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Note: "Joseph Sias was born about 1771 in Canterbury, New Hampshire, and there
is no further record.
Charles Sias, Jr. was born about 1773 in Loudon, New Hampshire, which
was set off as a new Township of Canterbury in 1773. On January 12,
1808, he married Elizabeth Glines of Walden, Vermont, a daughter of
Nathaniel and Elizabeth Moore Glines. Elizabeth Moor, who lived to be
one hundred year of age, dying April 20, 1846, was a daughter of William
Moore, and a granddaughter of John Moore, of Canterbury, New Hampshire.
The Nathaniel Glines family had move from Canterbury to Walden after the
Revolutionary War and they later moved to the Block School House
District of Derby. Nathaniel purchased land from Captain Charles Sias,
Sr., in 1807, and sold it in 1816 to his son, Jeremiah Glines, Nathaniel
was a veteran of the Revolution.
Charles Sias, Jr. and Elizabeth had seven children, Archelaus in 1808,
Lewis in 1810, Chester in 1811, Chauncey in 1814, Benjamin Franklin in
1817, Norman in 1819, and Thomas Baldwin in 1832. Charles Sias, Jr. was
a doctor and farmer in Derby, Vermont. Elizabeth Glines Sias lived in
later years with her son Norman's family in West Derby, Vermont, and
survived to within six years of the great age of her mother. She died on
December 11, 1880, at ninety-four years of age and both she and Charles,
Jr. are buried in the cemetery on East Main Street, Newport, then West
Derby, Vermont."
Source is "FRONTIER CROSSROADS the people of Newport, Vermont," by Emily
M. Nelson, ©1978, pages 128-129.
Transcribed by Jan Jordan
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