Jedediah NORTH

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Jedediah North was a very religious man. He was remembered by his grandchildren for his strict observance of the Sabbath Day. On Sundays, when they went according to their custom, to his house to spend the noon hour between church services, they always found him seated at a table with his Bible before him. Once he appeared at his back door and caught them in the act of picking pears under a tree; he called out: "Children, there are plenty of pears in the house that you can have, but you must not pick them up from the ground on Sunday."

He joined the Kensington Church in 1758 and was a charter member of the Second Congregational Church in Berlin, founded in 1775, of which his father was the first deacon. His house, on the east side of the way at the north end of Berlin village, has been moved back from the street and is now used as a barn. He bought land of Josiah Burnham, in 1786. Recorded as of Berlin in the first Census of 1790. He had eleven children and over eighty grandchildren.

Jedediah married Sarah WILCOX on 27 Jan 1757. Sarah was born in 1739; died on 5 Oct 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jedediah married Abigail ANDREWS on 20 Feb 1777. Abigail died in Meredith, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Levi North lived in Berlin near his father, being recorded as of that town in the Federal Census of 1790. He made seythes by hand and sold them to the neighboring farmers. In 1817 he was assessed $100, as shown by a list of twenty Berlin men engaged in business. this was to raise money after the War of 1812.
At the age of 16 he was a soldier in the Revolution, serving in Capt. Eells Company, 3rd Battalion, Gen. Wadsworth's Brigade, Connecticut State Troops, June - Dec 25, 1776. The musket which he carried is now in the possession of his great-grandson Charles II, North of Cleveland, Ohio.

Levi married Rachel WHITE on 20 Apr 1786. Rachel was born on 24 Oct 1762; died on 31 Jan 1839. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]