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"School did not begin on Fed Hill the next morning."
David Lewis, son of Josiah, first School Committee of District No. 7, 1796, lived in the North East part of the town and District No. 7 of Bristol on Stafford Avenue at its junction with Mines Road. No. 1.) He married Martha Horsford of Canton. Doubtless he received from his father the invariable marriage gift to his sons-eight in number -viz .: a farm of one hundred acres, a house, a barn, a cow, a hive of bees and a "Waterbury Sweet" apple tree.
The children were Chester, b. 1785, Cyrus and Electa, b. 1791. They united with the church Feb. 4, 1816. Chester Lewis married Annah Beckwith, sister to Dana. She died 1833, aged 47. Their daughter, Angelina, died.
Almon Lewis, the son of Chester, married Orra Melissa Brown, who died 1889, age 70. Almon Lewis was a dry goods merchant, hav- ing stores at two places on North Street, Bristol. First, east of Doo- little's Corner on the south. The second store was west of the first on the north side of North Street, facing North Main Street. He built a house on Maple Street, Bristol, opposite his brother-in-law, Jonathan C. Brown, clock manufacturer of Forestville, now owned by Wilfred H. Nettleton.
Of his children (great-grandchildren of David Lewis), Irving, Ashburton and Emily, only Irving is married. He has a music store in Brooklyn, N. Y. Ashburton teaches music in Brooklyn public schools.
No data for Cyrus Lewis is at hand, later than 1816. Electa Lewis, third child of David Lewis, became second wife of Newell Byington. She died 1866, age 75.
Chester Lewis was killed by the cars at Doolittle's Corner, 1863, when returning from the funeral of Billy Hart, son of Calvin and Anne (Yale) Hart. He was 78 years of age.
David Lewis and his wife remained at this house for a season or more after its sale to Joel Norton, Jr., about 1815 the two families hay- ing fires in opposite ends of the large fireplace. The family having a fire in the end near the large brick oven, was obliged to put it out when baking was done. David Lewis died 1818, age 65. Martha, his wife, died 1836, aged 82.
* Years ago "FEDERAL HILL" was often called "FED HILL."
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Joel Norton, Jr., b. on Fall Mountain, 1782. Married Jemimi, daughter of Jesse and Mary (Scott) Gaylord, 1805. Children, Henry G., b. 1806; Hiram, b. 1808; Ammi, b. 1810; Harriet, b. 1813; Rachel, b. 1815; Charles, b. 1821. Joel Norton died 1853. Jemimi died 1857. Henry G., b. 1806, married Parthenia T. True of Portland, Me., 1835. He was manufacturer, wholesale and retail dealer in all kinds of rubber goods in New York City with several stores in other cities. His only child, Mary E., married June, 1862. Alexander Würst, artist, son of Christopher, also an artist, natives of Dort, Holland. The son took, in 1866, the Royal Gold Medal in Brussells, Belgium, on the picture given by the heirs of Henry G. Norton to the Boston Museum of Art. The same year he took a medal at "The Hague" on a "Norwegian Tor- rent," now belonging to Luther S. Norton. There were other prizes besides two Prince of Wales medals. He died in Antwerp, 1876. Mary (Norton) Wüsrt died on her wedding journey in Geneva, Switzerland, August, 1862.
In 1864-5, Henry G. Norton built near the site of the David Lewis house (No. 1), the present Norton residence as a home for his brother, the late Deacon Charles Norton. When finished it was considered equal, if not superior, to any other dwelling in town, for richness and elegance of the building and furnishings. The barns were built in keeping with the house. They were across the town line in Burlington. One of them has been sold and moved to Whigville. Henry G. Norton died at this house, July, 1877. His collection of books in New York was presented to the Bristol Public Library. The family also gave $5,000 to the Bristol Library.
Ammi, third son of Joel, Jr., b. 1810, married Martha Smith of Burlington, 1837. She died in New Haven, 1860. M. second, Jane Gridley, now living in N. H. Ammi Norton lived in Forestville in the house now occupied by Geo. Doherty on West Washington St. He was of the firm "Manross, Norton & Welton," doing business in a factory built in 1836, where the Burner Factory now stands. Spool-stands, faucets, sand boxes and ink-stands were made. His children were Celia B., b. 1839, in Forestville. After the death of her mother and of her cousin, Mrs. M. E. Würst, she was adopted into the family of her uncle, Henry G. Norton. She died Dec. 24, 1903. Wallace, son of Ammi Norton, was in the Civil War. Later he became a salesman for Henry G. Wallace Norton died -.
Harriet Norton, b. 1813, m. Henry Gridley, 1840. Mr. Gridley was born and lived most of his life in Stafford district. Mrs. Harriet Gridley died 1878 at Maple St., Bristol. Henry Gridley married 2d, Rachel, fifth child of Joel Norton and widow of Richard Moses of Bur- lington, whom she married in 1836. Of her ten Moses children, Harriet, the oldest was an excellent district school teacher. School registers show the years she taught at the Mines and in Edgewood, then called Polkville. She finished her last term of school at the latter place in 1859, and soon after married Elias Baldwin, a nephew of Mrs. Franklin Newell of Peaceable St. During the' recitation of passages from the Bible as usual in the school, the late John Henry Sessions, then a lad of ten years, repeated his text, chosen with care, Matthew 17:3, "And behold there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking- Adrien Moses (2), a prominent man and granger of Burlington; Ellen Moses (3) married Asa Upson of Peaceable St .; Bernard Moses (4), Professor of Languages in Berkeley College, California, accepted from President Wm. Mckinley his appointment to the Philippine Commis- sion of which Justice Wm. Taft was the head, and spent his term of years at the Islands. Other children of Richard and Rachel (Norton) Moses are in the West, if living.
Charles Norton, b. 1821, youngest child of Joel and Jemimi (Gay- lord) Norton; married 1846, Martha G. Stocking of Kensington. Four children. :
Luther S. (1), b. 1847; married Sarah Frisbie, 1869. [Ch .: Charles, 1874; Parthenia G., 1888.]
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Alfred (2), b. 1848; m. Adeline Lowrey, daughter of Alfred. [Ch .: Clara (1), Luella (2), Mary (3).
Henry C. (3), b. 1851; m. Florence Mooney of N. Y. C. He is now living in San Francisco, Cal. Manager of the Pacific Coast Rubber Company.
Elizabeth (4), b. 1862, who married Gilbert Blakesley of Bristol.
Charles Norton was a deacon of Congregational Church from 1867 until his death in 1882, aged 60. He attended the funeral of his brother Ammi in New Haven, where he contracted the fatal cold. Ammi Norton died 1882, aged 71.
Hiram Norton, second son of Joel, Jr., born 1808, lived at the next house (No. 2), west on the north side of the way, Mines Road. He married, 1831, Flora, daughter of Abel Yale, Jr., or third. One child, Edgar, born 1835. Hiram Norton died 1878, age 70. Mrs. Flora Nor- ton removed to Divinity street, Bristol, where she died 1891. Edgar A. married, 1859, Julia A. Barnes, daughter of Jerry. Children: Walter M., William E., Eugenia B., Harland B. Edgar Norton died Nov. 21, 1892.
Hiram Norton's old home is now in use by Luther S. Norton as a farm and tenant house.
After 1860 Michael Critchley brought the old Whigville school house (No. 3), from near the Mines' Reservoir (where it had been in use by Keron Hyland as a dwelling) and located it west of Hiram Norton's house on the same side of Mines Road. His children were Christopher, David, Michael, Arthur, Maggie and Jemmie.
James Prior also had a home here and was the district's school committee, before 1887, when John Peterson, a milk dealer, purchased the place of George Steele. He enlarged the house and has occupied it until the present time. John and Matilda (Neilson) Peterson have
SCHOOLHOUSE (FOR MANY YEARS UNOCCUPIED) NEAR COPPER MINES.
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been the parents of fourteen children, including four pairs of twins. They now have six in life and health. When sixteen years of age, Frank, the oldest, enlisted for five years in the U. S. Navy, 1899-1905. With the Receiving Ship Vermont, he visited six European countries: France, Germany, England, Scotland, Spain and Portugal, with Canary Islands and the Danish West Indies. [His photograph in uniform is given.] Since returning he finds employment with the Stanley Rule & Level Co. of New Britain, at their works in the Bartholomew Factory at Edge- wood. Other children of the family are Hulda, Edwin, Raymond, and the twins, Florence and Fanny.
On rising ground westerly from the last named place it was pos- sible to obtain a view of the nondescript village of Skibbereen as seen in the distant field northwest. With its row of low white cottages fol- lowing the lane at the eastern base of Zach's Mountain, it formed a rather picturesque sight. There in the copper mining days lived the Sullivans, Cunninghams, Collins, Fitzgeralds and others. It was named from the southern port Skibbereen of County Cork, Ireland, which was probably the last town in the loved home country on which their eyes rested. There is nothing remaining of this place with the exception of open cellars.
Skibbereen was across the town line in Burlington. The men were all laborers at the copper mines. The children, too, were educated at the school in No. 7, when there was room for them. Sometimes they were obliged to go the long distance to Whigville. One who sometimes was at school in the latter place was a fine scholar and later a Yale grad- uate, but not long lived-Cornelius Sullivan.
Outside Skibbereen bars or entrance, the Mines Road turns to the south for a short distance. At the north bend, facing the east, the last of the three large houses (No. 4), built by James Hadsell or his son,
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James Hadsell, Jr., stood for many years. Chloe, wife of James Hadsell, Jr., was in the Church 1799. She died 1850, aged 83. After the Had- sell's an Englishman, whose name George Retfearn, was changed to Redfield, occupied it for a while. He married the widow of George Byington, son of Joseph, Jr. Still later Bryan Fitzsimmons lived there and may have bought it, as it is thought he took it away when he moved to Bristol Center.
His sons, Martin and James, were in the employ of G. W. & H. S. Bartholomew in the hardware factory some years, even after the family left this part of the town. Other children were Lawrence, Julia and Ann, five in all. It seems possible to have been either James Hadsell, Sr., or Jr., who was School Committee in 1798.
Around the southbend of Mines Road, as it turns to the west, was the double tenement house (No. 5), of the Mining Co., on the south side of the street. In it lived Wm. McCane, whose son, Thomas, is now in Forestville (Thomas McKaine), and a French family named Green, now living in Bristol Center and Plainville. Northwest of the last named house, on the north side of Mines Road was "The Bristol Copper Mine." For many years after the "Mine" was in operation or worked, the ancient Culver house stood on its grounds near the street, surrounded by huge piles of waste material (tailings). Sometimes its windows revealed to outsiders a row of extra fine specimens of copper and quartz crystals,
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with some silver. These were produced for the encouragement of those financially interested in the property. They were alluring to collectors and geologists. Ephraim Culver, who early owned the house (No.6), married Rhoda, daughter of Abel Yale, Sr., or second. Children of Ephraim and Rhoda (Yale) Culver :
Winslow (1), died 1830, age 23. Was church member 1824.
Aretus (2), whose descendants lived in Forestville, married, sec- ond, Jane Griswold, now living in Terryville. He was in the Civil War and one of those deputed to accompany the remains of Capt. Newton Manross to Bristol, after the battle of Bull Run. Died in Bristol, Feb. 9, 1865.
Abel Yale (3), who married Chloe Curtis, daughter of Salmon and died in Whigville 1878, age 63. His children, Rhoda and twins, Mary (Mrs. Wm. Fenn) and Martha (Mrs. John Talmadge), residents of Plain- ville, Conn.
Alice (4), who married Daniel Clark, son of Stephen, 1847. She died 1875, Mrs. Rhoda (Yale) Culver, died 1829, age 46.
Ephraim Goodenough next lived in the Culver house. He was the oldest of thirteen children of Levi of Peacham, Vt. He maried Martha Ladd, 1818, of Peacham, who died at Burlington, Conn., 1838. Ephraim Goodenough died in Bristol Center, 1873. He was in younger days a carpenter and wheelwright. Children (1), Lester, born at Bur- lington 1820. Died at Bristol Center 1898; Viola E. (2) [Mrs. Renslaer Raynsford], who died at West Hartford, Conn., 1876.
Orlando (3), b. 1824. Died at Burlington, 1844.
Rodney (4), b. 1827. A sea captain; went to California 1849. Died in Oregon, 1880.
Waldo (5), b. 1832, in Bristol. Is a printer in Leavenworth, Kan.
The last known family to occupy the small brown house was the
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Woolworth, of whom older members were Philemon and Chester, then Azariah, Harvey, Leman, Philander P., who married about 1850, Sarah Candace, fourth child of David Norton (both dec.). He was in the Church 1840; Robert in Church 1843, and Franklin, Church 1844, now living in Thomaston.
A house (No. 7), was built in 1850 on the western part of the Mine grounds for Superintendents. It was known as the "Mine House." It was pleasantly shaded by locust trees and shrubs. H. H. Sheldon, said to be a relative of Dr. Nott of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., the chief, if not only owner of the mines at that time, was the first occupant of the "Mine House." Laura P., wife of Mr. Sheldon, brought from Troy, N. Y., her letter of recommendation to Bristol Church, April, 1851. The children of Mr. Sheldon were two sons in school boy days and a very young daughter. Daily when schools were in session, the family ocn- veyance, with pair of black horses driven by Patrick Iago, transported Dexter Sheldon and his brother to and from the Whigville school, while the youthful Iagos increased the attendance in No. 7. A store (No. 8), was added to the mining property on the north corner of Mines Road and Jerome Avenue, with Henry Roberts, son of Nelson of Burlington, installed as salesman at one time. The farmers of the vicinity found here a good market for farm and dairy produce and the miners a handy resort for the necessaries of life.
In 1848, Michael Hynds and his family came by stage to Bristol. They took up their abode in the Ambrose Hart "Old Mansion" house, in the Whigville district. He was a teamster at the mines.
The first house in the district south of the Burlington town line on Jerome avenue, was the old Abel Yale place (No. 9), on the west side of the way. Abel Yale, the builder, being sixth generation of the line of Yales from David and Ann Yale, in Wales, England; said to be pro- genitors of all the Yale families of this country. The name was originally spelled Yall, or Yell. Ann Yale, becoming a widow, married Theophilus Eaton afterward Governor of New Haven Colony (1638). They arrived at Boston, 1637, on board the ship Hector, accompanied by many emi- grants, including the three children of Ann (Yale) Eaton: David (1); Ann (2), (wife of Gov. Hopkins, founder of the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn.); and Thomas (3). David Yale, first child, settled in or near Boston, where his son, Elihu was born 1649. 'This family returned to Europe, 1652, and did not again visit America. Elihu, becoming wealthy in India*, sent a timely gift to the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in time bestowed the name "Yale College" upon the school, in memory and appreciation of the service. The Charter of 1745 formally gave the name to the institution. (2 G.) Thomas Yale, second son of Ann, and uncle of Elihu, was one of the settlers of North Haven in 1660. He married Mary Turner, daughter of Nathaniel, famous in the Pequot wars. Capt. Nathaniel Turner's sword is pre- served in the Hartford Atheneum. He was lost at sea in the ship of which the poet Longfellow wrote in "The Phantom Ship."
(3 G.) Capt. Thomas Yale, settler of Wallingford, 1670. (4 G.) Nathaniel Yale. (5 G.) Abel Yale, lived in the east part of Wallingford, now Meriden. (6 G.) Abel Yale, second or Junior, of Meriden, after- ward of Bristol school district No. 7; b. 1733, married Sarah Jerome. They were admitted to the Church in Bristol, 1759. He died July 4. 1797, aged 64. Sarah, his wife, died 1816, aged 78. Children of Abel Yale second and Sarah (Jerome) Yale numbered twelve as follows:
Esther (1), b. 1760, married Oliver Phenton.
Thomas (2), 1761, married first Polly Beckwith, second Anna Northam.
Sarah (3), 1763, married Richard Russell.
Lydia (4), 1765, married Nathaniel Warner. Anne (5), 1767, married Calvin Hart.
Lois (6), 1769, married Daniel Peck, and died 1812.
Ruth (7), 1771. Died 1791.
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Elizabeth (8), 1773, married Levi Boardman.
Abel (9), 1775.
Rhoda (10), 1778. Died 1781.
Mary (11), 1780, married Dudley Williams.
Rhoda (12), 1782, married Ephraim Culver and died 1829.
Abel Yale, 3d (7 G.), son of the preceding Abel Yale, 2d, born 1775, married first Lydia Barnes, daughter of Josiah, who died 1821, age 41. Their children were Julius, Henry, Flora, Elmore, Lydia and Sarah A.
Abel Yale, 3d, married second his cousin, Lorena (Jerome) Brown, widow of Abner. She had one son, Orrin Brown, of Forestville. Abel and Lorena (Brown) Yale's children were four daughters, Lorena, Fidelia, Mary Jane, Selina.
Abel Yale died 1847, age 73. Lorena, his wife, died 1869, age 73. Julius Yale (8 G.), oldest child of his father, Abel Yale, 3d, inherited the farm and spent there his life as a farmer as his father and grand- father had done. He was admitted to the church, 1844. He married late in life Lucinda North, who brought her letter from Farmington Church to Bristol, 1854. She died 1861, aged 44. Mr. Yale married second Pamelia (Barnes) Norton, widow of Franklin and daughter of Joel Barnes. Julius Yale died 1879, age 72. He left no family: Shortly afterward the house having temporary occupants, the odor of smoke was noticed, by those passing, for a day or two. It proved to pro- ceed from smouldering timbers used in the construction of the old stone chimney. When the concealed fire broke forth the old brown house was very soon a thing of the past. The copper mine was opened on Abel Yale's land.
Lydia Yale (1), daughter of Abel Yale, 3d, and sister to Julius Yale, married John C. Root. Resided for a time in Harwinton, Conn. Returned to Bristol and the church, 1824. They had one or two children.
Sarah Ann Yale (2), married William Wilcox. Residence, Collins- ville. He had grinder's consumption. She was in the church, 1838,
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and returned to it from Collinsville, 1849. She died 1869, aged 52. Children of Wm. and Sarah A. (Yale) Wilcox were Ellen E. (1), [Mrs. Clarence Muzży]; Franklin (2), who was a member of the 16th Regi- ment, Conn. Vol., and died in Washington, D. C., Nov. 9, 1862, interred in Bristol; Charles (3) lived with his uncle, Julius Yale, after his father's death. He joined the U. S. Regular Army in 1864 or '5 and was sent to the frontier. He returned after an absence of nearly fifteen years, when thought by his friends to be dead. Entered the army again, but left it in July of the year many sought gold at Black Hills, where he was supposed to have gone. His name, Charles Wilcox, was printed in a list of the "killed by Indians" at or near the Black Hills. His life and fortune continue an uncertainty to relatives. Lucelia (4), married Frank Colvin of Bristol.
Lorena Yale (3) married Burritt E. Barker, of Whigville. Her children were Anna E., [Mrs. Chas. Morris], (1); Marian (2), deceased, and Arthur (3). Mrs. Lorena (Yale) Barker died at the home of her daughter, 1903.
Fidelia (4), married Wm. Wadsworth of Hartford and died childless. Mary Jane (5), married Don Evaristo Peck, 1846, and died 1897.
Selina (6), married Mr. Warner of New York State (deceased). She left a family. The children of D. E. and Mary J. (Yale) Peck were Don Cervantes (1); Burdette Abel (2); Mary Emma (3) [Mrs. F. L. Gaylord of Ansonia] and Ludella L. Peck (4), professor and A. M. of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 25 years, who visited in 1903, the ancient seat of the Yales in Wrexam, Wales, England.
Thomas Yale, son of Abel Yale, 2d, b. 1761, lived in a house (No.10) adjoining the home lot of his father on the south. He married 1788, Polly Beckwith, who died 1795. Her children were Gad (1), b. 1791, and Polly (2), b. 1793, married Mark Perkins, 1811, lived in Oneonta, New York State. Mrs Polly Yale died 1795. Thomas Yale married second Anna Northam, 1796. Her children were Harriet (3), b. Sept., 1797, who married John Bacon. He died 1838, age 43. Roxana (4), b. 1799, married Adna Hart and lived at the Thomas Yale house. Gad, son of Thomas, married Hannah Barnes, 1817, of Josiah. Went to Kirtland, Ohio. Was converted to Joseph Smith. Sold a farm and gave $1,000 towards the erection of the Mormon Temple, 1836, at Kirt- land, Ohio.
Thomas Yale died February 18, 1814.
Roxanna, daughter of Thomas Yale, married Feb. 23, 1821, Adna son of Ambrose of Simeon of Dea. Thomas Hart of Southington, Conn., son of Deacon Stephen Hart, settler, born at Braintree, Essex Co., England. Four children: William Hart (1), b. 1823, married, 1849, Emmeline Thayer of Mass., died at Foxboro, Mass., 1886, leaving a son, William T. Hart, b. 1850, married 1877, Ella Hatch of Hyde Park, Mass., died Feb., 1888, leaving two children, William S. Hart, b. 1878 and Mary D. Hart, b. 1885. Caroline Hart (2), b. 1824, married 1843, Edward Graham, died 1866. Edward Graham died 1886 aged 62. Five children: George A. (1), b. 1845 at Wallingford, Conn., died at Andersonville, Ga., 1864, age 19; Edward (2), b. 1848, died in Bristol, 1872, aged 24; Celia Caroline (3), b. 1850, married Nov., 1879, William D. Bromley of Bristol; Ida Julia (+), b. 1854, married Henry C.' Butler of Bristol, Oct., 1876; William H. Graham (5), b. Dec., 1865, in Bristol Center, married first Florence Fenn. The Graham children were born in Edgewood with the exception of oldest and youngest.
John Gad Hart (3), third child of Adna and Roxanna (Yale) Hart, b. 1828, married, 1848, Abigal Benham of Burlington. She died in Lawrence, Kansas, 1894, aged 64. John G. Hart killed Feb. 24, 1868, at Black Rock crossing, New Britain, Conn., leaving one daughter, Helen M. Hart, b. May, 1850, married first William Il. Carey, 1867, in New Britain, Conn. Two children: Henry W. Carey (1), b. 1870, died 1874; George Benham Carey (2), b. 1878, married, June 27, 1900,
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Charlotte Wells of New Britain. Mrs Carey married second, March 1902, John Hooker Hart of Farmington Conn., son of Dea. Simeon Hart, the time-honored instructor of boys at Farmington, Conn. John Hooker Hart was second cousin of John Gad Hart, b. 1828.
Fourth child, Thomas Hart, b. May 7, 1832, married 1855, Mary Elizabeth Dix of Wethersfield, Conn. He died of consumption, Oct. 30, 1862, in Meriden, Conn. He left a daughter, Cora A. Hart, born in Meriden, Dec. 26, 1859.
Erastus Bacon lived at this place after the Harts for a time and had a small store near. The house is now gone.
The next house south at about half the distance to the schoolhouse No. 2, of the district on the west was called the old Bacon house (No. 11). It had been empty since mining days, but before was the home of John Bacon, who married Harriet Yale, born 1797, daughter to Thomas and Anna (Northam) Yale. John and Harriet (Yale) Bacon were taken into the church, 1821. Mr. Bacon died 1838, age 43. Their sons are said to have been John and Erastus Bacon, both well-known in the town. The latter married Adeline Sessions, daughter of Calvin of Bur- lington and sister of the late John Humphrey Sessions of Bristol. He was in the Civil War; his fate unknown.
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