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1778. Col. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Saml. Nash, Daniel Miles.
1779. Capt. Asaph Hall, Capt. Asa Francis, Giles Griswold.
1780. Capt. Asaph Hall, Capt. Asa Francis, Capt. Stephen Goodwin. 1781. Abel Newell, Asaph Hall.
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1782. Abel Newell, Capt. Elisha Sill, Capt. Asaph Hall, Daniel Miles.
1783-84. Capt. Elisha Sill, Daniel Miles.
1785. Capt. Elisha Sill, Daniel Miles, Capt. Asaph Hall.
1786. Adino Hale, Capt. Asaph Hall.
1787. Samuel Hopkins, Ebenezer Norton, Daniel Miles.
1788. Daniel Miles, Adino Hale.
1789. Daniel Miles, Adino Hale, Capt. Asaph Hall.
1790-91. Ebenezer Norton, Adino Hale.
1792. Capt. Asaph Hall, Adino Hale.
1793-96. Samuel Hopkins, Adino Hale.
1797. Birdsey Norton, Adino Hale.
1798-99. Samuel Hopkins, Adino Hale, Birdsey Norton.
1800. Adino Hale, Saml. Hopkins, Birdsey Norton, Timothy Hale.
1801-2. Birdsey Norton, Timothy Hale.
1803-9. Birdsey Norton, Adino Hale.
1810-11. Birdsey Norton, Moses Lyman, Jr., Adino Hale.
1812. Adino Hale, Moses Lyman, Jr.
1813-15. Adino Hale, Theodore North.
1816. Timothy Hale, Adino Hale, Theodore North.
1817. Timothy Hale, Theodore North, Julius Beach.
1818. Wm. Stanley, Julius Beach, Samuel Lyman.
1819. Wm. Stanley, Samuel Lyman.
1820-21. Noah Humphrey, Moses Cook. 1822-23. Erastus Lyman, Henry Hart.
1824. Timothy Collins. Augustus Miles.
1825. Truman Starr, Isaac Wadhams.
1826. Giles Griswold, Isaac Wadhams.
1827-28. Giles Griswold, Erastus Lyman.
1829. Augustus Miles, David Wooster.
1830. Robert Palmer, David Wooster.
1831. Robert Palmer, George Cook.
1832. Jonathan North, George Cook.
1833. Jonathan North, Eber Bailey.
Timothy Collins, Eber Bailey.
1834. 1835. Cicero Collins, George Cook.
1836. Collins Baldwin, William Miles.
1837.
Alpha Hart, William Miles.
1838. Alpha Hart, Augustus Miles.
1839. Putnam Bailey, Augustus Miles.
1840. Putnam Bailey, William Gaylord.
1841. Willard Gaylord, Miles Hart.
1842. Thomas Bartholomew, Miles Hart.
1843. Thomas Bartholomew, O. M. Humphrey.
1844. John M. Wadhams, O. M. Humphrey.
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1845. John M. Wadhams, Philo Bailey.
1846. Austin Allyn, Philo Bailey.
1847. Austin Allyn, Simeon Loomis.
1848. Simeon Loomis, J. J. Gaylord.
1849. George A. Hill, J. J. Gaylord.
George A. Hill, Moses Cook.
1850. 1851. W. H. Brooks, S. H. Merwin. 1852. Henry Norton, D. H. Smith.
1853. Lucius D. Allyn, A. W. Lawton.
1854. Sterling Wooster, Ahner Gilbert.
1855. Chris. P. Wheeler, Erastus Merwin.
1856. Milo Bartholomew, Abram Beach.
1857. Samuel Palmer, J. P. Porter. 1858. William Davis, William L. Griswold.
Austin Allyn, Jr., Jos. P. Bailey.
1859. 1860. Moses Cook, Jonathan B. Thompson.
1861. Watts H. Brooks, G. W. Humphrey.
1862. Willard Gaylord, Moses Cook.
Joseph Wooster, Moses Lyman.
1863. 1864. Darius Thompson, Frederick Lyman.
Obed M. Humphrey, Sterling Wooster.
Charles L. Porter, Joseph Palmer.
1865. 1866. 1867. Moses W. Gray, Austin Allyn. 1868. Lyman Hall, Moses Cook. 1869. Fred. A. Lucas, Enos B. Pratt. Edward Norton, F. E. Hurlbut. 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. Truman P. Clark, Abner Gilbert.
Lyman Hall, John H. Wadhams.
1874. 1875. Fessenden Ives, William Davis, Jr. 1876. Frederick E. Hurlbut, Orion J. Hallock.
Watts H. Brooks, Moses W. Gray.
1877. 1878. Henry G. Wright, Frank W. Griswold.
William L. Griswold, Lyman Hall.
1879. 1880. Austin Allyn, John M. Wadhams.
Moses A. Wadhams, Benjamin F. Lamphier.
1881. 1882. Hubert Scoville, Franklin E. Wadhams.
Wilbur H. Wadhams, Elihu Carlisle.
1883. 1884. 1885. Eugene E. Allyn, William J. Green.
Simmons W. Scoville, J. Howard North.
1886. Frederick A. Lucas, Thomas W. Griswold.
1883. Truman P. Clark, Charles G. Adams.
1890. Albert Sperry, Andrew Palmer.
1892. John H. Wadhams, C. F. Green.
Edward Norton, M. D. F. Smith.
John H. Wadhams, T. W. Austin.
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1894. Robert I. Allyn, Charles J. Porter.
1896. James P. Vaill, Dan Lucas.
1898. Frank W. Griswold, Lorrain Apley.
Daniel Miles and Asaph Hall were delegates to the Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States, convened in Hartford the first Thursday in January, 1788.
Adino Hale and Theodore North were delegates in the conven- tion to frame the State Constitution, which met at Hartford in August, 1818.
In 1840 the official assessment list of the town gives the follow- ing named persons whose valuations exceed $10,000: Moses Cook, $13,000; Moses Lyman, $11,400; Erastus Lyman, $27,000.
In 1874 a similar list reads as follows: Austin Allyn, $11,920; Austin Allyn, Jr., $10,261; Wm. Davis, $11,991; Washington Fox, Est., $10,910; Moses W. Gray, $10,726; Abigail Lyman, $10,120; Moses Lyman, $10,626; Lucas, Hurlbut & Allyn, $13,250; Haskill G. Smith, $13,649; Samuel B. Tuttle, $27,050; Edward Welch, $11,864; C. P. Wheeler, $10,893; John M. Wadhams, $16,503.
There have been several large bequests made by residents of the town to benevolent objects. The largest was that of Washing- ton Fox to the Congregational Home Missionary Society, of $16,120. Giles Griswold made large bequests. In 1873 Mrs. Harriet Cook gave $1,000 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
POPULATION OF GOSHEN.
1756,
610
1830,
1,734
1774,
1,111
1840,
1,530
1782,
1,450
1850,
1,457
1790, no report from Goshen.
1860,
1,381
1800,
1,493
1870,
1,223
1810,
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1,641
1880,
1,093
1820,
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1,586
1890,
972
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CHAPTER XXV.
THE GOSHEN OF TODAY.
Reference to the table of population reveals the fact that the number of inhabitants is much less than it was fifty years ago. The young men, sons of those who established its churches, schools, factories, and places of business, have been leaving the town during the past sixty years. Farms that for a century had been in the possession of the same family are now occupied by aliens. Houses once filled with life and activity, from whose doors there went out sons and daughters to found new homes, not far from the parental dwellings, are now desolate and falling in decay, or their places marked by clumps of lilac shrubbery or lily leaves, and a hollow in the ground telling the story of a cellar once filled with vegetables, fruits, and barrels of cider.
The merchants who were accustomed to send wagons loaded with butter, cheese, and other produce to seaports, for shipment to the West Indies, have been succeeded by men who knew nothing of such a line of trade and most of the buildings formerly occupied have fallen into ruins, or are used for other purposes. The factories have ceased their op- erations. Several districts have no schools, and in others, where formerly forty scholars would be crowded into the schoolroom during the winter term there is now an average at- tendance of less than half a dozen.
But this is a common story of the hill towns of New Eng- land, and reveals what it has cost New England to settle and build up the West. The story is not wholly dis- couraging. The homes are not all deserted. A good class of foreigners have come in, and by their industry and
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economy are improving the farms and securing good homes and independence. A Catholic Church has been built at the Center, and it is not the fault of the writer that the history of the parish is not found upon these pages. At the Methodist churches in West and North Goshen the congregations are small, and regular services are maintained with difficulty. The membership of the Congregational Church is larger, pro- portionally, than when the population was the largest, a lib- eral salary is paid the pastor, the house of worship is more con- venient and tasteful than ever before. Some of the cemeteries are being constantly improved, and their appearance reflects great credit upon the inhabitants. A town hall has been erected recently, with offices for the selectmen and town clerk, a fireproof vault for records, a large audience-room, with stage, retiring rooms, and furnished appropriately, supplying every requirement of such a building, and all that can be desired by such a town. The residences, as a rule, are kept in good repair, the yards and lawns are made attractive with shrub- bery and flowers, many of the farms are being constantly im- proved and are richly repaying their owners. A creamery is doing a large business, and its product is adding renown to the long and far-famed Goshen butter. The pineapple cheese have all their old-time richness and flavor, and are marketed all over the country, from Boston on the east to cities upon the Pacific coast which had no existence in the lifetime of the in- ventor. Among the residents are many public-spirited men and women, who are proud of its past and hopeful for its future. There is a wonderful attractiveness in the rocky hills, the swiftly running brooks, the laurel thickets, the lovely lakes, the delightful drives and the grand and extended pros- pects, which, combined, make the town so interesting, and its sons and daughters returning, after travels in all lands, are accustomed to say, " There is no place like Goshen ! "
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GENEALOGIES OF EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES.
BALDWIN.
I. SAMUEL BALDWIN of Guilford. At a town meeting in Guilford Feb. 8, 1675-6, he was entertained as a planter: - " Granted upon his settlement 20 acres of upland and 10 acres of marsh, if he can find the same not pitched upon - 3d Division."
Feb. 15, 1676-7, " in this meeting the town granted Samuel Bald- win one-half an acre of land upon the Green, against the front of John Bishop's home lot, between his barn and the saw-pit; - for Samuel Baldwin to set a shop upon, for his encouragement and ac- commodating of his trade of a smith; upon condition that if he re- move himself out of Guilford, the land shall return to the town, if they desire it; the town paying to Samuel Baldwin what the build- ings, fences, and orchards that shall then be upon it, shall be valued worth by men indifferently chosen by said Baldwin and the town."
These extracts contain the first mention of the family upon the records of Guilford. He d. at G. Jan. 12, 1696.
Children.
Abigail, b. Dec. 14, 1678; m. Joseph Starr of Middletown.
Deborah, b. April 8, 1681; d. Dec. 5, same year.
Dorothy, b. Dec. 27, 1683; m. Ziba Tryon, Wethersfield.
Joanna, b. May 18, 1686; m. Samuel Rose, Branford.
Samuel, b. Jan. 13, 1689; was in Branford, Feb., 1733, and residing in Litchfield in 1734. Timothy, b. April 13, 1691.
Nathaniel, b. Nov. 29, 1693.
II. Ensign TIMOTHY BALDWIN (s. Samuel), b. Guilford April 13, 1691; m. Bathsheba Stone; d. Aug. 4, 1757. He bid off two rights in Goshen, but never came here to reside. His son, Michael settled his rights.
Children.
Timothy, b. Sept. 27, 1714; d. March 2, 1720.
Bathsheba, b. Feb., 1716; m. Oct. 22, 1735, Joseph Chidsey; d. Sept. 15, 1792.
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Michael, b. April 2, 1719.
Timothy, b. Oct. 29, 1721; d. Nov. 2, 1753.
Abigail, b. March 5, 1724; m. March 21, 1751, Benjamin Rossiter; d. Sept. 14, 1754.
Stephen, b. Aug. 10, 1726.
Elisha, b. April 6, 1729; d. May 9, same year.
Deborah, b. April 15, 1730; m. March 28, 1751, Samuel Russell; d. April 18, 1811.
Abraham, b. Sept. 17, 1732; d. June 11, 1754.
Sarah, b. Feb. 24, 1735; m. June 4, 1755, Nathan Rossiter, Richmond, Mass.
Mary, b. May 2, 1739; d. May 9, same year.
III. MICHAEL BALDWIN (s. Timothy, Samuel), b. April 2, 1719. He was a blacksmith in early life and is described as a " man of powerful, but uncultivated mind." - His son, Abraham, resided in Georgia, was president of the University of Georgia, a member of the U. S. Senate at the time of his death. He is called " The Father of the Constitution." Another son, Henry, was a judge of the Supreme Court of the U. S. Dudley, another son, settled in Fair- field as a lawyer, and died in early life. Michael, the youngest son, was a conspicuous lawyer in Ohio, a member of the Convention which formed the Constitution of that state and speaker of the House of Representatives. He also died young. His daughter, Ruth, m. Joel Barlow, formerly Minister to France; and another, Clarissa, was the wife of Col. Bomford of the U. S. Ordnance Department.
III. STEPHEN BALDWIN (s. Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Aug. 10, 1726; m. Nov. 7, 1752, Freelove, dau. Daniel Collins; d. Jan. 27, 1766. His wife d. Dec. 13, 1765. They were buried in East St. cemetery. He came from Guilford to Goshen after the death of his father (1757), and previous to Nov., 1762.
Children.
Daniel, b. Aug. 26, 1753. Freelove, b. June 24, 1755; d. young.
Stephen, b. Dec. 13, 1758. Elisha, b. Jan. 20, 1760.
Abigail, b. April 9, 1762; m. William Dudley.
Augustus, b. Aug. 27, 1764; graduated from Yale College, 1787; re- moved to Georgia, where he was principal of an Academy at one time; m. - Cocke; had three children; d. in Georgia of consumption, 1838. His pompous manners as a school teacher are described by Lyman Beecher iu one of the chap- ters of his autobiography.
IV. DANIEL BALDWIN (s. Stephen, Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Aug. 26, 1753; m. March 23, 1775, Lucy, dau. Col. Medad Hills of Goshen. She was b. April 15, 1756; d. May 10, 1808. The
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brothers, Daniel, Stephen, aud Elisha, built their houses similar and one mile apart. Daniel's is now (1896) known as the " Luding- ton House."
Children.
Seth, b. April 25, 1776; m. June , 1800, Esther MacNeil, widow of Asaph Hall; d. May 7, 1851. She d. May 19, 1848. Child, Freelove, b. Aug., 1802; m. Sept. 3, 1829, Galvin P. Bronson; their child, Lucretia Wheadon, b. June 22, 1830; d. May 31, 1855.
Erastus, b. May 27, 1778; m. Nov. 10, 1818, Lucretia, dau. Joseph Austin; d. June 23, 1849. She d. March 11, 1830. Both buried East St. cemetery. Their children: Joseph Austin, b. Dec. 6, 1820; Harvey, b. Aug. 19, 1822; m. 1851, Cornelia Mather; Lucretia, b. Aug. 23, 1824; d. Ogden, N. Y., March 27, 1840; Lewis Collins, b. July 20, 1826.
Collins, b. April 30, 1780; d. at his father's May 16, 1847.
Freelove, b. Sept. 13, 1782; m. April 4, 1801, John Griswold.
Infant son, b. and d. Oct. 17, 1784.
Infant son, b. July 3, 1785; d. July 7, 1785.
Abigail, b. June 23, 1786; in. (1) Oct. 6, 1812, Theron S. Ludington; he d. Aug. 3, 1817; (2) Nov. 6, 1828, the Rev. Chauncey Will- cox, who settled later in Greenwich, Conn., where she d. Sept., 1830.
Lucy, b. April 3, 1789; d. July 10, 1791.
Lucia, b. May 14, 1791; m. Birdsey Baldwin.
Gustavus, b. Feb. 9, 1795; d. March 19, 1795.
IV. STEPHEN BALDWIN (s. Stephen, Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Dec. 13, 1758; m. Jan. 24, 1788, Susannah Adams of Win- chester; d. May 23, 1810; she d. at Akron, O., Sept. 29, 1848.
Children, born Goshen.
Augustus, b. Nov. 4, 1788; m. Jan. 10, 1811, Ann, dau. Moses Wad- hams; removed to Hudson, O .; d. at Franklin, O., Oct. 29, 1838. Children: - Stephen, b. Goshen; Lucretia, b. Hud- son; Collins, died; Frederick, died; Frederick; George, died. Pomeroy, b. Oct. 16, 1790; m. Feb. 2, 1814, Ann, dau. Luther Foot, of Norfolk; removed to Hudson, O .; d. at Hudson, Aug. 31, 1817. Child: - Pomeroy, b. March, 1818; m. Clara Miller of Massi- lon, Ohio.
Silas, b. June 9, 1792; m. April 30, 1816, Harriet, dau. Samuel Humph- rey; removed June 27, 1820, to Aurora, O., where he d. Dec. 6, 1823. His widow returned to Goshen and m. Aug. 25, 1825, Robert Palmer. Children: Caroline, b. June 25, 1817; Levi, b. March 10, 1819; m. Feb. 3, 1847, Eliza M. Pooler; Eunice, b. July 26, 1824.
Frederick, b. March, 1794; m. Feb. 12, 1828, Salome W. Bronson of Winchester; removed to Hudson, O. Children: Maria Louisa, d. a few weeks old; Caroline, b. Dec., 1842.
Miles, b. May 24, 1796; m. Nov. 23, 1819, Nancy, dau. Ashbel Buell; d. Oct. 10, 1828; she d. Jan., 1837. Children: William, m. - Draper of Hudson, O .; Susan.
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Harvey, b. Sept. 18, 1798; m. Oct. 6, 1817, Anna Maria, dau, of David Hudson, who was b. Oct. 28, 1800. She was the first white person born in Summit Co., O., if not in the Western Reserve. Children born Hudson: Anna Norton, b. Oct. 17, 1818; d. Dec. 13, 1825; Harriet Maria, b. Sept. 3, 1824; d. Jan. 20, 1842; Clarissa Miriam, b. Oct. 27, 1830; m. E. S. Gregory; Lucy Susanna, b. Oct. 8, 1843; d. about 17.
Norman C., b. July 29, 1802; m. Dec. 17, 1829, Mary H., dau. Robert Palmer; removed to Hudson, O. Children: Eliza, b. Hud- son, Nov. 9, 1830; Virginia, b. Cleveland, Dec. 23, 1832; m. Oct., 1853, John Newton, Jr .; Norman, b. Cleveland, Jan. 12, 1835; Charlotte G., b. Brooklyn, O., April 27, 1839; Henry, b. Brooklyn, Jan. 17, 1842; d. Aug. 12, 1843; Elizabeth, b. Brook- lyn, Nov. 3, 1844; Henry P., b. Brooklyn, Aug. 12, 1845; N- -, b. Cleveland, Jan. 7, 1848; Ellen D., b. Cleveland, May 26, 1853.
Caroline A., b. April 29, 1807; m. Feb. 12, 1828, George Kirkham of Hudson, O. Children: Susan, b. Hudson, Nov. 14, 1828; m. June 24, 1847, William A. Hall; Augustus, b. Ravenna, O., March 19, 1837.
IV. ELISHA BALDWIN (s. Stephen, Timothy, Samuel), b. Guilford, Jan. 20, 1760; m. Clarissa Judd of Litchfield; d. April 22, 1833; she d. Sept. 7, 1814; both buried in East St. cemetery.
Children, born Goshen.
Orro, b. Nov. 26, 1788; m. Sept. 6, 1809, Eber Bailey; d. July 19, 1869. Children: Clarissa, b. April 25, 1811; m. Horace Humphrey, s. Malachi; Elisha B., b. Oct. 10, 1813; Charlotte, b. Nov. 4, 1816; m. Sept. 8, 1841, Schuyler Bailey.
Rufus, b. 1790; m. Eliza Stevens, Norfolk.
Abraham, b. May 1, 1792; d. July 12, 1826. (See Ministers born in Goshen.)
Clarissa, b. 1794; d. Hartford, Oct. 24, 1847.
Horace, b. 1797; m. Penelope Allen, Sherburn, N. Y.
William, b. Dec. 12, 1799; m. (1) Louisa Booth of Guilford, N. Y .; (2) Catherine Humphrey of Guilford, who d. Nov. 20, 1858. He was a merchant in Guilford; d. Jan. 7, 1874.
Theron, b. July 21, 1801; m. June 20, 1831, Caroline Wilder; d. April 10, 1870. (See Ministers born in Goshen.) Children: Caro- line L., b. Jan. 17, 1834; m. Aug. 28, 1856, Charles Darrow of New Haven, Conn .; Theron, b. March 12, 1837; m. Sept. 27, 1862, Julia A. M. Thomson (Cooley); Children: Mabel Wil- der; Maud Russell, deceased; Ernest, deceased; Thomson; Emily C., b. March 12, 1839; m. June 20, 1861, Charles E. Fel- lowes of Hartford, Conn .; Children: Caroline Wilder; Ed- ward Colton. Mary P., b. May 25, 1841; Henry, b. Dec. 17, 1846.
Elisha, b. Sept. 12, 1803; m. Amanda, dau. Lyman Wetmore of Tor- rington, b. Jan. 25, 1808. Children: Elizabeth Wetmore, b. June 9, 1834; Elisha Abraham, b. Nov. 19, 1837.
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II. Deacon NATHANIEL BALDWIN (s. Samuel), b. Guilford, Nov. 29, 1693; m. April 8, 1718, Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Parmele of Guilford; d. Goshen, Oct. 13, 1760. She d. March 14, 1786. Both buried in East St. cemetery.
Children, born Guilford.
Nathaniel, b. April 4, 1720.
Elizabeth, b. Dec. 11, 1722; m. Ebenezer Norton, 1740. Samuel, b. March 18, 1725.
Sarah, b. Jan. 4, 1728; m. Nov. 6, 1746, Nathaniel Stanley. Children, b. Goshen: Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1747; d. in infancy; Samuel, b. and d. Sept. 3, 1748; Sarah, b. Aug. 14, 1749; m. April 9, 1767, David Lucas; Oliver, b. Jan. 15, 1754; d. young; Eliza- beth or Betsey, m. Ichabod Brownell; Jedidah, m. Horace Owles; John, b. Jan. 13, 1764; m. Partridge; removed to Poultney, Vermont.
Brewen, b. Sept. 25, 1730; d. Nov. 4, 1751.
Rachel, b. Sept., 1733; m. Dec. 6, 1753, Benjamin Ives.
Ami, b. Litchfield, 1735; m. March 30, 1756, William Stanley; d. Goshen, Nov. 15, 1807. He died Feb. 9, 1816. Both buried in East St. cemetery. Their children, b. Goshen: Infant,
b. Dec. 4, 1756; d. Jan. 2, 1757; Jesse, b. Dec. 23, 1757; m. Eunice Bailey. Ami, b. March 1, 1761; m. William Goodwin; Lucy, b. Jan. 3, 1764; m. Nathaniel Newell; Clorinda, b. Feb. 27, 1767; m. Col. Elihu Lewis; William, b. April 2, 1770; m. Lucy Norton.
Lucy, b. Goshen, 1741; m. Josiah Royce. Children: James, m. Olive Hinman; Lucretia, m. Ami Cady of Norfolk; Lucy, d. at 16; Solomon, unm., d. 1831; Daniel, b. June 8, 1782; m. Salome Taylor of Goshen.
III. NATHANIEL BALDWIN (s. Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Guil- ford, April 4, 1720; m. (1), March 23, 1752, Hannah, dau. of Benjamin Ives, Sen. She d. at Goshen April 9, 1762; (2) Nov. 30, 1763, Jedidah, dau. of Cornelius Bronson, Southbury. He d. March 25, 1805; she d. Aug. 8, 1808.
Children, born Goshen.
Ruth, b. Oct. 25, 1752. (See Miles Gen.)
Hannah, b. Nov. 19, 1755; d. Feb. 1, 1758.
Isaac, b. March 12, 1759; m. 1783, Lucy, dau. of Ebenezer Lewis, Sr .; d. March 7, 1830. She d. June 4, 1833, at the house of the Rev. James Beach, Winsted. Both buried in the Center cemetery, Goshen. Child: Hannah Clarissa, b. March 10, 1784; m. the Rev. James Beach.
Nathaniel, b. May 9, 1765; m. Susan, dau. of the Rev. Josiah Sher- man. Removed to E. Bloomfield, N. Y. Children: John; Sherman, had a wife and three children, resided in E. Bloom- field, N. Y., committed suicide; Martha; Susan; Zimri. Jedidah, b. May 9, 1765; d. May 8, 1767.
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III. SAMUEL BALDWIN (s. Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Guilford, March 19, 1725; m. (1) Nov. 28, 1744, Mercy Stanley (probably the dau. of Deacon Timothy); (2) Jan. 11, 1769, Susannah Adams. His first wife d. Jan. 6, 1768; his second wife d. Sept. 10, 1807. He d. Oct. 22, 1804.
Children, born Goshen.
Asahel, b. Oct. 5, 1745.
Timothy, b. Nov. 20, 1747; d. Jan. 20, 1748.
Martha, b. Jan. 22, 1749; m. Feb. 11, 1767, Jabez, s. Lieut. John Wright. Children: (See Wright Gen.)
Timothy, b. June 5, 1751; d. July 25, 1751.
Brewen, b. Jan. 17, 1752.
Samuel, b. May 25, 1755; m. Lucina, dau. Ambrose Hill.
Sybil, b. Nov. 30, 1757.
Mercy, b. July 19, 1760; m. Ambrose Collins. Children: Augustus; Anne, m. Ethan Walter; Calvin, m. Mary Ann Wright; Am- brose, m. Effie Heacock, Danbury; Cyprian, m. Jenette Sco- val; Samuel B .; Nervina, d. 1838; John Hyde, m. Eliza C. Washburn; George Lewis, d. Oct. 15, 1817; Laura; Clara Maria, m. Christopher P. Wheeler; Freelove, m. Amasa N. Chapin; d. March 4, 1821.
Huldah, b. July 1, 1763; m. Abraham Humphrey, removed to Orwell, Vt., thence to E. Bloomfield, N. Y. Children: Roxa, m. Fuller of Orwell; Rufus; Anne, m. - Martin; Pame- lia, m. Robert Lee, E. Bloomfield; Abraham; Betsey, m. - Martin (same as Anne); Sybil or Esther.
Luciu, b. Dec. 22, 1765; m. Jonathan Beach. Enos Stunley, b. Nov. 22, 1767.
By second wife.
Enos, m. Charlotte, dau. of Andrew Bailey.
IV. ASAHEL BALDWIN (s. Samuel, Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Oct. 5, 1745; m. Patience, dau. Cornelius Bronson, Southbury; d. Goshen Aug. 16, 1775; she d. Torrington; both buried East St. cemetery.
Their Children.
Jedidah, m. Thomas White of Torrington. Children: Hiram J., m. Henrietta Clark of Waterbury; Ann Eliza, m. William Parmelee; Eleanor.
Israel, d. aged 14.
Sybil, b. Nov. 16, 1772; m. Abijah Coe of Goshen.
IV. BREWEN BALDWIN (s. Samuel, Nathaniel, Samuel), b. Jan. 17, 1752; m. Aug. 13, 1772, Hannah, dau. Ebenezer Foot of Corn- wall; d. Sept. 6, 1833; she d. June 10, 1823.
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EARLY GOSHEN FAMILIES.
Their Children, born Goshen.
Marian, b, Nov. 29, 1773; m. Amos Tolles of Colebrook. Children: Hannah B., b. about 1793; m. Daniel Sage of Colebrook; Elisha, b. about 1794; m. Harriet Frisbie, New Canaan; Riley, d. single; Lucia, m. Amasa Mallory of New Hartford, d. 1835; Sylvia. Oct. 1801, m. William S. Boyd, Hartford; Mary Ann, m. Amasa Mallory (above).
Timothy, b. Oct. 16, 1775; m. Rhoda Enos; d. at Colebrook, Feb. 12, 1817. Children, born Sandisfield, Mass .: Alvan, m. Minerva Belden of Sandisfield; Cyrus, resided at the South, where he m .; Hiram, m. Mary Sears; Mary Ann, m. Seth Bailey; Eben, emigrated to the South; Asahel, resided in Illinois; George; Richard, m. Anne Hoyt, New York city; Harriet.
Asahel, b. Oct. 23. 1777: d. Dec. 7, 1777.
Nancy, b. Jan. 25, 1779; d. Goshen, March 12, 1849.
Jonathan, b. April 17, 1781; d. Sept. 4, 1793.
Sylvester, b. Dec. 14, 1783; m. Oct. 17, 1804, Candace, dau. Levi Ives, resided in Chenango, N. Y., where he d. April 26, 1854. She d. there. Children: Caroline, m. April 17, 1825, William MacDonald; Betsey: Sidney; Jane; Marian, m. Marcus Beardsley; Rachel; Juliett; Lucia; Samuel; Harriet.
Birdsey, b. Feb. 3, 1786; m. Dec. 7, 1814, Lucia, dau. Daniel Baldwin;
d. West Cornwall, April 27, 1858. Children: Laura Minerva, b. June 25. 1816; Lucia Abigail, b. Nov. 7, 1820; d. Oct. 22, 1822; Hannah Foot, b. Dec. 3, 1822; m. April 22, 1846, Ed- ward Barnum; Daniel Birdsey, b. Nov. 18, 1825; Eliza Abi- gail. b. Oct. 26, 1827; Abram Elisha, b. Nov. 18, 1830; Augus- tus Collins. b. Sept. 26, 1832.
Betsey, b. May 18, 1788; m. Nov., 1811, Allen Maltbie, Ohio.
Ami R., b. Feb. 3, 1791; m. Feb. 9, 1826, Sarah Sears of Sandisfield, Mass. Children, born Goshen: Laura Ann, b. June 12, 1827: Daniel Sears, b. Aug. 28, 1829; Albert, b. Aug. 20, 1832. Martha, b. May 9, 1793; m. March 16, 1826, Halsey Bigelow. Children: George; Mary; Robert.
Jonathan F., b. Sept. 12, 1795; m. Oct. 8, 1816, Laura, dau. Daniel M. Welton. Children: David Welton, b. Aug. 31, 1817; m. Adelaide Latimer; Catherine A., b. Feb. 5, 1819; m. Calvin D. Whitney; Luther Hart, b. Aug. 1, 1821; m. Eliza K. Wright; Daniel Miles, b. Oct. 28, 1823; d. Massilon, O., Jan. 15, 1849; Laura Welton, b. Feb. 22, 1829; m. Jan. 15, 1849, Julius E. Kilborn; d. Hudson, O., Aug., 1849; Eliza Norton, b. Jan. 1, 1826; m. Nov. 19, 1846, William S. M. Abbott; Del- phine M., b. May 22, 1837; m. Ralph W. Wilson.
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