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From: Betty White <>
Subject: Re: [GenConnecticut-L] Squire of Roxbury
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 20:44:25 -0400


"Grandville, NY" is now "Granville, NY" (Washington, Co.)

I have two Ruscoe sisters, Esther and Mary Polly who both married
SQUIRES in VT. Esther and ? Squires had a son Azor b. 1786, and Mary
Polly married Jessa (Jesse)Squires. Mary Polly d. 8/19/1829 and lived
in VT. Don't have any thing else on these people, but thought this
might help. I do have much information on the Ruscoes and know that
they lived in Addison Co. VT. Also, Granville, NY is on the Vt-NY
border.

Betty Hadley White

Canfield wrote:
>
> Looking for descendants of Gideon Squire/Squier born 19 March 1738/39
> (possibly married Martha Warner). One child known:
>
> Abiather/Abiathar Squire/Squier born May 25, 1764, in Woodbury,
> Connecticut; died September 3, 1851, in Roxbury, Connecticut.
>
> I have no evidence of a genealogical relationship to this particular
> SQUIER/SQUIRE, but it drives me crazy to know that there were descendants
> and that I can't find ANY information on them! The following is from
> "History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, by William Cothren, originally
> published 1854: "Gideon . . . had children, among which was Abiather, who
> lived to an advanced age, leaving children, some of whom are now living in
> Roxbury."
>
> If some of these children could be figured out (for either Gideon or
> Abiathar), perhaps we could provide the missing link to MANY Squire
> researchers who are very frustrated. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING ON THESE
> PEOPLE? It is possible that children were born to Gideon Squire after
> leaving Woodbury, for Vermont/New York. It is highly possible that
> Abiather married in the Grandville, New York area, and perhaps had children
> born there. I have nothing certain regarding the return date of Gideon or
> Abiather to Connecticut. Perhaps Abiather followed a while after Gideon.
> Please read on . . .
>
> What IS "known" to me: GIDEON was the son of DAVID and MARGARET (WARNER)
> SQUIRE. He left Woodbury about 1766 and went to Arlington, Vermont. About
> 1772 he moved from Arlington, Vermont, to Grandville, Albany County (now
> Washington County), New York. He is said to have been a lieutenant in the
> Revolutionary War.
>
> According to "American Loyalist Claims" by Peter Wilson Coldham: GIDEON
> Squier of Grandville, Albany County, New York, joined the army at
> Skeenesborough and was taken prisoner when in a low state of health. After
> being in gaol(?) a month at Bennington, returned home, but was forced off
> farm with WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN and obliged to go 150 miles to Woodbury,
> Connecticut."
>
> >From "Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files":
>
> ABIATHAR SQUIER, NY & VT Line, R10024, soldier served WITH HIS FATHER LT.
> GIDEON SQUIER. He applied for Revolutionary War Pension 31 July 1832 at
> Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. A JOHN A. SQUIER signed a p.o.a.
> 9 November 1852 in Litchfield County, Connecticut, as heir of deceased
> soldier.
>
> Here's hoping that someone knows something more out there!
>
> Mary-kay Canfield
>

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