Bridget Miner Grant1,2

b. 6 June 1727, d. 15 August 1762
Pedigree
FatherOliver Grant2 b. 3 Sep 1703, d. 4 May 1757
MotherBridget Miner2 b. Mar 1711
Relationship2nd cousin 7 times removed of Charles Edward Towne

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     Bridget Miner Grant was born on 6 June 1727 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.1 She was baptized on 13 August 1727 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.1 She married Stephen Billings, son of Increase Billings and Hannah Hewitt, on 4 December 1746 (the Grant genealogy says 4 December 1747) in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.1,2 She died on 15 August 1762 at age 35.1
     She and Stephen had the following known children: Hannah (b 3 July 1748), Stephen (b 8 December 1750, d 1798), Bridget (b 15 February 1754), Catherine (b 5 May 1758), Andrew (b 3 August 1760, d 6 September 1781), Eunice (b 6 August 1762, d 28 August 1762).1

Citations

  1. [S363] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1927.
  2. [S1992] Arthur Hastings Grant, The Grant Family, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn., 1601-1898, p. 20.

Mary Avery1

b. 30 November 1730, d. 7 March 1787
Pedigree
FatherEbenezer Avery1

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     Mary Avery was born on 30 November 1730.1 She married first Youngs Ledyard.1 She married second Stephen Billings, son of Increase Billings and Hannah Hewitt, on 12 December 1764 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut.1 She died on 7 March 1787 at age 56.1
     She and her second husband Stephen had one known child, Elizabeth (b 14 August 1766, d 31 October 1805).1

Citations

  1. [S363] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1927.

Martha Wheeler1

b. 31 December 1728
Pedigree
FatherJohn Wheeler1
MotherZerviah Fanning1

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     Martha Wheeler was born on 31 December 1728.1 She married first John Denison on 13 January 1747/48.1 She married second Stephen Billings, son of Increase Billings and Hannah Hewitt, on 9 April 1789.1

Citations

  1. [S363] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1927.

Abby Brown1

Pedigree
FatherJohn Brown1

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     Abby Brown married Benjamin Billings, son of Benjamin Billings and Mary Denison, on 22 November 1750 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.1

Citations

  1. [S363] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1927.

Lament Blake1

d. 6 May 1815
Pedigree

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     Lament Blake married Benjamin Billings, son of Benjamin Billings and Mary Denison, on 6 November 1762.1 She died on 6 May 1815.1
     She and Benjamin had the following known children: Benjamin (b 28 August 1763, d 22 July 1784), Mary (b 14 October 1765), Sarah (b 25 December 1768, d 17 November 1786), Elizabeth (b 21 May 1771, d 13 September 1802), Frances (b 18 March 1773), Rebecca (b 21 April 1776), Prudence (b 28 May 1779, d 21 July 1804).1

Citations

  1. [S363] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1927.

Ruhamah Palmer1

Pedigree

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     Ruhamah Palmer married Benjamin Billings, son of James Billings and Margaret Fanning, in November 1766 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.1
     She and Benjamin had the following known children: Perez (b 1767), Ezra (b 5 October 1768), Lydia (b 5 August 1770).1

Citations

  1. [S363] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1927.

Elizabeth Wickwire1

b. 21 September 1750
Pedigree
FatherGeorge Wickwire1

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     Elizabeth Wickwire was born on 21 September 1750 in Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut.1 She married Alpheus Billings, son of James Billings and Margaret Fanning, on 25 October 1771 in Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut.1
     She and Alpheus had the following known children, all born in Norwich, New London Co., Connecticut: Charles (b 23 May 1772, d September 1804), Joseph (b 17 May 1775), Elizabeth (b 31 December 1777), Hannah (b 17 July 1779), Abigail (b 6 September 1782), Nancy (b 15 December 1785), James (b 30 March 1787, d September 1804), Benjamin (b 8 May 1789, d September 1804).1

Citations

  1. [S363] Creighton Spencer-Mounsey, "The Billings Family of Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, April 1927.

Maria (?)1

b. 25 April 1806, d. 9 July 1837
Pedigree

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     Maria (?) was born on 25 April 1806 in New York.2,1,3 She married William M. Town, son of Alfred Town and Polly Bartlett, on 15 August 1826.1 She died on 9 July 1837 in Lyon, Oakland Co., Michigan, at age 31.2,1 She was buried at New Hudson Cemetery in New Hudson, Oakland Co., Michigan.2
     Her surname is difficult to read on the microfilm copy of the handwritten Charles A. Towne collection, but may be Kinion, as reported in the LDS Ancestry File, or Kenyman, as it appears to be on her son Ira's death certificate.1,4 In 1830 she and her husband William were living in Ontario, Wayne Co., New York.5

Children of Maria (?) and William M. Town

Citations

  1. [S364] Charles A. Towne, "Descendants of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne In the Line of Towne, Nourse, Estey, Bridges-Cloyes, And Later Lines."
  2. [S1015] Maria Town Cemetery Marker, New Hudson Cemetery, Oakland Co., Michigan.
  3. [S962] Mary Farnham, Death Certificate.
  4. [S960] Ira C. Towne, Death Certificate.
  5. [S1551] 1830 U.S. Census, William Town, Wayne Co., New York.