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Rev. Samuel
Wadsworth was a minister in Killingly. He had three
sons, who came to Cornwall about 1740, - Samuel, Joseph,
and James.
Samuel Wadsworth
married Sarah, daughter of James Douglas, and had only
one child, Rachel, who married Hezekiah Gold. By her he
received her father's farm on Cream Hill, which has
passed by descent to the present owner, T. S. Gold.
Samuel Wadsworth died Jan. 3, 1813, aged sixty-six.
Sarah, his wife, died April 16, 1820, aged
seventy-seven.*
* Strange as it may seem, I remember her,
though but two years old, at the time of her death. (T.
S. G.)
Joseph Wadsworth
married another daughter of James Douglas, -Eunice, and
had three sons, Warren, Samuel, and Douglas. About 1800
he sold his farm on Cream Hill to Hezekiah Gold, and
removed to Goshen, Orange Co., N. Y.
James Wadsworth
married Irene Palmer, and had a son, Dea. James
Wadsworth, one daughter, who married an Ingersoll from
Bethlehem, and a second daughter, who married Hawley
Reed, of Cornwall.
Dea. James
Wadsworth had sons - John Palmer, a farmer living in New
Marlborough, Mass.; Stiles, Franklin, Henry, a
Congregational minister in New Jersey; and one daughter,
who married Darius Miner, and lives in Torrington. His
children had all left town previous to the death of Dea.
James Wadsworth, and the dwelling, with a portion of the
farm, was purchased by T. S. Gold.
Industry,
frugality, and simple Christian consecration were
characteristics of Dea. Wadsworth and his wife, and
though their descendants have all removed, yet will
their memories long be cherished by their friends and
neighbors.
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