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Note: FAMILY SCRAPBOOK DATE CODE: CENSUS: ?1790 Whitingham, Windham Co., Vermont. Family consisted of 1 male 16 and up including head of family, 6 males under 16, 7 females.? SOURCES: "Vermont Families in 1791," Volume 1, Edited by Scott A. Bartley, Genealogical Society of Vermont, Special Publication Number 1, Picton Press, Camden, Maine, ISBN 0-89725-086-9, 1st printing, September 1992, pp. 158-161. Family records also available from "THE PIKE FAMILY" provided by Norma J. Olson 1212 N. 6th, Montevideo, Minnesota 56265, 19 Oct 1994. "Vital Records of Ashfield, MASS. to the Year 1850," by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1942, p. 190. "Stafford CT Vital Records." (Susannah Sprague) "Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849," Transcribed under the directon of George Ernest Bowman, published by the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, MA, 1933, pp. 16-17, 39. "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 6 Stephen Hopkins," by John D. Austin, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1992, p. 302. "to Ashfield and to Whitingham, VT." NOTES: "Probate of Leonard in Whitingham LR, 4:220-224, dated 1806 Mar 29." "LEONARD PIKE, son of Leonard and Ann (Snow) Pike, b. 18 Sep 1730, Truro, Mass; d. 17 Mar 1804, Whitingham, Vermont; married (1st) 15 Aug 1751 at Mansfield, Conn., to Sarah Case, bapt. 17 Jun 1731; d. 7 Nov 1770, Ashfiled, Mass., the daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Manning) Case of Mansfield, Conn.; married (2nd) 9 Nov 1773 at Ashfield, Mass., to Susannah Sprague, b. 5 May 1752, Stafford, Conn., Daughter of Jonathan and Susann (??) Sprague of Stafford, Conn., Ashfield, Mass., and Buckland, Mass. After Leonard Pike's death in 1804, Mrs. Susanna (Sprague) Pike m. (2nd) Robert Clark, Sr., of Buckland, Mass. Robert Clark d. in 1815 and Mrs. Susannah (Sprague) Pike Clark d. 21 Feb 1828 and is buried in the cemetery at Spragueville, New York, where she had apparently gone to live with some of her children. Leonard Pike was probably a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The following is from 'Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the War of the Rev,' Vol. 12, page 404: 'Leonoard Pike, Private, Capt. Banjamin Phillip's Co., Col. Elisha Porters (Hampshire County) Regiment: enlisted 10 July 1777; discharged 4 Aug 1777; service 30 days in Northern Department, including travel (100 miles) home.' Leonard Pike is said to have had a family of 28 children by his two wives. While names of all of them have not been found, we will enumerate what we can. Some of his children by his first marriage may have died as infants and were never recorded on Stafford, Conn., or Ashfield, Mass., records. The children of Leonard and Sarah (Case Pike): 1. RUTH, b. 14 Dec. 1751, Mansfield, Conn.; d. 1784-1785 probably in the Deerfield, Mass., area; m. 15 Mar 1774, Benjamin Ellis. 2. IRENA, b. 7 Oct. 1754, Stafford, Conn.; m. at Ashfield, Mass., 1 Aug 1776, Nehemiah Sprague, son of Jonathan and Susannah (??) Sprague. 3. SARAH, b. 2 Sep 1756, Stafford, Conn.; dead before 1 Oct. 1780 (when another Sarah was born). 4. EUNICE, b. 10 Aug 1758, Stafford, Conn.; d. 10 Sep 1773 at Ashfield, Mass. 5. LEONARD, b. 20 Jan 1760, Stafford, Conn.; dead before 20 Feb. 1784 (when another Leonard was born). 6. ELIJAH, b. 3 Mar 1763, Stafford, Conn.; d. 21 Oct 1844, Halifax, Vermont; m. (1) Rebecca ??; (2) _____ ??. 7. ELISHA, b. c. 1765, Stafford, Conn.; d. 5 Aug 1832, Charlemont, Mass.; m. (1) Tabitha ??, who d. 1818 or 1819; m. (2nd) Mrs. Susannah (Carter) Ward. 8. MARY or "POLLY," b. ??; m. 10 Mar 1786, at Charlemont, Mass., to Lemuel Crocker. 9. ??Perhaps NATHANIEL, b. ??; he was in Whitingham, Vermont in the 1790 census along with Leonard Pike and two of his other sons so he may also have been a son of Leonard and Sarah (Case) Pike. 10. ??? 11. ??? 12. ??? The Children of Leonard and Susannah (Sprague) Pike: 13. HANNAH, b. 14 Jan 1775, Ashfield, Mass.; m. Josiah Willis. 14. JOHN, b. 9 Dec 1775, Ashfiled, Mass.; d. 26 Mar 1847, St. Lawrence Co., NY; m. (Intention) at Buckland, Mass., 23 Nov 1803, with Meribah Jones of Buckland. 15. EUNICE, b 19 Apr 1777, Whitingham, VT; d. 12 Mar 1839, Heath, Mass.; m. 3 Mar 1796, John Barber. 16. JEPTHA, b. 17 Jul 1779, Whitingham, Vt.; M. (Intention) 5 Mar 1802 at Buckland, Mass., with Hannah Clark of Buckland 17. SARAH or "SALLY," b. 1 Oct 1780, Whitingham, Vt.; m. Horace Heath. 18. ABSALOM, b. 7 May 1782, Whitingham, Vt.; m. 10 Dec 1805, Polly Walker. 19. LEONARD, b. 20 Feb 1784, Whitingham, Vt.; d. 20 Mar 1868, buried Spragueville, NY,; m. (Intention) 22 Nov 1806 at Buckland, Mass., with Sally or Sarah McNitt of Buckland. 20. ORRIS, b. 23 Aug 1785, twin, Whitingham, Vt.; m. 21 Oct 1807, Polly Wheeler, daughter of Deliverance & Elizabeth (Whitman) Wheeler. 21. ROSWELL, b. 23 Aug 1785, twin, Whitingham, Vt.; d. 2 Dec 1865, buried Spragueville, NY; m. 5 Nov 1811 at Whitingham, Vt. to Sally Wheeler, Daughter of Deliverance and Elizabeth (Whitman) Wheeler. 22. SUSANNAH, b. 25 May 1787, Whitingham, Vt.; d. 10 Sep 1853, buried Spragueville, NY; m. 21 Nov 1804 at Whitingham, Vt. to Ashael Lamb. 23. RUTH, b. 7 Sep 1788, Whitingham, Vt.; d. there 11 Sep 1800. 24. DORCAS, b. 7 Feb 1790, Whitingham, Vt.; d. 29 Jan 1842, age 49 yrs., buried Spragueville, NY; m. as his 2nd wife, Peter Shippee. 25. AMBROSE, b. 16 Aug 1792, Whitingham, Vt.; m. Elizabeth, called "Betsey", Wheeler, daughter of Deliverance and Phebe (Salter) Wheeler and granddaughter of Deliverance and Elizabeth (Whitman) Wheeler. 26. ANNA, b. 14 Apr Whitingham, Vt. 27. PHEBE, b. 21 July 1796, Whitingham, Vt.; m. 3 May 1818, Rufus Hall. 28. MASON, b. 31 Jan 1798, Whitingham, Vt.; d. 27 July 1859, buried Spragueville, NY. The above taken from "THE PIKE FAMILY" p. 2, provided by Norma J. Olson 1212 N. 6th, Montevideo, Minnesota 56265, 19 Oct 1994.
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