Individual Details

Marriage

Ebenezer Steele Gleason, bap. Dec 6, 1767; m. July 19, 1813, Prudence Brainard. They had: Mary Gleason, b. May, 1796; m. Frederick Deming, and Chrlotte Gleason, b. June 2, 1806; m. Richard W. Green.

Death

Birth: Jul. 31, 1774, East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Death: Nov. 17, 1860
Prudence Brainard, b. July 31, 1774, East Haddam, Middlesex Co., Conn.; m., July 25, 1791, Ebenezer Steele Gleason, b. Dec. 6, 1767, son of Isaac and Mary (Smith) Gleason of Farmington, Conn., where he lived. Mr. Ebenezer Steele Gleason d. June 23, 1808. She m. (2), Sept. 29, 1816, Isaac Chapman, the husband of her sister, Mary Brainard, deceased, son of Isaac and Tabitha (Chapman) Chapman. Mrs. Prudence (Brainard) (Gleason) Chapman d. Nov. 17, 1860.
Chapman child by the second marriage:
A son, b. July 4, 1820; d. July 7, 1820, ae. 3 ds.
Volume 1 of The Genealogy of the Brainerd-Brainard Family in America, 1649-1908; pt. 1-3; Descendants of Daniel, James and Joshua Brainerd, sons of Daniel and Hannah (Spencer) Brainerd; Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1908; pg. 69.
About her 2nd husband:
Isaac Chapman, Jr., b. April 12, 1771, son of Isaac and Tabitha (Chapman) Chapman of East Haddam, Conn.; m. (1) Sept. 27, 1801, Mary Brainard. Mrs. Mary (Brainard) Chapman d. Aug. 25, 1815, in her 39th yr. He m. (2), Sept. 29, 1816, Prudence (Brainard) Gleason of Farmington. Conn., his wife's sister, and widow of Ebenezer Steele Gleason. He lived in his last days with his son, Daniel B. Chapman, at Warsaw, Hancock Co., Ill.
Parents:
  Daniel Brainerd (1720 - 1777)
  Prudence Gridley Porter (____ - 1811)
Spouses:
  Isaac Chapman (1771 - 1856)
  Ebenezer Steele Gleason (1767 - 1808)*
Children:
  George Brainard Gleason (1794 - 1866)*
  Mary Gleason Deming (1796 - 1869)*
  Isaac Gleason (1798 - 1815)*
  Samuel Gleason (1802 - 1803)*
  Sarah Gleason Gates (1804 - 1881)*
  Charlotte Gleason Green (1806 - 1829)*
  Prudence Gleason (1808 - 1810)*
Siblings:
  Daniel Brainerd (1744 - 1755)**
  Jeremiah Gates Brainard (1759 - 1830)**
  Susannah Brainerd (1766 - 1769)**
  Susannah Brainard Gates (1772 - 1846)*
  Prudence Brainard Gleason Chapman (1774 - 1860)
  Mary Brainerd Chapman (1776 - 1815)*
Inscription:
Widow of Isaac Chapman, in the 87th Yr of her age "Accepted in the beloved"
Note: Mrs. Prudence Gleanson, of Farmington, married Isaac Chapman, of East Haddam, Sept 29, 1816 by Rev. Mr. Porter, at Farmington. Barbour vital records, E.H. vol. 2 page 267
Burial: First Church Cemetery , East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut