Agur Fairchild was born in Connecticut, married there, and before 1800 came to Remsen township and located in that section called 'Fairchild Corners', or 'Fairchild', about two miles northeast of the village. His children were Diana, Betsey, Martha, Barbara, Charlotte, Ingersoll, French, and Samuel. The first two named never lived in Remsen. Mr. Fairchild died here January 1, 1840, aged ninety years; and Amy, his wife, died April 17, 1839, aged eighty-five years. French Fairchild married Ann, daughter of Gershom Hinckley. They had two sons, Rev. Gershom Fairchild, a Wesleyan minister, born in Remsen in 1809, and as late as 1896 living at Nankin, Wayne county, Mich., and French Fairchild, Jr., who married Mary Tanner of Deerfield, NY, by whom he had six sons and one daughter. He removed to Liverpool, NY, was a successful farmer, and died there. Ingersoll Fairchild removed to western New York before 1820. Samuel married Eleanor, daughter of William R. Roberts, of Remsen, and removed with his family to Monoa county, Iowa, where he died aobut 1866.
A Narrative History of Remsen New York including parts of adjoining townships of Steuben and Trenton 1789-1898, by Millard F. Roberts, pub. 1914
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