Person:Ann Gifford (2)

         The earliest ancestor of whom there is any record was William Gifford, who lived on the banks of
         "Shirk" (or Shark) river, Monmouth county, and died there in 1683. His son, Ananias Gifford,
         married at Long Branch, in 1687 or 1688, and their son, Joshua Gifford, married Hannah Dean.
         Ananias Gifford, "baptized September 23, 1755, was their son. His son, Ananias Gifford, born about
         1785, married in 1808, Elizabeth Brewer, born April 15, 1776, daughter of Eleazerus Brewer, born
         1716, died 1820, aged one hundred and four, granddaughter of Adam Brewer, died 1769, great
         granddaughter of Jacobus Brewer, died 1783, and great-great-granddaughter of Adam Brewer, who
         came to New York from England in 1642. The Ananias Gifford last above mentioned was a judge of
         the common pleas court of Monmouth county in 1835. He and his wife, Elizabeth Brewer, were the
         parents of five children: Hannah Maria, mentioned above, wife of Benjamin Hance Fielder; John B.;
         Joshua; Samuel; and Ann Jeannette. John B. and Joshua are still living, aged respectively, eighty-four
         and eighty-one. The mother of these children died about 1858, and Ananias Gifford, the father, about
         1870 or 1871, having attained the advanced age of eighty-six. 

         Benjamin Hance Fielder and Hannah Maria (Gifford) Fielder were the parents of the following
         children: Margaret Elizabeth, born October 31, 1833, married, November, 1871, Joseph Hulshart,
         now deceased; Lydia Ann, born November 7, 1834, died 1873, married, 1854 or 1855, George W.
         Johnson; Hannah Maria, born July 6, 1836, married, June, 1858, Thomas Tilton (died August,
         1865), and in 1866 John Osborn, who died in the summer of 1874; Charles Robert, born August 10,
         1838, died in Washington, District of Columbia, July, 1859, from illness contracted on a sea voyage;
         Mary Jeannette, born April 13, 1840, married, June 1, 1861, T. Stewart Bennett, who died January,
         1903; Augusta Mills, born August 30, 1843, mentioned above, wife of Abraham C. B. Havens;
         Catharine Alvina, born September 2, 1845, died November, 1892, married, 1866, Alfred Matthews
         (died at Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, 1869), and in 1874 George LeCompte; and Benjamin Hance, born
         December 14, 1849, married, 1875, Eva Howd, of Pennsylvania. Hannah Maria (Gifford) Fielder,
         the mother of this family, died in November, 1853, and the father, Benjamin Hance Fielder, passed