Lebbeus Egerton and Jane Baldwyn
Husband Lebbeus Egerton 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Marriage:
Wife Jane Baldwyn 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Children
1 F Maria Egerton 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Dr. Charles Henry Wilson ( - ) 1
General Notes: Husband - Lebbeus Egerton
He was a descendant of William Bradford 3rd, who came from England in the "Mayflower" and was the second governor of Masachusetts Bay Colony, filling that position for thirty-one years. William Bradford 4th, was major and deputy governor of Plymouth. Another ancestor, a man of great force of character and a figure of note in the colonies, was Lebbeus Egerton 1st. He was the son of Samuel Egerton, who came from England, was one of the founders of the town of Norwich, Connecticut, 1659, and married Alice Ripley, great-granddaughter of Governor William Bradford 3rd. Lebbeus Egerton 1st was a native of Randolph, Vermont. He was a captain in the Thirty-first United States Infantry in the War of 1812-15. This position he resigned in 1814, but on Prevost's invasion in September of that year, he offered his services, was elected captain of a company of volunteers from Randolph and adjoining towns and marched to Plattsburg. After the war he represented Randolph in the General Assemblies of 1825-26, and the Constitutional Convention of 1828, was lieutenant-governor of Vermont, 1831-35, four terms of one year each, and state senator, 1837-39. His son, Lebbeus Egerton 2nd, married Jane Baldwyn.
The Edgerton (Egerton) coat-of-arms : Argent, a lion rampant, gules, between three pheons sable. Crest: On a chapeau gules, turned up ermine, a lion rampant of the first, supporting an arrow erect or, headed and feathered argent. Supporters : On the dexter side a horse argent, gorged with a ducal coronet or; on the sinister a griffin segreant vargent, gorged with a ducal coronet or, beaked and legged or the last. Motto : Sic donec.
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Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 575.
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