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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.




STAFFORD, WILLIAM, was born 1799 at Coventry, Kent county, Rhode Island. He was a son of John Stafford, consequently a cousin to Caleb, Oliver, Jewett, and Christopher B. William Stafford was married in Essex county, New York, to Prudence Putnam, who was born March 19 1801, at Lewis, in Essex county. She was a leneal descendant of Israel Putnam. William Stafford and wife had two children in New York, moved to Ohio, and three years later to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Jan. 1, 1834, at Rochester. Of their children--

JOHN W., born in Essex county, New York, brought up in Sangamon county, and died March 21, 1870, at Havana, Mason county, Illinois.

JULIA A., born in Essex county, New York, married in Sangamon county to Charles Stafford. See his name.

William Stafford died in 1840, and his widow married Jewett Stafford. See his name. Mrs. Prudence Stafford now--September, 1876--resides near Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.




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