Re: WILBUR, JEPTHA -- Dutchess County NY
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Re: WILBUR, JEPTHA -- Dutchess County NY
Charles G Lenhart 6/04/02
IGI has a marriage of Esek Wilbor to Maria Ellison in Milan, Dutchess 22 Oct. 1817.
There is an ancestral file that lists her as the second wife of Esek5(Esek4, Samuel3-2, William1) Wilbor b. 1761. It has Maria Ellison as born ca. 1809, which makes little sense.
One clue is that there was a noted Quaker preacher in the Little Nine Partners (in what is now Pine Plains) meeting in the 1820s named Thomas Ellison. He may be the father or brother of Maria, as this branch of the Wilbor family were Quakers at thetime. A "B.Wilbor," possibly Benjamin5(Esek4), lived in the far northwest corner of Pine Plains at Mt. Ross, which borders Milan, and Esek4's son-in-law Daniel6(Joshua5, Sarah4, Jeremiah3, Robert2, William1) Gifford lived there as well. There is a "Miss F. Wilbor" in the same neighborhood, I don't know who she is.
The wife of Esek4 is Rachel4(Enos3, Christopher2, William1) Gifford, she was from Little Compton, RI like her husband. Her paternal grandparents were ancestors of Lizzie Borden and Marilyn Monroe, who I guess were feminists of a sort, and her great-grandparents were ancestors of Winston Churchill (through his American mother, Jennie Jerome) and Gerald Ford. The 1780 will of Rachel's mother Phillis (Allen) Gifford mentions grandsons Samuel, Jeptha and Esek Wilbor.
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Re: WILBUR, JEPTHA -- Dutchess County NY
Charles G Lenhart 7/30/02
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Richard Gifford 8/01/02
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Re: WILBUR, JEPTHA -- Dutchess County NY