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GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY
OF THE
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON NEW YORK
A RECORD OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF HER PEOPLE AND THE
Phenomenal Growth of her Agricultural and Mechanical Industries
COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE LATE R. A. OAKES
CUSTODIAN OF THE JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
"Knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the ancient families deserveth the highest praise. Herein consisteth a part of the knowledge of a man's own self. It is a great spur to virtue to look back on the worth of our line."-Lord Bacon.
"There is no heroic poem in the world but is at the bottom the life of a man."-Sir Walter Scott.
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Volume II
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A. W. Goodale.
HISTORY
OF
JEFFERSON COUNTY
ADDISON WIGHT GOODALE, M. D., one of the oldest and best known physicians of Jefferson county, has had a varied profes- sional career, and is now enjoying in contentment the fruits of a busy life. His ancestry has been traced to an early day in New England. and he preserves intact those qualities which were essential in settling a wilderness three thousand miles from the base of operations and inhab- ited by savages.
(I) Robert Goodale, aged thirty years, came from Ipswich, Eng- land, with his wife Catherine and three children, to America, arriving April 3. 1634, at Ipswich, Massachusetts, and settled in that part of the town now Danvers. They crossed in the ship Elizabeth, William Andrews, master. Five children were born to them after their arrival.
(II) Isaac, son of Robert and Catherine Goodale, was born in 1633, in England, and died at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife was Patience Cook.
(III) Isaac (2), son of Isaac (I) and Patience (Cook) Goodale, was born March 29, 1670, and lived in Salem, where his will was proved in 1739. From this document it is learned that his wife's name was Mary, and that he had seven children.
(IV) Enos, son of Isaac (2) and Mary Goodale, was born No- vember 2, 1718, in Salem. IIe married Mary Angier and lived in Marl- borough and Shrewsbury. Massachusetts. He had three children.
(V) Aaron Goodale, son of Enos and Mary (Angier) Goodale, married Eunice Marshall, of Holden, Massachusetts, in 1767, and sub- sequently settled in Salem, New York.
(VI) Aaron Goodale, of Salem, New York, married Betsey Rug-
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gles, February 9, 1802. She was a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Ruggles (the latter, probably, a daughter of Deacon James Fay), the former a son of Benjamin Ruggles, who was a son of Benjamin Rug- gles (see Ruggles, V). Betsey Ruggles was born August 9, 1780. Aaron Goodale was a pioneer settler of Fowler, St. Lawrence county, this state, and passed his last fifteen years with a daughter at Hailesboro, in that county, where he died at the age of ninety-five years. His wife died about 1865-8. They had two sons and four daughters.
(VII) Ruggles Goodale, eldest child of Aaron and Betsey ( Rug- gles) Goodale, was born September 10, 1803. in Salem, New York. lle settled in Fowler, where he continued farming until 1865, when he moved to the village of Antwerp, this county, and passed the balance of his life in retirement from the arduons labor of the farm, and died December, 1886. In August, 1830, he married Betsey Wight, who was born September 10, 1810, in Oppenheim, Herkimer county, this state, a daughter of Abner and Polly ( Hooper) Wight. She died Sep- tember, 1888, in Rutland. She was the mother of five children. Addi- son W. is the eldest. Helen married Alvin Conklin, of Rutland. She died while visiting a daughter at Carthage. Warren Johnson Goodale, the third, resides in Binghamton, this state. One child died when one week old. Estelle E. died, unmarried, in Antwerp, aged twenty years. Mr. Goodale was a member of the Baptist church at Fowler. He served several terms as assessor of his town. A Democrat in early life, he was a supporter of the Republican party from its organization.
( VIII) Addison W. Goodale was born August 17, 1831, in Fow- ler, St. Lawrence county. He attended the country schools as a boy, and later studied at the Gouverneur Wesleyan (subsequently Ives) Sem- inary. In 1855 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Ira 1 !. Abel, of Antwerp, meanwhile attending lectures at the Albany Med- ical College. At the end of three years, in June, 1858, he was graduated from the Medical College, and began practice in South Rutland. IIe remained there in successful practice until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Tenth New York Ileavy Artillery, and remained with this organization as assistant surgeon until the close of hostilities.
After two years more of practice in South Rutland, he removed to Watertown and took up practice in that growing city. A year later he was engaged by the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, as adjuster and superintendent of physicians. For the suc- ceeding twenty years he was in this service, being located successively
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at Canandaigua, Syracuse and Hartfard, and, for four years following 1884, in New York city. Since 1888 the doctor has been a resident of Watertown, in retirement from active practice, but interested in various undertakings for the promotion of the material and moral prog- ress of the community.
Dr. Goodale has been a trustee of the Thousand Island Park Asso- ciation since 1883, was for several years its treasurer and is now secre- tary. He is also a director of the Alexandria Steamboat Company, and president of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of Kimball, South Dakota. He is one of the censors of the Jefferson County Medical Society and. for ten years, has been a health officer at Thousand Island Park. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1863. He is a member of the First Pres- byterian church of Watertown. and of the Union Club, of which he has been president two terms.
He was married August 12, 1858, to Miss Helen J. Fowler, of Antwerp, a daughter of Lester N. Fowler (see Fowler, VIII). Two daughters complete the family of Dr. and Mrs. Goodale. Hattie G. is the widow of Arthur B. Abernethy, of New York city. Florence is the wife of Francis M. Hugo, an attorney of Watertown. Mrs. Aber- nethy has a son, Grenville Goodale Abernethy, who is a student at Princeton University, in the class of 1907.
CEPHAS R. STODDARD, one of the successful farmers of Cham- pion, has made his way in the world by industry and intelligent appli- cation. He was born December 12, 1840, in the town of Pinckney, Lewis county, this state, a son of Levi Stoddard, who was born in the same town.
James Stoddard, a native of Brookfield, Massachusetts, was among the pioncer settlers of Pinckney. He was a son of Samuel and Betsey (Dunn) Stoddard, of English and Scotch descent, respectively. He was married, in 1807, to Huldah Goodenough, a native of Chesterfield, Mass- achusetts, and immediately began housekeeping in the town of Den- mark, later removing to the frontier home in Pinckney, where he cleared land and lived out his days. They had three sons and three daughters. The eldest, Levi R., is further mentioned in this sketch. Eliza Dinalı is the widow of David Richards, residing in Belleville, this county. Amy married Eli Penniman, and died in Libertyville, Illinois. Juliana is the widow of Dr. N. D. Ferguson, with home in Carthage, New York.
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Justice died near Carthage, Missouri, previous to 1870. John Blodgett was a farmer in Pinckney, where he died.
Levi Robbins Stoddard was born September 29. 1808, in Pinckney. where he followed farming during his active life, varying this occupa- tion by working at his trade of cooper. His last years were spent in Copenhagen, where he passed away December 28, 1893. at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He was married June 1, 1828. to Marinda Orvis, who was born May 6, 1807, in Champion, and died May 8. 1903. at the home of her son, L. W. Stoddard, in Champion. She was a daugh- ter of Samuel and Sally ( Sage) Orvis. early residents of the town. The Orvis family was descended from Roger Orvis, who came to America from Wales and settled in Connecticut in the seventeenth cen- tury. For various services in defense of the colony he was presented with a silver-mounted cane by the then ruling King of England. This bore a number of inscriptions in royal recognition of such services against the hostile tribes led by King Phillip and others, who ravaged the white settlements and made women and children the victims of their tomahawks and scalping knives. This cane has been handed down in the family, and is now presumably in the possession of an Orvis descendant residing in Canada. Roger (2), son of Roger ( 1), the immigrant, was father of Roger (3), who married Ruth Howe, of English descent. and their children were: Roger, Lorenzo, Philander, Samuel (who was father of Marinda, wife of Levi Robbins Stoddard), Ruth, Rachel, Urana. Susie, Elmira, Diantha and Saloma. Roger (3), with his wife and daughters Rachel, Urana, Elmira, Diantha and Saloma, settled in Genes- see county, New York, and Samuel and Susie settled in Lewis county, in the same state. Roger, Lorenzo and Philander lived to be ninety years of age, and Samuel to within twelve days of one hundred years. These older men were in the revolutionary war, and Samuel served in the war of 1812. Samuel married Sallie Sage, of English descent, of Sandys- field, Massachusetts. In 1806 their possessions were packed in two loads and drawn by ox teams to Lewis county, New York. In 1813 they moved into the town of Champion. Jefferson county, same state, set- tling near Pleasant Lake, on the Maple Grove farm, where they passed the remainder of their days. Samuel Orvis became a well-to-do farmer and a prominent resident of the town, in which he was among the found- ers and first settlers. He was a Methodist in religion and a Republican in politics. His children were: Elias, Sallie, Marinda, Fannie, Sam- uel. Elmira and Betsey. Levi R. Stoddard and wife were members in
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good standing of the Methodist church, and he was a Republican from the organization of the party. They had five sons and three daughters. Norton Stoddard, the eldest, is a farmer in the town of Denmark. Em- ily, the second, married John Hodge, and after his death married Moses Lang, of Copenhagen; she died October 4, 1898. Clorinda died in Ty- lerville, this county, while the wife of Henry Hodge. Sarah resides in Allen, Michigan, the wife of James Clobridge. Cephas R. is the fifth. Orvis is a mason by trade, with home at Copenhagen. Levi Wesley is mentioned at length below. Duane is a farmer in the southern part of the town of Lowville, near the Harrisburg border.
Cephas R. Stoddard remained on the home farm in Pinckney until he was nineteen years of age, after which he worked out on farms of the vicinity. He gave some time to study in the district school, and was for a short time a student at an academy in Copenhagen. but his school days were over when he was nineteen years okl. Possessed of manly independ- ence he was early resolved to possess a farm of his own, and made such use of his opportunities and so husbanded his earnings that he was able in 1869 to assume the responsibility of ownership. At that time he bought one hundred and twenty-five acres in the town of Denmark, which he owned and tilled until 1880. when he exchanged it for his present farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres, on the "State road," in the western part of Champion. He illustrates the fact that intelligent management leads to success in farming, as in other occupations. Be- sides maintaining a dairy of fifteen to twenty cows, he also raises stock for the market, and so varies his interests as to secure an income from his lands each year. Mr. Stoddard is a member of Champion Grange, in which he has filled nearly all the chairs, and is a factor in every intelli- gent movement for the betterment of the farmer's condition. He affili- ated with the Masonic Lodge at Copenhagen while he lived near it, but is not now an active member. He attends the Methodist church at Cham- pion, with his family.
Mr. Stoddard was married, May 10, 1871, to Miss Mary Tracy, who was born January 10, 1849, in Bombay, Franklin county, New York, a daughter of Noble Everett and Cynthia (Spencer) Tracy, natives, re- spectively, of Vermont and Martinsburg, this state. Mrs. Stoddard is a cultivated and sensible woman, an able coadjutor of her husband in the work of the Grange, and in rearing sons creditable to the family and to the town. The elder son. Wilbur Traey. is his father's capable as- sistant in the cultivation of the farm. The younger, Leon Arcellus. has
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taught four terms of school, and is now a student of the State Normal School at Potsdam, New York, in the class of 1904.
Noble E. Tracy was born in Shelburne, Vermont, and died in Feb- ruary, 1899, in Champion. His wife died in Bombay. Noble E. was a son of Christopher Tilman Tracy, who settled early near Black Lake, and died in Moira, New York, about 1860, aged seventy-five years. His ancestors were among the earliest in New England.
Cynthia Spencer was a daughter of William Spencer, who was born in Dutchess county, New York, September 8. 1795, and died in Martins- burg, Lewis county, this state, November 7. 1877. His great-great- grandfather came from England and settled in Rhode Island before the revolution, and had a son and grandson who served as revolutionary soldiers. The name of the grandson was Rufus, and he was the father of William Spencer. After the revolution. Rufus Spencer settled in Dutchess county. and moved thence to Martinsburg in 1805. He had started with a sleigh in March to go to Spencerville, Canada, which was founded by his brothers, but the melting of the snow stranded him, and he settled in Martinsburg instead. He died there in 1836, over eighty years old. His wife's name was Cornelia Christy. William Spencer married Diadama Root, daughter of Salmon and Diadama ( Byington) Root, who came from Salem (now Naugatuck), Connecticut, and set- tled in Martinsburg. Salmon Root entered the revolutionary army when fourteen years old, and fought through the struggle for independence. He was a well-read man and an interesting talker.
Levi Wesley Stoddard was born September 15, 1847, on a farm in Pinckney, whence the family moved to Copenhagen when he was nine years old. He attended the village school, and learned the trade of cooper with his father. He followed the trade until he was twenty-five years old, being a partner with his father in the manufacture of casks at Copenhagen from his majority. He then purchased thirty acres of land in Denmark, and has been chiefly engaged in farming since. For the last twenty-one years he has lived in Champion, and has given his time wholly to agriculture during the last fifteen years. He acquired thirty acres on the "State road," in the western part of the town, which he afterward traded for eighty acres southwest of Champion village, near school number 6. where he now resides. Beside tilling this land he has rented other ground near by, and is a successful farmer. His dairy in- cludes twenty cows, and he is abreast of the time in methods. Mr. Stoddard embraces the faith of the Methodist church, and gives support
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to all moral and upward movements. He is an earnest believer in the principles and policy of the Republican party. but is not a politician.
Mr. Stoddard was married February 4, 1874, to Miss Ella Tracy, who was bom in Bombay, New York, and is a sister of Mrs. C. R. Stod- dard, whose ancestry is given above. Two children complete the fam- ily of Mr. and Mrs. Stoddard-Eva Luella and Woolsey Everett, both at home.
MICALLAASTER. This is the name of a very old family of Argyle- shire, Scotland, and has been established in this country for seven gener- ations. It had numerous representatives among those who fled, for re- ligion's sake, to the northern part of Ireland, and established what is known as the "Scotch-Irish" people. The McAllasters were numerous in Londonderry and Antrim counties, Ireland.
(I) Richard McAllaster, the founder of the family in America, was a scion of a Scotch family which settled in Northern Ireland. He was married about 1735, in Ireland, to Ann Miller, and together they came to Londonderry, New Hampshire, in the winter of 1738-9. Thence they went to the settlement called Bedford, in the town of Narragan- sett, New Hampshire, probably in the spring of 1743, and Mr. Mc.Al- laster was reckoned among the large landholders of the town in 1750. He was elected constable in 1763. His wife died there March 12, 1776, in her sixty-seventh year. They were the parents of eight children.
(II) Richard, seventh child of Richard ( 1) and Ann (Miller) McAllaster, was born October 20, 1749, in Bedford, New Hampshire, where he married Susan Dimond. He was last taxed in Bedford in 1772, and for two years thereafter was engaged in clearing land in Antrim, same colony, and moved thither in 1775. His farm was on the north slope of "Meeting-House hill," and he was prominent among the first settlers of Antrim, where he was a member of the first board of select- men, in 1777, and again a selectman in 1784. He was a member of Captain Wilkins' company, of Colonel Bedell's regiment of the revolu- tionary army, and was among the band surrendered to a force of British and Indians at "The Cedars," in Canada, May 19. 1776. These prisoners were most brutally treated and suffered great hardships until exchanged, through the efforts of Colonel Bedell, who was absent after reinforcements when the fort was surrendered. In 1795 Richard Mc- Allaster moved to Alstead, New Hampshire, and was subsequently at Springfield, Vermont, whence he came to Antwerp, New York, with his
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son, among the pioneer settlers of that town. He died here February 11. 1813, a little over two weeks after his wife, who passed away Jan- mary 23. Brief mention of his children follows: William, the eldest, spent his life in Antwerp. Sarah died here, unmarried, at the age of eighty-eight years. Susan died, unmarried, at sixty-four. AAthildred dicd in Antwerp, at a good age. Elizabeth married Henry Baldwin, and died in Antwerp. Francis died in Antwerp in 1841. Richard and Ann lived for a time in Springfield, Vermont, where the latter became the wife of Daniel Heald, and died in Antwerp.
( HE) Francis, sixth child and second son of Richard (2) and Su- san (Dimond ) MIc.Allaster, was born August 16, 1773, in Antrim, New Hampshire, and died December 25. 1841, in Antwerp. He married Anna, daughter of John and Mary ( Bradford) Averill. She was born May. 29, 1777, in Mount Vernon ( now Amherst ), New Hampshire, and ched December 7. 1862, in the town of Antwerp. Mr. Mc.Allaster was a farmer, a quiet and modest citizen. His life was an industrious one, and he aided in reclaiming from the wilderness the present prosperous agricultural region about the thriving village of AAntwerp. The fate of his children is herewith indicated. Polly, the eldest, became the wife of Francis Butterfield, and mother of William Butterfield, a prominent citizen of Redwood, this county ( see Butterfield ). David died in Erie, Pennsylvania. Nancy married Horace Hamlin ( see Hamlin. VE), and lived and died in Antwerp. Emerson died in 1893, at Antwerp. Eliza, wife of William Buckley Bostwick, died in Gouverneur. Susan married Columbus Pinney, and died at Aurora, Illinois, over ninety years of age. Lucretia was the wife of Joseph Lyon Wait, and lived and died in the town of Antwerp. Cordelia married Charles Lewis, and, after his death, John Joyce, and is the only survivor of the family, now residing in Aurora, Illinois, a widow.
The ancestry of Mary ( Bradford) Averill is traced back to the pioneer period of the New England colonies, as follows:
( I) Robert Bradford, emigrant, was born about 1626, and died January 13, 1707.
(II) William. son of Robert Bradford, born about 1650, married, November 14. 1676. Rachel Raymont, of Beverly, Massachusetts. He was a ropemaker by occupation.
( HF) William, son of William Bradford (1), was born 1686, and married. December 23. 1707. Grace Elliot, of Beverly, Massachusetts.
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He was a sailor and removed from Beverly to Boxford in 1721, and thence to Middleton, Massachusetts, where he died in 1761.
(IV) William, son of William Bradford (2), moved from Mid- dleton, and settled in Sowhegan West (now Milford ), New Hampshire, at an early date. His marriage to Mary Lambert is of record in Mid- dieton, as occurring January 16, 1737. She was born March 11, 1718, and died February 18, 1770. Mr. Bradford married, second, Rachel Small, who died in 1802. He died in 1791. His first wife bore him nine children, and the second two. Two of his sons. Joseph and William, were soldiers of the revolution, and the former died in the service at Medford, Massachusetts. in 1775. The latter served also in the war of 1812.
(V) Mary, third child and second daughter of William Bradford (3), was baptized in 1742, in Middleton, Massachusetts, married John Averill, and died August 21, 1814, in Mount Vernon, New Hampshire, aged seventy-three years.
(VI) Anna, daughter of John and Mary ( Bradford ) Averill, was born May 29. 1777, and became the wife of Francis McAllaster. as be- fore noted.
GILL. There can be little doubt that this name is of Seotch origin. Many worthy citizens of this country are found bearing the name, in various states.
(I) The first record now known of the family herein traced is found at Exeter, Rhode Island. where Daniel Gill married his wife, Hannah (surname unknown), in 1730. The record shows that they had six children born there, namely : John, June 29, 1732: Sarah, Sep- tember 30. 1733: Daniel, September 25, 1734: Hannah, April 2, 1740; Susannah, June 30, 1746; and Samuel, May 1, 1752.
(II) Daniel, third child and second son of Daniel ( 1) and Ilan- nah Gill, was born as above noted, at Exeter, Rhode Island. He was married there, January 1, 1700, to Merey Whitford, daughter of John Whitford, the ceremony being performed by a justice of the peace named Benjamin Reynolds. Their family included several children. In 1770 they moved to Springfield, Vermont, where the balance of their lives was passed. Mr. Gill was a colonel in the revolutionary army, and in spelling his name used the Scotch prefix, "Me," which has been dropped by his descendants.
(III) John, eldest son of Daniel (2) and Merey Gill, was born
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in Exeter. He married Thankful Bates, and had three sons-John, Daniel and Bates, but had no daughters.
(IX ) John, eldest son of John (h) and Thankful ( Bates) Gill, was among the pioneer residents of the town of AAntwerp, this county. He was married July 12, 1800. to Theodocia Henry, whose ancestry is traced to about the beginning of the eighteenth century, as follows :
(1) William Henry was a native of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and was married. December 6. 1753. to Mary Harper. They settled in Charleston, New Hampshire, where he died November 15, 1807, and his wife. September 14, 1818. They had eight children-David, Rob- ett B .. William, Harper, Hugh, Jonathan, Samuel and John. All these, save the youngest, who moved to Rockingham, Vermont, lived in Charleston or Chester. Vermont.
( II ) William, third son and child of William ( 1) and Mary ( Har- per ) Henry, was married. August 30, 1784. to Polly Holden. She was a daughter of Captain William Holden and Annis Nutting, who were married May 10. 1747, in Groten, Massachusetts. Polly Holden was born February 15, 1763. in Charleston, New Hampshire.
( III) Theodocia, daughter of William and Polly ( Holden ) Henry. became the wife of John Gill, as above noted.
John Gill was born about 1781, came to Antwerp in 1808, and be- gan clearing land for agriculture, and soon took prominence in the town tt: a Business man and citizen. He purchased the stage route between Denmark and Ogdensburg, and continued to operate it until his death, which took place January 6, 1838. at the age of fifty-seven years. He Was survived many years by his widow. Both were liberal in religious views, and did not affiliate with any religious organization, because they could not accept the creed of any church near them. Mr. Gill was a Whig, and passed away before the time of the organization of the Re- publican party, with whose principles he was in sympathy. He served is highway commissioner and overseer of the poor, and was many years justice of the peace, so continuing up to the time of his death. The fate of his thirteen children is herein briefly noted : William, the eldest, lived and died in Antwerp. Mary, the second, married ( first ) Ephraim Taylor and (second) John Burtin, surviving the latter, and died in Philadelphia, this county. John died in Henderson and was buried at Antwerp. Elutheria died and was interred at Antwerp. Marcus set- tle learh in life in Minburn. Iowa, where he died. James is mentioned t length 'n succeeding paragraphs. Harriet died when eighteen years
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