... grandfather married Rachel Langdon and settled in the town of Granville Washington Co, New York where I think all his children were born.
Of grandmother’s family I know but little; there was one - I think it must have been her greatgrandmother of whom I have heard tell- who when a girl was living with her parents in London, during the great plague of 1665, The next spring she married and left London, for the West Indies. The voyage across the Atlantic in those days was long, and before they reached their destination the husband sickend and died. The young widow having no friends in the West Indies, left the ship at Philadelphia where she afterwards married Langdon. ...
... Grandmother died, in the spring of 1833. She was confined to her bed for near three years before her death, from an injury received by a fall she had while walking in the yard one morning; by making a misstep she fell breaking her thigh close to the hip joint; the fracture never healed so as to permit her to walk or stand. ...
