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(V) Lieutenant Oliver Buell, son of Timo- thy Buell, was born at Hebron, May 6, 1746. and died at Canaan. New York, June 6, 1790. He married ( first ), at Richmond, Massachu- setts. December 15. 1768, Judah Tilden, born April 20, 1749, died at Canaan, New York. November 9, 1788. He married ( second ), May 6, 1789. Sarah Dewey, born January 29. 1750. He was a soldier in the revolution, on the northern frontier, and attained the rank of lieutenant. He moved to Richmond, Massa- chusetts, before the war, and after its close moved again to Canaan, New York. He sold lands in Chatham, Connecticut, February 23, 1770, to Abigail Hale. Children, born at Rich- mond : Judah, October 7, 1769, died November 16, 1769: Oliver, May 13, 1771 ; Oledine, No- vember 7, 1773, died January 17, 1774; Ole- dine, July 9, 1776: Timothy, mentioned below : Bradford. October 30, 1783; Elijah, Decem- ber 7. 1785, died March 6. 1786.
(VI) Timothy (2), son of Lieutenant Oli- ver Buell, was born at Richmond, April 15, 1779, and died there November 8, 1865. He married (first), probably at Richmond, June 21, 1798. Jane Mc. Allister, born November 19. 1777, died January 21, 1814. He married ( second), August 27, 1814. Thankful Olm- stead, born September 9, 1784. died April 3, 1843. He married ( third), February 27, 1844. Ruth A. Holmes, born May 11, 1799. Chil- dren of first wife, born at Richmond : Oliver D., January 7, 1800; Lorenzo, July 16, 1801 ; William Bradford, mentioned below; Sarah
D., January 6, 1805; Margaret M., August I, 1807: Timothy T., July 7, 1810, died August 25, 1813; Jane M., June 29, 1812. Children of the second wife, born at Richmond: Jane M., October 12, 1815: Timothy F., August II, 1818; Thankful, June 25, 1820; Lucy, March 3, 1823 : Mary, February 27, 1826.
(VII) William Bradford, son of Timothy ( 2) Buell, was born at Richmond, Massachu- setts, October 10, 1803. He went to Canaan Four Corners, New York, and thence to Caz- enovia, where he manufactured town clocks. He was a skillful blacksmith and machinist. He built the sash and blind factory at Caz- enovia and manufactured threshing machines and gasometer tanks. In 1856 he came to Ful- ton, New York, as foreman for Clark & Quafe machine shop, and later worked in the Ross machine shops.
He married at Cazenovia, New York, Sep- tember 30, 1827, Elizabeth Norton, born March, 1809, daughter of Joseph Norton, of Canaan, New York. Children : 1. Joseph Norton, born at Fulton, September 23, 1829; died August 24, 1838. 2. Sylvia Jane, born near Cazenovia, August 14, 1837 ; married April 17, 1856, Will- iam C. Stephens, at Fulton ; children : Charles Aubrey, born May 2, 1857: Gertrude T., De- cember 31, 1858; Alice Elizabeth, November 16, 1861 ; Douglas .\., February 25, 1865, died September 30, 1865: Mary Abby : John Buell; Sylvia de Forest. 3. Mary Elizabeth, born near Cazenovia, October 15. 1839; married, in No- vember, 1862, James H. Loomis, born Novem- ber 7, 1840. 4. Morris Birney, born near Caz- enovia, February 9, 1842, served as a soldier in the civil war. 5. Albert Francis, mentioned below.
(VIII) Albert Francis, son of William Bradford Buell, was born in Cazenovia, New York, August 11, 1844. He attended the pub- lic schools and learned the trades of machinist, plumber and steam fitter. He was in the em- ploy of the J. F. Pease Furnace Company, of Syracuse, for three years, as an expert heating engineer. For nine years he was in business at Dunkirk, New York, and in 1893 established a plumbing and steam fitting business at Ilor- nellsville, New York. At the time of the ex- citement over the discovery of oil at Bradford, Pennsylvania, be located and engaged in busi- ness there as a plumber and steam fitter. At Dunkirk. New York, he had charge of the Wrought Iron & Turn Table Works. He finally returned to Fulton, New York, and
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engaged with his sons in the plumbing busi- ness. He was sanitary and plumbing inspector for the city of Fulton for four years. He en- listed, August 5, 1862, for service in Company .A. One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served three years, or until the close of the civil war. In politics he is a Republican ; is a member of the Painted Post Lodge of Free Masons ; of the Masonic Club, of Fulton, and a charter member of the local lodge of the Knights of Honor. In religion Mr. Buell is a Methodist.
He married, July 3. 1872, Catherine Bogue, born in Glengarry, Upper Canada. August 15. 1852, daughter of James Bogue. Children : James B., born January 7. 1874, married Ella Mix, two children-John A., born May 31, 1901, and James B., born January 23, 1903 : Albert Francis, mentioned below.
(IX) Albert Francis (2), son of Albert Francis ( I) Buell, was born in Dunkirk, New York, May 29, 1876. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the high school of Hornellsville, New York. He has been bookkeeper for a number of years and is at present in partnership with his brother, James B. Buell, in the plumbing and heating business, at Fulton, New York, under the firm name of Buell Brothers. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus; Fulton Lodge, No. 830, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Pathfinders Club. In politics he is a Republican. In religion Mr. Buell is a Catholic, a member of the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
The surname Orchard is de- ORCHARD rived from the old English word orchard, originally wyrt- yard, an enclosure to grow herbs or wyrts. rather than fruit trees. The original progeni- tors of the family or families of Orchard were doubtless gardeners. The family seat of the ancient Orchards is in Devonshire and the coat-of-arms is described: Azure, a chevron, argent, between three pears, or. Crest: A crow, or. Other branches of the family in England and Scotland bear the same or similar armorials. The family has lived for centuries in western England and many of the men have followed mechanical trades. Descendants of William Orchard, of Bristol, England, are living in Boston. William Orchard was born in 1825. in Lancashire, where his parents, grandparents and earlier ancestors lived. Sev-
eral of the early pioneers in this country spell- ed their name Archer, Archard and Orchard, but their descendants, as far as known, came to spell the name Archer, and that may have been the correct spelling.
(1) Samuel Orchard, born in England, came to this country when a young man and settled in New Hamburg, New York, where he was in business as a general merchant. In later years he followed farming. He married Amanda Woodin. Children: Venia ; Helen ; Hambly P., mentioned below.
( Il ) Hambly P., son of Samuel Orchard. was born at New Hamburg, Dutchess county. New York. He was educated in the public schools, Albany Normal and Cornell Univer- sity, and was professor of languages in Valley Seminary and Richmond Hill, Long Island. In later years he was a farmer in Dutchess county. New York. From 1894 until 1899. when he died, he was an officer of the custom house at New York. In politics he was a Re- publican and in religion he was a Baptist. He married Lois A. Calkins, daughter of Dorr B. Calkins, of Volney, New York. Children : Dr. Hambly S., mentioned below ; Edith L., mar- ried Harry Van Tassel.
(III) Dr. Hambly S. Orchard, D. D. S .. son of Hambly P. Orchard, was born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, March 18, 1878. He attended the public schools and the Mount Pleasant Military Academy, at Ossinning, New York, and studied dentistry in the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of 1904. He began to practice at Utica, New York. In October, 1906, he came to Fulton, New York, where he has had office to the pres- ent time. He is member of Fifth District Dental Society, of New York. He is a mem- ber of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; of Fulton Chapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons ; of Central City Council, Royal and Select Masters, and of the local lodge of Elks. In politics he is Republican, in religion a Baptist.
He married. April 11, 1906, Louise C. Bacon, born at Watertown, New York, daugh- ter of John and Cornelia ( Maffet) Bacon, of Utica, New York. Children : LeRoy Hambly, born December 3, 1908: Neil E., June 20, 1910.
Joseph Anderson was born ANDERSON in Auburn, New York. in 1832. His father was a na- tive of Scotland, and later lived in Ireland,
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where he married. Joseph Anderson was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town, and engaged in the hardware business there for many years. He married, January 1, 1866, Julia Lance, born May 13, 1846, daughter of Wright Lance. Children : Louis : James ; Rich- ard: Julia; Edward M., referred to below ; Adalaide, who died aged about twenty years ; two who died in infancy.
Dr. Edward M. Anderson, son of Joseph Anderson, was born in Auburn, New York, October 18, 1876. He attended the Auburn public schools and was graduated from the high school in the class of 1895. He entered Williams College, from which he was gradu- ated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1900. llis medical degree was received in 1904 from the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. After a year as interne in the Emer- gency Hospital, of Buffalo, New York, he came to Fulton, New York, in October, 1905, and has established a large and successful practice in that city. He is president of the Fulton Academy of Medicine; a member of the Os- wego County Medical Society, of the New York State Medical Society, and of the Amer- ican Medical Association. He is also a mem- her of St. Joseph's Council, Knights of Colum- bus. of Fulton. In political belief he is an Inde- pendent.
Dr. Anderson married, October 15, 1910, Hazel R. Gardner, born March 19, 1885, daugh- ter of Castle II. and Nellie (Vant) Gardner.
NELLIS William Nellis, immigrant an- cestor of this family, was born in Germany and came with the carly Palatine settlers, landing in New York in 1710. He settled in Schoharie, New York, and his son Andrew was born there in 1715, and died in 1779: was one of the principle founders of the Palatine Church, the oldest church in the Mohawk Valley. Andrew was a farmer ; was confirmed by the Lutheran pas- tor, at Schoharie, in 1735; married Catherine Fox, of German Flatts ; their son Philip was born December 1, 1746, in Fairfield, New York, and died in 1818, a soldier in the revolu- tion, and father of Peter Phillip Nellis, to whom various distinguished descendants traced their ancestry. In 1790 the first federal census shows as heads of family, all living in Mont- gomery county, Mohawk Valley, and mostly in the town of Palatine : George, Adam, Chris- tian, David, George, Henry, Henry W., John
(2). John D., Ludman. Peter F., Philip, Rob- ert, William and David Yost.
Of the emigration of the Palatines, John Fox, the great historian of the Reformation, wrote: "In the meantime the Protestants of Heidelberg (a city in the province of the Palatinate ) sank into poverty, and many of them became so distressed as to quit their native country and seek an asylum in Protest- ant States. A great number of these coming into England in the time of Queen Anne, were cordially received here, and met with a most humane assistance, both by public and private donations." Three thousand of these refugees embarked at Leith, Scotland, in ten ships, early in 1710, bound for America. Seven of these ships arrived here safely, having buried four hundred and seventy of their number at sea. They landed at Governor's Island, June 13, 1710. Among them were three brothers- William, Christian and Johannes Nellis. They first settled on a tract in Dutchess county, but in 1712, with other Palatines, they hewed a road across the Catskills and came to Schoharie river. Afterwards Johannes Nellis went to Pennsylvania and settled in the vicinity of Gettysburg, and in 1720 William and Christian Nellis settled in the Mohawk Valley, near Pala- tine church. William Nellis and twenty-six other Palatines received a patent dated Octo- ber 19, 1723, designated as the Stone Arabia patent, and afterward Nellis and George Klock procured a smaller tract, afterward known as the Klock and Nellis patent. On the subscrip- tion list for the funds to erect a church edifice for the "Lutheran congregation of Canajo- harie on the north side of the Mohawk River," Christian Nellis Jr. was one of the four mana- gers appointed to have charge of the church and funds. The date of the list is December 30, 1768; the land was given by Hendrick W. Nellis, and the church was completed August 18, 1770. On the list are the names of William Nellis Jr., Andrew Nellis, Johannes Nellis and Henry Nellis paid for making the church spire.
Several of the Nellis family held offices of profit and trust under the English crown. Hendrick W. Nellis's son Henry and his son Robert were loyalists during the revolution, removed to Canada and joined the British army at the commencement of the revolution, and their property was confiscated. Children of William Nellis: Andrew ; Ludwig ; Henry; Johannes ; William, mentioned below.
(II) William (2), son of William (1) Nellis,
Az Hellio
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was born about 1710-20. He was a farmer at Palatine. Children: 1. Peter I. 2. Joseph, born at Palatine, then Canajoharie, April 17, 1759; died February 24, 1834; married Mary Lantman ; children: Joseph I., born May 23, 1787, died September 21, 1862; Mary, born 1792, died aged thirteen. Joseph I. Nellis was an officer in the war of 1812, married when lie was eighteen years old, Magdalen, daughter of David Bellinger, of St. Johnsville, and had eight children : Charles, Benjamin J., Josiah, Catherine, Aaron, Stephen, Abraham, and Horatio, who was born at St. Johnsville, Feb- ruary 25, 1827, married, January 9, 1849, Kath- erine, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Keller) Sanders, of Minden, and had four children. 3. William. 4. John I., mentioned below.
(III) John I., son of William (2) Nellis, was born in 1769, and died in 1854. He was a leading citizen, a Democrat in politics, and held various town offices. He married Weaver. Children : John, David, DeWitt, Sim- eon, Nancy and Lena.
(IV) David, son of Jolin I. Nellis, was born in Palatine, in 1800, and died in Fultonville in 1860. He married (first) Catherine, daugli- ter of Peter Fox, who was a soldier in the revolution ; he married ( second ) Mrs. Orstrom. Children of first wife: Maria; Edward; Peter F., mentioned below ; Alfred.
(V) Peter F., son of David Nellis, was born August 19, 1831, in Palatine, and was edu- cated there in the district schools. When a young man he was clerk in a store at Charles- ton, South Carolina, for a time. Since 1851 he has resided at St. Johnsville. He has been a very successful farmer. In politics he is a Democrat. He married, May, 1861, Anna M., daughter of Peter P. and Lena ( Nellis) Fox. She died in July, 1890. Children : Lena and Catherina M.
(The Fox Line).
(I) William Fox, the immigrant ancestor, settled in the town of Palatine, Montgomery county, New York, about 1722. He was a con- temporary of Peter Wagner, the progenitor of Webster Wagner, inventor of sleeping cars, and state senator. Fox located a short distance from the Palatine church. Among his descend- ants, several of whom did gallant service in the revolution, were Captain William Fox Jr., Christopher P. Fox, and Christopher W. Fox. who were in command of the First, Second and Third companies of the Second ( Palatine ) Battalion, at the battle of Oriskany, in the 14
revolution. Captain Christopher P. was slain there. Several generations were prominent in the town of Palatine.
(II) Abraham Rosencrantz Fox, a descend- ant of the pioneer William, was born in the Mohawk Valley, New York. He was a farmer. He married Euphemia Parker, born of Scotch parentage.
(III) Abram Fox Nellis, son of Abraham Rosencrantz Fox, was adopted in early youth by Peter Fox Nellis, who was related to him (see Fox V).
He was born March 8, 1871, at Palatine Church, Montgomery county, New York, and attended the district school at St. Johnsville, New York, and the Clinton Liberal Insti- tute. He then took a course at the East- man Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York. He began his business career as book- keeper for the Lincoln Storage & Deposit Com- pany, of New York City. Afterward he held a similar position with L. F. Bristol, a dealer in silk and woolen goods. In 1892 he became a partner in the Duffy Silk Company, of Fort Plain, New York, incorporated in 1893, when Mr. Nellis became secretary and treasurer, and he has continued in the office of secretary to the present time. He is also secretary of the Seneca Manufacturing Company, and of the Gilford Manufacturing Company, both of Buf- falo, New York. He is a member of Atlantic Lodge, No. 178, Free Masons, of New York City; of Oswego River Chapter, No. 270, Royal Arch Masons; of Lake Ontario Com- mandery, No. 232, Knights Templar, of Os- wego; of Medea Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Watertown, New York. In politics he is a Democrat. He married, July 6, 1907, Lucy M. Pendergast, born in Phoenix, daughter of Nicholas Pendergast, of Phoenix. Children : Martha R., born June 16, 1908; Mary, March 17, 1910.
The McAllisters came from
McALLISTER Argyleshire, Scotland. The name is very common in many parishes of that country to the present day. In the Scotch colony in the north of Ireland there were also many McAllisters, and from the last-named locality there were three families of the name coming to New Hamp- shire, evidently closely related, and from the same section of Ulster province, Ireland. These have been traced back through their sojourn in Ireland and Scotland, but it is impossible
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at present to give the ancestry earlier than the American settlers.
The ancestor of the Londonderry, New Hampshire, family was Angus McAllister, who married Margaret Boyle, and came to this country in the year 1718, and settled at Lan- caster, Massachusetts. In 1731 he removed to Londonderry, New Hampshire, a Scotch- Irish settlement where neighbors in the old country and doubtless relatives were living. At last accounts his farm there was owned by a descendant, Jonathan McAllister. Angus had been a soldier in the wars in Ireland, and had had an ear shot off in an engagement at Penny- burn Hill, and was exempted from taxes on account of his military services. At his death his body was carried for six miles for burial on a bier supported by bearers, after the cus- tom of the times. On the way the funeral pro- cession met Thomas Wilson, an old companion in arms of McAllister. Wilson took off his hat and shouted : "Auld Ireland forever ! Well, Angus, they're na taking the lug ( ear) aff your head at l'ennyburn Hill the day, mon." Chil- dren of Angus: 1. William, married Jennette Cameron, and died in 1755. aged fifty-five; descendants lived at Jaffray, New Hampshire, and in Vermont. 2. David, died at London- derry, New Hampshire, in 1750, aged forty- six years ; married Eleanor Wilson. 3. John, returned to Ireland, but several daughters re- mained in this country, and one married John Taggart, of Colerain, Massachusetts.
Richard McAllister, another immigrant, mar- ried, about 1735, in Ireland, Ann Miller ; came to this country in the winter of 1738-39. and located at Londonderry, New Hampshire ; re- moved soon to Bedford, New Hampshire, and settled on a farm a few rods west of the village, only four miles from the present city of Man- chester ; his wife died there March 12, 1776, in her seventy-seventh year. Children : 1. Arch- ibald, born in Ireland, settled in Wiscasset. Maine. 2. John, born at sea, January 18, 1739 (birth recorded as of Chelsea, Massachusetts), soldier in the French and Indian war, 1758-60. and in the revolution : at the age of seventy- five he removed to Rochester, Vermont, where he died in 1828: married Anna Steele. 3. Will- iam, born at Londonderry, July 14, 1741; married Jerusha Spofford, and settled at Bed- ford. 4. Mary, August 10, 1743. 5. Ann, No- vember 6, 1745. 6. Susannah, August 20, 1747. 7. Richard, October 20, 1749: removed from Bedford to Antrim in 1775, then to
Springfield, Vermont. 8. James, February 29, 1752 ; removed to Antrim ; married Sally Mc- Clary. 9. Benjamin, born May 31, 1754.
John McAllister, the third immigrant, came from the north of Ireland and settled in New Boston, in 1748. He owned a large tract of land near Joe English Hill ; was an energetic, live man, strongly religious ; selectman on the first board in 1763. Children : Archibald, mar- ried Maria McKeen, and moved to Frances- town; Angus, of New Boston and Fryeburg, Maine: Daniel, lived at New Brunswick, and died there : Mary, married Daniel Kelso.
Randall McAllister, of Peterborough, New Hampshire, said to be of the family of Angus, was wounded in the battle of Bunker Hill. Benjamin McAllister served in the revolution, from Merrimac, New Hampshire, and Abing- ton, Massachusetts; Reuben from Princeton, Massachusetts : William from Abington, and William from Damariscotta, Maine.
(I) Daniel McAllister, believed to be grand- son of Angus, mentioned above, perhaps son of John, who had at least one daughter in Colerain, was a soldier in the revolution, from Hampshire county, Massachusetts, in Captain Lawrence Kemp's company, May 10 to July 17, 1777. Colonel David Well's regiment. The roll is dated at Shelburne, near Colerain. In 1780 he was slain in the service, in Captain Isaac Newton's company, Colonel Murray's regiment. According to the family tradition the father of Benjamin lived in Colerain. Ac- cording to the census of 1790, none of the name are reported in Massachusetts.
( 11) Benjamin, presumably son of Daniel McAllister, and doubtless descended from the Scotch-Irish pioneers described above, was born in 1774, and died at Truxton, New York, about 1861. He married Sally Perry. Chil- dren: Lois, Benjamin, Levi, Calvin, James, Eli, Edson and Amasa.
(III) Edson, son of Benjamin McAllister. was born at Truxton, New York, about 1808, and died there about 1888. He followed farm- ing during the greater part of his active life in Truxton, but from 1868 to 1879, in Cuyler, New York. He married Mary Crissey, born April 16, 1822, in Ilector, New York, now living with her daughter at DeRuyter, New York. She was a daughter of Abijah and 1.ettie ( Cronk ) Crissey. Children : Sarah, born August 6, 1844, lives in DeRuyter, New York, married George Hayes: James, born March 6, 1846, a farmer in the state of Michigan ; Ben-
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jamin, born April 18, 1847, died in Greeley, Colorado, in 1886: John C., mentioned below ; Charles, born July 6, 1851, lives at DeRuyter.
(IV) John C., son of Edson McAllister, was born in Truxton, New York, October 6, 1849, and was educated there in the public schools. Until 1899 he was engaged in farming. He went to Cuyler, New York, in 1868, and lived there until 1899, when he located at DeRuyter. In addition to his farm business he was a dealer in farm produce, and since 1899 he has devoted his attention mainly to buying and selling eggs. He was for three years in the egg trade at DeRuyter and since then has had his place of business at Cortland, New York. He has a large wholesale egg trade. In poli- tics he is a Prohibitionist. He is a member of the Maccabees, and of the Methodist Epis- copal church. He married, December 24, 1872, Elba Adelaide Morse, of Cuyler, New York, daughter of William A. and Maria ( Hamilton ) Morse (see Eugene Morse). Children : Floyd Eugene, mentioned below ; Lettie May, born March 27, 1880, married, 1900, Ralph H. Ames, of Cortland, a wholesale dealer in eggs.
(V) Floyd Eugene, son of John C. Mc- Allister, was born in Cuyler, New York, June 2, 1878. He attended the public schools of Cuyler, and the DeRuyter high school, from which he graduated in the class of 1896. and the State Normal School, at Cortland. He has since then been associated in business with his father, and has been a partner since 1905, the firm being J. C. McAllister & Son. He is a member of John L. Lewis Lodge, of Odd Fel- lows, of Cortland, and of the Methodist Epis- copal church. He married, September 1, 1909, Millicent Louise Phelps, of Cortland, daugh- ter of Frank A. Phelps (see Phelps).
Thomas Newton, immigrant NEWTON ancestor, was one of the first five settlers of Fairfield, Con- necticut, in the autumn of 1639. The date and place of his birth are not known. In 1644-45 he was chosen deputy to the general court. During the year 1650 he became involved with the authorities of Connecticut, and was im- prisoned, but escaped and fled to Long Island. June 20th of the same year, being then or lately of Fairfield, he conveyed certain prop- erty there. He was received by the Dutch on Long Island, but his surrender was demanded by the authorities of Connecticut, and he be-
came the subject of negotiations between the commissioners of the United English colonies and Governor Stuyvesant, which extended over several years. In 1655 he was a landholder in Middleburg, and in 1656 paid fifteen shillings, "the Indian Rate" of a shilling an acre there. He was a carpenter by trade. He died before May 28, 1683. He married ( first ) Dorothea -, and (second ), March 31, 1648, Joan. daughter of Richard Smith, an early settler of the town of Newport, Rhode Island, 1638, and an inhabitant of Wickford, in Narragansett, about 1639. He was a prominent man in his day and a friend and neighbor of Roger Will- iams. Children of Thomas Newton : Abigail. married Lodowick Updike ; Israel ; James, men- tioned below ; Thomas.
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