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             Husband: Felix DOWNS (1 2)
                Born: 17 APR 1762 in New Haven, CT (3)
             Married:
                Died: 03 FEB 1848 (4 5)
              Buried: 05 FEB 1848 in Sperry Cemetery, Bethany, New Haven, CT (6 7)
              Father: Samuel DOWNS
              Mother: Sarah HUMPHREVILLE
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Phebe DOWNS (8 9)
                Born: 01 MAY 1765 in New Haven, CT (10)
                Died: 09 FEB 1844 (11 12)
              Buried: 11 FEB 1844 in Sperry Cemetery, Bethany, New Haven, CT (13 14)
              Father: Joseph DOWNS
              Mother: Phebe SPERRY
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Nancy DOWNS (15)
                Born: l 1790 (16)
                Died: 02 JAN 1846 in Hamden, New Haven, CT (17)
             Spouses: John GORHAM
02               (F): Harriet DOWNS (18 19)
                Born: l 1792 (20)
                Died: 16 JUL 1866 in New Haven, CT (21 22)
             Spouses: Elias LOUNSBURY
03               (M): Leverett DOWNS (23 24 25 26)
                Born: 1796 (27 28 29)
                Died: 1859 (30 31)
             Spouses: Anna ATWATER
04               (M): Isaac DOWNS (32)
                Born:
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (M): Sidney DOWNS (33 34 35)
                Born: l 1803 (36)
                Died: 02 SEP 1883 in Derby, New Haven, CT (37 38)
             Spouses: Emily E. SANFORD; Ruth A.
06               (M): Samuel Lewis DOWNS (39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47)
                Born: l 1805 (48)
                Died: 28 AUG 1874 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (49 50 51)
             Spouses: Julianna DOWNS

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
    ... He was a prosperous farmer, and built a commodious house on Downs st., Bethany ...
  2. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1109.
  3. Ibid., vol 3, p 574.
  4. Ibid., vol 3, p 574.
  5. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 116.
  6. Ibid., 68.
  7. D. MacAulay, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Sperry Cemetery, 38.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sperrycemscan38.html.]
  8. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 574.
  9. Ibid., vol 5, p 1109.
  10. Ibid., vol 3, p 577.
  11. Ibid., vol 3, p 577.
  12. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  13. Ibid., 67.
  14. D. MacAulay, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Sperry Cemetery, 38.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sperrycemscan38.html.]
  15. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  16. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  17. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  18. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  19. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 5, p 1109.
  20. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  21. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  22. Ibid., vol 5, p 1109.
  23. 1840 Oxford Census.
  24. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  25. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 8.
    A short distance farther we come to the Downs Homestead, located on the corner of the main road which was formerly used to go to Oxford Center by way of Riggs Street. This home was built in the later years of the 17th century, and was occupied as early as 1840 by Leverett Downs, who was the father of five children, one son and four daughters.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-08.html.]
  26. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
    ... Moved to Oxford, Ct., in 1836, lived on the northly slope of Chestnut Tree Hill.
  27. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  28. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  29. Ibid., vol 1, p 85.
    ... Leverett Downs of Oxf.
  30. David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #15.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan15.html.]
  31. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  32. 1840 Oxford Census.
    [Next to Walker Lake.]
  33. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farm Labor.
  34. 1870 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  35. 1880 Southbury Census.
    Laborer.
  36. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  37. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  38. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
  39. 1840 Oxford Census.
    Lewis.
  40. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  41. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Lewis / Farmer.
  42. 1870 Naugatuck Census.
    Farmer.
  43. 1856 Oxford Map (Unidentified, found in collection of Oxford Historical Society by Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Municipal Historian).
    [ 'L. Downs', Chestnut Tree Hill Road, just south of Gunntown Road.
    http://oxfordpast.net/map.html.]
  44. 1852 Oxford Map (Unidentified, found in collection of Oxford Historical Society by Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Municipal Historian.").
    [ 'L. Downs', Chestnut Tree Hill Road, just south of Gunntown Road.
    http://oxfordpast.net/map.html.]
  45. F. W. Beers, 1868 map (Reproduced for the Oxford Historical Society, Inc. 1977).
    [Excerpt from1868 map, Available at http://www.oxford-historical-society.org/books-for-sale.htm
    S Downs at the Oxford/Naugatuck line.
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/1868GunntownArea.jpg.]
  46. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.
    ... They lived on Chestnut Tree Hill road ...
  47. Ibid., 119.
    Lewis and Julianna Downs.
  48. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 580.
  49. Ibid., vol 3, p 580.
  50. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 123.
    Samuel L. Downs, d. Aug. 28, 1874, aged 69 years.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/123.html.]
  51. W. C. Sharpe, Bethany - Sketches and Records (Record Print; Seymour, CT, 1908), 117.

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