Genealogical and family history of central New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation, Volume II, Part 54

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 646


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(IV) Benjamin, son of Theophilus and Sa- rah (Gregory) Taylor, married Rebecca Dib- ble. Children: Timothy, born August 13, 1753; colonel in the revolutionary war; Theo- philus, see forward; Rebecca, married Seth Hall; Elizabeth.


(V) Theophilus (2), son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Dibble) Taylor, was born in Con- necticut, January 28, 1760, died November 24, 1831, at Murray, Orleans county, New York, whence he removed from New Fair- field, Connecticut, in 1817. He was a farmer by occupation. He married Azubah, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Ward) Hoyt; she died April 16, 1830. Children: Benjamin Dibble, born October 19, 1786; Lucy, May 23, 1789; Jonathan Hoyt, see forward; Sarah, June 26, 1797.


(VI) Jonathan Hoyt, son of Theophilus (2) and Azubah (Hoyt) Taylor, was born in New Fairfield, Connecticut, March 7, 1792, died in Westfield, New York, April 28, 1846. He served with the state militia at New London, Connecticut, during the block- ade of that port by the British in 1814, hold- ing a commission as lieutenant from Governor John Cotton Smith, of Connecticut. He moved to Murray, Orleans county, New York, in 1817, thence to Westfield, New York, in 1832, where he erected the first foundry built in the town, and manufactured the first cook- ing stoves made in that section. He was an elder of the Presbyterian church, of which his wife was also a member. He married (first) November 28, 1811, Lucy, daughter of Benjamin Bearss, now spelled Beers. She died January 9, 1815, leaving two daughters : Mary (Polly), born October 30, 1812; mar- ried Dr. S. G. Peck, died September, 1879; Lucy B., born November 23, 1814; mar- ried Henry Howard, who died August 7, 1871. He married (second) October 11, 1815, Polly Hendrick, of New Fairfield, Connecti- cut, who died in Westfield, New York, 1860, aged sixty-six years. Children of second wife: Sarah, born December 1, 1817, mar- ried Thomas Macomber, died January 13, 1864: David Hendrick, see forward.


(VII) David Hendrick, only son of Jona- than Hoyt and Polly (Hendrick) Taylor, was born in Murray, Orleans county, New York, September 4. 1822, died in Westfield, Chau-


tauqua county, New York, May 11, 1895. His parents resided in Murray until 1832, then moved to Chautauqua county, where David H. was educated in the public school and at Westfield Academy. On arriving at manhood he engaged in mercantile pursuits, later was ·purser on a steamboat navigating the Great Lakes. In 1860 he began farming operations, his farm of fifty acres near the village of Westfield being devoted exclusively to the cul- ture of grapes. He used the best and latest methods in caring for his vineyard and reaped abundant returns. He also engaged exten- sively and very successfully in oil production in the Pennsylvania fields. His residence was always in the village of Westfield, where he was held in high esteem as an honorable, sub- stantial, enterprising and liberal minded citizen.


He married, November 22, 1852, in West- field, New York, Harriet Phidelia Campbell, born in Westfield, November 22, 1833, daugh- ter of Judge Thomas Burns Campbell (see Campbell III). Children, born in Westfield: I. Mary, married Dr. Charles G. Stockton, of Buffalo, New York; children: Harriet, married Maulsby Kimball, of Buffalo, and has three children: Stockton, Maulsby Jr., Emily; Mary, died unmarried, aged twenty- two years; Lucy; Dorothy. 2. Kate, died in infancy. 3. Fanny, died unmarried, aged twenty-two years. 4. Annie, married Henry W. Harter, of Canton, Ohio; children : Henry W. Jr .; David Taylor, died in infancy ; Stock- ton. 5. Thomas Burns Campbell, married Charlotte Flower, of St. Lawrence county, New York; child, Thomas Campbell.


(The Campbell Line).


This is a name famous in Scotch history and one that has contributed in no small man- ner to the honor and glory of America. It is widely and creditably known throughout the United States and was well represented in New Hampshire, from which state the fam- ily herein recorded first settled. Sir John Campbell, as Duke of Argyle, assisted at the coronation of James the First, of Scotland. He was an officer of William, Prince of Or- ange, in 1690, and participated in the battle of Boyne Water, in the north of Ireland. He later settled in Londonderry, Ireland, where he married and became the head of a family of seven.


(I) Thomas Campbell, undoubtedly a de- scendant of Sir John Campbell, Duke of Ar-


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gyle, was a scholar of note, a graduate of Glasgow University, Scotland. He removed from Argyleshire, Scotland to America, and was one of the early settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire, and there married Jane Da- vidson, who bore him three sons: John, Na- thaniel, Hugh, see forward.


(II) Hugh, son of Thomas and Jane (Davidson) Campbell, was born in London- derry, New Hampshire, about 1750, died in Scipio, New York, in 1810. He served in the revolutionary war from New Hampshire and received a disability that prevented his doing manual labor of a severe nature. He learned the trade of tailor after the war and followed that as a business. He settled in Cherry Valley, New York, about the year 1800, from whence he removed to Scipio. He married Mary Smith, of New Hampshire, whose parents came from Scotland and set- tled at Londonderry, New Hampshire, where a large number of Scotch-Irish families set- tled when conditions in the north of Ireland became unbearable.


(III) Judge Thomas Burns Campbell, son of Hugh and Mary (Smith) Campbell, was born in Alexander, Grafton county, New Hampshire, May 19, 1788, died in Westfield, New York, March 4, 1885, lacking only three years of completing a century. He was twelve years of age when the family moved to Cherry Valley, New York, and had just reached his majority when his father died. In 1815 Thomas B. Campbell purchased a mill a few miles west of the village of Batavia, Genesee county, New York, which he oper- ated until 1817, then moved to Westfield (then Portland), Chautauqua county. He erected a saw and grist mill there, which he op- erated, also a distillery, and the present Campbell homestead on the old Por- tage road. Here his daughter Harriet was born, here her children were born and here her life has been passed. He purchased other lands in the vicinity, including a farm of three hundred and sixty acres in the south part of the village, which he sold for the fair grounds. He carried on general farming with his milling and distilling, marketing his pro- ducts in New York and other cities. He was far seeing, energetic, possessed of sound judgment and prospered abundantly. While a resident of Batavia he held the office of justice of the peace, and filled the same office in Westfield. In 1819 he was appointed clerk


of Chautauqua county; in 1826 associate judge, and in 1845 first judge, holding until the election of judges under the constitution of 1846. He was elected to the state legis- lature in 1822 and again in 1836. He was supervisor eight years, serving first in 1819 when the town was yet Portland. He was a member of the commission that erected the first court house, and was prominent in all public affairs of his county. He was a staunch Democrat and held all his offices through that party. He was originally a member of the Presbyterian church, but in later years joined St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Westfield ; was a vestryman and gave freely of his time and means to the upbuilding of this church and congregation. He joined the Masonic order at the age of twenty-one years and was both active and prominent in that fraternity. He was buried by his brethren with the sol- emn and impressive ceremony of the Masonic ritual.


Judge Campbell married, in Scipio, New York, in 1814, Phidelia Terry, born in Ge- noa, New York, died in Westfield, New York, November 5, 1853, daughter of Gamaliel Terry, who was a soldier in the revolutionary war; his widow, Susanna (Moore) Terry, drew a pension of $2,000; her father, Roger Moore, was also a soldier in the revolution- ary war, was taken prisoner and sent to Eng- land with Ethan Allen; his wife was a Miss Spencer, daughter of Judge Ambrose Spen- cer. Children of Judge Campbell: I. Ma- ria Louisa, died unmarried, aged twenty-seven years. 2. Robert Emmett. 3. Thomas B., died at the age of nineteen. 4. Mary, died at the age of eleven years. 5. Harriet Phi- delia, born on the old homestead in West- field, which is yet her residence; she married David Hendrick Taylor, whom she survives (see Taylor VII).


This family can be definitely


WRIGHT traced in England for four gen- erations prior to the immigra- tion to America of Thomas Wright, who came hither some time before the year 1640. In old England, when family names were first assumed, he who wrought metals was called Smith, and he who wrought in wood was called Wright, hence both are classed with our English patronymics derived from occupa- tions. It cannot be claimed that the Wrights, either of mother country or of America, are


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descended from a common ancestor, however remote may have been his origin, but it may be assumed that, wherever the surname Wright is found, the ancestor of him who bears it was in the remotest generations an artificer or worker in wood. In New Eng- land there are several distinct families of the surname Wright who date from the early col- onial period, but they are not supposed to be. of one kin.


(I) John Wright, born in England, pur- chased the Manor of Kelvedon Hall, at Kelve- don, county Essex, in 1538, and there resided until his death, in 1551. He is buried in Kelvedon Hatch churchyard. The christian name of his wife was Olive; she died in 1560. Children : 1. John, of Kelvedon Hall, married Joane. 2. Robert, mentioned below. 3. John, of Wright's Bridge, married Alice Wood. 4. John, of Wealdside, married Joan Page. 5. Katherine. 6. Alice. 7. Elizabeth.


(II) Robert, son of John and Olive Wright, died in 1587. He lived in Brook Hall (called the Moat House), of Brook street, in South Weald, and is buried in the churchyard of that place. He married Mary Green. Children : John, died unmarried; Olive, married Rich- ard Thresher; Katherine, married William Kent ; Dorothy, married John Hatch; Robert, baptized June 30, 1542; Thomas, mentioned below.


. (III) Thomas, youngest child of Robert and Mary (Green) Wright, lived in Brook Hall, in South Weald. He married Roberdye Pake. Children : John, mentioned below; Robert, married Ann -. William, baptized Oc- tober, 22 1578; Matthew; Mary, baptized March 20, 1568; Olive, baptized February 28, 1569; Joane, baptized January 1, 1571 ; Thom- azine.


(IV) John (2), son of Thomas and Rober- dye (Pake) Wright, was a native of England, and lived on the old family homestead, Brook Hall. He married Grace, daughter of Henry and Grace Glasscock, of High Easter. Two sons, Anthony and Thomas, immigrated to Wethersfield, Connecticut, prior to 1640. Chil- dren : John, married Anne Pigott; Martha, married Robert St. Hill; Anthony, baptized January 23, 1608; Robert, baptized June 16, 1609; Thomas, mentioned below ; Grace, bap- tized in February, 1612; Anne, married John Drayton; Ignatius, baptized in April, 1621, died in 1623.


(V) Thomas (2), son of John (2) and


Grace (Glasscock) Wright, was born in Eng- land, November 19, 1610, and died at Weth- ersfield, Connecticut, in 1670. He was the original immigrant of this branch of the fam- ily to America. "Stiles' Ancient Wethers- field," vol. I, page 317, states that : "Thomas Wright, the settler, came from Watertown be- fore 1639. He had one homestead, three and a half acres, west side of High street, on which his house was built, probably before 1639; Robert Abbott, north, and Samuel Clark, south. Another homestead received 1654, a house, barn and five acres of land, bought of Samuel Hale, on west side of Back street, be- tween Luke Hitchcock, north, and land be- longing to Matthew Griswold, south. He bought the Richard Belden lot of twenty and a half acres in Westfield in 1654. He became by purchase the owner of a large part of the Great Island, thereafter known as "Wright's Island" and which he mostly gave to his sons, Thomas and James, who bought other parcels of the Island. Thomas had the north part and James the south part." Vol. II, page 851, of the same work, states: "Thomas Wright came first probably to Watertown, Massachu- setts. Was of the Massachusetts court of as- sistants before the colonial government was established in Boston, and removed to Weth- ersfield, probably about 1639. He was recog- nized as a man of influence and high standing. A house lot of three acres is recorded to him in Wethersfield, December 11, 1640, but his principal estate was an island in the river called by the Indians 'Mannahannock' (Great Laughing Place) ; the Indians used to meet there and have games and wrestling, part of which ever since and is now owned by his lineal descendants."


Thomas Wright was a deputy to the general court of Connecticut in 1643, selectman in 1658, and later commissioner on town lines. He was made freeman May 11, 1654, was con- stable in 1668-9, and on the court jury at Hartford during the latter year. He also seems to have had prominence in the church fight which resulted in a number of the mem- bers removing to Hadley. He brought with him from England a wife, name unknown, and five children. The wife died, time and place unknown, and he married, May 2, 1647, Mar- garet, widow of John Elsen, who had been killed by Indians in the Wethersfield massacre of 1637. Before her marriage to Elsen she was the wife of Hugh Hilliard, or Hillier, by


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whom she had three children-Ben, Job and John. She died 1670-71 without issue by Wright. Her will, dated January 19, 1670, mentions her grandson William, son of Job Hillier, deceased; Margaret Woustan and Sarah Holamouth, daughters of her son, Ben- jamin Hillier, and the wife of her son Thomas Wright. Children of Thomas Wright by first wife : James ; Joseph, mentioned below ; Thom- as, Samuel, Lydia.


(VI) Joseph, son of Thomas (2) Wright by his first wife, was born about 1639, and died December 17, 1714, at the age of seventy- five years. He married (first) December 10, 1663, Mary Stoddard, who died August 23, 1683, and(second) Mercy, Mary's sister. Chil- dren of Joseph and Mary (baptismal dates) : I. Mary, April 15, 1665 ; married a Mr. Gris- wold. 2. Elizabeth, November 18, 1667; mar- ried John Curtis. 3. Joseph, February 14, 1669; married Mary Dudley, of Guilford. 5. Thomas, January 19, 1676; married (first) Prudence Deming, (second) Abigail Church- ill. 6. John, May 19, 1679; married Mercy Boardman. . 7. Jonathan, mentioned below. Children of Joseph and Mercy: 1. Benjamin, December, 1686; married Hannah Holmes. 2. Nathaniel, October 16, 1688; married Ann Deming.


(VII) Jonathan, son of Joseph and Mary (Stoddard) Wright, was baptized June 18, 1681, and died about 1770. The only record of importance concerning him to be found is a will dated March 29, 1740, in which he dis- poses of his real and personal property to his family and relatives. He married Hannah Rand, or Hand, of Guilford, Connecticut, March 26, 1706. Children: 1. Abigail, may have died young. 2. Jonathan, born February 17, 1709, died March 31, 1712. 3. Judah, men- tioned below. 4. Jane, born January 13, 1713; married James Tryon, June 17, 1735. 5. Jo- siah, born September 19, 1714, died February 22, 1799. 6. Thankful, born June 2, 1716; married Nathan Judd, February 3. 1743. 7. Anne. 8. Elizabeth. 9. Mary.


(VIII) Judah, son of Jonathan and Hannah Wright, was born June 7, 1710, and died probably in 1782. His first marriage was to Mary Judd. of Farmington, who was the mother of all his children. His second wife was Zurvieh (Loveland) Crowfoot. He lived where his son Reuben built north of Halfway Hill, New Britain. In 1752 he bought of Thomas Stanley, at Halfway, a piece of land


of eight acres, called the Flag Swamp, which lay southwest of the house. In 1762 he sold to John Lusk, for ninety-four pounds, his house, barn and home lot of seventeen acres ; lying in Farmington. In 1772 his taxable es- tate was thirty pounds and fifteen shillings. His trade was that of carpenter and joiner. Inventory of estate January 1, 1783, was thirty-seven pounds. Children : Daniel (or David), killed in old French war; Amos; Simeon ; Joseph, born October 11, 1741 ; Lois, September 17, 1744; Reuben, mentioned be- low; Ashael.


(IX) Reuben, son of Judah and Mary (Judd) Wright, was born at New Britain, Connecticut, in 1748, and died April 17, 1841. He was a wheelwright, and built a home with workshop adjoining on the Farmington road. He served in the revolutionary war, enlisting in 1780 in the Seventh regiment, Connecticut militia. He was highly esteemed in his com- munity, and as a skilled workman was con- stantly in demand. In 1803 he removed to Redfield, Oneida county, New York. There he built and operated saw mills, continuing in the lumber business until 1817. He was very successful and accumulated a modest fortune. In the last named year he disposed of his Oneida county interests and settled in the town of Westfield, Chautauqua county, where he in- vested his money in lands for the benefit of his two sons, James and Martin. He was a man of unusual mental ability for his day and of most powerful physique. He stood over six feet and was large in proportion. He mar- ried, March 12, 1780, Martha Gridley, born April 10. 1756; she survived him only three months, never having recovered from the shock of his death. She was a daughter of Ebenezer Gridley, of Kensington and Farm- ington Plains, Connecticut, and his wife, Zubah Orvice. Children : 1. Gad, born Sep- tember 30, 1780, died in Virginia, unmarried. 2. Martin, born September 5, 1782; married Mary Tryon, February 22, 1812, and died Sep- tember 23. 1865. 3. Reuben, mentioned be- low. 4. Hannah, born January 23, baptized July 7, 1787 ; married Henry Brooks, January 25. 1807. 5. James, born October 25, 1791, baptized July 7, 1793; married Julia Strong, January 16, 1823, and died May 12, 1864. 6. Mary, born February 13, 1794, baptized April 6, 1794; married James Bacon, April 28, 1819, and died July 20, 1864. 7. Nancy, born April 21, 1796, baptized May 22, 1796, and died


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August 22, 1839. 8. John, born November 4, 1798, died in 1879, at Prairie Center, Kansas. (X) Reuben (2), son of Reuben (I) and Martha (Gridley) Wright, was born in New Britain, November 17, 1784. He died in West- field, October 13, 1847. He was baptized July 17, 1793. He accompanied his father to Red- field, New York, in 1803, and in 1812, after some correspondence with Colonel Austin, of Austinburg, Ohio, who was anxious to have him come to Ohio and build and operate a carding and cloth-dressing factory, he started west with an ox team and all his possessions in a covered wagon. Winter overtaking him at Batavia, New York, he was obliged to stop there until spring. At Batavia his first child was born. The journey was resumed as early in the spring as was practicable. In Ohio the country was new and the life difficult. Many hardships were endured, the wife cooking by a stump while he was building a cabin which was minus a floor and chimney for some time, as he was anxious to get his factory in condi- tion for work by the time the wool should be ready for carding. Both worked heroically, but he began to feel the effects of the malarial climate, and in the spring of 1817 they decided to go to Westfield, where his two brothers, James and Martin, had settled while he was in Austinburg. Here he took up the same business, building his factory and his house on the creek flat, just above where the Rorig bridge now stands. The house is still ( 1912) standing, and is, of the two there now, the one farthest south. In this house Charlotte, Reu- ben and Martha were born. In 1826 his health began to fail, he having had three se- vere attacks of pleurisy in three successive winters, induced by the high temperature of the carding room, and he was advised to change his occupation. In the spring of 1827 he sold his mill to Norton, of Fredonia, New York, taking obligations which he traded for a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one mile east of the village, now owned by heirs of J. O. Guild. He afterwards added seventy- five acres to the first purchase. About 1840 his health utterly failed, and although he lived several years longer he was a great sufferer. He is buried in Westfield.


He married, March 10, 1811, Betsey Sey- mour, born April 13, 1787, died in 1880. Chil- dren: I. Betsey Maria, born February 18, 1813, died March 13, 1814. 2. Allyn Seymour, born April 14, 1814; married Emily Persons.


and died in 1887. 3. Betsey Maria (2), born February 28, 1817; married Thomas Knight, March 19, 1836, and died in 1901. 4. Char- lotte, born December 10, 1820; married Reu- ben Bradley, and she died at Lesueur, Minne- sota. 5. Reuben Gridley, mentioned below. 6. Martha Milla, born February 8, 1826; mar- ried a Mr. Warren. 7. Franklin Martin, born March 20, 1834; married Elizabeth Royce in 1864.


(X1) Reuben Gridley, fifth child of Reu- ben (2) and Betsey (Seymour) Wright, was born at Westfield, New York, July 1, 1824, and died there January 12, 1906. He received a public school education at Westfield, and later attended the Westfield Academy. After leaving school he secured a position as clerk in a grocery store belonging to Hungerford & Knight. When gold was discovered in Cali- fornia in 1849, he organized a company of ten and on May 28 that year left for the gold fields. The company journeyed by stage to Pitts- burg, from there by boat down the Ohio river, and up the Missouri to Council Bluffs, thence striking across the country by mule team. After a long, hard, perilous journey, which only farmer boys and mules could endure, they reached California in safety, and it is a matter of record that theirs was the only party that crossed that year without loss of man or animal. The gold fever was strong in the blood of all of them, and they immediately turned their attention to mining. After three years of this, with but indifferent success, Mr. Wright began to supply the town in which he lived, which stood on the site now occupied by the city of Sacramento, with water. The business grew to some magnitude and proved to be profitable. However, in 1855, deciding to return home, he sold out his business and started for Westfield, New York, where he arrived New Year's Day, 1856. His Califor- nia venture had been successful, and he was now possessed of what for those times was looked upon as considerable capital. After a short period of inactivity he was drawn into the lumber business in Clarion county, Penn- sylvania. He continued actively in this busi- ness until 1866, when he sold out at consid- erable profit all of his timber and mill proper- ties and returned to Westfield, New York. which thereafter he considered his home. For the next few years he devoted most of his time to the location and purchase of Michigan and Wisconsin timber lands, some of which


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were sold almost at once, and some of which were held for a long time. In 1870 he married and confined his active business interests to the operation of farm properties, of which he owned more or less from that time until his death. He was a man of strong physique, strong character and strong convictions, and had the respect and confidence of all who knew him. He was a staunch and active Re- publican but had no office-holding ambitions, the only nomination which he ever accepted being the purely honorary one of presidential elector. He lived to the age of eighty-one years, and up to his last illness was possessed of unusual activity, both mental and physical. Although not a member, he regularly attended the Presbyterian church and served for many years as one of its trustees.


He married, June 22, 1870, Emma Cora, daughter of Elisha C. Pierce, born November 26, 1840, in Victor, New York. (See Pierce). She survives her honored husband, and resides at Westfield, in 1912. Her usual signature is Cora Pierce Wright. Children : Paul Darl- ing, Ralph Glenn, and Ross Pier, all of whom are mentioned below.


(XII) Paul Darling, son of Reuben G. and Cora (Pierce) Wright, was born at West- field, New York, March 9, 1872. He re- sides (1912) at Erie, Pennsylvania, where he is president of the Reed Manufacturing Com- pany. He has been twice married. April 30, 1901, he married Lillian Gillen, who died August 4, 1905. July 16, 1908, he married Charlotte Augusta Mehl, who was born Jan- uary 23, 187 -. Children of Paul and Lillian : Campbell, born March 23, 1903; and Reuben Gridley, born February 8, 1905.


(XII) Ralph Glenn, second son of Reuben G. and Cora (Pierce) Wright, was born Feb- ruary 20, 1873. He is vice-president of the Reed Manufacturing Company, at Erie, Penn- sylvania, and is sole proprietor of the firm of R. G. Wright & Co., of Buffalo, New York, where he maintains his home. He is unmar- ried, in 1912.




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