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| MANLEY, c.1670-1887 |
(1) William Manley,
immigrant ancestor, was probably of Scotish ancestry. His family
belonged to the old Presbyterian church in Boston and his children were
married by the Presbyterian minister of Boston. William of Boston
married Phebe,
perhaps as a second wife. He was admitted a freeman of Boston in
1690.
According to Savage, a Ralph Manley came with Gov. Winthrop to Boston and
died at Charlestown, Massachusetts, 16 September 1630, but there is no
trace of his family in the records, if he had any. Yet this Manley
family appears to have located in Boston and Charlestown a generation later.
There was another William Manley at Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose son
settled at Easton.
Children:
- William, died 1732 in Boston, leaving a will which allowed the family genealogy to be traced; he mentions his wife Sarah as if she were not his first; he bequeathed to the poor of the new South Brick Church; to John Cranston, son of Lydia Cranston; "to his brother Lazarus of Coventry, Connecticut, and son William of Wethersfield to be equally divided all his real and personal estate"; to cousin Elizabeth Haley, wife of William Haley [sic] of Sudbury, cooper.
- Lazarus, mentioned below
- John; married at Boston, Massachusetts, 16 August 1716 Elizabeth Barber
- Thomas; married at Dorcehster 6 January 1725-1726 Elizabeth Hixson
- Phebe, born 1 September 1685, died young
- Phebe, born 29 November 1687 at Boston, Massachusetts; married 27 April 1710 in the Presbyterian Church of Boston Joseph Fosdick, of Charlestown, who was witness to the will of William Manley, Jr.
- Mary, born 11 September 1689, died 22 September following
(2) Lazarus Manley, a millwright by trade, was born about 1675 probably in Boston, Massachusetts, died 1749 in Coventry, Connecticut, where he was a mill owner. On 26 February 1700/1701, he married at Charlestown, Masschusetts, Sarah Hartshorne, born 14 April 1678 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, died before 1737. He was an early settler at Coventry, Connecticut, where he was living by the time his brother, William, made his will in 1732.
Children (there were others, but they were not named in the records):
- William, mentioned below
- Lazarus, born 17 March 1705 at Boston, Massachusetts; married 3 October 1740 Hannah Clark at Coventry, Connecticut
- George, born about 1708 in Southold, Long Island, New York, died 1795 in Coventry, Connecticut; married Elizabeth Turner, born 1711, died 1793. Parents of:
- Anne, born 1734; married Thomas Lynn, Jr. in 1759; married second Jabez Wright in 1774.
- Asa, born 23 Feb 1735; married Chloe Bridgeman. Parents of:
- Sylvester, born 1766 in Tolland Co., Connecticut, died 10 April 1833 in East Canton, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married Anna Perkins. Parents of:
- Asa, born 23 March 1806 in Canton, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania, died 10 March 1840 in East Canton, Bradford Co., Pennsylvania; married 1830 Rosanna Tracy.
- Asa, born 1770 in Mansfield, Tolland Co., Connecticut
- Elizabeth, born 1743, died 1806; married Capt. Solomon King, born 1736, died 1809
(3) William Manley, born at Boston on 30 January 1703/1704, died 11 November 1788 at Windsor, Connecticut. He settled at Wethersfield, Connecticut, and married on 25 May 1727 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Mary Cater, born 16 July 1710 at Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire, died 10 October 1773 at Windsor, Connecticut. He was admitted to the Charlestown church 18 July 1725 where he was called deacon in the records. He went to Windsor and was admitted to the church there on 3 March 1744/1745. Mary was a descendnat of William Ham, an original settler of Portsmouth who in 1656 was named as one of three "men witches" in the town.
Children:
- Mary, born 29 March 1729 at Charlestown, Massachusetts
- William, born at Wethersfield, Connecticut; married 9 October 1752 Mary Burr. William bought of Josiah Jones for 250 pounds on 4 April 1765 lots 62, 67 and 69 and other land in Sandisfield. These deeds were key to the discovery of this Manley ancestry. Parents of:
- William, born 5 August 1753 in Hartford Co., Connecticut; married 1777 Prudence. Parents of:
- William, born 8 January 1778 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.
- Chloe, born 2 October 1780 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.
- Lyman G., born 14 March 1782 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, died 26 April 1866 in Saranac, Clinton Co., New York.
- Prudence, born 15 March 1784 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.
- Polly, born 8 June 1787 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.
- Rhoda, born 28 August 1788 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.
- Clarissa, born 1790 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, died 24 March 1858.
- Joel, born 9 May 1793 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, died 22 October 1870 in Forestville, Chautauqua Co., New York.
- Flavel, born 10 May 1795 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.
- Calvin, born 30 March 1798 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts.
- Margaret, born 26 November 1732
- George, mentioned below
- Ebenezer, born 5 November 1737
(4) George Manley, born 25 December 1735 in Wethersfield, Connecticut, died 1815; married 13 August 1752 at Bloomfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut, Ruth Burr, born 26 October 1732, died 1798. He went to Windsor with his father and was in Simsbury, Connecticut, for a time with his brother William during 1756 when William was deeded land from Elisha Kilborn of "No. 3" for land at Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, eighty acres in the first division, lot 28, and thirty-five acres in lot 29. George was a witness to this deed on April 27. He had a family of eight, according to the 1790 federal census. Two sons were over sixteen, two were under and a number of them were already married.
Children:
- George, born 1753, died 20 September 1835 in Dorset, Bennington Co, Vermont; married 16 January 1775 in Dorset, Bennington Co., Vermont, Mary Harmon. Parents of:
- Asa, born 5 April 1785 in Dorset, Bennington Co., Vermont, died 1786 in the same place.
- Asa, born 1755, formerly thought to have been a resident of Jefferson County, New York.
- Ruth, born 1759, died 1789
- Martin, born 4 March 1776 in Bloomfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut, died 4 October 1844 in Garrettsville, Portage Co., Ohio; married Azuba Hurd, born 20 January 1776. He and Azuba moved to Ohio about 1805 where they were among the first settlers of the Western Reserve in the area that became Portage County.
- Daniel, mentioned below
- David, born 1765, died 1800
- Shubael, born 1767, died 1844
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(5) Daniel Manley,
born about 1760 in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts, baptized 9
October 1763 in Bloomfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut, died 29 June 1833
in Adams, Jefferson Co., New York, buried in Rice's Corners Cemetery, just
south of the Hounsfield town line in the town of Adams. Daniel served in the Revolutionary War from 1 June 1776 for 2 months in Capt. Elijah Demmings' Co.; 3 months from 15 September 1777 in Capt. Carton's Co.; 2 months from 1 June 1779 in Capt. Collin's Co.; and 8 months from 2 May 1780 in Capt. Smith's Co. Daniel Manley stated in his pension application that his first wife died, but he gave no name. He married again, but his wife, also unnamed, was then living in Dutchess Co. with her family (See National Archives Record # 6864). Despite the omissions in the pension records, the names of Daniel's wives are known: He married first Desire Sumner, born 17 January 1765 in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, died 1798, a date in keeping with Daniel's testimony that his first wife died. She was descended from a different Mayflower passenger through each of her mother's parents (Thomas Rogers through the father, and Stephen Hopkins through the mother). He married secondly in 1799, Grace Holcomb. His solitary burial is consistent with his testimony that his second wife was living apart from him. In his Revolutionary War pension application, dated 11 September 1832, Daniel gave a record of his residences since birth: |
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Daniel Manley's grave in
Rice's Corners Cemetery, Town of Adams, Jefferson Co., New York, about
amile from the home of his granddaughter Emeline. His grave lies
near that of his grandson Merrick and his great-grandson Hiram Washburn. |
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Judging from this record, Daniel was in Sandisfield until about 1791,
thus his son Asa was
probably born there. He was in Otis and then nearby Southwick, Hampden
Co., before heading to Jefferson County, New York, about 1822. Since
Asa Manley was in the 1820 census of Hounsfield, New York, it stands to
reason that perhaps Asa was sent ahead to prepare the land for the family,
or that once he had established himself, he invited his father to come
live with him. By 1832, when Daniel was giving his testimony, Asa
had already moved to Ohio with his sisters, thus Daniel was left in Hounsfield,
probably under the care of his two grandchildren, Emeline
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Children of Daniel Manley and Grace Holcomb:
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(6) Asa Manley
testified in an affidavit regarding his father's Revolutionary War pension benefits
on 16 January 1855 that he was 69 years old, thus establishing his birth about
1786. His birth probably happened in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts,
where his parents resided, though he does not appear on the vital records for
that place at any time. By some accounts, he was christened at Bloomfield,
Hartford Co., Connecticut, however the town clerk could find no such record
when inquiry was made in the year 2000.
By late 1809, Asa married Lydia
Merrick,
born about 10 December 1786 in Vermont, died 6 November 1844, age 57 years 10
months and 27 days in Ohio. Lydia's maiden
name was provided in the
death record for their son George Watson Manley, filed in Stark
Co., Ohio, and it was given as a forename to her son Merrick A. Manley; her
birthplace of Vermont was indicated in the same death record and is confirmed
in the census reports of three of their children.
Her parentage is unknown, however it is interesting to note that Robert Merrick,
Abel Merrick and Solomon Merrick, were residing in the Town of Adams, Jefferson
County, New York, when the 1810 census was taken, which is just a few miles
from Asa and Lydia's residence in the neighboring Town of Hounsfield. These
men came from Vermont and had previously been in Sandisfield, Berkshire Co.,
Massachusetts; further investigation
is needed to determine what relationship, if any, may have existed between Lydia
and these men.
A
Bible found in 1986 in the house of Asa's great-granddaughter,
Beulah Ethel Washburn,
in Hounsfield, Jefferson Co., New York, contains an inscription that says: "Property
of Lydia Goodrich, Bought February the 20th 1814"
with
an obituary for one of Merrick A. Manley's sons tucked inside. This Bible was
passed down through the family of Asa's daughter Emeline Washburn. It is unclear
how the Lydia Goodrich who owned this Bible relates, if at all, to Lydia Merrick,
wife of Asa Manley. Interestingly, some descendants
of Bailey Goodrich, of Sandisfield, Berkshire Co., Massachusets, were living
in the Town of Orleans, Jefferson Co., New York, in the early 1800's, among
whom was a spinster Lydia Goodrich, though she was born in 1810 (probably too
late to have purchased this Bible in 1814 herself).
Asa's family did not appear as a separate household in the 1810 census of New
York State, but in the 1855 census daughter Emeline
reported her birthplace in 1810 as Jefferson County, and according to his War
of 1812 Equipment Claim papers, he either volunteered or was drafted for service
"at Town of Houndsfield, Jefferson Co., N.Y." on or about the "4th day of June,
1812,"—so the assumption can be made that Asa and Lydia were either living
with another family in 1810 (the Merricks of Adams?) or established their home
in Hounsfield sometime after the 1810 census was taken,
but before 4 June 1812. Equipment Claim documents also indicate reimbursement
for travel to and from Sackets Harbor, which suggests that he was a resident
of the outlying areas of the town, rather than of the village, during the War.
Asa's Equipment Claim papers indicate that he served for a period of 45 days
starting 4 June 1812 as "a private in the Company commanded by Capt. [Elisha]
Camp, in the Regiment of N.Y. State Militia, commanded by Colonel King." Service
records at the National Archives provide a slightly different account, showing
that Asa served 30 days from 28 June 1812 until 28 July 1812 as private in Capt.
Elisha Camp's Company of Artillery Militia,
under Lt. Col. Bellinger's New York Regiment, Gen. Jacob Brown commanding.
Asa's self-reported service commencement date of June 4th is difficult to reconcile
with the fact that the War was not declared until June 18, and news did not
reach the northern frontier for several days after that; however, Elisha Camp
is known to have raised a set of volunteer militiamen for a period of 30 days,
whose service commenced on June 28th. Perhaps like so many residents along the
border with Canada, and particularly at Sackets Harbor, Asa knew conflict was
inevitable and offered his services at the local military post on June 4th,
and a couple of weeks later responded to Camp's call for volunteers to commence
active service on June 28th
Whatever the case was, Asa's timing could not have been more fateful, for he
happened to be on active duty when five British ships from the Canadian Provincial
Marine Fleet attempted to sail into Sackets Harbor on 19 July 1812 to destroy
the stores and shipbuilding facilities at the village. The American forces
successfully repelled the attack, in large part due to the aid of the
Artillery unit, which made use of a 32 pound cannon called the "Old Sow." The
conflict was the first battle of the War of 1812 to be fought on U.S. soil and
became known as the First Battle of Sackets Harbor. The second–and more famous–battle
ensued on 29 May 1813, but Asa was no longer in active service that day.
Asa's Bounty Land Applications provide a much different story with regard to
the times Asa served in the War of 1812. In his 18 April 1851 application
made at the Court of Trumbull Co., Ohio, Asa Manley "alias Manla" of Mecca,
Trumbull Co."
"declares that he is the identical Asa Manley who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Elisha Camp in the regiment of Malitia commanded by Col. King in the war with Great britain declared by the United States, on the 18th day of June 1812.Asa's request was granted and he received land warrant No. 42763 for 40 acres. On 6 April 1855, Asa, (still a resident of Mecca), applied for additional land under the Act of 3 March 1855, for which he later received an additional 120 acres. The 1855 application also indicates that Asa voulnteered for service starting 1 June 1813.
That he volunteered at Sackets Harbor on or about the first of June one thousand eight hundred and thirteen for the term of thirty days and served the length of time which he engaged to serve and then volunteered at Sackets Harbor on or about the first of July A.D. 1813 for thirty days longer and served the time that he engaged to serve and was called out together with his company to guard the lines in the fall of A.D. 1813 he thinks to the amount of thirthy days; did not get a written discharge; received pay for some service from Elisha Camp and was honrably discharged the several different times at Sackets Harbor and continued in actual service in the said war for the term of three months and was honorably discharged at Sackets Harbor the last time September A.D. 1813.
He makes his declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to whcih he may be entitled under the "Act granting bounty lands to certain officers and soldiers who have been engaged in military service of the United States." Passed September 28, 1850.
He further states that he never received any land for said services nor was entitled to any under any other act." Signed Asa Manly
These accounts from Asa about his own service conflict with information found on the muster rolls in so far as Asa was in fact present and paid for service rendered from 28 June 1812 to 28 July 1812 in Capt. Camp's Company. Examination of the original muster and pay rolls for 1812 confirm this period of service. However, his testimony also bears out additional periods of service for which there is no contradicting evidence, and illustrates and even greater role in the protection of the Northern Frontier than earlier thought. Notes made by the U.S. War Department included in Asa's Bounty Land Application File (Can No. 574 Bundle No. 18) nor at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. indicate:
M.
June/13 dis --
2
Service M. July 13. dis Sep/13
Not
1812
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3rd
Aud's Office
Feby
3/52
Asa
Manla served under Capt. Camp from 28 June to 28 July 1812.
Not
on Capt. Camp's Rolls for 2nd Ser.
Asa's service during 1813 requires further investigation. Asa particpated
in the first attack on Sackets Harbor in 1812. The second attack occured
on 29 May 1813, and it would make sense for Asa to have responded by enlisting
for service again as soon as possible (1 June 1813), probably taking only a
day to make arrangements with his house and family and then proceeding to the
village for service within 72 hours of the attack. Since Asa
served at Sackets Harbor he would have lived there at the soldier's quarters,
despite apparently having a residence of his own in the countryside, for the
militia had strict orders to be constantly at the ready in case of attack.
Coincidentally, Asa's great-great-great-great-grandson, Mark
Wentling (author of these pages) lived there too, and
in fact as a child used to play on the cannons used by the Artillery Company
during the War that were left as monuments in the battlefield, which is now
a state park. Even more, Asa's commanding officer, Elisha Camp, owned
the property on which the author's maternal grandparents lived more than 140
years later. That maternal grandmother was Asa's great-great-granddaughter,
Beulah Washburn.
On 25 October 1858, Asa filed with the Justice of the Peace for Trumbull Co.,
Ohio, an equipment claim for his service rendered in the New York State Militia.
The papers indicate that Asa
received a land warrant for 40 acres from the United States Government according
to the Act of September 28, 1850, and another land warrant for 120 acres according
to the Act of March 3, 1855. Furthermore, that his equipment lost was worth
$127 and that he was entitled to $127 back pay with interest. His
claim was number 13,287, and it is noted on page 313 of Index of Awards on
Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812, New York Military Equipment Claims
that his claim was allowed in the amount
of $30.00.
Asa Manley's
War of 1812 Equipment Claim
In 1809, Asa first known child,
Edith, was born. In 1810, his second child, daughter Emeline, was born in Jefferson
County (according to her reports in the 1855 Hounsfield census). In 1812, his
second child, daughter Louisa, was born, and at that time Asa was serving in
the local militia at Sackets Harbor. Sometime between 1815 and 1820, daughter
Mary was born. In 1817, son Merrick was born in Masschusetts (according to census
records), and their next child, Lydia, was also born in Massachusetts in 1819;
this suggests that Asa and Lydia moved back to Massachusetts sometime after
1813 (when his military service completed) and 1817, (perhaps they were living
with Asa's father, Daniel).
Asa and Lydia returned to New York after the birth of daughter Lydia,
and were enumerated in Hounsfield in 1820. The
1820 census of Hounsfield is the first in which the Asa Manley family appears
and supplies crucial information: first,
it identifies Asa as being between 26 and 45 years of age, disproving the widely
held notion that he was Daniel Manley's brother, born 1755 in Connecticut; second,
it indicates that his wife, Lydia, was of similar age and present with him in
Jefferson County; lastly, it indicates that there were four daughters and one
son in the household at that time.
| 1820 Census | M<10 | 10-16 | 16-18 | 16-26 | 26-45 | 45+ | F<10 | 10-16 | 16-26 | 26-45 | 45+ | Farmers | ||
| Manly, Asa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
In the 1825 New York State census of Jefferson County, Asa "Manly" was living in Hounsfield, in dwelling number 25, with three other males and five women, an increase partly explainable by the arrival of his elderly father, Daniel, from Massachusetts. The 1830 census of Jefferson County is the last in which Asa and his family appear.
| 1830 Census | M<5 | 5<10 | 10<15 | 15<20 | 20<30 | 30<40 | 40<50 | 50<60 | 60<70 | 70<80 | F<5 | 5<10 | 10<15 | 15<20 | 20<30 | 30<40 | 40<50 | |
| Manley, Asa | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
In 1830 Asa is shown as being between age 40 and 50, with a wife of the same
age, which matches the profile for wife Lydia. Living with them are three boys:
Curtis age 3, George W. age 5 to 10, and Merrick age about 13 years. That there
is only one girl in the household (age 10 to 15) is an indication that the three
eldest daughters were already married, or perhaps were living with or working
for relatives or neighbors. Also residing in the household is a man between
the ages of 70 and 80, who was Asa's father, Daniel Manley, age 70 -- he died
three years later.
Sometime before September 1832 (though in that year as daughter Mary, born in
1832 cited her birthplace as New York in census records), Asa moved his family
to Bazetta, Trumbull Co., Ohio. Ohio was a reasonable destination, since
Asa's uncle Martin Manley, an early Western Reserve pioneer, had already established
himself there by 1810, and Asa's three sisters were already living there too.
Asa made an affidavit from Bazetta as late as 1855 regarding his father's Revolutionary
War pension.
Asa's father died in June 1833, not long after the family was established in
Ohio.
Asa was enumerated in the 1840
census of Trumbull Co., Ohio as a neighbor of Abner C. Water (his brother-in-law);
with him that year were two sons between the ages of 5 and 10 and 10 and 15,
a daughter (Mary) between the ages of 5 and 10, and a woman between the ages
of 50 and 60 like himself.
Lydia died 6 November 1844,
age 57 years, 10 months, and 27 days; she was buried at West MEcca Cemetery.
On 26 February 1846, Asa married
Mary Sigler in Fowler, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Chamber Hawley, J.P., officiating.
This information comes from Trumbull County Probate Court Marriage Records Vol.
4, 1842-1849, page 200, Cert. #5, and would indicate that the International
Genealogical Index is wrong to assign Mary the surname Tyler. Asa and
Mary had no known children. In fact, "A genealogy of the Viets family with
biographical sketches : Dr. John Viets of Simsbury, Connecticut, 1710, and his
descendants" by Francis Hubbard Viets (pub. 1902) indicates that "Mary
or Polly Viets, daughter of Abner Jr., and Sarah, was born in Granby, Conn.,
Feb. 25, 1798; married George Sigler, one of the first settlers of Fowler, O.,
who died Dec. 3, 1837, aged 45. She married, second, Asa Manley, and died July
3, 1876," (pg. 93).
According to his own affidavits for bounty land, filed in 1851 and 1855, Asa
was living in the Town of Mecca, Trumbull Co., Ohio, during those years.
Asa died 17 June 1859, age 71, according to his tombstone. Notice of his
death was published in the June 22nd edition of the "Western Reserve Chronicle"
newspaper in Warren, Ohio, which stated that he was 74 years old. Asa
"late of Bazetta, Trumbull Co., Ohio" was interred in West Mecca Cemetery, Town
of Mecca, Trumbull County, along with wife Lydia, and their son Curtis.
On 20 June 1859 at Trumbull County Probate Court, motion was made to appoint
son George W. Manley administrator of his father's estate. Asa's widow
declined letters of administration. George was required to give $1,600
bonds, with Stephen Mott and D. B. Gilmore as sureties. Stephen Mott,
Franklin Reynolds and Nathan Everett were appointed appraisers of the personal
property of the estate.
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LYDIA Wife of ASA MANLEY died Nov. 6 1844 Aged 57 yrs. 10 mos. 27 days. |
ASA
MANLEY Died June 17, 1859 Aged 71 yrs |
Curtis
V. Manley DIED Jan. 23, 1848 Aged 20 yrs. 6mos. |
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Photos by D. Sue Wagner |
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Children
of Asa Manley and Lydia
Merrick:
Children of George and Sebra: |
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Co.,
New York, died 1875 in town of Hounsfield, Jefferson Co., New York.
Manley
Family 19th-Century Calling Cards |
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| The calling cards below were kept at Camps Mills, Town of Hounsfield, Jefferson Co., New York, in the home of Emeline Manley, daughter of Asa Manley and wife of Robert Washburn. Beginning clockwise at right, they belonged to: Emeline Manley (b.1810, dau. of Asa, wife of Robert Washburn), J. A. Manley (prob. Jerry, son of Merrick), E. J. Manley (prob. Elsie, dau. of Merrick), Julia (b.c.1853, dau. of Merrick, wife of William Angel), George S. Manley (b.c. 1848, son of Merrick). |  |
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