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Goff: This "Smithfield," record appears on pg 379, Vol 1 of my Farnum Genealogy [1999]; however I was unable to attribute the birth to Gershom and wife Dolley Moore who married c1777. Gershom is believed to be the same who died Belgrade where the record shows "Gershom Farnum," died there 22 Sept 1827 when he would have been age 70. Their last child Hannah was born 20 Nov 1800 but he could have remarried [sic].
Is it possible this Gershom was the father of the "Polly," born Smithfield/Dearborn 30 Nov 1814? Sure it is [despite the fact the name of the mother is unknown], and/or considering the death record of Gershom's first wife has also yet to be found. But would a father name two daughters "Polly?"
Possibly, especially if the first Polly died very young [at childbirth, sic] after her 1804 marriage to Silas Whitcomb. Hmmmmmm. Very possible, if Gershom was responding to his grief, took a second heretofore unknown spouse and decided to honor his first named Polly and her [recent, sic] death by naming "this" child "Polly," born 30 Nov 1814 from that second unknown marriage [sic]. Hmmmmmmm. Now this plausible scenario needs nothing but proof!
This may be verifiable if Silas appears at the 1810 USC [with a spouse of the proper age of "Polly" the first one.]
This Gershom and his brother Matthew were sons of the Matthew Farnum who died at the Crown Point Expedition in 1757 and later removed with their mother Dorothy [Webber] Farnum from Lebanon, ME to Penobscot with her new husband.
The link has to be to this family owing to the name repetition. I am mesmerized and reenergized, as much to learn what happened to Polly born 1814!!!!
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