|
|
|
Whitney Family.
|
|
237
|
|
|
| 1077
|
IX. Asa Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 13 May 1795; married Polly Dickens, of Reading, Conn. ; went west, and has not communicated his place of residence to his relatives in Conn.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chil. of John and Sarah (Keeler) Nash.
|
266
|
|
| 1078
|
I. John Nash, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 28 Nov. 1768; married Julia Goodale.
|
|
| 1079
|
II. Mehetabel Nash, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 6 March 1770; married Elijah Owen.
|
|
| 1080
|
III. Freelove Nash, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 8 June 1772; married Julius Jackson.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chil. of Lemuel and Rebecca (Keeler) Bangs.
|
267
|
|
| 1081
|
I. Sarah Bangs, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 7 March 1774; was confirmed in St John's Church, Episcopal, at Stratfield, now Bridgeport, Conn., 15 Oct. 1791; married, 1 March 1797, at Stamford, N. Y., Seth Smith, a millwright and farmer, born in Mass., 10 Jan. 1776, son of Joel and Phebe Smith.1 They dwelt at Blenheim, N. Y., till Feb. 1797; then moved to Upper Canada, crossing Lake Erie on the ice, four miles above Buffalo, and dwelt at Smithville for two years, then at Camborough, and afterward at Holderman, on Grand River, till 1815. They then returned to the United States, and dwelt at Sidney, N. V., till 18 Feb. 1818, settling finally at Portageville, N. Y., where she died, 3 May 1831. In 1834, he went to live with his son, Lemuel Smith, at Portville, N. Y., where he died, 3 June 1850, and was buried.
|
3552
|
| 1082
|
II. Joseph Bangs, b. at Stratford, Conn., 25 Ap. 1776; a farmer, and, for forty-five years, a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having been ordained deacon at Albany, N. Y., by Bishop Asbury, 20 May 1815; married Huldah Silliman, who was born 5 Ap. 1783. They dwelt in Hobart, N. Y., till 1828, and then settled in Tecumseh, where they died (he, 7 Jan. 1848, "expressing a wish to go to his blessed Saviour"; she, 25 Oct. 1850), and were buried in Tecumseh Cemetery. In the address of F. A. Dewey, Esq., before the Lenawee County Pioneer
|
3556
|
|
|
1 They dwelt in Delaware County, N.Y., in 1797; and afterward lived on Grand River, U. C., and there died. He served in the Revolutionary War.
|
|
