Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume I, Part 1

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 664

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GENEALOGICAL

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FAMILY HISTORY OF

CENTRAL NEW YORK

A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE IN THE MAKING OF A COMMONWEALTH AND THE BUILD'MG OF A NATION

COMPILED UNDER THE EDTS RAL SUPERVISION OF

WILLIAM RICHARD CUTTER, A. M.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY AND HISTORIAN OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: LIBRARIAN EMERITUS OF WOMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY: AUTOR OF ' CUTTER FAMILY." "HISTORY OF ARLINGTON " ETC., ETC.

VOLUME I

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912

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INTRODUCTORY

THE present work, "Genealogical and Family History of Central New York," pre- sents in the aggregate an amount and variety of genealogical and personal infor- mation and portraiture unequalled by any kindred publication. Indeed, no similar work concerning the families of this region has ever before been presented. It contains a vast amount of ancestral history never before printed. The object clearly defined and well digested, was threefold :

First. To present in concise form the history of Central New York Families of the Colonial Days.

Second. To preserve a record of the prominent present-day people of the region

" Third. To present through personal sketches the relation of its prominent families of all times to the growth, singular prosperity and widespread influence of this portion of the Empire State.

There are numerous voluminous histories of the State, making it unnecessary in this work to even outline its annals. What has been publi-ned, however. relates principally to civic life. The amplification necessary to complete the picture of the section, old and nowadays, is what is supplied in large measure by these Genealogical and Family Memoirs. in other words, while others have written of "the times" the province of this work is to be a chronicle of the people who have made Central New York what it :-.

L'nique in conception and treatment, this work constitutes one of the most original and permanently valuable contributions ever made to the social history of an American com- monwealth. In it are arrayed in a lucid and dignified manner all the important fact. regarding the ancestry, personal careers and matrimonial alliances of many, who in each succeeding generation, have been accorded leaching positions in the social, professional and business life of the State. Ner has it been based uper. nother does it minister to, aristo- cratic preju:lices and assumptions. On the contrary. its fundamental ideas are thoroughly American and democratic. The work everywhere conveys the lesson that distinction lias been gained only by honorable public service, or by usefulness in private station, and that the development and prosperity of the region of which it treats has been dependent upon the character of it- citizens, and in the stimulus which they have given to commerce, to industry. to the arts and sciences, to edu- cation and religion-to all that is comprised in the highest civilization of the present day-through a con- tinual progressive development

The inspiration underlying the present work is a forvent appreciation of the truth so well expressed by Sir Walter Scott. that "there is no heroic poem in the world but is at the bottom the life of a man." And with this goes a kindred truth, that to know a man, and

JAMES PI MPELLY. Early Surveyor of Tioga (va)1) Pioneer Pettier at owegy.

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rightly measure his character, and weigh his achievements, we must know whence he came, from what forbears he sprang. Truly as heroic poems have been written in human lives in the paths of peace as in the scarred roads of war. Such examples, in whatever line of endeavor, are of much worth as an incentive to those who come afterward, and as such were never so needful to be written of as in the present day, when pessi- mism, forgetful of the splendid lessons of the past, withholds its effort in the present, and views the future only with alarm.

Every community with such ample history as this, should see that it be worthily supplemented by Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of its leading families and prominent citizens. Such a work is that which is now presented. And, it should be admitted. the undertaking possesses REBECCA HENDY First White Woman In Elmira. value of the highest importance -- in its historic utility as a memorial of the development and progress of the community from its very founding, and in the personal interest which attaches to the record made by the individual. On both these accounts it will prove a highly useful contribution to literature, and a valuable legacy to future generations. Out of these considerations the authors and publishers have received the encouragement and approval of authorities of the highest standing as genealogists, historians and litterateurs. In the pro- duction of this work, no pains have been spared to ensure absolute truth-that quality upon which its value in every feature depends. The material comprising the genealogical and per- sonal records of the active living, as well as of the honored dead, was gathered by men and women experienced in such work and acquainted with local history and ancestral families. These have appealed to the custodians of family records concerning the useful men of pre- ceding generations, and of their descendants who have lived useful and honorable lives. Such custodians, who have availed themselves of this opportunity of having this knowledge placed in preservable and accessible form, have performed a public service in rendering honor to whom honor is due, in preserving the distinction which rightfully belongs to their families, and which distinguishes them from later immigrations ; as well as in inculcating the most valuable and enduring lessons of patriotism and good citizenship.

There is probably no section of the United States in which are so well preserved the ideas and characteristics of the original New England immigrants as in Central New York. At the time when most of the pioneer settlers located in this region, the war for American Independence had just closed, and many of them were fresh from the struggle, imbued with the highest principles of patriotismn, and all brought to their new homes and instilled in their children the practice of the simple virtues, the industry and enterprise which have made the sons of the Empire State pre-eminent in every walk of life throughout the Nation. Another important element in the settlement of this section was made up of the early Dutch settlers who came to New Amsterdam (New York) before the aloption of surnames among them.

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Than this region no other offered a more peculiarly interesting field for research. Its sons -"native here, and to the manner born," and of splendid ancestry-have attained distinction in every field of human effort. An additional interest attaches to the present undertaking in the fact that, while dealing primarily with the history of native New York, this work approaches the dignity of a national epitome of genealogy and biography. Owing to the wide dispersion throughout the country of the old families of the State, the authentic account here presented of the constituent elements of her social life, past and present, is of far more than merely local value. In its special field it is, in an appreciable degree. a reflection of the development of the country at large, since hence went out representa- tives of historical families, in various generations, who in far remote places-beyond the Mississippi and in the Far West-were with the vanguard of civilization, building up com- munities, creating new commonwealths, planting, wherever they went, the church, the school house and the printing press, leading into channels of thrift and enterprise all who gath- ered about them, and proving a power for ideal citizenship and good government.

It was the consensus of opinion of gentlemen well informed and loyal to the memories of the past and the needs of the present and future, that the editorial supervision of William Richard Cutter. A. M., would ensure the best results attainable in the prepa- ration of material for the proposed work. For more than a generation past he has given his leisure to historical and genealogical research and authorship. He was the author. with his father, of "History of Arlington, Massachusetts," 1880; and edited Lieutenant Samuel Thompson's "Diary While Serving in the French and Indian War. 1758." 1896. He also prepared a monograph entitled "Journal of a Forton Prisoner, England ;" sketches of Arlington and Woburn, Massachusetts, and many articles on subjects connected with local historical and genealogical matters in periodical literature. He prepared a "Bibli-

OLD FORT AT OSWEGO.

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CORTLAND IN 1846.

BINGHAMTON 100 YEARS AGO.

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ography of Woburn," and he has been editor of various historical works out- side of his own city.

Others to whom the publishers desire to make grateful acknowledgment of services rendered in various ways-as writers, or in an advisory way in point- ing to channels of valuable information, are: Edward Kissam Clark an antiqua- rian authority, of Binghamton; Edwin Jerome Brown, A. B., president of the Madison County Historical Society, of Oneida; Mr. Alonzo D. Blodgett, of Cortland: George Abraham Thomas, A. M., LL. D., antiquarian, of Norwich ; Mr. Roswell Randall Moss, an authority on local history ; and Mr. Leroy Wilson Kingman, author of "History of Tioga County," and for forty years editor of The Owego Gazette.

In order to insure greatest possible accuracy, all matter for this work was submitted in typewritten manuscript to the persons most interested for correc- tion. If, in any case, a sketch is incom- GERRIT SMITH. plete or faulty, the shortcoming is ascrib- able to the paucity of data obtainable. many families being without exact records in their family line ; while, in some cases, repre- sentatives of a given family are at a disagreement as to names of some of their forbears. important dates, etc.

It is believed that the present work, in spite of the occasional fault which attaches to such undertakings, will prove a real addition to the mass of annals concerning the his- toric families of Central New York, and that without it, much valuable information would be inaccessible to the general reader, or irretrievably lost, owing to the passing away of custodians of family records, and the consequent disappearance of material in their pos- session.

THE PUBLISHERS.

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NORWICH IN 1939.

HIGH SCHOOL, NORWICH

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Dr. William Nichols, immi- NICHOLS grant ancestor, was a Scotch- man by birth, who went to England to obtain his medical education, and then came to this country. He was born in 1689, died January 13, 1754. He settled in Berkley, Bristol county, Massachusetts, where he built a house and practiced his profession. He is buried in the Paull burying-ground, in Berkley. He married Joanna Paull, born in 1697. died April 10, 1779. daughter of John and Dorothy Paull. Her father was born in 1662, died March 23, 1718, son of William Paull, who was born in 1622, died in 1704. Children: 1. John, born November 22, 1721 ; married, in 1762, Elizabeth Valentine. 2. Will- iam, April 2, 1723; married Whit- marslı. 3. Eleazer, May 13, 1724, died July 7, 1754; married, in 1749, Mary Tisdale. 4 Moses, October 22, 1725, died April 22, 1800; married, in 1748, Abigail Strange. 5. Joanna, September 9. 1727. died October 29. 1790; married Elder John Paull, of Berkley. 6. Aaron, March 5, 1729, died July 14. 1760; married Hannah Jones. 7. Margaret, Novem- ber 20, 1730, died in 1807. 8. James, men- tioned below. 9. Mary, February 9. 1734. died November 24. 1756. 10. Edward, August 22, 1737. II. Robert, June 28, 1739; married Grissell Nichols. 12. Peter, April 10, 1741, died 1762.

(II) James, son of Dr. William Nichols, was born February 1, 1732, died March 2. 18II. He married Esther Dean. Children, born in Berkley : I. Paul, born 1765, died No- vember 1. 1800; married Tryphena, daughter of Moses Nichols. 2. James, 1768, died March 29, 1792; unmarried. 3. Joseph, 1770, died October 3, 1817; married Phebe, daughter of Benjamin Crane. 4. Gilbert, 1773, died March 2. 1836: married Rebecca, daughter of Benja- min Crane. 5 Sally, 1774, died December 30, 1805 ; unmarried. 6. Abiel, mentioned below. 7. John, May 1, 1780, died June 4, 1848. 8. Joanna, 1782, died June 28, 1804; married Seth Winslow, of Berkley. 9. Esther, 1784. died March 1, 1792.

(III) Abiel, son of James Nichols, was born

in Berkley, 1777, died March 23, 1819. He married Fidelia, daughter of Abiel and Dyer (Paul) Briggs (see Briggs VI). Children : Abiel, mentioned below; James, mentioned below; Walter, married (first) Lucinda Har- vey, (second) Nancy Dean ; Jerusha, married Asahel Crane.

(IV) Abiel (2), son of Abiel (1) Nichols. was born at Berkley. He was a farmer and blacksmith in Windsor, Massachusetts. He married (first) Jerusha Knight Parsons, by whom he had one son, Rev. Gideon Parsons, mentioned below. Married (second) Octavia Parsons, sister of his first wife, and they had three children : Jerusha Jane, Sarah Aurelia. James Walter. Married (third) Ruth Miner. Married (fourth) Mrs. Nancy Miner.

(IV) Rev. James Nichols, son of Abiel (I) Nichols, was born August 6, 1811. He was a graduate of Union College, 1835; Andover Theological Seminary, 1838. Later he was professor of Greek at Union College for three years, principal of Utica Female Seminary for three years, then became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Oneida, where he re- mained from 1844 to 1851, after which he was appointed principal of Temple Hill Academy, at Geneseo, New York, where he remained seven years, when he resigned to accept the position of principal of the Rochester Female Academy, where he remained until August. 1862, when he received a commission as chap- lain of the One Hundred and Eighth State Volunteers. As a result of exposure, he con- tracted a fever from which he died January 31, 1864. He married, August 20, 1841, Sarah Jane Hastings, born March 15, 1818, died June 4, 1892, daughter of Ephraim and Lucy (Shepard) Hastings (see Hastings VI). Chil- dren : 1. Lizzie Shepard, born 1842, died 1847. 2. Delia Briggs, married Rev. Gideon Parsons Nichols (see Nichols V). 3. Jane Hastings, born December 3. 1845, resides in Rochester, New York. 4. Nancy, died aged three years. 5. Margaret Dewey, born January 2, 1849, resides in Rochester, unmarried. 6. Elizabeth Borden, born 1853 : married Lewis T. Sterling, has one child, Ruth Hastings; they reside in

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Iron Mountain, Michigan. 7. James Ephraim Hastings, born October, 1856; graduate of Rochester University, degree of A. B. : College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York City, degree of M. D .; took special courses in diseases of the eye and ear, being a remarkable surgeon ; connected with Manhattan Eye and Ear llospital, of New York City ; died 1898: married Mary Winthrop Tappin, who died 1899. (For further particulars of this fam- ily see Parson's Memorial work, published in IQII).

(V) Rev. Gideon Parsons Nichols, son of Abiel (2) Nichols, was born July 30, 1837, at Windsor. Berkshire county, Massachusetts. He attended the public schools there, and during his boyhood worked on his father's farm. At the age of seventeen he entered Temple Hill Academy, at Geneseo, New York, of which his unele. Rev. James Nichols, was principal. and fitted for college. He entered U'nion Col- lege in 1856, and graduated in the class of 1860. He was a charter member of Union Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon frater- nity, and was valedictorian at commencement. Ile was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He taught for two years in the Academy of War- nerville, New York, and while there decided to enter the ministry in the Presbyterian church. In 1862 he went to Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he graduated, and in May, 1865, was licensed to preach by the Pres- bytery of Rochester, but he was stricken with typhoid fever in the fall and prevented from an immediate beginning in his profession. He declined a call as pastor of the Calvary Pres- byterian Church, of Rochester, and accepted a position as teacher in the Rochester Female Academy there, preaching occasionally until June 7. 1866, when he took charge of the Pres- byterian church, of Victor, New York. He was ordained in the First Presbyterian Church. of Rochester, in May, 1867. Ile remained in the Victor pastorate until September, 1869. when he was called to the Olivet Presbyterian Church, of Chicago. In March, 1871, he ac- eepted a call to the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, of Milwaukee, and moved thither im- mediately, remaining ten years. While there he was for several years a trustee of the Lake Forest University, and in 1881 received from that institution the honorary degree of Doetor of Divinity. Ile then came to Binghamton, New York, to take the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church. Except for a few months,

when he was pastor of the Central Presby- terian Church, of Denver, in 1887, he con- tinued to fill the pulpit of the Binghamton church until January 1, 1906, when failing health compelled him to resign the charge. He was made pastor emeritus of the church with salary, and continued to reside in Binghamton as long as he lived. He declined several at- tractive calls, including the pastorates of Im- manuel Church, of Milwaukee, and Calvary Church, of Buffalo, and adhered to the Bing- hamton church, to which he was devotedly attached, and by the people of which he was greatly beloved and honored. He died Sep- tember 17, 1908.

He married, June 22, 1871, Delia Briggs Nichols, daughter of Rev. James and Sarah J. (Hastings) Nichols, mentioned above. Chil- dren: 1. Rev. Robert Hastings, born October 2. 1873: graduate of Yale University. A. B .. 1894: Ph. B., 1896, and graduate of Auburn Theological Seminary, 1901. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, at Unadilla. 1901-02, then went to South Orange, New Jersey, where he was pastor of Trinity Pres- byterian Church, 1902-10, at which time he was appointed professor of Church History in the Auburn Theological Seminary, which posi- tion he still retains. He married. June 9. 1910, Marjorie Newton Wallace, of South Orange, New Jersey, graduate of Bryn Mawr, 1908. 2. Margaret Parsons, born April 30, 1875 : graduate of Bryn Mawr. A. B., 1897; mar- ried August 31, 1904. William Hlemans Smith. graduate of Harvard University, A. M. ; now principal of Elmwood School, East Orange, New Jersey. Children : Delia Nichols Smith, born August 10, 1905: Margaret Hemans Smith, May 14, 1907 ; William Shepard Smith. April 11, 1900. 3. Henry James, born May 21. 1877 ; graduate of Yale University, A. B., and of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. M. D. : served in the field in the Philip- pines as surgeon from 1906 to 1900, and is now instructor in the Army Medical School, at Washington, D. C., and captain in the Med- ical Corps : married. September 21, 1910, Grace Gundry, of Baltimore, Maryland. 4. Content Shepard, born February 3. 1879: graduate of Bryn Mawr College, A. B., 1899; A. M., 1900; unmarried. 5. James Knight, born March 28, 1881; graduate of Yale University, A. M .. 1903, then served two years on the editorial staff of the Hartford Courant, after which he entered Harvard Law School, from which he

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graduated in 1908; was admitted to the bar in September, 1908, and is practicing law in Bing- hamton, New York.

(The Briggs Line).

(I) John Briggs, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, and was an early pioneer and settler of Newport, Rhode Island. He was admitted a freeman, October 1, 1638; was liv- ing at Portsmouth, April 30, 1639, and in 1642. He was admitted a freeman at Aquidnet, Octo- ber 1, 1640. He was appointed on the com- mittee to build a prison at Portsmouth, in 1655 : was an assistant in 1648, and a commis- sioner for the purpose of effecting the union of the four towns of Providence Plantation, August 31, 1654. Children : John, mentioned below : Thomas : Susan, married - - - North- way; Enoch : Job.

(II) John (2), son of John (1) Briggs, married Hannah Fisher, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Children: Edward, John, Job, Will- iam, mentioned below.

(II]) William, son of John (2) Briggs, was born in Rhode Island, about 1645, died May, 1716. He married ( first ), November 30, 1665, Saralı Macomber, who died March 20, 1680- 81. He married (second) Elizabeth

born 1653, died August, 1716. He settled at Taunton. Children of first wife, born at Taun- ton : William, January 26, 1667-68; Thomas (twin), September 9. 1669; Sarah (twin) ; Elizabeth, March 14, 1671 ; Hannah, Novem- ber 4, 1672 ; Mary, August 14, 1674; Mathew, February 5, 1676-77 ; Amos, about 1678, men- tioned below : John, March 19, 1680. Children of second wife: Susan, April 9, 1682; John, November 13. 1685, died January 21, 1712; William, January 11, 1688 : Elizabeth, Decem- ber 27, 1689; Thomas (twin). September 5, 1693, died March 23. 1716: Deborah (twin) ; Job, August 3. 1696.

(IV) Amos, son of William Briggs, was born about 1678. He resided in Berkley. He married, January 2, 1706, at Taunton, Sarah Pain, who is mentioned an heir in the will of Ralph Pain, April 23, 1722. She was a daugh- ter of Ralph and Dorothy Pain. Amos Briggs resided also at Freetown, Massachusetts, and died at Berkley. His will was dated March 14. 1753. proved May 6, 1760. Children : Mercy, June 26, 1707; Sarah, June 16, 1709; Mary, May 1, 1711; Hannah, November 5, 1712; Amos, February 6, 1715 ; Thomas. Janu- ary 20, 1717, mentioned below ; Abigail, June

27, 1719; John, September 18, 1721 ; Nathan- iel. December 18, 1724; Nathan, May 10, 1727.

(\') Thomas, son of Amos Briggs, was born in Freetown, January 20, 1717, died No- vember 10, 1779. He married Thankful Ax- tell, born December 8. 1725, daughter of Dan- iel Axtell. Daniel Axtell was born November 4, 1673, died in January, 1735 ; married, May 12, 1702, Thankful, daughter of Elder William Pratt, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and South Carolina. Daniel Axtell went to South Caro- lina and lived there until 1707, and became a large landowner in Berkley, Massachusetts. then a part of Dighton and Taunton. Lady Axtell, widow of Landgrave Daniel Axtell, of South Carolina, mentions him in her will. Chil- dren of Daniel and Thankful Axtell: Eliza- beth, born April 28, 1703; Daniel, October 24, 1706; Rebecca, November 22, 1708; Hannah, April 10, 1710 ; William, April 13, 1713 ; Henry, June 24, 1715; Samuel, October 25. 1717: Ebenezer, March 24, 1724: Thankful, men- tioned above; Thomas, September 15, 1727. Henry Axtell, father of Daniel Axtell, was born in England, in 1641, and took up land with the first proprietors of Marlborough, Massachusetts, in 1660; married. June 14. 1665. Hannah Merriam. He was killed by the Indians early in 1676. His widow married, July 5, 1677, Will Taylor. Children of Henry and Hannah Axtell: Samuel, born March 27, 1666; Hannah, November 18, 1667; Mary. August 8, 1670; Thomas, April 16, 1672 ; Dan- iel, mentioned above: Sarah. September 18. 1675. Thomas Axtell, father of Henry Axtell. was the immigrant from Barkhamstead, Hert- fordshire, England. The earliest appearance of the name discovered in the records is dated 1535, when John Axstyl's name is found in a conveyance of property at Gatesden, Hertford- shire. At St. Peter's Church, Barkhamstead, John Axtell, son of John, was baptized in 1539, and William, son of John, 1541. Nine children of William Axtell were baptized be- tween 1614 and 1628. Thomas was baptized January 26, 1619, and was brother of Daniel, born 1622, colonel in Cromwell's army, who was put to death in 1660, after the Restora- tion. Mary, daughter of Thomas Axtell, was baptized in Barkhamstead, September 25, 1639. and Henry, mentioned above, October 15, 1641. The family then came to Sudbury, Massachu- setts. Thomas, the immigrant, died there in July, 1646. His widow married (second), September 19. 1656, John Goodnow.

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Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume I, Part 1

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Publication date: 1912 Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 664

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 664