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About 1791 they bought a tract of land in Vermont. Although tradition says they soon exchanged it for a more productive farm in N. Y. State, yet they prob. res. in Vt. several years, for Reuben had the care of his bro. Silas, who d. in Vt. Feb. 5, 1805. Eventually they rem. to the new farm at Granville, Washington Co. N. Y. and several of the ch. were b. there. It was a frontier section thinly settled and the mother taught the ch. to read, to say the catechism, to compute their small accounts, to study the Bible and Prayer Book and to sing a few psalm-tunes which, with an occasional visit from a mis- sionary was at first all their opportunity for education. After all the children had left home, the parents started to drive out to western N. Y. to join the four sons settled in Genesee county. At the first stopping place with friends Mrs. D. died and ?5P THE DOOLITTLE FAMILY. Reuben returned and buried her at Granville. Later on Mr. D. joined his sons at Wethersfield, N. Y., bought a small farm and after a time m. 2] Mrs. Williams, mother of his s. Abner's ist wf. They had no ch. He d. at Wethersfield Spgs. Nov. i, 1847, a. 81. He was a pious man of the olden type.