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SARGENT, NICHOLAS, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. Vincennes; owns 600 acres; born in Essex Co., Mass., in 1795; he removed to Missouri in 1837, to Lee Co. in 1837, and located on the farm he now owns in 1839. He married, in 1816, Miriam Sawyer, a native of New Hampshire, born in 1797; they have had thirteen children, eight of whom are living — Christopher, born in 1818; Sarah (now Mrs. Wyatt), 1826; Lorinda B. (now Mrs. James Bell), 1827; Lucy (now Mrs. William Ingert), 1829; John A., 1831 — married Ursula Starkweather and has five children; Horace C., 1835 — married in 1858, Adeline D. Washburne, a native of Canada, born in 1833, and has had six children, three of whom are living — Orson G., born in 1859, and Edwin B. and Edwinnie (twins), in 1861. Horace G. resides on the homestead with his parents; he has 360 acres of land in Sees. 34 and 35; Orson G., born in 1836, married Hannah Smith, and has one child — Mamie Belle; Stephen, born in 1840, married Mary Knowles and has five children.