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FAMILY REGISTER
35
75.
William.
East
Enterprise,
Ind.,
farmer and
carpenter;
baptized Winchester, N. H., November
6,
1785; married N.
Y.,
about 1805; died
1825.
Wife. Sarah Alger (widow Bullock?)
; 7
children, William Benjamin
H., Sarah
J., Jerusha,
Davenport,
Laura, Mary.
William^ may have been a twin of Abigail.
The eastern
rela-
tions knew nothing of him
for 90 years, except that he
left his
home
in
Chelsea,
Vt.,
1803-4, not being able
to agree with
his
step-mothe'r
Unfortunately the family Bible cannot be consulted,
the grandchildren in possession fearing an intention of the writer
to get their share of some great fortune!
He married
in N. Y.,
perhaps
Buffalo, and
in
1815 settled
in Indiana on
a farm
still
occupied by his descendants in 1900.
He was by
all accounts a
respectable,
hard-working
man,
and
an
active
Methodist,
the
meetings being long held
in
his home.
His
children had
little
opportunity for education, and his descendants are humble farm-
ers and Democrats of the Indiana type.
76.
Betsy.
Andover, Mass.; born Winchester, N. H., July 20,
1787; married
first about 1815; married second about 1830; died
Garland, Me., 1872.
First husband, Reuben Taylor, hotel-keeper,
of Danbury. Vt.
; died about 1825
; 3 children
:
Benjamin, William,
Francis; second husband, Alvah Jennings; no
children.
Betsy*,
with
her
first husband and
after
his
death,
kept
the
Mansion House in Andover, Mass.
They had also kept a hotel in
Boscawen, N. H.
She was a very
tall, straight woman of great
worth, much courage and ambition; but her life was
full of mis-
fortunes.
Her second husband proved worthless
; her second son
disappeared in Australia; her oldest son was mentally weak in his
later years
; twice in old age she
fell and broke her hip, and even
on her way to the grave the hearse was with difficulty kept from
being overturned by a gale.
She spent her last years in Garland,
Maine, and her
line
is believed
to be
extinct.
yj.
Sarah.
Born Winchester, N. H., about 1790; died unmar-
ried about 1840.
She lived with her sister, Mrs. Challis, and died
of cholera in Cincinnati.
78.
Nancy.
Exeter, Me.; born Chelsea, Vt., April
11,
1792;
married, Corinth, Me., June 16, 1817; died 1879.
Husband, Benja-
min Evans, M. D., son of Thankfuls
; born Freetown, Mass., Janu-
ary
16, 1790; died March 26, 1871
; no children.
Nancy went to
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