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to Mr. Brooks to supply for three Sabbaths ; and on the 31st March fol- lowing, an application was voted to Mr. Napp to supply for six Sabbaths, and the committee was directed to go or send after him. July 10th, fol- lowing, " Mr. Napp" was applied to to preach twelve Sabbaths on pro- bation.
Sept. 23, 1772, it was voted "that the Society will give Mr. Joshua Napp a call for a settlement in the ministry amongst us"-and a settle- ment was proposed of £200, payable in instalments, and a salary begin- ning at £35, and increasing £5 annually, until it should reach £65, which was modified so that it should increase in proportion to the increase of the grand levy, until it should reach £65. The first Thursday in Novem- ber was fixed on for the ordination, and it was voted that the Council should meet at Robert Macune's, and that he should provide for them. and that John Hills, Samuel Wetmore, Jr., Enoch Palmer, Ebenezer Preston, Oliver Coe and John Bradley should keep houses of Entertain- ment for Ordination. By a subsequent vote, Mr. Knapp was allowed to invite his friends to Robert Macune's, upon the society's cost.
No record appears of the action of the church in calling Mr. Knapp. The entry of his Ordination in the church records in his own hand is as follows :
NOVEMBER 11, A. D. 1772.
This day I was ordained to ye pastoral charge of yr Church of Christ in Winchester. The whole Association were sent to by letters missive. Present the Rev'd Messrs.
DR. BELLAMY,
[of Bethlem.]
MR. ROBBERTS,
[ " Torrington.]
MR. LEE,
[ " Salisbury.]
MR. BRINSMAID,
[" Washington.]
MR. FARRAND,
[" Canaan.]
MR. CANFIELD,
" New Milford.]
MR. NEWEL,
[ " Goshen.]
MR. BENEDICT,
[" Woodbury.]
MIR. DAY,
" New Preston. ]
MR. ROBBINS,
[ " Norfolk.]
MR. HART,
" North Canaan.]
MR. STAR,
" Warren.]
with these delegates, also a delegate from Torringford.
Mr. Benedict made ye first prayer, Mr. Robbins preached ye sermon, - Mr. Farrand made ye ordaining prayer, - Dr. Bellamy gave ye charge, - Mr. Hart ye right hand of fellowship, - Mr. Day made y' concluding prayer, . . . . the whole was performed with y" greatest Decency and Solemnity.
Test,
JOSHUA KNAPP, Pastor.
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We copy from Rev. Mr. Marsh's Commemorative Sermon, the follow- ing notice of Mr. Knapp:
" Rev. Joshua Knapp, - a native of Danbury, graduated at Yale Col- lege in 1770, - was ordained Nov. 11, 1772, - and dismissed Oct 13, 1789. He was a ready and easy speaker. Few ministers possessed a happier talent at extemporaneous speaking. This operated somewhat unhappily in his case, as it has in others, by becoming a temptation to neglect that application to study and mental discipline which is essential to a minis- ter's bringing forth out of his treasures things new and old.
Subsequent to his dismission, Mr. Knapp preached at North Canaan, New Hartford and Milton, in this county. From Milton he removed to Hamilton, Madison Co., N. Y., where he preached a considerable time, and from thence removed to Torrington, where he spent his old age in the family of his son-in-law, Deacon Abel Hinsdale. Occasionally he visited the people of his former charge, and as health permitted, preached to them. He departed this life March 23, 1816, in the 72d year of his age, and the 44th of his ministry. His grave is in this parish, among those of his early charge, who have finished their earthly course. A marble slab, erected by his friends in this place, marks the spot where his re- mains await the summons of the Archangel's trump. Previous to his settlement in Winchester, Mr. Knapp married Mary Keyes, a worthy and excellent lady, from the eastern part of Massachusetts. They had two sons and three daughters, most of whom are deceased. Mrs. K. survived her husband a few years, and while visiting friends in New Marlboro', Mass., became sick, and died at that place at the age of about 72."
The besetting sin of our first minister, as hinted by his worthy succes- sor, was constitutional weariness. He is said to have tripped and fallen, while leisurely walking across his floor, with no impediment in his way, and thereby broken his leg. Want of thrift was an element of his char- acter incident to his torpidity. He could not eke out his support from the scanty salary of ministers of that day. On one occasion he called together the society's Committee and Deacons, and set forth to them his privations, and his need of a more adequate support, closing with the remark that they ought to so provide for him that he could live as com- fortably as Parson Robbins, who was a model of economy and good living. Good Deacon Hills replied to this remark, -" Mr. Knapp, if we should put a barrel, full of dollars, behind your buttery door, you couldn't live as Mr. Robbins does, for it ain't in you."
This trait of his character, however, did not impair his firm adherence to principle in his pastoral duties. The churches in that day ahounded with half-way covenant members, an anomalous class of professors, who had found their way into the Christian folds in the lax state of religion prevailing at the middle of the last century. Mr. Knapp seems to have
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set his face against these interlopers, and to have barred their entrance so the new church under his charge. Heart-burnings grew out of his somewhat arbitrary exercise of pastoral prerogative; an opposition grew up, not only to him, but to the church ; which opened a way for Meth- odism, then in its infancy, to obtain a footing in the parish. As a conse- quence the growth of the church, though perhaps more pure and healthy, was slow, and the influence of the pastor was undermined.
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CHAPTER X.
1771 to 1775 RESUMÉ AND NEW SETTLERS.
BEGINNING our annals with the hasty vote of the Colonial Assembly granting to Hartford and Windsor nearly all the unoccupied territory of the Colony, ostensibly for a single plantation, but really to place it beyond the grasp of the usurping Governor Andros, we have traced step by step the long controversy growing out of this ill-advised and unperfected* grant. We have seen these powerful towns assuming a vested ownership, first of the large township of Litchfield, and then of the whole territorial grant, thereby repudiating the implied, but doubtless understood. trust incident to the grant when made. We have viewed, with a modified sympathy, the awkward predicament of the Assembly when attempting to resume its control of the lands in the face of its semi-fraudulent grant ; and with no sympathy at all, the persistent efforts of those pampered towns to hold their ill-gotten domain ; especially the portion of it remain- ing after their appropriation of the large township of Litchfield by metes and bounds, thereby determining the extent of the " Plantation," provided for in the grant. We have followed the windings and turnings of sharp practice, by which the Assembly was finally badgered into a division of the remaining territory between the rightful owners and the unscrupulous claimants ; a division securing to the latter 139,778 acres of land, which of right belonged as a common property to all the inhabitants of the colony.
We have detailed the sub-divisions of these lands until our own town- ship fell into the hands of the niggardly " Proprietors of Winchester," and have seen how the long-delayed sub-division to individual proprietors was so made as to preclude any concerted measures for its settlement, and to withhold all inducement to that end, which the customary reservation of lands for religious and educational purposes would have held out to set- tlers. We have searched out the squatters who, after waiting in vain for an allotment of their individual rights, had selected their own locations ; and have made ourselves acquainted, as far as possible, with the succeed-
* No patent of this territory was ever issued by the Assembly to these towns.
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ing pioneers - have ascertained whence they came, where they lived, and how they fared. We have seen the distinctive elements aggregate and crystallize into a religious society and a civil commonwealth.
But as yet the settlement of the town has only begun. All the inhab- itants, with the exception of some half dozen families, are located on and west of the old Sonth Country Road, a section not exceeding one-sixth part of the township. The whole population, as stated in the petition of April 4th. 1771, is twenty eight families and 179 souls within the society of Winchester, and only four families without the society and within the town. The " Danbury Quarter," embracing the four half-mile tiers in the northwest corner of the town, is, as yet, nearly unoccupied. The four families located without the society are on the North Country Road, at the northeast corner of the town, and will be again referred to.
The slow growth of a remote country town affords few events that can interest others than those connected with it by personal or parental resi- dence. To each and all of these, it is hoped that the minute details em- bodied in these annals will furnish some matters of interest and instruc- tion, and that their affectionate regard for their fatherland or residence will lead them to appreciate our labors.
We propose to continue our History, if it can be so dignified, mainly in the form of annals, embracing in each year its public events, and accessions of inhabitants, with such biographical and genealogical notices as our scanty materials will afford, leaving the settlement of Winsted to be separately treated.
1772.
We find in the records of town meetings during this year, no votes or proceedings of special interest. The customary town officers were chosen, and a tax of "one penny half-penny on the pound " was laid.
The following new inhabitants are found on the records of this year, in Old Winchester Society : Thomas Spencer, Alexander Leach, John Corey, Levi Bronson, Roswell Coe, Elisha Smith, Samuel Hurlbut, and Reuben Thrall.
THOMAS SPENCER, from Saybrook, this year moved on to the farm recently purchased of Bronson and Munsill by Rufus Eglestone, lying north of his homestead, and bordering on the west side of the Long Pond south of Sucker Brook. The house which he built and occupied during his remaining life, remained standing until the winter of 1862-3, and then yielded to the wintry blasts. He was a prominent man of the town, and nine of his children became heads of large aud influential families ; but, of more than twenty of his descendants now residing in this town, not one
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bears the name of Spencer. He was born January 16th, 1736, O. S .; * married April 10th, 1760, Phebe Grenell, born July 20th, 1736, O. S .; he died May 1st, 1807, aged 71 ; she died October 2d, 1812.
CHILDREN.
1. PHEBE, b. April 20, 1761 ; m. Rev. John Sweet.
II. JOHN,
b. October 18, 1762.
III. CHLOE,
b. December 15, 1764 ; d. May 16, 1767.
IV. THOMAS,
b. November 19, 1766.
V. GRENELL,
b. September 9, 1768.
VI. CHLOE,
b. December 4, 1770; m. Oliver Coe.
VII. CHARLOTTE,
b. April 4th, 1773 ; m. Jonathan Coe, Jr.
VIII. CANDACE, b. June 14, 1775 ; m. January 17, 1798, Ashbel Munson, of Waterbury.
IX. SYLVIA,
b. April 12th, 1778 ; m. Dr. T. S. Wetmore. .
X. HULDAH,
b. October 1, 1780; m. John Wetmore, 2d.
JOHN SPENCER,2 oldest son of Thomas,1 in 1784 bought of David Austin 39 acres of land in the heart of the West Village of Winsted, embracing all of Main street from Camp's Block southerly and easterly to Clifton Mill Bridge, and the whole of High street, Elm street, the Green Woods Park and adjacent streets. He entered on this purchase, cleared a few acres, and built a loghouse, on the flat near the corner of Elm and Main streets, before any bridge had been erected across Mad river at Lake street, or any road opened south of the bridle path now known as Hinsdale street. Despairing of ever having access by a road and bridge to the civilized part of the town, and unwilling to rear a family in this savage region, he sold his purchase for three dollars an acre, and bought a two hundred acre farm in Danbury Quarter, lately owned by Edward Rugg, then a well-populated section of the town, on which he lived until 1799. In 1800 he removed to Peacham, Caledonia county, Vermont, where he accumulated a fortune of $15,000, and lost it by be- coming surety for the sheriff of the county. He then removed to West- moreland, Oneida county, and after two years, again lost his all by the burning of his house. In 1816 he purchased a farm in the adjoining town of Vernon, on which he resided until his death, February 14th, 1826, aged 63. He married February 14th, 1793, Abigail, daughter of Abner Marshall, of Torrington, who died in 1849.
CHILDREN.
I. JULIUS,
b. Winchester, January 31, 1794; living in 1857 at Lisbon, Ill.
* Probably descended from Sergt. Jared Spencer, who died in Haddam in 1685, through Thomas, who d. in Saybrook before 1703. See Godwin's Genealogical Notes, pp. 200 and 201.
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II. ALMEDA,
III. GEO. GRINNELL,
b. Winchester, April 19, 1795; m. - Carter, of Worthington, O.
b. Winchester, November 17, 1796; living in 1857 at Lexington, Va.
IV. HARLOW,
b. in Vermont ; d. at 23 years of age.
V. SYLVIA, b. m. Marshall of Westmoreland, N. Y.
VI. WM. SCOTT,
b. of Warsaw, Ill., in 1857.
VII. LAURA,
VIII. ORPHA,
b. in Vermont ; m. - Green, of Westmoreland, N. Y. b. m. - Hiscock of Rochester, N. Y.
IX. JOHN,
b. d. at the age of 8 years.
X. FRANKLIN AUGUSTUS, recently Congregational Minister of New Hartford, Conn., now living in Clinton, N. Y.
XI. RILEY, of Lexington, Ky., in 1857.
THOMAS SPENCER,2 a millwright by trade, lived until about 1795, in a house that stood on the east side of the Dug-way road, nearly opposite a road that turns west to Winchester Centre Village. In 1795. in company with Benjamin Jenkins and James Boy l, he built the first forge in the town, on the " Old Forge Site," on which the grinding works of the Win- sted Manufacturing Company now stand. He also built a store in which he traded in company with Hewett Hills, on the depot grounds of the Connecticut Western Railroad Company, on the north side of Lake street ; and also the rear part of the tenant house on south side of Lake street, directly opposite the store building, in which he lived until his removal to Vernon, Oneida county, N. Y., about 1801 or '2. He died at Vernon, N. Y., about 1828. He married May 28th, 1795. Lucy, daughter of Hewitt Hills. Their children were three sons, Hilamon,3 Thomas,3 and Alpha,3 and six daughters, Clarissa,3 Lucy,3 Sylvia,3 Huldah,3 Elizabeth,? and Sabrina.3 The two sons, Hilamon and Alpha, died between the ages of fifteen and twenty. All the daughters, except Clarissa, were married. The particulars of this and the preceding household were furnished by Rev. F. A. Spencer, of Clinton, N. Y.
CAPTAIN GRINNELL SPENCER settled in Winsted, and first lived on a high hill about 100 rods west of the Spencer Street road, adjoining his original orchard, which can be seen from the west village of Winsted. About 1808 he built and occupied until his death the house on Spencer Street road now owned and occupied by his son in-law, Amos Pierce. He improved more than 200 acres of land as a dairy farm, and for many years spent his winters in Charleston, S. C., as a dealer in cheese. He was an energetic, public-spirited, warm-hearted man, always the foremost to turn out and break the winter roads, to attend upon the sick, or to relieve the misfortunes of his neighbors. He died of a cancer March 5, 1843, aged 74. He married first Abigail , who died August 29, 1811, and second Mrs. - Case of Farmington, who survived him but a few years, and died of the same disease.
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CHILDREN OF GRINNELL2 AND ABIGAIL ( ) SPENCER.
I. MATILDA, b. ; m. Elisha Kilbourn.
II. HARRIET, b. ; m. first, Sheldon Norton of Bethany, Wayne Co., Pa., and second, Rufus Grinnell.
III. ABIGAIL, b. 1801 ; m. September 26, 1826, George Goodrich, d. September 13, 1828.
IV. PHEBE, b. ; m. Grinnell.
V. HELEN,
b. ; m. Amos Pierce.
ALEXANDER LEACH, a Scotchman, came from New Haven to Win- chester, and owned a farm in the Danbury Quarter, immediately north of the Edward Rugg farm. By his will, proved in Simsbury Probate Court, it would appear that he died in 1777, leaving Catharine, his wife (executrix), and Alexander, William, Catharine, and Elizabeth, their children. His wife is said to have been kidnapped from Holland when a child, and brought to this country. She died March 19, 1815, aged 80. Their daughter, Elizabeth, born January 18, 1774; married November 16, 1786, Nathan Brown.
ALEXANDER LEACH, Junior, lived on the homestead as late as 1791.
WILLIAM LEACH also lived on the homestead for many years, and afterwards in other parts of the town. He served in the continental army. and drew a pensiou. He died, probably, after 1830, leaving a son, Alva, and perhaps other children. He married March 24, 1783, Sarah Thompson.
JOHN COREY, from Goshen, owned and occupied in 1772-3, a part of the W. F. Hatch farm on the Little Pond, and probably soon after left the town.
LIEUTENANT THOMAS HURLBUT, immigrant, ancestor of Captain Samuel Hurlbut of Winchester, belonged to the first company that gar- risoned the Fort at Saybrook in 1636. He served and was wounded in the Peqnot War in 1637; settled in Wethersfield, and is supposed to have died soon after 1671. His wife was Sarah
STEPHEN,2 fifth son of Lieutenant Thomas,' and Sarah Hurlbut, was born in Wethersfield about 1649, and there resided until 1690, after which no further record is found of him. He married, first, Dorothy , December 12, 1678; second, Phebe
THOMAS,3 son of Stephen,? and Dorothy Hurlbut, born in Wethersfield January 28, 1680, became a farmer and settled there. He married, January 11, 1705, Rebecca . He died April 10, 1761 ; she died March 22, 1760.
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AMOS,4 son of Thomas3 and Rebecca, born in Wethersfield, April 14, 1717, settled there, and married June 10, 1742, Hannah Wright of Wethersfield, who died July 25, 1756 ; he married, second, March 3, 1757, Sarah Hill, who died in 1764; he married, third, March 10, 1766, Sarah Lattimer. He died in 1777 or earlier, administration having been granted on his estate February 22 of that year. He had by his first wife Hannah, Samuel, born about 1746; married at Torrington, December 1. 1768, Rebecca Beach; by his second wife, Sarah. Stephen,5 born in Wethersfield, December 12, 1760, and Martin,5 baptized in Wethersfield, June 12, 1763.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL HURLBUT,5 from Newington Society (Wethers- field), came from Torrington to Winchester, and first purchased, with his brother in-law, Levi Bronson, the Artemus Rowley farm, near Torring- ton line, in the third tier, from whence he removed in 1774 to the center, and built the red lean-to house which stood on the site of his grandson, Samuel Hurlbut's present dwelling, where he lived until his death, March 23, 1831, at the age of 83. He began the world as a carpenter and joiner, afterwards became a tavern-keeper, at a period when " The Land Lord" stood next in rank after the minister and merchant, at the same time managing a large farm and a saw mill; and in later years engaged with his sons, Samuel and Lemuel, in country trade.
He was a sedate, thinking, methodical man of great energy and thrift, the second magistrate of the town, and a representative in seventeen sessions of the General Assembly.
In the words of Rev. Mr. Marsh, " he closed a useful life, after having lived in the parish fifty-nine years, and enjoyed a good share of respect and confidence as a magistrate, and in other departments of public business. Having been one of the earliest inbabitants, and having pur- chased a large quantity of land in the center of the parish, he did much to promote the settlement of the place, by disposing of his lands on so easy terms as to induce others to settle here. The public green and ground, on which the meeting house stood until recently, were given to the Society by him. He manifested great respect for the institutions of the Gospel, and gave some evidence of piety, though not a professor."
From the town records and a memorandum in his handwriting, we compile the following account of his family :-
Samuel Hurlbut,5 married in Torrington, December 1, 1768, Rebecca, daughter of Abel Beach. He died March 23, 1831, aged 83. Rebecca (his widow) died October 27, 1829, aged 84.
CHILDREN.
I. SILAS,6 b. July 6, 1769 ; died unmarried December 24, 1793.
II. LEONARD,6 b. May 18, 1771.
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ITI. MARGARET, 6 b. March 2, 1773 ; m. John McAlpine.
IV. SAMUEL, 6 b. March 13, 1775; d. October 4, 1776.
V. LUCY,6 b. October 6, 1777 ; m. May 12, 1797, Sylvester Hall of Burke, Vermont.
VI. REBECCA,6 b. November 30, 1779; m. Church of Vernon, N. Y.
VII. SAMUEL, 6 b. October 2, 1783.
VIII. LEMUEL,6 b. September 20, 1785.
GENERAL LEONARD HURLBUT,6 oldest son of Captain Samuel, lived and ded in the house recently occupied by his son in-law, William H. Rood, about a mile northeasterly from Winchester Center. He was a large dairy farmer, and an unassuming, exemplary man. He married, October 17, 1798, Huldah Case. She died August 16, 1800, aged 23. He married, second, February 14, 1805, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Hurlbut Cone, born January 29, 1784 ; died June 16, 1839. He died December 21, 1851, aged 81.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE.
I. HILAMON,7 b. October 14, 1799; d. about 1861, in Platte Co., Mis- souri.
CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.
II. SILAS,7
b. Mav 16, 1806.
III. HULDAH,7
b. February 7, 1808 ; d. January 25, 1818.
IV. LEONARD BEACH,7 b. July 23, 1811 ; m. October 21, 1835, Sylvia, daughter of Dr. Truman S. Wermore.
CHILDREN.
1. Sylvia Elizabeth,8 b. September 29, 1840. 2. Charlotte Jarvis,8 b. September 13, 1845.
V. ELIZABETH HULDAH,7 b. November 19, 1818 ; m. November 5, 1845, Wm. H. Rood.
SAMUEL HURLBUT, Junior,6 second son of Captain Samuel, went into trade at Winchester Center in early life, with Chauncey Humphrey, and afterwards, in company with his brother Lemuel, continued the business. until his death, at the age of 74. He was a man of good education and studious habits. a close applicant to his business, and a careful manager, rarely leaving home except to make his semi-annual purchases of goods, and never indulging in any useless expense or hazardous speculations. With these characteristics, and with the co-operation of his more ener- getic brother, an estate of more than $200,000 was accumulated and transmitted to their heirs.
Mr. Hurlbut was a man religiously educated and inclined, but not a professor ; a supporter of good order and religious institutions ; charitable to the poor, and occasionally liberal to public benefactions. The death of his younger brother, who had for so many years pushed forward the business which he had regulated, came upon him with stunning force.
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His mind lost its balance. He attempted to make a will, and after bequeathing legacies of five thousand dollars each to the American Bible, Home Missionary. and Tract Societies, and appointing executors, he executed the instrument, leaving the bulk of his estate to be legally divided to his heirs. He lived a consistent bachelor, and died at the age of 74, on the 22d day of October, 1857.
LEMUEL HURLBUT,6 youngest child of Captain Samuel,5 was endowed with a hardy constitution, a manly person, plea-ing address, and a sanguine temperament. His perceptive faculties predominated over his intellectual, and his tastes ran to fine animals and highly cultivated lands. Though a large trader, he was rarely seen at the desk or behind the coun- ter. His department of the business of the brothers, S. & L. Hurlbut, was to receive and market the cheese, of which they were extensive pur- chasers, and to cultivate and improve their lands. For more than thirty years he spent his winters at Baltimore in the sale of cheese which had during the fall been purchased from the dairy farmers of this region. His summers were occupied in superintending his farming operations. and in raising and improving domestic animals. for which he had a passionate fon lness. His horses, sheep, and oxen were unsurpassed in excellence and beauty. About 1820, he introduc d upon his farm the pure Devon breed of cattle, the first of this beautiful and serviceable stock brought into the State. From his herd the breed has been largely diffused through the Northern and Western States. The unrivaled strings of pure red working oxen that gra e the agricultural fairs of this county, at- test the valuable service he performed for the agricultural interest of this region ; while the ample profits realized atrest his sagacity and thrift.
During a period of seventy years from his birth, Mr. Hurl' ut had never been visited with sickness requiring the attendance of a doctor. In the fall of 1855, he came home trom the Mas achu-etis State Fair, suffering from a severe cold contracted during his absence, and aggravated by im- prudent exposure. After confinement to his bed for one hundred days, his strong frame yielded to decay, and he expired February 19. 18. 6, at the age of seventy and a half years. He m de a pr fe-sion of' relig on, and united with the Congregational Church May 1, 1853. Ile married Ann H. Phelps, of Norfolk ; she died July 18, 1867, aged 76.
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