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Hon. Benjamin Douglas (or Douglass) (Daniel and Lydia, Robert, Thomas, Robert, William),
born in New London, Conn., March 14, 1785. He removed with his father's
family to Wallingford, Vermont, in 1797; went with his brother
Christopher to Sprintville, NY in 1811; returned to Vermont at the close
of the year, and married Lucy Townsend, of Wallingford, on 2nd May 1812.
In 1814 he emigrated to Fredonia, New York. In early life he was a
tanner, but afterwards, and for most of his life, a farmer. He was for
one term commencing about 1830, sheriff of Chautauqua county, New York
and in 1840 was a member of the state Legislature. Soon after this he
emigrated to Michigan, and settled on a farm near Ann Arbor. He died at
Detroit on 16th June 1848.
His wife, Lucy died while on a visit
to her relatives in Vermont about 1840. This may have been his second
marriage.
His children, assumed to be with Lucy:
i. Samuel Townsend Douglas, b in
Wallingford, 1811; m. Elizabeth Campbell
ii. Silas Hamilton Douglas,
b. in Fredonia, 1816; m Helen Welles
iii Lydia Dyer Douglas, b in
Fredonia, 1824; m. George Almond
He's the brother of Gilbert
Denison Douglas. Edmund Douglass (Gilbert's son, Benjamin's
nephew) may have been a a bodyguard for Lafayette, presumeably on his US
visit of 1824-25. nejamin also had a brother, Christopher and sister,
Lydia.
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