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Willoughby Lowell built the first saw-mill in the present village of Nunda. The Keshequa had already been harnessed to serve industries farther up the stream. This useful industry bears date of 1820. As a result, Nunda hamlet, ville and village, had but comparatively few log houses. Lumber was cheap and more easily handled than logs. The figures 1820, cut on one of the tim- bers of this mill, tells its age. He may have had a saw-mill on liis small farm, near the Grove boundary. There have been several of them built in that sec- tion since.
Every sketch writer of pioneer Nunda has told of this saw-mill built by Willoughby Lowell, but nothing else of the man or of his family, his future or his fate. The author now will take this naked fact and clothe it with the habili- ments that will bear their own distinctive characteristics. Soon after coming to Nunda, he met at his sister's, Clarissa Rawson. His sister Mariam was mar- ried to Clarissa's brother, James Harvey Rawson. She went west to visit or to teach. He went west also, and brought her back as Mrs. Lowell. The two men thus closely connected by this even exchange of sisters lived on a small farm with a stream upon it, intending to erect a sawmill : perhaps they did. They had a log house well furnished for that time, and here both couples were spending their honey moon happily. They had neighbors,-the Lowells, Mer- ricks. Paines and Brewers. An evening spent at the neighbors was the one delightful source of variety from their daily toils. This desire for society is as potent in the wilderness as in the city. But log houses with mud chimneys over wooden frames were always sources of anxiety, and when the young peo- ple after a happy evening spent with friends came in sight of their treasured home, only glowing coals and ashes marked the spot. All was gone-beds. bedding, crockery. cooking utensils, food, surplus clothing; nothing left but what they had on. We can imagine what this meant of discomfort, sorrow, loss. Mrs. Adeline Barker, daughter of Mrs. Mariam Lowell Rawson, tells how often she has heard her mother speak of the complete desolation of heart and spirit, she felt, when she found their comfortable home in ashes, for the house was theirs, and her household treasures gone. Now, reader, you have entered into the life of these households, you know them better, and though all this happened almost ninety years ago, and our newly awakened sympathy cannot take practical form, yet somehow "that touch of nature which makes all men kin" stirs within us a belated commiseration, that is, in spite of time, genuine and heartfelt. When Willoughby Lowell built, it was a house near the mill race. and a saw mill west of where Swain's grist mill was built. ten years later. The Swains bought out this mill. and Lowell, who could build saw mills as well as run them, went west. where he helped that community
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as he helped this by his enterprise, and they named (in gratitude) this place Rawsonville.
And now when your eyes have hardly had time to dry, although over twenty years of time since the events narrated, another sad scene must be nar- rated. While success attended this venture in the west, and a household of children shared their prosperity and their joy, Death came without the slightest announcement of his coming. a single misstep, a fall, a plunge into the miller s own mill race, and there is a corpse, and a burial, a widow and orphans. This is the completed story of Willoughby Lowell never told before. Mrs Clarissa Rawson-Lowell completed her life in the home of her noble son Hudson, born in Nunda, so many years ago.
III. 1. Willoughby Lowell, born June 11, 1792 ; died May 11, 1843. Mar- ried at Muncie, Mich., February 20. 1820, Clarissa Rawson.
IV. I. Frank, born in Nunda. 1821, married Angie L. Turner. 2. Hud- son, born in Nunda. 1824. died in Marinette, Wis., 1885.
III. 2. Asa, born October 6. 1794. Married *Mrs. Smith, died 1803.
IV. I. Amanda Melinda, born in 1823. Married Moses Kingsley, resi- dence, Kalamazoo, Mich.
2. Mary Vestalina, born in Nunda. June 10, 1828. Married in Michigan. 3. Frances. 4. Eliza. 5. George, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Stepchildren of Gideon and Mrs. Cookson Lowell : Samuel, born June 30, 1786, died 1876. John Cookson, born 1788, died March 28, 1842. Lydia and Elizabeth Byron, residence Battle Creek, Mich.
III. 3. Moses (son of Gideon ), (son of Moses), born October 21, 1797.
III. 4. Children of Mariam and James H. Rawson. Five sons and three daughters. See Rawson Family.
III. 5. Ebenezer Lowell, married Hancy Bowen.
JAMES HARVEY RAWSON
MRS. MARIAM LOWELL RAWSON
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IV. I. Amenzo, married Martha Gearhart, daughter of John.
V. I. Clella, married Will Pettis. 2. Hattie, married Rev. Clark. 3 Minnie. 4. Genevieve.
IV. 2. Marcello, married Mrs. Abigail Babbitt.
IV. 3. * Melissa, married Rev. L. L. Wellman.
IV. 4. * Harriet, born in 1840, died in Nunda, March 17, 1905. Married * Delos Paine, died February 23, 1897. She died 1905.
V. Children of Harriet Lowell Paine: 1. Welcome L., married Addie Fenton. 2. Grace 1., married Joseph Durkey. 3. Jay Paine (adopted).
II. The other branch.
II. David, brother of Gideon, son of Moses, born near Portland, Me., May 14, 1780, S. 1822. Married ( in Maine ) Abigail Burnell.
D. L., who came with his father to Nunda in 1822 died at Dalton, March 21, 1861. Mrs. L., died in Grove, March 29, 1859.
III. John B., came with his father to Nunda in 1822, married. He died at Charlton, N. Y., 1850. Most of this family died about this time.
IV. Ann D., married, Reed, residence Kent, Orleans County, N. Y.
III. 2. Rev. Daniel, born at Sangerfield, December 12, 1807. Died at Grove, April 13, 1863. Married *Louise Baldwin of Nunda, April 29, 1811 .. Children died at Wellsboro, Pa., 1883.
Other grandchildren of Moses Lowell.
Children of Rev. Daniel.
III. I. David B., born September 28, 1830, at Nunda. Residence Pitts- ville, Wis.
2. * Rev. Daniel Dean Lowell. born in Nunda, June 24, 1832, veteran of the Civil War, Baptist clergyman, married Lydia A. Carpenter of Angelica, she has been hopelessly insane for a quarter of a century at Willard Asylum.
Rev. Daniel D., died at Macedon, N. Y., where he had been pastor for II years. He was chaplain of the 179th. They had four daughters, but they were not born in Nunda. Mrs. Cassie Gillis lives at Macedon.
3. Eliza Celinda, born in Nunda, July 14, 1834. Married Richard Essex ยท Carpenter.
4. Rev. Julian Verinoldo, M. D., graduate Michigan State University, Medical Department, was also assistant surgeon 58th N. Y. N. G. He became a clergyman Methodist Episcopal church, studied medicine with Dr. C. F. Warner of Nunda.
5. Rev. Carlos Gould Lowell, born in Nunda, 1844 ( not a pioneer ). named for Rev. Carios Gould, a circuit preacher in Nunda and Grove, about 1840. Served in the Civil War, veteran of G. A. R., Dalton, N. Y. Pastor at Dalton. died at Angelica. 1904.
6. Mary Jane, born in Grove, 18.12. Married John Wesley Bush, resi- dence North Cohocton, N. Y.
7. Harvey Marion, born 1846.
8. Achsah Louisa, born 1848. Married Amasa T. Warren, Naples, N. Y.
9. Milo Scott, born 1855. Married at Dalton, *Carrie L. Eldridge. Died 1807. Lancaster, N. Y.
III. 3. Chauncey Lowell, son of David II; son of Moses I; born Septem- ber 28, 1800; died at Fillmore, 1883.
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IV. Moses, son of Chauncey III; son of David II; son of Moses I; born, 1836. Married the widow of Clark Brewer, Elmira Brewer.
IV. 2. * Mary, born 1838, married Henry Greenfield, born 1837.
H. G., is a veteran of Co. I, Ist. N. Y. Dragoons.
V. Their children.
1. George, married Katie Bell Atkins, daughter of Dwight A. 2. Stella, married Kelsey Coffin, son of Walter B. C. 3. Esther, married Charles A. Wright, son of Robert W. Lowell E. (single).
VI. Grandchildren of Henry Greenfield and Mary Lowell. 1. Walter Cof- fin. I. Robert G. Wright. 1. Dwight A. Greenfield.
IV. 3. Lorenzo, born 18440, a veteran Co. F, Ist N. Y. Dragoons. Mar- ried Jennie Post, sister of Rev. Bela Post, a veteran.
V. Lillian, born in Oakland.
IV. 4. Died in the service Co. F, Dragoons.
IV. 5. Esther (not a pioneer ), married Henry Brewer, grandson of James Brewer.
V. I. Nellie, preceptress Dalton Union school.
2. Eliza, died in 1823, age 10.
III. 5. Mariam Knowlton Lowell, born in Madison County, January 14, 1814. Married *Cortez, etc.
*Corlex Baldwin, son of David Baldwin of Nunda, born on May 30, 1807. died at Nunda, August 21, 1887.
Mrs. M. K. B., died July 29, 1803.
They lived all their married lives in Nunda. See Baldwin Family, Lowell Genealogy.
III. 6. Gideon, brother of Chauncey, son of David II, son of Moses, born at Sangerfield, May 13, 1816, died at Fillmore, April 21, 1887. Farmer and mer- chant, married at Nunda, Zuelma Weed, daughter of Reuben Weed. 7. Wil- liam L., son of David II, son of Moses I, born August 8, 1818. Married Van Nostrand. W. L., died at Grove, 1852. 8. David Knowlton (D. K.) born Au- gust 15, 1820, married Cornelia. D. K. Lowell well known produce buyer at Dalton, N. Y., died at Dalton, August 23, 1887.
IV. I. * Agnes, married Daniel Grunder, 2nd wife of D. G., Miss C. Annie Williams, daughter of Charles Williams. 2. Lillie married George Woodward. Jennie married William Mayo. Mina married Charles Wirt.
III. 9. Malachi, born in Nunda, 1824, Hornell, N. Y., died 1870.
III. 6. Children of Gideon Lowell and Zuelma Weed. 1. Edwin A., born in Portage. 1843. "Cultured, genial, energetic." Rochester Lowell Gen'y. 2. Corydon L., born in Portage, a soldier of the Civil War. 3. Seth Weed, born in 1845, married Jennie Snyder. A stirring business man, Inventor and manufac- turer of Whitby, Canada. 4. Maretta F., born in Portage, 1848, married John Caldwell, Lincoln, Neb. 5. Ada M., born in 1860, married Lorenzo S. Gelser of Fillmore.
HERRICK FAMILY REGISTER As furnished by George B. Herrick of Whitesville
I. Zadock Herrick, born Berwick. Mass., October 23. 1772; removed to Granby, V't., married Elizabeth Pike, 1794.
Their children were:
1. Alpheus, born October 23. 1707: 2. Zadock Jr., born March 27, 1799: 3. Mary, born November 30, 1800: 4. Lydia, born December 14, 1802: 5. John
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P., born January 10. 1805: 6. Phoebe, born June 9, 1807: 7. George B., born April 26, 1809; 8. Edward H., born November 24, 1811 ; 9. William, born July 24, 1814, diedi July, 1831, in Mt. Morris: 10. Emily, born February 19, 1816.
I. Alpheus Herrick, married Ann Maria Cookson, Nunda, April 18, 1830. Children born in Nunda :
I. William. . Mary. 3. Elizabeth.
William was a Baptist minister, he was killed at Gettysburg, while serving in a Wisconsin regiment.
2. Zadock Herrick married Sarah Mather, daughter of T. J. Mather of Nunda, a pioneer, March 15, 1826.
Their children were :
15. Keziah. 16. Clark M. Clark married Sarah Hann, daughter of John Hann, Groveland, had two daughters.
Note .- Zadock Jr., died in Nunda. 1850.
4. Mary Herrick married David J. Hamilton, pioneer, Nunda, September 20, 1823.
Their children were :
17. Jane, married Morris Phillips, who died in Nunda: afterwards mar- ried Charles M. Hendec, West Bloomfield. Three daughters were born to them. 18. George T. Hamilton, First Lieutenant Co. F, 33d N. Y. Infantry. Killed in Cuba in war with Spain.
19. Mary Ann, married John Ayres Wirt, Bloomfield, one daughter, fam- ily now reside in Chicago.
8. George B. Herrick, married Mary Wildman, West Bloomfield, Au- gust 14, 1833 ; removed to Nunda, April, 1836, one son. Died 1848.
26. George B. Jr., born in West Bloomfield. May 28, 1834. Married Mary E. Wildman, Whitesville, N. Y., September 28, 1869. Enlisted in Co. D. 33d N. Y. Infantry.
9. Edward H. Herrick, married Jane Adams. Five children born in Nunda. Died 1852.
27. Mortimer, Co. F. 33d N. Y. Died of wounds. 28. Alice Amelia, died in Nice, France, 1870 or '71. 29. Eugene a veteran. 30. Warren. 31. Lewllyn (daughter ) married Mr. Joslyn.
7. , Phoebe Herrick, married James M. Dartt, formerly a hatter in Nunda There were four children :
22. Elizabeth, died in Nunda. 23. Franklin. 24. Issora. 25. La- fayette. Mr. and Mrs. Dartt died in Conesus.
6. John P. Herrick came to Nunda with George B., in 1836. They bought a place on East Street in partnership: John sold his interest to George B., and removed to Michigan. He lost some sons in the service during the Civil War. There were two boys in the family when they ieft Nunda.
II. * Emily Herrick lived in Nunda several years, married after removal from Nunda, died several years ago.
THE PRENTICE FAMILY-1818
The Bennetts mention the Prentice family living near them, as most if not all of these early pioneers took up lands without consulting land agents, it is
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possible in that early time 1814 to 1816 that the Prentice family lived in Nunda.
I. Nathan Prentice and Elisha Prentice settled 1818. The mother of these sons, Betsey ( Elizabeth ) died in Nunda, 1823, age 90.
II. I. John, married Eliza Borroughs, daughter of Stillwell B.
II. 2. Hiram married Mary Gifford.
Their children :
III. I .* Orville (a veteran of the Civil War), married Amelia Pierce. 2. William Wallace, married in Pennsylvania. 3. George H. soldier, Co. F. 33, died in the service. 4. Emaline. 5. Elizabeth. 6. Melissa Jane. 7. Mehi- table, married James Wilcox, residence Center Street, Nunda. 8. Nathan, single. 9. Ellen Isabel, married George Flydie, Tuscarora, N. Y.
Ellen Isabel, married George Flydie, Tuscarora, N. Y.
Children of Jolin and Eliza Prentice.
Addie, married Adelbert Watrouse of Nunda. Elizabeth, married Mcln- tire. * Sarah, married *Jolin Crumack. Amanda, married Henry McCartney, who died in Nunda.
Henry McCartney's second wife. Jennie Howd of Nunda.
Catharine, married Lucius C. Fenton (veteran). James married Besimee Runyon. Sarah, married Joseph Denton. Isabel, married Edward Rathbon, State Street, Nunda. Then have seven sons.
III. Addie, married Frank Fencedemaker. Edward, married in Dakota.
Grandma Prentice died at the home of her son Elisha in 1822 or 23, aged 90 years. If so she must have been born about 1733. She was the second per- son buried in Oakwood cemetery.
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THE BAKERS OF BAKER'S CORNERS
One of the few families that settled in Nunda in 1818, was the family of Ephraim Baker. Baker's Corners have been in existence nearly ninety years, five generations of Bakers have lived in Nunda, on the southwest corner of Norton now Wells tract, a large farm was located at this early day.
The sons of Ephraim were:
Leonard, born in 1818, and if born in Nunda, one of the very first children born in the town, and Ephraim, Jr.
Leonard, married Patterson. He died in 1902, age 84 years. His sons are Alonzo D., Amenzo and Alvaro. Ephraim Jr., is still living in Topeka, Kansas, and is about 87 or 88 years of age.
The children of Ephraim Jr., are Charles, Stillman, Freeman, Rebecca (Mrs. Ira Town), Sally and Frank, a half brother who was killed by a boiler ex- plosion at Dalton. His sons are Adelbert and Frank Jr.
III. Alonzo D. Baker, son of Leonard, was born in 1839. Married Mary E. Ward, born in Allegany County in 1840. He is a farmer (225 acres), was a drover and stock dealer now a produce buyer. He has also established a bank at Dalton. He is at this time sixty-seven years young, and one of the most active and energetic men of the thriving village of Dalton. He was born in time to be classed with the third generation of pioneers.
His children were three in number. * Dorr .A., born in 1859. Married Esther Benson. He became editor of the Dalton Era.
L. Earnest, born in 1861. Married Esther Doud Four children.
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Plinn W., born 1875, married Blanch Westbrook of Nunda. A fifth gen- eration will perpetuate the name.
Miss Zada Baker, adopted daughter was married October, 1907, to Myron W. Smith, grandson of Myron Smith, son of Darting Smith an early pioneer of Granger, Nunda. ( 1818).
1818.
I. Cornelius Acker, Sr., S. in Nunda, 1818, died soon after settling in Nunda. Mrs. Acker married Arba Town. Children of C. A. and Mrs. A.
II. I. Cornelius Acker, Jr., married Elvira Parker, daughter of Lyman Parker. 2. Phebe Acker. married 1, Gifford ; 2, Wetherby.
III. Daniel Gifford, married Mary Santee.
IV. Belle, married Myrton Bentley.
II. 2. William Acker.
*Lyman Parker was killed by an imbecile, John Emmons, Jr., who kicked him on both sides of the head. The imbecile died in the County House, Geneseo.
II. 3. Nancy Acker, married. 4. Eliza. married late in life A. Town. 5. William Acker, soldier from Nunda, died in the service. Marker at Dalton.
I. Eliza, married William Christee. 2. Lucy, married Peter Van Hou-
ten. 3. Jane, married James Fox.
II. William Acker (went west) ; Susanna.
Philena married Wadsworth Pierce.
Children of Phebe Acker and Wetherby.
II. Edwin Wetherby. railroad engineer.
III. Delina Wetherby, married Charles Maker, son of Rev. Archalaus Maker. C. M., produce buyer and merchant, student Nunda Literary Institute.
THE DANIEL JOHNSON FAMILY-1818
The writer had occasion several years ago to visit Jesse Brewer and his wife Mary J. (Johnson ) Brewer, about a year before this couple passed away.
Mr. Brewer was claiming he was the first white child born in the town ot Nunda.
Almiron Paine made the same claim for himself and twin sister born in 1819. One party claimed the other was born in the town of Grove, when it was a part of Nunda, and that that did not count.
Mrs. Brewer listened a while to the arguments, and then said, "The John- sons are just as much pioneers as the Brewers, if they don't live forever. I was born," she said, "in the town of Nunda more than eighty years ago."
This lead me to look up the record and I find that the Johnsons were in- deed among the very early permanent settlers, (though they also lived part of the time in the town of Grove). They settled .first in Nunda in 1818, and Mrs. Mary Jane Brewer was their eldest child born in 1820.
The following record copied from the family Bible now in possession of the step daughter and niece of Jesse Brewer, is interesting and confirms the claims of carly settlement and furnishes a family of ten children, the usual num- ber in pioneer families. I find also that Mr. Johnson was born in the same year my father was and died the same year that he died. 1797 and 1884.
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Daniel Johnson, born June 9th, 1797, died January 22, 1884. Elizabeth. his wife, born January 8, 1798, died March 21st. 1870.
Mary Jane, born Angust 27th, 1820. Married Jesse Brewer, born 1820. John H., born June 13, 1822. Elijah F .. born February 19, 1825. Alonzo M., May 20, 1827. Norman M., May 4, 1829. Lucina C., August 17, 1831. Hiram D., March 24, 1834. Married Abbie Jane Bentley. Moses J., March 9, 1836. Harriet S., June 25, 1838. Married John Utter. George S., August 13, 1842.
Of these all lived till middle life or beyond except Norman who died at the age of 10 and Lucina who lived but three years. At the present time those that survive are Hiram, Moses, Harriet.
The following newspaper notice of the death of this pioneer from the Nunda News, is reproduced at this time as it tells its story of toil as well as of life. He evidently died at the home of one of his daughters, while his funeral was in our village at the home of his first born.
"In Warren, Pa .. January 24, 1884, Mr. Daniel Johnson, of paralysis, aged 87 years. His funeral was attended on Sunday, January 25, from the resi- dence of Jesse Brewer. Portage Street, Nunda.
Deceased was born in Duchess County, June 9th, 1797, was married in Cayuga County to Miss Spangler. He settled in Nunda in 1818, when this country was a wilderness, and has lived to see the great changes that have taken place. He has resided many years in the town of Grove, he had reared a large family, one of whom is our townsman Mr. Hiram Johnson. Several members of the family reside in Pennsylvania, Eliza. Moses, and George S. Johnson of Duke Center, Pa., and Mrs. J. Utter of Warren, Pa., all of whom were present at the interment of their father's remains in the Snider cemetery. It is thought he and his six sons have manufactured more lumber than any other family that have ever lived in Livingston County. Thus the old pioneers are fast passing away."
The family of Hiram who married Abbie Jane Bentley, a sister to Melissa (Hagadorn) Town.
The children are:
Mrs. Frank DeMocker ; Charles Johnson, Esq., an attorney, and Mrs. Wal- ter Chandler.
THE TOWN FAMILIES WITH AN INDIAN STORY.
Settled on Lots 100 ( W. & I. Town) Wells Tract.
I. * William Town and Esther, died aged 90.
II. * Ira Town, married *Rebecca Baker. *Arba Town (lot 99), married Mrs. Nancy Acker or Ecker : 2 (late in life) Eliza Acker.
III. * Alfred Town ( died young.)
Children of Ira and Rebecca Baker Town.
Esther Sophia, married Dr. Charles F. Warner. Nancy, married Morgan Veley. William Ephraim, married Emma Veley. Rev. Arba, married Fanny Paine, daughter of Carlos Paine, residence at Spencerport. F. Marion ( a vete- ran), married Maria Veley. Walter E. (a veteran), married Mrs. Melissa Hagadorn.
II. * Sophia, married a veteran of N. Y., 1812, Lyman H. Newton. Mrs. Newton was a milliner and lived on First Street. She also kept boarders (stu-
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dents of the Nunda Literary Institute). She died January, 1891, age 91. * John moved away. * Samuel, married.
III. 1. Henry, son of Samuel, married ---- Parker. Charity, married Seneca Merithew.
IV. 2. Martha. married Bert Skellinger. 3. Harriet, married Thompson. 4. George, married Wirt.
Mary Jane, Elmira, married Goodamont, #Esther, Frank, married Holly, *Sophia.
The Town family have an Indian story in connection with their ancestor, the father of William Town. the Nunda Pioneer of 1818. that is well known be- cause it was printed years ago by Salem Town, the compiler of a series of Read- ing Books and a spelling book, used in our schools a half century ago. A Mr. Town, a relative of Salem Town, and the father of William Town, was a Rev- olutionary soldier, and was taken prisoner by the Indians in winter. Some of the Indians had procured some skates and were practicing on the ice. They thought it would be amusing to let their captive have a few falls on the ice, and as he claimed not to be a skater. they bound them on his feet, and he proved at first very amusing, as he fell again and again, and seemed to be taking his first lessons. They ran races with him as he began to improve, but as they left him far behind. they tried their skill with one another, and when they were beyond the reach of arrows, he proved an expert and soon placed him- self beyond their reach by skating away from them to safety.
II. 6. Ruel Town lived on First Street, Nunda. Married Emaline Johnson.
Children. * Etta, married Obed Howell, Canada. Eva Belle, lives in Nunda.
II. 7. Lucinda Town.
Daniel, married - Davenport. Tom lives in Ogdensburgh, N. Y. *Sophia buried in Oakwood. Charles.
CHAPTER III.
PIONEERS OF 1819 AND 1820-THE HEATHS AND SATTERLEES
T T HESE families settled in what is now the village of Nunda in 1819. Asa and James Heath, and Alanson Hubbell came the same year. Joel Satterlee came also, Asa Heath's wife, Amy, was his sister. Joel had 35 acres, Asa and James about 65 each, Alanson Hubbell 30. Joel Jr., and Haisey, then or afterward bought 2 acres each on East Street, along the Keshequa Trail. With the exception of William Goulds who had a log house on what is now State Street, opposite the Union Block of to-day, and McSweeny the Land Agent, there were no settlers in the future village.
Asa was a hunter and taxadermist, James an innkeeper. Hubbell was. a tinsmith. All nicely adapted to become village builders but there is no evi- dence that they suspected to help bring this about.
The sons of Joel and Esther Satterlee, who died at the great age of 92. were Joel Jr., Halsey, Leroy and Nelson. Joel was a shoemaker. Halsey a wagon maker, Leroy a scholar and teacher. Sylvester, brother of Joel Sr ..
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settled on Seager farm a few years later, but his son, Barton, (the father of John, who died in the Civil War, Barton Jr., Eugene and Marion Satterlee ), lived in the village and helped to develop its industries. Halsey built, after clearing away the scrub oaks and bushes on the north side of the old trail ( East Street ), the A. C. Colby-Cleveland house and Joel built the Cyrus Rose
house, east of it and planted the orchard, that grown worthless with age, : caused to be cut down, a few years ago. Two trees remain on the Joel Sa terlee lot, one an oak, then a mere sapling and the other, an acacia, thorn fern locust, was planted by Cyrus Rose, 75 years ago. The shops of the e workmen no longer exist. All the four houses built by Joel Satterlee and his sons are in existence now, but the one built by Joel, which served as the home of the late Cyrus Rose, has been moved to Fair Street.
The children of Joel and Esther Satterlee were Joel Jr., Halsey, Leroy and Nelson.
The brothers and sister of Joel Satterlee were Sylvester, Amy, (Mrs. Asa Heath ), and Asa.
Eri Satterlee was a relative, a cousin of Barton Sr.
The only son of Halsey Satterlee, Artemus, died while young. The chil- dren of Joel Jr., were: Electa. George (died in the Civil War), Leroy, Har- riet, Charles, Sarah and Lewis.
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