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The second page describes the origin of the information to follow.
In this book of family diagrams the early date of the Lomis and Huntington families was started by Mary Huntington Lomis.
Mary was two year younger than George Washington and they both died in 1799.
Below is the introduction written by Mary in a record book, a copy of which my uncle Delos A. Pope made in 1880.
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Lebanon, Connecticut, August 1797
“I, Mary (Huntington) Lomis in the sixty second year of my age this genealogy I’ve made; for eight children I have written the same that they may know their age and friends name.
When forty years I’d married been, my thirty-eight grandchild was born. In forty years of my posterity but five of them did die.”
“What wonder this we’ve been preserved
So long beyond that we deserved
O may God’s goodness unto us
Teach us in him always to trust”
A genealogy of the family of Ebenezer Lomis.
This genealogy, I Mary Lomis, in behalf of your father have written it, and for the satisfaction and benefit of our children and posterity, and we wish that it may be kept choice for a great while to come to remember us by, and we do enjoin it on you who ever keeps this book that they keep it a memorandum of the births and deaths of the family as they occur as far as they can know them, also of all marriages. I left vacant pages for the purpose, then let more be added.
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R.P.C.
I corrected a couple of misspellings. Lebonon became Lebanon and Evenezer became Ebenezer. Ebenezer was Mary’s husband.
Mentioned: Ebenezer Lomis, Mary Huntington, Robert Pope Callard, Delos Albertis Pope
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