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Title: Henry Tomlison, and his descendants in America : with a few additional branches of Tomlinsons, later from England
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Orcutt, Samuel, 1824-1893
Subjects: Tomlinson family Tomlinson, Henry, d. 1681
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Press of Price, Lee and Adkins Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ov. 28, 1817, aged 91 years. Unvail thy bosom faithful tomb, Take these new treasures to thy trust : And give these sacred relics roomTo seek a slumber in the dust. In Memory of Mrs. Charity Tomlinson, wife ofCapt. Beach Tomlinson, who died Xov. 19th, 1809 ;In the 73d year of her age They settled in Huntington, Ct., on land giyenhim by his father, where they resided during theirlives. He possessed remarkable physical strength,memory and enterprise, which continued to the endof his life. He was a large stockholder in theDerby Turnpike, and owned considerable land inVermont to which he went yearly on horseback, un-til after he was ninety years of age, to collect rents.On one of his return trips, being alone and carryingconsiderable money, he was pursued by robbers,from whom he escaped by jumping his horse down asteep bank into the Onion river, across which hishorse swam, bringing him safely home. Beach Tomlinson was appointed Ensign in thetrainband. May. 1771. in Ripton (now Huntington,
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CAPTAIN BEACH TOMLINSON

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