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being about twenty-two years old; Rachel, birth not recorded.
(IV) Joseph, son of John (2) Willey, was born in East Haddam, April 16, 1705. He married (first) at East Haddam, May 22, 1727, Lucretia, daughter of John and Mary (Willey) Holmes, who was less than sixteen years old at the time of her marriage, hav- ing been born July 14, 17II. She died be- tween 1742 and 1746, and he married (sec- ond) Rebecca He died January 9, 1790, aged about eighty-five, and his widow died November 2, 1807, aged eighty-two. His children by first wife, born at East Had- dam :
Elizabeth, January 24, 1728 ; Mary, October 18, 1730; Lucretia, July 9, 1732; Joseph, March 22, 1734: Esther, May 1, 1736; Benja- min, September 6, 1737; Ephraim, July 18, 1740; Grace, October 6, 1742. Children of second wife: Barnabas, mentioned below ; Rebecca, August 20, 1749; Aaron, Septem- ber 1, 1751; Dimmis, May 27, 1754; Seth, December 27, 1756; Jemima, August 6, 1758; Cyrus, March 22, 1762; Titus, July 3, 1764; Caroline, October 22, 1767.
(V) Barnabas, son of Joseph Willey, was born at East Haddam, December 27, 1747, died about 1829, aged eighty-two, being bur- ied in the neighboring town of Cambridge. In a deed of August 29, 1786, he and his wife are called of Walpole, New Hampshire, "yeoman and spinster." He went from there to Waterville, Vermont, where some. of his children were settled, and lived with his son Abner.
He enlisted in 1776 in a company under Colonel Benjamin Bellows from New Hampshire, went to Ticonderoga, and was away for a month. (See "New Hampshire Revolutionary Rolls," vol. iv.) In 1777 he again enlisted in the same company, going to Ticonderoga. (See vol. II, page 25.) He married Mercy Harvey. Children, two born at Surry, New Hampshire, remainder in Wal- pole : Delilah, November 15, 1767; married Abraham Smith (see Smith VI) ; Barnabas, November 7, 1769; John, April 18, 1771; Amos, September 7, 1772, Nathan, April 18, 1775: Mercy, April 17, 1777; Abner, March 20, 1779; Asenath, November 10, 1780; Jo- seph, August 28, 1782; Abel, July II, 1784; Seth, September 30, 1786; Huluth, Septem- ber 20, 1788; Leah, March 18, 1790; Lois, September 16, 1793.
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(I) Thomas Remington, grandson of John Remington, the pioneer in this country, set- tled at Hingham, Massachusetts, and mar- ried there, March 16, 1687, Remember, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Farrow) Stowell. She was born in Hingham, April 22, 1762, died November 5, 1694. Children, born in Hingham: Jael, April 22, 1688; Joshua, mentioned below; Mary, May 9, 1691 ; Abigail, February 27, 1692-93.
(II) Joshua, son of Thomas Remington, was born at Hingham, in 1889-90, died there June 1, 1733. He left an estate valued at four hundred and ten pounds. He married Elizabethı - . Children, born at Hingham : Joshua, 1714, died 1730; Elizabeth, 1716; John, 1718: Elisha, January 17, 1719-20; Mary, June 13, 1722; Sarah, June 23, 1723; Thomas, May 22, 1724; Thomas, May 22, 1726; Olive, September 28, 1728; Joshua, mentioned below.
(III) Joshua (2), son of Joshua (I) Rem- ington, was born at Hingham, February 14, 1730-31. He removed to Cummington, Mas- sachusetts, and was a soldier from Hampshire county in the revolution. (p. 113, vol. xiii, "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolution.") He was a private in Captain Joseph Clapp's company, Colonel Israel Cha- pin's regiment. He married Ruth Cary. Children, born at Hingham: Ruth, August 5, 1755: Uriah, baptized June 26, 1757; Joshua, mentioned below. Probably others at Cummington.
(IV) Joshua (3), son of Joshua (2) Rem- ington, was born in Hingham, baptized there September 14, 1760. He removed to Rutland county, Vermont. He served in the revolu- tion in Captain John Sprague's company, Col- onel Gideon Warren's regiment, in 1780, and in the same company in 1781, also in Captain Orange Train's company, Colonel Lee's regi- ment (see "Vermont Revolutionary Rolls." pp. 211-379-475). He lived at Wallingford, and his daughter Lydia married Reuben Smith (see Smith VII ).
Several members of L'HOMMEDIEU the L'Hommedieu fam- ily fled from LaRo- chelle, France, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Pierre and Osee (or Hosea) were the sons of Pierre L'Homme- dieu and Marthe Peron, his wife. The hus-
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band died in France before September 29, 1685, on which date the name of his widow appears in a "list of Religious Fugitives from La Rochelle, whose goods have been seized." Marthe accompanied her children to England and came to America with Pierre, who settled in Kingston, Ulster county, New York, and died while on a visit to New Amsterdam in 1692. Benjamin and John L'Hommedieu, born at LaRochelle, France, were natural- ized in New York, September 27, 1687. Ho- sea L'Hommedieu fled from LaRochelle sev- eral months previous to the flight of his brother Pierre and their mother Marthe. Per- haps he was accompanied by Benjamin and John, who may have been his brothers. The existing tradition among the descendants of Benjamin L'Hommedieu agrees perfectly with these facts. Benjamin and a brother left France together and their widowed mother went with them to the shore at La Rochelle and as a parting gift confided to one a Bible and to the other a silver watch. They fled to Holland and thence came to America. The watch is now in the possession of Eben Norton Horsford, of Harvard Uni- versity. A monument in memory of Nathan- iel Sylvester has been recently erected on Shelter Island by the daughters of Professor Horsford, descendants of Benjamin L'Hom- medieu and of Patience Sylvester, his wife. The foregoing data was taken from a His- tory of the Early Huguenots and from American Ancestry the following facts con- cerning Benjamin L'Hommedieu have been gleaned :
Benjamin L'Hommedieu was born in La Rochelle, France, in 1665, died at Shelter Island, Long Island. He married, in 1695, Patience, born in 1664, died in November, 1719, daughter of Nathaniel and Grissel (Brinley) Sylvester, of Roxbury, England, who bought Shelter Island, upon which the old manor house stands to-day. Benjamin was a son of John, born in England, in 1618, died in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1708. John L'Hommedieu married, in 1655, Patience Throckmorton. He was a son of John L'Hommedieu, who was born in Essex county, England, in 1591, and died at Newport, in 1647. The above two records differ concern- ing the ancestry of Benjamin L'Hommedieu but as the first one merely infers that he was a brother of Pierre and Osee, it is possible that the latter is correct. That the same
Benjamin is referred to in both instances is certain because they agree concerning his marriage to Patience Sylvester. Children : 1. Benjamin, referred to below. 2. Osee (or Hosea) died November 6, 1752; married, in 1718, Freelove Howell. 3. Sylvester, born January 5, 1703, died March 9, 1788; mar- ried, in 1737, Elizabeth Booth. 4. Peter, mar- ried, February 13, 1723, Sarah Corwin. 5. Susanna, married, February 22, 1722, Jona- than Tuthill.
Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (I) and Patience (Sylvester) L'Hommedieu, was born in Southold, Long Island, about 1698. He was a harbor merchant there, corner of Town street and Harbor lane, which had formerly been owned by his father-in-law. Here he died, September 17, 1755. He mar- ried (first) in 1716, Mary, daughter of Ben- jamin and Hannah (Mulford) Conklyn, of Southold, who died there June 19, 1730. He married (second) July 1, 173I, Martha Bourn, of Sandwich, Massachusetts.
The L'Hommedieu family was one of un- usual importance in the early history of Long Island. One of the foremost citizens of Southold was Ezra L'Hommedieu, a son of Benjamin, whose father was Benjamin L'Hommedieu, of La Rochelle. Ezra L'Hom- medieu was a graduate of Yale College and was a lawyer by profession. He represented Long Island in the congress of the United States as a member from the state of New York during the course of the revolutionary war-four years-from 1779 to 1783. After the close of the war he was state senator for a period of sixteen years-1784-99-with the exception of the year 1792-93. He was a member of all the privincial congresses of New York, including the fourth, which framed and adopted, at Kingston, the first constitution of the state, in the spring of 1777. In 1801 he was a member of the celebrated convention, which was elected to interpret some of the points of the constitu- tion of the state and to determine how many members there should be in each house of the legislature. He was repeatedly a member of the council of appointment, which had the power, until 1821, to select civil, military and judicial officers of the commonwealth. He was foremost of all men who had lived from birth until death at Southold. From 1737 until his death, September 28, 1811, he was a regent of the state university. As
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chairman of the judiciary committee of the senate, he wrote many of the laws which were enacted by the legislature after the es- tablishment of peace and which were so pro- lific in advancing the state's prosperity. He was an ardent church worker and was a member of the First Church of Southold. He was influential in passing the statute for the election of trustees of churches, and the First Church of Southold was the earliest in Suffolk county, and on Long Island also, to elect its trustees and file its certificate of incorporation. (This was taken from Whit- aker's "History of Sonthold, Long Island.")
(I) Mulford L'Hommedieu, the earliest member of the branch of the family at pres- ent under consideration of whom we have definite information, was undoubtedly a grandson of Benjamin (2) and Mary (Conk- lyn) L'Hommedieu, and was named for his maternal great-grandfather. He enlisted in the patriot army during the revolution, just before the battle of Long Island, and served until the end of the war. He enlisted July 26, 1776, from South Hampton, under Cap- tain Jeremiah Rogers, First Regiment of Minute-Men. He then removed to Swanton, Franklin county, Vermont, where he died. Among his children was Henry, mentioned below.
(II) Henry, son of Mulford L'Homme- dieu, was born at Swanton, Franklin county, Vermont, January 13, 1799, died in July, 1898. In the spring of 1826 he removed to Shelby, Orleans county, New York. He married Almira Hathaway, born in Granville, New York. Children: I. Mary, married Morgan. 2. Asahel. 3. Wallace, men- tioned below. 4. Charlotte, married Horace Linsley. 5. Nancy, still living. 6. Marshal, residing at Denver.
(III) Wallace, son of Henry L'Homme- dieu, was born in Shelby, Orleans county, New York, September 8, 1833. Until he ar- rived of age he worked on his father's farm and received his education from the common schools of the neighborhood and the Gene- see Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York. He was a member of the Republican party at its formation in 1856, and held several pub- lic appointments of trust. From 1869 to 1876 he was assessor of the town of Shelby. In 1887 he was elected supervisor of Shelby, being the first Republican to hold the office in eleven years. He was re-elected in 1888-89
and declined a renomination in 1890. In the fall of 1889 he was elected to the New York state assembly, and in 1890 served on the committees on commerce and navigation, on banks and excise. As assemblyman he was active and prominent, and secured the pas- sage of two general and several special and local acts. He is a member of the Presby- terian church at Medina, Orleans county, New York, and for a long time was a mem- ber of its session and board of trustees as well as a trustee of the Slater fund of the Niagara Presbytery. When not in Albany he spent his life on his large farm at Maple Ridge near Shelby. He married, in 1862, Frances M., daughter of Colonel John Berry, of Holley, New York. Children: I. Avis Marion, married Hervey D. Jump, of Sayre, Pennsylvania. 2. Irving, mentioned below. 3. John Berry, first deputy health officer of New York City. 4. Jessie Belle. 5. Albert Warren.
(IV) Irving, son of Wallace and Frances M. (Berry) L'Hommedieu, was born on his father's farm at Maple Ridge, near Medina, Orleans county, New York, January 12, 1865, and is now living in that town. He received his early education in the common schools of Orleans county and in the Medina Acad- emy. In 1884 he began studying law in the office and under the tutelage of the Hon. Ed- mund L. Pitts, of Medina, and during the winters of the two ensuing years taught school. In 1886 he graduated from the Al- bany Law School and was admitted to the bar in New York later in the same year. From 1886 to 1888 he practiced his profes- sion at Omaha, Nebraska, and in the fall of 1888 returned to Medina where he inaugu- rated the law partnership of Simon & L'Hoin- medien. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons of Medina, and has held many Masonic offices ; a member of the coun- cil and chapter of Medina, Genesee Comman- dery, of Lockport; Ismailia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Buffalo; through all Scottish Rite bodies, including thirty- second degree. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was president of the Alert Hose Company of Me- dina. In March, 1893, he was appointed vil- lage attorney of Medina, and the previous August elected to the board of education. He is a Republican in politics. He was a member of the Republican state committee,
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1890-92, postmaster at Medina, 1898-1902. Having been elected to the state senate in 1902, he served on the committee on cities, codes, and that of taxation and retrenchment, and was chairman of the committee on trades and manufactures ; and was also on the com- mittee on canals. He was re-elected to the senate in 1904, and served on the same com- mittees, except the one on canals from which he resigned. He has taken an active part in political affairs since he became of age.
He married, June 29, 1887, Christina, daughter of Charles H. Breed, of Medina.
HARMON The independent and adven- turous spirit of the men of this name is evidenced by the fact of their being very early settlers in the wilderness of New England. Francis, of whom very little is known, came in 1635; Nathaniel settled at Braintree before 1641 ; John was of Plymouth in 1643, and of Dux- bury in 1657; a second John was a member of Pynchon's colony at Springfield in 1643 ; James was of Saco in 1655; and there were others later. They have ever been men of enterprise and courage, leaders in business and brave soldiers in war.
(I) John Harmon, the progenitor of the Harmon family of Suffield, Connecticut, was born in England in 1617, died in Springfield, Massachusetts, "ye 7th of ye I mon. 1660-61," aged forty-three years. He settled in Spring- field in 1643, and was granted land, February 12, 1649, the record stating: "It is ordered ye Geo. Colton and Thomas Cooper who is ye Towne treasurer should with yr best dis- cretion lay out the severall parcells of Mea- dow granted ye last yeare, to Henry Burt 4 acres, Tho. Mirick 4 acres, Alex. Edwards 4 acres, Jno. Harman 4 acres, In ye Longe meadow over ye Brooke." January 22, 1651, John Harmon was grantee of lot 6, two and one-half acres "on Pacowick." "February 8th (1654) thease parsells of meadow com- monly called by the name of Wattchnett was granted these inhabitants as followeth vid John Harman 3 acres," etc. He also received a grant of land "over ye mill river" contain- ing three acres, in 1655. He also received other grants of land. In "a rate for ye ray- singe of 30 pounds for the purchase of the lands of the Plantation 1646." John Har- mon is assessed 9s. 2d. on the thirty- three acres of land. John Harmon was
one of six persons seated by the select- men in the third seat of the church, De- cember 23, 1659. He was a man of good character, and was made fence viewer, 1635; surveyor of highways of the lower part of the town, November 2, 1647, and November 2, 1658; November 4, 1656, he was chosen to the office of "presenter to present breaches of the laws of the county or of town orders and to which service he took his oath." He married, in 1640, Elizabeth, whose surname does not appear. She was born in England in 1617. After the death of John Harmon she married Anthony Dorchester, who died in Springfield, August 28, 1683. She died in Springfield, May 16, 1699, aged ninety-one years. The children of John and Elizabeth were: John, Samuel, Sarah, Joseph, Eliz- abeth, Mary, Nathaniel, Ebenezer. The first two were born before John's settlement at Springfield.
(II) Joseph, third son of John and Eliz- abeth Harmon, was born in Springfield, Mas- sachusetts, "II mon. 4 day, 1646," and died in Suffield, Connecticut, October 28, 1729, aged nearly eighty-three years. In Decem- ber, 1664, upon the request of Anthony Dor- chester, there was granted by the town of Springfield to his own and to his wife's sons thirty acres of land each. Joseph Harmon was one of those who received one of these portions of thirty acres. In 1676 Samuel and Joseph Harmon were two of several persons desiring grants of land at, towards or about Stony river on the west side of the great river toward Windsor; and the selectmen granted to the Harmons "30 acres of land apiece there and six acres of wet meadow." Joseph Har- mon's place in the church was "in ye south side at ye upper end of the Backer seate," in 1662-63. In 1670 Samuel and Joseph Har- mon were required to furnish one load as their part of the minister's wood. Samuel and Joseph Harmon seem to have been suc- cessful hunters; on the town books, among similar entries, of date January II, 1668, are the following: "To Samuel & Joseph Har- mon for killing 6 wolves this Summer past 3 pounds." December, 1670, "To Samle & J. Harmon for killing 4 wolves 2 pounds." January 14, 1670, the settlement of Suffield, Connecticut, was begun by the grants of land to Samuel and Joseph Harmon, Benjamin Parsons and others, says Burt in his "History of Springfield." D. W. Norton in his "State-
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ment at the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Town of Suffield, October 12, 1870, states that the settlement of the town was begun in 1670." John Lewis, Esq., at the same place says, "Unfortunately, no documents have yet been discovered, that definitely state the time, place, and sircumstance of the first settlement of Suffield. While it is quite certain that the Harmons were the pioneers of the town, and that they came here in 1670, the exact date of their settlement is not known." "In 1669 the selectmen of Springfield as- sumed authority to form and direct the set- tlement of Springfield. They made several grants of land, and among others to Samuel and Joseph Harmon, who it is thought, in the following summer, took up their abode on the Northampton road, in the vicinity of Stony Brook." This was about one mile west of High street, on what is now the road lead- ing from High street to West Suffield.
Joseph Harmon married Hannah Philley, or Fille, in Southfield, Massachusetts, now Suffield, Connecticut, January 22, 1674. She was born in Windsor, Connecticut, July 3, 1653, and died in Suffield, August 28, 1729, aged seventy-six. They had ten children : Hannah, John (both born at Springfield), Samuel, died young; Elizabeth, Joseph, Sa- rah, Samuel, Ebenezer, Mary, Nathaniel.
(III) Nathaniel, tenth child and sixth son of Joseph Harmon, was born at Suffield, Con- necticut, July 30, 1695. He married and among his children was Phineas.
(IV) Phineas, son of Nathaniel Harmon, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, January 4, 1720. He married and among his children was Elijah.
(V) Elijah, son of Phineas Harmon, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, June 18, 1747. He married and among his children was Elias.
(VI) Elias, son of Elijah Harmon, was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, November 19, 1774. He was a minister of the gospel and a farmer. He settled in Onondaga, New York. He married and among his children was Eleazar.
(VII) Eleazar, son of Rev. Elias Harmon, was born in Onondaga county, New York, February 28, 1808, died in Ellicottville, Cat- taraugus county, New York, November 22, 1882. His early education was obtained in the poorly conducted schools of the district, but he eagerly availed himself of every ad-
vantage they offered. At an early age he be- gan the study of law beginning his prepara- tory course at Aurora, New York. In 1832 he came to Ellicottville where he continued his law study in the office of Anson Gibbs. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney and counsellor and at once began practice, becoming one of the most prominent lawyers of the Cattaraugus county bar. The county then was comparatively new and Ellicottville, the county seat, was the location of the Hol- land Land Company offices, and a most thriv- ing town. Important litigations frequently grew out of the real estate transaction of the land companies as well as out of the exten- sive lumbering operations along the Alle- ghany river and its tributaries. Mr. Harmon was employed and thereafter continued to be engaged on one side or the other of nearly every important case that was brought before the courts. Whatever controversies there were he was called on as a lawyer to adjust them, many being thus settled out of court. The most important question that arose in the county for many years related to the title of the Holland Land Company. Every land owner was interested in it and the excitement became so intense as to endanger the public peace. Mr. Harmon was engaged as attorney of the land companies, and by his great influ- ence with all parties, induced them finally to abide peaceably by the decision of the court in a case pending therein, wherein the ques- tion of title was the only issue. The case was brought to trial, where full documentary and other evidence, procured at great trouble and expense, clearly established the title and no doubt was thereafter entertained in re- gard to it. Few lawyers in western New York equalled Mr. Harmon in the knowledge of the law, fewer still in the ability to pre- sent a case in the most forcible manner be- fore a court or jury. He was of a nervous temperament and threw his whole soul into his case. Possessed of a logical mind he drew his conclusions with unerring judgment. He never went into court unprepared, hence in all the cases in which he was retained he showed a remarkable familiarity with the le- gal questions that arose in the progress of a trial, and which the ordinary practitioner finds it difficult to meet. In the preparation of his cases his power of concentration was intense. No point escaped him and he was always fully equipped. He could not be sur-
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prised by the citation of an authority, nor deceived by mistaken analogy. His manner was candid and courteous, apt at repartee, though rarely indulging in wit for effect, yet ready in parrying an attack. As an advo- cate he was earnest, logical, effective and very successful. He was not a fluent speaker but had that powerful eloquence that convinces a jury. By his sincerity of manner, his re- markable power of analysis, his judgment of the bearing of evidence and power of mar- shaling it, he frequently put aside the most eloquent efforts of an adversary and rescued his case when defeat seemed inevitable. He will long be remembered, not only as stand- ing at the head of the Cattaraugus county bar of his time, but as ranking high among eminent contemporaries in the profession in western New York. He retired from active practice in 1851 on account of failing health and thereafter devoted himself to private business enterprises of various kinds until his death in 1882. From the date of his retire- ment from the bar he lived amidst the refine- ments and quiet pleasures of his beautiful home in Ellicottville, where his later years were spent in the enjoyment of his family and friends with whom he had lived for half a century.
He married (first) Harriet Goodspeed, who died March 24, 1839, leaving two sons : I. Luke Goodspeed, born October 4, 1836, died July 1, 1908; married Margaret Mar- vin. 2. Clarence Gillette, born March 24, 1839; married, August 1, 1868, Mary Patter- son ; child, Mary, married, December 30, 1903, James Dudley Tupper and has Clarence Har- mon, born in eastern Pennsylvania, February 7, 1907. Mr. Harmon married (second) July 2, 1840, Caroline Goodspeed (sister of his first wife) who died in June, 1842, leaving a daughter, Harriet Caroline, born 1842, died in Florida, March 30, 1872. He married (third) March 18, 1847, Hannah Maria Thal- heimer (or Thalhermer), of Montezuma, New York, born February 23, 1825, who survives him. Children: Jennie, born March 27, 1851, died March 27, 1852; Eleazer, of whom further.
(VIII) Eleazar (2), son of Eleazar (I) and his third wife, Hannah M. (Thalheimer) Harmon, was born in Ellicottville, Cattarau- gus county, New York, February 28, 1853. He was educated in the public school and at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he took
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