On November 5, 1813, Reuben Bates. Deacon Benjamin Carpenter, and Alba Coleman, with their families, emigrated from Chester. Massachusetts, location at short distances from each other, and near the other improvements,—Bates, on the place now occupied by Hannah Houghton. Carpenter's place is owned at present by his son Sidney, who was a child of perhaps two years of age when his father came into the wilderness. The Coleman heirs are yet residing on the original property taken up in 1813.
On November 5, 1813, Reuben Bates. Deacon Benjamin Carpenter, and Alba Coleman, with their families, emigrated from Chester. Massachusetts, location at short distances from each other, and near the other improvements,—Bates, on the place now occupied by Hannah Houghton. Carpenter's place is owned at present by his son Sidney, who was a child of perhaps two years of age when his father came into the wilderness. The Coleman heirs are yet residing on the original property taken up in 1813.
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Cemetery record says died 8/17/1846
M.I. " By a young unruly horse, i was kicked and trampled down.
through which but four days past, ere my sands of life run"
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