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it and wrote to his wife to sell the land in Coventry and to come and join him. This it appears she was reluctant to do, preferring to remain where her home and friends had created already a happy settlement- and she foresaw her little boy growing surrounded by refinement, rather than the boundless prairie ornamented only by the teepee of the Indians - So they parted and rumor has told me that Daniel Beckwith remained there in the heart of Illinois and founded the town of Dansville. My grandfather Seth grew up in Coventry Chenango Co N. Y. and became the local blacksmith and the most austere [[strikethrough]] severe [[/strikethrough]] of Presbyterians. He married Hannah Yale a grand niece of Elihu Yale founder of the famous university at New Haven, from

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