. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. ), wasborn December 13, 1731, in Stonington, married Lucy Babcock, of Stonington, andby her had four daughters and five sons. Oneof the sons, Thomas, was the grandfather ofDe Witt C. He was born January 3, 1764, inStonington, and married Elizabeth Clements,.settling in Saratoga, N. Y., on the farm famousas the place of the surrender of Gen. John Bur-goyne during the war of the Revolution. Hedied in 1826, leaving a family of seven sonsand five daughters. One of the sons was Wil-liam, father of De Witt C, and he was b
. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. ), wasborn December 13, 1731, in Stonington, married Lucy Babcock, of Stonington, andby her had four daughters and five sons. Oneof the sons, Thomas, was the grandfather ofDe Witt C. He was born January 3, 1764, inStonington, and married Elizabeth Clements,.settling in Saratoga, N. Y., on the farm famousas the place of the surrender of Gen. John Bur-goyne during the war of the Revolution. Hedied in 1826, leaving a family of seven sonsand five daughters. One of the sons was Wil-liam, father of De Witt C, and he was bornDecember 24, 1795, on the farm in maternal grandfather of De Witt C,Solomon Jones, was born in Wadsburg, Ver-mont, and emigrated to Chaufanipia countyabout 1810, locating near Stillwater, where hepurchased a large farm, now known as theold Jones Farm. He afterwards moved toJamestown, and engaged in hotel-keeping forseveral years, and served as justice of the jjcace,in those days a mucii more important andliDiiorablc ollice than in (Iknc latter 4> S -/kiJi^ OF (JIIAUTAUQUA COIJSTT. 47 Politic-ally lie was an old-lini! wliifr, and in rdi-eion a member of the (.otijrreirational clitirei).He married Clarissa Howard, and had fourteenchildren, all livin<j; to malnrity exoe]it one, whodied in infancy. Tiie ilither of De Witt to Pittsburg, Pa., and from thenceremoved to Jamestown, where he married ClaraJones, and eno-asjed in tiie furniture and car-pentering business. At this time (1823) James-town was a very small village. Politically hewas a whig, and later was the only abolitionistin Jamestown. Wiieu tiie Republican l)artywas organized, in Fremitnt and Daytons timCjhe affiliated with it, and voted that ticket therest of his life. For several years he was cap-tain of the Lightfoot Infantry of was an active and prominent member of theBaptist church. By his marriage he had oneson and three daugiiters. De Witt Clinton Breed was born
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