Hope this is benefit to someone researching the Sylvanus Curtis line.... Gay, Julius Old houses in Farmington : an historical address Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1895, 20 pgs. Page 18. ..."We will halt under the big elm tree, which overhangs the house where Manin Curtis spent his life, long enough to say that his father, Sylvanus Curtis, in the company of Phinehas Lewis in 1762, the year in which Sylvanus was married, brought home from a swamp three elm trees. One was planted on the back of Elm Tree Inn, one in front of the house of Mr. Curtis, and the third failed to live. The big elm tree is, therefore, 133 years old. On the corner stands the house, much improved of late, built in 1786 and 1787 by Capt. Judah Woodruff, for Major Peter Curtiss, a Major in the Revolutionary War, who removed to Granby in 1700, and was the first keeper of the reconstructed Newgate Prison, leaving it in 1796 in declining health, and dying in 1797." Norton, Walter Whittlesey Some descendants of John Norton of Branford, 1622-1709 : with notes and dates of other emigrant Nortons, etc. Lakeville, Conn.: The Journal Press, 1909, 67 pgs. page 12. Children by second wife Rachel Pomeroy born in Farmington: + vii. Thomas b. 1740 d. July 15, 1789 m. 1762 Sarah Marsh of Hartford. viii. Jemimah b. 1744 d. 1828 m. Sylvanus Curtis