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The Society records of the year mainly relate to the dismission of Rev. Mr. Booge from his pastoral charge, on his own application, concurred in by the Church and Society, which was ratified by Revs. Robbins of Nor- folk, Gillett of Torrington, and Mills of Torringford.
The following notice of Mr. Booge we extract, by permission of its author, from the manuscript account of the Winchester Church, which Rev. Frederick Marsh furnished to the Connecticut Historical Society :
" Mr. Booge was born in the parish of Northington, now the town of Avon, March 30, 1764. His father was a clergyman, and died in Northington when his son was about two years and ten months old. He continued under the care of his mother until fourteen years old. Though a good reader, his education at this time was very limited. Ile then began to act for himself, and after laboring a short time on a farm, he entered the American Army, as substitute for an older brother. He served principally at West Point. When about 18, he became anxious to know what he should do to be saved. His convictions issued in hopeful conversion. His mind was thus turned to the Gospel Ministry, and after struggling with various difficulties, he entered Yale College at 19, and graduated in 1787. He became the pastor of this Church, January 26, 1791. His dismission took place March 20, 1800, much to the regret of his people. He was licensed to preach the Gospel by Springfield Association, at Feeding Hills, Mass. After preaching a while at East Granville, Mass., then at Cornwall, Ct., he carne to this place. About the time of his settlement here, he was married to Catharine Robinson, daughter of Colonel Timothy Robinson, of Gran- ville, Mass. The leading cause of Mr. B.'s dismission from here was the failure of his health, and a strong conviction on his own mind that it was necessary to remove to a new country. Soon after his dismission, Mr. B. removed to Vernon, Oneida Co., N. Y. After preaching in that county about two years, as his health would permit, he removed to Georgia, Vt. After having the charge of that people eleven years, enjoying the satisfaction of seeing his labors blessed to the hopeful con-
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version of many souls, he took the pastoral charge of a congregation in Paris, Oneida Co., N. Y., called Union Society. Here he labored twelve years, happily and successfully, enjoying several interesting revivals. While enjoying peace, and the prospect of spending the remnant of his ministerial life with that people, a young man of Hamilton College, . professedly very good, was the means of such difficulties among his people as led to his dismission.
" Mr. B. was several times employed as a missionary by different societies, and aided in forming many churches. He was able in council, and often employed in aiding others with his advice, much respected and beloved. He died suddenly in Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y., in his own dwelling. August 28, 1836, aged 73 years, and five months after the death of his wife. He exercised his ministry about forty-four years.
" Most of the above account of Mr. B. is taken from a letter of his son, Rev. Horace P. Booge of Vernon Village, N. Y.
" Mr. B. was in person above the middle stature of men, handsome, had a good countenance, pleasant voice, and an unusually prepossessing appearance. As a preacher he was very acceptable and edifying.
" The kindest feelings appear ever to have existed between him and his people. His repeated visits and preaching since my settlement liere were apparently very acceptable and pleasant to the people, and gratify- ing to himself. His surviving parishioners still remember him with interest."
The Church applied to the dismissing council for advice in reference to a successor of Mr. Booge, and Rev. Archibald Bassett, a graduate of Yale College, in the class of 1796, was soon employed as a candidate, and continued his ministrations as such through the year.
The electors admitted this year were Selah Hart, Loammi Mott, James Boyd, Ezra Andrews, Daniel Andrews, Jr., Levi Andrews, Benjamin Jenkins, Merritt Bull, Ezra Doolittle, and Roswell Marshall.
BENJAMIN WHEADON, supposed to be son of Solomon, of Winchester, is this year certified as equipped for military duty, November 5, 1807 ; the Church voted him a letter to the Church in Hudson, O.
ELIAKIM BENEDICT, son of Benjamin, Senior, and a native of the town, came of age in 1799, and is this year certified as equipped for military duty. He married November 29, 1798, Anna Beebe.
LENT MOTT, Jr., son of Lent, of Winchester, and native of the town, was this year certified as equipped for military duty. He seems to have had no permanent residence, though he probably died in the town. He married November 16, 1798, Lucy Ives.
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CHILDREN.
I. LAURA, b. November 17, 1799.
II. ALMA,
b. April 28, 1800.
III. JERUSHIA,
b. October 28, 1801.
IV. LUCY,
b. August 2, 1803.
V. JOSIAH, b. March 28, 1805.
SILLIMAN HUBBELL came from Danbury to Winchester in 1800, and bought the house and lot on the south side of Cooper-lane, or Norfolk Road, about one-third of a mile westerly of the center, now owned by his grandson, Andrew E. Hubbell, in which he resided until his death, July 27, 1847, aged 83. He was one of the last and best esteemed humorists who abounded in Old Winchester at the close of the last century. His descent from his immigrant ancestor was in the follow- ing line :-
Richard Hubbell,1 Senr., from England in 1647, to Fairfield in 1664.
Samuel,? son of Richard.
Jeptha,3 son of Samuel ; married Sarah Brindle or Brintnell.
Silliman,4 their son, who married 1st, April, 1787, Hannah Taylor, daughter of Timothy Taylor of Bethel, who died January
12, 1814; 2d, Nov., 1815, Polly, daughter of Wm. Cham- berlin, who died s. p. May 6, 1864.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. CHILOE,5 b. January 25, 1788 ; m. 1814, Norris Coe. He died s. p., June 25, 1866.
II. AMMON,5 b. April 15, 1790; m. ; died s. p., August 8, 1823.
III. POLLY,5 b. January 17, 1792; m. April 18, 1819, Ira Dexter. She died March 25, 1856.
IV. IRA,5 b. October 10, 1794 ; m. (1), Irene Strong ; (2), - Hart ; (3), Urania Patton. Children by first wife : 1. Henry6; 2. Mary6 ; 3, Laura.6 By second wife : 1. Silliman J.6. .
V. LUMAN,5 b. August 28, 1797.
VI. ANDREW,5 b. January 17, 1800; m. November 16, 1826, Marian Rogers. He died s. p., Charleston, S. C., September 14, 1827.
VII. McPHERSON,5 b. August 24, 1803; m. September 27, 1830, Minerva Seymour.
VIII. ANNA,5 b. March 8, 1806; d. April 20, 1807.
IX. LYMAN,5 b. February 18, 1808; d. unmarried April 19, 1833.
X. SILLIMAN,5 b. February 7, 1810; d. September 30, 1826.
LUMAN HUBBELL," son of Silliman,4 married 1st, June 22, 1831, Jane Munro Boyd, daughter of James and Mary (Munro) Boyd. She died January 8, 1836, aged 22; 2d, Oct. 7, 1837, Henrietta, daughter of Benj. Jenkins.
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CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. ANDREW LYMAN, 6 b. Mareh 5, 1834; m. September 10, 1857, Martha W. Woodworth of Great Barrington, Mass., b. April 15, 1836.
II. JAMES BOYD,6 b. March 18, 1836; m. September 9, 1858, Katie Amelia Tew, b. December 17, 1836.
CHILDREN.
1. Louis Boyd,7 b. Mankato, Minnesota, July 5, 1859.
2. Grace,7 b. Mankato, July 11, 1860.
3. Henrietta May,7 b. Winnebago Indian Ageney, May II, 1862.
4. James Boyd,7 b. Mankato, December 22, 1866.
5. Andrew Lyman,7 b. Mankato, October 8, 1870.
CHILD BY SECOND WIFE.
III. LUMAN SILLIMAN,G b. May 24, 1844 ; residing in 1872 at Mankato, Min., unmarried.
JOSIAH COWLES lived near Colebrook line on the Jacklin road, from 1800 to about 1805.
AUGUSTUS HUMPHREY, last from Torringford, this year bought of Elisha Wilcoxson the William Johnson farm, above the Dugway, on the old Winsted and Winchester road, where he lived until 1810, when he sold to Abiel Loomis, and left the town.
1800.
CALEB BEACH, son of Joel, and grandson of Caleb, the first settler of the town, is on the tax list this year, and spent his life in the town ; his residence not ascertained. He died March 10, 1851, aged 72. He married June 25, 1797, Sarah Blakesley.
CHILDREN.
I. ELIZABETH,
b. July 3, 1798 ; d. December 2, 1804.
II. JONATHAN,
b. November 19, 1799.
III. WILLIAM,
b. January 5, 1802.
IV. SEBA,
b. January 8, 1804.
V. CALEB,
b. Jannary 6, 1806.
VI. SUSANNA SEREPTA, b. December 10, 1807.
VII. HEZEKIAH,
b. July 13, 1810.
. VIII. SARAH,
b. July 31, 1812.
IX. JULIA,
b. April 25, 1815.
X. PHEBE,
b. May 26, 1817.
XI. CLARISSA, b. June 2, 1819 ; m. December 31, 1837, Major Thorp of Barkhamsted.
ARAH LOOMIS, son of Epaphras, lived from 1800 until his death (September 10, 1844, aged 77), in the house now occupied by Samuel
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W. Starks, on the road turning west above the Dugway, and leading to the center. He married May 15, 1799, Margaret Loomis. She died September 28, 1841, aged 69.
CHILDREN.
I. HARRIET,
b. February 4, 1800; d. March 10, 1807.
II. MARY,
b. January 27, 1802.
III. HARRY,
b. March 14, 1803; d. March 26, 1803.
IV. ABIGAIL,
b. May 9, 1804.
V. RUBY,
b. April 27, 1806.
VI. HARRIETT,
b. March 16, 1808.
VII. LUCY (twin),
b. February 5, 1810.
VIII. LURY (twin),
b. February 5, 1810.
ISAAC WILCOX, Jr., from Simsbury, in 1799 bought a house and land near Colebrook line, in third tier, third division, near Richard Slocum's, which he conveyed to Luther Phelps by a deed in which he is named . "of Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y." He is assessed this year as a resident of the town.
CHAPTER XVI.
EARLY SCHOOLS.
WE have found scant materials for a history of the rise and progress of schools, and have made no mention of them hitherto in our Annals, preferring to bring together all that we have learned of their history and condition in a separate chapter. The first recorded action in reference to schools is found under date of December 17, 1773, the year of Rev. Mr. Knapp's settlement ; it was voted "to raise two pence on the pound of the rateable estate for the support of schools in this [1st] Society." It was also voted that the north district begin at the house now owned by Medad Hills, and contain all the north part" (of the society), " that the west district contain all the inhabitants on the west road from the crotch of the paths and all west," and "the east district to contain all the rest of the Society ;" "that the money raised by the tax be divided according to the list, and that Warham Gibbs, Reuben Thrall, Ebenezer Preston, Seth Hills, Oliver Coe, Samuel McCune, Benjamin Benedict, Abram Andrews, and Daniel Platt be school committee ;" "that money [raised ?] in each district be laid out in each district as shall best accommodate the same, if it shall be laid out in the year ; if not laid out in the year, to be returned to the society treasury."
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The foregoing votes promised an excellent provision for the educa- tional interests of a community that as yet had only pathis instead of roads by which to define the limits of its school districts. But unfortu- lately at an adjourned meeting, January 6, 1774, it was voted “ to reconsider all the votes that have been passed in this meeting concerning schooling." Here the matter rested, so far as taxation and the organiza- tion of school districts was concerned, until December 2, 1777, when it was voted " to raise two pence on the pound on last August list, to sup- port schools," and Deacon Seth Hills, Ensign Ozias Brownson, Philip Priest, Eliphaz Alvord, Captain Gibbs, Phineas Griswold, Lieutenant Benedict, and Eleazer Smith were appointed school committee.
Whatever may have been done pursuant to these votes, there is no record of their repeal, and at the annual meeting in 1778 similar votes were renewed, and a rate of sixpence on the pound was granted, and a collector in each district appointed to collect the same.
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We have no means of ascertaining when or where the first school houses were erected, or what teachers were employed, or for what length of time; but we have reason to suppose that schools were first opened in private houses by voluntary associations, and that these were aided, but not wholly sustained, by taxation.
The next action appears on the society records in 1786, when a new school district was organized, " beginning at Torrington line, by a stream called the Branch, and to extend up said Branch so far as that an east line will include Captain Elmer [now Widow Norris Coe], from thence down ye country road, including Doctor Everitt [now Theron Bronson ], John Nash, and all on the north side of said country road, and to include Phinehas Griswold's, from thence south to Torrington line," and Jonathan Coe and Levi Brownson were appointed district committee. This description is not very definite, but probably is intended to designate the district which built about this time the "Two-Chimney School House " that stood, until burned down, in a southeast direction from the burying- ground.
In 1788, on the petition of Eliphaz Alvord, and others, another dis- trict, to be called the Second District, was organized, beginning on Long Lake, at the mouth of Sucker Brook, and extending up said brook to the north end of the third tier, first division (near the Dugway school house), then to the northwest corner of the tier, then southerly along its west line. to the southwest corner of Gershom McCune, Jr. (late Sylvester Platt's) lot, thence easterly along his south line, direct to Long Lake, and thence northerly along the shore thereof to the mouth of Sucker Brook.
In January, 1790, we find the following appointment of district school committees :---
Samuel Clark, who lived in the Daniel Murray house, for the north- east district, which embraced the east part of Danbury Quarter, and extended south to Mr. Clark's.
Andrew Everitt, who lived in the old Everitt house, for the north- west district, embracing the principal part of Danbury Quarter.
Amasa Wade, for the southwest district, embracing the territory west of Branch Brook, nearly as far north as the Norfolk road.
Captain Joseph Elmore, for the southeast district, embracing the center and the southern portion of the society, lying west of Branch Brook, and southwest of Sucker Brook.
Captain Elisha Wilcoxson, who lived in the William Johnson house, for the second or Sucker Brook District.
In 1798, by vote of the town, a new district was established, partly out of Winchester Society, and partly out of Winsted Society, the boundaries of which were directed to be placed on file in the Town
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Clerk's Office, but as no such file is to be found, its limits cannot be ascertained. It probably embraced the northern half of the present Sucker Brook district, and extended easterly to the Austin Mill, or Mad River, in Winsted. The committee were-Deacon David Austin, Levi Norton, and John Miner.
In 1792 another district was formed, embracing essentially the terri- tory of the present West Winsted district, there then being no village in existence, all the inhabitants living on the Coe and Spencer street roads to Colebrook, the two roads there diverging from the original school house, which stood on the site of the present West Winsted school house, and was burned down about 1808 or 1809.
In the records of Winsted Society, under date of December 27, 1784, we find a vote that the districts set off for schooling by a committee chosen for that purpose be established according to their doings, but no record of the districts so established is to be found. October 5, 1785, a tax of "one penny halfpenny" on the pound was laid for the " use of schooling," but was reconsidered and annulled at an adjourned meeting on the 26th of the same month. December 8, 1788, Ebenezer Rowley, and Ensign Eleazer Kellogg were appointed school committee. No further reference to school matters is found until December 8, 1794, when it was voted to divide the society into school districts, and a com- mittee was appointed for that purpose, who reported January 12, 1795. The report was accepted and placed on file, but not recorded, and the file is not to be found.
In the foregoing minutes and extracts we have collated all of the essential doings of the town, and of the two societies prior to the act of General Assembly, May Session, 1795, which appropriated the interest of the proceeds of the western reserve lands to the support of schools in the several societies constituted, or which should thereafter be constituted by law, and requiring such societies to hold distinctive meetings, as school societies, separate from their meetings for ecclesiastical purposes. This act left the ecclesiastical societies as it found them in respect to their religious functions, but invested them with new and distinct powers as school societies, so that persons qualified to vote on school matters might be disqualified as voters in ecclesiastical matters. As a consequence, the meetings and officers of each had a distinctive character, and distinctive records were kept.
Little of detail is known in respect to the schools supported in the dis- tricts prior to the act of 1795. We know, however, that several school- houses were built in the old society, and that they swarmed with pupils. We know, too, that good teachers were employed, and that the mass of
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the people were well instructed in all the branches of common school education.
We have before us some of the early reminiscences of a lady,* born in 1786, which illustrate the school customs and mental culture at the period referred to, from which we extract her notice "of the great day of exam- inations and exhibitions, when eight district schools assembled in the large, unfinished meeting-house in the winter of 1793-4.
" The reading and spelling of the schools occupied the forenoon, and the afternoon was devoted to dramas, comedies, orations, etc. One corner of the church was enclosed in curtains, and each school took its turn behind the scenes to prepare for their special exhibitions on the stage.
" The late Deacon Levi Platt was the teacher of the school to which I belonged. Well do I remember the directions given by him to the little girls, as to dressing their hair for exhibition, viz: The night previous, our mothers were to wet our heads with home-brewed beer, and our hair was to be combed and braided very tightly before going to bed. In the morning, the last thing after we were dressed for the exhibition, the braids were taken out, and the hair lay in waving lines all over our shoulders.
" Among the variety of things he taught us, was the practice of spell- ing a whole sentence, all together, or more particularly the first class. The sentence to be publicly spelled, was : ' Abominable Bumble Bee, with his Tail cut off'; but Mr. Platt thought best to shorten it to 'Abomina- ble tail cut off.'"
" Imagine, if you can, in soberness, a large, thoroughly trained school- class, spelling, or chanting, before the assembled families of the town, in this wise :
"'A- there's your A.
"'B-O- there's your Bo, and your A-bo.
"'M-I- there's your Mi, and your Bo-mi, and your A-bo-mi.
"'N-A- there's your Na, and your Mi-na, and your Bo-mi-na, and your A-bo-mi-na.
"' B-L-E- there's your Ble, and your Na-ble, and your Mi-na-ble, and your Bo-mi-na-ble, and your A-bo-mi-na-ble.
"'T-A-I-L- there's your Tail, and your Ble-tail, and your Na-ble- tail, and your Mi-na-ble-tail, and your Bo-mi-na- ble-tail, and your A-bo-mi nable-tail.
"'C-U-T- there's your Cut, and your Tail-cut, and your Ble- tail-cut, and your Na-ble-tail-cut, and your Bo mi- na-ble-tail-cut, and your A-bo-mi-na-ble-tail-cut.
* Mrs. Nelly M. Swift, daughter of Dr. Josiah Everitt.
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"'O-F-F- there's your Off, and your Cut-off, and your Tail-cut- off, and your Ble-tail-cut-off, and your Na-ble-tail- cut-off, and your Mi-na-ble-tail-cut-off, and your Bo-mi-na-ble-tail-cut-off, and your A-bo-mi-na- ble-tail-cut-off.'
" In the afternoon, cach school had its oration, poem, dialogue, comedy or tragedy. One of our dialogues was called 'Old Gibber,' in which the late Abel McEwen, D.D., of New London, took the part of Old Gib- ber ; his wife was Charity Bronson. Oliver Marshall, Seth Hills, Jo- seph Coit, and myself, had parts.
" FIRST SCENE. - Old Gibber and wife talking about the war - wife stirring the hasty pudding - daughter Betty (myself) setting the table - John, the son, just home from the war, etc.
" Another scene is a bar-room, with such talk as we may suppose would take place there during the war of the Revolution.
" The boys of this period were remarkable for their successful imita- tions of every kind of business.
" The late Samuel Hurlbut, Senior, was Justice of the Peace. Samuel Stanley (son of Dr. Everitt's third wife, who died young), was a lawyer, also Sylvester Griswold. Lemuel Hurlbut was constable, etc. Mock Courts were held in my father's long kitchen. Writs, attachments, and executions were all made out in due form. A statute book of laws was compiled, specifying a great variety of things contrary to law, for which culprits would be arrested, tried, and punished by imprisonment for so many hours, etc., etc. Witnesses were summoned, examined, cross- examined, and impeached, etc.
" A newspaper was edited and published weekly by Samuel Stanley, before mentioned. It was ruled in columns, had editorials, news, anec- dotes, advertisements, etc. These boys, at that time, were none of them over twelve years old !"
These glimpses of the common schools of that early day, before any School Fund existed, and of their results in stimulating the mental activ- ity of the youth, seem almost incredible.
In this connection, a sketch of the first "General Training" in Win- chester, by the same lady, seems appropriate.
"Up to this time (about 1793) the 'Green,' in front of the Meeting House, was ornamented with quite a number of chestnut stumps, which were then split down and drawn out piecemeal, by teams and chains, the holes were filled up and levelled, all the fences in every direction were removed, and the tables for dinner were set in my father's orchard. Nev-
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er shall I forget the array of ladies in silks, satins, damasks, and change- able lustrings, of all colors, as they stood in a regular mass, directly opposite our house, on the other side of the road, for it was a new thing, and all the towns near contributed largely to this display of female beauty and rich dresses. It should be recollected that these robes were not worn every day, or even once a week, as they are now, and were of a far richer material than those flaunted by modern butterfly-belles. Every officer, and every soldier brought his wife, his lady-love, or his sister; it was the grand holiday of the year.
" Col. Ozias Bronson commanded the regiment, and I remember his coming to my father's to ask for my black ostrich plumes to wear on his hat. I also recollect that when the regiment was formed in a hollow square, the colonel tried to find a clergyman to make a prayer, but found none. He then took off his plumed cocked hat, as he sat on his horse, and said : 'I will pray'; so he did, and with great propriety.
" It was customary for those who had been officers and soldiers in the then late war, to ride on horseback, single file, past the train band, take off their hats and bow to the company, who returned what was called the ' General Salute,' by fife and drum. Well do I recollect seeing my father at the head of such a procession, riding past Captain Hurlbut's company. To play Indian, dressed like savages, and sound the 'War-Whoop,' used to fill one with terror, for nothing was so dreadful in the minds of children as 'Indians ' and ' British Regulars.'"
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CHAPTER XVII.
EMIGRATION WESTWARD-FAMILY RECORDS.
FROM 1801 to 1811.
AT the opening of the nineteenth century the old society of Winchester had reached or passed its culminating point, as to population and wealth, as well as social institutions. As we have traced its slow growth, we have found it a hard struggle of energetic men encountering and subduing a most forbidding and inhospitable territory. Victory has crowned their efforts. A virtuous, law-abiding, God-fearing community has been organ- ized out of the heterogeneous materials gathered from every part of the state. The roads have been made, the mills built, the church organized, the minister settled, the meeting house erected, the schools organized. Blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, hatters and tailors have begun to ply their trades, and even the dancing-master has found a lodgment, and held his assemblies once a fortnight, during the winter of 1793-4, at Captain Hurlbut's tavern.
It would seem as if the labor-worn denizens should now in comparative ease enjoy the fruits of their hard toils and privations. Such had doubt- less been the fond hopes that cheered their exhausting labors : for as yet they knew of no more fertile lands to be possessed and enjoyed. The Dutch settlements along the Hudson, from New York to Lake Cham- plain, then formed a barrier to the westward march of the Yankee nation, and they knew little of the wilderness beyond. As new and improved roads were projected from Schenectady westward along the Mohawk to Utica and onward, enterprising men from this and neighboring towns con- tracted to build them. They hired their laborers and teamsters mainly from the Greenwoods towns, especially from Winchester and Torrington. These laborers bore no resemblance to the railroad gangs of our day. They were the elite of our young and middle-aged farmers. They went on a service not unlike a military expedition, camping out and working their toilsome way through the German Flats to the virgin soil of Oneida county. They found it "a goodly land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of vallies and hills, a land of wheat and barley, a land wherein they should eat bread without scarceness, and should not lack anything in it."
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