(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Jane (Lathrop) Fuller, was baptized at Scituate, February 11, 1637-38, and was dead before 1692.  His wife's name is unknown.  Children:  1. Barnabas, born about 1659, died in 1738; married, February 25, 1690-81, Elizabeth Young.  2. Joseph, born about 1662, died in January, 1750-51; married, about 1700, Thankful Blossom.  3. Matthew, of whom further.  4. Benjamin, born December 16, 1605.  5. Desire, born about 1667; married, June 11, 1703, John Taylor.  6. Sarah, born about 1669.

          (IV) Matthew, son of Samuel (2) Fuller, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, about 1663, died at Colchester, Connecticut, before 1744.  He moved to Colchester about 1712.  He married, February 25, 1692-93, Patience, born about 1670, died at Colchester, June 25, 1746, daughter of George and Hannah (Pinson) Young.  Children:  1. Anna, born in November, 1693; married, October 17, 1717, Tristram Blish.  2. Jonathan, of whom further.  3. Content, born in February, 1698, died about 1754; married (first) about 1720, Benjamin Fuller, (second), September 20, 1741, Nathaniel Skinner.  4. Joan, born in 1704, died in 1708.  5. David, born in 1706.  6. Young, born in 1708, died June 17, 1796; married, April 23, 1730, Jerusha Beebe.  7. Cornelius, born in 1710; married February 25, 1730, Patience Chappel.  8. Hannah, born in 1712, married, November 1, 1733, Josiah Strong. 

          (V) Jonathan, son of Matthew and Patience (Young) Fuller, was born at Barnstable, in October, 1696, died at Colchester, Connecticut, May 7, 1768.  He married, March 13, 1718, Rebecca Perry, who was born

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at Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1698, died at Colchester, May 4, 1750.  Children, so far as known:  1. Matthew, of whom further.  2. Alice, born about 1721, died August 6, 1746; married, November 8, 1739, Simeon Ackley.  3. Abigail, born about 1723; married, February 13, 1755, Israel Dewey.  4. Jabez, born about 1727, died in 1780, married Sarah -----------.

          (VI) Matthew, son of Jonathan and Rebecca (Perry) Fuller, was born at Colchester, Connecticut, about 1719.  He married Bathsheba ----------.  Children:  1. Son, born about 1737, died May 20, 1738.  2. Isaiah, of whom further.

          (VII) Isaiah, son of Matthew and Bathsheba Fuller, was born in Colchester, Connecticut, baptized there September 12, 1742.  He disappears from Colchester and is believed to be identical with the Isaiah Fuller who came from Connecticut and settled Dutchess county, New York, and whose son David is mentioned below. 

          (VIII) David, son of Isaiah Fuller, was born in Dutchess County, New York, May 24, 1786, died June 13, 1860.  He married in 1812, Elizabeth Haight, who was born in Westchester County, New York, January 15, 1789.  Children:  1. Patsy Ann, born December 2, 1812, died November 3, 1827.  2. Elam, born August 17, 1814, died April 7, 1897; married Ruth Haight.  3. Harriet Jane, of whom further.  4. William Edward, born May 10, 1820, died January 28, 1889.  5. John H., born June 7, 1825.  6. Elizabeth Caroline, born May 19, 1827, died March 25, 1875.  7. Juliana, born January 11, 1830; married ------- O'Neil, now living at Monticello, Sullivan County, New York. 

          (IX) Harriet Jane, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Haight) Fuller, was born May 10, 1820, died September 5, 1907.  She married, March 4, 1841, Benjamin Neal who was born December 15, 1815.  He was a farmer.  Children;  1. Ada Elizabeth, born November 26, 1841; married, October 17, 1860, Milton Lorenzo Gray (see Gray I).  2. Henry Duncan, born September 22, 1854.  3. Ida Isidora, born February 4, 1858. 

DUSINBERY.      Hendrick Hendricksen van Doesburgh, the found of this family, emigrated from Doesburgh, Gelderland, Holland, to New Amsterdam, before 1655.  October 10, 1662, Pieter Jansen van Werkendam granted him the house and lot on the "Slycksteegh," now South William Street, which was originally a part of the land owned by Dominie Johannes Megalopolensis, the first dominie of the Dutch church in America.  He was still living on this property as late as 1674.  He married, February 12, 1655, Marrytje Hendricks van Amsterdam.  Children:  1. Hendrick, baptized April 2, 1656.  2. Hendrick, of whom further.  3. Johannes, baptized August 28, 1661.  4. Johannes, baptized October 15, 1666.  5. Grietje, baptized, October 1, 1671. 

          (II) Hendrick or Henry Dusinbery, son of Hendrick and Marrytje Hendricks (van Haarlaem) Van Doesburgh, was baptized in the Dutch Church in New Amsterdam, August 28, 1658, and died between, December 1, 1742, and May 8, 1743, in Hempstead, Long Island.  The name of his wife is unknown.  Children:  1. William.  2. Mary, married Arthur Alburtus.  3. Hannah, married Benjamin Fowler.  4. Phebe, probably died unmarried.  5. Samuel, of whom further.  6. Benjamin, married Sarah Seaman.  7. Henry, married, September 29, 1711.  8. Mary Fowler. 

          (IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Hannah Dusinbery, was born in Hempstead, Long Island, and died in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York, in February, 1757.  He married Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Ann Budd, who married (second) after her husband's death, Joseph Gue.  Children:  1. Samuel Denton, of whom further.  2. Nancy. 

          (V) Samuel Denton, son of Samuel (2) and Sarah (Budd) Dusinbery, was born in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York, and died in Orange County, New York.  The name of his wife is unknown.  Among his children was Cornelius V. W., of whom further, also a son who was drowned. 

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Denton Dusinbery, was born about 1785, died in Newburg, Orange County, New York, in 1849, aged sixty-four years.  He was for many years in the hotel business in Newburg.  In 1814 he was commissioned ensign in Captain Philip Boyd's company, Fourteenth Regiment, Thirty-fourth Brigade New York State Infantry Militia; in 1816 he was promoted captain in the Fourteenth Regiment, commissioned by Lieutenant-Colonel I. Belknap, vice N. H. Sears, resigned; in 1821 he had removed from Orange County and David Hunter was appointed to the vacant captaincy.  He married Mary Atwood.  Children:  1. Augustus.  2. Rebecca.  3. Rebecca, married Peter Fisher.  4. Samuel, of whom further.  5. Harriet, married Samuel McLaughlin, of Newburg, new York.  6. Jabez A.  6. William.  7. Emily.  8. Elizabeth, married Benjamin Weslick, of Horseheads, New York.  9. Lancaster.  Jabez A., was a whaler and on one of his voyages he took the jawbone of a whale and carved from it a cane thirty-one inches long, which is not one of the most treasured possessions of his niece, Miss Emily E. Dusinbery, of whom further. 

          (VII) Samuel (3), son of Cornelius V. W. and Mary (Atwood) Dusinbery, was born In New Windsor, Orange County, New York, November 19, 1814, died in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York, in August, 1911, aged ninety-seven years.  He retained his faculties until the end of his life and was regarded by the community as one of its smartest and most popular citizens.  He served an apprenticeship of three years to a cabinetmaker of Washingtonville, Orange County, New York, and then entered the employ of A. J. McLaughlin.  At that time all the cabinet work was done by hand,  machine-made furniture being unknown.  A year later he became a partner in the business which rapidly increased and included undertaking.  In 1835 he sold out his interest and came to Liberty, arriving there with only his kit of tools and thirty cents in cash.  At that time Liberty consisted of six dwellings and two small inns or hotels and the principal business of the village was run by Philip Buckley, the owner of one of the taverns, who ran a store for his brother who lived in New York City and supplied the stock in trade.  On coming to Liberty, Mr. Dusinbery opened a cabinet shop, being the first in Liberty to make furniture, using the cherry, redwood, bass and maple that then grew there in plentiful profusion.  Owing to the excellence of his work, his business rapidly increased and he added an undertaking business, supplying the coffins for miles around.  He built himself a small house and later near it a store.  Later he built a fine residence on the hill.  He married, February 21, 1836, Adeline, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Young) Grant, who died in 1899.  Her father, for many years a judge of Sullivan County, owned at one time most of the present site of Liberty.   Children:  1. Marietta, born in 1837, married Frank Hitt and lived in Port Jervis, New York.  2. Amanda, born in 1839; married John a. Shaw, of Liberty, children: i. Clinton, ii. Grace, who became a school teacher in New Jersey, iii. Edwin Ruthven, of whom further, iv. Emily, of whom further.

          (VIII) Edwin Ruthven, son of Samuel (3) and Adeline (Grant) Dusinbery, was born in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York, in 1855, now deceased.  He was engaged with his father in the undertaking business, was a Republican in politics and a member of the Holland Society of New York.  He married Emma Humphrey.

          (VIII) Emily, daughter of Samuel (3) and Adeline (Grant) Dusinbery, was born in Liberty, Sullivan County, New York, in 1855, and is now living there.  She is the sole surviving member of her line of the family.  She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  She is unmarried. 

HADDEN.     Robert Hadden, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born in Putnam County, New York.  He was a farmer.  He married Susan, daughter of Titus Travis, of Putnam Valley, Putnam County, New York.  Children:  1. John Travis, of whom further.  2. Jeremiah.  4. Elizabeth.  4. Benjamin.  5. William.  6. Alethea.  7. Elmira, all born at Cold Springs, Putnam County, New York. 

          (II) John Travis, son of Robert and Susan (Travis) Hadden, was a farmer in the town of Cortlandt. Westchester County, New York.  He married Susan, daughter of Stephen and Phebe (Rainier) Sherwood.  Her mother's father, Richard Rainier, was of

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English descent.  He was a blacksmith.  He was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Peekskill.  He married Sarah Nelson, of Peekskill, who married (second) Joshua Burton.  Children of Richard and Sarah Rainier:  1. Phebe.  2. Nelson.  3. Mary.  4. Elizabeth.  5. Catherine.  Children of Stephen and Phebe (Rainier) Sherwood, all born in Peekskill:  1. Elizabeth, married Augustus Collard, of Peekskill, children: i. Stephen C., ii. Edward T., iii. Jennie W.  2. Susan, referred to above.  3. Mary, married Hiram Ritchie, of Ossining.  4. Joshua, deceased, married Sarah Odell, children:  i. Grace, ii. Walter.  5. Isaac, deceased, married Malinda Lent, children, living in Jersey city, New Jersey:  i. Hattie,  ii. John,  iii. Augusta.  Children of John Travis and Susan (Sherwood) Hadden:  1. Alfred T., born in 1864, died in 1882, being burned to death in a paper mill at Oregon, Putnam County, New York.  2. Sarah M., married Jerome Soper, of Peekskill:  children:  i. William M., born June 5, 1888, married Malinda Kessler, of Peekskill, ii. George B., born October 17, 1895.  3. Anna, died at the age of nineteen.  4.  Ida M., a graduate of the Peekskill Hospital, following the profession of a trained nurse.  5. Emma L., referred to below.  6. Charles E., married Eve Acker, of Peekskill.  7. William R., married Alice Welton, of White Plains, Westchester County, New York.  8. Frederick, married Pauline Welsh, of Montrose.  All were born in Cortlandtown, all now live in Peekskill, and are members of the Dutch reformed Church. 

          (III) Emma L., daughter of John Travis and Susan (Sherwood) Hadden, was born in Cortlandtown.  She lives with her mother in Peekskill, and conducts a hair-dressing and manicure establishment. 

DARBEE.     This name appears in the Massachusetts records as Darby, Daby, and Derby, and in the records of Canterbury, Connecticut, as Darbie.  Many prominent descendants have used the form Derby and others Darby. It is perhaps an Anglicized form of the French d' Arbe.  According to some authorities all English names ending with "by" are from Lincolnshire, England.  The most prominent pioneer of the name in this country was Roger Derby, born in 1643, in Devonshire, England, who arrived at Boston, July 18, 1671, settling in Salem, Massachusetts.  John Derby appears about the same time in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where he was a fisherman.  Roger Derby was also interested in fisheries.  Thomas Derby joined the first church of Salem, October 125, 1663.  The members of this family were Non-Conformists, but affiliated with the Quakers, hence are almost wholly ignored in the Puritan records.  Descendants have been conspicuous in the settlement of Southern New York, and are still ably represented in that section.

          (I) Thomas Darby, Derby, Daby; is presumably the one who joined the church in Salem in 1663.  The first definite account of him appears in his removal in 1684, from Concord, Massachusetts, to the neighboring town of Stowe, where twelve proprietors, one of whom was a Darby, received "founders lots" of fifty acres of upland and fifteen acres of meadow in that year.  On June 17, 1684, Thomas Darby was granted a lot in that town.  He was a soldier in King Philip's War, under Captain Joseph Still, in 1676, and probably received this lot in recognition of that service.  He was elected deacon of the church at Stowe in 1706, and died before December 29, 1749, probably several years before.  His wife, mary, died in Stowe, January 24, 1727.  Children, all born in that town:  1. Elizabeth, baptized November 2, 1684.  2. Mary, July 26, 1683.  3. John, born January 26, 1687.  4. Esther, October 19, 1690.  5. Joseph.  6. Robert.  7. William. 

          (II) William Darbee, youngest child of Thomas and mary Darby, born about 1695, settled at Canterbury, Connecticut, where he married, June 9, 1718, Elizabeth, daughter of Ensign Edward and Mary (Adams) Spalding, born August 15, 1698 (see Spalding IV).

          (III) Jedediah, son of William and Elizabeth (Spalding) Darbee, was born August 25, 1730, in Canterbury, Connecticut, and was among the petitioners, March 29, 1753, tot he assembly at Hartford for a quit claim of land on the Quiwamuck and Susquehanna Rivers.  He resided for some time in Lisbon, Connecticut, and probably died there.  He married, January 2, 1755, in Canterbury, Lucretia Cleveland, born February 2, 1737, in Canterbury, daughter of

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Timothy and Dorothy (Hyde) Cleveland, of that town (see Cleveland III).

          (IV) Samuel, youngest son of Jedediah and Lucretia (Cleveland) Darbee, was born June 2, 1768, in Lisbon, Connecticut, died April 20, 1826, in Rockland, Sullivan County, New York.  He was left an orphan at a very tender age and was apprenticed to a clothier, becoming master of the trade.  In 1792, he went to Chester, Orange county, New York, and four years later settled in Rockland, Sullivan County, where he purchased land and engaged in business in addition to clearing and tilling the ground.  He built a fulling mill, and dyeing establishment, the only one for fifty miles around.  Some of his sons engaged actively in clearing and tilling the land, while others assisted about the mill.  After a busy and useful life his death was accidental; while hauling a load of hay from the farm of Levi gates in Liberty to his own farm, he was thrown from the load to the bed of a creek, causing his death.  Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He married, at Jewett City, Connecticut, September 30, 1790, Hannah Kimball, born October 27, 1769 (see Kimball VI).  Children, the first three born in Goshen:  1. Lucretia, born January 3, 1792; married Peter O'Hara and settled in Greenville, Greene County, New York, where many of his descendants now reside.  2. Sarah, July 21, 1793, died unmarried.  4. Lucinda, December 30, 1794; married, January 1, 1816, William Sprague, and lived in Rockland and later at Pike, Wyoming County, and New York.  4. John, mentioned below.  5. Abigail, March 22, 1798; married, February 25, 1819, Peter Stewart, and lived in Rockland.  6. Hannah, November 7, 1799; married, October 20, 1819, Augustus Dodge, and lived in Rockland and Pike, Wyoming County, New York.  7. William, November 1, 1801; lived in Liberty, and died in 1868.  8. Levi, April 8, 1803; resided in Brooklyn, New York, where he died; some of his descendants still live there.  9. Roxanna, May 21, 1896, died unmarried in Rockland, July 6, 1851.  10. Samuel, March 11, 1808; married Jane Montgomery, and died in Rockland, in 1883.  11. Catherine, August 15, 1810; married, March 10, 1846, Allan Stewart, and died in New Jersey in 1875.  12. Chester, June 18, 1813, died in Rockland, September, 1872. 

          (V) John, eldest son of Samuel and Hannah (Kimball) Darbee, was born March 20, 1796, in Rockland, where he grew up, and received his education in the district school of the neighborhood.  At the age of eighteen years he was employed as a lumberman, and in 1822 went tot he town of Liberty, where he purchased a farm, one mile west of the village of Liberty on which he lived until 1869, when he retired from active labor at the age of seventy-one years.  He built a house on Main Street in the village of Liberty in which he lived until his death December 24, 1875.  He was a member of the Baptist Church and served as trustee; he was prominent in church work.  After the Civil War he acted with the Republican Party and served as town assessor and school trustee. He was a member of the Masons, a charter member of Monticello Lodge and active.  He married, January 10, 1822, Eliza, daughter of Levi and Anna (Allen) Gates, born March 24, 1800, in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, (see Gates VI).  Children:  1. Levi, mentioned below.  2. Hannah Ann, born September 29, 1828; married Jeremiah Bridges, and died in Liberty, November 16, 1907.  3.  Sarah Elizabeth, October 26, 1831, died September 11, 1884, unmarried.  4. Helen Augusta, August 7, 1835, died July 3, 1898, unmarried.  5. John Adams, mentioned below.  Sarah Elisabeth and Helen Augusta were school teachers for many years, the former being at her death principal of a school in Middletown, New York. 

          (VI) Levi, child of John and Eliza (Gates) Darbee, was born March 8, 1824, in Liberty, died February 27, 1907, in the town, where he spent most of his life.  He purchased one hundred and eighty acres of land near White Sulphur Springs which was in a state of nature and upon which he expended great labor in clearing it of stones and timber.  He was known as one of the most industrious farmers in the section, and at his death, at the age of eighty-three years, he was as straight as an arrow.  He married, October 4, 1859, Harriet Gildersleve, who died January 5, 1904.  Children:  1. Florence Elizabeth, born 1861; married Wilmot Moore, and resides im Oyster Bay,

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Long Island.  2. Sherman Ulysses, born July 10, 1864; resides in San Francisco, California, where he married Christina Christensen, a native of Denmark.  3. Charles Allen, mentioned below.  4. Robert Eugene, born 18780, resides in San Francisco, and has a son, Andrew Levi. 

          (VII) Charles Allen, second son of Levi and Harriet (Gildersleve) Darbee, was born July 24, 1867, on the homestead, in Liberty, and attended the public schools of his native town.  His life has been devoted to agriculture, and he now resides on the farm in Liberty, which was his maternal grandfather's.  He rears fine cattle and supplies many of the people of the village of Liberty with milk.  The house in which he resides was built by Levi Gates in 1816 and the farm is considered one of the best in Sullivan County.  He married, July 4, 1902, at Lake Kiamesha in the town of Thompson, Helen, daughter of Herman M. and Jane (Hendricksen) Crum, of Liberty township, a descendant of an old New York family which was represented in the early settlement of Fallsburg township.  They have a daughter, Dorothy Jane, born July 4, 1903.

          (VI) John Adams, youngest child of John and Eliza (Gates) Darbee, was born March 8, 1839, in Liberty.  He was educated in the public schools and the Normal Institute of the village of Liberty.  His summers were industriously occupied upon his father's farm, and his winters quite as industriously devoted to study.  For three years he taught school in Sullivan County.  On September 13, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Forty-third New York Volunteer Infantry, under colonel Boughton.  Being taken with fever he was unable to participate in the larger battles, but saw service at Banford, South Carolina,, and later in Wilmington, North Carolina.  He was with Sherman's Army at Raleigh, North Carolina, and took part in some encounters with the enemy, also helping with the raiders who supplied cattle for the army.  He went with Sherman's Army from Raleigh to Washington and marched with and participated in the grand review of Sherman's Army at Washington, May 24, 1865.  Returning to his native place, he settled down upon a farm in Sullivan County, which he has ever since been engaged in tilling.  Mr. Darbee is a Republican.  His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and he again voted for the same candidate four years late, while in the field in Tennessee.  He first public service in connection with politics was as inspector of elections.  For one term he was overseer of the poor, and town assessor for six years.  For twelve years, beginning with 1890, he served as justice of the peace for the town of Liberty.  He now leads a retired life, as in recent years his precarious health has prevented his active practice in business or public affairs.  Notwithstanding his age his memory is very clear, and he is a most interesting conversationalist.  In religion he is a free thinker. 

          He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has been Adjutant of Garrett Post, No. 311, at Liberty.  In the Masonic fraternity, he is a charter member of Mongaup Lodge, no. 816, Free and Accepted Masons.  He is also secretary of the One Hundred and Forty-third New York State Volunteer Infantry Association.  Mr. Darbee never married, and now makes his home with his nephew, Charles Allen Darbee, above mentioned, on the farm located by his maternal grandfather, Levi Gates, in 1797, which has been in the possession of the Gates and Darbee families since that date.

(The Spalding Line.)

          The name of Spalding has been traced to the market town of that name in Lincolnshire, England, which now has a population of about six thousand people.  In the market place is a spa or spring of chalybate water, and some have conjectured this forms the foundation of the name.  All the men of the Spalding, or nearly all, are and have been of strong physique.  One conjecture as to the origin of the name derives it from "spal," an old English word meaning "shoulder" and another old English word meaning "strike," and it presumed that the early Spaldings were noted as should hitters.  But be that as it may, the name has been borne in this country by many men of much worth, and it has been distinguished in military and civic life in all sections of the United States.  It has

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been computed that eighteen of this  name participated in the battle of Bunker Hill, where one had his horse shot under him.  It had been noted in medicine, in the ministry, in law and in extensive business concerns.  Down to 1872 there were fifty college graduates. 

          (I) Edward Spalding probably arrived on American shores between 1630 and 1633.  He is found of record at Braintree, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman, May 13, 1640.  On October 1, 1645, his petition, with those of nineteen others, for a grant of ten thousand acres of land was granted by the general court.  In 2653 he was one of twenty to petition for the establishment of the town of Chelmsford, and this was granted on May 10 following, and the settlement began immediately.  He was one of the selectmen chosen at the first town meeting there in 1654, again in 1656, and in 1660-61.  On the first division of lands, February 4, 1661, he was granted twenty-eight acres.  In 1663 he was surveyor of highways, and in 1665 one of a committee to lay out the meadow lands.  In 1666 he was one of the surveyors of Newfield, of which he was one of the original proprietors, and afterwards he was one of the surveyors of North Chelmsford.  He is o record in 1664 as possessing an orchard of apple trees which was then much desired in the colony.  His first wife, Margaret, died at Braintree, in august, 1640, and his daughter, Grace, died the following year.  He died February 26, 1670, and his second wife, Rachel, prior to April 5, of the same year.  His estate was appraised at one hundred and twenty-six pounds, nineteen shillings, four pence above his debts, which amounted to about thirteen and one-half pounds.  At the time of this appraising his wife's wearing apparel was valued at two pounds, ten shillings.  His children by first wife were:  1. John.  2. Edward.  3. Grace; by second wife:  4. Benjamin.  5. Joseph.  6. Dinah.  7. Andrew.

          (II) Benjamin, third son of Edward Spalding, and eldest of his second wife, was born April 7, 1643, in Braintree, died before 1708.  He was admitted a freeman of Connecticut in 1689, and was mentioned in his father's will as having received his portion of the estate.  He purchased a large tract of land in the northern part of Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, which is now the town of Brooklyn.  His homestead descended to his son Edward and grandson Ebenezer.  He married, October 30, 1668, olive, daughter of Henry and Olive Farwell, of Concord, and late Chelmsford.  Children:  1. Sarah.  2. Edward.  3. Benjamin.  4. Elizabeth.  5. Mary. 

          (III) Ensign Edward (2) Spalding, eldest son of Benjamin and Olive (Farwell) Spalding, was born June 18, 1740, in Canterbury.  He bought land north of Canterbury in 1707, and was a member of the first committee of the religious society organized there in 1731.  He married Mary Adams, born 1676, died September 20, 1754, in Canterbury.  They were members of the first church of Chelmsford, and of the Canterbury church.  Children:  1. Benjamin.  2. Elizabeth.  3. Ephraim.  4. Jonathan.  5. Ezekiel.  6. Ruth.  7. Abigail.  8. Ebenezer.  9. John. 

          (IV) Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Ensign Edward (20 and Mary (Adams) Spalding, became the wife of William Darbee (spelled in Canterbury Darby) (see Darbee II).

(The Cleveland Line.)

          Moses Cleveland, the ancestor of al of that name in this country, was born about 1621, at Ipswich, in Suffolk, England, and was apprenticed to a housewright in London, whence he emigrated in 1635 to Massachusetts.  Soon after attaining his majority in 1643, he was made a freeman at Woburn, Massachusetts, and continued to reside in that town until his death, January 9, 1702.  He attained considerable prominence in Woburn, and was admitted to full communion with the first church of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1692.  He married, September 26, 1648, Ann Winn, born about 1626, daughter of Edward and Joanna Winn. 

          (II) Sergeant Samuel Cleveland, third son of Moses Cleveland, was born June 9, 1657, in Woburn, died in Canterbury, March 12, 1736.  He earned his military title through service in King Philip's War.  About 1780 he went to Chelmsford, Massachusetts and purchased land there the following year.

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Subsequently he became one of the pioneer settlers of Canterbury, Connecticut, where he was joined by his brother Josiah, who also went from Chelmsford.  He married (first) May 17, 1680, Jane Keyes, born October 25, 1660, in Newbury, Massachusetts, died November 4, 1681, without issue.  He married (second) in Chelmsford, May 22, 1682, Persis Hildreth, born February 8, 1660, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Hildreth, died in Canterbury, February 22, 1698.  He married (third), in 1699, Mrs. Margaret Fisk, a widow, of Canterbury.  Children of second marriage:  1. Persis.  2. Samuel.  3. Joseph.  4. Elizabeth.  5. Mary.  Of the third marriage, 6. Abigail.  7. Timothy.

          (III) Timothy, youngest son of Sergeant Samuel and Margaret (Fisk) Cleveland, was born, lived and died in Canterbury.  He married Dorothy Hyde, and they were the parents of 1. Lucretia, wife of Jedediah Darbee (see Darbee III).   Other children:  2. Jedediah.  3. Azariah.  4. Chester.  5. John.  6. Samuel.  7. Cecelia.  8. Abigail.  The father died at the age of forty years, and the widow married John Bishop with whom she removed to Wells, Vermont.  Of the sons, Chester was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and died at Sheffield, Connecticut,.  John was a physician and lived in New Jersey, where he died in 1705.  Jedediah died October 29, 1828, in West Falls, Erie County, New York, at the age of seventy-two years. Cecelia died October 12, 1844, at the age of eighty-nine years.

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