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He married, April 26, 1846, Louisa Pritch- ard, born June 9, 1824, died April 23, 1890, daughter of Garrett and Philena Pritchard, of Solon, New York. Children, born at McGraw- ville : Mary Louisa, February 3, 1853, died, December 16, 1864; Albert Perrin, mentioned below.
(IV) Albert Perrin, son of Perrin H. Mc- Graw, was born in McGraw, New York, June 12, 1856. He attended the common schools and fitted himself to enter college, but he was attracted to a business career and at the age of twenty-two became associated with his father in the manufacture of corsets. When his father retired from the business in 1890 he became the manager and was treasurer and secretary of the corporation, the McGraw Corset Com- pany. The business which his father estab- lished and built up to remarkable success con- tinued to thrive and increase under the admin- istration of the son. In addition to the manu- facture of corsets, the company made waists, skirts and other garments. The McGraw skirts and waists, corsets and other products acquired a national reputation. In 1897 the A. P. Mc- Graw Corset Company absorbed the old com- pany, and Mr. A. P. McGraw became its presi- dent and treasurer. In 1908 Mr. McGraw sold the business and since then has devoted his time to his dairy farm and spring water busi- ness. This is one of the largest and best dairy farms in this region, comprising two hundred acres of land near the village of McGraw. The dairy buildings are models of cleanliness and equipped with all the wonderful, new dairy machinery and apparatus. He has a herd of twenty or more Holsteins and Ayrshires and they are kept in the pink of condition by proper care and diet. The butter from his dairy finds a local market and nearly every family in the village of McGraw is supplied with milk from this dairy. Water for the dairy is supplied by an artesian well bored in 1908 to a depth of one hundred and fifty-five
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feet and a half and so excellent is the quality that it has found a market among those careful to use pure water. A chemist who analyzed the water reported : "This is very pure from a chemical and bacteriological standpoint. Spec- troscopic tests prove the absence of injurious metals or minerals. For table use I recom- mend the water with confidence." Every bot- tle of the water is labeled "Tres-Pur" and is shipped in various sizes of receptacles from quarts to five gallons. Mr. McGraw, in addi- tion to the interests mentioned has been inter- ested in the manufacture of wagons, paper and wooden boxes, etc., and at present is in partnership with his son, Charles A. McGraw, in the manufacture of corset laces, under the name of the McGraw Manufacturing Com- pany.
Mr. McGraw is an active and prominent member of the Presbyterian church and has been superintendent of the Sunday school for a period of nearly thirty years. In politics he is a Republican and he has been a member of the Republican county committee, president of the incorporated village and of the board of education of McGraw. He has traveled ex- tensively both in this country and abroad. He was a member of the McGrawville Lodge, No. 320, Odd Fellows, and of Camp No. 36, Sons of Veterans.
He married, January 18, 1882, Emeline M. Childs, born September 13, 1859, in Walling- ford, Vermont, daughter of Hon. Charles D. and Mary Cornelia ( Munson) Childs. Her father was born June 29, 1830, son of Abial Childs; her mother, Mary Cornelia ( Munson) Childs, was born January 13, 1835, died Sep- tember 17, 1866. Mrs. A. P. McGraw is a prominent member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she is regent, of the Presbyterian church and various social and charitable organizations. Children : Charles Albert, mentioned below; Agnes Childs, born November 12, 1891.
(V) Charles Albert, son of Albert Perrin McGraw, was born at McGraw. Cortlandville. New York. December 28, 1886, and was edu- cated in the public schools of his native village and at the Cortland high school. He became associated with his father in the corset business as bookkeeper and general manager of the A. P. McGraw Corset Company. After the business was sold. in 1908, he and his father entered partnership in the manufacture of corset laces at McGraw, under the name of the
McGraw Manufacturing Company, and the junior partner has charge of the business. In politics he is a Republican, and is serving as treasurer of the village of McGraw, and in religion a Presbyterian.
He married, June 29. 1910. Josephine Louise Patrick, of Truxton, New York, born Febril- ary 7, 1888, daughter of Otis D. and Louise Frances ( Kenney ) Patrick.
(The Smith Line).
( 1) Richard Smith, immigrant ancestor, was a proprietor of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1641, and must have been of age at that time. A gravestone at Ipswich is said to read "Died September 2. 1714. aged eighty-five." If this is the same Richard, and no trace of any other is found, the age or date of death must be given or copied wrong. He must have been born as early as 1629. His daughter married Edward Gilman Jr., who bought land of him at Ipswich, October 9, 1647. This land he mortgaged. December 25, 1648, to his father. Edward Gilman Sr., who sold it October 2, 1651, to his brother (brother-in-law ), Richard Smith, of Shroppum (Shropham), county Norfolk, England, If this transaction is stated correctly, there was probably a Richard Smith Sr., father of the Ipswich man. Children, as given by Hammett : Richard, mentioned below : Elizabeth, married Edward Gilman, of Exeter ; Mary, married Philip Call, John Burr and Henry Bennett ; Martha, married John Rogers.
(II) Richard (2), son of Richard ( 1) Smith, may be the Richard whose death has been men- tioned. He married, November 16, 1659. Han- nah Cheney, of Newbury. She was born No- vember 16, 1642, daughter of John and Martha Cheney. Children, born at Ipswich : Richard, died July 22, 1700; Daniel, died June 8, 1725; Nathaniel, married Elizabeth Fuller; John, married, December 4. 1702, Mercy Adams; Joseph, mentioned below : Hannah, married Chadwell: Martha, married Jacob Boardman ; Dorothy, married, December 4, 1702, Robert Rogers: Elizabeth, died in 1747.
(III) Joseph, son of Richard (2) Smith, was born at Ipswich, July 16, 1685. He mar- ried, in 1710, Joanna Fellows. He removed to Sudbury late in life and is buried at East Sudbury, now Wayland, where he died May 3, 1754. His wife Joanna died there, September 25, 1781, aged ninety-two years. Children : Joseph, mentioned below : Ephraim, died April 20, 1809. aged eighty-two, at Wayland.
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(IV) Captain Joseph (2) Smith, son of Joseph (1) Smith, was born in Ipswich in 1716, died at East Sudbury, March 9, 1803. His wife Abigail died there December 29, 1814. aged ninety-three (gravestone ). Children, born at Sudbury : Samuel, born June 17, 1742 ; Mar- tha. December 7, 1743: Joseph, mentioned below : Abigail, August 16, 1747; Jane, Febru- ary 26, 1751 ; Mary, June 5, 1753 ; Isaac, March 5, 1755; Aaron, November 3, 1756; David, July 12, 1759.
(V) Captain Joseph ( 3) Smith, son of Cap- tain Joseph (2) Smith, was born at Sudbury, November 1, 1745, died at Barre, September I, 1809. He was a soldier in the revolution from Sudbury and Natick. He was sergeant in Cap- tain Joseph Morse's company, Colonel John Paterson's regiment, May to August, 1775 ; also in Captain Moulton's company, Colonel Ezekiel How's regiment ( Fourth Middlesex ) of Sud- bury and afterward of Captain Morse's com- pany, Colonel Putnam's regiment. He was on a list of names of men raised for the conti- nental service as returned by Lieutenant John Megraw to Colonel Ezekiel How, February 7. 1778. He was lieutenant, ensign and quarter- master in Colonel Rufus Putnam's regiment ( Fourth and Fifth ) seven months and twenty- three days as ensign, two months and thirteen days as quartermaster and twenty-four months and twenty-four days as lieutenant ; adjutant and lieutenant from January to December, 1780; lieutenant in Captain Joshua Benson's company, Colonel Putnam's regiment of light infantry in 1781 ; reported in command of his company with Marquis de Lafayette in April, 1781, and June 15, 1781. Always called cap- tain after the revolution. He married, at Barre. December 14, 1786, Rhoda Parker, of Barre. Children. born at Barre : Rufus, November 8, 1787: Abigail, August 16, 1789; Aaron, No- vember 4, 1791; Sally, October 2, 1793, she removed to Homer, New York, in 1816, two years after her father died, and she married, January 13, 1820, Harry McGraw ( see Mc- Graw II).
At the battle of Bunker Hill Smith's com- pany was stationed northwest of the hill, toward Cambridgeport, to prevent those on the hill from being flanked. He was with the army at Long Island and White Plains and one of the twelve hundred who stormed Fort Stony Point. He spent the winter at Valley Forge, where he had the small-pox and suf- fered greatly. He afterwards went south with
Washington's army and was in many of the principal battles and was at the surren ler of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He commanded one of the light infantry companies and was one of the officers called together by Washington when he delivered his farewell address. His company disbanded in 1783, and he returned to liis home in Barre. He owned a farm of one hundred and seventy-three acres. being known as the Rocking Stone Farm, from a famous rocking stone located upon it. He was adjutant under General Lincoln in Shay's re- bellion. He served on the Barre school con- mittee, and was town treasurer in 1792. He was an inn holder. His first location in Barre was casterly of the E. W. Heminway house on the opposite side of the road. In 1801 he crected a tavern which he conducted for twelve years, and which is now a dwelling-house oppo- site the school house of District No. 9.
Roger Burlingham, im- BURLINGHAM migrant ancestor, died September 1, 1718. He came to this country as early as 1654, in which year he settled in Stonington. Connecticut. In 1660 he was of Warwick, Rhode Island, and September 25, 1671, of Providence. On the latter date he and two others were appointed to make a rate and levy an assessment at Mas- hantatack. In 1690 he was elected deputy from Warwick, but there being much debate in the assembly as to the legality of the elec- tion, it was ordered that he should not be ac- cepted. He was a member of the town coun- cil in 1698. September 6, 1704, he deeded to lis son Peter, his house and fifty acres, sub- ject to the use and profits for Roger and wife for life. His will was made November 28, 1715, and proved September 13, 1718. His wife Mary was made executrix, but as she died soon after. the eldest son John took ad- ministration. Roger married Mary who died in 1718. Children : John, born Au- gust 1. 1664, mentioned below : Thomas, Feb- ruary 6, 1667; Mary, married, December 19, 1689, Amos Stafford, died 1760: Jane, mar- ried ( first ) John Potter, (second). 1711. Ed- ward Potter: Alice; Mercy; Roger, married Eleanor : Peter, died 1712, unmarried ; Elizabeth, born January 9, 1684: Patience, born 1685.
(II) John. son of Roger Burlingham, was born August 1, 1664, and lived in Providence, Rhode Island. He married, Mary. daughter
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of Moses and Mary (Knowles) Lippitt. He had received on the death of his brother Peter, the latter's deed of gift of their father's home- stead, dwelling-house, etc., which Peter had received from his father some time before. December 23, 1712, Jolin took the house and fifty acres for himself, and divided the remain- der of the property equally between his other brothers, Thomas and Roger. He also pro- vided that if their father and mother needed assistance, all three brothers should be at equal charge. March 18, 1719, he sold to Samuel Gorton, son of Captain Benjamin Gorton, a mansion house and sixty acres of land in Providence, for three hundred and ninety pounds. Children : John ; Roger ; David, men- tioned below; Barlingstone, born January 25, 1698; Benjamin; Elisha.
(III) David, son of John Burlingham, was born about 1690, died January 27, 1755. He lived at Gloucester, Rhode Island. March 6, 1719, he had a legacy by will from his grand- mother, Mary Lippitt. He married
Children, born at Gloucester: Mary, July 9, 1729 ; Benedict, November 19, 1731 ; Thomas, August 13, 1734, mentioned below; David, October 26, 1736, married Mehitable Bishop ; -, August 5, 1739; Shutely, August 12, 1741; Sarah, February 19, 1744, died Decem- ber 9, 1745; Patience, March 9, 1746; Elisha, September 6, 1749; Benjamin, March 18, 1753.
(IV) Thomas, son of David Burlingham, was born at Gloucester, Rhode Island, August 13. 1734. He married Chil- dren : Lydia, born October 15, 1757 ; Thomas, April 16, 1760; Nathan, February 24, 1762. mentioned below; Esek, March 24, 1765; Pa- tience, August 5, 1767 ; Charles, November 8, 1769; Jean, April 19, 1772, married, March 7, 1793, Jesse Mowry ; Creta, July 14, 1778, mar- ried, March 13, 1804, ; James, February 1, 1782.
(V) Nathan, son of Thomas Burlingham, was born February 24, 1762, and married, May 13, 1782, Sarah, daughter of Richard Bart- lett. They were married by Rev. John Smith, Esquire. He settled in Lanesboro, Massa- chusetts. According to the census of 1790, he had at that time one male over sixteen, one under sixteen and four females in his family. Among his children was George, mentioned below.
(VI) George, son of Nathan Burlingham, was born in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, about 1785-90, died in Solon, New York, June, 1860.
He came to New York state in his youth and settled in Solon, Cortland county. He mar- ried (first) Hannah Welch, (second) Joanna Whitman. Children of first wife: Hopkins, mentioned below ; George ; Philip ; James ; Har- vey ; Ann; Hulda, married Brigham. Children of second wife: Martha Jane, mar- ried Giles Martin ; Mary Matilda, married De- witt Shattuck.
(VII) Hopkins, son of George Burlingham, was born in Massachusetts, and came to New York with his parents when a child. He lived in Solon and Preble, New York. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Esther, daughter of Charles and Rebecca Frink. He died in Preble at the age of eighty years. Chil- dren: Truman Avery, born December 1I, 1830, mentioned below; Meldrun Webster Monroe; Olivia Ann Esther, married James Breed ; Electa Jane Melissa: William, died young ; Nettie, died young.
(VIII) Truman Avery, son of Hopkins Burlingham, was born December 11, 1830, at Solon, New York, and spent his early life there. He removed later to a farm near Au- burn, New York. He was a farmer by occu- pation. He was a soldier in the civil war ; en- listed October 26, 1861, in the Third New York Heavy Artillery, Kennedy's battery, General Smith's division, Davidson's brigade. He participated in the campaign in Virginia, and saw much active service until he was sent to Chesapeake Hospital, at Fort Monroe, where he died, September 13, 1862, and was buried in Hampton National cemetery. He married, October 29, 1853, Mary E. Brown, born in Cincinnatus, New York, March 12, 1834, died in McGraw, February 19, 1911, daughter of Fenner and Harriet (Terry) Brown, of Cin- cinnatus. Her father, Fenner Brown, came originally from Rhode Island, and was the son of William and Rachel (Crossman) Brown. William Brown was the son of Josiah Brown. Children: I. Charles Avery, born May 15, 1856, lives in Olean, New York ; mar- ried, June 10, 1881, Kate Beman ; children : i. Lloyd, born April 14, 1882, now on the civil staff of the governor general in the Philippines, married, December 29, 1906, Georgia Beards- ley, one child, Lois, born in Manilla, October 6, 1908; ii. Mabel, October 13, 1885; iii. Grace, February 17, 1890: iv. Raymond, May 24, 1895; v. LeVerne, May, 1902. 2. Hattie M., born March 21, 1859, died April 6, 1890; mar- ried Milo C. Thornton, of Solon; one child,
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Mabel A., married Floyd C. Gilbert. 3. Bur- dette Truman, mentioned below.
(IX) Burdette Truman, son of Truman Avery Burlingham, was born in Owasco, New York, May 23, 1861, and removed with his mother to McGraw, New York, in 1867, mak- ing his home with her until her death in Feb- ruary, 1911. He attended the district schools of the latter place, and later went to McGraw- ville Academy and Albany Business College. He then became a clerk in a store in Albany, and was manager of the City Newsboys' Lodg- ing House in the same city. For a period of four years he was engaged in work on the new capitol building in Albany. Later he removed to Johnstown and Gloversville, where he was in the insurance business, which he left to enter the employ of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company. About 1890 he returned to McGraw and conducted a dining and lunch room there until June 1, 1897, when he was appointed postmaster of McGraw. He is now serving his fourth term in that office, having been reappointed by President Taft, December 10, 1909, and within ten days con- firmed by the senate. Shortly after his first appointment, he purchased new and modern fixtures at his own expense, and moved into large and convenient quarters. During a dis- astrous fire, in January, 1906, however, the postoffice was destroyed, and lie was forced into temporary quarters. He then obtained a ten-year lease on a part of the Hendrick build- ing, which was planned for postoffice purposes and equipped under his supervision. This was ready for occupancy, March 1, 1907, and is undoubtedly one of the neatest, best-conducted postoffices of any village of the same size in the country. It is furnished with a golden oak outfit, including desks, cabinets and ward- robes.
During the fourteen years of his office, Mr. Burlingham has conducted the affairs of the office in a systematic, businesslike manner, and has brought about improvements which have added greatly to the comfort and convenience of the citizens of McGraw. Among other things he has secured a direct exchange of mails with mail trains on the Delaware, Lack- awanna & Western and Lehigh Valley rail- roads instead of having all mail pass through Cortland. He has also secured a service over the Cortland County Traction Company's lines by which early mail from New York is re- ceived and a late mail sent out. He has estab- 12
lished three R. F. D. routes from his office, and an international money order business, by which money orders can be sent all over the world. He is also a photographer and a notary public. Mr. Burlingham has been captain and chairman of the board of trustees of the Cor- set City Hose Company since its incorporation in 1897. He has also been secretary of the fire department since its reorganization in 1898. When the former company took pos- session of the village hall for three years, he was elected manager and has personally super- vised the building of a new interior, scenery, etc. He is past commander and trustee of Shuler Tent, Knights of the Maccabees; past chief ranger, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; past commander of Sons of Veterans, also past commander of Sons of Veterans, United States of America. He has never married.
Thomas Chaffee, immigrant CHAFFEE ancestor, came to New Eng- land as early as 1635, at which date he was living in Hingham, Massachusetts, and owned land there. The first mention of him in the records of Hingham is as follows, under date 1635: "Given unto John Tucker by the town of Hingham for a planting lot six acres of land lying upon the Worlds End Hill, bounded with the land of Thomas Chaffe and the land of John Prince, Southward, and with the land of Ralph Woodward, Northward, butting upon the Sea Eastward and West- ward." The record of Thomas Chaffee's grants in Hingham was not made until 1637, when he had a house lot and several other parcels of land. Between that year and April 9, 1642, there is no further mention of him, but upon the latter date his name appears on the records of Nantasket, now Hull, Massa- chusetts. February 4, 1650, he sold land to Thomas Gill, of Hingham. The last record of him in Hull is under the date 1657, and gives a list of the "Lands and tenements" which he owned there. Sometime between 1657 and May 30, 1660, when he sold his lands in Hull, he removed to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, of which he was one of the proprietors. He re- ceived land in the original division of Reho- both, and February 9, 1660, made his first recorded purchase of land there. He lived in that part of the town which was afterwards set off as Swansea, Massachusetts. April II, 1664, he was called "of Wanamoisett," which included Swansea, and Barrington, Rhode
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Island, and "A planter." At that time he sold one of the town lots which he had received in the original division. Evidently he took an active part in town affairs, for his name ap- pears often in the list of those chosen to look after such matters. His occupation is given as that of a fisherman and a farmer. The name of his wife and the date and place of his mar- riage are unknown. It is supposed, however, that he was married in Hull, and that the Christian name of his wife was Dorothy. His will was made July 25, 1680, and proved March 6, 1682-83. In it he mentioned his sons Na- thaniel and Joseph. Children, probably born in Nantasket: Nathaniel, mentioned below : Joseph, born between 1639 and 1646, married Annis Martin. The name in early records was spelled Chaffe, Chafey and Chafy.
(II) Nathaniel, son Thomas Chaffee, was probably born in Nantasket, between 1638 and 1642, and died in Rehoboth, September, 1721. He married, in Swansea, August 19, 1669, Ex- perience, daughter of Jonathan and Miriam ( Harmon) Bliss, of Rehoboth. She also died in September, 1721. He removed with his parents from Hull to Rehoboth between 1657 and 1660, and in 1669, on the occasion of his marriage, is first mentioned in Swansea. May 19, 1670, he was chosen constable, and in 1672 owned seventy acres of land there. In 1674 he was invited by the town of Rehoboth, in which he had formerly lived, to return, and was offered land there as an inducement for doing so. Four months later he had sold his lands in Swansea, and is called of Rehoboth. February 11, 1675-76, he is mentioned in the records of the latter town. and June 1, 1680, was propounded to be freeman, and the fol- lowing year was admitted. March 26, 1681. he was chosen to be constable. April 9, 1685. in the division of town lots, he received lot No. 76, and March 29, 1702-03, a second lot. He was chosen tythingman, March 22, 1693, and March 19, 1703-04. He drew other lots of land in 1707 and 1712, and in the latter year sold that land drawn in that same year. He was a blacksmith by occupation. He left no will, inventory, distribution, or other papers relating to his estate. In a deed, however, dated May 3, 1715, he gave to his youngest son, Noah, all his lands in Rehoboth and Swansea, which he had not already given to his other children, also his house, barn, and home lot. It appears from the same deed that he had then bestowed upon each of his other
children their portion of his estate. Children, the first three born in Swansea, the others in Rehoboth : Dorothy, married Nathaniel Paine ; Thomas, born October 19, 1672; Rachel, Sep- tember 7, 1673; Nathaniel, January 4, 1675- 76; Jonathan, April 7, 1678. mentioned below : David, August 22, 1680; Experience, March 24. 1682-83; Mehitable, June 10, 1685, died August 6, 1699: Daniel, October 30, 1687; Noah, January 19, 1690-91, died July 9, 1691 : Noah, December 17, 1692.
(III) Jonathan, son of Nathaniel Chaffee, was born in Rehoboth, April 7, 1678, died there December 31, 1766. He married there, November 23, 1703, Hannah, daughter of William and Miriam (Searles) Carpenter, born April 10, 1684; in 1767 she was appoint- ed executrix of her husband's estate. Febru- ary 10, 1701-02, he received from his father four and a half acres of land in Rehoboth, near "Broken Cross." March 19, 1704, he was chosen to act as field driver, and December II, 1718, was chosen to serve on the jury of trials. That same year he bought one hundred acres of land in Ashford, Connecticut, and in 1719 one hundred acres more in the same town. In 1726 he gave half of this land to his eldest son, Jonathan, who settled there, and in 1734 sold the remainder to his brother David, apparently never having lived there. March 28, 1720, he was chosen tythingman, and June 6, 1725, with his wife and son Jonathan, was admitted to membership in the First Congregational Church in Rehoboth. January 15, 1727, he was chosen "to project and prepair a method how schools shall be kept in the severall parts of the town and how many may be proper for the Towne to have." March 30, 1730, he was again chosen to serve on the jury of trials at Bristol, and October 15, 1739, was grand jury- man, and again, in October, 1745. May 21, 1744, he was made overseer of the workhouse. He is called husbandman and yeoman. His will was made May 5. 1754. His gravestone is still to be seen in the old burying-ground, formerly in Rehoboth, now in Rumford, Rhode Island.
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