Annals and family records of Winchester, Conn.: with exercises of the centennial celebration, on the 16th and 17th days of August, 1871, Part 30

Author: Boyd, John
Publication date: 1873
Publisher: Hartford : Press of Case, Lockwood & Brainard
Number of Pages: 724


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VII. RIETTA, m. March 8, 1837, William Weaver.


VIII. ELIZA, m. Jonas Stanton.


OLIVER WHITE,. Jr., as early as 1825 began to manufacture farming implements, between the Clock Factory and the Cook Axle Factory, on the road east of Still River, where he still resides. He married, July 6, 1817, Pamelia Bacon of Barkhamsted.


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CHILDREN.


I. JAMES, b. April 9, 1818 ; m. Charlotte Greene.


II. LUMAN, b. July 19, 1819 ; m. Sarepta Reynolds.


III. ORRIN WASHINGTON, b. April 5, 1821 ; a clergyman.


IV. WILSON B.,


b. January 24, 1823 ; m. Harriet Leach.


V. GEORGE, b. June 4, 1825; representative in 1861 ; m. Ellen M. Kelsey ; she d. December 24, 1864, and he m. (2d) Mrs. Emily M. Putnam.


VI. JULIA A.,


b. May 29, 1827 ; m. Charles H. Wattles.


VII. AURELIA A.,


b. July 18, 1830; m. Grove Stannard.


VIII. SUSAN P., b. May 11, 1832; m. Hiram J. Norton.


1796.


ASAHEL MILLER from Torrington, owned and lived from 1797 to about 1810 on the farm lately owned by Anson Fosket, on the old hill road to Colebrook, in a house that stood nearly opposite that of D. N. Beardsley. About 1811, he built the house on the easterly side of Main street, next above the Dudley Tannery, and in company with James Shepard built the original tannery at that point. In 1815 he sold out to Abiel Loomis, and removed to Tyringham, Mass. He was a carpenter ; an intelligent, industrious man, and much respected. He was born at Torrington, October 24, 1760, son of George and Sarah Miller. Married, October 26, 1788, Lovina, daughter of Ensign Jonathan Coe of Winchester. They died in Erie, Penn.


CHILDREN.


I. JOEL, b. Tor., June 26, 1790. V. WILLARD.


II. LUCIA, m. Silas Burton. VI. KIRBY.


III. LAURA, m. John W. Sweet.


VII. SARAH.


IV. ARVIN.


JOEL MILLER, oldest son of Asahel, an ingenious mechanic and deeply religious man, married a daughter of Grove Pinney of Colebrook, and resided in Winsted, dying childless before middle life.


TIMOTHY and WILLIAM SOPER, father and son, from Windsor, lived from 1797 to 1800, on the Roswell Smith farm, on Wallen's Hill, and returned to Windsor.


DANIEL WILCOX from Berlin, this year bought the clothier's shop and fulling mill on Lake street, and lived in the "Old Factory house," at the easterly corner of Lake and Rockwell streets, until 1813, when he sold out to S. Rockwell & Brothers, and removed to Great Barrington,


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Mass. He was a man of iron constitution, energetic, social and hos- pitable. He married, September 7, 1797, Mehitabel Wright.


CHILDREN.


I. PATTY, b. August 31, 1799 ; m. - Beekwith of Great Barrington.


II. MAURICE, b. May 15, 1801.


III. MERCY, b. June 29, 1803.


IV. EMILY, b. December 11, 1805.


V. JULIETTE, b. April 30, 1808.


FREDERICK EGGLESTON from Colebrook is on the list of this year. In 1799 he bought the house that stood on the site of George Dudley's dwelling on Main street, which he sold in 1801 to David West, and then returned to Colebrook. He again lived in Winsted from 1810 to 1814, working for S. & M. Rockwell as a blacksmith, after which he returned to Colebrook.


SAMUEL and MOSES CAMP, sons of Moses Camp of Norfolk, and grandsons of Abraham Camp of New Milford, this year bought the Florin Parsons farm, near the Wallen's Hill schoolhouse, where they carried on the hatter's trade until 1804, when they bought the Stephen Knowlton farm on south street, next south of the Ebenezer Rowley farm, and lived in a house, now torn down, on the east side of the road.


Samuel Camp continued his residence here until his removal in 1824, to the farm now owned by Hiram Burnham, in Barkhamsted, where he died May 10, 1850, aged 77, a pious and highly respected man. He was born in Norfolk, March 4, 1773 ; married July 10, 1799, Mercy Sheldon of New Marlboro, Mass. She died August 21, 1854.


CHILDREN.


I. SAMUEL SHELDON, b. December 13, 1800; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Amasa Mallory.


II. MOSES, b. October 5, 1803 ; m. Miranda Goodwin of Goshen. She died April 7, 1865, aged 57 years, s. p. He m. (2d) February 12, 1867, Amelia S. Humphrey of Guilford, N. Y. He has been town elerk, representative in general assembly, and president of the Winsted Savings Bank.


III. ELECTA, b. November 27, 1806; m. April 28, 1831, George Dudley, b. Bloomfield, September 17, 1803, son of Levi and Abigail (Hiteheock) Dudley. He was a manufacturer of bookbinders' leather; president of the Winsted Bank for many years; postmaster, state senator, and presidential elector, at General Grant's election.


CHILDREN.


1. Jane Mehitabel, b. June 28, 1833 ; d. October 6, 1851.


2. Emily Sheldon, b. July 17, 1838.


3. Mary Beach, b. May 21, 1840.


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4. Alice Merey, b. April 6, 1842; m. June 11, 1868, Theodore F. Vaill, editor of The Winsted Herald, and Adjutant of the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery. .


5. George, b. July 1, 1844.


IV. EDWARD, b. April 25, 1809; m. September 29, 1831, Maria Norton, daugh- ter of Deacon Lewis M. Norton of Goshen ; she d. October 6, 1848, and he m. (2d) December 18, 1850, Desiah Knapp, daughter of Bushnell Knapp of Norfolk ; she d. November 29, 1856, s. p., and he m. (3d) January 20, 1858, Louisa A. Williams of Natick, R. I. He represented the town of Barkhamsted in 1848 ; has been selectman of Winchester, and burgess of the Borough of Winsted ; has one child, Frances Maria, b. July 28, 1844.


V. BEULAH, b. June 20, 1811 ; m. September 29, 1845, George Kellogg.


VI. MEHITABEL, b. May 9, 1813; m. October 22, 1840, George Kellogg; she died at Columbus, O., June 13, 1842.


VII. CALEB JACKSON, b. June 12, 1815; m. May 22, 1839, Mary, daughter of Rev. James Beach ; was associated with his brothers, though, being a minor, his name did not appear in the mercantile firm of M. & E. Camp, organized March 1, 1835 ; in the firm of M. & C. J. Camp, which suc- ceeded it, March 1, 1839, and that of M. &. C. J. Camp and Co., formed March 1, 1854, he has long been the principal manager.


CHILDREN.


1. Mary Mehitabel, b. March 4, 1842; m. October 23, 1866, Her- man E. Curtis of N. Y. ; settled in Winona, Minnesota, where her son, Clinton James, was born August 21, 1870.


2. Angusta, b. April 3, 1845 ; m. October 17, 1871, Franklin A. Rising of N. Y.


3. James Beach, b. October 15, 1846 ; d. November 13, 1849.


4. Anna Beach, b. August 2, 1850; d. March 24, 1852.


5. Ellen Baldwin, b. August 16, 1855.


MOSES CAMP, SR., in 1814, bought the farm on the South street, now owned and occupied by his son, Moses M. Camp, where he died March 6, 1852, aged 78. He was a man of strong mind and decided principles, highly esteemed and respected. He married Deidamia Knowlton, daugh- ter of Stephen.


CHILDREN.


I. JOHN, the able and efficient manager of the Winsted Manufacturing Com- pany from May, 1835, till his death Aug. 16, 1862, aged 56 years. He was Representative, Selectman, and Judge of Probate. He m. Ursula Whiting, who d. s. p. ; and he m. (2d), Julia Root; had


CHILDREN.


1. Julia, d. . 4. Alice.


2. Electa, d. Jan. 16, 1866, aged 17. 5. Lewis L.


3. John K.


6. William.


II. HARRIET, m. Henry Dutton of New Hartford.


III. MARY, m. Sept. 4, 1833, Elijah B. White.


IV. ADELINE, m. James J. Preston.


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V. GOODLOE H., m. Tuttle.


VI. MOSES M.,


m. Worthington.


VII. EMELINE,


m. Lewis E. Loomis.


VIII. GEORGE G., m. Sept. 19, 1850, Sarah A. Hart.


AARON MARSHALL, from Torrington, this year bought a farm, with a log house thereon, on the east side of Pratt street, three quarters of a mile south of the depot. He died Sept. 7, 1807, aged 74, leaving two in- competent daughters, Chloe and Asenath, both of them now deceased and unmarried.


DANIEL WHITE is on the tax list of this year as a resident. He after- ward lived for many years over the Barkhamstead line on Wallen's hill, where he raised a family of children. In his latter years, he resided with his daughter, Mrs. Hall, where he died Dec. 28, 1859, aged 85. His wife, Clarissa (Cleveland), died June 12, 1822, aged 40.


CHILDREN.


I. EMILY, b. Feb. 9, 1801 ; m. Hezekiah G. Butler.


II. LAVINIA, b. Aug. 20, 1803 ; m. Gideon Hall of Winsted.


III. MARY CLEVELAND, b. Jan. 31, 1805 ; m. Edward A. Rugg.


IV. HARRIET, b. Jan. 28, 1807 ; m. Oren Kellogg.


V. HORACE CLEVELAND, b. Feb. 22, 1809; m. Susan A. Wolcott.


VI. URANIA CLARISSA, b. July 20, 1811; d. near Lake Superior, Aug. 5, 1839.


VII. PHILENDA MILLER, b. June 11, 1814 ; m. Elizur G. Perry.


VIII. JENNETT, b. April 6, 1816 ; d. July 26, 1816.


IX. PEMBROKE, b. Sept. 18, 1819; went to Iowa. See Allyn S. Kel- logg's White Memorials, p. 179.


1798.


MERRITT BULL, came from Harwinton to Winsted and served his ap- prenticeship as a scythe maker. He is first on the tax list as an inhabi- tant this year. He first lived in the house on Spencer street, now owned by Sarah Loomis, and carried on blacksmithing in a shop that then stood on the house lot of Samuel W. Coe. In 1802 or 1803, he built a scythe hop where the stone shop of the Winsted Hoe Company now stands, on Meadow street, which he carried on until his death. In 1809 he bought, and thereafter occupied, the gambrel-roofed house which stood on the site of Moses Camp's dwelling, opposite Lake street. He was instantly killed by falling among the gears of his grinding works, May 28, 1824, at the age of 49. He was an amiable and industrious man, who failed of success in business by attempting more than he could accomplish. He repre-


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sented the town in the General Assembly of 1827. He married, Nov. 26, 1801, Hannah, daughter of Aaron Cook, of Winchester ; born Jan- uary 20, 1775.


CHILDREN.


I. ELIZA MIRIAM, b. Sept. 20, 1802.


II. NELSON,


b. Feb. 6, 1804 ; d. April 17, 1817.


III. SIDNEY, b. " 18, 1806.


IV. TRUMBULL, b. Dec. 2, 1807.


V. HENRY BOGUE, b. Feb. 2, 1810.


VI. WOLCOTT, b. Nov. 2, 1812 ; d. May 7, 1815.


VII. DELIA, b. May 29, 1815.


CYRUS BUTRICK, a blacksmith, is on the tax list of this year as a resident of Winsted. In 1801 he bought the house that stood where Lake street now runs, at the turning of the hill a little east of the works of the Henry Spring Company, and worked in a shop that stood on the west side of Lake street, opposite the old mill house. In 1803 he re- moved to the old hill road to Colebrook, above the D. N. Beardsley place. He left the town about 1805. He married, Oct. 18, 1798, Phebe, daughter of Rev. John Sweet.


CHILDREN.


I. POLLY, b. Dec. 16, 1799.


II. PHEBE, b. Feb. 21, 1802.


JOSEPH COOK, son of Aaron and Lydia, and a native of the town, is on the list of this year as a resident of the Old Society. In 1809 he bought the Aaron Marshall place, on the Pratt road, where he afterward dwelt until his death Oct. 11, 1814, aged 39. He left a son and two daughters. One of the latter is wife of Allen Roberts, of this town. He married, July -, 1803, Amelia Davis, who, after his death, married Syl- vester Roberts.


JONATHAN DOUGLASS, brother of Israel, owned from 1798 to 1801, a part of the Kinney farm, on Spencer street road, and lived on the west side of the road, not far from Amos Pierce's residence.


CAPT. GEORGE FRASIER, a Scotchman, is on the tax list of this year as a resident of Winsted. He was a trader near the Wallen's Hill school-house for a few years, and probably for the most part resided over the line in Barkhamsted.


LEVI NORTON, 2d, from Norfolk, lived in the northernmost of the two contiguous houses recently owned by Halsey Burr, deceased, on the west side of the old Still River turnpike until after 1817. In 1822, he is


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named "of Hartland," in a deed on record. His wife was Rhoda, daughter of Enoch Palmer; the land records give the names of five of their children, viz :


CHILDREN.


EDEN, of Benson, Vt., in 1822. FANNY, wife of Asa Mallory.


ISAAC A., of Cornwall, in 1821. JEMIMA,


SOLOMON.


ELIHU ROCKWELL, youngest son of Joseph, and descended in the fifth generation from Deacon William Rockwell, a first planter of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn., came this year from Torrington to Winsted, and purchased from his father-in-law, John Allen, the farm on Spencer street recently successively owned by Nisus Kinney and Luther G. Hins- dale. He lived on this farm until his removal to Euclid, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, in 1825. He was a man of marked character and influence, enter- taining political and religious sentiments not in harmony with those of his Puritan ancestors. No record is found of his family. His daughter, Lydia, by his first wife, married Clarke H. Roberts, late of Colebrook, deceased. He also had by his second wife a son and daughter who re- moved with him to Ohio.


REUBEN ROWLEY, oldest son of Ebenezer, and a native of the town, is on the list of this year. In 1801 he became owner of the portion of the East Village bordered by the Holabird property on the north, Still river east, Main street south, and Oak street west, which he exchanged in 1802 for a farm in the northeast corner of the town, recently owned by Joel Mead, now deceased, on which he lived until his removal to Hitchcockville in 1847, where he died May 2, 1851, aged 74.


CHILDREN.


I. ORPHA, m., Oct. 23, 1823, Isaac Brown ; she d. Sept. 26, 1827, aged 23.


II. SOPHRONIA, m., Aug. 29, 1832, Allen Bacon ; she d. about 1855.


III. GAD.


JOEL WRIGHT lived on the road to Colebrook above David N. Beards- ley's until his death, March 16, 1813. He was a hard-working, faithful man, much employed as a farm laborer and teamster. His wife died Feb- ruary 21, 1813, aged 40. They had children, Sally, Joel, Flora, and Artemas. Flora married, February 7, 1821, Alexander Baldwin.


JOSEPH HOLMES, brother of David, named in 1786, while living in Torrington, owned land in this society as early as 1796, but his name first appears on the list as a resident in 1798. He owned and occupied the farm on the Spencer street road, near Colebrook line, afterward occupied by his son Willard, and now by Everett E. Holmes, son of Willard. He


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represented the town in six sessions of the Assembly between 1807 and 1815, and was in all respects an exemplary man and citizen. He died September 1, 1826, aged 68. His wife died October 31, 1820, aged 68. He married, at Torrington, Conn., Sept. 9, 1788, Lydia Curtis, born in Torrington, Dec. 29, 1751.


CHILDREN.


I. DAVID, b. April 27, 1779; d. at the age of 9 years.


II. RUFUS,


b. April 29, 1781.


III. JERUSHA, b. April 25, 1783 ; m. Jan. 27, 1807, Henry Bass, of Colebrook.


IV. ROXANA, b. Sept. 21, 1785 ; m. David Collins, Blanford, Mass.


V. PHEBE, b. 1787 ; m. Daniel Deming, Colebrook.


VI. POLLY,


b.


d. aged 2} years.


VII. WILLARD,


b. Nov. 14, 1792.


RUFUS HOLMES, second son of Joseph, lived after his first marriage in Colebrook, adjoining Winchester line, until 1850, when he bought of Henry E. Rockwell the Seminary building near High street in Winsted, in which he and his son, Lucius L., afterwards resided until their death. He was a thrifty farmer, an upright, public-spirited, and highly respected man, and a sincere Christian. He married (1st), Esther Eno, of Cole- brook. She died August 18, 1831. He married (2d), July 1, 1835, Be- linda, daughter of Nathan Bass, of Colebrook. He died June 26, 1855, aged 74 years. She died October 6, 1855, aged 60.


CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.


I. LUCIUS LORENZO, b. Colebrook, Nov. 7, 1811 ; m., March 20, 1833, Mary A. Gaylord, b. Nov. 7, 1810. He d. at Winsted May 14, 1854. She d. at Winsted Nov. 26, 1854.


II. SUSAN JENNETT, b. Colebrook, Dec. 6, 1816 ; m. Rollin S. Beecher.


CHILD BY SECOND WIFE.


III. RUFUS (EDWARD), b. Colebrook, May 4, 1857. He m., Dec. 24, 1857, Lucy, daughter of Nelson D. Coe, b. Winchester, Nov. 18, 1834. He was cashier of the Hurlbut bank from June 3, 1857, to Dec. 7, 1863; cashier of the Winsted bank from Dec. 7, 1863 to Aug. 27, 1864; and president of the Hurlbut bank from the last date to the present time. Children: 1. Anna Louisa, b. Sept. 17, 1860; 2. Susan Beccher, b. Oct. 27, 1862; 3. Rufus, b. April 4, 1865, d. March 16, 1866; 4. Edward Rufus, b. March 7, 1867 ; 5. Ralph Winthrop, b. Oct. 6, 1869.


CHILDREN OF LUCIUS L. AND MARY G. HOLMES.


I. An infant b. Jan., 1834 ; d. Feb., 1854.


II. SUSAN JANE, b. Colebrook, March 26, 1835; m. Dec. 10, 1854, Edward Clarke, b. Winsted.


III. LUCIUS LORENZO, b. April 12, 1840 ; m., Dec. 25, 1861.


IV. CHARLES BEECHER, b. Jan. 25, 1846 ; m. Abby, danghter of Amos, Pierce.


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WILLARD HOLMES, youngest child of Joseph and Lydia (Curtis) Holmes, resided from birth to death in his father's homestead. On the night of Feb. 22, 1857, he was awakened by finding his house in flames. He and his wife, the sole occupants, having escaped to the open air, he re-entered the burning building to secure his papers and valuables, when suffocation ensued, and he was burned in the ruins. He was a well- educated, thoughtful man, of strong convictions and independent actions ; a friend of the slave, the opponent of every wrong, and a humble Christian. He married at Norfolk, Oct., 1819, Miranda, daughter of David and Mary (Everett) Frisbie.


CHILDREN.


I. LUTHER WILLARD, b. Sept., 1820; m.


II. EVERETT CURTIS, b. April 28, 1821 ; m., Nov. 1, 1848, Laura Pcase, b. April 22, 1824.


III. LYDIA, b. 1823 ; d. August, 1833.


IV. MARY MELISSA, b.


CHILDREN OF EVERETT C. AND LAURA (PEASE) HOLMES.


I. EDWARD E., b. Dec. 27, 1849.


II. ELIZABETHI S., b. Sept. 1, 1852, adopted Nov. 1, 1854.


III. WILLARD P., b. Aug. 22, 1857.


IV. LUMAS H., b. Nov. 4, 1864.


V. MARY ISABEL, b. July 25, 1867.


1799.


ISAAC AND MARY BELLOWS owned land on the Colebrook road, and lived above D. N. Beardsley's. They sold out in 1800, - and afterwards lived until 1814, on Colebrook line on the site of the house recently built by Birdsey Gibbs.


ROSWELL MARSHALL, from Torrington, this year lived in the De- Wolf house on the west side of Colebrook road, adjoining Colebrook line, above the house of W. E. Cowles. He removed, in 1800, to his adjoining farm in Colebrook.


CHARLES OSBORN is on the Winsted list of this year, and owned land west of the D. N. Beardsley road, near Colebrook line. Charles and William owned land on east side of Green Woods Turnpike, opposite the Uri Church bridge, from 1801 to 1805, and probably occupied the house thereon, which has been recently torn down.


NATHANIEL PARKS, probably from Bristol, this year lived in a "pest house " that stood on East Lake street, near the great spring. He after- wards owned and lived on land on the Still River Turnpike, south of


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Roswell Pond's, which he conveyed to the town of Bristol in 1801. He was a miller, and had charge of the Doolittle Mill, opposite the Clock Factory. His wife was a woman of weight, who pressed her cheese by sitting on the driver of the hoop while knitting her stockings, thereby dispensing with a cheese press. Their son, Jonathan, became a showman of pictures, through a magnifying glass ; - and when moving from house to house, with his show box on his back, appeared as majestic as a cas- tellated elephant. His drawling, snuffling, yankee twang, in describing his pictorial views, was inimitably and irresistibly ludicrous. He outgrew his maternal fatness, and became a Daniel Lambert. While on a visit here, about 1812, his pants were surreptitiously obtained from a tailor, with whom he had left them to be mended; and three full grown men invested themselves within their ample folds, adjusting their right and left legs in the corresponding legs of the garment - and after some prac- tice in the lock step, were able to march around the east village green, to the great entertainment of the public. The fit of the garment, however, to the triple nondescript, was not perfect, - there being room within the girth for another legless body.


Jonathan was self-important, and affected sanctimony. He gave up the show business, and took to distributing tracts and begging for ginger- bread and other sweet food, - was advertised as an impostor, and died in a poor house. Byron may have had his epitaph in view when he wrote,


" "Tis Greece, but living Grecce no more."


THEODORE SMITH, from Goshen, first lived on Brooks street, in the Danbury quarter, south of, and adjoining the Asaph Brooks farm. In 1803, he removed to Winsted, and lived until 1815, in the house now torn down on the discontinued part of the old Colebrook road, between Junius Gillett, and Anson Fosket's. He removed thence to Tolland, Mass. He was son of Chileab, of Goshen, and half-brother of Capt. Zebina, of Winsted. His wife's name was Rhoda. They had sons, Erastus, late of Colebrook ; Riley, who d. June 4, 1865, in Winsted, on the Old Country road, west of Daniel B. Wilson's, leaving. two sons, who live at Riverton. Roswell living on Wallen's Hill, and Lorrain living over the line in Barkhamsted.


HENRY SANFORD, from Barkhamsted, lived first on South street, and after 1801, in a log house on Hinsdale street, on land lately owned by Nathan Champion. He left the town about 1805. His son, William Sanford, kept the Tavern and Livery Stable, south of Camp's Block, for several years before his death, which occurred Jan. 20, 1859, at the age of 53 years. He m. (1st) Sophronia, dau. of Stephen Fyler, who d. May 7, 1832, aged 32; (2d), Harriet Wade, now living. By first wife he


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had daughter, Jane, now wife of George M. Wentworth. By second wife, he had a son, William.


1800.


The new comers of this year were Bissell Hinsdale, Philemon Kirk- ham, Josiah Apley, Elijah Benedict, Nathaniel Smith, Solomon Lemley, Jacob Lemley, William Davis, and Gedeliah Chase.


BISSELL HINSDALE, a native of Windsor, began mercantile business on the old North Country road in Colebrook, near the Rowley Pond, whence he this year removed to Winsted, and built the store which was removed about 1848, to make room for the brick block, at the corner of Main and Lake streets. Here he carried on a large and for many years a prosperous business, - selling goods, buying and slaughtering cattle for the West India trade, making potash and buying cheese for the New York and Southern markets. He bought the gambrel-roofed house, built by Mr. Kirkham on the site of Weed's brick block, where he lived until 1814, when he built and occupied the house removed by Doctor Welch from the ground now occupied by the Second Congregational Church. In 1826 he became involved in the failure of his brothers, J. & D. Hinsdale, of Middletown, on whose paper he was indorser to a large amount, and thereby liis business was broken up, and his property swept away. He continued to reside in Winsted until about 1842, when, after the death of his son, Theodore Hinsdale, he removed to Rochester, N. Y., where his two daughters resided, and where he carried on a com- mission business for several years. He died at Rochester, in February, 1866, aged ninety-one years, and his remains were buried in Winsted. Mr. Hinsdale was a thoroughly trained merchant of the old school, - large of frame, dignified and reserved in manner - diligent in business, a stern but indulgent parent, a firm supporter of good order and good morals. He made a profession of religion at middle age, which he sus- tained by a consistent life, and verified by a steady growth in Christian graces to the. close of life. He was liberal in the support of education and religion, kind to the poor, and firm for the right. If there were those who considered him overbearing in his prosperous days, their hos- tility was disarmed by his patience in adversity, his cheerful acquiescence in his altered circumstances, and his blameless life. For many years after removing to Rochester he annually visited his family friends in Winsted, and was greeted with reverent regard by all who had known him in his earlier years. The infirmities of age abated not his loving trust in his Saviour. He was gathered to his fathers as a shock of corn fully ripe.


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The following line of families shows his descent from an early settler of New England :-


ROBERT HINSDALE1 was one of the founders of the church at Ded- ham, Mass., November 8, 1638, freeman of Mass., March 13, 1639; member of the Artillery Company, 1645; had wife Anu; removed to Medfield, Mass., where he aided in forming the church ; thence, as early as 1672, to Hadley, Mass., where he lived several years, and married (2d) Elizabeth, widow of John Hawks ; removed to Deerfield, Mass., where he was gathering his harvest in the cornfield, and was killed, with his sons, Barnabas, Jolin, and Samuel, when Captain Lathrop, with the flower of Essex, fell at Bloody Brook, surprised by the Indians, Sept. 18, 1675. His widow married (3d) Thomas Dibble.


CHILDREN.


I. ELIZABETH,2 m. July 7, 1657, James Rising of Boston.


II. BARNABAS,2 b. November 13, 1639 ; bap. November 17, 1639.


III. SAMUEL,2 birth record not found; m. Mehitabel Johnson, and had six children before he was killed by the Indians.


IV. GAMALIEL2, (supposed by Savage to be a mistake for Samuel), b. March 5, 1642; bap. March 13, 1642.


V. MARY,2 b. February 14, 1644; bap. February 25, 1644.


VI. EXPERIENCE,2 b. January 23, 1646 ; bap. February 8, 1646.




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