Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . Mrs. Jane Abisail(IMeirv)Allen. JaiiiuK ll(iii:iii Mien. latter was the third son of Daniel and Jane (Patterson) Merry; was born in Don-egal, County Roscommon, Ireland, 20 November 1803; married Delia AdelaideLeonard in La Prairie, Canada, 10 November 1828, and died in Montreal, 24 April1886. Delia Adelaide Leonard, mother of Mrs. Jane Abigail (Merry) All
Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . Mrs. Jane Abisail(IMeirv)Allen. JaiiiuK ll(iii:iii Mien. latter was the third son of Daniel and Jane (Patterson) Merry; was born in Don-egal, County Roscommon, Ireland, 20 November 1803; married Delia AdelaideLeonard in La Prairie, Canada, 10 November 1828, and died in Montreal, 24 April1886. Delia Adelaide Leonard, mother of Mrs. Jane Abigail (Merry) Allen, was bornin La Prairie, 16 January 1811, the eldest daughter of Dr. Austin and Abigail(Watson) Leonard, and died, in Montreal, 4 January 1900. William Andrew Merry was educated at Dublin University. Shortly aftergraduating he emigrated to Canada, and engaged in a general merchandise busi-ness at La Prairie, a town on the St. Lawrence River, near Montreal. About 1828to 1830 he was captain of a steamboat on the St. Lawrence. He returned to Ire-land and engaged in farming. Fourteen years later he again visited Canada andbecame the General Superintendent of the Lake Champlain & St. Lawrence Rail-road, which position he held a numbe
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