By Lester Warren Fish
EARLY FISH FAMILIES IN ENGLAND 101
712 John Giteau, b. 1815; m. ________ Jeffries of Princeton, NJ. They
lived at Troy, NY; moved to Buffalo, NY, about 1860. Children:
(712a) Mary Lawrence9, b. Feb. 4, 1849; and (172b) Harriet
Lobden, b. Dec. 10, 1853.
713 Rebecca, b.1815; m. Freedom F. Purdy, and moved to Oneida,
N.Y. Children: (713a) John9 Purdy, b.1838; (713b) Henry A.
Purdy, b.1841; (713c) Freedom Purdy, b.1843; and (713d) Mary
Purdy, b.1846.
714 Mary Jane, b.1821; m. Andrew Wood, and had: (714 1/2) Mary
Wood, b.1850, was prin. of a Rome school for many years.
715 Elizabeth Anne May, b. 1823; m. William Parker, 1850.
710 ELMIRA (ALMIRA)8 (FISH) WILLIAMS (John7, Jonathan6,
Jonathan5, Robert4, Thomas3, Alice2, John1), dau. of (682) John
and Jane (Palmer) Fish, was b. Dec. 1809, at Trenton, N.Y.;
d. at Oriskany, N.Y., in 1884, age 75; m. about 1828 Benjamin
Edwin Williams of Oriskany (b.1808, d.1891, age 83). He was
a descendant of the Williams family of Wethersfield, Conn.
Was supt. of Dexter Woolen Mill for many years, and an authority
on hydraulics. Oriskany was the home of the first woolen
mill in America, and Durant's "History of Oneida County" says
that the machinery for Col. Garrett Lansing's Mill was installed
by Benj. E. Williams.
Children:
+ 716 James Lowell9 Williams
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Sabrevois of Canada, and had: (736 1/2) John12 Sweet. He m.
(2), Mary Wilson of Akron, Ohio. He grad. from Swarthmore
Preparatory school, Union College and Bucknell Univ., is president
and gen. mgr. of the Electric Motor and Repair Co. of
Akron.
737 HARRISON STUART11 SWEET, industrialist, son of Herman
Levi and (732) Mary (Williams) Sweet, was b. Aug. 29, 1888,
at Oriskany, N.Y. Grad of Bucknell Univ. and of Union College,
Schenectady, N.Y. He m. Alta Wallace, dau. of Thomas and
Ida (Hardy) Wallace.
He is president and general manager of Oriskany Malleable
Iron Works, president and general manager of Central, N.Y.
Coach Lines (onf of the largest independent bus systems of the
East), and he is director of Oneida National Bank, Utica, N.Y.
Children: (737 1/2) Wallace12 Sweet, b. Apr. 29, 1923.
711 LOUISA8 (FISH) PALMER (John7, Jonathan6, Jonathan5,
Robert4, Thomas3, Alice2, John1), dau. of (682) John and
Phebe Fish, was b. in 1813; m. John Palmer about 1838, and had: (738)
Sarah9 Palmer, b. 1843, m. ______ Hunt; (739) Lorin Palmer, b.
1841, starved to death in Andersonville Prison in the Civil War;
and (740) Jane Palmer, m. John Hinckley, and had a son, (740 1/2)
William10 Hinckley. The beautiful old Palmer home, which has
been restored, stands on the Rome-Utica Road just before it
enters the village of Oriskany, N.Y., from the east.
UNPLACED MEMBERS OF TRENTON, N.Y., FISH FAMILY
741 PHINEAS FISH, Rensselaerville, N.Y., 1790.
742 L.H. FISH amd widow, of Rensselaerville, N.Y., 1854.
743 LUTHER G. FISH, sold land in Oriskany, N.Y., 1853, lived
at Whitestown, N.Y.
744 JOHN R. FISH, and Almira his wife, of West Troy, N.Y.,
bought land in Oriskany, N.Y., 1852.
745 THURSTOM FISH, took up land in Holland Patent, N.Y.,
1807; had a son (745 1/2) Gardner.
746 CHAUNCEY FISH of Deerfield, Mass*, m. Caroline Woolcott
Dec. 9, 1822. This marriage is on the "Woolcott Genealogy"
and in the Unitarian Church Record at Trenton, N.Y. He has
descendants in Herkimer, N.Y., and Ilion, N.Y.
*Chauncey Fish was not a resident of Deerfield, Mass.
but of Deerfield, NY. He and wife, Caroline are in Deerfield, NY in the 1850 NY
Census. --ed.