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Merchants' Association, and was active and helpful in having the bridge between New Haven and Connellsville made free, it having heretofore been a toll bridge. The Mer- chants' Association led in the fight to make it free, and as chairman of the committee of that association Mr. Duggan figured promi- nently in the movement. He and his wife are members of the Church of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic) of Connellsville. He married, September 26, 1883, Madeline Jeannette Walton, born at Mount Savage, Maryland, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Walton. Children: 1. John, of whom further. 2. Madeline, died in infancy. 3. Edward, born December 18, 1886. 4. one, died in infancy, unnamed. 5. died in infancy, unnamed. 6. Herbert, born August 17, 1894. 7. Vincent, June 14, 1897. 8. Paul, June 2, 1898. 9. Ger- trude, April 25, 1903. 10. Eugene, November 21, 1904.
(III) John (2), son of John (I) and Made- line Jeannette (Walton) Duggan, was born August 12, 1884, at New Haven, now West Side, Connellsville, Pennsylvania. His early education was acquired at the New Haven public schools, graduating with a good standing in the high school class of 1901. He then left home to enter Georgetown Uni- versity, Washington, D. C. His first course was in the classical department, in which, after having taken his degree as Bachelor of Arts, he took post-graduate work along with similar lines. After this solid foundation in liberal studies he entered upon the law course of the university, graduating therefrom in 1906, and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He then returned to Fayette county, Penn- sylvania, and continued his legal studies in the office of Cooper & Van Swearengen, and after passing all the examinations with credit was admitted to the bar of Fayette county, at Uniontown, in June, 1909. Mr. Duggan thereupon opened an office in Uniontown and embarked upon his profession. His success has been marked from the first, and he has given many indications of decided ability and an unquestionable promise of future growth. He is already a conspicuous figure among his contemporaries at the bar of Fayette county. He is attorney for the poor directors of Fay- ette county, and is a member of the board of examiners for the bar of Fayette county. He
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is a Republican in politics, and is a leading spirit in the councils of the party, though he has preferred to dictate policies and shape the activities of the organization to holding office. He has, in fact, acted as the power behind the throne in the nomination of more than one Republican candidate and exercised a controlling influence in all political matters into which he enters. He is a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception (Ro- man Catholic), Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Duggan married, January 4, 1910, Edna Byrne, born November 6, 1889, daugh- ter of John R. and Joanna (Lynch) Byrne, of Everson, Pennsylvania. Mr. Byrne is a prominent coal dealer of that region, and is a member of the Pennsylvania state legisla- ture. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Duggan: John, born December 2, 1911. Virginia Mary, born June 16, 1912. They reside in Connellsville, though Mr. Duggan has his law offices in Uniontown.
PAULOVITS of
While Hungary, that land romance and brave
deeds, claims as her own many men of world wide fame, and while the glory of her warriors is as lasting as her own rugged mountains and the songs of her mu- sicians as captivating as the songs of her own native birds, yet it is not a land of great op- portunity for those not of the nobility, and many of her sons have left, with regret, their native land and turned their steps westward to that land of greater promise-America.
Among those to come to the United States in later years is the Rev. R. J. Paulovits, son of Vincent and Barbara Paulovits, both na- tives of Hungary, ever their home. Vincent Paulovits was a government superintendent of country roads, a position of importance. He died March 26, 1889. Barbara, his wife, died September 23, 1879. Children: Louis, born March, 1850; Ernest, January, 1855; Vincent, December, 1858; Robert J., of whom further. Four daughters died in infancy.
(II) Rev. Robert J. Paulovits, youngest son of Vincent and Barbara Paulovits, was born in Hungary, June 5, 1863. He was educated in the Archbishop's Lyceum at Esztergom and at once entered the priesthood of the Catholic church, for which he had been especially ed- ucated. He was consecrated and was en- gaged in priestly offices for the ensuing two
years. In 1897 he sailed for the United States, going to Cleveland, Ohio, where for a year he was assistant pastor of the Hun- garian church, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. He then organized a Hungarian congrega- tion at Toledo, Ohio, erected a church and parish house, school house with meeting hall and house for the school sisters, and left that parish in a healthy spiritual and material con- dition. He next organized a congregation and built a church at Columbus, Ohio, and in 1909 came to Connellsville, Pennsylvania, as a pastor in charge of the Hungarian con- gregation already established with a church edifice erected. Father Paulovits has the spiritual care of two hundred families scat- tered over four counties, and monthly holds services in Brownsville and Star Junction. He is a devoted priest and deems no sacrifice too great where duty calls. The church at Connellsville was organized in 1903 and is in a prosperous condition.
When Father Paulovits first came to the United States he was the second Hungarian priest to come here from abroad, and was selected for the work because of his great ability as a linguist. In the United States he gave the sacraments to his people from Con- necticut to Utah. He heard confessions in fifteen languages and delivered his sermons in eight different languages, including Latin and Arabic and more modern languages. This ability to hold converse with his people in their own tongue not only endears him to them personally, but greatly enhances his value as a spiritual adviser and gains him a wonderful influence for their betterment.
PORTER It is doubtful if many families can show so many early New England settlers as the Por- ters. Eight men of that name emigrated to America prior to 1653, and all but one of them prior to 1640. Richard Porter settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1653. John Porter was at Hingham, Massachusetts, three miles distant, and is supposed to have been a brother of Richard. John Porter set- tled at Windsor, Connecticut, in 1638; pre- vious to this is said to have been of Worces- ter, Massachusetts. Robert and Thomas Por- ter, brothers, were among the eighty-four proprietors of Farmington, Connecticut, in 1640. This branch of the family is especially
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noted. Robert was the ancestor of President Noah Porter, of Yale College, and his gifted sister, Miss Sarah Porter, who for many years had the most noted private school in the country at her home in Farmington. John Porter was admitted to the church in Boston January 23, 1641. John Porter was made a freeman in Roxbury, Massachusetts, November 5, 1633. He was a follower of Rev. John Wainwright and Ann Hutchinson, suffering banishment to Rhode Island for his religious opinions. The David Porter fam- ily, of whom five generations served in the United States navy, reached the climax of its distinction in Admiral David Dixon Porter, whose history is so well known.
The origin of the family name is interest- ing. The ancestry of John Porter, of Wind- sor, is traced through sixteen generations of Englishmen to William de la Grande, a Norman knight who fought with William the Conqueror at Hastings (1066) and was rewarded with estates near Kenilworth, in Warwickshire, England. His son Ralph or Roger became "Grand Porteur" to Henry I, serving from 1120 to 1140. With the adop- tion of surname the office he held was made the family name Porter. The ancient coat-of- arms of this family was: Argent on a fesse sable between two or three church bells of the first, crest; a portcullis argent chained, motto, Vigilantia et virtuti. The Porters of this sketch descend from John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut.
(I) John Porter came to New England in 1630, settled first at Dorchester, Massachu- setts, and is first recorded in Windsor in 1639. He was for that period a man of con- siderable wealth, as shown by his will. His residence was on Little river, near its junc- tion with the Connecticut. He died April 22, 1648; his wife Rose died in July, 1647. Chil- dren born in England: John, born 1620, mar- ried Mary Stanley: Sarah, born 1622, mar- ried Joseph Judson: Anna, born 1624, mar- ried William Gaylor: Samuel, of whom furth- er : Rebecca, 1628, died unmarried: Mary, 1630; married Samuel Grant: Rose, 1632, died 1648; Joseph, 1634; James, 1638, married Sarah Tudor; Nathaniel, 1640, married Sarah Groves; Hannah, 1642, married John Cole- man.
(II) Samuel, son of John and Rose Porter, was born in England in 1626. He was a mer-
chant, and died September 6, 1689. He mar- ried Hannah Stanley, sister of his brother John's wife, daughter of Thomas Stanley, who came from England in the ship Planter to Lyn11, Massachusetts, in 1693. She died December 18, 1702. Children: Samuel (2), born April 6, 1660; married Joanna Cooke. 2. Thomas, born April 17, 1663, died May 27, 1668. 3. Hezekiah, born January 7, 1665, married Hannah Coles. 4. John, born De- cember 12, 1666, married Mary Butler. 5, Hannah, born 1668, married John Brown. 6. Mehitable, born September 15, 1673, married Nathaniel Goodwin. 7. Experience, born Au- gust 5, 1676, married Abigail Williams. Ich ?- bod, born June 17, 16-, married Dorcas Marsh. 9. Nathaniel, born November 15, 1680, married Mehitable Buell. 10. Stanley, of whom further.
(III) Stanley, son of Samuel Porter, was born April 1, 1683. He married, November 13, 1707, Thankful Babcock (also written early Bodcock). They settled at Coventry, Connecticut, where he was the first town clerk. She was a daughter of Jonathan and granddaughter of Robert Babcock, who came from England in 1648. He was a captain in the Indian wars. Children of Stanley Por- ter: 1, Mercy, born October 10, 1708; mar- ried Jeremiah Fitch. 2. Mary, November 16, 1710; married John Sergeant. 3. Jonathan, of whom further. 4. Noah, August 24, 1715; married Irene Thompson. 5, Thomas, Sep- tember 16, 1723; married Annie Woodward. 6, Samuel, August 3, 1725; married Sarah Caulkins. 7, Sarah, March 25, 1727; married Jonathan Root. 8, William, October 13, 1728; married Esther Carpenter. 9, Maria, June 18, 1731: married Aaron Dewey, 10, Bethia, July 29, 1734. 11. Nathaniel, Febru- ary 15, 1736. 12. Elijah, October 12, 1737.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Stanley Porter, was born March 20, 1713, died March 21. 1790. He married, January 20, 1734, Sarah. born 1714, died January 21, 1806, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Knowlton) Ladd, granddaughter of Nathaniel Ladd, killed by Indians at Maquoit, Maine, August 11, 1691, married Elizabeth Gilman, great-grand- daughter of Daniel (I) Ladd, who came from England in the ship "Mary and John" in 1634. Children of Jonathan Porter: 1. Thomas born March 16, 1735; married Zilpah Lyman.
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2. Jonathan (2), September 17, 1737; married Lois Richards. 3. Josiah, of whom further. 4. Noalı, October 6, 1742; married Submit Cooke. 5. Sarah, December 6, 1744; married Ichabod Jewett. 6. Mary, January 29, 1748; married Seth Dunham. 7. Phoebe, March II, 1750: married Jonah Carpenter. 8. Irena, December 8, 1756; died unmarried, 1790. 9. Rebecca, 1760; married Solomon Chapin.
(V) Josiah, son of Jonathan Porter, was born August 21, 1740. He married (first) in 1784, Lois Carpenter, died April 14, 1786, daughter of Eliphalet Carpenter, and a de- scendant of William Carpenter who came from England in 1638. He married (second) January 10, 1787, - Chubbuck. Chil- dren: by second wife: Asahel, born March 3, 1786; Abner, June 10, 1788; George, of whom further.
(VI) George, son of Josiah Porter by his second wife, was born October 10, 1790, died August 26, 1845. He joined relatives in Oneida and Erie counties, New York, later living in Chillicothe, Ohio, where he died.
(VII) Edward Tiffin, son of George Porter, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1814, died in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1842, a merchant of the latter city at the time of his death. He married Elizabeth Jane Wilson, who survived him and married (second) Eleazar Robinson, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania; she was a daughter of James Wilson, born in Lancas- ter county, in 1764, and came to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, 1778. James Wilson be- came a large land owner and served as justice of the peace of German township from 1807 to 1840. He married (first) Mary H. Robb, (second) Elizabeth Lowrie. By her second husband Elizabeth J. Porter had: William L. Robinson, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Mary E., wife of Dr. A. P. Bowie, of Union- town, Pennsylvania. Children of Edward Tiffin Porter: 1. James Wilson, who in early days was a farmer, now a merchant and real estate dealer of Indianapolis, Indiana; he served in the civil war: he married Mary Wil- son. 2. Edward Tiffin, was a real estate dealer of Indianapolis, Indiana; connected with the Yande family; he moved to Junc- tion City, Kansas, and died in California. 3. George, of whom further.
(VIII) George (2), son of Edward Tiffin and Elizabeth Jane (Wilson) Porter, was
born in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 24, 1835, died August 8, 1903. He was brought to German township, Fayette county, Penn- sylvania, by his mother after the death of her husband, and made his home with his uncle, John Wilson. He was educated in Dunlap Creek Academy. He grew up a farmer, and for twenty years followed that occupation in German township. In 1879 he purchased property in McClelland township and there established a general store, which he success- fully conducted until 1894, superintending his farining operations during the same period. He disposed of his mercantile business and in 1895 located in Uniontown, where he opened a general real estate and insurance business, building up a large and profitable business, continuing until his death: also owning the Star farm and coal lands in Fayette county During his earlier years he taught school in German township. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and at McClellandtown served the church as elder. After moving to Uniontown he joined the First Presbyterian church of that city, and from 1896 until his death was also an elder. He was always prominent in the church, and in 1887 was a delegate from Redstone Presbytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church which met at Minneapolis, Minnesota, that year. In politics he was a Republican.
He married, May 9 9. 1861, Elizabeth Parshall, born in McClellandtown, German township, Fayette county, March 9, 1836, who survives him, a resident of Uniontown ; she is a daughter of Elias Parshall, a wealthy farmer, stockholder and grower of German township (sce Parshall XVIII). Children: I. Elizabeth, born Mav 23, 1862: married George Alexander Hogg, and resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : he is a large land owner and heavily interested in steel mann- facturing: children : George Ewing Porter, born March o, 1880: Mildred Elizabeth. March 9, 1801: Sara Constance, February 23, 1893; Mary Caroline, March 26, 1897; Alice Trevor, April 9, 1899, and William Cecil, born January 23, 1904. 2. Edward Tiffin, born April 3, 1866, formerly a farmer, now assistant general manager of the Union Sup- ply Company; he married Julia, daughter of William McShane, of German township; children: George, born February 2, 1806;
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Edward Tiffin, January 7, 1900. 3. George, of whom further mention.
(IX) George (3), son of George (2) and Elizabeth (Parshall) Porter, was born in Ger- man township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1875. He studied in the town- ship schools and later attended the high school in the city of Pittsburgh for two years, then returned to his home and attended Red- stone Academy one year. He then entered Cornell University, whence he was graduated four years later with the degree of Me- chanical Engineer, class of 1897. He was a member of the Students' Self-Government Council and of the Theta Nu Epsilon fra- ternity. After leaving the university he en- tered the employ of the Westinghouse Ma- chine Company, testing gas machines and engaged in experimental work at the West- inghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. He left the employ of that company to become con- structing engineer for the then Continental Coke Company. After absorption of that company by the H. C. Frick Coke Company, he continued in the same position for three years. He was with the United States Coal and Coke Company for a time and again with the Frick Company one and a half years. He later located in Uniontown as civil and mining mechanical engineer. He is thoroughly qualified and is considered an ex- pert in his especial lines. He is associated in many undertakings with J. B. Hogg, and in others alone. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the First Presby- terian church.
He married, March 28, 1900, Mary Moore, born near New Salem, German township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1877, daughter of Aaron and Naomi (Grove) Moore (sec Moore). Child: Virginia Adeline, born April 13, 1909. The family home is at No. 108 Morgantown street, Uniontown.
(The Moore Line.)
Aaron Moore, father of Mrs. Mary (Moore) Porter, was born in German town- ship, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, died there in 1869. He was a farmer and stock raiser. He married Naomi Grove, also born in German township. Children: 1. Mary, of previous mention. 2. Harry Grove, born April 29. 1879: a farmer on part of the Moore homestead; married Margaret Bailey and has
Mary Elizabeth, born December 14, 1910, and John Bailey, born October 15, 1911. 3. Charles A., born September 8, 1881 ; married Mary Seaton and has Charles Wendell and Mary Seaton, deceased. Aaron Moore was a son of Abraham Moore, a grandson of Aaron Moore, who received a grant of land from William Penn, a part of which is yet the Moore homestead farm in German township, Fayette county.
(I) Through maternal lines Mary (Moore) Porter descends from Thomas Shepherd, who came to America from Shropshire, Wales, with two brothers, John and William, landing near Annapolis, Maryland. Thomas settled at Shepherdstown, Virginia, where he owned about one thousand acres near "Pack- horse Ford" on the Potomac river in western Spottsylvania county, Virginia. A settlement of Germans on his farm was called Mechlen- berg. He was probably born in 1705, died in 1776. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Van Meter, a wealthy planter of Maryland, who traced his ancestry to the royalty of Holland. She brought her husband a tract of one hundred and sixty-two acres called "Pell Mell," opposite, but a mile below "Packhorse Ford." Thomas Shepherd built a high bluff on the Potomac shore, a stone fort known as "Shepherd's Fort" which stood until 1812. Here the German settlers of Mecklenberg gathered when an Indian alarm was given. After the death of Thomas Shepherd, the name of the settlement was changed to Shepherdstown. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth Shepherd: David, born 1734: Sarah, about 1736; Elizabeth, of fur- ther mention; William, about 1741 ; Thomas, about 1745 ; John, 1750; Mary, 1752; Martha, twin of Mary: Abraham, 1754; Susanna, 1758. David, the eldest son, moved to Ohio county, Virginia, then including all of now West Virginia and a part of Western Penn- sylvania, and settled near Wheeling. He was a large land owner, and during the revolu- tion was colonel of Ohio county troops.
(Il) Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Shep- herd, was born at Mecklenberg, Virginia, October 2, 1738, died 1788. She married, May 3, 1762, William Brown, born September 13, 1724, died July 24, 1801. Children: 1. John, born February 16, 1763. 2. Elizabeth, De- cember 27. 1764. 3. Thomas Abraham,
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February 25, 1767, died November, 1768. 4. Mary, of whom further mention. 5. Saralı, married William Esty. 6. William, boin March 24, 1774, died in infancy. 7. Shep- herd, born April 14, 1775, a merchant of New Orleans, killed by a fall in 1817. 8. George WV. (called Barry Washington), born Octo- ber 22, 1778, living in 1801. 9. Hannah Matilda, born November 22, 1781, married Dr. Adams.
(III) Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Shepherd) Brown, was born Sep- tember 15, 1768, died 1812. She married, February 6, 1785, John Grove, a descendant of Hans Groff, sometimes Baron Von Wel- den, of Switzerland, who fled to America in 1696 and some years later settled in Pequa Valley in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. It was his son, Jacob, who was the progenitor of the numerous Grove families of Washing- ton county, Pennsylvania. Children of John and Mary (Brown) Grove, all born in Ger- man township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. I. Sarah, married Lemuel Hall. 2. Jacob, born August 29, 1787. 3. Elizabeth, married John Spark. 4. Catherine, married
Auld. 5. Shepherd, born March 14, 1793. 6. John, February, I, 1795, married Anna Mc- Quilliams. 7. Samy, married Mary Sprinkle. 8. Levi, born December 6, 1798. 9. Hannah M., married Elias Parshall. 10. William B., married Nancy Allentar. 11. Stephen, mar- ried Ann Coldren. 12. Harvey, of whom further mention. 13. Mary, married John Ground.
(IV) Harvey, son of John and Mary (Brown) Grove, was born February 19, 1806. He served as school director and two ternis as assessor of the township. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Lackey, of German township, Fayette county, Pennsyl- vania. Children: 1. Mary Louise, married George Hess. 2. Naomi, of whom further, 3. Reuben, married Hettie Higginbotham. 4. Rhoda. 5. Elizabeth, married (first) William Jeffries and moved to Dwight, Illinois; mar- ried (second) Henry Coonley. 6. Mary.
(V) Naomi, daughter of Harvey and Eliza- beth (Lackway) Grove, married Aaron Moore.
(VI) Mary, daughter of Aaron and Naomi (Grove) Moore, married George Porter (see Porter IX).
PARSHALL
The Pershall or Parshall family came to England with William the Con-
queror and the name Pershale is found on the 1oil of Battle Abbey, erected on the battle- field of Hastings, 1066. The family is traced to Sir Richard de Pershall, but no records exist covering the period 1066 to the reign of King Edward III, when they are found seated in Staffordshire. They had probably been seated there for many generations, as Sir Richard was a knight of great power, being high sheriff under appointment from the King and owned large estates. He mar- ried Margaret, daughter of Hugh Lord, of Knightom, and added that manor to his possessions.
(II) Sır Adam de Pershall, son of Sir Richard de Pershall, succeeded him as high sheriff, and his two wives, both heiresses, added greatly to his already large possessious. (III) Sir Adamı (2) de Pershall.
(IV) Sir Richard Pershall.
(V) Sir Thomas Pershall, Knight.
(VI) Nicholas Pershall.
(VII) Hugh Pershall, Esquire, the first of the family to reside at Hornsley in Stafford- shire. He was sheriff under Henry VII, 1489.
(VIII) Humphrey Pershall, Esquire, mar- ried Helen, daughter of Humphrey Swinner- ton, Esquire.
(IX) John Pershall, of Checkley, married Helena, daughter of John Harcourt, Es- quire.
(X) Richard Persh ?11 married Isabella, daughter of Thomas Rollerton, Esquire.
(XI) Richard Pershall. Esquire, of Horse- ley, married Jonanna, daughter of Sir Ed- mund Fettiplace, of Berkshire.
.(XII) John Pershall, Esquire, among the first baronets created by King James I, No- vember 25. 1612, and four years later was sheriff of the county, married Anne, daugh- ter of Ralph Sheldon, Esquire.
(XIII) Thomas Pershall, born 1596, mar- ried Bridget, daughter of Sir William Staf- ford.
(XIV) John Pershall, created a baronet and became Sir John, died January 13, 1646. (XV) Sir John (2) Pershall married, in 1660, Frances, daughter of Colonel Thomas Leigh, of Addington in Cheshire. He died in 1701.
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(XVI) Sir Thomas Pershall, died 1712. He married a Miss Metcalf and since then the baronetcy has lain dormant. The arms of the Pershall baronets were: "Argent a cross patee fleuy : one cantor Gules a wolf's head erased of the first." Crest : "A wolf's head ; sable holding in his mouth a marigold proper." The Parshalls of Fayette county descend from Richard Pershall, of the tenth generation preceding. He had seven sons and two daughters.
(XI) Edmond, one of the younger sons of Richard Pershall, went into trade in London, changing the name to Parshall. He was a member of the Grocers' Guild and flourished during the years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth and under James I. He had a son, John.
(XII) John, son of Edmond Parshall, mar- ried and had a son, James.
(XIII) James, son of John Parshall, was undoubtedly the first of the name in this country, but the date of his arrival, the locality, or his birth are not even matters upon which traditions throw light. The first record of him is a deed dated December 12, 1679, showing he was at that time a resident of Gardiners Island, first called the Isle of Wight. After his marriage he moved to Southold, Long Island, where in 1686 his family consisted, according to the census of that year, of six white males, two white fe- males, three male and two female slaves. He made his will in 1692, and died in Southold, September 15, 1701. He married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of David Gardiner, proprietor of Gardiners Island, who was the first white child born in Connecticut, April 29. 1636, died July 10, 1689. David was son of Lion Gardiner, first settler on the island in 1639. "And thus was commenced the first permanent English settlement within the present limits of the State of New York." Lion Gardiner came with his wife, Mary (Wil- liamson) Gardiner, from Worden, a town in Holland where his wife was born, to London, England, thence to New England, dwelling at Saybrook, Connecticut, at the mouth of the Connecticut river, where his son David was born. He was a native born Scotch- man, was associated with the party of Hamp- den and Cromwell, and served in the English army and under the Prince of Orange in
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