(1) Lord Symond Fiske, grandson of Daniel Fisc, was lord of the manor of Standhaugh, parish of Laxfield, county of Suffolk, England, and lived in the reign of henry Iv, and VI, (1399-1422).  He married Susannah Smyth, and after her death he had wife, Katherine Simon (Symond) Fiske, of Laxfield, will dated December 22, 1463, proved at Norwich, February 26, 1464,

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died in February, 1464.  He was survived by five children:  1. William, mentioned below.  2. Jaffrey.  3. John.  4. Edmund.  5. Margaret.

          (II) William, eldest son of Symond (Simon) Fiske, born at Standhaugh, County of Suffolk, England, married Joann Lyme, of Norfolk.  He was of Standhaugh, and lived during the reign of Henry VI., Edward IV., Richard III, and Henry VII.  He died about 1504, and was survived by his wife, who died in 1505, and left seven children:  1. William.  2. Augustine.  3. Simon, mentioned below.  4. Robert.  5. John.  6. Margery.  7. Margaret.

          (III) Simon, son of William and Joann (Lyme) Fiske, was born in Laxfield, date unknown.  His wife, Elizabeth, died in Halesworth, June, 1558.  In his will made July 10, 1536, he desired to be buried at the chancel end of the Church of all Saints, in Laxfield. He died in that town in June, 1538, leaving (living or dead) ten children:  1. Simon (2), mentioned below.  2. William.  3. Robert.  4. Joan.  5. Jeffrey.  6. Gelyne.  7. Agnes.  8. Thomas.  9. Elizabeth.  10. John.

          (IV) Simon (2), child of Simon (1) and Elizabeth Fiske, was born in Laxfield.  The name of his wife and date of his marriage are not known.  His children were:  1. Robert, mentioned below.  2. John.  3. George.  4. Nicholas.  5. Jeffrey.  6. Jeremy.  7. William.  8. Richard.  9. Joan.  10.  Gelyne, 11. Agnes.

          (V) Robert, the eldest of the eleven children of Simon (2) Fiske, was born in Standhaugh about 1525.  He married Mrs. Sybil (Gould) Barber.  For some time he was of the parish of St. James, South Elmham, England.  Sybil, his wife, was in great danger in the time of the religious persecutions, 1553-58, as was her sister Isabelle, originally Gould, who was confined in the Castle of Norwich, and escaped death only through the power of her brothers, who were men of great influence in her country.  Robert Fiske fled from religious persecution in the days of Queen Mary to Geneva, but returned later and died in St. James in 1600.  His sons were:  1. William, mentioned below.  2. Jeffrey.  3. Thomas.  4. Eleazer.  The latter had no issue, but the progeny of the other three sons, in whole and in part, settled New England.  Besides these sons there was a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Robert Bernard; their daughter married a Mr. Locke, and was the mother of the celebrated John Locke, the English philosopher. 

          (VI) William (2), eldest son of Robert and Sybil (Gould) Fiske, was born at Laxfield, in 1566.  He married anna, daughter of Walter Austye, of Fibbenham, Long Row, in Norfolk. After her death he married Alice ----------.  He is described as of St. James in South Elmham, and it is said of him that he fled with his father from religious persecution.  He died in 1623.  Of the first wife, anna, there were children:  1. John, mentioned below.  2. Nathaniel.  3. Eleazer.  4. Eunice.  5. Hannah.  6. Esther (sometimes called Hester).  A younger child,  6. Mary, seems to have been of the second wife, alice. 

          (VII) John, eldest child of William (2) and anna (Austye) Fiske, was born at St. James.  He married Anna, daughter of Robert Lautersee.  She died on board ship in 1637, which was bound for New England.  John Fiske died in 1633.  Their children were:  1. John.  2. William (3), mentioned below.  3. Anna.  4. Martha.  5. Martha. 6. Eleazer.

          (VIII) Hon. William (3) Fiske, second son of John and Anna (Lautersee) Fiske, was born in England about 1613.  He married at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1643, Bridget Muskett, of Pelham, England.  After his death she married, November, 1661, Thomas Rix, of Salem, a surgeon.  Hon. William came to Salem with his brother, the Rev. John Fiske, in 1637.  He had a grant of land the same year, was made freeman May 18, 1642, and member of Salem church July 2, 1641.  He soon after removed to Wenham, where he was the first town clerk, or clerk of the writs, from 1643 to 16-- (?).  He was elected representative to the general court of the commonwealth in 1647, and continued in that office until the year 1652, being annually re-elected.  He enjoyed to a large extent the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens.  He died quite suddenly in 1654, having served his townsmen in all the offices of the town.  For several years subsequent to 1643 he kept an ordinary (public house).  He left five children:  1. William (4) mentioned below.  2. Samuel.  3. Joseph.  4. Benjamin.  5. Martha. 

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(Muskett) Fiske, was born at Wenham, Massachusetts, June or January 4, 1642-43.  He married there, January 15, 1662, Sarah Kilham, born 1649, died January 26, 1747, aged ninety-eight years.  William Fiske was a weaver by trade.  He held a number of town offices; was representative in 1701-04-11-13-14; moderator in 1702-03, and 1712-13-14.  He was also called lieutenant.  He was elected deacon of the Congregational Church in 1769, and died universally esteemed and lamented.  He and his wife were the parents of fourteen children, ten of whom attained years of maturity and had families, and of these, seven were sons.  The names of the children are as follows:  1.William, born 1663.  2. Joseph, died young.  3. Samuel, 1670.  4. Joseph, 1672.  5. Benjamin, 1674.  6. Theophilus, 1676.  7. Ebenezer, died young.  8. Ebenezer, 1679.  9. Jonathan, 1681.  10. Sarah, 1664.  11. Ruth, 1666.  12. Samuel, 1667.  13. Martha, 1668.  14. Elizabeth, 1684.

          (X) Ebenezer, son of Deacon William (4) and Sarah (Kilham) Fisk, was born March 22, 1679, in Wenham, and died there March 28, 1764.  He was a substantial farmer and active in the work of the Wenham Church of which he was elected deacon, May 16, 1730, and continued to serve until he resigned because of his great age in 1758.  He sought no political preferments, but served in various town offices.  He purchased for one hundred pounds a house, barn and twelve acres of land with two rights in the Great Swamp.  He married (first) in Wenham, May 24, 1710, Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Fuller, of Salem, born 1686, died August 25, 1732.  He married (second), December 1, 1733, Mrs. Martha Kimball.  Children:  1. Sarah.  2. Jane.  3. Ebenezer.  4. Elizabeth,  5. Jacob.  6. Mary.  7. William (5), mentioned below.  8. Mercy.  9. Lucy.

          (XI) William (5), fourth son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Fuller) Fisk, was born November 30, 1726, in Wenham, and lived for some years on the homestead in that town, being executor of his father's estate.  In 1774 he removed to Amherst, New Hampshire, settling on the south side of Walnut Hill in a well sheltered and well watered spot in the wilderness, where he died in June, 1777, in his fifty-second year.  He is said to have been an excellent example of the Puritan New Englander. He married in 1749, Susannah Batchelder, of Wenham, born 1731, died 1810, daughter of David and Susannah Batchelder.  She inherited from her father by will ten shillings and his largest brass kettle.  Children:  1. Jonathan, mentioned below.  2. Elizabeth.  3. William.  4. David.  5. Mary.  6. Ebenezer.  7. John.  8. Susannah.  9. Anne.

          (XII) Jonathan, eldest child of William (5) and Susannah (Batchelder) Fisk, was born May 1, 1751, in Wenham, and died in 1825, at Berlin, Vermont.  He resided for some time in the northwest parish of Amherst, which is now Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, whence he removed to the adjoining town of Francestown.  He was elected deacon of the church there in 1790, serving until September 17, 1794, when he removed to Williamstown, Vermont, where he was again made a deacon and was an active and prominent citizen.  He served as justice of the peace, as town clerk, as representative in the legislature over twenty years in succession, and also at other times; he was for many years judge of probate until failing eyesight compelled him to relinquish this office.  he married in Wenham, November 26, 1772, Mary Bragg, born 1752, died 1826.  Children:  1. Jonathan,  2. Nathaniel, mentioned below.  3. William R., mentioned below.  4. Mary.  5. John.  6. Benjamin.  7. Elizabeth.  8. Sarah.  9. Anne.  10. David.  11. Samuel

          (XIII) Nathaniel, second son of Jonathan and Mary (Bragg) Fisk, was born July 6, 1775, in Amherst, and resided in Williamstown and Northfield, Vermont, where he engaged in farming.  He died in the latter town May 3, 1861, in his eighty-sixth year.  He married, December 1, 1706, Mehitable Bates, born 1770, died August 13, 1826.  He had a second wife, who died in 1861, but there were no children by this marriage.  Children of first wife:  1. Joseph.  2. Willoughby.  3. Martha.  4. Jonathan, mentioned below.  5. Daniel.  6. Samuel Bates.  7. David Allen.  8. Nathaniel Curtis.  9. Samuel Newell.

          (XIV) Jonathan, second son of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Bates) Fisk, was born May 12, 1804, in Williamstown, and died December 25, 1883, at Liberty,. Sullivan County, New York.  He grew up in Williamstown, receiving the ordinary education

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of the day, and in 1830 he went to Newburg, New York, and in 1839 removed to Liberty.  He purchased land one and one-half miles east of the village of Liberty, where he developed a fine farm.  He was a member of the Methodist Church; of the Masonic fraternity, and acted with the Democratic party in politics.  He married (first), in 1842, Dolly Carrier; who died in June, 1854.  He married (second), in 1854, Josephine Bush, of Parksville, Sullivan County.  She died in 1896.  Children:  1. Joel Carrier, born October 18, 1843, was educated in Liberty and at Monticello; studied law with George H. Carpenter at Liberty, and was admitted to the bar at Albany in 1870.  2. Martha Mehitable, born March 29, 1846, has been for many years a school teacher in Liberty, and now resides in Liberty village, unmarried.  3. Curtis lee, born March 5, 1895, in Liberty, died in that town July, 1895.  He conducted a store in the town of Liberty for many years.

          (XIII) Deacon William Roby Fisk, third son of Jonathan and Mary (Bragg) Fisk, was born may 30, 1779, in Williamstown, where he grew up and began life as a merchant.  In 1816-17 he removed to Newburg, New York, where he remained but three years, and went tot he town of Rockland, Sullivan County, in 1820, and purchased land of John R. Livingston where the present village of Livingston Manor stands.  Here he lived for a few years, then sold out and bought land in the town of Liberty, Sullivan county, in the midst of the forest, where now stands the village of Parksville.  He cut the first tree, and built the first house at that point, and became the leading man of the community, and a deacon of the Baptist Church.  He transacted much legal business, and was what is known as a "pettifogger."  He also had a large lumber business, and owned a grist mill in Parksville, and conducted a tavern for several years.  He was a soldier in the War of 1812, commanding a company in a Vermont regiment, and his portrait is now hanging in  Washington's headquarters at Mount Vernon.  He died in July, 1867, aged eighty-six years.  Nine of this grandsons were soldiers in the Civil War.  He married in Williamstown, December 4, 1800, Hannah martin, born 1781, died in September, 1824, daughter of Aaron martin of that town.  Children;  1. Eunice, born October 7, 1802,. Married Henry Davis, and lived at Livingston Manor.  2. Jonathan, May 12, 1804, died unmarried in Minnesota.  3. Mary, died young.  4. Aaron M., mentioned below.  5. William R., November 18, 1810.  6. Mary, November 22, 1812; married G. M. L. Hardenbergh.  7. Sarah F., October 1, 1816; married Ebenezer Bush, of Liberty.  8. Harriet F., March 16, 1822; married William Bradley.  9. Luke, January 16, 1825.

          (XIV) Aaron Martin, second son of William R. and Hannah (Martin) Fisk, was born August 15, 1808, in Williamstown, and died April 22, 1900, in Liberty, where he was a farmer.  He operated his father's farm in summer, and in winter engaged in lumbering.  He married there, April 10, 1838, Elizabeth Carrier, born June 1, 1821, died July 3, 1852, daughter of Elijah and Julia (Benton) Carrier.  After the death of Elijah Carrier Mr. Fisk lived on the Carrier homestead one mile north of Liberty.  Children:  1. Dennison, mentioned below.  2. Catherine, mentioned below.  3. Delia Sophronia, born September 27, 1844; married R. C. Young, and lived in Liberty.  4. Harriet Augusta, October 9, 1847.  5. Emma Louisa, September 28,. 1850 married George H. Carpenter, a lawyer of Liberty.

          (XV) Dennison, eldest child of Aaron M. and Elizabeth (Carrier) Fisk, was born March 31, 1839, in Liberty, and was a soldier of the Civil War, enlisting in October, 1861, in the Fifty-sixth New York Volunteers, known as the Tenth Legion, under Colonel Van Wyck.  After three years' service he re-enlisted for one year.  He served in thirteen battles and was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks.  He married Sarah Crary, of Liberty (see Crary).

          (XVI) Catherine, eldest daughter of Aaron M. and Elizabeth (Carrier) Fisk, was born July 4, 1841, in Liberty, and married, June 1, 1865, Daniel K. LeRoy, son of Herman Myron and Jane (Crumb) LeRoy, of Liberty.  Mr. LeRoy is a carpenter and expert farmer and gardener.  He was among those who volunteered in the Civil War to preserve the integrity of the nation, and served three years in Company F, fifty-

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Sixth New York Volunteer Infantry.  He was not robust, and was detailed for service in the Hospital corps, thus being deprived of the opportunity for aggressive activity, such as his ambition craved.  He is a member of Garrett Post. No. 311, Grand Army of the Republic of Liberty.  Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy had six children:.  1. Ina Eliza, born March 6, 1866, married July 18, 1889, L. E. Vatet, and resides in Springfield, Massachusetts, where Mr. Vatet is in the insurance business.  2. Ressa Jane, August 15, 1867, unmarried.  3. Edmond Herman, February 19, 1869, resides in Hancock, New York, in the employ of Ohio & Western railroad.  He married (first), July 22, 1895, Eva, daughter of Charles and Lydia (Pullis) Thomas, of Delaware County, New York.  She died July 12, 1902, leaving three children;  i. Clifford Edward,  ii. Evelyn Elizabeth, and iii. Louisa Bensey.  He married (second), February, 1991, Minnie Sarles of Hancock, Delaware County, New York.  4. Cyrus D., born January 13, 1871, resides at Walton, employed as Ohio & Western yard master.  He married, September 29, 1904, Cora A. Morrell of East Walton, Delaware County, New York.  5.  Emma Rosalie, December 22, 1872, unmarried.  6. Anna Augusta, died six weeks old.

WHITTAKER.    Robert Burns Whittaker, who was for many years the leading photographer of Liberty but has now for a considerable period lived in retirement, is of English ancestry, both his parents having been natives of Great Britain, though he himself was born in the United States. 

          (I) Robert Whittaker, father of Robert Burns Whittaker, was born November 17, 1828, in the city of Bolton, Lancashire, England, and was youngest of the eight children, seven sons and one daughter of William and Mary Whittaker.  Robert Whittaker grew to manhood in his native city, serving a seven years' apprenticeship to the mason's trade.  He married, November 11, 1846, Martha, eldest daughter of Richard and Agnes Brown, of Kendal, Westmoreland, England.  On September 24, 1848, with his wife and one child he set sail for New Orleans, whence he proceeded up the Mississippi to Cincinnati, arriving after a continuous journey of seventy-two days.  Not being favorably impressed with the West as it then was, he came East and settled at Fallsburg, the home of his brother, Joseph, a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  At Fallsburg Robert Whittaker purchased a farm of one hundred acres and by cultivating this land and working at his trade prospered to his satisfaction until April 4, 1890, when he sold the property and moved to Liberty, where he passed the remainder of his life.  His children were:  1. Richard, born in England, died at sea.  2. Francis, died young.  3. Nancy, married Francis Brome, of Navesink.  4. Horace.  5. John.  6. Robert Burns, of whom further.  7. Joseph R., born in 1859, now of Stevens Point, Wisconsin; married Louise Pickard of that place and has one daughter, Ethel.  8. A boy, who died in infancy.  Robert Whittaker, the father, died in 1904, his wife passed away in 1906, both having had the gratification of seeing their children well established in the new country. 

          (II) Robert Burns, sixth child and fifth son of Robert and Martha (Brown) Whittaker, was born November 7, 1857, at Fallsburg.  He received his early education in the Monticello Academy.  At eleven years of age he left home and was variously employed, mainly by farmers, until his seventeenth year, when he went to Monticello and for three years attended the Academy there, supplementing the deficiencies of this early school days.  On completing his course of study he came to Liberty where he has ever since resided with the exception of three years spent in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.  At Liberty Mr. Whittaker established himself as a photographer, speedily building up a large and flourishing business.  Such was his reputation for skill and for the artistic finish which he imparted to his work that he became official photographer for the Ohio and Western Railroad, a position which he held for twenty-four years resigning in 1909.  After his withdrawal from business as a photographer Mr. Whittaker applied himself to the study of the law and also acquired interest in real estate and insurance.  As a citizen Mr. Whittaker is highly esteemed, always using his best efforts for the welfare and ad-

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vancement of his home town.  He takes no active part in politics and is actively but unostentatiously charitable, ever ready to aid to the utmost of his power those less fortunate than himself.  In all the leading interests of Liberty, political, social and philanthropic, he is a quiet but influential factor. 

          Mr. Whittaker, some years ago, built for himself a spacious and comfortable mansion, thoroughly equipped with every modern improvement.  The material used was marble brought from Vermont and the house was generally admitted to be the finest residence in Sullivan County.  In 1900 however, Mr. Whittaker sold this property and he and his wife are now living ina delightfully cosy apartment, in the enjoyment of that refined simplicity which they find most congenial to their natures and therefore most conducive to their mutual happiness.  

          Mr. Whittaker married, January 28, 1880, Augusta, daughter of John and Victoria (Adler) Reiner, natives of Germany, but for many years residents of Liberty.  Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker became the parents of one daughter, Mary Victoria, born December, 1884; married, January 13, 1909, Archibald F. Armstrong; she died, October 1910, leaving two children, Robert and Ruth. 

OLCOTT.    The surname Alcott is interchangeable with Olcott, and also has been spelled Alcocks and Allcox.  Different branches of the family now spell it either Alcott or Olcott, though they are descended from the same ancestors.  The immigrant ancestor came from London, England, as shown by the will of Margaret Chalfont, of London, widow, dated August 12, 1678, proved October 9, 1678; in the will of Thomas, the immigrant, there is a bequest to his "deare & tender Mother mrs Margaret Charlfount," showing that after the death of her first husband she married again, and that Thomas Alcott was her son by the first husband. 

          (I) Thomas Olcott, the immigrant ancestor, came from England.  It is thought that he came with the company which left Newtown, now Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June, 1635, to make a new settlement in Connecticut, at what is now Hartford.  It is known that he was one of the early settlers of Hartford, where he was engaged in business as a merchant, dealing especially in furs, although he handled many other articles of commerce such as tobacco, flour, grains, and other groceries.  He lived first on a lot on the east side of the Public (now State House) Square, on which the American hotel now stands.  Later he bought one of the lots assigned to Edward Hopkins in the original distribution of the town among the first settlers; this lot consisted of the whole square fronting on Main Street, and bounded by Pearl, Trumbull and Asylum streets.  On the southeast corner he built a house which remained in the family for several generations, being known as the Nevens House; it was destroyed in 1824 to make way for the block known as Union Hall.  In 1635 the town of Hartford ordered that the land granted by the town be built upon within a year after the grant, and on January 10, 1639, an entry is made showing that Thomas Alcott forfeited his grant because he did not build on it.  This shows that he was not a permanent settler in Hartford in 1635, but that he was there in 1638.  His name was on the list of those inhabitants having the right to undivided lands, January 3, 1639, his proportion being eight acres.  On January 21, 1640, he was elected constable, and several times after that he served on the jury of the Particular Court.  While in Virginia on business, he was taken sick, in 1653, and died probably in Virginia, between February 13 and March 3, 1653-43.  His will was dated November 20, 1653, he married Abigail ----------, who died May 26, 1693, aged seventy-eight years.  She was executrix of her husband's will, and seems to have been a capable and energetic business woman, carrying on his business and dealing in real estate.  Her will was dated January 12, 1692.  Mr. Alcott and his wife were buried in the public burying ground in the rear of the Center Congregational Church.  Children:  1.  Thomas, married Mary ----------.  2. Samuel,  mentioned below.  3. Elizabeth, baptized December 7m 1643.  4. John, baptized February 3, 1649.  5. Hannah. 

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the oath of allegiance to the colony, on being admitted freeman, May 12, 1664.  He died in the early part of the year 1704.  His will was dated March 13, 1704, and proved April 12, 1704.  He married Sarah, daughter of George Stocking, of Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived.  Children:  1. Sarah.  2. Mary.  3. Elizabeth.  4. Thomas, mentioned below.  5. George. 

          (III) Thomas (2), son of Samuel Olcott, married Hannah, daughter of Bartholomew Barnard, of Hartford, November 11, 1695, ceremony by John Allyn, assistant.  He died in the latter part of 1712, as his will is dated December 1, 1712, and was proved December 15, same year.  His widow died July 15, 1755, aged ninety-three.  Children:  1. Jonathan, mentioned below.  2. Thomas, baptized August 15, 1697.  3. Mary, baptized April 23, 1699.  3. Josiah, born February 23, 1701, died before his father.  4. Joseph, baptized March 23, 1707.

          (IV) Jonathan, son of Thomas (2) Olcott, was baptized December 29, 1695, and died July 25, 1753, aged fifty-seven years.  He married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Collyer, of Hartford; she died April 13, 1776, aged seventy-four years.  Children, (baptismal dates).  1. Samuel, October 6, 1728.  2. Jonathan, mentioned below.  3. Mary, April 8, 1733.  4. John, July 27, 1735.  5. Sarah, November 12, 1737.  6. Daniel, June 14, 1741.  7. Hannah, May 27, 1744.

          (V) Jonathan (2), son of Jonathan (1), Olcott, was baptized august 23, 1730, and died June 12, 1777, aged forty-seven.  He married, February 26, 1753, Anna, daughter of Timothy Bigelow, of Hartford; she died February 6, 1807, aged seventy-one.  Children; 1 Anna, born 1754, died 1759.  2. Hezekiah, mentioned below.  3. Jonathan, baptized September 30, 1750.  4. Abigail, born September 16, 1760.  5. Anna, March 10, 1763.  6. Theodore, baptized June 30, 1765.  7. Rachel, born 1768.  8. Abner.

          (VI) Hezekiah, son of Jonathan (2) Olcott, was baptized September 30, 1750, and died September 17, 1825, aged sixty-six.  He served in the Revolution from New Hartford as lieutenant; sergeant in October, 1777; lieutenant, November 12, 1779, transferred to Captain Peter Mills' company.  In the census of Hartford, 1790, he had a family of one male over sixteen, two under sixteen, and two females.  He married Mary Ellis Harris, of Saybrook, Connecticut; she died in September, 1832, aged seventy-eight.  Children:  1. Hezekiah, died in a foreign land, never married.  2. Abigail, born 1782, married Samuel Goodwin, of Waterville, New York, and had several children.  3. Harris, born march 3, 1784, married Anna, daughter of Aaron cook of Hartford, February 29, 1808, and she died February 18, 1826, aged forty-seven, he died November 10, 1833, aged fifty: children, i. Mary Ann, ii. John Edwin,  iii. Aaron,  iv. Daniel, v. Harris, vi. Henry, vii. Ruth and viii. Elizabeth.  4. George, mentioned below.  5. Martha, born 1788, died August 28, 1815. 

          (VII) George, son of Hezekiah Olcott, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, about 1785.  He came with his family among the first settlers of Wurtsboro, New York, where he cleared a hundred acre farm and was overseer of some thousands of acres of timber land.  He married, in Wirtsboro, Leah Helm.  Children:  1. Sarah.  2. George H., mentioned below.

          (VIII) George H., son of George Olcott, was born May 24, 1818, in Wurtsboro, and was educated there in the district schools.  When a boy he worked as clerk in a general store at Brownsville, ina hotel in that village, and from time to time on his father's farm.  Afterward he inherited the homestead of his father, and conducted it many years.  In 1834 he built a hotel which he conducted in addition to his farming operations, and also a general store located in the hotel building. He also conducted various farms for others on occasion, and engaged in the timber business extensively.  In 1859 he enlarged the hotel.  He was an active energetic and enterprising man, influential and highly esteemed in the community.  He was a Republican in politics, and of the Dutch Reformed Church.  He married, May 30, 1843, Julia T. Tidd, born in New York, November 25, 1818, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Van Duzer) Tidd.  Her father was a farmer in Pennsylvania, and afterward in the lumber business in Wurtsboro, also formerly in the trucking business in New York; he had twelve children.  Children of George H. and Julia

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T. Olcott, all born in Wurtsboro; 1. George Washington.  2. Charles F., died March 3, 1888.  3. Sarah Adelaide, mentioned below.  4. John Tidd, now living in Wurtsboro, on the homestead.

          (IX) Sarah Adelaide, daughter of George H. Olcott, was born on the homestead, July 12, 1847.  She was educated at home by a governess and private tutors, and at Cortland Academy, now the State Normal School.  Her mother died in 1885, and she was associated with her father in the hotel business.  Since her father died, April 9, 1897, she has conducted the hotel, which she inherited from him, and has maintained for it a high reputation as an attractive summer resort. 

DELANO.    The descendants of the Pilgrim ancestor, Philip Delano, of Plymouth, have the satisfaction of tracing their ancestry in the old country for a dozen centuries.  They have established the full right to bear the arms of the Delano family, which could be of no better stock and which embraces a host of distinguished men in its numbers.  The name is derived from the town of Lannoy, a few miles from Isla, now Lille, France.  Away back in A. D. 863, this town was called Alnetum, later L'Annois, and Lannoy.  The meaning of the word is unknown.  It has been spelled L'Annois, L'Annoe, L'Aulmais, L'Aulnoy, but more often Alnetum.  Today Lannoy is a small manufacturing town, seven miles from Lille, with a population at the last census of 1904.  The first lord of Lannoy, progenitor of the family, was Hugues de Lannoy, mentioned as a knight of Tournai d'Auclin in 1096.  On the same list was Simon de Alneto. A Charte des Chanoines (cannons) de St. Pierre a Lille mentions Gilbert de Lannoy in 1186.  It is impossible to present in this place an extended history of the family in its early days in France.  That has been done with remarkable care and apparent accuracy in the genealogy, which is authority for all said here about the origin and early history of the family.  There seems to be no flaw in the following pedigree in the direct male line of the American emigrant, Philip Delano or Delanoy. 

          1. Arnulphe de Franchmont.  2. Conrad de Franchmont.  3.  Hellin, Marquis de Franchmont, married Agnes, daughter of Othon, duke of Bavaria.  4. Hellin II de Franchmont, married Agnis de Duras.  5. Jeane de Franchmont, married Mahienne de Lannoy.  6. Hugues de Lannoy.  7. Hugues de Lannoy.  8. Guillebert de Lannoy.  9. Baudoin "Le Begue." 10. Baudouin.  11. Philipe.  12. Jean, born about 1511, died May 25, 1560; was made chevalier de la Toison d'or in 1546; chamberlain to the emperor Charles V., 1519-56; gouvernor de Haymont and captain-general of same province of Flanders in 1559; married Jeanne de Ligne de Barbancon, daughter of Louis de Linge, seigneur de Barbancon, and his wife Marie de Berghes.  13.  Gysbert de Lannoy, born at Tourcoing, 1545, of Roman Catholic parents, but became a Protestant and was disinherited by his father.  14. Jean of Leyden, born 1570, died at Leyden, 1604; he married at the Wallon Church (Tornai), January 13, 1596, Marie le Mahieu, of Brabant family.  15. Phillip, the American emigrant, see forward.  It is shown that the Delanoy family for all these centuries remained pure Norman and Flemish blood, never intermarrying with the French race.

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