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John Woolf Jordan, Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania, Volume 1 1913
NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA. 103
... ried Bernard Truman Garlick.
The Colegrove family of
COLEGROVE Pennsylvania descends from the old Welsh family of that name. The emigrant ancestor, Francis Colegrove, was born near Swansea, Wales, and came from London, England, to Warwick, Rhode Island, as early as 1680. The descendants in this country are through his five sons:
Eli, Stephen, Francis ( 2), John and William.
It is from the second named son that the family of Smethport has descent.
(II) Stephen, son of Francis Colegrove, was born in 1695 in Foster, Rhode Island, died in 1787. In 1737 he was made “a free man of the colony" of Providence, Rhode Island, according to the town records. He was chosen town councilman at the first town meeting, which formed the town of Foster in 1781. In 1754 he purchased some land in the town of Scituate where his later years were passed. He married (first) -- Taylor;
(second) Phoebe Millard, born 1707, died December 29, 1775.
Children of first marriage:
1. Stephen, a farmer of Foster, Rhode Island, born 1722, died 1811; married 1748, Judith Aylesworth.
2. Thomas, of Brattleboro, Vermont, born April 23, 1724; married December 2, 1753, Rachel Aylesworth; he was admitted a freeman of Warwick, Rhode Island, in 1746.
3. William, a farmer of Scituate, Rhode Island, born 1726; married Anna
4. Benjamin. of Windham county, Connecticut, born 1729, died 1820; married October 21, 1759 Sarah, daughter of Eleazer Colegrove. He served in King George’s war, and in the Revolution, entering Captain Branch’s company of Col. Johnson’s regiment of Connecticut militia. He was present at the capture of
Louisburg on Cape Breton Island.
5. Mary, born 1731; married (first) in 1759, Samuel Colegrove; (second) in 1773, Richard Nichols.
Children of second marriage:
6. Nathan. one of the first settlers of Middletown. Rutland
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county, Vermont, born 1741; married Miriam Fillmore.
7. John, a farmer of Coventry, Rhode Island, born 1744, died 1817; married (first) Martha , who died in 1793; (sec ond) Nancy Corwin, born 1758, and died 1820.
8. Jonathan, of whom further.
9. Isaac, a farmer of Northwest, Connecticut.
10. Phoebe, born 1749, died 1839; married 1779, Phineas Bridgewater, of Bridgewater, New York.
11. Lotta, born in 1751; married -- Shepardson, of Fairfax, Vermont. (III) Jonathan, third child and son of Stephen and Phoebe (Millard) Colegrove, a farmer of Plainfield, Connecticut, and Norwich, New York, was born in 1745, died in 1812; married Jemima Park, born in 1745, died in 1800.
Children: 1. Olive, born May 1, 1774, died 1859; married Edward Corwin.
2. Phoebe, born November 6, 1776; married John Monroe of Norwich, Chenango county, NY. 3. Esther, born January 10, 1778; married Elijah Gibbs of Norwich, Connecticut.
4. Park, a blacksmith, born December 27, 1779, died'February 5, 1846; married Margaret M. Lindsey, born November 9, 1790.
5. Jonathan (2), of whom further.
6. Jemima, born December 12, 1783; married Luther Havens.
7. Benjamin, born June 16, 1787, died April 4, 1875, moved to Morenci, Lenawee county,
Michigan; married in 1815, Lucy Garlick, who died in 1847.
8. Mary, born May 5, 1790; married (first) Israel Green: (second) Daniel Burbank.
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d. 1787 (Age 92 years) 
