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After several years of combing and eyestrain, I am pretty convinced that my side of the
family - and it is pretty wide spread at this point in time, is descended from a William,
son of Captain Henry, possibly a brother of Bartholomew's. This William lived in
Lancaster in the mid 1600s and his son Henry sold the Lancaster property @ 1705. I
believe that I am a descendant of William's son William (brother of the younger Henry)
who married Mary Bowden of Saco, now Maine, then part of MA Bay Colony. William and Mary
were probably the parents of Abraham - her brother was also named Abraham although her
father was John, son of Ambrose Bowden/Boaden. Their son Abraham is the one who married
Susannah Brookins and was the Green Mountain Boy of VT serving under Ethan Allen and later
lived in Hillsdale, NY. William's other children were John, who married Sarah Sherwood
in CT (my g4gps), William who married Martha Patty Carter and probably a Joseph and a
James.
There is a great deal of confusion involving the children of Abraham as John and Sarah
Sherwood Carley also had a son Abraham and he was married to another Susannah whose last
name is unknown. Their children may be attributed to the elder Abraham and Susanna as at
least 3 of their children are attributed to a CT birth. Susanna ?, the younger, remarried
after her Abraham died @ 1759. She remarried a Thaddeus Gray, son of his mother's
aunt - Elizabeth Meeker, wife of William Gray in 1759 in Westport, CT. John and Sarah
were married in CT and lived there until 1760 when the family moved into what was then
Dutchess Co. - which is now Putnam Co. NY.