the sitter, Deborah Fox [August 24, 1789—August 22, 1862] married, in 1808, Joseph Smith Shotwell [1787-1848]
possibly by descent to their daughter, Esther F. Shotwell [1817-1887] married, in 1839, William Leggett Jenkins [1806-1903]
by descent to their daughter Phebe Shotwell Jenkins [October 2, 1831—February 1913], married Richard Palmer Bruff
by descent to their niece, Maria Louise Jenkins [b. 1869] married, in 1895, Thomas Denny [b. 1869]
by descent to their daughter, Amey Donnell Denny, married W. Knowlton Hoag
by descent to their son, Denny Hoag
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