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1688, Abigail, daughter of Henry Andrews; she died 1741 ; resided at Taunton, or Assonet River. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Eliza- beth, married John Smith. 6. Sarah, married James Dean. 7. Mary, born at Taunton, died there. May 18, 1731. 8. Abigail, born at Taun- ton ; married, February 1, 1683. Edward Bob- bett, born July 15, 1653, son of Edward Bob- bett : child, Edward, born February 1, 1684. Each of the four sons named his oldest son for himself.
( II) Joseph, fourth son of John and Sarah (Walker ) Tisdale, was born 1656, in Duxbury, died 1721-22, in his sixty-fifth year. He set- tled in Taunton, of which Norton was former- ly a part, and inherited a large estate of his father. He married, August, 1681. Mary Leonard, born August 2, 1663, daughter of Major Thomas Leonard. Their children were : I. Joseph, of whom later. 2. Elkanah, born 1684. 3. Mary, 1686, married Joseph Winslow, of Swansea. 4. Hannah, 1688; married, Feb- ruary 8, 1710-11, William Hodges, of Norton, died March 7, 1715. 5. Sarah, 1690; married Thomas Reed, of Dighton. 6. Abigail (twin), 1692 ; married Ephraim Hayward, of Bridge- water. 7. Elizabeth (twin). 1692; married Elkanah Leonard, of Middleburg.
(III) Captain Joseph (2) Tisdale, eldest child of Joseph (1) and Mary (Leonard) Tis- dale, was born in 1682, at Taunton, died in 1739. He married there, March 13, 1707, Ruth, daughter of Jolin and Bethiah (Frye) Reed. She died August, 1748, in her sixty-third year. Their children, mentioned in his will of May, 1735. were: Job, Joseph, Loved, Seth, Eben- ezer, Simeon ( father of James, ancestor of Samuel R. Tisdale, merchant, late of New York City), Bethsheba, Mary and Hannah.
(IV) Job. son of Captain Joseph (2) and Ruth ( Reed ) Tisdale, was born 1708, in Taun- ton, where he resided and died May 19, 1755. at the age of forty-seven years,
(\') James, son of Job Tisdale, was born 1740, died 1811. He resided in West Taunton, was a Presbyterian clergyman, and wrote his own funeral discourse in preparation for his expected death. He married Abigail Free- man, of Norton, Massachusetts, December 22. 1774, and among their sons were Leonard and Rev. James. The latter was graduated from Brown University, 1821, studied theology with Rev. A. Cobb, of West Taunton, and was or- dained September 29, 1830, over the churches in Guildhall and Granby. Vermont, whence he
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was dismissed May 4, 1836. He preached four years in Dublin, New Hampshire, seven years in Gilsum, same state, and after October, 1851, in Shutesbury, Massachusetts.
(VI) Leonard, son of James and Abigail ( Freeman ) Tisdale, was born August 23, 1776, in West Taunton, died February 18, 1850, in Cortland, New York, where he settled in 1803- 04. He married, February 8, 1805, Sallie Hicks, born February 18, 1774, died February 8, 1862. Children : 1. Alonzo, mentioned below. 2. Minerva, born August 21, 1807; married, June 3, 1832, Noah Ashley. 3. Almira, Janu- ary 24, 1809 : married, January 1, 1829, Alan- son Van Valkenberg. 4. Loring, May 2, 1812; married, February 18, 1836, Sophia Butter- field. 5. Evaline, April 21, 1816 ; married, Feb- ruary 24, 1842, Ephraim Spencer, and died November 11, 1897. 6. Orlando, November 16, 1818 ; married (first ), February 16, 1843, Emily Eggleston, who died March 16, 1844: mar- ried (second), November 7, 1849, Ann Wes- cott, born July 27, 1818. 7. Orsamus, Noven- ber 28, 1820 ; married, February 12, 1845, Julia Sholes, and died March 24, 1898. 8. Lovinia, October 7, 1823; married ( first ), October 12, 1843, Lee Rose, who died November 5, 1853; married ( second), January 20, 1859, Edwin Cook.
(VII) Alonzo, eldest child of Leonard and Sallie ( Hicks) Tisdale, was born December 12, 1805, in Cortland, where he died July 7, 1865. He received a common school educa- tion, learned the trade of carpenter, and con- ducted an extensive milling business at Blod- getts Mills, also had a saw and gristmill there. He was captain of state militia. He married, January 17, 1832, Dorliska, born 1811, died 1899, daughter of Loren and Nancy (Salis- bury) Blodgett. Children: I. Theresa, born March 17, 1833, died February 21, 1908; mar- ried Lucian Hale : children : Wayland, Clara, Frank, Elvena, Mabel. 2. Aldoretta, born 1835, died March 3, 1908 ; married Rev. W. R. Stone ; child, Anna. 3. Wayland D., see for- ward. 4. Elvena, born 1843; married Charles Hinman ; three children : William, Carrie and Frank.
(VIII ) Wayland D., son of Alonzo and Dorliska ( Blodgett ) Tisdale, was born in Cort- land, New York, December 10, 1837. He was educated in the town schools and Cortland Academy. He taught school several years, then engaged in lumber business in Cortland for a time, later engaged in coal business, under
firm name of W. D. Tisdale & Company, and continued in coal business up to 1874, when he went with the Cortland Wagon Company, and was treasurer of that company from 1874 to 1888. He was president of the Erie and Cen- tral New York railroad, and treasurer for five years, or until they sold out to the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad ; at the pres- ent time is secretary of the Cortland & Auburn railroad. He was president of the village in 1873 and 1894, and was trustee; was elected member of assembly in 1887-88, and served on committees on banks and public education, and was chairman of committee on villages. Mem- ber of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted Masons. He married, June 2, 1863, Rosetta Burlingham, of Salon, New York, daughter of Philip and Hulda ( Peet ) Burling- ham. Children: 1. Glenn A., born July 27, 1864; educated in town schools and Cortland Normal; was ticket agent at Cortland when sixteen years of age; was telegraph operator and manager for Western Union several years in Cortland; was in brokerage business in Providence, Rhode Island. for ten years: is now with the Franklin Automobile Company, of Syracuse. He married Kate Pratt, of Gloversville, New York, and has four children : Glenn W., born August 2, 1890; Doris, Sep- tember 30, 1896; Katherine, May 4, 1899; Hulda, June 7, 1902. 2. Maud, born July 23, 1871, died July 27, 1880.
The surname Rowley is of an- ROWLEY cient English origin, derived from some place name at the time of the adoption of surnames in England. Many of the family in England, as well as in America, have been distinguished in various. walks of life. There are several coats-of-arms borne by Rowley families in the old country. Most of the American colonial families of this name descended from Henry Rowley, men- tioned below.
(I) Henry Rowley, immigrant ancestor, was born in England and died in Barnstable or Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1675. He was. one of the early planters of Plymouth and was a taxpayer as early as 1632. According to some accounts he came with Pilgrims from Leyden in 1630. He was admitted a freeman in 1634, after removing to Scituate, where he and his wife Anne joined the church, January 8, 1634. In 1638 he removed with Rev. John Lothrop to the new settlement at Barnstable,
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on Cape Cod. He was a deputy to the general court at Plymouth. In 1650 he removed to West Barnstable and later to Falmouth. He married (first ) Sarah, daughter of William Palmer. He married ( second ), October 17, 1633. Anne, daughter of Deacon Thomas Blos- som, who started for New England in the "Speedwell" from Holland, in 1620, but had to return : came to Plymouth in 1629. Chil- dren : Moses, mentioned below; Joseph, said to have gone to the Barbadoes; Sarah, mar- ried. April 11. 1646, Jonathan Hatch, of Barn- stable and Falmouth./
( II) Moses, son of Henry Rowley, was born about 1630. died in 1705, at East Had- dam, Connecticut. He married, April 11, 1652, at Barnstable. Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Matthew Fuller, soldier and surgeon-general of the colony. She died at East Haddam or Colchester, Connecticut, after 1714. Moses is mentioned in the will of William Palmer, as legatee "Moses whom I love." The grand- father Palmer gives evidence of some Part- ridge, that "he might be brought up in the feare of God & to that end if his father suffer it. I give Mr. Partridge five pounds." Ap- parently Moses lived with his grandfather. and, March 7, 1653-54. the court allowed him a cow from Palmer's estate. He was ad- mitted a freeman in 1677; was constable at Falmouth in 1681 : deputy to the general court in 1693. He bought sixty acres of land of Jonathan Gilbert, at Haddam, Connecticut. originally laid out to John Henderson, May 3. 1692, by deed of October 4. 1693. He prob- ably removed to Haddam in 1691, but his wife did not approve of the removal, for she refused to sign the deeds, and in a deed of her (lower rights, she declares that her husband left her without support and dependent on the bounty of her sons. John and Moses. His will is dated Angust 16, 1704. at Haddam. He left his homestead to sons, Moses and Mat- thew. Children : Mary, born March 20. 1653. married, January 7. 1675, John Weeks, of Falmouth ; Moses. November 10. 1654: Child. died August 16. 1656; Shubael (twin), born January II, 1659, married Catherine Crippen : Mehitable (twin ). married John Fuller : Sarah, September 16, 1662 ; Nathan, mentioned below ; Aaron, May 16, 1666, married Mary Weeks: John, October 22. 1667: Matthew, married Joana -
([I]) Nathan, son of Moses Rowley, was born at Falmouth, on Cape Cod, in 1664. He
married Mercy Hatch, born April 27, 1667, at Falmouth, in Barnstable, daughter of Jon- athan and Sarah (Rowley) Hatch. Children. born at Barnstable: Mercy, August. 1691 ; Sarah, October, 1693; Elizabeth, 1695; Mary, September, 1699: Nathan, April, 1700; Moses. February, 1704-05 : John, May 25, 1706 ; Hatch, March, 1706-07; Mehitable, May, 1709; Mat- thew. November 10, 1720, mentioned below ; Anna. June 8, 1724.
(IV) Matthew, son of Nathan Rowley, was born at Falmouth, in Barnstable, November IO, 1720, died there. May 31, ISO1. He was a carpenter by trade and resided at Woods Hole, Barnstable, on Great Neck. He was a grand juror in 1767; highway surveyor in 1758-61-72. He married, February 24, 1744-45. Christina Weeks. of Falmouth. She died March 15, 1808, aged ninety-two years. Chil- dren, born at Falmouth: Mary: Nathaniel Chamberlain, mentioned below, and probably others.
(\') Nathaniel Chamberlain, son of Mat- thew Rowley, was born at Falmouth, in 1756. died in 1830. He came to New York state be- fore the year 1800, and settled at South Cort- land in 1821, and bought a farm of five hun- dred acres. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion. He married ( first ) : ( sec- ond) Lucy Lamont, born in 1778, died Sep- tember 28, 1851. Children : Philemon C., Lu- cina, Moses, Sabrina, Nathan Weeks, Caroline. Silva, Washington and Daniel.
(VI) Philemon Chamberlain, son of Na- thaniel Chamberlain Rowley, was born in Greene county, New York, July 7, 1800, died in South Cortland. New York. May 26. 1874. He came with his father to South Cortland in 1821, and engaged in business in a general store there for several years. He brought his stock from Albany in carts and carried pro- duce to market. For a number of years he conducted a four-horse stage line between Cortland and Owego. In 1835 he sold his property in Cortland and went west, driving in his own carriage. He bought land in Illi- nois, and lived there for a time, and afterward in Kalamazoo county, Michigan. He spent his last years in Cortland, however, and died there. He was captain in the state militia in his younger days. He was an energetic, cap- able and upright man. He married, September 17, 1823. Mary Sweet Curtis, born November 12. 1803. died November 24. 1882, daughter of Gideon and Fanny ( Rice) Curtis. Chil-
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dren : Curtis, born December 29, 1825, died in 1908, in Santa Barbara, California; Addison Porter, mentioned below ; Mary L., March 12, 1832, married John Gere; Charlotte, July 12, 1835, married Frederick Downs ; Charles Mil- ton, July 10, 1838.
(VII) Addison Porter, son of Philemon Chamberlain Rowley, was born at Cortland- ville, New York, June 2, 1830. He attended the public schools of his native town and Homer Academy. He taught school for a time in Russellville Academy, Camden, South Caro- lina. In 1851-52 he had a general store at Congaree, South Carolina. Upon his return to New York he settled at South Cortland and for a period of fifty-two years followed farming. He won two prizes on corn raised on his farm, exhibited at the World's Fair, Chicago. He dealt also in live stock and was general agent for the McCormick farm ma- chinery. From 1862 to 1894 he was post- master at South Cortland and during this long period gave the utmost satisfaction to both government and patrons of the office. He has always been active in politics. He is a Repub- lican and for fifteen years was a member of the board of registration. He contributed to the Presbyterian church fund for the church at Cortland. Since 1904, when he retired from active business, he has lived at Cortland City. His daughters are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
He married, in 1854, Mary E. Smith, of Pitcher, New York, daughter of Moses Smith and Aurelia (Pierie) Smith. She died in 1898. Children : Cora May, married Lewis F. Waters, attorney of Syracuse, New York; children: Lewis Addison and Lillian Louise Waters; Lizzie, died in childhood; Louise, married George Harkness, of Cortland.
Peter Wright, immigrant ances- WRIGHT tor, was one of three brothers, said to be grandsons of Sir Thomas Wright, of Kilverston, England, who immigrated to America in 1636-37, and set- tled first at Lynn, Massachusetts, and shortly after at Sandwich, Massachusetts. In 1653 they removed to Long Island with Rev. Will- iam Leveridge, and purchased land at Oyster Bay for the sum of four pounds sterling, a quantity of beads and other trinkets. The other brothers were Nicholas and Anthony. Peter Wright married Alice ---. He died in 1669, leaving a widow and eight children.
Alice married (second) Richard Crale. Chil- dren, among them Adam, mentioned below.
(II) Adam, son of Peter Wright, was born March 20. 1663, and married
Children : Peter, Rachel, Deborah, Thomas. James, Solomon, Abigail, Reuben, mentioned below.
(III) Reuben, son of Adam Wright, was born February II, 1726. He was a member of the Society of Friends and therefore did not engage in the military operations during the revolution. He was a miller by trade, and during the war his mill provided flour for the American army, and at one time, when a Brit- ish attack was feared, a brigade was sent under General Israel Putnam to guard it. Like many others, who had faith in the government, he lost heavily by the depreciation and final repu- ciation of the continental currency. He de- clined to put his money in real estate when it still had some value and his grandchildren and their children used thousands of dollars of it for bookmarks and play money. He lived in the town of Somers, Westchester county, New York, and had at least nine children. Accord- ing to the census of 1790, p. 206, he had at that time four males over sixteen, three under six- teen and six females in his family. He mar- ried ( first ) Sarah Smith, 1754; (second) Phœbe Quimby, 1770. Children : Thomas, James, Elizabeth, Sarah ; Reuben, mentioned below ; Phobe, Mary, Ephraim, Hannah.
(IV) Reuben (2), son of Reuben (I) Wright, was born March 26, 1778. He mar- ried, March 3, 1808, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Strang ( see Strang I\'). He had thirteen children : Caroline A. ; Thomas Strang. mentioned below : George W., Joseph Sackett, Ann E., Mary E., Phoebe Quimby, Susan, Eliz- abeth, Ephraim R., Charles, Abby Jane, Theron Oscar.
(V) Thomas Strang, son of Reuben (2) Wright, was born in Somers, Westchester county, February 5, 1813, died a resident of Lisle, New York, in September, 1876. He was educated in the common schools and became a prominent contractor and builder. He was ambitious, enterprising and capable, and was. especially noted for his skill in building rail- road and other bridges and erecting churches and other large edifices. He removed to Car- mel, Putnam county, New York, soon after his marriage, and lived there for seven or eight years. He then removed to the town of Somers, Westchester county, New York, on
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the "Wright Homestead." After remaining there for one year, he removed to Brooklyn, New York, and at the end of a year moved back to the homestead, where he lived for three years. He finally removed to a farm in the town of Richford, Tioga county, New York, in the spring of 1850. During this time his occupation was farming. He was also a car- penter and joiner, master workman. In 1860 he removed to Lisle, Broome county, New York, and he died a resident of that place in September, 1876. In politics he was a Whig until the Republican party was formed, when he became a member of the latter party and continued so for the remainder of his life. He married, January 24. 1837. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Martha Ann ( Town- send ) Crane, born July 29, 1818 (see Crane VI). She died January 28, 1897, at the resi- dence of her son, Benjamin T., who was named for her maternal grandfather, Benjamin Town- send, who was of Quaker ancestry, but himself an active and zealous Methodist. Children : Benjamin Townsend, mentioned below ; Sackett LeGrand: Reuben Augustus, lives at Ithaca, New York; Mary Augusta, married ( first ) Frank Stone, ( second ) William J. Walker, and live at Elizabeth, Colorado: Morton Crane ; Amelia Phebe, married Nelson Ripley, and lives in Syracuse, New York; Frederick K. : Sophia Elizabeth, married William N. Haynes. (VI) Benjamin Townsend, son of Thomas Strang Wright, was born in Carmel, Putnam county, New York, February 28, 1838. He was educated in the district schools and the Cortland Academy, at Homer, and took up the study of law in the office of McDowell & Edwards, of Lisle, New York. He turned away from the law, however, on account of the civil war, and, in 1862, enlisted in Company F. of the Twenty-seventh Regiment. New York Volunteer Infantry, for two years, but was transferred to Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth New York Regiment, and served in the Army of the Potomac. In 1863 his regiment was transferred from the Army of the Potomac to Georgia, with the troops sent as reinforcements after the battle of Chick- amauga, and when Sherman marched to the sea his regiment was detailed to watch and guard the bridge across the Tennessee, at Bridgeport, Alabama. While in the service he was on a gunboat during three naval engage- ments, in one of which he was an active par- ticipant. In 1863 he took part in a hazardous
infantry raid to within a few miles of the city of Richmond for the purpose of destroying certain military and medical stores belonging to the Confederates. The raid was success- ful, but the command narrowly avoided cap- ture. It was composed of volunteers from several regiments, and included one hundred and forty men of his regiment, who were sta- tioned finally at an advantageous position at a cross roads, a few miles from the objective point of the expedition, with orders to hold the position at all hazards and keep open com- munication. His detachment was attacked by a superior force of rebels and an engagement lasting several hours ensued, but the position was held and the commanding officer especially commended the men who saved the day and made the success of the raid possible.
He was mustered out of service with the rank of corporal, October 31, 1863, and im- mediately resumed the study of law. He was for several months a clerk in the office of the United States provost marshal, at Owego, New York. May 12, 1864, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice at Whitney's Point, New York. After two years there he removed to Marathon, Cortland county, New York, where he practiced for the next eight years. Since 1874, however, he has been located at Cortland, New York. At Marathon he built up an extensive practice and took an active and prominent part in public affairs. He was attorney and counsel for the incorporated village of Marathon and rendered valuable service in that capacity in drafting the by-laws of the village. He was one of the founders in Marathon of a council of the Loyal League and was for several years its president. In the fall of 1873 he was elected district attorney of Cortland county and, in February following, moved his office to the county seat and took up his residence there in April. As a district attorney he made an exceptionally good repu- tation for ability and zeal in the trial of cases. Many of the criminal cases in which he secured convictions were important, and the fines and penalties paid into the county treasury during his term of office were substantial evidence of lis efficiency as a public prosecutor. He held the office until 1877 and since then has devoted himself to his private practice, which has been very large. In politics he is a staunch Re- publican, though he has on occasion given an example of political independence. On ac- count of his good fighting qualities, his ad-
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versaries in politics came to calling him Ben- jamin "Tecumseh" Wright, and the nickname has for many years been used by his friends generally. As a public speaker at banquets, in the court room, on the political platform, and at other gatherings he has won a reputation second to none in the county.
He is a member of Grover Post, No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic, and for two consecutive terms was its commander. In 1880 he was inspector general of the Depart- ment of New York, on the staff of Hon. L. Coe Young, department commander, and his report received the hearty commendation of the annual encampment as the most complete and useful one ever submitted. He was also a member of the staff of General Russell A. Alger, national commander, and is now a mem- ber of the Russell A. Alger National Staff Association. He is a member of the Cortland County Veterans Association and other organ- izations of veterans of the civil war.
Mr. Wright is a lover of nature and in his younger days was an enthusiastic sportsman. He continues to enjoy his annual seasons of recreation in field and forest, on the lake, or beside the stream with rod and gun. In relig- ion he is a Congregationalist and a member of the First Congregational Church and Society of Cortland, has been a member of its board of trustees and for several years chairman of the board, an active worker in the Sunday school, of which he was the first librarian. He was raised a Mason in Upper Lisle Lodge, No. 388, and afterward became a charter member of Western Light Lodge of Free Masons at Lisle, New York, and its first junior warden and a warden thereof, and then affiliated with Marathon Lodge, at Marathon, New York, and has been for many years a member of Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470; also a member of Cortland Chapter, No. 194, Royal Arch Masons, by affiliation from Binghamton Chap- ter, No. 139, and is now a member of Cortland Commandery, No. 50, Knights Templar.
He married, May 9, 1866, Mary Ann How- land, born December 23, 1840, daughter of Ar- temas and Lucinda L. ( Baker ) Howland. Chil- dren : Mary Lida, Elizabeth Linnell, Margaret Squires.
(The Strang Line).
(1) Daniel L'Estrange, or Strang, the im- migrant ancestor, was born in Paris, France, in 1656. He married Charlotte, daughter of Francis Hubert. They were Huguenots, and
as such were obliged, upon the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, October 22, 1685, to be- come refugees and to flee to England. There they settled in London, where he obtained a lieutenancy in the Guards of James, Duke of York, then King of Great Britain. In 1688 he immigrated with his wife to America, together with other French Protestants, and settled in New Rochelle, New York. In 1697 he re- moved to the town of Rye, Westchester county, New York, where he kept a hotel for a time. Both he and his wife died there, the former in 1706, the latter in 1722, and were buried in the Episcopal churchyard. They had seven chil- dren, of whom Daniel, mentioned below, was one.
(II) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Strang, was born in England, and married Phoebe Purdy. They had eight children, of whom Henry, mentioned below, was one.
(III) Henry, son of Daniel (2) Strang, married, 1761, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Hazard, of the Island of Nassau. He was a lieutenant or captain in the revolution and had a brother Joseph who was a major in the same service. Both served at or near Harlem, New York. He died July 22, 1832, aged ninety-three years. He had twelve children, Thomas, mentioned below, being one.
(IV) Thomas, son of Henry Strang, was born in 1763, and lived near Crum Pond, in Westchester county. He married ( first) Eliz- abeth Sammis, and (second) Abigail Brown. Among their children was Margaret, who mar- rie:1 Reuben Wright ( see Wright IV).
(The Crane Line).
(I) Benjamin Crane, immigrant ancestor, was born about 1630, and was in Wethersfield, Connecticut, as early as 1655. Ellery B. Crane, in his "Crane Genealogy" says : "It is not posi- tively known when he came to Wethersfield, but Hinman, in his 'History of Connecticut Settlers,' seems to think that he came from Massachusetts, which statement all investiga- tions thus far seem to warrant." On February 24. 1656, he was granted a home lot of two and a half acres in the centre of the town. He was admitted a freeman, May 12, 1658, and his name appears on the court records in 1655-56. He bought of John Dixon or Dickenson, Sep- tember 14. 1664, land in the West Field, and there built his dwelling-house and tanneries, on Mud Lane. The house was one of the six houses fortified by town vote in 1704. He ais
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