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CONSTRUCTIONDeborah 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:
iii. 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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