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(I) Richard Martin, the progenitor of the family in this country, married (first) Febru- ary 1, 1654, Sarah Tuttle (see Tuttle), born 1633, died 1666. Their children were: I. Mary, born June 7, 1655. 2. Sarah, born July 2, 1657, married John Cutt. 3. Richard, of whom further. 4. Elizabeth, born 1662. 5. Hannah, born 1664, married Richard Jose, a sheriff, and
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they had six children. 6. Michael, born in 1666. Richard Martin married (second) Martha, widow of John Dunnison; (third) Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Sherbourne; and (fourth) Mary Denning, widow of Sam- 11el Wentworth.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Mar- tin, was born in 1659, and graduated from Harvard College in 1680. He was a school teacher and preacher, but was never ordained. He preached at Wells, Maine.
The records of the three succeeding genera- tions (III), (IV), and (V) are lost so that the names cannot be given. The dates are 1684, 1709, 1734.
(VI) Richard (3), the great-great-grand- son of Richard (2) Martin, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1756, died at Guilford, New Hampshire, October 17, 1824. During his early years he had some oppor- tunities for obtaining an academic education, serving later an apprenticeship to the rope- making trade. When he arrived at the age of twenty-one the revolutionary war was in progress and Burgoyne had landed in the north, and, relying on the skill and valor of his well-trained troops, had boasted that they would sweep through the whole land, van- quishing everything that opposed. Young Mar- tin, with others in Portsmouth and the vicin- ity, enlisted in the service of his country. He was at Saratoga on that day, October 17, 1777, when the haughty British general, Bur- goyne, surrendered his whole army of 5,752 men as prisoners of war to the American commander, General Gates. Richard Martin after serving his term of enlistment returned to Portsmouth. November 29, 1778, he mar- ried Hannah Faxon. He died at the age of sixty-eight years, his widow living until No- vember 11, 1834. He was buried in Guilford and the following is the inscription on the marble at the head of his grave:
Eld. Richard Martin died Oct. 17, 1824. aged 68. That death might be easy and quick In life was my fervent request; I died, and without being sick Escaped to and welcomed this rest.
The children of Richard and Hannah (Faxon) Martin were: 1. Hannah, married a Mr. Langley. 2. Christopher. 3. Betsy, mar- ried a Mr. Blaisdell. 4. Thankful, married a
Mr. Jackson. 5. Richard Jr., died May 15, 1869. 6. John Langdon, of whom further.
(VII) John Langdon, son of Richard (3) Martin, was born in New Hampshire, 1782, died September 16, 1856. He was well edu- cated, read medicine and became a well-known and popular practicing physician of Jefferson, New Hampshire. He died in Holyoke, Massa- chusetts, and is buried in Guilford, New Hampshire. He married (first) Sarah Mar- ston, born in 1790, died in 1866, in Jefferson, New Hampshire. Their children were: I. Se- rena, born January 17, 1812, married, in 1831, Aaron Potter, a farmer of Jefferson, and they had nine children : Elizabeth, Mary, George, John Henry, Serena (2), Annette, John Lang- don, and two that died in infancy. 2. Syl- vester. born in Jefferson, New Hampshire, August 20, 1817, married, January 9, 1842, Euphemia Stillings; their only son, Albert, succeeded his father as a farmer of Jefferson. 3. Woodbury Langdon, of whom further. . 4. Willis .B., born June 3, 1828, in Hartford, Massachusetts, married Ledora Smith, and both are buried in the same cemetery in East Hampton, Massachusetts; they had six chil- 'dren : i. Adella, born 1853, died 1854; ii. Fred Pierce, born in 1855, living in Holyoke, Massa- chusetts; iii. Lizzie Jane, born in 1857, de- ceased; iv. Mary Ella, born in 1863, living in Hartford, Connecticut, unmarried; v. Frank Irvine, born 1867, living in Northampton, Massachusetts, married Jessie Rush and had three children : Glen, deceased ; Prudence and Priscilla; vi. Alice Belle, born 1871, married Edward Putnam, a manufacturer, residing in Hartford, Connecticut, with children : Dorothy and Elizabeth.
(VIII) Woodbury Langdon, son of John Langdon and Sarah (Marston) Martin, was born in Guilford, New Hampshire, February 4. 1822. He was educated in the public schools of Jefferson, New Hampshire, and in early life was a farmer. He followed several occupations in early life, finally settling in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he established a retail coal and wood yard. He was very successful in business, continuing there until 1869, when he retired with a competence. He was a Republican in politics, and a Universalist in religious faith. He was a capable and ener- getic man of business and a citizen of high standing. He married (first) Julia, daughter of Timothy Estes (see Estes II). She was
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born in Jefferson, New. Hampshire, August 22, 1824, died at New Haven, Connecticut, September 4, 1875. Children : 1. Elnora, born in South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, De- cember 18, 1846, died March 12, 1851, in Chicopee, Massachusetts. 2. Isadore, born July 12, 1852, died in Chicopee, August 17, 1852. 3. Clarence, born in Holyoke, Massa- chusetts, June 8, 1855, died there August 28, 1855. 4. Ida, of whom further. 5. Irvin, born in Holyoke, December 7, 1862, died there De- cember 8, 1864. 6. Mabel, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, May 8, 1867, died May 18, 1867. Woodbury Langdon Martin married (second) Mrs. Mary (Fuller) Latham, who survives him, now residing in Bristol, Connect- icut, without issue.
(IX) Ida, only child of Woodbury Lang- don and Julia (Estes) Martin to survive in- fancy, was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, February 1, 1861. When she was four years old her parents moved to Springfield, Massa- chusetts, and in 1870 moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where she attended private and boarding schools until she was fourteen years of age. She then entered Dean Academy, at Franklin, Massachusetts, continuing until her graduation in 1879. She married, June 19, 1883, Rev. Moses Henry Houghton (see Houghton VII).
(The Tuttle Line).
John Tuttle came from Wiltshire, England, and joined the settlement at Ipswich, Massa- chusetts. 1635, the same year that he arrived in the ship "Planter" as appears by the town record. His wife was Joanna, who before she married John Tuttle was a Widow Lawrence. John Tuttle was made a freeman, March 13, 1639, and a representative in 1644. In 1651 he was called "Mr." He went to Ireland about the time the disheartened colonists at New Haven were negotiating for the purchase of the city of Galloway in Ireland for a future home. He established himself advantageously there and never returned. He died at Carrick- fergus, December 30, 1656. His wife Joanna followed him to Ireland in 1654. Their chil- dren were: 1. Abigail, born 1629. 2. Simon, born 1631. 3. Sarah, born 1633, married Rich- ard Martin (see Martin I). 4. John, born 1634, married Mary - - and had one child, Mary, born April 23, 1663. 5. Simon, born 1637, married (first) in 1659, Joan Burnham; (second) in 1663, Sarah Cogswell.
(The Estes Line).
(I) Benjamin Estes married Sarah Little- field, of a family distinguished in Maine from revolutionary days down to the present. Their children were: Tabitha, Sarah, Annie, Mary, Katurah, Lydia, Benjamin, Timothy, of whom further ; Davis.
(II) Timothy, son of Benjamin and Sarah ( Littlefield) Estes, was born in Jefferson, New Hampshire, 1797, died at South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, 1879. He was a well known contractor and builder. Among his operations was the erection of the hotel on the summit of Mount Washington. He married (first) Mary Low, born in 1806, died in 1858, and is buried in the cemetery at South Hadley Falls. Their children were: I. Julia, married (first) Charles Latham and they had one daughter, Lucy Ann, who died in 1876, married George WV: D. Upton, who survives her and resides at Springfield. Julia (Estes) Latham married (second) Woodbury Langdon Martin (see Martin VIII). 2. Lydia Jane, died in Brad- ford, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1899; married Noah D. Folsom, a lock and gunsmith, who died in Bradford, January 30, 1900; child, Estes A., deceased. Timothy Estes married (second) Ruby Reynolds and their only daugh- ter Mary, deceased, married Clifford Tilly, a furniture dealer, now living in Holyoke, Mas- sachusetts.
Mary (Low) Estes, the first wife of Tim- othy Estes, was a daughter of Levi and Mary (Soper) Low, of Westerville, Maine, and a granddaughter of Salter Soper. Levi and Mary (Soper) Low had seven children: 1. Levi, a sea captain, died at sea, married and left two children: Eugene and Florence, now living in Maine. 2. Justis, married Lois Wat- kins, both deceased; their children were: Levi, Pearl, Amos, John, and Mary, all died at Randolph, New York; Anna, the only sur- vivor, married Dwight Phelps, of West Win- sted, Connecticut. 3. Clovis, married Apple Green, both deceased; their children were: Electra, Percival, Oscar, Thaddeus, who con- structed the railroad up Mount Low in Cali- fornia ; Pembroke. 4. Amos, deceased, mar- ried and left a son Eugene. 5. Almond, mar- ried Olive Starboard; their children were: Charles, George Timothy, Nathaniel, Sylvania, Elvira, Emmeline. 6. Mary Low, married Timothy Estes, of previous mention. 7. Diana, married Anson Stillings and left chil- dren : Lyman, Paris, Caroline, Alden.
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CLARK It is a confirmed tradition that this family came from Devon, England, from near Plymouth.
Burke says: "The Clarks of Buckland were from the north, I believe from Elgin. They settled down in Devon some time in 1500, are worthy upright people". From another source: "The Clarks have never been an uppish pretentious people; most of them farmers ; plain, simple honest people, always well enough off in a worldly sense to show them able to take care of themselves without following mean occupations and poor enough to show they are not grabbers of everything in sight".
(I) Samuel Clark was born in 1619 in Dev- onshire, England, came to Wethersfield, Con- necticut, in 1636, and was one of twenty men who settled at Ripponwams, now Stamford, Connecticut, May 16, 1640, having become dis- satisfied with the Wethersfield Colony. They purchased lands of the Indian chiefs, Ponus and Toguamske, for thirty pounds in July, 1640. He appears in the list of pioneers to the end of 1642. He is believed to have lived in Milford, Connecticut, in 1669, then moved to Hempstead, Long Island, and to have lived in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1685, died 1690. He married Hannah, daughter of Rev. Robert Fordham.
(II) William, son of Samuel Clark, was born in 1645 in Stamford, Connecticut, died in Bedford, New York, 1712. He removed to Bedford, Westchester county, New York, where he was one of the sixteen men who on December 23, 1680, purchased from the In- dians the present township of Bedford, then called the hop lands. A part of this purchase is yet held and resided upon by a descendant, John Green Clark. They organized a Congre- gational church in 1680. On April 8, 1704, Queen Anne confirmed the town of Bedford twenty-three thousand acres to its twenty-nine land holders, three of whom were two Will- iams and Nathan Clark. He married and had sons : 1. William, married Hannah and had John, William, Ebenezer, David and Jo- seph. 2. Nathan, of whom further. 3. Jo- seph, born about 1680; his name is found on several conveyances including a deal to twelve acres of upland, November 26, 1703, "upon ye Ridge called Clark's Ridge, part of ye land laid out to ye said Clark's honoured father William Clark, senior".
(11I) Nathan, son of William Clark, was
born at Stamford, Connecticut, 1676. His will is dated April 29, 1726. He came to Bed- ford with his parents when he was five years of age. He is said to have lived several years after making his will in 1726 and during his last illness made a new will which was worth- less, he being too feeble to affix his signature. He was one of the twenty-nine land holders of Bedford to whom Queen Anne confirmed twenty-three thousand acres of land, April 8, 1704. He held several town offices and was a large land owner. His first wife Clemence died about 1709. He married a second wife whom he probably survived as she is not men- tioned in his will. Children named in will are Stephen, born 1701; Nathan; Sylvanus, died a young man; Jehiel, born 1711; Joseph, of whom further; Nathaniel, 1714; Elizabeth; Deborah, 1718; Abigail; Esther; Comfort, 1722.
(IV) Joseph, son of Nathan Clark, was born in Bedford, Westchester county, New York, in 1713, died there April 18, 1791. He and his wife were brought up near neighbors in Bedford, and after their marriage settled on the farm at Copps Bottom about one mile west of the village where they spent the remainder of their lives. He married Sarah, daughter of Jacob Smith. She died of palsey, April, 1796. Children : 1. Ezra, died a young man. 2. James, a land surveyor, married Betsey Boulton and had twelve children; he settled in Western New York. 3. Abigail, married John Mills and had ten children ; one child settled in Sul- livan county, New York. 4. Anna, born July 1, 1742, died August 26, 1802 ; married Moses St. John, an elder of the Presbyterian church; eleven children. 5. Joseph, of whom further. 6. Nathan, born December 19, 1754, was a revolutionary pensioner; married Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Clark) Holmes.
(V) Joseph (2), son of Joseph ( 1) Clark, was born in Bedford, Westchester county, New York, 1753, died 1821. He lived on the Clark homestead all his life. He married Han- nah Clock, of Connecticut, born 1760, died 1825. Children: 1. Ezra, of whom further. 2. Lewis, married Catherine Whitney. 3. Bertha, married Jehiel Canfield. 4. Clara, married Caleb K. Hobbs. 5. Phoebe, married John Bussing. 6. Hannah, married Abial Ray- mond. 7. John, married Lucy Mead, his son, John Green Clark, now lives on the old home- stead farm at Bedford which has been in the
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family over two hundred years; the home in which he lives is over one hundred years old and there have been eight generations of Clarks baptized in the Presbyterian church at Bedford. 8. Anna, married James Horne. 9. Joseph, had three wives. 10. Ira, married Eliza Backby.
(VI) Ezra, son of Joseph (2) Clark, was born in Bedford, Westchester county, New York, September 11, 1779, died 1858 in Syd- ney, New York, or Pennsylvania. He was a farmer and a lumberman. After leaving Bed- ford he settled in Bainbridge, New York, afterward moving to Sidney where he spent the greater part of his life. He married (first) Banks; married (second) April 26, 1807, Mary Foote, born September 24, 1776, died May 8, 1858, in Bainbridge, New York, a member of the Presbyterian church. She was a daughter of a West Point officer serv- ing on the staff of General Washington. Chil- dren by first wife: I. Mary, married Roland Brown. 2. Sallie, married a Mr. Northup. 3. Samuel. 4. Edward, twin of Samuel. Chil- dren by second wife : 5. Eliza, married (first) Samuel Porter, no issue; married (second) Dr. William Purington and had a daughter Georgianna. 6. Joseph Foote, of whom fur- ther. 7. Susan, married William Wier, of Elmira, New York, and had a daughter Kate Ellen. 8. Henry, who died in 1907, aged over ninety ; married Ellen Curtis, of Bainbridge, New York, who still survives him; children : George, Charles, Josephine. 9. Catherine, mar- ried William Wier; children: Alice, William, Fred. These children of second wife were all born either in Bainbridge or Sidney, New York.
(VII) Joseph Foote, son of Ezra Clark, was born in Bainbridge, ,Chenango county New York, July 1, 1810. He was educated in the public schools finishing with a course at Sidney Academy. He early entered mercantile life, and at the time of his marriage owned and was conducting a dry goods store at Sid- ney, Delaware county, New York, about 1831 or 1832. He was also proprietor of a store at Smethport, Pennsylvania. At the time of the oil discoveries in Pennsylvania he owned land at Bradford which became oil property. He was very successful and continued his operations in oil until his death. He owned at one time over eight hundred acres of land in Bradford and vicinity, and at his death this was amicably divided among his heirs. The
old homestead in Bedford is now occupied by his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Clark. In his final sickness he returned to Binghamton, New York, where he died June 25, 1877. He was a Democrat in politics and for many years a jus- tice of the peace.
He married Laura Louisa Phelps, born in Hebron, Tolland county, Connecticut, August 29, 1809, died 1883, daughter of Roger Phelps, son of a revolutionary soldier, born October 7. 1762, on a farm at Hebron, Connecticut, which is now and has been for seven genera- tions owned in the Phelps family. He died September, 1846. Roger Phelps married Anna Jones, born March 20, 1765, died February 2, 1821. Their children, all born in Hebron, Connecticut : I. Anna, born November 29, 1787, died September 9, 1850; married An- drew Mann. 2. Betsey, born September 25, 1790, married Allan Knapp, of Colchester, Delaware county, New York. 3. Maria, born March 8. 1793, died April 25, 1848; married Reuben Mann, of Hebron. 4. Henry, born December 1, 1795, died April 6, 1852; mar- rie1 (first) Way; married (second) Ellen Hodges. 5. Rachel, born January 16, 1799, died unmarried, 1868. 6. Clarisa, born October 31, 1801, died June 29, 1861 ; married Edward Way. 7. Roger L., born April 12, 1805, died March 2, 1863; married Elizabeth Strong. 8. Laura L., born August 29, 1809, a member of the Episcopal church, died at Binghamton: married Joseph Foote Clark. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Clark : I. Theodore Mortier, born at Smethport, Pennsylvania, October 10, 1834, died at Kendall Creek, now a part of Bradford, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1882; he was a lumberman and a school teacher ; served three years during the civil war in Company E, Fifty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 2. Junius Randolph, born at Smethport, July 24, 1836, died February 12, 1912 ; he was a lawyer ; mar- tied (first) Ann Eliza Viely, of Jordan, New York; (second) Mary Morse, of Elmira. New York; children by first wife: Frederick, died young ; Mortimer, married Claude Dorn and had Lawrence, deceased; Sarah, born 1900; Fred, 1902; Junius, 1907; child by second wife: Paul, born 1877. 3. Charles Randolph, born in Smethport, August 1, 1838, died at Jefferson City, Missouri, May, 1004; he was a speculator and jobber ; during the civil war he served in the Pennsylvania "Bucktail" Regi- ment. 4. Edward Kissam, born at Smeth-
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port, January 1, 1841, died at Binghamton, New York, May 30, 1912; married Martha Jane Seymour, of Binghamton, New York; children : i. Roger Phelps, resides in Bingham- ton, unmarried; an attorney; was assistant counsel to Governor Hughes until the latter was appointed to the supreme court; ii. Laura Louise, married Franklin Morgan and resides in New London, Connecticut; iii. Charles Sey- mour, deceased ; iv. Anna Whitman, a teacher at Lakewood, New Jersey; v. Joseph Foote, superintendent for Fruitt Brothers, leather jobbers of Binghamton, New York, married Grace Van Wormer; vi. Edward Kissam, au- ditor of a street railway company at Worces- ter, Massachusetts, married Carrie Emerson ; vii. Vernon Seymour, an attorney of New York City, married Laura Mahan; viii. Flor- ence, deceased; ix. Mary Elizabeth, now tak- ing a library course in Brooklyn, New York; x. Louis, now a student at Albany Law School. 5. Ellen Clarissa, born in Bradford, Pennsyl- vania, July 31, 1843, died April 4, 1912; mar- ried William M. Hanna; children: i. Gene- vieve, born December 9, 1881 ; ii. Junius Rob- ert, born November, 1883; at the time of the great earthquake in San Francisco he was a student at Stanford and the only person from that institution who lost his life in that dis- aster. 6. Mary Elizabeth, of whom further.
(VIII) Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Jo- seph Foote Clark, was born in Cameron county, Pennsylvania, then Mckean county, September II, 1845. She was educated in the public schools at Smethport, Pennsylvania, Bradford Academy and Elmira Female Col- lege (New York). After completing her studies she resided with her brother until 1878, then until 1880 sojourning with her mother, an invalid, at Saratoga Springs, New York. Miss Clark has traveled extensively, both at home and abroad, spending the year 1883 in Germany, and since making a more extended tour of Europe. Her American travel in- cluded a trip to California and other points of interest in the far west. She resides in Brad- ford at the old homestead surrounded by her share of the paternal acres.
The family of Boardman had its origin in England BOARDMAN from William, surnamed "Le Bois de Main," or "of the wooden hand," a Norman and a follower of William the Con- queror. This William had a grant from his
monarch, of two knight's fees of land in the county of Suffolk, as is mentioned in "Domes- day Book." From him descended Sir Andrew Boardman, the favorite of King Henry VIII., who gave him in marriage the hand of his ward, Lady Katherine Howard, daughter of the Earl of Berkshire, and ultimately sole heiress of her father. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, two of the sons of Sir An- drew Boardman held command under the Earl of Leicester in the expedition to Ireland, against "the Desmond," one of them having a grant of forfeited land, settled there, and was the progenitor of the Irish line of Boardmans. The English branch of the family is settled in Suffolk. Arms: Argent a chevron vart bor- dered, gules, ducally gorged and chained or. The chevron shows that he to whom the arms were granted had been present at the siege of a city, the lion in the crest shows that he com- manded, and that the enemy retreated leaving him master of the field, and the ducal coronet shows that the enemy was one of the sovereign Dukes of France, and that he or one of his family had been taken prisoner is shown by the chain. The arms of Boardman were all quar- tered with those of Howard in right of the wife of Sir Andrew. By this marriage they are descended from Edward the Confessor, Hugh Capet, King of France, and Rudolph, the first Emperor of Germany.
The American history of the family begins in 1635. The name in early colonial records is spelled Boreman, Borman, Bordman, Bour- man and Boardman. Two of the English emigrants, Thomas and Samuel, were of Ip- swich, Massachusetts, 1635. They are not known to have been related.
(I) Samuel Boreman, the progenitor of the line herein recorded, moved to Wethersfield, Connecticut, where he was a man of impor- tance, eighteen times elected deputy to the general court and held many other offices. He died aged fifty-eight years, in April, 1673. His widow, Mary (Betts) Boreman, survived him eleven years and died in August, 1684; ten children.
(II) Nathaniel Boreman, son of Samuel Boreman, was born in Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, April 12, 1663. He married, late in life, April 30, 1707, Elizabeth Strong, born Febru- ary 20, 1670, daughter of Lieutenant Return Strong ; one child.
(III) Sergeant Nathaniel (2) Bordman (as he spelled the name), only child of Na-
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thaniel ( I) Boreman, was born February 19, 1711-12. His father died when he was nine months old, in 1712, making provision in a hastily drawn will of three days before that his wife should bring up his son "to good learn- ing". The widowed mother married, two or three years later, Captain William Warner, and is found again a widow in 1726. Ser- geant Bordman's home was the farm, one and one-half miles west of Rock Hill, Connecticut. He died of pleurisy, May 12, 1776. His widow, Ruth ( Parker ) Bordman, died May 17, 1799, aged eighty-four years ; five children.
(IV) Nathaniel (3) Bordman, son of Ser- geant Nathaniel (2) Bordman, was born at Rocky Hill, Connecticut, January 25, 1734, died May 4, 1776, of pleurisy, eight days prior to the death of his father of the same disease. He married Mabel Holmes, born September 16, 1736, died November 14, 1777, leaving eight children, the youngest an infant.
(V) Levi Boardman (as he spelled the name), son of Nathaniel (3) Bordman, was born at Rocky Hill, Connecticut, September 21, 1759, died January 16, 1818. He married, January 4. 1789, Rachel, daughter of David and Rachel (Curtis) Riley, who died in 1847, at the home of her son Eleazer in New York state: four children. In this generation the spelling became Boardman in this branch.
(VI) Eleazer, son of Levi Boardman, was born March 24, 1794. He settled in New York state, where he married and reared a family, his wife being a woman of Scotch de- scent. Children: 1. John. 2. Polly, died in Freehold, Pennsylvania; married Amos Car- penter, a farmer ; children : Lucy, deceased ; a son, deceased; Adelbert, living in the west; Velorous, deceased. 3. Levi, died in Freehold, a farmer ; married and left a family. 4. Sarah (Sally), died in Lottsville, Warren county, Pennsylvania ; married Jared Lathrop, a farmer ; no issue. 5. Lovena, married a Mr. Sweetland and left three sons: William, now living at Bear Lake, Pennsylvania; Josiah, died in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, where his widow and children reside, and Jeremiah. 6. Samuel, killed in battle during the civil war; he served in a Pennsylvania regiment with his two sons and brother Jared, the latter being the only one who returned from the cruel struggle between the North and South. 7. Jared, of whom further.
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