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BENJAMIN, SALAH BARNARD, brother of Asa was b. Preston, Conn. m. Worth. 2-3-1793, Anna Bromley. Was soldier in Rev. War. Came to Mid. about 1790, purchasing lot 214 Worth. which he sold later to Matthew Smith. He was assigned to Pew 22 in Meetinghouse, 1792. He had moved away before 1800. (See Benjamin Gen., Bailey's Conn. Mar- riages ; Worthington Vital Records.)
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BISSELL
BISSELL, ISRAEL, (Jeremiah,3 John,2 John1) son of Jeremiah Bis- sell, of East Windsor, Conn., was a soldier in the Rev. War, dying of camp distemper in 1776. His widow, Hannah, m. as his third wife, John Crane of Becket. The wedding took place at the home of one of his sons, being held in the barn, ten grand-children being present peeping out from hay- mows and from behind corn shocks. After her husband's death she returned to Mid. where she died 5-30-1799, aged 73.
Children :
EUNICE, b. 1748; d. Mid. 10-6-1826. ANNA, b. 1750; d. 7-27-1807 ; m. Jno. Ely. (See Ely Fam.) ISRAEL, b. abt 1752; (See Fam. 1). PRUDENCE, b. E. Windsor, Conn. 11- 30-1757; d. Mid. 9-11-1847. m. John Damon. (See Damon Fam.)
JUSTUS, b. 2-16-1759; (See Fam. 2) ROXANA, b. abt. 1762; d. Mid. 7-15- 1818. ROBERT, b. 1770. (Sec Fam. 3)
FAM. 1. ISRAEL BISSELL, son of Israel4 and Hannah Bissell, was b. about 1752; d. Hinsdale, 10-24-1823; m. (int) 8-30- 1784, Lucy Handcock of Longmeadow. In 1782 he owned 260 acres of land in Murrayfield, east of the Center. He appears to have come to Middlefield about 1783, and is first mentioned in the town records in the following year. His farm was located on Lot 222, Worthington, being still known as the "Bissell Lot" which for many years was a part of the Matthew Smith farm. The cellar hole and well near the stone wall on the west side of the lot mark the site of the house. Bissell was assigned to Pew 16 in the meetinghouse in 1792. Between 1810 and 1820 he moved to Hinsdale. He was a soldier in the Rev, War, and was probably the Israel Bissell who distinguished himself by carrying the news of the Battle of Lexington, by horseback, from Boston to Philadelphia, in four days, a distance of 350 miles.
Children :
LUCY, b. Mid. 1-6-1786 ; d. Hinsdale, 3-15-1832.
ORPHA, b. Mid. 1-21-1788.
ISRAEL, b. Mid. 9-5-1789. ENos. Lived with Robert Bissell in Aurora, Ohio. d. Solon, Ohio, unm.
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FAM. 2. JUSTUS BISSELL, son of Israel+ and Hannah Bissell, was b. 2-16-1759; d. 9-16-1832 at Aurora, Ohio, m. 12-20- 1779, Ann, dau. Ebenezer and Ann (Barber) Blodgett, who was b. 3-2-1760; d. 1-24-1839. He came to Mid. from East. Windsor, Conn. about 1782. His first farm was 36 acres in the south end of lot 215 (south), Worthington. His house stood in what is now the "barn lot" of the Matthew Smith farm. Smith bought this lot and Bissell moved to the Becket section, his house being located on the old highway to Becket, opposite the barway into "Taylor's Pasture," where the West Hill road branches off running north to the Savery place. Bissell was a carpenter and framed the barn on the Solomon Ingham place, now the barn at the Dyer place. He served on the School Committee in 1796. In 1808 he moved to Aurora, Ohio, and later to Bainbridge. He was a soldier in Rev. War. (See Twinsburg History and Gen., p. 224.)
Children :
ANN, b. E. Windsor, 11-18-1780; d. Mid. 3-1-1829; m. 12-7-1803, Dan- iel Leach. (See Leach family) JUSTUS, b. Mid. 8-12-1782; m. 1st. S-15-1803, Nancy Hatch; m. 2nd. Mercy Collins.
EBENEZER BLODGETT, b. Mid. 7-20- 1784; d. 4-24-1864; m. 1st. Mary Root. m. 2nd. Lucinda Hart; m. 3rd. Fanny Parmelee. Went to Aurora in 1808; to Twinsburg in 1855.
ORRIS, b. 5-28-1787; m. 9-3-1809, Milicent Church.
JONATHAN BARBER, b. Mid. 5-11- 1790; m. Mabel Riley.
ROXANA, b. 3-4-1793; m. Mr Parish. EUNICE, b. 10-22-1796; m. Tyler Smith.
CEPHAS, b. 6-25-1800; d. 5-19-1867 ; m. 2-23-1829, Isabel Crawford. Went to Aurora, 1808, to Twins- burg in 1833 (See Perrin's His- tory of Summit Co. O. p. 1041) ISRAEL, d. in infancy. PHILENA, m. Aaron Baldwin. ELVIRA, m. Rev. Mr. Bascom.
FAM. 3. ROBERT BISSELL, son of Israel+ and Hannah Bissell, was b. 1770, d. Aurora, Ohio, 1-20-1833. He came to Mid. with Justus Bissell and lived with him until his marriage, in March, 1796, to Thankful, dau. of Edward and Margaret (Dyer) Cheeseman, of Braintree. (See Cheeseman Fam.) Bissell acquired lots 51, 58 and 60, 5th Div. Becket. His house was probably the original one on the old Gamwell and Wheeler place east of Mr. Willis Graves' farm. He moved to Aurora, Ohio, 1806.
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Children b. Mid. :
SAMUEL, b. 4-28-1797 ; d. Twinsburg, 3-26-1895; m. 1st, abt. 1824, Fanny P. Gaylord; m. 2nd, Cyn- thia Sykes. (See Twinsburg Hist. and Gen. p. 224). Was grad- uated from Yale, 1823, Yale Sem. 1825; pastor Twinsburg, O. 1828- 1843 except 11/2 years when teach- ing and preaching at Edinburg; founder and principal of Twins- burg Institute. In Twinsburg's first century he was her most dis- tinguished and useful citizen. (See (See Stiles-Ancient Windsor)
Hist. of Cong. Ch. and Hist. of Inst., also Perrin's Hist. of Sum- mit Co., O. p. 1040).
LAURA, b. 5-2-1798; d. 1881 or 1882; unm.
ROSWELL, b. 10-7-1799; d.3-8-1851; Children : Orrin, Calvin, Harriet and Samuel.
DAVID, b. 7-4-1802; d. 3-23-1879; m. abt. 1826, Amanda C. Loveland. Was a farmer.
BIANCA, b. 4-6-1804; m. Ogden Spencer.
BLOSSOM
BLOSSOM, ENOS, (Thomas," John,4 Thomas,3 Peter,2 Thomas1- See Barnstable Families-Swift) son of Thomas" and Thank- ful (Paddock) Blossom, was b. Scituate, 8-18-1750; he was probably the Enos Blossom who m. June, 1772, Mary Ellis of Hebron, Conn. He moved to the North East Corner of Becket shortly before 1780. In 1781 he was chosen con- stable for Becket. In 1784 the town of Mid. held town meetings at the house of Enos Blossom, Innholder, which establishes the fact that he kept tavern. His house was the one where Arthur D. Pease now lives. Religious meet- ings were held there in 1785. His farm included parts of Lots 7, 10, and 11, III Div. Becket and part of Lot 40, II Div. Chester. He sold out to Ebenezer Selden and moved to Pittsfield about 1786.
THOMAS BLOSSOM, brother of Enos, was b. 3-11-1753; d. Mid. 11-25-1804; m. 11-7-1776, Mercy, dau. Captain Nathaniel and Phebe (Lincoln) Sears; b. Yarmouth, 5-14-1756; d. Mid. 4-7-1813. He was living in the northeast corner of Becket early enough to sign the petition for incorporation, 1781. His first land was Lot 6, III Div. Becket, but by 1787 he had acquired a small part of lot 220 Worthington, and a few years later he had the southern part of lot 221. His house stood south of the highway near the fork in the road
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east of the Center still known as "Blossom Corner." He was first pound-keeper, and served on the school committee. The house was bought by Oliver Blush who rented it to Nelson Spencer for $10 a year. It was later owned by Sardis Putnam, a shoemaker, who moved it to the Center, where it still stands, nearly opposite the Town Hall.
Children :
THOMAS, b. 9-11-1777; d. Mid. 9-18- 1836.
MERCY, b. 12-20-1780; m. 3-8-1814, Anson Rockwell, of Worthington. EZRA, b. Mid. 9-5-1783; m. Abigail Shepard, 7-13-1808. (See Mack Gen. p. 1356)
ROLAND, b. Mid. 3-17-1787; d. Mid. 4-16-1840.
RUFUS, b. 6-6-1789.
WILLIAM, b. Mid. 4-9-1792.
ORRIN, b. Mid. 4-8-1797; m. 8-20- 1818, Laura, dau. Parker and Dorcas, ( Meacham ) Fellows. Moved to Canandaigua, N. Y. and Chester, Geauga County, Ohio. He d. Willoughby, O. 1845. His wife d. 2-7-1846. They had a son, Henry C. a successful merchant in Cleveland, and a daughter, Laura, who m. Gen. Erastus N. Bates, a wholesale grocer of Chicago.
BLUSH (BLISH)
BLUSH (BLISH), BENJAMIN, (Benjamin,4 Tristam,3 Joseph,2 Abraham1), son of Benjamin4 and Mary (Adams) Blish, was b. Colchester, Conn. 2-11-1753; d. Mentor, Ohio, 3-11- 1825; m. 1774. Phebe, dau. of Abram and Phebe (Strong) Skinner, of Glastonbury, Conn. who was b. 1753; d. 10-5- 1844. Mr. Blish and his wife are both buried in the Blish Cemetery in West Painesville, Ohio.
Benjamin Blish, after serving in the Rev. War for four years, moved to the region of Middlefield, settling first on Lot 19, III Div. Becket, located on the windswept summit of Johnnycake Hill. Not finding this a fertile farm he moved to the upper end of Ridgepole Road, Lots 214 and 198 Worthington. At the first town meeting in Mid. he was chosen fence viewer. In September, 1783, he was ap- pointed on a committee to find the proper place for the meetinghouse. In April, 1784, he and his uncle, Joseph Blush, were appointed on the school committee which founded the first public school established by the town. Benjamin Blish left Mid. for Ohio, in February, 1804, with his brother-in-law, Captain Abraham Skinner. They
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traveled on the snow to Buffalo, and on the ice of the lake the latter part of the way. Blish bought land and made some preparations for moving his family, returning in the fall to Mid. He moved 6-10-1805, leaving his oldest daugh- ter, the wife of Orris Clapp, his family consisting of him- self and his wife, six daughters, and two sons aged 21 and 12. They had great suffering and privations, illness from ague, and encountered bad roads and little food. One time Blish had to cut down a tree that the horses might get food off the foliage. They reached Erie July 16, and Painsville, Ohio, July 30. They lived with Esq. Merry until their house was finished in Dec. 1805, on land yet known as the Blish Farm in Mentor. There for twenty years lived Ben- jamin Blish, rejoicing, even amid the privations incident to a new settlement, that he had placed his children in a more desirable location than the Green Mountains of Massachu- setts, where his entire life had been one of severe labor and close economy, with no better outlook for them.
Children :
PHEBE, b. 1775; m. 12-29-1791, Or- ris Clapp. (See Clapp Fam.) man Kent; m. 2nd. Luther Dille. ZENAS, b. 10-20-1793.
HANNAH, b. 1779; d. 1813; m. Benjamin Hopkins.
BENJAMIN, b. Mid. 6-9-1784.
MILICENT, bap. 9-22-1793; m. Ebenezer Nye.
SOPHIA, bap. 9-22-1793. m. Grant Perkins.
CLARISSA, bap. 9-22-1793; m. 1st Lu-
PHILENA, bap. 5-29-1796; m. Isaac Moore.
NANCY, bap. 9-14-1801; m. Lester Perkins.
BLUSH (BLISH), JOSEPH, (Tristam,3 Joseph,2 Abraham1) son of Tristam and Anne (Fuller) Blush was b. 12-1-1729, Col- chester, Conn .; d. Mid. 5-8-1788; m. 3-22-1753, Elizabeth, dau. Daniel and Elizabeth (Hitchcock) Skinner, b. 3-22-1733, Colchester; d. Mid. 7-3-1822 and was buried in old Mack Cemetery. She m. 2nd. 11-26-1792, Joseph Russ. (See Russ Family.) Joseph Blush was town collector in Bolton, Conn., 1771. He moved to Mid. about 1780 and was the first settler to build a house at the Center. The dwelling he erected in 1783, which served as a tavern for many years. is still standing. Town meeting was held here in 1785, the meetinghouse not having been built at that date. He was
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chosen warden in 1784. He and his wife were charter mem- bers of Cong. Ch. 1783. Joseph's sister, Mary, m. Joseph Skinner. (See Skinner Fam.)
Children :
LYDIA, b. 3-21-1754; m. Bolton pointed sexton
at Mid. 1783. 8-12-1772, Elihu Jones. Lived later at Burlington, Vt.
ELIZABETH, b. 1756; d. Mid. 5-8- 1838; m. Barzillai Little. (See Little Family)
JOSEPH, b. 1-24-1762; m. (int) 8-9- 1784, Sevila Taylor. He was a soldier in Rev. War. Was ap-
OLIVER, b. 3-28-1764; (See Fam. 1) AMASA, b. 7-29-1766; (See Fam. 2) LUCY, b. 1771, d. 12-12-1815; m. (int) 9-21-1790, John Smith. (See Smith Family)
FAM. 1. OLIVER BLUSH, son of Joseph+ and Elizabeth (Skinner) Blush, was b. 3-28-1764; d. Mid. 7-18-1846; buried in Mack Cem. m. Chester, 6-1-1786, Sarah, dau. Elisha and Mary (Ellis) Mack, b. 7-6-1767; d. 7-10-1818. He m. 2nd. 12-20-1820, Mary, dau. Zechariah and Priscilla (Crampton) Field. Oliver Blush was for many years the keeper of the tavern at Mid. Center, and his house was a favorite stopping place for travelers. Blush was a jovial man, a good story teller and a popular landlord.
FAM. 2. AMASA BLUSH, son of Joseph+ and Elizabeth (Skinner) Blush, was b. 7-29-1766; d. Mid. 11-18-1835; m. 2-3-1802, Nancy, dau. Thomas and Elizabeth (Clark) Durant, b. abt. 1778; d. 10-15-1841. Amasa Blush was one of the founders of the manufacturing industries at Factory Village. About 1800 he bought the fulling mill which Moses Herrick had built, and operated it many years. He built a sawmill on the west side of Factory Brook about 1805, and also a new clothing mill for finishing custom work. In 1815 he erected a new factory, which stood just north of the "leaning elm tree," a structure 36 by 80 feet and three stories high. The manufacture of satinet and similar products from coarse wool was carried on in this plant in which his sons, William D. and Oliver, succeeded him about 1830. Children :
AMASA, b. 1-16-1803; d. 1-24-1828 NANCY ADELINE, b. 9-22-1811.
OLIVER, b. 9-18-1806. (See Fam. 3) WILLIAM DURANT, b. 2-3-1809; (See Fam. 6)
JULIA ANN, b. 6-9-1814; m. 6-10- 1834, Ira B. Sampson.
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FAM. 3. OLIVER BLUSH, son of Amasa" and Nancy (Durant) Blush was b. Mid. 9-18-1806; d. Chester 2-10-1877 ; m. Har- riet, dau. Capt. Joseph and Lovisa (Pease) Smith, b. 4-29-1805; d. Chester 5-2-1882. With his younger brother William he carried on the manufacture of satinet and doing custom work in cloth made of coarse wool, established by their father, Amasa Blush. After the withdrawal of Wil- liam Blush from the firm he ran the business alone for some years and after giving up the woolen business he had a grist mill in the old factory building built by his father. At one time he kept a small store in a small building across the road from his house. This building as well as the factory was totally demolished by the flood of 1874, and never re- built. He showed his interest in public institutions by pre- senting a large ornamental chandelier to the Congregational Church when it was repaired and decorated.
Children :
JEROME PITKIN, b. 6-19-1825; (Sec ELLEN ALICE, b. 1844; m. Harrison Fam. 4)
NANCY L., b. 1-1-1831; m. Andrew Crow. d. Mid.
ADELINE, b. 2-5-1834; died young. MARTHIA MARIE, b. 8-22-1835, m. Alexander Whipple, carpenter, 11- 17-1852; d. Allston.
AMASA, b. 1839, m. Jerusha Hurl- burt, in 1852, d. at Mid. 5-31-1893. LOUISE ADELAIDE, b. 10-18-1841; m. Dwight Sherman, farmer, 3-8-1859, d. Springfield.
F. Smith, son of Samuel and Huldah Smith, painter, 2-21-1864. Lives in Springfield, (1920). MARY ELIZA, b. 3-6-1846; m. Fran- cis W. Taylor, 10-10-1867 (Sec Taylor Family.)
IDA CAROLYN, b. 6-26-1850; m. Trueman Stevens of Norwalk, Conn. 11-22-1871. d. Westfield.
FAM. 4. JEROME PITKIN BLUSH, son of Oliver6 and Harriet (Smith) Blush, b. Mid. 6-19-1825. Carried on manufactur- ing of woolen goods with his father, and was also a farmer. At one time he manufactured thread. After the flood of 1874 he moved to Chester, where he died. He m. Angeline, dau. of Alanson Lathrop. She d. Springfield 1-14-1898. Children :
JULIA ANN, b. 9-6-1851 at Mid. She m. 9-19-1871, Orville W. Cross, son of William S. and Susan F. Cross.
CHARLES JEROME, b. 8-3-1854. (See Fam. 5). ELLA, married and lives in Westfield. INA, d. young.
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OLIVER BLUSH, 2ND. HOUSE OF OLIVER BLUSH, 2ND. 1874
WM. DURANT BLUSH HOUSE OF WM. D. BLUSH - 1874
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FAM. 5. CHARLES JEROME BLUSH, son of Jerome7 and Angeline (Lathrop) Blush, b. in Mid. 8-3-1854. m. at Mid. 1-20-1883, Kate Dwyer Morrison, dau. of John and Eliza Morrison. d. Mid.
Children :
ARTHUR ROY, b. 12-4-1883, at Mid. JULIA ETTA, b. 4-27-1887. MARY OPHELIA, b. 1-26-1885. LENA ELIZABETH, b. 4-18-1891.
FAM. 6. WILLIAM DURANT BLUSH, son of Amasa" and Nancy (Durant) Blush was b. Mid. 2-3-1809. d. Mid. 3-19-1879. m. 1st. 6-13-1833, Eliza Ann Sennett of Blandford, b. 1810; d. 8-1-1844. m. 2nd. Lucy S. Johnson of Chester, b. 1825; d. 5-19-1847. m. 3rd. Harriet Stone of Chester, b. 1827 ; d. 6-26-1855. m. 4th. Mary W. dau. Rufus Prentice of Worthington, b. Aug., 1831; d. 4-3-1894.
After learning the woolen manufacturing business in his father's factory, and sharing the partnership with his brother, Oliver, for some years after his father's death, Wil- liam D. Blush withdrew from the firm of O. Blush & Co. and by 1840 had built a three story woolen factory near the site now occupied by the sawmill of Fred Boyer, where he car- ried on business under the firm name of William Blush & Co. About 1850 he rented his plant to Boise, Smith & Root who manufactured satinet until the factory was destroyed by fire in 1851. Mr. Blush never rebuilt his woolen factory but replaced it by a turning shop where he manufactured shafts, felloes and wooden wagon parts with considerable success until the plant was so seriously damaged by the flood of 1874 that the business was discontinued. After this Mr. Blush retired to his excellent farm where he devoted himself to the raising of fine stock. A certain Alderney bull he once owned was a splendid specimen equalled by few. Mr. Blush was a connoisseur of fine horses and the teams he drove were matters of pride to himself and to his neighbors. He was in- terested in all progressive work in the town. He was active in politics but declined to hold office. He was noted for his kindliness to the common people and for his innate hos- pitality. He was a member of the Congregational Church and a liberal contributor. Members of his family were prom- inent in the choir and other branches of church work.
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Children :
ELIZA ADELINE, b. 5-22-1834; d. 6-3- 1838.
MARY ELIZABETH, b. 2-1-1836; d. 5-20-1838.
WILLIAM CLARK, b. S-15-1838.
LUCY, b. 12-1-1843; d. 12-11-1843.
GEORGE, b. 12-22-1851; d. 2-22-1855. ARTHUR, b. 12-5-1853. Was a mer- chant in Munson.
HARRIET S., b. 6-25-1855; m. 11-25- 1875, George K. Brown of Wind- sor.
EMMA, b. 4-24-1857; (Sec Fam. 7)
EDWARD DURANT, b. 12-8-1860; m. 1st. 10-1-1884, Belle S. dau. of Wm. H. and Susan Harper. Hc m. 2nd. 9-22-1892, Elizabeth T. Newcomb. He lived for many years on his father's farm in Blush Hollow. Child: Ethel May, b. 11-30-1895.
AGNES ULIN, b. 9-26-1862 ; m. 11-10- 1885, Frank W. Pomeroy, a mer- chant. They live in Evanston, Ill. MARTHA SAMPSON, b. 3-28-1866; (Sec Fam. 8)
FAM. 7. EMMA BLUSH, dau. William D. and Mary W. (Pren- tice) Blush, was b. Mid. 4-24-1857; m. 10-25-1877, Fred B. Hathaway, a farmer. They moved to Suffield, Conn. Children :
AGNES BLUSH, m. Arthur Senter.
MARGARET ELIZABETHI, m. Lloyd
Zoschke.
FAM. 8. MARTHA SAMPSON BLUSH, dau. William D. and Mary W. Prentice) Blush was b. Mid. 3-28-1866; m. Rev. Henry P. Klyver of Syracuse, N. Y., 6-1-1892.
Children :
FAYE HUNTINGTON. MARY BLUSH (Deceased)
RUSSELL HENRY. He was killed in FRANCES JOYCE.
the World War at Toul, France. RACHIEL ELLEN.
EULIN POMEROY.
BOLTON
BOLTON, DAVID. This man was one of the roving pioneers who stay but a short time in any one place sometimes making a clearing where he has squatted upon unoccupied territory. or perhaps buying lots in tracts newly opened to settlement and living there until he has disposed of them to permanent settlers, and then moving elsewhere. Bolton belonged prob- ably to one of the Scotch-Irish families of that name and is said, by Copeland, to have come to Murrayfield from Bland- ford. A David Bolton's name appears on a petition of in- habitants living west of Sheffield and Stockbridge in 1759
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asking for grants of land and military protection from the Indians. Being apparently dissatisfied with the quantity or quality of land received, he departed and appeared as a squatter in Murrayfield where in 1762 he was permitted to draw lots with other settlers. He was a voter in 1770 and a taxpayer in 1773. He served as a soldier in the Revolution.
In 1777 Bolton launched out into speculation in land, buy- ing of Joseph Church several lots in Prescott's Grant. He built a home and settled on Lot 11 I Div. E. in Prescott's Grant, about a quarter of a mile west of the Center near where Taylor's barn used to stand. Bolton apparently tried to give a nanie to the region for in 1779 he gave his residence as "Shady Grove, Berkshire." He signed the petition for incorporation in 1781 and was a charter member of the Cong. Church 1783. Selling out to Erastus Ingham in 1784 he left town and may have been the Bolton who was living in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., in 1790.
BOOTH
BOOTH, SIMEON, (Caleb,+ William,3 Simeon,2 Robert1) son of Caleb+ Booth b. in Windsor, Conn. Simeon Booth sold two parcels of land in East Windsor, Conn., 1730. He came to Mid. abt. 1789. Lived first near farm of Mr. Sweeney, later near Cranberry Lodge, perhaps at the old Bissell Phelps place. In 1795 Elon Booth deeded to his father Simeon, the improvements on Lot 215 north, near the upper end of Ridgepole Road where stands the "Booth barn" so called. Cen. 1800.
Children :
ELIZABETH, b. 9-13-1752. ELAM, b. 9-11-1769. Probably same JEMIMA, b. 4-22-1756. as Elon, who m. Abigail Bangs in
SAMUEL, b. 6-4-1761. Montague, Mass. 4-14-1797. Two SIMEON, b. 9-30-1763. children died young. Pw. 1-1792. ASHBELL, b. - 1766.
BOOTH, SAMUEL, of Windsor, Conn., was warned to leave Mid. 6-20-1791. Pw. 1 1792.
BOOTH, EPHRAIM, of East Windsor bought land there in 1772 and sold it in 1794. He bought Lots No. 8 I and II Divs. W. P. G. 1794 of Abel West. Sold same to Phineas Per-
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kins 1799. and purchased land of him in Southwick at the same time.
BROWN
BROWN, ASA, of Hebron, Conn. m. Elizabeth Dunham May 1774.
As early as 1778 he purchased Lots 4 and 13 HII Div. Becket. His house stood on Lot 4 where there is a cellar hole west of the road to Harry Pease's arm, a short distance south of the dwelling until recently occupied by Frank Johnson. He signed Pet. Inc. 1781 Cong. Ch. 1783. Sold out to Elijah King. One Asa Brown was living in Worthington, Mass., in 1790.
Children b. Mid.
ANNA, b. 1-8-1780. JERUSHIA, b. 1-26-1782.
ABILGAIL, b. 4-14-1784.
BROWN, JOSEPH. His name does not appear upon the census lists for Middlefield. In 1803 he bought of Charles Gilbert some 64 acres of land located in the south side of Lot No. 135 Worthington. The Brown farm and house were located in what is now wild land just north of the Den region, and is south or southeast of where the Gilbert house used to stand. An old road runs north into that region and remains of these places may be found. This road was laid out in 1804.
Joseph Brown d. 6-6-1813 ae. 80.
Abigail Brown, wid. d. 1-20-1816 ae. 84. Olive dau. Samuel Brown d. 4-7-1810 in 22nd year.
BROWN, JESSE. He was in the S.E. School District 1803. Mahala, ch. Jesse and Abigail, b. 9-5-1804.
Augustus, ch. Jesse and Abigail, b. 2-4-1806.
BULL
BULL, SETH, of Montgomery, Mass., purchased of David Carrier part of Lot 21 III Div. B. Tradition says his house stood where is a cellar hole some distance south of The Berkshire House. His name was on Oliver Blush's ledger accounts 1798-1804. M. T. 1799. Seth Bull m. Sally Selden 5-31- 1798. He was in Montgomery 1796-1800. One deed of land
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in that town in 1800 gives Mid. as his residence. He was living in Peru.according to the census of 1800.
BURGESS
BURGESS, JOHN. Was in Mid. 1797 when a child of his died. M.T. 1799.
BUSH
BUSH, EDWARD, of Westfield purchased Lot 41, II Div. Mur. near Collins Hill. Cen. 1800.
BUSH, SILAS. Living on West Hill north of Benj. Eggleston Cen. 1800. M.T. 1799. May have been the Silas Bush b. Westfield 3-1-1748. s. Zechariah and Mary Bush.
BUTLER
BUTLER, JOSEPH. Cen. 1790.
CAMPBELL
CAMPBELL, ROBERT, of Chester m. (int. 12-12-1785 Asenath dau. Malachi and Priscilla (Norcott) Loveland of Mid. Pw. 21-1794. He bought of William Graham the grist and saw- mill built by John Ford on Factory Brook and ran it after 1795. He moved to Pike, N. Y., and was living there in 1820.
CARRIER
CARRIER, DAVID. Possibly from Colchester, Conn. First men- tioned in Mid. Town Records 1784. Cen. 1790. His children David, Dolly, Elias, Joseph, Polly, and Rebecca were bap. in 1793-4. Joined Cong. Ch. 1793. He must have been a fairly prominent citizen for he was one of the committee which wrestled unsuccessfuly with the problem of assigning seats in the meetinghouse in 1791-2. Pw. 11, 1792-4. Sch. Com. 1795. He lived where there is a cellar hole west of the highway to the Alderman farm, a quarter of a mile south of the road to The Berkshire. As a collector of taxes Carrier took the oath of allegiance after Shays's Rebellion in 1788. He moved away before 1799.
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HISTORY OF MIDDLEFIELD
CARTER
CARTER, JOHN, heads one list of names on Pet. Inc. 1781. He was probably a non-resident owner of certain lands included in the incorporation of the new town.
CARY
CARY, DEA. JOSEPH, (Jabez,3 Joseph,2 John1), son of Jabez" and Hannah (Hendee) Cary, was b. Windham, Conn. 9-28-1723; d. Williamsburg, Mass., 5-30-1803. m. 7-1-1747 Phebe, dau. Ebenezer and Hannah (Huntley) Mack of Lyme, Conn., who was b. 1-20-1729; d. Williamsburg 11-22-1822. Dea. Cary and his wife were among the 21 members who formed the Cong. Ch. at Williamsburg 7-3-1771.
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