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WILLIAM TIPPETT

(William Tippett,* Dorcas, Thomas,2 Thomas1), son of William Tippett, Sr., and Martha Hunt, a Royalist. Went to Nova Scotia after the Revolution. Had daughter Martha Tippett and perhaps other children.

Martha Tippett was born about 1764; m. at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, 1784, Col. James De Lancey, one of the boldest of the foragers of the Neutral Ground during the Revolution, son of Peter De Lancey and his wife Alice, daughter of Cadwallader Colden. Col. James De Lancey d. 1809; Martha De Lancey d. 1837, at Annapolis. They had:

John, Stephen, Oliver, Maria, Anne and Peter De Lancey, all of Annapolis, N. S. All of George Tippett's sons died before him, except William Tippett, Sr.; he died 1769. Some descendants remained in the United States.

ELIZABETH5 WARNER

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4 (Jane Tippett, Dorcas, Thomas,"

Thomas1), m. William Hadley (146). They had:

216 James, of New York.

217 Isaac, whose two sons died in the U. S. army. 218 Jacob, of western New York.

219 Thomas, of Charlestown.

220 George Washington.

George Tippett of Yonkers, Will. Wife Dorcas, Will dated May 3, 1761. Proved June 26, 1761. Leaves personal estate to daughters Jane, wife of Charles Warner, and Phebe, wife of George Hadley. To grandson, George, "oldest son of my son George," my lot in Yonkers, 79 acres, adjoining land of Abigail Emmons and land of John Vermilyea, and the millpond of James Van Courtland, and he is to pay his brother Henry, when twenty

one, £100. To Thomas, son of my son George, a lot of land lying in the Neck (Tippett's Neck) 30 acres, beginning at the gate between my land and the land of Edward Meeks, and running south by the highway to a brook, and then north to land of Edward Meeks. Leaves to Dorcas, "wife of Samuel Berrian," a lot of 10 acres, beginning at the house and then running by the "Krick" and road to the crossfence. Leaves to grandsons Stephen and Gilbert, "sons of my son James," a lot of 28 acres, where my son James formerly lived, with house. Leaves to son William the home lot, 28 acres, with house. Mentions Jane, "daughter of my son Thomas and her sister Rachel. Leaves all the rest of land on Yonkers (Tippett's) Neck to son William the only son that survived him.

Executors: James Van Courtlandt, Esq., David Oakley, William Warner.

Witnesses: Ambrose Jones, Israel Honeywell, Edward

Meeks.

SIXTH GENERATION.

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SOLOMON BAXTER (Thomas, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas,2 Thomas1), b. Feb. 10, 1763; m. June 22, 1788; moved to Putnam County. Solomon Baxter of Putnam County, will dated Feb. 20, 1844. Proved Nov. 1, 1847. Witnesses, Gideon Baxter, Jacob Baxter. Sons and daughters mentioned are:

+221 Solomon, d. 1862; m. Phebe

+222 Morris, m. Mary

223 Gilbert.

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MARCUS BAXTER (Marcus, Marcus, Thomas, Thomas,2 Thomas1). Had:

229 James Marcus.

230 Charles Henry.

231 George Henry, migrated to Indiana.

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GEORGE BAXTER (Thomas, Augustine, Thomas, Thomas,2 Thomas1), m. Hannah

Will dated Dec. 30, 1867.

Proved 1868. Children named:

232 Mervin R.

233 George W.

234 John.

235 Simon P.

236 William.

237 Caroline F.

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JOHN BAXTER (Pettit," John, John, Thomas,2 Thomas1), b. at North Salem, Sept. 24, 1760; d. at Friendship, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1841; m. Jan. 4, 1786, Dorcas Whitlock, b. at Danbury, Conn., June 4, 1766; d. at Friendship, N. Y., April 25, 1839. Their children were:

238 Sarah Baxter, b. Oct. 28, 1786, at North Salem. She was m. (1) to Abijah Hedden, who d. a soldier, at Sackett's Harbor, 1814; m. (2) Daniel Taber, d. Sept., 1838, at Portland, Chautauqua County, N. Y.

+239 Dorcas, b. at North Salem, April 24, 1788; m. David Kinne; d. at Weedsport, N. Y., 1841.

240 Rhoda, b. at North Salem, March 5, 1790; m. Ira Hickox; d. at Cuba, N. Y., 1832.

+241 John Whitlock, b. at North Salem, June 4, 1792; d. at Friendship, March 29, 1862.

+242 Henry W., b. at North Salem, Oct. 17, 1793; d. at Patriot, Ind., Sept. 21, 1851.

+243 Phebe, b. at North Salem, Oct. 5, 1795; m. Joseph Gorton at Fonda's Bush, Jan. 5, 1814; d. at Friendship, N. Y., March 19, 1869.

+244 Mary Eleanor, b. at North Salem, June 16, 1799; m. Erastus Kinne at Broadalbin; d. at Cuba, N. Y., April 17, 1856.

+245 Hannah, b. at North Salem, Oct. 30, 1802; m. Cornelius Stevenson, at Friendship; d. at Concord, Erie County, Pa.

+246 Lucy Ann, b. at Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Oct. 26, 1804; m. Eliakim Crosby at Friendship, 1827; d. at Poland Center, Jan. 1, 1844.

247 David, b. at Milton, Oct. 26, 1806; d. June 22, 1807.

The Whitlock family were early settlers of Danbury, Conn., there being a Whitlock Street in that city; but it is possible that they lived in Westchester County first. On June 8, 1686, Thomas Whitlock and Mary, his wife, sell land to Thomas Vail. They are then of Middletown, Westchester County, N. Y.

At all events, the Whitlocks and Gilberts are numerous in Ridgefield at the present time, and there are Whitlocks in Danbury still. Dorcas Whitlock was an Episcopalian and a woman of some education. After coming to Friendship, N. Y., she became a member of the Baptist Church of that place, and she and her husband were buried in the churchyard, but were later removed to Mt. Hope cemetery, when it was first laid

out.

John Baxter (170) enlisted in the 4th Westchester Militia, Company 41, Major Thaddeus Crane, Capt. Truesdale. He was wounded in the shoulder and arm-left arm-and taken prisoner June 24, 1779. Released Jan. 9, 1780. Placed on the pension roll Nov. 16, 1786. Commencement of pension, April 24, 1776, which was probably the time of his enlistment. His death occurred in 1841. He was then in his eighty-second year.

While on picket duty he with others, altogether twentyfour, were captured and imprisoned in the old sugar house on Liberty Street. One account gives it that John Baxter was not wounded until after his capture, then by a Tory named Underhill. After the Revolution John Baxter heard of him as living in Nova Scotia, and sent him word he would kill him if he ever met him again. Another account says that when John was brought in wounded and bleeding, an officer had pity on him and proposed sending him home. He was then not yet nineteen, and had served over three years. When John's uncle Samuel, who had joined the British, said, "Let the damned rebel die, there will be one less to hang when the war is over." So they were probably captured by the refugees or cowboys, so called on account of their love for that useful animal. They were said "to err on the safe side and rob friend and foe alike."

They also carried on an underhand traffic with the Skinners, who fought ostensibly on the Continental side. Sometimes they would have a mock battle and apparently capture goods from one another, which in reality were exchanged in this manner, under cover of a skirmish.

Small-pox attacked John Baxter and his companions and only six out of the twenty-four lived to be exchanged. John Baxter returned home in a crippled condition, and received the twenty-eight acres that had been his Uncle Samuel Baxter's.

John Baxter was married, and most of his children were born at North Salem, on a farm owned in 1873 by the heirs of Samuel Hunt, who married Phebe Baxter, the youngest daughter of Pettit Baxter.

Finding he could better his fortunes he removed to Milton, Saratoga County, New York, where his sister, Mary Baxter Keeler, already resided. After a few years' residence there, he sold his property and removed to Broadalbin, in what was then Montgomery County, where he remained until 1823. His farm there is still called the Baxter farm. In 1823, he removed to Friendship, where he lived until his death, Nov., 1841, at the home of his son John W. Baxter.