POND, BILLIOUS, was born June 26, 1781, in Northbury, now Plymouth, Litchfield county, Conn. Rhoda Orton was born in the same county, April 17, 1786. They were married Oct. 11, 1801, in Niagara county, N. Y., and had nine children there. A colony left Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and by previous arrangement, through the agency of Mr. Timothy Turner, Mr. Pond joined the colony at Oswego, and acted as its pastor or minister. They arrived Nov. 26, 1832, at old Sangamo town, in Sangamon county, Illinois, and the next spring all moved to the vicinity of the present Farmingdale station. Mr. Pond preached during the winter of 1833 and '4, near Carrolton, Greene county, and in the spring of 1834 returned to his family at Camden, N. Y. He moved his family, bringing all his living children, and arrived July 27, 1837, at what is now Farmingdale, Sangamon county. Of their children--

AMANDA, born, married and died in New York.

MARVIN B., born Nov. 3, 1807, in New York, married there twice, came to Sangamon county in 1837, and in 1839 moved to Menard, and from there to Mason county, where he died in July, 1871, leaving a family. His widow's maiden name was Jane Beerup. She lives in Havana, Ill.

RHODA, born August 17, 1810, and married April 12, 1829, in Camden, N. Y., to Truman M. Catlin, and reside one mile north of Farmingdale.

ADALINE, born August, 1813, in New York, died in Sangamon county in 1838.

SAMUEL S., born August 9, 1816, in New York, married Emily Dufer, and she died, leaving three children. He married Mrs. Hester Durrell, whose maiden name was Moore. They have three living children, and reside near Greenview, Menard county.

FRANCIS X., born March 17, 1819, in New York, came to Sangamon county with his parents, married in Galesburg, Ill. They have no living children, and reside near Greenview, Menard county.

DAVID B., born July 5, 1822, in New York, married in Sangamon county, March 25, 1845, to Susan Moore. They had five children.--FRANCIS A. fell from a fence and broke his neck, in his third year. Two died in infancy. TRYPHENA S. lives with her father. JOHN E., born August 4, 1851, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 5, 1874, to Alice Buchanan. They have one child, NELLIE E., and live at Greenview, Menard county, Illinois. Mrs. Susan Pond died March 10, 1855, and David B. Pond was married to Mary E. Watson, who was born Jan. 1, 1833, in Erie county, N. Y. They reside adjoining Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois, on the east.

ANN P., born May 24, 1825, in N. Y., married in Sangamon county to John Burris, have two children, and live near Fredonia, Kansas.

HANNAH S., born April 23, 1829, in New York, married Melvin Cushion, and died, without children.

Mrs. Rhoda Pond died Oct. 8, 1838, and Rev. Billious Pond was married, Oct., 1839, to Mrs. Melissa Moore, whose maiden name was Northrope. They had one living child--

HENRY S., born Aug. 16, 1841, in Sangamon county, went to Montana Territory, in 1862, and was married there to Delia Kirkpatrick. They have two children, MARY and MAURICE E., and reside in Bannock City, Motana.

Rev. Billious Pond died Dec. 8, 1874, and his widow resides at Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.