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The Upson Family Association, in its 1940 "Upson Family in America," listed the Asa Upson who was killed in the Wyoming Valley in 1780 as the head of an "unidentified" branch of the Upson family. This designation was not corrected for the 1981 Supplement. That is unfortunate. In fact the origins of this Asa Upson have always been available. He was the natural child of Capt. Asa Upson (1728-1807) and Ann Curtis, born in Wallingford, Connecticut on February 13, 1747. This information is found in the Wallingford Vital Records, was reported by Jacobus in his New Haven Genealogical Magazine (Vol. II, No. 4, July 1924, at page 479), and is found in The Barbour Collection. The lines of both Capt. Asa Upson and Ann Curtis have been fairly well documented and so descendents of Asa Upson should not consider themselves "unidentified."
The Upson book also makes an error in identifying Asa Upson's daughter-in-law, an error which also has persisted over the following 65 years. The book identifies the wife of Asa's son Uriah as "Meribah (Dyke) Bishop, widow of Hiram Bishop." This erroneous designation is also found in William Stuart's "Stories of The Kanistio Valley" (1935), which reports, on page 25, that "Meribah Dyke, then a young girl, but later the wife of Uriah Upson of Canisteo, was spared." In fact Uriah's wife was Meribah Pritchard, daughter of Jonathan Pritchard, not Meribah Dyke. It was Meribah's sister Phoebe who married James Dike. Interestingly, although the Upson book gives the name of Uriah's wife as "Meribah Dyke" in the body of the book, in the index she is identified as "Meribah Prichard"!
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