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(XXV) Lieutenant John Lyman, son of Richard Lyman, was born in High Ongar, England, and baptized in 1623. He came to New England with his parents and married Dorcas, daughter of John Plumb, of Bran-
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ford, Connecticut. Soon afterwards, in 1654, hie removed to Northampton, Massachusetts, where he lived the remainder of his life. He was in command of the Northampton sol- diers in the Falls fight above Deerfield, May 18, 1676. The American House, which was burned about 1870, stood in front of his house lot. He died August 20, 1690, aged sixty- seven years, and his gravestone is still stand- ing. Children: Elizabeth, born at Branford, November 6, 1655; Sarah, at Northampton, November 11, 1658; Lieutenant John, August I, 1660; Moses, mentioned below ; Dorothy, June 8, 1665; Mary, January 2, 1668; Experi- ence, January 8, 1670, died young ; Joseph. February 17, 1671, died 1692; Benjamin, Au- gust, 1674; Caleb, September 2, 1678.
(XXVI) Moses, son of Lieutenant John Ly- man, was born in Northampton, Massachu- setts, February 20, 1662-63, died February 25, 1701. He married Ann ,said to have been from Long Island. His widow married (second) Jonathan Rust. Children: Ann. born April 3, 1686, died young ; Moses, men- tioned below : Hannah, April 2, 1692, died young ; Martha, June 5. 1694, died young ; Martha, September, 1695: Bethia, April 23, 1698; Sarah, January 20, 1700, died young ; Elias, February, 1701, died young.
(XXVII) Captain Moses Lyman, son of Moses Lyman, was born February 27, 1689. died March 4, 1762. He married, December 13, 1712, Mindwell Sheldon, who died May 23. 1780, aged eighty-eight. Children : Deacon Moses, mentioned below : Elias, born Septem- ber 30, 1715: Theodosia, 1717, died young ; Phebe, August 20, 1719; Noah, May 25, 1722 ; Rev. Isaac, February 25, 1725 ; Simeon ; Han- nah, March 31, 1731; Seth, lived in New York state: Job, born September 21, 1734, was graduated from Yale College in 1756.
(XXVIII) Deacon Moses Lyman, son of Captain Moses Lyman, was born October 2. 1713, died January 6, 1768. He removed to Goshen in the fall of 1739 and built a log house. Afterward he built a frame house and later the brick house occupied by his son Moses and grandson Moses. The homestead was on Town Hill. He was tax collector and treasurer of Guilford in 1739, tithingman in 1743, grand juror in 1744, member of a com- mittee to settle with the new minister in 1746, elected deacon in 1759 and served until he died. He was for many years a magistrate and he represented Guilford in the general
assembly for fourteen sessions. He was an exemplary citizen, religious, industrious, lib- eral in charity, of sound judgment and a peace- maker in the community. He married, March 24, 1742, Sarah Hayden, born September 17, 1716, died at Goshen, August 27, 1808. Chil- dren, born at Goshen: Colonel Moses, men- tioned below ; Sarah, September 29, 1744, mar- ried Rev. Daniel Collins; Anne, March 1, 1746; Samuel, January 25, 1749; Hannah, June 25, 1751; Esther, September 16, 1754; Phebe, December 29, 1756.
(XXIX ) Colonel Moses Lyman, son of Dea- con Moses Lyman, was born at Guilford, March 20, 1743, died there September 29, 1829. He was in the militia at an early age and held every office from corporal to colonel in succession. During the revolution he was frequently in the army. He was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was com- mander of troops, October 7, 1777, detailed to watch Burgoyne, and was the first to inform General Gates that the British camp was de- serted. In acknowledgment of his service he was given the duty of conveying to Washing- ton in person the intelligence of the victory at Saratoga. He had command of the guard over Major Andre during his imprisonment. He held many town offices. He lived on the homestead and followed farming. He mar- ried (first) Ruth, daughter of William Col- lins, of Guilford. She died June 8, 1775, and his mother cared for the children for twelve years. He married (second) the widow of Jesse Judd, daughter of Captain Jonathan Buell, of Goshen. She died October 7, 1835. Children by first wife, born in Goshen : Moses, mentioned below : Daniel, June 11, 1769 ; Sam- uel, July 23. 1770: Erastus, November I. 1773. Children by second wife: Mary, June 27. 1787 : Darius, July 19, 1789.
(XXX) Colonel Moses Lyman, son of Col- onel Moses Lyman, was born at Goshen, April 16, 1768, died there May 22, 1844. He was one of the foremost citizens, of old school manners and superior abilities. He was in partnership with Elihu Lewis, of Goshen, from 1793 to 1797, and afterward with his brother. Erastus Lyman, until 1827, when they dis- solved the firm, and afterward each partner cultivated his own farm. He was honored with nearly all the town offices and represented Goshen many years in the general assembly. He was also a magistrate. He married, Janu- ary 21, 1796, Elizabeth, daughter of Ira Buell.
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of Milton Society, Litchfield. Children : Lu- cretia, born February 13, 1801, married, Janu- ary 18, 1826, Caleb Day, of Catskill, New York; Moses, mentioned below.
(XXXI) Moses Lyman, son of Colonel Moses Lyman, was born at Goshen, October I, 1810. He was a merchant and manufac- turer at Goshen. He married, May 6, 1834, Mary Ann Holley, of Salisbury, Connecticut. Children : 1. Moses, born at Goshen, August 20, 1836; married, December 31, 1863, Ellen A., daughter of Edwin A. Douglass, of Mauch Chunk, at Windsor Locks, Connecticut ; lived at Waverly; he graduated from Brown Uni- versity in 1858, served in the civil war in the Fifteenth Vermont Regiment, 1862-63; children : Moses, born July 17, 1865, who is entitled to membership in the Society of the Cincinnati; Isabel, March 2, 1867; Harrict Deyton, July 27, 1870. 2. Mary, born Au- gust 15, 1839; married Philip Wells, of Brat- tleboro, Vermont, and lives at Amenia, New York. 3. Alice, born May 15, 1845; married Joseph Theodore Sawyer ( see Sawyer VI). 4. Richard, born June 27, 1848, died December 24, 1851. 5. Holley Porter, January 22, 1855, died December 5, 1865, from injuries from a fall from his horse.
BREWER The emigrant ancestor of the Brewer generations, settling in Boston, Roxbury, and Spring- field, Massachusetts, came to New England in 1624. In 1642 a Thomas Brewer was of Ips- wich, and in 1652 a Thomas Brewer of Lynn, Massachusetts, married Elizabeth Graves. This may have been the same Thomas whom Hinman says "perhaps" a brother of Daniel Brewer ( ist). Me that as it may, Thomas Brewer, of Lynn, Massachusetts, the ancestor of the branch herein recorded. married, De- cember 4, 1652, Elizabeth Graves. Children : Mary Rebecca ; Mary ; Thomas ; Crispus, "by vote of the town had leave to sit in the pulpit on Sundays"; and John.
(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas ( 1) and Elizabeth (Graves) Brewer, was living in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1672, being then four- teen years of age, which would make his birth year 1658. He removed from Massachsetts to Glastonbury, Connecticut, where he mar- ried Sarah , July 13, 1682. Children : Mary, born July 28, 1684; Thomas, February 17, 1687 : Hezekiah, February 23, 1690; Sarah, December 9. 1692: Joseph, March 20, 1605:
Benjamin, August 13, 1697; Daniel, March 25, 1699; Lydia, July 27, 1701; "Aome" or "Naomi," September 28, 1703; Alexander, of further mention.
(III) Alexander, youngest child of Thomas (2) and Sarah Brewer, was born in Glaston- bury, Connecticut, October 5, 1706. He con- tinued his residence there throughout life, he married Thankful Children : Thomas, Hezekiah, Joseph, Benjamin, Daniel, of whom further; Mary, Sarah Goodale, Lydia Love- land, and Amy Porter. "Alexander Brewer died 1750, and left a widow Thankful."
(IV) Daniel, son of Alexander and Thank- ful Brewer, was born in Glastonbury, Connec- ticut, 1738; died November 4, 1823. He re- sided at Hartford and East Hartford, Con- necticut ; married Sarah , born 1737; died October 10, 18II.
(V) Joseph, son of Daniel and Sarah Brewer, was born in Connecticut, near Hart- ford, March 27. 1783 ; died in Cortland, New York, July 8, 1846. He was the founder of the family in Cortland, where he settled in the year 1820. He was well versed in all the details of factory and mill machinery, having worked along that line in New Eng- land. In Cortland he was in charge of mills manufacturing paper. This enterprise was started by Nelson Spencer, of Hartford, Con- necticut, who purchased the ground at Port Watson, in the town of Cortlandville, erected the buildings, and founded a large business. It was probably through his previous acquaint- ance with Mr. Spencer in Hartford that Jo- seph Brewer was induced to remove to Cort- land and take charge of the paper plant. The mill passed into other hands in 1832, when Spencer failed, and was sold and resold until in 1881 it was purchased by Cooper Brothers and converted into a foundry and machine shop. Joseph Brewer married, in Connecticut, March 30. 1808, Jemima, born January 6, 1781, died August 26, 1834, daughter of Tim- othy Forbes. Children : Henry, of whom fur- ther ; Huldah, born December 29, 1810: Sarah. November 15, 1812; Horace, August 13, 1816, died December 11, 1881 ; Mary, born Septem- ber 16, 1818; Stephen, January 13. 1822.
(VI) Henry, eldest son of Joseph and Te- mima (Forbes) Brewer, was born at East Hartford. Connecticut, April 25, 1809: died at Cortland, New York. August 13, 1891. He was educated in the schools of East Hart- ford and Cortland, coming to the latter town
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with his father in 1820, being then eleven years of age. He commenced work in the paper mills where his father was superintendent, and later learned the harness maker's trade and in 1834 established shops in Cortland, continuing in business there until about 1881, when he retired from active business. He was a cap- able man of affairs and prospered. He was a well known, highly respected citizen of Cort- land, where his busy life was spent. He held various positions of trust and honor in the town, among them being charter trustee of the State Normal School, trustee of Cortland Academy, and trustee of Cortland Rural Ceme- tery. In religious faith and connection he was a Presbyterian, and guided his life in strict accordance with his religious profession. In political faith he was a Democrat. He mar- ried, June 4, 1839. Mary A. Lee, of Lyme, Connecticut, born August 14, 1814, died in Cortland, May 9. 1880: daughter of Richard Lee of Lyme, Connecticut. Children : Henry Lee, born April 27, 1840, died October 7. 1875; Charles Forbes, born November 28, 1842, died April 8, 1859: Richard Wells, born January 20, 1848. died September 1, 1865 ; Joseph, born July 4, 1849, died March 15, 1854; Edward Hill, of whom further.
(VII) Edward Hill, youngest son of Henry and Mary A. (Lee) Brewer, was born in Cortland, New York, September 5, 1851. He was educated in the village schools, finishing at the Cortland State Normal School. He learned his father's trade, and for several years was associated with him in business, and then started a small shop for the manufacture of carriage trimmings. In 1884 he founded the Cortland Carriage Goods Company, of Cortland, under the firm name of E. H. Brewer & Company, incorporated under the present name in 1897. Mr. Brewer has al- ways given his personal attention to the busi- ness both as the head of the original firm and as the first and only president of the cor- poration. His energy and executive ability have carried him from the small shop to his present position as head and principal owner of one of the largest and most important con- cerns in the United States, manufacturing car- riage and automobile hardware and trimmings. The plant in Cortland has a capacity for the manufacture of the equipment for fifteen hun- dred top-buggies daily, in addition to a great quantity of carriage and automobile equip- ment. Mr. Brewer is one of Cortland's most
public spirited citizens, and is interested in other important activities in the city and else- where. He is vice-president and director of the Crandall & Stone Company of Bingham- ton, New York; vice-president and director of the Cortland Forging Company ; vice-presi- dent of the Cortland Co. Traction Co .; direc- tor of the National Bank of Cortland; also of the Second National Bank of Cortland; a trustee of Rollins College, Winter Park, Flor- ida; president and director of the Cortland County Hospital, which owes much to his en- ergetic efforts. He is a member of the Pres- byterian church, and a Republican in politics.
He married, October 16, 1878, Eda Aroa, daughter of Morris and Phoebe Strong ( Pom- eroy ) Ainslie, of Onondaga Valley, New York. Children : 1. Mabel Aroa, born August 2, 1879; graduated from Smith College, class of 1901 ; married, October 28, 1908, Dr. R. Paul Hig- gins, of Cortland ; child : Elizabeth, born Sep- tember 21. 1910. 2. Henry, born January 31, 1882; died January 29, 1883. 3. Edward Ains- lie. born January 29, 1883: graduated from Yale, class of 1907; treasurer of the Crandall & Stone Co., of Binghamton, New York ; mar- ried Bess Spaulding, of Binghamton, New York, June 1, 1911. 4. Robert Lee, born Sep- tember 17, 1884; graduated from Yale, class of 1907 : sales manager of Cortland Carriage Goods Company ; married, October 13, 1909, Sarah Cornelia Marsellus, of Syracuse, New York ; child : Robert Lee (2), born November 10. 1910. 5. Eda May, born May 8, 1888; graduate of Smith College, class of 1911. 6. Donald Ainslie, born October 22, 1892. 7. Lee, born March 30, 1894.
The name Gardner is tin- GARDNER doubtedly of Latin origin. In Latin it is Gordianus, in Ital- ian, Gardena, in French, Des Jardine. A knight, Des Jardine, came into England with William the Conqueror, and the name has been known there from that time.
(I) George Gardner, immigrant ancestor. was born about 1601, in England, and came to Rhode Island as early as 1638. That same year he was admitted an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck. In 1639 he was free- man, in 1641-42 senior sergeant, in 1644 en- sign. In 1660, he with others, was witness to a deed given by an Indian to several in- habitants of Newport. Rhode Island, of land which comprised what is now the city of West-
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erly, Rhode Island. October 28, 1662, he was commissioner from Newport at a court held at Warwick, Rhode Island, and in 1675 he was juryman.
He married, between 1641 and 1645, Hero- dias, widow of John Hicks. She was born in England and her maiden name was Long. She declared before the general assembly of Newport that when she was between thirten and fourteen years old her father died, and she was sent to London, where she married privately John Hicks. The marriage took place in the under church of Paul's, called St. Faith's Church. She then came to New Eng- land with her husband and lived for two and one-half years at Weymouth, Massachusetts, thence coming to Rhode Island. Soon after coming to the latter place she and her hus- band quarrelled, and he went away to the Dutch, taking with him most of her estate, which had been sent her by her mother. Her mother and brother both lost their lives and money in the service of the King. After her desertion by John Hicks, she became the wife of George Gardner. Testimony as to her mar- riage to the latter was given by Robert Stan- ton, who declared that one night at his house both of them said before him and his wife that they did take one the other as man and wife. In May, 1658, two years after the ad- vent of Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, who were the first missionaries of the society of Quakers who landed in the colonies, Herodias Gardner, with a small child in her arms, left her home in Newport and walked sixty miles through the wilderness to Weymouth, Massa- chusetts, to deliver her testimony. She was arrested and taken before Governor Endicott. who addressed her in harsh terms, and com- manded that she and her attendant should each receive ten lashes on their naked backs. While this cruel sentence was being inflicted, she held her child, and protected it with her arms from the lash of the executioner. After the whipping, which was with a threefold whip of cords, she was kept for fourteen days longer in prison. When her sentence was over she knelt down and prayed the Lord to for- give them. George Gardner died in Kings- town, Rhode Island, 1679. Children : Benony, mentioned below: Henry, George, Nicholas, William, Dorcas, Rebecca, married, as his sec- ond wife, John Watson.
(II) Benony, son of George Gardner, died in 1731. He may have been born about 1647.
from the fact that in 1727 he gave his age in testimony as upwards of ninety. In 1671 he took the oath of allegiance. In 1679 he, with forty-one others, of Narragansett, signed a petition to the King, praying that he would "put an end to these differences about the government thereof, which has been so fatal to the prosperity of the place." He married Mary , born 1645, died November 16, 1739, at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Children : . Stephen, mentioned below; Nathaniel, died 1734; William, born 1671 ; Bridget ; Isaac, Jan- uary 7, 1687-88.
(III) Stephen, son of Benony Gardner, was born at Kingstown, Rhode Island, in 1667, died February 9, 1743, at Bozrah, New London county, Connecticut, buried in the Gardner burying ground. He moved to Norwich, Con- necticut, before 1736, though he was in South Kingston in 1731. He owned land at Bozrah, Colchester and Montville, Connecticut. He bought the Great Pond near Norwich. He married, about 1700, Amy Sherman, born Oc- tober 25, 1681. Children: 1. Amy, born June 13, 1701 ; Lydia, October 10, 1702; Stephen, February 24, 1704; Benjamin, mentioned be- low ; Peregrine, mentioned below ; Daniel, De- cember 14, 1709; Sarah, October 25, 1711; Hannah, May 2, 1713; Mehitable, May 22, 1715; Abigail, July 9, 1717; David, June 28, 1720; Jonathan, April 18, 1724.
(IV) Benjamin, son of Stephen Gardner, was born at South Kingston, Rhode Island, April 18, 1706, died in Connecticut in 1776. In his will dated February 13, 1762, proved May 7, 1776, he bequeathed to Content, his wife, and to Ezekiel, Simeon, Margaret Cong- don, Benjamin, Sherman, Desire and Content, his children. His son Benjamin was a soldier in the revolution and appears to have been an early settler in Ontario county with Peregrine, mentioned below. In 1790 Benjamin Gardner at Genesee town, Ontario county, New York, had three males over sixteen, one under that age and five females in his family.
(IV) Peregrine, son of Stephen Gardner, was born at South Kingston, Rhode Island, January 24, 1707. He settled in Montville. Connecticut, near Norwich. He married Su- sanna, daughter of John and Mary (Hazard) Robinson. Children : Stephen, born August I, 1734; Mary, March 14, 1736; John, May 9, 1737, married Elizabeth Mumford (he was taken prisoner at Wyoming, July 17, 1778, loaded with plunder, and when he fell from
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fatigue was tortured to death by the Indian squaws ) ; Peregrine, mentioned below ; Ruth, October 25, 1742; Robinson, November 27, 1743 : Hannah, December 10, 1745; William, August 13, 1747.
(V) Peregrine (2), son of Peregrine (I) Gardner, was born at Montville, Connecticut, March 12, 1739-40. He was a soldier in the revolution in the Wyoming Valley Regiment in 1777 when he gave his age as thirty-seven years, his height five feet, eleven inches. He was called of Wyoming (Pennsylvania) and of Plainfield, Connecticut, on the rolls of Cap- tain Simeon Spaulding's company, most of whose men were originally of Norwich and vicinity. He was in Captain Hyde's regiment at times from 1777 to 1781. In 1781 he was called of Westmoreland on the roll of Cap- tain Spaulding's company of Wyoming Val- ley. He was in the service in 1782-83, and doubtless was at the surrender at Yorktown. According to the history of Ontario county, Benjamin Gardner settled at Canandaigua in 1789, and one of the first storekeepers was Samuel Gardner.
(VI) - - Gardner, son of Benjamin. Samuel or Peregrine Gardner, was born prob- ably in Connecticut, and settled with his pa- rents in Ontario county, New York, before 1789. Children : John, Malachi, Samuel, Charles, mentioned below; Betsey, Phebe.
(VII) Charles, son of Gardner, was born in Hopewell, New York, about 1819. died in 1883. Both Benjamin and Samuel Gardner were early settlers in this town. He was a miller by trade. He married Maria Wash- burn, born in Hopewell. Ontario county, New York. about 1819, died in 1890, daughter of Jonathan Washburn. Children: I. Charles, lives in Gorham, New York. 2. John, men- tioned below. 3. Mary, married Nelson An- gell, of Hopewell, New York : children : Adel- bert, Lewis and Clarence G. Angell.
(VIII) John. son of Charles Gardner, was born in Hopewell. Ontario county, New York. April 26, 1854. His education was received in the public schools. During his boyhood he worked on his father's farm, and he followed farming for seven years on his own account. Since then he has been a miller. He operated a mill for a time at Livonia, New York, and for seven years or more at Canandaigua. Thence he removed to Baldwinsville. New York, and for twenty years was in the milling business there. Since 1907 he has had charge
of the Wickwire Roller Mills at Cortland. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Independent Order of Foresters. He married, October 30, 1879, Ida Trembly, born in South Bristol, Ontario county, New York, daughter of Isaac and Lydia (Green) Trem- bly, granddaughter of John Trembly. Lydia Green was a daughter of Henry Green, and his father, William Green, was a soldier in the revolutionary war. Children of John and Ida Gardner: 1. John Trembly, mentioned be- low. 2. Grace, born April 6, 1883, died June, 1885. 3. Charles Hovey, born April 13, 1885; educated in public schools of Baldwinsville, New York, graduated from Albany Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1907, and is now in practice with his brother, in law firm of J. T. & C. H. Gardner. 4. Lucas Smith, born December 18, 1888; is in employ of city engineer.
(IX) John Trembly, son of John Gardner, was born in Livonia, Livingston county, New York, July 20, 1880. He attended the Bald- winsville public schools, and entered Syracuse University, from which he graduated in 1903, in the law department. He was admitted to the bar the same year, and during the next two years was in the employ of the legal de- partment of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. For three years he was manager of the Title Insurance Com- pany, with offices in Jamaica, New York, and at the same time was financially interested in a contracting business. Since 1907 he has been engaged in the general practice of law at Cortland, New York, in partnership with his brother, under the firm name of J. T. & C. H. Gardner. He is a member of Seneca Lodge, No. 160, Free and Accepted Masons, of Baldwinsville, and of the Delta Chi frater- nity. In religion he is a Methodist, and in politics a Republican.
The name of Woodford is WOODFORD of English origin and was probably adopted as a pa- tronymic by one who lived at a ford in the woods. It was prominently identified with the first settlement of Massachusetts and Con- necticut, and was active in the early settle- ment of Central New York. Though not numerous in this country, the descendants have typified the New England character of industry. thrift and moral progress.
(I) Thomas Woodford was born in Lin-
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colnshire, England, and was among the pio- neers at Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was in Roxbury in 1632, and in 1033 joined the party of Rev. Thomas Hooker, which settled in Hartford, where he became one of the founders. During his stay there he took an active part in the affairs of the colony, serv- ing at various times as town crier, fence viewer and in other offices. He is mentioned aniong the settlers of Springfield in the compact of 1636. In 1654 he was one of the proprie- tors of Northampton, Massachusetts, settling there in that year, and died March 6, 1667. His will, executed April 26, 1665, was proved twenty days after his death. He married, March 4, 1635, Mary Blott. Children : Han- nah, married Samuel Allen ; Joseph, mentioned below : Sarah, married Nehemiah Allen. His will also mentions a daughter Mary.
(II) Joseph, only known son of Thomas and Mary ( Blott) Woodford, was born in Hartford, and in 1666 settled at Farmington, Connecticut, where he acquired a large tract of land and died in 1701. His body was buried in what is known as the Cider Brook cemetery. He married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca ( Olmstead ) Newell. Children : Mary, married Thomas Bird, of Farmington, and died in 1723: Rebecca, wife of John Porter ; Esther, married Samuel Bird, and died in 1742: Sarah, married Nathan Bird, and died in 1750: Hannah, married Thomas North ; Joseph, mentioned below; Elizabeth, born 1682. married Nathan Cole, of Newington ; Susan, wife of Deacon Anthony Judd : Abigail, born 1685, married Caleb Cole, and died in 1736.
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