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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Harry Wadsworth: Birth: 1782 in Litchfield, Conn. Death: 1830

  2. Rhoda Wadsworth: Birth: 1784.

  3. Frederick Elijah Wadsworth: Birth: 1786 in Litchfield, Conn. Death: 1869 in Yreka, Ca.

  4. Edward Wadsworth: Birth: 1791 in Litchfield, Conn. Death: 1835 in Canfield, Ohio

  5. George Wadsworth: Birth: 1793 in Litchfield, Conn. Death: 1832 in Canfield, Ohio


Notes
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Note:   Elijah Wadsworth was born in 1747 and died at the age of 70 yr in 1817. Each year a salute is fired over his Grave on the 30th of December. Elijah assisted in raising Sheldon's Light Horse Dragoons and was commissioned a Lt.. He gave generous financial support to the government, on two occasions, and it was eight years after his death before any of the money was repaid by the government. Elijah was one of the founders of the Connecticut Land Company. He was the Sheriff of Grumbull Co, Ohio 1803-1807 and collector of taxes. He served as a General in the War of 1812. The town of Wadsworth, Ohio was named after him although he never lived there. Quote: The Wadsworth Family in America, 1978 by Mary Jane Fry Wadsworth, pg 33


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