Several ancestral lines of Moses Hyde and his wife Sara Dana, married at Ashford, Conn., June 5, 1757 : with a full genealogical history of their descendants to the end of the nineteenth century : covering three hundred years and embracing ten generations . 63 Lydia, b. Dec. 3, 1722. 64 Elisha, b. April 25, 1724. 65 Elijah, b. April 25, 1724. Elisha, m. EHzabeth Denison, , m. Abigail Dana, d. 1816. 20 66 Ahner, b. March 6, 1726, m. Mary Whitman, of Nor- wich, d. at New Haven, 1816. 67 /aw^^, b. April 25, 1728, m. Hannah Marsh. He was several summers the town shep-herd, and was so co
Several ancestral lines of Moses Hyde and his wife Sara Dana, married at Ashford, Conn., June 5, 1757 : with a full genealogical history of their descendants to the end of the nineteenth century : covering three hundred years and embracing ten generations . 63 Lydia, b. Dec. 3, 1722. 64 Elisha, b. April 25, 1724. 65 Elijah, b. April 25, 1724. Elisha, m. EHzabeth Denison, , m. Abigail Dana, d. 1816. 20 66 Ahner, b. March 6, 1726, m. Mary Whitman, of Nor- wich, d. at New Haven, 1816. 67 /aw^^, b. April 25, 1728, m. Hannah Marsh. He was several summers the town shep-herd, and was so consciencious that he refusedto take care of the sheep on Sunday, and aboy was employed by the town to attend tothat duty. He d. at Orange, Vt. 68 SUSANNAH, b. June 23, 1730, m. Anderson Dana, June 5, 1757. Although this woman renderedsuch heroic service at the massacre of Wyom-ing as to cause her name to appear in the frontrank of the brave women of that period, norecord can be found of when or where she died. 69 Esekiel, b. Aug. 2, 1732. 70 Daniel, b. Feb. 3, 1737. These children were second cousins toSamuel Huntington, signer of The Declara-tion of Independence. Very many otherdistinguished men have descended fromChristopher and Simon DANA , The Danas are supposed to be of Italianorigin. They are traced from Italy to France,among the Huguenots with whose religiousviews they were in sympathy. They did not remain long in France, butpushed on to England, from whence oneRichard soon came to America. We learn ofonly one besides Richard in England. Wil-liam, who seems without doubt to have beenRichards father, and that Richard was his onlyson. Rufus W. Griswold says, in his Poets andPoetry of America, that William Dana,Esquire, was sheriff of Middlesex during thereign of Queen Elizabeth. Their onlydescendant at that time living, Richard Dana,came to America about the middle of theseventeenth century, and settled at Cambridge,then called Newtown, near Boston. Anoth
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