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(IV) Mary, eldest child of John (2) and Catherine (Knowles) Hart, married Jacob Vandergrift.
(V) William K. Vandergrift, son of Jacob and Mary (Hart) Vandergrift, married Sophia Carver.
(VI) Rachel, daughter of William K. and Sophia (Carver) Vandergrift, married Wil- liam Andrews Blackstone (see Blackstone II).
BATCHELLER
There are several families of this name in America not allied as far as any
record now attainable would indicate. The family of which this article treats is known as the "Massachusetts Batchellers." The spell- ing found in early records has been changed by most of the present descendants. This
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family has been noted for men of large stature and much physical and mental vigor. While the early generation were necessarily engaged in agriculture, as that was the chief industry of their time, later representatives of the fam- ily have found distinction in professional life and the various activities of modern times.
(I) The first of whom any record is now found was Daniel Batcheller, who lived and died near Canterbury, England. He had four sons : Joseph, Henry, Joshua and John. The first two and last of these settled in America.
(II) Joseph, eldest son of Daniel Batcheller, was born in Canterbury, and died in March, 1647, in Wenham, Massachusetts. He came to America in 1636 with his wife Elizabeth, one child and three servants, being also accom- panied by his brothers, Henry and John Batch- eller. He was a tailor, and settled first in Salem, whence he removed shortly to Wen- ham. He was made a freeman of the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony in 1637, and was deputy to the general court from Wenham in 1644, being the first from that town. The inventory of his estate, made March 3, 1657, stated that he had been dead ten years. His estate was settled by his son Mark. He was one of the original members of the Wenham church, or- ganized October 8, 1644, and his wife was admitted to the same church on the seventh of the following month. In a record regard- ing a matter of church discipline in Wenham appears the following: "In ye mesne space it pleased God to take to himself brother Batchel, a man wise, moderate and very able to be helpful in such cases." His children were Mark, John, Elizabeth and Hannah.
(III) John, junior son of Joseph and Eliz- abeth Batcheller, was baptized January 20, 1638, in the First Church of Salem, and died December 17, 1698, in Wenham. His will was made the day preceding his death, and the inventory of his estate made March 20, 1699, showing a valuation of £519 5s. John Batch- eller was a juror in the lamentable witchcraft trials of Salem, and in 1692 signed a state- ment asking forgiveness for his participation therein. He married (first) July 12, 1661, Mary Dennis, who died June 26, 1665, and he married (second) May 4, 1666, Sarah, daughter of Robert Goodale, of Salem. She died March 22, 1729. There were two chil- dren of the first wife, John and Joseph. Those of the second were: Mark, Elizabeth, Eben- ezer, Hannah, Mary, Sarah and David.
(IV) David, youngest child of John and Sarah (Goodale) Batcheller, was born 1673, in Wenham, where he died January 29, 1766. He was the first to adopt the spelling of the name now used by his descendants. He was prominent in both church and town affairs of Wenham, being town clerk from 1744 to 1748. From his father he inherited a farm of eighteen acres, and he was probably en- gaged in agriculture. He married (intentions published May 7, 1709), Susannah Whipple, of Ipswich, who died June 13, 1764. Chil- dren : David, Susannah (died young), Joseph, Amos, Nehemiah, Abraham, Mary, Susanna.
(V) Abraham, youngest son of David and Susannah (Whipple) Batcheller, was born June 5, 1722, in Wenham, and died January 31, 1813, in Sutton, Massachusetts. He lived for a time in Westboro, and purchased one thousand acres of land in Sutton at one shill- ing per acre. He was a cooper by trade, a man of strong will and eccentric character. His children were allowed one cup of tea a week, on Sunday morning. When desiring to reach any point in his large domain he hitched up three yoke of oxen and crashed his way in a bee line through the underbrush without making any previous clearing. In 1763 he was a selectman of Sutton, at which time he was called captain. The next year the record of his election as selectman calls him ensign, and also in the two succeeding years. In 1773 and 1782 he was selectman and then was called lieutenant. He married, May 17, 1751, Sarah Newton, born July 19, 1732, in Westboro, daughter of Abner and Vashti (Eager) Newton. Children: Abraham, Abigail, Vashti, Joseph, Benjamin, Ezra, Sarah and Amos.
(VI) Abraham (2), eldest child of Abraham (1) and Sarah (Newton) Batch- eller, was born March 26, 1752, in Sutton, and died August 14, 1832, in Stockton, New York. He received from his father a farm in Sutton, on which he lived thirty years. He was a revolutionary soldier, serving as a corporal in Captain Andrew Elliott's company of Colo- nel Ebenezer Larned's regiment. He was fre- quently an officer of Sutton, serving as select- man in 1781. In 1792 he removed to Paris Hill, Oneida county, New York, which was then a wilderness, the present city of Utica containing at the time only three log houses. In 1816 he removed to Stockton, Chautauqua
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county, New York, where he engaged in farm- ing until his death. He was an active member of the Baptist church, and received the title of lieutenant through service in the state mil- itia.
He married, December 28, 1774, Rebecca Dwight, born May 19, 1754, died April 5, 1842, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Bulk- ley) Dwight. Children: Paul, Elizabeth, Joseph, Dwight, Rebecca, Abraham, Silence, Levina, Electa, Charles, Sally and Nancy.
(VII) Captain Joseph Batcheller, first sur- viving son of Lieutenant Abraham (2) and Rebecca (Dwight) Batcheller, was born June 3, 1778, in Sutton, and died July 13, 1871, in Pomfret, New York. In the autumn of 181I he went to Chautauqua county and located eleven miles south of Dunkirk, where he built a log house and barn, and then returned to Oneida county for his family. In February, 1812, he removed to his new location with a yoke of oxen and sled, spending two weeks on the trip. There he engaged in farming the rest of his life. His military title was de- rived from service in the militia. He married, in Smithfield, New York, January 18, 1810, Dorothy Needham, born April 22, 1789, died February 20, 1865, in Pomfret. Children : I. Julia Ann, married (first) Milo Barley ; (second) Otis Temple. 2. Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Wilson. 3. Varman Needham, a farmer, residing in Stockton. 4. Joseph E., died young. 5. George S., died young. 6. Joseph E., mentioned below. 7. George S., a farmer of Stockton.
(VIII) Joseph Elliott, fourth son of Cap- tain Joseph and Dorothy (Needham) Batch- eller, was born December 26, 1822, in Pom- fret, and resided in Stockton, where he was a farmer, and died September 22, 1888. He married, in Pomfret, in April, 1848, Achsah Munger, born February 12, 1824. Children : I. Tower, was a farmer in Stockton. 2. Naomi Adele, was wife of Joseph M. Kelly, a farmer, of Stockton. 3. Delmer E., mentioned below.
(IX) Delmer Elliott, junior son of Joseph E. and Achsah (Munger) Batcheller, was born February 27, 1862, in Pomfret, and re- sided on the paternal farm until fifteen years of age. He attended the various schools of Stockton, and the State Normal School at Fredonia, New York, afterwards taking a post-graduate course at the Illinois Wesleyan University, which institution has conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of
Philosophy. In the winter of 1881-82 he be- gan teaching at Gerry, Chautauqua county, and was afterwards employed in the same manner at Perrysburg, Stockton and Ripley, in his native county. From 1884 to 1886 he was principal of the Union School and Aca- demy at Mayville, New York. On the organi- zation of School No. 39, in the city of Buffalo, he was appointed principal and thus continued three years. In 1889 he was appointed prin- cipal of School No. 45, which included over thirteen hundred pupils and twenty-seven teachers, and continued at the head of this school for thirteen years. Mr. Batcheller is a man of large frame, with strong mentality as well as physical vigor. He was popular with both teachers and pupils in Buffalo, where lie was so long in active educational work. In July, 1902, he was appointed superintend- ent of the schools of Olean, New York, in which position he continued until February I, 1908, with success and manifest benefit to the educational system of the city. After resign- ing the superintendency in Olean, Mr. Batch- eller again returned to Buffalo, having asso- ciated 'himself with Mr. C. F. Warner, under the firm name of Warner & Batcheller, and engaged in the business of real estate and in- stirance. After one and one-half years of suc- cess in this business he was unanimously in- vited to accept the position of superintendent of schools in Dunkirk, New York. Feeling that his calling was to the educational field, which was more congenial than that of busi- ness, he accepted and has continued in that position to the present time. For many years he was a member of the Principals' Associa- tion of Buffalo, of whose executive committee he was a member and refused its presidency ; he is a member of the New York State Teachers' Association, and an active member of the National Educational Association. He is an active member of the Masonic brother- hood, holding membership in Queen City - Lodge, No. 338, Free and Accepted Masons, of Buffalo; and Keystone Chapter, No. 163, Royal Arch Masons. For many years he was treasurer of the board of trustees of the Richmond Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church of Buffalo.
He married, in Ripley, July 16, 1884, Sa- ville H. Rickenbrode, born March 4, 1859, who was several years a teacher. Children: Pauline Naomi, died in her second year ; Del- mer Elliott, born May 18, 1891; Margaret
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Elizabeth, September 19, 1892; Carl Arthur, June 19, 1896.
(VII) Deacon Charles
BATCHELLER Batcheller, son of Lieu- tenant Abraham (2) (q. v.) and Rebecca (Dwight) Batcheller, was born in Paris Hill, Oneida county, New York, April 23, 1802, died in Colorado, Texas, December 25, 1882, and was buried in Victor, Iowa. When he was four- teen years old his parents removed to Chautauqua county, New York, following a trail of marked trees, which was the only road. Here Charles Batcheller settled later on a high hill in Stockton, which commanded a magnificent view of the chain of Cassadaga lakes, and lakes Erie and Chautauqua. He became a wealthy farmer. In 1849 he removed to Fredonia, New York, where he conducted a retail dry goods business until 1857, when he bought a large tract of land in Iowa county, Iowa, whither he removed and resumed farm- ing. In 1859 he disposed of these interests and invested in Texas lands, and while on a visit to them he was taken sick and died. "For over forty years he was an honored member of the Baptist Church, and was most highly gifted in prayer." He was a radical in poli- tics, an ardent admirer of Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith and Garrison, and he was most active in assisting runaway slaves to Canada, via the so-called underground railway. He married, May 24, 1826, Eliza Ann, born Sep- tember 26, 1809, died June 28, 1859, daughter of David Johnson. Children, all born in Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York : I. Lodoski, born September 5, 1827, died March 8, 1886; married, June 5, 1860, William Henkle. 2. Salathiel (referred to below.) 3. Eliza Ann, born February 19, 1831, died March 9, 1852. 4. Mattie Rebecca, born March 26, 1833, died December 4, 1886; married, June 2, 1864, James Yard Elmendorf. 5. Me- lissa, born August 8, 1836; lived in Denver, Colorado; married, October 15, 1857, Frank Jerome, deceased. 6. Eva Ellen, born April 24, 1846; living in Denver, Colorado; married Frank Jerome, 1904, who died May 15, 1907.
(VIII) Salathiel, son of Deacon Charles and Eliza Ann (Johnson) Batcheller, was born at Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York, March 26, 1829, and died at Victor, Iowa, August 14, 1875. He received his education in Fredonia, New York, and then entered on
a mercantile career in that place. Later he removed to Iowa City, Iowa, where he studied law and also entered the political arena, a strong Republican, serving as county clerk for many years. At the outbreak of the civil war he entered the Union army, but being of a frail constitution he was made first assistant quartermaster-general of the Department of the Cumberland, where he remained until the close of the war, when he returned home, broken in health. He married, December 2, 1851, Marietta P., daughter of the Hon. Sam- uel Augustus and Prudence Olivia (Cotes) Brown, of Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York. Her grandfather, Colonel Daniel Brown, was born in Windham, Connecticut, January 13, 1747, and during the revolution- ary war was a deputy commissioner under General Jonathan Trumbull. He was a de- scendant of the Peter Brown who came over to America in the "Mayflower." He married Anna Phelps. The Hon. Samuel Augustus Brown, son of Colonel Daniel and Anna (Phelps) Brown, was born in the parish of Gilead, Hebron, Connecticut, February 20, 1795, and died in Jamestown, New York, Jan- uary 7, 1863. In 1813 he began the study of law at Springfield, New York, and three years later removed to Jamestown. In 1817 he be- came a member of Mount Moriah Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Jamestown, and in 1823 was elected treasurer of the lodge. He held many offices of public trust, and was commissioner and inspector of common schools and assessor of the town of Ellicott. In 1821 he was elected a trustee of the James- town Congregational Church. March 28, 1825, he was appointed master in chancery and also brigade judge advocate of militia. In 1826 he was a member of the New York state as- sembly, and in 1827 was admitted to the bar as counselor in chancery. In 1828 he was dis- trict attorney, in 1831 a director of the Chau- tauqua County Bank, and in 1858 special sur- rogate of the county. He was also superin- tendent of the poor, and after 1840 a member of the Chautauqua Bible Society. He was a Presbyterian in religion and became an elder in 1849. He married, March 7, 1819, Prud- ence Olivia, daughter of Captain John Cotes, of Springfield, New York, who was born there January 18, 1799, and died August 31, 1862. They had eleven children, five of whom died in infancy. Children of Salathiel and Marietta P. (Brown) Batcheller : 1. Frank, born March
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24, 1855, died July 13, 1855. 2. Mary, born February 8, 1858, died in May, 1859. 3. Eva Brown, born December 22, 1860; living in Jamestown, and for the past ten years a teacher in the public schools there. 4. Levant Bishop (referred to below).
(IX) Levant Bishop, son of Salathiel and Marietta P. (Brown) Batcheller, was born at Victor, Iowa, December 3, 1869, and is now living at Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York. He graduated from the high school of Victor, Iowa, in 1885, and then took the course in pharmacy in the University of Buf- falo, from which he graduated in 1897. March I, 1898, he commenced business with John M. Winnberg at 113 Main street, Jamestown, and has been there ever since, the firm building up a large and prosperous business. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Burd Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Jamestown, a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Moose and the Elks. He is a Pres- byterian in religion. He married, at Youngs- town, Ohio, February 5, 1902, Alice, daughter of William Edward and Emeline (Perkins) Hughes. Her father was a blacksmith. His children are: Alice, referred to above; Charles and Cordelia. Children of Levant Bishop and Alice (Hughes) Batcheller: 1. Alice Cor- delia, born January 20, 1904. 2. Edward Jerome, born April 20, 1907.
HERRON The Herron family of West- field, New York, descend from John Herron, a well-to-do farmer and land owner, born in the parish of Raffery, county Down, Ireland. His fam- ily had long been seated in Ireland, where they held a good position. John Herron mar- ried Elizabeth Watson, of Newton Arde, county Down. Both John and his wife died in Ireland in the county in which their lives had been spent. Children: 1. William (of whom further) .. 2. Jane, born in Raffery, county Down, Ireland, January 31, 1828; mar- ried, in Ireland, William Johnson. They came to the United States in 1850, settled in West- field, New York, where she yet resides (1911), aged eighty-four years. 3. Arabella, died in Ireland, unmarried. 4. James, born in Raf- fery, Ireland, where he died in 1862. He came to the United States in 1860, but did not long remain, returning to Ireland and his native parish, where he died.
(II) William, eldest son of John and Eliza- beth (Watson) Herron, was born in the parish of Raffery, county Down, Ireland, August 13, 1821, died in Westfield, New York, May 23, 1896. He married in Ireland and in 1850, with wife and three children, sister Jane and husband, came to the United States. The Johnsons settled in Westfield, New York, while William and his family chose Baltimore, Maryland, for their location. In 1852 his wife died and William joined his sister in West- field, leaving his children with friends in Bal- timore. He purchased a farm in Westfield and soon afterward brought his children to his Chautauqua county home. He was a very successful farmer, and a man held in high es- teem. He married (first) in Ireland, about 1842, Jane Wallace, born in county Down, Ireland, about 1824, died in Baltimore, Mary- land, 1852. She was a daughter of Robert and Margaret Wallace, of Ireland, and a de- scendant of the famous Wallace family of Scotland. William Herron married (second) Cynthia Green, of Westfield, New York. Chil- dren of first wife, all but the youngest born in Raffery, Ireland: John (of whom fur- ther ) : Robert, born September 25, 1845, died February 21, 1846; Robert Wallace, born January 24, 1847, married Chloe Winter ; I homas, September 16, 1848, married Mar- garet Foskie ; James, born in Baltimore, Mary- land, September 27, 1851, died 1852. Children of second marriage, all born in Westfield, New York: Elizabeth, married William Donngann ; William, married Lillian Bloomer; Jennie, died young: Frank, died young; Fred, mar- ried Amy Bloomer and resides on the home- stead farm.
(III) John, eldest son of William and Jane (Wallace) Herron, was born in the parish of Raffery, county Down, Ireland, January 21, 1844. He was brought to the United States by his parents in 1850 and joined his father in Westfield, New York, in 1853, being then nine years of age. He was educated in the Westfield schools. He was reared on a farm and later purchased a farm of sixty-four acres on the Munson road, where he resides (1911). He maintains a dairy and has al- ways been a large dealer in live stock of all kinds. A portion of his farm is devoted to fruit culture, including a grape vineyard. He has been successful in business and holds a good position in his town as an enterprising, substantial citizen. He was for five years
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quartermaster sergeant of the Eleventh Sep- arate Company, Thirty-first Brigade, New York National Guard, and served with his company in suppressing the great railroad strike of 1877, in Buffalo. He is a Repub- lican in politics, but has never aspired to pub- lic office, although he is deeply interested in all that concerns the welfare of nation, state and county, being well-read and informed on the vital issues of the day. He is one of the oldest Free Masons of Summit Lodge, of Westfield, where he was made a Mason in 1870. He is an honored past master of that lodge and a companion of Westfield Chapter, Royal Arch Masons.
He married, in Westfield, New York, Oc- tober 12, 1872, Rosabelle Wood, born in Rip- ley, New York, July 2, 1847, daughter of Hiram Wood, born in West Winfield, Herki- mer county, New York, August 12, 1808, died . 1891. He married Almeda Winter, born 1822, died 1904. Hiram Wood was a son of David Wood, an early settler and prominent citizen of Herkimer county. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Herron: 1. Jesse K., born August 27, 1879. 2. Wallace Wood, born March 25, 1881 ; married Ethel Burch, June 20, 1907; child, Leslie Robert, born in Westfield, New York, May 17, 1908. 3. Nellie Leverna, born June 4. 1883; married, June 26, 1907, Gerald Gil- man Gibbs. 4. Anna Almeda, born August 26, 1886.
The name of Stuart and STEWART Stewart has long been asso- ciated with Scotland, and tales of romantic interest have been built around the Highland devotion to the Stuart cause and unfortunate "Prince Charlie." The lineage of the Stewarts of Silver Creek, New York, herein recorded, is traced to the time of Cromwell, "The Protector." They were one of the many Scotch familes who sought refuge in the North of Ireland, from whence their descendants came to America, founding that race here known as "Scotch-Irish" that played so important a part in the settlement of Western Pennsylvania, and of whom it is proudly boasted "never produced a Tory." The founder of this branch in the United States. Adam Stewart, was born in London- derry. Ireland, of Scotch parents, in 1756. At the age of twenty he came to America, settling in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He married in Berks county. Later he removed
to Sadsbury township, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where he died at the unusual age of ninety-four years. He was a man large of stature and known far and near as Squire Stewart from having been justice of the peace for many years. For over fifty years he was an elder of the Presbyterian church, that office in those days having a life tenure. He was held in deepest respect during his active years and with utmost veneration as his years passed man's allotted period and neared the century mark. He retained his faculties to the last, retaining his interest in the church and in cur- rent events until the very last moment of life. He was a great reader and fell from his chair with a newspaper in his hand. On being raised from the floor he was found to be lifeless. He married (first) Jane Feister, who died about 1811, the mother of eight children. He married (second) Lydia Schuylmacher, the mother of five.
(II) Aaron, son of Adam Stewart, was born in Sadsbury township, Crawford county. Pennsylvania, October 1I, 1801, died there October 5, 1871. He was a merchant in the town of Evansburg, Crawford county, but in his later years retired to a farm, continuing there until his death. He was a Democrat in politics. He married Margaret McMichael (a native of the same town), born June 19. 1802, died there March 21, 1847. Children, all born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania: 1. Mary Crawford, born February 24, 1823. died Feb- ruary 21, 1847 ; married Hiram Stoddard. 2. George S., July 3, 1825, died August 23. 1898 : married Damaris Rooker. 3. Adam, Novem- ber 23, 1827, died August 25, 1908; married Ellen R. Stevens; children: Frederick Shat- tuck, Franklin Pierce, Altamont Stratton, Belle, Margaret and Sadie. 4. Rosanna. All- gust 16, 1831, died September 22, 1905 ; mar- ried David J. Hood. 5. Eliza, September 8, 1833: married, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, July 21, 1870, Stephen Boyd, born in Ontario, Can- ada. near Oxford Mills ; came to the United States in 1865, going to Denver, Colorado, later to Laramie, Wyoming. Children : i. Bertha, born April 11, 1872. ii. Minnie, Feb- ruary 13, 1874, died March 15, 1874. iii. Lil- lian, October 28, 1876: married, October 12, 1899, Elwyn W. Condit: has a son Elwyn Boyd, born April 16, 1901. Mrs. Boyd. now seventy-eight years of age, resides in Laramie, Wyoming : was one of the first jury composed of women in the state of Wyoming. In her
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own handwriting she furnished important data for this record. 6. Amelia, May 17, 1836; married Peter Conver; died May 14, 1883. 7. Anna, October 28, 1838; married Hamilton Armour Adams. 8. James F., March 21, 1841; married Mary McElhenny ; children : William W., George S. and Blanche. 9. Theo- dore (of further mention).
(III) Theodore, son of Aaron Stewart, was born in Evansburg, Crawford county, Penn- sylvania, October 28, 1844. He was educated at Evansburg and at Meadville Academy, Meadville, Pennsylvania ; also at Poughkeep- sie, New York, Business College. At the age of eighteen he went to Franklin, Pennsylvania, where he entered a banking office which after- ward became the Venango National Bank of Franklin, Pennsylvania, remaining there until it failed in 1866. In that year he came to Silver Creek, Chautauqua county, New York, to take a similar position with the Bank of Silver Creek, continuing until 1876, when that institution discontinued business. He engaged in mercantile life in Silver Creek as senior member of Stewart & Company, which firm conducted a successful business until 1899, when he again entered the financial field. In May, 1899, he organized, with others, the State Bank of Silver Creek. He was chosen cashier and is now vice-president. He has other important business interests, one being the Columbian Postal Supply Company, manu- facturers of cancelling machines used in the postoffices for the cancellation of stamps. He also holds official position in the Silver Creek Sand Company, Silver Creek Gas and Im- provement Company, and the People's Electric Light and Power Company. He is an Inde- pendent in politics, considering the man more than his party. For several years he has been treasurer of the village corporation of Silver Creek. He has always been active in the Pres- byterian church and for some time has filled the office of elder.
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