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(1) John Moss, of New Haven. The first four generations of his race spelled the name Moss, and many of his descend- ants have retained this spelling to the pres- ent day, although the majority of them have adopted Morse. The exact date of his birthi is unknown. some authorities giving it as near 1619, while others claim he was one hundred and three years old at the time of his death, in 1707. He was one of the noble band who founded New Haven, Connecti- cut, and was much esteemed for his high quality of courage, his excellent judgment in matters relating to the common welfare, his firmness of character, his piety and perse- verance. His advice and counsel were sought by the wisest and holiest men of his day. and he was in the highest sense a godly Puritan, ready to perform his full duty at
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all times. His fellow citizens honored him in many ways, and he was one of the most prominent men of New Haven at the time of its settlement. He was one of the mem- bers of the first general court in 1639-40. He was often called upon to advocate a case in the civil courts ; on the union of New Haven with Connecticut he was repeatedly sent to the general court at Hartford, and was appointed a magistrate. When part of New Haven was set apart as Walling- ford, March 11, 1609, he became one of the committee to manage all the plantation af- fairs of the latter place, the other members being Samuel Street, John Brockett, Abra- ham Doolittle. They were to dispose and distribute the allotments in such equal man- ner as was best suited to the condition of the place and the inhabitants thereof, and to use the best means in their power to se- cure a fit man to dispense the word of God. The name of John Moss was prominently identified with all the leading measures of the village of Wallingford, and he was as- signed the second home lot, near the south end of Main street. on the east side. He was prominent in both state and church af- fairs, and was well fitted by natural ability and experience to take his place among the rulers of the new town. Children born to John Moss: John, baptized January 1I, 1639. died young: Samuel, born April 4, 1641: Abigail. April 10, 1642; Rev. Jo- seph, November 6, 1643 : Ephraim, Novem- Ler 6. 1645. probably died young : Mary, April 11. 1647; Mercy; John, October 12, 1650: Elizabeth. October 12. 1652: Hester, June 16, 1654: Isaac, July 1, 1655, died in 1659.
( Il) Mercy, son of John Moss, was bap- tized at New Haven, April 1. 1649, and his inventory was given at New Haven, March 3. 1684-85, by Joseph Mo-s and John Al- ling. He left a house, barn and two lots, one fifty-seven acres and the other eighty- two acres. He was one of the proprietors of New Haven, and also lived at Walling- ford. By his wife Elizabeth he had two
children : John and William: the latter born June 28, 1680, settled at Derby, Connecti- cut, and with his brother John inherited property in New Haven.
(III ) John (2), eldest son of Mercy and Elizabeth Moss, was baptized January 7, 1677, and died in 1723, while on a trip to Hartford. He lived at New Haven, Con- necticut ; Jamaica. Long Island, and Strat- ford, Connecticut. He married, December 22, 1707. Jane. daughter of Stephen Thompson, who died at Stratford, Decem- ber 28, 1743. Children: Mary, born De- cember 5, 1708; Lieutenant John ; Elizabeth, died September 6. 1743: Joanna, Mehitable, died October 4, 1743: Captain Joseph, born April 13. 1720; Jane, born May 22, 1723. .(IV) Lieutenant John (3), son of John (2) and Jane ( Thompson ) Moss, was born about 1710, at Jamaica. Long Island, and resided at Stratford. He died February 3. 1789, and is buried in the cemetery at Mon- roe. He married ( first ) a Miss Sabine. and ( second ) Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah ( Jeanes ) Salmon, born about 1729. Thomas Salmon came from London. England. to build the first Episcopal church at Stratford. He owned lands now within the city of London. Mrs. Moss died April 29. 1785. in her sixty-ninth year, and is buried by the side of her husband. Child- ren : John. William. Daniel, Sarah, born 1742: Joseph. Nancy, born 1744: Jane, Ma- bel, Betsey ( Elizabeth ) and Isaac (twins). born April 1. 1755 : Elihu. January 22. 1759.
(V) Daniel, son of Jehn (3) Moss, was born June 27. 1740, at Stratford, and gradu- ated from Yale College in 1767. He was a merchant and farmer, and was engaged during the revolution in furnishing supplies to the American army. The great deprecia- tion in colonial currency very much reduced his fortune, and he practically made a new start in Fairfield, Vermont, where he settled soon after the revolution and died January 3. 1822. The revolutionary rolls show that Daniel Mess was a member . i Colonel Wyl- lis' regiment in the campaign about New
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York, and was reported missing September 15, 1776. He appears as a private in the Sixth Regiment, Connecticut line. for the year 1777, enlisting January 4 that year, and credited to New Haven. The pay roll for the year 1,81 also includes his name for the entire year. He married. June 27. 1766. Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Hollingsworth) Mun-on: she was born June 22, 1752, and died March 1, 1844. Children : Betsey, born May 18. 1777: Wil- liam, October 2. 1778. died unmarried at Sheldon, Vermont, May 8, 1805: Rebecca. born July 11. 178o. married Samuel Weed : Lydia, April 28. 1781. died May 25. 1782: Lydia, born April 3. 1783. married David Barlow: Daniel. mentioned below : Fanny, born October 31. 1790. married Samuel Mead.
( VI) Daniel ( 2), only son of Daniel ( 1) and Rebecca ( Munson) Moss, was born October 10, 1785. in Fairfield, and died there April 6, 1800. He was a farmer and a prominent citizen of the community. He married, January 19. 1812. Adelia, daugh- ter of Thomas and Clarissa ( Cone) North- rup, who was born April IS. 1794. and died March 13. 1807. Children: Rebecca, horn October 18. 1813. married Bailey B. Nel- son : Harmon, horn November 15, 1815, at Cambridge. Vermont : Thomas and North- rup ( twins ). born August 1. 1819. Harmon Morse was a very capable man and exer- cised much influence in bis section. He was father of Professor Anson D. Morse, of Am- herst College, and Dr. Harmon More, of Johns Hopkins University.
of a general store in Malone, and subse- quently kept a retail shoe store there. He retired soon after 1880, and died October 30, 1888. He was a member of the Con- gregational church, of the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows, and an active Republi- can in politics, though not an office seeker. He married. April 17. 1844. Julia Isabelle, daughter of Rev. Ashbel Parmelee, of Ma- lone. (See Parmelee, VI. ) Of their six children, three are living: 1. Frances D., deceased: was wife of Sidney Warren, re- siding at Irving. Kansas. 2. Albert, died in childhood. 3. Daniel P .. mentioned below. 4. William, in business in New York City; resides at Hackensack, New Jersey. 5. Har- riet, married at Malone, New York, to F. M. Heath, of that town; resides in Califor- nia. 6. Alfred, died in boyhood.
(VIH ) Daniel Parmelee, eldest surviving son of Northup and Julia ( Parmelee ) Morse, was born April 6, 1852. in Malone, where he spent his boyhood. He graduated from the public school, and was a student at the Franklin Academy at Malone. At the age of sixteen years he began his busi- ness career as a clerk in his father's store. and in 1872, when twenty years of age, went to New York City. There he found employment in the wholesale shoe store of Benedict Hall & Company, and after six years' service became a partner in the firm. After another period of six years he formed a partnership with Frank E. Roger- and established an independent business under the style of Morse & Rogers. This was in- corporated in 1896 under the same name, and Mr. Morse is now president of the company. Ilis energy and business capacity have contributed much to the development of this establishment. one of the largest in the wholesale trade in the country, enjoying a large foreign trade in addition to its dh -- mestic business. and having offices in the West Indies and Central America. Mr. Morse is also president of the Edwin C. Burt Company, of Brooklyn, manufacpir-
(VII) Northrup Moise, a twin son of Daniel (2) and Adelia ( Northrup) Moss, was born August 1. 1819. in Fair- field, where he grew up on the farm, and received such education a- was provided by the common school. As a boy he became clerk in a general store in his native town, and before attaining his majority removed to Malone, New York, where he was occu- pied in a similar manner. Abort the time that he became of age he was propriet r ers of the celebrated Burt shoes. He is a
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director of the Irving Exchange National Bank, the Manufacturers' Trust Company, the Merchants' Association, and the North- port Electric Light Company, the latter con- cern being located near his home in Hunt- ington, Long Island. Mr. Morse is presi- dent of the Franklin County Society in New York, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Union League and Ark- wright Clubs of New York, and the Ham- ilton and Lincoln Clubs of Brooklyn, and also of the Northport Yacht Club. He is a trustee of the Clinton Avenue Congrega- tional Church of Brooklyn, and an active Republican in polities, though he has never accepted any official position. A man of genial and social nature and pleasing man- ners, he is most democratic in habit and en- joys the esteem of all who are brought in contact with him. He married. December 4. 1878. Adelia Zabriski Terhune. born February 9, 1858. in Hackensack. New Jer- sey, daughter of Richard and Lydia ( Ack- erman ) Terhune, of that place. descendants of the oldest families of New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Morse have had three sons and a daughter, namely: Raymond Parmelee. Henry New, Marjory and Daniel Parmelee (2). The daughter Marjory is deceased. Raymond P. is superintendent of the Edwin
C Burt Company's factory in Brooklyn. Henry N. is in the employ of Morse & Rog- ers. Both are graduates of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School, and of Cor- nell University. Daniel P. is now a student at Brooklyn Preparatory School.
The ancestry of Mrs. Morse is traced to the French Huguenots, who removed from France to Holland before the Revocation of the Ediet of Nantes. The first of record in New Amsterdam ( New York ), was Al- bert Albertse, who was found there February 16, 1654. His second son. Albert. was bap- tized in the Dutch Reformed church at New Amsterdam. August 16. 1651, and was a farmer in Flatlands, Long Island. He was father of Richard .Dirck), who was born in Polifly, New Jersey. His son. Captain
Nicholas, was born in Hackensack, January 15. 1736, and was father of Richard Nicho- las, born October 21, 1763. in Hackensack. His fifth son, Peter Richard, was born July 5. 1803. on the homestead in Lodi, New Jersey, and married. September 1, 1824. Maria Brinckerhoff, born February 18, 1806. daughter of Ralph and granddaughter of Richard Brinkerhoff, of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Their eldest child. Richard Paul, was born April 4, 1828, and died June 4, 1802. He married, July 26, 1849. Sophia Euphemia Ackerman, born May 9. 1829. died November 9. 1900, daughter of Henry Lawrence and Lydia ( Schoonmaker ) Ackerman. The Ackerman and Zabriskie families, with whom the Terhunes are in- termarried. were among the oldest in New Jersey, and are treated extensively in the Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, published in 1910, by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company. publishers of the present work.
The name Terhune was evidently an epi- thet or characterization applied to the de- seendants of Albert Albertse before surnames were in general use among the inhabitants of New Amsterdam. Albertse simply means son of Albert, and was never a real sur- name. Most of the Dutch immigrants in New Amsterdam followed this system, and adopted surnames some time after the set- tlement of New York.
AUSTIN Robert Austin, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England and settled in Kingstown, Rhode Island. His name appears under date of September 15. 1001. in a list of sixty-five persons, residents of Newport. Portsmouth and Kingstown mostly, who were to have lots at the new settlement of Misquamicut ( Westerly). The lots were twelve rods by eighty, and each man was to pay seven pounds. Austin had lot twelve. but never settled at Westerly. He died before 1687. Children : Jeremiah, lived at King -- town and Exeter, Rhode Island; Edward,
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mentioned below; Joseph, a blacksmith at Kingstown; John, lived at Kingstown.
( II) Edward, son of Robert Austin, lived at Kingstown, and died about 1731. Children : Edward, mentioned below : John (?), married Priscilla Weathers.
(III) Edward (2), son of Edward (1) Austin, died before 1749. He married Isa- bel, daughter of William and Priscilla Har- dy. Edward was complained of by his mother-in-law December 28. 1730, saying that she could not live peaceably with him. He sold land April 20, 1742. He died before April 24. 1749. when his widow, Isa- bel, and two sons, Thomas and Jedediah, were ordered to appear before the town councils, as the sons were to be bound out as apprentices.
( IV ) Jedediah, son of Edward (2) Aus- tin, was born about 1730-35. The records give no account of his family. The birth records of but a comparatively small part of the family are found in the town books. The only characteristic name preserved in the family was Jedediah. He was apprenticed young, and may have named his children for his wife's family or for the family in which he was brought up.
(\') Silas, believed to be the son of Jedediah Austin, was born in Kent county. Rhode Island, in 1753. The name Silas came from the Greenman family, and it is almost certain that his mother was a grand- daughter of Edward Greenman, son of John Greenman, the immigrant. John had two sons, David and Edward. and a daughter, Content Greenman. Edward Greenman had two grandsons named Silas. Silas Austin was a soldier in the revolution. He married Sarah, daughter of David Crandall. Aus- tin removed to Little Hoosick, Massachu- setts, and thence to Dutchess county where he lived several years and reared a large family. He removed from Dutchess county to Harrisburg. Lewis county, New York, in 1805, and resided there until his death in 1813 of the prevailing epidemic. black ery- sipelas. He was buried at Copenhagen, New
York. His widow, Sarah Crandall Aus- tin, born in 1754, died in 1829, aged sev- enty-five years, and was buried in the Aus- tin cemetery in Denmark. She had a kind and benevolent disposition and was beloved by all who knew her. Children : Grinman ( mentioned below ), Silas, Sarah, Beriah, Agrippa, Elizabeth, Mary and Eunice (twins ), Lucy and Alva.
(V) Jonathan, brother of Silas Austin, born in March, 1755, in Kent county, Rhode Island: married, April 13, 1783. Mercy Goodspeed, of the same town. He removed to Dutchess county, and about 1804 to Har- risburg, New York, where he raised a large family. He was a soldier in the revolution and drew a pension late in life. Children : Isaac, Jonathan, Jedediah, Eda, Nathan, Ho- sea. Mercy. Freeman, Elenor, Cynthia, Nehemiah and King. Silas and Jonathan Austin had two sisters, born and married in Rhode Island. Jonathan Austin died Oc- tober 13, 1842, aged about eighty-seven, and was buried in the Austin cemetery ; his wife, Mercy, died August 30, 1838, aged about seventy-two, and was also buried there.
(VI) Grinman, son of Silas Austin, was born in Richmond, Rhode Island. October 29. 1773. His personal name is undoubt- edly from the surname Greenman, a fam- ily living in the same towns with the Aus- tins in Rhode Island and doubtless con- nected by marriage. Grinman married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Holley, of Beek- man. Dutchess county, New York, where she was born March 10, 1777. Grinman Austin came from Dutchess county to Den- mark with his family in 1807, and located on a tract of land, then a wilderness, which he cleared. and on which he erected suitable buildings. His farm was two miles south of the village of Denmark, on the hill on the road leading to the No. 3 road. and is now owned in part by C. J. Twining and Judson Lasher. Grinman was for several years engaged in making potash and pearl- ash, which at that time were about the only articles of commerce sold by the set-
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tlers. He had a fair education and taught school while living in Dutchess county. His wife, Sarah, died in Denmark, May 17, 1813, of black erysipelas, aged thirty-five years, six months. She was buried in the Austin cemetery. He married (second). August 28. 1784. Catherine Skuyver, widow of Hiram Burr. She was born at Johns- town, New York, August 28. 1784. Grin- man died September 21, 1834, aged nearly sixty-one years; his wife. Catherine. died of apoplexy, August 9. 1872, aged eighty- seven years, eleven months. and both are buried in the Austin cemetery, a short dis- tance from their old home. Children of first wife, born at Beekinan, Dutchess coun- ty. New York : 1. Joshua, January 7, 1797, mentioned below. 2. Betsey, April 6, 1798. 3. Jarvis. February 23. 1800. 4. Nursilla, December 11, 1803. 5. Seneca, August 22, 1805. 6. Crandall, August 6. 1807. 7. Harrison, July 22, 1809, at Denmark. 8. Sarah. January 24. 1813. at Denmark. Chil- dren of second wife : 9. Silas, born May 26, 1815. 10. Fanny, March 28. 1817. 1I. Hiram, March 29. 18ty. 12. Alva, May 6, 1823. 13. Jane Maria, July 1, 1821. 14. Martin, February 5, 1826.
(VII) Joshua, son of Grinman Austin. was born at Beekman, New York. January 7. 1797, and came to Denmark with the family when he was ten years old. He worked with his father in clearing the farni and building the house and barns. He was employed for a year or more by A. M. Nor- ton, a prominent merchant of Denmark, then by Albert Vedder, who conducted a hotel on the farm now owned by H. E. Cock. This was during the exciting period of the war of 1812, when companies and regiments of soldiers were constantly pass- ing through the town with heavy ordnance and other munitions of war. He married February 28, 1828. Irene Anderson, born in Cummington. Hampshire county, Mas- sachusetts. August 12. 1801. daughter of Joseph and Hannah ( Packard ) Anderson. of Denmark. Her father was born in Hing-
ham, Plymouth county, Massachusetts. April 12, 1755, and enlisted in the Continental army when he was but eighteen years old. He was in the command of Colonel Ethan Allen, May 10, 1775. when Fort Ticonde- roga was surprised and taken, was in the siege of Crown Point, and in the battle of Bunker Hill. and was in service through- out the war and present at the surrender of Cornwallis in 1783. He was a private in Captain Posey's company, General Wheel- er's division. Anderson came with his fani- ily from Cummington in June, 1804, and settled in the wilderness on No. 3 road, a mile south of what is now the village of Copenhagen. At that time he had eleven children. Irene being the youngest. His brother-in-law. John Scott Clark, who mar- ried his sister. Celia Anderson, in Cumming- ton. came at the same time and settled on the farm since owned by Hon. Nathan Clark. on the West road. Joshua Austin settled in 1830 on what is now known as Austin street, and cleared a farm. His wife died October 3, 1805. aged sixty-four years. She was an ideal wife and mother, highly esteemed in the community for her many Christian virtues. She was buried in the family plot in Riverside cemetery at Copen- hagen. Joshua Austin died on the farm. January 5. 1871, aged seventy-five. He and his wife were members in good standing in the Methodist Episcopal church, Chil- dren: 1. Curtis Joshua, born at Denmark. December 20. 1828: taught school several Years: was a farmer in Pinckney, where he died in April. 1886: married Adaline S. Daggett, of Denmark, April 20, 1851 : she survived him a few years ; their only sur- viving child is George Austin, a farmer at Rutland. New York, who married Jennie Roberts, of Copenhagen, and has no chil- dren. 2. Annie Irene, July 24. 1833. in Denmark: died in Lorraine Huddle, Jef- ferson county, New York. December 20. 1856: daughter. Mrs. Brayton Stafford, of Harrisburg. 3. Franklin Duane, mentioned below.
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(VIII) Franklin Duane, son of Joshua Austin, was born at Denmark, December 1, '1840. He attended the district school until he was sixteen years old and studied several years in the Carthage and Lowville acade- mies. He graduated from the Watertown Commercial College, October 17. 1866. As a student he showed the greatest proficiency in mathematical science and English compo- sition. He became associate proprietor of the Lowville Commercial College, October 20, 1866, and was instructor in commercial branches at that institution during the suc- ceeding fall and winter. From 188o to 1884 he was engaged in growing and sell- ing seeds and vegetable plants. Mr. Aus- tin has been prominent in the temperance movement, and an earnest advocate of total abstinence. He j. inel Evening Star Lodge, No. 750. Independent Order of Good Temp- lars, as a charter member. November II. 1868, was secretary and worthy chief temp- lar several terms. was lodge deputy from August 3. 1871. until November 5. 1873. when the lodge surrendered its charter. He was frequently elected a delegate to gath- erings of county and state lodges of Good Templars. He was treasurer of Lewis Coun- ty Lodge, No. S. 1872, and has served as inspector and clerk of elections several times. He was appointed a notary public March 31. 1883. and has been reappointed every two years since then, making twenty- seven consecutive years that he has held that office.
He initiated the movement to celebrate the Centennial of Lewis county by petition to the board of supervisors and agitating the subject in the newspapers. The exer- cises were held at Forest Park. Lowville. and he was appointed town historian on that occasion. He has devoted much time to his- torical research, and is a recognized author- ity on the early history of the town and vi- cinity, and has collected a large amount of valuable historical matter. He has been a member of the New York State Historical Association several years. He is the only
descendant and representative of two promi- nent pioneer families of Denmark-families who assisted with industry and indomitable courage in clearing the forests where now are fertile fields, and who aided with integ- rity and patriotism in laying the founda- tions of business, church, school. society and government in the community. He has been always a staunch Republican, though some- times constrained to vote against his own party when he believed public interests de- manded it. He was one of the vice-presi- dents of the Harrison and Morton Republi- can Club, of Copenhagen, in 1888, and sec- retary of the Republican League Club. of Copenhagen, in 1904. He is well known among the newspaper men of the county. He has been a local correspondent for the Jouer- na! and Republican, Lowville Times, Lewis County Democrat, Watertown Post: Black River Gazette, Croghan News, Turin Ga- sette. Lewis County Leader, Carthage Tri- bune, American Cultivator, Copenhagen News, Sced Time and Harvest, and the American Agriculturist. His news items and articles are always reliable, crisply writ- ten, and to the point. He has done much clerical work requiring skill and accuracy. He has been a ready scribe and accountant on all occasions, and has kept the books for a large number of cheese factories in this section, and has never been known to make an error. He was appointed census enumer- ator for his district in 1905 when the state census was taken : also in 1910 for the same district when the federal census was taken. He has always taken a lively interest in public affairs and in state and national poli- tics, and probably has the most complete library of state and national reports and documents and government publications to be found in Lewis county.
He married. March 13, 1872, Mary Me- lissa, daughter of Thomas and Louisa ( Greene ) Murphy, of Champion, New York. Children, born at Denmark : 1. Stan- ton Duane. mentioned below. 2. Grace Irene. June 13. 1878; married. November
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25, 1903, Lynn C. Vary. of Harrisburgh; child. Lyle Edward Vary, born August 22, 1909. 3. Charles Rea, born June 17, 1880: married October 28. 1903. Mary Louisa Clark. of Harrisburg: child. Helen Molly, born May 13. 1906. 4. Clark Emerson. born March 4, 1891 : died October 9. 1891. ( IX ) Stanton Duane, son of Franklin Duane Austin, was born December 11, 1873. at Denmark, New York. He attended the district school until he was fifteen, and the Copenhagen high school several years, was a studious and diligent pupil and made rapid progress, graduating from the teachers' training class August 1, 1897. He taught school several years at Housville, Martins- burg village and other places, was principal of the Hail-boro Union school for two years, and has been principal of the Union high school at Barneweld. Oneida county, New York, in the past three years. He was vice-president of the Oneida County Teachers' Association in 1909. and president in 1910. He was a student in the State Normal school at Potsdam in 1906. taking a classical normal course. He has always been especially proficient in mathematics and the natural sciences, and his reputation as a successful teacher is high.
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