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his sons, owned a mill on his home lot, which was situated upon the road to Colchester. He lived there until his death, in 1724. ChikIren : Mary, born August 8, 1671 ; Elizabeth, Octo- ber 10, 1673; Sarah, married Jolin Palmer ; Moses, married Elizabeth ; Abigail, mar- ried William Phelps; Ebenezer, born February 26, 1683, mentioned below ; Thankful, 1685; Susanna ; Martha, married Isaac Tilden.
( 11I) Ebenezer, son of Micah Mudge, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Febru- ary 26, 1683; died in Sharon, Connecticut, April 21, 1758. He was a farmer, millwright and surveyor, and settled in early life in Leb- anon, Connecticut. In 1711 his father gave him a tract of land for a home lot there. After- wards, 1714, he sold his home lot, and, before 1717, or in that year, removed to Hebron. He bought and sold land in the latter town, under several dates, until 1735, when he removed to Colchester, Connecticut. Two years later, in 1737, he removed to Sharon, and settled there as one of the original proprietors. He served in various town offices, and owned and built the first sawmill, gristmill and iron works. He married, January 13, 1708-09, Abigail, daugh- ter of Thomas and Mary Skinner, born Febru- ary 17, 1601, in Malden, Massachusetts, died in New Lebanon. She joined the church, in East Haddam, March 28, 1708. Children : Ebenezer, born October 23, 1709; Mary, March 30, 1711 ; Abigail, October 28, 1712; Elizabeth, July 31, 1714: Samuel, May 4, 1716: Micah, March 6, 1718; Martha, October 4, 1720; Jo- seph, May 28, 1722; Jarvis, 1723; Deborah, married Oliver Tryon; Abraham, born June 16, 1728, mentioned below; Sarah, married Josiah Skinner.
(IV) Abraham, son of Ebenezer Mudge, was born in Hebron, June 16, 1728; died in Florida, New York, April 30, 1804. Ile re- moved to Sharon with his father, when about ten years old, and lived there until after he married. lIe was a farmer and millwright by occupation, and was engaged, with his father and brothers, in the iron works, saw and grist- mill. The last record of him in Sharon is under date of February 3, 1768, at which time he soll land in Sharon. He then removed to New Concord Village, town of Canaan, New York, then a part of what was called King's District. In 1795, when the town of Chatham was taken from Canaan, he became a resident of the latter town. Thence he removed to Florida, where he died. 1Ie married ( first),
January 26, 1753, at Sharon, Anna Gray, born November 18, 1729, died in Chatham Village, June 22, 1776. He married (second), June 16, 1777, widow Sarah Rexford, of Chat- ham, died January 25, 1825. During the revolution he was one of the committee of safety, in Canaan, and took an active part. Children of first wife, the first six born in Sharon, the last in Canaan : Abraham, Novem- ber 3, 1753. mentioned below; Anna, March 24, 1756; Dinah, September 6, 1759 : Ebenezer, October 10, 1761 ; Sibyl, February 19, 1765; Jonathan, July 13, 1767 ; Lois, October 14, 1770.
(V) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1) Mudge, was born in Sharon, November 3, 1753, died in Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York, June 27, 1833. He was a mill- wright and miller by occupation, and owned a saw and grist mill, in Chatham, New York. Here he lived until after the birth of his second child, when he removed to Florida, Mont- gomery county, New York, where four more of his children were born. He owned mills also in this town, and was a trader in partner- ship with Cumings. Through the latter he lost most of his money and was obliged to seek work in another town. He worked for a time in a gristmill, in the town of Otsego, and, in three years, had built mills on Oaks Creek, in that town, and purchased a farm. Again, through the wrong doing of others, he became homeless and removed to Sherburne, Chenango county, where he built a mill on the Chenango river, and became prosperous. After several
years residence there he sold out, but, on ac- count of the destruction of the mills by a freshet, failed to receive payment for them, and was left without property in his old age. He then applied for and received a pension for his services in the revolution, and removed to Bainbridge, where he died. He served through most of the war, and rose to the rank of sergeant. He enlisted when living in New Lebanon, then in Massachusetts, and drew his pension from that state. He married, May 3, 1779, Phebe, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza- beth Valentine, born in Hempstead, Long Ist- and, April 3, 1759, died in Nassau, New York, August 27, 1839. Children, the first two born in Chatham, the next four in Florida: Phebe, November 16, 1780; Charlotte, November 12, 1783: Anna, September 10, 1786; Isaac, June 4, 1788; Gray, March 21, 1790: Laura, Sep- tember 9. 1791, married Richard Benjamin ( see Benjamin I).
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CUMMINGS The name of Cummings in various spellings is of com- mon occurrence in Great Britain. While the prevailing tradition among families descended from Isaac Cummings, of Ipswich and Topsfield, Massachusetts, is that he was of Scottish descent, this is, according to present belief, extremely doubtful. The name appears early in France under the form of Comyns. On this side of the Atlantic there have been settled several families of the name, among whom there appears to be no line of kinship. In 1903 the number of descendants of Isaac Cummings, of Ipswich and Topsfield, was said to be at least ten thousand, an esti- mate which is probably below the actual num- ber.
(I) Isaac Cummings, immigrant, was the first of the name who emigrated from Eng- land and settled in this country. In a deposi- tion made by him in March, 1666, he gave his age as sixty-five years, showing his birth to have been about 1601. His will was made May 8, and probated May 22, 1677. The spelling of the name has been various in this country, but Cummings appears to be the standard form. We take no note of the numerous traditions tracing the connection back to a Scottish clan which flourished from 1080 to 1330, also to 1093, to the times of Malcolm III., also the name as taken from the town of Comines in France. These are treated in full in the different genealogies which have been published upon the subject of the family. In 1639 Isaac Cummings owned a house and lot in Ipswich village, and also possessed land lying partly in Ipswich and partly in Topsfield. He was made a freeman in 1642, and at differ- ent periods bought more or less land. He was called Goodman, was chosen grand juryman in 1675, was moderator of the town meeting in 1676, and deacon of the church in Topsfield for many years. When he arrived in this coun- try he was, for a brief period, an inhabitant of Watertown. No mention remains of the name of his wife, and she was not living when his will was made. Children : John, born about 1630, mentioned below; Isaac, about 1633; Elizabeth, died July 9, 1679, married, April 2, 1661, John Jewett ; Ann, died June 29, 1689. married, October 8, 1669, John Pease.
(II) John, son of Isaac Cummings, was born about 1630, died December 7, 1700. He married Sarah, daughter of Ensign Thomas and Alice (French) Howlett, of Ipswich. He
received by his father's will the homestead consisting of forty acres, with houses, barns, orchards and fences, in Ipswich, and in 1680 sold the same to Edward Nealand (Kneeland). About 1658 he removed to Boxford, and was made freeman in 1673. Both he and his wife were members of the church in Topsfield, and December 7, 1685, were dismissed to the church which was just being formed in Dunstable. He removed to the latter place about 1680, and was one of the first settlers there. He was selectman in 1682, and a member of the church in 1684. His wife died December 7, 1700. Children: John, born 1657, in Boxford, men- tioned below ; Thomas, October 6, 1658; Na- thaniel, September 10, 1659; Sarah, January 27. 1661 ; Abraham; Isaac, died November 2, 1688: Ebenezer, died November 2, 1688; the two latter killed by Indians; William (twin), born August 5, 1671, died March 30, 1672; Eleazer (twin), August 5, 1671 ; Benjamin, February 23, 1673; Samuel, December 28, 1677.
(III) John (2), son of John (1) Cum- mings, was born in Boxford, 1657. He mar- ried, September 13, 1680, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Hannah ( Brackett) Kinsley, born in Braintree, November 22, 1657. She was called "Goody" Cummings. He lived first in Dunstable, and later in Nashua, where Mrs. Cummings was killed by the Indians, July 3, 1706. He also was wounded but managed to escape to a swamp, where he remained over night, and then to "Farwell Block-house." Children : John, born July 7. 1682; Samuel, October 6, 1684; Elizabeth, January 5, 1687 ; Hannah, May 20, 1690, in Groton ; Ebenezer, September 17. 1695, in Woburn, killed by In- dians, September 5. 1724; Anna. September 14, 1698; Lydia, March 24, 1701, died April, 1701 : William, April 24, 1702.
(IV) Deacon John (3) Cummings, son of John (2) Cummings, was born July 7, 1682. died April 27, 1759. He was an original mem- ber of the church at Westford, and first deacon, December 3, 1727. He was moderator of the first town meeting and chosen one of the select- men. He was also town clerk in 1736. He married, October 3, 1705, Elizabeth, daughter of Pelatiah and Ruth Adams, of Chelmsford, born April 26, 1680, died April 30, 1759. Chil- dren : Elizabeth, born August 29, 1706; Mary, July 5. 1708; John, June 1, 1710; William, July 27, 1712, mentioned below ; Thomas, Au- gust 1, 1714; Abigail, 1716; Samuel, Septem-
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ber 16, 1718; Ephraim, November 30, 1720; Bridget, November 15, 1722.
(V) Deacon William Cummings, son of Dcacon John (3) Cummings, was born in Westford, July 27, 1712, died September 9, 1758. He married Lucy Colburn, intentions published July 12, 1734. He removed from Groton, Massachusetts, and was in West Dun- stable in 1744, and deacon of the church in Hollis, New Hampshire, in 1745. In 1755 he was ensign in the French war, in the company of Captain Powers. All his sons were soldiers in the revolution. Children: Ebenezer, born April 17, 1735; Lucy, April 18, 1737; Brid- get, September 16, 1739; William, born in Groton, October 12, 1741; Elizabeth, January II, 1743-44; Philip, November 26. 1745, men- tioned below : Rebecca, born in Groton, May II, 1748; Joshua, baptized in Hollis, February 20, 1757, died same day.
(VI) Philip, son of Deacon William Cum- mings, was born in Groton, Massachusetts, November 26, 1745, died March 26, 1826. He married Mary McCaster, born November 15, 1751, died October 2, 1815. He was a soldier in the revolution. He lived in Hollis. Chil- dren : Philip, born October 1, 1770; Thomas, August 7. 1772, died January 5, 1773; Edward. November 17, 1774, mentioned below ; Caleb (twin), October 16, 1776; Joshua (twin), Oc- tober 16, 1776; Polly. November 12, 1778; Lucy, October 24, 1780; Rebecca, July 15, 1783; Leonard, July 9, 1785; William, April 7, 1788, died May 5, 1788; William, April 18, 1789; Betsey, July 28, 1791.
(VII) Edward, son of Philip Cummings. was born November 17, 1774, died in Preble, New York, July 6, 1846. He married (first) Sally Farar, who died October 12, 1826. He married (second), August 19, 1829, Abigail Egbertson, who died July 14, 1846. He set- tled first in the town of Winfield, New York, and in 1804 removed to Preble, then in the midst of a wilderness, and cleared land for a home. His first dwelling there was a log cabin. Children : Polly, born October 7, 1802: Silas, August 7, 1804. mentioned below : Harriet, February 18, 1807; Sally, March 19, 1809; Celona, August 10, 1811 : William, July 31, 1813; Chester. July 31, 1815: Edward, No- vember 8, 1818; Harvey, March 17, 1820; Lui- cinda. January 21, 1824.
(VIII) Silas, son of Edward Cummings, was born in Winfield, New York, August 7, 180.4. died in Preble, September 4, 1875. He
married (first) Jane Duncan, January 26, 1830, who died June 25, 1832. He married (second), November 8, 1832, Amanda Tag- gart, who died June 5, 1841. He married ( third) Emily Hobart, February 23, 1842. She died April 6, 1893. Child of first wife: Eliza- beth Jane, born November 22, 1831. Children of second wife: Samuel Edward, born March 22, 1834; Mary Eliza, September 20, 1835; Daniel Miller, January 30, 1838, mentioned below ; John Newton, September 20, 1839, died September 23, 1839; Harlan Page, September 10, 1840. Children of third wife: Ann Au- gusta, born August 12, 1844; Francina Celona, August 9. 1846; Homer, January 23, 1849: Emily Hobart, February 12, 1851, died June 28, 1852 ; Joseph Hobart. January 27, 1856.
(IX) Daniel Miller, son of Silas Cummings, was born January 30, 1838. in Preble, New York. He was educated in the district schools of his native town, and lived there until he was twenty-three years old. He then removed to Homer, New York, and has lived there and in Little York, in the town of Homer, ever since. He has always been a farmer by occu- pation, and although at present retired from active life has large farming interests. In politics he is a Republican and held the office of assessor for eight years. In religion he is a Baptist. He is a member of the local Grange. He married (first), February 7, 1861, Sarah Climena, born September 4, 1838, died Febru- ary 18, 1900, daughter of Orrin and Ruth Eliza (Capron) Pratt. He married (second), February 26, 1903, Mary, daughter of Joshua and Rebecca A. (West) Wright. Children of first wife: Mary Louise, born April 20, 1862, married. March 18, 1903, Albert Tuckerman, child, Mildred C., born November 18, 1905, died November 3, 1907: Melvin H., June 4, 1864. died August 30, 1867 : Orrin P., October 26, 1868, graduate of Cornell University, 1899, electrician in New York, married, June 16, 1900, Gertrude Kellogg, of Homer.
SPANSWICK Rev. William Spanswick was a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal de- nomination in England, where he was born, and where he lived all his life.
( II) Charles, son of Rev. William Spans- wick, was born in London, England, in 1845. He received a good education in England, and when a young man came to this country. He married (first) Margaret, who died in 1882,
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aged twenty-eight, who was the daughter of Henry W. and Eliza Watt. Henry W. Watt was a linen manufacturer in Scotland. He married (second) Mary Jane Chambers, a native of Belfast, Ireland. Children, by first wife : William H., mentioned below, and Eliza- beth, born December 5. 1879. Of the second marriage of Charles Spanswick, one child lived to maturity, Ethel, who became a trained nurse.
( III) William H., son of Charles Spans- wick, was born at Cohoes, New York, January II, 1874, and was educated there in the com- mon and high schools and at the Troy Busi- ness College. For a time also he attended the night schools. He began to work at the age of fourteen, as office boy in the employ of the knitting mills at Cohoes, and worked after- ward in all departments, thoroughly mastering the details of the business, then for two years was a traveling salesman. At the age of twen- ty-four he was appointed superintendent of a mill at Kingston, New York, and though the mill had never been on a paying basis, he soon made a profitable industry. Afterward he was superintendent of various other mills in New York state. In 1906 he came to Fulton, New York, as manager of J. S. Dodd's River- side Knitting Mill, and after his employer died he organized the corporation under the name of the Monarch Knitting Mills Company to continue the business, and has since been presi- dent of the company and general manager. He is also president of the William H. Spanswick Manufacturing Company and of the Textile Exchange. He is one of the most active, ener- getic and influential manufacturers of the city of Fulton. In politics Mr. Spanswick is an Independent. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 144, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Neahtawanta Lodge, No. 245, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Fulton Chamber of Commerce. In religion he is Methodist.
William H. Spanswick married, June 28, 1907, Kathryn J. Dewitt, born in Hastings, Oswego county, New York, daughter of C. V. Dewitt ; no children.
MORGAN Dr. Albert L. Morgan, son of James F. Morgan, was born September 14, 1845, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and studied medicine in the medical school of the University of Michigan, from
which he was graduated with the degree of M. D., in the class of 1873.
He began to practice medicine at Odell, Illi- nois, then moved to Dexter, New York, and succeeded in winning a large practice. He enlisted in Company I, Fifty-third Illinois Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, and served two years in the civil war. He is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He belongs to Brown- ville Lodge, No. 53, Free Masons ; to the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters of America, and other organizations, including the Julius Broad- bent Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
He married, March 26, 1874, Anna R., born January 17, 1851, daughter of George W. and Mary A. Peirce, of Ottawa, Illinois. Children : 1. James Franklin, born January 9, 1875, at Odell, Illinois. He received his education at the Dexter high school and high school of Watertown, being graduated from the latter in 1895. After teaching for two years he entered the St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, being graduated in 1901 ; professor of mathematics and science at Titusville, Pennsyl- vania; chemist at the state experimental sta- tion at Kingston, Rhode Island. 2. William C., mentioned below. 3. Grace Louise, born Sep- tember 14, 1880, at Lisbon Center, New York ; was graduated from the Dexter high school in 1900, and from the School of Art of Potsdam Normal and Crane Institute of Music, also of Potsdam, New York, in 1905; was successful supervisor of music and drawing in the schools of New York, West Virginia and Connecticut. She married, June 26, 1911, George L. Smith. of Winsted, Connecticut.
William Clark, son of Dr. Albert L. Morgan. was born at Lisbon Center, St. Lawrence coun- ty, New York, September 17, 1877. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools of Dexter, New York. After a course in the Business College. of Watertown, New York. he entered the Philadelphia College of Horol- ogy and Optics, from which he was graduated in the class of 1899. He began to practice his profession at Cassopolis, Michigan. From that place he went to Galion, Ohio, where he was employed for one year and then to Water- town, New York, where he worked for five years and a half. In September, 1906, he came to Fulton, New York, and established himself in the jewelry and optical business, in which he has been very successful. He is a member
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of the New York State Retail Jewelry Asso- ciation and secretary of the Central New York Optometrical Society. He is a member of Watertown Lodge, No. 49, Free Masons; of Fulton Chapter, No. 167, Royal Arch Masons, and of the Elks.
He married, January 1, 1901, Lois Whit- ford, daughter of Albert and Frances Coates. Children : Muriel Kathryn, born October 21, 1902 ; Hilda Leona, born June 7, 1905.
GARRETT The surname Garrett is com- mon in England, though often spelled Garrad. There is a family tradition that the family is of French origin. Daniel Garrett was an inhabitant of Hartford, Connecticut, as early as 1640, and he had a son Daniel, born 1647, who was prison keeper at Hartford for many years. The next of the name appearing in this country was Jo- seph Garrett, who Savage says was son or grandson of Daniel, and who lived in Hartford in 1693, and had, it is believed, a son Francis. Francis Garrett was born before 1700, and died June 24, 1731. He settled in Goshen, Connecticut, and married, March 19, 1723, Sarah ( Mills) Tuller, born 1696, died 1797, in her hundred and first year, widow of Sam- uel Tuller and daughter of John and Sarah (Pettibone ) Mills, of Windsor. His will was dated June 23, 1731, and proved February I. 1731-32. His widow married (third), 1745, Captain Joseph Woodford. Children : Sarah, born January 22, 1723-24 ; Susanna, October 2, 1725; Major John, August 15, 1727, was an officer in the French and Indian war, and in the revolution, he was slain at the Wyoming massacre in 1778, and left a son John who lived at Southbury, Connecticut ; Francis, Oc- tober 4, 1729 : Anna, September 15, 1731 (post- humous ). In the census of 1790, three John Garretts are given in Connecticut-John, of Southbury, mentioned above; John, of Bran- ford, and John, of Bristol. Another John Garrett was living in Coxsackie, Albany coun- ty, New York, together with a Simeon who was also reported there as head of a family.
(I) Ephraim Garrett, a descendant of the family described above, was doubtless a son of John or Simeon Garrett, who came from Connecticut and settled at Coxsackie, Albany county, New York. Ephraim lived at Coey- mans, or Greenville, Albany county, New York. Ile married Hannah Miller, of Green- ville.
(II) John W., son of Ephraim Garrett, was born December 11, 1810, at Coeymans, Albany county, New York, near Indian Fields. He married, June 14. 1834, Rebecca Allen, who was born in the town of Scotland, Albany county, June 22, 1812, and died February 19, 1882. He moved with his father to Lysander, Onondaga county, New York, and followed farming there. His three eldest children were born at Coeymans, the others at Lysander.
(III) Thomas, son of John W. Garrett, was born in 1845, at Lysander, a mile and a half east of Little Utica, New York, and died Sep- tember 5, 1898. He settled at Ira, Cayuga county, New York. He married, March 22, 1868, Lovisa Blakeman. Children: Lewis E., mentioned below; Guy, born March 28, 1875, proprietor of livery stable at Fulton; Fred, born June 10, 1882.
(IV) Lewis E., son of Thomas Garrett, was born in the town of Ira, Cayuga county, New York, July 20, 1869. He received his early education in the public schools. During his boyhood he worked on his father's farm and afterward for a time was engaged in dealing in horses in partnership with his brother Guy. In 1903 the brothers came to Fulton and open- ed a livery stable on First street. Their business prospered and after a few years they moved to the present location on Cayuga street. The firm has built up an extensive business in addi- tion to the livery stable, dealing in horses and carriages. Mr. Garrett is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Modern Woodmen of America and the American Mechanics. In politics he is Repub- lican ; in religion a Methodist.
He married, January 17, 1911, May Parker, born at Pulaski, New York, daughter of Frank Parker, of Syracuse, New York. They have no children.
SALISBURY
The surname Salisbury,
spelled also Salesbury, Sal- usbury, Saulsbury and Sals- bury, and various other ways, is of great an- tiquity in England and Wales. The name was derived either from the city of Salisbury, coun- ty Wilts, England, or from Salzburg, a town in Bavaria. Sir Robert Salisbury says: "My own family came over with William the Con- queror. Adam de Saltzburgh, who attended him, was a younger son of the house of Ba- varia, and took the name of the town he then lived in, the present seat of the archbishop of
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Saltzburgh. Upon their residence in England, the family Anglified the name into Salsbury, Salesbury and Salusbury. As soon as the Conqueror's descendants got a sufficient foot- ing in Wales, my ancestors had a grant of the Lordship of Llewenny, in the county of Den- bigh, and were governors of Denbigh Castle for many generations. They were the first sheriffs and first members of Parliament for the county of Denbigh."
The English grant of land to Adam was in Lancashire, on the banks of the river Ribble, where he built a house, now in ruins, called Salisbury Hall. The coat-of-arms of the Sal- isbury family in England is the same as that emblazoned over the gates of Salzburg : Gules, a lion rampant, argent, ducally crowned, or, between three crescents of the last. The fam- ily motto: "Sat est prostrasse Iconi." The Welsh or English ancestry of the American immigrants has not been definitely established, but there is reason to believe that the names Nicholas and Humphrey are derived from intermarriage with the Humphrey-Nicholas family. We know that in 1669, John Salis- bury, of Erbistock, county Salop, descended in the seventh generation from the elder Thomas Salisbury, of Llewenny, Wales, married Kath- erine Nicholas, daughter of Humphrey Nich- olas, of Llacthbwlch, county Montgomery. The mother of Nicholas Salisbury, the American immigrant, may have been also of this Nich- olas family. These peculiar and unusual names point strongly to this section of the family as the progenitors in the old country.
Something of the Saxon history of the fam- ily may be of interest. Henry Guelph, father of Adam de Saltzburgh, was in 1020 A. D. made Duke of Bavaria, by Emperor Conrad, the Second. We are told that Adam came with William, Duke of Normandy, not as a subject but as a soldier of fortune, but he fought in the battle of Hastings, and, like the feudal captains of the Norman duke, was re- warded with lands. His grant was in Rich- monshire, as stated above. Surnames had not then come into use, but within a century, came into fashion in Normandy, and later in Eng- land, but the place name de Saltsburg, origin- ally not meant to be adopted by members of the family not hailing from that place, came in a few generations to be an inherited sur- name, just as nicknames and patronymics be- came surnames. In 1102 Alexander, son of Adam de Saltzburg, had succeeded to his pos-
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