History of Litchfield county, Connecticut, Part 84

Author: J.W. Lewis & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1532

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Judd, Marcellus J., enl. as recrnit in the 19th Regt., Co. A, Jao. 2, 1864 ; Mr. Judd being a very large, fleshy man, no clothes conld be found to fit him, and in consequence he was not required to parade, but rendered himself useful by working at his trade (shoemaking) ; disch, with the regiment.

Kimberly, Daniel, enl. in the 7th Regt., Co. E, Sept. 7, 1861; re-enl. as veteran Dec. 22, 1863; was wounded in the face, deck, and leg at Bermuda ITundred May 2, 1864; subsequently shot in the knee while in camp ; died of his wounds, after five weeks' suffering, in Mc- Clellan Hospital, Fortress Monroe, Jude, 1864, aged twenty-five years, leaving a wife and two children.

Lucas, Frederic A., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 8, 1862; chosen cor- peral ; pro. sergeant March, 1864; to first sergeant April 6, 1864; to second lieutenant Oct. 8, 1864; wounded in the thigh by a minie ball at the battle of Cedar Creek Sept. 19, 1864; disch. with the regiment.

Lyman, Daniel E., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 11, 1862 ; died at Alexandria, Va , November 2, and huried in Goshen Nov. 7, 1862, aged eighteen years.

Little, Wolcott, enl. as recruit in the 13th Regt., Co. C., Jan. 5, 1864; disch. with the regiment. .

Lawton, Nelson, entered the navy in 1863; subsequently discharged.

Mayo, Heory, enl. in the 13th Regt., Co. I, Jan. 11, 1862 ; diech. for disa- bility May 20, 1862.

Miner, Orson M., enl. in the 13th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 11, 1862 ; killed by a sharpshooter near Petersburg, Va., June 22, 1864, aged twenty-nine years.

Miner, Avery F., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 7, 1862; pro. to cor- poral and sergeant; disch. with the regiment.

Marvin, Henry E., enf. in the 13th Regt., Co. C; chosen corporal Nov. 27, 1861 ; disch. for disability May 12, 1863.

Morris, Michael, enl. in the 13th Regt., Co. C. Dec. 30, 1861; re-enl. as veteran Feb. 8, 1864; still in the service April 1, 1865.

Mooney, James, enl. as recruit in 2d Heavy Art. Regt., Co. E, Jan. 5, 1864; wounded in battle at Cold Harbor June 1, 1864, and died the next day, aged twenty years.

Mayher, Timothy, enl. as recruit in the 2d Regt. Ileavy Art., Co. C, Jan. 2, 1864; disch, with the regiment.

McCabe, James P., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 31, 1862 ; chosen sergeant ; pro. to first lieutenant, Co. K, Feb. 6, 1864 ; was wounded io battle near Winchester, Va., Sept. 17, 1864 ; arrived at his home in Goshen in a feeble state on the evening of October 1st, and died of his wounds on the morning of the 3d, and buried on the 5th with Masonic honors, aged forty years, leaving a wife and five children.

McCabe, Peter, enl. in the 11th Regt., Co. E, Oct. 25, 1861; died at Roa- noke Island March 12, 1862, aged twenty-six years.

McEllone, Patrick, enl. in the 4th Regt., Co. I, May 23, 1861 ; disch. at the expiration of his teros of enlistment May 23, 1864.

Newcomb, George W., eal. in the 13th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 4, 1861 ; chosen corporal, and pro. to first sergeant March, 1865; disch. with the regi- ment.

Nichols, Carlton N., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, July 31, 1862; disch. for disability April 29, 1863.

Nickerson, Uriah, enl. in the 7th Regt., Co. E, Sept. 7, 1861 ; re-enl. as veteran Dec. 22, 1863 ; dischi. at the expiration of time of service.

Pendleton, Theodore, enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 4, 1862; pro. to quartermaster-sergeant ; disch. with the regiment.

Pierce, ITeary D., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, July 26, 1862 ; disch. with the regiment.

Prindle, Benjamin 11., enl, in the 13th Regt., Co. C, Nov. 27, 1861 ; diech. Oct. 17, 1862.

Porter, Charles A., enl. in the 4th Regt., Co. I, May 23, 1861 ; chosen cor- poral ; disch. at the expiration of time of enlistment May 23, 1864. Patron, Charles, enl. as recruit in the lat Regt. Heavy Art., Co. I, April 12, 1862; re-enl. as veteran April 19, 1864; disch. with the regi- ment.

Palmer, James M., enl. as recrnit in the 2d Regt. lleavy Art., Co. G, Jau. 1, 1864; wounded in battle of Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864, and died in field hospital the following night, aged - years, leaving a wife and three children.

Quin, John, enl. as recruit in the 2d Regt. Heavy Art., Co. C, Jan. 2, 1864 ; disch. with the regiment.

Quin, Jamies P., enl. ae recruit in the 2d Regt. Heavy Art., Co. C, Jan. 2, 1864; disch. with the regiment.

Rendus, Gerrit, enl. in the 7th Regt., Co. E, Sept. 7, 1861 ; disch. at the expiration of the time of enlistment. He was among those sufferers confined at Andersonville.

Richmond, Edward S., enl. in the 13th Regt., Co. I, Jan. 11, 1862; killed by an explosion on the Opelonsas Railroad, near New Orleans, Nov. 7, 1862, aged twenty years; his body was so mutilated that no part of it was ever identified.

Robinson, William T., eol. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 8, 1862; died at Alexandria, Va., Jan. 16, and buried in Goshen Jan. 26, 1863, aged thirty-eight years, leaving a wife and three children.

Robinson, James, enlisted in the 13th Regt., Co. J, Jan. 11, 1862; sub- sequently re-enl. in a New York regiment and died of typhus fever at Windmill Point, Va., Jan. 7, 1863, aged twenty-one years.

Rice, James Q, enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, July 2, 1862; chosen cap- tain : pro. to major in the 2d Regt. Heavy Art., Feb. 17, 1864; killed in battle near Winchester, Va., Sept. 17, 1864, and buried in Goshen with Masonic honors, Oct. 17, 1864, aged forty-one years, leaving a wife and three children.

Rice, William McK., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 3], 1862; chosen sergeant ; pro. to first lieutenant Feb. 6, 1864 ; died, after a linger- ing illness, at his sister's in Washington Hill, Orange Co., N. Y., Nov. 8, 1864, aged twenty-four years.

Reddy, Owen, enl. in the 19th Regt. Co. C, Aug. 4, 1862 ; disch. for disa- bility May 29, 1863.

Ray, Jerome R., enl. in the 20th (Colored) Regt., Co. I, Dec. 31, 1863.

Richmond, Seeley, enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 22, 1862; had his wrist broken by being run against by an officer's horse ; disch. with the regiment.

Sperry, Albert, eol. in the 4th Regt., Co. I, May 3, 1861 ; taken prisoner by the rebels in camp hospital, near Richmond, in 1862; was ex- changed in a few days; disch. May 23, 1864.

Sperry, George W., enl. ia the 13th Regt., Co. C, Nov. 27, 1861 ; chosen corporal ; re-enl. as veteran Feb. 8, 1864; disch. in April, 1866.

Sherry, Joseph, enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 31, 1862; chosen cor- poral ; pro. to sergeant ; wounded in the arm, just above the elbow, by a rifle-ball in the battle near Winchester, Va., Oct. 19, 1864 ; the only person materially disabled that enlisted from Goshen; disch. with the regiment.

Soudant, Charles J., en). in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 31, 1862; enbse- quently joined the regimental band, and disch. May 16, 1865.

Stoddard, Heory A., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 2, 1862; disch. for disability Dec. 16, 186%.

Stewart, George C., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 4, 1862; diech. with the regiment.

Stewart, John H., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Ang. 6, 1862; died at Alexandria, Va., Jan. 3, 1863; buried in Goshen Jan. 11, 1863, aged sixteen years.

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Stone, Royal, enl. in the 19th Regiment, Co. C, Aug. 5, 1862 ; disch. with the regiment.

Saunders, Alfred, enl. in the 20th (Colored) Regt., Dec. 28, 1863.

Vail, Henry L., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 17, 1862; chosen cor- poral; wounded in battle of Cedar Creek Oct. 19, 1864, a musket- ball passing through his shoulder and breast ; died at Taylor 1108- pital Nov. 3, 1864, buried in Cornwall Nov. 20, 1864, aged twenty- three years.

Treadwell, David D, enl. in the 29th (Colored) Regt., Dec. 12, 1863, in Co. D.

Wadhams, Uri, enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 4, 1862 ; chosen corpo- ral ; died at Alexandria, Va., Sept. 11, 1863 ; buried in Goshee Oct. 4, 1863, aged twenty-three years.

Wadhams, William U., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 7, 1862 ; disch. with the regiment.

Wadhams, Willard N., enl. in the 19th Regt., Co. C, Aug. 6, 1862 ; chosen corporal ; died et Selestia Hospital, Philadelphia ; buried in hospital burying-ground, No. 121, aged twenty-one years.

Way, Nelson H., enl. in the 1st Regt. Cav., A, Nov. 16, 1861 ; disch. at the expiration of time of enlistment.

Wooster, James N., enl. in the 7th Regt., Co. E, Sept. 7, 1861 ; re-enl. a8 veteran Dec. 22, 1863, killed in battle at Bermuda Hundred Jan. 22, 1864, aged twenty years.

Wadhama, Frank E., enl. in the 13th Regt., Co. C, Dec. 17, 1861 ; re-enl. 88 veteran, Feb. 8, 1864; takeu sick with swamp fever while on the Red River expedition ; sent to New Orleans Hospital ; joined his regiment; attacked with pneumonia and reduced very low ; came home on a thirty days' furlough in a very feeble state; went to New Haven Hospital, where he remained until April, 1865, when he egain joined his regiment in North Carolina ; was subsequently stationed at Augusta, Athens, end Atlanta ; disch. in April, 1866.

Wadhama, Frederic L., enl. in the 13th Regt., Co. I, Jan. 11, 1862 ; taken prisoner by the rebels at the battle of Winchester ; made his escape in a short time, and joined hia company again ; disch. at the expira- tion of time of enlistment Jan. 7, 1865.

Wadbums, Sidney, a resident of Goshen, Int at the time of his enlist- ment a student in the America Institute, Dutchess Co., N. Y., enl. in the 48th Regt. N. Y. S. V., as a private under Col. Perry (of Mex- ican war notoriety), on Sept. 17, 1861 ; pro. to lieutenant ; was killed in the essault on Fort Wagner July 18, 1863, aged twenty-seven years ; his remains were not recovered.

Hallock, Dudley T., a native and resident of Goshen, enl. in the 2d N. Y. Cav., Co. D, and died at Point Lookout ; was buried in Goshen Feb. 14, 1863, aged twenty-five years.

In November, 1861, George D. Rentley, Lyman A. Adama, and Nel- son Way enlisted in the 1st Connectient Cavalry.

Enlistmenta in lut Regiment Cavalry ... ...

.. recruits

4th Regiment Infantry. 5

Recruits 4th Regiment Infantry.

Enlistments in 7th Regiment Infantry

8th

9tlı

11th

13th 46

10th

19 9

Recruits In 2d Regiment Heavy Artillery. Enlistmenty in 29th Regiment Infantry ...

Whnle number ... 98

Add two enlisted In New York Regiment. 2

Making ... 100

Killed In little or died of wounds ....

Died of disease ...

Died by an explosion 1

Whele member of deatha .. 20

Whole number of enlisted men from Goshen 100

Number of substitutes furnished previous to draft of September, 1864

Number of substitutes by persons after being drafted ... Number of substitutes furnished after draft of Septem- her. 1864 .. 13

Number of persons who enlisted second time after being discharged fur disability 3

Number of enlistments ns veterans ........ 7

Whole number of enlistments and substitutes furnished. 11G

The State of Connecticut has furnished forty-ono thousand nine hundred and eighty-thrce enlistments,

as appears by the report of the adjutant-general. The quota of Goshen, according to population, would be one hundred and twenty-two, so it will be seen that this town furnished twenty-four more than its pro- portion. It is a question whether any town in the State has furnished a greater per cent. of excess than Goshen.

The amount paid by the town for volunteers in 1862 was ... $4637.50

Amount paid by individuala for substitutes. 22,430.00

By L. S. Aid Society, for Sanitary Commission 526.00 Sent to Ililton Head. 178.00

By ladies, etc., for Christian Commission.

429.00

Whole amount. $28,200.50

Of the evils attendant upon a war no adequate es- timate can be made of the loss of life, impaired health, the sacrifice of property, and in most cases the de- moralization of those connected with an army, but the writer would congratulate his fellow townsmen that of those who went out from among us to defend and sustain our and the nation's rights, have sacrificed their lives honorably or returned to us without a stain upon their fair characters. That they should at once resume their former vocations with alacrity, and particularly the younger portion of them seem to have advanced in intelligence and manly bearing, is surely a subject of gratulation.

The compilers of the preceding record have labored under mueh embarrassment; as no one had pre- tended to make any detailed memoranda of the events as they transpired, of course have had to resort to isolated documents and personal inquiries to obtain the few facts contained in the preceding pages.

The following is copied from a document purport- ing to have emanated from the war department, giving the number of men comprising the Union army, viz. :

Number of three months' men ..... 191,985

six

19,076

= nine

87,558

one year's

394,959

two

43,113

three

1,950,792

four

1,040

Total 2,688,53

Left the army, about .... 2,408,103

Died In battle of wounds .. 90,089

Dled of disease 184,33]

Officers killed in battle

5,221

Enlisted men killed In battle.

90,868

Total deaths by killing

96,089

Officera died of disease

2,321

Enlisted men dled of disease 182,010

Total.

1×4,331

Whole number of deaths.

280,120

The number of deaths compared with the whole army is equal to fourteen one-hundredths or fourteen per cent. The number of deaths from the enlisted men from Goshen, compared with the whole number of enlisted men, is equal to twenty-nine one-hun- dredthis, or twenty-nine per cent. There is no means to ascertain the deaths among the substitutes fur- nished by Goshen.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

HENRY NORTON.

Henry Norton was born at Goshen, Nov. 10, 1815. His father, who died in 1860, was Deacon Lewis M. Norton, the historian of Goshen. His mother was Laura Foote, of Canton, Conn. He married Delia Beach, the daughter of John Beach, of Goshen, May 11, 1842. One daughter, Delia Hillhouse Norton, died at Mouut Holyoke Seminary in 1867. He re- ceived his education principally at Goshen Academy, giving considerable attention to astronomy and geol- ogy, and was the first one in Litchfield County to find with the naked eye the planets Mercury and Uranus; and he first called the attention of the people of this county to the wonderful marks made on the rocks by the glaciers in the early ages, which are now so plainly seen on the tops of our mountains. When he was twenty years of age he commenced teaching, and taught eight winters, working on his father's farm summers until he married. Most of his teaching was in the Winchester Centre and Wolcottville Acad- emies. He was acting school-visitor twenty years, between 1841 and 1875, examining the teachers and visiting the schools.

He was a member of the Legislature in 1852. He was appointed county surveyor by the County Court in 1841, and after the death of Judge Burrall he was appointed by the surveyor-general of Connecticut deputy State surveyor for Litchfield County, and, be- sides attending to his farm, he has practiced land sur- veying for forty years, and is at it still. He also holds the office of notary publie. His grandfather was Deacon Ebenezer Norton, who put stocks to the guns manufactured here and used in the Revolutionary war; and his great-grandfather was Col. Ebenezer Norton, one of the original settlers of the town. He traces his ancestry back to the Lord of Norville, who came over into England from France with William the Conqueror in the year 1260, and he was his con- stable.

From the time of the Norman conquest to the ar- rival of Thomas Norton in Guilford, Conn., there were fourteen generations of his ancestors in Eng- land, and there have been six since. When he was a small boy his father pointed to a little hollow on the west side of the road in E Street, telling him that there was a tradition that a liberty-pole stood there in the Revolution. So he watched the spot for fifty years, and in 1875 dug a hole there to erect a centen- nial monument. He dug out a large load of stones and pieces of the rum-bottle used when it was erected, and found the pine wood and bark four and a half feet below the surface, and preserved the relics. The pole was eighteen inches in diameter. The Stars and Stripes waved over the spot at the great centennial celebration, July 4, 1876, and he was chairman of the committee on relics that day.

CAPT. WILLARD GAYLORD.

Capt. Willard Gaylord is a lineal descendant of William Gaillard (or Gaylord), who came from Eng- land with his family and settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1630. From an old record we quote the following : " Between 1639 and 1664 Mr. William Gaylord, the earliest settler of that name in Windsor, was elected a member of the Assembly at forty-one semi-annual elections, which was one more than any other man was thus honored in that town." William Gaylord died July 20, 1673; his wife died June 20, 1657. Their children, all of whom were born in England, were as follows: Elizabeth, married Richard Birge, William, Samnel, Walter, and John. Walter, third son of William, was born in England about 1622; came with his father to New England in 1630; set- tled in Windsor. He married Mary Stebbins, daugh- ter of Deacon Edward Stebbins, of Hartford, April 22, 1648; she died June 29, 1657, when he married Sarah, daughter of William Rockwell, March 22, 1658. Children by first wife,-Joseph, born May 13, 1649; Mary, born March 19, 1651; Joanna, born Feb. 5, 1653, married John Porter ; Samuel Benjamin, born April 12, 1655; Isaac, born June 21, 1657. Children by second wife,-Eliezer, born March 7, 1662; Sarah, born April 13, 1665, married William Phelps, all born in Windsor.

Joseph (first son of Walter and Mary Stebbins) set- tled at Farmington, Conn.,-that part which was after- wards the town of Waterbury, and about 1708 he re- moved to the town of Durham, Conn.,-where his sons Joseph and John settled. He married Sarah Stanley, July 14, 1670. Their children were Sarah, born 1671, married Thomas Judd; Joseph, born April 22, 1673; John, born Aug. 21, 1677 ; William, born 1680; Benjamin, Elizabeth, Mary; Abigail married James Williams; Joanna married Robert Royce; Ruth married Stephen Hickox; Joseph Gaylord died 1742.

Joseph, first son of Joseph and Sarah Stanley Gay- lord, married Mary Hickox in 1699. Their children were Timothy, born Nov. 29, 1706; Samuel, born July 5, 1709; Edward, Benjamin, Joseph, Mary, Thankful, Martha.

Lieut. Timothy, first son of Joseph and Mary Hickox Gaylord, married Prudence Roys, April 25, 1733; she died Feb. 7, 1746. Their children were Prudence, born Jan. 31, 1734; Timothy, born May 3, 1735; Roys, born July 7, 1737. He married for his second wife Phebe Wilton, who died in Goshen in 1777. Their children were Titus, born Dec. 24, 1749; Lois, born Dec. 22, 175I, married Samuel Bishop; Joel, born May 8, 1755; Joseph, born April, 1758. Lieut. Timothy's commission is in the posses- sion of his grandson, Capt. Allen Gaylord, of New- bery, Ohio. It is dated March 27, 1757. He was killed by Indians, near Fort Ann, N. Y., in 1758.

Joseph, third son of Timothy and Phebe Wilton Gaylord, married Eunice Ives, of Torrington, April 24, 1792. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war,

Henry Norton

Mitland Gaylord

Meses alyman

RESIDENCE OF MOSES LYMAN, GOSHEN CONN :!!

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and was in New York when the British took posses- sion of that city, and was carried out on a blanket, sick. He was honorably discharged, and during the latter part of his life received a pension. He was a farmer hy occupation, as were nearly all of his ances- tors. He died March 25, 1838. His wife died Nov. 3, 1825. Their children were,-Joseph I., born Sept. 1783; Willard, born May 21, 1799; Alletia, horn March 4, 1801.

Joseph I., first son of Joseph and Eunice Ives Gay- lord, married Clarissa Norton, Nov. 21, 1821. Their children were Mary, Lorraine, and Frederick. His second wife was Eliza M. Norton. He was instantly killed by the roof of his house, blown off during a tornado in Goshen, Feb. 10, 1860.

Willard, second son of Joseph and Eunice (Ives) Gaylord, married Amy Hooker, of Bristol, Conn., April 27, 1825. Miss Hooker was a niece of the Rev. Asahel Hooker, who was settled as pastor of the church at Goshen in 1791. Their children were Wil- lard E., born March 26, 1827 ; Charles H., born March 27, 1833.

Willard Eliezer, first son of Willard and Amy Hooker, married Sarah E. Wooster, May 14, 1851. Their children are Henry C., born March 30, 1852; Amy C., born Feb. 17, 1858.

Charles H., second son of Willard and Mary Hooker, married Jeannie M. Thompson, of New Haven, June 10, '1856. Children are William H., born Sept. 7, 1862; Charles E., born March 13, 1865.

Capt. Willard Gaylord, as mentioned above, was born in Goshen, May 21, 1799, son of Joseph and grandson of Timothy Gaylord, who settled in Goshen about 1738. He was the purchaser of an original right of land, where the family have since resided. Willard Gaylord received a common-school und aea- demic education. The business of his life has been that of a farmer, although he has been called to fill many responsible positions; has filled nearly all the town offices, and represented the town in the Legisla- ture in 1840-41 and 1862.

Mr. Gaylord was one of the original corporators of the Winsted Savings Bank, and a director for many years. Was appointed State director of the Iron Bank at Falls Village, and served as such for several years; was subsequently appointed director, which office he now holds. He has held an office in that bank for more than twenty years.

Politically, Mr. Gaylord was formerly a Whig, and since the organization of the Republican party has acted with them. During the war of the Rebellion he took strong grounds in support of the government. Subsequently the town of Goshen appointed a com- mittee, of which Mr. Gaylord was chairman, to write "Goshen in the Rebellion." Their report is on file in the office of the town clerk, and is eminently satis- factory. And now, after an active and industrious life of more than fourscore years, we find this venerable pioneer in the enjoyment of good health, with an

erect figure and an elastic step, retaining in a marked degree the energy and spirit of Capt. Gaylord of forty years ago.

MOSES LYMAN .-

Moses Lyman the sixth is a lineal descendant, in the eighth generation, from Richard Lyman, an Eng- lishman, who left the parish of Ongar, County of Es- sex, England, and in the middle of August, 1631, embarked with his wife and children in the ship "Lion," and on 4th of November, 1631, landed in Boston. Richard Lyman's name is on the list of the original proprietors of Hartford in 1636. He died in 1640, leaving a family of children, one of whom was named John, born in High Ongar, England, Septem- ber, 1623; came to Boston with his father, married Doreas, daughter of John Plumb, of Bradford, Conn., and in 1654 settled in Northampton, Mass., where he resided till his death, Aug. 20, 1690. He was in com- mand of the Northampton soldiers in the famous Falls fight, above Deerfield, May 18, 1676. He had ten children, the fourth of whom was named Moses, born Feb. 20, 1662, or 1663, and died Feb. 25, 1701. He had eight children ; three only grew to maturity, one of whom was Moses.

Moses Lyman is a name widely known in business eireles, and reealls men honored, respected, and be- loved always. It has been borne by the eldest son of this family through eight successive generations. Capt. Moses, the second bearing the name, was born Feb. 27, 1689; married Mindwell Sheldon, Dec. 13, 1712, and died March 24, 1762, aged seventy-three years. He was the only son who left issue, and be- came thus the ancestor of a very numerous posterity. Ile was the great-grandson of Richard. He had a family of ten children, the eldest of whom was Moses the third, born Oct. 2, 1713, and died Jan 6, 1768. He married Sarah Hayden, or Heighton, of Windsor, Conn., March 24, 1742.

Deacon Lyman settled in Goshen in the autumn of 1739, being one of the earliest inhabitants of the place. Ile was the aneestor of a distinguished and noble lineage, an honor to the name and the whole Lyman family. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman were charac- terized as religious, exemplary, industrious, econom- ical, and liberal to the poor. He was remarkable for his endeavors to make peace and reconcile ditheulties ; of sound judgment, and for many years a magistrate, he exercised a controlling influence in the town. He was a representative of the town in the General Assembly fourteen times. Of Deacon Lyman it was said he was a " father to the poor, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame," relieving the fatherless and helpless, and making the widow's heart to sing for joy. He had seven children, the eldest of whom was Moses the fourth, born March 20, 1743, married Ruth, daughter of William Collins, of Guilford, Conn. She died June 8, 1775, and he married for his second wife the widow of Jesse Judd, of Litehfield, Conn.,

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daughter of Capt. Jonathan Buel, of Goshen. Mr. Lyman was a farmer, and occupied the homestead of his father through life. In the militia Mr. Lyman held in succession every grade of office from that of corporal to colonel, and was known as Col. Lyman. During the Revolutionary war he was frequently in the army, sometimes by draft, sometimes as a volun- teer on sudden alarms. Col. Lyman was commander of a body of troops stationed, on the night of the 7th of October, 1777, to watch the movements of Bur- goyne's army, and was the first to inform Gen. Gates, on the morning of the 8th, that they had deserted their camp. In consideration of his important ser- vices he was honored with the duty of conveying to Gen. Washington personally the first intelligence of the battle of Saratoga and the surrender of the British under Gen. Burgoyne. He was also commander of the guard over the illustrious and gallant captive, Maj. Andre, at and previous to the time of his execution. In civil life Col. Lyman sustained many offices in the gift of the town. He was a man of strong mind, and great energy and decision of character, of the strictest integrity, conscientious in the observance of the Sab- bath, and of the daily worship of God in his family. He died Sept. 29, 1829, aged eighty-seven years.

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History of Litchfield county, Connecticut, Part 84

Author: J.W. Lewis & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.) Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co. Number of Pages: 1532

Author: J.W. Lewis & Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1532