great calamity befell the family in 1840, when she became insane, her two sons being at the time thirteen and ten years of age.

Sarah Dibble was born April 10, 1792. Her mother, the fourth wife of Deacon Benjamin Dibble, was of a family of the name Fuller, from Lyme, Conn. The family moved to Ft. Edward, above Troy, on the Hudson, and lived on the river bank. Here, in July, 1777, they had taken land, built, and cleared the fields when General Burgoyne came down from the north with his army, followed by a plundering crew of Indians, driving the American army before them. Mr. Fuller was ordered, as a means of safety, to abandon his farm and take his family and stock down the river. He remarked to his wife that he had a sow and pigs in a hollow log back of the house and would go and drive them in, as they might be useful for the army. Soon after he left the house, three Indians came in. Mrs. Fuller told them to leave the place, as the American army was near by. They went out, but had been gone only a short time when the report of a gun was heard. Her husband not returning, Mrs. Fuller went to look and found him shot, scalped, and tomahawked. He soon died. Mrs. Fuller and the children, two or three in number, were put on board a scow and sent down the river to Albany, never returning to the frontier. Mrs. Benjamin Dibble, mother of Sarah, was one of these children and about twelve years of age at the time of the massacre of her father.

Elizabeth Fuller was born March 10, 1765, and died October, 1838. Benjamin Dibble was born May 7, 1723, and died Dec. 5, 1810. Levi Viets died Dec. 22, 1857; his wife, Sarah, Sept. 15, 1852.

CHILDREN.

114. i. Levi Clinton, b. Jan. 17, 1827.

ii.

Richard Benjamin, b. April 23, 1830; d. July 24, 1863; was a young man of excellent character and principle; was a communicant of the Episcopal Church in Tariffville; when about 12 years of age he decided of his own accord to drink no more cider, a too prevalent habit among farmers of that day; and neither he nor his brother, Clinton, ever drank cider thereafter.

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(Rosanna, Luke, John,' John.')

ROSANNA VIETS, born Dec. 4, 1778, married Elisha Remington of Suffield.

CHILDREN.

i. Eliza Remington, m. Jabez Hendrick and had: Eliza A., m. Aden Palmer; Esther H., m. Oliver W. Lathrop, Springfield, Mass.; Edward M., m. Alvira Noble, Westfield; Pearson M., m. Emma Carver; Rhoda M.; Joel H., m. Lucy A. Munger, res. Springfield; Chauncey E., d. in the war.

ii. John Remington.

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(Luke, Luke," John," John.')

LUKE VIETS, JR., born at the old homestead near Newgate, Aug. 2, 1780, died at his home not far distant, April 30, 1821, aged 40. He married, June 4, 1798, Abigail Phelps, daughter of Judah Phelps of Suffield, said to have been a lady of remarkable beauty. She was born May 27, 1781, and died May 16, 1831.

CHILDREN.

115. i. Gervase, b. Feb. 4, 1800; d. March 15, 1839.

iii.

Charles, b. March 12, 1803; d. March 1, 1838, unmarried. iv. Catherine, b. Aug. 14, 1805; d. Jan. 9, 1818.

v. Orlando, b. Aug. 5, 1807; d. July, 1809.

117.

vi.

118.

vii.

119.

viii.

I20.

ix.

121.

122.

X.

Henry W., b. Sept. 2, 1809; d. Aug. 2, 1840.
Abigail, b. Aug. 6, 1811; d. March 9, 1835.
Ansel, b. March 27, 1814; d.

Jane, b. May 9, 1816; d. (Feb. 21, 1889).
Emeline C., b. Feb. 2, 1818; d.

xi. Amoret E., b. May 31, 1821.

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(John,* Luke,' John,' John.')

CAPTAIN JOHN VIETS, son of Luke, and grandson of Captain John, was born March 1, 1782. He was captain of a training band, read much, and was well posted in law and the practical affairs of the day, and was an industrious and

successful farmer. He settled at the age of twenty-five on the farm a mile south of Newgate, afterwards for many years in possession of his son Chauncey E., and now owned by George E. Bidwell. He purchased and occupied during the latter part of his life the Orson Phelps place in East Granby. He is said to have been a man of medium stature, and of dark eyes and hair.

John Viets married, Oct. 2, 1805, Abigail Eno, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Hart) Eno of Simsbury, where she was born Feb. 28, 1785. Jonathan Eno was a descendant of James Eno, one of the early settlers of Windsor. Mary Hart, his wife, was a descendant of Deacon Stephen Hart, who settled at Cambridge, 1630, and later at Hartford, Conn. John Viets died Oct. 11, 1857; his wife, Dec. 20, 1863.

123. i.

124. 125.

ii.

iii.

CHILDREN.

John Jay, b. Sept. 22, 1806; d. Dec. 10, 1885.
Imlay Bird, b. Dec. 19, 1808; d. Oct. 19, 1875.

Abi Lavinia, b. April 20, 1810; d. Cleveland, O., Aug. 26,
1884.

iv. Chauncey Eno, b. Oct. 3, 1812; d. July, 1876; m. 1st, Esther Denison of Suffield, 2d, Nancy Noone of Chester, Mass.; no children; he was a farmer and trading man, occupied his father's old place west of the mountain, where he made extensive improvements.

126.

v.

Mary Adelia, b. Feb. 19, 1819.

127. vi. James Rollin, b. Sept. 20, 1821; d. July 14, 1896.

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(George, Luke, John,' John.')

CAPTAIN GEORGE VIETS, born Feb. 12, 1788, was captain of a training band, a thrifty farmer, and carried on an extensive business in gravestones. He built the stone house occupied for many years by his son George Watson; was a promoter of good roads; lived in East Granby, and during the latter part of his life, in partial retirement, at Windsor Locks, where he died May 3, 1864.

George Viets married, Feb. 16, 1809, Charlotte Rice, daughter of Eleazer and Rosannah (Viets) Rice. She was born Sept. 13, 1787, and died April 21, 1862.