He married, 1st, Oct. 15, 1814, ABIGAIL WILCOX, daughter of Eliphalet and Abigail [Shepard] Wilcox* of Upper Middletown. She died May 12, 1819, and he married, 2d, November 23, 1820, LUCY WILCOX, daughter of Seth and Hannah [Willcox] Wilcox† of Stockbridge, Mass., and cousin of his first wife. She died September 14, 1821. He married, 3d, December 9, 1828, JANE WALLACE, daughter of William Wallace, merchant of New York, originally from Sanquhar, Scotland. Mr. Redfield died at New York city, February 12, 1857, in his 68th year, and was interred near the southern slope of Ocean Hill, in Greenwood Cemetery. By first wife. Children. 808. 1 JOHN HOWARD REDFIELD, b. July 10, 1815. 809. 2. WILLIAM REDFIELD, b. May 25, 1817; d. August 10, 1819. 810. 3. CHARLES BAILEY REDFIELD, b. Nov. 18, 1818. By second wife. 811. 4. SAMUEL REDFIELD, b. August 14, 1821; d. August 19, 1821. 299. Samuel Redfield, second son of Peleg (80), son of Capt. William (20), removed from Middletown, Conn., in 1810, and joined his mother and younger brothers and sisters, who, in 1806, had emigrated to Randolph, Portage county, Ohio, where he also settled and aided in subduing the wilderness and became an extensive farmer. In May, 1812, he volunteered to serve in Capt. Campbell's company, which, on the 1st July, was ordered to march to the western frontier to aid in its protection against the savages. He assisted in the building of Fort Stephenson at Lower Sandusky, now called Fremont. He was taken prisoner at the river Raisin on the 18th August, 1812, on the occasion of Hull's surrender, and carried thence to Malden, whence he was sent to Cleveland on parole, and reached home sick on 4th Sept. About 1850 he removed to Ravenna in the same county, where he still resides. He married, Jan. 5, 1816, MARGARET ERWIN SHEWELL, b. Aug. 11, 1794, daughter of Rev. Henry and Mercy [Hazen] Shewell, who removed from Hackettstown, N. J., to Deerfield, Ohio, in 1802. Children. 812. 1. WILLIAM CAREY REDFIELD, b. Nov. 22, 1816. *Eliphalet Wilcox, was the son of Ozias, son of Deacon John, son of Israel, son of John, son of John Wilcox, who was among the first settlers of Hartford. Abigail Shepard was the daughter of Jared, son of Lieut. Samuel, son of Edward Shepard of Middletown, who married Abigail Savage in 1687. Edward Shepard was probably a grandson or great grandson of Edward Shepard, one of the first settlers of Hartford. Seth Wilcox was a younger brother of Eliphalet, whose pedigree is traced above. Hannah Willcox was daughter of Elisha and Abigail [Ranney] Willcox. |