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- [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #4588, Date of Import: Aug 24, 1997]
Asaph Wilder, 9-6, (136) son of James Wilder, 8-1, (46), see page, and Martha Broughton, died in early childhood.
SOURCE: The Book of The Wilders, 3rd Printing, 1998, Thomas Line, 1st Lineage, James Wilder, founder, generation 5, page 13
Buried in the Wilkinson Lot, North Scituate, Rhode Island. He was a farmer.
The author of the Old Wilder Book assumed that he "died in early childhood." As a matter of fact, he merely went south as far as Connecticut and Rhode Island.
All credit for identifying this branch of the family and attaching it to its proper place, is due to Mrs. Mary Rose Wilder Turner of Springfield, Ohio, who in 1927, published a pamphlet entitled in part, "The Lineage of the Rhode Island Wilders." From this comes the following account of her ingenious reasoning and investigation.
"From Vol. II of Rhode Island Genealogy-Biography we get the following sketch of Asaph Wilder.
'The first record we have of the Wilder family in Rhode Island is the marriage (Scituate Town Record) of Asaph Wilder of Killingly, Connecticut to Olive, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Mary (Rhodes) Wilkinson of Scituate. The ceremony was performed March 29, 1778 by Elder John Wescott.'
'Asaph Wilder was born August 20, 1750 (Lancaster, Mass. Town Records give date of his birth as July 20, 1749 and his baptism by Rev. Timothy Harrington on July 23, 1749.)'
'The reader will give note that Asaph Wilder gave his residence as Killingly, Conn. when he married Olive Wilkinson, so in an effot to trace his parentage, an appeal was made to the Tonw Clerk of Killingly for information. His name could not be found in births, marriages or deaths, but in the land records, his name occurred in deeds. In the first one on record, he gave his residence as Lancaster, Mass; in a later deed, Killingly; still later, Gloucester, Rhode Island. In this way, Asaph Wilder of Rhode Island was traced to lancaster, Mass.
'The Town Clerk of Killingly also called attention to the fact that Asaph Wilder was a soldier in the Revolution and that he was commissioned as a Cornet of Horse Cavalry and also Lieutenant of Horse Cavalry by the Connecticut Legislature in 1776. In the Connecticut Military Records his name may be found - first as having marched from the town of Woodstock with the men who responded to the 'Lexington Alarm' for the relief of Boston in April 1775. He is listed as 'Quartermaster' and was in service ten days. Then under Captain Amasa Keyes, whose company marched September 8 and was discharged November 2 he is listed as Cornet."
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1749 - 1799 (49 years)
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