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Amos, third, married Anna Patterson, daughter of Elnathan Patterson, and had four children, viz., David, Benjamin, Sylvester, and Elizabeth.
Timothy married Sarah Mallory, daughter of Deacon Eliakim Mallory. They had children as follows, to wit, Elizabeth, Amanda, Earl, Amos, Lucy, Sarah Ann. Elizabeth m. Luther Emmons; Amanda m. Milo Dickinson; Earl m. Lucia Ann Wadhams; Amos m. Sarah Ives; Sarah Ann m. Joel Hall.
Samuel Pierce married Miriam Gilbert. Their children were,- Mariett, m. Frederick M. Peck; Martha Louisa, m. Joseph L. Cowdin; Myra Caroline, m. Lemuel Peck; Jesse Gilbert; Eber Ives; Samuel Joseph Burnet, m. Desire Hewitt; Thomas Stanford Hopkins, m. Sarah Hopkins.
Buckley married Elthene Britton, adopted daughter of Jared Jones. Their children were,-John Lyman, m. Persis Dean; Benjamin P., m. Mary Miner; Urena Maria, m. Philander Vaill; David Franklin; Wakeman Pierce, m. Harriet Avery; Timothy C., m. Betsey S. Barber; Charlotte Ann, m. Jay Gaylord; Harriet, m. Allen T. Bunnell, and secondly, Mortimer D. Holcomb; Laura, m. Luther Ives; Lucy Maria.
Urena married Isaac Sterling. Their children were,-Isaac; Urena, m. Ephraim Gibbs; Heman B .; Amos; Ansel.
Palmer married Celia Bonney, daughter of Asa Bonney. They had children,-Dorothy Woods, Sophronia, Seymour, and Lewis Palmer. Sophronia m. Rev. N. M. Urmston; Seymour m. Julia Ann Sanford, and had children, -J. Sanford, Solon B., and Collis S .; Lewis Palmer m. Rebecca Barber, and had children,- Wilbur A., and Walter B .; J. Sanford m. Martha S. Foster; Walter B. m. Mary J. Harrison.
Descendants of Solomon.
Solomon married Eleanor Pierce, daughter of Joshua Pierce. Their children were,-Solomon, Eleanor, Abigail, Stephen, Seth, Lucy, and David. The two last named died in childhood. Of the remainder, a number went West, and Eleanor married Col. Benja- min F. Gold. They had several children, whose names appear in another part of this history.
STORY OF THE CARTER FAMILY.
Nathaniel Carter came from Killingworth and bought the Jones homestead of Barzillai Dudley, in Dudley Town. In March, 1763,
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he sold his place and removed to the Forks of the Delaware, now Binghamton.
The following narrative of their sufferings from the Indians was from the lips of Mrs. Elizabeth Oviatt of Goshen, one of his daughters, an eye-witness of the scenes described at the age of nine years, given a few weeks before her death-past eighty years- at Goshen, in 1832.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carter, in company with two other families, removed in the spring of the year 1763 from Cornwall to a place then called the Forks of the Delaware, now Binghamton, N. Y. They advanced about twenty miles beyond any other white settlement, cleared a small spot near the bank of the river, and erected a building of logs, in which the three families resided. Mr. and Mrs. Carter had four children-Sarah, the eldest, was eleven, Elizabeth, the second daughter, was nine, a son of seven years, and an infant. There were also several children belonging to the other families. Here those parents, with their children, passed a few months in apparent security. They were engaged in various employments to improve the safety and comfort of their new resi- dence.
The heavy, tall trees immediately in front of their dwelling they had in part cleared away, and some corn and other articles required for their families were cultivated. While some were laboring, others carried the muskets and ammunition, acting as sentinels, that they might seasonably be apprised of any approaching danger. Every day seemed more promising of future happiness and security, and added something to their little stock of comforts. The wild scenery had begun to grow familiar to their view, and an agreeable interest had associated itself with the principal objects which were embraced by the little horizon formed by the tall and unbroken forest, which stretched away to an almost interminable distance around them.
One day in October, when the inmates of this little settlement were occupied in their usual pursuits, two of the men having gone a short distance into the woods to labor, and the other, whose busi- ness it was to act as sentinel, had also gone a few rods out of sight from the house to examine some traps; the Indians, who had been secretly watching their prey, uttered their savage shout, and rushed upon these defenseless women and children. At this moment Eliz- abeth was a few yards from the door in company with her mother; in an instant she saw her mother weltering in blood upon the ground
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beside her, a savage having nearly divided her head with a toma- hawk. The Indians, twelve in number, then rushed into the house, where were the elder females, one of whom was confined to her bed with illness; a daughter of the same woman, aged sixteen, who was ill, an infant child of Mrs. Carter, and five other children. One of the Indians seized the infant and threw it with such vio- lence against the logs of the house that it was instantly killed. The two sick females were also put to death with the tomahawk. The man who had gone to examine the traps, hearing the shrieks of the sufferers, hastened to their defense, but had only time to discharge his gun once, before he received a death-blow from the hands of the assailants.
The Indians, having selected such of their captives as they sup- posed could best endure the hardships of savage life, taken the scalps from those they had killed, and also having collected the clothing and utensils which they thought would best serve their convenience, set fire to the house, and then hurried off to their encampment, a short distance from thence on the river.
The captives were the three surviving children of Mr. Carter, Mrs. Duncan, and two children belonging to the other family. At the encampment they found about two hundred Indians, principally warriors. Several large fires were burning, around which the Indians began to regale themselves with roasted corn and other refreshments which had been brought from the white settlement. After having indulged themselves in exultations at their recent success, and night approached, they secured their captives with cords, and stretched themselves on the ground around the fires. Sarah, the eldest daughter of Mr. Carter, appeared perfectly dis- tracted by the circumstances of her situation. She continued crying and calling for her father to come and rescue her.
The Indians appeared several times almost determined to silence her screams with the tomahawk. At length, when they had be- come buried in sleep, Sarah obtained a small brand and burned the cord in two with which she was bound, and being thus at liberty, made her way back to the smoking ruins of her recent home, where she gave way to the most violent lamentations. Though her cries were distinctly heard in the encampment, she was not pursued until morning, when she was retaken.
The next day the Indians commenced their journey through the woods, carrying on horseback their captives. After pursuing their route three days in a westerly direction, they halted and sent
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back a war party of twenty Indians. After five or six days the party returned with several scalps; those of Mr. Carter and his companion, Mr. Duncan, were of the number.
These unfortunate men, after seeing the desolation which the Indians had made, hastened to the nearest white settlement to ob- tain some assistance from thence, and they returned precisely in time to fall a prey to the aforementioned party; five of the twelve only being able to escape. The Indians then recommenced their march through the woods to the residence of their nation. As nearly as Elizabeth could recollect, they traveled several days diligently in a northwesterly direction, and at length arrived in their nation. Here, in dark and filthy huts, hung round with the scalps of their parents and friends, separated from each other, did these captives spend the long and tedious months of winter, in a state of almost perfect starvation. The Indians would never go abroad to obtain new supplies of food so long as one morsel re- mained; and then sometimes return with little success. Being extremely indolent in their habits, they would only yield to the labor of hunting from the most imperious necessity.
When spring returned they deserted their winter quarters and journeyed toward the Lakes, and after several weeks they arrived in the vicinity of Fort Niagara; and here, to the great joy of Eliza- beth, she and her sister Sarah were ransomed. Being conducted under the escort of English troops, they at length reached their friends in Cornwall in safety. Most of the other captives were ransomed at a subsequent period. But young Carter, the brother of Elizabeth, never returned. Having imbibed the habits of the Indians, he married one of their daughters, by whom he had sev- eral children, and finally died in the Cherokee nation, at the age of about seventy.
One of the sons of this Carter by the Indian marriage attended for a time the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, during which period he visited the Oviatt family, then in Goshen. Although Sarah lived to old age, her mind never recovered from the shock it had received. She became incapable of providing for her own wants. She was never married. But Elizabeth's mind received no permanent injury. Possessing naturally a high degree of equa- nimity of temper, and being early made acquainted with the con- soling and purifying truths of the Gospel, she passed the remainder of her life in much prosperity and happiness. She married Mr. Benjamin Oviatt, of Goshen, Conn., from which union proceeded
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numerous and highly respectable descendants. After reaching the seventy-ninth year of her age, she closed her long life-which was in childhood so darkly overshadowed-peaceful. resigned, and happy, leaving behind her not only the memory of her early suf- ferings, but the rich legacy of her exemplary virtues and Christian character.
THE DIBBLE FAMILY.
John and Benjamin Dibble were brothers, and among the first inhabitants of the town. They came from Norwalk. Benjamin, who was called Doctor Dibble, though he had no medical educa- tion- was a sort of a root or Indian doctor. He lived thirty or forty rods down the hill from the house of the late Seth Dibble, his grandson ; the cellar of the old house remains, and is seen a few rods north of the road in the meadow. He died at an ad- vanced age. He had two sons and several daughters. The sons were Israel and George. Israel was severely wounded during the Revolutionary war, at White Plains, from which wound he never recovered fully, rendering him decrepit for life. He had nine children, sons and daughters. His youngest son, Seth, lived at his father's house, and was an active business man. His father died when quite aged. The son Seth Dibble died suddenly, after a brief illness, in the midst of an active life, leaving sons and daughters.
George, the other son of Benjamin Dibble, lived to the age of eighty-four. He left one son, Truman Dibble, and a daughter.
John Dibble was designated by the title of Sergeant Dibble; such titles were common less than one hundred years since. This man was active, and is often referred to in the early records. He built a house some sixty rods east of the present residence of William Harrison, at the southwest corner of the Dibble meadow, so called; vestiges of the old cellar still remain. Mr. Dibble had three sons, Clement, John, and Silas, and two daughters, Lydia and Re- bekah. Clement was an inefficient and useless man, and became poor. Silas was intemperate. Sergeant Dibble died in 1782, be- ing eighty two years old.
THE SCOVILLE FAMILY.
Among the early settlers, though not original proprietors, were three brothers,-Samuel, Stephen, and Timothy Scoville,-spelt in the early records, Scovel, from Saybrook.
Samuel settled where Henry Rogers now lives, building a house, probably of logs, just east of the present dwelling.
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Stephen settled where Sylvester Scoville now lives.
Timothy settled just above the Mills place, north of Frank Reed's. These three lived and died where they settled, and are buried in South Cornwall cemetery.
From Stephen descended Levi, who was deaf and dumb; and Sylvester, his son, who still occupies the old homestead. Levi was a good farmer, a man of remarkable intelligence for a deaf and dumb, before they had any of the modern advantages of education. He had no difficulty in communicating with his neighbors by nat- ural signs so apt that all could understand. He was a regular attendant at church, and, it was said, well knew what the minister had to say.
Timothy's children-Ira and Ithamar-moved West.
Samuel had a large family,-two sons by his first wife, Samuel and Jacob, familiarly known as " Uncle Jake." Both were Revo lutionary soldiers, and were taken prisoners at the battle of Long Island, and confined in the terrible prison-ships, and eventually dismissed on parole. When they came home, their clothes were so infested with vermin that. they had to bury them.
Samuel settled on the Cobble, and it is said that when engaged in piling up the stone walls which still stand there, talking to his four yoke of oxen, he could be heard at Cornwall Center and down on Cornwall Plain.
A sketch of "Uncle Jake" is given among the Heroes of the Revolution. Many stories of him are still extant. One time, while watching a redoubt, a British soldier, being in the habit of coming out and slapping a portion of his person in contempt, he was appointed, as the best shot in the company, to put a stop to the performance. He watched his opportunity, and had the satisfac- tion of seeing the soldier keel off the parapet before the slapping process was half accomplished.
At one time he bet a gallon of rum that he could outjump the company (the - Connecticut), and won it by clearing thirty- six feet at two hops and a jump.
By his second wife Samuel S., Sen., had sons, Joseph, Daniel, Jonah, Ezra, Stephen, and Jonathan.
Joseph first settled and built the house where Frank Reed now lives; afterwards moved to Greene, Chenango County, N. Y .; was run over by his team of horses and killed. His son Jesse built the house lately occupied by Deacon Nettleton, and moved with his father to Greene, and built the first permanent bridge across the Chenango river at that place.
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Daniel and Ezra moved to Vermont. Jonah went to New Con- necticut, O. Stephen lived in Cornwall, and died from the bite of a mad cat. Jonathan remained on the old homestead and took care of the old folks.
Daughters of Samuel S., Sen., were Lois, married Dilly Howe, brother to Ichabod, and lived on Sharon Mountain; Eunice, mar- ried Richard Wickwire, brother of Daniel W., and father of Mrs. James Reed; Ruth, married Mr. Dibble, and moved West; Sallie, married Mr. Brown, and moved West; Samuel was a bachelor, and died in 1877; John, married Eleanor Fletcher. Is now a success- ful practitioner of medicine at Ashley Falls, Mass.
Jonathan had children, Jacob and Samuel, twins; John, Ethan, and Daniel, Sarah, and Mary Ann.
Jacob married Martha Ingersoll of Bethlehem, and settled near, and occupied a part of, the old homestead, now owned by lis son, Ralph I. Scoville. He died in 1876. Jacob and his son Ralph have represented the town in the Legislature. Samnel, second son, graduated at Yale, 1857. Is a Congregational minister at Nor- wich, N. Y .; married Hattie, daughter of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and ยท has four children. Eliza, only daughter, married William Rogers of Cornwall; moved to Kentucky, where he died. Mrs. R. returned to Cornwall, and lives on the old property of " Uncle Jacob." Her eldest daughter, Belle, married Eugene Wickwire, and lives in Cornwall.
Ethan died in New Haven, unmarried. Daniel married Betsey Gray. Only one son, Eugene. survives. A daughter, Belle, mar- ried David O. Cain of Sharon. Sarah married Riley M. Rexford
Another Scoville,-Elias, a blacksmith,-came from Middlebury, having resided in Goshen for a time, about 1838, and had a shop near North Cornwall church, where, in connection with Mr. Studley of Sharon, they made wagons, and also did general blacksmithing. His shop was afterwards removed to the neighborhood of Gold's mill, where he bought the house of Wm. Smith, formerly the old Baptist church, where he now resides. He is a genial man and a good mechanic; but had rather tell a story than shoe a horse, even when the joke rests on himself. As the owner of a Bolles' rock- puller, with improvements of his own, he has helped to make the rough places of Cornwall smooth. His oldest son, Niles, follows his trade at the same place, and represented the town in the Legis- lature in 1871.
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THE WICKWIRE FAMILY.
Oliver Wickwire came from New London county before the time of the Revolution. He settled on the old road, long since discontinued, running northeast from near Chester Wickwire's. His nearest neighbor on the south was James Douglas.
He had children, Joshua, who went to Eaton, Mad. county, N. Y .; Lois, married James Robb, and lived in Salisbury, near Falls Vil- lage; Richard, who lived where his daughter, Mrs. James Reed, now lives, and went to North Canaan in 1842. Daniel married Mara Scoville. He lived, and died at an advanced age, where his son Chester now lives, on Cream Hill, and Lucretia married Calvin Butler, and had a numerous family. Another daughter married Paul Price.
Chester Wickwire is a farmer, one of the largest landholders in town; was member of the General Assembly in 1872, and has held other town offices; married Mary Harrison, and has children; Daniel removed to Illinois; Jane married Mr. Smith, Homer, N. Y .; Eugene married Belle Rogers, and Luman, Julia, and Ger- trude.
THE WHEATON FAMILY.
George Wheaton, Esq., came from East Haven, where he was born, in 1790. He died Nov. 24, 1865, aged 75. He studied law with Judge Church of Salisbury, was admitted to the bar in 1813, and settled as a lawyer in Cornwall. Mr. Wheaton was a well- read, exact lawyer, a prudent business man, and a close reasoner. He was a valuable man in town affairs, and enjoyed the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens. He was a member of the Congregational church, and was well known as a consistent Chris- tian. Married, first wife, Lewey Alling, Nov. 10, 1815, and had children, George A., married Artemisia Baldwin; Lewey, married William Baldwin. Cynthia married Elbert Shepard. Second wife, Eliza Cotter, and had Lucretia, married Dr. P. C. Cummings of Canaan.
THE ROGERS FAMILY.
The pedigree of this family is traced back by records in the British Museum to Thomas Rogers of Bradford, County of Wilts, sergeant-at-law, who died in 1485. He was great-grandfather of John Rogers, the martyr.
John Rogers, the martyr, born about 1500, married Adigan Pratt of Brabant, and had eleven children,-named, Daniel, John,
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Ambrose, Samuel, Philip, Bernard, Augustine, Barnaby, Susan, Elizabeth, and Hester.
The son, John Rogers, married Mary, daughter of William Leete of Everden, County of Cambridge. Thomas, a grandson of the martyr, came over in the Mayflower, and was the ancestor of the Rogers family in Cornwall, who have now reached ten generations from him. The early records note other arrivals of this name.
It is probable, from the records, that this Thomas was the father of William, who was the father of Noah, Ist.
Noah Rogers, Ist, married Elizabeth, daughter of Michael Taintor, and had seven children, as mentioned in his will: Mary, born April 14, 1675; John, born Nov. 8, 1677; Josiah, born Jan. 31, 1680; Hezekiah, Noah, Elizabeth, Ann.
Noah Rogers, 2d, married Elizabeth Wheeler, 1722, and had children, Abigail, born Oct. 8, 1723; Temperance, born Sept. 6, 1725; Elizabeth, born Nov. 9, 1727; Rebecca, born June 20, 1730; Noah, born May 8, 1732; Edward, born April 14, 1735; Harriet, born May 8, 1737.
Noah Rogers, Ist and 2d, were large landholders in Branford, and held many positions of public trust.
Noah Rogers, 3d, with his brother Edward, moved to Cornwall from Branford in 1760. Noah, 4th, born 1766; Noah, 5th, 1803; Noah, 6th, 1844; Noah, 7th, 1871.
Noah Rogers, 3d, though relieved from military duty by defect in one of his eyes, was a volunteer at the time of the surrender of Burgoyne, and brought home a British musket as a trophy.
Noah Rogers, third, b. in Branford, 1732, m. Rhoda, dau. of Dea. Daniel Leete, of Guilford, a descendant of Gov. Leete ; his chil- dren were Sarah, m. Oliver Burnham; Irene, m. Prentiss Williams of Stockbridge, Mass .; Rhoda, m. Andrew Cotter; Noah, Abigail, m. Asahel Bradley of Stockbridge, Mass .; and Amanda, m. Theo- dore Ives.
Noah Rogers, fourth, b. 1766; m. Lydia, dlau. of Rev. John Corn- wall; his children by first wife were Daniel L., b. 1790, m. Harriett, dau. of Miner Pratt; Abigail, b. 1793, d. 1791: Lydia, b. 1795, m. Chalker Pratt; Rhoda, b. 1798, m. Julius Hart; John, b. 1801, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. B. Hamlin, of Sharon; Noah, b. 1803, m. Catharine, dan. of Wm. Clark; Abigail, b. 1805, m. E. M. Pratt. Children by his second wife, Elizabeth of Amenia, N. Y., dau. of Hon. John Wilson of Perth, Scotland; Eliza, b. 1812, m. Rev. Augustus T. Norton; Ambrose S., b. 1815, m. first wife, Cornelia
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Hamlin. of Sharon, dau. of Dea. B. Hamlin; Amanda, b. 1817, m. Rev. A. B. Pratt. His third wife was Mrs. Abigail Whedon of Winchester.
Daniel Leete Rogers and Harriet had nine children,-Henry L., m. Nancy, dau. of Wm. Clark; Daniel M., m. Philena Knapp of Greenwich; Mary E., m. Theodore R. Ives; Dwight, m. Lucy, dau. of Dea. Edward Leete of Guilford; Hattie, m. Edward W., son of Dea. E. Leete of Guilford; Miner, Egbert M., and Abby died unmarried.
Henry L. and Nancy had one son, William, who m. Julia Cor- bin, and they have two children.
Daniel M. and Philena live in New Britain, and have had five children. Their second son, Daniel ()., m. Emma. dau. of David N. Camp of New Britain.
Theodore Ives and Mary E. have had four children, three sons and one daughter; Frederic died in early manhood, a youth of much promise.
Dwight and Lucy have five children,-Dwight, Nellie, Lucretia, Hattie Fowler, Miner Pratt, and an infant.
Edward W. Leete and Hattie reside in Guilford, and have two sons and two daughters.
Ambrose S. Rogers m. second wife, Ellen T., dau. of Hon. N. F. Thompson of New Haven, and have children, Clarence T., b. 1870; Juliet W., b. 1874. Mr. Rogers resides in New Milford, and is elsewhere referred to as the Principal of the successful school, "the Adelphic Institute."
Capt. Edward Rogers m. Hannah Jackson, July 18, 1773, and had children, Elizabeth W., b. June 23, 1777, m. Rev. Henry Christie; Hannah, b. May 29, 1776, m. Henry Sedgwick; Cinthia, b. Dec. 8, 1782, m. Elias White; Lucretia, b. March 17, 1785, m. John Ward; Edward, b. May 30, 1787. m. Sally M. Gold; Anson, b. April 2, 1792, m. Philomela Hart, dau. of Capt. Elias Hart, Oct. 14, 1814.
Capt. Edward Rogers was a lieutenant in the old French War, having received two commissions from George III., and an officer in the army of the Revolution; more particular mention of him is made in that record.
DESCENDANTS OF CAPT. EDWARD ROGERS.
Elizabeth . m. Rev. Henry Christie, removed to Philadelphia. Had six children,-Henry practised medicine in New Jersey;
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Asbury and John died young. Edward received a liberal educa- tion, and lived in Columbus, Ohio. Elizabeth m. Rev. Milton Buttolph. Margaret m. Mr. Wright of New York.
Hannah m. Henry Sedgwick, son of Gen. John Sedgwick of Cornwall Hollow. They had four children,-Anna m. Mr. Barnes and removed to Ohio; Fallah m. Mr. Landon and settled in Canaan; Lucretia m. Mr. Yale and settled in Canaan; John Edward, the youngest son, held important offices in this town and Litchfield, and now resides in Sandisfield, Mass.
Cynthia m. Elias White; had four sons,-Comfort, a farmer in Canton; Edward R. and Edwin, farmers in Cornwall. They have both been members of the General Assembly, and are honorable members of society; a son of Edwin is at present a member of Wesleyan University. Elias is highly esteemed as ticket agent at Poughkeepsie, on the H. R. R. R.
Lucretia m. John Ward. He built the house on Cream Hill where Chester Wickwire now resides, but after a few years removed to Sheffield, Mass. They had twelve children, - Artemisia m. Hor- ace Hollister of Salisbury; Hannah m. a Mr. Cook, and Nancy a Mr. Lewis, both of Little Falls, N. Y .; Clarissa m. David Nor- throp of Sherman, Conn., removed to Middletown, where his son Ward Northrop is Judge of Probate; Sarah m. Dr. Turner of Tyringham, Mass., who practiced medicine in New York City; Elizabeth m. Dr. Bidwell of Tyringham; Cynthia m. Joseph Green- wood, a prominent lawyer in Brooklyn, N. Y .; a talented daugh- ter, Miss Libbie Greenwood, is devoted to social reform; John Rog- ers, the only son who lived to maturity, settled near Falls Village, in Salisbury, as a farmer, and is well known as a prominent man in the town, and in the Methodist Church, of which he is a member.
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