Person:Sheffield Main (1)

Name	Sheffield Barber Main
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	22 Mar 1798	Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States
Marriage		to Emily Hart Stillman
Death^[3]	23 Feb 1878	Portville, Cattaraugus, New York, United States

References

↑ Stonington Vital Records, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
4:41.

MAIN, Sheffield Barber, s. Dewey & Lucinda, b. Mar. 22, 1798
Adams, William. Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Lyman, Horton & Co., 1893)
1013.

Sheffield B. Main, son of Dewey and Lucinda (Colgrove) Main, was born in Stonington, Conn., March 22, 1788. He married, in 1818, Emily, daughter of Dea. Jared Stillman, and with five children they came from Chenango County to Portville in 1833, settling on the farm On which his son, James S. Main, now lives. At intervals he engaged in carpentering and piloting rafts to Warren, Pa. The settlement took his name, which it still bears. He was commissioner of highways and a deacon of the Seventh Day Baptist church, which he aided to organize. He died Feb. 23, 1878. Mrs. Main died in 1854. They had five daughters and one son.
↑ The Sabbath Recorder . (New York City, New York; later Plainfield, N. J.)
34:41:2, October 10, 1878.

Sheffield B. Main, a deacon of the Portville Church, was born in North Stonington, Conn., March 23d, 1798, and died at Portville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Feb. 23d, 1878, aged 79 years and 11 months.