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TOWN OF BARTON.
For
premises.
Indian trail
he
was
and
salt
to
summer of
1816,
on
share
with
people were
his
for
chiefly
Mr. Hanna
laid
them and
it
did
change
with
a
bushel
months without
bread,
was yet
in to feast
their
on
the
herbs
various
which
the cold
and sub
and plants.
it
When
returned
first bread from it, their neighbors
Mr. Hanna's first loca
occupy long, as he had an opportunity to
Ebenezer Ellis as we have stated, who owned
the
one now owned and
Mr. Hanna's barn
was
to
"luxury."
not
north of
an
in the milk, dried it on sticks
in this way succeeded in pre
live coals, and
half a bushel of grain.
made
time,
at a
During
from
his
pond on
neighbors.
of
they had
tion he
Hill.
kettle
mill
were invited
farm just
made
cut rye while
across a
paring for
on
little
of a
Horseheads, following
only half
with
"greens,"
sisted
the ice
he had to travel to
returning
expected
it
thresh
grain until winter and
JJ
the
first frame
ex
the
John G,
occupied
by
building
ever
raised
in the town, and in it convened the first Methodist quarterly meet
ing held here. His sturdy Scotch qualities made him invaluable
in those early times, and the noble
evinced in the acts of his
daily life.
was
the stopping
his house for
of
the revolution.
Mrs. Hanna
Nancy,
wife
His home for many
years
itinerant preachers, and, until a more
provided, people for many miles round met
public
worship.
He died
were
at
the parents
the
Mr. Hanna
was also a veteran
great age of 102 years.
ot nine
children,
as
follows
Mr.
:
and
John,
John Swartwood, and afterward the wife of John
Jane, wife of Joseph Swain, of Chemung, William,
of
Shoemaker,
Margaret, wife
George, Sally,
of
Elisha
wife
Joseph G. Wilkinson.
His
were
of
place of
convenient place was
at
his heart
qualities
of
Hill, Betsey,
Squire Whitaker,
William
married
wife
and
first
a
Lewis Mills,
Martha wife of
of
Miss Saunders.
Jane, daughter of Isaac Raymond, by whom
he had eight children, viz. : William, Edward, Stella, wife of
Thaddeus Ellis, George, Adelbert, Frederick, Maud, wife of
Arthur Fitch, of Arkansas, and Emmet, who died at the age of
nine years.
George married Stella, daughter of Jonathan Catlin,
of Tioga,
by whom he has one child, Earl, born September 13,
1882.
John, Jr., married Deborah, daughter of John Hyatt, by
whom he had four children, viz. :
Mary, wife of William T. Ellis,
Sally, wife of David C. Lyons, of Wisconsin, Julia, wife of D.
B. Horton, of Owego, and Ira, of this town. The latter married
Martha A.> daughter of Daniel Park, of Nichols, by whom he had
four children, viz. : Charles F., of Barton, Sarah, Leonora and Ida
L. Leonora married J. E. Merritt, of Athens, Pa., and has four
second
wife
was
OF BARTON.
TOWN
78
Lena, Orrin, Ray and Ralph. Charles F. married
Hattie, daughter of Lewis Crotsley, of Barton, by whom he has
four children, born as follows : Celia, November 18, 1873 ; Louis,
July 20, 1876; Homer, June 12, 1879 j and Myra, May 7, 1885.
children,
Luke Saunders
Dewey, by
came
he had
whom
eight
Beriah Lewis, Parish, Jabez,
He
Connecticut.
from
children,
married
Sarah,
viz.:
Nathan, Betsey,
of
wife
Sarah
wife
of
Alexander
Ellis, Christopher, Nancy, wife of William Hanna, and Robert.
Parish married Barbara, daughter of Ebenezer Ellis, by whom
he had five children, viz.:
Lucinda, widow of Thomas F. John
son, Hiram, deceased, John, Benjamin and William.
James Swartwood
came
from Delaware.
He had
family
a
of
Mary, wife of Isaac Shoemaker, Martha,
wife of Benjamin Smith, Sarah, wife of Joseph Langford, Katie,
wife of Baskia Jones, Benjamin, James, Jacob, John and Eben
ezer. Benjamin married Catherine, daughter of Ezekiel Williams,
by whom he had nine children, namely, James, Ezekiel, Martha,
of
Luther Goodenow, John, Benjamin, Harriet, wife of
wife
Robert Light, Lydia, wife of Adam VanAtta, William and
Ezekiel married Margaret A. VanAtta, by whom he has
Mary.
had two children, Nancy, widow of John Harding, and John M.,
nine
viz.:
children,
died in his twenty-second
who
In
John Shepard
1796
chester
county,
year.
thousand
one
General
purchased of
of
acres
land,
Thomas,
at
of
West
five dollars
per
along the state line, from Shepard's creek at
Factoryville, near the fifty-ninth mile-stone, to the sixtieth mile
stone; thence across the north end of Spanish hill, to the Chemung
acre, extending
river,
and
from the
ard's creek ;
the
"
"
thence down the
of
present villages
localities back
of
are still retained
Among
across the mountain
narrows
Waverly
these villages.
in the
the early
and
again.
the
Cayuta
Shep
This
embraced
and
many fine
Factoryville,
Large
possession of
settlers on
line
state
beyond
portions of
this
territory
Shepard family.
creek
were
Charles^ing-
ham, Layton Newell, Lyon C. Hedges, Philip Crans, Justus
Lyons, John Manhart, and Moses and Elisha Leonard. These
families
the
cf
principally from New England, and were among
industrious and worthy people of the town, and many
descendants now reside in that valley, particularly at
were
most
their
"Lockwood,"
which
in honor
of
Among
this
long
pioneer
bore the
of
"Bingham's
family.
Barton village, other than those
William Bensley; George W. Buttson,
the early settlers
already mentioned,
Mills,"
name
were
of
TOWN
OF BARTON.
79
early built a saw-mill upon the stream which bears his name,
John Hyatt, Eliphalet Barden, Benajah Mundy, Samuel Mundy,
Peter Barnes, Peter Hoffman and Selah Payne.
who
William
(now
Bensley
county, Pa.
Pike)
and settled on
He
the farm
about one
road,
originally, from
came,
mile
of
west
to this town
removed
now owned
Smithfield, Wayne
May
by John Park,
Barton
village.
on
This
10, 1803,
the
river
place
was
in the
Bensley family for upwards of eighty years, it
having first been owned by John Bensley, brother of William.
William Bensley married Mary, daughter of Isaac Bunnell, by
whom he had nine children, viz.: Gershom,
John, Daniel, Henry,
retained
Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Shoemaker), Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles B.
Smith), Anna, who died in infancy, Mary A. (Mrs. James Brink),
Sarah (Mrs. Daniel Van Gorder). Mr. Bensley was a weaver
trade, but followed, to a considerable extent, lumbering and
and
by
farming.
Henry
married
children.-three of
Frank
Kelley,
deceased.
six
children,
whom arrived at
married
of
six
viz.:
Lucy Wrigley, by
he has had
whom
wife
of
James Davi
John, Jr. Daniel married Lucina
P. Felt, of Potter county, Pa., by whom he had four children,
viz.:
Elliott L., who lives on the homestead, Charles and Daniel,
who died in infancy, and Bertha L.
Elliott L. married Mary E.,
daughter of John Westfall, of Chemung, by whom he has two
children, Gertie, born October 8, 1880, and Nellie, born Decem
son,
Arthur
had
Mary, wife of
Nichols, and Archibald,
Henry, deceased, Leora,
viz.:
he
whom
maturity,
Athens, Pa., John,
of
John
Betsey Brink, by
Frederick,
ber 1,
and
1884.
Charles Bingham left the
Indian massacre there, and
Wyoming Valley at
with his family was
the time of the
obliged to steal
his way by night, in Durham boats, in order to escape the sav
In their first settlement they were so troubled by Indians
ages.
that he
returned
to Wilkesbarre.
again-and settled near
small-pox
and
lost
north, up Shepard's
now owned
by
The
Spanish hill.
one or
two
The
great
being
Anna,
They
then
on
removed
the
the
farm
inducement for him to
trees in that vicinity,
maple
only thing then marketable. His sons
Jonathan and Charles, Jr.
His daughters
about
John, Ebenezer,
came
were afflicted with
miles, and settled
settle there was the growth of maple
sugar
following, he
Here they
children.
creek about six
E. Van Buren.
year
were
were
Mr. Drake, Margurite, who married a Mr.
Hedges, and Sarah, who married a Mr. Sanford. Charles, Jr.,
built a mill at Lockwood, upon the site where the Bingham
who married a
80
TOWN
Brothers
built
mills now
Shepard's
on
and
are,
creek.
OF BARTON.
among the first in this section
He married Anna M., daughter of
it
was
David Davis, by whom he had six children, viz. : Mary J., wife of
Bernard Campbell, of St. Croix county Wis., Jefferson, of Wa
Ann
verly,
George W.
E.,
and
George W.
Rev. La Fayette Ketchum, of Owego,
Edmund J., of Lockwood, and David T., deceased.
of
wife
A. Inhoff, of Marietta, Pa., by
viz. : Jessie D.,
Fred, Helen and
Mary
married
he has had ten children,
(twins) who died in infancy,
Mary A.,
George
Baldwin, of Chemung, by
James B., Marion, Arthur
David Davis
Mary
Clara, Joseph, Robert, deceased,
Edmund J.
Harry.
and
whom
Libbie K.
married
he has five children, Addie
Laura A.
whom
and
L.,
first in the Catskill region, afterward in
Chenango county.
His son Samuel H. married Minerva
Greene,
Barnes, of
M.
he had two children, viz.: Mary
the latter the wife of Eugene Van Buren,
this town,
Hannah
and
A.,
by
Samuel Davis
in
whom
Their
the homestead.
on
who resides
Pearl.
settled
was a
T.
children are^enk
blacksmith
by
trade,
x^ut
^as
and
also
farming.
\
Sutherland Tallmadge came from Schaghticoke, Schoharie
county, N. Y., very early in the history of this county and set
engaged
lumbering
farm
and
Mr. Elliot, and occupied by
Tallmadge Hulett. His brother Franklin settled on the farm now
tled
the
on
owned
by
now
owned
James Sliter.
The
by
locality
is
still
known
as
Tallmadge
hill.
Charles B. Smith, son of Jonas, was born in
in 1814.
His mother died when he was but four
he
came
to this town to live
Rushton.
The latter
age,
and
Bensley family. He married
Bensley, by whom he had one son,
with
Elizabeth, daughter of William
Sheshequin; Pa.,
years of
the
first, Ellen Bunnell, bv whom he
has one child, lone, wife of Lewis Mills, of Sayre.
His pres
wife
daughter
ent
is Katie,
of H. V. Kinner, of South Waverly.
Elisha Hill was born in Connecticut, May 4, 1793. About 1818
he came from Plainfield, or Hartford, Conn., to Bradford county,
Pa.,
his
to
with all
his
shoulder.
married
possessions
He
tied in
remained
there
Connecticut, and brought back
182 1
he
removed
and occupied
1812,
and
Margaret,
1798,
and
by
served
to this town and
a pack which
two
with
located
on
the farm
a soldier
points.
of
by
he had five children, born
Hanna,
he
returned
him his brother Caleb. In
daughter
whom
carried across
when
years,
his son, John G. He was
at Black Rock and other
John
he
who was
now owned
in the
He
war of
married
born December 16,
as follows :
John
TOWN
81
OF BARTON.
Griffin, September 17, 1821 ; Philomela, wife of Alanson Welton,
of Factoryville, May 7, 1823; Sarah, February 26, 1826; Hannah,
July 28, 1828 ; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Park, of Nichols, Sep
tember, 26, 1831 ; and Tabitha J., wife of Montgomery Mead, of
Waverly, August 26, 1837. John G. married Elizabeth, daughter
of
David Boardman Cure
Elisha Hill died
this town.
of
Mrs. Hill died September 4,
tember 20, 1864, and
Sep
Caleb
1880.
Durphy, of Smithfield, Pa., by whom he
had five children, viz. : Erastus, a member of the legislature of
the state of Missouri; Polly, wife of
Davis, deceased ; Alonzo,
a physician of Maiden, Mo., Hon. David B., the present gover
nor of the state of New York, and Sarah, deceased.
Salmon Johnson was born in Vermont, near Lake Champlain,
Hill
Eunice
married
"
Ellistown."
early day came to this town, locating at
His son, Thomas Floyd, married Lucinda, daughter of Parish and
Barbara (Ellis) Saunders, by whom he had five children who
and at an
Barbara (Mrs. William
Weller), D.
Jane (Mrs. Edward Tozer), Sarah (Mrs. Oscar F. Burke), Cyrus,
arrived
and
at
viz.:
maturity,
Emma L
(Mrs. Charles Parker).
,
Salmon Johnson
moved
to
Ohio,, where he died.
as the name was originally
Peter Bogart, or " Vande
written, came from Princetown, now in Schenectady county, N.
Y., about the beginning of the present century, and settled in
Tompkins county, between Ithaca and Newfield, on the farm now
known as the Crawford farm, and in 1825 removed to this town,
the
state of
Bogart,"
and
located
married,
on
the
farm
by
now owned
first, Betsey Hunter,
and
Cornelius Harding.
they had
children
as
He
follows:
Michael, Catherine (Mrs. Joseph Joyce), John, Eva (Mrs. Jesse
Bailey), Joseph, Mindred, Betsey (Mrs. Casper Lampman), Polly
(Mrs. Samuel Ford), Jane (Mrs. Edward Sherwood), Fanny (Mrs.
David
He
Johnson)
James,
married second,
arid
two
or
three
Maria, daughter
of
who
Samuel
died in infancy.
Gray,
of
Tomp
kins county, by whom he had thirteen children, viz.: Sarah (Mrs.
E. Foster), Jeremiah, Peter, Caroline (Mrs. Henry Lounsberry),
Charles, who died at the age of twenty-five, William, Samuel,
Loury, David, who died in infancy, George W.,and Emma (Mrs.
Andrew
Nevin),
daughter
of
of
Daniel
Boston, Mass.
Rogers,
G. Frederick. James
by
whom
W. Morgan),
in October,
married
children,
whom
he has
Amelia,
viz.:
one
Leonora (Mrs. John
Waverly, and Robert C, who died
John married Ruth, daughter of Nathaniel
Henry M.,
1878.
W.,
Barton, by
son,
daughter
of
Robert Curtis,
Lucinda,
of
married
he has had three
George
of
82
TOWN OF BARTON.
Bailey, of Tompkins county, by whom he had nine children, viz.:
Peter V., Charlotte (Mrs. Alanson Williams), Nathaniel, Elijah,
who died at the age of four years, James, Joseph, John, and Ira
J., who died at the age of five years. Peter V., married first,
Matilda Williams, by whom he had one child, Merritt Delos. His
present wife was Sarah A. Dailey, by whom he has had two chil
dren, Olive, who died at the age of nine years, and Orpha Eve
line, wife of Guy V. Spear, who has two children, born as fol
lows : Anna, February 18, 1882, and Clyde, December 28, 1883.
Mr. P. V. Bogart has dealt
time
at one
pally in
hundred
eight
lumbering
and
in
largely
real
estate,
He has been
acres.
farming. Peter
farm
owned
engaged princi
Bogart, Sr., died Novem
ber 16, 1857, aged ninety-three years.
Abial F. Hill came from Deer Park, Orange
located
having
county,
N.
Y., in
by Ira Hill, on the
He married Francis Burns, by whom he
Shepard's creek road.
had seven children, viz.: Anna Jane, (Mrs. Thomas Shelp), S.
Maria (Mrs. Freeman Shelp), deceased, Mary A., (Mrs. Ira G.
and
1814,
on the
now
owned
Hill), Mahala, second wife of Freeman Shelp, Charles M., de
ceased, Adaline, wife of Joseph Quackenbush, deceased, and
Arminda, widow of Stephen Clearwater.
Freeman Shelp came from Montrose, Pa., very early in the
history
of
Tioga county,
Pa., to Ithaca.
and was engaged
his
in
driving
stage
from
S. Mahala, daugh
ter of Abial Hill, he had three children, viz.:
Charles F., of
Waverly, Francis M. (Mrs. Charles Hill), deceased, and Belle A.
The latter married A. T. Andre, of Lockwood, and has one son,
Towanda,
By
second
wife,
Freeman J.
Bartron
Joseph
Nichols,
Mills,
the bank
the
Meshbppen, Pa., and settled in
Susquehanna, at a place called Smith's
he worked, being
to this town in 182 1, and
son
Joseph.
The
road now crosses
the
mill
was
creek.
trade
by
farm
He
now owned
re
by
Buttson creek, for
where the Erie rail
saw-mill on
located
He
a mill-wright.
cleared the
He built the first
Gilbert Smith.
him
of
from
where
moved
his
on
came
about
married
Betsey Place,
who
bore
children, viz.:
James, Eliza (Mrs. Morris Walker),
(Mrs. Jonathan Rolf), Moses, Delila, widow of Daniel
eight
Anna
Chloe (Mrs.
Graves,
Joseph
married
bore him
Elijah Van
Gorder), Joseph,
Harriet, daughter
of
George W.
and
John P.
Johnson,
who
nine children.
George W. Johnson
this town.
He
married
came
from
Ithaca, N. Y.,
Betsey Severn, by
whom
and
located in
he had thirteen
TOWN
OF BARTON.
83
Abram, John, Charles, Amyette, Jane, Matilda,.
Elvira, Julius, Harriet, Washington, Josiah, James, and Cynthia.
John married Jane, daughter of James Garrett, of Tioga.
viz:
children,
Eliphalet Barden
came
riage
was
to this
eight children,
Connecticut,
Greene, Chenango
to
town,
He
Francis Giltner.
removed
born in
and
settled
married
two only
of
county,
on
the
Miriam
whom
and
N.
farm
his
after
Y.,
in
and
now
1821
owned
Priest, by
living, Freelove,
whom
are
mar
by
he had
wife
of
Schoonover, and Zalmon, who resides on road 39. The
latter married Mary A., daughter of William Todd, of Tioga,
and they have had four children, viz.: Charles E., of Tonawanda,
N. Y., Freelove L., wife of William Holt, of Tioga, William M.,
who died at the age of eight years, and Mary
E., wife of Frank
N. W.
Harding,
of
this town.
John Parker
settled
in
Ellistown,
at
early date.
an
He
mar
by whom he had seven children, viz.: Fred
erick, Henry, Clark, James, Hiram, Caroline, and Abby. James
married
Charlotte, daughter of William Ellis, who bore him
children
eight
Frances, Albenia, Genervy, Charles, Mattie,
Christina, Mack, and Hermeone.
ried
Lizzie Ellis,
John W. VanAtta
was
born November 1, 1782,
and came
from
Warren county, N. J., about 1827, and located on the
on
road 52.
He married
owned by A. J. Van Atta,
Rockburg,
farm
now
Elizabeth
he had
Albright,
who was
born August 16,
children, born as follows:
November 21, 1811; Adam,
eleven
Margaret,
William, February
1,
1816;
Benjamin,
1787. and
by
whom
Peter, July
28, 1810;
November
18,
June
6,
1818 ;
1813 ;
Caroline,
June 19, 1821 ; Sarah, July 15, 1823 ; Isaac, July 22, 1826; Azariah J., December 15, 1827 ; and Rebecca M., December 11, 1832.
Peter married Fanny J., daughter of Reuben Harding, by whom
he had two sons, Oscar H., and Clarence, of this town.
and Benjamin were musicians in the old state militia.
Shaler Shipman
and came
to this
was
town
in
April 21, 1800,
settling first on the farm now
born in
1829,
Peter
Connecticut,
by P. G. Schuyler, and then removed to the one now
occupied by Adam Albright, where he resided until his death.
He built two saw-mills, and was engaged in lumbering and farm
ing during most of his life. That section of the town, about the
owned
geographical
center, is commonly
called
Shipman Hollow.
He
he had ten children, born
as follows :
Prosper, March 2, 1829; Lucy A., October 11, 1830;
Abram, September 27, 1832; Rachel, June 10, 1834; Philip H.,
married
first,
Melinda
Speer, by
whom
84
TOWN
OF BARTON.
March 5, 1836; Stephen, April 27, 1838; Susan M., March 25,
1840; Rufus T., October 23, 1841 ;
W., September 25,
His second wife, Bar
1844; and Harvey D., August 21, 1847:
-George
(Bowman) Hunt, bore him four children, viz.: Perlie E.,
January 24, 1868; Shaler B., January 26, 1869; Orrilla M.,
January 4, 1871 ; Ada M., August 8, 1876. Mr. Shipman died
bara
December 24, 1878. Rufus T. Shipman enlisted October 1, 1861,
in Co. H, 10th N. Y. Cavalry, and served until August 14, 1862.
when
he
served
September 14, 1865.
Asa Doty, who has borne
ter
of
re-enlisted
in Co.
B,
6th N. Y.
He
until
him
Heavy Artillery, and
married Frances, daugh
three children
Ella A.,
born November 2, 1866, died August 5, 1874; Isaac D., born
March 29, 1873 ; and Cleveland, born March 8, 1885, died March
24,
1885.
James N.
Harding,
born
near Montgom
Orange
in
ery,
county, N. Y., and
1833 came to this town and
located on Tallmadge Hill, upon the farm now occupied by his
He married Susan Tenney, and reared five
son, C. N. Harding.
children, viz.:
Gilbert, Horace T., Clara, Charles E., and Cor
nelius
N.
Horace T. married Elizabeth, daughter of lacob
son
Charles,
of
was
Swain, of Chemung, by whom he has had eight children, viz.:
C. Willis, Theodore M., Fred, Charley, Bert, Mamie, Arthur,
and
Ella,
lie,
daughter
who was
of
comb, and has
daughter
L.,
1878.
C. Willis
married
Nel
H.
Burt, and has two daughters, Grace and
Theodore M., married Nettie, daughter of George Edg-
Ethel.
and
born October 7,
of
one
child, Marion.
Galaliel
Bowdish,
has had four children,
and George A.
John Harding,
son of
viz.:
Reuben,
Charles E.
of
Julia
E.,
county, N.
Y.,
married
Montgomery
James O., Robert E., Charles
came with
his
parents
from the
Minisink, Orange county, N. Y., when he was about six
years of age. He married Nancy, daughter of Ezekiel
Swartwood,
two
Amelia
wife
of
F.
children,
Rev.
H.,
rearing
Doty, of
Thompson, Pa., and Frank, who resides on the homestead. The
latter married M. Ella, daughter of Zalmon Barden, of this town.
Reuben Harding settled on Tallmadge Hill, on the farm now oc
town
of
cupied
by
Elliott Harding.
James Madison Sliter, son of Peter, was born in
Coeymans,
Albany county, N. Y., September 11, 1815. When three years
of age his parents removed to
where
Guilford, Chenango
county,
they
remained
where
he
two years,
resided
until
and
then removed to
November 1, 1834,
Bainbridge, N.Y.,
when
he
came to this
85
TOWN OF BARTON.
has
town and
since resided
He
here.
purchased
first
some
tim
ber property and afterward the farm nOw owned by Orson Dick
On April 30, 1839, ne married Elizabeth A., daughter of
erson.
In 1842 he re
Rev. Henry Ball, a Baptist minister of this town.
to his
moved
present
home.
They
S. Emily, Jefferson B.,
had born
to them
nine chil
Athens, Pa., inventer of the
Bonner scroll wagon-spring, Clarissa, Alice, wife of Harrison
Lewis, Anna, wife of Frank W. Phillips, of Waverly, Estell, Julia,
Katie, wife of Marshall, Brown, and Eveline G., wife of Amos
dren,
Mrs. Sliter died June 10,
Harding.
David Boardman Cure
N. Y.
,
about
fifty
and
1835,
John
by
owned
of
acres of
he had three
Hector, Schuyler county,
Hector Hill, upon the farm now
from
came
located
Brewster,
1886.
on
where
he
purchased one
hundred
He married, first, Achsa Hubbell, by whom
His second
children, Jackson, Adliza and Phidelia.
land.
Shipman, by whom he had seven children,
Elizabeth, David E., Sarah, Amos, James, Franklin E.
Maria
wife was
and
viz.:
and
Delphine.
Morgan, son of Theodore, a Quaker, of Horseheads,
N.Y., married Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Stephens)
Warner. They had ten children born to them, viz.: Francis,
November 22, 1833, died December 6, 1835 ; Charles H., of Wellsborough, Pa.; George B.,of Waverly; William W., who was killed
at the battle of Lookout Mountain, May 1, 1864; Frances A., born
October 17, 1843, and died April 27, 1866; Theodore T., August
Sheldon
Union army, was for nine months
a prisoner in Andersonville,
died February 3, 1874; John W., a
member of Co. I, 109th N. Y. Vols., now of Waverly, born Janu
7, 1846,
served
four
years
ary 27, 1849 ! Joseph S.,
Calvin P., May 15, 1855,
in
the
February
11, 1852,
of
Parsons, Kas.
now of
East
Waverly,
John W.
and
married
Nora W., daughter of James Bogart of the town of Barton.
Frederick S. Morgan, a member of Co. H., 109th N. Y. Vols., en
listed August 3, 1863, and was mustered out July 21, 1865 ;
was wounded in the battle of Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864. He mar
ried
by
Emma
whom
26,
mained
where
1
Lum,
82 1,
about
he
Enos Genung, March 23, 1871, and
children, Bertha D., Howard and Harry G.
daughter
he has three
Daniel J.
May
R.,
son of
and
six
engaged
in
Lyman,
1840
months
in
of
was
came
and
lumbering
to
then
and
born in New
Factoryville,
Berlin,
where
removed
to
Tioga
farming
for
about
N.
he
Y.,
re
Center,
twenty
Factoryville in 1874, and from thence
He married
removed to Waverly, where he has since resided.
years.
He
returned
to
86
TOWN
W., daughter
Orpha
Four
children were
ot
Rev.
OF BARTON.
September 3, 1845.
William Durella, October 19,
Henry Primrose,
born to them
:
Hospital, Washington, D. C, June 13,
Mary T., October 14, 1848; Henry E., September 25, 1853,
1846, died in
1864;
Harewood
Mr.
died June 15, 1878; and Mattie Captola, June 27, i860.
in
Co.
14th
Lum enlisted December 21, 1863,
A,
Heavy Artillery,
N. Y. Vols., and also on the same date his son William Durella
enlisted in the same regiment and company, but was afterward
transferred to the 6th N. Y. Heavy Reserves.
Mary T. married
Melvin J.
Baker, February
and
4, 1871,
there have been born to
Ola Corrinne, April 21, 1875, died April
13, 1879; Myron Elmer, February 6, 1877, died April 18, 1879;
and Edwin Durella, born September 29, 1880.
three
them
children,
John Solomon
and
located
He
married
came
Orange county, N. Y., about 1840,
upon the farm owned
by Mr. Kennedy.
from
West Hill,
Phoebe Valentine,
on
by
whom
he had
six
children
Maria, John V., George, Sarah, William, and Catherine Louise.
John V. married Ann Amelia, daughter of B. O. Van Cleft, by
whom he has one daughter, Carrie, wife of Horace Steward.
Jacob Andre, son of George, came from Sussexshire, England,
when
he
where
county,
bell,
of
farm
was eighteen years of
he
married
age,
and settled
Deborah, daughter
first in Delaware
of
In 1844 he came to this town and
owned
by George Georgia, which he
Delhi.
now
Hub
Sterling
settled on
the
cleared.
His
Isaac, of Factoryville; Jacob N., of Montrose, Pa.;
William, deceased; A. T,, of Lockwood; George, of Factory
ville; John H., of this town ; Newton, deceased; and Angeline,
wife of Charles Smith, of Waverly.
Lewis Mulock, son of William and Rebecca (Seybolt) Mulock,
was born in Mount Hope, N. Y., November 11, 1808.
He mar
ried Mary, daughter of Peter Corwin, in 1832.
About 1850 he
came into this county and located on Tallmadge Hill, where he
were
children
farming for several years. His children are Theo
dore, now of Athens, Pa.; Albert; Angeline, wife of Jacob Cole
man; Gabriel, of Waverly; Mary A., wife of Rev. A. B. Scutt
engaged
Coe,
of
in
Lancaster, Pa.;
and
Corwin,
of
Waverlv.
For
the pur
securing for his children superior educational advantages,
Mr. Mulock removed to Waverly when his family was young,
pose of
and
has
here
since resided
two terms of
four
Thomas B. Hunt
1830,
came
there.
was
He has been
a
justice
of
the
peace
years each.
born in
to this town in 185 1,
Cooperstown, N. Y., October
and afterward
purchased a
23,
farm
He
in Smithboro.
by
man,
whom
ber 13, 1857, died in I*859,
December 17, i860.
Allen
N.
son of
where
he
came
to
Waverly
village,
during
He
S. D. Barnum.
Tioga, by
of
died
latter
the
at an
born in Schoharie county,
was
to Tioga
age came
early
Center,
lumbering during his early years. In
and purchased a farm on the Shepard's
in the
Waverly
his life in partnership with
daughter of Amos Canfield,
Mary,
married
business in
produce
of
years
he had two
whom
February
Sanford E., born Septem
William W., of this town, born
and
also
road, engaging
creek
Absalom Bow
of
children:
David,
June 22, 1825, and
he was engaged in
Y.,
i860
LaMont,
Barbara, daughter
married
he had two
$7
OF BARTON.
TOWN
daughters,
Grace
Ellen.
and
He
28, 1884.
James, was born in Caroline, N. Y.,
He married Harriet, daughter of Daniel Vorrhis, by
in 1820.
wife of William Frisbie;.
whom he had five children, viz.: Kate,
Daniel V.; James, and George of this town;- and Annie, wife of
Mr. Besemer came to this town and
S. Hubbell, deceased.
Jacob D.
located
on
the farm
son
J.,
of
The latter
by his son Daniel V.
Hubbell, by whom he has two
now owned
Delphine A.
married
Gracie
Besemer,
born December n, 1878,
and
Reed
V.,
children
born August
1881.
n,
Dr. Ezra Canfield,
Smithboro, February
there and
at
Amos,
son of
13,
Waverly
was
He
1854.
born
his early education
He entered the office
received
Binghamton.
and
homestead in
the
on
Dr. O. A. Jakway, of Breesport, N. Y., and that of his brother,
He graduated from the
Dr. Enos Canfield, of VanEttenville.
Medical University of New York City in 1879. His first location
of
was
VanEttenville,
at
came
Lockwood,
to
Emma,
The
lowing
since
2,847;
5,087:
daughter
of
comparative
citation of
its
where
Initial Events.
he has
growth
of
since
of
1825,
until
585;
1855,3,842;
1882,
practiced.
for the
when
He
Allentown, Pa., in
the town may be
census reports
organization:
1875, 5,944;
remained
Bishop Kline,
the
1850,3,522;
he
where
seen
he
married
1874.
by
the
fol
several enumerations
1835, 1,496; 1845,
1830,972;
1865,4,077:1870,
1860,4,234;
1880, 5,825.
Ebenezer Ellis built the first
house, harvested
first crops, and his son Alexander was the first white child
The old brick church in Factoryville, now occupied
born here.
by the Old School Baptist Society, was the first brick building
the
erected.
Elias Walker built
was established at
the
Factoryville,
first tavern.
The first
in 1812,
Isaac Shepard
and
postoffice
was
88
TOWN
first
the
He
teaching his
bors in his
was
own
house.
Ellis built
Sarnuel
Walker, Sr.,
saw-mill,
Ellis
on
addition
Ebenezer
and
Cayuta creek,
John Shepard built a full
on
Factoryville. Josiah Crocker and
ing-mill on Cayuta creek, near the state line, in 1808,
Job Shepard
to
George
creek.
the first grist-mill, in 1800,
at
and
first
the
was
culture, and, in
of
church edifice erected.
the first
erected
Strong
family taught the children of his neigh
The Emery Chapel (Methodist Episcopal)
the first
was
Ephraim
gentleman
a
large
own
Ellistown
at
Deacon
postmaster.
teacher.
OF BARTON.
erected
a
it, in
near
woolen-mill
Isaac
and
Dr.
William
18 10.
from Connecticut, was the first physician,
Giles the first lawyer, and Rev. Valentine Cook the first preacher.
Prentice,
The first
Organization.
Smith, April
Gilbert
of
Gilbert
elected:
town
27, 1824,
Smith,
was
meeting
following
the
when
held
supervisor; John
at
the
house
officers were
Crotsley,
town clerk;
Barnes, A. H. Schuyler, and William Hanna, assessors ;
William Crans, Frederick Parker, and John Giltner, commission
John Parker, constable and collector; John
ers of highways;
Hanna, jr., and Seeley Finch, overseers of the poor; Gilbert
Smith, Eliphalet Barden, and Nathaniel Potter, commissioners
of common schools; James Birch, Ely Foster, Joseph Tallmadge,
Samuel Mills, and Jonathan Barnes, inspectors of schools ; George
W. Johnson, Abraham Smith, and Joseph Tallmadge, fence-view
ers; John Hyatt and Joel Sawyer, poundmasters.
Jonathan
BUSINESS CENTERS.
Waverly Village.
one
of
the
most
important
in this section, and, next to Owego, the largest
in the county, has had a phenomenally rapid growth and
business
village
This village,
centers
for it is practically only since the
the Erie railroad, in 1849, that ^ has
sprung into
business
prosperous
completion of
career ;
importance.
Situated
treme
ful
upon
the east bank
southeastern corner of
region
of
hill
and
of
the
Chemung
the county, surrounded
by a
the
ex
delight
valley, Waverly's
location is extremely
streets, its rows of business
While viewing its busy
blocks, its manufactories, fine residences,
avenues, it is difficult to conceive that, its
pleasant.
since was a cultivated
river, in
farming
region.
and
site
But
pleasantly shaded
only a few years
such
is in reality the
case.
Among
the early settlers
and principal owners of
what
is
now
TOWN
the
village
site,
Isaac
was
OF BARTON.
Shepard,
viously stated, bought 1,000 acres
bracing the sites of both Waverly
territory
valuable
Deacon Ephraim
100 rods
nearly
Strong
of
land,
and
purchased
at
East
Waverly,
these
of
153
in 1796, as
$5.00 per acre,
father,
whose
south
wide, extending
the present
center of
and
north
89
much
this tract,
a
Strong, probably in that year, although it has been
that it was built in 18 10.
It was located near the site
Mr. Snook's
place
and apple
by
planted
were
the
19
strip
built
was
Mr.
Frederick M. Snook's residence,
18
nearly through the
The first house here
village.
em
In
villages.
acres of
northward
and
pre
trees
now
by
stated
of
Dr.
standing
on
deacon in those early
days.
In
street) was laid out,
and in 1825 Isaac Shepard built the pioneer hotel of the place.
It stood on the site of the present Charles Shepard residence, on
West Chemung street.
In the following decade the number of
82 1 the
1
Chemung
settlers
was
brother
Amos,
house
nery,
of
J.
the site
near
until
1833,
Dubois'
in
of
when
house,
1831.
The latter
the present
he built
opposite
Owen
into it.
moved
Owen
augmented.
greatly
came
(Chemung
turnpike
occupied
C. E. Merriam's
a
occupied
a
with
his
small
log
Mrs. Harriet Tan
residence of
what now constitutes
Spalding
Dr. Snook's
Spalding,
the
rear part
and
residence,
plank-house on
This
the
probably the
In 1833 Mr. Spalding built a
house built by Deacon Strong.
house on the site now occupied by Hon. R. A. Elmer's residence.
present site
This house
Chemung
was afterward
street and
and where
In
of
Mr.
March,
-county,
Joseph
residence of
from
Chemung
accompanied by
sons
corner
southwest
where
Hallet, Sr.,
it
now
of
stands,
up from Orange
acres of land near
came
Valentine
Hill, 100
J. E. Hallet, and extending
street, for
his
was
died.
and purchased of
the present
to the
removed
Pennsylvania avenue,
Spalding
1833,
residence.
which
he
Gilbert H.
settled upon the above mentioned
paid
and
northward
$1,100.00.
Joseph E.
He
was
The latter
farm, his house standing
upon
Fulton street, between the present residences of Mrs.
Fritcher and E. G. Tracy. At that time there were but fifteen
what
is
now
buildings in the place, namely : one hotel, one distillery, one
blacksmith shop, one log dwelling, one plank dwelling, six small
frame dwellings, and four barns.
These were Isaac Shepard's
hotel, Jacob Newkirk's distillery and dwelling, Thomas Hill's
house,
the
and
house, all near the Shepard residence ;
Jackson, a Baptist minister, whose house
another small
dwelling
of
Elder
TOWN OF BARTON.
90
just
stood
the present
west of
residence of
W. F. Inman,
the
and
Elder's
blacksmith shop, which stood where now stands the
Slaughter residence ; Amos Spalding's house, and Owen Spald
ing's
house, and the log house into which Gilbert Hallet
and O. Spalding's, Jackson's, Newkirk's, and Shepard's
plank
moved,
barns,
the latter the large
standing on Pine street,
those early days.
barn
red
the only remaining land-mark of
Gilbert Hallet moved into the
ding,
the
and
following
year
together
This
purchased
forty-five
with
place and
ard.
Three
years prior
land,
acres of
Jackson
by
into
and removed
Elder Jackson's house
and
bought
acres
Hill,
Jesse Kirk for $500.00.
The land
had
lay
house that
a
In the
next
to,
$1,000,00.
Joseph Hallet
of Isaac
Shep
above referred
by
respectively,
county,
Amos Spal
paving therefor
to this time, Elder
to return to Orange
anxious
built
the one hundred
were purchased
log house vacated by
H. L. Stowell's brick house.
stood where now stands
year, 1835, he
now
Jackson,
who was
the
offerered
south of
very
place
Chemung
to
street,
line passing near E. J. Campbell's residence, southward
through Slaughter & Van Atta's and E. G. Tracy's drug stores
the
east
to the 60th
place of
the
stone, thence
Dry brook,
center of
brook to
mile
Chemung
and
west
beginning, comprising
what
Murray
stone
Murray
now
offered
for $1,000.00.
to
is
now
the business
These
sales
other pioneers were
road,
hill northwest
This
of
portion of
one
being
pushing
on
beyond
now called
"
where
Waverly,
hundred
lightly
made
house
the
and
acres there
land in this
Chemung
locating on the
along the
and
Hill."
West
Susquehanna valley had been the scene of
lighted either intentionally or carelessly by
the
many forest
fires,
hunters,
had been
and
stands, in South
illustrate how
the village,
portion of
a small wooden
to Mr. Hallet
sell
valley was valued 'at that time.
While these settlments were
so
save second growth pines
the
following the center of Dry
along Chemung street to the
lived in
house"
Murray's
Mr.
line to the
state
village.
At this time Harris
<s
thence north,
street,
along the
west
burned
frequently
remained,
and
over
this is
that but little
said
to have been
why many of the early pioneers refused to locate here,
they thinking that land that would produce naught but " scrub
pines
was of little value, and
accordingly pushed on to the high
reason
"
lands
beyond, believing
indicated
Among
a
fertile
that the
heavy
growth of
timber there
and productive soil.
those who settled there
first,
probably
during the
years
91
TOWN OF BARTON.
Hyatt, Paris and Robert Sanders, David Carmi
chael, Jonathan Robins, G. W. Plummer, Jacob Swain, Nathan
Slawson, and Steven Van Derlip ; after these came Daniel Blizard,
1830-35, Piere
David
Mandeville, Sr., Peter
W. A.
Lane,
Jesse Kirk
living
are now
but
and
Lewis Quick, S. T. Van Derlip,
Of these we believe none
others.
and
and
fewT
of
their decendants
remain on
the
old
homesteads.
Between the
years
and
1837
in the
1850 the number of settlers
increased rapidly, among the new comers being Captain
Benjamin H. Davis, F. H. Baldwin, H. M. and W. E. Moore,
village
Richard A. Elmer, Sr., and his sons Howard and Richard A., Jr.,
Jacob Reel, E. J. Brooks, J. A. Corwin, Sylvester Gibbons, R.
O. Crandall, the first physician, Peter Wentz,the first justice,
first
George
Beebe,
present
residence of
the
lawyer,
many others.
The street running from Charles Sawyer's residence on Che
out in 1835,
mung street to the hotel at East Waverly, was laid
and in 1843 Pennsylvania avenue was laid out south as far as the
On the
avenue.
Mrs. Bucklin
stands,
In
Elmer,
a
tew
Moore
and
Aplin
present
house
built
where
one where
the
one on
The latter
Waverly
residence.
Levi
the
one on
Curtis'
Butts'
H. S.
torn
the
ot
site
corner of
was
Andrew Price built
Chemung
opened a cabinet
foundry
the Clarmont
of
a
Frank Sutton
and
residence now stands.
Later the
the
same year
Penn
down
by
years since.
northwest corner of
Decker's
as
Milo Hulet built
and
G. H. Hallet
1842
far
Park Place.
sylvania avenue and
Mr.
as
in the
and
stands, Isaac Drake
residence,
residence now
Curtis,
Charles Howard built
now
residence
down
opened
was
street
Levi
and
was
A
Waverly
short
a
foundry
streets,
time
on
where
afterwards
the
A. I.
Daniel
building.
shop in the second floor of this
changed into a hotel and bore the name
House.
In 1843 J- E. Hallet built a house on Waverly street, for one of
This was the first house on the
the employes of the foundry.
In the same year Edward Brigham built a hotel on the
street.
present site of
store and
dist
dwelling
house
and
Robert Shackelton built
combined where now stands
a
the Metho
parsonage.
The first
he
the M. E. church,
was
store
was
kept
called, in the spring
the sites
Decker.
west of
of
the
In the
present
of
Alva
Jarvis,
1841, in
residences
following
H. L. Stowell's
by
or
"
a wooden
of
Squire Jarvis
building
Mrs, Fritcher
fall G. H. Hallet
present residence.
"
as
between
and
A. I.
opened a store
just
TOWN
92
In 1843
was
event that
let,
an
begun the
a
proved
impetus
the
on
new
force is
whose
ment and other
or
In the
was completed.
inhabitants. Poor
three hundred
and
it
were
manage
to retard the progress of work
not
was was
time
mean
There
not yet expended.
combined
causes
railroad,
Erie railroad, an
impetus to the growth of the ham
the the
construction of
great
then here probly two
OF BARTON.
1849 that the road
Village was steadily
until
Waverly
growing.
About the time the
laid out,
first buildings
the
part of
and
the time
building
was
ing
and
there
be the
House,
larged,
of
bank,
a
basement
little
west
as
built,
to
Ely
Peck
where
floor.
little
station
build
the Warford
building
was
en
was
removed,
and a
In
and converted
and
the first
stands
now
first
the
was
erected a small
the saloon
the ground
and opened
While the depot
Afterwards the
which
built
was
J. S. Smith.
Waverly House,
the
House.
of
saloon.
was again enlarged
first known
Mr.
the village.
by
was
the road, and
erection, William
general store opened on
building
Owen Spalding*
by
owned
The depot
completion of
part of
and opened a
a
in business.
embark
lands
through
was soon succeeded
the
to
earliest
the
see who should erect
Isaac
the
of
process
on
to
was a strife
are now situated.
in that
agent, but
in
street was
Shepard, and each gave the right of wayland given by Captain Davis was that on which the
Erie buildings
about
Broad
completed,
connecting Broad and Chemung streets
Houses sprang up like magic on every side,
railroad passed
Captain Davis
A
was
and cross-streets
quickly followed.
and on Broad street
The
railroad
1855 or 1856, the
into a hotel.
It was
later
Courtney
the
as
opened his
1849,
During
Captain
Davis
built
and
opened
a
saloon and boardingsaloon,
house between the Waverly House and the present site of the
the
Warford House.
A
year
a
year or so
later this
after
Peck
building
wTas
enlarged
to nearly double its original size, and opened as a hotel.
afterward sold to Stephen Bennet, who for several years
It
was
prior
to
time, had been engaged in blacksmithing on West Chemung
In the fall of 1856, Cyrus Warford bought the house, and
street.
this
in 1857 it
was
burnt down.
The property
loss to Mr. Warford.
While the hotels were being built,
construction on
bons
uninsured,
and
total
was a
of
was
Broad
opened a store.
block
on
Moore
the
site of
several stores were
in
course
street, and in
Amos
Spalding
November William Gib
had erected a large wooden
the present brick
opened a store about
Christmas,
block,
and
and
in this Hiram
nearly the
same
time
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T. J. Brooks
opened
the
third
fourth store, the last three
ing
these,
ard erected
in the
and
store
now
Charles Shepard
tin
In
shop.
Slawson's furniture
site of
into
room now
a saloon, and
In this
Central House.
the first in the
land's liquor
hotel,
a
foundry
and
located
wras
the
the
near
bore the
changed
of
name
jewelry
now
stands
where
dry
Co.,
present
opened a
the
store,
Row
store.
With these buildings springing up so rapidly
the parties who had opened stores on Chemung
that
Shep
streets.
store and
afterwards
was
John Hard
year
It
place.
This
store.
later into
a
hardware
a
opened
Hiram Moore built
1850
Broad
and
G. B. Witter, opened a
occupied by Gerould &
by
J. I. Reeve
and
Isaac
quick succession.
Clark
Follow
Block.
Spalding
corner of
occupied
store, while in the
goods
in the
in
Shepard Block,
the
John A. Corbin the
store, and
being
others were opened
93
"
"
they must get down town if they would
business, and accordingly moved, not their
Broad street,
street discovered
on
secure a share of
goods
alone, but
Chamber's furniture store, that stood near the
present site of W. F. Inman's residence, was moved to the cor
Clark streets, and is now occupied by J.
and
ner of Broad
H. Hern as a grocery. George Hanna purchased G. H. Hallet's
their buildings also.
and moved
store,
Block,
where
it
it down
Orange's
cupied
by
Nelson's harness
Hiram Payne
a store
he
residence, and this
the Van Velsor
present site of
by
occupied
was
Cyrus Warford had
store.
the
near
on
moved
the
as a
site of
present
down
furniture
it is
and
Mrs.
oc
now
store.
In 1852, B. P. Snyder built the hotel for many years afterward
In
known as the Snyder House, now called the Hotel Warford.
Cyrus Warford
1855
although
The
until
the
by
Waverly
year
Chemung
"
incorporation
to
which
name
by
name
Loder,"
resulted
Waverly
it
was
was made
a vote of
whom
1840
about
the
in
114
applied
on
the
for
votes
the
borrowed
to the
it,
village
1845, the little
or
a
village
settle
name given
called
was
1854.
For
18th
and
and
of
Application for
the
question was
January following,
forty-four
suggestion
by this
Factory
several years after
Waverley."
December 12, 1853,
was given at
was
"
owns
1873.
etc., to distinguish it from
spelled
citizens
still
and
Villemont,"
"
After this the
"
in
officially
the final organization, in
this even, the
put
not
street was called
Waverley,"
until
management
was
Until
1854.
Isaac Shepard.
name,
ville,
from its
retired
name
ment on
it
he
house,
the
purchased
of
Mr. J. E.
from the immortal
The
against.
works
Hallet,
of
Sir
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94
Walter
which
latter
Several
Scott.
were
"
other
Shepardsville,"
were
names
"
and
being in honor of Benjamin Loder,
among
proposed,
Davisville,"
"
Loder,"
the
the then
vice-president of
recently completed railway. The first election of village officers
was held March 27, 1854, at which the following officers were
Baldwin, William Gibson, Hiram M.
Moore, Peter Dunning, and Alva Jarvis, trustees; Squire Whit
aker, John L. Sawyer, and B. H. Davis, assessors; William P.
Owen, collector; Owen Spalding, treasurer; P. V. Bennett,
clerk ; Morris B. Royall, Absalom Bowman, and W. A. Brooks,
street commissioners ; David E. Howell, poundmaster.
Francis H.
viz:
elected,
Captain Davis
the first postmaster, and
was
his ap
received
in 1849, from President Fillmore.
He kept the office
short time in Cyrus Warford's store, and afterwards in a
pointment
for
a
"
"
Jarvis'
building adjoining Squire
building he afterward moved down
small
Commercial Hotel.
the brick
moved
building
In
1852
near
as
into it, in the store
In 1852 the Democrats
dent, Franklin Pierce,
and
on
the
spoils,"
he
the
belong
position
of
appointed
postmaster,
Abraham Lincoln
appointed
the
an
"
Davis
Block,
now occupied
Squire
This
"
that
Jarvis,
he held
re
by H. M.
victors
Democrat,
until
William Polleys to
and
to the
a
the
Block/'
first Presi
their
elected
principle
office
west.
present site of
Exchange
the
the postoffice
Ferguson & Co.
the
to
the Captain built the
known
now
the
store on
when
1861,
succeed
to
him.
BIOGRAPAICAL.
Dr. William
E.
Johnson
was
born
October 17, 1837; was educated in the
for college at Neversink academy, and
Medical college, December 31,
hamton,
to examine recruits, and
sequently
surgeon 3d
of
assistant
surgeon
to
promoted
Division
the operating
of
surgeon
in
inently
practice
identified
soon
after
the 109th
Corps,
and
staff of
the 3d
Division.
here,
where
the
he
Waverly
since
Albany
made
was
district,
N. Y.
Vols.;
then to
then became
he has
the
ex
Bing
at
received a commis
the same,
of
9th
war, in 1865, the Doctor came to
self
1862
prepared
schools,
graduated at
the twenty-sixth senatorial
surgeon of
first
Port Jervis, N. Y.,
common
In
1859.
amining
sion as
near
one of
After the
and
was sub
brigade
the
chiefs
close of
established
resided,
being
the
him
prom
business progress
the
ways.
The Doctor married Mattie M.
of
Scranton, Pa., May 1, 1873, and has no children. The
Fuller,
Doctor is surgeon-in- chief of the Robert Packer Hospital.
with
place, serving it in many
growth and
of-
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'~710/^
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Richard Allison Elmer
August 28,
Allison,
of
Dr.
son of
Nathaniel
prising the
church
settled with
the
an
Elmer,
N. Y.
of
rest of
he
age
added
younger
was
to his
Florida,
of
He
America
a
descendant
of
William
Edward
the
with
the
original proprietors
thrown
the
the
of
own
resources,
care
and
While
sisters.
and
his
upon
responsibilities
brothers
was
General
and
company of persons com
the Rev. Thomas Hooker, in 1632, and
Hooker's company, in Hartford, Conn.,
and was one of
early
was
was
of
Allison, of Goshen,
Elmer, who came to
in 1636,
born in Sussex county, New Jersey,
the eldest son of Micah Allison Elmer.
was
Dr. William Elmer, of Goshen, and Richard
Wawayanda, Orange county, N. Y., and great grand
grandson
and
He
1808.
95
At
city.
there
and
education of
in
engaged
farming
his
and
his guidance, one brother entered col
lege, and subsequently became a clergyman; the other was en
His attention was early called Westward, and
gaged in business.
kindred pursuits,
under
he became interested in Western lands.
In
November, 1850, he
settled in Waverly, having been induced by his brother, the Rev.
Nathaniel Elmer, then Presbyterian clergyman at Waverly, to
He was largely
give
up his intention to locate in the West.
interested in
he
while
he
matters
pertaining to the
of
was a person
was always
identified
unobtrusive
with
its
growth
of
manners
schools and
the
and
town,
force,
quiet
churches,
and
and
mat
pertaining to the advancement of the morals, and the gov
He died comparatively young, August
ernment of its citizens.
ters
8,
He
1867.
(daughter
September 11, 1832, to Charlotte Bailey
Colonel Jonathan Bailey, of Wawayanda).
She
was married
of
died September 6,-1883,
mentioned
ary 31,
1840,
was
He
was
at
Waverly,
1844.
and
children:
Howard, Mary,
He
was
of
Richard Allison
Elmer,
born in Sussex county, New Jersey, Janu
graduated at Union College, New York, in
a
and was ordained
October 24,
brother
Elmer,
above,
1816.
four
Antoinette Elmer.
Richard A.,
Rev. Nathaniel
and
leaving
minister
established
Presbyterian church,
the first Presbyterian church
its first pastor,
of
the
which position
he held
nine
Mary Post, in May, 1849, and died at
Middletown, July 11, 1884, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth.
Howard Elmer was born in Wawayanda, Orange county, N. Y.,
August 2, 1833, the eldest son of Richard Allison and Charlotte
years.
(Bailey)
He
was mariied
Elmer.
He
to
was prepared
for
college
at
the
Ridgebury
Goshen academies, but delicate health prevented the con
Soon after coming to
tinuance of his course.
Waverly with his
and
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96
father, in
1850,
he
after which
a
lad
seventeen, he
of
First National Bank
the
by
engaged
was
First National Bank
and
Canal Bank
In 1864 he
Elmira.
of
Waverly Bank,
the
Chemung
the
Waverly,
of
entered
was until
and
the
organized
its cashier,
he has con
1868
he became its president, which position
tinued to hold.
Having great faith in the value of the
after
which
in
he
1870
is situated,
himself the late Charles L. Anthony,
the valley
graphical advantages of
with
associated
in
geo
which
Waverly
York, and the late James Fritcher, and Richard A.
Elmer, his brother, of Waverly, and purchased the several tracts
of land, nearly one thousand acres, now embraced by Sayre and
New
of
its
The
surroundings.
for
of values,
a
off
pays
he
induced
which
railroads,
Waverly
Company,
and
death
the
family, E.
Bethlehem, Pa.,
monthly
P.
to
of
Mr.
Wilbur,
and
assume
the
are
prominent
resulted
the
the
treasurer of
the
the
Sayre Pipe
Athens
and
Foundry
waterworks.
the
Sayre Land
and
the
He
built.
were
He is
president
Company, the Sayre Water
Sayre Pipe Foundry Company, the Cayuta Wheel
director
of
Sayre Steam Forge Company.
the Pennsylvania & New
Mr.
York Railroad
Geneva, Ithaca & Sayre Railroad Company,
the
Buffalo & Geneva Railroad Company.
1876
and
1875
Geneva & Ithaca
years
in
factors
prosperity of
Through his encouragement the Cayuta
Foundry, and
also a
Company,
and
thousand,
Upon
men.
it
Foundry Company,
the
South
Athens.
and
and
Elmer is
three
of
and
and active manager of
&
the proposed town
Packer
the
of
built the Sayre
also
of
growth
depreciation
in centering at Sayre the great
the Pennsylvania & New York, and the Lehigh Valley
Anthony interest,
Wheel
and consequent
not swerve
hundred
eight
Lockhart,
shops of
the
population
a
over
Anthony,
Robert
1873
from his course, and with an
faith in its future prosperity he built the town of Sayre,
to-day has
which
checked
but he did
considerably,
absolute
time
panic of
holding any public
Sarah P. Perkins,
he
was receiver of
railroads.
He has
During
the Ithaca &
always
and
Athens,
from
refrained
He married, in October, 1865, Miss
daughter of the late George A. Perkins, of
office.
Athens, Pa.
Richard Allison
Elmer,
in
Waverly,
and
Wawayando, Orange
*This
of
of
Elmer*
the
sketch of
Mr. Elmer
New York Herald,
was
is
a son of
Charlotte
county,
contributed,
the
(Bailey)
late Richard Allison
Elmer.
He
N. Y., June 16, 1842,
at our
solicitation,
by
was
and
born
is
the
Mr. Charles Nordhoff,
in
second
family
a
961
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four, Howard Elmer being his
of
elder
brother.
His
family
established
High
he
there
School,
his
for
studies
Hamilton
subsequently
in 1864. He intended to
that purpose, and
have
and
1850,
was educated
at
was graduated
sued
He
ever since.
and
in
Waverly
to
removed
Waverly
the
at
from
College,
law,
practice
which
and pur
bar,
the
to
admitted
was
remained
but in 1867 the death of his father led him to abandon this plan
of life, and he joined his brother, Howard Elmer, who was then
ier
of
He
bank,
that
the
cash
to their father's business.
the First National Bank for twelve years,
and
business ability, he
him that his firm became
position about
largest investors
became
Waverly,
of
succeeded
time, by his energy
which
veloped
the two
and
cashier of
remained
during
First National Bank
the
president of
trusts in the
of private
so
de
of
the
one
New York.
state of
In 1870, he joined his brother Howard, Mr. Charles L. Antho
ny, of New York city, and Mr. James Fritcher, in the purchase
of
a
tract
bears the
a
Pennsylvania, near Waverly, which now
Sayre, and has become a great manufacturing
name of
and railroad
He
land in
of
his
still retains
director
the
of
interest
Sayre Pipe
the
which
Elmer,
though
well as
local
at
Sayre,
and
employed.
besides
full
gave
he took
always
charitable
and
Foundry Company,
Busied
Forge Company.
Sayre Steam
enterprises,
original
are
men
of
being
First National Bank, is director of the Sayre
the Sayre Water Company, the Cayuta Wheel
Company,
Foundry Company,
-Land
large bodies
where
center,
and
in
Mr
political
sought
never
the
other
energies,
part
prominent
movements,
his
to
occupation
a
these
with
and
as
political
prominently mentioned in the Republican
state convention, in 1879, fr the place of state treasurer, as be
ing in consonance with his business pursuits.
His
office.
In
88 1,
1
name
on
the
lic demand for
office
be
more
fill
to
which
accession of
trenchant
and
President Garfield, the
long
than
the
bureau
made.
place
of
of
second
the department
influential
recommended
knowledge for this place,
difficult
courage, energy
Without Mr. Elmer's
prominent and
istration,
common
work
of
reform.
assistant
the
required
the President
him
as
fittest
to do
the
for
business
postmaster
with
and able
around
and
knowledge,
the
urgent pub
in the
reform
needed
department led General Garfield to look
zen of
ity
was
and
the
man
a citi
capac
general, in
reforms
several
post-
were
to
gentlemen,
new admin
within
required
and
The President determined to
their
very
nomi-
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decided upon that Mr.
He had but a day to
consider the question of
accepting the position, and with his re
He was con
luctant consent his name was sent to the senate.
firmed May 5, 1881, and soon after removed to Washington, and
assumed his new duties.
The affairs of the postoffice department, particularly of that
nate
him,
Elmer
and
told
was
part under
it
OF BARTON.
the
was
of
only
what
control of
when
was
the
this
was
proposed.
second assistant postmaster
general,
known as the star route and steamboat service, had fallen into
such disorder under the previous administration as to become
one of the gravest public scandals in the history of the govern
attracting the attention of the whole country, and being
denounced by the journals of both parties, as well
asin congressional committeesand debates. All demands for efforts
at reform had been successfully resisted, and President Garfield on
entering the presidency, felt that a thorough extirpation of the
gross maladministration and waste in this part of the public service
was absolutely necessary to the success and good fame of his ad
ministration. He promised his unfaltering support to Mr. Elmer,
and thus encouraged, the work was begun.
Mr. Elmer found
himself strongly opposed by those who had in various ways prof
ited by the corruption and maladministration, many Of them
men of influence,
and supported
by others prominent in the
ment ;
exposed and
countn*-.
Almost entirely
to the
unknown
circle
of
political
Washington, and unfamiliar with the Department
Capitol, Mr. Elmer steadfastly pursued the work
had
undertaken.
and
the very
step
Overcoming
all
obstacles
leaders in
and
placed
with
the
he
in his way,
him at every
of
reform
difficulties which necessarily met
extremely intricate business, he, in three years of
and unceasing labor, completed the reform he had under
great
of an
arduous
taken.
This done, he resigned his place in February, 1884, to attend to
his neglected private interests. On resigning, he received the well
merited thanks of President Arthur, and of the head of the
Post
His course and his success had already won
Office Department.
the
the country,
approval of
faction the
that branch
substitution
of
the
of
which saw
economy,
service which
had
with
surprise
honesty
long been
and
and satis
efficiency in
notorious
for the
most scandalous abuses.
A brief statement of the results he achieved shows their value
In the first year of his service he saved the
and importance.
In the second and
$1,778,000.
years these
Treasury
savings amounted
to
over
$2,000,000
following
per
annum.
the most powerful combinations the
Against
the
country has
restored
order
and
he
known,
economy to the carrying of the
Star Route and other mails, and without stinting the service
the savings he enforced and brought about were so great as
to make the Post Office Department self-supporting for the
first time in thirty years. This encouraged Congress to aoree to
efforts of
one of
96s
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his
recommendation
two
to lower the letter
rate
from three
cents
to
cents.
The press of the country freely expressed its satisfaction with
Mr. Elmer's conspicuous success in one of the most difficult
ever undertaken.
The New
works of administrative reform
York Herald said editorially of him, in July, 1882, in a compari
son of his work with that of his predecessor :
The saving Mr. Elmer has effected on the Star Route service
selfalone, is more than enough to make the whole postal service
That is what the public gains by the labors of an
supporting.
honest man, and it enables the Postmaster General to say, that
year
for
ending July 1, 1883, the Post Office Department will
not
only be self-supporting, but will have a surplus of one and a
Such reductions in the cost of the service,
half million dollars.
their own story.
without impairing its efficiency, tell
They
reflect the greatest credit on
Mr. Elmer, as also on. Postmaster
General Howe, without whose strong and constant support Mr.
Elmer would not have been able to carry out the reforms he has
made in a service which had become corrupt, demoralized, and
"
,the
inefficient."
In June
of
the
following
year, the
New York
Herald, discus
"
Mr. Elmer's
sing the condition of the postal service, praised
and
administrative capacity, courage
extraordinary
As to Mr. Elmer, the Second Assistant General, it
and said,
was his task when he came into office to reform the Star Route
service, and weed out of it the extravagance and corruption which
Mr. Elmer did this, and he
had filled it under his predecessor.
for
the
of
thanks
deserves the
country
doing it admirably. In
the first year of his service he made a saving of over one-half of
the amount spent the previous year; in the second year he
effected still greater savings, and he did this in such a manner
that no complaints were made of insufficient
Shortly after retiring to private life, Mr. Elmer organized in
the City of New York the American Surety Company, of which
Soon after he had established
he became and remains president.
this organization, he fell ill from long-continued and severe labor,
and suffered for nearly two years from the results of too great
He did not, however, give up work,
and prolonged a strain.
and his care and skill have made his corporation the largest and
most successful of its kind in the world.
In the spring of 1887, on the application of the Surrogate of
New York, Judge Noah Davis, acting as appointed referee, took
testimony, at great length, to examine into the soundness of the
plan on which the American Surety Company carried on its busi
ness, and the responsibility of its guarantees, both in regard to
In his official report to the Surrogate,
individuals and trusts.
length
into the manner in which the Com
Judge Davis went at
does its work, and his conclusions were :
honesty,"
"
service.
pany
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"The
The
the
reserved
Company
the
of
capital
OF BARTON.
Company
remains
wholly
unimpaired.
fund and the net surplus show that the business of
has been, during its short term of existence, both
prosperous and profitable.
"
is strictly confined to Fidelity
that it engages in no other
Insurance,
business.
It divides this business into two classes, which it calls
Judicial and Fidelity.' The former embraces all the business per
taining to Courts of every kind, and includes undertakings or
bonds in appeals, on attachments and other process in suit, bonds
The business
and
of
guardians,
and
all
other
probate,
officers.
fidelity
of
the
Company
evidence
shows
administrators, executors,
obligations of sureties
which
The
of
the
involve
the'
second class
fidelity
in
of
trustees, receivers,
law, equity and
courts of
appointees,
includes bonds
and
except public
guarantees of
the
of employees of corporations and persons whose relations
fiduciary in any pecuniary sense, except
The judicial business has been conducted in
different States of the United States, but chiefly in New
to their
employers are
also public officers.
eleven
Pennsylvania."
York and
As to the
Fidelity
branch
of
the
business, Judge Davis
said :
Thus far the business has proved itself to be a safe and profit
form of insurance, and the experience of this Company has
justified the policy of the statute which authorizes the organiza
tion of such corporations. The conclusions which the Referee has
reached from the examination of this case are, that the American
Surety Company has not only satisfactorily justified in respect of
its qualifications to become surety in this particular matter, but
has shown that as surety in judicial proceedings, it presents a sys
"
able
,
tem
of
public,
security worthy
and
largely
of
the confidence of the
superior
to that
which can
Court,
be
and ofthe
offered
by
indi
vidual sureties.
"
The management of the affairs of the Company bv its
integrity."
has been most creditable to their capacity and
officers
On this report the Surrogate made an order June i, 1887, that,
"The American Surety Company be accepted as surety on the
bond of Ana de Rivas Herques given in the above entitled matter,
or upon any new bond that she may be required to give in this
Mr. Elmer is a director of the Wabash railroad, the Atlantic &
Danville railroad, the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, and
New York and New England corporations.
In 1883 he begame interested in several Mexican properties,
relation grew
and out of this
the International Company of
Mexico, of which he was one of the founders and the treasurer,
and to whose success he has largely contributed.
Mr. Elmer married June 16, 1870, Miss Sarah Foster France,
daughter of the late J. Foster France, of Middletown, New York,
and has three sons, Robert France Elmer, Richard Allison Elmer
Jr., the third of his name, and Charles Howard Elmer.
several
':
:..
OF BARTON.
TOWN
John L.
Sawyer,
born in Orange
97
county,
N. Y., in 1811,
came
After
1833, engaging in farming and lumbering.
the construction of the Erie railroad, in 1849, he removed to
Waverly village, where he was long and prominently identified
to Barton in
with
the
until
his
death, in
in the board
town
For many
1871.
of
he
years
resided
the
represented
Mr. Sawyer
supervisors.
he
where
prosperity, and
village's growth and
Julia
married
Orange county, who bore him two children, Henry M.
The former, born in 1832, married Maria,
and J. Theodore.
daughter of Senator Nathan Bristol, of Waverly, in 1856, and
Smith,
of
died two
later
years
He
Barton in 1834,
was
J. Theodore
issue.
without
district
the
at
educated
born in
was
schools
and
Goshen Academy, and engaged with his father in the lumber
For a time he conducted a
business in Waverly and Canada.
private bank, and in 1874 organized the Citizens Bank of Wav
of
erly,
years
of
in the board
Tioga in the
Alice
in
he is
which
Lyman,
Goshen, Conn.,
of
in
In
legislature.
his
represented
supervisors, and
of
state
two
1879 the county
Mr. Sawyer married
1878 and
1872
has
and
town
one
child,
Ellen,
born
1874.
Moses Lyman
Goshen
business
1859,
Vt.
at
Waverly
name of
he
remained
ist
as
and
born in
Goshen, Conn.,
In
established a
1872
He
till 1862.
a son of
Moses
in the
then enlisted
15th
In 1865, he came to
lumber business here under the firm
Lieutenant
Jennings &
village.
was
(Hadley) Lyman, August 20, 1836; was educated
Academy and Brown University ; began the lumber
Windsor Locks, Conn., and Mclndoes Falls, Vt., in
where
Vols.,
who
A.
Mary
and
at
He
president.
Lyman,
of
and
he built the
Co. F.
has
since
car-wheel
been
a resident of the
foundry
the
at
present
company till he sold
Mr. Lyman is now identified with the
out his interest m 1884.
Salisbury Iron interests of Connecticut, and is Eastern sales
village of
agent
Sayre,
for the
Toy Works,
acting
Shelby
and
is
as treasurer of
Iron
Co.,
Alabama,
of
president of
the
the Lyman
owns
the
Bank,
Waverly
Sanford,
of
A.
Fla., established in 1882. Mr. Lyman married Miss
Douglass, of Mauch Chunk, Pa., who bore him two children,
Moses and Isabel, and died in August, 1871. "In March, 1883,
he married Miss Sarah H. Beebe, daughter of P. S. Beebe, of
Litchfield,
Henry
Goshen^
Ellen
Conn.
G. Merriam, of
N. Y., March 5,
Hall Academy,
of
Goshen,
the
firm
1837.
of
He
Merriam
Bros.,
was educated at
and graduated at
was
the
Brown (R.
born in
Farmer's
I.)
Univer-
OF BARTON.
TOWN
98
in 1857, ar>d from 1861 to 1865 was principal of Leicester
Academy, Mass. He then came to Waverly and established the
sity,
hardware business
Mr. Merriam
ner.
Mass., in
here,
was
Benjamin,
who was a son of
that
in the town
name
of
in
it his home
was educated
teaching for
fall he
vacancy
the
elected
was
moved
Prior to
soon
Corps,
the
by
death
these offices
of
of
office
of
He
Wyoming
was
admitted
both
past
the
after
of
He
1873.
the
and at
engaged
four
out
in
he
and
years
The follow
of 1866.
etc.,
wills,
manhood
broke
war
served
and
he found time to
Hon. W. H.
to
Jessup,
Susquehanna
and
counties,
to
practice
At the
years
after
in the
in
pursue
perform
the study
and
in
all
the
courts
of
to the bar in Bradford
coming to
supreme
he has been in
general election of
While
Montrose,
of
practice
was afterwards admitted
fourteen
states.
in
he
1861
W. F. Simrell.
was admitted
of
and
For the
of
register
1871"
the county.
Waverly,
to
to
grew
he filled three years, and in February, 1870,
prothonotary by Governor John W. Geary, to fill
duties
spring
Here he
office
caused
law in the
of
and was
returning home in the spring
was appointed
the
years, but
several
This
county.
original settler
Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.,
at
three months,
ing
he
in the U. S. Marine
enlisted
the
born June 22, 1838,
Later in the same year his parents
Nichols,
School, Montrose, Pa.
Normal
ing
until
Richard Shoemaker,
son of
Daniel,
a son of
Athens township, Pa.
moved to Susquehanna county, Pa.
and made
Worcester,
of
office eleven years.
Judge Ferris Shoemaker is the fifth
of
White,
has two children, Harry E. and Grace M.
the first president of the board of education
has held the
and
W.
Fanny
married
conducted as senior part
since
and
1867,
Mr. Merriam
he has
which
Waverly, in
court
of
constant
1886
1873,
New York.
practice
Mr. Shoemaker
in
was
He
county judge, on the Republican ticket.
married Gertrude S. Sweet, of Montrose, Pa., September 1, 1869,
and has had five children, all of whom except one are living, viz.:
elected
special
Richard S.,
Tila
N., Mabel
and
Max
Albrecht,
residing
with
their parents.
Jacob B. Floyd
He
was educated
was
born in
in the
April 26, 1839.
his native town, in the
Chemung, N. Y.,
public schools of
Seminary, of Lima, N. Y., and the Wyoming
Kingston, Pa., taking a college preparatory course.
Genesee Wesleyan
Seminary^,
of
He began the study of law at the
He immediately began
in 1871.
been in
practice
here
ever since.
Law school, graduating
practice at Waverly, and has
Albany
He has held the
office of special
OF BARTON.
TOWN
99
county judge, was a member of the state assembly in 1882, and
Mr. Floyd married Matilda H. Snyder,
held other minor offices.
Scranton, Pa., August 14, 1861, and has had three children,
of Wellesly
only one of whom, a daughter, Florence, a graduate
of
college, is living.
G. Allen,
Adolphus
Allen,
were
born
was
begun in the
in the
Troy, Pa.,
at
common
Samuel
of
son
November 30,
he
and
schools,
academy ; but left off ideas of
study with General James Nye,
them
and completed
to the bar
and was admitted
January,
The
1853.
ford county
the spring
bar,
of
has held the
Goodwin &
with
at
immediately
1854 located in
town
of
moved
Waverly,
at
of
term
studies
for
college
the
to
for
same
he
now
and
in
He
is.
village, been
the
of
Brad
to the
Factoryville,
where
place,
Binghamton,
at
admitted
trustee
clerk,
His
law,
Hamilton, N. Y.,
Mitchel,
was
(Sheffield)
the classics
general
spring he
next
and
office
the
1830.
prepared
Troy
beginning
Miranda
and
member of the state
county judge two terms, and was a
Judge Allen married Sarah S. Walker, of
legislature in 1886.
Factoryville, in March, 1853, and has two children, D. Welling
special
ton,
a
Kate,
Waverly, born June 18, 1854, and
Campbell, born January 1, i860.
born in Maiden, Mass., August 18, 1816,
of
practicing attorney
wife of Clarence C.
William Polleys
about
and when
Bradford
ten
When
his
with
Republican,
parents
years of
eighteen
about
Elmira
the
of
office
age removed
of
years
Pa.
county,
the
entered
was
as
an
age,
to
he
apprentice.
After mastering the trade, he remained in the office until 1840,
when he and Alva S. Carter purchased the paper, and continued
the
until
publication
name was changed
removed
to
Baldwin, in
changed
of
its
in
from the
the1
Advocate,
Waverly Luminary,
of
of
was appointed postmaster
fourteen
retired.
years
From
in politics,
early
but
work.
too
can
-For
demise
on
and much of
sacrifice was
and
the
his death.
by
then
but
recently
and continued one
July
President
17, 1861,
Lincoln,
and
Mr.
for
held that position, when he voluntarily
manhood Mr. Polleys took an active interest
and until the
in Tioga county
untiring
interest,
following
that organization,
publicans,
their
Mr. Polleys
into partnership with F. H.
entered
up to the time
publishers
Polleys
and
publication
name
sold
to the Elmira Advertiser. In 1854
Waverly,
the
they
when
1845,
of
the
Whig
its dissolution, he
the
strength
and
party, belonged to
united
success
be traced to his energy,
his friends
great.
and
He took
the
of
the
their
Re
party
perseverance and
his party, no
interest in all public
success of
an active
with
TOWN
100
OF BARTON.
enterprises, and in everything that
was calculated
to
advance
the
He died suddenly June 26, 1883.
Richard D. Van Deuzer came from Orange county, N. Y., to
Waverly, in 1852, when there were but four or five hundred inhab
itants in the village, and has been connected with public enter
interests
the
of
here
prises
village.
He built the Waverly steam flouring-mill,
it was destroyed by fire.
He built also, a
ever since.
and conducted
it
until
in Waverly, and a steam saw-mill on Shepard's creek.
Previous to his con
The former was twice destroyed by fire.
planing-mill
nection
with
manufacturing projects, he
tile pursuits, and conducted the
the incorporators
was one of
the First National
institution,
first
Bank,
stock-holders,
company, and in
also
the
of
latter
the
was one of
G. I. & S. R. R.
John Sawyer, secured the right
to Dean's creek, a distance of seven miles,
the opening
of
banquet
occasion a
the
organize
way from the village
for one dollar.
Mr. Van Deuzer
the
He
He
connection with
of
poration at
president of
seven years.
helped
and
Waverly Bank,
first
and was the
merchan-
in Waverly.
coal-yard
the old
of
he held
which office
first
in
was engaged
was president of
Lehigh
the
Valley
village cor
R. R.,and in honor
the Snyder
was given at
the
House,
of
at which
Harriet Everson, by whom
he had five children, viz.: Fanny, wife of W. H. W. Jones, Howard
G, Mamie C, Annie L., and Richard D., Jr. Howard C. mar
ried Kittie Towne, of Rockford, 111.
he
Mr. Van Deuzer
presided.
Gurdon G.
He
30,
1825.
the
Owego
to
Manning
Owego
born in
was
was educated
mained six years.
In
in the
Berkshire, N. Y., December
common
He then taught
academy.
as a clerk
married
for
he
went
and attended
school several
Truman, Stone & Buckbee,
1856
went
years,
where
he
into the drygoods business
In the latter
C. E. Schoonmaker.
schools,
part
of
i860
he
was
re
with
elected
his interest to his partner, and in 1861
the mercantile trade
removed to Factoryville, where he entered
In 1876 he removed to
again, in company with Silas Fordham,
Waverly village, and since January, 1886, has held the office of
county treasurer,
justice
of
and sold
Mr.
the peace.
Manning
married
Sarah A.
Adams,
October 23, 185 1, and has had born to him three children, viz.:
Lucius R., a banker of Tacoma, W. T., Charles E., an assistant
engineer
Nevins,
in the U.
of
Eaton
Chenango, Broome
in the
Navy,
and
Jennie S.,
wife
of
James P.
this town.
Ambrose P.
cated
S.
was
born in the
county, N.
public schools of
old
Y., June
his
native
town
4, 1826.
town,
of
Union,
He
studied
was
law
now
edu
with
TOWN
OF BARTON.
IOI
Hon. Charles E. Parker, of Owego, was admitted to practice at
Binghamton, in 1868, and has been in practice in Tioga county
since.
Mr. Eaton married Mary H., daughter of Calvin John
son, March 13, 185 1, and has one child, Mary E., wife of James
A.
Tioga. Mr. Eaton's home is in Smithboro,
is located in Waverly.
Roberts,
his
office
of
William Fiske
Warner,
prominently identified
is widely known as a
one
with
Waverly 's lawyers,
the later
writer
Owego, his former home,
of
and
we print a
of
has been
the village,
and
local history.
In
growth of
student
though
biographical
sketch of
this
gentleman.
Benjamin
Guenon,
Genung
the exiled
one of
Jean
early settler in this vicinity.
Hugenots who took refuge in Holland,
was an
Draetvat,"
from Amsterdam, April 2, 1657, in the ship
Captain John Bestevaer, and came directly to New Amsterdam
set
"
sail
The
(New York).
he
Flushing, L. I., where
he acquired some land, and remained until his death, in 1714.
His wife was Grietie, or Margaret Sneden, of Harlem, whom he
next year
settled at
August 30, 1660, and who survived him about thirteen
years.
They left besides daughters, two sons, John, born in i"669,
From these it is believed, have deand Jeremiah, born in 1671.
married
the entire, and now
cended
in this
Benjamin
country.
New Jersey,
in
widely
family
scattered
Genung,
Genung,
of
the revolution,
came to Dryden,
a soldier of
early day
Tompkins county, when that county formed a part of Tioga. He
had six children,
Barnabas, Aaron, Rachel, Philo, Peron and
Barnabas married Susan Johnson, by whom he had
Timothy.
settled
twelve
who
children
and
at
arrived
an
at
Lydia, Nathaniel,
maturity
Abram, Harrison, Ann, Rebecca, Sally, Enos, George, Merilda
Abram married Martha, daughter, of James R.
and Barnabas.
Dye, by
erick
(twins),
Greek, Latin
in Benedict Institute, Columbia, S. C.
college, the
my
he has two sons, John Franklin and George Fred
the former professor of rhetoric in
Amherst
whom
February
latter
26,
1825,
He
since 1852.
professor of
and
married
N. Y., April 7, 1850, and
Emma (Mrs. Fred Morgan),
journalist
of
this
village,
by
whom
George
was
born
Enos H.
he has
D.,
Dell (Mrs. George
(Mrs. George Stevens), Luella (Mrs. William
E. Mrs. Genung died September 18, 1882.
Nathaniel,
political
econo
was
born
has lived principally in Tioga county
Sarepta, daughter of George Earsley, of
Caroline,
viz.:
and
January
27, 1841,
the
children,
known
well
Gardner), Priscilla
Ewen)
married
six
and
Reuben
Salmon A.,
Mary E.,
son
of
daughter
102
TOWN OF BARTON.
Asa
of
Doty,
Towanda, Pa., September
of
and
21, 1861,
is
now
George D. Genung married Mary A.
^averly.
VanDerlip, a daughter of S. T. VanDerlip, of Waverly, June 16,
1876.
Three children have been born to them, Arthur, deceased,
a resident of
G. Leyl
M. Lucille.
Squire Whitaker was born in Deckertown, N. J., June 1, 1808,
and came with his parents to this town in 1816.
He walked the
and
distance, which in those days was not
markable
feat, and assisted in driving a cow.
entire
Sally, daughter
ried
John
Hanna,
for
and
In
about
1832
two
he
mar
years re
in Ellistown.
sided
They afterward moved to the farm on Tall
Hill now owned by his son Lewis, then an unbroken forest.
up a temporary house on crotched sticks, which the family
madge
He
of
considered a re
set
his log-house
occupied while
built
framed house, which
aided him to re-build,
a
kindly
Their
ready for occupancy.
D. D. Knapp), Pheobe (Mrs.
William
and
daughter
He subsequently
burned, and his neighbors
in nine days had his house
building.
was
was
and
Horace, Jane (Mrs.
Hatfield Hallett), Lewis, James,
Frank (Mrs. Wilbur Finch). Lewis married Frances,
children
were
James Parker.
In 1849, the family removed to Wa
verly and took up their home at the homestead in Chemung street,
where Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker continued to reside to the time of
their
of
Mrs. Whitaker died
death.
Mr. Whitaker
the
state militia
fered
est
Banking
1855,
Institutions.
House,
tion of the bank
moved
and
zens
in
into it.
The
Adams,
The business
the Snyder
Polk
and
captain of
In 1844 Tioga
bring to Owego the
county7
would
and
ago,
Dallas.
Mr. Whitaker
of
larg
was
the greatest number, and took the prize.
John C.
with
cashier.
of
of
years
appointed
was
Governor Marcy.
by
delegation in favor
head
He
15, 1887.
banner to the town that
a
at the
of
May
on
fifteen
about
first
corner of
1865 it
into the
Bank
and
opened
and a year or
about
1871 was moved
president,
was at
building
In
Waverly
two
was
in
George H. Fairchild,
in the northwest room
later,
Broad
organized
upon
the
comple
Loder street, re
tO a National bank,
and
was changed
building now
occupied
by the
Citi
Bank.
About the first
April, 1872, a private bank was opened in the
same building, H. T. Herrick, president ; George
Herrick, cashier;
H. T. Sawyer, teller.
also
held
the
same
positions in the
They
National Ban'k, and within a month after the organization of the
private bank, the National went into the hands of a receiver.
J.
S. Thurston, of Elmira, was the first receiver appointed, and at
of
TOWN OF BARTON.
the end
of a month
for
who served
he resigned
about
and was succeeded
three months and
then appointed and closed up the
ing
103
by
May
of
year, 1873, the HerrickBank also suspended, and
and
yer
ment of
R. A, Elmer
the business.
a
capital
of
was
the follow
J. T. Saw
were elected assignees and effected a settle
The First National Bank
with
Sawyer,
J. B. Floyd
resigned.
business. In
J.T.
organized
was
$50,000.00.
Its first
February
officers
were
13,
1864,
R. D. Van
Deuzer, president ; R. A. Elmer, vice-president ; H. Elmer, cashier.
In February, 1884, their charter was extended twenty years. The
present officers are Howard Elmer, president ; N. S. Johnson,
vice-president ; F. E. Lyford, cashier.
The Citizens Bank
of
on
the
first
incorporated
New York, June 18, 1874,
state of
the
was
of
July following,
the
under
laws
banking
and commenced
business
$50,000,00.
with a capital of
The
Sawyer, president; M. Lyman, cashier.
The present officers are J. T. Sawyer, president; S. W. Slaugh
ter, vice-president ; F- A. Sawyer, cashier.
first
officers
were
J.
T.
The
Gas Light Company.
Gas Light
Waverly
Company
was
7, 1873, with a capital of $50,000.00, and the
completed August 1 5th of the same year. They were
January
organized
works were
& Fowler, engineers of Philadelphia, and
cost the company $50,000.00. The village was first lighted with gas
July 24, 1873. The first officers of the company were William
bv
constructed
F. Warner,
Warner,
Deily
president
treasurer.
;
Frederick W.
William F. Warner is
Henry G. Merriam; secretary and
Waverly Library and Museum.
Prof. Riker, seconded by
The library contains
zens.
of
and
has
a
A
library
some 2,500
and
a
increase
and
and
museum
was
and
given
great
volumes and
rare and valuable works.
which an annual
of
co-operation of
reference
to the public, excepting the circulating
well
president,
treasurer.
the generous
circulating
latter embracing many
and
still
Park avenue, June 10, 1885, due mainly to the
opened on
phlets,
secretary ; E. W.
Warner,
fee is
satisfaction
in the
the
1,000
It is
made
It has
short period of
citi
pam
department,
department, for
charged.
efforts
the
the
free
use
worked
its
exis
tence.
Factoryville.
plied to all the
Waverly,
8*
territory
and took
its
"Factoryville"
was
name
now
origin
included in both
from the
originally ap
Waverly and East
number
of
factories
and
along Shepard's creek in the early part of the cen
The village is pleasantly located, but its prosperity de-
mills erected
tury.
The
TOWN
104
when, in 1849, the
parted
Waverly
has
interests,
ufacturing
The
gress.
wagon
the
has
and
verly,
in
pushed out
ville,
until now
lage,
the
"
East.
former has
hotels,
one
all
Waverly,"
the
within
school
practically
few
limits
of
saw-mill,
building, belong
East. Wa
and
in her
growth
Factory
towards
constitute one
locally having
within a
corporate
steam
Waverly
Waverly
of
even
doubtless
and
comprised
unite and
Factoryville
name
one
directions, but particularly
the two
latter
but very slight pro
church (Old
School Bap
inhabitants.
500
the
and while
made
fine
a
railroad caused
commercial and man
tannery,
system
school
about
in
population and
village now contains one
graded
the Erie
border,
western
shops, blacksmith shops, etc.,
to
ing
its
the
stores, two
tist), three
has
rapidly in
BARTON.
completion of
to spring up on
advanced
OF
given
way
to
both
will
be
years
Waverly,
vil
and
"
Factory
''
will exist
ville
only in memory and in history.
A survey of Factoryville was made in 18 19, by7 Major Flower.
John Shepard
and
cox
owned
land
the
the
on which
village
is
now
located,
he divided it into large lots, and sold them to Thomas Wil
and Moses and Elisha Larnard, who divided them into village
lots,
which
were
them,
erected upon
and
and neat
sold,
buildings
comfortable
The
which are now standing.
some of
were
post-
here in 1812, with Isaac Shepard as post
was first located in the woolen mill, and later
office was established
The
master.
office
in Mr. Shepard's
The
turnpike,
was erected
on
made
Sr.,
built
road
lines
stage
(Chemung
street).
the
over
newly con
a necessity, and in 1824.
the lot where now stands
"tavern"
the
by Isaac Shepard,
the C. H. Shepard residence,
ton,
Owego
the
mail and
establishment of
structed
one
store
and a
on
few
years
a tavern and stage-house at
later John Shackel
East Waverly.
very early date in the history of the town, mills and fac
In the year 1800 George Walker built
tories were erected here.
At
a
a grist-mill, and
in 1808-09 John
Crocker, then recently removed
ing-mill, carding-machines and
Shepard, sons of John Shepard,
and
William
wards
Shepard,
bought
and
C. C. Brooks.
Mr.
the
of
former the father
of
factory, which
by Alexander Brooks, an
erected a woolen
enlarged
This
Milltown, and Josiah
from Lee, Mass., erected a full
saw-mill.
Later, Isaac and Job
Shepard,
building
was
destroyed
fire in
by
Charles
was after
uncle
1853.
of
It
Brooks'
was rebuilt by
sons, William and Gilbert, as an agri
It was afterwards again destroyed
cultural implement factory.
by fire,
and
rebuilt
Brooks bought
a
in
part
by
William Brooks.
half interest in the
concern of
In 1863 C. C.
William Brooks,
TOWN
they
In
and
etc.
Phillips,
Decker
ings
buildings,
the
enlarged
Messrs. Brooks
1870
who again
it into
converted
in
rebuilding, and
machine-shops,
B.
to A.
establishment
In 1879 A- 1in August, 1882, the build
Mr. Decker at once com
and
by fire.
destroyed
were again
the
sold
105
foundry,
added a
the property,
purchased
menced
OF BARTON.
tannery.
a
January,
ready for
again
was
1883,
business.
About the
year
later he
state
line,
and
1834
sold
to Luther
In
Mr. Stone
1842
better
and
the
the business
kins,
of
until
1868,
building and
James
business for
put
up
a much
his
and
was
larger
rebuilt
sons continued
his interest to J. A. Per
sold
also
James Stone.
and
down, but
burned
later William
years
William
Luther Stone died
when
tannery near the
one Norris, who in
a
to
industry
i860 this was
1866
two
and
the
removed
In
same year.
the
sold
Stone, father
In
one.
Adams built
Jerry
1824
to
sold
Mr.
Perkins,
and
In 1883 the
Sayre Butter Package Co. leased the building, which for a few
years preceding this time had been unused, and now it is the
the latter
this important
scene of
Barton is
the town
and
is
a
the
continued
on
on
way-station
years.
industry.
a post village situated
Barton,
of
several
the
bank
north
the
the southeast corner of
near
the
of
Susquehanna river,
N. Y. L. E. & W.
railroad,
lt
con
(M. E.), one school-house, one hotel, two gen
eral stores, one feed and saw-mill, and about two hundred inhab
itants. Of the early settlers in this vicinity we have already
tains
one church
The
spoken.
Reniff is
village
about
five
miles
a post village situated near
The
the town.
is
from Waverly.
the northwest
here in
established
postoffice was
corner
March,
of
1881,
Willis E. Gillett postmaster, who has continued in office to
the present time. The village contains a school-house, saw, plan
with
ing,
and
shingle,
shop, and
about
feed-mills,
a
dozen dwellings.
office are about 200.
is
also the store and
in the
creamery.
ing
and
and
Reniff
maintaining
town,
creek,
and
blacksmith-shop,
thirty
about
is
its
The
largely
of
W. E.
owns a
in
the
post-
Gillett,
as
half interest
farming,
and
Although comparatively a young
enterprise and
energy in establish
the
entire
miles
a station on
by
engaged
business interests
existence
a post village situated on
seven
patrons
he
and
store, blacksmith-
men.
most ot
owes almost
general
mills are owned
shown remarkable
Lockwood is
the
The
Mr. Gillett is
employs upwards of
man, he has
creamery,
north
of
to
the
the place,
him.
western
Waverly,
the G. I. & S. R. R.
of
The
on
border
of
Shepard's
postoffice was
106
town
established
postmaster.
The
a
of barton.
in 1869, as Bingham's Mills, with G. W. Bingham
The name was afterwards changed to Lockwood.
is
population
custom
school-house,
The
about 200.
has
village
flouring-mill,
and
(M. E.),
one church
two
saw
planing-
and
blacksmith-shops, two turning, scroll-sawing,
wagon-shops, one hotel, two general stores, and one grocery
two
mills,
lt is
meat market,
is
bright for
exceedingly
a place of
for its industry and thrift.
North Barton postoffice is located in the
its size,
and
and
and
remarkable
northern
part
of
town, near the head-waters of Ellis creek.
Halsey Valley is a post village extending from the town of
Tioga partially over into the northeastern corner of Barton town
the
A description
ship.
of
it may be found in the
MANUFACTURING
The
Furniture Works
Novelty
Hall & Cummings, in
were
works
firm
Hall &
of
among
Pennsylvania.
portance of
June,
The
by fire.
stroyed
ity,
In
Waverly
Athens, Pa.,
largest
manufacturing
under
and
successful
the
1876
the
present
grew
in the
it
until
of
state
completely de
Waverly, wisely realizing the im
1884, the
people of
In
Waverly.
where,
by
established
were
prospered
most
and
Tioga.
of
INDUSTRIES.
South
the business
Lyon,
the
ranked
1873, in
to
removed
of
history
works
were
as an element of growth and prosper
very liberal proposition to Messrs. Hall & Lyon to
their works in their beautiful and thriving village. The
made a
re-build
being
the
were
re-built, on a much
enlarged basis, and were ready for operation in the autumn of
1884.
At the present time the works consist of three main brick
proffer
accepted,
buildings, besides
dry-kiln
lumber
capable of
72,000
feet
afforded
large
also
of
product, these
floor
in the
space
near
of
is utilized,
raw
was
million
are
not
of
thorough
ship
surpassed
Now
and constant
large
feet
materials and
country.
more
by
than
employment
is
with a promise of constant growth and
future.
Messrs. Hall & Lyon
now maintain
in
D. H. Eaton & Sons Refrigerator, Butter
factory
three
and a
arrangement,
works
whole
house,
Philadelphia, and their product finds market
New England, New York, and Pennsylvania.
sales room
throughout
furnace
for receiving the
to 125 workmen,
expansion
a
convenience
institution in the
similar
and
thoroughly kiln-drying
facility
the finished
ping
brick boiler
For
annually.
equipment and
any
a
works
established
in
July,
1885,
by
and
the
Oyster Pail Manu
above
firm
who are
TOWN
The
the patentees.
galvanized
iron
bottom.
and
fifty
is
fitted
so
There
tin, with a jacket of sheet or
to allow a free circulation of air be
as
the latter
are sizes
butter.
pounds of
107
made of
jacket;
tween the pail and
and
pail
OF BARTON.
being perforated at the top
holding five, ten, fifteen, twenty
for
By
thorough tests
it has been
proved
surpassing coldness for the transmission of butter, and they
The
may be returned to the shipper and re-used many times.
works are situated in East Waverly, on Main street, under the
of
firm.
the
supervision of
The Sayre Butter Package
D. Van Deuzer, who
erected the buildings
their
tinued
East
make
1884.
Waverly,
the
first
and
the
put
the
in
is
and
by
run
tin butter
both
in
July,
machinery
the
of
by
was established
patent
James A. Clark,
The factory is
with
until
secured
In October
manufacture.
partnership
Company
same year
Richard
1882, and
who
for
necessary7
he
entered
into
partnership was con
situated on Main street, in
which
steam and
water-power.
package with wooden
jackets
They
and covers
in this section, and Mr. Van Deuzer was the
first to introduce them into New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer
ever
manufactured
New England
sey
and the
elm
jacket, bottom
three
are
sizes
made,
made of
tin
with an
top hoops and wooden cover. There are
holding twenty, thirty and fifty pounds. There
and
hands employed,
thirty-five
ages
The tub is
states.
The
in ten hours.
capacity is 1,000 pack
proprietors are R. D. & H. C.
the
and
present
This
Van Deuzer, of Waverly, and F. T. Page, of Athens, Pa.
firm has recently added the manufacture of baskets of all varieties,
made of staves and splints, and the entire management is under
the
R. D. Van Deuzer.
supervision of
The Decker Tannery, located at Factoryville, has already been
The
sketch of that village.
spoken of in connection with the
tannery
employment
gives
,to
twenty-five
capacity for turning out 50,000 sides
C. M. Crandall s Toy Manufactory,
lished here
he had
by
him in
leather
of
and
Broad street,
from Montrose,
number
of
has the
per annum.
on
came
the business a
on
carried
He
1885.
hands,
years.
was
estab
Pa.,
where
He
manu
factures about $40,000.00 worth of toys per year, employing
hands.
His goods consist of a vast number of ingenious
chanical
himself.
jobbers,
toys,
The
of
all
which
production
orders
for
are
invented
is disposed
a single style of
toy
and
fifty
manufactured
me
by
entirely to New York
often amounting to several
of
thousand dollars.
John C. Shear
s
Grist
and
Flouring- Mill,
on
Broad street,
was
OF BARTON.
TOWN
108
built
owned
Shear, in 1878. Since 1882 the mill has been
operated by
Mr. Shear. It is operated by steam-
Weaver &
by
and
power, has four
other modern
runs of
machinery to
and grinds
men,
stones,
correspond.
bushels
200
about
rolls, four brakes, and
Mr. Shear employs four
of
one set
grain
of
day,
per
the
with
He does principally custom work.
capacity for turning out 450.
James Lemons Foundry and Machine Shop, on Broad street, was
originally established by him in 1850. He located on Broad street
then,
about where
third
building
business
at
point until
to about
plows, stoves,
Reniff Mills
The
fifty
upwards of
is
what
w'ere
at
he
No.
the
in
continued
H. M. Moore,
About
Broad street.
to
sold
150
he
site
the
He
occupies.
now
fixtures, etc.
George Newell,
plow and agricultural
built
by Isaac Barnes and
The
ago.
years
Mr. Lemon
when
now
is, his being
now
store
street.
1856,
he located
years ago
manufactures
the
on
erected
this
and moved
twenty
Clark's hardware
mill
present
was
built
about
forty years ago, but has been enlarged and extensively improved
by the present owner, Willis E. Gillett. Its capacity for saw
ing and planing is 2,000,000 feet per annum. There is also a feed
in
and shingle-mill
connection.
The Gillett & Decker
Creamery
was established
in the spring
Reniff,
by W. E. Gillett and A. I. Decker. It is situated
a six horse-power engine, and is equipped with all the
run
by
1887,
is
most
It
of
at-
improved
runs
this
year about
The Cayuta
and was
machinery
175
Creamery
known
as
the
known to the
gallons of
milk
was established
"
manufacture of
per
in 1883,
day.
at
Barton
Creamery."
Barton Center
butter.
Center,
In the
win
1887 it was removed to East Waverly, near the Geneva &
Its capacity is for 1,000 cows, employs five
Sayre R. R. depot.
ter of
and
men,
with
runs
delivery
milk products.
was run
by
him
until
It
for supplying private families
established
by F. A. Schuyler, and
wagons
was
the
spring
of
into partnership with him,
firm name of Schuyler & Harding.
The Lockwood Flour and Custom
entered
Charles Bingham,
It is situated in the village
1853,
is
run
by
by
steam
and
and
of
facilities for grinding
bushels in ten hours.
The Lockwood
ham Brothers.
Saw, Planing,
The
now
Feed- Mill
Lockwood,
by
on
has four
buckwheat.
and
when
it is
and
now run
water-power,
good
200
is
1887,
Lath
run
Harding
built
the
under
established
in
Bingham Brothers.
Shepard's
runs of
creek.
stones,
Its capacity is
Mills,
present mills were
was
H. T.
are run
It
and
about
by the Bing
by Bingham,
Lyons
TOWN
OF BARTON.
IO9
Co., in 1879. They are situated on Shepard's creek, are run by a
forty horse-power engine, and have the capacity for 10,000 feet of
&
lumber
The head
day.
per
sawyer
is J. A. Stever.
and Planing- Mill is situated
A. V.C. Vail & Co.'s Steam Saw
at
It was removed
Lockwood village, near the G. I. & S. R. R.
Its capacity is 5,000 feet per day.
there from road 2, in 1880.
A. Brook's Turning ond Scroll-Sawing Works, at Lockwood, are
fitted
with a
work in
church
of
lathes,
and
scroll saws
finest
four horse-power engine,
where a
seats,
The business
seen.
C H. Coleman
Shops
are
of
at short
by
s
may be
patterns
and
1880.
and
Blacksmith
The
Bingham's mills, in Lockwood.
eight horse-power engine, have a planer,
near
an
built
Circular
from
about one mile
doing
the
by
the
Saw
is
-Mill
River road,
all
kinds
built
site was
is
in
proprietor
present
run
of
repairing
by
creek,
steam-power.
1884.
The first
hours.
ten
Ellis
November,
Newland &
by Foster,
on
situated
and
capacity is from 5,000 to 8,000 feet in
this
manufacture
notice.
C. F. Hanna
on
the
made of
styles
in
and
necessary to do the
Turning, Scroll-Sawing, Wagon
s
saws, etc., also facilities for
various
was
variety
was established
situated
works are run
It
A specialty is
that line.
circular
of
variety
equipments
all
and
a
Smith,
Its
mill
about 1859.
CHURCHES.
The Tioga
and
After the Revolution,
Barton Baptist Church.
in from the Eastern states, the
Congregational denomination of Connecticut sent out the Rev.
when
immigration began to
Seth Williston
services
as a
missionary,
ruary
20,
along
the
1796.
river
and
settlement
between
Chemung
church at
organized,
comprising
ter,
New
nine
Bedford,"
and so continued
them
Among
Assisted
by
members,
and
Rev. D. Jayne
for fourteen
years.
further north, a
at Tioga center,
Baptist
a church
and
minis
as
the
society formed
society became
the
the old
took a
was
the "Baptist
being the first
Subsequently,
anew organization
and
a
deputation from
styled
portion of
Halsey Valley,
a
was
(now Wellsburg),
settlement extended
established near
religious
Bedford, Mass., settled
Tioga Center and Smithboro, calling
"New
the Baptist
at
holding
Several families from
minister, the Rev. David Jayne.
Church
find him
places
Bedford."
their
we
The
in the county as early as 1795.
organization formed in the county was on Feb
in different
religious
earliest
set
new
name,
calling
HO
TOWN
itself "The
Tioga
constructed
a
church
at
edifice,
The society
will seat 300 persons.
Church."
Barton Baptist
and
new
OF BARTON.
a
has
now
fifty
from the
in 1849,
cost of
Revs.
the
hy
1847,
Thurston, Carr
Chemung
They
presbytery.
it in i860, and in
$30,000 a handsome brick
enlarged
It
architecture.
Sunday
school
erected
the
1886
church
a
a
church
a
edifice
erected at
society
of
committee
modern style
a
of
600 persons, has large parlors, pastors
the anditorium, over which is the large
rear of
Rev. Nathaniel Elmer
room.
Rev. John L. Taylor is the
Chemung,
first
was
was
the first
pastor.
present pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of
street corner
June 8,
seat
will
study, etc., in the
Bacchus,
and
with
Pennsyl
twenty-two members,
was organized with
avenue,
on
they
which
members,
Rev. Franklin J. Salmon, pastor.
The First Presbyterian Church of Waverly, located
vania
1848
$800.00,
of
cost
In
Waverly, located
organized as
on
a class at
Waverly
Factory
ville, in 1828, with five members, namely : Elisha Tozer (leader),
Rachel Tozer,Philena Tozer, JoshuaWilcox, and King Elwell. The
first
the
cated
Jacob H.
Hallett; presiding
church
down
building
Rev.
by
same year
tees were
Russell, Alpheus H. Tozer,
Baptist society
to the
and erected
church
edifice,
their
which
Janes.
It
tial and
attractive
1867,
by
was
George Harmon.
elder,
The Methodist society
is
in Factoryville in 1840, and dedi
Horace Agard, pastor.
The trus
church edifice was erected
present
Rev. Hiram
house
of
worship.
Waverly and built a frame
dedicated in March, 1864, by Bishop
destroyed
brick
Gilbert H.
The society sqld, the
Waverly, who took it
commodious
removed
was
of
and
by fire
building
to
in
The
1865.
present
erected,and
was
substan
dedicated in
Rev. James O. Woodruff
Mattison, D. D.
the present pastor.
The First Baptist
Church, located
on
Park avenue, corner of
Ulster, Bradford county,
Tioga street, was originally organized at
Pa., June 24, 1824, at the house of Joseph Smith. Elder Levi
Baldwin, from Smithfield, Dea. Asa Hacket, F. Perkins, Eliphalet
Selah Finch, from Chemung Baptist church, Tioga
Deacon
county, N. Y., and Isaac Cooley, formed the council.
Asa Hacket was chosen moclerater, and Levi Baldwin, clerk.
Barden,
The
and
following
named
original organization :
wife, Joseph
Smith
in number, composed the
Elder Thomas Bebe and Betsey Bebe, his
and
his
Smith, Alexander Hibbard
Gerold
and
sixteen
persons,
Nancy Gerold,
wife,
and
his
Euphenia
his
wife,
wife
Smith, Lockwood D.
Polly Hibbard, Abel J.
Cornelius Quick
and
his
wife.
TOWN
OF
Ill
BARTON.
Margaret, Sisters Simons, Holcomb, Weriotand Lucretia Norton.
It
was
first
styled
held
meetings were
"
the
Athens
March io, 1832, to
was changed
Church,"
tist
and
Church."
again,
on
1865, it
Finally, in
a neat and
comfortably
H. Cooper.
seat 500 persons.
was
Chemung
was
Athens
January
The
The
name
Chemung Bap
and
Factoryville Baptist
church
The
Waverly.
will
edifice, which
is Rev. Daniel
present pastor
Church, located
at
Factoryville,
follows:
as
members,
with nine
7, 1846,
"
established at
commodious
and
Milltown.
and
14, 1836, to
Old School Baptist
organized
"
the
May
society have
The
Ulster
Athens,
at
Church,"
Ulster Baptist
and
Proudfoot, Henry Rowland, Nathan Carey,
Mary Carey, Fanny Carey, Betsey A. Slawson, Mary Slawson
Moses Slawson, David
and
bers
Sarah Rowland.
in the
and
by
erected
by
them at
They
met
school-house
the New School
a cost of
for worship in the houses
until
Society,
The
$1,100.00.
Elder M. W. Vail is the
persons.
The Grace Episcopal
Tioga street,
is
by
signed
1830,
building
brick
the
when
about
church
was purchased
will seat about
250*
present pastor.
Church, located
was organized
of organization
1864,
of mem
Park
on
December 28,
avenue corner of
The
1853.
Rev. George Watson,
certificate
the
rector of
St. Paul's church, of Owego, Levi Gardner, Arthur Yates, Thomas
The society has a very tasty church
Yates and A. P. Spalding.
building, erected about 1855. The first rector was Rev. Horatio
,
Gray. The
Providence street,
members, and a Sabbath
The Church of Christ, located
ized
July 8,
twenty-one
1877,
with
teachers
George Bowen.
is Rev.
present rector
seven
on
was
scholars
and
established
was organ
school with
at
the
same
time.
St. James Roman Catholic Church is located on Chemung street
The first Roman Catholic church erected in
corner of Clark.
Waverly
on
was
built in
Erie street,
was
1852.
deeded
The lot
gratis
whereon
the
building
stood
Rev. John Timon, first
to the Rt.
late Owen Spalding, who also gave the
lots for all the protestant churches first erected in Waverly. The
T. Mc
affairs of the parish were attended to by Rt. Rev. James
bishop
of
Manus,
The
Buffalo, by
the
present
pastor's
the
Vicar General
residence was in
Catholics in
Waverly
Owego
the
was
the first
only
church
was
seating capacity
was
to
one
of
Owego,
the diocese of
as
there
support a pastor.
in Tioga
collected
about
were not enough
The
parish
priest of
The money to build
The
the late John Sliney.
county.
by
three
Rochester.
hundred, but
at
the time
the
OF
TOWN
112
built
church was
too large for
dious edifice,
laid
the
by
given
pastoral
of
northwest corner
twenty
years after
chased
by
late
the
for years,
gation
resident
pastor
Wyoming
of
the
congregation.
residence,
an elegant
This
the lot.
stained
glass,
The lot is
finely
windows of
house,
building
at
a
The first
to build thereon.
until they- were able
Rev. James Brady, now located at Arcade,
The present pastor is Rev. Edward McShane.
was
The
The first
$1,500.00.
Gavitt. The
about
firsf church was built. The lot was pur
John Sliney, and held in trust for the congre
county.
of
the
the
with eighteen members.
cost
stands on
was erected
The North Barton Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1869,
was
of
memorial
elegant
members
building
after, the
years
Smithboro. Barton, Chemung
house of worship is a handsome, corao-
present
with
The
out.
several
the Catholics
all
Waverly. The
and
for
and
BARTON.
present pastor
organized
was
in 1870,
Rev. William H.
church was erected
pastor
was
is Rev. Ziba Evans.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Barton Village was organized
Benjamin Aikens,
about
1805, at the house of Peter Barnes.
Peter Barnes
Smith,
Peter
after.
Samuel
and
For
preachers, who,
once
Agard
ace
first
their
and
in four
was
Rev.
among the
the
first local
1836,
Rev. William H. Pearne
Rev! Luther Peck is the
Lee
It
will seat
gave
houses,
was
first
woods,
church edifice
sittings
the
the
for
about 400
resident
pastor,
present one.
place
250 persons aud
meet
Rev. Hor
and
the present
It has
early date, the society first holding
often at Charles Bingham's residence.
which
hold
The society held
Smithboro, in 1807, and
an
erected,
circuit
earliest circuit preachers.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Lockwood
was
by
soon
preacher.
when
completed, costing $1,100.00.
joined
to
were able
meeting in the county, at
meetings were held in private
until
members.
earliest
supplied
Timothy
Betsey
sister
Bensley
was
camp-
regular
persons.
and
among
Daniel
and
society
weeks.
are mentioned as
the school-house,
was
the
the
traveling long distances,
Benjamin Aikens
the
were
Payne,
years
many
Gilbert Smith, his
wife,
Mundy
Selah
Hoffman,
ings but
his
and
is
services
In 1854
to the present
valued at
was
in
organized at
private
a church
structure
$4,000.00.
houses,
building
in
1886.
The society
has sixty members, with Rev. Ziba Evans, pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Ellistown is an old building,
but we have been unable to collect any reliable data from which
now
to
compile a sketch.
The society has
now no organization there.
TOWN
OF
BERKSHIRE lies in the
is bounded
and
county line,
Candor, containing
and
acres
of
an
area
pleasingly diversified
by lofty hills
attaining a mean elevation of
West Owego creeks, with
the
the towns
of
of
rom
The
by
12,474
town
the
of
the
Caroline
by
17,443 acres,
surface
3
county,
east
and west
about
is improved land.
which
courses of
Valley,
the
of
part
by Richford,
north
Newark
by
I I
northeastern
the
on
south
BERKSHIRE.
is
fertile valleys, the former
1,200 to 1,400 feet.
East and
and
tributaries, form
their
the
water
the former
township,
entering on the north, near
the center, flowing a southerly direction through the town ; the
latter forms the dividing line on the west between Berkshire and
Caroline
Candor.
and
in the valley
principally clay
The
East
of
soil of
creek
territory is
this
loam,
yellow
with
The valleys and
clay underlying ; on the east, gravelly loam.
west hills were timbered with beech, maple, and iron-wood, the
hills
east
The
Settlement.
we
devolved
the
ston7
Townships,"
Ten
physical
pioneers of the
Puritan
descendants
to-day,
of
ity, the integrity,
Berkshire
ners
of
so
strict observance of
the
followed
school
East,
justly
the
thrift
Sabbath,
aside
their
their
descent
of
These
of
they
.celebrated.
line
much
from the
and which
From these
upon
the
of
which
of
sense
love for the
more
the
citizens
duty,
than
man
their
church
closely
their
prosper
Nowhere have the
high
It
name
resembles.
due,
two.
to found
Massachusetts,
intelligence for
-customs,
the
its
"Boston
named
also, seems to have fallen
to them is
and
Berkshire.
empty-headed, for
township
nor
contour, greatly
people, their
a
of
chapter
therein
town that takes
a
character and
are
or
proprietors
the famous Berkshire Hills
it, indeed, in
of
the
Berkshire,
of
Purchase,"
the "Boston
of
have already detailed in
some of
upon
township
region of
hemlock.
with pine and
and
in the
pioneers came not empty-handed
from
their
were possessed of some means
native
and
New
had
England
availed
fair opportunity in the school-room.
Until 1808 the locality was known as " Brown's
them
selves of a
after
the
pioneer
family
of
first
that
name.
Settlement,"
Brown's
Settlement,
five
men who
April, 1791, by
then,
day
left Stockbridge, Mass., on February 23d, spending thirty-seven
days on the way, and bringing their toOls and provisions on two
was
begun
on
the
of
by ox-teams. These pioneers were Isaac and Abra
ham Brown, brothers, Daniel Ball, Elisha Wilson, and John Car
sleds, drawn
penter, the latter coming
as
the hired
man of
the Browns.
Two
TOWN
114
men, Messrs. Dean
other
Choconut,
now
Union,
Thus in brief is
we will
Norton, came in
they remained.
and
where
the party as far as
story of the pioneer settlement of the town
Of these early ones and many who followed
the
of which we write.
them
OF BERKSHIRE.
the head
under
speak,
HOUSEHOLDS
EARLY
of
OF
BERKSHIRE.*
Isaac Brown, b at Stockbridge, Mass., 25 Oct., 1766, second
son of Capt. Abraham and Beulah (Patterson) Brown, came to
Stock-
party in 1791, leaving
He
bridge, 23 Feb. and reaching their destination 1 April.
probably worked with his brother, Abraham, till 1793, when he
He married with
began to make a clearing for his own home.
Brown's Settlement
with
Clarissa Ball, who
daughter of Josiah
was
house
little
just
on
the
east
and
the first
1844.
Esther
the
Their
in
Stockbridge,
(Ward) Ball,
road on
the railway
started a pleasant
adult
pioneer
born
side of
south of where
fairly
the
crosses
home,
when
to die in the settlement.
children
the
south
in
settled
half
the
road.
he
died,
His
Nov.,
14
and
log
lot 305, a
Here he had
10
widow
1775,
a
of
April,
died
12
1797,
Feb.,
were:
Brown, a daughter, died in infancy7.
II. Isaac Brown, b 4 Oct., 1797, six months after his father's
death, was brought up by his grandmother, Beulah Brown, and
married, 5 July, 1820, with Eleanor Branch, daughter of Levi
She was born in Richmond, Mass.,
and Electa (Lyman) Branch.
29 Nov., 1796, and died 4 July, 1867. He died at Newark Valley.
I.
They
had
a
family
of
ten
children,
several
of
whom
are
yet
living.
Ball, b at Watertown, Mass., 16 Dec., 1742, son of John
Lydia (Perry) Ball, a shoemaker, m 26 Feb., 1768, with
and
Esther Ward, who was born in Worcester, Mass., 7 March,
Josiah
1750-51, daughter
They
settled
all were
in
of
Major Daniel
Stockbridge, Mass.,
born there but the
and
Mary (Coggin)
and of
youngest.
In
their thirteen
June,
1794,
Ward.
children
they
came
to Berkshire, and settled on lot 337, where their son-in-law, Luke
He died 26 July,
B. Winship, dwelt for many years after them.
She died 9 March, 1836. For some years he had an extra
log house, which, in the season for moving, he kept to accommo
date those settlers who needed a temporary shelter while pre1810.
*
Extracts from
an unfinished
work, in manuscript, entitled, Folk Book of the Boston
Purchase, by D. Williams Patterson,
of
Newark Valley.
TOWN
paring their houses.
house, or for his shoe
At
OF BERKSHIRE.
other
times it
Children
shop.
I. William, died when two years
II. Daniel, b 27 Dec, 1769.
III. William, b 18 Oct., 177-1.
I I
was
used
for
a
5
school-
:
old.
Stephen, b 29 Jan., 1774.
V. Clarissa, b 14 Nov., 1775, m Isaac Brown.
VI. Samuel, b 13 Nov. 1777.
VII. Henry, b 21 Nov., 1779.
VIII. Josiah, b 28 Jan., 1782.
IX. Isaac, b 27 Dec, 1783.
X. Electa, b 9 June, 1788, d 6 Sept., 1869.
XI. Charles, b 4 Sept., 1790, d 9 Jan., 18 14.
XII. Cynthia, b 24 April, 1793, m with Luke Bates Winship.
YIII. Mary, b in July, 1801, and died when eighteen months
The mother was over fifty years
old, about 11 or 12 Jan., 1803.
IV.
this
old when
Ball, b
Daniel
Josiah
neers of
of
five
ing
a
Stockbridge, Mass., 27 Dec,
He
began the
not work
has been
(Ward) Ball,
Berkshire.
who
but did
at
Esther
and
born.
child was
came
home for himself
present
or
as
one
in Brown's
work
in the
here
limits
of
one
of
the pio
1
April,
Berkshire toward
of
of
the pioneer party
Settlement,
He
his father.
called
son
1769,
returned
1791,
clear
to Stockbridge
fall, probably before his comrades did, and married at
Lenox, Mass., 31 Oct., 1791, with Lucia Wells, daughter of Col.
In June, 1794, he returned to Berk
William Wells, of Lenox.
shire with his father's family, bringing his wife and daughter, and
in the
log house on lot 336, near the present home of Charles
Manning.
They moved, about 1820, to Victor, N. Y., and
settled
S.
in
a
they died
; he
she
about
II. William Wells, b in Berkshire, 8 Sept., 1794, the first
white
thence to
1840.
I.
child
Michigan,
They
Ann,
born
b
where
had ten
at
the
1833 ;
children:
Stockbridge, in
within
about
limits
of
1792.
the
town
,
Ebenezer
in
February,
Cook, Esq., and
married
Cook, daughter of
was living in
Dec, 1820, where James Cross now lives. He
the farm of Abraham Brown, where his son
afterward bought
Rodney A. Ball now lives, in Newark Valley, and died there 15
1820,
with
Jan.,
1880.
Harriet
III. Horatio.
VII. Chester.
William
Ball, b
IV. Henry.
VIII. Calvin.
at
VI. Sophia.
IX. Davis. X. Myron.
V. Hester.
Stockbridge, Mass.,
18
Oct.,
i77i,a
cloth-
TOWN
Il6
dresser,
BERKSHIRE.
Phebe Bement, daughter
settled in Berkshire about
m with
Bement,
and
to
moved
OF
Tioga,
Ruth
and
(Neal)
They
afterward
where
they died;
1794.
Victor, N. Y.,
thence to
and
Asa
of
It is supposed
23 April, 1847; he some years earlier.
He left
that he built the first cloth-dressing works in Berkshire.
she about
there before
Dec,
III. Asa.
Charles,
and
leaders in the
lot 336,
built
turnips
settlement of
old, to
years
on which
he
the
raised a
beans,
and
cut
first
Here he
tree.
little corn,
set
for
on
clearing,
few potatoes,
keeping
and returned
wheat,
family,
made a
and perhaps a
when
to
a
cow, and,
Stockbridge.
bringing with him a cow, and
family came, in June, 1794, and only on
came
his father's
till
in 1793,
came
home for his father's
made some provision
in the fall,
In February, 1794, he
alone
He
Berkshire.
prepare a
sowed a piece of
lived
1824,
VIII. Phebe.
log house,
a
Y., 19 July,
Ball, born in Stockbridge, Mass., 29 Jan., 1774, son of
Esther (Ward) Ball, is entitled to rank among the
Stephen
nineteen
were:
physician, b in Tioga,N.
a
tled in Victor.
Josiah
children
II. William, a physician, settled in Victor, N. Y.
V. Albert.
IV. James.
VI. Mary.
I. George.
VII.
Their
1820.
again,
Sundays meeting his nearest neighbors, Isaac Brown and Daniel
He married, in 1801, with Polly Leonard, daughter of
Gleazen.
Asa
Capt.
Olive
and
northeast corner of
they
spent
Oct.,
most
of
and
he
1850,
I. Olive
Leonard,
(Churchill) Leonard,
lot 337,
the
remainder
died
b
2
the hotel
where
their
of
19 Feb.,
1857.
Nov., 1801,
m
and
is
settled
now
lives.
Their
with
on
kept.
the
Here
She died
3
children were r
Robert Akins.
May, 1803, died 21 March, 1815.
III. Harriet, b 19 July, 1805, m with Aaron P. Belcher.
IV. Eliza Ann, b 7 Oct., 1807, m with Charles Brown.
II.
Mary,b
12
V. Richard Leonard, b 9 June, 1809, died 21 Ma)7, 1848.
VI. James Ward, b 24 May, 181 1, m with Sypha Matson,
settled at Ottawa, 111.
and
VII. Caroline, b 14 May, 1813, m with Carlisle P. Johnson.
VIII. Levi, b 26 March, 1815, m 28 Oct., 1841, with Betsey Ann
Royce,
and
lives
on
the
line between lots 385
IX. Anson, b 19 March, 1817,
Moore, and died at Berkshire, 27
X.
Asa, b
26
April,
18 19, m
died 15 May,
Manning,
deacon of the Congregational
who
15
m
5
and 416.
Jan., 1848,
with
Caroline
April, 1884.
Oct., 1845, with Esther Maria
1887.
He
church.
resides
in
Berkshire,
a
TOWN
XI.
b
Mary Sophia,
2
OF
BERKSHIRE.
Feb.,
1821,
m
117
with
Edward
Dr.
H.
Eldredge.
XII. Robert
Henry, b 5
Mafia Henrietta
Conklin,* and
Feb.,
Calista, b 2 Jan., 1825,
Royce, and d 21 Oct., 1853.
Samuel Ball, b at Stockbridge, Mass.,
Josiah
about
Esther
1803,
with
1850,
with
lives in Berkshire.
XIII. Frances
and-
19 Dec,
m
1823,
(Ward) Ball,
came
Jerusha Slosson,
m
George Clark
with
13 Nov., 1777, son
to Berkshire in 1794,
They
dwelt
al
time
one
of
m
on
lot 103, in Newark Valley, but in 1818 sold to Ezekiel Rich, re
turned to Berkshire village, and thence to the west border of the
town, and settled on the east side of the road, opposite the house
of Phineas Case, on southwest quarter of lot 380, and was living
there
in
Dec,
Afterward they
1820.
where they died ; he, 12 Sept., 1841; she, 5
Children were:
ninety-six years.
I. Nancy, b
II. Lodema
Lawrenceville, Pa.,
wentto
February, 1870,
aged
May, 1805, m with Joseph Weaver.
Farnham, b6 May, 1806, m with Charles Frederick
18
Akins.
III.
Frederick
b 6
William,
June,
IV. Adeline, b 1 April, 181 1,
V. Ball, b 7 Dec, 1813, died
m
1808, d 9
with
her
cousin
b
Nov. 1779,
21
1808, and
on
the
337,
of
it up to the
moved
west
second
side
of
the
Clark Slosson.
with
Amasa
Daily,
Sarah Judd Moore,
in Berkshire. He bought
married with
Henry Moore, and
for fifty dollars, the old house
daughter
1835.
young.
VI. Cynthia Winship, b 10 March, 1818, m
and second with her cousin, Ezbon Slosson.
Henry Ball,
April,
settled
of
place
Dr. Joseph Waldo, 23 May,
where his sons afterward lived,
road, near
house below the hotel.
the
northeast
He died
22
corner of
Sept.,
1837
:
lot
she
Their children were:
died 7 June, 1856.
I. Henrietta, b 14 Oct., i8n,died 16 Sept,, 1862, according to
which is a year
aged 49 years and 11
her gravestone,
too little, if the date is correct.
II. Gilson, b 29 Dec, [812, married with Rhoda Ann Johnson,
months,"
"
tree, 4 March, 1871.
III. Sophronia, b 1814, died 14 April, 1824, aged
IV. Franklin, b25 Sept., 1816, m 29 March, 1859,
ret Meagher, and died at Newark Valley.
and was
killed
by
a
falling
V. Eliza, b 7 June, 1819, died 19 Nov., 1840.
VI. Martin Henry, died unmarried, 28 July,
VII. Susan Sophronia, died in Berkshire,
nine years.
with
1875.
unmarried.
Marga
Il8
TOWN
VIII. Alvah
Moore,
OF BERKSHIRE.
resides
in Berkshire
his father's home
on
stead.
Josiah
Ball,
b
and a maker of
28
Jan.,
He
pumps.
wooden
an
was
1782,
excellent
married
school-teacher,
with
in Berkshire village, where they died ;
1856 ; he 23 Oct., 1862.
Children :
I. Emily, b 12 Aug., 1804, m with Horatio Collins.
and settled
ard,
II. Sabrina, b
III. Julia,
IV. Mary,
18
Dec,
m
1806.
she
Oct.,
5
Addison Collins.
with
Dwight Waldo, and died
with John Waldo, and settled
m with
m
Leon
Lucy
20
Jan.,
1843.
N. Y.,
Portage,
at
died 13
May, 1887.
Isaac Bali, son of Josiah, came to Berkshire with his parents in
June, 1794: m 20 Oct., 1808, with Cassandra Johnson. They set
where
tled
she
the east side
on
Lynch
noa
1858.
Their
lives,
of
and
the
road,
on
died there; he
lot 336,
20
Nov.,
where
Charles
1856; she, 19
O-
Sept.,
children were :
I. Francis Augustus, b 17 Aug., 1809, d 14 April, 1819.
II. Abigail, b 15 Jan., 181 1, m with Nathaniel Bishop Collins.
III.
Plandon Halsey, b
IV. Eunice, b 17 Nov.,
May,
20
1813.
1815.
V. Margery, b 23 June, 18 18, m with Theodore Leonard.
VI. John, b 31 July, 1820, married with Mary Ann Ralyea,
daughter
of
Dene
and
Mercy (Bradley) Ralyea,
VII. Francis, b 14 April,
IX. Jay, b 10 May, 1827.
of
Union, N. Y.
1824.
Joseph Gleazen lived in
came
live
to
Stockbridge, Mass., till after his sons
Brown's Settlement, after which he and his wife came to
with
them, but
never
had
a separate
household in Berkshire.
He died 9 March, 18 16, aged seventy-five years. During, the last
years of her life she was not of sound mind. They had
children,
perhaps not
in the
following
order:
I.
Daniel, m with Rebecca Barnes.
II. Jesse, m with Mercy Adsel.
III. Caleb, had three wives, and lived at Richford.
IV. Sarah, m with
Doud, and second, 21 Oct, 1802,
with
Nathan Ide.
V. Joseph, b about 1772, m with Lovice Bailey.
VI. Ebenezer Ede, a tailor, m with Susanna Scott,
to Berkshire with the family of Noah Lyman, and in
they dwelt in Berkshire, on the west
below where Nathaniel Bishop Collins
house,
and after
that
he
moved
to
side
of
the
afterward
Newark
who
came
Dec,
1820,
a
little
way,
built his brick
Valley,
and
died there
OF BERKSHIRE.
TOWN
in the
old
Lincoln tavern house.
(2d) 5 March, 1832, with
died in Richford, 5 Feb., 1853.
married
and
II9
His wife, born 25 July, 1784,
Samuel Gleazen, his brother,
Stockbridge, Mass., 4 April, 1783, was
He came to Berkshire later
brought up by Silas Pepoon, Esq.
than his brothers, and settled in Richford.
Daniel Gleazen came to Brown's Settlement, probably, in the
He was a son of Joseph Gleazen, of Stockbridge.
spring of 1794.
Samuel, b in
VII.
Tradition
Mass.
lot 3/7,
ter
of
on
the
dren
the hill road, but
on
with
the
settled on
He
Miss Rebecca Barnes.
southeast quar
built
afterward
that lies in the hollow.
road
Jan., 1805,
26
that he first
says
a
brick house
Berkshire,
married at
They
had
seven chil
:
II. Eli, b perhaps about 2 June,
IV. Rebecca, b perhaps about 3 Dec, 1813.
I. Luke.
VI. William, b
VII. Barnes, b
Jesse
perhaps about
brother
He joined the
time.
about 12
perhaps
Gleazen,
15
Daniel,
of
V. Joseph.
March, 1820.
Feb., 1822.
came
probably
at
Stockbridge, Mass., in
in
church
HI. Ruth.
1808.
the
same
1790,
was
Oct., 1803, to the church about to be formed at
Tioga, N. Y., of which he was a constituent member, and con
He married at Berkshire, 29
tinued a member till 3 Oct., 18 13.
as John Brown,
Esq.,
Oct., 18, with "Miss Mercy
or
Hadsel.
been
the name may have
Adsel,
recorded it; but
dismissed
2
Adzdil,"
Their
children
were:
I. Sarah, bap 20 Nov., 1803.
II. James Adsel, bap 20 Nov.,
III. Mercy,
IV.
bap
4
Betsey Ruth,
April,
b
V. Huldah Ann, b
2
1805.
May,
22
1803.
March,
1810,
bap
2
Sept.,
1810.
1813.
Joseph Gleazen, Jr., was born in Stockbridge, Mass., about
The date of his advent to Berk
1772, son of Joseph Gleazen.
He
with his brothers.
shire is not known, but he probably came
in 1798, and married 16
was taxed for highway work three days
"
as John Brown
with
Lovice Bailey, (or
Vicey,"
May,
1803,
the
recorded
name)
West Owego creek,
of
lot 380,
afterward
Caroline
this
9*
on
and
the road, on the
west of
Eleazer
lived, just
corner
place
lot 342,
where
north
Lyman
in
a
Berkshire Hill.
and
where
of
together on
settled
He first
Levi Bailey.
of
sister
the
log
southwest
quarter
Daniel
Lyman,
son,
the towns
creek.
house
his
on
Afterward
In
the
settled on
of
Candor
April,
and
1820, he left
southeast quarter of
they
moved
to
Newark
OF BERKSHIRE.
TOWN
120
Valley, and died there ; he 21 Sept., 1849, in his 77th year;
Their children were:
15 Oct., 1850, in her 65th year.
I. Silas Pepoon.
II. Emeline, d 3 July, 1863, aged 54.
she
III. Sabrina.
IV. George. Densmore, b 27 Feb., 1814, resides in Newark Val
ley; m with Mary Ann Benton.
V. Lavina. VI. Julia.
VII. Semantha, m with Amasa Day Durfee.
Consider Lawrence
Sept.,
11
m
His
1775.
he
and
his
He died
20
in the tax list
lot 338,
Feb.,
Berkshire
to
year
his
in
who
was
Feb.,
1777;
born 27
Oct.,
8
in John Brown's book 24 May, 1797,
taxed for work on highways, three days in 1798, and
name was
quarter of
Canaan, Conn.,
appears
name
was
at
Wealthy Peck,
with
1796,
born
was
I. Maria, b
his obituary
and
sixty-one
the southwest
on
notice said
ago,"
years
which
lived.
since
that he
indicates
"
came
1796 as
the
He probably spent the summer before
in preparing his home.
Their children were :
which
marriage
He dwelt
1802.
Charles Backus Ford has
where
1857,
of
he
came.
Aug.,
30
Thomas
m with
1797,
Langdon,
Berk
of
shire.
II. Isaac Peck, b 8
Cole.
III. Miles
via
C. Foote
Feb.,
6
Lewis, b
Nov.,
V. Betsey, b 27
Whiting.
Feb.,
m
1803,
14
m
VI. Josiah, b 14 Sept.,
1806,
m with
Brown, b
Abraham
Beulah
and
Brown's Settlement in Feb.
built
a saw-mill
Wilson,
bridge,
the
where
the
till 3
she
new
town
office
Aug.,
Elijah
the
of
of
he held
1857.
1834, with
Sept.,
18
Syl
1821, with
July,
peace
Laura
Gamaliel
of
came
to
lot 296, and
1800, with Mehitable
settled
Feb.,
son
eldest
1765,
on
and
in the town
years.
He
1808 and
of
Tioga,
was
1809,
children were:
also
and
Broome county court of
his death, 14 Oct., 1813.
of
Their
with
Martha Baird.
He
married 20
for four
at
1840,
(Patterson) Brown,
1796.
Berkshire, in
judge
March,
Mary (Curtis) Wilson, of
He was
born, 19 Dec,
was
that town
was appointed a
which
of
first justices
supervisor of
He
there.
daughter
25
Stockbridge,
at
Catharine
with
i82i,
Dec.
1804,
Captain
of
m 26
Aug.,
John
of
1800,
Jan.,
in Berkshire.
and settled
IV. William, b 14
Woodruff.
m 20
1799,
in
Stockone
and
of
was
supervisor
Oct.,
1809,
common pleas,
She
survived
TOWN
I.
John,
OF BERKSHIRE.
121
b 14
Feb., 1801, a surveyor, mill-wright,
died unmarried 12 Nov., 1869.
II. Mary Wilson, b 1 Aug., 1802, unmarried.
III. Francis
IV.
Ann
Henry, b 6 March
1804, died
and
farmer,
unmarried.
Charles, b 11 Oct., 1805, married 6 Oct., 1835, with Eliza
Ball, daughter of Stephen and Polly (Leonard) Ball, and died
March, 1869.
V. Juliana, b 5 July, 1807, died 19 Nov., 1869.
VI Frances Cornelia, b 19 March, 1809, unmarried.
Asa Leonard, b 30, Jan., 1759, son of Abiel Leonard, of Con
necticut, married 11 Oct., 1781, with Olive Churchill, who was
born in Stockbridge, Mass., 20 Feb., 1764, daughter of Samuel
28
and
Elizabeth
and
afterward
the
with
conut,
and stayed
ter,
and
they
the
in West
Slossons,
now
retuned
made another
settle
reaching Cho
account of her health,
in Berkshire ; but
to Massachusetts.
trial,
their lives.
Their
1844.
to
They dwelt in Stockbridge,
Stockbridge, and started in Feb., 1793,
on
Union, N. Y.,they stopped on
with her brother, Asahel Churchill,
then
rest of
Churchill.
(Curtis)
children
Early
till the next win
in the
year
1797,
Berkshire, where they spent
March, 1836; she died 21 Aug.,
and reached
He died 24
were:
Polly, b 11 Feb., 1783, married with Stephen Ball.
II. Solomon, b 23 Nov. 1784.
III. Lucy, b 3 Jan., 1787, m with Josiah Ball, Jr.
IV. Anna, b 16 Sept., 1788, m with Henry Griffin.
V. Levi, b 5 July 1790, m with Lucia Avery, and d 16 July, 1862.
VI. Nancy7, b 26 April, 1792, m with Isaac Hitchcock.
VII. Louis Gigette, b 30 July, 1794, m 28 Feb., 1821, with Han
1 Nov. 1830.
She was still
nah Royce, and died at Berkshire,
I.
living
there
in
1887.
VIII. Henry, b 14 Aug., 1797, at Berkshire, m with Julia White,
and settled at Ithaca, N. Y., where he died 7 March, 1863.
IX. George W., b 5 April, 1799, d 23 April, 1799.
X. Sabrina, b 28 Aug., 1800, d 22 Nov. 1809.
XI. Amanda, b 6 Aug., 1802, m with John Brush Royce.
XII. Chester, b 9 Oct., 1805, m 12 Oct. 1826, with Susan Maria
Wilson; settled at Newark Valley, where he died 25 Nov., 1841,
and
she
died
at
Owego.
XIII. Leonard, a son, b 5 June, 1807, d 29 June, 1807.
Solomon Leonard, son of Asa Leonard, came to Berkshire
his father, and on reaching his majority became a partner
him in the business
of
tanning
and
currying.
He
with
with
married 30
TOWN OF BERKSHIRE.
122
Jan., 1813,
Ann
Nancy
with
Waldo,
and settled on the south side
Leonard street, where their son, Joseph Waldo Leonard, now
She died 18 Sept., 1865; he died 24 March, 1866. Their
lives.
of
children were :
I. Jane, b 1 Nov., 1813, m 23 July, 1839, with Wm. C. Churchill,
and died 23 May, 185 1.
II. Theodore, b 13 Feb., 1815, m 15 June, 1842, with Margery,
Ball.
III. Frederick William, b 8 Oct., 1816.
IV. Mary Elizabeth, b 14 July, 1818, m 6 Oct., 1845, with
Charles Mills, of Little Falls, N. Y., who died 3 May, 1849; and
she m
(2nd) 11 Nov., 1850, with Melancthon Rogers.
V. Joseph
Waldo, b 27 May, 1820, m 12 Oct., 1852, with Mary
Ann Campfield, and resides on his father's homestead.
VI. Henry Griffin, b 27 March, 1822, m 12 Feb., 1850, with
Catharine Campfield.
VII. Edwin
Dwight, b 25 Feb., 1824.
VIII. Frances, b 25 July, 1826, m with Dr. Frederick A.
Waldo, of Cincinatti, Ohio.
IX. Nancy Bliss, b 11 April, 1828, m with George Clark Royce,
X. George Franklin, b 15 Nov., 1829, m 17 Nov., 1850, with
Eunice Patch.
XI. Jerome, b 17 Aug., 1830,
BoyTer.
m
Oct., 1862,
1
Araminta
with
Ebenezer
there
there
Cook, b at Stockbridge, Mass., about 1772, married
3 April, 1793, with Elizabeth Churchill, who was born
8 Sept., 1774, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Curtis)
Berkshire early in 1797, in company
with his brother-in-law, Asa Leonard, and they began business
under
the name of Leonard & Cook,
curriers
as tanners and
He
Churchill.
to
came
according to the
settled first in a small
and
of
custom
house
log
day
that
made shoes also.
which stood
near where
He
Joseph
Waldo Leonard dwelt in 1881, then built a shop on the corner
opposite the brick meeting-house, where the brick house now
stands;
he
moved
March,
north of
family
He
25
served
dignified
died 23
His
widow
June,
I. Harriet, b
22
that,
1825.
Oct.,
a small
April,
for
with
respected, although
the times.
and
his
18 12.
was always
ally
just
and
framed
the title
In this house he died 17
terms as justice of the peace,
"
'Squire,"
and was univers
he followed
too
was
in the
1793,
named
m
which
1804.
several
Their
house, into
diligently
the
census of
fashion
Dec, 1820,
children were:
with
of
William Wells Ball.
TOWN
OF BERKSHIRE.
II. Aurilla, b about Oct., 1795, m
b about June 1798, d 1 March, 181 5.
1
Denis Corsaw
with
23
Clarissa,
;
III. Charles
West, b 1 Feb., 1800, m 7 Oct., 1823, with Amy
Royce, settled in Richford, and moved in 1834 to Chicago, 111.,
where she
died 24 Aug., 1835; and he married a second wife,
and died 19 May, 1845..
IV. Abigail West, b about 1802, d when eighteen months
V. Abigail West, b 26 April, 1804, m with James Hobart Fora.
VI. Henry William, b in 1806, d 3 Aug., 1825, aged 19 years.
VII. George West, b 9 Dec, 1808, drowned 15 June, 1810.
VIII. George Churchill, b 10 March, 181 1, m 10 Nov., 1834, with
Lucy Maria Williams, and settled at Newark Valley7 ; removed
'
about
Chicago, 111.,
1844 to
Azel
Hovey
was
he died.
where
born 13 Aug., 1741, old style, perhaps, at
with Jemima Phelps, who was born at Leba
Lebanon, Conn., m
It is said that they dwelt in New London,
non 4 April, 1745.
Conn., for many years, but their records have not been found
there.
They came to Berkshire, either with or soon after their
son
Azel,
afterward
son
which
west side of
now
and were cared
17
June,
the
road
1818, in
nearly
His death
lives.
an
They
for bv their
old
opposite
log
house
the house
from pleurisy,
She died
freshet.
was
working in the water during a
the house of her son-in-law, John Harmon, 14
by
July,
Tra
1829.
We have the
children."
dition
of
the
he dwelt in Berkshire.
Valley
He died
George Dohs
occasioned
at
while
to Newark
went
stood on
him
with
David Hovev.
that
in
lived
and
had
"They
says:
eleven
names
viz.:
nine,
II. Abigail, m with William Dudley.
III. Jemima, b about 1775, m with John Harmon.
IV. Eunice, m with Asahel Hatch, of Richmond, Mass.
VI. Abel.
V. Jedediah, settled in Hartford, Conn.
I. Azel.
VII. Nathan,
was
living
VIII. Zeruiah, died
Azel
of
Hovey, b
Azel
well,
and
daughter
Berkshire
assessed
tled
on
early as the
to w<>rk five and
near where
owned
Abner
as
the east
to Capt.
of
London, Conn.,
(Phelps) Hovey,
Jemima
side
the old
of
and
the
road crossed
Henry Griffin,
and
of
half days
creek,
then
1798,
bv his brother-in-law, William
with
Lucy
and
in that
and
north
creek.
on
He
the
Dudley,
half
sold
place
and
Rock
came
of
to
year was
He
the highway.
the
lived
eldest child
1763,
Rockwell,
on
on
the
about
married
Deborah
beginning
a
1812.
IX. David.
unmarried.
New
at
in Berkshire in
set
lot 385,
this
place
previously
this he sold to
124
TOWN
Barnabas Manning.
They
N.
Y.,
in his
and
Their
afterward
Newark Valley,
then in
seventy-fifth
worth.
OF BERKSHIRE.
year,
on
the
lived in
where
Maine,
Sept., 1838,
Union,
now
he died 14
place now owned
Clark Wal
by
children were:
Rockwell, m with Harlow King.
II. Eliza, b at Berkshire, 11 April, 1798,
I. Julia
m
with
David Coun
cilman.
III. George, settled at Belvidere, 111.
IV. Azel, died at Rochester, N. Y., unmarried.
Berkshire, 8 Aug., 1802, m with Allen Watkins,
and died 9 May, 1886, at Belvidere, III.
VI. Clarinda, m with Newell Watkins.
VII. Jedediah, died young.
VIII. Calvin, m with Mary Wheeler, and settled at Belvidere, 111.
IX. Lucy Ann, m with Leander King, of Belvidere, III.
X. Sabrina, went to Belvidere, 111.
XI. Henry, went to Belvidere, 111.
XII. William, was sheriff at Belvidere, 111!
XIII. Amanda, went to Belvidere, 111.
Jeremiah Campbell, a blacksmith, lived on the east side of the
V. Hannah, b
road, in the
of
north part of
Berkshire.
with
at
He
married
lived in the
taken,
and
Among
days,
moved,
his
children
and was also
few
a
was
to the
taxed to
was
place when
same
close
in the
Rachel
Jan.,
on
list
1792,
high
the
He
of 1802.
Dec, 1820, was
later, to Binghamton, N. Y.
Campbell, who married with
the census
years
work
tax-
2
line
north
present
Stockbridge, Mass.,
at
He
Elizabeth Rockwell.
ways, in 1793, three
still
lot 416,
of
Silas Warren Bradley.
Ephraim Cook
highways,
dwelling
lived
was
in 1798,
place at
within
taxed to
and
his
three
name was on
that time has
the present
work
not
bounds
of
and a
half days
the taxjist of
on
1802.
the
His
been ascertained, but later he
Richford,
on
the south
part
lot 460, at the angle of the road where Lyman Jewett now
He was living as lately as October, 1813, but the date
lives.
of
his death, which was caused by the bite of a rabid dog, has
He was a farmer, and came, it is said, from
not been found.
of
Preston, Conn.
His
children were :
II. Althea. III. Harvey, m with Clarissa Smith.
IV. Phila, (perhaps Philena).
Josiah Howe was assessed to work three days on the highways
I. Polly.
in 1798, and his name was on the tax-list of
born 8 July, 1808, and another 17 August,
1802.
18
13,
He had
a child
names unknown.
TOWN
Benjamin
ways, in
Josiah
in
Olney
to
was assessed
Berkshire, in
Seeley
OF BERKSHIRE.
1 25
three
work
days
on
the high
1798.
was assessed
to
work
three
days
the highways
on
1798.
Richmond, Mass., 3 May, 1775, m there
1 July, 1798, with Jerusha Pierson, who was born at Sag Harbor,
L. I., daughter of Zachariah and Sarah (Sanford) Pierson, who
afterward settled in Richmond.
They came to Berkshire in June,
David
1800,
Williams, b
at
and settled on the northwest quarter
He built
son
George
the
sites are still occupied
sumption
He
17
2
married
April,
1854,
April, 1807,
(2d)
1867,
said of
lives.
now
25
aged
him
in the
aged
Dec,
1811,
nearly
a saw-mill
and a
His
village.
thirty-two
with
lot 345,
of
grist-mill,
died
wife
years
and
six
Samantha Collins.
ninety-two
years.
where
of
his
and
con
months.
He died
Judge Avery, in
:
The discharge of many important official duties and trusts has
devolved upon Judge Williams in the course of his long and use
He served upon the Bench of the Court of Common
ful career.
Pleas of Broome county, as one of the Associate Judges, from
the year 181 5 down to the time when his town was given back to
Tioga, in 1822, and with the exception of one year, he held the
position
continuously, from the first date of his service until
1826; having been transferred to the Bench of the Tioga Com
mon Pleas, by appointment, after the change of boundaries. For
three years, while his town was within the limits of Broome, and
for six years after it had been surrendered to Tioga, he was its
Supervisor, and for many years, commencing at an early date,
he discharged the duties of many minor offices, with exactness,
"
good
judgment,
and ability.
"In 1827 and 1831, Judge Williams
the Legislature, and from the various
represented
posts
his county in
he has been
increased re
which
has always retired with the
his constituents.
"
Methodical in his habit of thought, firm in his adherence to
what he has deemed rules of right, and of uncompromising integ
an example of
rity, he will leave to those who are to follow him,
be
what may
and an impressive illustration of
moral worth,
called upon
to
fill, he
gard and respect of
life."
achieved
His
by
fixed purpose, steady
effort and well
regulated
children were:
I. Lucinda, b 3 May, 1805, m 22 July, 1829,
Piggatt Evans, of Binghamton.
II. John Chamberlin, b 16 March, 1818, m
with
Alfred John
with
Emily Win
March, 1853, and (2d) 30 Oct., 1855, with Susan
Elizabeth Goodrich, and now lives at Farmerville, in Covert N. Y.
III. George, b 31 May, 1829, m 27 Feb., 185 1, with Louisa
Janette Barnes, and resides on his father's homestead.
ship,
who
died
1
TOWN
126
OF
BERKSHIRE.
Ransom Williams, born in Richmond, 9 March, 1778, brother
of David Williams, came to Berkshire about the same time.
He
married
b 29
Dec,
13
1780, daughter
Feb.,
half
settled on the south
of
very worthy, useful,
in the
cultivation of
17
June,
Heman
of
vocal
b
Williams,
David
later than they,
intelligent man,
music, and his home
They
died
They
came
Berkshire,
to
interested
much
always
the
without children
; he
was
Jan., 1845.
at Richmond, Mass., 9 Jan.,
Ransom)
and
who was
Collins.
(Bristol)
and
hospitality.
she 31
1839;
Richmond,
of
lot 345, on the west side of the road,
which leads to the
railway station. He
was a
seat of a generous
Olive Collins,
Dan and Amy
of
the street
opposite
nearly
with
1801,
1788,
perhaps
(brother
some
years
accidentally killed 17 Sept., 1816, while
the residence of Col. John B. Royce. Judge
and
was
raising a bridge, near
Nathaniel Bishop, of Richmond, wrote to his daughter, Mrs.
"
Lucy Bement, on Sunday 6 Oct., 18.16: I have felt unable, since
the
news of
but
shall
feel
Heman Williams's terrible
improve the first time that I
sympathy for
a painful
Miss
Wealthy Collins
household
Ransom
of
his father,
prudently do it, for I
death,
can
to
visit
him.''
should
be
Williams,
in
named
of
which
connection
she
was
an
the
with
honored
for many years. She was a sister of Mrs. Olive Williams.
She left Richmond 15 Nov., 1803, and was two weeks on the road
member
to Berkshire.
McKnight,
25
Nov.,
died
at
She
1855,
of
"
He died
12
Jan.,
1869,
retentive
second
Guilford, Conn.,
three
months.
She
eighty-two years and
interesting
yielded
memory
the early settlers.
She
of
at
and
aged
Judge Calvin
with
1835,
seventy-two years
Valley,
Her
Mass., 3 April,
The
aged
Newark
traditions
June,
Watertown, N. Y.
of
nine months.
married, 25
was
many
born at
Richmond,
1786..
marriage
Mr. George
Vicory
recorded
by
the Hon. John Brown
to Miss Susana
Paine,"
in
Dec,
was
1800.
If
any time they dwelt in Berkshire they soon removed to Caro
line N. Y., and settled on the N. M. Toby farm.
He wrote his
at
name
Vickery.
Edward Paine lived in
Sept.,
1802,
Thomas
Waldo,
and
Paine,
had
Berkshire,
or
its
vicinity, as
as
brother here who, it is supposed was
who, with his wife bought goods of Joseph
a
early as 16 June, to be paid for in
Their home has not been ascertained.
2d.,
early
as
"
tow"
cash or
cloth."
Artemas
Benjamin
Ward, b
and
Mary
at
Charlton, Mass.,
(Oaks), Ward,
m
23
with
April,
1757,
Hannah
son
Perry,
of
of
OF BERKSHIRE.
TOWN
Sturbridge, Mass.,
children,
and
dwelt
1
Charlton till
at
two
after
27
their
of
"
then removed to the
possibly more, were born,
(See the Ward Genealogy, pp. 53 and 96).
New
and
York."
state of
He
was a
the
east
lives,
and
of
the
road,
opposite
on seventy-five
acres
of
side
he
which
He
now
then
in Newark
settled on
Dea. Asa Ball now
west part of lot 336,
where
land, in
the
house thereon, to Wil
to the northwest quarter of lot
moved
Valley,
1800, had
July,
4th of
sold, with a
soon afterward
liam Dudley.
265,
before the
hatter,
log
built
and
house just
a small
where
rods
railway now lies, as the road then was nearly twenty
further east than it is now, and his house was on the west side of
This place he sold, as early as 1808, to the Rev. Jere
the road.
the
Osborn,
miah
of
two
site,
afterward
son's
present
house then
he
after which
to its
moved
Waldo
Dwight
where
in Bement
a time
returned
the house
it,
on
afterward
road,
He then lived for
lived.
mill-house,
the
of
west
small
James Williams
which
stories
present
to the
who added
Wil
and
Massachusetts
to
with
his family, and settled near Spencer, perhaps at Charlton. It has
been impossible to find a full account of his children, as follows :
I. Lydia, b at Charlton, Mass., 4 Nov., 1789.
II. Ruth, b at Charlton, Mass., 24 March, 1791.
IV. Delia.
III. Daniel.
V.
Ward, who was deformed by spinal disease
died 20 Aug., 1807.
may have been the child who
VI.
Ward, b 31 Aug., 1808.
Elijah H. Saltmarsh began to board with John
He kept
April,
house,
1800.
where
Mr. Brown's
on
and made potash
Brown's
Ball,
little
a
one, 10
As he
of
the
creek
have lived.
just
was not
in
and
the
tax-
list for 1802, he
probably
was never a
in John Brown's book, 4
Jincks Angell, and B.
appears
a suit against
"
of
Among Mr.
Dec,
Andrus,"
brought
west
June, 1800, for boarding Mr. Moore,
ably made a short stay in town,
holder there.
John Saltmarsh
bank
the
Brown,
15
just below the Isaac Brown
widow and children
charges was
and others.
store
; and this
prob
house
1800,
and
in Aug.,
1801.
William Gardner
time he
attended
Valley,
and
ton,
he
the
church at
from Connecticut
grist-mill
of
the
about
Bement &
sometimes extracted
and settled on
quarter of
came
teeth.
north side of
Wilson,
He
the road,
lot 419, where he died in June,
Newark Vallev, 6 July, 1817,
1816.
was
one
in Newark
m with
on
At
1800.
the
Polly
Gas
northeast
She joined the
dismissed
12
Jan.,
TOWN
128
with several
1823,
stituent members
house
of
her
others,
of
OF BERKSHIRE.
and
the
two days
later,
was one of
Richford.
church at
the
She died
William, 11 Sept., 1848. Their children
II. Polly, m with Jacob Burghardt.
son
I. William.
III. Achsah, m with John Rees Burghardt.
IV. Miriam, m with Ransom Rich, and second
Newton ChaDman.
with
at
ary war;
served
in that capacity for
some
time
in the
the
were:
Edward
V. John Gaston, VI. Lucy Butler.
Joseph Waldo was born at Windham, Conn., 5 Oct., 1755,
of Zacheus and Talitha (Kingsbury) Waldo ; was a physician
surgeon,
con
son
and
revolution
17 July, 1788, with Ann Bliss, who was born in
Mass., in April, 1769. She was familiarly known as
married
Springfield,
in West Stockbridge, Mass.,
then moved to Richmond, Mass., where he joined the Congre
gational church, in Aug., 1794.
He afterward moved to Lisle, N.
Nancy.
Y.,
dwelt for
few
a
years
thence, in October, 1800, to Berkshire, where he settled
south 173 acres of lot 304, which he bought 8 Nov., 1802,
and
on the
and
he
They
built thereon, in 1806,
spent the
of
west side
now
remainder of
the road,
stands, in
a small
his life.
little
a
house for the time, in which
He dwelt previously on the
an elegant
south
framed house,
of
where
which
he
the
sold
school-house
for
fifty
dol
it up to Berkshire
village.
He was, for many years, the only physician in the Val
ley, north of Owego, and had a very large practice. He was
lars,
May,
23
1808, to
the founders
Henry Ball,
the "First
who moved
Church in
Tioga,"
17 Nov., 1803,
dismissed 5 July, 1833, to become one of the constituent
the Congregational church in Berkshire.
members of
He en
one of
of
and was
joyed in
community.
Their
m
degree, the esteem and confidence of the
She died 14 Sept., 1836.
He died 13 Feb., 1840.
a remarkable
children were :
I. Mary, b 10 March, 1790, m with Joseph Waldo, 2d;
II. Nancy Ann, b at West Stockbridge, Mass., 10 Dec, 1791,
with Solomon Leonard.
III. Joseph Talcott, b
Richmond, Mass., 28 Aug., 1794, a
physician and surgeon, m in Jan., 1827, with Maria
Belcher, who
died 23 Feb., 1830, and he m (2d), 19 Sept., 1833, with Hannah
B. Belcher, and d in Berkshire, 4 March, 1857.
Nathaniel Ford, b 30 March, 1768, son of James and Rachel
(Backus) Ford,
was
born 24
joined the
married
Jan.,
church
1777.
at
23 April, 1795,
They
there in
settled
Jan.,
1796.
with
in
Caroline Rees,
who
Richmond, Mass., and
They came to Berkshire
TOWN
in
February,
same
members of
Church
by Mr. Ball.
the First Church
of
Tioga
1805.
died 23
she
half
of
lot 304,
on
the
They were constituent
17 Nov., 1803, and he was
They were dismissed 21
June,
1859.
Their
"Their lives
and
examples
are
eulogies."
Nancy, b
Richmond, Mass.,
at
were:
children
I. Caroline, b at Richmond, Mass.,
liam Henry Moore.
II.
north
29
among the founders of the Congregational
He died 22 March, 1858, aged ninety
Berkshire.
of
their best
the
1
an(3 were
1833,
years;
occupied
its first deacon 4 April,
elected
June,
and settled on
1801,
now
spot
OF BERKSHIRE.
1
21
May,
1796,
Aug., 1797,
m
Wil
with
m with
Eldad
Post.
Maria, b at Richmond, Mass., 23 July, 1800, died at Cata
tonk, N. Y., unmarried, 10 June, 1861.
IV. Rachel, b at Berkshire, 5 June, 1803, died in Lenox, Mass.
V. Lucinda, b at Berkshire, 27 Aug., 1805, m with Harris
Jewett, and died at Catatonk, N. Y., in July, 1868.
VI. James Hobart, b at Berkshire, 26 Sept., 1807, m 29 April,
He died 29 May, 1854. without
1835, with Abigail Weeks Cook.
children, and she died at Chicago, 111., 24 Nov., 1874, and was
III.
buried in Berkshire.
VII.
b
Nathaniel,
at
Berkshire,
11
Sept.,
1809, died 4
Dec,
1809.
VIII. Katharine, b at Berkshire, 30 March, 1812, m with Dr,
Levi Farr, of Greene, N. Y., and m (2nd) with William Anner,
of Harlem, and afterward lived at Binghamton, N. Y.
Col.
x\bsalom
Ford, b
Ford, dwelt
Nathaniel
aged eighty-four
8
also
years.
aged sixty-nine years.
Dec,
1760,
in Berkshire.
elder
of
Dea.
Feb.,
1845,
brother
He died
11
His wife, Zeriah, died 19 March, 1826,
They were probably not here earlier than
1820.
1801.
probably in Berkshire as early as
He bought of Artemas
His name is in the tax list for 1802.
Ward seventy-five acres of land in the south third of lot 336, and
William
settled
bank
lives.
of
Dudley
was
log house, near the west end of the lot, on the
the creek, directly east of where Dea. Asa Ball
in
a
He
afterward
built
a small
framed house
west
now
opposite where
His first wife was Abigail Hovey,
Dea. Asa Ball now lives.
Some people
daughter of Azel and Jemima (Phelps) Hovey.
have thought that she died in Connecticut, but Mrs. Jerusha
(Harmon) Watson, who was her niece, testified that she died in
Berkshire, and was the first woman who was buried in the
130
TOWN
Brown
cemetery.
second
wife,
he left home
council
pastor of
the
the house
has
drove
of
that
of
ordained
Connecticut,
been found.
not
book 13
account
with a
back to
went
whose name
in John Brown's
The
He
OF BERKSHIRE.
Dec,
William
I. Ruth,
Abigail
who
that time
about
and
his
April,
(Hovey) Dudley
kept her father's house
second
II.
Doddridge,
IV.
Chester,
and
1805, and
name appears
First Church in Tioga, now Newark Valley, met at
the Widow Dudley 18 Feb., L806, and she returned
and
mother, till
His
died away from home.
the Rev. Jeremiah Osborn, the first
mules,
to Connecticut between that time and
of
and married a
in the Genesee
South
went
died away from home,
with
about
after
the
same
death
her
III. Alanson.
drive
to
that
time
of
taught school,
county.
his father
the
children
were:
after which she
marriage,
settled
The
1806.
mules,
his father
died.
Joseph Freeman
brought up in Richmond, Mass., by Vine
Branch, his father having died before his birth. He married
with Eunice Gaston, daughter of John and Miriam
(Northrop)
Gaston,
of
owned no
where
Richmond,
land
till
and
1814,
to Berkshire early in 1802, but
came
when
he bought
Joseph Talcott Leonard lived in
meantime, spent
hung
was
himself in
one
July,
in
year
1832,
Sullivan,
while
in
a
a small
He
1881.
Madison
delirious
place
west of
had, in
the
He
Co., N. Y.
She died
state.
Covert, N. Y. Their children were :
I. Eunice Maria, died unmarried.
II. Rufus Branch, died in Illinois about 1847.
III. Gilbert Gaston, b 23 Aug., 1808, and lives at Berkshire
with his daughter, Mrs. William T. Shaw.
IV. Lucy Ami, baptized at Newark Valley, 24 Dec, 1828, m
with Elmon Daniels, and died at Trumansburgh, N. Y.
V. Henry Barnes, b at Sullivan, N. Y., about 1812, was living
at
at
Gait, 111., in
1877.
VI. Harriet Elizabeth, b at Berkshire,
ton, of Covert, N. Y., and died there.
VII. Ruth
Matilda,
b
m with
at
Berkshire, died
at
Berkshire,
there
Willis D. Hor
when about
two
years old.
Nathan Ide
Sally
Doud.
married
She
children was
1820,
at
of
the house
of
a
daughter
of
Oct.,
1802,
with
Joseph Gleazen.
Mrs.
One
Mr. Ide died before
born 4 Feb., 1810.
time his widow was living, on lot 380.. just
their
which
was
21
of
Dec,
south
Eleazer Lyman.
Daniel Carpenter
was
born
at
Stockbridge, Mass., 7 Jan.,
1778,
OF BERKSHIRE.
TOWN
Abner
son of
131
Lydia, (Brown) Carpenter ;
and
April,
was
in Berkshire
possibly a year earlier, and settled
near the centre of lot
302, which his deceased brother, John Car
He went back to Massachu
penter, had selected for his home.
as
as
early
and
1803,
setts, and
married
daughter
of
Becket,
at
Levi
and
Lydia
March,
10
(Rudd)
with
1807,
He
Snow.
Ruth
Snow,
came again
Berkshire that spring alone, and she joined him in October,
His children were:
He died on this farm 2 June, 1855.
to
1807.
I. Lydia, b 22 Dec, 1807, m with Alexander Maples.
II. Mary, b 21 Sept., 1810, m with J^owler Haight.
III. Sylvia, b 6 Aug., 1812, m with Thomas Goldsmith Haight.
IV. Martha, b 9 March, 1815, m with Gideon Sipley.
V. John.b 5 Jan., 1818,
Maine, N. Y.
VI. Abner Dewey, b
m with
Amanda
Masten,
settled at
and
East
1844,
and
VII.
has
Aug.,
b
1
Feb.,
m
1823,
went
1820,
been heard from
not
Caroline,
18
since
with
to St.
Louis, Mo., in
1847.
Edward
Herrick,
of
Can
dor, N. Y.
Nov., 1825, died 9 Dec, 1846.
IX. Andrew Jackson, b 5 Nov., 1828, m with Jerusha
VIII. Daniel D., b
and settled
20
Cortright,
in Michigan.
X. Edward Snow, b 15 Aug., 1831,
ley, and lives in Ithaca. N.Y.
XI. George, b 19 May, 1834,
(2d) Frances Scott. He settled
m
on
m
with
Climena Ann Haw
Louisa
with
Freeman;
and
m
his father's homestead.
at Guilford, Conn., 11 Aug., 1768, son of
Samuel Collins,
Samuel and
(Cook) Collins, m 22 Oct., 1793, with Betsey
Bishop, who was born at Guilford, 4 Sept., 1774, daughter of
Nathaniel
and
Ruth
(Bartlett)
Bishop.
They
came
to Berkshire
in 1805, and settled on the north part of lot 376, where Mrs. Albert
He died 4
He built his new home in i.8o8P
Collins now lives.
July, 1840, of consumption, after having repeatedly foretold that
he
should
die
on
that day.
She died
1
Aug.,
1864,
aged
ninety years. Children :
I. Semanthe, b at the old Collins homestead in North
Conn., 7 Sept., 1794, m with Hon. David Williams.
nearly
Guilford,
Lenox, Mass., 29 March 1796, m with Sabrina
Ball, moved to Rochester, N. Y., where he practiced law ; went
thence to Hadley, Will Co., 111., where he died 27 March, 1867.
III. Horatio, b at Lenox, Mass., 2 July, 1799, m with Emily Ball.
II. Addison, b
Lenox, Mass., 25 Jan. 1804, m with Theodore
merchant of Virgil, N. Y., and removed to Canandaigua.
IV. Eliza, b
Hart,
a
at
at
TOWN
132
V. Nathaniel
Abby Ball,
Bishop, b
(2d)
and
with
OF BERKSHIRE.
Berkshire, 8 July, 1806, m with
Candace Harrington, and died in Berk
at
shire.
VI. Frederick, b 29 June, 1812,
and settled in Hadley, 111.
VII. Albert, b 16
daughter of James
homestead
of
July, 1816,
Rightmire,
m
m
with
Nancy
Mason
White,
Mary Ann Rightmire,
died in Berkshire, on the
with
and
his father.
Noah Lyman, b at Durham, Conn., about Dec, 1773, son of
Noah and Eleanor Lyman, married 12 Nov., 1795, with Lucy
Bishop, daughter
Nathaniel
Ruth
(Bartlett) Bishop, of
Richmond.
She was born at Guilford, Conn., 4 Sept., 1774.
They dwelt in Richmond till the beginning of 1805, when they
came to Berkshire, and settled in a log house on the south part
of
lot 416,
which
of
stood about
of
two
he
owned
rods west of
and
one
the
hundred
acres.
This house
site afterward occupied
by
the
following letter, which she wrote in
this house, gives such a lively description of the pleasures of her
humble home in the wilderness, and such a feeling account of the
Brookside Seminary7.
interest
which
other, as to
present
time
The
the settlers
make
felt in the
it exceedingly
welfare and pleasure of each
valuable
to the
reader
the
:
Tioga, Feb. 14th,
"
of
Dear Parents
I have this
1807.
:
my three children to bed, and you
would suppose they were in good health, if you knew how merry
they are. Nancy acts like a dunce, and the other two laugh at
it
I wish you could see the
anything if they are but pleasant.
inside of my cottage this evening, it looks quite agreeable, a
charming fire, the corners full of wood, a clean hearth, and, to
complete the picture, the great Black Dog that Den loves so well
We have had a good visit from Brother
is asleep on the floor.
Nat. and Major Hyde, with their wives ; they staid three days
and we were all together most of the time, and I do not know
when we have spent our time more agreeably.
We have also
You know our
had a visit from Judge Patterson and his wife.
manner of visiting, when a friend comes the whole circle is formed,
the news soOn spread, invitations were sent and in a short time
the whole band were at Mr. W's, [Ransom Williams.]
Esqr. Patterson came himself and
us down in his sleigh.
twin
[her
Mrs.
is
sister,
Collins] complaining of the Rheu
Betsey
matism this winter and is quite lame part of the time, but not so
Susa
as to prevent her doing more than a well woman should.
[Susanna Scott] is still with her.
My own health has been better
and I began to think that I should soon be well, but the last week
has convinced me that it is the same crazy frame yet, it is no disap"
minute
put
carryd
OF BERKSHIRE.
TOWN
pointment, I have
the promise of good
not
1
health
33
a
moment, nor
has the power to give it, if
do I wish it, unless it is His will, who
I hope however that I am not wholly unthankful,
best for me.
that I am for the most of the time pretty comfortable and able to
take care of my family.
"
Our friend Jerusha [the wife of David Williams, who died 2
April, 1807,] is descending the hill. She is evidently in a con
I do not know what she thinks herself.
firmed consumption.
Her husband is not willing any person should tell her the danger
mistaken tenderness I
she is in for fear of depressing her spirits
well meant; how is it possible
think, and unfriendly kindness
near
a
friend
person
can
see
so
that any
going down to the Grave
them ?
without
warning them of the great change that awaits
We
Will the shock be greater now than at the hour of death ?
should not be surprised if she should not live a month, and yet
to her future
nobody has ever said one word to her with regard
her
thots
if
knew
he
I asked her husband
state.
respecting her
situation, he said he did not, but that he evaded the question
ever get
when she enquired of him whether he thot she would
well.
I told him I knew it was a painful task, but it might be the
he made no reply, and I
source of great consolation hereafter
ease.
What if poor Beriah
said no more, but my mind was not at
[the writer's brother, Beriah Bishop, who died 17 Aug. 1805, of
we have felt?
I
consumption] had been neglected, how should
cannot think but Mr. Williams will soon alter his sentiments, I
tho'
hope he
It is
"
at
rest,
will.
likely
poor
Mrs.
our good
tionate
children
"
Mother
friends
sends
Superscribed,
He
sold
moved
last
Rawson
her best Love
"Nathaniel
Hollow,
had been to
had died
of
epidemic
in that
children of
the
same
at
where
disease,
and
She
for
pleurisy,
married
Lucy (Bishop)
at
Bishop,, b
with
Lyman
2
Lyman."
Feb.,
his
the
Richmond."
Royce,
1815.
and
His
neighbors, who
which seemed
then to
Asa Bement.
be
The
were:
Feb.,
Richmond, Mass.,
at
18
one of
(2d)
our
us your affec
14, to Asahel
he died
and
many thanks for
Bishop, Esqr.,
Richmond, Mass.,
1824, unmarried.
II. Ruth Bartlett, b
William B. Bement.
Nancy
believe
with
about 18
make a coffin
place.
Noah
I. Dennis, b
III.
Richmond,
his farm in Berkshire
to
work
at
and
Lucy
Hovey
fruit."
she
woman,
love to
is released from her sufferings
Give
has lived a life of sorrow.
Griffing
26
1797, died 4
July,
Richmond, Mass., 23
1799,
Jan.,
Aug.,
m with
1802,
m
Blair, of Cortland Village, N. Y.; and (2d) with
John Judson, of Columbus, Warren Co., Penn., where she died.
with
Sylvester
TOWN
134
OF BERKSHIRE.
IV.
Lavina, b at Richmond, Mass., 25 Oct., 1804, died at Berk
shire, 2 Aug., 1806.
V. Henry, b at Berkshire, 23 or 25 Feb., 181 1, m 11 Jan., 1837,
with Laura Thurston, who still lives in Newark Valley; and died
at Harford, N. Y., 17 Sept., 1843.
VI. George, b at Berkshire. 14 Oct., 1813, resides at NewAlbany, Ind., a hearty, genial, pleasant man who is admired bv all.
Capt. Heman Smith lived in
county, Mass., at one
Berkshire"
time in
He probably came to
it is known that he was here in January,
Stockbridge,
Berkshire in 1805, as
1806, where his name
He
the
settled on
thur
in Lenox.
at another
farm
E. Smith,*on lot
John Brown's
on
appears
book.
his great-grandson, Ar
died there about July, 1812.
His
now occupied
418, and
account
by
Moody, who died in Massachusetts. His
second wife was
Lucy Taylor, who also died in Massachusetts.
He married (3d) with Almira Messenger, daughter of Martin
first
wife was
and
Margaret
Miriam
(Woodruff)
Capt. Smith's
Messenger.
children
were :
I. Miriam,
toga, N. Y.
(by
first marriage)
II. Samuel
(by
second marriage).
m
III. Lucy, m Nathaniel Johnson.
IV. Mercy, m with Daniel Clark,
V. Sarah.
VI.
Polly,
of
Alden
m with
Clothier,
with
of
Sara
Danby, N.Y.
Baker, of Berkshire.
Heman, m with Clarissa Goodale.
VIII. Lydia, m with
Clothier, a brother
VII.
of
Miriam Smith's
husband.
IX. Clarissa,
Berkshire,
X.
shire,
the
(by
with
family
till her
marriage)
Ephraim Cook.
son of
Eunice, b
third
at
Lenox, Mass.,
16
with
m
April,
Harry Cook,
1800,
came
of
to Berk
her parents, about 1805, and in 1806 was taken into
of Dr. Joseph Waldo, of Berkshire, and dwelt there
marriage
Ezekiel
with
shire, her good memory
historical facts.
XI. Horace,
XII. Dolly,
went
m
having
Dewey,
and
still
furnished the
lives in Berk
evidence
of
many
South.
with
Thomas Curran,
and
settled
in Caroline,
Slaterville, N. Y.
Henry Griffin, born at Guilford, Conn., about 1780, son
Joseph and Jemima (Vaill) Griffin, a master mariner, came
near
Berkshire
lot 385,
which
or
1805, and settled
he bought of Azel Hovey.
about
1804,
on
the
north
He built
on
it
half
of
to
of
a small
OF
TOWN
framed
house,
the
of
war
died
He
it.
of
his
moved
Deodatus Royce
for his brick
make room
house
which
house,
m about
family
on a voyage
and
afterward
with
1808,
to New York: city,
1
moved across the
made
Anna Leonard,
his life in the
finding
1812,
BERKSHIRE.
woods
road
a
and
to
wagon
and
after
he
distasteful,
and resumed seafaring.
between San Domingo
35
Porto Rico,
He
under
led his friends to believe that he was mur
dered. Her father brought her and her children back to his own
She afterward went to dwell with her son, at Wood
house.
circumstances which
died 23 Nov., 1850. Their children were :
I. Julia Ann Colt, b 2 May, 1809, m with Elijah Wilson, of
Newark Valley.
stock,
111.,
where she
Henry, b 23 March, 1812, m with Mary Butler, of
Manlius, N. Y., and settled at Woodstock, 111., where he died in
II. George
1872.
III. Franklin, b
Sept.,
20
18
Miss
m
14,
Thompson,
of
Lane, 111., went to Colorado, and died there in 1879.
IV. Amanda Leonard, b in New York city, 20 Sept., 1817, m
Crystal
Dwight.
with
Henry, came to Berkshire with him,
and afterward went to Canada, where he died.
John Griffin, brother of Henry and Osmyn, came with them to
Berkshire, and remained two or three years, then, returned to
Richmond, Mass., became a Methodist, and married 1 Oct., 1808,
Osmyn
with
Griffin,
brother
He
Lydia Redfield.
in the M. E.
riage,
and
Peleg
He
church.
the first three
Randall
Randal "of
was
Tioga,"
418, in 1805, for
in
road which now
returned
his
of
leads
twelve
Berkshire,
120
as
children were
early
acres
of
of
Levi Chapin
as
the
April,
south
born here.
1803.
part
Peleg
of
lot
Jerusha, his wife, of
He settled on the west part of his farm, on
the road to Rawson Hollow, opposite the
$360.00,
southwest side of
for many years
to Berkshire after his mar
preached
afterwards
bought
Wethersfield, Conn.
the
of
north
into the
and
town of
Richford.
He
was
born 9 May, 1775, and married with Eunice Kimball, who was
born in April, 1771, and and died 22 March, 1856, aged eightyHe died 26 March, 1856. Their
four years, and eleven months.
children were :
I. Eunice, m with Nathaniel Boyer, and moved to Ovid, N. Y.
II. Chester, m with 'Ann Eliza Whitaker, who was born about
7 July, 1810, and died 30 Dec, 1843, at the birth of her first child,
with Hannah
with her ; and he married (2d)
who was buried
Smith, daughter of Samuel and Theodosia (Dewey) Smith.
10*
TOWN OF BERKSHIRE.
I36
III. Nathan
IV. David
Peleg,
settled at
Kimball, died
East
Oct.,
2
Troy, Wis.
1839,
aged
29
years and nine
months.
Belcher, b at Preston, Conn., 25 June, 1764, m 2 March,
1786, with Lucy Hall, who was born in 1767, daughter of Capt.
John and Jemima (Bell) Hall. Her father, then of Castleton, Vt.r
was killed by the British, 6 July, 1777, the day before the battle
Joseph
Hubbardton.
ton, till the latter
of
Albany
4
dwelt
part of
on
June,
his father's homestead in Pres
1805, then moved, passing through
July, 1805, reaching Berkshire
settled on
the
aged
1812,
They
north
half
forty-five
of
lot 297,
years;
where
he, 5 Jan.,
few days later, and
they died ; she 9 Sept.,
a
1819.
Their
children
were :
I. Lydia, b 2 Aug., 1786, m with Alexander Gaston.
II. Jonathan, b 8 Feb., 1788, m in 1808, with Betsey Bement,
and settled in Newark Valley, where they died ; she, 12 June,.
1845 ; he, 7 Jan.,
III. Abigail, b
1853.
31
Jan.,
IV. Lucy, b 28 Dec, 1891,
V. Joseph, b 10 Jan., 1794.
VI.
Frederick,
b
2
to
moved
Woodstock,
21
or
Rebecca Short Brown.
Daniel Gilbert.
John W. Bessac.
m with
May,
They
1798, m 3 Jan., 1821, with
dwelt in Richford till 1844, then
111.
VII. Elijah, b 5 June, 1800,
died
m with
1790,
settled
in Newark
Valley,
where
he
Dec, 1879, having survived three wives.
VIII. Maria, b 15 July, 1802, m with Dr. Joseph Talcott
11
Waldo.
IX.
Esther,
X. Betsey, b
York,
XI.
and still
Susan, b
b 8
Aug.,
1804, died
Oct., 1806, m with
living, July, 1887.
10
Berkshire, 26 July,
Orlando Warren, of
at
1820.
New
June, 1808, d 10 Feb., 1829.
2 Sept., 1812, m with Clark Waldo.
Elijah Belcher, b at Preston, Conn., 18 March, 1772, son of
Moses and Esther (Rudd) Belcher, m with Lydia Clark, daughter
of Pharez and Olive (Jewett) Clark, of Preston.
They dwelt for
at.
some years
Cherry Valley, N. Y., and she died there. He m
(2d) with Eliza Putnam, daughter of the Rev. Aaron Putnam, of
Pomfret, Conn. In July, 1805, they settled in Berkshire, on lot
297, about fifty rods west ot the road, and midway between his
brother, Joseph Belcher, and his brother-in-law, John W. Bessac*
She died suddenly, 31 Oct., 1807, in her forty-third year.
He
married 3d with Lydia Burbank, daughter of
Timothy and Han13
XII. Harriet, b
OF BERKSHIRE.
TOWN
(Ripley) Burbank,
nah
of
He died
Newark Valley.
died
sister
and
28
Sept.,
1850,
doubt that his
name
should
widow
Jonathan
1820, instead
of
His
children
were
one
by
the
third,
two
by
20
of
Col. Christopher
Sept.,
aged
137
1849,
sixty-seven
aged
the
which
was
first wife, two
by
census
a
of
clerical
error.
and
viz :
with
married
IV. Aaron
no
Dec,
the second,
Dr. David N. Richards, and
with John Fish, of Augusta, N. Y.
II. Lydia Clark, m 25 Feb., 1821, with Daniel Phillips.
III. Moses, settled and died at Cherry Valley, N. Y.
I. Olive,
His
There is
years.
have been in the
Belcher,
77
Burbank,
years.
Putnam,
m with
m
(2d)
Harriet Ball.
V. Hannah Burbank, b 19 March, 1813,
Talcott Waldo.
m
Dr. Joseph
with
Hutchinson, b in Hebron, Conn., 8 Nov., 1769, m 4
Nov., 1795, with Abigail Brainerd, and dwelt in Canaan, N. Y.,
till 1805 or 1806, then moved to Berkshire, where he built a log
house on the west side of the road, just above the bridge, oppo
Samuel
house
the brick
site
nearly sixty
years.
which
After
Col. John B. Royce has
a
few
years
he
occupied
moved over
for
the East
in the valley of the Wilson creek, near the home
of his wife's father and brother, and both died there ; she, 18
April, 1843, he, 17 Sept., 1854. Their children were:
hills,
and settled
I. Harvey, b 13 Oct., 1797, m in 1830 with Sarah Torry.
II. Irena, b 24 Aug,, 1799, m with John Clark.
III. Orlando, b 25 July, 1801, d in Berkshire 5 May, 1831.
IV.
Polly, b 18 Dec, 1803, m 10 Jan., 1838, with Jedediah
Leathe Robinson,
and
she
m
(2nd)
died in Richford, N. Y., 28 Aug., 1842,
8 Oct., 1843, with his brother, Thomas Arns-
who
dell Robinson.
V. Williams, b in Berkshire, 17 April, 1806, m 24 Dec, 1835,
with Rhoda Maria Benton, who was b in Lenox, Mass., 7 Feb.,
1810, daughter
of
Erastus
and
Elizabeth
(Paul) Benton.
Oct., 1808, d 5 March, 1828.
VII. Lavinia, b 21 Nov., 18 10, m with John Hobart Pringle.
VIII. John, b 8 Aug., 1814, m with Alzina Heath, and settled
VI. Orrin, b
at
20
Richford.
Samuel Johnson, b at Preston, Conn., 27 Oct., 1757, son ot
Joseph and Abigail (Belcher) Johnson, m there 25 Oct., 1781,
with Eunice Park, who was born there 20 Aug., 1763, daughter
of
till
Moses
after
and
the
Sarah
birth
of
(Brewster)
their
Park.
eldest child,
They
dwelt
then at New
at
Preston
Marlborough,
TOWN
138
Mass.,
till
when,
with
three
his
of
West Stockbridge
"
Stockbridge, Mass.. till April, 1806,
children, Cassandra, Sally and Elijah, he
West
and at
His
Brown's Settlement.
to
came
1803,
OF BERKSHIRE.
dwelt
They
great
house
which
William Dudley's
one
year
small
framed
vacated.
In the
in the
had just
widow
left
two days after
Wednesday, 13 June, 1806,
on
eclipse."
the
other children
wife and
spring of 1807 he moved to Newark Valley, having bought of
Isaac Rawson the place where Egbert Bement now lives, in
he dwelt till
which
181
fifty-five acres,
of
died;
Jan.,
she, 2
Their
year.
5,
on
the
1833 ;
he bought
when
south
he,
Jonas
Muzzy
a
farm
lot 58, on which they
1845, in his eighty-eighth
part
Sept.,
1
of
of
children were :
I. Abigail, b 5 Jan., 1784, died 2 Jan., 1785.
II. Cassandra, b 17 Nov., 1885, m with Isaac Ball.
III. Abigail, b 17 May, 1788, m with Spencer Spaulding.
Sally, b 29 July, 1790, m with Chester Goodale.
V. Eunice, b 12 June, 1792, m with Moses Spaulding.
VI. Elijah, b 15 June, 1794, m 10 Jan., 1818, with Lucina
Hooper, who was born at West Stockbridge, 17 May, 1798,
daughter of Capt. Elisha and Ruth (Newell) Hooper.
They
then
moved to Flint, Mich.,
dwelt for many years at Flemingville,
where he died6 Sept., 1847. She married
(2nd) with Dea. William
IV.
B. Bement, and returned to Newark Valley.
VII. Cinderella, b 1 Sept., 1796, married 24 Dec, 1817,
Solomon Jones.
VIII. Nancy, b
IX. Moses
Park, b
in his bed the
John
Rachel
July,
6
m
1798,
June,
1
Gregory, b
at
1806, arriving there
been
half
of
Josiah
his
was
home
the
found dead
; she, 30
grave-stone
1838,
to Berkshire in the spring
calls
and
They
which
of
settled on
has
since
his son, Junius Collins.
aged seventy-one years
years.
with
Benedict, of
They settled in Lenox,
9 May, 1806.
built the house
Dec,
m
1765,
Sarah
Friday,
aged eighty-four
1849,
he
about
and
1767.
lot 385, and
by Horatio Collins
Here they died
and
on
of
occupied
Dec,
ford,
1875, as
Danbury, Conn.,
Benedict, daughter
south
unmarried at
next morning.
Danbury, where she was born about
Mass., as early as 1791, and moved
the
Rich.
Harvey
with
Aug., 1802, died
his father probably
of
stead
31
with
They
were
him "John
buried
Gregory
;
at
he,
14
Rich
4th,"
the
probably indicates that his father, grandfather and great
grandfather
each
bore the name of John.
[See the Benedict
which
Genealogy,
p.
287.]
Their
children were:
TOWN
I.
Henry, b
10 Feb.,
ried
Ithaca, N. Y.,
three
years,
fifty-six
OF BERKSHIRE.
1
39
Lenox, Mass., 15 July, 1791, a salesman, mar
1818, with Abigail Huntington, and settled in
where they died; he, in May, 1824, aged thirtyshe, 26 April, 1880, after a widowhood of nearly
at
years.
II. Electa, b
III. Lucy, b
February,
at
at
Lenox, Mass., 21 March, 1793.
Lenox, Mass., in 1795, died at Berkshire in
aged seventy-one
1865,
years, buried
Richford.
at
IV. Eli
died
at
Benedict, b at Lenox, Mass., 20 Oct., 1797, a trader,
Berkshire, unmarried, in March, 1845, aged forty-eight
years, and was
buried in Richford.
V. Eliza Ann, b at Lenox, Mass., dwelt in Berkshire till the
death of her brother, Eli B., and after that with her sister-in-law,
and nephew,
in
Ithaca, N. Y.
Ichabod Brainard
m
in
was
was
Richmond, Mass.,
born in
born in
in
Haddam, Conn., 19 Aug.,
1770,
Colchester, Conn.,
28
with
Susanna
Sept., (old
1749;
Williams,
who
style), 175 1, daugh
(Crocker) Williams. He served in the
war of the revolution.
They settled in Canaan, N. Y-, and on a
Sunday in the latter part of June, 1773, they went to church,
ter
of
John
and
Abigail
found their house
it
all
and
contained
entirely
settled
and
came
to
In
consumed by fire.
Berkshire,
1807 they
on lot 348-373, in the valley of Wilson creek,
arriving at their
She died there 8 April,
new home on the eighteenth of June.
and
1813.
returning,
He died
at
Cortlandville, N. Y.,
20
Aug.,
1833.
Their
children were:
I. Abigail, b 8 June, 1771, m with Samuel Hutchinson.
II. Alice, b 26 April, 1773, d 26 Sept., 1797.
III.. Susanna, b 15 April, 1775, d 16 Aug., 1797.
with Abigail Welch,
IV. James, b 5 June, 1777, m 26 Jan.
Wellsand died in Caroline, N. Y., 17 Oct., 1856, and she d at
,1803,
borough, Pa., 25 July, 1861.
V. Clarissa, b 21 March,
1780, died in Berkshire.
VI. Williams, b in 1783, died in
1787.
VII. Ichabod, b4Feb.,
4 Feb., 1805, with Orpha Cook,
who was born in Colebrook, Conn., and they dwelt in Berkshire,
in the same place with his father, settling there at the same time,
and afterward moved to Cooperstown, N. Y., and he had chil
dren, 1. Edward, b 13 Sept., 1807. 2. Jared, b 23 June, 1809.
1785,01
Lewis Nash, b
all in Berkshire.
3.
1 1
Jan.,
4-
1812.
VIII. David Williams, b
28
William
May,
Henry, b
1787,
m
10
30
Jan.,
Aug.,
181
1816,
1,
at
140
TOWN
OF BERKSHIRE.
Lisle, N. Y., with Laura Parsons, and they dwelt for five years
at Lisle, then settled at Cortlandville, N. Y., where
they died,
she 26 Dec, 1836, he 9 Oct., 1848.
IX. Lydia, b 20 Aug., 1789, died in Berkshire, unmarried.
X. Jireh, b 10 Aug., 1792, died 15 Nov., 1793.
Isaac Goodale, b in Amherst, Mass., 16 Nov., 1755, son of Isaac
and Ellen Goodale, m at Northampton, Mass,, 26 Aug., 1779,
with
Jemima Warner.
hampton till
settled on
the
about
1797,
62
1819, aged
widow of
She
and
Berkshire hill,
place now owned
years.
on
at
Pittsfield, Mass.,
lot 378,
at the angle
and
till
of
West-
1808, then
the
road
on
by Henry Payne, where she died 29 April,
He m (2d) with Sally (Whitney) Cobb,
Elijah William
b
dwelt in Northampton
They
Cobb,
daughter
of
Asa Whitney.
Berkshire 13 June, 1825, aged
60 years, according to her grave-stone ; but her age was proba
bly four or five years less than that. He m (3d) with Electa An
was
drews,
who
He died
His
about
on
and
1770,
died
and
at
died in
Richford, at the house of Joseph Belcher.
his farm at Berkshire, 23 Nov., 1834, aged 79 years.
children
were :
I. Isaac, b at Northampton, Mass.,
Richford in Dec, 1820, and afterward
II. Huldah, born
with Samuel Smith,
1
Oct.,
settled
1780,
was
living
in
in Michigan.
Westhampton, Mass., 26 March, 1782, m
of Berkshire, and died there
5 July, 181 1.
III. Susanna, b 26 July, 1784, m with Moses Stanley.
IV. Eli, b 17 April, 1786, died in Ohio.
V. Chester, b 7 Dec, 1787, m with Sally, daughter of Sam
uel Johnson, settled on his father's homestead, and moved about
1842 to Genesee, Mich.
VI. Electa, b 22 Jan., 1790, m with John Ayres.
VII. Clarissa, b 19 April, 1792, m with Heman Smith, and,
after
his death,
with
at
Nathaniel Johnson.
VIII. Spencer, b 20 July, 1794, m with Mary Gorsline, and
dwelt for some years in Newark Valley, afterward near Buffalo,
N. Y., where he died.
IX. Moses, b 2 Aug., 1796, settled in Michigan.
X. Naomi, b 4 Aug., 1793, at Pittsfield, Mass., and two years
later, on the death of her aunt, her name was changed to Abigail
She
Goodale.
m with
Asa
Curtis,
of
Maine, N. Y.,
(2d)
with
m with
Eber
and
Stephen Butler.
XI. Maria,
Johnson,
of
name changed
Richford,
to
Sally,
and settled
b 8
Jan.,
in Michigan.
1801,
OF BERKSHIRE.
TOWN
XII. William
Capt. Bill Torry
county, N. Y.
It is
built his
new
one winter and
At
lot
Oct.,
of
load
of
drew
uel
for
the
a
for
log
his brick
ing
Dr. J. Talcott Waldo
loads
neighbors
of green
few
28
then
was
a
came
log
building his
house (where Nathaniel
house)
Their
which
son of
1758,
She moved,
He married
dwelt in
months
born in
was
Feb., 1762,
Durham, 6 Aug.,
there,
covenant at
"
made
wood
creek
and after
Durham, Conn., 6
Sarah Torry, who
and afterward mar
Dur
with
her
with
Mehitabel Bald
house just
house,
Bishop
a
"
son, to
to Berkshire 13
new
for
me
above where
then
Collins
Samuel Collins had first
May,
moved
1808,
Sam
to the
afterward
built
occupied on
cora^
He died in Berkshire, 15 April, 1852, in his
to town..
year.
lot 224, where Capt.
in Newark Valley.
He
on
to kindle it with ;
me
He
wood.
Samuel Wilkinson.
Collins
large
Noah
which
the Brookside Semi
that the
forty
about
ham, N.Y., and died there.
win, of Durham, Conn.
They
and
log house
where
remembered
suckers
bought his
ried with
liyed
and
the revolution
he said, "Well, now! you have brought
green wood, and I wish you would go to the
1761, baptized
owned
He
Durham, Greene
night
and catch a
that he
lived,
afterward
bee"
in the
he lived
1820
It is
house.
from
came
rods west of where
back to Berkshire
him.
in Missouri.
settled
was a soldier of
some years
In
Edward N. Chapman
great
that he
said
afterward stood.
a
1801,
his household
and
He dwelt for
ary war.
Lyman built, about two
went
Dec,
i
Rachel Goodale.
m with
nary
b
Warner,
141
91st
children were :
I. Samuel, b in Durham, Conn., 15 Aug., 1787,
with Sarah Durfee, who died 25 Aug., 1870.
m
11
Dec,
1816,
II. Delie, b about 1789, died 1 May, 1830, aged 40 years.
III. Rhoda, b about 1791, died 3 Jan., 1854, in her 63d year.
IV. William, b about 1793, died at Romulus, N. Y., 7 June,
1852, and his wife, Lois, died 10 June, 1838, in her 37th year.
V. John, b
born'23 July,
about
1795,
m
with
1797, built the house
Sophia Ann
opposite
Collins,
who was
the M. E. church,
and
Aug., 1880, in his 86th year, without children.
VI. Sarah Wilkinson, b 5 June, 1797, m with Harvey Hutchin
June, 1886, aged 89 years and 3 days.
son, and died
VII. Seth Baldwin, died in Michigan,
VIII. Patty Brown, b about 1801, died in Berkshire, 31 May,
died
there 28
,8
1
810, aged 9 years.
IX. Betsey Baldwin, b
resides
in Berkshire.
at
Durham, N. Y., 4 Aug.,
1804,
now
TOWN OF BERKSHIRE.
I42
Samuel
of
that
Torry
lived
Luke B
of
on a
Vinship
farm
and
Strong brook, directly west
Henry M. Ball. His wife joined
on
in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1807, and at Newark Valley,
6 July, 1817.
He joined the church at Newark Valley, 3 April,
1831, and they were dismissed 5 July, 1833, to the new church at
the
church
Their children were:
Berkshire.
I. Julia, bap. 11 March, 18 18.
Jan., 1820, m with Asa Witter.
III. Elizabeth Baldwin, b 20 Dec, 1820; bap. 1 July, 1821.
IV. John, bap. 6 Oct., 1822.
V. David Baldwin, bap. 3 Aug., 1828.
Seth Akins, b at Durham, Conn., 25 Jul)7, 1762, and baptized
the same day, son of Robert and Sarah Akins, was a mariner,
Delia, bap.
II.
in the
served
on a
of
the
it
an
carried
and
enemy.
years of
for
shorter
was wounded
grave
he
services
A fracture
of
and captured
prison-ship in New York
the scars made by the bayonets
time in
some
to his
For his
his life.
inch
the revolution,
war of
confined
vessel,
harbor,
2
received a pension
leg,
the
than the other.
a
He
in the latter
unskillfully
married
8
treated, left
May,
1786,
with
He married (2d) 26
Content Rossiter, who died 17 May, 1789.
Sept., 1790, with Sarah Griswold, who died in Berkshire, 15 Aug.,
He dwelt for a time in Berkshire county, Mass., afterwards
1843.
Y., and early in the present cen
Berkshire, and finally settled in a
in Durham, Greene county, N.
tury
losr house
tory
to the
came
now
Boyer
east of
stands,
now owns.
when
of
his
on
the
In
1
a
north
little
half
8 1 2 he built
north of where
lot 380, where Stephen H.
framed house near the south
of
a
more
Akins,
than a
grandsons.
at whose
hundred
His
house he died 6
years
Sept.,
His
1837.
old, is carefully kept
by
one
children were:
I. Sarah, b 13 Dec, 1786, died 9 Jan.,
II. Seth Warner, b 7 July, 1791, died
1825,
the cheese fac-
of
son, Lyman P.
sea-chest,
the road,
Mr. Boyer's orchard, and dwelt there till about
they went to live on a part of the same farm, with his
west corner
1833,
part of
west
1787.
at
Berkshire,
15
Aug.y
unmarried.
Content, b 29 March, 1793, was commonly called Tentyy
married with Aaron Livermore, and died in Michigan, about 1868.
IV. Lyman Parmalee, b 3 March, 1795, married in 1821, with
Betsey, daughter of Eleazer Lyman. He was several times super
visor ot Berkshire, and twenty-four years in succession justice of
He died without children, 15 Dec, 1884, sixty-three
the peace.
III.
years after marriage.
His
widow
still
lives
on
the Akins home-
TOWN
They
stead.
OF BERKSHIRE.
home for
provided a good
143
several children of other
people.
V. Sally, b 19 March, 1797, d 6 Oct., 1798.
VI. Robert, b 19 June, 1799, married about 1827, with Olive
Leonard Ball, who died at Berkshire, 29 March, 1867, in her 66th
He died
Sheldrake, N. Y., in March, 1885.
VII. William Henry, b in Berkshire county, Mass., 1 Marchy
1804, married in May, 1827, with Eliza, daughter of Daniel Surdam, of Richford. She died at Berkshire, 18 Jan., 1839. He
married (2d) with Catharine House, of Dryden, N. Y., who is stilt
year.
He
living.
at
was a
wheelwright,
having learned
his trade
of
Enoch
S. Williams, of Newark Valley, and became a prolific inventor,
some of his devices proving to be of importance and value, as the
devices for sewing machines,
the permutation lock for safes and bank
table and
use, and
at
feeding
Ovid, N. Y., 3 Jan., 1877.
VIII. Charles Frederick, b
in
universal
vaults.
He died
now
March, 1807, married 10 Dec,
1830, with Lodema Farnham Ball, who died 12 June, 1838, at
He
He married (2d) with Lucy Semantha Dewey.
Berkshire.
died in Berkshire, 17 June, 1842, and his widow married (2d) with
John Rightmire, of Caroline, N. Y., and died 18 Jan., 1854.
Elijah William Cobb, b at Canaan, Conn., 24 Sept., 1765, son of
Elijah and Amy (Lawrence) Cobb, m at Salisbury, Conn., 17 or 27
Feb 1786, with Sally Whitney, who was born in Cannan, Conn.,
about 1770, daughter of Asa Whitney, by his first wife. They dwelt
in Canaan till 1802, then moved to Lenox, Mass., and thence, a few
now owned
years later to Berkshire, settling on the farm
by
Erasmus Legg, a mile east of Speedsville, where he died 12 Aug.,
26
,
181
the
5,
aged
age
53 years, according
two
years
Elijah Cobb's
too
to
his
She
great.
grave
m
(2d)
stone,
which
Isaac Goodale.
with
children were :
I. Joshua Whitney, b Nov., 1786, m in June, 1816,
Doty, and died at Elsie, Mich., 2 May, 185 1.
II. Permelia, b 18 or 20 Jan.,
and died at Henrietta, N. Y.,
1791,
11
m with
Feb.,
Isaiah
with
died in Utica, N. Y., in Feb., 1864.
IV. Daniel Johns, b 18 Oct., (or
Susan
Gridley Barker,
1830.
III. Charilla Matilda, b 5 Nov., by town record, or 6
by family record, m with John Burnett, of Hampton,
Nov.)
1793,
Dec, 1793,
Conn., and
m with
Charles
died in Dansville, Mich., 13 Nov., 1857.
V. Lydia Edmunds, b 19 March, 1798, m with Thomas
Hoyt,
makes
and
in 1815,
and
died
at
Dryden, N.
Y.,
22
Oct.,
i860.
Davis,
TOWN
144
VI.
b
OF BERKSHIRE.
Sept., 1800, a teacher, m 7 April, 1822, with
Harriet Chambers, of Caroline, N. Y., and died at Colesburgh,
Penn., 20 Oct., 1864; was author of several school-bpoks, which
had a short run, as they were in opposition to the innovations
which
Lyman,
18
Noah Webster
was
making in the English language.
Nancy, b at Lenox, Mass., 19 Oct., 1802, m at the house of
Dea. Elijah Curtis, in Newark Valley, 19 Jan., 1826, with Asahel
Jewett, and died at Richford, 27 June, 183$.
VIII. Sarah Whitney, b at Lenox, Mass., 13 Nov., 1804, m
with Thomas Preshow, and died at Colesburgh, Penn., in Feb.,
VII.
.
,
1869.
Scotland, in Windham, Conn., 14 Sept.,
1769, son of Andrew and
(Seabury) Manning, married 20
Dec, 1792, with Esther Belcher, who was born at Preston, Conn.,
31 March, 1770, daughter of Moses and Esther (Rudd) Belcher.
They came to Brown's Settlement about 1810 or 181 1, and he.
Barnabas
bought
Manning, b
at
seventy:five acres of
lot 336,
Daniel Ball,
had been
side of
which
of
seventy-five
side
of
lot 337 ;
south
part of
the
whole
length
west side of
His
wife
east of
owned
acres
the
road on
of
west of
the road
30
June,
1819,
without
south
children.
Ball,
He
and
;
the south
acres
on
extended
He built the house
the road, where his son-in-law, Asa
died
on
of
the three lots.
the
by William Dudley
James Robbins, one hundred
lot 335, so that, his farm of 250 acres
and
the
land
now
on
the
dwells.
married
(2d)
Feb., 1820, with Phebe Lincoln, who was born at Western, now
Warren, Mass., 7 Aug., 1791, daughter of Thomas and Lucy
(Holbrook) Lincoln. He died 11 Feb., 1856, in his 87th year.
17
Their children were :
She died 4 Dec. 1872.
I. Esther Maria, b 11 March, 1821, m with Asa
15
May,
.Ball,
and
died
1887.
II. Charles
b 25 Sept., 1822, m at Union, N. Y., 11
Jane Gray, who was born at Binghamton,
Seabury,
Oct., 1848, with Mary
N. Y., 21 April, 1826, daughter of Arthur and Ann (Van Nanre)
She died 2.6 March, 1887.
Gray.
He died:
III. Jane, b 17 Feb., 1824, m with Luther Andrews.
7 Jan,, 1887.
IV. Eliza, b 7 May, 1828, m 23 June, 1852, with George Henry
Akins, and lives at Ovid, N. Y.
V. Catharine Lincoln, b 2 Feb., 1831, m with George Andrews,
She died. 8 Jan., 1881, without
died 19 March, 1876.
who
children.
Asahel
Royce, b
at
Lanesborough, Mass., 7 May,
1771. son of
TOWN OF BERKSHIRE.
Adonijah
Amy (Brush) Royce,
145
Jan., 1792, with Sally
Betsey Clark, who was born at Lanesborough, 29 June, 1772.
About 1801 they moved to Richmond, Mass., where she joined
the church, in April, 1808.
They left Richmond 5 Feb., 18 14,
for Berkshire, and settled on the north half of lot 385, where his
and
22
m
sonDeodatus afterward
built his brick house. He
hundred
Lyman,
he built the house
which
Leonard,
cott
sold
site
Noah
acres of
it
having
been
half
moved
by
bought
one
lot 416, on
his grandson, J. Tal
on the south
now occupied
also
of
to its present
site,
when
he
1846, to the Rev. William Bradford, as a
for Brookside Seminary.
In this house they settled about
and
1818,
Their
I.
in
the grounds,
died there ; he,
18
March,
25
April,
28
Jan.,
1793,
m
25
of
Asa
Bement,
of
1847; she,
1848.
children were :
Deodatus,
Dec,
b
with
1817,
Newark Valley,
tional church in
Lanesborough, Mass.,
Emily Bement, daughter
at
for many years a deacon of the Congrega
Berkshire, built the brick house where his father
was
first settled; and in that house they died ; she, 5 Sept., 1875.
II. John Brush, b at Lanesborough, Mass., 9 June, 1795, a woolcarder and
winter
during
cloth-dresser, taught
school
in
Richmond, Mass.,
his father left there, took care of his father's cattle
the winter, and in May, 1814, drove them to Berkshire,
that
he married, 1 Jan., 1823, with Amanda
Asa and Olive (Churchill) Leonard, began
where
of
the morning
side of
the
after
the way,
their
above
marriage, in the
the
he built the brick house in
bridge,
which
and
he is
Leonard, daughter
house-keeping
log house
on,
the
west
lived there till 1829,
when
yet
living,
on
the
at
age
of
ninety-two years.
III. Almon, b 15 April, 1797, died 8 Feb., 1799.
IV. Haanah, b2i Dec, 1799, m with Louis Gigette Leonard.
V. Amy, b 10 Jan., 1803, m with Charles West Cook.
VI.
Royce, a son, b 1 March, 1805, died 2 March, 1805.
VII. Harriet Laminta, b 27 March,
sell Starr, of Ithaca, N. Y.
1807,
m
with
William Rus
b 9 April, 1810, m with Levi Ball.
IX. Phebe Permelia, b 5 Nov., 1813, died 22 May, 1825.
VIII.
Betsey Ann,
Notes to Census Table.
with a star
to in the
well
no
names
have already been
following
notes,
by
to state, also, that there
blacks,
total
The
mentioned
following table
; the others
corresponding
were
and no one engaged
population was 586.
in the
in
no
commerce
are referred
numbers,
unnaturalized
marked
lt may be
foreigners,
in the town.
The.
TOWN
146
OF BERKSHIRE.
CENSUS OF BERKSHIRE, DECEMBER,
No. Males
and
No. Females
Ages.
1820.
and
Ages.
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Roswell H. Brown
Jed Chapman
*Daniel Gleazen
Jonathan Belcher
John W. Bessac
Elisha Jenks
Calvin Jenks
Luther Hamilton
Joel Smith and Jesse Smith
Ephraim Reniff
Samuel Osborn
Schuyler Legg
Amos Peck
Daniel Jenks
Reuben Legg
Larned Legg
*Daniel Carpenter
Isaac Bunnel
Samuel Haight
Eleazer Lyman, Jr
Thomas Keeny
*
Joseph Gleazen
Thomas Bunting
Joseph Belcher
William Whiting
Eleazer Valentine
WiUiam S. Smith
*Isaac Goodale
Stephen Butler
Alden Baker
*Asa Leonard
*Solomon Leonard
John S. Thorp
Isaac Hitchcock
,
*Anna Griffin
Selick Paine
William Moore
Andrew Rees
Anna Collins
John Ayres
Lyman Hull
* Jesse Gleazen
*Peleg Randal
*Polly Gardner
Moses Stanley
Clarissa Smith
Samuel Smith
Hooker Bishop
Cicero Barker
Aaron Livermore
Eleazer Lyman
*Sarah Ide
*Seth Akins
Elias Walker
Phinehas Case
Leman Case
*Samuel Ball
Levi E. Barker
Isaiah G. Barker
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33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
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41.
42.
43.
44.
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48.
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TOWN
OF BERKSHIRE.
147
CENSUS OF BERKSHIRE, DECEMBER,
Nc. Males
AND
Ages
No. Females
.
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81.
82.
83.
Marcus Ford
Luke B. Winship
John Rounseville
*Mehitable Brown.
*Joseph Waldo
*Nathaniel Ford
*
Barn abas Manning
Ralph Manning
i
*Isaac Ball
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
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91.
92.
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1
Roswell H. Brown lived
65
2
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2
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w
lot 417, in the first house south
the present town of Richford ; but little has been remembered
him beyond the fact that when slightly elevated in tone, he
1.
of
of
wished
to be addressed
One
his
on
his
of
lot 303,
near
the
on
the
above
"Mr. Roswell H.
born 29
bank of
west
corner where a road
Capt. Jed
Brown,
as
on
on
Dec,
children was
children were
2.
the
William
Chapman,
N
Sept.,
Y.
off
Sir."
Afterward he lived
south of
to the north.
the road,
Among
Hannah.
joiner, lived
below Mr.
road, in the second house
He was born at Saybrook, Conn.,
the same
Mr. Leonard's tannery.
28
Brown, Esq.,
Strong brook,
branches
and
1821.
a carpenter and
east side of
Dec, 1 78 1, m
tled at Durham,
14
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79.
Ages.
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Asahel Royce
*Deodatus Royce
*John Gregory
Thomas Langdon
*Samuel Collins
*Ebenezer E. Gleazen
Joseph Cook
*Henry Ball
*Stephen Ball
*William Ball
*Elizabeth Cook
*Ransom Williams
*David Williams
"Tchabod Brainerd, Jr
*Ichabod Brainerd
and
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0
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Abraham Hotchkin
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
74.
75.
76.
77.
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1
66. Ezra Landon
67.
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Edmund Barker
Erastus Benton
^Consider Lawrence
Lyman Durfee
John Durfee
CO
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0.
61.
62.
63.
Continued.
03
i-l
Names.
1820.
1803,
with
Content
In the spring
of
Canfield, and set
181 1
they moved to