Vermont Family Groupsheet for Dr. Thomas S BRIGHAM Family *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Gem Email address: gmccrary@zianet.com Husband: Dr. Thomas S BRIGHAM Birthdate: Mar 23, 1769 Birthplace: Coventry, CT Death date: May 6, 1844 Place of death: Wayne, ME Father: Lt. Gov. Paul BRIGHAM Mother: Lydia SAWYER Marriage date: about 1793 Marriage place: unkn Wife: Polly DANA Birthdate: Mar 7, 1768 Birthplace: Mansfield, CT Death date: about 1813 Place of death: Windsor, VT Father: Gen. James DANA Mother: Elizabeth WHITTEMORE CHILDREN Child No. 1: Polly Sex: F Birthdate: Jul 21, 1794 Birthplace: Norwich, VT Death date: unkn Place of death: Marriage date: Jan 11, 1815 Marriage place: Norwich, VT Spouse's name: Willard HUTCHINSON Child No. 2: Lucia Sex: F Birthdate: Mar 8, 1796 Birthplace: Norwich, VT Death date: unkn Place of death: Marriage date: Feb 17, 1819 Marriage place: unkn Spouse's name: John Warner LESLIE Child No. 3: Laura Sex: F Birthdate: Oct 13, 1800 Birthplace: Norwich, VT Death date: after 1850 Place of death: NH ? Marriage date: about 1822 Marriage place: Norwich, VT Spouse's name: Lewis THOMAS Child No. 4: Charles Sex: M Birthdate: unkn Birthplace: Norwich, VT Death date: about 1875 Place of death: Nevada, IA Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: unkn Child No. 5: James Dana Sex: M Birthdate: Oct 10, 1806 Birthplace: Norwich, VT Death date: Mar 2, 1900 Place of death: unkn Marriage date: Oct 1850 Marriage place: unkn Spouse's name: Maria R. GRANT Child No. 6: Thomas Jefferson Sex: M Birthdate: unkn Birthplace: Norwich, VT Death date: died young Place of death: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Documentation: 1. Volume 1: "The History of the Brigham family : a record of several thousand descendants of Thomas Brigham the emigrant, 1603- 1653", by Willard Irving Tyler Brigham, 1859-1904, Emma Elisabeth Brigham, and William Erastus Brigham. New York, Grafton Press, 1907-1927 2. Volume 2: "The History of the Brigham family", Second Volume, by Emma Elisabeth Brigham, and J. Gardner Bartlett, Rutland, VT, Publisher: The Tuttle Co., 1927, pages 300. The volume includes "The English Origins of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant, 1603-1635". 3. "The Dana Saga, Three Centuries of the Dana Family in Cambridge", H. W. L. Dana, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., 1941. 4. After the death of her husband, Lewis Thomas, Laura Brigham married Luman McClintock on 08 Jul 1825. Their children: Charlotte Jane, Elizabeth, Caroline, William G., Luman B. 5. "Dana Family in America", Elizabeth Ellery Dana, Cambridge, MA, 1956. 6. Various family records and census records. 7. Dana Family in America", p. 269. Dr. Brigham apparently left his wife, Polly, and moved to Wayne, ME, about 1809. After Polly's death he married Mary French of South Hampton, N. H."