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William. A short time after the revolution he married Versalia Booth, of New London, Connecticut ; she died March 28, 1843. She was daughter of William Booth, of New Lon- don. Children : William, mentioned below ; Erastus; Anson; Henry and Harvey, twins; Alvin ; Daniel; Mary ; Sally.
(VI) William, son of Asahel (2) Newton, was born in Colchester, Connecticut, October 15, 1786, died in Sherburne, New York, Au- gust 13, 1879. He came to Berlin, Chenango county, New York, 1806, and later bought a tarm in Hamilton, where he removed and built a log house, and after getting his father, mother, and family of brothers and sisters settled in the new home, he went to Camden, Oneida county, New York, where he spent some time in the manufacture of woolen cloth. He was a fuller by trade. He bought a large farm in Sherburne, in 1812, and lived there un- til his death. Two woolen mills which he built there were destroyed by fire. In addi- tion to this business he was a farmer, and af- ter the fires he gave up woolen manufacture and kept up the farming. He had much to do with the construction of the Erie, Black River, and Chenango canals, and also with the construction of railroads in Pennsylvania over which coal was carried from the mines to the canals. He helped to build the first railroad upon which a steam propelled engine was ever run in America, at Honesdale, Penn- sylvania, 1827-28.
He married, August 22, 1810, Lois Butler, of Hamilton, daughter of Richard and Mercy ( Sage ) Butler ; her parents came to Hamil- ton from Connecticut in 1794. She was born December 12, 1790, in Middletown, Connecti- cut, and died February 6, 1885, in Sherburne. Children : 1. William Butler, born Septem- ber 1, 1811, died March 14. 1901 ; married Salina Gooding and they had daughter, Lois Amelia, who married Chauncey O'Dell. 2. Louis A., October 10, 1813, died March II, 1904: married Charles A. Lathrop. 3. Lu- cinda, November 10, 1815, died January 26, 1892; married (first) Tra Williams : child, Maria : married ( second ) David C. Buell, who died in 1868: children: Minnie, Amelia, Har- riet, Jessie. 4. Warren, December 31, 1817. died December 25. 1891 ; was a banker in Norwich. New York : married Lydia Wheeler and had daughter, Louise, married Joel J. Bixby, an attorney at Norwich, and they have son, Warren N. Bixby. 5. Maria, January
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21, 1820, died June 17, 1836. 6. Mercy Ame- lia, February 7, 1823, died July 18, 1848, in India ; married Charles Little, a missionary. 7. Isaac Spencer, mentioned below. 8. Lu- cius, mentioned below. 9. Hubert A., 10. Al- bro J., 11. Homer C., all mentioned else- where.
(VII) Isaac Spencer, son of William New- ton, was born May 18, 1825, in Sherburne, New York, died suddenly in Albany, New York, March 19, 1889, whither he had gone in the course of his legal profession. He was a graduate of Yale College in 1848, studied law in Norwich and New York City, and was admitted to practice in about 1850. He lo- cated at Sherburne, remaining for about two years, and then removed to Norwich where he was associated with his brother Warren in partnership under the firm name of W. & I. S. Newton. The partnership continued un- til 1856 when the senior member of the firm, Warren Newton, upon the organization of the National Bank of Norwich, withdrew from the practice of law and Isaac S. Newton con- tinued the practice without partner for several years. In the latter fifties he was for two terms district attorney of the county of Che- mango. In about 1857 he formed a partner- ship with George M. Tillson under the firm name of Newton & Tillson. This partnership continued for a few years when he again re- sumed the practice without partner until 1884. At that time he formed a partnership with his son, Howard D. Newton, under the firm name of I. S. & II. D. Newton. This con- tinued until his death in 1889. Throughout his entire life he was very prominent in legal circles, having a large practice as a trial law- yer and was also much before the appellate court for the state.
He married ( first) in 1855. Jane Campbell, daughter of Robert and Hannah Dunlap. He married ( second ) Jane Newton in 1866. Children by first marriege: 1. Lois Butler, married Hon. Albert F. Gladding, of Nor- wich, justice of the supreme court. 2. How- ard Dunlap, mentioned below. 3. Isaac B., born September 7. 1861: graduated from Yale, 1883 ; merchant : resides in Los Angeles, California ; married (first) in 1885, Mary, daughter of John and Caroline (Foot) Mitch- ell, of Norwich, New York; she died in 1901 leaving two children, Rowena M., wife of' Robert Leonard, and Burkett, Yale. 1914. Isaac B. married (second) Winifred Hunt. 4.
Jane Campbell, born 1864, died 1907; married Reuben Jeffery, M. D .; one son, Reuben Jef- fery Jr., Yale College, 1911. Children by second marriage: 5. Mary Elizabeth, mar- ried Dr. L. Grant Baldwin, a physician of Brooklyn, New York; two children : Milli- cent and L. Grant Jr. 6. Edward P., born 1874; graduate of Yale, 1897; married Emily Stoddard, of Los Angeles, California ; they re- side in Corona, California ; one child.
(VII) Lucius, son of William Newton, was born in Sherburne, Chenango county, New York, November 13, 1827, in the house in which he is now living. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town. He has always followed farming for an occupation, and has always lived on the farm on which he was born and which was purchased by his father a hundred years ago. The house was built in 1821 and the hand- some shade trees about the yard were set out by Mr. Newton fifty years ago. To the orig- inal one hundred and sixty acres owned by his father he has added from time to time until his present holdings amount to five hun- dred acres, all near the village of Sherburne. He has always been an industrious, progres- sive and successful farmer, making a specialty of his dairy. He is one of the leading and most useful citizens of the town. In the Con- gregational church he has been a trustee for forty years, the same period that his father filled the office. In politics he is a Republi- can.
He married ( first ) February 17, 1851, Har- riet A. Lewis, born in New London, Con- necticut, in 1829, daughter of Charles Lewis. She died June 1. 1868. He married ( second ) March 4, 1878, Gertrude G. Bigelow, of Au- burn, New York, daughter of Leander and Mary Abigail ( Brown ) Bigelow. Children. by first wife: 1. Helen L., born January 3. 1855. died 1886 ; married Melvin Ross and had three children: Harriet, William and Ame- lia W. Ross. 2. Belle W .. born December 27, 1862: married Richard Kutschbach, a mer- chant in Sherburne, New York, and has two children : Harold Newton, a graduate of Cor- nell University in the class of 1910. and Wini- fred Kutschbach. Child by second wife: 3. Lois Lee, born May 23, 1883 : married John Thurber, of Sherburne, New York, and has children : John N. Thurber, born November 4. 1907, and Margaret Lois Thurber, born May 22, 1911.
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One of the most unique and un- ELLIS usual family records that have come to notice in the course of tracing and writing ten thousand or more family histories is that of the Ellis family, inscribed on the Masonic apron of a remote ancestor. In the summer of 1897 Alexander Dunbar Ellis, then eighty-three years old, gave this apron to Malta Commandery, Knights Templar, of Binghamton, and it forms one of the treasures of that body. The apron was inscribed: "This apron belonged to Joseph H. Ellis, 1690; to his son Richard H. Ellis, 1735: to his grandson, Joseph H. Ellis. 1780: to his great-grandson. Alexander D. Ellis. A. M. and R. A. M., 1850; C., 1861 ; K. T., 1864. who gave it on June 15, 1897, to Malta Commandery, No. 21." The exact meaning of the earlier dates is in question, but are most likely the dates of birth. The public records are not available to verify the dates. If not the dates of birth, the dates were when the ancestors were made Masons. As Alexander D. was born in 1814, it is most likely that 1780 was the date of his father's birth. To assume that he was made a Mason then would make his date of birth as early as 1759 and he would have been about sixty years old, at least, when his son was born and over eighty when the apron was passed on in 1835 to his son. The use of middle names before 1780 was almost un- known and it is open to doubt if the first two ancestors mentioned had middle names. The family was doubtless of English, Protes- tant stock, settling in Ireland probably in Cromwell's time.
(1) Joseph H. Ellis was born in 1690, ac- cording to the Masonic apron mentioned above, in Ireland. Here he lived all his life, and left a son Richard H., mentioned below.
( II) Richard H., son of Joseph H. Ellis, was also born in Ireland, in 1735, if the dates on the apron are those of birth. He always lived in Ireland, and had a son Joseph Henry, mentioned below.
( III ) Dr. Joseph Henry Ellis, son of Rich- ard H. Ellis, was born in Ireland in 1780, an- other date taken from the inscription on the apron. He received his education in Dublin. Ireland, and became a surgeon in the British army. He lost his property during the rebel- lion, and came to the United States in 1802, settling in Otsego, Otsego county, New York. He died in Tioga county, New York. He
married Eliza Dunbar, who was born on the Isle of Wight. They had a son Alexander Dunbar, mentioned below.
(IV) Alexander Dunbar, son of Dr. Jo- seph Henry Ellis, was born at Otsego, New York, December 6, 1814, died in Owego, Tioga county, New York, August 25, 1903. In 1817 he went with his family to Troy, when only three years of age, and two years later they again moved to Harford Mills, New York. When he was fifteen years of age he went to Ithaca to learn the trade of a tailor, and also served as apprentice at Canan- daigua, and in the summer of 1834 began work as a tailor at Speedsville. He located in Smithboro in 1837, where he remained until 1842. He then moved to Owego where he spent the remainder of his life, excepting three years when he worked as cutter and foreman in the clothing department of S. L. Cary & Company, in Binghamton. In 1867 he finished there and returned to Owego, where he formed a partnership with D. E. Comstock, in the merchant tailoring business in the Ahwaga house block.
Mr. Ellis was a member of the Masonic Order for more than fifty years and took great pride in his record as a Mason. In 1850 he became a member of Friendship Lodge, in Owego, and also of New Jerusalem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, when it was re- organized in 1851. In 1861 he took the coun- cil degree, and in 1864 he joined Malta Com- mandery, Knights Templar, at Binghamton. He held all of the different offices in Friend- ship Lodge, and also all of the offices except that of tiler in the New Jerusalem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. In the summer of 1897 he presented the Masonic apron described above to Malta Commandery.
He married, in 1835, in Speedsville, New York, Susan M., daughter of William Leet. Children: Almanza D .; William H., men- tioned below ; Hiram L .; Edwin and Edgar, twins ; Demornia A., born October 27, 1845; Gorton F., born February 9, 1849.
(V) William Henry, son of Alexander Dunbar Ellis, was born in Smithboro, New York, August 3, 1837, died in Owego, New York, May 7, 1911. He came to Owego with his parents in 1842, and received his education in the public schools there. He was employed as a young man as clerk in the store of Charles and Prentice Ransom, and worked there until 1857 when the business
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was discontinued. He then became clerk in Ezra Warren Reeve's news office. After a few years here he began studying law in the office of Farrington & Parker. Later he served a year as a salesman in G. B. Good- rich & Company's dry goods store. For a few months after this he was employed as clerk in the Erie railway freight office. In 1859 he returned to the employ of G. B. Goodrich & Company, and worked for them as salesman until 1864. In this year he was made a partner in the firm, and general man- ager of the business, which was established in 1810 by Major Horatio Ross, whom Char- les Talcott, his former clerk, succeeded. In 1831 George B. Goodrich, a nephew of Mr. Talcott's, became his partner, and the firm remained under the name of G. B. Goodrich & Company until the death of Mr. Talcott in 1861. Mr. Ellis married a daughter of Mr. Goodrich's, and after the death of his father-in-law in January, 1886, he and Mr. Goodrich's son, James W. Goodrich, who had also been a partner in the firm since 1864, continued in the business.
Mr. Ellis was very active in village affairs, and from 1891 to 1903 was a member of the board of school commissioners. He was a vestryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church al- most continually from 1861, and was one of the wardens of the church. For several years he was a director of the First National Bank of Owego, and he was vice-president at the time of his death.
He married, October 15, 1861, Sarah Tal- cott Goodrich, daughter of George B. and Sarah (Talcott) Goodrich. She was born December 29, 1841, in Owego, New York. Children: George, died in infancy ; James, died in infancy ; Charlotte, born 1872 ; Charles Talcott, born 1876, is in office of Schmidt & Gallatin, brokers, New York; William Goodrich, mentioned below.
(VI) William Goodrich, son of William Henry Ellis, was born in Owego, New York, February 8, 1882. He was educated in the public schools of Owego and studied law in Cornell University, from which he was gradu- ated in 1905, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He has practiced since 1905 in Owego under the firm name of Andrews & Ellis. He is a member of Friendship Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, and of Jerusalem Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. In religion he is a member of the Episcopal church. He is
a Republican and now (1912) is a member of the school board of Owego.
He married, November 27, 1907, Drusilla, daughter of Albert C. and Rose ( Snedeker) Burt. Child: John Talcott, born May 7, 1910.
The first Bradleys are said BRADLEY to have come from the mar- ket town of Bingley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about twelve miles northeast of Leeds, on the River Aire. The town of Bradley was about six or seven miles to the north. The name is Anglo-Saxon, meaning a broad field or pasture. The father of the American pioneers of the family is not known, nor is the name of his first wife. His second wife, Elizabeth, came to America with the children. Later she married (sec- ond) John Parmalee, who died November 8, 1659, and she married (third ) May 27, 1663, John Evarts, who died May 10, 1669. She died in January, 1683. Both her husbands in America were of Guilford, Connecticut. She is said to have come over in 1648. Chil- dren: 1. William, of New Haven, born in England about 1620, died 1680; married, at New Haven, Connecticut, February 18, 1645, Alice, daughter of Roger Pritchard, of Springfield, Massachusetts; she died in 1692: he was ancestor of most of the Connecticut Bradleys. 2. Daniel. 3. Joshua, of New Haven. 4. Ellen, married John Allin. 5. Nathan, born 1638. 6. Stephen, mentioned below.
(II) Stephen, son of Elizabeth Bradley, was born in England in 1642. In 1660 he settled in Guilford, Connecticut, and died there January 20, 1702. Children : Stephen ; Abraham, mentioned below.
(III) Abraham, son of Stephen Bradley. was born in Guilford, Connecticut, May 13, 1675, died April 20, 1721. He married Jane, daughter of Christopher Leaming, of Long Island. Children, born at Guilford: Abra- ham, mentioned below; David, died in Salis- bury, Connecticut, 1774; Joseph. died in Guil- ford, 1799.
(IV) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (I) Bradley, was born in Guilford, Connecticut. July 26, 1702, died in 1771. In 1723 he was graduated from Yale College, and after this he lived in his native town until about 1750. During this time he taught the grammar school, at a salary of forty dollars a year,
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with the exception of a few interruptions of a year or two at a time. His wife died in 1757, and at that time he is said to have moved to Litchfield, Connecticut. He mar- ried Reliance Stone, born in Guilford, Sep- tember 24, 1712, died April 1, 1757, daugh- ter of William Stone. Children: Abraham, born December 11, 1731 ; Leaming, mentioned below ; Peleg; Phineas.
(V) Leaming, son of Abraham (2) Brad- ley, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, June II, 1737, died at Bantam, formerly Bradley- ville, Litchfield county, Connecticut, Decem- ber 20, 1820. He married, November 15, 1759, Anna Miller, widow of Seth Miller. Children : Lucretia, born 1761, married (first) Truman Bishop, ( second ) David Stoddard; Captain Aaron, mentioned below ; Dr. Com- fort, born 1766, died August 21, 1880; Lucy, born 1767, married Jacob Kelborn; Joseph, born 1770; Anna, married Levi Kelborn.
(VI) Captain Aaron Bradley, son of Leam- ing Bradley, was born at Bantam, Connecti- cut, August 27, 1762, died October 24, 1843. He married Loren, born in 1769, died January 4, 1844, daughter of Dr. Abernathy, of Har- wington, Connecticut. She was of Scottish descent. Children: Leaming, born in 1799, died July 16, 1819: Anne, married Henry Wadsworth ; Maria, married William Coe : Horace, mentioned below.
(VII) Horace, son of Captain Aaron Bradley, was born in Bantam, Connecticut, died in Guilford, New York, 1847. He was a farmer, and also had a tavern in Bantam, where most of his life was spent. His father and grandfather had both been active in town affairs in Bantam, which had been called Bradleyville, and he also was among the prominent men of the town. He married Hannah Twichell, born in 1791, died August 18, 1844.
Children : 1. Leaming. married Mary Simonds and had several sons. 2. Freder- ick Abernathy, born October 10, 1810: married Nancy, daughter of Thomas Welton. of Waterbury, Connecticut. 3. Augustus, born 1812, died 1890; married Julia Clemens and had four girls and one son. 4. Henry. 5. Julia Anne, born 1814, died June, 1894; mar- ried Asa Sheppard. 6. John, born 1817, died 1903. at Bangor, Illinois. 7. Edward S .. mentioned below. 8. Aaron, married (first) Harriet Hayes, (second) Catherine Bolls, (third) Mrs. Philena Reynolds. 9. Clark,
born 1832; married Harriet Godfrey. IO. Amelia, born 1834; married (first) D. D. Beebe, (second ) Seth Phillips.
(VIII) Edward S., son of Horace Brad- ley, was born in Bantam, Connecticut, Decem- ber 1, 1819, died in Guilford, New York, January 31, 1884. He received a public school education in Bantam, where he spent his early life, and learned the trade of a cab- inetmaker.
When he was about twenty-three years of age he came to New York state, set- tling in Guilford, where he resided the re- mainder of his life. For some years he con- ducted a farm, and during the later years of life he had a large business in country prod- ucts such as butter and cheese, and kept up active work in this until his death. In poli- tics he was a Democrat. For many years he was a vestryman in Christ's Church in Guil- ford.
He married (first) Flora Dickinson. He married (second) Esther C. Smith, born March 21, 1828, and now lives with her son, Dr. Allen Erastus Bradley. She was daugh- ter of Erastus P. Smith. Child of first wife : Edward, married Louise Reed, and they have a daughter, Blanche. Child of second wife : Allen Erastus, mentioned below.
(IX) Dr. Allen Erastus Bradley, son of Edward S. Bradley, was born in Guilford, New York, January 10, 1861. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town. He studied his profession of dentistry in the University of Pennsyl- vania and received his degree there in 1882. In the same year he located in Norwich, New York, and he has practiced his profession there to the present time. He is a communi- cant of the Protestant Episcopal church. In Free Masonry he has attained the highest degree, the thirty-third. Scottish Rite, and is one of the best known Masons in the state. He is a member of Norwich Lodge, No. 302 : of Harmony Chapter. No. 151, Royal Arch Masons : Royal and Select Masters; Norwich Commandery, No. 216, Knights Templar ; Chenango Consistory. No. 31, Supreme Princes of the Royal Secret. In politics he is a Democrat.
He married, April 22, 1896, Dora Elizabeth Maxson, of West Burlington. New York, daughter of Levi and Cordelia Maxson. They have had one child. Edward Maxson Brad- lev, who died in infancy.
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The surname Stanton is de- STANTON rived from a place name, and is identical with Stonington in origin. The family is of ancient English origin. Robert Stanton, an early settler of Newport, Rhode Island, was the progenitor of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, of Lincoln's cabi- net ; he died in Newport, in 1672, aged sev- enty-three years. There was a John Stan- ton in Virginia in 1635, and Thomas Stanton, aged twenty, sailed for Virginia in the mer- chantman "Bonaventura." The family liisto- rian thinks he went to Virginia, then came to Connecticut. But many ships whose records state that Virginia was the destination, came to New England. The "Bonaventura" may have landed some passengers in Virginia, others in Connecticut, or Boston.
(I) Thomas Stanton, the immigrant an- cestor, was in Boston in 1636, and is on rec- ord as a magistrate there. If the same man came in 1635, his age must have been under- stated, for men of twenty-one were not mag- istrates in the colony. In 1636 he was act- ing as Indian interpreter for Governor Win- throp. It is reasonable to suppose that he was a trader, and had been both to New Eng- land and Virginia before 1635, in order to have sufficient knowledge of the language of the Indians to become an interpreter. His services as interpreter during the Pequot War were invaluable, according to an historian of New London. He served through the above mentioned war, and special mention is made of his bravery in the battle of Fair- field Swamp, where he nearly lost his life. He must have returned to Boston at the close of the war, for he was one of the magistrates in the trial of John Wainwright, October 3, 1636. In February, 1639, he and his father- in-law, Thomas Lord, were settled in Hart- ford, Connecticut, coming thither soon after the colony of Rev. Thomas Hooker, who es- tablished the town. He was appointed offi- cial interpreter for the general court at Hart- ford, April 5, 1638, and at the same session was sent with others on a mission to the War- ranocke Indians and as a delegate to an In- dian-English council meeting at Hartford. He was interpreter for the Yorkshire (Eng- land) colonists at New Haven, November 24, 1638, when the land on which the city of New Haven is located was bought of the Indians. He was an Indian trader as early as 1642, when with his brother-in-law. Richard Lord,
he made a voyage to Long Island to trade and collect old debts. That he traded as far away as Virginia we know from an ancient docu- ment on file in New Haven colony, without date, but apparently entered in 1668 or 1669. He had the grant of a monopoly of trading with the Indians at Pawcatuck and along the river of that name. He built a trading house there, and about 1651 removed to Pequot, and in 1658 occupied his permanent residence at Stonington. In 1650 the general court ap- pointed him interpreter to the elders, who re- quired him to preach the gospel to the Indians at least twice a year. He sold his grant of 1649 to George Tongue in 1656. In March, 1652, he received 500 acres on the river, adjoining his home lot, and in 1659 Cassawashitt deeded to him the whole of Pawcatuck Neck and the small islands that lay near to it, known as "The Hommocks." This deed was confirmed by the court, 1671. He was elected a deputy magistrate by the general court, May 15, 1651. He was appointed with Rev. Mr. Pierson, of New Haven, to prepare a catechism in the Narragansett or Pequot language for the commissioners of the United Colonies, but Mr. Pierson's removal pre- vented the undertaking. In 1658 he removed to Wequetequock Cove, two miles and a half east of Stonington, where he was the third settler : it was then called Southington, Mas- sachusetts, and part of Suffolk county. In 1658 he was appointed one of the managers. His farin was on the east side of the Pawka- tuck river, near its mouth. In 1664 he was a commissioner to try small causes, and in 1665 had authority to hold a semi-annual court at New London. In 1666 he was re- elected commissioner or county judge; also overseer-general of the Coassatuck Indians ; also a commissioner of appeals in Indian af- fairs, and he was successively re-elected com- missioner until his death in 1677. He was a member of the general assembly in 1666, and was elected in succeeding years without inter- ruption until 1674. In 1667 he was granted 250 acres on the Pachaug river, and the same year he was called upon to settle threatening trouble between Uncas and the Niantic tribe. Almost constantly he was engaged in the pub- lic service, especially in the discharge of the duties of his office as Indian commissioner. He and his sons were active in King Philip's war, and all of his sons were useful and prominent as Indian interpreters and peace-
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