Notable connections of Frances Fairchild Holbrook: the Fairchild branch and the families that married in

Research report, 8 October 2026, for Notable connections. Nothing in the repository was changed. It builds on McMillan Frost Master Research (5 Oct 2026) and does not repeat it.

Evidence tiers: [D] documented (a record, or a published transcript or abstract of one); [C] compiled (genealogy, county history, online tree); [I] inferred; [T] tradition. Ratings: proven / probable / possible / disproven.

Generations are counted from Frances (1931): 1 Lucile McMillan; 2 Florence Frost; 3 George W. Frost and Lucy Ellen Bell; 4 Elizabeth Fairchild (George's mother) and Adeline Fairchild (Lucy's mother); 5 Richard C. Fairchild and Nancy Woodworth, John Fairchild and Catherine Clawson; 6 Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett, Lemuel Woodworth and Lydia Winter, Josiah Clawson; and so on. "4th great-grandfather" is generation 6, "5th great" generation 7, etc.

Gilmore 1991 = Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991), https://archive.org/details/early-fairchilds-in-america (in copyright; quoted briefly). Gilmore 2001 = her More Fairchilds in America (2001), https://archive.org/details/more-fairchilds-in-america. EKVG = Olive Newell Woodworth, East Kill Valley Genealogy (1974), https://archive.org/details/eastkillvalleyge0000oliv (a lending copy; read only as full-text search snippets, so passages are fragments). Plume = W. B. (Walter Beach) Plume, "Genealogy of the Fairchild Family," manuscript, FamilySearch Library (Gilmore's source 235; she says he gave no sources).

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Read this first: what depends on a doubtful link

The Fairchild material divides into two parts.

A. Everything above Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett hangs on two links, and neither is proven.

1. Richard (1808) and John (1803) as sons of Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett: probable. This is the link that makes George W. Frost and Lucy Bell second cousins. Support: two compiled genealogies (Plume via Gilmore; EKVG says outright "John Fairchild was the son of Jonathan"), Beach's list of Jonathan's children, the 1810 census, and deeds between the brothers. No record seen names Jonathan as their father.
2. Jonathan of East Jewett as Jonathan born 29 Aug 1744 at Norwalk, son of Thomas Fairchild and Ann Raymond: probable at best, compiled only, and contradicted on one point. Gilmore 2001 accepts it, citing professional research done in 1993. A 1944 Hartford Times query also gives it. But the age conflicts. The family gravestone at Fairview Cemetery, Bridgewater, Oneida Co., N.Y. gives Jonathan "d. 1815 ... age 66", which means born about 1749 (Gilmore 1991, p. 80). EKVG says "b. about 1751". A man born in August 1744 would have been 70. Nothing yet ties the Greene County tanner to Norwalk by record.
3. Above that, Ann (Raymond) Fairchild is identified as Thomas's wife by inference: her father's will (1765, [D]) names "my eldest daughter, Ann Fairchild", and Thomas was living at Bedford, where her father lived. Probable.

So every colonial Fairchild, Raymond, Wheeler, Whitney, Seabrook, Coley and Palmer/Feake ancestor in this report rests on links 1 and 2. So do these famous kin: Lucius Fairchild; James Harris, George Thompson and David Fairchild; Charles S. Fairchild; George W. and Sherman Fairchild; Commodores Oliver Hazard and Matthew C. Perry; and Henry J. Raymond. They should go on the site as possible, not as fact, until the Bridgewater stone or the 1815 Greene County probate is checked (see Lookups 1-2).

B. The Woodworth side does not depend on Jonathan. Nancy Woodworth (Richard's wife, Elizabeth's mother) leads back through Lemuel Woodworth of Lebanon, Conn., to Walter Woodworth of Scituate (1635) and the Stockbridges of the Scituate mill. The poet Samuel Woodworth ("The Old Oaken Bucket") is kin this way. So is the best Small-world find here: Scituate in 1676, where Frances's Holbrook-side and Frost-side ancestors stood in the same garrison and married into each other's families. That chain is compiled (Woodworth Records 1898; Deane 1831; EKVG). It is probable link by link.

Other points to know:

• Adeline's parents (John Fairchild and Catherine Clawson) are probable: two compiled genealogies agree. The archive's dates for Catherine (b. 1814 in Canada, d. 1900) are wrong. Her gravestone gives d. 29 Jul 1831 "aged 27 yrs. 1 mo. 3 d."
• Elizabeth (Cooper?), Jonathan's second wife and mother of Richard and John, is still only "Elizabeth". The Cooper surname comes from Plume and family letters. EKVG's "relative of James Fenimore Cooper" is tradition. The archive page Elizabeth Cooper (Rehoboth) is Unrelated.
• Lydia Winter's parents are unknown. EKVG has "Moses (?) Winter", with the query mark its own.

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1. Pedigree, link by link

1.1 Elizabeth Fairchild (1830) → Richard C. Fairchild and Nancy Woodworth: proven [D]

Already proven in the master file (1850 census household; her son's 1881 Iowa marriage). Nothing to add.

1.2 Adeline Asenath Fairchild (1829) → John Fairchild and Catherine Clawson: probable [C]

• Gilmore 1991, p. 182, "Children of John & Catherine: (b. Greene co., NY.)": "(235) Adeline Asenath b. 27 Mar 1829(235); m. William H. Bell 8 Sep 1849(235); d. 17 Mar 1891 St. Cloud, MN.(235)". The (235) is Plume.
• EKVG, under the gravestone of Catherine (Clawson) Fairchild (Old Cemetery, East Jewett, plot "O.C. 6"), lists her children: "...Adaline b. 27 Mar. 1829 d. 17 Mar. 1891 who m. 1850 William H. Bell and had Dora who m. D. W. Stanford, Watson who m. 1st. Maggie Gorham...". The next sentence is "John Fairchild m. 2nd. Sarah Ann Clawson about 1836 and had Ellen b. 1840". [C]
• Against, or complicating: in 1850 Adeline Fairchild was in the household of Edward Fairchild at Conewango, Cattaraugus Co. [D, master file]. Gilmore 1991, p. 181, also lists an "Adeline b. ca 1829 (26)" among Edward's children. Her source (26) is the census, so this is that census entry, not a second daughter [I]. Edward and John were brothers and both lived at Conewango (Gilmore). EKVG's 1850 marriage date would put the census before the wedding.
• In favour: the Bells moved to Walworth Co., Wis., where John Fairchild settled about 1851-52 and died at Heart Prairie in 1867. Edward stayed in Cattaraugus County into the 1850s (Gilmore p. 181).
• Rating: probable. Two compiled sources, possibly not independent, plus where the families lived. The 1850 entry needs explaining (Lookup 10).

1.3 Catherine Clawson → Josiah (Isiah) Clawson/Classon of Claverack and Hunter: probable [C]

• Gilmore 1991, p. 183: "A deed dated 29 Oct 1827 in Greene county, NY. in which John and Catherine Fairchild and others are named as 'heirs at law' of Isiah Classon, deceased, proves that Catherine Classon is John's wife." That is a deed reported in a compiled book. The deed itself was not seen.
• Gravestone, as EKVG prints it: "CATHERINE (CLAWSON) wife of JOHN FAIRCHILD d. 29 Jul. 1831, aged 27 yrs. 1 mo. 3 d." [C, transcription]. That makes her born about 26 Jun 1804 [I]. Gilmore (from Plume) has d. "28 Jul 1834". The stone is better.
• Baptism 19 Jul 1807, Reformed Church, Claverack [D index, master file]. At three years old that is plausible, but the index entry's parents should be read (Lookup 8).
• Josiah Clawson in Hunter: J. B. Beers, History of Greene County (1884; 1969 reprint, https://archive.org/details/historyofgreenec0000vari, read as search snippets). A settler "in 18[1]2, sold his lease-right to a new and poor comer, Josiah Clawson—a hard-working, sterling-hearted man"; "The flint-lock musket that the elder Clawson brought with him from Claverack"; "Josiah Clawson, and his son, Jacob, were God-fearing men, plain and unassuming" [C]. The "Isiah" of the deed and Beers's "Josiah" are taken to be one man [I].
• The archive's dates for Catherine (b. 26 Jun 1814 in Canada; d. 2 Apr 1900, Heart Prairie) are disproven. Her stone's day and month (26 June) survive, but in a wrong year. The 1900 death belongs to someone else [I].

1.4 Richard C. Fairchild (1808) and John Fairchild (1803) → Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett: probable [C, with circumstantial D]

• EKVG (plot O.C. 6): "John Fairchild was the son of Jonathan b. about 1751 d. 20 Apr. 1815, in East Jewett, on what is now the Alberti farm, a tanner who had lived in Scott's Patent, possibly the section in Cairo, before settling in East Jewett about 1800. A piece of fieldstone with the initials J. F. may mark his grave in this Old Cemetery." [C]
• Gilmore 2001, pp. 57-58, children of Jonathan by Elizabeth: "Benjamin b. 1788 Chatham, Columbia Co., NY.; Henry b. 20 Feb 1791 Scot Spatten [Scott's Patent], NY.; Catherine b. 1792...; Caroline b. ca 1794...; Jonathan b. ca 1795...; Edward b. 19 Apr 1797 Cairo, Greene Co., NY.; Son b. ca 1799...; John b. 16 Jan 1802 Greene Co., NY.; Richard C. b. 27 Apr 1808 East Jewett". She adds: "In 1993 the family of Jonathan Fairchild was researched in depth by Mrs. Delite Gaddie, A.G. of Mesa, AZ." [C]
• Beach's Early Settlers of East Jewett (as quoted on FS; not seen) names the children as Benjamin, Betsy, Harry, Catharine, Loretta, John, Edward and Richard [C].
• Census [D, as summarised by Gilmore 1991, p. 81]: 1810, Windham, Greene Co., Jonathan: "2 males under 10; 1 male 10-16; 1 male 16-26; 1 male over 45...". John (b. 1802/3) and Richard (b. 1808) fit the two under 10, Edward (1797) the 10-16, and Henry (1791) the 16-26 [I].
• Probate [C, as reported]: "Henry was administrator of Jonathan's estate, the date of the bond being 28 Feb 1815. The inventory was done by Henry on 20 Apr 1815" (Gilmore 1991, p. 80). EKVG's "d. 20 Apr. 1815" is evidently the inventory date. He died before 28 Feb 1815 [I].
• Deeds between the brothers [C, as reported by Gilmore 1991, pp. 180-183]: Henry ("Harry" in the 1820 census) "sold land to brother Edward on 7 Feb 1826". Edward "sold his Greene county land to brother Richard on 21 Sep 1840". A Cattaraugus deed of 14 Jan 1839 "names John and wife Sally as selling land to Edward Fairchild". Whether the deeds themselves say "brother" is not stated.
• Rating: probable for both, and so for the second-cousin marriage. No single record names Jonathan as father. The children's names, the census, the administration and the deeds all fit together.

1.5 Jonathan of East Jewett = Jonathan b. 29 Aug 1744, Norwalk, son of Thomas and Ann: probable (compiled), with a conflict

• The Norwalk Jonathan [D, Norwalk records as abstracted]: "II. Jonathan Fairchild, b. at Norwalk, Conn., 29 Aug. 1744. He, and Ebenezer Fairchild, were witnesses to a deed from Thomas Fairchild, his father, to Abraham Fairchild, 18 Feb. 1779" (S. Whitney Phoenix, The Whitney Family of Connecticut (1878), vol. 1, children of Thomas and Ann Fairchild; https://archive.org/details/whitneyfamilyofc01phoe). Gilmore 1991, p. 27: "IA3-1-1 (1A) Jonathan b. 29 Aug 1744 Norwalk, CT. (1A)". (1A) is the Connecticut vital records.
• The identification [C]. Gilmore 2001, p. 57: "IA3-1-1 JONATHAN FAIRCHILD: b. 29 Aug 1744 Norwalk, CT. d. bef. 28 Feb 1815 Lexington, Greene Co., NY.; bur. Fairview Cem., Bridgewater, Oneida Co., NY. m. (1) Sarah Rich of Yonkers, NY. ca 1769 CT./NY.; b. 1751; d. 1787 perhaps Columbia Co., NY.... m. (2) Elizabeth Cooper ca 1787 prob. Dutchess or Columbia Co., NY." Gilmore 2001, p. 59: "The 'Hartford Times' (CT.) query of 31 May 1944 gives Jonathan born 29 Aug 1744 Norwalk, CT. and says he had a brother Ezekial... Of Thomas' verified and probable sons, Jonathan settled across the Hudson River in Greene Co., NY., John settled on the eastern side of the river in Columbia Co., NY."
• For it [I]: Thomas's family moved to Bedford, Westchester Co. Jonathan's first wife was "of Yonkers", also Westchester. His brother John (b. 1747; Revolutionary pension S10641) went to Columbia County, where Jonathan was living in 1790 (Kinderhook) and where his son Benjamin was born (Chatham). Gilmore suggests Ezekiel's wife may also have been a Rich.
• Against: Gilmore 1991, p. 80: "Also buried in that cemetery is a Jonathan Fairchild who died 1815 in Livingston [sic; read Lexington?], Herkimer county, age 66, along with his wife Sarah Rich, who died 1787, age 36. (4)(190)... There is a difference of five years in the births of these two according to Norwalk, CT. vital records for one and the Oneida county cemetery records for the other." EKVG independently gives "b. about 1751". The stone was very probably set up by his daughter Ann Page, who is buried there (d. 1872), so the age may be a later family estimate [I]. It is still the only evidence of his age. Find a Grave memorial 19838480 has a photograph (not reachable from here).
• Rating: probable (compiled only), flagged. The archive page already has the parents as compiled and probable. Keep it so, and add the age conflict under Open questions.

1.6 Thomas Fairchild (b. 1718) → Jonathan Fairchild (1692) and Eleanor Whitney: probable [C, from records]

• Phoenix (1878), vol. 1, "Chil. of Jonathan and Eleanor (Whitney) Fairchild": "I. Thomas Fairchild, b. in Norwalk, Conn., 3 June, 1718; had a part of his father's estate in 1772, including 4 acres of land at New Dam Bogs, and a third of 15 acres at Toilsome, all in Norwalk; was of Bedford, N. Y., 18 Feb. 1779, at which time he sold land in Norwalk; married, as early as 1742, Ann ——, of whom nothing is known." The estate distribution of 1772 is the documentary link [D as abstracted].
• Jonathan's will: "His will, dated 2 June 1769, and proved 2 Dec. 1772, disposed of his home-lot, buildings, and fulling-mill, at the upper end of Norwalk, on Mill Brook" (Phoenix). Gilmore 1991 (IA3 entry, pp. 8-9) cites the Fairfield probate (8A): the will "names his widow and six children".

1.7 Thomas Fairchild (1718) and Ann → Ann is the daughter of Ephraim Raymond and Mary (Coley): probable [D + I]

• The will [D]: "I, Ephraim Raymond, Sr., of Bedford, Westchester County, 'being ill and not well in body.' I leave to my dearly beloved wife Mary my house and home lot and orchard during her widowhood... I leave to my eldest son Thadeus 5 shillings. To my 2d son Ephraim 5 shillings. To my 3d son Ebenezer all my land which I have on the north side of the highway... I leave to my 4th son Samuel all the land which I have on the south side of the highway... My son Ebenezer is to pay to my eldest daughter, Ann Fairchild, £20. My son Samuel is to pay to my 2d daughter, Mary Read, £20. I leave to my grandchild Sarah, 'that I brought up,' £10. I make Joseph Clark and Ephraim Raymond and my wife, executors. February 6, 1765. Witnesses, Jonathan Wescot, John Price, Joseph Clark. Proved, April 1, 1765." (Abstracts of Wills, vol. 6, Liber 25 p. 56, NYHS Collections for 1897, pp. 381-382, https://archive.org/details/collectionsofnewv30newy; also Pelletreau, Early Wills of Westchester County (1898), p. 212, no. 398, https://archive.org/details/earlywillsofwes00pell.)
• The inference [I]: Gilmore 1991, p. 27: "Ann Raymond must be his wife, as Ephraim Raymond's will... names a daughter Ann Fairchild and 'my grand-daughter Sarah that I brought up'. Sarah probably refers to Thomas' first-born child." Thomas and Ann's first child was Sarah, b. 14 Nov 1742, and Thomas was of Bedford by 1779. Phoenix (1878) did not know Ann's surname. Probable.
• Mary Coley [C]: "EPHRAIM RAYMOND (Samuel), married Mary Coley, baptized 5 December 1703... Ephraim Raymond died 1765 at Bedford... Mary (Coley) Raymond died December 1788, at Bedford" (Samuel E. Raymond, Raymond Genealogy, vol. I pt. I (1969), p. 61-62, citing Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield I:155; https://archive.org/details/rg-vol-1-drr-part-1). Knapp, Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp (1948), as snippet: "Mary Coley, bapt. Aug. 15, 1703, m. Ephraim Raymond", daughter of Samuel Coley of Fairfield. The baptism date conflicts. Probable (compiled).

1.8 Ephraim Raymond (d. 1765) → Samuel Raymond and Judith Palmer: probable [C]

• Samuel Raymond, Genealogies of the Raymond Families of New England (1886), p. 6: "Samuel 6, son of John 2, Norwalk, Conn., m. Apl. 1, 1696, Judith, dau. of Ephraim Palmer, of Greenwich, and had Samuel 12, b. May 7, 1697. John, b. Feb. 12, 1699... Ephraim, b. Sept. 9, 1701. Joshua 13, b. prob. abt.
  1702. Mary, b. abt. 1705, m. John Brown, May 6, 1729." (https://archive.org/details/genealogiesofray00raym). Hall's Norwalk records print "John Brown took to wife Mary Raymond, daughter of Mr. Samuel Raymond — marryed to her May 6, 1729" [D, Edwin Hall, Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk (1847)].
• That Ephraim of Bedford (d. 1765) is the Ephraim b. 1701 is the 1969 genealogy's identification [C]. It is reasonable: the only Ephraim of the right age in Norwalk, and his sons used the names Samuel and Ephraim.

1.9 Samuel Raymond (1673) → John Raymond and Mary Betts → Richard Raymond: probable / proven [C, D]

• Raymond (1886), pp. 4-5: "John 2, son of Richard 1, Norwalk... His father's will of 1676 gave all his lands in Norwalk 'unto those children which my son John already have, or may have, by Mary Raymond, his present wife.' He m., Dec. 10, 1664, Mary, dau. of Thomas Betts of Norwalk, and had John 5, b. Sept. 9, 1665. Samuel 6, b. July 7, 1673. Thomas 7, b. abt. 1678." A deed of 1699 runs "from John, Samuel, Thomas and Hannah Raymond to William Haynes". Samuel → John: probable [C].
• John → Richard: proven [D, as transcribed in the 1969 genealogy]. Richard's deed of gift (Norwalk Land Records I, 25 June 1676), and John's release as "John Raymond of Norwalk, son and heir of Richard Raymond late of Saybrook".

1.10 Jonathan Fairchild (1692) → Samuel Fairchild and Mary Wheeler: probable [C]

• Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Stratford (1886), Fairchild genealogy: "2. Samuel, son of Thomas Fairchild, m. Mary, dau. of Moses Wheeler. He died about 1704, and she m. 2d, Benjamin Beach, Sen." Children: Robert (1681, "to whom Moses Wheeler left property"), Samuel (1683), Edward, and "15. Jonathan" (https://archive.org/details/ahistoryoldtown00orcugoog).
• Gilmore 1991, IA3 entry (pp. 8-9): "Jonathan sold his Stratford land from Feb 1714 to 1715. He first bought land in Norwalk in 1717." His birth "10 Oct 1692 Stratford" comes from Phoenix. Probable. Lookup 15: the 1705 Fairfield distribution of Samuel's estate should name him.

1.11 Mary Wheeler (b. 1655) → Moses Wheeler of Stratford: proven [D, as transcribed]

• Moses Wheeler's will, 19 Feb 1689/90: "I give to my daughter Mary a brasse kettle holding ten or twelve Galons more or lesse. The abridgment of the martyr booke, and Mr Brookes his devices of sathan" (Fairfield Probate Records 1689-1701, p. 170). The distribution of 14 Apr 1719 gives a share "To... Mistress Mary (Yeal?)". The administrators in 1712/13 were "Nathan Wheeler and Samuel Fairchild" (Frank Farnsworth Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin (1915), vol. 2, pp. 95-97, https://archive.org/details/variousancestral02star). The children's list gives "Mary... Sept. 13, 1655; mar. 1, ___ Fairchild. 2, Dec. 5, 1705, Benjamin Beach... 3, Yeal (?)" (p. 97, citing Stratford Land Records). Gilmore has m. (3) Thomas Yale, 31 Jul 1716, Wallingford, and d. 17 Aug 1747, Wallingford.
• Moses Wheeler's wife: Orcutt calls her Miriam, sister of Joseph Hawley. Starr: "This may be correct, but the compiler of this article has thus far failed to find any evidence on the subject." Possible.

1.12 Samuel Fairchild (1640) → Thomas Fairchild of Stratford and a daughter of Robert Seabrook: probable [C, partly D]

• Gilmore 1991, p. 1: Thomas "d. 14 Dec 1670 Stratford, CT., age 60 (1A). m. (1) (prob. Emma) Seabrook (41A)... m. (2) Katherine Craig Dec 1662 London, England (Pre-nuptial agreement 22 Dec 1662)." Samuel "b. 31 Aug 1640" heads the children. Orcutt says Samuel was "Probably the first white child born in Stratford, Conn."
• The Seabrook descent is documented by Samuel's land record [D, as reported by Gilmore 1991, p. 3]: "On 10 Dec 1674 Samuel's lands were recorded. He had 12A received from his father 30 Dec 1668, land received by gift from his grandfather Seabrook and land he had received in exchange with brother Thomas."
• The first name "Emma" is uncertain: "Various researchers offer the names of Emma or Faith as the wife of Thomas. Neither of these two names appear on the Tring parish records" (Gilmore 1991, p. xv, citing TAG 50:95-96). Jacobus (Old Fairfield I:523): "Emma born by 1620, married by 1639... her husband probably being Thomas Fairchild."

1.13 Nancy Woodworth (1808) → Lemuel Woodworth and Lydia Winter: probable [C, with a reported deed]

• Gilmore 1991, p. 183: Richard and Nancy "are of town of Windham when they are named with other heirs of Lemuel Woodworth, including Julius and Jonathan Fairchild, on an indenture of 1 Apr 1846, selling land in town of Hunter, which was real estate of Lemuel Woodworth, deceased (41B)." Julius and Jonathan were sons of Henry Fairchild and Hannah Woodworth (Gilmore pp. 180-181), so Hannah too was probably Lemuel's daughter [I].
• EKVG: "Nancy Woodworth b. 5 Feb. 1809, East Jewett, d. Iowa, dau. of Lemuel and Lydia (Winter) Woodworth (IV 1)". Their stone (plot IV 1): "LEMUEL WOODWORTH b. 1778 d. 1845 / Lydia Winter, his wife, b. 1773 d. 1845 'They were lovely and pleasant in this life and in their death [they were not divided]'" (2 Samuel 1:23).
• EKVG on their coming: "In 1806 Lemuel and Lydia, with her bro. and his sister, Matthew and Anna (Woodworth) Winter (O. C. 1, 2) and their families, came from Scott's Patent, in Schoharie Co. or nearby in Albany Co. and settled in East Jewett". Jonathan Fairchild's son Henry was born at "Scott's Patent" in 1791, so the three families had been neighbours before East Jewett [I].
• Beers (1884) prints an early town list (heading not seen) with "Benjamin Fairchild 4, Lemuel Woodworth 9... Jonathan Fairchild 8, John Beach 2, Matthew Winter 11, Joseph Chatterton 5, Rogers Winter 5" [D, as printed].

1.14 Lemuel Woodworth (b. 1772) → Lemuel Woodworth (b. 1735) and Elizabeth Hunt → Joseph → Joseph → Joseph and Sarah Stockbridge → Walter Woodworth: probable, step by step [C]

William Atwater Woodworth, Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass.: Records (1898), https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_b-pfAAAAMAAJ:

• "4114 LEMUEL, b at Lebanon, Ct, June 25, 1735. m Oct 10, 1757, Elizabeth Hunt. Children— 1 Joseph, b May 29, 1758. 2 Benjamin, b Jan. 1, 1760. Mary, b Oct 21, 1762. Elizabeth, b Feb. 6, 1765. Lydia, b Dec. 17. 1767. Sarah, b Feb. 2, 1770. 3 Lemuel, b July 15, 1772. 4 John, b Feb. 23, 1776. Ann, b Aug.
  13. 1780." (pp. 69-70.)
• "41143 LEMUEL, b at Lebanon, Ct.. July 15, 1772, moved to Greene Co., N. Y., among the Catskill Mountains; his sons are said to have gone to New York City."
• EKVG independently: "Born in Lebanon, Conn., he was the son of Lemuel b. 25 Jun. 1735, Lebanon, Conn." It also names "Anna's (O.C. 2) brother Joseph, a soldier of the Revolution b. Lebanon". Anna (Woodworth) Winter's stone date "13 [Aug?]" matches the 1898 "Ann, b Aug. 13. 1780". Lemuel (1772) → Lemuel (1735): probable. The stone's "b. 1778" conflicts with 1772.
• "JOSEPH, b at Little Compton, R. I., March 17. 1696, m Ann Manchester Oct. 17. 1723. moved to Lebanon, Ct., 1734. Children— 1 Abner... 2 Walter, b 1731. 3 Zebedee, b 1733. 4 Lemuel, b June 25, 1735."
• "JOSEPH, b at Scituate March 19, 1670, m 1694, and moved to Little Compton, R. I., where his two children were born. He afterward moved to Lebanon, Ct., where he owned lands, in 1739, as appears from the record of a deed by him to his sons."
• "4 JOSEPH, son of Walter, Sr., b at Scituate, m Sarah, daughter of Charles Stockbridge, who kept the mill at Scituate, Jan. 6, 1669." Conflict: Deane, History of Scituate (1831), p. 342, under John Stockbridge, has Sarah b. 1645 as John's daughter by his second wife, widow Elizabeth Soan, "(wife of Joseph Woodworth 1669)". But Deane's own Woodworth sketch (p. 392) says "daughter of Charles Stockbridge". Charles was born before 1638, so a daughter married in 1669 is less likely. Sarah was probably John Stockbridge's daughter and Charles's half-sister [I, possible].
• Walter Woodworth → Joseph: Deane p. 391, "from incidental records we find Benjamin, Walter, Thomas, Joseph, Mary..." [C].

1.15 Lydia Winter → ?: unknown

EKVG: "Matthew was the son of Moses (?) Winter and brother of Lydia (IV 1), Rogers (XII 1), David, and George". The query mark is EKVG's. The archive's "Lydia Hannah Winter... of New London" has no source found. Leave the parents out.

1.16 Jonathan's wife Elizabeth (mother of Richard and John): "Elizabeth", proven only as a first name in compiled sources

• Gilmore 1991, p. 80: "Through correspondence and from Mr. Plume's Fairchild genealogy (235) it was learned that the wife of Jonathan was Elizabeth Cooper... yet 'Elizabeth' is head of family on the 1820 NY. census. Were both wives named Elizabeth?" Gilmore 2001 resolves this: the first wife was Sarah Rich.
• EKVG: "About 1787 Jonathan Fairchild m. 2nd. Elizabeth Cooper, said to have been a relative of James Fenimore Cooper. They had eight children: (1) Benjamin b. 9 Sep. 1789 m. Jemima Demarees..." [C/T].
• Gilmore 2001, p. 57: "An Elizabeth Cooper was bpt. 3 Apr 1771 in Christ Church in Rye, Westchester Co., NY. d/o Ebenezer & Priscilla (Smith) Cooper. It is not known if this is the wife of Jonathan Fairchild." Cooper surname: possible. Her parents: unknown.

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2. Notable-ancestor material

Each entry notes whether it depends on the doubtful Jonathan link.

Jonathan Fairchild of East Jewett (d. by Feb 1815), Frances's 4th great-grandfather twice over (no dependency)

• A tanner. Gilmore 1991, p. 80: "Jonathan built the first tannery in Greene county, NY. (6)". Her source (6) is private correspondence, so this is family information [C/T]. EKVG: "a tanner who had lived in Scott's Patent, possibly the section in Cairo, before settling in East Jewett about 1800. A piece of fieldstone with the initials J. F. may mark his grave in this Old Cemetery."
• Two families, sixteen children: seven by Sarah Rich (m. c. 1769-72, d. 1785 or 1787) and nine by Elizabeth (Gilmore 2001). Through two of the youngest, Richard and John, he is twice Florence McMillan's ancestor. A family stone 150 miles away, at Bridgewater, Oneida Co., names him with his first wife beside their daughter Ann Page.

Thomas Fairchild of Stratford (c. 1610-1670), 8th great-grandfather twice over (depends on the Jonathan link)

• Among the first settlers of Stratford in 1638/9. "He was a Deputy from Stratford to the General Court and served eleven sessions from Apr 1646 to Oct 1665" (Gilmore 1991, p. 1, from Wilcoxson's History of Stratford) [C].
• Widowed, he went back to London to remarry. Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut II:199, note, as quoted by Gilmore: "A copy of marriage contract between Thomas Fairchild of Stratford, merchant, and Catherine Craigg, a sister of Elizabeth Whiting, widow of London, Executed in England December 22, 1662." The bond gave her "a sum of 200 pounds to be paid to her if he died before arrival in New England" (Gilmore pp. 1-2) [C, citing D].
• His son Samuel, b. 31 Aug 1640, was "Probably the first white child born in Stratford" (Orcutt) [C].

Moses Wheeler of Stratford (d. 1698), ferryman, 8th great-grandfather twice over (depends on the Jonathan link)

• On 18 May 1648 the General Court recorded: "The motion made by Mr. Ludlowe, concerneing Moses Wheeler for the keepeing the Ferry att Stratford, is referred to such as shall keepe the next Courte att Fayerfield" (Col. Rec. Conn. 1:163, quoted in Starr 1915, vol. 2, p. 91) [D].
• His 1670 lease of "ye ferry over ye River called pag[as]sett River commonly called Strattford ferry", to "Moses Wheeler, 'Ship Carpenter'": he was "to keep in repayr two Boats ye one to be called ye house boat, ye other to be called ye sciffe", charging "two pence p passonage, and four pence a horse or beast", but inhabitants of Stratford "one half penny p p[er]son, and two pence p horse or beast" (Stratford Land Records I, new p. 453; Starr pp. 92-93) [D].
• 12 Apr 1659: "Moses Wheeler, Ferryman" bought land from the Indians at Pagassett (Derby) for "five pownd and one Girdell" (Starr p. 93) [D].
• His will left his daughter Mary (Frances's ancestor) "a brasse kettle... The abridgment of the martyr booke, and Mr Brookes his devices of sathan": an abridged Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Thomas Brooks's Precious Remedies against Satan's Devices [D; the identification of the books is I].
• His gravestone in Stratford gave "the date of his death as January 15, 1698, at the advanced age of one hundred years" (Starr p. 95, from Orcutt p. 236) [C].

Richard Raymond (c. 1602-1692), mariner of Salem, Norwalk and Saybrook, 9th great-grandfather twice over (depends on the Jonathan link and the Raymond links)

• Freeman of Massachusetts 14 May 1634. On 2 Jan 1636 Salem granted him half an acre "at Winter Harbor (now known as Winter Island in Salem harbor), 'for fishing trade and to build upon'". In 1660 he sold a quarter of "the good Ketch called the Hopewell of Salem, of the burthen of thirty tons" (Raymond 1886, p. 4) [C].
• At the New Haven Court of Magistrates, 15 Feb 1659/60, "Richard Raymond, of Salem... entred an action of molestation against Captaine John Penny... concerning a vessell, (called the Black Eagle,) and goods, seized by the said captaine on the 7th of December last" (Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, 1653-1665 (1858), pp. 327 ff., https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo00newh) [D].
• At the town court of March 1659/60 he was called because "its comonly reported that he was drunke aboard ye shipp". He "confessed yt he was exceedingly distempered, but withall alleadged & desired that it might be considered that he was very cold at that time, & his head weake, & haveing seuerall sorts of liquors was ouercome by it... who had abused his good blessings too much to gluttony, drunkenesse, & pride". The court "did not looke vpon him as a common drunkerd", and he was fined 10s (New Haven Town Records 1649-1662 (1917), pp. 442-443, https://archive.org/details/newhaventownreco01newh) [D]. In another case a witness admitted that "once Mr Raymonds sonne bringing cards to his house, they two with two more playd at Cards" (p. 494) [D].
• On 2 Jan 1690 at New London he sold his Saybrook house to his son Daniel, on condition "that in case that I Richard Raymond should desire to live in Saybrook then my son Daniell shall be obliged to receive me into the house and provide suitably for my comfort" (Raymond Genealogy 1969, transcribing Saybrook land records) [D as transcribed]. He died at Saybrook in 1692, "ae. abt. 90" (Raymond 1886).

Ephraim Raymond of Bedford (c. 1701-1765), 6th great-grandfather (depends on the Jonathan link)

• His will of 6 Feb 1765, made "being ill and not well in body", provided for "my grandchild Sarah, 'that I brought up'", probably Thomas and Ann Fairchild's eldest daughter [D; the identification is I]. His son Ephraim was "2d Lt. of militia, 1775" at Bedford (Raymond 1886, p. 9) [C].

Walter Woodworth of Scituate (fl. 1635-1676), 9th great-grandfather (does not depend on the Jonathan link)

• "To WALTER WOODWORTH in 1635 was assigned the third lot on Kent street, which runs along the ocean front, at the corner of Meeting-house lane" (Woodworth Records 1898, p. 6) [C]. When his neighbour Japhet Turner "in 1661 pulled down WALTER'S fence and obliterated his boundary lines, WALTER promptly sued him and obtained a verdict for £5 and costs" (p. 7) [C].
• The only witchcraft indictment in Plymouth Colony concerned his daughter. At the court of 6 March 1676/7: "Mary Ingham: thou art indited by the name of Mary Ingham, the wife of Thomas Ingham, of the towne of Scittuate... for that thou... hast, by the healp of the diuill, in a way of witchcraft or sorcery, malliciously procured much hurt, mischeiffe, and paine vnto the body of Mehittable Woodworth, the daughter of Walter Woodworth, of Scittuate aforsaid, and some others, and pticularly causing her, the said Mehittable, to fall into violent fitts... soe as shee... hath bin almost bereaued of her sences... and the procuring of great greiffe, sorrow, and charge to her parents". A jury of twelve found her "not guilty" (Records of the Colony of New Plymouth 5:223-224, https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo05newp) [D]. Deetz and Deetz, The Times of Their Lives (2000), call it the only case "indicted for witchcraft in Plymouth, as opposed to accused" [C].
• His son Benjamin was killed in King Philip's War: "Lands were assigned for his services, to Charles Stockbridge, for the use of Benjamin Woodworth's family 1676" (Deane p. 391) [C, citing PCR].

John Stockbridge (d. 1657), wheelwright, the Stockbridge mill and garrison: 9th great-grandfather, possible (see 1.14)

• "In 1650, John Stockbridge erected a water grist mill on the first Herring brook. It became the property of his son Charles at his decease in 1657" (Deane p. 16). Before 1660 "he built the Stockbridge Mansion-house... probably the oldest house in New-England, save one... It was a garrison in Philip's war, and the port-holes may be traced in the back part of the house, even now" (Deane p. 342) [C].
• On 20 May 1676 the attackers "hastened forward to attack the principal garrison at Charles Stockbridge's... The garrison house of Stockbridge was pallisadoed on three sides, the fourth being defended by the mill pond... Here the Indians fought several hours, made many efforts to fire the buildings" (Deane pp. 124-125) [C]. See Small world 4.1.

Lemuel and Lydia (Winter) Woodworth (d. 1845), 4th great-grandparents (no dependency)

• They came to East Jewett in 1806 with her brother and his sister, Matthew and Anna (Woodworth) Winter: a double brother-and-sister marriage between the two families. They died the same year and share a stone: "They were lovely and pleasant in this life and in their death [they were not divided]" (EKVG) [C]. Lemuel's brother Joseph (b. 1758) "Served in the Revolutionary War and was at the battle of Bunker's Hill" (Woodworth Records 1898, p. 70) [C].

Josiah Clawson of Hunter, 4th great-grandfather (no dependency; parentage of Catherine probable)

• "a new and poor comer... a hard-working, sterling-hearted man", who settled in Hunter about 1812 with "The flint-lock musket that the elder Clawson brought with him from Claverack" (Beers 1884) [C].

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3. Famous kin

None of these is already in connections/famous-kin.yaml. The only Raymonds there (the Dawes line) are the Beverly Raymonds, a separate family (see 8). Relationships are computed from the generations above. Frances descends from Jonathan of East Jewett through two of his sons, so every relationship through Jonathan holds twice over, at the same degree.

Frances's side, common to the Fairchild-Raymond entries: Frances ← Lucile McMillan ← Florence Frost ← George W. Frost / Lucy Ellen Bell ← Elizabeth Fairchild (Elizabeth Fairchild) / Adeline Fairchild (Adeline Asenath Fairchild) ← Richard C. Fairchild (Richard C. Fairchild) / John Fairchild (John Fairchild) ← Jonathan Fairchild (Jonathan Fairchild) ← Thomas Fairchild (1718) and Ann Raymond ← [above].

3.1 Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896): public. Possible on the site (depends on 1.4-1.5)

• Tenth Governor of Wisconsin (1866-1872), Union colonel who lost an arm at Gettysburg, and U.S. Minister to Spain (Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Fairchild).
• Shared ancestors: Samuel Fairchild (1640-1704/5) and Mary Wheeler (1655-1747). Full kin.
• His line: Samuel Fairchild (c. 1682/3-1761, of Redding; m. (2) Dinah Burwell) → Oliver (bpt. 28 Jun 1724, Stratford; d. 1815, Ellenville, N.Y.) → Sueton (b. c. 1756; of Granville, N.Y.) → Jairus Cassius (b. 27 Dec 1801, Granville) → Lucius (b. 27 Dec 1831, Kent, Ohio). Sources: Gilmore 1991, pp. 7, 20, 60-61 and the Lucius entry (IA1-4-3-2-1). Oliver → Sueton rests on a manuscript (The Wright Record) and Mormon records, so it is compiled and weak. Wikipedia names his parents Jairus C. Fairchild and Sally Blair.
• Frances's side: Samuel and Mary → Jonathan (1692) → Thomas (1718) → Jonathan (1744) → ...
• Fourth cousin, four times removed (twice over).

3.2 James Harris Fairchild (1817-1902), and his brothers: public. Possible on the site

• Third president of Oberlin College. His brothers George Thompson Fairchild (1838-1901), third president of Kansas State Agricultural College, and (Edward) Henry Fairchild (1815-1889), president of Berea College, "both... became college presidents" (Wikipedia, James Fairchild; George T. Fairchild).
• Shared ancestors: Samuel Fairchild and Mary Wheeler. Full kin.
• Their line: Edward Fairchild (b. 1685/6; m. 1710/1 Elizabeth Blakeman; of Newtown) → Moses (b. 1 Oct 1723; of Sheffield, Mass., by 1750) → Daniel (b. 4 May 1762) → Grandison (b. 20 Apr 1792, Sheffield; m. Nancy Harris) → James Harris (b. 25 Nov 1817, Stockbridge, Mass.) and his brothers (Gilmore 1991, pp. 8, 26, 170-171). Wikipedia confirms that Grandison was their father.
• Fourth cousins, four times removed (twice over).

3.3 David Fairchild (1869-1954): science. Possible on the site

• Botanist and plant explorer. He introduced "more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties", among them soybeans, pistachios, mangos and flowering cherries (Wikipedia). He married Marian Bell, daughter of Alexander Graham Bell (Gilmore 1991, IA2-3-4-1-4 family).
• Shared ancestors and line: as 3.2, then George Thompson Fairchild → David Grandison (b. 7 Apr 1869, East Lansing).
• Fifth cousin, three times removed (twice over).

3.4 Charles S. Fairchild (1842-1924): public. Possible on the site

• U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1887-1889) and Attorney General of New York (Wikipedia).
• Shared ancestors: Thomas Fairchild (d. 1670) and his first wife, a daughter of Robert Seabrook. Full kin.
• His line: Zechariah Fairchild (b. 14 Dec 1651; m. Hannah Beach) → Zachariah (b. 21 Nov 1701) → David (b. 6 May 1734, Morris Co., N.J.) → Abijah (b. 2 Sep 1758) → John Flavel (b. 18 May 1786, Morristown) → Sidney Thompson (b. 15 Nov 1808, Norwich, N.Y.) → Charles Stebbins (b. 30 Apr 1842, Cazenovia) (Gilmore 1991, pp. 1, 5, and the IC5 entries including p. 472). Wikipedia confirms his father, Sidney Thompson Fairchild.
• Sixth cousin, three times removed (twice over).

3.5 George W. Fairchild (1854-1924) and Sherman Fairchild (1896-1971): public / science. Possible, weaker

• George Winthrop Fairchild: six-term congressman, and chairman of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (later IBM) from 1915 to 1924. His only child, Sherman Mills Fairchild, founded Fairchild Aviation and Fairchild Camera and Instrument, whose semiconductor division "played a defining role in Silicon Valley" (Wikipedia).
• Shared ancestors: Thomas Fairchild and his first (Seabrook) wife. Full kin.
• Their line: Thomas Fairchild (b. 21 Feb 1645; of Woodbury) → Alexander (b. Feb 1680/1) → Alexander (bpt. 2 Jul 1704; m. Mary Mallory) → Jesse → Silas (bpt. 19 Dec 1773, New Fairfield) → Jesse (b. c. 1809, Bainbridge; of Oneonta) → George Winthrop (b. 6 May 1854, Oneonta) → Sherman (Gilmore 1991, pp. 3, 34-35, 386-387). Gilmore herself is unsure whether Silas is Jesse's son ("this is the same Silas b. 1763?"). Wikipedia confirms George's parents as Jesse and Belle Fairchild.
• George W.: sixth cousin, three times removed. Sherman: seventh cousin, twice removed. Both twice over.

3.6 Commodores Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819) and Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858): public. Possible on the site

• Oliver Hazard Perry won the Battle of Lake Erie. Matthew Calbraith Perry led the expedition that opened Japan (Wikipedia: "the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and Captain Christopher Raymond Perry").
• Shared ancestors: Richard Raymond and his wife Judith. Full kin, if John Raymond was Judith's son; his birth is not in the Salem records.
• Their line: Joshua Raymond (bapt. 3 Mar 1639, Salem; of New London; m. Elizabeth Smith) → Joshua (b. 18 Sep 1660; of Block Island; m. Mercy Sands) → Joshua (m. 1719 Elizabeth Christophers; of Montville) → Elizabeth (b. 24 Apr 1720; m. Oliver Hazard of South Kingstown) → [Mercy] Hazard, m. Freeman Perry → Christopher Raymond Perry (1761-1818) → the Commodores. Raymond 1886, pp. 5, 8-9: "a dau. m. Freeman Perry, whose 3d son, Christopher Raymond Perry, was the father of Commodores Oliver H. and Matthew C. Perry." The Hazard daughter is not named in the 1886 text.
• Frances's side: Richard → John Raymond (m. Mary Betts) → Samuel (1673) → Ephraim → Ann → Jonathan (1744) → ...
• Sixth cousins, four times removed (twice over).

3.7 Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820-1869): writers. Possible on the site

• Founder of the New York Times. Raymond 1886, p. 100: "established N. Y. Times... Speaker State Assembly, 1851... elected member of Congress, 1864... Lt. Governor N. York, 1855-57".
• Shared ancestors: Samuel Raymond (1673) and Judith Palmer. Full kin.
• His line: Joshua Raymond (b. c. 1702; m. 17 May 1721 Elizabeth Fitch; will 31 Aug 1752 naming sons "James Jr., John Jr., Uriah") → Uriah (b. "said to have been" 8 Jan 1746; of North East, Putnam Co.; m. Sarah Paddock) → Jonathan Paddock (b. 27 Jul 1773) → Jarvis (b. 1797) → Henry Jarvis (b. 24 Jan 1820, Lima, N.Y.) (Raymond 1886, entries Joshua 13, Uriah 53, Jonathan P. 146, Jarvis 319 and Henry J. 493, pp. 100-101. Raymond 1969, pp. 62-63, cites Fairfield Probate 16:198 for Joshua's will). The 1886 book says Uriah was only "said to have been the son of Joshua"; the will makes it probable.
• Fourth cousin, four times removed (twice over).

3.8 Samuel Woodworth (1784-1842): writers. Probable; does not depend on the Jonathan link

• Author of "The Old Oaken Bucket". Deane (1831, p. 392) calls him "the well known Editor and Poet at New York".
• Shared ancestor: Walter Woodworth of Scituate. His wife or wives are unknown, so whether this is full or half kinship cannot be told.
• His line, per Deane p. 391: Benjamin Woodworth (killed in King Philip's War) → Robert (b. 1660) → James (b. 1709; m. 1731 Sarah Soper) → James (b. 1731; m. 1749 Mary Vinal) → Benjamin (b. 1758) → Samuel (b. 1784). The Woodworth Records (1898, pp. 8-9) run instead Robert → Benjamin (1690) → Benjamin (1717) → Benjamin (1750) → Samuel. They note "Dean... says this Benjamin was the son of JAMES 1131". Both versions give the same number of generations.
• Frances's side: Walter → Joseph (m. 1669 Sarah Stockbridge) → Joseph (1670) → Joseph (1696) → Lemuel (1735) → Lemuel (1772) → Nancy (Nancy Woodworth) → Elizabeth Fairchild → George W. Frost → Florence → Lucile → Frances.
• Fifth cousin, five times removed. He was born at Scituate, beside the mill: Walter's land lay "on the first Herring brook 30 rods below Stockbridge's mill", where the poet's house later stood (Woodworth Records 1898, p. 6). His grandmother was a Vinal (see 4.2).

Candidates not pursued: descendants of Moses Wheeler, Henry Whitney or the Seabrook sisters (Preston, Sherwood). Nothing Wikipedia-level was found on a checked line.

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4. Small world

4.1 Scituate, 20 May 1676: the Holbrook side and the Frost side in one fight (no dependency on the Jonathan link)

The archive already has Lt. Isaac Buck (Isaac Buck), Frances's ancestor through Sarah Chittenden and the Holbrooks. Deane (p. 127): "Lieut. Buck had mustered all the men below". The attackers' main object was "the principal garrison at Charles Stockbridge's", the mill house built by John Stockbridge. Frances's Woodworth line descends from that family through Sarah Stockbridge, wife of Joseph Woodworth (see 1.14 for which Stockbridge was her father). The list of men allowed land for the war (Deane pp. 128-129) has, a few lines apart: "Lieut. Isaac Buck, 10.00.00 ... Charles Stockbridge for Benj. Woodworth, 07.09.07". Benjamin Woodworth, Frances's 9th great-granduncle, had been killed in the war. Probable (compiled).

4.2 Two Scituate marriages across Frances's family, a generation later (in-law links, not blood)

• "Thomas, son of Stephen [Chittenden], married Elizabeth Woodworth 1707" (Deane p. 232). Thomas was the brother of Sarah Chittenden (Sarah Chittenden), Frances's Holbrook-line ancestress. Elizabeth was a daughter of Benjamin Woodworth and a granddaughter of Walter, Frances's Frost-line ancestor.
• "Stephen, jr. [Vinal]... married Mary Woodworth 1704" (Deane p. 365). Stephen was the nephew of Martha (Vinall) Chittenden (Martha Vinall). Mary (b. 1673) was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Stockbridge) Woodworth and the sister of Frances's ancestor Joseph Woodworth (b. 1670).
• Samuel Woodworth the poet's grandmother was "Mary Vinal" (m. 1749). If she descends from the widow Anna Vinall, the poet is Frances's kin on her Holbrook side as well. Not checked: possible.

4.3 The 1677 witchcraft jury

The twelve jurors who acquitted Mary Ingham of bewitching Walter Woodworth's daughter included "Joseph Bartlett" and "John Howland" (PCR 5:224). They were very probably Joseph Bartlett (Joseph Bartlett), son of Robert Bartlett and Mary Warren, and John Howland Jr., son of the Mayflower John Howland and brother of Isaac Howland. Both are close kin of Frances's Plymouth ancestors on the Holbrook side [identification I, probable].

4.4 The Fairchild brothers and the Woodworth-Winter cousins

Three of Jonathan's sons married into one interlocked family. Richard married Nancy Woodworth. Henry married Hannah Woodworth, probably Nancy's sister (her sons were Lemuel's heirs in 1846). Edward married Sally Winter (b. 1801), daughter of Matthew Winter and Anna Woodworth (EKVG: "(4) Sally b. 1801, who m. Edward Fairchild, son of Jonathan"). Because Sally's father was Lydia Winter's brother and her mother was Lemuel Woodworth's sister, Sally and Nancy were double first cousins. Two generations later Richard's grandson married John's granddaughter. All three families came from Scott's Patent (EKVG; Gilmore). Probable (compiled).

4.5 The Feake goldsmiths of Lombard Street, possibly on both sides of George W. Frost

• The archive's Frost line descends "three ways" from Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones (master file).
• Lechford's notebook records a power of attorney dated 5.10.1639: "Lieuten't Robert Feke of Waterton... and Sargeant William Palmer of Yarmouth... & Judith his wife, and Tobyas Feke aged 17 sonne & Daughter of James Feke, late of London goldsmith Deceased", to sell "one tenement or house & shopp in Lumbard street London held of the Company of Goldsmiths" (Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford (1885), pp. 219-220, https://archive.org/details/notebookkeptbyth00lech) [D].
• Judith (Feake) Palmer's son Ephraim Palmer of Greenwich was the father of Judith Palmer, wife of Samuel Raymond (Raymond 1886; Olar, The Palmer Genealogy, https://archive.org/details/the-palmer-genealogy) [C]. Judith's father James was Robert Feake's brother (McCracken, NYGBR 86, 1955, as cited) [C].
• If all of this holds, George W. Frost descended from Robert Feake's parents, James Feake and Judith Thomas, through both his Frost father and his Fairchild mother. Lucy Bell descended from them through the Fairchilds. This rests on the Jonathan link and about six compiled steps: possible, a footnote at most.

4.6 Smaller coincidences

• Lucius Fairchild (3.1) was Governor of Wisconsin when John Fairchild died at Heart Prairie, Walworth Co., in February 1867. Lucius's father Jairus was the first mayor of Madison. No contact between the families is known.
• Richard Raymond's Salem house lot (1649-1661) lay on the waterfront opposite where Derby Wharf now is (Raymond Genealogy 1969, citing Perley). That is the town of the Ellingwoods' early records.
• Gilmore 2001 notes that Thomas Fairchild's son Ezekiel may also have married a Rich, as his brother Jonathan did.

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5. Proposed new pages (probable or better)

Dates are as the source gives them. All are compiled unless marked.

Woodworth line (independent of the Jonathan link)

• Lemuel Woodworth: Lemuel Woodworth, male. Born 15 Jul 1772, Lebanon, Conn. [C, Woodworth Records 1898, p. 70; EKVG's stone has "b. 1778": note it]. Died 1845, East Jewett, Greene Co., N.Y. [C, EKVG, gravestone]. Father Lemuel Woodworth, mother Elizabeth Hunt [C, probable]. Spouse: Lydia Winter (Lydia Winter); marriage date not found. Moved to East Jewett from Scott's Patent in 1806 [C, EKVG]. Replaces the name-only father on Nancy Woodworth. Drop the middle initial "G." (no source seen). Nancy's link to him: probable [C; 1846 heirs' deed as reported by Gilmore 1991, p. 183].
• Lydia Winter: Lydia Winter, female. Born 1773; died 1845 [C, EKVG, gravestone]. Parents unknown; EKVG's "Moses (?) Winter" goes under Open questions. Brother Matthew Winter (b. 21 Aug 1773, d. 3 Mar 1844) [C, EKVG].
• Lemuel Woodworth: Lemuel Woodworth, male. Born 25 Jun 1735, Lebanon, Conn.; married 10 Oct 1757 Elizabeth Hunt [C, Woodworth Records 1898, p. 69]. Father Joseph Woodworth, mother Ann Manchester [C, probable].
• Joseph Woodworth: Joseph Woodworth, male. Born 17 Mar 1696, Little Compton, R.I. (Little Compton records, per Woodworth Records); married 17 Oct 1723 Ann Manchester; moved to Lebanon, Conn., 1734 [C]. Father Joseph Woodworth [C, probable].
• Joseph Woodworth: Joseph Woodworth, male. Born 19 Mar 1670, Scituate [C; Scituate VR should have it, Lookup 9]; married 1694; at Little Compton, then Lebanon, where he deeded land to his sons in 1739 [C]. Parents Joseph Woodworth and Sarah Stockbridge [C, probable].
• Joseph Woodworth: Joseph Woodworth, male. Son of Walter; married Sarah Stockbridge, 6 Jan 1669 (Woodworth Records) or 1669 (Deane p. 392), Scituate; "a shop-keeper" (Deane p. 342) [C].
• Walter Woodworth: Walter Woodworth, male. At Scituate 1635, third lot on Kent Street; freeman 1640/41 [C, Deane p. 391; Woodworth Records pp. 6-7]. Wife unknown. Daughter Mehitable the subject of the 1676/7 indictment [D, PCR 5:223-224].
• Hold: Sarah Stockbridge, until her father (John or Charles) is settled.

Clawson

• Catherine Clawson: Catherine Clawson (Closson, Classon), female. Baptized 19 Jul 1807, Reformed Church, Claverack [D index, master file]. Died 29 Jul 1831, aged 27 yrs. 1 mo. 3 d., buried in the Old Cemetery, East Jewett [C, EKVG]. Spouse John Fairchild, probable [C, 1827 deed as reported]. Father Josiah (Isiah) Clawson [C, probable]. Mother of Adeline Asenath Fairchild, probable. Replaces the name-only mother on Adeline's page.
• Hold (possible): Josiah Clawson, Josiah Clawson of Claverack and Hunter, d. by 29 Oct 1827.

Fairchild and Raymond lines (all depend on the Jonathan link; give them its rating)

• Thomas Fairchild: Thomas Fairchild, male. Born 3 Jun 1718, Norwalk, Conn. [C from records, Phoenix 1878; Gilmore 1991, p. 27]. Of Bedford, Westchester Co., by 18 Feb 1779, when he sold Norwalk land [D as abstracted, Phoenix]. Death not found. Father Jonathan Fairchild, mother Eleanor Whitney [C, probable: 1772 estate distribution]. Spouse Ann Raymond, married by 1742 [C/I, probable]. Children recorded at Norwalk: Sarah 14 Nov 1742; Jonathan 29 Aug 1744; John 5 (or 15) Apr 1747; Mary 31 Jan 1748/9 [C, Phoenix; Gilmore].
• Ann Raymond: Ann Raymond, female. "My eldest daughter, Ann Fairchild" in her father's will of 6 Feb 1765 [D, NYHS Abstracts of Wills 6:381-382]. Father Ephraim Raymond [D], mother Mary Coley [C]. Identity as Thomas's wife: probable [I]. Leave out Gilmore's "b. ca 1720".
• Ephraim Raymond: Ephraim Raymond, male. Of Bedford; will dated 6 Feb 1765, proved 1 Apr 1765 [D]. Born 9 Sep 1701, Norwalk, as a son of Samuel and Judith (Palmer) Raymond [C, Raymond 1886, p. 6; identification probable]. Spouse Mary Coley [D for "Mary"; C for Coley].
• Mary Coley: Mary Coley, female. Wife Mary in the 1765 will [D]. Coley surname, and baptism at Fairfield 1703 (15 Aug per Knapp; 5 Dec per Raymond 1969, citing Jacobus Old Fairfield I:155: conflict) [C]. Died Dec 1788, Bedford [C, Raymond 1969, no source given: possible].
• Jonathan Fairchild: Jonathan Fairchild, male. Born 10 Oct 1692 (Phoenix; "Stratford" per Gilmore) [C]. Married 13 Jun 1717 Eleanor Whitney [C, Phoenix]. Fuller and cloth-dresser of Norwalk. Will 2 Jun 1769, proved 2 Dec 1772. Died 28 Nov 1772, Norwalk [C, Phoenix]. Parents Samuel Fairchild and Mary Wheeler [C, probable].
• Eleanor Whitney: Eleanor Whitney, female. Died 25 Jan 1777, Norwalk, "aged 81 years, 11 months, and 19 days". Phoenix computes from this a birth of 27 Jan 1693 O.S. / 6 Feb 1694 N.S.; note that it is computed [C]. Parents John Whitney and Elizabeth Smith of Norwalk [C, Gilmore citing Phoenix; probable, not checked here].
• Samuel Fairchild: Samuel Fairchild, male. Born 31 Aug 1640, Stratford [C from VR]. Died Jan 1704/5, Stratford [C, Jacobus via Gilmore]. A ship's carpenter (Gilmore). Spouse Mary Wheeler [D: Moses Wheeler's estate papers]. Father Thomas Fairchild [C], mother a daughter of Robert Seabrook [D as reported: the 1674 land record].
• Mary Wheeler: Mary Wheeler, female. Born 13 Sep 1655 [C, Starr 1915, p. 97, from Stratford land records]. Married (2) 5 Dec 1705 Benjamin Beach; (3) 31 Jul 1716 Thomas Yale, Wallingford [C]. Died 17 Aug 1747, Wallingford [C, Gilmore]. Father Moses Wheeler: proven [D, will and distribution as transcribed].
• Moses Wheeler: Moses Wheeler, male. Died 15 Jan 1698 [read 1697/8], Stratford, "at the advanced age of one hundred years" (gravestone per Orcutt) [C]. Will 19 Feb 1689/90; inventory 1 Mar 1697/8 [D]. Ship carpenter and ferryman. Wife: name unproven (Miriam per Orcutt: possible).
• Thomas Fairchild: Thomas Fairchild, male. Died 14 Dec 1670, Stratford, "age 60" [C, Gilmore from VR]. Married (1) ___ Seabrook, probably Emma, by 1639/40 [C/D]; (2) Katherine Craigg, London, marriage contract 22 Dec 1662 [D, Col. Rec. Conn. II:199 note as quoted]. Deputy, 1646-1665 [C].
• Samuel Raymond: Samuel Raymond, male. Born 7 Jul 1673 [C, Raymond 1886]. Married 1 Apr 1696 Judith, daughter of Ephraim Palmer of Greenwich [C]. Father john-raymond-fl1664 [C, probable].
• john-raymond-fl1664: John Raymond, male. Of Norwalk; married 10 Dec 1664 Mary, daughter of Thomas Betts [C]. "Son and heir of Richard Raymond late of Saybrook" [D as transcribed]. Father Richard Raymond: proven.
• Richard Raymond: Richard Raymond, male. Freeman 14 May 1634 [C/D]; of Salem, Norwalk (1662) and Saybrook (1664); died 1692 at Saybrook, "ae. abt. 90" [C]. Wife Judith [C/D: Salem church].
• Hold: Thomas Betts, Ephraim Palmer and Judith Feake, the Coleys, Prudden and Hyde, the Whitneys and Smiths, Robert Seabrook. All compiled only; none checked here beyond what is quoted above.

Changes to existing pages (suggested)

• Jonathan Fairchild: add the first wife Sarah Rich (m. c. 1769-72; d. 1785 or 1787) and the Bridgewater stone. Put the 66-vs-70 age conflict under Open questions. Change "d. c. 1815" to "d. before 28 Feb 1815 (administration bond)".
• Adeline Asenath Fairchild: father to probable; mother to Catherine Clawson (probable).

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6. Conflicts with the archive's pages

Page	Archive has	Found	Note
Jonathan Fairchild (text)	"Richard's granddaughter's son George W. Frost married John's granddaughter Lucy Bell"	George W. Frost was Richard's grandson (son of Richard's daughter Elizabeth)	Wording error.
Jonathan Fairchild	born 29 Aug 1744 Norwalk	Bridgewater stone "age 66" at death in 1815 (b. c. 1749); EKVG "b. about 1751"	Unresolved (1.5).
Jonathan Fairchild	died c. 1815, probably Lexington	administration bond 28 Feb 1815 (Gilmore 1991); EKVG "d. 20 Apr. 1815" is the inventory date; Gilmore 2001 "d. bef. 28 Feb 1815 Lexington"
Jonathan Fairchild	one spouse, "Elizabeth"	two wives: Sarah Rich (mother of the elder children) and Elizabeth (mother of Richard and John)
John Fairchild	born 16 Jan 1803	16 Jan 1802 (Gilmore 2001); "1802 (Plume) or 16 Jan 1807" (Gilmore 1991); 18 Jan 1803 (FS, master file)
John Fairchild	spouse Catherine Clawson, possible	probable (1827 heirs' deed as reported)
Adeline Asenath Fairchild	mother Catherine Clawson b. 26 Jun 1814, Canada, d. 2 Apr 1900, Heart Prairie	Catherine d. 29 Jul 1831 aged 27 yrs. 1 mo. 3 d. (stone, EKVG), so b. c. 26 Jun 1804; bapt. 1807 Claverack	The 1814 birth and 1900 death are disproven for her.
Adeline Asenath Fairchild	(marriage)	m. William H. Bell 8 Sep 1849 (Gilmore/Plume) or 1850 (EKVG)	In 1850 she was still "Fairchild" in Edward's household, which favours 1850.
Nancy Woodworth	born 12 Dec 1808	5 Feb 1809, East Jewett (EKVG); "ca 1808" (census)
Nancy Woodworth	father "Lemuel G. Woodworth", 1772-1845, of Lebanon	Lemuel, b. 15 Jul 1772, Lebanon (Woodworth Records 1898); stone "b. 1778 d. 1845"	No source for "G."
Nancy Woodworth	mother "Lydia Hannah Winter, 1773-1845, of New London"	stone "Lydia Winter... b. 1773 d. 1845"; family came from Scott's Patent; father "Moses (?) Winter"	"Hannah" and "New London" unsupported.
Richard C. Fairchild	marriage (in text) "July 1829"	3 Jul 1829, East Jewett (Gilmore/Plume); 13 Jul 1829 (FG p. 191)
Elizabeth Fairchild	born 21 Apr 1830; died 6 May 1889	1 Apr 1830 and 8 May 1889 (Gilmore 1991, p. 183); 21 Apr and 6 May (FG)	Already in the master file.
Elizabeth Fairchild / Gilmore	(marriage of Stephen G. Frost)	Gilmore: "27 May 1849 Nassau co., NY. (51)"; FG: Windham	The master file prefers Windham.

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7. Lookups (logins or a library needed)

1. The Bridgewater stone, Fairview Cemetery, Bridgewater, Oneida Co., N.Y. (Find a Grave 19838480, with photo; Gilmore's sources 4 and 190). The exact inscription and the age at death would settle, or sink, the identity of Jonathan of East Jewett with Jonathan b. 1744.
2. Greene County Surrogate, 1815: Jonathan Fairchild's administration (bond 28 Feb 1815, inventory 20 Apr 1815; letters to Henry). Any petition naming widow and heirs would prove the sons, Richard and John included. FamilySearch has the Greene County probate films.
3. Greene County deeds: the 29 Oct 1827 deed of the heirs of Isiah Classon; the 1 Apr 1846 indenture of Lemuel Woodworth's heirs; Henry to Edward (7 Feb 1826) and Edward to Richard (21 Sep 1840), to see whether they say "brother"; any deed by Jonathan's heirs. FamilySearch land records (login).
4. Revolutionary pension files of Jonathan's brothers John Fairchild (S10641) and Stephen (W1403) (Fold3 / FamilySearch, NARA M804). They may mention their brother Jonathan and the move to Columbia County. Also check whether Jonathan himself served (none found in Record of Service of Connecticut Men, 1889).
5. Norwalk vital records (Barbour Collection) and Norwalk church records, for Thomas Fairchild's children 1742-1749, the mother's name in the entries, and Thomas and Ann's marriage.
6. Plume's manuscript (FamilySearch Library), and the 1993 research by Delite Gaddie for Bryson Caldwell Cook (Gilmore 2001, p. 58). Whose evidence put Jonathan at Norwalk?
7. EKVG in full (library copy, or archive.org loan with a login). The whole O.C. 6 entry; the Winter and Woodworth plots (O.C. 1-2, IV 1); Matthew Winter's parentage.
8. Claverack Reformed Church baptism, 19 Jul 1807: Catherine's parents' names.
9. Lebanon, Conn. vital records (Barbour) for Lemuel Woodworth b. 15 Jul 1772 and the 1757 Woodworth and Hunt marriage. Scituate VR for Joseph Woodworth b. 19 Mar 1670 and the 1669 marriage, to fix Sarah Stockbridge's father.
10. 1850 census, Conewango, page images: the households of Edward and John Fairchild, and Adeline's place.
11. Adeline (Fairchild) Bell's obituary, St. Cloud or Elkhorn, March 1891: whether it names her father.
12. Fairfield probate: Samuel Fairchild's estate (1705) for son Jonathan; Jonathan's will (1769); Joshua Raymond's will (1752, Fairfield Probate 16:198) for son Uriah.
13. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield I:155 and I:523 (Coley and Seabrook), for Mary Coley's baptism and marriage and the Seabrook daughters.
14. McCracken, "The Feake Family of Norwalk, London & Colonial America," NYGBR 86-88 (1955-57), for whether Judith (Feake) Palmer's father James was Robert Feake's brother.
15. Beers, History of Greene County (1884), a full copy: the heading of the early list with Jonathan Fairchild, Lemuel Woodworth and Matthew Winter, and the Fairchild tannery in the Jewett chapter.

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8. Checked and ruled out

• Elizabeth Cooper of Rehoboth (Elizabeth Cooper), wife of Timothy Ide. Unrelated to Jonathan Fairchild's wife Elizabeth; she lived a century earlier.
• "A relative of James Fenimore Cooper" (EKVG) for Jonathan's wife: tradition, unsupported. The novelist's family were Quakers of Burlington, N.J., and Cooperstown.
• Jonathan Fairchild of Morristown, N.J. (b. 3 Nov 1751, son of Matthew; his widow Sarah married John Ball in 1816) and Jonathan Fairchild of Newtown (b. 2 Aug 1715, son of Edward): Unrelated namesakes (Gilmore 1991, pp. 8, 41).
• WikiTree's Jonathan (Fairchild-2508) combines the 1744 Norwalk birth with the Bridgewater burial and the date "20 Apr 1815". It cites only Gilmore and Find a Grave. Its "Thomas Elihud" for the father has no source.
• Gilmore 1991's "Adeline b. ca 1829" under Edward: the 1850 census entry of the same Adeline, not a second daughter [I].
• The Wheelers already in the archive (John Wheeler of Salisbury, Wilts., and Newbury, Mass.): Unrelated to Moses Wheeler of Stratford.
• Moses Wheeler's English origin and wealth ("an Englishman of considerable wealth", Americana,
  1909. and Miriam Hawley as his wife: unsupported (Starr found no evidence). WikiTree's Hawley-Booth parents for her, of Parwich, Derbyshire: unsupported.
• Thomas Fairchild's English origin (High Laver, Barnstaple, Orwell, Wendy cum Shingay): unproven; Gilmore could not verify Banks's claim. "Emma" Seabrook's English baptism: not in the Tring register.
• WikiTree's English ancestry of Thomas Betts (West Peckham, Kent) and Mary Bigge: not checked; held.
• The Beverly Raymonds (John and William, the line of connections "Charles G. Dawes" through Jonathan Raymond): not Richard Raymond's family. The 1886 genealogy guessed they were related; the 1969 genealogy cites the will of George Rayment of Glastonbury, Somerset (1651), naming "sons William and John in New England". So the Ellingwood side's Raymonds give no link to Frances's Raymonds.
• Elizabeth Raymond, said to have married Nathan Frost (Raymond 1969, p. 63): a Norwalk namesake, not the Oyster Bay Frosts of the archive (not checked further).
• Deyoes of Hunter, Greene Co. (Beers 1884): no link found to the archive's Deyoes of Saratoga (Jane Maria Deyoe).
• Tryphena Pomeroy (1815-1901), John Fairchild's third wife, who went to Utah in 1859 and was a pioneer of Woodruff: not an ancestor of Frances. Her Pomeroy line was not pursued.
• The Captain Kidd legend of Mercy (Sands) Raymond of Block Island (Raymond 1886, entry Joshua 8): she was on the Perry line (3.6), not Frances's line.

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Sources read

Primary records and printed transcripts [D]: Collections of the New-York Historical Society for 1897 (Abstracts of Wills vol. 6), pp. 381-382; Pelletreau, Early Wills of Westchester County (1898), p. 212; New Haven Town Records 1649-1662 (1917), pp. 442-443, 494; Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven 1653-1665 (1858), pp. 327 ff.; Records of the Colony of New Plymouth vol. 5, pp. 223-224; Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford (1885), pp. 219-220; Hall, Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk (1847); the will, lease and deed transcripts in Starr (1915).

Compiled [C]: Gilmore 1991 (pp. 1-8, 17, 20, 26-27, 34-35, 60-61, 78-81, 170-171, 180-183, 386-387, 472, bibliography pp. 587-593); Gilmore 2001 (pp. 57-59); Phoenix, Whitney Family of Connecticut (1878), vol. 1; S. Raymond, Genealogies of the Raymond Families (1886); S. E. Raymond, Raymond Genealogy vol. I pt. I (1969); Orcutt, History of Stratford (1886); Starr, Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin (1915), vol. 2, pp. 91-97; W. A. Woodworth, Descendants of Walter Woodworth (1898); Deane, History of Scituate (1831); EKVG (1974, snippets); Beers, History of Greene County (1884/1969, snippets); Olar, The Palmer Genealogy (2019); Knapp, Ancestral Lines of Mary Lenore Knapp (1948, snippets); Deetz and Deetz, The Times of Their Lives (2000, snippets); WikiTree (Fairchild-2508 and ancestors); Wikipedia (Lucius Fairchild, James Fairchild, George T. Fairchild, David Fairchild, Charles S. Fairchild, George W. Fairchild, Sherman Fairchild, Oliver Hazard Perry, Christopher Raymond Perry).

Searched without result: Record of Service of Connecticut Men (1889) for Jonathan Fairchild; Hall (1847) for Thomas Fairchild's marriage and children; Find a Grave and the Wayback Machine (not reachable from here); the heading of the Beers list.