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Zaccheus Roberts, Revolutionary War Soldier, South Carolina
Zaccheus fought for the full duration of the Revolutionary War.
He enlisted in South Carolina in March 1776 as a private in the Company of Captain Eli Kershaw in the regiment commanded by Colonol Thompson and Lt. Col Mason. Zaccheus fought in
the battle of Fort Moultrie,
the battle of Eutaw Springs and
the battle of Hanging Rock.
He served until peace was made in 1783. Zaccheus served both as a scout and as a line soldier.
His wife Nancy applied for a revolutionary war pension after Zaccheus' death, and cited this information as the story told her by her husband of his service in that war.
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Zaccheus Roberts, Roane County Militia; 1802 , Roane County, Tennessee
Zaccheus was shown in the 1802 Roane County tax list militia rolls as a member of Captain Hugh France's Company of the Roane County, Tennessee Militia.
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Daniel Jerome from tintype taken when he enlisted in the Union Army
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Headstone, Roberts, Zaccheus Rev War soldier for duration
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Roberts, Zaccheus- Bible record of his family
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Jerome, John & Ann nee Mallon family portrait
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Elizabeth Jerome nee Roberts, Marcellon, Wisconsin
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Jerome, John & Ann nee Mallon
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Record for Sarah Roberts
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- [S411] Ancestry.com, U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Census Year: 1850.
Record for Samuel Roberts (10) facts
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U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 about Samuel Roberts
Name: Samuel Roberts
Gender: Male
Status: Married
birth: ca 1794 Pennsylvania, USA
Age: 56
Death: Mar 1850
Cause: Heart Disease
Days Ill: 6
Occ: farmer
Census: 1850
District 48, Hancock, Ohio
LINE: 31
Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Non-population Census Schedules for Ohio, 1850-1880; Archive Collection: T1159; Archive Roll Number: 14; Census Year: 1850; Census Place: District 48, Hancock, Ohio; Page: 361.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. A portion of this collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.
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U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885
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U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885 about Samuel Roberts
Name: Samuel Roberts
Gender: Male
Status: Married
birth: ca 1794 Pennsylvania, USA
Age: 56
Death: Mar 1850
Cause: Heart Disease
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- [S308] Jonathan Dale Snyder: +1(757)479-1015, geneal11@aol.com, SHAY 15010 Silas.FTW, (Name: Ancestry.com;), GEDCOM 15010.
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Record for Maurice Clifford Swift Paul Witter letter to Susan Davis transcription, 1853 , Wellsville, NY This story is a Microsoft Word document. stuestesadded this on 6 Jan 2013 While going through my late parents' family papers I found this document. After struggling to read it I found it very interesting. These were my 2nd great grandparents on my mother's side. I am also uploading as clear a copy as I can make of the original letter. _______________________ Willing [illegible] 18th 1853[?] I now attempt to write a few lines to you to congratulate you upon your safe arrival at your parents fireside in whose sosiety [sic] you must necessarily enjoy perfect peace and happiness [?]. But you may be somewhat surprised at my presumption on so short an acquaintance but nevertheless being prompted by pure motives I have the boldness to solicit your further acquaintance hoping thereby to promote or procure that happiness which kindred spirits find in each others society. Should [it be] agreeable to you (and if it would not interfere with any previous engagements) I would like to make you a visit soon, as soon as circumstances will permit. You will allow me to say your presence at your sister's has awakened sensations to which I have hitherto been a stranger and since your absence has only increased. Will you write me an answer to this and addresss it to willing PO Allegany Co as soon as convenient. Please excuse all mistakes as I write in a hurry behind the counter in a Wellsville store by the permission and politeness of a Mr. Abbott after being heavily drenched in a severe rain storm. Yours most affectionately, Paul C. Witter Susan A. Davis
Paul Witter letter to Susan Davis transcription, 1853 , Wellsville, NY
This story is a Microsoft Word document.
stuestesadded this on 6 Jan 2013
While going through my late parents' family papers I found this document. After struggling to read it I found it very interesting. These were my 2nd great grandparents on my mother's side. I am also uploading as clear a copy as I can make of the original letter.
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Willing [illegible] 18th 1853[?]
I now attempt to write a few lines to you to congratulate you upon your safe arrival at your parents fireside in whose sosiety [sic] you must necessarily enjoy perfect peace and happiness [?]. But you may be somewhat surprised at my presumption on so short an acquaintance but nevertheless being prompted by pure motives I have the boldness to solicit your further acquaintance hoping thereby to promote or procure that happiness which kindred spirits find in each others society. Should [it be] agreeable to you (and if it would not interfere with any previous engagements) I would like to make you a visit soon, as soon as circumstances will permit.
You will allow me to say your presence at your sister's has awakened sensations to which I have hitherto been a stranger and since your absence has only increased. Will you write me an answer to this and addresss it to willing PO Allegany Co as soon as convenient.
Please excuse all mistakes as I write in a hurry behind the counter in a Wellsville store by the permission and politeness of a Mr. Abbott after being heavily drenched in a severe rain storm.
Yours most affectionately,
Paul C. Witter
Susan A. Davis
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- [S165] Jonathan Dale Snyder, GEDCOM: 15010 SHAY, Silas, (Name: Ancestry.com- updated in Genealogy.com 05 May 2001- downloaded 25 May 2001;), Generation No. 4 4. BENJAMINE4 ROBERTS gen 4.4 & 5.6.
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Generation No. 4 4. BENJAMINE4 ROBERTS (PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1767. He married FANNY. Child of BENJAMINE ROBERTS and FANNY is: i. ALMYRIA5 ROBERTS, b. 1811; m. RUFUS ROBERTS, 1837; b. 1815. More About RUFUS ROBERTS and ALMYRIA ROBERTS: Marriage: 1837 5. JOHN4 ROBERTS (PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1771. He married AMANDA BARNES. Children of JOHN ROBERTS and AMANDA BARNES are: 6.i. SAMUEL5 ROBERTS, b. 1794. ii. RUFUS ROBERTS, b. 1815; m. ALMYRIA ROBERTS, 1837; b. 1811. More About RUFUS ROBERTS and ALMYRIA ROBERTS: Marriage: 1837 Generation No. 5 6. SAMUEL5 ROBERTS (JOHN4, PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1794. He married ELIZABETH HICKS. More About SAMUEL ROBERTS: Fact 3: Served in the War of 1812 Children of SAMUEL ROBERTS and ELIZABETH HICKS are: 7.i. SARAH6 ROBERTS, b. 10 March 1822; d. 22 January 1892. ii. JOHN ROBERTS, b. 16 March 1827, Springwater, NY; d. 09 May 1898. iii. JACOB ROBERTS, b. 06 January 1832; d. 30 September 1864. iv. JAMES ROBERTS, b. 1843. 8.v. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ROBERTS, b. 1844; d. 16 April 1882.
C:\MySharedDocs\genealogy\GenRep- SHAY 15010 Silas- Descendants of Hugh Robards.rtf: Generation No. 5 6. SAMUEL5 ROBERTS (JOHN4, PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1794. He married ELIZABETH HICKS. More About SAMUEL ROBERTS: Fact 3: Served in the War of 1812 Children of SAMUEL ROBERTS and ELIZABETH HICKS are: 7. i. SARAH6 ROBERTS, b. 10 March 1822; d. 22 January 1892. ii. JOHN ROBERTS, b. 16 March 1827, Springwater, NY; d. 09 May 1898. iii. JACOB ROBERTS, b. 06 January 1832; d. 30 September 1864. iv. JAMES ROBERTS, b. 1843. 8. v. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ROBERTS, b. 1844; d. 16 April 1882. Generation No. 6 7. SARAH6 ROBERTS (SAMUEL5, JOHN4, PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 10 March 1822, and died 22 January 1892. She married JOHNSON CHASE. Child of SARAH ROBERTS and JOHNSON CHASE is: 9. i. DELILA7 CHASE, b. 02 April 1843, PA; d. 04 June 1920, Sweden Hill, Potter Co., PA.
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Generation No. 4 4. BENJAMINE4 ROBERTS (PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1767. He married FANNY. Child of BENJAMINE ROBERTS and FANNY is: i. ALMYRIA5 ROBERTS, b. 1811; m. RUFUS ROBERTS, 1837; b. 1815. More About RUFUS ROBERTS and ALMYRIA ROBERTS: Marriage: 1837 5. JOHN4 ROBERTS (PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1771. He married AMANDA BARNES. Children of JOHN ROBERTS and AMANDA BARNES are: 6.i. SAMUEL5 ROBERTS, b. 1794. ii. RUFUS ROBERTS, b. 1815; m. ALMYRIA ROBERTS, 1837; b. 1811. More About RUFUS ROBERTS and ALMYRIA ROBERTS: Marriage: 1837 Generation No. 5 6. SAMUEL5 ROBERTS (JOHN4, PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1794. He married ELIZABETH HICKS. More About SAMUEL ROBERTS: Fact 3: Served in the War of 1812 Children of SAMUEL ROBERTS and ELIZABETH HICKS are: 7.i. SARAH6 ROBERTS, b. 10 March 1822; d. 22 January 1892. ii. JOHN ROBERTS, b. 16 March 1827, Springwater, NY; d. 09 May 1898. iii. JACOB ROBERTS, b. 06 January 1832; d. 30 September 1864. iv. JAMES ROBERTS, b. 1843. 8.v. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ROBERTS, b. 1844; d. 16 April 1882.
C:\MySharedDocs\genealogy\GenRep- SHAY 15010 Silas- Descendants of Hugh Robards.rtf: Generation No. 5 6. SAMUEL5 ROBERTS (JOHN4, PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 1794. He married ELIZABETH HICKS. More About SAMUEL ROBERTS: Fact 3: Served in the War of 1812 Children of SAMUEL ROBERTS and ELIZABETH HICKS are: 7. i. SARAH6 ROBERTS, b. 10 March 1822; d. 22 January 1892. ii. JOHN ROBERTS, b. 16 March 1827, Springwater, NY; d. 09 May 1898. iii. JACOB ROBERTS, b. 06 January 1832; d. 30 September 1864. iv. JAMES ROBERTS, b. 1843. 8. v. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ROBERTS, b. 1844; d. 16 April 1882. Generation No. 6 7. SARAH6 ROBERTS (SAMUEL5, JOHN4, PETER3 ROBARDS, JOHN2, HUGH1) was born 10 March 1822, and died 22 January 1892. She married JOHNSON CHASE. Child of SARAH ROBERTS and JOHNSON CHASE is: 9. i. DELILA7 CHASE, b. 02 April 1843, PA; d. 04 June 1920, Sweden Hill, Potter Co., PA.
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- [S906] Henry H. Goodrich, Tioga Township and County, from Goodrich, Tioga Township and County (PA)... THE ROBERTS FAMILY.-.
from Goodrich, Tioga Township and County... THE ROBERTS FAMILY.--The next pioneers in order of settlement here were Peter Roberts and his sons - John, - Benjamin, - Peter and - Silas, and his daughters - Polly, - Rhoda, - Sally and - Betsey. Jacob Kiphart and his sister Betsey thought "him and his family the oldest settlers, but possibly Jesse Losey was--could not say positively." Hence between the claim of Jesse Losey and the doubt expressed by these two living witnesses his settlement is placed in 1792, and preceding that of the Mitchells by some months, and perhaps a year. It is supposed he came from the same State as did Jesse Losey, and had probably a Connecticut title; but, finding the valley lands in possession of Pennsylvanians by purchase, contended himself with a claim by occupancy. He settled on the stream, below Jesse Losey and at the foot of our present New Street, and built himself a comfortable log-house. He was a millwright and blacksmith; and his son Benjamin taught in his father's log house the first school of which Tioga has any record. A few years thereafter a school-house was built very near the spot where A.C. Bush's barn now stands, in which Benjamin also taught. The family was here as late as 1815--long enough for the father or his son Peter to build a saw-mill on Crooked Creek, at the foot of Bayer Hill, and where the third railroad bridge now crosses said stream. The family subsequently moved to some point unknown, but it is supposed to Genesee, and finally to Grand Rapids, Mich. Peter and John, the sons, returned. - Peter married Lydia Power, and the two brothers for some time carried on blacksmithing in a shop that stood in the rear of the present William Garretson house. They subsequently moved to Grand Rapids, where Peter at least died, and also his wife, leaving four children, who are now residents there. _____________________________
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TIOGA TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH.
By Henry H. Goodrich.
The task of writing a history of Tioga Township and Borough was accepted by the author as a duty which he, or some other person similarly situated, owed to his native place, and to that community with which he had identified as boy or man for many years, having even seen and known a good share of the earliest settlers of the township, who were still living in his boyhood. He has in the pursuit of his task, by careful and diligent inquiry of all the oldest remaining members of the families of early settlers, endeavored to collect as faithful a record of the early settlement of the township as the lapse of scores of years has permitted their memories to retain, either from personal experience or observation, or as tradition handed down from father to son. Conceiving that everything connected with the early settlement of the township would be a matter of the greatest interest to the present generation of its citizens, either young or old, as well as to the general reader and public at large--on account chiefly of that charm which age and antiquity always give to things associated with the past--he has taken the opportunity of visiting all the oldest persons living in the township, and going many miles for an interview with the gentleman reputed the oldest person living in the county. This aged man was for many years a resident of Tioga Township, and he and his sister are the only persons living whose settlement within its present limits dates back beyond the commencement of the present century; from him were obtained all the facts that he could recall to fix as definitely as possible the time of arrival and the location of the earliest settlers of the valley. He alludes to Jacob Kiphart, and his sister Betsey, widow of John Ives. Jacob was 102 years old the 20th of November 1881, and his sister Betsey was 97 years of age the 25th day of April 1882.
THE TREES OF TIOGA AND THE ORIGINAL FAUNA.
The forest flora of the township was originally so largely composed of pine and hemlock timber that the general features of the hills bore a distinctively alpine appearance, while they gave in summer a cool land in winter a warm aspect, and afforded to the valley protection from rough and strong winds. These two kinds of timber originally comprised at least one-half of the whole, the rest being white and black oak, soft and hard maple, ash, birch, beech, elm, chestnut, cherry, basswood, whitewood, dogwood, ironwood, and along the watercourses sycamore, willow, butternut, and some few English walnuts--the latter tree only found, so far as the writer knows, on a small area of the flat and hill of the De Pui farm. On the ridge extending from the point of Prutsman Hill toward Huckleberry Ridge the flowering locust tree also grows in considerable abundance, and it was once the favorite shade tree planted in the village. There they were mostly set by the hand of poor Solomon Daniels, and many of them remain to adorn the streets and are his only monument, his grave in the old cemetery lot being unmarked and indistinguishable.
Of the fine old orchards of forty and fifty years ago, such as those of Dr. William Willard, Ambrose Millard, John Prutsman, Rachel Berry, Jacob Prutsman, Elijah De Pui, Thomas and Richard Mitchell, Benjamin Bentley, Peter Adams and Stephen Losey, some portions still remain, though they have generally been replaced by others, and some of them entirely uprooted to give place to tobacco culture. Of the new orchards, that planted by Jabin S. Bush some fifteen or twenty years ago contains no less than 2,000 apple trees and 500 pear trees, and covers an area of some 30 acres. In extent, variety of fruit, and care and attention devoted to pruning and protection from injury, probably no orchard in the county excels it. The farm of the late Thomas J. Berry Jr. and that of Eleazer Seagers (once the farm of William Willard Jr.) have new and quite extensive orchards of choice varieties of fruit. Of old apple trees still remaining and bearing, a number standing in a group on the Elliott farm are said to have been planted by the Indians. A group of some fifteen trees, standing in a group on the Elliott farm are said to have been planted by the Indians. A group of some fifteen trees, standing on the old De Pui farm, near the race, and a short distance below its bulkhead, were planted by Nicholas Prutsman. Three trees on the Berry farm, below the mouth of Crook Creek, not far from the bank of the river, were planted, Jacob Kiphart says, by his father Jacob, not far from the year 1795 or 1796.
The Fauna of Tioga Township has consisted of the American elk, or wapiti, the Virginian or American deer, the black bear, the panther, the lynx, the wild cat, the gray or timber wolf, the gray and the red fox, the raccoon, beaver and many lesser animals. The elk long since disappeared from the county, but remained in the adjoining county of Potter until a comparatively recent period. Deer still remain, but are very few and extremely shy, only now and then one being killed, usually in violation of the statute made for their protection. A black bear made his appearance some years ago on the Elkhorn, Crooked Creek and Mill Creek, and remained some time before he was killed. Waldo Willard, about the year 1834 killed one near the marsh at the foot of Bayer(1) or Huckleberry Ridge. Wolves were plenty and very destructive to sheep up to the time of the establishment of the railroad, in 1840. The noise of the puffing locomotives, and the long belt of iron rail up the valley seemed to warn them that their accustomed haunts were no longer safe. Twenty-five sheep belonging to a flock owned by the writer's father, and ranging on the knolls now occupied by and adjacent to Evergreen cemetery, were killed in a single night by wolves about the year 1833. Three years later the writer heard a pack howl with fierce clamor on Indian hill; and still later saw one which had been caught in a trap, muzzled and tied, brought in on the shoulders of Harris and Norris Hotchkiss.
At the time of the first settlement in the valley, and even up to 1815 and 1820, the black bass frequented the Tioga and its chief tributaries, and shad were quite commonly seen in the spring. The introduction of dams at various points along the Tioga, and subsequently on the main branch of the Susquehanna, has impeded the ascent of these migratory fish into the upper waters of these two streams. The pickerel, perch, whitefish, chub, mullet, sucker and catfish are the common and permanent inhabitants of them, and until the recent introduction of large tanneries they afforded a never failing source of comparative success and sport to the angler. All the small streams of the township were supplied with an abundance of speckled trout, until by constant angling their numbers have become few. Game and fish, like the famous old hunters and fisherman, such as "Bear" Ames, Norris Hotchkiss, William K. Mitchell, Jesse Bentley and William Lowell have passed away, or at least dwindled into comparative insignificance.
EARLY LAND TRANSACTIONS.
The land within the present township of Tioga, with but few exceptions, was entered previous to the first settlement of it, or contemporaneous therewith, by capitalists in the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore. The first warrants were located May 17th 1785 along the valley of the Tioga, from below Mitchell's Creek to and above the mouth of Mill Creek. They were the Robert Crozier tract on the north, and the three Bartholomew and Patton tracts on the south, containing in all, according to the survey returns, 2,071/78 acres. These tracts were entered immediately after the purchase from the Six Nations, at Fort Stanwix, October 23rd 1784, of all the lands owned by the Indians from the Towanda and Tunkhannock Mountains, or "Smoky Hills" north, and west to the boundary of the State. The warrants subsequently passed into the hands of General Cadwallader, and from him to the Pennsylvania Bank, and the property was commonly called the "bank lands." John Norris, surveyor, of Wellsboro, became the agent for their sale to subsequent purchasers.
In April and December 1792 there were eight warrants laid in the eastern part of the township--four to Robert Gilmour, one to Richard Gilmour, one to George Harrison and two to William Lloyd, each containing about 1,100 acres, excepting one of 550 to Lloyd.
In the following year there were laid in the southern, western and northern parts of the township ten warrants--five to Thomas Willing, three to James Wilson and two to Robert Morris--the two latter being the most important, lying directly west of the central Bartholomew and Patton tracts, and within the limits of the valley. These two, through Judge Charles Huston of the supreme bench of the State, passed into the hands of William Willard Jr., and subsequently to Mrs. Parmentier, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
In 1794 there were laid four important warrants on the hills east of the valley, two to William Ellis and two to S.M. Fox; one to the south in the course of the river, including "the gap" and hills adjacent; and one on Huckleberry Ridge. These last two belonged to George Meade, and the latter of them passed also to Willard and Mrs. Parmentier.
The Jesse and Stephen Losey and James Kelso tracts, lying up the valley of the creek to the west, were entered in October and November 1802. In 1831 Elijah De Pui entered a tract adjoining his farm of 147¾ acres; J.W. Guernsey, for himself, James Goodrich and A.C. Bush, in the same year took a tract of 342½ acres, at the head of the Tim Ives run, and subsequently sold it to William E. Dodge, of New York. Later a tract of 65 acres was located by John Elliott; 73 acres by Samuel Westbrook; 27 by Thomas Baldwin; 89 by Calvin Hammond, and a tract by A. Crandall. Two tracts which have been passed over were entered by James Martin, one in May 1785, adjacent to Mitchell's Creek, and one in September 1794, lying to the east of the village of Tioga. A.C. Bush entered 81¾ acres in October 1836 to the west of and opposite John Daily's farm, which now includes it.
The Mitchells, the Iveses, Uriah Spencer, John Elliott, Benjamin Bentley, Nathan Niles, Dr. William Willard, and possibly John Gordon, all came here with Connecticut titles, and were obliged to surrender them by reason of previous sale of the lands of the township to purchasers chiefly of the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore. Uriah Spencer was a native of Guilford, Conn. He was the first postmaster in the county (being appointed for the office at Tioga in 1805) was one of the earliest commissioners of our county; was the second prothonotary appointed in it, and held the office for nine years; and was also register and recorder seven years. He had bought a township of land, six miles square, of the Hon. James Hillhouse, of New Haven, Conn.--subsequently a member of Congress--and in defense of his claim was arrested under the "intrusion act" of Pennsylvania and committed to jail at Williamsport.
On the south side of the State line, in addition to the early patents of land already mentioned as within the present bounds of Tioga township, and lying along and including both sides of the river, there were those of William Dewess, John Wall, Isaac Frank, Charles Marshall and John Patton, running from north to south, all entered May 17th 1785 and surveyed August 31st of the same year, except that of Dewess, surveyed May 10th 1792. These patents, with those previously named of the same date, made a continuous line of patents, extending south to and including the mouth of Mill Creek, and forestalled the purchase of the land by the actual settler from the State. His occupancy gave him only a recognized "claim" or "possessionary right" to purchase of the proprietor at the price fixed. These lands were undoubtedly recorded at Sunbury, the county seat of Northumberland, which continued to be the place of record for this district even for some time after the erection of Lycoming County, in 1795. Who may have surveyed these ten patents at the early date named seems to be a question of some doubt, even to such old surveyors as William Bache, David Heise, Henry S. Archer and E.P. Deane; but it is supposed to have been a Mr. Tucker. General James Potter was appointed deputy surveyor of "district No. 6 in the new purchase" (that is, the Indian purchase of 1784, preceding the date of the surveys only seven months) by Surveyor General John Lukens; and after his death, at the close of the year 1789, he was succeeded by his son James Potter, January 20th 1790.
It has been supposed by some that John Adlum, who surveyed the Bingham lands by contract, was never a surveyor; but it appears he was appointed by Surveyor General John Lukens, April 14th 1789, a deputy surveyor "to survey four reserved tracts of land, lying at Presque Isle, Fort Le Beauf, Fort Venango, etc.
The original entries of land in the valley of Tioga, at the earliest date previously mentioned, were subject to an act passed December 21st 1784, which fixed the price of all vacant lands at $30 per 100 acres , entered as near as possible in a square or oblong block, the length of which should not exceed thrice the breadth, in a tract of nor over 1,000 acres, with an allowance of 6 per cent, for roads, and a possible excess in addition not to exceed 10 per cent., to be paid for in gross amount. This act further recited that "the lines of purchase made from the Indians November 5th 1768, striking the west branch of the river Susquehanna at the mouth of Lycomick or Lycoming Creek, shall be the boundaries of the same purchase until the General Assembly shall regulate and declare the same; and every person or persons, or their legal representatives, who has or have heretofore settled on the north side of the west branch of the river Susquehanna, upon the Indian territory between Lycomick or Lycoming Creek on the east and Tyagaghton or Pine Creek on the west, before the year 1780, shall be allowed the right to pre-emption to their respective possessions at the price of $30 per 100 acres, the quantity of land not to exceed 300 acres, and the usual allowance of 6 per cent for roads; pre-emption to be made by the 1st of November 1785." By subsequent acts the time of pre-emption was extended to the 10th of April 1793. By act of April 3rd 1792 the price of all vacant lands within the limits of the purchase from the Indians made in the year 1768, and all preceding purchases, was fixed at 50 shillings for every 100 acres; of those parts of the purchase of 1784 lying east of the Allegheny River and Conawago Creek, at $5 per 100 acres; and of all other vacant lands within the State lying north and west of the rivers Ohio and Allegheny and Conawago Creek, at the rate of 7 10 shillings per 100 acres. By this same act it was provided that no direct taxes should be assessed or collected upon or from any of the lands or tenements lying north and west of the purchase made of the Indians in the year 1768, or the personal estate found thereon, for the space of ten years after the passage of the act.
A large emigration was attracted toward western New York from the southeastern counties of Pennsylvania, toward the close of the last century and at the commencement of the present one, by the opening of the Genesee Valley and neighboring regions to purchase and settlement; and this was instrumental in securing acts of the Legislature of Pennsylvania for the establishment of roads leading from the central settled portions of the State to the northern boundary line, and also for the improvement of the navigable highways of the upper waters and tributaries of the Susquehanna. By act of April 10th 1792 the governor was empowered to appoint commissioners for viewing and laying out a road from opposite Wilkes-Barre, on the west side of the Susquehanna, to Wyalusing or Meshoppen Creek; thence, crossing the river, to run northwesterly to intersect Ellicott's road at or near Tioga Point; and to appropriate for its construction 100. "Also for laying out a road from Loyalsock Creek, on the west branch of the Susquehanna, to the Tawanisco [Cowanesque] branch of Tioga, and to extend up to the 109th mile stone;" 100 was appropriated for this enterprise. This last provision, it will be seen is the foundation of the construction of the "Williamson road," commenced in the month of September of the same year, completed to Canoe Camp on the Tioga River by the following spring, and shortly thereafter to the State line at Lawrencevile, near the mouth of the Cowanesque branch of the Tioga. As $700 was appropriated by the governor for the construction of the Wilkes-Barre and Tioga Point road, and a subsequent grant of $600 was made to complete it, it is possible a larger sum was paid for the Loyalsock and "Tawanisco" road than that expressed in the act. Captain Charles Williamson, subsequently commissioned a general, agent for the Phelps and Gorham lands in western New York, was the contractor for the road, and the work was done under the supervision of Robert and Benjamin Patterson, two energetic and experienced pioneers. Robert married Rachel Boone, cousin to the celebrated Daniel Boone, of Kentucky fame. The beautiful tribute paid by Lord Byron, in the 60th to 67th stanzas of the eighth canto of "Don Juan," to Daniel Boone and his descendants, as exemplifying the health, vigor, longevity, freedom of spirit and simplicity of life that accompany the pioneer backwoodsman, would seem in a measure to be due to the Pattersons, not only on account of the relationship they might claim to that celebrated character, but from a similarity of vocation.
By act of April 8th 1799, "to open a more direct and better route to the Genesee Valley Country, the old road being in bad condition," the governor was "authorized to receive proposals for laying out and opening a road, not less than twenty feet wide, from the town of Newberry, in the county of Lycoming, to Morris's Mills; thence by the best and most direct route to the northeast corner of Strawbridge's Marsh, at or near thereto as may be; and thence by the nearest and best route to the 109th mile stone. The 80th mile stone is the northeast corner and the 115th the northwest corner of Tioga County. The 109th mile stone is at or near the crossing of the north branch of Troup's Creek, a tributary of the Cowanesque, and a short distance above Austinville, Brookfield township, in this county. John W. Guernsey informs the writer that this road when built was surveyed under the supervision and direction of Uriah Spencer, from the Strawbridge Marsh along the west and north bank of Crooked Creek, crossing the creek a mile west of the village of Tioga, and made to form a junction on the Tioga River with the Williamson road, by which it reached the 109th mile stone.
An account has already been given of the State boundary line survey. The 90th mile stone on the line stands in the village of Lawrenceville, between the Tioga and Cowanesque Rivers, near the east side of Main Street, and about ten rods north of Mill Street. On the map of the ninetieth mile survey, as returned by the commissioners, the course of the Tioga River is very definitely laid down, and conforms to that as mapped at the present day. On it the present Newtown Creek is designated as "Cayuga Creek." John Melish, on his map of Pennsylvania, published by authority of the State in 1825, designates the river as Tioga. The name Chemung, as at present applied to the Tioga River from the mouth of the Conhocton to its junction with the Susquehanna, has chiefly grown into use since about 1825 or 1830. The Indian signification of the word is said to be "Big Horn," and the name is used in commemoration of finding, at quite an early period, either in the stream of the Tioga or on its bank, eleven miles above Tioga Point, a large incurvated horn, six feet nine inches long, 21 inches in circumference at its base and 15 inches at its tip, with probably two or three feet lost at each end by decay. The existence of this horn was certainly known in 1795, and probably as early as 1778. The township of Chemung was one of the divisions of Tioga County, N.Y., at the former date, and had in 1796, by the State census; 81 electors; and in 1778 Colonel Adam Hubley, in two letters, one to the supreme council of Pennsylvania and one to Congress, dated at Sunbury October 8th, speaks of the "Chemung," but rather as a district or locality than as applied to the river. As evidence of this there is a letter of his of the following year, addressed to President Reed, dated at "Fort Sullivan, on Tioga Branch, August 24th 1779," only five days previous to the battle of Newtown Creek, and as one of the officers accompanying General Sullivan's expedition to the Genesee Country. He says: "Since the forming the junction [with General Clinton] the army has received orders to hold themselves in readiness to march on to-morrow morning. Since our arrival here we have erected a fort [Fort Sullivan]. A garrison of 250 men will be left during our excursion through the Seneca Country. My officers and men who were wounded in the action of the 13th, at Chemung, are all likely to do well."
THE WORD "TIOGA"--RELATIONS WITH THE INDIANS.
The term Tioga, as applied to the once very large district of old Tioga County, New York, also to the township of the whole northern part of the old county of Luzerne (extending from the boundary line south as far as Wyalusing), to the county of Tioga in Pennsylvania, and to the principal stream which flows through a large district of the country named, had its origin as early at least as 1749, and was frequently mentioned during the old French war of 1754-60, and that of the Revolution. Like most Indians names it went through quite a variety of spellings, as the judgment of the writer might best interpret its pronunciation to the ear; until at length, during the Revolution, it settled down to its present uniform orthography. The earliest written forms of the word are Diahoga, Diahoga, Diaoga, Tiaoga, Tayego, and Teogo; and once, in a letter of David Jameson to Edward Shippen, as early as October 13th 1756, it has its present spelling. As to the signification of the word various interpretations have been given. Laidlaw's dictionary gives it "How swift the current," and Webster's, following probably the same authority, "Swift current." An old tradition of our own township, forty years ago, made it mean "Sweet water;" and Josiah Emery, in one of a series of historical articles written for the Wellsboro Agitator in 1881, says it means "Head-water."
Notwithstanding the various interpretations of the word Tioga, the writer thinks he has obtained one from the most authentic and reliable source to be found in the State, that is much more probable and definite. It is furnished him through the courtesy of Lloyd P. Smith, librarian of the old "Library Company of Philadelphia," founded in 1731, to which was bequeathed by President James Logan his valuable and rare collection of old books and manuscripts, the most valuable probably in the United States. As provision was made in this bequest for the office of librarian of the Library Company to be held in perpetuity by some one of his descendants, it is supposed that Mr. Smith is one by a female branch. He has been librarian twenty years or more; is an author, a linguist, and a gentleman of extensive knowledge of books and literature, and a few years ago combined with the duties of librarian those of editor of Lippincott's Magazine. Mr. Smith says:
"According to Matthew S. Henry's manuscript dictionary, Tioga is an Irogquois word, and means 'Gate.' This is confirmed by the enclosed passage from Richel's Names of the Lenni-Lenape: 'Tioga (one of the tributaries of the Susquehanna, draining Tioga County), corrupted from Tioga, an Iroquois word, signifying a gate--a place of entrance. (Note.) This name was given by the Six Nations to the wedge of land lying within the forks of the Tioga and north branch of Susquehanna, in passing which streams the traveler entered their territory, as through a gate. The country south of the forks was Delaware Country. David Zeisberger, who traveled that way to Onondaga in 1750, tole me that at Tioga, or the Gate, Six Nation Indians were stationed for the purpose of ascertaining the character of all persons who crossed over into their country, and that whoever entered their territory by another way than through the gate, or by way of the Mohawk, was suspected by them of evil purposes, and treated as a spy or enemy."
Mr. Smith further says: "I have not [Governor] Seymour's lecture on New York names, but I think he mentions Tioga as one of the seven gates to the country of the Iroquois."
David Zeisberger, as appears by a letter written by him, under date of May 28th 1774, was a Moravian missionary at a place called Schoenbrunn.
The fact of the Indians of the Six Nations turning back other Indians and also white men from their Tioga gateway is confirmed by various authorities.
The Senecas occupied the whole western portion of the State of New York, and also western Pennsylvania, included in the treaty and purchase of 1784. In this sale, and those to Phelps and Gorham and Robert Morris, they reserved the right of hunting game within the limits of said districts; hence it was no unusual thing for the early settlers of our county to see within its limits, up even to the year 1830--though diminishing in number, and less frequently as the years advanced--small squads of these Indians, either on hunting expeditions, or passing through to visit friends and acquaintances in some other locality.
A party of Senecas, hunting on Pine Creek, had two of their number killed on the 27th of June 1790, by a Walker family of three sons, whose father had been killed by Indians; and they were aided in the murder by one Samuel Doyle. The Walkers were named respectively Benjamin, Henry and Joseph, and were aged 28, 25 and 23, and Doyle 27 years. Joseph Walker, the youngest of the brothers, had been chain bearer for the commissioners in running the New York and Pennsylvania boundary line. Robert Fleming, Colonel John Chatham, and twenty-five other inhabitants living on the west branch below the mouth of Pine Creek, apprehensive of an attack by the Indians in retaliation, wrote Lieutenant Hubley, in command of a military force at Northumberland, under date of the 10th of July 1790, saying that all the inhabitants for seventeen miles from the mouth of Pine Creek had fled their habitations for safety, and requesting that a force of thirty or forty men, properly armed and equipped, be sent to their defense and to aid them in securing their crops. This was not done; but a proclamation issued by President Mifflin, offering a reward for the arrest and bringing no justice of the murderers, was sent in place. The reason assigned by the Walkers for killing the two Indians was that one of them boasted of having taken twenty-three scalps, and that a woman was still living who was ready to testify that he had scalped her at the same time that John Walker, the father, was killed and scalped. Samuel Doyle was subsequently arrested and confined in the Lancaster Jail; was tried at Sunbury and acquitted, November 12th 1790, but held to bail in the sum of $200 for good behavior. Robert Fleming was one of the grand jury, and Benjamin Patterson of the petit jury, sitting on his trial. Robert Fleming, son of the one here spoken of, was a distinguished lawyer at the Lycoming bar up to about 1850 or 1855.
THE PIONEERS.
The honor of being the first pioneer settler in the valley of the Tioga south of the State line apparently lies between William Holden and Jesse Losey. Captain Buel Baldwin says that Colonel Eleazer Lindsey's settlement on his tract north of the State line preceded by some little time the construction of the Williamson road, as also did the settlement of William Holden on the south side. He remembers to have heard it stated that Colonel Lindsey purchased of the Phelps and Gorham tract a township (six miles square) south of the Erwin tract and north of the State line, and that he sold one-half of the same in New York City to John P. Ryers for the original price he paid for the whole; and that the settlement of himself and his son, the major, was on the 8th day of June, but the year he does not positively remember. As it appears by a letter of Tench Coxe which was written January 26th 1789, immediately after an interview with Mr. Gorham, than no lands of the Phelps and Gorham tract had been sold at that date bordering on the Pennsylvania line, Colonel Lindsey's settlement must necessarily have been between this period and the construction of the Williamson road, preceding the latter event "some little time." It may have been as early even as the spring of 1789, and it may not have been until 1791. William Holden's settlement is placed after Colonel Lindsey's, and may not have been until 1792. At this period Jesse Losey was certainly here, as he preceded the Robertses, and they had preceded the Mitchells who, there is very likely in 1792. The writer remembers very well the current report during the life of Jesse Losey (whom he had the opportunity of seeing often) that he was the first settler in the township of Tioga; but whether it was intended by this statement to include that of Lawrence he cannot say.
After Jesse Losey, in the order of settlement, came Peter Roberts and family, preceding the Mitchells, who came either in 1792 or 1793; next John Ives, and the four nephews Benajah, Timothy, John and Titus. A Mr. Carter and son, Job Squires, Asa Stiles, Stephen Losey, Rufus Adams and sons, and a Mr. Reed were all here in 1794; Jacob Kiphart and family the same year, or in 1795; Thomas Berry and family and probably George Prekay in 1796; Uriah Spencer, Nathan Niles and family and Cobin Van Camp and family in 1797; Dr. William Willard and family in February 1798, and Obadiah Inscho and family in the same year; Rev. Elijah Burley some time before the year 1800; John Elliott and family, Nicholas Prutsman, widow Boher and her daughter Eleanor in the same year, and John Gordon and family in 1800, 1802 or 1803; Major William Rathbone probably about the same period; Jacob Prutsman and family, and his brothers Nicholas and Adam, and Harris Hotchkiss in 1804; Benjamin Bentley and family in April 1806, Elijah De Pui and family about the same time, and Eleazer Baldwin and family the same year; Jams Matteson and James Dickinson before the year 1808, and Captain Lyman Adams on the 4th of July of that year; Ambrose Millard at Beecher's Island in 1810 and at Tioga the following year, and Ira McAllister at the same time; Gershom Wynkoop, Levi Vail, and a Mr. Youngman and wife before 1812; Allen Daniel Caulking, either at the close of 1812 or the beginning of 1813; Elijah Welsh, Timothy Brace, John Nichols and wife, and Aaron Gillette, here at the same period; John Daily at Beecher's Island in 1811, and at Tioga in 1813; Roland Hall about 1815; Ebenezer Ferry and his sons Charles and Chauncey, Samuel Tharp and John S. Allen before 1819; Captain James Goodrich and family in the spring of 1819; and Doctors Simeon and Pliny Power the same year.
The settlements here detailed, from that of Joseph Losey in 1791 or 1792 down to 1820, may properly be called those of the pioneer and primitive period; in which the greater portion of the valley lands extending through the township were purchased by the actual settlers, and were cleared up quite nearly as we see them to-day, and orchards planted, grist mills and saw-mills erected, two tanneries and one distillery, three public houses, two stores, schools and school-houses established, one church organized--the Baptist--roads very generally cut through, where since they have been enlarged and improved by county authority; and a very general transition from the old original log dwellings to those of the frame and clapboard style, usually a story and a half high, with a large chimney and fire place in the center, a medium sized cellar beneath, and either a porch attached or an alcove. Paint seemed to be too costly a material or the outside decoration of them, and its use was generally confined to the interior, and in many cases this even could not well be afforded. Enterprise had not been wanting, for most of the settlers were men of intelligence, and some of superior mind; full of health, vigor, spirit and energy for the prosecution of industries and the advancement of both public and private interests. They were men of true faith and courage too, confident of their ability to establish for themselves a competence, and leave to their children lasting and substantial benefits. He who can step into the depths of a primitive forest, look up at the dense and majestic woods around him, lay off his coat, seize his axe and ply it with a vigorous arm at the root of the giant trees, clear them away, and let in sunlight and civilization where once was only a wilderness, is indeed a hero, not only in heart and true manhood, but in the permanent benefaction that he gives to mankind.
TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
An act of April 3rd 1804--only seven days after the erection of the county itself--provided that the township of Tioga should be a separate election district, "and the electors thereof shall hold their elections at the house now occupied by Thomas Berry in said township." From this act it would appear that Tioga Township had been previously established by the court of quarter sessions of Lycoming County, and comprised the whole area of the newly created county, or was contemporaneously made so by that court to suit the purpose of a new election district.
By act of April 11th 1807 another election district was formed in Tioga County, it being enacted that the township of Delmar should be a separate election district, "and the electors thereof shall hold their general elections at the house of Joshua Emlin." Like the township of Tioga, Delmar was probably formed contemporaneously with the act, to suit the convenience of a new election district. By the division made Delmar comprised about three-fifths of the county territory on the west, and Tioga two-fifths on the east, the division line between the two being the extension of one drawn from near the mouth of Pine Run, on the west branch, to the 93rd mile stone of the boundary line. No further division of these townships took place until after a full organization of the county, and the establishment of the regular county court in 1813. In February and September 1815 Covington and Jackson townships were formed from Tioga, the former including the present township of Richmond, and all the southeaster part of the county, while Jackson (named probably after the famous hero of the then recent battle of New Orleans) comprised a good share of the present area of Rutland and the northeastern part of the county. Lawrence was formed in December 1816, by another subdivision of Tioga on the north, added to a small part of Elkland. Thus Tioga, from being the original township of the county, was soon subdivided and reduced to its present limits; but, like the little republic of San Marino, it still remains, and preserves at least the integrity of its name!
By act of February 3rd 1806 the register and recorder of Lycoming County was required to procure and keep a separate registration of deeds for Tioga and Potter Counties; and by act of March 21st 1808 provision was made for the election of three county commissioners, on the second Tuesday of October following, after which the duties of said officers for Lycoming should cease. In accordance with this provision Tioga began to assume control of its own county affairs at the close of 1808 and beginning of 1809. All other county officers were then appointed under the constitution of the State by the governor or county commissioners, except that the sheriff was elective. Nathan Niles was commissioned by Governor Thomas McKean, January 7th 1808, a justice of the peace for the county; this office was then regarded as one of much distinction, and many people came to see him take the requisite oath and be duly installed--a ceremony that was performed at his residence, on the spot where is now the home of John Daily.
(1) The term Bayer is sometimes applied to Huckleberry Ridge. Mr. Bayer is a son-in-law of Mrs. Parmentier, the owner of this ridge. He resides with her on Bridge Street, Brooklyn, and is one of the officers of the German Emigrants Savings Bank on Chambers street, New York. He long resided at Tioga as agent for the property.
Tioga Township & Borough Part One -- Part Two -- Part Three -- Part Four
TIOGA TOWNSHIP AND BOROUGH.
By Henry H. Goodrich.
SKETCHES OF THE SETTLERS.
JESSE LOSEY.--In giving brief biographical sketches of the early settlers, Jesse Losey is the first one to whom the attention of the writer is due. At the present day very little seems to be known of his ancestry and place of birth. He was born in New Jersey, or at least came from that State, and his name would seem to indicate German extraction. He enlisted in the continental service and claimed to have been at the battle of Bunker Hill (June 17th 1775); also to have been present at the execution of Major John Andre, at Tappan (October 2nd 1780). Hence he must have seen considerable and varied service in the war of that period. He came to Tioga, accompanied by his wife, in a canoe propelled up the river, either in 191 or 1792, and settled on the west bank of the stream, on what is now the H.E. Smith and son farm, formerly John Prutsman's. His first dwelling was of a temporary character, made of poles and covered with bark. Once a violent storm came up and blew it entirely down. After the construction of the Williamson road he built a better dwelling on the line of that road and moved into it. His wife subsequently died, and she was buried on a knoll a little to the north of the gate of the present grounds of P.S. Tuttle, and which is now occupied by the sidewalk. Jesse Losey subsequently sold his "claim" to Benajah Ives, and he and his brother Stephen Losey in 1802 located two warrants in the western part of the township; but that to Stephen never being fully paid up, a patent was issued for the same, June 27th 1873, to William A. and H.H. Goodrich, E.M. Smith and Edward Bayer. These properties were subsequently acquired by William Willard, and the brother moved into Middlebury Township. Jesse died March 12th 1844, aged 85 years, 5 months and 7 days, and is buried in the graveyard near the residence of Daniel Holiday, in that township. He left some descendants who are living there. The time and place of the death of Stephen are not known to the writer. Jesse was of rather small stature, uncouth in manner and in speech, and considerably inclined to the "ardent" habit, which at the period in which he lived was not an uncommon one, and did not much interfere with religious profession or church membership. It is believed he was a Baptist Church member, and was a Revolutionary pensioner. His original occupations were shoemaking and distilling, but he died a farmer.
THE ROBERTS FAMILY.--The next pioneers in order of settlement here were Peter Roberts and his sons John, Benjamin, Peter and Silas, and his daughters Polly, Rhoda, Sally and Betsey. Jacob Kiphart and his sister Betsey thought "him and his family the oldest settlers, but possibly Jesse Losey was--could not say positively." Hence between the claim of Jesse Losey and the doubt expressed by these two living witnesses his settlement is placed in 1792, and preceding that of the Mitchells by some months, and perhaps a year. It is supposed he came from the same State as did Jesse Losey, and had probably a Connecticut title; but, finding the valley lands in possession of Pennsylvanians by purchase, contended himself with a claim by occupancy. He settled on the stream, below Jesse Losey and at the foot of our present New Street, and built himself a comfortable log-house. He was a millwright and blacksmith; and his son Benjamin taught in his father's log house the first school of which Tioga has any record. A few years thereafter a school-house was built very near the spot where A.C. Bush's barn now stands, in which Benjamin also taught. The family was here as late as 1815--long enough for the father or his son Peter to build a saw-mill on Crooked Creek, at the foot of Bayer Hill, and where the third railroad bridge now crosses said stream. The family subsequently moved to some point unknown, but it is supposed to Genesee, and finally to Grand Rapids, Mich. Peter and John, the sons, returned. Peter married Lydia Power, and the two brothers for some time carried on blacksmithing in a shop that stood in the rear of the present William Garretson house. They subsequently moved to Grand Rapids, where Peter at least died, and also his wife, leaving four children, who are now residents there.
from Goodrich, Tioga Township and County (PA)...
THE ROBERTS FAMILY.--The next pioneers in order of settlement here were Peter Roberts and his sons
- John,
- Benjamin,
- Peter and
- Silas,
and his daughters
- Polly,
- Rhoda,
- Sally and
- Betsey.
Jacob Kiphart and his sister Betsey thought "him and his family the oldest settlers, but possibly Jesse Losey was--could not say positively." Hence between the claim of Jesse Losey and the doubt expressed by these two living witnesses his settlement is placed in 1792, and preceding that of the Mitchells by some months, and perhaps a year. It is supposed he came from the same State as did Jesse Losey, and had probably a Connecticut title; but, finding the valley lands in possession of Pennsylvanians by purchase, contended himself with a claim by occupancy.
He settled on the stream, below Jesse Losey and at the foot of our present New Street, and built himself a comfortable log-house.
He was a millwright and blacksmith;
and his son Benjamin taught in his father's log house the first school of which Tioga has any record.
A few years thereafter a school-house was built very near the spot where A.C. Bush's barn now stands, in which Benjamin also taught.
The family was here as late as 1815--long enough for the father or his son Peter to build a saw-mill on Crooked Creek, at the foot of Bayer Hill, and where the third railroad bridge now crosses said stream.
The family subsequently moved to some point unknown, but it is supposed to Genesee, and finally to Grand Rapids, Mich.
Peter and John, the sons, returned.
- Peter married Lydia Power, and the two brothers for some time carried on blacksmithing in a shop that stood in the rear of the present William Garretson house.
They subsequently moved to Grand Rapids, where Peter at least died, and also his wife, leaving four children, who are now residents there.
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THE MITCHELL FAMILY.--The next settlers were Thomas and Richard Mitchell, who came either in 1792 or 1793. Thomas B. Mitchell, brother to Senator John I. Mitchell, thinks his grandfather came in 1792 and before the construction of the Williamson road. At all events he was married August 15th 1792, and his eldest child, Edsall Mitchell, was born at Mitchell's Creek, Tioga Township, August 27th 1793, and was reputed to be the first white child born within the limits of Tioga County. The brothers came from Orange, N.J., and stopped one year in the present limits of Southport, Chemung County, removing the following year to Tioga as previously stated, by aid of a canoe up the channel of the Tioga River.
Richard was born July 5th 1769, and his wife, Ruby, October 4th 1771, and their marriage occurred when he was a little over 23 years of age; and as Thomas was the elder brother it is supposed they either came together or that Thomas came first. Jacob Kiphart says that Thomas came first. It has been said the brothers were for a while on the west branch of the Susquehanna, near Williamsport, before coming to the Chemung; if so it is supposed they had in some way an interest under the Connecticut title, as nearly all the settlers from the east or the New England States who had settled on that river came under that title, and many of them were there as early as 1773 and 1775. They both settled on the Crozier tract, entered by warrant May 17th 1785; and, as this land subsequently passed into the hands of General Cadwallader, of Philadelphia, thence into possession of the old Pennsylvania Bank of that city (for which proprietors Michael R. Tharp was first an agent, but subsequently John Norris, of Wellsboro), their titles it is supposed were secured to them through the channel named.
The three brothers, Thomas, Richard and Robert--the latter moving to Tioga about the year 1800--all occupied "claims" or "possessions" along the east bank of the Tioga, building log dwellings near to the stream. Thomas occupying the upper or southern side, Richard the middle, and Robert the lower or northern side. Thomas was a blacksmith by trade, and in a few years sold his place to either Rufus Adams or Samuel Westbrook, and removed to Dansville, N.Y. John Inscho, grandson of Richard, says there were two other brothers, who resided for a while at Mitchell's Creek, one James and the other John; the former settling subsequently at Chemung, and the latter at Johnstown, N.Y.
Richard and Robert were both farmers, and they very industriously improved their lands, and had good farms and homes at their death. Richard was born July 5th 1769, and died March 11th 1847; Ruby Keeney, his wife, was born October 4th 1771, and died August 14, 1843. Robert Mitchell was born on or about July 18th 1779, and died March 18th 1860; and his wife, Abigail Ives died September 25th 1856, aged 78 years.
The brothers were of rather more than ordinary stature, and strong, athletic, vigorous men. Robert was particularly noted for his ability as a wrestler, or in a rough-and-tumble combat, qualities that are common in pioneer life and give distinction to their possessor. At one time--as Buel Baldwin relates--one of the Sly boys of Southport, who had the reputation among his friends of being the best man in the way indicated, having heard of Robert's ability and becoming jealous of it, came up with a party to Mrs. Rachel Berry's Inn, and sent a challenge down to Robert. But Robert, like a sensible man, remained at home and paid no attention to it. After repeating the challenge and still receiving no reply, the second morning of their stay the Sly party went down early to Robert's house and found him at breakfast. Sending in word they requested him to come out after breakfast and see who was the "best man." "No," said Robert; "I'll come out now and settle that question, and eat my breakfast afterward." The question was settled in a few minutes, and Mr. Sly and his friends withdrew, a set of sadder but wiser men. At another time a similar incident occurred with one of the Joneses of Addison.
Richard Mitchell had children born as follows: Edsall, August 26th 1793; Lovina, wife of John Inscho, August 26th 1795; Nancy, October 2nd 1797, died young; Thomas, August 5th 1799; Richard Jr., July 7th 1801; William K., December 4th 1810.
Robert Mitchell had children--Thaddeus, born March 19th 1818, died March 18th 1874 (his wife was Amelia Towner); Parmenia, who is said to be still living, older probably than Thaddeus; and Abby, wife of William Butler.
Of Richard's children Edsall settled in Middlebury at an early day, and has several sons there living. Thomas K., who died August 28th 1861, had children Maryette, "Myra," Solon, Thomas B., John I., Jefferson and Rowena, all of whom are living except Solon, and the daughters are married respectively to William Sheardown, E.T. Bentley, Micajah La Bar and David Cameron. Thomas K.'s wife, who was Elizabeth Roe, is still living.
Richard Mitchell Jr., died February 23rd 1878; and his wife, Harriet M. Dartt, born October 30th 1810, died February 24th 1881. They had daughters Ency, Julia, Helen, Brittania, Anna, Jerusha and Sarah, and a son, Captain B.B. Mitchell, all married, respectively to F.J. Calkins, Joseph Guernsey, Captain Newton Calkins, Albert Westbrook, John Demerest, C.E. Corbin, Charles Boyden, and a Miss Pomeroy, of Troy, Pa. William K. Mitchell died September 13th 1870, and his wife, Jane E. Sheardown, September 17th 1880, aged 63 years. They had thirteen children, nine of whom are still living.
William K., the youngest of Richard Mitchell's sons, was noted for his fondness of the chase--deer shooting, and hunting with hounds. He always had a pack about him, and it was no uncommon thing to see and hear them on the East Hill and even see at times the deer before the hounds running through the streets of the village, up to about the time of the completion of the railroad in 1840. There used to stand on the land then of James Goodrich, very near the west end of the present bridge spanning the river at the Tioga railroad depot, a butternut tree, with a limb of convenient height for hanging and dressing deer; and so many of them were killed and dressed at this spot that the tree went by the designation of the "hanging tree." It has been gone many years, but a portion of the stump still remains. There were certain places along the river designated as "runways," where the deer before the hounds would seek the river, either to ford or follow the course of the stream some distance before leaving it, to mislead or throw the dogs off the scent. When deer became scarce in our township Mr. Mitchell was accustomed to go every fall, in the season allowed by law, either in the neighborhood of the Strawbridge Marsh, Marsh Creek, or Pine Creek, for a season of hunting, and was usually very successful. At his death he had an estate of wild and cultivated land of some 1,300 acres.
Of the sons of Thomas K. Mitchell there was one not previously mentioned--Sergeant Edsall D. Mitchell, who fell mortally wounded before Petersburg, April 2nd, and died April 3rd 1865, aged 30 years. He was married to a daughter of Deacon Calvin Reynolds. A daughter of Thomas K.--Ruby K.--died December 28th 1854, aged 21 years. Of the two sons of Thomas K. now living, one is Thomas B., living on Mitchell's Creek, about a mile east of the old homestead farm. He cultivates a farm of 100 acres. He married a daughter of John Boyd, and is at present one of the assistant assessors of the township.
His younger brother, John I. Mitchell, is a member of the bar, and one of the United States senators from Pennsylvania. He was born July 28th 1838, in the old, plain-fashioned brick mansion on his father's farm, erected in 1826, on a portion of the land settled by his grandfather Richard, and close to the original home. This brick house stood alone for over forty years, the only one of its kind in the township; and perhaps its singularity in this respect, as well as some rumor never well defined in the public mind, made it for many years a subject of curiosity and comment to those who passed by it. Senator Mitchell grew up at this old homestead, worked on the farm and attended the winter session of the public school. He was early noted for his studious habits and rapid advancement in his studies, and his father at length sent him to the Lewisburg University, Union County, this State, where he remained perhaps a couple of terms. He made here the acquaintance of Charles S. Wolfe, a fellow student, whose prominence in the politics of the State for several years past is well know. To this acquaintance, formed at school, and their association with each other in the Legislature of the State, is due the independent support that gave Mr. Mitchell his position of United States Senator. As Senator Mitchell's biography is more specially detailed in that part of this work devoted to members of the bar, it is only necessary to say here, in a general way, that he has represented this and Potter counties twice in the lower house of the Legislature of the State; and the sixteenth Congressional district twice in Congress, being elected before the close of the second term to his present position. The studious habits of his youth he has carried with him into middle life, and has a mind well stored with solid information, in the use of which he is regarded by the public as just anc correct. In the community where born he is esteemed and respected by all, and bears an integrity of character as an official that lifts him above reproach; for, though not extravagant in his expenditures, he has the reputation of being poor rather than brilliant. His first wife was Jeannette Baldwin, daughter of Captain Buel Baldwin, to whom he was married October 3rd 1860, and who died November 4th 1870. His second wife was a Miss Archer, of Wellsboro. He has children by his first wife, Herbert B., George D., and Clara A. The eldest son is now in Dakota Territory.
THE IVES FAMILY.--Next in order of settlement were the Iveses, who were here, according to Jacob Kiphart, before the arrival of his father and family, who came either in 1794 or 1795. Hence the Iveses were certainly here in the former year. They consisted of "Uncle John," as he was termed, and Benajah, Timothy, Titus and John, four brothers. They came from Bristol, Connecticut, and brought with them a Connecticut title, but the dangers accompanying the location of such a title at that time, either on the lower waters of the Tioga, or on the east branch of the Susquehanna, were too great to tempt them in that direction; hence they went to Southport, and stopped there one or two years before entering into Pennsylvania. Having heard through the Kenney and Mitchell families of the settlement on the upper Tioga, they moved into Pennsylvania, and settled further up the valley than the Mitchells, both above and below the claims of Peter Roberts and Jesse Losey, and (as had these two) upon the Bartholomew and Patton tracts--Timothy at the mouth of Mill Creek, John on the "Lyman Adams place," now the Miller farm; Benajah on the old Berry homestead, Titus probably with one of the brothers above, and "Uncle John" on the present Thomas J. Berry Jr. estate. They all subsequently, in one way and another, changed their locations. Timothy moved to the H.W. Caulking place, and John to the Henry Stevens place on Crooked Creek. Benajah, the first or second year of settlement, sold his interest in the upper half of his claim to Thomas Berry, reserving the lower half or John Prutsman place till 1819, when he traded it to Dr. Simeon Power for the northern half of the John Gordon farm, now that of Julius Tremain; and finally in 1829 or 1830 he moved on to the farm previously held by his brother John, or the Henry Stevens place, John having died and been buried in the graveyard close by the residence now occupied by Mrs. Dean Dutton and Jacob Westbrook. Uncle John's place, consisting of the present Berry estate, extending from Berry Street to the Crooked Creek ford, he lost by litigation with Uriah Spencer; in what way the writer does not know, unless his claim was purchased from "under him" by Spencer from the agent of the Pennsylvania Bank. Timothy also lost his property, a farm of 233 acres, through Uriah Spencer in a similar way, sold at sheriff's sale, February 13th 1826; this was the occasion of unsettling his mind and incapacitating him for business. He often wandered away from home, and the writer remembers seeing him once, dressed very much in the style or fashion of Barnaby Rudge, in the days of the Gorton riots, as described by Charles Dickens, very carefully pacing out and surveying, with a long staff in his hand, the land his uncle formerly owned, and placing here and there corner stones. Coming at length to the old frame school-house, at the bend of the road leading to the river, he put the entire school into sudden disorder and commotion by attempting with his staff to push off loose papers that had been pasted over some of the broken window panes. David Betts was then the teacher, and to calm the school he was obliged to step out and divert the poor many away. The family subsequently moved to Coudersport, Potter County, where Timothy finally became sane, and lived to quite an advanced age. Judge Timothy Ives Jr. of that county--and also treasurer of it in 1825 and 1826--a man highly esteemed and respected, was his son. A similar calamity in the end befell Uriah Spencer, occasioned by the loss of property, to that which was suffered by his victim Timothy. A small run in the southwest part of the township, emptying into Crooked Creek within the limits of Middlebury, is known as the "Tim Ives Run," in honor of Timothy above spoken of.
Titus Ives also moved to Potter County. Benajah was the father of Deborah, John, Michael, Lucinda, Barnabas, Benajah Jr., Sally, Caroline and Thomas; and his wife was Lucy Cady, of Bristol, Conn. Benajah died July 3rd 1841, at Keeneyville, aged 72 years, and was there buried beside his wife. Barnabas, the son, died in 1861, and was buried in Mill Creek cemetery. John, the husband of Betsey Kiphart (who is still living, aged over 97 years), died in April 1866, over 70 years of age. Caroline, the widow of John Farr, is the only descendant of the Iveses now living in the township, and she is the mother of Mrs. Lydia Ann Dimick, and of sons Lafayette and Albert. There was a son of Uncle John, called "John Ding"' the nephew was styled "Winking John," and the son of Benajah "Pork John." They were known so commonly by these appellations that they are here given. It may be mentioned, also, that Benajah Ives Sr. is said to have come to Tioga a year earlier than his brother, and stopped one year on the Elliott Flats before moving on to the Berry place. In 1826 and 1827 he was partner with Levi Vail in trade, and he was a justice of peace in Lawrenceville Township. Timothy Ives was county commissioner from 1812 to 1815, at a very important time in the early organization of the county. Titus Ives about 1826 or 1827 lived in a plank house below Crooked Creek ford.
THE CARTERS AND STILESES.--The exact time of the settlement of Mr. Carter and his son William, Jon Squires, Asa Stiles and a Mr. Reed is not known, but they were here in 1794 or 1795. Carter and his son lived on the narrow flat above Big Hill, Job Squires below the Adams place, Asa Stiles on the Van Camp place, and Mr. Reed on the Elliott place. All these persons except Asa Stiles seem to have had but a temporary residence, for they are soon lost sight of, and their places not long after were occupied by others. Asa Stiles is thought to have been the father of Elijah Stiles. The latter was elected sheriff in 1821, and county commissioner in 1826; was a merchant in 1825 and 1826, at Tioga, in partnership with Chris. Charles, son-in-law of Asa Mann; and occupied the "old red store" built by William Willard Jr. On the election of Elijah as county commissioner the firm of Stiles & Charles seems to have been discontinued, and they were succeeded by Vail, Ives & Co. in February or March 1827. Stiles was a bachelor, and after his three years' service as commissioner he soon disappeared from Tioga.
THE ADAMS FAMILY.--Rufus Adams, who was the father of Isaac and Peter Adams, sold a portion of his claim to Benjamin Bentley, reserving part on the north which was occupied by Isaac and Peter up to at least 1830, when Isaac sold to Samuel Westbrook. Peter married a Keeney, and Isaac, it is believed, married a Stevens or a Miss Porter, sister of John Porter, who combined the anomalous trades of blacksmithing and dentistry, and was in business in the former, in copartnership with James Daniels, in a shop on the ground of the H.E. Smith dwelling, about 1827. Isaac Adams, it is believed, manufactured the first brick in the township, and he was also a tanner. In 1825 he was administrator for the estate of Michael Smith. Rufus, the father, died here, and was buried in the "Bentley cemetery." Peter Jr. removed about 1830 to Michigan.
JACOB KIPHART the elder and his family moved from Lycoming Creek, a mile and a half above Williamsport, or "Jimmy Thompson's Tavery," by way of the Williamson Road, either the first or second year after its construction, placing the time at 1794 or 1795, and settled on what has ever since been known as the "Kiphart place," lying below the mouth of Crooked Creek, and along the west bank of the river. Jacob the younger, now in his 103rd year, says he was born at Pine Grove, Berks County, Pa., and when he was five years old his father and family removed to Buffalo Valley, Northumberland County, thence, after three or four years, to Lycoming Creek, and finally to Tioga. His birthday, according to his reckoning, was the 20th of November 1779; and his sister Betsey, who claims that her age was 97 years the 25th day of April last, says there was six years' difference in their ages, and that the family had moved from Pine Creek to Buffalo Creek before her birth. There is a correspondence of statement here that makes it seem probable they are correct in their statements as to age. The father built a log house, about two rods from the river bank, at the place above mentioned. Three apple trees, which the father and son planted a little west of the house, are still standing, and appear to be vigorous, and likely to remain a long time to come.
Jacob, the son, built a very good frame and clipboard house a little after the commencement of the present century, on the west side of the main road, due west from the log house of his father, and in front of it he planted two Lombardy poplars, one of which is still standing. The house has been gone twenty years or more. Jacob Kiphart the elder, as the son says, "was a raw Dutchman of Pennsylvania stock;" and the mother, as the daughter Betsey informs us, was Anna Maria Grove. She was an accoucheuse, and at that early period, with no local physicians at Tioga, her services were very useful and often required. Captain Baldwin says she served in that capacity in his father's family, though their residence was near Lawrenceville. The father of Jacob died about 1813 and the mother 1815, and both are buried in the "Berry burying ground." Mrs. Kiphart was present at Nathan Daily's birth, March 19th 1815.
Jacob Kiphart Jr. married Huldah Bryant, who is still living, though at the age of 82 years, the 14th of September last. Of the sisters of Jacob, Betsey married John Ives--"Pork John"--who was her third husband, her first one being a Blanchard. Polly married a Crippin, who was drowned in the river below the village, and she subsequently married an Abbott. Jacob continued to live at Tioga up to about 1838 or 1840, when he removed to Middlebury Township. He had children Mary, Richard, Maria, Jacob, Elizabeth, Sarah, Andrew and Clara. On the 22nd of April 1882 the writer made a special journey to find somewhere in Covington Township the father and mother's place of residence with the last named daughter, Mrs. Clara Frost. He found them living in a new and very comfortable dwelling, built on a bench of land some twenty feet above the road and to the west of it, near to the ruins of the burned brewery, a mile north of Blossburg village. He found the aged couple sitting by a comfortable parlor stove, in a carpeted, tidy, pleasant room, and though he had not seen Jacob for at least 35 years he readily recognized him both by figure and voice. Though much bowed and bent over, yet there was a roundness and fullness of body and a glow of countenance that seemed to indicate considerable vitality of system and the possibility of his living yet quite a number of years. His hearing was excellent, but his eyesight dim; his memory was quite clear for so aged a man. He talked about the old inhabitants of Tioga with much apparent distinctness and vividness of recollection, as though it was but a few years ago that he was there. His wife, Huldah, though twenty years his junior, Mrs. Frost said, is much feebler in health than he.
As we have the definite time of settlement, or approximately so, of persons who preceded and followed the coming of Jacob Kiphart and family; and the present Jacob's and his sister Betsey's statements as to the time of their own coming, and as to who were
- [S1703] FaceBook- ?Herbstritt-Snyder-Essex-Figg-Davey-Chase-Dunn-Ellison Family Descendants, Larry Herbstritt shared a post.Admin · May 8 2020 ?Caroline Powers? to Adopt A Senior Coudersport May 7 2020 Adopted Travis James Rick Gleason.
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Because of the COVID 19 pandemic, the high school graduates of 2020 are experiencing a uniquely disappointing year. One of our relatives, Travis Gleason, is one of these Coudersport High School graduates. In an effort to help to make their final days as students of Coudersport High School, this FaceBook site, that I'm sharing here, was created to shine an Internet spotlight on these unfortunate students who had no prom, no last days in the classrooms with their teachers and classmates, no track and field or baseball events. There are so many "no"s for these students. This is a family tree salute to Travis Gleason, son of
Terry Gleason and Joanne Johnson Gleason, grandson of
James & Evelyn Gross Johnson, great grandson of
Raymond Leroy & Margaret Freeman Gross, great great grandson of
Milo Stanley Freeman & Martha Edna Snyder, great great great grandson of
Stephen D Snyder & Margaret Dunn, great great great great grandson of
David R Snyder & Laura Ann Chase and Michael Dunn & Sarah Ellison, great great great great great grandson of
Johnson Chase & Sarah Roberts
Travis is also the great great great grandson of
Emma Viola Roberts & John E Freeman, great great great great grandson of
John Del Roberts & Mary Ann Hoxsie, great great great great great grandson of
Samuel & Elizabeth Hicks Roberts.
Travis Gleason is also the great great grandson of
Edward Lee Gross & Mae H Neefe, great great great grandson of
Charles A Neefe & Susan Blanche Furman
I add this last branch of Travis's family tree because he shares these ancestors with my son, Matthew Tyson Herbstritt and daughter, Joni Michelle Herbstritt.
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?Caroline Powers? to Adopt A Senior Coudersport
May 7 2020 at 1:58 PM
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Travis James Rick Gleason
Parents: Terry and Joanne Gleason
Future Plans: Attend Penn State Mont Alto to major in Forestry and he has also been recruited to their basketball team
Hobbies: Sports of course (football and basketball), snowmobiling, 4-wheeling, hunting, working on the farm, hanging out with his friends
Loves Penn State football and the L.A. Lakers
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I’ll adopt Travis!!
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Caroline Powers
Stephanie Gross-Carpenter adopted Travis as well.
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April Stuckey I will adopt Travis
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Nicole Fantaskey Popchak I thoroughly enjoyed watching this natural athlete perform! ????
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Tammy Setzer I will adopt Travis as well!
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Larry Herbstritt
I will adopt Travis. I've been impressed by his athletic abilities in spite of the injuries that he's had to overcome. And I'm happy he's interested in Forestry and Penn State! I also feel a deeper connection because, though he probably doesn't know it, we share many common ancestors.
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Andy Kulp
This is so sad to see...I haven't had the honor of watching him play at the sports he loves but I did literally get to see him grow up year after year when I setup at his Mother's yearly Open House...every year the kid grew a foot I think...Congratulations Travis...
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My great uncle, Walter Mosch, was in the first Forestry class of Mont Alto back in about 1916. After he graduated, the US Army recruited him into the Forestry division to timber the Napoleon Bonaparte forest in France.
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Diana Spink
My daughter, Jalyn Packer is another 2020 graduate that has missed out too. So sad for our kiddos!????
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- [S895] FaceBook- Larry Herbstritt.
Hey John, Here's how my lineage goes on the Snyder side: My mom - Dorothy Snyder My grandfather - Lawrence David Snyder My great grandfather - Ford Snyder; My 2nd great grandfather - David Snyder; he was married to Laura Chase My 3rd great grandfather - Solomon Snyder married to Hannah Stein Laura Chase's parents were Johnson Chase married to Sarah Roberts Sarah Roberts' parents were Samuel Roberts married to Elizabeth Hicks It's the Elizabeth Hicks lineage that leads back to the Billingtons on my family tree. I'll sort this out later today. Do you use genealogy software? I use FAmily Tree Maker by Ancestry.com and did the FTDNA, which I just got for my whole family, literally swabbing last night. Thanks for your lineage, I'll lay mine out for you later. I started with 23andMe and discovered by DNA composition, which was a bit of a surprise, with some Jewish ancestry. That made me very curious, so I got an account with Ancestry.com to see if I could find who the Jews were in my family tree. I'm still trying to solve that puzzle but in the process discovered way more about my ancestors than I ever imagined possible
Hey John,
Here's how my lineage goes on the Snyder side:
My mom - Dorothy Snyder
My grandfather - Lawrence David Snyder
My great grandfather - Ford Snyder;
My 2nd great grandfather - David Snyder; he was married to Laura Chase
My 3rd great grandfather - Solomon Snyder married to Hannah Stein
Laura Chase's parents were Johnson Chase married to Sarah Roberts
Sarah Roberts' parents were Samuel Roberts married to Elizabeth Hicks
It's the Elizabeth Hicks lineage that leads back to the Billingtons on my family tree.
I'll sort this out later today.
Do you use genealogy software?
I use FAmily Tree Maker by Ancestry.com and did the FTDNA, which I just got for my whole family, literally swabbing last night.
Thanks for your lineage, I'll lay mine out for you later.
I started with 23andMe and discovered by DNA composition, which was a bit of a surprise, with some Jewish ancestry.
That made me very curious, so I got an account with Ancestry.com to see if I could find who the Jews were in my family tree.
I'm still trying to solve that puzzle but in the process discovered way more about my ancestors than I ever imagined possible
- [S895] FaceBook- Larry Herbstritt.
Going in reverse, from me to Francis Billington:
Me
My mother- Dorothy Snyder Herbstritt
My grandfather - Lawrence Snyder
My great grandfather - Ford Snyder
Ford's parents - David Snyder m. Laura Chase
Laura's parents - Johnson Chase m. Sarah Roberts (from Springwater, Livingston Co., NY)
Sarah's parents - Samuel Roberts m. Elizabeth Hicks
Elizabeth's parents - Otis Hicks m. Elizabeth Dunham
Otis's parents - Aaron Hicks m. Elizabeth Briggs
Aaron's parents - Benjamin Hicks m. Sarah Kingsley
Sarah's parents - John Kingsley Sr m. Sarah Sabin
Sarah's parents - Samuel Sabin m. Mary Billington
Mary's parents - Francis Billington m. Christian Penn (she was married to a guy named Francis Eaton, who was a passenger on the Mayflower and then died) I guess she liked the name "Francis"
I believe Christian was descendant of the same Penn whose other descendant owned Pennsylvania.
I just noticed that I skipped one set of parents.
The parents of Aaron Hicks was - Benjamin Hicks m. Anne Ormsby
(Benjamin's parents - Ephraim Hicks m. Sarah Kingsley)
then from Sarah Kingsley on it's the same as I have it above
I haven't explored too far beyond on this lineage, but I wouldn't be surprised to find the that the Kingsley lineage leads back to the Plantagenet family line
Yes, I did that, and it does!
Some dropped the 'g' along the way, over a dispute with the king.
- [S1781] Facebook, Larry Herbstritt.
Hey John, Here's how my lineage goes on the Snyder side: My mom - Dorothy Snyder My grandfather - Lawrence David Snyder My great grandfather - Ford Snyder; My 2nd great grandfather - David Snyder; he was married to Laura Chase My 3rd great grandfather - Solomon Snyder married to Hannah Stein Laura Chase's parents were Johnson Chase married to Sarah Roberts Sarah Roberts' parents were Samuel Roberts married to Elizabeth Hicks It's the Elizabeth Hicks lineage that leads back to the Billingtons on my family tree. I'll sort this out later today. Do you use genealogy software? I use FAmily Tree Maker by Ancestry.com and did the FTDNA, which I just got for my whole family, literally swabbing last night. Thanks for your lineage, I'll lay mine out for you later. I started with 23andMe and discovered by DNA composition, which was a bit of a surprise, with some Jewish ancestry. That made me very curious, so I got an account with Ancestry.com to see if I could find who the Jews were in my family tree. I'm still trying to solve that puzzle but in the process discovered way more about my ancestors than I ever imagined possible
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- [S1082] Early History of the Town of Springwater New York, (Name: Access Genealogy;).
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Early History of the Town of Springwater New York
Springwater Livingston County New York
The first settlers in this part of the town were in what was then called “Hemlock Valley.” Seth Knowles came from Massachusetts in the spring of 1805, and took and lived on what is now called the “Gibbs ” farm in the town of Pittstown, now Livonia. The year 1806 was one of extreme drought in that town and the region north, but south around the lakes showers were of frequent occurrence, and after harvest, Seth Knowles, his son Jared and his brother-in-law, Peter Welch, with guns, axes and provisions followed the old Indian trail, over Ball Hill to the town of Middletown, now Springwater. Before they returned, they built the body of a log house on the farm owned by the Rev. T. J. 0. Woodin at his decease, and on the last day of March, 1807, Seth Knowles and his family came up the hemlock lake on the ice and took possession of the cabin mentioned. His house was situated on the west side of the present road near the watering trough on the east, and his garden was north of the house. He cleared some eight acres on the flat, back of his house, set out some elecampane, and traded his interest there in 1821, with David Jolatt for the farm on which the St James Hotel now stands on the east side of Hemlock lake, where in after years he died. Jolatt lived on the place until he was undermined by David Phillips in 1826, when he moved to the Elisha Bailey farm and then to a house on the east side of the road on the present farm of S. W. Wheaton, where his wife died soon after. His children were Montreville, Sally, Patty, Miner, Henrietta, who with their father went to Campbelltown, Steuben county. Jolatt came from Centerville, Allegany county, where he settled in 1809, to the St. James farm. Phillips staid 2 years and sold to William Jenkins. Jenkins was here 2or 3years and sold to Ira Jackman, and in 1835 sold to Ira Gilbert. ‘The children of David Phillips were Miranda, Truman, Thomas A., Nancy, and Electra. Minerva lives in Mahaska county, Iowa, and the others are with their mother in Holt county, Nebraska. Phillips married Charlotte Gilbert, Reuben Jr.’s oldest daughter The children of Seth Knowles were Seth, Daniel, Jared, Clark, Sybil, Lydia, Jonathan, Ruth, Mercy, Polly, Willard and Roswell. Willard was born September 9, 1809, and was the first white child born in this hollow, and second in town. Willard is living in Palaska, Michigan. Seth Knowles built a house nearly on the site of the present house on the premises, lived there awhile and went to Ball Hill in Canadice. John Nixon built the present house and died there. Rev. A. B. Green, John Jennings and the late Rev. T. J. 0. Woodin have been later owners. The account of the advent of Knowles into Middletown published in the last History of Livingston county, and credited to Rev. William Hunter, was copied almost “verbatim” from the Ontario county Times of April 5th, 1876, written by us, and supposed to be correct, but later investigations prove be was not the first settler in town. Simple justice to all parties requires this statement. The farm next in order in this immediate vicinity is the ” Gilbert “farm. The Gilberts came from Brookfield, Massachusetts, where Reuben Sr. was born August 18th, 1756, in an early day to Bristol, Ontario county. In the spring of 1809 Rueben Gilbert Jr. came from Bristol with his brother-in-law David Badgero via Honeoye to Livonia, and in canoes or Indian “dugouts’ up the Hemlock Lake. They built a log house on the west side of the road nearly on the spot where Thomas Reynolds now lives where Badgero lived until he could build another just across the line in the town of Pittstown now Canadice. In the fall of that year Gilbert returned to Bristol and brought his family to the house first erected. The next year his brother Phinehas came and took the south half of the same lot, and built a log house nearly on the same ground where stands the house in which William Norton now resides. Araunah. another brother, came in 1817, and Jones a brother to Reuben Sr. and family in March 1818. Reuben Sr. in the fall of 1817 put up the frame of the old house now standing, and when he arrived the next spring, Phinehas wishing to sell out, Reuben Sr. bought him out and moved there, and Reuben Jr. finished the house, the frame of which was already erected, and moved into that. Jones when he arrived erected another house on the west side of the road where the brook now runs, and lived there till October 1839, and then went to Ohio. David Phillips lived in that house afterwards. Phillips went to Livonia, to Ohio and to Iowa where he died In 1871. He was a soldier of 1812. Reuben Sr. lived with Ida, son Araunah on the place he bought of Phinehas until his death July 20th, 1840. Araunak built the present house, and sold in 1855 to Dr. John B. Norton and went to Michigan where he now resides. Reuben Jr. lived on his place thirty-five years, sold out to H. S. Tyler and went to Ohio and to Iowa where he died. The children of Reuben Sr. were Polly, Sally, Betsey, Phinehas, Reuben, Abner W. and Araunah. Polly died on Ball Hill, Sally at Pataskala, Ohio, aged 95 years, Betsey at Rushville, Phinehas went to Kentucky as we have said, and after a residence there of fifteen years, went to Ohio and to Iowa where he died, and Abner died in Richmond. His widow is living In town. The children of Rueben Jr. were Charlotte, Lydia, Catharine, Philander, Lucinda, Olive, Ann, Reuben, Caroline and Sally. Catharine went to Ohio, and to Missouri, Philander, Ollye, Lucinda, and Reuben went to Ohio, and Lucinda afterward went to Iowa. Ann’s last husband was the late Thomas Truxton Dyer of this town. The children of Phinehas were Minerra, Loreuzo, Riley and Franklin. Minerva went to Ohio, Lorenxo to Oregon, Ililey to Iowa, and Franklin died in Ohio. Araunah’s children are Almira and Alonso, both of whom are living in Michigan. Reuben Badgero was born across the line March 2nd,1810, and Catherine Gilbert September 16 of the same year, making the first “little strangers “in that group of settlers.
Another house was built by Philander on the east side of the road south of the butternut tree. It was taken down and made the frame of the house on the farm of late Endress Tucker in Canadice. In 1811 John Alger, Phinehas and Reuben Gilbert erected the sawmill there each owning an equal part therein. It did a good business for a long term of years. John Alger was a settler in West Bloomfield in 1790, was a soldier of 1812 from that town, and so badly wounded that he was incapacitated for farm labor. He built a saw mill on the farm of Lorenzo Ingraham near the head of Canadice lake in the winter of 1809 and ’10 and owing to a badly constructed floom, it failed to do good work. He sold the premises, reserved the mill irons &c. and removed them to the mill aforesaid. He sold his interests in the mill to Reuben Gilbert in 1814. He died in Bloomfield in 1819.
In 1828 the large, red shop was built, which after a number of years was taken down and removed to West Hill by Christopher Osgood, a distillery was erected by Ira Gilbert, a son of Jones which ran five or six years, a cider mill put in an appearance, and Francis Badgero quarried stone and sawed them to any shape required, making in fact a very busy place. While Araunah owned the place he sold a piece of the land to his brother-in-law, the Rev. A. B. Green who built the house Josiah Norton now lives in. Spaulding Shepard owned the place for a number of years, and sold to Daniel Norton, father to the present occupant. While Green lived here he carried on the business of turning and rake making in the gully on the farm. The Gilberts cleared many acres of pine timber, erected scores of buildings for the country roundabouts, and for quality of work, promptness and honesty in deal, they left a good name. Some of the best frames in these parts were put up long years ago by Arsunah. From the records of Naples, we find that Reuben Gilbert was Inspector of schools in 1818, and pathmaster and fence viewer in 1815, and Phinehas was also Inspector of schools in 1814, and we also copy from the records of the said town that the first school district organized in the western part of the town was, Fifth School District in Naples is to take in all the Hemlock settlement, so called, May 30th, 1813.
Early History of the Town of Springwater New York Biographies
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Early History of the Town of Springwater New York
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Early History of the Town of Springwater New York
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