ANCESTRY OF AMMI RUHAMAH AND ELIZABETH (LE BARON)

Edward Wilder, Hingham, 1637, drafted for King Philip's War

Elizabeth Eames

Anthony Eames, Charleston, 1634, Marshfield

last hours he had bright anticipations of future glory, exclaiming, "Oh, it is a heaven worth dying for, to see Christ as he is."

Dr. McEwen said, as late as 1852, "It would be difficult to select a minister in Connecticut who has been more popular with his people, or who has exercised over them a more complete and useful control."*

I. Philemon, b. March 18, 1763, d. March 20, 1763.

II. Philemon, b. March 28, 1764, d. Sep. 26, 1766.

III. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 5, 1766, d. Jan. 9, 1766.

IV. Mara', b. Jan. 8, 1767, d. Jan. 9, 1767.

V. AMMI RUHAMAH, b. Jan. 1768, m. Salome Robbins.

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VI. Elizabeth', b. Jan. 8, 1770, d. Oct. 6, 1815. m. (1) 1789, Grove Lawrence. m. (2) May 16, 1811, Roswell Grant of Norfolk.

By first marriage:

1. JAMES ROBBINS LAWRENCE, b. Sept. 11, 1790. m. (1) Christy
McLaren, (2) Eureka Spofford.
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2. ELIZA LAWRENCE, b. May, 1793. m. (1) Henry Olmstead, (2) Timothy
J. Gridley.
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3. Grove Lawrence, b. Feb. 24, 1795 at Paris, N. Y., d. Dec. 22, 1866 at
Syracuse. m. Jan. 12, 1818 at Berlin, N. Y., Sarah Bennett.

i. Charlotte Elizabeth, b. Oct. 1, 1818 at Camillus, d. Jan. 14, 1880 at Syra-
cuse. m. there Feb. 19, 1845, Thomas Allen Smith.

(a) Louise Lawrence Smith, b. July 22, 1846, at Syracuse. m. there July 21, 1870, Charles Elliott Fitch, b. Dec. 3, 1835. In 1892 Collector of Revenue, Rochester, N. Y.

+ Lawrence Bradford10 Fitch, b. June 20, 1871, at Syracuse. Williams Col. 1892.

+ Elliott

Fitch, b. June 30, 1876, d. Aug. 12, 1876, Rochester.

+ Elizabeth Le Baron1o Fitch, b. March 16, 1878, at Rochester. (b) Sarah Elizabeth Smith, b. May 17, 1858, at Syracuse. m. April 18. 1888, at Onondaga Valley, James E. Higgins, b. 1852, at Onondaga on the farm once owned by Grove Lawrence.

ii. Caroline Louisa Lawrence, b. July 4, 1820, d. Oct. 4, 1820, at Camillus.
iii. Maria Louise Lawrence, b. Sep. 29, 1821 at Camillus, d. Oct. 9, 1845, at
Syracuse.

4. Sarah' Lawrence, b. July 17, 1798, d. April 17, 1886, at Amherst, Mass.
m. (1) Sep. 19, 1822, Rev. Eben L. Clark of Winchendon, son of
Eliphalet and Hepzibah (Fay) Clark, b. March 23, 1786, d. Feb. 23,
1857, æ. 70, at Becket, buried beside his first wife, at Richmond,
Mass., where he was pastor of the Congregational Church fifteen
years. m. (2) March 1859, L. Z. Newcomb of Belchertown, Mass.
i. Elizabeth Le Barons Clark, b. Aug. 24, 1833. m. Aug. 21, 1862, Rev.
Dwight Whitney Marsh, son of Henry and Sarah (Whitney) Marsh, b.

*The materials for this sketch were found in the published Diary of Mr. Robbins; a sketch by his son, Dr. Thomas Robbins, in Sprague's Annals; Dr. Lee's Funeral Sermon, etc.

Nov. 5, 1823, at Dalton, Mass., d. 1896, at Amherst. Williams Coll. 1842, Andover Theo. Sem. 1845, Union Theo. Sem. 1849, D.D. Williams Coll. 1873. He was a missionary of the American Board for over ten years at Mosul, Turkey; Congregational pastor at Whitney Point and Oswego, N. Y. and North Amherst and Haydenville, Mass.; after 1882, resided in Amherst. He is author of "John Marsh of Hartford" a genealogy, and has prepared for the press other genealogical works.

a. William Dwight' Marsh, b. Nov. 21, 1865, at Bernardston, Mass. Amherst Coll. 1888. in 1895 was ministering to a church at Schroon Lake, N. Y.

b. Elizabeth Lawrence Marsh, b. Sep. 8, 1869, at Bernardston, d. Sep. 3, 1884, at Amherst.

c. Helen Whitney' Marsh, b. Sep. 9, 1871, at Oswego, d. there July 18, 1872.

5. William Lawrence, b. June 28, 1801, at Paris, d. Feb. 22, 1867, at Northampton, s. i. He was adopted by Joseph Battell and wife of Norfolk. m. Aug. 18, 1830, Caroline Augusta Rockwell.

6. Francis Le Baron' Lawrence, b. about 1803, at Paris. m. and removed to Canada, where he is said to have had three wives and died s. i.

By second marriage:

7. Twins, one died in infancy.

8. Anna Elizabeth' Grant, d. April 12, 1881. unmarried.

VII. Nathaniel, b. June 18, 1772, d. Feb. 19, 1841, at Sag Harbor. He was twice married and left children.

VIII. Francis Le Baron", b. March 9, 1775, died young.

IX. Thomas, b. Aug. 11, 1777, d. Sept. 13, 1856, at Colebrook.

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ried. Williams Coll., Sept. 7, 1796, Yale Sep. 14, 1796. He states that his college expenses for three years were 127 £. 14 s. 10 d. He was pastor at East Windsor, Conn., June 1803-Sep. 1827, Stratford, Feb. 1830-Sep. 1831, Mattapoisett, Mass., Oct. 16, 1832, to assist his uncle Le Baron, who d. Nov. 26, 1836, when he became pastor, remaining to 1844. Aug. 30, 1814, he preached the sermon at the dedication of the second house of worship erected at Norfolk from HAGGAI, 2. 9. He was a member of the N. E. Historic Genealogical Society, of the American Antiquarian Society, and a founder of the Connecticut Historical Society of which he was a librarian in 1844 and to which he gave his private library, with many rare books and manuscripts-also an old pine chest brought over in the "Mayflower" on which the Pilgrims signed their famous "contract."-Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Biography.

Joseph Battell.

XI. JAMES WATSON, b. April 19, 1782. m. Maria Eggleston.
XII. SAMUEL, b. Aug. 29, 1784. m. Fanny Osborne.

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XIII. Francis Le Baron, b. Dec. 30, 1787, d. April, 1850, s. i. at Enfield, Conn. Williams Coll. 1808. Ordained at Enfield, April 24, 1816. m. (1) Priscilla (Le Baron) Alden, b. 1781, d. Dec. 24, 1846, at

Enfield, dau. of Wm. Le Baron of Fair Haven and widow of
Gideon S. Alden, of New Bedford. m. (2) Hannah S. Cook, of
South Danvers.

He was one of the six students whose names are on the monument at Williamstown, commemorating the Mission prayer meeting held under the hay stack, in 1806, out of which came the American Board and the beginnings of foreign missions by churches in the United States.

AMMI R. ROBBINS SALOME ROBBINS.

270. AMMI RUHAMAH ROBBINS, son of Rev. Ammi Ruhamah* and Elizabeth (Le Baron) Robbins, b. Jan. 3, 1763, at Norfolk, d. Oct. 29, 1843, at Colebrook. m. Jan. 9, 1791, Salome Robbins, who died at Colbrook, May 22, 1847, æ. 74.

I. Ammi Ruhamah", b. March 14, 1793, d. Dec. 14, 1793.

VI. James Watson', b. Nov. 18, 1801, at Colebrook, d. Jan. 10, 1879, unmarried, at Uxbridge, Mass. grad. Yale Coll. 1822. He taught school in Virginia, and fitted Gen. Robert E. Lee for West Point; in 1828 received M.D. and practiced in Uxbridge; was a noted botanist; in 1864, furnished with a pass from Gen. Lee, he made a tour through Louisiana, Texas, Mexico, and Cuba, gathering a very valuable botanical collection.

VII. Elizabeth', b. March 18, 1804, living Nov. 18, 1891. m. 1826, Lewis Allen, of Colebrook, who d. Sep. 2, 1848.

1. James R. Allen, b. June 22, 1827, d. Jan. 1855.

2. Henry L. Allen, b. Nov. 10, 1831. m. April 8, 1856, at Hartford, Alice B. Chapin. Banker at West Winsted, Conn.

i. Jennie Lillian Allen, b. April 1, 1857, d. Dec. 20, 1858.

ii. Minnie Robbins Allen, b. Dec. 17, 1859, d. Jan. 15, 1878, killed in R. R. disaster at Tariffville, Conn.

iii. Carrie Elizabeth Allen, b. March 15, 1862, d. Sep. 13, 1871.

iv. Alice Bell Allen, b. Aug. 19, 1864. m. Jan. 22, 1890, Arthur H. Potter.

a. Ira Hawley10 Potter, b. May 24, 1891.

3. Caroline E.8 Allen, b. Feb. 25, 1834, d. Jan. 7, 1845.

4. A. Robbins Allen, b. Aug. 13, 1841. m. June 10, 1875, Mary E.

Butler.

JAMES R. LAWRENCE =

S CHRISTY MCLAREN.

271. JAMES ROBBINS' LAWRENCE, son of Grove and Elizabeth® (Robbins) Lawrence, b. Sep. 11, 1790, at Norfolk, Conn., d. March 27, 1874, at Syracuse, N. Y. m. (1) Feb. 8, 1810, at Onondaga, Christy McLaren, b. May 2, 1792, at Collandis, Scotland, d. March 25, 1835, at Camillus, N. Y., dau. of Finley and Margaret (Campbell) McLaren, both buried at Oakwood, Syracuse; m. (2) Aug. 10, 1841, Eureka Spofford, b. Aug. 12, 1821, d. April 24, 1869. By first marriage:

I. Elizabeth, b. May 31, 1812, at Onondaga, N. Y. Hartford Seminary 1829. m. June 30, 1841, at Syracuse, Daniel Terrell Jones, b. Aug. 17, 1801, at Coventry, Conn., d. March 29, 1861, at Baldwinsville, N. Y. Yale College 1826, Member Congress 1851-1855, President New York State Medical Soc. 1860.

1. Lawrence Terrell Jones, b. April 30, 1852. Rochester University 1871, District Attorney Onondaga Co., 1887-1891. Practicing attorney, Syracuse.

2. Virginia Lawrence Jones, b. March 25, 1855. Hartford Sem. 1871. Manager Syracuse Industrial School and President of Working Womans' Club of Syracuse.

II. Finley, b. Sep. 29, 1814, at Onondaga, d. Jan. 7, 1832, at Camillus. unmarried.

III. Margaret, b. Aug. 24, 1818, at Camillus, d. June 4, 1874, at Syracuse. m. Feb. 6, 1840, Joseph Forman Sabine, who graduated at Yale College 1836.

1. Alice' Sabine, b. Nov. 2, 1840, at Camillus, d. Feb. 1893, at Mentone, France, s. i. m. June 26, 1867, at Syracuse, John Mayer.

IV. James Robbins, b. Jan. 23, 1820, at Camillus, d. April 3. 1821. V. James Robbins, b. Aug. 20, 1821, d. April 1, 1863, at La Fourche, La., of fever, contracted in the military service of the U. S., buried at Syracuse. 2d Lieut. Co. H, 176th Reg. N. Y. Vols. m. Oct. 7. 1842, Helen Marr Wetherby, dau. of Heber Wetherby, b. Oct. 14, 1823, in Onondaga Co., d. June 19, 1878, at Minneapolis.

1. James Grove3, b. Sep. 12, 1843, at Syracuse, d. Sep. 16, 1845, at Mishawaka, Ind.

2. James Wetherby, b. Aug. 9, 1846, at Tully, Onondaga Co. m. June 18, 1873, at Minneapolis, Mary Alice Sidle, b. Feb. 10, 1853, at Dillsbury, York Co., Pa. Hamilton Coll. 1868, County Attorney