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Thomas Brayton
b.17 Feb 1733 Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
d.17 Mar 1762 Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
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m. 17 Jan 1732
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m. 13 Apr 1752
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BIOGRAPHY: Brayton Family History Vol 1 By Clifford Ross Brayton Jr. 1978 Page 35 Thomas Brayton was name as a beneficiary in the will, date 27 July 1756 and "proved" (probated) 27 June 1761, at Portsmouth,,Rhode Island., of his paternal grandmother, Mary (Freeborn) Brayton Brayton, Thomas The following data is extracted from Genealogy and Biography of Ontario County, New York. Thomas (3), son of Thomas (2) Brayton, was born at Coventry, February 17, 1733. He married at Coventry, Deliverance Knight, daughter of Captain Robert and Prudence Knight (by Thomas Matteson, Esq.), April 13, 1752. The birth of two children is recorded at Coventry and Warwick, Rhode Island. He emigrated from Rhode Island to Clarenden, Vermont (now (1910) East Rutland), and purchased a hundred acres of land located in the present city of Rutland, but being dispossessed by another claimant to the land, he removed to New York, and settled in the town of Kingsbury, Washington county, in 1775. In 1790, according to the first federal census, he was of Kingsbury and had in his family, four sons over sixteen, one under sixteen, and five females. Children: Mercy, born August 12, 1753: Joseph, March 3. 1757; John, mentioned elsewhere: and five or six other children. References
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