Generation 1
ROBERT EMMONS of Brookfield
Parents: Unknown [But perhaps the Robert who was in Brookfield in 1706]
Robert Emmons of Brookfield married Mary Petty after
13 July 1717, when their intention (10 Jul 1717) was posted in Springfield.
[Ref]
Robert was one of the inhabitants of Brookfield who signed a petition asking
for financial help in supporting a minister on 30 Oct 1706. [Ref]
He was taxed in Brookfield on 22 Apr 1717. [Ref]
On 31 May 1720 Robert was on a committee to lay out land in Brookfield. [Ref]
The Robert who was active in Brookfield in 1706 seems is old enough to be the
father of this Robert Emmons, but Temple suggests that there is only one. [Ref].
- Son Emmons was born in [1725?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Abel Emmons was born in [1727?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
He married the sister of Simon Davis and settled in Chesterfield in 1762.
[Ref] He moved to Woodstock in 1780.
[Ref]
- Solomon Emmons was born in [1729?][Ref,
p. 50, about 1726 as he was 38 in 1764] in Brookfield. [Ref]
He died in "poor circumstances" in 1805. [Ref]
He married Mary Unknown. [Ref] She was
born about 1731. She died on 8 Nov 1825, age 94. [Ref,
p. 50]
Solomon and Mary moved to Windsor, Vermont in 1763 [Ref]
and were the first Europeans to live there. [Ref,
p. 49] Solomon was a husbandman. [Ref,
p. 53] For a long time Mary was the only midwife in Windsor. [Ref,
p. 50] At the first proprietors' meeting on 5 Oct 1767 Solomon was appointed
to a committee to lay out the town. [Ref,
p. 87] On 3 Oct 1768 Solomon was on a committee to sell land of the proprietors
who were delinquent in paying their taxes. [Ref,
p. 89] On Mar 1769 Solomon was appointed a fence viewer. [Ref,
p. 114]
Solomon and Mary moved to Woodstock about 1768 and built a log house. [Ref]
- Noah Emmons was born in [1731?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Eunice Emmons was born in [1733?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Mary Emmons (twin) was born on 15 Aug 1735 in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Robert Emmons (twin) was born on 15 Aug 1735 in Brookfield. [Ref]
- Dea. Benjamin Emmons was born in
[1737?] in Brookfield. He died on or soon before 22 Apr 1811 in Hartford,
Windsor, Vermont. He married Elizabeth Smith.
- Dyer Emmons [Ref] (Maybe he
is the son born in [1725?])
Generation
2
DEA. BENJAMIN EMMONS (abt 1737/9 - 1811) of Woodstock
Parents: Robert Emmons and Mary
Petty
Benjamin Emmons was born was born in [1737?] in Brookfield. [Ref]
He died on or shortly before 22 Apr 1811, age 72, in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont.
[Ref] He married Elizabeth Smith
on 18 Nov 1765 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire. [Ref][Ref,
says "Elizabeth San?", in Hinsdale, Cheshire, New Hampshire]
Elizabeth may be the daughter of Ens. Moses Smith, the first settler of Chesterfield,
who was of Leicester, Massachusetts, and his wife Elizabeth. [Ref]
Moses died on 20 Jul 1777. [Ref] Elizabeth
died on 20 Jul 1777, age 61. [Ref] Randall
[Ref] says that Moses's daughter Elizabeth
probably married Abel Emmons. [Ref]
Benjamin was one of the founders of Woodstock. [Ref]
He moved from Chesterfield to Woodstock in Apr 1772. [Ref]
He bought 700 acres when he arrived. [Ref]
He left Woodstock about 1810. [Ref]
Benjamin was appointed supervisor, an overseer of the poor and a commissioner
of the highways on the third Tuesday in May 1773 in Woodstock. [Ref]
He was town representative in 1786-7, 1791 (for half the year), 1792 - 4, 1796
and 1800 - 1803. [Ref] He was selectman
in 1773, 1775, 1776, 1778, 1794 and 1802. [Ref]
He was "a political wire-puller of more than ordinary skill." [Ref]
In Apr 1798 Benjamin dug the cellar for the prison in Woodstock, stoned it
and underpinned the building. [Ref]
Benjamin was a deacon in the Congregational Church in Woodstock. [Ref]
There was a great disturbance when it was discovered that he had become an adherent
of the doctrine of Universalism. [Ref]
Children of Benjamin Emmons and Elizabeth Smith:
- Harriet Emmons was born in 1770.
She died on 8 May 1817 in Woodstock. She married Seth
Howland.
- Bethany Emmons was born on 3 Jan 1772. [Ref]
Generation
3
HARRIET EMMONS (d 1847) of Woodstock
Parents: Benjamin Emmons and Elizabeth Smith
[Ref, p. 76]
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Harriet Emmons was born in 1770. [Ref]
She died 8 May 1847. [From her gravestone] She is buried in the Cushing
Cemetery in Woodstock. [Ref] She married
Seth Howland. [Ref,
p. 76]
During my apprenticeship to the printing trade at Woodstock, Vt., I
went fequently to see my grandmother Howland (nee Emmons). She lived
in the Howland house on a farm not quite a mile from the office where
I was engaged. I had often visited my grandmother before I went to Woodstock
to live, and my memory of the house and its surroundings is very clear.
It was for those days a rather large frame house with a front door in
the center, with a gambrel roof and dormer windows; it was built by
my great grandfather Nathan Howland (1742-1831), and was among the earliest
frame houses in the township. The town was settled, if I remember rightly,
in 1764. In this house, and one some distance farther along on he same
road, was reared a large family of Seth Howland, my grandfather, he
being the only son of Nathan Howland, who came from Middleboro', Mass.,
with other settlers; among them, I believe were the Hutchinsonss and
the Marshes and Benjamin Emmons, my Grandmother Howland's father. [Andrew
Jackson Aikens, quoted in Ref]
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