
Born: ca. 1765
Died: unknown
Buried: unknown
Married: (--?--) Gurley
Children:
William
Anson
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Descendants of Sir Thomas de Parke contemporary of William the Conqueror in America:
Sir Robert de Parke 1630 to Connecticut
Daniel Parke vestryman of Williamsburg Church, VA, 1676
Thomas de Parke / Parkes in Virginia in 1670 - descendants in North Carolina and Tennessee
McGavock / McDowell / Cloyd line still no evidence of how Margaret (Cloyd) Speer fits in.
Is this the same as John Fitzgerald b. 1747 in Orange Co., VA?King's Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780
There are three Williams in our line that might fit this guy.
In 1822 William Goff, of Sheldon, brother of Hezekiah Goff, came to town, and for the sum of $1,000 bought the falls and much of the land surrounding. He put into the saw-mill previously built by Blaisdell a run of stones for grinding. Mr. Goff afterwards built the grist-mill now standing. In making repairs on this mill, in 1884, the following inscription was found on the back side of the bolt: "The first grist-mill built in Richford was built by Colonel Seymour in 1797, burnt up in 1800. The second built in 1803, by Jonathan Janes, and stood until William Goff built another in 1824. William Goff built, in 1837, the mill now standing. Men worked on this mill: A. Newton, S. Brown, W. Davis, A. Squire, C. Smith, F. Lamb, J. Wells, Jon. J. Combs, R. Lathrop, J. Harvey, A. Carr, and J. Upham.
[Russell moved his family to Indiana in June 1837.]
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Birdseye View of Richford, Vermont |