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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.



BANCROFT, ISAAC, was born April 29, 1776, near Boston, Mass. Mercy Coburn was born March 12, 1781, in Massachusetts, also. They were married March 5, 1799, and had two children in Massachusetts. They moved to St. Lawrence county, N. Y., where they had ten children, and moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving August 10, 1839. Of their children--

MERCY and

BETSY married and raised families. One of them died in Massachusetts. The other resides in Hainesville, Lake county, Illinois.

PRUDENCE, born in New York, died May 3, 1824, aged twenty-four years.

JONATHAN C., born Feb. 2, 1809, in New York, married Frances Stone. Mr. Bancroft died June 2, 1845, leaving a widow and three children in Springfield. His son, Coburn, died in 1870, in Springfield.

ALMA S., born August 20, 1811, and died aged 23 years.

ISAAC, Jun., born May 6, 1815, in New York, married Mary Blackman. He is now e Congregational minister, and resides in Green county, Wis.

JOSEPH, born April 5, 1817, died Oct. 16, 1851.

TIMOTHY, born Feb. 26, 1819, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., is unmarried, and resides in Springfield.

BENJAMIN, born March 3, 1821, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married September 19, 1854, to Elizabeth C. Cass, who was born March 13, 1836, in Montgomery county, Ill. They had five children, three of whom died young. EDWARD T. and LUCINDA A. reside with their father. Mrs. E. C. Bancroft died Feb. 3, 1871, and Benj. Bancroft resides in Fancy Creek township.

HARMAN H., born Feb. 1, 1823, died in Springfield in his 23d year.

Isaac Bancroft died Oct. 8, 1844, and his widow died Feb. 10, 1868, both in Springfield.



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