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BROWN, DANIEL, 1830, 1, 2, 50, 1, GRIFFIN, SENECA, 1834. 2, 3 4, 62.
BROWN, SILAS, 1802, 3, 4.
COFFIN, ELISHA, 1863, 4, 5.
CORNELL, BENJAMIN, 1801, 2, 3, 4, 5.
CRONKHITE, GEORGE, 1854, 5, 8, 9, 60.
CURTIS, ENOS, 1805.
DEAN, DAVID M., 1844, 5, 6, 7. EDDY, JOHN, 1793.
HARRIS, MOSES JR., 1808. -
HAVILAND, DANIEL S., 1848, 9.
HAVILAND, ROGER, 1813, 15, 17, 18. HERALD, JOHN, 1868, 9.
him are descended the numerous families of Motts and Carys in this and the adjoining town of Moreau. From time to time he was chosen to fill various other offices in the town. He is said to have erected the first framed house in Queens- . bury. It was situated on one of the sections in the town plot, near the Half-way brook, and it was burned during Burgoyne's advance together with the mills at the falls and several of the dwellings. They subsequently, and probably about the time of Burgoyne's advance, in the early part of the Revolutionary war, re- turned to Dutchess county. Joseph, who afterwards removed to Moreau, where he died 15th of 11th month, 1826, left the following provision in his will :
" And I do will and order that my father, Ichabod Merritt, be supported by my executors out of my own estate ;" showing that his father then still survived. It is believed that he died in Dutchess county, although the author has no certain record of that event.
TEARSE, PETER B., 1798.
THOMAS, ISRAEL, 1792, 3.
WING, ABRAHAM, 1767, 8.
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CIVIL LIST.
HITCHCOCK, ALFRED F., 1856. HUBBELL, SHADRACH, 1794.
PIXLEY, LEWIS L., 1853. POWELL, CALEB, 1766.
JENKINS, PALMER B., 1824, 5, 6, RICHARDS, EDMUND B., 1853. 35, 6, 7, 8, 55. JENKINS, SIMEON, 1809. JONES, DANIEL, 1771, 2.
ROBARDS, WILLIAM, 1795, 6, 7. ROBINSON, WILLIAM, 1848, 9, 50. SANFORD, DAVID, 1806.
LAPHAM, STEPHEN, 1793, 8, 9, SANFORD, GEORGE, 1827, 8. 1800, 1. SEELYE, DAVID, 1786, 7. SEELYE, JULIUS F., 1870. MAHONEY, CORNELIUS, 1873.
MALLORY, JOHN, 1807, 8, 9, 10, 11, SEELYE, NEHEMIAH, 1775, 6, 7, 8. 12, 19, 20, 1. SEELYE, REUBEN, 1823.
MERRITT, ICHABOD, 1767, 8, 9, 75, SIMMONS, HIRAM, 1865. 6. 4
MOON, ROBERT, 1794, 5, 6.
MORGAN, ALONZO W., 1826.
MOSHER, ISAAC, 1845, 6.
ODELL, JACOB, 1818, 19, 20, 1, 2. PARSONS, ELNATHAN, 1822, 7, 8, WASHBURN, MILES, 1786. 9,30. PECK, EDMUND, 1816. PECK, DARIUS, 1857.
PECK, HERMON, 1837, 8, 9, 40, 1, 2, 3. PECK, PETER, 1788, 9, 90, 1. PETTIT, MICAJAH, 1814.
PHILO, HENRY, 1831, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 61, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 70, 1, 2, 3. PITCHER, JONATHAN, 1787.
SPENCER, HENRY, 1824, 5. TEARSE, ARCHIBALD C., 1863. VAUGHN, JAMES, 1807, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17. VAUGHN, STEPHEN, 1866, 7.
WINCHIP, ANSEL, 1833, 47. WINCHIP, JOEL, 1840, 1, 2, 3, 4. WING, ABRAHAM, 1766, 7, 8, 9, 70, 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 80, 3, 4, 5, 92. WING, BENJAMIN, 1777, 8, 80, 97, 8, 9, 1800, 6.
WING, NEHEMIAH, 1856, 7, 8, 9, 60, 1, 71. WRIGHT, JOB, 1770.
COMMISSIONERS OF HIGHWAYS.1
ATHERTON, ARCHIBALD P., 1863, BENTLEY, STEPHEN, 1837, 1866, 7, 4,5.
8,9,70.
BABCOCK, PHINEAS, 1784, 5, 6, 7. BARTOW, ELIJAH, 1792, 3.
BRAYTON, WILLIAM, 1845, 6. BROWN, BENEDICK, 1775, 6, 7, 9.
BROWN, DANIEL, 1833. BROWN, SILAS, 1783, 1804.
BEADLESTONE, HENRY JR., 1803, 4, 5. BEADLESTONE, STEPHEN, 1802, 20. BROWN, VALENTINE, 1790, 1. BENTLEY, JOHN, 1873. BUCKBEE, ISRAEL, 1835. BENTLEY, RICHARD, 1832, 4, 5. BURNHAM, HALSEY, 1830, 1, 2.
1 Until 1784, the office of pathmaster included all the duties devolving upon the commissioners of highways, and was so designated in the records.
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BUTLER, ZACHARIAH, (a) 1774.
CHAMPLIN, DAVID, 1836.
HENDERSON, JAMES, 1814.
HITCHCOCK, JOHN H., 1815.
CORNELL, BENJAMIN, 1795.
HUBBELL, DUDLEY A., 1818, 19.
DARLING, GERSHOM, 1790, 1.
HUBBELL, FREDERIC, 1825.
DEAN, DAVID M., 1834, 8, 51.
HUBBELL, JONATHAN, 1786.
DUNHAM, ELIJAH, 1814, 15.
HUBBELL, SHADRACH, 1793, 4.
FAIRCHILD, ASAHEL, 1833.
FERGUSON, HENRY, 1839.
FERRISS, JOHN A., 1807, 23. FERRISS, WARREN, 1795.
FOLGER, ELISHA, 1792, 7.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM, 1777.
KENDRICK, JABEZ, 1820.
KIMBERLY, ISRAEL, 1822.
GOODSPEED, STEPHEN, 1845, 6, 7, KINGSLEY, JOHN, 1872. 8.
GREEN, AMOS, 1827, 8.
GRIFFIN, BARTHOLOMEW, 1827, 9, LOCKE, IRA, 1849, 50. 39.
GRIFFIN, ISAAC B., 1837.
MILLER, JOHN J., 1849, 50, 1.
GURNEY, JOSEPH, 1843.
MORGAN, ALONZO W., 1843.
GURNEY, WILLIAM B., 1858, 9, 60, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 70.
MORGAN, REUBEN, 1800, 1. MOSHER, ISAAC, 1823, 4, 5, 44.
HARRIS, BRAYTON, 1857, 8, 9.
HARRIS, DANIEL, 1810, 11.
HARRIS, ELIPHALET, 1860, 1, 2.
HARRIS, JOHN B., 1840, 1.
HARRIS, MORRIS, 1843.
PECK, HERMON, 1829.
HARRIS, MOSES, 1818, 26.
PITCHER, ALFRED, 1814, 20, 1.
HARRIS, MOSES JR., 1806, 7, 8, 9. PITT, LEVI, 1794.
HAVILAND, DANIEL S., 1850, 1, 2. PLATT, ELMORE, 1833, 4, 40.
HAVILAND, JOSEPH, 1840, 56, 7, 8. PUTNAM, BENAJAH, 1766, 7.
JENKINS, JEDEDIAH, 1796, 7, 1800, 1. JENKINS, PALMER B., 1821, 2, 30, 1, 47, 8, 9.
FREEMAN, JONATHAN W., 1838.
FULLER, EBENEZER, 1778.
KIPP, RULIFF, 1842, 1872. LAPHAM, STEPHEN, 1798, 9.
MERRITT, ICHABOD, 1769.
ODELL, AUSTIN, 1795.
PALMER, TIM M., 1821, 2, 4.
PALMETER, JAMES, 1827, 8, 30, 1, 2.
(a) From whom Butler brook, is understood to have derived its name. This is a small affluent of the Half-way brook, made up of three small streams which have their origin in the swamps and swales west of the village. It was at the upper branch, still a much resorted to watering place, just north of the Warren county fair grounds, where General Washington with his staff stopped to drink, while on his way to Crown Point in 1783. Walter Briggs, who was at work in an adjoining field, was hailed by the party, and he brought his pail and tin cup, and dipped up water for the entire party. In the Washington correspondence are several allusions to this journey. Butler is represented as having lived near the Knox place on the Bay road. Being a tory, at the outbreak of the Revolution, he secreted his effects, burying some of them in the cellar, and fled to Canada. At the time of Carleton's raid in 1780, the house was burned. Butler never returned.
CODNER, HENRY, 1835, 6. COFFIN, JOHN, 1848.
HAVILAND, ROGER, 1852, 3. HAY, UDNEY, 1789.
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RICHARDS, EDMUND B., 1837. RIPLEY, ASA, 1817.
RIPLEY, DOCTOR, 1819.
ROBARDS, WILLIAM, 1784, 5, 6, 7, WINCHIP, JOEL, 1796, 1802, 3, 5, 8, 9, 90, 1, 8, 9.
ROGERS, JEREMIAH, 1816, 17.
SANFORD, GOOLD, 1826.
SEELYE, REUBEN, 1810, 11, 12, 13, WING, ABRAHAM, 1772, 3, 6, 80, 4, 14, 16, 17. 5, 8.
SEELYE, REUBEN JR., 1836. SELLECK, JONAS, 1854, 5, 6.
WING, BENJAMIN, 1768, 71, 5, 83, 7, 8, 9, 92, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9.
WING, BENJAMIN JR., 1818, 19.
SHERMAN, BURDEN, 1838, 9. SPENCER, HENRY, 1804, 5, 6, 8, 10, WING, JOSEPH, 1802, 9.
WING, NEHEMIAH, 1812, 13.
11, 16. STAPLES, ANSON R., 1868, 9, 70, 1. WING, RICHARD, 1844, 5, 6, 7, 8, SWEET, DODGE, 1841, 2. 52, 3, 4.
THOMAS, SETH, 1823, 4, 5, 6. TIBBITS, BENJAMIN, 1800, 1, 3. VANDUZEN, JOHN R., 1861, 2, 3. WELLS, HIRAM, 1855, 6, 7.
WING, WILLIAM, 1815. WOOD, JOHN, 1842. WRIGHT, JOB, 1770.
FORESTERS.1
BROWN, SILAS, 1775. PUTNAM, ASAPH, 1776.
SEELYE, NEHEMIAH, 1775, 6. WING, ABRAHAM, 1775, 6.
COLLECTORS.
ALLEN, KING, 1833, 4, 51. ALLEN, WARREN, 1858.
ATHERTON, ARCHIBALD P., 1867. BABCOCK, PHINEAS, 1777, 8.
CARPENTER, JOHN S., 1855. CARSWELL, JOHN, 1785. COFFIN, JOHN P., 1844. COFFIN, SANFORD, 1850.
BAILEY, JOSEPH, 1790. " For Jes- COMSTOCK, SAMUEL, 1863. sup's Patent." CORBETT, JOHN, 1872, 3.
BITLEY, MELVILLE, 1859, 60, 1, 2, CORNELL, BENJAMIN, 1798, 9. 6,9,70. BRIGGS, WILLIAM, 1854. BROWN, DANIEL V., 1848, 9. BROWN, DANIEL V., 1868, 71. BROWN, SILAS, 1775, 80.
CROSSETT, WILLIAM, 1846, 7. EDDY, JOHN, 1788, 90, 1. ELLIS, ENOCH, 1831. FERRIS, ALFRED, 1815, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 1.
1 At the regular town meetings of 1775 and 6, it was voted "that any person or persons who shall harbor or entertain or assist any person or persons from any county to hunt or kill any fawn, buck, or doe, in Queensbury, in ye year ensuing shall forfeit and pay to the town treasurer the sum of five pounds for the youce of the poor."
It was further voted that the above named persons be appointed " to inspect persons that shall hunt the deer in Queensbury for the year ensuing."
WELLS, JAMES, 1841. WELLS, JOEL, 1853, 4, 5. WINCHIP, ANSEL, 1828, 9.
6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 44. WINCHIP, RANSOM J., 1859, 60, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
FERRISS, JAMES, 1792.
ODELL, NATHANIEL, 1800.
FULLER, EBENEZER, 1774, 9, 88, 9, PIERSONS, ARZEL, 1810, 11, 12.
GAYGER, WILLIAM H., 1857. GREEN, ARCHIBALD C., 1841. GREEN, IRA, 1838, 9, 40. HARRIS, ASA, 1793, 4. HAWLEY, MARTIN F., 1837.
HENDRYX, BENJAMIN, 1801, 2. HICKS, JACOB, 1772.
HUBBELL, ICHABOD, 1796. JENKINS, RANSOM, 1830. - JUDD, DENMAN C., 1842, 3. MARTIN, HENRY, 1787.
SANFORD, ELNATHAN, 1804, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. SEELYE, NEHEMIAH, 1783, 4. SMITH, WALTER JR., 1852, 3. SPENCER, HENRY JR., 1836. TILLOTSON, GEORGE J., 1864.
MERRITT, ICHABOD, 1766, 7, 8, 9, TRIPP, THOMAS, 1786. 71, 3. MOON, SOLOMON, 1791, 2, 3. MOSHER, ISAAC JR., 1845. ODELL, AUGUSTINE M., 1835. ODELL; BENAJAH, 1803.
WILLARD, GEORGE, 1865. WING, ABRAHAM JR., (a) 1814. WING, BENJAMIN, 1770, 6. WHITE, JAMES, 1822, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,9.
(a) ABRAHAM WING was the youngest of seven children, and was born in this village on the 17th of August, 1791.
His mother, Polly McKie, was nearly related to the family of that name in the eastern part of Washington county. His father, Abram, was the youngest son of Abraham Wing the pioneer, a sketch of whose career is given elsewhere. The settlement, which in the slow process of years has expanded to the proportions of a large and populous village, was originally known by the name of Wing's Falls, a name which has a better claim to our speech than the one it bears.
With such scant facilities as the sparsely settled country then afforded, Mr. Wing succeeded in acquiring the elements of a sound business education, which served him through a long and busy life in the management of a vast and com- plicated business, and the widely extended relations of a large and continually in- creasing estate.
Among his first ventures was a co-partnership with the late Josiah L. Arms, in the mercantile business at Emerson's Corners in the town of Wilton, Saratoga county New York. He was afterwards, at various times and for a series of years, associated in different business enterprises with the leading men of the place ; such names as Walter Geer jr., George Sanford, William McDonald, and others gone before, but whose thrift, enterprise, and energy have left their impress upon our local affairs and contributed largely to the growth and prosperity of our village. With the opening up of the Northern canal, and the construction of the Glen's Falls feeder, a rare opportunity presented for utilizing the resources of the neigh- borhood and county. Mr. Wing had the forecast and judgment requisite for improving the golden chance, by bringing to market the splendid pines with which the great Brant lake tract abounded. This rich and extensive lumber region, previously operated by the Fox brothers, Alanson and Norman, had come' into the possession of parties in Troy, who in casting about for some one to man- age the business were referred to Mr. Wing as the most suitable and competent person in all this region, for the undertaking. To his sagacity and clear sighted
PITCHER, BENJAMIN, 1797. PITTS, LEVI, 1795.
RAMSAY, GEORGE B., 1856.
RANGER, SAMUEL, 1832.
RIPLEY, ASA JR., 1813.
Abraham Hing
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CONSTABLES.
ALLEN, AVERY, 1861, 4, 7, 8, 9, BROWN, CHARLES L., 1835. 70, 1, 2, 3. BROWN, ISAAC, 1840.
ALLEN, KING, 1831, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, BROWN, ISAAC S., 1837, 42.
44, 50, 1, 2.
BROWN, STEWART, 1849.
ALLEN, WARREN, 1858, 1871, 2, 3. BUCK, DAVID, 1773, 83, 5, 92.
ATHERTON, ARCHIBALD P., 1867, 8. CAMP, GARDINER M., 1843.
BALDWIN, AMOS, 1798.
CARPENTER, JOHN S., 1855. CARSWELL, JOHN, 1785. CASWELL, JAMES, 1795.
BATES, EBENEZER, 1815, 16.
BENTLEY, STEPHEN, 1832.
BITLEY, MELVILLE, 1859, 60, 1, 2, CHAMPLAIN, JOHN M., 1856, 7. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 70.
BISHOP, LINUS, 1826.
CHAPMAN, ALVIN, 1860. CLARK, ANSEL, 1817, 18, 19, 20, 1.
BRAYMAN, MARTIN S., 1873.
COMSTOCK, SAMUEL, 1863.
BRIGGS, JABEZ, 1865, 6, 7, 8, 70, 1. CONERY, SOLOMON, 1844.
BRIGGS, WILLIAM, 1854. BROWN, CHARLES, 1855.
COOK, SAMUEL, 1784.
CORLISS, CHRISTOPHER C., 1850.
judgment do we owe the present system of river-driving and booming which annually replenishes our mills, furnishes employment to a vast array of labor, and which has substantially helped in building up our village to its present urban proportions. When he first took hold of the Brant lake property, the cry here was that the lumbering business was finished.
The plains of Queensbury, to the foot of the West mountain, had been stripped and denuded of the towering white, and majestic yellow pines which once stretched their massive boles in rich profusion from the Pitcher place to the Round pound of the Oneida. The magnificent water power of our falls was looked upon as next to worthless, and certainly not warranting the outlay re- quired in the erection of such costly mills as now adorn our water front. No one dreamed that the forest of the far northern wilderness would ever become tribu- tary to our industries. No sooner, however, had Mr. Wing taken hold of this enterprise, than a new impulse was given to the whole lumbering business of the Hudson river and its affluents. The obstructions in the outlet of Brant lake were removed, a dam and sluice way were constructed and a new field of labor was inaugurated. The novel sight was witnessed of sluicing and driving the pine logs of that wilderness region, and its wealth has been poured down the breast of the majestic Hudson, building up colossal fortunes and giving impetus and vitality to a thousand ceaseless industries. From a trusted business agent, Mr. Wing speedily became a partner, and ultimately sole proprietor of this and other large lumber interests. About the year 1853, he disposed of his business and retired from the more active pursuits of life. He was then accounted one of the wealthiest men in the vicinity. From that period up to the date of his decease his time was principally devoted to the management of his large estate.
Mr. Wing was a life long democrat, an earnest and energertic politician. In the days of his active manhood he exerted a controlling influence in his party, both in town and county ; and although no office seeker himself, those who
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
CORBETT, JOHN, 1872, 3.
FULLER, EBENEZER, 1775, 6, 88, 9.
CORNELL, BENJAMIN, 1798, 9.
COVEY, AMOS, 1833.
FULLER, NATHANIEL, 1779. GRAVES, JOHN, 1778.
CROSSETT, WILLIAM, 1844, 5, 6, 7, GREEN, HAZARD, 1839, 42. 54. GREEN, IRA, 1838, 9, 40. CUNNINGHAM, ROYAL A., 1819. DARBY, JOSEPH, 1857, 8.
GURNEY, WILLIAM B., 1853. HARRIS, ASA, 1793, 4.
DERBY, ARCHIBALD H., 1840, 1, 2, HARRIS, HENRY JR., 1839.
DINGMAN, J. H., 1868.
DOTY, ISAAC, 1784.
DUNWICK, ISAAC, 1847.
DURREEN, ALDEN, 1866, 7, 71, 2.
EASTWOOD, MARTIN, 1817, 18.
EDDY, JOHN, 1788, 9.
HOWE, APPLETON, 1854.
HOWE, CLARK, 1857.
HUBBELL, ICHABOD, 1796, 7.
JENKINS, DEWITT C., 1871, 2.
FERRISS, ALFRED, 1803, 15, 16, 17, JENKS, LYMAN, 1825, 6, 7, 8, 9.
18, 19, 20, 1.
FISHER, SIDNEY B., 1869, 70.
JONES, DANIEL, 1773, 6. JONES, JAMES, 1784.
were, generally took the precaution to ensure his kind offices, and powerful in- fluence in order to achieve their aims.
"" Like most self made men, Mr. Wing's character had its rugged sides and salient points. He was a strong, earnest, untiring friend, a bitter, uncompromis- ing and unyielding opponent ; opinionated, self-reliant, and self-willed. Public spirited and liberal, every church in the village received his benefaction, every public enterprise his handsome contribution. At the outbreak of the rebellion he was among the heaviest subscribers to the relief fund for the benefit of the wives and children of the soldiers, and contributed all along in various ways towards the raising of recruits and bounties, in order that his native town might maintain its credit in the great struggle for the preservation of the Union. He was married three times. His first wife was Abigail Barnard of Townsend, Vt. His second was Angeline B. (Vail) widow of Alexander Robertson of New York. His third Mrs. Frances A. Glass, (nee Bowman). He had no issue except by his first wife. Two children only reached adult age, both daughters and both mar- ried. He was for years subject to painful and frequently recurring attacks of ill- ness, resisted by a powerful and well preserved constitution, until at last, like a strongly rooted oak, exposed to the storms of years, he fell, and the places which knew him on earth shall know him no more. He died at his own home on the morning of the 13th of June, 1873. His deeds of generosity and kindness have embalmed his name in the memory of many still living, and in this hard and trying winter of 1874, there are poor, and destitute, and suffering families, who will miss the kind charities of
Abraham Hing
HIGSON, JAMES, 1777, 8, 80.
HOWARD, HORACE, 1831, 6, 7, 8, 47, 9, 53.
ELLIS, ENOCH, 1831, 2, 8.
ELLIS, ZABINA, 1847.
ELMS, CLINTON, 1857.
HAWLEY, MARTIN F., 1837. HENDRYX, BENJAMIN, 1801, 2, 14.
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JUDD, DENMAN C., 1843. KENWORTHY, JOHN L., 1841. KNAPP, BENJAMIN R., 1820. KNAPP, REUBEN W., 1852. LAMORIE, JOHN, 1873.
LAYTON, ISAAC L., 1848.
LEWIS, ANDREW, (a) 1775, 80. LEWIS, ROBERT, 1819, 20.
MCAULEY, HUGH, 1786, 7, 8, 9, 90. PUTNAM, ASAPH, 1766, 7, 8, 9, 70,
MARTIN, HENRY, 1786, 7.
1, 2, 4, 6, 7.
RANGER, SAMUEL, 1821, 2, 3, 4, 5.
RICE, ELIAKIM, 1817.
RIPLEY, ASA JR., 1810, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18.
MOSHER, CHARLES, 1869, 70, 1.
MOSHER, ISAAC, 1858, 9, 60, 1. MOSHER, ISAAC JR., 1841, 2, 3, 4, ROBARDS, WILLIAM, 1783.
5, 6, 8, 9, 50, 1.
NELSON, ASAPH, 1834. ODELL, AUGUSTIN M., 1833, 4, 5.
ODELL, BENAJAH, 1802, 3.
ODELL, NATHANIEL, 1800, 1.
ORTON, THOMAS, 1786, 7, 90, 1, 2, SEELYE, NEHEMIAH, 1776. 4.
PARSONS, ANDREW, 1810, 11, 12, 13.
PARSONS, ARZEL, 1808, 9, 10, 11, SHELDON, URIAH, 1822. 12, 13. PECK, DANIEL, 1799, 1800.
SIMPSON, PETER, 1816, 17.
SMITH, WALTER JR., 1852, 3, 5, 6.
PEIRSON, ELI C., 1827, 8, 30.
SPENCER, HENRY JR., 1836.
(a) ANDREW LEWIS was one of the numerous sons-in-law of Abraham Wing the founder of Queensbury. He migrated hither from New Milford, Conn., and was married to Mary, the youngest child of the family, some time anterior to the Revolution.
At the time of the Parks massacre, he was a resident of the island at the falls, then belonging to Abraham Wing and known as Wing's island. He would pro- bably have been made a prisoner at that time if there had been any boats available for the purpose. Those who tried to reach him by wauing, were deterred from near approach by his rifle. He was twice made a prisoner during the Revolu- tionary war, andt aken to Canada the first time, as elsewhere narrated, being one of a fishing party at the head of the lake at the time of the capture of Fort Anne, during Burgoyne's campaign; and the second time, at the period of Carleton's invasion, in 1781. The last time he remained until after the close of the war, receiving loans and assistance, as appears by the Wing papers, from Daniel Jones, and other refugee loyalists. Numerous descendants of this stock are still residing in the neighborhood of Glen's Falls.
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PETTYS, NATHAN, 1807, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
PETTYS, OLIVER, 1799, 1800, 1.
PITCHER, BENJAMIN, 1797, 8.
PITCHER, JONATHAN, 1785.
PITCHER, JONATHAN JR., 1793, 4, 5, 6. PITTS, LEVI, 1795.
MATTTOCKS, JOHN, 1802, 4, 5, 6, 7. RAMSAY, GEORGE B., 1856.
MAYO, JOSEPH, 1815. MILLS, CALVIN, 1831.
MOON, SOLOMON, 1791, 2.
RIPLEY, DOCTOR, 1823, 4.
ROBARDS, WILLIAM JR., 1797, 8.
SANFORD, ELNATHAN, 1804, 5, 6, 7, 8,9. SCOFIELD, WILLETT, 1848, 9. SEELYE, JULIUS F., 1866.
SEWALL, RENSSELAER, 1859, 60, 1, 2, 71. SHELDON, ELIAS H., 1869.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY.
SPENCER, HENRY 2d, 1815, 16, 17. VARNEY, HARVEY, 1855, 7, 8, 9.
SPENCER, JOHN G., 1830.
STEELE, LEWIS S., 1845, 6. STURDEVANT, LEVI, 1854.
WALKER, DAVID, 1850, 1. WEST, PLATT, 1851.
WHITE, JAMES, 1821, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,30.
TIBBITTS, BENJAMIN, 1803, 4, 5, 6. TILLOTSON, GEORGE J., 1864.
WHITE, WILLIAM, 1790, 1.
WHITNEY, GEORGE S., 1856.
WILLARD, GEORGE, 1865.
VANDUZEN, JOHN, 1824, 5, 6, 7, 8, WILMARTH, MARTIN L., 1853.
9, 30, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 40, 1, WINCHIP, ALVIN, 1852. 3, 5, 6, 8. WING, ABRAHAM JR., 1779.
VANDUZEN, JOHN JR., 1822, 3.
WING, ABRAHAM JR., 1813, 14.
VANTASSEL, HERMON D., 1829.
WING, DANIEL W., (a) 1801, 2, 4.
VAN VOORHEES, WILLIAM, 1862, 3. WING, JOSEPH, 1794, 5, 6, 7.
VAUGHN, WELLINGTON, 1862, 3, 4, WING, WILLIAM, 1803, 4, 5, 6, 7, 5.
8,9.
(a) DANIEL WOOD WING (named after the father of his paternal grandmother) was the second child of Abraham Jr., and Polly (McKie) Wing, and was born on
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the 25th of July, 1780, at the paternal homestead, a log building which stood a few rods east of the rail road crossing, at the rear of the old McDonald mansion on Warren street in this village. In October, 1781, " the year of the burning," as it was afterwards called in fireside story, while he was still a tender babe in his mother's arms, she fled at the approach of Carleton's marauding expedition and took refuge in the friendly recesses of the big Cedar swamp, that still bor- ders, with its dense undergrowth and tangle of luxuriant vegetation, the eastern boundaries of the village. The night following, she laid concealed near the spring at the foot of Sandy Hill. It is said of her that she emigrated to this country, when she was but seventeen years of age. She was a woman, if all ac- counts be true, of fine presence, and rare personal attractions; of undoubted courage and heroism, well adapted to the rude times, and rough border scenes of danger and peril in which she lived. It is stated that in the early days of the settlement, while living in the old log tavern on the site of Kenworthy's hard- ware and variety store, she killed a large rattle snake, which she found coiled by a spring of water, still in existence under Vermillia's market, and whither she had gone for her daily supply.1 The rocks and ledges by the river banks, and the numerous swamps and swales of the neighborhood, afforded shelter and refuge in those days to vast numbers of rattle snakes, and their extermination is believed
1," This island (Diamond, in Lake George), as well as the one that is close to it, formerly was so overrun with rattle snakes, that persons, when they passed the lake, seldom or ever ventured on them. A batteaux in sailing up it, went near Diamond island, and among other things it contained several hogs which swam to the shore (the boat having capsized) as did the Cana-
TRIPP, THOMAS, 1786, 7.
VANDUZEN, HALSEY, 1856.
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CIVIL LIST.
GAME CONSTABLES.
CONKEY, GEORGE W., 1873. JENKINS, DEWITT C., 1872.
FENCE VIEWERS AND APPRAISERS OF DAMAGE.1
BABCOCK, PHINEAS, 1767, 70, 84, BROWNSON, SAMUEL, 1769. 5. BUTLER, TRUELOVE, (a) 1771.
BENNETT, DAVID, 1783.
CORNELL, BENJAMIN, 1802.
BRIGGS, JEREMIAH, 1783.
DALY, PARDON, 1780. BROWN, SILAS, 1779, 92, 3, 5, 6, 7, FOLGER, ELISHA, 1790, 1, 1805. 8, 9, 1800, 1, 2, 3, 4. FULLER, EBENEZER, 1772.
to be due chiefly to the active agency of swine running at large rather than any other cause.
In his youth, there was a private school kept in the settlement by one Seba Bement, a Quaker, to whom Daniel W., as well as the other children of the family was doubtless indebted for whatever elementary education he may have had. In 1802, the town records show that he was keeping tavern in a building which stood on the site of D. H. Cowles & Co.'s, store at the junction of Ridge and Warren streets, where from various existing memoranda, it is presumed that he carried on a mixed business of merchandising and hotel keeping for a number of years.
According to the family record he was living at Sandy Hill in 1809, where he kept a tavern in a building whose site is now covered by the Middleworth House, where he continued until the year 1814, when the town records show him to be again a resident of the town of Queensbury. He must very shortly after have removed to Fort Edward, where he located and resided for a number of years in the lower part of the village, near the place now occupied by S. R. Durkee. Here he embarked in the mercantile and lumbering business and amassed a large fortune. He was a man of excellent sense and judgment, perservering, ener- getic, and tenacious of purpose. He was for many years considered the leading man of the place with which his fortunes were indentified. He married first, on the 25th of July, 1803, Rhoda Stewart of Kingsbury. She died 8th Feb., 1823 ; second, Almira Higby (still living), Aug. 18th, 1825 .. He died in the communion of the Episcopal church, 25th of May, 1856.
Irvolevo Buttler.
(a) The only information the author has succeeded in obtaining in regard to this
dians, who were rowing it up : the latter, in apprehension of the rattle snakes, climbed up trees for the night, and the next morning observing a batteaux, they hailed the people in it, who took them in and conveyed them to Fort George.
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