreeland;
MATTHIAS SAYRES, of whom presently ; Catharine Sayre, m. Timothy Griffin, of New Providence, and had twelve children; Isaac Sayre, b. Nov. 23, 1752; lived where his father did, in that part of New Providence
now called Summit ; d. Oct. 10, 1828; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Abraham and Mary (Brooks) Roll, b. Aug. 29, 1759, d. Sept. 26, 1850;
Anthony Sayre, b. Oct. 10, 1754, Springfield twp., Essex co., N. J., was a private in Capt. Brookfield's and other companies, in Col. Thomas's and Col. Jaquish's regiments, Revolutionary War ; d. Jan. 17, 1835, in Essex co., N. J .; m. and had one son, Anthony Sayre, Jr .;
Nancy Sayre, b. Feb. 5, 1757; d. Nov. II, 1828; m. Oct. 24, 1777, John Halsey, b. Oct. 17, 1756, d. May 19, 1827, son of Joseph, Jr., and Mary (Armstrong) Halsey, of Spring- field, N. J., and they removed to Lebanon, Warren co., O., 1812; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army.
MATTHIAS SAYRES, son of Isaac and Jane (Swaine) Sayre, born near Sum- mit, New Jersey, 1746, served during the Revolutionary War, as Wagon-Mas- ter, with rank of Captain, in the Wagon-Master General's Department of New Jersey. He added a final "s" to his name, which was retained by some of his descendants and rejected by others.
Matthias Sayres died April 12, 1792, in his forty-sixth year, and was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery, at Westfield, New Jersey, where he then re- sided. In his will, dated April 5, 1792, probated April 17, 1792, he mentioned his wife, Patience ; sons, Caleb Smith, Aaron, Noah, and Matthias Swaine, and daughters, Chloe and Patience; his son, Aaron, and William Baker were named as executors, and Caleb S. Sayres was made guardian of his younger brother, Noah, April 17, 1792.
Matthias Sayres married, September 27, 1767, Patience, born about 1752, died March 2, 1811, daughter of Aaron Thompson, of Long Hill.
Issue of Matthias and Patience (Thompson) Sayres :
CALEB SMITH SAYRES, of whom presently ;
Aaron Sayres, m., Feb. 9, 1794, Mary Crane (d. Jan. 5, 1805, aged twenty-eight years, five months and two days), dau. of John and (Beddell) Crane; m. (second), Jan. 7, 1808, Sally De Camp, who was received as a member of Westfield Presbyterian Church, Feb. 1, 1811 ;
Chloe Sayres, m., Jan. 29, 1794, John Scudder, of Westfield, who was a soldier in Revo- lutionary War, belonged to a prominent N. J. family; they removed to what was then "The West";
Noah Sayre, as this son spelled the name, m. and had issue;
Matthias Swaine Sayres, b. June 4, 1783; lived in Woodbridge, N. J .; d. at sea, April I, 1817; m. Hannah Tucker (d. April 8, 1825, aged forty-six years) ; his will, dated Jan. 25, 1817, probated June 12, 1822, made his wife, Hannah, executrix and sole legatee ; Patience Sayres, d. April 28, 1810; m. at Westfield, Jan. 26, 1806, John Beagle; Thompson Sayres, b. Nov. 17, 1787; d. Jan. 29, 1789.
CALEB SMITH SAYRES, M. D., born near Elizabeth, New Jersey, May 24, 1768; died at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1799, and was buried
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under the floor of St. Martin's Church (as it is now extended). He became a member of the Presbyterian Church, at Westfield, New Jersey, July 31, 1785. Shortly after this date he removed to Delaware county, Pennsylvania, where he practiced medicine at Marcus Hook, Chester, etc. In 1790 he was Surgeon of the Eighth Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia, Col. Vernon commanding. He was also a Justice of the Peace and a liberal subscriber to the funds of St. Martin's Church, Marcus Hook. His residence at Marcus Hook, facing the Delaware river, is still standing.
Dr. Caleb S. Sayres married, August 9, 1792, Susanna (see above), daugh- ter of Jacob and Susanna (Wills) Richards, of Aston township, Delaware county, Pennsylvania.
Issue of Dr. Caleb S. and Susanna (Richards) Sayres:
Matthias Richards Sayres, b., Marcus Hook, Pa., June 7, 1792; d., unm., April 4, 1826; bur. in St. Paul's churchyard, Chester, Pa .; he was educated at the Univ. of Pa .; studied law with Hon. John Sergeant, and was admitted to Bar in Phila., June 16, 1816, and in Delaware co., July 22, 1816; M. Richards Sayres was a promising young member of the Delaware County Bar; in Oct., 1824, he was assigned, by Judge Dar- lington, for the defense in the Bonsall murder case, one of the greatest trials, perhaps, ever held in Delaware co .;
Augusta Caroline Sayres, b. July 5, 1795; d. young, unm. ;
EDWARD SMITH SAYRES, of whom presently.
EDWARD SMITH SAYRES, born at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1797, removed to Philadelphia. "Mr. Sayres was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. In early life he went to Brazil as supercargo of his own ves- sel, "the Clio"; was afterwards a merchant in Philadelphia; was appointed Vice- Consul of Brazil, December 3, 1841 ; Vice-Consul of Portugal, March 13, 1850; Vice-Consul of Sweden and Norway, July 10, 1854; and Vice-Consul of Den- mark, May 1, 1862, resident at Philadelphia. Was appointed by the Princess Regent of Brazil, Honorary Consul of that Empire, with the rank of Captain in the Brazilian Navy, February 2, 1872, for long and faithful service to the Empire; and was at the time of his death Dean of the Consular Corps at Phil- adelphia, and probably the oldest foreign Consul in point of service in the United States.
"Mr. Sayres was a gentleman of the older school, courteous and dignified. At over seventy years of age he was erect and his step was as springy as a man of fifty. He was a great reader, had a fine memory and was a good linguist, and was the owner of a fine library. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1877, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery."
Edward Smith Sayres married, July 25, 1839, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Jane, daughter of John and Jane McPhail Humes. Mrs. Sayres died April 2, 1858, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. Her father, John Humes, Esq., was a merchant of Philadelphia (of the firms of Humes & Et- ting, and Humes & Lippincott), and Register of Wills of Philadelphia county, 1830-36.
One of Mrs. Sayres's uncles, Dr. Samuel Humes, was a distinguished physi- cian of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, founder and first president of the State Med- ical Society, Treasurer of Lancaster county in 1806, and a Major and Surgeon in the War of 1812. Another uncle, Capt. James Humes, was Sheriff of Lan- caster county, 1809, and commanded a troop of horse, which was the first offer
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to the President in the War of 1812, and another uncle, William Humes, was in Hartman Kuhn's Company of State Fenables, in the War of 1812. An aunt, Sarah Humes, married George B. Porter, Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, and Governor of Michigan, a brother of Gov. David Rittenhouse Porter, of Pennsylvania. Samuel Humes, father of Dr. Samuel and Capt. James Humes and Sarah (Humes) Porter, and grandfather of Mrs. Sayres, served in the Revolution. Mrs. Sayres's mother, Jane McPhail, was daughter of John and Ann Mackenzie McPhail, of Philadelphia.
Issue of Edward S. and Jane (Humes) Sayres :
Emma Stalker Sayres, b. Nov. 22, 1840; d. Oct. 6, 1850;
Caroline Augusta Sayres, b. June 9, 1843; d. Jan. 30, 1847; Harry Sayres, b. June 2, 1845; educated at private classical academies, and clerk to his father's consulates; for over fifteen years auditor of Union Insurance Co. of Phila .; he is member of Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Merion Cricket Club ;
EDWARD STALKER SAYRES, of whom presently;
Horace Sayres, b., Phila., Oct. 3, 1853: member of Merion Cricket Club, of Haverford, Pa .; m. at St. Stephen's Church, Phila., April 19, 1881, Isabel (d. May 21, 1895), dau. of Capt. William Eustis, a graduate of West Point, late of U. S. A., and member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and Elizabeth Greland, his wife; issue of Horace and Isabel (Eustis) Sayres;
William Eustis, b. April 12, 1882;
Horace Hamilton, b. July 31, 1883; Isabel Despaigne, b. July 5, 1885 ; Edward Grantham, b. May 22, 1887; Mary Humes, b. Ang. 29, 1890;
Arthur Richards, b. April 9, 1895.
Jennie Humes Sayres, b. June 19, 1855.
EDWARD STALKER SAYRES, born in Philadelphia, July 30, 1850, son of Ed- ward Smith and Jane Humes Sayres, was educated at the old Quaker private school, Pine (above Front) street, and at the private classical academy of Eliphalet Roberts, finishing at the Friends' Central School, Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia. He read law with John Hill Martin, Esq., author of Martin's "Bench and Bar of Philadelphia," "History of Chester," etc., and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar, December 27, 1873, and later to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the Court of Claims at Washington, D. C. Mr. Sayres's practice is confined to Orphans' Court, real estate, conveyanc- ing, and mercantile and marine law. He continued his association with John Hill Martin, Esq., at 217 South Third street, Philadelphia, until the latter's death. Mr. Sayres is a member of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, and was recorder of the same during the session of 1872-73. He is also a member of the Law Association of Philadelphia.
Mr. Sayres is a director and counsel for the Delaware Insurance Company of Philadelphia, was formerly director and is now vice-president of the Merchants' Trust Company of Philadelphia. He was interested in the formation of the Land Title and Trust Company, and was for a short period its secretary. He was one of the original members of the Civil Service Reform Association of Pennsylvania, and acted as its secretary at its first meeting, and was for years its treasurer and a member of its executive and finance committees.
Mr. Sayres is a vice-president of the board of trustees for the Northern Home for Friendless Children and Associated Institute for Soldiers' and Sail- ors' Orphans; secretary of the board of managers of the Children's Hospital
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of Philadelphia ; and a life member, councillor, and one of the board of man- agers of the Mercantile Beneficial Association.
Edward S. Sayres became a member of Company D, First Regiment Infan- try, National Guard of Pennsylvania, 1874, and served with his company dur- ing the coal riots of 1875, and again in the labor riots of 1877, being with his command in the Round House at Pittsburgh. He was elected First Lieutenant of Company D, 1879, and was in command of the company, First Lieutenant Commandant, when he resigned his commission in 1880. He was for many years treasurer of Company D's civil organization, of which he is an honorary member. He is also a member of the "Old Guard" of Company D, and of the Veteran Corps of the First Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsyl- vania.
Mr. Sayres is a member of the council of the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania; a founder and recording secretary of the Genealogical Society of Penn- sylvania; one of the board of managers of the Christ Church Historical Asso- ciation; and a member of the Geographical Society of Pennsylvania, and Na- tional Geographical Society. He is also secretary of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; one of the board of managers of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and several times a delegate to the General Society; a founder and sometime a member of the Council of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; treasurer of the Pennsylvania Society of the War of 1812, and a delegate to the General Society; and for several years a member of the Council of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States, and treasurer-general of the National Commandery.
In 1865 Mr. Sayres was one of the founders of the Merion Cricket Club, then of Ardmore, now of Haverford, Pennsylvania, is now a member of its board of governors, chairman of its house committee, and has been its secretary for over thirty years. He is likewise a member of the Radnor Hunt, Bryn Mawr Polo Club, and the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia.
Edward Stalker Sayres married (first), December 15, 1881, at St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Caroline Linda Jennings, daughter of Silas Weir and Caroline (Kalbfus) Lewis, of Philadelphia ; by whom he had issue :
Linda Lewis Sayres, b. Sept. 28, 1882; m. Jan. 3, 1906, at St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Phila., Morris Shallcross Phillips, son of John Bakewell Phillips, of Pitts- burgh, Pa., and Pasadena, Cal., grandson of the late Hon. Ormsby Phillips, at one time Mayor of Allegheny, prominent citizen of Pittsburgh, and great-grandson of late Col. Asher Phillips, U. S. A .; on maternal side grandson of Joseph Shallcross, of Sharon Hill, Pa., great-grandson of late Dr. Morris Cadwalader Shallcross, a well- known physician of Phila .; a descendant of Leonard Shallcross, founder of family in Pa., who settled in Bucks co., about 1700; direct descendant of Maj. John Ormsby, who was with Gen. Braddock at Fort Duquesne.
Mrs. Sayres died October 9, 1882, and Mr. Sayres married (second), April 3, 1888, at St. Michael's Church, Germantown, his first wife's cousin, Mary Vic- toria, daughter of Frederic Mortimer and Emma Hulme Carvill Lewis, and sis- ter to the late Prof. Henry Carvill Lewis, the well-known geologist and scien- tist.
ANDREW VINTON BROWN
The Vinton family from whom the subject of this sketch is descended, long resident in Massachusetts, is said to have been of French origin, though com- ing to Massachusetts from England, whence an early ancestor of the family fled from France at about the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. This remote ancestor is said to have been skilled in silk manufacture, which though first introduced into England in 1520, received little attention until stimulated by the advent of French refugees in the last half of the six- teenth century. Representatives of the Vinton family have emigrated direct from France to America at later dates, thus tending to strengthen the tradi- tion of French origin of the family.
JOHN VINTON was a resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, some years prior to the birth of his eldest child in 1648, though that record gives us the first doc- umentary evidence of his residence there. His residence in Lynn covered a period of twenty years or more, and he is said to have died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1663. His wife Ann died at least as early as 1664. They left sons, John, William and Blaize Vinton, and several daughters. The name Blaize is distinctly French, and is another corroboration of the French origin of the family. Blaize Vinton distinguished himself as a soldier in King Phil- ip's War.
JOHN VINTON (2), second child and eldest son of John and Ann Vinton, was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, March 2, 1650. He was a worker in iron and is referred to on the early records as a "forge-man". He remained a resident of Essex county, Massachusetts, until about the time of his mar- riage in 1677, at Malden, Middlesex county. He appears on records at the Court at Salem in 1675, when his age is given as twenty-six years. He resided at Malden and followed his vocation as a "forge-man" until 1695, purchasing on August 2, 1695, a tract of land at Woburn, some ten miles northwest of Malden. His residence is given in the deed as Malden, and his vocation as "forge-man". He resided in Woburn town limits until his death in 1727, ac- quiring considerable land there which extended into the adjoining town of Stoneham, Middlesex county. John Vinton married at Malden, Middlesex coun- ty, Massachusetts, August 26, 1677, Hannah Green, who was born there Feb- ruary 24, 1659-60. She was a granddaughter of Thomas Green, born in Lei- cestershire, England, about 1606, who was settled at Malden, Middlesex coun- ty, Massachusetts, as early as 1653, and died there December 19, 1667. He was selectman for the town in 1658, and also served as a grand juror for Mid- dlesex county. His son Thomas Green, the father of Hannah (Green) Vin- ton, born in 1630, married about 1653, Rebecca, daughter of Joseph Hills, of Malden. John Vinton died at Woburn, November 13, 1727, aged seventy- seven years, and his widow Hannah died in 1741 at the age of eighty-two years. They had children: John; Hannah; Rebecca, who married William Richard- son; Thomas; Mary; and Samuel.
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JOHN VINTON (3), eldest son of John and Hannah (Green) Vinton, of Woburn, was born at Malden, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, about the year 1678. He removed with his parents to Woburn in the same county. His residence until 1738, after attaining manhood's years, was in the extreme eas- tern end of the town of Woburn, which was incorporated into Stoneham in 1726. He was a man of great ability, energy and activity, and was a leader in public affairs in the different localities in which he lived throughout his long life. He was Lieutenant of the Woburn train band in 1720, and captain in 1723. As the principal inhabitant of the new town of Stoneham he issued the warrant for its first town meeting in 1726, and he served on its board of se- lectmen from that date until his removal to Worcester county in 1738. He was the representative of Stoneham in the General Court, the legislative body of Massachusetts, in 1734, being the only representative from that town in the Legislature covering a period of eighty years. He is invariably referred to on the town records, where his name appears almost constantly as "Captain John Vinton" until he was sent to the Legislature in 1734, after which his appella- tion was "Squire Vinton". He sold his farm in Stoneham by deed dated No- vember 20, 1738, and two days later received from the church of Stoneham a letter of dismissal to the town of Dudley, on the southern border of Worces- ter county, Massachusetts, next the Connecticut line, north of Woodstock, Connecticut. He received on the same date a deed for land in that part of the town of Dudley which in 1816 was incorporated as Southbridge. Dudley and the surrounding district was comparatively a wilderness at the time of John Vinton's settlement there, the town having been incorporated but a few years previously. He was prominent in the affairs of the town as he had been in Middlesex county, serving as moderator, selectman and a leader in all im- portant enterprises. He died in December, 1760, at the age of eighty-two years.
John Vinton married (first) at Woburn, March 9, 1702-3, Abigail Richard- son, born November 14, 1683, died June 21, 1720, daughter of Stephen Richard- son and his wife Abigail, daughter of Francis Wyman, one of the original set- tlers of Woburn, and his wife Abigail (Read) Wyman, and granddaughter of Samuel Richardson, who with his brother Thomas was admitted to the church at Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 18, 1637-8. Samuel Richardson re- moved to Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, in 1641, and died there May 23, 1658. He was selectman from 1644 to his death. His fourth son Ste- phen, born August 15, 1649, married at Billerica, January 2, 1674-5, Abigail Wyman, before mentioned. The Richardson family was much intermarried with the Vinton family, and both were prominent in public affairs in the suc- ceeding generations. John Vinton married (second), November 29, 1720, Abi- gail Converse, born in 1703, daughter of Major James Converse, a distinguished officer of Massachusetts troops in the Indian Wars. The third wife of John Vinton, whom he married at the age of seventy-four, was Hannah (Richard- son) Baldwin, daughter of Nathaniel Richardson, and widow of Timothy Bald- win, whose daughter, Hannah Baldwin, his son Joseph had married several years previously.
JOSEPH VINTON, sixth child of John and Abigail (Richardson) Vinton, was born at Woburn, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, July 24, 1714. He mar-
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ried at Stoneham, February 19, 1733-4, Hannah Baldwin, born September 4, 1715, daughter of Timothy Baldwin and his wife Hannah, daughter of Na- thaniel Richardson, who with his daughter and son-in-law had settled in Stone- ham on its incorporation in 1726. Joseph Vinton continued to reside in Stone- ham until 1738; was fence-viewer of that town in 1735-7. He removed with his father and three brothers to Dudley, Worcester county, in 1738, and spent the remainder of his life there. A portion of the land taken up by him in 1737 is still occupied by his descendants. He died intestate in 1795. He and his wife Hannah (Baldwin) Vinton had eleven children.
JOHN VINTON, fourth child of Joseph and Hannah ( Baldwin) Vinton, was born at Dudley, Worcester county, Massachusetts, February 14, 1742. He married, in 1770, Dorothy Holmes, their banns being published at the church at Dudley, December 22, 1769. He was a private in the company of minute- men commanded by Captain Nathaniel Headly, and marched with that com- pany in the regiment of Colonel Ebenezer Learned, on the Lexington Alarm of April 19, 1775. He was corporal of the same company in the regiment com- manded by Colonel Jonathan Holman when that regiment marched on an alarm of December, 1776, to Providence, Rhode Island. He probably served in the Patriot army until independence was achieved, but so few of the rolls have been preserved that it is impossible to show what other service he ren- dered. A number of his cousins were also in the service during the Revolution- ary War. His second cousin, Captain John Vinton, son of Captain Samuel Vinton, also a grandson of John and Hannah (Green) Vinton, was a captain in the Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Continental Line, and saw considerable active service. John and Dorothy (Holmes) Vinton settled in Charlton, Wor- cester county, now Southbridge, where they resided until his death in July, 1814.
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