MARRIAGES - 24 January 1815
Married, At Franklin, Mr. William Palmer to, Miss Ednah Armstrong, daughter of Mr. Lee Armstrong; Mr. Oliver Johnson Jr. to Miss Abby Hyde, daughter of Mr. Samuel Hyde;, to Miss Lydia Tracy; Mr Charles Pettis to Miss Rachael Tracy, daughters of Eleazer Tracy, Esq.; Mr. Henry Burnham, to Miss Lucy Greenslit, daughter of Capt. Bejamin Greenslit; Thomas Pope, Esq. , of Dudley (MS*), to Miss Rosanna Ellis, daughter of Dr. Benjamin Ellis.
At Norwich, Mr. Elisha Bebee, of Waterford, to Miss Anna Robinson.
At Lyme, Maj. Peter Lord, to Miss Hetta Gillet, daughter of Capt. Joseph Gillet; Mr. Josiah Beckwith to Miss _____Tinker, daughter of Mr. Nathan Tinker; Mr. Daniel M. Gillet to Miss Betsey Royce; Rev. Alfred Mitchell, of Norwich, to Miss Lucretia M. Woodbridge, daughter of the late Nathaniel S. Woodbridge Esq.
At Lebanon, Mr. William C. Smith to Miss Lucy Lathrop.
At Marlborough, Mr. Lewis Gilbert to Miss Sally Ward.
At Stratford, Mr. Elijah Beach to Miss Ann Adams; Mr. Joseph Crawford to Miss Laura Fauncher.
At Wilton, Mr. Platt Bates, of Redding, to Miss Laura Olmsted.
At Stamford, Mr. Jonathan Bull Jr. to Miss Betsey Mather.
"If Love's a flame that's kindled by desire,
"an Old stick's surely best because 'tis drier."
----At Glasgow, Mr. Henry Cain aged eighty-four, to Mrs. Maxwell, aged ninety-six. It is the sixth time of the bridegroom, and the ninth time of the bride being joined in wedlock.
DIED - 24 January 1815
At Farmington, Mrs. Anna Mitchell, aged 40, wife of Mr. Jacob Mitchell; on the 6th instant, Capt. Samuel Root, aged 56.
At Longmeadow (Ms)*, Mrs. Sarah Collins, aged 82, wife of Mr. Stephen Collins.
At Burlington, Mr. Wise Barns, aged 91.
At Somers, Miss Sally Blackman, aged 21.
At Plattsburgh, NY, Mr. Minerva Dexter, aged 20, formerly of Coventry, in this state.
At Randolph (Vt), Mr. Daniel Bissell, aged 90, formerly of Windsor, in this state.
At Huntington, Miss Sally Curtis, aged 18, daughter of John Curtis, Esq.
At Montville, Mr. Amos Bolles, aged 76.
At Lenox, Mass., on the 26th ult. Mrs. Lucretia Gale, aged 45, wife of Mr. L. Gale, formerly of New London, in this state.
At Waterford, Mrs. Lucy Smith, aged 51, wife of Mr. King Smith.
At Windham, Mrs. Jerusha Fox, wife of Mr. Jabez Fox.
At Canterbury, Mr. John Herrick, aged 64.
At Haddam, Mr. Jared Arnold, aged 19.
At Berlin, Mrs. Clarissa Stocking, aged 33, wife of Mr. Luther Stocking Jr.
In London, Mrs. Anne Newby, widow, aged 74 - during 44 years matron and midwife to the City of London Lying-in Hospital, highly distinguished by her vigour of mind and body, her active benevolence and piety. In 1803, she received a medal of the Humane Society for her extraordinary success in recovering still-born children, the number of whom thus saved by her at that time amounted to five hundred.
*** Note - I believe the MS after a town out of state refers to Massachusetts and not Mississippi.