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He married. in 1835, in Speedsville, New York, Susan M., daughter of William Leet. Children : Almanza D .: William H., men- tioned below: Hiram L .; Edwin and Edgar, twins: Demornia .A., born October 27. 1845 ; Gorton F., born February 9, 1849.
(\') William Henry, son of Alexander Dunbar Ellis, was born in Smithboro, New York, August 3, 1837. died in Owego, New York, May 7. 1911. He came to Owego with his parents in 1842, and received his education in the public schools there. He was employed as a young man as clerk in the store of Charles and Prentice Ransom, and worked there until 1857 when the business
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was discontinued. He then became clerk in Ezra Warren Reeve's news office. After a few years here he began studying law in the office of Farrington & Parker. Later he served a year as a salesman in G. B. Good- rich & Company's dry goods store. For a few months after this he was employed as clerk in the Erie railway freight office. In 1859 he returned to the employ of G. B. Goodrich & Company, and worked for them as salesman until 1864. In this year he was made a partner in the firm, and general man- ager of the business, which was established in 1810 by Major Horatio Ross, whom Char- les Talcott, his former clerk, succeeded. In 1831 George B. Goodrich, a nephew of Mr. Talcott's, became his partner, and the firm remained under the name of G. B. Goodrich & Company until the death of Mr. Talcott in 1861. Mr. Ellis married a daughter of Mr. Goodrich's, and after the death of his father-in-law in January, 1886. he and Mr. Goodrich's son, James W. Goodrich, who had also been a partner in the firm since 1804. contintied in the business.
Mr. Ellis was very active in village affairs, and from 1891 to 1903 was a member of the board of school commissioners. He was a vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church al- most continually from 1861, and was one of the wardens of the church. For several years he was a director of the First National Bank of Owego, and he was vice-president at the time of his deathı.
He married, October 15, 1861, Sarah Tal- cott Goodrich, daughter of George B. and Saralı (Talcott) Goodrich. She was born December 29, 1841, in Owego, New York. Children : George. died in infancy ; James, died in infancy ; Charlotte, born 1872; Charles Talcott, born 1876, is in office of Schmidt & Gallatin, brokers, New York; William Goodrich, mentioned below.
(VI) William Goodrich, son of William Henry Ellis, was born in Owego, New York, February 8, 1882. He was educated in the public schools of Owego and studied law in Cornell University, from which he was gradu- ated in 1905, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He has practiced since 1905 in Owego under the firm name of Andrews & Ellis. He is a member of Friendship Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, and of Jerusalem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. In religion he is a member of the Episcopal church. He is
a Republican and now ( 1912) is a member of the school board of Owego.
Ile married, November 27, 1907, Drusilla, daughter of Albert C. and Rose ( Snedeker ) Burt. Child : John Talcott, born May 7, 1910.
BRADLEY The first Bradleys are said to have come from the mar- ket town of Bingley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about twelve miles northeast of Leeds, on the River Aire. The town of Bradley was about six or seven miles to the north. The name is Anglo-Saxon, meaning a broad field or pasture. The father of the American pioneers of the family is not known, nor is the name of his first wife. His second wife, Elizabeth, came to America with the children. Later she married ( sec- ond) John Parmalee, who died November 8, 1659, and she married (third) May 27, 1663. John Evarts, who died May 10, 1669. She died in January, 1683. Both her husbands in America were of Guilford, Connecticut. She is said to have come over in 1648. Chil- dren: 1. William, of New Haven, born in England about 1620, died 1680; married, at New Haven, Connecticut, February 18, 1645, Alice, daughter of Roger Pritchard, of Springfield, Massachusetts; she died in 1692; he was ancestor of most of the Connecticut Bradleys. 2. Daniel. 3. Joshua, of New Haven. 4. Ellen, married John Allin. 5. Nathan, born 1638. 6. Stephen, mentioned below.
(II) Stephen, son of Elizabeth Bradley, was born in England in 1642. In 1660 he settled in Guilford, Connecticut, and died there January 20, 1702. Children : Stephen ; Abraham, mentioned below.
(III) Abraham, son of Stephen Bradley, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, May 13. 1675, died April 20, 1721. He married Jane, daughter of Christopher Leaming, of Long Island. Children, born at Guilford: Abra- ham, mentioned below ; David, died in Salis- bury, Connecticut, 1774: Joseph, died in Guil- ford, 1799.
(IV) Abraham (2), son of Abraham ( 1) Bradley, was born in Guilford, Connecticut. July 26, 1702, died in 1771. In 1723 he was graduated from Yale College, and after this he lived in his native town until about 1750. During this time he taught the grammar school, at a salary of forty dollars a year,
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with the exception of a few interruptions of a year or two at a time. His wife died in 1757, and at that time he is said to have moved to Litchfield, Connecticut. He mar- ried Reliance Stone, born in Guilford, Sep- tember 24, 1712, died April 1, 1757, daugh- ter of William Stone. Children: Abraham, born December 11, 1731 ; Leaming, mentioned below; Peleg; Phineas.
(\) Leaming, son of Abraham (2) Brad- ley, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, June II, 1737, died at Bantam, formerly Bradley- ville, Litchfield county, Connecticut, Decem- ber 20. 1820. He married, November 15, 1759, Anna Miller, widow of Seth Miller. Children : Lucretia, born 1761, married ( first ) Truman Bishop, ( second) David Stoddard ; Captain Aaron, mentioned below; Dr. Com- fort, born 1766, died August 21, 1880; Lucy, born 1767, married Jacob Kelborn; Joseph. born 1770; Anna, married Levi Kelborn.
(VI) Captain Aaron Bradley, son of Leam- ing Bradley, was born at Bantam, Connecti- cut, August 27, 1762, died October 24, 1843. He married Loren, born in 1769, died January 4. 1844, daughter of Dr. Abernathy, of Har- wington, Connecticut. She was of Scottish descent. Children : Leaming, born in 1799, died July 16, 1819; Anne, married Henry Wadsworth; Maria, married William Coe : Horace, mentioned below.
(VII) Horace, son of Captain Aaron Bradley, was born in Bantam, Connecticut. died in Guilford, New York, 1847. He was a farmer, and also had a tavern in Bantam, where most of his life was spent. His father and grandfather had both been active in town affairs in Bantam, which had been called Bradleyville, and he also was among the prominent men of the town. He married Hannah Twichell. born in 1791, died August 18. 1844.
Children : 1. Leaming. married Mary Simonds and had several sons. 2. Freder- ick Abernathy, born October 10, 1810: married Nancy, daughter of Thomas Welton. of Waterbury, Connecticut. 3. Augustus, born 1812, died 1890; married Julia Clemens and had four girls and one son. 4. Henry. 5. Julia Anne, born 1814, died June, 1894; mar- ried Asa Sheppard. 6. John, born 1817, died 1903, at Bangor, Illinois. 7. Edward S .. mentioned below. 8. Aaron, married (first) Harriet Hayes, (second) Catherine Bolls, (third) Mrs. Philena Reynolds. 9. Clark,
born 1832; married Harriet Godfrey. 10. Amelia, born 1834: married ( first) D. D. Beebe, (second) Seth Phillips.
(VIII) Edward S., son of Horace Brad- ley, was born in Bantam, Connecticut, Decen- ber 1, 1819. died in Guilford, New York, January 31, 1884. He received a public school education in Bantam, where he spent his early life, and learned the trade of a cab- inetmaker.
When he was about twenty-three years of age he came to New York state, set- tling in Guilford, where he resided the re- mainder of his life. For some years he con- ducted a farm, and during the later years of life he had a large business in country prod- ucts such as butter and cheese, and kept up active work in this until his death. In poli- tics he was a Democrat. For many years he was a vestryman in Christ's Church in Guil- ford.
He married (first ) Flora Dickinson. He married ( second ) Esther C. Smith, born March 21, 1828, and now lives with her son, Dr. Allen Erastus Bradley. She was daugh- ter of Erastus P. Smith. Child of first wife : Edward, married Louise Reed, and they have a daughter, Blanche. Child of second wife: Allen Erastus, mentioned below.
(IX) Dr. Allen Erastus Bradley, son of Edward S. Bradley, was born in Guilford. New York. January 10, 1861. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town. He studied his profession of dentistry in the University of Pennsyl- vania and received his degree there in 1882. In the same year he located in Norwich, New York, and he has practiced his profession there to the present time. He is a communi- cant of the Protestant Episcopal church. In Free Masonry he has attained the highest degree, the thirty-third. Scottish Rite, and is one of the best known Masons in the state. He is a member of Norwich Lodge, No. 302 : of Harmony Chapter. No. 151. Royal Arch Masons; Royal and Select Masters; Norwich Commandery, No. 216. Knights Templar : Chenango Consistory. No. 31, Supreme Princes of the Royal Secret. In politics he is a Democrat.
He married, April 22, 1896. Dora Elizabeth Maxson, of West Burlington, New York. daughter of Levi and Cordelia Maxson. They have had one child, Edward Maxson Brad- ley, who died in infancy.
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STANTON The surname Stanton is de- rived from a place name, and is identical with Stonington in origin. The family is of ancient English origin. Robert Stanton, an early settler of Newport, Rhode Island, was the progenitor of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, of Lincoln's cabi- net ; he died in Newport, in 1672, aged sev- enty-three years. There was a John Stan- ton in Virginia in 1635, and Thomas Stanton, aged twenty, sailed for Virginia in the mer- chantman "Bonaventura." The family histo- rian thinks he went to Virginia, then came to Connecticut. But many ships whose records state that Virginia was the destination, came to New England. The "Bonaventura" may have landed some passengers in Virginia. others in Connecticut, or Boston.
(I) Thomas Stanton. the immigrant an- cestor, was in Boston in 1636, and is on rec- ord as a magistrate there. If the same man came in 1635, his age must have been under- stated, for men of twenty-one were not mag- istrates in the colony. In 1630 he was act- ing as Indian interpreter for Governor Win- throp. It is reasonable to suppose that he was a trader, and had been both to New Eng- land and Virginia before 1635, in order to have sufficient knowledge of the language of the Indians to become an interpreter. His services as interpreter during the Pequot War were invaluable, according to an historian of New London. He served through the above mentioned war, and special mention is made of his bravery in the battle of Fair- field Swamp, where he nearly lost his life. He must have returned to Boston at the close of the war, for he was one of the magistrates in the trial of John Wainwright, October 3. 1636. In February, 1639, he and his father- in-law. Thomas Lord, were settled in Hart- ford, Connecticut, coming thither soon after the colony of Rev. Thomas Hooker, who es- tablished the town. He was appointed offi- cial interpreter for the general court at Hart- ford, April 5. 1638, and at the same session was sent with others on a mission to the War- ranocke Indians and as a delegate to an In- dian-English council meeting at Hartford. He was interpreter for the Yorkshire (Eng- land) colonists at New Haven. November 24, 1638, when the land on which the city of New Haven is located was bought of the Indians. He was an Indian trader as early as 1642. when with his brother-in-law, Richard Lord,
he made a voyage to Long Island to trade and collect old debts. That he traded as far away as Virginia we know from an ancient docu- ment on file in New Haven colony, without date, but apparently entered in 1668 or 1669. He had the grant of a monopoly of trading with the Indians at Pawcatuck and along the river of that name. IIe built a trading house there, and about 1651 removed to Pequot, and in 1658 occupied his permanent residence at Stonington. In 1650 the general court ap- pointed him interpreter to the elders, who re- quired him to preach the gospel to the Indians at least twice a year. Hle sold his grant of 1649 to George Tongue in 1656. In March, 1052, he received 500 acres on the river, adjoining his home lot, and in 1659 Cassawashitt deeded to him the whole of Pawcatuck Neck and the small islands that lay near to it, known as "The Hommocks." This deed was confirmed by the court, 1671. He was elected a deputy magistrate by the general court, May 15, 1651. He was appointed with Rev. Mr. Pierson, of New Haven, to prepare a catechism in the Narragansett or Pequot language for the commissioners of the United Colonies, but Mr. Pierson's removal pre- vented the undertaking. In 1658 he removed to Wequetequock Cove, two miles and a half east of Stonington, where he was the third settler : it was then called Southington, Mas- sachusetts, and part of Suffolk county. In 1658 he was appointed one of the managers. His farm was on the east side of the Pawka- tuck river, near its month. In 1664 he was a commissioner to try small causes, and in 1665 had authority to hold a semi-annual court at New London. In 1666 he was re- elected commissioner or county judge; also overseer-general of the Coassatuck Indians ; also a commissioner of appeals in Indian af- fairs, and he was successively re-elected com- missioner until his death in 1677. He was a member of the general assembly in 1666, and was elected in succeeding years without inter- ruption until 1674. In 1667 he was granted 250 acres on the Pachaug river, and the same year he was called upon to settle threatening trouble between Uncas and the Niantic tribe. Almost constantly he was engaged in the pub- lic service, especially in the discharge of the duties of his office as Indian commissioner. He and his sons were active in King Philip's war, and all of his sons were useful and prominent as Indian interpreters and peace-
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makers. He was one of the founders of the church at Stonington, June 3, 1674, and his name was the first on the roll. He died De- cember 2, 1677, and was buried in the family burial ground between Stonington and Wes- terly. He married Ann, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Dorothy Lord, born 1621, in England. Her father was the first physician licensed to practice in Connecticut by the gen- eral court, June 30, 1652, and the rates he could charge for visits in Hartford, Wethers- field, Windsor and other towns in this section were fixed in the license, a salary of fifteen pounds to be paid by the county. In Hart- ford his stipend fixed at twelve pence, about a quarter of a dollar! Thomas Stanton's wife survived him, and spent her last days with her daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Noyse, of Ston- ington, where she died, 1688.
The Lord coat-of-arms is described as fol- lows: Argent on a fess gules between three cinque foils azure a hind passant between two pheons or. The original home of Thomas Stanton at Hartford is now occupied by the. Jewell Leather Belting Company factory. Children: Thomas, born 1638; John, men- tioned below; Mary, 1643; Hannah, 1644; Joseph, 1646; Daniel, 1648; Dorothy, 1651 ; Robert, 1653; Sarah, 1655; Samuel, 1657.
(II) John, son of Thomas Stanton, was born in 1641, in Hartford, and died in Ston- ington, October 31, 1713. He was a pupil of the famous old school teacher of the Puritans. Elijah Corlet. In 1654 he and John Minor. son of Thomas Minor, were selected by the court of commissioners to be educated for teachers of the gospel to the Indians. Both young men ultimately left their studies and engaged in other pursuits. In 1664 John Stanton became the first recorder of the town of Southertown, now Stonington. February 18, 1675, he was commissioned captain in one of the four Connecticut regiments in King Philip's war. He served with distinction in the war, and was in command at the time of the capture of Canonchet, the chief sachem of the Narragansetts. This service was ac- knowledged by the court by the remittance of a fine imposed in 1675. May 10, 1710, a deed of trust was executed in favor of Cap- tain Stanton and four others, by which the eastern part of the Mohegan lands was for- ever settled on the Mohegan tribe, under the regulation of the said five and their succes- sors. A few years before his death he di-
vided his real estate among his sons by deed, and in his will, dated 1713. he confirmed these gitts of land. The homestead farm, on the banks of the Mystic river, comprised about three hundred acres and the site of his man- sion is still to be seen. The lands are still in possession of a descendant. He married, 1664, Hannah, daughter or sister of Rev. William Thompson Jr., whose father was Rev. William Thompson. of Braintree, Mas- sachusetts. The younger William was ap- pointed in 1657 to be a missionary to the Pe- quots. He lived in Stonington and New Lon- don until 1663, when he removed to Surry county, Virginia. It is supposed that he re- turned and died in Stonington, where his grave is in the old burial ground at Wickete- quack Cove. Children: John. born May 22, 1665: Joseph. mentioned below: Thomas, April, 1670: Ann. October 1. 1673: died March 23. 1680: Theophilus, June 16, 1676; Dorothy, 1680.
(III) Joseph, son of John Stanton, was born June 22, 1688. and died in 1751. He left no will, and his estate was divided among his three sons and four daughters. He mar- ried, July 18, 1696, Margaret, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah ( Denison) Chesebro. He inherited the Stanton homestead farm from his father, and lived there all his life. Children: Hannah, born December 15. 1698: Margaret, October 17. 1701 : Zerviah, Sep- tember 24, 1704; Sarah, February 22, 1706: Anna. August 6. 1708: Dorothy, born and died in July, 1710: Joseph. mentioned below : John. September 29. 1714: Nathaniel, July 29, 1716.
(IV) Lieutenant Joseph (2) Stanton, son of Joseph ( 1) Stanton, was born May 1. 1712. and married. November 6. 1735. Anna Whee- ler, of Stonington, born December 24, 1715. died October 20. 1799. They lived in Stoning- ton, where he died March 14. 1773. Children : Hannah, born August 8. 1736: Joseph, men- tioned below: Margaret, November 3, 1741 ; Isaac Wheeler, January 14. 1744; William. March 5. 1745: Anna. February 23, 1747: Nathan, December 15. 1749: Eunice, Novem- ber 12. 1751 : Martha. August 28, 1756: Dor- othy. January 21, 1760.
(V) Joseph (3), son of Lieutenant Joseph (2) Stanton, was born May 31. 1739. in Ston- ington, married Hannah Chesebro, who died in Groton, Connecticut, 1835. They lived in Groton, where he died, 1832. Children, born
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in Groton : John, July 25, 1070; Joseph, May 11, 1709; Anna, August 13, 1771, died April 3, 1779; Amos, mentioned below ; Desire, June 10, 1775: Joshua, April 1, 1777, died March 28, 1779: Anna, May 2, 1779; Joshua C., June 1, 1781; llannah, May 22, 1783; Mary, July 4. 1785: Robert, May 6, 1787.
(VI) Amos, son of Joseph (3) Stanton, was born in Groton, June 10, 1773, and mar- ried. December 13, 1795, Sabra Palmer, of Edmeston, Otsego county, New York, born July 6, 1774, died February 25, 1859. He was a farmer by occupation, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died April 24, 1856, in Otselic, Chenango county, New York. Children: Sabra, born September 24. 1796; Amos C., mentioned below ; Corren P .. December 10, 1799; Edward A., April 8. 1804; Warren P., May 22, 1806; Gilbert, May 29, 1808.
(VII) Amos C., son of Amos Stanton, was born in Otselic, May 7, 1798, and died June 10, 1840. He married, February, 1818, Han- nah Burdick : ( second ) Azubah Duncan, born August 10, 1795, died January 28, 1874. He was a farmer by occupation, a Methodist in religion, and a Whig in politics. Children : Samuel B., born January 19, 1818; llarrison Al., December 20, 1832: Sally ; Albert C., mentioned below.
(VIII) Albert C. Stanton, son of Amos C. Stanton, was born July 30, 1835, in Otselic. died January 18, 1901. He married, January 29. 1853. Susan Brown, of Georgetown, New York, born March 30, 1837, died January 21. 1907. They lived in the latter town, where he was a farmer. He was a justice of the peace, and a Republican in politics. In re- ligion he was a Methodist. Children : Mary E., born December 21. 1853, married, 1872, Harvey E. Priest, born September 6. 1852; children: Lilian E., born October 1, 1873: Earl Stanton. August 15, 1876, died January 4. 1908. 2. Minna B., October 26, 1864; married, January 19, 1888, Charles E. Thompson, of Elmira and Cortland, New York. ( See Thompson. )
This family is one of the most
POTTER ancient and America. No less than eleven numerous in different immigrants of the name came to New England during the seventeenth cen- tury. They were Anthony Potter, of Ips- wich, Massachusetts; George, of Portsmouth,
Rhode Island: George, of Lancaster, Eng land ; Ichabod, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island : John and William. of New Haven, Connecti- cut ; Martin, of South Shields, England ; Mar- tin. of Philadelphia; Nathaniel, of Ports- mouth, Rhode Island; Nicholas, of Lynn. Massachusetts; Robert, of Warwick, Rhode Island.
So far as known none of the immi grants was related to any other, though it is conjectured that the Rhode Island settlers, George, Nathaniel and Robert, might possibly be connected. The family has included many noted ecclesiastics and professional men of all classes. The records of Yale, Harvard and other New England colleges show many of the names among graduates.
(1) Nathaniel Potter, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, was born in England and set- tled before 1638 on the Island of AAquidneck. which is now Rhode Island, where he was admitted an inhabitant in 1638. With twenty- eight others he signed the compact for the government of the colony. April 30. 1639. He died before 1044, leaving a wife, Dorothy, born 1617, who survived him about fifty-two years, dying in 1096. She married ( second ) J. Albro.
(11) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (t) and Dorothy Potter, was born in England. He came with his parents to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, settling in manhood at Dart- mouth, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a freeman in 1077. He died between Octo- ber 18, and November 20, 1704, the respective dates of making and proving his will, which instrument made his widow and son, Stokes. executors, and his friends, James Tripp and Hugh Mosher, overseers. To this son he left one-half the land on the north side of the road and other property. Children: Nathan- iel, born about 1640 in Portsmouth, died Oc- tober 20, 1704; Ichabod. mentioned below : Stokes, born at Dartmouth.
(Ill) Ichabod, second son of Nathaniel ( 2) Potter, was born about 1677, perhaps in Portsmouth, and died in 1755, at Dartmouth. He had wife, Eleanor. His will made March 15, 1754, and proved November 4. 1755. dis- posed of thirteen geese, one ox, two heiters. three cows and other stock, and bequeathed his homestead to his sons, Jonathan and Icha- bod. To his wife he gave the household goods, a sum of money, a cow and the privi- leges of the homestead. Children : Rebecca.
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George, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Stokes, Ichabod, Sarahı.
(1\') Jonathan, second son of Ichabod and Eleanor Potter, was born November 14. 1716, in Dartmouth, and inherited from his father a part of the paternal homestead on which he dwelt. He married, September 28, 1740, Rebecca, daughter of John Southward. Chil- dren : Peleg, Wesson, Preston, Lucy, Sarah, Jonathan, Thomas, Philip.
(\') Peleg, eldest child of Jonathan and Rebecca (Southward) Potter, was born about 1742. He resided in Dartmouth, where he died at the age of eighty-three years. The Massachusetts revolutionary rolls show that he was a seaman on the brigantine "Hazard," Captain Simeon Samson; entry, December 25, 1777; dismissed, March 8, 1778; served two months and thirteen days. He married, March 12, 1761, Theodate Tripp, who died at the age of seventy-three years. Children : Noah, Pardon, Benjamin, Southward, Ste- phen, Betsy, Rebecca, Cynthia, Theodate, Charlotte.
(VI) Benjamin, third son of Peleg and Theodate (Tripp) Potter, was born Septem- ber 22, 1764, in Dartmouth. He was an early settler at Pompey, New York, where he re- mained until his death. He married Amy Manchester, of Rhode Island, and had chil- dren : Elizabeth, Charlotte, Henry H., Brad- ford A., Peleg, Dr. Stephen M., Theodate. Hiram, Southward, Noah, Harvey, Merritt M., Julia Ann.
( VII) Bradford A., second son of Benja- min and Amy (Manchester) Potter, was born March 29, 1793, in Pompey. He resided in Corning. New York, where he died in 1855. He was a lumber merchant, and served as captain of a company in the war of 1812. He was a Whig in politics, and an attendant of the Presbyterian church. He married Sally A. Foster, who survived him nearly thirty years, dying in 1884, in Elmira, New York. They had three sons who grew to maturity, and a daughter Sally A. The second son, Albert M., located in Galveston, Texas, where he died. The third, Cranston S., resided in Corning, New York, through most of his life, and died at Elmira.
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