this may Cartify that John Harkness and Eliezabeth Sweet Both of Richmond Ware Joined in marrage the 8th Day of January AD 1797. P'r Henry Ingalls Just peace. Record of John Harkness Children by Elizabeth his wife ... Ruth Harkness born April ye 8th AD 1795.
↑Allred, p. 199, lists Lafayette as s/o Ezekiel & Ruth Nelson, but gives his father Ezekiel a wife Eunice, d. 28 May 1851, based on a gravestone in Kelton Cemetery. Clearly Allred is confused, as no gravestone for any person dying in 1851 is found in Kelton Cemetery per Find A Grave, and Ezekiel's actual wife Ruth was living in 1855 with her son Lafayette. Source:Bassett, William. History of the Town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire : From Its First Settlement, to 1882, p. 447, says Ruth d. Sep 1859, age 64, for which claim the basis is not known, nor is the death or burial location known, but she has not been located in the 1860 census and this is at least consistent with the facts that we do know.
