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(\') Arnold, son of Joseph (3) Stafford, was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, February 22, 1746, married there, December 2, 1776, Phebe Sprague, daughter of Rowland Sprague, of a prominent Rhode Island family. According to the census of 1774. his father or brother Joseph and a James Stafford were heads of families in East Greenwich. In 1790, according to the first federal census, Joseph Stafford, his brother, was of Coventry, near Greenwich, and had three males over sixteen,
three under that age and four females in his family. John Stafford also had a family in 1790. at Coventry. Arnold was married and had a family at East Greenwich.
(VI) Joseph (4), son of Arnold Stafford, was born in Coventry, East Greenwich, or vicinity about 1784, died at Virgil, New York, February 24, 1860. He came to New York state in 1800, and settled in Otsego county. Afterward he moved to Virgil, New York, where he spent most of his active years, a farmer by occupation.
He married Susan Hopkins, born about 1788, (lied in 1872, daughter of Oliver Hopkins, born in 1756, died in 1839, a soldier in the revolu- tion, descendant of Stephen Hopkins, who came in the "Mayflower." Oliver Hopkins married Susanna Bennett. Children of Joseph and Susan Arnold: Laura ; Arnold, mentioned below ; Gardner; Hopkins; Oliver; Lovina ; Horace; Josiah, and Miles.
(VII) Arnold (2), son of Joseph (4) Staf- ford, was born in Burlington, Otsego county, New York, July 11, 1808, died in Cortland, New York, June 27, 1872. He came to the town of Virgil with his parents, and was edu- cated there. He came to Cortland in 1854, and lived there the rest of his days. He was prominent in financial affairs, and held various positions of trust and honor. He was trustee of the incorporated village of Cortland and was the first member of the local board of the State Normal School in Cortland, and presi- dent of the board. In religion he was a Meth- odist, and in politics a Republican.
He married, December 25, 1834, Ruby Under- wood, who was born in Burlington, Otsego county, New York, September 15, 1811, died in Cortland, June 30, 1892, daughter of Van- der and Jerusha ( Wood) Underwood, of Bur- lington, New York. Jerusha Wood was a daughter of Nathan Wood, of Mansfield, Con- necticut, a soldier in the revolution. Children of Arnold and Ruby Stafford: 1. Ruby, born in Virgil, married George Conable, and had two daughters, Lena and Nellie Lorilla Con- able. 2. Eli, born in Virgil, a retired farmer of Cortland ; married Mary Richardson Odell, and has an adopted daughter, Cora, who mar- ried Melton Rowell, of Ithaca, New York. 3. Laurilla, born in Virgil, married Harvey Pen- dleton, of Cortland, New York : daughter Hat- tie, married N. Jay Peck, of Cortland. 4. Rose Anna, born in Virgil, married Henry O. Candee, and had one son, Herbert Candee, of
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Holly, New York. 5. Edgar A., mentioned below. 6. Elizabeth Helen, born in Cortland, married Frank J. Doubleday ( see Doubleday .VI).
(VIIl) Edgar Arnold, son of Arnold (2) Stafford, was born in Cortland, New York, July 17, 1850. He was educated there in the public schools, and for several years after leaving school he followed farming. He lived at Blodgetts Mills one year, and for eighteen years was engaged in farming in Truxton. During the following nine years he was chiefly occupied in dealing in livestock in Truxton, and for a year and a half conducted a meat market. In 1900 he came to Cortland and for the past six years has conducted a meat market there, having a large and growing business. Ile has been a justice of the peace. In politics he is a Republican.
He married, March 28, 1872, Francelia Ellen Merchant, of Cuyler, New York, daughter of Ilenry S. and Elizabeth ( Petrie ) Merchant. They have one son: Arthur E. Stafford, born in Truxton, November 29, 1882, educated in the public schools of Truxton, now in partner- ship with his father, under the firm name of E. A. Stafford & Son ; he married Alta McKee, of Cortland.
ALBRIGHT Andrew Albright, the immi- grant ancestor, was born April 2, 1718, at Zellar, in Thuringia, Germany. He learned the trade of gun-maker, and in 1741 was armorer of a regi- ment that served in Silesia and Bohemia in the war of the Austrian Succession. In 1750 he came with a company of Moravian pioneers to Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and fol- lowed his trade of gun-making in this country. Ile was instructor of arms for a time at Naz- areth Hall, and in 1766 presided over the Sun Inn, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1771 he removed to Lititz, and during the revolution he was employed in making guns for the govern- ment. He died April 19, 1802. The names of two sons are given: Andrew, born February 28, 1770, and John Henry, August 5, 1772, at Bethlehem.
Jacob Albright, who served in the revolution from Sussex county, New Jersey, may have been another son. Elisha Albright was living at Pawling, Dutchess county, New York, in 1790, according to the first federal census, and had in his family three males under sixteen and four females.
(11) One of the sons of Andrew married and settled in Belvidere, New Jersey, and had children: Elisha, mentioned below; Rosanna, married John Hials ; Andrew.
( III) Elisha Albright, of the third genera- tion, was born in Belvidere, New Jersey, Feb- ruary 28, 1796, and died in Dryden, Tomp- kins county, New York, in April, 1871. 1le came to Dryden, New York, when Tompkins county was still largely a wilderness, cleared his farm and made a homestead. lle was enterprising, well-to-do and influential, self- educated and in the best sense, self-made, a natural mechanic and a constant reader and student. He made plows, sleighs, grain cradl boots and shoes, and knew many trades well. He married in New Jersey, Elizabeth Smith, who was born November 30, 1799, died Sep- tember 21, 1880. She was of Dutch ancestry. Children, excepting the eldest, born in Dry- den : 1. Jacob, born in Belvidere, New Jersey, September 4, 1819. 2. Ann Maria, February 3, 1821 ; married J. M. Lacy. 3. Aaron, Janu- ary 17, 1823. 4. Rosanna, Angust 10, 1825. 5. Elizabeth, July 23, 1827; married ( first ) George A. Hamilton : (second) Luther Voor- hees ; she was a noted physician in New York City. 6. Samantha, March 2, 1829; married Jones M. Cantine. 7. Andrew, June 23, 1831, lived in Newark, New Jersey, a man of great prominence and wealth, an inventor of note, patented the process for making hard rubber finish for harness trimmings ; donated a mag- nificent fountain to Dryden, his native town. 8. Elmina, mentioned below. 9. Harison, mentioned below. 10. John Wesley, January 29, 1839. 11. George, mentioned below.
(IV) Elmina, daughter of Elisha Albright, was born in Dryden, New York, April 16, 1833; married, in 1872, William Lord, born in Pitcher, Chenango county, New York, in 1825, a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth ( Kenyon) Lord. Mr. Lord is a successful farmer an most of his life in MeGraw, in t Cortlandville, and has been a truste dent of the incorporated village ( He retains the ownership of his f: for several years he has resided : and is retired from active busin tics he is a Prohibitionist. in relig odist. Mr. and Mrs. Lord have no
(IV) Harrison, son of Elisha Al. born in Dryden. New York, April 16, 183; He attended the public schools and resided i Dryden when a young man, removing after
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ward to Mclean. In 1895 he built at Cortland, New York, a handsome residence on Tomp- kins street and since then has resided there, being retired from active affairs. His princi- `pal vocation has been farming, but for seven- teen years he was in the egg and commission business. He is a member of Cortlandville Lodge of Free Masons. In politics he is an Independent, in religion liberal.
He married, January 15, 1858, Pamelia Hoklen, born July 20, 1837, died May 30, 1903, daughter of Walter Holden, of Harford, New York. They had one child : Louise, born April 26, 1860, died in 1895 ; married Lester Mallory,
.I had a daughter: Elizabeth Louise Mal- sory, born March 7, 1893, now living with her grandfather. Miss Mallory is a student at Syracuse University.
(IV) George, son of Elisha Albright, was born in Dryden, New York, January 20, 1839. Ile was educated in the public schools of his native town. In his boyhood he followed farm- ing on the homestead and in the course of time succeeded to the management of the farm. After his mother died he removed to New York City, and had charge of the affairs of his sister Elizabeth. After a period of twenty years he returned to the homestead, and since then has followed farming on a large scale. He raises large crons of wheat and oats and has a model dairy. He has never married.
Grannison Thomson lived THOMSON near Norwich in Chenango county, New York. Ile mar- ried and had children: Grannison, William, and Ambrose M., see forward.
(11) Ambrose M., son of Grannison Thom- son, was born in Chenango county, New York, and was a cooper, manufacturing barrels. in addition to tending his farm. Soon after 1840 he settled in the town of Granby, New York, la farm on the one hundred acres nd which he had bought. He mar- a M. Colwell, who died May 8, Iren : Marvin A., mentioned below ; iry, married John Draper.
vin A., son of Ambrose M. Thom- n in Granby, New York, July 1, ttended the district schools of his i and the Falley Seminary, and at school for six winters, working on farm in the summers. For four years after- ward, he was engaged in the lumber business. 'n 1886 he came to Oswego Falls, New York,
and February 1, 1893, he and Orin Henderson organized a coal and lumber business under the name of Henderson & Thomson, which later was organized as a corporation, known as the Henderson & Thomson Company, with Mr. Henderson as president and Mr. Thomson as treasurer. Mr. Thomson is also financially interested in the Fulton Livery Company, al- though he has continued to conduct his large farm in the meantime. Ile is a member of the Oswego County Agricultural Society, and of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons. In politics he is a Democrat. He was supervisor of the town of Granby, Os- wego county, New York, in 1887-88, and for a number of years was justice of the peace in the town of Hannibal, New York. In relig- ion he is a member of the Methodist Church.
He married (first), June 30, 1873, Alice A. Ilyde, who was born in Granby, September, 1851, and died May 8, 1908. He married (second), April 18, 1910, Ina Hannum, who was the daughter of Warren and Mary Han- num.
CHITTENDEN This surname is derived from the corrupt British and Welsh word chy, meaning "house," and tane, "lower," and din or dun, "hill," the lower house on the hill. The name is quite common in England and the spelling, which has been greatly varied, is al- most always Chittenden at the present time. Only two families of the name were early in- migrants to America. Thomas Chittenden, a linen weaver, came with his son Isaac from Wapping, in county Kent, and settled in Scitu- ate, Massachusetts, where his descendants are still found. It is not known whether he was re- lated to William Chittenden, mentioned below.
(1) William Chittenden, immigrant ances- tor, came from the parish of Cranbrook, Kent, England, and is believed to have been the son of Robert Chittenden. In the record of baptisms in the parish of Marden, near Cranbrook, there is an entry of William, son of Robert, March, 1594. He was an original settler of Guilford, Connecticut, and one of the six persons select- ed to purchase the lands there from the native owners. He was also one of the four magis- trates who received "full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respect- ing the publick weale and civile government of the plantation until a church is gathered amonge us." Ile was the chief military man of the
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1 antation, and bore the title of lieutenant. 'age says that he had been a soldier in the glish army in the Netherlands, in the Thirty cars war, and had received the rank of major. 2 was a magistrate and deputy to the general 'rt until his death. His lands in Guilford nprised about one hundred acres, most of which is still in possession of a descendant. He married, in England, Joanna, daughter of Dr. Edmund and Joanna Sheaffe, of Cran- brook, Kent. She survived him, and married ( second), as his second wife, Abraham Crut- tenden, of Guilford. She died there August 16, 1668. Her mother, Joanna Sheaffe, emi- grated with the family from England, and died in Guilford, August 1, 1659. William Chitten- den died in February, 1660-61. Children : Thomas, married Joanna Jordan: Elizabeth, married Thomas Wright ; Nathaniel, married -; John, mentioned below ; Mary, married John Leete; Hannah, born November +5, 1649, died 1650 (Guilford records) ; Jo- seph (twin). April 14, 1652, died June 22, : 1652: Hannah (twin), April 14, 1652, died September 13, 1674; Deborah, December 12, 1653.
(II ) Sergeant John Chittenden, son of Will- iam Chittenden, married, December 12, 1665, Hannah, daughter of John Fletcher, of Mil- ford, Connecticut. He died in Guilford, April, 1716. Children : John, born October 19, 1666; Elizabeth, January 26. 1670; Joseph, March 26, 1672, mentioned below ; Gideon, September 23. 1678, died 1679: Abel, May 14, 1681; Lydia, March 30. 1684.
(III) Joseph, son of Sergeant John Chitten- den, was born March 26, 1672. He married, August 26, 1692, Mary, born April, 1671, died January 14, 1742, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Kimberly, of New Haven. He lived in Guilford, and died September 11, 1727. Chil- dren : Deborah, born January 28, 1694; Pa- tience, January 19. 1696; Gideon, February 3. 1698, mentioned below ; Daniel, March 15, 1700; Joseph, January 25, 1702; Thankful, January 27, 1704.
(I\') Gideon, son of Joseph Chittenden, w. s born February 3. 1698. He married, March 21, 1721, Abigail, born April 19, 1701, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Wetmore) Bishop, of Guilford. He removed to New Milford, Connecticut, in 1762. He was living May 29, 1781. Children : Abraham, born Feb- ruary 16, 1723 ; Millicent, April 5, 1725; Abi-
gail, March 17, 1727; Prudence, October 14, 1729: Giles, December 8, 1731, mentioned below ; Miles, June 15, 1734; Ruth, May 15, 1737 ; Stephen, May 9, 1739; Catharine, May 9, 1747.
(V) Giles, son of Gideon Chittenden, was born December 8, 1731. He married Temper- ance, born March 1, 1732, daughter of Eben- ezer and Mehitable (Chittenden ) ' Bishop. He removed to New Milford, where he died about 1812. Children: Loraina, married Daniel Camp: Temperance, baptized June or July, 1766; Giles, mentioned below.
(VI) Giles (2), son of Giles (1) Chitten- den, was baptized in infancy, June or July, 1766, in New Milford, died there in 1800, in the prime of life. He married Lavinia (Todd) ( Baldwin ), a widow, who had a son, Israel Baldwin, by her previous marriage, with whom she lived after the death of Mr. Chittenden. Mr. Baldwin's home was at Greene, Chenango county, New York, where he had a general store. She died in 1843. The only child of Giles and Lavinia Chittenden was posthumous, Giles, mentioned below.
(VII) Giles (3). son of Giles (2) Chitten- den, was born after the death of his father, at New Milford, Connecticut, November 21, 1800. He resided with his mother in his native town and at Chatham, New York, until he was ten years old. In 1810 they removed to Hudson. New York, and he was placed in charge of a Quaker family there and became a student in the Hudson Academy, while his mother made her home with her son, Israel Baldwin, in Greene, New York. After four years in Hud- son at the academy, he joined his mother at Greene and entered the employ of his step- brother, Mr. Baldwin, as clerk in the store. Two years later he was placed in charge of a store at Norwich, owned by a merchant of Greene, but at the end of the year he left to accept a position as teller in the Chenango Bank, of Norwich. Three years later he re- signed his position in the bank and engaged in business for himself, when he was but twenty years old. He started with his small savings and some borrowed capital with a store in Norwich and he was soon free of debt with a flourishing trade. In 1824, just before the Erie canal was completed, he accepted an ad- vantageous offer for his business. In a short time, however, he left that town and establish- ed a home for himself and mother in Homer,
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New York, and again engaged in business as a dry goods and general merchant. This busi- ness proved very successful and he continued in active business until 1837 when he was obliged by ill health to retire. His success was doubtless due to his systematic methods and his personal honor and uprightness. He kept in touch with every detail of his business and with his books, always knowing just how his business stood. Though he believed thorough- ly in economy and exact business methods. he was generous in charity, but quiet and modest in his manner. His devotion for many years to his invalid mother and his love and solici- tude for his family were characteristic. In public affairs he was always interested and cheerfully bore his share of the work and ex- pense of every movement intended for the public welfare. In early life a Whig, he joined the Republican party in its infancy and sup- ported it loyally. He was for sixteen years justice of the peace and a faithful and capable magistrate and town officer. It is said that he was so zealous in his efforts to prevent litiga- tion and effect settlements of cases out of court that a lawyer once said that he would be glad when Squire Chittenden was out of office, for the lawyers were starving to death. He served the town for three years in the board of super- visors of the county and exerted a large influ- ence in that body. He was a director of the Norwich Bank, while living at Norwich, and was trustee of the Homer Academy from 1853 to 1873. He died May 5, 1885. He was an active member of the Baptist church congre- gation. He left a competence, invested wisely in real estate.
He married ( first ), June 8, 1836, Samantha Mc Whorter, of Cincinnatus, New York, born July 28, 1811, died November 9, 1839, daugh- ter of Dr. John and Catherine ( Young ) Mc- Whorter; her father was elected several terms to the state assembly of New York; he was one of the first settlers at Cincinnatus. He married (second), December 23. 1840, Mary Ann Mc Whorter. sister of his first wife, born August 6. 1817, died June 21, 1846. He married (third) Mrs. Olivia Penny Munson, a widow, who died in March, 1893, aged eighty- three years. By the first wife he had a daugh- ter Lavinia . S. ; by the second a son who died in infancy, and a daughter, Catherine. The daughters reside in the old home at Homer and are well known and highly respected in the community.
Perhaps all the colonial far BENJAMIN ilies of Benjamin are scended from John Bei min, born 1598, in England, who came to Be ton in the ship "Lion," sailing September I 1632, with wife Abigail. two children. ~ his brother Richard who removed to Sou. old, Long Island, in 1663, with his wife Ar. and daughter Ann. In 1664 Richard Benja- min was made a freeman in Connecticut. His descendants have been prominent in New York, especially in Queens county. John Benjamin settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an I later in Watertown. He was of good family and well-to-do.
The New York families are largely descended from Richard Benjamin. In the census of 1790 we find three named Richard Benjamin as heads of families. Richard Benjamin, of Minisink, Orange county, had four males over sixteen, two under sixteen and two females in his family. In the same town a widow Hannah had two sons under sixteen and five females. In Warwick, another town in Orange county, a Richard Benjamin had three sons under sixteen and three females, and at Southold, Long Island, the third Richard had three males over six- teen and one female in his family. And also in Southold there was a William Benjamin having two males over sixteen and three fe- males in his family.
( I) Richard Benjamin, probably one of the Richards described above, was born in 1769. died in Durham, Greene county, New York, where he settled early in life. He married Laura Mudge, born September 9. 1791, died in Allston, South Carolina, November 14, 1871. daughter of Abraham Mudge ( see Mudge \'). Children : 1. Stillwell, born in Durham, Greene county, New York, October 11, 1826, died in Cortland, New York, November 7. 1008; was an extensive manufacturer and dealer in monu- mental works, in Cortland : married, Septem- ber 30, 1850, Harriet A. Eggleston, of Cort- land ; children : Jennie, born December 4, 1858, died September 20, 1878: son died in infancy ; Louise Cerepta, married Nelson H. Waters. 2. Laura Ann, born July 28, 1829: mar' ed Martin Chapin and lives in Allston, South Carolina. 3. John Wesley, mentioned below. 1. Abraham Page. born October 29, 1834, died in California in 1849.
(II) John Wesley, son of Richard Benja- min, was born in Durham. Greene county, New York, December 23, 1832, died in Chicago,
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Illinois, June 13, 1882. He came to Cortland county, New York, in 1845, with his mother and brothers and sisters. He worked at farm- ing at first and later in the marble business, manufacturing monument and gravestones in Cortland, in partnership with his elder brother, Stillwell Benjamin, from the establishment of the business in 1854 to the time of his death. He died in Chicago while away on a business trip. He served through the civil war, enlist- ing in 1861 in Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New York Regiment of Volun- teer Infantry, as a private and by force of merit rose to the rank of second lieutenant. Ile was again promoted to a captaincy, but re- signed before he was commissioned. He took part in many important battles and was wound- ed in the battle of Gettysburg. He was a char- ter member of Vesta Lodge. Odd Fellows, of Cortland. He was a member of the Congre- gational church. He married Sarah J. Gager. born in Cortland county, daughter of Dwight 11. Gager, born at New London, Connecticut, and Hannah ( Allen) Gager. Children : 1. Jo- sephine. married E. P. Wright, of Cortland, and had Benjamin E., Ivan N. and Ira Wright. 2. Julia, died young. 3. Jessie, married Will- iam H. McCray, of Washington. D. C., and had one child, Harriet. 4. Page W., mention- ed below. 5. Sadie, married Howard Tuthill, of Detroit, Michigan.
(III) Page Wesley, son of John Wesley Benjamin, was born in Cortland, New York, March 25, 1878. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. For four years he was clerk in the department store of Palmer Brothers, of Cortland. He then learn- ed the carpenter's trade and followed it for seven years, working in Washington, D. C., in Syracuse and Binghamton, New York. In 1907 he entered the employ of the Prudential Life Insurance Company and since then has been with that company. He has been a mem- ber of Vesta Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Cortland, since he came of age. He is an active member of the Baptist church and president of the Baracca class. In politics he is a Republican. He married, September, 1900, Ina A. Wilkins, of Cayuga county, New York, daughter of Robert C. and Harriet A. ( Johnson ) Wilkins. They have one son, Wesley Robert, born May 27, 1906.
(The Mudge Line).
The family of Mudge is of ancient English origin, and is found on record as early as the
close of the fourteenth century It was origin- ally written Mugge, the letter "g" being pro- nounced soft. The family bore arms : Argent, a chevron between three cockatrices, sable. Branches of the family lived in the counties of Debonshire, Somerset, Wilts, Kent, Middlesex, Dorset, Norfolk, and in the city of London.
(I) Jarvis Mudge, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, and came to this country about 1638. He was in Boston, Massachusetts, in that year, and, in 1640, in Hartford, Con- necticut, where he had six acres set off to him. In 1644 he settled in Wethersfield, the town next adjoining, and, in 1649, removed to Pequot, now New London. That same year he married Rebecca Elsen, or Elsing, widow oi Abraham Elsen, of Wethersfield. He died in the early part of the year 1653, in New London, and his widow afterwards lived in Wethers- field. Children: Micah, born in New London. 1650, mentioned below ; Moses, New London, in 1652, married Mary
( II) Micah, son of Jarvis Mudge, was born in New London, in 1650 : died in Hebron, Con- necticut, in the early part of January, 1724. After his father's death he removed with his mother to Wethersfield. The first public rec- ord of him appears on the town books of Northampton, Massachusetts, where he mar- ried, September 23. 1670, Mary, daughter of George and Susanna Alexander, born October 20, 1648, died in the early part of the year 1728. Her father, George Alexander, was one of the original proprietors of Northampton, 1654. Here Micah Mudge lived for a time after his marriage, and acted as surveyor. He appears to have been an original proprietor of North- field, Massachusetts. The settlement of this town was attended with great difficulties with the Indians, who burnt the village and drove off the settlers in 1675. He returned, with others, afterwards, 1682, and became an actual settler there. He removed to Lebanon, Con- necticut, and was one of the early settlers of that town prior to 1698. He served as a sur- veyor there, and assisted in laying out the town. He was one of the nine persons who organized the First Congregational Church, in Lebanon, November 27, 1700. In 1702 the name of Mary, his wife, appears on the church records. December 22. 1704, he was chosen keeper of a public house, or tavern. Some time before September, 1717, he, with his family, removed to Hebron, Massachusetts. Here also he served as a surveyor, and, with
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