The Ancestors of My Grandchildren

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     Noah Tiffany, son of John Tiffany, of Attleboro, Mass., was born July 7, 1752. His first wife Hannah (Carpenter), was born in 1761, and died in 1783. and on September 25. 1786 he married Mary Olney, who was born in 1759 and died in 1837 in Gibson. Penn. He settled in Brooklyn township in 1809, and, like his brothers Hosea and Thomas, was one of the leading men of the community in which he lived. He owned the land on which a part of Brooklyn village, in the Hop Bottom Valley, stands. In 1810 Joshua Miles built a large frame house in the village which afterward became known as the "Abbey." and in this Noah Tiffany kept the postoffice and hotel in 1817. He died July 19. 1818, and was succeeded as postmaster by his son, Arunah Tiffany. Noah Tiffany was a member of the Second Congregational Church of Bridgewater, organized in Brooklyn in 1810, and was a deacon of the Society at the time of his death in 1818. The children of his first marriage were: Jemima, born August 2, 1782, married, November 11, 1804, Eliab Farrar, and died April 21, 1874. Hannah, born December 16, 1783, married, September 19, 1810, Wells Stan1ey, and died March 4, 1874. Arunah, born August 8, 1785, married first October 1, 1809 Lucy Follett, and second in 1841 Clarissa (Lawrence) Bronson. To the second marriage were born: Olney, born in 1787, married Mercy Miller, and died May 2, 1831. Mary, born September 15, 1789, married June 12, 1814 Charles Perrigo, and died March 25, 1819. Amy, born August 9, 1791, died March 1, 1808. Noah, born May 10, 1793, married November 25, 1817 Charlotte Seaver, and died December 25, 1878. John, born May 22, 1795, married Catharine Van Bramer, and died in January, 1863. Clarissa married in 1829 David Waterman, and died January 22, 1869. Loring, born January 20, 1798, died October 24, 1805. Melinda. born October 16, 1801, married January 11, 1825 Myron Lindsey, and died December 16, 1891.²