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In this state of things, the opening of the Talcott Mountain and Green Woods turnpikes was an event as auspicious to our fathers, as was the opening of the Naugatuck Railroad to their children, or as is the majestic march of the Connecticut Western Railroad trains up the Norfolk hills, to our present community.
The Old North Road avoided the water-courses, and sought the hill tops. It crossed the streams at the foot of one steep hill and forthwith began the ascent of another, sometimes by a zig-zag path. The turnpike, on the other hand, followed the line of the Farmington and its Pleasant Valley tributary, then up the line of Mad river to Norfolk and onward towards Albany by comparatively casy grades and a smooth well rounded roadway. Entering the Borough at the Still River bridge in the south- east, it penetrated the tangled forest of hemlocks and ivies* along the bank of Mad river northwesterly, and gave easy access to the present centre of business and population.
From the Doolittle Mill another road was at once extended west of Still river down to the turnpike; and these two roads, now known as Main street and North Main street, made a natural connection of the. two ham- lets, and formed the nucleus of our consolidated village. The level area at the joining of the two roads made a natural and convenient centre of population for the renovated church and society, and an eligible parade ground. The original highway was laid six rods wide through the centre of the present Green Woods Park, and the new meeting-house lot was
* The misapplied term "ivy," has so long been used to designate the "calmia" that this most splendid of our flowering shrubs is almost unknown by its true botani- cal name.
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located on the west side of the highway, extending westerly to the west border of the Park, and southerly to the turnpike. The house fronted on the highway and extended back to Woodruff's confectionery store. It was built, floored and covered in 1800, a year after the opening of the turnpike ; and was, for the period when it was built, the best proportioned and finished church edifice in the region. The interior was completed five years afterward, in a style of the then modern composite architecture.
For its day, it was a sightly, well-proportioned building, with tower and cupola at the east end. Its inner furnishing and adornment was pic- turesque. The body of the audience room was occupied by three aisles, with high-paneled, square pews of unpainted pine. The pulpit was an eight square tub, supported by a single pillar, standing about ten feet high, and resembling an immense goblet. Narrow, rectangular stairs, with elaborate railings, ascended from each end of the altar to half the height of the structure, and then turned toward each other, and met at a two and- a-half-foot platform in rear of the tub, from which a door opened to receive the preacher, and on being closed a seat was turned down for him to sit on, and affording scant room for a companion to sit by his side. The crowning appendage of this unique structure was an eight-square wooden sounding board, suspended by a half inch square iron rod fastened in the arched ceiling. It resembled a woolen tassel attached to a frail cord in- capable of sustaining it. It vibrated sensibly with every motion of the air, and fearfully when the windows were open, and a thunder storm im- pending. This feature gave to the concern an element of the sublime, which modified its fantastical character, especially in the eyes of the youth- ful worshippers, whose fears of the demolition of the minister by the breaking of the imaginary string were not altogether unreasonable.
A row of columns, arranged in an ox-bow line, supported the gallery, the curve at the east end of the room being opposite the pulpit at the west end. A single row of singer's seats went around the entire front line of the gallery, so that every singer could see the majestic swing of the chief chorister's arm as he beat the time from the center of the arched line, though they at the extreme ends could but faintly hear the pitch- pipe. A narrow, elevated alley ran in the rear of the singer's seats ; and in the rear of this, on the sides of the house. were still more elevated pews, furnishing admirable places of concealed retirement for the boys and girls who chose to worship in a more cheerful way than their parents below would have approved.
In rear of the chorister's seat, and falling back into the tower of the building were two commodious pews, one appropriated to the class of young men who brushed and greased their upper hair into a high pyra- mid over the forehead, and tied that which descended behind into a pipe- stem cue, who wore wide projecting ruffles at the bosom, and Suwarrow
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boots, with pendant silk tassels at the knees, and magnified their strut by anchoring their thumbs in the arm-holes of their waistcoats; and the other appropriated to the young women who wore gunboat-bonnets, well- displayed bosoms and street-sweeping skirts or trails. By what rule of selection the parties were dignified to these high places, was never made known to the compiler; but according to his best recollection, they were mainly composed of clerks and schoolmasters, tailoresses and school- marms. Into these pews, compeers of their occupants from neighboring parishes were ushered, in stately form.
As tlie congregation increased in numbers, the two gallery pews before appropriated to worshippers of the colored persuasion were needed by their white brethren and sisters, and two corner pews were erected over the gallery stairs, for the special use of the colored worshippers. The position of these pews was lofty, but the access was so difficult, and the honor of occupancy so dubions, that the prayers and praises of the sanc- tuary ceased to be participated in by the African race.
The parishioners were seated in the lower pews by an annually ap- pointed committee, who were required to take into consideration the com- bined elements of age, wealth, and official position in assigning seats of honor or mediocrity. This heart-burning method of seating the congre- gation grew out of the system of supporting the gospel by taxation, and ceased when the funds were raised by annual sales of the pews by auc- tion, about 1820. In Norfolk, and perhaps some other neighboring par- ishes, the old system is believed to be still retained.
The interior of the house retained its pristine form and adornments until 1828, when the pulpit, sounding-board and all, was taken down, and a less pretentious, but more convenient one, was placed at the east end of the audience room, the floor was laid on an inclined plane, raising it some four feet above a level at the west end, and modern slips were put thereon which faced eastward. In the gallery the aristocratic front pews, and the devil-possessed side pews were removed. Rising tiers of seats for singers occupied the place of the former, and open seats along the walls, without high screens to hide the unruly boys and girls from the view of their parents below, were erected. The untenanted cock-loft negro pews over the stairs were left intact. In 1848, the house was removed to its present site, and so entirely remodeled, without and within, that only the frame of the original building remains. The interior is tastily and con- veniently arranged and furnished. A fine toned organ has recently been purchased, at a cost of $2,000, and placed in the choir, indicating the prosperity and liberal spirit of the congregation.
The six-rod highway being insufficient for a parade ground, the society purchased, in December, 1802, a strip of land five rods wide, extending northerly on the east line of the highway, to near the Episcopal Church,
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" to be forever kept for a publie parade." About the same time a strip of land was purchased, by individuals, on the west side of the six-rod high- way, extending north from the north line of the meeting-house, a distance of nine rods, and with a width of fifty-four feet, for the purpose of erect- ing horse sheds thereon. The sheds were eventually built in the rear of this land, opening on its west line and leaving the land open to the public. A strip of the same width was some years after thrown open to the pub- lie, extending north to the Holabird premises, thus making a parade ground about fourteen rods wide from east to west, and twenty-five to thirty roods long.
From the Rock House, westerly, to the Old Tavern in the West Vil- lage, the turnpike, when opened, ran through a nearly unbroken forest. There was one small opening on the flat, where some unknown person had once built a log shanty, which had then been abandoned; and anoth- er a little north of High street, and a little east of Elizur B. Parsons house, where a log house onee stood, of unknown origin. We have re- ferred to the two hamlets around the two mills at the lake outlet, and the stone bridge on Still River. The first of these extended down the hill to, and along the turnpike at Lake street bridge. The other extended south along the new road to the parade ground or green, and the contiguous Turnpike. These sections, under the designations of West street and East street, became separate and rival villages, whose bitter and frequent contentions about Post Office location, road improvements, and business enterprises, have given to our community an unenviable notoriety, and to the Post Office Department a constant annoyance.
The extension of the Naugatuck Railroad to Winsted, with its termi- nus intermediate between the two villages, gave rise to another distinet village on " the Flat," which has expanded in each direction, so as to unite with both of the rival sections. It would seem a natural result of this physical consolidation, that sectional feelings and interests would have died away, but as yet, old animosities and new causes of contention have prevented this most desirable consummation.
f. Rockwell
CHAPTER XXVI.
SETTLERS-FAMILY RECORDS-SCHOOL HOUSES AND SCHOOLS-STATISTICS.
1801 TO 1811.
THE Rockwell Brothers - Solomon, Reuben, Alpha, and Martin - were engaged in the iron business in Colebrook, at the close of the last century. Their works were on the stream flowing out of the meadows at the center, which were submerged by their dam, making an extensive pond of shallow water; and a nuisance was generated thereby which caused the death of several residents of the vicinity by fever. It con- sequently became necessary to lower their dam and drain the meadows in order to disinfect the atmosphere. This rendered the water power insufficient for their works, and obliged them to change their locality. In 1799 they bought the Austin Mill and water power from the lake outlet to Meadow street bridge, except the Jenkins & Boyd interest in the upper forge, and in 1802 removed one of their Colebrook forges to the site of Timothy Hulbert's present Iron Works, and a few years after, built another forge on the site of Lathrop & Barton's Lake Stream Cutlery Works.
SOLOMON ROCKWELL, Esq., came to Winsted this year, and took up his abode in the house built by David Austin, Jr., near the lake outlet, and continued his residence there until the completion of the homestead of his after life, now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Jerusha R. Boyd.
No one of the founders of our village made a deeper impress on its institutions and moral character, or did more to increase its business and stimulate public improvements than Mr. Rockwell. He was the first justice of the peace in the Society, and was the foremost in all measures of public and benevolent enterprise. The following sketch of his character was drawn in substance by another hand, soon after his death :
" As a business man he possessed great energy, and a good degree of prudence and sound discretion. He successfully accomplished most of his business projects, and although in his early carcer some of his enter- prises were attended with disasters which would have crushed an ordinary
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man, he was never disheartened. If one project failed he tried another. Experience taught him prudence, without in any degree diminishing his energetic and sanguine temperament. He was a man of integrity, con- stitutionally and from principle, and was liberal and generous, without a narrow or contracted streak in his character. He practised hospitality, without stint or grudging. His unwearied cheerfulness, his genial humor, and exhaustless fund of anecdote made him the favorite of old and young, wise and simple. He was a true gentleman of the old school, a puritan of the puritans, yet liberal and catholic in his religious views.
" His profession of faith in the Redeemer was made after his fiftieth year, and his subsequent life gave witness of a good profession. His faith rested not in abstractions, but was manifested in works of love and mercy. After the prostration of his body and mind by paralysis his faith knew no abatement, but shone clear and tranquil to the closing scene of life."
In May 1835, while present at a fire which consumed his woolen factory, he was struck down by paralysis, which for some time rendered him helpless and speechless. After a partial recovery, a second attack in 1838, followed in a few weeks by a third, so impaired his bodily and mental powers that death was a messenger of mercy rather than of judgment. He died August 1, 1838, aged seventy-four and a half years.
1801.
DEACON ALPHA ROCKWELL, younger brother of Solomon, was the first male child born in Colebrook, as indicated by his baptismal name. He came to Winsted in 1801, and during the same year erected his homestead on the corner of Main and Lake streets, where the Beardsley House now stands. His health was impaired in childhood by whooping cough, which permanently affected his lungs and terminated in death by consumption, in the fifty-first year of his age.
Associated in business with his more versatile and sanguine brother, Solomon, his vigilance and method, and his skill as an accountant and financier imparted to the firm the qualities essential to success in its varied and complicated transactions. No two brothers ever acted more in accord with each other, or were bound together by more sincere affection.
As a member of society he was active in promoting education and good morals. As a father, husband, and brother he was affectionate and loving beyond most men. As a Christian he was eminent for piety, and zealously efficient in furthering the interests of the church of which he was a member and office-bearer. He died in the triumph of Christian faith, June 1, 1818, aged 50 years.
Alpha Rathavec
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Though only two of the Rockwell brothers moved to Winsted, yet descendants of four of them are now, or have been, residents here, while the fifth died childless.
DEACON WILLIAM ROCKWELL,1 from England, came to Dorchester, Mass., in 1630, thence with the early planters to Windsor, Conn., where he died May 15, 1640. He married in England, Susanna Chapin, born April 5, 1602, who married (2d) May 29, 1645, Mathew Grant, and died November 14, 1666.
CHILDREN.
I. JOAN,2 b. England, April 25, 1625 ; m. Jeffrey Baker.
II. JOHN,2 b. England, July 18, 1627.
III. MARY,2 probably died young ; not named in Mathew Grant's record.
IV. SAMUEL,2 b. Dorchester, Mass., March 28, 1631.
V. RUTH,2 b. Dorchester, August -, 1633; m. October 7, 1652, Christo- pher Huntington, and among her descendants is General Ulysses S. Grant, the President of the United States.
VI. JOSEPH,2 date of birth not known ; d. young.
VII. SARAH,2 b. Windsor, Conn., July 24, 1638 ; m. Walter Gaylord.
SAMUEL ROCKWELL2 married, April 7, 1660, Mary Norton of Say- brook, daughter of Thomas and Grace (Wells) Norton of Guilford, Conn.
CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN WINDSOR.
I. MARY,3 b. Jan. 18, 1662; m., Oct. 23, 1683, Josiah Loomis.
II. ABIGAIL,8 b. Aug. 23, 1664 ; d. May 3, 1665.
III. SAMUEL,8 b. Oct. 19, 1667 ; m., Jan. 10, 1694, Elizabeth Gaylord.
IV. JOSEPH, 3
b. May 22, 1670 ; m. Elizabeth Drake.
V. JOHN,3
b. May 31, 1673 ; m. Anne Skinner.
VI. ABIGAIL,8 b. April 11, 1676 ; m. John Smith.
VII. JOSIAH,8 b. March 15, 1678; m., Dec. 14, 1713, Rebecca Loomis, of Lebanon.
JOSEPH ROCKWELL,3 "sarjant," m. Elizabeth Drake, born Nov. 4, 1675, daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Alvord) Drake. He d. June 26, 1733, aged 63 years.
CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN WINDSOR.
I. JOSEPH,4 b. Nov. 23, 1695; m. Hannah Huntington.
II. ELIZABETII,4 b. Dec. 12, 1698.
III. BENJAMIN,4 b. Oct. 26, 1700 ; m. Margaret Drake.
IV. JAMES, 4 b. June 3, 1704 ; m., Nov. 7, 1728, Abigail Loomis.
V. JOB, 4 b. April 13, 1709; m., Jan. 20, 1736-7, Miriam Hayden.
VI. ELIZABETII,4 b. July 24, 1713 ; m. Jonathan Huntington.
JOSEPH ROCKWELL4 married Hannah Huntington, born Norwich, Conn., March 25, 1693-4, daughter of John and Abigail (Lathrop) Huntington, and grand-daughter of Christopher and Ruth? (Rockwell)
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Huntington. He died Oct. 16, 1746, aged 51. She died of small-pox Jan. 18, 1761, aged 67 years.
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CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN WINDSOR.
I. JOSEPH,5 b. March 15, 1715-16; m. Anna Dodd.
II. HANNAH,5
b. Dec. 25, 1717.
III. A SON5 (twin),
b. June 5, 1720; d. same day.
IV. JERUSHA5 (twin),
b. June 5, 1720.
V. JONATHAN,5 b. May 2, 1723.
VI. SAMUEL,5 b. March 9, 1725-6; d. young.
VII. SAMUEL,5 b. Jan. 19, 1728 ; m. Hepzibah Pratt.
JOSEPH ROCKWELL5 married Anna Dodd. He died -- , 1775. aged 60.
CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN EAST WINDSOR.
I. ANNA,6
m. Nathan Bass.
II. JOHN.6
III. ELIJAH,6
b. Nov. 14, 1744, O. S .; m. Lucy Wright.
IV. MARY,6 m. William Goodwin.
V. JERUSHA.6
VI. ELIZABETH.6
. VII. GURDON.6
VIII. JOSEPII.6
IX. ELIHU,6 lived in Winchester.
SAMUEL ROCKWELL5 married Hepzibah Pratt, born in East Hartford (date unknown), daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Benton) Pratt, grand daughter of John and Hepzibah Pratt, and great-grand-daughter of John Pratt, one of the original members of Mr. Hooker's Cambridge Church, and an early settler of Hartford, where he died July 15, 1655, leaving a widow Elizabeth, and sons John and Daniel. He died at Colebrook Sept. 7, 1794, aged 66. She died , 1814.
CHILDREN.
I. SAMUEL,6
b. East Windsor, Feb. 18, 1759.
m., 1793, Mary Burrall, of
II. TIMOTHY,6 Canaan.
He d. Sept. 4, 1794, aged 34 ycars, s. p.
III. SOLOMON,6 bap. East Windsor, Oct. 3, 1762; d. young.
IV. SOLOMON,6 b. East Windsor, Jan. 20, 1764 ; bap. Jan. 22, 1764.
V. REUBEN, 6 b. East Windsor, Oct. 1, 1765 ; bap. Oct. 6, 1765.
VI. ALPHA,6 b. Colebrook, Sept. 21, 1767, the first child born in the town ; hence his name.
VII. MARTIN,6 b. C. 1772.
VIII. LUMAN,6 b. C. d. Nov., 1777.
IX. HEBZIBAH, 6 b. C.
d. Nov., 1777.
ELIJAHI ROCKWELL6 married, Jan. 19, 1775, Lucy Wright, born in Goshen, Conn., Oct. 7, 1756, daughter of Capt. John Wright. He was
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the first justice of the peace, and the life-long town clerk of Colebrook. She died at Colebrook, May 24, 1830, in her 74th year. He died August 2, 1841.
CHILDREN.
I. LUCY,7 b. June 8, 1776; d. April 2, 1778.
II. ELIJAH,7 b. Nov. 9, 1-77 ; m. Sophia Ensign, daughter of John.
III. LUCY,7 b. Jan. 8, 1779 ; m. Aaron Case of Norfolk.
IV. THERON,7 b. June 5, 1782.
V. ANNE,7 b. Oct. 9, 1783; m. Joseph P. Hurlbut.
VI. BETSEY,7 b. Feb. 18, 1789 ; m. Dr. Luman Wakefield.
SAMUEL ROCKWELL,6 a physician, settled in Salisbury, Conn .; after- ward removed to Sharon, where he died June 24, 1836. He married 1788, Eunice Canfield. She died and he married 1798, Hannah Reed. (2d)
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. HEPZIBAH,7
m. Nathaniel B. Gaylord.
II. JOHN CANFIELD,7
d. at Colebrook, unm.
CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.
III. MARY ANN,7 b. Salisbury, June 2, 1800; m. Aaron Hawley.
IV. WILLIAM,7 grad. Yale College Law School; lawyer in Brooklyn, N. Y .; Judge of Superior Court of Kings county at the time of his death : m. Susan Prince of Brooklyn.
SOLOMON ROCKWELL6 married, July 2, 1800, Sarah McEwen, born March 2, 1775, daughter of Robert and Jerusha (Doolittle) McEwen. She died March 15, 1837 ; he died Aug. 1, 1838.
CHILD.
I. JERUSHA,7 b. March 28, 1803 ; m. Theodore Hinsdale; and (2d) John Boyd.
REUBEN ROCKWELL,6 of Colebrook, born in East Windsor Oct. 1, 1766, married Rebecca, daughter of Col. Bezaleel Beebe of Litchfield.
CHILDREN.
1. JULIUS,7 grad. Yale College; lawyer at Pittsfield, Mass .; representative and senator from Mass. in Congress ; and now judge of supreme court, Massachusetts.
II. LOUISA,7 m. Giles H. Bass, of Colebrook.
III. BEZALEEL BEEBE,7 of Winsted, b. Oct. 28, 1809 ; m. April 23, 1834, Caro- line, daughter of Col. Hosea Hinsdale. CHILDREN : 1. Elizabeth,8 b. Jan. 8, 1836 ; 2. Julia,8 b. Oct. 13, 1838 ; 3. Caroline Rebecca,8 b. June 1, 1840; 4. Mary Pitkin Hinsdale,8 b. Sept. 10, 1844; 5. John Hinsdale,8 b. Sept. 27, 1847 ; d. April 10, 1848 ; 6. Kate Louisa,8 b. June 29, 1850 ; 7. Lilian,8 b. Feb. 22, 1854. He resides in Winsted, holds the office of assistant assessor of U. S. Internal Revenue.
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IV. ELIZABETH,7 living in Colebrook.
V. REUBEN,7 of Colebrook, m. Amelia L. Eno; representative and senator of Connecticut legislature, and now holds the office of collector U. S. In- ternal Revenue, Fourth District of Connecticut.
ALPHA ROCKWELL,6 married, May 20, 1800, Rhoda Ensign, born in Salisbury, -- , 1775, daughter of John and Rhoda (Lee) Ensign. She died Feb. 25, 1817 ; he died May 31, 1818.
CHILDREN.
I. EDWARD,7 b. Colebrook, June 30, 1801.
II. SAMUEL,7
b. Winchester, April 18, 1803.
III. CAROLINE,7 b. Dec. 27, 1804; in. William Lawrence, of Norfolk, who d. at Northampton, Mass., Feb. 22, 1867, s. p.
IV. CORNELIA,7 b. March 23, 1808; m., Oct. - , 1838, Osmyn Baker, of Amherst, Mass., and d. Feb. 12, 1840, leaving one child, William Law- rence,8 b. Oct. 5, 1839; "grad. Dartmouth College, 1858; made the tonr of Europe, 1860; was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery in the regular army, August, 1861 ; was promoted to first lieutenant, November, 1861 ; was in the battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Man- assas Heights, Chantilly, South Mountain, and was killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, aged 23 years."
V. DELIA ELLEN,7 b. Jan. 16, 1811; m. March 28, 1838, Dea. Elliot Beards- ley, b. Monroe, Conn., Dec. 26, 1801, son of Elliot and Abigail (l'atter- son) Beardsley. Ile moved from South Britain to Winsted in 1840, and engaged in business, in company with Theodore Hinsdale ; and after the death of the latter became sole owner of one of the largest manufac- turing establishments in the Society, and managed it with consummate ability during his remaining active life. Reticent and deliberate by na- ture and habit, he minded his own business entirely, yet had an eye on all that was going on around him, and participated influentially, though quietly, in public affairs. No man in the town was more looked to for advising and giving a direction to all measures for public interest ; and none more respected for purity of life, religious example, and earnest patriotism ; he was one of the first office bearers of the Second Congre- gational Church; a Director and President of the Winsted Bank; a Representative of the town and Senator of the 15th District in the State Legislature, and held various other offices. The war of the rebellion opened near the close of his active life; - and no citizen of the town ex- ceeded him in energetic and persistent efforts to aid the Union Cause. A slow decay of his physical faculties, and eventually of his mental powers, clouded the last years of his life, which terminated Jan. 19, 1871. Mr. Beardsley, by a former wife, -- (Johnson), had a daughter, Martha E., b. in South Britain, Feb. 13, 1856, now living.
CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.
1. Edward Rockwell,8 b. Jan. 10, 1839; grad. Yale College, 1859 ; m. Jan. 10, 1867, Emma Adelaide Watson, b. in New Hartford, Jan. 30, 1840 ; has twin sons, Elliot Gay,9 and Edward Watson,9 h. June 4, 1868.
Photo by Hoclow,
E. Beardsley
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2. Cornelia,8 b. July 27, 1840; m. Oct. 23, 1867, Rev. Samuel Baker Forbes, b. in Westborough, Mass., Aug. 1, 1826, son of Nahum and Polly (Davis) Forbes ; he grad. Williams College, 1855 ; East Wind- sor Theological Seminary, 1857 ; licensed by Hartford Fourth As- sociation, 1856 ; ordained at Manchester, Conn., Oct. 20, 1857 ; dis- missed April, 1859 ; resides in West Winsted ; his one child, Henry Stuart,9 b. June 16, 1871.
3. Sarah Hinsdale,8 b. Jan. 9, 1842 ; m. Oct. 13, 1868, Eugene Potter ; she d. April -, 1871, at Lexington, Mich., leaving a son, Lawrence William, b. April 4, 1871.
4. Elliot,8 b. Nov. 17, 1843 ; d. June 12, 1862.
5. Julia Plummer,8 b. Oct. 1, 1845 ; m. May 28, 1867, George F. Bar- ton ; lives at W. Winsted; has children, Elizabeth Nichols,9 b. April 4, 1869, and George Elliot,9 b. Dec. 19, 1870.
6. Theodore Hinsdale,8 b. April 13, 1851 ; m. June 15, 1870, Alura Francis Harrison, b. in New Milford, Conn., Feb. 7, 1850; has one daughter, Sarah Harrison,9 b. May 11, 1871.
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