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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



GREGORY, JAMES, was born about 1784, in New York City, and was married to Mrs. Abigail Johnson, whose maiden name was Carter. She had six children by her first husband. JOEL JOHNSON, of the Revere House in Springfield, is the only one of them that ever came to Sangamon county. See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory had four children in New York, and in 1819 or 20, moved to Gallatin county, Ill., and from there to Sangamon county, arriving Dec. 31, 1824, in what is now Rochester township. Of their four children--

DELIA ANN, born Sept., 1808, in New York, married in Gallatin county to Nelson Alley. They moved to Sangamon county in 1829, had five children, and moved to Monmouth, Ill., where Mr. Alley died. The widow and children reside there.

CLARA ANN, born April 2, 1810, in New York, married in Sangamon county to Henry C. Stafford. See his name. He died, and she married David Crouch. See his name.

WILLIAM, born Oct. 12, 1812, in New York, married in 1837, in Sangamon county, to Martha Asbury, had four children, and he died March 8, 1855, near Rochester. His family moved to Missouri.

JAMES, Jun., born Sept., 1817, in New York died in Sangamon county, March 4, 1834.

James Gregory died May, 1834, and Mrs. Abigail Gregory died Dec. 25, 1847, both in Rochester township.



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