sentences:  He married Rizpah Steere, and they had two sons, Henry Huntington, and Maurice.Birdsall was the first lawyer to settle in Norwich, New York and became surrogate of Chenango County, New York in 1811.Elected as a Democratic-Republiccan to the Fourteenth Congress, Birdsall was United States Representative for the fifteenth district of New York from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817.