Jedediah Wing, son of Elisha Wing & Mehitable Butler Jedediah Wing (Elisha Wing, Stephen Wing, Rev. John Wing, Matthew Wing) was born at Rochester, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts on January 29, 1696/97. He died about 1763 at Quaker Hill, Dutchess Co., New York. Jedediah (and his wife, Elizabeth Gifford) are both buried in the Friends' Burial Ground at the summit of the Hill where the Wing Reunionists of 1914 erected the tablet to his daughter, Mehitable Wing Prendergast. Jedediah Wing married Elizabeth Gifford on "18 11mo "called December" 1734. "A purpose of Marriage between Jedediah Wing of Rochester and Elizabeth Gifford of Plymouth October 15th 1734." "Jedediah Wing Son of Elisha Wing & Mehitable Wing of Rochester and Elisabeth Gifford daughter of Gershom & Deborah Gifford of Egawam in Egawam the 18th day of the Eleventh mo 1734 Called December 1734." Elizabeth Gifford was born in Falmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts in 1707. She was the daughter of Gershom Gifford and Deborah Bowerman. Elizabeth died after 1787 at Quaker, Hill, Dutchess Co., New York. Elizabeth is buried at Friends' Burial Grounds in Quaker Hill, Dutchess Co., New York. Jedediah, owning a homestead that adjoined that of his father, Elisha Wing, sold that homestead on July 2, 1842 to his brother, Butler Wing. The reason for the sale of the homestead was so that Jedediah could join the movement of Quakers of Dartmouth heading to The Oblong on the New York and Connecticut line. The deed of the sale of the lands in Rochester are on record at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The deed reads; "the lands adjoin the homestead of our honored father Elisha Wing." At the time he sold land to his brother, Jedediah also sold land in Wareham to his father, Elisha. By now Jedediah was forty-five years old with a family that included his wife and four children; Abigail, Matthew, Mehitable and Elihu. In the same year that he sold his land in Rochester and Wareham, Jedediah bought land at Quaker Hill that adjoined the land of Abraham Wing. (Abraham Wing was the great grandson of Daniel Wing and Hannah Swift. Abraham was married to Antis Wood.) Jedediah was a member of the Friends' Society and was among the first to establish the Friends' Meeting at Quaker Hill and to assist in the building of the first meeting house that was situated there. The land that Jedediah settled his family on was about two miles away from the meeting house, which was not built until 1744. A map that was made by Robert Erskins in 1668 - 1680, of Quaker Hill for military purposes indicated that Washington's headquarters during September through November of 1778 were located about two miles away from the homestead of Jedediah Wing. The homestead was probably occupied by one of Jedediah's sons' by that time. Jedediah Wing and Elizabeth Gifford had the following children: 1. Abigail Wing, born July 14, 173 at Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. 2. Matthew Wing, born September 8, 1737 at Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, died June 8, 1756 at Rochester at the age of eighteen. 3. Mehitable Wing, born January 27, 1739 at Rochester, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. 4. Elihu Wing, born August 31, 1741 5. Gershom Wing, born December 2, 1744 (possibly at Quaker Hill, Dutchess Co., Massachusetts) 6. Deborah Wing, born December 6, 1746 7. Elisha Wing, born July 16, 1748 8. Prince Wing, born March 4, 1753 9. Elizabeth Wing, born April 16, 1755 10. Dorcas Wing, born September 4, 1757 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts of Wills, Vol XIII, 1784-1786 Page 113 Page 427.--I, JEDIDIAH WING, of Beekman's Precinct, Dutchess County, being at this time in usual good bodily health. My will is that my debts and funeral charges be paid out of my movable estate, and as to the remainder of my estate I give to my respected and beloved wife Elizabeth, full use if any there be of my moneys goods, etc., during her widowhood, and further my wife immediately upon my decease may possess by herselfe, or any for by or under her, all my real estate, as well as my moveable estate aforesaid, in lieu of the thirds she might otherwise have. To my son, Elihu Wing, all my land in the seventh lott of "Philips his upper pattent" during the term of the lease thereof. To my sons, Garshom and Elisha, the whole of my houses, lands and buildings on the oblong each one halfe part equal in Quantity and Quality. To my son Prime, œ100, he to be bound to or at least learn some manual art or trade under the direction of one or both of my executors to whom I devise the care of him in his minority. To my daughters, Abigail and Mehetabel each œ10 above what they have already had or at my decease may have had of my estate. To my daughters Deborah, Elizabeth and Dorcas, each œ20 beside what they have had or may have. I order that the legacies to my son Prime and my five mentioned daughters be wholly paid by my two sons, Garshom and Elisha, in consideration of their having so large a legacy to them bequeathed. All my household furniture found remaining at the expiration of my wife's widowhood shall be divided between my last three mentioned and youngest daughters. The legacies in money shall by my sons, Garshom and Elisha, or their heirs be paid within five years at least after the death or marriage of my said wife. I make my wife Elizabeth and my son Elihu, executors. Dated May 19, 1759. Witnesses, Philip Allen, of Dutchess County, farmer, and of the people called Quakers, Weston Allen, Elisha Allen. Proved, Dutchess County, March 8, 1785. Administration not mentioned.