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* The following obituary notice of a worthy member of one of our churches who had for several years of poverty and disease, been an inmate of the poor-house, appeared in the Winsted Herald of December 9, 1864. It needs no comment. "Exchanged his poverty for eternal riches, and his rags for a crown which fadeth not away-at the Winehester poor-house, Nov. 5, 1864, James C. Smith, aged 67. The pall-bearers were few on this side-not so many perhaps as they that waited on the 'shining ยท shore,' and went up with the old man to 'his Father's house.'"
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Returning from this disquisition of town affairs, to the closing of our annals of the Old Society of Winchester, we find little more of history to be compiled ; while the sources from which to compile family records are exhausted.
A noteworthy and creditable feature characterizing the Society, has been, and continues to be, the permanence, amid all divisions and excite- ments, of the Congregational Order, and the absence of all other organized denominations. At Noppit, beyond the Torrington border, - where Mr. Hungerford threatened going to get religion, - the fathers of the Drakes, Fylers, Norths, and others, were Baptists ; and early erected a meeting house for their order. The Methodists, in process of time, became nu- merous, and the two orders united in enlarging, repairing, and adding a steeple to the Baptist house, under an arrangement that each order should use it on alternate Sabbaths. This plan worked well until the Methodist quarterly meeting occurred on the Baptists' Sabbath, and they of that persuasion refused to yield their right of worship for the exigency. At the fever heat of the resulting odium theologicum, - a new Methodist Church, with steeple and bell, was erected over the way. The process was the reverse of that of Peter Pinder's farmer, who burned his barn to kill the rats, but was equally unwise ; - for there were now two barns to shelter the vermin of sectarianism ; and the scant ability to sustain one house of worship became divided and utterly inadequate for the two. The Bap- tists have dwindled down to the shadow of a name, and the Methodists, overshadowed by the rising order of Adventists, yielded their house to the ownership and control of that persuasion about 1850. This new Evangel, for a few years, was gladly received by large numbers, and re- ligious zeal pervaded the whole community. Both meeting houses be- came crowded with Sabbath worshipers, and continued so for a few years, when the flame of devotion and sectarianism died away leaving both houses permanently empty and dilapidated.
Only a few of these " sectarians" lived in Winchester, so that the Congregational order was slightly affected by their controversies. Rev. Father Marsh, amid many trials growing out of internal dissensions of his Church, pursued the even tenor of his way sole pastor until 1846, when Rev. James H. Dill, a graduate of Yale College and Theological Seminary, was ordained as his colleague pastor, and was so continued until October 2, 1851, when they were both dismissed at their own request The pulpit was then supplied for a year or more by Rev. Alexander Con- ningham, and afterwards by various ministers until October 1857, when Rev. Ira Pettibone, formerly pastor of the First Winsted Church, was in- stalled its pastor, and officiated as such until his removal to Stafford, Connecticut, in 1866. He was succeeded by Rev. Wm. M. Gay, as a
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supply, for one year. On the 28th of December, 1870, Rev. Arthur Goodenough, the present worthy pastor, was installed, Rev. Mr. Petti- bone having been on the same day formally dismissed.
The present state of the Church and Society appears more auspicious than for many past years.
In addition to the district schools in various parts of the Society, an academic school was for several years sustained at the center, under the successive charges of the late Silas H. McAlpine, Robert M. Beebee,
WINCHESTER INSTITUTE.
Henry Norton, James Coe, and others, in the lecture room of the Church. In 1858 Rev. Ira Pettibone, aided by other citizens of the Society, erected a commodious seminary building on an elevated site, immediately north of the village, which he opened as a boarding and day school, under the name of "The Winchester Institute," in conducting which he was assisted by his sons, Colonel Ira W. and Benjamin W. Pettibone, gradu- ates of Yale and Amherst Colleges. The former entered the service in 33
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1862, as Major of the 10th Regt. Conn. Volunteers, and served in the North Carolina campaign, was promoted to Colonel, - and on his resig- nation, caused by constant ill-health, he assumed the entire management of the school and successfully conducted it until his removal to Beloit College, Illinois, as principal of the preparatory department of that insti- tution.
In 1869 the Seminary grounds and buildings were purchased by Mrs. Sabra Blake, and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Mitchell, and were by them conveyed to seven trustees and their successors, "for the purpose of sustaining, carrying on, and maintaining a Seminary of learning similar to the Institute now and heretofore carried on in the conveyed premises and to possess all the powers necessary for that purpose." Since this pur- chase and dedication, the Seminary has been conducted by J. Walker McBeth, Esq., a graduate of Edinburgh University and an experienced educator, under whose auspices it is hoped that such a degree of success will be attained as will induce other wealthy citizens of the town to make similar endowments, and thereby raise the present standard of education among us.
The streams adapted to water power run through the northern and southwestern parts of the Society ; and none of them are large and per- manent enough for large manufacturing purposes. No grist-mill was ever erected in the Society. The early settlers had their grinding done at a mill in the northwestern corner of Torrington, until Austin's mill was erected in Winsted.
The first saw mill was built by Deacon Samuel Wetmore, near the bu- rial ground, with a privilege of flowing the meadow and marsh land bor- dering the stream above. It was early moved down the stream to a point near the site of the first meeting-house ; and, at a later period, was inoved further down to the site of the McAlpine mill, below the junction of the east and west branches. A saw mill was early erected on Mad River, near Norfolk line, on the site of the Martin and Nelson Brooks mill; and another, long since abandoned, on the same stream, near the Danbury school-house. The Trumbull Brooks mill, still lower down the stream, was first built early in the present century. Another saw mill was built on Sucker Brook in the last century by Samuel Clark, Christopher Whit- ing, and others; and still another on the same site was erected by McPherson Hubbell, about 1848, which has now disappeared. Few branches of manufacturing have ever been undertaken in the Society, and none of them have been permanently successful. Dish and trencher mills were appendages of most of the early saw mills, for working up the slabs into primitive household utensils. The last one in the town, standing im- mediately west of Meadow street bridge, ceased operation as early as 1804.
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A fulling mill is said to have been erected about 1776 by Daniel or Joseph Platt, on the small stream running north and emptying into Mad River, at the mill dam of Trumbull Brooks. Samuel Clark built a trip- hammer works for welding gun-barrels, late in the last century, on Sucker Brook, just below the Dugway bridge. A bark mill, connected with the Amasa Wade tannery, on the Naugatuck Branch, near Torrington line, was erected early in the present century. The tannery went into new hands about 1844, and was essentially enlarged and improved in capacity and business, but was abandoned as a tannery about 1850, and was after- wards used for a time in manufacturing cheese boxes. Another tannery and bark mill was erected early in this century by Elijah Blake, senior, and carried on after him by his son, Deacon Allen Blake, now deceased. It stood on Taylor's Brook, and is now abandoned. Early in this century, John McAlpine erected a shop on the east branch, near the burying ground, for cutting scale boards used in packing cheese in casks for mar- keting, which continued in operation until the packing of cheeses in sepa- rate boxes superseded the old method. In 1814 John Nash, James Beebe, and Dr. Zephenia Swift erected a clothiers' works, carding-machine, and fulling mill on the Naugatuck branch, between the McAlpine saw mill and the Wade tannery, which was operated a few years by Alva Nash, then sold to John Galagher, who introduced power looms, and went into the manufacture of broadcloths and satinets. David Bird succeeded Galagher in the business, and formed a joint stock company which operated the con- cern in a small way until the establishment was burned down about 1860.
Prior to 1825, all the usual handicraft trades, such as blacksmiths, tanners and shoemakers, joiners and carpenters, tailors, hatters, coopers, wheelwrights, &c., were carried on and sustained in the society ; but since that period, in consequence of the growth of Winsted, most of them have been abandoned.
From almost the beginning of the century to the year 1857 a large portion of the mercantile and produce business of the Society was trans- acted by the brothers Samuel and Lemuel Hurlbut, who early placed their business on a solid basis, and enlarged it by transactions beyond the line of ordinary country traders, identifying their interests with those of the community around them, and sustaining its rights and privileges against all outside rivalries. For a long course of years, before Winsted had be- gun to abound in wealthy men, they were the bankers of this region, and especially so of the dairy farmers requiring loans for the purchase and stock- ing of their farms. We have already in another place analyzed their characters and capacities, and referred to their introduction of improved breeds of sheep and cattle. On their deaths, occurring within a year of
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each other, their large business was wound up, and their property distrib- uted among numerous and widely-scattered heirs.
Compared with other farming communities around us, Old Winchester and the agricultural portions of Winsted are favored in a high degree with a distribution of wealth approaching equality, a freedom from embarras- sing debt, good education largely diffused, temperate habits, refined morals, and intelligent patriotism.
WINSTED SOCIETY AND BOROUGH.
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CHAPTER XX.
WINSTED SOCIETY-FIRST SETTLERS AND FAMILY RECORDS.
As already stated in our preliminary account of the township, the open- ing of the Old North Road was soon followed by a settlement in the northeast corner of the town, distinct and distant from the earlier settle- ment in the southwest section, to which our attention has thus far been directed. Long Lake, and the mountain ridges extending from its north end to Colebrook line effectually separated these communities from each other, until near the close of the last century ; when the improvement of the splendid water power along the Lake Stream, and at the Still River falls, gradually drew settlers to the intermediate region. The Winsted settlement began some twenty years later than that of the old society. The records show but four resident land owners there in 1771, when the town was incorporated ; and none of their names are found on the peti- tion for the incorporation.
1770.
LIEUT. JOHN WRIGHT, from Wethersfield to Goshen in 1740, came thence to Winsted, it is believed in 1769 or 1770, and settled, with his large family, on the northeast side of the old North road, near Colebrook line, on the site of the homestead now occupied by Edward and Edwin Rowley. His title of Lieutenant is said to have been acquired during his service in the French War. His will was proved in the Norfolk Probate Court, Dec. 24, 1784, in which are named his wife Dorcas, and his children, John, Jr., Jabez, Charles, Freedom, Dorcas, Mary, and Lu- cia. L. M. Norton, in his Goshen Genealogies, names Samuel, David, and Moses, as sons of Lieut. John. The relative age of their children is not ascertainable. His wife was probably a dau. of Benjamin Dem- ing, of Goshen.
SAMUEL WRIGHT, son of, John, Sen., probably born at Wethersfield,
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lived and died at Goshen. L. M. Norton gives his children, born in Goshen, as follows :
CHILDREN.
I. JOSIAH, b. April 1, 1753.
II. OZIAS, b. Sept. 1, 1755 ; d. young.
III. ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 8, 1757.
IV. OZIAS, b. Feb. 18, 1759.
V. ANDREW, b. March 17,. 1763.
MOSES WRIGHT, son of John, Sen., is probably the same Moses Wright who lived and died in Colebrook, and was father to Norton Wright, who formerly lived near the Old Hemlock Meeting-house, in Winsted, and Alvin Wright of Colebrook, who d. May, 1866.
DAVID WRIGHT, son of John, Sen., is not noted on the Winchester Records as an inhabitant, though he probably came to the town with his father. He enlisted into Capt. Sedgwick's company in 1775, and while on the march to the Northern frontier, died of the camp distemper, at Lanesborough, Mass., unmarried.
JOHN WRIGHT, Jr. probably came to Winsted with his father. He lived immediately east of his father, on the old North road, until his re- moval in 1801, to Morgan, Ohio. He m. Aug. 14, 1770, Lydia Mason, who d. Nov. 11, 1771. He m. (2d), March 24, 1774, Sarah, dau. of Lieut, Asahel Case, of Norfolk, by whom he had
CHILDREN.
I. LYDIA MASON, b. Jan. 19, 1775.
II. DAVID,
b. Aug. 16, 1778 ; d. Sept. 1, 1784.
III. JOHN, b. Jan. 11, 1780.
IV. AMOS CASE,
b. Sept. 5, 1782 ; m. Lydia, dau. of Rev. Aaron Kinney.
V. SALLY, b. April 16, 1785.
VI. DAVID,
b. July 27, 1787.
VII. ALPHA, b. Dec. 26, 1789.
VIII. AN INFANT,
b. April 25, 1791. .
CHARLES WRIGHT probably came from Goshen to Winsted about 1775, and lived near his father until his removal in 1801, to Jefferson Co., N. Y. He served as Sergeant in Capt. Sedgwick's company, on the northern frontier, in 1775. He m. Nov. 11, 1767, Ruth Smith.
CHILDREN.
I. TYRANNUS,
b. Goshen, March 20, 1768 ; probably died young.
II. SARAHI,
b. Jan. 29, 1770.
III. CHARLES,
b. July 28, 1774.
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IV. STEPHEN,
b. Aug. 18, 1776; bap. July 30, 1797.
V. TYAGUSTUS, b. Feb. 6, 1779 ; bap. July 30, 1797.
VI. RUTII, b. April 30, 1781 ; bap. July 30, 1797.
VII. ERASTUS, b. ; d. Aug. 28, 1786.
VIII. ERASTUS, b. May 28, 1787; bap. July 30, 1797.
IX. CHESTER, b. Nov. 10, 1789 ; bap. July 30, 1797.
X. NATIIAN, b. May 17, 1792 ; bap. July 30, 1797.
XI. MATTHEW MILES, bap. July 30, 1797.
CAPT. FREEDOM WRIGHT became a land holder in 1777, and lived and kept a tavern in the house now burned down, recently owned by Albert Kelsey and wife, in the same neighborhood with his father and brothers. He removed to Jefferson Co., N. Y., about 1801. He was a soldier in Capt. Sedgwick's company. He m. Sept. 1, 1777, Anna Hor- ton. She d. Sept. 18, 1788, and he m. (2d), Aug. 10, 1789, Phebe Turner. She d. in 1793.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. ASA DOUGLASS, b. Sept. 18, 1778.
II. JABEZ,
b. Feb. 6, 1780.
III. LUCY,
b. March 29, 1782; m. Abijah Wilson, Jr.
IV. ABIGAIL,
b. July 6, 1784.
V. FREEDOM,
b. Sept. 25, 1787 ; d. same day.
VI. FREEDOM,
b. Sept. 13, 1788; d. same day.
CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.
VII. ANNA,
b. March 16, 1790.
VIII. FREEDOM, b. Sept. 29, 1791 ; d. Oct. 20, 1791.
IX. FREEDOM,
b. Oct. 6, 1792.
LUCIA or LUCY WRIGHT, a dau. of John Wright, Sen., named in his will, m. Elijah Rockwell, Esq., first Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk of Colebrook, and was the grandmother of John T. Rockwell, of Win- sted. She was b. Oct. 7, 1756.
The Wrights were a highly intelligent, studious family ; supporters of religion and good order, and earnest patriots in the revolutionary struggle.
1771.
EBENEZER SHEPARD, from Goshen, this year bought lands bordering on Colebrook line, on the road to Colebrook, by way of Nelson Beards- ley's, on which he lived until 1775, when he sold out to David Crissey,
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and moved into Colebrook. He served in Capt. Sedgwick's company on the northern frontier, in 1775. Wife, Mercy.
CHILDREN.
I. PRUDENCE, b. June 8, 1771.
II. CAROLINE, b. July 26, 1773.
JOHN BALCOM, JR., from Mansfield, Windham Co., came into the town this year; he owned and lived on a lot of land east of Still River, nearly opposite the Horace Rowley place, and lived in a log house on the hill, adjoining Barkhamsted line. He lived in Winchester as late as 1808, and was of Sidney, Delaware Co., N. Y., in 1810, as appears by his conveyances on record. He m. Jan. 1, 1783, Lois Hudson.
CHILDREN.
I. ZILPHA, b. Oct. 18, 1783; bap. July 22, 1784.
II. LOIS, b. May 22, 1785; bap. June 18, 1786.
III. EBENEZER, b. June 15, 1786; bap. June 18, 1786.
IV. ELIZABETHI, bap. Sept. 1, 1790.
V. UNA VILDA, bap. in Wd. Ch., Sept. 1, 1790.
1772.
JOHN BALCOM, Sen., is named of Winchester, in a deed of this year, conveying to him Lot 10, 2d Division, next south of the Daniel B. Wil- son farm. He lived in a log house on the old North road, a little easterly of the Henry Dowd place. The Land Records show that he had sons : John, Jr., Jonathan, and Nathaniel. His wife's death in 1797, is noted in the Church Records. He renewed his church covenant in 1800, - and probably died in the town, though no record of his death is found.
JONATHAN BALCOM, son of John, Sr., lived on Wallen's hill, between Roswell Smith's and Joel Meade's. The inventory of his estate was re- turned to Norfolk Probate Court September 6, 1790. Administration to his widow, Molly ; - distribution to his sons John, Jr., and Nathaniel, and to his daughters Keziah (who died unmarried), Mary, wife of Gates, Rhoda, Irena, wife of Seth Goodrich, and Esther (who died un- married).
NATHANIEL BALCOM, son of John, Sr., lived on the homestead of his father until 1813 or 1814, when he removed to Wayne County, Pennsyl- vania. He married, September 2, 1782, Lois McEntire.
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CHILDREN.
I. FRANCIS, b.
II. NATHAN, b. May 9, 1787.
III. JONATHAN, b. Aug. 18, 1791 ; enlisted in the war of 1812.
IV. SILAS, b.
ELIAS BALCOM is named of Winchester in 1774. In 1776 he had some interest in the mill lot and the corn-mill, saw-mill, and dwelling- house thereon, which he quit-claimed to Stephen Chubb, of New Hart- ford. The nature of his ownership does not appear on the records. He then resided on the premises, and had probably erected the mills and dwelling on some arrangement with the proprietors of Winchester, who afterwards granted to Stephen Chubb, Jr., a lease of the lot for 900 years.
JACOB AND JOSEPH, sons of Elias Balcom, were baptized in the Win- chester Church in November, 1775. - The former is said to have carried on horseback the earliest mail between Hartford and Albany.
ELIAS CABIT BALCOM (probably son of Elias above), married, Decem- ber 30, 1782, Mary Dickinson.
CHILD.
I. SARAH,
b. Feb. 6, 1786.
NATHAN BALCOM died August 7, 1808, aged 84.
1773.
JOHN AUSTIN, of Winchester, is this year grantor of thirty acres of land, extending from the east shore of Long Lake to first tier line, and embracing parts of Rockwell and Prospect streets, and the Naugatuck Railroad depot grounds, which he sold in 1779. There is an ancient cel- lar on the east side of East Lake street on this land, which may have been his residence.
. ABEL HOSKIN, from Windsor, this year bought a lot, now a part of the farm of Anson Fosket, and lived thereon until after 1787. In 1790 he lived in Hartland.
JOSIAH SMITH, from Wethersfield, owned, lived, and died on the farm, on the old Still River turnpike, now owned by Horace Rowley. He was a founder and one of the first Deacons of the Congregational
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Church of Winsted, from which he withdrew during the dissensions in Rev. Mr. Woodworth's time, and became a member and Deacon of the Baptist Church then founded in the northeast corner of the town. He married, June 17, 1770, Elizabeth Merrill. She died November 26, 1829, aged 85 ; he died September 28, 1824, aged 81.
CHILDREN.
I. SALOME, b. Oct. 12, 1770 ; m. Amasa Mallory.
II. SARAH, b. Jan. 5, 1772 ; m. Feb. 13, 1794, Elisha Mallory, Jr.
III. JOSIAH,
b. Jan. 9, 1775 ; d. Oct. 3, 1777.
IV. BENJAMIN,
b. Aug. 22, 1778.
V. TRUMAN,
b. Nov. 22, 1780.
VI. JOSIAH (twin),
b. Ang. 29, 1784.
VII. ELIZABETH (twin), b. Aug. 29, 1784; m. Grandison Newell.
TRUMAN SMITHI, son of Deacon Josiah, lived with his father and con- tinued to occupy the homestead until after 1825, when he removed to Lenox, Ohio, where he died April 14, 1862, aged 81. He succeeded his father as Deacon of the Baptist Church.
His son, Luman Smith, now resides in Winsted.
JOSIAH SMITHI, JR., lived in Winsted, and after 1810 was one of the Deacons of the Congregational Church till his removal to Windsor, after 1834, where he died, s. p., January 1, 1852, aged 67.
All of the members of this family were eminent for piety and good works.
1774.
STEPHEN ARNOLD's prior residence does not appear. In 1774 he bought of John Darbe forty-one acres of land on Wallen's hill, adjoining Barkhamsted line, now composing part of the farms of Sylvester Treat and Homer W. Whiting, on which he then lived. He sold out and prob- ably left the town in 1783. Wife, Lois.
CHILDREN.
I. MARY,
b. Aug. 29, 1778.
II. STEPIIEN,
b. Jan. 29, 1781.
III. LOIS, bapt. Nov. 9, 1782.
ZEBULON SHEPARD, of New Hartford in 1773, of Winchester, Jan- uary 10, 1784, and of Barkhamsted, March 16, 1774, - was interested with Ebenezer Shepard in the Crissey farm on Colebrook line, and must have lived there, if he ever had a stated residence in the town.
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PHINEAS POTTER, from Woodbury, owned land in the east village of Winsted, which embraced the Holabird place, and extended northward on North Main street to the late residence of. John Camp, deceased. He first built a shanty against the large rock on Hinsdale street, near the Champion barn, and afterward built and lived in a house, now torn down, in rear of the ancient elm, where the Henry Champion house now stands. Tradition says that when Mr. Potter moved to Winsted there was no road from the Old South road in Torringford to Winsted, and that on reaching the tavern of Landlord Burr (father of Russell and Milo), near the top of Hayden hill, Mr. Burr assisted him in cutting out a path for his team ; - that at the end of a hard day's labor, they accomplished a distance of five miles, - reaching the east bank of Still River, at or near the old Wheeler honse, lately belonging to the Holabird estate, where they camped out for the night, - and on the following morning crossed to the west side of the river, and built the shanty before mentioned ; and that his was the first family settled in the Still River valley, south of the Old North road. Wife, Dorcas. .
CHILDREN.
I. SHELDON, came with his father.
II. DANIEL,
III. SALMON, b. May 25, 1774.
IV. FREEDOM, b. Sept. 5, 1776.
SHELDON POTTER built and lived in the old Wheeler house, on the east side of Still River, nearly opposite the Holabird place, which he sold to Nathan Wheeler in 1786, and afterwards left the town. He married, November 2, 1786, Mary Knowlton, and had one
CHILD.
I. CYRUS, b. Feb. 28, 1788.
DANIEL POTTER lived in a house which stood above the east bank of Still River, nearly due east of the east village hotel, on a road that then ran along the rear of the houses more recently built along the east side of the river. He sold out to Eleazer Porter in 1789. His name is on the tax list of 1796 ; he left town soon after 1798, and probably settled in Johns- town, Montgomery County, New York, as appears by a deed from him in 1801. He married, December 8, 1785, Naomi Crissey.
CHILDREN.
I. DANIEL,
b. Aug. 21, 1786.
II. ABIJAH, b. April 19, 1788.
III. JOSEPHI CRISSEY, b. March 24, 1790.
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IV. ALVIN,
b. Nov. 4, 1791.
V. PIIILO,
b. Dec. 6, 1793.
VI. CHESTER,
b .. Feb. 13, 1796.
VII. HARVEY, b. Nov. 10, 1798.
1775.
DAVID CRISSEY, from Waterbury, and originally from Woodbury, this year bought of Ebenezer Shepard, the farm adjoining Colebrook line, late owned by George Marvin. He died in 1803; his inventory was returned to the Norfolk Probate Court, March 14, 1804. He married at New Haven, Hannah Wilmot.
CHILDREN.
I. PRESERVED, b. in., January 11, 1787, Rachel Kellogg.
II. MARY,
m. Joseph Loomis of New Hartford.
III. NAOMI,
m. Daniel Potter of Winchester.
IV. ISRAEL was 13 years old when his father came to Winchester.
V. JEMIMA,
m. - Fairchild.
VI. ASENATII, m. Ira Mudge, of Pittsfield, Otsego Co., N.Y.
VII. LIBERTY, m. - Brainard and moved to Chatham.
VIII. HANNAH, m. Levi Dean of South Canaan.
IX. PHINEAS, b. in Winchester June 19, 1778.
PRESERVED CRISSEY,2 a prominent citizen, first lived, until 1794, in a house then standing, where Mrs. Lucy Coe now lives, on Spencer Street, after which, until 1803, he lived in the house, now torn down, on West Lake street, nearly opposite the John Stabell house; soon after which he removed to Litchfield, Herkimer county, New York. He married, January 11, 1787, Rachel Kellogg.
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