(Communicated by the Rev. Emerson Davis of that town, Corresponding Member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.) In a private journal, kept by Rev. John BALLANTINE, it is written, "April 8, 1754, died Benjamin SEXTON, aged 88 who was the first white person born in the town." If so he must have been born in 1666. But there is no record of any birth prior to 1667. John ROOT, wife Mary chn, Mary, b. Sept. 22, 1667 Sarah, b. Sept. 24, 1670 John, b. Dec. 28, 1672 Samuel, b. Sept. 16, 1675 Hannah, b. Dec. 9, 1677 Abigail, b. June 26, 1680 Joshua, b. Nov. 23, 1682 Mercy, b. March 15, 1684 John PENDER, wife Temperance chn. Susanna, b. March 11, 1669 John, b. Sept. __, 1670; died April 28, 1676 Mary, b. Sept. 30, 1672 Elizabeth, b. Feb'y 3, 1675 Nathaniel, b. Sept. 3, 1677 John, b. March 11, 1679 Thomas, b. March 5, 1681; died Aug. 4, 1750 Martha, b. Feb'y 27, 1683 Sarah, b. July 28, 1686; died Sept. 15, 1690 Temperance, wife of J. P. d, Oct. 27, 1732. (New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume VI, pages 265-271, July 1852) Page 1
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