1Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Vol. 1, p. 434 (1871).
"7555-6. v. OZIAS STRONG (son of Phineas Strong of Coventry, Ct., and Mary Parker) b. Sept. 3, 1734, m. Aug. 9, 1757, Susannah West of Tolland, Ct., b. March 8, 1737 (dau. of Pelatiah West of Tolland, Cy., and afterwards of Lee, Mass., of which he was the first settler, and Elizabeth Lathrop); a farmer at Lenox, Mass. (1757-70), at Lee, Mass. (1770-87), and at Great Bend, Pa. (1787-95), and at Homer (1795-1807). He d. in Homer, N. Y. (South Courtland), Nov. 21, 1807; she d. June, 1827.
[6th Gen.] Children:
7582- 3. i. JUDGE HORATIO Strong b. May 16, 1758, in Lenox, Mass.
7584- 5. ii. BEULAH Strong b. July 24, 1759, m. Timothy Treat of Homer, N. Y.
7588- 7. iii. ROXALANA Strong b. June 9, 1761, m. Thomas Benedict of Homer, N. Y.
7588- 9. iv. SUSANNAH Strong b. Oct. 6, 1762, m. John Baker of Homer.
7590- 1. v. HANNAH Strong m. Jireh Gates of Hartford, N. Y.
7592- 3. vi. MAJOR JOSEPH Strong b. March 13, 1765, in Lenox, Mass.
7594- 5. vii. POLLY Strong m. David Jones of Homer, N. Y.
7596- 8. viii. DEA. FRANCIS Strong b. Oct. 24, 1770, at Lee, Mass.
7599-00 ix. CAPT. ZADOC Strong b. Feb. 4, 1775, m. 1813-14, widow Dinah Russell nee Sperry b. in Middlevury, Vt. (whose previous husband Barzillai Russell b. also in Middlebury, ahe m. about 1790. They had had one child Stephen Russell b. in 1796. They removed to Homer, N. Y., about 1800, where he soon died). He d. in Lyme, O., Aug. 3, 1835, aged 60; a farmer at Homer, and after 1814 at Lyme, O.; no issue.
7601- 2. x. LURANA Strong b. Dec. 4, 1777, m. Amos Todd, a farmer in Homer, N. Y., where he d. Oct. 1831, and of which with his brother-in-law, Joseph Bebee, he was the first settler (1791). He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and a man of great respectability.
7603. xi. PELETIAH Strong drowned at Great Bend in the Susquehanna, about 1793, aged 21, unmarried.
7604- 5. xii. ABNER Strong b. in Lee, Mass., April 7, 1780, d. at Lyme, O.".