ABEL, JR., being the fourth son, and born at Shaftesbury, VT in 1798; he married POLLY, a daughter of JONATHAN COOLEY, a native of Rhode Island. Mrs. Cross was born in Jefferson Co., NY, in 1801. To them were born six children, viz.:
STEPHEN
SUSAN
BENJAMIN born in the town of Fowler, Feb. 13, 1824 and resided with his parents. In 1848 he married MARY JANE, daughter of SMITH CLEVELAND, a native of Vermont, who died 6 July 1877. Mrs. Cross's mother died in 1872 at 66 years.
SELINDA
SARAH
MARIA
Captain Derby resided in Wilna, Jefferson Co., until 1848, at which time he purchased a large tract of land of Gerrit Smith in Russell, St. Lawrence Co., and removed to that town, where he since resided...and purchased 75,000 acres...On November 1, 1838, Captain Derby was united in marriage with ANN DAVIDSON WOOD, a daughter of JONATHAN WOOD, of Jefferson Co., NY. She was born in Deerfield, Oneida Co., NY, Oct. 14, 1819. They were the parents of ten children:
WASHINGTON L.-married Martha A. Spaulsbury
DEWITT C.- died in a hunting accident early
EDMUND EUGENE
BENJAMIN F.
EDMUND D.
HELEN E.-married Truman G. Hamlin and she married 2)Edgar S. Burnbaum
LAURA A.-married Newman J. Alexander
MARY E.-married Frank R. Judson
EARL-married Nettie J. Harris
H. STANLEY
GEORGE N.
HARRIET
ISAAC
DAVID L
NANCY ANN.
At the age of 14, George N. Seymour came to Ogdensburg. He was drafted and served in the War of 1812 for a short time, mostly at Sacket's Harbor...At the age of 23, in the year 1818, he married Miss SOPHIA MARY, daughter of LOUIS and SARAH deVILLERS, of Wilna, Jefferson Co. Her father was a native of Abbeville, France and descended from an ancient and respectiable family...Louis was transferred to a regiment serving in American under Gen. Rochambeau and came to St. Lawrence Co., about the close of the Revolutionary War, with County LeRaydeChaumont, for the purpose of joining the allies. Her father first came to Trenton, afterwards to Cooperstown, then to Butternuts where he married Miss SARAH KINNEY of Connecticut birth. It was at Butternuts that Miss Sophia Mary de Villers was born on 19 October 1797.
George N. and Sophia Mary had four children:
Harriet Ann - married Mr. John D. Judson of Ogdensburg
George de Villers - married Frances G. Ford of New Jersey
Isaac Lewis - married Mary Ann Cryalor of Williamsburg, Ontaro
Sophia Mary - married George Conant of Ogdensburg
For his first wife, in 1845, he married Miss FANNIE MOORE by whom he had two children-
FRANCIS LEVI - participated in the Civil War and died at home in 1865
ALBERT H.-resident of New York; first wife died in 1850; for his second wife he married
in 1853 to Miss Elizabeth Fackrell, daughter of John and Jane Clements Fackrell.
They were the parents of five children.
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