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LEROY
TOWN, GENESEE COUNTY, NEW YORK GENWEB PROJECT
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BIOGRAPHY JOSEPTH LATHAM FAMILY |
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| Surnames: LATHAM, CHILTON, WALWORTH, WINSLOW, CROSBY, NELSON, PARKHURST | ||
| The LATHAM family trace their ancestry back to Mary CHILTON, the first female to land on Plymouth Rock from the Mayflower. The American Messenger for 1850 says: "Chancellor WALWORTH, an eminent jurist of this State, traces his ancestry to Mary CHILTON. John WINSLOW, brother of Edward WINSLOW, one of the first governors of the Plymouth colony, married her, and their daughter became the wife of Robert LATHAM, from England, who came to this country some twenty years after the arrival of the Mayflower. From Robert LATHAM and his wife all the LATHAM's in this country, so far as known, have descended." A branch of the family early moved to Vermont and at about the same time David LATHAM settled at Lyme, Conn. His grandson, Joseph LATHAM, born Dec. 12, 1787, came thence to Le Roy, Genesee county, in 1808, commencing the journey on his birthday, crossing the Hudson river on the ice opposite the city of Albany and the Genesee river where the city of Rochester now stands. He volunteered in the War of 1812 with the rank of sergeant-major and participated in the storming of Fort Erie with unloaded muskets and fixed bayonets. May 2, 1818, he married Polly, daughter of Col. Jedediah CROSBY, came to Franklinville in the spring of 1834, settled on CROSBY hill on the farm now owned by his son, Joseph LATHAM, and died June 7, 1865; his wife died Dec. 9, 1870. Children: Joseph, William, Russel, and Helen. Russel LATHAM enlisted in the Rebellion, served on board the U. S. gunboat Towa, and after that vessel was destroyed in action with the rebel forts on Cumberland river he died at Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 23, 1864. | ||
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TOWN OF FRANKLINVILLE BIOGRAPHICAL
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