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(\11) Calvin, son of Nathaniel Putnam, was born in Wilton. New Hampshire, June 8. 1782, died in Truxton. New York, May 9. 1857. 1Fe married (first) Chloe Chapin, who died August 22. 1818, aged thirty-six years : (second) Amy Clark, who died July 10, 1875. Children by first wife: 1. Abigail S .. born at Ileath, New Hampshire. in 1804. died in Ohio. 2. Eliphalet Fox, May 24. 1807. died March 11. 1882: married ( first ). May 12. 1834. Persis K. Buell : no children: (second ) in 1837. Betsey Freeman Buell. a sister of for- mer wife : children : Kendrick W .. born Septem-
ber 29, 1838, died February 10, 1839: Ken- drick S., March 1, 1840, a resident of Rome. New York: Persis K., May 13, 1842, died March 27, 1867; Cassius M., August 14, 1845. died January 23, 1846; Cassius B., May 1. 1847, died December 7, 1866; married (third), July 4, 1857. Jane Conklin : by third wife. Frederick H., born January 30, 1860. 3. Chloe Ann, born July, 1818, died February 27. 1819. Children by second wife: 4. Clark - S., born in 1819. died in March, 1865. in France. 5. Harlow C., born in August. 1822. died March 18. 1888. 6. Abigail Snow, born September 20. 1825, died August 20. : 898: married Rufus H. Chapin. 7. William Wal- lace, mentioned below. 8. Orlando M., bom June 3, 1831, died July 1, 1883. 9. Mary E., born in 1833, died in 1840. 10. Persis born in November, 1836, died young. 11.
Susan O., born in 1839. died in May, 1880.
(VIII) William Wallace, son of Calvin Putnam, was born in Truxton, New York, April 5, 1828, died there in the same house in which he was born, April 10, 1896. He married. October 6. 1852. Philinda Pierce, born April 23. 1829. died April 2. 1891, daugh- ter of Judah and Polly Pierce. Children, born at Truxton : Frederick Wallace, mentioned below : John P., born September 4, 1860, died August 19, 1878.
( IX) Dr. Frederick W. Putnam, son of William Wallace Putnam, was born in Trux- ton, New York, October 12. 1856. He at- tended the public schools of his native town and Homer Academy, from which he gradu- ated in 1876. He began the study of medi- cine in the office of Dr. H. C. Hendrick, of McGrawville, New York, and afterward took the regular course at the University Medical College of the City of New York. He gradu- ated in 1880, and at once began practice at Binghamton, New York, where he has since resided and continued activity in practice. He is a member of the Broome County Medical resided and continued actively in practice. He is also a member of the Binghamton Academy of Medicine, and of the New York State Med- ical Association, of which he was vice-presi- dent in 1894. From 1882 to 1884 he was school commissioner of the city of Bingham- ton. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Presbyterian.
Dr. Putnam is very active in the Masonic fraternity, having attained the thirty-third degree. He is a past high priest of Binghanı-
Frederick Dr. Pulliam.
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ton Chapter, No. 139. Royal Arch Masons : a past master of the Cryptic Rite; a past com- mander of Malta Commandery, No. 21, Knights Templar ; past commander-in-chief of the Consistory ; and is also past patron of (t- seningo Chapter, No. 14. Order of the Eastern Star. For the past fourteen years he has written the reviews in the Grand Chapter of the State. Dr. Putnam is an enthusiast in the collection of antiquities. In June, 1908, Ham- ilton College conferred upon him the honor- ary degree of Master of Arts. His library contains nearly ten thousand volumes, including many rare copies, some of which cannot be duplicated : two thousand volumes relate to Masonry and kindred orders; in this part of the collection are a large number of scarce items and a few of excessive rarity. One book appears to be the only one in this coun- try, and of another English title, only two others of which are known on this side of the Atlantic. He has an excellent collection of titles relating to Ilamilton College, among which may be mentioned several very rare pamphlets, a few of which are not owned by the college; manuscript sermons by Dr. Hall of the class of 1820. Albert Barnes, the great Bible commentator, president Hen- ry Davis, and the baccalaureate sermon in manuscript by President Samuel W. Fischer to the class of 1865. There are also autograph letters by the Hon. Ger- rit Smith, Hon. Lewis Cass, Daniel Hunt- ington, Charles Dudley Warner. Daniel S. Dickinson and others. He has numerous scrapbooks containing much that is valuable, and a multitude of manuscripts of great in- terest to the antiquarian. His collection of titles relating to Alexander Hamilton is very complete, beginning with 1784, and among which are the following: first, Observations on Certain Documents Contained in the His- tory of the United States for 1796 (a copy of the so-called suppressed edition ) ; second. "The Hamiltoniad," September, 1804: third, Caleneatis' collections in 1804, on the death of Hamilton : fourth, Letters to A. Hamilton ; fifth, Propositions of Hamilton in the conven- tion for establishing a constitutional govern- ment for the United States in 1802; sixth, Eulogy on Hamilton by H. G. Otis in 1804: seventh, Discourse on Hamilton by Eliphalet Nott in 1804; eighth, Oration on Hamilton by J. M. Mason, D. D., 1804 : ninth, Letters from Hamilton concerning public conduct of John
Adams in 1800; tenth, Reply to above by a citizen of New York in 1800; eleventh, Letter to Hamilton, occasioned by his letter to Presi- dent Adams : twelfth, Letters in reply to "l'a- cificus" on the President's proclamation of neutrality ; thirteenth, American Dialogues of the Dead, Washington Hamilton and Amase, in 1814: fourteenth, Autograph letter by Hamilton, dated December 21, 1791, and one in third person by Mrs. Hamilton.
The collection includes an interesting vol- ume of manuscript of date of 1783, bound in vellum called a "Virginia Crop Book"; this is filled with data relating to the age and local- ity. Another interesting sample is a complete file of the early Paine political pamphlets in originals.
Dr. Putnam's library includes two hundred volumes from the Roycroft Press, many of which are embellished in the beautiful hand work for which that press is noted, and many samples from the Mosher, Caxton, Torch, Ballantyne, Elston, Chiswick, and the cele- brated Kelmscott Press. He has a very com- plete file of Boston Artillery sermons from 1751 to date, in originals, and a very credit- able collection of Boston Fourth of July ora- tions for over a century, and a complete file of the March 5th orations, from 1770 to 1783. There is a fair collection on Mormonism, with a copy of the third edition of the Book of Mormons, 1840. Another example is the ex- tremely rare New England Primer with the woodcut of Hancock. He has nearly two hundred sermons and orations on the death of Lincoln.
Dr. Putnam married, March 18, 1880, at Newark Valley, New York, M. Elizabeth Tubbs, born July 29, 1858, at Prescott, Wis- consin, daughter of Moses N. and Juliette D. Tubbs. Moses N. Tubbs was a photographer, and followed his calling many years at Pres- cott, and later at various places in the state of New York, and is now living at Moravia, New York.
The surname Waters is of WATERS Norman origin, and from the earliest times has been in use in England. Robert Watter, or Waters, of Cundall, an eminent merchant of York, was twice mayor thereof, 1591 and 1603, and died May 12, 1612. His ancestor, Richard Watyr. a merchant of York, was sheriff in 1431, Lord Mayor. 1436 and 1451, and member of Parlia-
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ment in 1434. The Waters coat-of-arms, which is used by descendants of Richard Wat- ers, is described by Burke: Waters (York Herald temp. Richard 110:) Sable on a fesse wavy argent, between three swans of the sec- ond, two bars wavy, argent. Crest: a demi- talbot argent in the mouth an arrow gules. Motto: Toujours Fidele. Richard Waters was baptized at St. Botolph, Aldersgate, England, March 3, 1604, son of James and Phebe Wat- ers, of London : settled in Salem, Massachu- setts, and has many descendants. Lawrence Waters settled as early as 1636 in Watertown. Massachusetts, and removed to Lancaster, Massachusetts. His son, Jacob, lived in Charlestown, and it is believed that John, son of Adam and grandson of Jacob, settled at Hoosick, New York, where some of the family mentioned below settled. Descendants of Adam are living at Lowville, New York. An- thony Waters settled before 1663 in Hemp- stead, Long Island ; Bevil Waters, before 1669, at Hartford, Connecticut.
The early settlers of this surname at Col- chester, Connecticut, are believed to have come from Massachusetts, but the records do not furnish us proof of their former place of residence. John Waters was a settler and pro- prietor of Colchester before February 17. 1703, when lie shared in a second division of the common lands (pp. 41 and 114 "Hist. of Colchester"). Samuel Waters, presumably son of this first pioneer. John Waters, was a pro- prietor of Colchester, and is described as "of Hebron, alias Colchester." meaning that he had lived in both towns. It seems that the town of Colchester, sued him to recover lands he had in his possession and this suit was pending in 1718-19 (p. 118 "History of Col- chester"), when the records refer to a com- mittee in charge of the litigation. The town must have won the suit or perhaps a similar suit, for in 1716 (p. 143) land recovered of Samuel Waters is mentioned. But the town of Colchester afterward granted land to Sam- uel Waters, of Hebron, twelve acres on the line between Colchester and Hebron, being land "which he now hath under cultivation."
William Waters, probably another son of John Waters, married, at Colchester. Janu- ary 13, 1725. Margaret Hills, and had a son, Joseph, born June 2, 1726.
We know that Mary Bigelow, born July 31, 1719. married a Waters, and that from her surname Bigelow Waters, mentioned below.
took his name. The only one of the family men- tioned in Colchester appearing to be of a suit- able age to marry Mary Bigelow was Lazarus Waters, who was second lieutenant of a com- pany from Lebanon and Colchester under Captain Daniel Dewey, of Lebanon, of which Bigelow Waters was a private. Lazarus Wat- ers appears to have died or moved from this section before 1787, when the tax rolls of Col- chester show that Theodore. Henry and Tim- othy were taxpayers ( p. 153). It is presumed that these were sons of Lazarus, but possibly they were nephews. The census of 1790 is missing for Colchester, but in the adjacent town of Lebanon we find Aaron Waters hay- ing three males over sixteen, three under that age and three females in his family.
(I) Colonel Bigelow Waters, son of ( prob- ably, Lieutenant Lazarus and Mary ( Bige- low ) Waters, of Colchester. Connecticut, was born December 21, 1760 (see Bigelow 111). He was a soldier in the revolution in the com- pany of Captain Daniel Dewey, of Lebanon, and of Lazarus Waters, of Colchester. in 1778. In 1790 he was living at Hoosick, .\1- bany county, New York. In the first federal census of that year he has in his family two males over sixteen. besides himself and wife. In the same town we find Adam Waters, men- tioned above, having two males over sixteen and two females in his family. and Oliver Waters, with two sons under sixteen and three females. The relationship of these three is not known to the writer, but it is likely that they were brothers. Bigelow Waters was in later life colonel in the New York militia. He settled in Madison county, New York, and died there June 29, 1833. He married, No- vember 25, 1786, Esther Gardner, born March 23. 1766, died September 27, 1835. In the Gardner Genealogy he is called of Colchester (see Gardner V). Children of Colonel Bige- low Waters: 1. Gardner, born August 29. 1787, died December 16, 1866. 2. Ilenry. Au- gust 21, 1789. died September 29, 1858. 3. Fannie, May 6, 1792, died June 23, 1862. 4. Bulkley, mentioned below. 5. Esther. March 21. 1797. died April 23. 1876. 6. Sophronia, July 30, 1799, died November 27, 1800. 7. Sophronia, November 10, 1801. died March 6, 1844. 8. Eliza, March 24. 1804.
( II) Bulkley Waters, named doubtless for his Bulkley ancestry, son of Colonel Bigelow Waters. was born in Sherburne. Chenango county, October 30, 1794, died in Sydenham.
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Ontario, Canada, June 3. 1881. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and learned the tanner's trade. lle went to Canada when a young man and settled at Sydenham, where he owned a tannery and water privilege, and there spent the remainder of his life. He was a prominent citizen, and for some years was a magistrate. In politics he belonged to what was then known as the Reform party. In re- ligion he was an Episcopalian, and an active member of the church.
He married, February 1, 1821, Elizabeth Dickey, born in Chenango county, New York, in 1798, of Scotch ancestry, died in Canada, January 18, 1886, daughter of Captain Adam Dickey, whose ancestors were among the Scotch-Irish settlers at Londonderry, New Hampshire. Children : I. William Bulkley, born January 1. 1824, died March 29, 1824. 2. Nelson Henry, April 29, 1825, deceased. 3. Lorena Minerva, January 24, 1827, died December 29, 1905 ; married Nelson Amy. 4. Wallace Danton, mentioned below. 5. Frank- lin Greenwood, November 11, 1832, died Au- gust 17, 1861. 6. Nancy Mary, June 23, 1837. married William Evans, and lives in Elgin, Illinois.
( III ) Wallace Danton, son of Bulkley Wat- ers, was born in Ernestown, Ontario, Canada, May 21, 1829. He received his early educa- tion in Sydenham, Ontario province, where his parents located when he was a young child. He worked at farming and in his father's tannery during his boyhood and youth. Af- terward he owned a stage line and carried the government mails, also operating extensive lumbering and mining interests. About 1886 he came to Cortland, New York, where he has resided since. He was in the trucking and teaming business in Cortland for many years, retiring from active life in January, 19II. In politics he is a Republican ; in religion a Methodist.
He married Lauretta McPherson, born in Belleville, Canada, April 15, 1832, died in Cortland, New York, June 24. 1909, daughter of Malcolm and Margaret ( Sharp) McPher- son. Children: 1. William Wallace, died in infancy. 2. Caroline Adelia, married C. A. Finch, of Cortland. 3. William Wallace, Jan- uary II, 1858, lives at Barneville, New York : married Charlotte Slack: children: Loretta M. ; Mabel, married Albert Williams and has a son, Wallace Waters Williams. 4. David Franklin, mentioned below. 5. James Edgar,
March 19, 1862, died August 2, 1862. 6. Lewis Edgar, March 25, 1863. lives at York, Pennsylvania : married Mary Campbell, who died March 28, 1911 : children: Wallace, Ed- gar, Bessie, Charlotte and Charles. 7. Nelson Henry, mentioned below. 8. Catherine Eliza- beth Josephine. August 7, 1870, mentioned be- low.
(IV) David Franklin, son of Wallace Dan- ton Waters, was born in Sydenham, Ontario, Canada, November 30, 1860. Ile received his education in the public schools of his native town and at the business college at Belleville, Ontario. He came to New York state in 1884 and was for a time in the grocery busi- ness in Syracuse. Since 1885 he has been engaged in various manufacturing enterprises of Cortland, New York. For ten years he was superintendent of the fire alarm system of Cortland. Since 1906 he has been super- intendent of the Cortland Skirt Company. He is a member of Vesta Lodge, Odd Fellows, of Cortland : also of the Encampment and Can- ton and Rebekah Lodge: member of the Mac- cabees, and of Cortland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Cortland. He is a member of the Episcopal church, and in politics he is a Re- publican.
He married, December 25. 1898, MI. Alice Webster, born in Onondaga county. New York, near Baldwinville, daughter of Willis and Mary ( Blanchard) Webster. They have one child, Alice Lorena, born November 15. 1899.
(IV) Nelson Henry, son of Wallace Danton Waters, was born in Sydenham, county of Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, September 1. 1867.
He received his education in his native town. When he was sixteen years old he located in the town of Cortland. New York. where he afterward engaged in business as a dealer in men's furnishings and clothing. For a number of years he was employed by the Gillette Shirt Company. In 1907 he was one of the organizers of the Cortland Skirt Company and from the first has been presi- dent and manager of the concern. The com- pany had besides an extensive plant at Cort- land, which in July, 1911, was removed to Binghamton, New York. He is a member of Homer Lodge, Free Masons: of Royal Arch Chapter, of Cortlandville : of Knights Temp- lar, of Cortland. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Cortland.
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and for a number of years has been vestry- man.
lle married, September 30, 1889, Lonise Sarepta, daughter of Stillwell Mudge and Harriet Amelia (Eggleston) Benjamin, of Cortland. Children: 1. Stillwell Benjamin. born February 19. 1891, assistant manager of the Binghamton plant of the Cortland Skirt Company. 2. Harriet Louise, born June 11, 1894. 3. Helena Elizabeth, November 22. 1904.
(IV) Catherine Elizabeth Josephine, daugh- ter of Wallace Danton Waters, was born in Sydenham, Ontario, Canada, August 7, 1870. She married, March 1, 1904, Willis L. Starks. born in Rossie, St. Lawrence county, New York, March 3, 1874. son of Chauncey A. and Nancy Maria ( Ellsworth) Starks. Mr. Starks was formerly for several years employed in various paper mills in Watertown, New York, but for several years has been with the Cort- land Skirt Company of Cortland, as shipping clerk.
(The Bigelow Line).
(I) John Bigelow, immigrant ancestor, is believed to have come from England, but the variations of spelling at the time of his emi- gration to New England make it difficult to trace this name, which was spelled according to the fancy of the writers. He was born in 1617, and came to America before 1642. The first mention of his name on the records is found in Watertown, Massachusetts, on the occasion of his marriage, which was the first recorded in that town, September 20, 1642, to Mary, daughter of John and Margaret War- ren. He took the oath of fidelity there in 1652, and was admitted a freeman, April 18. 1690. He was a blacksmith by trade, and was allowed certain timber by the town for the building of his forge. He was highway surveyor in 1652 and 1660; constable, 1663. and selectman, 1665-70-71. His homestead consisted of six acres. He married (second), October 2. 1694, Sarah, daughter of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown. He died July 14. 1703. Ilis will was dated January 4. 1703. and proved July 23, 1703. Children of first wife. born in Watertown: John, October 27, 1643 : Jonathan, December 11, 1646; Mary, March 14, 1648; Daniel, December 1, 1650; Samuel. October 28, 1653: Joshua. November 5. 1655 : Elizabeth, June 15, 1657: Sary, September 29, 1659: James, married three times and lived in Watertown; Martha, April 1. 1662:
Abigail, February 4, 1664; Hannah, March 4, 1666, died March 8, 1666: Son, born and died December 18, 1667.
(II) Samuel, son of John Bigelow, was born in Watertown, October 28, 1653. He married, June 3. 1674, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary Flagg, born January 14, 1658, died September 7, 1720. He was a prominent man in Watertown and was an inn- holder, licensed as such from 1702 to 1716. He was a representative to the general court, 1708-09-10. His will was dated September 30, 1720, and proved February 21, 1731. Chil- dren, born in Watertown: John, May 9, 1675; Mary, September 12, 1677 : Samuel, Septem- ber 18, 1679 ; Sarah, October 1, 1681 ; Thomas, October 24, 1683: Mercy, supposed to have been the Martha who was recorded as born April 4. 1686; Abigail, May 7, 1687 : Hannah, married, May 24, 1711, Daniel Warren ; Isaac, born May 19, 1691, mentioned below ; Deliv- erance, September 22, 1695.
(III) Sergeant Isaac Bigelow, son of Sam- uel Bigelow, was born in Watertown, March or May 19, 1691. He married. December 29, 1709, Mary Bond, of Watertown. She died July 9, 1775. Shortly after his marriage, he removed to Colchester, Connecticut, and bought land there, May 23. 1712. He was a military man of considerable prominence, and was commissioned sergeant by the governor in 1744. He died in Colchester, September TI, 1751, and left an estate valued at two thousand and eighty-seven pounds, eleven shil- lings, nine pence. Children, born in Colches- ter : Mercy, July 23, 1711, died young ; Isaac, May 4, 1713 ; Mercy, February 4, 1715 ; Mary, July 31. 1719, married Lazarus Waters (see Waters I) ; Hannah, October 2, 1721 ; Abigail, April 13, 1723: Samuel. December 21, 1724. died June 5, 1745. unmarried; Sarah, died young ; Sarah, June 27, 1727 : Lydia. April 22, 1729, died May 16, 1745 ; Elisha, .April 14, 1731.
(The Gardner Line).
(I) Lion Gardner, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, about 1599. died in East Hampton, New York, in 1663. Before com- ing to America, in 1635. he had seen military service in Holland with the English army, as "an engineer and master of works of fortifica- tions in the legers of the Prince of Orange in the Low Countries." While there he accepted a position to go to New England to construct works of fortification and command them. He
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contracted with the company that engaged him, for one hundred pounds a year, for a term of four years ; he was to serve only in the "drawing, ordering and making of a city. towns and forts of defence," under the im- mediate direction of John Winthrop, the younger, and he and his family were to be fur- nished transportation and subsistence free.
He sailed, probably from Rotterdam, July 10, 1635, in the bark, "Batcheller," and, ac- cording to the journal of Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, landed at Boston, November 28, 1635. He remained for some little time in Boston, and during his stay was engaged to complete the fortifications on Fort Hill. About the same time the "Magistrates of the Bay" desired him to visit Salem, for the pur- pose of seeing if it was fit for fortification. This he did, and upon his return told the magistrates that the people in Salem were more in danger of starvation than of any "for- eign, potent enemy," and to defer works of that kind for the present. He concluded his own account of the affair thus: "And they liked my saying well."
Early in the following spring he continued his journey to Connecticut, where John Win- throp, the younger, had commission from Lords Say, Brooke and other prominent men in England, to begin a plantation and to be governor of it. Winthrop's advance party had already taken possession of a point of land near the month of the Connecticut, and here Gardner landed early in the spring of 1636, probably in March. He constructed a fort with ditch and palisade, which was the first fortification erected in New England. It was named Saybrooke, in honor of Lords Say and Brooke. During the next few years the settlers had much trouble with the Indians, and many skirmishes, in which Gardner took a prominent part. Their most famous encoun- ter was with the Pequots in 1637, when com- bined forces from Massachusetts and Connec- ticut, with Mason, Gardner and Underhill in command, succeeded in nearly exterminating the latter tribe of Indians.
In the summer of 1639, Gardner's engage- ment with the Saybrooke Company ended, and he removed to a large island east of Long Island sound, which he had secured from the Indians by a deed of purchase. May 3, 1639. Subsequently he procured a grant of the same island from an agent of the Earl of Stirling, the grantee of the King of England, March
IO. 1039-40. He took with him his family, and a number of men from the Saybrooke for farmers, and these formed, it is said, the earliest English settlement within the present limits of the state of New York. He formed here a friendship with the great Indian chief, Wyandanch, of the Montauks, which endured all his life and was of untold benefit to him and other English settlers.
In 1649 Gardner became one of the original purchasers of about thirty thousand acres of land for the settlement of East Hampton, and in 1653 he removed there with his family. His residence there on the east side of the main street is still owned by a descendant. In 1655, and again in 1657, he, with others, were ap- pointed a committee to visit Hartford and treat with the authorities about placing East Hampton under the protection of Connecticut. In 1658 he became one of the purchasers in the original conveyance from the Indians of nine thousand acres of land on Montauk Point.
In return for Gardner's efforts in redeem- ing from her captors a daughter of Wyan- danch, the latter presented to him, July 14, 1659, a free gift of land, the original decd for which is now in possession of the Long Island Historical Society. That same year he was prosecuted before the magistrates of East Hampton by certain English captors of a Dutch vessel, for retaking the vessel at his island, but the case was never tried. He died late in the year 1663, one of the prominent figures of early colonial history of New Eng- land.
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