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Four Baird's were listed in the "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Schoharie County, N.Y. for 1872-3" as farmers, Albert, Charles E., Elam C., & George W. One of these is no doubt the father of Pamelia.
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She was born on the family farm which later became owned by Frank E. Dyer. Her obituary names her parents, including her mother's maiden name. Her obituary states she married 30 March 1848 but other references give the 29th. They lived on a large farm near Summit, NY, eventually to retire to Jefferson, NY, the next town south. After the death of her husband she lived with her only daughter, Cora, who owned the former Avery property in Jefferson.
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Bouton records that Calvin and Betsey came to Jefferson, NY, from Connecticut. The farm by the Old School Baptist Church (near Jefferson) was occupied first by Calvin, then by Seymour Dyer, and later by Seymour's son, Frank Dyer.
Calvin is listed in the "Gazetteer and Business Directory of Schoharie County, N.Y. for 1872-3" as a farmer. He would have been 73 yrs. old at that time
The following is from "Historical Sketch of the First Baptist Church of the Town of Summit" by Thomas Broxholm. Orginally printed in a publication called "Stars and Stripes", 1913, page 11: The house between the old church edifice and the old Hix homestead is at present occupied by Frank E. Dyer. His grandparents were Calvin Dyer and Mrs. Betsey Sherwood Dyer, early settlers of the town of Jefferson. According to the old records an Elizabeth (Betsy) Sherwood was baptized May 12, 1811 by Elder Winans and became a member of the first constituted Jefferson Baptist Church. This Elizabeth likely became the wife of Calvin. On the same day George Baker, Seamore Sherwood, Wm. Plank, Polly Gilbert and Mary Milks were baptized. Probably Mary Milks was the wife of Benjamin Milks who built the stone house, still standing and about half a mile west of the cemetery back of the church. Calvin Dyer was the father of Mrs. Adeline Dyer Gallup, who died in Jefferson Village Jan. 27, 1711 and who was born on the farm now occupied by Frank E. Dyer. Adaline Dyer, when a girl, united with the second organized Jefferson Baptist Church and married Bedent Gallup and was the mother of miss Cora Gallup of Jefferson and Burton Gallup of the town of Summit.1860 Census, Jefferson, Schoharie, NY: Calvin Dyer, 59, Farmer, $4000, $1110, Conn. Betsey, 57, NY Winthrop, 22, NY George, 20, NY Vinton, 13, NY Elizabeth Sherwood, 77, NY 1870 Census, Jefferson, Schoharie, NY: Dyer Calvin, 71, Farmer, $1600, $3631, MA Betsey, 67, House Keeper, NY
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"She was probably the daughter of Seymour Sherwood and Elizabeth Sherwood, both buried in the
Baptist Cemetery. He may have been the Seymour Sherwood of Weston, Fairfield, Co., Conn., whose
name appears in the Census of 1790" - Edmund Bouton, "The Bouton Papers".
I have no doubt that this contention of Bouton's is very sound. The Sherwood family abounds in Fairfield County, Connecticut but I have not been able to tie this Seymour into one of the lines from there. There was a Seymour Sherwood of Weston (1769-1825) who was a descendant of Isaac Sherwood, another early ancestor of Winfield Gallup. This Seymour does not have a place of death listed so he would be a candidate except he is listed with five children, none of whom is an Elizabeth, and all by a different wife. No other "Seymour" is in the right place at the right time. The only Elizabeth of the correct age coming out of Fairfield County is a child of Timothy Sherwood, also a descendant of Isaac, and Lois Grumman who reportedly married a Thomas Fuller. Thus we are left with no ties into a Sherwood line for our Seymour and Elizabeth.
Notes:
Dr. Glen B. Gallup is referenced in a note to Lynn Gallup from (prob.) Florence Falconbury as being "the 3rd cousin of Winfield", Lynn's father. Why should she have mentioned this, Winfield had many third cousins? Were they friends when Winfield lived in Jefferson, N.Y. (if he did) or Summit, N.Y (if he did) or Binghamton, N.Y.? Dr. Glen's grandmother was Adaline Dyer and Winfield's mother was Georgia Dyer who was the niece of Adaline so it is likely that Winfield and Glen became friends through this connection.
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Franklin was witness to the sale of 40 acres of land to Susan (Cooper) Miles, wife of James Lorenzo Miles, on 21 Jan 1870 in Allegan Co. Michigan. On the 1873 Wayland County map is found a farm property in the name of F.M. Miles. One corner of this, which appears as though it might once have been a part of the same parcel, has the name "A. Miles" on it (Franklin's son perhaps?).