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88 "5. Daniel, born May 28, 1761 ;
Kirtland Harris.
Kotes on tilt iFamflw of mt W&olt
who
married, March 26, 1794, Lydia
89 "6. Jerusha; who married, March 2, 1778, Peter Martin.
90 " 7. Eunice, born in 1766; who married, May 9, 1782, Caleb Forsyth.
91 " 8. Lydia, born in 1768 (my great grandmother).
" Of this family DANIEL (88) was a very prominent man in Nova
Scotia. In the assessment-roll of 1791 he is rated as a first-class farmer,
and taxed at the highest rate. In 1806 he was elected Representative to
the Provincial Assembly from the township of Horton, and again in 181 1.
He was also Justice of the Peace and Coroner for King's Co. On the
31"* May 1810 he and his brother Oliver took out a grant of 1950 acres
of crown-land at River Philip.
" Jehiel's (85) family were well known ;
and
his children connected
themselves, in marriage, with the well known families of Ratchford, Chip-
92 man, Starr and Denison. Eliza Caroline Harrington, granddaughter of
Jehiel and Elizabeth (Martin) De Wolf, married, in Eastport, Me., Samuel
B. Wadsworth, uncle of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One of his
93 daughters, Charlotte, married a Vanderpoel of New York ;
and
another,
94 Hannah, married Jonathan Bartlett of Eastport.
"My great grandmother, Lydia (91), a woman of noble character,
95
married : i'*, in 1794, Samuel Starr, of the prominent family of that name ;
2"'^, September i, 1808, Cyrus Peck, one of the early emigrants from
Lyme to Nova Scotia; and, 3"*'\ June 24, 1820, Moses Stevens. The
children of the first marriage were :
" I. Maria, born January i, 1795.
g6 "2. Henry, \iOxw December 15, 1796; who died in 1822, unmarried.
" Maria Starr married, June 19, 1813, Otho Hamilton, born in San-
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ford, Maine, and had :
"I. Susan Eliza, born March 10, 18 14.
q8 "2. Minetta Bath, born March 15, 18 16.
nn "3. Henry Starr, born August 18, 1818.
100 "4- Margaret Maria, born February 6, 182 1 ; who
married, Feb-
ruary 19, 1857, Brenton Haliburton fourth son of Hon. James D. Harris,
M. L. C.
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