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III. JONATHAN,2
b. Sept. 17, 1785.
IV. DAVID,2
b. June 1, 1788 ; moved to Beaver Dam, Erie Co., Penn.
V. ISAAC,2
b. Sept. 11, 1790 ;
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VI. URI,2
b. Aug. 4, 1792.
VII. LUCY,2
b. Sept. 5, 1794.
VIII. WEALTHY;2
b. Jan. 20, 1796.
IX. WEALTHY,2 b. Jan. 14, 1799 ; m. Dec. 1, 1834, Rensellaer Sheldon.
X. SIMEON,2
b. March 5, 1801.
JONATHAN CHURCH2 was a blacksmith, and lived in a house now torn down on the east side of Green Woods turnpike, nearly opposite the Mad River bridge leading to the Little Pond road. He died in this town. He married Lucy , and had
CHILDREN.
I. TIMOTHY CHARLES,3 b. Oct. 25, 1809.
II. AMOS CHARLES,3 b. July 3, 1812.
III. MARY,3
b. " 2, 1814.
IV. WEALTHY,3 b. Oct. 25, 1816.
V. SARAH,3 b. July 7, 1818.
VI. LUCY,3 b. Nov. 15, 1820 ; d. Aug. 30, 1831.
VII. JONATHAN SETH,3 b. Oct. 12, 1822; was graduated at the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., and died while engaged in teaching in one of the Western States.
URI CHURCH2 lived in the red house next north of his father's, on the Little Pond road, where he died August 12, 1856, aged 64, leaving a wife, who died in 1861 ; and a daughter, Amanda, their only child, who still lives on her father's homestead. He was a well educated, industrious and worthy man.
THOMAS CANNON, and Mary, his wife, are named on the records of this year as residents of the town, and addicted to hard swearing, breaking the peace and other explosions. They seem to have lived not far from the old society burying-ground. No trace of them is found after 1781.
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OF STEPHEN SCHOVIL, nothing is ascertained, save that he was this year appointed " Key-keeper " of the Pound, and had been a soldier in the Continental service, hired by the town as one of its quota ; - as appears by a certificate of the Select Men on file in the Comptroller's office. In 1784 he is named of Torrington, as defendant in a suit before Justice Al- vord. He married Elizabeth , and had a daughter, Lucy, born August 19, 1781.
There was also a STEPHEN SCHOFIELD, Jr., of Winchester, in 1781, as appears by Justice Alvord's records, who " personally appeared and confessed himself guilty of a breach of the Sabbath, by striking Martin Hurlbut on the ham, and laughing and playing in an undecent and unlaw- ful manner, on ye Sabbath, or Lord's Day, being ye 25th day of March, 1781, in ye Meeting House, in sd. Winchester, in ye time of publick worship," whereupon he was fined 3 shillings and cost four shillings, State money.
BENJAMIN WOODRUFF was colleague "Key-keeper " of the Pound with Mr. Schovil, and lived near the first meeting house.
WILLIAM BARNSTABLE leaves no record except the birth of Pede his daughter, by his wife Hannah, March 4, 1780.
PRINCE, a negro, who seems to have had no surname, died in the town this year, leaving several State Notes received for military service in the Continental army, on which administration was granted to Robert Mc- Ewen by the Norfolk Probate Court.
1781.
The records of the town in these years afford many striking analogies to the war of 1861. The patriotic ardor of the earlier years of the revo- lution had become chilled by the protracted struggle and sad reverses of the war. The continually succeeding drafts of militia-men for short terms of service, rendered it nearly impossible for the towns to raise their allotted quotas of men for the Continental army. Substitute brokerage was a re- finement of baseness thien unsystematized. The people were too poor to furnish means for hiring middle-men, to buy up on speculation New York roughs and Canadian Frenchimen, to do the fighting for able-bodied, well- dressed, stay-at-home patriots.
The following votes of town meetings in 1781, would not seem strange if found in the records of the third year of the slave-owners' rebellion :
Voted, to appoint Capt. Benj. Benedict and Dea. Seth Hills, to hire the two men now required.
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Voted, to give forty shillings State money to Aaron and Joseph Agard for securing Joseph Preston for the town.
Voted, Dea. Seth Hills, Eliphaz Alvord and Lt. Josiah Smith, a Com- mittee to procure clothing for the Soldiers, according to act of Assembly.
Voted, to make out our quota of Continental Soldiers as soon as the number we are deficient can be known.
Voted, Capt. Benedict, Capt. Corbin and Capt. Wright be a Com- mittee to procure Soldiers to fill our deficiency in the Continental army.
Voted, Lieut. Brownson to represent the town before the Committee appointed by the Assembly to adjust matters respecting Soldiers.
Voted, Lt. Brownson go to Hartford to get Dolphin's son* to count for Winchester.
Voted, Capt. Corbin to make application to Gen'l Parsons, or some other General Officer, to procure a pardon for Jonathan Preston on ac- count of his deserting the army.
Voted, to raise a man to supply the place of George Hudson in the Con- tinental Army.
Voted, Lt. Josiah Smith and Ens™. Jesse Doolittle be a Committee to hire a man for the State Guard.
Voted, to raise Sixpence, hard money, on the Pound to hire the soldiers now called for, and to pay the Soldiers already procured.
Voted, that Neat Cattle, or Sheep, or Pork or English Grain, or Indian Corn, shall be accepted in lieu of hard money granted in the last vote, - said articles to be delivered in Winchester. at the house of Eliphaz Al- vord at the appraisement of a committee to be appointed for that purpose.
Voted, to raise fourpence on the Pound, to purchase Beef for the use of the Army, agreeable to the act of Assembly in May last, with an abatement of said rate according to the bill of form by which Winchester is taxed.
Voted, Robert McCune, Sam'l Hurlbut and Jesse Doolittle a Commit- tee to procure Barrels, receive and salt, pack and secure the Beef and Pork that shall be brought in and necessary to be salted, and to store other articles delivered in payment of State Taxes.
Voted, Dea. Wetmore to receive the Cattle and Sheep into his pasture, that may be delivered in payment of aforesaid Taxes.
The following freemen were admitted and sworn, April 9th of this year: Rev. Mr. Knapp, Capt. Benj. Benedict, Capt. Abraham Andrews,
* This " Dolphin's son " was one of the small number of colored men, then resident in the town. Two of his grand-sons recently went from here to Rhode Island, and enlisted into one of the colored regiments there; - there being at the time no organi- z ation for colored volunteers in this State. One of them, James Dolphin, died in the service at Plaquemine, La., August 5, 1864 ; the other, Edward H. Dolphin, returned:
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John Beach, Jonathan Coe, Eleazer Smith, Gershom McCune, Jr., Phineas Griswold, Aaron Cook, Timothy Benedict, Jr., Abram Filley, Nathan Blackman, John Walter, Joel Beach and Samuel Hurlbut.
The town was for the first time represented this year in the General Assembly, by Deacon Seth Hills and Robert McEwen.
In Society meeting December 4, 1781, Mr. Knapp's salary was voted " to be paid in Specie as things went in 1774, or Cash equivalent," and exempting such persons from payment thereof as could not in conscience support Mr. Knapp.
It was also voted, that the women singers sit in the cross fore-seats, and the men singers as usual.
The new comers of this year were Elijah Andrews, and his son, Elijah, Jr., James Adkins, Isaac Adkins, Richard Coit, Aaron and Joseph Agard.
ELIJAH ANDREWS, with his son Elijah, Jr., came from Windsor, and lived on the east side of the Colebrook road, on land now a part of the farm of William E. Cowles. He was fined by Esq. Alvord, in 1784, twenty shillings for traveling on the Sabbath - and not long afterward removed to Colebrook. Had wife Mary.
ELIJAH ANDREWS, JR., lived from 1810 to about 1815, in the late homestead of James Crocker, on the Green Woods turnpike.
JAMES ADKINS came from Middletown, and bought the homestead of Capt. John Hills, on the Old Country road, near the Hurlbut Cemetery. He is described by a contemporary as "an old man with broad coat skirts, and beaver, old and smooth." -" He brought with him a famous cali- co Narraganset pacing mare, which he said he once rode on a single day, between sun-rising and sun-setting, one hundred miles from Middletown up the Connecticut River valley." Being asked if he stopped to bait his horse, -" No," said he, "I had my coat pockets full of ears of corn, - and going up hills, I now and then reached round and gave her a nubbin."
One of his daughters married David Austin, Jr., and another Daniel Hurlbut Cone.
ISAAC ADKINS, probably a son of James, owned lands, and lived in a house on the east side of Blue Street, until 1788, when he sold out to Hewitt Hills, - after which his name disappears from the records :
RICHARD COIT, a shoemaker, came from New London, and lived two- thirds of a mile northwest of the center, on the Old Country road, in the house recently owned by Nelson T. Loomis. He served in the unsuccess-
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ful siege of Quebec, and subsequently on the quota of this town in the Continental army. In the words of a contemporary, - " he was impulsive and fractious, -talked a volume every day, - disciplined his children and hogs severely, was not dainty about his words, - was poor, until in old age, his brother bequeathed him forty thousand dollars, which was nearly squandered before his death." He was born in New London, December 25, 1752; married, August 27, 1778, Hepzibah Smith, born in Middletown, August 9, 1750; she died March 15, 1828, aged 77; he died March 25, 1834, aged 81.
CHILDREN.
I. JOSEPH, b. Aug. 29, 1780; m. Nov. 13, 1807, Francis Ursula Adams, and had children : 1. Lucy, b. Jan. 5, 1809; 2. Joseph Richard, b. March 28, 1811. In 1807 he was " of Trumbull Co., Ohio." In 1809 and 10, he owned and occupied the Luman Munsill house, a little south of the cen- ter; and soon after removed to Monticello, N. Y., where he died.
II. SARAH, b. May 16, 1785; m. Feb. 13, 1815, William S. Marsh ; d. s. p. March 10, 1833.
III. LUCY, b. Dec. 2, 1790 ; d. June 7, 1794.
AARON AND JOSEPH AGARD are named in the record of a town meeting this year. They, or one of them, lived in the Noble J. Everitt house, half a mile south of the center. They came into the town prob- ably earlier than 1776, but were not land owners. Elizabeth, probably wife of Aaron, was one of the original members of the Church.
Joseph and Tabitha Agard, his wife, had
CHILDREN.
I. JOSEPH, b. May 11, 1776. II. TABITHA, b. May 17, 1779.
BENAJAH ABREW, or ABRO, is mentioned in a vote of this year as a Continental soldier, claimed as serving on the quota of Winchester. His name is on the list of 1785 as a resident tax-payer. By another vote in 1788 the tax was given up as uncollectable.
1782.
In Town Meeting February 26, 1782, it was voted " to hire the men now called for, for the Guard at Horse Neck, and to fill the deficiencies in the Continental Army 'til December next." Also "to raise fourpence on the pound in money or specie at money prices, in the specific articles of neat cattle, sheep, wool, flax, wheat, rie, and indian Corn, at the price the said articles were valued at in 1774; and that the above rate be appro- priated to the sole purpose of procuring the soldiers, if needed, that are or may be called for by the Assembly."
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November 7, 1782, voted to build a bridge over Mad River in the most convenient place in, or near, the road now leading to the Society of Winsted, . . . . and Lt. Uriah Seymour, Col. Seth Smith and Samuel Mills were appointed as an indifferent committee from other towns, to view and report which place is the best on the whole, for the public and private interest, for a road to, and a bridge over, Mad River ; - whether the road now established and traveled to and over said river, or a new proposed płace east of Mr. Austin's mill.
The traveled road here referred to probably crossed the river, either near Rockwell's tannery or on the site of Dudley's Block ; - and the proposed route was Lake street as it now runs.
The freemen admitted this year were Reuben Miner, William Barbour, Jonah Woodruff, and Jonathan Alvord.
The new comers were Daniel HI. Cone, John Deer, Jonathan Deer, John Marshall, Levi Norton, Samuel Roberts, Chauncy Smith, Elijalı Thompson, and David Ward.
DANIEL HURLBUT CONE, from Middletown, first lived on a part of the John Hills farm, near the burying-ground, and afterward on a new farm near the Leonard Hurlbut place, where he died May 17, 1842, aged 88. His wife, Elizabeth, died February 27, 1829, aged 74. He was by trade a shoemaker ; - had served nearly the whole war, as an ar- tilleriest in the Continental army ; - was a good man in every sense of the word.
CHILDREN.
I. SUSANNA,2 b. June 22, 1781.
II. DANIEL,2
b. Oct. 14, 1782.
III. ELIZABETH,2
b. Jan. 29, 1784.
IV. SAMUEL,2
b. Oct. 18, 1785 ; lived and died in Norfolk.
V. HURLBUT,2 b. Jan. 5, 1788.
VI. WARREN,2 b. Aug. 19, 1789; lived and died in Norfolk.
VII. SULLIVAN,2 b. Jan. 14, 1793.
VIII. SILAS,2 b. " 27, 1795 ; lived and died in Granby.
Two twin sons of Samuel,2 James and John, and a daughter of Silas, are now residents of Winsted.
JOHN DEER, from Goshen, this year bought a tract of land, now com- posing mainly the farms of Orren Tuller and Dudley Chase. He lived on the discontinued part of the Blue Street road which extended north of the road passing the houses of Tuller and Chase, until his death. He married, November 22, 1780, Hannah Stow; she died February 28, 1786; he married (2d), May 6, 1787, Rhoda Filley ; she died April 8,
-
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1793; and he married (3d), Lucy Foresbey, or Frisbey. He was a soldier of the revolution. He died August 30, 1828, aged 73 years. His father, John or George Deer, was also a soldier in the revolution, and was killed by a cannon shot, while on a boat on Lake Champlain. His mother, Abigail Deer, died October 5, 1792.
CHILDREN OF JOHN AND HANNAH (STOW) DEER.
I. RUTH, b. Jan. 28, 1781.
II. HANNAH, b. Aug. 30, 1782; d. same day.
III. LAURANNA, b. July 19, 1784.
IV. ABIGAIL, b. Feb. 5, 1786 ; d. same day.
CHILDREN OF JOHN AND RHODA (FILLEY) DEER.
V. HANNAH, b. April 15, 1788.
VI. ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 11, 1789.
VII. ROGER, b. Oct. 3, 1791.
VIII. AMAN, . b. Feb. 3, 1793.
JONATHAN DEER, supposed to be brother to John, bought of him the south part of his lot, and first lived in a log house on Hall Meadow Road, near its junction with the Tuller and Chase road ; and in 1796, lived a little west of the center on the Old Country road, near the school house. In 1797 he is described as "absconded to parts unknown," in Esq. Alvord's Justice Records. He married, January 26, 1785, Mary Reed ; they had one
CHILD. I. JONATHAN WHEELER, b. Aug. 14, 1786.
JOHN MARSHALL, from Torrington, owned lands between the Norfolk and Brooks roads, and is supposed to have lived on or near the latter road, above Nelson T. Loomis. He probably died in the town before 1800 ; - as his widow married Andrew Everitt in December of that year. He married, March 31, 1780, Statira Hills, daughter of Deacon Seth.
CHILD.
I. OLIVER, b. Aug. 3, 1780. (Removed to Vernon, N. Y.)
LEVI NORTON, youngest child of Samuel and Mabel Norton, of Goshen, Connecticut, was born May 13; 1759. At sixteen he entered the Continental army under Putnam, and served until late in the fall of 1779, a period of nearly five years. In 1780 he made a rude cabin under a chestnut tree between the two lakes, and began elearing the land of his future farm, and studying Dilworth's arithmetie by the blaze of his cabin fire. In 1782 he built his first dwelling, a few feet north of the red one and a half story house, which he erected in 1795, and thence occupied
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until 1812. In this first dwelling, he introduced his newly married wife on the 23d of January, 1783; - and here labored day and night in clear- ing and cultivating one of the largest and best farms of the town.
In May 1812 he removed to the wilderness of Wayne County, Penn- sylvania, where he foreclosed 5,000 acres of land and gathered an un- mixed Yankee settlement around him. He died January 21, 1823, aged 64 years.
He was a prominent, intelligent, and influential man of the town, and a zealous Jeffersonian.
He married, January 21, 1783, Olive Wheeler, born in Bethlem, Connecticut, September 19, 1759 ; she died May 25, 1838.
CHILDREN.
I. WARREN WHEELER, b. Nov. 12, 1783 ; m. Oct. 26, 1800, Polly, daughter of Martin and Mary North, of Winchester. Children : Hiram, Sid- ney M.
II. ALVA W., b. Aug. 10, 1791 ; [living in 1872], m. Nov. 21, 1816, Sallie Free- man, of Chester, Mass. Children : Emily A., Olive A., Maria S., Har- riet C., and Lucius F.
III. SHELDON, b. Nov. 26, 1793 ; m. Sept. 14, 1818, Harriet, daughter of Grin- nell Spencer, of Winchester, Ct .; he d. Sept. 15, 1838. Children : 1. Edmund Kirby ; 2. Oscar Montgomery ; 3. Abigail Catlin ; 4. Mary Elizabeth ; of whom Edmund K. and Abigail C. were living in Wayne Co., Pa., in 1872. He was an early clerk of Wayne Co., and afterwards during his life an Agent of the American Sunday-School Union in Mis- souri, Iowa, and Wisconsin.
IV. CLARISSA, b. March 28, 1796 ; m. in 1821, Hon. Isaac Dimick, of Ottawa, Ill., in 1872. Children : 1. Levi Norton; 2. Philo J .; 3. Ann; 4. Olive.
V. SAMUEL, b. June 11, 1799 ; m. in 1822, Jerusha Tracy. Children : 1. Levi ; 2. Philander; 3. Phebe; 4. Luther ; 5. Tracy ; 6. Washington.
SAMUEL ROBERTS, probably from Torrington, bought of the executor of Joel Roberts, deceased, the farm of said Joel, and lived in the house above mentioned as the subsequent residence of Warren W. Norton, until 1802. His name appears as plaintiff or defendant in Justice Alvord's Records more than fifty times during the years 1796 and 1797, from which it is inferred that he was not of the most amiable disposition. We extract a single record in 1799 as a sample of many others.
Stephen Carter, one of the grand jurors of Winchester, complained "that Samuel Roberts, of said town, did, at Winchester aforesaid, on the 17th day of September last past, in an angry manner, sinfully and wickedly curse or damn the person of Preserved Crissy of said Winchester," where- upon he was found guilty and fined one dollar with costs, amounting to two dollars and fifty-nine cents. He married, December 11th, 1783, Mary Brooks. He sold out to Martin North in 1802, and thereafter disappears from the records.
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CHILDREN.
I. NAOMI, b. May 20, 1785.
II. SYLVESTER, b. March 30, 1787; d. May 20, 1787.
III. WARREN, b. June 27, 1788.
IV. MINERVA, b. October 14, 1790.
CHAUNCEY SMITH owned. and lived on lot 36, 3d division, on the Brooks road, in a house on the west side, about 100 rods north of the Everitt House. The inventory of his estate was returned to the Norfolk Probate Court November 18, 1794. He married, April 9th, 1783, Sarah Page.
CHILDREN.
I. LUCINDA, b. October 23, 1784.
II. ABEL, b. December 19, 1785.
III. ORILLA, b. October 3d, 1786.
IV. SARAH, b. January 21, 1790.
ELIJAH THOMPSON owned and lived on lot 19, 3d division, in the neighborhood of Newman B. Gilbert, Danbury Quarter. He conveyed to his sons Daniel and Elijah two portions of the same lot, on which they are supposed to have lived.
DANIEL THOMPSON married, November 2, 1788, Roxy Smith.
CHILDREN.
I. HULDAH, b. November 15, 1790.
II. ROXALANA, b. September 20, 1791.
SAMUEL THOMPSON married, March 3, 1788, Hannah Wolcott.
CHILDREN.
I. SAMUEL,
b. May 17, 1790.
II. HANNAH,
b. February 5, 1792.
III. DAVID WOLCOTT, b. February 13, 1794.
DAVID WARD came to this town as a schoolmaster, and this year bought lands on Blue street ; and the next year bought a part of the John Hills farm, near the burying ground. He married, January 1, 1784, Mary, daughter of David Austin, senior, and soon after became the owner of the farm in Winsted, lately owned by Colonel Hosea Hinsdale, which he sold in 1796, and probably removed with his father-in-law to Vermont.
CHILDREN.
I. MARY, b. Friday, January 28, 1785.
II. LUCY, b. November 14, 1786.
III. SAMUEL, b. March 27, 1790.
IV. DANIEL, b. May 8, 1792.
V. LAURA, b. May 7, 1794.
VI. AUSTIN, b. March 27, 1796. 20
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1783.
In the record of a town meeting, September 26, 1783, we are reminded of modern war times by a vote condemning the " commutation " adopted by the convention at Middletown, as "unconstitutional, and altogether unjust and unreasonable."
In society meeting, the project of a new meeting-house was ventilated, and an application to the county court for a committee, to set a stake therefor, was voted. The committee having been appointed, and having set a stake, another meeting was held, which rejected the site selected, and set another stake, in Sam'l Hurlbut's lot, north of Dr. Everitt's, and abont eight rods west of the allowance, and near the middle of said lot north and south, and appointed Captain Brownson to go to the county court, to get the doings of the society established. These doings were up- . set by the vote of a subsequent meeting, reconsidering the aforesaid doings.
The freemen admitted this year were Captain Peter Corbin, Levi Brownson, David Ward. Ichabod Loomis, Stephen Spencer, Samuel Smith, William Fay, David Austin, Jr., John Church, Benoni Brownson, and Levi Norton.
The new comers of the year were Benoni Brownson, William Cham- berlin and William Chamberlin, Jr., Jedediah Coe, Timothy Cook, Joseph Elmore and Joseph B. Elmore, his son, Isaac Filley, Benjamin Judd, Joseph Platt, Samuel Smith and Benajah Smitli, his son, Ephraim Smith, Samuel Stancliff, Josiah Wade, Daniel Ward, Hopkins West, Nathaniel White.
MAJOR BENONI BROWNSON, from Berlin, distantly related to the other Brownsons in the town, lived in a house, now torn down, immedi- ately north of John J. McAlpine's late residence, until a few years before his death, when he removed to the Major Seth Wetmore house, then standing immediately south of the Hurlbut store, where he died December 15th, 1833, aged 76. He is described as "a man of pleasant temperament, tolerably industrious, and a great talker." He married Mary Percival, of Berlin, and after her death he married (2d) Mrs. Lois Wetmore, daughter of Colonel Ozias Brownson, and the divorced wife of Major Seth Wetmore.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. CHAUNCEY,
b. February 26, 1778.
II. ORENTUS,
b. December 3, 1779.
III. AMELIA,
m. Elijah Blake, Jr.
IV. POLLY,
m. Herman Munson.
V. PARLIAMENT,
VI. GEORGE, went South, d. unmarried.
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CHAUNCEY BROWNSON lived for some years in the original homestead of his father; and after the breaking up of his family, in consequence of his partial derangement, he lived mainly in Winsted, until his death in 1853. He married May 1, 1806, Fanny Thrall, born August 9, 1783.
CHILDREN.
I. EDWIN WORTHY, b. October 24, 1807; d. of yellow fever at New Or- leans, October, 1841, unmarried.
II. SAMUEL JOHN, b. April 17, 1809; d. at the South, unmarried.
III. HIRAM CHARLES, b. February 1, 1811; d. at Columbia, S. C., May, 1863.
IV. PARLIAMENT HART, b. July 15, 1816 ; d. at New Orleans, of yellow fever, October, 1841, unmarried.
V. GEORGE WASHINGTON, b. May 10, 1820; d. aged 7 years.
VI. MARY JANE, b. April 2, 1826 ; m. lives in Missouri.
ORENTUS BROWNSON migrated about 1800 to Burke, Vermont, whence he returned to Winchester, and at one time kept a tavern in the house of Washington Hatch, at the Centre. About 1835, he built and moved into the house now owned by Samuel Smith, in Winsted, and followed the business of building through his remaining active life, during which he built, mainly by unassisted labor, nearly twenty dwellings. Though never educated as a mechanic, he did all the carpenter and joiner work, and not unfrequently, the masonry and brick and stone laying; selling the house, when finished, to buy the lot and materials for building another ; changing his own residence from time to time, and closing his laborious and inoffensive life in the house now owned by Samuel A. McAlpine, August 19, 1859, aged 80. He married, October , 1804, Abiah, daugh- ter of Wm. R. Case. She died June 20, 1836, aged 56. He married, May 15. 1848, widow Huldah Munson. He had one child, Huldah L., born January 29, 1818 ; died March 18, 1838.
HON. PARLIAMENT BROWNSON removed in early life to Auburn, N. Y., where he became a lawyer of some eminence, and a man of great upright- ness and independence of character. He married, about 1847, a Miss Wood, and died childless some years afterwards.
WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN, from Colchester, settled on the farm late owned by James L. Bragg, and occupied it until his death, January 6, 1821, at the age of 86. His wife Mary died December 26, 1820, aged 87.
WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN, Jr., owned and occupied a farm immediately north of his father's, now owned by Harlow Fyler, until 1809, when he migrated to Hudson, Ohio, where his descendants now reside. He mar- ried May 4, 1780, Joanna Skinner.
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CHILDREN.
I. ANNA, b. June 13, 1782.
II. JOSEPH, b. November 12, 1784.
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