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Hon. Benjamin Douglass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Hon. Benjamin Douglass (Daniel, Robert, Thomas, Robert, William(1) ), born in New London, Conn., March 14, 1785.

 

He removed with his father's family to Wallingford, VT., in 1797; went with his brother Christopher to Sprintville, NY in 1811; returned to Vermont at the close of the year, and married Lucy Townsend (2), of Wallingford, in 1812 or 1813.

 

In 1814 he emigrated to Fredonia, NY. In early life he was a tanner, but afterwards, and for most of his life, a farmer. He was for one term commencing about 1830, sheriff of Chautauqua county, NY and in 1840 was a memeber of the state Legislature.

 

Soon after this he emigrated to Michigan, and settled on a farm near Ann Arbor. He died at Detroit in 1848. His wife died while on a visit to her relatives in Vermont about 1840.

 

Children:
i. Samuel Townsend, b in Wallingford, 1811 (1); m. Elizabeth Campbell
ii. Silas Hamilton, b. in Fredonia, 1816; m Helen Welles
iii Lydia Dyer, b in Fredonia, 1824; m. George Almond

Notes:
1. Probably Deacon William Douglas, born 1610

2. Was Lucy his second wife, or was Samuel born before they married?
3. Edmund Douglass was Gilbert's son, Benjamin's nephew
4. Gilbert may have been a bodyguard for Lafayette, on his US visit of 1824-25.

 

 

 

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