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John Griswold Edgerton, son of Simeon and Elizabeth (Griswold) Edgerton.

born:	September 25, 1810; Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT. (VR 1:17)
bapt:	September 14, 1827; First Cong. Church; Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT. (ChR I)
died:	April 11, 1885; Fort Ann, Washington Co., NY. (NY State DC #8547)
buried:	Brown Cemetery; Fort Ann, Washington Co., NY. (GI)

married:

Charlotte Wyman, daughter of Joseph and Sally Ann (Gilbert) Wyman.

born:	1817; New York. (GI)
died:	December 2, 1892; Fort Ann, Washington Co., NY. (NY State DC #52995)
buried:	Brown Cemetery; Fort Ann, Washington Co., NY. (GI)

Children:

Lemuel B., b. May 1844; Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT.
Ann, b. ~1848; Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT.
Emma L., b. July 1849; Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT.
Alice, b. ~1853; Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT.
Marcus Duane, b. January 19, 1859; Granville, Washington Co., NY.

John Griswold Edgerton was born at Pawlet, Vermont on September 25, 1810, the son of Simeon and Elizabeth (Griswold) Edgerton. He was no doubt named in honor of his maternal grandfather, John Griswold, who had died in June of the same year. John was baptized on September 14, 1827 at the First Congregational Church of Pawlet, along with three of his siblings.

John G. Edgerton was a farmer and resided a number of years in his hometown of Pawlet. He was married to Charlotte Wyman, daughter of Joseph and Sally Ann (Gilbert) Wyman, natives of Putney, Vermont. John and Charlotte were probably married in the early 1840’s, although no record of the marriage has been yet located. They had a family of five children: Lemuel B., Ann, Emma L., Alice and Marcus Duane.

The household of John G. Edgerton was recorded in the 1850 Federal Census of Pawlet, Rutland County, Vermont (pg. 292; dwelling #2010; family #2212; enum. Oct. 30, 1850). John’s family was residing at this time in the same dwelling (#2010) as his father, Simeon. The enumeration listed a large household, including John’s father-in-law, Joseph Wyman, and a brother-in-law, Joseph Wyman Jr. The entire household consisted of:

John G. Edgerton	40	b. VT	farmer
Charlotte	32	b. NY
Lemuel B.	5	b. VT
Ann	2	b. VT
Emily	1	b. VT
Joseph Wyman	76	b. VT	laborer
Joseph Jr.	27	b. VT
Maria Cady	7	b. NY	attended school
Eliza Hutchins	19	b. Canada

Hiel Hollister’s Pawlet for One Hundred Years (Albany, New York: J. Munsell; 1867; pg. 186) reports that John G. Edgerton later removed from Pawlet and settled in Fort Ann, New York (in Washington County, just across the Vermont-New York border). According to the biography of John’s youngest son, Marcus D. Edgerton published in History of the Dakota Territory George W. Kingsbury; 1915; Vol. IV, pp. 449-450), the family lived in Granville (just north of Fort Ann), where John died in 1885 and Charlotte in 1892.

The household of John Edgerton was recorded in the 1860 Federal Census of Granville, Washington County, New York (pg. 278; dwelling #233; family #244; enum. August 3, 1860), as follows:

John Edgerton	49	b. VT
Charlotte	42	b. VT
Lemuel	15	b. VT
Emma	11	b. VT
Alice	7	b. VT
Marcus	1	b. NY
Maria Cady	17	b. NY	servant
Joseph Wyman	86	b. VT
Jeremiah Bolton	18	b. VT	farm laborer

The household of John Edgerton was recorded in the 1870 Federal Census of Fort Ann, Washington County, New York (pg. 159; dwelling #606; family #648; enum. July 7, 1870), as follows:

John Edgerton	59	b. VT	farmer $2,000 real estate / $800 personal estate
Charlotte	51	b. NY	keeping house
Lemuel	25	b. VT	miner
Emma	20	b. VT
Alice	17	b. VT	teacher
Marcus	11	b. NY
Joseph Wyman	95	b. VT
Ossian Conant	29	b. NY	blacksmith
Georgiana	27	b. NY

The household of John Griswold Edgerton was recorded in the 1880 Federal Census of West Fort Ann (District 3), Washington County, New York (pg. 123; dwelling #135; family #143; enum. June 11-12, 1880), as follows:

Name	Rel.	Age	Bp	F Bp	M Bp	Occ
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John Edgerton		67	VT	VT	NH	farmer
Charlotte	wife	59	NY	NY	--	keeping house
Lemuel	son	35	VT	VT	NY	farmhand
Allice	dau.	27	VT	VT	NY
Marcus	son	21	NY	VT	NY	miner
Emma Williams	dau.	30	VT	VT	NY
Harper	gson	8/12	NY	England	VT

Original Source Documents:

Baptismal Record – Records of the Congregational Church in Pawlet; Vol. I.

1850 Federal Census – household of John Griswold Edgerton; Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT.

1860 Federal Census – household of John Griswold Edgerton; Granville, Washington Co., NY.

1870 Federal Census – household of John Griswold Edgerton; Fort Ann, Washington Co., NY.

1880 Federal Census – household of John Griswold Edgerton; West Fort Ann (District 3), Washington Co., NY.