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• Birth	8 Jan 1780	Warwick, Orange, New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1860  [2]
  Person ID	I110771	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Heman ROWLEE, b. 17 Nov 1746, Warwick, Orange, New York
  Mother	Lydia SEELY, b. 26 Dec 1749
  Family ID	F15232	Group Sheet
  Married	Abt 1804
  Family ID	F15007	Group Sheet

• Notes

  ELIJAH ROWLEE, fifth child and third son of Heman, was b. Jan. 8, 1780, at Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. He m. about 1804, Millicent, dau. of Jonathan and Miriam (Strong) Sheppard. The church records of the Amity (Presbyterian) Church show that Elijah and Millicent Rowlee were admitted to Communion by certificate, from Scotchtown, Oct. 30, 1813, and were dismissed May 3, 1817. The Orange Co. records (Lib. K. p. 325) show that on the 17th of May, 1808, Elijah Rowlee and Millicent, his wife, and Nathan Rowlee and Doratha, his wife, of the towns of Warwick and Minisink, gave a deed of 70« acres of land in the town of Minisink to Charles Wood, consideration $1100. They probably migrated in the summer of 1817 to Western New York, for their son, Jonathan Sheppard, was born Feb. 5, 1818, "in the town of Milo, three miles from Penn Yan." They finally settled near Monterey, town of Orange, Steuben Co., N. Y. He d. about 1864 and was bur. in Genoa Cem., De Kalb Co., Ill. "He cast his last vote for Abraham Lincoln for President." (Hake's Landmarks of Steuben Co., pt. II, p. 32, states that Ezra, son of Jonathan and Miriam (Strong) Sheppard, came to Cohocton with his family prior to the war of 1812.)

• Sources

  [S2330] Lieut. Herman Rowlee (1746-1818) and his descendants, Willard Winfield Rowlee, (Ithaca, New York, 1907), Page 9. [S2330] Lieut. Herman Rowlee (1746-1818) and his descendants, Willard Winfield Rowlee, (Ithaca, New York, 1907), page 46.