Individual Details

Eliakim Stow and Lydia (Miller) Stow lived in Middlefield, where he built a house on a hill above the brook Besek, near■ the present Baileyville. When he selected the site for the house it was on such a steep hillside that his father-in-law, Benjamin Miller, refused to come to the raising, there being a beautiful level building spot higher up the hill and further south, which Benjamin Miller preferred, but Eliakim Stow would not occupy. Possibly some of the obstinacy which crops out in later generations may have been bequeathed by one or both of these ancestors. Several other incidents illustrative of the same trait are told of Eliakim Stow and his son Elihu. Eliakim Stow was a zealous Revolutionary patriot. He rendered all the material that could be spared from his farm and, from principle, received Continental money at par for everything he had to sell for the army.

Birth	2 Mar 1708	Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Marriage	13 Dec 1732	Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut - Lydia Miller
Death	19 Aug 1789	Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts

Spouse	Lydia Miller (1711 - 1761)
Child	Lydia Stow (1733 - 1825)
Child	Phoebe Stow (1735 - 1813)
Child	Elihu Stow (1736 - 1812)
Child	Thankful Stow (1738 - 1779)
Child	Sarah Stow (1739 - 1822)
Child	Hannah Stow (1741 - 1761)
Child	Eliakim Stow (1743 - 1743)
Child	Ebenezer Stow (1745 - 1824)
Child	Benjamin Stow (1747 - 1793)
Child	Mary Stow (1752 - 1815)
Child	Daniel Stow (1754 - 1816)

Spouse	Spalding ( - )
Child	Sarah Stow ( - )

Father	Nathaniel Stow (1676 - 1727)
Mother	Sarah Sumner (1685 - 1759)
Sibling	Hannah Stow (1703 - 1780)
Sibling	Nathaniel Stowe (1705 - 1776)

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