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1780. His will was admitted to probate 5 May 1753. In it he mentions his wife, Mary, and children, Deborah, Abigail, Peter, Benjamin, Jedediah, Jonathan, Ruth, Mary Daniels, James, Hains, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Mary Hungerford.

     Issue, by the first wife:

i.

BENJAMIN, b. in 1699.

ii.

Ruth, bp. at New London, Conn., 25 Oct. 1702.

iii.

Mary, bp. at New London, 29 Oct. 1704; m. at New London, 21 Oct. 1724, Ebenezer Daniels.

iv.

Jonathan.

v.

Jedediah, b. in 1708; m. in Mar. 1728, Jerusha Ackley.

     Issue, by the second wife:

vi.

James.

vii.

Peter, m. 1 July 1742, Sarah Wedge. They had issue.

viii.

Haynes.

ix.

Elizabeth, m. 2 June 1744, Ebenezer Hyde.

x.

Deborah.

xi.

Margaret, m. 28 Oct. 1744, Jonathan Loomis.

xii.

Abigail, m. 10 Oct. 1755, Nathan Dodge.

xiii.

Mary, b. 20 Jan. 1728; m. 23 June 1746, Samuel Hungerford. They had issue.

     BENJAMIN4 GRAVES (Benjamin,3 Benjamin 2 John1) was born, probably at Colchester, Connecticut, in 1699. On 22 May 1722, he bought of John Ackley twenty-eight and a half acres of land in East Haddam, Conn., and his father gave him eighty acres in the same town. It was probably about this time that he married Mary Sterling, who was admitted to the Congregational Church of East Haddam, 18 August 1734. They lived in that portion of East Haddam known as 'Millington Parish.' He died before 1754, and his widow died before 18 February 1777, when her son, Benjamin, was appointed administrator of her estate.

     Issue:

i.

Mary, b. in 1727; m. 5 Dec. 1745, Ensign Nathaniel Cone, son of Nathaniel and Sarah

(Hungerford), who was b. 19 Jan. 1712, and d. 5 Apr. 1790.

ii.

BENJAMIN, bp. 25 Aug. 1734.

iii.

Lydia, bp. 25 Aug. 1734.

iv.

Dorothy, bp. 9 Feb. 1735.

v.

Sterling, b. in 1738; d. unm. 23 Sept. 1772. He was a soldier in the French & Indian War in 1757;

and was ordained a minister in 1768.

vi.

Roswell, b. in 1740; m. Elizabeth Driggs. He was in the Revolutionary War, and was taken

prisoner in the Battle of Long Island, 27 Aug. 1776. He died in the Old Sugar House Prison. Issue: Hobart, Roswell, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Daniel.

vii.

Ruth, b. 27 Dec. 1741; m. 15 Nov. 1763, Daniel Driggs, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Strickland).


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    BENJAMIN5 GRAVES (Benjamin ,4 Benjamin,3 Benjamin ,2 John1) was baptized at East Haddam, Connecticut, 25 August 1734. He married Mary Ransom. He early took a part in the Revolution, serving under Col. Win. Ledyard at Fort Griswold, receiving a wound when the garrison there was slaughtered 6 September 1781. He managed to reach the house of a friend, but died shortly afterwards.

     Issue:

i.

ELIJAH, b. 23 Apr. 1760.

ii.

Molly, b. 21 Apr. 1763; d. 26 Feb. 1834; m. Abial Stark, of Lyme, Conn.

iii.

Dolly, b. in 1768.

iv.

Sterling, b. 6 June 1770; d. 19 Aug. 1859; m. Anna Cone, who d. 13 Feb. 1857. They removed to

Westmorland, Oneida Co., N. Y., and afterwards to Copenhagen, Lewis Co., N. Y. Later, they settled at Black River, Jefferson Co., N. Y. Issue: Anna M., who m. her own cousin, Joseph Graves (see below); Betsey; Matilda Hobart; Lucia; Ruth; Franklin; Ransom; Olive, Amanda.

ELIJAH6 GRAVES (Benjamin,5Benjamin ,4 Benjamin,3 Benjamin ,2 John1) was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, 23 April 1760; he died at Westmoreland, Oneida County, N. Y., 22 October 1823. He enlisted at the age of sixteen as a drummer under Capt. Howes. He was soon promoted to the rank of First Sergeant, and served throughout the duration of the Revoultionary War. He was at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. He married, 27 March 1782, Elizabeth Warner. They removed from East Haddam to Westmoreland, N. Y. His widow died in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 11 January 1832.

     Issue:

i.

Benjamin, b. 6 Oct. 1783; d. 23 Mar. 1868. He m. (1) 28 Oct. 1807, Achsah Halbert, who was b.

12 Feb. 1786, and d. 22 Aug. 1808, by whom he had an only child. He m. (2) 6 June 1809, Molly Stark, dau. of Abial and Molly (Graves), his own cousin, b. 27 Jan. 1786, d. 25 Aug. 1828. She was a niece of Gen. Stark, of Revolutionary War fame. By her he had issue: Benjamin S., Nathan F., Mary A., Hannah Elizabeth, Stirling Palmer, Abial S. He m. (3), 22 Dec. 1829, Nancy Halsey, who was b. 5 Oct. 1799, d. 5 May 1866, by whom he had further issue: Nancy E., Harmon.

ii.

Elizabeth, b. 13 Aug. 1785; d. 8 Nov. 1872.

iii.

JOSEPH, b. 3 Oct. 1787.

iv.

Dolly, b. 18 Mar. 1790; d. 21 Dec. 1863.

v.

Mary, b. 21 June 1793; d. 13 May 1833.

vi.

Hannah, b. 9 Feb. 1796; m. 11 Oct. 1818, Ambrose Woodward Huntington, son of William and

Prescandia (Lathrop), b. 1 Sept. 1791.

vii.

Elijah, b. 9 Dec. 1797; d. 26 Aug. 1865; m. (1) 21 Mar. 1825,


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Sarah Wicks, b. 26 Feb. 1806, d. 17 Dec. 1832, at Champion, Jefferson Co., N. Y. Issue by her: Julia E., Joseph F., Eliza T., Sarah J., Elijah B. He m. (2) 12 Mar. 1835, Lucinda Tappon, b. 11 Mar. 1806, d. 7 Feb. 1882. Issue by her: Clark Archibald, Sarah Ann, Elsey T., Eliza E.

viii.

Stirling, b. 11 May 1800; d. at Watertown, N. Y., 16 Sept. 1881; m. 4 Mar. 1821, Ruby Otis, b.

at Brattleboro, Vt., 4 May 1798, d. at Antwerp, N. Y., 3 May 1839. Issue: Gilbert Oscar, Mary J., Otis Stirling, and Ruby H.

ix.

Olina, b. 8 July 1801; d. 12 Apr. 1887; m. 10 July 1823, Cyrus Thompson Huntington, son of

Wiliam and Prescandia (Lathrop), b. 15 May 1801.

JOSEPH7 GRAVES (Elijah,6 Benjamin,5Benjamin ,4 Benjamin,3 Benjamin ,2 John1) was born at East Haddam, Connecticut, 3 October 1787; he died at Rutland, Jefferson Co., New York, 26 December 1875. He married, 16 May 1815, his cousin, Anna M. Graves, daughter of Stirling and Anna (Cone) Graves. She died 1 November 1882. He was a soldier in the War of 1812: lieutenant of the Militia in 1811, captain from 1815 to 1818. He was appointed Commissioner of War Supplies, and was stationed at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. He later became a merchant at Watertown, N. Y., and finally retired to his farm in Rutland.

     Issue:

i.

Edwin A., b. 4 Feb. 1816; d. unm.

ii.

A daughter, b. 10 Aug. 1818; d. the next day.

iii.

HUBERT, b. 27 June 1820.

iv.

Anna Janes, b. 10 Oct. 1826; d. 27 Feb. 1842.

v.

Delia Josephine, b. 12 Feb. 1831; m. 30 Dec. 1847 Erasmus Darwin Allen, b. 5 Apr. 1814, d. 13

Aug. 1885. They resided at Rutland, N. Y.

     HUBERT8 GRAVES (Joseph,7 Elijah,6 Benjamin,5Benjamin ,4 Benjamin,3 Benjamin ,2 John1 ) was borne at Rutland, Jefferson Co., N. Y., 27 June 1820; he married 25 August 1840, Adelaide de la Fleur. They resided at Black River, Jefferson Co., N. Y.

i.

Joseph Sterling, b. 20 July 1846; m. 4 Jan. 1870, Mary E. Lee. Issue: Arthur Lee, Ernest Howard.

ii.

EUGENE EDWIN, b. 24 Mar. 1848.

iii.

Allen Douglas, b. 16 July 1850; d. at Sioux Falls, S. D., 14 Feb. 1889.

iv.

Frank Pierce, b. 3 Feb. 1852.

v.

Anna Josephine, b. 9 Sept. 1855, d. 20 Mar. 1863.

     EUGENE EDWIN9 GRAVES (Hubert,8 Joseph,7 Elijah,6 Benjamin,5Benjamin ,4 Benjamin,3 Benjamin ,2 John1 ) was born at Rutland, Jefferson County, New York, 24 March 1848. He married at Brownville, N. Y., Sarah A. Bedell, the Rev. S. M. Narn, officiating.


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     Issue:

i.

Anna Eugenia, b. 28 Oct. 1871; m. at Frankfort, S. D., 12 July 1892, Lewis M. Troup, attorney

and counselor-at-law, of Warsaw, Indiana. They reside at Lincoln, Nebr., and have issue: 1. Ramona, b. 26 Jan. 1894; m. 7 Mar. 1918 Elmer M. Hanson, b. 22 Mar. 1893 (their dau., Mary Adelaid, b. 10 Jan. 1922). 2. Grace, b. 1 Nov. 1896; m. 8 June 1922, Lammert Herman Redelfs, b. 15 Dec. 1893.

THOMAS UFFORD

By Gilbert H. Doane, of Lincoln, Nebraska

     Thomas Ufford died at Castleton, Vermont, 2 February 1783, " very aged " (Vital records, Office of the Secretary of State, Montpelier, Vt.). He was presumably born at Stratford, or Derby, Connecticut, but his parentage and the place and date of his birth have not been determined. He married, probably about 1740, Mabel Griffin, daughter of Jonathan and Mehitable (Malory) Griffin, of Stratford, who was born 18 November 1721 (Orcutt's History of Stratford, Conn., p. 1209). She was living when her husband's estate was divided, 6 March 1783.

     Thomas Ufford's will, the text of which is here published for the first time, is to be found in Volume 1 of the Probate Records of Rutland County, Vermont, at Rutland.

     " In The Name of God, Amen the 30th day of January, A. D. 1783. The last Will and Testament of Thomas Ufford of Castleton in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont is as followeth being under many weeknesses age and Infirmities of Body but Sound Judgment and Disposing mind and memory. Thanks be given unto God and therefore not knowing How Soon the Time of my Dissolution will be, I Do therefore commit my Soul into the hands of God who Gave it and my Body to the Earth for a Decent and Christian Buriall, Expecting by Faith a Glorious Resurrection, and as for the worldy Good things, which God in his Providence hath Bestowed on me I then dispose of them when my Just Debts & Sick Bed Expenses and Funeral Charges are paid, in the manner following.

     Imprimis I give and bequeath unto Mabel my Dearly Beloved Wife one Third part of all my Movable Estate to her own Dispose, also The use of one Third part of all my Laands During her Natural life.

     Item I give unto My [other has been scratched out] Children (Viz) Ephraim Benjamin Joel and Mahitable all the remainder of my Substance to be equally divided between them, they paying to my son Shores Ufford and to my Daughter Phebe Hurlbut to Each of them five Pounds Lawful money out of my Estate Soon after the Decease or Death of my Wife Mabel.

     and Further more I do Hereby make ordain and appoint Mr. Elisha Kilborn of Castleton my Sole Executor to this my Last Will and Testament and I do Hereby Utterly Revoke and Disowned all and every other Will and Testament Before by me made and Executor Before by me Named, Confirming this and


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no other to be my Last Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I do Hereunto Set my hand and Seal This 30th. Day of January Anno: Domini 1783. Signed, Seald and Published, Pronounced and Declared by the said Thomas to be his Last Will and Testament in Presence of

his     
Thomas X Ufford
mark      

Brewster Higley
James Kilborn
Joseph Hawkins

Rutland County, ss.
Castleton, February 28 A.D. 1783 Then Personally appeared Mr. James Kilborn and Mr. Joseph Hawkins and made oath that they See the Testator to the Within Will and Testament Sign the Same and also that they Signed the Same as Witnesses in the presence of the Testator and in the presence of each other.

Before me, Brewster Higley, Justice of the Peace.

     The same volume of the Probate Records of Rutland County contains a lengthy inventory of the deceased's property and a record of the distribution of the estate. From Orcutt and Beardsley's History of the old town of Derby, Conn., p. 775, and from the record of the distribution of his estate, the following list of the children of Thomas and Mabel (Griffin) Ufford has been compiled:

i.

Abigail, b. in Feb. 1741; presumably died before 1783, as she is not mentioned in the will.

ii.

Mehitable, b. 27 Apr. 1743; mentioned as the 'eldest daughter in the distribution of her father's

estate. Family tradition says that " one daughter married a Roberts, removed to Ohio, where she was killed by the Indians," presumably this daughter (?).

iii.

Shores, b. 17 May 1745; he d. at Fairfax, Vt., 13 Jan. 1814. He married, 10 June 1773, Elizabeth

Durand, dau. of John and Sarah (Chatfield). She died at Castleton, Vt., and he married (2) Mrs. Sarah Dunn (or Duren), the widow of a Revolutionry Soldier. He had issue (by his first wife): 1. Samuel, b. 31 Oct. 1773; d. at Fairfax, Vt., 22 Jan. 1813. 2. Mabel, b. 25 Dec. 1775, m. Edward Flint. 3. Daniel, bp. at Derby, Conn., 28 June 1778. 4. Leverit, bp. 4 June 1780. There were probably others.

iv.

John, said to have been " killed during the Revolutionary War," not mentioned in the will or the

distribution of the estate; presumably the " John Offered " who was " permitted to pass from this [Bennington, Vt.] to Litchfield south farms in Connecticut there to remain and not bee found without the bounds of that= without a pass from the Committee of Safety"

(Records of the Governor and Council of Vermont, Vol. 1, p. 182) in 1777. Thomas Ufford was then living in Litchfield, for he bought land there 25 Apr. 1776.

v.

Phebe, mar. ------- Hurlbut, according to her father's will.

vi.

Ephraim, received his share of the estate. Family tradition says he died without issue, having been

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vii.

Benjamin, the "second son" in the distribution. Said to have married, but died without issue.

viii.

Joel, the "youngest son " in the distribution. A guardian was appointed for him, according to the

probate records, which bears out the family tradition that he was " slightly demented." He is said to have died unmarried.

SPENCER RECORDS
     The following record of the family of Stephen Spencer, Jr., of Portage, New York, is copied from his family Bible, now in the possession of Miss Jennie Z. Smith, of Lincoln, Nebraska. Stephen Spencer, born 10 April, 1793, was the son of Stephen and Cynthia (Utley) Spencer. He was born at Pawlet, Vermont. Stephen Spencer born 10th of April, 1793
Nancy Weed born 27th of March, 1795
CHILDREN

Chester Spencer born 18th of Nov., 1816
Win. H. Spencer born 13th of March, 1819
Roderick P. Spencer born 9th of June 1821
Delia Spencer born June 22nd, 1824
Cynthia Spencer born 24th May, 1827
Mary Weed Spencer born 29th of May, 1830
Nancy Spencer born 2nd of Feb., 1833

MARRIAGES
Stephen Spencer Jr. married to Nancy Weed Jan. 1st, 1816.
In the town of Portage, on June 27th, 1850, by Rev. Jesse Edwards, of Portageville:
Mr. Prosper A. Smith to Miss Delia Spencer
Mr. Alexander McFarline to Miss Cynthia Spencer
   All of the towne of Portage, also
Mr. Dufay C. Smith of Genesee Falls, to Miss Mary W. Spencer
   of the town of Portage.
DEATHS
Nancy Weed Spencer died 10th of Aug., 1837
Stephen Spencer Jr. died 24th of June 1842
Chester Spencer died 14th of Sept. 1842
Cynthia Spencer McFarline died 23rd of Oct. 1878
Wm. Henry Spencer died July 13th 1892
Roderick Peabody Spencer died April 29th, 1894
Mrs. Dufay C. Smith died 2 July 1907
Delia Spencer Smith died March 11th, 1898 in Lincoln, Nebr.
Nancy Spencer Brewer died in Springwater, N. Y. Apr. 24, 1918.
*   *   *   *

     The following records may be found in a copy of the VollIstandiges Marburger Gesang-buch, zur Uebung der Gottseligkeit in 1649 Christlichen und Trostreichen Psalmen und


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Gesangen. Hrn. D. Martin Luthers. . . Germanton, Christoph, Saur, 1762, now in the possession of the General Library of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Robet [Robert?] Spencer, Born the twentith of Julie 1781.
Charity Spencer, Born the tenth of Julie 1783.
Philip Spencer, Born the Seventh of Jeneouery [January?] 17------ [torn].
Hanner [Hannah?] Spenser, Born the thirty of January 1787.
Ellisa Spenser, Born the thirteent of october 1791.
Dannal [Daniel?] Spenser, Born the ninteen of June 1796.

     On the fly-leaf is written: " Margaret Aimigh, heir psalm book, May God give her grace therein to look not to look but to understand that learning is better than house or land, for when house and land is spent learning is most excellent."

 

THE GENEALOGIST'S BOOKSHELF
     Anyone interested in genealogy is naturally interested in books, or a genealogist has to use books continually in his or her work. Some of the books which the genealogist uses are unquestionably of the 'dry-as-dust' variety, such as the published vital statistics of the Massachusetts towns, wherein only in extremely rare instances can be found a humorous touch. But, fortunately, the genealogist does not work exclusively with vital statistics, for the true genealogist as contrasted with the mere 'ancestor hunter' wants to know more about his ancestors than the statistics of their births, marriages and deaths, essential as these facts are. Consequently, one finds a keen genealogist reading the proceedings of historical societies; volumes of letters; memoirs; reminiscences; old diaries, such as that of Judge Sewall, who apparently attended every christening, marriage, and funeral that occurred within a radius of fifty miles of Boston during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; and even such books as the published records of the Virginia Company. As a matter of fact in following the career of one early ' adventurer' in the Plymouth Colony, the editor's reading took him so far afield as the records of the 'factories' (i.e. trading-stations) maintained by the East India Company in remote India, not to mention the "State Papers-Domestic" published by H. M. Stationary Office for the Public Records Office. So, the editor proposes to publish in each issue of the RECORD a few book notes in the hope that some of his readers may find therein not only titles that may contain material for their research but also notice of books which they may read for pleasure and amusement and add to their genealogical acumen thereby.


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     The Rev. G. T. Ridlon has at last published his long heralded Soule genealogy (A Contribution to the History, Biography, and Genealogy of the Families Named Sole, Solly, Soule, Sowle, Soulis. . . 1926, 2 vols.). Unfortunately, it is a sad disappointment, for the material, gathered from the four corners of the United States, and England, has not been properly assimilated. The only excuse for such work is Mr. Ridlon's advanced age, and even that is not sufficient to warrant the outlay of the amount of money that the publication of such a work as this must have cost. The work of Col. Banks on the English families of Soule, Sowles, Soulis, which were flourishing at the time George Soule embarked for America, is admirable. He presents the evidence, which isn't sufficient for a sound conclusion, and, allows the reader to accept it as he will, for he, able genealogist that he is, was unable to find actual proof of the paternity of the Mayflower passenger. Mr. Ridlon, on the other hand, has presented a mass of data, without attempting to coordinate it and whip it into shape. There are many loose ends hanging about the book, here and there. If his use of the published data of one branch of the family is indicative of his use of other material, the work is thoroughly unreliable, for he has hopelessly blundered in copying the data on Joseph Soule, of Fairfield, Vt., from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 76, April, 1922. Furthermore, it should be made a crime to publish a genealogy without an adequate and thorough index. Suffice it to say, that the great task of writing the history of the Soule Family in America still remains to be done.

     There recently came to the Editor's attention a book called American Samplers by Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe (Boston, 1921), in which he would never have thought to look for genealogical material. In this book are listed hundreds of samplers, dating from early in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Among them are many with valuable genealogical data woven into their designs. Frequently the little lady making her sampler, 'cross-stitched' into it the names of her parents, her grand-parents, and her brothers and sisters, together with the dates of their births. The patriotic societies accept a sampler record and give it the same status as a Bible record, so there seems to be no reason why this book should not be quoted as an authority for a given date, or parentage, found therein.

      Daughters of the American Revolution, and others interested in the Revolutionary Period will do well to read William Stearns Davis's new novel, Gilman of Redford (N. Y., Mac


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millan, 1927), for it presents a very authentic picture of Boston in the days leading up to the War. He selects as his hero, Roger Gilman, later Col. Roger, of Redford (a thinly disguised name for Medford), Massachusetts. Young Gilman is the son of a Whig minister, and nephew of a Boston Tory, Eleazer Fifield. During the course of the book, he prepares for and enters Harvard; meets and falls in love with and marries Emilie Rivoire, the granddaughter of M. Georges Rivoire, a Huguenot, and cousin of Paul Revere; becomes the secretary to Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren, and, ultimately, the Boston Committee of Safety; becomes a member of the Boston Tea Party; and fights at Concord on the memorable April 19th. In all, Mr. Davis has written an interesting, albeit, somewhat long, account of pre-Revolutionary Boston, and has served history up to us in a very readable shape.

     Prof. Bolton, of Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn., has just announced the publication of his genealogy of the descendants of Richard Dart.

     Arthur Orisson Dillon, of Ontario, California, has just published a volume containing his ancestral lines and a selection from his poetry. His lines include the Pendleton, Wilmot, Wilcoxson, Anthony, Hazard, and many other well known New England families. Fortunately Mr. Dillon cites his authorities, although they are grouped together at the end of the genealogical section of the book. It would have been better to cite the references for each line at the end of the account of that line.

 

A SQUIER WILL

     THOMAS SQUIER made his will in October, 1767. It was probated 25 May 1778 at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and may be found there in Liber 20 of Wills, page 234. At that time Bowes Reed was registrar of Wills. The will mentions the following children: David, John, Thomas, Anna Frazee, Rachel Darby, Deborah Marshall, Phoebe Squier (" who is to be paid twenty pounds when she arrives at the age of eighteen years or on her marriage day "), and Eleazer. The will was witnessed by Joseph Wood, James Coles, and William Coles, and was sworn to at Bernards Town, 25 May 1778, before James Kirkpatrick, surrogate. The will having been proved, probate was granted by His Excellency, Governor Livingston, unto Eleazer Squier, the only surviving executor named in the will.


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     A BRANCH OF THE McCLURE FAMILY

Contributed by Mrs. Susan E. Gorman, of North Platte, Nebraska

The following account of one branch of the McClure family is based on records found in a Bible, now in the possession of Mrs. Stella (McClure) Johnson, of Malvern, Iowa.

     BENJAMIN MCCLURE, the son of John and Jane (Ahl) McClure, was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 9 September 1759; he died there 31 August 1821. He married 12 February 1784, Agnes Wallace, who was born 17 October 1763 and died 16 March 1800.

     They had issue:

i.

Robert, b. 20 Jan. 1785.

ii.

Jane, b. 25 Nov. 1786.

iii.

Mary, b. 29 Jan. 1789.

iv.

Betsy, b. 31 Mar. 1791.

v.

JOHN, b. 4 June 1793. [See below.]

vi.

William, b. I Dec. 1795.

vii.

Esther, b. 19 Mar. 1799.

viii.

James, b. 1 Mar. 1800.

     JOHN MCCLURE, born 4 June 1793, married Nancy Means, who was born 10 January 1804.

     They had issue:

i.

Hannah A., b. 27 Nov. 1824.

ii.

Nancy J., b. 21 Oct. 1826.

iii.

Robert, b. 5 Feb. 1829.

iv.

Benjamin, b. Apr. 1831.

v.

George A., b. 10 Apr. 1833.

vi.

JOHN JOSEPH, b. 18 Dec. 1835. [See below.]

     JOHN JOSEPH MCCLURE was born 18 December 1836; he died 3 January 1921. He married, 7 May 1861, Rebecca Miller, who was born 26 June 1840 and died 16 October 1909.

     They had issue:

i.

Robert, b. 27 Jan. 1862.

ii.

John, b. 5 Dec. 1863.

iii.

Edward, b. 17 May 1866.

iv.

Thompson, b. 14 June 1868.

v.

Mina, b. 28 Nov. 1870.

vi.

William Chester, b. 28 Feb. 1873.

vii.

Stella, b. 18 Nov. 1877; m. 3 Oct. 1900 John Merrill Johnson, who was b. 20 Apr. 1879.

viii.

Gertie, b. 17 Oct. 1882.


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SPEAR BIBLE RECORDS

     The following records of the family of Willis Spear are copied from a Bible in the possession of Mrs. Jessamine (Spear) Johnson, of Kirby, Montana, who contributes them to this magazine.
BIRTHS
Willis Spear, January 12, 1824
Jane Spear, February 2, 1826
Oceanna Spear, August 17, 1854
Mary C. Spear, February 23, 1856
John F. Spear, March 27, 1858
Charles R. E. Spear, May 15, 1860
Willis M. Spear, August 2, 1862
Emma L. Spear, April 2, 1864
Hulett W. Spear, November 26, 1866
Annie Spear, December 18, 1869
Kinna Wood, March 14, 1847
Linne J. Wood, December 2, 1848
DEATHS
John F. Spear, January 23, 1866
Annie Spear, December 24, 1869
Hannah Ely Spear, December 14, 1905
McKinley Wood, 1900
Lorinda Wood Schneider, December 3, 1907
Jane Ferguson Spear, December 16, 1905
Willis Bradford Spear, October 8, 1912
MARRIAGES
In Niles, Michigan, October 18, 1853, Mr. Willis Spear and Mrs. Jane Wood.
In Evonston, Wyoming Territory, July 13, 1875. Mr. M. L. Hoyt and Miss 0. Spear.
In Helena, Montana, February 23, 1879, Mr. Paul McCormich to Miss Mary C. Spear.
In Rockport, Missouri, Christopher Schneider and Miss Lorinda Wood.
McKinley Wood married in Tarkio, Missouri, Miss Mary Jane Smith, December 25, 1870.
Emily Leroy Smith married John DeWitt.
Willis Moses Spear and Virginia Belle Benten married at Big Horn, Wyoming, November.
Charles Richard Ely Spear and Frances Grinvell, July 27.
Hulette Spear and Daisy Lewis November 15,        in Sheridan, Wyoming.


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QUERIES

     To CONTRIBUTORS: Anyone may submit queries to this department, provided each query is accompanied by two cents in stamps. The following rules must be observed in submitting queries for publication.

     1. All queries must be plainly written, or typewritten, with dates carefully given, and signed with a full name and address.

     2. Answers should contain proof of the information given, with references to the place where that proof is to be found. They must be signed with the name and address of the contributor, and sent to the Editor for publication.

     COY. Who was Sarah Coy, who married Richard Lee? He died at Norwich? Mass., 7 Aug. 1713. Eleanor, dau. of Richard and Sarah (Coy) Lee, married Samuel Andrews, who was born at Middletown, Mass., in 1683. Was she the daughter of Matthew Coy and Ann Brewster? Mrs. Anna E. Troup, 1229 L St., Lincoln, Nebr.

     HINDS. Who was Elizabeth Hinds, who married John Kirby? Their daughter, Hannah Kirby, married Thomas Andrews, son of Samuel and Eleanor (Lee) Andrews. Mrs. Anna E. Troup, 1229 L St., Lincoln, Nebr.


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