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married at Seneca Falls, N. Y., 4 Nov. 1828, Beach Downs, a farmer and contractor, son of Joseph and Hannah (Patterson) Downs,1 of Huntington, Conn., where he was born 18 Dec. 1797. He dwelt at Huntington for several years; and then moved to Monroe, Conn., where he engaged largely in cutting ship-timber, and in bridge-building. He built the beacon at Black Rock, Conn., about 1836; and the dam in the Naugatuck River, at Seymour, Conn. In June 1856, they went west, spending one year at Geneva, Wis., one at Union Grove, Wis., and a Winter at Iowa City, Iowa; and then settled at Downey Station, Iowa, where he died 28 July 1865. He was buried at Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn. She was living at Bridgeport with her son, Theodore Waldron Downs, in Nov. 1874.
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V. Rebecca Remer, b. at New York City, 20 Sept. 1813; bap. in the Congregational Church at Derby, Conn., 13 Aug. 1815; died at Seneca Falls, N. Y., 30 May 1829, and was buried there.
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VI. Jennett Remer, b. at Derby, Conn., 11 June 1815; bap. in the Congregational Church at Derby, 13 Aug. 1815; married at Seneca Falls, N. Y., 11 Ap. 1836, Abram Gregory Waldron, an inn-keeper, son of Gilbert and Margaret (Grauberger) Waldron.2 He was born at Mechanicsville, N. Y., 8 Jan. 1803; went, after his father's death, to Marietta, Penn.; and thence removed to Geneva, N. Y., where he lived till after his marriage. They dwelt at Buffalo, N. Y., till 1847; then moved to Bridgeport, Conn.;
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ANDREW PATTERSON, b. at Hamilton, Scotland, about 1659; sailed from Leith, = ELIZABETH PEAT, b. in Stratford,
Scotland, 5 Sept. 1685, in the "Henry and Francis," which reached Perth | Conn., 19 Feb. 1669, dau. of John
Amboy, N. J., 18 Dec. 1685. He walked to Conn., reaching Stratford 18 | and Sarah Peat; died in Corn-
July 1686, where he married 19 Feb. 1690, and died 2 Dec. 1746, aged 87 | wall, Conn.., in the 96th year of
years. See Whitehead's History of Perth Amboy, N. J., pp. 23-49, for an | her age.
account of their emigration, and the causes which led to it. |
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MORDECAI MARKS, b. in London, Eng., ab. = ELIZABETH VORIEU, CHARLES PATTERSON, = EUNICE NICOLLS, m.
1706; settled in Derby. Conn., ab. 1726; | m. 15 Dec. 1729; born in Stratford, | 29 Jan. 1718-19;
bap. in Epis. Ch., Stratford, 20 Ap. 1729; | a communicant in Conn., 4 Ap. 1696; | m. (2d), 2 May
was a comm. in same ch. in 1730; and d. | Episcopal Church, d. before 1728, | 1728, Nathaniel
in Derby 8 Jan 1771, having lived there | Stratford, Conn., | Sherman.
45 years. | 1729. |
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MARY MARKS, second child, b. in Derby = JAMES PATTERSON, b. in Stratford, = MARY BEARDSLEY, of Ripton,
5 Sept. 1732; bap. in Derby, -- Feb. | 24 July 1724; died in Huntington, Conn.; m. 4 June 1752; died a
1733; died at Woodbury, Conn., 11 | Conn., 15 Jan. 1779 few months after marriage.
Feb. 1812. |
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JOSEPH DOWNS, died in Huntington, Conn., 17 March = HANNAH PATTERSON, bap. in Huntington, Conn., 6 Sept.
1823, aged 57 years. | 1767; died there, 9 June 1855, "aet. 90."
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BEACH DOWNS, = HENRIETTA ALAR REMER, No. 5219.
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2 Gilbert Waldron was born 11 Feb. 1778, and died 6 May 1830, at Honesdale, Penn., where he had large contracts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal, then in process of construction. He married, in 1802, Margaret Grauberger, who was born 6 May 1782, and died in the Autumn of 1848. They moved, in 1881, to Johnsburgh, N. Y.; about 1820, to Fort Edward, N. Y.; thence to Milford, Penn.; and finally to Honesdale.
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