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Gift of Mrs. Fred J. Agate, through the Manuscripts Committee of the Connecticut Society of the ...
Catherine Wadsworth
Gift of Mrs. Fred J. Agate, through the Manuscripts Committee of the Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1958.2.1, Connecticut Historical Society, Public Domain

Catherine Wadsworth

American, 1774 - 1841
BiographyCatherine Wadsworth, daughter of Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743-1804) and Mehitabel Russell Wadsworth, was born in January 1774. She married Nathaniel Terry (1768-1844) in Hartford on 14 March 1798. Terry was a prominent citizen, a representative of Hartford for twelve sessions of Legistature, a General of militia, a member of the Connecticut Constitutional Convention and Mayor of Hartford from 1824 to 1831. They had six sons and three daughters including Adrian Russell (1806-1808), Adrian Russell (baptized 1809), and Harriet Wadsworth, who married Richard Post of Genesee, New York. Catherine Wadsworth Terry died 26 October 1841.


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