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Pamela Fish-Tyler, "The Identity of Nathan Fish of Groton and Pepperell, Massachusetts," NEHGR 167 (April 2013):118-124.
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Lydia Bennett [the mother of illegitimate twins Nathan and Samuel Fish--RLW] was probably the daughter of "Gorg" and "Marey Bennitt" born in Groton 29 December 1706.[30] She married in Groton on 23 March 1736/7, James Fisk.[31] He died by 6 March 1771, leaving a will that names wife Lydia and sons James, John and Peter. Daughters Lydia and Mary also signed a document in the file.[32] The children were born in Groton from 1738 to 1749.[33]
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30 Vital Records of Groton [note 5], 1:27.
31 Ibid., 2:67.
32 Middlesex County Probate, file 7588.
33 Vital Records of Groton [note 5], 1:84-85.
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Lydia had another illegitimate child, Esther Woods, born in Groton on 19 March 1725/6, daughter of Thomas Woods, Jr.[34] This may be the Esther Woods who married in Groton on 18 December 1744, Ephraim Whitney.[35] Apparently Lydia also had a fourth illegitimate child, or perhaps miscarried, as she appeared in the Court of General Sessions of the Peace on 14 May 1729, and was fined thirty shillings, having confessed to fornication.[36]
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34 Butler, History of Groton [note 16], 449, a list of "Illegitimates"; the birth in Vital Records of Groton [note 5], 1:260, as "Easther," daughter of Thomas WOods, Jr. and "Lydia (Bennett)."
35 Vital Records of Groton [note 5], 2:188.
36 Minutes of the Middlesex County Court of General Sessions of the Peace, 2:182.
"The Two Elizabeth3 Daniels of Medfield, Massachusetts" NEHGR 167 (July 2013):135-139.
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For details on the later life of his daughter Elizabeth, it is worth examining Samuel's probate records in more detail. Letters of administration were granted on 11 July 1695 "To Robert Daniel eldest Son of Samuel Daniel late of Medfield."[20] The inventory was taken on 2 October 1695, by Jonathan Whitney Sen., Nath: Morse, and Nathall: Partridge; ....
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20 Suffolk County Probate, 13:637.
Henry B. Hoff, "New England Articles in Genealogical Journals in 2011," NEHGR 167 (July 2013):225-240.
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Purinton, Carol A., "Finding Reynolds and Whitney Cousins: A Find A Grave Success Story," MASSOG 35 (Winter 2011):105-06.
Patricia Sezna Haggerty, "Abigail Cobb, Wife of Ebenezer7 Fairbank, and Daughter of Ebenezer2 (Stephen 1) Cobb of Cheshire County, New Hampshire" NEHGR (Oct 2013):265-274 (continued from 167:212),
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JOSIAH COBB [child of Ebenezer2 and Abigail (-----) Cobb], b. Dublin 1 Aug. 1778;[316] m.(1) Alstead 3 June 1800, LOIS DAVIS of Jaffrey, N.H.,[317] b. Rindge, Cheshire Co., N.H., 8 Nov. 1775, daughter of Richard and Lois (Whitney) Davis.[318] Josiah and Lois were divorced in Oct. 1806.[319] and Josiah m.(2) Langdon 27 Nov. 1806 MARY COLBURN of Langdon,[320] b. Langdon 5 May 1782, d. 28 Nov. 1826, daughter of Benjamin and Esther (Wheeler) Colburn.[321] Lois (Davis) Cobb m.(2) Marlborough, N.H., 1 Sept. 1811, Thomas Garfield.[322] She d. Londonderry, Windham Co., Vt., 15 Aug. 1857, and was bur. in Riverside Cemetery in Londonderry.[323]
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316 "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," image online at FamilySearch.org, Leonard, History of Dublin [note 10], 324.
317 Alstead Town Recods, 3:297, "The intention of marriage return Josiah Cobb of Alstead and Louis [sic] Davis of Jaffrey entered with me June 2nd 1800, Amos Shepard, Town Clerk." The marriage took place in Dublin on 3 June 1800, according to the record of their divorce in Knudsen (see note 319).
318 "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," image online at FamilySearch.org (her place of birth is shown in later records as Jaffrey): "Garfield Families of America," Thomas Garfield (06:80G), online at http://garfieldsinamerica.homestead.com/GEN_6_PART_1.html.
319 Milli S. Knudsen, "'Til Divorce Do Us Part: Marriages and Divorces from Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from 1776-1899 [Westminster, Md.: Heritage Books, 2007], 85. Josiah committed adultery on 7 November 1805, and they were divorced in October 1806.
320 "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," image online at FamilySearch.org, Josiah Cobb of Alstead. The record says 1805, but it must have been 1806, based on the record of their divorce (see preceding note).
321 Kingsbury, Town of Langdon [note 278], 351.
322 "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947," image online at FamilySearch.org.
323 "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," images online at FamilySearch.org (her death, two records); "Riverside Cemetery, Londonderry," in Vermont DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, Series 1, Volume 29 (1959):203.
Chip Rowe, "Who Was Joel Holcomb of Wallingford, Connecticut?" NEHGR 167 (Oct 2013):285-XXX (concluded from 167:198).
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GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY
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Children of Joel4 and Sarah (Bull) Holcomb:
2. ii. JOEL HOLCOMB, b. 19 Aug. 1749;[127] m. SARAH WHITNEY.
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127 Holcomb account book, second folio, unnumbered. "Joel Holcomb was born August the 19, 1749."
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2. JOEL HOLCOMB, JR., was born, probably in Wallingford on 19 August 1749.[154] He died in Angelica, Allegany County, New York, in 1839, and was buried there.[155] He married in Canaan, Connecticut, on 4 March 1773, SARAH WHITNEY,[156] born in Canaan 30 April 1748, daughter of David and Mary (Gunn) Whitney.[157]
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154 Holcomb account book, second folio, unnumbered.
155 Letter from Marcia (Holcomb) Benham, Rochester, New York, 7 August 1893, to Dr. William Frederic Holcombe, Hiram Holcomb Collection [note 1]. Marcia, daughter of Ira and Tryphena (Gibson) Holcomb said "Joel Holcomb my grandfather was 95 years old [sic] when he died in 1839 . . . My father, grandfather and grandmother were alll buried in one burying ground in Angelica which now is Belvidere." The Holcombs were likely interred in Abbott Cemetery in present-day Amily, although no family gravestones appear in the transcription at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyallega/amity-abbott.html.
156 Canaan Vital Records [note 132], A:17, "Joel Holcomb Jnr. was married to Sarah Whitney March ye 4th AD 1773."
157 Barbour Collection, citing Canaan Records, LR2:238 (birth and parents' marriage); see also Frederick Clifton Pierce, The Descendants of John Whitney (Chicago: W. B. Conkey, 1895), 59. The marriage of Sarah's parents was also recorded in Sheffield (Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield 1726-1897, 12 vols. on 56 microfiche [Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute, 1988], 1:18; these vital records are now available in "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," images online at Ancestry.com.
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Joel's signature appears in an entry in the account book dated 15 March 1773 as "Joel Holcomb Junr."[158] He enlisted on 27 June 1780 in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, as a private in the Continental Army and was discharged eight days later, after marching to sustain the fort at West Point.[159] Based on the birthplaces of their children, Joel and Sarah moved to Sheffield, Massachusetts, around 1783. Joel Holcomb appeared in the 1790 and 1800 censuses there,[161] and in October 1798 paid taxes on his home and twenty perches (an eight of an acre).[162] On 20 April 1800, at the Congregational Church in Sheffield, "Sarah Hocom, wife of Joel" was baptized, followed on 10 December 1800 by "Joshua, Sally, Emilia and Elisha Holcum, children of Joel."[163] It is not clear where Joel, Jr. and Sarah Holcomb resided during the 1810 and 1820 censuses,[164] but in 1830 they were likely the couple aged 80-89 in Friendship, Allegany County, New York, west of Angelica, with the family of their son-in-law and daughter, Ebenezer and Jane (Holcomb) Hyde.[165]
Children of Joel Holcomb, Jr., and his wife Sarah Whitney:
i. BETHANA/BETHANY[166] HOLCOMB, b. Canaan 21 Jan. 1774;[167] d. probably Jackson Co., Mich., after 1850 (when she last appears in the census[168]); m. 29 Nov. 1798,[169] HIRAM SPALDING/SPAULDING, b. Sheffield, Mass., 9 Sept. 1765,[170] son of William and Mary (Shedd) Spalding.[171] The couple resided
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158 Holcomb account book, folio 142.
159 Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors [note 56], 8:91.
160 1790 U.S. Census, Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, roll 4, p. 596. The household included one male 16 and over, three males under 16, and five females.
161 1800 U.S. Census, Suffield, roll 13, p. 226. The household included one male 45 and over [Joel], one female 45 and over [Sarah], one male under 10 [Elisha], one female 10 to 15 [Emilia], and one female 16 to 25 [Sally].
162 "Massachusetts and Maine 1798 Direct Tax," database online at AmericanAncestors.org, 20:250.
163 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, DAR, "Early Records, Congregational Church, Sheffield, Massachusetts, 1793-1860," transcript [FHL 0,250,313, Item 1].
164 Men named Joel Holcomb appear in the 1810 and 1820 censuses in Connecticut, Ohio, and Illinois (see note 107), but according to McPherson, Holcombes [note 2] and other sources, they are not Joel, Jr. Joel Holcomb born in Granby, Connecticut, 1761, died 1847, Leroy, Lake County, Ohio, was the son of David5. Joel Holcomb born in Granby in 1781 was the son of Hezekiah5. He appears in 1810 in Granby as "Joel Holcomb 2nd," suggesting an effort to avoid confusion with a cousin in the same manner of David Holcomb 2d.
165 1830 U.S. Census, Friendship, Allegany County, New York, roll 84, p. 98.
166 While her name appears as Bethaney in birth records (see next note), it is spelled as Bethana or Berthana in letters from descendants in the Hiram Holcomb Collection [note 1].
167 Canaan Vital Records [note 132], A;18, "Bethaney Holcomb Daughter to Joel Holcomb Jnr. and Sarah his wife was born the 21st day of January 1774."
168 1850 U.S. Census, Springport, Jackson County, Michigan, roll 352, p. 298B. Bethana Spaulding, age 77, born in Connecticut, was living with the John Drake family.
169 Typewritten sheet outlinin descendants of Joel Holcomb, Jr. [note 129].
170 "Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 1:133; letter from Ruby G. Blyth, Macedon, New York, 8 Auust 1936, to Hiram Holcomb, Hiram Holcomb Collection [note 1]. Blyth was a great-granddaughter of Hiram and Bethana (Holcomb) Spaulding.
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in Elba, Genesee Co., N.Y., and Somerset, Niagara Co., N.Y., before moving about 1837[172] to Jackson Co., Mich., where both died.[173] ii. IRA HOLCOMB, b. Canaan, 7 June 1775;[174] m. Sheffield, Mass., 29 Nov. 1798, TRYPHENA GIBSON of New Marlborough, Mass.,[175] perhaps identical with Tryphene, daughter of John and Mary (-----) Gibson, b. Palmer, Mass., 21 Nov. 1779.[176] Ira d. Angelica, Allegany Co., N.Y., 3 March 1820, after which his wife moved with her children to Great Barrington, Mass., to be near her family.[177] She d. 24 April 1836.[178] The couple resided in 1810 in Lenox, Madison Co., N.Y.,[179] and moved to Angelica around 1818.[180] In 1888, long after his death, Ira's daughter Marcia (born 1810) recalled her father as having "a medium height and build, dark brown hair and curly, very deep blue eyes and light complexion."[181] iii. ESTHER HOLCOMB, b. Canaan 18 April 1777;[182] d. Milford, Otsego Co., N.Y., 5 May 1864;[183] bur. Milford Center Cemetery with her husband;[184] m. in Mass. 5 March 1795, WILLIAM STEVENS, b. Sheffield, Mass., 7 Dec. 1771, who had, at the age of six, been briefly taken prisoner with his mother and siblings at the Wyoming Massacre.[185] William and Esther moved in 1798 from Sheffield to
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171 Charles Warren Spaulding, The Spalding Memorial ... (Chicago: American Publishers Association, 1897), 195, 339.
172 United States Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, patent 9421, accessed at www.glorecords.blm.gov. Hiram bought eighty acres that year in Jackson County.
173 Spalding, Spalding Memorial [note 170], 339.
174 Canaan Vital records [note 132], A:23, "Ira Holcomb Son to Joel Holcomb Jnr. and Sarah his wife was born June ye 7th 1775."
175 Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 6:10. Volume 6 is a typed manuscript prepared in 1942 by Blanche Stockwell, as the original has been lost.
176 "Vital Recods of Palmer, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: NEHGS, 1905), 35.
177 Letter from Marcia (Holcomb) Benham, Watkins, New York, 18 October 1888, to Dr. William Frederic Holcombe, Hiram Holcomb Collection [note 1], "My Father [Ira] died in Angelica when I was 9 years old. My Mother went back East to Mass. and I never see any of my Father's folks after that. That is the reason I know so little about them." She specifies Great Barrington in another letter to Dr. Holcombe dated 14 November 1888 (see next note).
178 Letter from Marcia (Holcomb) Benham, Watkins, New York, 14 November 1888, to Dr. William Frederic Holcombe, Hiram Holcomb Collection [note 1].
179 1810 U.S. Census, Lenox, Madison County, New York, roll 28, p. 779, as "I. Holcomb."
180 Letter from Marcia (Holcomb) Benham, 14 November 1888 [note 178].
181 Letter from Marcia (Holcomb) Benham, Elmira, New York, 24 November 1888, to Dr. William Frederic Holcombe, Hiram Holcomb Collection [note 1].
182 Canaan Vital Records [note 132], A:26, "Esther Holcomb Daughter to Joel Holcomb & Sarah his wife was born April the 18th 1777."
183 Gertrude A. Barber, "Deaths Taken From the Otsego Herald & Western Advertiser and Freeman's Journal, 3 vols., typescript (1939), 3:17, accessed at Ancestry.com.
184 William and Esther Stevens obelisk, photographed at Milford Center Cemetery for the author by Kimberly Milillo, 31 March 2012, posted at FindaGrave.com. "Esther Holcomb, consort of William Stevens, born Mar. [sic] 18, 1777, Died May 5, 1864" and "William Stevens, born 7 Dec. 1771, died 25 Dec. 1858. The departed was taken prisoner at the Wyoming Massacre."
185 According to a history of Milford written in 1903 by Ezra Stevens, the youngest son of William and Esther Stevens (see note 187), his grandfather Stevens "was sickened and died" just prior to the massacre. "My grandmother was in the fort with her whole family, which consisted of herself and seven children: six daughters and one son, my father, a boy of seven [sic] years of
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settle in Suffrage [Milford] and then West Milford, N.Y. After William d. in West Milford 25 Dec. 1858, his widow lived with Ezra Stevens,[186] the youngest of their thirteen children.[187] iv. JANE HOLCOMB, b. ca. 1778;[188] d. 7 June 1854; m. ca. 1802 Dr. EBENEZER HYDE, b. 1777, son of Ebenezer and Lois (Thatcher) Hyde. He studied medicine in New Marlborough, Mass. and moved in 1804 with his wife and infant son to Angelica, N.Y., practicing in the area until his death in 1858.[189] Little is known of Jane, whose birth is not recorded in Connecticut indices[190] or Sheffield, Massachusetts,[191] vital records. A niece recalled her aunt Jane Hyde as the only one of her father's sisters whom she knew as a child.[192] v. JOSHUA HOLCOMB, b. Canaan 9 Jan. 1782;[] bp. Congregational Church, Sheffield, 10 Dec. 1800;[] d. Ticonderoga, Essex Co., N.Y., 4 June 1856;[] m. Ticonderoga 8 June 1806, CHLOE JONES,[] b. Vt. ca. 1787,[] perhaps identical with Chloe Jones, b. Wardsboro, Vt., 5 Aug. 1786, daughter of John
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age . . . All my grandmother saved was a set of silver teaspoons and her gold beads by tying them up in her underclothes. They left the fort the same day, and traveled through the country to New England penniless." Ezra Stevens also gave his father's date and place of birth, marriage, and death.
186 1860 U.S. Census, Milford, Otsego County, New York, roll 840, p. 501.
187 Ezra Stevens, "Early History of the Town of Milford and Other Parts of Otsego County from 1773 to 1903" (Milford, N.Y., 1905), 62-65, a typed transcription of the original in longhand said to be at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, also as "A Typed Copy of a Handwritten Unpublished Manscript: Ezra Stevens: Oneonta Chapter," New York DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, Series 1, Volume 408 (1973-74).
188 1850 U.S. Census, Amity, Allegany County, New York, roll 475, p. 77A. Milton C. Hyde, A Partial Record of One Branch of the Hyde Family (Ludlow, Vt.: the author, 1886), 4D, gives her year of birth as 1787. However, Jane does not appear with her siblings when they were baptized together at Sheffield in 1800 [note 163], and she also would have been only 16 years old at the birth of her eldest child, William C. C. Hyd, in 1803.
189 Hyde, One Branch of the Hyde Family [note 188], 4D.
190 Barbour Collection [note 13].
191 "Massachusetts Vial Records: Sheffield [note 157].
192 Letter from Marcia Benham, 18 October 1888 [note 177]. She recalled her father Ira having one brother, Joshua, and "I think he had four sisters" but she could remember only the names of Jane and Sally. In her 7 August 1893 letter from Rochester, N.Y. [note 155], Marcia reports that "my dear cousin Dr. [Ebenezer] Hyde [Jr.] and wife were here" for a visit. Milton Hyde [note 188] names Jane Holcomb ans the wife of Dr. Hyde but does not identify her parents.
193 "Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 2:42, "Joshua Holcomb son of Joel Holcomb & Sarah Holcom Wife of the said Joel was born in Canaan in Connecticutt the 9th day of January 1782."
194 Sheffield Congregational Church Records [note 163].
195 Arthur Carr, "Streetroad Cemetery, Ticonderoga, New York," (1939-40), accessed at rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyessex/Streetroadcemetery.htm, "Joshua Holcomb died June 4, 1854, Ae 70. Chloe, wife of Joshua Holcomb, died Dec. 6, 1866, Ae 79."
196 Letter from Aura Holcomb, Ticonderoga, New York, 12 March 1869, to Dr. William Frederic Holcombe in the Hiram Holcomb Collection [note 1]. Aura (born 1848) was a great-granddaughter of Joel Holcomb, Jr. "[My grandfather Joshua] was born in Sheffield, Conn. [sic] Jan. 5th 1783 [sic] and was a carriage maker. He married Chloe Jones of Manchester, Vt. June 8th 1806 in Ticonderoga."
197 1850 U.S. Census, Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, roll 504, p. 328B.
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and Abigail (Cheney) Jones.[198] Chloe d. Ticonderoga 6 Dec. 1866, aged 79l. Both are buried in Streetroad Cemetery, Ticonderoga.[199] Joshua was listed in 1817 in the rolls of the New York State regiment as a second lieutenant representing Essex County,[200] and was first recorded with his family at Ticonderoga in the 1820 census.[201] Their eldest child, Mahala, was killed by lightning in 1819 at age 12;[202] another child, Joel Whitney Holcomb, became a hotel owner ans stage driver who in 1848 bred in his Ticonderoga barn the famous Morgan horse "Ethan Allen."[203] A history of Ticonderoga published in 1858 notes that Joshua Holcomb, "an energetic man, of thorough habits and much business ability," had been a wheelwright in town for more than thirty ears but began to slow down in 1840 and closed the shop in 1844 at age 62.[204] vi. SALLY HOLCOMB, b. Sheffield 3 March 1784,[205] bp. Congregational Church, Sheffield, 10 Dec. 1800;[206] m. Sheffield 25 March 1802, JONATHAN HUBBARD,[207] likely Jonathan Ely Hubbard b. Sheffield 5 Feb. 1777, son of Jonathan and Christa (-----) Hubbard.[208] Jonathan E. Hubbard, age 26-44, resided in 1810 in Bloomfield, Ontario Co., N.Y., with his wife of the same age and three children under 10.[209] Jonathan Ely Hubbard m.(2?) Fredonia, Chautauqua Co., N.Y., 22 July 1821, Hepzibah Adams,[210] the only wife shown for him in the Hubbard genealogy.[211]
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198 Claude W. Barlow, "Descendants of Thomas Jones of Hingham, Hull, and Manchester, Mass.," Register 113 (1959):42-52, 131-146, at 142-143.
199 Carr, "Streetroad Cemetery" [note 195].
200 Hugh Hastings, ed., Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821, 4 vols. (Albany, N.Y.: James B. Lyon, 1901), 2:1810.
201 1820 U.S. Census, Ticonderoga, Essex County, New York, roll 69, p. 448.
202 Letter from Aura Holcomb, 12 March 1869 [note 196].
203 Barney Nagler, The American Horse (New York: Macmillan, 1966), 48; Andrew Alberti and Anita Deming, From Forest to Fields (Westport, N.Y.: Cornell Cooperative Extension, 2010), 22. "Shortly after the Revolutionary War, Morgan horses, America's first breed of horse, supported the farms of upstate New York as the original 'sport-utility vehicle.' A single Morgan horse was able to clear rocky hillsides, plow fields, pull the family wagon to church in style, and win impromptu road races both under saddle and in harness. In the middle of the 19th century, one Morgan in Ticonderoga, named for Ethan Allen, was the talk of nearly every tavern and dining table across America."
204 Flavius J. Cook, Home Sketches of Essex County, First Number: Ticonderoga (Keeseville, N.Y.: W. Lansing & Son, 1858), 45.
205 Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 2:42. "Sally Holcomb Daughter of the said Joel & Sarah Holcomb was born in Sheffield the 3rd day of March 1784."
206 Sheffield Congregational Church Records [note 163].
207 Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 6:14. In a letter dated 18 October 1888 [note 176], Marcia Benham (born 1810) recalls that Sally "married a man by the name of Jonathan Hubbard. She died when I was a small girl."
208 Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 1:37; Sheffield Congregational Church Records [note 163] say that he was baptized 5 February 1777.
209 1810 U.S. Census, Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, roll 33, p. 620.
210 "Marriage and Death Records from Early Newspapers [of Chautauqua County], He to Ir," New York DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report, Series 1, Volume 571 (1986), 76.
211 Edward Warren Day, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History . . ." (New York: H. P. Hubbard, 1895), 236.
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vii. SABRA HOLCOMB, b. Sheffield 14 Aug. 1786; d. Sheffield 14 Nov. 1786.[212] viii. EMELIA/EMILIA HOLCOMB, b. Sheffield 24 June 1788;[213] bp. Congregational Church, Sheffield, 10 Dec. 1800p;[214] probably d. young.[215] ix. ELOISA HOLCOMB, b. Sheffield 7 Feb. 1791; d. Sheffield 7 Feb. 1791.[216] x. ELISHA HOLCOMB, bp. Congregational Church, Sheffield, 10 Dec. 1800;[217] probably d. young.[218]
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212 Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 2:42, "Sabra Holcomb Daughter of sd Joel & Sarah Holcomb was born in Sheffield the 14th August 1786. Said Sabr Holcomb died November 14th 1786."
213 Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 2:42, "Emelia Holcomb Daughter of sd Joel & Sarah Holcomb was born in Sheffield June 24 1788."
214 Sheffield Congregational Church records [note 163].
215 Letter from Marcia Benham, 18 October 1888 [note 177]. She describes Sally as her father Ira's youngest sister.
216 Massachusetts Vital Records: Sheffield [note 157], 2:42, "Eloisa Holcomb Daughter of said Joel & Sarah Holcomb was born in Sheffield 7th February 1791. Said Eloisa Holcomb died 7th Day February 1791."
217 Sheffield Congregational Church records [note 163].
218 Letter from Marcia Benham, 18 October 1888 [note 177]. She describes Joshua as her father Ira's only brother.
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