Alfred Bosworth Child Alfred Bosworth Child 15 November 1796 - 22 December 1852 by Elaine Johnson Alfred's grandfather, Increase Child, was a captain in the American Revolution and was impressed by the country of upper New York state when he passed through it with General Gates army. Afterward, he settled in Saratoga county. Alfred was born in Greenfield to Mark Anthony and Hannah Benedict Child. His mother was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, where the Childs had resided before the war.
Saratoga county is on the western side of the Hudson River.
Alfred grew up as the oldest of eleven children. There were twins, a boy and a girl, born before him, but they died at birth. On 19 March 1817 Alfred married Polly Barber of Greenfield and they moved north to Morristown on the St. Lawrence River. The following year he received news of his mother's death. The Alfred B. Child family was living in Boonville, Oneida, New York in 1820.