THE GENEALOGY OF THE STILLMAN FAMILY.

The following genealogy has been compiled from what my father told me when I was a child, and from my personal knowledge.

My great-grandfather, George Stillman, came from England about the year 1695, and settled in Weathersfield, on Connecticut river, where, from him sprang a large posterity, which are now scattered in different parts of New England, and New York.

His name before he came from England was Pickard or Packard, although my grandfather said that he pronounced it Spickard, but after coming to America he called his name Stillman; for what reason we do not certainly know.

When he left England, my grandfather was an apprentice at the tailors' trade, and when his time was out as an apprentice, he came to America, and found his father at Weathersfield; and finding his father had changed his name, he did likewise, and called himself George Stillman.

He left Weathersfield and came to Westerly, and bought a large tract of land, lying in the bend of Pawcatuck river, called Crumb's Neck, where he lived and died, and settled four, if not five of his sons. He married a woman by the name of Deborah Crandall, and had five sons and two daughters. One of the daughters died a young woman. The other daughter's name was Deborah, and married Benjamin Tanner of West Greenwich. She had two children named Nathaniel and Deborah; her husband died young, and she lived a widow to a great age, and was much at my father's when I was a child. Grandfather's five sons were named George, Joseph, John, Elisha and Benjamin. It so happened that they all married women named Molly, where fore old Elisha Babcock said, "all old uncle George Stillman's sons married Mollys, besides Deborah."

Uncle George married Molly Burdick, and had four childrenGeorge, Joseph, Tacy and Sarah. George married Uncle Jo

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seph Stillman's daughter, Esther, one of the nicest women the world ever bore, and had a large family of children. Joseph married David Maxson's daughter Betsey, and had a number of children, of which I know but little. This David Maxon's father was brother to my grandmother Davis; his name was John. Tacy married Stephen Saunders, and had a large posterity. Sarah married Elias Crandell; of her posterity I know but little. So much for Uncle George.

Uncle Joseph married Molly Maxson, and had four children; Joseph, Esther, Amy and Lois. Joseph married Uncle Benjamin's daughter Eunice, and had a large family: Desire, Saberah, Lois, Amy, Joseph, Lydia, Zebulon, Paul, Daniel, Barton, Abel and Adams all these married and had families, except Desire and Barton, who died quite young. Esther married Col. George Stillman, as before mentioned. Amy married Silas Bailey; she was the mother of Elder Eli Stillman Bailey of Brookfieldshe had two other children. Lois married Asa Maxson, son of David, before mentioned, and had a number of children. So much for Uncle Joseph and his posterity.

Uncle John married Molly Clarke and had a large family; Elizabeth, John, Clarke, Deborah, Ketury, and Rhoda. Elizabeth married Joseph Maxson, called sadler Jo. She had no child. John married Uncle George Potter's oldest daughter, Molly, and had eight or ten girls, but no son. Clarke married Abby Bly, and had five children; Russel, Clarke, Nancy, Abby, and Rowse. Deborah, married Joshua Coon, and had no child. Ketury married Amos Barber, and had no child. Rhoda married Daniel Coon, brother to John; their children I know nothing about. So much for Uncle John and his posterity.

Uncle Benjamin married Molly Saunders, and had eleven children; Eunice, Nathaniel, Nathan, Wait, Lydia, Polly, Welthea, Thankful, Benjamin, David and Ephraim. Eunice, as before mentioned, married Uncle Joseph's son Joseph. Nathaniel married Oliver Babcock's daughter Deborah, sister to Ezra that married cousin Joseph's daughter Saberah. He had a large family of children; one of his daughters married a Berry, and was the mother of Horatio Berry, who is the husband of my daughter, Welthea. Nathan married Hannah Lanpheer. Wait married Cloe Maxson, daughter of David, before mentioned. Lydia mar ried Elisha Burdick. Polly married Capt. George Potter; Wel

thea married Joshua Clark; Thankful married Joshua Maxson, son of Tory; Benjamin married Tory Maxson's daughter Martha; Davidmarried Phineas Crandall's daughter Grace. Ephraim died at sea when young. Thus much for Uncle Benjamin.

Elisha, my father, the youngest but one of grandfather's children, was born April 25, 1722, and was married to Hannah Rogers of Waterford, March 5, 1745. She had five children, Samuel, Judith, Hannah, Martha and Elisha these all died young, except Samuel and Martha. Samuel married Lydia Davis, daughter of Thomas Davis, brother to my grandfather Davis; had eight children, Jared, Davis, Prudence, Samuel, Maxson, William, Elisha, and Hannah. They went to Lincklaen, and how many of them are yet living, I do not know. Samuel was born in Westerly, Feb. 5, 1747, and died in Linklaen, Oct. 10th, 1834, aged 87. Martha was married to Jonathan Palmater, at about the age of 37, had one child, and died about the age of 62, in the year 1818. Their mother, my father's first wife, died Nov. 12, 1758, aged 31. My mother, Mary Davis, always called Molly, was then keeping fathers' house, and was married to my father, Jan. 3d, 1759.

My great-grandfather, William Davis, came from England about 1685, and preached to the Seventh Day Baptist Church in Westerly, now Hopkinton-the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America, except the one at Newport, R. I., which was constituted some time previous. The Church in Hopkinton was constituted in 1661. He preached for this Church a year or two, then made arrangements to go back to England, and went to Newport and engaged a passage; but before the ship sailed, the Church sent a Committee and persuaded him not to go; so he returned to Hopkinton and preached for them until some of the Church fell out with him, because he preached the doctrine of the Trinity. -Whereupon he left them and went to Pennsylvania, and preached some of the time in Pennsylvania, and some of the time in New Jersey, and died somewhere out in that country. He left property in England, about which he was very much grieved in his old age, as I have been credibly informed, and which some of the heirs, some six or seven years ago, made some effort to obtain but did not succeed. The amount we do not know, but suppose it to be very considerable. He had four chil

dren; Elizabeth, John, Thomas_and Lydia. Of Elizabeth I can tell nothing particular.

Lydia married Hope Covy, who settled in Burlington, Conn., and was a man of high reputation in that country. He had six children, Elisha, David, Nathan, Esther, Elizabeth and Jared. These all had families except Esther; they were all Sabbath keepers; and they and their offspring with some others that moved there, from Rhode Island, were organized into a Seventh Day Baptist Church, built them a meeting house, and was in a flourishing state about sixty years ago with nearly 100 members, which has now become extinct, mainly on the account of emigration to the State of New York. Thomas had two children named Thomas and Lydia. This Lydia was the wife of my brother Samuel, as before mentioned.

My grandfather John Davis, married a Maxson, sister to John, the father of David before mentioned; they had nine children, Elizabeth, William, Martha, John, Joseph, Anna, Judith, Experience, and Mary called Molly. My grandfather moved to New Jersey, when my mother, the youngest of his children was a very little child, to a place called Shrewsbury; therefore I never saw him, nor any of his children, except Uncle John, and Uncle Jo seph, and mother my of course I know but little about them. Aunt Elizabeth I think, married a man by the name of William Brand. My grandfather Davis was a minister, and had a church at Shrewsbury, now called Squan, and somewhere about forty years ago, nearly or quite the whole church pulled up stakes and went of together to the Monongahela in Virginia.

Uncle John married Bethiah Rogers, sister to Nathan and David of Waterford, Conn., sister also to father's first wife; they had a large family: William, Elizabeth, Thomas, David, John, Jonathan, Amy, Experience, Rogers and Bethiah. Five of these married people of the name of West, viz: Elizabeth, Thomas, Amy, Experience and Bethiah.

Uncle Joseph had a large family, Samuel, Joseph, Clark, Ethan, Patty, Marvel, Comfort, Prudence, Tacy, and Betsey. Uncles John and Joseph were ordained ministers in the Hopkinton Church, but for some cause uncle Joseph withdrew from the church, and set up another church called new lights, and a considerable number of the old Seventh Day Church went off with him. He was considered a very eccentric man, he settled and

died in Hopkinton. I never heard him preach but once, and I never wanted to hear him again, although he was a very fluent speaker, much more so than uncle John. Soon after his death, his church run down, and became extinct,

Uncle John lived at the place now called Potter's hill, and owned the saw-mill, grist-mill, and fulling-mill, and when I was about five years old, (1772), he sold out and went to Farmington, now Burlington, Conn., and was the pastor of that church, until his death, 1791; uncle Joseph died near the same time.

Aunt Judith married Nathan Rogers of Waterford, and had five sons, Nathan, Jeremah, Amos, Cary and Davis, and one daughter, named Martha; three of these were preachers, Nathan, Amos and Davis. My mother, then a young woman, came from New Jersey, and took care of her sister Martha in her last sickness, and after her death, my mother came to Westerly, and took care of father's first wife, in her last sickness, and not long after her death, she was married to my father; by whom she had twelve children, Judith, Elisha, Amos, Luanna, Betsey, William, Ethan, Matthew, Hannah, Polly, Willet, and Polly. Luanna and the first Polly died very young.

So my mother had the bringing up of ten of her own children, and two of my father's first sort. Nay, I should have said she had the bringing up of three of the first sort, because Hannah, one of the first sort, lived to be a young woman, and was engaged to be married to Matthew Randall, but was taken sick and died, three or four weeks before the appointed marriage. All that I can remember of her is, that I heard her groan when in some of her last moments. Brother Matthew was born near the time of her death, and Matthew Randall named him, and gave him a lamb for his name.

But a word or two more about the Rogers family. These six children of Uncle Nathan Rogers, were first cousins to all father's children; they were cousins, to father's first sort, because father's first wife was sister to uncle Nathan, and they were cousins to father's second sort, because their mother and our mother were sisters; hence the connection between the Stillmans and Rogers.

But now in regard to my mother's children. Sister Judith married Asa Coon, who afterwards became a distinguished and able Seventh Day Baptist minister, although he had no more