Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . Sutton, Massachusetts,1744; married, November 22, 1769, Zerviah,daughter of Isaac Whitmore, of Thompson,Connecticut. She died August 29, 1834. Hedied January 31, 1805 at Ashford, Connecti-cut. His father was killed about the time ofhis birth, and he was adopted by Isaac Whit-more. He was a minute man in the Revolu-tionary army and fought in the campaignabout Boston in 1775. During his absence inthe war, his wife did the farm work, harvest-ing the corn and carrying it
Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; . Sutton, Massachusetts,1744; married, November 22, 1769, Zerviah,daughter of Isaac Whitmore, of Thompson,Connecticut. She died August 29, 1834. Hedied January 31, 1805 at Ashford, Connecti-cut. His father was killed about the time ofhis birth, and he was adopted by Isaac Whit-more. He was a minute man in the Revolu-tionary army and fought in the campaignabout Boston in 1775. During his absence inthe war, his wife did the farm work, harvest-ing the corn and carrying it up a ladder tothe corn crib. This unusually severe laborshe used to tell her children and grand-children caused her to become round-shoul-dered, and she bore throughout life the marksof her contribution to the cause of children, born at Ashford, Connecti-cut: I. Althea, born September 19, 1772;married Abial Cheney. 2. Rev. Asa, born Oc-tober 10, 1770, in Pomfret; married Erepta,daughter of John Crow; Asa was settled atWaterford. 3. Joseph Titus, born January 2,1774. 4. Jonah, mentioned below. 5. Giester, /O. A^CU/^ ^ ^-^^^j^C^-vt^^^^ The Lewis Co. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 1995 born July 3, 1780; married Charles Holt. , born June 29, 1783; married CarolineBrigham, of Ashford. 7. Dyer, born April22, 1786. (XV) Jonah Carpenter, son of Jonah Car-penter (14), born at Ashford, Connecticut,October 4, 1777; married Hannah, daughterof Obadiah Rice, who removed from Brook-field, Massachusetts, to Hartland, and thenceto Waterford, Vermont. He died August,1867. He was town clerk 1817-23 and repre-sentative to the legislature 1823. He removedfrom Connecticut to Vermont soon after 1800,and made the trip twice on foot. He wascaptain of the Waterford military companyand deacon of the church. Children, born atWaterford: i. Accliva, born June 4, 1801,married Israel Scott, resided in Newport,Vermont. 2. Zerviah, born October 22, 1802,died February 10, 1803. 3. Lucius, bor
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