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BISHOP, Joseph (s. of Isaac), m. Dec. 6, 1853, Sarah-Jane, dau. of Col. Ezra Thayer. Children: Leslie-Ivan, b. Aug. 5, 1857, d. Jan. 6, 1858; Herbert-Almon, b. Jan. 2, 1860, d. Aug. 29, 1860.
BISHOP, William-Sylvester (s. of Isaac), m. Mary, dau. of Ira Briant.
BISSELL, Chauncey, a tanner, came from Brattleboro to Marlborough about 1815, and purchased the tannery in the middle of the town, where he carried on the business for several years. He removed to Dover, May 10, 1830, and purchased a farm which he improved until his death, March 31, 1853.
He was b. Sept. 17, 1782; m. (1) April, 1811, Philena
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Cone of Brattleboro, b. Brattleboro, Feb. 23, 1789. She d. Marlborough, June 29, 1818. Children: Elvira, b. Brattleboro, Oct. 20, 1811, d. Feb. 7, 1814; Daniel-Chandler, b. Oct. 9, 1813, m. Lydia Lebourveau; George, b. Marl- borough, March 18, 1816, m. Mary-T. Shirley of Fitz- william, N. H., and d. Dec. 28, 1852. He m. (2) June 30, 1819, Mary, dau. of James Hatch, Esq. of Halifax. She was b. June 13, 1783, and d. Dover, Aug. 16, 1858. Children: James-Willard, b. Aug. 27, 1821; Elisha-Emerson, b. Nov. 3, 1823, m. Sept. 17, 1850, Sarah-S., dau. of Simeon Merri- field of Fitzwilliam, N. H .; Chauncey-Barber, b. Jan. 10, 1828.
BISSELL, James-Willard (s. of Chauncey), m. June 3, 1851, Elizabeth-Maynard, b. Sept. 27, 1830, dau. of Caleb Boyce, of Fitzwilliam, N. H., and settled in Dover. Children: Charles-Herbert, b. July 19, 1852; Edwin-Eugene, b. June 11, 1854, d. Nov. 22, 1854; Edwin-Elbert, b. Feb. 7, 1856; Mary-Elizabeth, b. April 23, 1857; Warren-Willard, b. Mar. 12, 1860.
BLAKE, James, a tinman, moved with his family to Newfane, about 1802, opened a shop near the Court House and commenced the manufacture of tin ware under the slow and laborious operation of the hammer, before the in- vention and use of modern machinery. He was naturally of quick motion and his work was done with despatch. From Newfane he moved to Marlborough, became a worthy member of the Baptist Church, and there spent the remnant of his earthly pilgrimage.
He was b. Jan. 29, 1762; m. July 14, 1784, Rebecca Cunningham, b. Nov. 20, 1760. He d. July 3, 1839. She d. April 11, 1835. Children; William, b. Jan. 3, 1785, d. Jan. 28, 1785; James, Jr., b. Feb. 18, 1786; Thomas, b. Dec. 4, 1787, d. Jan. 25, 1788; Harrison-Gray, b. Nov. 14, 1788; Elizabeth-B., b. May 21, 1791; Sally, b. April 9, 1793; Thomas-D., b. Feb. 28, 1795, m. Nov. 18, 1827, Persis- H. Fisk; Otis, b. April 27, 1797, d. Aug. 15, 1847; George- Washington, b. Jan. 4, 1801, Benoni-William, b. Nov. 18, 1808.
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BLAKE, James, Jr. (s. of James), m. Aug. 23, 1804, Lavina, dau. of Deacon Nehemiah Fisher. Children: Lavina; Polly.
BLAKE, Benoni-William (s. of James), m. Oct. 9, 1836, Marilla, b. April 30, 1816, dau. of Eli Dunklee. Children: John- Dunklee, b. May 16, 1838; Betsey-Ann, b. Jan. 23, 1841, d. Jan. 31, 1841; Annah, b. April 23, 1842, d. June 30, 1855; Eli-Otis, b. May 15, 1844, d. June 21, 1850; Mary- Jane, b. Feb. 3, 1849; Ella-Rebecca, b. Jan. 19, 1851; Charles-Benoni, b. June 1, 1854.
BLAKE, Harrison-Gray (s. of James), m. Lucy, dau. of Joseph Goodell, settled in Marlborough, had two sons and two daughters, and moved to Salem, N. Y. Children: Volney, who went to Texas and there settled; Harrison-Gray-Otis, who went to Ohio and settled in Medina (was member of Ohio Legislature, 1846, reelected 1847, elected to the Senate of Ohio, 1848, and chosen Speaker of that body, elected to Congress from 14th District in Ohio, 1858, and reelected 1860); Lucy, m. Ezra Dean and moved west, d. about 1860, leaving several children; Rebecca, m. S .- A. DeGroat.
The history of Mr. Blake is extensively known-published in school books, penned in verse, and sung before thousands. To preserve a statement of the distressing scene which occurred on the night of the 20th of Dec., 1821, when in a snow storm on the Green Mountains in Vermont, Mr. Blake was severely frozen, his wife perished, and their infant daughter Rebecca was saved. The following is copied from a newspaper published in Salem, N. Y., dated Dec. 27, 1821.
"It is our painful duty to record one of the most dis- tressing incidents which has ever occurred in this vicinity. Early on Wednesday morning last, Mr. Harrison G. Blake, an inhabitant of this town, left home with his wife and one of his children, about 15 months old, intending to visit his father-in-law and other friends beyond the Green mountains. They reached Arlington, Vt. in safety, about 11 o'clock, and soon in the afternoon proceeded on the road leading over the mountain through Sunderland. As they ascended they found the snow much deeper than they had expected, and after two or three miles no sleigh
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had passed since the late snow, and no path or track was to be found. With much labor, however, they slowly pressed forward breaking their road through snow more than two feet deep, on the side of a steep, rugged mountain and nearly five miles away from any human habitation. Here night overtook them, and to augment their dismay, their horse fatigued by such protracted exertions in the snow, began to lag and at length stopped. After some delibera- tion, they concluded to loose him from the sleigh and make another vigorous effort to save themselves and their child. The following extract from a letter dated Stratton, Dec. 21, written in Mr. Blake's name by his attending physician, to his friends here, exhibits all the additional particulars of this melancholy affair which have come to our knowledge.
"My wife rode, and carried the babe a short distance only, when she said she could ride no further. She then alighted and told me she would walk as far as she could after me, and answer to my calls. I took her mantle and gave in return my great coat and mittens. Her responses soon became so low that I could not hear them, nor could she probably hear my calls for help, or my addresses to her. She advanced but a short distance, before she left our dear babe, wrapt in my great coat in the snow. She did not travel more than 150 rods when she became so chilled and frozen that she sank, never to rise again. She was found alive next day, but survived only a few moments. I was about 40 rods from her in advance, obviously in a perishing condition. But a few more hours, Dear Sir, and I, too, must have been beyond the power of human as- sistance. I called aloud repeatedly before I became be- numbed with the cold; but all to no avail. We were all providentially found yesterday afternoon, and carried to the nearest habitation in this town. Our babe was found half a mile from my deceased consort with his face naked and in the snow; it smiled affectionately when taken up; it is not frozen except one foot, and that not badly. My feet are both frozen half way to my ankles, my hands are also much frozen, and today indescribably painful."
"A true and particular statement of the sufferings of Harrison G. Blake and the death of his wife on the Green Mountains taken from the relation of the above mentioned Mr. B. and from Mr. Richardson, the young man who first found the sufferers."
"On the 19th of Dec., 1821, Mr. Harrison G. Blake set out from Salem, N. Y. with his wife and one child about 14 months old, with a view of visiting their parents in Marlboro, Vt .; they proceeded with a horse and sleigh to the foot of the Green Mountains on the west side, where
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they stopped, the snow being about five inches deep and enquired concerning the road over the mountain, and was told by the landlord that the road was good, and that a loaded team would travel from that place to Wardsboro in three hours. They left the tavern, as Mr. Blake says, about 1 o'clock. They proceeded to ascend the mountain and found the travelling to be tolerably good for 2 or 3 miles, where they came to the end of any trodden road, except a man or horse had passed that way, and the snow about 3 feet deep. They continued to make the best of their way forward, but their horse became so fatigued that they were obliged to disengage him from the sleigh, and Mrs. Blake with her child proceeded on horseback and Mr. Blake on foot, until the horse refused to travel, his strength being exhausted. They then endeavored to travel on foot, and Mr. Blake left his wife in quest of help, agreeing to answer each other by hallowing as long as they could. It being in the night, the weather cold, the snow deep and a gloomy forest of 9 miles darkened their way so but a small progress could be made. Mr. Blake found himself to fail, being debilitated in his feet and legs, supposing his feet to be balled with snow, and having left his great coat and mittens with his wife, his fingers were so frozen that he could not tell what the matter was, but by going to a tree and striking them against it, found they were frozen. He proceeded forward until he became so exhausted that he could not walk, and then endeavored to get along by the help of a stick which he laid before him and then drew himself forward until at length he could get no farther. In this shocking situation his wife called to him and asked if he was likely to obtain help, to which he replied that he could get no farther-upon which she said she would come to him and they would die together. But alas! the King of terrors armed with wintry blasts chills the night and the cold driven snow stood to guard the solitary path.
Mr. Blake and his wife all this whole time continued to halloo for help, and was heard by a certain man, the first inhabitant from them, and by a woman who went some distance in the night to obtain help, but none went to their relief at present. But a certain Mr. Richardson had gone over the mountain and had not returned according to appointment. A rumor was carried to his son, in the middle of Stratton, by the school children that they supposed his father to be on the mountain in distress. It being 11 o'clock A. M. of the 20th of Dec., the young man immediately started, and went on to the mountain two miles beyond inhabitants and found Mr. Blake lying upon his face, apparently trying to throw off his clothes, and
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making a strange noise. He took him up, but he was senseless and his hands and his feet badly frozen. After rubbing him and giving him some spirits the young man had brought, he took him up and carried him towards the first inhabitants until he had help. Mr. Blake by this time had so far recovered as to inform Mr. Richardson that his wife and child was on the mountain. Mr. Blake was carried into a house about 4 o'clock, P. M., where such things were administered as his situation required. Mr. Richardson then went in person in pursuit of Mrs. Blake and the child and found Mrs. Blake about 40 rods beyond the place where Mr. Blake was taken up. She lay upon her face in the snow. They raised her up-she breathed 3 or 4 times and expired. They then proceeded on for the child and found it about 150 rods further back. It smiled- they took it up and returned. It was not frozen, except the large toe on one foot, it having been wrapped in the parents' great coats and a blanket. As soon as it was convenient, Mr. Blake and his child were carried to his father's house in Marlboro, where he has been under the care of Dr. Ebenezer Tucker, and has lost all his toes on his left foot except the great toe, and is recovering as fast as could be expected.
N. B .- The remains of Mrs. Blake were interred at Marl- boro, on the Tuesday following her decease with funeral solemnities.
The funeral was in Marlboro, but she was buried a few rods over the line in Newfane.
The following beautiful stanzas were written years ago, by Seba Smith, Esq., for the Medina (Ohio) Whig, on the death of Mrs. Blake. Mrs. Blake was the mother of Harrison G. Blake, Esq., of Medina, Ohio:
The cold winds swept the mountain height And pathless was the dreary wild, And 'mid the cheerless hours of night, A mother wandered with her child As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast.
And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow. Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone, O God! She cried in accents wild, If I must perish, save my child!
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She stripped her mantle from her breast, And bared her bosom to the storm, As 'round the child she wrapped her vest, She smiled to think her babe was warm. With one cold kiss, one tear she shed, And sank upon a snowy bed.
At dawn a traveler passed by And saw her 'neath a snowy veil, The frost of death was in her eye, Her cheek was cold, and hard, and pale. He moved the robe from off the child, The child looked up and sweetly smiled."
BLANCHARD Isaac, m. Oct. 3, 1821, Philena, dau. of Amos, Prouty, and d. July 15, 1851. Children: Hariett-Newell, b. June 24, 1822, d. young; Almira-Maria, b. March 20, 1825; Sarah-Louisa, b. June 13, 1827, m. Wyman Clark of Bernardston, and there lived and died; Abner-Lewis, b. May 8, 1829, (member of 11 Regt. Vt. Volunteers); Joseph- Henry, b. April 25, 1831; Horace-Leander, b. July 23, 1833; Amos-Prouty (enlisted in 16th Regt. Vt. Volunteers); Harriet-Jane; Arthur. Mrs. Blanchard m. (2) Clark Sweetland.
BRAYMAN, Lewis-Sidney, m. July 19, 1849, Mary-Jane, dau. of Elliot Higley. Children: Frances-Elliot, b. July 12, 1850; David-Henry, b. Nov. 30, 1853; Harriet-Lucinda, b. Jan. 7, 1856.
BRIANT, Jacob, b. April 22, 1748, came from Leicester, Mass. to Marlborough, about 1771, settled in the east part of town on wild lands, and cleared up his farm on which he lived and died. Previous to his settlement he selected and purchased his land, supposing it to lie facing the south and southeast, but was so far deceived in the point of compass that he found his new purchase to lie to the north and northeast.
He m. (1) Lydia (Giles), wid. of Ephraim Newton, who d. Aug. 30, 1798. Children: Jacob, Jr., b. Oct. 22, 1775, m. Lydia, dau. of Benjamin Ballou of Guilford; Elisha; b. Jan. 16, 1777, m. Amy, sister of his brother Jacob's wife;
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Lydia, b. Sept. 8, 1778, m. - Todd; Anna and Polly, twins, b. June 23, 1780, Anna m. Martin Ballou, s. of Benj- amin, of Guilford, Polly, m. Abel Godard of Brattleboro and moved to Canada; Abigail, b. Oct. 11, 1782, m. Phillip Collins of Guilford, and there settled and both died; Samuel, b. March 5, 1785, m. Lonis Hicks of Richmond, N. H .; William, b. May 6, 1787, m. Betsey Stodard. He m. (2) Oct. 21, 1800, widow Lauraney Hall of Halifax. Child: Cyrus, b. Nov. 30, 1801. Mr. Briant d. July 16, 1841.
BRIANT, Cyrus (s. of Jacob), m. Almira, dau. of Ephraim Pike. Children: Eliza-Maria, b. June 1, 1822, m. Calvin Foster; Matilda-Jane, d. Oct. 9, 1827, age 1 year; Jane-Jennet, b. Jan. 23, 1830, m. Walter Javell who d., and then she m. Adin Wilder; Barney-Pike, b. July 12, 1832.
BRIANT, Joseph (bro. of Jacob), b. 1768, came from Leicester, Mass. to Marlborough, 1789, and settled in the south- westerly part of the town. He cleared up the farm on which he lived and died, now owned (1861) by Simeon Adams, Esq. He m.(1) Anna, dau. of Christian Angel of Lyme, Conn. She d. 1804. Children: Enos; Polly; Fanny m. Feb., 1813, James Mather, s. of Lt. Phineas; David m. Abigail, dau. of John Hilliard and moved to Penn .; Jon- athan, went to Ohio and became a Deacon in a Congrega- tional Church; Seba; Alva.
Mr. Briant, after living a widower three weeks m. (2) Mercy, dau. of John Phillips, Sr. She d. Feb. 21, 1831. He m. (3) Dec. 13, 1831, Phebe, dau. of John Phillips, Sr., widow of James Charter and sister to his 2nd wife. Mr. Briant d. May 23, 1843.
BRIANT, Ira (s. of Joseph), m. Nov. 21, 1832, Julia, dau. of Samuel Gains. Children: Julia-Ann, b. Oct. 31, 1833, d. Feb. 20, 1847; Mary-Ellen, b. Oct. 10, 1835, m. William Bishop; Alva, b. April 26, 1837; Olive-Jeannette, b. May 16, 1839; Joseph-Coleman, b. May 28, 1844; Jane-Ida, b. April 18, 1850.
BRITTAN, John, b. 1673; d. Southboro, Mass., 1760, age 87.
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BRITTAN, Samuel (s. of John), b. Southboro, Mass., April, 1699; d. Rutland, Mass., Aug. 23, 1783.
BRITTAN, William (s. of Samuel), d. in Leominster, Mass., March 23, 1813. He m. Lydia, d. Spencer, Mass., Feb., 1803, age 56.
BRITTAN, Nathan (s. of William and Lydia), b. Rutland, Mass., Feb. 2, 1771; m. Dec. 31, 1793, Cinda, b. Marl- borough, Vt., April 18, 1776, dau. of Deacon Jonas Whitney, They settled in Marlborough and removed from thence about 1813. Children: Lydia, b. Nov. 23, 1794, m. Sept. 10, 1815, Elmer Pratt s. of Alvan; Sally, b. April 3, 1797; Cinda, b. July 25, 1799; Silence, b. Aug. 11, 1801, d. Aug. 18, 1801; Flavel, b. Dec. 1, 1802, d. Dec. 15, 1802; Samuel, b. Sept. 3, 1804; Julia, b. Aug. 11, 1806; Flavel, b. Nov. 21, 1808; Tamar-Houghton, b. Sept. 2, 1811; Ira-Whitney, b. Dec. 31, 1813.
BROOKS, Lemuel, whose first wife d. Oct. 6, 1805, settled in the southeast part of the town, about 1790. He m. (2) Feb. 13, 1806, Esther Sprague. Children: Lucinda, m. David Long, and had 8 sons and 8 daughters; Aurelia; Homer; Keziah, m. Rufus Corse; Virgil; Selena. He re- moved to Ohio in 1817.
BROWN, Jethro, is supposed to have been a member of a large family in Stonington, Conn. He was in the French War of 1756, and served both as a Marine on board of a war vessel or Privateer, and as a soldier upon scouts. He m. Molly Haynes of Groton, Conn., and moved to Keene, N. H. From thence he went to Putney, Vt., and purchased 50 acres of meadow on Connecticut River, but wishing more land for his boys, he sold and came to Marlborough, 1787, and purchased Right No. 48, on which he settled and lived until his decease, Feb. 26, 1813, aged 86. His widow d. March 10, 1817, aged 84. Children: Hitte, m. - Smead of Keene, N. H .; Molly, m. John Irvine; Daniel, m. Lucy Alexander; Jabez, m. Widow - Miner, of Putney; Jesse, m. Phila -; Benjamin, m. Abigail Wilson; John
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m. Sally Wilson, sister of Benjamin's wife; Lyman, b. March 28, 1768; Charlotte, m. Ebenezer Wallace; Bath- sheba, m. William Alvordson of Halifax.
BROWN, Lyman (s. of Jethro), m. Mariam, dau. of Capt. Samuel Whitney. He d. Feb. 14, 1854. Children: Lephe, b. May, 1792, m. Oliver Halladay, s. of Daniel; Daniel, b. Jan. 22, 1794, m. Catherine, dau. of Jesse Arnold of Dummer- ston, and d. July 14, 1823, his widow is since dead; Samuel, b. Nov. 29, 1795; William, b. Aug. 3, 1797, m. Ruth Parsons in Ohio and d. Sept. 8, 1822; Phebe, b. July 10, 1799, d. Nov. 13, 1799; Phebe, b. Sept. 2, 1800, m. Aug. 6, 1820, George Gilbert, s. of Capt. Samuel; Lyman, Jr., b. Oct. 2, 1802; Bathsheba, b. Nov. 25, 1804, m. Sept. 29, 1823, Luke Whitney of Harvard, Mass .; Lucy, b. March 16, 1806, d. April 10, 1806; Marian, b. June 7, 1808, m. May 22, 1830, Joseph Rand of Lancaster, Mass., went to Califor- nia and there resides having no issue; Hamilton, b. May 22, 1810; Eliza b. Sept. 7, 1812, m. Avery Holden; John- Franklin, b. Jan. 28, 1815; Diana, b. Sept. 7, 1817, m. John Knights.
BROWN, Samuel (s. of Lyman), m. Jan. 28, 1819, Phila, dau. of Major Timothy Mather, and settled on the farm formerly owned by Eli Halladay, Esq. He d. Wilmington, Sept. 6, 1863, and was interred in Marlborough. Children: Mary-Ann, b. Nov. 15, 1819, m. Dec. 15, 1844, Hart Win- chester, s. of Carley, and d. Dec. 7, 1845; Timothy-Mather, b. May 14, 1821; Phila, b. Aug. 16, 1823, m. March 7, 1849, Patrick White of Brattleboro; Lucy-Adams, b. July 31, 1826, m. March 9, 1846, Wilson-M. Winchester, s. of Carley; Hannah-Kimball, b. Aug. 8, 1829, m. Feb. 19, 1850, Reuben Winchester, s. of Antipas.
BROWN, Timothy-Mather (s. of Samuel), m. May 2, 1848, Mary, dau. of Elisha Ingram. Children: George-Albert, b. April 14, 1849; Alice-Jane, b. Jan. 22, 1851; Addison- Mather, b. June 23, 1852, d. April 10, 1854; Adah-Mary b. Oct. 23, 1854; William-Mather, b. May 5, 1856; Milo- Addison, b. Dec. 18, 1858.
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BROWN, Levi (s. of Paine of Newfane), m. Sept. 9, 1832, Lucretia, dau. of Oliver Halladay. Children: Rosanna, b. May 30, 1833, m. George Redfield of Newfane and settled there; James-Henry, b. Oct. 10, 1834; David-Azro, b. April 15, 1837; William-Andrew, b. Feb. 28, 1839; Viola-Rosalba, b. Aug. 15, 1844; Charles-Eugene, b. March 3, 1850; Stella-Dumarius, b. April 14, 1844.
BROWN, Capt. Lyman (s. of Lt. Lyman), m. (1) Jan. 12, 1825, Renew, b. Sept. 2, 1806, dau. of David Bartlett. She d. Aug. 4, 1848. Children: Philonzo, b. Nov. 29, 1825, m. July 1, 1852, Betsey Geer of Worcester, Mass., widow of Charles Nudd; William, b. Nov. 29, 1827, d. Providence, R. I., Nov. 19, 1850; Marian, b. March 26, 1830, m. Feb. 14, 1850, Joseph Bruce, s. of Preserved; Hannah, b. Oct. 28, 1831, m. Feb. 16, 1851, Dexter-Sardis Curtis; Samuel, b. April 2, 1834, m. Hatty Wilder of Worcester, Mass .; Lyman-Kendall, b. Dec. 29, 1836; Oliver-Henry, b. Nov. 23, 1838, d. Oct. 2, 1841; Harriet, b. Sept. 26, 1840, m. July 4, 1858, Amos-Franklin Smith, s. of Simeon; Henry- Harrison, b. May 31, 1842; Franklin, b. May 10, 1844; Infant dau., b. and d. April, 1846; Emma-Renew, b. Nov. 17, 1847. He m. (2) Dec. 31, 1850, Emeline-Melissa, dau. of Ezekiel Nelson of Keene, N. H., and widow of Ostrander Houghton of Sterling, Mass., and d. Nov. 30, 1862.
BROWN, Hamilton (s. of Lt. Lyman), m. (1) Delia Spaulding of Westminster, Mass. She died. He. m. (2) Maria Walker of Leominster, Mass., where he settled as a comb maker. In 1862, he entered the service of his country, a volunteer in Co. A, 15 Regt., Mass. Vol. and was in the first battle of Bull Run. His son, Asa-Everett, was Sergt. in the same Co. with his father.
BRUCE, Artemus, whose wife was Mary, moved his family from Westborough, Mass., to Newfane, 1776, and settled about three-fourths of a mile southwest of the present village of Fayetteville, where they spent the residue of their days. He d. July 31, 1811, age 85. She d. Sept. 29, 1811, age 79. Children: Asa, settled in Newfane and from
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thence removed to Salem, N. Y., with his family; Elijah, b. Jan. 12, 1760, settled in Newfane, and from thence removed to Marlborough; Ephraim, settled on the home- stead which is still in possession of his descendants; Lavina; Polly.
BRUCE, Elijah (s. of Artemus) m. Abigail, b. April 11, 1763, dau. of Nathaniel Whitney of Grafton, Mass., and came to Newfane in the fall of 1781. He was a soldier in the Ameri- can Revolution and in the Bennington battle, 1777. He removed to Marlborough in the early part of the 19th century and d. with the small pox, May 16, 1835. He was buried alone in a pasture, where his grave has since been surrounded with a wall by his descendants. She d.
July 13, 1847. Children: Mansfield, b. April 11, 1781; Joseph-Whitney, b. Nov. 19, 1782; Preserved, b. June 28, 1784; Elijah, Jr .; Catherine, m. (1) Joshua Phillips, who enlisted in the U. S. Army of 1812, and was shot in battle near Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., and she m. (2) Benjamin Medcalf of Wilmington; Lucy, m. Josiah Parks; Martha, m. James Kelsey, s. of Seymour; Cency, m. Alfred Dunklee, s. of Joseph of Brattleboro; Nancy, m. John Robins, and d. July 15, 1820, age 23; Emory, d. March 4, 1837, age 38; Eli, m. Lucy, dau. of Amos Stearns; Orison; Abigail- Whitney, b. April 2, 1806, m. Nehemiah-Willis Fisher, s. of Deacon Nehemiah.
BRUCE, Rev. Mansfield (s. of Elijah), m. Sept. 24, 1805, Grace, b. Feb. 14, 1784, dau. of Deacon Benjamin Godard of Shrewsbury, Mass. He d. Wilmington, Feb. 5, 1843. Children: Elijah, b. April 18, 1808, m. May 30, 1832, Ruth Fay of Brookfield, Mass .; Betsey, b. Sept. 2, 1809, m. May 11, 1837, Origen Smith of Wilmington; Benjamin- Godard, b. June 3, 1811, m. Sept. 17, 1835, Bulah Gold- thwait, who d. March 15, 1860; Sally, b. Feb. 8, 1813, m. Oct. 5, 1847, John-S. Rice of Wilmington; Eveline, b. Nov. 9, 1814, d. July 21, 1817; Isaiah-Mattison, b. Sept. 5, 1817, m. Aug. 4, 1849, Olive-N. Torrey, who d. March 18, 1858, and he m. (2) Sept. 16, 1858, Mary-C. Beals; Syrena, b. Aug. 27, 1820 m. April 24, 1842, Nathan-C. Kingsbury;
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Grace-Maria, b. April 11, 1822, d. Sept. 13, 1823; Eli- Mansfield, b. April 25, 1825, m. Sept. 27, 1843, Harriet- M. Snow.
BRUCE, Preserved (s. of Elijah), m. Feb. 28, 1808, Eleanor, b. Dec. 9, 1785, dau. of James Campbell of Worcester, Mass. Children: Joseph, b. Oct. 10, 1809, d. March 11, 1815; Sally, b. Nov. 5, 1811; Alvin-Boyden, b. Oct. 4, 1813; Ann, b. April 11, 1817, m. Nov. 4, 1839, Alexander Webster; Eliza-Ward, b. Jan. 18, 1819, m. Lucien Wolcott; Mary- Ann, b. Sept. 27, 1821, m. (1) Wheeler-I. Pierce of Wor- cester, Mass., who d. and she m. (2) William Davenport, and d. Feb. 25, 1860; Joseph, b. Jan. 11, 1824; James- Preserved, b. April 10, 1826, d. June 26, 1830; Charlotte- Maria, b. April 29, 1828, m. Cyrus-W. Wyman of Rocking- ham; Thomas-Walter-Ward, b. July 9, 1831.
BRUCE, Alvin-Boyden (s. of Preserved), m. Dec. 3, 1840, Hannah, b. May 11, 1814, dau. of Ariel Wan of Wilmington. Children: Harriet-Ann, b. Feb. 11, 1841; Lovica-Wan, b. Jan. 6, 1845; Hannah-Augusta, b. June 4, 1849; George-Alvin, b. March 26, 1851; James-Preserved, b. April 9, 1854.
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