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George Sedgwick  [Samuel Sedgwick / Marien Henry]
b. September 11, 1806, Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut
d. June 21, 1877, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
bu June 26, 1877, Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts   grave
m. May 10, 1833, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts,
      Martha Pope Hopkins

Martha Pope Hopkins  [Ebenezer Pope / Rhoda Willard]
b. June 30, 1810, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts
d. July 04, 1882, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
bu Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts   grave

Census Records:

George Sedgwick, an attorney in Ann Arbor, Michigan then in Chicago, was the first of the major Sedgwick genealogists. Yes, others had kept track of their own genealogy, but he was the first to try to gather the information about all the American descendants of Major General Robert Sedgwick. A man of some means, he travelled the country meeting and interviewing Sedgwick cousins. He made a three hundred page book of the genealogy. At the time of the Great Chicago fire, George took "The Book" out on a boat onto Lake Michigan to keep it from the fire.

I find it amazing that there are unanswered questions about the wife of this man. She is listed in each case as "Martha Pope Hopkins, daughter of Ebenezer Pope of Great Barrington..." I conclude that she must have married a Hopkins and been widowed young; she was not quite 23 when she and George were married. However, I find no records to support this conclusion.

Children:

More about George Sedgwick:

1. The Sedgwick Collection (MSS B46) at the New Haven Colony Historical Society papers of Hubert Merrill Sedgwick, Francis Morris Sedgwick and Frederick J Sedgwick,
genealogists of the family of Robert Sedgwick (1613 - 1656)

2. Census records, any of those indicated.