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ville Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted Masons.
He married, June 13, 1894, Bertha Eveleth, daughter of Augustus Turner and Helen ( Eve- leth ) Jones, of Brockton, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Wellesley College in the class of 1889. They have two children: Eleanor Dickinson, born August 18. 1896, and Edward Eveleth, born June 24, 1903.
The surname Patrick is de- PATRICK rived like a large percentage of British and other surnames from the personal or baptismal name of an ancestor. The names FitzPatrick in Ireland, and Kirkpatrick in Scotland are, of course, the same, the prefixes of the patronymic becoming part of the surname. Surnames came into use in England and Scotland in 1100-1200, and at a very early date the Patrick family surname is found in Ayrshire, Scotland. The Kirk- patricks in some branches dropped the prefix. Before 1200 the Kirkpatricks were promi- nent in Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. Scotland. The Fitzpatrick family is of Irish origin, but among the Scotch-Irish the name is common. In counties Cavan, Downs and An- trim, in the Protestant province of Ulster, Ire- land, sixty-four children bearing the name of Fitzpatrick were born in the year 1890. The family of Patrick in England is also ancient.
The origin of the surnames Kilpatrick and Kirkpatrick are the same. Kil or kirk means church. The early home of the Kilpatricks in Scotland was in Dumbartonshire and Stirling- shire. In 1619 Nicholas Pynnar's survey of the Scottish grants made by King James of England in Ulster province, Ireland, shows that James Kilpatrick was one of the settlers on the fifteen thousand acre grant of Peter Benson in the precinct of Liffer, county Done- gal. Ireland, and he is presumed to be the an- cestor of the Scotch-Irish Kilpatricks and Pat- ricks who came to America.
Thomas Kilpatrick, born in 1674, came from Coleraine. county Antrim, Ireland, to Boston, in 1718, with nine sons and one daughter, the latter whom was drowned on the voyage. From Boston he went to Wells, Maine, where some of his sons settled, while he and five sons afterward located at Biddeford, Maine. This family all adopted the spelling Patrick, as far as known.
Some of the Connecticut Patricks are de-
Alonzo T. Blodgett
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scended from Colonel Daniel Patrick, who came from England and settled in Watertown very early, being admitted a freeman, May 18, 1631, a captain in the colonial service ; removed to Stamford, Connecticut, married a Dutch wife.
(I) Ebenezer Patrick and his brother Will- iam came with the first Scotch-Irish from Ulster in 1718, and settled in Connecticut. Ebenezer made his home at Voluntown, Wind- ham county, and in 1765 he removed from Canaan, Connecticut, where he lived for a time, to Stillwater, Saratoga county, then Al- bany county, New York. He married, in Con- necticut, Rebecca, daughter of Rev. Robert Campbell. Among their children was Robert, mentioned below.
(II) Robert, son of Ebenezer Patrick, was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, in 1760, died in Stillwater, New York, September I, 1815. He was a soldier in the revolution and took part in the battle of Saratoga. He fol- lowed farming all his active life. He married (first), February 5, 1781, Elizabeth Ives, born 1763, died November 26, 1793. He married ( second). November 5, 1794, Sally Spaulding, born in 1775, died August 27, 1797. He mar- ried (third ), November 1, 1797, Polly Gilbert, born 1774, died March 26, 1851. Children by first wife: Isaac, born December 10, 1781 ; Ebenezer, August 2, 1783: Nathaniel, Febru- aryary 10, 1785: Elias, December 17, 1786, died December 17, 1787; Millia, born Febru- ary 2, 1790; Henry, born August 26, 1791, died October 8, 1862; Chauncey, born April 15, 1793, died February 8, 1806. Children by second wife: Amos, born July 29, 1796; Son, born January, 1797, died in infancy. Children of third wife: Sally, born January 18, 1799, died May 20, 1799 ; Sarah, born June 29, 1801 ; Olivia, born August 25, 1803 ; Lydia, January 15. 1806: James C., November 5, 1810; Mary, January 15, 1813.
(III) Nathaniel, son of Robert Patrick, was born in Stillwater, Saratoga county, New York, February 10, 1785, died in Truxton, New York, October, 1844. He came from his native town to Truxton in 1812, and was one of the early settlers there, cleared his land and fol- lowed farming. He married, in 1810, Pene- lope Potter, born May 30, 1793, died October 4, 1870, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Hunt) Potter. Her father was one of the first settlers in what is now the town of Cuyler in 1794, afterward settled at Truxton. The
farm he cleared is now owned and occupied by John W. Patrick, mentioned below. Ile was killed by a falling tree. Children of Nathaniel and Penelope Patrick : Stephen : Julia A., born 1813, died 1819: Elias, 1815; Fannie E., Oc- tober 13, 1816, married Joseph Hull ; Hiram, December 31, 1818; Albert, November 2, 1820, died May 24, 1838; Charles, August 24, 1822; William K., February 16. 1824, died May 8, 1882; Lydia M., March 21, 1826, now living in Syracuse, New York, widow of Alanson Benson ; Mary, September 21, 1827, died Sep- tember 16, 1881, married Charles Angle ; Emily, April 25, 1829, died in childhood ; Richard M., May 5, 1831: Alfred, September 29, 1832; Elizabeth, June 22, 1841, died October 4, 1899, married Robert Patrick, of Albany.
(IV) Stephen, son of Nathaniel Patrick. was born September 17, 1811, at Stillwater, Saratoga county ; died at Truxton. New York, May 9, 1890. He came to Cuyler, New York, with his parents when one year old. and was educated in the district schools. During the winter he taught school for several years. When he came of age he entered the employ of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, and in the course of time became captain of a boat. He taught school also during the win- ters of the six years that he worked on the canal, having schools in the town of Kingston. In 1838 he purchased a farm in Cortland county, New York, and from that time until he died followed farming. In public affairs lie was active and prominent. For many years he was a member of the school board, the duties of which in part consisted of the exami- nation of teachers and the visiting of the dis- trict schools. For many years he was assessor and supervisor of the town. From 1832 to 1836 he was a prominent Whig, and later was one of the organizers of the Republican party in this section, in 1854-56. He represented the county in the state assembly, and while in the legislature hie secured the passage of the bill to charter the Cortland Savings Bank, of which he was a trustee from the first until he died, and he was generally known as the "Father" of the institution. He was often elected delegate to county and state conven- tions of his party, and frequently presided at political meetings. As a farmer he was un- usually successful, and kept a herd of sixty cows. In his later years he carried on also an insurance business, having the agencies of a number of life and fire insurance companies.
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He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He married, in 1836, Angelina Dickinson, of Sullivan county, New York, born July 20. 1813, died December 23. 1906, daughter of Jesse and Matilda Dickinson. Children : Fannie Maria, born in 1836, died in 1837: Harriet, 1839, died in 1841 ; Adam. 1840, died young ; John Wesley. mentioned below ; Alvah T .. De- cember 27, 1843, lives in Binghamton ; Harriet M., October 26, 1845. married Henry L. Glea- son, of Cortland; Richard M., December I. 1847. died July 6, 1891; Eliza D., April 1, 1850, died August 21, 1900, married Edwin Radway; Nathaniel B., May 28, 1852, lives in South Dakota ; Nellie A , May 2, 1854, mar- ried David Jones, of Oakland, Minnesota ; Nelson J., January 29, 1856, engineer on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
(V) John Wesley, son of Stephen Patrick, was born in Truxton, New York, November 21. 1841. He was educated in the public schools there and at Homer Academy. He enlisted at the very beginning of the civil war in Company H, Twenty-third New York Regiment of Vol- unteer Infantry, and was mustered in April 26, 1861. He served in the Army of the Potomac and took part in the second battle of Bull Run, in the battle of South Mountain, the battle of Antietam and all other engagements in which his regiment participated. He was mustered out with the rank of sergeant, May 22, 1863, and came back to the farm at Cuyler. which was cleared by his grandfather, Na- thaniel Potter, and he has resided there and conducted the farm ever since. He owns four hundred and twenty-five acres of land, and has nearly a hundred head of cattle, having fifty or more milch cows all the time. In politics he is a Republican. He has been assessor many years and served as supervisor of the town for seven years. He is a prominent member and a trustee of the Methodist church ; a member of Volney Baker Post, No. 517. Grand Army of the Republic.
He married. December 12, 1866, Agnes Rob- bins, of St. Andrews, Canada, daughter of John Wakefield and Ann (Dodd) Robbins. Iler mother was born in England. Children : I. Stella A., born January 7, 1868 ; married, in 1889, Adelbert D. Theobald. 2. Wesley Bur- ton, December 27, 1873: educated at the State Normal School, at Cortland, and at Columbia University, and at present principal of the public schools in Orange, New Jersey ; mar-
ricd, June, 1909, Nellie A. Besse ; child, Irma Louise, born June 25, 1910. 3. William Kirk, July 4, 1884; educated in the public schools, graduating from the De Ruyter High School and the State Normal School, at Cortland ; now principal of the high school at Avoca, Steuben county, New York.
The surname Gibbs was well known GIBBS in England before the emigration of the Puritans to America. Will- iam Gibbs, of Lanham, Yorkshire, England, for signal service to the Crown, received from the King of England a grant of land embracing a tract four miles square in the center of the town. Tradition says that he had three sons, the eldest of whom inherited the paternal estate and remained thereon ; that the younger sons learned the trade of shipwright, and upon reaching their majority received funds from the eldest with which to come to America. One tradition tells us that one of the brothers settled on Cape Cod, the other at Newport. Rhode Island.
(1) Matthew Gibbs, one of the brothers of the tradition, was the immigrant ancestor of this family. He was born in England, and after coming to this country located at Charles- town, Massachusetts, where he was living about 1650. In 1654 he removed to Sudbury. Massachusetts, and settled in the district called Lanham, probably from his former home in England, having a grant of land there in 1659. and other grants in 1670. In 1661 he bought of Thomas Reed Sr. a third of a farm granted originally to Rev. Edmund Brown, near Doe- skin Hill, and in 1675 and 1678 he bought more of the same farm. He also purchased Gookin and Howland, east of Indian Head. He died before 1697. He married, about 1651. Mary, daughter of Robert Bradish. His wife was admitted to the Charlestown church, Sep- tember 23. 1652. Children: Mary, born 1653: Hannah, 1654: Matthew, 1655: Thomas, De- cember 17. 1656; Elizabeth, 1658; Thomas. April 10. 1660; John, mentioned below.
(H) John, son of Matthew Gibbs, was born at Sudbury, about 1670; lived at Lanham ; died there. April 2, 1718. He married (first), April 27, 1688, Anna, daughter of Thomas Gleason. He married (second), May 31, 1604, Sarah Cntler, of Reading, who died at Sudbury, Au- gust 31, 1725. Children of first wife : Thomas, born April 19, 1689; Mercy, August 3, 1691 : John. Children by second wife: Nathaniel.
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mentioned below : Sarah, December 6, 1701 ; Isaac; Jacob, June 25, 1704; Israel, July II. 1706: Ephraim, June 12, 1710, died young.
(III) Nathaniel, son of John Gibbs, was born at Sudbury, about 1700; married Bath- sheba Parmenter, of Sudbury, who died in 1746. Children, born at Sudbury : Eunice, February 20, 1726-27 ; Sybella, January 13. 1728; Bath- sheba. February 2, 1730-31. died 1737: Lois, July 12, 1732 ; Nathaniel, May 21. 1736, lived at Sudbury ; William, mentioned below : Jesse. July 4. 1744, lived in Sudbury.
(IV) William, son of Nathaniel Gibbs, was born at Sudbury, March 8, 1740; died intestate at Princeton, Massachusetts, April 25, 1770. He married. April 14, 1762, Joanna Gleason. of Lancaster. They settled at Princeton, in Worcester county. Children, born at Prince- ton : Ezra, mentioned below ; William, August 22, 1764; Alpheus, June 20, 1766; Theodore. August 1, 1768; Joanna, June 27, 1770. Will- iam Gibbs deeded land, May, 1767, to Elijah Hobbs, of Weston. William Gibbs, as one of the heirs of Phinehas Gleason, of Rutland, East District (Princeton), who died Decem- ber 20, 1758, by virtue of his wife Joanna, a daughter of Phinehas, deeded land, June 12. 1765, to John Gleason, of Princeton. Will- iam Gibbs, yeoman, deeded twenty-eight acres, the southwest end of Lot No. 8, May 17, 1763, to Samuel Bigelow, of Holden. Gibbs bought Lot No. 8, ninety-five acres, November 24, 1759, of James Spring, of Princeton. Gibbs was living in Sudbury in 1759, but soon moved.
(V) Ezra, son of William Gibbs, was born at Princeton, October, 1762. After the death of his father he had Robert Cowdin appointed his guardian, March 4, 1778. Children : Will- iam, John, Ezra and others.
(VI) William (2), son of Ezra Gibbs, was born in Princeton and died at Norwich, New York. He settled in Norwich with his brothers when a young man, coming by ox team through the wilderness to Norwich, Chenango county. He married Demis Sexton, who was born in 1800. Children : William Emerson ; Adelia, married George Thompson; Henry, lives at Princeton, Illinois: Eliza, second wife of George Thompson ; Harlan P., lives in Minne- sota.
(VII) William Emerson, son of William (2) Gibbs, was born at Norwich, January 31, 1829; died while living with his son in Homer, New York, June 23, 1910. He was educated in the public schools and at Gilbertville Acad-
emy, and for a time was in the mercantile busi- ness in Norwich. He owned a tannery at South New Berlin, New York, for several years. He retired with a competence twenty years before he died, and resided at Homer, New York. In politics he was a Republican. and he held various town offices. In religion he was a Presbyterian, and was superintendent of the Sunday school. He married. June 13. 1858, Myra Carpenter, born at New Berlin, New York, May 27. 1833. daughter of Cyril and Lucina E. (Edwards) Carpenter. Chil- dren : I. Gratia Adelia, born April 16, 1859. died February 14. 1861. 2. Mary Eliza, born October 21. 1862 : married Theodore L. Garnett. of Homer, and has one child, Elsie M. Garnett. 3. Andrew William, mentioned below. 4. Ben- jamin C., born May 27, 1872, a traveling sales- man, living in Guilford, New York.
(VIII) Andrew William, son of William Emerson Gibbs, was born at Guilford, Chen- ango county, New York, September 14, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Oxford Academy. He en- gaged in business in 1894, in partnership with his brother. Benjamin C. Gibbs, under the firm name of Gibbs Brothers at Johnstown, New York, dealers in men's furnishings. After four years he came to Homer, New York. where in 1901 he entered partnership with D. D. Newton in the manufacture of shirts and woolen goods, under the firm name of Newton & Company. M. A. Whiting was the third partner in the company. This concern manufactures the cloth from which it makes shirts, and since 1910 has been making fish lines in another factory under the same man- agement. In politics he is a Republican, and he has been assessor of the town of Homer. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of Johnstown, and of the Congregational church, of Homer.
He married, November 18, 1896, Bessie E. Watkins, born in Cortland, New York, dangh- ter of Adelbert H. and Eve ( Howe) Watkins. Children : Marion Esther, born July 29, 1899: Marjorie Adelaide, March 19, 1901 : Alice Watkins, April 22, 1906.
WILSON Robert C. Wilson was born May 7. 1846, during the voyage of his parents to this country from northern Ireland. His family settled in Con- stable, New York, and he was educated there in the public schools, and engaged in farming,
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and later in the mercantile business in that town. He is a prominent and public-spirited citizen, active in public affairs, and one of the best known and most popular men of the com- munity. In politics he is a Republican, and he is postmaster at Constable. He is a breeder of Holstein-Friesian cattle, and with his son, Frank R. Wilson, is a proprietor of St. Law- rence Valley Farms. He is an Odd Fellow. He married Sylvia Hastings, born September 3, 1845, daughter of Harvey and Lucy (Dud- ley) Hastings, of Constable (see Hastings). Children : Herbert J. and Frank R.
(II) Herbert J., son of Robert C. Wilson, was born at Constable, Franklin county, New York, March 18, 1871. He attended the pub- lic schools of his native town, graduated from Franklin Academy in 1890, from Dartmouth College, with the degree of bachelor of science, in 1894, and from the Albany Law School in 1897. He was admitted to the bar July 6, 1897. In politics he is a Republican, and he has been active in public life and has filled various offices of public trust. In 1898-99 he was clerk of the board of supervisors of Frank- lin county, New York. Since 1900 he has re- sided and practiced his profession in Fulton, New York. From 1902 to 1906 he was city judge, the first to hold that office. He was corporation council in 1901. He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of Neatawanta Lodge of Odd Fellows, of Fulton, and of the Macca- bees. He is an attendant of the First Meth- odist Episcopal Church, and clerk of the offi- cial board. He married, July 6, 1899, Veda M. Lyon, born December 13, 1870, daughter of Nelson and Minnie E. Lyon, of Malone, New York. She was born at Springfield, Ver- mont. They have one child, Harvia Hastings, born at Fulton, December 23, 1900.
(II) Frank R., son of Robert C. and Sylvia (Hastings) Wilson, was born at Constable, New York, January 25, 1877. He was edu- cated in the public schools and at Franklin Academy. He is a Republican in politics, and is assistant postmaster at Constable. He is associated with Robert C. Wilson, his father, in farming and in mercantile business and in the breeding of Holstein-Friesian cattle, as proprietors of St. Lawrence Valley Farms. He is an Odd Fellow. He married Bessie D. Elliot, daughter of Seymour Elliot, of Bom- bay, New York. No children.
(The Hastings Line).
The name Hastings is well known in his- tory, and the race to which it applies is of Danish origin. In the early days of the Brit- ish Kingdom the Danes made frequent incur- sions upon that part of England and Scotland bordering upon the North Sea. It was in one of these incursions that Hastings, a Danish chief, made himself formidable to Alfred the Great by landing a large body of men upon the coast. He took possession of a portion of Sussex, and the castle and seaport of Hastings were held by his family when William the Conqueror landed in England, and they held it from the crown for many generations.
The first of the family to enjoy the peerage was Henry, Lord Hastings, son of William de Hasting, Steward of Henry II .; the steward- ship was hereditary. They were allied by marriage to the royal family of England and Scotland. George, third Lord Hastings, was in 1529 created Earl of Huntingdon. Sir Henry and George Hastings, grandsons of the Earl of Huntingdon, had sons who became Puritans and were obliged by persecution to leave their native land and find homes in the new world. As early as 1634 we find Thomas Hastings and wife had arrived on this shore, and in 1638 John and family had followed. That they were brothers was a tradition in the fam- ily ; but it has never been clearly shown, and it is more probable that they were cousins. Thomas was a descendant of the Earl of Huntingdon, as shown by the coat-of-arms.
The arms of Hastings, of which there is an ancient painting still preserved, are quarterly : A black maunch-sleeve of an ancient robe, on a white field. The arms of France and England quarterly : A red lion rampant, on a field of gold, being the ancient arms of Scotland. Barry of ten pieces, blue and white, with eight red martlets, swallows of Palestine, for de Valence. The maunch in the Hastings arms was given to show the office of hereditary steward to the King of England. The arms of France and England denote him as one of the heirs of the Plantagenets by marriage with the Princess Ida. The arms of Scotland was given him as representing King David the Lion, by the Earl of Huntingdon, who married David's daughter, and was thus coheir. The arms of Valence signify a series of honorable distinctions which the martlets indicate were won in Palestine-The Holy Land-and were
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taken from the heiress of the Duke of Valence in France. Crest : A black bull's head crown- ed with a ducal coronet of gold. It indicates determination and perseverance. Motto: "In l'eritate Victoria"-"In Truth There is Vic- tory."
(I) Thomas Hastings, the immigrant an- cestor, was born in England, in 1605. Thomas, aged twenty-nine, and his wife Susanna, aged thirty-four, embarked at Ipswich, England, April 10, 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth," Will- iam Andrews, master, for New England. He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was admitted freeman May 6, 1635. He owned land in Dedham, 1635-36, but never lived there. He was selectman, 1638-43, 1650- 71 ; town clerk, 1671-77-80 : deputy to general court, 1673, and long held the office of deacon of the church. His wife Susanna died Febru- ary 2, 1650, and he married (second) Mar- garet, daughter of William and Martha Cheney, of Roxbury. She was the mother of his chil- dren. He owned many farms and lots. The west side of School street, called Hill street, was his residence. He died in 1685. His will was dated March 12, 1682-83, and proved Sep- tember 7. 1685. The inventory amounted to £421. Children : Thomas, born July 1, 1652; John, mentioned below; William, August 8, 1655, drowned August, 1669; Joseph, Septem- ber 11, 1657; Benjamin, August 9, 1659; Na- thaniel, September 25, 1661 ; Hepsibah, Janu- ary 31, 1663 ; Samuel, March 12, 1665.
(Il) John, son of Thomas Hastings, was born in Watertown, March 1, 1654. He mar- ried, June 18, 1679, Abigail, daughter of Lieu- tenant John and Abigail Hammond, of Water- town, born June 21, 1656, died April 7, 1718. In 1690 her father's assessment was the largest in town, and she received from his estate what was in those days considerable property. John Hastings lived in that part of Watertown which in 1737 was set off as Waltham. He died March 28, 1718, and both he and his wife were buried in Waltham. Children: Abigail, married, 1699, John Warren, of Weston ; John ; Elizabeth ; Hepsibah ; William ; Samuel, whose two sons were at Lexington Common, April 19, 1775, and one of them Isaac, among the volunteers at the capture of Burgoyne ; Thomas; Joseph, mentioned below.
(III) Joseph, son of John Hastings, was baptized July 10, 1699, and married, October 2, 1716, Lydia, daughter of Captain Abraham and Mary (Hyde) Brown. Her father and
mother had fourteen children. Lydia died and Joseph Hastings married (second), January 16, 1769, Sarah, daughter of Deacon Isaac and Elizabeth Stearns. The homestead where he lived and died was on the old Trapoli road, now called North street. He was selectman of Waltham, 1748. He died March 23, 1783. Children : I. Elizabeth. 2. Lydia. 3. Grace. 4. Joseph, mentioned below. 5. Child, died in infancy. 6. Lucy. 7. Josiah, selectman and assessor at time of the revolution. 8. Jonas. 9. Susanna. 10. Eliphalet, soldier in the French and Indian war, taken prisoner at Fort William Henry, Lake George, Angust, 1757 : sent to Canada, then to France, and lodged in the Rochelle prison, where he remained about a year ; exchanged and sent to England ; joined expedition to Canada under General Wolfe, was at the taking of Quebec in 1759, and assisted in carrying General Wolfe, when mortally wounded, to the rear; he returned to Waltham ; volunteered at the breaking out of the revolution, was commissioned captain, and became a pensioner ; died in Framingham, 1824, aged ninety ; had eleven children. II. Thankful, married Elnathan Allen. 12. Sarah. 13. Child, died young. 14. Lois.
(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Hast- ings, was born June 1, 1722, and married in Waltham, July 10, 1744, by Rev. Warham Williams, the former's cousin Hannah, daugh- ter of Ebenezer and Ruth ( Phillips) Hastings, of Watertown. She died March 25, 1808, aged eighty-four. He removed from Watertown to Shrewsbury a few years after his marriage. During the latter part of his life he was very deaf, and when at church sat in the pulpit, using an ear trumpet which extended to the preacher's mouth. He died February 1, 1805. Children: Hannah, Joseph, was a soldier in the revolution, 1777, under Captain John May- died 1846, was a revolutionary pensioner ; nard; Isaac, mentioned below ; Martha ; Jonas, Ezra; Ruth, married John Brocas; Lydia, married Elmer, son of Colonel Job and Lucy Cushing, lived first in Shrewsbury, in 1787, removed to Stanstead, Canada, two children- John Prentiss, Artemas,
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