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(VI) William (4), son of William (3) Shattuck, was born at Hollis, New Hampshire, February 26, 1741. He appears to have lived in several New Hampshire towns-Amherst, Derryfield and Goffstown. He was a soldier in the revolution in 1775, in Captain Amos Morrill's company, Colonel John Stark's regi- ment, and in 1775 in Captain Aaron Kins- man's company, Colonel Stark's regiment ; probably also in Colonel Nichol's regiment in
1777. lle married, December 2, 1761, Zilpha Turner, who died in Derry, aged eighty years. Children, born in Hollis: 1. Lurana, May 12, 1762; married, December 28, 1783, David Sanderson. 2. Rebecca, May 6, 1764 ; married, December 24, 1789, Michael Carter, of Dun stable. 3. Priscilla, born October 7, 1766; married Joseph Spaulding. 4. Sally, May 8, 1770; unmarried. 5. William, mentioned below. 6. Lemuel, February 12, 1776. 7. Daniel, administrator.
(VII) William (5), son of William (4) Shattuck, was born at Hollis (according to the town history ), August 20, 1772. The history of the family says little about him, and states that he died in Canada. He married (first). according to the genealogy, Hannah Hardy, of Danville, Vermont ; (second ), December 20, 1798, Sally Smith, born August 18, 1776. Chil- dren : William, born October 19, 1799 ; Lurana, April 25, 1802; Daniel, December 5, 1803 ; Samuel, October 13, 1806; Smith, mentioned below ; Luretta, November 5, 1811.
(VIII) Smith, son of William (5) Shat- tuck, was born June 17, 1809, in Canada or Vermont. He married Sarah Milliman, born May 19, 1812. He settled first in Lysander, Onondaga county, in 1840, later in Hannibal, and in the town of Ira, New York, and was a farmer. Children: Luretta Amelia, born August 26, 1832; Juliet Eliza, December I, 1833; William Henry, June 9, 1835; Sarah Maria, September 18, 1836; Dan Smith, men- tioned below ; Caroline Lurana, April 30, 1841 ; Nat Milliman, July 27, 1842 ; Desire Ann, No- vember 6, 1845; Mary Baker, May 27, 1847.
( IX) Dan Smith, son of Smith Shattuck, was born at Ira, New York. May 13, 1839, and died April 17, 1910. He was educated in the public schools and reared on his father's farm. He taught school for a few years. He began life as a farmer in the town of Ira, Cayuga county ; after four years he removed to Bowens Corners, in the town of Granby, and settled on lot No. 11, in 1864. Six years afterward he left this place and went to Gran- by, where he had a farm of two hundred and nine acres, lot No. 5. He married Amanda Osborn. born December 21, 1838, daughter of Leonard Osborn.
(X) Verner W., only child of Dan Smith Shattuck, was born at Bowens Corners, New York, May 19, 1866, and attended the public schools and the Fulton high school, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885.
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After teaching school for one term he spent two years and a half as clerk in a retail shoe store. Then he embarked in business as a shoe dealer on his own account, in partnership with Mr. Butts, buying the established business of F. E. Goodjohn. At the end of ten years the firm of Butts & Shattuck was dissolved, and he formed a new partnership with George W. Morton, buying the shoe store of A. E. Nettle- ton, and conducting the business since then under the firm name of Morton & Shattuck. The business has been extremely prosperous. Mr. Shattuck has been a member of the school board of Oswego Falls, and an alderman of the city of Fulton. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and one of the stewards ; a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Lower Oswego Falls Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and of the Masonic Club. He owns a large farm in addition to his shoe business.
He married, August 1. 1894, Clara E., daugh- ter of Oliver and Sarah Paine, of South Gran- by, New York. Children: Marion, born De- cember 27, 1895; Mildred, January 8, 1900; Oliver Dan, April 2, 1908; Esther Sarah, Au- gust 18, 1909. Mrs. Shattuck is a member of the Eastern Star Order ( Masonic). She is descended from "Mayflower" stock.
GILBERT The family of Gilbert, of Devonshire, England, to which Sir Humphrey Gilbert belong- ed, is believed to be the same as that of the pioneer in Connecticut mentioned in this ac- count of the family. Jonathan Gilbert, who settled early in Hartford, was born in England, in 1618, married, January 29. 1645-46, Mary, daughter of Elder John White, of Hartford, and she died there about 1650; Jonathan mar- ried (second) Mary Wells, daughter of Hugh; Jonathan was a prominent citizen, a townsman in 1658-64-70-74-78; deputy to the general court : collector of customs and marshal of the colony ; he died December 10, 1682. Josialı Gilbert, brother of Jonathan, John and prob- ably of William and Obadiah, all pioneers of Connecticut, died October 17, 1682, aged fifty ; his first wife was Elizabeth, his second, Mary Ward; Josiah was constable, assessor, sur- veyor of highways of Wethersfield; children : Benjamin, Josiah, Ebenezer, Moses, Caleb and John. Some writers believed that William was the father of Josiah, John and Jonathan.
He lived at Windsor, Connecticut, but little is known of him.
(I) John Gilbert, the immigrant ancestor, brother of Jonathan and Josiah Gilbert, and perhaps son of William, was born in England, and settled early at Windsor, Connecticut, where he was admitted a freeman May 21. 1657. The general court sold to him for fio, March 11, 1662-63, land lying between prop- erty of Captain Richard Lord and of John Church, "at ye landing place on the Rivulet both parcels being or lying in ye south meadow at Hartford." The court allowed him fri in consideration of a horse "that dyed in the coun- try's service," proving that he had a military record. He married, May 8, 1647, Amy, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy ( Bulkeley) Lord. Her father was one of the first settlers of Hartford. Children of John Gilbert : John, born January 16, 1647-48, died young ; John, February 19, 1652-53; Elizabeth, February 12, 1655-56; Thomas, September 14, 1658, mar- ried, September 27, 1681, Deborah Beaumont ; Joseph, mentioned below; Amy, August 3. 1663; James ; Dorothy, married Pal- mer.
(II) Joseph, son of John Gilbert, was born at Windsor, Connecticut, April 3, 1666; mar- ried (first), May 17, 1692, Mary Grosvenor, who was of a distinguished English ancestry and one of the few having the proven right to. bear arms among the colonial families. He married (second), May 8, 1695, Elizabeth Smith, born November, 1672, daughter of Jo- seph and Lydia (Huitt or Hewett ) Smith, of Hartford, granddaughter of Rev. Ephraim Hewett. Among their children were: Benja- min, born May 11, 1704, married, May 14. 1730, Elizabeth Marshfield ; Joseph, mentioned below : Mary, died 1712.
(III) Joseph Gilbert, son of Joseph Gilbert, was born about 1675, and died in 1740. Ad- ministration was granted to his son Theodore, June 17, 1750. Theodore was appointed guar- dian of his brother Isaiah, aged seventeen, in 1750; of Elias, aged sixteen, in 1753; of Jo- seph, aged seventeen, in 1753. The estate was appraised March 13, 1753. Wadsworth's Diary (page 73 as published) tells us that Jo- seph Jr. died October 6, 1740, and added "sick- ness prevails among us." The fact that he called him "Jr." in 1740 indicates that his father died after that date. The diary also states that Joseph Jr. was buried October 8.
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Hle was a lawyer of note in his day, admitted to the bar at Hartford in 1727, and within three years was appointed attorney for the crown. His estate was distributed May 25, 1754, to these children : Theodore, mentioned below; Isaiah ; Joseph ; Elias, and Lydia, who married Hopkins.
(IV) Theodore, son of Joseph Gilbert, was born about 1725. He must have been of age in 1750, when appointed to administer his father's estate, and the probate record calls him the eldest. He married Mary Waters.
(V) Theodore (2), son of Theodore (I) Gilbert, was born in 1751, and died at Whites- town, New York. He was a soldier in the revolution for three years. April 7, 1777, to April 7, 1780, and his name appears among the pensioners, under the act of 1818, as resid- ing in New York; his service being in Con- necticut (p. 249, Revolutionary Rolls of Con- necticut ). He was living at Litchfield, Litch- field county, Connecticut, in 1790, as shown by the first federal census taken in that year, whereby it appears that Theodore had two males over sixteen, one under that age, and five females in his family. According to the "History of Oneida County" he came, in 1790, with his family to Burning Bush Spring, in West Sauquoit, New York (p. 492). He mar- ried, in 1790, Hannah Chapin, born 1751, died 1818, daughter of David and Martha (Allen) Chapin (see Chapin). He settled at Whites- town, New York, and followed farming there. In politics he was a Whig ; in religion a Pres- byterian.
(VI) Titus, son of Theodore (2) Gilbert, was born about 1780, in Litchfield county, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Andrus. Children : Hiram, mentioned below ; Andrus ; Grove; William; Titus; Asa Shepherd, who married and had children : Asa, Ira, Frederick and Martha Shepherd.
(VII) Hiram, son of Titus Gilbert, was born at Paris, Oneida county, New York. He was educated in the district schools, and set- tled when a young man at Gilberts Mills, Os- wego county, New York. He was a millwright by trade, and built the first mill in this town. He had a flour mill and a saw mill. Afterward he built numerous mills in the country. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, at Bristol Hill, and one of the deacons. He died aged seventy-eight years. He married Lucy Harrington, of Sauquoit, New York. In early life he was a Whig, and supported abolition
before the civil war. In later years he was a Republican. Children : Henry H .; Elizabeth ; Lucretia ; Catherine R. ; Horace N., mentioned below: Frances M .; Newell H .; Martha L .; Myrtis Emogene; Arthur Gillispie.
(VHI) Horace Nathaniel, son of Hiram Gilbert, was born at Gilbertville, now Gilberts Mills, New York, June 30, 1829. He attended the public and select schools of his native town until he was of age, studying for two years of that time in the New York Central College, at McGrawville, Cortland county, New York. He learned the trade of millwright, and during his minority worked with his father. In 1855 he came to Fulton, New York, and in the fol- lowing year, in partnership with his brother, Henry H. Gilbert, built a custom flouring mill on the Rust Tool mill site, and they afterward built two other mills, owning a controlling interest in each of the three and operating them for several years. He sold his interests to Leonard Van Wagenen and removed to Illi- nois, where he engaged in business as a mill- wright and builder. He erected and sold a dozen dwelling houses. A few years later he returned to Fulton, where he built himself a fine residence on Fourth street. He was part- ner for a time in the firm of Gilbert, Wolcott & Van Burn, and in the firm of Gilbert, Wright & Smith. The mill of the former firm was built in 1862. The latter firm owned the flour mill that spans the hydraulic race. He built a number of houses in Fulton for investment purposes, and at one time had a considerable investment in canal boats. The mill which he, his brother, Henry Newell, and his brother-in- law, Oran Toby, bought on the canal, was formerly known as the Wolcott storehouse, and was operated to manufacture flour by cable power. In politics Mr. Gilbert is a staunch Republican, and throughout his long life has never voted for the ticket of any other than the Republican party. He has been a trustee of the incorporated village of Fulton, and for a number of years was a school trustee. He is a man of many interests in life, a student and observer, and has written much for news- papers. For many years he was a corre- spondent of the Oswego Daily Times and the Syracuse Standard, and while he was in Europe his letters to these newspapers giving an ac- count of his travels were widely read. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. He be- longs to no secret societies.
He married, in 1881, Caroline Gardner, a
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native of Fulton, born 1857. They have one child, Barbara F., born October 1, 1894, now a student in the Fulton high school.
(The Chapin Line).
This surname is variously spelled in the early records of England and America, Chapin, Chapun, Chapinne, Chalpin, and several ex- planations of it have been given. Rev. R. D. Chapin, of Allegan, Michigan, reports an inter- view with a well-educated Swiss physician who said he formerly lived in France and was at one time much interested in philological studies, especially the history of names. He stated that the name Chapin was one of the oldest and best names in France, dating from the Carloy- ingian era, and going back at least to the tenth century, perhaps earlier. He gives this story as to its probable origin : In some feudal scrim- mage of the middle ages, one who had distin- guished himself received a swordcut across his head, laying open his helmet, or headpiece. For this exploit he was knighted on the field and dubbed Capinatus, which means "decorated with a hat," and his coat-of-arms was made a hat with a slash in it, thence the name Capi- natus, the particle of the law-Latin capino- and then, by the softening process of the French, made Chapin. Of course the root is caput, whence cap and chapeau. The Chapin coat-of-arms tends to verify the story.
(I) Deacon Samuel Chapin, the immigrant ancestor, was doubtless born in England, though the family, perhaps centuries before, came from France to England. Two immigrants of this name came to New England about the same time and both settled in Springfield. David Chapin was admitted a freeman there April 5, 1649, and was admitted an inhabitant of Bos- ton in 1659. He was probably son of Deacon Samuel Chapin, though possibly a brother. Deacon Samuel Chapin came from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1656, with several children. Hle settled permanently at Spring- field, where he was admitted a freeman June 2, 1641, and was elected to a town office in 1642. The Chapins of this country are all descended from him, according to the best authorities. He was a distinguished man in church and state. He was deacon of the Springfield church, elected in 1638, and was employed to conduct services part of the time in 1656-57, when there was no minister in town. He was appointed commissioner to determine small causes October 10, 1652, and
his commission was definitely extended by the general court in 1654. He married Cicely -, who died February 8, 1682. He died November 11, 1675. His will, dated March 4, 1674, proved March 24, 1676, bequeathed to his wife, son Henry, and grandson, Thomas Gilbert. The widow's will mentions son, Henry Chapin, of Springfield, and Josiah Chapin, of Braintree ; daughters Catherine, wife of Sam- uel Marshfield, Sarah Thomas, and Hannah Hitchcock; Henry Gilbert. Her son Japhet was executor. Children: Japhet, mentioned below ; Henry, died young, April 29, 1668; Henry, died August 15, 1718; Catharine, died February 4, 1712; David, born in England, probably not a child of the wife Cicely ; Josiah, (lied September 10, 1726, at Braintree ; Sarah, died August 5, 1684: Hannah, born December 2, 1644, Springfield. The order of birth is not certain.
(H1) Japhet, son of Deacon Samuel Chapin, was born October 15, 1643, and died February 20, 1712, at Chicopee, Massachusetts. He mar- ried ( first), July 22, 1664, Abalien or Abi- lanah Cooley, who died at Chicopee, Novem- ber 17, 1710, daughter of Benjamin Cooley. The gravestones of Japhet and his wife have been removed to the new cemetery in Spring- field. He married (second), May 31, 1711, Dorothy Root, of Enfield. She married (sec- ond). in 1720, Obadiah Miller, of Enfield. He settled first at Milford, Connecticut, where he was living November 16, 1669, when he took a deed from Captain John Pyncheon. March 9, 1666, John Pyncheon deeded to his father, Deacon Sammel, the greater part of the land in the valley between the Chicopee river and Williamsett Brook. The latter piece of land Samuel deeded to his son Japhet, April 16, 1673, and there the latter built his house at the upper end of Chicopee street, northwest of the house lately owned by Henry Sherman. Japhet was in the fight at Turner's Falls, in 1676, in King Philip's war. He was a volunteer, and his son Thomas was grantee of a large tract of land given to the soldiers and their descend- ants by the general court. Chapin, like his father, was of great piety, a bulwark of the Puritan faith. Children : Samuel, born July 4, 1655 ; Sarah, March 16, 1662 ; Thomas, May 10, 1671 : John, May 14, 1674 ; Ebenezer, June 26, 1677; Hannah, June 21, 1679, died July 7, 1679 : Hannah, July 18, 1680, taken captive by the Indians and kept in Canada two years; David, November 16, 1682; Jonathan, Febru-
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ary 20, 1685, died March 1, 1686; Jonathan, September 23, 1688.
(III) Ebenezer, son of Japhet Chapin, was born in Chicopee, June 26, 1677, and died in Enfield, Connecticut, December 13, 1772. He married, December, 1702, Ruth, daughter of Abel Janes, of Northampton. She died Janu- ary 18, 1736. They had eleven sons, six of whom settled on Somers Mount and had farms adjoining. On the homestead in Enfield six generations have lived, each Ebenezer by name, and five generations are buried in one lot in the cemetery there. Children, born at Enfield : Rachel, August 27, 1703 ; Ebenezer, September 23, 1705: Noah, October 25, 1707; Seth, Feb- ruary 27, 1709; Catherine, January 4, 1711 ; Moses, August 24, 1712 ; Aaron, September 28, 1714; Elias, October 22, 1716; Reuben, Sep- tember 3, 1718; Charles, December 26, 1720; David, mentioned below ; Elisha, April 18, 1725; Phineas, June 26, 1726.
(I\') David, son of Ebenezer Chapin, was born August 13, 1722, at Enfield, Connecticut, and died at New Hartford, aged forty years. He married Martha Allen. Their daughter Hannah, born 1751, married Theodore Gilbert Jr. (see Gilbert ).
COLE James Cole, the immigrant ances- tor, came to this country probably from county Essex, England, and settled in Hartford, Connecticut, with the founders under Hooker. His name is on the list of original settlers on the monument at Hartford. His home lot was on Main street. He was a cooper by trade. His will was dated in 1652. His widow died February 20, 1678- 79. Children: Abigail, married Daniel Sulli- van ; Jolin, mentioned below; perhaps others.
(II) John, son of James Cole, was born in England. He was admitted a freeman at Hart- ford, in 1655, and was a constable there in 1657. He owned eleven lots of land, com- prising eighty acres. His will was dated Au- gust 4, 1683, and proved March 4, 1688. Chil- dren: John: Job: Samuel, mentioned below ; Mary, born June 27, 1654; Anne, married Benton ; Lydia, married John Wilson : Nathaniel.
(III) Samuel, son of John Cole, was born in Hartford. His will was dated March 14. 1693, and he died March 16, 1693. He mar- ried Mary - -, who died in March, 1693. Children, born in Hartford: Samuel, 1673; Ichabod; John: Jonathan, mentioned below :
Elizabethi, married Richard Smith; Dorothy ; Hannah.
(IV) Jonathan, son of Samuel Cole, was born about 1683, at Hartford. He lived in East Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut. Children : Jonathan ; Mary, married John Ken- dall ; Hannah ; David, mentioned below.
(\') David, son of Jonathan Cole, was born about 1710. lle married Hannah , who was appointed guardian of their children at Hartford, in 1769. The probate records state that he was presumably dead, not having been heard from for nearly seven years. Children : Samuel, born 1755; David, mentioned below.
(VI) David (2), son of David ( 1) Cole, was born in Hartford, in 1756. He settled in the adjacent town of Glastonbury, Connecticut, and was a soldier in the revolution from that town (p. 100, History of Glastonbury), in 1777. lle appears to have left Glastonbury before 1790, and may have settled in New York state, where various others of this family located.
(VII) Nathan, son of David (2) Cole, was born about 1780-90, in Glastonbury, Connecti- cut. He married Laura Mills, of East Hart- ford, Connecticut. He settled at Trenton, Oneida county, New York.
(VIII) James (2). son of Nathan Cole, was born at Trenton, New York, March 9, 1816. He was educated in the public schools. In 1843 he came to Fulton, New York, and en- gaged in the furniture trade and undertaking business. He married (first ) Mary W. Cum- mings. He married ( second) Mary W. Prime, of Huntington, Long Island. He died May I, 1900. Child by first wife : J. Wendell, born in Trenton, New York, resides in Columbus, Ohio. Children by second wife : Edward P., mention- ed below ; Harland P .; George W.
(IX) Edward P., son of James (2) Colc, was born in Trenton, Oneida county, New York. June 20, 1851. He attended the public schools of his native town and Fulton, and Falley Seminary. He came to Fulton with his father's family in 1860. After completing his education he entered the employ of his father in the furniture store, and in 1880 was ad- mitted to partnership. When his father died he succeeded to the business. The store was established in 1851 and is now the largest in its line in the city. Mr. Cole is one of the leading undertakers of the city. He was cor- oner of the county from January 1, 1889, to 1892. He is a charter member of the Benev-
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olent and Protective Order of Elks, and was formerly chaplain of the lodge; member of Neahtawanta Lodge, No. 245, of Odd Fellows, in which he has held in succession all the offices. He has been district deputy grand master of the first district of Oswego county. He is also a member and is now senior warden of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free Masons ; member of the Citizens Club and Pathfinders Club, an active member of the fire department and a generous patron of baseball and other athletics. He is a member of the New York State Embalmers Association and State Undertakers Associa- tion. In politics he is a Republican and for several years represented the town on the Re- publican county committee and has frequently been elected delegate to nominating conven- tions of his party. In religion he is a Presby- terian.
He married, December 10, 1874, Cora A. Pollock, born Fulton, New York, daughter of Ira R. and Mary Pollock. Children: 1. Jessie May, married James Lamphere. 2. James, associate of his father in the undertaking busi- ness; married Frances Harrington, and has child, Charlotte. 3. Charlotte, married How- ard M. Morin, of Fulton, and has child, Ed- ward C.
The Seymour family is of SEYMOUR great antiquity in England. The seal on the will of Thomas Seymour, eldest son of Richard Seymour, the immigrant ancestor, bears the impress of the wings conjoined in lure, the device of the Eng- lish Seymours from the time of William de St. Maur, of Penhow. A "Bishop's Bible," print- ed in 1584, in the possession of a descendant of Richard Seymour, has on one of the fly- leaves a drawing of the arms of the Seymours of Berry Pomeroy: The wings conjoined in lure, quartered with the royal arms, as granted by Henry VIII., and the name written below, "Richard Seymour, Bery Pomeroy, heytor hund in ye com-Devon, his Book, Hartford, in ye Collony of Conn. in New England, 1640." On another there is a memorandum relating to some business transaction, and the name, "John Scimor, Hartford, 1636." A\ great Bible men- tioned in the inventory of the estate of John Seymour, of Hartford. 1713, is undoubtedly the same.
(I) Richard Seymour, the immigrant an- cestor, came from Chehnsford, county Essex.
England, in 1639, to Hartford, Connecticut, and was one of those settlers who received land "by Courtesie of the town." His home lot was on the east side of the road to the "Cow Pasture" ( North Main street), and was bounded on the north by the "Cow Pasture" itself. He was chosen chimney viewer in 1647, was one of the signers of the agreement for the planting of Norwalk, June 19, 1660, and was there soon afterwards with the first plant- ers. He was a townsman in Norwalk in 1655. His will was dated July 29, proved October, 1655. The inventory, dated October 10, 1655, amounted to two hundred twenty-five pounds nine shillings. He mentions his wife Mercy, eldest son Thomas, "three other sons," John, Zachary and Richard, the last three being under age and left to their mother's guardianship. The widow Mercy married, November 25, 1655 (?), John Steele, of Farmington. Chil- dren, born in England or Hartford: Thomas; John ; Zachary, born 1642; Richard.
(II) John, son of Richard Seymour, was born in Hartford, and doubtless went to Farm- ington with his mother after her marriage to John Steele, but in 1664 was again in Hart- ford. He married not long after, Mary, daugh- ter of John and Margaret Watson, of Hart- ford. He was made a freeman in 1667. He and his wife owned the covenant in the Sec- ond or South Church, February 12, 1670, when the church was organized, and were ad- mitted to full communion March 31, 1678. He was leather sealer, 1673 ; chimney viewer, 1693. He died in 1713 ; his will was dated December 10, 1712, and proved August 3, 1713. Chil- dren: John, mentioned below; Thomas, born March 12, 1669-70; Mary, November, 1670; Zachary, December 22, 1673, died young : Mar- garet, January 17. 1674; Richard, February II. 1676-77 : Jonathan, January 10, 1678, died young ; Nathaniel, November 6, 1680, died young ; Zachary, January 10, 1684-85.
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