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(VI) Charles Halstead, son of Benjamin Sawyer, was born in Orange county, near Goshen, July 27, 1827. died in Waverly, April 16. 1892. He came to the town of Barton with his parents in early childhood and was educated in the common schools there. lle followed farming near Waverly, and was in- terested in a general business activity. He was active in religious work, an elder of the l'resbyterian church for thirty years. He was a leading citizen of the town. He married. October 4, 1853. Martha W. Hanna, born July 19, 1831, in Barton, died July 12, 1906, daugh- ter of George W. and Catherine ( Wentz) Hanna, granddaughter of John and Margaret ( McCauly ) Hanna. They had one son, Fred Andrew, mentioned below.
(VII) Fred Andrew, son of Charles Hal- stead Sawyer, was born in Barton, Tioga county, New York, October 23, 1860. He attended the public schools and the Waverly high school. He started upon his business career in 1875 in the Citizens Bank, founded the year before by J. Theodore Sawyer. He was connected with the bank as early as 1875. but became bookkeeper, September 19. 1879. He was promoted assistant cashier, then cashier, and since January, 1911, he has been president of the bank, succeeding Hon. J. Theodore Sawyer after his death. He is also a director of the bank and of the Waverly Water Company, and director and treasurer of the Loomis Opera Company. He has been active in public affairs, and for six years was a member of the board of education and for two years president. He was also treasurer
of the incorporated village for several years. For the past ten years he has been one of the trustees of the Presbyterian church. Ile has also taken a keen interest in the Volun- teer l'ire Department of the village, and has been its chief engineer. He is a member of the Tioga Hose Company, in which he has held in succession the various offices. In poli- tics he is a Republican. In addition to his other business interests he takes pleasure and profit in cultivating the farm upon which he was born.
He married, August 19, 1885, Mary Stone Moore, born September 5. 1864, in Waverly, daughter of William E. and Sarah ( Stone ) Moore ( see Moore IX). They have one son, Harold Moore, born April 15, 1890, graduate of the Waverly high school, class of 1900, and of Cornell University, class of 1911, with the degree of mechanical engineer ; now with the Scranton Electrical Company of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
( The Moore Line ).
(1) Thomas Moore was born in England before 1600, died before 1636. He married Ann --- and among their children had a (laughter Mary, married Joseph Grafton, of Salem, Massachusetts; Thomas, mentioned be- low.
( 11) Thomas (2), son of Thomas ( 1) Moore, was born in 1615, died in 1691. He married ( first ) Martha, daughter of Rev. Christopher Youngs, who was the founder of Southold, Long Island. and sometimes called John in its records. He married (second ) Catherine Wescott. Children, all by first wife : Martha, married Captain John Seaman ; Han- nah, married a Mr. Lyman; Elizabeth, mar- ried a Mr. Grover: Sarah, married Samuel Glover; Thomas; Nathaniel, married Sarah Vail; Benjamin ; Jonathan.
(III) Thomas (3), son of Thomas ( 2) Moore, was born October 21, 1639, died in 1711. He married Mary -, and among their children was Thomas, mentioned below.
(IV) Thomas (4). son of Thomas (3) Moore, was born in January, 1663, died Decem- ber 30. 1738. He married Jane Mott, and lived at Southold. Long Island. Children : Nathaniel. Elisa, Martha, married John Peck : David, mentioned below.
(\') David, son of Thomas (4) Moore, was born at Southokl. Long Island, November 25. 1713. He married Hepzibah Wilmot, born
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April 6, 1715. They settled near Middletown, Orange county, New York. Children : David, mentioned below; Ilepzibah, born December 12, 1736, married a Mr. Case; Mary, July 7, 1739, married a Mr. Reeves, died August 6, 1811; Beulah, October 2, 1741, married a Mr. Everet, died July 30, 1807; Deborah, January 17. 1744, married a Mr. Everet; Wilmot, May 28, 1746; John, October 26, 1748; Dan- iel. August 20, 1751; Walters, November 4, 1754, died May 6, 1768.
(VI) David (2), son of David (I) Moore, was born December 9, 1734, in Orange county, New York. He was on the committee of safety during the revolution, and his descend- ants are entitled to membership in the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. lle married and had children : 1. William. born February 28, 1766; married ( first) Mar- tha Smith, died December 28, 1843; married (second) Mary (Green ) Chapman, daughter of Daniel Green. 2. David, born January 21, 1768. died January 28, 1812. 3. Wilmot, men- tioned below. 4. Eunice, born November 20, 1771, died June 16, 1774. 5. Mary, August 31, 1773, died May 9, 1843 ; married Israel Wick- ham, July 2, 1793. 6. Lydia, born April 7, 1775, died November 20, 1848; married John Smith. October 21, 1791. 7. Walters, born April 29. 1777, died December 23, 1853 ; mar- ried, December 25, 1805, Dolly McCurre. 8. Phoebe, born December 25, 1780, died Novem- ber 2, 1801.
(VII) Wilmot, son of David (2) Moore, was born December 2, 1769, died May 6. 1828. He married Azubah Knapp, born De- cember 12, 1772, died in February, 1866. Children : 1. Major Benjamin, born October 1, 1792, died September 2, 1832; married Ann Fullerton. 2. Sally, born September 20, 1794; married Lebbius L. Vail; died September 9, 1875. 3. Tusten, mentioned below. 4. Eunice, born February 27. 1800, died about 1865; married Oliver H. Vail, born November 10. 1797, died February 8, 1856. 5. Harriet, born June 9, 1803, died July 5. 1857 ; married, 1823. Bedford M. Bennett. died 1835. 6. Abigail, born January 16, 1806, died 1891; married D. S. Dunning, died 1874. 7. Lewis, born December 15. 1808, died May 14. 1878 : mar- ried. 1829, Ann Haight. 8. Emmet, born May 24. 1811, died 1897 : married Harriet I. Dol- sen. March 24, 1835.
(VIII) Tusten, son of Wilmot Moore, was born January 29, 1797, at Middletown, New
York, died April 26, 1864, at Unionville, New York. He married Amelia Murray, born Sep- tember 11, 1802, died September 12, 1882. Chil- dren: 1. Charles B., born November 14, 1824, died March 5, 1892 ; married Louise E. Cour- sen, December 28, 1844. 2. Hiram M., born September 23, 182-, died March 21, 1864; married Fannie Smith, September 3, 1849. 3. Mary A., born April 6, 1826, died October 2, 1909; married Lewis L. Smith, November 28, 1842. 4. William Emmet, mentioned be- low.
(IX) William Emmet, son of Tusten Moore, was born at Franklin, Delaware county, New York, February 20, 1828, now living in Wav- erly, New York. He married Sarah (Stone) Hotchkiss, born September 14, 1829, died Jan- uary 23, 1911, daughter of Luther and Mary (Rounds) Stone. Their only child, Mary Stone, married Fred Andrew Sawyer ( see Sawyer VII).
(V) John L. Sawyer, son of SAWYER Moses Sawyer (q. v.), was born in Orange county, New York, near Goshen, February 9, 1811, died at Waverly, May 31, 1871. With his brothers, Benjamin and Samuel, he settled among the first in what was afterward the town of Bar- ton, Tioga county, New York. These pio- neers chose the hill lands for their farms, be- cause of the superior timber there. After the Erie railroad was built in 1849 he located in the village of Waverly, and was closely iden- tified with its development and growth dur- ing the remainder of his life. For many years he represented the town in the board of supervisors. He married Julina Smith, born April 13, 1813, died in Waverly, March 18. 1891, daughter of Joseph Smith. Children : Henry Merriam, born October 4, 1832, died February 20, 1858; Joseph Theodore, men- tioned below.
(VI) Joseph Theodore, son of John L. Sawyer, was born on Talmadge Hill in the town of Barton, Tioga county, New York, Oc- tober 8, 1834, died in Waverly, December 16, 1910. He attended the public schools and was a student for two years at the Farmers' Hall Academy at Goshen. As a boy and young man he worked on his father's farm and engaged in lumbering. In partnership with his father he bought timber lands in Can- ada. and owned and operated a large plan- ing mill and sash and door factory at the cor-
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ner of Pennsylvania avenue and Erie street in Waverly. He was financially interested also in the development of the oil lands in the Bradford district of Pennsylvania. In part- nership with his father and Ten Eyk DePuy, he was the founder of the banking house of J. T. Sawyer & Company. The business was established in the store at the corner of Broad and Fulton streets, afterwards occupied by H. M. Ferguson & Company. The business was sold about 1871 on account of the ill health of Mr. Sawyer. In 1874, after return- ing from a trip abroad, he organized the Citi- zens' Bank, of which he became president, and continued in office to the time of his death. The larger part of his time was de- voted to this business, thirty-six years, and he built up one of the most substantial and prosperous state banks in this section of the country. He was well known and highly esteemed among the bankers of the state and served on the committee which organized the present New York State Bankers' Associa- tion.
Mr. Sawyer also gave his time and sup- port to various other enterprises and projects. In the seventies he was one of those who realized most keenly the need of a municipal water supply, and for a long time, in private conversation and in public meetings, he advo- cated the building of water works. The voters of the village were not persuaded, however. and in 1877, when further delay seemed un- wise. he co-operated with other citizens in forming the Waverly Water Works Company, of which he was president and treasurer to the time of his death. The work of construc- tion began in August, 1880, and from that time he gave his personal attention to the construction and operation of the system. Largely through his energy and good sense the water works were built and brought to the present state of efficiency. For a num- ber of years he was director and treasurer of the Loomis Opera House Company and treas- urer of the Cayuta Land Company. He was also a member of the Newtown Battle Chap- ter, Sons of the American Revolution of El- mira. New York, a society in which he was greatly interested, and was member of Em- pire State Society, Sons of the American Revo- lution of Waverly.
For many years Mr. Sawyer was active in public affairs in the town and county. He served as trustee of the incorporated village
for several terms and was president of the village. For a number of termis he was super- visor of the town and of large influence in the board of supervisors. He was a member of the first board of education of Waverly under the present school system. During the years 1878-79 he represented Tioga county in the assembly at Albany and served as tem- . porary chairman of that body at the first session held in the new capitol. Mr. Sawyer introduced and secured the enactment of the law regulating the election of school trustees. A short time after he returned from the legis- lature, Mr. Sawyer was offered the position of superintendent of banks, but he declined this flattering offer on account of the demands of his own business. In politics he was a Republican.
In charitable matters Mr. Sawyer was al- ways generous, though often his benefactions were unknown even to the recipients. He con- tributed liberally to the Baptist church of Waverly.
He traveled extensively in his own country and abroad. visiting Alaska, the West Indies, South America, Mexico. Egypt and the principal European countries. He was a shrewd observer and upon his return gave numerous talks on his travels. He was a prime mover in erecting the Sullivan mont- ment at Lowman. At the time of his death the Free Press said of him: "In the death of Hon. J. T. Sawyer, Waverly loses one who has for nearly half a century been one of her most prominent business men, one who has ever been interested in the progress and de- velopment of the village and one whose hon- esty and integrity has never been questioned. * * It is hard to estimate the value for good of such a man in the community. His great loss will be felt, not only by his family and intimate associates, but by the entire com- munity, for he was a man of high ideals and of the strictest integrity. Waverly has lost one of her best citizens and one of her most respected business men."
He married, at Goshen. Connecticut, Octo- ber 24, 1872, Alice Lyman, born at Goshen, Connecticut, May 15, 1845, daughter of Moses and Mary Ann (Holley ) Lyman ( see Ly- man). They had one daughter, Ellen Lyman. born at Waverly, May 12, 1874; married John Floyd Halstead, of Goshen, New York, Jan- uary 17, 1912, a prominent young attorney of Goshen.
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( The Lyman Line).
(1) Alfred the Great, King of England, married Ethelbirth, daughter of Earl Ethel- ran.
(11) Edward the Elder was King of Eng- land.
( 111) Edgina, daughter of Edward, married Henry de Vermandois.
(IV ) Hubart was Count de Permandois.
(V) Adela, daughter of Hubart, married Hugh Magnus, fifth Count de Vermandois, and son of Henry I .. King of France.
(\'1) Isabel, daughter of Hugh, married Robert, Earl of Millent and Leicester.
(\H]) Robert was second Earl of Leices- ter.
(\'IH ) Robert, his son, was third Earl of leicester.
( IX ) Margaret. daughter of Robert, mar- ried Saier de Quincy.
(X) Roger was Earl of Winchester.
(XI) Elizabeth, daughter of Roger, mar- ried Alexander Comyn.
( \1I) Agnes, daughter of Alexander, mar- ried Gilbert de U'mfraville.
( XIII ) Gilbert de U'mfraville was an infant at the death of his father and was made a ward of Simon de Mountford, Earl of Leices- ter. He was the Earl of Angus, and died in 1307. He married Matilda, Countess of An- gus, a lineal descendant of Malcolm III .. King of Scotland. Three of Malcolm's sons suc- ceeded to the throne.
(XIV) Robert de U'mfraville, second son of Gilbert, had livery of his lands. He was one of the governors of Scotland and was a member of Parliament under Edward 11 .. un- til the eighteenth year of his reign, when he clied. He was the second Earl of Angus.
( XV ) Sir Thomas de Umfraville, son of Robert, was heir to his half-brother Gilbert, and lived at Harbottle. He married Joan, daughter of Lord Rodam.
(XVI) Sir Thomas de U'mfraville was sec- ond son and heir to his brother Sir Robert. and was living at the time of Henry IV. at Kyne. Children: Gilbert, a famous soldier in the French wars at the time of Henry IV. and V .. slain with Thomas, Duke of Clarence, and others; Joanna, mentioned below.
(XVII) Joanna, daughter of Sir Thomas. married Sir William Lambert, son of Alan Lambert.
(XVIII) Robert Lambert, of Owlton, was his son.
(XIX) Henry Lambert. Esy., of Ongar, county Essex, was living in the twenty-hith year of the reign of Henry VI.
( X.X) Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, mar- ried Thomas Lyman, of Navistoke.
(XXI) Henry Lyman, of Navistoke, was his son.
(XXII) John, son of Henry Lyman, lived at high Ongar.
( NAIH ) Henry, son of John Lyman, lived at thigh Ongar. He married Elizabeth and had nine children.
( XXIV ) Richard, son of Henry Lyman, was boin at High Ongar, county Essex, England, and baptized October 30, 1580. In 1629 he sold to John Gower lands and orchards and a garden in Norton Mandeville, in the parish of Ongar, and in August, 1631. embarked with his wife and five children on the ship "Lyon," for New England. They landed at Boston and Richard Lyman settled first at Charlestown, and with his wife united with the church of which Eliot, the Indian Apostle, was pastor. He was admitted a freeman, June 11, 1635, and in October of the same year, joining a party of about a hundred per- sons, went to Connecticut and became one of the first settlers of Hartford. where he was one of the original proprietors in 1636, re- ceiving thirty parts of the purchase from the Indians. His house was on the south side of what is now Buckingham street, the fifth lot from Main street, west of the South Church. His will was dated April 22, 1610. and proved January 27, 1642, together with that of his wife, who died soon after he died. He died in 1640. His name is inscribed on a stone column in the rear of the Centre Church of Hartford. erected in memory of the first settlers of the city.
He married Sarah, daughter of Roger Os- borne, of Halstead, county Kent, England. Children : William, buried at High Ongar, Au- gust 28, 1615: Phillis, baptized September 12, 1611: Richard, baptized July 18, 1613. died young : William, baptized September 8, 1616; Richard. baptized February 24, 1617: Sarah. baptized February 6, 1620; Anne, baptized April 12, 1621. died young ; John. mentioned below : Robert, born September. 1620.
(XXV) Lieutenant John Lyman, son of Richard Lyman, was born in High Ongar. England, and baptized in 1623. He came to New England with his parents and married Dorcas, daughter of John Plumb, of Bran-
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ford, Connecticut. Soon afterwards, in 1054. he removed to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he lived the remainder of his life. Ile was in command of the Northampton sol- diers in the Falls fight above Deerfield, May 18, 1676. The American House, which was burned about 1870, stood in front of his house lot. He died August 20, 1690, aged sixty- seven years, and his gravestone is still stand- ing. Children: Elizabeth, born at Branford. November 6, 1655; Sarah, at Northampton. November 11, 1658; Lieutenant John, August 1, 1660; Moses, mentioned below ; Dorothy. June 8. 1665; Mary. January 2, 1668; Experi- ence, Jantary 8. 1670, died young : Joseph, February 17, 1671, died 1092; Benjamin, Au- gust, 1674; Caleb, September 2, 1678.
(XXVI) Moses, son of Lieutenant John Ly- man, was born in Northampton, Massachu- setts, February 20. 1662-63. died February 25. 1701. He married Ann , said to have been from Long Island. His widow married (second) Jonathan Rust. Children: Ann. born April 3. 1686, died yonng ; Moses, men- tioned below; Hannah, April 2, 1692, died young : Martha. June 5. 1694. died young : Martha. September, 1095: Bethia. April 23. 1698: Sarah, January 20, 1700, died young : Elias, February, 1701, died young.
(XXVII) Captain Moses Lyman, son of Moses Lyman, was born February 27. 1689. died March 4, 1762. He married, December 13. 1712, Mindwell Sheldon, who died May 23. 1780, aged eighty-eight. Children: Deacon Moses, mentioned below : Elias, born Septen- ber 30. 1715: Theodosia, 1717, died young ; Phebe, August 20. 1719: Noah, May 25, 1722 : Rev. Isaac, February 25. 1725; Simeon ; Han- nah, March 31. 1731: Seth, lived in New York state; Job, born September 21, 1734. was graduated from Yale College in 1756.
(XXVIII) Deacon Moses Lyman, son of Captain Moses Lyman, was born October 2. 1713. died January 6, 1768. He removed to Goshen in the fall of 1739 and built a log house. Afterward he built a frame house and later the brick house occupied by his son Moses and grandson Moses. The homestead was on Town Hill. He was tax collector and treasurer of Guilford in 1739, tithingman in 1743. grand juror in 1744, member of a com- mittee to settle with the new minister in 1746, elected deacon in 1759 and served until he died. He was for many years a magistrate and he represented Guilford in the general
assembly for fourteen sessions. He was an exemplary citizen, religious, industrious, lib- cral in charity, of sound judgment and a peace- maker in the community. He married, March 24, 1742, Sarah llayden, born September 17, 1716, died at Goshen, August 27, 1808. Chil- Iren, born at Goshen: Colonel Moses, men- tioned below : Sarah, September 29, 1744, mar- ried Rev. Daniel Collins; Anne, March 1, 1746; Samuel, January 25, 1749; Hannah. June 25, 1751: Esther, September 16. 1754: Phebe, December 29, 1750.
( XXIX ) Colonel Moses Lyman, son of Dea- con Moses Lyman, was born at Guilford. March 20, 1743. died there September 29, 1829. He was in the militia at an early age and held every office from corporal to colonel in succession. During the revolution he was frequently in the army. He was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was com- mander of troops, October 7, 1777, detailed to watch Burgoyne, and was the first to inform General Gates that the British camp was de- serted. In acknowledgment of his service he was given the duty of conveying to Washing- ton in person the intelligence of the victory at Saratoga. He had command of the guard over Major Andre during his imprisonment. He held many town offices. He lived on the homestead and followed farming. He mar- ried (first ) Ruth, daughter of William Col- lins, of Guilford. She died June 8, 1775, and his mother cared for the children for twelve years. He married (second ) the widow of Jesse Judd, daughter of Captain Jonathan Buell, of Goshen. She died October 7, 1835. Children by first wife, born in Goshen : Moses. mentioned below : Daniel, June 11, 1769: Sam- uel, July 23. 1770; Erastus. November 1. 1773. Children by second wife: Mary, June 27, 1787 : Darius, July 19, 1789.
(XXX) Colonel Moses Lyman, son of Col- onel Moses Lyman, was born at Goshen. April 16, 1768, died there May 22, 1844. He was one of the foremost citizens, of old school manners and superior abilities. He was in partnership with Elihu Lewis, of Goshen, from 1793 to 1797, and afterward with his brother. Erastus Lyman, tintil 1827, when they dis- solved the firm, and afterward each partner cultivated his own farm. He was honored with nearly all the town offices and represented Goshen many years in the general assembly. He was also a magistrate. He married, Janu- ary 21. 1796. Elizabeth, daughter of Tra Buell.
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of Milton Society, Litchfield, Children: Lu- cretia, born February 13, 1801, married, Janu- ary 18, 1820, Caleb Day, of Catskill, New York; Moses, mentioned below.
(XXXI) Moses Lyman, son of Colonel Moses Lyman, was born at Goshen, October 1, 1810. He was a merchant and manufac- turer at Goshen. He married, May 6, 1834. Mary Ann Holley, of Salisbury, Connecticut. Children : 1. Moses, born at Goshen, August 20, 1836; married, December 31, 1863, Ellen A., daughter of Edwin A. Douglass, of Mauch Chunk, at Windsor Locks, Connecticut ; lived at Waverly ; he graduated from Brown Uni- versity in 1858, served in the civil war in the Fifteenth Vermont Regiment, 1802-63 ; children : Moses, born July 17, 1865, who is entitled to membership in the Society of the Cincinnati; Isabel, March 2, 1867; Harriet Deyton, July 27, 1870. 2. Mary, born Au- gust 15, 1839; married Philip Wells, of Brat- tleboro, Vermont, and lives at Amenia, New York. 3. Alice, born May 15, 1845; married Josephi Theodore Sawyer ( see Sawyer VI). 4. Richard, born June 27. 1848, died December 24, 1851. 5. Holley Porter, January 22, 1855. died December 5, 1865, from injuries from a fall from his horse.
BREWER The emigrant ancestor of the Brewer generations, settling in Boston. Roxbury, and Spring- field, Massachusetts, came to New England in 1624. In 1642 a Thomas Brewer was of Ips- wich, and in 1652 a Thomas Brewer of Lynn, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth Graves. This may have been the same Thomas whom Hinman says "perhaps" a brother of Daniel Brewer ( Ist). Me that as it may, Thomas Brewer, of Lynn, Massachusetts, the ancestor of the branch herein recorded, married. De- cember 4. 1652, Elizabeth Graves. Children : Mary Rebecca: Mary; Thomas ; Crispus, "by vote of the town had leave to sit in the pulpit on Sundays"; and John.
(II) Thomas (2). son of Thomas (1) and Elizabeth (Graves) Brewer, was living in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1672, being then four- teen years of age, which would make his birth year 1658. He removed from Massachusetts to Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he mar- ried Sarah July 13. 1682. Children : Mary, born July 28. 1684; Thomas, February 17. 1687 : Hezekiah. February 23, 1690; Sarah, December 9. 1692: Joseph, March 20, 1605:
Benjamin, August 13, 1697; Daniel, March 25, 1699; Lydia, July 27, 1701; "Aome" or "Naomi," September 28, 1703; Alexander, of further mention.
( III) Alexander, youngest child of Thomas (2) and Sarah Brewer, was born in Glaston- bury, Connecticut, October 5. 1706. He con- tinued his residence there throughout life, he married Thankful Children : Thomas, Hezekiahı, Joseph, Benjamin, Daniel, of whom further : Mary, Sarah Goodale, Lydia Love- land, and Amy Porter. "Alexander Brewer died 1750, and left a widow Thankful."
( IV) Daniel, son of Alexander and Thank- ful Brewer, was born in Glastonbury, Connec- ticut, 1738: died November 4, 1823. He re- sided at Hartford and East Hartford, Con- necticut : married Sarah -, born 1737: died October 10. 18II.
(\) Joseph, son of Daniel and Sarah Brewer, was born in Connecticut, near Hart- ford, March 27, 1783; died in Cortland, New York, July 8, 1846. He was the founder of the family in Cortland, where he settled in the year 1820. He was well versed in all the details of factory and mill machinery. having worked along that line in New Eng- land. In Cortland he was in charge of mills manufacturing paper. This enterprise was started by Nelson Spencer, of Hartford, Con- necticut, who purchased the ground at Port Watson, in the town of Cortlandville, erected the buildings, and founded a large business. It was probably through his previous acquaint- ance with Mr. Spencer in Hartford that Jo- seph Brewer was induced to remove to Cort- land and take charge of the paper plant. The mill passed into other hands in 1832, when Spencer failed, and was sold and resold until in 1881 it was purchased by Cooper Brothers and converted into a foundry and machine shop. Joseph Brewer married, in Connecticut. March 30, 1808, Jemima, born January 6. 1781. died August 26, 1834, daughter of Tim- othy Forbes. Children: Henry, of whom fur- ther ; Huldah, born December 29, 1810: Sarah. November 15, 1812; Horace, August 13. 1816, died December II. 1881 : Mary, born Septem- ber 16. 1818: Stephen, January 13; 1822.
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