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(II) Ephraim, son of Stephen and Ruth Bedell, was born February 24, 1727. About 1750 he came to settle in Yorktown, New York, making the journey from Hempstead afoot. Here he secured a farm of about three hundred acres; at first quite limited in means, he became well-to-do. He was a Presbyterian. He married, in 1752, Philena Fort, born in 1732. Children: 1. Stephen, buried March 6, 1795. 2. Sarah, married Isaac Smith. 3. Samuel, died in May, 1827; married, February 4, 1790, Mary Whitney. 4. Mary, married Joseph Horton. 5. Daniel, married, October 15, 1789, Nancy Powell. 6. David, of whom further. 7. William. 8. Jacob. 9. Elizabeth, born May 12, 1771, died May 23, 1838; married, April 28, 1790, Benjamin Wright. 10. Hannah, married Ebenezer Osborn 11. Deborah, married John Conklin.

(III) David, son of Ephraim and Philena (Fort) Bedell, was born March 25, 1764, died in June, 1848. About 1788, he came with his brother William to Somers township, New York, where he purchased a tract of one hundred acres, entirely unimproved. They erected a double log-house, each family occupying one room. David Bedell was inclined to the religious views of the Quakers. He took little interest in politics. He married April 30, 1788, Millicent, daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Horton) Wright, born in Somers township, February 10, 1770. Child, Gilbert Wright, of whom further.

(IV) Gilbert Wright, son of David and Millicent (Wright) Bedell, was born March 12, 1790, died November 4, 1840. He graduated from the academy at North Salem, Westchester County, New York, and was a good Greek and Latin scholar. For a time he taught school. He was actively interested in public affairs, serving as justice of the peace, and in military affairs, being captain of a company in the New York National Guard, in which every member was at least six feet high. Farming was his principal occupation, he married Martha Ann, daughter of William and Catherine (Green) nelson. Children: 1. Elizabeth, born in 1824, died in childhood. 2. James Wright, of whom further. 3. William G., born in 1823, died in childhood.

(V) James Wright, son of Gilbert Wright and Martha Ann (Nelson) Bedell, was born on his grandfather's farm, October 8, 1825, died August 21, 1894. His education was obtained in the North Salem, Peekskill and Bedford academies, and after his school life he returned to the old homestead. His grandfather outlived his father and the former lived several years after his own marriage, so the farm passed directly to him from his grandfather. He was engaged in the insurance business also. James Wright Bedell was a director of the Traders and Drovers Bank, later Farmers and Drivers Bank, in which his father and grandfather were stockholders. He served nineteen years in the National Guard, being respectively promoted until he reached

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the rank of lieutenant-colonel (colonel by brevet). During the Civil War he held a military position in the enrolling department and was active in furnishing the quota of troops under the various calls from the government. In politics he was a Republican and he held the office of supervisor of Somers Township. He was the projector of Ivandell Cemetery and president of the association. He and his family were Presbyterians. He married, August 14, 1844, Euphemia, daughter of Ebenezer and Amy (Green) White, born March 11, 1817, died April 21, 1894. Her father was the son of Dr. Ebenezer White (elsewhere mentioned) whose son, Ebenezer White Jr., was born in Yorktown, June 13, 1779, died March 20, 1865. He was educated by private tutors and attended medical lectures in New York City. After his marriage he removed to Somers, where he purchased a farm and where for over sixty years he practiced medicine. He was prominent, as a member and officer, in the Presbyterian Church. In politics he was a Republican, serving for eight years as surrogate of the county and for one term as a member of the Assembly. He married, April 8, 1800, Amy Green, born September 22, 1779, died January 24, 1861. Children: 1. Bartow F., born May 28, 1801, died in 1869; married Anna Augusta Belcher. 2. Stephen G., born April 7, 1803, died June 3, 1826. 3. Helen Ann, born February 12, 1805, died August 22, 1883; married James Lovett. 4. Lewis H., born March 17, 1807, died September 24, 1886; married Helen Van Wyck. 5. Ebenezer, died in infancy. 6. Oliver, born April 9, 1810, died November 7, 1879; married Catherine Ritter. 7. Phoebe, born June 26, 1812, died December 1, 1853; married Robert Calkoon. 8. John P., born February 11, 1815, died April 12, 1888; married Margaret Ryson. 9. Euphemia, referred to above. 10. Samuel, born September 28, 1819, died December 5, 1897; married Emma Jackson. Children of James Wright and Euphemia (White) Bedell: 1. William N., born June 4, 1843, died April 10, 1868. 2. Elizabeth, born March 4, 1817, died August 20, 1860. 3. Helen B., born April 7, 1849; married Albert Moore White, referred to above. 4. Anna, born February 16, 1851; married Eugene Miller. 5. Bartow W., born December 11, 1852; married Letitia Ida Adriance Kenyon. 6. Phoebe C., born August 17, 1854. 7. Margaret W., born August 29, 1850, died February 25, 1908. 8. Amie Gilberta, born August 31, 1858; married Alonzo Seymour.

LOCKWOOD. Robert Lockwood, the founder of this family, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, about 1630, and was made freeman there, march 9, 1636-37. About 1646 he removed from Watertown to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he died in 1658. He was made freeman of Connecticut, May 20, 1862. He married Susanna -----------, who survived him. After his death, she married Jeffrey Ferris, and died in Greenwich, December 23, 1660. Children: 1. Jonathan, of whom further. 2. Deborah, born October 12, 1636; married, before October 20, 1658 ---------. 3. Joseph, born August 6, 1638, died April 14, 1717; married -------- Beacham. 4. Daniel, born March 21, 1640-41, died in 1691; married Abigail -------------. 5. Ephraim, born December 1, 1641; married, June 8, 1665, Mercy Sention (now spelt St. John). 6. Gershom, born September 6, 1643, died march 12, 1718-19; married Lady Ann, daughter of Lord Millington. 7. John. 8. Abigail; married John Bartow. 9. Sarah. 10. Mary, married Jonathan Huested.

(II) Lieutenant Jonathan Lockwood, son of robert and Susanna Lockwood, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, September 10, 1634, died in Greenwich, Connecticut, may 12, 1688, in his fifty-fourth years. January 1, 1657, he signed a paper at "Easttowne in New Netherlands" serving allegiance tot he Ditch Government, while living under its jurisdiction. From 1660 to 1665, he lived in Stamford, Connecticut. In 1670, he became a freeman of Greenwich, assistant, in May, 1671, and in 1672, "one of the twenty-seven proprietors." For four years he represented the town in the legislature. When he died the people met in town meeting and passed resolutions deploring the "loss of so valuable a citizen." He married Mary or Marah, daughter of Jeffrey Ferris. Children: 1. Jonathan (2), born about 1663, died November 9, 1689; unmarried. 2. Robert, died between May 7, 1731 and January 23, 1732; married Mary ----------. 3. Gershom, of whom further. 4. Joseph,

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born in 1675, died in 1759; married (first), May 19, 1698, Elizabeth Ayres, (second), August 10, 1716. Margery Webb. 5. Still John, born about 1674, died in 1758; married --------. 6. Sarah, married, June 19, 1707, Michael Lounsbury. 7. Abigail.

(III) Gershom, son of Lieutenant Jonathan and mary (Ferris) Lockwood, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, died in Fairfield County, Connecticut, before may, 1752, when the administrator of his estate made his report. He married Hannah ----------------. Children: 1. Jabez, born January 18, 1702-03, died in 1734; unmarried. 2. Nathan, born July 28, 1704, died in July, 1761; married, Sarah ----------. 3. Hezekiah, of whom further. 4. Libni, born May 30, 1708. 5. Hannah, born September 20, 1710. 6. Mary, born November 6, 1712. 7. Gershom (2), married (first) Mary -----------, (second), March 22, 1762, -----------. 8. Theophilus, died before January 13, 1764; married, December 17, 1749, Hannah closes. 9. David.

(IV) Hezekiah, son of Gershom and Hannah Lockwood, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, June 9, 1706, and was living as late as October 18, 1763, when he receipted for his share of he estate of his brother Jabez. He married, in 1729, Ruth --------. Children: 1. Jeremiah, of whom further. 2. Hezekiah, married mary Birdsall. 3. Ruth. 4. Mercy. 5. Isaac, born about 1745, married --------. 6. Sarah. 7. Samuel. 8. Josiah. 9. Ann.

(V) Jeremiah, son of Hezekiah and Ruth Lockwood, was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, about 1733, died between October 25 and November 30, 1786. He enlisted, September 15, 1779, as a private in Captain Throop's company of Colonel Dutchess' regiment. He married, January 8, 1758, Abigail Smith,. Children: 1. David, born may 15, 1759, died September 6, 1825; married, November 7, 1779, Hannah Holly. 2. Sylvenius, of whom further. 3. Jeremiah (2), born December 24, 1764, died in 1822; married, August 7, 1784, Elizabeth Holcraft. 4. Ebenezer, born November 12, 1766, died January 3, 1839; married Ann ----------. 5. Abraham, born August 28, 1770; married, June 23, 1803, Mary Sackett Knapp. 6. Abigail, born June 5, 1772. 7. James, born April 17, 1775; married, November 9, 1797, Marilda Ferris.

(VI) Sylvenius, son of Jeremiah and Abigail (Smith) Lockwood, was born January 30, 1763, and baptized at Stamford, Connecticut, November 17, 1765. He married Deborah, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Sellick, of Darien, Connecticut, who were members of the Congregational Church at that place when it was organized. Children: 1. Sellick. 2. Delevan. 3. John, of whom further. 4. Jane, married ------ Odell. 5. Mary, married ---------- Osborn. 6. Deborah, married -------------. 7. Martha, married Moses Knapp.

(VII) John, son of Sylvenius and Deborah (Sellick) Lockwood, was born in Darien, Connecticut, and removed to Putnam Valley, New York, died at Yorktown, New York, aged seventy-four years. He married Bethsheba, daughter of Abraham Maibee, who was born in Yorktown, where she died aged eighty-eight years. Her father was born in France, "fought in the American Revolution, married in Yorktown, New York, lived in Canada, and died leaving landed estate." Children: 1. Hannah, married Jeremiah Ogden, of Poughkeepsie. 2. Abraham, died at Yorktown; married --------- Lounsbury. 3. Hester A., died at Yorktown; married Daniel Fields. 4. Mary, married John J. Wagoner, of Amsterdam, New York. 5. Amanda Lavinia, died at Poughkeepsie; married Daniel Ogden. 6. John Ashley, born in 1823; married, June 4, 1844, Hannah Elizabeth Mott. 7. Elizabeth, died at Salisbury Mills, Orange County, New York; married David Birdsall. 8. Jane, married John Munsterman, from Holland. 9. Elijah Lee, of whom further. 10. Sarah, unmarried, died near where she was born at the Lockwood House, Oregon, at the age of seventy-six years.

(VIII) Elijah Lee, son of John and Bethsheba (Maibee) Lockwood, was born may 1, 1825, and died July 7, 1899, aged seventy-four years. He was a farmer in Cortlandtown, Westchester County, New York, and for many year a treasurer of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oregon, in the same county. He also conducted a large summer boarding house at Oregon, for forty years. He married Emily Dean, daughter of ------------and Elizabeth (Dean) Birdsall, of Carmel, Putnam County, whose material grandfather was David dean of Carmel. Children, five born in Yorktown, the others in Cortlandtown, and all living in or near the latter

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place. 1. Emily Jane, of whom further. 2. Matilda Frances. 3. Elijah Judson. 4. William Augustus. 5. Mary Elizabeth. 6. Emily Jane. 7. Anna Nora. 8. Lillie Estelle. 9. Anna Belle. 10. Ulysses Grant. 11. John Sherman. 12, George Tennyson.

(IX) Emily Jane, daughter of Elijah Lee and Emily Dean (Birdsall) Lockwood, was born at Yorktown, Westchester County, New York, December 6, 1846, and is now living in Cortlandtown, Westchester County, New York, at the Lockwood homestead, with her sister, mary Elizabeth. Here they have a farm of ninety-six acres and they still conduct the large summer boarding house.

HILL. Anthony Hill, the founder of this family, was born in Holland, died at Fox Meadow, Westchester County, New York, in the winter of 1759 or 1760. He was of English descent and emigrated to this country about 1720, settling first in New York City. In 1726 he became a freeholder at Fox meadow (now a part of Scarsdale) and about 1741 he purchased from the Indians a tract of land near what was afterwards called Red Mills, now Mahopac Falls, in the town of Carmel, Putnam County, New York. He sent his two sons, Uriah and William, to cultivate this land, but Uriah, in some way becoming obnoxious to the Indians, was obliged to return home. He married, about 1726, Mary Ward, who was born in Holland. She survived her husband and after his death lived at Red Mills wit her son William until her own death at the age of ninety-three. Children: 1. William, of whom further. 2. Uriah, died in 1765. 3. Anthony, died in 1766; married Elizabeth -------. 4. Andrew, died in 1810; married Catherine Horton. 5. Cornelius. 6. Charity, married Isaac Rhoades. 7. Jane. 8. Mary. 9. Miriam, born May 27, 1750, died April 1, 1845; married Elisha Lamoreaux.

(II) William, son of Anthony and Mary (Ward) Hill, was born at Fox Meadow, Westchester County, New York, 1726, died at Red Mills, in August, 1896. He settled at Red Mills, in 1741, and one night, when looking for a cow which he and his brother Uriah had brought with them from Fox Meadows, he was attacked by wolves and compelled to take refuge ina tree. Early the next morning he returned by a circuitous route and came to the cabin of George Hughson (north of Lake Mahopac) the first settler in that region, the Hill brothers being the second. William Hill became a large land owner and the house in which he lived was standing as late as 1843. In colonial days he was a lieutenant and afterwards a captain in the state militia. He married Bethia, daughter of Abraham Smith, born in 1728, died at Red Mills, in August, 1798. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are buried in the Hill family burying ground at Red Mills. Children: Phebe, died April 9, 1821; married Charles Heroy. 2. Noah, of whom further. 3. Solomon. 4. Andrew. 5. Mary, born in 1750, died January 21, 1821; married Isaac Rhoades. 6. William, born December 4, 1760, died November 29, 1851; married Nancy Pinckney. 7. Cornelius, born March 3, 1765, died November 12, 1851; married, January 25, 1786, Elizabeth Anderson. 8. Chloe, born in 1767, died March 12, 1836; married Joseph Crane. 9. Jane, born June 14, 1772, died December 12, 1845; married, November 25, 1795, Thomas Lounsbury. 10. Abraham, born July 24, 1774, died March 25, 1813; married June 18, 1798, Deborah Lounsbury. Also, two sons that died in infancy.

(III) Noah, son of William and Bethia (Smith) Hill, was born at Red Mills, 1755, died there January 3, 1830. He was a farmer and with his brother Willian, served as a private during the Revolutionary War in the Seventh Regiment Dutchess County Militia. Another brother, Solomon, is said to have been a Loyalist and to have gone to Canada. Noah and his family were members of the Baptist Church. He married, November 25, 1788, Sarah, daughter of Israel and Dorothy Pinckney, of Red Mills, born April 23, 1770, died May 13, 1846. Children: 1. Uriah, of whom further. 2. Chloe, born in 1791, died April 11, 1874; married Daniel Wright. 3. Anthony, born in 1793, died February 22, 1867; married Dorothy Pinckney. 4. Esther, born March 8, 1801, died October 1, 1871; married (first) Seth Curtis, (second) May 1, 1831, Bethaly H. Wixon. 5. Mahala.

(IV) Uriah, son of Noah and Sarah (Pinckney) Hill, was born at Red Mills, January 22, 1790, died at Belvidere, Illinois,

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January 28, 1885. He was a farmer at Red Mills, and also taught school in Putnam County, New York, for over half a century. He was a justice of the peace for the town of Carmel and also commissioner of common schools for Putnam County. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Mount Carmel. About 1875 he removed to Belvidere, Illinois. He married, March 11, 1811, Ann, daughter of Richard and Alethea (Austin) Dean. Children: 1. Emelinda, born June 21, 1812, died April 19, 1879; married, November 10, 1830, Ebenezer Wright. 2. Martha, born October 5, 1813, died November 5, 1890; married, June 15, 1831, Walter B. Hull. 3. Noah, born July 13, 1815, died September 22, 1839. 4. Uriah, of whom further. 5. Amzi, born March 3, 1822, died January 21, 1892; married, October 9, 1850, Sarah Buskirk. 6. Ira Dean, born December 24, 1823; married Phebe (Miller) Case. 7. Stephen, born July 14, 1826, died March 19, 1892; married (first), September 5, 1853, Mary E. Ferris, (second), November 18, 1874, Elvira Bounds. 8. Sarah, born October 30, 1828, died December 1, 1843. 9. Adah, born January 13, 1830, died November 11, 1903; married, March 8, 1855, Elias Ayers. 10. Susan, born April 11, 1830, died June 21, 1839. 11. Phebe, twin of Susan, died April 17, 1874; married, February 21, 1861, Hiram Polley.

(V)Uriah, (2), son of Uriah (1) and Ann (Dean) Hill, was born at Red Mills, August 13, 1817. He spent his early life in Mount Carmel and was educated in his father's school. At sixteen he left home and became a clerk at Jefferson Valley in the store of John Strang & Company, and three years later, in 1837, he removed from Jefferson Valley, to Peekskill, where he entered the employ of C. A. G. and M. Depew, merchants, with whom he remained for five year. He then engaged in the foundry and stove business with his father-in-law and had charge of the sales department in New York City. In 1853 impaired health led to his withdrawal from business, and he removed to Monroe County, New York, where he engaged for two years, returning at the end of that time to Peekskill and to the foundry business. The elder Mr. Finch retired from business in 1867, and the firm was re-incorporated as the Union Stove Works, Mr. Hill becoming president of the new corporation, a position he held for the ensuing forty years. He is a Presbyterian in religion, a ruling elder of the church and was for forty years superintendent of the Sunday School of the First Presbyterian Church, of Peekskill. In politics he is an independent Democrat. During the Civil War he voted the Republican ticket and he twice voted for President McKinley. He has been trustee of the Peekskill Savings Bank since its organization, and in 1881 was made president of that institution. He was one of the organizers of the national Association of Stove Manufacturers, in which concern he has held several offices. He served as first lieutenant in the Sixty-first Regiment of the state militia, and although at the time beyond the age limit for military service he sent a substitute tot he Civil War. He has been trustee and president of the village of Peekskill, and town auditor and supervisor of the town of Cortlandt. He has also been for about forty years trustee of the Peekskill Military Academy and is deeply interested in educational matters.

He married, April 10, 1842, Alethea, daughter of Reuben R. and Deborah (Brush) Finch, born at Cos Cob, Connecticut, March 14, 1823, died January 9, 1908. Her father was born at Fairfield, Connecticut, and her mother at Greenwich, Connecticut. Children: 1. Julia, born May 1, 1843, died February 18, 1844. 2. Henry, born December 7, 1846, died August 5, 1862. 3. Sarah Vail, born October 20, 1850. 4. Reuben Finch, born June 21, 1856, died September 13, 1856. 5. Edward Finch, of whom further.

(VI) Edward Finch, son of Uriah (2) and Alethea (Finch) Hill, was born at Peekskill, Westchester County, new York, August 11, 1857, and is now living there. He received his education in private schools and in the Peekskill Military Academy. In religion he is a Presbyterian. He is a member of the Grand Chapter of the Royal arch Masons and has held numerous offices, having been presiding officer during the year 1911. He is a member of Cortlandt Lodge, No. 34, Free and Accepted masons, of Peekskill; of Chapter No. 221, Royal Arch Masons; of Peekskill Council, No. 55, Royal

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and Select Masters; of Westchester Commandery, No. 42, Knights Templar; of Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and of Lodge No. 744, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is an active member of Washington Engine Company, No. 2, and an associate member of the Peekskill Fire Hook and Ladder Company. He is a member of the Highland Boat Club, the Mahopac Boat Club, the Mahopac Golf Club, the National Art Club of New York City, the New York Athletic Club, the Economic Club of New York, and the Masonic Club of New York. He is also a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. For six years he has been ward commissioner of Peekskill. He succeeded his father and is now president of the Union Stove Works, one of the most extensive manufacturing enterprises in Westchester County, and although its corporate existence dates only from 1867 it has been in practical existence for over seventy years. He is a director of the Westchester National Bank, of Peekskill, and of the Westchester Trust Company, of Yonkers. He is treasurer of the Highland Democratic Commission, of Peekskill.

Mr. Hill married, June 16, 1887, Jessie, daughter of Staats Morris and Rebecca (Stinson) Dyckman, born at Verplanck Point, Westchester County, New York, April 22, 1801. Children: 1. Hazel Dyckman, born July 28, 1888. 2. Edward Knight, born August 22, 1892. 3. Dudley Laurance, born October 6, 1893.

LAMOS. Nathaniel Lamos, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born and died in New Hampshire. he was a farmer. He married -----------. Child, John, of whom further.

(II) John, son of Nathaniel Lamos, was born in New Hampshire, about 1810, died at Long Lake, New York, about 1890. He married Mary A. Baker, who was born in New Hampshire. Children: 1. John Trues. 2. Moses Baker. 3. Ann. 4. Amanda, died in infancy. 5. Mardana. 6. Charles, died in infancy. 7. Charles Aldis, of whom further. 8. Justin. 9. Jennie. 10. Stephen.

(III) Charles Aldis, son of John and Mary A. (Baker) Lamos, was born in Stocksborough, Vermont, about 1844, died in 1905. He is buried at Hillsdale Cemetery. He attended public schools at Bridport, Vermont. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the army; he served nearly four years in the Eleventh Vermont and Sixth corps and had the rank of corporal. After the Civil War he worked as a carpenter. In 1868 he came to Peekskill and entered, first into the building business, afterwards, in 1896, into the sash and door business founding the concern now conducted by his son, Charles Aldis. He was a Presbyterian in religion, and a Republican in politics. He married, in 1875, Carrie Benedict, daughter of John Jarvis and Susan Esther (Lockwood) Lent, born in Peekskill, New York. Her grandfather, James Lent, was born in Peekskill, New York, and lived to the age of ninety-two; he was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Montrose. He married Annie, daughter of Captain Krankhoyts. James lent had nine sons and one daughter. John Jarvis Lent was born and educated in Peekskill, where he was a millwright; he served one year in the army. Susan Esther, daughter of Frederick Lockwood, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut; her father was a harnessmaker. Children of John Jarvis and Susan Esther (Lockwood) Lent: 1. Henrietta, deceased. 2. Emma, deceased. 3. Phebe, deceased. 4. Isabel, deceased. 5. Carrie Benedict, referred to herein. 6. Jennie W. children of Charles Aldis and Carrie Benedict (Lent) Lamos: 1. Gertrude, born September 25, 1876; married James Milton Goff. 2. Charles Aldis, of whom further. 3. Anna L., born May 4, 1883; married Frost Horton. 4. Alberta F., born May 5, 1885. 5. Susie W., born February 22, 1888; married, in 1911, Beverly A. Lundy. 6. Althea G., born January 3, 1904. All were born in Peekskill.

(IV) Charles Aldis (2), son of Charles Aldis (1) and Carrie Benedict (Lent) Lamos, was born at Peekskill, New York, August 20, 1870. He operates in Peekskill the largest and best equipped woodworking plant in Westchester County, having succeeded his father in the business in 1905. The latest improved machinery and labor-saving devices are here in use. Steady employment is given to a large force of expert woodworkers and other employees, and

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sashes, doors, blinds, frames and mill work of a high grade are manufactured. The concern has its own warehouses. While the business is largely local, shipments are made to other places. This concern furnished the trim for twenty-five residences in Nelson Park. A specialty is made of hardwood contracts. Mr. Lamos gives to the business close personal attention. He is a member of the Benevolent and protective Order of Elks, of Peekskill. He married Mary E. Smith, of Peekskill.

COLE. Daniel Cole, the founder of this family, was born about 1614, probably in England, died December 21, 1694. In the will of John Cole, who died at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December, 1637, he mentions his brothers Job and Daniel, with other relatives. In 1640 land was granted to Daniel Cole in the Plymouth colony, and he was living in Yarmouth, that colony, in 1643. He was made a freeman in 1645. After 1647 he removed to Eastham, in Plymouth colony. He was repeatedly deputy for that town, selectman for nine years, constable, inspector of shot and lead and a member of Yarmouth county train band. He married Ruth --------, who was born about 1627, died December 15, 1694. Children: 1. John, born July 15, 1644, died January 6, 1724-25l married, December 12, 1666, Ruth Snow. 2. Timothy, born September 15, 1646. 3. Hepzibah, born April 16, 1649; married (first) George Crisp, (second) Daniel Doane. 4. Ruth, born April 15, 1651; married (first) John Youngs, (second) Jonathan Bangs. 5. Israel, born January 8, 1653l married Mary Rogers. 6. James, born in December 1655. 7. Mary, born March 10, 1658, died March 1, 1734; married, May 26, 1681m Joshua Hopkins. 8. William, of whom further. 9. Daniel, born in September 1666, died June 15, 1736; married Mary Fuller.

(II) William, son of Daniel and Ruth Cole, was born in Eastham, September 15, 1663. He married, December 2, 1686, Hannah, daughter of Stephen and Susanna (Den-Rogers) snow. Born at Eastham, January 2, 1667, died at Eastham, June 23, 1737. Children: 1. Elisha, of whom further. 2. Davial or David, born October 4, 1691. 3. Hannah, born December 15, 1693. 4. Jane, born January 4, 1695.

(III) Elisha, son of William and Hannah (Snow) Cole, was born January 26, 1688-89. He married Anne -------. Children: 1. Joshua, born October 9, 1715. 2. Eunice, born November 24, 1717. 3. Mary. 4. Elisha, of whom further.

(IV) Elisha (2), son of Elisha (1) and Anne Cole, was born in 1719, died about 1801. In 1746 or 57, he came from Harwick, Cape Cod, and settled in Fredericksburgh, Dutchess County (now Putnam) County, New York. His father-in-law had preceded him, but his oldest child never came. He was a Baptist elder and preacher; he was a member of the Seventh Regiment Dutchess County Militia, in the Revolution. He married (first), December 13, 1739, Priscilla Smalley, and (second) Hannah Smalley. Children: 1. Joshua. 2. Elisha, of whom further. 3. Nathan, born in 1744, died February 6, 1802; married Mehitable -----. 4. Joseph, born January 11, 1746, died February 24, 1814; married (first), Rebecca Berry, (second) Susan Berry-Chase. 5. Eunice, born in January, 1748, died January 17, 1821; married (first) Hackaliah Merritt, (second) Nathan Crosby. 6. Daniel, of whom further. 7. Hannah, born in 1751, died March 31, 1803; married Freeman Hopkins. 8, Naomi, born in 1753, died in 1794; married Jesse Smith. 9. Ebenezer, born in 1754, died August 18, 1815; married (first) Mary Ogden, (second) Mary Ogden-Wilson. 10. Priscilla Ann, born in 1756, died June 11, 1839; married General James Townsend. 11. Mercy, born in 1757, died February 8, 1826; married Tracy Ballard. 12. John, born October 6, 1761, died September 24, 1850.

(V) Elisha (3), son of Elisha (2) and Priscilla (Smalley) Cole, was born January 26, 1743, died February 3, 1826. He bought a large tract of land in Carmel, Putnam County, New York, which is still owned by the Coles. He was, with his father and others of the family, a member of the Seventh Regiment Dutchess County Militia, Colonel Henry Ludington, in the Revolution. He married, in 1763, Charity, daughter of Caleb and Sarah (Hamblin) Hazen, who was born in 1744, died in 1811. Children: 1. Sarah, born in 1763, died December 4, 1851; married Barnabas Carver. 2. Reuben, born in

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1765; died in October 30, 1840; married Elizabeth King. 3. David, born in 1768, died February 13, 1833; married Hannah Bangs. 4. Eleazer, of whom further. 5. Obed, born August 17, 1772, died August 26, 1841; married November 17, 1794, Lydia Baldwin. 6. Elizabeth, born June 15, 1774, died February 16, 1841; married William Agor. 7. Elisha, born August 8, 1776, died July 18, 1851; married, October 29, 1797, Rebecca Hopkins. 8. Hannah, born May 18, 1778, died December 14, 1840; married Thaddeus Baxter. 9. Daniel, born December 22, 1779, died October 12, 1848; married (first), January 5, 1801, Sarah Hopkins, (second), September 15, 1845, Mary Osborn-Beodle. 10. Joshua, married Nancy Hopkins. 11. John, born February 22, 1782, died February 3, 1822; married, January 11, 1806, Betsey Washbourne. 12. Naomi.

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