Nathan Tefft

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• Occupation: Sawmill Owner and Farmer.
• Judge Nathan Tefft, son of John Tefft, was born in South Kings Town, Rhode Island, March 14, 1717. He was descended from John Tefft and Mary Barber, both of England, who came to America, settled in Providence, Washington, Rhode Island, and married there in 1638. His mother was descended from William Sprague and Millicent Eames of Upwey, Dorsetshire, England.
• Nathan moved from Rhode Island to Albany, New York in 1766, and from there to Washington County, New York, traveling on horseback. He passed through trackless forests, being guided by marks cut on the trees, passing through Petersburg Valley as far as Cambridge, and from there across to Washington County. His son Stanton, a surveyor, accompanied him and laid out the tract of land that included the Rogers', Collamer's, Richardson's, Parker's, Babcock's, and Tefft's farms.
• One year later Nathan brought his family to Galesville, New York. He built a sawmill there, the first one on the Batten Kill. In 1763 and 1764 he was justice of the court of common pleas for Kings County. He was lieutenant of the Third Company Militia, Colonel Pendleton's regiment, in 1750 and 1753; he was captain in 1753 and 1754.
• Judge Nathan Tefft married (first) September 16, 1742, Isabel Stanton, born August 13, 1716, died 1777. He married (second) E. Dareis (Dorcas) Sheldon. He died April 3,1789.

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New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 – @Ancestry.com:–

• Name: Nathan Tefft [Nathan Tifft]
• Probate: 29 Sep 1789; Washington, New York, USA
• Inferred Death: 1789; New York, USA
• Text: "Washington — The People of the State of New York…to Dorcas Tifft, Widow and relict of Nathan Tifft late of Argyle in the County of Washington, deceased, send greeting. Whereas the said Nathan Tifft as is alledged, lately died…[with] Goods, Chattels, and Credits of the said deceased may be well and faithfully administered, applied,, and disposed of, do grant until the said Dorcas Tifft….And we do by these Presents, depute, constitute, and appoint you the said Dorcas Tifft, administrix…of the said Nathan Tifft….”

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Books

• Arnold, James Newell, ed. 1894. “South Kingstown—Marriages.” In Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850: Washington County: Births, Marriages, Deaths; A Family Register for the People, Vol. 5, Pt. 2:1–36. Providence, Rhode Island, USA: Narragansett Historical Publishing. Available at: Archive.org.
  • South Kingstown Marriages, p. 31: “1-95 STANTON Isabel, and Nathan Tefft, Sept. I6, 1742.”
  • South Kingstown Marriages, p. 32: “1-95 Nathan and Isabel Stanton, by Rev. Daniel Everett, Sept. 16, 1742.”
• Hill, William H. 1954. History of Washington County, N.Y.: The Gibson Papers, Old Families. Fort Edward, New York, USA: Washington County Historical Society. Available at: Ancestry.com:—
  • "IV. Nathan, who was born at South Kingston, R. I., on March 14, 1717; married Isabel Staunton on September 16, 1742, (3, Naragansett Historical Register, 228), who was born August 13, 1716. They had children, viz:
    • 1. Stanton, born July 9, 1744.
    • 2. Isabel, born March 14, 1746.
    • 3. Mercy, born December 14, 1749.
    • 4. Nathan, 2nd, born August 28, 1752. 5. John, born March 13, 1756.
    • 5. Mary, born May 2, 1758.
    • 6. Sarah, born August 14, 1762.
  • "Isabel Staunton dying June 12, 1777, Nathan Tefft married, secondly, Dorcas Sheldon.
  • “Nathan Tefft, with his eldest son, Stanton, visited Easton in 1766, and liking the country, made an extensive purchase of land on the southerly side of the Battenkill, and as soon as he could construct a dwelling for them, he brought his whole family and made a settlement in that town on the lands so purchased, and there lived till his death. He and his son, Stanton, on September 29, 1774, were both appointed justices of the peace in and for the county of Albany, in which Easton was then situated. (See 101, New York Historical MS, 11.) After the annexation of Easton to the county of Washington, Stanton Tefft, on April 6, 1792, was appointed a justice of the peace for the latter county, and was continued in the commission of the peace till 1811. He also represented the county of Washington in the Assembly in 1792-3.
  • “Nathan Tefft, the first settler in Easton, died there on April 3, 1789, aged fifty-two years.”
• Wheeler, Richard Anson. (1900). History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from Its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900. Press of the Day: New London, Connecticut, USA. Available at: Archive.org:—
  • “Thomas Stanton (No. 220) m. Esther Babcock, daughter of Job Babcock of Westerly, R. I….
  • “283 ISABEL, b. ——. m. Nathan Teft. Sept. 16. 1742.”
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