Both sides of Grandma Rachel's family had been in New England for over 100 years before she was born in Stafford, Connecticut in 1761. Her parents were Daniel and Jerusha Dike Rider and they belonged to the First Congregational Church which kept good records still available.
Rachel married Moses Warner whose family also had come to the US from England in the early seventeenth century. They had eleven children, all listed in the vital records of Stafford. Their first-born daughter, Orilla, married into the McClure line, and her family moved to western New York in l806.
Sometime after their eleventh child was born in 1803, Rachel and Moses moved to Erie County, PA, that northwestern block of Pennsylvania that juts up to Lake Erie between New York and Ohio. I haven't been able to learn why they moved there, to a place so far west and away from family. Erie County is about l00 miles further west from where their daughter, Orilla, moved in l806.
Moses died in Erie County in 1840, and Rachel lived to be 89 years old and died in l850.
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