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Joseph and Thankful (Hamblin) Bangs. He was born at Harwich, Mass., 31 Dec. 1739; or, according to his family-record, 1 Jan. 1740. They dwelt in Stratford, Conn., till about 1782; in Fairfield (Poquanock Parish), Conn., till 1791; in Stamford, N. Y., till 1809; then moved to Grand River, Upper Canada, where she died, 4 or 24 Feb. 1812. He died, 9 May 1824, at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Sarah (Bangs) Smith, with whom he had lived since Jan. 1818, on the Genesee River, about two miles above Portage Falls, in the town of Portage, and, probably, in the present town of Genesee Falls, N. Y. By his first wife, ----- Hall, he had five children.1 He was a commissary in the French War, and an adjutant in the Revolutionary War. He was a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which he was strongly attached, in which he had all his children baptized, and in which he frequently officiated as lay reader. They were confirmed in St John's Church, Bridgeport, Conn., 22 Sept 1785.
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III. Freelove Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 12 Jan. 1754; bap. at South Salem, N. Y., 31 March 1754; married Jacob Nash, who was born in Ridgefield, 30 Aug. 1751, son of Abraham and Rhoda (Keeler) Nash. They settled in Ridgefield, where she died before the Revolutionary War. He married again, moved to Ballston, N. Y., and at the beginning of the war, left from fear of the Indians, returned to Norwalk, Conn., and was there killed by the British, at the burning of Norwalk, 11 July 1779. He was buried at Ridgefield. His widow and her daughter, it is said, went west, after the war.
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IV. Elijah Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 12 Jan. 1756.
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V. Levi Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 3 or 4 Ap. 1758; a farmer; married, 13 Jan. 1782 (another record says 27 Jan.), at Ridgefield, Dorcas Smith, born in Ridgefield, 31 Aug. 1760, dau. of Thomas and Adah (Hoyt) Smith.2 They settled in Ridgefield, just east of the main street, where he died, 5 May 1812. She died in Ridgefield, 4 Ap. 1844. in "the 84th year of her age." They were buried in Titicus Cemetery, one mile north of the village of Ridgefield, where their gravestones were standing in 1873. The town-record says that he "died 6 May 1812, aged 54 years, 1 month and 2 days." He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
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VI. Enos Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 24 Oct 1760.
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VII. Elizabeth Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 14 Nov. 1762.
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VIII. Rachel Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 27 Nov. 1764.
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1 CHIL. of LEMUEL and ----- (HALL) BANGS.
I. Richard Bangs, b. 1 Aug. 1764.
II. Phebe Bangs, b. 5 Sept. 1765.
III. Lemuel Hamblin Bangs, b. 14 Feb. 1767.
IV. Eliakim Bangs, b. 25 July 1768.
V. Sarah Bangs, b. 25 Apr. 1766, according to one account, which is traditional, and clearly wrong.
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2 Thomas Smith, of Ridgefield, was son of Dea. Thomas Smith, of Milford, Conn.
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