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This is from the Smedleys of New England
John Smedley, Junior,married Elsie Williams,dau.of Nehemiah Williams who lived by the big rock near the Pownal line,on the Northwest Hill,and witnessed some of the surrendering soldiers of Burgoyne filing down the opposite Pownal Hills.Smedley's home was not far from his father's,on fifty-acre lot No.6,of the first division,which holds the famous Sand Spring;and the second John Smedley was the first known owner of that wateringplace,which has had a vicissitudinous history as such;and the tradition is still stirring,adown its appropriate lines,that old Aaron Smedley,born in 1750,who was a vagrant hunter,living mostly in Vermont, used,on his visits to his relatives in Williamstown,to frequent his nephew's rude bathing-place for the benefit of his eczema.A third John Smedley,son of John,Junior,born April 21,180,married Mary Morse,moved afterwards to Clinton County,New York,returned to Williamstown in 1822, and then moved to Allen County,Ohio,where he died.This Smedley is more interesting on account of his posterity than from anything in his own biography.His daughter Lois,born March 12,1783,was married to Reuben Stetson at Cornwall,Vermont,in July,1801,and thirteen children were the fruit of that union.Mrs.Stetson died the last day of August,in 1866. One of her sons,named Lemuel Stetson,after one of her brothers,Lemuel Smedley,the same who took "Aunt Dill" in her old age,from Williamstown to Great Bend,Pennsylvania,became the father of Francis Lynde Stetson, born April 23,1846 (Williams College,1867),distinguished as a lawyer in New York,and particularly as bringing into his law firm President Cleveland,at the close of his first administration.F.L.Stetson's mother was Helen Hascall;and his father was in political life in the State of New York all the time (nearly) from 1835 to 1862.
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