Annals and family records of Winchester, Conn.: with exercises of the centennial celebration, on the 16th and 17th days of August, 1871, Part 11

Author: Boyd, John
Publication date: 1873
Publisher: Hartford : Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard
Number of Pages: 724


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baptism. "He could build a house, a cart, or a plough, or any other article of wood and iron. He worked all day at the anvil, or on his land, and journeyed two-thirds of the nights. At length he pulled up stakes and moved to the German Flats to grow hemp."


LEVI BROWNSON, second son of Ozias, Senior (known as Levi Bronson, second), owned, and occupied until his death, an extensive farm near the southeast corner of Norfolk, living in the red house near the Norfolk line. He was a hard-working, wealthy farmer. He married, October 25, 1792, Mary Benedict, daughter of Benjamin Benedict, Sen. She died March 9, 1824, aged 51. He married (second), November 14, 1824, Widow Clarissa L. (Higley) Morgan, who died September 14, 1827, aged 50. He died October 16, 1846, aged 81.


CHILDREN.


I. URIEL B. b. May 6, 1796 ; m. May 13, 1823, Clarissa Lawrence.


II. ALMA, b. July 4, 1798 ; m. March 14, 1825, Russell Cowdry.


III. HULDAH, b. June 4, 1800 ; m. May 2, 1826, Chester Humphrey.


IV. SALIMA, b. March 31, 1802 ; m. - Stevens of Coventry, N. Y.


V. MARY, b. April 8, 1804; m. October 20, 1827, Seth Benedict of Coventry, N. Y.


VI. LEVI, b. February 4, 1806 ; m. May 2, 1826, Susan Morgan.


VII. LYMAN, b. December 23, 1808 ; m. May 3, 1836, Jerusha Wright.


VIII. LUCY, b. August 29, 1811 ; m. April 11, 1833, David R. Barnes.


IX. FREDERICK, b. July 2, 1815.


X. ASAHEL HERVEY, b. June 16, 1817.


SALMON BROWNSON, third son of Colonel Ozias, lived and died on the farm now or lately owned by his son, Luther Bronson. "He was in- dustrious, frugal, honest, moral and steadfast. His religion was some- thing more than profession." He married, November 3, 1800, Mercy Wheadon. He died February 18, 1832, aged 64.


CHILDREN.


I. GALPIN PECK, b. May 13, 1802 ; had wife, Freelove L., and a daughter, Lucretia Wheadon, b. June 22, 1830.


II. SALOME WHEADON, b. Jan. 17, 1804.


III. PAMELIA R., b. Feb. 28, 1807; d. unmarried, 1871.


IV. CHARITY, b. Oct. 28, 1809; m. March 6, 1827, Samuel C. Ford, Waterbury.


V. CLARINA, b. April 19, 1812 ; m. September 9, 1833, Chas. Bently, N. Stonington.


VI. ELECTA, b. Jan. 28, 1816 i VII. LUTHER, b. Feb. 6, 1821.


ASAHEL BROWNSON, fourth son of Colonel Ozias, lived and died in the house on Blue Street, lately occupied by Archibald Dayton, now de-


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ceased, who married his widow. He was a retiring, laborious and suc- cessful farmer. He married, July 26, 1824, Lophelia Richardson, and died childless, October 13, of the same year, aged 54.


ABIJAH PECK BROWNSON, fifth son of Colonel Ozias, lived on Brooks Street, north of Nelson T. Loomis, until his removal to Vernon, New York, about 1800. "He was the Anak of the family : - a man of pleasant temperament, and brim-full of courage and fortitude." Many a strong wild colt did he shoe ; many a wild steer did he yoke, - and many a time did he bind his neighbor, John Lucas, a respectable man, but strong and occasionally crazy. Soon after his marriage (November 16, 1797, to Mary, daughter of Hewitt Hills), he removed to Oneida County, New York, where, at middle age, he died, less successful than his brothers in the acquisition of property.


ISAAC BRONSON,* youngest son of Colonel Ozias, and the only one born in the town, built and resided until his death, in the house at the center now owned by his son, Theron. He was the largest land owner in the town. He was also a trader for many years, and a large dealer in dairy pro- ducts from his own farms and purchased from others. He was a prom- inent and influential man in the town, - a Justice of the Peace, and three times a Representative to the General Assembly. Having di- vided up his large estate among his children, he died January 13, 1849, aged 74. He married, September 18, 1800, Eliza, daughter of Hewitt Hills.


CHILDREN.


I. BIRDSEY, b. June 16, 1801; m. Nov. 7, 1826, Elizabeth Garret Beebe, daughter of Hon. James Beebe. He owned and occupied the house at the corner of the Norfolk road and Waterbury turnpike, until his re- moval to New London, where both he and his wife died not far from 1840. Children :


1. William B., b. May 10, 1829; m. Sept. 23, 1858, Katie McAlpine.


2. Ellen Elizabeth, b. May 16, 1833; m. Jan. 29, 1855, Dr. L. P. Woods. She m. (2d), March 7, 1867, Oscar F. Potter, of Des- moines, Iowa.


II. ELIZA, b. Dec. 19, 1802; m. Jan. 14, 1834, Calvary Wetmore.


III. NEWBURY, b. April 13, 1804.


IV. EMELINE,


b. Feb. 19, 1806; d. July 27, 1806.


V. ORPHA, b. June 30, 1807; m. June 10, 1851, Jas. Reynolds, Esq., of Orange, Ct.


VI. THERON,


b. March 20, 1809 ; m. - Maria Munsill.


VII. LOUISA, b. Nov. 28, 1810.


* The "w" was retained in the name of the Winchester Brownsons, until after 1810; by some of them, as appears by their recorded deeds, as late as 1825.


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VIII. DELIA, b. Dec. 25, 1812; d. Dec. 26, 1816.


IX. EDWIN, b. Feb. 2, 1815 ; d. Jan. 8, 1817.


X. ABIGAIL,


b. Dec. 13, 1817.


XI. ISAAC A., b. June 16, 1820; m. Nov. 4, 1845, Susan R. Nash.


LoIs, daughter of Colonel Ozias Brownson, married, December, 9, 1779, Seth Wetmore, and in advanced life, Major Benoni Bronson.


The family of Bronson, once the most numerous, with one exception, in the town, has but few representatives remaining. But two of the third generation (Theron and Isaac A.) bearing the name are now resi- dents.


ENSIGN JOSEPH FRISBIE, from Torrington, first lived on Lot 6, in the southwest corner of the town, and afterwards, in 1782, removed to a lot opposite the original meeting house, with a saw-mill thereon, probably erected by him. He removed to Vernon, New York, about 1800. He married, October 7, 1767, Sarah Kelsey ; she died May 25, 1783, and he married (2d), February 21, 1785, Diantha, daughter of Adam Mott.


CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.


I. ELIJAH, b. July 12, 1768; m. Jan. 10, 1792, Lodemia, daughter of Adam Mott; she d. March 27, 1801 .- Child, Marcus, b. May 7, 1792. He went to Vernon, N. Y., about 1801.


II. ELI,


b. June 8, 1772.


III. PARDA, b. May 19, 1775.


CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.


IV. JOSEPH, b. Feb 4, 1786.


V. SALLY, b. March 22, 1789.


ELIJAH FRISBIE, son of Joseph, in 1791, owned the Silas Hoskin place in Winsted, which he sold to Benjamin Whiting in 1793, and after- ward owned and occupied the Samuel A. McAlpin place, about a mile south of Winchester center, until his removal to Vernon, New York, about 1800.


PHINEAS GRISWOLD, from Wethersfield, lived, until 1784, near Tor- rington line, on the old South Country Road, - when he bought and oc- cupied until his death (March 11, 1815, aged 74), the Newman B. Gil- bert farm, in the Danbury quarter. His wife, Lois, was sister of the oldest Samuel Hurlbut. She died December 5, 1808, aged 64.


CHILDREN.


PHINEAS, MATTHEW, BENJAMIN, and AMOs, born in Wethersfield.


PATTY, b. in Winchester, Feb. 1, 1778.


BENA, b. Dec. 26, 1779.


SABRA, b. « Aug. 26, 1781.


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AMBROSE PALMER, son of Job, of Litchfield, lived on a part of the John J. Fanning farm, in the Danbury quarter, until 1791, when he re- turned to Litchfield. Had wife, Susanna.


CHILDREN.


I. MINERVA, b. July 24, 1778.


II. SUSANNA, b. Oct. 24, 1781.


III. AMBROSE, b. Sept. 15, 1784.


IV. CALVIN, b. March 30, 1786.


BENJAMIN PRESTON, from Goshen, lived near the Widow Everitt place on Brooks Street, in Danbury quarter. He was a cripple from his birth, and lived by making baskets, birch brooms, and splint chair bottoms. He married, May 3, 1775, Sarah Videto. She died October 23, 1780, and he married (2d), August 20, 1782, Mary Curtis.


CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.


I. THANKFUL, b. Dec. 31, 1775.


II. "LYSUF " [Eliasaph], b. Aug. 17, 1777; d. Aug. 17, 1777.


CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.


III. PATIENCE,


b. March 16, 1779; d. March 16, 1779.


IV. BENJAMIN,


b. Dec. 29, 1783.


V. EPHRAIM, b. Feb. 22, 1787; d. March 12, 1794.


VI. SETH,


b. April 25, 1789.


JOEL ROBERTS owned and lived on a farm now absorbed in the B. B. Rockwell, J. G. Griswold, and Emory Coe farms, until his death in 1780. The probate records of Norfolk District show that he had sons, Judah, (baptized in Torrington, September 28, 1783), Joel and Loomis, and daugh- ters, Mary, Naomi (she died unmarried October 1, 1782), Chloe and Esther ; and left Esther, his widow. His son, Judah, lived on the Kelsey farm, near the small pond in the northeast part of the town, from 1802 to 1810, and died in Hitchcocksville at an advanced age.


His grand-son, Judah, son of the above, owned and occupied the B. B. Rockwell farm, from 1848 to 1857, and thence migrated to Kanke- kee, Illinois, where he died about 1861.


CAPT. PETER CORBIN, with his sons, Daniel and Peter, Jr., came from Danbury and lived on the Asaph Brooks farm in the Danbury quarter. His house stood on the east side of the way, opposite Mr. Brooks. He removed to Colebrook in 1805, and spent his remaining life with his son Peter, Jr. He was captain of the first company of the


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Alarm Regiment of Conn., in 1780. He was b. in 1733, and m. Nov. 18, 1756, Abigail Benedict, at Danbury.


CHILDREN.


I. DANIEL, b. in Danbury, Oct. 1, 1757 ; m. May 30, 1776, Mabel Everitt; he died in Colebrook, 1809.


II. PETER, JR, b. in Danbury, Ang. 6, 1762.


III. ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 26, 1766 ; m. in 1788, Abijah Benedict.


IV. LUCY, b. Jan. 20, 1770; m. in 1806, - Jennings, of Coventry, N. Y.


V. ANNA, b. Fcb. 6, 1772; m. 1795, Ashbel Humphrey, of Goshen.


VI. ESTHER, b. in Winchester, Jan. 3, 1776 ; m. 1797, Zeri Hoyt.


PETER CORBIN, JR., lived in the old part of the house of Asaph Brooks, above mentioned, until his removal to Colebrook, about 1805. He m. in 1790, Villette Nearing, of Simsbury, N. J.


CHILDREN.


I. JOSEPH, b. March 31, 1791 ; m. in 1815, Lois Cady.


II. URIEL, b. " · 1793; died in Colebrook, 1842.


III. JOHN S., b. Feb. 25, 1797; m. Maria, dau. of Asa Nearing of Bloomfield.


IV. AMOS, b. Dec. 25, 1800; m. Jan. 1822, Louisa, dau. of Samuel Cowles, of Colebrook.


V. PETER, b. Jan. 27, 1808 ; m. May 11, 1835, Caroline, dau. of Seth Whit- ing, of Colebrook.


DANIEL CORBIN lived on a hill, west of Asaph Brooks, about half way to the house of Lloyd Humphrey, in Norfolk. He died in Cole- brook in 1809, aged 52.


JOHN VIDETO, a foreigner, came from Danbury, and lived on the old South Country Road, next south of the Widow Everitt farm, until his death Nov. 29, 1799, at the age of 85 years, 18 days.


JOHN VIDETO, JR. came with, and lived in the same house with his father, until his removal to Austinburg, O., in 1807, with his son Jasper. He m. Aug. 13, 1776, Mary Grover. She d. Sept. 8, 1779 ; and he m. (2d) Dec. 12, 1780, Achsah North.


CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.


I. HANNAH, b. May 26, 1777 ; m. - Cowles, of Austinburg, O. II. MARY, b. July 2, 1779; d. Nov. 21, 1779.


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CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.


III. JASPER, b. Sept. 12, 1783; m. Jan. 1, 1806, Rebecca Williams, dau. of Obed W., of Colebrook. Child, Sally, b. Nov. 7, 1806.


IV. LORA, b. June 13, 1785.


JACOB WADE,1 came from England to Lyme, Conn., where he died aged 99 years. His children were :


I. JACOB. 2


II. LUCY. 2


III. STEPHEN, 2 moved to Branford, where he m. Maria Abigail Hoadley. He came with his son Amasa,3 to Winchester, in 1774, where they settled on the farm recently occupied by Isaac Wade, 4 in the southeast part of the town. He d. Feb. 8, 1817, aged 93.


CHILDREN.


I. SOLOMON,3 b. Nov. 23, 1748; d in Rupert, Vt., aged 92 yrs. 5 mos. 3 d. He had children, Abigail, Matilda, Amasa, Stephen, and Lucy.


II. AMASA,3 b. March 16, 1751.


III. EDWARD8, b. May 25, 1754.


IV. ABIGAIL,8 b. Aug. 18, 1759; m. Nov. 22, 1780, Benj. Baker, of Litchfield, and had children : Edward, John, Stephen, David, Lucy, Sally, and Anna.


AMASA WADE,3 resided on the same farm until his death, Aug. 30, 1838, aged 87 yrs. 5 mos. 3 d. He was, by trade, a Tanner and Shoe- maker; and by frugal industry acquired a large estate. He is described by Rev: Mr. Marsh as a u eful and worthy ci izen, respected and hon- ored for his love of order, his puritanic habits, his steady attention to business, and firm regard to the interests of religion and the welfare of the church and society. He m. Jan. 22, 1777, Anna Hale ; she d. Ap. 27, 1837, aged 85 years.


CHILDREN.


I. ISAAC,4 b. Dec. 9, 1777.


II. STEPHEN,4 b. May 9, 1779.


III. ANNA,4 b. Oct. 2, 1781 ; m. Allen Burr; 2d, Lyman Barber.


IV. AMASA, 4 b. Dec. 5, 1785.


V. WEALTHY,4 b. Oct. 30, 1788 ; m. Stephen Baker, son of Benjamin, and had children : - 1, Amasa Hale, b. May 16, 1815; 2, Clarissa, b. Jan. 20, 1818 ; 3, David G., b. Jan. 11, 1824, d. Jan. 14, 1843.


EDWARD WADE,3 third son of Stephen,? lived in Vermont, and died at the age of 96 yrs. 5 mos. His children were Edward,4 Hannah,4 Abi- gail,4 Alenam,4 (?) Isaac,4 Phebe,4 Anna,4 Jacob,4 and Stephen.4


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ISAAC WADE,4 in his earlier years, lived in the house late owned by Sage W. Grant, half a mile west of the centre, next near the Elmore Tannery, and after the death of his father, in the paternal homestead. He died Aug. 28, 1862, aged 85. He m. Sally Anderson.


CHILDREN.


I. LUCIA,5 b. May -, 1809 ; m. Dec. 25, 1839, James L. Williams, of Brooklyn, N. Y.


II. SIDNEY,5 b. Nov. 6, 1810; m. June 15, 1840, Louisa Bronson. He m. (2d) July 1, 1857, Mary E. Huntting.


III. HARRIETT,5 b. Ap. - , 1814; m. William Sanford.


IV. ANDERSON,5 b. Nov. 19, 1816 ; m. Dec. - , 1847, Clara G. Bartlett.


V. SARAH ANN,5 b. Ap. - , 1819 ; m. June 19, 1845, Ruel O. White.


STEPHEN WADE4 lived on Brooks Street, Danbury Quarter, until his removal to Vernon, N. Y., about 1825. He m. March 25, 1802, Lovisa, dau. of Hewitt Hills.


CHILDREN.


I. TRACY,5 b. July 7, 1802 ; d. Jan. 14, 1811.


II. ELIZA,5


b. Aug 14, 1803.


III. SCHUYLER,5


b. June 9, 1806.


IV. AMASA HALE,5


b. June 8, 1808; d. Jan. 21, 1809. .


V. ABERNETHY,5


b. Jan. 9, 1810.


VI. TRACY HALE,5


b. Ap. 12, 1814.


VII. STEPHEN FRANKLIN, b. Oct. 28, 1818.


VIII. VIRGIL BOOTH,


b. March 15, 1823.


AMASA WADE4 lived on a farm adjoining his father's, and, in partner- ship with his brother Isaac, owned and carried on the tannery afterwards owned by the Elmores. He removed, about 1835, to Harmony, Chau- tauqua County, N. Y., and afterwards to Union Mills, Erie Co., Penn. He m. July 15, 1811, Abigail, dau. of Abner Coe.


CHILDREN.


.


I. HOMER HALE, 5 b. July 15, 1811.


II. HARMON COE,5


b. Feb. 19, 1813.


III. HIRAM WHITE,5 b. Aug. 12, 1815.


IV. MARY LEDYARD,5 b. July 18, 1817.


V. HIEL DWIGHT,5


b. Sept. 18, 1820.


VI. HARRIS EATON.5


EDWARD WADE,4 son of Edward,3 b. Nov. 7, 1778, lives in State of New York, has 17 children, as follows, all by one wife.


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I. SALLY, b. Ap. 21, 1804. X. MELISSA,


b. Feb. 28, 1820.


II. LORING,


b. Feb. 21, 1806. XI. SAMANTHA, b. Dec. 4, 1821.


III. TEMPERANCE, b. June 4, 1807.


XII. ALEX'ND. McD., b. Ap. 5, 1823.


IV. FLORAIN, b. Ap. 8, 1809. XIII. HANNAH V.,


b. Jan. 10, 1825.


V. PETER S., b. Nov. 5, 1810.


XIV. LEWIS S., b. Sept. 6, 1826.


VI. GRANT E., b. Mch. 26, 1812. XV. HARRISON, b. Oct. 10, 1829.


VII. MARCIA G., b. Jan. 17, 1814.


XVI. ELEANOR, b. July 4, 1831.


VIII. PATTY M., b. March 2, 1816.


IX. LOLY JENNETT, b. Dec. 14, 1817.


JOSEPH LOOMIS,' Senior, came from Bristol, England, to Windsor, about 1639.


DEACON JOHN LOOMIS,2 son of Joseph, Senior, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Scott, of Hartford, February 6, 1648.


TIMOTHY LOOMIS,3 son of Deacon John, born at Windsor, July 27, 1661, married Rebecca Porter, March 20, 1689.


ICHABOD LOOMIS,4 son of Timothy, born at Windsor, July 25, 1692, married Dorothy Loomis, January 25, 1738, and died February 25, 1796, aged 84.


ICHABOD LOOMIS,5 son of Ichabod,4 born ; married January 29, 1766, Mindwell Lewis. He migrated to this town from Torrington, in 1774, and died July 31, 1785. She died August 6, 1807, in her 66th year. He lived on a farm in the Danbury Quarter, lying on a road parting northeasterly from the South Country Road, a little south of the Widow Everitt house.


CHILDREN.


I. THADDEUS,6


b. November 27, 1766.


II. SIBYL,6 b. June 25, 1770 ; m. Dea. Benjamin Benedict.


III. ABIEL,6


b. August 8, 1773.


IV. ICHABOD,6 b. June 14, 1775.


V. MINIE,6 b. February 15, 1779; m. Asahel Wells.


THADDEUS LOOMIS,6 lived near Goshen line, north of the Norfolk road, on land that was afterward a part of the farm of Levi Bronson, second. He removed in 1802 to Salisbury, Herkimer Co., N. Y., where he was for many years a Justice of the Peace, and for four years an Assistant-Justice of the County Court. He married May 26, 1789, Lois Griswold, daughter of Phineas. She died in 1827; he died in Holley, N. Y., June 14, 1832.


XVII. HELEN M., b. Mch. 22, 1833.


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CHILDREN.


I. HULDAH,7


b. September 12, 1789.


II. LUCY,7


b. November 2, 1790. 1


III. MATILDA,7


b. October 20, 1793 ; m. Loring S. Williams.


IV. ARSENOE,7


b. June 28, 1796.


V. ARPHAXAD,7


b. April 9, 1798.


VI. HORACE,7


b. March 4, 1800.


VII. LEWIS,7


b. Salisbury, N. Y.


VIII. MALINA,7


b. S. ; m. Alden S. Gage.


IX. ALGERNON,7


b. Salisbury, N. Y.


HON. ARPHAXAD LOOMIS,7 son of Thaddeus, settled in Little Falls, N. Y., in the practice of law in 1825, and continued to reside there during his life. He hield the office of county surrogate eight years, was first Judge of the County Court five years, member of Congress two years, member of the State Legislature three years, and member of the Consti- tutional Convention in 1846. His defective hearing prevented his appointment to high judicial stations for which his integrity of character and legal acquirements eminently fitted him. He married in 1832, Ann, daughter of Doctor Stephen Todd of Salisbury, N. Y., and has had eight children, five of whom were living in 1857. (See Kilbourne's " Biographical History of Litchfield Co.," p. 315.)


CAPTAIN ABIEL LOOMISG lived in Winsted, on Spencer Street, in a house that stood on the site of Widow Lucy Coe's residence, until about 1809, when he removed to the farm now owned by William Johnson, on the dugway road in Old Winchester. About 1815, he purchased the Dudley Tannery in Winsted, and removed to the house on Main Street next west of the Tannery, where he died October 16, 1818, aged 45. He was a man of ardent temperament, highly respected and influential. He married June 20, 1793, Eunice Coe, daughter of Ens. Jonathan. She died May 15, 1841.


CHILDREN.


I. ALVAH,7 b. October 25, 1793 ; d. September 4, 1794.


II. ALMIRA,7 b. April 19, 1795; m. November 17, 1844, Thomas Williams


of Winsted ; he died May 10, 1870, aged 63, s. p.


III. EUNICE,7


b. February 16, 1797 ; died March 3, 1797.


IV. CALISTA,7


b. July 16, 1798 ; d. October 13, 1818.


V. ABIEL,7


b. August 19, 1800 ; was prepared to enter College, when the death of his father, in 1818, threw on him the care of the family. He manifested great energy and skill in extricating the embarrassed affairs of his father's estate, and subsequently in his own business transactions. After carrying on the tannery business and a country store for several years, he removed to New York in 1826, where he died November 25 ,


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1830, leaving a widow and son. He was a model son and brother, generous and noble in his nature.


VI. NORMAN,7 b. November 27, 1802 ; d. January 14, 1819.


VII. ALANSON,7 b. January 21, 1806 ; m. Sarah Richards. He succeeded his older brother in the tannery business in Winsted, where he resid. d, with the exception of three years, until 1848, when he removed to Fulton, N. Y., where he now lives, and has a family of children. His wife died in 1863.


VIII. ELIHU LEWIS,7 b. March 19, 1808, known as Lewis E .; lived in New York from 1826 to 1840, and in Winsted from 1840 to 1845, when he removed to Fulton, N. Y., where he now resides. He m. Camp, daughter of Moses Camp, and has a family of children.


IX. HARRIET,7 b. January 27, 1811 ; wife of Joshua K. Richards, removed with her husband from Winsted to Salmon River, N. Y., in 1850, where he died. She now resides in Winsted.


X. MARY,7 b. July 10, 1815 ; d. November 24, 1834.


ICHABOD LOOMIS" lived until about 1824 in Old Winchester, and afterward until his death, April 23, 1833, in the house now owned by his daughter Sally on Spencer Street, in Winsted. He was by trade a butcher ; a kind-hearted man, without an enemy. He married November 22, 1803, Loranda Hoskin, daughter of Joseph. She died Winsted, March 16, 1855, aged 76 years.


CHILDREN.


I. LUCY,7


b. December 14, 1804 ; m. Hiram Root, September 1, 1828.


II. FANNY LORANDA,7 b. August 6, 1806 ; m. Noah Hall, N. Marlboro.'


III. EUNICE MATILDA,7 b. June 28, 1808; m. August 10, 1831, Sidney Eggleston ; lives in Guilford, N. Y.


IV. SALLY AMANDA,7 b. May 26, 1813 ; lives in Winsted unmarried.


V. JOSEPH ICHABOD,7 b. August 13, 1816 ; twice married ; he left Winsted about 1855 for the city of New York, where he now lives.


DAVID ALVORD (brother of Eliphaz), from Chatham, came from Tor- rington as early as this year, as appears by the records of births. In 1776, he bought the lot on which the parsonage house of Rev. Mr. Booge (lately owned by Dr. T. S. Wetmore), was afterwards erected, on which lot he lived until 1785. He afterwards lived near the Leonard Hurlbut place, and finally removed to Neversink, Sullivan county, and thence to Vernon, N. Y. He married September 8, 1774, Elizabeth, daughter of John Wetmore, of Torrington.


CHILDREN.


I. PERSIS, b. December 18, 1774.


II. URSULA, b. February 13, 1778.


WILLIAM CASTEL, from Ridgefield, owned land between the Alva Nash and Leonard Hurlbut places, and near the Edward Rugg farm, in the old


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Society, and resided, as is supposed, on the former tract. The land records show that he had two sons, Elijah and Samuel, to whom he con- veyed lands in 1784, and who must have been born before he came here. Whether he died in the town is not ascertained. His last conveyance of land was in 1786, and his name is not on the tax list of 1790.


CHILDREN OF WM. AND KATHERINE CASTEL, RECORDED IN WINCHESTER.


I. MIRIAM, b. July 28, 1771.


II. WILLIAM, b. July 10, 1773.


III. ELIZABETH, b. September 27, 1775; d. June 23, 1778.


IV. MARY, b .- date not given ; d. April 25, 1778.


V. AARON, b .- date not given ; d. March 15, 1783.


ELIJAH CASTEL, son of William, owned and lived on land south of the Edward Rugg farm in Danbury Quarter. He is described in a deed of April 12, 1787, as of the Manor of Livingston, Columbia county, N. Y., and in 1789 of Winchester. He probably left the town soon after the latter period.


SAMUEL CASTEL, son of William, disappears from the record in 1789. It does not appear where he lived in the town nor where he went to.


JOHN BEACH came into town this year from Torrington, and lived on the farm recently owned by Artemas Rowley, near the south end of third tier, first division, until 1781, when he returned to Torrington. He was born in Torrington May 2d, 1750, fifth child of Abel Beach of Torring- ton, who was born in Durham, February 9, 1712; g. son of Benjamin (born in Stratford, October 1, 1683) and Martha (Curtis) Beach ; g. g. son of Benjamin (born in Stratford, October 28, 1642) and Sarah (Wells) Beach ; and g. g. g. son of Benjamin Beach, the immigrant to Stratford from England [MS. Records of Deacon Lewis M. Norton, of Goshen.] He died at Torrington April 1, 1824, aged 76. He married June 9, 1774, Mercy Bassett. She died at Torrington, May 22, 1832, aged 76.


CHILDREN.


I. ABEL, b. January 3, 1775.


II. MARY,


b. August 19, 1778.


III. REV. JAMES, b. in Winchester, June 10, 1780. Graduated at Williams College. Studied theology under Rev. Asahel P. Hooker, of Goshen, 1804-5. Ordained Pastor of Winsted Church. Dismissed. He married October 28, 1806, Hannah Clarissa Baldwin, born Goshen, March 10, 1784, only · child of Isaac and Lucy (Lewis) Baldwin. He died at Winsted June 11, 1850, of apoplexy. She died May 7, 1852. His friend, Deacon L. M. Norton, of Goshen, writes of him, "It will be for those of a


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coming generation to speak or write of the ability, the fidelity, the affec- tionate labors and the success of this servant of Jesus Christ."


Children : 1. Lucy Baldwin, b. August 20, 1807 ; m. Henry Hyde ; 2. Hannah Clarissa, b. March 20, 1809, d. October 26th, 1815; 3. Mary, b. December 16, 1814, m. Caleb J. Camp.


CHILDREN OF HENRY AND LUCY B. (BEACH) HYDE.


1. James Beach, b. November 14, 1831, d. a member of Yale College at New Haven, January 8, 1850; 2. Henry Baldwin, b. February 15, 1834 ; 3. Lucy B., b. August 20, 1841 ; 4. Mary, b.


IV. JOHN, b. February 26th, 1783 ; d. May 7, 1817.


V. ADAH, b. March 12, 1787.


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CHAPTER XI.


POPULATION-TOWN VOTES-NEW SETTLERS.


1774.


The first census of the Colony, on record,* taken in 1756, gives twen- ty-four as the population of Winchester.


The next census, taken in 1774, shows a population of 327 white, and twelve blacks.


We copy the figures of these two enumerations of Litchfield County, to show the relative population and growth of the towns at these periods :


1774.


1756.


1756.


Total.


White.


Black.


Barkhamsted,


18


250


0


250


Col· brook,


0


150


0


150


Canaan,


1100


1573


62


1635


Cornwall,


500


9,57


17


974


Goshen,


610


1098


13


1111


Hartland,


12


500




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