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(IV) Joseph (3), son of Joseph (2) Haw- kins, was born in Derby, January 1, 1697. died in Derby, May 31, 1767. He married. Novem- ber 17, 1720. Sarah Brewster. She married ( second ) Benajah Johnson. Children, born in Derby: Mary, September 5, 1721 ; Joseph, April 30, 1724; Samuel, mentioned below ; probably others.
(V) Lieutenant Samuel Hawkins, son of Joseph (3) Hawkins, was born in Derby in 1731. He served in the French and Indian wars. He married, March 16, 1758, Sarah Smith. Children, born in Derby : Claranah, October 19, 1759; Edward, August 6, 1760; Andrew, mentioned below ; probably others.
(VI) Andrew, son of Lieutenant Samuel Hawkins, was born in Derby in 1762. He was educated in the district schools in Derby. He went from Derby to Lee, Massachusetts, and also lived at Spencertown, Columbia coun- ty, New York, moving in 1813 to Genoa, Cay- uga county, New York. In the last place he owned a square mile of land where he car- ried on a stock farm, and was one of the larg- est drovers in that section of the state. His sons all helped him on his farm. Ile served in the war of the revolution. He married Elizabeth Jarvis, widow, daughter of
Swift. Children: Joseph, Myron, Isaac, men- tioned below ; Samuel, Andrew, Sarah.
(VII) Isaac, son of Andrew Hawkins, was born in Lee or Spencertown, April 5. 1793. died October 12, 1862, at Genoa. New York.
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He lived all his life on his father's farm at Genoa. He was a man who preferred a quiet farm life to a public life. He married. March 18. 1835. Abigail Evans Curtis, born Decem- ber 26, 1808, died September 22, 1897. Chil- dren, born in Genoa: Child, died in infancy : Nathan Smith, mentioned below.
(VIII) Nathan Smith, son of Isaac Haw- kins, was born at Genoa. Cayuga county, New York, February 15. 1836. His education was obtained in the country schools of his native town and at the Genoa Academy. At the age of fifteen years he came to Ithaca, New York. where he found employment as clerk in the dry goods store of Avery, Woodworth & Com- pany. Ile won promotion to positions of greater responsibility from time to time and in 1861 was admitted to partnership in the firm. In 1869 the firm of Hawkins, Finch & Company was established and continued until 1883. when the name was changed to Hawkins, Todd & Company. After a long, successful and highly honorable career in business Mr. Hawkins retired from the firm in 1889 and since then has devoted his time to his private affairs and investments. He is interested in public affairs, but never accepted public of- fice. He has been independent in his political views. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church.
He married, December 15. 1863. Elvina W. Mack, born February 17, 1838. died Novem- ber 3. 1883. They had one son. Edward M .. born November 24, 1877, was educated in the Ithaca schools, studied art under well known masters of this country and Europe. and now has a studio in Baltimore, Maryland : married Lola Stewart and has one son, Edward S., born May 21, 1895.
TILLOTSON The surname Tillotson is derived, according to Pa- tronimica Britannica, from the personal name William, or rather from Till, a diminutive of William. Bilson, Wilson and a large variety of other surnames are de- rived similarly. It is a very ancient English name. in use probably as early as 1200. Tils- ton and Tileston are variations in spelling of this surname. John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury, who died in November, 1694, bore this coat-of-arms: Azure a band cotised between two garbs or. Crest : Out of a mural coronet a greyhound's head. The most an- cient and the only other Tilotson coat-of-arms
is described: Azure two cotises between as many garbs or. Crest: A pelican's head erased proper.
(I) John Tillotson, immigrant ancestor of the American families, was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to this country in the ship "James" from Southampton, arriving in Boston, in June. 1035. He was one of the first settlers and proprietors of Rowley, Mas- sachusetts, and his house lot of one acre and a halt was on the south side of Thomas Burk- ley's lot. He moved afterward to Newbury, Massachusetts, and about 1660 to Saybrook, Connecticut. He died at Saybrook about 1685. He was a farmer or planter. He married ( first ) July 14. 1648. Dorcas Coleman, who died January 1, 1655. He married ( second ) May 24. 1055. Jane Evans. Children : Mary, born 1650: John, mentioned below: James. 1652: Philadelphia, 1656; Joseph, 1658: Jona- than, 1659.
(II) John (2), son of John ( 1) Tillotson, was born at Newbury, Massachusetts. Febru- ary 2, 1651, died at Saybrook. June 5, 1719. He removed with his father to Saybrook. Con- necticut, about 1660. He was also a farmer. He married, November 25. 1680, Mary Mor- ris, of Hartford. Children: Mary, born No- vember 30, 1681: John, October 25. 1683: Joshua. March 26. 1687; Joseph. mentioned below: Martha, November 1, 1001 ; Thomas, March 24, 1694.
(III ) Joseph, son of John (2) Tillotson, was born at Saybrook. March 29. 1689. died at Farmington in 1755. He married, at Hart- ford. January 13. 1725. Hannah Grimes. Chil- dren: John, born 1726: Hannah. 1728; Mar- tha. 1730: Tabitha. 1731: Ebenezer: Ruth, 1739: Joseph. mentioned below. From Say- brook various members of the Tillotson family went to Massachusetts. The census of 1790 shows them living at Granville, Lanesboro, Westfield, Tyringham and other towns in western Massachusetts. The heads of fam- ilies at that time were: Abel, Amasa. Benja- min, Ebenezer. Isaac, Jonathan, Jonathan Jr., Joseph, Joseph Jr. and Samuel.
(]\') Joseph (2). son of Joseph ( 1) Tillot- son, was born in Hartford about 1740. He settled in Tyringham, Massachusetts. He was a soldier in the revolution, also Isaac, of Washington, Massachusetts, Amasa, Benja- min, of Lanesboro. Elias and others. Among his children were: Son, born November 11, 1762. died November 12. 1762: Theodosia.
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August 13, 1768, died October 29. 1778; Cyn- thia and Silvia, twins, August 15, 1771 : 1.cm- uel, married, October 6, 1791, Temperance llawley; Hannah, married, January 13, 1780, Joseph Way.
(V) Elizur, son or nephew of Joseph ( 2) Tillotson, was born at Wilbraham, Massachu- setts, or vicinity, and died in 1813 at Palmer, Monroe county, New York. He followed farming all his active life, spending his last years in Palmer. Ile married Anna Strong, born in 1768, died in 1812. Children: Tursey, (lied in 1804: Sarah, died in 1804: Turner, died in 1832; Nancy, born 1793. died March 18, 1855. married Henry Hibbard; Elizur, born 1788, died in 1834; Lydia, 1797, died March 23, 1874: Daniel Tudor, mentioned be- low. The order of birth is not known.
(\']) Daniel Tudor, son of Elizur Tillot- son, was born January 21, 1806, at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, died May 23, 1873, in Ithaca, New York. When he was a child he came with his parents to Palmer, New York, and attended school there. During his youth he moved to Ithaca to live with his sister, Lydia, who married Henry Ackley. He was in Ithaca as early as 1813 and takes rank among the pioneers of the city, becoming a prominent and well-to-do merchant in that place. He was in later years a pioneer in con- structing telegraph lines in the western states. He retired from mercantile life only a few years before he died. In religion he was an Episcopalian. He married, May 28. 1833, Jane Anne, born in 1809 in Ithaca, died there April 9, 1894, daughter of Luther and Almira ( Buell) Gere, of Castleton, Vermont. Her father died in 1862; her mother was born in Castleton, died in 1831, a granddaughter of Captain Buell, of Castleton, of revolutionary fame. Children of Daniel Tudor Tillotson : Luther G., mentioned below ; Henry Newton, born July 25, 1836, living in Ithaca: Almira G., March 25. 1841 ; Anna Louise, March 24, 1846, resides with her sister Almira G. and brother Henry Newton in Ithaca.
(VII) Luther G., son of Daniel Tudor Til- lotson, was born March 1, 1834, at Ithaca, died in New York City, January 31, 1885. He at- tended the public schools of his native town. During his boyhood he resided with his father in the western states and later learned the Morse alphabet and was enabled to send by sound, the first to do this in the country. Upon his return he settled in Owego, New York,
where he became a telegraph operator, then division superintendent of the New York & Erie Railroad Company, and general super- intendent of the telegraph department. He resigned in 1862 and established the firm of Tillotson & Company, dealers in railroad and telegraph supplies, in New York City, the first store of this kind in the country. He was fortunate in business, an energetic, capable, enterprising man. He traveled extensively in his later years. In religion he was an Epis- copalian and vestryman of the Church of Heavenly Rest, New York City. He married, in 1850, Emma L. Glenn, a descendant of William Pinckney.
GRIFFITH The Griffith family is of Welsh origin and claims de- scent from Llewellyn, the last of the Welsh kings, who was beheaded by the English in 1282. He was the son of Griffith, also king of Wales. No less than thirty branches of this ancient family, according to Burke, bear coats-of-arms. The coats-of-arms of the royal family were: Gules thiee passant in pale argent armes gules. Several Griffiths came early to Maryland and Virginia and founded families of importance and distinc- tion. Joshua Griffith, the first in New Eng- land, came with Henry Collins in the ship "Abigail," June, 1635, from the parish of Stepney, London, England. Nothing further is known of him, but the name Joshua is pre- served in the family. William Griffith is found of record in Boston in 1676, but no further ac- count of him is discovered. The name is very rare in American records in the early days of New England, but is very numerously repre- sented in Pennsylvania from an early period.
(1) Stephen Griffith, who may have been a son of William Griffith, of Boston, settled in llarwich, Massachusetts, where he mar- ried, April 16, 1699, Rebecca Ryder, of Yar- mouth, Massachusetts. Children, born in Har- wich: Joseph, March 15, 1699-1700 : Stephen, mentioned below; Rebecca, June 18, 1703, married, July 29, 1725, Gershom Phinney ; Lazarus, June 7, 1708, married Lydia Doane : Barnabas, November 21, 1710: Thankful, April 3. 1714: Abraham, July 31, 1716.
(Il) Stephen (2), son of Stephen ( 1) and Rebecca (Ryder ) Griffith, was born March 15, 1702, in Harwich. Ile lived for a time in Brewster, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Connecticut. His wife's baptismal name
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was Phebe, and they had sons, Joshua, Lazar- us and Stephen. Lazarus Griffith was one of the appraisers of the estate of Daniel Higgins, of Middletown, Connecticut, who died Octo- ber 8. 1749. Probably this was the brother of Stephen Griffith, above mentioned. In 1790 Stephen was residing in Middletown, and had one son under sixteen years of age and three females in his family, as shown by the first federal census. The vital records of Middle- town contain no mention of this family and it probably soon removed to an outlying town in Middlesex county. The records of Middle- field mention the name.
(111) Joshua, son of Stephen (2) and Phebe Griffith, was born November 21, 1736, in Har- wich. lle resided in or near Middletown.
(I\') Joshua (2), son of Joshua (1) Grif- fith, was born about 1760, probably in Mid- dletown. Thirty years later his family in- cluded one son under sixteen and two females.
(\') Abraham, son of Joshua (2) Griffith, was born in 1782, near Middletown, died at East Homer, New York, September 7, 1864. For many years he followed the sea, and late in life removed to Homer to live with his son, Joshua, and there died at the latter's home in East Homer. His second wife, Anne Allbright, daughter of John and Catherine Allbright, died March 14. 1845, aged fifty-two years. They had one son, Allbright, who went to Illinois where he resided many years. There was also an older son, Joshua, child of his first wife.
(VI) Joshua (3), son of Abraham Griffith, was born in 1806. in Connecticut, died at Fast Homer, New York, December 11, 1874. When a young man he settled in the town of Virgil, Cortland county. New York, whence he re- moved to Truxton, and eventually to East Homer, where he continued to reside until the time of his death, engaged in agriculture. He married (first) Ann Stewart, who died Octo- ber 21, 1843, aged thirty-four years, and ( sec- ond ) Minerva Stewart, a cousin of his first wife. She survived him more than fifteen years, and died February 8, 1890. at the age of eighty- four years. Children of first wife: Abram B .. mentioned below; Lydia, married Lucius E. Brooks; Isaac V., died July 15, 1860, aged twenty-five years: Emily, died November 25, 1843. aged two months. Child of second wife : Stephen D., who died October 16, 1871. aged twenty-two years.
(VII) Abram Brainerd, son of Joshua (3) and Ann (Stewart) Griffith, was born Sep-
tember 6, 1829, in Virgil, died in Homer, March 21, 1900. He was a small boy when his parents settled in Homer and always lived in that portion of the town known as East Homer. His education was supplied by the public schools of the neighborhood, and farm- ing was his life's occupation. For many years he was a member of the board of assessors of the town. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of East Ho.ner, with which he united in early life. llis whole life was remarkable for the consistent Christian char- acter always displayed. Ile married, May 21, 1854, Jane Alexander, born in Giroton, New York. July 13. 1833. died in East Homer, Jan- uary 6, 1894, daughter of W. Isaac Alexander, born January 4, 1808, and Elizabeth R. ( Burt) Alexander. born January 27, 1812. Children : I. Anna, born March 20, 1855 ; married Shep- herd Burnham, of East Homer, and. now re- sides at Dixon, Illinois, where for many years she has been a teacher of elocution : children : Edna, Genevieve, Albert. 2. Charles, 1858: a carpenter by trade; has lived for the past twenty-five years in Florida ; married Nellie Stone, deceased; children : Annie, Lila, Charles. 3. Blanche E., February 10, 1862, died September 25, 1885; married Henry Young, of Syracuse, New York. 4. Burton Smith, mentioned below.
(VIII) Burton Smith, son of Abram Brain- erd and Jane (Alexander ) Griffith, was born December 19, 1869, in East Homer. In early youth he attended the public schools of his native town, subsequently becoming a student of the State Normal School at Cortland, after which he taught school for several terms. On attaining his majority he became a clerk and gained a varied business experience in the em- ploy of merchants of Cortland. East Homer and Truxton, during a period of three years. In 1894 he engaged in business on his own account as a general merchant at New Haven, Oswego county, New York, but was obliged to abandon this at the end of four years on ac- count of the failing health of his father. Re- turning to his native farm he took charge of its operation and after his father's decease purchased the interest of the other heirs and became its sole owner. In 1005 he sold out and became manager of the flour and feed mill at East River, New York, which was owned by the Cortland Wagon Company. In a short time he leased the property for a period of three years and at the expiration of his lease
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became owner of the property by purchase. This is operated by an exceptionally good water power and equipped with modern fit- tings. Since 1909 Mr. Griffith has operated the property with gratifying results, the busi- ness having increased every year until now it is the largest of its kind in this section of the state. Mr. Griffith embraces the religious faith of the Methodist Episcopal church which he attends and supports. In politics he is a Republican, refusing, however, any political offices, preferring to devote his time to his business and home life.
He married, December 14, 1898, Clara Bate- man, of Scriba, Oswego county, New York, born in Lansing, New York, July 6, 1876, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Bateman. Children : Blanche Elizabeth, born July 26, 1904; Doris Isabelle, November 8, 1905 : Francis Burton, April 5. 1908.
EMERSON The Emerson family origin- ated in England, and the first to use the name there was Johannes Emeryson, of Brancepeth parish, county Durham. England, who was born be- fore 1300. From him the various branches of the English family are descended, though the line cannot be traced perfectly.
(I) Thomas Emerson, the English ances- tor, was born before 1540, and was a resi- dent of Great Dunmow, county Essex, where his three children are registered. He was probably son of Ralf of Foxton, who received arms in 1535. Children: Robert, mentioned below; Joan, baptized 1502; John, baptized 1565.
( II ) Robert, son of Thomas Emerson, was born in Great Dunmow and baptized there October 25, 1501. He may be identical with Robert Emerson, of Bishops Stortford, who married there. November 24, 1578, Susan Crabb, who was buried there November 20. 1626, aged seventy years. Robert was buried at Bishops Stortford, January 6, 1620. Chil- dren: Alice, baptized November 22, 1579: Margaret, baptized February 21, 1581-82; Thomas, mentioned below: Anne: Robert, baptized April 12, 1596: John.
( III ) Thomas (2), son of Robert Emerson. was baptized at Bishops Stortford, July 20, 1584. died at Ipswich, Massachusetts, May 1, 1666. In the church warden's book of St. Michaels he is recorded as a collector for the poor in 1636. He was the immigrant ances-
tor and according to family tradition came to New England in the ship "Elizabeth Ann," in 1635. He settled in Ipswich and had a grant of land there in 1638. He married. July 1, 1611, at Bishops Stortford, Elizabeth Brew- ster. The genealogist of the English Emer- sons suggests that she was the daughter of the postmaster of Scrooby and the elder of the colony at Plymouth. Children, as recorded at the baptismal registry of St. Michaels, Bish- ops Stortford, England: Robert, baptized May 24, 1612; Benjamin, October 2, 1614; Ralfe, October 19, 1615, killed by the falling of a tree in June, 1626; James, February 16, 1617; Joseph, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, June 14, 1623 ; John, February 26, 1625, set- tled in Gloucester, Massachusetts ; Thomas ; Nathaniel, July 18, 1630, settled at Ipswich ; Susan, March 17, 1633, may have died on the voyage; Sarah, died August 12, 1640.
(IV) Joseph, son of Thomas (2) Emerson, was born in England and baptized at Bishops Stortford, June 25, 1620. He died at Con- cord, Massachusetts, January 3, 1680. Through his son Joseph he was the ancestor of that most illustrious American, Ralph Wal- do Emerson. The line is: Ralph Waldo (8). William (7). Joseph (6), Edward (5), Jo- seph (4). He married (first ), in 1646, Eliza- beth, daughter of Robert and Margaret Wood- mansey, schoolmaster of Boston. They resided at Ipswich, Massachusetts, York, Maine, and Milton, Massachusetts. Joseph Emerson was a Puritan minister said to have been educated in England. Ile may have studied at Har- vard. He was at Ipswich as early as 1638; was admitted a freeman there December 19. 1648 ; preached at York, Maine, the same year. In 1653 he was a resident of Wells and took the freeman's oath there July 4, 1653. lle signed a petition to Cromwell, while of Wells. asking the Protector to confirm the jurisdiction of Massachusetts over the inhabitants of Wells. About 1664 he left Wells, where he seemed to have a turbulent lot of parishioners, and where the church, after he left, had to disband. About 1664 he became minister at Milton, Massachusetts, December 1, 1660, he settled in Mendon. Massachusetts, where he remained until the town was destroyed by the Indians, when he retired to Concord, where he died. He married ( second ) December 7, 1665, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Edward Bulkeley, of Concord, granddaughter of the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, first minister of Con-
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cord. She was born in 1638, died September 4. 1693, having married Captain John Brown. of Reading. Children of first wife: Joseph and Mary. Children of second wife : Lucian. born October 2, 1667, married, May 15. 1683. Thomas Damon; Edward, mentioned below ; Peter: Ebenezer : Daniel, married. May 19. 1709, Jane Armitage.
(V) Edward, fourth son of Joseph and Elizabeth ( Bulkeley ) Emerson, was born April 26, 1670, in Mendon, died May 9. 1743. in Malden, Massachusetts. He was a school- master in Chelmsford, in 1700, and resided in that town until 1703 when he removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts, and was made surveyor of highways there before the close of that year. From 1705 to 1713 he was in Charlestown and in 1727 he was a merchant in Newbury, Massachusetts. He was dismissed from the church in Charlestown to the Third Church of Newbury, August 3, 1728, and was elected deacon of that church November 4, of the same year. A very devout man he prayed that his posterity might never be cursed with riches and this prayer seems to have been an- siered. He married, January 27, 1697, Re- becca, daughter of Cornelius and Rebecea (Adams) Waldo, of Chelmsford, born Sep- tember 24, 1662, in Ipswich, died April 23. 1752, in Malden, having survived her hus- band almost nineteen years. Children: Jo- seph, Elizabeth, Edward. Hannah, John.
(VI) John, the youngest ehild of Edward and Rebeeea (Waldo) Emerson, was born February 27, 1700, in Chelmsford, died July II, 1774, in Topsfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1726, was or- dained the same year and was settled as pas- tor of the church in Topsfield. November 27. 1728. For forty-six years he continued in charge of the church there. His salary was often in arrears and at one time he made a for- mal proposal to the church for dismissal. This was unanimously opposed and he was per- suaded to remain but the records show that he was frequently in financial distress because of the failure to pay his salary and the depre- ciation in value of the bills of credit in which he was paid. In 1758 the third church edifice of the parish was built. It was raised July 4. of that year, one hundred men participating in the labor of rearing the frame. The select- men were authorized to provide for this oc- casion one barrel of rum and eleven barrels of cider. The house cost seven hundred and
forty-three pounds, ten shillings and seven and three-quarter pence. He married, Octo- ber 23, 1729. Elizabeth Pratt, born about 1708- 10 in Malden, probably a daughter of John and Sarah (Dispar) Pratt, of Malden. She died April 1, 1790, in Topsfield. Children : Elizabeth, John, Rebecca, Thomas, Mary, Ed- ward, Dorcas, Abigail, Elihu, Hannah, Dor- othy, Joseph, died young, Joseph, Ebenezer, Cornelius, Sarah.
(\'Il) Elihu, fourth son of John and Eliza- beth ( Pratt ) Emerson, was born December 19, 1743. in Topsfield, died June 2, 1781, in Norwich, Vermont. He was a farmer and country merchant residing many years in Westfield. Massachusetts, whence he removed to Norwich. He married, in 1766, Mary, daughter of Ezra and Margaret Clapp, of Westfield, born about 1750. She married (second) Major Daniel Pomeroy, who in- herited from his father the Red Tavern at Northampton, Massachusetts. After his death in 1808 she continued to maintain the popular- ity of the Inn. Children: William, Electa, John. Elihu, Joseph, Theodore, Mary, Henry, Thomas.
(VIII ) William, eldest child of Elihu and Mary (Clapp) Emerson, was born May 4, 1767, in Westfield, died June 17. 1846, in Massena. New York. He resided many years in Windsor. Vermont, whence he removed to Massena. He married, September 18, 1791, Submit, daughter of Captain Samuel and Mar- tha ( Pratt ) Drake, born January 15, 1772, in Hartford, Connecticut, died November 27, 1841. Children : William, Julia, Electa, Laura, Samuel Drake, Francis M., William, Mary P., Martha, Susan Houston, Clarissa.
( EX ) Julia, eldest daughter of William and Submit (Drake) Emerson, was born April 1, 1794, and married, January 22, 1817, Eben- ezer (2) Brewer ( see Brewer HI). She died January 4, 1882.
The surname Cowdrey or COWDREY Cowdery is derived from the French, meaning "Hazel Tree," or "Hazel Grove." The name has been variously spelled Coudrill, Coudrette, Coud- rail, Coudre, Coudraie, Coudrier, ete., in Franee, and in England it is spelled Cowdery, Cowdrey and Cowdray. In the town of Mid- hurst, eounty Sussex. England, about fifty miles from London, the old family seat is sit- uated, and it is still known as Cowdrey Cas-
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tle, although it is not in possession of the family. The Park is composed of six hundred acres of land, and the castle was very beautiful and imposing before a fire destroyed the in- terior. For many years the Cowdrey family owned this fine estate, and as early as 1304 Thomas de Cowdray held it. The following coat-of-arms is taken from Berry's County Genealogies, Hampshire, Visitation of 1634: "Gules, ten billets, four, three, two and one. or." Crest : "Out of a ducal coronet, or, a dexter arm, in armour, embowed, ppr. gar- nished of the first, holding in the gauntlet an anchor sa. stock gold, the cable entwined round the arm of the third."
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