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The Stillmans had nine children that we know of; the seventh seems to have died without a name and doesn’t appear in this chart.
The vital records indicate that all of John’s and
Rachel’s children were born in Connecticut, except for Robert, the youngest, whose birth was recorded in 1761 in Sandisfield. It’s clear that their Wethersfield connections stayed active for many years after the move: marriages there continued until after the Revolution. By the time of Appleton’s birth in 1757, as we shall see, his father’s name appears prominently in the Housatonic Proprietors’ book, which suggests that the family’s displacement may not have happened all at once. The father may have gone ahead to do some of the heavy pioneering by himself, with the family joining him somewhat later.
Our direct line of descent goes through the second marriage of 3G Grandpa Appleton Stillman.1 Grandma
Amanda Hurd Stillman was a quarter-century younger than he and lived seventeen years after he died in 1817. It seems likely that she would remarry, but I’ve found no evidence that she did.
1The Sandisfield vital records say that John and Rachel baptized a son named Jonathan on 18 June 1758, just about the time that Appleton came along. Probably for this reason, he appears in many secondary sources as “Appleton Jonathan Stillman,” although I’ve seen no evidence that he ever called himself that. He’s buried as “Appleton.”
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