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It is a singular coincidence, that both of these brothers, and their brother George, the venerable printer of Hartford, should have lived to the ordinary age allotted to man in religious indifference, and should at their extreme age have become humble and trusting followers of their Saviour, and exhibited undoubted evidence of their acceptance as his disciples. He m. Ruth Church ; she d. in 1831.
CHILDREN.
I. CLARISSA,
m. Erastus Hurlbut ; d. in Ohio, 1864.
II. LEONARD,
m. Mary A. Galpin ; he d. Sept., 183 -.
III. DAVID ELMORE,
d. when less than ten years old.
IV. HEPZIBAH,
d. under ten years of age.
V. MARANA,
m. Austin Fuller ; d. Trenton, N. Y., 1828.
VI. PHILENA,
m. Philo Whitmore.
VII. HIRAM,
m. Nancy Jones ; he d. Aurora, Ill., Aug. - , 1864.
VIII. HARRIET,
m. Jesse Schovill.
IX. EMILY,
m. Frederick McNeil.
X. HEPZIBAH,
m. Parker Sedgwick, living in Ill., 1867.
XI. DAVID ELMORE.
XII. JEREMIAH, b. Feb. 21, 1815 ; m. Mary D. Sedgwick.
ZEPHENIAH HATCH,1 father of Capt. Moses, came from England, and settled in Wethersfield. He had
CHILDREN.
I. LUCY2, b. May 6, 1752.
II. JERUSHA,2 b. June 11, 1755.
III. JAMES,2
b. Oct. 26, 1757.
IV. MOSES,2 b. March 15, 1760.
V. MARY,2 b. April 13, 1762.
VI. JOHN,2 b. Aug. 22, 1764.
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VII. SIMEON,2
b. Nov. 26, 1766.
VIII. SAMUEL,2
b. Feb. 19, 1768.
IX. LEVI,2
b. Oct. 13, 1770.
X. ESTHER,2
b. Sept. 10, 1772.
XI. ELIAS,2
b. March 19, 1775.
XII. DANIEL,2
b. Aug. 26, 1778.
CAPT. MOSES HATCH," from Wethersfield, was for many years a sea captain, in the employ of Justus Riley, the Wethersfield merchant. Prior to this, at the age of sixteen, he enlisted into the Revolutionary Army, and served in various capacities during the war. In 1791, he removed to this town and took charge of a large tract of wild land, be- longing to Mr. Riley, at the south end of the. Long Lake. He built the house which he occupied during his remaining life, some fifty rods south of the house of his son, Elias T. Hatch, on a road now discontinued, leading from the center down to the Still River valley. He d. Dec. 21, 1837, aged 77, a kind-hearted whole-souled man. He m., Wethersfield, Abigail Loveland, b. March 16, 1763. She d. Winchester, Nov. 3, 1850.
CHILDREN.
I. LEVI L.,3 b. Dec. 13, 1785.
II, ABIGAIL,8
b. Oct. 21, 1787.
III. POLLY, 3 b. April 5, 1790; d. Feb. 10, 1791.
IV. POLLY, 3
b. Nov. 4, 1792.
V. ESTHER, 3 b. Feb. 7, 1795 ; m. May 8, 1829, Silas Crocker, Jr., of Vernon, N. Y.
VI. WASHINGTON,3 b. March 14, 1797; d. March, 1872.
VII. WM. FRANKLIN,3 b. March 4, 1801 ; m. Sept. 28, 1832, Emeline Baldwin ; she d. Sept. 22, 1870, aged 62 years and 2 days. He m. (2d) Sept. 20, 1871, Lizzie M. Eells ; lives in Winsted.
VIII. TRUMBULL,3 b. May 11, 1803 ; d. June 1, 1807.
IX. ELIAS T.,3 b. Oct. 6, 1805 ; m. Cornelia M. Foote, and lives at the south end of Long Lake.
X. LUCY,3 b. June 3. 1807.
SIMEON HATCH,2 came to Winchester, with his brother Moses, and probably lived with him until about 1800, when he removed to Vernon, N. Y.
JOSIAH HULL, from Hartford, a shingle splitter, owned land on both sides of the Little Pond, from 1791 to 1794, and his name is found on the tax lists until 1804.
The freemen admitted and sworn this year were John Spencer, Elijah Frisbee, Levi Brownson, Salmon Brownson, Silas Hurlbut, Roman Fy-
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ler, Jonathan Deer, Ezra Stannard, Elisha Hills, Peter Corbin, Jr., Noah Benedict, Zebina Smith, Chauncey Mills, Nathan Wheeler and Benjamin Wheeler.
1792.
In Town Meeting this year, the town tax was made payable in wheat, Indian corn, beef, pork, oats or flax, if delivered at the house of Captain Samuel Hurlbut, or the mill of Deacon Austin, by the first of May fol- lowing at prices to be set by the Selectmen.
In Society Meeting, a tax of one penny on the pound was laid " to hire a Singing Master four months, to instruct in singing psalm tunes and an- thems."
JOHN B. HALL, of New Fairfield, became joint owner with Eliud Taylor, of the farm on Mad River adjoining Norfolk line in Danbury quarter, and half of the saw-mill afterwards owned by Micajah Hoyt, and now by Nelson Brooks. They sold out in 1796 to Deacon Hoyt, and Mr. Hall afterward left the town. In 1810 the Church voted him a let- ter of dismission to the Church in Durham, New York. He was grand- father to Hon. Highland Hall, late M. C. from Vermont.
ELIUD TAYLOR, from Danbury, continued to reside in Danbury quar- ter until 1799, when he sold his dwelling-house and adjoining land to Luther Holcomb, being the premises recently owned by John J. Fanning. He afterwards lived from 1803 to 1806 in the Widow Leach house in the same vicinity. In 1807 the Winchester Church voted him a letter of dis- mission to the Union Society Church in New Haven. By wife Mary, he had Polly, born January 25, 1794.
WAIT HILL, a blacksmith, was admitted a voter this year. In 1795 he built the house on the Waterbury turnpike a little south of the center, now owned and occupied by Luman Munsill. In 1797 he bought and lived in Winsted, on the Spencer street road, a house that stood near Widow Lucy Coe's dwelling, and worked in a shop long since burned down, which stood on Main street near the dwelling of Samuel W. Coe. He removed to Vernon, New York, in 1798, or 1799. He married, June 26, 1794, Hannah Hills, of Winchester.
The freemen admitted and sworn this year were Rev. Publius V. Booge, Jonathan Coe, 3d, Thomas Spencer, Jr., Harvey Marshall, Theo- dore Hoskin, Daniel Russell, Elisha Spencer, John Church, Samuel Clark, Truman Blackman, Wait Hill, and Joseph Elmore, Jr.
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1793.
The records of Town and Society meetings this year are of little inter- est. It appears by the Society records that the interior of the new meet- ing house was not yet finished.
DANIEL ANDREWS, JR., a native of the town, whose record has been given already, came of age this year ; built and occupied through life the red house, at the parting of the Danbury school-house road from the Green Woods turnpike.
WILLIAM R. CASE, from the Society of Wintonbury, now the town of Bloomfield, this year, bought and thereafter occupied until 1799, a lot of land now composing a part of the Harvey Andrews farm ; he returned to Wintonbury after 1810. He was born February 20, 1751 ; married Huldah Loomis, born December 12, 1756. He died November 29, 1828. She died January 1, 1835.
CHILDREN.
I. WILLIAM, b. Aug. 20, 1775 ; d. April 9, 1793.
II. HULDAII, b. Nov. 17, 1777 ; d. Aug. 16, 1800.
III. ABIAH, b. Sept. 1, 1779 ; m. 20, 1836.
Orentus Bronson ; d. June
IV. RUTH, b. April 4, 1782; d. Sept. 27, 1853.
V. HORACE, b. July 5, 1784 ; d. Oct. 29, 1823.
VI. ASHER, b. Dec. 12, 1786 ; m. Nov. 13, 1826, Charlotte Pettibone ; he d. Sept. 7, 1858 ; had children George and Edward.
VII. WILLIAM, b. April 25, 1794 ; grad. Yale College 1821 ; Cong. minister at Chester, Ct .; d. April 28, 1858.
VIII. CHESTER, b. Sept. 20, 1796 ; d. in Penn., Oct. 2, 1857, a bachelor.
REUBEN MARSHALL, son of Thomas and Desire Marshall, born at Torrington, May 19, 1765 ; came to Winchester this or the preceding year, and became a trader in company with Roman Fyler. In 1810 he bought the farm near the center of the town, lately owned by Daniel Murray, now deceased, which he occupied until his removal to Granville, Mass , about 1811. During the last ten years of his residence here he was largely engaged in purchasing cheese for the Southern market. He mar- ried Widow Hills, of Torrington, who had a son Reuben, by her first husband, - and two or more daughters by Mr. Marshall, - one of whom, Orpha, married Patrick Boice, Esq., of Westfield, Massachusetts.
JOHN MCALPINE, JR., son of a Scotchman, is named " of Hartford " , in his first deed of land in Winchester. He was a joiner by trade, and a man of great industry and energy, - was a Selectman for many years, - and highly esteemed as a neighbor and citizen. He built, and occupied dur-
25
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ing his remaining life, the house about sixty rods east of the center, now owned and occupied by his son, John McAlpine ; he married, May 16, 1794, Margaret, daughter of Samuel Hurlbut, Esq. He died August 30, 1850, aged 81. She died February 28, 1845, aged 72.
CHILDREN.
I. SILAS HURLBUT, b. Sept. 2, 1794.
II. ELIZABETH ANN, b. Feb. 18, 1798 ; m. March 11, 1819, Horaec Jay Humphrey.
III. SAMUEL AVERY, b. Nov. 15, 1802; m. ; d.
he lived for many years in Penn., and after the death of his wife returned to Winchester ; m. (2d), May 15, 1845, Mary S. MeAlpine, widow of his brother, Silas H. ; row lives in Winsted.
IV. JOHN, b. Nov. 1, 1805 ; m. Aug. 6, 1845, Harriet E. Wet- more, and has since resided on his father's homestead at the eenter ; she d. Dee. - , 1869, childless.
V. LEMUEL, b. Oet 21, 1808 ; a physician, lives in Illinois.
SILAS H. MCALPINE, oldest son of John and Margaret, married, Jan. 11, 1842, Mary S. Wetmore, and lived on the Waterbury turnpike, half a mile south of the center. He was a man of literary and scientific tastes, - a poet, and a warm philanthropist. Standing as he did in the front rank of the despised little band of early Abolitionists. it is fitting that his name should be identified with the once feeble, but now triumphant, cause which he advocated. He died childless, August 12, 1842.
SOLOMON WHEADON, from Branford, owned and occupied until his death, the farm of Harvey Ford in Hall Meadow, adjoining Goshen line. He died December 12, 1814, aged 65. His wife Sarah died January 10, 1821. aged 73.
No record is found of the births of Mr. Wheadon's children. The death of Lomisa, daughter of Solomon and Sarah Wheadon, Jan. 8, 1799, and the marriage of Benjamin Wheadon, their son, to Deborah Merriman. April 21, 1803. are recorded. This Benjamin Wheadon is named " of Hudson, Portage County, Ohio," in a deed of January 28, 1826, conveying his interest in land of Stephen Wheadon, deceased, by which it would appear that Stephen died childless, leaving a widow, not named, and sisters, Sally Wells, Mercy Bronson (wife of Salmon). Esther Pond, and heirs of Lucretia Griswold.
Lucretia Griswold was the first wife of Roswell Griswold of Cole- brook, and the mother of Wyllys, Lucretia, and Hon. Hiram Griswold, formerly of Canton. Ohio.
DEACON STEPHEN WHEADON, son of Solomon, owned and occupied the paternal homestead until his death, December 2, 1824, aged 40. He
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was chosen Deacon of the Winchester Church in 1823. The family of Wheadons was held in high esteem in the community. His wife, Polly, was sister of Moses Drake, Jr., and afterwards married successively Deacon Humphrey of Goshen, and Deacon Rogers of Cornwall ; died in 1867, a widow.
RUFUS CRANE, from Killingworth, this year bought of David and Sarah Murray, a house and lot on the Dugway road, nearly opposite the Soplironia Leonard house, which he occupied until after 1796.
JOHN JOES is on the Winchester tax lists of 1793 and 1794.
The freemen admitted this year were Daniel Marshall, Laurence Barber, and Levi Platt.
1794.
The prices of labor in payment of highway taxes were this year established as follows :---
For a man's work in May or June, three shillings and sixpence per day.
“ a man and team, seven shillings
" a man in October or November, three shillings
" a man and team, six shillings
The new comers of the year were as follows :----
MAJOR LLOYD ANDREWS, a joiner, from Meriden, purchased land in the town, November 20, 1794. He first lived, after liis marriage, in the old homestead of his father-in-law, Ensign Jonathan Coe, in the south part of the society, since owned by Samuel Mills Munsill. About 1799 he bought the farm now owned by his son, Harvey Andrews, and there resided until his death, October 23, 1833, aged 60, an unassuming, industrious, and worthy man. He was born in Meriden, February 10, 1773 ; married May 16, 1796, Huldah Coe. She died December 27, 1866.
CHILDREN.
I. ORSON,
unmarried.
b. February 16, 1798 ; d. November 29, 1836,
II. HIRAM, b. December 22, 1799 ; d. March 15, 1808.
III. HULDAH, b. January 8, 1802 ; d. September 8, 1808.
IV. GEORGE, b. March 19, 1805 ; m. in New York.
V. SAMUEL LLOYD, b. October 22, 1811 ; m. May 23, 1839, Sophia Case of Canton ; has a son Geo. L., who served as Ist Sergt., Co. F., 28th Regt. Conn. Volunteers.
VI. HARVEY, b. July 13, 1814 ; m. Susan (Merwin) Sage.
VII. HELEN, b. May 1, 1821 ; d. September 13, 1823.
FRANCIS BACON owned from 1794 to 1798 a part of the farm now
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owned by Harvey Andrews. In his deed of sale of this land in 1795, he is named " of Barkhamsted." In 1795 he is named in a record of judg- ment as of Simsbury.
DAVID BEEBE, " of Winchester," a blacksmith, this year bought a lot of land in the Jacklin neighborhood. In 1795 he bought a house and lot on Danbury Hill, northwest of William Price's, and there resided while he remained in town. In 1808 the Church in Winchester voted him and his wife a letter of dismission to the Church in Coventry, N. Y.
DOCTOR NATHANIEL ELMORE is on the tax list of this year. He was a native of Sharon, a schoolmaster and physician. He lived in the town a few years, and then removed to Granville, Mass. He was father of Harvey B. Elmore, now of Winsted.
GILLETT HINKLEY this year bought 38 acres of land, which now forms a part of the Harvey Andrews or Wm. H. Rood farm, which he sold in 1801, and then moved to the West.
EPAPHRAS LOOMIS, married, Torrington, September 9, 1755, Mary Hills. They came to Winchester to live with their son Lorrain, about 1809. He died September 10, 1812, aged 80; she died February 12, 1813, aged 78.
CHILDREN.
I. EPAPHRAS, b. March 31, 1756; m. December 1, 1777, Phebe Bacon. He d. in Hannibal, N. Y., in 1850.
II. REMEMBRANCE, b. February 27, 1759 ; was taken prisoner by the British at Fort Washington in the Revolution ; was poisoned by the water, and d. January -, 1777.
III. JERUSHA, b. February 6, 1761 ; m. Noadiah Bancroft ;. d. October, 1827.
IV. LORRAIN,
b. June 9, 1764.
V. WAIT, b. November 23, 1765,
VI. ARAH, b. July 7, 1767.
VII. IRA,
b. September 14, 1770.
DEACON LORRAIN LOOMIS from Torrington, became a resident of Winchester this year. He bought the Truman Blackman farm and other lands, now composing the farm owned by the children of Asher Case, and built and lived in the house now occupied by them. About 1818 hie removed to Cornwall, and acted as steward of the Foreign Mission School during its continuance there, after which he returned to his old homestead in Winchester. Pecuniary losses came upon him in later life. He gave up all his property to his creditors, and worked as a farm laborer for several years, paying his earnings to his creditors, until the larger part of their claims were satisfied. Age and infirmities compelled him to relinquish his cherished design of paying in full, out of his hard earnings, the balance of his indebtedness.
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In his later years, until his death, he lived with his son, Nelson T. Loomis, on the Richard Coit place, near the south end of the Brooks road. He died July 7, 1857, at the age of ninety-three years and six montlıs.
Winchester has had hundreds of men richer in worldly goods and popular talents, but probably not one combining in so high a degree all the qualities of a good man and humble Christian. He was the loved schoolmaster of a large portion of the youth of the town from 1788 to 1810. The writer of these annals remembers him as his first male teacher, with an affection accorded to no other. With the sick he was ever. the welcome visitor and kind watcher; with the afflicted, the sympathizer and consoler ; in the Church an example of faith and good works ; in the world, a humble follower of Him who went about doing good. He married Abigail Rainsford of New Marlboro,' Mass .; she died August 26, 1832, aged 65.
CHILDREN.
I. LOPHELIA, b. July, 1790 ; d. January, 1791.
II. DORRANCE,
b. September, 1792 ; d. March, 1793.
III. NELSON T., b. March, 1799; m. November, 1827, Abigail Hills of
Goshen. He lived near the parting of Brooks str et and the Norfolk road.
CHILDREN.
1. Sarah L., b. January, 1829.
2. Frederick L., b. August, 1834. IV. EDWARD R., b. August, 1806 ; lives in Napiersville, Illinois.
ORANGE MOTT, son of Adam, is on the tax list of this and the follow- ing year. In 1798 he is described in a deed as of Bridgewater, Herkimer Co., N. Y.
DANIEL WELLS, probably from West Hartford, a tanner, bought a quarter acre lot west of the Booge Parsonage, on the Norfolk road, on which he built a tannery, and two years after built, on the opposite side of the road, the dwelling house since owned by Sage W. Grant. In 1798, he sold out to Asahel Wells, and removed to Augusta, Oneida Co., N. Y.
ERASTUS THRALL, son of Reuben, was admitted a voter this year, and soon after went into trade at the center, buying dairies and other farm products, and exchanging them for goods in the New York market and elsewhere. He is said to have gone with his products to the West Indies, and brought home his sugar, molasses, etc., for home trade. He was a young man of fine person and address, active and fast. He ran through his business in 1798, -left the town, -and died soon
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after in prison, before his trial, on a charge of forgery, of which he was believed to be innocent. He died unmarried.
The freemen admitted and sworn this year were Erastus Thrall, Theophilus Andrews, Benjamin Benedict, Jr., Jedediah Coe, Caleb Munson, Abijah Benedict, and Abiel Loomis.
1795.
In special Town Meeting. April 27 of this year, the following vote was passed : " That this meeting disapprove of the appropriation of the avails of the Western Lands, belonging to this state, as passed in the Honorable Upper House of Assembly, in October last."
This vote probably refers to the project, well nigh carried out, to appro- priate the proceeds of the lands in Ohio, reserved by Connecticut in her cession to the general government, to the support of the churches of the standing order. The measure, after passing the Upper House, sitting with closed doors, was resisted in the Lower House, and after a severe struggle of the friends of common schools with the adherents of the clergy, was defeated; and the lands were subsequently appropriated to the endowment of our School Fund. They were eventually sold to the Connecticut Land Company for one million two hundred thousand dollars, and constituted the basis of the splendid endowment from which our com- mon schools have ever since been mainly supported.
It is doubted by many, whether our common schools have been really benefited by this gratuitous aid, which, while it relieves the people in a great measure of the burden of educating the children, at the same time makes them careless as to the management of the schools, sustained without their immediate contributions. The fact is unquestionable, that our common schools have fallen far behind those of some of the neigh- boring states with smaller endowments, in the efficiency of their manage- ment, and the results of good education. But whatever may have been the effect on our common schools, no one can doubt that a diversion of this fund to the support of our churches, would have deadened whatever of vital piety then existed ; and it is creditable to the fathers of our town that they set their faces against the measure.
A vote of the society this year, giving permission to other denomina- tions of Christians to use the new meeting house, now completed, on any days when not wanted by the church or society, indicates a catholic spirit.
ROGER COE (see 1765) son of Ensign Jonathan, this year became the owner of his father's homestead in the south part of the society, -
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his father removing to Winsted. He lived here from his birth to the year 1857 or 1858, when he came to Winsted with his adopted son, Rev. James R. Coe, third son of his brother Daniel. He was for many years a prominent citizen of the town, which he represented in the Legislatures of 1814 and 1815, and was much employed in town affairs. He m. March 5, 1797, Anna Higley ; she d. June 26, 1857. He d. Winsted, Jan. 14. 1859, aged 84 years ; s. p.
JOSHUA BEACH, son of Joel, came of age this year, and is entered on the Tax List as a resident of the society.
WILLIAM CROCKER'S name is on the Tax List of this year. He came from New London County ; and in 1799 bought the farm in Dan- bury Quarter now partly owned by John J. Fanning, on which he lived until about 1825, and then removed to Vernon, N. Y. He m. Dec. 20, 1796, Deborah, daughter of Timothy Benedict, b. Aug. 29, 1774 ; she d. Sept. 18, 1823 ; they had a son, Silas, and perhaps other children. Silas removed, at or about the same time, with his father, to Vernon, N. Y. His wife's name was Mary Breen. They had a son, Lemuel, born in Winchester, June 27, 1825. The father (Joseph) and two brothers (Joseph and James) of William Crocker, became inhabitants of the town after 1800, and all of them died here.
PHINEAS, JR., and MATTHIEW GRISWOLD, sons of Phineas of Win- chester, are on the Tax List of this year. Matthew removed to Vernon, N. Y., before 1800. Phineas was of Beaver Dam, Erie Co., Penn., in 1822.
LUTHER HOLCOMB, from Danbury, came into the town this year, and in 1797, bought the farm in Danbury Quarter, on the east side of Brooks street, not far south of Mad River, which he owned and occupied until 1803. His name disappears from the Records after 1804. He was said to be the same Luther Holcomb mentioned in Barber's Historical Collec- tions, who brought the British Army of 3,000 men to a dead halt on its march through Bethel to Danbury in 1777. By wife Joanna, he had
CHILDREN.
I. FRIEND RANSLEY, b. Oct. 1, 1795.
II. LLOYD HOLMES, b. July 27, 1797.
LEVI MARSHALL owned land on the North and West side of Little Pond, and lived in the Daniel Beckley house until his removal to Ver- non, N. Y., in 1799.
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LOAMI MOTT, son of Adam, Jr., of Winchester, is on the tax list of this and the following years to 1801. In 1797 he bought and lived in a house on Sucker Brook, below the Dugway road, near the Hubbell Saw Mill. In 1803 he is named of Stockbridge, Mass .; and at a later day he removed to Vernon, N. Y. He married April 18, 1795, Polly, daughter of Samnel Clark, of W.
CHILDREN.
I. MERRITT, b. at Winchester, Jan. 3, 1796.
II. WILLARD, b. June 28, 1800.
III. LODEMA, b. at Stockbridge, Mass., Feb. 3, 1803.
DANIEL PHELPS, from East Windsor, purchased, with Horace Higley, the Artemas Rowley farm in the southeast part of the Society, on which he lived until 1809. He afterwards lived in the house on the west side of Brooks Street next south of the old Everitt place. He was a sedate man, - highly esteemed, and often employed in town affairs. He repre- sented the town in the Assembly in 1818 and 1828. He died March 19, 1850, aged 83. His wife, Huldah, died March 4, 1839, aged 70 years.
CHILDREN.
I. DANIEL, bap. in E. Windsor, Nov. 3, 1793.
III. BENJAMIN, bap.
II. HULDAH, bap. Aug. 2, 1795 ; he lived in Danbury quar- ter near the Everitt place until his death, July 12, 1849, aged 54 ; he m. Feb. 16, 1826, Abigail Brooks, of W.
IV. FREDERICK, b. Winchester, June 30, 1795; m. May 22, 1826, Lucy W. Hurlbut, and moved to Valatic, N. Y.
V. A son (not named), b. July 14, 1803; d. Sept. 7, 1803. VI. JONATHAN, b. March 17, 1805 ; d. July 1, 1822.
DANIEL PHELPS, JR., married, April 18, 1816, Lucy Hurlbut, daugh- ter of Stephen, and lived in Winchester until after 1826, when he re- moved to Norfolk, and after 1840 to Wellington, Ohio, where he died not far from 1860. His first wife died in Ohio, and he there married a second wife. He seems to have owned no real estate in Winchester.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. LOUISA ABIGAIL, b. March 13, 1817.
II. JAMES WHITING, b. April 4, 1819.
III. JOSEPII, b. March 26, 1821.
JOHN CHESTER RILEY, from Goshen, came to Winchester this year and, in company with Seth Holmes, commenced trade as a country mer- chant in a house south of Jonathan Blake's, near the center. In 1800 he bought of Fyler and Marshall the Washington Hatch place at the center, where he traded and kept a tavern. In 1807 he built a store at the parting of the Old Country road and the Waterbury turnpike, in which he
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did an extensive business until his failure in 1816. Being a Jeffersonian in politics, while most of the traders of his day and vicinity were of the Feder al School, he drew in to a large extent the trade of those of his own faith in this and the neighboring towns. After his failure, he was confined on the jail limits at Litchfield for a considerable time, and continued to reside there during his remaining life. He lived a bachelor until past middle age, and married at Litchfield.
SETH HOLMES, from Torrington, came to Winchester with John C. Riley this year, and for one or two years they were partners, under the firm name of Holmes & Riley. He lived while in town on the discon- tinued road west of Waterbury turnpike, near the site of the first meeting house. He removed to Vernon, New York, prior to 1802. His wife's name was Phebe.
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