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- "My mother, then a young woman, came from New Jersey, and took care of her sister Martha in her last sickness, and after her death, she was married to my father; by whom she had twelve children, Judith, Elisha, Amos, Luanna, Betsey, William, Ethan, Matthew, Hannah, Polly, Willet, and Polly. Luanna and the first Polly died very young." [William Stillman, p. 5]
"So my mother had the bringing up of ten of her own children, and two of my father's first sort. Nay, I should have said she had the bringing up of three of the first sort, because Hannah, one of the first sort, lived to be a young woman, and was engaged to be married to Matthew Randall, but was taken sick and died, three or four weeks before the appointed marriage. All that I can remember of her is, that I heard her groan when in some of her last moments. Brother Matthew was born near the time of her death, and Mathew Randall named him, and gave him a lamb for his name." [William Stillman, p. 5]
" Four of my mother's sons were preaches, viz: Elisha, Amos, Matthew, and Willet. Amos, Matthew, and Willet, were ordained ministers." [William Stillman, p. 6]
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