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Several annotations have been made, usually by crossing out incorrect (I trust) information. I have transcribed the following including the corrections. I have not corrected several sentence or spelling oddities or mistakes, but include the traditional [sic] following them. [?] indicates I was not sure of the word or letter. Other mistakes that might be found are probably mine.
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St. Johnsville, (N.Y.) Enterprise (no date on the copy)

WATROUS, TUTTLE

(Note: This is one of the best family pedigrees I have ever seen. It is something the author, Mrs. Florence Mae Watrous Harman (Mrs. C.D. may well be proud of. It was such a pleasure to read it we at once send [sic] it herewith to the best genealogy newspaper in [sic] of its kind in the world. the world.[sic] H.A.O.)

Austin Augustus ⁸ Watrous, of the 8th generation, of Freetown, Cortland county, N.Y. lived at Cortland 1904-1923; Bridgeport, Conn., about 1878-1883.

The preceding line names are: Benjamin ⁷ ; Austin ⁶ ; Austin ⁵ , Rev. War Soldier ; Gideon ⁴ ; Abraham ^{3 - 2} ; Jacob ¹ Waterhouse of New London, Conn. Son of Benjamin Backus ⁷ Watrous, 1803-1890; and his wife Sabra Elizabeth (Lamphear) Watrous, 1803-1885, Austin ⁸ was born Aug. 14, 1846 at Freetown; Bap. Baptist Church, Freetown, as adult; and died April 5, 1923, at Cortland; buried Cortland Rural cemetery. Occupations: farmer, creamery man; shop worker Warner Bros. Corset co., Bridgeport, Conn. Civil and military activities; Justice of Peace; Republican County committee; Fifer co. G. 185 Regt. N.Y. State Inf., Civil War, 1864 to close of war. Description: brown hair, hazel eyes, stout, excellent tenor voice, temperance principles.

His mother's line: Sabra Elizabeth Lamphere, was dau. Uriel (Aaron) and Jerusha ⁶ Pease. (Gideon ⁵ ; Abraham ⁴ ; Isaac ³ ; John ² ; Robert ¹ Pease.)

Austin ⁶ Watrous married Sally ⁶ Backus. (John ⁵ , Rev. Sold.; John ⁴ (and Johanna ⁴ Cleveland): Timothy ³ ; Stephen ² ; William ¹ Backus). Johanna ⁴ Cleveland, desc. Stephen ¹ Hopkins of Mayflower (thru her mother Rebecca ⁴ Paine; Elisha ³ Paine; Mary ² Snow; Constance ² Hopkins; Stephen ¹ ) Ref. Cleveland, Paine, Snow, and Hopkins Genealogies; also Parish and Buck. John ⁵ Backus married Jerusha Baker; dau. of Benj. and Jerusha ³ (Parish) Baker. Jerusha ³ ; (Benj. ² ; John ¹ Parish); thru her mother, Mary³ Tracy, has an ancient line to Egbert, First King of England, 35 generations. Austin ⁵ Watrous married Jerusha ⁵ Buck; (Justus ⁴, Rev. Sold.; Isaac ³ ; Samuel ² ; Henry Buck.) Austin ⁶ was pioneer from Saybrook, Conn. to Cortland Co., N.Y., 1810 [?] via Washington Co.

The wife: Emily (Emma) Diadama ⁸ Tuttle (Chauncey ⁷ ; Ransom ⁶ , Jabez 5, Rev. Sold.; Daniel 4; William 3; Jonathan 2; William ¹ Tuttle of New Haven, Conn.) Chauncey ⁷ Tuttle married Phebe Jane Fuller, Emily ⁸, born April 25, 1849, Salisbury, Herkimer Co., N.Y., Bap. Freetown M. E. church as an adult; died Dec. 2, 1944, Moravia, N.Y.; buried Cortland Rural cemetery. She was a poet, public speaker for temperance and woman's suffrage; had brown hair, blue-grey eyes, mentally alert and logical and had good memory till death at age of 96 years. Was a life membed [sic] of Cortlnd [sic] WCTU. Mrs. Watrous desc. from Francis ¹ Bell; William ¹ Abernathy; Abraham ¹ Doolittle; John1 Beach; Job ¹ Tyler; Roger ¹ Terrill; Thomas ¹ Ufford; Rev. John 1 Lathrop; James ¹ Cobb; Christopher ¹ Todd; Michael ¹ Middlebrook; Rev. Peter ¹ Bulkelev; Nathaniel ¹ Merriman, William ¹ Peck; John ¹ Moss; Lieut William ¹ Seward; Thomas ¹ Norton; William ¹ Bushnell; William ¹ Tuttle, who thru his great grandother [sic], Joan Grafton, has a royal line back to Pepin the Elder. See Tuttle Fam. by g. F. Tuttle, 1883, Chauncey ⁷ on p. 263.

Children of Austin Augustus ⁸ Watrous and Emily Diadema ⁸ Tuttle. The 1st and only marriage of each.

1. Howard Chauncey ⁹ Watrous born Jan. 19, 1870, Groton, Tompkins Co., N.Y.; married Emmagene Smith (Dickinson) widow at Marathon, N.Y. April 22, 1896; died June 10, 1941, Cortland Co. hospital; bur. Cortland. child.