This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams Spofford/Spafford Baldwin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACI/2596 Message Board Post: I am trying to find the Richard Williams and Sophia Spofford family. Richard married Sophia Spafford/Spofford d/o John & Mary (Baldwin) 7 Jun 1807 at Salisbury Litchfield Connecticut. Sophia's father John Spofford settled in Rutland Vermont but died in Lewis Co New York. Her mother Mary Baldwin is buried in West Street Cemetery Rutland Vermont. Richard and Sophia supposedly had a son George and daughters Sophia and Julia. Is there a list of burials in this cemetery that I can access? Trudy Hawley sent me a copy of a report from the Vermont Historical Magazine (1867) page 1151 Col Spofford Family.....John Spofford Sen. died Apr 24 1823 aged 71. Mary Spofford Sept 9 1842, aged 92. "In the summer of 1874, we had a pleasant historical visit from Mrs Williams. Sophia, the last but one of the twelve children of old Capt. Spofford of Bennington battle and Revolutionary fame, from whom we took the following notes -"My father was a Captain of a Company in the Bennington Battle at the approach of Burgoyne, he called out his militia and from his own stores provided for his company. My mother drew a pension for years on account of drawing the lines of rations and dealing them out. I was the eleventh of 12 children born by the large spring in Tinmouth, except Horatio, who was born in Dorset just after the Bennington Battle. My parents settled in Tinmouth shortly after they were married. All the citizens fled before the approach of Burgoyne. The whole inhabitants started off at once. They crossed the mountain in the night. Mother rode on horseback, Heman behand her on the pillion. Mother intended to go to the seaside but could not go further than Dorset. ! Abijah Pratt, who married my father's sister Phebe, accompanied the women and children. He was one of father's militia men. After the war my parents returned to their place in Tinmouth. When my father died, 200 different lodges sent their representatives to his funeral. They came from Utica New York and from the lodges all through that section. It was the largest funeral I ever saw. He was a high Mason - had been a Green Mountain Boy officer and lived to be an old man. He was Captain the the Revolutionary War and afterward Colonel in the Militia." But nothing about where Sophia lived! Anyone out there connected to this line of the Williams/Spoffords?