Ruth FAIRCHILD was born 24 Aug 1756. She died 3 Jan 1765 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut.
Ruth was born in 1760.
In 1794, Daniel Springer married Ruth Fairchild. She was from a family of four sons and three daughters born to Benjamin and Melissa (Hall) Fairchild and was raised at Queensbury and Fort Edward in the Lake Champlain area of New York. The family came to Upper Canada in 1792. As a daughter of a United Empire Loyalist, Ruth received 200 acres of land in Ontario.
Daniel and Ruth had nine known children, five daughters and four sons. One story about Ruth illustrates the ordeals of early pioneer life. One night when Daniel was away, Ruth heard a commotion in the Chickens. Going out, she found a large wildcat with a lean and starved appearance making off with a fowl. She made him drop the bird at the house door when it took refuge inside. There ensued a hand-to-hand conflict such as most female settlers afterwards never had to encounter. Mrs. Springer seized the animal by the forelegs and, after a desperate struggle, got him down and held him to the floor while one of her daughters procured a penknife and cut his throat. - Iris E. Hooge
Sources
Together in History - VOL 11
Delaware Cemetery - Middlesex, Ontario
Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 448.
Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 720.
Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 222.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ruth: