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(II) Martin, son of Phillippe Kellogg, was baptized in Great Leigh, county Essex, Eng- land, November 23, 1595, died in Braintree, in 1671. He was a weaver or cloth worker. and resided in Great Leigh and Braintree. His will was dated May 20, 1671, and proved September 20, 1671. He married in St. Mi- chael's, Bishop's Stortford, county Hertford. October 22, 1621, Prudence Bird. She died before her husband. Children: I. John, left a son John. 2. Nathaniel, baptized March 12, 1624; married Elizabeth -; immigrated to New England, and was a landholder in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1639: removed to Farmington, Connecticut, joined the church
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covenant there. 1652 ; died in 1702. 3. Lieu- tenant Joseph, baptized April 1, 1626; immi- grated to New England, first to Farmington, 1653; removed to Boston, Massachusetts, where he made a purchase of real estate, ( )c- tober 9, 1659; removed to Hadley, Massachu- setts, in 1662, where he settled permanently ; a famous Indian fighter and a man of much prominence in Hadley ; married (first) Joanna -: ( second ) Abigail Terry ; died in 1707- 08. 4. Sarah, baptized February I, 1628; married William Jacobs. 5. Daniel, baptized February 6, 1630; immigrated to New Eng- land, in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1655, was for a number of years a member of the gen- eral assembly of Connecticut : married (first ) -: (second) Bridget Bouton; died in 1688. 6. Samuel, mentioned below. 7. Mar- tin, married Elizabeth ; buried in Brain- tree, January 29, 1685.
(III) Samuel, son of Martin Kellogg, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England, about 1635, and came to this country about 1652. It is probable that he settled first in Hartford, Connecticut, and lived there for a number of years. In the year of his marriage, 1664, Samuel Kellogg settled at Hadley, Mas- sachusetts, where he became the owner of a four-acre home lot. The town was then situ- ated on both sides of the Connecticut river, in the midst of a wilderness, and exposed to constant attacks from the Indians. In conse- quence of this danger the inhabitants of the west side of the river, in 1667, sent a petition to the governor and council of Massachu- setts, praying that they might be made into a separate society. Samuel Kellogg was one of the twenty-four signers of the petition, which was granted by the general court in the following year. The new town was called Hatfield, and he was one of its original set- tlers.
September 19, 1677, the Indians made their famous attack on Hatfield, and carried away seventeen prisoners, who were the first white people taken as captives to Canada. During this attack Sarah Kellogg, the wife of Samuel. and her baby, Joseph, were killed, and an- other child, Samuel, was taken as captive to Canada. The house and barn of the Kellogg family were burned also at this time, but re- built on the same ground. The academy buildings at Hatfield mark the place at the present time.
He married (first), November 24. 1664,
Sarah Gunn, widow of Nathaniel Gunn, of Hartford, and daughter of Robert and Mary Day. Her father and mother came over in the ship "Elizabeth" from Ipswich, Suffolk county, England, to Boston, in 1634. He married ( second) Sarah, daughter of Thomas Root, of Westfield, Massachusetts, who was at Hartford in 1639. and at Northampton in 1659, where he was one of the seven founders of a church. He died at Hatfield. January 17, 17II, and his wife in 1717. Both are buried in Hatfield. Children of first wife: Samuel, mentioned below: Nathaniel, June 4, 1671 ; Ebenezer, June 2, 1674; Joseph, September 9, 1676, killed by Indians, September 19, 1677 ;; children of second wife: John. April 25, 1680 : Thomas, October 21. 1681 : Sarah, April 13. 1683; Sergeant Nathaniel, removed to Colchester, Connecticut, died August 22, 1757,
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Kel- logg, was born April 11, 1669, in Hadley, or Hatfield. He was taken captive by the In- dians, September 19, 1677, and compelled to accompany them to Canada. He remained a prisoner there until May 2, 1678, when he with others was rescued by two brave patri- ots of Hatfield, Benjamin Waite and Justin Stockwell, and after a journey of great ex- posure and many hardships, was brought to Albany, May 22, 1678, and thence to Hatfield. The day of their arrival in Hatfield was one of the most joyous that the town had ever known, and in honor of the event the gov- ernor and council of Massachusetts ordered a day of fasting and prayer. Samuel Kel- logg married, in 1690, Hannah Dickinson, of Hadley, daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah Dickinson. Her grandfather, Nathaniel Dick- inson, came to Wethersfield, from England, in 1637. and was one of the founders of Hadley.
Samuel Kellogg was a farmer by occupa- tion, and in 1701 removed to Colchester, Con- necticut, and became one of the founders of that town. He was very active in church matters, and was a Congregationalist. His name is found signed to various petitions rela- tive to religion. December 25. 1707. he was chosen one of the fence viewers. He died August 24. 1708. His wife Hannah was born in 1666, died August 3. 1745. Children, born at Hatfield: Samuel, May 18, 1604: Joseph. June 18. 1696: Hannah, September 1I, 1699; Eunice, August 3, 1701.
(V) Joseph, son of Samuel ( 2) Kellogg. was born at Hatfield, June 18, 1696. He re-
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moved in his boyhood with his father to Col chester. He likewise became a pioneer, and in 1728 removed to Hebron, Connecticut, one of the oldest towns in that state, settled in 1704. Here he was one of the deacons of the First Congregational Church for a number of years. He married. October 23, 1717, Abi- gail Miller, of Colchester. Children, born in Colchester : Joseph, mentioned below ; Daniel, May 6, 1720; Mercy, May 20, 1723; Moses, 1725; Elijah, January 15, 1728; born in He- bron: Ezekiel, November 24, 1732: Abigail, November 27, 1734.
(VI) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (1) Kel- logg, was born August 8, 1718, in Colches- ter. He married, November 15, 1739, Susanna Keny. They lived in Hebron, where they were members of the Congregational church. It is not known where they died. Children : Susanna, born June 12, 1741 ; Benjamin, men- tioned below: Joseph, September, 1746; in- fant, March 7. 1756, died the same day.
(VII) Benjamin, son of Joseph (2) Kel- logg, was born in Hebron, April 22, 1744. He married, in 1765, Phebe Stark, of Hebron, born January 2, 1746, daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Stark. Her ancestry was Puritan, and her father is supposed to have been closely related to General John Stark, of revo- lutionary fame. Before 1775 Benjamin Kel- logg removed to the county of Columbia, New York, to what is now the town of Austerlitz. He took with him his wife and a small stock of goods and travelled on a sled drawn by oxen. He settled in the midst of a vast for- est and was one of the pioneers of that part of New York state. He was a soldier of the revolution ; a member of an organized regi- inent of foot belonging to the portion of Al- bany county which is now comprised in the county of Columbia, Colonel Jeremialı Hoge- boom. He belonged to the company of James Spencer, and doubtless saw much service. He was with the continental army when Burgoyne surrendered, and during the battle of Sara- toga was within one of the fortifications. At one time during the war he was sent with others up the Mohawk river against the In- dians and almost starved on the trip.
His wife, Phebe (Stark) Kellogg, is said to have been a fine singer and a woman of superior virtues. Both Benjamin and his wife were members of the Baptist church at Hills- dale, afterwards Austerlitz. His will was dated November 9, 1813, and shows a consid-
erable fortune for a farmer of those days. He died November 3. 1824, and his wife, Sep- tember 9, 1823. Both were buried on the original farm. Children, born at Austerlitz : Phebe, 1770 ; Elizabeth, Abigail, Lydia, Elisha, August 4, 1779: Samuel, September 4, 1781 ; Benjamin, mentioned below ; Joseph, Decem- ber 10, 1788; Marvin, 1792.
(VIII) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) Kellogg, was born at Austerlitz, Febru- ary 7, 1784. When twenty-two years of age he started out with his brother Samuel for the town of Franklin, in the county of Dela- ware, New York. They went on foot and cut their way through the forest with an axe. For several years they worked at timber chopping and cut down over a thousand acres of heavy
timber. In 1808 he married Sally Tarbox, of Hebron, Connecticut, born in the latter town, November 5, 1790. She was of Puritan ancestry, and a lineal descendant in the sixth generation fron John and Rebekah Tarbox, who settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1639. She was a woman of fine education for those days, much ability and of wonderful vigor. They settled in a log house in the section 110w known as North Franklin, New York, and endured all the privations and hardships in- cident to pioneer life. Later they removed to Stilson Hill, near North Franklin, and in April, 1837, sold this farm and removed again to a farm about a mile from Croton, in the town of Franklin. Here they spent the re- mainder of their lives, and by untiring indus- try and economy accumulated a sufficient sum to make their last days comfortable. Ben- jamin Kellogg was a man of sound mind, ex- cellent judgment, and of the most strict hon- esty. He was a fine tenor singer and snare drummer. Both he and his wife were devout members of the Congregational Church at Franklin, New York. He died June 7, 1864, and his wife, June 5. 1878. Children: Phebe A., born December 18, 1809: Cynthia, July 4, 1813: Emeline, 1816; John, 1818; Marvin Douglas, mentioned below ; Sally M., 1825.
(IX) Marvin Douglas, son of Benjamin (2) Kellogg, was born September 18, 1823, died January II. 1901. He married, Decem- ber 10. 1845, Hannah, daughter of John G. and Catherine Schermerhorn, of Croton, born July 22, 1824, died June 16, 1896. John G. Schermerhorn, her father, was born in Scho- dack, Rensselaer county, New York, October 14. 1797, and died at Croton, January 10,
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1865, son of George and Margaret ( Kettle) Schermerhorn, of Rensselaer county, after- wards of Milford, New York. They were the descendants of Jacob Janse Schermerhorn, one of the famous Dutch patroons, born in Waterland. Holland, in 1620, settled in the New Netherlands, now Albany, in 1636. Cath- erine Schermerhorn, her mother, was born March 27. 1797, daughter of Peter Paddock. of Long Island, New York, died March 27. 1866. Her father was a soldier of the revo- lution. Marvin Douglas Kellogg lived at Cro- ton, and was a farmer by occupation. Chil- dren : Willard Benjamin, born September 13, 1846, died February 2, 1853; Francis Ann (twin ), May 27. 1849, died February 12, 1853: Albert Francis (twin) ; Lillian May, November 5. 1855; Abraham Lincoln, men- tioned below.
(X) Abraham Lincoln, son of Marvin Douglas Kellogg, was born in Croton, now Treadwell, Delaware county, New York, May I, 1860. He spent his boyhood in the usual occupations of a farmer's son and attended the district school. He expressed a desire at an early age to become a lawyer and he was not discouraged by the difficulties in his way. He taught school and worked his way through a three-year course at the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, New York, when that institution was one of considerable promi- nence. In August, 1881, he came to Oneonta and began the study of law in the office of L. L. Bundy, who was at that time one of the ablest lawyers in this section of the state. He continued to teach school while a law student. He was admitted to the bar in November, 1885, and entered at once upon general prac- tice at Oneonta. His earnestness, thorough- ness and fidelity to the interests of his clients brought him rapidly to the front, and for many years he has ranked among the most successful attorneys of the county. In saying that Mr. Kellogg is successful, it is meant that he has been retained in some of the most important cases coming up in this section of the state; lias enjoyed a large practice and lias the reputation of bringing his cases to successful conclusions. The well-known Cor- nell case and its successful termination in the United States circuit court will be recalled by many citizens. The force, energy and care- ful preparation which he puts into every case which he has taken in hand has counted against the able and powerful attorneys of
several railroad corporations. He has won a state reputation for success in negligence cases, several of which have been carried to the highest courts of the state, and in each instance, after every appeal known to the law, Mr. Kellogg was completely successful. His record in state cases is brilliant. He was re- tained as attorney to fight violations of the pure food law by attorneys general, John C. Davies, Julius M. Mayer and Edward R. O'Malley, and owing to his success was. con- tinued by the Democratic attorneys general, William Schuyler Jackson and Thomas Car- mody. It is a matter of record that during a period of three years he was designated in fifty-two actions, tried twenty-seven cases for the state before juries and succeeded in win- ning every one. Three of the cases were tried in the city of New York, several in Delaware, Chenango and other counties than Otsego. The case of the People of the State of New York vs. Koster is noteworthy. He was des- ignated by the state to try the action and ob- tain rulings upon constitutional and other questions never settled in the state courts and of vital importance to the enforcement of the Pure Food Laws. He not only obtained a verdict of $1.850 upon the trial, but secured an affirmance of the judgment in the appel- late division of the supreme court, first depart- ment, with every question litigated decided in favor of the state. Mr. Kellogg has been honored with various offices of trust and re- sponsibility and has always served with in- tegrity and efficiency. In 1883 he was elected clerk of the incorporated village of Oneonta. In 1884 he was made clerk of the board of supervisors of Otsego county by acclamation. In the two years following he served as clerk of the committee on railroads in the New York state senate. In 1894 he was elected a dele- gate to the state constitutional convention from the twenty-third senatorial district. In the work of revising the state constitution, he did excellent service on the important com- mittee on state finances and taxation and state charities. He took a prominent part in the debates of the convention, especially in the successful movement to eliminate the provi- sion making $5,000 the maximum amount re- coverable for damages in case of loss of life by accident. The proof that this maximum was unwise and unjust has been demonstrated by the verdicts of a multitude of cases since then, not only in those where the injured per-
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1670. Children. Mary, Thomas, George. James. Edward. John, Ephraim. Sarah. Per- haps others. All except the last three were born in England.
( 11 ) James, third son of George and Sarah ( Jenkins ) Lewis, was born about 1631, in England, died October 4. 1713, in Barnstable, at the age of eighty-two years. He was eight years old when the family settled in that town, and he became a prominent and useful citi- zen. Of studious nature he made the most of the limited educational opportunities of his time. and was apprenticed to a blacksmith. Hle toiled early and late and pursued his stud- jes in the winter evenings. Of frugal habits he accumulated a good estate. His house lot of twelve acres was west of Taylor's lane. and in 1678 he owned all the block between that lane and Hyannis road, except a small parcel at the southwest corner. His black- sinith shop stood where is now located the custom house. He reared his large family well, giving them the best education possible and provided for all in his lifetime. He was made freeman of the colony. June 1. 1658, was often in the public service as juryman and surveyor of highways, and was for many years a lieutenant of the militia. probably participating in King Philip's war, as indi- cated by the fact that his heirs possessed prop- erty grante 1 for such service. Ile joined the Barnstable church. June 18, 1698, served as selectman in 1679-81-80-90. He married, Oc- tober 31. 1655. Sarah, born March, 1635. daughter of George and Sarah Lane. Chil- dren : John, Samuel, Sarah, James, Ebenezer. George. Joseph, Susanna, Mary, Anna.
( Il1) Samuel, second son of James and Sarah (Lane ) Lewis, was born April 10, 1059. in Barnstable and resided in East Parish of that town, where he die 1 in December, 1720. Ile owned ten acres which had been the prop- erty of his uncle John, who had no family of his own. Samuel Lewis built the second house on this property and also owned land at South Sea. His estate was valued in the depreciatel bills of credit, at that time, at one thousand five hundred and fifty-one pounds, four shillings. He married, in De- cember. 1690, Prudence Leonard, born 1675- 76, died March 31. 1736. Children: Samuel. mentioned below : David and Joseph ( twins ) : Ebenezer. Thankful and Ilannah.
(1\ ) Samuel ( 2). eldest child of Samnel (I) and Prudence (Leonard) Lewis, was
born June 22, 1700. in Barnstable. He re- moved to Waterbury, Connecticut, between 1734 and 1737. Ilis wife bore the name of Reliance, and their children born in Barn- stable were: Susanna, January 19, 1722: Ne- hemiah, July 4, 1724: Samuel, mentioned be- low: Leonard, October 25. 1728: Solomon, April 30, 1731 : Barnabas. April 12, 1734 : son, born in Waterbury : John, July 26, 1737.
(V) Samuel (3), second son of Samuel (2) and Reliance Lewis, was born April 13. 1726, in Barnstable, and resided in Waterbury. Connecticut. Little further can be learned concerning him. In 1780 the town of Water- town was set off from Waterbury, and Sam- uel Lewis was among the incorporators of the town. In 1795 this town was divided, most of that portion east of the Naugatuck river being erected as the town of Plymouth. In 1788 Samuel Lewis and his wife were ad- mitted to the Plymouth church by letter.
(VI) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) Lewis, was born June 1. 1748, in Waterbury, and resided in what is now the town of Plym- outh, near the meeting house. According to the records of Waterbury, he married Sarah Curtis and had three children born in that town. The family records show that he had a wife. Rebecca Putnam, and the family tra- dition states that she was a sister of General Israel Putnam. The latter had no sister by that name and none who married a Lewis, in fact he had no sister young enough to marry this Lewis.
(VII) Samuel (5). son of Samuel (4) and Rebecca ( Putnam ) Lewis, was born June 4. 1770. in Waterbury, and settled in New York. Ile married Betsy Lamb.
( \ Il] ) Samuel L., son of Samuel (5) and Betsy ( Lamb) Lewis, was born at Unadilla, New York. 1803. He married Mary A. Cun- ningham, born at Unadilla, March 27, 1833. Solomon Cunningham, father of Mary A. Cunningham, was born in Unadilla in 1802. and married Polly Blakeslee, born at Otego, in 1801. Polly Blakeslee was a daughter of Abraham Blakeslee, born in Danbury, Con- necticut. in 1763, and Ruth ( Hunt ) Blakes- lee. born at Roxbury, Connecticut. in 1766. Abraham Blakeslee was for many years a dea- con of the Baptist church, and a justice of the peace. Removed after his marriage to Ben- nington, Vermont. and afterwards, in 1800. to Otego, then U'nadilla, later Huntsville. It was then a dense hemlock forest, reached with
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difficulty in the usual conveyance of the New York pioneers, an ox-cart.
The family is of French or GERVAIS Norman origin. The original spelling was Gervais. As early as 1180, at the very beginning of the 11se of surnames, we find Richard Gervasius (the Latin spelling of the name) and in 1400 Jean Gervais was living at the ancient seat of the family in Bretagne. The variations of spelling from time to time and through the ingenuity of various clerks and recorders are very numerous. They are: Jervis, Jerviss, Jerveys, Jarveis, Gervaise, Gervays, Gerveis, Jarvey ( found in Ireland at present ), Jarvice, Gervase. Gervais, Gervasius and Gervys. The most ancient coat-of-arms of this family given in French is thus described : D'or a une pomme de pin placee au canton dextre au chief : et un chouette placee au canton senes- tre accompagne en pointe d'un crapaud, de tout de sable. This is a very singular device. One can imagine many things to explain the association of a pineapple and a frog on the same shield. Motto: Adversis Major Par Secundis ( Strong in Prosperity, Stronger in Adversity ). Another coat-of-arms of the Jar- vis family of England: Sable on a chevron engraved on a chief of the second a fleur-de- lis between three escallops of the field. Crest : An unicorn's head gorged with a collar charged with three cinquefoils.
Among the famous men of the name are: Earl St. Vincent, Sir John Jervis, British ad- miral, whose fame, good name and unspotted character gave him a place in Westminster Abbey; John Wesley Jarvis, portrait-painter, born 1780. South Shields on Tyne, England ; died January 12. 1840, nephew of John Wes- ley, and one of the most accomplished artists of his time.
Immigrants of this name came to New Eng- land among the earliest settlers. John Jarvis, a merchant in Boston, died September 28, 1648. Captain Nathaniel Jarvis, born in Wales, commanded a ship which went between Bristol, England, and Jamaica, where he mar- ried the widow of a rich planter, and in 1688 settled in Boston and became a prominent merchant. Stephen Jarvis was an early settler at Huntington, Long Island. (He is men- tioned below. ) From these immigrants de- scended most of the families of the name in New England and New York. During the
revolution a British brig lay off Norwalk, Connecticut, commanded by an officer named Jarvis, who sent word by a merchant who went aboard from shore: "Give my compli- ments to them ( the Jarvis family of Norwalk ) and tell them their cousin, John Jarvis, would be happy to see them and make their acquain- tance." This John Jarvis subsequently be- came the Earl St. Vincent.
(I) Stephen Jarvis, immigrant ancestor, was born in England, as early as 1630, as his son Stephen was of age as early as 1675. The town records of Huntington mention the house of Stephen Jarvis in the records of a meeting held April 4, 1661. Stephen "Jer- vice" was an attorney for James Chichester in an action in court, October 23, 1662, and he doubtless had some training in the law. In the records he is called Stephen Sr. after 1676. He had a grant of land, January 1. 1668, and another grant July I following. His son, Ste- phen Jr., had a grant June 5, 1676, and again in 1679. Stephen Sr. gave land to his son Aaron in 1679. In 1679 Thomas Jarvis, an- other son, owned land in Huntington. Ste- phen deeded land at the Cove, East Neck. He probably died about 1692, as the distinctive "Sr." and "Jr." disappeared in that year, both Stephen Sr. and Jr. being mentioned fre- quently on the records until that time. Ste- phen Sr. had a grant of a hundred acres eastward of the path to East Neck.
Children : 1. Stephen had son Stephen, born June 2, 1683, Abraham, April 26. 1685. and doubtless other children. 2. William had William. Samuel, Stephen, Abraham and Mary; will dated November 12, 1737, be- queathing to children, of whom Samuel Will- iam and May Seymour lived in Norwalk. Con- necticut. the others in Huntington. 3. Thom- as was granteee of land in 1679 ; December 4. 1693, deeded to brother Stephen land received under the will of their father (this will must have been of about the same date) ; the will of Thomas was dated August 17. 1732, and proved September 14, 1732, bequeathing to wife Millisen ( Millicent ), to son Thomas two acres near Ground Nut Hollow, to youngest son Timothy land at East Neck and to dangh- ter Eunice Kellogg, of Norwalk, and to son- in-law, Jonathan Whitaker : (his brother Will- iam was an executor. 4. Aaron, probably re- moved from Huntington. Stephen probably had daughters also.
(II) Jonathan, son of Steplien Jarvis, was
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born about 1060. He bought land in 1684 in Huntington. Land was granted to him. April 1. 1690, and January 2, 1692. In an account of the hundreds in the town of Hunt- ington and by whom paid for in the purchase of the New Patten in the year 1694, "includes two hundreds belonging to lot of Thomas Jarvis, paid one quarter of a hundred by Jon- athan Jarvis and one quarter by William Jar- vis ; one quarter paid by the widow of Ste- phen Jarvis Jr., one hundred paid by Jonathan Jarvis : another hundred belonging to the lot of William Jarvis." In 1698 Jonathan was granted land on the south side of the island and in the same year he was a purchaser with others of Baiting Place and Squam Pitt. Thomas, William and Stephen were also pur- chasers. He died in 1709. The will of Jona- than Jarvis was dated April 25, 1707. at Huntington, and proved in New York, June 2, 1709 (see Abstracts of Wills, N. Y. Hist. Society, vol. I. p. 23). Jonathan bequeathed to his eldest son William the north half of the home lot, giving his wife the right to use it during her life: to son Philip ten acres adjoining ; to daughters Elizabeth and Susan- nah seven pounds each. As a genealogical proof, this will is very important. It gives the list of children of Jonathan, viz. : William, mentioned below : Philip, Elizabeth and Su- sannah.
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