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His petition to the General Court, 1648, was referred to the Hampton Court. He was a blacksmith by trade. He lived west of the Powow river as early as 1649, and received many grants in what is now Amesbury, from 1654 to 1664. His will was dated January 19, 1683, and proved November 23, 1686. His first wife died in 1646; he married ( second ) August II, 1646, Susanna, daughter of Rich- ard North. His wife was charged with witch- craft during the dreadful delusion of the times, was arrested April 30, 1692, tried at Salem, June 29, and executed July 19, 1692. The most damaging evidence against her was that she went afoot from Amesbury to New- bury in "a dirty season," without getting her clothing wet ; she was a short, active woman, of remarkable neatness, "one who scorned to be drabbled." She had been accused of witch- craft before. April 1, 1669, when her hus- band sued William Sargent for slander in calling her a witch. The jury found for the defendant, but the court did not concur. Mar- tin then gave bonds for his wife's appearance on a charge of witchcraft. Children: Han- nah, born February 1, 1643-4; Richard, born 1647 at Salisbury ; George, born October 21, 1648, mentioned below ; John, January 26, 1650-1 ; Esther, April 7, 1653; Jane, Novem- ber 2, 1656; Abigail, September 10, 1659 ; Wil- liam, December 11, 1662; Samuel, September 29, 1667, died young.
(II) George (2), son of George (1) Mar- tin, was born October 21, 1648, at Salisbury, Massachusetts. He settled in that part of Ipswich called Chebacco, later Essex. His name appears among the residents having pas- turage for horses on the common in 1697. and he was a commoner or proprietor in 1707. Abraham and Henry Martin also lived in Ipswich at the same time. He died at Che- bacco, April 14, 1734, aged eighty-six, and his death record corresponds exactly with the birth record given. The "History of Salis- bury and Amesbury" states that he was not mentioned in his father's will. In 1734 let- ters of administration were granted to John Martin and John Howard, his son and son-in- law. The inventory shows an estate valued at eight hundred and eighty-one pounds. The principal street of Chebacco is Martin street, doubtless named for this family. He left a widow, Elizabeth, whose family name is not known. The record of birth of his children is found on the Ipswich records : George,
mentioned below ; Elizabeth, September 12, 1682, probably died young ; John, born Octo- ber 6, 1686, died about 1760; Mary, born Au- gust 7, 1692; Joseph, December 26, 1694, died about 1726; Ebenezer, April 20, 1697, died July 13, 1775.
( III) George (3), son of George (2) Mar- tin, was born at Chebacco, September 17, 1680. He married Anna. daughter of John Choate, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, November 29, 1706. Although they were married in Ipswich, they must soon have removed to Windham county, Connecticut, as their child Elizabeth was born there, January 17, 1708. From this it would appear that George Martin settled in Con- necticut about the year 1707. His brother Ebenezer probably followed him there some years later. Thus the eldest and the young- est brothers of the family moved from Massa- chusetts to Connecticut, an item of family his- tory which repeated itself more than one hun- dred years afterward, when George Martin's great-grandson, Cyril Martin, the eldest of his family, moved to New York state, to be followed there some years later by his young- est brother Zalmon.
George Martin's first wife died, it would seem, shortly after the birth of their first and only child. He married ( second ) Mercy, whose family name is not known. Some think she was a Choate. No record can be found at Ipswich of this marriage. and it probably took place at Windham. Children of George and Mercy (-) Martin: Mercy, born June 25, 1710: George, born April 19, 1712, died July. 1794; Sarah, born March 31, 1721 ; Anna, born July 17, 1725. George Martin's wife Mercy died August 1, 1730, and he mar- ried (third) Mercy Lincoln, November 5, 1730. He died August 15, 1755, aged seventy- five years. His widow died August 4, 1760.
(IV) George (4), only son of George (3) and Mercy Martin, was born in Windham county, Connecticut, April 19, 1712. He mar- ried, October 23, 1733, Grace Howard, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. She probably was a relative of John Howard, who married his aunt, Mary Martin, and may have been his cousin. Children of George Martin and Grace ( Howard ) Martin : Jonathan, born August 7, 1734, died September 24, 1744: and David, born February 22, 1736, died September 17, 1823. George Martin's wife Grace died No- vember 12, 1736, and he married (second ) Sarah, daughter of William and Rebeckah
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Gould Durkee, May 12, 1737; she was born March 3, 1714. Children: I. Grace Utley, born March 6, 1738; died August, 1775. 2. Sarah, born May 1, 1739; died March 7, 1820. 3. Gideon, born September 24, 1740; died January 19, 1808. 4. Aaron, born July 30, 1742; died 1819. 5. Mary (or Merey), born April 18, 1744; died January 11, 1817. 6 Jonathan, born May 24, 1746; died September 17, 1746. 7. Rebeckah, born July 3, 1747. 8. Lucy, born May 6, 1749. 9. George (twin), born April 7 (or 13th), 1751 ; died April 29, 1751. 10. William (twin of George), died November 27, 1816. II. George, born No- vember 16, 1753; died October 21, 1830. George Martin (4) was probably a farmer, and lived in Windham county until his death, in July, 1794. at which time he was. eighty-two years of age. His wife Sarah died December 5, 1807.
(V) George (5), youngest child of George (4) and Sarah (Durkee) Martin, was born in Windham county. Connecticut, November 16. 1753. He married, May 7, 1778, Sarah Simmons, of Ashford, Connecticut, who was born December 1, 1755, and died in Cortland county, New York, December 10, 1841. George Martin was a farmer, and lived on what is known as Parrish Hill, situated about equi- distant from the villages of Windham. Scot- land and Chaplin, being about four miles from each. Whether or not he served in the war of the revolution is a question of considerable importance and interest. In "Services of Con- necticut Men in the War of the Revolution." compiled by the state of Connecticut, mention is made of a George Martin, of Windham county, who enlisted and served three years, but the weight of the evidence would seem to prove that this man was a cousin of the George Martin under consideration. How- ever, the matter is a subject of debate and is not as yet definitely settled. George Martin died October 20, (or 21), 1830, at his home on Parrish Hill, aged seventy-seven years. It is said that he died suddenly, probably of some intracranial rupture. His remains were in- terred in the burying-grounds a short dis- tance south of the village of Hampton, Con- necticut. Old inhabitants of the region in which he lived, and who were living in the latter part of the last century, bore testimony to the generosity and kindness of heart of George Martin. He was prominent among those of his neighborhood in carrying relief
and assistance to the poor and afflicted. Not- withstanding this, he was not popular with the religious element, on account of his liberal views in matters of theology, inclining toward Universalism. After the death of George Martin, his son Zalmon made the journey from Solon, New York, and took his widowed mother back with him to that place, where she died, as related above, on December 10, 1841, according to the best information to be obtained, although one report fixes the date as 1835. Children of George Martin and Sarah Simmons : 1. Cyril, born March 5. 1779; died December 9, 1865. 2. Lora, born March 4, 1782; died February 28, 1786. 3. Erastus, born September II. 1784; died Feb- ruary 21. 1786. 4. Erastus, born December 14, 1786; died August 24. 1868. 5. Elijah. born February 10, 1789: died November 16. 1818. 6. Zalmon, born June 14. 1791: died June 4, 1876. 7. Ralph, born October 29. 1793. 8. Sarah, born January 9, 1797: died March 19. 1867.
(VI) Cyril, eldest child of George (5) Mar- tin and Sarah (Simmons) Martin, was born in Windham county, Connecticut, March 5. 1779. He married, in March, 1803. Lucy Welch. He removed from Connecticut to Solon. Cort- land county, New York, in the spring of 1814. arriving in Solon in the latter part of April of that year. He settled on the main road from Cortland to Solon, about a mile and a half west of the latter place. His farm was of considerable size, and in latter years has been known as the Captain Peck farm. He was a man of considerable education and taught school for several years. He was quite prominent in the affairs of town and county, and was supervisor of Solon in 1823. He was very fond of reading, and had a re- markable memory, especially for dates. He was originally a Democrat, but became a Re- publican in latter life. He died at the resi- dence of his son. Giles Martin, with whom he lived during the last years of his life, on Saturday, December 9. 1865. aged eighty-six years. His wife had died many years pre- viously, on August 19. 1835. They were both buried in the old burying-ground at MeGraw- ville, but the burying-ground having been abandoned and left uncared for, their son. Simmons Martin, had the remains of his pa- rents, with those of his infant sister, removed to the family plot in the Cortland cemetery. Children of Cyril and Lucy (Welch) Martin :
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I. Simmons, born December 7, 1807; died August 16, 1895. 2. Ralph, born December 27, 1809; died July 6, 1899. 3. Laura, born about 1811; died about 1863. 4. Giles, born May 23, 1819; died February 2, 1895. 5. Lydia, born May, 1821; died March, 1822, aged ten months.
Of the above children, Ralph, who was born in Mansfield, Connecticut, married, June 7, 1843, Caroline Hammond, and in 1855 re- moved with his family to Belvidere, Illinois, and afterward to Michigan, finally settling on a farm in the town of Walton, Eaton county, where he died. His children and descendants to a considerable number are living, chiefly in Eaton county, Michigan. Laura Martin died in Onondaga county, New York, un- married.
(VI) Zalmon, fifth son of George (5) and Sarah (Simmons) Martin, was born in Wind- ham county, Connecticut, June 14, 1791. He married, December 3, 1814, Harriet Green- slit, who was born September 12, 1789, and died January 13, 1871. Zalmon Martin en- listed in the war of 1812 for a brief period, and was a sergeant from June 7 to June 14, 1813. After his marriage he removed to Burlington, Vermont, and from there to So- lon, New York. The exact date of his re- moval to Solon is not known, but it was be- tween 1815 and 1820, his eldest child being born in Burlington in the former year, and his second child in Solon, in May, 1820. Zal- mon had a considerable local reputation as a wall layer. He died June 4, 1876, aged eighty- five years. Children of Zalmon and Harriet (Greenslit) Martin : I. Ralph, born August 31, 1815; died August 28, 1878. 2. Louisa, born May 9, 1820; died August 14, 1885. 3. William, born May 24, 1823. 4. Jeannette, born June 17, 1834. Of the above children, Ralph, who grew to manhood in Solon, where he came with his parents when a small child, married Lydia L. Warner, of Homer, New York, November 22, 1839, and in 1840 re- moved to Waukegan, Illinois, where he re- sided until 1858, when he removed to Trem- pealeau, Wisconsin : he died at Trempealeau, August 27, 1878, aged sixty-three years; he had six children, most of whom survived him. Louisa, the eldest daughter, married James Ford Totman, a mason by trade, and who died September 10, 1886; they lived in Cortland county the greater portion of their lives, but spent their latter years at Groton, Tompkins
county, where she died August 14, 1885; they had three children: LeRoy, Martin and George. William, the youngest son, was born in Freetown, and married, September 14, 1843, Minerva Randall; she having died June 7, 1861, he married, April 2, 1862, Lodeskia Hall, who died July 6, 1880. He removed to Brocton, New York, where his three children were born. He was a farmer by occupation. He married his third wife, Elizabeth Keys, March 30, 1881. Jeannette, the youngest daughter, married, February 4, 1852, Septi- mus Rice, who died February 5, 1858; she removed to Brocton, Chautauqua county, in 1863, and married (second) George Fitch. He having died September 25, 1869, she mar- ried (third) A. W. Baker, March 31, 1881 ; she had two children, both by her first hus- band.
(VII) Simmons, eldest child of Cyril and Lucy (Welch) Martin, was born at Mansfield, Connecticut, December 7, 1807. When about six years of age he removed with his parents to Solon, New York. He married, October 27, 1840, Lucy Wildman, who was born Au- gust 25, 1817, and died April 12, 1893. Sim- mons Martin had blue eyes and light com- plexion, and was of medium height and build. He passed his life in Solon and Freetown, pursuing the occupation of a farmer. He died at the home of his son Aldin, at East Freetown, August 16, 1895, aged nearly eighty-eight years. His remains were in- terred in the cemetery at Cortland. Children of Simmons and Lucy ( Wildman) Martin : I. Jane L., born January 5, 1842. 2. Ellen L., born June 17, 1843; died May 12, 1885. 3. Romelia, born May 23, 1845. 4. Horace, born February 28, 1848. 5. Orville, born August 30, 1850. 6. Aldin, born May 13, 1853 ; died June 22, 1901.
(VII) Giles, youngest son of Cyril and Lucy (Welch) Martin, was born in Solon, New York, May 23, 1819. He married, July 13, 1848, Martha Jane, daughter of George and Johanna (Whitman) Burlingham; she was born in Solon, October 11, 1830, and died July 18, 1889. Giles Martin settled on the old homestead on the main road from Solon to McGrawville, afterwards known as the Cap- tain Peck farm; but in 1850 or 1851 pur- chased a farm about a mile and half north- west of the village of Solon, on which he re- sided for the remainder of his life. He took but little interest in politics, but affiliated with
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the Republican party. His death occurred February 2, 1895, at the age of nearly seventy- six years. Children of Giles Martin and Martha Jane ( Burlingham) Martin: I. Mary Estelle, born November 20, 1852. 2. Sarah Matilda, born January 19, 1861. 3. Will Day- ton, born February 11, 1868.
(VIII) Jane L., eldest child of Simmons and Lucy ( Wildman ) Martin, was born January 5, 1842. She married Ezra Loomis, Septem- ber 21, 1859, by whom she had one child, Fred, who removed to Oklahoma, where he married and raised a family, and where he still re- sides. Mr. Loomis having been killed in a railroad accident, Jane Martin married (sec- ond) Joseph Wavle, October 28, 1874. She is still living, and resides at McGraw, New York.
(VIII) Ellen L., second daughter of Sim- mons and Lucy ( Wildman) Martin, was born June 17, 1843. She married Simon L. Tar- bell January 17, 1867. They removed to Kan- sas, where she died May 12, 1885, leaving two children Alice and Frank.
(VIII) Romelia, third daughter of Sim- mons and Lucy ( Wildman) Martin, was born May 23. 1845. She married Jerry Greenman, and removed to Kansas, where she is still living. No children.
(VIII) Horace, eldest son of Simmons and Lucy (Wildman) Martin, was born February 28, 1848. He married, November 29, 1867, Lavinia Underwood, daughter of Alanson and Laura (Stafford) Underwood. He is a farmer and cheese and butter maker by occupation. owning a large farm in Freetown, Cortland county, and a well appointed creamery in Solon. Mr. Martin has traveled quite exten- sively, having made three trips to the Pacific coast. He is a Democrat in politics, and has served two terms as supervisor of Freetown. being first elected in 1889 and reëlected in 1890. He has his full share of Martin energy and industry, and is a leading business man of his town and county. Horace and Lavina (Underwood) Martin have two children : Anna, who married Clinton B. Maybury, and resides at East Homer : and George, who mar- ried -, and who is now living in Ithaca. New York.
(VIII) Orville, second son of Simmons and Lucy (Wildman) Martin, was born August 30, 1850. He married Helen A. Grant, May 18. 1870. He engaged in farming, living for several years on his father's farm in Solon,
but in November, 1878, removed to Kansas, where he lived until May, 1882, at which time he returned to Solon. In March, 1885, he again went to Kansas, residing there until 1890, when he removed to Corvallis, Oregon. About 1901 he purchased a farm of some seven hundred acres in the Umpqua river valley in Oregon, and has resided there until 1911, when he removed to Rosebury, Oregon. He has four children, all girls, and all married and residing in Oregon.
(VIII) Aldin, youngest child of Simmons and Lucy. ( Wildman) Martin, was born May 13. 1853. He married Amy Hammond, Feb- ruary 22, 1880. He was a farmer by occupa- tion, owning two farms of a total acreage of over five hundred acres at the time of his death, June 22, 1901, which was caused by an accident in a saw mill owned by him. Al- though frightfully cut, he lived and was con- scious for several hours after the accident. He was progressive in his methods and was successful in his chosen field. In politics he was a Democrat. He had four children : Car- rie, Claud, Grace and Mildred, all living in Cortland county.
(VIII) Mary Estelle, eldest child of Giles and Martha Jane ( Burlingham) Martin, was born in Solon, Cortland county, November 20, 1852. She was educated at the Cortland Acad- emy, Homer, New York, and married October 2, 1872, Francis M. Kenyon, son of Samuel and Electa Kenyon. Taking up their resi- dence in Cortland shortly after their mar- riage, they have since resided at that place. They never had any children.
(VIII) Sarah Matilda, second daughter of Giles and Martha Jane ( Burlingham) Martin, was born in Solon, New York, January 19. 1861.
She was educated at the State Normal School in Cortland, and the Michigan State Normal School at Ypsilanti, Michigan, where she was graduated in 1881. She taught one term in the fall of 1881 at the Cincinnatus Academy, Cincinnatus, New York. In the spring of 1882 she accepted a position as teacher in the high school of Birmingham, Michigan, remaining there until 1883, when she went to Muskegon, Michigan, teaching there one year. She married. October 8, 1884, Henry McMaster, of Birmingham, Michigan. They first settled in Hudson, Michigan, but afterward removed to Detroit, where they still reside. They have four chil-
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dren : Robert Keith, Harry, Allan and Lil- lian.
(VIII) Will Dayton, only son of Giles and Martha Jane ( Burlingham ) Martin, was born in Solon, February 11, 1868. Early coming to the belief that inheritance of property was an evil which should be condemned by the indi- vidual and prohibited by the state, and being desirous that his personal action should be in accord with his convictions, he at the ate of nineteen secured employment as a farm laborer in the western part of Cortland county, refusing at that time and on later occasions to accept any part of his parents' property. Having saved a small amount of money at this work, he entered the Elmira School of Com- merce at Elmira, New York, in the fall of 1889, remaining there during the winter, and again working on farms in Seneca and Yates counties in the summer of 1890. He reentered the School of Commerce in the fall of 1890, and in March, 1891, secured a position in New York City. He married, February 22, 1896, Alice Masterson, who was born April 10, 1870, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Sheridan) Masterson. They took up their place of resi- dence at Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, where they still reside.
Mr. Martin was elected secretary of the Hasbrouck Heights Building Loan and Sav- ings Association in 1896, which position he still holds. In March, 1906, he was elected a member of the Hasbrouck Heights board of education, and was reelected in 1909, in which year he was also elected vice-president of the board. In April, 1911, he was elected president. He has been for many years chair- man of the Prohibition county committee of Bergen county, New Jersey, and a member of the Prohibition state committee, and has been the nominee of his party for various of- fices, on several occasions coming close to election.
He has one child, Horace Fenimore, born June 26, 1898.
Daniel DeWitt llarnden was HARNDEN born January 31, 1820. in Victor, New York, and died in Waverly, New York, May 7, 1907. His father died when he was a child; it is thought that he came from the north of Ireland and was of Norman stock, and that he served in the war of 1812; also it is said that one of the Harnden name was an admiral on the ship
"Constitution." Daniel had a brother David l larnden.
Daniel DeWitt Harnden received a common school education and then studied medicine. being graduated from Hobart Medical Col- lege, at Geneva, New York, in 1844. For a time he practiced at Port Byron, New York, and then went to Chemung, New York, in 1847, where he practiced until 1861. He then moved to Waverly, New York, where he remained in active practice until his death in 1907. He was a specialist in electrical treatment for disease, and was considered among the best in the state in that line. He was a member of the Tioga Medi- cal Society, and served as president of that society. For ten years he was county coroner, and he served as health officer for the town for many years. He was a trustee of the Methodist church. Ile married, in 1844, Mar- tha J. Sayre, of Cayuga county, New York (see Sayre ). Children : 1. Rufus Sayre, mentioned below. 2. Edward C., born March 25, 1847 ; married, February. 1869, Belle Saw- yer : children, born in Carbondale, Pennsyl- vania : Moses, 1873: Florence, 1875; Maud, 1878. 3. George H., born October 9, 1849; married, March 28, 1867 (first ), Ellen Hyatt, ( second ) Carrie Bonnell. Children by second marriage, born in Waverly. New York : May, 1874, and Augusta, 1877. 4. Albert C., born February 14. 1854, died August 26, 1863. 5. Ellen Augusta, born November 3, 1857 : mar- ried, September 4. 1878. E. Clare Vanatta, and she died November 18, 1892.
Dr. Rufus Sayre Harnden, son of Dr. Dan- iel De Witt Harnden, was born in Port Byron, Cayuga county, New York, February 8, 1845. Ile attended the public schools and the acad- emy at Red Creek, Wayne county, New York. In 1861 he was working as clerk in a drug store in Waverly, New York. and in June, 1862, he enlisted in the civil war, in Company A. 107th New York Regiment. andI was mus- tered out in June. 1865. He served as a non- commissioned officer, and was with the twelfth corps, Army of the Potomac. Later he was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, twentieth corps. He was wounded in the bat- tle of Antietam, and also at Chancellorsville, and was sent to the hospital at Washington. He was made hospital steward after his re- covery, and after serving two years in the medical department he was made chief clerk in the provost's office.
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After the war he worked for two years as prescription clerk in the drug store of Garretty Brothers, in Elmira, New York, and then went into business with his brother-in-law, J. P. Bosworth, in Loraysville, Pennsylvania, for two years. At this time he gave up the drug business and began the study of medi- cine at Waverly, New York, with his father, and at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. He was graduated from this col- lege in March, 1873, and began the same year to practice in Waverly, where he has contin- ued to the present time. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and of the New York State Medical Society, of which he has been president. He has served as vice- president of the Medico-Legal Society of New York City, and has been president of the New York State Association of Railway Sur-
geons. He also has been president of the Erie Railway Surgeons' Association, and since about 1884 has been surgeon of the Erie rail- road. He is a member of the American Acad- emy of Railroad Surgeons, of the Interna- tional Association of Railway Surgeons, and of the Elmira Academy of Medicine : and of Walter Hull Post, Grand Army of the Re- public, of Waverly. The offices of president of the village and member of the board of aldermen and of the board of health are all the public positions that he has accepted.
He married. December 25, 1866, Amy C. Bosworth, of Waverly. New York, daughter of John Frank and Ruth Ann ( Perkins) Bos- worth. Children : 1. Louie Amy, married Dr. Charles C. Ammerman, of Washington, D. C., who is in charge of a hospital in Brazil : children : Ruth, Sarah and Dorothy. 2. Dan- iel DeWitt, died in infancy. 3. Ruth D., born 1875 : married Bradley Phillips, an attorney of Buffalo, New York : have son Philip. 4. Ar- thur DeWitt, born 1879 ; graduated from Cor- nell College : attorney at Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania : married Esther McKeever ; children : Mary and Robert Sayre. 5. Mabel, died in childhood.
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