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1759, by letter from Sharon; and he joined it, by profession, 29 March 1761. They soon moved to Stockbridge, Mass., where they joined the church, 7 Nov. 1762, by letter from the church in Kent. In Feb. 1793, they left Stockbridge for Brown's Settlement, on the "Boston Purchase," with a portion of their children, in company with their son, Ezbon Slosson, and his family. They reached their destination, 4 March 1793, and began their settlement, on the east bank of the creek, near the present site of Sprague's grist-mill, in their son's bark-covered shanty, which was the first dwelling erected in the village of Newark Valley, Tioga Co., N. Y. The First Congregational Church of Newark Valley, then called the "First Church in Tioga," was organized 17 Nov. 1803, and she joined it on Sunday, 20 Nov. 1803, by a letter from the church in Stockbridge, dated 2 Oct. 1803, her name being the first in the list of admissions. She died, 10 March 1819, in her 81st year; he died, 21 Feb. 1827, in his 94th year They were buried in the old Brown Cemetery, in Berkshire,1 Tioga Co., N. Y.
She is remembered "as a tall, slim woman with a mild, pleasant manner; quite the opposite of her sister Dorothy, who was short in person, positive and impetuous."
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II. Samuel St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., about 1740; bap. in Wilton, 6 July 1740; went to Sharon, Conn., with his father, in May 1746, and died young.
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III. Dorothy St. John, b. at Wilton, Conn., 14 Nov. 1742; bap. in Wilton, is Dec. 1743; went with her father, in May 1746, to Sharon, Conn., where she married, in 1764, Simeon Hyde, a tailor, b. at Lebanon, Conn., 14 Sept 1742, son of David and Alathea (Bradford) Hyde, of Sharon, Conn.2 They lived in Sharon till 1776; then moved to Wyoming, now Wilkes-Barre, Penn., where they dwelt till the settlement was broken up, and the country laid waste, by the British and Indians, in July 1778. He was a cripple, unfit for military service, and was not in the battle. They returned to Sharon, and remained till about 1786, when they moved west; and he died in Sept. 1789, at Walton, N. Y., and was buried there. She afterward lived at Whitestown, Rome, and Auburn, N. Y., with her son Daniel, till his death in 1810; then with her son David, keeping his house when he died in 1824; after which she dwelt with her dau., Mrs. Laura (Hyde) Kellogg, in Skaneateles, where she died, 8 Feb. 1839, in her ninety-seventh year. She was buried at Skaneateles. She was a very energetic, active woman, and, by teaching school and other industry, greatly helped her crippled husband in supporting the family, after "they were driven out of paradise", at Wyoming.
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1 Their last residence, and place of death, was in Union, from 16 Feb. 1791, till 14 March 1800; in Tioga, till 12 Feb. 1808; in Berkshire. till 12 Ap. 1823; in Westville, till 14 March 1814; in Newark, till 17 Ap. 1862; and in Newark Valley since that time; but what name it will next bear, the future alone can disclose.
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2 See pedigree, opposite.
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