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a short time previous to Carlton's raid. On the reception of the news of the approach of that irregular and destructive band. though led on by Major Carlton, an officer on the line of the British army, the family of Mr. Smith, with the exception of Nathan and Marshall, after selecting what articles could be best carted on their backs and in their arms, the bundle being apportioned according to the age and strength of each. left their home and started through the for-
est to the stockade forts at Pittsford. Nathan and Marshall remained for the purpose. if possible, of securing and secreting the fall erops, which were then on the ground.
Samuel Smith married Hannah Allen. born in 1726: in many respects she was a remarkable woman. Of quiet and retiring habits, yet she possessed an intellect of no ordinary mould, and a mind at once strong. comprehensive and discriminating. Al- though denied the advantage of early cul- ture. or of refined society or of extensive reading. yet she was ever regarded as an agreeable companion, a judicious counselor. a valued friend. A peculiar trait in her character was her remarkable self-posses- sion. Taught in the school of adversity and of danger, she had learned, by experience. the necessity of never allowing her judgment to be controlled by her fears, and that trait of character was often put to the severest tests, as it not infrequently occurred that amid the dangers and alarms with which they frequently found themselves surroun 1- ed during their border life. her own quiet. prudent forethought. her unflinching reso- lution, saved the family from capture. separation and perhaps from death. With her worthy husband, she struggled against poverty, assisting to rear and provide the means of support for a numerous family, with a courage that never faltered. with a fortitude that knew no despondeney, with a judgment that seldom erred, with a hope always animating. with a faith always cheer- ful: and by the example of both parents. their children early acquired the habits of
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active industry and of honest acquisition. and she instilled into their youthful minds a respect and reverence for the truth of the gospel, and taught them the cardinal doc- trines of the Christian religion. Samuel Smith and his wife died at the home of their son. Nathan, the former. November II, IF08, aged seventy-eight : and the latter De- cember 22. 1800. aged seventy-four. Chil- dren: 1. Betsey. born 1742, married (first ) a Mr. Baldwin: children : Hannah, Nellic. Rhoda. Mary and Enoch Baldwin: she mar- ried (second ) a Mr. Edwards: children : Calvin and Isaac Andrews. 2. Asher, born in Passipany, New Jersey. December 4. 1744; married. April . 16. 1769, Eunice Lumm: children: Daniel. Caleb, Isaac. Anna, Keturah. Samuel. Squier. Electa, Olive and Salome. 3. Rhoda, born in 1747: married, 1762. Bethuel Ferrand: children : Daniel, Nathan, Betsey. Moses, Hannah, Bethuel, Samuel. Rebecca, Richard. Eleanor and Nancy. 4. Cloe. born in 1749: married Hiram Ward: children: Caleb, Stephen, Rhoda. Smith. Susan. Henry, Jonas, Phebe, Ifiram and Hannah. 5. Nathan, born in Passipany, New Jersey. April 16. 1752; married. 1784. Mrs. Wait Trask, née Wait Allen, and removed to Bridport: children: Lucy, Allen, Hiram and Harriet. 6. Mar- shall. see forward. 7. Salame, born in April. 1759: married, in February. 1775. Elijah Grandy : children : Edmund. Elijah. Rhoda, Salome and Jacob. S. Jacob. born in 1765: married (first) Sally Picket : children : Betsey. Hannah and Lu- ther; 1 seconds Pely Bond. o. Hannah, born in October. 1769: married. May I. 1-87. David Doty; children : Ira. Marshall, David F. and Sally.
( III ) Marshall, third son of Samuel and Hannah ( Allen) Smith, was born in 1757. consequently was but thirteen years old when his father's family left New Jersey. being of somewhat tender age to endure the fatigues and suffer the hardships as arranged for his brother Nathan and himself to joir- sue, in order to reach their destination in
Vermont. ' During the residence of his father's family in Panton, Marshall re- mained with them, occasionally laboring for and with the neighbors, or assisting Nathan "cropping it."-raising a crop of wheat. or corn or potatoes, as opportunity afforded. and being infrequently intrusted with, and put in charge of. the collected grists of grain the neighbors were obliged to have con- veved to Skeenesboro for grinding, a jour- hey that frequently required from six to eight days to accomplish. He removed with the family to Bridport, in 1773, and re- mained laboring with his brother Nathan, a portion of the time clearing and improv- ing the lands upon which each subsequently settled: and when not otherwise employed. cutting and boating wood across the lake in the historic Smith's scow, to supply the gar- risen at Crown Point. and the families in the neighborhood with tuel, receiving there- for but a shrill amount in cash, and the bal- ance in such commodities as were necessary for the sustenance and comfort of the fam- ily. until the time of their flight and burn- ing of their house. in 1778, and his own captivity. On the flight of the family, as related in the sketch of Samuel Smith, above referred to, many articles of importance and value were necessarily left behind. The brothers. Nathan and Marshall, with a young man by the name of Ward. were captured from the old log house on No- vember 4. 1778. and immediately taken on board a British vessel and taken to Queb.c. where they arrived December 6. After be- ing incarcerated during two dreary winter- in that high latitude, they were taken out of prison on April 25. 1780. and carriedl down from Quebec, some ninety miles upon the north side of the St. Lawrence riv.r. and set to work on a previous contract. in getting out timber. They remained at work until May 13. when a party of eight, with the assistance of a kind Frenchman, obtained a batteau, and crossed the river. On reac! - ing the opposite shore. they divided into two parties, Nathan. Marshall, John War :
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w: 1 Justin Sturdfit comprising one party. They traveled through the wilderness with no guide, save the pocket compass, in the possession of Nathan, for six days, and shen nearly opposite to Quebec they were decoved into a house and made pris mers by two Frenchmen, one armed with a gun and the other with an axe. They finally suc- cealed in escaping, after which they kept their course up the river for four days, and when nearly opp site the "Three Rivers." they were captured by Indians. They were taken across the river to the Three Rivers jail and there imprisoned in a second story room, where, during the space of three weeks, with a jack-knife, they succeeded in cutting a hole through the partition, which admitted them into an adjoining room that contained a window with a broken grate. through which they could pass to the ground. by means of a rope made of bed blankets. and in this manner they escaped, and finally arrived at the forts in Pittsford, thence en to Rutland. The men tony of their prison life. during their incarceration in Quebec jail was greatly relieved by the kind office of an edu- cated Scotchman, also a prisoner, who of- fered to instruct all who cared to improve the opportunity. The Smith brothers readily embraced the offer, and having a few silver coins in their possession, they supplied them- .elves with some of the most necessary ele- mentary books, and assiduously applied themselves to the work of acquiring so much of e Incation as their limited facilities would allow, and under the instruction of their inithiul and competent teacher, they rap- illy advanced themselves in reading and writing, and had made such proficiency in mathematics, that previous to the final sepa- ration from their friend. they each had ac- quired a very accurate knowledge of sur- Veying. a knowledge which, to Marshall especially, was of eminent service in the re- ponsible position he was subsequently called upon to fulfill.
During the interval of about four years. f: m the time of their arrival from captivity
at the forts, at Rutland, in June, 1780, until the organization of the town of Bridport, in 1784, we have been able to learn but little of the whereabouts of Marshall Smith. He must. however, in the meantime have re- turned to the . Il place, and become a resident of the town. as we learn from the records that at it- organisation. Marshall Smith was elected I'm prictors collector and treasurer, and contable of the town. He became ex- tensively engaged in surveying, as very many original papers in that department. upon record, bear his name as such. He fre- quently represented the town in the state legislature, and held important offices of trust and profit. and for a number of years was an acting justice. He was a man of quick perception-, active mind, ready judg- irent, and of large business capacity. So much of his time was absorbed in public business, and in the discharge of public du ties that but a small portion was devoted to the interests of farming. He was engaged, however, to a greater or less extent in the sale and exchange of lands, and in driving cattle and sheep both to a northern and southern market. He was an ardent, active Politician of the old Jeffersonian school. hav- ing no sympathy with either the "wall of brass" idea of the elder Adams, or the anti- republican culminations of the Hartford convention.
Marshall Smith married Polly Case, daughter of one of the largest land holders in western Vermont. Children: Louisa, Phelps, see forward; Mary and Samantha, all of whom survive him. He died at the house of his brother-in-law. David Doty, in 1815, in the fifty-ninth year of his age.
( IV ) Phelps, son of Marshall and Polly ( Case , Smith, was born at Milton. Ver- mont. 1788, died in Loon Lake, New York. in 1861. He was elucated in his native town, and engaged in the lumber business there. Ile owned a grist mill and saw mill. and for many years had a line of stage coaches, known as the Red Bird Line, plying between Burlington. Verment, and Mort-
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real, carrying the mails and doing a flour- in the vicinity. Paul Smith's Hotel is one ishing business. He was lieutenant of his company in the war of 1812. He spent his last years at the home of his son at Loon Lake. New York. and died there. He mar- ried Marilla Woodruff. of Milton, Vermont. She died in 1802. aged ninety-five years and six months. Children: Lewis F .. Sarah, Apollos Austin, see forward.
(V) Apollos Austin, son of Phelps and Marilla ( Woodruff. Smith, was born in Milton, Vermont. August 20, 1825. He was educated in the public schools of his native town.
As a young man he was in the canal boat business on Lake Champlain, also trav- eling salesman. Paul Smith came to the Adirondacks frem Vermont. on a hunting trip with Captain Tucker in I851. and re- turned on a similar trip with a Vermont friend In 1853 he lensel fran a man named Loveland a hunters' cabin on the shores of Leon Lake for a term of five years, and there entertained hunters and fishermen, the place being known as Adiron- dack Tavern. In 1858 he built a hunters' loge, about one and one-half miles from Loon Lake on the north branch of Saranac river, where He remained for one year. It was here that he learned that it was neces- sary to be in a section with more water, and he accordingly moved to his present location at Paul Smith's on the St. Regis and Os- good chain of lakes, where he built his original hotel property, opening his hotel in 1859. His business grew, and he added to his accommodations from time to time until he now has rooms for five hundred guests. and owns thirty-one thousand acres of land in the vicinity. besides five thousand acres on the Saranac river. all forest land. At a recent agricultural meeting he was designat- ed as the largest farmer and land owner in Franklin county. When asked what he raised. he answered : "Mostly spruce gum." He has sold camp sites to many people of wealth from New York City, and camps costing thousands of dollars have been built
of the best known and most popular in the Adirondacks and has held its supremacy for many years. The most distinguished men and most prominent families of the country have been entertained there. Several presi- dents of the United States have been guests of Mr. Smith. On the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad the station now called Gabriels was formerly Paul Smith's station, and on the New York & Ottawa Railroad the station of Brandon was form- erly called Paul Smith's. In 1907 Mr. Smith built a railroad from Lake Clear to his hotel. a distance of seven miles, and Mr. Smith has the unique distinction of being presi- dent of a railroad that he built, owns and controls. It is called the Paul Smith Rail- road. and the motive power is furnished by a large, specially-made electric locomotive capable of hauling three Pullman cars and heavy freight trains.
Mr. Smith has large lumber interests. owns numerous saw mills and also a mill for the manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, house finish and other building material. In elec- trie light and power plants alone he has spent more than six hundred thousand, and his plants furnish light and power to Saranac Lake, Bloomingdale, Paul Smith's, and ad- joining towns. Mr. Smith bought the Fo- quet Hotel in Plattsburgh in 1875 and con- ducted it until 1905. He is president of the Paul Smith Hotel Company, of the Paul Smith Electric Light and Power and Rail- road Company. and senior partner of Paul Smith & Sons Lumber Company. He conducts a general store, a telegraph, tele- phone, freight and passenger business. and is postmaster of Paul Smith's. New York. In polities he is a Democrat. He has been supervisor of the town of Brighton, and al- ways takes a leading part in town affair -. He has been generous in supporting every project to further the welfare of the town and the Adirondack resorts. He has con- tributed liberally to the building funds i the Protestant Episcopal, Metlenlist Episo
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pal. Presbyterian and Roman Catholic churches.
Mr. Smith married, May 5. 1850. Lydia Martin, born in 1834 at Ausable Forks. Es- -ex county, New York, died in 1891, daugh- ter of Hugh and Sarah ( Goodell) Martin. Children: 1. Henry B. L .. born March 4. INĐI, died 1891 ; was supervisor of the town of Brighton for seven years. 2. Phelps, see forward. 3. Apollos Austin. Jr. born Au- gust 23. 1870; secretary of the Paul Smith light and Power and Railroad Company. and member of the firm of Paul Smith & Sons, lumber manufacturers : member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. of Plattsburgh: married. November. 1909. Mrs. Carrie Britton, of Cleveland, Ohio.
(VI) Phelps (2), song of Apolloes Au-tin and Lydia ( Martin) Smith, was born at Brighton, New York. Jure 4. 1852. He at- tended the public schools of Plattsburgh, Crown Point and Westport. New York: South Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the Fastman Business College at Poughkeepsie. New York. He became associated with his inther in the hotel business and conducted the Foquet House in Plattsburgh for nine years. He is treasurer of the Paul Smith Hotel Company and of the Paul Smith Elec- trie light and Power and Railroad Company. indl is a member of the firm of Paul Smith & Sons, merchants and manufacturers of humber. In politics he is a Democrat, and has served the town of Brighton on the bard i supervisors, and has ler a candidate of his party for assemblyman. He is a member i White Face Mountain Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Saranac Lake : Malone 'Tapter. Royal Arch Masons : De Sota Com- wandery. Knights Templar, ff Plattsburgh ; Osental Temple. Mystic Shrine. of Troy. Yigg York: Albany Sovereign Consistory. i Albany, having taken the thirty-second gree. Scottish Rite Masonry. He is also member of the local lodge of Independent iler of Odd Fellows. of Plattsburgh, and i the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, of Plattsburgh, and Maccabees, of Brighton. He is unmarried.
PARTRIDGE emigrants of this name, There were several early
and some have many de- scendants now scattered over the United States. Many localities count them among their earliest settlers, including St. Law- rence county, New York. The name is of Norman origin, and was spelled de Pertriche
Hotel Company, the Paul Smith Electric . before it became anglicized. Antiquarians have recorded the appearance of this fam- ily in England as about the middle of the twelfth century, during the reign of Stephen ( 1135-1154). In 1234 Richard de Petriche is described as the head of the family, with manois of country seats in the county of Gloucester. While it is impossible to trace in direct line from this Norman family the branch to which this article refers, there is no doubt that it is descended from it.
( 1) Je hm Partridge, ci Medfield, Massa- chusetts, was the first in America of one branch of this family. It is thought that he was a sen ci Captam John Partridge. of Naveste ck, county Essex, England. A Cap- tain John Partridge is on record as having an account in the general court. Boston, with Captain Clarke. October 17. 1640 (see Popel. John, the emigrant, and his brother William, first come to our notice while they are en route to New England, May 18, 1650. On that day they subscribed as witnesses to the will of one John Beche. a fellow pas- senger, who was taken suddenly ill and died during the voyage. This will, with the origi- nal signatures of John and William Part- ridge, is on file at the state house, Hart- ford, Connecticut. The brothers seem to have located almost immediately in Dedham. near Boston. where in rose they shared in a division of lands. In 1653 they removed to Melfield, which in that year was set off from Dedham as a separate town. They signed the proprietors' agreement, and each teck up his residence in "Ye Bachelors' Ree" now North street. John was town
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selectman and clerk of the market in 1672. In the Indian raid of 1076 his house and barn and several hea lof cattle were burned. His name appear- among the list of contribu- tors towards the formding of Harvard Col- lege. He married, December 18. 1055. Mag- dalen, daughter of John and Magdalen Bal- lard, early of Watertown and later of Med- field. She died December 27. 1077. He died in Medfield. May 28. 1706. Chil Iren : I. John, mentioned below. 2. Hannah, born April 15. 1658, died March 8, 16So, married Joseph Rockwood. 3. Deborah, born August 16, 1662, married John Adams. 4. Eleazer. born February 20, 1064, died November 8. 1736. 5. Abiel. born June 13. 1667. die l July 2, 1667. 6. Experience, birn June 13. 1667, died July 5. 1007. 7. Rachel, born July 12, 1669. died December 1, 1717 : mar- ried Theophilus Clark. 8 Samuel, born February 22, 1671. died December 12, 1752. 9). Zachariah, born July 2. 16;4. died Sep- tember 23,, 1710. 10. Mary, died February 15. 1677.
(II) John (21, son of John (1) and Magdalen ( Bullard) Partridge, was born September 21. 1650. in Medfield, and died December 9, 1743. in Medway. He settle 1 in 168t in that part of Medway now Millis, and was one of the first to take up his resi- dence in that part of Medfield lying we-t of the Charles river. In if ro he was chosen master of a school established for residents of the west side, was interested in church affairs, and chosen deren of the Molay church, and was active in having that boyn set off in 1713. Ile v : s present at Deerfiel 1 when news was received of the return of captives taken at the Deerfield massacre, and is said to have made a copy of Benjamin Waite's letter announcing their arrival in . \1- bany, which he brought to Me field and d .- livered to Rev. John Wilson, by whom it was forwarded to the governor of the colony. He married (first) December 24. 16-8. Elizabeth Rockwood, born April 3. 1657. in Medfield, died July 22 188 daughter of Nicholas and Marsist ( dha sko Rick-
wood; he married (second) Elizabeth Ad- ams, born March 18, 1650, died August 14. 1719. daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Fussell ) Adams; he married (third ), April 17. 1721, Hannah Sheffield, born April 18, 1063. in Sherburne, died July 19. 1754, daughter of William and Mary Shef- field Children by first wife: r. Elizabeth. bern September 13. 1670, died April 25. 1706; married Ebenezer Daniel. 2. Mary, born February 26, 1681, died February 14. 1754; married Ebenezer Lawrence. of Wrentham. 3. John. born 1683. died Sep- tember 6, 1756. 4. Benoni, mentioned be- low. Children by second wife : 5. Jonathan. born November 25, 1693, died 1756. 6. Hannah, born March 16, 1605. died Oc- tober 12. 1751; married Jeremiah Daniel. 7. Deborah, born March 1, 1698, died Au- gust 30. 1740: married Israel Keith. 8. James, born October 8, 1700, died March 9. 1769. 0. Sarah, born January 8. 1702; married George Adams. To. Stephen, born .April 16. 1;00, died March 10, 1742.
( III ) Benoni, second son of John (2) and Elizabeth ( Rockwood) Partridge, was born May 25. 168;, in Medfield onow Mil- lis) and died December 26, 1,69. He was one of the proprietors of Medway at its in- corporation in 1;13, and resided in the new grant, which became West Medway. where his children were born. His farm was di- vided equally between his sons, Timothy and Mores. Ile was a member of the First Church of Medway. He married, July 14. 170%, Mehetabel Wheel ck, horn September 10. IfNO, in Medfield, died January 20. 1,61. daughter of Samuel and Sarah . Kend- rick ) Wheelock, and granddaughter of Rev. Ralph Wheelock, founder of Medfield. Children: 1. Preserved. born March 13. 1700: an early settler of Cumberland coun- ty. Maine. 2. Thomas, born November 28. 17H1. 3. Seth, born March 17. 1713. died August 5. 1780. 1. Joseph, born Au- gust 22, 1715, died 1753. 5. David, born Max 22. 1-18. diel March 16, 1712. 0. Mximabel, bon April 24. 1720, diel .1 :-
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gust 4. 1741. 7. Samuel, born June 24, Falls, Vermont. 11. Charles, born October 1722, died September 7. 1741. 8. Sarah, . 30, 1770: removed to Ohio. 12. Adam. born September 27. 1724: married Samuel Fiske. 9. Timothy, born January 18, 1727. died September 18. 1787. 10. Eli, men- tioned below. 11. Moses, born .August 28. 1733. died October 6. 1804.
(IV) Eli, eighth son of Benoni and Me- hetabel ( Wheelock ) Partridge. was born June 3. 1729. in West Medway, and settled in Holliston, Massachusetts, about 1751. soon afterwards removing to Milford, same state. In 1754 he purchased land in Men- lon, upon which he settled, and also be- came interested in lands in New Boston, Cumberland county. Maine, being one of the proprietors of that township. He sold this in 1761 and in 1776 sold his Men- don property and removed with his family to Chesterfield. New Hampshire. He died in Littleton, New Hampshire. after 1800. He was a soldier in the colonial wars in 1745. He married Rachel, born March 30. 1732. daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Sheffield, of Sherburne. Children: 1. Shef- field, born November 2. 1752: rem ved to Ohio. 2. Joseph, born June 30. 1754. died 1817: resided in Chesterfield. New Hamp- shire. 3. Eli, born December 30. 1756. died November 3. 1792: a revolutionary soldier from Menden, Massachusetts. and Chesterfield. New Hampshire. His son. Elkanah. born September 4. 1780, died March 3. 1858, settled ultimately in Ma- comb, St. Lawrence county. New York. where several children were born. 4. Ames. mentioned below. 5. Mehetabel, bern July 7. 1759. 6. Mary, born July 19. 1703. died July 11. 1796, married Nathaniel Wal- ton, of Chesterfield: their son. Amariah Walton, was one of the first settlers of Alexandria Bay. Jefferson county. New York. 7. Rachel. born May 5. 1765, died January 11. 1840: married Rufus Harvey. 8. Nathaniel, baptized January 28. 1767: removed to Littleton. New Hampshire. 9. John, born April 2. 1770. 10. Abel, bap- tized June 30. 1776; drowned at Bellows
(1 ) Amos, fourth son of Eli and Rachel ( Sheffield) Partridge, was born April 12. 1758. in Mendon, Massachusetts. He re- sided there for a time, and removed in 1770 to Chesterfield, New Hampshire. He was a solcher in the revolutionary war from Mendon and Chesterfield. His name first appears on the revolutionary r ills in camp at Roxbury. November 29. 1775. when he receipted for money in lieu of a bounty coat Hle was then a member of Captain Samuel Warren's company. Colonel Joseph Reed's regiment, of Mendon. His first service in New Hampshire was in Captain William Humphrey's company of the Northern Con- tinental army m 1776, the payroll credit- ing him with nine pounds. eighteen shil- lings, wages and traveling expenses. He wa- a private in the second company, command- edi by Captain Waitstill Scott. Colonel Ash- ley's regiment of militia, which marched to Ticonderoga on the alarm of May &. 1777. He was discharged June 17. 1777. creditel with the time of one month and ten days, for which he received in wages six pounds, and travel 110 miles, two pounds five shillings and ten pence. He had barely returned home when he again enlisted in the Sixth company, commanded by Lieutenant James Robertson. in Col- onel Ashley's regiment, for the relief of the garrison at Ticonderoga, his ser- vice being four days. He was among those who marched July 22. 1777, in Captain Kim- ball Carleton's company. Colonel Me- Nich 1s' regimert. General Stark's briga.le. and was discharged September 23. having served two months and two days, and he- ing credited with wages and travel to the amount of ten pounds eight shillings. He married, at Athol, Massachusetts. August 28. 1783. Sarah Harvey, born November 9. 1761. in Northfield, Massachusetts, die August 23. 1849. in De Peyster. New York. daughter of Captain Ebenezer and Sarah ( Janes) Harvey. They resided in Atho',
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