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SIXTH AND SEVENTH GENERATIONS

NATHANIEL SINCLAIR (111), farmer, was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, 10th September, 1773. He married Sarah Pease, 2nd March 1795. He lived in Greensborough, Vermont, and the adjoining town of Hardwick in 1793. Was in Greensborough 1801, and on 3rd June 1805, he and his wife deeded all their right to the Meredith homestead of her father Benjamin to Simeon Pease. In Stanstead, Connecticut, 1808; in Danville, Vermont, 1813; in Hardwick (where he leased a farm 24th August 1813) until 1829. He died in Woodstock, Vermont, 2nd July 1843, aged 69 years, 9 months, 13 days. Children: -
  1. ANNA, born 27th December 1796; married Allen Gardner.
  2. SIMEON PEASE
  3. HANNAH, born 6th May 1799; married Mr. Bugbee.
  4. NATHANIEL
  5. BENJAMIN, born 15th October 1802; died 21st April 1812.
  6. STEPHEN A.
  7. SOPHRONIA, born 27th March 1805; married, 7th February 1836, Luther Ayer; issue.
  8. ROBERT, born 2nd December 1807; died 25th April 1808.
  9. AMOS S.
  10. RICHARD M. born 13th August 1810; he married and died in Lowell, Massachusetts, 4 weeks after, 30th October 1835.
  11. WILLIAM C.B. born 7th February 1812; died single 20th May 1835.
BENJAMIN SINCLAIR (114), farmer, was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, 28th January 1778, and died 15th May 1840. He was resident at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire; at Monmouth, Minnesota; and lastly at Levant, in the same State. He married, 5th September, 1805, Mary Cram. Children: -
  1. JONATHAN CRAM
  2. JOSEPH PORTER, born 28th October 1811; died without nissue 20th May 1874; married, first, Belinda Drew; secondly, Emily Hodgdon.
  3. CAROLINE TILTON, born 8th January 1813; married William Higgins.
  4. MARY ANN TRUE, born 4th January 1817; died single in Lowell, Massachusetts
  5. RHODA CRAM born 8th March 1821; married Royal W. Clark.
  6. BENJAMIN WOODDURY, born 4th August 1826; married, and had children.
  7. ELBRIDGE AUGUSTUS, born 10th December 1828; married, and left children.
JEREMIAH SINCLAIR (115) lived in Greensborough, Vermont, and erected the present Calderwood House, which was then his residence. He lived for a while in Canada, where his first wife died. He married, secondly, Rhoda Fay. Two of his children were buried on the Calderwood Farm. He sold his farm in 1825, was for a while in Hardwick, and finally moved to Point Kent, Black Rock, or some other place in New York. He had at least two children (363-4) as before mentioned. ENOCH ST.CLAIR (117), farmer, etc., was born in Meredith, New Hampshire, 1st September 1790, and died at Hampton, Iowa, 3rd April 1873. He married Huldah Townsend, 9th December 1816. Their children were all born at Concord, New York: -
  1. ROXALENA, born 1st November 1818, died 13th August 1822
  2. LOUISE LETITIA, born 10th April 1821; married Ephraim R. Bennett 22nd November 1847.
  3. ELIZABETH, born 24th July 1823; died 1889. Married, first, Rev. P.M. Huffman; secondly, Alonzo D. Hendrickson.
  4. JOHN, born 29th January; died 3rd February 1829.
  5. BENJAMIN, born 26th April and died 26th July 1825.
  6. AUGUSTINE DUROC
  7. LOIS JOSEPHINE born 18th July 1830; married, 4th November 1849, Lewis Milton Stevenson.
  8. ROXA CLEMENTINE, born 25th June J833; married Jacob Tobey.
  9. LAURA ELVIRA, born 22nd May 1835; teacher, resides Hampton, Iowa.
  10. MARY JANE born 28th April 1837; married Thomas Wayman Jones.
ASA ST.CLAIR (118), farmer, was born in Hardwick, Vermont, 7th November 1795. He resided in Concord and Barre, New York; Petersburg, Michigan; and Rollin, Michigan, where he purchased a farm, on which he lived till his death, 18th March 1848. He married, first, Rebecca Page, and secondly, Mary Bragg. Children: -
  1. Child not named, died young.
  2. Child not named, died young.
  3. WILLIAM born 19th April 1819; died 3rd April 1856.
  4. PERRY
  5. LAURA, born 24th May 1822; married Thomas Patrick.
  6. ELIZA, born 28th November 1824; married Nathaniel Hodges.
  7. MARY born 16th July 1825; died 1846.
  8. ASA
  9. MARY, born 17th October 1836; married, 1855, George W. Hodges.
  10. BENJAMIN
  11. AARON
  12. SARAH, born 11th November 1841; unmarried.
  13. REBECCA, born 7th October 1843; married, 1863, Frank Coleman.
  14. GEORGE born 3rd October 1845; farmer; Union soldier; died unmarried in hospital 23rd April 1863.
JOHN MEED SINCLAIR (119), farmer, was born in Meredith, 11th February 1776; died in Freedom, Minnesota, 30th October 1826. He was elected assessor for Freedom in 1812, and several successive years. He married Sarah Levett. Children born Freedom, Minnesota: -
  1. AMES, killed at about age of ten by fall of tree.
  2. ELIZABETH, died in Thornsville, Minnesota
  3. MARY, died in Freedom, 18th August 1826.
  4. ORVILLE, married Mary Wheeler; farmer, Windsor, Minnesota; no children.
  5. CAROLINE, born 3rd August 1815; married, 31st December 1840, Stephen Thorn.
JAMES ST.CLAIR (120), farmer, etc, was born in Meredith, 9th May 1777; and died in South Thomaston, Minnesota, 25th June 1858, in which latter place he settled in 1803. "The St.Clair path", over the hill, still marks the way he and Sarah Wiggin, his wife, trod in going to worship. Children: -
  1. LAVINIA, born 22nd October 1801; married Benjamin Burgess of Matinicus, Idaho, Minnesota
  2. MARY SMITH, born 15th February 1804; married, 1823, Sion Payson.
  3. GEORGE WASHINGTON
  4. MAHALA, born 2nd June 1808; married first, 1828, Jonathan Hall; secondly, Hugh Kelsey.
  5. THIRZA, born 2nd June 1808; married, 1829, Captain Isaac Tolman.
  6. JAMES MADISON
  7. ERASTUS
  8. SARAH, born 5th September 1816; died 1849; married Samuel Crie.
  9. LUCY LOVEJOY, born 16th November 1818; married Abijah F. Metcalf.
  10. ABIGAIL BURGESS, born 27th June 1822; married, 1846, Samuel Hastings.
  11. GUILDFORD DUDLEY
THOMAS SINCLAIR (121), farmer, was born in Meredith, 27th December 1778: he died in Dover, Minnesota, 3rd July 1844. He was resident in Beaver Hill Plantation (afterwards Freedom) from 1806 to 1824, when he acquired a farm at Dover. He married his cousin, Mary Robinson, a daughter of his mother's sister. Four of their children became cripples as they arrived at maturity. Children: -
  1. HANNAH, born 9th August 1806; invalid; died 28th September, 1857.
  2. AHIRA
  3. ALVAH
  4. GIDEON ROBINSON
  5. CHARLES PERRY
  6. WILLIAM MARTIN, born 20th June 1816; died, California 7th May 1854; single.
  7. URIAH R. born 1st August 1815; died, Dover, 25th September, 1876; single; invalid.
  8. THOMAS RILA
  9. MARY J. born 20th November 1829; single; resident Dover, Minnesota
WILLIAM SINCLAIR (123), shoemaker, was born in Meredith, 18th September, 1782, lived on part of the paternal homestead, and died suddenly 15th April 1815. His wife, Nancy Dow, was appointed administratrix 19th June 1815. Child: -
  1. THOMAS
JOSEPH SINCLAIR (124), farmer, was born in Meredith, 17th September 1785; lived on the paternal homestead, where he died 2nd March 1847. He was a very religious man. He married, 27th March 1805, Isabel Dockman, who was so deft with her fingers that by her weaving alone she paid for nearly 50 acres of woodland. She lived to be over 97. Their children were: -
  1. BELINDA, born 18th February 1806; married John Cotton.
  2. JOHN LANGDON
  3. THOMAS JEFFERSON, born 3rd May and died 4th May 1808.
  4. NOAH
  5. MARY JANE, born 16th July 1816; died 13th June 1372; married Daniel Howe.
  6. WILLIAM PLUMMER, born 23rd July 1818; died 1st August 1819.
  7. NAOMI CHENEY, born 16th July 1820; died 23rd November 1847
JOSEPH ST.CLAIR (128), farmer, was born in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, 17th January 1786; lived in Eagle Harbor, New York; removed to Rochester, Illinois; and died 8th May 1839. He married, 20th November 1815, Lucy Brown. Children: -
  1. AUGUSTA FLAVILLA, born 24th August 1816; married James Musick.
  2. JULIA ANN, born 9th October 1818; died 29th August 1873; married 1838, Andrew F. Hollenbeck.
  3. ORANGE PARDEZ, born 11th January 1821; dead; his widow lives in Newton, Kansas.
  4. JOSEPH NORMAN
JAMES ST.CLAlR (130), farmer, was born in Sanbornton, 6th September, 1789; accompanied his people to Hardwick and Wolcott, Vermont, and to Russelltown, Canada. While in the Dominion he became engaged to Patience Matilda Northrop, of New Milford, Connecticut, and as marriages in Canada were illegal unless solemnised by an Anglican clergyman, he and his fiancee made up a party of sixteen horse, rode over the dividing line into New York State, and were duly married by the Episcopal service and clergyman in Chateaugay, Franklin Co. For a while they lived in Peru and in Palmyra, New York. Eventually he bought land at Barre (now Albion), New York., and in the spring of 1816 brought his family to the new home. The Erie canal, constructed a few years later, flows through nearly the entire length of the farm. His death occurred in Barre 1st April 1874. He was a twelfth child, and so was his wife. Children: -
  1. CHARLES NORTHROP
  2. HENRY ARTHUR, born 13th April 1816; died 12th July 1818.
  3. CALEB NORTHROP
  4. JAMES JULIUS, born 13th August 1820; died 26th November 1820.
  5. JAMES JULIUS II
  6. ANGELINE SOPHIA, born 21st December 1823; resident Albion, New York; educated Phipps Union Semimary, Albion. Authoress of "Senora Ines, or the American Volunteers", and many fugitive magazine contributions.
432A OSCAR FITZALAN WARES ST.CLAIR, born 1826; died in U.S. service, Bangkok, Siam; adopted son; nephew of Mrs. St.Clair.

LEVI HUNT ST.CLAIR (136) was born in Wolcott, Vermont, 6th May 1800, and died at Rochester, Illinois, 14th April 1866, He was Quartermaster of the 40th Brigade of Infantry 6th October 1828, and Paymaster of the 54th Regiment Illinois State Militia 6th April 1840. He superintended a woollen factory at Essex, New York; farmed for two years, 1830-31, at East Cleveland, Ohio; and in 1832 located at Rochester, Illinois, where he died. He married, first, 1823, Lorinda Spaulding; secondly, 1854, Priscilla Church; and thirdly, Eliza M. Rayne. Children: -

  1. HANNIBAL CICERO
  2. LORRACE OSCAR
  3. LEVI MORTIMER II
  4. LORINDA HELEN, born 24th September, 1826; married, 1850, George Lucian Ormsby.
  5. MARION JEANNETTE, born 18th September 1828; married, 1852, S.D. Fisher, Secretary Illinois Board of Agriculture, etc.
  6. MARY TAYLOR, born 11th October 1829; married, 1850, Francis J. Taylor.
  7. LEVI MORTIMER, born 2nd May 1834; died 9th February 1835.
  8. AMELIA ELIZA, born 8th April 1843; married 1866, Calvin C. Johnson
JOSEPH SINCLAIR (143), farmer, born 28th November 1791; resident in Holderness, and at St.Charles, Minnesota. On 3rd June 1820, he had unpleasant litigation with Elijah Hawkins of Vershire, Vermont. He married Annie Connor and had issue: -
  1. ALEXANDER SINCLAIR, farmer; resident St.Charles, Minnesota.
ZEBULON SINCLAIR (145), farmer, was born 25th February 1798; died in Holderness, New Hampshire 28th March 1782. He married Mary Seavey, and had: -
  1. THOMAS, born about 1826; died 28th March 1866; married March 1866, Abigai1 Moulton.
  2. ELIZA ANN, born about 1830; died in Holderness, 21st September, 1864.
  3. JOHN TAYLOR GILMAN
  4. WILLIAM, born 11th September, 1840; farmer; lives in Holderness; single
NOAH SINCLAIR (147), farmer and merchant, was born in Essex, Vermont, 24th April 1792. There he lived, and took the Freeman's oath 1st September, 1812. He fought at Plattsburg, 11th September, 1814, was injured then, for which he afterwards received a pension. After the war he resided in Bartlett. He married, first, Lucinda (or Elizabeth) Carleton, and secondly, her cousin, Elizabeth Carleton. He died 13th March 1872. Children: -
  1. ELVIRA, married Mr. Wheelock; resident Port Henry, New York.
  2. DAVIS; deceased; resident Montpelier, Vermont.
  3. HENRY, died, aged 9 months.
  4. LYDIA FRANCES, born 8th November 1820; married Joshua Larkin Wentworth.
  5. HENRY WHITE
  6. EDWARD CARLETON
THOMAS SINCLAIR (149), a resident of Essex, Vermont; was a soldier in the 1812-15 war, and was stationed once at Swanton, Vermont. He was lamed for life in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, for which he was pensioned. For many years he resided at Berkshire, Vermont, and then removed to Bartlett, New Hampshire, in 1834; dying in Conway, New Hampshire, 11th September, 1865, aged 75. He married, 22nd August 1813, Mary Austin. Children: -
  1. POWELL AUSTIN
  2. GEORGE HOWE
  3. MINERVA, deceased; married Daniel Lord, of Eliot, Minnesota
  4. ORISON THAYER
  5. CURTIS
  6. LUCETTA, born 22nd May 1832; married John Hoyt, of Jackson, New Hampshire
  7. EDWARD, married Nancy Chaplin; resident Morning Sun, Iowa.
  8. SARAH E. born 17th May 1835; married Warren C. Wentworth.
ELI SINCLAIR (15O) lived in Essex, Vermont, was lame, and invalid for many years. Married Almira Miller, of Richeford, Vermont, in which place he died, when she re-married.

JOHN SINCLAIR (151), farmer, spent most of his life in Essex, Vermont. Then he removed to Grafton, Massachusetts, where he died 4th January 1862. He married Lucretia Wheelock. Children: -

  1. JOHN ELBRIDGE
  2. FRANKLIN J.
  3. PERSIS LUCRETIA, born March 1837; married, May 1862, James W. Plimpton.
The HON. LEANDER DUDLEY SINCLAIR (154) was born in Essex, Vermont, 19th August 1804; died in Ossipee, New Hampshire, 28th October 1889. He had an excellent staging business, which he conducted successfully for 15 years, when railroad extension curtailed it. He then took a farm, and actively interested himself in the affairs of his town, of which he was postmaster for 17 years. He was a Republican member of the legislature for two years (1844-45). He married, first, in 1832, Olive W. Kimball, and secondly, 1867, Addie W. Tasker, relict of Nathaniel Spencer. Children: -
  1. PRUDENCE ABBEY, born 16th October 1832; married Spencer M. Kallock.
  2. JEREMIAH
  3. ELIZABETH, born 15th October 1837; died 1st February 1864.
  4. MARY ODELL born 3rd December 1855; married John T. Pitman.
  5. JOHN KEELER; born 4th July 1839; married Rachael Murdock.
  6. MOSES CANNEY
  7. OLIVE ANN, born 25th Eebruary 1844; married Miner C. Baldwin.
  8. CHARLES HENRY, born May 1849; married Alvesta Goodwin; merchant, Beverly, Massachusetts.
  9. GEORGE M. born 20th April 1851; died 22nd May 1855.
  10. LEANDER DUDLEY
  11. WILLAM C. born 3rd February 1854; is station agent at Ossipee, New Hampshire.
  12. CARRIE ESTELLA, born 7th June 1857, at Ossipee; book-keeper there.
DAVID SINCLAIR (155), resident and died in Essex, Vermont; married first, unknown; secondly, Mercy Tiffany.

  1. One child by first wife.
  2. CLARISSA, married Mr. Robinson.
  3. ROSWELL M. died in Lowell, Vermont.
MICHAEL SINCLAIR (156), carpenter, lumberman, and farmer, was born in Essex, Vermont, 29th July 1793. The last years of his life he spent at Hubbell's Falls and Burlington, Vermont, where his remains, rest in the Green Mountain cemetery. He married Annis White. Children; -
  1. ELIZA, born 14th November 1813; died 12th October 1815.
  2. ORVILLE
  3. LOUISA, born 13th June 1817; died 20th March 1819.
  4. MINERVA BUTLER, born 5th March 1819; married Horace W. Barrett; dead.
  5. MARY MARILLA, born 13th September 1822; married Henry Timans; died 21st December 1843.
  6. CHARLOTTE, born 3rd December 1826; died 6th January 1876; married Jonathan Newell.
  7. ANGELINE, died at Winooski, Vermont.
SAMUEL CONNOR SINCLAIR (157), millwright, was born in Essex, Vermont, 12th July 1795. In 1835 he moved to Lyndonville, New York. He married, first, Samantha Barney; and secondly, Sarah Remington; and died at Lyndonville, New York, 18th November 1838. Children: -
  1. HEMAN BARNEY
  2. HENRY MALCOLM
  3. ELIZA GOODWIN, born 22nd October 1822; married 1884, Warren E. Sawyer.
  4. SAMUEL CONNOR
  5. HELEN MALONE, born 28th June 1827; married William Hutchinson.
  6. LUCIUS AUGUSTUS
  7. SIDNEY FRANKLlN
  8. MARY SAMANTHA, born 16th January 1835; married William Gray.
CHESTER HENDERSON SINCLAIR (158), farmer, was born at Essex, Vermont, 10th July 1806; and died at Moira, New York, 4th June 1887. He resided at Essex, and Charlotte, Vermont, and Moira, New York. He married, first, 1826, Laura W. Austin; and secondly, 1857, Sarah J. Hoyt. Children: -
  1. ELLEN FRANCES, born 25th January 1830; married, 1849, Lucius Saxton.
  2. LURA LUCINDA, born 15th June 1832; married, 1852, Enoch B. Harris.
GEORGE W. SINCLAIR (159) was born in Essex, Vermont: took Freemans oath there 1st September, 1829; moved in 1842 or '43 to Moira, and then to Lyndonville, both New York, and about 1849 to Schoolcraft, Michigan. He married, first, Jane McLean; secondly, Electa Cady; and thirdly, a lady in Michigan. By tradition his family is as follows: -
  1. MARY JANE, died, aged 6;
  2. GEORGE FRANKLIN; both born at Essex, Vermont.
  3. MERCY LETITIA, born Essex, Vermont; married Dr. Seeley, of Schoolcraft.
  4. LAURA MARILLA, born Moira, New York
  5. MARY JANE.
  6. NANCY.
HOSEA B. SINCLAIR (163) took Freeman's oath in Essex 6th September, 1825. Married Lucinda Barney. Child: -
  1. CORNELIA.
FREEMAN A. SINCLAIR (169), farmer, was born in Essex 28th May 1802; lived in Essex, then Jericho, and died in Cambridge, Vermont, 26th February 1871. He married, first, Eunice Griffin; and secondly, Olive Hutchings (Mrs. Ransom). Children: -
  1. CHARLOTTE, born 29th July 1823; married, 1850, Josephus Thatcher.
  2. FANNIE JANE, born 1827; died 3rd June 1882; married John Bliss.
  3. LUCINDA M. born 1st December 1837; married Andrew Lavigne.
  4. FREDERICK T.
  5. MARY ANN, born 18th January 1842; married, 1858, Dwight Williams.
GEORGE BREIGHTON SINCLAIR (171) was born in Essex 23rd March 1822, where he died on his farm 21st July 1888. He married, 26th December 1847, Elizabeth Keeler. Children: -
  1. JAMES WAYLAND, born 19th August 1848; died 22nd December 1858.
  2. EDWARD FRANK, born 28th July 1850; died 21st December 1858.
  3. GEORGE ARTHUR, born 28th December 1851; architect.
  4. JOHN KEELER, born 20th October 1853; died 20th December 1858.
  5. EDMUND SHATTUCK, born 2nd October 1855; married, 18th May 1892, Ruth A. Clark; millwright.
  6. CLINTON JEWELL, born 10th March 1857; clerk, Bristol, New Hampshire
  7. WILLIE SPENCER
  8. ABBIE ELIZABETH, born 11th July 1864; artiste; resident Essex, Vermont
  9. HAMMOND WHITTOCK, born 23rd May 1866; I11inois, 1892, Kittie Hanley; resident Essex.
BENJAMIN ST.CLAIR (174) was born 11th November 1782; died 5th October 1872. He succeeded to his father's homestead, to which he added greatly by various purchases. He was commissioned Lieutenant of Militia (5th Company, 29th Regiment) 17th June 181l, and was subsequently promoted to a Captaincy. He married, 5th June 1805, Nancy Pease. Children: -
  1. JOHN MOONEY
  2. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
  3. CHARLES PINCKNEY
  4. ELIZABETH MARTIN, born 11th May 1811; married Thomas J. Hilton.
IRA ST.CLAIR (176), lawyer, was born on the family homestead at New Hampton, New Hampshire; and died without issue at Deerfield Parade, New Hampshire, 25th April 1875. He commenced practice in 1824; in 1848 was appointed Judge of Probate for Rockingham County, and held the position until 1858. His reputation was very high. Judge St.Clair married, first, 1827, Alina S. Jenness; and, secondly, 1846, Eliza, daughter of Judge Creighton.

JOHN ST.CLAIR (181) was born 1st June 1790. Corporal of 9th Regiment; was in seven battles of 1812-15 war. Shot by an Indian while on picket, 1815. Single.

WINTHROP ST.CLAIR (186) was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, 7th May 1802; succeeded to his father's homestead; Colonel in the 3rd Regiment of Militia. Selling his farm in 1839, he removed to London, New Hampshire, Springfield, East Concord, and finally settled in Richmond, New Hampshire, where he died 15th June 1874. He married, 1st September, 1834, Martha Maxfield. Children: -

  1. JOHN MURRAY, born 14th October 1838; drowned in the Merrimac, 14th June 1848.
  2. CATHERINE DAVIS, born 28th February 1841; married, 1863, Charles F. Hastings.
  3. CHARLES
  4. FRANK P.
GEORGE MARSTON SINCLAIR (191) was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, 12th April 1808; died Boston, Massachusetts, 10th June 1871. He married, 1837, Charlotte Jennings. Children: -
  1. JOHN, born 25th January 1839; died single, 6th November 1871.
  2. CHARLOTTE, born 10th September, 1840; resident East Boston, Massachusetts.
  3. GEORGE, born 5th August 1846; died, unmarried, 4th April 1884.
JOSEPH F. SINCLAIR (193), born Stratham 27th June 1809; died Chicago in 1874. Real estate owner; lost heavily by Chicago fire. Married Lucy Larabee. Children: -
  1. LUCY ANN, married George Ellis of Boston.
  2. SUSAN WIGGIN; single.
JOHN T. SINCLAIR (194) born Stratham 24th April 1817; died Exeter, 4th May 1889; married Minerva Severy. Children: -
  1. JOHN ALBERT
  2. EMMA, married, 11th January 1870, George A. Janvrin
  3. IDA, married, 23rd January 1880, Dana B. Cram.
WILLIAM R. SINCLAIR (195), born Stratham 25th January 1819; lived and died in Newton, Massachusetts; twice married. Child: -
  1. WILLIAM GERRY, born 1844; died 4th November 18S7.
SAMUEL JAMES SINCLAIR (205), born Dover New Hampshire, 21st December 1824; lives on the farm his father owned. He married, first, 1847, Annie D. Thompson; and secondly, 1855, Frances Deborah Jewett. Child: -
  1. WILLIAM HENRY, born 23rd October 1850; died 9th September, 1855.
JAMES SINCLAIR (209) was born 21st December 1830; resident Newmarket, New Hampshire. He married Addie --, and has three children (533-5).

SAMUEL L. SINCLAIR (221), cabinetmaker and manufacturer, was born in Waterborough, Minnesota, 21st January 1789; resided in Portland, Minnesota, and died at his birthplace in 1848. He married Eunice Foss. Children: -

  1. MARY ELIZA, born 26th August 1814; married Shirley Libbey.
  2. SAMUEL died at Yarmouth, Minnesota, aged about 21 years.
JOHN SINCLAIR (222), farmer, was born in Waterborough, Minnesota, 1st March 1791; occupied a portion of the homestead; and died there 19th September 1826. His wife was Joanna Lyman. Children: -
  1. MARY, born 1st February 1818; died December 1845; single.
  2. HANNAH, born 20th July 1820; married Joseph C. Roberts.
  3. NATHANIEL
  4. ELIZABETH, born 22nd September 1824; died August 1846; single.
DAVID SINCLAIR (226), farmer, born Waterborough, Minnesota, 1st April 1799; resident there many years; removed to Biddeford, Minnesota, and there died. Married, 20th March 1828, Mary Hastie. Child: -
  1. ABBIE A. highly educated; married Dr. G.M. Baker of Standish, Minnesota
HENRY S. SINCLAIR (228), machinist, was born at Waterborough, 30th August 1802; removed to Minneapolis; acquired wealth and died there. He married Rachael Boston. They had nine children: -
  1. DAVID BOSTON.
  2. SARAH, married Isaac Gilpatrick.
  3. MARY, m, Mr. Fisk.
  4. DOROTHY, married.
  5. MELVINA, married Monroe Boynton.
  6. LUCY, single
  7. JAMES HENRY.
  8. EMILIA, married Henry O'Brien.
  9. ROXANNA.
JOHN LEWIS SINCLAIR (229), farmer, born Waterborough, 27th April 1804; married, first, 1833, Joanna Chadbourne; secondly, 1847, Nancy Hill. Children: -
  1. IVORY ROBERTS, born 13th December 1834; died 19th April 1865.
  2. JOHN
SAMUEL SINCLAIR (230), farmer of Brentwood, New Hampshire; died 29th December 1820. He married Hannah Clifford. Child: -
  1. HANNAH, died 24th May 1830.
HENRY SINCLAIR (232) was born in Brentwood, 13th March 1792, where he resided till a few years before his death, when he removed to Exeter, where he died 25th September, 1841. He married, first, 1812, Mary Marston; secondly, 1826, Eliza Blake; and thirdly, 1833, Eliza Ann Robinson. Children: -
  1. SARAH TUCKER, born 13th September 1813; married 25th December 1834, Robert Rowe.
  2. MARY FOWLER, born 14th September, 1815; married Eliphalet B. Wood.
  3. JONATHAN MARSTON
  4. NARCISSA, born 3rd November 1821; married Stephen Fel1ows.
  5. SAMUEL born 13th July 1823; died 17th October 1825.
  6. RACHEL born 16th November 1824; died 20th October 1825.
  7. JAMES RUSSELL born 18th April 1829 died about 1850.
  8. CHARLES HENRY, born 10th Octoher 1830; died about 1851.
  9. JOHN ELDRIDGE
BENJAMIN SINCLAIR (235), farmer, was born 13th April 1800, in Brentwood, New Hampshire, where he always resided. He was a lieutenant in the militia; all active business man; and a zealous Baptist. He died 2nd March 1847. He married, 15th December 1826, Abigail Clark. Issue: -
  1. MARY ELIZABETH, born 2nd February 1828; married, 16th October 1850, Orin Swain.
  2. RACHEL ANN, born 1829; died 1852.
  3. HOLLIS JACKSON, twin, born 4th May 1832; invalid; died 1887.
  4. LEWIS WASHINGTON, twin, born 4th May 1832; soldier, 15th New Hampshire Volunteers; married, October 1862, Sarah M. Kimball; died 25th July 1863.
  5. EMMA HOWARD, born 9th October 1841; resides on homestead.
HIRAM PORTER SINCLAIR (236), farmer, was born at Palmyra, Minnesota, 1804, where he always resided, dying there 13th September, 1855. He married 1st January 1829, Lydia Tuttle, and had issue: -
  1. JAMES SULLIVAN
  2. LEWIS EDWIN
  3. NICHOLAS TUTTLE
  4. HIRAM CALVIN
  5. LYDIA ANN, born 19th June 1842; married, 13th November 1867, Benjamin Franklin.
  6. WILLIAM PORTER, born 27th May 1844; farmer; enlisted, 1862, in Company "K", 22nd Minnesota Volunteers, discharged 1863; married 11th August 1877, Maria A. McCrillis, relict of J. S. Collmore.
  7. HARRIET AUGUSTA, born 17th May 1846; married 25th November 1871, Melvin M. Buzzell.
  8. MARTIN A. born 22nd February 1850; farmer; single; resident Palmyra, Minnesota

DAVID PORTER SINCLAIR (241) lived in Ormstown, Canada, where he died about 1870. Married twice, and said to have had seven children, but the following is all that has been ascertained: -
  1. DAVID, once resident Hamilton, Canada
  2. WILLIAM, resident Ormstown, Canada.
  3. SOPHIA, resident Ormstown,

580-582 Three sisters, resident with 577

JOHN TURNER SINCLAIR (242) lived in St.Johnsbury, Vermont, then resided eight years in Milwaukie, Wisconsin, and died in Sacramento, California, in 1852. He married Louisa C. Noyes. Children: -

  1. CHARLES HENRY
  2. WILLIAM F. born 3rd January 1847.
  3. JOHN EDWIN, born 7th September, 1836; married r862, Maggie Kenyon; died Chicago, 1867.
  4. GEORGE GRESHAM, born 2nd May 1838; married 1862, Frances Anderson; died 1885, Little Rock, Arkansas
  5. ALBERT CARLTON, born 20th March 1840; married 1861, Julia H. Clark; resident Chicago, Illinois.
  6. AUGUSTA LOUISE, born 26th July 1842; married 1864, William A. Stanton.
  7. MARY PUTNAM, born 17th May 1845; married, 1864, Oscar L. Chatterton.
  8. JAMES WALLACE, born 10th January 1850; married 1874, Harriet Hallen Veck.
JAMES MADISON SINCLAIR (251), farmer, born Brentwood, 25th March 1812; resident many years in Monmouth, Minnesota; then removed to Weeks' Mills, China, Minnesota; subsequently settled in Durham, that State, and is now on a farm in Augusta, Minnesota. He married Hannah Slade. Children: -
  1. HARTSON DALTON, born 26th February 1843; graduate in commercial college at Boston, and was clerk in provost-marshal's office there; enlisted in 2nd Massachusetts cavalry, and died at hospital in Maryland, May 1865.
  2. HENRY MADISON, born 1st March 1848; married, 26th October 1877, Abbie P. Norton; resident Salem, Massachusetts
  3. CHARLES ROSCOE, born 17th August 1849; died September, 1865.
  4. JAMES ELLERY
JOSEPH DALTON SINCLAIR (254), born 7th October 1825; resident Monmouth, Minnesota; married Elizabeth Stimpson. Child: -
  1. FRANK H.
EBENEZER SINCLAIR (260), carpenter, born Sandwich, New Hampshire, 15th February 1801; removed to Boston, Massachusetts, where he died. He married Mary White. Child: -
  1. EMILY, born and resides in Boston, Massachusetts
JOHN SINCLAIR (265), blacksmith, settled in Haverhill, New Hampshire; married three sisters, Nancy, Elizabeth, and Mary Page; the last was in 1814. No information as to children.

MOSES HOAG SINCLAIR (268), shoe manufacturer, was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, 5th March 1797; removed to the Corner, Haverhill, where he died 22nd February 1844. For 21 years he kept the gaol of Grafton County. He served as moderator of town meetings, and was known as Major Sinclair. He married Mary Wells. Children: -

  1. ASA CROSBY, born 17th December 1824; died 14th August 1871; married, 24th May 1849, Zeruah Eggleston.
  2. HENRY MERRILL
  3. GEORGE HUTCHINS
  4. NELSON BURNHAM
WILLIAM M. SINCLAIR (269), farmer, born Sandwich; published to Lucy A. Smith, 20th August 1833; died Parishville, New York, 9th May 1879. Children: -
  1. SARAH JANE, born 25th September 1835; married Elias G. Mosher.
  2. JAMES HENRY
  3. JOHN HARVEY
  4. HELEN AMELIA, born 4th July 1848; died 23rd April 1855.
ISAIAH GOULD SINCLAIR (270), farmer, born Sandwich 10th March 1799; died there 23rd December 1856. Married, first, 20th November 1823, Mary B. Lee; secondly, 23rd September, 1830, Louisa Cox; and thirdly, 23rd December 1844, her sister, Mary Abbie Cox. Mr. Sinclair succeeded his father on the farm near the Red Hill. Child:
  1. MARY LOUISE, born 24th August 1843; married, 1st May 1867, the Rev. George E. Lovejoy.
JOHN SINCLAIR (273) born Sandwich, settled Haverhill, where his life was largely passed on his father's farm. He married Jane Hamblett. Children:

  1. FRANK, died, aged 12.
  2. JONATHAN, married Miss Titus, and lived in Lowell, Massachusetts.
  3. MYRA, married, as second wife, Mr. Bancroft, of Haverhill, died during father's lifetime
  4. JANE, died young.
  5. STEPHEN BADGER, born about 1835; banns published to Lydia J. Fitz, 14th September 1857; children.
SAMUEL SINCLAIR (274) was born 14th December 1800; resident Haverhill; died 20th January 1871; married Eliza Hamblett. Children: -
  1. SARAH, married her cousin, Ephraim Hildreth.
  2. MARY, married Rufus Keyes.
  3. SOPHIA, married George W. Woods.
  4. ALBERT is deceased, leaving a family in Clintall, New Hampshire
  5. PHOEBE, married Charles Robinson.
  6. CHARLOTTE, married Henry T. Swan.
  7. LUCY ANN, married James Wilson.
  8. EDWARD CHAPMAN
  9. ADALINE DAVENPORT, born 22nd August 1850; married James F. Sleeper.
STEPHEN BADGER SINCLAIR (277) born in Sandwich, lived in Haverhill, died in Moultonborough, all in New Hampshire He was published to Sarah Nute 17th January 1831. Children: -
  1. EDWIN DAVENPORT
  2. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, born 1838; lived in Sandwich; enlisted, 1862, in Company "K", 14th New Hampshire Volunteers, and died in the service, 186S, at Savannah, Georgia.
CHARLES GRANDISON SINCLAIR (280) was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, 4th May 1793. He took part in the U.S.-British war of 1812-15. Enlisting at Portsmouth 5th July 1814, in Lovering's company, 21st Regiment, he was made corporal. From February 28th to May 15th he was sergeant in Marston's company. He was in a detachment of troops under Lieutenant James Pratt of the 21st Regiment which crossed from Buffalo to Fort Erie and joined the American army under General Jacob Brown. He there acted as clerk for General Ripley, and a member of Captain Bradford's company, participated 17th September 1815, in the desperate fight with the British called the "Sortie", where he was severely wounded in the right shoulder by a musket ball, and was taken from field to hospital. Upon partially recovering he was transferred to Marston's company, in which he continued till disbanded at the close of the war. For his wounds and service he received a Government pension, which commenced 23rd February 1830. After the war he became a trader at Barnstead Parade. He was an expert accountant, and considered an authority among his townsmen in drafting contract and other legal papers; and, notwithstanding his wound, he excelled in subduing unmanageable horses. He married, 20th January 1825. Martha G. Norris, and dying 18th July 1834, left her in legacy two unfortunate suits at law, in which, though finally successful, the bankruptcy of the defendants left Mrs. Sinclair with only seventy dollars and her furniture. Child: -
  1. JOHN GRANDISON
GEORGE WASHINGTON SINCLAIR (282), farmer, was born in Vassalborough, Minnesota, 14th November 1796. In early life he moved to Unity, where he married, 14th January 1819, Elizabeth Murch. He enlisted in 1812, and served throughout the war, after which he settled in Unity, where he died 28th October 1830. Children:
  1. ROBERT STRONG, born 9th November 1819; sailor and trader; died, unmarried, 18th Septernber 1851, at Shafta, California
  2. ABBIE, born 20th December 1822; resident Brooklyn, New York; has contributed greatly to the information herein given,
  3. JOSHUA CILLEY
  4. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
  5. ALBERT born 14th February 1830; resident Midland, California.
DR. WILLIAM ST.CLAIR (284), physician, was born 3rd May 1799 in Vassalborough, Minnesota He resided in Fremont, Ohio, ten years; in Maumee City, Ohio, for twenty years: and for ten years in Kansas City; and died there November 1877. He married, first, Laura Barney; secondly, Ann E. Lovejoy; and thirdly. N.M. Colby. Child:
  1. MADISON W. ST.CLAIR, born 13th January 1826; married, 19th October 1859, Ellen L. Bostwick; resident Kansas City; banker.
THOMAS JEFFERSON SINCLAIR (285) was born in Unity, Minnesota, 13th June 1801; married Celinda Bakeman; went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1845; and died there 1855. Children: -
  1. JEFFERSON; probably resides in St.Louis, Missouri.
  2. ARABELLA WINGATE, born 22nd February 1834; married Dr. Bailey of Buffalo, New York.
  3. HELEN MARR, married George F. Wheeler.
  4. MARIA, married Mr. Williams.
JOSHUA SINCLAIR (287), lumberman, was born in Unity, 12th July 1805; married, 17th November 1829, Seville Jackson; lived in Maine and Wisconsin: died at Racine, Wisconsin, 17th October 1848. Children: -
  1. GILMAN JACKSON, born 1831; died 1833.
  2. CALVIN DWINAL
  3. JUDITH PARKHURST, born 17th February 1835; resident Racine, Wis.
JOHN SINCLAIR (293) was born in Vassalborough, Minnesota, 6th January 1788. In the fall [autumn] of 1809 he went to Sinclairville, and assisted in erecting the first house in that village. He located there in March 1810. He was a millwright, carpenter, and farmer, and assisted in building the first sawmill in Sinclairville. He enlisted for the 1812-15 war in Seizer's Company, from Eaton, New York, in which place and Gerry, same State, he resided after the war, dying at Gerry 27th April 1864. He married Elizabeth Lee. Children:
  1. ABERDEEN
  2. HEPZIBAH, born 8th October 1811; married, 1831, Mr. Bennett.
  3. ELIZA; born 10th November 1813; married Benjamin Graham.
  4. FRANKLIN
  5. NANCY, born 30th September 1819; married James Albert Clark.
  6. ANN BURLINGAME, born 30th March 1822; married Orsamus Alexander White.
LIEUT.-COLONEL SAMUEL SINCLAIR (300) was born in Eaton, New York, 14th August 1801. Located for good in Gerry in 1810, and lived there ever after. He was a Lieut.-Colonel of the 212th Regiment. He was very athletic, and a skilful marksman and hunter. A farmer, carpenter, and millwright, he erected the first framed barn ever built in Gerry, and became widely known for his skill in constructing sawmills, building a large number in his own locality, in Pennsylvania, and in Canada. While attending to business at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, he was taken ill, and died 22nd October 1848. He married Martha Bucklen 10th October 1819. Children: -
  1. SOPHIA, born 6th September, 1820; married Charles P. Ward.
  2. SAMUEL
  3. SARAH, born 2nd September 1824; died 19th June 1829.
  4. MAJOR
  5. ELISHA WARD
  6. NANCY, born 22nd October 1828; married, 2nd May 1847, Isaiah Cobb.
  7. MARTHA MELISSA, born 16th November 1816; married Theodore Barrett Cobb.
DAVID BIGELOW SINCLAIR (303) was born in Madison, 10th March 1807, and died at Sinclairville, 8th October 1879. A millwright by trade, he had remarkable powers in that line and was the inventor of an improved waterwheel. He possessed great physical strength, and was a noted marksman and hunter. He is buried in the Evergreen cemetery at Sinclairville, New York. He married in early life Sophronia Elliott. Children: -
  1. CALVIN, born 6th December 1832; died 3rd December 1841.
  2. MARY, born 1st November 1836; died 17th February 1837.
THE HON. JOSEPH SINCLAIR (304) was born in Madison, New York, 15th March 1809; and was brought by his parents to Sinclairville in 1810. He received a good education. In early life was apprenticed dry goods clerk in Sinclairville, and later on was a merchant. Between 1830-40 he went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is mentioned as one of the early attorneys of that State. Elected clerk of Allen Company, there, during Polk's administration he was appointed Indian Agent, and superintended the removal of the Miami Indians of Indiana and Michigan to their reservations west of the Mississippi. He was a member of the Indiana Senate from 1841 to 1844. He died of cholera at Fort Wayne 7th September, 1854. He married, 7th April 1837, Susan S. Edsall. Children: -
  1. FRANCES C. born 12th March 1838; teacher; resident Fort Wayne.
  2. JOHN M. born 10th February 1813; died 6th August 1845.
  3. SAMUEL ESDALL
  4. ORLINDA P. born 14th June 1847; teacher; died Fort Wayne 8th January 1885.
  5. ISABELLA J. born 4th April 1849; died 10th September, 1851.
  6. SUSAN S. born 20th December 1853; teacher; resident Fort Wayne, Indiana.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SINCLAIR (305) was born in Sinclairville, 4th July 1811. He has passed a large part of his life in operating different mi11ing establishments, but on account of failing health some thirty years ago bought a farm in Gerry, New York, on which he has since lived. Athlete, marksman, hunter, in his old age he still goes almost yearly to the forests of Michigan for a few days of this sport. He married, first, Diana Ferguson; and secondly, Charlotte Sylvester. Children: -
  1. DIANA, died 3rd October 1836, aged 5 months.
  2. GEORGE.
  3. MARY ANN, born 20th August 1849; married George S. Wheeler.
JOSHUA ST.CLAIR (316) was born at Harbour Creek, Erie County, Pennsylvania, 26th February 1802. Farmer, cooper, and carpenter by occupation, at various times he lived at Hamburg, Ohio; Waterloo, Crow Fish R., Cottage Grove, Hatchville, Lodi, Newport, Summit, and Seven Mile Creek, all in Wisconsin, where he died 21st April 1885. He married Rhoda Moore, relict of Chas. McClellan. Children: -
  1. ENOCH, died young.
  2. FRANKLIN
  3. OLIVIA CORDELIA, born 1st August 1827; married John Coleman.
  4. PHYLANDER VICTOR, born 10th April 1829; fisherman; resident at White Fish Day; perished on Lake Michigan 17th March 1855; body found by Indians and interred in Michigan City.
  5. CHARLES LAFAYETTE
  6. MELINDA FLORILLA, born 26th August 1835; married George R. Curtis.
  7. JOHN WESLEY
  8. SUSAN MELISSA; born 10th March 1838; died single 26th April 1888.
JOSEPH SINCLAIR (321), millwright, was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, 15th October 1789; resident in Danville, Vermont, and probably in Perry, Ohio. He married Sarah Dane of Danville, Vermont. She died and he married again. No children by second marriage. He died in Sioux City, Iowa.

Children: -

  1. JOHN
  2. JOSEPH W.
  3. HORATIO, married Miss Bullen in Chicago; died in California.
GREENLEAF CILLEY SINCLAIR (324), carpenter and farmer, was born in Danville, Vermont, 22nd December 1798; when of age lived at or near Danville Green. He died in Perry, Ohio, 19th September, 1876. He married Susan T. Batchelder. Children: -
  1. SUSAN ALMIRA, born 20th January 1823; married, 30th August 1811, Orrin Harper.
  2. RICHARD BAXTER
  3. DAVID BATCHELDER
  4. ELIZA MILLICENT, born 11th October 1830; died 4th November 1882; married Theodore Wire.
  5. JOSEPH FRANKLIN
MILTON SINCLAIR (328) was born at Danville, Vermont, 11th July 1811; lived there till 1831, when he located in Derby, Vermont, where he owned a farm and hotel, which he managed for five years, removing to Perry, Ohio, 2nd February 1836. He went in sleighs with goods and family, and was twenty-two days on the journey. He erected the Sinclair hotel in Perry in 1848, and managed it till his death, 6th October 1852. He married Mary Kelsey. Children: -
  1. MARYANN, born 31st July 1823; married, 20th September, 1849, Samuel Wire.
  2. HARRIET, born 30th August 1824; married, 27th February 1862, John Perry.
  3. LUCIUS CHARLES
  4. MILTON HUGH
  5. WILLIAM WALLACE, born 1833; died, aged 2 months.
  6. ELIZA JANE, born 1st September, 1834; died 16th May 1871.
  7. CORILLA, born 11th August 1837; married Lucius Greene.
  8. WILLIAM WALLACE II
PRENTICE SINCLAIR (333), farmer, was born in Danville 24th March 1796; accompanied his parents when young to Perry, 0hio, which was ever after his home. Soldier in the 1812-15 war. He died at Perry, Ohio, 6th February 1845. He married Sarah Jennings. Children: -
  1. NANCY, married Rollins Ballard.
  2. THIRZA, married Joseph Richardson.
  3. EURANA, married Alonzo Wellman; died 22nd February 1849.
  4. HENRY
CALVIN SINCLAIR (336) was born in Danville 13th April 1802; settled in Perry, Ohio, when nine years of age. He donated the land to the Church of the Disciples on which to erect their house of worship. He died 21st March 1852. He married, 24th May 1837, Nancy Gray. Children: -
  1. CHARLES, born 1841; died 1862.
  2. EMILY L. born 1847; died 1849.
  3. MARY JANE, born 2nd January 1845; married Samuel L. Lapham.
  4. EMMA E. born 28th February 1851; married, 9th December 1868, Burgess Herrick.
DAVID SINCLAIR (342) was born 4th June 1815, in Danville, Vermont. He lived in Perry till 1853, when he removed to Warren, Illinois and from there in 1873 to Kingston, Nebraska. He married, first, Mrs. Mary Pike Wooley, who died without issue in Perry; and secondly, his cousin, Martha M. Barrows. Children: -
  1. FREMONT B.
  2. ALANSON.
  3. SARAH, born 12th October 1866.
  4. ALBERT W. born 22nd October 1861; single; resident Kingston, Nebraska.
  5. MARY A. born 24th August 1864; married, 1882, William H. Coltrin.
  6. DAVID W.P. born 25th December 1869; resident Hanover, Nebraska

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