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  1. Danforth Wales: Birth: 2 Jul 1821 in Plymouth, Chenango Co., NY. Death: 2 Jul 1821 in Plymouth, Chenango Co., NY


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a. Note:   s the manual for the Use of the Legislature of New York that was his. Danforth was the son of Nathan Wales and Sally Keyes and brother to George who was father of Frederick. The above book was in the possession of Genora in California. She has given it to Rod and I for the purpose of finding a new home for it in an Archive or Museum in Plymouth, New York. According to Ruth - Ruth Eliza Wales Isham (daughter of Charles Wales - Frederick’s brother) and her husband Frederick Isham kept journals…… Ruth wrote the following: “Danforth Wales grew to be a studious man and at one time taught school in Plymouth. That was but a stepping stone, however as the later record of his life shows. His farm joined that of his brother George at a time when wolves were night prowlers wandering about for sheep. Our great uncle was wont to hang a lantern to frighten them away. One night a few were killed and the young farmer wondered whether the lantern guided the wolf if the wind blew the light out and the marauder found the victim by scent as was natural for them. Danforth taught school in Branbridge, Conn. and married Maria Maynard of that place. Later he became a lawyer and was at one time Member of the Assembly of N.Y. After his wife’s death a widow and her two children lived with and cared for him until his death at eighty-six. He left property to the Methodist Society."
Note:   Danforth Wales, of Plymouth Village, represented the county in the Assembly in 1843. This i


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