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Hi Gayle! I've been trying to reply to your direct email about this but have been
having some difficulty. So, if you didn't get my email I'll post it here as well.
Here it is:
Hi, Gayle. I also had the info from the Roloson book listing the son David Catlin,
married to Elvira Smith. But recently I obtained copies of some letters that make me
question that information. One of the letters is from David Catlin, son of David Catlin
of Litchfield, CT. He talks of leaving in a few days to sail to Barbados and of sending
his father a deed for some land in Dummerston (I think it is in VT) . Then there are
a series of letters between the father, David Catlin and his nephew, Lynde Catlin
discussing how to recovered the property in the West Indies of son David Catlin, who died
there. The letters are quite clear about son David being deceased and the problems of
trying to recover his property in the West Indies.
So either the senior David Catlin had two sons named David – (which I think is unlikely)
or the Roloson book is incorrect. It may be that someone once decided that the David
married to E. Smith was the son of David Catlin and that misinformation has been passed
around. Or the senior David Catlin really did have 2 adult sons named David.
I think my next step will be to work on the 2nd son David Calin and see if I can find any
information about who his father was. There were so many Catlin around he could easily be
the son of another Catlin.
Also, I think you had once had some questions about the cemetery that David Catlin
(senior) is buried in. I found him listed in a book about Old Gravestones of Ulster
County by J. Wilson Poucher and Byron J. Terwilliger ca 1930. It lists him in the
Houghtaling Cemetery in the city of Kingston. The listing reads: Catlin, Captain David
A., A solider of the Revolution, d. Oct. 13, 1839. Also buried in that cemetery is the
2nd wife of Pierce Catlin (David’s son). The listing is: Catlin, Ann, w. of Pierce, May
2, 1838.
I don’t know how much info you have or want about Pierce Catlin, but he was married 3
times. 1) Philena Lee (she died in 1818 – about 4 years after they were married) 2) Ann
Winegar and 3) Sarah Freer. The Roloson book lists him as James Pierce Catlin, but I
have yet to find any info that lists him as anything but Pierce Catlin.
Pierce lived in Kingston as did one of David’s daughters, Nancy. David moved to Kingston
to live with Pierce the same year he (David) died.
I don’t know who all of Pierce’s children were, but here are a couple things I do know.
1) Amos P. Catlin – was a lawyer in Kingston ca 1840 then moved to California.
2) Jane Catlin (1830-1881) married a Kingston physician, Abraham Eltinge Crispell
I’ll let you know as I learn more about the family. I am also going to request the
records from DAR.
Colleen