Polly Stewart

1789 - 1873  (84 years)

• Name	Polly Stewart
  Born	4 Apr 1789	Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	24 Jul 1873	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I24668	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel Stewart,   b. 23 Feb 1749, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ,   d. 28 Aug 1827, Royalton, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 78 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Abbott,   b. 21 Oct 1759, Salisbury, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 4 Feb 1836, Royalton, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F8357	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jehial Saxton,   b. Abt 1785,   d. UNKNOWN
  Married	22 Mar 1808
  Children	1. Sally Saxton,   b. 19 Jan 1809, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA ,   d. 22 Jul 1831, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 22 years)  [natural]   2. Hannah Saxton,   b. 30 Nov 1810, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA ,   d. 5 Apr 1885, Unknown  (Age 74 years)  [natural]   3. Clinton Saxton,   b. 14 Jul 1812, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA ,   d. 30 Jan 1895, Unknown  (Age 82 years)  [natural]   4. Harriet Saxton,   b. 14 Mar 1814, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA ,   d. 11 Mar 1831, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 16 years)  [natural]   5. Infant Saxton,   b. Abt 1815, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA ,   d. Abt 1815, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA  (Age ~ 0 years)  [natural]   6. Anson Saxton,   b. 26 Oct 1817, Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA ,   d. 19 Jul 1833, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 15 years)  [natural]   7. Betsey Saxton,   b. 25 Feb 1819, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. 17 Nov 1837, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 18 years)  [natural]   8. Phebe Saxton,   b. 7 Sep 1821, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. 29 Oct 1844, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 23 years)  [natural]   9. Elmina Saxton,   b. 11 Aug 1823, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. Feb 1900  (Age 76 years)  [natural]   10. Dewitt Saxton,   b. 10 Apr 1825, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. 10 Nov 1853, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  (Age 28 years)  [natural]   11. Cynthia Saxton,   b. 1 Jan 1827, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   12. Mary Saxton,   b. 30 Mar 1828, Newburgh, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F8426	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Polly 6, b. April 4, 1789, the first white child born in Bristol, Vt., m. March 22, 1808, Jehial Saxton. She survived her husband and d. in Cleveland Ohio, July 24, 1873. The following is from the pen of a daughter. "Jehial Saxton resided at Bristol until the fall of 18 18, when he with his family removed to Newburgh, Ohio, being six weeks on the road. He bought a farm five miles from Cleveland ; cleared enough of it to build a log house, windows without glass. Deer, with other wild game and cornmeal was their principal food until land could be cleared and crops gotten in. His family at this time consisted of five children ; there were no schools, but he with two other neighbors built a log schoolhouse, and the three hired and boarded the teacher among them. Mrs. Saxton had inherited her father's resolution to a marked degree and it was through her hopefulness and helpfulness that her husband was enabled to pass through those discouraging years of pioneer life. She was a born pioneer ; it was different with her husband, he had left public life and probably a career behind him, to battle with the isolated life in the woods of what was then the western reserve. An incident of those early days my mother has told us children. It was this, She with her two neighbors were spending one afternoon together. Each of the three women had a child in arms. Suddenly they heard the squealing of the only pig in the neighborhood. They knew that the pig's assailant must be a bear, and at once all three with a child in arms sallied out to the rescue. It would never do to let the bear have the pig, consequently they chased after his bearship into the thick underbrush through which they could not see, but led by the squealing they at last came upon the dead pig which the bear had dropped while fleeing from the three screaming women." (Severence)