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Gale Ion Harris, "John⁵ Eggleston of Watertown, Connecticut, and Broome County, New York" 169 (Winter 2015):57-70, 156-171.

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On 23 March 1822, John and his [second] wife Rhoda Eggleston of Lisle conveyed to [his daughter Sally's son] Frederick C. Eggleston a 20-acre parcel in Lisle adjoining Asa Whitney and land "now owned by Seth Eggleston."

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Children of John⁵ and Sarah (Wetmore) Eggleston:

5 vi. SETH EGGLESTON, b. 15 Jan. 1787; m. ANNA WHITNEY.

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  ix. CYNTHIA EGGLESTON, b. Conn. ca. 1797; d. 21 Aug. 1868, aged 73, bur. Taft Cemetery, Triangle; m.(1) ca. 1817 JOHN BAKER, b. Lebanon, N.H., 1792, son of Gideon and Lydia (Griswold) Baker. John d. intestate before 18 April 1837, when Thomas Baker of Triangle was appointed as administrator of his estate. Cynthia m.(2) Between 1855 and 1860, as his second wife, ASA TAFT, b. Peru, Mass., 22 Sept. 1794, d. 27 Dec. 1880, son of Asa and Sarah (Whitney) Taft, and widower of Irene Day. Asa [the son], a carpenter, was living as a widower in Triangle in 1870 and 1880. In 1829 Asas had been appointed as guardian of the inor children of Cynthia's brother Seth Eggleston (see no. 5).

6 x. (probably) ORLANDO EGGLESTON, b. Conn. ca. 1799; m. MARY M./MARIAH WHITNEY.

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5. SETH⁶ EGGLESTON (John⁵, Ambrose⁴, Ebenezer³, Samuel², Bigod¹) was born 15 January 1787, and died in Broome County, New York, in July 1829. He married by about 1809 (birth of first child) ANNA WHITNEY, of undetermined parentage.^[253] Anna appears to have died about the same time as Seth; she is not mentioned in the settlement of his estate. Seth's placement in the Robbins manuscript as a son of John⁵ Eggleston is supported by his age, associations, and by his purchase of adjoining land on the same day, 8 March 1809, that John⁵ and his wife Sarah made their first purchase of land in Broome County.

Seth's household in Lisle (now Triangle) in 1820 consisted of a male and a female aged 26-44, a male 10-15, and two boys and three girls under 10, with one person in agriculture. On 6 August 1829, Levi Farr of Greene, New York, was appointed as executor of Seth's estate. On 17 October 1829, to enable sale of real estate, Asa Taft of Broome County was appointed guardian of Seth's minor children (all under age 21): Ransom, Ruloff, Mahala, Amanda, Horace, and Sarah Eggleston.

Children of Seth⁶ and Anna (Whitney) Eggleston, all except no. vii accounted for in the 1820 census and named in the guardianship appointment of 1829:

Children:

i.	RANSOM EGGLESTON, b. Broome Co. ca. 1809, . . .; m.(1) . . . RHODA BLAKESLY . . .; (2) . . . MARGARET (_____) HARROWER, . . . .

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²⁵³ She probably was related somehow to Asa Whitney, who owned property adjoining that of Seth Eggleston in 1822 (Broome County Deeds, 13:282), and to Asa's daughter Mary Whitney, wife of Seth's brother Orlando (no. 6). Asa Whitney and Joanna Jackson had declared their intentions of marriage in Peru, Massachusetts, on 31 December 1791 (Vital Records of Peru [note 46], 93) and came to Triangle (then Lisle, Tioga County; see note 1) by 1800 (U.S. Census, Lisle, Tioga County, roll 24, pp. 215-216). However, the partly unreadable census entry on microfilm does not clearly indicate the presence of a young female then in their home who could be Anna. Asa Whitney, William Porter, and Warren Gray "commenced business [in nearby Greene] under the name of Whitney, Porter and Gray about 1822, and continued about a year" (James H. Smith, History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New York [Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason, 1880], 203, 204). The Whitney Research Group, whose valuable work is accessible online at http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Main_Page, does not identify any daughters of Asa Whitney.

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ii.	RULOFF EGGLESTON, b. N.Y ca. 7 May 1810; . . . ; m. . . . ESTHER _____ . . . .

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iii.	MAHALA EGGLESTON, b. Broome Co., N.Y., 13 Aug. 1814; . . . ; m. . . . ELIAS TICKNOR . . . .

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iv.	AMANDA EGGLESTON, b. say 1815, living in 1829.
v.	HORACE EGGLESTON, b. Broome Co. 28 Sept. 1817; . . .; m. MARIAH (MONK) TAFT . . . .

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vi.	SARAH EGGLESTON, b. say 1819, living 1829.
vii.	RHODA ANN EGGLESTON, b. say 1821; d. "aged 3-4 years."

6. ORLANDO⁶ EGGLESTON (John⁵, Ambrose⁴, Ebenezer³, Samuel², Bigod¹) was born in Connecticut about 1799, and died after 1880 when he was living with his son Othello in Triangle, Broome County, New York, aged 81. Orlando married by about 1823 (birth of first known child) MARY M./MARIAH WHITNEY, born in Greene County or Albany County, New York, about 1797, died apparently in the 1870s, probably a daughter of Asa and Joanna (Jackson) Whitney of Triangle. Orlando is placed in the Robbins

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manuscript as "probably" a son of John⁵ Eggleston, which is followed here wwith the same qualification.

Children of Orlando⁶ and Mary M./Mariah (Whitney) Eggleston:

i.	ALTON M.7 EGGLESTON, b. Greene Co., N.Y., ca. 1823; . . . m. . . . SARAH _____, . . . .
ii.	OTHELLO EGGLESTON, b. Broome Co. in Sept. 1826, . . . m. LUCY ANN/LUCINA BENSON, . . . .

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iii.	AMBROSE EGGLESTON, b. Broome Co. ca. 1830, living unmarried at age 50 with his father and brother Othello in 1880.
iv.	CHARLES W. EGGLESTON, b. Broome Co. 1832; . . . m. . . . AMY A. MANNING . . . .
v.	SUSAN EGGLESTON, b. N.Y. ca. 1833, living with her parents in 1850 but not in 1855.

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Deborah Ellen Blodgett, "Western Massachusetts Families in 1790 Sketch: Salah Barnard of Deerfield" 169 (Spring 2015):131-139.

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Children of Salah and Elizabeth (Nims) Barnard, all borh in Deerfield:

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ERASTUS BARNARD, twin, b. 19 Dec. 1769; d. probably Canandaigua, Ontario Co., N.Y., 3 Jan. 1852, aged 82 years, 15 days;[55] m., with intentions in Deerfield 9 Dec. 1798,[56] m. Keen, Cheshire Co., N.H., 25 Dec. 1798, SALLY BAKER WHITNEY of Keene, N.H.[57] b. Northfield, Hampshire Co. [now Franklin Co.], 8 Feb. 1775, daughter of Aaron [Jr.] and Hannah (Stearns) Whitney,[58] d. 15 July 1825.[59] Upon his father's death, Erastus inherited the "new house" [the new tavern portion] from Salah and operated a tavern there from 1796 to 1804.[60] The first meeting of the trustees of Deerfield Academy was held

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⁵⁵ "Marriages and Deaths from Ontario County Messenger, Published Canandaigua - Ontarion County - NY" 7 January 1852, online at http://ontario.nygenweb.net/marriagedeathnotice-ontariomessenger1852.htm.

⁵⁶ Vital Records of Deerfield [note 3], 158.

⁵⁷ New Hampshire: Births to 1905, Deaths and Marriages to 1937, database online at AmericanAncestors.org; Sheldon, History of Deerfield [note 2], 2:71, who incorrectly says 9 January 1799.

⁵⁸ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [note 2], Northfield Vital Records, original 85, typed copy, 33-B; Willard E. Stearns, Memoranda of the Stearns Family Including Records of Many of the Descendants (Fitchburg, Mass.: Sentinel Printing Company, 1901), 33-4; J. H. Temple and George Sheldon, A History of Northfield, Massachusetts (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell, 1875), 565, incorrectly says her mother was Hannah Willard (who actually was Aaron Whitney's second wsife, whom he married in Winchester, New Hampshire, 23 September 1784 (New Hampshire Marriage Recordss, 1637-1947, image online at FamilySearch.org.

⁵⁹ Stearns, Memoranda of the Stearns Family [note 58], 33-34.

⁶⁰ McGowan and Miller, Family and Landscape [note 19], 143-44.

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at the tavern on 18 April 1797.[61] Erastus appeared in the 1800 census in Deerfield[62] but is said to have removed to Canandaigua about 1805.[63] He appeared in the census for Farmington, Ontario Co., N.Y., in 1810[64] and for Canandaigua in 1820, 1830, 1840, and 1850.[65]

⁶¹ Sheldon, History of Deerfield [note 2], 2:843; McGowan and Miller, Family and Landscape [note 19], 144.

⁶² 1800 U.S. Census, Deerfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, roll 15, p. 771.

⁶³ McGowan and Miller, Family and Landscape [note 19], 144; Marriages and Deaths from Ontario County Messenger" [note 55], 7 January 1852, says he moved shortly after 1808.

⁶⁴ 1810 U.S. Census, Farmington, Ontario County, New York, roll 33, p. 694.

⁶⁵ 1820 U.S. Census, Canandaigua Ontario County, New York, roll 62, p. 214; 1830 U.S. Census, Canandaigua Ontario County, New York, roll 101, p. 118; 1840 U.S. Census, Canandaigua Ontario County, New York, roll 319, p. 14; 1850 U.S. Census, Canandaigua Ontario County, New York, roll 571, p. 174B, living in the household of Eldad Clark, probably the husband of daughter Sally.

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Glade Ian Nelson, "DeCoster/DeCosta Family: Colonial Massachusetts Beginnings," 169 (Fall 2015):291-307.

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8. JOHN³ DECOSTER (John², Isaac¹) [son of John² and Elizabeth (Carver) DeCoster] was born in Boston 18 January 1722/3, and was baptized at the New South Church, Boston, 3 February 1722/3. He married at Christ Church, Boston, 14 April 1742, RUTH WHITNEY. Her parentage has not been discovered.

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John's death date is an enigma. His grandmother Elizabeth Carver's 1753 will mentions "my Grand Daughter in Law Ruth Decoster (Relict Widow of my grand Son John Decsoter Dec'd)." However his father's 1769 will states "whereas my eldest son John has been absent many years." Ruth was listed in Boston on the Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771.

Children of John³ and Ruth (Whitney) DeCoster:

i.	RUTH4 DECOSTER, b. Boston 4 Dec. 1742; bp. Roxbury 19 June 1743; d. Weston, Mass., 10 April 1833, aged 90. She m. Brattle Street Church, Boston, 29 Aug. 1771, ALEXANDER MACKAY. . . .

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ii.	JOHN DECOSTER, b. Boston 14 March 1743/4; bp. Roxbury 18 March 1743/4. He might be Capt. John Decoster who d. 28 Jan. 1773, age 26 [sic]; bur. Granary Burial Ground, Boston, 1 Feb. 1773.
iii.	ESTHER DECOSTER, bp. King's Chapel, Boston, 25 July 1752, daughter of "John & _____ Decoster, Infant, Private Baptism." That it was a private baptism may suggest the child was ill and did not long survive, but no record of death or burial has been found.

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Bill Principe, transcriber, "Williams-Kellogg Bible Record, 1722-1895", 169 (Fall 2015):319-322.

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Births

Jonathan Williams born -- 1722^[2]

Mary Whitney born -- 1724^[3]

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² Jonathan Williams was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, 20 April 1722, and was baptized there 9 September 1722, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Vetch) Williams (Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, citing Lebanon Vital Records, 1:327 [birth and parents' marriage]; Connecticut State Library Index of Church Records, from Lebanon Church Records, 4:35). Jonathan is treated in Frederick Lewis Weis, "Robert Williams of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants," typescript (Lancaster, Mass.: the author, 1945), part I, p. 89, in the NEHGS Library.

³ Mary Whitney was born in Norwich, Connecticut, 13 September 1724, daughter of William and Margaret (Myrick) Whitney (Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, 2 vols. [Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913], 95 [birth]; Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Newton Vital Records, 137, image online at Ancestry.com (parents' marriage); Weis, "Robert Williams" [note 2], pt. 1, p. 89; Frederick Clifton Pierce, Whitney, The Descendants of John Whitney Who Came from London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635 (Chicago, Ill.: W. B. Conkey, 1895), 35, shows that William went to Connecticut but the last child listed for him was born in 1721. The vital records of Lebanon and Norwich show the marriages of Margaret's older brothers John and Caleb (Barbour Collection, citing Lebanon Vital Records 1:335; Vital Records of Norwich, 1:229).

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Andrew Williams born Jan. 2nd 1743

Ebenezer Williams born Octt. 14 - 1749

Veach Williams born Jan. 12 - 1753

Araunah Williams born Jan. 4 - 1756

Adosha Williams born Jan. 6 - 1758

Frederick Williams born Oct. 28 - 1760

Enos Williams born May 1, 1764

Cynthia Williams born March 16, 1767

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Marriages

Jonathan Williams Married to Mary Whitney -- 1747.^[9]

Andrew Williams Married to Anna Giddings Feb. 13th, 1771

Deaths

Jonathan Williams, Died Oct. 3rd 1804^[10]

Mary Williams died Aug. 31 1800^[11]

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⁹ Jonathan Williams and Mary Whitney were married in Lebanon, Connecticut, 26 September 1744 (Barbour Collection, citing Lebanon Vital Records, 1:335; Frederic W. Bailey, Early Connecticut Marriages As Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 [New Haven, Conn.: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1896-1906; repr. as one vol., Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968], 5:42).

¹⁰ Jonathan Williams died 3 October 1804 aged 82, and was buried in the Colchester Burying Ground, Colchester, Connecticut (photograph of the gravestone online at FindaGrave.com); Frank E. Randall, "Memoranda of All the Inscriptions in the Old Burying Ground at Colchester, Conn.," Register 43 (1889):361.

¹¹ Mrs. Mary Williams, wife of Jonathan Williams, died 31 August 1800 aged 76, and was buried in the Goshen Cemetery in Lebanon, Connecticut (photograph of the gravestone online at FindaGrave.com).

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