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- [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #4588, Date of Import: Aug 24, 1997]
Jonas Wilder,111132311 (63), son of John Wilder,11113231 (24), page, and Sarah White Sawyer, in 1733 he removed from Lancaster to Lyme, Conn., and in 1760 to Hartland, where he was a farmer and a leading citizen until he died, in 1797, at the age of 98 years. He was a deacon of the Congregational church, from it's organization in 1767 until his death. The Connecticut Historical Collection has the following notice, taken from the Courant of 1796:
"Hartland, January 19, 1796."
"There is now living in this town a Mr. Jonas Wilder, in the ninety-seventh year of his age, a steady, industrious man, seldom losing a day in a month by reason of infirmity or old age.
"He was, and has been, the oldest man in the town by several years. He has had two wives, both of the same name, both christian and maiden. The last he has lived with over sixty years. He has had thirteen children, the oldest of which is now seventy-three years old and the youngest in his forty-seventh year. He has never lost a child. His sons, seven in number, have sustained the following honorable offices, besides town and society offices: One Colonel, one Major, one Captain, two Lieutenants, three Justices of the Peace, three Representatives, and three Deacons. His posterity was numbered in 1795, and was found to be 232; all but fifteen of them were then living.
In 1724, Jonas Wilder married Eunice Beaman. She died in 1731, and in 1733 he married one of the same name. Eunice Beaman. Relationship unknown.
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1699 - 1797 (97 years)
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