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     William Shelton married Susanna Strong, daughter of Thomas Strong and Susanna Thompson.

     George Shelton was the son of William Shelton and Susanna Strong. George Shelton married Betsey Wooster.

     Betsey Wooster married George Shelton, son of William Shelton and Susanna Strong.

     George Wellington Shelton was the son of George Shelton and Betsey Wooster. George Wellington Shelton married Margaret Gray Atwood.

     Margaret Gray Atwood married George Wellington Shelton, son of George Shelton and Betsey Wooster.

     George Gregroy Shelton was the son of George Wellington Shelton and Margaret Gray Atwood. George Gregroy Shelton married Ida Elizabeth Sherman.

     Ida Elizabeth Sherman married George Gregroy Shelton, son of George Wellington Shelton and Margaret Gray Atwood.

     Harriet May Shelton was the daughter of George Gregroy Shelton and Ida Elizabeth Sherman. Harriet May Shelton married Frederick Kellog Hollister.

     Frederick Kellog Hollister married Harriet May Shelton, daughter of George Gregroy Shelton and Ida Elizabeth Sherman.

     Margaret Shelton Hollister was the daughter of Frederick Kellog Hollister and Harriet May Shelton.

     Mary Pinney married Sgt. John Strong, son of John Strong Jr. and Elizabeth Warriner. Information and sources provided by Gary Parsons who also quotes Ralph C. Guffey, P.O. Box 180103, Dallas, TX 75218-0103.

     He was a farmer at Bolton, CT, and for 65 years deacon in the Congregational Church. He removed from Windsor to Bolton about 1730 -- living some three miles from the centre of the town on the road to Buckingham (then Eastbury). Deacon David Strong was born on 15 December 1704. He was the son of Sgt. John Strong and Mary Pinney. Deacon David Strong married Thankful Loomis, daughter of Moses Loomis and Joanna Gibbs, on 3 May 1732 at Bolton, CT. Deacon David Strong married Abigail Pettibone, daughter of John Pettibone and Mary Bissell, after 9 December 1760. Deacon David Strong died on 25 January 1801 at Bolton, CT, at age 96.

     Thankful Loomis was born circa 1709. She was the daughter of Moses Loomis and Joanna Gibbs. Thankful Loomis married Deacon David Strong, son of Sgt. John Strong and Mary Pinney, on 3 May 1732 at Bolton, CT.

     Moses Loomis was born on 15 May 1671 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. He was the son of Nathaniel Loomis and Elizabeth Moore. Moses Loomis married Joanna Gibbs on 27 April 1694. Moses Loomis died on 15 April 1754 at age 82.

     Joanna Gibbs married Moses Loomis, son of Nathaniel Loomis and Elizabeth Moore, on 27 April 1694.

     Thankful Strong married Stephen Cone III. Thankful Strong was born on 12 October 1740. She was the daughter of Deacon David Strong and Thankful Loomis.

     Stephen Cone III married Thankful Strong, daughter of Deacon David Strong and Thankful Loomis.

     Mehitable Cone was the daughter of Stephen Cone III and Thankful Strong. Mehitable Cone married Eleazur Pitkin.

     Eleazur Pitkin married Mehitable Cone, daughter of Stephen Cone III and Thankful Strong.

     Eli Pitkin was the son of Eleazur Pitkin and Mehitable Cone. Eli Pitkin married Hannah Miller Torrey.

     Hannah Miller Torrey married Eli Pitkin, son of Eleazur Pitkin and Mehitable Cone.

     Frederick Walker Pitkin was the son of Eli Pitkin and Hannah Miller Torrey. Frederick Walker Pitkin married Fidelia M. James.

     Fidelia M. James married Frederick Walker Pitkin, son of Eli Pitkin and Hannah Miller Torrey.

     Robert James Pitkin was the son of Frederick Walker Pitkin and Fidelia M. James. Robert James Pitkin married Amy Moore.

     Amy Moore married Robert James Pitkin, son of Frederick Walker Pitkin and Fidelia M. James.

     Amy Pitkin was the daughter of Robert James Pitkin and Amy Moore. Amy Pitkin married Robert Lawrence Stearns.

     Robert Lawrence Stearns married Amy Pitkin, daughter of Robert James Pitkin and Amy Moore.

     Marion Lloyd Stearns was the daughter of Robert Lawrence Stearns and Amy Pitkin.

     Sgt. Joseph Barnard was born on 20 June 1681.³ He was the son of Joseph Barnard and Sarah Strong. Sgt. Joseph Barnard married Abigail Griswold, daughter of Edward Griswold and Abigal Williams, on 4 October 1705 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.

     Moses Barnard was the son of Francis Barnard and Lucretia Pinney. Moses Barnard married Hannah Barnard, daughter of Edward Barnard and Mabel Pinney.

     Hannah Barnard was the daughter of Edward Barnard and Mabel Pinney. Hannah Barnard married Moses Barnard, son of Francis Barnard and Lucretia Pinney.

     Olive Barnard was the daughter of Moses Barnard and Hannah Barnard. Olive Barnard married Edward Lewis.

     Edward Lewis married Olive Barnard, daughter of Moses Barnard and Hannah Barnard.

     Olivia Lewis was the daughter of Edward Lewis and Olive Barnard. Olivia Lewis married Jervis Landon.

     Jervis Landon married Olivia Lewis, daughter of Edward Lewis and Olive Barnard.

     Olivia Landon was the daughter of Jervis Landon and Olivia Lewis. Olivia Landon married Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

     Twain, Mark, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression.

Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he was four years old. There he received a public school education. After the death of his father in 1847, Clemens was apprenticed to two Hannibal printers, and in 1851 he began setting type for and contributing sketches to his brother Orion's Hannibal Journal. Subsequently he worked as a printer in Keokuk, Iowa; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and other cities. Later Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War (1861-1865) brought an end to travel on the river. In 1861 Clemens served briefly as a volunteer soldier in the Confederate cavalry. Later that year he accompanied his brother to the newly created Nevada Territory, where he tried his hand at silver mining. In 1862 he became a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, and in 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning "two fathoms deep." After moving to San Francisco, California, in 1864, Twain met American writers Artemus Ward and Bret Harte, who encouraged him in his work. In 1865 Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields, and within months the author and the story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," had become national sensations.

In 1867 Twain lectured in New York City, and in the same year he visited Europe and Palestine. He wrote of these travels in The Innocents Abroad (1869), a book exaggerating those aspects of European culture that impress American tourists. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon. After living briefly in Buffalo, New York, the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Much of Twain's best work was written in the 1870s and 1880s in Hartford or during the summers at Quarry Farm, near Elmira, New York. Roughing It (1872) recounts his early adventures as a miner and journalist; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) celebrates boyhood in a town on the Mississippi River; A Tramp Abroad (1880) describes a walking trip through the Black Forest of Germany and the Swiss Alps; The Prince and the Pauper (1882), a children's book, focuses on switched identities in Tudor England; Life on the Mississippi (1883) combines an autobiographical account of his experiences as a river pilot with a visit to the Mississippi nearly two decades after he left it; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) satirizes oppression in feudal England.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the sequel to Tom Sawyer, is considered Twain's masterpiece. The book is the story of the title character, known as Huck, a boy who flees his father by rafting down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim. The pair's adventures show Huck (and the reader) the cruelty of which men and women are capable. Another theme of the novel is the conflict between Huck's feelings of friendship with Jim, who is one of the few people he can trust, and his knowledge that he is breaking the laws of the time by helping Jim escape. Huckleberry Finn, which is almost entirely narrated from Huck's point of view, is noted for its authentic language and for its deep commitment to freedom. Huck's adventures also provide the reader with a panorama of American life along the Mississippi before the Civil War. Twain's skill in capturing the rhythms of that life help make the book one of the masterpieces of American literature.

In 1884 Twain formed the firm Charles L. Webster and Company to publish his and other writers' works, notably Personal Memoirs (two volumes, 1885-1886) by American general and president Ulysses S. Grant. A disastrous investment in an automatic typesetting machine led to the firm's bankruptcy in 1894. A successful worldwide lecture tour and the book based on those travels, Following the Equator (1897), paid off Twain's debts.

Twain's work during the 1890s and the 1900s is marked by growing pessimism and bitterness-the result of his business reverses and, later, the deaths of his wife and two daughters. Significant works of this period are Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), a novel set in the South before the Civil War that criticizes racism by focusing on mistaken racial identities, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), a sentimental biography. Twain's other later writings include short stories, the best known of which are "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1899) and "The War Prayer" (1905); philosophical, social, and political essays; the manuscript of "The Mysterious Stranger," an uncompleted piece that was published posthumously in 1916; and autobiographical dictations.

Twain's work was inspired by the unconventional West, and the popularity of his work marked the end of the domination of American literature by New England writers. He is justly renowned as a humorist but was not always appreciated by the writers of his time as anything more than that. Successive generations of writers, however, recognized the role that Twain played in creating a truly American literature. He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous and colloquial, yet poetic, language. His success in creating this plain but evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture and for the more formal language associated with those traditions. His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both of whom pointed to Twain as an inspiration for their own writing.

In Twain's later years he wrote less, but he became a celebrity, frequently speaking out on public issues. He also came to be known for the white linen suit he always wore when making public appearances. Twain received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1907. When he died he left an uncompleted autobiography, which was eventually edited by his secretary, Albert Bigelow Paine, and published in 1924. In 1990 the first half of a handwritten manuscript of Huckleberry Finn was discovered in Hollywood, California. After a series of legal battles over ownership, the portion, which included previously unpublished material, was reunited with its second half, which had been housed at the Buffalo and Erie County (New York) Public Library, in 1992. A revised edition of Huckleberry Finn including the unpublished material was released in 1996.

"Twain, Mark," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Samuel Langhorne Clemens married Olivia Landon, daughter of Jervis Landon and Olivia Lewis. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on 30 November 1835 at Florida, MO. He died on 21 April 1910 at age 74. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, NY.

     Sgt. Richard Case was born at West Granby, Granby, Hartford Co., CT.² He was the son of Richard Case and Ruth Case. Sgt. Richard Case married Jemima Moore, daughter of Sanders Moore and Damaris Tuller. Sgt. Richard Case died on 7 October 1830 at West Granby, Granby, Hartford Co., CT.²

     Ruth Case was born in 1759 at Canton, Hartford Co., CT.² She was the daughter of Richard Case and Ruth Case. Ruth Case married Moses Miller, son of Ichabod Miller and Sarah Holcombe. Ruth Case died in 1854.

     Moses Miller was born on 4 January 1760 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Ichabod Miller and Sarah Holcombe. Moses Miller married Ruth Case, daughter of Richard Case and Ruth Case.

     George Case was born on 4 December 1761 at West Granby, Granby, Hartford Co., CT. He was the son of Richard Case and Ruth Case. George Case married Lucy Hayes, daughter of Asahel Hayes and Anne Clauson. George Case died on 20 March 1850 at age 88.

     Japhet Case was born in 1776 at Canton, Hartford Co., CT. He was the son of Richard Case and Ruth Case. Japhet Case married Chloe Thrall, daughter of Ezekiel Trhall, on 16 July 1794 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. Japhet Case died in 1809.