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CHILDREN.
I. RUFUS, b. in Salisbury ; lived in this town on the old North road, nearly opposite Riley Smith's, from 1805 to 1810, and afterward removed to Clinton, Penn. His second wife was Harriet, daughter of Grinnell Spencer, and widow of Sheldon Norton.
II. BEULAH, b. December 31, 1787.
III. MICHAEL, b. May 28, 1790; m. Susan Hurlbut, b. Goshen, Conn., March 26, 1788, daughter of Gideon and Anna (Beach) Hurlbut. They had two sons and two daughters. He d. November 30, 1857. She was living in 1858, and so were Sally and Sibyl, her sisters, who were born at the same birth with her.
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SALMON TREAT came from Wethersfield, when a boy, with Deacon Josiah Smith, from whom he this year received a deed of the farm on Wallen's Hill, now owned and occupied by his son Sylvester, on which he lived during the remainder of his long life. He died March 30, 1858, aged 91. He married November 2, 1794, Esther, daughter of Elisha Mallory, who died August 21, 1853, aged 79. They had sons, George, Syra, Asa, Sylvester, Luke, Luther, and a daughter Betsey, who married, April 17, 1831, Asahel Castle of Harwinton. No record of their births is found.
WILLIAM WATERMAN, Jr., lived, it is believed, on the premises east of the Still River turnpike, near the Halsey Burr place. There is a tradition of his being routed out of the town, in consequence of the quarters, hide and horns of an ox belonging to his neighbor Captain Whitford being found ingeniously hid under a pile of lumber near his house. There appears to have been also a William Waterman, Senior. There is a quit claim in 1793 of the interest by inheritance or otherwise in the same land by Walter, Zebulon, Lucy, John, and Fanny Waterman of Barkhamsted.
1789.
DANIEL EGGLESTON, Jr., from Colebrook, bought land in the town this year, and his name also appears on the tax list as a resident. His farm on the old road adjoining Colebrook line is now owned by William E. Cowles. He died on this farm about 1820. Wife, Anne.
CHILDREN.
I. ERASTUS.
II. CHAUNCEY, m. Chloe Coe.
III. NANCY.
IV. ANNE, b. Winsted, July 17, 1792. V. SIDNEY.
DANIEL EGGLESTON, Senior, was of Winchester in March, 1779, and by wife Sarah had daughter Sarah, born September 17, 1779. He was from Windsor, and removed to Colebrook as early as 1785. None of the family remain in town.
LEWIS MILLER, probably from Torrington, is on the list of this year. He lived from 1796 to about 1803 or 1804 in a small house that stood on north side of West Lake street, in front of the Sherman T. Cook house. He had a wooden dish mill on or near the site of the Beardsley Scythe Co.'s grinding works. He went to parts unknown not far from 1803, leaving behind him a wife and
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CHILDREN.
I. BELINDA, the first wife of James C. Cleveland; she died December 26, 1819, aged 27.
II. SHELDON, b. November 10, 1799.
III. AURELIA, d. young.
IV. GEORGE.
SHELDON MILLER married, October 31, 1822, Jerusha Ann Stark- weather.
CHILDREN.
I. LEWIS ALLEN, b. Nov. 3, 1823; m. in Lee, Mass., April 8, 1846, Phebe Ann Sheffield, b. Stonington, Jan. 21, 1822. Children : Frances Ame- lia, b. Lee, Aug. 11, 1847; Edward Lewis (twin), b. Lee, April 2, 1851 ; Eunice Louisa (twin), b. Lee, April 2, 1851.
II. GEORGE HUDSON, b. June 24, 1825; m. in Canaan, N. Y., October 16, 1848, Eusebia N. Herrick. Children : Emma Jane, b. West Stockbridge, Nov. 9, 1849 ; d. July 13, 1850; Eva Maria, b. West Stockbridge, June 6,1857.
III. HENRY ELIJAH, b. April 18, 1830; m., Nov. 29, 1853, Caroline Moore.
IV. LAURA ANN, b. Aug. 29, 1832; m. May 7, 1851, Henry McCullock. Chil- dren : 1. Agnes Marilla, b. April 9, 1852; 2. Albert Henry, b. April 5, 1853, d. Aug. 28, 1853; 3. Lila Ann, b. May 1, 1855, d. March 8, 1857 ; 4. Charles Sheldon, b. April 8, 1857. V. MARY MARIA, b. Dec. 6, 1841 ; d. March 23, 1842. VI. MARY JERUSHA, b. Jan. 13, 1844.
DANIEL MARSHALL, son of Eliakim of Windsor, first appears on the list of this year as a resident. He built a fulling mill on the lake stream below the works of the Henry Spring Co., and a clothier shop where Lake street now runs above the stone tenement house of E. Beardsley. He resided until his death in a dwelling house which stood adjoining his clothier shop. He died in 1804, and was buried in the old burying ground above the clock shop. His monument is the only one now stand- ing in that ground. Wife Sarah.
CHILDREN.
I. ABRAHAM, b. April 11, 1789. III. DANIEL, b. June 12, 1792.
II. LUCY, b. July 6, 1790. IV. GARRISON, b. July 20, 1794.
1790.
JOHN BURTON, supposed from Middlebury, this year bought the farm on the hill road to Colebrook, now owned by David N. Beardsley, on which he lived until about 1810, and then removed from the town. He married, May 7, 1787, Phebe Wooster. She died February 15, 1807 ; he married (2d) Hannah, daughter of George Miller.
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CHILDREN.
I. SALLY, b. March 10, 1789 ; m. Spencer Shattuck.
II. SILAS, b. March 15, 1781 ; m. Lucia, daughter of Asahel Miller.
III. DAVID, b. Feb. 18, 1793.
IV. POLLY, b. May 12, 1795.
THADDEUS FAY's name is on the list of this year. He owned the part of the Augustus Perkins farm lying west of the brook, and lived in a log house on the original road from Old Winchester to Colebrook, which has been discontinued since about 1800. He died September 1, 1798, aged about 30 years. He married, October 7, 1793, Esther Lucas.
CHILDREN.
I. LUCY, b. May 1, 1794.
II. ELECTA, b. Feb. 5, 1796 ; d. Feb. 8, 1796.
III. SALLY, b. March 20, 1797; d. June 25, 1797.
IV. THADDEUS, b. Nov. 11, 1798 ; d. next day.
EZRA GRIFFIN, from Barkhamsted, owned land lying east of the Win- sted Manufacturing Company's Works from 1788 to 1794, and is on the list as a resident this year only. He is named of Barkhamsted in 1794. Wife Margery.
CHILDREN.
I. ABIGAIL, b. Dec. 12, 1785.
II. ELIZABETH, b. Nov. 17, 1788.
III. SEVILLA, b. October 6, 1790; d. Aug. 11, 1792.
THEODORE HOSKIN, son of Joseph,1 who removed from Torrington to Old Winchester in 1771, this year came to Winsted and settled on the old Colebrook road, and built the house now occupied by his son-in-law, Alvah Oakley, in which he resided until his death, December 18, 1839, aged 74. Eunice, his wife, died June 4, 1849, aged 83. The names and births of his children are given in connection with the family of Joseph Hoskin. He wore, as did others in his day, a cue which hung down his back some fifteen inches. He persisted in wearing it after most of his cotemporaries had abandoned their " caudal appendages," and would probably have carried it with him to the grave had not the doctor ordered it to be "exscinded" while he was confined to his bed with sickness.
ROSWELL HOSKIN, brother of Theodore, came with him to Winsted, and was joint owner with him of the farm, which he quit-claimed to The- odore in 1792. He afterward removed to Vernon, N. Y.
SOLOMON PALMER, son of Enoch, a shoemaker, this year bought land on Wallen's Hill, and lived in a log-house on the highway at the east line
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of the town, between Harris Brown's and the Wallen's Hill school house. He is named in 1795 of Barkhamsted. He married, October 14, 1787, Hannah De Wolf.
CHILDREN.
I. STEPHEN DE WOLF, b. April 3, 1788.
II. LAMENTINE, (dau.) b. Jan. 7, 1791.
JONATHAN ROGERS, from Lynn, a blacksmith, and brother of Simeon, already named, owned the land on which the houses of John Camp and Edward Whiting stand, and extending from the east side of Still River westerly to the second tier line. His house and shop stood on the road then running along the east side of the river. He sold out in 1794, and is named of New Marlborough, Mass., in 1798. Wife Ruhama.
CHILDREN.
I. WILLIAM PECK,
b. June 1, 1790.
II. JOSEPH (twin),
b. Nov. 17, 1792.
III. BENJAMIN (twin),
b. Nov. 17, 1792.
JOSEPH LOOMIS, from Torrington, this year bought of John Burton, a part of the D. N. Beardsley farm, on the hill road to Colebrook, and sold the same to Asahel Miller in 1800. He is named of New Hartford in 1806, in a joint deed of himself and his wife Mary, who is described as daughter of David Crissey.
1791.
JONATHAN COE, 3d, son of Ensign Jonathan, of Winchester, this year came to Winsted, and built the rear wing of the red house on the Cole- brook road, one mile northerly from West Winsted, now owned by Judson Wadsworth. The upright part of the house was built soon after 1800. In this house he lived until abont 1830, when he built and moved into the brick house, on the west side of the same road, now owned by his son Jehiel Coe, in which he died May 31, 1849, aged 79. He was a tall, reverend-looking man, slow of speech, a man of great shrewdness and moderation, an early Methodist and a Jeffersonian Democrat; steadfast in the support of his sect, yet catholic in spirit : zealous in politics, yet incapable of changing his principles to square with the changing ideas of party expediency. When it became democratic to ignore the manhood of the African race and deny the right of petition and free speech in its be- half, he cheerfully accepted the offensive epithet of Abolitionist, and stood in the front rank of the little band that battled for the right and prevailed. He died with his armor on, while the conflict seemed doubtful to men of feeble faith. In him there was no doubt, no fear, nor trembling. When
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the minister refused to read from the pulpit the notices of prayer meetings for the slave, he would rise from his pew and give the announcement. His house was one of the stations of the " Underground Railroad" from Dixie to Canada, where the panting fugitive was fed, clothed, and speeded on his journey. His influence in the town during his middle age probably transcended that of any other man. He held at different times nearly every town office, and represented the town in the Assembly in four ses- sions between 1822 and 1828. His family record has already been given on page 53.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
WINSTED IMMIGRANTS AND FAMILY RECORDS CONTINUED.
FROM 1791 TO 1801.
1792.
JENKINS & BOYD, the pioneer manufacturers of Winsted, came into the Society this year, and erected the first scythe factory in the state and the third in the country, on the site of the Winsted Manufacturing Company's East Village Works. About 1795, in company with Thomas Spencer, Jr., they erected the first forge for making bar iron in the town, on the lake stream, opposite the grinding shop of the Winsted Manufacturing Company. In 1802 they erected another seythe factory on the site of the Winsted Hoe Company's shop, near the corner of Lake and Meadow streets.
BENJAMIN JENKINS, of the above firm, was born October 15th, 1765, at Scituate, Mass., and learned the scythe maker's trade of Colonel Robert Orr of Bridgewater, Mass., who was the first manufacturer of scythes by water-power in this country. From Bridgewater he went to New Windsor, adjoining Newburg, N. Y., as foreman of the scythe works erected by Colonel Robert Boyd, where he married, September 10, 1791, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Boyd of Little Britain, soon after which he removed to Torrington, and thence in 1792 to Winsted. In company with Mr. Boyd he built, in 1795, the double house afterward owned and occupied by Rev. James Beach, in which he lived until about 1806, when he built and moved into the original building of the Winsted Hotel. In 1812, he built a scythe shop on the site of the Strong Manufacturing Company's Works, which he carried on until about 1816. In 1818 he removed with his family to Wayne County, Penn., and began the world anew, in the then unbroken forest, on the Lackawaxen, four miles west of Honesdale. Here he cleared up a new home, built a scythe shop and saw mill before the first explorers of the Hudson and Delaware Canal and Rail Road route visited that region, and before Honesdale existed. The rail road was located through his farm, and the pleasant village of Prompton grew up around him, and principally on the land which he had first cleared. Here he lived to a good old age, the pioneer and
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revered patriarch of a region which he had first entered at the age of fifty-two. He died January 18, 1853, aged 87 years, 4 months and 26 days. His wife, with whom he had lived more than sixty years, died April 25, 1851, aged 81.
Mr. Jenkins was a man of fine personal appearance, and pleasing address - genial and kind-hearted - liberal and public-spirited - ener- getic and honorable - a good husband and kind parent.
He represented the town in the general assembly in 1803 and 1804.
CHILDREN.
I. ELIZABETH, b October 5, 1792 ; m. Horace Kent of Boston ; d. October 24, 1820.
II. SUSAN, b. April 25, 1794 ; m. Doctor Henry Noble ; d. 1814.
III. BENJAMIN, Jr., b. December 6, 1796 ; m. October 4, 1820, Mary Kent.
IV. SAMUEL, b. December 4, 1798; m. Ist, Elizabeth Buckland ; 2d, Mary Jane Buckland.
V. LIONEL, b. 1799 ; d. May 18, 1807.
VI. LOUISA, b. 1801 ; m. Ist, Arah Bartlett ; 2d, Jacob S. Davis.
VII. EDWARD, b. 1804 ; d. 1854, unmarried.
VIII. MARIA, b. 1806; m. Ralph Case.
IX. JOHN,
b. 1808; m. Jane Greeley.
X. HENRIETTA, b. 1810 ; m. Luman Hubbell.
XI. MARIETTA, b. 1812; m. Benjamin Jenkins 3d ; she d. 1842.
JAMES BOYD3 came to Winsted with his brother-in-law and partner, Benjamin Jenkins, in 1792, having previously learned from him the scythe maker's trade at New Windsor, his native place. He first lived in a small house that stood on the west side of North Main street, nearly opposite the parsonage house of Rev. James Beach, which was built by him and his partner in 1795, and jointly occupied by them until 1802. He then built and moved into the house on the east side of Main street, west village, opposite Munro street, now owned by John T. Rockwell, where he spent his remaining life, and died February 1, 1849, aged 78 years. In 1803 he dissolved partnership with Mr. Jenkins, taking for his share the joint property of the firm in the west village. In 1808 he built-a forge and saw mill on the water-power opposite the Clarke House, now owned by the New England Pin Company. In 1822 he built a drafting and forging shop in rear of the Beardsley House, and in 1828 he rebuilt the " Upper Forge," on the lake stream, above Hulbert's present iron works. He also built, in 1816, the old iron store on Main street, next north of Dudley's brick block.
He was a man of indomitable energy. Few men ever did more hard work, and more thoroughly managed a large business than he, until past the prime of life. Frugal and temperate in all his habits, and retiring in his disposition, he was also public-spirited and benevolent. No wandering outcast, however degraded, ever turned away from his door
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without food, and lodging if needed. With a good common school educa- tion, he possessed a strong, discriminating mind and studious habits. His range of reading extended from " Tristram Shandy " through general history to "Edward's on the Will," and other abstruse theology. Trained in the faith of the Scotch seceders, he made the Bible his con- stant study, and deduced from it his own independent belief, matured by careful study, and reverently cherished. With an erect figure and rapid gait, he had a sternness of aspect and an immovable decision which repelled familiarity ; yet, he had a strength of affection and tenderness of heart little realized by those who superficially knew him. Perfect integrity was a dominant trait of his character.
The Little Britain branch of the Boyd family, to which he belonged, was of the Kilmarnock stock, originating in Ayrshire, Scotland, trans- ferred to County Down in the North of Ireland, from whence four brothers, SAMUEL, ROBERT, JAMES, and NATHANIEL BOYD migrated to America.
SAMUEL BOYD, the oldest of the brothers, may have been the one among the so-named North of Ireland men who came over to found the Londonderry settlement in New Hampshire about 1720, many of whom finally went to other places. He settled in the City of New York about that period, accumulated a large estate, and died a bachelor. By his aid and counsel, his three brothers, before named, and a sister Mary, who married - Wargh, came over from County Down, and settled in the town of New Windsor, Orange Co., N. Y.
ROBERT BOYD, above-named, settled at New Windsor, near the mouth of the creek which empties into the Hudson a mile below Newburgh. He had a son Robert,2 and a daughter Mary,? who married - Harris.
COLONEL ROBERT BOYD2 erected iron and scythe works on the creek before mentioned. He inherited the estate of his bachelor uncle, and removed to the City of New York early in this century, and there held the office of sheriff of the county. He died Oct. 29, 1804, aged 70, as ap- pears on his monument in Little Britain Church-yard. He married - Smith, and had
CHILDREN.
I. SAMUEL, a Counsellor-at law in the City of New York.
II. JOHN, of Ogdensburg, Sheriff of St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.
III. JENNETT, wife of Rev. James Schrimgeozir.
IV. AGNES, wife of Dr. Baltus Van Kleck.
V. ELIAS, died a bachelor.
VI. GEORGE, Episcopal clergyman, Philadelphia.
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NATHANIEL BOYD, the fourth brother, lived in Little Britain Parish, New Windsor, and had sixteen children by his first and second wives.
BY MARGARET BECK. I. JANE, W. of - Butler.
II. JOHN, of Amenia, N. Y.
III. SAMUEL.
IV. JAMES S.
V. MARY, w. of William Bradner.
VI. NATHANIEL.2
VII. MARTHA, W. of - Homan.
BY MARTHA MONSEL.
VIII. JANE.2
IX. ELIZABETH.2 X. NATIIANIEL.2
XI. MARY,2 w. of - Thompson of Esopus.
XII. CHARLES.2
XIII. HANNAH,2 w. of - Alexander.
XIV. JANE.2
XV. ROBERT W.2
XVI. NATHANIEL.2
JAMES BOYD,1 the third brother, sailed from Belfast, Ireland, August 9, 1756, with his second wife and children, whose names and date of birth are recorded in his family bible, as follows :--
BY SARAH, HIS FIRST WIFE.
I. SAMUEL,2 b. 1734. II. SARAH,2 b. August 13, 1738.
III. ROBERT,2 b. January 10, 1740.
IV. MARY,2 b. March 28, 1742, married and settled in Scotland.
V. JEAN,2 b. January 20, 1749 ; m. - Soper of Esopus, N. Y.
BY MARY, SECOND WIFE.
VI. SEABORN AGNES,2 born on the voyage, September 23, 1756 ; m. Richard Hudson of Newburg.
VII. JAMES2 (date of birth torn off).
VIII. ELIZABETH,2 b. February (torn off) ; m. - Belknap of Newburgh, N. Y.
IX. DAVID,2 b. December , of Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y.
X. NATHANIEL,2 b.
XI. ALICE,2 b .; m. John Wood.
SAMUEL BOYD,2 oldest son of James,1 visited America four years earlier than his father, and returned to Ireland, whence he came back as a permanent settler in 1756, and thereafter resided in Little Britain Par- ish until his death, May 27, 1801, in his sixty-seventh year. He served in the French Canadian War, and furnished a substitute in the Revolu-
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tion. He. m. (1st) Elizabeth, dau. of Mathew McDoel, of New Wind- sor, who d. Aug. 25, 1775, and (2d) Mary Lyon, who d. in 1812, s. p.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. ELIZABETH,3 b. at Little Britain, N. Y., 1769 ; m. Benjamin Jenkins.
II. JAMES,3 b. L. B., Nov. 15, 1770.
III. MATHEW,8 b. d. young. IV. JOHN,3 b. d. young.
JAMES BOYD,3 son of Samuel,? settled in Winsted as already stated. He m. at Torringford, Conn., Dec. 23, 1795, Mary Munro, b. Boston, Mass., March 10, 1771, dau. of Alexander and - (McIntosh) Munro, . from Inverness, Scotland. She d., Winsted, Sept. 2, 1821 ; and he m. (2d) June 27, 1822, Jane Munro, b. at Bridgewater, Mass., June 8, 1788, dau. of Alexander and - (Hutchinson) Munro, and half-sister of his first wife. She d., Winsted, Dec. 29, 1852.
CHILDREN.
I. NANCY,4
b. May 27, 1797 ; m. 1820, Lueius Clarke.
II. JOIN4 (twin),
b. March 17, 1799.
III. JAMES MUNRO4 (twin), b. March 17, 1799 ; d. Ang. 28, 1826.
IV. ELIZA,4
b. March 18, 1801; d. April 1, 1801.
V. SAMUEL,4
b. June 24, 1802.
VI. ELIZA,4 b. June 25, 1804; d. Sept. 10, 1821.
VII. MARY,4 b. Aug. 11, 1807 ; d. Aug. 30, 1821.
VIII. JANE MUNRO,4 b. Dec. 10, 1812; m. Luman Hubbell.
IX. SUSAN,4 b. March 19, 1815; m. Sept. 7, 1836, Elijah Phelps Grant, b. Norfolk, Conn., Aug. 23, 1808, son of Dea. Elijah and Eliza- beth (Phelps) Grant. He graduated Yale College, 1830; lives at Can- ton, Ohio; a lawyer and banker. Children, all born in Canton, Ohio : 1. Elizabeth, b. May 21, 1838 ; m. May 18, 1858, Thomas J. Hurford, of Omaha, Neb .; 2. Susan, b. Jan. 8, 1841; d. July 19, 1841; 3. Ma- ry, b. Sept. 12, 1842; m. ; 4. Charles . Fourier, b. Aug. 12, 1844; d. May 25, 1845 ; 5. Jane, b. Nov. 27, 1846; 6. Martha A., b. April 30, 1849; d. June 27, 1859; 7. James Boyd, b. Nov. 10, 1853.
X. ALEXANDER MUNRO,4 b. July 2, 1823 ; d. June 12, 1824.
XI. JENNETT,4 b. May 16, 1825 ; d. April 14, 1827.
XII. ELIZABETH,4 b. Oct. 23, 1827; m. June 1, 1859, Stephen A. Hub- bard, b. Sunderland, Mass.
XIII. ROBERT LEWIS,4 b. Aug. 15, 1831 ; commeneed and carried on the manufacture of planter's hoes, in Winsted, from 1852 to 1860; then went to New York, where he now resides. He m. Nov. 6, 1862, Helen A. Peck, dau .. of Edward B. and Mary Ann Peck, of Fairfield Co., Conn., b. April 18, 1840. Her name changed, by adoption, to Helen Annette Wooster, in which name she was married.
CHILDREN.
1. Anna, b. N. Y. city, June 30, 1864; d. July 2, 1864.
2. A son, still born, in Brooklyn, July 6, 1865.
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3. Ralph Booth, b. Brooklyn, June 4, 1866.
4. Louis Roland, b. Brooklyn, Dec. 10, 1867 ; d. Aug. 13, 1868.
5. James Hubbell, b. in B., Nov. 13, 1869; d. Aug. 17, 1870.
JOHN BOYD,4 m., New Haven, May 17, 1831, Emily Webster Beers, b. N. H., March, 1805, dau. of Elias and Jerusha (Fitch) Beers. She d. Nov. 25, 1842; and he m. (2d) Dec. 10, 1843, Mrs. Jeru-ha (Rock- well) Hinsdale, widow of Theodore Hinsdale, and dau. of Solomon and Sarah (McEwen) Rockwell. He grad. Yale Coll. 1821 ; admitted to the bar of New Haven Co., 1825; Rep. General Assembly, 1830 and 1835; County Commissioner, 1840, 1849, and 1850. Town Clerk, 1829-33, 1837-41, and from 1855, to the present time, Judge of Pro- bate for fifteen years, till disqualified by age, in 1869; State Senator, 1854; Secretary of State of Conn., 1859, 1860, and 1861; a manufact- urer of the firm of J. Boyd & Son, 1827 to 1850, afterwards to 1853, alone.
CIIILDREN.
I. ELLEN WRIGHT,5
b. Sept. 3, 1833.
II. JAMES ALEXANDER,5 b. Nov. 12, 1835; d. Oct. 5, 1837.
III. EMILY BEERS,5 b. June 23, 1842; d. Oct. 16, 1852.
JAMES MUNRO BOYD,4 was trained to business as an iron manufact- urer and trader, under his father, which he followed with decided ability and energy until his death. He was an extensive reader, social, warm- hearted and upright. He died unmarried, Aug. 28, 1826, beloved and lamented.
SAMUEL BOYD,4 m. Sept. 20, 1825, Sylvia Coe, b. Aug. 12, 1806, dau. of Jonathan and Charlotte (Spencer) Coe. He was a trader and manufacturer in Winsted, till 1833; Custom House Appraiser in New Orleans, till 1850; Commission Hardware in New York, till 1860; Appraiser in Custom House, in N. Y. to the present time.
CHILDREN.
I. JAMES MUNRO,5 b. Winsted, Sept. 28, 1826; was drowned in Mad River, June 10, 1829.
II. MARIANNE,5 b. W., July 31, 1828; m. Aug. 28, 1850, Henry Bas- com Keen, a merchant and banker, of New York; b. Pittsburg, Penn., July 18, 1825, son of Robert Lewis and Phebe A. (Page) Keen. He d. Dec., 1868.
CIIILDREN.
1. Robert Lewis,6 b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1851 ; 2. Ilenry Boyd,6 b. B., Jan. 9, 1854; 3. James Munro, b. B., July 16, 1856.
III. SARAH JANE,5 b. W., June 10, 1831; m. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1853, Thomas Howe Bird, b. Boston, Mass.
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IV. ROBERT MUNRO,5 b. W., Aug. 12, 1834; m. Nov. 10, 1859, Kate Baldwin Crane, b. Bloomfield, N. J., Dec. - , 1838, dan. of Matthias and Susan (Baldwin) Crane. He is a merchant of New York; resides at Mont Clair, N. J. Children : 1. Susie; 2. Robert M .; 3. Bertha. V. ALICE ISABEL,5 b. New Orleans, La., June 26, 1845 ; m. May 11, 1869, Rev. Nelson Millard. Child : Ernest Boyd, b. Dec. 11, 1870.
CYRUS CURTIS, of Colebrook, bought land adjoining Colebrook line, and lived thereon in a house on the west side of the road above Wm. E. Cowles' dwelling, and probably left town the next year.
DEACON JOHN LEE this year bought the Fyler farm, on South street, and lived in the Albro Fyler house, recently burned down, until about 1799. He was chosen Deacon of the Congregational Church in 1795.
EPHRAIM SCOVILL and REUBEN SCOVILL, father and son, from Col- chester, this year bought the farm on South street, now occupied by Good- loe H. Camp, which they occupied during their remaining lives. Ephraim quit-claimed his half of the farm to Reuben in 1801, and lived not many years after.
REUBEN SCOVILL died August 5, 1821, aged 55. He had a daughter Deborah who married John Maltbie; a son, Truman, who married a daughter of David Talmadge and continued to occupy the homestead until about 1837, when he removed to Granville, Mass. ; and a daughter Lydia who married, January 17, 1821, Miles Marsh, of New Hartford.
CAPT. ABIJAH WILSON,2 from Torrington, this year bought land at the crossing of the old North Country road and the old Still River turnpike, and soon after built the house at that point now owned and occupied by his youngest son, Daniel B. Wilson, which he occupied until his death, March 24, 1833, aged 86. He was a representative of the town in 1798 and 1802. He was born in Torrington, December 18, 1746, son of Noah1 and Ann Wilson ; married, October 5, 1767, Margaret Beach, of Torring- ton. She died 1794, aged 47, and he married (2d), Hannah Bushnell, of Hartland ; she died June 16, 1844, aged 81.
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