Nellie Butterfield is descended from a long line of Colonial American ancestors, among them the Deans, who would found the town of Westmoreland, Oneida, New York. Nellie's grandmother was a Dean - Thankful Dean, who married the physician, Amasa Harrington, and lived and died in Laurens, Otsego, New York. In fact, Thankful Dean, is buried in the Laurens Village Cemetery, having died on her birthday - April 9th - in 1866.
However, I do not share a birthday with Thankful Dean. Thankful Dean shares a birthday with my Norwegian great grandfather, Ole Martinsen Fjeld, and is one day short of sharing a birthday with my mother.
No, the Dean that I share a birthday with is Gaius Dean, Thankful Dean's father. Gaius Dean was born 26 September 1755 in Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, but he would not tarry long. Most of his life, he bounced between Canada and New York, living in Montreal, Kingston, and the Newcastle District in Canada and in Hillsdale, Columbia and Westmoreland, Oneida, New York. Gaius Dean died 15 February 1821 in Westmoreland, Oneida, New York.
Gaius Dean served in the American Revolutionary War, enlisting as a private in Captain James Spencer's Company of Albany, New York, a regiment of foot under the command of Colonel Jeremiah Hogeboom. My great grandmother's great grandfather ended his military career serving as a captain under Brigadier General Robert Van Rensselaer in the Columbia County Militia of New York State. Of Van Rensselaer's Brigade, it has been stated that "Everything except the soil is destroyed from Fort Hunter to Stone Arabia."
Other Ancestors who share my birthday: my 3rd great grandfather, Knud Knudsen Stigen, born 26 September 1820 on Ager farm in Lunder, Norderhov, Buskerud, Norway. But he's not a Tiffany Creek ancestor...
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