Hi Cheri?

Where did you find the information re; Sophia Jane Rolloson and John Dighton Bixby and his lineage, i.e Bixby, Button, Davis?

If this is a match. there is a text on line from a 1914 genealogy of Bixby that goes back to 1437 in England. In which case we have a bingo : )

Here is the link and text below shows the match with Lucinda Button and Polly Davis
http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00bixb/genealo...

John Bixby {John, Samuel, Mephibosheth, Daniel, Joseph),
born 3 Feb., 1777, at Shrewsbury, Mass.; 6 died 27 Sept., 1866,
in Sylvania, Columbia Township, Bradford Co., Pa.; married 26 Jan., 1798, 1798, at Princeton, Mass., Polly Davis, born there 28 July,
1778, died 11 Feb., 1853, at Sylvania, daughter of Josiah and
Miriam Davis.

Children:*

1- 1 Sylvanus, born 6 June, 1798, near Burlington, Vt.; married Hannah

(Barnes) Kneeland.

2-2 Nancy, born 20 March, 1800, in New York state; married Orlando Willard.

3- 3 Ezra, born 20 June, 1802, at Sylvania; married Sarah Wheeler.

4- 4 Mary, born 14 Aug., 1804, at Sylvania; married.

5- 5 John, born 8 Nov., 1806, in Columbia township; married Lucinda Button.

6- 6 Eliza, born 14 June, 1808, in Columbia township; married Dur-

ran; (2) James Cowan.

1 Information of Mrs. Harriet Beebe (1273413-3)-

2 Information of Mrs. Horace Bixby (12734.144).

3 Information of Mrs. Sarah E. Whitman (12734. 13-4).
* Information of Miss Anna M. Jones (12734.47-72).

5 Nye Genealogy, p. 353.

6 Shrewsbury records.

7 In the intention of marriage at Princeton, 12 Dec, 1797. John Bixby is styled of Boylston.

8 Princeton Vital Records. Her birth record gives her name as Mary.

» Bible of John Bixby in possession of Mrs. Lydia L. Gillett (I2734-4M-I).


Foot notes:
John Bixby removed to Vermont where he lived for a time.

Thence he removed to Pennsylvania, probably about 1812, settling

in Columbia township, that part now Sylvania, where he lived the

rest of his life. ... The date on which he settled in Pennsylvania, and the places of birth of his children have been
variously given, and it has been impossible at the time this has had to go to press, to be sure about
them. Mrs. Lydia L. Gillett (12734.4M-1) has a paper, undated, written in her handwriting, at
the dictation, she thinks, of her mother, which states as follows: "John Bixby, born 3 Feb., 1777, at
Princeton, Mass., married Polly Davis 26 Jan., 1798. John Bixby lived at Boylston, Mass., and
his wife at Princeton, Mass., at the time of their marriage. They lived in Vermont, near Burling-
ton, where five of their children were born, removing to Columbia Township about 1812." Miss
Anna M. Jones (12734.47-72) reports that Mrs. Miriam Wood (12734.47) said that all of the chil-
dren, except the two eldest, were born on the farm in Sylvania, which would make the date of com-
ing to Pennsylvania about 1800 or 1801. Mrs. Otis C Bixby (12734-456) states that her husband's
father well remembered the moving to the farm with ox teams, and that he was then about 6 years
old. He was born in 1806. It was thought that the date of purchase of his farm would tell, but
no deed to him is on record at Towanda, and no patent to him is on record with the Secretary of
Internal Affairs, at Harrisburg. Letters to the clerks of all Vermont towns near Burlington have
failed to find birth records of any of his children.

8 Information of Mrs. Lydia L. Gillett (12734. 4M-1).
* Information of Mrs. Ella Brooks Frentz (12735. 13-14)