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Benjamin Pond was a representative in congress at the time of the declaration of the war of 1812, voting for it, and continued to serve as a member until his death. At the invasion of Plattsburg by the British in 1814, he volunteered to repel the invaders, and by exposure con- tracted the camp fever, of which he died. There were many Union soldiers as well as revolutionary. There is a story of Captain Levi E. Pond, of the Seventh Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry. At the beginning of the battle, as Captain Pond was leading on his men to a charge, he re- ceived a wound in the breast which the surgeon pronounced fatal. As he fell his company seemed to falter until they heard his well known voice, though faint, "Press on, boys, never mind me." And they did press on with exasperating fury to avenge what they supposed to be the death of their brave commander. A little more than a month after, with the bullet still in his body, Captain Pond returned to his regiment, refus- ing to resign while he had sufficient strength to march with his company.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Pond, aforementioned, was born March 4. 1644. He married, February 3, 1677, Marian Blakly, and among their children was Samuel, see forward.
(III) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and Marian ( Blakly ) Pond. was born July 1, 1679. He married, June 30, 1704, Abigail Goodrich and among their children was Philip, see forward.
(IV) Philip, second son of Samuel (3) and Abigail (Goodrich ) Pond, was born June 6, 1706. He married Thankful Frisbee and among their children was Timothy, see forward.
(V) Timothy, son of Philip and Thankful ( Frisbee) Pond, was born at Bradford, Connecticut, 1731. He served in the Fifth Company.
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First Connecticut Regiment, 1775, General Wooster ; served at the siege of Boston under Captain Caleb Trowbridge, of New Haven, enlisted May 5, discharged December 20, 1775. He was also in the Eighth Regiment, Connecticut Line, formation of 1777-81; was in Captain Smith's company, enlisted March 31, 1777, for three years, discharged Marcl. 31, 1780. He was under head of minute-men and volunteers in 1776. He was a member of the inhabitants of the Society of Northburg in Waterbury, who framed themselves into a military company and chose officers, July 4, 1776. He was chosen lieutenant of said company. He married Munson and among their children was Munson, see forward.
(VI) Munson, son of Timothy and - -. (Munson) Pond, was born November 26, 1780, died July, 1830. He married Phebe Chapin, born November 1, 1782, died April, 1829, and among their children was George C., see forward.
(VII) George C., son of Munson and Phebe (Chapin) Pond, was born June 7, 1814. He was left an orphan at the age of sixteen. Upon the death of his father, he went to live with Jonathan Pierce in Hamil- ton, Madison county, New York, where he learned the trade of miller. Shortly after his first marriage, in 1841, he went to East River, Cort- land county, New York, where he conducted a mill. Later he pur- chased the mill at Truxton, New York, to which place he then removed his family, and after a residence there of several years, he erected a new mill, the largest one in Cortland county. His wheat was purchased from all parts of this section and he teamed his flour to Syracuse. This mill stood all through the war, and a house called the "Gothic," which he erected about the same time and which created quite an amount of com- ment, are still standing. About the year 1861 his health forced him to move to a farm, but he only remained there a year on account of the death of his wife. He then returned to Truxton village, engaging in the mercantile business. In 1867 he took up his residence in Phelps, New York, where he continued the mercantile business, conducting a shoe store until a year before his death. Two months prior to his death, which occurred February 14, 1889, he went into partnership with his son-in-law, George H. Parmelee, in the Phelps Chilled Plow Company. Mr. Pond married (first) August 9, 1841, Anna Hurd, of Hamilton, New York. She died January 6, 1863. Married (second) September 12, 1864, Lucy H. Sumner, of Homer, New York.
(VIII) Lillian May, daughter of George C. and Anna (Hurd) Pond, was born May 18, 1860, married, November 23, 1881, George Herbert Parmelee ( see Parmelee VIII).
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PARMELE.
The Parmele family, of which Henry M. Parmele, a prominent banker at East Bloomfield, is a representative, settled in the state of Connecticut several centuries ago, and members thereof have been actively identified with its interests ever since, contributing their share to its general welfare and improvement. Among this number was Reuben Parmele, ancestor of this branch of the family, who claimed that state as his birthplace. He married and among his children was Isaac, see forward.
(II) Isaac, son of Reuben Parmele, was born in Connecticut. 1799, died at West Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York, 1886, at an ad- vanced age. During his childhood his parents removed to Ontario county, and the old homestead farm still remains in the possession of the family. He was an active factor in the upbuilding of the community in which he took up his abode, and his influence for good was felt throughout the entire section. He married Laura, daughter of Ebenezer Leach, of Lima, New York, and six children were born to them, among whom was Hiram Taft, see forward.
(III) Hiram Taft, eldest son of Isaac and Laura ( Leach) Parmele. was born in West Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York, in 1831. He was educated in the public schools of the town and at private schools at Honeoye Falls and Bloomfield, thus acquiring knowledge that quali- fied him for the activities of life. For a few years after completing his studies he followed farming as a means of livelihood, and then devoted his attention to the management of a general store in West Bloomfield, conducting the same until 1871, and two years later he removed to Canandaigua and engaged in the milling business at Chapinville, where he was the proprietor of the flouring mill for a period of six years. In 1882 he embarked in a new enterprise, opening a bank at Victor, con- ducting business under the firm name of Parmele, Hamlin & Com- pany, and on December 1, 1887, he established the Canandaigua Na- tional Bank at Canandaigua, both of which proved profitable invest- ments and added greatly to the benefit of the towns in which they were located. He is an adherent of the Republican party and has held numer- ous offices of honor and trust, the principal one being that of super- visor of West Bloomfield, to which he was first elected in 1866, re- elected for four successive terms, serving during his last term as chair- man of the board.
Mr. Parmele married, in 1853, Mary, daughter of Melangton Gates, of West Bloomfield, New York. Children: 1. Laura, married
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J. H. Johnson. 2. Henry M., see forward. 3. George H., born Novem- ber 7, 1867, attended Canandaigua Academy. Graduated at University of Rochester in 1889, admitted to the bar in 1891, and since 1893 has been a member of the editorial staff of the Lawyers Co-Operative Pub- lishing Company of Rochester, New York; married, in 1898, Kathe- rine Murray ; children: Hiram Taft Parmele and Mary Katherine Parmele. 4. Mary.
(IV) Henry M., eldest son of Hiram Taft and Mary (Gates) Parmele, was born in January, 1865. He was educated at Canan- daigua Academy. He entered the bank of Hamlin & Steele, East Bloom- field, 1884. In 1886 he was made member of firm of bankers, Hamlin & Company, other members of firm being Henry W. Hamlin and John S. Hamlin ; this firm was continued until July 1, 1911, when the business was merged into The Hamlin National Bank with Henry M. Parmele as president. He is vice-president of the Locke Insulator Manufacturing Company of Victor, New York, capital, $350,000; vice-president of the Citizens Bank of Penn Yan, New York, capital, $50,000, surplus and undivided profits $50,000; director of the Canandaigua National Bank of Canandaigua, New York, capital, $100,000, surplus, $100,000.
He married, 1891, Elise Migeon, daughter of Henry and Arcene ( Migeon) Munson.
BURTIS.
Pietro Caesar Alberto, the pioneer ancestor of Arthur Benjamin Burtis, of Oaks Corners, New York, from Venice, Italy, records his arrival in Nieuw Amsterdam in the Council Minutes of the West India Company, December, 1638, by entering a complaint against the skipper of the ship "Love." It is also recorded that in the year 1635 this same skipper (David Pieterson de Vries, of Hoorn) had threatened to leave Pietro C. Alberto at Cayenne and Virginia. The register of the pro- vincial secretary records a contract between Pietro C. Alberto and Peter Monfoort to build a house and make a plantation, December 15, 1639. In 1642 he connected himself with the First Dutch church of Nieuw Amsterdam, and on August 24, 1642, was betrothed to Indith Ians Manje, daughter of Van Manje from New Kirk, Flanders. Pietro C. Alberto lived at this time on the Heesen Gracht, now Broad street. New York, and owned a tobacco plantation at the Wallabout for which he received a grant from Governor Kieft, June 17, 1643. It comprised the land now lying between Clermont and Hampdon avenues, the site
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of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. After his death it was sold to Ian Darmen, in 1686. The burial place of Pietro C. Alberto is not known, but was probably in Nieuw Amsterdam, as his eldest daughter was living on Beaver street, between Broad and William streets. Children of Pietro C. and Indith ( Manje) Alberto, baptized in Dutch church in New Am- sterdam, were: Ian, August 30, 1643; Marta, May 7. 1645; Aert (Arthur), April 14, 1647; Marie, June 27, 1649: Francyntie, April 2. 1651 ; William, March 31, 1654; Francyn, May 3, 1656.
(I) Arthur Alberto, from whom the branch of the family herein recorded descended, built a house in Hempstead, Long Island, in 1680, which stood until 1892, when it was torn down. Of the farm of fifty- two acres, where he lived until 1692, only the burying ground and a few acres remain. Five generations of the family are buried there, and living descendants of the name in the seventh generation are still there. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Way, an English Quaker originally from Somersetshire. The Way family appear upon the records there in 1400. James Way died in 1695. a just man, a loyal Englishman, and an Orthodox Quaker of great wealth. Of the seven children mentioned in the will of Arthur Alberto, James, born in 1682-83. seemed to have lived and died in Hempstead. Long Island, and John. through whom the line descends.
(II) John Alburtis, son of Arthur and Elizabeth ( Way) Alberto. was born in 1688-89. He was appointed commissioner of highways in 1701, and in 1719 was oppressed by the English justices, Hunt and Cornell, as is proven by the affidavits of his friends and neighbors. He lived to be a very old man, and because of his great age his family remained upon Long Island during the occupancy of the British instead of taking shelter elsewhere. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Chris- tian Snediker, of Jamaica, Long Island. The baptisms of their ten children are recorded in the Reformed Dutch church of Jamaica. The sons were all remarkable for their size and strength.
(III) John (2) Alburtis, son of John ( I) and Elizabeth ( Sne- diker ) Alburtis, was baptized in Jamaica, June 13, 1713. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church founded in 1644 in Hempstead, Long Island, called by its minister, "Christ's First Church in America." He built a chapel on his farm at Foster's Meadow in 1770 which was occu- pied by the British troops during the revolution, as well as the meeting house in the village. The chapel was moved to the village an! the timber used to make tents for the British troops, and the meeting house was used as a stable for horses. He married the widow of his cousin.
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Arthur Alburtis, Mary Ater. Their son John also served as elder in this church, and the names of John Burtis Sr. and John Burtis Jr. are on the training list of the district of Cow Neck and Great Neck. These three Johns, grandfather, father and son, one aged eighty-eight, one sixty-three and one twenty-seven, were rebel patriots.
(IV) John (3) Burtis, son of John (2) and Mary (Ater) Alburtis or Burtis, was born in 1749. He was appointed commissioner of the district of Cow Neck, October 4, 1775. The brief record of his service in the patriot army was: "He was stationed part of the time on the shores of Cow and Great Neck and part of the time at the New York Ferry," his duty being to cover the retreat of the army that crossed in the mercifiil fog of the night of August 29, 1776, in the very face of the enemy. He married, in 1773, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Foster, of Hempstead, Long Island, a determined Whig. Thomas Foster's sons. Nathaniel and Solomon, resisted the attempt of an English officer and his men to carry off their cousin ; a soldier was killed in the melee and the two Fosters were tried for murder, condemned, but finally ransomed by payment of a large sum of money. This happened while the British had possession of Long Island, and while the regiment to which this officer belonged was quartered at Foster's Meadow on the Burtis farm and occupying the old Alburtis house.
(V) Arthur Burtis, born at Foster's Meadow, Long Island, July 12, 1778, is set down as the eldest son of John (3) and Sarah (Foster) Burtis. He came to New York from Hempstead, Long Island, in 1798. He lived for many years on the corner of Broome street and the Bowery. He was a member of the common council representing the eighth ward from 1813 to 1816. He remained in New York until 1831, when his health failing he purchased a farm near Geneva, New York, to which he removed in 1832, and where he died January 9, 1833. During his residence in the city of New York, over thirty years, he devoted himself to the poor of the city. He made a study of conditions of the insane poor of Europe and America, and corresponded with eminent philan- thropists on method and systems of relief. Nearest his heart was the education, compulsory if need be, of the children of the poor and their separation from evil surroundings. He was one of the founders of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents and of the House of Refuge, and one of the original stockholders and board of managers of the New York high school in 1824-25. He resigned from the board of Commissioners of Public Charities in March, 1831, having held the office of general superintendent, and having had charge of all the public
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charities institutions of New York for many years. The first suggestion of a house for juvenile delinquents came from him, and upon his advice, and through his instrumentality, Blackwell's Island was purchased for the city. He was a large-hearted and philanthropic man. He was a charter member of Tammany Hall when it was an Agricultural Society. He had a large experience of men and affairs, and in his judgment the men of greatest influence in public life were lawyers, and his great desire was that his son Arthur should become a power in the world for good.
Arthur Burtis married (first), in 1799, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Hendrickson, of Hempstead. She died in 1802, leaving one sol:, Thomas, born in 1800, died in 1829, having been twice married, leaving one daughter, who died in 1850, unmarried. Mr. Burtis married (second) in 1804, Elizabeth, daughter of Drake Palmer, of Mama- ronock, Long Island. This second wife was truly a Daughter of the Revolution, being born in February, 1782, while her parents were living at Mamaronock, near New Rochelle, while the English were still in pos- session of New York. Drake Palmer was blind and when medicines or provisions were needed for the family his wife, Abigail ( Brown) Palmer, was obliged to take a trip to the city, going on horseback wearing a scarlet cloak with a hood. It was a ride of twenty miles, and the country swarmed with soldiers. She brought her family through these perilous days, and lived to the great age of one hundred and two years. Her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Arthur Burtis, was no discredit to her parentage. In 1799, when yellow fever raged in New York, she proved herself a St. Elizabeth, brave, loving, faithfully administering to the wants of the sick and dying. She lived to be eighty-one years old, was the honored mother of a large family, and is buried at Phelps, Ontario county, New York.
(VI) Arthur (2) Burtis, eldest son of Arthur ( I) and Elizabeth (Palmer ) Burtis, was born in 1807 in his parents' home on the shore of the East River, which was the home of Lindley Murray at the time of the revolution. After two years at Columbia, Arthur Burtis completed his college course at Union, now Hobart College, Geneva, New York. He was organizer of the first secret college fraternity in the United States, Kappa Alpha. He then entered the law office of James Otis Morse, of Cherry Valley, and afterwards that of Hugh Maxwell and later of Kent & Foote, of New York, where he enjoyed the instruction of Chancellor Kent. He left the study of law before being admitted to the bar and entered Princeton Seminary. There and subsequently
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at Auburn, New York, he qualified for the ministry. For thirty years he held pastorates in Buffalo, New York, then accepted the chair of Greek Literature in Miama University at Oxford, Ohio, but his death occurred six months later. He married Grace Ewing Phillips, of Boston, Massachusetts. Children: Morse, of Brooklyn; Arthur, paymaster inspector of United States navy; Peter, of Buffalo; Mary Elizabeth, residing in Buffalo, New York; Grace Phillips; Jeanie, wife of Rev. E. C. Lawrence.
(VI) Sarah Burtis, eldest daughter of Arthur (I) and Elizabeth (Palmer ) Burtis, married before the family left New York, Francis Windsor, a native of England, and a member of an honored family. He was a school teacher. Children : Lloyd, Mary, Charles Windsor. The descendants of this branch of the family reside in Hornell, N. Y.
(VI) Armenia Burtis, second daughter of Arthur (I) and Eliza- beth ( Palmer) Burtis, married Catlin Webster, and for many years they lived on the third of the farm which was her portion of her father's estate at Oaks Corners, New York.
(VI) Sylvanus Burtis, second son of Arthur ( I) and Elizabeth ( Palmer) Burtis, was a boy of fourteen when his father died. He attended school at Cherry Valley. After his return home he managed the farm. He was an ideal country gentleman. He married Elizabeth Post, whose family is well known in Ontario county, living north of Oaks Corners. They had one son, Sylvanus Jr., with whom the father lives in California, being ninety-two years old.
(VI) Charles Burtis, youngest child of Arthur (I) and Eliza- beth ( Palmer) Burtis, was born February 17, 1825. He resided with his mother in the old homestead. At the marriage of his brother Syl- vanus he removed to the east third of the farm, where he erected a house for himself and bride. He married, October 6, 1846, Catherine, daugh- ter of Gaius Granger and sister of General Gordon Granger, who was graduated from West Point in 1845. He served through the Mexican and the civil wars; he was a natural soldier; he knew not fear; he did not fight for glory or rank but for pure love of it, and he left a name and record of which all who bear his name may be proud. Of the seven children of Charles and Catherine (Granger) Burtis four are livng, three of whom reside in Ontario county: Arthur Benjamin, see for- ward; Emma J., resides in Phelps, New York; Henry Baldwin, married Serena Newton, daughter of Scoville and Emma De Ette (Newton) Shear ; children : Emma De Ette, Charles Henry, Clara Elema, Cathe- rine Louise; the family reside at Oaks Corners, Henry B. Burtis being
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connected with Dilman Brothers; Clara T., married Rev. Charles F. Porter, son of Rev. Jermain Porter, D. D .; children : Jermain, Kath- erine, Arthur Bodine; they reside in Albany, New York.
(VII) Arthur Benjamin Burtis, son of Charles and Catherine (Granger) Burtis, is the owner of the Alberta Stock and Fruit Farm at Oaks Corners, New York, and vice-president and general manager of the Mamolith Carbon Paint Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. He mar- ried, in 1896, Louise, daughter of Elias Riggs and Emma A. (Taylor) Monfort, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
HEMIUP.
John Hemiup, the first of the line here under consideration of whom we have information, came to this country with General Lafayette. He was granted twelve hundred and eighty acres of land for his services during the revolution, but it soon passed out of his hands as he had no taste or inclination for agricultural pursuits. He married Charlotte Von Dolen, of Holland, and among his children was a son Alexander, see forward.
(II) Alexander, son of John Hemiup, was born in 1799, and died in 1888. He was a resident of Penn Yan, New York. He married Mary Mills, and among their three children was a son George M., see forward.
(III) George M., son of Alexander Hemiup, was born November 22, 1822, in Penn Yan, New York. He was reared and educated there, and at the age of eighteen removed to Geneva. New York, and entered the employ of his uncle, Anthony Hemiup, who conducted the most extensive mercantile business in that city. He remained in the employ of his uncle until the death of the latter, and then assumed charge of the business, continuing in the grocery and crockery business until his retirement from active pursuits in the year 1886. Mr. Hemiup devoted considerable time to the reading of good literature, was devoted to his home and family, and was averse to taking part in public affairs. He was a consistent member of the Universalist church, contributing of his time and means to its building up. He married, November 12, 1851, Maria Remington, eldest daughter of Rev. Seth W. Remington, pastor of the Universalist church, and his wife, Maria ( Pickering) Remington, and a direct descendant on the maternal side of Timothy Pickering, of revolutionary fame, and of Caleb Cushing. Children: May, born February 3 1853. died February 17, 1861 ; Verna, born March 10, 1868, married, April 9, 1887, James M. Haley, of Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Hemiup died
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suddenly from heart failure, July 14, 1886, leaving a widow and one daughter, afore mentioned.
Maria (Remington) Hemiup, widow of George M. Hemiup, was born in Boston, Erie county, New York, March 18, 1832. Descending from a long line of scholars and statesmen, it is not strange that she should have inherited an inquiring mind. Her whole life has been spent in study and research. Her husband always encouraged her in all her undertakings, and in 1871 she drew the plans for her large home on Gen- esee street. Contractors refused to build the house unless the plans were submitted to an architect for revision and correction. This Mr. and Mrs. Hemiup refused to do, but at last the house was built in 1873, the build- ers one and all refusing to take any responsibility in the matter, but when the house was completed it was found that the plans had been correct in every particular. Mrs. Hemiup still resides in the house she planned and built so many years ago; her daughter and son-in-law reside with her. On May 5, 1866, Mrs. Hemiup published her first scientific article in the columns of the Rochester Express. This article attracted wide attention, as in it she claimed that ice formation was not a deviation from natural law as had always been supposed. In 1886, after devoting twenty years to study of the subject, she published her first book "Law of Heat." This volume was in support of her theory and advanced her "Moulten river" theory. This work was widely read and Mrs. Hemiup has in her possession scores of letters from the most noted scientists of Europe and America in reference to her work. At the age of seventy-six, Mrs. Hemiup published "Our World," and now ( 1911), at the advanced age of seventy-nine, she still hopes to complete another large work. Mr. and Mrs. Hemiup were ardent believers in the woman suffrage movement, and the political articles of Mrs. Hemiup in the Geneva papers carried much weight for many years. Mrs. Hemiup was aunt of the late Frederic Remington. She died after a week's illness, September 11, 1911. The funeral services were conducted by a woman minister, Miss Clara Morgan.
CLAYTON.
William Clayton, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, and came from London, England, in the ship "Kent," with certain commis- sioners sent out by the proprietors of New Jersey to purchase land from the Indians and perform other duties. In March. 1678-79, he purchased the share of Hans Oelson, one of the grantees of Marcus Hook. New Jer- sey, and settled at that place. He was a Quaker in religion, but he took an active and prominent part in public affairs. He was a member of
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