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It was in this house that the first Roman Catholic masses in Bristol were held regularly, Father Daley coming monthly from St. Patrick's Church, Hartford, for the purpose, 1850. At first he caused crosses to be placed on fences near the house which made so much disturbance in the district it was deemed prudent to discontinue the practice. It is understood the meetings were with Mr. Riley, at the Bacon house, though there were occasional meetings before in the "mill" and school- house. Afterwards Mrs. Shane had a home there and asserted herself as "the man of the house."
The second schoolhouse of No. 7 stands deserted south of the Bacon house (No. 12) site. The school which in the fifties had a daily average attendance of between 30 and 40 pupils with an occasional term still higher, became so small the town thought it wise to transport the re- maining few to Edgewood. The school had been benefitted by excellent and well-known teachers of whom the names of a few are mentioned. Sarah Maria Rice, daughter of Jeremiah; Harriet Moses, daughter of Richard; Julia A. Barnes, daughter of Jeremiah; Sarah Foote, of Ira; Ursula M. Hart, of John; Celia B. Norton, of Ammi; Ellen E. Wilcox, of Wm .; Marietta Carpenter, of Wm .; Annie J. Brown, P. Frank Perry, J. Fayette Douglass, Hiram C. Cook, Lizzie Welch, of Constandt; Eliza- beth Ives, of Deacon Charles G., besides several young teachers of the district or near; Adellah Yale, Helen Norton, Laura Curtiss, Eugenia Warner and others.
There were many families who sent children to this school before and after 1850, whose records and homes are not easily found. The school registers of the period afford the names of the children and serve to recall to mind some of the parents who left the place soon after the mine was abandoned. Capt. Wm. Williams' children were Elizabeth (1), John (2), Thomas (3), George (4), Ann (5), Johnson (6).
William Casey's were Michael (1), Sarah (2), Mary Ellen (3). They removed to Bristol Center. Marvin Young's children were Porter (1), who has been in Bristol and perhaps the others, who were Lydia (2), Edwin (3), Caroline (4).
L. Jones' daughter, 16 years of age, was in the school 1861, also her sister Elisabeth, 12 years, Wm. 8 ycars and George 6. The chil- dren of H. Roper were Hugh (1), Julia (2), Catherine (3), Ellen (4) and Ann (5). The Oulds' children were James (1), Samuel (2), Fanny (3), Richard (4), Children of Wm. Ward, 1852, were Thomas, 12, Jane, Elizabeth, John, Wm., Joseph and Maria. James Devine, whose home was in the old schoolhouse, sent to this the new one, Margaret, Mary Ann, Patrick. The Pracd children were Nicholas, John and Jane.
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Patrick Iago's own children and Mrs. J. Iago's were Margaret (1), Ann (2), Thomas (3): Lawrence (1) and Jane (2). Family names of some who furnished their quota for the school are Trewhella, Eustice, Gregor, McCall, Roach, Robinson, Donnovan, Gillern, Moren, Sullivan, Stone, Bolace, etc., etc.
Across the street from the schoolhouse stood the home of Joel Hart (No. 13), built for him by his father. Joel Hart, son of Calvin and Anne (Yale) Hart, married Sarah Bowers. Their six children were Lucy (Mrs. Elmore Yale), Sabina, Calvin, Cyprian and Almon. In 1838 he moved for five years to New Britain, when he returned to his old home where he died in 1844. -
The son Calvin died at his grandfather's house (Calvin Hart, Sr.), in the south of Burlington where his son Louis now lives. His wife, Ellen, died the winter of 1906-7, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hiram Lowrey, leaving three children, William, who married Fanny Warner, Delia and Louis.
Cyprian Hart was the survivor of his father Joel's family. When young he was employed in the factory of Don E. Peck in Whigville, and others including the Corbin Manufacturing Company of New Britain before purchasing a farm in Wethersfield where he settled for life. He married in 1852, Eliza Perdue. Two sons are living as merchants in the town, C. C. Hart of the firm "Hart, Wells & Co.," wholesale seeds- men and Arthur. He was respected in the town and served eighteen years as selectman though not continuously. The Democrats sent him to Legislature in 1863. He was a member of the Wethersfield Grange. His death occurred since 1900.
In 1850 the Joel Hart house was well filled when the Williams brothers, sons and cousins came to take positions in the mining business. Captain Richard Williams and William Williams with his many school boys and girls, also two relatives of the name, lay preachers, who held Methodist services in several places.
Later Marvin Young lived there. His son, Porter Young, until recently a resident of Bristol has been an authority on matters concerning the "Bristol Copper Mine."
In 1872, Perley Buck, who married Ella Hart (deceased), elder
YALE MEMORIAL AT MADRAS, INDIA. Photographed by George B. Smith.
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daughter of Calvin, Jr., resided at this place when engaged in the meat business with Sylvester Hart. Clarence Muzzy also lived there a while in his early married life. The house was long in disuse and is gone.
James Hadsell (Jeems Hedsel) (No. 14) built in the olden time a large house where now stands the two story white house of Henry I. Muzzy, south from the schoolhouse and well known as the Lyman Mix place. The church record of James Hadsell's wife, Huldah, serves to , define the period in which he was a resident of the district No. 7. She was admitted to the church September, 1778. She died in 1827, aged 83 years. Mr. Hadsell was a cooper and had a shop for his work in the rear of his house He built at some time the cooper's shop south of the garden of the place (No. 15). It was standing on the bank, the narrow front near the street, until within a few years. Erastus Bacon had at one time a store in the building.
Mr. Henry I. Muzzy, now 83 years of age (1907), in reminiscence speaks of the sale of No. 14 to Mr. Bosworth, who in time and turn sold it to Lyman Mix. Mr. Muzzy was six years of age (possibly eight) when Lyman Mix drew off the Hadsell house and built the present two- story house. It was the year after the present Congregational Church was built. Lyman and Mary (Gaylord) Mix lived in this house until the death of Mr. Mix in 1872, aged 79. They had no children but adopted Rhoda Ann Wilmot daughter of Lucius H., who married an Osborne. Mrs. Mary Mix then purchased the old Episcopal parsonage, now on the north corner of Summer and Maple streets, Bristol, in which she lived till her death in 1855, age 85.
Mrs. Mary Mix invited the wife of her nephew (Dea. Charles Norton, dec.), Mrs. Martha S. Norton, to reside with her at Bristol Center, which she did, and remained at that place the remainder of her life. She died 1895, age 75.
Mr. Henry I. Muzzy lived at the Lyman Mix house after the death of Mr. Mix, until he sold it to the Mining Co., when he built his present home nearer Edgewood. Eventually he took back the house, which is the home of his farmer. Southward at the saw mill (No. 16) of H. I. Muzzy, a road not named, goes westward to Round Hill Road, in No. S district.
At a house (No. 19) near the western limit of No. 7, which Ira Hotch- kiss, son of Elisha, built, and is remembered as a "pest house," Asa Bartholomew and twelve others are known to have been secluded, under care of a physician, to pass the ordeal of varioloid, according to custom. Calvin Wooding afterward lived in the house. He was somewhat noted as a"horse jockey." His skill enabled him to so metamorphose a horse that the honest man of whom it was purchased without a suspicion of having seen the animal before, would buy it back, allowing an addition of $50 or more to his previous selling price. Mr. Wooding moved to Hartford. George Byington, son of Joseph, Jr., then made this place his home. His children were Jane (m. DeWitt Winston), Margaret and James. The widow of George Byington, m. 2d Mr. Redfield.
The next house (No. 18) was owned by Martin Hart, son of Ambrose, and brother of Adna, b. June 10, 1783, died 1860, age 77. Sally Rowe, his wife, b. 1782, died 1853, aged 71. Their children were Richard Lem- uel (1), b. 1800, d. 1809; Edward Ambrose (2), b. 1812; Julia Philena (3), b. 1809; Maria (4) 1855. Later they moved to the Mix house on Jerome Avenue, and always referred to the former home as "the old place." While there are no dwellings on this old road, and little or no travel, it is usable. On the hill near the west part of the saw mill a low building (No. 17), had plenty of residents at one time, Shanes, Wards, etc. Thomas Devine lived there alone the last of any one. He was drowned in the trench of the Stockinet Factory in Bristol.
Ascending a hill southward from the mill, we are at the second house built by James Hadsell (No. 20), on the north corner of Stevens St. and Jerome Ave. The Stevens family from Cheshire were living
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here before 1815, when Elisha and wife, Fanny (Brainard) Stevens, joined the church. He died 1847, aged 68. His sons, Deacons John, Edward and Harvey became fine and wealthy men of Cromwell, Conn. They were manufacturers of Britania Ware. They took pleasure in reviving old memories of home by visits to Bristol and friends. Mr. Stevens of Cromwell attended the 150th anniversary exercises of the Congregational Church, Bristol, October 12, 1894. About that time he presented to the church of his youth a handsome pulpit Bible. The next permanent resident was Isaac Muzzy, born in Spencer, Mass., 1803. The first of the family in Connecticut. He married, 1823, Hannah Minerva Mix, daughter of Ashbel. Children, Henry Isaac (1), 1824; Chloe Jane (2), 1825 (married Hiram Spellman); Hannah Minerva (3), 1828 (married Josiah Pierce); Franklin (4), 1832, died 1855; Lyman (5), 1836, died 1861; William Wallace (6), 1846 (married Anna Lee, 1872), child, Edward Winfield, who served in the Spanish War.
The son, Henry Isaac, also resided in this 2d James Hadsell house until the death of Lyman Mix, when he moved to the Lyman Mix house. John· Peterson, previous to the purchase of his present home, succeeded Henry I. Muzzy in the place, where some of his children were born. Transient dwellers there have been since, in the old house, yet standing unfit for occupancy.
We now follow to the eastern-most house on the north side of Stev- ens St., nearly to Farmington line. A house had been for some years on
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(10) No. 57, John Muir O, The Ephraim McEwen Place; (11) No 59, M. J. Ford O; (12) No. 30, "The House by the Brookside," H. I Muzzy O, The Wilson Sheldon Place; (13) No. 28, Frank Yale O, The Joseph Byington Place; (14) No. 26, H. I. Muzzy O, The Ashbel Mix Place; (15) No. 14, Axel Anderson R, The James Hadsell, Sr., Place, (16) No. 47, Seymour Reed R, The Lauren Byingto'n Place; (17) Victor Avery O, (18) Amelia Kohl O.
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the site of the present vine-clad stone house, thought to have been sold by a Mr. Cowles to Asahel Mix. It was occupied at one time by the Gladdens, who have descendants living in New Britain. Later school registers show the attendance of the children of Leverette Barnes, son of Elijah of Wise. Verona (1), Polly (2), Mary P. (3), and Martin Barnes (4). The latter was often a member of Julius Yale's family and liked in Peaceable St., where he sometimes lived.
The place was sold by Asahel Mix to Henry Smith, who with his wife came in the prime of life from England. They were both born, 1812. Their children were William (1), Susan (2), Emma (3), Annie (4), Ellen (5) (who died in childhood), Deborah (6), and Irna (7). They lived in the old house till 1862, when Mr. Smith built the present stone house (No. 24). These parents, anxious chiefly for the welfare of their children, taught them to choose good companions and to be true and faithful always. They drove with them on the Sabbath five miles to their church in Farmington, where they attended the Episcopal, or Church of England. The ministers of this denomination from Farmington and Bristol were welcome and familiar guests at the farm. Doubtless in the isolation of the home they had a strong influence for good upon the children of the household. The inspiration for life, of the son William may, how- ever, have come from an unexpected event, when one day a fine looking old gentleman was brought to the house from Farmington Station by some one who could take him no farther. He wished to go to the Copper Mines where he was interested. It was Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Nott, Presi- dent of Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. Mr. Smith was away with the family conveyance. Mrs. Smith, after giving the gentleman a cup of tea was (aided by her son) equal to the emergency. A farm wagon was cleared. A rug or piece of carpet spread, and lastly an arm chair placed in the wagon. Thus comfortably, Dr. Nott was taken by William Smith to view his mining possessions in Bristol.
During the drive Dr. Nott ascertained the wish of the young man for an education. He advised him to read, study, and prepare for college, and then come to him. These instructions were faithfully carried out. He first attended E. L. Hart's school in Farmington, and finished in Wilbraham. Dr. Nott then gave him his four years' tuition at Union College, and as long as William Smith lived was his firm and staunch friend. Dr. Nott often spoke of the beautiful hospitality and refine- ment he found in the quiet, modest home.
After Mr. Smith was 80 years old his daughter and her son found him one day in need of medicine. The son, then a medical student, now Dr. H. C. Spring of Bristol, fortunately had remedies which were given him. Mr. Smith expressed his pleasure, that the first medicine given him by a doctor was after he was 80 years of age, and also that it was administered by his own grandson. Mrs. Smith died 1881, age 69. William, oldest child, carried out his desire to become a minister of the Gospel, but died at the age of 42. He located in Pennsylvania. Mr. Henry Smith married second, Mrs. Carnell, mother of Frederick Carnell, the present owner of the farm. She survived him a few years. Mr. Henry Smith died 1896, aged 84. They are interred in the "Scott's Swamp Cemetery."
Frederick W. and Eliza Carnell came to the stone house in June, 1897, from New Haven. When the estate of the late Henry Smith was settled in the winter of that year, they purchased the interests of the heirs. Their children were May E. (1), Frederick J. (2), Arthur D. (3) and Robert S. (4), educated in New Haven, with the exception of Robert S., who was graduated from Bristol High School, 1904. Fred- erick James was graduated from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1900. He was a high stand student throughout his course, taking one half the prize for general excellence. Honorable in Physics, German, Chemistry, Mathematics (for which he had prize) and Mechan- ical Drawing, also general honors in Electrical Engineering. He was a member of Sigma Xi, a high stand society. Immediately after grad- uation he received the appointment as assistant in Physics in the labora-
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tory of the Scientific School, and there continued his work and studies until his death at the New Haven Hospital, Nov. 15, 1902. Frederick James Carnell died as the result of a casuality, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 15, 1902. Accompanied by a friend and classmate, he went to Umbrella Island, near Short Beach, for an afternoon of duck shooting. In lifting his gun from the boat its accidental discharge shattered the arm at the elbow. More than an hour passed before a doctor could be reached, who decided that amputation was necessary. It was accordingly per- formed at the Hospital, but through shock, following loss of blood, he died a few hours afterward. He was 22 years of age. Arthur David married, June 20, 1906, Jennie M., daughter of the late Edward F. and Martha (Tuttle) Gaylord.
Returning to the four corners of Stevens St. and Stafford Ave. intersection, we go northward to the one house (No. 23) between the Joel Norton, Jr., house and the corners, where Theophilus Botsford, born 1758, resided. He married Dolly Bidwell of Middletown, Conn., born 1758, died 1828 .. He married 2d, Widow Whitmore, sister of Dolly. She had a daughter Elizabeth Whitmore. Theophilus Botsford died 1841, aged 83 years. He had six children: Daniel (1), born 1782; Sam- uel (2), born 1783; Dolly B. Norton (3), born 1786; Irene B.Atkins (4), born 1788; George Arthur (5), born 1790; Annis Botsford Winston (6), born 1792. He was one of the first who thought copper could be found in the vicinity by mining, and made some experiments to prove his belief. Some of the mining masters were domiciled here, and later the Gomme (Gum) family. The house is owned by John Peterson, but not inhabited.
At the southwest corner below, (No. 22), Samuel, second son of Theophilus, b. 1783, resided for a generation. He was a blacksmith. He married Betsy Clark of Meriden, b. 1782, died 1859, age 77. Samuel Botsford died 1862, aged 79. Their six children were as follows: Nancy (1) (m. Elias W. Perkins); Harriet (2) (m. Philo Stevens); Patrick (3), died in New York aged 61, unmarried; Hiram (4), b. 1813, d. 1875 aged
THE SECOND JAMES HADSELL PLACE, (NO. 20).
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62, m. Jan. 16, 1839, Elizabeth Wetmore, daughter of his grandfather's 2d wife. She died Nov. 27, 1839, leaving an infant daughter, which his mother brought up. (Elizabeth, b. Nov. 27, 1839, m. Edwin Bristol of Cheshire. She died leaving several children, Edwin, Mary, etc.). Betsy (5), b. 1815, d. 1832 a. 17; Lorenzo (6), 1819, d. 1870, a. 51, m. Hannah Norton, 1842. She. born 1820, died 1853, leaving two chil- dren,. James (1), b. 1845, d. 1889, m. Frances Barrows. Three children: Fanny A. (1), m. Albert Homewood; Hattie (2), m. Edwin Mitchell; Alice (3), m. James Connery. Burdette Botsford (2), brother of James, b. 1846, d. 1853, aged 7 years.
Harriet Botsford who married Philo Stevens, 1827, lived on the north side of Stevens St., near her father, Samuel Botsford. (A large house was built by the Lawsons on the site of the Philo Steven's house) (No. 21). The children of Philo and Harriet (Botsford) Stevens were eleven in number, Nancy (1); David (2); Franklin (3); Mary Ann (4); Harriet F. (5); Philo (6): Egligene (7); Josephene (8); Betsey M. (9); DeWitt Clinton (10); Charles (11). Philo Stevens, b. 1804, d. 1880, aged 76. Harriet his wife b. 1809, d. 1891, aged 82. Eliza (Gomme) Fox, widow of Simeon, now resides with her son, Thomas, a farmer, at the Samuel Botsford house. Her daughter, who married Wm. Lugg, resides on the site of the old Philo Stevens' house. He has been engineer at H. C. Thompsons' Clock Co. He has an oversight of the Mining Co's. property. They have four children, the oldest Herbert.
Having completed the tour of Stevens St., and going south on Jerome Ave., we come to the first and only schoolhouse (No. 25) of the district for nearly the first half of the century. It was situated on the east side of Jerome Ave., south of the house of Elisha Stevens. William Jerome 4th recalls his school days there, when he was taught by Enoch Marks of Burlington, a son of Lieut. David Marks, who became wealthy in New York State as inspector of salt at the extensive Syracuse Salt Works. William Elton, too, of Burlington, was his teacher. He practiced medi- cine in Burlington, where he lived with his wife and daughter. The former, Amelia Pettibone, of Choral; until some ten years ago the three, father, mother and daughter, in one week fell victims of pneumonia. A young son, Willard, was not at home. He is supposed to be living in Springfield, Mass.
Julia P. Hart, daughter of Martin, another teacher in the old school house, became second wife of Lauren Byington, son of Martin. They lived in Edgewood and died childless. She was called "Miss Julia" to her dying day, as known while teaching in her home district.
William Jerome 3d, father of William Jerome of today, attended at this school when Noah Byington was the instructor. The "scholars" sometimes tried his patience by not coming in promptly when the sun- mons was heard. A loud rapping with a stick or ruler on the side of the door or house was the call to resume study of "reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic" in those days. Mr. Byington provided himself with a long whip for the treatment of his delinquent pupils. He gave each one who passed him entering the door a cut or lash with the whip. Young Jerome ran between the master's legs and escaped. About 1848 the school building was superseded by the new one near Mines Road. The old one "while staying after school" was purchased by a miner, James Devine, who had several children, attendants at the second, or new schoolhouse. and living in the old one. At last Luther S. Norton "carted it to Dublin Hill, Forestville." The Devines are now in New Britain.
'A short distance southwest, Ashbel Mix, son of Timothy, built the large red house (No. 26), long a familiar landmark and home, with the tall pine trees at its south front. Ashbel Mix, son of Timothy, b. 1760, d. 1807, m. Hannah Byington, daughter of Joseph Byington, b. 1773, and died 1836. The Ashbel Mix farm was a portion of her father's estate. Their children were Lyman (1), b. 1793; Nancy (2) [Mrs. Ira Foote of Burlington, carded the wool, spun the yarn, and wove her wedding dress] b. 1794; Asahel (3), 1795; Noble (4); Ashbel, Jr. (5). 1801; Minerva (6), 1805, perhaps others.
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Asahel Mix resided at this place until he built elsewhere in the district. He married, Jan. 13, 1820, Amna Judd. Martin Hart bought this place when for sale, to which he removed from his "old place" on the cross road, before mentioned with family data. In 1860 Martin Hart died. Simeon and Philo Curtiss, sons of Joshua of Milford St., Burlington, each resided here a few years, having the care of the property. The house finally went in much the same manner as the old Abel Yale place, consumed by fire in "the heart of the house," the old stone chim- ney; S. Curtiss living there at the time, about 1862. Mr. Henry Isaac Muczy later built on the site his present dwelling house, while the barns, nearly opposite, belonged to the old house. The fine old pine trees suffered in the fire which destroyed the house, and are nearly gone .. H. I. Muzzy, b., 1824, still living, m., 1843, Mary Elizabeth Beach, daughter of Eli, of Plymouth, b., 1825, d., 1881. Their children, Clarence Henry (1), b., 1845, served in the Civil War, m. Ellen E. Wilcox, daughter of Wm., [children, Leila and Robert]; George Franklin (2), 1847, served in the navy in the Civil War, d., 1865, unmarried; Charles Edwin (3), 1849, m., Frances Emma Strickland (dec); Adrian James (4), 1851, m., 1873, Florence Emlyn Downes, 1851, [children, Leslie Adrian (a) (dec); Floyd Downes (b) (dec); Adrienne (c)], author of Prize Biog- raphy "Katherine Gaylord, Heroine;" Frederick (5), 1853, d., 1874, unmarried; Alice Elizabeth (6), 1855 [married Frank Winston, children, Ella (a), Ernest (b)], Ella Jane (7), 1856 [married Lewis Strong, child Roy]; Frank Lyman (8), 1858 [married first Emily Wilcox, child, died; married second Augusta Frinck, child, Dorothy]. Member of the firm A. J. Muzzy & Co .; Mary Minerva (9), 1861-1863; Mary Elizabeth
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(10), 1864-1873; Arthur George (11), 1866 [married Martha Ellen Thomas, child, Ruth]; Harriet Beach (12), 1868.
Southeast from H. I. Muzzy's present home (No. 27) were the old homes of Noah Byington, before mentioned, with his father, Joseph Byington (No. 28) very near on the south. The houses were much alike, small, unpainted, but pleasant appearing homes with gambrel or "curb- roofs." Joseph Byington, b. 1736, died 1798; married first, 1757, Jemima Hungerford, who died 1759. He married second Hannah Spencer, 1760. Children were: Isaac (1), b. 1761; Noah (2), b. 1762; Isaiah (3), 1764; Martin (4), 1767; Clarissa (5), 1770. Hannah (Spencer) Byington, d. 1771. He married third Hannah Warren, Feb. 20, 1772. Children, Hannah (6), b. 1773; Meliscent (7), b. 1775; Chloe (8), b. 1777; Joseph, Jr., (9), 1778; Asahel (10), 1780; Enos (11), 1781; Newell (12), 1787.
Hannah Warren Byington was born 1752, died 1819. Joseph Byington served as lieutenant in the war of the American Revolution. His name appears on the records from the "Lexington Alarm" in 1783. He was Justice of the Peace, doing much town business in Bristol.
His son Joseph lived after him in the house, and his grandson, Williams Byington, also lived there before Elmore Yale, son of Abel Yale, 3d, made it a home. He married Lucy A. Hart, daughter of Joel. Their children were: Adella (1), b. 1845, who lived to teach the dis- trict school, 1862, but died when aged about 20 years; Frances (2) Yale, b. 1850, was for ten or twelve years in charge of a sewing room at the Orphan Asylum in Hartford, where she was doing a good work at the time of her death from pneumonia in Dec., 1904.
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