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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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JEWETT STAFFORD, was born January 13, 1795, at Coventry, Kent county, Rhode Island, was taken by his parents in 1804, to Essex county, New York. In 1812, he went as a soldier from that county in the war with England, was in the battle of Plattsburg, Boquet river, near Willsboro, his home. Jewett was married in 1818 to Harriet Eggleston, in Essex county, New York. She was born there March 4, 1802. They moved to Sangamon county, arriving July, 1825, where Rochester now stands. Mr. Stafford died in 1862.

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