The following is a collection of exerpts from 255 pages of Sudlow Family History written by John J. Haviland to Fred and Henry Sudlow. Paul Sudlow distributed these 10 pages to the family members which he corresponded with.


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Henry E. Sudlow������������������������������������������������������������������� May 13th, 1928
Coral Gables, Florida

Dear Cousin -
For my own part I longed to see the name of� Sudlow and at last I have been rewarded. And as soon as I saw what was my grandmother's maiden name I got busy.
A very important point in this genealogy business is not to gloss over the unlovely, nor to alter the spelling but to honestly portray the people and their times. -------

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Now mother got me to keep a diary beginning in my fourteenth year, she told me it would help me in putting words together, and spelling, and my hand-writing. The Diary is going yet and this "Gold Pen" has done, and is doing the work yet of the half century. It has written a large portion of the family Genealogy.
From the Genealogy as written by Henry J. Haviland, son of John & Elizabeth Sudlow Haviland
We here make mention of the worthy ancestors of this family.
Joseph Sudlow and his wife Elizabeth were born in England, and there lived and died upon their landed estate, located in the early part of the eighteenth century, three miles from the City of London.
Elizabeth Sudlow lived to the age of One hundred and four years, retaining her intellectual facilities with remarkable clearness and evinced strong atachments to her family. It was her request when near the close of life.
"Take this silver snuff box my son Richard gave me when he left my home and his native land for America, put it in my coffin, and bury it with me." It was taken from her pillow This little gift so highly praised from her absent son has long lain treasured with her ashes in the grave.

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Joseph and Elizabeth had two sons. Joseph Sudlow Jr. and Richard, Joseph Jr. being the eldest, inherited his father's estate.
Richard, having every advantage offered to obtain a good education, availed himself of it until about eighteen years of age, when he resolved to try his fortunes in America and arrived in 1766, near the time of commencement of the agitation which terminated in the American Revolution.
Major Philip Skene obtained a patent from the King in 1771 of a tract of land at the head of Lake Champlain, then called Skeensburrough, now Whitehall. Gov'er Skeen as he was sometimes called employed Richard Sudlow to survey his lands. The bitter feeling between the King and his American subjects waxed greater contunually, so it was difficult to accomplish much.
In 1775 Richard Sudlow with the sons and people of Major Skene was made prisoners, numbering about fourty, a few conveyed to Hartford.

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Philip Skene was in England at the time, but returned again, and remaining loyal to the crown in 1777 was captured at Saratoga and by subsequent acts of the New York Legislature was attained and his lands confiscated.
Richard Sudlow was held prisoner several years, till towards the termination of the War 1782.
During his imprisonment most of the time, under but little restraint, though at first quite severe. After his release employed his time in teaching school and land surveying. When
he married Abigail, the daughter of Moses Wanzer and Elizabeth Knapp Wanzer.
����� The following extract from the record of Friends to explain
At Oblong Monthly Meeting held 18th of 2nd Mo. 1778
������ Wing Kelley & Benjamin Haviland are appointed to attend the marriage of John Drinkwater and

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Abigail Wanzer and hand the certificate to the Clerk of Records.
Friend Drinkwater died leaving Abigail widdow about one year afterwards
Richard after his marriage with the widow bought a farm in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co. Connecticut, the birthplace of
George Sudlow
Elizabeth Sudlow (Haviland)
Joseph Sudlow
Then purchased a Grist Mill property in the town of New Milford on the Husatonic River near the hamlet of Lanesville, portions of the mill dam is yet to be seen extending out in the river to meet the great falls just a short distance obove the rapids of the Husatonic, and in sight of the large bridge. There was excellent fishing in the river in those early times, Shad, Herring, Lamprey, Eels, &c.
The Indians assembled here in Spring to fish, and the Squaws made baskets and

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trinkets to sell. Grandmother told me how the Indian women would leave the little Pappoose in the board cradle at the house while they went fishing. They followed the streams with a basket, and gathered the speckled mud turtles, and made camp uner a large oak tree on the Sudlow farm, hung their kettle and when the water got hotwould dump them in and have turtle soup. While they were away grandmother as a girl with her mother and others would dress the little Indian children up in the white childrens cloths, and when they returned there was a great time with Indian thanks.
There was one pappoose story that always gave me the shivers, One day the squaw had a little tiney baby in it's board and she sat the board up against the house and went away. There was and old hog and pigs wandering around, and the old sow upset the cradle and eat the Indian baby. Grandmother as a natural born doctor (Elizabeth Sudlow) she was often called on in the neighborhood to attend the sick. In those days Doctors were scarce and

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far between, She had a printed book of Indian remedies, and I think someone stole it from among fathers treasures when his bodily powers began to fail, there was often someone around wanting to see the momentos of early days, and it got into a pocket. Grandmother had it in a tin box, it was always there, but one day I found it empty. Well do I remember as soon as I was old enough to follow directions, being light she would send me into the nasty muddy places, for sweet flag, green of the meadow, and lots of things I have forgotten, and some I never knew the name of. She would say, "get me that blue, or red, or yellow, or whatever it happened to be as thee is light� and will not sink in the mud like I would. There is no one else in the house that can get it, they are too heavy, If I should get in there and get fast then thee would have to go after grandfather to pull me out, and he would laugh at thee. Of all things I dreaded was to be laughed at by my grandfather. He was a fast master at getting a boys grat he wouldont lick you, but -

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- - - Richard was born on the Sudlow estate near London in 1748, and died May 1st, 1814 aged 66. Came to America at 18 years of age, graduated as a surveyor and engineer, a man strong in stature, standing above six feet in height.
Abigail was born in New Fairfield Conn, 6th day of 9th Month 1758, died 7th day of 8th Month 1818 at her home in New Milford Plains, their graves are in Friends ground about a mile beyound (east) near Lanesville. A small trunk and a large pammelled chest with two small drawers underneath, which he brought over from England, is in posession of his grandson Henry J. Haviland, and prized a momento and centimental relic. It was well filled when landed in this country with valuable clothing, one suit of scarlet broad-cloth silver buckles with knee breeches, shoe buckles to match, a suit worn on public occasions by Englishmen having an honorary profession.
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If the family cares any thing about the heir looms keep them sacred, and labled.
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Children of Richard & Abigail
George Sudlow� Bo Nov. 23rd 1783� Di April 12th 1858
Elizabeth� Bo Dec 6th 1786� Di 6th of 2nd Mo. 1868
Joseph� Bo August 6th 1787� Di Feb 27th 1863
Susannah� Bo Nov 14th 1789� Di March 15th 1808
Phoebe� Bo Sept 5th 1791� Di April 29th (1833, unclear)
Ebenezer, Nicholas, Jonah, these three died in Infancy
Richard Jr� Bo 1800 Oct 6th� Died say December 1851
George had the silver buckles.
Richard and Abigail was members of the religious society of Friends, requested for their children, George, Elizabeth, and Joseph to be received mambers at a meeting of friends held at Oblong the 6th of 2nd Mo 1795.
In the grounds near the meeting house they were buried, a little to the eastward. A very long grave, simply marked by field stones at foot and head is pointed to as Richard's grave. Very many of Abigails kindred are traced in long lines here in the Friends burying ground on New Milford Plains.

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If my pen could only be turned with a geer and crank so it could keep up to these reminiscences it seems as though it would be a relief, I imagine I can hear you say the crank is all right, but father was always very much interested in these western cousins, it got into my blood, and this is the only way I can get it out. ---
Well I think this is about enough of such history, I am well aware that in looking over the records of other families beside our own, it is the narative part that is the most interesting, and if some one don't launch out and say something beside just born, married, and died, family history might as well not be written: for surely the feeds of our ancestors put us to ernest effort to keep up the record. - - -
The pen that makes these letters has been in use 55 years. The "old pen" and I have had our Golden Wedding. I see the bottom of this leaf coming up, so I had better cme down, with a good by

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� John J. Haviland



-- I tried to keep spelling accurate to the document, please alert me to any errors in this transcription,
Kelly Smith
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