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The date of his death, which has not been found (except that an old bible gives the year 1772, at West Stockbridge, Mass.), must have been before 11 Feb. 1772, at which date she was appointed guardian to her younger children. He was buried in the old Stockbridge Cemetery. She afterward married Daniel Buck, and, after his death, lived many years in the family of her daughter, Mary (St. John) Whitney, in Kirkland, N. Y., where she died 1 May 1823, aged 93 years and 6 months, though her gravestone in the Whitney Cemetery, in Kirkland, aggravates her age to "94 years and 8 months."
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IV. Anne St. John, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 1 May, 1717; married, about Sept. 1733, Ezra St. John, son of Ebenezer and ----- (Comstock) St. John, of Norwalk, Conn., where he was born about June 1707. They settled in Wilton, Conn., and there joined the church, 4 Nov. 1734. He died in Wilton, 10 Dec. 1740, aged 33 1/2 years. Their marriage is shown by his will, dated 28 Nov. 1740, and proved 26 Dec. 1740, in which he mentioned his three daughters, Mercy, Phebe and Jemima, and ordained "my Hond Father-in-law, Capt. Matthew St. John, and my loving brother, Jacob St. John, and my loving wife Anne, to be ye executors of this my last will and testament" His will calls him a husbandman, yet shows that he was then building a mill, in company with Deacon Hickox, and his inventory proves that he worked also as a cooper. She married (2d), 20 Dec. 1742, at Wilton, Caleb Cole,1 who died in 1780 at Sharon, Conn., whither they had moved in 1748.
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V. Thaddeus St. John, "son of Matt St. John," died in Wilton, Conn., 4 Oct 1736, aged 16 years. He was probably born in Ridgefield, Conn., early in 1720; but no record of the birth appears.
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VI. Luke St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., 28 Aug. 1721; a tailor; went to Sharon, Conn., with his father, in June 1745; married Elizabeth -----, with whom he dwelt in Sharon until 1759, after which they moved to Stockbridge, Mass.
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VII. John St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., 1 Nov. 1723; moved with his father, in June 1745, to Sharon, Conn., where he married, 5 Nov. 1746, Sabra Colver, of Sharon. Capt. John St. John died at Sharon, 30 Dec. 1784, in his 62d year. His estate was appraised at £938 11s. 10d.,
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1 Caleb Cole, by his first wife, Rebecca Beardsley, had two children:
I. David Cole, b. 15 Aug. 1731; m. 21 Dec. 1758, at Sharon, Conn., Eleanor Hyde. He died at Sharon, 29 Aug. 1807, aged 77 years. She died at Sharon, 10 Oct. 1825, aged 87 years.
II. Anna Cole, b. 26 Feb. 1732-3; m., 23 Nov. 1752, at Sharon, with Ebenezer Gay, of Sharon, and died at Sharon, 23 Dec. 1764.
Rebecca Beardsley was probably the same who was bap. at Stratfield, now Bridgeport, Conn., 7 Sept. 1707, dau. of Daniel and Rebecca (Jackson) Beardsley, g. dau. of Samuel and Abigail Beardsley, and g. g. dau. of William and Mary Beardsley, who came from England, in the Planter, in 1635, and settled in Stratford, Conn.
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