History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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(VI.) Jeremiah, b. Sept. 19, I790, Shaftsbury, N. H.; d. August
29, 1847, Dewitt, N. Y.; m. Phebe Holdridge 1814, b. August 6, I79I;
d. August 9, I838.
(VII.) Lucy, m. William Johnson; lived in Nelson, N. Y.
(VIII.) Amy, b. 1794; d. July 29, 1953, Clarkston, Mich.; m. Oliver
Poole.
(IX.)Susan, b. October 25, 1797; m. 182I Jeremiah Blair.
(X.) Hiram.
(XI.) Sarah, b. Feb. 15, I8o6; d. March 5, 1872, Clarkston, Mich.;
m. Jacob Walter.
(XII.) Nelson, b. June 8, 1808; d. April I7, 1876, Northville, Mich.
(XIII.) Sidney.
(XIV.) Ebenezer, b. August 6, 1812; d. February 7, I868, Michigan
Center, Jackson county, Michigan.
BENJAMIN GRACE
Benjamin Grace made application for a pension on April 30, i8i8,
at which time he was fifty-eight years of age and resided in Lyons, New
York. His pension was allowed for three years of actual service as a
private in the New Hampshire troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted
at Amherst, New Hampshire, I780, and served under Captain Livermore
and Colonel Scammel until I783. He came in 1828 to reside with his
children at Farmington, Oakland county, Michigan, and died on the
William Grace farm a mile north of Clarenceville, on November I5,
1851, aged ninety-one years and is buried in the Clarenceville cemetery.
He was blind for nearly thirty years during the latter part of his life.
Benjamin Grace is said to have entered service at the age of fifteen
years, at the battle of Lexington, and continued in active duty all
during the war, being at the surrender of Yorktown.
Children all born in Canaan, Somerset county, Maine: (I.) Benjamin, died in his youth.
(II.) Mary (Polly), m. Russell.
(III.) James, b. Apr. 27, 1789, d. Mar. 20, I866, Livonia, Wayne
Co., Mich.; m. May 22, I814, Hannah Patten, b. June 22, I792, d. Feb.
20, 1879, dau. of James Patten.
(IV.) Hannah, b. June 13, 1791, d. Feb. 20, 1879, Livonia, Wayne
Co., Mich.; m. Solomon Lambert, b. June 15, 1792; d. Apr. 8, 1882.
(V.) William, left home and was never heard of afterward.
(VI.) Abigail, m. Williard Lambert.
(VII.) Amasa, b. Aug. I797; d. July 14, 1873, Farmington, Mich.;
m. in Maine, Jane Barton, a native of Ireland.
(VIII.) Sally, b. 1802; d. Oct. 20, I86I, Farmington, Mich.; m.
Stephen Jennings, d. Sept. 5, 1850, aged 49 years.
(IX.) Amelia, m. John Grace, b. Feb. 13, 1805, Maine; d. Feb. 7,
1860, Fulton, Gratiot Co., Mich.; son of Joseph and Susan (Close) Grace,
Joseph, d. in town of Lyons, N. Y., when his son John was 12 years of
age.
(X.) Harriet, b. March I7, 1807; m. George Barton, m. 2nd.
Ward.