Sylvester Root and Mercy Thomas

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Husband Sylvester Root ¹

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         Father: Daniel Root (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Electa Wardwell (      -      ) 1

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Wife Mercy Thomas ¹

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            AKA: Mercy Thomis 1
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Children

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1 F Martha L. Root ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Addison Orlando Rockwell (1819-      ) 2 3
           Marr: 8 Oct 1845 1

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2 F Sally A. Root ¹

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         Spouse: Jeremiah M. Stanford (1821-      ) 4
           Marr: 8 Jul 1852 4

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3 U Harmony Root ^{1 5}

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           Born: Abt 1831
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4 M Sylvester B. Root ¹

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5 M Morton Root ¹

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6 M Justin Root ¹

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           Born: 29 Dec 1833 - Cambridge Twp, Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Nancy A. Birchard (1842-1908) 6
           Marr: 10 Jan 1861 1

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7 M Timothy T. Root ^{1 5}

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           Born: 13 Sep 1837 - near Cambridge Springs, Crawford Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Nancy Hart (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 1 Jan 1868 5

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8 F Lucy A. Root ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Sylvester Root

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from Middlefield, Hampshire Co, MA


He was educated in Massachusetts. He came, as a young man, to Cambridge Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and took up land. He and his brother had 200 acres. Sylvester the next year went back to Massachusetts, where he was married and he brought his bride overland by ox team. They settled on the farm he had taken up. He cleared the ground, built a log house, then a large comfortable residence, and lived there until his death. He was a Baptist.

He and his wife settled in Cambridge Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1820.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 814.

2 —, History of Erie County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884), Bios 177.

3 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 813.

4 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 817.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1291.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1650.