John DeWitt Rexford was born in Sherburne, New York.

The evidence

• “John DeWitt Rexford was born in Sherburne, N. Y., July 5, 1820. He was the son of Benjamin Eexford and a descendant in the fifth generation of Arthur Eexford, who was married in New Haven, Conn., in 1702, and died there in 1728.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 282 / book p. 782

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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