m. Jan 1791
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| Born |
15 Sep 1767 |
Pomfret, Windham County, Connecticut, USA  |
| Died |
7 Dec 1837 |
Delta, Fulton County, Ohio, USA |
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Jan 1791 [1] |
Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, USA [1] |
| Father |
Trowbridge, James | F29117 Group Sheet |
| Mother |
Darrow, Frances | F29117 Group Sheet |
| Born |
29 Apr 1769 |
Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, USA |
| Died |
Sep 1838 |
Delta, Fulton County, Ohio, USA |
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| Born |
1 Feb 1796 |
Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, USA |
| Died |
19 Dec 1885 |
Delta, Fulton County, Ohio, USA |
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| Spouse |
Sacket, Lydia | F29058 |
| Married |
5 Mar 1832 |
Houseville, Lewis County, New York, USA |
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| Sources |
- [S2803] The Trowbridge genealogy. History of the Trowbridge family in America, Francis Bacon Trowbridge, ( New Haven, Conn., Printed for the compiler [Press of the Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor company]), 531 (Reliability: 2), 2 Jun 2022.
1078. WILLARD TROWBRIDGE (James1018; Daniel1009; James1003; James1000; Thomas1), born September 15, 1767, in Pomfret, Conn. ; died December 7, 1837, in Delta, Ohio; married January __, 1791, in Ashford, Conn., Mehitable Sumner,
daughter of Capt. John and Mehitable (Perry) Sumner, born April 29, 1769, in Ashford; died September __, 1838, in Delta.
Willard Trowbridge settled after his marriage near his father-in-law in Ashford, Conn., the town adjoining his native place, and engaged in farming. In 1802 he removed with his family to Edinburgh, Saratoga county, N. Y., where his father-in-law. Captain Sumner, had bought seven farms, one for each of his children, soon after the organization of that town in 1801. His house, built about 1802, stands on the west side of the highway, two and a half miles south of Edinburgh and about the same distance north of Northampton post office.
In the summer of 1837, with his wife, two youngest sons and youngest daughter, he followed his two oldest sons to Ohio. The latter had settled about three years previously in the wilderness of the valley of the Maumee, in what is now Delta, York township, Fulton county, where they had taken up a large tract of land. Their father took up 80 acres of woodland with a log house on it and about three acres of it "girdled." The crevices between the logs of the house were "chinked," the floor was made of slabs, and a few logs cut from one end formed a fireplace. He had accomplished but little in clearing his farm before he was killed by a falling tree. The tree he had felled lodged in another and, in extricating the tangle, it is supposed, a sapling whipped around and struck him on the temple, killing him instantly. He was found, sitting up at the foot of a tree, dead, with no other mark upon him.
Willard Trowbridge united with the Northampton and Edinburgh Presbyterian church about 1812 and continued one of its members until 1832, when he joined the Edinburgh Methodist Episcopal church, continuing in that connection until his removal to Ohio, where he was a member of the church of the same denomination.
CHILDREN. [Footnote: i-iv born in Ashford, Conn.; the others in Edinburgh, N. Y.]
i. Betsey, b. Dec. 2, 1701; m., 1808, Rowland Robertson of Edinburgh, N, Y. [Footnote: See No. 1181.]
1077. ii. Elisha, b. Apr. 22, 1793.
1078. iii. Willard, b. Feb. 1, 1796.
1079. iv. Alanson, b. May 12, 1798.
1080. v. James, b. Feb. 1, 1803.
vi. Ann Eliza, b. Nov. 20, 1807; m., 1832, Arad Copeland of Edinburgh.
vii. Adaline, b. May 4, 1814; m. Nov. 11, 1832, John A. Chambers and resides in Plainwell, Mich.
viii. Delotia Kies, b. Sept. 4, 1815; m. Apr. 21, 1835, John R. Kennedy of Delta, Ohio.
Transcribed by Ted Smith
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