3. RUTH FAIRCHILD, of the fifth generation, probably was born in the Province of New York, as were her brothers, Peter, Benjamin and Isaac Fairchild and perhaps others of the family. The date of her birth is unknown to the writer. She was still alive in 1837, when she testified in court. One record gives her death as having been in 1856, but it is not verified. Her youngest brother, Isaac Fairchild, was born in 1769 and died in 1859, according to the inscription on his monument, and the above date of the death of Ruth Fairchild is probably correct.
She married Daniel Springer, probably in Albany County, Province of New York and they settled in Delaware Township, Middlesex County, Ontario. They were the first settlers in that township, according to the account of the Kilbourne family as given by Aaron Kilbourne, which was the second family to settle in Delaware Township, Middlesex County.
It is apparent that Ruth (Fairchild) Springer was named after her grandmother, Ruth (Beach) Fairchild, the wife of Samuel Fairchild, 2nd, (1683- ), Number 13 of the Orcutt genealogy.
Daniel Springer died June 17, 1826. The records show that during the time he was a prisoner at war in the War of 1812-14, when he was taken to Kentucky, Ruth (Fairchild) Springer returned to live with her folks on the Grand River, evidently referring to her brother, Isaac Fairchild, or to her brother, the Reverend Peter Fairchild, who lived some distance from the river. Possibly her parents, Benjamin Fairchild, Sr., and Melissa Fairchild [who] lived on the Grand River at that time.
