Elizabeth BROWN

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• Fact: Daughter of Benajah Brown

Elizabeth married Matthew HOYT on 25 Sep 1800. Matthew (son of Uriah HOYT and Elizabeth LOCKWOOD) was born on 31 Jul 1780 in South Salem, Westchester Co., New York; died on 7 Feb 1871 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York; was buried in Becks Hill Cemetery, Vista, Westchester Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Aurelia HOYT was born on 25 Dec 1801 in Troy, New York; died in 1867 in Michigan.
2. Linus HOYT was born in 14 Jan 1804; died on 14 Jul 1901; was buried in Selleck's Corner Cemetery, New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Conneccticut.
3. Louisa HOYT was born on 9 Nov 1805 in Troy, New York; died in 1880 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York; was buried in Becks Hill Cemetery, Vista, Westchester Co., New York.
4. Sarah HOYT was born in 1809 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York; died in Aug 1866 in New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
5. Rufus HOYT was born in Apr 1812 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York; died in Jan 1868 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York.
6. Ruhamah HOYT was born in 1816 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York.
7. Mary HOYT was born in Mar 1820 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York.
8. Smith HOYT was born in Apr 1822 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York; died in 1888 in Wilton, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in Bald Hill Cemetery, Wilton, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.
9. Betsey HOYT was born in May 1824 in Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York; died in 1911; was buried in Becks Hill Cemetery, Vista, Westchester Co., New York.

Benajah married Sarah WEED about 1769. Sarah (daughter of Jabez WEED and Mary BATES) was born on 16 Oct 1748; died after 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Editors Note: I have moved Mary Weed as being the daughter of Gideon Weed to Jabez Weed for the following reason:

American Ancestors: See Book of Corrections Vol. 4 No. 3 -

WEED/BROWN - See God's Country: A History of Pound Ridge, New York, by Jay Harris (1971). An error occurs in the Brown genealogy, p. 462, and "Corrections Supplement", p 14. Sarah WEED, who married Benajah BROWN, was the dau. of Jabez (Jonathan, Jonas) WEED, & Mary BATES, not of Gideon WEED (Jonas) & Sarah WATERBURY. In "Bedford Genealogy, Descendants of the Twenty-two Original Settlers, vol. IX", complied by Ronald B. Reynolds (1978), p. 164, Sarah's sister Mary WEED is also erroneously stated to be the dau. of Gideon WEED & Sarah WATERBURY. Inasmuch as Reynolds cites, correctly, dates indicating that Sarah WATERBURY would have been but 14 years old when Mary was born in 1740, and that Sarah did not marry Gideon until 1751, it is somewhat surprising that the error was not noticed The source of confusion appears to lie in a misinterpretation of the 1790 will of Gideon WEED, Jr. (Stamford Probate Records, vol. 8, p. 46), who was the brother of Sarah and mary (and Jabez,Jr.). Gideon, Jr. was the namesake and first cousin once removed, not the son of the Gideon WEED who married Sarah Waterbury. These relationships were not recognized in SLAUSON-SLAWSON-SLOSSON Family (1948), compiled by George C. Slawson, in which, p. 26, Mary WEED is given as the daughter of Gideon. It is from this source that subsequent researchers have been led astray. The true parentage of the siblings established by the will of Gideon WEED, Jr., was revealed in the typescript "BATES, Sellack, and Allied Families of Stamford, Norwalk, and Fairfield, Connecticut," by Henry S. Gorham (1938), Vol. 1, p. 26. Gorham utilized Conn, vital records and Stamford church records to prove that Jabez WEED and Mary BATES were parents of Mary (1940-1826), Jabez (1743-1829), Sarah (b. 1748) and Gideon (ca. 1750-1791).

Submitted by Neil B. Todd, 26 Walnut Place, Newtonville, MA 02160