A son was born in Saratoga county, New York.

The evidence

• “representative and substantial citizens, was born in Saratoga county, New York, on September 2, 1843, the eldest child of Edwin and Jane (Mason) Scofield, both natives of Connecticut. Their other children were named in the order of their births— Eliab, Caroline, Mariah, Silas, Charles, Fanny and Georgie.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 414 / book p. 905

  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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