Polly (Washburn) Lum (bef. 1778 - 1864)

Ancestors

Wife of David Lum — married about 1801 in New Haven, CT

Descendants

Died 23 Oct 1864 after age 86 in New Haven, CT

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Polly (Washburn) Lum was married to a descendant of the immigrants William Beardsley and Mary Harvie.

Biography

Polly WASHBURN was born abt 1778 ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} and was christened 4 Oct 1778 ^[7].

She died 23 Oct 1864 in Oxford, New Haven, CT ^[8][9] and was buried 25 Oct 1864 in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT. ^{[8][7][9][10]}

Polly married David LUM.

Sources

1. ↑ Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 25. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp25.htm.
2. ↑ 1850 Oxford Census.
3. ↑ 1860 Oxford Census. Living w/ the Seth Staples Washband family.
4. ↑ Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 57.
5. ↑ Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 514.
6. ↑ William Leavenworth, A Genealgy of the Leavenworth Family in the United States, Syracuse, N.Y., S. G. Hitchcock & Co., 1873, p. 104. " ... of Oxford ..."
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 604.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), p. 120. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/toc.html. http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/120.html.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 97. http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan97.html.
10. ↑ Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://oxfordpast.net/cem2439.html.

Acknowledgments

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