Genealogical and family history of northern New York : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume II, Part 48

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 994


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(I ) James Legan. a descendant of the Antrim county family, was born in Ulster. Ireland. In his youth he was a shepherd. He came to this country when a young man and located first at Croyle's Island, and fol- lowed farming. Later he settled on Goose Neck Island, town of Louisville, St. Law-


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rence county, New York, and lived there until his death. In religion he was Presby- terian; in politics Republican. He mar- ried Grecia Hunter, also a native of the north of Ireland. Children : Hugh. James, John, Samuel, Mary, Susan and Henrietta.


(II) James (2), son of James ( 1) Lo- gan, was born in the north of Ireland. 1816. and attended the schools of his native town. He was sixteen years old when he came to this country in 1832, and he worked first on a farm on Goose Neck Island. In 1862 he removed to Waddington. New York. where he acquired a farm of one hundred and eighty acres. He made a specialty of his dairy and breeding horses. especially Grey Eagle Colts, as they were called. IIe was a prosperous farmer and useful citizen. He continued active until his death in 1874 at Waddington. He was a member of the Presbyterian church: a Republican in poli- tics. He married Elizabeth, born in 1821 at Croyle's Island. Louisville. New York. . daughter of William Allison, a native of Scotland. She is now living at an ad- vanced age at Waddington. New York. Children: 1. James Hunter, born Jure. 1847. mentioned bel w. 2. Euphemia, lives with her widowed mother on the homestead at Waddington. 3. William, a civil engi- neer, lives in Peterlorough. Ontario. 4. Agnes, married William Short, a farmer of Waddington: children: Jane and Harriet Short. 5. Thomas, a farmer at Wadding- ton : married Nettie Denn and has children : Ruth, Irene and Lloyd. 6. Ettie, lives on the homestead with her mother, brother and sister. 7. Samuel A., has the homestead : married Mary Lone: children: James and Margaret. 8. Henry, a farmer at Wad- dington: married Margaret Taylor: chil- dren : Stuart. Edwin and Bower. 9. George A. (q. v.). 10. Gordon, a journalist. on the staff of the New York Herald. II. Bower, deceased. 12. Mary. a stenog- rapher, New York City.


(III) Captain James Hunter, son of


James (2) Logan, was born at Goose Neck Island, Louisville, St. Lawrence county, New York, in June, 1847. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town. He has been engaged in the steam- boat traffic on the St. Lawrence river most of his life. and was engaged in the towing business between Kingston and Montreal for a number of years. For three years he was in the employ of the Canadian Express Company. running between Montreal and Toronto. For eight years he was a con- tractor at Montreal, furnishing sand from the pumps for building purposes in the city. In later years he had charge of various steam yachts for private parties at Wad- dington, and he was the owner and master of a freight boat plying between Wadding- ton and Ogdensburg. In the spring of 1910 Captain Logan seld his boating interests to the Norfolk & St. Lawrence Railroad. In politics he is a Republican, and he has been president of the incorporated village of Waddington. He is a member of Wal- dington Lo lge. No. 393, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Waddington Lodge of For- esters. In religion he is a Presbyterian. He married. in 188;, Minnie Liza, born in Waddington, daughter of Conrad and Eliza ( Pratt ) Kentner. Her father was born in Canada in 1828 and died in 1877: her grand father was a native of Germany. Chil- dren. born at Waddington : Helen ard Grace.


( III ) George Allison, sixth son of James (2) and Elizabeth ( Allison) Logan, was burn May 26, 1867. in Waddington, and received his primary education in the pub- lie schools of that town. He subsequently became a student of the preparatory depart- ment of Oberlin College. and entered St. Lawrence University, at Canton. New York. from which he was graduated in 1801. He attendel the New York Law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1900, beginning practice immediately thereafter in Bro k- lyn. Greater New York, where he has c !!. tinued ever since. with gratifying pr f --


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sonal success. Since January 1, 1909, he has been a member of the law firm of Cald- well. Logan & Holmes, with offices in Tem- de Bar, opposite the City Hall. Mr. Logan Huis undertaken no specialty in the law, but engages in general practice, and enjoys the respect and esteem of courts and contempo- raries. He is a member of the Montauk and University clubs of Brooklyn, and of the Masonic order, having been raised in Waddington Lodge, and now affiliates with Baltic Lodge, No. 384. of Brooklyn. He is a steadfast Republican in political principle. and rendered two years' service as secretary to Commissioner Young in the department of parks, of Brooklyn.


MUNN Benjamin Munn, the immigrant ancestor, was a resident of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1639. and was a soldier in the Pequot war in 1637. Ile removed to Springfieldl. Massachusetts, where he was living in 1649, and was a proprietor in 1651. In 1663 he was fined ten shilling's "for taking tobacco on his hay "cock." In 1665. "being very aged and weak," he was exempted from military ser- vice. He was probably killed by the In- dians in November, 1675. He married, .April 2, 1649, Abigail, daughter of Henry Burt and widow of Francis Ball. She mar- ried ( third ) December 14. 1676. Lieuten- att Thomas Stebbins, of Springfield. Chil- dren : Abigail, born June 28. 1650: John. February 8. 1651-52, mentioned below ; Mary, married Nathaniel Wheeler : Benja- min. born March 25. 1654: James. Febru- ary 10, 1655-56: Nathaniel. July 20. 1661. ( II) John, son of Benjamin Munn, was Jorn February 8. 1651-52, and settled in Westfield. He was in the Falls fight. where he lost his horse, saddle and bridle, for which he asked pay, and said that he was "under a wasting sickness which he con- tracted in the Falls fight." In another pe- tition in 1683 he says "he is in a sad con- dition by reason of a surfiet got at the Falls fight, and it will through him into an ineur-


able consumption." He died September 16, 1684. He married. December 23. 1680, Abigail. daughter of Benjamin Parsons, of Springfield. She married ( second) Oc- tober 7, 1686. John Richards, schoolmaster, who removed to Deerfield. Children : John. born March 16. 1681-82; Benjamin, men- tioned below.


(III) Benjamin, son of John Munn, was born in 1683. and was a carpenter by trade. He removed to Deerfield with his mother. and in 1704 was living in a half under- ground house in a side hill on his step- father Richards' land. On an Indian at- tack. Richards' youngest daughter was cap- tured and the rest of the family barely escaped, and his house was burned. Munn's house was so covered with snow that it escaped notice, and he, with his wife and baby, remained undisturbed. He was a sol- dier in the French war, and served as se- lectman. Late in life he removed to North- field, where he died February 5, 1774, aged ninety-one.


Benjamin Munn married, January 18, 1702-03. Thankful Nims, who died July II. 17.46, daughter of Godfrey Nims. Children : Thankful, born January 12, 1703-04; Mary, December 7. 1705; Benjamin, May 26. ITOS. died January II. 1709: Benjamin, born July 3. 1700: John, March 16, 1712, mentioned below: Rebecca. December 10, 1714. died January 24, 1715: Abigail. Jan- uary 9. 1717 : Samuel. September 14, 1719; Rebecca, April 14. 1722: Sarah. November 14. 1724: Leroy. June 1. 1728.


(IV) Jchn (2), son of Benjamin Munn, was born at Deerfield, March 16, 1712. He was a soldier at Fort Dummer in 1730-36. and removed to that part of the town now Northfield. and died there April 5. 1765. He married Mary. daughter of William Holton. of Northfield: she died January 8. 1768. He married (second), October 23. 1760. Eunice. daughter of Joseph Clesson. Children : John, born November 16. 1741: Mary. November 30, 1743: Noah. April 17. 1746: Oliver, April 24, 1748: Abigail,


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March 3, 1750: Sarah, June 7. 1752; Seth. mentioned below : Elisha, 1755.


(V) Seth, son of John (2) Munn, was born at Gill, Massachusetts, and baptized May 5, 1754. He died there February 13. 1808, aged fifty-four, according to the town record. He married Selima ---. He was a soldier in the revolution, a private in Captain Bela Proctor's company, Lieuten- ant-Colonel Williams' regiment, sent to re- inforce the northern army in August, 1777. He was in the Continental army July - 7, 1780, when his age is given as twenty-five years ; height, five feet eleven inches: com- plexion, dark; residence. Northfield. He was in Captain Samuel Flower's company, Colonel John Greaton's regiment, in 1780, and later in Captain Joseph Crocker's com- pany. Colonel Greaton's regiment, at Camp Totaway, and at West Point. In 1790 the first federal census shows Simon, Noah. John and Seth Munn heads of families in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Seth had two sons under sixteen and two females in his family. John. Noah and Simon were broth- ers. Children. born at Gill: Otis. Septem- ber 28, 1784. mentioned below: Seth, Au- gust 15. 1789: Sylvia, May 21. 1792: Orra, February 17. 1703: Obadiah, October 26. 1797: Sophy, died November 17, 1805.


(VI) Otis, son of Seth Munn, was born at Gill, formerly Greenfield, Massachusetts, September 28. 1784. Ile married Malenda --- , and had a daughter. Sophia S., who died April 8. 1810. aged twenty -two months. He married ( second ) Parmelia Jennings, of Greenfield. April 15. 1815. Soon after his marriage he removed to Rochester. New York, where he purchased a large tract of land near Carthage Landing. He was there but a short time when he removed to Greig. Lewis county, New York, selling his farm at Rochester. He followed his trade as carpenter and bridge builder many years. He sold his farm at Greig and removed to Leyden. New York, about 1830. and bought another farm there, which he cultivated for forty years afterward. He died . August 31.


1880; his wife. Parmelia, died May 5, 1876. Children: 1. Franklin Lyon, born October 2. 1816, died December 29. 1847. 2. Mar- garet J .. born February 25, 1819: married Francis W. Northrop, of Lowville. 3. Mary B .. August 20, 1821 ; married Wal- ter Whittlesey, of Lyons Falls; died March 25. 1860. 4. Chester J .. July 16, 1824. 5. George W., October 6, 1827: died August 23. 1839. 6. Helen M .. February 9, 1830; died October 30. 1863: married Henry Shedd, of Lyons Falls. 7. Thaddeus Eu- gene, mentioned below.


(VII) Thaddeus Eugene, son of Otis Munn, was born July 29, 1835. His early life was spent on the homestead, and he attended the common schools. He entered Lowville Academy under Professor May- hew and was a student there two years and a half. He then entered the employ of F. W. Northrop as clerk in his general store at Lowville, and after a year went with his employer to Zanesville, Ohio, where he worked during the next two years as clerk in the dry goods store that Mr. Northrep established there. Upon his return he took a preparatory course at Fairfield, Herkimer county, New York, and afterward at Williston Seminary. Easthampton, Massa- chusetts. He entered Union College in the second term of the freshman year and graduated in the class of 1861. During the next four years, through the eventful struggle of the civil war, he devoted much of his time to public speaking at patriotic meetings held to raise funds and secure volunteers. He won a reputation for ability as a public speaker and as an earnest and able supporter of the Union. He was a Republican. but never an office seeker. though he was often called to places of honor and responsibility. He was elected supervisor of the town in 1870, and held the office six consecutive terms. He mar- ried. September 3. 1868. Adeline Baker. born September 23. 1836, daughter of Thomas and Louise ( Shaw) Baker of Tal- cottville.


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(VIII) Thaddeus Eugene, only child of Thaddeus Eugene Munn, was born May 13, 180%). He attended the Peekskill ( New York) Military Academy, the Clinton ( New York ) grammar school, and the Williston Seminary, Easthampton, graduating in the class of 1889. After traveling for a time he returned to his home and has been occu- pied largely in the management of his father's estate. He is an active and useful citizen, well known and highly respected in the community.


He married, at Boonville, New York, June 23, 1897, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Peter J. and Bridget ( Holmes) Barrow. She had a brother, John Barrow, who died at the age of seven years; a brother Frank P. Barrow: brothers Peter F. and James P .: and sister Kate Barrow. Thaddeus Eugene and Mary E. Munn have had one child, Otis. born November 11. 1901.


Zachary Bicknell, immi- BICKNELL grant ancestor of the Bicknell family in Ameri- ca, came from England early in the spring of 1635, and landed at Wessaguscus, now Weymouth, Massachusetts, within the lim- its of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He came with the Rev. Joseph Hull and one hundred and one others, mostly from Somerset and Derset, in the southwest part of England. The ship's record is as follows: "Zachary Bicknell, aged 45 yeare. Agnis Bicknell, his wife, aged 27 yeare. Jno. Bicknell, his sonne. aged 11 yeare. Jno. Kitchin, his servant. 23 yeare." From this little family has sprung a numerous progeny, scattered over all parts of the country.


Zachary Bicknell built a house upon land granted by the town, and died the year fol- lowing his arrival, before March o. 1636- 3 ;. The house and land was sold the next year to William Reed. The general court under date of March, 1636-37. ordered "that William Reade, having bought the house and twenty acres of land at Weymouth. un- fenced, which was Zachary Bicknell's, for


seven pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence, of Richard Rocket and wife, is to have the sale confirmed by the child when he cometh of age, or else the child to allow such costs as the court shall think meet." ( Taken from the records. )


Zachary Bicknell's widow married (sec- ond), soon after her husband's death. She was probably the second wife of Mr. Bick- nell, and the mother of his son John, men- tioned below.


( II) John, son of Zachary Bicknell, was born in England about 1623. He came to New England with his parents and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was select- man many years and member of the gen- eral court in 1677-78. In 1661 he was one of a committee to repair the old North Church. He married ( first ), about 1650, Mary -- , who d'ed March 25, 1657-58. He married ( second ) December 2, 16-8. Mary, daughter of Richard Porter, of Wey- mouth. She died in 1679. His will was dated November 6. 1678. proved January 20. 1678-79. He bequeaths all the real estate to his wife. except twenty acres and one and one-half acres of salt meadow, which he gives to his son John, so long as she shall remain his widow to bring up the children to the age of twenty-one. He be- queaths to his daughters fifteen pounds, and to the three children of John Dyer : John. Thomas and Benjamin, his grandchildren, five pounds each. Children of first wife: 1. John. born 1653-54. 2. Mary, married John Dver, died 1077-78. 3. Naomi, born June 21. 1657. Children of second wife: 4. Ruth. born October 26. 1660: married James Richards, died February 12. 1728. 5. Joanna, March 2. 1603. 6. Experience. Oc- tober 20. 1005. 7. Zachary. February 7. 1668, mentioned below. 8. Thomas, Au- gust 27. 1670. died February 17, 1718 : mar- ried. February 16. 1696. Ann Turner, of Hingham, and removed to Middleborough. Massachusetts. 9. Elizabeth, April 29. 1673. 10. Hannah. November 15. 1675. 11. Mary. March 15. 1678: married Maurice Tru-


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phant; died October 13. 1764. 12. Child, April 10, 1682, died young.


(III) Zachary (2), son of John Bicknell. was born in Weymouth, February 7. 1668. He removed to Swansea, Massachusetts, and perhaps later to Ashford, Connecticut. He moved to Swansea in 1705 and bought land on the west bank of the Barrington river. north of Prince's Hill. and his house was north of the present parsonage, fronting the river. He was influential in establishing the Congregational church and in effecting the separation of Barrington from Swan- sea. He married Hannah Smith. Children : 1. Zachariah, mentioned below. 2. Joshua, 1696. 3. Hannah. 4. James, 1702. 5. Peter, 1705-06. . 6. Mary.


(IV) Zachariah, son of Zachary (2) Bicknell, was born in Swansea. Massachu- setts, 1695. He lived at Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts, and Ashford, Connecticut. He mar- ried at Rehoboth, March 9. 1718-19. Katha- rine Giffany, of Taunton. Children: I. Zachariah, born 1723. mentioned below. 2. John, 1725. 3. Samuel, 1729. 4. Ebenezer, 1732. 5. Timothy. 1733. 6. William, 1735. 7. Nathan, 1736.


(V) Zachariah (2). son of Zachariah (1) Bicknell, was born in 1723. and was living in Ashford in 1790. A Zachariah Bicknell joined the Ashford church in 1792. He died there April 6. 1796, in his "seventy- fifth" year.


(VI) Thomas, sen or nephew of Zacha- riah (2) Bicknell. was born in Ashford about 1750-60. His son Ralph is mentioned below.


(VII) Ralph, son of Thomas Bicknell. was born in Ashford, according to the fam- ily record. October 14. 1790. He became a lumberman on the Connecticut and was oc- cupied in log-driving many years. When he was twenty-five year- old he removed to Vermont and later to West Parishville, New York, about 1830. He took up a tract of wild land, came with his goods and family on an ox cart and built his cabin there. He cleared the land and followed farming until


his death. September, 1866. He married. in Vermont, Parna Hibbard. Children : Parna, Ralph A., Maria, Hibbard A., Jo- siah D., Adeline. Laura, married Morris McDonald: Eliza, Carlos and Marshaline.


(VIII ) Ralph A., son of Ralph Bicknell. was born at Norwich, Windsor county, Ver- mont. October 14. 1815, died in 1884. He came with his parents to Parishville when a boy of fifteen and worked for his father during his boyhood. He had a common school education. For some years he was employed in the copperas works at Canton. New York, later was a general merchant at Parishville, and for a time was in the dis- tillery business in partnership with his brother. Josiah D., at Parishville. He finally removed to Howard City, Michigan, and owned a mill there and bought and sold tim- ber lands. He was in active business to the time of his death. In politics he was a Re- publican. He married ( first ) Barbara Ann Taylor : ( second ) Emily Irish. Children of first wife: Marrietta, Melvina. John and George S., mentioned below. Children of second wife: Blanchard. Cora, Frank and Willis.


( 1X) George S., son of Ralph A. Bick- nell. was born at Colton. New York, May 22. 1845. He attended the district schools ci his native town and at Malone, New York, and studied his profession in the Law School of Michigan University at Ann Ar- bor. graduating in 1869. He enlisted in the Eleventh New York Cavalry in the civil war and was one of the famous "Scott's 900." He fought at Culpepper and in 1864 went with his regiment, under General Thomas. to New Orleans and took part in the battle at Tippidou. Louisiana: in the battle at Baton Rouge, at Vicksburg, at Memphis, Tennessee: at Chattanooga and Germantown, Tennessee. He was in the Red River Expedition, and on scouting duty most of the time. He was wounded at Germantown, May 22, 1865, in a fight with guerillas and sent to the hospital. He was mustered out. with the rank of corporal. in


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September, 1865. From 1872 to 1878 he was a general merchant at Parishville, New York, and also conducted a farm there. Af- ter the death of his father he went to How- ard City to settle the estate and while there took the law course at Ann Arbor. In 1890 he returned to Colton and engaged in the lumber business, in which he has met with signal success. He has a saw mill and manufactures lumber. In addition to his business interests he has also practiced law. He has been a justice of the peace since 1890 and is an influential Republican. He is a member of Colton Lodge, No. 428, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Marsh Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Potsdam.


Basset --- the extra "t" was not added until the fifteenth century -- is a name found on Battle Abbey roll. William the Conqueror's grand falconer, who accompanied him from Normandy, was Thurstine de Basset; from him are descended all who now bear the name. Cornwall and Devonshire have al- ways been strongholds of the family, and the mines of Cornwall gave them princely in- comes. Two distinguished members were He married (first) in 1866, Amelia, daughter of Newman Anderson, of Pierre- pont. New York. He married ( second ) Ida MeCabe. Children of first wife: I. Henry, born February, 1868. a farmer of Colton; married Nora Donahue: children : Francis, Marion and Ella. 2. Burton X .. Sir Francis Bassett, vice-admiral, time of Charles I, and another Sir Francis, time of George III, who was made Baron Bassett as well as Baron of Dunstanville : in the time of Henry I. Osmund Bassett was judge of all Britain: so was his great-grandson. in the reign of Henry III. Sir Ralph Bassett October 19, 1870, proprietor of a butter . attended Edward I. in the Welsh wars. factory and creamery at Colton : unmarried. 3. Lorena, married John Champney : chil- dren: Bessie and Herbert Champney. 4. Melvina, married a Mr. Robinson : he resides at Edwardsville, St. Lawrence county, New York.


Le Bas is a well-known BASSETT French surname. The Anglo-Saxon form is Bass, Basse, Bassi. Bassu-, Bassite or Bassett. Other variations of the name are Bassano, Basselin, Bassville. Bassantien and Bas- sianus.


It is a popular tradition that the name being of French origin, came the word bas. meaning, in this connection, short of stature. Before surnames were known, Henry, for example, was a youth who may have lacked some inches of being six feet-that was an age of giants-therefore Henry was desig- nated "le bas." In time the name belonged to him and to his descendants. Or the name may have originated with Basque. A native


of the Basque provinces was spoken of as a Basque, which, through corruption, became Bass or Ba-sett. One of the Basque leg- ends has to do with Bass- Andre, a land mermaid who sits in a cave combing her golden lock- with a golden comb.


Alan Bassett's name appears in Magna Charta among those of the king's coun- selors : also his brother Thomas' name. Peter Bassett was biographer of Henry V. and his chamberlain and intimate friend. Fulk Bassett, Bishop of London, is remembered in the records of St. Paul's Cathedral on ac- count of his gifts to that church. On the pavement of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, is an epitaph to a Colonel Bassett.


The Bassetts have always taken prominent parts in the nation's development. They helped to subdue both forests and Indians, and were to the fore in revolutionary times. Their war record goes back many centuries. There is hardly a state in the Union that cannot boast of a Bassett within its borders. The coat-of-arms is that borne by the fal- coner, Thurstine de Basset. and are argent, a chevron between three bugle horns, sable. Crest, a stag's head cabossed; between the attires, a cross filcher, all argent. Motto "Gwell angan na chywilydd"-"Death be- fore dishonor." Another Bassett inetto is


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"Pro Rege et Populo." The chevron in heraldry denotes stability. A stag's head cabossed, vigilance and celerity-that he upon whom the arms were first bestowed was not afraid to stand face to face with an enemy. The cross fitches is a cross sharp- ened at the base-the kind of cross borne by Crusaders, who placed it upright in the ground when making their daily devotions.


(I) William Bassett, immigrant ances- tor, settled first in Plymouth and then in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He came with his wife, Elizabeth, in the ship "Fortune," in November, 1621. This ship brought the first white people that the Pilgrims had seen since landing a year before. By occupation he was a blacksmith and gunsmith. He was doubtless well educated, for we know he had what was then considered a good li- brary. In 1624 he was one of the com- mittee in charge of fixing the boundaries after the land had been divided. He was a deputy to the general court frem Dux- bury in 1640-43-44-48. In 1651, with oth- ers, he became one of the first settlers and original proprietors of the town of Bridge- water and he lived in what is now West Bridgewater and died there in 1667. Ile was.twice married before coming to this country. His third wife was Elizabeth Til- den. Children of third wife: 1. William. mentioned below. 2. Elizabeth, born 1626; married Thomas Burgess. 3. Nathaniel, 1628. 4. Sarah, 1630. 5. Ruth, 1632. 6. Joseph, 1637.


(Il) William (2). son of William (1) Bassett, was born in 1624. died in 1670. He settled in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and soon became prominent there. not only as a prosperous citizen and farmer, but in public life. He represented the town from time to time in the general court and held other places of trust. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Hugh Burt. of Lynn. The descend- ants of William are numerous. The Bas- setts of Ashfield, Claremont and many of those on the Cape and at Martha's Vine- yard are descendants of William and hi-




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