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Simon Plantz, Sergt. Co. E, 142d Regt., enlisted Aug. 29, 1862, and was discharged June 7, 1865.
John C. Smith, Corpl. Co. A, 14th Regt., enlisted in July, 1863, and died from wounds in spine.
John Lambie, Corpl. Co. B. 16th Regt., enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, and was discharged July 17, 1865.
John Norton, Corpl. Co. C, 60th Regt., enlisted Dec. 22, 1863, and was discharged May 27, 1865.
Thomas B. Phillips, Corpl. Co. C, 60th Regt., enlisted Oct. 28, 1861, and was discharged Oct. 29, 1862.
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There are three churches in the town, all of them located at Hammond village.
The Presbyterian Church was organized with eighteen mem- bers by Rev. James Sandford, Aug. 1st, 1821. Their first house of worship was erected in 1838 ; the present one, in 1871, at a cost of $10,000. It is tastily built and is an ornament to the village. It will seat 400 persons on the first floor, and 180 in the basement. The first pastor was James Rodgers; the present one is H. B. Swift. The Society numbers 180 mem- bers, and its property is valued at $13,000 .*
The First M. E. Church of Hammond was organized Sept. 29, 1832, and a church edifice was erected a few years after. There are 110 members, who are under the pastoral care of Rev. A. C. Woodward, our informant. The Church property is valued at $1,000.+
The Church of the Redeemer (Universalist) was organized with thirty-seven members, by Prof. J. S. Lee, Oct. 29, 1870. Their church edifice was completed in September of the same year, at a cost of $3,000. It will seat 275 persons. The Church property is valued at $4,000. Rev. D. L. R. Libby, our in- formant, was the first pastor, and continues to fill that office. The Society numbers fifty members, including "a large part of the leading minds of the town, and it consequently exerts a strong influence for good." Its aim "is to unite with all others and all good enterprises, and give hearty support in the moral and spiritual advancement of the world."
HERMON was formed from DeKalb and Edwards,
Benj. Carlyle, Corpl. Co. C, 60th Regt., enlisted Sept. 10, 1861.
Benj. Austin, Corpl. Co. C, 60th Regt., enlisted Sept. 10, 1861, and was mustered out Oct. 30, 1864.
Asa Haggerty, Corpl. Co. A, 61st Regt., enlisted Aug. 6, 1864, and was discharged Oct. 20, 1865 (?).
Geo. Wellington Lawton, Corpl. Co. B, 142d Regt., enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, and was mustered out June 7, 1865.
James Breckenridge, Corpl. Co. H, 192d Regt., enlisted in February, 1865.
Joseph Picket, Musician Co. C, 60th Regt., enlisted Sept. 30, 1861, and was mustered out in March, 1865.
John L. Lashley, Musician Co. I, 60th Regt., enlisted in February, 1864, and was discharged in October, 1864.
* Information furnished by James Rodgers.
The date of the organization of this Society is obtained from Hough's History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties.
* This name is derived from a proper name which occurs in the Bible. The word, in its original language, means anathema, destruction. The name of Depeau was derived from that of Francis Depeau of New York, who was extensively interested in the French purchase in Jefferson county, and was changed in consequence of its similarity to the name of Depeauville, in that county, which produced an irregularity in the mails.
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April 17, 1830,* as Depeau, and its name changed Feb. 28, 1834. A part was annexed to Edwards, Nov. 17, 1852. It lies south- west of the center of the county and contains 32,276 acres. The surface is generally rolling, except in the south part, where it is broken and hilly. The streams are Elm, Tanner and Carter creeks, all small. Trout Lake is in the south part, and Gardner's Pond, east of the center, has been drained and some excellent land reclaimed. Cedar Lake lies upon the line of Edwards and is mostly in that town. The soil is a sandy loam, interspersed with tracts of sand, and is best adapted to grazing. It rests upon gneiss and white limestone, in which occur some interesting minerals, the principal of which are apatite and hermatite. A vein of the latter extends in a south-west and north-east direction, and crops out at intervals for several miles. Mining operations are in progress under the Buffalo Union Iron Co., who employ about forty men and are removing thousands of tons of the very best ore. Mining is yet in its infancy in this town.
The population of the town in 1870 was 1792, of whom 1,610 were native, 182, foreign and all, white.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained twelve school districts and employed fourteen teachers. The number of children of school age was 586; the number attend- ing school, 515; the average attendance, 266; the amount ex- pended for school purposes, $3,348.94 ; and the value of school houses and sites, $4,775.
HERMON (p. v.) is situated on Elm Creek, in the north-east corner of the town, and contains two churches, one hotel, some twelve to fifteen stores of various kinds, several carriage and blacksmith shops, a grist mill, a woolen and carding mill, two cabinet shops, two saw mills and two livery barns. The popu- lation in 1870 was 573.
Hermon Village Cheese Factory, situated on Canton street, is owned and managed by Charles Risley. During the past five years the milk from an average of 700 cows has been received.
The town embraces the township of Fitz William, in Great Lot No. III. in Macomb's Purchase, except a small portion in the south-east corner, which is annexed to Edwards.
. * The first town meeting was held at the school house near Nathaniel Kent's, May 4, 1830, and the following named officers were elected : Wm. Teall, Supervisor; Benj. Healy, Town Clerk; Wilkes Richardson, Isaac C. Pool and Silas Williams, Assessors; Martin L. Cook and John Matoon, Overseers of the Poor; Simeon Peterson, Jesse Worden and Shubael Parker, Commissioners of Highways; Wilkes Richardson, Robert Gotham and Harry Tanner, Commissioners of Common Schools; Benj. Healy, Aaron Teall and C. D. Morehouse, Inspectors of Schools; Charles C. Red- field, Collector ; Ariel Wrisley and Charles C. Redfield, Constables.
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MARSHVILLE is a hamlet on Elm Creek, one mile above Hermon.
Settlement was begun several years prior to the war of 1812, by James Taylor, who located in the west part, near the line of Gouverneur. George Davis, Philemon Stewart, Ariel Inman and James Farr settled in the town in 1809 or '10, and Rufus Hopkins about the same time. Roger Story settled in town in 1813; `German Sutherland, Nehemiah Barker and Milton Johnson, (the latter from Russell,) about 1815; and David McCollum from Vermont, in 1816. Milton Johnson built the first saw mill in 1818, on Elm Creek, upon the site of Hermon village ; and a grist mill and distillery were erected by him the next year, at the same place. David McCollum opened his house for the first school, which was kept by. Wm. D. Moore in the winter of 1817-18., School was taught the next winter, in the same place, by Wesley McCollum. Miss Huldah Nickerson taught school in 1826 or '27. The room was warmed in a very primitive manner. An inverted potash kettle with a stove pipe inserted in a hole through the bottom was made to answer the purpose of a stove. Malvina Farr, who was born in 1810 or '11, was the first child born in the town. Peter Sutherland, an infant, is supposed to be the first death, in 1818, though it is asserted that the first death was that of Thomas Farr. The first marriage was contracted July 4, 1821, by Asahel Tryon and Harriet McCollum. The growth of the town was retarded by the war of 1812, and many of the settlers were driven from their improvements by the prevalent fear of invasion. The settlement did not increase with much rapidity until 1822, during which and the three succeeding years considerable numbers came in. A store was opened by Wm. Teall in 1823, near the line of DeKalb, and another soon after by Wm. Martin, in Hermon village, which was the first one kept there. The first religious services were held in 1811, by Rev. Mr. Wright, a Presbyterian clergyman and missionary from Massachusetts.
The First Baptist Church of Hermon, at Hermon village, was organized with thirteen members, in January, 1818, by a council from Gouverneur, Oswegatchie, Russell and Madrid, and erected its first house of worship in 1849, at a cost of $400. The church will seat 400 persons. The first pastor was Rev. Elder Payne. At present the pulpit is supplied by L. S. Baker. The Society consists of sixty-four members. Its property is valued at $5,000 .*
* Information furnished by E. E. Brown.
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HOPKINTON. .
HOPKINTON* was formed from Massena, March 2, 1805.t Russell was taken off March 27, 1807; Parishville, April 15, 1818 ; and a part of Lawrence April 21, 1828. It is the south-east corner town and extends from the south border along nearly three-fourths of the east border. It contains 283,- 498 acres, being by far the largest town in the county, more than doubling in size the next largest, Fine, and is the second largest town in the State, being exceeded in size only by the town of Wilmurt in Herkimer county. In the north the sur- face is level, but in the south it is broken and hilly. It is watered in the north by the east branch of the St. Regis, which forms its northern boundary; in the central part, by Racket River and the west branch of the St. Regis ; and in the south, by the head waters of Grass River. There are numerous lakes and ponds, lying chiefly in the south part, the principal of which are Trout Lake in the north-east and Tuppers and Massawepie lakes in the south.į The soil in the north part is a fertile loam, well adapted to the crops common to the northern part of the State. Extensive intervales extend along the val- leys of the smaller streams, but the valleys of the larger streams are more contracted and sharply defined. Little of its fine soil however is improved, for, with the exception of the extreme north part and a small tract upon Tuppers Lake, the town is a wil- derness, covered with a heavy growth of maple, beech, elm, basswood, butternut, &c., with some oak and walnut on the low plains, and cedar, pine, spruce and fir in the swamps, and considerable hemlock in the south part.
A little south-west of Hopkinton village, on the Parishville road, is a quarry of sandstone, similar to the Potsdam sand-
* Named from Roswell Hopkins, the first settler. It originally included only the Townships of Catharineville and Islington and that part of Chest- erfield annexed to Massena, in Great Lot No. II. of Macomb's Purchase; but for the purposes of civil government it is made to embrace Townships Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12 and 15, or Oakham, Mortlake, Jamestown, Pierce- field, Hollywood, Kildare, Riversdale, and Islington, of that tract.
+ At a town meeting held at the house of Roswell Hopkins March 4, 1806, that gentleman was elected Supervisor; Henry Mclaughlin, Town Clerk; Amasa Blanchard, Joseph Armstrong and Reuben Post, Assessors ; A. Blanchard and Seth Abbot, Overseers of the Poor; Abraham Sheldon, Constable and Collector; A. Sheldon, R. Post and H. Mclaughlin, Com- missioners of Highways; Eli Squier, Oliver Sheldon and A. Blanchard, Fence Viewers ; and Oliver Sheldon, Pound Keeper.
¿ A reservoir is now being constructed on Grass River, near the outlet of Massawepie Lake, in the township of Jamestown, at a cost of $30,000. It will flow some 6,000 acres. The dam is to be 28 feet high, and will raise the water 25 feet. It is to consist of two piers, each 65 by 50 feet, and 28 feet high, with a bulk head 50 feet square in the center. An earth embank- ment 120 feet at the base and 14 feet on the top, will extend from the river to high land. Its water slope will be 2 1-2 feet to one foot of rise, and land slope, 1 1-2 feet to one of rise.
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stone, which is worked to a limited extent for local purposes. It is a fine flagging and building stone, but its distance from market prevents its extensive use.
The population of the town in 1870 was, 1,907, of whom 674 were native, 233, foreign and all, except five, white.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained sixteen school districts and employed sixteen teachers. The number of children of school age was 762; the number attend- ing school, 601; the average attendance, 289; the amount ex- pended for school purposes, $2,889.09; and the value of school houses and sites, $5,680.
HOPKINTON, (p. v.) in the north part, on Lyd Brook, is a vil- lage of 200 inhabitants,* and contains a church(Cong.)one hotel, a fine brick town house, 38 by 54 feet, erected in 1870, a store, millinery shop, starch and cheese factory, butter-tub factory, and one wagon and five blacksmith shops.
NICHOLVILLE on the line of Lawrence, will be more fully de- scribed in that town.
FORT JACKSON is a small village situated on St. Regis River, in the north part of the town. It contains one store, a grist mill, saw mill, shingle mill, starch factory, barrel and butter tub factory, blacksmith, wagon and shoe shops, and about thirty houses.
The settlement of the town was commenced in May, 1802, by Judge Roswell Hopkins,t B. W. Hopkins, his son, Jared Dewey, Alpheus Newton and Eliphalet Branch, from Ver- gennes, Vt., and Samuel and Joel Goodale, from Hartford, Washington county. Judge Hopkins purchased a part of Islington that month, previous to his arrival. . Having made arrangements for clearing land he returned to Vermont in
* Census of 1870.
+ Roswell Hopkins was born in Armenia, N. Y., in May, 1757. His ser- vices were early enlisted in the stirring events of the Revolution, in which he took an active part. He was taken prisoner in the vicinity of West Point, after serving two or three campaigns, and remained as such until near the close of the war, when he was paroled. He settled at Arlington, Vt., where he resided until his appointment as Secretary of State, when he removed to Bennington, then the seat of government. He was re- elected to this office annually for some ten years or more, until he tendered his resignation. He also held several other responsible State offices, and was once appointed presidential elector. Upon his removal to. Hopkinton, the privations to which settlers in a new country are exposed rendered ample scope for the display of that great benignity and benevo- lence which characterized his social and business intercourse with others. Soon after the organization of the county he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in which capacity he served several years. In 1810 he was elected to the State Legislature, where he occupied a seat that and three succeeding years. He retired from public office some years before his death, which ocurred at Chazy, Clinton county, Sept. 5, 1829, from an injury sustained by being thrown from a wagon.
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June. In crossing the St. Regis, which was much swelled by heavy rains, his horse was partly thrown over by the violence of the current, and his portmanteau, containing in one end the provisions for his journey, and in the other several hundred dollars in specie, was swept down stream and lost. On the approach of winter the rest of the party also returned. The following March, Judge Hopkins, Abraham Sheldon and Eli and Ashbel Squire moved their families into the town. The former settled at Hopkinton village, whose name still perpetu- ates his memory. That year Mr. Hopkins erected a grist mill, the first in town, on Lyd Brook, near the village. Previous to its completion, the settlers carried their grists to the Long Saut, on the Canadian shore. Mr. Hopkins also built the first log house, near the brook in Hopkinton village, in 1802. In De- cember of this year the first birth occurred, in the family of Abraham Sheldon. Thomas Remington, Gaius Sheldon, Reuben Post, Eliakim Seeley, Henry Mclaughlin, Thadeus McLaughlin, Horace Train, Jasper Armstrong and Seth Abbott came in 1804 and 1805, many of them with families. In May, 1807, the first death-that of an infant-occurred. The first framed house was built in 1809, by Abraham Sheldon. Dr. Stephen Langworthy, who settled at an early day, was the first physician in the town. Dr. Gideon Sprague, from New Haven, Addison county, Vt., who came in 1811, was the second. Isaac R. Hopkins built a saw mill on the site of Fort Jackson, which received the name the village now bears at the raising. In February, 1814, a detachment of British troops under Major DeHeirne, visited Hopkinton in quest of flour which they learned belonged to the American army and was stored there. They arrived early in the morning before the inhabitants were up, and proceeded to search every place in which it was supposed arms were concealed and succeeded in capturing about twenty stand. Many muskets, however, were saved by being secreted in beds. Some three hundred barrels of flour were stored in a barn owned by Judge Hopkins and occupied by Dr. Sprague, and as the party had facilities for transporting only about half that quantity, it was proposed to destroy the remainder, but they were dissuaded from doing so by the inhabitants among whom it was finally distributed. No exactions were made upon the property of individuals, and the party conducted themselves with the utmost decorum. The year 1816 was one of remarkable severity. Snow and frost occurred in every month, and crops of all kinds, except grass and oats, were nearly destroyed. In the spring of 1858 a company of thirteen families located in the vicinity of Tuppers Lake, under the auspices of a company consisting of Chas. G.
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Atherton, John H. Gage and Daniel H. Dearborn, of Nashua; N. H., Eldridge G. Read and Wm. D. Beason, of Chelsea, Mass., and Moses A. Herrick, of Boston, who purchased the township of Mortlake, Oct. 23, 1853, for its timber. There is a settlement of about twenty families in the township of Hollywood.
The Baptist Church of Nicholville was organized with seven members by Rev. Samuel Rowley, a missionary from Vermont, Sept. 11, 1808. The Society was ministered to for some time by Revs. Rowley and Palmer, but so far as the records show Rev. Solomon Johnson became the first settled pastor, Oct. 30, 1819. A house of worship was not erected until 1831. The present house was erected in 1852, at a cost of $2,039. It will seat 300 per- sons. There are 86 members, who are under the pastoral care of Rev. G. N. Harmon. The Church property is valued at $2,500 .*
The First Congregational Church of Hopkinton, at Hopkinton village, was organized with eleven members, by Rev. John W. Church, July 6, 1808. Their house of worship was erected in 1827, at a cost of $2,800. Repairs involving the almost entire rebuilding of the church are contem- plated the present year (1873.) The first pastor was Rev. Hiram S. John- son. At present the church is without a pastor.
LAWRENCE, was formed from Hopkinton and Brasher, April 21, 1828 .¿ It lies upon the east border of the county, north of the center, and contains 28,251 acres. Its surface is very level, and the soil is a fertile sandy loam, under- laid by Potsdam sandstone. Its streams are St. Regis and Deer rivers, the former forming its south boundary, and Allen and Trout brooks, tributary to the latter.
In 1870 the town had a population of 2,577, of whom 2,142 were native, 435, foreign and all, white.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1872, the town contained fifteen school districts and employed the same number of teachers. The number of children of school age was 917; the number attending school, 659; the average attendance, 334; the amount expended for school purposes, $2,862.33 ; and the value of school houses and sites, $5,500.
The Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain R. R. extends through the town parallel with and near to the north line.
NORTH LAWRENCE (p. v.) is situated on Deer River and is a station on the O. & L. C. R. R. In 1870 it had a population of
* Information furnished by Royal Smith.
+ Named from Wm. Lawrence, a New York merchant, who purchased Chesterfield, which comprises this town, Feb. 17, 1820, to relieve the tedium of a retired life by efforts to effect its settlement.
¿ The first town meeting was held at the house of Carlton McEwen, who was elected Supervisor; Myron G. Peck, Town Clerk; James Trussell, Nathaniel Smith and Newel H. Lamson, Assessors; Enos Burt, Collector; James Trussell and M. G. Peck, Overseers of the Poor; Giles Hard, David S. Sperry and John Ferris, Commissioners of Highways; Enos Burt and Warren Day 2d, Constables ; George P. Farran, Samuel Bent and James Ferris, Commissioners of Common Schools; and Dwight N. Higgins, David S. Sperry and David H. Powers, Inspectors of Schools.
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550. It contains two churches, one hotel, four dry goods stores, two groceries, one hardware, one furniture and one drug stores, three saw mills, one grist mill, three shingle mills, three plan- ing mills, one harness, `one marble, three blacksmith, one carriage, one shoe and one milliner shops, and one pail and tub and two sash and blind factories.
LAWRENCEVILLE (p. v.) is situated on Deer River about three miles above North Lawrence, and contains three churches, a flourishing academy, one hotel, a job printing office, a tele- graph office, two dry goods and two drug stores, one harness, two shoe, one carriage, two blacksmith, one cooper, one paint and three milliner shops, one grist mill, one saw mill, a starch factory, tannery, and had, in 1870, 350 inhabitants.
NICHOLVILLE,* (p. v.) situated on St. Regis River, about the center of the south border, and partly in the town of Hopkin- ton, contains two churches, (Baptist and M. E.) a hotel, a telegraph office, three dry goods, one drug, two grocery, one hardware, one crockery and furniture stores, an undertaking establishment, one harness, two shoe, three blacksmith, one tailor, one tailoress, two carriage and two paint shops, a photo- graph gallery, one millinery and two dress making establish- ments, a tannery, grist mill, two circular saw mills, a shingle mill, two sash, door and blind factories, a wool carding and cloth dressing mill, a butter tub factory, a turning shop, two planing mills and 420 inhabitants. The valley of the river at this point is deep and narrow, and the river affords a moderately good water power.
The first settlement was made by a Mr. Brewer, a sub- agent of the proprietor, who, in the summer of 1801, erected a shanty, and the following summer . sold his interest and agency to Samuel Tyler, of Piermont, N. H., who, in company with Joseph Tyler, from the same place, Joseph St. Clair and Avery Sanders, from Middlesex, Vt., Ephraim Martin, from Bradford, Vt., and Abijah Chandler, from Leba- non, N. H., came in the fall of 1806 and selected farms, and moved their families in the next spring. All of them, except Chandler, who settled in the vicinity of Nicholville, and whose wife was the first white woman in town, located in the northern and central parts. In. May, 1807, James and Jonathan Pierce, Ira Allen and Sidney Dunton moved in ; and in June Jonathan Stevens, Ambrose Lewis and Jonathan Hartwell, the first two with their families, came in. Hartwell moved his family in the following spring. D. C. Bastain and Jonathan, Green
* Named from E. S. Nichols of New York, executor of the estate of Wm. Nichols.
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and James Saunders settled in July, 1807, and John Howard, Asa Griffin and John Prouty, the same year. The two following years the settlement was largely increased by persons from Ver- mont and New Hampshire, but all except five families are said to have left during the war which soon followed and most of them never returned. This and the unfavorable condition of the land, which being very level, was, when covered with forests, so swampy as to interpose serious obstacles to the efforts made to reclaim and bring it under cultivation, tended to discourage settlements. The town is now one of the finest agricultural districts in the county. The forests abounded with deer, and so great were the hardships encountered by the early settlers that venison was often the only food they had to subsist upon. The substantial growth of the town dates from the opening of the railroad through its lands, to which it gave a value for grazing purposes which makes them desirable. The first framed house was built by Daniel Harris, in 1808; and the first school was taught by Miss S. Tyler, in 1810.
The first religious meetings were held by a Quaker from Peru, Clinton county, in 1808.
The First Congregational Church of Lawrenceville was organized with six members Nov. 15, 1826, but their house of worship was not built until 1841. It cost $1,500, and will seat 250 persons. The first pastor was Rev. B. B. Cutler; at present it is without one. The Society numbers 48 mem- bers. The Church prorerty is valued at $1,000 .*
The Nicholville M. E. Church was organized with forty-two members, by whom and in what year we are not advised. Rev. Justin Alden was the first pastor; Rev. C. E. Dorr, our informant, is the present one. The Society erected its first house of worship in 1828, and its present one, in 1857, at a cost of $400. It will seat 225, There are 131 members. The church property is valued at $2,500.
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